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TEXARKANIAN
F. G. wOOTTEN, City Editor.
WEATHER FORECAST.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

F. F. MATHEWS, Clerk.
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We Don't Know Your incIinations, but if you
are inclined to save few half dollars on your
Spring Suit, we can put you on the right track.
Your friends are taking our advice every day.
Why not you The saving is thiswise
$7.5o Suits, .....$5.50 $1,000 Suits. 49,. S., 40
1889 Suits 80. 9.60 1900 Suits. .,.... .35
$3.50 Suits. $1400,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

With tear-dimmed eyes the bell boys
in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel watched
yesterday the departure of r. F.. Blod-
gett, who is said to be banker from
Boston, says the New York Herald
Because of his lavish distribution Of
money among them, they regarded him
as veritable Monte Cristo." Hardly
night passed during the last two
weeks that he did not scatter frora S.
to $40 in the main corridor for the
boys to scramble for. 1t was this
practice that made Mr.. Blodgett con-
spicuous among the hotel patrons, for
his ordinary tips" were handed out
without ostentation. Usually Mr..
Blodgett waited until IL o'clock at
night, when the hotel corridors were
filed with fashionably dressed men
and women for his fun. He would then
convert bill CT large dimensions into
dimes and quarters. and wait his op-
portunity. The boys were always on
the alert, but Mr.. Blodgett wanted
what stage managers call "s,tua-
ton" When crowd gathered in
front of the office, Mr. Blodgett, stand
ing near the Thirty-fourth street en-
trance, would hurl few dollars in
dimes along the floor toward the read
ing room. The effect upon the twenty
bell boys sitting upon the leather COW
cred bench was electrical. With mad,
rush they scrambled for the elusive
coins as they rolled about on the tiled
floor Sometimes while the boys were
battling for the dimes and quarters,
Mr. Blodgett would shower another
handful upon them, which s'-fed to
spur them to renewed efforts. TO vary
the programme, Mr.. Blodgett OCCASION
ally closed the door leading to the
reading room and dashed the coins
against it. After he had thrown
money around in this fashion few
times the boys kept sharp watch
upon him, and he never caught them
unawares. They always saw him first
and kept an eager lookout for the ex-.
pected shower of coin. In the course
of the two weeks he remained at the
hotel 1t Is said he distributed among
the boys about 5000. He makes fire.
Quent visits to the hotel in the course
of year, and seems always to find
his chief amusement in getting up q
scramble for money among the boys.
Naturally they consider him the great
est man in the country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30
A Remarkable Motor.

From Germany comes the design of
remarkable motor that turns heat
energy directly into motion through
the intermediary action of electricity.
The machine is called thermo-elec-
trio motor and works on the familiar
principle of the electric motor some
what modified to meet the peculiar ex-
igencies Of the case. In action it is
essentially an electric motor, but one
deriving its electrical energy from heat
applied to it through thermo-electric
couples. A thermo-electric couple is
composed of two dissimilar metals,
such as iron and copper. Any CON-
plete circuit made of two metals must
necessarily have two functions Of the
two in it. If one Of these functions is
heated more than the other an electric
current will flow in the circuit, its
amount and direction depending on
the nature of the metals, the differ
o.lce in temperature between the two
functions and the resistance it en-
counters in it's path On the motor
machine the couples are made of iron
and nickel, firmly brazed together.
They are arranged like the windings
of the ordinary electric motor, with
one set of functions brought convent
emily to the surface, where gas jets
play upon them. The other set are
cooled by rapid circulation of air
about them, engendered by the rota-
tion OF the machine. While the mo-
tor is of no practical value, 1t is an
exceedingly interesting exemplification
of the ease with which energy may be
transformed and retransformed
through the various forms Of heat,
electricity and motion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

cucumber family from Rhodesia, South
Africa. The fruit is six inches long,
of bright orange color and covered
with spines. Even for ornamental
purposes the plant is we'll worth grow
ing; but it may also be used as fruit,
the flesh being soft and juicy, and in
appearance much like passion fruit.
Eaten with sugar, the flavor Is similar
to that of rock melon. Another
novelty is called the "mongri," or ed
ible podded radish. 1t is new vege-
table from Java and is grown as easily
as the ordinary radish, producing en-
ormous crops Of long pods which are
crisp and tender with delicious fla
vor. Persons who cannot eat the COM
mon radish because of its indigestible
qualities should hail this new variety
with pleasure. 1t makes an excellent
salad; it is also delicious when boil
ed, having delicate asparagus flavor.
New York Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30


abroad tells the following story: One
of her fellow passengers on the steam
err that brought her home was little
boy about ten years old. AS the
steamer approached New York the
child grew exultantly happy and every
little while he would say, Were al
most home now" He talked of thu
various objects they passed as though
he were really quite at home. Finally
the teacher said. do you live in New
York;" NO" answered he, Il live in
st. Paul, Mimi" Miss l.. remarked,
"St. Paul? You are still long way
from home" This is just as good as
home,"' said the loyal little fellow.
tits America" The young travellers
patriotism so pleased the Columbus
lady that she asked him about his
travels, and learned why he was so
glad to see America. He had been in
Europe over six months, a part of
which time had been spent in school
in Sweden. He had seen much that
was interesting in the different Euro
pean countries, but was as pleased as
he could possibly be on once more
seeing his native land and stoutly de-
clared that America was 1.-The best
country in the world"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

The power of the human eye upon
are aware that they are being looked
at earnestly not to say fiercely, can
not be gainsaid. But there are people
who claim that they are able to COM
pei another to look at them when the
subject Of the experiment is uncon-
sciOus of being observed. 1t may turn
out some day that such power IS
really possessed by few, but a good
many people who have thought that
they could exercise the influence here
following story told by Hiram NJ. STAN
ley in Science is only one of many such
narratives that have appeared in that
and other publications.: To the physi-
ologist it may seem uncalled for to
investigate manifest absurdity, but it
has at least a practical value to .ex-
rplode common error by direct eI-
pertinent l asked youns man who
is very confident CT his powers TO
stand, unknown to per:on whom |
WILL Cdll n, UtulIu d DOOhCdoC
look through carefully concealed
peephole. / gave him the best oppor-
tunity, placing A about four feet from
the hole and directly facing him, and
I engaged A in mechanical writing. To
the young mans confessed disgust and
irritation he was unable to disturb A.
My few experiments were negative in
results. However, it may be that tele-
pathic influence is exerted under GER
tain conditions, and experiments with
twins and others constantly en- rap
port, especially when under emotional
stress and at critical junctures, might
be worth trying.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30
A Sketch.


A builders yard, ship upon the ways,
The groan of straining planks, the
snap OF stays,
The cheering of crowd, "She moves!"
"Shes off,"
And with a sudden rush and splash
the great ship
Leaves the wharf.
A storm-swept, foam-tossed sea of
bowling gale,
A ship half lost in foam, rag of sail,
The tolling of bell, now lost, now
clear
1.-THE Shore! the shore!"-she strikes
in crashing
Waves to disappear.
A summers eve, a calm and wailing
tide,
A dismal stretch of sand that tries to
hide
The bones of some great vessel, prov
on high.
Outlined against the sunsets last faint
glow
Athwart the sky.
Julian Hcnckley.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

Biologists are working now on O
problem which may affect the building
Of engines materially. Some experts
think that it actually will revolution
lie the work and teach engineers how
to build the ideal engine The result,
it is expected, will be attained by a
study of the batteries OF electric fishes.
The particular fish from which the
most is hoped is the malapterrus, the
fresh water electric fish Of Northern
Africa. His batteries are so powerful
that specimen eight inches long pro-
,duced shock equaling maximum of
200 volts. This was measured exactly
in recent experiment. Scientists de-
clare that If an engine could be built
which could produce the same proper
tional energy it would do work which
It is at present conceived only in the
widest dreams of engineers. The best
marine engines made today yield only
about one-twelfth as much energs,
measured in money value, as the coal
costs to make 1t go. 1t Is for that rea-
son that men look forward toward the
electromagnetic engine, which theO-
retically would be almost without
waste, returning SO per cent Of the en-
ergy OF the consumed fuel. The bat
terry of the malapterrus consists of at
least 100000 disks, distributed
through the skin. They lie in sixty
series Of 5000 each. They all get
their electric power from one single
giant nerve cell. So now, if biologists
can find out just how this wonderful
pigmy engine can produce and trans
nit its tremendous force, they hope to
point out golden road to vast accom-
plishments by engineers.-New York
Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30
Plans for Reaching the Pole

were made, one Of which, it Is claimed,
made the farthest distance north until
that time recorded, Of SO degrees and
33 minutes After great labor and pri-
walton the sledges returned to the ship,
which was finally freed from the ice
and succeeded in reaching the port of
Tromsoe, Norway, September 5, 1900.
The expedition. If credence may be
given to the reports of the intrepid
explorers, pushed the limit Of human
knowledge nearer by about twenty
miles to the pole than any other, the
farthest previous effort, that of Fridt-
jof Nansen, the Norwegian, having
reached SO degrees and IA minutes.
hansen, as everybody knows, started
from Lapland in July, 1893, in his YES
sci, the Fran, intending to drift as
far as the arctic currents could carry
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

Little Cora Vandergrift, who disap-
peared the other day from her home in
Omaha, Neb., has been located at COT
feyville, Kan, with her fathers peo-
pie, and her mother tells strange
story about the supposed kidnapping
of the girl. She is convinced that
Fred Miller" who lived in boarding
house with her for week and sat OPP
posite her at table, was none other
than her husband, his appearance hav-
ing been changed by surgical opera
ton. Vandergrift's nose was re-
trousse 1t is now acquiline. Wander
grist's wife found letters which re-
ferred to proposed operations on the
face, addressed to brother at Chica-
go. Nature did the rest by putting on
his face a full black beard.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

her, then to make the sledge journey
beyond to the limit of his powers.
This he did, and in company with a
gallant seaman, Johansen, reached the
northernmost limit up to that time
attained by human beings, fortunately
effecting his escape from the icefields
and reaching Norway in August, 1896.
Nansen's was most wonderful adj
venture and resulted in valuable addi-
lions to our knowledge of the arctic
currents, ETC., but the expedition whose
achievements he outdid far surpassed
it in scientific results and in the priva-
tons of its members. That was that
of General, then lieutenant, Greeley,
which succeeded in reaching the far
thest north then known to mortal man,
when the sledge journey OF Lieutenant
Lockwood and Sergeant Brainard re-
suited in the latitude of SO degrees and
"a minutes being scored. Previous to
that the record had been held by Eng
land for more than three centuries,
but the remarkable expedition under
Greedy SURPRISING every other attempt
ed by men of any nationality, won the
record for America. 1t was on the 18th
of May, 1882, after a terrible march
with sledges, that Lockwood and
Brainard wrote their names on the
white fields Of fame up there amid the
eternal SHOWS, and with their glasses
peered a few miles farther into the
misty beyond and named the farthest
point of land ever seen by man Cape
Washington.
The indications are that there is no
abatement of the patriotic spirit of
emulation that animated Kane and
Hail. Wellman, Greedy, Peary, Brain
ard, Lockwood and all those gallant
Americans who have striven to plant
the Stars and Stripes nearest to the
pole. Indeed, at this very moment
another American expedition is being
matured for next year, backed by UNI
limited wealth and experience, having
for its sole object the distinction 1t will
bring to the flag of our country. At
a recent meeting of the Arctic CLUB
it was announced by DR.. Evelyn b.
Baldwin that he was to lead another
venture poleward, which he has been
planning for the last five years. Be-
hind 1t is Mr. William Ziegler, of New
York, who is pledged to expend 81 ,00O,-
900 If necessary to make 1t success,
This expedition will start in the early
summer of 1901. and, as Mr.. Baldwin
has already won his spurs as an arc
tic explorer, having been with Peary
as meteorologist in 1898, with Well
man In 1S9S-99, and is recognized as an
authority on the subject of polar ex-
ploration, the best results are antici-
pated.
Mr.. Baldwin made an unsuccessful
attempt to join Andree in 1897, but
there was fortunately no room for him
in the balloon, and he was spared to
project this voyage for 1901 and to
enter the race for the pole with a
truly American equipment The shores
of Greenland are dotted with the
names of prominent Americans, be-
slowed by their adventurous country
men upon capes and bays, mountains
and fiords, and there is no reason for
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30
Announcing MOST Artlstlc House.

After two years careful search and
inquiry the general assent of compe-
tent critics decides that the most ar
tistic house in America is located in
one of the Middle Atlantic states. The
house is unpretentious externally and
is little heard of outside certain art
circles, but it is indisputably the SUI
preme triumph in interior decorations
and furnishing. Its owner and occu-
pant has graciously consented to re-
veal its artistic beauties to the public
through The Ladies' Home Journal,
and two whole pages of an early issue
Of that magazine will be devoted to pic
turing the interior of this superb
home.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

wife and daughter, who were on board,
and received the Supplies of provisions
destined for the continuation of the
great work, should he have failed in
reaching the pole.
The relief steamer sailed from st.
Johns, Newfoundland, July goth, and
as the letter received was dated Aug.
10th, it is not likely that Peary has
any information of the breaking Of
the arctic record by the Duke of
Abruzzi, who reached Norway on his
return voyage on the 5th Of September.
But If this were possible it is not prob
able that it would cause any change in
his plans, which were, in his own
words: "To secure every mile of ad-
vance Just as far as there is land, and
then attempt to accomplish the re-
naming distance in one effort. In
case the conditions are impracticable
the first season, l shall return to my
Eskimo village winter there,
and start again the next spring, and
If conditions are not favorable the sec
ond year, come back for the winter and
start again and again"
There are now two American parties
in the Arctic. the other company,
under Robert Stein, being in Elsemere
Land; besides which there is Rus
sian, a Norwegian, a German, Dan
ish and Swedish. without reckoning
the Andre balloon expedition, which,
despite the conflicting accounts as to
its continued existence, is probably
lost. 1t is thought that Lieutenant
Peary stands as good chance of sue
cess as any other explorer, for, as is
well known. he is no novice in arctic
experiences, having made several voy-
ages and Journeys, beginning in 1885,
and having already endured terrible
privations without flinching AS to
his pluck and previous adventures,
General Greedy, the eminent authority,
says in one of his books: THE two
crossings of Greenland by Peary must
be classed as among the most brilliant
geographic feats of late years, his jour-
neys far surprising in extent that of
his ice cap predecessor, Nansen, who
crossed Greenland more. than 1000
miles to the south If Peary's
advance beyond his buried caches was
one of the rashest of arctic journeys,
yet the courage fertility Of resource
and physical endurance displayed by
him and his companions place their
efforts among the most notable in arc
tic sledging."
There is an added interest in the
Peary expedition from the fact that
the wife of the explorer was with him
on a prvious exploration, when their
daughter was born. and it is claimed
that no other civilized member of their
sex has been as near the pole as they.
Another interesting fact is that all
the chiefs of the expeditions which in
recent years have approached nearest
to the pole, the great goal of human
effort for centuries are still living.
The most recent success, so far as we
know, is that of the duke of Abruzzi
who sailed from Christiania and Arch
angel in June, 1899, on his ship, the
Stella Polare, for Franz-Josef Land,
beyond which four sledge expeditions
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

Mix one ounce of charcoal, as much
quinine as will lie on dime, five
grains of magnesia, and a few drops
of altar of roses, Both soft and a
hard brush should be used, and the
upper teeth brushed from the top
downwards, the lower teeth from the
bottom upwards. The inside of the
teeth require to be brushed in the
same way. Besides the usual brushing
twice day, the teeth should be brush
ed with soap three or four times a
week. This is not at first pleasant, but
it is very beneficial to the teeth. Soap
is an alkaline preparation besides be-
ing antiseptic, and it also helps to re-
move the tartar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

Attention is called anew to arctic
exploration by two recent occurrences
-one the return from the polar re-
gions of the Duke of Abruzzi, the other
the arrival of Lieut.. Peary's steamer
Windward at Godhaven, Greenland, on
her way to Cape York.
1t is not yet known, and may not be
until another season opens, whether
Peary has succeeded in his dash for
the pole, as the letter announcing the
northward progress of the Windward
was already two months old when it
reached this country; and even il the
relief party accomplishes the object OF
the expedition, the steamer may be
detained all winter by the ice. But it
is probable that the brave explorer,
who has been so long absent amid the
ice fields, has already welcomed his
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

New Zealand offers to gardeners sew
eral novelties in vegetables which are
especially valuable in localities affect
ed by drought. Yates aphis-proof cab
bage, an Australian raised variety gave
good hearts, Notwithstanding the in
tense drought of last summer, and re-
manned almost entirely free from
aphis, while every other variety of cab
bage was riddled by the pest. A bet
ter opportunity could not have occur
red for testing its hardness. After
the heart Is cut, it throws out several
small hearts and loose leaves, all OF
which are tender and of good flavor;
and as they rapidly reproduce them
selves after cutting bed of these cab
Dages will keep house in vegetables
all through the summer and fall. A
cabbage that would really resist aphis
and stand the hot, dry summers has
long been desideratum in Australian
gardens, and 1t is thought that this
variety will meet the want. Another
vegetable worthy Of attention Is an
AFRICAN cucumber" plant Of the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

The case of Mr.. E. w. Green Of For
reston, ILL.,, is battling the physicians.
Mr.. Green is slowly turning to bone,
his flesh has gradually hardened until
all but his face and the tips of his
fingers and toes are as solid to the
touch as the hardest stone. His joints
have not yet wholly hardened, as he
can walk slowly. He seems in per-
feet health, and physicians cannot ac-
count for this hardening condition,
neither can they do anything for him.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

assuming otherwise than that, when
the final achievement shall crown with
success the gallant endeavors Of CEN
turtles, Americas banner will wave
over that spot where there is mo
north, no east. no west" Our coun,
trymen have outdistanced England in
the race, but. unless Peary mas glori-
Gus news which he must treasure
through the coming arctic night, they
have been passed by Norway and Italy.
The forthcoming struggle for suprem-
acy will not only be international, but
racial, and it is not on record that the
descendants of the vikings and the
Saxons have ever yet succumbed to the
Latirs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30
Kansas News Hotes.
A Colossal Circus.

What promises to be the most stupendous aggre-
cation OF talent and the largest menagerie ever
exhibiting under canvas, has selected kansas City
as winter quarters and general rendezvous. The
circus is to be managed by the American Circus
and Exhibition Co., Incorporated with a capital
stock of s5,000,000. In these days OF combinations
Of capital there is nothing surprising about COM
pany being formed for exhibition purposes; II
fact, the shares Of tho Barnum-Bally show, incor-
pornted In England and now showing on the CON
tinent, command q large premium.
The new company has placed limited number
of treasury shares on the market at W cents, par
value, 81 90. All the drafts should DO made pay
able to, and all communications addressed 10 The
American Circus and Exhibition Company, Winter
Quarters, kansas City, Mo.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-30

Fish scales If they are small and
bright are worth about 81 a pound in
France. They are. made into pearls,
buttons and all kinds of jewelry for
the Indias and China,