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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-01-21

tariff and ice use questions have
been USED ~ attract the attention If
the voters from prohibition, the
greatest question that has ever been
before the American people for set
tiemelt at the ballot box.
Have you forgotten how in '88
they put a stuffed coon on top of
miniature, log cabin and marched
through the streets, and when one
would cry out: whats the matter
with Hari'ison?" the response would
be, "IIe all right" Have you for
gotten that they told you that if
you would stand by the old party
"just once more" they would raise
the tariff on wool, and that wool
would go up, and the farmer be
thereby enriched? You followed
the stuffed coon, didn't your And
they called that Campaign of
education" and the tariff went up,
and the wool went down-and
where are you now? Why, worse
off than you were before. And SO
you have been deceived regularly at
every election You are no longer
asked to follow stuffed coon; a
stuffed tiger is now the center Of
attraction. What is the difference
whether Flower or Fassett is elect
ed? Neither of them dares to utter
"a word in favor of the suppression
of the saloon. God pity a father
who will endorse such moral coward
ice with his ballot.
The saloon-keeper is as good as
the saloon. The saloon is as good
as the license law. The license law
is as good as the party that sustans
it, and the party is as good, in the
sight of God, as the voter who
stands by it. If it is true that
"The liquor traffic cannot be legal
izc.! Without SIM" then it logically
follows that he who consents to it
Is n sinner
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-01-21

F. The Chicago & Alton railroad an
nounces that it will only charge one
fare for the round trip to the Pee
ple's party convention of st. Louis,
Feb. 22.-Sun.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-01-21
E,OpuIist Hand Book.

The Populist, or Peoples Party,
Hand Book, published by the Vim
cents, is ready for delivery. Call
at this office, or send, and get one.
Price, so cents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-01-21

THE theory of the intrinsic value
of money has been abandoned by
the best writers and speakers. y
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-01-21

THE AGIrAToR local edition) one
wear. and Scott's Sub-Treasury
Plan and the Land Loan System,
xIOO. Foreign edition of the
AsrrAroR one year, and the above
book, 90 cents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-01-21
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
KANSAS AGlTATOR,
BY THE W. C. T. U.

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our president, at Mrs. Palmer's, ev-
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the ladies are invited to attend.
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Plumb on the Currency.

Col. D. II. Anthony, of the Leav-
worth Times, received the following
letter from Senator Plumb short
time before his death
Hon. D. r. ANTHONY, Leavenw orth,
Kas
UNITED STATES SENATE,
WASHINGTON, ID. d.,
Dec. 3. 1891.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Reckless Waste of FInwers

The extravagant use of flowers il
fashionable circles is almost reckless
Evidently the tender feeling of the late
Lord LyttOn toward the lovely blossom,
has little counterpart. What" sale
he, "have the flowers done that tbev
should be consigned to graves and
yaults?' And, respecting his wishes
Lady Lytton permitted not the smallest
rosebud nor tiniest violet to be placed in
his coffin.
Costly and beautiful boxes and bas-
kets Of flowers are sent to sick friends
TO be carefully banished from the sick
room and waste their sweetness unno-
1ced and unappreciated anywhere; at
every feast and function flowers ara
everywhere, and are often glanced at
only to estimate their cost; some aesthet-
lc hostesses, in lieu of bowls and vases
scattered through the rooms. strew the
nowers loosely about without water to
revive their dropping heads, and in
consequence they quickly fade and die.
lne even went so far as to toss them on
the dlvans and throw them over the
rugs for seated and trampling guests to
orulse out their delicate fragrance
Gould anything be more barbarous? To
real flower lovers this wasteful profu-
sion approaches a sin.-Her Point of
View in New York Times
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
A Good Lung Eraroiss.

Hold head up, shoulders back and
chest out; initiate the lungs SLOWLY
through the nose until they are brimfui
hold until you have counted ten, with.
out opening your lips; exhale quickly
TILL your lungs are as nearly empty OF
the btsd air as it is possible to get them.
hepeat same exercise, trying to hold the
lungs full while counting twenty. Try
u again and see II you can hold your
breath half minute. Finish with three
Or o. four deep. long drawn Inspirations
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
MacauIay as a Host.

Macaulay was pattern host. On hi,
own account, 1t Is true, he was no eDi
cure, and his nephew tells us that at any
time he would have been amply salts
ned with dinner such as is served at 3
decent seaside lodging house. This was
a sad moral defect, but happily his con.
sclentious views of the obligations of
hospitality prevented his guests from
suffering by it. He generally selected
by half conscious preference dishes Of
established character and traditional
fame. His Dissenting friends he treated
to tillet of veal, which he maintained
to be the recognized Sunday dinner in
good old Nonconformist families" On
Mlchaelmas day he would have been
wretched had no goose smoked on the
board. At Christmas be never forgot
the old historic turkey.
II he was entertaining a counle of
schoolboys who could construe the
fourth satire Of Juvenal, he would re-
ward them for their proficiency with a
dish of mullet that might have passed
muster on the table Of an augur or an
emPerors freedman. With regard to
the contents Of his cellar. MacauIav
prided himself on being able to say with
Mr.. John Thorp, mime is famous good
stuff, to be sure, and if he were taken
to task for his extravaganza he would
reply, In the words used by another of
his tavorite characters in fiction. that
there was great deal of good eating
and drinking in e7OO a year, if people
knew how to manage it.-An the Year
Round.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
The Scorpions wonderfuI Ear

have studied the habits of the scor-
plon for many years, and have often
noticed how very sensitive scorpions are
to the most delicate sound, musical
or otherwise. Under the thorax the
scorpion has two comblike appendages
which are the antenn@ pectinatsel It is
pretty well settled by Psychologists and
entomologists that in insects the an
tenne represent the organs of hearing
These delicate structures are easily
affected by the vibrations of sound. and
there can be no doubt whatever that
they are also affected by sounds quite
inaudible to the human ear.
The slightest vibration Of the At
mosphere, from any cause whatever. at
once puts in motion the delicate struct-
ures which compose the atenne. to
which organs insects owe the power of
protecting themselves against danger
as well as the means of recognizing the
approach Of one another.-London Spec.
tator
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Tho senlors In We

One marked difference divided the
generals Of Frederick William III from
those Of Napoleon. The Duke of Bruns-
WICK was seventy-one years old, Prince
Hohenlohe, sixty, and among subordi-
nate commanders were men of sixty.
eight. seventy and seventy-four. Lefe.
bvre, the Oldest French general, was
barely hfty-one; Augereau, forty-eight;
bernadotte, forty-two; Napoleon. New.
Soult and Lannes, thirty-seven; Murat
only thirty-fve.
Excepting for the Intervention in Hol-
land In 1887 and the Duke of Bruns-
wick's i'll starred invasion of Champagne
In 1879, the Prussian army-like that of
Great Britain in lS54-had suffered
from long peace, one of the results in
each case being a certain disbelief in
young commanders Won der Decken
writing in 1898 under the title 'sIs If
necessary that we should only have
young generals decided the question
In the negative; and in the British army
today an officer of the same age as that
of Napoleon or Murat at Jena NAV find
his energies confined to the command of
company, whatever his oapacity.-
Edinburgh Review
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Highest Of all in Leavening Power-I,at
ABSOLUTELY PURE
How Ancient Dyes We're Secured.

-" @AhSAphN OybS were secured
Two kinds of boring sea snails sup.
Piled In ancient times the most famous
OF all dyes, known as Tyrian purple
which was considered too splendid to be-
worn by any but kings and mobiles. One
pound of wool dyed with it was worth
S175, the process by which it was ex.
tracted being very tedious and six
pounds of dye liquor being required for
staining a pound of wool. The LIQUOR
was procured by placing the very small
whelks in mortar and crushing them.
10 this the animals extracted from the
larger shells were added, as well as GER
tain proportions of urine and water in
which the snails had been allowed tn
putrefy. In the mixture thus COM
pounded the cloth or wool to be dved
was soaked, being afterward exposed to
hight. Chemists say that by this proc
ess there was effected a transformation
OF URIC acid into purpurate of ammonia.
termed for short ''murexide," because
one OF the two species of snails used was
the murex. The other species was what
Is known as the purpura.
The murex and purpura were mixed
In the process in the proportion of two
70 one. Fabrics thus dyed had a very
surprising and beautiful effect of color.
presenting metallic green reflections
from one point of view and in others
showing brown and purple tints. Chem.
lists for some time imagined that the
lrldescence of the feathers of humming
birds and peacocks was caused by a sub
stance of the nature of murexide. but il
Is known now that these brilliant hues
are occasioned by a structure of the
feathers which breaks up the light.
Murexlde IS now obtained from guano
as well as from mollusks.-Interv in
Washington Star
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
INDIA.

Ranges swoons rippleless in the fierce middav
Drenched In the white-hot suns acutest fires
winding In calm its turgid, indolent wav
Around Benares and its thousand spirea
The monstrous crocodiles on either hank
Lou in the sheen and watch the ichnenmor.
creep, ~ 10
ana mid the rushes and the tall grass rank
vi tecal pools the huge fiamingoes sleep
NO sound, no stir, no pleasant dip of oars
NO sail to charm the scene, no cloud of
white; "
Naught but the silence of the scorchins sbores
Naught but the wilderness of burning Ipbt-
Master and slave have sought the shadelsss
town,
The iris fish hide in the alga dense.
win deadly beat the hell sun poureth dovvD
Binding continent in its insolepca.
While DER the slumbering waste of heat and
sand,
Where nothing human moves or sways or
speaks,
Far In the fertile distance, mute and grand
Rlse the great Himalayas' icy peaks.
Francis s. SaItus
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
The Thnmh of tha nrn,..

1t Is by the thumb the miller tests the
Character and qualities Of the grain he
gr1nds; spreading the sample over the
nngers by a peculiar movement Of the
thumb' ne gauges its value by the thumb
itself Continual action in this way
makes the thumb assume a shape re-
sembling the wide fiattened head Of the
pulhead or Tommy Logge, a fish prev.
Alent IN mill streams, which in conse-
quence is popularly known as the miller's
ehumh. .-Chambers' JonrnaI
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Biggest Umbrella IN tha wor,,,

1t is said that the biggest umbrella In
the world has been made for the use of
a west African king. The umbrella,
which can be closed in the usual man.
ner, is twenty-one feet in diameter and
Is affixed to a polished mahogany staff
OF the same length. The canopy is made
OF India straw, and has a score of straw
tassels and border of crimson satin.
On the top is pine shaped straw orna-
ment which terminates in a gilded cone.
When in use the umbrella is fixed in the
ground, and under its shelter the king is
able to entertain thirty guests at dinner.
Dry Goods Chronicle.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
A Clerical Horse Ruver.

There Is pastor in midland town
whose reputation for honesty is so high
and his Judgment Of horses so good that
no Is employed by the gentry ia his
nelghborhood to buy their hunters and
carriage horses. For this purpose he
visits the principal Irish fairs. To so
great an extent has this calling been
forced upon him that he has been COM
pelled to become quite dealer in
horses; and while he gives satisfaction
70 bis clients he faithfully fulills the
duties OF his more sacred Office. London
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Letter Writing in America.

Americans are the greatest letter writ.
ing people on the globe. OF the fifty
odd billion pieces of mail which are
posted in the world every year nearly
5000, 100000 go through the postofices
OF the United States. We spend every
year more than $4,000, 900 for postage,
and during the year 1891 American
tongues licked the backs of $37, ,OOO, 900
worth of sticky stamps.
The postage stamps sold every year
the world over far surpasses in value
the riches of Jay Gould or the Roths-
chllds. and the postage stamp industry
OF the world is one of the greatest fac
tors in the machinery which moves the
universe today. And yet postage stamps
are OF comparatively recent origin. Ii
Is barely fifty years ago since they were
first used in England, and in 1847 con-
gress first authorized their use in the
United States.-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Went Tn nhnroh o..

A Maine woman who had an irreli.
gious husband kept driving at him until
abe finally got him to go to church
Now mark how she was rewarded. In
stead OF following the service he looked
at the congregation and noticed how
much more handsomely the other wom-
en- were dressed than his wife. This fact
pricked him to the heart as no words Of
the minister could, and the next day he
gave his wife $500 and told her to go and
buy some clothes. Need we enlarge on
the moral Of this story2 We think not
New York Tribune
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Claims Refnra Cnnnroa.

Immediately after every change of ad
ministratiOn, claims which were disal
lowed by the outgoing power pour in b,
thousands, to be considered and rejected
again. Applicants imagine, evidently
that what one party will not grant the
other may grant Their persistence in
many cases is astonishing. One citizen,
who has not the shadow of a right to
back him up has written more than
1000 letters to the treasury respecting
his demand, and has expended more
money in postage than the value of the
claim. He has addressed his communi-
cations on the subject to every public
official in Washington, from the presi-
dent down, and even to the Chinese and
other foreign ministers. g. Washington
Letter
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09

We've heard of woman who said
she'd walk five miles to get bottle of
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription fshe
couldn't get it without. That woman
had tried it. And it's a medicine that
makes itself felt in toning up the sys-
tenn and correcting irregularities as
soon as its use is begun. Go to your
drug store, pay a dollar, get bottle
and try it-try second, a third if nec-
essary. Before the third ones been
taken, you'll know that there's a rem
edy to help you. Then you'll keep on
and cure'll come. But ifyou shouldn't
feel the help, should bs disappointed
ia the results-you'll find a guarantee
printed on the bOttle-wrapper that'H
get your money back for you. How
many women are there who'd rather
have the money than health? And
'FavOrite Prescription" produces
health. Wonder is that there's o
woman willing to suffer when there's a
guaranteed remedy in the nearest drug
store,
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
The Phmnir nfArahia-

In olden times bird called a ''phoe,
nix was thought to live in the deserts
OF Arabia His lease OF life was said To
be 500 years, at the end of which time
ne built nest Of spices and famed il
into flame with his wings. The flame
reduced the bird to ashes, out Of which
ne sprung to live another 500 years.
Richardson says that he had fifty orifices
IN his beak, through which he sung me-
lodlous airs.-St. Louis Republic.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Aaron Rurr's Eva.

| EOh DuFrb Eyes.
The late Miss Theodosia Burr DAVIS
OF New York, was dear friend of mine
In the long. long ago days The niece
and ward of Matthew l.. Davis. the in.
innate associate and biographer of Burr
she had store of anecdotes of men who
inquired prominently in national affairs
seventy or eighty years since; but this
one-whlch shall repeat as nearly as
possible in her own words-interested
me most of all:
Il was a schoolgirl of fourteen, spend
ing short vacation at Uncle Matthew's
house in the city, when one day heard
him calling to me from the hall below
and went to the head of the stairs
Come down, he said. There is a gen
tleman here who wishes to see YOU /
hesitated, held back by some undefnable
fear. Again he said, Come down. and
In such tones that | dared not disobev
be LED me into the parlor, and there on
the sofa sat an old man whom | had
never before SEEN Very old he looked
dressed In the costume of the last CEN
tury, with his snow white hair drawn
N-@ S+SN IA a Cu0 DtulIlU. but his
eyes-they were not old. Large. dark
and deep, they flashed with all the fire
OF youth. never saw such ewes in man
or woman. They fascinated while thev
frightened me.
"My uncle led me forward and said.
Colonel Burr, this is the child of whom
spoke. need not tell you whose name
she bears. The old man rose, took nv
hand In his and held me out at arms
length and looked at me-looked at me
with those eyes which seemed to see into
my very soul Only a moment. but the
moment was an hour Then he dropped
my hands and exclaimed in a voice
trembling with emotion: Take her away
Matthew, take her awayl cannot bear
itF l saw him only once afterward: if
was on Broadway, and tried to slip bv
him unperceived But when | turned
to look back he was standing still. fol-
lowing me with those wonderful. won.
derful eyes. They haunt me still, and
will, know, while memory lasts. st.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Everything is at End" "
PATHETIC STORY ILLUS, RATING THE
DESPAIR OF RUSSIAN PEASANTS.

DESPAIR OF RUSSIAN PEASANTS.
A characteristic incident reported bv
the correspondent of NouOve VreD,yg
illustrates the manner in which the
Russian peasant accepts his lot when
all his efforts to help himself have
failed. The reporter went to a large
village, with "a public school and a cot
ton factory. The peasants there eat
bread made of goose foot plant, but
those who are employed at the factory
make their bread of a mixture of two
measures OF bran to one of rye -four.
STILL there are many who have not
even that kind of bread to eat. The
reporter entered hut where he heard
children crying. Everything was bare.
Two small Shildren sat on the floor
crying. When he began talking to
them little girl of II years came for.
ward. As soon as she saw the repor
ter she began making the sign of the
cross over herself, as if she had seen
an apparitiOn.
rs the master of the house at homeP
he asked.
"At home. What do YOU want pr
answered grutt voice from the top of
the oven.
~ want to buy from you a piece of
goosefOOt bread will pay you WE'LL" |
WHO art thOuY What kind of man |
art thOuY We have no bread at all |
here, neither of goOsefoot nor of anv-
thing else" the man said angrily, look |
ing down from the oven.
But why do you let you children
cryP Why don't you do something for
them ?"
II can do nothing; we must die
my woman and have lain down since
yesterday"
Lain down ? Are you sick ? The
doctor is in the village to-day"
mo, we are not sick. But we laid
ourselves out, because everything is at
end, +" the peasant answered. H.
On further inquiry the reporter was
informed that the poor fellow had done
all he could to procure bread.
lie had applied to the authorities of
his borough, had borrowed and begged
from bis fellow, villagers and had de. !
termined finally that there was no
help for him any more, and laid him
self out to await death. He begged g
the reporter to leave his hut and allow !
him and his wife to die in peace.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
What May BE Read from N.,.

A person of broad finger nails is Of
gentle nature, timid and bashful Those
whose nails grow into the flesh at the
points or sides are given to luxury A
white mark on the nail bespeaks misfor-
tune. Persons with very pale nails are
subject to much infr1nity of the flesh
and persecution by neighbors and friends
People with narrow nails are ambitious
and quarrelsome. Lovers of knowledge
and liberal sentiment have round nails
lndolent people have generally leshy
nails. Small nails indicate littieness OF
mind obstinacy and conceit. Melan.
choly persons are distinguished by their
pale or lead colored nails and choleric.
martial men, delighting in war, have red
and spotted nails.- Worcester Light.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
Cinnamon KIIIs Disonaa Co.,.

AFTER prolonged research and experi.
ment IN Pasteurs laboratory, M. Cham
perland Is reported TO have come 10 tha
conclusion that no living germ of disease
can resist the antiseptic power of essence
o. cinnamon for more than q few hours
y destroys microbes as effectively II not
e. rapidly as corrosive sublimate.-New
Kork 49,
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
A QUICKER PROCESS

But fallowing is too slow a nrocass
Tor the present generation. 10 gain
Time the farmer plows his land carl,
applies ten or twenty bushels of G,oa
per acre, and seeds down to oats and
peas for the earliest crop. The cran
must not bear seed, tor that would
cause drain on the soil. but the cron
Is turned under with plow and chain
just before the peas begin to bloom
ana as soon as this is done the land il
soWn thickly with millet seed when
OF sufficient height the crop being also
turned under in the green conjitIon
to be followed by rye. which remains
on the ground during the winter 70
oe pioWed under in the spring. If
hVe or ten bushels of lime be annlied
per acre. after each plowing, it Viii he
round OF advantage. BY this process
the farmer keeps the ground shaded a
great portion Of the time, causes
greater number Of plants to grow and
seek nitrogen from the atmospbere
and exposes a larger extent of surface
OF the soil to chemical action. the lime
serving as a re agent for quickly re-
uuclng the green crops to plant fee d.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
G.raerloaI uaaa of No.

Witch hazel is large and curious for.
est shrub The small branches were
Formerly used for 'divining roda, and
~ extract from it is valued in medical
practice. The wood of the American
aspen or white poplar is used In the
manufacture of paper. = Home and
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
The Average Lie Is rhirtr.ainh. -

Ihe Average Life is Thirty-eight Years.
The annual mortality of the entire
human race amounts, roughly speaking
TO SS,OOO,OOO persons. This makes the
average deaths per day over 81 900, be-
ing at the rate of $3.50 an hour. or
6S people every minute of the day and
night the year round. A fourth of the
race die before completing their eighth
year, and one-half before the end of the
seventeenth year, but the average dura-
tlon OF life is about thirty eight years.
Not more than one person in 100, 900 lives
to be one hundred.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
An ABbe's Rstor..

Some OF those terrible market women
OF Paris were checking" the Able
Maury good humoredly. "You speak
nke an angel. M. FAbbe, but spite of it
81 yoa are fool. :" "Quite right, mes
danes, he replied, but one does not
die for that" "-dentleman's Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09

Dispatches from all the principe
grain producing districts of Oregon,
California and Washington, show that
the condition of the crops planted is
healthy.
Smyrna times., 1892-03-09

The first consignment of camel skins
Tor commercial purposes ever brought
TO this country, reached New York
some days ago.