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Site tSticteia aily gagle: BJjecTitJC6tTay JpLoxuiuxj, Jpcrcmlxcr 3, 1890 SETTLE BEFOREITIS TOO LATE A Thanksgiving Sermon by Eev. F. V. Stevens, Pastor Congregational Church, Wellington, Kan. "Ifye-wIlIPtni abide in tills lnnd, then wllll build vnn and not null ou down, and I Will plant you .nd not pluck you up; for I rpprnt me of the evil thut I liao dono unto jou." Jer. 2: 10. This Thanksgiving day is partly relig ious and partly civic. We arc assembled jis worshipers in a sanctuary of the Lord. Yet we are here, not by ecclesiastical man date, but by proclamation of the president of the United States and of the governor of the commonwealth. Wo are met as worshipers of God, but also as citizens of a nation. We are together in a joint meet ing of church and state met in response to an earnest invitation from the one whose chief function is not to mviu, but to command and compel. In this wo see the recognition of the interdependence of church and state, the voluntary character of the relation and the heartiness of the union. This double naturcof Thanksgiving day, "being partly civic and partly ecclesiastical, lias given character to the services of the day. It directs our thought toward out ward blessincs. It tends to inspire our gratitude forthc gifts of God's providence for civil and religious freedom, for na tional prosperity; for the bountiesof God's gifts from earth and sea and cloud and hoil; for the blessings of home and school and church; of health and personal com forts and joys; for dehveraucu from war nnd pestilence and scourge and famine, nnd for other blessings too multitudinous i to be reckoned up in order. This same circumstance often prompts speakers on this day to consider those con ditions which tend to perpetuate and en large these outward blessings, and hence the frequency and litness of addresses on national topics by men who feel that they have a message for the people on such matters. In keeping with the spirit and purport of the day wo lir.ve with bowed heads and glad hearts rendered thanksgiving to God tor t lie blessings of the year. And in re-t-ponse to the request of the proclamation -ic have contributed of our MiOtance to ihe poor and destitute. And now, in keep ing also with the character of the day, J ask your thoughtful consideration of a matter which concerns our property and wellbeing alike as citizens of the suite and children of (Jod. I am not going to -peak on any great theme of national import ance, but on one of local interest: yet none the less important because local. 1 purpose to spoak on the blessings of a iixed and permanent abiding place. I mean a fixed and permanent abiding place in this world, not in the world to come. And I shall limit my ichVctions to the blessings of a fixed and permanent abiding place in Kansas. My iirst impulse is not to take a text: Initio substitute thoiefora pen picture of lour "prairie schooners" mctata crossing one schooner headed north, another south. another cant, and another west; the child icnall squalling trom hunger and cold; t lie mothers pinched and haggard from worry and exposure and want, and the men all yelling, "Hurrah lor Kansas! the garden of Eden, the paradise of the world!"' This pictuie suggest, one thought that I wish to bring out: but the thought which I wish to emphasize by way of contrast is mi bodied in these words of Jehovah, worded in the Prophecy of Jeremiah, the 4Jd chapter, at the 10th verse: "If ye will Mill abide in this land, then will I build you ana not pull you down, and I n ill plant you and not pluck you up; for I repent me of the evil I have done unto you." Jeremiah delivered this message of Jehovah to the people or Israel at a time when they were tempted to abandon their fertile fields and beautiful villages, aud go down south into Egypt. Their laud had been laid waste ly war, devastated by caterpillars and locuts, impoverished lo 1 he point ot famine by drought. Priest ridden and misi tiled by impotent kiugs; reduced in numbers and strength by the fall of the northern kingdom, and threat ened by the hordes of the Babylonian army, their hearts melted within them, and they longed for le-t and peace, and pined for the llesh pots of Egypt. They were plnuning to break up their life in Palestine nnd migrate southward. Jehovah looking down upon this con templated movement of His people, and heeing the disaster that, would follow it, .sends to them this leaHiuring and com forting message: that if they would still dwell in the IhihI whore Ho hud placed them, He would build them up as a peo ple, and not tear them down; lie would plant them, aud not pluck them up. He lurther announces that He repents of the pils which He has done unto them; which probably means tnat in the future His providence will be more favorable to them: upon condition of their obedience lie will ward oil the wars aud famines aud pesti lences and droughts which have afllicted them. The Jews' faithlessness to their promise, and their manifold disobediences to the express commands of God, and the calamitous cousquences are well kuown to you all. "Now, however great the dissimilarity between the condition of the Jews at the time this message was sunt them and our own present condition, tho similarity of condition is sufficiently striking to arrest our attention and lead us lo inquire if the message is not for us too. These people wire menaced by a foreign and carnal foo from tho east aud north, who were coming do' n to eat up God's people as they ate bread. o too, are menaced by a foreign and caniHl foo trom tho east and north w ho would drink up God's people as they it mk beer. They had been devastated by t Uerpillaraud canker worm and locust; wo by potato bug and grasshopper and Omits hug. lhey had been reduced to si raiUs by repeated droughts as we have, 'llsey had a (air land of great, fame at the south, who-n glittering prospects were tempting them to abandon their sacred homes m Palestine, that they might enjoy its riches. Mteu south land have we, and such a glitteiing temptation is ours. 'J in- wxrtiiiiK ot ItihI to those who thus set theirlMw toward that ancient Oklahoma was that they should there suffer the same .lis they ootiKht to escape at home, onlv in greater degree. What has been tho voice of God's proudenee to the people of Kan fis in this mailer Ask tho nrairio m hooner headed north. The message of foil to the Isi'Hclitish people in this their ii nation m similar to our own was, "If uni still abide in this land, then will I build jou and not pull jmi down; and I w ill i font jou ami not pluck you up." I womUr how different lioin this is God's promise to the people of Kansas now. At this time of testing of Israel, God s.im to them: "I repent mo of the evil that I lane done unto you." Mny it not ln t hut after thte years of te.-tmc and Ml'iiigby scourge aud drought, that God .nteuds to favor his people here with more f leutuous rain and harvests It istoo rea M'liable a hope to bo dismissed as ground ices. I Ids deep and fertile "soil of ours, this "Mipabsmjily rich and varied egotation, 1i s iroldeu climate, theae bright gorgeous K.es can suiigeit not him; o!m .to reson '!!e minds, but the material basis of a mbttit ion, lust ng magnificent, glorious in all the tiiumpbs ol modern achieve mout. the blood stained history of our ,h onle'noints to such consummation. But in the erection of this grand templo of r MiisMiiou, the divine architect i-, meet ing, among others, oue difficulty which I lull now mention, viz: the 'migratory li racter of our people. It is God's puriwse uot to tear down this people, but to build them up into the sti ueture of a fiini aud enduring civilisa tion. But he is delated in the acoom l I'shraent of this eud by the fact that the people do not stay in one place longenough to build into such a structure. Ihe Scriptuix's in one place, contemplat ing nieu as building mm erial, speak of them as "living stones" falsejy translated m our common Bible "livufv stonn-."! Now, in building up the structures of ivitui tnuiHtiou rne uiviuc uuiiaer inaces a tugu value upon living stones living men, growing men, solid men; but he is experiencing no end of trouble with "lively stones" -lively men, unstable men, moving-about men, prairie-scnoouer men, hop-skip-and-jump men, "rustling" men, who like tho rustling leaves are driven hither and thither whichever wav the wiud Jistcth. Tho Builder of our civilization. who now. as ever, does the het he oau with all tho material at hand is trying to lauld a great ami lofty nnd lasting struct i.n out of those "lively stones." He lavs a top course of thorn on the wall facing fcouth; in tho morning he looks down and finds them gone: they are off for Okla homa. He replaces them with a new load just shipped from Illinois; at dawn he finds them loaded andstill white with lime and sand; they are headed for Utah and Washington. Then the Builder tries a few courses of Kentucky "lively stones;" but before thev have time to set, they have skipped away to Dixie. The Builder essays to run up an important curner, and lie se lects nure Kansas material from the west ern part of the state, true and tried. But soon these "livley stones" are being broken up for the pavement of some town back in Missouri. And so the Builder lays into His structure stones quarried at the east and at the west, at the north and at the south. But not one stone in a half dozen stays long enough to become thor oughly and permanently set. And occa sionally, to the great detriment of the whole work, the very foundation stones sometimes creep out in the nhzlit, and the unstable structure has to be rebuilt from the bare earth. Thus it is that the magnificently design ed temple of our Kansas civilization rises from the earth unsteadily, and, at times, we feel uncertainty. This moving-about character of our population does not con sist in people coming into the state and leaving the state any more than it does in people moving about from place to place within the state, or in making round-trip excursions with their families and house hold furniture to points outside the state. It is no uncommou thing to meet people who have lived in a half dozen different nlaces in the state within as many years, besides taking a round trip to Southern California. Of course much of this migra toriness is accounted for and made neces sary by the conditions of a new country. As the birds come flocking back from the south in the spring, they perch on many a branch before tney find the little niches and sheltering boughs, where thoy will build their nests; and so people Hocking to a new country may alight sev eral times before they find a place which meets the requirements of settled homes. And then, too, the uncertainties of busi ness ventures, the transient character of certain occupations, the overcrowding of cities and villages, the wide-spread dis turbance of scourge and drought, have had much to do with the unsettled character ot our population. But, on the other hand, some of these things that I have just men tioned are the effect of the migratory habit rather than the cause. Many short-lived occupations, many brief business careers, many booms and mnny homeless aud des titute families, are the result of the gypsy habit. After giving due weight to the necessary chaugefulness of a new country, aud due weight to the unsettling caused by failure of crops, we must still seek an explanation elsewhere for much of the moving about witnessed daily in almost every part of the state. That explanation is, that with vast numbers of neonle. the roving instinct is stronger than tiio home instinct. Their attachment to home and occupation and neighborhood and town, is so leeble that the vague hope of easier circumstances elsewhere, the illusive fascination of achieving sudden wealth in some remoter land, lures them on trom place to place. Some are moving from necessity. Mistor tune has overtaken them. Their little all is packed into a covered wagon, and, in great want and abject despair, they are seeking some new restinir place for the soles of their feet. May God pity them, and men help to feed and shelter them. Others, with intelligent foresight and am ple preparation, are going to some new field; there to establish themselves in per il aneut possessions. May God prosper them. But the great mass of movers belong to neither of these classes. They are not by intelligent loiesight and planning moving on to better fortune; neither are tiiey from necessity the victims of misfortune; but they are victims of an unfortunate frame of mind and habit; they are people lured on by the delusions of hope. Dissat isfied with present surroundings, they im prove the first opportunity to move, and then the first opportunity to move again, and so on to the dismal end. The course they pursue is not determined by their in telligence, but by their hopes. They are always looking for a better day for them selves in the future; but the better day, it is sad t -j relate, for the most of them is not in the future, but in the past before they moved the stcoud time. And these neonle seldom move to a new place with the fixed determination ot set tling there, but with tho intention of ''try ingit" there. And having tried it to their usual dissatisfaction, they move on to try it again. And so it is hoping, moving, trying and becoming dissatisfied, over arid over again ad infinitum, aud, of course, seldom if ever succeeding. Tho extent to which our Kansas people have taken on this Gypsy disposition is greater than most of us imagine. I -cn-ture the assertion that of the 7,000 people who dwelt in this city two years ago. more than one-half have moved awav. And of the present population, I presume one third have come here within the past two years. What is true of our town is true of most (owns in this part of the state, and true only in a less degree of the towns in the eastern part of tho state. This rapid shifting of tho population gives unstability to the growth of our in stitutions. Whole towns assume the char acter of depots and hotels. Landlords are turned iuto inn-keepers. It makes prog ress in churches unsteady. Preaching to the average Western Kansas congregation is hue preaching to a procession. The most appropriate hymn for constant use would be: "I'm n pllKrim and I'm a Unwcer. I can tiury, 1 can tarry, hut night: Do not ilctiilnme. for f am koIii;; To where tho stieumleta nro "vr flowlnp." This evil makes the organization of our schools difficult and unsatisfactory. Jt proves a constant onrco of loss to our tradesmen, and often brings disaster. Bv this rapid change of population, reform- rtorv law, enacted at the cost of great ! effort, are rendered insecure. And in I ,... nii, , u ra.,.!..D ,..! many other ways, too obvious to need igratorv habit of our I mention, does this m people harmfully affect, the general wel-1 fare. It is Sftff iSnK I matie to stem me ime against tins ner "'-.ui "?..-.. .."fJ''. " . "' r r,. 7 ' hnWtvnnth" I?i otr ?. ' " " I ask Kansas people to lay off their things and stay awhile. It is hiirh time to ur Kansas to get down off from wheels and locate. I would mot emphatically urge that God's children in Kansas have a place to live; that they locate themselves in come spot, and call thnt spot home, and make it home; that they engasre in occu pations that are permanently useful, and hence honorable nnd lasting: that they make lor themselves friendships and fel lowships too strong to be easilv broken, and hearthstones too sacred to Oe aban doned for the villaii.ous Illusions of news paper boomers. This conntry may not lie the ery best on the face of all the earth: but it is good enough for the att inmont of the chief blessing vouchsafed to man on earth. Audit is too good a land and skv and nir nnd people to be exchanged for uri- ations. And any land however dry is a lietter nbidin nlaee thana freiirht car or a nTairie schooner ' n.,.'.. i-.. iu. -Lot i i i i loS I v beconiiul Ka. LJ ZATilHft lo-e dj becoming Kansas gypsies? Ihe IT :r. ; ., . j" f. .. ' "" wr j - - v"-v.v. ....wsunnm . inougii mat gain is consmeraoie. i pro 1 the romance of the genuine gT v s life, test especially and most strenuously, ni iikni. iivn.v ill., iu miiiutn it ? r i.A..it - , .... ,.wU..c,.i,U4... i-fuiutv .wsuini. it acainst tnat restie., speculating, lortune charncterized by chrome discomfort and hoping spirit which lies at the basis of hN f rom the first move till the last. much of this evil. It is, in the last annlr- " liHt would you think of a farmer, bent . the knave and fool business of the lot on quit k returns, who should load up his terv The man who encages in the lottery wason with the first ripe watermelon, business is a knave, and the one who buys early apple- and a cask of fresh cider, and ticket of him Is a fool. He is a fool for the m breathless haste head his team toward reason thai he is putting his monev into town and lay on tho whip, leaving out the j something where the overwhelming probn-end-gnte of his wagon and the tap loose j bility is that he will lose iL The chances inthc cider barrel Look at hira! his are hundreds to one against hi getting miml blissfully dwelling on the good time anvthinc at nil ahead tov for hi" children, nnewdres. for hi wife, a tock ot groceries-nnd all Hie time the nnnleo rolling out behind, the watermelons popping open at every jump, and the cider spnnklm xne atiat ot tue I roaa; Now that is the condition of no Incon-, sklerable portion of the people of Kansas, L nder the fascination that they may be- come suddenly prosperous or even rich ; without too much hard work, they are ' driving over the couutry from place to ; place with the hmd-board ont and the tap loose, the results of their former hard I work nre failinc out behind: the wine of life i dripping out along tho rond. , mi. tne nuanciMl loss of moving half a doMn times is almost uuvtiKii iutxin it 1 moderate banker. The selling out of I household goods for a song; the scratching I and mHrrin? and jatnmiBg and Etaushinc I and wearing out of the few choice things you take with you; the buying again for cash, aud a great deal of it; the freight, the car fare, the prairie schooner fare, or no fare all these and many more will soon eat up quite a fortune. To be sure, there is less to move each time. The household effects become pathetically less at each movej'thereare fewer choice things to pack up; they become broken or lost or sold or cease to be treasured as keepsakes for the refinements of life cease to be valued and the expense is sadly, though necessarily, lightened. Bet keep repeat ing the moves, and the final move will be "Over tho hills to the poor-house." But great as is the finaucial loss, it Is not to be comprred with other losses still more piteous. The purse is not the only good that dwindles out along the mover's road; the wine of life, the beat flavor, the joys, the spiiitualities of life, are also lost by the wav. Moving a home is like trans planting a tree. It is in the order of nature that a fruit tree shall be trans planted from the nursery to the broad orchard: but it is not in the order of nature that it shall be transplanted once a year thereafter. Whfn once planted in its own permanent abiding place, the tree, as if conscious of its destiny, begins to send its roots deep in the ground for moisture, and its branches high into the air for light. Its rootlets pierce the mold aud coil about everything that promises nourish ment, and their myriad little mouths feed up on the bread of the soil. And the limbs reach out their leafy branches toward the sky as if to warm their countless little hands in the heat of the sun, and catch the rain and dew and the crumbs of food with which the air is freighted. And so, from earth and sun and sky and air and all about, the tree patiently and laborious ly gathers nourishment and strength and riches for the time of fruitage. Suppose, now, in the midst of its growth, you undertako to transplant it again. You must interrupt its life: you must cut off those deep roots; you must tear loose and break oft thousands of those little fibers that have threaded the earth for yards about; you must trim off its tallest limbs; you must despoil it of its beauty, and cut down the verj boughs that begin to have promise of Iruit. You plant it again. Crippled, though not discouraged, it will try life over again, though feebler than at first. And should you keep at this ruth less business of snade aud knife, the tree's growth will be slow and scrawny, and soon there will appear signs of decaj- in its vital trunk, nnd some warm spring its leaves will be too feeble to come out into the light. Its life is gone. Not unlike this is thcplanting and trans planting of a home. Wheu once the home life is properly constituted, it seeks enclos ure and shelter and fixedness. It tends to entrench itself in the earth beneath and lay hold on the heavens above. From its own sacred center it sends out life tendrils to all about. Its affections cling to the walls, though but four, and smooth and bare, and entwiiio themselves about the trees nnd shrubs and flowers in the jard, and every object of sight and sound. Its love builds for it-self a sanctuary of rest and peace and joy. Friendships are form ed which grow only the more stronjj and precious with the passing years. Religious fellowships are begun, which grow more sacked wit h every experience of joy aud sorrow. Children are born and consecrat ed to the Lord, and put under the care of trained and conscientious teachers, to be come the pride and hope and joy of your life. The home tints becomes a vital part of the community, and the community a vital part of the home. This sacred inclos ure of home, these helpful friendships, these sweet and tender communions of the church, these faithful disciplines of the schools, constitute the rich and heaven- watered sou in winch Human Hie grows and thrives and bears fruit. These are the things that enrich life and make it worth the living. Without them life is sterile aud joyless. Every valued acquaintance, every long-lived friendship, every right and permanent adjustment to your fellow men, adds to the ureciousness of life, the blessedness of living. But the full enjoy ment of these things is impossible without a permanent abiding place. This hallowing of home, this enrichment of friendship, this identification of life and interest with the life and interest of the community, is only the vniued possession of him who feels that there is a community which is his community, and a place which to him is home. The growth of human life, like the growth of a tree, re quires a fixed environment and time for development. To tear up a home in tho mirUt.nfitsn-rowr.il mid move. if. ! liko , tearing up a tree bv its roots and trans- l liable to bring. And do not forget to sub planting it. It cannot be done without j tract these spiritual goods from your iiuan loss. If the habitual mover simply had cial hopes, lo leave his furniture behind in a second If, on the other hand, circumstances hand store, that would be bad enough. . But much more is abandoned. There is left behind a precious sense of neighbor ship, occupation, friendship, associations innumerable, that have been the very best food of his life. All these are ruthlessly snapped asunder, and he goes to a new place, to take root again, a thing that will require years. And before the life feeders of that new home are again deeply and thoroughly ramifying the new soil, there comes another tearing loose and rending of friendships and associations. No one can go t;o through such experiences for any iderable portion of his life without ring to his grave a sense of his irrepar- consn carrying to uis grave a sense oi nis irrepar able loss. This moving about experience weakens one's hold on life. It separates one from tho life forces of society. It weakens the home instinct and deadens the home build ing aspiration. The social propensity be comes less facile, and there is le-s incentive to exercise it. Such people act as if they werestoppiug for a night at the hotel. They do not care to form acquaintances. Their church membership dropped through their holey pockets on tho road. They are going to stay for so short a time that they will not join. They'll loan a couple of children to the Suuday-school;hut UI01 wim "Z i c "i " 10 nCiil " "" ?" feel 'M they are in any substantial sense a part of their church, or a part of tho community "l"$ """? ' BSi"... ?SMYM. Thev are torn un by the root!. IUM lUCii J1U1U Ull lUU UU.1l limits in inc. nnd lie withering in theory air; and unless soon set permanently out in the field, they will be dead to what is most valuable in this brief lite. These domestic, social, educational, re ligious and spiritual blessings which come from a long residence in one place nre dissipated aud lost along the road of the frequent mover. He sees them fleeing away, and feels their loss; but he keeps on sacrificing them by frequent changes, in the hope some day of making his fortune. After a time his expectation moderates, so that he only hopes to increase hit income a little by a change, and in time you find him scouring thecountry fornplaco where he can make a bare living. The hope of a fortune is supposed to justify any sacrifice of spiritual good. , iiiiwmcr jtreau auu it is assnmeti as , latic that any financial gain, how-1 ;uiall, will justify a man's tearing up lmeand moving an where aud into ' ever sum . , me t movin Rpjwiiero ami into J . """. i'"icsb "Jj""" ji- principle, nnd agaittue use of It. I protest agaiW j lDat wouy wisdom which uniformly l lc jyS and Sul riches of-a Rxed residence for a mere financial c-ain. -ven y-.....v. .. .u..,ii,ici ku.u ,,i . . ..' v 'n- M.a nn'iicf Uf..-.. in .n .1.1, '.. ! tty is not the onelocated "at New Orleans lmti nn -ii-,k .t-.-., -. k I .now tne greatest lottery In all thi coun wtst. The speculators and boomers of western lands and town sites, and paper fcitf unci inflfttivl oniAmtuc tK. nr-n I fesional manipulators of this great lottery; and the surging multitude or unfortunate men, women aud children who are chasing these high sailing balloons orer the coun- trv. onlv to arrive Iu time to have them collan-e" over their heads, are the patrons and victims of thi3 great lotterv. The advertisement of this Totter (not ret con-! demued bv the nostoffice which often appear in everv great daily m the land, for ennuiug deception, for down riebt lyinci ,-imi viiHimy. iot euecLive im w catea i the unsuspecting, and device so devour widows and orphans, surpass in tiieir pcrnicousncis auytuinc ever ia-ned by the Louisiana lottery. To invest one's little all in this kind of a lottery is as foolish as to invest one's all in the Louisiana lotterv. You may make a fortune by it; but the overwhelming probability is that you will lose all you invest and your time too. The number of men who get rich in booms each year is probably smaller than the number who draw a fortune from the Louisiana lottery; and it costs the patrons much more on the whole to keep the boom lottery floating. And yet thousands of people all over this part of the country are just camping for a day or a month or a year, devouring their substance, waiting for some balloon to arise on the horizon that they may chase it over the country and be under it when it falls. And all this with the natural resources of no part of this vast country half developed, and all about us thousands of acres or as rich land as God's sun ever looked down upon still unbroken. "What fools these mor tals be!" Sumner county people moving to Washington and Utah for landl Tnou sands of people in Kansas villages and towns waiting for the outlet to open, that they may move into new villages nnd towns, and thousands also already in the new towns of Oklahoma waiting tor still newer towns to open that they, too, may move! And then all move! Evidently there is something the matter, ana what is it? In a nutshell, it is this: the people are trying to get something for nothing. By jjuuig aoout from place to place, they hope to find something, or strike some thing, or have something fall to them, or set possession of something for nothing. They want a fortune, but tney don't want to earn it. They plan to get a fortune, but they don't plan to make it. And where everybody is planning to get a for tune, and nobody planning to make a for tune, there will soon be much want and much moving about. Too few are en gaged in the actual production of wealth, and too many in schemes to get possession of wealth that they themselves do not pro duce or help to produce. Men shrink from the monotony of a moderate living fairly and honestly earned, and eagerly and fitfully rush after an expensive living, the expense of which they are not capable of earning, and do not expect to earn, but hone to cet. by luck or bv their wits, out of somebody's else earnings. Men are not content to live upon what they are capable of earning. So tney will invest in lotter ies and booms and the chances of frequent moves, constantly failing of the chief end of life, losing the choicest blessings of life, and one in. a thousand striking a for tune, which he is incapable of using after he gets it. Compare such fitful and uncertain acreers with. that of the sober minded and stalwart farmers and mechanics who settle down on their farms and at their shops to make for themselves homes and earn livelihoods. Compare them with the sturdy, straight forward business men who have engaged in the legitimate lines of trade and stuck to them through thick and thin. These are the classes who have laid the founda tions of our industries and our institutions, nnd today constitute the back-bone of our cities and towns, and give form and sta bility to the state. To them we and the generations to come will owe a lasting debt of gratitude. Our fathers who came to this state were of this class. They came here to live, aud to lay broad and deep the foundations of a godly and prosperous commonwealth. But we, the second gen eration, are in danger of becoming a race of nomads, squandering in our wanderings the rich inheritance left us of our fathers. Now I am just old-fashioned enough to be lieve with our forefathers that the best kind of a living is 6ne that has been fairly aud squarely earned; and that the best kind of people for Kansas are those like our fathers of the last generation, who, when they moved, moved to stay. I verily believe that the voice of God to the people of Kansas today is that same message to His ancient people: "If ye still abide in the land, I will build you and not pull you down; I will plant 3-ou, and not pull you up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you." And, now, if there are those present here today who are wonderiug, whether it is not about time for them to make their an nual or semi-annual move, turning long ing eyes toward Utah or California or Ore gon or Washington or Missouri or Geor gia or Texas or Morton county, I ask you to examine the grounds of your hopes; reckon the costs before you pack up. How much have you gained by your last three moves? And in tho column of losses do not forget to add to your financial losses the SHintual losses which every move Is compel you to move, and you have decided tiiat you must so. let me urjee you to se lect the brightest spot of earth you know anything about: and before you start for it, vow before God, for your own good, for the good of wife and family, for the good of your church, for tho good of that com munity to which you go, for the good of the kingdom of God on earth, that there you will settle down to live. Toil and dig if neells be, eat coarse food and wear coarse clothes, if you, must; but cease this camping-out me. ijiiu is iou unci aim ics blessings too rich to be thrown away in Gyp-y travels. So, settle down to the real business of living before death or the commissioner for tho poor pick you up aiong uie roau. This do, my wandering friends, and a year from today, even though you cannot afford a turkey for dinner, yon will have more to thank God for, and, in the end, more to leave your children, and more to take with you into the life to come, where God's children live in settled mansions,not in prairie schooners. Go, then, prepared to feel at home in those mansions. Billiousness, bad taste In the mouth, headache, and dizziness are cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. PARNELL ENDORSED. Dublin, Dec 2. A meeting of the Na t'onal league was held here today. Tho proceeding were stormy. The names of Sexton aud Healy, when mentioned by the speakers, were greeted with groans and hisses. The chairman made a violent ef fort in favor of Mr. Parnell. A Protestant "moved and a Catholic priest seconded a resolution calling on Ireland to support Mr. Parnell. Tho resolution was carriad, there being few disseuting votes. The branches o' the National league at Batherack and Charleville, county Cork, have adopted resolutions supporting Mr. Parnell. NO RECEPTION AT KANSAS CITY. Kansas Citt, Mo., Dec, 2. Arrange ments for the reception of the Irish Na tionalist envoys on their visit to this crty, and for the holding of a mass m meeting, were to have been completed tonight, at a meeting of the Knights of St. Patrick, who tmro ilii ntTnir in nhnrrrp- AVhen th tim came for 3he meeting, a quorum did not anpenr, and no further attempt will be made to complete the arrangements. Mi chael Boland, an Irish American leader, rivq his ennntrrmpn hem are bitterly on- pays his countrymen here are bitterly op- posea to tne sentiments exnreseu m tne manifesto signed by Messrs, Dillon. O'Brien and others, and that they will ake Prt in no demonstration in which t, tUh tv. ntinnt CAPITAL NOTES. Washecgtox, Dec. 2. The house com mittee on commerce has directed a favora ble report on the senate bill providing for the inspection of cattle and meat pro ducts While there has been no decided change in Surgeon General Baxter's condition since last night, he is still in an extreme ly critical condition. AnilPI WITH KNIVES. tv.dt 5utT a-v n. f P.- two on asidemet on the highway near -i.tr .nH fnnnkt -t.k knives. One of the men named GHInm was cut Scrkmslv across the neck. He will tityiKhHItt Hl fon .. nflittrfl Trtm Wty mond and hi-, son are badly cut. I rtDITI . . DV 1 usn umt. L - VA?111070 Dc, 2.Gtaml Cadmns ! - Wilcox, died in this city, this morning. ' Pakis, Dec 2. M. Legrand Tiller, gov- ernor of the bank of France, died today. FAILURES- West StrrKBini! Wis.. Dsc i The Bank of Commerce, in this city, ckted iis doors today and made an assignment. The bank has resources greatly in eieesi of its liabilities. WEATHER BULLETIN. Sigkal Office. Wichita. Kan., Dec. 2. The highest temperature was 32, the lowest 28, and the mean SO3, with cold, cloudy weather, brisk northeast to north winds, nearly stationary pressure Last year, on Dec. 2, the highest tem perature was 61 , the lowest 4S , and the mean 54, aud two years ago the corres ponding temperatures were 52, 32 and Fred L. Jomrsox. Observer. War Department, Washing ros. D. C, Dec. 2, 8 p. m. Forecast until S p. m. Wednesday: K For Kansas and Missouri Light snows on Wednesday, northerly winds; slightly wanner, except in southern Missouri, colder. The Best Jl is era! Waters ' Are from Excelsior Springs, Mo. Regent is nature's tonic and diuretic, Sulpho-Saline is a mild laxative, THE ENGLISH LIBERALS. London, Dec. 2. Sir William Vernon Harcourt has written a letter, in which he confirms Mr. McCarthy's statement made at the Parnellite meeting last night, rela tive to what took place netween them at the time of Mr. McCarthy's recent visit to him. Sir William further says that he did not regard Mr. Parnell's proposals as prac tical. He told Mr. McCarthy that the con dition of secrecy was inadmissible. The document accepting the proposals could be of no value to Mr. Parnell, or to any one else, unless its contents were made known. Besides, Sir William says, he did not attach any importance to Mr. Parnell's pledge of invioable secrecy. In conclusion, Sir William says that the statements of Mr. Parnell relating to his (Sir William's) views and conduct, are un worthy of notice and opposite to the truth. At a conference at Mr. Gladstone's house, of the Liberal leaders, the subject under discussion was the retirement of Mr. Gladstone. It was decided to convoke a meeting of the Liberal peers and members of the house of commons to hear the state ment of Mr. Gladstone. PARNELL NOTES. LONDON. Dec 2. Mr. Parnell was pres ent in the lobby of the house of commons at 10 o'clock this morning. His supporters among the Irish members of the house of commons were also present, and a confer ence was held between them and their leaders. No stone will be left unturned to postpone indefinitely the decision of the party on the question of Mr. Parnell's re tirement. All hopes of the Nationalist meeting reaching a decision on the main issue to day have been abandoned. Mr. Arnold Morley, Sir George O. Trev elyan, Mr. Campbell, Bannerman, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Earl Granville and Mr. Shaw Lefevre, assembled at Mr. Gladstone's residence thi3 morning, nnd conferred for an hour with the ex-premier. A meeting of tho National League branches at Bally Landess sent a dispatch to Mr. Finncarie declaring that he must either support Parnell or resign his seat in parliament. HARRINGTON CALLED HOME. Chicago, Dec. 2. Mr. Timothy Harring ton, the only one of tho Irish delegation here who is in favor of Parnell still hold ing the position as leader of the Irish Nationalist party in t lie house of commons, received a telegram trom a number ot Dar nell's supporters in London today, calling him home immediately, as affairs are in such a shape that his services are greatly needed. The cablegram (signed by Redmond nnd Kelley) was as follows: "Return to Eng land at once if you waut to save the party. Affairs are in a critical condition, and your help is needed. Implore the other members of tho visiting party to come also." .Mr. Harrington could not bo found at the Grand Pacific today. &-.ZO. Ahal There whistle? Number On i And down the tinlins; grade Bho grom Tossinsj her cloud of tresses dUD Back ou the twilight's fading rose. A mile a moment and my Kate, From years and half a world apart? But now we'll smile at cheated fate. And keep our kingdom of the heart And but the world is drowned In steam A volleying, billowing, deafening cloud And men there run, as in a dream. And through the thunderous fog they erowd "An open switch," I heard one ray, Anop but that's a wreck' And she A half a. hundred yards awayi Ah, Qodl How ill from fate we fleal How cursed leaden drag my feet And yet the rest are far behind On. through that misty winding heet. My heaven! I know not what to nnd. El-hl That I tripped on moved and criedl Ahl There she is! My Kate' my Kate! Unscratched! And not a soul beside Is lost, of all that living freight. But while the grumbling travelers his To crowd tho station with their fret Here, sweetheart, step a little by, To thank the Saiour they forget. Nay not In words that dull ear rtrains Not even to your music, sweet I For that poor clay in greasy jeans i There comes the stretcher and the sheet. But of your pure heart's purest givo To him the hungry death that spied Betimes himself to leap aud live But stayed, and stopped the train and dta And yon dumb dinger to the dead Ay, weep for her who cannotl She Upon the morrow should have wed With him that brought you safe to tnl Charles F. Lummis in Scnoner's. rorelfrn Beggars Not Wanted. "Every man," says an American writer, "has got a forte. It's some men's forte to do one thing, and other men's forte to do another, while there aro nnmernns phiftlpRs r.rpiitmrps trho fnrto is to do nothing at all." The latter, with I uui t Bijgiib quauuuciiiuLi, vvuum hvkui to be the characteristic of Gaspone Pyeni. a middle aged German, walking with the aid of crutches, who appeared at Guildhall police court, accused of persist ently soliciting alms from gentlemen in Broad street. Pyeni, it wa3 said, had not done a stroke of work since he had been in Eng land, and he was always to be found in ono or the other of the city thorough fares begging. The wily German denied the Eoft impeachment: he was not beg ging, he urged, but selling matches. The ingenuity of this asseveration was made manifest when the police officer stated that true it was the prisoner had threo boxes of matches upon him, but they were in hi3 pocket. The presiding alderman. Sir James Whitehead, remarked that matches wera very much used as a cloak for begging. "You must understand, " the worthy magistrate added, "that we cannot have you foreign beggars coming over to this country to beg." Thi3 being the first offense Pyeni was discharged, and hs lost no time in hobbling out of court. If begging there must be thre is no need to import foreign mendicants. London Telegraph. Richard Ulaekmore. Richard Ulaekmore, whose name, not withstanding many later novels, ia asso ciated with "Lorna Deace," Is a lineal de scendant of good old Dr. Doddridge, and resides at Leddington. on tn Tnaaea. He fa adverse to notoriety, aad is known among Lia netghcore for hi !nc&3 in market gardeoxug nnd fruit nuig rather than by his literary tnernph. He Js ncrw past fcixty, and Mr a retired We in Mj lovely home, sarrcsMfed by rand icaes. In the coapofsuoa f kfa nt & exer c1m the izmitez care, and i-oswiAct pro duces only fcticsie ECTvurcasa a.littiaa. Immediate, harmless Preston's "Hed Ake," NEBRASKA t PERNOR. He Is U. rirst Democrat to rill the Executive Chair. Hon. James E. Boyd, who won at the recent fall elections, will ho Nebraska's first Democratic governor. Ho was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, Sept 0, 1S3L and came to America when 10 years old, locating in Belmont county, O. In 1847 he wentrwith his father to Zanesville, where he lived nntil 1S36. In August of that year he moved to Omaha, and en gaged in the car penter and joiner business until the panic o! 1S57. On Aug. 22, 1S3S, he was married, at Omaha, to Anna XL Henry, a native of Hamilton, Mad ison county, N. J. About this time Mr. Boyd went to Wood River, near JAMES E. BOTD. the present town of Gibbon, Neb., and established a stock farm, remaining there nine years. Duringa portion of this period he was also engaged in merchandising at Kearney City, two miles west of Fort Kearney. In 1SGG he secured a grading contract on the Union Pacific and graded over 300 miles in about three years. In February, 1S63, he returned to Omaha and invested more heavily than any other man in the gas works, of which he was one of the principal promoters, and during lSSS-t9 he was manager of the company. In the winter of 1SC9-70 he organized tho Omaha and Northwestern railroad. He was elected its first president aud built the road to Blair. During this period he was largely interested in the cattle business. his ranch being located near Ogallalla. In 1872 he disposed of his cattle interests and engaged in pork packing in Omaha on a small scale. Tho first year his men killed only 4,500 hogs, but with each year his business increased until in lSSo they killed 141,000 hogs. He continued the packing business until the summer of 16S7, when he sold his establishment. Although no longer connected with the pork packing business, he is still actively engaged in other pur suits, nnd is a member of the Chicago board of trade. In 1881 he erected Boyd's opera house in Omaha at a cost of over $110,000. In 1839 he sold tho property, and immedi ately began the construction of a new thea tre, which will cost, wheu completed, 5175, 000. Mr. Boyd has taken quite a prominent part in Nebraska politics as a Democrat ever since becoming a resident of the state. In 1857 he was elected clerk of Douglas county. While residing in Buffalo county he was elected to the first state legislature in 1867. He was abo county clerk in that county, but resigned. He was elected on a non-partisan ticket to both the Nebraska state constitutional conventions. Mr. Boyd served as Mayor of Omaha for two terms from lSbl to 1SS3 and from 1SS5 to 1SS7. In the senatorial campaign of 18S3 Mr. Boyd received the vote of the Democratic party for United States senttor against Gen. Manderson. In the Inst presidential cam paign he was a delegate to the convention which, nominated Grovr Cleveland, for whom he cast his vote. He is at present a member of the national Democratic com mittee. Mr. Boyd was president of the Omnha board of trade from 1SS1 to 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd have three children liv ing Eleanora.tlie wife of ex-United States Marshal Bierbower, and Margaret aud James E., Jr. England's Trlmo Minister in a Fix. Eugene Field is responsible for the state ment that there has been lots of sport re cently at tho expense of the Marquis of Salisbury. It seems that when the prime minister and his wife returned from their summer trip to the continent they brought back with them two and a half gallons of fine brandy and a largo stock of choice cigars. It would perhaps be unfair to say that his lordship sought or hoped to evade the vigilance of the customs officers. What did happen, however, was that upon arriv ing at Newhaven Lord Salisbury contrived to get his precious liquor and tobacco as far as the private coach that was in wait ing for him. What betrayed hira will per haps never bo known. All at once two argus eyed and Brinroan handed officers swooped down upon that vehicle and res urrected the brandy and cigars from the wealth of lap robes and rugs which envel oped them. Lord Salisbury did not at tempt to protest; ho cheerfully paid tho $70 required for tho passage of the goods. But this was not sufficient, tho coachman was taken into custody and detained sev eral hours for having been a partner to what upon its face looked like a clear at tempt at smuggling. Of course tho primo minister had no difficulty in .proving up the honesty of his coachman and securing his release, but as there Is a superabund ance of red tape in Europe even tho primo minister found the process of exculpation exceedingly tedious. John Eovlo O'lloUlj's Mo no me tit. John Boyle O'Reilly 'e life was certainly a strange but noble one, and his friends have wisely decided that his tombstone shall be as grand, as rugged and as strange as were the man and his life. Nature bad provided a tomb worthy of the man. On the highest point of Hoi hood cemetery, Brookline, Mass., is a jutting Iedga of i'krt' THS EOWLDEB Hi THE CEifETEBT. rock, finely polished by g'ncial action, and on it stands a giant lwwllr obia 12 fct sqnarc and 15 feet hish Thia to to be John Boyle O'Reilly'tt tombstone. A single tablet It into the face of tali bowlder, and containing the name, birth place, etc, is all that awn will mM tot-be natural simplicity ol tb nuHMde raone lkh. The bowlder in of WHretomerate., aad its natural rugged pradjr I eoomxh. In Boston a more eieoiat r4 cenveit4eal monument will bo erecsed. but Ute natu ral memorial wil! rxfv for l ttae as the best tribute to O'Reilly' eetreer. raid a Tlt lo Cibbe- Perhaps the raot curiam -x ot the re cent campaign vrzn nuwir ax Afcjsadf WIa. P.tidoif WatL editor of Tbe AUaad Ifer aid, bet ICO hand of e&MM;a wfeli Angtuti MeizAoii tfeat George W. Peck weM be elected governor. The eoatMstea was t&at Meizdorf wa to dsJlver tbe eahfeure Ml the onlee of Tbe HeraW nmamptsltd by band of icui. A Pa - fa I Aotherr. Returned Tcuris Br the way, hirt. De Eeanti, I have not ea your charm ing daughter Knee lay retnra. When 1 left ehe had detensnjd to rabroit hnr first noTfc! to The Heighten iUgaxice. Has she been saccesirtnl in hex literary aspirations? Mrs. D- Bastf Prfcltr 3bf dar ned Hi 4r- ---. vrtvfcfe. If yon kve beadaea try Prwtoc'i Htd- Ait," 'rVi.-.'i5iTjA. VJV V..T yi care aeiklsg bat Sunday School Te.a.. - jw, scholars, what do you understand by a "movable feast?" Puyil A picnic. America. Jt Eequt. " Mamma," said Willie from the depths of the bath tub. ''onM better get me n new spon?e. This ur- talks awful." The quickest way to banish a cough i by using Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Prfcu 2jcts. A Bud Set Back. Eastern Man (in Kansas) You wrote to me that Dugoutvilla was to be the county seat; but I see that Sodroofville has got it. How did that happen? Dugoutville Mau (sadly) Wo ran out ot ammunition. New York Weekly. "What Ho Would De. Mr. Bingo Tommy, when you get to be the head of a family what will you say to your sons? Tommy (thoughtfully)-I will tell them how good I was when I was a boy. New York S-in Forpain in the neck nnd sore throat, rub with Salvation Oil, it kills all pain. 25 cts. No IaK!r lucutTftt. Visitor Isn't your mother atraid, Willie, of catching cold m those slippers? Willie Huh, I guess you don't know them slippers! Ma uses 'em to warm the whole family with. American Grocer. A new flash light has. recently been In vented intended to take the place of ?w-ti-wl which have of late proved dangerous in practice. Tho composition consist" largely of charcoal made from tlw silky Jown of tl i 'k irecd. . f.v-i o, r-rbon ar,.f-- - , . ,h. Beecbam's Pills cure sick headache. Enclih Kituiruiont fur AiuerlcanUms. A writer in London Notes and Queries, commenting ou Americanisms, quotes tho following words which need translation for English readers: "Candy, stores, mu cilage, dry goods, supper, lunch, rubbers, clerk, fire a rock, bureau, an elovator, get up, hurry up or hustle, say." Here aro their English equivalents: Sweet, bhopc, gum, drapery, tea (the meal), supper, go loshes, shopman, throw a stone, chest ol ilrawers a lift, gee up, be quick, I any. "Gun."' in mtfrn i confection in Immediate Hed-Ake." relief by using Preston'f "I tell my wife evorythh.' "1 don't." "You ought to." "I can't." "Why not?" "I don't know everything." New York Evening Sun. Tit Prompt Reply. IJashaway Suppose you should come around to my horue some day, walk up to my room and And my lifeless corpse in Lei What would you do? ("Ieverton I would institute nn imme diate H-ireh for i h if fv- dollars you otvo me T.if" Sure cure Prestou's "Hed-Ake." JLonRfclIow'n "VIllngA IttucItiimlth.M Boston has made tho discovery thnt the original of Longfellow's "Village Blacksmith," who stood under the spreading chestnut tree und tho muscles of whose brawny arms were strong as Iron bands, is Henry Francw Mooro. n blacksmith still living at Aledford, Mass. The poet was often in Medford previous to writing the poem, and wan fond of chatting with Mooru, The blacksmith is now 01 years of age, and is himself of the opinion that Longfel low had him in mind when he wrote hi noem. F" Cures in fifteen minutes rreston's Hed-Ake. ?at!uu it 4 alow, . Tomdik I have mcvrt-MiMd the caune of tho ill feeling btwKn Gwmutiy and Itu bin. McClaramy What in ft Tomdik Tlw raw hi learning to play tho French horn.- Chicago Inter Ocean. An Agrrabln Neighbor. "Is Glasfware an agreeable neighbor? "Very. When hia Imij heaved n brick through my purior window Ghuwwarc en mo right over, ami offered to pay half tho dra if I'1 giva hint back tho brick. ' Harper'n Itawr It cures headache only Prpton's "Hed Ake." Tli- Turnip Vr Worth Tlr J'roew. No comment in ueeetrfury on the follow ing extract from a police- court report In a London paper of recent date: J amen OwJr acl J7. a weakly looWnjr lad, r WIdj: lit Bypxrove nd. Mlts-Juun, chanrml trtth MiraUnjf fu turnip, valoa thrn pr&co. srroTvlnjf In a nUl tlaaftc to Mr H. Krac tt JJTton. ProftACUter lutTios; Jcat qnantitr at produce V tiler, Cwlb'M WfctttT m trtlo vmtch Uin property. ul aw pcUcorr tWJtwfrstely jwfl ihe turn. ( tuul pet th'ai la bs yxkrl. I'rUrmrr taid br had had ctfcjofr to tat A dtj, mai U-it vrry tamg;rf fc UxM. the vrgr&ibfea to MaUrf btt aunger A preriou.1 coo? krtion wm proved ix! iihxi for teiovy, aad be vsa bow ccramtUnd by Mr Deomin tor nix wfk hard laiwr. The nxt cae ralle H rrw thnt of a frit ; hentrr The nuta w "euttoMri ' and di- ihfv Why Buffer? nre vou. Pretoa "He4-Ake" wil Ur Trll uBunilrum. It was 11 0, bet tV yeaag man coaM not tear hirnw4f ay. In o ot tb patw-i in the osvrr atin th raod of nnorinu Inborn of pjrroom reached the coy ptirlor, and 1 1 fae lighted np with tbe joy ot h tH . dteewvry. "Mum CbnekM'r n wJd. why is yoor booM like a god hoe I mil way r" "I caanot iraAp U r llxokkawn." "Because U i wU it?ped with Wp-er.- Haf Very jrcoi. Kr. Hankinton. Di yn kmnr yvhj yo r Hks a rallwy from Potato Ho1Jtv V . LamUT" Xo. Whyr "Bfmnut," anweral MIm CaeeknUr, K-sveetly, 4't " ta hara any ter minal farliit!! ' i ntffuso Tritmne. If fall. 'H4-Ake.' money re'esdedt Prrntos' -"UHar tim tfe pratUntiary) fThxt broojrf yw Wr, ary friend; Norstt; JJur De cop, of coarw, dTye lbk I kHM hmn la a yUaaure excr- Iobi of FUxk. Cora WtW -why tkn pretty ycrsa? sateUter C1 n the "lamb of hU toXAf Dora On acmuot of th a ey wa re alwjijm cawtlaj ti bJm, 1 pwaunML Keir YOTk UvnM. Ah Krcitasble Zrrtrr. Iid 7ro call sae a rtsh kfr "So, tarr. I rt atA ackjpvaiatfd vita xe American tuaxa. I mroot to aay you ware a rich bkr "Xmr Ymrk Ss. Cares while jot wait Pmtca'a H4-AJL'" Bradycrotfne will Headache.