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chlldren.-Ibid.
The HanSeStiC League.
Yesterday the Free and ancient City Of
Hamburg became part of the German En-
pire, as regards commercial law and Gus.
toms duties. Politically she has been
completely German since 1871, or indeed
since 1868, when she was annexed to the
North German Confederation. Thus dis.
appears the last vestige of the great Han
seattle League, famous in trade aud in his.
tory. 1t arose in the thirteenth century,
when there were no national navies capa.
bic OF protecting the rising of
the North German ports from the pirates
who sWarmed ut the mouths of the Elbe
amt III the outlets to the Baltic. The
League at one time included eighty.fve
cities and towns, chief of which were Ham.
burg, Lubbock, Cologne, Brunswick, and
Danzlg. 1t had a Central Diet, which
met once in three years. 1t had factories
abrOad-in London, BrUgeS, NOvogorod,
and Bergen. 1t made alliances for trade
with Amsterdam, OStend, Naples, Lisbon,
leghorn, Marseilles. and other great
towns. 1t was a combination unlike any
that has existed before or since. In some
aspects it reSembled a trades union, in 0
theirs a cooperative society like medieval
RothSchiidS, it lent money to kings; while
its poll cal CharaC:e r was emphasized by
it's warShipS and armies. For many gen
eratiOnS the League was mistress of the
Northern seas. The greatest Princes
sought its alliance or dreaded its hostility.
Its merchants were especially taV0ured by
our earlier Edwards and Henries, but its
wars with other States were frequent.
More than once it defeated the Kings of
Norway and Denmark i'm wpll-contestpd
campaigns. 1t depOSed King Magnus of
Sweden, and placed Albert Of Mecklen-
burg on the vacant throne in 142S it sent
over two hundred ships and twelve thou
sand soldiers against Erie Of Denmark.
Their successes made the IIanSe Towns
arrogant. For many centuries they re.
fused to allow foreigners in their own ci-
ties the privileges their own merchants
and clerks enjoyed in England, France,
and other countries. In the fifteenth cen
fury this led to retaliation here, and our
Courts imposed tines on the "HanSardS,'
as they were then called but Edward ",
who had often borrowed money from the
League, especially when he was a Preten-
der fighting tor the Crown, stepped in to
save them. AT the end of the next cen
fury they renewed their old mSolent ex-
cIusivenesS, provoking the anger of Queen
Elizabeth, who SEM Drake to chastise
them. He captured six one ships, ana
all the HanSe merchants were expelled
from London. This compelled their sub
mission. \ few years after the League
was broken up 10y the secession of many
cities, leaving only four-Hamburg, Lu-
beck, Bremen, and Danzig. The last has
been long since made part of Prussia;
twenty-five years ago Lubbock joined the
German Zollverein Hamburg has now
been absorbed, and Bremen is to be incor-
pOrated to morrow. There is something
of historical interest in these last traces
of what was once a great naval Power
DdiIV TeleqrdDb.
, 1888-11-24

The singular 0 about the
White Pasha who has been seer on
the White Nile ere revived in Il tele-
gram Of the Oath inst. from Cairo, an
nouncing that natives who have arriv-
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at the business meeting of the di-
rectors of the canning factory Fri
day the various bids received for ma
chinery and supplies were discussed
and contracts awarded. Among the
principal things are fifty-three-horse
power boiler and engine, Fischer pro-
cessor, capacity 1.15O cans at one time,
and $50, 1000 cans. The latter was let
to Lineweaver s. Co. of Chicago, who
were burned out last night, but it is
thought that it will affect their work
but very little, as they have large fac
tories elsewhere. The contract fol-
boxes has not been let. Everything in
connection with the work is progress.
ing nicely and will be in working order
in time for the early crops.
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BY THE GULF ROUTE

An article in the New Orleans Item,
urging its merchants and citizens gen.
orally to spend their summer holidays
in visiting Kansas and the northwest,
instead of the watering places and
other resorts in the east, has many
features of interest, ana is well worth
consideration both by Louisianans and
Kansans. The principal reason, the
Item urges, is that such summer sys-
TEN of vacation, would combine bust
ness and pleasure in most agreeable
form. The visitor, while enjoying the
finest scenery in the world, on his trip
from the Gulf to, say Kansas City, En-
poria, Denver, Omaha, or dozen other
points, would be making the acquaint-
ance of our western merchants and
business men, andi in this way assisting
in the real object aimed at for the
benefit of New Orleans-the develop
ment of traic to the sea coast by way
of the mouth of the Mississippi. The
Item ends long article on the subject
as follows:
| Large numbers of our merchants
spend the summer in travelling or so
| iourning at the North. Louisianians
may be found during that season saun-
/ tering on the coast of Maine, and in
the mountains of Virginia the woods
are full of them.
| Our people spend great deal of
money in the east, but they get no other
benefit from the expenditure than the
| value received at the moment. The
east may sell us goods but it will never
buy here, or import or export through
New Orleans.
For trade development we must look
west. There is much to hope from
Kansas. Nebraska, Dakota and Colo
RADIO. Why not turn the tide of sum-
mer travel to the regions from which
we expect tide of trade? The scenery
in the Rocky Mountains SurpaSses any
east of the Mississippi river. No more
delightful climate can be found than In
the mountains of Colorado, and the no
tells in the west are not excelled by any
on the American continent.
The merchant on a jaunt to the
Rocky Mountains might stop a few
days in Kansas City, He would find
revelation to him. A visit might be
paid to Omaha with equal profit. Den
yer is also an important centre of trade
Mountains on a plateau over 5000 feel
above the sea, and there is in summer
! probably no more delightful city in tbs
universe.
The Item proposes to recur to THU
hdent that if our merchants establish
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4 DIsGUsrED CANDIDATE.

Marsh Murdoch, who is probably one
of the greatest men God ever made,
and whilom candidate for governor,
has been calmly surveying the political
field in Kansas, and he is so disguised
with the calibre of his opponents that
he is almost moved to withdraw all the
other candidates and go in himself by
reclamation in order to save the state
from everlasting disgrace. He says:
Kansas is burthened with an incubus
of mediocre. The tepidity of her pole
mic environments is frightful, the
tenuity of her political possible dis
couraging clear beyond expression. The
season of scrub races seems to be on.
Thinness threatens everyone and in
adequacy, emptiness and vacancy are
depressing the candidacy of every
avenue, from the one that leads to the
chief executives chair down To that
which ends between the handles of the
township scraper OF the road overseer.
Dear Sol. save us from the murrain
of mediOcrity which threatens our state
ticket: save our commonwealth from
this inappreciable thinness of depth
this modicum of calibre of the legion OF
vulgus. whose vesper is a cowbell and
whose Ava Maria is a section of the
police commission code.
The ''legion of vulgus" is bad, but
the legion of egotisticus damphoolibu!
is worse. Even cowbells are prefer
able to some other things we nigh
mention. News.
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the fnner whale attained even great
er speed. In ali probability, the
Longniddry whale could propel itself
through the water at the rate of twelve
miles an hour, and the sperm whale
was capable of driving itself along at
the same rate of speed. He had asked
John Henderson. of Glasgow, the we'll
known builder of the Anchor liners, to
assist him in arriving at the horse
power which must be exercised by one
of these great whales so as to acquire
speed of twelve miles an hour, and
he put the case of the Longniddry
whale before HIM. It was eighty feet
long, weighed seventy-four tons and
had . tail eighteen to twenty feet across
from the extreme ends of the hanges.
With these data, Mr.. Henderson cal
culated that whale of the dimensions
mentioned, in order to attain speed
twelve miles an hour, would require
to exercise propelling force of 145
horse power.
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what Evolution is Not.

Everybody nowadays talks about
evolution. Like electricity. the chol-
era-germ. woman's rights, the great
mining boom, and the Eastern Ques-
ton, is it ''in the air." 1t pervades
society everywhere with its subtle
essence; it infects small talk with its
familiar catchwords, and its slang
phrases; it even permeates that last
stronghold of rampant Philistinism,
the third leader in the penny papers.
Every body belicv es he knows all about
it, and discusses it as glibly in his
everyday conversation as he discusses
the points of race-horses he has never
seen, the charms of peeresses, he has:
never spoken to, and the dement's of
authors he has never read. Every
body is aware, in a dim and nebulous
semi-conscious fashion, that it was all
invented by the late Mr.. Darwin, and
reduced to a system by Mr.. Herbert
Spencer, don't you know, and lot
more of those scientific fellows. 1t is
generally understood in the best
informed circles that evolutionism
consists for the most part in a belief
about Nature at large essentially
SIMILAR to that applied by Topsy to
her own origin and early history. 1t
is conceived, in short, that most things
.'growed." Especially is it known
that. in the opinion of the evolutionists
as body, we are all of US ultimately
descended from men with tails, who
were the final offspring and improved
edition of the common gorilla. That,
very briefly put, is the popular con-
ception of the various points in the
great modern evolutionary pro-
gramme.
1t is scarcely necessary to inform
the intelligent reader. who, of course,
differs fundamentally from the inferior
class of human beings known to all
of us in our own minds as ''other peo-
pie" that almost every point in the
catalogue thus briefly enumerated is
popular fallacy of the widest de-
scription. Mr.. Darwin did not invent
evolution any more than George
Stephenson invented the steam-engine,
or Mr.. Edison the electric telegraph.
We are not descended from men with
tails any more than we are descended
from Indian elephants. There is no
evidence that we have anything in
particular more than the remotest
fiftieth cousinship with our poor rela-
ton the West African gorilla. Science
is not in search of q missing link" y;
few links are anywhere missing. and
those are for the most part wholly un-
important ones. If we found the i'm
aginary link in question. he would not
be monkey, nor yet in any way a
tailed man. And so forth generally
through the whole list of popular be-
liefs and current fallacies as to the
real meaning of evolutionary teaching.
Whatever the people think evolutIona-
~ is for the most part pure parody
of the evolutionist's opinion.-P Popular
Science Monthly.
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In MeInOriam.

William T. Searcy, son of ]. G.
and Susan Searcy, was born in Rock
Castle County, Kentucky, in A. D..
1S47, and in 1865 moved with his par
ents to johnson County, Indiana.
where he resided till February A. d.
1871, when he came to Kansas with his
brother, j. s. Searcy, and each bought
farm on the Neosho river, five miles
northwest of Emporia, where he re-
sided till the time of his death. In the
year 1877 he married Nancy A. Beatty,
of Montgomery County, Kentucky,
who with one child, Arthur, aged six
years, survives him. He united with the
Christian Church about the year 1857,
and has been a faithful and consist
ent member ever since. He was a
good citizen, an honest upright man,
and an earnest Christian. He died at
his home on the 18th day of March OF
pneumonia, and in full hope of a bliss
full Immortality. He is buried in
Maplewood Cemetery. Besides his
wife and son he leaves his parents
two brothers and two sisters, all re.
siding near, and a large number OF
friends who mourn his loss.
JOSEPH f. CULVER.
March 1S, 1888.
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the Union, both in camp and council,
Of those whom he rebuked, hereby en-
dorse and approve the sentiments of
the senator, and commend the spirit of
patriotism and loyal devotion to the
veterans of the Union which prompted
them.
Resolved, That the Republicans Of q
state which contains within its borders
1850 veteran soldiers, now earnest,
industrious and patriotic citizens, and
in no wise paupers, as the confederate
br1gadiers allege, cannot but admire
the ability and power with which Sem
ator ingalls, expressed the sentiment
and defends the character of its cit
liens.
PRESIDENTIAL AND OTHER PREFER
ENCEs.
The Commonwealth reporters inter-
viewed delegates as to preferences for
President, Governor and Secretary of
State, with the following result: Fol-
Blaine, 1856; Ingalls,, A;
Sherman, %; Gresham, IS; Lincoln. II;
Harrison, 8; scattering, 10. For Gov
ernor-J. b. Johnson, 81; D. R. An
thony, so; A. w. Smith, IS; l.. u
Humphrey. Al; S. b. Bradford, "a; T
T. Taylor, 6; George II. Anthony, 10
e. N. Morrill,, 10; scattering, 81. Sec
rotary of State-Prentis, 81; Higgins
70; Norton, so; scattering, IS.
EVERYBODY FOR BLAINE.
The following items we clip from thu
Capital:
/ The enthusiasm displayed in the con
vention yesterday when the name O
James @. Blaine was mentioned wa
something remarkable. The mert
mention of his name in the proceed
ings brought cheer after cheer, an.
hats went into the air. and enthusi
asm seemed almostsuncontrollabl I
was demonstrated very plainly yesteT
day that James G.. Blaine is the ma
above all others whom the Republican
of Kansas would honor with a nomina
tion for president. 1t is safe to sa
that nine out of ten men who assem-
bled here yesterday believe that Blain
should be nominated.
: AT the close of Governor Riddles az
J dress, miniature full-rigged sailin
, vessel slowly made its way on a sui
pended wire from the east to the wes
side OF the room, passing in full vie
. of the assemblage. The vessel Wa
labelled ''Old Protection, - and in IL
vessel was large picture of James {
= Blaine, underneath which was the fC
lowing: "From over the sea to SUI
port the nominee" AS the Vess
moved through the air, and the pictul
Of James G. Blaine came to view, sho1
after shout went up from the thron
: The vessel landed underneath tt
''star of victory"
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THE plate sheet, for the next week or
two, will consist of quotations from
SOLVER Twist" a secondhand dime
edition having been secured yesterday
by the editor, who has just finished
perusing 'Fickwick." 1t is said that
Lem Carter put him up to reading
Dickens, and that he now claims that
he has played the dickens with the
paper. Mack swears he will have Car
ter arrested if he puts any more such
fool notions in the editors head.
O'Cown, however, still sticks to Dick
ems, and says he will bust up the repub-
lican club if he has to purchase and
read every book that Dickens ever
wrote. The question now arises as to
whether Dickens, Lem Carter, o Gown
or McConner is editor of the plate
sheet?
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JEFF. DAVIS had the reputation of
being as brave a soldier as was in the
American army during the Mexican
war. Yet that did not keep him from
being the chosen leader of the demo-
Gratis in arms against the country, for
which he was justly branded traitor.
Hancock was one of the bravest of the
union soldiers who fought against Da-
Wis and his treason. Yet he allowed
himself to be the chosen leader of the
ebel crowd, after the war for the
union was over. For this utilization
with ex-rebels, on the principal that a
person is judged by the company he
keeps. did ingalls, speak in the manner
which gives so much offense to whom
40 one but copperheads, ex-rebels and
third party people. Not one ex-union
soldier in hundred who has studied
the matter, but justiies ingalls, in all
he said. None but those who, like
Greeley, st. John, Hancock and others,
have allowed ambition or some like
cause to lead them astray.
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SENATOR PLUSrB's bill to attach No
Man's-Land to the state of Kansas, en-
titled "a bill to extend the
southern and western boundaries of the
state of Kansas" passed the senate
yesterday. This act makes the added
land subject to all the laws of the state
as it shall be assented to by the state.
The courts of the new district are to be
held at Garden City, Kansas. This
does not look very much as if the Ok
lahoma boomers were capturing the
country. Plumb seems to have a
faculty of looking after the interests of
Kansas in just the right manner and
just in the proper time.
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There having been some gossip in
dulged in upon the streets as to our wa
ter works funds, we publish the fol-
lowing statement, furnished us by Al
derman Hyde, for the information of
the public:
Available assets for the purpose OF com.
pleting the reservoirs and water works eys-
TEN.
Water works bond fund sso 5Is g
Due water works bond fund, borrowed
NJ from oIner FUNDS, Is follows:
LApcresS IonQ- ..........s.. q, 000(
General funds.ss.s.... .s.ss......s...... 6250OC
The above is correct statement, taken iron
the records In the once OF the city clerk
~ EN-. FoRDE, City Clerk.
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II is said of Redding, editor of the
Wichita Journal, in a recent issue of
which paper every editorial was fol-
lowed by the word register, that he
himself neglected to do so, and, conse-
quently, will lose his vote in the COM
ing election.
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The Only Remedy
Contagious Blood Poison.

Mr.. D. B. Adams, Union, South Carolina.
writes :" was af1ieted with a terrible case
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THE fight being made by some of the
democratic exchanges against Hon. A.
W. Smith for governor, because he is
a Methodist, is very silly.-Arkansas
City Traveller.
It is not the fight being made against
him by democratic papers that will
hurt him. 1t is the fight being made
for him by democratic papers that will
hurt him most. When such papers as
the Kansas City Times and Topeka
Capital unite in support of any man or
measure it gives rise to a suspicion
among republican that there is some
thing crooked on foot.
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EVERY ex-rebel in the United States
Senate is recorded as voting against the
dependent pension bill last week, some
of them making VillainouS speeches in
opposition, among them George G. Vest
OF Missouri, and Jos. @. s. Blackburn,
of Kentucky. The former was MEM
Der of both branches of the rebel con-
gress-tWo years in the senate and one
year in the lower house. Blackburn.
for over four years, did his best to dis
rupt the union by fighting against it.
These are the men who villifed the
union soldiers on the floor of the United
States senate. If they are to be be-
lieved, the volunteer army Of the
union was composed principally of
towards and bounty jumpers, who
were invariably whipped by the men
in gray. Senator John J. ingalls,, of
Kansas, replied to the southern Wilt
of the best speeches ever delivered in
the senate, and it refuted completely
| the falsehOOds of the ''reDel-briga-
diers.' We are in hopes of seeing it
scattered freely during the presidential
campaign, as 1t will make one of the
best kind of election documents. True
to their history, leading democratic
newspapers, even in the north, had
nothing but words of praise for the ly-
| ing words of the two unreconstructeC
rebels. ''Ingalls for president" would
eIectrify every loyal man in the land,
particularly the boys who keep time t.
the music of the union. With the
Kansas senator in the executive chail
there would be no cringing to European
or Canadian enemies of America. HC
does not think that apologies are in or
der for being citizen of the United
States.-Sandy Hill IN. " Herald.
The above is from one of the oldes
papers in the state of New York, and il
published by Major John Dwyer, one o
the commanders of Meagher's Irisl
Brigade, of Hancock's crops.
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personal relations and social inter
course with the people of the great
West, trade relations will be certain to
follow.
Tourist travel from New Orleans win
shortly begin. and we urge upon the
merchants who propose to spend
vacation away from home the import
ance of giving a fair consideration to
the advantages that are presented by
the western resorts.
This is matter worth looking after,
and if Emporia can do anything that
will tend to assist in turning the cur
rent of the tourists from the Crescent
City in this direction, it would be time
well spent. Emporia is not unknown
to a large proportion of the population
of Louisiana, and should the proposed
change take with the people, there is
little doubt we would receive our quota
of tourists. The plan appears to us to
be one which will accrue to the benefit
of both the south and the northwest.
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THE Kansas City Journal has bolted
the so-caIled republican party in
Kansas City, because it allowed the
whisky men to run its machinery and
nominate for mayor a man who, it is
claimed, stands in with the hoodlum
element as against the law and order
classes. It is also claimed he is a
brewer. The Journal is correct. If
the republican party fails TO nominate
good men and true. then good men
should leave It until it does better.