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THE IEAYEXWOIiTn TIMES SUNDAY MOTCOTNGAUGUST 21; 1881, donia, and Galesburg is made the county THE OPERA SINGERS. ALONG THE ROAD.1 A GAY DECEIVER. PROHIBITION IN KANSAS. it is simply impossible to induce a single emigrant to come hither on account of the prohibition law. Tens of thou-ands of German and Swiss emigrants who previous to the of the law had decided to come to Kansas, changed their purftose just as soon as tney heard of its passage, and went to other states, some to Nebraska, some to Arkansas and others to Missouri.

They regard the prohibition law of Kansas asan unwarrantable encroachment on the rights of a free people. They hold that the principle involved in it is fraught with great danger, and that a commonwealth which has so ar invaded the sacred precincts of personal right and liberty as to place such a law on its statute book, can offer no security against stili other and mo-e serious encroachments on the rights and liberties of its citizens. They reason well. They express my own sentiments exactly. But it is not alone by stopping immigration into the state that the prohibition law is making havoc of the growth and prosperity of Kansas.

It has started a tide of emigration from the state. seat, our part of the county will be one that we can be proud of." CHANUTE. Chanute, August 14 Chanute, sixteen miles north of Thayer, is a grow ing little of about 1,500 inhabitant, which is no small number in the coui ty population of 10,000. It is the second city in the county, Osage Mission being the largest. The coun surrounding Chanute is somewhat better than that around Thayer, yet the corn suffered severely from the effects of dry weather.

Merchants are discouraged at the prospect from a local stand point, and Mr. Bailey, the banker of the town, said he looked for a time when mon will be more or less affected by the bad condition of the fields. He said no per ceptible feeling had been noticed yet but looked for it soon. Business, on account of the extremely hot weather, has been almost at a stand still forsevera! days except the putting up of new ouildings. 1'he town has recently built a school edi at a cost of Among the new-houses erected or began in the last six months a owned by the following parties: M.

Bailey, bank building. M. Bailev. residence, Mrs. Brooks.busi- ness building, Lindell Hotel, stone addition, F.

Free wood, stone busi ness houe, Mr. Cross.stone business house, $5 000. The Kansas City, Lawrence Southern, and the M. K. T.

roads through Chanute, giving it a trade outlet in two directions. There are two news papers published in the city the Democrat B. F. Bowen, and the Times A. L.

Rtvers. I here are in town nine grocery stores live dry goods store, two furniture stores. three hardware stores, one jewelry store, bask, one implement store, three livery stables, three drug stores, two harness shops, two butcher shops, two billiard saloons, two mills, two elevators. two carriage shops, three millinery stores and five hotels, one of which is the Sher man house, kept by Mr. Tomlinson with charming daughter.

Miss Nettie, clerk. This house is very popular with commercial travelers who nearly all stop there when town. Chanute has three churches, namely. Catholic Father Kearfull, rector: Methodist Rev. r.

Scott, rector; Presby terian Hev. Mr. rector. Quite a number of new residences have been erected here during the year and many more are in contemplation. Perry.

Madame lllauc'g Millions, It is now announced that the late Madame Marie Blanc, of Monaco, left in the hands her bankers a no smaller sum than up ward of 100.000,000 francs in hard cash. Her other property, which, with the cash. to be equally divided among her three children, consists of the Casino of Monte Carlo, lrt-r former mansion and grounds there, the grand hotel de Paris in Monaco, the thermal establishment at Brides le Bains, in the Savoy, which she purchased four years ago for 500,000 francs, near which she had erected the strange medley of church, a casino and a school; the chateau Eruienonsville, rendered celebrated by Jean Jacques Rousseau, and some pottery and perfumery manufactories in Monaco, where, pious soul, she was wont to have employed all those who had lost their all her green baize tables that is, if they were willing to work. Besides ait this property, Madame Blanc departed this life the happy possessor of pa. at mi residence on ttie line de lCivoli, in the French capital, the interior equii nients of which were not to be equaled by those of any mansion, even sumptuous and luxurious Paris.

The crpet of her uedroom a'one cost 100,000 francs, while another attraction in that chamber was bust of the worthy dame herself, executed by Cordier at a stupendous expense. Mine. anc's hous 'hold of late consisted of th' three governessesof youngest daughter, the newly fledged Princess Roland Bona parte, whom, with that greatness of soul peculiar to her, she could never make up her miii to dismiss. They are a French, an English and a German lady respectively, and were in every way treated as Mine. Blanc own family.

Another prominent personage in the household was the youthful Pi i nee Radziwill, aged four years, and eldest child of Mine. Blanc's eldest daughter, now the Princess R.nlziwil, sec-undus. To enumerate the attendants and domestics would be far too tedious, for their names ire legion. Madame Blanc breakfasted regularlv af 3 o'clock p. and and dmi-d at o'clock p.

and was in the habit of complaining that her repasts were almost invariably interrupted, and her digestion consequently impaired, by persons applying to her to save them from the rum thev had brought upon them selves at Monte Carlo. It was an attack of diabetes which carried this hybrid saint and sinwr to her loi home. A French paper, one of the many not wholly indifferent to thecharnis of Mine. Blanc's goid informs the world that the malady was induced by the shaking of the cars, during the deceased lady's journey to Montiers, near IVris, where she was going to pass the heated season with tine friends. Her remains were embalmed, taken to Paris, and placed in jtate in a secluded nook of the celebrated some say notorious Church of St.

Roch, where they were watched over by her son, M. Edmond Blanc, and bis two sisters. But they have now been laid by the side of those of the defunct M. Blanc in the cemetery of Pere La Chaise. And thus closes thecareer of a couple who were on of the most extraordinary combinations of sin and sanctimoniousness, of principle and unscruplous ness, of liberality and meanness, the world has ever beheld.

But if charity will cover a multitude of sins, those of M. and Mine. Blanc are forever out of sight to the majority, at least. For their sakes it is to be hoped that the fortunes they so lavishly bestowed on charitable objects will go a long way toward atoning for the many ruined homes, broken hearts, and suicides' graves, of which the Casino of Monte Carlo has been the cause. Conaiderable Kxcitement Among the Pot-tinvatoruies, Ilolton gu il.

During the past week there has been a great deal of excitement among the Pottawatomie Indians, near this city, over the presence in their midst of what are sup-nosed to be a number -of wild Indians of some other tribe, who, it is thought, are bent on some devilment probably mur der or robbery, or both. Just why the Fottawatouiies should be so excited is hard to conjecture. It is thought that perhaps some of their young men, while ou' on a hunting expedition, may have met and foullv dealt with some member or mem bers of the tribe to which these suspicious Indians belong, and that they are now seeking tha: revenge so dear to the Indian heart. This, however, is merely a suppcsi ion. but is indulged in by some who are well acquainted with the Indians and their recent actions.

Last Thursday evening a white man was brought to this city for examination be fore United States Commissioner Keller, from i he reservation, by Geo. W. James and one of the Pottawatomie chiefs. He gave bis name as Richard Cleveland, and was found skulking around the reserve ana acting in a manner that aioused the suspicions of the I ndians, who at once fell upon the idea that he was a spy in some way connected with the outfit of Indians mentioned above. He was armed to the teeth, having with him a shot gun, a re-vo ver, knife, hatchet and enough amtini-tion to clean out a whol tribe of Indians.

Th examination was held, but as nothing was elicited that could be held as cause for his detention, the comtnis ioner returned to him his iiuplemenU of war and instruction! to go. lost be rey the the as the ot at in of It NEOSHO COUNTY, TOWNS AND CROPS The Effect vt the Dry Weather on the Crops Growth ot Various Towns Talk of Changing the County Seat Kew Kallroad. Thatf.r, Aug. 13. Thayer is a mart Utile town in Neosho county of about GOO inhabitants.

It has three general stores, four grocery stores, three drug stores, one hardware store, three implement stores, one bakery, two mills and one hundred coal banks within a radius of four miles. The town has three churches. The Catholics and Methodists have edifices and the Presbyterian society is preparing to erect a building at a cost of $2,000. The new buildings that have been erected during the past year are by Win Emery, $500; A. Sargent, IH; C.

T. Ewing, $000; L. Pelf. W. Wagner, $st0; B.

Aufiiian, f.SOO; Mr. Lonsbury, S00; Mr. Ryder. t00; Mr. Forest There is a lodge of Masons, one of Odd Fellows and one of Good Temp ars in the town.

The principal sensation now in Thayer, is jusi where tr. have the county seat located, so that it will he more con venient than at Erie, which is now the Capital of Neosho county. Some want moved to Chanute, hut it seems as if the majority in the county would prefer to have it still more centrally located and Galesburg. a little town eight miles from Thayer has been named aud will probably be the spot selected incaseau east and west road from Girard is built through the countjy. This road will be built no doubt in the future, but at what time, is not even guessed at.

The Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern road running north and South places Thaver and Chanute in easy reach -of markets. The town of Thayer is unusually quiet it being the dull season in cool mornings. The dry hot winds have so badly damaged the corn crop that farmers do not look for even a full crop. I). J.

W. Crees who has been in the country thirteen years, says he had never seen such continued dry weather since he has been in the state or such damage done bv the hot-winds, lie thinks there is a strip of about thirty miles wide running east and west, throu Wilson. Crawford and Elk counties, where the hot wave has been most severe on the crops. L)r. Crees said that the prospects in the spring for fine crops were never bet ter since he had lieen in the county, and that every resident was jubilant until the etlects of the dry weather began to be ap parent about live weeks ago.

There had been no rain for six weeks, and the con tinual blowing of dry hot winds had discouraged every one to an extent that bordered on despare "A rain now" he said "would do very little good as the crops are too far gone, to be benefit ed now. A rain it is true, would cause many people to feel better physically and may he hope that the crops would in some measure be helped, but the latter cannot be helped; the sooner the farmers begin cutting their burnt corn, ttie sooner they will he ready fur their other work for it is no ue to entertain a thought, that it will be better. If it is cut now it may be first rate fodder but that is all. In the lowlands where the corn is not yet hurt the crop will be an average otic, but there are more uplhtid crops than otherwise Our fruit is all ruined und we have scarcely anv vegetables even to put on our tables. In ls.7J we had a dry sped like tM but I do not believe it was as hail as the simoon of this year.

It was felt more of course because there was a small acreage and the settlers had but little means to go on. Now however since we have had several- SEASOJ.3 we are in a much better condition to withstand a set back then we were when we had nothing saved up Our farmers have learned that if we have a light crop the best thing to do is to save any surplus for another year, either by cribbing or selling to some one in the neighborhood, who can with a fair profit sell back to them again in the spring at lower prices than can be obtained else- Our early corn will he good I I might better than the average, hut the percentage planted is small. Our county is well watered and we have considerable timber The principal streams are Chetopa creek. Elk creek and quite a number of similler streams. Our coal facilities are good, but could be better developed." politics.

"The politics of the county," continued the doctor, "is just a little close, but the Republicans have a majority. There is little as yet said about the fall clec ion, both sides seeming to wish a short campaign. The Republican county convention will be held Saturday, September 3." IN GENERAL. Thayer presents a good opening for a firut class very stable when traveling men can obtain conveyances to and from the vari ous towns around about. lhayer is one of the most central town in the county lor such a place.

Neosho county, is the moit thickly settled of any county in the south western portion of the settled part of the state, lins county is, as a usual thing, equal in importance with Labeth county, and as a general thing produces qually tine crops. As it is, the section about Thayer wiL be able possible to produce its proportion of corn even it is on. a half crop. The soil in Neosho county is the kind known as spotted ground, there being now and then a place where grain does not grow to a good advantage The water around Thayer, is generally stood: but in a few places there is a bitter taste in that taken from the wells. This water evaporates very rapidly.

There is usually a la-ge acreage of castor beans in county, but this year the yield is not expected to be as good as during the past twelve years of prosperous Crops of all kinds. Oid farmers say they do not fear now, as they are prepared to face one or as many as three bad seasons; that they will raise plenty of grain for home use. All they seni to comp lain of is that they have not a larger number of working people in the county, or as Dr. Crees puts it, "we have too many of the idle, shiftless sort here, and they generally fail; no one fails here who is" willing to work and who does work Take the towns of Erie, 500 in habitants; O-cige Mission, 3,000 inhabi tants: Chanute. inhabitants; Earlton and Urbana, 100 each Morehead, 100 and a large settlement of farmers with good lands.

And do you think our county will not be Successful if we all work? No sir. We can be as prosperous as we please, but we must all work. We have Neosho river close, Turkey creek, Labette crek, Rock creek, and Ogeese creek, which with their tributaries give tin a good supply 6f running water for our stock, and, by the way, 1 think Kansas is really a better STOCK STATE than on agricultural one. Stock seems to thrive everywhere, and the number is in creasing As to crops, we have less wheat and more corn every year. There would have been a large crop of oats this year had it not been for the large influx of chintz bugs.

Thayer has everything about it to in 1. 1.1 town after awhile. We have facilities for the schooling of our 120 children, ami we will build a $5,000 addi- city try has th ey he fice and run by by the one his in of is of at Miss Kellogg's Free and Easy Chat Abaot the Operatic Artists of Europe. From an Interview in the Sew York Herald. "Then let it be Patti to begin with." "Patti has retained, wonderfully well, her popularity, her youth, her lovely Toice during her extended operatic career, and when I heard her lately she charmed me more than I can tell you.

She is, in my mind, the greatest living singer, whom no one in Europe or America can successfully rival to-day. There is no one like her in evenness precision, clear-cut Druiiancy oi her execution, and she has still about her voice that bird-like sweetness that is one of its most charming characteristics." "AndNilsson?" "Ah! yes; I heard Nilsjon. She is an exceedingly bright, intelligent woman, and has given herself to thougnful devel- opement ot her dramatic ability with fine results. You can hardlv believe how much she has improved in this direction. She was always, to me, a pleasine actress; but she has developed that talent to a delightful degree.

There are wonderfully good bits of acting, refined, intellect eflects, here and there, which she has created in her chief roles since she was here, that ar wonderfully effective." "Campanini Do the English publi receive him as warmly as that of America?" "Yes and no. They admire him as a great artist, as a great singer, as a great acter, and, of all things, they admire him for his wonderfully artistic skill in so delicately phrasing his music when his voice happen 'to be under the weather' as to conceal the 'temporarly 'indisposition" 1 do not think England is as enthusiastic as it once was over Campanini's voice that is, the actual vocal value of each note he sings but is as delighted as ever over his presentation oi an entire role." "Luca must have been singing in Vienna when you were there?" "Yes; and of course I heard her. "And what role?" "As Carmen. She did not dress the part as we are accustomed to 8' eing it, nor did she act it with that dash and snap, that Aim and abandon, which we look for i the chai acter. It was too tame a performance.

There was little of the Spanish Btmosphere about -t. It was a quiet, reserved, but a pretty Carmen as pretty as a doll lovely and dreamy rather than bewitching and dashing. Her voice is as good as it was Jen years ago; not in the least injured. She has grown very thin, in form rather than face, but her features and her manners are prettier than ever." "And the great Materna? Surely you saw her?" "Yes, and was disappointed. Perhap because I expected too much.

I expected to see a more dramatic actress and a oiore dramatic singer. She is a fine l'oking woman, with a clear, sweet, musics voice. "I will tell you of an evening wlich wa a decidedly pleasant one to me. hat was the one 1 passed at the Opera Comique, Paris, when I saw Miss Van Zaidt's debut as Mignon. Her success was dcided, and she is certainly full of pr 'inise and a most talented girl.

She has not a large voice, not one of grand proportion, but it is even and pleasant and sweet, and she fairly walked into the good graces of the French people at once. It was no small test to put a young American girl to to debut in Paris at theComique, where much of the opera had to be 'spoken' and in French. The littleaccent she has the audience took good-iaturedly, as though it added a little ad'itional charm to her speech, and Miss Van Zandt Went Lome from the opera hjuse a very happy girl. "Another American wlioru I heard was Stella Bonheur. I liked her exceedingly.

But a debutarte whom I was pleased with almost mveh as I was with Van Sandt was Neyads, who has been taught by Mar-ahesi, the of Gerster. I hearJ her in 'La and it was in ex-quisit performance. The 'Ah, non creda' was facinatingly wonderfully done. Her voice is thin and light and sweet lacking ing in those qualities requis for great dramatic effect, nut its purity and clearness have an inde-cribable fascination, and her arless, girlish manners and youth appearance made the performance one of the most enjoyable I have ever teen of the character." A Justice of the Peace Before the Bar Justice. Xorth Toptka Times.

'Tis sad enough to see the street corner loafers quarrel ar fight, but how- much more unfortunate when dignified justice and a sworn officer of the law so far forgets his station as to resort to the argument of the rough, and the persuasion of a prize fighter. Such an occurrence has come under the observation of The Times. The particulars, so far as we can learn them, ate as follows: Yesterday afternoon, S. W. McNeil, deputy county attorney, was managing a case in which parties from the barracks were interested, which case had been com i.enced in Justice Dun lap's court.

McNeil filed an affidavit asking for a clianga of venue. As court adjourned. -Mr. Isen-hart, a law partner of McNeil's was in the hall talking to a colored aian named Stewart, when Justice Dunlap came to the door ond hearing his name mentioned, exclaimed: McNeil, thit's aG dd lie: take it back." Mc. said he had stated nothing that needed taking back.

Dunlap accused McNeil of taking every cise possible to some other court. Mc. replied that, considering the way he had been treated in the court aforesaid, it was probable that the justice was correct in thinking that he wouM practice before him as seldom as possible At this, 'tis said Dunlap flew into a wonderful rage. Starting toward McNeil, he said: "Yo" of a I don't care if you never darken my door again!" "All right," said th- attorney, "I shall come here only when obliged to do so." At this, the justice sptang toward McNeil, (who had his arms full of booksV shook his first in his face and threatened to lick the stuffing out of Mc, just for pastime. The lawyer drooped his books, and placeJ himself on the defensive, when the justice, apparently changed his mind and returned to the office.

This morning Mr. McNeil filed a complaint in Justice Evans' court, charging Justice Dunlap with assault and battery. Constdble John Ready (known as "our arrested Mr Dunlap and marched him up to Evans' court in Soldier township, where he was required to give bond in the sum of $250 for appearance on Monday next. Constable Ready accompanied the prisoner down town again, and receiy-ed the bond, with Parkhurst and Davis as sureties. We are sorry that this affair happened, and that Justice Dunlap allowed his temper to get away with his judgment.

It will hurt the reputation of the North To-peka court, and take business to the South Side that we desire to retain at home. Alexandra and the Seal. On the Princess of Wales and her children reaching the seal pond in a recent visit to the Brighton (England) Aquarium, they stayed several minutes to see the seals fed, anil one of the elder seals, a well trained brute named barley, was induced to come foward and offer one of its flappprs for the princess to shake. This the princess did, but the honor seemed to be too great for the usually very docile brute to bear with calmness, for alter the royal party had quit the conservatory where the seal" pond is, a great splashing was heard, and Charley whs found sprawling in the corridor, making great efforts to follow the princess and the children in their walk through the building. It was speedily secured and laced in the pond.

Gen. Hancock is going to Bar Harbor the guest of Mr. T. B. Musgrave.

How a St. Louis Man Played it on a Cali fornia Maiden. The ban Finn Cisco Chronicle. The Abbotsford house, on Lark in street, one of its boarders in a peculiar manner. The boarder's une was supposed to D.

C. Carey, but, owing to the circumstances attending his advent in California society and his departure therefrom, the shadow of doubt has fallen on all the statements on himself hich he condescend ingly made. On the 20th of June last Ca was introduced to the Abbotsford house by a worthy young lady of Pacific avenue well and favorably kf own to the establishment. The landlady, Mrs. Bro- gan, being a woman ot the world, readily perceived that the interest which her voting friend took in the new boarder was more than platonic, and it soon transpired that lier surmises were correct.

In the mysterious way in which news penetrates through a boarding house intelligence soon reached feminine portion of the Abbotslord establishment that Carey and the young lady of Pacific avenue were affianced. A supplemental bulletin contained the news that the yth of August had been selected the happy day of the wedding, and accordingly the boarder became an object of closest scrutiny. He appeared to be a gentlemanly kind of person, about 45 years age, modest and affable, but not unduly communicative. In the brief conversations the breakfast table he informed his fel low-guests that St. Louis was his home.

and ill-health the cause of his sojourn in California. He never took lunch or dinner the Abbotsford house, preferring to give his intended father-in-law the benefit his appetite and confidence. He is totally unreserved in the home of bis affianced, and went into the minutiae of his autobiography with a zeal that charmed his prospective relatives. A DESIRABLE SON-IN-LAW. The story of his life, reduced to the limit of a newspaper column, is that he was a self-made man, whose ambition to shine in the world had been finally grati fied by the superintendence of the "National Stockyard" of East St.

Louis. To convince his future tather-in-law ot the truth of the statement Carey displayed a gigantic bunch of keys with a tag marked "National Stockyard, St. Louis, East," and promised the prospective relative a posi tion of great trust and profit under bun. never seemed to occur to the prospective relative that it must have great I n.con vienced the stockyard to have its superin tendent carrying aroand all the keys and making an itinerant locksmith's shop of himself. The interesting invalid was not satisfied, hovrever, with promising wealth and influence to his future father-in-law.

He was more bountiful in bis promises to his affianced. Carriages and diamonds without stint wen-; to be hers, and a trousseau that would make her en vious acquaintances forever pray tor a lavish stock yard superintendent. When the economical parent suggested a mod erately expensive wedding outtr. for his daughter the wealthy invalid was so shocked that he was confined to his room for a whole afternoon, and only regained his spirits when the flinty-hearted father allowed him to ordei a magnificent wedding dress. He manifes ted such anxiety to have the dress made that the modiste finished it with unexpec ted celerity and sent it home C.

0. 1). The prodigal lover happened to be enjoying dinner with his expectant father-in-law when the bill arrived, and expressed great regret that he had left his check book at Abbotsford house. "But you can settle it," said he, nonchalantly, which the parent did to his sorrow. a sirnK.s CALL.

On Sunday last Carey informed his itfTi anced that he had received a dispatch from his son, who would arrive on the next day with his bonds, check books, jewelry and the other aceouterments o. a traveling millionaire. Carey showed his prospective father-in-law the dispatch, on the back of which was written i. red ink: "Delayed on account of a break in the line." This dispatch Carey said had been delivered to him at 6 a. m.

at the Abbotsford house, but the servants of that establishment are reaily to swear that no telegraphic messenger called at the house that day. On Monday Carey went to Benicia to meet his son and his treasures, and nothing has iinee been heard of him by his fellow hi arderv or his affianced. The latter's father went to the ferry, according to promise, to nifet the millionaire and his hopeml son, bet after waiting for an hour gave it up for a bad job. Next day the intended briile's relatives instituted a search, for the missing lover, ami succeeded in finding that he had left an unpaid board bill and a suitof old clothes at the Abbotsford house. THE FOP.CE OF HABIT.

It has since transpired that the victimized young lady formed the acquaintance of Carey on Mr. Abraham's ranch in Fruiv. Vale, Alameda, where he was working as a laborer for the benefit of his health. He was receiving $lu a month, which was probably also for the benefit of his health, but he explained to the impressionable young lady that the force of business habits made it necessary for his happiness to receive sune financial the wages were only a guarantee of good faith and appreciation as it were. hen the young lady's visit ended, Carey recklessly aban doned his hygienic employment and came to this side of the bay to be introduced to the Abbotsford house, and the resulted stated.

The principal victim of the heart less deception is evidently fated to attain matrimonial honors by the greatest ellorts. The Carey escapade is her second disap pointment. She was previously engaged to an individual who did himself the in- iusticeof going mad a few weeks before i he day set for the wedd ng. ana sent in elee to the lunatic asylum instead of the church. The alleged superintendent of the "National stock yards ot St.

l-ouis is old enough to be her father. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL. George Eliot in her later years always wore a chaiacteristic costume a long, graceful, close-fitting robe. A luxuriant mass of light brown hxir hung low on both sides of her bead and was draped with rich point of Valenciennes lace. The Duke of Richmond had the narrow est possible escape from death the other evening.

As he was crossidg the railway line from one platform to another at Chi chester station, me tram conveving u.e Prince and Princess of Wales ran into the station and the duke would have been killed had not the station-master used rare presence of mind in pulling him on to the Miss Isnbella Mitchell, the niece and ward of Alexander Mitchell, the railway magnate of Milwaukee, has just been mar ried in tour. Wm. Mackie. who like his bride, is a native of Scotland. The wedding was a magnificent one, 1,500 guests being entertained.

Mr. Mitchell has bestowed a fortune upon the young" people. Mr. G. L.

Seney has given another endowment of $50,000 to a Georgia college. This completes the sum of $170,000 which he has within the last five months be stowed upon Georgia. President Garfield's two elder sons will not be oblige! to go through the Williams collage entrance examination next month. They will enter on a certificate from their tutor. General Grant is expected to attend the Michigan State fair next mor.th.

"I have a great desire," he wri'es, "to visit the State of Michigan and the city of Detroit, a place where I spent a few very pleasant years, and it so happened that I have scarcely had an opportunity biuce leaving there in 1851 to revisit it." so I HOW A WICHITA MAN VIEWS IT. An Interesting Letter From an Intelli gent Observer" It Sets Neighbor Against Neigbor and Slakes Euetulen of Friends." St. Louis Globe Democrat. The following letter has been received by Mr. J.

C. McGinnis, the well-known attorney of this city: Wichita, August 15, 1381. As you have expressed a desire to know how the called prohibition law works in Kansas, will endeavor to inform you. At the last general election there was submitted to the voters of Kansas a proposed amendment to the state constitution to prohibit the manufacture, sale and use of all intoxicating liquors within the state, except for medi cal, scientific and mechanical purposes. On the ballots was printed the words: "For the Constitutional Amendment," and un der them, "Against Constitutional Amend ment," and the voter opposed to it was to erase the words "For Constitutional Amendment." But the fact is, the majority of the voters felt so little interest in the matter that they paid no attention to the erasement.

The most ardent advocates of the amendment did not expect it to be adopted. But who shall limit the sublime possibilities of canvassing boards? In the final canvass of the vote, every ballot on which there was no erasement was counted for the amendment, while far less than halfof the votes cast were in favor of it. And thus it was declared a part of the constitution of the state. The amendment is a great fraud upon the people of Kansa-. It was never adopted by their vote.

This much for the amendment. The famous, or rather infamous, "prohibition law" was passed by the legislature under the whip and spur of the governor, and his fanatical coadjutors, male and female, many of the latter none of the most reputable in the land. This lestiferous horde thronged the lobbies of the capitol, and the halls and rooms of the hotels. They dogged the members to and fro, button-holed them right and left, and plied each with such arguments view of his intellectual caliber and moral stamina, were most likely to Some members, by no means the strongest-minded, were doubtlessly persuaded into the elief that the "prohibition law" was just and holy, and voted for it; others, who did not at all share in that belief pledged themselves to vote for it under the incessant importunity and seductive persuasion of female lobbyists, that band of immaculate and conseeratec philanthropists who are ever present in such emergencies "to plead the cause of poor, unfortunate and suffering humanity," and still another class of members voted for the law who neither believed in its righteousness or policy, who cared not aught for human weal or woe, and were not moved by the persuasive efcquenceof woman. An argument more substantial than mere sentiment or sympathy was required and it was fortchconnng.

Like the Roman soldiers, who stood watch over the sepulchre of the crucified Nazarene. "thev took the money and did as they were bidden." The law enacted by the legislature goes far be yond the scope and limits of the constitu tional amendment, in the line of restriction, and it does seem to me that no respectable court of competent jurisdiction, if the matter were fairly tested, could fail to pronounce it null and void. It is needless to say that the law is unpopular. How-could it be otherwise, when the constitutional amendment, on which it is ostensibly based, was never adopted by the vote of the people, and the law itself in its restrictions and impositions goes far beyond the limits, scope and intention of the amendment? It cannot be enforced in any part of the state. The people will not uphold it.

In some localities it is merely evaded, but in most places it is openly de- hed. In tl.is city there are eleven saloons, all selling liquor just as they did before the prohibition law was passed, with this dif ference in their favor, that now thev pav no license, whereas they formerly had to pay at least $300 each per annum. Besides the eelvens aioons there are in he city six drug stores, where, it is said by those who ought to know, liquors are constantly sold. -Moreover, there is in the city a brewery in active operation, making "bully lager beer" to supply the demand of the city and surrounding country. The nomen clature of the bar has been somewhat changed under the new order of things.

hen a man wants beer he calls for sweet cider, when he wants whisky he calls for "mineral and so on. The prohibition law," so-called, not only does not prohibit, but it actually does promote the traffic in, and use of. intoxicating drinks Men engage in it now without having to obtain license. Their profits are therefore greater. And, as a matter of fact, a con tagious spirit of recklessness is begotten of this general and constant disre gard of the law, which leads many to drink now who never drank be fore.

In its effects this so-called "prohibition law" is wholly bad. The continual evasion or defiance of any statute is necessar ily very demoralizing. It begets duplicity and dissimulation, deadens the love of truth and sincerity, breaks down reverence for proper authority, and inevitably tends to foster aapirit of anarchy. This prohibition law, being so utterly unreasonable and oppressive in its pi visions, must always encounter the hostility ot tile people. As long as they reta the love or liberty at a sense of right and justice, they will just so Jong continue to evade or defy it, and hence its retention on the statute books, when it can not be enforced in the courts, is to be deplored by everyone who has the welfare of the state at heart.

The effect of the law on the social condition of the people is very mischievous. It engenders contentions and broils and animosities in every community. It sts neighbor against neighbor, and makes ene- nnes of friends. By the, futile attempts of the fanatical friends of the law to enforce it, the peace of society is continually disturbed. Even the Christiai churches, that ought to be the nurseries of peace and good will, are not exempt from the agitation, strife and bitterness engendered by this monstrosity of legislation.

It is also a disturbing element in the politics of the state, and will so continue to be until it is wiped from the statute books. Its effect upon the revenue of the state will be readily seen in the light of what I have already said in regard to licenses. Hundreds of thousands of dollars annually derived from licenses, went into the fund for the support of common schools. These large sums no longer go to educate the youth of the state, but go to swell the incomes of the saloon-keepers, who continue to sell lust as mucn liquor, and as ban, as they did before the passage of the prohibition law. But this is not all.

In every county offenders against the law are prose cuted, but in ninety-nme caes out ot a hundred the prosecution fail to procure a conviction, and therefore the expense of these prosecutions, which are usually very heavv, must be paid out of the county treasury, thus adding to theburdensof the tax-payers. Th.e effect of the prohibition law npon the general prosperity and business of the state is absolutely disastrous. Immigra tion into the entirely ceased. The immigration agents of the Atchison, Tope-ka and Smta Fe Railroad company, who are scattered all over Europe, and who, for seven years previous to the passage of the prohibition law, were annually directing manv thousands of sober, industnou for eigaemigrauts to Kansas, now report tha- It is estimated that not less than 70,000 people have left the state since the passage of th-tt obnoxious law. to make their homes in other states and territories where right and liberty are better assured to them than in this misgoverned commonwealth, and multitudes more will follow their example just as soon as they are able to sell out and get away.

I have thus given vou a general view of the workings of the "prohibition law" in its moral, social, political and material bearings. Would tnat I could present the subject in a more pleasing aspect. But truth forbids me. The prohibition law of Kansas was "conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity." It has not one redeeming feature. 1 can never do any good, but it win continue to work incalculable mis chief as long as it stands unrepealed.

Its authors and champions are unprincipled demagogues, actuated by no higher or nobler ambition than to "run the ma chine" for awh'le. But their career will be brief. Their days are numbered, and loaded with the execrations and contempt or honest humanity, they will soon return to the insignificane and obscurity from which they emerged to "play their pranks before the high heaven" in the low thea ter of Kansas politics. Very truly yours, D. ax.

v. Stuart, Her Feet Go Down to Death. Forty-eight hours from the time Jennie Cramer walked under the Temple-street elms in New Haven, the "prettiest girl in the city," her dotted white muslin fresh and starched, and her whole figure trim trig and breezy from her white straw and its brown feather to the little clinking brass plates on the heels of her boots, her body was lying face downward in a slimy pool on the edge of New Haven harbor, the tide rocking the motionless bo 'y back and forth and at every motion winding her draggled skirts tighter about her round full figure. How she came there inquest i ndictment and trial have yet to decide but her death has written her last week's history at large and the path by which the young woman went to her fate is familiar enough to any one who watches the young girls who swarm on the streets of a Satur day night, pretty, bright and loud voiced skating on thin ice over depths of which they have the barest knowledge and that little delusive. jennie crammer was not a bad girl as girls go who have have stepped over the lit hich keeps a girl at her mother's side and limits her acquaintance bv her fam ily's and a number of girls who do this is not large among those pretty enough to be admired ami old enough to ei.jov the recdotu of an American girl, not hedged about by a card case, a visiting-list and fe male introductions.

The man with whom Jennie was last seen, James Malley, a young, boyish-looking fellew with a nar- black moustache, she met one night about a year ago on the college green. It was doubtless one of the chance-introductions to be seen any evening on Main street; but it was very far from being con-cea'ed from her parents and when Malley wrote three weeks ago a-king Jeni ie to put off an out-of-town trip to drive with him, Mrs. Cramer, with a "very sorry" that he was "so disappointed," wrote him that Jennie had already gone but would be back "Thursday morning;" just a weeK before the Thurs ay morning the mother dieve the daughter from the house for passing the night away from home in Mal-ley's company. One week more brought Jennie to New Hiven harbor. Three weeks ago the well-spelled, Well-written notes which passed between her and young Malley point to formal relations, formal for a sidewalk flirtation, but Jennie had already known for a week Blanche Douglass, a pale, delicate-looking girl, dressed well but not overdressed, whom Walter Malley had brought up from New York city.

Stie was a professional prostitute. This acquaintance begun at night on the college green, ripened by sidewalks and suppers, brought Jennie for the last fortnight of her life to be one of four, of whom two were men rotten to the core, a third a woman fresh from a house of ill-fame, and she, the girl now dead, the fourth. For two eeks here were trips and excursions, restaurant suppers and rides, all bringing the end closer and through it all Jennie seems to have been ignorant that her companion was not like her self a wild girl, running needless risks. A night came at last, Wednesday, August 3. which Jennie spent away from home with her companions.

She may have wandered before, but if she had not, the net in which the reckless young girl was caught with the other women of this party oi four schooled to vice, might well have swept a stronger nature away. Thursday morning she was driven from her home. Thursday evening she was again at a supper and drank her share of four bottles of wine, and then she disappears, to be found when the tide came in, Saturday morning. For a while, there was more or less lying by the survivors; but the arrest of the young Malleys and the testimony of Blanche gives clews which connect Jennie to the last with her evil companions. Attempted Abduction.

Kussell Iudtipendeut. One day last week while Mr. Perry Gough, who was recently married, was down in the timber on his place on the Paradise, a young man drove up to the house and upon entering asked Mrs. Gough to accompany him, or in other words to elope. This of course she refused to do, whereupon the villian seized her and attempted to place her in the buggy bv main force.

Her screams for assistance attracted the attention of her husband, who hastily repaired to the scene of disturbance, anil when near the house he took in the situation, and seizing a shotgun ran to the assistance of Mrs. Gough. The rascal finding himself in danger dropped Mrs. Gough. who meanwhile had fainted, and jumping into his buggy made his escape.

Mr. Gough in his excitement forgot to put a load of shot in the worthless carcass. The bold, bad man is said to hail from Eureka, Greenwood county, this state. We learned that Mrs. Gough had promised to marrv the fellow some time ago, but discarded for Mr.

Gough, and it is thought that he was under the impression that she would go off with him. Mrs. uougn states mat sue has never made any promises hatever to him, that he was a little "soft" on her, and that she never gave him any encouragement what ever. Toe neighborhood is very indignint and should he ever return to the classic precincts of the Paradise it is quite likely tint he will stretch some hemp. Mr.

J. Montgomery Sears, the wealthy Busionian, is budding a beautiul summer residence at Bar Harbor. It is to cost, when nniihed, tion to our school houe this fall. If we get that railioad from Girard to Fre.