Capital Punishment--no

A bilí to restore the barbarous law of capital punishment lias been again liítro'duced in thc legislature at Lanslnig. The same dispatcli also states tliat Bept-eseaitative Sawyer of this olty favors it, and as chairman oi the Judiolary coinmlttee will push it through. To restore this measure iis a step bakvard Ln eivilizatiun. States retaining tlie law are not freer fnom crime tluiii are tluose that liave discarded iit, and no body of human law makers has a right to legalice murder. The tact is constiuitly shown that men have been hung or murdered by law who were iamocent. Tliie fact is also sbown that juries are loth to convlct pi-isoners whose punishmeat woukl be dealt.h, and as a oonsequ'eiK'e they are freed, when the people, believiiig in the guilt oí the accused, have at times executed the mandates of Judge Iyynch, to their Overlasting disgrace. It is a mystery how any diristian man can favor capital punishment. for Christ oame int the world to do away with the old Jewish law of "an eye tor an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,'1 aid Christians sbould be followers of and believers in the teachings of Clirist. John Brown's daughter, who is living in greait distress near Petrolia, Humbolt county, Cal., recently received from eome colored people $15, which. she eaid, helped her a great deal. The aniKmncenient whien i now officially made, ttoat Hom. John Hlierman will he Secreteiry oí State iu President MeKinley's cabinet, wl 1 oaTry joy to every true república u beart in the nation. Mr. Sherman is one of the great statesmen ot the day, and hls, mature judgment wlll suide the Ship of State safely througli all the troubled waters. The hard-headed editor of "The Emporia Gazette" is givlng the people of Kansas many good chunks of coinmon-sense, whlch, if they take them to heart. will do more for the state than (all the oratory of Governor Leedy about the semibarbarous foreign colontes of the east. He has Just been telling them that right in his own county they have been so busy telkimg politics that they have forgotten all about the coal vein discovered years ago under their farms, have neglected the natural gas long ago located and let the oil, p_otter's clay. ochre and lead He unused. "Kansas has developed rapidly on ot'her people's money," he says. "And the ïirert generation that came here could get rich by making cmt doeils. After breakiiug up in the specvilation business we talked politflcs. Xihv ir is time tor real develorimcnt. The mine, the hen, the cov, the garden patch, the ovchard, the little factotry, the small farm and the dimmer bucket will do more for Kansas than all the statesmen." Mistnkee will happen, so the proverb teaches, and the Courier can vciiíy the ti-uth of the proverb. Au article relative to the republican nomination for regent of the Universlty, by the coming oonvention, sent In by a friend, was inserted in the Courier last week as an editorial, making it appear as the sentiments ol the paper, when it should have appeared as a communication reflecting' the sentiments oí the one who wrote it. The editor of the Courier differs ■n-ith the sentiments therein expressed, but as the editor ol a newspaper he believes In allowing the freest expression of opinión in lts columns. He objects, decidodly, however, to beimg placed in the Hght of approving oï all'that may be saiid in such communloations, and in this instance partdculaTly. Furthermore he thinks it a very grave question ■whether it would be wise, as a matter of policy, for the party to ignore or cast aside good republicana who would like this nomination, men who have served their party and their state well, for one who liae never affilüated with the party. And especially wlien these republicans are men of equal ability and chiaracter with the present incumbent of the regency.