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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

1t is still quite a common experience
to find fine and even valuable speci-
mems Of old English furniture, chiefly
made of oak, in the cottages of the
village folk. These pieces of furniture
have been handed down from genera
ton to generation OF rural folk such
as carriers, keepers, woodmen and
shepherds. How did the family orig
inally come by them? The explana-
ton is this in many cases: Genera
tions ago, when the furniture, which
is once again priced greatly, began to
go out Of fashion and to be superseded
by stuff which we view with contempt
nowadays, 1t was sold and farmers
bought much Of it. But by and by, the
farmer being prosperous, and desiring
to be in the fashion, too, like his land
lord, bought in its place more modern
chairs and tables, etc. Then the viii
lage folk bought for song the de-
spised oak chairs, Golfers, ETC.. and
now, once again, the old furniture has
come into favor and is finding its way
back from the cottage to the hail.
London Express.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

ton itself. But even those things
which are popularity supposed to be in
state Of inanimate rest, the houses
in which we live, the very furniture
upon which we sit, are said to be in
state of vibration. And so the very act
of living is a matter of vibration. In
other words, every living animal and
vegetable pulsates according to its In
dividual wave length. Every part OF
every animal has its rate of vibration,
which, when normally maintained,
keeps the member in state of health,
but which, when it departs from tbs
normal, induces state Of disease. At
least so say the high priests OF the
new movement, who reason, therefore.
that the use Of medicine Is a very
roundabout way of producing what can
be accomplished with few odd
shakes. And since the writer himself
saw the miracle of the palsied take
place under his eyes by means of a
vibration machine and siAce the ma
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

Americans have been slow to awak-
en- to the fact that we have in this
land, among a people of which the Old
World knows nothing and the New
World little, arts that are quaint, orig
inal and worthy of long continuance.
Such are the textiles of the Navajoes.
the baskets of the various western
tribes, and the bead and quill work Of
yet others. For centuries our Indians
wove and embroidered, and none except
their red neighbors gave attention to
them. Now that their work Is at last
receiving attention, their poverty in
duces them to make and sell as fast as
possible, and hasty work is never good
work. 1t Is the whites who are respon-
sible for the poverty of the Indian, in
the destruction Of his game, the OBJ
liberation of his hunting grounds and
his introduction to sundry vices and
diseases; hence, it Is our duty to bet
ter his state, not as now, by pauper-
izing him with gifts, but encouraging
hin to continue what is best in his
wolN,-Saturday Evening Post.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

A new cure-all has come across the
ocean to this country, which in many
respects is as picturesque as the
Kneipp cure and which promises to
have as great vogue. Fashionable
invalids in New York have taken it
up. and now 1t is spreading among the
great army Of the sick and ailing in
other parts Of the country Like the
panacea Of the Swiss priest, the new
cure taboos the use of medicines, but
its application requires no such incon-
venient procedure as walking barefoot
In wet grass in the early morning. Dis
ease, according to the new idea, Is a
mere matter Of altered vibration. If
you have a headache, or dyspepsia, or
rheumatism, or nervous prostration, or
any other ailment in the catalogue, you
are, or that part of you affected is, out
of tune-your rate of vibration has be-
come too fast or too slow and needs
adjusting. To effect the proper adjust
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

B,neman and, in fact, the whole of
Gallotin county, Mont, is afflicted
with scourge of dandelions. They
are to he seen in every garden, and in
nearly every field of the county. In the
summer the little globes of fluffy, cot
toniv,e substance, containing the seeds
of IL \ dandelion, float through the air
and tght in every nook and corner
No matter how poor the soil the dan
delion flourishes Old-timers say that
thirty or thirty-five years ago there
was not a dandelion in the country. A
farmers wife some thirty years ago
longed for dandelion greens and sent
to friends in the east and asked them
to send out some seed. They complied
with her request and the seeds took
root in the lady's garden. They spread
from the garden into the lane which
runs by the ranch and in the summer
either side is a yellow mass of flowers.
and later it looks like miniature cot
ton field. When the winds come the
little puff balls Of seeds are blown
hither and thither, and now the plants
are worst evil in the country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

While the operator moves her fin
gers deftly along the bridge Of your
nose, bilaterally outward via Jour eye
brows and then downward back of
your ears toward the upper end of
your spinal column, she croons softly
the reason for it all, telling you min
utely just what is taking place inside
of you while the process is going for
ward. Now, since the feeling In your
spinal cord is precisely that described
by the negro who said that mineral
water tasted just as though his foot
was asleep. you are not as much i'm
pressed by her remarks as you might
otherwise be, but there are certain
words, such as "capillaries," "stagna-
tion," "stimulation;" ETC., which stick
by you and you remember it all after
ward as you might dream.
All sorts and conditions Of men and
women had the machine applied to
them while the writer looked on, for
there was nothing in the treatment
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09


ings on"
Now Jared, absorbed in speculation
as he was, had kept little corner
Of his heart for Rose; and thought
himself miracle of constancy because
ne had not allowed another to share
it. There are pretty girls in Kansas;
and there was one in particular, with
wondrous dimples. that he had noticed,
just barely noticed, ysu know-so he
made the customary remarks about fe-
male perfidy He wrote Rose biting
letter-and tore it up; for a subtler
revenge had occurred to him. He d.
vined that Rose preferred him to
Harold-if he succeeded in making
money; and he plotted accordingly.
From this date his correspondence
took on a dismal hue. The boom was
declining; and there were vague hints
of pitfalls that ensare the unwary and
the inexperienced. Close on the heels
of these dire forebodings, followed a
rumor that Jared had come home I'M
expectedly, looking very seedy; and it
was surmised, dead broke"
Friends and neighbors, Rose and
Harold among them. promptly gath
cred on the broad piazza to greet the
home conner, and learn the truth of the
matter. One glance at the young
mans doleful face was enough. Dis
aster was written on 1t.
At first he seemed Cisinclined to
talk; but numerous well put queries
finally loosened his unwilling tongue.
Among the friends Jared made in the
west was one who had been born un-
der an unlucky star. He was intelli-
gent and shrewd; but everything he
touched turned to ashes. Where others
reaped golden harvests, he reaped mis-
fortune, and his affairs became serious
ly involved. He was too young to
know that while there Is life there Is
hope; and one night, Jared, who room
ed with him, came home to find his
friend stretched on the floor with a
bullet through his head, and the
empty revolver in his own stiffening
right hand.
With the callousness of youth, Jared
adapted this young fellows story to his
own uses. Up to the eliminating
tragedy, he told it as his own, and told
it well. He was clever actor, and
fully realized the dramatic possibili-
ties Of the situation.
The stage setting was perfect. A
rising thunder storm had dyed the
summer twilight an inky black; and
continual flashes of lightning illum-
mated Jared's handsome, melancholy
face and sombre eyes. He sat oppo-
site his false sweetheart and Harold;
and behind him, the old man, white
faced but firm-lipped, glared over his
boys head like wounded lion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

plus the machine, which might be
taken for one of those relics of the
Spanish inquisition to be found in all
dentists Offices. An electric motor is
geared to a small spindle, and to the
side of the spindle is attached long
steel rod, which, when the motor is re-
volved at great speed, moves rapidly in
unison with it, like piston rod. To
the end of the piston rod is attached a
heavy leather glove with the fingers
cut out. The operator places her hand
in the glove, and the piston rod NOV
ing rapidly back and forth, gives to
her hand a vibratory motion which
makes it feel as though it were being
traversed by an electric current. In
fact. to touch her hand gives you a
sensation exactly like thai obtained
from the poles of battery. Now, i'm
agine sedate but overworked Wall
street gentleman sitting placidly with
a far-off look in his eyes, while the
young lady operator applies the thrill
ling touch of her hand to his forehead
or to the base Of his aching brain, AID
there is the cure In operation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09
A Boomerang.
BY MARY MARSHALL PARKS.


Copyright, 1901, Daily Story Pub. Coz
When Jared Peters went west to help
the country grow up, Rose Hawthorne
thought her heart was broken. This
was a logical sequence Of the firm con-
viction that she could not live without
Jared, which had led her to engage
herself to him. In accordance with this
fixed idea. she, for a day or two, re-
fueed food, and mournfully contem-
plated the prospect of an early demise
But an immature mind cannot long
dominate a young and healthy phy-
sique. On the third day she made sew
eral surreptitious visits to the pantry;
on the fourth day she dined openly ana
heartily; and the day after she was
startled by the discovery that she had
not thought of Jared for several hours.
The Sunday following Jared's de-
parture, she permitted Harold Winter
set. the son of wealthy manufacturer
from neighboring city. to accompany
her home from church and linger Tor
an hour at the gate; and she was again
startled by the discovery that she en-
joyed his society quite as much as
Jared's.
Then she went upstairs and sat down
in the moonlit window to consider.
She had all the rules Of love a. her
fingers ends. She knew that Absence
makes the Heart grow fonder,' that
true love never forgets or wavers lot
the fraction of second. She was
therefore forced to the conclusion that
sne did not love Jared; that she never
had loved him; and the manufacturers
son was allowed to call regularly.
Jareds letters were intensely inter-
esting The little western town which
he had taken under his wing was on
"boom." He had already doubled his
small capital and was proceeding to
double it again. Rose had all the rules
of arithmetic also at her fingers ends.
She knew something of geometrical
progression; and having become, in
view Of her large experience. skeptical
In regard to the tender passion, she
planned her future operations on
strictly commercial basis. After care
full consideration, she decided that a
budding Western capitalist in the
hand was worth more than wealthy
manufacturers son in the bush; so she
did not break her engagement; and
she did not mention Harold in her nu-
merous and entirely satisfactory let
tiers to Jared.
Although his love was false, Jared
had one devoted admirer. From the
day it was declared that the red-faced
mite Of humanity called Jared was the
image of his grandfather, the old man
had found his chief occupation in trac-
ing his own characteristics in the
growing boy.
Hes Peters, every inch of him."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

AS Jared's sad, mellow voice died
away with a little break-he felt .
pang of genuine emotion as he remem.
bered poor Wlley's face with the bull
let hole In the forehead-Rose'c heart
iffs.toS All that was sweet and wom-
anly and good in her untutored soul
rose to the surface. She crossed the
piazza, and laying her hand on Jared's
shoulder, resolutely faced her frown-
ing parents and the chagrined Harold.
II shall stand by Jared" she said.
in ringing tones.
Jared started to his feet in dlsmay.
This climax was precisely the opposite
Of the one he had courted and ex-
pected. The face of the dimpled Kan
sas girl fitted across his memory, and
then disappeared forever. The boom
erang he had launched buried itself
in his own heart. The two young
things who had been playing with tho
eternal verities of love and death,
looked into each others eyes, and. by
the white light of the approaching
storm, saw there that which made
them afraid and ashamed of what they
had been do'ng-saw the dawn Of an
everlasting affection-the affection that
mocks disaster, and calmly ignores
doubters and detractors, as the placid
moon ignores the yellow dog that bays
it.
Gran'ther's face was convulsed with
delight. Tears Of Joy meandered I'M
needed down his wrinkled cheeks, as.
glaring at the discounted Harold, he
raised his staff and brought it down
with force that split 1t in twain.
"She's Peters, every inch of her"
he reared. "Leastways, she soon will
be-"
Rose was somewhat shocked when
she learned that Jared's woes were all
assumed; and that he had prudently
escaped from the collapsing boom with
the neat little nest egg Of one hundred
thousand dollars; but she became
reconciled to the situation in time.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

GrAmOpnOn0 Amusos 1u'hS" Anu'o'
The gramophone is great source OF
pleasure to Turkish ladies. For some
years it was strictly forbidden; now
nearly every house is provided with
one, and the ladies sit around and roar
with laughter every night at its pro-
auctions Nearly all are fitted with
cylinders giving Turkish songs and
stories. If the ladies w..h their
gramophones would only stop at home
no one would object; but what they
delight in is to get into boat with
their friends and float slowly down the
Bosporus, with the gramophone
shrieking in the middle. The Bos-
porus on moonlight night is the most
romantic place imaginable. Sitting ON
a balcony overhanging the water, with
no sounds but the soft lappinig of the
waves and the unceasing songs of the
nightingales which swarm all along
the shore, one gets lost in all sorts of
imaginations, and it is too bad when
boat suddenly drifts close by with a
gramophone squeaking out Daisy" or
something equally incongruous.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09
Jerry Coopers Rare Good Luck.

Jerry Cooper considers himself one
Of the luckiest men in England, and
not without reason. He used to be a
gymnastic instructor in the navy. Then
he went into the merchant marine, and
five years ago while on trading YES
sci off Newfoundland the donkey en-
CINE on board blew up, killing four
men and knocking Jerry speechless
and deaf. Yet man even in this con-
dition must live, and to gain means
of livelihood when he returned to Eng
land he gave exhibitions of conjuring
and contortions. A week or two ago
he had bad fall, which made him UNI
conscious, and upon regaining himself
he found that speech and hearing had
come back to him. And IN all Britain
there's no one happier than Jerry
Cooper.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

ment the new curists strap you to
machine and shake you Tor vibrate
YOU until, like pendulum, you get
back into your normal swing.
The system does not belong to any
one person like the Kneipp cure. 1t
came from Europe. and already there
are half dozen institutes" in New
York city and any number of practi-
TONERS who will bring their machines
to private houses and give special
treatment. There Is one place in 9th
avsnue where the fashionables are
shaken to their hearts content. There
is another in the heart of the shopping
district, where tired women may stop
in and be restored" after days bar
gain hunting, and there are several
institutes" in the residential dis
trictS,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09
Cnra for Mosquito RItes.

Professor DR.. Voges, director Of the
national board of health at Buenos
Ayres, according to German papers,
has found remedy for mosquito bites.
He states that he discovered it by acct
dent during his trip to Paraguay to
study the pest. He had been supplied
with all sorts Of remedies, among them
naphthalene, an article Of no value
whatever against the pest, but on
using it for mosquito bites he found II
of surprising effect. 1t neutralilzes
the poison, even when the spot bitten
is greatly inflamed. II fresh bites are
rubbed with naphthalene no swelling
follows. The professor considers
naphthalene almost specific against
mosquito poison.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09
Vibrate to Be Cured
New Panatea Prohibits
Medicine and Iules Pat.
entS to Concert Pitch.

that required privacy. Some had rheu,
matism and some had govt, and some
had nervous prostration which they
wanted cured, and some had nervous
prostration for fear of the machine
itself, and of what it might do to them
and all the while the voice Of the oper.
ator crooned low, telling Of the won.
derful success of the shaking machine
abroad, how Prince Pedowich thought
it the greatest ever, and how Prince
Alexander of Oldenburg recommends
it. and Prof. Some One-Else considered
it the monitor of the coming medicine
less era, until only the veriest Skeptic
would have denied the efficacy of the
new fad.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

chine itself is not so complicated but
that, in the hands Of an ingenious
man. 1t might be constructed from an
old sewing neutrality-suspicious. within
certain wide limits the contention is
true.
Sometimes 1t is not advisable for the
sufferer to be strapped to the machine.
In dispelling shopping headache, for
instance, the operator straps her own
hand to a long rod attached to the
vibrator. The machine moves her
hand at the rate of many hundred, II
not thousand, pulsations second, and
when her hand is pressed or stroked
gently on the sufferers forehead the
thrill communicated is at least de-
licious new sensation. The writer
learned this during recent visit to
one of the New York institutes"
where many women go daily to be
vibrated. The place is not pretentious.
1t looks like an ordinary doctors office,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09
was formally announced, his rapture
nearly caused At of aDnDlexv

was formally announced, his rapture
nearly caused fit Of apoplexy.
When tattling neighbor brought the
news Of Roses double-dealng, the old
man fatty refused to believe it; but
when with his own eyes, he saw Rose
and Harold strolling by, arm in arm,
in the dusk, he took to his bed. After
two or three days Of misery, mental
and physical, he arose and spent an en-
tire afternoon in inditing a letter
which struck CONSERVATION to Jared's
soul. 1t was vague in manner and
matter. but he gathered from it some
inkling of the truth; and Immediately
wrote-not to Rose, but to one Of her
girl friends. BY return mail he re-
ceived spicy and perhaps not unex-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09
ou.sA of Holland,s Crown.

The crown which adorns the brow Of
queen Wilhelmina is said to have cost
21,500. In 1929 it was stolen by bur-
glars, and for nearly two years re-
NAMED in their possession, says Home
Notes. Some of the stones were event.
ually discovered in America, and the
remainder were recovered from Bel
gium. 55a
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

Every new cure must have its funda-
mental theory. Here is the theory upon
which the vibrationists go. In the first
place all things are in state of vi
bration-light, sound, heat, ara vibra-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-09

gran'ther would shout when Jareds
boyish achievements creditable or
otherwise, came to his notice.
Granther Peters had always liked
Rose; and Of all the girls in the coun-
try round, he would have chosen her
for Jared. When, therefore, at the
age of sixteen, Jared first walked home
from church with her, granther re-
tired to the grape arbor and chuckled
till he was black in the face. He did
all he could to foster the budding
romance; and when the engagement
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1901-04-25

sets: $1sO,OOO, 900 spot cash from the
treasury to the merchant making high
er prices to the manufacturer for his
goods; grants of land and loans of
money to inter railways; the gold
standard measure which confessedly
make even international bimettallism
impossible and now silver dollars to be
retired the same as greenbacks are be-
ing retired The republican party
makes bad boast of fulfilling its obliga-
tions; there must have been a private
understanding about this international
agreement business. 1t certainly did
not appear on the surface in the cam
paign of '96 nor the retirement of sill
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1901-04-25

and there is no earthly way of telling
where it will end. One subsidy, like
one conquest, calls for another, the
masses footing the bills with small re-
turns to show for the outlay. Take the
subsidy conferred on the money owner
by gold standard Legislation beginning
back at the close of the war. Under
the Operation Of this fubsidy, monny
has gone on steadily operating in value
or property and produce depreciating,
and both reason and experience con-
spire to prove that under such circum-
stances men will not lay down their
money to pick up anything else calling
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1901-04-25
The Mutual Admiration and Aid sOcie-y

lne mutual AdmHatlOn ana Ald SOClei y
AS the vote of the classes and section
to which the republican party gives ia,
vorable legislation at the expense ol
other sections and classes would gc
only little way toward putting the
party in power we can readily account
for the junction" with which it ia
urged that this "subsidizilg" is for tle
good of the whole people. They give
this class legislation not as a favor co
those directly benefited, oh mol but
for the good that flows back to tie
masses. In paying the taxes to me5t
the subsidy the people saw the crop;
the harvest for them comes later. Ii q
man said give me an hundred dollar ),
maybe I'll spend it in the neighbcr f.
hood and maybe you'll get it back in
trade, you would hardly do it, but you
may do the other.
1t mhy be observed of the republi-
can substituting program that the fa-
yored classes get theirs in spot cash;
the people take theirs in promises TO
pay; the subsidized get the bird in
hand; the people must catch the one in
the bush: Dives table is heaped up;
the people may have the crumbs whiC h
fell from it. And the difficulty for the
people is that the subsidized are to say
just what and how much benefit the
masses are to have and how much the
subsidized are to retain. A knowledge
of human nature would suggest that
with free hand the bulk of the ad,
vantages would freeze to the finger Of
subsidized. And what reason suggests
experiences abundantly confirms. Evi
IDENTIFY the harvest reaped from repub
lican sowing is an astounding crop o.
millionairs, Our republican editor
says there are hundred millionairel
in his little town. And where is the
evidence that the benefits of subsidiz
ing have flowed back to the masses il
any sort of avalanche?
If it is the correct policy to subsidiz'
one class that prosperity may fov
from that class to others why not try j
oa the farmer whose prosperity is ssi'
to be the basis of all solid and dura Il
prosperity? Why not build up the r
mer that the manufacturer may hav
home market? This would be bulldi
the pyramid from the ground up as D.
the old democratic program, and DO
to begin with the top as if the repub
can plan. But of course the repub'
n:leader would say: that would neve
do, the farmer does not vote the repub
lican ticket with any sort of unanimit y
the others do: it would "bust" OIL
mutual admiration and aid society.
What is wanted, however, is not "a