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Year: 1878

In our columns this morning will be
found a lengthy extract from the Congress
siOnoi Record, giving report Of the debate
in the Senate on the proposition to restore
TO the pension rolls the names Of those sur
yivors Of the war of 1872, whose pensions
were cut off because Of their residence in
the South during the rebellion. 1t is in
teresting to the public at large, as setting
forth the views Of distinguished men upon
this question, but it is especially interesting
to Kansas readers, because it serves to show
the prominent part taken in the discussion
by Senator ingalls,.


This debate, and the reports Of other
debates upon other important subjects re-
ceived BY telegraph from day to day, show
that Mr.. Ingalls, takes conspicuous part
in the discussions of the Senate, and is
ranked among the foremost members Of
that body. His constituents will remember,
with pardonable pride, that very early in
his Senatorial experience he was compli-
mented by recognition OF the fact that he
was one Of the best presiding officers in
the Senate, and it is still more graf.
flying to know that he is regarded by
his fellow members, as we'll as by the pub.
lie at large, as one Of the leading men in
the Senate. During his FIVE years of service
Mr.. Ingalls, has done credit to himself and
honored his state.
Year: 1878

A number Of Missouri counties are trying
to compromise their railroad debts, and are
holding mass meetings on the subject
Platte county has a meeting to-day, at
Platte City, to be addressed by Henry Clay
Dean, and the people Of the county will
probably turn out en- nadSse. Several county
judges have been ordered to appear before
the L. S. Court at its March term to show
reason why they have not made the levy
according TO judgment obtained by the
bondholders. The people declare they will
resist to the last, and altogether the outlook
is favorable for series OF very interesting
Developments.
Year: 1878

Secretary Sherman informed the President
that the Director of the Mint thinks that in
a weeks time the mints will be in shape TO
coin three millions monthly This looks as
though the Administration expected the
silver bill to become q law-by the Presi-
dents signature or otherwise.


P-S.-Our dispatches received since the
above was written show that they expected
it to be done otherwise"
Year: 1878

The current number OF .Scribaer's Moouzine
has 9 paper by the editor, D.. HOLLAND,
entitled "An Epidemic of Dishonesty"
which is not worthy Of place in that usu-
ally excellent magazine, and We are in-
clined to think that the publishers will soon
discover that its publication was a very
grave mistake. The manner in which the
paper referred to will be regarded by at
least four-ffths of the people Of the United
States, is very trutbfully set forth in an
article which We copy elsewhers from the
Chicago Tribune-an article that deserves
to be copied by every paper in the west.
The editorial in Scribner's is one discussing
or reviewing, the silver bill, lately passed
by congress, and it denounces
the advocates and supporters Of that meas
ure in the most sweeping terms, as repudi-
ators, thieves, and everything else dishonest
and bad. We are accustomed to such
Language as this from certain class-or
rather two certain classes--of daily papers
in the eastern states; namely, those that
are owned and controlled by men who have
invested their money in them for the pur-
pose of using them as machines with which
to secure such legislation as will appreciate
the value of money and depreciate the
value Of labor; and those that are edited
by men who don't know any better. Scrib-
ner's Monthly is not supposed to belong to
either Of these classes, hence its fsh-wo-
man style Of argument is less e1cusable.
Again, the smart young men who write for
the daily papers frequently use such words
as thief and "repudia;or," in the hurry OF
daily paper work, when they really do not
mean anything halt so bad but Mr. Tit
comb lie not smart young man nor in
deed very smart old man-his paper is
not daily neither is it weekly it is is
sued only once a month and If, in the ex-
citement OF the moment he is betrayed into
writing something rash, unjust, undignifed
and untrue-like this silver article, for in
stance he has a whole month in which to
cool Of, TO bathe his head and correct his
manuscript Large bodies move slowly, we
know, but four weeks would certainly give
time enough for even the rAmmoth
mind Of the poet-editor OF Scribner's Month
ly TO move around to its sober second
thought; hence there is no escape from the
conclusion that the article in question is a
studied, deliberate and. cold-blooded insult
to the Congress of the United States, and to
four-fifths of the American people
Year: 1878

The President yesterday returned the
Silver Bill to the House, without his sig
nature, and accompanied by message set
ting forth his reasons for declining to ap-
prove the measure. 1t is needless to say
that We are sorry for this. We regret it
because We think the President has made a
terrible mistake our reasons for so think
ing have been SO frequently stated that it
is unnecessary to reiterate them here. The
action of Congress in 30 promptly passing
the bill over the veto, will be enthusiast
cally approved by the country.
Year: 1878

word kindly spoken-the right time and
May lift some dark soul from the depths of


disgrace:
May waken "A prayer on the altar of love
That entts In frultlOn with angels above:
We thus build IA ladder-each deed is a


round


ground;
For in aiding the least is involved the re-


ward
Enter tnou into the joy of the Lord"
Year: 1878

The adjutant general of the army informs
the military committee of the house Of rep
resentatiyes that in his opinion three officers
are sufficient to command a hundred enlist
ed men. The present proportion in the
army is said to be eleven to the hundred.
The ornamental fellows should be retired.
Year: 1878

We begin to see why there was SO much
ado about Capt. Eads' dredge-boats at the
jetties, for they apparently struck the
spring that moves the whole mechanism Of
commerce on this continent and have set
its clock-worn running in a way that fills
half the old centres of trade with utter dis
NAV.
Year: 1878

a genuine wine or popular spirit.


He enters a wholesale drug store
bearing a large basket upon his
arm. Five pounds of Iceland moss
are weighed out to him. To raw
liquors this imparts a smoothness
and oleaginousness that gives to
imitation brandy the glibness of
that which is most matured. An
astringent called catechu, that
would almost close the mouth of a
glass ink-stand, is next in order.


A couple of ounces of strychnine,
next called for, are quickly con-
veyed to his vest pocket, and a
pound of white vitriol is as silently
placed in the bottom of the basket.
The oil of cognac, the sulphuric
acid, and other articles that give
fire and body to liquid poisons, are
always keptin the store. The mix.
er buys these from various quar-.
ters, They are staples Of the art.
Year: 1878

to worse outrage than that for
which Baker suffered, he has re-
gained favor with his royal mistress.
| say nothing of the dinner given
him by the Duke OF Sutherland, by
which it was intended and pro.
claimed that Baker should be re-
stored to his former social position.
1t happened fortnight ago, OF
more, and in measure answered its
purpose. A dinner has since been
given Baker at the Marlborough
Club, at which the Prince OF Wales,
with the knowledge and approval
OF the queen, presided. Aud it is
everywhere stated that the queen
desires and intends to reinstate
Baker in the army, in which he was,
to do him all justice, one of the
most capable and brilliant officers.
But the hints thrown out to this
end have met with a reception of a
kind surprising to their authors.
There may not be much opposition
in society, where court influences
are all powerful, but in the country
it is different. Bakers crime was
too odious, and the memory of it is
still too fresh among people who do
not hold their sympathies and an
tipathies at the caprice of fashion,
| heard a man say lately that Baker
could not be put back into the army
without a revolution. No doubt
he oyerrated the strength of the in
dignation against him, but it must
be very strong indeed before a man
OF wide relations and good judg-
ment could estimate its force So
| highly.
Year: 1878

G. W. Smalley, writing from Lon
don on events Of the day, says:


"And then there is the lately
released convict and more lately the
mercenary of the porte, Baker
Pasha. When this man went to
prison for a gross assault on de.
ienseless girl, it was by the personal
urgency of the queen that he was
cashiered from the army and denied
the $4,000 or SO which was the
selling value Of his commission.
Her majesty properly desired to
mark her abhorrence Of his crime.
But since he has sold his sword to
the Turk, and done good service to
his master, for the maintenance of
a system of government under
which delenseless girls are subjected
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class of
community.


We desire our business men to make a note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
Using; for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisement in paper. especially their
church paper, take it as guarantee Of re-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not to
abused when it can be helped. We want.
therefore.
Year: 1878

A newspaper in the fullest sense of the word,
at once adapted to the Merchant, the Me-
cbanic. the Farmer, and everybody
desirous of keeping up with the
stirring news of this live and


progressive age.
Year: 1878

II the veil could be lifted from human
hearts, what hunger we should find for hu-
man love which is never satisfied With
many others the wine has given out. "They
have no wine" now. They go, indeed, through
the duties of life; but the spring is broken.
And many more never get what their ma
ture Graves | knew noble girl once who
hungered for human love as, it seemed to me
then, had never know any one to hunger.
Her life had been a cramped one. Her
father, a repellant nature, had never been
known to kiss his children and her mother,
selfish invalid, receiving constantly the
attentions of his noble daughter, without
giving any love in return. She told me one
day, while saying her prayers, she uttered
the cry OF her heart: 80 God give me
somebody to love me-" God appeared more
real to her than ever before, and seemed TO
bend over her lovingly, and to say "Wilt
thou let me choose for thee ?" She was
afraid he would deny her the desire of her
her heart and so she said Nc" to God,
"Give me human Lowell" A short time after
wards she married noble man, full of love
for her, on whom she lavished her affection.
One day while riding in her carriage, she
leaned back and said to herself d" am sat.
isfed now. | don't need God" Instantly
| tnlS passage ol scripture WAS dpplleu 10 nef
as though voice had spoken " She that
liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.


was only permitted to see her on her re
cepton day. Instead of the reception ex
pected, there was Grape on the door. ! en-
tered the bridal-chamber, where everything
was elegant where all that aifluence anC
taste could do to please the young bride haC
been done by the devoted husband. Blu
there he lay, the pride and idol of her heart
cold in death. Three weeks from the da,
they were married she turned one morning
TO say to her husband, My darlingl" bu


he was gone from her. And she was lef


desolate.


would not say love husband, or lover


or darling less. No. God wants you to low


them. But bring in the never-ending o


when they go there will be blank. Their


is love that holds on when death has taker
Many years ago ! tested the power of thi


love; and never since my darling child LEI
me in that long ago have | felt | had N
Mamie" She has had better surrounding
than her mothers, and has been cared for a
, could not have cared for her, and sti
J have my daughter We cannot love to-
much. ldolatry comes in cutting off fror
God, and that is SIM


I There are many women called rich. The
have everything that money can buy, an
yet have poverty of human love. II tn
! veil could be lifted from poor human heart


We would see not only poverty, but hunge
Year: 1878

No man, young or old, obscure or infa-
nous, is sure of his honesty in days like
these, who has not written over the portals
of his manhood Watch and pray" Watch
the coming of the faintest temptation to
your honor from afar. Watch your asso-
ciates in business-their principles of trade,
their habits of dealing, the drift of your
profession. Young women, watch your So
cial life, your tastes, your ambitions for
every day some family is thrown into en-
barrassment, and started on the road to fl
nancial ruin and disgrace by the thoughtless
or willful persistence of some women in


keeping up an appearance And, as you
watch, spray without ceasing." Hold every
bargain, every new plan of life, every sue
cess, up to the light of God. Take, as your
"silent partner in every transaction, him
who is the infinite truth, in whose presence
all unrighteousness, however splendid, shriv-
els into the weak and contemplate thing it
really is. o friends the pride that keeps
our knees tiff and our hearts defiant before
Almighty God is neither manly nor womanly.
1t is simply our cowardice that keeps us
hanging about the outskirts of our life, in.
stead of going up boldly to the mountain.top
of conservation, and giving ourselves alto


gether aud forever to the service of the inf


mite love we call our God-Chrisiidn Register
Year: 1878

The streets of New York-and of almost
any large city as well-at night present a
spectacle more saddening. more pitiful, more
fearful than any picture to be found in
Dante's Inferno. Beneath the gas lamp
from dark until long after midnight, wander
Increasingly, thousands of young girls. Their
eyes are fixed. They stalk like shadows
There is no merriment in their gait no joy,
no peace, no happiness in their look. How
ever well dressed, it is the same whited sep
uchre. For mile after mile these sad spec
tressess saunter along At each side street
they carry off their victims.


Who are these desolate ones that fill the
city with their ceaseless tramp2 Do they
come forth at night because they care not
for the society of their mothers and fathers
and sisters Alas no. These lost ones
have no homes. They are alone in great
world too busy to notice them or their mis-.
fortunes. Without a knowledge of the
world they are driven into the midst of its
vices and forced 10 earn a living by the only
means that is within their power. They
know nos the horrible abyss of shame, the
amplitude OF suffering, the depth of the dis.
tress to which that first step leads. And SO
having begun, they are carried on by the
swift current of crime about them. Do they
ever seek to escape They turn blindly fol
the meaus' but on every hand thew seem h, tr
he .hut in by a high wall separating them
from the resnectabIe world.


There is no recourse. and 90 wear afte,
wear. thew fall lower and lower and thei,
desnair grows deeper and deener nntiI death
takes them for his own and thar moor hor q,
are laid away in the potter's field.


There is another class of women in ON
cities. They are not as numerous as tbei
miserable sisters. They have wealth. The,
live in comfortable homes They have I'm:
hands and banpy children. Thar time i
Year: 1878

I am old aud blind
Nien point at me snitten By Gods frOw1i.
Afcted aud deserted Of my kind


Yet I am not cast down.


/ am weak set strong
I murmur not that no longer see;
FO0r, Old and helpless, the more belong,


Father supreme, TO thee.


q merclful one
when men are farthest, then thou art most near,
When friends pass by me, aid my weakness shun


Thy chariot hear;


Thy glorious face
Is leaning towards me and It's holy light
Shines in upon my lonely dwelling place


Aud there Is no more night.


on my bended knee
! recognize the purpose clearly shown
Ny vision thou hast dmmed, that my


Thyself thyself alone.


have nought to fear;
This darkness Is the shadow Of thy wing
Beneath It I am almost sacred here


Can come no evil thing.


o. seem to stand
Trembling, where foot Of mortal ne'er hath been,
Wrapped in the radiance Of thy sinlrss land,


Which eye hath never seen.


Visions come and go,
shapes Of resplendent beauty round me throng
From angel lips seem to hear the How


Of soft and holy song.


II Is nothing NOW.
When heaven Is open my sighticss eyes
Whrn airs FROM Paradise refresh my brow


The earth In darkness lies.


In a purer CLINE
My being fills with rapture waves Of thought
Roll IN upon my spirit strains sublime


Break over uns0ught,


Give me now my Tyre
feel the STRINGS Of a gift divine.
Within my bosom glows unearthly fire,


Lit by no SKIN of mine
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, May l6.-There is a rumor
tonight which has been traced to n source
that entities II to consideration. that move
ment is on foot TO break the Democratic ranks
tomorrow. Tho Republicans say there are
from fifteen to twenty-five Democrats who will
bolt. have found one man who says he has
been approached on the subject. He declined TO
go into II. but will not say who approached him.


Midnigh-It has been ascertained that T..
Kirke Hart OF the Thirtieth New York Dis
trct. is the man who has approached DEM
ocrats with proposition to bolt and
help the Republicans vote down the Pot
ter resolution. He has not the courage
to lead in such movement and will doubt
less vote with his party when the pinch
comes. He will have to face the music to-mor-
row. There will be a call OF the House il there
Is not quorum on the regular order-second-
ing the previous question on Potter's resolution
and the Democrats will order tho doors closed.
and fight II out on the line they have started on
till the Republicans weaken. or till they sold
out by their own side.
Year: 1878

The TERRIBLE SCREW WoRM.-Mr. Samuel
Myers is now lying bed-fast at his home in
this place, afflicted with that terrible
malady the screw worm. Mr.. Myers has
been sick of late with fever, and on Mon
day last while resting in bed one of the
flies alighted near his nostrils. 1t requires
but few moments for one of the flies to
deposit hundreds of eggs which are hatched
and are grown inside of an hour, many of
them as much as one half inch i'll length
Mr.. Myers, upon awakening, felt slight
tickling in the nose and it was not until his
eyes and face had become fearfully swollen
that the physician discovered the presence
of the worms. The only known remedy
was applied-calomel and carbolic acid
by injection into the nostril At first a few
would drop their hold and force themselves
out.


Application after application was made
with like results; up to last accounts there
had been l52 passed. The patient is in a
critical condition, with but slight hopes of
his recovery. The fly is much dreaded by
our stockmen and is represented as a dark
colored and fuzzy insect which generally
attacks cattle or any other animal that is
unfortunate enough to have blood upon
which they can alight.-Ddllas [ 1eras) In
| teLiqencer.
Year: 1878

Most of the oyster boats that were washed upon the
marsh at MahOn's River by the tidal wave still
lying where the receding water left them, only six OF
seven having been got ailoat yet Among those
who have been fortunate enough to get off is the
Protector, Captain Bagley The Captain left about
thirty yards from the river and he dug his vessel of
at cost of $50. Other vessel owners are using the
same canal that he cut to get his vessel Off Some
the vessels from present appearance will not be float
ed off this Winter The owners of different vessel
do not show the right spirit From what we gather
they will wait for their neghbOr to dig canal anC
then when he has got his vessel off they will use th
same for their vessel without cost.-Sdte Sentinel.


B- For additional County and state Items, see sccOn
| DdOe.
Year: 1878

"Coal Oil Johnny" according to the Pittsburg Pa)
Telegraph, has an imitatOr in that city Eleven


months ago fast young man had large fortune left
to him. but now the Spendthrift is almost as many


thousands in debt as he has fingers and toes When


boy blacked his boots he would invariably give the


urchin five dollar bill, and there was champagne
supper every evening.
Year: 1878

Prisoner at the bar" said the judge, "is there any
thing you wish to say before sentence is passed upon
your The prisonerlooked wstfully toward the door,
and remarked that he would like to say gOod-even-
ing, If it would be agreeable to the company. But
they wouldn't let him-HdtOkeye.
Year: 1878

When the trees leave out in Spring. they have new
dress: when the leaves turn in the FALL they have
another new DRESS aud when the leaves gone they
have nude dress-B0st0R Transcript.
Year: 1878

is composed of wide or narrow planks,
as the case may be. These are pulled
away, allowing the manure to fall, II
fine enough, to the ground-seyeral
heaps to the load. of irregular shapes,
and at irregular intervals. The conse-
quence is, when the field is planted or
sown, the crop is as irregular as the
piles, and thick or thin on the ground,
and in patches, as the case may BE-
Whatever the size of the heaps, they
should be as compact as possible, and
close enough so that no bare places will
be left in spreading. Tne question Will
here occur, why should manure be
thrown in piles at all? True enough.
Why not spread directly from the wag-
on? "Oh," says Procrastination, " 1t
takes too much time to spread from the
wagon" Does it take any longer IN
winter than in spring, or is time any


more valuable in the winter than at
blowing time Probably not. "BuJ, " says
another, = if it is spread in the winter
the heart will all leach out OF it." Very
good, where will it 90? Into the soil
That is Just where you want 1t, and tar
better so than to have the field made IN
even by having the soil soaked with ma
nure at the piles, to the detriment OF
places more remote from the heaps.
There may, indeed, be cases where the
manure had better remain in compact
piles, but these cases will be generally
when the manure will be better in the
ward at home until it is wanted to be
plOved under.


One special objection to the plan OF
leaving the manure in heaps is that
when laid on frozen ground, or when
the soil freezes under the manure, twill
not thaw out in time for early crops
There will be frost under the heaps Tor
a lone time after all other land is settled
and fit for crops. On the whole, we
should advise the spreading Of manure
directly from the wagon as hauled, if 1t
be green or strawy manure, or such as
is generally found in Western barn
vards.-Pruirjs Farmer.
Year: 1878

tne day this week a young lady
event back" on the young man who
had been bestowing his attention on her
1t made him desperate, and ne wrote in
reply a bitter note. She did not deign
to answer him, but tore the missive up
in the presence Of the errand boy. He
sent another and another, which she
served in a similar manner. Finally he
wrote to the young lady's mother, but
she said, iguratively speaking, "dry
up" He wrote again and still another
time. Then the mother mas mad. She
sat down with look of fire in her eyes
to pen the young man a reply that would
silence him. The small boy who was
coming money by carrying the messages,
saw her angry look, and coming timidly
to her side, laid his hand on her arm,
and, looking imploringly in her eyes,
pleaded in the young mans behalf.
Said he:


"If you please, mum, don't write any
thing that Will scare him out soft he
doesn't send any more notes, cause I'm
making FIVE cents every trip. ."-ToLedo
BlGde.
Year: 1878

Many farmers who carefully save
their manure lose largely by the slip
shod manner in which they allow the
hands to distribute it in the fields. The
bottom of the wagon-bed, for hauling,
Year: 1878

To Cure Hnnls.-Take the hams in a
dry place, rub them thoroughly with
salt, let them lie week or two, rub
them again; also turn them over; if the
weather is cold they will keep until
spring; then smoke slightly; when the
weather becomes warm slice and fry
them; pack them in crooks; cover with
the grease.