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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

A FRIEND who has made the mat
ter study says: 81 have the Off
cial census report Of the mortgage
indebtedness Of Pennsylvania, Kan
sas, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin,
Indiana, Missouri, and Illinois. 1t
EQUALS ABOUT ONE-HALF OF ALL THE
GOLD COIN IN THE WORLD. Kind
reader, can you tell us how we are
to base upon gold the necessary
money to do the business of this
country, when the mortgage indebt-
edncss Of eight Of our forty-four
states equals one-half Of the gold in
the world? Ask your gold-basis
neghbor to explain.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24
w. II. A.

Mrs. LEASE has gone east on "a
lecturing tour, and the people of
Kansas are paying her salary as a
member of the state board of chari.
ties.
The above is fair sample of the
capacity of Republican paper for
telling the truth. Mrs. Lease draws
no pay while away lecturing, nor
when. at home attending to private
individual affairs. The office is NOT,
and never was, a salaried one. Mem
bers of the state board of charities
get So per day, aud mileage, for the
time actually employed in attending
to the business of the institutions
under their charge; consequently,
when Mrs. Lease is east, she is not
drawing on the state treasury any
more than is the editor of the Kan
sas City Journal, who stays at home
and puts in his time lying about the
Populsts. w. II. M.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24
MACEDON.

you Reppes coming They have taken the road
That leads from the of gloom where they have long abode
their with the people in that surprising fight
When tools of corporations pommeed out of sight
you them They bowling like pack of starved coyoe
marslalng for the purchasing of
They calling Macedon! Come help the fray
Pops the people, and there's danger delay
fellows whom thought asleep surely wide awake
this but the sake
Come and help us-don't fail this hour,
with people, and must break their power
W. H. A.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

Don't fail to send a dime for a
sample or two of Coin, the new sill
yer paper published at Chicago.
It's daisy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

THOSE national Legislators who
were members of congress when
silver was demonetized, and who
have since repeatedly declared they
did not know that there were any
such provisions in the bill, should
hang their heads in shame, and 60
into eternal retirement The con-
fession shows how Indifferent they
were to the interests of the people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

The New York Recorder, power
full paper, declares for free coinage
of silver.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

The true reason why Cleveland
left Washington for Buzzard's Bay
is that he had been on a protracted
drunk. and his friends wanted to
get him out Of town.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

If John Bull had written Cleve-
lands message, he could not have
pleased Wall street any better
John P. ST. John.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

The Cherokee Strip will be opened
for settlement, Sept. 10th, at noon.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

a PRoHIBINIoN party leader says:
"My heart aches for the common
people. They are deceived, mis-
led and oppressed. | fear great
bread riots in the near future-and
when hungry people once get start
ed, they become wild and reckless,
and are liable to go to EXTREMES.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

IMPEACH Cleveland's young man,
Eckles. The Road, Denver.
Wouldn't it be better to impeach
Cleveland, Brother George?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

We are glad to see the Kansas
Lever, of Ottawa, the state Prohi-
bition paper, take such a decided
stand on the side of the common
people. If all of our reform papers
would labor as gealousIy, it would
be but a short time till the reform
forces would unite.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

CHOLERA is reported to have brok-
en- out in Chicago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

CHICAGO capitalists hung those
whom they were pleased to call an
archists, aud now, John Sherman,
the boss capitalistic brigand, says
James Platt ought to be hung for
exposing the trick by which the
conference committee secured the
demonetization of silver in 1878,
and every old-party tooter is swing
ing his hat and shouting, bravo ~
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-08-24

Free silver or trouble.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29
Not So Fast.

The New York Tribune reports an
anecdote told by a Washington gentle
man concerning a city, historically IA
nous, which need not been named here.
1t has fallen Behind the procession"
as the current phrase is, and It Is by
no means increasing rapidly in popula-
ton. Said the Washington man to the
reporter:
[ went over to one evening to
make q call. 1t was dark and I couldn't
see the numbers on the houses. After
a time l noticed q middle-aged man
smoking a pipe OH the front steps Of q
house a few doors away.
Il beg pardon" said I "but viii you
kindly ten me which way the numbers
run on this streetY" +
He took the pipe out Of his mouth,
slowly knocked out the ashes, and said:
Just got to town."
"Wen, yes" I answered, taken by
surprise.
"Evenin' boat"
Eyes,"
What number yer lookin' forT'
"Forty-nine."
Its the other side, four doors be-
low" a.
I thanked him and turned to GO
Hold on q minute" he called. "What
did you say about numbers runnin'2'
"Well. they don't rum" he rejoined;
"they don't even walk. There haint
nothin' run in this town sence the
war!"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29

The prejudices in favor Of nobility
are very strong in Italy, and though
family connections are priced so highly
there, no q seems ashamed Ii he has
no family to boast. In "GHmpses Of
Italian Society" the author says that
she was astonished to hear q well-bred
clergyman say gravely to a friend, also
a man eminent for talents and fortune:
YES, there Is a grand invitation at
such a place tonight, but I don't 60 be-
cause 1 am not a gentleman; and the
master desired I would let you know
that 1t. was for no other reason that
you had not q card, too, my good
friend, for it is an invitation for none
but people of fashion, you see."
At all this no n stares, no one
laughs; and it is accepted as the proper
thing. 4
A woman Of quality, near whom I sat
at the fine ball Bragadin made in honor
OF the season, inquired how I passed
the morning. manned several churches
l had looked into, particularly that
which they esteem beyond the rest as a
favorite work of Palladio, and called
the Redentore.
You do very right" said she, ito look
at u churches, as you have none in
England, I know: but then you have
so many other fine things, such charm
ing steel buttons, for example," press.
ing my hand to show that she meant
no offense.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29
COURAGE OF THE FOxHOUNr

The Animals Endurance Depends
Much Upon Companionship OF Its
Kind.
The foxhound's courage Is not shown
when In isolation. No hound alone will
attack a fox with the determination Of
a terrier, yet the passive courage of
the foxhound Is declared by the Lon
don Spectator to be immense. 10 see
lagglng hounds come up through a field
Of horsemen, to watch the pace with
which they charge the thickest fences,
and the endurance they show du ing
a long run will convince most Of this.
We heard once a curious instance Of
combination supplying courage. A pack
of English foxhounds were taken to
France for wolf hunting. But when a
wolf was reused each hound, as he
caught the scent, dropped his tail te
tween his legs and refused to follow.
When, however, some French hounds
used to the wolf had been added to the
pack, the foxhounds hunted eagerly.
But now they ran with their bristles up
to kill, not to eat. The fox they re-
gard as a dinner; not 50 the wolf. The
large, straight fore legs, deep chest
and level back Of the foxhound show
what he really is-tle highest develop
ment Of united speed, strength and en-
durance: Ten miles to the meet five
hours hunting at an average Of five
miles an hour, during which two foxes
are run down, and ten miles more be-
fore supper, is but an ordinary days
work. We do not think we arc exag.
gerating when we say that many q
hound could cover 100 miles In a day
without being greatly distressed. But
for this he would need companionship.
Alone he would probably tire sooner
than q slim pointer or long-legged set
ter, whose steady galop over grass
| or heather is another marvel or ami
NAL endurance. But the courage Of CO.
operation Is less interesting, even II
none the less creditahle. than the dash
of the greyhound. ..
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29
THE SHY MAN.
II He Still Bushes He Ii Not With
out His Advantages.

II He Still Bushes He Ii Not With
out His Advantages.
One Of the characters In a modern
novel IS made to say: Il love a shy
man. He Is getting so scarce
Perhaps that Is why he Is SO really
delicious.
When he bushes palpably, but with
out looking awkward, one is drawn
toward him by a certain sentiment Of
affinity, and so long as he is just shy
enough, but not too shy, he wins more
and more upon one
TO draw a really shy man out of his
shyness Is a pleasing task, and the
more SO he Is generally enchanted to
give expression to the thoughts and
ideas that he usually keeps locked fast
away within himself. One comes upon
a stray jewel or two nov and then In
such cases in the shape Of IN uDexpect'
ed thought that astonishes the discov'
erer because it seems SO different from
the person from whom it emanates.
/ assure you l would think shy men
are sometimes very charming, but then
n must be a little bit shy ones self
in order to appreciate them.
do you know any nice ones, and dc
you know that they only come out OF
heir shell in a ~tete-a-tete, and not al
ways then, so that there is a pleasing
element Of uncertainty about them
which adds to the interest they in
spire?-London Truth.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29
Be FRUITFUL AND MuLr,pLY.

A Biblical Injunction Which Has
Been Observed In M~ny Cases.
The palm for multiple child bearing
Is awarded by the st. Louis Republic
tc Mrs. Ellsworth Miller of Cold
Springs, N. Y, who has been married
less than ter years, but who, within
that short space of time. has become
the mother Of seventeen children. The
last edition to this was q set OF trip
lets, born on March II of this year.
Mrs. Miller was married on Oct. 10.
1883, and since that time has given
birth to this numerous family, which
are divided as follows: Three sets of
triplets, nine; three sets of twins, six,
and two singles, two. Mrs. Miller is
not yet ~thirty-one years of age. In
searching the annals of the world for
material that will attest the approprl-
ateness and peculiar fitness of the
above title, it Is found that Nine. de In
kiva of Florence, Italy, gave birth to
eight children on Sept 8, 1907. Nine.
~Frescobaldi, another Florentine lady,
WV uASu AL Aoto, WAC luc ilOlIcE Ol
ffty-twO children, no fewer than three
being born at any one time, four and
five at a single birth being nothing un-
usual with the madame, and at one
time six. In Aubray's Natural His
tory Of wiltshire England) there is
an count of the Boham family,
Thomas and Edith. Edith bad twins
and tliplets on numerous occasions,
and finally astonished all Wiltshire by
giving birth to seven children at one
time. '"There is a tradition" to quote
from Aubrey, which is recorded in the
parish register, that all the seven chill.
iren were brought together to the font
of the church and there baptized" The
Gentleman's Magazine for March IT,
1913, is authority for the statement
that the wife Of Pierre Duisain OF
Nerchoq, department Of Pas-de-Calais
France, was the mother Of six children
three boys and three girls, all of whom
were born at a single birth. "a lady
Mame not given-see "Statistician' fol
1889, page 500, at Xenia, Ohio, in thu
year 1850 gave birth to five children
at n time, Mrs. James McElmore
who lived at TeXarkana, Ark, in thu
year 1883 had become the mother of
family of nine children, all within tn,
short space of three years, the last az
rival being a trio of girls. Mrs. Phoeb,
Lynch, who was living at Seymour
Ind, in the same year QSSS) had sever
chiiuren at two births, eighteen months
apart. The last four, two boys ant
two girls, were born on April 80, 1885
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29

4 Postal Card which Reached Its
Foreign Destination After a Long
Delay. Il &E>
A postal card which has been to
Europe and come back has just been
turned In at the postoffice department
In Washington, to give the officials
there q chance of discovering who is
responsible for Its long delay in trans
mission. 1t was mailed in Washing
son late in December, 1881, addressed
TO q bookseller in London, directing
him to send to the writer a large num-
Der Of books which were even then suf-
hciently rare not to be readily accessi-
BILE in this country. The card reached
Its destination late in May, 1892. The
bookseller, apparently without MOTTO
Ing the disparity between the date
written on the card and the date of
receipt, filed the order, after taking
time to hunt up the books, which,
In the course of ten years interval,
had grown still rarer. The surprise
Of the author of the card may be mag
ined when, SO long after having con-
cfuded that the dealer could not fill
his order, he suddenly had this large
supply Of literature dumped upon him
from the postotfice. When he charged
the dealer with neglect, the date OF the
card appears to have been examined
for the first time; but it, was pleaded
that q dealer would be justified in
filling such an order in spite of the an
uQuity Of the written date, because he
would have a right to assume that his
customer had himself been careless
about dating the card, a slip Of the pen
making 1891 read 1881. The New
York Evening Post thinks that the
card must have got into the old post
Office In Washington, been ~postmarked
and then lost, slipping possibly into
n of the many cracks and crannies
Of that Office. When the Office was
moved from its old and shabby quar-
tiers into the building 1t now occupies
some n doubtless came across the
card, and, not noticing its date, dropped
It Into q mail bag bound for London.
The responsibility for the accident is
obviously past fixing, and the book
seller In London and his customer in
America will have to settle their dis
pute without the assistance of the post
Office department.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29

bosom of the water was gray like a
doves breast, and the rising noon
ruffled it with silver. After we had
flashed around awhile. for the boat
went so fast it DIDN'T seem like water
travel, we suddenly turned and headed
for the white city. So might a hurried
and weary soul steer suddenly for the
harbor Of heaven! I hope you will II,
derstand me when I say it. I could
think of nothing but the paradise port
and the celestial city. While our backs
had been turned the miracle of the
nights Illumination had been wrought.
Every dome aoated like q golden bub-
BILE OH the evening air. The great per-
istyle was trimmed with rose, where
red fire burned along it's length. The
colossal figure at the gate extended
welcoming arms and held out a VIC
tors CROWN. Watts Of music stole out
ward to meet us, like the fragrance Of
unknown shores, and all l could do was
to cover my face with my hands and
sing softly to myself the old Sunday
school hymn:
Into the harbor of heaven now we
glide;
We're home at last, home at last!
Softly we rock on its smooth silver tide,
We're home at last, home at last!
II guess we'd better 40 home, Miss
Brown" said my friend. 'The days
been too much for you; you're getting
hysterical."
And we did go home, but never more
will I forget my one day at the worlds
fair, and by hook or crook I will 60
there onoe more before the season is
over. Miss Brown.
N. B.-These angels were not real;
only made Of plaster Of Paris.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29

A Visit to the Woman's Building.
tried to believe that there was more
truth than falsehood in the song the
boys used to sing about the good time
coming by and by. For the past six
years I have been employed in a big
factory where about forty other women
like me made the cheap underclothing
you ladies find on the bargain counters
Mt special sales. l have had to work
harder than usual for a year or two
back, because my sister has been sick.
She took a dreadful cold one night,
being caught ont in a rainstorm one
night with leaky shoes and no rubbers,
and for fifteen months she lay dying
in out little two-rocmed fat up on Di-
vcrsey street. There wasn't much sun-
shine ever found it's way Into the room,
and there was q bad smell from the
grocery shop underneath, where they
were v very careful about their
rotting vegetables, or perhaps she might
have got we'll. But folks like her and
me don't count much In this world.
We don't have much chance to start
with, and U show peters out into a
UE0Lly Aulu uAlCSku OC1OAS We 6CS
through. I've often thought while I
was gathering n Of those long rutfes
va put on q nfghtgown, and CHANGED
to get too short q thread, that that's
the way life serves some Of us. We
are provided with a short thread to
start with and the ruffle Is long. 1t
won't reach, and so the work is wasted.
An Oasis I'm the Desert.
But all this isn't telling you about
what I started to tell. After my sister
died the firm where / work were
awfully kind, and gave. me a weeks
holiday with full pay. I was thankful,
of course, but I didn't know exactly
what to do with SO much time. I had
been so used to getting up early that
I found I couldn't sleep o wink after
6 o'clock, and the days seemed as
though they never would end. I was
sitting in my one morning about
4 fortnight ago when one of my friends
who was staying home with a felon on
her finger, dropped in and proposed to
60 up to the worlds fair.
ITS a lovely day." said she, land
Wen have a grand time; come along!'
At first l thought I oughtn't to 60,
because the funeral expenses of my
sister had left me pretty well closed
up, but when I thought 1t over for five
minutes I concluded / would 60 and put
a little mite of faith In providence for
the rest. sF@.
My friend said that she would stop
In at the bakery and buy a lunch, and
il I would get ready quick she would
meet me at the Van Buren, street via
duct at, IL o'clock sharp. At first we
thought we would 60 by boat, for that
seemed to be the p%leasanter way. but
when we counted the s cents additional
cost we decided to take one of the Fly
ers."
I found my friend waiting for me at
the foot OF the incline, and she was as
glad to see me as though we had been
separated q year. Z
We rode out to the grounds in a nice
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29
Too Trivial.

Judge Chase Of Vermont was q man
Of excellent sense, and a great stickler
for the dignity Of courts.
At one time a case Of very trifiing Inn
portance, which had well-nigh run the
gauntlet Of adjudication, came before
the highest court in the state. The
counsel for the plaintiff was opening
with the usual apologies for a frivolous
suit, when the subject matter, ito wit,
n turkey, Of great valueS caught the
a Of the judge.
Mr.. Clerk" he called out, IN an irate
tone, strike that case from the docket.
The supreme court of rhe State of
Vermont does not sit here to deter
mine the ownership of q turkey"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29

hope you understand that every one Of
these pictures you see before you was
painted by women!"
Good gracionsp' said I, II never
knew they could do It'll"
Indeed, women a do anything in
this day. They can whip n man
that's going, with his own weapons.
too, and no favor"
But they can't vote" said 7. and
after awhile l added, and I'm glad of
it."
My friend was going to say some
thing In reply, but just then I heard
some n near us say, There goes
Mrs. Palmer!" We turned quickly, but
she had gone into a little room and shut
the door before we had a chance to
look. L was real sorry, for l have a
great respect for Mrs. Palmer. I
think she is a very capable woman, be-
sides being a right good one, and I
wanted to e her.
Womnn's Work.
We spent about an hour and a half
in the Woman's Building and I never
saw SO many lovely things in all my
life. The embroidery work was SO fine
you had to look at it through a magni-
flying glass to see the stitches and the
lace! Well, I never expected to get Il
sight of anything so delicate in my
rough-and-tumble life. You might have
drawn whole yards of it through the
eye of a da1ning needle almost.
We entered all the rooms up stairs
that have been fitted and furnished by
the different states. Some of these
parlors are beautiful enough to make
n sorry they are so soon to be broken
up and carted away. I declare, when
we sat down On the soft touches and
rocked in the easy chairs that are scat.
tered everywhere through these apart.
ments, it seemed more as If we were
in somebody's home than in the show
rooms Of a big exhibit.
We spent q good bit Of time in the
library, for my friend is quite bookish
and has written one or two poems anG
had them printed in the town papers
too. Consequently, she took a great
deal Of interest in literary matters
and kept me looking at bindings an(
peeking through glass cases until I wa.
ready to drop. I liked the needleworl
much better.
do you say all these books were
written by womenT I asked.
every one Of 'em."
""Well, here's n by Victor Hugo
said I a little snappisl, for I was tired
"You don't call him a woman, I hope.
'This is a translation, Miss Brown
q woman changed it into English"
"Oh," said I, and we walked or.
If / SHOULD stop to tell you all we saw
tn that wonderful Woman's Building
should never get through. All ! can d,
Is to show you the way and let you e,
there for yourself.
The SIGHTS OF Hortfculurnl Hall.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29
August
Flower"

Eight doctors treated me for Heart
Disease and one for Rheumatism,
but did me no good. I could not
speak aloud. Everything that I toof
into the Stomrch distressed me.
could not sleep. I had taken al.
kinds of medicines. Through a
neighbor I got one Of your books.
procured q bottle of Green's Aug
ust Flower and took it. I am to-day
stout, hearty and strong and enjoy
the best of health. August Flower
saved my life and gave me my health.
MRS. Sarah ] Cox, Defiance, O. 9
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29
The Cxar's lettings.

It Is the daily official work of the
car to read and sign edicts,, ukases,
laws and reports. Upon the margins
Of these documents he writes his de-
cision or his impressions with q frank
ness which makes these jottngs more
characteristic OF the man than his con-
yersations with his ministers and court
iers. M. Lanin, a Russian, reports in
the Contemporary Review several Of
these marginal jottings.
They are a set Of hogs" is a phrase
that recurs frequently. What a beast
he Isl" Is another. 'Discouragingw Is
the stereotyped commentary written
upon reports OF fires, OF failure Of
crops, or OF some other calamity.
Two years ago the CA wrote this
disparaging remark upon the margin
OF q document prepared by his own
Imperial Council: 1.-THE Council
thought to trick me, but they sha'n't.''
As It liz the custom to glaze everything
the czar thus pens and preserve 1t In
the imperial archives. the members OF
the Council were highly indignant
when they heard Of the libel. The
state secretary wa requested to ex-
plain matters to the emperor.
'.syVell, and what do they want done? r..
asked the car.
aaThat your Majesty would be gra-
ciously pleased to order that the words
should not be glazed oyer nor preserv-
ed In the imperial archives, lest they
should be endowed with M invidious
species OF Immortality"
what foolishnees!s exclaimed the
car. smiling. However. I'll have the