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me SUFFERER .BCFlCk0u uuCU u0abH is
"the only son of his mother and she
a widow"
Yet, although no rational Christian
ventures to assert that prayer will
in all cases cure illnesses, avert dis
asters, or secure rain, there can be
no question of the amount and i'm
p%ortance Of the evidence that testi-
fes to what in our ignorance we are
obliged TO call "modern miracles"
Boston was described by a wild
Western man as "a place where
responsibility stalks unchecked" 1t
might also be defined as a city where
every form of agnosticism and doubt
claims and receives a welcome.
Nevertheless in this chosen home of
keen inquiry, searching analysis. and
irreverent incredulity, "fai'h-healing
has started up, and there are many
testimonies there to the effect of
prayer md belief on nervous and
other invalids. It is also asserted by
respectable Roman Catholics, men
of standing and intellect, that the
records Of Lourdes show many mar
vellous instances of recovery follow
ing a pilgrimage to the celebrated
grotto. Records attesting incidents
Of this kind in the middle ages are
read now with very natural doubt.
Those were ages of belief, not only
in all the articles of the Church, but
in a vast mass of s%uperimposed le-
gend. That witches could transform
themselves into black cats, that they
held public meetings in the air and
could turf men into wolves, were
matters which nobody doubted.
Therefore the attpstations Of that
day must be taken with many grains
of salt, for creduIiry rode rampant
round the world. In France or in
America, however, at this day the
witnesses and the believers fight
against an atmosphere of almost
universal scepticism. They are the
ridiculed minority, and yet they
stand to their guns. SO that we can
not D OF l6l' oIIOIS IL OIIOI IL
he, by saying that they have fallen
victims to the spirit Of the era. The
age is against them. 1t is at the present
day more fashionable to doubt than to
believe. Science has made great pro-
gress in it's Investigations INTO matter,
and n materialIstic spirit pervndes all
the utternnces of the most eminent
leaders of thought in our time. Con.
spquentIy we cannot treat the revival
of belief in Boston, in Lourdes, and
to some extent in England itself, as
an outcome of the credulity around
US. 1t may be more accurately des-
cribed as a partial reaction against
the domination Of science, which has
for some time negatived everything
that could not be perceived and re.
corded by the chemist or the e%lectri-
clan. All else was declared to be
lin gering relics Of medieval supersti-
ton. There. is at present a saner
spirit amongst a few leaders of the
period. TIE mesmeric phenomena
that were secuted half a century ago
by nearly. all The doctors are now
taken an nv the most eminent medical
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Faith Healing.
From the Daily TeLegrGph.)

The idea is associated with the novel
ties in religion and medicine for
which Yankeeland is famous, and is
regarded with equal aversion by holy
divines and eminent medical men.
The peculiar People," by letting
their children die rather than call
in a doctor, have thrown c%onsidera-
bic discredit on what was once an
implied portion of every Christians
belief. The story told by Canon
Wherefore is clear enough. He
writes II have no shadow Of doubt
that ! was healed by the Lords bless
ing upon His own word recorded
in st. James, bur, rs in SO many
cnses, there was sufficient margin Of
time and possibility of change of
tissue between the amounting and the
recovery to justify the sceptic in
discOnnectIng the two, and therefore
my experience has been Of more
value in strengthening my W faith
than in the direction of public testi-
mony. I cnn only say that my in
ternal ailment.was of such a nature
that leading surgeons declared it to
be incurabIe except at the cost of a
severe operation, which leading ply
sicians thought me unable at the
time to endure with safety. While
endeav0uring at the seaside to gain
strength for the operation, the pas
sage in ST. James was impressed
with indescribabIe force upon my
mind. l resisted it, and reasoned
with myself against it for two
months. l even came up to London,
and settled in a house near the emf
nemt surgeon that l might undergo
The operation but the spiritual pres
sure increased until ut last | sent for
elders-men OF God, full Of faith-by
whom | was prayed over and anoin-
ted, and in a few weeks the internal
ailment passed entirely away. this
was the Lords doing, and It IL mar
v~ellous in mine e eyes" The passage
10 which the Canon refers is that on
which the "Peculiar People build
their refusal to call in medical did for
themselves or their wives or children,
even at the last extremity. 1t runs
SIS my sick among you 7 let him
cnlI for the elders of the Church ;
and let them pray over him, anoint-
ing him with oil, in the name of the
Lord. And the prayer Of faith shall
save the sick, and the Lord shall
raise him up" Nothing could be
more conclusive, and yet, excepting
IN the case of the Peculiar People"
and Canon Wilberforce, this ordi-
nance is entirely neglected by the
great body OF Christians. We have
here what seems a glaring diserep.
ancy be,w cen the protested belief
of the Church and its actual practice.
The difference, however, IS not great
err than between other verses OF the
NEWS Testament amt the practical
creed Of modern Churcfmen, st.
James, also implies that if we pray,
like,E Elias iforqaT against rain, the
suuplieaadon will be answered. Far
mels know to the contrary, and many
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
CONTRACTION OF THE CURRENCY.

The treasurer's report estimates that
our circulating medium decreased dur
ing the last year 1913, 100000, and Presi-
dent Harrison refers to this fact in his
message. If the amount of surplus rev.
enue lying idle in the treasury was add
ed to this the contraction would be more
than double.
On the effect of contracting the cur
reucy, the United States monetary COM
mission, in its second report, says:
In the whole history of the world
every great and general fall of prices has
been preceded by a decrease in the money
volume There has never been a de-
crease in the volume of money. nor has
there ever been a stationary volume of
money, unless accompanied by station
airy population and commerce, which has
not sooner or later resulted in a general
fall of prices, and there has never been
a recovery therefrom except through a
preceding increase in the volume of
money.
Commenting on the same subject the
Homestead, the D incipal agricultural
paper of Iowa, says:
Two VI the great nlnurances 10 agri-
cultural prosperity hindrances that
have been gradually forming for years as
a result of the lack of farm organization
are the decentralization of silver and
the inevitable contraction of the national
bank circulation through the paying off
of the national debt. There is no princi-
pie OF finance more clearly established
than this \ stringent money market in
New York or Chicago, unless caused by
q manipulation of the market. which is
apparent and therefore temporary, is
quickly followed by contraction of loans
in all parts of the United States. Banks
refuse to lend or renew and force collec-
tons. Borrowers have to raise the
money and they do it by selling pro-
duets. These are forced on the market
and prices fall.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
Butler Favors the Movement.

Ell DORADO, Dec. Is, 1889.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.
| have of late been reading with some
interest the articles in the EAGLE on
forming a mammoth immigration
society to include the state of Kansas
l have been engaged for six years in
working up immigration on a small
scale, hence have an opinion whether
it is worth anything or not. The year
1890, to my mind, is the most favorable
time we have ever had to procure immi-
grafton to this state. Among the many
reasons that appear good l will name a
few: First, the uneGualed crop of the
year SO. having never been equaled by
this or any state in the United States
Second. the chespness of our land; think
of land this year raising eighty bushels
of corn per acre selling for from IS
10 S15 per acre, and that in counties
that have more miles OF railroads. school
houses, churches and as intelligent
population as any of the town sizes Of
the older states east, where land is sell
ing FROM $50 TO SO per acre. As TO
climate, we will not mention 1t.
Third-The people east are looking TO
the west, and having raised good crop
this year will enable them 10 sell their
lands and seek homes in the sunny land
of Kansas
The writer Of this article has Just
returned from Indiana, and | must say
the people are eager for information
about the state. | firmly believe thai
with the proper effort we can bring into
this state and add 10 our population any
where from 1900 to 10000 Deon.e
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20

ANOTHER KANSAS BOOK.

From the Kansas Chief
We have received from the publishers,
the Cincinnati Standard Publishing COM
pany. q copy of the Personal Recollec-
lions of Pardee Butler" with reminis-
cences by his daughter, Mrs. Rosetta B.
Hastings 1t also contains fine por-
trait of the late MIR. Butler. Pardee But
Ter was one of the early settlers of Atchi-
son county, where he had some rough
experiences, among them being his fam
nous voyage down the Missouri river on
a raft, on which he had been placed by
the border ruffians at Atchison. The
book contains good deal that is of in
terest, both to the old settlers and those
of later date. Mr. Butler was a minister
of the Campbellite church, having been
converted in Ohio under the preaching
of the celebrated Alexander Campbell
himself, the founder Of the church.
Members of that church will especially
enjoy the book, as it contains many in
cidentS relative to church matters.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

| A Reno City poet sings:
| In green and pleasant valley,
| On the North Canadians shore:
Where the red men oft did rally
| In the days of well remembered yore;
In this ancient noted valley
Sprang a city widely known.
And for it scores did tally
| For which the facts are. clearly shown.
In this town upon the banks
Dwells men considered wise and witty
Also others who are merely cranks
Aud a detriment TO any city,
Those who are with wisdom best,
And the others we do pity,
Say it is divine behest.
That the coming towns Reno City.
Reno City is limiting around for board
of trade.
"Oklahoma Bill is a mighty important
parsonage in Washington at present.
The Oklahoma climate is one of those
few thingt on earth that can strike u
golden medium.
Reno City is going to surprise the coun-
try some day By prOmulgatIug the build
ing of street railway.
Alfred has school with twenty
scholars. and about half of these are TO be-
come our future presidents.
1t is sincerely hoped that Mr.. Springer
will include law for the suppression Of
poets before the spring attack
It is to be hoped that some day this side
of the nineteen hundreds that the Choc-
taw road and Oklahoma City Will concil-
late.
Many people anticipated this beautiful
wealth er for Oklahoma, but they didn't
count on having the house fly with them
all winter.
Every one that comes 20 Saltwater saws
il is the best town for its age and size IN
the territory, or at least that Is what the
Standard says.
Oklahoma City's ice factory is not very
busy at present, but how IL Will go next
summer N case the present weather keeps
growing warmer.
Oklahoma City's theater has collapsed
and the actors are going TO give them
selves benefit. Oklahoma Is not so Ear
from civilization as some people think.
Fl Reno which has been, hitherto, a vsry
peaceful settlement, will conform "a the
Oklahoma fashion, and quarrel little
over the location OF the Rock Island depot
Reno City Capital: One Of our local
dramatists has written farce called The
Blister" OF course it will draw well. The
first performances viii be given at ii Reno
J. B. johnson, OF Topeka. ard James
IeCgett are both mentioned as aspiraDts
for the goyernorship Of Oklahoma terri
tory. This will ralse howl In Oklahoma.
The Reno City Capital deals iis patrons
a compliment and the oodurate merchants
a soaring by saying that oaly the live
husiuess men Of the city advertise ia The
Capital
The Saltwater Standard received rins
new subscriptions in one day and yen c4n
lust !rnagine from that the way tue towp
is walking OF n leagus boots with the
boom iaureis-
saltwater Is going 70 have another bar
Der shop. This - accounted for bcczuse
there are SO many young fellows dawn
there who shave their rsrtstache twice =
week 20 maze j. come quick
Ii crSts the gsG9a C5erokeeS Se27 90 d
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
SOME MORE REBELLION.

The editorial we Of the EAGLE is all
out of sorts this morning. We are dis
| gruntled, mad. Something has gone
wrong. Everything seems wrong. Money
is scarce. Times are hard. The laborer
| does not receive his hire value. The
farmer is getting nothing for his work,
and nothing for the money invested in
his farm or appurtenances, and nothing
for all that he..raises or does. In short.
none of the wealth-producers of the
country, the Drawn and muscle, have
anything to show for all their exertions.
There are too many trusts and too many
combines, too many politicians and too
many officers. There is total want Of
interest or of sympathy by the classes
for the masses. There is too much
boodling. There is no adequate compre-
hension upon the part of our law makers
of the needs sof the people, nor of the
abuses of the seemingly privileged. The
congress of the United States gets farther
and farther away from the people.
and hig her and hig her in their own
be heard and leglslate only in
their own interest and that of their
natural allies and friends. Instead of
stopping the flow of untold millions Of
surplus, all drawn from the people, they
only study ways and means to get rid of
it, to squander it, SO that the treasury
may not absolutely absorb the last soil
tary dollar of the country. They create
innumerable and worthless offices, spe-
cial agents for this and superintendent
for that by the hundreds and thousands,
charging duties here and spreading ex-
penses there. Chicago CANDLES on the
sweat of the west and grows fat on the
life blood of our people, while New York
in turn CANDLES on all of the realty
values Of the country as represented by
bonds and stocks and rules the peoples
rulers through the power of their gold.
Combines and trusts, and steals by fore
closure, and robbery by option dealing,
are pauperizing the nation, yet congress
for the next nine months will discuss
ballot-box stuffiDg and race inequality
in rounded periods and wind up
by shoveling millions upon millions of
dollars of the peoples money into the
pockets of useless officials, into the bags
of contractors, into the bottoms of shall
low creeks and mud bays and bitches. A
thousand unseen and unknown agencies
are, with the insidious suck of vampires,
fattening off of treasury which is kept
ever and over full by legalized extor-
ton. They even talk of building more
ships to rot, only that a frightful sur
plus may be kept down. What does
America, with not a single foreign de-
tendency or single detached dominion
to protect or care for, want with navy?
Is it to protect her commerce on the
high seas? Where are the seas and what
the commerce?
Then, let alliances organize, let labor
unions organize, let trades societies
organize, let oranges and wheels and
farmers protective associations organize,
and let all these organizations combine
and when combinted cali for hearing
and settlement with the cognizant and
as we'll as with hidden powers and
springs, and mainsprings, which all
stand combined on the other side, and
which have held the innings long
enough.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
War in 1890

The American people have become SO
accustomed to hearing rumors Of ap-
preaching wars in Europe that they have
learned TO treat such rumors with anus
ed indifference: but with so many fire
brands upon continental thrones it is not
unlikely that the year 1890 may behold a
colossal clang of arms. 1t is an open Sc
cret that Herr Krupp, the great ordnance
maker. talks, or at least thinks, of trans
porting his mighty works to the shores
of America. krupp is man of fore
sight. and he shrewdly suspects that the
continental war which he considers i'm
minent will materially affect his inter
estS. He naturally looks for security and
fair field to a land which compIacently
contempiates its defenceless coasts. and
cracks jokes over Its infant navy. When
the mighty conflict which Is 10 change
The map of Europe does come the United
states will not be tie loser
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
Seward Joins the List.
SPRINGFIELD. Kan. Dec. IS. 1SS

SPRINGFIELD, Kan, Dec. IS, 1889.
To the Editor of the Eagle
You are sound on immigration.
Count us in. We will be there on Janu-
airy -, with plans to take care of our
section. We have the finest land in the
world and we want permanent Imml-
grafton bureau in Kansas to bring farm
ers here, and we can risk their being
satisfied. We are ripe for immigration.
The state is, and what we now need is to
get together at Wichita and adopt sys-
tematic plan of cooperation, then 90
home and get the people together, COM
pile QUIZ facts, and IN brief get ourselves
before the world as we are, and we won't
have room enough in Kansas to take
care of the people that will come here in
the next four years. This convention at
Wichita will bring to light the necessary
plan for working out our way in this
matter. It's the thing to do. Let
every county organize at once. We will
name our delegates to the convention in
few days. L. E. kEIFFER.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20

year to run their government. Counting
them IN families Of five it would require
an average tax o. SOL from the head OF each
family TO meet the yearly expenses.
Hotel Caddo at Reno City. the finest ho-
tel In Oklahoma, is to be opened with "A
grand bali on the 21st OF this month. The
Fort Reno band will furnish the music,
and the supper and entertainment will Dc
the best that can be furnished.
The wheat throughout Oklahoma gives
wonderful promise The fields are daily
growing greener and the ground is mat
ting over more thickly Wherever a grain
Of wheat has fallen on the ground u is
making d vigorous growth. Wheat plant
ed as late as the middle Of November in
some fields covers the ground
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
WICHITA Kan De

WICHITA, Kan, Dec. 10, 1889.
Mr.. Hale Cowley, Secretary Kansas immigration
Bureau:
Dear Sir:-I have noticed with great
deal of interest the Inauguration of a
state immigration movement, and reply
ing to your communication, would say
that apprehend for it very flattering
results should you pursue the methods
which seem to have been adopted to
make it Kansas movement. a state
measure entirely unsectional, and believe
that almost unlimited good can be ac-
complished by this plan of operation.
The class of immigration most essential
to our farming interests at this time,
when our rich lands are, as is we'll
known, wretchedly cheap, can be at
tracted to Kansas through united eff
fort on the part of state organization
of this kind, which l hope will be per-
fected, and good results will certainly
follow; and would suggest that coop
Grafton of each county in the state will
be strong feature in the movement.
Yours respectfully,
LYMAN u. HUMPHREY,
Governor OF Kansas.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
CAROLINA VS.. KANSAS FOR CORN

Kansas is something of corn pro-
ducing state: in fact, has prided itself on
being pretty we'll to the fore, both in the
aggregate yield for the state and indi-
vidual farms and particular acres. 1t is
no uncommon thing this year to see over
one hundred bushels gathered from a
single acre and even for whole fields and
farms. But report comes up from
South Carolina which if true knocks
Kansas off the corn pile. 1t is that
Captain j. Drake, a prominent farmer
of Marlboro county, has gathered the
phenomenal yield of 254 bushels and
forty pounds of corn from one acre.
This beats the worlds record, the high
est yield heretofore, as is on record at
the national department of agriculture,
being 212 bushels and fraction raised
by DIR. John w. Parker near Columbia,
S. c.. in 1853. Captain Drake is COM
peting for a 81 GOO prize offered for the
largest yield of corn per acre. Some of
Kansas enterprsing farmers should get
some of Captain brakes prize corn and
demonstrate its real capabilities. If it
will produce 254 bushels per acre on
Cardinals bleached sand fields, it would
undoubtedly yield 500 bushels per acre
on some of our matchless loan lands.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-20
The Lesson of the Verdict.

From the Chicago Tribune,
The verdict, even il it is not quite what
was expected, is yet severe enough to
teach the much needed lesson that no
men, no matter now patriotic their
professed motives, can set themselves up
above the law in this country; that men
cannot be tried by courts unknown to
American constitutions for offenses I'M
recognized by American laws. 1t is a
sharp lesson to men banded together for
the purpose of making war upon a nation
with which this country is at peace, who
collect funds with which to purchase
dynamite to be used in blowing up pub
lie buildings and numbering inoffensive
men, that that business must STOP No.
tIce is also served on them that. if their
leaders plumber them and use for per-
sonal profit money which it was meant
by the donors should be employed for
the purpose of taking human life, it is
not permissible to organize secret
tribunals which sentence to death the man
bold enough to protest against this diver
sion of funds.
1t is in word notice to the Gamma
Gael that it, with its abhorrent practices,
must go. Its works have all been for
evil. On the other side of the ocean it
has interfered seriously with Mr.. Par
nelrs plan for parliamentary agitation,
of which all Americans approve, and
which but for the assassinations and
other crimes of the Clan-na-Gael would
have made far more progress than it has
done. On this side Of the ocean it has
begged, robbed, he'd, stolen, been guilty
of every crime under the sun, winding
up with this reasonable attempt to set
up jurisdiction of its own within the
boundaries of nation which had well
coined its members cheerfully TO these
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