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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21

MRS. LILLIAN NJ. N. STEVENS.
met Miss Willard at Old Orchard III
the summer of 1875, and there assisted
in the organization of the Maine w. c.
T. U. Her first office was that of treas
urer of the state union. She next be-
came president and under her guild
ance the Maine organization soon be-
came conspicuous in the national I'M
ion and its president no less con-
spicuous among the ladies at work in
the temperance cause. Mrs. Stevens
advance in the union was rapid. She
was elected vice president during the
life of Miss Willard and succeeded that
great reformer as president when Miss
Willard died
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21
Or Back of
a Bull "
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
In striking contrast to the exciting
experiences he underwent in his
which Capt. Ike Jackson, whose name
is familiar all through the southwest,
Is passing the evening of his life. Now
he lives on his well-stocked ranch on
the Pecos river, in western Texas, and
while a jolly, sociable companion, I'M
der all conditions, is at his best while
recalling the incidents of his life on
the frontier when the Indians were
plentiful. His entertaining fund of
"reminiscences he is always ready to
draw upon and never does he talk to
an uninterested audience. One Of his
tales is Of an exciting event which led
to his marriage. AS he tells 1t, the
story is as follows:
Attacked by Indians.
II was playing the fiddle one night
at dance in little log cabin on the
extreme frontier. There had been ru-
mors of an Indian raid, but the people
were fearless, and everybody in the
neighborhood was at the dance. Sud-
denly an arrow whizzed through the
open door and struck young girl on
the shoulder. 1t was followed by a
shower of arrows and a few shots
Women shrieked. and the men seized
their arrows and began to barricade
the house. I kept on playing the fid-
die as If nothing had happened.
THAT'S right, Ike whispered old
Col. Chrisman. Play as If the devil
was after you and | will save the
women and children l turned loose
on The Arkansas Traveller and l
made the old fiddle roar. While some
of the boys were popping away in the
dark from the front Of the cabin the
old colonel managed to slip out the
back way and escape into the woods
with the women and children. Then
7 laid the fiddle down and got my gun
and Joined in the defense. The red
devils were too many for us, and after
killing four of our boys they set fire
to the cabin and succeeded in captur-
ing me as | was trying to cut my way
through their lines with my bowie
knife.
"They bound me hand and foot and
tied me on pony. After raiding the
settlement and burning the cabins
they started back toward a Lipan viii
lage on Devil river. When daylight
came | was congratulating myself that
the red men had not captured any Of
the wives or daughters of the settlers,
but in a moment l heard cry of dis
tress and upon twisting my head
around was amazed to see a beautiful
young girl whom | well knew dashed
to an old squaw who was riding a
mustang. The Indians had found a
demijohn of brandy in a cabin, and it
vols not long before several of the war
riors were drunk. They began to yell
and cavort about on their ponies, ap-
parently Indifferent to the likelihood
that they might be overtaken at any
moment by the enraged settlers. While
crossing the San Gabriel prairie they
circled around a herd of wild cattle
and roped several of the fat animals.
BY this time the old chief in command
was almost too drunk to ride, and they
halted in a grove on the banks of San
Gabriel and prepared to have feast.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21

The Territory to otion Twin,
pe ihio"h opeh' about Fort Sill
and nearly 100000 acres of allot-
ments to the Indians of the three
tribes who have disposed of their
tribal holdings to the govern
ment. OF the remaining land only So
600 acres are adapted to strictly agri-
cultural purposes, the remainder be-
ing, however, good grazing territory.
The opening proclamation will be is
sued as soon as the secretary of the in
terror has completed the work Of allot-
ting to the individual Indians the 16O-
acre plats to which each of them is
entitled under the agreement of pur-
chase.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21
Boom for Oklahoma.

The Territory of Oklahoma is on the
verge of a new boom. Within few
months President Mckinley will throw
open to settlers former Indian reser-
walton, embracing no less than two
and a half million acres Of land in the
extreme southern part of the ter
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21
Mrs. .sfexens Chosen Again.

Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, who has
just been reelected president of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
is a native of Dover, Me-, and began
her work as teacher in her own
state. At 81 she married Mr.. Stevens
and went with her husband to his
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21
SAYINGS and DOINGS
Story of an Automobile.

The reported marriage of Carrie
Johnston, formerly private secretary
to the Duke of Manchester, to Mile.
Nellie Neustretter of Paris, has reviv-
ed the incident of his visit to the
United States and to Cincinnati in par
ticular, says the Enquirer. Johnston
is the cousin of Lord Anglesey, and
is handsomer than the duke whom he
accompanied on MS first visit to Am
erica. Gossip has it that he aspired to
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21
$4,000 q Nffbf.

While the American stage is said to
be over-run with European talent,
there is some consolation in the
fact that the European stage is net
shy on American talent of the first
magnitude. In this connection the an
a single nights performance at the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21
To study Homestead Legislation.

The Russian government intends
sending an agent to the United States
to study homestead legislation, with
The view of it's partial application to
the peasant communities.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21

In an audience of rough people a
generous sentiment always brings
down the house. In the tumult of war
both sides applaud heroic deed.-T.
w. Higginson.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21

A mile square is a surface each side
Of which is mile in length; square
mile is any surface containing exactly
mile square.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21
! In the Public Gpe
Cb,caeo'S Munic pal Campaign.

Chicago is getting ready for another
municipal election. The present May
or Carter II. Harrison, who has been
twice elected will again be the candi-
date of the Democrats. Graeme Stew
art, Illinois member of the Republican
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21

land of walking along with an UNI
brella, and was nicknamed lie Roi
Parapluie."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21

ritory, bordered on
the south by Texas
and on the east by
the Chickasaw Ma
ion reservation.
OF the land in the
territory to be
opened $4,000 acres
will be reserved as
a government res
erv a t ton lying
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21

Strand theater, netted Marie George,
the American actress. the handsome
sum of $4,000. There is not Euro
pean woman, save, perhaps, Bernhardt.
whose nightly receipts in this country
anything like approach those figures.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21

his patron, took '>eiiie -'eu'''e''
occasion to run out into the west as
far as Cincinnati. With him ne
brought his automobile and created
a furore with it, that style OF vehicle
being a novelty in those days. MT.
Johnston did not become widely ac-
quainted in society. There was, 1t is
true, much excitement among the lion
hunters, because of the rumor that a
real, live nobleman was within the
gates. But some one discovered that
he was only a cousin to a nobleman'
and that he was on quest of love or
commercialism, and he remained IN
observation. He went as unexpectedly
as he came, but rumor has 1t that the
automobile remained behind as TO-
ken of esteem to a newly found friend
who was kind enough to advance a
"trifle for expenses, y know" And
the gossips say further that the friend
had the "auto" reprinted, and declared
that it had just come over from Paris
He still possesses a specimen OF Mr..
Johnstons chirography on bit OF
note paper. Nellie Neustretter is the
woman who figured in the Willie *.
Vanderbilt divorce case five years ago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21
May Enter the Cabinet.

Wayne MacVcagh, who is mentioned
as a possible successor to Attorney
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-12-21

the hand of the
duchess when she
was Miss thinner
man. and that he
W as dismissed
from the dukes
household for his
presumption. John
ston met Miss Zim-
norman abroad,
and when he came
to America with
The age-herald., 1900-12-23

raise small loan in the London market a lew months ago met with does not seem To encourage fresh applications in the same qaartei. In the nature of things, 1t will be some years before the waste and destruc- ton worked by the war have been made good, and meantime the course of trade which in the past was favorable to Cape colony will take other channels. Durban, In Natal, and Lorenzo Marques are so much nearer to Bloemfontein and Pretoria than Cape Town that supplies and traffic may De expected to take the shorter routes. This Will aHect the revenues of Cape Colony de- rivable from the railways.
 No boom is to be looked for after the war is over, the sacrifices made by the Cape farmers or imposed on them having been too great to permit their launching into eXtravagances of any kind for long time to come. The reduction of the imperial expenditure consequent on the withdrawal from the country of the great portion of the British army will cause a sudden re- duction in the trade depending on 1t, and bring about a great curtailment of the profits of those engaged it, and on which they depend for their living. The latest ac- counts from the late Orange Free State de- scribe it as reduced almost to the condi- tion of a desert, the Boerhomesteads in ruins and the focks and herds either car riod off to supply the wants of the army of occupation or scattered over the veldt where they are a prey to the wild beats that are making their appearance in con siderable numbers as a result of the dis appearance of the popula ton. The cessa- tion Of the production of gold during the period of the war is also among the indi- rect losses caused by it.
The age-herald., 1900-12-23

like a meteor, and a sudden reputation is made for a new man. That was the way with Bryan when he first came to the House~fn the Fifty-third Congress and sprang into instant notoriety with a speech on the tariff that dazzled everybody. Lit tlefield of Maine made an even more ef- fectve stroke last winter with his argu- ment against the unseating of the Mormon Roberts. These are the most striking ex- amples in recent years of regulations quickly made. Away back in the Fifty third Congress Lafe Pence caught the House in the first week after he took his seat with free-silver speech.
 "The most finished orator in the House of Representatives is Cousins of Iowa. He has been in Congress now for four years, and in the eight years of his Congressional ca reer he has made two speeches. Yet so fine were they that his reputation on account of them is national. One was half an hour in length. It was witty and eloquent crit icism of Ambassador Bayard at the time Bayard was making himself unpopular by his pro-English remarks at London dinners. The other was less than five minutes long, and was spoken after the destruction of the Maine. Cousins sat silent in his place for one full term before he ever opened his mouth. It is more than two years now since he last spoke. When he takes the floor again he will have an attentive audi ence.
 ''The most effective orator in the House up to the time he was transferred to the Senate, little while ago, was Deliver of Iowa."
The age-herald., 1900-12-23
COST OF ENeLAND's WAR.
She Has Already Spent Hundreds of Millions and the End Not In Sight.

The cost of the South African war has now so greatly exceeded the original esti- mates that practically no one in authority in England seems able to make definite calculation of what 1t may ultimately amount to. The borrowing powers granted to the British government by the late Parliament are nearly exhausted, and heavy arrears, amounting to between $2OO 900 and $250, 00,000, are pressing for payment. Against these liabilities the government has about $75, 900 immediately available, the unexhausted borrowing power amount ing to $30, 900 and the balance of loans yet to be paid up $45,0O0000. Of the pay ments in arrears much consists of the pay due the army and debts of contractors.
 The indirect cost has been estimated, says the New York Sun, and the result is highly interesting. In September last the shrinkage in value of the full list of securi- ties quoted on the London stock exchange had, as direct consequence of the war, reached the enormous figure of nearly $2,- 800, ,OOO 0OO The decline in the market value of consols alone has been serious, and the fall has been equally marked In municipal stocks and railway and other obligations. The increase to the national debt, with the additional taxation to meet the interest payments has also to be taken into account. Then there is the expense or teS~ perma nent garrison, estimated at 50,0OO men, which will have to be kept up for an UT 1e- termined period out of the pocket of the British taxpayers for there is no present visible source of revenue in South Africa from which the cost can be paid.
 But the matter does not end here. The increase and the reorganization or the army have to be provided for, and millions will have to be spent in bringing the stores of ammunition and other war material up to the requirements of the new policy. Already orders for $30,000,000 worth of new guns have been placed, to be followed by others, thr, amount of which has not yet been de- cided on.
 It is not, however. in England only that the direct cost of tfhe war is making itself felt by the taxpayers. The shortage of rev. enue in Cape Colony this year is estimated by the minister of finance at not less than s12. 915.oOo, which he proposes to borrow. though the reception which a proposal to
The age-herald., 1900-12-23
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
 ABOUT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
Oldest and Youngest Men. Million aires in Senate. Richest Repre-
 sentatives. Some History.

Kansas, was born in Virginia and served in the Confederate army-an odd sequence as politics go Fighting Joe Hawley of Connecticut was born in North Carolina but that was an accident.
 Oldest Man in the Senate.
 'The oldest man in the Senate is Pettus of Alabama. According to his own state ment he will be 80 next July. There are ten other members of the Senate who sare over 70. and one of them is Pettus' col league, Morgan; but beside Pettus these, all seem like Ight-hearted boys. Hoar, Flaw ley, Platt of Connecticut. Allison of Iowa, Teller, Cullom, Jones and Stewart have all passed the age of thfeescore and ten, and not one of them carries the impression of being more than in the prime of life. But Pettus looks and acts as if he had been 70 ever since he was born. He is serving his first term, but he never hesitates to take the most venerable of his colleagues to task for violating Senate traditions.
 ''The youngest member of the Senate is Marion Butler of North Carolina. He has been in the Senate now for five years and yet he is only S7 years of age. Beyeridge of Indiana, who has just made his debut, hugs Butler close. He is the senior by a little less than a year.
 "The oldest member of the House is Ga lusha Grow of Pennsylvania, who dates back to 1923 and who is as splendid phys ical specimen as can be found anywhere. The youngest member is Martin Glynn of Albany, who is not quite 29 years old, and who is the junior of Mitchell May of Brook lyn by just about two months.
 There are four Senators who are under 40 years of age; twenty between 40 and 50; twenty-six between 50 and 50; twenty-four between 60 and TO- and eleven who have passed the 70 mark. The average is nearly 60. The average age of members of the House Is 47 years. Four are under 30; fifty are between 30 and 40; IA between 40 and 50; ninety between 50 and 60; twenty-eight between 50 and 70. and just as many above 70 as are under 30 The tendency is con stantly to send younger men to the House and keep older men in the Senate In the Fifty-third Congress, for instance, only three Senators were over 70 years of age and Al Representatives were over 50. Now eleven Senators are over 70 and only 122 Representatives over 50, although the
The age-herald., 1900-12-23

From the Baltimore Sun.
 In an article in the current number of Ainslee's Magazine on 'The Men Tha. Make Our Laws," L. A. Coolidge gives some interesting facts and gossip about the members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. He writes
 "There are very few members either Of tn House or of the Senate who are not of native birth. To be exact there are just sixteen Representatives and six Senators who were not born in the United States In the Fifty-sixth Congress, curiously enough, one of the members is Henderson, the Speaker, who is Scotehman. But he is as genuine an American as there is in the land. Considering the proportion of foreign to native born in the United States, the percentage is insignificant, especially when it is remembered that the average member of Congress is one who has been given to moving about in the world and shifting his environment. Out of 352 members of the present House only PIT represent the States in which they were born, and of this num- Der only few still live in the Congression- al district where they first saw light He has been ambitious, or else he would never have found his present place.
 "Only two members of the present House who were not born south of Mason and Dixon's line represent Southern constituen- cies. One of these got his seat on a con- test; the other is Wise of Virginia, the son of the Virginia war Governor, who happen ed to be born in Philadelphia, his mothers early home. It is not an unusual thing for a Southern man to go North and win politi- cal success. There are sixteen members of the present House who have made such a migration and three Senators. One of the members is Cannon of Illinois, chairman of the appropriations committee, who was born in North Carolina Another is Page Morris, who was born in Virginia, and rep resents a Minnesota district. Another is Newlands of Nevada, the silver magnate, who halls from Mississippi. Cullom, the veteran Illinois Senator, was born in Ken lucky. Harris. the Populist Senator from
The age-herald., 1900-12-23
he Birmingham Bargain Battle With Six Big Holly Berry Specials
A Holly Berry Beauty ,
A MiStIetOnian Time on the
 Fair and Square Field.

A mixture of mistletoe, merchandising and art produces of the most entrancing places on Earth. A dream, vision of delight sight i'm possible to conceive without the objective view even then you will doubt your sight; but when you see and hear the thousands of busy custom CTS, myriads of enthusiastic statesmen, delivery ize that you are still on this mundane sphere, and that you face to face with one of the most modern institutions in Alabama You will be witnessing commercial battle by trained note that only Low Prices are used as weapons, with Quality and Taste as breastworks You will see the hosts desert the enemy and flock to the standard of The Lily and The Square. You will success all around this field. You will join the populace. You will be glad you saw.
 It's grand, magnificent sight.
 ]. BLACR & SONS.
The age-herald., 1900-12-23
Ineligible
From the Ddtroit Journal.

From the Detroit Journal
 In the blue mountains of Tennessee, a mother is eXpostulating earnestly with her daughter
 Yes" the young girl has already said, I'm going 10 marry Bud Bangforthri "But," protests the mother, he is socially so much your inferior"
 Love levels ranks!' the daughter simp- CTS simply.
 "Ay!' exclaims the elder woman, with bitter sneer "But think of our family feud- ing with those impossible, gawky parycnu Bangforthsi"
 The girl shivers perceptbly. and yet re- mains unmOved.
The age-herald., 1900-12-23
Millionaire Members.

House contains more members now than then.
The age-herald., 1900-12-23

Kansas, was born in Virginia and served in the Confederate army-an odd sequence as politics go. Fighting Joe Hawley of Connecticut was born in North Carolina but that was an accident
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-01

After more than two months of consider
alton. the Senate District committee today
agreed not To disagree on the telephone
E.u compromising upon non-committal
7, port To the Senate without recommended
ton. The Senate now has opportunity to
give practical evidence of its desire to af-
ford relief to the people of Washington in
this matter. The ncarncss of the final adj
jcurument of course gives the opposition
opportunity TO iilibuster- But the circum-
stances in this case are such that deter
mined stand in opposition to this measure
can he construed only as meaning that the
filibuster is directly Interested in preserving
the present monopoly.
The Senate stands pledged against the
Continuation OF the extortionate rates
charged by the Chesapeake and Potomac
company. 1t acquiesccd in the provision
Of the appropriation bill two sessions ago.
which reduced the rates to even a lower
point than that proposed by the pending
measure. Since then the monopolizing COM
pauy has defied Congress. refused to meet
the requirements of the people and forfeited
all claims 10 consideration. II has alienated
tho sympathies of many of those who for
mcrly defended it, and who now willing
to go 10 the extreme of rival company in
order to cure the evil.
The issue now set before The Senate is
whether this corporation is superior to the
law-making power. to the demands of the
community and TO the logic of the COM
mercial situation. Can this corporation,
which has grown fat on its monopoly, con-
t.fue to profit by extortion which is con-
demned by the honest Judgment of all ard
from which an easy avenue of escape Is
now afforded?
The people of the capital will now have
chance to learn who are their real friends
in the upper house of Congress.