The Topeka Daily Capital from Topeka, Kansas • Page 5

fHE TOPEKA CAPITAL: FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1888. A PRAIRIE PARADISE of the injurious restrictions of "labor as a commodity which must be sold," and put The BoetU-tifi: I 'Pri UJ.II JCDn ways, but unhappily in this case, it is found that it works badly in both ways. Barring this seventh day instead of first day Sunday, the praise of these people is in the month of every citizen. Their word is as good as another man's bond. They are mono, industrious, honest, painstaking, generous, broad minded, intelligent and public spirited.

These are the double- Offer Good Bargains in Lots in ETT3 Oakland, Seabrook, Wright's Potvin Place, Waverly Place, La Fayelte Place, Which we had Monday morning necessitated postponement of the auction at 0) and all Parts of the City. Houses and Homes of Every Class, Bartholomew The Beautiful Forest-Grown Tract Just Put on tiio Market 111 By the Sixth Street Horse Car Line, to be extended through Auburndale to the Asylum at an Early Day, water services for the first time on a level with other commodities, and finally it has made the laborer a man. From a state of ignorance, degra-dration and vice, trade unions have helped to raise the wage worker to a state of comparative intelligence and respectability, i rom a ue- mg. servile, hobelesa aud discontented, they have made a man, more self-reliant, more hopeful and more contented a freer and more ambitious citizen, more conscious of his rights and more eager to assert them. They have raised the standard of life and efficiency of the whole "Fourth Estate." Sucli an influence and such results are of the highest economic importance.

They are beneficial not to the laboring class alone, but through the new vigor which they infuse into productive industry to the whole community. The trade unions, to which they are due, have become a regulating power in our industrial system. They fill a place which must be filled: aud until some stronger and better power shall supplant them, their existence will be necessary and is assured. The master's oration was de'ivered by Miss Mina Elizabeth Marvin of the class of '81. Her subject was "A Study in French Literature." Miss Marvin is a thorough student of literature, and her address was a fine production.

PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS. Chancellor Lippincott made an appropriate address to the graduates, and then presented diplomas to twenty-three graduates in the Scientific and Literary department, eleven in Law, thirteen in Pharmacy and two In Music, as follows: Science, Literature and Arts W. S. Allen, Concordia; Fred H. Bowersock, Lawrence; Win.

H. Brown, Polk City, Annis F. Chaffee, Lawrence; Adelia May Churchill, Lawrence; W. R. Cone.

Burlington; F. G. Crowell, Atchison; Austin C. Cunkle, Madison; T. F.

Doran. Council Grove: Edward C. Frank liD, Severance; Paul Goddard. Sedtrwick City; Josephine Gumore, Endora; John M. Hai- ligan, Erhngham; Wm.

E. Higgins, Rich Hill, Mo. Gertrude O. Hunmcutt Lawrence: c. Keyes, Sterling; Owen C.

New lork; John A. Prescott, Topeka; Wm. l. Reed, Newton; Joseph Rolston, Pottawato mie; Frank J. Savasre.

Wakarusa: Clarence E. Springer, Lawrence; Clara A. Wilson, Car- thaee. Mo. Law department Alfred Fidler, Wmfield; Solon T.

Gilmore, Eudora: Chas. E. Harbaugh, Erie; Win. A. Jackson, Atchison; lien Jacobs, Lawrence; Sterling P.

King, Augusta; David E. Palmer, Sabetha. Howard A. Peairs, Hesper; Emery Scott Rice, South Center; John w. Roberts, Wichita: William S.

Wolley, to poria. Music Department Miss Bertha Nellie At- wood, Manhattan; Miss Alice II. Ropes, Topeka. Pharmacy department Frank L. Abbey, Newton; Wm.

0. Albach, Lawrence; Wm. P. Brown, Leavenworth; W. E.

Danley, Gardner Herbert H. Herrold. Leavenworth; Ernest Himoe, I-awrence; Geo. McLaren, Minneapo lis; Robert J. McClure.

Lawrence, Ernest R. Rankin, Lawrence; Mary A. Rice, Lawrence; John W. Root. Kansas City: Chas.

is. Spencer, Lawrence; Arthur E. Topping, Sedgwick; Geo. 1. Weida, Lawrence.

Chancellor Lippincott conferred the degree of Master of Science upon Prof. L. L. Dyche of the university aud Chas. F.

Scott of Iola, and the degree of Master of Arts upon Miss Mina Elizabeth Marvin of Lawrence and Henri Nickel of Newton. Chancellor Lippincott then declared the collegiate year '87-88 closed, and the audience were dismissed. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. Judge N. C.

McFarland of Topeka attended the commencement exercises. Prof. L. D. Aldrich of the musical department, has accepted a position for the coming year in the Boston conservatory or music.

Mrs. Judge Prescott of Topeka, attended the commencement exercises aud saw her Bon, Mr. Prescott, graduate with high honors. B. K.

Bruce of Leavenworth, a nephew of ex-Senator B. K. Bruce, and the enly colored gentleman who has graduated from the uni versity, was at the exercises. At a meeting of the Alumni association held yesterday it was decided to raise a fund of by subscription among the members, the income from which amount is to be used for past graduate scholarships for graduates of the university who desire to take a higher course. Of the 23 graduades from the classical and scientific department, 20 are republicans, 6 are natives of Kansas, 2 are natives of Iowa, 2 are natives of Missouri, two are natives of Ohio, 1 is a native of Indiana, 2 are natives of Pennsyl vania, is a native or iNew Hampshire, 1 is a native of Massachusetts and 1 is a native of New York.

The University Courier this week says: A. Prescott of Topeka, who graduates this week, was born in New Hampshire in October, He was graduated from the To peka high school in the spring of '84, and was one of six selected by the high school faculty from a class of twenty-six to appear on commencement day. He entered the university in the fall of the same year, and has taken the classical course. In lbSti he wTas chosen by the faculty to represent ins class on Washington's birth day, and has been selected by the same body to take part in the commencement day exer cises. In scholarship he leads his class.

He is the editor-in-chief of the Courier, aud presi dent of the Oratorical association. Ho will accept a situation iu an investment company in Topeka; is one of the twenty republicans of the class of '88, and intends to take a post graduate course." "Esther the Gentile," by Mrs. Hudson, in book form, beautifully printed and linely bound, is for sale by all book sellers. Price, $1 per copy. Buy gasoline of Cooke Fuel company.

Swift Holliday, prescription drug gists, oil Kansas avenue. Chicago Lumber Third and Jack son. We are headquarters for Ash Grove Lirce. Chicago Lumber Co. The Songs of Sion.

Music among those who were styled the chosen people was a religious art. The songs of Sion, which we have reason to believe were in hijrb repute among the courts of the east ern saenarchs, are not to be compared with the pleasure you will experience in listening to Marshall's Military band at Auburndale to night. Buy Your Tickets To the National Republican convention to be held in Chicago on the 19th inst, via the Great Rock Island Route, the best managed and equipped road in America. Tickets for this occasion are now for sale at one fare the round trip. lou can go or return via Kansas City or Council Bluffs at same rate.

The Fast Limited saves five hours between Kansas City, Atchison or St. Joseph and Chicago. Palace sleepers, reclining chair cars seats free and dining cars. Between Coun cil Bluffs (Omaha) and Chicago, the Great Rock Island is the only line that runs fast limited vestibule express trains of palace parlor cars daily each way the finest in the world through in sixteen hours. Superb lavatory, sleeping and dining accommodations.

The vestibules are gorgeously furnished "homes on wheels." Nothing like them, Who will be the choice or the republican convention no one knows. But every one knows that the Great Rock Island is the choice of the traveling public For tickets and rates call on any railway coupon ticket asrent, or address E. A. Hol- brook, general ticket and passenger agent R. Jt P.

Chicago, IiL Free and Equal. The constitution of the United States de clares that all men are born free and equal The street cars to Auburndale are free and equal suffnure rights supreme. The ladies are as welcome at Auburndale as the pretty songsters that occupy the broad branches of the oak and Cottonwood there. Cincinnati and Return by the Santa Fe ONLY. 9.50.

Yesterday afternoon, ahead of all competi tors, the Santa Fe cut the Cincinnati rate to for the round trip from Topeka. Call on Rowley agents. Special Announcement. I will close out my entire stock of groceries and fixtures at coat for cash. 835 Kansas av enue.

G. CO RES. F.D. Place, prescription druggist, 622 Kan. av THE MAINS OP THE PRETTY HAMLET OP NORTON- TILLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY.

A Town of Superb Environments Rich Sources of Prosperity Farms and their Products, Stores and their Contents-Cheese An Arcadian Scene Abounding in Content and Plenty. Special Correspondence of the Capital. Nortonville, June 6. Last night, were there any hills here, they would have echoed the sweet sounds of music. The brass band was out, Once aroused by it and then lulled to sleep again, I was once more awakened and the sounds were, so melodious and the harmony so perfect, that my thought was pregnant with the belief, for awhile, that I was listening to strains from Marshall's Military band of Topeka.

The young men of the band were out serenading Prof. Fertig, super intendent of the public schools here, and he was thus honored because school had just closed for the season with what the French call eclat, or in plain English: A large and enthusiastic audience witnessed the closing ex ercises which were a pronounced success. The band played superbly, aud speaking of the serenade today to Prof. T. H.

Fertig, he talked quite enthusiastically of the musical talent of his school and the community, there being many fine instrumental performers and some vocalists whose voices have the rare excellence of range combined with melody. TUB HIGH SCHOOL. Speaking of his high school, the professor said it had greatly prospered this year. There was an enrollment or oO pupils, and the at tendance had been 90 per cent, of the enrollment As said the exhibi tlon is nust passed, aud It was the first commencement of the high school, seven young men and women having been given diplomas, printed or engraved in good plain English, setting forth their acquire ments, lhe boys and "the sweet girl gradu ates," acquitted themselves so much to the satisfaction of parents, that the school under its present management is much popularized. lhe huilding is a cemmodious two story, six room edifice, and with the $1,200 addition put up this year meets all the requirements, a9 does the curriculum, or it would, says the pro fessor, It the school were better provided with apparatus.

baying so much of the school, it cau be casually wntten that the pay or prin cipal and Tour assistants, is not princely but it comes promptly tor the school district tax on a property valuation or $150,000 suffices all the costs of teaching the young idea of Norton- vine how to shoot. NORTONVILLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY. And Nortonville it is a pretty prairie ham let in the northwest coruer or etierson coun ty. There is but one railroad here, the Santa Fe, and it traverses the town over a plateau. ana irom mat ruige the town dreops away on either side by the track.

The business part aud the greatest part of the town is on the south side of the track, and it hugs and climbs up the gentle slopes of a valley, whose bottom is the Mam street or the prosperous little place. Ihere can be no exaggeration about it, when in reply it is answered: "We number about 600 people." AN ARCADIAN SCENE. And seemingly they are a prosperous people and there is the peace or Arcadia about the scene, enlivened as was that hamlet of history idealized by fiction, by the industry of farmer, thritty shopman ami tradesman, The houses looked the pink of propriety, ensconced among trees and surrounded by bedB of fragrant flowers or embowered in the 6hade of trees which as well abound with fruit in their season. Despite the fact that Nortonville has several neighbors to compete for the trade of the contiguous country, there is enough business transacted in the place to put every citizen in possession of a house of his own, with a goodly number whose checks are good lor and more. A PASTORAL SCENE.

The farmer is the main-stay of the town and casting one's eyes around the horizon it looks as if the people of Nortonville were wise in their generation. The surrounding country is simply a superb agricultural dis trict, corn, wheat, oats and nax seed are raised in great abundance, and with live stock, are the commodities shipped by the car load, day atter day, over the one road, the Santa Fe, to eastern markets. To be a little bit exact and to get down to being a George Washington in mathematics, the figures truthfully tell: One firm, Murphy Jc King, alone, shipped last year 30,000 bushels of corn; 10,000 bushels or wheat; 30,000 or flax seed and 90,000 of oats. Last year, too, it must be remembered was an off year. Drought decreased the farmers' yield and made store keepers feel, at times, that life was not woith living, aud with the foregoing as an example, it can readily be assured that Nortonville, even in the worst season can rather lay claim to being a good, neighborly place to the iaruiers.

Carrying an average stock or goods amounting to Jtsio.ooo, Mur phy king sales for the year footed up to $30,000, to which may be added real estate dickers running up to $5,000, THE TOWN'S BUSINESS. And were I to transcribe any part of "the directory" of the city, or town here, I would say: There are two banks, three dry goods and grocery stores, with the injunction staring you in the race ou entering them, "it you don't see what you want, ask for it," two pro vision stores, two bakeries, two livery stables, two elevators, one grist mill, two blacksmith shops, one hotel, two hardware and agricul tural implement stores, one harness shop, two millinery stores where the ladies get their bonnets to attend the four churches and one cheese factory. THE CHEESE FACTORY. And I am going to "cheese it" right here, but in a different sense from that in which the term is generally applied. Ihere is a cheese factory here and you'll hear of it as soon as you get off the cars it is the latest thing out; and it stands out on a hill near town and is still a source of wonder and pride.

though it has been in operation for two months, lhe success of the enterprise has usurped all other talk about it Mr. o. w. Habeock and ten other citizens conceived the idea, and securing the services of C. B.

Merry, an experienced cheesemaker of New York, built their idea into a two-story house with the capacity of using up 10,000 pounds of milk daily. The result has been to give the farmers a market for their milk. They pour it into the cheese factory on the cooperative plan, and get cheese in return which sells for 10 cents a pound, when the butter they used to make sold for 8 to 10 cents per pound. Moreover 100 pounds ox miiK mates nine to ten pounds of cheese, while only three pounds of butter was extracted out of the same fluid weight There is no reason why the rsortonvnliaus (no reflection intenaea, they are the right sort) should "cheese" their nrrnt limit thu rhsoca fartAir. When this month it is expected to make a of 70 per cent SEVENTH DAT BAPTISTS.

The business part of the town Is bunched up near the railroad depot and the residence part is scattered big yards being the proverbial feature. as if land was worth nothing. But it Is, and it is very remunerative to industry. And this calls to mind that there is a colony near town noted for its industry, and consequent ly the biggest sort of vields from the farms. They are the Seventh Day Baptists.

They are the best farmers who contribute to the thrift and prosperity of Nortonville, and some of the leading men of thtt town belong to the sect Among them are U. W. Babcock, banker; Griffin A Son. a large and wealthy mercantile nrm; Lr. Maxon aud others, ineir aisuncuve characteristic is the observance of the seventh day, Saturday, as the Sabbath, and not the hrst day or the week, Sunday, lhey sncx to their observance of Saturday and non-observance of Sunday with more orthodoxy than the Jew.

Griffin fc Co. close on Saturday, though their neighbors do their liveliest sell ing ou that day. lhey keep open on runaay, however. And just here comes in a moral protect from those who do not believe as the seventh Day people do. They say.

max the Sunday opening gives a loafing place for those indisposed to go to church, while the other stores being open on Saturday tempt the young people of the Baptists to forget their Sabbatiu There Is a demonstration of the fact that it is a poor rule that will not work both I THE TOPEKA WATER SUPPLY COMPAITY barrelled adjectives fired off about them. KABT A JOINT. But when It comes to fearing any evil effects from two Sundays In this community let me ask if we can have too much of a good thing. But joking apart, a man might get bitten by a rattlesnake here, and there wouia be no possibility of his getting drunk. He might die, but he could not get drunk.

There are two drug stores here, but they do not sell liquor for even mechanical purposes, and there is not a United States revenue license to eell liquor in the (own. There are 600 people, four churches and two Sundays every week. Nortonville, to be sure is on the Santa Fe, but have never heard that Paradise was one of its stations. It would appear, however, that Paradise ought to be reached via Nortonville. It may be when the new railroad gets here the Chicago, Kansas Arkansas.

The survey has been made from St Joseph, through and beyond Nortonville. A BUSY MAN. The Poo-Bab of Nortonville is J. B. Brown.

He is mayor, sustice of the peace, notary pub-lie, postmaster, real estate dealer and bookkeeper for W. L. Layson who is a sort of a marvel himself in having built up a stupendous lumber business here. It is a good thing for any community to have a Poo-Bah, especially when he is a good one, implicitly trusted and desernngly popular as is Mr. ilrown.

It requires a hustler and a puo-lic spirited man to be all Mr. Brown is and to the satisfaction of the community. Mr. Brown is a democrat to his discredit be it written but to his credit be it said, a republican com munity electeu him and he is a heap surer or a re-election than is Grover Cleveland. Speaking above of W.

L. Layson. it can be said he has worked up a lumber trade that is simply immense and astonishing, when it is remembered that his headquarters are in this small village, and when it Is related for a fact that he 6ells lumber to Topeka and all points on the Santa Fe and Union Pacific, and at figures lower than than the same kind of lumber can be bought in Kansas City, St Louis, or even Chicago. "How do you manage it?" was asiced him. "My secret, and I can say that in one year I sold 400 car loads of lumber to Topeka firms, I am establishing a branch yard there.

I have bought residence property there also, but I am not going to leave here myself. Nortonville will remain my headquarters. There isn't a day passes that I do not ship at least one car of lumber from the yard here and I send two to Lawrence today," and, laughingly, "by the way of To peka." Mr. Layson's success is one of the boasted mysteries of Nortonville, and he is the richest man here. The folks here are conservative iu their estimates.

They say the town num bers not more than 600 people and that Mr. Layson is worth all of $100,000. BUSINESS HOUSES ETC, A strong firm is that of Campbell Perry. They have got everything you want in their store, are bankers and live stock ineu. They shipped 2' K) car loads of live stock during last year.

John Stauuich Is another live stock man; soisO. W. Babcock of the Nortonville bank. Cattle and hogs, and the best kind, are raised and shipped, and there are more horse fanciers in and around Nortonville than any town of its 6ize in the United States outside of Kentucky. Mr.

F. K. Dorr is one of the owners of fine horses. He is a thorough horseman in the sense of dealing in nothing but the best, fie puts Kentucky thoroughbreds to his livery buggies and carriages, Aud just here I want to subscribe my obliga tions to Mr. Dorr, his wile and daughter, Mrs, C.

M. Walbridgeof Kansas City, who with her bright little daughter Emma are summering at "grandpa's." They entertained your cor respondent with generous hospitality and put him on the road to finding out all worth knowing in this good and interesting little community. Permit the Interruption there Is but one ho tel here, and Mayor Brown, postmaster, no tary pupiic, justice or the peace, runs it serviceably to the public. C. C.

McCarthy Co. own a vis store and sell grain and stock. in fact 1 can say truly, the merchants of Nortonville are an enterprising and industrious lot KOBTONVILLE POLITICS. Through Mr. R.

A. Wright of the News. I was put in the way or catching on tn rtnlitica. if- view. We are republicans of the straight-out kind hnro no irl Ia I 'Blaine republicans?" "Just so.

But if we can't cret him. we want toe man wno can peat Cleveland. We can ge him, too." "The delegation from this eounty has been Instructed for Captain Johnson. He used to live in the county. I hear Smith very much ana ravoraoiy laixea or." 'When the break comes, to whom will the delegation go?" can't tell.

It will scatter, but I do not believe any will go to Anthony. He was up nere a snort time ago, ami he did not Impress us ravorably. We are quite anxious to have a visit from I-armer Smith, ha they call him." Mr. Murphy, Interrupting "Smith is the man for me, and I believe he will get there." Mr. King speaks advisedly he was a dele gate to the county convention, also to the congressional convention, and is traveling much over the country.

He reports the rural districts strongly iu favor of Smith, and thinks When "tne Dreax comes in the convention. popular sentiment may influence the Jefferson county delegation to go for Smith. THE CHUBCHES ETC. Among others to whom I am Indebted Is the Rev. W.

L. Garges, or tha united Presbyterian church. He reports a wholesome, moral atmosphere, healthful and successful work in the vineyard, and Is Just as hopeful about his harvest as the farmers are about their's and they are buoyant, though there is a demand for rain, though suffering does not as yet menace. BECAPrrULATION. If I have left anything unsaid of this little community it is that there are more stores than have leen mentioned, that Messrs.

Stan- dish, Joel Portis, Samuel Portis, Frauk Bates, Mr. Murphy, A. W. Babcock and others have splendid homes, that the country invites im migration, tne town new settlers with the promise oi promaoie remuneration, un good farming land about it splendid school facilities and church opportunities, a brass band and two SundayB per week, on which to have sacred concerts, a la Marshall's military band at Garfield park, there is no reason why thft next fourteen rears of Nortonville's exis tence should not see it populated by 2,400 in habitants with four cheese factories to be the topics of general conversation. "Cap." Great Excitement.

23 per cent discount today only In millinery at Mrs. L. Metcairs, btXi Kansas avenue, Don't forget that on today Friday you get 1 off from regular former prices, and goods marked in figures. Reduced Rates to Chicago. The K.

N. (Rock Island route) ritled to credit for reducing the rate Chicago convention to 1 cent per mile. I his popular nne has neen unanimously se lected by the celebrated Topeka Republican Flambeau club as the onxcial route to Chicago. They will be provided with chair cars, seats free, and splendid PuLman sleepers. The numerous friends of the old reliable or ganization are invited to lorn them in their pilgrimage to Chicago, A special train will leave the Rock Island depot on Sunday evening, Jane 16 and run through solid to Chicago.

Free seats in chair cars and berths in Pullmaa sleepers can be se cured at the city ticket office, tiol Kansas ave nue. Call early and secure what you want. T. J. AXDEKSOS, G.

A. P. S. Cincinnati and return, y.5u; Wichi ta and return, 36.16. Topeka Creamery Batter.

Extra fancy hi purity, flavor and quality. Once used, you will have no other. Delivered anywhere in the city at 2f) cents er pound. order by postal card, box or telephone No. All the newsboys In the city are wanted to sell the Souvenir Lature tomorrow morning.

Only by the Santa Fe, Topeka Cin cinnati and return. I ss I John Norton's Brigham's Addition. Brigham Rice John Norton's 2d Jenkin V. Morris Add Lowman Hill, (B. Co.

Avenue. T0 You Want IF YOtJ WANT ONE, BUY A GOOD ONE. VICTORS ARE GOOD. WHY? Because they are ALL STEEL; all Forged all Right. They have tan gent spokes, hollow rims, com pressed tires guaranteed to' stay on, Bown ball bearings, and they say they coast.

TAKE NO OTHER. llfm. Taylor, 417 Kansas Avenue. S. If you have a Wheel you want to or trade for a VICTOR, just drop in.

eell system of education, established main tained and controlled by the state." "Scepticism and the Colleges." was the sub ject of an eloquent oration by W. E. Higgins Rich Hill, Mo. Mr. Higgins has had con siderable experience as a speaker, and his ora- non was one oi his Pest euorts.

MR. PRKSCOTT'S ORATION. John A. Prescott of Topeka followed with excellent address on "the economic justifi cation of the organization of labor." Mr. Prescott has a splendid command of the English language, and his oration evinced a great deal of thought.

Mr. Prescott's delivery was admirable, his subject was ably handled, and was accorded the hearty applause of the audience. Mr. Prescott said: "It is for the interest of the community that there should be the greatest possible productiveness of industry. Abundant productive ness depends upon the harmonious co-operation of land, labor and capital, the factors which enter into production, and upon the perfect growth and development of each.

This perfect development can be obtained only wneu each ractor receives the full reward or service its just share of the wealth which helps to create. The condition or institution which tends toward an equitable division the products or industry aids production and benefits mankind. That Which prevents a fair division and assists one factor in obtaining more than its just 6hare, hinders produc tion and is a public evil. The ideal wages are those which will sustain the workingman at his greatest effic iency, and at the same time enable him to support such family as is necessary to maintain the laboring force of the community. The absolute sum corresponding to this ideal varies widely under different social and industrial conditions, but it always closely approaches the total wealth which the laborer actually produces.

When wages fall below this amount he standard of living must be lowered, and the workman's strength and his productive ellicieucy are impaired. When they rise above the employer is deprived of his legitimate profits, capital is weakened, and lalKtr throucrh the weakness of capital again suffers. This, then, is the true wage the only one which employees can really afford to pay the only one which employers can afford to receive. It is not strange, then, that pressed ky competition, and the demand of the community for low prices regardless of quality, and urged by self-interest, the employing class should often force the rate of wages far below the true standard, and continually strive to keep it there. 1 hat the ultimate results of such reductions are disastrous, everyone knows.

How to check the evils of imperfect competition so as to avoid these results, is the economic prob- lem oi xue century, ur the attempts which have been made to solve this problem, that of the workingmen themselves has been the most successful. They have watched the ef-Tects or legislation, and have learned that it can properly have but small functions in the wages question. The only natural safe-guard of their interests Is a 6trong feeling of responsibility, of trusteeship, among their employers. The workingmen have looked long and eagerly for a growth of this feeling: but they have found tliat auy general predominance of it is totally imiossible in the present stage of society. A far more efficient corrective force is needed.

Bitter experience has taught them that they must le the defenders or their own rights; that, it in struggles with employers they act merely as a tumultuous mass of individuals, their cause is hopeless; and that their greatest strength and only chance of success lie In organized effort. To justify fully the organization of labor, it is uow uecessary only to point to the influence which such organization exerts in correcting imperfect couiietition, and to the results this correction has produced. Like the old Grange movement, the labor movement in its present form has its defects; but, though it has not in the past, and may not in the future, accomplish all that it aims to accomplish, though some of its purposes and many of its methods are wrong, its tendency on the whole is right, and its influence is powerful. Organization has given to the workingmen a large increase of control over the labor market, and had enabled them, by temporarily withholding a part of their commodity, to govern to a great extent the relation between supply and demand, and thus to regulate the price and conditions of the sale of their labor. It has increased the freedom of market, and has removed many BICYCL to be Extended to ru i r-j i- ana LG UUen tree The GAS COMPANY by the a re the Corner of "The Drive' will Extend its Mains to LOT AND THEf! BUY IT I Nw.p' uU tkt a play.

preside on the pi at- F1FII it-: of Ice Water ill bo Pro Snap sm P1 a II i'RIIW 11 CiiicM 1 609 Kansas pecialtie: Hammocks, Lawn Chairs, Window Shades, Toys of Bird Cages, Baskets, Woodenware, Baby Carriages all Kinds, AND A VERY LARGE LINE OF FANCY GOODS. 99c Store, Kansas Ave. COMMENCEMENT. Jl grand DAY AT THE VEKSITY. STATE INI- Diploma Presented Forty-Nine Graduates, Representing All Departments of the University Splendid Orations by tlie Graduating Class The Day's Exercises.

Special to the Capital. Lawrence, June 7. The annual commencement of the State University today was the most successful in the history of the Institution. University hall has probably never nan within its walls such a great number of people as gathered there today. The hall was crowded long before the hour for the exerciseslo begin, and by 10 o'clock there was not standing room within the hall.

There were a great many visitors present from other parts of the state, including many prominent Kansans. There were forty-nine graduates in all twenty-three in the Scientific and Literary department, eleven In the Law department, thirteen in the Pharmacy department and two In the Music department. The exercises commenced at 1050 o'clock, Chancellor Lippincott presiding. Alter an overture by the Coates' House orchestra prayer was offered by Dr. J.W.

Alderman of Atchison The first oration was by T. F. Koran of Couu cil Grove, one of the brightest graduates the un iversity has ever had. His subject was "In difference in polities." It was a very thought ful oration, and had the hearty appreciat ion the audience. Mr.

Doran is an eloquent speaker and acquitted himself in a most admirable manner. He said: "As time goes on and our political responsibilities are daily increasing, and the necessity of purity and honesty in polit ical life Incomes daily greater, there seems to le a irrowiug tendency among our people to treat slightingly our most vital iHlitical affairs, and not content with having withdrawn then-own good influence from the politics of our country, the classes which I have mentioned are continually spreading abroad the idea that there is nothing but imnuritv in our politics, that no one can engage in political life, without becoming tainted bv its foul iulluences: that it is lar better for the youth of our country to have nothing to do with srovernment or with poll tics. Instead of teaching loyalty and patriotic devotion to our cvrevriiinent. thev are sowinsr the seeds of its destruction; they are spreading doctrines that will lead the youth of our country to neglect their most sacred political duties. Instead of correctinir our political abuses they are sininl arsrravatiiiir them.

Po litical duty, however, does not demand that every person should become what may be termed a 'tlitical but it does demand that every citizen shall ba an active participant in the tolitics of his own com munity." The next speaker was W. S. Allen of Concordia, who siKke of "Roman Society as de picted by Tacitus." Mr. Allen represented the classical department; the university has probably never turned out a student better jioeted on historical matters and particularly aiicieni nisiory. After a selection by the orchestra.

Miss Adeua May hurchill of Liwrence was intro duced and spoke of "the Theory and place of the State university." Miss Churchill (qvoko clearly and distinctly and was perfectly self-possessed throughout her address. She said: "The American system of public schools is by far the most vitally im-iwrtaut of all the institutions which contribute to the higher welfare of the people. There can no longer le any questiuu that the state may provide common schools, eve.u compel lier children to attend them, nor can it be doubted that she has the right to impose the burden of taxation on her citizens for the sup- Xort or tins or any university. The State University forms a legitimate part of the American public school system. The lower schools are dependent upon it, the higher school presupposes it, and in a measure pre pares for it Alius we nave a complete BURS 111 do of an he its it of it, the same point, from whence they can be extended as the building warrants.

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