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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12
GARNETT, KANSAS, AUGUST ~, 1898.
The BlOOd-Stained Greenback.

We never found any gold or silver in the
pockets of our dead comrades during the war;
At the close of one of our great battles re-
comrade his diary, some old letters, few keep
sakes and pocketbook. In his pocketbook
there was new fve-dollar greenback, and it
happened to be stained with some Of his life's
blood did not think so much about it then
as have since. But as think of it now l feel
like saying, thank God, the little ereenback
never drew a cent of interest money it its whole
life; it had never been polluted by the touch of
a Shylock's glasping fingers in its whole exist
ence. He had received it only few days be-
fore, fresh and crisp, direct from the hands of
Uncle Sans paymaster 1t was paid to him
for his service as a soldier defending the old
flag. rolled all the contents of his pocket
book into little package and sent it through
the mail to his good old mother in Vermont.
Many years after visited my old home among
the Green Mountains, and while there called
upon the mother of my dead comrade. After
talking with me for a while, and thanking me
with tenderness and pathos which only
mother could feel she brought from an adjoin-
ing room the same little package which had
sent to her so many years before. And there
with the rest was still the blood-stained green
back. l looked into the mothers face, and
knew, need not be told, that more than once
during all those years she had baptized that
greenback with her mothers tears as her son
had baptized it with his blood upon the battle
6eld-typical of the fact that every dollar OF
our greenback money was baptized in the tears
of widow and orphans of dead soldiers, and
with the best blood of the nation. l love the
greenback because it saved the nation in its
hour of peril, because it preserved the Union,
because it liberated three million slaves, because
it planted the old flag upon every rebellious
fort throughout the land, because it is the
money of progress and civilization, and, more
than all, because it is the money of the Ameri-
can REPUBLICS. F. Norton in Norton's
Monthly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12
Kansas Boys COmplimented.

Camp Alger, July 31.-The Twenty-second
Kansas boys made splendid impression at
brigade inspection yesterday. Lines were
almost perfect, and the spectators applauded
generously. Kansas was given third place,
with grade of 81; Indiana first, with 9S New
York second, with 97H.
Major Harvey's Third battalion and Company
K, under Captain Sherman, were complimented
personally by the inspectors The New York
and Indiana regiments were members OF the
state militia fo1 five years. They have this
advantage over the Kansas boys, who were raw
recruits with but two months drill. The Of
icers of the Twenty-second are confident that
we will get to Porto Rico.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12
Fight at Manila.

Wednesdays dailies tell of a hot fight at Ma
Mia, July 31st and August 1st and 2dlbetween
the Americans and Spaniards. The Spanish
army, 5000 strong, attacked our forces on the
night of the 31st, and the fight lasted three
hours Our loss was thirteen killed and forty
seven wounded. The Spanish losses were not
less than 800. The Spaniards were repulsed
and driven back. On the night of Aug. Ist,
the attack was renewed, and again on the ed,
but in each instance our troops were victorious.
The American troops engaged were part of
Tenth Pennsylvania, First California and the
Third regular artillery.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

THE Republican papers are trying very hard
to make it appear that the new bonds will 60
into the hands of the people, or the 'small
subscriber" However, the American Banker
says that very small percentage of the bonds
go into the peoples hands, that capitalists hired
persons to subscribe for small amounts. 1t has
been announced that assignments of allotment
notices may be made, and an examination Of
the records will show that the bonds are going
into the hands of very few people. The
editor of the American Banker is in position
to know whereof he speaks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

General Miles took two Kansas army physi-
clans to Porto Rico with him-Drs. blddle ana
Armstrong. Both were appointed by Governor
Leedy and both were taken from their regiment
nv Miles on account of their superior ability as
surgeons. 1t is now about time for the Repub-
lican politicians of Kansas to charge that Cen
eral Miles is in league with the Populists OF
Kansas. The poor old Republicans are falling
down hard in their fight against the Kansas
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

THE Kansas boys who volunteered to fight
for Uncle Sam, and who were the first to re-
spond to President McKinley's call for troops,
are still kept in the background. The boys at
at San Francisco, who have been promised, time
and again, that they should 60 to Manila, are
still in camp. There can be but one solution
to this, and that is that the national admins
traticn, which wanted to make this 'Repub-
lcan war;" is determined to punish our boys
because ours is a Populist state.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

STRENUOUS efforts are being made to retire
Judge Foster, of the federal coult, on full pay
There is no justice in this. Judge Foster has
occupied his present position for many years,
and has been drawing good fat salary. If he
hasn't saved enough to keep him i'll comfort
during his remaining years on earth, 1t is no.
bodv's fault but his own, and the people are
under no obligations to pay him Tor dolag
nothing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

A KANSAS volunteer, who has always been a
Republican, is shot under the collar because
of the treatment of GU Kansas boys, says: 81
want to say that when election day comes,
there's going to be some Popping among the
Kansas soldiers" The tact is our boys don't
like the way they are being treated by the
..powers that be'' at Washington, and they
propose to prove that the present boycott is
boomerang.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

THE government has just purchased $780, 900
gallons of liquor for the soldiers. Eminent
physicians have said, repeatedly, that the use
of liquor by the men who were to be sent to
Cuba should be prohibed, as its use is danger
Gus IN the warm climate. But, then, the liquor
interests must be protected, even the expense of
the lives of our soldier boys. Men are very
cheap, you know-cheaper than whisky.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

There is something of the old-timer of the
hiqh collar and handkerchief necktie about
Chief Justice Doster. He lett tor the East on
his vacation wearing his everyday clothes, and
they are not stylish togs by any means. lie is
putting in his time visiting the soldiers in the
mobilization camps.-Kansas City Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

SECRETARY OF STATE DAY will resign, to
become member of the peace commission. 1t
Is stated that after the work of the commission
is finished, he will go back to Canton and re-
sumo the practice of his profession.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

Sad news for Republican politicians: In the
nine-n,ile march at Chickamauga the other day,
the Twentieth Kansas was the only regiment III
the division that didn't have break in its ranks.
AS manv as 200 men fell out of some regiments
Kansas City Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

Colonel Funston has ordered the arrest of
Ouartermaster Sergeant Young of his regiment
for selling stores issued as food for the regiment.
The dispatch says that Young admits his guilt
and attempts TO justify his conduct by asserting
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

John CLARK R1DpATH, the historian and ed
itor of the Arena, was rendered the nomination
for congress by the Democrats of the Fifth In
diana district, but he declined
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

ACCORDING to S. H. Dodge's paper, the
Beoi Gazette, the mayor of Topeka, Ill his ei-
forts to 'close" the joints in the capital city,
IS making grand-stand play.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

STEPHEN A. DOUGLASS, whom the Repub-
lcan national committee sent to Kansas, IN
1906, to ''convert the heather" has pitched his
tent in the Democratic camp
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

BARNEY SHERIDAN howled for Democratic
state ticket, but favored fusion in Miami county
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

Cy LELAND's committee has given John J.
ingalls, the cold shoulder, and his name does
not appear in the list of Republican speakers
this year.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

THE postal department has concluded to ex-
tend free rural delivery OF the mails to Kansas
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

SENATOR HARRIS is enthusiastic on the
Nickaraugau Canal question. He says the gov.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-08-12

CAPT. w. D. SHERMAN, of Company X,
Twenty-second Kansss, died of typhoid fever,
at Ft Myers, Virginia, on the 9th.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28

The area of the United States be-
fore the purchase of Alaska was
1888, 666 square miles. Alaska con
tains $50, 900 square miles of main
land, 1000 square miles of the Aleu-.
tian islands and $4,000 square miles
of other islands, total Of $4,000
square miles, or one-fifth of the area
of the rest of the United States. 1t
requires the areas of California,
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana and New York to equal this.
The area of New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia equals only
one-half of Alaska. 1t equals the
combined area of Great Britain and
Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium
and the Netherlands. 1t stretches
from latitude 81 degrees to II de-
grees and from longitude 100 de-
grees to 1873 degrees. - Overland
Monthly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
The Child's Faith In His Mother

A little fellow, disputing with his
sister, said, Its true, for mother
says so, and if mother says SO it is
SO if it amt So"
Another boy, not more than 2
years old, hearing a gentleman at
his fathers table discussing the ia
miliar line, IAN honest mans the
noblest work of God" declared he
knew this was not true, for his
mother was better than any man
that ever was made!
You must never, if you would
avoid serious mistakes, send a verbal
message by child, for children are
apt to translate the message into
their own language and give it q
different shape from that intended.
A teacher who had left book on
the desk of colleague sent one OF
her pupils for it, and he abruptly
asked for it thus: my teacher
wants her book. You have got il
in your desk! From his tone and
look you would have thought the
lady had stolen it. A little girl who
was sent to a chemists to purchase
some dyestuff forgot the name of
the article and said to the chemist.
What do folks dye witha" "Die
withs Why, cholera, sometimes. "
well, them" said she, 'that is
what l want. Give me threepenny
worth !"-New York Ledger
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
The Alchemy OF Nature.

Your trouble" said the lively
widow to the young heiress, lis that
you don't understand even slightly
this animal we call man. You want
ed to marry Cokely, and as your
friend I left the field open until you
admitted that your chance was
hopeless. Now he and l are en-
gagged"
He's horrid wretch"
Thanks! But a month ago you
thought him the dearest man on
earth. He is, and he belongs to the
strong oak type. You didn't know
enough to be the clinging vine. You
failed to lean on him and fiatter his
distinguishing quality. You were
always trying to do something for
him. l reversed the order and de-
lighted him by having him do things
for me. / made him realize how
much he could be to me and delight
ed him with my gratitude for the
advice l was constantly getting
about my affairs. To use the afro
cious slang of the day, l swelled his
head, and if you know how to use it
the recipe will win the affections of
nine men out of ten. 1t is the true
love potion prepared by the cunning
alchemy of nature. Positively, my
dear, you young girls weary me. -
Detroit Free Press.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28

The sympathetic tenderness of low
ing husband is everything to an expec-
tant mother, especially during her first
ordeal; George Layton, Esq, protni-
nent druggist of Dayton, o., gives the
following case:
A customer of mine, whose wife has used
fEur bottles OF Mothers Friend" before CON
nnement,, says after seeing the effects of the
remedy, thatif she had to GO through the ordeal
sgain, ana there were but four bottles on the
s narket, and the cost was $100 per bottle, Size
Mothers Friend" is scientifically
compounded 1iniment which affords GER
tain relief in the various ailments pre-
cedlng childbirth, and assures proper
elasticity to the cords and muscles in
volved in the final ordeal.
Mothers Friend " is sold by drug
glsts, OF expressed on receipt of one
Valuable book, "Before Baby is
Born" mailed free on application.
THE BRA0FisLD REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta. ca.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
It's Lofty Puruoee.

Twill you tell me, asked the re-
porter who had looked upward at
the cloud piercing structure until
his neck was weary, what you are
building this gigantic smokestack
forf''
I'm order, perhaps, coldly re-
piled the architect who was con-
structing the tower, ito get beyond
the reach of the higher criticism.
And the deafening roar of the
workmen went on.-Chicago Trib-
One,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
THE milk SiCK"IN GEORGIA
Malady Peculiar to the State That Has
Baffied investigation

Maiady Peculiar to the State That Has
Baffied Investigation.
The milk sick up in north Geor-
gla is terrible thing" said Turn
Key Terry at the police barracks.
The what9" asked the new SUI
pernum erary, who used to sell
patent hair oil.
1.-The milk sick, replied the turn
key, 1.-THE sickness caused by the
milk from COWS becoming impure,
and it is not only bad disease, but
l have never heard of a man being
able to tell what made the milk i'm
pure. F"
You amt talking about weed
which the cows eat and which
sometimes gets mixed with the
clovers" asked a call officer who
used to run a farm.
ooh, nor the turnkey replied,
with motion of impatience. Don't
you think l know the weed you are
talking about? The milk sick have
reference to is only known in three
or four counties in Georgia and on
only a few spots in those counties.
l have heard of it in Union, Fannin.
Towns and Rabun counties. If the
milk is made impure by any sort of
a weed or vegetable, the people
have never been able to find it out.
All of a sudden every person who
drinks the milk is made violently
i'll, and have heard of few deaths
from it. Strange to say, the COWS
are not sick at all. Farmers have
tried to ascertain what it was the
COWS eat that hurts the milk, and
now a great many of them believe
that it is gas which rises from the
ground, which the COWS inhale.
Whenever a place is located which
Injuries the milk, the spot is fenced
off, and it stays off all the while.
The fences are strong and high, and
it is worth a man s life to touch the
rails"
Can you see anything wrong
about the milk?" asked the super
numerary.
mo, and what's more you can't
taste anything wrong with the milk.
1t looks all right and it tastes all
right, but just as soon as you swal-
low it you become awfully nauseat-
ed, and you will stay ill for DAYS at
time. I have seen whole families
keel over at the same time just as if
somebody had shot them. The rea-
son people think it is gas that the
COWS breathe is because on a num-
Der of occasions the milk has been
contaminated with the poison when
the cows were kept all day where
there wasn't speck of anything
green or growing for them to eat.
Milk sick is looked upon in the
counties / have mentioned as vel
low fever is in New Orleans and
other seaport towns. Just let it get
out that place has been discovered
where the cows get their milk poi
soned, and you will see the whole
settlement rush out and go to build
ing fence around it. a.
Ever had the milk sick your
self9" asked the station sergeant.
"Only once. l went to visit a
neighbor, and 1 drank two cups Of
fresh sweet milk, and five minutes
afterward thought my time had
come to bid the world goodby. You
may talk about seasickness, but 1
would rather roll in ship in storm
for year than go through a. spell
of milk sick again. I don't believe
drank any milk for two years after
my experience. Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The Alchemy of Nature.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
a MATRIMONIAL SNAG,
One That Very Often Brings Trouble f
Husband and Wife.

Husband and Wife.
call it q matrimonial snao he
cause the matrimonial bark is al
ways going to pieces on it. 1t does
mischief TO other things, interferes
with the smooth current of innu-
merahle friendships and mars rany
close intimacy. But it is to the
bark i'll which man and his wife
have beer launched together that it
does the greatest harm.
Now this snag in itself is not a
formidable affair. 1t, is made I'M
simply of two diverse opinions
about resting, yet no Jagged reef is
more dangerous, and all those who
cannot sail over it must inevitably
be wrecked on it.
A man, for instance, has worked
all day out of doors-in the fields
maybe. He has had the air and the
sun and converse with men of his
kind. Resting to him means COM
ing home, stretching out his limbs
and breathing in domestic peace.
The woman, however, has been in
all day, without the air and without
the sun-dusting, sweeping, cook
ing, sewing, disciplining children,
seeing no one, talking to no one,
meeting no one with whom an idea
could be interchanged or from whom
new direction for her thoughts
could be gained. When night comes,
her greatest rest would seem to lie
IN change of scene, the bringing
III OF outside interests or more
sympathetic and enlivoning inter
course with her husband.
He, however, cannot understand
this. You are restless" he saws
to her, "discontented. But you can
not find anything better than this,
wherever you go. Take my word
for it. have seen them ALL" And
he folds his hands and puffs at his
pipe and basks in the quiet content
ment of a soul that has been salts
fed.
1t is the same thing when a man
goes down town all day and leaves
! the woman at home. His idea of
resting is a cheerful freside at
night, a wife as bright, as gay and
responsive as when she received in
her mothers house and all care was
spared her. "I'm so tired l would
like to go to sleep with the children
at 6 o'clock" many a wife sighs.
but it is just the time my husband
likes me to be at my best. 1t both.
ers him to have me tired, and he
has such different ideas of resting
from mine"
Duties, on the other hand, may
have called the woman out of doors
all day, and duties may have KEEP
the man in an Office. Then it may
rest him to go out at night. HI
may crave amusement and diver
sion, some entertainment for thu
mind. These distract" his thought.
and rest his brain and make hin
fresher for the morrow's work.
But the thousand demands of the
day, the obligations and require.
ments of some position she must
fill, have used the woman I'D. The
thought of new excitements and di-
versions OD1v xyoarioc bor Dl,o &c
forts she makes to respond to her
husbands wishes seem spiritless,
and no pleasure is given or felt. He
cannot understand why it all is. She
cannot understand why he does not
see. He grows disconnected, she
dissatisfied. The need of another
kind of sympathy is suggested. In
terests begin to dlyerge, and two
paths are made, growing every day
wider apart. Harper s Bazaar.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
IRON CLAD NOTES

We have for sale ironclad notes waving
all the exemptions, with other binding fea,
lures prepared by the Solicitor General
CT the Blue Ridge Circnit, which is pro.
nounced the strongest and best note in ex>
ietence. 1t leaves no loophole for dishon>
est man to escape from paying his obliga>
ton, while it is approved by homes. en-.
We send book OF one hundred notes, with
stub, post paid to any address onreceip. Of
Scots, or book of fifty notes for 25ost.
Address Marietta (Ga. Journal
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
St1oneless Acres,

In Manitoba you can turn a fur
row many miles long and not en-
counter q stone as large as your fist.
The earth for a distance down from
three to five feet is rich, black
loan, made by centuries and CEN
turtles of decaying vegetation.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
An Awful Disclosure.

Your future" said the trance
medium, lis clear. see you going
over wide, unsettled expanse of
country. You walk, walk, walk, for
days at a time"
IAN explorer! God be praised!"
mo, young man. replied the fair
dealer in futures, "you will be an
actor. st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
A Prerequisite.

Willie (studying his Virgil)-Pa,
I'm stuck. The Trojan gladiator is
saying something to his rival, and
can't make it out.
Father-Maybe he's telling him to
go get a reputation. Philadelphia
Record.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
The New servants Methods.

Mrs Holmes-Have you any body
you can refer me TOT
Menial-Oh, yes! | have come
prepared to exchange references
with you. Boston Transcript.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
Or. j. %. MALONE.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
MARIETTA, GA. OFFICE IN
WI Brantley building up stairs. rooms
J and on right. Residence No. 200
Atlanta street. Telephone No 81.
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DIR. I'll. Y. REYNOLDS.
PR1CTlCLNG PHYSICIAN.

w HEN NOT ENGAGED ELSE
w where may be found during the DAY
at his office, up stairs. in McClatchy Build
ing, Southwest corner of Public Sauarc.
and at night at his residence on Powder
Springs street two doors above the Metho.
dist parsonage, Marietta, Ga. Telephone
No. III
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-28
NJ A RI EFT A
CHUCK ANDERSON, Proprletc.
tupposlte the Kennesaw Rous-. }

(OppOslte the hennesS" nouse.>
CHUCK ANDERSON, Proprletc.
rT1HE BEST OF VEHICLES, THR
safest of drivers and the fastest Of
horses are always ready, night and day
for hire Nc man or woman orchid ever
has given me a calm the past, who has
been, nor shall any everin the future be
dissatisfied with my teams or the men in
my employ. Everything and every body
about me are No. l.
have cheaped N y charges proportions
ate to the stringen " of the times For
references as to the truth of what say,
as the turnouts and charges, goto my
friends. which means the people general
fly.
Parties hiring are strictly responsible
or the safely of themselves. vehicles arc
horses E. a. G.. ANDERSON.
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p. r. CORTELYOU. M. d.,
GENERAL PRACTJTJOyER

MARIETTA, GEORGIA. OFFICE
4x1 North-side Public Square. over Mrs.
j.. 3. Warren.s Millinery store. Cousulta-
ton Hours, 81 a. IN. 20 IL and to 5p. m. !,
unless otherwise engaged. Residence
church street, nearly opposite Presbyteri-
an Church. All calls promptly attended.
telephone No. 40.
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