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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-06-13
Shihto temples to keep one OF thes'

Shifto temples to keep one OF these
sacred animals. There were many
shrines that could not afford to buy a
white horse, so the next best thing was
to get a picture of one; hence the name
yema picture horse from We "a pic
turey and una "a horse).
The use Of the yema vas first con,
fined to the Shinto religion, but the
Buddhists took kindly to the custom.
The word yema has long lost its prin-
tive meaning and has become a ge-
merle name for every picture hung up
in Shinto shrines or Buddhistic tenn
pleS.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-06-13
A Sumner without NiEhts.

To the summer visitor in Sweden
there is nothing more striking than the
almost total absence of night. AT Stock
holm, the Swedish capital, the sun goes
down a few minutes before 10 o'clock
and rises again four hours later during
a greater part of the month of June.
But the four hours the sui lies hidden
In the frozen north are not hours Of
darkness. The refraction of his rays as
he passes around the north pole makes
midnight as light as a cloudy midday
and enables II to read the finest print
without artificial light at any time dur
ing the might" .-.,.~
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-06-13

"Sharp is somewhat Inscriptions,
isn't he?"
Eyes. 1t will take more than his con-
science to keep him from making a for
tune."-Town and Country.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-06-13

For mountain climbing camels are
very inefficient and seldom used in
Abyssinia and other mountainous coun-
tries.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

I founC telegram. two days old, from
Uncle Jackson, summoning me to
Michigan. 1t was brief. but sum.
GENTLY pointed:
"'Am taken with pneumonia. Come
at once. Bring the watcu.'
Nov wouldn't that have given you
chill? There was another communl-
cation as we'll. It was from Ethel.
Ethel was the girl I was going to
marry. She said she had become &C.
Quainted with my reckless conduct,
that she perceived my Indifference.
and that our engagement. SIR. was at
an end forever. You can imagine
was sufficiently dispir:ted, as hur-
ried with my aching head and
wretched, debile body to take Mich.
igan Central train for the other side
of the lake.
II found Uncle Jackson villa the
fingers of death at his throat, but his
mind vas clear enough. Have you
brought the watch?' he gasped. stern.
ly, as bent to embrace him.
IL was about to murmur some
maudlin excuses, but he checked me
sharply. His lawyer was present.
They were awaiting me, 1t seemed.
My uncle called for his will. Under
1t was a clause leaving me $50 900 Of
his modest fortune. He grimly Ii.
rected the cutting down Of this neat
sum by the excelsior of cipher. The
will then gave me $4,000 instead CT
$4,000. The $4,000 bite thus taken
from my plum was given to Ethel, on
condition that she marry my cousin
Charlie, whom l hated with true cous.
inly rancor. Uncle Jackson calmly
signed the altered will; then he
turned his face to the wall anu quietly
departed for better world"
The story-teller ceased. and once
more raised his half-flled glass with
a gesture of invitation.
what in the world do you suppose
became of the old watch, anyways"
demanded Cusack, who possessed an
incuisitive mind.
Huh" answered Thompson. when
l got home again saloOn-keeper
sent me word he had my watch in his
safe, waiting for me. He had taken
it away from me one night in fear
would lose it while on that costly
spree. He knew its story and wanted
to protect me-"
"And them"
Then? AS soon as got my hands
on 1t again walked deliberately to
the Wells street bridge. and second
time consigned it to the Chicago river.
It's there yet, hope.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Kansas Identified.

81 crossed the United States in
July" said the returned partisan.
did you go through Kansas" asked
the bystander. Il didn't hear the
place mentioned" said the tourist
WELL" said the bystander, you pass
ed through place where there were
leagues upon leagues of corn, didn't
your" Eyes, was that Kansas?" ut
might have been, and it might have
been Indiana. Did you go through a
state with miles and miles Of prai-
rie?" Eyes, l remember it well; so
that was Kansas" ut might have
been and it might have been Iowa.
What other state of corn and prairie
did you see?" Well" said the tourist,
zone state we passed through had
lots of prairie and lots of corn, and on
that July day it was very hot. and in
the evening ever so far we could see
a house, out Of the rear chimney OF
which oczed little column OF smoke,
which went up straight as an arrow
for ten miles and half" THAT"
said the bystander, with a satisfied
air, "was Kansas. Wichita Eagle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
How Thompson's Watch Cost
Him a Wife.
BY WILLIAM BLOSS.

Copyright. 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
Gentlemen OF the leisure class
don't carry watches, nowadays" said
our host, Thompson, dogmatically,
pausing to light second cigarette.
flames, since Captain Barry wishes to
be exact, you may look at the library
clock and tell him what time 1t is"
1T is striking eight o'clock, sir"
replied James, respectfully, as he
quietly filled the Captains glass.
There was snug party OF six
lounging over their wine and tobacco
after dining regally at Thompson's
! bachelor board. Barry had to catch
a train for st. Paul at p. m. He
wanted to stay just as long as pos
sible before summoning a cab to take
him to the depot, and upon consult
ing his watch for the hour had been
seized by forebodings as to the &C.
curacy of the hands. His inquiry as
to the right" time had led to the
hosts remark.
! Barry flushed little as it fell. The
assertion seemed to his mind super-
cilious and barbarously un-American.
Barry himself was a man Of the peo-
pie, and was proud of it. So, too. was
Thompson, or had been, once.
what do you mean by gentlemen
of the leisure class you gray-haired
fraud" he demanded, in half anger.
do you mean to say am no gentle
man because carry watch and like
to know what time 1t is when / have
q train to maker"
Certainly not" replied Thompson.
with placidity. "Of course not. You
are a gentleman because you are a
man of education. intelligence, good
breeding and some ancestry"
Huh" grunted the Modified
Barry. what then?"
But you are not" continued the
host, "a gentleman of the leisure class,
because you busy yourself with your
commercial affairs and even at your
age continue"
AT my age! I'm full five years
younger than you are"
Thompson waved the interruption
aside as irrelevant. II was going to
say that If you quit business and be-
came loafer@
"As you have"
Eyes, as have, then you might ac-
count yourself gentleman OF the
leisure class"
when l was young person." con-
tinued Thompson, "just beginning life
on the Board of Trade, after leaving
Ann Arbor, my Uncle Jackson Thomp-
son, who had sent me to school and
had in fact reared me from boyhood
as his own son, with much ceremony
one day presented me with time
niece known as the family clock, and
told me, with moist eyes, to cherish
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

point of surprise to those who know
her well, London yet retains her
breath, her unity, her consentaneity
as no other town or city in Occidental
civilization.
There are no environing hills, as by
the Tiber, to look uown upon London,
an eternal city in as heroic sense
as is applicable to Rome; instead
there is the brave, engirdling ring of
suburbs, ever restless, ever advanc-
ing, marching as an army upon the
defenceless country. The villages are
to-day in the green fields, tomorrow
gone, absorbed into the gullet Of
town.
Thenceforward they stretch out
their small tentacles to join in the
great game of which they have been
the victims, and themselves absorbed,
suck in, and grow from point to point.
DO you see yonder req file of brick
streets? 1t has spread out of an old
world hamlet, auie. as a tomb
through many centuries. The hamlet
lies buried somewhere "in the brown"
of brick and slate, but the red regi,
ment, having learned its lesson of
progress, is mounting the hill, and the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Have you brought the watch?" hs
gasped sterply.

Have you brought the watch?" he
gasped sternly.
and second, and all that sort Of nui.
sance, you know. But l didn't much
care. Uncle Jackson could have any
old thing he wanted from me then.
He was getting old-and he had a
Eushel of deeds to good Michigan
land.
Zone Saturday afternoon, hurrying
on to the boat, going over to visit
Uncle Jackson, l took out my match
to see If l had time to run back upon
some trifling errand had forgotten.
The ancient chain parted link, the
watch rolled from my hand, fell upon
the gangplank, quivered there an in.
slant, and then plunged with a mali
cious PUNK and gurgle into the Chi
cago river.
81 came near to diving after 1t, az
1t went down, so great was my con-
sternation, but finally was content to
hire two river roustabouts to try to
recover it, with the promise of big
reward. Then the boat cast off her
lines, and I started for the lions
mouth, wondering what kind of lie
would go down with Uncle Jackson.
He always wanted to see the old
watch, about the first thing, when
went over to visit him on Sunday.
after deep thought l concluded to
say it was in jewelers. hands for
repairs, trusting that my amateur
divers would recover it fol me by
the time returned. Perhaps fall
tered little In detail when told him
this tale. He was very inquisitive
about it, and 1t seemed to me unduly
suspicious. Nevertheless, he affected
to believe me, and at last l breathed
freely; then he COMPOUNDED me again
by announcing desire to return with
me on Monday morning to Chicago.
"As the boat landed my divers met
me gleefully at the wharf, watch IN
hand, claiming their reward. They
had recovered the old turnip at the
| first effort, | learned afterwards, but
they prated much Of their desperate
search in the dirty river, and insisted
upon receiving the promised sou.
was caught red-handed, SO to speak
Uncle Jackson took in the situation
at single look. He was very grave
"T could have excused your heed
lessness, Tom, he said, but hate to
have you lie to me. Don't do it again
my son. Remember the old watch
1t never told lie in all its life.'
HE went home that very afternoon
wearing a severe countenance. wal
full of gloom. All my worldly pros
poets hung upon Uncle Jackson's good
will. That night, out of the pure per
versity which makes man do thu
wrong thing when no should be pur
suing only the right one, | began
wild spree. the first and last one Of
my life. 1t lasted a whole week
When 1t was over my watch had dis
appeared and l had no knowledge o.
its whereabouts.
"At my lodgings. when I returned
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
- ~ ~ ~r"''"S
Village" Of London
Correspondent Writes Of Some Peculiarities of the
Great British Metropolis. u L.,

sinuous and twisted that not twenty
yards was secure and plain before one.
anu so strange that one might wan.
der for hours Questing for way out.
There was the country-here is
London at my feet. The hill is very
quiet In the sunshine. Above, farm,
red-roofed, stately in the Georgian
style, but homely, too, and drawing
one with friendly eyes, stands amid
the sumptuous appointments Of its
stables and its yards. It smells Of
sweetness. And from the swards
comes the reck Of hay, new-cut, frag'
rant as altar, and cool in its fading
sheaves. Behind me a man cleayel
the grass with a sickle-five miiea
from the roaring sea! In front the
slopes go down, rich in timber and
blowing shadows: and about the base
Of my hill beat the bricks and mortar
of the town. :.
The eye catches the topmast towers
of the great city merged in smoke
and mist this bright summer after
noon. 1t is not itself city of f1at
wastes, but here and there are broken
irregular heights which, you would
never have suspected.
1t Is odd how many things are hid
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
WHAT HE MIGHT EAT.
Suggestions Made in Good Faith Did
Not Improve Matters.

Heard a good story on an eastern
minister. He is vegetarian of the
strictest order, and in the course OF
his pastoral career he was invited out
to a Sunday dinner by one Of the Sis
tiers of his flock, whose name for
the ronce shall be Brown. Old man
Brown didn't go to church that morn
ing. His wife told him to expect her
to bring home company to dine, and
he, with the aid of the cook, laid the
foundation for superb repast. Mrs.
Brown came home, but all the COM
pany she brought was the minister.
They were seated at the table when
this sort of conversation ensued:
"Mr. Jones'" meaning the minister,
what part of the chicken do you like
best?"
Really, Mr.. Brown, I don't care
about any chicken"
well, here is some extra fine roast
beef; try some of this"
Excuse me, Mr.. Brown, will fore
go the beef"
81 have some tender lamb down
here, how will that suit?"
81 never eat lamb"
"Well, now, know you can't refuse
this boiled ham,"
Pardon me, but ham never
touch"
During all this time Browns father,
an old gray-haired sinner, had been
seated near him, watching operations
and, standing it as long as he could,
squeaked out in piping voice:
John, maybe the damn fool will
suck raw egg"
The enjoyment of that dinner was
spoiled.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

den in London, swallowed up In thu
vast gulf until one happens to STUN
BILE upon them. Thus a rise in thu
ground, handsomely grown with trees
is never discovered until you hav'
turned. the corner and. are upon 1t;
and pretty parks are crowded behind
ugly stacks of streets.
In most towns you know from one
section what to expect of others, but
London is infinitely diversified, and
holds surprises even for those whs
have known and loved her for I
lifetime. There is no one SO rash
or so unveracious as to- boast. thai
he has nothing to learn of London
The central .parts,; haunted as they
are by the feet Of shoppers. theater
goers and sightseers, may very vel
be familiar to many Of us. The city
the Strand, Fleet street, Piccadilly
Regent street, Oxford street.-the
whole of that region, indeed, which
is pounded on the one hand by thu
bank, on the other by 'Kensington
and reaches from the river on thu
south to, say, the Marylebone road
on the north-all that important
bustling fragment of the town some
Of us may know as intimately al
our own house. .ta'N
Fragment" l have written, and
the word is accurate. 1t is twenty
square miles, and there are something
like 400 square miles in London town
| can see as far as Willesden sosth
ward, and my eye travels beyond. Xii
burn to the arete of Hampstead. TIL,
field of the vision seems vast to nj
on my watch-tower, for it is sufficient
to wearI the eye and make distances
dim and faint. And yet beyond vii
lesden and beyond Hampstead and be
yond kilburn lie mile. on mile of un
seen houses. From here. to Willesdel
is a mile or two, from here to Croy
den the crow must fly no less thai
twenty miles over Streets packet
with houses. 1t is amazing, but it II
London. .'
There are some people who can SCI
nothing touching in wide expanse d
landscape as seen from a Pisgah afa'
off. Yet, looked on rightly, the scen'
should be as fraught with meaning
and emotion, astounding asmost, al
the field of serene stars on fint
night. What is .humbling is, in effect
ennobling, for he who can take II
the sense of his own smallness II
relation to that bigness can appreci
ate precisely what that, higness II
and means. So that in all that II
large and ample dwells a moral force
even in this overgrown and dfngl
London of ours. ~
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
An Expressive Tribute.

John Saul, veteran Of the civil
war, lives near Bridgewater, Me-, and
has been married three times. Each
of his wives is dead. The latest Mrs.
Saul having crossed the dark river
six years ago. Ever since then the
widower has been considering what
sort of an inscription he would place
on the headstone at her grave. He
finally decided on this, which has
been engraved on the stone by a local
marble worker: "To the memory OF
Mary Ann Saul. Born Dec. %, 1S4S.
died Aug. 5, 1896. Erected by her
lowing husband. She WEE the best
wife ever had"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

old oaks groan and go down one by
one in the meadows.
London is a series Of villages.
Here Is one, vast. disorganized in its
very organization, loose-limbed, teem-
ing, but yet village; holding night
ly it's $4,000 sleepers, and with its
greedy eyes set forwards to councils
and robes of Office and august offic-
ers. 1t is only the lack of "locomo-
ton" that keeps it village: but
until that secret is solved a village
it will remain. Is 1t being solved?
The difference between the various
parts and quarters of the town are
infinitely less than between London
and what is not yet London, but will
some day, as inevitable as death or
the tax-collector, be gathered into the
all-hospitable bosom. Ten minutes
back l was In lanes so narrow that
two vehicles could not pass abreast,
10 rural that the blackberry hedges
rose high and blocked the view, so
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
(itatXfS2#L OWES &M
Ns1|gAMBUSI&1
@ktfQ5ASsSAIlKate Masters oNN4e

He wondered. boy-like. through his
How love would como to him some
day
Rosecrowned. star-eyed and fair b
truth:
How hand in hand. along the way
Across the 'i golden AFTERNOON
Where she should smile alone for him
And life their lullaby would croon
And SO he dreamed! And though he
talked
With other girls upon the stairs.
With one he danced; with one he walked:
But never Numbered In loves snare.
Nor thought he'd strayed into the net
That bound his life's unspoken wish
One lucky day when first he met
A girl who owned a chafing dishl
She was serious maid who had
Ambitions fne-ideals grand
Her eyes upon the stars; her fad
To live for Art alone! She planned
A great career-the goal In sight;
And afternoons to call he came
While she put on an apron white
And dallied with the chafers flannel
She frizzled eggs and oysters creamed
And placed the cups of china blue
With touch artistic while they dreamed
OF all their noble aims come true;
They never talked of love-but things
Adjust themselves in these affairs;
One day she deviled turkey wings
And so-love found them unawares!
New York Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Especial Correspondence.J

Especial Correspondence.)
0kITAIN'S capital is not upon
liz seven hills, yet 1t is divided
into far more than seven
quarters by partitions greater
and more formidable than
hills. 1t is the great spread Of Lon
lon that has impaired to the metropo-
lis Of the world its peculiar charac-
.er. I have written character when
the word should have been in the plu-
raj For London has characteristics,
and no one character; and yet in the
eyes of the alien world Londoner Is
Londoner with the hall marks Of his
mighty city upon him. But here again
Is an anomaly. London is not city
so much as a congeries Of cities, q
welter of separate and impinging
towns, a concentration Of villages.
New York, Paris, Berlin, Vienna,
Chicago-take all the great cities Of
the world, and you will not find in
any of them either the proportionate
area, cosmopolitanism, differences, or
(strange to say) the homogeneity Of
London. Scattered over an area Of
nearly 400 square miles, with a popu-
lation diverse in creeds, race, and
even in color, heterogeneous to the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Race Spirit Of Beer.

Tho Boer leaders are exhorting their
psople to preserve the race spirit.
writes . reporter for the New York
Sun. At the same time they acknowl.
edge franklyehst South Africa IL now
under one nas. Why should not the
Dutch keep Up the traditions Of their
country. a. Scotland, Wales and Ire
land do? Anyhow. as matters now
stand, no other colony has such glor.
ious past to point to as the former
South African republics.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

watch as his chiefest treasure. I mad
all sorts of protestations Of good he
havior and careful solicitude for tn,
ancient horologue. Uncle Jackson
went back to his Michigan farm
and l went to work among the bears
and bulls here in Chicago, on the old
board.
1.-THE watch, as you remembered
Carroll, was an enormous bulls eye,
and weighed half pound, easy. But
l wore IL, and laid aside my own more
modern timepiece. The boys used ia
laugh at it good deal, and got In
the habit of asking me what time II
was, just to see me lug it out, and
to pretend that had been selected to
decide disputes as to the exact hou'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Proof About "caesar's camp.r

Rowing out in a. boat at Folke
stone toward Shakespeare's Cliff, tn
weather-beaten longshoreman pointe,
out to the American visitor will
great pride the hill called Caesar
Camp"
"How do you know 1t was Cae
sar's Camp" he was asked.
well, can't say for sartin 4
was; all I know is they's allus dig
GIN up old guns and 'bayonets AMI
such e."-London Express. 4
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Chicago river,

chicago TIV0T.
II as the apple of my eye; always to
he as exact and reliable. as true to
duty. as honest, as industrious, as 1t
was itself.
I "Tom,' said he, You know how
much we Thomrsons think OF this
watch. 1t belonged to your great
grandfather He bought it in Liver
nool before the revolution. and it has
been in the family-and running, too
most of the time, ever since. Take 1T,
my boy, and remember to live up to
its principles.
IL was much affected, naturally, for
i knew Uncle jackson regarded mat
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Better Tnan Fish RaIt.

While digging, FISH bait; in the west
ern part of Macon county, Missouri
recently, James Perrin unearthed al
old pot containing about $500 in golf
coin. /.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

The successful man earns his bread
by the sweat of other peoples brows.