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He Knew Maurice.

The other day Mar uice Thompson,
the writer, visited Calhoun, Ga, his
old bovhood home.
"Who is that yander?" asked an old
countryman, indicating Thompson,
who was standing before grocery
store whiting pine box.
'That tall fellow"
"Yes."
"That's Maruice Thomp
SON."
what, that Teller what used to play
Ground here?"
1.-THE very same"
You don't tell me?'
''Fact. But he's great man now
one of the most successful of literary
men,"
Ey!"Onpossible!"
''Fact, tell you. He's great man
now"
WELL" said the old man, doubtfully
hit may be so, but hit don't look
reasonable"
mot reasonable?"
mo! Why"-and he drew closer
and lowered his voice little - "he
used ter go fishin' with mel" New
York Tribune.
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HARVEST EXCURSIONS TO GREAT
SOUTHWEST

On August 18th, September list, 10Th,
Goth and October 9th and Goth the
Santa Fc route will run series of
rz-zrz
cheap Homeseekers' Excursions to
points in Central and Western Kansas,
Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas,
Western Colorado, Utah and Arizona.
The ticket rate will be one fare for the
round trip, plus $500, with liberal
limits and stop-over privileges. These
Santa Fe route excursions will enable
you to take fall outing and see a
country where the biggest crops of a
decade are being harvested.
For particulars address Geo. w.
Hagenbuch, p. G. Il. A. Santa Fe route
Kansas City, Mo.
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CHAPTER XIv.-tCoNTINuEp.

CHAPTER XIV.-CoNTINuED.l
The slips of paper were certificates
one of the marriage of Julian Lorraine
and Margaret, the other of the birth OF
Viola.
Now | knew ALL rested still and
pictured my poor girls unspeakaple
horror when she read that fatal letter
and learned that her husband was her
fathers son by what she supposed was
a former wife. | seemed to see her
struck down in the first flush of the
welded happiness, even as | had been
struck down. l seemed to enter into
her thoughts, to feel that it was impos-
sible she could meet me again. could
bear her agonized entreaties to Grant
TO bear her away and hide her from
me. | could understand now why she
took no steps to clear her name in my
eyes. How she even wished me TO
think her perjured and faithless, so
long as the secret could be kept from
me-so long as did not suffer as she
suffered. Yes! I could understand
what. rightly or wrongly. she and
Grant had striven to do for my sake!
On what a chance life turns! Why
had ! never told Viola the story of my
birth and strange adoption? Why had
! never told Grant? 1t would have
cleared matters in a second.
Strange to say, 1t had never occurred
to me to mention it to either of them.
After l had succeeded to my reputed
fathers wealth my position was so as
sured-it seemed to me so natural to
be thought and called the dead mans
son-that in sober truth my real origin
had all but faded from my mind. For
years had scarcely given it thought
But l ground my teeth now, as 1 re-
flected how a simple chance might
have made me speak, and so saved my
wife and myself from more than two
years Of misery!
Then the idea came to me that every
moment which elapsed before Viola
learned the news was one of sorrow to
her. I sprang to my feet and went In
search of Grant.
Good fellow! I found he had already
packed his portmanteau and was busily
engaged on mine.
IF you make haste we shall just
catch the Southampton train" he said.
l thanked him by a look l tossed
things into my portmanteau higgledy-
piggledy, and in three minutes we were
on our way back to France.
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hours the quay at Southampton, | had
nearer to Viola.
Shall ever forget that crossing! The
night was fair. No thought of sleep
came to me. I sat on deck all night,
gazing out over the sea: looking out
for the two great lights on Cape de
la Heve; listening to the steady, mo-
notonous thump, thump thump of the
engines, and knowing that every revo-
luton of the paddle-wheels was bear
ing me nearer to Viola; or l leaned
over the side of the boat and watched
the Kissing water flying behind in
foaming white track. felt that l was
being borne away from all my troubles
and that the path the sturdy ship
plowed through the moon-lighted sea
was one which led me to unspeakable
happiness. l was alone with my
thoughts nearly all the time. Grant,
Ikea wise man, had gone below to court
sleep. Perhaps, in spite of the joy he
felt in the approaching happiness of
his friends, my ceaseless and oft-re-
peated questions became trife mo-
notonous. He had to assure me a
thousand times that one at least of his
messages would reach Viola in time to
stay her departure. He had tele-
graphed to the steamer, as well as to
the Hotel de PEurope, at which he
knew she was staying. He had simply
said "On no account go Tomorrow"
and felt certain she would counter
mand her journey and await explana-
lions.
Would she? Would few words from
him change her plans? What should
! do if we reached Havre after the
American steamer had sailed, and that
after all Viola had gone in her?
"Do?" said Grant. "Take the next
boat and follow her. 1t will be but
the delay of week, and the voyage
will do you good"
But / could not contemplate with
equanimity the thought of Viola's
spending another week in ignorance Of
the truth. So Grant had again and
again to assure me that we should GER
tainly find her at Havre with his sister,
who accompanied her thither and had
promised to see her safely on board
the steamer.
/ had other questions to ask him;
among them, when he first learned the
true reason of my wife's sudden flight
how he learned it. He was silent for
a while, then he said gravely:
Lorraine, will once for all make
clean breast to you. A month after I
had placed Viola in my sisters hands
] said to myself, This man, who should
have made her life happy, has by his
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25
EDUCATED FLEAS.
Impaled on Wires as Preliminary to
Their FeatR

Impaled on Wires as q Preliminary to
Their Feats
There is no one side Of the side
shows apd minor features of museums
and fairs which seems on it's face more
attractive than the exhibition Of So
called educated fleas, says Happy
Thoughts. There is something in the
idea of educating any of the lower
animals that appeals to all of us, and
the lower the animal the more there
is in 1t of interest to the people. The
suggestion, even, that it is possible to
get insects to perform tricks which
seem as if the result of intelligence
eXcites at once the sympathies Of
spectators, aud the educated flea calls
together companies who are delighted
with the apparent results, although
really ignorant of the causes or of the
fact that each trick means the death
of that particular flea. If one will re-
fleet but moment, the absurdity OF
educating so ephemeral an animal as
the flea becomes apparent. After a
couple of weeks as legless little worm
the young flea spins for itself cocoon
which is it's habitation for couple
of weeks longer, when it awakes in its
familiar form for brief existence Of
few weeks at the most. To instill
into so short-lived creature anything
like appreciation of the tricks that he
is to perform is out of the question, and
the results which are attained are by
purely mechanical and cruel process.
The work which the flea is expected to
perform is something in which its in
stinct to escape becomes Of service;
it is "harnessed" to little wagon or
shoots off a miniature cannon. or does
some other simple thing requiring only
feeble pull in straight line. The
harness" is sharp-pointed wire
which is stuck into the body of the
unfortunate insect and in its struggles
to escape the poor flea performs its
trick, and the amused spectators are
not aware of the cruelty to which 1t is
subjected. If passengers in the shape
of other fleas are desired to make the
wagon trick more remarkable, or a
coachman or footman, they may be
readily had by impaling others of the
insects upon properly placed wires, re-
sulting, of course, in torture and death
to them as we'll. Our local societies
have put stop to these exhibitions
in this state, and very properly So for
the very meanest of created things is
entitled to a life freq from unneces-
sary torment
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

"This here piece in the paper makes
use O the word 'supertiuity' several
times" remarked the man sitting on
the empty soap box. Now what do
we take superfluity to be?"
ii dunno's kin exackly tell it," an
swered the man with the twin sus-
penders. "But l sense it all right
enough"
kin We illustrate it?"
M yes. Superiority is good deal
the same thing ez Teller wearin' a
necktie when he's got n full beard. p"
Washington Star.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

1t disgusts us to see others doing the
foolish things we dol. A. w. Bulle-
tin.
The true secret of success in life is
Medical Era.
The man who rocks the boat ought to
be stoned when he gets back on shore
Boston Globe.
A father is proud when his boy gets
into his first fight, but the mother prays
about it.-Atchison Globe.
Happily, Grants memory is immor-
tai. 1t will live even after his tomb is
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
Many life has been spoiled by not
knowing the difference between thrift
and Observation-Disclosures Journal.
A majority of those who talk against
bosses would not be able to make a
living without one.-Wabash Times.
Human nature is the excuse gener-
ally offered by man who has been
acting like og.-Indianapolis Jour-
nal.
While 1t is pretty hard to say what
constitutes a gentleman off hand, 1t Is
a pretty safe assertion to say that the
man who says he is a gentleman isn't.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The worst complaints about baseball
used to be regarding the blackguards
in the audience. The worst complaints
now are about the blackguards in the
d.-Philadelphia Bullatin.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

American pioneers were God fearing
and Bible loving. They staked out town
lots in % Bethels, 10 Jordans, Jeri-
chos, IA Bethlehems, 90 Goshens, 81
Shilohs, II Carmels, IS Tabors and
Mount Tabors, % lions and Mount
lions, 26 Edens, 30 Lebanons, 26 He
breWs and SO Sharors.
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Very low rates will be made by the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway,
way, for an excursion of September
Goth, to the south for Homeseellers
and Harvesters. For particulars APP
ply to the nearest local agent or
address: James Parker, 6. p. & r.
Agent, NJ. X. tS L. Ry., ST. Louis. Mo.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

Tom - Then you disapprove of
whiskers, Miss Gushingly?
''Miss Gushingly-Oh, no, not at all.
Tom-But didn't You say as much?
Miss Gushingly - l only said, ut
was fashion that invariably set my
face against" Washington Times.
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A Singular Form of Monomania.

There is a class of people, rational enough in
other respects, who are certainly monomani.
acs in dosing themselves. They are constantly
trying experiments upon their stomachs. their
bowels, their livers aad their kidneys with
trashy nostrums. When these organs are
really out of order, if they would only use
Hostettcr's Stomach b tiers, they would, If not
hopelossly insane, perceive its superiority
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25
A Giant of the Sea.

A monster iceberg stranded near
Hampton Beach, N. H., few days ago,
but floated away the following day. It
was as big as church, and it had a
marked effect on the temperature in
the vicinity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

Attainment is ho-e rather than
q possession, and endu. ing and striv-
ing in hope is the normal condition
of him who would attain. II. Clay
Trumbull.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

I'm God we trust" first appeared
on the copper two-cent piece issue of
1864. and is the first use of the word
God" in any government act.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

Never fear to bring the greatest
comfort to the least trouble and the
largest inspiration to the smallest
duty. Phillips Brooks.
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No Wonder.

Mrs. Tallialot - What makes you
talk so much in your sleep, Joseph?
Joseph-Gosh it's the only chance
l ever get. Truth.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

The first patent was issued to Sam
uel Hopkins in 1900 for making 'pot
or pearl ashes"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

Philadelphia was the first city to
issue directory, it's first edition com.
ing out in 1856.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

know that my life was saved by Piso's
Cure for Consumption. = John A. Miller,
Au Sable, Michigan, April q, 1895.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

In Germany the men as we'll as the
women wear wedding rings. When
either dies the survivor wears both.
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OF time. Indeed,
as the boat did not
leave Southampton
until nearly mid
night, we might
have waited for a
later train. 1t was
better as it was.
Although starting
for London at once
meant pacing for
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

The psychologists say that the right
side of the brain is of more Importance
to organic life than the left.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

There is an awful lonesomeness in
this animated and moving crowd. c.
ID Warner
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

A Towering plant is said to abstract
from the soil two hundred times its
own weight in water.
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FITS stopped free ana permanently cured. No
Cts after first days OF Dir. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle and treatise.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

What you need is something to cure
you. Get DR.. Kay's Renovator. See ad.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

No cough so bad that DR.. Kay's Lung
Balm will not cure it. See ad.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

Be and use that old and well-tried remedy. AIR
wMsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP Tor Children Teething.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-25

Chicago has 5,40O Johnsons In its
directory, and only 1920 Smiths.
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CHAPTER XIV.

~ IE WE'RE in plenty
MSXSlU of time. Indeed,
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TeSt;pnOuia1.

The Edwin w. Joy Co., 269 Steven
son street, San Francisco, Cal.-Gentle-
men: From a deep sense of gratitude I
am glad to be able to tell you that I
am now a well and hearty woman All
the old symptoms have disappeared.
have no more headaches. They are
gone.
You see, my headaches were so awful
so extremely painful, / had to call in
many doctors, but was never relieved
until I used joys Vegetable Sarsapa-
rilla. 1t is such pleasant medicine.
There is no nasty taste to it,
l can eat almost any thing and digest
we'll I sleep every night. My stom-
ach does not fill up and bloat My d.
gestion is really perfect / praise the
joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla and will
always recommend it. 1 stopped US
ing pills as soon as I began to take
Joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla. 1t is a
splendid laxative. Hoping some per-
son will read this who is looking for
relief, wish you Gods blessing.
(Signed) MRS. LEE WALTERS,
S23 E. First street, Los Angeles, Cal
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A -War=Mker on War.

Tive had enough of llfe," Prince Bis
marck recently said to the sculptor
Magnussen. Magnussen is making
sketches of the old Chancellor of Ger
many, and taking his measurements
for a statue, and processes his aston
ishment at Bismarcks vitality. But
Bismarck says he has had enough, -
and the Germans already pay more at
tention to his past than to his present.
Thus his opinion on war-making is Just
now quoted largely by papers that wish
to curb the bellicose spirit of the Ger
mans. While still in office, Bismarck
said: "A war may only be begun if the
honor of the country absolutely requires
it, and care should be taken that honor
is not confounded with so-called pres
tige. No statesman has a right to
make war because he believes that it
cannot be avoided within a given
period. If the Ministers of Foreign Af-
fairs had always accompanied their
sovereigns, or the chief,
during the campaign, history would
certainly contain fewer records of war
On the battlefield, and, which is worse,
in the field hospitals, / have seen the
flower of our youth succumb to their
wounds and to disease. Even now I see
many cripple look up at this window,
evidently thinking: IF it were not for
the man up there, who made the war, /
would be well and strong at home
Some "reminiscences and such sights
would rob me of peace If ! had to ac-
cuse myself of having made war lightly
and only to gain a name. l will
never advise his majesty the King to
go to war unless the interests Of the
country absolutely demand it,
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So writes a happy man fresh from the
Slough of Despond.
Well, the discovery has been proclaimed,
but men are slow to believe.
The way is open to inquire, to investigate.
Why will not every man do SO?
There is a simple way to cure at home all
those baneful effects of the sins of youth and
the excesses of later years which blast the
lives of multitudes of men.
There is q way to regain strength lost by
disease, overwork and worry.
A way to secure and retain the abilities
sacrificed to dissipation-to "be glad again
after suffering an atonement."
A way to repair drains on the system that
sap the vitality.
A way to replace nervousness, dread and
dependency with courage and self-respect.
A way to give full strength, development
and tone to every portion of the body.
A way to remove every obstacle to happy
and fruitful married life.
All this is clearly shown IN little medical
work recently published. 1t is not a book
for general circulation, being purely medical
and scientific and for men on,y who need ad
vice and aid
How to get it: Write to the Erie Medical
Company, Niagara Street, Buffalo, N. Y, say
you read the article in this paper, and ask
them to send you the book called Complete
Manhood, and the Way to Attain It." They
will send one copy entirely free, in plain
sealed wrapper, to any man who writes for
II in good faith
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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Chicago Has Not Yet Raised the
Guaranteed Fund.

CHICAGO, June 2.-The Democratic
National Sub Committee concluded the
business of its present session to-day.
and adjourned to meet at the Palmer
House June 18th. All the members re-
turned to their homes tonight.
The local committee is still short
$4,000 of the glara anteed subscriptions,
SIG, 900 of promised 1000 only having
been paid to the National Committee.
There is no fear, however. that the
money will not be forthcoming from the
guarantors if not subscribed, and the
local committee was not pressed to
make good the financial contract. There
will be 10000 seats in the part of the
Coliseum, which is to be used for the
convention The Speakers platform,
with the accompanying seats for the
press, will be on the east side of the
hail, midway. On each side and in
front viii radiate in amphitheater form,
with a gradual rise, the thousands of
seats for delegates and spectators, ex-
tending to line level with the galleries.
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considerable of a humbug. If more {

considerable of a humbug. If more OF
the energy and talent employed in
making money was expended in max
ing hay and other fodder, we would not
not be building forever a leaning tower,
that is as sure to topple as time is to
continue In these parts money is al
most extinct j asked a friend re-
Gently (who has always made all the
money he could reach) to loan me Sc.
He couldn't tell a lie-one that would
stand even ordinary logic-so he said
simply that he wouldn't do it.
couldn't hold him up for several official
reasons. and so he didn't. SMISER.
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Complete REGISTRATION

OF all the voters of said county in accord
ance with the provisions of Section 1904 of
the Political Code of the State of Cali
fornia it will be necessary for all cleo
tors in order to vote at the next general
election, to be held on Tuesday, NoveIn-
ber J. 1896 to make application in person
to be registered.
Notice is hereby given that said new
registration will commence immediately
and continue to and including August 8.
1896 when such registration shall cease:
provided that any elector who has regis
tered and thereafter moved his residence
to another precinct in the same county
thirty DAYS before said day of election
may have his registration transferred to
such other precinct upon his application
verified by oath, setting forth the change
OF residence and containing the other
facts required for original registration.
The Office of the County Clerk at the
Courthouse, corner of Seventh and |
streets, Sacramento City, California, will
be open from 8 a. m. to 5 D. m. each 6av
except Sunday. All citizens are notified
to apply for registration at once
Notice is also given that after the filing
of affidavits and when names are entered
on the Great Register, postal cards will be
sent to each elector registered of the date
of such entry. II postal card is nor re-
ceiyed voter should ascertain for his own
protection the reason why.
May 26, 1896
w. b. HAMILTON. County Clerk.
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BOARDING-HOUsE WRECKED.
The Inmates Have a Narrow Escape
From Death.

BAKER CITY (Or.), June q A cloud
burst over the Red Boy mining camp
yesterday afternoon, completely wreck
ing the miners boardinghouse. The
inmates, consisting Of William Brown
and wife and George Donaldson, had
a miraculous escape from instant DEATH
as the flood moved the wrecked build
ing to within a few feet of Clear Greek,
which at that time was a raging tor
rent. The office building and mine
headquarters were moved from their
foundations, but. otherwise escaped
damage. The mill and the miners
cabins were not within the range of the
flood
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Permanently Located

F. de Wolfe Hennah is permanently
located at The Normandie, Tenth and K,
and in the correction of defective vision
by the use of glasses, using the latest
improved periscopic, spherical, prismatic
and cylindrical lens, especially adapted
to all conditions of defective vision, ac-
curately fitted, using up-to-date
methods, with considerable experience,
guarantees to his patrons a service
equaled only by the most expert op-
ticians in the United States. Examina-
ton and consultation free. Glasses do
not cost more than at a drug or jewelry
store Office hours, 8 to II, l to ), ) to s.
Sundays, to u.
Complete line Humphreys Homeo-
pathic Family Remedies at "cut rates.
Drug Department, c. c. c., corner
Tenth and K streets.
Removed for good, your dandruff and
itching with one bottle of Smiths Dam
druff Pomade. Guaranteed by Wash
bourne & Co., druggists.
Alex. Holmes. Photo Studio. 1903 10TH =
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Held Without Bail.

WEAVERVILLE, June 2.-The pre-
lminary examination of John NJ. Vim
ton, Thomas Hayden, Fred Radcliffe
and Joseph Gregory, charged with the
murder of Jack Littlefeld, ended to-
day.
Justice Philbrook held all the defend
ants to answer before the Superior
Court without bail.
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JOHN B. TANNER.
Republican Nominee for Governor of
Illinois.

John R. Tanner of Illinois, whom the
Republicans of that State nominated
for Governor during their recent con-
vention, has led wildly picturesque
career. He was born in Indiana in
1S4l. A few years before the outbreak
of the war the family moved to Missou-
ri, and soon after the beginning of hos
Utilities Tanner, with brother and his
father, was taken South and thrown
into Confederate prisons, their offense
being the entertaining of Union SYM
pathizerS.