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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19
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the nest completely. A day or two
later something-boy or beast-had
discovered the deserted nest and stolen
all four of the eggs.
If the yellow warbler builds another
nest and succeeds in raising its brood
where the cowbirds cannot find 1t the
first catastrophe may be all for the
best. Even when only one cowbirds
egg is laid in a nest and is Matched
out with three or four young war0lers
the latter are likely to get far the worst
of it. The young cowbird from the
moment it breaks the shell is bigger
and greedier than its foster brothers
and sisters. 1t will crowd them to the
side and insists on eating much more
than its share of the food which the
yellow warblers bring for their
young.
Across the barbed wire and rail
fence from the warbler's nest is big
woods pasture. Close to the fence
grow thick clumps of hazel brush
and wild crab and plum trees. In
some places the thicket is 50 dense
that man has hard work in forcing
his way through it. High up in these
tangles, six or eight feet from the
ground, two pairs of catbirds have
built their nests. They are apparently
safe from all but other bird enemies,
for the long, sharp thorns and the in
terlacing branches protect them from
attack from the ground. This is evil
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19
Derby Winner aud Wen DO suprem.

Derby Winner aud Wen be Supreme
America will be supreme when one
Of her citizens breeds Derby winner
and, without letting anyone else own
so much as hair of his tail, races him
In his own colors. There is nothing ia
buying an English horse to win an
English race. With such magnir cent
breeding establishments as Wor.Durn,
Belle Meade, Elmendorf. McGn.th ana,
Runnymede, Dixiana, Rancho Gel Paso,
the Nursery, Castleton, Beaumont,
Meadowthorpe, La Belle, Brookdale
and Rancocas, In which millions are
invested, the prediction is ventured
that within five yeas we shall have
the horse we are locking for--and the
man too.-New York Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

At the recent Commers, at Boun, In
honor Of the German crown prince, at
which the kaiser was present. an I'M
pleasant incident arose. The guests
thought that the beer mugs were keep
sakes, and carried of $50 Of them. The
"Borussia" corps, which acted as host.
instead Of settling for the mugs. has
asked the guests who carried them
away either to return them or to send
80 cents to the proprietor of the reg
taurant where the Commers was held.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19
Her Legal Privileges.

The following allegation in bill for
divorce against wife was held by the
Supreme court at Washington not to
state any legal ground for divorce:
"She was quarrelsome, vicious in dis
position, murderous in threats against
the plaintiff and his parents, hysterical
and ungovernable in temper, crazy in
he: actions, and by her causeless and
unprovoked boisterousness, screaming,
hallooing, and other wild conduct, by
day and night, an intolerable nuisance
to all her neighbors."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19
A Ve-y Novel Watch.

In Zurich a very novel watch has
just bsen made. 1t forms the cup or
heart Of jeweled flower, which 10
intended to be worn as an ornament.
The iower itself can be opened or
closed by touching tiny spring, and
when 1t is closed the little watch 10
not visible. When lady wearing
such an ornament desires to know the
time all she has to do is to touch the
spring, whereupon the flower opens
and the watch Is revealed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

of time been destroyed and rebuilt re-
peatedly. 1t has not been so much a
question of building them as it has
been of maintaining them and keeping
them where they were. Besides pro-
tecting the country from the invasions
of both fresh and salt waters, the bikes
have served to reclaim no less than
100000 acres, nearly all Of Thich are
good, fertile land.-National Geograph.
ic Magazine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19
Hor.na Ke.p. Cd Ocean at BAY.

There are at present about 1000
miles of sea bikes in the Netherlands.
The total length Of bikes is difficult to
estimate, and even If it could be esd-
mated would mean but little, for it
must be remembered that the dikes
have for the most part In the course
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

in North America under Captain John
Smith-the church in which Pocahon-
tas was baptized and married-has all
disappeared, except picturesque, ivy
clad tower Of brick, surrounded by a
grove of trees.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19
old... church in tho Coun,r1.

The oldest Protestant church in the
United States is st. Luke's, at Smith
field, Va, writes William E. Curtis in
the Chicago Record Herald. st. Luke's
was erected in 1882. and was restored
in 1894 as nearly as possible to its or
iginal condition and appearance. 1t is
a beautiful old structure of early Eng
glish gothic, with mullioned windows
and a stately tower, and has been used
for public worship almost continuous
ly for two centuries and half The
original church erected on jamestown
island by the first English colonists
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

Ptso's euro is inc Dost medicine we ever used
for all affections of the throat and lungs.-WM
O ENpsLEY. Vsnburen. Ind. Feb. 10. 1900
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19
I.adioy Can Wear Sboes.

One size smaller after usingAllen's Foot
Ease, a powder. 1t makes tight or new
shoes easy. Cures swo len. hot, sweating,
aching feet, ingrowing mai $, corns and
bunions. All diu rg SITS and shoe stores,
e5c. Trial package FREE by mail. Ad-
dress Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, NY.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

1t is said that an Atchison lawyer
who writes learnedly of classical lit
erature can't make out his own legal
papers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

No family, shop. snip. camp or per-
son should be without Wizard OH for
every painful accident or emergency.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

Interest sometimes assumes the role
of disinterestedness for purpose.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

The man who has never written {
foolish love letter has not yet taken all
the degrees.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19
JAPANESE CURIOSITY.

Natives of Japan Regularly Stare at
American Residents.
The foreigner travelling in Japan is
soon made aware Of the quality Of
curiosity. On every railroad platform
he is surrounded by crowd of people
who, with their mouths as wide open
as their eyes in their effort to lose no
detail of interest, regard him slowly
from head to foot and comment upon
him among themselves the while.
These people may have seen hundreds
of foreigners-they may see them
every day-but they continue to act as
if they had never seen one before. l
visited some Americans in Tokyo who
had lived in the same house with the
same Japanese neighbors for about
year. Yet each time that we went out
to drive the people in the little Jap
anese house near by would rush TO
their windows and stand watching as
eagerly as small Yankee at the cir
Gus. This happened every day. 1t is
always possible to tell whether for
eigner happens to be in his garden, for
a goodsized crowd of Japanese gath
cred about the gate announces the i'm
portant fact. l gave several talks and
lectures to school children and young
men and women in Japan. They were
interpreted, l, of course. speaking in
English, so that half of the address
was understood by only few. Yet
have never seen audiences more abso-
lutely attentive. Not word was lost
and the same concentration was shown
while l was speaking as when the in
terpreter was turning it into Japan
csc. Little school children-boys and
girls-sat drinking everything in, with
their eyes popping out of their heads
until had finished. l never fiattered
myself that this was due to the fascin-
alton of my discourse, but merely to
the great curiosity of my audience,
their power of concentration and their
ceptivity.-Ainslee's Magazine.
Sunlight at Different Localities.
instruments are set up at various
meteorological observatories that auto
matically register the periods during
which the sun is unobscured by clouds
during the daylight hours, and tables
are printed giving the actual number
of hours of sunlight during each year.
BY comparing the actual number of
sunlight hours with the number of
hours during which the sun is above
the horizon at each place percentage
number is obtained, as in the follow
ing small table. In New York city, for |
instance, GA per cent of the daylight |
hours, on the average are sunny.
St. Petersburg, "a per cent; Ham
burg, 20 per cent; Dublin, 80 per cent;
Berlin, 80 per cent; Oxford, 30 per |
cent; London, % per cent; Ventnor,
81 per cent; Vienna, 3S per cent; Eur
ich, AZ per cent; Lagano. Sc per cent;
Padua, 46 per cent; Rome, 90 per cent;
New York. GA per cent; Madrid. As per
cent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

ten two cowbird eggs are found in the
same nest, but rarely II ever have
four been found.
The greed Of the cowbird in thus
completely occupying the warbler's
nest brought its own punishment with
it. The warbler, disguised. abandoned
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW
If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue twill make
them white as snow. 2oz. package B cents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

The man who begrudges himself an
occasional hearty laugh is the worst
kind of a miser.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19

1t is more blessed to give a bill than
it is to pay one.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13
VERY LARGE.
A TaIlmadse Man Butchered a
65l-Pound Hog.

Tallmadge, Dec. 13-Mr. and Mrs.
G. G. Conaghan have just returned
from two weeks visit with relatives
In Pennsylvania.
Rev. NJ. 9. Scot is holding protracted
meetings at Munroe Falls.
Miss Mildred Clark, of Akron, spent
Sunday at her home in this place.
Mr. Thomas Roberts killed one OF
the largest hogs ever raised in Tall.
madge. 1t dressed 651 pounds.
Mrs. Van Buskirk, Of Akron, was
visiting here Sunday.
The Horticultural Society meeting
held at G. w. Scott's Wednesday, was
largely attended.
Mr., Austin Thomas has removed tc
his home at Cuyahoga Falls.
Mr.. Ring is building a home on the
land he purchased a few weeks ago
Mr. and Mrs. Philo Limbert were il
town Sunday.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13
THE HOME DOCTOR.

A soft linen bandagl saturated with
q i per cent solution of carbolic acid is
excellent for blistered finger.
To relieve u nervous headache apply
hot water to the temples and back Of
the neck. A hot fOotbath will also ma
terially aid.
Earache can frequently be cured by
wringing out flannel in boiling water,
Bprinkling few drops Of laudanum on
1t and applying 1t to the ear.
A small quantity of vinegar will gen.
orally destroy Immediately any insect
that may find it's way into the stomach,
and little salad oil will kill any insect
that may enter the ear.
When your feet are very tired and
hot. plunge them into basin of cold
water and keep them there until SEN
sation Of warmth begins. Then dry
them and put on fresh stockings and
shoes.
A writer states that teaspoonful of
finely grated nutmeg in a teacupful of
cold water taken night and morning
the first day and then missing day,
repeated on the third day, Is a sure
cure for boils.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13
Health an Beauty.

A poor complexion is usually the re-
suit of a torpid liver or irregular ac-
ton of the bowels. Unless natures
impure blood. Pimples, boils and other
eruptons follow. This is natures
method OF throwing off the poisons
which the bowels failed to remove. De-
Wits Little Early Risers are world ia
nous for remedying this condition.
They stimulate the liver and promote
regular and healthy action of the bow
els, but never cause gripping, cramps
or distress. Safe pills.
William Warner. Gem Pharmacy, 113
S. Howard st.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13
PATENT
On New Style Poster
II Has Been Granted to Mr.. John
Grether.

Mr.. John Grether, president Of the
Globe Sign Co., has secured patent
on new style of poster, which prom
ises to supply a need long felt in the
poster business. This is obtained by
perforated posters, the perforations be-
ing dotted over the sheet, about an
inch apart. The perfofations in no "
way disfgure the sheets and do away
with air pockets or wrinkles, after be-
ing pasted. By the perforations, which
allow all the air to escape from under
the sheet while being posted, the sheet
may be pasted to a wall uniformly
over its surface. While the perfora-
tions are near enough and large
enough to be of service in this par
ticular do not leave disfiguring or
detracting effect in appearances, es-
pecially when the poster is on the
boards and the perforations are closetl
Mr.. Grether is having a special per-
forating machine made.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13
EIGHT ARRESTS.
Believed That. Postoffice Robbers 5
Have Been Caught.

Toledo, Dec. 13.-Eight men We're
arrested here yesterday on charge of
being implicated in the postoffice rob-
bry at Mitigate, Mich.
They, are: Stephen Mallon, Detroit;
They are: Stephen Mallon, Detroit;
Joe, Dunn, Toledo; Frank Dordon,
-Ama; Edward Barry, Lima; John
Henry, Toledo; William Weber
"All Over" The officers are reticent
as to the: evidence against these men
but they say they have been shadowing
the gang for some time. They will
b. arraigned before U. 8. Commission
err Pratt tomorrow.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13
He Could Cook.

"Can he cook?" asked the proprietor
Of the restaurant.
'1Cook?" echoed the caller, who was
roofing for friend out of job. Can
he cook? Say, I've seen that man make
-four SQUAD pies out Of one old pigeon"
r-Cblcago Tribune
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13

To see rushing business being
done in the line of Diamonds. Watch
es and Jewelry 60 to B. Wingerters,
the Jeweler. Open every evening un-
til Christmas.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13
ARLINGTON MINES AND MONKS HEAD,

Newark, N. j., Dec. ia sensation
was caused at North Arlington, N. j.,
by the discovery of what appeared to
be the petrified body of a hooded monk
In the mines of the Arlington Copper
Company. 1t was found In a bed of
sandstone, fully 200 feet from the en-.
trance to the mine, standing gaunt
and black against the lighter. stone.
When Foreman James Smith first
discovered the phenomenon his men
fed in terror, believing that some ter
rible fate awaited them. One Of them,
Santo Dominick, ran shrieking from
the cavern, crying out that the devil
in a monks cowI had appeared to
him
MILO Doev' he cried to'his comrades,
run for your lives. The mine is doom.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13

ed to fall"
Smith, however, continued to dig
and blast about the strange discovery
until he had disclosed the form Of a
monk from his waist to his head.
The mine has been beseiged with
visitors, all eager to behold the won
derful discovery.
The phenomenon is in shaft @, near
the main shaft, which sinks $50 feet
into the bowels of the earth. In real.
ity it is freak Of nature, but the
effect is most startling, with the light
Of the Pickering lamps playing weird.
ly upon it's features.
The Arlington copper mines were
discovered in 1719 by a negro slave,
and are the oldest in the United
States. They have been worked peri
odically since the discovery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-10
WIFE LOCATES ERRANT
HUSBAND IN MOLINE

A young wife who had been desert
ed by her husband two years ago sue
ceeded in locating her Grant spouse
in Moline yesterday afternoon, says the
Moline Dispatch. The mans name
is Bell aud he has teen employed on
the Tenth street paving work by the
Tri-City Construction company, He
and his wife lived 10 Rock Island two
years ago and Bell was employed as
locomotive fireman till his habits lost
him mis- position aud he left his wife
and baby. The wife heard nothing
from him till re emily. VIII n she Sc
cured trace that brought her from
Marengo, Iowa, to Moline, where she
found her husband at work They
are living at Bells boarding house
and are both happy in the companion
ship of one another.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-10
COCOA AS FOOD.

OF the food values of Cocoa, Baron
Won Leibeg. one of the best known
writer's on dietetics, says: 1T is a
perfect food, as wholesome as delici-
Gus, benefcent restorer of exhaust
ed power: but its quality must be
good, and it must be carefully pre-
pared. 1t is highly nourishing and
easily digested, and is fitted to repair
wasted strength, preserves health,
and prolong life. 1t agrees with
dry temperature and convalescents,
with mothers who nurse their chill
dren, with those whose occupations
oblige them to undergo severe mental
strains, with public speakers, and
with all those who give to work
portion of the time needed for sleep.
1t soothes both stomach and brain,
and for this reason as well as for
others, it is the best friend of those
engaged in literary pursuits. The
growing appreciation of the food
value of Cocoa and Chocolate, as we'll
as a CONNECTION is best shown by the
increase in the importation into this
country of the raw Cocoa bean. 1t
was in'1860 approximately 100000
pounds, in 1865, 8 400, 600 pounds,
in 1899, IS 600, 900. gain of over $50
per cent in the last II years.
In this connection, the popularity
of Runkel Bros. Cocoa and Chocolate
may be cited as a most significant.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-10
TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY
OF BOYS DISAPPEARANCE

The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of Willie Mccormick from
New York is still unsolved and it is
with no reflection on the efforts of the
police that they are not likely to solve
it. Says the Journalist, newspaper
publication:
Their slavish devotion to a fixed
idea makes the everyday detectives
hardly able to see beyond their noses,
even If they were looking through
microscopes. Many more crimes
would have been pigeon-holed at the
Mulberry street headquarters IL
papers and reporters had not taken q
hand in running down offenders to
whom the police never seemed to be
able to get clue.
at is a duty that every newspaper
in the United States, Canada and
Mexico owes to common humanity to
find this little fellow and restore him
to his home. 1t is not to be supposed
that the fact that Sl7. 600 reward is
now offered for the recovery of the
boy will cut the chief figure in the
work that the press can do. If it will,
as the Journalist sincerely believes
that it will. The idea is gaining force
that the boy has run away with
tramps and is now so far of
that it is not likely that he
is ever able to see New York paper
If he knew the trouble he has caused
he would reveal his ide nifty and come
home. This is the idea of Rev Fa h.
err Mullin, who has sent out the fol-
lowing appeal, hoping it may meet
the boys eyes:
ITO Willie Mccormick: If you are
alive. sick or well, write to me or
send some word, that your parents
may be spared from insanity and per-
hap5 death. You will not be punish
ed l. as your father in the church,
promise that you will be given back
to the arms of your family and that
not one breath of reproach will reach
you. Your poor mother is on the
verge of insanity. The physicians
fear also for her life. Your father is
fast losing his memory and his hear
ing is affected from the constant
anxiety caused by your continual
a osence from home. If you are afraid
of your parents anger come to me
Your protection shall be absolute.
/. A. MULLIN.'
"If, as / firmly believe there is. a
potent power in publicity, let every
paper over the country Join in the
work and something is bound TO come
out of the com bined effort. 1 might,
to paraphrase Hay. say:
That to save this little kid
An to bring him safe to his own,
Is a darned sight better work
Than loafing around the throne"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-10
shuddern at His Past.

81 recall now with horror" says
Mail Carrier Barnett Mann, of Levan-
ma, o. "my three years of suffering
from kidney trouble. L was hardly
ever free from dull aches or acute
pains in my back. To stoop or lift
mail sacks made me grosn felt
tired. worn out. about ready to give
up. when began to use Electric Bit
tiers. but six bottles completely cured
me and made me feel like a new man. "
They're unrivaled to regulate stom-
ach, liver, kidneys and bowels. Per-
feet satisfaction guarantees by Hartz
&c Ullmeyer. Only so cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-10
ILLINOIS TARs Go AFTER
THE GUNBOAT DOROTHEA

Fifty-three members of the Illinois
naval militia left Chicago Wednesday
for the League Island navy yard at
Philadelphia, where they are to board
the United States gunboat Dorothea
and bring it to Chicago for use by the
naval militia of the state.
The boat is loaned to the state by
the federal government aud the men
who went to take possession Of the
craft had been selected by the entire
ships crew by competitive examina-
ton. Lieut.. b. Z. L. Collins, who
has been selected as commander of
the gunboat during its voyage to Chi
cage. went to Philadelphi4 Sunday
with Chief Engineer Granville KIM
ball to prepare the boat for its jour
ney. The men who left Wednesday
were in charge of Lieut. r. G Rob-
erts and Ensigns w. G Sims, w. A
Stevens, E x. Mason and Cecil Page.
Most of the men are from Chicago,
Rock Island men not caring to lose
the time aud expense, as they had to
pay their own way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-10
Leavea for New Post.

Capt. George w. Burr babe his
friends at Rock Island arsenal good
bye and took his departure for Sandy
Hook, where he has been assigned by
the chief of the ordnance department.
1t was rather sad leaving. for Capt
Burr has made many friends among
the officers and men employed in Maj
Blunt's offices. Mrs. Burr, an esti-
mable lady with host of friends in
the three cities. left day or two ago
for Sedalis, Mo-, where she will re-
main for some time with Capt Burr's
relatives until such time as he gets
settled in their new home.