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HUDSON HAPPENINGS
News. Notes and Notions, Both Per-
sonal and Political Picked Up and
Penciled Down.

From our Special Correspondent
December
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

I threw the letter in the midst OF the
burning rubbish. In a moment the
words that might have brought to a
dying son a fathers loving forgiveness
were destroyed forever.
Not many days longer did Alfred
Payson listen longingly for the CID
postman's footsteps in the lane. the
angel of death was lowering Lar the
little rose-covered cottage.
zone bright June morning the news
came to us that Alfred was dying. MY
father lost no time in sending tele-
gram to the young mans father sum-
moning him to the bedside Of his dying
son.
by the next train the old man came
at last with the words of love and
pardon for which his boy had craved.
But too late Alfred Payson had
passed forever beyond the reach OF
earthly forgiveness.
Need l add that the letter which In
my wicked cowardice l had destroyed
had been a plea from that dying son
for the reconciliation that, but for the
falsehood l uttered, should have
frightened his last hours on earth?
do you wonder that the memory OF
my life's sorrow and regret has taught
me lesson never to be forgotten?'-
Boston Post.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
NEXT YEARS NEWS.
An Almanac Which Predicts Nothing
but Dire Things.

The stars in their courses appear sin
gularly determined to fight against the
we'll being of our planet at the close OF
this wonderful century. and but for the
faint belief that prophets sometimes
remain to bless those whom they come
to curse readers of Zadkiel's almanac
for 1900 might well consider the advis-
ability of Immediately following the
desperate example of Horace Walpole's
lady, who, it will be remembered, had
made up her mind that when the end
of the world arrived she would set out
for China, says the London Globe. jan
uary opens happily, but, like fair de-
ceiver, this good nature is not to last.
Early in the month there are to be
startling fluctuations on change" In
February things grow worse. Do
structive fires will be numerous, acct
dents rife; there will be trouble in the
Bombay presidency, and in Bulgaria
and Macedonia there are to be violent
outbreaks During March insanity
will be more than usually prevalent
in America. Greece is threatened in
April. Religious disputants are to be
hard at it in May. June is to witness
avenging anarchism in Austria, Ger
many, Russia, Turkey and Greece.
Spain is to have her turn in July; and
what is left Of her, together with Italy
and France, is to be shaken by earth
quake in August. The sultan is to be
visited with rebellion in September and
france and Italy are to feel the scourg-
ing power of war in October. Colonial
difficulties for England and disturb
ance in France, Italy, Afghanistan and
Persia mark the passing of November,
and December concludes with more
trouble for the sultan, fires and public
excitement in Paris and danger OF
railway accidents in England. Surely
after all this the twentieth century
must come in like lamb.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
CLIMATE is NOT TRYING ONE
Meteorological Conditions In South
Africa Do Not Inspire Dread

Meteorological Conditions In South
Africa Do Not Inspire Dread.
From the London Standard: Obser-
vations have been Systematically made
for many years in south Africa, and
in the Cape Colony the meteorological
conditions have been as carefully and
completely studied as in England. In
other parts, however, the observations
are far less satisfactory, and in the
Transvaal observations may be said to
scarcely exist, our knowledge of the
weather changes being extremely mea-
ger. Some few years ago the report
of the meteorological commission at
the Cape of Good Hope embodied de-
tailed rainfall maps for each month,
showing the distribution of the rain
in different parts of south Africa. The
average results for the year show that,
with the exception of small area in
the immediate vicinity of Cape Town.
the total rainfall for the year is al
most wholly below twenty inches
that is considerably less than in Lon
don. In most places the average Tor
the year is less than ten inches, and at
some stations it falls as low as f1ye
inches for the whole twelve months
In the Orange Free State the average
rainfall for the year is about twenty
inches. The winter rains are very
small. the aggregate for the month
being only few tenths Of an inch on
the average. With the commencement
of the southern summer the rains IN
crease, although it is not until Novem-
Der and December that the average
fall for the month exceeds an lnch
and even in those months the average
rainfall in many places Is only O.3
inch or Oh inch. In January, Feb
ruary and March the average in the
Orange Free State is four or five in
ches in each month. The meager re-
turns from the Transvaal show that in
1890 the rainfall eight miles east Of
Johannesburg was practically nil in
July, August and September, while in
October the rainfall was SIT inches,
which was the wettest month of the
year, and rain fell on eleven days. In
both November and December the rain
fall in the vicinity Of Johannesburg
exceeded five inches, and the total
number CT days during the year with
rain was sixty-one. In the Orange
Free State the results in 1890 show
that there was practically no rain in
September, but in October the rains
were fairly heavy, and the Basutoland
September is also exceedingly dry.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
Brother overdId the Thing.

A Springfield lawyer has son about
10 years old and a daughter about
twice that age. The boy has been
around the courthouse good deal
with his father, and the young lady
has a steady beau. The other evening
the young gentleman passed the house,
and the young lady desired to speak
to him. Bobby" she said to her lit
tie brother, won't you please call to
Mr.. Brown" Bobby knew the state
Of affairs, and he hurried to the front
door and called out in the usual loud
monotone of court bailiff: John
Henry Brown, John Henry Brown,
John Henry Brown, come into court"
Mr.. Brown came in, and Bobby with
drew to a safe place. --Oklo State Jour-
nal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
TRADING OF ISLANDS.
RECKLESS DEALING IN OTHER
PEOPLES PROPERTY.
How Germany and England Swap Vast
Areas OF Land Belonging to the
Blacks - Settling of the Samoan
Dispute.
(Special Lottery


In return for the title to the Samoan
Islands, with the exception of Tu-
tuila, which goes to the United States,
Germany has ceded to England the
Tonga Islands, Savage Islands, and the
two largest of the Solomon Islands.
The Tonga Islands lie in the south Pa
cific, and are close to Fiji Islands,
which are already under British con-
troll. They comprise seven larger is
lands, with many low-lying and small
islets about them. The population,
which is almost exclusively made up
OF natives, is estimated to be $4,000.
English missionaries have converted
most Of the inhabitants to Christianity.
The islands are nominally ruled by
George H., black king. though the
German government has maintained
officials in the archipelago who had the
real authority. Savage Island Is a
beautiful island, thirty miles in cir
conference, lying half way between
the Tonga Islands and Samoa. 1t has
population Of 5000, all Of them be-
ing converts to Christianity. Unlike
most Of the islands of the south Pa
cific, Savage is densely wooded. The
Solomon Islands, of which two Of the
largest are ceded to England, lie north
Of New Guinea and form part of the
so-called Bismarck Archipelago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
TALK is NOT CHEAP.
The Distance Telephone Contra
diets the Old Saying.

Inc 1oIopuOuo NOhtA"-
diets the Old Saying.
The telephone contradicts the saying
that talk is cheap, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. Political can
didates often find out the dearness Of
talk; but the ordinary citizen Is most
impressed with it when he tries to
phone over 1000 miles Of wire. The
recently completed line to Kansas City,
for example, costs 81 minute, and
even cents a minute, the ordinary
rate for short distances, is more than
1t costs to have cab standing outside
the door while one pays a calm this
case very appropriately called pay
ing" a CALL A frugal man, If ever
the force of circumstances contrives
to have him pay such a call, loses
much of the pleasure of the visit, es-
pecially those effective pauses the nov
elists love to dwell on, by the thought
Of the cab outside with its growing I'M
earned increment. And similarly,
whether it be for the same reasons or
because of the hypnotizing effect OF
the little box one speaks into, one can
take no pleasure in talking socially
through a telephone with friend,
even If one has not seen him for
year or two. However, in business
way, talking through phone, even at
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

about to strike. will you have a
poppy, sir?"
She smiled now, and l drew back,
suddenly afraid of her.
Maybe you'll go into the room be-
hind the shop, sir. Mammy'll be glad
to see you, an she's finer things to sell
than ever cross this counter"
Flesh and blood, supposeg" said.
paying her hastily. mo, l don't want
any"
l went out from the apple-tainted
air and drew deep breath of the
sweet evening. Vienna watched me
from the doorway, smiling her inviting
smile. l threw away the fruit l had
bought think it would have pois-
oned me-and the next morning l left
Westoe. l avoided Cornish local pa
pers for the next month or so, there
fore l never knew whether those dwale
berries worked out Lell Trewavas' re-
demption or not. Almost l hope they
did. l met a Westoe man the other
day, and he tells me the ill-omened
little shop has been pulled down and
is in process of rebuilding as registry
office. And old Vienna and young
Vienna have gone beyond seas.
wonder where they are plying their I'M
canny trades now?-Nora Hopper.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
VIENNA POLWENNA.

Vienna Polwenna, the elder. kept a
fruitshop in a Cornish fishing village
"a small and crowded shop, with a
Westinghouse on one side of 1t and q
great glazing gin palace on the other;
and Vienna did good business with
miners and fishermen, and they said
her stocking was full. But no man
had been bold enough to ask her to
marry again, for common repute held
Vienna for witch, and no white witch
at that.
Twas SAID in Westoe that strange
things were bought and sold in her
small, breathless shop, where the air
smelt always of apples. and paid for
in strange ways; sometimes into the
wrinkled hand or dirty apron Of old
Vienna, sometimes into the pretty
brown palm Of young Vienna. her
daughter.
Young Vienna was very fair to see;
she was brow:S girl with leaf-brown
hair, and black eyebrows often knitted
over her large light-gray eyes; for
young Vienna had her mothers own
temper, and that Westoe people said
was the "Old Ones" but still young
Vienna was very fair to see, and her
lips were as ripe and soft as cherry
that has seen the sun.
I, coming to Westoe to paint its
ruined castle, heard of young Wenna's
beauty and deviltry and old Wenna's
deviltry and ugliness, and went down
one summer evening to the little shop
to buy some fruit and to see with my
own eyes. Old Vienna was nowhere to
be seen, but young Vienna was serving
behind the counter, and her pretty
hands were stained with the Juice Of
the red currants she was selling.
"Curran's, apples, strawb'ries?" She
held up a handful each Of the first and
last, and looked at me with laughter in
her gray eyes.
white currants," I said. Vienna
shook her head as she weighed out a
pound of black cherries for boy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

coming forward from the dusk into the
night, a tall and comely lad in fish
erman's jersey, stained with hard
weather and much mended.
How do l know? You don't know
yourself, Lell," she retorted. There
was passion in the two young faces
looking at one another, and saw both
had forgotten me, and drew back
step.
II want"-the boys blue eyes looked
deep into the girls gray eyes, and ne
nut his hand out and softly touched
Wenna's bosom, curving exquisitely
under her torn red bodice. l want
this-or these" and his fingers drop
ned to bunch of dull blue berries that
were stuck in her belt.
II can't daren't," Vienna said.
"You must give me one or the other"
"Lell. they call me the Old Ones
wean."
Il don't care"
81 do carew Wenna's eyes flashed
brilliantly into his-"an' you'll get the
berries"
Both hands trembled a little-the
fruit-stained hand which gave and the
sunburnt' and rope blistered hand
which took.
"I'll buy them, then" he said. I'll
not have them as a gift, Vienna" and
he threw a string of fish on the coun-
ter. They're fresh caught tonight"
"Mammy'll cook them for supper
Lell. Goodnight" Vienna said, with
dropping eyelids.
Goodnight, child wean."
Then she turned to me, with some
what dazed look in her beautiful eyes.
Red curran's, yes. an black. An are
you for gooseberries, sir, or will you
be for some flowers? Poppies, now
or gypsy roses?"
"You haven't any more berries" I
asked. And she changed color sud-
denly and dreadfully.
mo! 1 have peoples for my fancy
lads, but dwale berries for only one
man." she said, looking at me with
! eyes that narrowed like snakes
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
Ground-Floor bedrooms.

From the London Chronicle: There
is danger in the porous character OF
plaster ceilings, which are often very
thin indeed. The ordinary ceiling is
"only porous diaphragm permeable
by gases with considerable freedom"
The vitiated air of sitting rooms there
fore frequently finds It's way through
into bedrooms. The British Medical
Journal asks any sceptic to compare
his bodily and mental sensations after
sleeping in such a room and in one SIT
uated over similar room we'll ventil-
ated and not occupied or illuminated
by gas during the evening" The rem.
edy, it says, is to have bedrooms on tho
ground floor and living, working and
cooking rooms upstairs. But how about
noise?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

Vienna, she sells nothen' that's
white" piped the boy at me. mot
even white cherries-no, my dear saul,
she don't" Vienna threw an overripe
cherry at him, and it broke upon his
cheek, leaving purple stain there.
And her eyes blazei as If she would
have liked the fruit to be stone. The
boy made off, laughing.
Not even white witchen'," he shout
ed from the door, and scampered off,
chuckling.
Nuns fool" said girl standing
at the counter, eating cherries "but
sence the words spoke, Vienna, dear
life, villa let me have the powder?
TIES none too late to try it."
"Thou'rt fool, too, Alice" said the
fruit seller, busying herself in a deep
drawer behind the counter that seemed
to be full to overlooking with packets
OF seeds, small packets and large, and
some almost infinitesimal.
One of these very small packages she
drew out and tossed across the counter
to the girl Alice, receiving nothing in
payment that l could see. Then, as
the girl snatched it up and put it into
her bosom, Vienna laughed and asked
us it for Nat or Willy for you named
no names, Alice?"
"I'm namen' none now" the girl
Alice cried angrily, throwing down a
shilling, and she ran out of the shop
muttering to herself as she went.
Vienna Polwenna turned again to me.
white curran's l haven't got, but
there's red enough an to spare. Villa
have red ones?"
l nodded. RED currants will do
and pound Of black as we'll"
A man at the end of the little shop
laughed out suddenly.
"Wennall serve you wi those fast
enough" he said. "Them's the Old
Ones colors, they du say. Il ia true,
Vienna Polwenna?"
Vienna laughed.
Maybe. You should be askln' man.
my that, Lell Trewavas," she said.
"An' what are you wantin' tonight?
"you know we'll enough" he said,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
IN SOUTH AFRICA.

1t is more than doubtful if any or
the soldiers in South Africa have seen
as much actual war service as Melton
Prior, who goes out as a war corre-
spondent. In that capacity he is a
veteran of twenty-one campaigns Dur
ing the fifteen years beginning in 1872
he saw actual fighting in every year
but one. In addition, it is not likely
that any officer in Sir Redvers Bull
ler's command has as thorough a
knowledge of South Africa as this
same noncombatant. Mr.. Prior went
all through the Boer war Of 1881 and
in addition has been at the front dur
ing Kaffir, Zulu and Basuto wars in
South Africa. He has been twice
around the world, has explored Ice
land, and knows all Europe as most
men know the square on which they
live In addition to being an accom-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

People sometimes wonder what sum
is put aside for dress by the daugh-
ters of royal houses. An interesting
fashion writer tells us that before her
marriage the Duchess of Fife had a
very small dress allowance-about
$1,000 a year. Besides yachting and
everyday dresses and all the usual cos
tunes required by a girl Of the upper
class, royal princesses have also to
wear the costly and elaborate dresses
which their rank demands at the
weddings of their near relations. They
are, however, fortunate nhaving stores
Of beautiful laces, priceless furs and
marvellous jewels, all of which can he
used again and again. On the whole,
it may be asserted that frugal prin-
cess may spend as little as $4,000 a
year on her dress, while her more
wealthy and extravagant sister may
find her dress bills amount to ten times
that sum. Age has nothing to do with
The matter, for the Queen of Italy
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
ABSOLUTE PROOF.
He Assured the Children That the Story
Was True,

He Assured the Children That the STORY
Was True.
Several years ago, in a certain town
north, gentleman possessed of more
money than education was asked to
address the scholars attending one of
the local schools some Sunday after
noon, says Spare Moments. The day
arrived and our friend was called upon.
well, children" said he, us not used
to public speyking, but l remember
when | was a lad l was very fond Of
hearing a story. Shall tell story?"
The children asserting, he proceeded:
Once upon a time, many years ago,
there was lad, a very good lad,
who went regularly to Sunday school,
and nivver missed. But one Sunday
afternoon, as he was gavin to school,
two bad boys met him and persuaded
him to gan birdnesting wiv 'em. So
they went lang by the river side, and
by-and-by they came tiv a tree, and
in the tree, on a branch which over
hung the wetter, was a nest. The
two bad boys sent the good lad to
climb the tree and fetch the eggs. Up
he went and got out on the branch,
farther and farther, and just as he was
reachin' out his hand to tax the nest
the branch brok' and he fell into the
river and was drooned." After wait
ing few moments to allow his hear
ers to thoroughly grasp the full extent
of the catastrophe, he resumed with:
Children, the story is true, for the lad
that was drooned was mel"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

Sip glass of hot milk slowly just
before going to bed and battle the feet
in hot water. Initiate the breathing OF
one who is asleep, and drop the head
very slowly from one side and the
other as one does when falling asleep
in chair Another plan is to close
the eyes and then allow them to gently
roll toward the nose as though look
ing cross-eyed. Let the breath out
through the nose and imagine 1t to be,
vapor, then seem to draw 1t back
again, as though drawing back the
vapor These are far better than the
ancient device of counting sheep jump
ing over an imaginary fence.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
EFFECT OF A
WHITE LIE.

II don't believe you'd tell fib to
save your life, Henry"
This remark caused general laugh
from the little crowd of students gath
cred to plan their jokes for the COM
ing holidays.
Henry Harris was recognized by all
who knew him as fellow who detest-
ed the most trifing falsehood. His
friends always jeered him when he re-
fused joining in some practical joke
comprising the sacrifice of truth.
"You have often laughed at me"
said Henry quietly, "but the sharpest
pain the truth ever cost me is as moth
ing compared to the life's sorrow and
regret caused by my last falsehood.
If you care to listen / will tell you the
story Of one lie and it's effects"
"All right, old fellow; let's have it,"
replied his fellow-students in chorus.
Henry Harris leaned back in his
chair and began his story.
When l was boy of IL there came
DO our village a. young man in i'll
health, who soon became sincere
friend of my fathers and frequently
visited our home.
"This invalid, whose name was AL
fred Payson, confided his LIES story
10 my father. 1t was tale that is met
with only too often.
Alfred had been a wild and reck-
less youth, thereby arousing his faith
er's anger, and just six years before
the two had parted, each vowing never
to look upon the others face. For
those six years Alfred's proud spirit
had refused to seek the reconciliation
that word from him might have
brought about.
"One day there came to him sense
of his sin against his father, to whom
he had been as dead for so long.
Seized with a sudden feeling Of for
giveness he wrote a letter to that
father, imploring his pardon and ask
ing for one word with him before he'd
die
THE letter was given to me to post
by my father one noon as | arose from
my dinner.
at will go off sooner if you post 1t
in town. said he. BE sure you don't
forget it, my boy
"'All right, father l answered,
thrusting the letter into the pocket OF
my baseball trousers.
Upon reaching the town l found
that was already five minutes late for
the game, and resolving that it would
be time enough to post the letter after
ward put it in my pocket again and
fastened to the field.
after witnessing an exciting game l
started homeward without one thought
of the unposted letter in my pocket,
and there it lay forgotten through all
the following week.
alfred Payson grew weaker each
day and was no longer equal to the
shortest journey, but when the day was
bright and warm he would sit unoer