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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
CONNECTION Caused by Alleged Ghosts

Commotion Caused by Alleged Ghosts
In several districts of Greenock, SCOT
land, of late much commotion has been
caused by the appearance OF alleged
GHOSTS The Well Park was said
to be haunted" for some time, and
crowds gathered nightly to get view
of the "spooks." But the ghosts"
Ike mundane inhabitants, fled at the
march of the police, only, however, to
appear in other quarters. A few
nights ago, a girl, while washing the
stair in a South street tenement, was
considerably alarmed to see bending
over her a huge white object with out
stretched arms. She ran into the
house shrieking, and returned with
her father. The father waited for some
time. but no GHOSTS" making their
appearance, he entered the house, but
had scarcely done so when he heard
his daughter again shouting for him.
On the disappearance Of the father the
figure in white had again appeared,
but the girl, with great presence OF
mind, was ready fer him, and tenac-
iously chung on to the sheet. The
"spook," who appeared to be young
man, only escaped by leaving the sheet
in the girls grasp.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

President Henry Wade Rogers, of the
Northwestern university, and his wife
have moved into the slums of Chicago
and have taken up their residence
there. Mrs. Rogers is the president OF
the Settlement Society," and DR.. Rogers
has been greatly interested in this
work for many years. The doctor is
tall, impressive, eloquent man, and
has entered earnestly into his new Ia
bors. But he has always been earnest
and as boy he was something Of an
Investigator, too. AN old playmate
tells the following story OF him: Their
schoolmaster was once talking to them
of literature. In the course Of his
talk he said: "There are sermons in
the stones, the running brooks" The
future doctor interrupted with: well,
II there are sermons in the running
brook, I should think they'd let US
swim on Sundays instead Of listening
to the dry old stuff we have to-" But,
,then-that was years ago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
KANSAS
HOLES BORED BY LIOHTNiN
Fulgurities Found Penetrating Thirty
Feet Into Sand.

fulgurities Found Penetrating Thirty
Feet Into Sand.
From Pearson's Weekly: did you
ever see the diameter of q lightning
flash measured?" asked a geologist of
the writer. We'll, here is the case
which once inclosed a flash of lightning
lifting 1t exactly, so that you can see
just how big it was. This is called
'fulgurite' or lightning hole and tho
material it is made Of is glass. l will
tell you how 1t was manufactured,
though 1t only took fraction Of a Sec
ond to turn 1t out. When a bolt Of
lightning strikes a bed of sand it
plunges downward into the sand for
distance less or greater, Transforming
simultaneously into glass the silica in
the material through which 1t passes.
Thus, by its great heat it forms glass
tube Of precisely its own size. Now
and then such tube, known as full
gurite,' Is found and dug up. Fulgur-
ties have been followed into sand by
excavation for nearly thirty feet. They
vary in interior diameter from the size
of quill to three inches or more, ac-
cording to the bore of the fash. But
fulgurites are not alone produced in
sand. They are found also in solid
rock, though very naturally of slight
depth, and frequently existing merely
as thin, CLASSY coating ON the sur
face. Such fulgurites occur in aston
ishing abundance on the summit of
Little Ararat, in Armenia. The rock
is soft and so porous that blocks foot
long can be obtained perforated in all
directions by little tubes, filled with
bottle-green glass formed from the
fused rock. There Is a small specimen
In the national museum which has the
appearance of having been bored by the
teredo, and the holes made by the
worm subsequently filled with glass.
Some wonderful fulgurites were found
by Humboldt on the high Nevada de
Toluca, in Mexico. Masses of the rock
were covered with thin layer Of green
glass. Its peculiar simmer in the sun
led Humboldt to ascend the precipitous
peak at the risk of his life
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
Notes..

The cost OF the necessaries of life are
today, on an average, Is per cent high
err than they were year ago.
The coal trust is one of the few
monopolies whose owners have failed
to declare that such combinations were
for the public good.
A rough estimate based on various
reports indicates that fully $4,000 men
can now find employment in the har-
vest fields of the Dakotas, Montana and
Western Minnesota.
The Mine Workers Journal advo-
Gates a defense fund Of 100000 for
that organization, and states that 1t
could be created without much sacri.
fee and would insure better conditions
and higher prices.
Brother workingmen, do not ACCUSE
your employer of dishonesty and in
consistency because his views do not
always accord with your own. There
are honest differences of opinion often
when viewed from reverse positions.
From the New York Herald: "Or.
panization has enabled the wage
Garner not only to protect his own in.
terests and better his own condition
but also to bring about more satisfac'
tory relations between capital and la
Dor, between employer and employe, 10
the general benefit of this country. In
which the toiling masses form 80 i'm.
portant an element and whose general
welfare is go essential to national pros
perity and tranquility"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
To XIII Tree Lice.

A far more damaging pest than the
caterpillar to beautiful trees is the
0cale or tree louise. On the tree II
looks IS innocent as bark blister,
but in sufficient numbers it will kils
9he tree outright, as 1t lives on tho sap.
AT the first glance one would hardly
notice the tree louise, as 1t is exactly
the color Of the bark, and 1t Is i'm
bedded in the bark until 1t Is a paTt
of 1t. A whole chain Of them, one
after another, will fit into a crevics
and in short time will clear Il opt
to the wood as well as ever knife
could do 1t. To destroy them they
have to be scraped from the trea. ana
then the tree must be given both OF
diluted wood alcohol.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
Bloody Fight in a Railroad Tower.

Peter Hopkins and Oscar Clifford.
tower men in the Long Island railroad
tower, fought an ugly battle the other
day. Clifford says he drew his pocket
knife and every time Hopkins kicked
at him he slashed his assailant in the
leg. The Aght ragged for several min
utes, when Hopkins finally became
weakened by the loss Of blood and
Clifford came out Of the tower. While
staunching the blood from his wounds
HOPKINS directed the depot man in the
manipulation of the levers until re-
lief tower man arrived. Clifford was
arrested as he was stepping on troll
lev car leaving the village.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
Remarkable Drowning Incident.

A remarkable incident has come to
light In connection with a recent
drowning case at Rothesay. One Of the
occupants of the boat, boy OF eight
years, whose swimming master had
told him in an emergency to lie upon
his back in the water, did so. Two lit
tie girls belonging to the party held on
to his legs, and smaller boy rested
his head on the youths breast. Tho
four thus floated for some minutes,
and were picked up by men who had to
row nearly q mile to their rescue.
Three adults-two sisters and sweet
heart-were drowned.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
Crisp and Fresh.

Unless vegetables are taken direct
from the garden, they are always i'm
proved by freshening in clear cold
water. This is especially true with
cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, cucum-
beers and pie plant. II new potatoes
are soaked thus, the work Of scraping
them is made much easier and the po-
tatoes themselves will be found meali-
er. Onions should always be in cold
water in order to remove the acrid part
Of the vegetable.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
FLlM-FLAM GAME,
With Variations, But 1t Failed To
Work This Time.

Work This Time.
New York Sun: A young man hold
ing two addressed and stamped letters
in his hand entered Louis Mendes-
sohn's cigar store, at st. Marks place
yesterday, and asked the proprietor to
give him $40 bill for ten ones, so that
he could send 1t in letter to his sis
ter in Philadelphia. Mendelssohn gave
him the $40 note and then counted the
81 bills and found there were only
nine. Mother must have made a mis-
take. will go home and get the other
ST." said the young man, moving to-
ward the door. Hold on! want my
&c." called out the proprietor. That's
so. Give me the So and there's the let
ter with the $40 in 1t. You hold on
to that until l come back from moth
er's," said the young man. He go,
back his money, handed a sealed let
ger to Mendelssohn and again started
for the door. The proprietor tore open
the letter and found only blank paper
inside. He shouted for the police, and
his wife, who was just outside the door,
stopped the young man. He told her
to keep quiet, handed her the $40 bill
and ran down the street. Policeman
arrested him and took him to police
headquarters, where his picture was
found in the rogues' gallery labeled
"flim- fam worker" He gave the name
of John Williams. Mendelssohn hav.
ing got back his money refused ID
make a complaint. The prisoner was
discharged
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

graph from Mrs Knox's letter to Sher-
if Pohlman:
But there is another matter OF
which I wish to write. That is the
disappearance of my step
daughter Nellie. She left home with
him (Ells) one night and never return
ed. We hunted many days and nights
and my heart has been broken ever
since, for loved her. Mr.. L. C. Ellis,
the prisoners uncle, told ME in the
presence OF others that while we were
looking for her, her body was hidden
in a shed. Someone, who was afraid
she would tell something, saw that she
never left the place alive after she en-
tered It,"
Here is an extract from a pathetic
letter sent Mrs. Knox by her husband,
who was in Carthage, ILL.,:
Now. my dear, I win send you with
this paper telling that Ellis is locked
up in st. Louis. And l ask you, for
the sake Of Justice. to write the sherih
and tell him just what kind OF fellow
he is. Tell him to put him in the
sweat box and make him tell what he
knows about my poor Nellie and how
she disappeared"
Ellis has had life full OF eventful in
cidents. Born in the East, he has been
a circus man, sailor, ranchman, a
cowboy, an artist, and has married four
women. lie has been In the peniten-
tiary and in irons for disobedience on
the high seas. Yet today he does net
appear to be more than 80 years Old,
insists, although he is in jail, on hav-
ing a shave every day. and curls his
mustac.ie with as much care as II he
were walking down Broadway.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

An exchange describes evolution as
follows: A girl named plain MARY" at
| her birth dropped the "r' when she
grew up and became Miss May. As
she began to shine in social way she
changed the "y" to "e" and signed her
letter Mae. About year ago she drop
ped the sc" and it's just plain INA. :"
That's evolution.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
Non.Territoriai Expansion.

Means paying rent for a poor tarm
Now is the time to secure good fa9M
on the line of the Chicago, MflwauIcs
& st. Paul Railway in MariDests
County, Wisconsin, where the crops
are of the best, work plenty, fine mar
kets, excellent climate, pure soN
water, land sold cheap and on 'onS
time. Why rent farm when you can
buy one for less than you pay for reniL
Address C. E. Rollins, Land Agent
161 La Sale, St., Chicago, III.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
On the Safe Side.

City Editor-Mr. Strong has been in
today, and he had murder In his eye.
How in time did you come to speak OF
Mrs. Strong's alleged husband" in that
paragraph about her accident? J.
Fresh-"I did it to steer clear 81 libel
suit. You know you told me always to
say alleged thief" alleged murderer"
and that sort Of ng.--poston Trans
s5ipt
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
Emperor Seldom Seen,

The Emperor Of Austria is the Only
member Of the Austrian imperial &ap-
lily who is never seen walking In he
streets Of the cities and large tawnR
When he was a young man, and hit
few people knew the features Of tn
monarch. he thought 1t treat 10 a.
bow his way through crowds, bun ROW
he always avoids even the smallest MS
sembly Of persons.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
An Average Neighbor.

Miss Skinpenny-This ERE cheap
butter amt fit to eat. Mrs. S.-No, 1t
ain't. Run into Mrs. GoOdsoul's and
borrow a pound. She always has good
butter-the highest priced in market.
Tell her we'll pay. her back tomorrow.
Miss S.-Goin' to git butter tomorrow?
Mrs. Sven pay her with thiA-The
Rival.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

The earnings Of the Chicago Gfskt
Western Railway ("Maple Leaf RontSp
for the first week in September, Ess.
show an increase Of $2S,069.2S. Tosaf
increase since beginning Of fiscal year.
(July y to date. S179.05O.S2.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. n NAMES
tight or New Shoes feel Easy Cures
Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot ind
Sweating Feet At ali Druggists and
Shoe Stores, Csc. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy. N. Y.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Surfer - International Typographical
Union Relies Less on Sentiment and
Mere OH Power That Makes Things Go.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

I shall recommend Piso's Cure far, eoE-
sumption far and wide-Mrs. MuHnHh,
Plumstead, Kent, England, Nov. 3, N66.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

Many man strikes out Will" Fy-
ing to make a run of luck.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

The principals in IL love match s5een
have to scratch for a living.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
A TERRIFIED CREW.
BACK PLAYS PART OF FLYING
DUTCHMAN.

Explained by Mirage ut the Time the
Original of the Phantom vessel Was
Oser Four Hundred Miles from,
Hampton.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
Never Grip nor Gripe.

"Man proposes" but he usually
needs lot of encouraging.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

Don't open door with an nx, use keyl hQe+
open your bowels with mercurlal pin ppisA& H
Cascarets Candy Catharticl Druggists, BSEG&96&
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

The only poor relation we like are
those we don't know
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

Why wouldn't male chaperoas be =
good idea?
The daily sentinel., 1899-10-24
FOR THE FACE.

For enlarged pores apply several
times daily lotion made of lemon
juice and glycerine ealum and water.
a shiny appearance of the skin can
be diminished by the use of a few drops
of toilet vinegar in the rinsing water,
Freekles, if not of long landing can
be eradicated by the use of Temon juice
applied night and morning with cam
els hair brush.
Pimples or eruptions caused by dis
turbances of the blood may be treated
several times day with lotion com
posed of rosewater, three ounces, and
sulphate of zinc one drachm.
For occasions under strong light
rouge may be brought into use, but to
be effective it should be applied with a
sparing hand under equally strong
light and should never be used except
at night The liquid rouges are most
effectively applied.
A rouge composed of harmlessi ingre-
dients is made as follows: Soft boiling
water, one pint; lemon juice Gust
boiled), one gill; dilute sulphuric acid.
one Gill. Mix and add three ounces of
dried roseleaves; digest in glass or
enrthenware Contact with metals or
alkalies spoils the color) and stir fire.
quently. At the end of two hours
strain through muslin, squeezing
out the liquid from the leaves with the
hands. then add one ounce gum arabic
and few drops of essence of rose
Set aside in a cool place, well corked'
for few days and then decant the
olo,r nortipu
The daily sentinel., 1899-10-24
FASHIONS ABROAD.
0aa Fraa oissA, CsL.

White gauze printed in gold figures
as vests in silken costumes.
Petunia- -colored flowers are fashion
able in London, and all kinds of white
feathers worn erect,
Tomato-red velvet belts were decided
ly prominent at a late gathering of
fashionable women in Lcndon.
a white foulard with pink and green
designs is trimmed with white lace in
sertion lined with pink and piped on the
edges with green silk,
New teagowns have the entire center
front covered with cross rutlles of chif-
fon, net or lace and the outer fronts to
hang loosely in an unbroken line from
the shoulders.
So many of the early Victorian styles
have appeared in London this season
that they are dubbed the pincushion
fashions. having a white muslin over
pink with frill at the hem.
Healthful exercise taken in modera-
ton, as walking, riding, wheeling or
gymnastics, is a useful means of hold
ing in check the tendency to catarrh
1t is always advisable that children
of marked catarrhal tendencies should
wear woolen underclothing varying
in thickness with he change of the
The daily sentinel., 1899-10-24
ANIMAL TRADES.

Caterpillars are silk spinners,
Whole tribes of birds are musicians
The white ants maintain regular
army of soldiers.
The mole is a meteorologist; the tor
pedo, the ray and the electric eel are
electricians.
The beaver Is an architect, builder
and woodcutter. He cuts down trees
and erects houses and dams.
The Atlantic ocean Is crossed month
ly by 1000 ships,
The screw of an Atlantic liner costs
about $40, 900.
The ropes of frst-class man-of-war
cost about $4,000.
There are always 100000 people
afioat on the seas of the world.
The Hamburg and Bremen steamship
lines together forward about 1,3oO,-
coo passengers annually.
The daily sentinel., 1899-10-24
AN UNKNOWN ANIMAL
The Surprise of Western Hunter
Who Hnd Killed His
First Buffalo.

In 1912 Gen. William Ashley, the head
of the Rocky Mountain Fur company,
travelled up the Platte valley with a
large party of men, all of whom were
suffering for want of food. Before they
reached the buffalo country the In
dams had driven off the herds, and Gen.
Ashley's men were reduced to an allow
ance of half a pint of flour day. This
was made into kind of Cruel, and
served to keep them alive.
If it happened that duck or goose
was killed, ii was shared as fairly as
possible, but still the men were in n
sad plight. Finally one of the party,
Jim Becbwourth, came ON n lucky find
of deer and game, and the next day
he was even more successful in way
entirely surprising to himself. He had
climbed tree to get Il fairer view, and
he says:
Il perceived some large, dark-colored
animal grazing on the side of hill,
about a mile and half distant. l was
determined to have shot at him.
Meat was in. demand, and the fellow,
well-stored, was worth a thousand
ducks.
Il approached cautiously within rife
shot, scrutinizing him very closely,
and still unable to make out what he
was. Taking good aim, pulled the
trigger; the rifle cracked, and / made
rapid retreat toward the camp. After
running about 200 yards and hearing
no movement behind me, | looked
round and saw, to my great joy, that
the animal had fallen.
Continuing my course to camp, l
met the general, who saw blood on
my hands from previous encounter,
and asked me-:
"'Have you shot anything, JIM
"'Yes, sir
"'What have you shot"
""Two deer and something else l
answered.
"'And what is the something else?
L don't know, sir
"'What did he look like? Had he
horus?
81 saw no horns, sir
"'What color was the animalT
"'You can see him, general said 1.
by climbing yonder tree.
He ascended the tree accordingly
and took look through his spy-gDass.
a buffalo, by heayens!' he cried.
"He came nimbly down and gave or
ders for us to take couple of horses,
90 and dress the buffalo and bring him
to camp.
This was the first buffalo had ever
seen, though L had travelled hundreds
of miles in the buffalo country; and |
had actually been so excited as not to
notice his horns. The general had
many hearty laugh at me over those
horns. L had ignored them at rifle
range, and he had seen them plainly
when he was nearly two miles away
Youths Companion,
The daily sentinel., 1899-10-24
WRECKING A COWBOY.
How n TenderfOOt with SILK h"'
Did Him Up in Little
Gun Play.

.There is at least one cowboy in Ari-
zona whose head is three sizes smaller
than it was a month ago" said the Chi
cago drummer, as he brushed the alkali
dust off his coat collar. "At Tombstone
| fell in with a young man from New
Haven who was proving over the
country in search of good thing, but
not caring much whether ha found 1t or
not. One afternoon he stood with ms
back to the street reading the posters
on a, billboard He had on silk hat,
and presently a cowboy emerged from
store on the opposite side of the square
One glance at that hat brought out
gun, and there was pop! pop! pop. TIL
six bullets had been fired. The tender
foot never turned, nor let on that he
heard the shooting. In ten seconds the
gun was reloaded, and there was an
other fusillade. There were hundred
people looking on and shouting and
laughing, but the tenderfoot kept his
back to the street until the twelfth shot
had been fired. Then he calmly turned
about, removed his hat and placed it on
the ground. and stepping back pace
or two, he drew his gun and shot it to
pieces. The remains were yet smoking
when he picked them up, crossed the
square, and holding the handful of old
hat out to the cowboy, he humbly said:
".If you have couple of months to
spare / might be willing to teach you
how to handle a gun!'
"But hadn't the cowboys bullets hit
the hate" was asked.
Every blessed one of them" replied
the drummer, ''but no one knew it eX-
cept the tenderfoot, and he destroyed
all evidence by his own shooting. The
crowd took it that the cowboy had
missed and raised a laugh on him, and
when he straddled his cayuse and loped
down the street, he looked as homesick
as a dog thousand miles from home
The daily sentinel., 1899-10-24
THE SYMPTOMS ARE:

1. BILIOUS READAOHD. This is
more pronounced in the msrnins- HOO-
YAM will relieve the headache.
2-s. RED AND wATnRY EYES.
hUDYAN will cause the rsdnsas 70 disap
appear and mako the eyes assuAs their nor.
NAL, healthy appearance.
Z. COATED TONGUE AND FOE
IT'D BREATH AND BAD TASTE
IN THE MOUTH. HUDYAN will clear
the tongue, make the breath pare and sweet
and cause the bad taste TO disappear.
s. PATN AND TENDERNESS IN
THE STOMACH. This IL due TO indises-
ton. HUDYAN will cause the food 70 b.
come perfectly digested and the pain AID
tenderness will disappear.
g. ENLAR ARGEMENT OF THE
LIVER. HUDYAN will lessen the oonges-
tion and reduce the enlarged liver 70 Its nor
nal size.
HUDYAN will relieve yeu Of the above
symptoms and make you we'll Do not delay.
Go TO your druggist at once and procure .
nackage of HUDYAN for 500. OF for $3.50
II your druggist does not keep II. send direct
to the HuDYAN REMEDY COMPANY,
San Francisco, Cal. and they will send 1t to
YOU You can consult the great HUDYAN
DOCTORS FREE. Do not forget that
Call and see them II you wish. You may
call and see them, write, ~ you desire
Address
HUDYAN REMEDY COMPANY,
Cor. steektOa, Market snd Ellis sts-
0ss Frss oiss~, CsL
The daily sentinel., 1899-10-24

symptoms carefully from this chart Each num-
ber represents a symptom % . group ~ synP
toms You have the sympssnaA uss AUD-
YAM and they will disappsAz.