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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Hon. Francis A. Walker, In his ad-
dress at the annual meeting Of the
bimetallic league held in London, July
rs. 1896, said:
Were the city of London to give its
consent, himetallism might at once be
established on a broad and enduring
basis. OF all the vast expanse Of the
globe, one square mile alone blocks the
way to the adoption of worlds
money as wide as the worlds trade.
The veto Of this city rests upon a
monetary policy which has approved
itself by long and beneficent operation;
a monetary policy, the economic valid
ity and practical efficiency Of which
have been admitted with absolute
unanimity by the most distinguished
commission which since the great in
quests on the bank charter, fifty and
sixty years ago. has been assembled in
this country-a monetary policy which
the nations Of the earth never needed
so greatly as today
Behold the nations of the globe bow
ing in humble submission to the de-
cree of den of thieves one mile
square. How long, oh, Lord, how long
will great nations cling to their nurs-
ing bottles?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09
HARMONY AND coNrRAsa

Russet contrasts with gr,seu and BIZ
monies with red.
Orange contrasts with bluey and hid
monies with red.
White contrasts with black and nd
monies with gray.
Orange contrasts with gray and nd
monies with bun.
Olive contrasts with white and hd
monies with black.
Citrine contrasts with black and haI
monies with white.
Olive contrasts with red and ha
monies with blue.
Russet contrasts with olive and hd
monies with orange.
Citrine contrasts with blue and ha
monies with orange.
Orange contrasts with blue and ha
monizes with yellows.
Olive contrasts with orange and ha
monies with green
Russet contrasta with black and hd
monies with yellow.
Russet contrasts with gray and ha.
monies with brown.
White contrasts with brown an
harmonizes with buff.
Cold greens contrast with white ar
harmonize with blue.
White contrasts with purple ar
harmonizes with rose.
Citrine contrasts with crimson an
harinontzes with buff.
Cold green contrasts with orange al
harmonizes with gray.
Orange contrasts with crimson at
harmonizes with white.
Cold green's contrast With gold al
harmonize with black.
Citrine contrasts with brown ar
harmonizes with green.
Olive contrasts with maroon at
harmonizes with brown.
Orange contrasts with purple an
harmonizes with yellow.
Cold green contrasts with pink ar
harmonizes with browH;
White contrasts WITH, blue and ha
monies with sky blue.
White contrasts with green and ha
monies with pea green.
Cold green contrasts with purple ar
harmonizes with citrine
Cold greens contrast with erimsG
and harmonic with olive.
Warm greens contrast with layend
and harmonic with buff
Warm greens contrast with pfI
and harmonic with gray.
Orange contrasts with black and ha
monies with warm green.
Warm greens contrast with WIFI
and harmonic with white.
Citrine contrasts with blue and hid
monies with warm brown
Warm green contrasts Wits bla1
and harmonic with brown.
Warm greens contrast with gstf al
and harmonizes with brown. IA
Warm greens contrast with marry
and harmonic with orange.
Warm green contrasts with GrimsI
and harmonizes with yellow.
Orange requires blue, black. purI5
or dark colors for contrast, and wal
colors for harmony.
Greens contrast with colors 0urtal
ing red and harmonize with bcolors cd
tanning yellow or blue.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09
Her Lover Understood.

A Lancaster lady has BEEN ~elat
q rather pretty story about a Fact
girls way of answering a mArri
proposal that was made to her.
THE young woman could' not WI
or read writing, and one day
brought letter for me to, read
her. 1t con tained an offer ofImarria
II happened to know that the wri
was deserving young artisan, s.
said to her. Now you mnsa consi
this matter very seriously, and If
like to come to me when yo0 b
made up your mind l will writ
reply for you.
"A day or two after ward | met
girl again and asked her if she wan
me to answer the letter for her.
that is all right, she answered, ld
ing radiant and pleased! 1--WE set
it. l answered it myself
"'Why, how did yourdc itF 1 ash
And then she told me that
could make capital " and that
stuck on the papor ~ piece of Y
after it for wull'-I wool - Pears
Weekly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

The only comment they call for IS that
the first might have been, with few
immaterial changes, uttered by John F.
Altgeld or Eugene " Debs in opposi-
ton to government by injunction" or
the lawless invasion Of sovereign
state by the federal military, while the
last could easily have come from
Bourke Cochran, Tom Reed, or John
Sherman. Altogether the letter is
weak and may well prove discouraging
to republicans.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Cascaret Candy Cathartic, the most won
derfuI medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, acts gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cures headache, fever, habitual constipa'
ton and biiousness. Please buy and try a
box of &. G. c. to-day. 10, %. 80 cents. Sold
and guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Cold blooded intellect may be pos
sessed by burglar or highwayman.
The fact that nearly all the old fossil
college professors of the east are gold
bugs is no indication that they know
the condition or sympathize with the
troubles of the people. They are sim
ply mathematical and grammatical
automatons, operated by dropping a
dollar In the slot.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

And now the learned essayists OF the
east are comparing us with the savages
of remote barbarian ages. They are de-
termined to continue cropping in the
dark ages of the world-and naturally
fly to their beloved idols for COMPARE
sons
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09
Then She Tainted.

Looking up suddenly she beheld
the bearded face of a man with
cleaning knife between his teeth.
Then she tainted
1t was no wonder for she had been
carefully reared and had never seen
any one eat pie in that manner. In
diapapolis journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09
Are you silly enough to think tina

Are you silly enough to think that
wages will fall and men be thrown out
Of employment when prices OF all
kinds of products are going up? II
the free coinage of silver doubles the
price of what you buy" as the gold
bugs say, what greater stimulus to
production can be conceived of than
doubling prices Of products? Guess
you'd stand a pretty good show OF
getting job.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

The question is not so much as to
what kind of a dollar the workingman
will be paid in, as it is whether he Will
have the opportunity to earn amy kind
of a dollar or not
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

II would be cruel to say anything
about the little band Of faithful %or-
shippers of the golden calf who re-
Gently nominated Palmer and Buck
ner. They went off alone to- be dig
nified and quiet.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

After the national organ OF the
KNIGHTS of Labor turned loose a
broadside on Powderly, the republican
national committee fastened to dis
own him.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

BY and by the hired writer's Of the
east will learn that calling our plat
form "preposterous farrago of slnis-
ter nonsense" doesn't disprove the
truth OF any principle therein con-
tanned
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Teddy Roosevelt, the fellow with an
eye-glass, who reformed" the police
force Of New York, calls the silver
men "shiftless, vicious, hopelessly ig-
norant and thick-headed." Now isn't
that eloquent, logical. and just too
cute for anything?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

A correspondent asks a Texas editor
to write an article on the political
sins of John Sherman. The editor
replies that this would be too much
like compiling biography of the devil
RI no a pleasant midsummer task.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Pawnbrokers thrive best when the
people are broke" and have to borrow
money. That is why the money-loan-
ers want money to be scarce. When
the people are out of debt, the money
loaners are compelled to economics on
their turtle soup and champagne.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

II the banks can pay their depositors
IN 5O-cent dollars in the event of free
coinage of silver, why should they lose
any sleep over the privilege of doing 1t?
Ranks are not built that way.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09
A Bicycle Break.

Mr. Sprockets-l took bad fall
yesterday.
Mr.. Handlebar-Break anything?
Mr.. Sprockets - One of the com
.maudments Washington Post.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Primary money means redemption
money. redemption money means coin
to redeem with, and coin to redeem
with means bonds with which to pur-
chase it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

There is no one who feels quite SO
much that the world is perfectly
omen book as the sweet girl who grad
mated last June. Five years from now
she will admit that she was not as
wise as she thought.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Populists believe in a money redeem
able In corn wheat, cotton, hogs, and
all other products of labor, as well as
gold and silver.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

We may be Ignorant, vicious and
wrong headed" as the gold-bugs
charge-but merely calling us so does
not prove it so.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

The issue is money against men, and
no amount of tariff oratory can divert
the minds of the people from the real
issue.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

The query now with sound money
democrats is, which ticket they VIII
vote. for Mckinley or the other yell
ticket.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Broken political promises don't mako
good party history.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

If gold should be discovered in I'M
limited quantities what would become
of the existing gold standard?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09
NIX INLEY'S LETTER.
EVIDENTLY IN AN UNCOMFORT-
ABLE POSITION MENTALLY.

His Cluot q tiou from Clcveiand's Message
Is UndipIomatic-A Pars of His Letter
Might Have been Written by AltgsId
or DebG
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

The yellow-h hammer democrats are
not making much noise over their ma
tiopal ticket.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

The best place to kick is at the bal
lot box.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Free coinage of silver is only one
step in the direction Of currency re-
form.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Free silver is the strategic point
around which the battle for the con-
troll of the currency is being fought.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

The threat which the banks made to
precipitate a panic has resulted In
people drawing out their money.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Saved From the. Wreck.
81 see that your coanhnaan ba
you, Jockey" VI
Yes, was one of the few
he couldn't steal" Detroit Free L
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Grover indorses the yellow-hammer
ticket nominated at Indianapolis. Of
c-o-u-r-s-e. So does Carlisle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

The republican party is the party
that wants to ask England.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09
Educate and organize.

This seems to be an age of steal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

If gold basis will give us good times
why don't we have them now, under
the existing gold standard?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

Direct legislation is a rapid transit
toward pure government.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09

If gold was worth but rs cents q
bushel would 1t be fit for money?
Evening star., 1896-02-22

Of the animal Hes dear little fellow"
said the owner; about as big as an ordi-
nary dog
His color, please?"
yellow, with a few white spots On him.
cause of his extreme age he can't see
WE'LL
Additional particulars were given and q,
description OF the animal was sent to all
the stations. Similar reports are made
concerning cats and fowls, and, as q rule
these cases take up more time than those
OF robbery, when hundreds of dollars
worth of property are reported to be miss
ing.
Lost children also claim the attention of
this office. and runaway boys and girls are
frequently tracked from place to place
end sometimes arrested and returned to
their parents. Then, too, young women
from other places who, young in years.
have elopej are picked up from time to
time. Sometimes the marriage ceremony is
performed in the Office in the presence of
irate parents, whose feelings become soft
ened as rule, and who forgive and forget
before returning to their country homes
The Washington detective service is diff
ferent from that in most large cities and
the character of the work is also different
There are not the mysterious cases hero
that other communities are troubled with
although an occasional mystery has to be
solved, nor is there SO large a class Of
what are known as profe ssional men here
as there is in many of the large cities
notably the city of New York. Washing
Evening star., 1896-02-22
BETRAYED by PLUM PUDDING.
A burglar Who Forgot business in
Sight of One and Wns Caught.

burglar VINO fOrEOt BuS1neSS In
Sight of One and Was Caught.
London Correspondence of the Paris Temps.
The English are proud of their watchdogs
and it is known that many farmers rely
upon the cacklc of their guinea hens for
the protection of their hen roosts, but in
addition to all that England has just af-
forded an example of the safeguarding
qualities of plum pudding. This unex-
pected demonstration took place in 4 house
on the Portsdown road, ir the Maidavale
quarter of London, belonging to Mr.. Pres
ton, surgeon in the navy.
At about 9:30 o'clock in the evening a
burglar got into the house through the cell
lar by 1realSing the lock of the kitchen
door. This burglar was George Donovan.
He knew that the house was empty. The
family were at the theater and the serv-
ants took advantage of their absence to go
on a vacation fol- few hours. Favored by
these circumstances Donovan had little
trouble in reaching the dining room. There
an enchanting spectacle was presented to
his eyes. A Hindu poet tells Us the story
of the Erigand of Delhi who, at the mo-
ment when he was about to cut a hole in
the wall of house to get in and commit
robbery, hesitated whether he would cut
1T in the form OF Il Tyre or of a flower or OF
a bird. George Donovan was not absorbed
by any such artistic preoccUpations. He no.
tced on the table splendid plum pudding,
SOmetHlng tnat ne nGCnt taSted 10r n long
time. So he sat down in front of the ma
tional dish, cut huge slice of it and sail
ed III. Tic puddirf: was delicious. Like
Raggles, Donovan struck it rich He cut
slice after slice. but unfortunately for him
plum pudding IS not possessed Of the light
quality that belongs to French pastry. Soon
the burglar got thirsty. and in his search
for some thing to drink he discovered a bot
tie of Scotch whisky, his favorite. beverage.
He remained at the table enjoying himself
thoroughly for about an hoLr. Soon he be-
came oblivious of his professional duties.
In fact, he didn't know where he was, so
he threw himself On the luxurious carpet
and went to sleep with an unruffled con-
science. At about midnight he was found
there. and was IoUsed up by policeman
who had been called in. He admitted with
out hesitation his object, but he was lcu1
in his praise Of that pudding. Addressing
Surgeon Preston. he seid he would like to
know if that puGding vas made in the
house OF il some confe ctionery establish
ment. because, he said, he never before
had tasted anything SO delicious and he
wanted to taste it again. He was taken
before police iustice of Maryiebone, who
committed him for trial.
"All right. judge" he said. "but. all the
same, tha- was fine pudding and first
rate whisky
Judge Plowden. who is somewhat of
humcrist. made funny sre ech glorifying
the English plum pudding, which, as he
said. not only Furnishes the imprudent with
indigestion, but also. as this case plainly
showed protects the fireside and knocks
out burglars.
Evening star., 1896-02-22

these are said by the authorities to be in
significant IN number and value compared
with some of the big robberies committed
yas., years ago before the rsorganization Of the
when Lieut.. Swindells took charge. Then
came change in the general workings of
the office. Lieut.. Swindells' motto was,
was an after consideration, and this rule
has been followed by his successors. It has
resulted in the apprehension Of the thief in
a majority of cases, where the property
has been recovered, and this has rendered
the establishment of fences or 'go-be-
tweens" next to impossible, and when
Professional thief comes here he is almost
certain to get in the tolls Pursuing this
mode of dealing with crooks, the authorities
here have secured the photographs of many
professional men whose likenesses were
wanted by the authorities in some of the
larger cities for the rogues' galleries there.
1t does not always follow that because
case of alleged theft is reported an Of
fense has been committed, for the law
imposing severe penalties for taking prop
erty belonging to others is sometimes in
Voked to accomplish ends other than the
recovery of property and the Incarceration
In Jail of the alleged purloiner.
In this connection the officers are called
upon to unravel family troubles, involving
me Wrongdoing in some way of son,
daughter or even a parent. Men whose
wives desert them sometimes invoke the
aid of the law. Then, too, erring sons
ieaNe nome because OF bad companions and
the aid of the detectives is sought.
The use of "stool pigeons in this city is
not resorted to by the detectives tosthe ex-
tent that it is in many large cities. In fact,
the use of them is discouraged, and the re-
suit Is that the officers are not seen in pub
lie places associating with men of doubtful
character, as they are in some cities, al
though in New York the old stool pigeon
dead line has been obliterated, and instead
of assocatins with crooks the detectives
are supposed to arrest them.
But at times the detectives find 1t abso-
lutely necessary to get the assistance of
Evening star., 1896-02-22
A MOUSE STORY.
An Entire Family Appeared Readily
Mt Call and Showed No Fenr.

An Entire Family Appeared Readily
Mt Call and Showed No Fear.
From the Spectator.
A lady living in my house in the country
air ounced to me one day that she had
tanned family of mice, consisting of
father and mother and seven young mouse
children. who had made their nest in the
partially decayed sash frame of the window
in her first floor bed room, which had an
opening on to the Sill outside. She further
stated that she could identify each of the
members OF this family, and could induce
them to come at her call and feed out of her
hand. These statements appeared so in
credible that felt compelled to express my
disbelief in them in the absence of personal
proof of their veracity, and she therefore
requested me to accompany her to her room,
there to receive such evidence as would
satisfy my doubts. l went and stood with
her close to the open window. and she called
the mice by the names, "Jim," ''Tom,"
Jack and so on, to which she asserted
that she had accustomed them, and ] saw
them come, one by one, on to the window
ledge, where they ate bread out of her hand,
and subsequently out of my own, not tirnid-
ly. but as if in full assurance of safety.
On the afternoon of the same day had a
small tennis party in the garden on to which
this bed room looked. My cousin, whose
Christian name is Jim, was playing tennis,
and several of the party, including myself.
were sitting In the garden beneath the
mouse window. when afternoon tea was
brought out to us, and 1 called loudly.
Jim" "Jim,'' several times to communicate
that fact to my cohsino5'A the third or
fourth call something ran across the path,
and one of the party impnlsiveiy threw his
low hat at it, and killed what we found to
be a mouse. -,'s.r r. 3ria s;a.
The mouse tanner was not of the party,
and knew nothing of the occurrence, to
which, indeed, none of as attached more
than a passing Importance. The next morn
ing, however, still in ignorance of the in
cident. she distressedly informed us that her
little Jim had disappeared from her fam
lily, and that, although the others appeared
as usual at her cali, he remained absent;
and know that he never reappeared.
Evening star., 1896-02-22

ton has its local thieves, many OF whom
are colored- Some of them are clever in
their particular branch, but they do not
give the detectives the trouble the New
York police are now experiencing. The
last case in which there was much n1ys-
terry involved was that of Jack the Slash
er. who operated here so many months
before he was finally apprehended He had
thrown the people of the city, and more
especially the females into state of ex-
citement which has not been ecualed in
years. except, perhaps, by that occasioned
by Jack the Ripper in London who mur-
dered and mutilated people instead of
household effects, was the case with
the ''slasher." He was finally captured.
and then only by the merest accident II
is in this way that many big police cases
are settled and not because of the clever
Gess Of men who are said to be born de-
tectiyes.
Robberies Of various descriptions claim
the attention of the detectives every day,
ard these include, rule. every degree
from the petty thief who steals loaf of
bread to the professional cracksman who
fobs SAFE or the burglar who enters
dwelling house. Seldom day passes that
some robberies are not reported, but for SO
large city very few big robberies occur
1t is true that this winter several robberies
involving in ali not more than $3.50, have
been committed and are yet unsolved, but
Evening star., 1896-02-22
A Unique Ovcrc0at.
From the Spokane Review.

From the Spokane Review.
s. N. Malterner of Spokane wears an
overcoat that is bound to attract atten-
ton, no matter where it is seen. The coat
is made out Of fur Of an unborn musk OK
The coat is light in weight, and, were it
not for the weight of the lining, would
seem as though made of the softest down.
The color is a light silver gray when the
light IS upon it from one direction. and as
soon as the light is shifted it turns to a
clear gray. When seen under q light not
very bright it has the appearance of jet
black. Mr.. Malterner says that 1t has at
tracted so much attention In the eastern
cities that he had to lay it aside to keep
from being bothered answering questions
as to what it was and where he got It.