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WOULD CLOSE MINES Warden Botkin Says Deplor able Conditions Exist Among Convicts. TO MAKE REPORT ON SUBJECT Matter Will Be Laid Before Board of Corrections and Governor at Next Meeting. Gross Immorality alleged to exist in the coal mine of the state prison at Lansing, an Immorality which, it is declared, has kept the prison physi cians and surgeons busy and entailed an enormous expense upon the state, will be checked in the future if War den J. D. Botkin has his way, even though it becomes necessary to lease the mine to a corporation which will employ miners. Warden Botkin said recently that conditions in the mines have become so deplorable that he has resolved to take the matter to the board of cor rections with a view to having them remedied. Ultimately he expects the question to be presented to Governor Hodges, after which he is hopeful that some action will 'be taken which will forever prohibit state prisoners de scending into the coal workings. In his report to the board of cor rections next month. Warden Botkin expects to show wherein many young men have been maimed or inoculated with loathsome ailments through their being compelled to work in the coal mine. It will be pointed out that sim ilar conditions have existed ever since convicts have been worked in the mine, and that as long as prisoners men who are compelled to remain se cluded from society are required to descend 800 feet below the surface, where they are turned loose until their work is done, no improvement should be expected. The warden will endeavor to show the board that of the 817 prisoners now behind the bars, 33 per cent are sufTering from some form of tubercu losis and that the majority of those comprising that percentage at some time during their prison life worked In the coal mine. ANOTHER KINK IN GAS FIGHT Final Hearing in Kansas Natural Case Has Been Set for May Money Held Up. An order of supersepeas, suspending the payment of approximately $500,000 by the federal receivers of the Kansas Natural Gas Company to the Kansas state receivers has been entered by Judges Sanborn and Adams in the United States court of appeals in St. Louis. A final hearing on the matter will be held in May, when attorneys will ar gue a motion permanently to set aside an order of the federal district court for the federal receivers to turn the money over to the state receivers. The order of supersedeas was sought toy the Kansas City Pipe Line Com pany, which claimed that the federal receivers of the Kansas Natural Gas Company were indebted to it for the use of pipe lines and other equipment. It was claimed that if the funds were turned over to the state receivers the Kansas City Pipe Line Company could not collect its claim against the fed eral receivers. The debt, is' was stated, was in curred while the federal receivers were operating the Kansas Natural Gas Company. The company, under an order of the district court, now is being operated by the state receivers. Liquor Under Stairs. Two police men raided the home of Mrs. Antonio Lamar at Pittsburg, suspecting that the place was a joint. They had about all the evidence they needed except the "stock." A search of the house was made without results. Mrs. La mar and other members of the fam ily were interested spectators. One officer started upstairs. He noticed that the sound of his foot upon the steps was strange. So he 'investigated and discovered that the first three steps could be lifted out. Under them the policemen found thirty bottles of beer and twenty bottles of whisky. Mrs. Lamar, already a defendant in .one case, now faces another charge. Big Damage Suit. One of .the larg est damage suits filed in recent months in the district court at Inde pendence was that filed by Ira M. Hart, 21 years old, who sues the Mis souri, Kansas & Texas Railway Com pany for $30,200 for the loss of an arm, due, he says, to the negligence of the company. Only One of Us In spite of the fact that his name indicates the presence of more than one, Frank Us bas the ' shortest name on the -tax rolls in Crawford County, so Guy E, Turner, the county clerk, has discov ered. Mr. Us lives in Cockrell Camp. Soldier Inherits $35,000. Ross A. Spangler, who was discharged at the post March 4, as a private of Troop G, .Fifteenth Cavalry, bas received word that he has inherited $35,000 from bis ancle. James Himes, who died in Wichita, March 12. PLAN TOUR OF LARGE CITIES Special Train of Eleven Coaches to Carry Kansas Exhibits East Starts April 12. . The eastern part of tne United States is to be given a chance to see with Its own eyes how much "bleed ing Kansas' bled last year the worst crcp year in a decade or more. An all-steel train of eleven coaches ia to carry exhibits of agricultural and in dustrial products of this "off year." They will be accompanied by 230 "des titute" residents of the southeastern part of the state, riding in Pullmans and eating in diner3. 1 The train is to travel more than 3,500 miles. The Commercial Clubs of hundreds of cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Wash ington have invited-the travelers to be their guests. President Wilson will receive them and they will be given official recognition by Speaker Clark of the House of Representatives. One hundred and thirty-five railroad men have visited Independence, Kas., the headquarters of the 'tour, to put it their way. R. R. Bittmann of Independence, a merchandise broker and president of the Southeastedn Kansas Association of Commercial Clubs, was in Kansas City recently making final arrange ments for the trip, which is to start April 12. These nine counties are to be repre sented: Bourbon, Crawford, Chero kee, Labette, "Neosho, Allen, Wood son, Wilson and Montgomery. FREE COURSE FOR DOCTORS State University to Open Summer School for Kansas Physicians and Health Officers. Kansas physicians who desire to brush up on their technique, get ac quainted with the newest discoveries in medicical science, ana meet the best men of their profession in the state will attend the fourth annual summer school for physicians and health officers at the University of Kansas June 8-14. The course will be offered free of charge to licensed Kansas physicians. Mornings of session will be de voted to clinics, held in the Bell Memorial hospital which adjoins the college building. Instruction will be given by the attending staff of the hospital and by the teachers in the School of Medicine. The afternoons will be given to lectures and labora tory work, mostly of a public nature. The course will combine public sanitation and regular medical sub jects and is the first one of its kind ever offered. Some of the most noted sanitarians in the country have been secured as instructors in the school, and the high personnel of the permanent hospital staff insures an excellent course. Immediately after the summer school a regular postgraduate course will be offered by the faculty of the School of Medicine of the Uni versity of Kansas. MAD DOG BITES 2 CHILDREN Citizens of Protection Thrown Into State of Terror Victims Rushed to Rosedale. , Two boys were severely bitten and horses and dogs are believed to have been infected by a mad dog before the citizens of Protection were aroused to concerted action that ended In the death of the dog. The boys were rushed to Rosedale for the Pasteur treatment, after the state bacteriolo gical laboratory had examined the dog's brain and reported it affected with hydrophobia. The son of Mrs. r. M. Milan was the first person attacked. The child was bitten in the leg when the dog entered the Milan home. From that place the animal cantered into the village where he sprang upon the son of Professor Harder, biting the child on the face. - Steal Locomotive. Thieves broke into a car at the Santa Fe yards in Great Bend and then took an engine standing in the yard, went to Darts mouth, where they ran it on a siding and abandoned it. Five men were ar rested and after an . examination three were held. -fc -k New Postmasters. President Wil son has appointed the following Kan sas postmasters: Ida McCann, Macks-' ville; J. H. Burnett, Blue Mound; John I. Saunders, Cheney; Emery W. Cay wood, Clifton; William Reedy, Yates Center. lola Plant Changes Hands. An nouncement that the lola Portland Cement plant has been returned to the control of the stockholders through their board of directors and execu tive officers has been made at lola. -k - Double Tragedy. E. S. Stevenson, 68 years old, a photographer of Eldo rado, shot his wife and probably fat-, ally injured himself. He told his wife several days ago he would commit sui cide on bis birthday. -W -X -tc Methodists at Winfield. The an nual sessions of the southwest Kan sas conference of the Methodist Epis copal Church ended at the First church at Winfield with the reading of the appointments to charges made by the presiding officer. Bishop W. O. Shepard, and his cabinet. Road Booster at Newton. Ralph Faxon, president; C H. Scott, Hutch inson, secretary,, and other officers of the new Santa- Fe Trail, held a meeting at Newton the other day. About twenty-five boosters attended. - LESS FOREIGN TRADE Democratic Policy Already Has Proved HarmfuL Figures Show That New Tariff Is Up setting the Sound and Normal De " velopment of the Commerce of the Country. Advocates of low tariff rates nave always argued that high duties ob structed foreign commerce in both di rections. They have contended that In order to build up export business it was necessary to Import merchan dise liberally. ."Make It easy for for eigners to sell their products In the United States and they will bay more In America," has been one of their stock pleas for a low tariff. v It seems that the new tariff Is not working that way. It Is not lifting exports of American merchandise above the figures for last year. In January imports fell about $8,600,000 below the record for the correspond ing month a year ago. a fact to which the tariff-sealers might point as evi dence that they had not let down the bars too far if it were not for the fact that In the same month, the exports of merchandise from the United States fell about $23,230,000 below the figures for January, 1913. In rather dull times the natural tendency of the foreign trade of the United States is toward a growing ex cess of exports over imports. More effort than usual is made to find mar kets abroad for American products and economy in the use of foreign luxuries cuts down purchases In other countries. When this natural change in foreign trade is reversed it Is very good evi dence that the tariff is upsetting the sound and normal development of the commerce of the country. There Is nothing in the January statistics of the foreign trade of the United States to lead the American people to accept the new tariff as satisfactory and permanent. Interesting to Farmers. Since the new tariff placed corn on the free list more than 8,000,000 bush els have been imported. Over 1,000, 000 bushels came in two or three days last week. Much more will follow. The New York Journal of Commerce says that 15 vessels are bringing corn to the United States from Argentina, or are loading cargoes of that grain in Argentine ports for shipment to this country. It would puzzle city people to point out changes to a lower cost of living which have resulted from these large importations of corn. . It will puzzle many -Democratic congressmen much, more, next fall, to show their farmer constituents how such wholesale use of South American corn in the United States is going to help agriculture In this country. Farming districts will be emphatically of the Missouri turn of mind when it comes to the exten sive encroachment of foreign grain and other farm products upon the home markets hitherto enjoyed almost exclusively by American producers. Blots on Administration. Three blots upon President Wilson's administration there undeniably are. The first was his approval of the sun dry civil bill with its rider exempting labor unions from the application of the Sherman antitrust law'. True, President Wilson apologized for this and asserted that he bad other means of enforcing the law, but the country. which had come to rely upon his firm ness of character, was disappointed. Then came his approval of the urg ent deficiency bill, with Its blow at the civil service, and later his approval of the Hetch Hetchy grab, which those interested in preserving the nat ural beauties of the nation to all Its people insist was totally Indefensible. Time for Harmony. The Republican party rings true to the ideas and the Ideals of Lincoln today more than ever before in its his tory. It stands upon the broad founda tion of achieved results, to which the progress of the nation bears testi mony. All that is now needed Is for harmony to be struck loud and strong. without any temporizing or such ad justments as would rest, upon the adoption of any kind of vague and theoretical platform. Mr. Taffs Position. "Where would Mr. Taft have been without the reformers?" asks the To- peka Capital. If bv "reformers- meant the Progressives who bolted n Chicago, he would be serving his sec ond term as president and the country would nave been saved four years of Democratic demoralization. TTnnnn City Journal. Democratic Danoer. "The cohesive power of plunder" n a political proverb. But the Demo cratic party is now threatened by tbe disrupting power of plunder. Will Turn to Old Party. About every 15 years the people get uneasy and decide that protection is a tax, and they vote to oast tbe Re publicans, but soon they find that they are not benefited by a low tariff, and that after all, the party that has done things for half a centnry, tbe party that has built up American 'industries and always kept its promises - Is a pretty good party, and one that can be depended on. There win be a lance Increase in tbe ' Republican member ship of tbe next boo a, I TheBibl- I ! What It Is 1 I By REV WILLIAM EVANS. D-D. 2 Director at BibU Co & .Moody Babic bMttte. Ones The Bible is not only tbe book of God, it Is also tbe book from God. At least this is the way In which it gives its own ac count of Its ori gin: "All. Scrip ture Is given . by Inspirat ion of God" that is to say, is "God -breathed" (II Timothy 3:16). Again, in II Peter 1:20, 21, we read: "Knowing this flint, that no prophecy of the Scrip ture is of any private Interpretation or origin, for it seems clear that It is to the source rather than to the exposition of the Scripture that refer ence is here made. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." Here are some very clear and definite statements concerning the source of the Scripture. It is this "God-breathed" element that differentiates this book from all other writings. The Bible is quite often referred to nowadays as splendid "literature." Well, the Bible is that, but it is more than that It is Scripture. Literature Is the letter; Scripture is the letter inbreathed by the holy spirit, . Just as in the crea tion of man - we learn that man be came a living soul when that frame of dust, as It lay on the ground, be came inbreathed by the spirit of life from God. Man is dust Inbreathed by deity, and if you take away the spirit of life from man he returns to dust. So is it with the Bible; it Is the letter, but it is the letter In breathed by God's spirit that makes that letter Scripture. And when you rob the Bible of its inspiration you nave nothing but mere literature left you have no Scripture. The Bible the Authority in Matters of Faith and Practice. Where is the seat of authority In matters of religion? This is always the problem of the day. Various re plies are given to the question. Reason, says one, is the seat of final authority. May not the intellect with its various functions be relied upon to render sure judgments? One has only to recall the grotesque fancies that fcave from time to time taken bold of the finest and brainiest men and led them into the grossest de lusions to satisfy himself that the seat of authority does not lie in the rea son. Not that we are to throw rea son away in matters of religion; for while faith is ofttimes above reason. It Is by no means contrary to it. The voice of reason, however, is not to be considered final and authoritative. Can we' not depend upon conscience, that organ as delicate and sensitive as the balance turned by a speck of dust, to admonish us of evil, to praise us for the good, and settle for " us the right and wrong of matters re ligious? We have but to recall into what incalculable i mischief the con sciences of some men have led them Saul of Tarsus, for example to recog nize speedily that- we must look else where for our authority. "In all good conscience men have written deadly heresies in their books, and under the sanctions of a religious conscience have performed deeds of violence and shame." There are people who claim that the church is the ultimate authority In matters of faith and practice. This Is the position of the Roman church. Called of God, divinely founded, with perpetual witnesses to the truth, with bishops and councils surely the church is a sufficient guide. Yet what enormities have flourished under the banner of the church! So long as she is composed of fallible human be ings the church can never be final and authoritative In matters of ' faith and practice. ' On every hand we hear the cry, "Back to Christ," he and he alone, is the final and ultimate authority in all these matters. We certainly have no desire to take any glory away from the church's Lord and Master in order to give it to so sacred a book even as the. Bible. We are willing to go "back to Christ." But where shall we find him? With the excep tion of a reference in Josephus and a line or two In Tacitus where, out side of the Bible, shall we find Christ? So we see that in order to "get back to Christ" we are in duty bound to fall back upon the Scriptures. For our master himself the Scrip" tores were considered sufficient au thority In matters of faith and prac tice. It would repay, anyone to Iook np an the passages in which these words of the master occur,. "Is it not written?" "Have ye not read "What saith the Scriptures V "It Is written." A careful study of such Scripture references will reveal tbe fact that Christ referred to the Scrip tures as the authority which settled matters of faith and practice for him. Should the Bible be less to the church than It was to tbe church's master? We think not. To know bow to wait is tbe great secret of success. -De Maistre. 1N1TEN&10NAL SDKMrsmooL Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS. Director of Evening Department. The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR APRIL 5 ' CHRIST'S TABLE TALK. ' " LESSON TEXT Luke 14:7-24. GOLDEN TEXT "Everyone that exatt eth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Luke 14:11. This lesson Is connected directly with that of two weeks" ago, the events occurring In the 'house of tbe "chief Pharisee," 14:1. I. An Honorable Promotion, w. 7-11. The spirit of humility here empha sized by "Jesus is not . that of com mending the man who piously, osten tatiously, takes the low seat, and then is angry If he is not promoted; the man who says "no" and is angry If he Is - taken at his word. These words are not only to be applied literally but have a wide scope and embrace all the followers of Christ in every walk of life. The sincere evidence Of this Bplrit Is proof of the nearness of the disciple to the life of his Lord see Phil. 2:3, 6, 7 and Matt. 18:4. Men scramble for position and power to be obtained at the hands of other men. Jesus, the keen observer, saw men striving in this house, and criti cizes such conduct. "Lest haply," twice repeated, gives us the clew to this section. Guests are not to seek the higher seats, "lest haply" more worthy ones should appear who ought to occupy them. Real Hospitality. II. A Holy Recompense, vv. 12-14. The man who makes a feast invites those who can return his favor or else thereby pays his obligations to so ciety. Not so the members of the kingdom (Matt. 6:1-6, 16-18). "Re compense" Is here the key. Those who are needy cannot make any ma terial recompense and the one who gives the feast does not need any other recompense than that of the gratitude of those served and the ap proval, "well done," from the king. This does not forbid the Interchange of hospitality and courtesies but does warn us lest in our elaborate feasts we overlook the poor, but worthy ones. In the kingdom, hospitality con sists of a' desire to give rather than to get- Ill. A Heavenly Invitation, vv. 15- 24. One of the guests seems to have been impressed with the words of Jesus and exclaimed, "Blessed is he that shall eat bread In the kingdom of God." He seemed to realize that the conduct Jesus was speaking of was to be found only there. In answer our Lord gave us this parable of the great supper in which he describes an at mosphere like that created by his host and the guests there present. By this parable be replies to this man, con trasting the admixing of an ideal and being willing to be governed by that ideal. . (a) Those who refused. Thi3 was a "great supper," a time of great loy and many were Invited, see Gal. 4:4. 5; Matt- 3:2; Mark 1:14, 15. All men h'd to do was to "come," Isa. 55:1; Matt- 11:28; John 7:37; Rev. 22:17. There were three who made excuses, yet all three refused the In vitation. The first (v. 18) was the man whose property stood in his way (II Tim. 4:10; I Tim. 6:9). The sec ond allowed a dumb ox, that might have received attention later, to take precedence over the glad feast. Do mestic demands and godless home ties are used frequently by the evil one to keep men out of the kingdom. The third excuse (v. 20) was still less jus tifiable, for this man should have brought his wife with him. It was her place as much as his to accept the invitation. However, to spurn God's Invitation does not mean that there shall be any lack of guests, see John. 1:11 and Matt- 21:31. (2) Those who accepted this Invitation (vv. 21-24). Thus to be spurned made the master of the house "angry" (v. 21). God's Method. This la God's method of filling empty churches. If we wear out con secrated shoe-leather during the week men will not forget us on the Sab bath, and guests will always be found for God's table. "Compulsion" (v. 23) indicates intense, earnest effort in bringing men to Christ (II Cor. 5:20; Col. 1:28; n Tim. 4:2). Men should be reluctant only, through a sense of their unworthiness, which is in reality their greatest possible fitness. . Here again the question of host and guest is thrust upon us. In society we ask our friends and rich neighbors, lest haply they bid us in turn, or re pay by making some other recom pense. Our hospitality Is a quid pro quo business. Thus there Is set be fore us the blindness of human hearts in the excuses they make In answer to God's invitation. In the matter of entering the king dom of God it is the man who humbles himself that ia exalted within. Men must stoop to reach tbe heights, we undergo in order to overcome. In tbe matter ' of our behavior, guests must humble themselves to the needs of the lowest. If they are to be exalted to the highest In life. Our greatest duty is to that call which comes from the highest authority. What a wonderful parable this is, given in-answer to a pious remark about eating bread In tbe kingdom of God. Do our feasts call forth wisdom or sensual pleasure only! FRUIT LAXATIVE ' FOR SICK CHILD "California Syrup of Figs" can't mill IVUUbl .wsisay , liver and bowels. Every mother realizes., after giving her children "California Syrup of Figs" that this la their Ideal laxative, because they love its pleasant taste and it thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and bowels with out griping. When cross. Irritable, feverish or breath. is bad, stomach sour, look at tbe tongue, mother! If coated, give a teaspoonful of this harmless, "fruit laxative," and in a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the bow els, and yon have a well, playful child again. . When Its 'little system is full of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea. Indigestion, colics remem ber, a good "Inside cleaning" should always be tbe first treatment given. Million 8 of mothers keep "California Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 60 cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has directions for babies, children of all ages and . grown-ups printed on the bottle. Adv. Mean Thing. Belle Why, I actually changed countenance. Nell I don"t see any improvement. "BOUND FOR WESTERN CANADA"; A PRAIRIE SCHOONER SLOGAN, NEBRASKA. Four horses abreast attached to a' red painted prairie schooner, with windows and a protruding stovepipe, with the words, "Bound for Canada." on the schooner's side, was the object "' of considerable interest as it passed on the way northward from Nebraska a short time ago through the towns in Nebraska, South, and North Dakota, After some weeks of Strenuous travel ing in thi3 way, Mr. J. F. Jensen made the overland trip from Jameson, Ne braska, and with his little family made the regular customs entry at North -Portal, in the province of Saskatche wan. Their destination was Willow Bunch, a district that Mr. Jensen had selected as one in which it was possible for him to work out his for tune. He located on a good half sec- tion of land, and intended putting on it some cattle that would fatten on the wild prairie grass that grows so luxuriously In that district. In addi tion .to this his purpose was to culU- waf-a a t Inn 4 Onn .alan wha.t I oats, barley or flax. In short, a life' devoted to mixed farming was what he had In view and it is easy to un derstand that he will make a success of it, and In a year or so will attach some more land holdings. Although his beginning may be small, It may safely be said that Mr. Jensen, like thousands of others who have begun life in western Canada on no more and with probably much less, will prosper. He will not be far from a line of railway. Schools will be close at hand and other social conditions so necessary In a new country are avail able. 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