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ourtl fWli .Hid blood ? l?c that a* it may. the Koitinu policy redounds to the proilt of our country. The late change* in the military organisation of the empire compel nil subject* alike tntln their chare of military duty : but the Mennonite* of Ku«*»in are of the most orthodox chta*. ami will uever | •mlimit to have their non* instructed | n iu the oh* of I be * word, t*or will they . n consent to i|o military service of any t kind, w hether n« combatants, now, p tcanndc ni or tuecfcaiiira. Before they ( renounce the essential article ol their c faith, they abandon their magnificent r | homen with heorle sclf-deuUl am! Imj-1 1 gin anew in a new country'. n% their }, | lather* a«d forefathers imre done 1 many time* before. Previous to the departure of tholn*l two great parties ot emigrant*, offer* of compromise I were made by the Oar. through t.eu I Vutt Tmlleilcil !•» the etfeet 1li.it Meii-mmitr- should be allowed to serve a*. -urgnou*. nurse* or* mcehanie^, ~thal j thev should J*» duty only in the itn- ( perlal workshop* uiid f*rc-t*. in .tend A of taking the Ischl; hut tin*' oiler* t» were looked upon !»y the bishop* and f* elder* »*• being calculated t.» gradually• corrupt tbe cti:»**clgnee of the rUing ]I g^ueraation. ami li tre not boeti getter-1 i ally aecoptrd.t hie of the most powerful ludu.. • J luentK to hung the Meiinoiutc* to Kan-| *a*. hit* be* ti the passage of attftit dnring la't winter's «o-*iou *»f tie* legilt;*-1 Vl Inture, amending the millt.i law ofl11 te»'»h *..» that all person* who, on or be fort the fir*»t day of May. in each y. jr. '• file w It It the * lerk of thrlr muni) no *’• atlidnvit tlint fhev are member* • *! n 111 religion* or’gatiiz itmn w l»■■ *• u* : ode* 11 of faitii pi'ohiIdt the leniihg of m m» 'halt be exempt irotu uulitt* •Itity. A :Ir.mduti«»ii *»i this iti|* ndiueiil In* . ? been published bv the \ I A s | railroad company, with i p.im’hln descriptive * t Kan-os I md*. w ho h hu* been cut to Huama by Hi t lt;*1111.111), l! and w i* well circulated n tl. nip*. The fart th .t a, go.ol j »rti«»ft «I '* the most influent 1 it I «•! the different 1 colonies have now* nettled iu Uu»*«* *lUcI .ire w ell -ftlidiill here, will go t il *' to itidueo the bulk «d the jinting) itmii, 1 •* Wdlh'li l** • \p.-t. d dill in;, tl *• \ ‘• . »r. come dlr.- d to K.in n- • It 1- I ,,rt to* chief aim of Vlies*' people to • 'lit* ^ | li-h their former relation*, and in *-t ol 1•he .if.- lt;«Iil»l I. tie left riCM 1 .mile- behind. i-Vext oiKiiiii r ti «il-now w oitdrrful 1 change * iu tin region betwe. 1 fh* l'«4tniiKiii)tl nml l.iltlr Aikni * -riv ,'1 . er*. fill m»w ainiad devoid .,f irihaba :i, tat ion- 1.1 ell now the bn*) hum ha* *,il ; begun. Long lines of wagon* with I lumber. ho 11 •'f bold g.».»d- mu.I t.irm im- |wI pit iiietit*. are pat-mg out from the : railroad station*. Tin* carpenter« are 1 busy putting up the first temporal) •heller 'I lie A(*hl**o». Topik* and Santa I e railroad rijinpuut. i« • reeling live immense emigrant hou*** at «m* 1 1 l enient pla* *’* lor I he rropii«n «,i new-comer*. The nmwrr* ibnt had been laid bi for th© sea-on ar»* brought f»'i into requisition again to rut tin* wav- of ing grit** for the IIjoiimsimU ot wto* tm hor •**», oxen and milch c«»u • to 111*^1-! ( n*. *111 during the •h*»:t wint* -*a«oii. *.lt; rar l*»»d otter ear I .ad of breaking plow * and otbei rnpleinent* ur«‘ •* id wl 11 the load, ami it *rt‘fiis a* d the *111 taiukirig foi th** tit* lot r had w*but just begun Th. wild prairie to fa. he broken doubly ibep hi f »rt .'»rr. -re* yet to ritruivf sdrrotug of wheat ami j tin rye. No one think* ol droiitn nod me grasshopper • — every IhoJv »• hajip a-* and energetu. and nope *nd n^rjp wi will find their reward Ih
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The Wichita City Eagle
Wichita, Kansas, US
Thu, Oct 22, 1874
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