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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30
Gla dstone and Bradlaugh.

In some "reminiscences of Gladstone,
published in Chambers Journal, occurs
this passage: THE late Mr.. Charles
adlaugh-incredible as it may seem
exercised strange fascination over
Mr. Gladstone, for which no satisfac-
tory explanation has hitherto been
given. When the honorable member
rose to address the house the aged
statesman would leave his seat in or
der to get nearer to the speaker, and
if Mr.. Bradlaugh Unexpectedly took
part in a debate during the temporary
absence of Mr.. Gladstone the latter
would almost invariably enter the
house few minutes later, as II he had
come specially from his private room
to hear the speech, and it seemed as IL
he had made arrangements to be in
formed Immediately Mr.. Bradlaugh
caught the speakers eye.' Some time
after the death of Mr.. Bradlaugh there
was debate in the house Of commons
as to the advisableness Of allowing
Roman Catholic to become lord chan
cellor. Mr.. Gladstone delivered a most
eloquent speech in favor of the pro-
posal, and in the course Of his remarks
he incidentally paid tribute to that
distinguished man. Mr.. Bradlaugh."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30
WALL STREETS'S ALLY.

Banker Hepburn's letter to Secre-
tary Gage, Wall streets near ally and
active friend, is to have such circula-
tion as Its author never dreamed Of.
Ten million copies are to be scattered
broadcast over the land by the Demo-
cratic national committee. That's for
a starter merely. Other millions will
follow Not since letter writing be-
came an art has there been produced a
missive which gave such solid encour-
agement to the opposition. 1t proves
more things than one. Wherefore it is
meet that the American electorate
should have in black and white this
campaign document. 1t shows that the
administration grants financial aid by
favor; that party work and Doodle
campaign contributions give open
sesame to the stronghold of the people;
that Lyman Gage, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, is wholly directed and con-
trolled by Wall streets leaders, and
that the president is quick to respond
to the buttons touch, when at the 9TH
er end there sits the Standard Oil and
kindred allies of the octopus.-Verdict
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30

Pipe lines for gas, water, steam and
oil long ago demonstrated some of the
attractive possibilities of the pipeline
method of fluid transportation and
made it familiar to all, with evidence
of it Astounding in everyday life. And
yet one is impressed with a tinge of
novelty in recently circulated news
paper waif which tells of twenty-five
mile pipe line for conveying sugar.
house sirup. At Springfield, Utah, U.
S. A., it appears, there is a plant for
slicing sugar beets and extracting the
sugar-laden juice by diffusion, and
this, with it's impurities, is then
"piped" to beet sugar factory at
Lehi, there to be treated and refined
by the usual processes. Inquiring fur
Their, however, it is learned that this
same system of piping sugar juices has
been in vogue in France and Germany
for number Of years, and in the latter
country, too, pipe lines have been used
in potteries to carry much-thinned clay
paste from one department to another.
Magazine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30
QUEERCASE OF BRAEM
HOW BELMONT DROVE HIS TRA-
DUCER OUT OF AMERICA.
Girl In the Mystery - Trinity Church
Trustee Who Wrote SANDERS About
belmont - Finally Detected, He Was
Forced to Resign From Clubs.

Henri M. Braem, who died in Wen
New Workers as the man whom the
late August Belmont drove into exile
sixteen years ago. Braem was club
man of great wealth and high social
position. He was a trustee of Trinity
church, Danish consul general, and a
power in Wall street August Belmont
was banker, head of the Belmont
house, and father of the three Bel
mont boys, well known today for their
connection with Democratic politics,
their wealth, and the more or less
talked-about marriages they have
made with Sloane and Vanderbilt di-
vorcees.
After four years of unparalleled de-
tective work, Belmont discovered that
Henri Braem was the author of anon
ymous letters, with which the Belmont
family were prosecuted for a long
time. He gave Braem the alternative
OF going to the penitentiary or of re-
signing from his church, club, and Of
fees and submitting to social ostra-
cism. Braem chose the latter and for
a time endeavored to live with his
family on splendid estate at Lenox.
But the scorn OF men who had known
and trusted him drove Braem at last to
give up the struggle for reinstatement
in business and society. He left New
York for Europe. and died the other
day of pneumonia, at Vienna, at the
age of "a.
August Belmont. Sr., has been dead
several years. The story Of the quar-
rel between the two rich men Is one
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30
TRUE TO THE LAST.
Until Her Dying Day Phoebe Van Houten
Trusted Her Faithless Lover.

Trusted Her Faithless Lover.
In the little New York town Of
Monsey the other day Phoebe Van
Houten, after vainly waiting fifty
years for the man she loved, died,
trustful hopeful, as she had lived.
When Phoebe Won Houten was IS
years old fine young fellow came a
counting her. At times in after life
she told those who were fortunate
enough to gain her confidence of the
love affair, and to them she proudly,
fondly, showed a faded daguerreotype
of handsome youth, curly haired,
broad-shouldered, straightforward.
"Our wedding day was fixed,' said
Miss Phoebe, when she grew thus con-
fdential; my wedding gown was
made-it's in the cedar box up stairs.
A week before the day that was to
make me happy my true lover dlsap-
peared. waited for him; | never
saw him, nor heard from him again.
| know he must have met sudden
death, else he would have returned to
me- When my time comes | will re-
join him." Miss Van Houten was
wealthy, and lived in a fine cottage at
Monsey She had few friends and was
considered eccentric. When neighbors
went in the other day they found that
she was ill, and had been in bed for
week. 1t was too late for medical aid;
the spinster died that night. Her many
years of waiting were past.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30

to work, backed by all the resources
that money could command Finally
handwriting expert suggested that
the chirography was probably the
smooth, round hand of woman copy
list. Several hundred women copylsts
wrote at .ictation, but none of them
in the hand Of the anonymous author.
About that time the typewriter came
into common use, and the letters ar
rived in typewriter form, and this
added a new and more difficult COM
plication to the case. Assuming that
the assassin of character hired public
stenographer to write the letters fn'
him, a sweeping search was made OF
the Office buildings and hotels of New
York city. Some of the letters were
mailed in Boston, so Boston was in
cluded in the hunt.
This was the beginning of success.
When the question, Did you ever
write this letter at dictation?" was
propounded to a stenographer in
leading Boston hotel she balanced her
pince-nez for while over the copy
and then said, decidedly:
yes, did"
when. where-who dictated it?'
There the typewriter girls informa-
ton failed. She could only remember
that she had written the letter for
dark, slender stranger, who wore a
mustache. She described him as very
handsome man, well dressed, and she
surmised that he might be broker.
He had let fall some remark about
stocks. Mr. Belmont thought the stu
alton over.
Tell that girl if she will come here
and play the detective in Wall street
she can earn a handsome salary" he
said.
But the girl had relatives in Boston,
she was of good family, she had
never heard of August Belmont, she
didn't care about the detective bust
ness, and, in short, she decided that
she wouldn't come. A check big
enough to make her an independent
woman for life was dangled before her
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30

Michael Collins, a well-known farm
err living near Monmouth Junction, N.
j., has at last secured wife to his
liking. Tired of living alone and find
ing no woman in the neighborhood
who suited him (or whom he suited),
he advertised for wife who must not
be too young or too pretty, and who
had no foolishness about her." There
were several applicants and from the
number Collins selected Joanna Hase.
Joanna assured him that there was no
nonsense about her and that she know
all about taking care Of man, as she
had already had four husbands. The
couple seem to be getting along quite
satisfactorily.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30

of the dramatic incidents of real life
which rival the inventions of romance.
One point in the strange web of his
tory has never been made plain, and
probably will never be, now that the
principals are dead. 1t is not known
why Henri Braem ever wrote the in
eliminating letters to August Belmont.
Vaguely, a woman has always figured
in the background as woman does
in so much of the Belmont history.
Braem was madly in love with wom-
an, and this woman was the pivot on
which the sensational episode turned.
Belmont never chose to explain, and
Braem for reasons of his own kept
close tongue.
August Belmont and Henri Braem
had been close friends Why Braem
should turn upon his former intimate
with such unexampled and cowardly
fury must always remain more or less
of mystery with shrewd guesses by
old-timers who knew both families
well. In 1880 anonymous letters be-
gan u REACH Vi <hu-
gust Belmont's family at varying in
tervals Sometimes the letters came
every two or three weeks, sometimes
at intervals of several months. They
assailed the character of August Bel
mont in every way that malice and in
genuity could suggest. Belmont was
man of large social connection and ex-
tensive business interests, and these
covert attacks became not only painful
but dangerous. Neither the handwrit-
ing on the letters, the paper, or the
place of mailing gave the slightest
clew to the author. They were written
in various hands, and the stationery
was such as might be bought at thou
sand stores in New York city. At the
instance of Mr.. Belmont the police ex-
hausted the cunning of the department
in an effort to trap the writer of the
letters.
81 will spend 100000 to discover the
author of these scurrilous letters" Bel
mont declared.
The banker took the case in his own
hands, and private detectives were set
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30

eyes. She reconsdered the matter,
and reached New York on the first
train. For weeks she strolled up and
down the narrow street of millions or
occupied a seat in the stock exchange
balcony. Always she kept an eye out
for dark, slender, mustached
stranger. She never saw him. He was
not in the crowds that fought their
screaming battles out in pit carpeted
with bits of white paper There are a
great many spectators in Wall street,
and brokers populate the stock eX-
change.
Hire Wall street Office for that
stenographer," said Mr.. Belmont at
last. But let no machines click there
Curtain the windows with lace, and let
the girl watch the passers-by in the
street, hidden behind this screen from
morning till night
A detective was posted opposite with
instructions to watch the window as
the girl watched the street The girl
from Boston became as great mys-
terry to the brokers as the anonymous
letters were to the Belmonts. Day
after day she sat at the window, her
eyes on the throng in Wall street.
Nothing escaped her.
Finally one day the curtain was
drawn back hastily. A tall, dark man
was passing, a man handsome enough
and dressed well enough to command
attention for that. The detective I'M
derstood the signal and fell in behind
the tall, slender, mustached man. He
followed him to his Office, that of the
Westmoreland Coal company, where he
was president, for the man was Henri
M. Braem. The typewriter girl iden-
titled him fully, and he confessed to
having written the letters. 1t seemed
incredible that one of the foremost
men of New York should have carried
on a campaign so despicable and I'M
demanded. But there was no doubt
about the facts, and Belmont spared
his antagonist only one humiliation
the penitentiary This may have been
prompted by certain quality of mercy
or by some selfish interest. The story
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30

goes that Mr.. Belmont got Braem in
a Wall street office one afternoon and
dictated terms. BEaem resigned his
membership in the clubs. his place in
Trinity church, closcd up his business
affairs, and retired to his estate at
Lenox. Within few weeks the story
came out, and neither money nor influ-
ence could buy Braem back a position
in society or in business. He sacri-
feed his Lenox property for fraction
of it's value and went to live in first
one European capital and then anoth-
err His death has revived the old story
and the old riddle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30

In the farming communities Of the
province of Ontario, Canada, peculiar
sect called Zionists is still fourishing,
in spite of the efforts of the authorities
to break it up. The cardinal doctrine
of their creed is that hogs are pos
sessed by devils, and should therefore
be killed. 1t has been found necessary
therefore to restrain otherwise reason
able farmers from destroying what in
many cases was chief means of their
support. The Zionist farmers, in some
instances, have Joined together, driven
all their hogs into one place and there
killed them, in no instance allowing
any of the meat to be used as food.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30

If you should see flock of pigeons
in a field of corn, and lf-instead of
each picking where and what it liked
taking just as much as it wanted, and
not more-you should see ninety-nine
of them gathering all they got into a
heap, reserving nothing for themselves
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30

an unquestionable right to give re-
ceipts good in trade, it is immaterial
whether they are written on paper or
stamped ON metal. The practice. is a
profitable one for the merchants and 1t
enables them to do business on Dor
rowed capital on which they do not
pay interest-The Investor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-30
WHITENING SATIRE.
ON REPUBLICAN FARTY'S I'M
PERIALISTIC POLICY.

Bryan Ridicules the Three Cardinal Ex-
cuses for War in the Phillpplnes-Ex-
changing American Blood for Foreign
Commerce Is Up to- Date Republication
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-02-23
Cure for Smali.l,ox.

A cure for smallpox and scarlet fever
which the Rev Adirondack Murray
claims to be infallible as fate, is com.
posed Of one grain Of sulphate of zinc
one grain Of digitalis Commonly known
as fox glove) and half teaspoonful oi
sugar. This is to be thoroughly mixed
with two teaspoonsfuls OF water ard four
ounces Of water added. The dose for
adults is one teaspoonful every hour and
for children smaller doses according to
age. Murray says "The medicine is
harmless and is recommended by the
best schools in Paris. have cured my
children OF scarlet fever and Others oi
smallpox when doctors said the patient
must die. Either disease under this
treatment will disappear in twelve
hours. Ii the countries would compel
their physicians TO use it their would be
no need for pest houses
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-02-23

fAriicles appearing in the GLACIER under
the above heading fro week to week will b.
furnished and edited by the board Of directors
OF the Hood River Fruit Growers Unicn.l
The Hamilton County Fruit Growers
Union Of Tennessee reports that the
acreage Of strawberries liia year will be
reduced 40 per cent.
The Shippers Association of villa
Ridge, H., last year, handled l0l cars
strawberries, 80 cars grapes, IA cars wax
beans and G3 cars tomatoes, esntal0upe,
and cucumbers, besides q large amount
By local fEe ght. Their estimate for l9Oy
s for one half crop Of strawberries.
Hood River may not come up 70 the
above record in quantity but tbe quality
u our fruit is recognized everywhere.
Itisa good indication when our growers
recognize the necessity of intelligent CO.
operation in marketing cur fruit. Let
Us agree on this point for the sake OF
dollars and 'sease."
After the busy season Is over it would
not cost us much to hire a hall
and have a real fratcTnal quarrel on
some other subject-just for amusement,
you know.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-02-23
Report Of Grand Lnrs.

Following is the report of the grand
jury for the February, 1900, term of cir
cult court;
We have been in session six days, and
have examined seven cases, and returned
six indictments, aud one not true bill.
We have examined the clerks, sher-
iif' and treasnrer's Offices, and find the
books and records well kept, and the
business of these Offices well conducted
as far as we are able to determine.
We have investigated the selling of
cigarettes to minors, and believe the law
has been violated, and would recommend
that the law be strictly enforced.
From Information laid before the
grand jury We find the county poor we'll
cared for.
We extend our thanks to A. A. JAYNE,
district attorney, and w. L. Bradshaw,
judge, for their instructions to us which
have aided us in the discharge OF our
duties.
We further recommend that the
county court have the books of the
county officers examined by an expert
before the expiration Of each term.
j. L. KELLEY, Foreman.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-02-23
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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-02-23
Mount IImnd Nnles.

The weather was cold for few days
and the mercury went down 10 zero al
this place, with about d inches Of snow.
Alien Macrum, who was in the hos,
pita for few days, returned home last
tuesday. lie says Mt. Hood Is good
enough for ali.
We hear that the settlers are building
the bridge across the east fork Of Hcod
river.
The King'selub has about winked out,
as It ii hard 10 get sitting. We had
better elect new fireman.
L. Henson says the voters are coming
INTO register very slowly. Better not
put it of too late, boys.
1t takes some Of our boys tyo days u
make the trip to Hood River and re-
Gurn, on horseback. Never mind; the
weather will be better in a short time
and we will fix the roads; then--well,
we can't guess what excuse then.
Won p Mp
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-02-23
Timber Land, Act June 8. 1875.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

United States Land Otflce, The Dalies. Ore
goa, January ~, ltl0-Notieo Is hereby given
thai IN compliance with the provisions ot the
act OF ConSfcss OF June 3, lSS. entitled AN
Gct Tor the sale Of tihhaf iands In the States
ul Caill1tnia. Oregon, Nevada and Washing
ton Iergit9rN,"
CHARLES BERNARD,
OF Hood River. county Of Nasco. state Of Orc.
gon, has this day FLED in this offire his sworn
statement, No. i5i, for the purchase Of the
southeast = northwest 4, southwest 4 north
east Il, northwest !: southeast Z. and north
east 4 southwest II OF section No. II, in town.
snip No. north, range No. east, " 81, and
Will oiTef Proof to show that the land sought
IS more valuable for It's timber or stone than
loor agricultural purposes, ana to establish his
claim TO said land before the Register and
receiver Of this aTiiee at The DaIies, Oregon.
on Saturday, the 2iti day CT March, 1890
lie names rs witnesses: Jud Ferguson. Jo,
seph Wright, Albert Lane and William KaDt.
all OF Hood River, Oregon
Any ana all persons claiming adversely the
sbovt-descrihed lands are requested 10 file
their claims IN this Office on Or before said
III Gay OF sIareh, IsA
jlem22 JAY p TJTF3S Fe0istar
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-02-23

After doctors failed to cure me of pnue-
monia used One Minute CoughCure and
three bottles of itcured me. tits the best
remedy on earth for whooping cough. II
cured my grandchildren of the worst
cases, writes Jno. Berry, Loganton, Pa. 1t
lsthe only harmless remedy that gives inn
mediate results Cures coughs, colds, ,croup
and throat and lung troubles. 1t prevents
consumption. Children always like it..
Mothers endorse it, Williams 4 Brosius.
The Dalles has failed to get its WOOL
securing mill, but its citizens have not
given up the effort to get that or some
thing better.