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The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18
KNAUSTON KANSAS
Editor ofthe Gilman

Editor ofthe Gilman:
l take this means Of informing your
readers OF the country Of which the
writer is citizen. Only a few days
have elapsed since my arrival and l
am DESTROYS Of telling those who have
never heard much Of the Garden
Siate,' of its richness, grandeur and
wealth. Perhaps everybody knows
'here is a Kansas, but / doubt il they
know Of its value as an agricultural
state else this country would be flood
ed with emigrants from every State,
in fact l learn that large per cent of
the inhabitants have originally come
from the East. And why? I answer
because of the growth OF towns, the
cheapness of lands, and for the manner
in which farming is conducted. l will
tell something about how The lands
i-li. / learn that the soil is adapted
Ia The growth of oats, millei, cane,
barley aud wheat. or course garden
ing is carried on extensively, but /
can't call this a place for corn although
there is prediction 10y many that
this will be a Paradise" for this pro-
duct in few Years. l am writing
from where | am located only, (Finney
cuunty) but l have been informed that
the entire State is AZ productive Ms Is
this part On old land, oats will yield
from - TO 100 bushels 10 the acre, while
on sod, or new land, 45 to 90 is small
count. Miliet yields from 81 to 40
bushels per acre. Cane grows well
without cultivation, and the seed
bring 81 50 per bushel when lhreshed.
o ats are worth 50 cents and millet 81 90
per burhel. Sweet potatoes grow well.
From three to four hundred bushels
to the acre is small estimate. The
soil is a very rich, dark sandy loan,
with clay su5-suii
l would like to say more Of our
farming facilities, but will defer the
matter until another time. | have not
been here long enough TO ''blow' the
country as | would like To, but for
fear viii grow TO he "tpuder-fbOted"
| will say no more Than this. In my
next letter l will say something of
Garden City, our county seat, concern
lug lis rapid growth, population, &c,
within the last three years. L have
said enough about the country to con-
vince any KenIuckian that [ am
"slruck" on Kansas So l will write
again. 4. &. ADAMS.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.

Mr.. A. w. Cushman, who resided in
Richmond for some time, but returned
TO Mun;mUTeEci, South Carolina, in
writing To TIE CLIMAX to renew his
subscription, says:
Allow me 20 say to my Richmond
acquaintunces that / am sill in the
land of the living, and LO. to meet
them again at some future time.
arrived home safely with my
family last fall, and found fine crop
ON my farm just ready to be gathered.
The yield of all kinds of crops, and
especially cotton, WAS very fine in this
section Of the State, last year. The
agricultural outlook is brighter here al
this time than il has been before, since
the war, but just how long this con-
ditiun Of affairs will continue, Of cUuI 81,
10 one eau tell, as a short crop this
year, or large crop sold at a lOw fig
ure, would set Us back where we were
II few years ago. We are planting
more extensively, this season, than ever
beiOre in this county, and we make
full crop and sell il for a good price,
you may look out for boom down this
way soon. Our neighbOTs, Just across
the river, over in Georgia, have
concluded 10 boom their State little
next fall. They propose TO hold an ex-
position in the city Of Augusta, next
October. l expect to attend and, if
your State is represented, would be-
glad TO meet there some Of Madison
cOuniy's worthy SOUS. / shall ever re-
member with pleasure my short stay
in Richmond, and her citizens will
please accept my thanks for their
Kindness towards me and family,
while there. shall remember Mr..
Henry Hargis, Mr. William Pigg, Mr..
William Arnold, ST., and Mr.. b. b.
Million, not as acquaintance alone,
but as friends, and should any one or
all Of them, and yourself included, at
tend the exposition, you will notify
me when you expect TO arrive. l will
meet you in Augusta and will take
pleasure i'm showing you around the
city. l would be pleased TO have
you all visit me at my home which
you cuuld conveniently do, AZ live
only short distance from Augusta.
With the best of wishes for the future
career of The CLIMAX, am
Respectfully Yours,
A. w. CUSHNIAN.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18
BEREA.
Rev. Mr.. Halbert, Of Detroit, NJ ch.,
closed his series Of meetings, last week,
aud returned home.

Rev. Mr.. Halbert, of Detroit, NJ ch.,
closed his series Of meetings, last week,
aud returned home.
Mr. G. T. McCollum, for two years
engaged in business ia Chicago, Ills,
returned to Berea.
MIS-. E. L. kerry, whose hip was 90
severely hurt few weeks ago, is
gradually recovering.
Miss Hattie Scott, sister Of Mrs.
Hunting, left, Monday morning, for
treatment by DR.. Anderson,a megnelic
physician Of Ohio
Miss Jennie Blynn, music teacher
at the college, who was called home
10y the sickness Of her father, returned
last week.
Miss L. A. Sllan is again at her part
Of duty. Her mothers lingering sick
ness and death kept her by the bed
side for many weeks.
The Sunday-schOOl at the Glade
church has reorganized for The season.
Judge GoodlOe was elected Superin-
tsndent and Mr.. w. G. Baugh assist.
art.
Mr.. George Ames, S. s Vice Pres.
ident for the Glade precinct, ha,
arranged FOR a precinct convention tc
be held at Wallace Chapel the frs
Sunday in May.
The large new bell in the Colleg,
Chapel has very clenr, pure tone
and is a great improvement over itl
predecessor which was suffering
from the infirmaty of age.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18
KINGSTON.

The little child of Frank Maupin
III. d on last Sunday, aged about six
months.
Esquire Coyle made a Tun at his
distillery on last Friday. Our school
fellow, MERIT Denham, is store-keep-
er.
Mr.. r. H. Lane, who has been Wis
iling his cousin, Richard BOulware,
his returned to his home in Blooming
ton, III.
There was an entertainment at
Kingston high school on last Friday
evening by Miss AndersOn's pupils for
the purpose Of deiraying the expenses
of Mrs. Nield, the temperance lecturer,
who was present.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18
SILVER CREEK.

During the past few days the wealth
er has been all that the farmer could
wish. The sun has been shining
brightly, the birds singing sweelIy, the
lambs frisking galy, and even the old
house that has had such a hard time to
"pull through looks up gratefully
and seems 10 feel that the good time
has come at last.
The farmer bias been putting IL bic
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

No, OF course we don't want our
wheat receipts to fall of. DON'T
amount to much, but kind o. goes
against the grain.-Dululh Paragraph
er.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

1t is said that the poet Goethe's
death was hasiened by his hearing an
American pronounce his name
Life.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

Getting up with the sun is COM
mon practice where there is a teething
boy baby in the fsmily.-DeirOlt Free
Press
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

When is q theaier manager like a
dog?
Answer-When he lies about the
house Texas siiilngs.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

ST. Peter will open wide the gate for
the man who in winter here on earth
always shut the door.-Journal of edu-
cation.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

"Hs gave me some pointers" said
the tramp of the farmer; she jabbed
me with pitchfUrk. Drift.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

RIFFuTa Procured. VIM. G. Hen
IHM derson, gas F St., Wash
kAIIutJ ington. D. c. Formerly
Of Examining Corpse U. s. Patent
Office. y years experience. Send
sketch Or model for report as 10 fateS-
td57ity. Correspondence solicited.
7deeIy.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

Somehow men really seem to enjoy
it when then their tailOrs give them
fits.-DetrOit Free Press.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

A mars life may he like an open
buck; but it is bound to be closed
New Orleans PicAyune.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

'Small polaiiOns produce small po-
tatoes," is an Anarchist motIo-New
Haven News.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

Falher-Tommy, does your teacher
use a switch?
TOmmy-What'er you givin' US, pa
He's man.-B Burlington Free Press.
The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-18

The convict is naturally Ia good
humor when he's breaking out
Whitehall Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-08

THE English people will have to make presents
to the Prines and Princess of Wales on the cele-
bration of their silver wedding before they have
fairly got the Queens jubilee gifts paid for.
These anniversaries rather expensive in
large family s.
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by the boats, but they were so unwieldy and
the water 50 low that Indians cut them
off. Unable to escape or defend themselves,
Col. Loughery surrendered. Brant. the Indi-
an chief says thirty six, including five officers,
were killed and sixty-four made prisoners.
One or two escaped. but did not reach home
for several months afterward. Loughery was
tomahawked by a Shawnee Indian after the
battle while sitting on a log, and all the
wounded who were unable to march were SINH
larly dispatched. The prisoners were marched
eight miles up the Miami river to an en-
campment where theeIndians were joined by
one hundred white men under command Of
Capt. Thompson and three hundred Indians
under Capt. Mckee. both British officers. All
of the British and Indians, with Brants band
of warriors, went down against the Kentucky
settlements as far as the Falls of the Ohio.
leaving sergeant and eighteen men to guard
the prisoners. No attack was made on Clark's
army, however. The prisoners were taken to
Detroit and sent from there to Montreal"
Thus ended one of the many Inflated expe-
ditions of those times. Longhery's defeat
ended the expedition against Detroit for the
time, and compelled an entire change of Gen.
Clark's plans.
The other event treated of in this pamphlet
was incident Of the war of 1872. Pigeon
ItOOSt was the name OF a small out prosperous
settlement in what is now Scott county, In
DIANA and located about five miles south of
Scottsburg, the present county-seat. A mar
rative of the events preceding the massacre
would partake too n1uch of the character of
general history for this place. It is enough
to say that the border tribes of Indians every
where were excited and infarned by the
intrigues of the British. On Sept. 3,
1872, band 4 of Indians attacked
the settlement at Pigeon Roost and killed
three men, five women and sixteen children.
After mutilating the bodies of their victims
and setting fire to the houses, the Indians
made off to the north. News of the mas
sacre soon SPREAD Armed men fastened to
the scene, force of Clark county militia was
soon on the ground, and numbers of Ken
tuckians hurried over to assist in the work of
retaliation. The Indians were followed some
distance without being overtaken, the
pursuit was finally arrested by high waters,
and the pursuing party returned to bury the
bodies of the slain. This event occurred only
four years before Indiana was admitted to the
Union, and within the memory of some now
living. Mr.. Martindale has industriously
collated the history of these two Incidents,
and his pamphlet is an interesting contribu-
ton to our early history.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-08
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

SPRINGyfELD Union: How would it work for
the womon suffragists to colonize and govern
the territory of No Mans Landl
New HAVEN farmer has paid his thirtieth
annual visit to his imprisoned son. He exhibits
devotion deserving of nooler offspring.
In one Of his earliest works Professor Asa
Gray remarks that he has examined, in pursuit
of his botanical researches. asters and
golden rods than any other living person
THE great granddaughter of Robert Morris, of
revolutionary fame, is seeking admission, at the
age of seyenty-four to an old ladies' home at
Washington. and needs 800 to pay the entrance
fee.
ROBERT Louis STEvENsoNs wife has left the
Adirondacks for short period. She is in
Philadelphia for the first time in her life. She
says she is impressed by the cleanliness of that
city
THE violin King, Joachim, has temporarily
lost the use OF one of his fingers. and has gone
to Amsterdam to see if the famous massage
OPERATOR DIR. Merger, can restore it to it's func-
tons.
Mrs MARY GALLAGHER, of South Bethlehem,
Pa, is one hundred and four-years old, and re-
Gently danced Jig to the music of a violin.
She belongs to the famous family of the l.. H
G. Galfaghers.
i'MEN are not aattered by being shown that
there hns been difference of purpose between
the Almighty and themselves" is the dry refec-
ton made by Abraham Lincoln in private let
ter to Thurlow Weed, just published in the Mag
azine of American History.
FoEjthe lives of the Miller family, lost in the
disaster at Koutz. the Chicago & Atlantic Rail-
way Company agrees to pay follows: For the
father 81 ,200 mother $500. three children. 800
each and for the injuries to the surviving boy,
Herman, "a, 900. Talk of life held cheap in
timei
WASHINGTON Letter, The average statesman
Il. L. vv;% al b.,t
he must be an author as well. We have book
writer's now in both houses of Congress and not
9 few of the Senators white for the magazines.
l have already toldyou of Ingallss novel, and he
is contributor to the American Review and
paper syndicates asking for articles. and the
piice often runs as high as $75 per column Sem
ator Sherman writes for the North American
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they are themselves old, should parents sur
vlve so long In this land of enlightenment
and civilization it is different. The rising
generation is taught by precept that respect
and tender consideration due the aged,
but in practice the attention the latter should
have is too often paid to youth in
ste..u 1t is not always the fault of youth
that this is so. Fathers and mothers
who do not demand and compel Difference
from their offspring have themselves to blame
if it is not given them. The flial instinct,
when not guided and trained, is no more to
be depended on for full development than
many another human trait We are apt to
fatter ourselves that our best and most
amiable characteristics are natural and not
acquired gifts; but it is better to make sure
that the coming men and women have &C.
quired them than to trust to nature for their
bestowal. The parents who efface them
selves for the sake of their children are not
teaching the lesson those children should
learn, namely: that their first duty and their
last is to serve and honor those who brought
them into the world. Such parents will suf-
fer for their error, but they should not
wonder at the selfshness which leads their
sons and daughters to monopolize all rights
and privileges; it is the inevitable outcome of
the lessons they themselves have given. The
Sears of the past and of to-day reap ingrat-
itude and cruelty because their foolish in
diligence was the seed of selfshness in the
youthful minds. The plant is one that comes
true from such seed.
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FIIIAI, INGRATITunE.
And so say we all.

II was the story of Lear with variations,
that tragedy which had its elimination in
suicide in a lonely Allen county graveyard
the other day; but the ancient tale lacks
some elements that make this most pathetic.
Lear, driven slowly to madness, died of grief
when the one faithful daugh ter was no more;
the farmer of eighty years, suffering from a
daughters ingratitude, turned instinctively
in his despair to the wife of his youth. She
who would have comforted him lay buried
under the snow, but to that spot he wandered
and with his gray head upon the mound above
her, shed his blood that he might 60 to her.
1t is indeed tragic story.
There are countries where such an affair
would never have occurred. In China, for in
stance. or Japan-those lands we so compla-
Gently call 'heathen"-no aged father would
have been forced by the ingratitude Of child
to seek relief in death. Filial love and rever-
ence become ilial piety in those benighted
regions; the sentiment Of respect for the aged
is not only incorporated into the heather re-
ligion Of these people. its practice is part of
their daily life. Children deny themselves
the necessaries and comforts OF life that
parents may be provided for; they are subject
10 parental control and even discipline until
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-08
THE ROMANTIC "IAGK.u

There must be something in name, else
how can the peculiarities of the names given
by novelists to their heroes be explained.
The cognomen borne by the heroine seems to
matter little, though fashions change some
what in regard to the general style of appella-
ton bestowed upon her. In the earlier works
of fiction the female characters bear stately,
many -syllabled names, and are themselves
possessed of a dignity which forbids the
thought that any pet diminutive could ever
have been substituted, even by the fondest
lovers, for the full baptismal title. Later,
the "Rebeccas' the ''Amandas'' the .'Arf-
gelinas," the 'Ermengardes' made way for
the more romantic "Rosamonds," 'Lilians,'"
and "Violets;" and these in their turn retired
to make room for '.Kittie," and "Jessie,n and
"Nellie," and 'Lizzies." Just now the young
women in the world of fiction are affected by
the realistic tendency of the times, and are
known as plain. everyday "Janes, and
"Marthas," and cannes"
Through all these changes, however their
authors particularly those of the feminine
gender, have remained true to one hero, whose
name is "Jack." If there is one female
story-writer who does not number "Jack"
among her favorite creations she is dwelling
and publishing in obscurity. Jack is pre-
eminently a woman's hero, and, curiousIy
enough, the legion of heroes who have borne
the name have striking family resemblance.
~ T. ~ 4, =
of high animal spirits, is gay and rollicking,
and given to the playing of pranks; when occa-
sion requires, however, he can be serious and
thoughtful, and when trials come he is sure
to develop great nobility of soul and frequent
ly becomes such monument of self-sacrifce
as to exasperate all others than his admiring
historian. He is not always handsome, but
he never fails to show in his clear eye the
highest qualities of manhood to discerning
observers.
It is impossible to say why the feminine
ideal of manhood should be personifiej in a
person named Jack. The reason for it is &C.
cult, but is none the less strong. It is not a
matter of association or familiarity with actual
individuals possessed of that name. Jack
does not figure very extensively in real life,
and when he does is not invariably the sort of
man so fully described by the novelists.
"Jims" are more common, but Jim is obvi-
ously not proper name for woman's hero.
"Blls" are numerous, but Bill is too suggestive
of the stable-not the aristocratic frequenter
thereof, but the mental. Neither dob" nor
Sam" are fitted to figure in the ballroom
and the tennis field with the same ease and
grace with which they move in the counting
supposed to be equal to any emergency in life.
and SO Jack is chosen; but why not "JohnP"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-08

THERE is no difference between the man who
fires a gun and the one who advises it; but there
is a difference between a man who throws q
bomb and the one who gives the advice. This
is the shadogy border land between socialism"
and anarchya according to expert testimony. It
is the difference between gunpowder and dy-
Mantle. a
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slain with |. Corn-Knlfe.

RIsrsG Sun, Ind, Jan. TAT East Bend. KY.
yesterday while Charles Lggett and his brother~in-
law named Kent were engaged in pressing hay, .
quarrel arose. during which Kent seized knife
aud almost severed Liggetts head from his body.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-08
TWELVE PAGES.

The Sunday Journal has double the Cir
culation of any Sunday paper in Indiana.
Price five cents.
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MINOR MENTION.

The University Herald. of Syracuse, N. Y
issues a supplementary holiday number which
contains history of the university, and finely
engraved views of the various college buildings
This institution has developed rapidly since its
incorporation sixteen years ago Liberal en-
downments have made it possible to establish
the many departments which properly entitle
the school to the name of university Under the
management OF Chancellor Sims, who was
called TO the place IN 1851, the growth of the
university has been remarkable, and it now af-
fords the Methodist Church Of New York and
the East institution OF learning of the high.
est class and one that had long been needed. 1t
was one OF the FIRST of the Eastern colleges to
adopt the plan of co-education so general in the
West
AS nothing has been seen or heard of the lost
lumber raft since it started on its solitary
cruise, the inference is that it has to pieces
and that the logs shifting for themselves.
What will become OF themi The pilot chart of
the North Atlantic Ocean for January says that
most OF the logs will probably drift TO tho south
ward to point about 500 miles east from the
capes Of the Delaware. Hero they win soon get
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-01
BUSINESS propertp for Sale ano 60 Get

DOMINIC Grand Central Depot on l3d.st, attractive
"a. larte pate glass fronts heat Apply
BUILDINGS, STORES, LOFTS AND OFFICES TO
ian Nsd on Beekman, Ann, Fulton, John, Pearl Will.
WHITING, Beekmsu.st
IA ,WOosrERsT., NEAE BRooME-sT.-subs,in-
ga nke.sIory warehouse and manufsetory fun ot
s-oss"oyi liberal terms Or lease 81, 200 immediate
YS.sessaon EDWIN ELY, 103 Gold-st
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-01
Real estate.
From The New.York Times of May 81. 1888.

"Tne departure tho method o. abort loans ~ de-
scribed in those columns week Artlcle. entitled
Change in the Method of Obtaining Loans" COM
mcuting the advantages real estate owners &c.
cured by the practice of the Holland. Atlantic and
Nassau Trust Companies she Homo Life Insurance
Company. the sing sing Hudson, Pcekskiii, River
head and Savings Banks. which now freely &C.
eept loans when the title h guaranteed BY
tho Tile Guarantee and Trust Company has excited
much and comment all who are Interested
IN real estate this city. There is hardly any division
OF opinon in regard to the desirabty the early
cess OF the methods described in that article. The DIFF
ncuty getting loans upon real estate has been deplored
for so many years that the of by
which loans may be had promptly upon real estate
securities upon securities Of any other kind JOY
fully welcomed on all sides. :. Meanwhile
sentative and prudent agents advising their clients
to have their titles insured when purchase This
will facilitate quick loans when wanted for the insurng
company VIII need merely extend It's guarantee,
operation requiring but few hours