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if THE WEEKLY COMMOKWJaAXiTH, TIIUBSDA1L SEPTEMBER 10, 1885, MABTBi'S REPLY TO QBIFflK. THB JOEUf BROWN SONG. on the St. Louis San Francisco road. Mr.

Ryan was unable to stop here, as now are. Hereafter, if the Eagle is to be relied upon, the west will stand by the east in resisting the cry of the ance. You overthrew the confederacy in order that you might free the slave. You know what incident took me to the prison you have so fitly denominated a 'pen at Andersonville. Your letter had informed me that you" were a prisoner in our hands and I left my couch of convalescence to go there upon the chance of finding you.

Oa my arrival I learned that no officers were confined there, and knew my journey was in vain. I declined an invitation not very heartily given, as I thought, to go within the stockade, but climbed up to the sentry-walk and looked over. I cannot tell the horror of that scene. It was almost sundown of a hot autumn day. The wretchedness depicted in the faces of that squalid, unprotected multitude was unspeakable.

I could hear the soughing of the winds in the pines beyond, but they had neither breath nor shade. The stench even where I stood was sickening. Because I had been a prisoner myself I no doubt pitied them the more. I guessed what they must endure, though I only dimly imagined the horrors of their fate. As I turned away the notes of song arose from the sqalid mass.

I paused and listened listened to the very end of that most remarkable paean of self-sacrifice that ever inspired an army or a people to suffer and achieve for another's sake. When I went away in the gloaming that follows quick upon our sunset, the words went with me, and have never left my memory. Ia the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across UlQ 868 With a glory 'in His bosom that transfigures yon Mothers. There are upon the skin of every ham in being child and adult alike, 2.S000.000 pores. Through these pores in the form of Insensible perspiration, is expelled more than one-quarter of the nourishment taken into the system.

The of keeping- open these p2nptration velres upon a child's body, Is second only to thst of promptly digesting the food eaten. It was to open the pores of the skin and to swim Mate the fcoi that Dr. Pitcher formulated Castoria. Loose bowels, constipation, fevers anl eruptions which are to constant among infants and children, and which kill one-third of all children before they are flre years old, arise principally from these two causes. It is from the wonderful resnlta attendant upon the use of Castoria in regulating the stomachs and bowels and keeping opsn the pores of the Skin that Castoria acquired its world wide reputation.

With plenty of water for the body, pare air lot the lungs and Castoria to assimilate the food, there needbs no unaccounted for sickness among children. Castoria ii a vegetable prescription without morphfne or other narcotic property. Th'rty years extensive use has given it a history never attained by another medicine. 6- THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1885. BY THE COMMONWEALTH 00.

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Massachusetts is at present wrestling with the Question of how to abate the usance of locomotive whistling. The Knights of Labor in Texas are caid to be negotiating with the prohibi-gionists of that state with a view to a Solitical alliance. Yra.sk. James, once the bold Missouri utlaw, is now lying at the Ralston farm few miles south of Independence, Mis- on.i, in the last stages of consump- on. The directors of the St.

Louis Son have denied the ladies of the Wo-aens' Christian Temperance union the ight to i erect a water fountain in their juildings. It is stated that the New York Times getting itself into a condition to able x. to support the Republican SSlcket in the state of New York, at the November election. List Sunday, for the first time in his-'iory, the national capitol was opened to sight-seers. This shows democratic regard for that divine maxim, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." Pfiof essor Riley tells us that the grasshoppers disappear with the advance -of civilization.

That is one important seeped in which the grasshoppers show they have more sense than mosquitoes or office seekers. Oct of the 2,332 presidential postoffices there have been 524 changes since the change of administration. Out of the 43,431 fourth cla9S postmasterships there Siave been removals. This is the mugwumpian idea of civil service reform carried out by the new administration "Pennsylvania democrats have announced their approval of President 3giad to learn that the handful in that state are satisfied. If this report be true, Pennsylvania democrats are the only aaembers of that party in the United States who are.

'It is now said that congress will be called upon to pay the funeral expens es of Gen. Grant, some $14,003. If Mr. Cleveland acta out the same policy he lid in ew York when he vetoed the soldiers and sailors monument bill the appropriation will not receive the executive approval. There was a mistake in the report if the expanses of Gaen.

Grant's funeral The undertaker's bill, instead of being is only about $15,003. Bstween Ferdinand Ward, the doctors and the smdertaker, the old hero and his estate -experienced more than their share of the hard times. The democratic vote having been unusually large in New Hampshire for the past few years, she has just enacted at law which requires every voter challenged at the polls to swear that he has neither sold his vote nor bought that of ainy one else. If he cannot do this he will not be allowed to vote. All hope of democratic suiceas in the Granite state is now gone.

It is enough to turn one's hair gray to seethe manner in which the St. Louis Mepublican takes vengeance on the Kansas City Times. The following paragranJi is a sample: "When, having stooped from the high estate of journalism to the paltry occupation of sticking government stamps on whisky barrels," etc. We have known many things to occur, and men to lower their dignity for a less salary than ia received by Mr. Charles Hasbrook as collector of internal revenue for the Kansas City district.

We see no cause far wonderment on the part of the He-publican. 1Mb, QCiRK, one of the democratic commissioners of the board of public vfvorks in New York, ia likely to be forced mt of office on account of the ridicule provoked by some poetry that he wrote oa the death of Grant and stuck over ithe door of the city hall. A general feeling of gratification might be experienced if the several thousand other persons who wrote poetry on the same subject were being made as uncomfortable on account of it as Mr. Squire. Chi-cago Times.

Well, it ia hard to say which is the --worst. Whdn in California Mr. Rollin 311. Squire engaged in several wildcat cminlng enterprises and wheedled several "Boston capitalists out of 3 ni- iaag amatuer poetry and obtaining money einder. false pretenses are aboat on a par.

It was known here about a month ago that it was the intention of Mr. Gilder, the editor of the Century, to publish in the September number of that magazine an article on the John Brown song, written Vv CoL Richard J. Hinton, and awarding the authorship of the song to Mr. Jerome, of western Kansas. udge Adams, of the Historical society, sent to the Century all of his collections thai relate to the song.

In regard to the nlaims fit Mr- Jerome. Judge Adams spoke with mild caution, and we believe he alluded to him as an "imaginative person. The most important paper forwarded by Judge Adams was written and pub lished a few years ago by Mr. George Rnnfis. the well known architect.

Mr, Ropes was a member of the battalion, three companies, that went from CharleE town, in the spring of 1861, to guard Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, With these soldiers the John Brown song, the music and the words, had its birth. Of what one person they were born, if of any one -oerson. no one uuw knows or the hour or the day of the A birth perhaps not the month. It was probably some weeks in getting born This statement of Mr. Ropes is substan tiated by Mr.

Boscobel in an article pub lished some time ago in a Philadelphia paper, and also forwarded to the Century by Judge Adams. Mr. Boscobel was member of that Charlestown battalion. Meeting Mr. Ropes on the street Thursday evening we asked him in regard to the other survivors of that little band with whom a National Anthem was born.

"Why," said he, "the men who used to sing it most, in the early days, were John Brown, a Scotchman, and Edgerly. Edgerly was inspired with it and sang it with thrilling effect." "Is Edgerly alive now?" "Why, yes; two or three years ago he was a street car conductor in Boston; I have forgot ten his first name: he belonged to the battalion, and his name and address can easily be obtained." Some members of the battalio but not all, went into the Twelfth Massachusetts regiment, commanded by Col. Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel Webster. Thai regiment sung the song as it marched to Washington, in the summer of 1861. The thousand throats thrilled Broadway, and the New York papers made the fact and the song known to the countiy.

Judge Adama has received another letter from the Century, returning his pa pers, and saying that it is still in pursuit of the truth in regard to the song. We commend its historic spirit and attitude, and have herein hinted at the line of investigation for the matchless magazine to pursue. The aforesaid Jerome was a child when this anthem was born, and' had as little hand in the com' position of its words and music as the assassin Guiteau. The song caxe to Kansas in due time of course. D.

W. Wilder was visiting in Boston in August 1861. The music was then exposed in the shop windows It was not copyrighted. He bought sev eral copies, issued, in unlike forms, by two publishing houses. He mailed -one copy to Mr- Samuel F.

Atwood, the best song, singer in Leavenworth, and himself a Boston boy. When Wilder returned and called on Atwood, Sam told him that he had looked the song over, but that it did not amount to anything. So Web, whose singing attainments are of the slightest, sung it himself, and sung it to the soldiers who thronged the city and the Fort. It needed no more pushing. This first singing of the song in Kansas was on the 20th of September, 1S61.

The human memory is yery faulty, but this date and fact are duly recorded in the Leavenworth Conservative, and that paper, of course, is in Judge Adams' amazing historical collection. Mr. F. P. Baker, of this paper, then lived in Nemaka county.

He first heard the John Brown Song in January or February, 1862, at an Episcopalian gathering in the building now the residence of Bishop Vail. One fact in particular impressed the singing upon his mind he was greatly astonished to see Fred P. Stanton join heartily in the chorus. In Kansas, the song is usually sung with too rapid a movement. It is a solemn, serious matter, the John Brown song.

The emancipation of a race and the birth of a nation are in it. It is an inspired hymn, and should be sung reverently. So sung, by a large congregation, it still profoundly stirs the human heart. The original words, of Charles- town, or of Fort Warren birth, or of both, are of no moment, except historically. The real words, also American, and God inspired, are written by Julia Ward Howe, and first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.

These are our greater Marseillaise gi eater because the American is a greater, deeper people than the French. A recent writer in the Chicago Inter- Ocean quotes the words of a Confederate soldier, as follows: "You are wroxg in declaring the main tenance of the union to have been the controlling motive of your people and government. Right or wrong, absurd or 11 wise, maniac or iiiariyr, ute soui oi onn Brown not only marched with your troops but inspired them with a spirit of marveloup self-sacrifice. Your soldiers fought neither for fame nor dominion. The lust of conquest never influenced their hearts.

No spirit of revenge or prospect of advantage spurred them to the gigantic efforts required to defeat and crush a people so brave and a nationality so instinct with harmonious vitality as our confederacy. It was a purpose nobler than the love of liberty, grander than the instinct of patriotism. Shirk it as you will, deny it as you may, the one crowning glory of your part in that great straggle the one thing that for all time will, make it unprecedented in moral grandeur is the fact that you fought, died willingly and triumphed modestly, not for your own advantage, not to secure your children's liberties, lut to give liberty and equality of right and privilege to a people debased, untried, branded with the mark of servitude, and eparated by the insuperable wall of race from your appreciative sympathy or intimate alli The Junction City Tribune republishes the row widely copied (and regretted) article, headed "It rests'with the people," and criticises it in the following manner The above is the reply of Gov. Mar tin paper, tne Atchison Champion, to Mr. Griffin's full, fair and candid state ment of the aflair at Dodge City.

The Governor lays much stress on Mr. Grif fin's statement that "There is not a locality in the state in which a judge, county attorney and sheriff, with aver age ability, cannot close every ealoon, if tney really wis a to." etc. Correct, governor, but suppose that some, or all, of these officers do not really "wish to!" Or. that some or all have ot "average ability And, suppose that the power and influence of the lawless element is such that the people cannot etect abler or better men! Then what? Then it becomes the duty of state officers to take the place of the local ones (that is the law), and "see that the laws are faithfully Now. here is the humiliation: Gov ernor Martin's attorney general acknowledged the duty devolving upon him, end sent his assistant to prosecute the cases.

The assistant attorney eeneral found a State of anarchy no government, no officers and all peaceable society at an end, and was compelled this state officer was to slip out of the back door of a hotel, and retreat to save his life. Armed rebellion was completely victorious over the state after the state government had acknowledged and accepted the duty of keeping the peace and enforcing the laws! It was then too Jate for Governor Martin to discuss the question as to who should manage the case. In effect there were no local authorities. The state accepted certain duties under the laws. The state officer is driven from the field, ignominiously, bv ruffians in open rebellion And the governor utterly refuses to stand by his own officer, Jo vindicate the dignity and power of the state But, ignobly replies, It rests with the peopled' wnat a shameful spectacle Wnen tne attorney general superseded the county attorney the state government undertook the case, and it was then too late for the governor to shirk his duty We think Mr.

Griffin has made a very strong case, and no reply of the governor's paper can coyer up the public and shameful humiliation. The governor's paper c'oses by saying that "if the laws are not enforced the people have themselves to thank for it." But eovernor. suppose the people elect an executive officer, who, before election, publicly and solemnly promises before God and men that he will do his duty and his whole duty; and then, after election, a case comes up, his attorney general accepts the case, needs the governor's help to do his duty, and the much-promising candidate fails to do his sworn duty as governor, vv hat is the people's remedy? They can enforce laws only through their sworn officers. When the officers betray their trusts, what can the people do? Will the Champion please answer? "THE FUTURE." For some reason we did not get a copy of Mr. C.

C. Blake's new paper till yesterday. Many of our readers know Mr. Blake as a resident of Richland, Shawnee county, and the owner of a large farm. He has for many years paid much attention to forecasting the weather, and has on the whole been very success ful.

He has ilow commenced the publication of a scientific monthly journal called The Future on his farm. It is a neat, good looking five column paper. As we understand Mr. Blake, his paper will not be confined to weather predictions, but will take a wide scientific range. He may be called a "crank," as he sometimes has, he says, but there is evidence of marked ability in the paper before us.

He furnishes the paper at 10 cents a number, $1 per year and six copies for $5, and expects to have a circulation all over the country. We can that it will be one of the few papers which we shall keep on file. We give butone extract in order that our readers may understand that he does not claim infallibility. He says If there is anything I detest more than another it is infallibility. I do not like to haVe people speak of me as the weather prophet, as whoever uses the word "prophet" associates with it the idea of infallibility, and if my weather calculations do not prove to be absolutely in accordance with their preconceived ideas, they are apt to think I am one of the "false prophets," and cry I remember I once wrote to a friend in July that the following winter would be a very "mild" one.

It proved to be a very warm and wet winter. In February my friend wrote me, wanting to know "if that was what I called a mild winter, with the mud knee deep and raining half the time." It seems he had put his own interpretation upon the word "mild," and claimed that warm and wet weather in the middle of winter did not fill the bill for a mild winter, and hence I was a false prophet! COUNTT AUDITOR. From the Atchisoa Champion. When Judge David Martin, cf this city, became judge of this judicial district, he declined to appoint a county auditor to succeed George W. Glick, the appointee of Judge Otis.

Judge Martin gave as his reason for not making the appointment that the law authorizing such appointment was unconstitutional. and gave an elaborate opinion sustaining his position, citing voluminous authorities on the subject. The Cham pion cordially sustained Judge Martin at the time, characterizing the new office as a needless burden upon the people. We are glad to record that another learned judge in the Judge Spil- man, has declined to make an appointment for Osage county, setting forth his reasons in an exhaustive opinion, which the Osage City ree trtss publishes in full. From the Osage City Free Press.

Now that three district judges of Kansas have decided that the county auditor law is tmcorBtitutiona', why doesn't Shawnee county, which is tugging and sweating under a heavy load of taxes, raise the question in her courts? She might reduce her expenses fifteen or twenty hundred dollars per annum with very little effort, and give Brother J. G. Wood a chance to make an honest living practicing or tne law: The three district judges referred toby the Free Press as having decided that the acts providing for a county auditor are void, are Judge David Martin, of the Atchison district, Judge R. B. Spillman, oftheOsaee district, and Judge A.

W. Benson, of the Douglas district. Democratic comments on the admis sion of Dakota disclose the (purpose of the party to claim that the recent state census is untrustworthy, and that the federal censos of 1890 must be awaited prove the Territory's real population he had intendtd to do, on account of urgent business in Washington, where he will meet other members of the com mittee, and prepare a partial report of their investigation. While absent, he will place his youngest son in the mili tary school at Chester, and expects to return here with Mrs. Ryan about the 15th of this month, after which he will make a tour of his district, visiting the people and ascertaining the needs of different localities, prior to the approaching session of congress.

Mr. Ryan spoke with great satisfaction of the result of the Shawnee county republican convention, and predicted that with such a ticket an old time republican victory was assured All that was needed, he said, was a complete organization and a thorough canvass, which he had no doubt the convention would provide for. Concerning his trip he said it had been a pleasant and inetructive one. Mr. Holman, the chairman of the committee, was one of the ablest men in the county, whose private and public life was blameless.

Mr. Cannon was also a very strong man, a prudent and successful legislator. The trip had been a very long one, and the investigation a comprehensive one. Th committee has been out nearly two months, traveling by rail and wagon in Nebraska, Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington territory, Oregon, California, Arizona and New Mexico, visiting their reservations and in their camps, nearlyHall the Indians in the country, except those in the Indian territory. A great deal of information had been accumulated in regard to the control and support of the Indians, and the committee was now possessed of practical knowledge that would be serviceable in dealing with this ques tion this winter.

The committee will meet again this month at some point in Kansas to pursue the investigation. ROBBERS ARRESTED. the Blue Springs Train Robbers are Arrested and Lodged In the Shawnee County Jail. Yesterday afternoon great excitement prevailed around the court house when Hugh. McHenry and Howard Pierce were brought into Sheriff Thomas' office on the charge of having been interested in the Blue Springs, train robbery which occurred on the Chicago Alton railroad on the night of September 3rd.

The arrest was made yesterday, five officers having gone to the house of Hugh McHenrv, who lives about five miles northeast of North Topeka, on the line between Jefferson and Shawnee counties. The officers, who were Deputy Sheriff Disbrow, Special Officer Parkhurst, Mar shal Phillips, of Jackson coac ty, his deputy, Hulse, and Detective De Long, of the Missouri Pacific railway system. They surrounded the house and Deputy Disbrow served the warrant. The following is Marshal Phillips' state ment as to the manner of capture, and the reasons for suspecting McHenry: "Having been given a description of the robbers who worked the car by Dr. Bedford, of Independence, and Lon Lig- get, of Kansas City, we that is, Hulse, my deputy, and Detective De Long, of the Missouri Pacific took up the trail irom independence, on the Missouri Pacific, to the town of California, twenty -eight miles from Jefferson City.

From there we went north into the brush about nine miles, through the worst country you ever saw. we came at last upon a log cabin containing one room. It was the home of the aged parents of Howard Pierce. The robbers arrived at this place Thursday night, staying all night in a little out house. The next day, Friday, they left the home of Pierce's parents on foot.

The old people did not like the looks of Howard's companion and remarked it to us. They eaid they did not know where their son and his companion were going and they did not expect them when they came. Having traveled all night, we came upon this house in the morning but we learned our birds had flown, Taking up the trail here we trailed them across the country to a little town called. Monetau, west of California. From that point they took a train known as No.

called the Pleasant Hill accommodation; they bought tickets at Monetau for Kansas City. They seemed to be very much in a hurry. When they arrived at Pleasant Hill they had to lay over until train No. 1 for Kansas City came along. They ook the train there, arrive! in Kansas City Friday night and Saturday they took the Union Pacific for Topeka.

From there they went home where we found them about 11 o'clock yesterday, surrounded the house and Daputy Sheriff Disbrow, of your county, served the papers that made them our prisoners. The robbers live about five and one- half miles northeast of North Topeka near what is called Calhoun's bluff on the line between Jefferson and Shawnee counties. Their home is in the worst part of the State of Kansas. That is about the substance of what may be considered a stern chase with happy results." Blue Springs, where the robbeay was cammitted, is situated twenty-one miles east of Kansas City, and eleven miles east of Independence. The robbers only worked one car, when their nerves failed them, and they made the brakeman stop the train and allow them to get off.

Pierca and McHenry were committed to await official action on the part of Maj. Woodson, county attorney of Jackson county, Missouri, Hugh McHenry is well known to To-pekans, having lived near North Topeka for nearly eighteen years. He is said to be worth considerable money. He says that he will have no trouble to prove an alibi, as he did not leave home unti Thursday morning, taking the at Grantville. The result of the arrest will be looked forward tt with interest.

from Scott County, Scott Cxktex, Sept. I have traveled over hills and valleys, I have crossed tha Father of Waters and traversed the beautiful rich, undulating meadows of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and while thus my time was being occupied I thought there could be no grander country under the shining sun. Such are the thoughts of every one until they visit the prairies of Western Kansas and witness with their own eyes what I am going to relate. Being persuaded to take a journey to Western Kansas I came to Garden City, arriving at the last named place on the 2d of April last. Stopping at the Metropolitan hotel the largest and leading hotel of that queenly little city, I found plenty of worthy citizens, from whom I obtained valuable information regarding Finney and its adjoining counties.

To my complete surprise the tide of emigation seemed to flow north from Finney county into that great garden spot of the world, Scott county. Willing to rely upon the judgment of experienced set tiers, I turned my course northward there to be greeted with the freshness of the pure atmosphere that swept over the picturesque prairies of Scott county. Situated in the geographical center of the county, is that masterly little village known far and near as Scott Center. Lo cated as it is on a beautiful elevation and being surrounded by the richest land in the world, it has all the promises of be coming the established county seat, if not the metropolis of the west. Just south of the town is a large basin that produces hundreds of tons of hay.

Some of the lands are occupied by ranchmen who have large herds of sheep and cat tie that fatten on the grass alone with out a particle of other feed. Language will fail to describe its loveliness. Corn in a few weeks growth stands higher than I ever saw in the eastern states at the same age. Men of energy and wealth form the Town company of Scott Center, and neither time nor money will be spared to make it the neatest and pleas antest locality that can be found in the west. Railroad companies are viewing routes, and soon the shrill whistle of the locomotive will greet the ears of the set tlers as it glides along over its iron path way.

Nor must I omit the most important thing that necessarily aids in the building up of a town, and advances the organization of a county. Scott county has a large sheet of water near the surface; good water, with but little if ny alkali is found at the depth of from fourteen to forty feet. And to those wanting homes at a little expense, privilege me to say, no grander, no healthier, no lovelier and no richer country can be found in any locality in the west. If fyou wish land, you must come immediately, for unlike the image of time, free lands will not always last. The antelope and wild horse that now roam over the beautiful green prairies of Scott county, are becoming alarmed at the approach of so many settlers, and are retreating to more deserted places.

When in your wisdom you conclude to come to Scott county, come by the way of Garden City, at which place you will find the best of accommodations on the stage line leading to Scott Center. R. D. H. A BOLD BURGLARY.

Tne Residence of "William Hlggins is Entered and Valuables Taken. Last Saturday night the back window of the residence of William Higgins, 341 Jackson street, was raised by means of an old knife, and the house burglarized The burglar, after succeeding in rate- mg the window, went up stairs ana entered the room of Mrs. Higgins, tak- mg a hne opal set ring, witn e. crescent of five small diamonds, a set of amethyst ear-rings, one smoky topaz ring with nine or twelve pearls encircling the stone, one solid gold ring, plain, weighing $19 in gold, and $68.50 ml in morrey. ine money was in a hand-bag and placed between the mattresses.

This the thief succeeded in getting out without the lady knowing anything about it. After having got all he thought of value in Mrs. Higgins' room, he went over to Mr. Higgins and took his pantaloons, as he did the pantaloons of a brother-in-law of Mrs. Higgins.

These the burglar took down stairs and rifled them of their contents, getting 14.75 in all. He then took the pantaloons into the yard, where they were found Sunday morning. Mr. Higgins, on learning that his house had been burglarized, immediately took up the trail. He found that one person had done the stealing, as was shown by the footprints under the window.

On following these footprints to the alley he found that they were joined by -other footprints, and he came to the conclusion that one man did the stealing, while an other remained on guard. From the alley the footprints were lost in the mud. Mr. Higgins says that his wife was about to pay a bill on Kansas avenue, and took out the money, but the person not being able to give a receipt, the bill was not paid, and the money was restored to the hand bag. He thinks this action on the part of his wife must have been noticed, which led to the burglary.

AX EXTINDED TOUR. Congressional Investigation of BlAtters Pertaining to tn Indiana. Hon. Thos. Ryan, and Hon J.

Cannon, members of the house commit tee to investigate Indian affairs, and especially expenditures and Indian schools, passed through the city on Sunday afternoon, on their way east. Hon. W. S. Holman, of Indiana, and Hon.

S. W. Peel, of Arkansas, also of the same committee, passed through Kansas, yesterday, by way of Halstead ana me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to mae men free. "There is an anthem that swallows up in moral grandeur all the songs of patri otic purport from Miriam time till no r. it marks the climax of human devotion 'Perhaps for a good man some would even dare to is the extreme limit of the apostle's idea of merely human self- sacrifice.

But out of that sweltering, fetid prison-pen into the silent nig at came the excellent chorus of hundreds who stood in the very presence of a lingering and terrible death. 'As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men freel' THE OUTLOOK FOR CLEVELAND. The next few months will be an anxious time for Mr. Cleveland. They will almost certainly decide the fate of his administration.

He does not know yet whether he is to ha his party at his back or at his throat. He cannot tell how the elections are going that will prove to him the state of democratic feeling. State conventions have recently been held in Ohio, Mississippi and Virginia, and the three platforms have fervidly approved his course, so far He is politician enough to know that they would probably have been equally arm in their commendation no matter what his course might have been. It is the ballot box that will speak the truth. Elections are to be held this fall in the three states named, and in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The vote in all will have some bearing as a judgment upon the administration; but the chief interest will center upon the results in New York, Ohio and Virginia. If any of these states shall be captured by the republicans, and especially New York, Mr. Cleveland will have reason to feel that he is close to a political Point Reyes. Democratic congressmen are waiting as eagerly as himself for the verdict of the people. Even if it should be favorable there are plenty of reasons for anticipating trouble between the house and the president.

Should it be averse, something very like anarchy would reign in the democratic, party for a time. Every politician in the house who has been disappointed at the appointments made by the president, or by his failure to make appointments, would find courage to become hostile, being persuaded that popularity lay that way. Only a strong indorsement at the polls of Cleveland's policy can save him from the outbreak of the rancor of, chagrined congressmen, whose impoit-ance at home he has diminished by demonstrating their want of influence to command offices for their friends. In proportion to the average congressman's influence in this direction is usually his chance of securing a renomination. But even under the best conditions that may be hoped for, the president can scarcely expect to have a placid time of it when congress assembles.

lhe democratic majority is divided on the tariff and silver questions. As to the former, Mr. Cleveland has not yet pronounced his views, and as to the latter he has taken a stand'which places him at variance with a large proportion of the from the west and south. COOL IMPUDENCE OF KANSAS CITY The Kansas City Journal says editori ally that the Kansas railroad commissioners appreciate the fact that thfi Frisco road is discriminating against Kansas City, and that the commissioners are equal to the occasion. 1 Jala we suppose oy that is meant tnat the Frisco will not be permitted to work for its own interests by building up Wichita and other towns along its line, but that the commissioners will regulate said road in the interests of Kansas City.

The Eagle takes pleasure in reminding all hands that after the next apportionment Central and Western Kansas will run this state, that Central and Western Kansas want railroads above all things independent trunk lines and that any town or combination of men in Kansas or Missouri who oppose this laudable desire will hear something drop. Wichita Eagle. This is not the first time that we have t- i ii seen in ana copied sruara irom tie Esgle, which go to show that the western part of the state will hereafter operate with the east in many things which will build up the state. Heretofore it has been the west which has insisted upon railroad legislation, which, if adopted, would have been suicidal to the best interesta of the whole state. It has been the west which has howled loud est, longest and incessantly about "monopoly," the greed of the capitalists, eta, etc.

The legislation urged, would, if it had been adopted, prevented the building of roads in that part of the state. If the west had had its way there would hare been no Wichita, no Kingman, no Anthony, no Harper, and the New-tons, Great Bends, McPhersona and other towns which might be named, would have been but little hamlets instead of the commercial centers they BATTLE HYLN OF THE REPUBLIC. JULIA. WARD HOWE, IM THE XTL.VVTIC MONTHLY1- OF FEBRUARY, Iv62. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of toe Lord; He is trampling out the vlntaga where thi grapes of wrath are stored; He hata loosed tne tatetul lightning of His terrible swif i sword; His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-flres of a mdred clrcliog camps They have buildad Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can real His righteous sentence by thedim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on. I have real a fierv gospel writ in burnished vowj of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my gi ace shall rieal; Let the Hero, born oi woman, crush the serpsnt with hU heel, Since God is marching on." He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is (dfttnir out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer im! be jubilant, my feet; Our God is marching ou. In the beauties of the lilies Christ was born across the saa, With a glorv in his bosom that transfigures you As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. The State Historical Society has received into its library the volumes of the Western Journal and Civilian, from January, 1840, to March, 1854. This was a monthly magazine published at St.

Louis, and devoted to the interests of the West its commerce, manufactures, education, internal improvements and general development. The publication was ably conducted, and these volumes contain a large fund of materials of the history of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys, and of the country westward, during the five years immediately preceding the opening of Kansas Territory to settlement. The history of the initial steps toward the construction of the Pacific and Santa Fe railroads is exhibited in great detail. The same is true as to the early explorations, the fur trade, mineral discoveries and overland emigration and commerce. Chicago Journal: A leading Georgia newspaper thinks that, while Southern literature has gained something in soza directions since the war, it has lost fully as much in other directions, and it re -fers to such writers of the old south a William GHmore Sims, George D.

Pren tice and Eigar A. Poe, as illustrations of the fact. This writer is "all off." The best writers who ever resided at the south, and who were credited to the south, were of Yankee origin. There never was a southern literateur who was entitled to respect. Southern writers of pure blood were gashy, sloppy, tropical, inflated and unnatural.

No purely southern author has ever furnished a valuable contribution tr the permanen standard literature of the country. The Los Angeles Tirrns says: 'A nat ural bridge has been discovered on the line of the Atlantic Pacific railroad twenty miles north of the point where that road crosses the boundary line between New Mexico and Arizona, which is more wonderful than the natural bridge of Virginia. The bridge spans a canon twenty-five to forty feet deep; is sixty-five feet in length, and fifteen feet wide at its narrowest point." Me. Ecgexe Hiqgixs, of the treasury department, is in favor of civil service reform, but against its enforcement. At least that ia his attitude as concerns the present law.

It is quite possible to imagine, if an enactment were passed to reform the civil service by turning out all the offensive partisans of the other side and turning in all the oflHnsive partisans of Mr. Higgins' stripe, that he could beat the record enforcing it. Attention, 3d Dir. 17, A. C.

Comrades of the 3d Division 17th A. will find a tent over which the old 3d Division flag will float at the coming grand reunion. Every comrade who soldiered in that grand old division, under Logan, Leggett, Force and others, is urged to come, register and renew old comradeship. J. C.

Douglass, Formerly A. A. G. 3d Ply. 17, A.

A dispatch in yesterday's Commonwealth stated that Tom Hughes, postmaster at Albuquerque, N. had been arrested for a shortage of $1,200 in, his accounts. Mr. Hughes formerly published the News at Marysville, Kan. He is a brother of Chastine Hughes, who is in the Shawnee City jail on a charge of bigamy.

Old KUble. Twelve years have demonstrated that If you have good security and a good title you can get a loan on your property quicker, cheaper and with less fuss, of the Kansas Loan and Trust company, Tepeka, than of any man, firm or institution in Kansas or Missouri. Try it..