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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-01-25
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Spoons to the Garnett Laundry, and
get them plated. A new platter
Just put in. 0. S.REYNoLDs, Prop'r.
You always get first.class
shave or haircut at the Tillson bar
Der shop-inthe basement under the
the hardware store.
-"Ren" Mundell and wife have
moved from Winfield to Wichita.
j. S. Mason and wife have return
ed from England.
The Garrett Laundry, one door
west of Boyle's Hardware, is doing
as good work as can be obtained in
the state. Call and see us. Salts
faction guaranteed.
0. s REYNOLDS, PROP.
j. N. Cline and wife were in
the city, Sunday, visiting. They
had returnad from Independence,
where they were visiting daughter.
--Messers Kanutt and McQuery,
of the Colony Free Press and Clean
err, called, yesterday.
Under the new management the
Garnett Laundry is prepared to do
more and better work than was ever
done in Garrett. Dye works in
connection.
Earl Hosp, the twelve-year-old
son of Sphinx Hesp, of Welda town.
ship, was thrown from a horse, Mon
day, and fell upon barb-wire fence.
His right leg was badly cut, and he
narrowly escaped bleeding to death.
Miss Jennie Cook who has been
selling musical instruments for j.
+. Spencer, was returning frow j.
w. Warbritton's, in Jackson town.
ship, Tuesday, and, in coming
down the hill to the bridge near
Mrs. McQuaid's place, the horses be-
came manageable and ran, throw
ing her out of the wagon. She fell
on her head, and lay by the road ON
her face, unconscious, until discov-
cred by two men, who took her to
Mrs. McQuaid's house, where re-
storatives were applied. She was
brought to town the next morning,
and went to Ottawa on the l:48
train, to rest and recuperate.
Gov. Morrill, has declared Gar.
nett a city of the second class.
DO you believe in home indus
try? If so use the Monroe Baking
Powder, for sale by all grocers. 1t
is a pure cream.of.tartar, equal to
Royal or Price, at 40 cents per
pound.
j. Back, the bridge carpenter who
fell from the trestlc on the X, N. &
D. road, south of town. couple OF
weeks since, died at the Missouri
Pacific hospital, at Kansas City, last
Sunday.
Miss Laura Gregg is again up
and about, but unable to take her
place in school as yet. Prof. Ram
sey is teaching in her place.
-Wilse Smity, who has been
sick for a couple of weeks, is now
improving.
Frank Cook, chief cook at the
0sawatomie crank-pen, visited the
home folks here, Sunday.
DIR. Schoonover reports the
birth of daughter to Capt. Dobbs
and wife, Tuesday.
Mrs. Henry Miller died, Tues
day night, after an extended period
of sickness. We offer our sympathy
to the bereaved husband.
Capt. Geo. A. Smith, of Ozark
township, called on us, Wednesday.
He and his son are keeping batch"
while Mrs. Smith and the girls are
visiting in Missouri.
Mrs. Lack Tillson, who was
called to Council Geove by the sick
ness Of her mother, returned home,
Saturday night.
LATE Champe, jr., and wife
were up from Greeley, Tuesday, on
a visit.
McEarlin n RAILROAD hr;d o.a
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-01-25
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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
AND sARDOU.
Caprice Denied to Mediocrity ii PER-
mitted to Genius.

Caprice Denied to Mediocrity IL PER-
mitted to Genius.
The following aEecdote concerning
the great French actress and the equal
ly renowned playwright is vonched for
by the correspondent Of the Courier des
Etats- Unis: The two who have achiev-
ed the greatest triumph in ''fsismonda,"
NJ. Victorien Sardou and Nine. Sarah
Bernhardt, were at swords. points in
the beginning. This dislike dated from
Daniel Rochet," which Sardou gave 70
the Coincide Franchise after his nomi-
nation to the French academy. Sarah
Bernhardt expected that Sardou would
select her to create the role of heroine
in the play, but he chose Nine. Dentet
instead. Hence the anger Of Nine.
Bernhardt. When the actress and the
author met, the former passed on the
other side, tho latter pulled his hat
down over his eyes. Each murmured
something not at all complimentary to
the other.
Then Sarah ernhardt left the Come
die Franchise, went to America, where
she made her first triumphal tour, and
returned to France. Upon her arrival
in Paris, she entered into negotiations
with RAYMOND Deslande, manager of
the Vaudeville. She asked nothing bet
ter than to play there. But what should
she play? She did not wish to return to
classical roles; she wanted an entirely
new play, which should bring out all
her qualities.
There is only one man who can
write the play you want" said Des-
lande. THAT nan is Sardou."
"Sardou!" cried the actress. "Such q
disposition! incapable of doing justice
to an artist; moreover, irritable, brutal,
a man who runs up against everybody
who
VERY WE'LL" said Desclande, let us
say no more about it." He went to Sar-.
dou and told him he must have a play
for Sarah Bernhardt.
SARAH" exclaimed the writer. 'Sa-
rah! Such a disposition! grabbed, dis
agreeable, quarreling with everybody
who"
Every we'll, very well, it is quite I'M
derstood."
And three months after Sardou read
Fedora" to Sarah, who, radiant, threw
herself ON the authors neck in the pres
ence Of Deslande.
"Ah! Deslande." said Sardou, what
did I tell you? How gentle she is, how
sweet! how adorable!!'
"And he" rejoined Bernhardt. "How
amiable he is! How he appreciates real
talent, and how obliging! Embrace me,
Raymond!'
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
Investigating the Ether.

r The bequest Of $115,OOO which the
late Robert Stanton Avery has left in
his win to the Smithsonian institution
for lectures and treatises upon and
concerning those mechanical laws
which govern ethereal mediums might
appear at first blush to be the tesla
mentary Whim Of q very ethereal per
sonage. The value Of this scientific leg
acy, however, may prove i~ncalculable
from the standpoint Of Americas posi-
ton in the world of science. The mys.
terry Of ether-that unknown, hypotheti-
cal medium for all the waves OF heat,
light, sound, magnetism and electricity
lies at the bottom Of the secret OF
nature; and the Avery endowment may
yet be the incentive to original re-
search which shall take mankind a step
nearer to the sources Of world energy
and force transmission.-Philadelphia
Record.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
Three Poor Princesses.

The widowed Czarina of Russia's
life must seem to her like a fairy tale.
"There al once upon a time three
little girls in jaconet dresses who re-
ceived Is francs "a month for their
w%ardrobes, made their own skirts and
corsages, and filed with their youth
fui gayety the peaceful old city OF
Frankfort-on-the Main. They were
all pretty. Their father was a duke
so impoverished that he gave drawing
lessons to increase his too modest
revenues, but he bore a great historic
name, and the future gave him a large
compensation. The day at length
came when the Duke of Schleswig.
Holstein received the crown Of Den
mark SO patiently waited for. The
little girls In jaconet dresses left of
their dressmaking to become the
wives Of an emperor, q prince and .
duke" ~
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
Corn or Oats for Horses.

At the Utah Experiment Station, in
a test to dete rmine the comparative
feeding value of oats and corn for
horses, it was found that the weight
of the animals was more easily main
tanned on the corn ration. A summary
of three experiments shows that dur
ing the summer a ration of corn and
timothy was not as good as n con-
sisting of wheat, oats and clover.
During the winter corn and timothy
did as we'll as oats, clover and timothy
in maintaining the weight. During
the spring and summer corn, wheat or
bran, and mixed hay produced more
gain than oats, wheat or bran, and
mixed hay.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
Hauling a Live Whale Ashore.

That sperm whale, captured at Ston-
ington, proves to be the hero Of a gro
tesQuely funny story, il a New London
dispatch can be believed. 1t is declared
to be a sperm whale, 40 or SO feet long,
that can spout fountains Of water. The
men who discovered him succeeded
according to the story-in slipping a
cable moose around the monsters tail,
and by means Of three cables tied to-
gether, making a line $500 feet, actu-
ally got him into shoal water at the
shore, by means of the hauling power
Of a yoke of oxen. Undoubtedly he is
the first whale ever hauled ashore by
OK power-and he came tail first. He
is now on exhibition. It may be well
for Stonington to keep a yoke OF oxen
handy, with a long cable, for drawing
in whales.-Hartfrd Times.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
HOmesickness.

Perhaps no disease, if WI may so
call it, is more prevalent, attacking
people in all walks and stations Of
life, than. inconsistencies. 1t is found
among the high and the low. the rich
and the poor, the enlightened, civilized
and savage; and Of all the pains and
ills to which human beings are heir,
none is harder to bear, more incon-
solable or more pitiable to behold.
And what a variety Of trifiing, insig-
nificant little circumstances may bring
on the attack! TO the absent father
or mother it may be the sight of q
prattling, sunny-faced. goldcn-haired
child; to the hayward boy it may be q
familiar object Or song that brings
back the recollection of home and all
it's tender, sacred memories. Sure the
home to which the mind diverts may
not be a brownstone front; indeed, it
may be a log cabin among the signing
pine or a sod shanty upon the bound
less prairie. 1t is still "home," and
dear-mOst dear-to the memory. And
with the thoughts reverted to it the1 e
will come an irresistible food Of tender
thoughts melting the hardest heart,
completely unmanning the man.
No man car recall the early home
memories, memories of boyhood's hap
py hours-hours passed in the little
old school house, upon the mill pond,
with the fishing tackle or gun, with
the maiden to whom he first whispered
loves young dream, and the thousand
and one little incidents that become so
indelibly stamped upon the young
mind, without having, for the time
being at least, his heart made tenderer
and softer, his impulses better.
One evening during the Civil War
q detachment of the rebel army was
encamped upon the south side of the
Potomac, the Federals upon the op-
posite shore. All day long they had
been CALAMITY fighting bitterly and
stubbornly, contesting for the posses
sion of a battery. Now the shades Of
night had put an end to the fighting.
The Federal band had played March
ing Through Georgia" "John Brown
and other pieces, which were greeted
by cheer after cheer Of appreciation
and approval from the "Yanks," while
the music called forth ,jeers, musket
shot and shouts of derisiOn from the
"Johnnies." At last the band began
to play John Howard Payne's "Home,
Sweet Home Immediately there was
a lull. No more cheers, nc more jeers,
no more musket shot and shouts Of
derision. The song carried the minds
of that vast body Of men back to home
and loved ones; it subdued the fierce
passions raging in their breasts, and
.we4are told that this night each army
peacefully %slumbered, without a sentry
upon duty.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
Betting Down to the skin.

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Two Oklahomans, Britt Kline, .
fast horse man, who has a claim sin
miles west Of Tokawa, and D. O.
Brown, secretary Of the Tokawa Town
Site Company, engaged in a discussion
rs to the time required to prove q
certain piece Of land. Each thought
he "a right, and the following is the
way the wager was made on their
opinions: Brown bet Kline $25 he wa
right. Kline met the bet and raised II
q horse They kept on betting in thil
way until Brown was naked and
Kline had only q shirt on. Kline Dor.
rowed q horse and rode home, sir
miles, to his claim, with nothing On
but his shirt, while Brown went home
naked Kline won the bet.-St. Louis
Republic.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

In 1880 Boston established u rocitty
Tor the diffusion of useful knowledge.
Daniel Webster vas its first president.
Two years later John Lowell, Jr., be-
queathed $25O,OOO as q permanent
fund for courses and lectures. Thus
the lectures Of the lowell institute
have been a gratuitous b%enefaction for
sixty years.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

The great cold experienced by Parry
In his Arctic explorations "a So de-
erees below zero. Stuart jenkins, a
Canadian surveyor, writes in the Pop
ular Science Monthly that he has un-
dergone 62 degrees below zero in the
open air without being rendered very
uncomfortable by it.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
Science and Ice Cream.

Asf
The following thermoaynamical prob
lem is stated and solved by the I'm.
gineer: "a boy eats two ounces OF lee.
Let us see what is the approximately
thermodynamic equivalent OF the work
he has made In his Interior do, m
Stunning he takes five minutes to eat II
In melting the ice he. wM require
eighteen units to reduce II to- water.
To raise it In temperature to that Of
his inside, he will require seven more
units, or a total OF TWENTY-FIVE British
thermal units. Taking the mechanical:
equivalent as TT foot pounds, this will
be equal to 1925 foot pounds. If the
boy weighs 1000 pounds he will have
called upon his stomach to do as much:
heat work rs would, with. d machinN
having unit efficiency, raise him ~
feet high, or at Q rate OF heat extrAo-
ton equal TO nearly il eighth @ =
ner$e.n0Wer.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
Expert with the Needle,

The wife Of the artist ..-.; is so
skillful with the needle that she not
only designs most OF her own and
her children's clothing, all of which are
models Of grace asd beauty, but she
copies old costumes found in the by
ways of Europe which her husband
wishes to portray in his pictures, cuts
ting and even sewing many Of the i'm.
portant parts herself.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

The Tennessee courts have decided
that a man may be a competest wit
ness even though he does not believe
In the Supreme Being. There is nothing
In the ruling, however, to prevent a
Jury from quietly snubbing the testi-
nony Of such a witness.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

A young woman OF Butte, Mont,
applied to a court the other day for
permission to kill her lover, who had
Tilted her. She thought she had a
right to do SO, but wanted to 80 about
it legally and d~ecorously. The court
was inclined to agree with her in the
premises, but was obliged to dismiss
her application.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

English coffee houses, where cheap
refreshments, not including liquors,
r provided, are becoming one of the
institutions of the country. The latest
statistics published in England report
1000 coffee houses, giving employment
to $1,000 people and $40, O0O,O 900 of capt.
tai.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

A large store in Boston notifies it's
customers that some Of them, espe-
cially during the holidays, forgot to
wait for their change. The blandish-
ments Of the Christmas bargain coun-
ter are too great for excitable buyers.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

The prince regent of Bavaria gives
presents on his anniversary day in
stead Of receiving them. His last
gift was 100 bottles Of diphtheria
serum for the hospital for poor chill
dren at Munich.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

Cholera is making a flank movement
On the United States. A dispatch from
Buenos Ayres says the disease has
made its appearance at Rosario. This
forewarning ought to be equivalent to
forearming in the present well organ
led condition Of u national medical
and sanitary bureau.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

The Chinese believe that the water
obtained from melting hailstones is
poisonous, and the rainwater which
calls on certain feast days will cure
ague and malarial fever.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

MI. Golf, the able cross examiner of
the Lexow committee, will retire from
the service Of the committee with the
end Of the year in order to assume
his duties as recorder. It will be diff
cult to find a man to fill his place.
Why not take the Rev. Mr.. Park
hurst?
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
Aim for Quality.

Poor products spoil the markets.
In order to be able to sell his vege-
tables and fruit at good prices, the
grower must learn how to tempt the
buyer. He must appeal to his eye,
In the first place, by the neat, appe-
tizing appearance of his products, and
then to his palate by their taste and
favor, thus making the customer wish
Tor more.-
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

The Japanese are not in the least
sorry to hear that China has engaged
q French engineer to strengthen the
defenses Of Pekin. Nothing helps an
invading army so much as a chain
Of good forts, ready made.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

Utah has 100000 acres Of arabic
lands watered by 1000 miles of canals.
and one canal cost $4,000 5000. The
new State of Utah will fall into line
q long way from the rear Of the pro-
cession.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
interrupted.

During a political campaign q well
known lawyer in a western state was
addressing an audience composed prin-
cipally of farmers. Like o wise
speaker-and a shrewd ca%ndidate--he
tried to suit his speech to the occa.
sion. 2@ .sl
In a tone which he evidently con-
sidered both cordial and honest, and
with a winning smile, he began:
MY friends, my sympathies have
always been with the tillers Of the soil.
My father was a practical farmer, and
SO was my grandfather before him.
/ myself, was born on a farm, and was
SO to speak, reared between two stalks
of corn"
Here his eloquence was rudely inter-
rupted by the trumpet tones Of Z
farmer in the rear OF the hall.
"Jimminy crickets!" he shouted. sif
you amt q pumpkin
, 'The house came down, . aud the
candidate, for. the moment at least,
was sadly embarrassed.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
The Reigning Fad In London.
1t is a marvel that we have not "

IL IS 4 marVeI lHHt we HdVe HoI YET
succumbed to the London mania,
co%untennaced by the throne itself for
straw plating. Glasses are formed
over there to learn the gentle art of
making rush baskets and hats. and
fashionable women join them with the
same eagerness with which they once
hurried to the Browning clubs.
Catch-alls. I pockets, cornucopias,
fire screens IA flower stands are be-
ing turned cut by the hundreds in
Mayfair, the interesting part of the
process being the ease with which it
is acquired. One may learn in nine
lessons, but proficiency is youched for
in twelve.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

A drug firm at Excelsior Springs,
Mo-, will award a prize Of $50 to the
member Of the Mississippi Pharma-
ceutical association who identifies the
largest number Of drugs by smell.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
Get Rid Of the Poor Hens.

If all the repairs and arrangements
for the good health and comfort Of the
fowls have not been made before this
time, and hens and pullets are not
laying and singing, they may as we'll
be sold or eaten at once. The sooner
this is done the more feed will be
saved. Sometimes the old hens will
not get through moulting until this
time. If there are any such in the
flock get rid Of them. There Is no
profit in keeping them longer.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

= Tho predecessor of all the mountain
railroads is the Mount Washington
sog-wheel track, finished in 1869.
Since then many such roads have been
built in various countries.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16
NEW WORK FOR THE H0RsN.
b Doctors Have Taken Him In
Hand for Medical Uses.

The Doctors Have Taken Him In
Hand for Medical Uses.
Between the steam engine, the bicy-
lie, the trolley car and the storage
battery, it began to look as If the horse
would lose his job. Just III the nick
If time, however, when scientists were
wondering whether the friend Of man
would be allowed to relapse into wild
less, or whether he would be turned
over to the Western packers and made
INTO extract Of beef, a new occupation
Uses up before him. This is the manu-
;acture of serum for the treatment Of
i%iphtheria.
There ought to be quite a field of
lsefulness for the horse in this capac-
ty. The manufacture of serum is q
dow process. and 1t Is likely q good
many horses will be needed for it.
Consul General De Kay writes from
Berlin that the establishment at Scher-
ng has forty horses under treatment,
1et the demand for the serum has
oeen so great that the hospitals ran out
If it in September. The remedy takes
/ long time to prepare and must be
comparatively fresh. At least nine
months, and sometimes a year, are re-
luired to get the animals into condition.
One animal does not furnish much
Eoleod at a time-only two. quarts. The
horse must be carefully fed between the
lates Of tapping, and as in time the
strength Of its blood as a means Of
cure give out, it is necessary to repeat
he process Of cultivating the bacillus.
Altogether the Indications are that
his new field Of usefulness for the
horse win be a wide one. Whether no
will like his new occupation is doubt
Jul. Even hauling a heavy stage is
preferable In some respects to being fed
high for a time only to have your blood
hen drawn Off for medicine. There
s something ogreish about 1t, and the
lorse may well object. But 1t Is hard
y likely that humanity win spare him.
The benefits Of the serum treatment
ippear to be too evident to allow OF
any computations. Thus another
change Is impending In the status OF the
lOrse, and the image Of the proud AMI
nal which was ono idealized az Pc
gasus and bore poets flying THROUGH
The air, may vet be seen adorned Wit1l,
spectacles and holding out q bottle q
his hoof, upon the label of q medicine
Oottle.-BuffalO Express.