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Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Bliss, who perished
in the Ashtabula dis
aster in 1876. Bliss
was full of music
from boyhood. He
began writing even
before he knew any
thing about the the
ory of music or har-
mony. He published
quantities of sheet
music, class and Sun
day school books, but
he first gained prom
inence through Cos
pei Hymns and Sa-
cred Songs. - This
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11
PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS

TIE thirsty circus clown is dry
joker.
A msER is known by the money be
keeps.
In a lazy family there is never q
working majority.
THE music of the waves is probably
made by the coral societies.
@CoMEI Comet rest on this bosom,
said the shirt to the fat iron.
AN absolute vacuum has never been
attained. l can exist only in your
mind.
WENDELL PHILIPS lectured on the
Lost Arts, but it's the last tart that a
boy mourns over.
MANY a man considers himself a
great gun, when in fact he is nothing
but smooth bore.
BARBER-Does this razor hurt you,
sir? Victim-It would If / weren't Q
Christian Scientist.
IT may be true that all men are born
equal, but inequalities begin to appear
very soon afterwards.
WHEN manufacturer of wallpaper
fails it may be said with prop1iety that
he has "gone to the wall"
"Do YOU sell postage stamps here,
bub?" asked old Mrs. Bargin, entering
the drug store. Nom" returned the
boy; we just give 'em away at cost"
MINISTER do you know, my
little son, when Sunday comes around
Young America-Do you think don't
know when we have pork and beans for
breakfast?
LITTLE Boy-Did you ever see my
big brother John? He's distant rela-
tive of mine. Visitor-A distant rela-
tive? Little Boy-Yes, indeed. He
lives in San Francisco.
The young man who will not cease
drinking to please his sweetheart will
never do so to please his wife. The girl
who marries man to reform him ad-
vertises herself as a fool.
BALDHEAD-Thanks, but don't dare
to indulge. Everything goes to my
head. Smithkin-Is that so? Then L
should think you would drop IN at the
barber's and eat some hair.
HE-I don't see why you won't marry
q man without capital, if he has good
salary. Mother Eve married garden
er. She-Yes, and the first thing he
did was to lose his situation.
ToMMY-Says, Mr.. Dryleigh, you can
try it on me if you like. Rev. Mr.. D.
I don't understand you, my child.
Try what? "Why ma says you can
put anybody to sleep in five minutes. D."
ONLY a seeming extravaganza:
Wife-Ive just found receipted hat
ter's bill in your pocket. [ thought
you said you didn't feel able to buy
yourself a new silk hat this fall? Hus-
band-No, indeed; that was one I
bought to pay bet with.
YOUNG Widow-Mr. Preachly, will
you marry me? Mr.. Preachly-Wen,
really, Mrs. Buckner, this is SO sudden,
and Young Widow-Oh, well, take
your time to think it over. Mr.. Har-
kins and 1 thought we'd like to have
you perform the ceremony for us.
LITTLE Bobby Brownstone was being
corrected fer biting his big sisters fin
ger during a fit of anger. "She's max
ing big fuss over nothin'" said Bobby.
"She never said word the other night
in the parlor when Mr.. Muggs bit her,
and he bit her right in the mouth,
too"
Suffering from neural
gia, sir? A terrible affiiction, sir! but,
fortunately, I have an unfailing and
instantaneous "Higsby's Pa
tent Pain Preserver," three and six
pence bottle. Sufferer (groaning)-
Alas I am Higsby. Have you nothing
else to suggest?
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

the new class of gos-
pei music. Bradbury
was poor mu sic-teach-
er who tramped about
Connecticut on foot
teaching sin g in &
school wherever he
could get the chance.
At that time all
church music was of
the slow, severe, dig
nifed order, such as
the tunes of Dennis, ,
Duke Street, ariel, ,
etc About 1885
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

eight years ago, and
for half a dozen
years struggled with
poverty while h g
made fruitleSs efforts
to introduce his col
lection Of fsacredsongs
Two years ago Sam
Jones chanced TO hear
Of him, engaged him
to sing for q week
during his Chicago
meetings, and was
so pleased with him
that he made the en-
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

suffered with pain N my Gds and hack
EoE Sour weeks, the psin being 30 ssxere as
2 keep me IN bed, unable 70 move. tined
salvation OIL and il completely cured me
and am all well and free from al pain
CH. ROBERT LEDL1SH,
50 burst Alley, Baito., Nd.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

LSTERN PENNSYL
vania, strange as it
may seem, - said q
prominent musician
the other day in the
presence of a Chi
cago Times repre-
sentative, furnishes
about all the writers
of sacred music and
also the prominent
gospel singers.
Who are prominent
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Why She Did it.-Adorer(a after rebuke
by the old LADY,: 81 didn't kiss you. 1
only pretended 1 was gong to. Why did
you call to your mother?"
Sweet girl (repentently): 81 didn't
know she was in the house"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

II is sad to think that Nebuchadnezzar,
after his gay life had to go to grass, but sad
der the thought that so many men of prom
ise and ability find early graves by careless
ness In not checking a cold in its early
stages by the use of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Electric Soap is used, is tlUeIaty times the
soap bill. 1t is no new experiment, but has
been sold for 81 years. To-day Just as pure
as in 1865. Try it. Your grocer has it or
will order it.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11
For Scrofula, Impoverished Blood and
General Debility,

SCOTS Emulsion of Pure Cod Lirer OIL,
,Uith Hypophosphites, has no equal in the
whole realm of Medicine. Read the follow
ing: 81 gave one bottle of Scott's Emulsion
to my child for Scrofula, and the effect
was marvellous. F. GRAY, NJ. D.,
White Hall, Ind.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

OLzEwsKI, the Russian physicist,
has succeeded in iquefying sufficient
ozone to determine the boiling point,
which is-159 Fahrenheit. The liquid
ozone is dark-blue in color, and is
nearly Opaque in layer tenth of an
inch thick.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

husband, the Rev.
Clark Wilson, in
proclaiming the gos-
pei throughout the
East. She b a s a
pure, sweet voice,
and is most effective.
She has written q
number of successful
Hymns
lone of the lead
ing hymn writers Of
the country is Fannie
j. Crosby of New
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Distant Relationship. Stranger: 81 no
tee your name is DeMillion. Are you re-
lated to the wealthy DeMlllions, of New
York;"
Poor, but respectable DeMili on: 81 am
"a distant rela ion, sir"
Stranger: Indeed! How distant?''
DeMiflion: "Well sir, as distant as they
can keep me, SIR"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11
Tourists,

Whether on pleasure bent or business,
should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup
of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and
effectually on the kidneys, liver and bowels,
preventing fevers, headaches and other
forms of sickness. For sale in SOC and $1.0O
bottles by all leading druggists.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Wlckwire: 81 am sure it was Shaks-
peare."
Yabsley: "And I am almost certain it
was Pope. But here comes Nudge; Wen
ask him. Say. Nudge, who Is the author of
''What fall was there. my countrymenr
Nudge: 'McGinty."
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

There is great difference in poker play
ers. There's the man who can play poker
and there's the man who thinks he can.
The latter is the one who has to write a
check.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11
TRANSFERRED.

Ten years ago, Jer0lomon
Ere wed were you and l,
1t was your won't to warble dear,
~The bloom is on the rye"
You twiter thus no longer. love,
The notes have taken wing.
The rye is garnered, pr'aps, and you
Have helped the garnering
Yet still the bloom is present, dear,
Tho it no longer blows
Where erst it did, upon the rye,
It's settled in your nose.
-YonkerS Gazette.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Briggs: ''What would be an appropriate
present for me to give my typewriter girl,
old hoy?"
Braggs: 'Tf she's anything like mine,
should recommend spelling book"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

1t was the Presbyterian pastors little
daughter Tin these creed-revising times)
who asked: Papa; do you believe in per-
sonal Santa CLAUSE"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoris,
When she became Miss. she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

A Lunge for Fame.-Ethel: "Would you
mind sitting on my hat, pa?'
Father: What under the sun do you
wish me to sit an your hat for?"
Ethel: 81 want to see if 1 can't invent a
new STYLE"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Misunderstood: "Snodgrass(t the groc-
er): ''Those apples I got from you were
not half bad"
Grocer( (che erfully): 'Pm glad you liked
them"
Snodgrass. "Yes; only about third of
them were bad"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

York. Miss Crosby has been blind from
birth and has a very peculiarly shaped
head. Perhaps her best-known work is the
words of Sweet Hour Of Prayer"
''E. o. Excel, who comes next to San
kew as a singer came 10 Chicago about
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Mrs. Jump says: Don't marry a man
TO save him." That is good advice. The
man who would consent to be saved that
way wouldn't be saved if he had three wives
and nine children.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Women and VINE are often classed to-
gether by the poets, but we have never yet
heard of poet who claimed that both of
them improved with age.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Coughs and Colds. Those who are suffer-
ing from Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, etc.,
should try BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs.
Sod only in bores.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Just because an 8-year old boy is remark
ably expert in walking on a railroad tr ack,
his parents are not justified IN thinking he
was cut out for an actor.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

For biliousness, sick headache, indiges-
ton, and constipation, take DR.. Perce's
Pellets.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Another attempt has been discovered to
kill the King of Corea, but the would-be
assassin was frustrated In his mad Corea.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

A mans pocketbook after Christmas does
not resemble cloud. The cloud has sill
yer lining, you know.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

''YOu haven't heard anything until you
have heard both sides" says a writer. Tins
may be veay pretty logic, but the bass drum
refutes it.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11
SOME GOSPEL SINGERS.
PoPULAR INTERPRETERS OF SACRED
MUSIC.

Noted Authors of Widely Sung Gospel
Hymns-P. p. Bliss, William B. Brad
bury-Ira d. Ssnkey, z. o. Excel, ID. b.
TOwner, Mrs. N. Z. Wilson, and Others.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

A Possibility.-Briggs: "Are you going
to hang up your stocking for Christmas?"
Griggs: 81 don't know. / may have to
hang up whole suit.''
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Cholly. do you always inhale the smoke
of youah cigawettes?"
Gussie. "Oh no. Paht of the time ex-
hale, don cher know"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Drunken lam posts on the corner are
more Skinned against than SHINING.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Dentist: "Do you wanC to take laughing
gasF'
Visitor: ''Not till after de toof is out,
boss-reckon I'll feel more like laughin'
thep."
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

The poor law is said to be defective.
Buff it had no defects it C uld scarcely
be called q poor law.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

About the easiest way to raise the wind il
simply to cash draft
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

First Tramp: "Tms is getting bey ond
me, Jack. Do you know the lay of the land
hereabouts?"
Jack (broken down tenor): "It's the
Star Spangle Banner pard, but 1 can't
sing it like could once"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Women are rarely great inventors, though
they are often first to discover new wrin-
kles.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Brown: 81 see that Smashem, the pu@l-
ist, is about to retire from the prize ring"
Robinson: SIS that so? Where is he go
ing to open his saioOn?"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

That's Why.-First tramp: "Why is it
that the way of the transgressor is hard?"
Second tramp: "Cause the cussed old
path Is so often travelled, suppose"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

'The saloon" he solemnly drawled, is the
house that Jagg built
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Laughter may be the poor mans plaster
but it is not very adhesive.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

When you truly and devoted ly love girl
Gho is as rich as she is pretty, 1t is hard to
take no for an answer.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

The man who is out of coal sighs TO
what has bin.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Barber: Shampoo slr?"
Victim: "No. Haven't l suffered enough
already?"
Barber: 81 never shaved but one man
who didn't have some fault 10 find"
Victim: "Was he dumb?'
Barber: 'ENO sir; he was dead"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Little Bobby-"Don't you want to
take me up to the toboggan slide with
you some day, Mr.. Jinks ?"
Mr.. Jinks-"I never go to any tobog-
gan slide, Bobby; never even saw q
toboggan.
Bobby "a trife nonplused)-@That's
funny; heard pa say something about
your going down hill at furious rate. |"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Where hot retorts are plentiful-in a gas
house.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

A man drinks to drown his sorrow. but
the sorrow always comes out on top.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11
Oregon. the Paradise of Farmers.

Mid, equabe climate certain and abundant CROPS Best
fruit grain, grass and stock country the world Full
formation free Address the Oregon immigration Board
Portland, Oregon.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

We import S2, 900, 600 worth of eggs an
nually, when we ought to eggsport them.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Jim: HE threatened to throw half pie
at me-"
Jams: "And what did you do?"
Jim: "Had him bound over to keep the
piece"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

Only so so.-Mrs. A.; sDid you have q
good time at the sewing circlew
Mrs. B.: "Oh, only sew sew"
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11
DR. PIERCES PELLETS :gsEEs :gszs1 ss5I.s5 ssl:: s.

Cures Ghs.Pess E.Ss tal One Pellet doe
- 0zanse1nens Of the
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

A pocket pin-cushion free to smokers OF
''Tansill's Punch &C Cigar.
Western Kansas world., 1890-01-11

If afflicted with sore eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 20c
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-11

try to prove lies in order to prove your
horse, but the thief will have to try to
prove lies i'm order to clear himself. Our
case is just about the same thing. We
haye our horse stolen, and we have
caught the thief, and we do not have to
prove any lies in order to prove our
horse, but the other parties must try to
prove lies in order to get clear.
Yon may talk about everything else
but the financial question, and you will
meet with disappointment. The money
power wants the people to discuss the
tariff and other things-anything but
the great financial question, for that is
the root of all our trouble. We can
never have prosperity with a small cir
culating medium; and on the other hand,
we can never have stringent times with
a good circulating medium.
Go to your national congress, and
mark how the toiling masses are misrep-
resented.
"Our theory of government has been
inverted there, and legislation is for the
few and against the many.
aggregated capital camps in the lob
bies of congress, and buys the legal right
to rob the working millions.
"All the sacred traditions of demo-
cratic government are sacrificed that
millionaire greed may glut its nhuman
lust for gold.
washington and Lincoln's govern
ment of the people, for the people and
by the people is deemed mere verbal
expression, and destitute Of all meaning.
"You will find in the city of Chicago
twenty millonaires, whose word is more
potent with courts, mayors, legislatures
and governors than the united voice of
all the rest of the people in that metrop-
oils.
"DOes not this state of facts involve the
absolute annihiatiOn of the republican
idea in American government?
'GOne is the pure and holy democracy
of Washington and the fathers-and i'm
it's place the rule of the plutOcratic an
archist, blOated with wealth and power.
Farmers of America! how much
longer are you going to stand the tyran-
ny and desOlatiOn of this modern Mo-
loch. the plutOcratic anarchist?"
do not write as an Office-seeker, but
as a business man. There are not over
one hundred men in Anderson county
but whose interest it is to support the
Peoples candidates.
Yours, truly.
DR.. j II. OYSTER.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-11
PAOLA, KAs., Aug. IL, 1890.

PAoLA, KAs., Aug. IL, 1890.
ED. AGITAToR, Greeley, Kas.
1 have been keeping ii close watch on
the Alliance from its infancy. and am
greatly pleased as to the honesty of all
its purposes; and if the good work goes
OH in the future as in the past. it will he
hard to estimate the wonderful benefits
which the people will receive.
| find lot of trash i'm many papers
which are fighting against the interests
of the peoples movement, and their
own subscribers, i'm order to bring sue
cess to their old political party. When
it becomes a fact that voter prefers to
stand by his party rather than by his
home and family, it is enough TO say,
Amt it stranger" But such is the
case. But the number has been reduced
by hundreds of thousands.
The first great strike which darkens
the pages of history in this country was
on the 9TH of February, 1862. 1t will
cost the taxpayers the awful sum of
Sc, 900, 900, 900 before it will be paid.
We only have to examine the pages of
history to prove all of our charges, and
the nearer we stay to the truth the bet
ter it is for us.
If some one comes along in the night
and steals your horse. when you get
the horse and thief, you do not have to
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-11
Do Not Know Their Names.

A gentleman who recently returned
from Korsakoff, in Russia, states that
every summer some 300 or | 400 fisher
men from Hagodate or Nilgata visit the
place to find employment, and that the
men are not only ignorant of a single
letter, but, for the most part, even of
their own names. At the time of their
departure from Japan the Gun officials
teach them their names. sometimes fur
nishing those who are of bad memory
with their names written on paper. On
the arrival of the Iuen at Korsakoff the
officials call out their names, and it is
said that the proportion of those who
make a satisfactory reply is not more
than one or two out of ten. Most of
them have to look in their pockets for
the paper with their name upon it or to
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-11

Farmers and wage earners are album
dainty able to get along without the old
party politicians, but how would these
aspirants get along without the pro-
ducers? No scheme Of robbery can be
carried out without the tacit consent Of
the voters. OF course this consent is al
ways secured by specious promises, and
they may thank the credulity of the peo-
pie for the success that has thus far at
tended their efforts. But at last this
confidence in the pledges of political
trimmers seems to be broken, and our
hopes for something practical for the
benefit of the great plain people of the
country have been correspondingly in
creased. In any movement seeking re-
form through political channels the first
work to be done is to cut entirely loose
from the control of the old party ma
chines.-Age, Duluth, MINI.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-11
Don't Stop Here!

AS a further inducement to club
raisers, we make this offer: For
club of five, we will lin addition to
the above premiums) give an extra
copy of the AGITATOR one year. If
you send club of ten at one time,
keep 81 and send us the balance ($4).
BR Send in the names az fast as
you get them-C0sh Nth each order.
Address all communications to
KANSAS AGITATOR,
Greeley, Kansas.
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Other premiums.

To the person sending the fourth
largest list, we will give copy Of
"Whither Are We Drifting?" by
Wiley. TO the person sending the
fifth largest list, we will give copy
Of Brice's Financial Catcchism." To
the one sending the sixth largest list,
re will give years subscription to
the Kansas Farmer, the Advocate
or the American NOnconfOrmist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-11
appeal to some of their companions
New York journal.


Mr.. E. Williams, secretary of the New
Jersey Horticultural society, names the
best varieties of grapes to plant for fam
lily use, viz: For early black, Morris
Early, Cottage, Worden and Concord;
for later black, Wilder Barry, Herbert,
Arminia and Concord; for red grapes,
Brighton, Delaware, Lindley (Rogers' 81,
Agawam Rogers' 49, and Berckmans;
for white grapes, Lady and Martha first:
then Niagara, Pocklington, Empire
State. Duchess, Lady Washington,
More's, Diamond and Hayes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-11
ALetter from ssF. M. b. A."

ED. AGlTATOR: / promised last
week to say something more on the
subject of prohibition, so here goes
for a few lines.
We are told by some that the ques-
ton of prohibition cuts a very small
figure in the affairs of the day; that
the money question is the only real
issue.
| cannot see the matter in that light,
but l will leave out the moral side Of
it, and discuss the question from a
purely business (money) standpoint.
The majority of my brethren, l am
positive, are advocates of prohibition,
and many who do not believe in pro-
hibitiOn do believe that the saloon is
an evil, but that it should be "regulat-
ed" by high licexse.
Now, brethren, did you ever look
into this license question closely, to
discover how much the farmer is ben
Gifted by it? Who gets these license
fees? Does the farmer? No! They
are paid into the city treasury, and
are used to build sidewalks and pay
city officefs-who, without the saloon,
would be useless officers.
But these saloons create paupers
and criminals, and that necessitates
keeping up poor-houses, jails, courts,
etc. And who keeps up those institu-
tons? Well, brethren, the "heft" Of
the burden is borne by the farmer.
This you cannot deny. So, in the
long run, the farmer pays the saloon
license into the city treasury, to keep
up the city expenses. If saloons were
our expenses would be cut
down just that much.
Now, Mr.. Editor, I will quit for
this time, but if you publish this, |
will come again, and will treat this
subject from business point of view.
haven't much time to write for the
press, so my letters will necessarily
be short; but l want my brethren to
awake to the fact that they ca.MOt af-
ford to ignore prohibition.
Yours, truly, F. M. b. "A.