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that some of the farmers of Waubaunsee and Riley counties 

 are sleeping peacefully over the slumbering vent of some an- 

 cient volcano, liable to break forth at any minute and send 

 them and all their possessions heavenward before they are 

 prepared to take that journey, and that an upheaval of a more 

 general nature may be pending that may any day change the 

 peaceful prairies of Kansas into jagged mountains, and Na- 

 ture thus show that there is a power greater than a Kansan's 

 bank account or a Kansas political pull. 



