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of the Cordillera Real, and we looked
down an appalling precipice Of at least
$4,000 feet into the black depths Of
some valley of fertile Youngas. It was
still night.
The party when it next rested was
20,7O0 feet above the sea- Here the
first view of the eliminating peaks Of
Illimani rising out Of the great snow
plateau was had. Four snow-white
peaks besides the Pico del Indio rose
out of it. The two on the extreme
right and extreme left respectively
were evidently higher than the other
but which of these two was the oul-
minating point was uncertain. The
same uncertainty exists in all views Of
lllimani. Opinions were in favor Of
the western peak. In point of difficulty
there was little to choose between
them. All the great difficulties of the
climb were already overcome.
After about three hours of slow, con-
tinuous plodding the party stood upon
a fiat, wide saddle, which presently
dropped away before them in the steep
descent that faces La Paz. The alti-
tude was 1,760 feet at this point. But
they could not halt long, for the sum-
nit was now too near at hand and
only wide and easy snow bridge sep
arated them. Slowly, very slowly, they
wendell their way up it, conscious Of
little except the toll and overwhelmed
by a fixed determination to get the
work done and ended. One apparent
summit gave way to another, but the
real one came in due season. Mon
sieur, vous la gloire," said one Of the
mountaineers as he stepped aside for
Sir William to stand first upon the
highest point. 1t was 1880 a. m. The
altitude was between 22,5O0 and $4,000
feet.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27
AN HISTORIC REGION.
TOWNS IN THE OLD WESTERN
RESERVE.
Celebrating Their Centennials - The
Home of Many Great Men-Here the
First Mormon Church Was Erected
Especial Letter.)


That section of country known in
early days as the Western Reserve In
Ohio and the home of many great men
in American life Is now passing
through its centennial celebrations.
One by one the towns and cities within
its borders are beginning to arrange
for suitable celebrations in honor Of
the colonizing of this notable expanse
of country. The city of gainesville
will soon unveil a monument in men,
DRY of Capt. Edward Paine, its founder.
The town of Connecticut and the city
of Cleveland held their centennial Gel
ebrations last year. The little town
of Austinburg a few days ago held
festivities appropriate to the passing
of its Tooth birthday. Geneva, town
of some 5000 inhabitants, will cele-
brate in 1908, and with each succeed
ing year for several years the word
century" will have a particular Sig
nifcance in northern Ohio.
One hundred years ago the first
white child born in the Western Re-
oCi We diCu VI StdlNatioh. hC hioe
church in the section was dedicated
by the breaking of bottle of whisky
over its steeple. Among the promi-
nent men born and raised in that part
of Ohio were James A. Garfield, Will
lam Mckinley, William Dean Howells,
Giddings, and Wade.
Hundreds Of people each year visit
the old law offices of Giddings &
Wade, the famous statesmen of anti
slavery times, located at Jefferson,
Ashtabula county. Their monuments
in the little Jefferson cemetery are
also point of interest. Scattered here
and there throughout the reserve are
the old underground railroad stations
which sheltered many slave on his
way to liberty. The birthplace Of
Mckinley is located at Niles and the
home of James A. Garfield at Mentor
William Dean Howells set type in
printing Office at Jefferson which is
still standing, and the same paper is
issued weekly Edith Th.inas, the
poetess of nature, often went down
beside the brook at Geneva and wrote
poetry beneath the canopy of an UNI
brella as she watched the torrents OF
rain and the flashes of lightning. In
the woods near the lake. Platt R.
Spencer, the author Of Spencerian
penmanship, taught hundreds of pu-
pills the system of penmanship which
has become famous since then.
The monument to Commodore
Perry's splendid victory stands in
Wade Park, Cleveland. At Kirkland
is the first Mormon temple ever
erected. At Ashtabula Is located the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27

Henry George theory Of land owner
ship In addition to that the. govern
ment was something like cross be-
tween communism and socialism. AS
race they were agriculturists and
stock raisers-mostly sheep herders.
The law was that when the planting
season opened the men would plant the
kings fields first, and then pass on
from field to field until the fields Of
all the people had been planted. Guilt
walton and harvesting followed in like
manner. Gold and silver were used for
ornaments, but not for money, except
with foreigners, and all other kind of
trade was done by the government.
The business of the people between
themselves was strictly trade and bar
ter. AS to their mechanical skill, 1t is
said that the world has nothing to
show in the way of stone cutting and
fitting equal to that displayed in Inca
stone structures many of which are
standing. 1t is but reasonable to sup
pose that such a people would explore
every foot of the Andes for precious
metals as we'll as for general informa
ton.
Sir William found as much difficulty
in persuading the superstitious Indians
to carry his packs as he did in reach
ing glaciers zigzag fashion and work
ing around gaping crevasses. The In
dams still revere and fear the tradi-
tional god of the Illimani, for he is not
the kind of a mountain god to take
kindly to trespassing upon his
premises. No difficulty worth mem
tioning was experienced up to
the 16,700-foot level, but it took
three days Of perilous travel
ing in an atmosphere intensely rari-
fed to travel the other 5000 feet. At
nearly every step there was danger of
going down to death in a crevasse or
of being crushed by the fall of ice and
snow from above.
Twice Sir William caught himself
walking in his sleep from sheer fatigue.
It was climb from lower to a higher
summit all the way, and when the top
Of the highest peak was reached there
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27
Especial letter.

Sir William Martin Conway, the dar-
Ing explorer, always finds warm cor
ner and hearty greeting in the hearts
Of the people Of the United States,
for they themselves are daring and
fearless. During the last twelve years
Sir William has explored the Hima-
layas, searched for information in
Egypt and in the far east, traversed
the Alps, the Andes and Spitzbergen,
and approached the confines of dis
covery in the arctic regions. He is no
common traveller and explorer. He goes
for scientific and geographical research
that the world may know more of what
it contains. Sir William is enroute to
Bolivia to make a second exploration
and survey of the Andes.
In 1898 Sir William conceived the
idea of exploring the Andes to ascer-
tain their secrets and compare them
with what he had discovered in the
Alps and the Himalayas. He assembled
the Illimani peaks, the highest one be-
ing 22,500 feet above the level of the
sea. He was the first white man, and
more than likely the first human be-
ing, to explore these peaks since the
days Of the Incas, once powerful and
highly cultivated people, but who were
in their decline as a nation when Pr
zarro swooped down upon them with
Spanish soldiers and took their coun-
try from them.
Traces of the Inca civilization still
remain showing that people to have
been a superior race. Their system of
land tenure was not so very unlike The
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27
ParalytIc's Prayer Answered.

Rome. Cable New York World: The
Perseverance,, of Milan (not clerical
paper), reports a miracle near Bresica,
attributed to the Blessed Mary Mag
dalen of Martinengo, who was beatified
by the Pope last Sunday. Orsolini
Guiti, young woman of q, had been
suffering from progressive paralysis
for IA years. until finally she was en-
tirely unable to move and had been
given up as hopeless case by the doc
tors. The other day the poor girl rad-
dressed fervent appeal to the new
saint. Suddenly her paralyzed body
was agitated as by a strong electric
shock, and she rose from her bed cry
ing out joyously that she had been
heard. This extraordinary case, which
skeptics attribute to auto-suggestion,
has attracted great attention in the
medical profession.
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was nothing to do but retrace his steps
which was done with great difficulty.
The party was roped together. The
head of the line would drive an iron
pin deep into the frozen snow and
then those in the rear would pass for
ward, the rear becoming the front,
when another pin would be driven. In
the little villages 10000 and $4,000 feet
above the level Of the sea people and
houses were found-Indians mostly,
though some of them are descendants
of the old Incas, who refuse to conform
to the religion or customs which Spain
forced upon their ancestors 500 years
ago.
The first night out from the 16,700
foot level the party pitched their tents
at an altitude Of $4,000 feet with great
satisfaction, for it was evident that
the outworks of the mountain fortress
were now passed. 1t only remained to
deliver the assault on the final peak.
Before 2 o'clock next morning the
party were winding upward among
great yawning crevasses by the light of
a candle. Fifteen miles away, across
the great valley Of the La Paz river,
another twinkling light was visible,
shining through the window Of re-
mote farmhouse. The night was not
cold (only 81 degrees Fahrenheit), but
the snow was as hard as board and
rapid progress was made. Once one Of
the party fell into crevasse but, be-
ing roped, no harm was done. The old
moon rising over the snow field rem
dered the lantern needless. Two hours
and a half after starting the head OF
the glacier was reached, the very crest
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27
do You Eat Out or In"

The number and variety of knives
and forks that now grace well-equip-
ped and formal dinner table may well
dismay one unused to such varie-
gated display of cutlery and silver.
There are forks for the oysters, for the
fish and for the roast, and forks as well
for anything else that may be served.
There are also knives to correspond to
the forks that may be needed. These
implements that social convention de-
crees to be necessary to convey food
to the mouth are usually laid out in
formidable rows on either side of the
plate. The other evening a simple
western maiden at her first eastern
dinner surveyed her display of knives
and forks with growing trepidation.
Her common sense told her that they
were laid out in the regular order in
which 1t was intended they should be
used, but nothing in her experience had
taught her which was the right end
of the row to start with. Finally in
despair she sought help from her next
door neighbor, prominent physician.
Say, Doc" she questioned, as she
pointed at the offending objects, do
you eat out or in?"-New York Trib-
une
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27
WY Not Lice TO
BE no Years Old?

Sir Benjamin Richardson, the dis
tinguished English physician and
medical writer, says that seven out of
every ten sound and reasonable people
ought to live to be ITO years old, and
would do so if they took care of
themselves.
The fact that there have been CEN
tenarians and that some are still liv-
ing in every country of civilization is
proof that the human machine is
capable of lasting as long as Sir
Benjamin says it ought to last. If the
few can live so long, why should not
the many be able to reach equal full
ness of years?
Very careful examinations have been
made to discover the secret of the
now exceptional longevity, the meth
DDS of life, the regimen, and the pc
culiar physical constitution OF the
centenarians. But the difference be-
tween them and the run of their neigh
bors in these respects does not seem
to have been marked. At any rate,
no facts have been obtained from
which can be deduced anything ap-
preaching law that can be laid down
for the attaining of such longevity.
Some of the centenarians are remark
able for their abstemiousness and the
scrupulous care they take of their
health; but the run of them have
been found to live like the rest
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27
WHERE SPENCER TAUGHT.

WilIHitII oI IL4NSEN lAOGf1l.
church where Robert G. Ingersoll at
tended Sunday-school. These are a
few of the points of interest to be seen
in the territory which is now cele-
brating the date of its founding
That the first white child born on
the Western Reserve should die for
want of food shows the hardships
which the first settlers endured The
first family to winter in the Western
Reserve consisted of Judge Kings
bury and wife and children. They
located at Conneaut, which is situated
near the banks of Lake Erie. Pro-
visions were very scarce, and it is said
that more than once the Judge trans
ported through the wilderness on a
hand sled barrel of beef a distance
family came when Judge Kingsbury
was compelled by his business inter-
ests to go to New York in the fall of
the first year of their settlement at
Conneaut. The journey was long
one in those days, when all who
WloHCQ W lIdNtl uluoI TUE uOlStDdCh
Or go on foot. Arriving in New York
he was taken sick and for several
months was unable to return to his
family. AS soon as he could travel he
started at once, and fearing that his
wife and little ones would have used
up the supply of provisions in his alb
sence he gathered together all he
could carry, and when his horse gave
out, hundred miles from home, he
placed the load upon his own back
and continued his trip. On reaching
the house he bounded inside with his
precious load of provisions. During
his absence another child had been
born and upon the cot lay the mother,
nearly famished. and beside her the
babe was dead. 1t had died for lack
Of nourishment, which the starving
mother was unable to furnish. This
is one of the saddest stories in con-
nection with the settlement Of this
section.
The first church in the Western
Reserve is said to have been located at
Austinburg, the rural town which is
soon to celebrate its centennial ami
versary. 1t is said that when the
church was dedicated there was brok-
en- over its steeple bottle of whisky.
This was in the days when even
preachers drank whisky, and nothing
was thought of 1t. The church was
afterward one of the strongest oppo-
nents Of the liquor traffic, and among
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27

Of people who do not wantonly throw
away their stock OF vitality They
have got SO old without special ana
deliberate efforts to reach the dis
tinction. OF course, they must have
constitutions capable of great en-
durance, but in that particular they
are not peculiar. Many of their con-
temporaries who died at a much less
age would have been passed by life
insurance examiner as having an
equally long expectation of life. The
physical machine of the dead was as
good as that of the living, according
to scientific tests applicable by
physician. The physical machine
which lasts through hundred years
and more of life is no better in its
construction than that which wears
out at 70 or 80.
Why, then, has not DR.. RichardsonS
reason for saying that the existence
Of centenarians, few though they may
be proportionately, is sufficient evil
dence that equally long life is not
only possible for all who have sound
constitutions, but ought also to be
the rule among them? 1t is proved
indisputably that the machine can last
very much longer than the run of men
keep 1t going; that of itself 1t is good
for the ITO years of which DR.. Rich
ardson says the majority of people Of
good constitutions should live.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27
Treating Leprosy.

Several new South Wales lepers have
been treated by leprosy serum meth
cd, devised by DR.. Juan de Dios Car
rasquilla, of Bogotha, and said by him
to have been successful In hundred
cases. The Australian doctors, how
ever, have been unable to detect any
Improvement, and the disease Is skilI
making progress.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27

During the last year $4,000 Japanese
landed in the Hawaiian islands. With
in the current year $4,000 of these yam
KEGS of the Orient will come to the Pa
ciac coast, If the movement is not In
terfered with.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27
Telegraph to Mohammed's Shrine.

A telegraph line from Syria to He'd
jas is contemplated. This will give ac-
cess to that portion of Arabia, thus,
bringing Mecca and Medina into CONF
munication with the world, The line
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-07-27

will follow the old pilgrimage route to
Mohammed's shrine at Mecca; the to-
tai length of the line is said to be 931
miles
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-18
ENGLAND And TIE BOBRS.
More About the pig-Stickfng
Which the English are En-
gagged in
A recent dispatch states that Gen.
Bmller has occnninh nnndr,

A recent dispatch states that Gen.
Butler has occupied Dundee.
Ali foreigners, and other men " no
Wiz s.ot shoulder "a MauSer, have been
ordered to leave the Trausyaal.
General Butler continues quiet.
The Beers assert that they are uelay-
ing an attack upon him In the hope
that all the horses of the British viii
DE of sickness.
Beers 10 the number of 1000 have
retreated toward kroonstrd, but 1t is
reported that they lhteud TO make {.
Stani as Virginia, % miles To the
northeast.
Lord Roberts and the advance di-
Visions OF his army have crossed the
Lahd river, IN the Orange Free Sta te,
where the Beers had been expected
TO make decided opposition.
The War Office announces that
the total casualties sustained by the
British army in South Africa up to
April 2Sth, aggregated 16,S6S. OF
this number Jig were officers.
The Beers are everywhere retiring
before the British, except on the
Natal frontier and at MafekIng, to
the inner circle of their defences.
They appear determined not to fight
until the Kroonstad hills are reached.
A special dispatch from Lorenzo
Marquee says it is reported that a
large force of Beers has been captured
by the British at Mafeking. Pre-
toria, it is added, reports on the
other hand that Mafeking has fallen.
A source of trouble to the British
is reported to be developing in the
eastern part of the Free State. 1t is
said that President Steyn has collect
ed 10000 men in the Ficksburg-Se
neka! district, where he will make d
stand against the forces of Generals
Rumble and Brabrant.
President Kruger has received q
telegram from a Transvaal woman
asking if the time has not arrived fol-
the formation of corps of women, ad.
ding that she is prepared, with a body
of volunteers of her own sex, tC
take up arms in defense of the coun.
try's Independence.
The Beers Saturday occupied the
kaffir location at Mafeking. They
were In turn attacked during the
night of Saturday, and on Sunday
found themselves surrounded. The
Beers lost seven killed and seventeen
wounded. The British loss is re-
ported to have been heavy.
Gen. Hunton tried to capture the
Beers at Zand River, but they quic6-
ly poured in deadly fire OF the Brit
ish, and, to save himself from being
outflanked, the British general was
obliged to retreat. The Beers shelled
the retiring troops, but showed no de-
sire to press the attack further.
Meanwhile the Boer trains steamed
away nortnward, blowing up the
railroad culverts as they went.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-18
BE TRUE To PARTY.

We wonder that the Democratic
leaders of our adjoining counties
have made no public effort to arouse
the party upon the question of Con-
stitutional Convention, which is to be
voted upon next Thursday! The peo-
pie Of the Northern Neck want a
Convention, and those leaders who
are secretly seeking to defeat the
proposition will have to answer to
the people and to the party, for has
not the party in Convention declared
for it, and made it the imperative
duty of all Democrats within the
ranks to work and vote for it? 1t
demands their fealty just as much as
does any other clause of the Norfolk
platform, and it is expected of them
to labor as hard to carry this election
as the one next fall.
These same leaders will get upon
the stump and urge their own caudi-
dacy, or the candidacy of some friend,
and style as rins-streaked, striped
and black-spotted all those who do
not support them.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-18

completed will be the handsome and costly
dce Northumberland county but in this whole section OF
Eastern Virginia.
begun and the brick work will be
July 1t will be closed by fall and hopes entertained that
will ready dedication by Christmas The when completed,
will be between eight and ten thousand dollars
The the edce the finest brick all selected and
inspected indefagabe Mr. Albert Morris member of the
building committee and the work being doae by Ms Seman and
Zane pbck Atlantic City, N j. aud Mr. Dodson, of
the best workmen in Northumberland couny
The members of the building committee Rev. j. Robins,
chairmau Geo. N Reed cretay Carey aurer Cockre Dr.
j. W. Tankard j. j. Cowd Dr. T. D. Cvngton j. NJ Omohundro,
" Williams T. A. Jet T. j. Williams, j. E. Marsh b. b. Hsyne,
John Haynie L. Hanie W. Bailey Albert Norris j. W. McAoney
f. W. Edwards and these gentlemen untpg their abo
behalf of the edif Rev. j. W. S. Robins the beloved PASTOR
the work. and while adding the spiritual
strength of the church has ndustuy borng
funds for building edifce.
eedve boasts of of the finest congregations the Virginia
Conference and within few months she will
having within her territory country buildings
the South.
The of the Northern literally
undertaking believe they will with prospect
that when completed there will be dollar owing
the worship of God.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-18
POLITICAL.

Judge w. Ii. Mann and Senator
Jno. l.. Jeffries, both electors-at.
large, are the only two avowed can
dldates for Attorney-General of Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. Hanna's tender regard for the
Constitution recalls Hon. Tim Camp
BELLS famous inquiry, whats the
Constitution between friends?"-
Richmond Ne'cS.
Governor Roosevelt has called on
President Mckinley and Secretaries
Hay, Root and Long. lie positively
declines to talk regarding the Vice
Presidency.
n Pittsburg story reafiirms the
statements that $250,00O was the
price to be paid to the Republican
Campaign Committee for the defeat
of Senator Quay.
Senator Daniel, Tuesday in the Sen
ate called up and secured the
passage of the bill appropriating
$4,000 for public building to be
located at Portsmouth, Va.
"How. do you size up President
Mckinley" was asked of Governor
Roosevelt. lie said: mckinley has
about as much back bone as toy
chocolate man that you see on the
confectioner's stand. He is dread
full disappointment"
81 have said that other questions
were more important than the money
question. L have said many times
and now repeat that at present three
questions money, trusts and imperi-
alism-are dividing public attention
Men differ as to their relative impor.
lance, but | have never attempted to
fix their relative Importance. The
Republicans are wrong on all three
questions, and | expect to continue
to oppose the gold standard, the
trusts and imperialism."-W. j.
Bryan.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-18
Census Enumerators.

Lancaster-H. ID. Mcnamara and
III. A. w. Kellam, Whitestone dis
trict; IL. III. Ramps, Mautua district;
Addison Ball, White Chapel district.
Richmond. Il. Campbell, Stone
wall district; G. c. Wright, Marshall
district; II. l.. Moz:ngo, Washington
district; III. NJ. HUT, Farnham dis
trict.
Middlesex-E. w. Bristow, Ber-
nard Bristow, Geo. L. Hewett, j. G..
Covington, +. S. McCandlish.
Westmoreland-Bush Wilkins, H..
Chandler, j. II. Trew, J. w. Beddoo.
1t is said that no person holding
an elective county or State office can
qualify as census enumerator. This
does not extend, however, to appoint
i've Offices.