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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-02-17
Excited the Dons in Havana.

Havana, Feb. 1.-THE publication OF
the news as to De Lome's letter pro.
duccd profound sensation in Havana.
Not for long time has any piece OF
news been the subject of such wide.
spread ana absorbing attention. In ali
circles the letter is pronounced "indis-
erect
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

The virtual victory Of the Ansonia
Comm Sentinel over the editor and
business manager of rival newspaper
is victory for honest methods in
newspaper publishing. The Sentinel
charged the manager of the Derby
Transcript with disappearing the
circulation of the Transcript in secur-
ing a contract from an advertiser.
Thereupon the manager and editor of
the Transcript sued the Sentinels pub
Usher for libel. The defendant de-
faulted so that a hearing in damages
might be obtained. The hearing re-
suited disastrously for the plaintiffs,
who, though obtaining nominal dam
ages of $25 each because Of the default
of the defendant, suffered the humili-
alton of a judicial decision that the
Sentinel had proved the truth of the
alleged libel in substance an in fact"
Aside from the novelty of the question
involved, the suit is notable in that 1t
deals blow at the ancient and honor
able legal fiction, 1.-The greater the truth
the greater the libel"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

Prof. Dean c. Worcester contributes
to the September Century an article on
THE Malay Pirates of the Philippines"
Speaking of his guide, Prof Worcester
says: Toolawee was considered good
Moro, and we were therefore interested
in certain incidents which gave us an
insight into his real character. After
satisfying himself by observation that
we could use cur rifles with some eff
feet, he made us rather startling
business proposition in the following
words: you gentlemen shoot quite
we'll with the rifle" Yes; we have
had some experience" you desire to
get samples of the clothing and arms
of my countrymen for your collection?"
Yes" Papa General Arolas) told
you, If you met armed Moros outside
the town, to order them to lay down
their arms and retire." YES" Papa
does not understand my people as do.
They are all bad. When We meet
them, do not ask them to lay down
their arms, for they will come back
again, anu get tHeHi, anu plopdpiy az
tack us. Just shoot as many Of them
as possible. You can then take their
arms and clothing, and / will cut off
their heads, shave their eyebrows,
show them to papa and claim the re-
ward for killing juramentados." He
never really forgave us for refusing to
enter into partnership with him on this
very liberal basis.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30
"GOOD-BYin

or those delightfully."- irresponsible crea-
lures who always manage to shift the
blame of their shortcomings on to 9TH
er peoples shoulders, and whom no
one-no man, at any rate-ever dreams
of judging by ordinary standards. No.
ra wondered, as she stood there idly
looking into the street, how she could
ever have been foolish enough to take
Betty's love troubles seriously.
Meantime, that same folly Of hers
was going to bear some very unpala-
table fruit. In less than ten minutes
young Markham would be there. He
had arranged to call for Miss Helm
sley and her aunt, Lady Hewitt, to es-
cort them to an afternoon concert. The
elder lady had declared at luncheon
that the weather was far too depress-
ing for 1t not to be madness to risk the
probability of further fall in ones
moral barometer by couple of hours
of orchestral music, and that Nora
must give him some tea and her ex-
cuses.
Nora was conscious that this was a
neat pretext for giving the young
man the chance for tete-a-tete with
herself. Lady Hewitt was too indo-
lent, naturally, not to be heartily
weary of her duties as chaperon to her
niece. An attractive heiress was a
responsibility little to her taste, and
the girl felt that, ineligible as most
mothers and responsible people would
have termed Ted Markham, with his
post in the foreign office and his mea-
ger personal fortune, Lady Hewitt
would open her arms gladly to him If
he would but relieve her Of her oner-
GUS duties of watch dog, and would de-
clare that Nora had money enough for
them both.
Nora sighed as she stood at the win
dow. 1t was a topsy-turvy world, and
the wrong people were always being
thrown together. If only
Am / disturbing you? was told
to come in here"
Nora started, and the color rushed to
her face.
"Oh, hadn't heard YOU come in! Do
sit down. Aunt isn't well. | am so
sorry you should have had the trouble
of calling for nothing, but she hoped to
be able to go until the last moment.
Won't you let me give you some
tea?"
She spoke with nervous hurry,
scarcely pausing Tor an answer.
Ted Markham took the chair she Of
fered him, and llst4ned in silence while
she ratified on. E1ddeniy she stopped,
conscious Of his Axed glance.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30
Wander from Their Original Meaning.

Words often have way of wander
ing off from their original meaning
that, while sometimes very puzzling,
is also ve.y curious and interesting.
Who, for instance, would imagine that
our word book" had anything to do
with a beech-tree? And yet it comes
direct from the Anglo-SaXon Doc, a
beech tree, because the wood of that
tree was used by our ancestors for
writing-t tablets before the invention of
paper. In the same way our word
"code" is derived, through the Latin
"codex," from caudeX, the stem or
trunk of a tree because the Romans
used for writing-tablets thin wooden
plates covered with wax. In fact, the
vegetable kingdom has played an i'm
rortant part in our literary vocabulary
paper, as you know, being named
from the Egyptian plant papyrus, that
long furnished the ancients with their
principal writing material; while our
library" like the Latin liber, a book,
is from liber, meaning the inner bark
OF trees, one of the earliest writing ma
terials used by the Romans.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

the portrait Of her husband. done by
a brother artist soon after her mar
riage.
How / got myself out of the house
I do not know. l was feverish with
excitement, wondering what could be
the meaning of the mystery. l waited
that evening, half expecting a repeti-
ton of my previous experience; but
nothing happened, though the state OF
my nerves would have warranted any
hallucination.
The following day did not paint.
thought rest was necessary. But,
while l lay idle on the downs, the vi
sion of that white-faced artist was
over me, before me. l grew quite dis
turbed, and thought my brain was
softening.
Strolling back that evening, pass
ed a lady whom l had often noticed
because of her sad history. She was
the widow of an artist of whom once
great things had been predicted. The
poor fellow had gone mad, and, though
still painting, had allowed no one to
ever see his work.
What he had done with his can
vases no one knew-probably he had
burned them: at any rate, when he
died, not trace of his work was to be
found. His young widow was left
penniless. She was forced to support
herself-as she had been forced dur
ing much of her married life-by do
ing elementary teaching and needle
work.
had gone a little way on when I
heard a sharp cry, and. turning, saw
that Mrs. Raymor had slipped on the
steep, stony descent and fallen. Nat
urally / offered her assistance. of which
she stood in need, for she had sprain-
ed her foot badly, and could barely
walk. Luckily, her lodgings were
close by, and with the aid Of my arm
she hobbled to them.
helped her into the poor sitting
room she rented. From dts apDeaf-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

Perhaps no celestial Dody has been
photographed so many times as the
neon At Lick Observatory the man
in the moon" sits for his picture many
times during the year. Jupiter and
Saturn are also frequent subjects, and
no day passes in which some sun-spot
does not leave its celestial autograph
on the sensitive plate. Many astro-
nomical discoveries have been made
through photography, the greatest OF
them being the discovery, by Professor
Draper, of oxygen in the sun. The
applications of photography are so
many and so varied that a whole vol
ume Of the s.. Nicholas would be re-
ouired to describe them: for there is
no department of knowledge in which
it has been so extensively used, and
none to which it has been so universal
ly helpful.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

There Is no word more frequently In
tn. mouths of men than that OF con-
science. The word conscience properly
signifies that knowledge which a man
hath. within himself of his own
thought and actions, by comparing
them with the law of Cod his mind
will either approve or condemn him
recording as he hath done good or evil;
therefore this knowledge or conscience
may properly be called both an accus-
er and Judge. So that whenever our
conscience accuseth lis, we are GER
tainly guilty; but we are not always
innocent when it doth not accuse us;
for very often through the hardness
Of our hearts, or the fondness and ia
vor we bear ourselves, or through ig-
norance or neglect, we do not suffer
our conscience to take any cognizance
of several sins we commit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

The treaty to be drawn by them, If
accepted by their respective govern
ments, will doubtless be known as the
treaty of Paris. Several agreements
in settlement of international difficult
ties have borne the same title. One
OF the most important of the treaties
was that of 1853, between Great Brit
ain on the one side, and France, Spain
and Portugal on the other. 1t involved
the cession of Havana to Spain by
Great Britain, which had taken it in
the previous year. Thus, after the
lapse of a century and a third, Havana
is again at the disposal of Paris
gathering of peacemakers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

We can have in old age only as we
have acquired in youth and middle
life. We cannot reap wheat in our old
age if we have sown cockle-seed in
our youth; we cannot have a home to
dwell in in our old age if we have
scattered with careless hand through
youth and middle life. If we have been
a laggard and sluggard in the hours
when we should have been enterpris-
ing, wasteful and unthrifty, when we
should have been wise, we can only
drink the bitter cup which we have
been mixing for ourselves in these
previous years. When Jacob looks for
his Rachel let him remember that he
wants Rachel at whose side he will be
called to sit when the hairs of both
are gray; then he will have love that
will not die with the honeymoon, but
will grow richer and deeper and
stronger and more joyous as the years
20 on. The lesson of the patriarchal
age is for all, young and DID, for If
we are to have the sweet benediction
of the home by and by, we must be
building it now.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30
BREAKING THE NEWS.

do yon think he'll take it very bad
ly, Nora?"
Nora Helmsley shrugged her should
ers.
my dear Betty, you ought to know
more about Mr.. Markhams powers OF
endurance than l."
But what do you think hell do?
What do you suppose"
"Why waste our time in suprosition?
He'll be here most likely this after
noon, and you will be able to judge for
yourself"
Betty Oakhurst sprang to her feet,
Tied is coming here this afternoon?
Why on earth didn't you tell me be-
fore?" And she fidgeted nervously
with her hat before the glass az she
spoke.
But you knew. Betty, where are
you going?"
Anywhere out of this" cried the
girl, laughing nervously, as she stoop-
ed to kiss her friend.
Nora, however, caught her arm.
Nonsense, Betty! You'd much bet
ter tell him straight out now and get
it over. 1t will be ever so much more
awkward for you if the news reaches
him from outside"
II don't see that at ALL" returned
Betty, quietly, as she drew away from
her companion. Il am sure that K-if
YOU"
She paused tentatively.
"You don't mean to say that you eX-
pect not to tell Ted Markham that you
have Tilted him?'
Il certainly don't expect you to put
1t in that way" replied Miss Oakhurst
with little laugh, "but l I'm quite
certain that you would explain it to the
poor fellow much better than any one
else"
Explain" exclaimed Nora, impa-
tiently. II don't know that there's
anything to explain, except that you've
put yourself and me in most ridicu-
lous position"
Moral
Nora flashed an indignant look at
her.
II think you might be serious now
and at least pretend that you're asham-
ed of yourself. You begged me to help
you to get my aunt to ask him here,
to act as screen, in fact, 30 that
your people might imagine it was all
over, and that you had both changed
your minds, and now-now--
The sound of bell broke IN upon
Miss Helmsley's eloquence, and Bet
ty caught up her gloves.
Pm awfully sorry, Nora. Abuse
me as much as you like. Good-by!"
And before Nora could stop her she
had darted through the door and was
on her way downstairs. She let her
go. After all, it never was of any
use to argue with Betty; she was one
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

as anything the matterY" she ask
ed, in a slightly alarmed voice. II
was surely not possible that he could
already have learned Betty's treach-
cry.
Eyes. We can't go on like this,
Miss Helmsley!"
mol" Nora felt the color 60 out
of her face.
1T isn't fair to you, and besides L
things have changed"
You mean that Betty"
Miss Oakhurst is going to be mar
ried." Nora gasped, but did not
speak. "She is engaged to Lord Bar
thorpe. / met Lady Oakhurst just
nov and she was overlooking with
loving kindness to the world in gen.
eral."
Betty has behaved abominably"
put in Nora, Indignantly.
Ted Markham smiled.
Il think, on the contrary, that she
has shown remarkably good sense. l
am going to leave London; l really
came this afternoon to say good-by."
Nora bit her lips.
Il am very sorry" she began, hesi-
tatingly. Il am afraid l was rather
to blame, but l thought Betty really
cared, and"
She left the sentence unfinished. Ted
Markham's demeanor puzzled her; he
was quite white, and there was look
in his eyes which troubled her. What
was there in her f1uffy-haired, blue
eyed little friend to move man so?
That her companion had taken some
great resolution. and that singularly
difficult one, it was easy enough to per-
ceive.
Are you going to be away long?'
she asked, awkwardly. Il mean, are
you going far?"
Il think of going to have look at
the antipodes. My father has some
interest, and l hope to get sent off to
Melbourne"
"But haven't you made up your mind
rather hurrledly?" she objected, tim
idly.
"Hurriedly? Why, put things in
train weeks ago."
Weeks ago!" she exclaimed. But
Betty's engagement is quite fresh. Did
you suspect"
II suspected nothing. I knew"
you knew" she exclaimtd, indig-
nantly. Then why didn't you speak?
Why didn't you tell me?"
Tell you'll" She stared at him, his
tone was so vehement. "Oh, about
Betty, you mean"
"Of course. What else could
mean?"
Nothing, Of course"
Really, don't understand you"
He laughed drearily as he rose.
mo, l must not explain. Good-by"
She looked up at him with startled
eyes.
You are too hard on Betty. She"
ooh, Betty? Don't you know that l
haven't thought of her for weeks-that
l found out long ago that we had
made a mistaken"
"Then why are you going?"
She managed to keep her eyes upon
his face, though her cheeks burned and
she felt almost choked.
Don't you know that am almost
a pauper?" she asked, in trembling
voice, because you want to make your
fortune, or because-because ] am too
rich?"
Moral"
She covered her face with her hands.
"Oh, If you were not in love with
Betty, didn't you see-didn't you guess
weeks ago-"-London World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30


piles OF work lying on the table,
guessed how hard the poor soul strovs
to make the two ends meet.
The following day, at the earliest
possible moment, l called on Mrs. Ray
NOR, for had resolved to get to the
bottom of the affair il could.
The doctor had forbidden her to use
her hand or foot for month at least,
and l could see that the poor little
woman was greatly depressed. For
while l made conversation, turning
over in my mind how l could lead her
to talk of the picture.
At last l went to examine the oak
table 1t was, as l have already said,
the exact duplicate Of that other table,
except that the latter had possessed
drawer, and in this one, deep and heavy
as it was. could see no opening.
Noting my interest in it, Mrs. Ray
NOR asked me whether l could help
her sell it. She said she must have
money; that, through her accident she
could not gain even the small sums
she had before earned; that she had
long ago sold almost everything OF
value, but had retained the table be-
cause her husband had been so proud
Of it. Though she assured me the
table held no drawer, | remained I'M
convinced. and l continued to examine
it infinitely.
Suddenly I remembered table l
had seen years before in an old curios-
ity shop, which had possessed n secret
spring in one of the legs. l had hit on
the secret. The center leg was en-
bellished with quaint, deeply cut heads
of demons. In the open mouth OF
one of these my finger touched
spring.
Immediately the tables curved half
front slid suddenly back, revealing a
large, deep drawer. Trembling with
eagerness, / pulled it open, and there
lay the mad artists canvasses, some
thirty or more, large and small. On
the top lay the Wreck" the master
piece l had seen on the previous
night.
Well, / possessed friends in the
painting world, and among us we sold
the pictures for fairly decent prices;
enough, at any rate, to give the widow
a modest competence for life.
l learned later that Raymor and his
wife had lived in the house in which
l was then lodging; his studio had
been the very room in which l lived;
he had let no one, not even his wife,
enter it, but had painted there year
after year.
1t was supposed he burned his work,
and some he undoubtedly had, for at
his death, the charred remnants crowd
ed the crate; but the main part he had
slowed carefully in the secret drawer.
Mad as he was, his madness had
never touched his art-that had re-
manned powerful to the end. l occu-
pied the same rooms for many a sea-
son, but the mad artist" never reap
peared to me. believe firmly his spir-
it had wished to repair the evil his
clouded brain had wrought in life, and
for that purpose he had visited me.
For long / told no one, not even the
widow, of what l had seen. But now
those whom my story could affect are
dead, and so / relate without scruple
how l was led to find the mad artists
hidden treasure.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30
THE MAD ARTIST.

It was in my early artist days that
/ took rooms at Regis for the summer
and settled down to paint. 1t was a
queer little out-of-the way house on
the top of the cliffs, ana was the only
ledger.
l had been there about six weeks,
when, one evening. as l lay on the
sitting room sofa, smoking and rumln-
ating, became oddly conscious OF an
other presence in the room-consclous
that / was not aione.
Then / looked around and saw, to
my establishment, on the farther side
of the square center table.a man stand
ing, sideways to me, at an easel,palnt-
ing in oils. / saw him as clearly as
see the paper now before me-a small
thin man, with prominent bright
brown eyes, wearing an old black vel
veteen coat. ! knew l was suffering
from some delusion, yet still l saw
the fellow painting away as If his life
depended upon it.
Presently he scraped his palette and
placed it on one side; and picked up
a finished picture from the floor and
put it carefully in the drawer of
heavy oak table behind him. He clos
ed the drawer, but not sound or pal
cite knife nor closing drawer reached
me.
Then, for the first time, the man
looked at me, his feverish brown eyes
fastened on me intent and eager.
The vision could have lasted but two
or three minutes; then man, easel and
oak table were gone, and l saw my
room with its painted deal
furniture just as usual.
Well, l shook myself, and resolved
for the sake of my brain to work rath-
er less hard in future. But, in spite
of the teachings of common sense,
those eager brown eyes haunted me;
neither could forget the finished pic
ture of which l had had full view; my
trained eye told me at once that 1t
was the work of master-hand.
The subject was a shipwreck, and
would have given my life to have
painted the beating waves as they had
been depicted on that supernatural
canvas-or, as l told myself, on the
canvas of the mirage conjured up by
my tired brain.
She was a small, gentle woman,with
the remains of good looks, but looking
older than her thirty years, which was
not surprising when one thought OF
her matrimonial experience and of her
struggle to keep up her small home.
Il would not mind my foot, if my
hand were not wrenched, too" she
said, with sigh and a glance at the
unfinished work spread about.
She was so gentle, so grateful for my
small help, that found myself CIV
ing her landady directions for her
comfort as if she were helpless child.
When l had done what l could l said
good-by.
had turned to leave the room when
my eye was caught by an oil painting
ON the opposite wall, the head and
shoulder painting of white-faced,
brown-eyed man in velveteen coat
in short, the portrait of my visitor of
the previous night. Under the picture
stood the heavy oak table of my
vision.
My involuntary exclamation Of sur
/ prise attracted Mrs. Raymor's atten-
ton, and on seeing me staring hard
at the picture she told me that it was
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

1t strikes us that a great deal Of
hypocritical nonsense is INDUCED in
over the fashion of breaking a bottle
of wine over a new ship at the launch
ing. We would respectfully suggest in
the interest of genuine temperance
that when the Illinois is launched
whole basket of champagne or a bar
rel Of whisky be broken over her PROV.
This will retire that much liquor from
circulation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

Mr.. Otto Young Of Chicago has re-
Gently given 100000 for the erection
in that city Of hospital for consump-
tives. Mr.. Young lost son by con-
sumption a year ago, and therefore
feels a special interest in victims of
that disease, who have difficulty in
finding refuge, as the Chicago hos
pitfalls are unwilling to receive con-
sumptives. The building will be pro-
vided with everything known to mod
ern science for the relief and cure of
consumption, and will be under the
direction and control of the Chicago
Home for IncVrables.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

Mrs. Challenge-Why did you not
start up the photograph while mother
was here? Mr.. Challenge-There is no
harmony in two talking machines run
ming simultaneously.-New York Even
ing Journal
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

Clean blood makes clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tics cleanses your blood and keeps It clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all I'm
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that siclSly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten c"7ts. All drug
gists satisfaction guaranteed. &c, 800
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

The General Council at Nantes,
France, recently adopted a resolution
declaring that, as the importation OF
American horses has so increased as
to become a menace to the breeding
Of French horses, urgent restrictive
measures regarding such importation
should be taken. A regulation was is
sued that every horse imported should
have it's origin branded under its name.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-09-30

Many puny debilitated infant, fretting
and wasting away daily, often unable to
digest its food, may be rescued from an un-
timely grave by DIR. Moffetts TEETHINA
(Teething Powders. TEETHINA Aids Diges-
ton, Regulates the Bowels and makes teeth
Ing easy.