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The foundations of human government and human society is laid in the first commandment of the second table of the law, " Honor
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thy father and mother." That is the subordination of self to the first being we meet on the shores of time, which will express itself in proper forms and manners in all the relations of life. Precisely here is our weakness and defiency.
Everything about us even in childhood fosters independence and self-assertion, and this to a degree which, if it were not so unlovely and terrific, would provoke a smile.
Very little reverence have we in our national character ; and this is more to be regretted since, in the progress of human civilization, our mode of government is the creature of preference, and a self- governed people should never fail in the sentiment of respect and loyalty, which is a better strength to our institutions than standing armies.
The greatest danger that menaces us consists in the spirit of self-assertion, which would protrude the individual will above and beyond the legal forms which are ordained for general peace and security.
On this part of my subject I will not enlarge. The words of Christ and his apostles should make us unmistakably admit that every christian citizen should speak, think and act with regard to the civil government, with loyalty, obedience and gratitude, as being of divine appointment, a benignant necessity for the preservation of life, property and order. We pass on to another part of our subject. Admitting the divine sanction of government, and approv- ing all things whatsoever that such a government may require and exact, are different things. To affirm that no such thing as diso- bedience to civil government is justifiable and compatable with christian principles, is to censure indiscriminately all those reforms and revolutions which have delivered nations from tyranny, given security to liberty, and advanced the civilization of the world in various periods of the earth's history.
On the one hand we read that lie who resisteth the powers that be disobeys God (we argue from a biblical standpoint, because all government is founded on that authority) and on the other hand we see the conduct and teachings of the apostles themselves who refused obedience to the magistrates in certain cases, holding them- selves meekly and patiently to bear the consequences. Human government being of divine origin, and instituted for human wel- fare, we are justified in withholding our obedience, or in resisting the same whenever that government of us what is opposed to the commandments of God, or when it is made to appear, that accord-
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ing to the law of love, which underlies the necessities for all gov- ernment, such a disobedience will promote the general welfare, which is the subject and end of all government, this latter referring of course not to the resistance of individuals, but to revolutions of communities, which under this law of love may be considered a national action. The first ease is that exemplified by the apostles themselves, when commanded not to preach the gospel. Here the edicts of the magistrates were in direct contradiction to the posi- tive commands of God, who had given them this explicit command. He who was the fountain of all government had given them the command to preach the gospel to every nation. It was not a mat- ter of inference or dednetion from general principles, it was not an inference of their own reason or a personal sentiment, but was ex- pressed in such definite terms, that there was no. possible evasion. Such a confliet there was between the requirements of God and that of man, that they were compelled to a decision between the two.
That decision commends itself to all reason and reflection. " Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken to God rather than man jndge ye." They could not do otherwise than to follow the highest of all laws, the specific direction of the divine will, that will being the supreme law of all human action. There is no differ- enee of opinion among religious men on this point. They knew for a certainty what the will of God was, so they knew for a certainty what their duty was. There is no room for hesitaney when we are in possession of an explicit command. Sometimes great words are bandied about in political cireles until they are soiled by irreverant association.
Such phrases might entangle the judgment of some who use and hear them. There is a higher law, a law higher than any act or ordinanee of civil goverment, it admits of no question on his part who believes in a Supreme Ruler. The only thing which ad- mits of question is whether a particular measure is the will of God, a question not to be assumed, but proved.
When the youthful Daniel in the court of Babylon was comman- ded by the king not to pray to his God, he went to his chamber, though he was loyal and obedient on other occasions, and opening his windows wide that his decision might be known, three times a day he prayed to his Maker. His justification was that God had commanded him to pray and never to bow the knee to any idol. and there was no room for vascillation. Precisely the same was the position of Peter and John before the Sanhedrim.
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Their directions had been so explicit, so positive, nothing could turn them aside. A man has but to know in any case what his duty is and he must do it even if it carry him like Daniel into the lion's den, or as the apostles to a glorious martyrdom. But mark when we take one position on this ground, as did these men on these occasions, we must be sure that we are right in that particu- lar act, in terms so explicit, so positive and so indubitable as those taken by Daniel and the Apostles. We must be especially careful not to assert and assume, that our personal opinion or preferences, intuition, reason, conscience, &c., are the exposition of duty, but appeal to the very letter of the law, that prescribes for the event itself.
It is poor renown to be martyred by mistake. When heathen des- potism required believers to renounce and foreswear the name of Christ, they calmly and resolutely refused to disavow Him who had required them to believe and confess him, and so they said to the magistrates : "We have considered our course, taken our ground, and we will not deny Jesus the Son of God." "We have no intent to raise a sedition ; we will not raise a hand to resist your edict by violence, but if you persist in the requirement that we shall deny our Maker we are ready to meet the consequences." Our Maker, however, does not govern by innumerable statutes, like human leg- islation. He gives us principles, great Christian principles, and our effort should be to educate ourselves and teach our judgment.
There may be acts of disobedience to civil government, and rev- olution of the same in the absence of specific Divine direction, which may, nevertheless, be justified of Christian principles, as there have been other acts of disobedience, sedition, revolutionary resistance which cannot be so explained and defended. What are the invariable laws which should be our guide and authority in such cases ? They admit of an easy and accurate statement.
We start with the fundamental, rudimentary truth that govern- ment is a benignant necessity, divinely instituted for human wel- fare, and that being the case we are not authorized to dissolve, dis- obey or overturn it, because evils are incident to it. Imperfections appertain to everything human. That evil, wrong, mischief, suffer- , ing and oppression existed in and under the form of government under which even Christ and the apostles lived is unquestionable, · but these were fewer than the evils which would have flowed from a disruption of all government, and its fracture into heterogeneous and incongruous parts, that they were to be tolerated for the greater
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good until such time as truth and enlightenment and love should work their corredtion. Christ and the apostles surely could not look with complacency or indifference on the oppressions and wrongs of the Roman government ; nevertheless, you will not find in the writings of the one, nor in the sayings of the other, one word that looks like counseling an assault upon the dominent power. The tares were not immediately to be pulled up, lest the wheat be pulled up with them. We would not kill a man to get rid of a cancer on his face. Evils enough cxist to excite our won- der and to elicit our sympathies, but God does not burn up this world and create another for the sake of exterminating the evils incident to it. Admit there are evils, manifold, vast, pertaining to our form of civil government, our constitutional law, the ethics of divine law will not sanction the breaking up or revolutionizing the government until it appears that the evil is so general and so vast as to outweigh all the advantages and all the benefits which are se- cured by a continuance of the government, or until there appears such disruption and disobedience and revolution will result in a greater amount of that welfare, of all concerned, which is the spe- cific work of all government. Talk of doing right without regard to consequences. The great question ever before us is, What is right ?
This question is not to be answered by our own opinions, our sentiments or our blind and rash impulses. When we have a spe- cific command to direct us, we know what is right, come what may. But in cases where no positive direction is given us, I would like to know whether the weighing of consequences, is not an act of love which seeks the general good in accordance with the example of Christ and apostles ? The general welfare of the people being the object of government, that government should stand unassailed by the disobedience or revolutionary movement of its citizens, until it is evident that a general good will be better promoted by its de- struction than its continuance. Do men know what they mean when they speak of opposing the acts of government under which they live? We ought to value the institutions of our country when we contemplate what they have cost. The duties I have spoken of are more incumbent upon us than they were on those who lived under Roman Imperialism; as the leaven of christian enlighten- ment has modified our form of government until among us the power is vested by a free intelligent people, in officers chosen by themselves. The theory prevailed centuries before the Christian
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era, that kings governed by divine right. In the days of the Stuarts, books were written to prove that this principle was the true one.
In our government, the seat of responsibility is changed from one to many, but not destroyed. The principle of our government is, the least restraint upon individual educated liberty, which is con- sistent with public order. If that restraint is not imposed by ar- bitrary force, then it must be by the citizen himself. This, then, is our national platform-not the absence of restraint, but the re- straint imposed by the citizen himself. The only security in a re- public lies in the intelligence and moral virtue of a self-governed community. Just this is all that stands as a breakwater between us and the raging waves of the sea. It follows then, that every citizen should be vigilant in all that relates to the welfare of his country. It is not only his right, but his duty to express his opin- ion in all legitimate methods.
That citizen is direlict in duty who refuses to do his best in the selection of proper persons to official position in our government. The apathy of good men in this regard, is a great error. So many persons in public life seek only ambitious, selfish, partisan ends, that many in disgust, leave the duty of voting unperformed, and a great many virtuous-thinking citizens do not exercise their trust and responsibility in electing good men to office; so that some have even thought that the foundations had fallen out of our re- public and our government was a failure.
The theory of our government is certainly admirable. Its prac- tical operation and perpetuity depend upon this contingency, viz: whether there shall be virtue and intelligence enough among the people for a basis on which to run its machinery. Without intelli- gence liberty is a curse. Hence the necessity of an educated in- telligent population. It is wrong to relinquish the management of our public affairs to men of ignorant passions, selfish greed and of angry wilfulness.
There is no evil among us from which I would apprehend dangers if it be ever faced by men of christian firmness. Paul was a chris- tian citizen, and even under a government like that of Rome, he counselled his fellow citizens to pray for the king and all in authority that "they may lead quiet and peaceful lives." To se- cure this, is the object of government.
There are thousands of other things that are in the interest of education and religion, but are not within the province of govern-
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ment at all. We have a vast deal of objuration in regard to onr rulers, but very little prayer. We have plenty of anger, jealousy, ambition, partisanship, &c., filling the troubled air, but scarcely any of that waiting which is the offspring of a magnanimous spirit which is the moral duty of every citizen.
Our hopes of our government is less in the legislation thereof, than in the sound moral intelligence of her people which combines a sense of duty, trnth, love, meekness, kindness, patience, firmness and whatever else may ensure order, stability and peace of society.
I have not indulged in this section in flights of patriotism or in eulogies of our form of government, but have held feeling in reserve and confined myself to what I believe to be the duty of every citizen in relation to the civil government. Sce what a procession of time, what a price of pain and heavy endurance, what martyr- dom conflict and patience have been expended to give us that form of self-government which has been the legacy of our fathers. I might also allude to the great hopes of the world that are involved in our prosperity and success, but forbear and recommend calm- ness, hopefulness, firmness, and that improved intelligence that has been so characteristic of our land and nation.
INDEX.
A
PAGE. Ancient Mounds.
17
Anecdotes of Logan
25
Alexander Family
105
America to the World.
African Churches .. 127
189
Annon, Rev. William
193
Agriculture in 1776.
283
Ancient Transportation
243
Adaptation of Plants to Localities. 309
Adaptation of Vegetable Life 311
358
B
Buchanan, Arthur. 17
Buchanan Family
98
Benevolent Societies.
218
Blue Ridge 235
Burns, James.
140
Brought Family
153
Belford, Dr. S.
157
Buffington, George.
158
Bratton Family 169
Bradley & Dull's Sand Mine. 250
Belletown. 265
Bellville
260
287 Birds
C
Census Returns.
16
Cumberland County Militia.
63
Cochrane Family
78
Cochrane, Alexander.
78
Cupples, James, Sr. 97
97
Coplin, 'Richard. 100
Coplin, Isaiah. 100
Cox, Robert. 103
Campbell Family
160
27
Cupples, John.
Armagh Township Records
418
INDEX.
PAGE.
Churches
176
Catholic of Lewistown.
191
County Poor Farm.
216
Colors in Leaves and Flowers.
280
Culture of Flowers.
285
Canals.
246
Conclusion.
405
Citizen's Duty to His Government.
405
Constitutional Convention of 1776
401
D
Division of Pennsylvania into Counties.
67
Dixon, E. W.
76
Dull, C.
138
Dull, C., Jr.
139
Dull, D. M.
139
Dull, C. P.
139
E
Early Sketch of Pennsylvania. 13
Early Governors.
15
Establishment of the United States.
42
Early Land Titles.
61
Elliott, W. P
71
Elliott, R. S.
71
Educational Interests and Facilities 196
East Shade Mountain. 226
Enterprises of the Past
394
Early Congressmen.
399
F
First Germ of American Union
11
Frontier Incidents
27
Frances Slocum.
48
Fort Granville.
61
Facilities of Mifflin County
199
Ferguson's Valley
230
Ferguson's Valley Mines
232
Fruit Growing.
273
Fencing, Ancient and Modern
324
G
George, James. 151
Geology of Mifflin County 220
Granville Station. 264
Greenwood. 269
Growth, Blooming and Fertilization. 313
419
INDEX.
H
PAGE.
Historical Events
10
Historical Families 71
Hulings, T. M. 127
130
Horticultural and Floral
271
Historical Sketch of Kishacoquillas Valley
367
I
Introductory
J
Jack's Mountain. 55
Johnston, Rev. James 176
Jack's Mountain Ore Bank 230
John Cupple's Ore Bank
232
Juniata Mail Stage.
396
K
Kenedy, Charles 129
Kansas Valley
238
Kelly, Moses.
77
Kishacoquillas Seminary
205
L
Logan & Brown
19
Lewistown Riot
21
Long, A. B
166
Little Valley Church
181
Little Valley Sunday School
183
Lewistown Limestone
221
Lower Red Shale
225
Logan Section
229
Lewistown Section
229
Long Hollow
238
Lewistown
256
Lillyville
264
Logan ..
Lock's Mills. 270
334
Lutheran Church, Milroy.
365
Light and Heat.
389
M
Maclay and Logan.
20
Mrs. Grey, the captive
45
269
Logan Guards
Henderson, M. D., Dr. J
420
INDEX.
PAGE.
Marsdon, John
76
McCauly, Henry.
77
McNitt, Capt. R. J.
92
McNitt Family.
94
Mckinney, Wm.
96
Maclay, Samuel.
102
Maclay, R. P
102
Maclay, S. R.
102
Morrison, Joshua
116
Mayes, Thomas.
117
McCoy, Gen. Thomas F
118
Moore, J. J., D. D
141
McCord, J. G
152
Means Family
157
Milliken Family
163
Mann, William, sr.
165
Mennonites
172
M. E. Church
M. E. Church, Lewistown.
233
Manufactures.
246
Mines and Minerals
250
Milroy.
261
Milroy Graveyard
262
Maitland
264
Mc Veytown.
268
Mechanicsburg.
269
Mechanical Organs of Plants.
273
Manures
313
Military Record.
330
Miscellaneous Department.
358
Mineral Springs.
371
Muscle of Mifflin County.
385
N
Naginey, Charles
80
Newspapers of Mifflin county
209
Newton Hamilton
267
Noted Meu of Mifflin County
402
0
Organization of Mifflin County 16
Old Graveyard. 179
Officers of 1879, 218
Our Life.
95
One Hundred Years from Now 111
188 199
Moore Ore Mine
421
INDEX.
PAGE.
Old Times and New
247
Old Lewistown Cemetery.
260
P
Preface.
5
Primitive Travelers
52
Pioneers of Mifflin County.
67
Presbyterian Church, McVeytown.
187
Presbyterian Church, Lewistown.
190
Presbyterian Church, Milroy.
191
Past and Present of Education
196
Painter
264
Parody.
293
Pruning.
319
Pruning, best time for.
322
Pre-historic Inhabitants.
372
R
Rights of the Indian.
40
Ritz, Charles
73
Rearick, J.
150
Railroads
243
Railroads built in 1878. 245
Reedsville.
265
Roses
322
Romance of Shoomaking.
387
S
Slaves bronght to Virginia.
11
Swartzell Family
81
Swartzell, John.
82
Sterrett, James 83
Sterrett, N. W 83
98
Steel, Thomas.
149
Shadle, W M 156
181
St. Mark's Church
185
Schools of Mifflin County 202
224
Slocum, Frances
48
Sizlerville.
270
Subsistence of Plant Life 312
Structure and Functions of the Leaf. 315
State Senators
401
Shahen, James
Stone Church.
Salt Group
422
INDEX.
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PAGE.
Title Page
1
Table of Contents
3
Thompson, MI
84
Taylor, Gen. J. P.
85
'Troxel, Judge A.
118
The Primitive School
205
The Lewistown Academy.
207
The Lewistown Public School.
208
Treaty and Purchase of 1754.
56
Temperance Movement in Mifflin County in 1831
193
Training the Vine
294
The Horse
298
The Peach
302
The Potatoe
304
Towns of Mifflin County
256
Three Locks. 263
To Grow Plants from Cuttings.
307
'Time for Planting Trees
317
Timber and Lumber
327
The Shoemaker
387
U
Usefulness of Birds
287
W
Wiley, George W
75
Wolfkiel. John A
99
Wilson, William
212
Wilson, Henry
112
Wilson, William, Jr.
113
Woods, J. S., D. D
113
Wayne Guards
121
Wilson Family
162
Wilson, Major William,
170
Weilder, Hon. G.
168
Water Lime,
221
Wakefield Mines.
235
Who Lived in Mifflin County in 1790.
144
What to Plant
292
Y
Yeager Family
159
Yeagertown. 267
NEW - MARBLE WORKS.
The undersigned would announce to the citizens of Mifflin county that he has opened a NEW MARBLE YARD,
LEWISTOWN, PA.,
Where he is prepared to furnish .
Tombstones, Monuments, Door and Window Sills,
or anything in the marble line, on the shortest notice, and at PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
All Work Warranted to give Satisfaction.
We have not discharged all the offices of friendship and affection which we owe to the departed, when we have consigned their remains to the tomb, amid the solemnities which the occasion demands. There are other duties that we owe them, which, if neglected, will seriously reflect upon our char- acter as individuals, and upon our piety as Christians. To give them Chris- tian burial is a simple duty-to cherish and perpetnate their memory are marks of esteemn. There is a desire implanted in all human bosoms to be re- membered by the living, when they shall sleep in the dust. None are in- different whether they have or have not a place in the affections of those whom they love.
There can be no expenditure of labor or of means that will more richly compensate mankind than that which is bestowed upon the sepulchres of our departed, Attractive and beautiful Cemeteries will assist our Piety, promote the refinement and elevation of society, while their influence is favorable tc the exaltation of all the faculties of the sonl.
The Creator has bestowed upon us an organization which neither limits us to the present, nor makes us exclusively dependent upon surrounding ob- jects for our enjoyment. He has endowed us with memories acting together with associations so as to bring with past events, persons with whom these have been associated to mind, impressing a group of pictures there in all the vivid colorings of the spring-time of life.
It is abundantly manifest from the many testimonials of undying affec- tion which adorn many places of the departed, that interesting associations are kept alive, that kind feelings are fostered, and that the most tender re- collections of them linger in the minds of the living. The truth is illustrated by those cities of many dead-Greenwood, Mount Auburn, Laurel Hill, and many other attractive places, where the efforts of the survivors are exhibited to perpetuate the remembrance of those that were dear and respected by them.
The language of the heart is eloquently expressed by the figures of the Lamb, the Guardian Angel, the Rose bud, and half-grown flower broken from the parent stem and fallen to the earth; also, the Lilly, separated from its stalk, as fresh and white as though it had just dropped. Again, we behold the well-formed Urn, the Broken Shaft, the Anchor, the Shield, and Wreath of flowers and Cross; all appropriate and significant symbols, speaking the language of affection, regret, and of hope from living and loving hearts.
Against expenditure in honor of the dead heaven has uttered no prohi- bitions. Earth is not injured but benefited by them. We plant on their graves the Rose, the Lilly and the Evergreen as emblems of that blissful im- mortality which we assign them in the paradise of God.
T. F. McFADDEN,
LEWISTOWN, PA.
VIENNA BAKERY.
The undersigned would respectfully inform the citizens of Lewistown and vicinity that he has purchased the above establishment, and will supply the public with
Fresh Bread, Rolls, Cakes,
and everything in the line at prices to suit THE TIMES.
€
Wedding & Fancy Cakes a Specialty
I will visit the following places weekly: REEDSVILLE AND MILROY,
LOGAN, YEAGERTOWN, AND AXE FACTORY, McVEYTOWN.
I respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage.
J. A. WEBER,
South Dorcas St., Lewistown ..
WIAN & ROUNTREE,
BUTCHERS,
AND DEALERS IN ONLY
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS MEATS,
LEWISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.
FIRSTLY .- The above firm handles only first-class Stock, that which is Healthful and in Good Order.
NEXTLY .- Their Slaughtering is Neatly, Cleanly, and Care- fully executed, under their Personal Supervision.
MIDDLE .- Their Meats are always in the Freshest possible condition when offered to their customers.
NEXT TO LAST .- The Quality of their Meats in fatness is unsurpassed in this or any other Market.
LAST .- Their variety is such as to suit the most fastidious gormandizer. In Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Sausage, &c., their Shops are always supplied with the fresh- est and the best.
WM. W. TROUT,
PLAIN AND FANCY
JOB PRINTER AND STATIONER, No. 20 MARKET STREET, . LEWISTON, PA.
Handbills of every form and grade, Wood cuts for every business and trade, From a peanut stand to a bank ; Show cards of every style and tint, Worked off in style at the shortest hint,
Piled up around you rank upon rank ;
Posters to tell that your goods have come in,
Handbills to show when the sales will begin,
Dodgers to help you to sell them ;
Streamers for barn doors and fences, where The farmers will read with an eager stare,
And make up their minds right then and there,
To huy where those handhills tell them ; Business cards too, just examine and choose Calling cards for your wife to use, The handsomest ever she carried ; And then for your daughter, Oh, go 'way ! Look at my samples and you will say, That such wedding cards could'nt be made in the day
When your daughter's mother was married ; For anything handsome, stylish and fine, And nobby and elegant, neat and divine,
For the cheapest and best in the printer's line, Remember that TROUT'S is the place; We have the handsomest styles and the best designs,
The most elegant type for the prettiest lines, No matter in what way your taste inclines, We can fill out the hardest conditions ; Bill heads to your slow-paying friends to be sent.
In designs that will make them pay up every cent, And send for more goods a cash order ; Ball tickets good as a full string band, For your feet will dance when they touch your hand, As they will at the violin's sound ; Cards for suppers, parties and dinners, Cards for saints and cards for sinners, Cards for friends to see you married, Cards for friends to see you buried, These last with mourning borders, "The neatest style of a New Year's card That was ever dreamed of by poet or bard ; For the handsomest work in styles most neat For concert room, office, parlor or street, Where prices and quality cannot be beat, Remember that TROUT'S is the place.
ESTABLISHED 1834.
R. H. McCLINTIC,
MANUFACTURER OF ALL KINDS OF
FURNITURE&BEDDING UNDERTAKING A SPECIALTY. WEST MARKET STREET,
LEWISTOWN, PA.
PARLOR SUITS,
CHAMBER SUITS,
BOOK CASES,
HALL RACKS,
BEDSTEADS,
BUREAUS,
WASHSTANDS.
CHAIRS OF EVERY VARIETY AND FINISH,
EXTENSION TABLES,
UPHOLSTERED WORK,
MATTRESSES, &c.
UNDERTAKING in all its various branches, including COFFINS AND BURIAL ROBES IN ALL VARIETIES AND STYLES SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
O. C. CHESTNEY,
PRODUCE
- AND -
COMMISSION DEALER, Lewistown, Pa.
Buys Butter Eggs, Poultry &c.,
&c., &c., at the highest
MARKET PRICE.
WILL RECEIVE ON CONSIGNMENT
- AND -
HANDLE ON COMMISSION IF DESIRED.
ADDRESS AS ABOVE.
LANDS FOR SALE.
The undersigned offers for sale, at low rates, the following Real Estate. Persons desiring to locate in the west will find it to their advantage to call on or to correspond with
J. COCHRANE,
Box 93, LEWISTOWN,
Mifflin County, Pa.
Four eighty-acre tracts in south-western Iowa, as good, rich prairie lands as are in that State.
A valuable town property in Seneca, Nemaha county, Kansas. The purchaser can here be supplied with vacant lots centrally lo- ·cated, or a fine residence, beautifully situated, in that pleasant town.
Two hundred and forty acres of fine prairie land, in Nemaha county, Kansas, near railroads and markets; also, eighty acres of excellent farming land, in Potawatamie county, Kansas, near the flourishing county seat of that fast improving region. The town of Seneca has the best court house and best business houses west of the Missouri river.
Let those seeking homes in the west remember that Nemaha county, Kansas, has two fully equipped lines of railroad (the St. Joseph and Denver City and Central Branch Union Pacific), all needed county buildings, including the finest Court House in the State; good school houses and churches in every neighborhood ; plenty of timber, coal and building rock ; is one of the best watered counties in the west ; has an unlimited free stock range ; produces more cheese and butter than any other county in Kansas; and is unsurpassed as an agricultural and fruit-growing region. Taxes are lower than in any other county in Kansas or the west. Nemaha county has not a dollar's bonded indebtedness.
Also for sale, a valuable town property, well improved, in the prosperons county seat of Mason county, Illinois. Any or all of the above lands will be sold at low rates and on favorable terms.
Address as at the head of this List.
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