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THE BULLETIN, BENTON, KANSAS. BITS OF NEWS PICKED UP FROM EVERYWHERE Interesting Items Gathered From All Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Ben. efit of Our Readers. Washington. The cost of living on June 15, was approximately 60 per cent higher than the average between 1890 and 1900; more than 3 per cent higher than it was a year ago, and nearly 15 per cent higher than it was two years ago Representative Anderson, Republican, of Minnesota, followed up his sensational resignation from the ways and means committee by introducing a resolution to have a committee of nine investigate and reform the legislative practice of the House.

The Department of Agriculture has estimated the total production of all cereals this year would be 111,484,000 tons, or 30.1 per cent less than last year, 1.4 per cent more than 1911 and 6.9 per cent less than 1910. The senate has confirmed the nominations of the nine members of the commission on industrial relations, of which Frank P. Walsh of Kansas City is chairman, The end of the two months' struggle over the tariff in the senate came rather quietly shortly 1 before 6 o'clock in the afternoon, when the first big legislative measure of the Wilson administration was passed by a vote of 44 ayes to 37 noes. Senator Thornton and Senator Randall of Louisiana, Democrats, deserted their party and voted with the Republicans, while La Follette and Poindexter, progressive Republicans, cast their lot with the Democrats and voted for the bill. As it passed the senate the Tariff bill represents an average reduction of more than 4 per cent from the rates of the original bill that passed the house, and' nearly 28 per cent from the rates of the existing law.

In many important particulars, the senate has changed the bill that passed the house, and the conference committeewill adjust these differences. The administration Currency bill has been reported to the house from the committee ee on banking and currency by Chairman Blass. Domestic Iteras. One man was killed and two were injured fatally when a Midland Valley oil train fell through a bridge near Kanima, and caught fire. The engineer is dead.

Word has been received at Kalama200, that Cooper, a small lumber town twenty miles north of that city, had been completely destroyed by fire. Lightning struck a oil tank at the Kansas Oil Refinery's plant at Coffeyville, Kan. The tank boiled over, setting fire to the gasoline condensing plant, two houses near by, a frame schoolhouse and the fire chief's new motor car. Alfred Goldenburg, his wife and four children were burned to death when their home was destroyed by fire at Bridgeport, Ill. The New York-St.

Louis Flyer on the Pennsylvania railroad, running fifty-five miles an hour, was derailed four miles west of New Madison, 0., injuring thirty-five of the seventy-three passengers and dangerously injuring three of the crew. Continuation of the century of peace that has elapsed since the signing of the treaty of Ghent was predicted at Cedar Point, by speakers at the banquet, which brought the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie to a close. A quarter million dollar corporation is being formed in St. Louis, it' is said, to take over practically all the undertaking and livery establishments in the city. Four men attacked Warrington MeAvoy, messenger for the Garfield Park State Savings Bank, in full view of hundreds of spectators on West Madison street, Chicago, knocked him down, seized a valise containing $4,600 in cash and $10,000 worth of checks, and escaped in a motor car.

Justice Hasbrouck of the supreme court of the state has decided that Governor Sulzer was regularly impeached and while awaiting impeachment trial was divested of the right to exercise his executive functions, including the power to pardon, KANSAS NEWS ITEMS GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS OF THE STATE, GATHERED FOR OUR READERS. A SHAKEUP AT PENITENTIARY Governor Hodges Has Ordered a General Investigation of the State Prison at Lansing--A Change in Officials Soon. A shakeup at the state penitentiary was the conclusion arrived at recently by. Gov. George H.

Hodges and W. L. Brown, speaker of the house and chairman of the board of corrections. C. M.

Lindsay deputy warden. will be deposed with. a short time, the governor announced, and many other changes are to be made. It is reported on good authority that J. H.

Fitzgibbons, at present mine superIntendent, would be appointed deputy warden. Governor Hodges admitted after the visit that there was to be a general house cleaning. "We are responsible for the administration of the affairs at the prison. so naturally should look to our friends to see that the institution is properly administered," said the governor. That there is to be a general investigation of the prison affairs, the governor admitted.

State accountants have been at the penitentiary working on the books and developments are promised. The coal mine is being made the subject of a searching investigation. Kansas Labor Men Elect. The annual convention of the State Society of Labor and Industry adjourned at Parsons after selecting Hutchinson as the next meeting place over Pittsburg by a majority of five. The officers elected are: W.

J. Gibbons, Wichita, president; J. J. Lewellin of Newton, vice-president; John Gore, Arma, secretary; Bert Mead, Pittsburg, assistant secretary; Alex Naylor, Hutchinson, treasurer. The resolutions demanded a semi-monthly payday; a law requiring caution and danger signals on all railroads, whether steam or electric; prohibiting railroads from handling more than forty cars without three brakemen; a state law fixing a minimum wage scale of $9 a week for women and girls, and an equal wage for equal services regardless of sex; a national law pensioning those who have reached old age; that there shall be a state examination for mine foremen, superintendents, gas men and hoisting engineers by a competent state board of examiners by the mine workers.

His Conscience Hurt Him. Although it has been twenty-five years since the incident, the quickened conscience of a converted man would not permit him to rest, and he sent $5 to square up for the theft of a small amount. This was the mission of a letter received recently by R. M. Wright, who ran the first store in Dodge City forty years ago.

The letter was from Glendale, and the writer said he was a clerk in the Wright store a quarter of a century ago. He explained that he had been converted and his conscience hurt him because he had taken $1 that did not belong to him and he wrote to ask forgiveness and make restitution. The $5 was to repay the original amount and interest to date. Umbrella Hid Her Danger. Mrs.

Harriet Clay, a widow 70 years old, and an inmate of the Mother Bickerdyke Home at Ellsworth, was struck and killed by an outbound Union Pacific passenger train. Carrying an umbrella, she attempted to cross the tracks in. front of the engine. Women to Defend Woman, Believing that an injustice is about to be wrought in a move to send Mrs. Elizabeth G.

Moore, wife of W. J. Moore, capitalist and former chairman of the Bourbon county commissioners, to the asylum for the insane, prominent women of Fort Scott, have employed legal counsel to defend an insanity action in probate court. Mrs. Moore has been removed to a neighbor's home at the order of the court, where she will remain, pending the hearing.

Her attorney applied for and secured a jury of three women, the first to- be selected in the county, to hear the evidence. Runaway Accident Fatal. Mrs. Sarah Stout, 57 years old, of Kansas City and a resident of Leavenworth county for many years, was killed recently in a runaway accident near Lowemont, ten miles west of Leavenworth. Pioneer Kansan Dead at 93.

George Harris, said to be the oldest person in Riley and Pottawatomie counties, died at the home of a daughter near Stockdale. He was 93 years old and had lived here since 1871. Put Sand in the Corn Chop. One hundred and fifty sacks of corn chop appear on the records as defendants in an action filed by the state in the district court at Iola. The sacks were being unloaded from a car when a state pure food inspector, accompanied by Undersheriff Ed J.

Dunfee, appeared and' seized the grain. The inspector alleged the corn chop contained sand and was not properly labeled. The Kansas State Ag ricultural College is said have worked up the case, and it is asserted wholesale prosecutions are to follow the seizures. The inspector ordered two carloads of the grain held for investigation. The crop seized was shipped to Iola by dealers of Kansas City, Mo.

Officials claim the high prices and scarcity of feed has resulted in much adulteration, and that the state of Kansas will take a hand to see that consumers get fair play. State Needs More Money. Governor Hodges said recently that he will, if necessary next year, increase the tax levy sufficiently so that hereafter the levy for each year will meet the state's current expenses for that year. During several years past it has been necessary in December to draw some of the new taxes in order to pay the state's expenses for that month. It likely will be sary to do that this year.

Governor Hodges said that this apparently will keep up from year to year and he is going to take steps to stop it, so that it will not have to be done in 1915 and thereafter, except in case of extraordinary emergency. "The situation simply demands," said Governor Hodges, "that some governor take hold of this thing and stop it by increasing the tax levy for one year to prevent a repetition of this shortage thereafter. Rushing to Sow Wheat. Showers in southern Kansas have caused wheat farmers to turn out by the thousands with drills to sow wheat which they feared to put in the ground because of the continued drouth. The demand for drills has become SO great since the showers that dealers are taxed to the limit to supply the trade.

Not since July 28 had rain visited the vicinity of Wichita, and the first shower, while less than a quarter of an inch, restored much of the confidence the farmers and business men had lost. Stock Plague Is Feared. Ford county farmers have wired to the State Agricultural college at Manhattan asking the college to send a veterinarian there to investigate the kafir corn which has caused several cases of stock poisoning. Kafir corn was the only rough feed that survived the dry weather this fall and the farmers have been storing it with the belief that it would supply their herds through the winter. Farmers fear a repetition of the plague that killed so many horses in this territory last fall.

Courted Death Too Long. The Rev. Solomon B. Dinius, Methodist minister at Milton, died in a Wichita hospital following an operation. Rev.

Dinius was stricken while attending an Epworth League meeting at Salina, but refused to quit the meeting before it was over. Physicians state that the pastor waited just a few days too long. Pioneer Junction City Woman Dead, Mrs. Jennie E. Hartshorne, widow of one of Geary county's pioneer physicians, died at her home in Junction City after a lingering illness.

She was 68 years old and had lived there more than forty years, Farmer Killed by Lightning. During a thunder storm at Hoisington, Conrad Ochs, a wealthy farmer of Wheatland township, was killed by lightning. At Otis, 17 miles west of Hoisington, a two-inch rain fell. To Get Water Despite Farmers. Because Fred Ackelbein, James Searcy and M.

G. Brown refused to let workmen of Emporia cross their fields to the banks of the Neosho river, over which the city holds riparian rights, the Emporia commission secured an order from the district court restraining the farmers from interfering. The city is trying to increase the flow of water and the storage supply. Youth Dies of Paralysis. John Healy, 18-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Healy, who live northwest of Shannon, died the other day of paralysis. At 9 o'clock he started to walk to a neighbor's house and was stricken on the road. It was the third paralytic attack he had suffered. Although he was so young, his ailment was diagnosed as ordinary paralysis and not the infantile variety.

Kansan Drowns in Oklahoma. George R. McClenathan of Iola was drowned at Sand Springs, near Tulsa, the other day. He had been employed in the Menc. 11 hardware store in this city the last six months.

INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 21 THE GOLDEN CALF. LESSON TEXT-Ex. 30-35.

GOLDEN little children, guard yourself from John 6:21." It is incredible that these Israelites should turn aside after gods made with man's hands in the very midst of such a demonstration of the holiness, majesty and glory of Jehovah. in life it is always but a step from glory to degradation, and one of the easiest moments in which to trip up the saint is at the time of his greatest ecstacies. The human heart is absolutely unreliable, unstable, nay, it is wicked and is desperately- deceitful, Jer. 17:9. Following the giving of the decalogue God gave Moses a series of laws and ordinances which are an application of that fundamental law and which form "the book of the covenant." Then the elders of Israel are called up into the mountain, given a vision of God, and given to eat and drink in his presence, symbolizing communion (Ex, 24).

After this Moses and his servant Joshua leave Aaron and Hur in charge of the people and go up again into the mountain. On the seventh day Moses entered the cloud and remained for a period of 40 days during which time he received the pattern of the tabernacle and the order of worship. It was during this period of time that the people sinned. The first part of this chapter tells us the fact of the casting of the calf, vv. 1-6.

God's righteous anger and Moses' prayer of intercession, vv. 7:14. Israel's boast, 19:8, 24:3, 7, is now revealed as being but utter weakness and illustrates the worthlessness and unreliability of human nature. The drunkard's promised sobriety, the clean man's promised purity, alike melt in the fierce heat of temptation. Their sin was a direct, positive violation of the first commandment, and in it they also broke the second.

They did not want to substitute but rather sought a similitude of God. Aaron here appears in a poor light; he did not like their proposition (vv. 7, 8), but did not have strength of character sufficient to stand against it. Aaron is like those in the church and out of it who prefer to control a movement which is bad rather than to combat the movement in its entirety. Human Fickleness.

Notice Aaron's attempt to link old Ideas with this new-fangled religion, this "modern expression," "tomorrow is the feast of Jehovah," v. 5. Men and women are today attempting to gloss evil teaching and open sin by Associating with it the name of Christ. To call such an association scientific is a travesty. The fact, however, that Aaron gave the Israelites what they asked for, shows that he had some Idea at least of God's attitude towards his people.

We have here presented also the fickleness of human gratitude. Moses is with God on their behalf (Heb. yet they forget him and God who had performed such mighty signs on their behalf, and demand new new leadership (v. 1 and Ps. Art has a place in religious life, but a spiritual worship alone is acceptable to God, John 4:24.

It was a sacrifice (vv. 2, 3) of gold to make possible this calf which was doubtless a representation of the Egyptian god Apis and may or may not have been life-size, and may have been solid or only veneer, but er such earnestness nor sacrifice saved them. God's Word Immutable. Moses' prayer of intercession, vv. 11-14, is wonderful.

It centers about the idea that Israel is "Thy people" (v. 11), and that God's word is immutable, "Remember," etc. (v. 13). Moses was moved with pity and had a passion for the honor of God's name.

As Moses and Joshua approached the camp they heard music, v. 17. What a commentary upon the debasing use of one of God's noblest gifts to man; the gift of music. Reaching the camp, they beheld the fullness of iniquity and depravity which was the development of this disobedience, v. 25.

See also Rom. Rom. 6:23, Jas. 1:15. Moses' passion also manifested itself against their sin by breaking the tables, grinding the calf to powder and compelled them to drink the water into which it was flung.

In order to complete this story we should call attention (vv. 30-35) how Moses returned into God's presence, made a confession for the people, truly taking the place of intercession when he desired to be blotted out rather than have their sin go unforgiven. Go on into the next chapter, vv. 13, 14, and read his great heart cry and God's answer of grace. A St First in Everything First in Quality First in Results First Purity First in Economy and for these reasons Calumet Baking Powder is first in the hearts of the millions of housewives who use it and know it.

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