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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-09-07

shut and braeed. Thar was room
enough under the door for more
snakes to 90 In, but it would have
taken the strength of sober men to
break 1t down. / calkerlated as how
that room would be hOldin' about q
hundred snakes when the fellows be
gan to rub their eyes open, and I felt
sure j could leave the Job to them to
finish
He had to wade in water knee
deep before he got back to his canoe.
and twas after daylight the next
morning when he came to my head
quarters to make his report and
ask for a detail of men to 90 back
with him.
w hat do you suppose has hap
pened by this time?'' / asked when he
had finished his story.
Dead, sir, every man Of EN-" he
replied. ''Ihem snakes got over
their scare in about half an hour, and
the first man who moved to get up
had piZen shot into him like Q, streak
OF lightning. Thar'u be five cOrpses
thar to be identified. and thar'n be
some property to be divided up
1 concluded to 90 along with the
NLC LElLLg CLL4AL EIDOuU uOOA VIC LEElClGtL
the place. The water had come up
within fifty feet of the cabin door,
thus overlooking most of the clear
ing, and our progress from the river
was almost a continual battle of
snakes. We had TO kill a score of
them before we could land The
door and blind were as Dan had left
them, and it was plain that none
L. T.
alone to the door, threw it open,
and, and after a hasty. glance inside,
came back to US with his face as pale
as death.
'Dead, I SUPPOSE I queried.
Gail in a heap, sir, and thar's mo-
than a thousand snakes inside!''
None Of the rest of US cared to ad-
vance and encounter the sight, and
as it was impossible to remove any
thing from the cabin we returned to
the post. In a couple of days the
water fell away again, and then Dan
went over and secured about $500 of
personal property, and burned the
cabin down over the bodies of the
dead. 1 gave him permission to keep
all he found, and made a full report
of all the facts to my superior. The
story went out that I shut the Dade
gang in after disarming them in fair
fight, and this story was supple
mented by half a dozen others, all
false, and the effect was wonderful.
Within ten days every outlaw had
cOEe in and surrendered, and begged
for his life. From having the worst
district in the State soon had the
most peaceful. A guerrilla outlaw
named Chambers, who had sworn to
kill me, came In four or five days
after the death of Dade and begged
me to permit him to surrender and
go home
"But you have threatened my life, %
I said.
''Sartin I hev, Captain; but I've bin
a fool. I didn't know what you was.
When a man kin handle sarpints and
outlaws like you hevdOne, what's the
use a kickin' agin him Durn the
lost cause and everybody else!
want to surrender and put an end to
this war. ="
Two weeks later there wasn't a
''hider out" in my whole district, and
it was safe for men to 90 everywhere.
The snake business, which Dan in
sisted on giving me credit for, was OF
more help than a regiment OfFederal
infantry.--N. Y. Sun.
S-ezz
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-28
is OUT OF POLITICS.
Nj. III. Day, of Dakota, Has Takel
No Interest in Sunh Thin orc GSnof

NJ. III. Day, Of Dakota, Has Taken
No Interest in Such Things Since
the Waterfowl Convention.
81 have bad cold and am out of poll
ties remarked NJ. III. Day, the Dakota
politician, to GLOBE reporter yester-
day afternoon at the Merchants hotel.
Mr.. Day came in yesterday morning
from Springfield, OAK, and left last
night for Southern Dakota. Mr.. Day
did not look as if either his cold or the
fact that he was out of politics had Seri-
ously affected his digestive apparatus,
for his face was ruddy aud he had
healthy appearance generally.
There is nothing | could say on poll
tics" he remarked, ''fOr since the con-
vention at Watertown | have paid little
attention to affairs of a political nature"
'What do you predict for your dele
gates at st. LouiS?'
Il have an opinion on that point but
| hardly think | care to express it," he
replied. We shall be there, probably
starting for st. Louis about next Satur-
day or Sunday"
Il do not believe the present session
OF congress will do anything towards
admitting Dakota, either as one or as
two States" said Mr.. Day, in answer to
a question as to what he heard OH that
subject from the capital of the nation.
The house wants to let us in as two
states, and the senate as one. Politi-
clans of both parties use us for political
purposes and we get nothing. The col
OnlStS, III the time of the revolution,
had not so good cause for fighting as we
hayeu
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-28

understand that one of the first virtues in
Christian is to mind his own business,
1t is better that you be offended right
along until you are taught that lesson.
And besides the word Offend" which
you quote, means also ''to cause to
stumble" and you have walked on
perpendicular for so many years that
there is no danger of your stumbling at
any less obstacle than that which the
fathers used to call spiritual PRIDE"
The text teaches us to call the church
by the tender name. our mother. This
leads us to understand that the true
church life is the family life. The free
dom, the love and the hope of it can
only be understood when we remember
that God is the common Father of our
common humanity, and that upon the
church lie pOurs all the wealth of His
affection, and all the treasures of His
kingdom. This is the supreme figure
OF the gospal. In the flames of this
holy love all the letters of legalism are
burned away. Its true authority is gen
tlenesS; its best weapon, persuasion;
and its final aim, the development of
Self-cOntrol in us.
In family there is diversity. Di-
yersity of character, of power, of tastes
and so of duties. The father who does
not recognize differences of tempera-
ment in his children and who seeks
TO MANAGE THEM ALL
bya routine of numerous and petty
statutes, will involve all in common
ruin. The wise father not only gives
different scope to the nature of his diff
ferent children, but he seeks as far as
possible, and as soon as possible, to put
them i'll possession of themselves. In
like manner our heavenly Father leaves
wide field for the choice of each one of
us, recognizing thereby our differing
needs and possibilities.
Liberty, therefore, is not diminished
but an added responsibility. Since so
large part of the conduct of life is left
for our own decision, we need to remem-
Der the admonition of st. Peter, and you
are to live ''as free, and not using your
freedom for cloak of WickednesS."
Your liberty iii minor dogma is not to
be Tor you an occasion of careleSSneSs.
but rather should you be the more
SolicitouS and reverent toward all truth.
Your liberty in practical affairs should
lead you to remember that your outer
conduct is to be but a symbol of the fact
that you consider yourself a citizen of a
better country, that is an heavenly.
Your liberty in minor morals, dress,
amusemeutS, literature and the like,
oHouiu Hidke you Tile more ScrupulOuS
to avoid everything that leaves the
slightest soil upon the white garments
of your soul.
The Peoples church does not say,
You shall do this and you shall avoid
that in the details of personal life," but
we refer you earnestly to a reverent
study of the principles of the New
Testament morality, and we beg you to
50 live as those who must one day give
an account for the deeds done in the
body.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-28
ON GETTYSBURG FIELD.
An Incident Used as Text for a
Sermon by w. s. Vail,

A large congregation, in which many
WearerS of Grand Army emblems were
dIscernible, listened to a sermon yes
terday in the Universalist chapel on
Wacouta street, by Rev. W. S. Vail.
The subject was son Gettysburg Field"
and the text was from Ezekiel xvii, 6:
HE took also seed and planted it in a
fruitful field"
The preacher related an incident of
man found dead OH the field of GettvS-
burg at the close of tie battle, holding
in his hand the picture of his three chill
dren. He had chosen this incident and
this man, because they seemed to be
representative of American patriotism.
The soldier was plain man, had never
known preferment, and like the seed
spoken OF in the text was to be admired
more for the possibilities that he Sug-
geSted than for what he had attained.
AS the bold rock that keeps watch and
ward high above the river was once
sculptured by the influence of ice and
rain and upheayal, man is the result of
conditions and inheritances to very
large extent, and the American soldier
would hardly be what he is were it not
for the fact that he heard the songs of
valor in his childhood, inherited
oOAliS VI ollC Cpillb tIlIi CHC1Sy VI
the early colonists who hewed out
a garden in the virgin forest, ploWed tie
praireS, and on election day cast his
vote. the peer of any man. The settler
had assisted III making the nation;
little home had been established, and
out or these conditions sprang the no
blest elements OF patriotism. DR.. Val
here met the charge that the Christian
religion does not offer strength and
foster the more manly virtues by declar-
ing that while certain kinds of courage
are not to be commended, it was a
wrong theory of Christianity that called
down anathemaS on social life and made
home gloomy. In many places the
church did teach that mans only home
was heaven. This course discouraged
love of home and country, and does to-
day wherever it is taught. But turn the
pages Of modern literature. Poetry has
taken up every pathetic incident of the
war and told US of the men who went
down in the shock Of battle. always with
the thought of home in mind. And so
with the latent feeling of reverence
The modern soldier is a man of faith
and lover of home.
The sermon closed with plea for an
undivided country, free from sectional
ism, and a fuller development of home
feeling as the foundation OF a deeper
faith.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-28
The Leland Stanford Univer-
Sity to Fathom the Posi-
bilities Of Humanity.
Senator Stanford Particularly
Wants the Girls to Get an
Education.
The Institution to Be Open to
the Poor as Well as the
Rich.
Orphans Even to Be Cared for
and Free Scholarships to
Be Provided.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-Just before
Senator Stanford left the city for
Europe, he expressed himself as follows
with respect to the objects and pur-
poses of the Leland Stanford, Jr., Uni
verSity of California: ''Generally the
objects of the institution are set forth
in the articles of endowment, but there
is, of course, minuti8 not set forth in
them. L may say that 1 propose that
the institution shall have steadily in aim
the possibilities of humanity and how to
realize them. In this institution de-
sire that the students shall be made to
appreciate the evil consequences Of in
temperance. There are probably in
California to-day more adult men en-
gagged in selling distilled liquors than
are engaged in tilling the soil; and l
am satisfied taking the country at
large, that with the waste of time of the
numbers of people engaged in the sell
ing, and the waste consequent by the
consumers, there is loss to the cOun-
try in general fully equal to 25 per cent
of the power of production. | want the
education of the students to be such as
shall give them a realizing sense of the
every student to have the opportunity
to practically learn how to cultivate the
soil for every branch of agriculture.
Particular attention will be given the
subject of cooperation.
COEDUCATION.
Il want in this school that one sex
shall have equal advantages with the
other, and want particularly that the
females shall have open to them every
employment suitable to their sex. | be-
lieve if they do so they will be stronger
physically and mentally, and better
fitted for wives and mothers, and | be-
ieve that if the avocations of life are
thrown open to them, without their en-
gaging in anything unsuitable to their
sex, they can add another 25 per cent to
the power of production of the country
and be willing to go forward realizing
the possibility OF giving comfort and
elegance TO all. AS | desire this insti-
tuition to deal particularly with the well
fare Of the masses, it will be open to the
poor as well as the rich, and the price of
tuition will be so moderate as to be
within the reach of most people.
The few very rich can get their educa-
ton anywhere. They are welcome to
this institution if they will come, but
the object is particularly to reach the
multitude. and the pnople VINO nave TO
consider the expenditure of every dol
lar. The hope is to care even for
orphans. They may be sent there, pro-
vided for comfortably, and will be
looked after. Free scholarships will be
provided for meritorious yonng people
who are unable to pay for their educa-
ton, and such students will be given an
opportunity to earn money to help
through their college course. There
will be machine shop and depart
ment to encourage inventions. Re-
ligiOus teaching will be provided for,
but sectarianism will be prohibited"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-28
HOW IT PAYS.
The Experience of Farmer in
Growing Wheat and Stock.

The Experience of Farmer in
Growing Wheat and Stock.
Mr.. William FarQuer, who is we'll
known in Foster county as careful
and progressive farmer, gives the Car
rington News a few figures with re-
gard to his farming experience that
ought to be instructive to all who read
them. He came to Dakota in 1883,
bringing with him four horses and
mules, two cows and three pigs. He
rented land the first year at James
town, and the second year at Eldridge,
and in these operations lost every dollar
OF the money he had brought with him
and one horse also, and had no money
when he started III Foster county. He
has confined his efforts to grain raising,
although his stock has naturally in
creased. His two sows gave him eleven
pigs the first year, his two cows have
grown to twelve head and he has sold
three others, and he has grown his
own meat ever since. He has
paid for his buildings and ma
chinery out of what he has raised in
Foster county, and is almost entirely
out of debt. Last year he cropped lis
acres of wheat and 81 acres of oats, and
sold 1880 bushels of wheat at "a cents,
equal to 81, 274.40. Deducting from this
the threshing bill, 1886; 145 bushels of
seed wheat at 50 cents, 1910, and Sc for
three days hired help, he has net re-
suit of 1857 for his own labor and that
of his son, the latter a lad of nineteen.
Besides this. he had 1,565 bushels of
oats, which he put into his granary as
reserve, some of which he sold at 40
cents for feed and 80 cents per bushel
for seed. Does not this look like very
satisfactory result for an off-year in Da-
kota? Beyond the pecuniary result,
bust man, has enjoyed mnch better
health here than in Illinois, whence he
came. The last year before he came to
Dakota he did not do more than a
months hard work, owing to poor
health. Now he is very much stronger.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-28
IN WHITE ROBES.
Initial Service of the Supplied
Choir at Christ Church.


An unusually large congregation at
tended the first choral service at Christ
church last evening. 1t was necessary
to place chairs in the aisles to accommo-
date the crowd.
The exercises were quite interesting,
and hereafter the choral service will be
a part of the regular Sunday evening
programme.
Seated on the stage was a surpliced
chclr, consisting of fifty men ana boys,
and the opening services were PRAYER by
the pastor, followed by a song and read
ing from the Bible. The minister took
his text from the 6Sth Psalm, 25th verse.
GLOW beneficial it would be,n said
he, IF we would give great attention to
the cultivation of sacred song. If the
Bible is full Of truth, who can presume
to ignore the large space God has given
to divine music? We learn in the Bible
of music and musical instruments. The
procession of the ark to its resting place
was truly a grand spectacle as described
in the Psalm Of David. David and all
Israel played before God with all their
might on harpS, cymbalS, etc. | read
only incidentally OF God himself joining
i'll any music whatever, only on that oc-
caSion when he sanctioned the use of
sacred music. There our Lord sang
and made vocal melody in his heart and
to God. What choir for US to contem-
PLATED We have no definite knowledge
of Christian music. In the first apostolic
service sacred singing was always a part.
In the religious war music was made to
suffer most, and people were allowed to
sing only Il line at a time in order that
nothing Objectionable might appear in
the service.
ORGANS WE'RE PROHIBITED
as instruments of Satan. The first organ
was brought to Old Trinity church, New
York city. Since that time the pro-
greSS of sacred mnSic has been
slow. To that grand old church belongs
the honor of introducing the vested
choir. If there is one thing foreign to
the vested choir it is the fiOrid music of
those composers who affect the operate
style. Our choir is dressed in white, as
that of heaven, and nothing could
be more appropriate in Divine serv-
Ice. The members of the choir
are prepared for their solemn duty by
prayer and prepared to give their best
duty to God before they advance to
their places. Besides this it is an edu-
cation. Boys and men are very often
neutral IN relation to the church, and it
is no easy thing to band them thus to
gether. The choir is restoration of
something that the earlier churches an
pointed. claim for it that it is vested
with its original prominence. L want
to make our night service a popular
service, in which sacred song shall have
a prominent place. This choir is the
result of only two months organization.
If they have gained the efficiency YOU
see in that time, what may we expect
for the future? l only ask for your
sympathy. The choir shall hereafter
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-28

sally recognized. AS man, am weak
and helpless, but as an American citi-
zen, 6O,000,000 of people stand behind
me if | suffer wrong at the hands of a
foreign despot.
The government also assumes the OBJ
Ject Of uplifting its people, for the
power and glory of a nation lie not in
the number of its subjects, but in their
intelligence and morality. Government
and noble and good, or it must
of the people by the elevation of the
truest and nobleSt men to positions of
responsibility and honor, land by securing
broad and liberal culture for the poorest
and most degraded of the land. If this
country is to have glorious future we
must demand of the men who are to
represent us in the halls of legislation,
who are clothed with executive power
and who wear the judicial ermine that,
like C@sar's wife, they shall be above
suspicion. And in land where the
vote Of the ignorant rag-picker balances
that of the profoundeSt statesman, edu-
cation, broad, generous and universal,
is indispensable to our very being. An
other condition of this uplifting is the
securing to all citizens of the fullest and
broadest liberty Of which they are capa-
BILE. Liberty is not license; it is not an
indifference to law, but an inward
harmony with its spirit.
Now as to the prerogatlveS of govern
ment. 1t has right TO the best service
of all its subjects. Right doing always
secures divine approval and aid,
though appearances do not al
ways indicate this blessing: We
walk by faith, not by sight. Learn,
then. to dlStruSt appearances. There IS
nothing left us as a nation or as men,
but the performance of our duty, the
shifting of error and wrong with manly
and sure of ultimate victory.
TO THE SOLDIERS.
While war is calamity to be de-
plOred, whose horrors it is impossible to
Overstate, there are times when it is not
only justifiable, but our most sacred
duty. Soldiers, but speak the senti-
ment that took you from your homes
and that animated you and your COM
paniOns when l say that honor, virtue
and liberty are more important than life.
The soldiers who sleep in our cemeteries
and on the lonely battle fields did not die
in vain. Go, strew their graves with
flowers, and tell your children's chill
dren, ''These men died for you"
But remember that nation only is safe
that is saved by the Lord. You have
fought for the liberty of your country,
and you have triumphed, but there is
yet another conflict to which you are
called. There is before you wary and
tireless foe. Each for himself must
fight the battle and win the victory or
succumb to the conqueror'S powers.
So live, so die, that the world may read
as your epitaph, "a good soldier of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-28
A SERMON TO SOLDIERS.

Rev. DIR. j. Il. Smiths Address
Before Members OF Acker Post,
@. A. II,
AT the Central Park Methodist Epis-
copal church last evening, Rev. DR.. ]. E.
Smith preached TO the members of Acker
Post, q. A. r., on the subject OF Gov
eminent; its Basis, Obi s-a%ions and
Prerogatives." The preachers text
were the last words of Moses. found in
Deuteronomy, XXXiii, 90: "Happy art
thou, o Israel, who is like unto thee, o
people saved by the Lord?" DR.. Smith
said:
1.-The words of the text form fitting
climax to the chapter of benedictions
with which Moses concludes his mis-
sion. He was the inspired leader and
laWgIver OF his time, and III these, his
last words, we find expressed or i'm
piled the principles underlying all GOV
eminent. Government is based upon
the requirements of God and the nature
and necessities of man. 1t is of divine
origin, necessity of our nature and
the conditions OF our progress. Without
1t there could he neither peace nor
safety. 1t began i'll the family: it
extended to communities; it has
created and moulded the nation.
Answering to this decree upon the part
of God, there is corresponding princi-
pie in the heart of man. The love of
country is universal. However wild
and barren the land, to the patriot it is
the dearest and brightest place on earth.
To be less than patriot is to be less
than man.
IT'S OBLIGATIONS.
Now, what are the obligations of gov
ernment? First, the protection of it's cit
liens. The state demands of the citizen
his allegiance, his sympathy his money,
and, if need be, his life. In return it
must assure to him, be he rich or poor.
weak or strong. ignorant or cultured,
protection. This principle is uniyer-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-28
GLOBULES.

Eta Hawkins, St. Paul's charming COM
Medicine, begins her engagement at the
Grand Monday. June 4.
The remains of Henry Gardner, who was
killed by the cable cars Friday, have been
removed to his home i'll De Soto, Wis, for
burial. Coroner Quinn, at the request of the
dead mans attorney, decided not to hold all
inquest.
Torrance at the Olympic next Sunday night
for Billy Wells, stage manager, and Joseph
Murray, treasurer, both well known and pop
ular. A large array of talent has been billed,
are Danny Needham, the light weight pugil-
list; Sowders, pitcher of the base ball CLUB :;
Prof. John II. Clark and others. Many new
and decidedly novel specialties will be intro
duced