The Washburn Argo from Topeka, Kansas • 8

26 lis gpahtamt- a vote of the Argo staff it was decided J-'best that the Argo appear on Friday rather than Wednesday as heretofore. This makes it more convenient for the editors, and for the readers as the paper will appear at a time when the students are more at leasure. WE notice in theUniversity papers that an Interf raternity ball league has been organized and that they have already played several games. We also notice through the Baker weekly that a foot ball team is being organized and that they expect to do. good work this fall.

If Washburn expects to do anything in the Athletic line it certainly is time to begin. There are several good ball players among the new students, and there, is no reason why we should not have a ball club this year. There was a time when Washburn could rightly boast of the best foot ball team in the State. We have no football team to-day: what is the reason? not because we are discouraged by continuous defeats, for our-team never lost a goal in all its games. The lack of opposition killed our foot ball team.

When it became necessary to go to Kansas City in order to have a match game and that without a return game our interest in foot ball began to die out, and it will be a hard matter to organize another foot ballclub at Washburn for some time at least. the lottery won. The anti-lottery bill does not entirely close the State Lottery but so far cripples it that its injurious influences are practically nullified. It is said that the business of the New Orleans post-office has decleased 25 per cent, since the passage of the bill. KANSAS has been blessed with laws which have attracted to her prairies people of intelligence and sobriety.

The enterprise of the people is the wonder of the nineteenth century and her statesmen rank among the first of the nation. These agriculturists, these business and professional men canj hardly be said to be a Kansas production and the real test of the people and institutions will come when, in the next twenty years her own sons will come forward to assume the daties devolving upon them as citizens. We believe this point has been kept in mind and as a remit many colleges have been founded throughout the State. And the end is not yet. Indeed there is hardly a town of respectable size in Kansas that has not boomed a college for the benefit of her own boom.

But the overflowing condition of the preparatory department of our colleges shows that we do not need more colleges so much as schools which will fit the student for college, for business or for the farm. The academy fills the -bill. Situated in the smaller towns it gives many young people a foretaste of the classics and the result is many go to college who never dreamed that such a possibility was before them. The academies at Hiawatha, Stockton Eureka are already wielding great influence in their respective vicinities. More than this by their help and encouragement young men and women are now in our higher institutions of learning; and their education and success in life will not be due so much to the college from" which they go as the academy which first implanted within them a TWICE during the present year has the Federal government been called upon to protect the states from giant evils over which they had no control.

When the original package invaded Kansas and Iowa and the local authorities were powerless to oppose them the Wilson bill came like a helping angel, The state of Louisiana struggled nobly for a time against the giant power of the State Lottery which was destroying the social life of the State and degrading the public morals, but bribery succeeded and.