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The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.

(From the AtchisOn GlObe.)
Some men have as little sense about
money matters as widows.
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''W. D. VINCENT

1T will be difficult to adopt and carry
out any policy this congress, owing to
the great Republican majority in the
of the greenbacks. and am opposed to
the Sherman -Cullom anti-scalping bill.
1 am in favor of financial legislation.
such as free coinage of silver at the
ratio of Is to 1, legal tender for any
sum. favor the government issue of
full legal tender paper money. I am in
favor of a just and equitable bank
ruptcy bill. I am in favor of postal
savings banks.
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OIof Ekberg.
Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-17

''I have no settled policy in this con-
gress. except to fight the Republicans
whenever 1 think them in the wrong.
JERRY SIMPSON
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-17

Compliment some men, and they viii
consider that there was nothing else to
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-17

with such a Republican majority in
the house, Populists can hope to ac-
complish but little. We will try to pre-
vent the opposition from doing harm.
will help every good measure, regard
less of its author, and oppose all that
is bad. I shall do all in my power
against retiring the greenbacks and the
issuing of more bonded bank notes. L
am in favor of a bankruptcy bill, and
the recognition of Cuba. 1 intend to in
trOduce a bill to relieve pension appi-
cants from the necessity of proving
that they were abled-bOdied men when
they entered the service and from the
necessity of proving the condition of
their health ever since they were mus
tered out.
CIV n NTNCTTNJrT
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PEOPLE you Hear oE.

The estate of the late Neal Dow vii
amount to $3.50, 600.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-17

merchant tailor, 71s
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CASE BRODERICK." /"

MY individual plans in part are: To
reduce postage one-haIf on point print
letters written by the blind; to secure
a building for Kansas City, Kan, by
appropriation or donation of the old
government building in Kansas City,
Mo; to obtain for the state university
a claim for $4,000, and to give special
attention to the claims of individuals in
my district. In a general way L shall
oppose the annexation of Hawaii, the
construction of the currency, civil SER
vice a administered and 1 shall work
for postal savings banks, restriction Of
immigration and for Cuban belliEerency.
MASON ). PET 1ERS."
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II shan oppose an efforts 10 contraet

Il shall oppose all efforts to contract
the currency by the retirement of the
greenbackS or by their conversion into
gold certificates, as well as the efforts
of banks to secure the entire control of
our monetary system and all other
gold standard schemes; L shall contend
for bimetallism, for postal savings
bank system, for just prison legislation,
for Cuban independence, for the over
throw of trusts and combines to the
end that American producers and Ia
bOrers may be independent and for the
restoration of this government to the
people. L shall affiliate with all like
minded men and fight only the common
enemy. J. D. BOTkIN.'
Il hope to help in formulating and
passing during this session of congress
d good bankruptcy law, fair to all sec
tions of the country. I also wish to as
sist in devising and putting into opera
tiOn a postal savings bank system.
shall endeavOr to have Kansas divided
into two federal court districts. 1 shall
urge that provision be made for the
sale of the surplus lands belonging to
PottaWatOmie and KickapOO Indian
reservation in Kansas L Will aid in Sc
curing appropriations for public build
ings, and Tor other legitimate purposes
in our state.
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Il shall oppose the bankers scheme
as recommended by President McKin-
ley, to retire the green backs. 1 will
work for bimetaIlism and the expansion
of government legal tender, paper
money with which to retire all bonds
and bank money forever; for public
ownership and control of the means of
production and distribution, SO that
every Industrious citizen may get ready
employment, own and enjoy a free home
with plenty. I shall support the fnitia-
tive and referendum, the tablishme at of
a postal savings bank system without
interest; a service pension law, and will
work with my best endeaVOrs for the un-
ion of the people ovOte this government
out of the control of the trusts and
mOnOpOIies. E. P. RIDGELY."
I hope during this session to procure
$780, 600 to enlarge the government
building at Topeka, $4,000 for the erec-
ton of d new Indian school building in
Brown county and the passage of some
meritOriOus private pension bills 1
shall assist in securing the passage Of
a bankruptcy bill, some general pension
legislation, a bill for the relief of state
military and bill to settle the Indian
Territory questions.
"CHARLES CURTIS -
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If a woman is sick, and you want
| her to recover, don't tell her friends
] that she is sick.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-17

If we go to hell, we hope to find a lot
of practical jokers there. We have al
ways hated a practical joker
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THE LESSON STORY.

Paul. we surmise, had now been
year or more a prisoner in his hired
apartments in Rome. While it was
a hardness to him to be chained day
and night to a Roman keeper, it was
correspondinglY mercy to him that he
was allowed free intercourse with his
Christian brethren. Luke, his beloved
physician, was with him. Mark. now
fully restored to the favor he had for
feited, was his esteemed companion.
Aristarchus the Thessalonian, who had
been his attendant from the time he
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verted this soldier to the Christian faith;
the Gospel was thus becoming known
in the imperial army; some believers
we're even of Caesars household" Phil.
iv. 22.)
Oae of the number of Paul's converts
during this period is notable; namely.
Onesimus. fugitive slave. His owner
was Philemon. of the church in Colossal
in Asia. Onesimus had at some pre-
vious time robbed his master, and had
fl ed to Rome. In Rome he heard Paul
preach; the result was that he became
a believer in Jesus. He confessed to
Paul his crime and fight. Paul was
touched with pity for the repentant sin
ner; he believe in the reality of his new
life. The experience Of Onesimus was
not dissimilar at all points to Paul's
own. The rescued slave. still burdened
with his guilty memory, became one of
Paul's ministrants in his prison house.
1t was. we surmise. about this
ims, midway in his period of imprison
ment, that another of his trusted friends
and attendants. Tychicus by name. pur-
posed to journey into Asia. This gave
30 Paul an opportunity to send ,'epistol-
airy messages to certain absent bell evers.
Tire of his Letters, which he apparent
ly wrote at this period. have fortunately
been preserved to Us in the New Tesla.
ment canon.
One of these letters was to Philemon,
the owner of Onesimus; and with the
Letter he sent back the converted slave.
He requested however that the pecuni-
airy indebtedness oceasioned by the
slaves misdoing might be transferred to
himself, and he pleaded that the peni
tent bond man. who had been begotten
to the new life by an apostle in bonds,
might be received as brother beloved.
1.-THE Epistle to Philemon" interpreted
by the circumstances under which it
was written. affords insight into the in.
ternal working of the Gospel in Roman
society.
Another of these letters was sent to
the church in Colossal, of which Phile-
mon was member. This was one of
the churches which had been founded
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The Redeeaner.

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THE CHRISTIAN ARMOR.
Lesson vIII.-November FL, 1897.
INTRODUCTION.

Paul's fgurative recon mend alton
to Christians to take on the whole armor
of God may seem to US far-fetched; it
may not be easy for us to regard it as
real. But when we understand that
Paul wrote the recommendation with
Roman soldier in srmor standing by
him, chained to his right wrist, we can
not fail to see how real this imagery
was to him.
Paul was too observing not
to study intently the armor which he
continuously saw on his military COM
panion. His guard was in person stated
ly changed; but the same armor, in kind,
he saw on every representative of the
imperial army. We assume with Farrar
that each successive Roman soldier
would in hours of intimate conversation
"tell him in what tumult his helmet got
its fracture in what battle his shield
was dinted; what blow made that hack
in his sword under the walls of what
besieged fortress his armor had got
those marks of fire from the darts which
had been flung down wrapped in fam
ing tow"
With these things daily be-
fore his eyes. and with the knowledge
in himself that the Christian life is a
warfare as real as any ever waged in
Cae ,ar's name, how natural for him to
-ooononapd IN Chrintiana IN panOnly
themselves in the Gospel, even as the
Roman soldier was mailed in his metallic
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-11-13
SCHOLARS STUDY.

TIME. The Epistle to the Ephesians
was probably written in the latter part of
A. d. 62 or early 63.
PLACE-It was written in Paul's
hired house in Rome, which he occupied
for two years, chained to a Roman soldier
GOLDEN TEXT.-"Be strong in the
Lord, and in the power of his might. y
EPH. vi 10.
UNIVERSALIST CATECHIS NJ
XLVI How does the resurrection life
differ from the earthly life in its moral
part is corruptible, dishonorable and weak I;
the resurrection life in its spiritual inher-
itance is incorruptible, glorious and pow
erful. II Cor. XIV: 42-43.
CONTENTS OF THE EPISTLE.-1.
Salutation IL 1-3). 2. Doctrinal OBJ, B.
Practical (4-6) f. Benediction. Our les
SON. passage is from the third, the practi-
cal, section
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A PREACHERS REPORT
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Evening journal., 1897-06-19
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Prince Constantine might now fur
nish thrilling sequel 10 Mr. Browns
First Battle. .'-Cleveland Leader.
An earthquake shock has shaken
Greece. All sorts of powers seem to be
against the little kingdom. Baltimore
American.
Lieutenant Peary may never reach
the North Pole, but he will prove that
his ambition is never checked by fail
ure.-Baltimore American.
There is one consolation in the fire.
quent outburst OF General Weyler He
will probably be forced in time to eat
his own words.-Chicago Tribune.
American heiresses need not feel so
downcast. There will be a lot of new
dukes and earls created during the
English jubilee.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
An Eastern paper says the first mayor
Of Greater New York will be martyr
If he is a Tammany man about 3,O00,-
900 citizens will be martyrs.-St Louis
Globe Democrat.
Evening journal., 1897-06-19

for the country. Now. the beauty OF
this is that he cannot want 1t for him
self for as they say down East, he has
1t hand over ifist.' ITO turn away hun
dreds every day who apply for work
to keep the wolf from the door" drives
him into a fever 1t is no use trying
TO console them with the expansion OF
our country-for the powder Of pa
triotism is wet with tears" How an
noyingly emphatic a man is when he
turns his ears from his party and lis
tens to his fellow-manl Something
will have to be done with Mr.. Wana-
maker. He is rampaging among the
stuffed dolls Of the G. o. p, and the
sawdust is flying. Perhaps Mr.. McKin-
ley made mistake in not giving him q
foreign mission and keeping him abroad
while the doctrinaries talked about
prosperity and the wayfaring men OF
this prodigious country begged for
work.
Evening journal., 1897-06-19
CONTEMPORARY OPINION.
HOW THE HOUSE DOES BUSHES

HOW THE HOUSE DOES BUSINESS.
It is with pleasure and profit that
many persons both in and out OF poll
tics will read Hon. Thomas IS. Reed 8
article on How the House Does Busi-
ness" Mr. Reed recounts the Difficult
ties which wait upon legislation, and
shows how 1t came about that out OF
14,114 bills introduced into a certain
Congress only few more than 900
passed. IL is evident from this, how
ever, that Mr.. Reed is generalizing, and
does not mean his remarks to apply to
the session now pending. II is to
complete this deficiency that observers
OF the present Congress will be glad to
fill out in detail the description OF
how the House is doing business" Re-
duced to the form of program, this is
the method as now generally under
stood:
Monday morning. House convenes.
Prayer by the chaplain.
Cuban resolution introduced by Mr..
Bailey, OF Texas.
House adjourns until Wednesday.
Wednesday morning. House con-
venes.
Prayer by the chaplain.
Cuban resolution demanded by Mr..
Bailey, of Texas
Member asks Mr.. Reed when he is
going TO appoint committees.
House adjourns until Friday.
Friday morning. House convenes.
Prayer by the chaplain.
Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, demands free
dom for Cuba.
Speaker sits down on fresh congress-
man for remark about committees.
House adjourns until Monday.
Monday morning. House convenes.
Prayer by the chaplain.
House adjourns until Friday Of next
week.
And so on.
Mr.. Reeds article is very valuable
but II lacks the concise form which
would enable the mass of the common
people TO understand just what is hap
pening in his branch Of Congress-
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A FoOLIsH PROCEEDING.

We fail to see what incentive the Re-
publican members OF the Board OF Pub.
lie Education can have for setting up
a contest against ]. C. Singles. the
Democratic member-elect from the
Eleventh ward. 1t would be bad enough
for them to do so were the political
power OF the board almost evenly bal
anced, but the people have failed to
draw party lines in the selection OF the
men who compose the board. They
we're chosen for their fitness to dis
charge the official duties and not as d
mark OF political preferment. We have
no doubt that Mr.. Singles received as
many Republican as Democratic votes.
and that the Republican whom he de.
fated by the slender majority Of one
vote polled large number Of Demo
cratic votes. At the present time, II
partisan politics were to enter into the
mattar the Republicans have twenty Of
the twenty-four members Of the board
With Mr. Singles out the number
would be increased to twenty-one, and
the Democratic membership reduced to
three. It cannot be assumed that if
party lines were rigidly drawn in the
matter OF the selection OF these men
and a stiff fight set up in all the wards
by the Democrats, that the Republican
vote on the board would be 80 much
out Of proportion. Nothing but the
wisdom of the members OF the board in
keeping partisan politics out OF their
deliberations and actions has led to
this condition. But II they are going
TO start now TO rob one Of the four
Democratic members of his seat just
for tho mere pleasure OF pleasing a Re-
publican aspirant and weakening a mi
nority which is already too weak for the
public good, it will result in creating
feeling which will be good for neither
the public schools nor for the Republi'
cans who so wantonly abused the exer-
else Of power. Mr.. Singles Is a gooc
man. He was away from the polls dur
ing the entire time Of the voting. The
vote he received was voluntary on thu
part Of the people of the ward, an'
partlsanship found no place in it. II 4
easy for his competitor to cry fraud
but the board ought to be very char,
I'm dealing with such cry, for 1t is on'
which cuts both ways when small ma
jorities are involved. Mr.. Singles wa
raised In Cecil county, Md, and tn
Cecil County News, commenting on hi
election, concludes by saying that MI
Singles has always been a straightfor
ward, honest business man, and is wei
worthy the Office he has been electe
to hll."