The Atlanta Herald from Atlanta, Kansas • 2

hnna nni callows from mornlntr until LAND OFFICERS INSTRUCTED, MANY HARD FALLS. ATLANTA HERALD. WM. BOOT, Editor. presentative of nnfllnohing godliness.

Such were the usages of society In anoiont times that, hud this Israolito bowod to the Prime Minister, it would havo boon an ncknowladgnient of respect for his character "and nat on. Mordeotl would, therefore, have sinned against his religion Kev. Dr, Talmaga Takvi a Lwi from KANSAS ATLANTA, had he muds any obolsanco or dropped his the Hanging of Hainan. It li on the Blaok Anvil or Trouble that lien Hammer Oat their Fortunei Many Hard Falli in Store for Ui all chin half an inch biforo Hainan. When, therefore, proud Human attempt Fkmalb lobbyists are recoprilz'id factor of' legislation in England, and aro Biiid to be very successful.

ed to compel an homage which was not felt, he only did what the world ever since has trlod to dti, when it would foive our holy STATE NEWS. A oroamery at Chctopa will soon be completed. Sallna business men have organized a commercial exchange to forward the interests of thoir city. i Senator Joel Moody, of Mound City will deliver tho Docoratloh day' address at Lrt county seat! of Bush county. Miss Barr, of New York, a frlendi of the late Bishop Vail, has preseut-i ed to the Trotostant Episcopal1 diocese ot Kansas $10,000.

I Reports of jack rabits. hanging themselves in the ranit wheat are, beginning to be bruited about the' religion in any way to yield to its dictates. Daniel, if ho had boon a man of religious compromises, would never have boon thrown into the don ot Hons, Ho might havo mado some arrangement with King Prksident Woodruff, of the Mormon church, announces to his latter days sulnts that "the day of revelation la ended." The loaders of theFrelslnnige party In Germuuy have refused to take part in the movement for the erection of a monument in honor of Prince Bismarck, Darius whoroby ho could have retainod part of his form of religion without making hlrmolt so completely obnoxious to the idolaters. Paul might havo retained the favor of his rulers and escape! martyrdom if he had only been willing to mix up his Christian faith with a few errors. His unbending Christian character was taken Secretary Nobla Construes the Law for Oklahoma, WAsiiiKflTox, May 20, The secretary of the interior lias writ ten a letter of Inst motion to reglHt i'rs anil receivers of the United Status laud olllcvs in Oklahoma, interpreting and carrying into ell'uct the Oklahoma act, approved May 14, This act, the secretary construes to apply as well to tho public laud strip as to tluit portion ot the territory opened to settlement by the president's proclamation of April 1880.

Preliminary to il mure extended series of instructions which will soon he promulgated, the secretary directs as follows: "Parties interested in any town site shall prepare nd you shall receive and preserve without tiling until the trustees appointed shall be prepared to act, the request for the entry of the lands included in any particular town site with proof ns prescribed in the town nlte circular of July I), 1888, subdivision 380, far as applicable under section 187 of the revised statutes, with a duly authentic, pint of survey of tho land into streets, alleys and blocks and lots, it any already made by the inhabitants thereof and if not, that fact to be stated. If proof and plat of survey havs already been made and forwarded the application now called for, may refer to fact and date of transaction without reviewing the papers no previously forwarded. Upon the receipt of the application and the other papers that may be submitted, you will forward them to this otilce for further action with your opinion thereon. "By the first section you will perceive that the trustees when appointed may approve the survey already made by the iu-, habitants and thus Rave much time or under the instructions of the secretary of the interior the trustees may make the survey! of the land into streets, alloy, blocks and lots when necessary. The pur-i pose of these instructions is to save time' and enable thenppointment of the trustees to take effect at as early a day as possible and the businoss then to proceed without InUrruotiou," as an insult Fagot and rack and halter all ages southern part of the state.

A man can't carry a dollar's worth of sugar or a mesa of beefsteak home have been only the different ways in which If you don't know whethor a lady is married or not call her miss; that pleases a married woman, but madam doesn't please an unmarried one, flU though it Is proper. the world has domanded obeisance. It was once, awav un on the ton of the temnlo. In' Topeka, now, without creating that Satan coinnwnded the Holy One of Nazareth to knosl be Tore him. But it is not now so much on the top of ohurches as M.

Delahavb, who was one of trior1 down in the aisle and the pew and pulpit French delegates to the international labor conference at Berlin, says the results, achieved by the conference greatly surpassed his hopes. the impression that he has an original package. Gov. Eskridge says that W. Craig, of the Emporia is not going to the Pittsburg Smelter, as Is currently reported.

Mr. Eskridge ought to know. Tho nearer cpnsus time comes the smaller aro tho figures that tell of the population of tho various Kansas towns always dlc.1 find away to let themselves down easy and avoid a sickening thud. Judge Peters is confined tohl9 bed in Washington with some kind; of serious trouble with his heart! Dr. Wines, secretary of the Illinois elate board of charities, has been invited to attend the internntion prison congress at St.

Petersburg, Russia, and deliver an address on juveuile re forraatories. His case is considered serious and i his pbysicans have recommended absolute rest from eoncresslnnn.1! A committee appointed to inquire into the matter has reported to the National Civil Service Reform League that congressmen do not devote over one-third of their time to their legislative duties. The remaining two-thirds is consumed in the distribution of offices. The city council of Montreal has adopted a resolution favoring the construction of a general traffic and railway bridge across the St. Lawrence in front of the city.

The plan is to have the bridge at one point 175 feet above the water and so to costruct it a not to interfere with navigation. FOR FREE COINAGE. Washington, May 2. "When the silver bill is taken up and Bland offers his substitute for free and unlimited coinage, how will you This' question has been put to western Republicans quite generally during the past two days. The answers have been taken down, It is the intention to bring up the silver bill early this week if the canvass shows that enough Republicans can be held together.

But those in charge of silver legislation do not propose to be caught napping by the Democrats and to have Mr. Bland's proposition adopted. The weakness in the Republican line on the subject of silver is with the western men. One of these, a member from beyond the Mississippi, said in reply to the test question: "Gentlemen, if I am brought face to face with a free coinage proposition I will he compelled to vote for it, no matter if it does come from a Democratip source. The issue I will have to decide then and there "is whether my congressional career ends with this term.

If I vote against free coinage I give up all thought of a renomination or re-election. You do not appreciate how my constituents feel, but I know their sentiments." Many jther Republican members from the west have gone on record in a similar strain. They have told the party managers that they can not vote against a free coinage proposition. If the Democrats were united there would be no doubt of the passage of the Bland amendment when tne bill is taken up. But it has developed within a few days that the western Republican vote for free coinage will be practically offset by the Atlantic seaboard Bemocratio vote against free coinage, Mr.

Bland thinks free coinage will carry. The margin is so close that the Republican managers are in doubt. It is known, since the canvass, just how many western Republican votes will go for free coinage. The Republican managers, stimulated by suggestions from the white house, are trying to make silver legislation a strictly party measure, but with poor prospect of succeeding. THAT the Czar is standing on a volcano all seem to admit, but whether it will burst or be quietly cooled by timely and judicious concessions the events of the next two years will determine.

Had not Alexander II. been assassinated by a few wild Nihilists, llussia to-day would enjoy a constitutional government. In the Brooklyn Academy of Muslfl Sunday morning, uftor the preliminary exercises, which in this congregation nra considered as important as any of the othors, Dr. Talmage preached froih tho text, "So thoy hanged Haman on the pallowsthnt he had prepared for Mor-docal," Estbor 7:14 Following is his eormon in full. Hero la an Oriental courtlor, about the most offensive man in Hebrew history, Human by namo.

Ho plotted for the destruction of the Israelitish nation, and I woudor not that In some of tho Hebrew synatxogues to this day whan Hainan's nume is mentioned, the congregation clonch their flats, and Btauip their feet and cry, "Let Ills name bo blotted out Haman iwhs prime minister in tho magniflcont court of Persia. Thoroughly appreciative of the honor conferred, be expects everybody that he passes to be obsequious. Coming In ona day at the gate of the palaoo, the servants drop their heuds honor qf his offlpe; but a Hebrew, named Mordaoal, gassos upon tho passing dignitary without bending his head or taking oft his hat, He was a good man, and would not have been negligent of the ordinary curtesies ot life, but he felt no respect either for Hainan or the nation from which he had come. But he could not be hypocritical; and while others made Oriental salaam, getting clear down before this Prime Minister when he passed, Mordecal, the Hebrew relaxed not a muscle of his necic, and kept his chin clear up. Because of that affront Haman gets a decree from Ahauerns, the dastardly king, for tho massacre of all the ffpaelites, and that, of course, will Include Mordesal, To make a long story short, through Queen Esther this whole plot was revealed to her husband, Ahasuerus.

One night Ahasuerus, who was afflicted with insomnia, in his sleepless hours calls for his secretary to read to him a few pases of Persian history, and so while away the night. In the book read that night to the kin an account was given of a conspiracy, from which Mordecal, the Hebrew, had saved the king's life, and for walch kindness Mordecai had never received any reward. Hainan, who had been fixing up a pice gallows to hang Mordecal oa, was walking putside the door of the king's sleeping apartment and was called in, The king told him that he had just had read to him the account of some one who had saved his, the king's life, and he asked what re-Ward ought to be given to sucR a one. Self-conceited Haman, supposing that he himself was to get the honor, and not imagining for a moment that the deliverer of the king's life was Mordecai, says: "Why, your Majesty ought to make a triumph for him, and put a crown on him, and set him ori a splendid horse, high-stopping and full-blooded, and then have one of your princes lead the horse through the streets, crying, 'Bow the knee, here comes a man who has saved the king's life Then said Ahasuerus in severe tones to Haman: "I know all about your scoundrelism. Now you go out and make a triumph for Mordecai, tho Hebrew, srhom you hate.

Put tho best saddle on the finest horse, and you, the prince, hold the stirrsP while Mordecai eets on, and then lead his horse through the street. Make baste!" What a spectacle 1 A comedy and Jagedy at one and the same time. There they go Mordecai, who had been despised, now starred and robed, in the stirrups. Haman, the chancellor, afoot, holding the prancing, rearing, champin? stallion. Mordecal bends his neck at last, but it is to look down at the degraded Prime Minister walking beneath him.

Huzza for MordecajJ Alas for Haman 1 But what a pity to have the gallows, recently built, entirely wasted! ft is fifty cubits high and built with care. And Hainan bad erected it for Mordecal, by whose stirrups he now walks as groom. Stranger and more startling than any romance, there go up the steps of the scaffolding, side by side, the hangman and Haman, the ex-chancellor. "So they hanged Haman oa the gallows that he prepared for Mordecal" Although so many 'years have passed since cowardly Ahasuerus reigned, and the beautiful Esther answered to his whims, and Persia perished, yet from the life and death of Haman we may draw living lessons of warning and instruction. And, first, we come to the practical suggestion that, when the heart is wrong, things very insignificant will destroy our comfort.

Who would have thought that a great Prime Minister, admired and ap-pluaded by millions Qf Persians, would have been so nettled and barrassed by anything trivaU What more could the great dignitary have wanted than his chariots and attendants, and palaces and banquets! If affluence of circumstances can make a man contented and happy, surely Haman should have been contented and happy. No; Mordeai's refusal of a bow takes the glitter from the gold, and the richness from the purple, and the speed from the chariots. With a heart puffed up with every inflation of vanity and revenge, it was impossible for him to be happy. The silence of Mordecal at the gate, louder than the braying of trumpets in the palace. Thus shall it always ba If the heart is not right Circumstances the triyal will disturb the spirit.

It is sot the great calamities of life that create tho most worrirnent. I have seen men, felled by repeated blows of misfortune, arising from the dust, never desponding. But the most of the disquiet which men suffer is from insignificant causes; as a lion attacked by some beast of pre turns easily around and slays him, yet runs roaring through the forest at the alighting on his brawny neck of few insects. You meet some great loss in business with comparative composure; but you think of petty trickeries inflicted upon you, which rouse all your capacity for wrath, and remain in you heart an unbearable annoyance. If you look Oaok upon your life, you will find that the most of the vexations and disturbances of spirit which you felt were produced by circumstances that were not worthy of notice.

If you want to be happy During this generation there has been proposed to the country a plain tariff, a tariff for protection, a tariff for incidental protection, a tariff for revenue only with incidental protection, a tariff for revenue only, and the mother-in-law who goes on a tare if John happens not to walk quite as circumspect as she thinks he ought. night In the presenoo of joorlng multitudes. Human's gallows camo a little luto, but it camo. Opportunities fly in a straight line, and just touch lis as thoy pass from oternlty to eternity, but the wrongs we do others fly in a circle, and however the circle mav widen out, they are sure to come back to tho point from which thoy started. There aro guns that kick I Furthermore, ks.

the story ot Haman teach us how quickly turns the wheel 'of fortune, One day, excepting the king, Hsmun was the mlghtiost man In Porsla; but tho next day, a lackey. So we go up, and so wa come down. You soldom find any man twenty year in the tame circumstances. Of those who, In political lire twenty years ago, wore the most prominent, how few remain in consplculty. Political parties make certain men do their hard work, and then, after using them as hacks, turn them out on the commons to die.

Every four yours there is a complete revolution, and about five thousand men who ought certainly to be the noxt president are shamefully disappointed; while some, who this day are obscure and poverty-stricken, will ride upon the shoulders ot the people, and take their turn at admiration and the spoils of ofttoo. Oh, how quickly the wheel turns! Ballot-boxes are the steps on which men come down as often as they go up. Of those who were long ago successful Id the accumulation of property, how few have not met wita reverses! while many of those who then were straitened in circumstances now bold the bonds and the bank-keys ot the nation. Of all fickle things in the, world, fortune is the most fiokle. Every day she changes her mind, and woe to tho man who puts uny confidence in what she promises or proposes I Sho cheers when you go up, and sha laughs when you come down.

Oh, trust not a moment your heart's affections to this changeful world 1 Anchor your soul in God. From Christ's companionship gather your satisfaction. Then, come sorrow or gladness, success or defeat, rictus or poverty, honor or disgrace, health or slcknoss, life or death, time or eternity, all are yours, and are Christ's, and Christ is God's. Again: this Hainan's history shows us that outward possessions and circumstances cannot make a man happy. While yet fully vested in authority and the chief adviser of the Persian monarch, and everything that equipage and pomp and splendor ot residence could do were' his, he is an object-lesson of wretchedness.

Therj are to-day more aching sorrows under crowns of royalty than under the ragged caps ot the houseless. Much ot the world's affluence and gaiety is only misery in colors. Many a woman seated" in the street at 'her apple-stand is happier than the great bankers The mountain! of worldly honor are covered witn perpetual snow. Tamerlane conquered halt the world, but could not subdue his own fears. Ahabgoesto bed sick because Nuboth Will not sell him his vineyard.

Herod is in agony because a little chiid is, born, down in Bethlehem. Great Felix tramblej because a poor minister will preach, right-eousness, teiftperence and judgement to come, From the time of Louis the Twelfth to Louis the Eighteenth was there a strawbottom chair in France (hat did not set more solidily than the great throne on which the French klnjs reigned! Were I called to sketch misery In its worst form, I would not go up the dark alley of the poor, but up the highway over which prancing Bucephali strike the sparks with their hoofs and between statuary and parks of stalking deer. Wretchedness is more bitter when pwallowel from gemmed goblets than from earthen pitcher or pewter mug. If there are young people here wh.c are looking for this pgsltjon and that circumstance, thinking that worldly success will bring peace of the soul, lot thenl shatter the delusion. It is not what we get, it is what we are.

Daniel among the lions is happier than Nebuchadnezzar onhis throne. And when life is Closing, brilliancy of world ly surroundings will be no solace, Ddatb is blind, and sees no difference between a king and his clown, between the Nazjrene and tho Athenian, between a bookless hut and a national library. The frivolities of life, cannot with their giddy laugh, echoing from heart to heart, entirely drown the voice ot a tremendous conscience whict says: "I am immortal The stars shall die, but I am immortal. One wave ql eternity shal drown Jlnie in iti depth, but I am immortal The earth shall have a shroud ot flame and the heavens flee at the glance, of the Lord, but I am immortal. From alt the heights ant depths ot my nature rinjs down, and rings up, and rings out the word 'immortal' A good conscience, and assurance of life eternal through the Lord Jesus Cbrist are the only securities.

The soul's happiness is too large a craft to sail up the stream ot worldly pleasure. As ship-carpenters say, it dr tws to much water. This earth is a bubble, and it will burst This life is a vision, and it will soon pass away. Timet It is only a ripple, and it breaketh against the throne ol judgement, Our days! They fly swifter than a shuttle, weaving for us a robe ol triumph or a garment of shame. Begin your life with religion and for ii greatest trial you will be ready.

Every day will be a triumph, and death will be only a King's servant calling you to a royal banquet In olden time the man who was to receive the honors of knighthood was required to spend the previous night fully armed, and with shield and lance to walk up and down among the tombs of the dead. Through all the hours ot that night his steady step was heard, and, when morning dawned, amid grand parade and the sound ot cornets tho honors ot knighthood were bestowed. Thus it shall be with- the good man's soul in the night before heaven. Fully armed with shield and sword and helmet, ha shall watch and wait until tho darkness fly and the morning break, and amid the sound of celestial harpinjs, the soul shall take the honors of heaven amid the innumerable throng with robes snowy white streaming over seas of sapphire. Mordecal will only have to wait for his day of triumph.

It took all tne preceeJmg trials to make a proper background for his af tor-su 'esses. The scaffold built for him makes all the more imposing and picturesque the horse into whose long white mane he twisted his -fingers at the mounting, You want at least two misfortunes, hard as flint to strike lire. Heavy and long-continued snows in the winter are signs of good crops next summer. So many have yielded wonderful harvests of benevolence and onergy, because they were a long while snowed under. We must have a good many hard falls before we leirn to walk straight It is ou the black anvil of trouble that men hammer out their fortunes, Sorrows take up men on their shouders and enthrone thom.

Tonics aro nearly always bitter. Menliko frult-troes, are barren, unless trlmmod with sharp knives. They are Hue wheat all the better for the flailing. It required the.prisqa darkqoss, and chill tq maka John Munyan dream. It took Delaware icq and cold feet Rt Yulloy Forge-and tha whizz ot bullets, to uiako Washineton.

Paul when he climbed up ou the beach ot Molita, shivering lt his wet was mora ot a Christian thin when the ship struok the breakers, Pre. cott, the hlstorl saw hotter without hii eyes that he could ever have seen with them. Mordecai, despised tit the gate, is only predecessor of Mordjcai, grandly mounted, A 'Congress of Beauty" is to be held in Rome in May. Only Roman ladies of "the strict four grand branches, viz. brunette, blonde, unburn, red, and flaxen," will be allowed to compete, and they must be between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five.

There will be only two prizes, the first $2,000, and the second $1,000. that Satan touipts tho espousors of ths Christian faith to kneel before him. Why was it that the Platonic philosophers of early times, as well as Toland, Spinoza and Bollngbroke of latter days, were so madly opposed to Christianity) Certainly not because it favored immoralities, or arrested civilization, or dwarfed the intellect. The genuine reason, whethor admitted or not, was because the religion ot Christ paid no respect to their intellectual vanities. Blount, and Boyle, and the host of infidels hatched out by the vile reign ot Charles the Second, as reptiles orawl out of a marsh of slime, could not keep their patience because, as they passed along, there ware sitting in the gate of the church such men as Matthew, and Mark, and Luke, and John who would, not bend, an inch in respect to their philosophies.

Satan told our first parents that they would bepome as gods if they would only reach up and take a taste of the fruit. They tried it and failed, but their descendants are not yet satisfied with the experiment We have now many desiring to be as gods, reaching up after yet another apple. Human reason, scornful of God's word, may foam and strut with the proud wrath of a Haman, and attempt to compel the homage of the good, but in the presence of men and angels it shall be confounded. "God shall smite thee, thou white! wall." When science began to make its brilliant discoveries there were great facts brought to light that seemed to overthrow the truth of the Bible. The archaeologist with his crowbar, and the geologist with his hammer, and the chemist with his batteries sharged upon the Bible.

Moses' account the creation se3med denied by the very truo-ure of the earth. The astrqnomer vheel-ed round bis telescope until tip heavenly bodies seemed to marshal themselves against the Bible, as th? stars in their courses fought Sisera. Observatories and universities rejoiced at what they considered the extinction of Christianity. They gathered new courage at what they considered past victory, and pressed on their conquest into the kingdom of nture until, alas for them! they discovered too much. God's word had only been lying in ambush that in some unguarded moment, with a sudden bound, it might tear infidelity to pieces.

"It was as when Joshua attacked the city of Ai. He selected thirty thousand and concealed most of them; with a few men he assailed the city, which poured out its numbers and strength upon Joshua's little band. According to previous plan, they fell back in seeming defeat, but, after all the proud inhabitants of the city had been brought out of their homes, and had joined in the pursuit of Joshua, suddenly that brave man in his flight, and with his spear pointing toward the city, thirty thousand men bounled from the thickets as panthers spring to their prey and the pursuers were dashed to pieces, while the hosts of Joshua pressed up to te city, and with their lighted torches tosseo; it intq flame Thus it was that the discoveries of seienoe seemed tq give temporary victory against God and the Bible, and for a while the church acted as if she were on a retreat; but, when all the opposers of God and truth had joined in the pursuit, and were sure of the field, Christ gave the signal to His church, and turning, they drove back their foes in shame. There was found to be no antagonism between nature and revelation. The universe and the Bible were found to be the work of the same hand, two strokes of the same pen, their authorship the same God Again: Learn the lesson that pride goes before a fall.

Was any man ever so far up as Haman, who tumbled so far down! Ye3, on a smaller scale every day the world sees the same thing. Against their very advantages men trip into destruction. When Goc humbles proud men, it is usually at the moment ot their great? est arrogancy. If there be a man in your community greatly puffed up with worldly success, you have but to stand a little while and you will see him come down. You say, wonder that God allows that man to go on riding over others' heads and making great assumptions of power.

There is no wonder about it. Haman, has not yet got to the top. Pride is a commander, well turned and caparisoned, but it leads forth a ark and frowning host We have the best of authority for saying that "Pride goeth before destruction, and a liiughty spirit before a fall." The arrows from the Almighty's quiver are apt to strike a man When the wing. Goliath shakes his great spear in defiance, but the small stones from the brook Blah make him stagger ana) fall like an ox under the butcher's bludgeon, lie who Is down cannot fall, yessels scudding under bare poles do not feel the force of the storm, but those with all sails set capsize at the sudden descont of the tempest Again: This Oriental tale reminds us of the fact tht wrongs we prepare for others return upon oursevles. The gallows that Haman built for Mordecal became the prime minister's strangulation.

liob spierre, who sent so many to the gillotlne, had his own head chopped off by that horrid Instrument. The evil you practice on others will recoil upon your own pate. Slanders come home. Oppressions come home. Cruelties come borne.

You will yet be a lackey walking beside the very charger on which you expected to ride others down. When Charles the First, who had destroyed Strafford, was about to be beheaded, he said, "I basely ratified an unjust sentence, and the similar injustice I am now to undergo is a sensible retribution for the punishment I inflicted on an innocent man." Lord Jeff rios, aft carcerat-ing many innocent and good people in London Tower, was himself imprisoned in the same place, where the shades of those whom he had maltreated seemed to haunt bim so that he kept crying to his attendants: "Xeop them oft, gentleman! for God's sake, keep them off!" The chickens had come home to roost The body of Bradshaw, the English Judge, who had been and cruel in his decisions, was taken from his splendid tomb in Westminster Abbey, and at Tyburn work. The Norman Transcript says that! Oklahoma farmers are planting outi a large acreage of cotton. They feel' confident that they have a grand cotton soil and that much will be added to the resources of the coun-1 try by its production. The Sumner National bank of Wellington has bought out the Argonia State bank.

J. J. Pierce, Mr. N. A.

Springer's assistant will be retained as cashier. The bank is located in a thriving town surrounded by a rich country. A factory is to be erected at Hutchinson for the manufacture of beet sugar, the plant to cost $15,000. The chemists of the agricultural de-: partment expressed the opinion that the sugar beet can be successfully grown In the immediate vicinity of Hutchinson. Corn is a little backward this year.

That is in deference to the wheat croj. The corn is up high enough to see what a big yield the wheat is going to make this year, and will give' the farmers time to look after the latter before it insists upon being taken care of. Kansas don't have to squeeze lemon-juice on her strawberries to give them the real, delicious, natural, acid flavor when sweetened the equable climate and bright sun-: shine impart all the delicate quali- ties needed and make the Kansas berry the most luscious on earth. Register of Deeds Nixon states that from January 13th to May 15th, the real estate mortgages released; in Barber county- number 141, and, aggregate $50,112, while the new! mortgages given number 73, aggregating $48,658 net reduction of re- corded real estate in 4 months, $7,454. The Wamego clothing factory now employs forty girls and several, men.

Twenty machines are running from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. and a large amount of ready-made clothing is being turned out Girls-who know something of this sort off work can find steady work at the? factory at good wages.

The Independence Base Ball Club-do not propose to be a whit behind' the other city clubs either in fielding or in wearing nobby uniforms. Their dress parade uniform will be blue shirts and pants, red; Stockings and belts, white caps and' shoes, with "Independence" in white tetters on their shirt fronts. Ever since Milt Reynolds left Cowley county the fruit crop has: been without a thoroughly compo-, tent champion, and it has been sub-' ject to all sorts of vicissitudes. The' fraai last week gave part of the crop. a black to speak, and now they horticulturists are wailing at their-misfortune and refuse to be forted.

i- People are very apt at this time of the year to resort to some pres-! oription to sharpen the Boarding house keepers lealize tbe pernicious effects of the practice. One in Topeka is reported to have-. 1 indicated her approval Ly posting; this notice, "All boarders who build wp their appetites artifically will be charged 20 percent additionally." The total number of employes of railways in Kansas Is and the IMPORTANT CHANGES, The Senate Bill Proposes to Rereaj tlit Timber Culture Act, Washington, May 26, The senate committee on publje lauds today concluded its consideration of the house bill to repeal the timber oulture laws and Chairman Plumb reported to the senate a substitute therefor. The house measure was comparatively brief while the senate committee bill is a voluminous document, relating to desert land sales and townsite entries as well. The bill repeals the timber culture act of 1878 except as to the state of Nebraska and all acts supplementary thereto with the provisos that no valid rights under the act shall be disturbed; that entries made in good faith may be proved up and paid for at the rate of $1.25 an acre and that no land acquired under the terms of the bill shall brcome liable for debts contracted prior to the suing o'f final certificates therefoti.

The act of 1877 making provision for the sale of desert lands is amended by the addition of five sections governing the issue of patents for lands to, be irrigated and giving parties the right to associate together in the construction of irrigating canals and ditches. The bill further provides that no, lands, qf the Vflited States shall be offered at public saje. except on military and other reservations, isolated and disconnected fractional tracts and mineral and other lands specially authorized to be sold The Australian system is not on trial; it has already vindicated itself, but you, under the systotn, are on trial Independence can have its own way. You can scratch and no one can make you afraid. What wilt be the result under the system may not be foretold-As has been said, "When a man is left mlone with his God and his led pencil you can't tell what may happen;" 'Happy babe," wrote Schiller, "for thee thy narrow cot is a world too wide; become a man and the world will be all too narrow." The apostrophized "babe" is presumably an old man by this time and knows how far the poet's idea of life falls short of the reality.

It is youth wants the earth, while age is often thankful for a cot if only wide enough to lie down on. Washington. May 26. The silver bill The United States attorney for the aouthern. district of California, has been instructed to prosecute all per-eons engaged In the attempt to smug-pie Chinese laborers across the Mexican border into this country, and the collector of customs at San Diego has been instructed to arrange for the return to China of all Chinese captured In attempting to enter this country illegally.

prepared by St. Johns, of New York, and introduced by Senator Plumb Itoday, directs the secretary of treasury to purchase monthly silver bullion to the aggregate amount of 4,500,000 ounces of fine silver at the market price, but nqtj exceed' ing $1 for 871 grains of pure silver and. to issue United States notes in payment thereof. These notes shall be legal tender tor all purpose unless otherwise specified jn any contracts. The aggregate amount iti such notes outstanding shall not exceed the cost of tho silver reserve on lhand on the purchase of which the notes were issued.

The notes 'shall be redeemable on demand at the treasury or sub-treasury in coin buj jthe secretary of the treasury may after-the expiration of two years frojn, the passage of this act proscribe regulations for the redemption of the notes on demand of he holder in aq amount of silver bullion 'worth at the market price on the date of redemption the face amount of the notes thus redeemed in bullion, if in the discretion of the secretary such method of redemption shall be the interest of the United States. The secretary shall coin such portion of the silver purchased, not less, however, than $3,000,000 monthly, as he may deem necessary to provide for the redemption of the United Statos notes. After two years the minimum coinage requirement Bhall be reduced to $1,000,000 month. BLUE AND GRA The Reunion, Yioksburg Well Attended, Vicksbubg, May 26. Since yesterday visitors to the blue and gray reunion have been thronging into town by rail and river.

The streets are filled with visitors and nothing could exceed the cordiality existing between the visitors of both armies. At noon the reunion was opened by national salute fired from the courthouse grounds Rnd by the chimes of St. Paul's church bell which played many national airs. Past Commander-in-chief Kounts, of the Grand Army of the Republic, of Toledo, will arrive tomorrow. There is an old saying that appearances are often deceitful, and a young girl of erood breeding should wish to know more of a man than that he lodges in a well-known private residence and appears to be respectable" before she asks some one to introduce tiim and then allows him to escort her home from church.

There would not be so many unhappy lives if girls were taught to properly regard the honor of their acquaintance. you must not care for trifles. Do not be too minute in your inspection of the treatment you receive from others. Who cares whether Mordecai bows when you pa3s, or stands erect and stiff as a cedar I That woodman would not make much clearing in tho forest, who should stop to bind up evory little bruise and scratch he received in the thicket; nor will that man accomplish much for the world or the church, who is too watchful and appreoiative of petty annoyances. There arj multitude annual aggregate of wages received of people in the world, constantly harrowed One of the judges of the supreme court of Wisconsin, says that the recent decision prohibiting the reading of the Bible in the publio schools merely forbids its use as a special book (or a specifically religious purpose.

The Bible may be used in the school like a bistory or any other book and as such may be read before the entire school. This is what might be termed legal sophistry of stately prominence; or a Judicial pun of the ludicrous ordor. by them is $54,289,151. There are 357-general officers and their average. daily pay is $7.76.

The general ofCcoi clerks are paid $1.97 per day. Thre-J are 2,935 of them. Tho pay of shop-; men vverage $1.65 per day and 7,710 men are employed in this department The averago daily pay of Jay laborers Is $1.77. because they pass their lives not in searching out those things which are attractive and deserving, but in spyiug out with all their powers of viiion to see whether they cannot find a MurdecaL Again I learn from the life ot the man under our notice that worldly vanity and sin are very anxious to have piety bow before them. Hainan was a fair emblem of entire worldllaess, and Mordecal the re.