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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29
LIGHT WAS KEPT BURNING.
Flucky Boy Who Was Alone in the
Tower for Three Weeks.

Flucky Boy Who Was Alone in the
Tower for Three Weeks.
This is one of the widest and bleak
est of light stations of that savage re-
gion, and, according to a story told
there it was once the scene of remark
ably plucky adherence to duty on, the
part of a 15-year-old boy, says Sarib-
ner's. He was the son Of the keeper,
and on this occasion was left alone in
the tower while his father went ashore
for provisions in their only boat. Be
fore the latter could return violent
storm arose and for the next three
weeks there was no time in which the
keepers boat could have lived for a
moment in wild seas that ragged about
the lonely rock. Still the light was
kept burning by that 15-year-old boy,
who had little to eat and but scant time
to sleep. Night after night, for three
weeks, it's steady CLEAN shone through
the blackness of the pitiless storm and
gladdened the fathers straining eyes.
When the ordeal was ended the boy
was so weak from exhaustion as to be
barely able to speak At the same time
there was no prouder father, nor hap
pier young lightkeeper on the Maine
coast than those who met on the
storm-swept Ledge of Saddlebaek that
day
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29
IreIand's Mig Cavern.

It has remained for Frenchman 70
make the first complete exploration OF
the largest cavern in the British ISL
ands, that at Mitchelstown. Ireland.
The explorer is Monsieur Martel, who
ha0 recently become famous for his
discoveries in the caverns of France.
The Mitchelstown cavern is formed in
limestone, and is remarkable for the
number and extent Of it's connected pas
sages which, when plotted upon a
chart, resemble the streets of a city,
The length of the cave is about mile
and a quarter, and it contains some
animal inhabitants, including species
of spider, which are peculiar to rs and
which have their entire existence with
In it's recesses.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29
Good for the. Health.

.Janks (who has taken to horseback
riding and bounces about ten inches at
every step)-Ah, howdy do, Blinks? l
think horseback riding is good for the
health, don't you?
Blinks-Yes, indeed. All who see
Won will be benefited. Laugh and grow
fat YOU know.-New York Weekly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29
Tricks of Paris Cab Drivers.

In Paris there are very many pneu.
matic-tired carriages, and in select
ing a public vehicle prospective pas
senger will generally pick out one Of
those thus equipped In order to de-
ceive riders who do not examine too
closely many of the drivers of wagons
having ordinary iron tires fix little
bells on their horses, which is GUS
tom compulsory on the part of all rub
her-rimmea wheelers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29

80 Mr.. Skinner has failed" ex-
claimed the man who always makes
himself at home.
"Yes, sah," replied the colored man
who was employed around the store.
do you know what his principal liza
bility ISL"
Eyes, sab. Eff many more folks
comes roun' pesterin' him he's liable
ter buy hisse'f er railroad ticket an
let 'em settle up de business dc bes'
way do kin. washington Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29
The Maine Sunday Fiddler.

At a prayer meeting in Augusta,
Maine, recently, prayers were asked
for a young man who played the fiddle
on Sundays. 1t is not made quite clear
whether the young man became an OBJ
ject of prayer because he desecrated
Sunday or because he tempered with
the fiddle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29
Dumb In All the Seven.

Wife-You do not tell me that Prof.
A. has been struck dumb?
Husband-Yes, last night. He was
master of seven languages.
Wife-Is it possible? And he was
struck dumb in all seven?-Copic
Cuts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29
Her Invariable Rule.

Il don't believe in long engage
ments," said Miss Smatter.
Neither do l." replied Miss Kittish.
Short engagements with plenty of
them is my motto, New York
World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29
CHAPTER X.

HE dropped into a
chair near the door,
her heart palpitat-
ing with force that
beat every drop of
blood from her
cheeks. Some sud-
den and awful
change must have
taken place while
she was out to call
for the presence of
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29

A Frenchman estimates that in a
life of fifty years man sleeps away
5000 days, walks 800 days, and the
rest Of the time feeds and fussas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-29
SITTING THE SANDS.
WHEN THE "BEACH COMBERs"
SEE A STORM THEY WORK.
Lost Valuables Of summer Bathers-
One Man Picked Up 63e In Single
Day-Story of Two Double Eagles-A
Lucky" Industry.
~ STORM Is just as

STORM Is Just as
good as a fire.
though. When the
beach combers'
see one coming
across the waters
they pull on their
rubber boots and
oilskins and forth
they sally, says the
New York Post.
The first wind
The age-herald., 1897-10-13
Croker as a Man,

Mir. ". T. Stead, the London journai- ist. has been studying Croker. Ire re- suit of Mr. Stead's investigation is nod uneomplimentary to the boss. He finds him a. plain, unpretentious citizen ard very glentlemanfy in his every day life.
 Croker said many interesting things to the EngIishman. He told him that he never read books-had no time for thenl-but he read many newspapers and got lots of information out of them But the best books are men," said Croker. You can't tell much from their faces. The eye has been called the in dex to the soul, but it may deceive you. The way to size up man is to nave 8 five minutes talk with him.
 So far so good, but it does not go far enough In a five minutes talk what Q. man says, his voice, manner and the expression of his face will tell a great dsaL but a man has various moods. He is not the same at all times, and even Richard Croker cannot all ways pass a correct Judgment upon a stranger after one brief talk with him.
 The London journalist Is probably right in his conclusion that Croker is a fairly decent sort of man. He likes to be 6 boss, it is true, but there are plen- ty of others who like that business. Many people are strongly prejudiced against Croker but at heart he may not be so black as he has been painted. Thare are, no doubt, many worse men who have not beisn so severely criticised. If Mir Croker had lived outside of New York he might never have been heard of The peculiar conditions of political affairs there has made it possible for the rise of man of Croker's peculiar aIbili- ties. In a state Ilke Alabama Richard Croler and his methods would. not have lasted long.
The age-herald., 1897-10-13
Van Weeks Chances.

Republicans of the independent and mugwump stripe are following Seth Low. and the dreamers of the party are focking' iuo George. This leaves Tracy wilh a solid, but not very formidable contingent which will stick to him to the end.
 There are democratic theorists and so- ciafists who support George, but all une signs of the times indicate that Van wyck is steadily gaining. The rank and file of Tammany are a sensible crowd of citizens, and with their big machine be- hind them they stand good chance of winning the race. Vsn Wyck represents New York sentiment better than any other candidate. He Is a wide-a wake man of the world--a man of affairs, with a clean record, as society men and poli- Iacans go, and many of the leading in- fuences of the metropolis are in his fa- vor.
 There will be a reaction against George. He is personally a good man, but his theories handicap him. Undoubt- edly, he is socialist. He believes in the single tax, in municipal ownership, and he has talked about abolshing poverty.
 Now, New York is common sense to the core. Even her street gammins know tha. Georges views are visionary, and they know that he has but little execu- tive ability 1t would be a misfortune for great city to have ruler so gentle clean and utterly incapable of dealing with the problems around him. Every time the administration shows it's hand in favor of Tracy it makes votes against him. Greater New York does not pro- pose to be bossed from Washington.
 The solution of the muddle is Van WyclS, and he is growing stronger every day. Unless luhere Is a speedy and un- expected change in the situation, he will be the winning mar.
The age-herald., 1897-10-13
India and Free Coinaue.

England is not holding her own in In- dia. Thus far the natives have had the best of it, and the situation is threaten ing. When the British government closed the Indian hints to silver coinage thers was fall in the price of silver
 measured by rupees, and fall in the value of commodities. Taxation has grown more burdensome, and it has bred discontent throughout India.
 Only spark is needed to make this discontent blaze out into flame. SD ak ing of this feature of the situation. the Philadelphia American says:
 So 1t is that the troubles of the Indian government with the trib:s on the Afg- han frontier are more than locally seri- ous for a serious set back to the British forces on that frontier would not un- likely furnish the spark that would set India in the flame of revolt. So the cam paign directed by the Indian govern ment against the tribes on the north western frontier of India is fraught with dangers beyond the immediat4 theater of conflict. These tribes, which. with
 cool effrontery, have been classified as
 rebels for no batter reason than that they nave dared to make war against
 the British forces, find themselves be- ing rapidly crowded in by the European offlcered Indian troops, the English reei- ments in India having proven physically unftted for active campaigning, the whole stamina of the men, physical and moral, having been ruefully undermined by the moral looseness of their lives Which evidence of the unfftness of the English troops in India for active work is anything but promising of the per- paItuation of English rule in India in the event of the discomfort and unrest under British rule, which is so general, break ing into fiame
 But the work that the English regf- ments have been found to be incapable of doing. indeed they are incapable of anything but garrison duty. the native
The age-herald., 1897-10-13

not equal the demand. Somebody will have to be disappointed. Tn fact. Iegions are disappointed now. Among the in- mates of the prisons and poor houses; among the tramps and drunkards of the land there are thousands who turned and tried, without capital and infiu- enee, to make their way in the profess sions. They failed ard went to the dogs.
 It is unpleasant to speak words of Encouragement but the young men of the country run great risk when they leave the farms and shops of their fathers to enter a. profession, without friends or money to back them. They should feel their way very cautiously and not cut loose from a certainty for an uncertainty. They may find manual labor distastefuF, but if they will put their brains and energy into it they will be surer of living than they will be if they rush off to a strange city to try a crowded profession.
 The prejudice against agricultural and mechanical industries in the minds of young people is all wrong. In those occupa tions will be found the road to fortune and station where men are su- perior and intelligent workers. Many of our richest and most famous men began life on a farm or in shop.
The age-herald., 1897-10-13
The AduIter.ted Food Case.
the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Pnfla0elpnIa inquirer. | The outcome of the Stroudsburg case, in which a manufacturer was charged by one of the state food inspectors with marketing am aduiterated article of food, verges upon the ridiculous. The ease finally hinged upon the question whether mustard is an article of food, and this question of fact being left to the jury, the learned jurymen could not decide it, and the defendant was ac- quilted, although state chemist testi- fled that the article sold was adulter- ated to the extent of 70 per cent.
 Elsewhere it has been held by the courts that mustard is an article of food, decision which is only in accord with the dictates of common sense, and there have been numerous convictions for selling adulterated mustard. It would be quite as sensible to say that potatoes are not an article of food because many potatoes are made into starch as to hold that mustard is not an article of food because some of it, instead of being con- sumed at the table, is used to make plasters.
 The difficulty of obtaining convictions
The age-herald., 1897-10-13

Among the smaller counties the re- ceipts of Italy were about ten millions Japan six, Switzerland five, Spain less than five Belgium four, th~ Netherlands three, and Sweden and Norway a little less than three.
 Every country except the United Statss derived a net revenue from It's postal service, Great Britain coming first with nearly $17, ,o000 excess of receipts over expenditures, France second with over 0,000 and Russia third. with naarly $9, 000, 900. The United States on the other hand lost over $10, ,000, 900, ac- cording to the figures. Belgium has the service down to finer point of business than any other country, paying out only about half what she, takes in. Switzer- land, although small country, makes no appreciable profit from her posts, on account of the expenses of mountain mail routes.
 Although the United States comes sec ond in the table, they are really first, because they handle more pieces of mail matter than any other country, and the receipts do not get expansion from the income from the telegraph, telephone, and packet post services of foreign eoun- tri:s, all included as posts.
 In chsapness of postage Germany is undoubtedly ahead of all other nations. City letters are carried for three-fourths of a cent, and in Munich a company li- censed by the state performs the service for three-eighths of a cent. Throughout the empire letter under half an ounce is 31a cents, and any weight up to half a pound cents. In France the tariff Is cents for each and evry half ounce, an the city or outside. In Great Britain tine rate is 2 cents for the first ounce, 1 cent for the second ounce, and 1 cent for each additional two ounces after that.
The age-herald., 1897-10-13
Is GaIlsnt v Passing Away ?

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Gallantry is defined by the Springfield Republican as "hypocritieal display of insincere devotion," which is tending to disappear" and in the march of prog TESS will vanish altogether. As the new woman becomes more and more self sufficient the disposition to treat her as an exceptional being entitled to man ssrvics will no doubt, suffsr diminution. She will not expect defeTence, if consfs- tent, and will not get it. To certain extent, it may be admitted, gallantry is obsolete already. In some sections of the country ladies are now commonly treated in very matter-of-fact way. In given community there is much less gallantry exhibited nowadays than form erly, so that it is a common remark that the old men are more gallant than the young, and decidedly gallant man is called ga gentleman of the old school"
 Such gallantry as exists might, per- haps, be better distributed. "A man." says our contemporary, very truly, 'swho gives up his seat in street car to pretty girl and then goes home and kicks because dinner is not ready is not gallant. With new ways of living for both men and women, gallantry must take new forms, adapting itself to con- dtions." This iss-no doubt, the cass. But not if our contemporary definf ton of gallantry is correct. If gallantry is no more than a ''hypocritica1 display of fnsincere devotion," it might be laid aside at all times with advantage to the sincerity of ones character. True gallantry, We venture to say, is not hypocritical It Is a trait arising out of the disposition of the brave and strong man of large heart to protect and coddte the weak at the sacrifice of his own convenience. Such gallantry will show itself in kindness to women folks at home, as well as on the street. The sight of woman hanging to street. car strap is not the only test for the gallant man to rise to. Domestic Hfs and business relations afford innumera- ble opportunities for gallantry of the better sort.
 How. 1t may be asked, is true gallantry ito be inculcated so that deference to 1a- dies shall be sincere? The answer Hall Caine makes virtually to this question in discussion reported in the London Humanitarian for October is as follows,
 'iBy teaching boys not only the facts of life, but the spirit of chlvalry. Boys are allowed to grow up with sort of passive idea that all women. are fair game. The idea of chivalry should be inculcated into boys They should be taught that 1t is a base and degrading thing to regard woman as fair game; that the only act of chivalry which it is left to the manly to perform in this nineteenth century is to turn his back on those who abuse the weakness of wo- man for their own vile and selfish ends"
 In confirmation of the truth here pre- sented it may be observed that the one section of the country in which the cus- tom is general to treat woman with a gallantry inspired by respect is that section in which chivalrous ssntimsnt is still cherished-the south.
The age-herald., 1897-10-13

troops are doing. The tribes that have, deffed the British empire are feeling the power of the British forces and being. punished with barbaric rigor for their defiance. The punitive forces sent against them are net only destroying their fortified towers, but ruthlsssly d. stroying their villages. And this IS the warfare carried on, not by a semi-civl1- ized horde of pluRdersrs, but by the British empire. It is true the villages of these Afghan tribes. for the most part pursuing a nomadic life, are cruhs and rough; mere apologies for villages. But the huts and tents of these villagss, poor as they are, are all that such tribes have for a home, other than the bare mountain side, and to destroy thsse poor abodes is as inexcusable as would be the destruction of we'll built cities. If these tribes should beat back the British forc=s, make a bold dash into the plains, capture say PeshaWur and sack the town, it would be barbaric, uneiVlllzed warfare, but for the British forces 70 go into the hills and destroy the villages of the hostile tribes is emlnently prop- civilized, the destruction of the villages is called punitive. .f
 'aThe British may yet have cause 10 rue the example of uncivllized WafIars they are laying before these rude tribes. As the British forces pierce deeper into
 
 tion, opposition made fierce and desper ate by the experience of the tribes or what they may expect after defeat, an opposition that may be backed up py the ameer or 8 still stronger arm, ana that the British forces will find urlsllr- mountable. And then the British forces may be put on the defensive and suinef from the same kind of warfare that they have made the order of the day, a war fare that has for its aim the turning or -combatants out of house ana nolile' to find shelter where they may.
 ."There may come no setback to the British forces on the Afghan frontier. no outbreak against British fuie III India at this time, but that the sseuatioh is fraught with ominous posslpihftres must be apparent to the careful oo- server"
 So it is possible that a signal defeat of the British arms any day in India may cause a general uprising of the op- pressed tax payers in every district Rather than lose her empire in the east England will do almost anything. She can better afford to remonetize sil- yer than to give up her magnificent pos sessions.
 The friends of free silver in every land should watch the struggle in India. In that far-off country, perhaps at Khyber Pass, perhaps among the mountains of Afghanistan, a hand to hand conflict of the dark-skinned rebels with the British legions may change the financial sys- tenn of the world.
 England may suddenly become a. con- vert to bimetallism at the point of the sword. She has been fighting odds for months, and the revolt is spreading. The outlook makes her wisest states men restless and anxious.
The age-herald., 1897-10-13
Crowded Professions.

Every fall and winter hosts of young men leave the farming districts and go to the towns and cities to study law, medicine and divinity. The professions are already crowded, and there Is little chance of success for the new corners. These youngsters do not expect to make their living out of the masses. The lawyers want the business of The big corporations: the doctors are looking for rich patients, and the young preach CTS hope for wealthy city churches.
 The supply of these good things can-
The age-herald., 1897-10-13

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 Luetgert, the Chicago sausage maker and sausage eater, has broken silence long enough to administer a horriflc Iambasting to the states witnesses who testified against him. He abuses the police. This is quite natural and wholly excusable. There is not. and perhaps never has been, more consciencelsss and disreputable band of cut t-throats on this globe than the police. Compared to them the Highbinders of San Francisco are Sunday school superintendents. They will swear a citizens life away watnl as much sang frold as though they were buying lemonade at church festival. When there is anything to be made or anything to be gained the police con- spinators are equal to the occasion. and they will swear like parrots.