Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-05-14

Jas. b. Ludlum of Coffeyville,
Kansas, was in town Tuesday. Jim
is travelling for the Osborne Ma
chine Company and reports busi-
ness very good.
Market quotations: There has
been a heavy fall in iron since the
first of the month. The bear move
nent has been confined chiefly to
the Manila market.
Those who have been accustomed
to ridicule and slander John Waua-
maker simply because he is a rich
man will now have a chance to imi-
tate his patriotism. He not only Of
fers to raise a regiment and go with
il to the front, but he proposes to
his employees that il they wish to
enlist against Spain their positions
will be reOpened to them when they
return; that in the meantime their
salaries shall continue, and that an
insurance of $1,000 will be carried
on each one of them while they are
engaged in military service. Rich
men may not be experts in going
through the eye of a needle, but
they are not totally depraved, new
ertheless.
The old Piizer GROUND, west of
Shawnee and Spring river has been
leased by 6. w. Holmes, Ralph
Stanley, S. ]. O'Neil, Owen Hedges
and A. ]. Rummel and two 9-inch
lift pumps put in. The pumps were
started up Saturday and as soon as
the ground is drained large mill
will be erected and the ground thor
oughly worked. At one time this
ground produced 100000 in a few
weeks, but work was stopped on ac-
count of litigation over the land.
The above gentlemen are very for
tunate in securing the land on
which they have l0-year's lease
Empire Journal. This land lies
about five miles northeast of this
city on the west side of Spring
river. The old dump piles show
that the ground must be very rich.
Rev. L. w. Foster began a series
of sermons last Sunday morning at
the NJ. +. church on Recognition
Beyond the Grave, or Shall We
Know Each Other in Heaven" Text,
Job 32:S-"There Is Spirit in Man."
That there ia but little known of
our existence beyond the grave
That none have returned from the
other world. That all go and re-
turn not, is granted at the COM
mencement. Three possible ways
of discussion: !. To assume every
thing and give wings to the i'm
agination and sensibilities. 2. AS
purely a doctrine of Revelation. B.
To submit 1t TO reason and to treat
it from all the facts within the cir
Gle of our intellect. We choose the
latter; yet, each will eventually aim
at the same result. First. That
man is both physical and spiritual
is proven by all men having con-
seriousness of self, that controls the
action of the body, of a force and
power that commands and drives
the machinery of the body. Sec
ond. The body is constantly chang
lug, but the spirit ever the same,
every atom of the body changing
every seven or ten years, but the
spirit retaining it's perpetual youth.
Thirdly. The mind is not the body;
none have ever discovered the in
tellect and the mind is great pic
ture gallery; more wonderful than
all the galleries of the world. be-
cause it photographs everything
that we have come in touch with in
our past lives and retains il all,
hidden though it may be for time,
but to return again with all the
brightness and freshness of but a
moment ago. The call of a bird or
the opening of flower may recall
to the old man. scenes of early
childhood. Lastly. Some of the
faculties of the soul were then taken
up. and as they are without form,
weight or color they cannot be of