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YANKEE DOODLE REVISED. Continue from page 5. Wander we east or west, our thought ever reverts to our well-loved prairie state, and sooner or later our wandering feet return, tor we love our land with that constancy of which our loyal sunflower is emblematical. "For the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, xAs the sunflower turns on her god when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose." Because of the vastnes? of our inheritance, the boundless scope of our ambitions, we sometimes seem to jostle one another on our onwaid and upward way, but let outside influence interfere, and we remember at once that we are Kansans, and to be a "Kansan is greater than to be a king." The freshness of the early dawn is cooling our faces; the rosy clouds and golden light ot sunrise just before us. Our sorrows vanish like the Kansas snows and leave no trace.

Should enemies assail their force is as quickly spent as the Kansas storms. The principles of patriotism and valor and integrity permeates everj Kansas heart, and they are as staunch, as tried and true as our Kansas soil that the sunshine and rain have kissed into teeming life and power. Patrick Henry plead for liberty; Washington fought for it; the philosophy of Jefferson perpetuated it; but Kansans live it. The grandeur and vastness of our prairies sweeping free has lifted us into broader, grander life, and with Kansas preaching popular government, Kansas in the council halls of the nation, Kansas at the helm of state, the waves of tyranny shall beat and surge in vain, and all the kings of the world and all their blood-fed armies cannot reverse the wheels of human progress. From Kansas shall come the fulfillment of scripture, lTp from her plains, baptized with the blood of martyrs, shall come the prophet of Ezekiel's vision, that breathing upon the dry bones of ihe world's oppressed will clothe them with new life, resurrecting the wisdom of the seers, the justice of Christ, and all humanity will enjoy that liberty which the winds of Kansas forever play on teolian harps, and all the world shall come up the path which we have blazed and bask in the light which we have kindled and kings shall be no more, and the world will not tolerate hungry poor or idle rich; neither shall be found tyrants, small or great, but they who obey the divine injunction to earn their bread in the sweat of their face; honest toilers shall constitute a state.

MARY E. LEASE. The Equal Suffrage meeting at Centennial, Monday night, was the most interesting meeting of the kind that we have ever had the pleasure of attending. As Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, were the means of bringing thousands of souls to the knowledge of the truth by preaching and singing the gospel, so were trie young evangelists, Miss EvaCorning and Miss Helen Kimber, by speaking and singing the gospel of Equal Suffrage, the means of impressing on the minds of all present the justice and right-ousness of the enfranchisement of women. The meeting was a grand success, and all were sorry when it closed.

The people of Jackson township believe in reform all along the line, and the amendment will carry by a large majority in this township next fall. Correspondent Kansas Agitator. In. Kansas, women control property whose real value is 411 12 million dollars, the assessed value is 88 million dollars hence, to county and state they give nearly 3 million dollars, paying to the state and yet, when they want to vote, they are told that woman suffrage is not an issue-in this campaign. Miss Eva Corning addressed a rousing meeting at Greeley, Monday night, and organized a local equal suffrage association.

Kansas Agitator. 0, Kansans now have a song, And surely any noodle Might guess the air most dear to her Would still be Yankee Doodle. chorus. Yankee Doodle, keep it up Our brothers must not flout us Mind the music, keep the step They will vote without us. Our Uncle Sara has saved himself A wondrous lot of bother, If he his good things still had shared With Yankee Doodle's mother.

CHORUS. And strange it seems a hundred years To trace his way, and find him Just now awakening to see His half was left behind him. CHORUS. But looking round and taking tho't, He frankly owns he's missed ner, And says, by Yankee Doodle's side He'll make room for his sister. CHORUS.

Yankee Doodle's wife and girls Shall have his full protection, Shall share his cares and holidays And vote at his election. CHORUS. Louise V. Boyd. France has fallen into line, and the beginning of woman's suffrage has been heralded from within its borders.

The French senate, by a vote of one hundred and thirty-two to eighty-four, on January 20th, bestowed the right on women engaged in business to vote for tribunals of commerce. This is simple' justice, and will prove the entering wedge for the granting of larger and more generous privileges in the Lincoln Beacon. From Mrs. S. S.

Weatherbies report from Kansas, in the Union Signal of January 25, she says "It is said there are now seven hundred and ninety-seven prisoners in our state prison, and that of that number there are only fourteen women. And yet, women are such a dangerous class they cannot be trusted with the ballot." Lincoln Beacon..