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A Woedertul Transformitioa. Abnut Kansa' which showed much talent in military tactics. The "Efoom Read A PAPER before tha State Minkteri and Deacons Union ty Rv. A. Fairfax.

Topeka Capital, of May 1st. Brigade wa3 made ttp of sixteen 4' il Kf-ny, May H-jn. Wm. D. hu contributed Our exrhangc (titsiile tin' state aiv otmg ladies, most of which were H.

J. BROWN, THE RELIABLE JEWELER, Is the to buy watches, clocks ami Jewelry, and the Boss place to perl'eetly fitted with sj.ei ks. Musical instruments and inures! iiuTt-hanilo of ull kinds. Ccnif and fee r.ie. the Kansas oom.

Mwi'i members of the public school, un an eiiit-c tuni of a to the present and fu-Air. is making au- der the management of the l'rof. A solo by Miss Martha Smith, that "Can a man be born of the spirit of God anil bt void of the joys of thein ilo not comprehend its others sot it down a a dtdu-ion, vbih-others, better iiifurmi'd, haing caught lillOWN. 1 1. compared very favorably with the finest opera singing, Clouds have rolled by," was sang.

the inspiration of tin- hour. declare that miss Ura Dean also sang a solo en- renuine secret of Kanaa develop itled I'Drifting," and read a well prepared essay, entitled "Neglect J.SHOMON Druggists, Galena, Kansas. Salvation as ment in the topic is a deliverence from sin and eternal death. Now when one is brought to see and realize that he is in a state of sin, and death, and becomes conscious of his inability to save himself or revert the impending doom; it not only fills them with great horror and dread, which produces sorrow and an ment is her real estate, substantial worth, and, and that what is called a boom is but the normal growth of this wonderful region. And that, dear of education.

Mrs. Jennie Mot- ley, the lamous guitarist, render ed a fine guitar solo, and was en reader, is the truth. An exposed humbug may draw new customers, but cored the second time; she also played the march lor the drill. Many other interesting features STATE UNIVERSITY, Louisville, Ky. guish of heart, but fills the soul was connected, which we have not with intense desires that a deli? those once deceived have survieeable memories.

The settlement of Kansas is a marvel. It began not a generation ago, and now we have near a million space to refer to, but upon the erer will come who can and will prove his salvation; and when whole, we are prepared to say that Joplin has never before- (among and three quarters of people, with near faith is needed to enable him to look to Jesus as his Saviour, he our people) had an entertainment ly 10,000,000 acrcsot land in cultivation, and upwards of ,000 miles of railroad. or public servant, the capacity then has some hopes of deliver ence. Ninety per cent, of the original settlers oTher tour ot Sjutk, am! this JeUar is the first of a tint lie propores writing on the progress of the South. lla starts out bv saying that when ho vlsiteJ Florida in ho found the pooplo apathetic, with no energy, the State in a miserable condition, no attempt to utilize the vast stretches of timber, 110 effort to produce pasturage, fodder plants, or any of the cereals; aad tin people living on "sweet potatoes and consumptive Yankees, and the only thing they could offer lor was their atmosphere" There were no railroads tc speak of, 4St miles being the total length operated in the entire State.

The writer then points out tho poverty -stricken condition of the State at the close of the war; her population was only 187,000, her railroad mileage the railroad companies and the State bankrupt. Tho first lift that Florida got was in 1878, when Hamilton Disson paid $1,000,000 to the State for 4,000,090 acres cf her richest land. With this million the State paid tho defaulted bonds of the bankrupted railroad companies, which she had guaranteed. This done the State government issued patents for the land theretofore granted to railroad companies, and the companies immediately contractel for tho construction of the roads to which the grants were applicable. Mr.

Disstnn aud his associates then contracted to drain the swamp lands belonging to the State. New life seemed to animate every citizan in Florida, and activity was everwyhere apparent, as a result of which the railroad mileage was in 1-30 increased to 1,000 mi'es. Mr. Kelly then compares the thrift, industry and enterprise of Florida as it appears upon his present investigation with what he found in 1S75, and refers to the great productive qualities of the land which has been reclaimed by draining East lake cf its overflow, and to the great advantages enjoyed by tho State in early of teacher, that honored himself as remained, and of the present popula rrot. Randolph: and the perfor And with this hope comes the mances made bv his school last first ray of joyful expectation of tion 90 per cent would not leave the state permanently.

There are no happier being delivered; thus it is his faith that enables him to realize that night. The school board has reelected Mr. Randolph to teach next season, and it is the earnest This university is designed to meet the want of'those who desire to secure a liberal education. The following departments are in operation: Theological, College, Normal, Model school, Musical and Industrial, which includes a printing, sewing and cooking school, and household work. Board, $7 per month.

Tuition, $1. Incidental expenses, S3 per mounth Vocal Music, Room Rent, Coal and Lights, free Students received at any time. Special attention given to the religious as well as 'intulcctuai of students. Catalogues sent on application. Address: people any where, none more contend ed or more prosperous.

his deliverence has been wrought, wish of botn nationalities, that he These facts make a case, as the law and with it comes that joy that Paul says is unspeakable and full will return to his rooms again next yers put it, and that explains the boom fall. ot glory. In many homes of the pioneers may still be found books on geography Now joy is excited and intense pleasure a prosperous, happy, or Correspondent. 1 -a Waco Clippings. By Jennie N.

Moore. glorious state ot the soul, and as which tells of the Great American Desert, the bison and the Indian all right here in the region which we call Kansas. And yet on the farm where that has been already shown that it is faith that brings the first ray of i he BChooIs are in a prosperous loyous nope. condition and flourishing Rev. Wm.

J. SIMMONS, D.D, kind of literature is kept among the relics of past times, are a hundred evidences of the best civilization home-, Waco is aroused on the prohibi lhis joy can be increased or decreased in proportion to the faith -II President. tion question. King alcohol wil soon have to lace the music. the individual exercises; nr.

according to your faith, be it clone fields, and ever all the rise there is the school house, and a mile or so beyond is the county seat, a town of some-thousands of people, with churches. The Paul Quinn Association met Personals. unto you. Now faith i3 the propelling pow er ia the man that is born of God April 29th, to make arrangements for the election of officers, and to Gene Hobson, who has been duite ill all the spring with spinal arrange a programme for the clos and when strong propels him for affections, is now out and partici schools, hanks, elevators, mU and street cars. Kansas of forty years ago va, a ing exercises.

ward in the discharge oi every pating in the luxuries ct spring, i known dutv: then to live dis Waco is the leading commercial obedience of any command of God The minutes oi the Kansas association are out and appear which is the indefectibility of our city in Central iexas. it is now enjoying the biggest boom in the bond ot the spirit, ir to he void ot state. It has a population ot Is, that faith that works by love and 000, and three of the largest rail crops and harvests. Itus reclaimed land, although not threo under cultivation, demonstrates that all the vegetables and berries that can bo grown in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, can be produced Florida with less care and labor. In places where the cypress troe abounds it costs nothing to clear the land, for every tree pays for its removal.

He finds that farmers in Florida can afford to pay better wages than those in Pennsylvania and Kansas. Sugar cane, says Mr. Kelly, planted one year after the reclamation of the land, yields 5,000 pounds of sugar per acre, and rice netted 1,003 bushels an acre. Oats yielded fifty'bushels an acre and was ready to harvest on March 19. The reclaimed land of Florida, he says, partook of the chaifwj! thn -most productive, land of the valley of the Nile in Egypt.

Mr.Kelly goes on to say that upon the natV ural alluvial lands of ifiddlo and Lower Florida tobacco can be raised equal to the best Cuban loaf, and that Florida farmers purifies the heart; and to be void road combinations in the south in good shape. Rev. J. L.Dudley Rec. Seo'y, deserves credit for the interest and pains he has taken to make the minutes so systematic and accurate though plain he has made them.

ot taith is to be void or that joy myth, her magnificent topography was covered by a shimmering atmosphere by day and clear blue atmosphere, by night, but the borders of white settlement were far, far, away. Kansas of to-day is a vast empire abounding in all the elements of material wealth, an actual element far beyond that of any other territory of eijuai in siz twice the length of time anywhere in the world. Here we are, conn? and look at us. We have the evidence of permanent prosperity all about ns. Go among the which is produced only by taith The Payne Literary Society met on last Thursday night.

The It is faith that briogs the man born most important and interesting ex of the spirit to realize that his sal vation is alone through Christ ercise was a debate "As to whether the negro is inferior to the white He then and there vows to conse- orate all that he has and is to th The conclusion was that the negro is not inferior to the praise and glory of his Saviour. 1 .1 1 WilUff iuauv fy'And see what tJiev have, what claifii tueycttfl raise better ine pronimuon meeting held ati thev have done, and what thev are do-PaulQuinn College proved to beaming. Take a ride of 0,000 miles over Huixty-sy -ri proamnion cnu -was g0me of their railroads, stop over mvht lie leeis inai ne is not nis own, he is bought with a price, hence, it is his highest joy to know that he is pleasing his saviour, and his greattst sorrow to know that be is or has displeased him. So ive see that joy comes with obedience, and sorrow and sadness with dis The editor of the Banner left for St. Joseph Thursday, jvhere-k wil! engage in assisting "the Rev.

city, in a. grand entertain merit for the benefit of the church, and also participate in the decoration services May 30th. ai We hope the friends who subscribed for the Hansen the first three months, will renew their subscriptions at once. This is the last issue of the first quarter, and we are now planning to make the paper a weekly. It takes money to run a paper so send in your names and money it once at some ot their thriving towns, look out anions: the farmers and witiwss the orgauized.

ami quite a nnmoer 01 the voters joined. Speeches were rnfade by President I. M. Burgan; AW. X.

A. Banks; Prof. Sublitt work of a busy healthy, iiosei ious, enterprising, openhearted, sober people. obedience- I here refer yon and others. Alter a very interest Yes, the boom is real it is the fruition ing time the meeting adjourned to of an irresistible growth.

There is that convene on Thursday 01 the 101- several passages' of Cod's wrrda, which should be the lamp f4or our feet through all this wilderness of temptation and sin. The prophets And anoRt.In about Kansas which that, charms, that satisfies. The old Kansan owmg week. A Youns Woman's Christian is her fast friend, her devoted admirer. Temperance union was organized lie would as soon forget his mother as speaking of the sorrow and sad at Paul Uuinn College, April lb, his State.

than.was cut in Louisiana, but the lands are too valuable now for better paying products to put in sugar cane. The great Protectionist grows eloquent over tho cocoa-nut, and gives a glowing description of a Florida grove. He then devotes considerable space to tho silk culture and its possibilities. Florida, he says, should derive millions annually from tho production by her women and children of silk. Tho mulberry, on which the silk worm feeds, is indigenous tc every part of Florida, and it is impossible to estimate the value of the silk that might be produced by her women and children.

He says that nature invites the cai'eful organization of this light and profitable industry throughout Florida, Southern Georgia, Alabama and other parts of the South. Mr. Kelly then concludes thus: "Why, in view of Florida's immense and infinitely varied resources, may not I part with my subject in term of glowing congratulation and assurance to the State and her poopla that a career of unbroken and increasing prosperity awaits her and her rapidly augmenting population. I dare not fail, however, to admonish her people that tho corridors leading to both houses of Congress are vocal with mutterings of a purpose to enact legislation detrimental to her rice and sugar industries, and to resist the proposed repeal 1887. Alter the enrollment of KANSAS.

members, the following officers llev. John A. Jenkins, of Pierce City, has written a work on "Faith and practical religion," which is now in progress of print ness that woulcL come upon Israel and the chnrc for disobedience tt God says.isiah, 24th chapter 8th. Themiroof tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, were elected: Mrs. A.

11. Lole- Erora The Advocate. man, Alias jennieiN. xvioore, Kansas may sutler from drowth, shall in the Banner office. Vice-President; Miss Martha grasshoppers, chinch bugs, cranks and the jy of the harp ceaseth.

32 White, Kec. Secretary; Miss Lou furnish contents oftlfe work when the book is completed. The brethern will do to send an'J clypter, 10th 13. Many days and Ella Hardin, Cor. Secretary; and all other afflictions that a state is heir to, but there is nothing that stays her march to progress.

Kansas is to-day JJears shall ye be troubled, ye MiBS Ella Jones, Treasurer. The National Christian Temperance get a copy. s'oon as finished, as the most widely advertised state in the careless women; tor the ymtage shall fail. Upon the land of my people Union convenes in Waco on the Union. There is nothing too mean to 7th 8th and 9th of May.

be said about her by some, anil 'nothing i.iey may fail to get one at all. mm Mrs. A. J. Coleman has been very iR-vjvith rheumatism since a few after her marriage.

Her IIusbaAd, Mr. A. J. Coleman was shall come thorns and briers, yea upon all the house of joy in the -1 Kansas. in the English vocabulary that is pretty has been left unsaid bv others.

It joyous city; Lamentations, 5th The Win field Courier thus sizes up seems to make no difference what chap, and loth, lhe ioy 01 heart Kansas: is ceased; our dance is turned into No eulogy that could be passed, no said about Kansas, it all resolves itself iu her favor. There never was a coun mourning, olst Psalms and 12 article that could teprepard, no poem And as David looks back to the days when his heart was filled of laws which tax and harrass growers and manufacturers of tobacco, which are casting a sinister shadow athwart her pathway toward what otherwise seems to bo agricultural pre-eminence. The pretense that tho abolition or reduction of the duties on sugar is necessary to effect a reduction of tho annual revenue is false. It is a mero pretext for tho destruction of a great native industry now just expanding into National that could be written, would half tell the wonderful story of Kansas. Health with the ioy ot God's salvation, to try that its newspapers had so much to say about it, and there never was a country supplied with so many newspapers to the population.

Only think of it, luO counties in Kansas, and they and wealth are the portions of nil those him, in which his sin of adultery had robbed him of, he cries out in who come to Kansas aud stand with her through all her nps and downs the bitterness of his soul, "Res tore me the joy of thy salvation." Her billow prairies, her fertile valleys, her salubrious climate and deep rich telegramed to her beside last week from Wichita, where he has been at work, since their wedding about a month ago. The Banner extends to the young couple its friendly sympathy, and hopes to hear of Mrs. Coleman's speedy recovery. aw The letter of Miss Jennie N. Moore, of Waco Texas, has a very appearance, not in the form of matter or reading in the last issue but in the proof reading.

In one letter the word "duds" appears twice, where it should have been This was a simple oversight in the proof reader, who did not read the proof by her let John loth chapter and bth. 1 man abide not in me, he is cast soil, over which simmers the mellow sunlight from Italian skies, render the iorth as a branch and is withered, task of adequately describing this glo and when they wither, their joy surely passes away. rious empire beyond the power of mor tal man. Wherever the name of Kans. 1 therelore conclude that a man will average four newspapers to the county.

Four hundred newspapers all turned loose in praise of Kansas, rick up a Kansas paper where you will, and you will find from one to two columns devoted to advertising Kansas. Tick up a paper printed in any other state of the Union, and you will find it largely quoting from Kansas papers, all about Kansas. And why all this volunteer advertising? Because the givat commonwealth of Kansas can back her advertising. Because Kansas is the poor man's home, and the rich man's para "Tract Work." Minneapolis, May 20. Work" was tho subject of discussion at this morning's session of tho Baptist Publication society.

After tho -usual devotional exercises, Dr. Griffiths, secretary of the society, introduce I the discussion, and spoke brictiy urging extension of the work. Dr. Wayland Hoyt. of Philadelphia, and Dr.

Elwurd Judson, of New York, followed in eloquent anc' earnest appeals for aid in the distribution of tracts and pamphlets, dting numerous instances of the conversion of nntablr men aud women by this means. can be born of the Spirit, and yet as echoes it Is associated with visions of golden, waving grain, rich yellow corn at times be void ot the joy of sal vation. fat hogs, sleek cattle, blooded horses and a warm hearted, generous people ters at all; having over looked it The true Kansan la every Inch a king. unintentionally. letter from Joplin.

tt Joplin Mo May 26, 1887. and bends the knee to no prince orpo. tentate, and bows the head before, none Prof. S. II.

liandolph, principle Bretherri of the South Eastern District Association, will prepare but his God. The possibilities of Kan ot the public school, closed ms gas ari asyetonly dimly shadowed forth first term of school in this city dise. And because Kansas is the garden spot of the United States. Because she takes the lead in everything that has a tendency to morality ami prosper for the same which meets Tuesday before the 3rd Lord's day, with and her future greatness is of such mag yesterday, with a grand exhibition the Second Baptist Church, Bax nitude as to be beyond the imagination and "Broom Brigade" exercise at Baptist Publication. Society.

Minneapolis, May 20 The Bap tist Publication Society helil its iirst session yesterday. The usual standing committees wero appointed, after which Hev. John A. Broad us, of Louisville, delivered the annual doctrinal sermou on the "Paramount and Permanent Authority of the Biblo." The Church in Politics. New Yokk, May 20.

Mgr. Preston, ia ar address to tho Catholic Young Men's the Havens opera house, lhe en ity. That's why Kansas is so widely advertised. ter Springs. The district (Sunday school convention will convene on of mortal man.

Kansas may well be the proudest, as she ia the best state in tertainment was the most com mendable ever given in this city Monday, to which the Sunday the Union. schools should represent by dele gate. Let everv church and bun. day school send" up a good collec tion both for the Missionary and Presidkkt Ci.evei.and, Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs.

Folsom, Col. and Mrs. Lament, will go on their annual fishing expedition to the Adrondacks lhis week. They go early this season in order to avoid a crowd, and to get better fishing. The president is in need of much rest, is another inducement for an early trip.

The opera house was well filled with patrons and citizens both white and colored, and Prof. Randolph did himself great creiit in the performances of his exhibition. The programme was composed of essays, orations, music, dialogues, and a good "Broom Brigade," Attokney-Generay Bradford will soon issue a pamphlet containing statistics showing the effect of prohibition in Kansas socially, financially, politically and otherwise. The statistics will be undeniable, and will serve to answer manv questions. general expenses, state in your VJ IUOM, 111 I.U11VUIILIUU I1U1U JL'SICHWJV warned his hearers against those whosnf that the church has no right to advise if matters relating to politics and goyerf meat.

Such languago is false an cot tradictory. The church has Socialism, Communism and every for letters of instruction so much for minutes, so much for missionarv and education. volt..