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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-02-04

The AcrAroR (local edition) one
year, and SCOTS Sub-Treasury
Plan and the Land loan System,
SI.OO. Foreign edition of the
AGITAroR one year, and the above
book, 60 cents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-02-04

Nausea, NettIe Rash,
Piles, Rush of Blood to
plexion, Salt Rheum,
Sick Headache, Skin
ach, Tired F e ling,
Water Brash and every
ease that results from
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-02-04

M e n al Depression,
Painful Digestion, Pim-
the Head, Sallow Com
Scald Head, Scrofula,
Diseases, Sour Stom-
Torpid Liver, Ulcers,
other symptom or dis
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the continent, the expenses of producing
such paper are infinitely less than in
London, where one has to compete with
all the great dailies with their enormous
capital and resources.
Ralph Blumenfeld, who has been the
managing director of the Herald for the
last year, will still remain in London, and.
in connection with L. Is. Fielders, will
have charge of the Herald news bureau.
Mr.. Blumenfeld has shown unusual
activity and enterprise in his management
of the paper, and it is certainly not
through any fault of his that it has not
been more successful. The simple fact is
there is still a considerable prejudice
against things American in England. The
great American magazines cannot be said
to come under this ban, as they are more
cosmopolitan in character, and appeal to 4
more intelligent class, whose views are not
so circumscribed as the ordinary news
paper reader.
The one single instance of success in the
American newspaper line is the Detroit
Free Press, but that is unique, and is owing,
no doubt to the fact that the Free Press
contains the quintessence of American
wit and humor. The many attempts to
establish an English edition of TexdS .Sift-
inqs have, one and all, met with disaster,
and the american HumoriSt. projected some
lineage by an American resident in Lon
don, was also unsuccessful in securing a
foothold
Novelists have long exercised a free hand
in introducing real people into fiction.
Sometimes no attempt whatever is made
10 disguise the characters, and, again,
they are but thinly yelled under names
highly suggestive of the real ones. In
many cases. no doubt, this has been very
pleasing 10 the people portrayed, but more
frequently ii has been cause OF grave dis
satisfaction to the original of the portrait,
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men OF title. or for younger sons" who
can give them a social position in Eng
land, and they obtain cards for the state
balls and the lat homes" of her excel
lency through the influence of cabinet
ministers, senators and members of
parliament. A snobbish young doctor
or lawyer, who puts his professional card in
his window is more overjoyed to receive a
card with a coronet on it than to receive
nifty patients or as many clients, for lift is
known that he does not so to the Hall he
will fail to secure much of the patronage
worth having / shall never forget my
Town experience on my first visit to OF
tawa. | met party of young men en-
ployed in the civil service, and while We
lwere smoking one of them asked me if l
had a card for Rideau hall. l
SAID no, not explaining that
had not called, and that neither
the governor nor any OF his aids knew
that was in the capital. But had no
sooner said mo" than their demeanor
changed toward me; they became less cor
dial and confidential, and / saw one of
them scrutlnizing my boots and my linen.
As We parted, two of them gave me the
ups OF their fingers. and while they did
80, looked at somebody else. \ little
While afterward, when it came TO their
ears that | was III confidential re-
iations with their excellencies, and
was designated 10 write book on
Their social and political administration,
they endeavored to resume their elusive
ness, but never smoked with them again.
ihey we're young gentlemen from small
country places, but they were very def
NC types of good many of the swells in
me Ottawa civil service. Yet society there
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iaoes and sometimes dancing in the even
ing, put the public never know anything
JOIN, some calm night when the moon il
luii, dress themselves in their blanket
suits, bind on their snowshoes and start
out across the fields and through the
woods, not returning till near midnight.
The other Rideau Inequalities consist of a
caro- for the lat homes.n and one for the
STATE ball. The former card announces
that her excellency will be at home two
evenings IN the week from . to u o'clock.
anu the word tobogganing" is printed on
the lower right hand corner.
o Inc present governor general, Lord
Stanley. of Preston. was appointed on the
departure OF Lord Lansdowne, who is now
yiceroy of India. Lady Stanley, very
elndly and motherly-looking woman. bids
TAR to become as popular among the OF
lava folk as Lady Dnfferin was She has
already established the Lady Stanley In
stitute of Trained Nurses" which has
done noble service in providing skilled
nurses in the capital. city where there is
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nearly always smallpox. She likes dark
dresses, but in winter she is mufiied from
head to foot in seal or other fur. There
IS no other such patron of concerts,
bazaars and all kinds of charity work as
she, and she drives to every profession
held at either converts where she is
lavish in her lberality. As for Lord Stan
ley he is somewhat of an athlete, noted
pedestrian of sturdy build He has dark
hair and beard, a genial fare, and is nearly
always seen with a cigarette between his
lips, which he lnhales after the manner of
those known in the United States as
Cigarette iiends."
There is nothing that know more pic
turesGue than Il toboggan party at night on
the Hall grounds. About 8 O'Clock the
guests begin to arrive, dragging their
toboggans, every one, man and woman,
clad IN blanket suits. Some of the CO.'S
tunes are made of white blanketing with
blue stripes near the edges; others are
navy blue or myrtle green, piped with
scarlet, crimson or maroon, and some are
light blue or tawny brown. Around
the waiss is tied long, heavy knitted
scarf of blue, crimson, scarlet or
whatever color the wearer prefers;
on the head is a toque also of knitted
wool, and somewhat like Turkish cap,
but there is tassel attached to the top
which hangs down to the ear. The men
wear black stockings, knickerbockers and
buff moccasins; the women also wear
moccasins. A large number of the guests
take along their 'sleds." dragging them
through the grounds. The guests gather
to the number of 100 or 500 in the hollow
below the Hall where the slides are
situated. Near at hand is the rink,
lighted with torches, where those
who do not want to take the plunge
down the slides can enjoy them
selves. Near the slides huge fire is
built, from three to eight cords of wood
being piled in the form of a pyramid.
Those who want to attend the ''at home"
but who are afraid to go down the slides
or not able to skate keep close to the huge
may not be a breath of air moving, but
the glass often shows the mercury 20 degs.
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handed him my wet umbrella while | IN
buttoned my coat and got out my watch.
do you mind looking at a watch that |
did not buy OF you? / viii be honest with
YOU. II was one that l bought with the
money that my wife earned teaching
school this winter. and | have had an in
scription put on it stating that it IS from
admiring friends, but as matter of fact |
have no admiring friends. Most Of them
are onto me.
''Will you. as friend, do me the honor
TO look into my poor little timepiece and
tell me what 10 do 10 il"
He took up mis- little screwdrIver as a
society lady picks up an oyster fork when
she has solitaire on her little finger that
she wants to exhibit TO the throng. then
he adjusted the do-go0d to his eye, which
gave him a choked look on one side, and
said. as he filled his lap full OF cogwheels:
why, there's nothing the matter with
this watch. When you want to set il you
lust pull the stem out an eighth of an inch
and turn the hands; that's al. Twenty
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Is by no means made up entirely of per
sons ike these, for you ind dignity and
seh-respcct among large number who
'SSe vice-regL invitation as a matter of
course
a. me nrst step to take on visiting Ottawa,
you wish TO he invited 70 Rideau Hall.
10 20 and leave cards for the governor
general and his wife, and il will be good
poilcy also 10 leave one for each OF the aid
|ue-eamps. Your names IS taken up, in
qu'Fies are made about you, and If you are
aeemed worthy Of The honor a large card
NTH coronot on the top is sent 10 YOU.
ne Inequalities Of Rideau Hall are not
numerous, consisting OF few dinner par.
aes gwen 20 cabinet ministers. senators
ahd members Of parliament. These dim
heFs are formal affairs. and the
quests SIT down about :, but the governors
80 mas her O'Clock teas. to which come
,hcse who are not Of the political set She
mas also quiet little dinner parties, cha
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below zero; so that those standing near
the fire are obliged To turn rapidly each
portion of the body toward the heat 10
keep from freezing. Torches are stuck
here and there among the trees, and
when puff of wind moves the flame the
shadows of the pines and spruces dance
upon the snow like huge fantastic COB
Inns.
Each toboggan slide is a sort of Jacobs
ladder, where people are constantly as
cending and descending. The climb is
tiresome and tedious, and while one long
row of people are going up, the swish, :"
swish OF the descending tobOggans can
be heard with few seconds between each
sound. The head of the slide Is small, and
there Is not even standing room for all
who are waiting for their turn 10 go down.
The track Is simply narrow, icy
trough, with snow walls on either
side, and there are TWO rows of
Chinese lanterns 10 light the steers
man through his swift voy-
age. An expert tobogganer VIII
take two or three ladies upon his
vehicles, putting them in front, while he
throws himself down, extending one foot
behind 10 steer with. The faintest touch
of his moccasined toe. properly made,l
steers the toboggan with precision | have,
taken certain young ladies down these
slides, and as il was the first time that
them how they liked it. lit was just
divine" they assured me, but they
were hbbing. The truth is when one first
piunges almost sheer down as If shot
from a cannon, the sensation IS that
your heart and entire inne- economy are
coming up your throat your eyes swim
and your brain reels. The first eXpe-
rience i not "diyine"-it is hideous but
the mad exhIIsration of il soon enters
your veins, and presently there is for you
IN all the world no outdoor sport like the
tohocgan. There are some accidents IN
these ice troughs. | have seen a very
pretty girl have her cheek torn open be-
cause the clumsy steersman ran into re-
turning toboEEaner. l once saw Two sena-
tors from the lumber district who had been
threatening for years 70 take - plunge
down" They both sat upright on the
ioboggan. and one of them said. Let her
co. Then there vas a pun OF powdered
ice down tue track, and TWO black objects
rolling down after an empty sled. They
were cut aud bruised. and left the grounds
by the back gate. Tobosganing begins TO
siacken al II; then the guests 90 10 the re-
iectory. where they get supper with ciaret
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THE OTTAWA "4OO.n
Society's Winter Season at the
Capital of Canada.
INVITATIONS TO RIDEAu HALL.
where All the Pretty Canadian Girls
Go to make Cstch"-The Wives
OF the Ministers.

With the reassembling of parliament In
February the families comprising what is
known as the first set," begin to return
to Ottawa, the Canadian capital.
have chosen to describe social life at
Ottawa because it is the city where the
yiceroy and his family and all the high
officials of Canada reside.
The governor general, or more properly
the viceroy, lives in Rideau hall. an old
fashioned but picturesque mansion built
Of gray-blue limestone. A short distance
away the Rideau river goes rushing and
roaring by. but early in December its
thunders are hushed, for it is covered
with coat Office thick enough to bear an
army. The hall is set in the heart of a
grove of frs, spruce and pine, that with
their deep green show defiance in winter to
the snow that covers all the land as if with
9 shroud.
The season at Ottawa may be said to be-
gin with the winter. for then there can be
snow-shoeing parties, skating on the canal
or Rideau river and the private Kinks, and,
what the Canadian loves above all, tobog-
gaming. Every fine night when the frost
is keen and the snow hard toboggans go
swishing down thousand hills, but no.
where is this sport more exhilarating than
down the steep artificial slides that stand
just below Rideau hall.
1t Is the ambition of every one with
social aspirations, who either visits the
capital or lives there, to visit Rideau hall.
Anybody who does not receive card for
Rideau hall is not considered in society
and is looked down upon by those who
are invited. When the season has
begun people come there from the
most distant extremes of the country,
some from British Columbia and others
from Halifax. Parents bring their daugh-
tiers. If they are attractive and pretty, and
many of these girls 90 home engaged to
some ''good catch" The daughters of the
f.nouveaux riches" are on the alert for
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and in recent case the publishers have
been held responsible for the too free use
Of the authors pen in this respect. In the
case referred to--that of PInnock VS..
Chapman 4 HalI-the defendants were
forced TO pay $1,000 damages. besides 81!
the heavy expenses of lawsuit.
Few authors practice this more openly
than Mr.. Stevenson. many OF whose char
acters are drawn from real life. The ORR
ginal OF John Siiver-the fierce one-legged
nitrate in Treasure Islands, W T.
Henley. an old friend and schoolmate Of
Mr.. Stevenson's. and now the editor OF
that very sharp and caustic journal, the
National Observer. Mr. Henley protested
that the picture was not a fair one; Mr..
Stevenson replied: NO, perhaps it IS not,
but it is what you would have been II you
had been = pirate
Another old friend, Charles Baxter,
Scotch advocate, Is dealt with even more
numerically rs 'Finsoury. in another
work.
1t IS 3 somewhat curious fact that IN &C
knoRledging his indebtedness 10 an old
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J. @. BENNETT. One change in this direc-
ton was to alter the name from the New
York Herald to the Herald. Serials and
short stories were secured from many of
the foremost English novelists, bat withal
the paper could not gain sufficient sup
port TO make its publication profitable;
and, after prolonged and plucky attempt
1t has been decided to discontinue 1.-THE
issue for January IL being the last.
Thus the attempt to publish the same
paper in the three great capitals of the
world has not been successful. The Paris
edition has evidently caught on, and is
now an established and permanent sue
cess; no doubt one reason for this being
that while paper published in the Eng
lish language can never expect to have
more than a very limited circulation on
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IN THE WAR PRISONS
Thrilling Experience of a Dozen
Members of Congress.
CRISP FORTY DAYS UNDER FIRE,
How General Joe Wheeler Was Caught.
and How He Tried to Cheer Up
Alexander stephens.

WASHINGTON CRY. Feb. ESPECIAL Cor
respondence. - Congressman in prisonl
Yes, and the best members of congress,
too. A bakers dozen of them have spent
weary months in prisons, watched by
guards ready TO shoot them at their slight
est attempt TO escape. Some for such at
tempts have gone about their prison pens
with loads of iron tied to their ankles, and
Others have been followed by bloodhounds
and recaptured. These statesmen, who
now feed on the fat of Washington City,
then grew thin on prison fare, and their
bones stuck out as they grabbed for their
rations in the different military prisons of
the North and South during the last war.
They were all brave soldiers, and they are
all today patriotic American citizens. Not
one of them bears any ill-will towards the
section OF the United States where he
spent those gloomy prison days, and both
Union and Confederates among them find
excuses for the poor food and treatment
which they then received.
The stories of these experiences read
like romance. Take that of the speaker.
The Hon. Charles Frederick Crisp was
plain Charlie Crisp in 1861. He was a
beardless boy of IS when he entered the
Confederate army, but they made him a
lieutenant, and he led Company X, of the
Tenth Virginia infantry He had served
three years when he was wounded and
captured and carried to Fort Delaware,
and for three months he lay there with
thousands of other Confederate prisoners,
having no comforts, but no great priva-
tons. Then an order was issued that in
retaliation for the acts of the Confederates
600 officers among the prisoners of this fort
should be sent South and placed under the
fire of the Confederate guns at Morris
island, near Charleston. This order was
not known to the prisoners, and when the
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minutes to 10 now; there you are. Good
watch; splendid watch. No charge. Not
al ali; you're quite welcome. Come again
after your season is over and buy out oGE
diamond counter"
Everybody who goes to Mr.. Tiffany gets
good treatment. He is above hopping on
watch that he did not sell. Ii is so with
great men in every line.
Seth says-meaniug Mr.. Thomas. of
course-that in winding a watch one
should hold it in one hand and wind it
with the other. This will strike home to
thousands of careless people who have
been for years holding the watch in the
teeth and winding it by means of the toes.
III the watch runs too fast, turn the
regulator toward s. which means slow;
II too slow, turn toward f, which means
fast. tits better, however, if you do not
know how to read, to take it to the watch
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drama for the central idea of his short
story, THE Bottle Imp" which appeared
IN syndicate of newspapers last year, Mr..
Stevenson did not know that the story
was published over sixty years ago in
Germany in the Romancists and Novel
lists lIbrary-a series of works in folio vol
umes. The story was laid in Germany,
and the situations turned readily on the
great variety of coins then current in Ger
many, each small kingdom having its
own style, Germany being not then a
composite empire with an uniform cur
rency.
Mrs. NJ. French Sheldon, the intrepid
African traveller, will shortly revisit
America for the purpose of arranging for
the American edition of her book describ-
ing her African experiences, which is rap
idly nearing completion. Although she
was scarcely six months in the country
she has secured a really wonderful coilec-
ton of photographs of people and places,
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OUR COUNTRY.

The power that broke their prison bar
And set the dusky millions free,
And welded in the flame Of war
The Union fast to Liberty
Shall ii not deal with other ills,
Redress the red mans grievance, break
The Circea1 cup which shanIes and Kills,
And labor full reQuital make?
Alone 20 such as f.iy bear
Thy civic aouors bid them falls
And call thy daughters forth 10 share
The rights and duties pledged 10 ALL
With peace that comes OF purity,
Aud strength 70 simple Justice due,
80 runs our loyal dream OF thee;
God OF our fathers, make il tTuei
--Joha g. UAI..ier.
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In LITERARY LONDON.
Mr.. Benefits Failure to Estab.
lish the Herald"
REAL CHARACTERS IN FICTION.
Mrs. French Sheldon's Book on Africa
She VIII Lecture i'm America
"A New Magazine.

LONDON. Feb. Especial Correspond
ence. despite the expenditure of an
enormous sum OF money and tremendous
energy, the journalistic venture of James
Gordon Bennett in England seems doomed
to failure. After carrying on daily
edition of the New York Herald for two or
three years at a heavy loss. it was first re-
duced from eight to four pages, and in a
few months from the change, entirely sus-
pended. The Sunday edition however
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was continued, and gave
good promise of becoming
a valuable property. Many
changes were introduced
to make it conform more
nearly to the journalistic
traditions of this coun-
try, and to eliminate the
strong American flavor
which did not meet with
the approval of the con-
sentative English reader.
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with which her book is to be illustrated,
and such an abundance of material that
her task has been one of condensation
rather than expansion. She has brought
back much new information that African
travellers have not hitherto been able to
secure. The fact that she was a woman
inspired the natives with confidence and
trust to such an extent that they threw
aside all reserve and suspicion, and i'm
parted to her many of their traditions
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More cases Of sick headache. biliogzaess, con
st.patiou, can be cured in less time, with less
medicine, and for less money. by using Carters
Little Liver Pills, than BY any ot1e. Eaeans.
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