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STATE NEWS. THE GOSPEL OF GRACE. LIGHT OF LIBERTY. m. odists hold the largest total, while the Episcopalians are the richest in proportion to their membership.

What if this wealth were actually consecrated? To meet each day of life with joy as it comes, says one, is to live in the highest condition, mentally, morally, spiritually. There are two, and only two, logical causes for meeting it in any other-tway ill-health and ill-hap. Notwithstanding the tendency of the people to mass together in cities, and the consequent overcrowding of the tenement-house population, remarks a religious weekly, it is a satisfaction to learn from the eleventh census that the number of dwelling houses has increased faster than the thrown clear across the room by the force of the explosion, and was badly burned on the face and back by the boiling water. His right arm was bruised and burned and a gash cut in his forehead by the flying wreckage. Dr.

Wright was standing a few feet from the furnace and received the flood of hoi water directly in his face. Wig face, arms, hands and face are badly blistered and bruised. His wife was standing just behind him in the doorway and received a few splashes of the boiling water. The wreck in the building shows with what force the boiler must have burst. The basement is strewn with wreckage of doors, glass, etc.

Right above the boiler room was the operating room. The floor here is blown up and the walls and ceilings covered with muddy water. In the next room the furniture is scattered, glass broken, etc. The escape of the men from instant death seems miraculous. The place where they stood is covered with great fragments of iron, and had they not been hurled out of the way they must certainly have been crushed.

Flower59 "What is August Flower fbrr As easily answered as asked. It is for Dyspepsia. It is a special remedy for the Stomach and Liver. Nothing more than this. We believe August Flower cures Dyspepsia.

We know it will. We have reasons for knowing it. To-day it has an honored place in every town and country store, possesses one of the largest manufacturing plants in the country, and sells everywhere. The reason is simple. It does one thing; and does it right, It cures dyspepsias XfAKE PLEASflHT THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER.

My doctor nmr it acta gratly on the stomadt-Bwr and kidneyt, and la a pleasant laxative. Thie onna: la maae irom oeros, ana la prepared Xar I LCIIE'SCIEDIC An drareiaU sell It at 5c. and Rim you cannot get ft, aend toot address for at ampie. uiiri Family aiediclne the towel each dav. Address OH ATOR H.

WOODWARD, LaBOT. "Mothers' Friend" Mothers' friend "is a soentific-s3y prepared Liniment, every ingredient of recognized value and in constant use by the medical profession. These ingredients are combined in a manner hitherto unknown "MOTHERS' FRIEND" WILL DO all that is claimed for it AND MORE. It Shortens Labor, Lessens Pain, Diminishes Danger to Life of Mother and Child. Book to Mothers mailed FREE, con taining valuable information and voluntary testimonials.

Ocniby express on receipt of price $1.50 perboCSi FIELD REGULATOR ABanta. 6a SOLD BY ALL DRUGGIST Unlike the Dutch Process So Alkalies OR Other Chemicals are used in tbe preparation of W. BAKER CCS reakfastCocoa which is absolutely pvre and soluble. It has more than three time the strength of Cocoa mixed I with Starch. Arrowroot or Sugar, and is far more eco nomical, costing less than one cent a evp.

It is delicious, nourishing, aad DIGESTED. Sold hj Grorers eTerjwher. W. BAKER Dorchester, Hat inn trmm imp in rni Lwmt Wieir marine sickles and start out folr new harvests. If the ocean cannolt be enlarged, the foghorn stim ulatedl or the lookout blessed 'with the plowers of vision, the only safe place dock.

for the little rhip is the dry- Thm hitherto glorified national game jof base ball is falling into in nocuous desuetude. In other words, the business is about The people's thoughts seem to be turned to othjer things and they are not pat roniziiig the game as they once did. So it qiappens that clubs are disband ing wijth a bankrupt treasury, all over the country, and the young man who once delighted to disport himself in a fancy! shirt, long stockings and abbreviated! pants, is now compelled to seek other I means for securing his daily bread. James Kinkead of Virginia, when stopped by a highwayman whose merca nary motives were aggressively apparent, filled the mistaken indi- vidua full of lead and then dragged jail. In the hands of him truly endowed with sand, the him tfc who 4 shotgtm is a mighty promoter of civ-.

Mr. Kinkead not only saved ilizatilon $10,000, reform and violated the precedent of non resistance which has been boom- ing tqe hold -up business to the detri- ment bt other business more benifl cial community. The dervishes who have come here to try to convert Americans to the Korai in all that the term implies, are, i goes without saying, perfectly welco ne to make the trial. There are a rood many people to whom any sort conversion would be a benefit, and i the dervishes capture them, and iver induce them to emigrate to Mc slem realms, they never would be cissed. There is Herr Most, for instai ce, to whom the bewildering dance of the dervishes, with its ac-compi niment of howls and shrieks and enseless excitement, ought to be scinatingly suggestive of an Anar hist meeting.

The dervishes migh attend one of Herr Most's favori be gatherings and see wnether they ould not make a few proselytes. Still, phis suggestion might be difficult tfo carry out An Anarchist con-vertecj to Islam would have to abandon beer. Many of our modern humorists have achieved great success in the art of dressing up the wit of past generations. They have invented some new situations, and in some cases they have applied their iokes in such a way as to leave the impression that they were new, as, indeed, they may have been, yet the fact that so much humor lives on from generation to generation in about the same form is suggestive of the idea that most of the jokes which convulse the people of to-day caused those of the last century to explode with laughter, and are destined to perform the same service for generations yet come. The habitual reader of modern humor will find in the writings of Addison, Pope, Jerrold, Hood, and other wits of long ago strangely familiar ideas, though he may never have seen these works before and Irving, Phoenix, Doesticks, Mrs.

Partington, Artemus WarcL and a host of contemporary writers worked the same mines in which; modern humorists are delving. It does not necessarily follow that all hulmorists are plagiarists, but it is a question if the sum of humor increases from age to age, and if it is not uijider varying conditions about the sajme old thing whenever and wherever it is found. Khedive and Sentry. The Khedive, oddly enough for an Oriental, did not smoke; but always carried a cigarette case, and delighted in offering it and little presents of money to the English sentries placed on guard round his palace, when first Cairo was occupied bv the British. The Khedive was an early riser.

aad was in the habit of walking in his garden early in the morning. One day, returning from such a walk, he was stopped by a sentry. 'Yer can't go in herei Ver know, said tfee man of the Briton's amiable contemprfor a fat little foreigner. "But I belong to the palace," faltered the Khedive, delighted. Oiujifci yer? Got a good place?" "Vry good," was the modest re-spon33.

"Ali, yer look like it. Nothin' to do aqi plenty to eat. I wouldn't mind serving your master. What sort of a filler is he?" Ann then, alas! the sergeant, coming aljong, recognized and saluted the Khedive, to the vast discomfort of the sentry as well as to the chagrin of his highness, who would. have been glad to hear more about himself.

Etead Workers Need a Vacation. "Ygs," said the stranger to the editoi at the beach as they sat on the hotel Iveranda sipping their lemonade atd-jooking out upon the rolling, ocean which spread away to the horizon dieply, darkly, beautifully blue, "yes, head work is very trying, and the irjan who earns his living by it needs a vacation occasionally." "Yes," replied the editor, "head work is very trying. I find it so, especially when the hours are long." "II ow many hours a day do you work queried the stranger. "Four," said the editor. "Heavens! 1 work ten." "Mead work?" "Ves, every bit of it." 1 ewspaper or general literature?" "i either.

I'm a barber," Tt en the editor shut himself up as close as the sun umbrella which he carried. Whenever a band commences to play Ion streets, several big wagons go rattlgng by, and drown the music: sharp Everest has dedicated its new city hall. At Enterprise the Central college opened with 150 pupils. The last edition of the Girard Press contained twenty-two marriage notices. Kansas took fully three-fourths of the premiums awarded at the Kansas City, fair.

Near Hiawatha, while Mrs. James Yenada was boiling soap, her clothes took fire and she was burned to death. The Winfield school board has let the contract for the erection of two school buildings. A Topeka firm has the con tract. Independence schools are so badly crowded that new buildings must be furnished to catch the overflow of youngsters.

The Bird City News mentions thirty land buyers in its town in the week of its issue, and notes the sale of twenty-five quarter sections. Plainville Times: The people of Co-dell have voted bonds and are preparing to build a large school building, which will contain two rooms. The Emporia Gazette recalls the fact that it was fourteen years Tuesday since the State Normal school buildings were burned at that place. Portis expects to secure a fifty-barrel steam grist mill before the year is out. That place shipped thirty-three cars of wheat in September during a period of great scarcity of oars.

Thayer News: Jake Keiser killed a magnificent white pelican near the lake, which measured eight and one-half feet across the tips of its extended wings. It is a beautiful specimen of that bird. Kansas City, Star: Eighty-seven animals have been prepared by Prof. Dyche, of the Kansas university for the world's fair. There will be other specimens of taxidermy at Chicago, but the exhibit from Kansas will knock the stuffin' out of all the rest, and don't forget it.

Hutchinson News: The Diamond Salt works, owned by Phelps, of Chicago, have been transferred to Joy, Morton heavy Michigan salt dealers, and who represent about The fact that Michigan salt men have become interested in our salt fieids means no small thing for this great industry and our city. Russell Record: E. L. Barton has sold his ranch on the Saline to George Bathe, of Tuskeego, Iowa. The property is known as the Wolcott ranch.

It was formerly owned and occupied by C. A. Wolcott, who sold it to Dr. Sutton, from whom it was purchased by Mr. Barton.

It contains 4,000 acres and was sold by Mr. Barton for $55,000. Hays City Republican: Hon. Jas. H.

Reeder met with a painful accident while returning from the political meeting in Buckeye township. The hack was crowded and the roads slippery. Mr. Reeder thought the hack was going to turn over at one time, and jumped out. He fell heavily on his arm and shoulder, badly spraining them.

He was suffering much pain, but thinks he will be out in a few days. Sheriff Allen, of Fort Scott, and Thomas Walker, of Garland, same county, were in a crowded baggage 'car returning from an excursion to Pittsburg. The car was crowded. These two men had a scuffle for fun, and upon surging against the express door of the car it opened and let them out while the train was going pretty fast. Both were tm-conscious for a time and pretty badly bruised, but no bones were broken.

Ottawa Lever: In less than an hour after the death of John T. Preshaw, register of deeds, several men were on the streets asking the people for their influence with the commissioners for their appointment to fill the vacancy; but when the commissioners met they appointed Mrs. Emma A. Preshaw, wife of the deceased, to fill the vacancy. Mrs.

Preshaw is eminently fitted to take hold of the office and run it to the satisfaction of the people. Topeka Journal: The county commissioners have finished their annual settlement with the county treasurer. They found every account correct, and the amount in the treasurer's hands balanced with the books to a cent. The total amount now in the hands of the county treasurer is 128,178,36. The levy for general revenue purposes was reduced this year 5-100 of a mill as compared with last year.

The reduction makes a difference of about $10,000, but there is still a balance of over $30,000. Topeka Journal: Paul Swetlick, a wealthy farmer living ten miles north of Silver Lake and about twenty-five miles north-west of Topeka, was shot and fatally wounded at 8 o'clock at night under circumstances that are very mysterious. He had been on business all afternoon at the home of John Statch, three miles east of his own house. He took supper with them, and at about 8 o'clock he left, and started to mount his horse, which was hitched near the front gate. He had one foot in the stirrup in the act of mounting, when he was shot from behind.

Le Roy Reporter: During a recent thunderstorm lightning played smash with the residence of Arch Sutton, west of the river. It struck the chimney, and passing through it literally tore it all to pieces. Mr. Sutton was awakened by the fearful racket, but was so dazed that it took him some time to collect his ideas. When he struck a light, an awful sight presented itself.

The floor was covered with mortar and fragments Tff brtrkwhwh-wf-quite hot. The room was full or smoke. No damage was done to the stove. "It is a wonder, though, that the family escaped without injury, for the bedstead was not far from the chimney. During the same storm the residence of Mrs.

E. A. Graham was also struck by lightning, but no serious damage was done. A terrific explosion occurred in the boiler room of the Santa Fe hospital in Ottawa, which resulted in the serious injury of Dr. Wright, the surgeon in charge, and W.

E. Bliss, one of his assistants. The two men, in the absence of the engineer, Walter Hill, who was confined to his room on account of sickness, were trying to get the second of the two furnaces steamed up for the first time this fall. Bliss was directly in front of the furnace Bhaking the ashes down when the crash came. He was EXPOUNDED BY OUR RELIGIOUS EDITOR.

Daniel Webster's Greatest Thought Fol. low Your Chosen Work The Test of Friendship Is Constancy Some Words of Earnest Men Short Sermons. The Test of Friendship. HE test of friend ship is found when trouble comes. A friend may really have little ability to relieve us, but if there is true friendship it will manifest itself in helpful ministra tions.

Such friend ship as that of David and Jonathan, which abides alike in sunshine and storm, is alone valuable. Life is poor save as it is related to the lives of others by reciprocal ministrations of close and constant fellowship. Many who look forward to sundered friendships can never cease to regret paltry causes which alienated them from their friends. The suspicions, jealousies, and readiness to take offense which led to a rupture, as they are reviewed. seem so unworthy and foolish that the wonder is they were ever allowed to be harbored in their minds.

Even if friendships have been broken -for ustiflable causes there is a sad wrench of the heart. It is the comfort of a Christian that he has a friend of whose constancy he can have no doubt. Whatever may have been the thought of the writer of the Proverbs we do know that "There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." The friendship of Jesus is disinterested and abiding. He is the same "yesterday, to-day, and forever." He has wisdom, sympathy, ability, patience, and He is always near to us to give counsel and help. Unconscious Influence.

When so much is said by moralists about exerting a good or bad influence, that which the individual is di rectly conscious of is usually meant. Yet it can scarcely be doubted that the influence unconsciously emanat ing from every life is more import ant than its owner knows, or can begin to understand until the wider vision of the larger future life makes plain much that is doubtful and ob scure in this. How little of what we know of the effect of our unconscious influence may be guessed in our ignor ance of the causes that have combined in ways we cannot now see to make us what we are. Iso one who has lived past middle life will refuse to acknowledge that much the greater part of the influences that have determined his course in life were fore ordained for him before his birth. Parentage, ancestry, even to the third and fourth generation, affect character so that it may be beyond the influence that can be brought to bear on the individual life.

No one knows or can know the extent to which unconscious influence operates. In this life slight and seemingly unimportant incidents bear fruit that astounds those who' first influenced it Yet in the main, the actions of the present life bear their fruit in the great hereafter. Herein is the greatest incentive to right living. Whoever has influenced men or women for good, that influence extends through life. It is equally so wherever the influence has been for evil.

Some years before his death Daniel Webster, the greatest statesman this country has ever produced, was asked what had been the greatest thought of his life. With more than usual solemnity he replied: "It is that of my personal responsibility for what I do in this life to my Creator. It requires an intellect like that of Webster to think such a thought as this. To how many men this thought, appreciated as it should be, must be overwhelming. If their lives have been wholly evil, that evil must go on in their lives through succesive generations.

But there was a brighter view of the human future than this. No life is wholly evil and the influences which men exert, unnoticed perhaps at the time, enlarge, until the good overcomes the evil. It is in the long run the good which survives and the evil that is overcome and perishes. Only thus could the good finally be triumphant, as the seers and prophets in all ages have believed it will be. To Every Alan His Work.

This comparison, of ourselves with others, and of our lot with theirs, mars our own lives and binders us in our work. It makes us either boastful or despondent accordingly as we find ourselves doing more or less than How soon will men begin to realize things and live according to the dictates of their own consciences, and diligently do their own work, irrespective of what others are doing? Discontent follows hard on the heels of selfish comparison with others. Neglect of personal duty is the broken wheel that destroys the regularity of the church's work and hinders her full prosperity. Are we old or young, rich or poor, weak or strong, each has a share of service In the Church of God. An Unmistakable Fact.

Church members ol ten think that they are oaly-tujning pastor or fellow-church members when in fact they are forsaking Christ himself. It is a little short of treason to Christ to take offense as easily as many do. The rebellious spirit which takes them out of church and fills the neighborhood with complaints, takes them just as far away from the meek and lowly Savior. The Advance. Sunday Though ts.

Some churches are like Durham Cathedral during Middle Ages part of the time devoted to the worship of God, and off and on used as a fortress for contention among men. The wealth of the churches has grown enormously. In 1850, for example, the property of the Roman Catholics in. this, country amounted to in 1890 had increased to $ii8, 381,516. The Meth r- vT7 I i LEBANON, KANSAS.

Women dentists are a great success in London. They belong to a profession that has a knack of catching on. Italy will send a cruiser to participate in the great naval review, but Chili seems to have given up all thought of sailing into the United States. Many a poor dog has had to die under the grave charge of communicating rabies, when it was only whisky ana delirium tremens that the fellow he bit suffered from. Another lunatic has started across the Atlantic in a fourteen-foot dory.

The tired fool-killer always murmurs 'Thanks!" when he reads an announcement of this kind. Ocean steamships are breaking records every week or two. One of these days, one of them will itself be broken with terrible loss of life and then there will be a cessation of mad speed. After a man has recovered from a severe illness, he speaks of the time when he was sick, and dates every thing from his sickness, in much the same way a man talks when he has been to Europe. Apples will be scarce and high- priced this winter.

For the comfort of persons who cannot afford to buy them it may be said that they will be sour and wormy Reference is had, of course, to the apples. Mrs. James Brown Potter has at last concluded that she was not meant for the stage. It sometimes takes a long time for public opinion to be indorsed by those to whom it is directed but it generally gets there in the long run. The latest conspiracy to rob rail-roadi cannot be charged to the Dal-ton gang, although it was unearthed in Kansas City.

The conspirators were passenger solicitors, conductors, and ticket brokers; the scheme being to carry passengers at reduced rates and divide the proceeds. IIereater the ritual of the order of Kinghts of Pythias in the United States will be in the English language only. So orders the Supreme Lodge of that society. An excellent idea, for English is our national language. The less "confusion of tongues" we have in this country the better.

The sending of a tug-load of reporters to the infectea ship in New York harbor is pushing sensational journalism too far. Manufacturing foreign interviews in New York is bad enough, but actually running the risk of bringing cholera into a great nlt.v t.alrt rant no crimo The report that the Louisiana lottery is seeking a foothold Hawaii is one calculated to fill its enemies with alarm. It could, if estabished there, speedily obtain an ascendancy over the weak government that would make it master of the kingdom, and also make the islands the nearest approach to hades or Monaco that could be found in the wide world. An Almeda, mother was recently convicted of cruelty because she had sought to show her little son the error of his ways by pressing his hands against a hot stove. The child was cruelly burned.

The mother pleaded that she had merely intended to scorch him, and her maternal tenderness being thus established, a considerate Judge suspended sentence. Observations recently made through the Lick telescope in California are said to have proven erroneous the theories long held that certain dark lines on the planet Mars were canals. Some new and interesting facts about two small satellites of the planet are reported. Mars is now unusually near the earth, big and red, and is still rushing toward us through the Southern heavens. TnE coal combine seems bent upon exercising its own free will and piling up the cost of a household necessity until drastic measures are taken for pulling it off the perch.

There is a limit to human endurance, and the law will eventually see that the people are not robbed while supplying themselves with the necessaries of life, simply because a vast combina tion has secured control of the com modity. wa mother of a somewhat notorious actress is announced. The affair may not rate high socially, -but it possesses scienti 8c interest. The formal wedding documents set forth in terms so positive that gallantry forbids the calling of it into question, that the age of the bride is 38. Possibly this is the first authentic instance wherein a mother of 33 has a daughter known on two continents as at least thirty-nine.

It is becoming quite the fashion for big ships to mow down the little ones. Captains of the little ships, providing they miss going to the bottom, view the custom with a perhaps not unnatural disfavor. Commanders of the mowers, 'nowever, merely population. In 1850 the average was five persons for every house, while in 1890 it was only four and a half. The volume of statistics of churches just published is an important and interesting expose.

These statistics form a part, and perhaps the most valuable and authentic part, of the last census. They show that 20.000,-000 out of the 63,000,000 of our "population are church members nearly one in every three persons. If we re-enforce the members by adding the adherents of the churches, who are usually counted as two to one, we come straightway upon the truth that the claim that this is a Christian nation is iJoempty boast. In analyzing these figures we learn that these 20,000,000 church members are distributed among 150 denominationsan unhappy division, and explanatory of. the failure of Christianity to dominate the country.

But 'tis a reassuring fact that many of these sects have only "a name to live." Some of them are so inconsiderable that their existence is shown only in the census tables. Seven or eight great bodies embrace nine-tenths of the grand total. Hence, practically, the problem of Christian union resolves itself, into the bringing together in some modus vivendi of the Roman Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Episcopal, and Congregational churches. We venture to predict that this modus yivendi will be discovered in the near future. In this age of community the re ligious classes are not going to be last and least in drawing together.

Life on the Karoo. xn the spring of the year, when rain has fallen for two months, the Karoo is a flower garden. As far as the eye can reach stretch blotches of white and yellow and pink flg flowers. Every foot of Karoo sand is broken up by small flowering lilies and wax flowers In a space a few feet square you may sometimes gather fifty kinds. In the crevices of the rocks, little, hard- leaved flowering air plants are grow ing.

At the end of two months the Dloom is over, the bulbs have died back into the ground by millions, the flg blossoms are withered, the Karoo assumes the red and brown tints which it wears all the rest of the year. Sometimes there is no At intervals of a few years great droughts occur, when no rain falls. For ten or thirteen months the sky is cloudless. The Karoo bushes drop their leaves and are dry, withered stalks, the fountains fail and the dams are floored with dry. baked mud, which splits up into little squares, the sheep and goats die by thousands and the Karoo is a desert.

It is to provide for these long rainless periods that all the plant life in the Karoo is modi-fled. Nothing that can retain life habitually for six months, and at need for twice that time, without rain, can exist here. The Karoo bush itself provides against drought by roots of enormous length, stretching underground to a depth of many feet. At the end of a ten-months' drought, when the earth is baked brick-dust for two feet from the surface, if you break the dried stalk of a Karoo bush three inches high, you will find running down the center a tiny thread of pale, green-tinted tissue, still alive with sap. Fortnightly Review.

A Blessing with a String to It. The other night a very young American was being put to bed by his gentle little mother. The youngster had just been engaged in an affray with a neighbor's boy, and had got decidedly the worst of the battle. His mother, thinking it a good time to inculcate the principle of forgiveness to our enemies, told young James thathe must say, 4 'God bless RichardI" Richard being the name of the odious and victorious antagonist Jamie demurred. His mother insisted.

After some discussion Jamie yielded, with a very bad grace. "God bless Richard," he said; but then added, with grim satisfaction, "but I'll hit him a lick in the morning!" New York Recorder. Reynard and the Goose. A new version of this old story was seen some time ago in Ireland, which appeared-to show that the foxes of that country not only possess the cunning of their kind, but a high degree of coolness besides. The hounds were out in Limerick county, and in full cry after Reynard.

While the latter was running at the top of his speed, a goose happened to cross his path. At this very moment, when his life was in imminent danger, the ruling passion overcame him. He seized the bird by the neck, threw it across his shoulder in the twinkling of an eye, and resumed his fight Making for cover as fast as he could, he succeeded in escaping his pursuers. The Russian and His Food. The Russian eats on an average once every two hours.

The climate and custom require such frequent meals, the digestion of which is aided by frequent draughts of vodka and tea. Vodka is the Russian whisky, made from potatoes and rye. It is fiery and colorless, and is generally flavored with some extract like vanilla or orange. It is drunk from small cups that hold, perhaps, half a gill. Vodka and tea are the inseparable accompaniments of friendly as well as of business intercourse in the country of the Czar.

One of the bridesmaids was softly crying during the ceremony, and her escort, nudging hei, whispered: 'Whatare you crying for? It isn't your wedding." "I know it, and that's just what ails me," she said STOCK AND FABU. An Osborne county woman, who conducts her own farm, has 200 bushels of choice apples this year. Valley Falls Vindicator: Prentice Huff has lost two good cows. He does not know what was the matter unless it was hydrophobia they had all the symptoms. Cedar Vale Star: Stock near Leeds is being pestered to death, almost, by those little black flies.

Some of the thin cows are sore from head to tail from their bites, large places being absolutely raw from them. ElDorado Republican: 8. A. Markee has bought the south half of Mrs. Fannie Wilson's place.

He is a sample of what a young man with push and grit can do. He started with nothing and at the age of twenty-five has a wife and eighty acres of good land and teams and stock to put on it. Topeka Journal: E. Tuttle, who lives north of Topeka, has a little farm, of sixteen acres. Last spring he rented ninety acres more for $500 and planted a crop.

Now he has 1,600 bushels of corn in the field, 3,000 bushels of sweet potatoes and 1,800 bushels of Irish potatoes that he is digging. The entire crop is worth $5,000, and Tuttle is trying to buy the farm he rented. LeRoy Reporter: Fred Hildebrand and George Bernhardt returned from Butler county with GOO head of weathers which they will fatten for the mar ket. They also brought along a first-class German shepherd, who will work for Mr. Reinhardt, and made the acquaintance of several other thrifty Germans who will probably settle in this neighborhood in the spring.

Cedar Vale Star: J. H. Carney bought the forty head of threes and fours William McCarty had on feed, paying $40 a head. They were an extra fine bunch of steers. He expects to buy about as many more for feeding at the home farm.

He will buy some corn at 30 cents; will not pay over that, as his own 100 acres fixes him pretty well. He expects to feed about 110 days. Independence Reporter: The great corn-cutting match of the century occurred recently on the farm of W. R. Jones, six miles north of Aurora.

The field contained ninety-two acres. The prize offered was $100, and forty men entered the contest, and each man bet his day's wages, making $185.55 as the grand prize. Clark Lewis was the winner, cutting sixty-one shocks, each shock containing sixteen hills. Cedar Vale Star: W. H.

Smith, of Shiloh, says corn is not turning out as well as was expected up that way! William White, who is feeding 215 steers near Cloverdale, is, however, getting in enough to feed on has not commenced cribbing yet, but will probably take about all that sells in that section at 30 cents. East of Leeds Mr. Craig is feeding a good-sized bunch of cattle and paying 30 cents for corn. KANSAS CHURCHES. Chetopa church has of repairs.

Democrat: The M. E. been undergoing a course Catholic fairs seem to be prevailing in all of the principal towns and cities of Kansas. Oswego Independent: The Dunkards erected a commodious tent at the park at Altamopt, and held their annual love feast Saturday Sunday. They are a good class of people and are highly respected.

Washington Republican: A committee of the Yearly Meeting College board has been appointed to visit our field, look over the ground, and see what we have to offer in the way of a college plant. The Yearly Meeting will be required by the College association to raise $25,000 ol the $50,000 secured before a proposition can be considered. So far no point has a better offer to make than has Washington, and it is 60 considered by the Yearly Meeting. The total enrollment of the academy has reached 160. The twenty-fifth annual convention of the Kansas synod of the English Lutheran church of the United States was held in the Memorial church at Kansas City.

Prof. J. H. Stough, of Midland college, Atchison, conducted the opening services. Prayer was offered by the Rev.

F. M. Porch of To. peka, after woich the By nodical sermon was delivered by the Rev. H.

L. Yager, of Lawrence. The morning session was begun at 9 o'clock. The president de- liTered hia annual report, after which came me election oi omcers, as iouows: President, the Rev. J.

A. Lowe, oi Wichita; secretary, the Rev. W. L. Sea' brook, of Abilene; treasurer, J.

H. Berv lin, of Atchison. KANSAS RAILROADS. E. B.

Shelley, an engineer on the Southern has been admitted to practice law, but he has not given up his position as engineer. O. H. Brown, the retiring stock agent of the Santa Fe, was most handsomely remembered by the shippers over his road. As a testimonial of their appreciation of him as an officer and man, they 'presented him with a solid silver service, costly and chaste in the Coat The FISH BE.QDLRarranted waterproof, and will keep yon dry in tho hardest storm.

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