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Hides I have read upon him picture Professional him as a very wonderful Individual, NEWS 20 AND 25 VEAli OLD SUNFLOWER STATE HAPPEN: In an elegantly furnished modern bouse I found Abbaa Effendl seated on a sofa, waiting for me. He 1 a striking figure In any garb, and when clad In a white tarboosh, or fez, with a white cloth wound around Items of More less Importance Picked uo Here sad There about Kansas and Her C. D. POWELL SON Dolnti of Two Decides tod o( I QssrUr ol Century Ao ol Importance nd of Interest to the old Settlers. Paintinz and Paper Hanjrinz OLDEfc to whom a piece of money was glvea In common.

Each said In his own tongue what he wanted bought with It, and they had a long and angry discua-slon. Then along came a man bearing grapes and lo, that was what they all wanted, but each had used a different name for It. So Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Christ, Mahomet, were all prophets of God. They merely ha4 different names. Each should accept tha other." When this Important point lyas pressed, he affirmed that all Cbris-'tlans should accept Mohamet, as th Jews should have accepted Christ Tin von reallv mean that all relig Work done withjientuess and dispatch People A boy of sixteen and a girl ol fourteen have been refused mani- VVcstuioivluud, Kansas Mi NATIONS News 25 Years Old.

J. McClure resigned. 25. 1887 the principalship of W. F.

Challis Hrookens A Naw World Religion Syrls now age licenses by the probate judges of Varshall and Riley counties in the Westmoreland schools ani his it, Moslem Style, and a long gray outer cloak of mohair, like a motor coat, and two white cloaks beneath It, he would attract attention anywhere. He resembles, In appearance and manner. I General Booth of the Salvation Army, more than any other man 1 recall. He has the same Roman nose, the same restless, hawk like eye, the same silver beard and shaggy Iron gray locks, the same transparent skin. As he speaks Abbas Effendl opens wide his big gray eyes beneath his bushy eyebrows, and looks directly at I Knnsas and at Beatrice, Nebraska, irnn to Ohio He had not pre" CHALLIS HROOKENS Attorneys at6l.aw Westmoreland, Offers Another Creed for the Alle-glanoe of the Whole Earth, Called Behalam Many American Followera By WILLIAM T.

ELLIS. although both have the written ions are essentially the same, and that one Is as good as another? IX you consent of their parents. Include paganism, and idolntry?" iously notified the board of his intentions. There ii no school this week. However.

Limbockef of St. Clere has been engaged as nrinpina1! and will be ready for "Yes. they were all right at nrst, even Buddhism, whlcti nas aeienor mora ten wolves killed WARREN ANTHONY General Insurance Agent l'irc, Lightning, Tonuulo, Hail, life, nted. as nil rellclons do." At this point a big hunt near Marysville, Feb. rnrv 17.

The explosion of a shot Haifa, Palestine Having given the world Christianity, the one most near, ly universally accepted religion. Palestine has now become headquarters of a faith, Uehalsm, formerly called Hab-Ism, which its followers and some writers in Europe and America, claim to be the universal and final religion. my host's knowledge of the ancient nnrt on.enlled "ethical faiths." proved Monday. He has one, giving an appearance of unslm-ulated Interest and sincerity. He Is a restless person doubtless those 40 odd years as a prisoner have left their mark on his nerves and throughout the Interview he wriggled and rntcd the Frank VanDusen prop cmn took off onf mm's thumb and so shaky that 1 abandoned this lino of questioning.

erty on Main street and is moving another man saw a pony by a hav Accident, llonllh liisuinme ritUn. DR. MAYl-R MiOYliU Blaine, knntas twisted his body, sometimes revealing the folded red bandana handkerchief stack and shot and killed it think ing it was a wolf. He got on to firmer ground by saying: "There have been a thousand unknown prophets the world. They were truly prophets of God, but the world never recognized them." Since I have found religion to be, In practice, fundamental to my main the- sis In this serluB of articles, "The Awaking of the Older Nations," I re-1 nnlrpri hither to the home-of the head I'linne- Olliro I I resiilelu-i upon which he sat; sometimes cocking his fez to the bock of his head, and again to the side, and sometimes rak-tahlv forward until It rested on the 1 1 wo firw.rnor Stdbbs has appointed "Please tell me what you monn by nrnnhet? That word la often used as Special attention to diseases of the lluhists and Its "Messiah," Ab- I men, and to Niit'ocry.

over with his wife. A jury in the February 1887 term of ths district court with Han. R. B. Spilman as judge returned a verdict of $6,000 in favor of Mrs.

Harry Phillips of Wamego against U. P. Railraad Co on account of the killing of her hu-band. D. V.

Sprague was Mrs. Phillips' attorney. meaning any man with a new or help Rev S. S. Estey of lopeka, trot.

John Maher of Sal Inn and Prof. D. dul Baha Abbas. It was somewhat of a shock to be told, when I made Inquiry at the large gray stono house here, that Abbas Kf-leiull was away on vacation for his Porter of Caldwell members ot 0. high bridge of his nose.

All the while he was talking he twiddled In his long white hands a string of moth-er-of-pearls beads, such as gentlemen commonly carry in this part of the world. Altogether, he looks the part of a benevolent old gentleman with considerable force of character. A. KINO Physician aiid.Sui'ncon ful message to his time; out you surely do not put the prophets you have named in the same class with the ordinary writer, teacher or preacher today?" Here agnln the "Prophet" of the Be-hnista showed his rare skill at eva the state text book commission to cm 'i hp contracts for health. The house was full of people, 1111 vtnuv.ivw.

as I could tell by the voices of scurry Kunsas PosUu new school bonks will be made ti iw V. chnreh will be ing females In the echoing hall, when I succeeded In making my presence again this year. This posltlvencss was shown during sion. He took up the tlgure of the 1 lie lie ui. riPtlicated at Olnburg, March 13, mirror, and dwelt, at great length upon S.

R. TOOTH AKER 18S7 Rev M. F. Marsh is pastor ihai itt nnnld not ho diverted; tne Pohrnarv 21. case no 30,000 of the church.

Physician and Surgeon Westmorelund, Kansas prophet is the man who best mlrrora God. I could not get to him the suggestion that, after all, the mirror does was reached ia the Sedgwick coun the Interview. A gentle-faced young Englishman, who looked fitter for eso-terlo discussions than for the football Held, had been doing the Interpreting, Abbas Effendl speaking In Persian. The most difficult form of Interpretation Is that of a discussion of abstract themes, and I early saw that the young Charley, the 5ve-year-old son of known at the knobless doorbell. There were several children playing In the large, unsodded yard, and doubtless one of these reported the stranger's coming.

These were grandchildren; for Abbas Effendl has four daughters, but no sons. The whole family, or group of families, live tn the one house. Oriental fashion. An English ts district court at Wichita. Office phone 55 ReBidenoe 31 not reflect or Impart llro, neat or pow mr Nflr nnnld 1 aet past the Inter That is the number of cases that Mr.

and Mrs. A. Wells, died Feb ruary 25, 1887 in Lone Tree town ship. have been filed since March 4, L. R.

CARSON man renderings were inadequate; my 1870 the date of the filing of th host saw it, alao; and peremptorily or preter the query whether this icacn-Ing Ir not a great comedown for those of Buddha, with his doctrine of man being part, of the divine essence; and i.m,u who nrofessed to give life; physician; sukukon On May 1, 1887, the new law re- n.iirinir narties buying liquor at first case. SpeciHl nttfiittoii ivl'ii nnc L-lnldi rluiiu-s: KrHltlcm 190; unice 4y governeBS, who Is not a BehalBt, HveB with them to teach the children. A "Messiah" at a Summer Resort. There are no disciples of the Debft-ist "Messiah" in Syria, except the i nilerims who come here, nod the num nnrt who boldlv declared; "I and the dered one other of hU attendant to repeat what he said, sentence by sentence. In the room during the conversation, besides the two men mentioned, wns drug stores to sign an affidavit that Kansas.

The State democratic banquet at Father are one;" and of Mohamet, Westmoreland, the liauor is needed for memiai with his stern elai-i to be the very Tnnnka last week was largely purposes, will go into effect. W. T. Scritchfield Sons have I I ber of these is regulated by Abbas Effendl himself. He Is highly spoken of by his neighbors, and especially by the James T.

McCulloch l'ir ilaU'M and terms, phone moved their stock of goods from tended. Woodrow Wilson was the chief speaker. It is said that thoFe in attendance at the banquet wtre largely in favor of him for presi the Frank Pattten building to the poor, to whom he gives preset. IR, sometimes standing on the corner, and giv-1 Ine away a hundred garments. He Is Richards'.

dent. enabled to do this by the rich pres- I ents of liis followers, who are said to number several million in Persia. Abbas KfTendi makes no claim to be or vrito me. liKpiiro ol editor of litis paper. Clay Center, Kansas JOHN M.

VAN Lict'iistMl Kiiiliiihiit'i' H. C. Stitcher has resigned as x-rrtarv to Congressman of a healer, and lie lumseir occasionally ilie doctor's attention. He is A. W.

Brewer has purchased C. L. Carley's meat market and is now a full fledged butcher. John E. Mason and Miss Emma Mitchell were married February 25, 1887 at I he home of the bride at SpringBide.

the 5th district and hns bough: the Osage City Public Opinion. simple his manner of life, and has steadfastly refused to take more than wlfo ripsuitp. the fact that he has bi! 4i--. S. I i 7 sri A an (I FuiH'iiil Diit'i tor no son, and that his fnther before him, "The Blessed Perfection," had two Mr.

Sritcher was formerly one oi the editors of the Alma Enterprin and at tht time of his appointmen; as secretary to Congressman Reei-was one of the publishers of the WithVan Dnsen limn. Westmoreland Kansas wives. His teachings permit polygamy, but they counsel againBt it. Tncnnirrnous though It seemed to llfv na 1 ill 1 1 News 20 Years Old. Alex Webster died at his home Wo.tmoreland.

February 16, Tel. find a "Messiah" gone away to a health ramnri fnllnwfid AhhftR Effendl tO Relleville Telescope. Store, 146 Residence 63 2 Alexandria, In Egypt, where I trailed him by trolley car from a huge summer hotel to a magnificent, private house which he has rented for his sojourn. There, hospitably received, 11 1892. He waB born in Scotland, January 1, 1839, He came to America in 1871.

He had bet a member of the Westmoreland Pnno-recrational church for 19 years. Charles S. Huffman state senator from Cherokee county, has announ ced ae a repub'ican candidate foi nnr He thinks that Kansas DR. WsmoKO. to KlEiSaiitoii H' -IlavensviMe, 17.

18 and 19 OntiKa, a). 21, 22 and 23 The funeral services were conduct Tor Abbas Effendl Is fond of visitors, 1 had a most Interesting Interview with the man whom a considerable number of Americans and Britons, and mll-linna tn Asia call "Master." and hall needs but few new but tha certain existing laws should bt amended. He is in favor of unit- as the latest and fullest manifestation ed yestefda by Rev. J. S.

smith. paBtor of the Westmoreland M. E. church. Uda, the two-year-old daughter of Mr and Mm.

J. P. Cochrun. of the Deity. A New Religion and Its Martyrs.

Ttia nfmf nf YYnrtvrdom has been ing the board of regents into one board for all the educational inm tutions of the state. He savs tha; he ii the candidate of no faction Wheaton, 24 and 25 Fostoria. 20 and 27 Olsburg, 28. 29 and 30 C'eberne, 1 and 2 WamcKO, Kansas died February 20, 1892 of lung abundantly given to Babism, or Uehalsm. The Bab himself was executed at Tabriz la 1850, at the age of 31, hIx and that for a platform he stand- In Palestine.

etna nf picht vears in years after tie had enunciated nis gentle doctrines, and had called himself Upun hid i 1 the senate. voice and representative of Ood. In 'The Gate." to knowledge, recalling fever. The young ladies of Westmoreland gave a unique entertainment February 22. 1892 called the "Gypsy In addition to rho o-irls taking part reuresenting the prophecies of the Bible and the terpreters are a great when there are uncomfortable yues- a Persian Pilgrim, who wore the green turbnn that marked him aa a descendant of Mahomet; a Veen-eyed old fellow, who followed the discussion unit another Persian In long Koran, concerning a coming ono.

in I tie bitter persecutions by the Mos llona flying around. Mevlille St ne general of the Associated Press, will lems that ensued, tne followers oi uie What Behalsm Standa For. a definition of Uehalsm. which to an nab met death finely. There were few ecantatlons, and In a single year me be the principal speaker at ite I tun reiuly to cry your salts, bitf or Kneh sale iiliilertiuken by mo sliull liuve my iMtHd ttll'oi ts.

Ask anyone for whom 1 l' cried sales to my ability, l'hont! 155. J. L. Hoover, black cloak and turban, who looked as if. he might sit for an Illuminated edition of Omar Kbayam; but he went sound asleep during the Interview.

The conversation lasted for over an unsentimental westerner seems rather vague, is the hard tiling to secure; so I asked AbbaB lCffendl, frankly, to give Kansas Editorial Association to held at Lawrence in April. Gypsies, music was furnished by Misses Alice. Lillie and Ora Mc-Kee, M. J. McKee, M.

E. Wood. Naomie Cave, Nannie Cave. Fred Brown, only five years old, gave a good recitation as also did Sadie Ingraham. me a categorical definition of the dls iltietlve doctrine of Ueharlsrn, "some S.one is the man that indue umber of martyrdoms amounted to many as 10,000.

Two years after the death of the a group of leaders fled to Bagdad, them Mlrzu Hassyn All, whom Bab had called "lleha Ullah," "The lory of God." He spent two years in and 1 was cordially pressed to Ihlna with hooks to It, so that It will pr of laisa to remove the cen- fVcm the nress in inHi grasp the ordinary man." This he pa llently and kindly did. Yurnif Westmoreland Kansas country. Stone told the zir tn ESrut ttetinlton believes that all B. Pierce has 360 acres of men are brothers, and should so act. thP censorship of the press it: 'e mountains In seclusion and After a time he announced to few of his closest friends, that he is the "Manifestation," of whom the "Second.

Uehalsm believes that. Russia had built a wall about that land to sell for 160 for ca nnr. i fin fnr $2,000. and 240 Veterinary Work, I am prepared lo do dcnla. there should bo no strife of religious i ii.i.,ln All are euuitl.

No man need r.T.b had been the forerunner. In remain and partake of a Persian meal; but a Journalist must be careful whose wilt he eats, it he is to remain free. Beharlsts In America. After the pleasant generalizations I with which the conversation opened, I asked AbbaB KlTendl concerning the number of his disciples in America, for this has been put as high as a million. He himself avoids the use 1 of the word "disciples," but does no! object to Its employment by others.

1 could not get him to give even approxi ininte figures; he contented hlnisell v.lth saying that ho had many frlemb country and that men in Vienna. piin nn l.unlin a livir.p for $2400. change his religion when ho becomes nr. J. Flinn, a graduate HehalM.

whether he Is a Moslem iw out false and harmful and veterinary work of all Christian or a HuddhlHt. limit Rusia and urged the kinds and have a successful There should be no war from a first class medical collegt. has located in Blaine. czar to allow the Associated Press between races or countries. There should be Inlerniiflonal brotherhood a the pxai truth, btone land international ponce." Incident Bcuu wm, convinced the czar and the on'or niiv tin.

retainer who had done the Recently a dictagraph was used by the government in obtaining eviden-e against the dynamiUrs practice "extending over man years. I make a specialty ol pollevil and 'guarantee a cure or no pay. I'honcl 168, 3 shorts, I long. R. I'.

0. No. 3. iriiernretliic Inter told me that Ab ship that bad been in existence for time re Kilt the Bagdad Bablsta were sent exile at Adrlanople. Five years tor Beha, who had come to be gen-rally accepted by Bablsta as the itesslah (although not without rivals), ho thenceforth called themselves Mehalflts," was sent Into confinement Akka, a few miles north of Haifa, iiere he produced many wrlHnirs, and in 18112.

He was succeeded by i R'-i, Abbas KflV: dl, wlio Is callwl Balilsts "Our Master," and "Our nd." He, too, has li: rivals ai contentions of asplinnis for th riersliip lias been a blot on the Ills of but he seems r.ow to nerally accepted by nearly tf-KS-i'rt of the fl'ilh. His me-s: Kfcti, are regularly read In Un eel of i lie fait 111 ill. lias believes tbut there will 1)0 a great war, and then world wldo peace. Ho In America and that there are regular gatherings of those In Washington, lloston and Chicago. It.

Is evi ul.ly with Ihese centers that he con his correspondence, for tht names willfully recurred. As to the number of llehaists In the world lie was equally vague, but whollj moved T0 establish news bureaus and bribers When the proper the machine will be also advocates one language and one interviewed the smne sun" l.Vun the pope, th preBiucm i.i ii.io thstii Lorrr of der of willing. "l-'oiutli. Uehalsm teaches its followers lo love everybody. In Persia there are Zoroastrlans, lliidil-Usts, I in li in I list and 'hrist inns, ho In trive arid CfltlCOnl IIS MATT EUTZ, Westmoreland, lilacs.

lil.ACKSMlTH... Urcninn When I saiil thai a 1 riend from IVi-sia hail told me that fnllv half tin 1 1 1 J- I many an the czr Ru'a- tunc brought iito court and will reveal the secrets of the dynamite plotters supposed to be hrsrd only by the four walls of that labor union office. Andrew Mellon, the New York miliioriahe banker, had. it rHctn-rranh in his home u. In Persia are lleliaims, tn pen iii-i-1; number emit The Recorder for SI.O'.) tiiaeliitu-iw all Hi A I li i ill that he ih'iiighl thh too high.

I'l'tuall; in Laying thai limn; al' in Tin key; tin mid chiefly III Per -la, America, (lii-al lliit-t si ing in her cam lie remarked, "is It removes from all seels." Ami I verily believe. Hint Ablins Kf-, Mull ices, his creed, for lie is a ontle, kindly man; who, however, lias no coii'-epl ion whatever of the high in-(xoinhlonoss of truth. tlotl. IjOW Wal-laei-'s aiiliinisiir. "lietler law wit.h-,.i,l ihan love 1 1 hunt law." would ically no a ing is fi a-tiaism Is Mm is, or ma ent v.iieneve INITIAL WEE 1 sor i Ir 'ti hen In India ami a seat'' f.m.-iliiy,' iini'ii tan! (Iia.mon'!s tl lia, la Bia.u, and it is aid that he is to turn loose some racy evidence when the proper time comes.

It was Eiisha. the prophet of Israel, tuat told thj King of Israel the words that King of Syria spoke in his bed ill Willi Zoroa 1 Tl.r V-'i vii r'hrl' an quantity; better a bnedred peb- Mahomet, and i oi i in- is-liiU laitli. is tim 1 i I a 1 i'lllS. the last i il i ill lone chamber. Modern science has now to ,,1, 'minis hi my lies of wad I I will I eci job not, ajn-al to him.

None the less, his ii, Ideals, mho dying as they do, Ha- ciimmnniilaces of I llirisl ianity, are In comionaime Willi the spirit, of the am-, and we may expect to sec lie-haism grow ami prosper, especially among sentimental persons. Ps claim to be the final and universal religion Is scarcely tenable, since It, has not bones enough to sland tha scalpels of i tho scholars. (Copyright, 1011. by Joseph B. Uowlts.) accomplished what Eiisha could only do miraculously.

II hi ill I Tr.lt I T.r' 1 Si Ahlais has crmsideraljlo astneHs In the art of 1 llusl ra Ion lhl was i i 1 1 shown lmii v.c t'ol on the main track ol the ini-anlli" of P.ehnisin. An All-inclusive Rth'jion. "All religions," said Abbas Kffendl, "arc the same; there Is no real difference. Tiie difference Is only In mimes. There were once a Turk, a Greek, a Persian and an Arab, Urine.

1,11 your work in 1 a In ii.a kf le on Thin ticantiftil Pur Tin in -i' Siiifl in- ifs i NTJ- Kl nm-li'. but in (ii'ihT tn till i i-velat i'l-i of nil. Ho I i in he upon imnnmin whir Ii lost favor v.i'li the, leaders nil. course this doctrine makes blt.n Kffendl the of all tlm rophets and incarnations of Hod; is any wonder that I should want to ee him? Especially so, as all the ar- allvilV Iml liolh a-, of the wink anil the I hich it is ('one. I'l al tail lt 111 ,.,1 FREE.

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