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No. 33. JULY 25, 1903 she has been a teacher in the public schools of this city and has been instructor in Kindergarten and Primary methods for a number of years, in County Normals for seven years, and is Superintendent of the Kindergarten and Primary department at the Friends University. There are children ranging from 6 to 12 years of age in this branch of the Normal the connecting class up to 5th grade. Miss Shults says she has some of the finest material in the city represented in these classes.

The aim of this department is two-fold to illustrate the processes of self-expression through their lessons and to make up grade work. Some of the best teachers in the county and state have given much help in this department. The interest taken in the hand- tifnl character in purity and simplicity of a man given great power, of whom we can justly say The world is better for his influence upon it. No cigar smoking, wine bibbing, pleasure loving priest or preacher, could have caused the arrest of thought. Herein is a lesson.

Purity of life, alone commands respect. Leo XIII is dead. The world waits the election of his successor whose selection is of vital interest to the whole Christian world. Of the many questions which will require his attention none are more important than the great temperance and social reforms. The Catholic church derives great revenues from the liquor business, as many of the great brewers are Catholics and the majority of saloon-keepers are of that faith.

Within the next PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Plymouth Congregational Church, located at the corner of Lawrence and Second, is one of the most beautiful buildings in Wichita and would be an ornament to any city. It is closely connected with Fairmount College of which the pastor, Rev. C. S.

Sargent and several members are trustees. This denomination is one of pronounced intellectual strength, as well as a spiritual power in any community. Our people sometimes forget that it was while Edward Everett Hale was pastor of a Congregational Church in Boston that he wrote his inspiring story, Ten Times One is Ten, out of which have grown the mighty organizations of the Christian Endeavor and the Epworth League, not to mention the Kings Daughters and other kindred societies with various adaptations of the spirit oi Christianity expressed in the watchword Looking Up and not Down, or-ward and not Back, Out and not In, and Lend a Hand. The church here has been very prosperous during the past year, with a gain of over one hundred members, largely the result of earnest personal work on the part of the pastor. SUNDAY CLOSING.

The Sunday closing ordinance is now fairly well enforced, but a billiard hall on North Main Street with cigar priviledges would be better looking with its doors closed. Cigars do not need to be kept on ice, and can be purchased on Saturday if men think they must burn up money that way. A Wichita merchant with an eye to business will say Certainly, I am opposed to saloons. I want the trade myself. KANSAS CITY JOINT WAR.

Kansas City, Kansas, has been having a joint war, During the floods the joints were all closed by order of Mayor Craddock. Since then they have been reopened under Mayor Gilbert. A number of injunction suits have been filed by Mr. W. L.

Wood, who announces that the work will be continued until every joint is driven out of the city. The suits have been filed under the law passed by the last legistature, and approved March 1 2, 1903. Chapter 338, section 1, reads as follows: The attorney general, county attorney, or any other citizen of the county where such a nuisance as is defined in section 1, chapter 232, session laws of 1901, exists, oris kept or is maintained, may maintain any action in the name of the state to abate and perpetually enjoin the same. The injunction shall be granted at the commencement of the action and no bond shall be required. Any person violating the terms of any injunction granted in proceedings shall be punished for contempt by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 and by imprisonment in county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months.

Plymouth Congregational Church. work is proof positive that some hand-work is a daily necessity in the school room. quarter of a century the church must take advanced ground upon that question, or go to its final decay. Its lax discipline today is promoting infidelity. This is a dangerous condition in spiritual affairs, and the Catholic church as well as others must face the problem.

What will the next Pope do? COUNTY NORMAL. The sweltering heat does not prevent a continued increase of interest and attendance at the County Normal as the following additional names enrolled will show: H. W. Eberstein, W. A.

Workman, M. W. Spangler, R. M. Crum, Nellie V.

Smith, Lillian Buster, Anna Tubbs. This has been an especially busy week with the teachers as it is the last one of special preparation for the annual examinations. MODEL DEPARTMENT. The Model Department of the Institute, and the special classes in Psychology and Art and Science of Teaching are in charge of Miss Carrie Shults, a teacher who needs no introduction to the readers of the Observer, as EXAMPLE OF A GREAT PRIEST. The long death struggle of Pope Leo XIII has brought together the sympathetic interest of the whole Christian church Catholic and Protestant.

The tribute would not have been paid to any common personality, nor to high intellectual culture alone, nor simply to the highest office in Catholic Ecclesiasticism. Our attention was fixed, our admiration paid to a rarely beau- Friends Yearly Meeting will be held at the University for 8 days commencing Oct. 8. The articles on Alunicipal Reform in Glasgow alone are well worth the annual subscription price of this paper. It is worth while to be informed.

Keep them for future reference. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. Social Aims..