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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

when l heard her story. Her husband
had been killed in railway accident
three years before The insurance
money was almost gone, and the little
widow added to the income that must
support herself and invalid mother by
giving music lessons to few wealthy
girls
A daintier little rosebud of woman
1t would have been hard to find. Soft
brown hair, tossed in truant curls
about the low forehead, voice that
spoke always gently, blue eyes full Of
mirth, and a complexion that looked
like it had been bathed in the morning
dew.
Once or twice held the big door
open for her to pass out, and bowed in
response to the low thank you" Ear
ly after my coming to the building a
boy on the top floor had been accom-
modating enough to get hurt in the ele-
vator, and had been called in as the
most available physician. Luckily, |
brought the boy through so well that
his parents, as well as the youngster
himself sounded my praises so loudly
that found myself with quite repu-
tation and incidentally practice in
the neighborhood. Still, had not met
Mrs. Traine, and was beginning wick
eddy to hope that some accident-ever
so slight a one, of course-might hap
pen to her, a sprained ankle or wrist,
that l might have the joy Of caring for
her. However, the fates preserved Mrs
Traine from accident, and l continued
to watch for glimpses Of her from my
Office window.
had bowed the last patient out for
the evening and settled myself for a
smoke before bedtime. My medita-
tions, mingling with the blue curling
smoke, were interrupted by piercing
screams, and then another. I rushed
into the hall. The screams came from
the Traine apartment above. In another
minute I was knocking on the door,
which was opened by Mrs. Traine her.
self, white and breathless. "Oh," she
gasped, catching hold of my arm.
We've got him-out therein the pan
try-poor mamma"
"Who?" | asked.
1.-THE burglar He hid in the dining
room-mamma saw him, and he ran
into the pantry-and locked the door
and-hes trying to jump out of the
window"
heard a noise as of some one try
ing to push up window, and opening
the pantry door there he was. sure
enough burglar. '-browed and sui
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

y. X. Smith. a colored preacher in
Houston. Tex. known there as Elijah
the prophet" has been for several
months predicting long season Of rain
and pleading with his people to build
covered boats to save themselves from
the food that is coming. The fact
that rain has fallen there every day
for forty-four days is pointed to as a
fulfillment Of his prophecy. and he has
also shown his faith by his works.
having built an ark and placed it in
his church.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
A Chinese Scholar

10 Feng Lu. the Chinese minister
at London. is Q man OF more than
ordinary literary attainments. He has
translated Blackstone's commentaries
into Chinese, and only few months
since finished the translation Of 1.-THE
One Hundred Greatest Men in the
Western World"-a work Of eight vol
umes. He is Shakespearean student,
and 1t is his ambition to found pub
lie library in his native city and to
present to It a complete translation
of the English poets works.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

No matter what ails you, headache
to a cancer, you will never get we'll
until your bowels are put right.
CASCARETS help nature, cure you
without a grippe or pain, produce easy
natural movements, cost you Just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the
genuine, put up in metal boxes, every
tablet has G. c. c. stamped on it Be-
ware Of limitations.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

There was unveiled at La Teste do
Buch, France, the other day, statue
Of DR.. Jean Hameau. the obscure med
ical practitioner, who, in 1886, pub
lished study on viruses, in which he
partly anticipated the discoveries of
Pasteur.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

len, who dropped the window and
turned to face me.
you can't make Jump from that
window, my man." l said. "You had
better be quiet"
turned the lock again, but Mrs.
Traine, divining my purpose, chung to
my arm. Don't CO." she cried fran
tically. 1--WE can't stay here alone
minute" Then, to my relief, the same
small boy who had served me so well
professionally appeared on the thresh-
old, attracted by the cries. OF he
went to call the police, while I tried
to quiet two hysterlcal women.
In few minutes the burglar was
handcuffed and led away, but the shock
had proved too much for Mrs. Traine's
invalid mother. The fainting spell was
followed by delirium, and her daughter
and l watched by her bedside until
morning.
OF course, was installed as attend
ing physician, and never failed to call
morning and evening. When the pa
tient was able to sit up l sometimes
read aloud to her as an excuse to re-
main longer, watching the daughter at
some household task
One evening I stayed for tea. Mrs.
Traine wore dainty gown OF white
and blue, with great deal Of lace.
There is no sight so welcome to a
bachelor as a pretty woman at the
head of tea table. The next morning
1 pictured the pretty widow sitting OPP
posite me at my own breakfast table
wearing the pretty house jacket l had
seen on my morning calls.
That afternoon l took Mrs. Traine
and her mother for drive, and was
rewarded by another invitation to tea.
A reason for such close attention to
my patient was no longer apparent.
was hunting about in my mind for an
other excuse to prolong the delightful
calls when Mrs. Traine knocked at my
door one evening.
Il have come to you on business"
she said, taking the seat l offered her.
you have been kind to mother" she
WtHl Ou. vi COuloc, We WdHI " pay
you for your trouble. Would you mind
telling me, please, how much the
amount is?"
l saw the anxious look growing
deeper in the sweet face opposite me-
How much denial and privation paying
a Doctors bill meant to that little wom-
an already burdened with responsible
ity
1T must be large BILL she said at
last, as l remained silent, watching her.
"You-you've made so many calls"
Eyes, it is large BILL" said, slow
ly.
There was a quick uplifting Of the
Eue eyes. 81 hope" she said, softly,
that you won't mind If We don't pay
it quite all at once; If we could ar
range to pay you so much every week
until the bill is settled"
NO" said, In business-like tones.
81 would prefer to have the whole bill
settled for at once"
My heart smote me for the alarm in
the face that was lifted to mine. l
leaned forward and took her hand.
do you know how much my bill will
be? Well, it's great deal. Nothing
loss than the giving of your own self
to me, my darling, will satisfy my
claim against you"
"You mean" said Mrs. Traine.
the bushes diffusing her pale face.
THAT | want you to be my wife,"
said, drawing her head down upon my
shoulder. is the price too great?"-
Chicago Tribune.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The Army and Navy Journal brings
together the statistics of lives lost in
railroading in the United States the
past year, and compares these with
the casualties in the Philippines, reck-
oning on the basis of an army of Co.,
900 men. The result shows railroad
ing to be about four times as perilou
as war
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
WONDERFUL DIsCovERYl

Rays Eureka Ointment Remedies.-1t
is astonishing how quickly these remedies
cure all diseases. by anointing-enters at
once into the circulation. They should be
in every house in case of Colds, Groups.
Burns or any other accident. Retails at
bOc; 50 per doz. E r. Ray & Co., Eu-
reka Springs, Ark. Agents wanted.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

At Bath Beach progressive euchre
party, the women wore white shirt
waists and black skirts, the men white
duck trousers and shirt waists of rain
bow hues. No one was admitted in
other than shirt waist attire.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
A Japanese Diplomat.

Korgora Takahita, the new Japan
ese minister to the United States. has
been in the diplomatic service for 25
years. He is a graduate of the Toxic
university, and has filled diplomatic
posts in Holland and Italy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
A Forty Eig ht-HOur Sabbath

President Kruger once determined
that the people Of johannesburg
should have at least two days rest in
each week. He issued decree that
no piano playing should occur on Fri
day or Saturday.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

Mrs A. G. Russell, Nashville. Tenn, wrote:
Dr. Monetts TEETHINA Creething Powders) is
the greatest blessing to teething children
that the world has ever known
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
Toll at the hour Of prime.

Toll NJ the nOur OF prime,
Matin and vesper chime.
Loving old bells. from the stee3le high;
Rolling like holy waves
over the lowly graves.
Floating up. prayer fraught, Into the SKY.
Solemn the lesson your lightest notes
teach:
Stern is the preaching your iron tongues
preach,
Ringing In life from the bud to the bloom.
Ringing the dead to their rest In the
tomb.
Peal out everc1ore.
Peal as we pealed of yore,
Brave old bells. on each Sabbath day;
In sunshine and gladness
Through clouds and through sadness,
Bridal and burial have passed away;
Tell us lfe's pleasures. with death are
still rife:
Tell us that death ever leadeth to life.
Life Is our labor and death is our rest:
If happy the living. the dead are the
blest.
Dublin University Magazine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections of the throat and lungs.-WM
O. ENDsLEY, Vanburen, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

A fish isn't necessarily crazy when It
is inseine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

FITS Permanently Cured 20 its nervousness after
frst days of DR.. Klines Great Nerve Restorer.
Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise.
DE. r. II. KLINE, Ltd ISL Arch St., Philadelphia Pa
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

High water doesn't necessarily raise
the price of milk.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
LOW RATE EXCURSIONS,

Via Missouri Pacific Ry., and Iron Noun
tain Route,
To points in the West, Southwest, and
Southeast at half-rates (plus s2) for
the round trip. Tickets on sale Tues
days, September and IS, October 2
and 16, November 6 and 20. and De-
cember and IS, 1900. For full infor-
nation, land folders, etc., address any
agent Of the above lines. or H. c.
Townsend, G. P. & T. Agent, St Louis.
Missouri.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

Keep looking young and save your hair, its coloi
and beauty with PARKER's HAIR BALsAa.
uINDKRCoRNs, the best cure for cOrns. 15cts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

Many poor pootblack has managed
to shine in society.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

A matrimonial spat is a common diff
ference.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
Wanted.

A travelling salesman in each southern state;
$50 to $50 per month and expenses; experience
not absolutely necessary. For particulars i'd
dress Penicks Tobacco Works. Penicks, Va
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

All goods are alike to PUTNAM
DYES. as they color all
fbers at one boiling.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The mortgage is always looking for
somebody to give it lift.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

To be always happy, use Red Cross
Ball Blue. &c. Refuse limitations.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

When man looks in a mirror he
knows how it is himself.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
The Best Prescription for Chins

and Fever is bottle OF GROVES TAsTELEss
CHILL Tonic. 1t is simply iron and qunine in
b tasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price, SOC.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

A women with a scrawny neck
doesn't approve Of decollete gowns.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The most profitable style is the turn
stile.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

Fools acquire wisdom and loafers go
to work tomorrow.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The memory of past happiness is a
on the face of time.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The nation that produces the most
marriages is fascination.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

When man gets ratified he probably
has a screw loose somewhere.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

Every mother information of vital value her
young daughter That daughter is precious legacy and
the responsibility for her future largely the hands Of the
mother The mysterious change that develops the thought
less girl into the thoughtful should find the mother
the watch day and night AS she for the physical
webeing of her daughter, will the woman be- and her
children also.
When the young girls thoughts become sluggish when
she experiences headaches dizziness fanness and exhibits
abnormal disposition to Sleep pains in the back and lower
limbs, dim, desire for solitude, and dislike for the
society of other girls when she herself
friends, then the mother should go her aid promptly At
such time the greatest aid to nature Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound 1t prepares the young
system for the coming change and the sures reliance in
this hour of trial.
The following letters from Miss Good practical proof
OF Mrs. Pnkham's efficient advice to young women.
Miss Good asks Mrs. Pinkham Help.
18th,
DEAR Mrs have been much bothered for
time with monthly periods being irregular tell
it, myself
month menstruation would become
for MONTHS and
r---l work hard. would be muchpe l.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
The Happy Result.

FEBRUARY lOtn, 19OO.
"DEAR Mrs PINKuAM:- Il cannot praise lydia
p. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound enough. 1t is
just simply wonderful the change your medicine
has made in me. 1 feel like another person. My
work is now pleasure to me, while before using
your medicine it was burden. To-day am a
healthy and happy girl. l think if more women
would use your Vegetable Compound there would be
less suffering in the world. l cannot express the
relief have experienced by using Lydia e. Pink.
hams Vegetable COmpound."-MIss PEARL COOP.
Cor. Goth Avenue and Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-07-05
summer Tourist Rates 20 Coloraso

Summer tourist tickets to Denver.
Colorado Springs and Pueblo will be
placed on sale June LIST, and sold daily
up to and including September 18th.
1900, with fnsl return limit of October
Slst, 1900. Stop overs will be allowed
on going trip after reaching the frst
colorado common point. The return
trip must be an absolutely continuous
passage, commencing on the date OF
exetution by the joint agent.
A. j. CoRKISs, Agent
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-07-05

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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-07-14
Double Headlight

Among the many modern inventions
which have been devised for greater
safety on our railroads there Is one
which is attracting much attention
among railroad men. 1t is a device to
enable the engineer to see around
curves on his route. Instead of the us
ual single head light there are two
placed side by side about yard apart
in the usual position just before the
smokestack, but the effect is as though
the modern steel Polyphemus had
grown another optic. Beings of flesh
and blood rub their eyes TO make sure
they are not deceivlng them, when the
monster rushes by them for the first
time, and in town were prohibition
does not obtain the spectacle is said to
have driven some to take the pledges
against strong drink
The appearance of the engine is all
the more baleful because the blazing
eyes are turned slightly toward each
other, and certainly to a person of
normal Imagination a cross-eyed loco
motive could only seem to be the pro-
duct of feverish dream.
1t is, however, simply Yankee de-
vice to increase the engine drivers
lateral range of vision.
The two headlights focus on the
rails a hundred yards or so ahead of
the engine at the point where the
greatest illumination is desired, and,
continuing their X-shaped formation,
diverge beyond over the surrounding
fields and farm houses.
When an engine comes to turn in
the track the thin beam of intense
light thrown by the ordinary single
headlight runs off the track and loses
itself in the darkness ahead, and the
locomotive crew can only guess what
may be on the rails, stretching away
to the right or left ahead of them, but
with the new twin lanterns one arm
or the other of the X of light reaches
along the branching tracks, keeping
pace with the engine as it swerves.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-07-14
How Chinese Use the Bible.

What becomes of all the Bibles
that go to China?" used to be the
standing puzzle to the missionaries, y
remarked Chicago preacher as he
discussed the Boxers, says the Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
"A few years ago." he continued.
there went up a great cry for mis-
5ionelly Bibles in the Flowery king
dom. The Bible society was extreme
y gratifed The demand was unpre-
cedented and thousands of dollars were
spent in sending them nice red NOR
rocco Testaments.
This sort of thing went on for a
long time. but the number Of native
converts did not increase accordingly.
The Missionaries investigated. What
10 you suppose they discovered?'
That they used the Bibles for gun
wadding?"
NO. They made lirecrackers out of
EN-. Practically all the nicely printed
Bibles we were sending over there
were rolled up in nice little rolls, a
page at time ,and made into fire.
'rackers. The Chinese make firecrack-
ers at home, for an incredibly low
price, and the paper that they We're
getting free cut considerable figure
with them. But it taught us Celes-
;ial lesson, as | might say"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-07-14
Farewell to Bishop David H.
Moore.

Athens, o., July 12-Bishop David
H. Moore, was rendered a most royal
reception by the people of the First
Methodist church OF this city last eve
ming The reception was held in the
;hurch and was attended by hundreds
of Athenians. This was Dr. Moore's
first visit to Athens since he was made
bishop, and the first opportunity his
boyhcod friends had to congratulate
him upon his election to the highest
office in the Methodist church. The
irst address was made by Rev r. f.
Bishop, presiding elder of the confer
ence district, and he was followed by
Gen. c. H. Grosvenor, who spoke on
behalf of the citizens of Athens. Ma
jor L. NJ. Jewett made some pertinent
remarks, during which he presented
he church picture of Bishops Moore,
Cranston and McCabe, taken when
they were students at the Ohio univer-
5ity here.
Bishop Moore responded in touch
ing manner to all that was said and
iwelled upon the kindly feeling for the
citizens OF Athens and the loyalty of
Athens county people, the place of his
birth and his early training.
This will be DR.. Moore's last visit to
Athens before he sails for China.