Eghts, and half a score of clerks behind the counter. Luxurious hotels and gorgeous theatres will spring up like the palaces of old under the enchantment of some great magician. The style of equipage and decoration of houses in Chicago is already more luxurious and expensive than in Boston, and in a few years the capital of Kansas will vie in luxury and expense with the old and wealthy cities of the East. We have become so used to this sudden and almost miraculous growth, that we have ceased to realize it in its rapid progress, and still less in the wonderful future it contains.

Willis, one of the most charming essayists since the days of Charles Lamb, says of Boston that it increases, while New York seems rather to multiply; one goes ahead by addition, and the other by multiplication. By what term of arithmetic, then, shall we express the growth of Kansas? Mathematics, with its ratios and compound ratios, can hardly keep up with it; addition and multiplication toil after it in vain. It defies all calculation, and all our feeble attempts to grasp and comprehend it. All our old ideas of growth and progress are set at naught. We see the result, but hardly realize it, more than we can follow the lightning along the wires, that flashes the news to us from New York in what, without a figure, may be called no time. All we hear are the words, Presto, change! and behold a new State with

forty thousand inhabitants. While we old fogies are widening a few streets and building a few stores, new cities spring up in the wilderness to outshine and outvote us. What is to become of us under this new state of things it is painful to conjecture. It is probable we shall wake up some morning and find ourselves so far down East as to be no longer visible, and in the neighborhood of that peculiar locality— if place it can be called which place has none-styled, in the expressive language of the West, NOWHERE.

MONEY.

"Put money in thy purse."

MONEY is said to be the root of all evil, but is also the source of all good. It belongs to civilized and not to savage life. It is the sign and the means of accumulation, and it is only when man begins to accumulate, that he emerges from a state of barbarism. Money stands, then, for all that improves the condition and cultivates the taste, the intellect and the heart of man. Without it we should remain but children of the forest, or the rude and ignorant cultivators of the soil, content to extract from it our daily bread, unmindful of the great ends of our existence, and of the cultivation of those high faculties with which we have been endowed by a beneficent Providence. There is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty has given him understanding; but, strange as it may seem, until the uses of money are known, and man becomes a hoarding and accumulating being, his divine spirit remains in a dark

prison house; he roams through the wilderness uninstructed and unblessed by the arts of civilized life;

"Sees God in clouds and hears him in the wind,

And thinks, admitted to an equal sky,

His faithful dog shall bear him company."

To money we owe the accumulation of wealth, and to that we owe science and learning in all its branches, history and poetry, sculpture and painting, architecture and music, colleges and schools, churches and hospitals, law, medicine and theology; in fact, all that adorns the life of man in a civilized condition, that develops his faculties and improves his heart. This great fact is but imperfectly understood. While we condemn the all-engrossing pursuit of money as an end rather than a means, we forget that it is, in truth, the great civilizer of the world. In our zeal to condemn its abuses, we forget what we owe to its use. Because wealth is often a misfortune to the individual who misuses it, or who becomes a mere machine for its accumulation, we forget that the great public must have the benefit of such accumulation, and that we owe to it whatever distinguishes us from the condition of a rude and barbarous people. The clergyman, who stands in a pulpit reared and supported by money, feels called upon to condemn the love of money as the root of all evil; as if, without the love of money, there could be accumulation of wealth,