The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-17
suNFLoWER sHADow1NGs.

sUNFLOWER SHADOwINGs.
Only two women voted at the MuscotaI
election
Kansas wheat IS all right. 1t leads that
Of the rest Of the states.
The race problem in Kansas is confined
almost wholly TO Olathe.
Chetopa has struck oil, and it expects as
a natural cOnseq that boom viii
strike 1t.
1t is a remarkably short space of time
before the voice of the watermelon viii De
heard in the land.
Work has been recommended on the
state capitol bat the building will hardly
be done in time 10 move II west.
What is the matter with Buffalo Jones.
Hitherto he has managed 10 have one item
about the herd at least once week
= deaf mute al the Olathe institute set
$500 ems in two hours and fOrty-five
minutes lie will not have any race
troubles.
The commissioners of Reno county have
purchased so acres of land four and halI
miles southeast OF Hutchinson for a poor
farm. The price paid was $500
Society item from the Fredonia Demo
Graf: Mrs Baughman last Monday gave
q dinner 10 the six young married ladies
who have babies and who formerly were
associates.
The Leavenworth sun is filing its col
umns with boom matter for its town. Ii
said recently that large per cent Of the
cOnylctS released from the penItentl6ry re-
main III that city and become citizens.
On the evening Of Chancellor Shows
election he left Lawrence for Topeka, and
the university boys shouldered him up aud
put him on the train. The university con
tingeut at Lawrence is dramatic or moth
ing.
They are having hard time at Emporia
trying TO place the responsibility of the
census frauds committed in Lyons county
during several years past, whereby the sal
yond what they were entitled TO. Nobody
seems TO blame.
Wilson County Citizen: The canning
company has received seventy-iive bushels
Of peas for seed in the past two weeks
having contracted for the planting of sew
euty-fve acres to this vegetable. The com
pany has also contracted for the planting
of 200 acres TO early sweet corn, and Is pre-
pairing to take care OF a large crop OF tOma-
toes. The cannery enterprise Is q dead
sure go. " and VIII be a success If success
is possible.
The highest priced public sale that has
been reported in Riley county for four
years occurred the other day near Man
haitian. Fifteen yearling steers averaged
Sl6 10; 80 2-yeaJ-Old steers averaged S5U.U3;
p 3-yeaT-oId steers averaged S44, and 100
cows and heifers brought good prices
The corn sold at 1715 cents a bushel. 1t
isn't half as hard TO give things away in
Kansas now as it was SIX months ago, the
IL. G. Star thinks.
what is the greatest book in the En-
glish language" asked reporter of Sen
atOr ingalls,. Now, Senator ingalls, did
not say Shakespeare, nor Beacon, but he
reflected moment, then stepped over 10
a bookcase and taking down a small bible,
turned over few pages. The book of
Job" he said, lis the oldest and in my
the highest production of the
human intellect. 1t is specially interest
ny because it shows that humanity at the
lawn of history was engaged in consider
ng the same problems that people are now
the existence OF evil. the
affections and mlsfOrtuneS OF the good III
his world and the prosperity OF the wick
ID. We have made no progress in solving
hese problems. The barriers are insQr-
nountable. The centuries are silent. The
Oul struggles, asplTeS beats Its wings
gainSC the bars, hutters ana disappears. y /
The Frenchmen who came with De
3ourgmOnt gave French names 10 all the /.
Kansas rivers, but in the dark age which .
ollowed the destruction of Fort Orleans .
hey vanished and no man told the tale. .
The traders who came later doubtless gave .
ther names, but of these the writer can
emember the Nerdigris as now remain
ng. The streams named by the Indian .
nd Erenchman are now known by roman
ic English appellatiOns, "a Short creek.
~ nd ar4l &4uH sraaL- and Inv.
reek. In Kansas literature, as has been
aid, the Freucnman IS passed by, and one p.
My hears of Colorado and MulgareS, vet
hese merely came and went, while the /
french fingered about for a century. built
orts and 50 lar Influenced the Indians that .
here is a tradition that Kansas Indians .
we're present at the defeat of BraddOck and F..
o fought against George Washington
Noble Prentis.
erator ingalls, Interview.
The axe is essentially devout and reli- .
riOuS. The mind has been largely eUancI-
,ated from superstition and from Creeds, /
md has entered upon an excursion tuat
annot be foreJOld, but that Is certain 20 .
)e mOmentOus. The authority Of the .
hurCh has undoubtedly been greatly .
weakened and impaired. but this does not
IMPLY that religion IS retrogradinE As .
he age advances it clothes God with .
higher attributes, and dignifies Him with .
more lofty functions. because il Is capable .
# nobler conceptions. The gloomy and .
ueXOrable God of the Puritans has disap- /
jeared. He has been succeeded by q -u- .
,reme Being Of infinite mercy. tenderness !
md goodness; q ruler, law maker, leg /
slatoT subject 10 limitations and restraints
imposed by His own per.eCtueS-. There .
vas profound truth in the declaration OF .
tCltaire, that if there were no God il /.
would be necessary for man TO invent one. I
This is hippant and irreverent, perhaQ-,
}Ut true God is indispensable. Man per
elves this, and the higher his develop
neuu~ the more distinct Is his perception.
Ile popularity Oh IugersoI and his school +.
5 NOT an indication of iufidellJy. but Is I.
ather the strongest evidence Of the reii-
nous spirit of the time. It's receptiVIty. it, /.
for instruction. ir- hunger and /
hir,t for knowledge about wi.at can never /
~ known. No age has ever been - pro .
oundiy moved by the consideration Of the /.
problems Of she hereafter as this, and 7
ave no doubt that lu response 20 tle +
earCh for eternal truth another Christ 1
sill come and another revelation be made. .
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES (
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