The Kansas Agriculturist from Atchison, Kansas • 3

W. G. Chapman. Is dead. He located In Mitchell county in 1871,, in Waconda, where be carried on busl-, ness until Cawker City absorbed it.

In his will he bequeathed his specimens, together with his library, to tho city's public library and his ready I t. 1 1 .1 HAm ..7 HIGHLAND NEWS. R. P. Scoon has a daughter visiting him whom he has not seen for twenty-three years.

On account of lack of rain vegetation has a yellow jaundice look. We need 'rain Miss Anna Saunders has gone to visit her "old Kentucky home," and will be gone until September. Last week at the school meeting in Winona district, just west of town, Charley Acker and Lin Ruhl had a fight over some school business. A great many of our people are at Salem, attending the Chautauqua and having a delightful time. That pillar of fire story In the Cham-' plon is a good one.

Thought the joints were all closed down there? Harry Moyer came home from St. Joe last week. The work in the packing house at that place was too hard for him. 1 Arthur Englehardt is back home. The show he was with broke up, and he did not get his pay for the time he was with them.

Enslow, the photographer, is here and Wednesday was baby day, and the fact was demonstrated that this part of Kansas produces babies as well as politicians. Mr. Enslow took over 30 baby negatives. At the annual school election last week Hon. B.

A. Seaver was chosen director. It was voted to build a substantial stone sidewalk from the front door of the school house to the gate, and a tax of 18 mills was voted for current expenses of the year. Last Sunday night as Elijah White and Miss Minnie Floyd were on their way to the Christian church they were attacked by Miss Floyd's father, who dislikes the White boy. He had a knife in his hand and pursued the couple into the church, where some men caught him and put him out of the church.

The young lady screamed and said he threatened to kill them both. Floyd had been drinking, it is said. He was arrested Monday, but the matter was compromised by his agreeing not molest White in the slona afoot. A driver is absolutely for without one, I fear a stranger would pass by all unnoticed "Punch and Judy," "the washerwoman," "Aunt Dinah," "The Porcupine," "The Toadstool," "The Kissing Camels," etc. He would not fail to find, however, the "Balancing Rock," the "Three Graces," the "Cathedral Spires," and "Mushroom Park," and he would not fall to appreciate the eastern entrance to the Garden with Pike's Peak in the distance.

This latter is a mignlflcent view, and is photographed and painted more, perhaps, than any other one bit of scenery around Manitou. I was not Inspired to any poetic frenzy upon visiting this far-famed "Garden," as many people have been. I was more interested in the geological formation. Seen from a distance it is a rolling tract of land with parallel ridges of dark red sand stone more or less jagged or entirely worn away. The earth is of the same color and all blends in prettily with the scattered grass and shrubs." As we drive closer and enter we" see distinctly the strata of the sandstone, some parallel, others oblique or even perpendicular.

This is probably an iocene or phlocene formation. Some of the strata are softer than others and the erosions of wind, and water have caused the perpendicular shapes and figures we see. The driver very skilfully points out the objects at just the right time, and as he describes each in a few well chosen words, we see with no great stretch of the imagination, all he wishes us to see and all others before us have seen. Eastward from the gate of the Garden are cliffs of light sand stone and then gypsum banks. To the north is "Glen- Eyrie" owned by an Englishman, General Palmer.

Here we see the eagle's nest on a cliff about one hundred feet above us; and away up in the glen in a most romantic place, is the mansion of the general. Here are sixty rooms for the father and his three daughters. He has red hair and says "Feed the 'orses some hoats," but the young ladles are anxious to form his acquaintance. My readers who wish a more elaborate flight of trie imagination in a description of the Garden of the Gods may read that of Ernest Ingersoll, or others poetically inclined. Our last excursion was taken to "Crystal Park" up in the mountains, south of Manitou.

A party of eleven was formed twelve I mean, for we had one burro, to carry lunches, wraps, picks and spades for digging topaz crystals, and one of the ladies who was not a climber. In one party were two people from Iowa, four from Indiar! Territory, one from Texas, four from Kansas and one burro. Burros are of some importance here. They always belong to the family, and have their, pictures taken along with the other folks. They are companionable creatures and understand as much or as little as you wish to give them credit for understanding.

They do just what you tell them, unles syou happen to tell them to move on. You may persuade them to do that if you have several assistants to punch behind and pull before, while you yourself lay on would not go and cried plteously when the men shoved him by main force down the Incline. We followed with just as much trepidation as the poor beast, and waited below for the "come on" of the advance guard. To Mr. J.

J. Measer of Hutchison, an old mountain climber of the we all turned with confidence. He is a tall, angular, silent man, cool headed and looks like Abraham Lincoln. Wherever he led we followed as unhesitatingly as the children of Israel at the call of Moses. Mr.

Cornelius, the man from Texas, disappeared. We hallooed In vain. Had he successfully reached the bottom or been dashed over an Impending rock? There were eleven of us still, and we wound around rocks, climbed over fallen trees, swung around sharp corners, and half slid 'down inclines, until we came suddenly upon rocks flung around in wild confusion, over which we could not find nor, make a way. Prospecting parties started out in various directions. "Come on," "wait a minute," were the alternate responses to our inquiries.

The sun had sank behind the mountain and we were yet 1,000 feet above the track. It was becoming evident that we must pass the night in the moutnalns with nothing to eat, few wraps and no matches for making a fire. Mr. Measer was nowhere to be found. Had he gone on to Manitou leaving us behind? Perhaps he could not come back.

We had faith in no one else and it was a most serious outlook. We said little, thought much, and waited. Suddenly sounded the welcome cry: "Our guide has come back. All this way." What could it mean? His message would settle our Were we shut in or had he found a way out? There sat Mr. Measer on a rock, so limp and breathless from exhaustion he could not speak.

He gasped "We can reach the bottom; I have gone down and have come back show you the way." A shout went up for our hero. Dewey was nowhere, and as for Ifobson, no one ever thought of him. One young lady could hardly restrain her impulse to throw her arms about him. There was no time however for demonstrations, for the tall wiry form arose and said, "We must hasten or darkness will overtae us." It is useless to say we obeyed and we reached the burro trail to Pike's Peak the point where it crosses the cog road the second time out of Manitou. We stopped and extended a formal vote of thanks to our Abraham Linoln.

Mr. Barringer was the spokesman. We gave three heers, drank from a spring and hur ried home. It was after nine o'clock when we reached the "Portland." Mr. M.

O. Craigmyle, the genial landlord of this hotel was one of the party and there was great consternation in his family when Mr. Cornelius returned several hours before and reported us lost. He had found a way out, but could not come back to us, for his passage had been a dangerous one. A regular mountain guide with a hunter's horn and a searching party, was ready to start to our rescue.

An ample lunch basket had been prepared and all had been aranged for our camping over night. The guide said he knew just where we were, and it was not possible to get out below. We must stay until morning and go back the way we came. Our guide, Mr. Measer, was more of a hero than ever, and we all realized that we had passed through a thrilling experience.

It was an experience worth a great deal, for we had gained a knowledge of mountains we never could have secured by The other members of the party not mentioned above were Mr. and Mrs. Willis M. Freeman of Davis, Indian Territory, Mr. J.

H. Freeman of Marietta, Chickasaw Nation, Miss Richards and my sister. We afterward found that our guide was a single gentleman. There were three young ladies in the party so I cannot predict the result. We leave Manitou for Salt Lake on Tuesday, the 2nd.

Among the pleasant acquaintances we have formed here was that of John W. Wilson, editor of the Manitou Daily Sun. He is a cousin of J. W. Wilson, principal of the Effingham LOVELY JJAHITOU.

Miss Katner Has a Graphic Sketch Party Lost on The Mountains, Manltou, Aug. 3. We are tarrying still In "the thoughtless, sprightly, pleasure-loving town of tarrying perhaps too long. People are coming and going. The town Is filling up and August will be as usual the gayest month of the year.

We visited the Manltou bottling establishment this morning. Here the soda water is recharged with Its own gas, sealed In heavy quart bottles and shipped all over the world. Five thousand bottles are filled every day. Mc-Pike Fox handle It In Atchison. The chemical analysis shows In thirty-two parts, sodium chloride 3, sodium bicarbonate 8, calcium bicarbonate 14, magnesium bicarbonate 3.6 parts, and other elements in smaller quantities.

The soda water seems to be more popular than the iron water, although both pavillions are crowded all the time; and it keeps a boy busy at each place dipping up the water and filling glasses for the drinkers. Invalids they are not, for a healthier looking people is not often seen. The public dances, three times a week afford pleasure to the onlookers as well as to those who participate in the Terpsicorean art. A series of war pictures and biographs are given each evening this week for the fiee amusement of those who have nothing else to do. Since writing you last we have made a number of excursions to points of interest near Manltou.

Cheyenne Canon north and south rightly hold high rank among the tourists. These are reached by school ma'ams, and others economically inclined, via the electric line south from Colorado Springs. All others take carriages from Manitou at one dollar for each person. South Cheyenne conon with severel hundred acres of mountain land was purchased some years ago by Mr. Hull of Colorado Springs for People then thought him unwise in his movement.

He now makes each year between seven and eight thousand dollars by charging tourists a twenty-five cent entrance fee. The North Canon is free and affords delightful and varied scenery to the lover of nature who lingers, and appreciates. canon is one of the finest examples we have of almost perpendicular granite formation. "Point Inspiration," "Eagle Cliff," and the "Pillars of Hercules" attract especial attention, and each is over 1,000 feet from the bed of the stream The tourist passes in silent wonder between these walls, not formed by plumb line nor mason's rule, for a mile or more, to the head of the canon. Here the relentless stone has defied for ages the action of this mountain stream, the Cheyenne.

It has stayed the restless, confident, onrushing current by a series of terraces and pockets and formed the world renowned "Seven Falls." The stream wherever found as it comes from the deep heart of the dear old mountains, rushing, dashing, foaming over, under, among the rocks defies the brush of the artist, the pen of the poet or the livid words of the orator. One must; see, must Btop and stay and listen until the music, the purity, the constancy, the beauty permeates his soul. He is better for It, but he cannot tell his secret, his lips are drunk. It is not a cause for wonder that the sweet Ramona loved to linger at these Seven Falls and that her love for them finds an echo in each observer's heart. We are enabled to watch them from many points by means of a series of stairways constructed at their left.

We wish we might stay here forever, but we must go on farther up the mountain side. The trail is steep, but it is lined with travelers. We pass on with them to the top and find a lonely pile of stones. The wind moans through the pine trees. It sounds like a dirge for the great soul once here, but now, no more.

We silently lay down two stones and rarrv nwav nne nnrfi whitA money turn wuat wm uc icuiucu iriuu the sale of his town property goes to the poor und worthy women of Cawker City. The funeral was largely attended. Jointist Hook assaulted the prosecuting witness on adjourment of court Monday, He gave him an upper cut that Jarred his whole and was showering repeated blows when intercepted by the constable. That may be one way of justifying conviction on seventy-seven counts and serving six years and five months in jail. Seneca Tribune.

MONEY ORDER FEE. The Extra War Tax of Two Cents Does N'ifr Man That a Stamp Mutt Be A Hired to the Order. Washington, Aug. 5. The revenue actwhlch took effect July 1, prescribed a government tax of two cents on each United States postal money order.

Iu structions were issued in advance to-all money order post offices that this tax was to be collected, not by affixing stamps to the orders, but by charging' two cents to the buyers of money orders in addition to the regular fee. This two cents to be accounted for separately by postmasters to the auditor for the post office department and the gross amount of the collections, estimated at 500,000 per annum, will be transferred from tho postal revenue to the internal revenue fund quarterly by the auditor. In spite of the plain instructions sent out money orders are now coming into trie-auditor's office with revenue stamp affixed. Some of them have evidently baan affixed and canceled by others by purchasers of mo'ney orders. Still others, and most numerously, by payees when they receipt for the money.

All this is double payment of tax, for the selling postmaster will in every case be required to account for two cents on each order sold. No revenue stamps are in any case to be attached to United States postal money orders. China May Have Food Riots. San Francisco, Aug. 5.

News of an impending revolution in China is furnished by G. E. Sevey, president of tha American Steam Navigation He fears a violent outbreak among tha hordes of Chinese in both the northern and central provinces on account of famine and believes that great loss of life and destruction of property will result. The missionaries scattered throughout the country, he thinks, will be great sufferers. Heavy Loss of Grain by Fire.

Aug. 5. Six warehousesthe Western Warehouse company (two houses), Alliance house, Engel house, Engle and Gillis house, Broughton house, storage capacity, about 300,000 bushels, estimated grain in the housa 40,000 bushels, the North ern Pacific track, several cars of sacked grain and barley were destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown. There is considerable loss to farmers.

Held as a Susnect. Kansas City, Aug. 5. A clerical-looking individual, who says that his name Is Gillespie Ilavvorth, and that Ottawa, is his home, was arrested yesterday as a suspect and will be detained at police headquarters until his antecedents are inquired into. Man Killed by a Falling Bridge.

Boonville, Aug. 5. Henry Dick, aged 40, with a threshing machine engine which he was managing, fell through a bridge near Prairie Home, and was instantly killed, the body being severed at the waist by the engine falling upon him. Steamer Kepvrted Lost. St.

Johns, N. Aug. 5. The telegraph operator at Tilt Cover, the most northern office of Newfoundland, wires that a report has just reached there of the loss of a large transatlantic line steamer in the vicinity of Belle Isle, with nil bands. More Troops to Hunolnlu.

San Francisco, Aug. 5, The troops to go to Honolulu Saturday on the transport Charles Nelson havelaeen designated. They are six companies, of the First New York volunteers, under command of Maj. Chase. NEWS NOTES.

A. L. Conwell, of Iligbee. salesman for a St. Louis paper house, waa killed by the cars at Mexico, Mo.

The Central Missouri Medical society, in session at Sedalia, elected J. Li Parish preident and O. P. Kernodle secretary. Ira Parey, a respected citizen of Independence, disappeared from, home and is supposed to have committed suicide.

In a Cleveland (O.) interview Senator M. A. Hanna said the president would call an extra session of congress early in the autumn. Congressman Urosvenor, of Ohio, who is now visiting in London, is quoted by the London Daily News ns saying-that the United Estates is not now ready to form an alliance with any European power, The Chicago association ha petitioned Pr-sident iMcKin-ley to exact of Spain, in concluding a treaty of peace, that alt Spanish port in Pacific ocv an terrno.y. uu wida openu for A inerivau products.

A BANKRUPT RULING. In jhe federal court at Kansas City a rukng was made this week that vol-umary bankruptcy affidavits must be investigated by the referee before the bankrupt can invoke the benefit of the new law. If the allegations of the affidavit are true, the bankrupt can then proceed after paying the $25 fee. If the referee finds that the bankrupt has falsified the facts, the offender will be denied the privileges of the law and will Tlave no standing in court. The filing of papers in bankruptcy by Rev.

John D. Knox of Topeka, recalls the financial antics of a man who mixed business and religion always with the business end up. He did a general banking business in Topeka for many years and invested thousands upon thousands of dollars for eastern Methodists who believed a preacher was immaculate. Knox flew high as a financier until eight years ago, 'when his whole financial structure gave way and those who had slept the sleep of confidence were the losers. The crash did not come, however, until Mrs.

Knox had erected a $50,000 mansion at Potwin, the aristocratic suburb of the state capital. Mrs. Knox didn't earn the means to build and superbly furnish this mansion at hard labor, but it's her's and can't be held liable for the preacher's debts. Of course, stories told on a failed preacher are not necessarily all true. One story is that Knox would make it convenient to reach a country village where he desired to make a loan or collection on Saturday.

Sunday he would occupy the Methodist pulpit of the village. A collection would be taken up "to pay the minister's railroad fare and hotel bill;" and the smell of vituals cooked outside of the best hotel in the city was distasteful to the business preacher. Knox, it is told, had quite extensive properties" in "Tennessee town," which he sold on the installment plan to colored people, taking all he could get down and a cut-throat mortgage for the rest. When he closed a sale, it is said he would ask the purchaser the state of his soul and Invite him to come out and hear him preach, and bring along a contribuilon for the support of the He would pat his customer on the back with one hand while holding a hand with the other, and solemnly adjure the purchaser to "work and pray, brother; work and pray, and make another payment as soon as possible." Knox was business, late and early, and one characteristic of his was that he never grew familiar with anyone until business was over. Had the dearest friend on earth have risen from the grave and approached the bank counter, Knox would have punched his pen behind his ear, walked stark to the wicket with, "What can I do for sir?" Business Knox would have then smiled recognition, shook his risen friend's hand and asked him how he stood the trip.

Tom Davis was arrested yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Hartman on a state warrant sworn out by Jesse L. Kelsey for assault and battery. The assault was made on the 4th of July last at Arrington, Kansas. Davis lives at Muscotah. He was arrested once before, but walked away from two officers.

Men don't get away when Sheriff Hartman has them. the lash. They are much abused, yet their patience and fortitude are as much admired. They can go where ever man finds a footing, and find a footing where man cannot go. I think you will see why our burro was not an insignificant member of the party.

We climbed three miles and entered the park somewhat fatigued. After partaking of our noonday repast on the bank of the coolest, clearest stream we had yet found in Colorado we set out to hunt for crystals. Mr. Barringer, of Emmettsburg, who had visited the park twice before, was our guide. He found beautiful crystals from which he had charms cut for himself and wife.

The place was not for fro mthe foot of "Cameron Dome." Thitherward we turned our footsteps, the men were armedwith picks, spade and hoe, the women followed in the rear, and all were as serious in their quest as the veritable gold seekers sent out by Spain in the sixteenth century. The way syas long and steep, and some fell by the wayside, as they did in the time of De Soto and Cortez. After some time, and a series of voice culture exercises we came together in the shadow of a great rock, where a council was held. Empty-pocketed, heavy hearted and tired-limbed, they determined to make straight for the trail leading home by the Half-Way House. All in readiness, we struck across to the northward through mountain and pine trees, over hills p.Ic1 hollows until we found a trii leading to the northwest.

We followed it although no one knew whither it led. It must be the one sought. We gathered the beautiful Mariposa lilies that grew in abundance about us, passed an empty and saw burros grazing on tue mountain side. It was evident now that it was not the right trail, and a general uneasiness prevailed. The wiser ones insisted upon retracing our steps, but a majority vote took us forward.

When the trail divided we were still more at sea, and thought of sailors on the ocean without compass or guide. The left hand path soon grew indistinct; the rlgnt led to a great rock not far from "Magog," a noted and peculiar rock formation, far above the cog-road west of manitou. It was getting late.and we must descend the mountain side an almost perpendicular, wild, rocky, trackless steep, 2,000 feet to the track below, or find our way back to the park. We un-dertookvthe former. Three of the men led the way down a long rocky slide, passable only because of masses of disintegrated granite that partially covered it.

The order came from below to send the burro ahead and come on. The burro was the tug of war. Mr and Mrs. Barringer, to whom the burro belonged, had an old fashioned curtain dispute as to whether he should be unloaded or not. She, as usual In such disputes, was light, for the saddle fell over his neck and all hut the bridle wo rpmoved.

Even then he High School. FRANCES E. KATNER. A RURAL ROBBERY. Other Item3 of Interest From Walnut Township.

Oak Aug. 5. William E. Oliphint family, living near Oak Mills, went to church last Sunday find upon their return found that their residence had been entered through a kitchen window and everything ransacked. A gold ring belonging to Mr.

Oliphint's daughter, a fine razor, $3 in money and other articles were taken. There is no clue to the thief. Miss Anna Quigley, the Missouri Pacific agent at Oak Mills, returned this morning and resumed work after a visit to Kansas City and St. Louis. Her mother has returned to New York.

"Miss Ethel Redmond, daughter of Dr. G. W. Redmond, has been given the contract to teach the Oak Mills school. Owen W.

Johnson of Farm-ington, will teach in district No. 33. Will Adams is visiting at Efflnghajj and looking for a school. Mrs. R.

M. King is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Tom Reagan in Kansas City. Mrs. Lizzie Hottle received a letter from her son, Wilson, this week.

He Is working on a ranch near Eaton, and expects to leave shortly for Oregon with a herd of cattle. Mrs. Jim Sholar has been quite 111, but Is Improving. A big picnic, given by the C. M.

B. Is In progress in Gus Aaron's grove south of here today. The eighth boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Zachariah a few days ago.

one from the former grave of Helen Hunt Jackson. We-descend, retrace our F.t,v8 through the canon and our-1 of grandeur and beauty is Lut a rich memory. Other falls of peculiar Interest are the, "Rainbow Falls' to Ute Pass, a pleasant mile walk Wni Manitou. The rainbow is seen the morning between nine and feleven o'clock In the water and on the stones at the foot of the cascade. The granite stones about are smooth from the scrambling of tourists to find the right view point.

Another mile further is the entrance to the "Grand 'Caverns" with the great natural organ. Three hundred people passed through the day before and each one paid one dollar for the privilege. No single passage way exceeds 200 ffet in length, yet the observer passes over three-fourths of a mile before he returns to daylight. The "Cave of the Winds" near by does not seem so popular and the keeper thinks of charging for each burro a five cent1; toll, when the rider uses the wind cave trail and does not patronize him. The steps leading from here to Williams' canon are still used by tourists, but they have, not been repaired for several years and are not entirely safe.

We pass down this canon, loved and frequented by Mr. Williams, between high, picturesque walls of limestone, through the "Narrows" and re-enter Manitou near the Cliff House. We took a carriage to the "Garden of the Gods," but made all other excur-..