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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1900-07-16
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Gin bcriibmten TprS Ginanng
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1900-07-16
Hercalc=S =Shirt= =Waiits

Gin uHgepObHfibes Grttonib in Sbjrtz gDaifg
ipis eg felt 3abren nitbt oOrfum. Sine Gtlegsubst
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bis 3u 75c. pertb. Sdos 25c.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1900-07-16
9osner's
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Yosner's
25c. Sticfcrcien an Sc.

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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1900-07-16
3osner's

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nieorigiten preiIe, Die nod ie fir bic
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1900-07-16
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npsosentise piersja9rse eofS @6fsationen t. sppo6e
Citi5enS Rai|uay Ciig@t d Yoner
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uon sfc,pports9ie,us, &irgi,,ia.
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rantM ouf eosr Sblgatun tnbpllr tit.
Datir pom !. 1iai 1900. faug am l. alai 1910.
3inien ablbar l.
NleganScr Srpum & Spns, Baltimore.
Gefammt6etras Oct eSppot6ek $780, 900.
Oe br6ibsnben $250OO O6qaomn fir 3utnigs gror
bernife Der Gpmpagnie rerpirD
]llnrp(ano-Urult= Gompagnie, Baltimore, Uru(tee.
Sit nns sss ansnat "." ss bic i'm sn Sabre @ @n @ Hno @ % @ s' @
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1900-07-16

N}ani(a, Is. Suli. - 3nsf gaa
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unO 0aggett's gatter:e be8 5. 2rtila
ltrie 8egiment5 g;ngen beute auf ben
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T6ire" lnb rNpsTt!o" na6 G6!na a6.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1900-07-16
&ein 3weiffl mebr.
AGe Ausfanoer a6sef6fa6tet.
Die Ginselnbeitcn beSMaiiafres pun
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FAINT iperocn.

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- Die G4insien baben bas DIt!ife
WrIenal 5uriid srpbsrt. - @rfolgs
Der 4Qiirten am 9. uno II. Suli.
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Ter fiel anse6li4 Der Ruds Der
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26
Lone Elm Items.

Our farmers are working like spring.
time.
Lewis and Byerly shipped hogs this
week.
DR.. Will Bostick was on the sick list a
day or two this week. &c"
Miss Mamie Jones visited with Mrs.
Josie Sanders, Monday.
EN-. Mcdowell is here from Kansas
City.
The sound of the corn-sheller is heard,
and business seems to be humming in
this village. .'.
Tommy Moore was down from John
son county last week, to buy the stallion
Dalton" owned by Robert Sanders
A Mr.. Roberts, of Chicago, is here,
buying poultry.
Mesdames E, Moon and J. Kelsey were
in Colony day or two last week.
c. H. Nichols and T. G. Weber were
in La Harpe, on business, one day last
week,
Mrs. Lizzie Smith, of Prairie View, was
called to Missouri, few days ago, by
the serious illness of her son Fred's wife.
Miss Ona Hester's young friends per-
petrated a very pleasant surprise on her
last Friday evening. by coming in to
spend the evening. The event was her
eighteenth birth anniversary. Needless
to say, happyevening was experienced.
Mrs. Mary Hunter is still very sick;
also, Mr.. Brees, south of town, has been
sick for several weeks. He is one of the
oldest men in this township.
The members OF the Epworth League
will give an entertainment-a "Klondike
Social" and box supper, in the NJ. E.
church, Saturday evening, Ian. ~ 1900
Come and enjoy pleasant evening and
help the League.
Mrs. Jennie KELSEY was called to Bush
City, Tuesday. by the serious illness
a relative there.
Miss Henderson. of Jarbalo, this State
has been here the past week, visiting
her little nieces, the Henderson children,
who live with MIR. and Mrs. J. ID. Hester.
A very pleasant social event occurred
at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Robins, south of town. last Friday even
ing. Miss Crane introduced the amuse,
ments of the evening among the Young
people present. dainty lunch was
served during the evening
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

The large and increasing circulation of
The Live Stock Indicator in this county
is matter for congratulation to the pub
fishers and to good farming, for, Of all the
papers of its class in the country. it 10
easily the best and most helpful. Its Spe-
ciai Farmers Institute editions. issued
with the regular edition the first week in
eachmonth. have been tor years the ad-
miration OF all practialtarmers. Written
wholly by farmers. they are full OF actual
experience and smell of the soil. We have
been fortunate enough this season to Sc
cure terms for The Indicator and it's Spe-
cial Farmers Institute Editions, toget-
her with The Poultry Farmer and The
Farmers Mutual Insurance Journal, tour
of the most valuable farm publication in
the country, that enable US to offer the
four in connection with our own paper
for $3.50 for the entire Ave. one year.
This is emphaticslly a good thing, and
no farmer in this county should fail to
take advantage of the offer. For large
line of thoroughly practical farm reading
nothing has ever been offered before that
equals it. A county paper, farm paper,
poultry paper, farm insurance paper
and the Special Farmers Institute, all
for $3.50. Come in and order them.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26
MOB LAW AT Fl. SCOTT.

Last Saturday night, the Smith brothers VINO
murdered young German by the name OF Ed
lnger some time ago, and who had been con
victed of murder, undertook to get out of Jail.
They assaulted the deputy sheriff, knocking
him down with an iron bar, and would have
killed him had not help arrived. The report
was soon circulated over the city, and IN short
time several hundred citizens surrounded the
Jail. The door was forced open and the prison
ers were taken out and hung to some trees IN
the court house yard. An old man by the name
of Phillips, who had hand in the murder was
spirited away, for fear he would also be lynched
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

LAST Wednesday, the papers contained re-
port that General Hazen, chief of the weather
bureau, has been thrown from his wheel ana
nearly killed. Before night, the wind veered
around to the north, and, presto, our summer
weather had vanished. We hope the next
chief of the weather bureau won't know
bicycle from wheelbarrow. Then he won't
get his head busted and have to let go his grip
on the weather. This thing of letting the
weather cavort around unchecked, like young
calf, doesn't suit us.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

CHAUNcy DEpEw pretends to oppose the
trusts, yet he is a member OF the boards OF ol-
rectors of eighty-two corporations He is di'
rector in ffty-three railroad boards, two banks,
one life insurance company, one storage COM
pany, one coal company, three bridge compan-
les, mining company, telegraph company
and land company These companies are all
members of trusts. O, ves Chauncy IS op-
posed to trusts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

have full control of the paper, editorially and
otherwise. Only such matter that he approves
of will appear in the paper during that week.
The Capital is turned over to to him tor this
time to illustrate his conception of the Chris
tian daily newspaper. The price of the Capt.
tai for that week will be IS cents, and it IS
needless to say that the paper will have an
enormous sale 1t is doubtful if the Capital
has press facilities to supply the demand.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

THE Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Coal Company has closed its mines The COM
narv saws it was done because Of an over produc-
ton for market demands, but the miners claim
that it was done for the purpose of anticipating
any labor trouble by reason OF the present un'
rest among the miners.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

PRESIDENT KRUGER's salary is $4,000 a
wear. When the war broke out between Eng
land and the Transvaal republic, President
Kruger cut his own salary to $4,000, and also
reduced the salaries OF other officials. Let's
see: Has McKinley's salary been reduced any
since he begun his war on the Filipinos?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26
PHIL OSOPHY AND MORALS OF LAW.

A few extracts from Max Nordeau's article
in North American Review, on "Phosophy
and Morals of War;:
"Christianity is indeed the religion of peace.
A Dove the portals of the church of Christ, the
Christmas greeting of the angels, 'Pease on
earth and good will to mem, glows as an in
spiration. This is theory. The practice of
the church is quite different. She has scarcely
ever prevented war, and frequently pressed the
sword into the hands of the faithful In our
day, the church has lost power to set nation
against nation, but she does not withhold her
blessings tom the banners of war; The hosts
that march to the front are sped by her pious
wishes, and she prays to God that he grant VIC
tory to the arms that she has blessed. In ev-
erv country does the church render this service
to the native banners and arms, and she does
not seem to see that it is blasphemy to ask of
God of Love to look with favor upon murder
and destruction, or to ask of the God OF the
Universe to take sides with one portion of His
children against another portion; especially
when she knows that the other portion is turn
ing to Godlwith exactly the same impertinent
request Never yet has clergyman had the
common sense to say: Il refuse to pray for the
victory of our arms From the affairs in the
enemy's country this same prayer is rising to
Heaven in this selfsame hour, and to hearken
to both prayers, to grant victory to both hos
tile armies, lies beyond the pale of even Gods
omnipotence:
"The emotion which sustains the warlike
tendencies in cultured men is stronger than
religion, who breaches love to ones neighbor,
stronger than philosophy, which teaches the ir-
regularity OF brute force; stronger than morals
and right, which civilized man preteuds to rec
ognize as the leading powers of his life. This
feeling is ruthless egotism, which usts merely
for qualification, and remains untouched by the
concept that the neighbor also has rights that
deserve respect If war is to disappear from
national life, the individual must first feel his
solidarity with the race IN his heart, and not
only recognize it as mere verbal WISDOM and
tn. law of progress must be cooperation instead
of competition
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

SHOULD Mark Hanna's ship subsidy bill pass,
his own companies will receive forty millions,
and the Pierpont Morgan and Vanderbilt hnes'
ffty-seven millions, while c. P. Huntington
share of the plunde will be over thirty millions.
Kansas Republican congressman all favor it
Mound City Standard.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

PARSONS will not get the new insane aylum
after al-or not at present. The assistant at
torney-general says the state board OF charities
has no atho1ity to obtain land for a new institu-
ton by condemnation proceedings. The matter
goes over to the next meeting of the Legislature
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

THERE is soon to be gigantic railroad COM
bination, or trust and, according to the Topeka
Capital, $4,000 solicitors and thousands OF other
emnloves will be thrown out of employment.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26
s. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD

entirely forces tho
rid OF entirely Hence the
remedies only the poison in where turks forever
Our home treat
Of all We all necessary medic. sd
the OF puplc
Write information Swift Specific Co. Atlanta Ga
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

BENT MURDOCH OF the FL Dorado Republi-
can, says he supposes he is for Mckinley,
Baker, Funston and Miller, and adds: "We
are also for government control OF the railroads
and for the smashing of all trusts that seek to
regulate production control prices How
consistent! He cannot be for Mckinley and
those other fellows and really want to see the
railroads controlled by the government or the
trusts smashed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

By the way, what has become of the Filipino
war?--Topeka Capital
Ask us something easy. However, Otis con-
tinues to keep his typewriter at work, and
sends out report, each day, of the number of
American soldiers who have died. If the war
is over, WHY not call Otis home?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

WHY don't the millionaires get up Il trust?--
Topeka Capital.
Will the Capital name trust that nillionaires
did not "get up?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

ANNA GoULD's husband, the no-account
Count de Castellane, has spent all of her loose
change, and they have come over to America
TO ask the other Goulds for more money.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

John D. ROCKEFELLER now has full contro
Of the lighting and heating of New York City.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

JUDGE CRosscUp has lately returned from
Europe, and he says the universal teellng over
there is for the Beers and against England
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

AN agent of the Boer government has been
in Chicago, buying train-load OF beet tor the
Boer army.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

CLAUS SpRECKLEs, the sugar king, has IT,
600 slaves, or contract laborers,' IN Hawaii,
at work on his plantations
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26
Beware Of the Doctors
Patchwork; You Can
Cure Yourself at Home.

n. y. MytrS s"y
hundred dollars with the DOCTORS when realized that
they could do good. had large spots all over my
body and these broke out into running sores and
endured all the suffering which this vile disease pro-
duces. decided to try s. s. asa last resort and YVES
soon greatly improved followed closely your Dlrec-
chest began grow paler and smaller and before long
disappeared entirely was soon cured perfectly and my
skin has been clear glass since cured my.
self at home, after the doctors had failed completely
It IL valuable time thrown away to expect the doctors
to cure Contagious Blood Poison for the disease Is be-
yond their skill. Swifts Specific
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26
A NOVEL UNDERTAKING.

Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, author of "In His
Steps," will have control Of the Topeka Capt.
tai one week, beginning March 13th. He is to
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

John RUsKIN. the English author and critic,
died last Saturday afternoon.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26

Having closed out my boot
and shoe stock last week, ex.
cept about 200 pairs of ladies'
fine shoes, ! will, for the next 10
days, or until they are all gone,
Close them out at less than cost.
First come, first served.
W. H. Manners.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-01-26
HON f CURE
FOR BI0ODPO|SON.

There is not the slightest doubt that the
doctors do more harm than good in treating
Contagious Blood Poison; many victims OF
this loathsome disease would be much better
of to-day il they had never allowed them
selves to be dosed on mercury and potash. the
only remedies which the doctors ever give for
blood poison.
The doctors are wholly unable to get rid Of
mpt to heal up the outward appearance OF the
IS. This they do by driving the poison into the
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
ILL LUCK OF THE OPAL.
A Buffalo JeweIer Talks of Women
who Are SuperstitiOus of
the Jewels.

In speaking upon the subject of the
common superstition that i'll luck is
sure to follow the owner of an opal,
a prominent jeweler, according to the
Buffalo News, said:
81 could tell you good many stories
upon this subject, and not all of them
would be in support of the general be-
lief, either. OF course, women are the
firmest believers in the superstition at
tached to this stone, and that sex fig
ures in nearly all the cases that have
come under my observation. lady
will come into my place, produce q
ring or pin containing an opal and ask
me what [ will give her in exchange for
it. l examine it carefully, tell her
what it is worth and allow her to Sc
iect anything of equal value from my
stock.
after the exchange is made the
woman will give a sigh of relief, and
prepare myself to hear her tale of woe.
Everything has gone wrong with her
since the fatal hour when that breeder
of misfortune came into her possession.
Even the most trifling misfortunes are
charged to the opal. Sometimes, how
ever, the story is quite the other way
About six months ago a middle-aged
lady of marked intelligence and refine
ment brought me perfect gem of an
opal set in a pin and desired to ex-
change it for diamond pin. She said
the opal had been presented to her by
her father as birthday gift, and she
hated to part with it, but her hus-
band and daughter had worried so
much over the fatality that they were
sure would happen if she retained it,
that she had finally concluded to yield
to their fears and get rid of the stone.
She selected a diamond pin in exchange
for the opal and went away.
about a week ago she came back
again, recalled the transaction to my
mind and anxiously inquired if 1 still
had the opal. l told her that it had
been sold. Her disappointment was
great, and she kept my attention for
nearly half an hour telling me the
things that had happened to her since
she parted with her opal pin. Her
IlHCC CHdIlCo SC1lIlCl hou uICus OllC
of her handsome vases had been un-
accountably broken into a thousand
pieces, the moths had made sad raw
ages among her furs, her bank stock
had ceased to bring her any returns in
the way of dividends, trusted maid
had gone off without the formality of
saying good-by, taking with her some
of her mistress choicest jewels, and
many other dire things had occurred,
all of which she was sure was due to
the fact that she had parted with the
opal. She made me promise to look up
the purchaser of her pin, and said that
she would pay double its value to re-
gain possession of it. So it seems that
the superstition about the opal is ac-
cording to the fancy of the wearer."
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
NO JOBS IN NICARAGUA.
Affords No Field for Young Ameri-
cans of Any Trade or Pro-
fesSion.

In answer to inquiries by a New
York correspondent as to the field fUr
American skill and labor afforded in
Nicaragua, Consul Donaldson, of Ma
nagua, on February 10, 1900, sends
the following information:
"As teachers and professors in gov
ernment and other schools in Mica
ragua, there is really no opening for
our young graduates. Salaries here
are insignificant and customs so DIFF
ferent that Americans have never
proved successful. The salary of a
principal here is so pesos, or about
$17, per month.
american physicians and surgeons
are successful here, but no part of the
world is more crowded with them
than the large towns of Nicaragua
Hundreds OIL the native young men
study medicine in the United States
and return here to practice. They up-
derstand better their own diseases
customs and people than a foreigner
could, and the majority of the people
prefer them. Dentists, however, are
scarce, and whenever an American
dentist comes he does a good business
and can charge remunerative prices.
Engineers of all kinds are the most
successful of any professional men in
these tropical countries. Very few
natives follow that voca ton, and most
of the engineers employed by the gov
ernment are foreigners. An engi-
neer's salary at the start is from $50
to 300 pesos $3.50 to $1oO in United
States gold) per month.
Business here is the favorite occu-
patton for all natives. The wives OF
officials, of planters, of lawyers, Of
doctors and even of politicians have
their little shops and thus crowd
every town with stores. Salaries for
clerks are not worth the considera-
tion of any foreigner
The Winslow mail., 1900-06-21
Personal AND LITERARY.

Sir Reginald Palgrave, who resigned
recently from the clerkship of the
house of commons, entered the serv-
ice Al years ago.
Rev. j. w. Adams is the only
clergyman who has the distinction of
Victorian Cross. 1t was awarded
for gallantry at the battle of Chara-
siah, near Cabul, in 1879.
Owing to his multitudinous agencies
in all parts of the world Lord Roths-
child knows of the most important
events often before any government,
and even before the most enterprising
newspapers.
Observation-Disclosures, meaning
incapable of Limitation has been adj
mitted into DR.. Murray's new English
dictionary, on the strength of its use
by covenanting Byfled of the seven
teenth century.
A Chicago concern has gone into
the business of answering the ques-
tions of children. This service will be
performed by means of weekly news
paper of 16 pages, called the Little
Chronicle, written and illustrated in a
way specially calculated to suit the
tastes and needs of a juvenile client
age.
The earliest poem of high value
which we meet with in modern Eng
lish literature is the thrilling and
mysterious Vision of Piers Plow-
man. This poem has been handed
down to posterity in not fewer than
As manuscript copies. 1t is almost
certain that Langland wrote the first
draft of his poem in 1862, rewrote it
in 1877 and revised it again, with
large additions, somewhere between
1892 and 1898.
When Artemus Ward was to lecture
in little place in the far west, biz
ard came up, and consequently the
audience was small. after my lee
ture," said Artemus, 81 ventured to
suggest to the chairman of the com
mittee that the elements having been
against me that evening, | might re-
peat my talk later on in the seasol.
After comforting with his fellow-coln-
mi teeInen, the ch irI1nan came back
lection at all to your repeating your
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