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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-12
Church Directory.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
reaching every Sabbath, 1880 IA. m.
Evening Service, 1880 p. m.
Sabbath School Sabbath morning, $3.50
Christian Endeavor Sabbath evening, 6:O
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday evening, 1880
b, Ali are cordially invited to these services
REV. ii. G. MATHIS. Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Preaching every Sunday morning, 1880 Il. m
Evening service 1880.
Sabbath School $3.50 a. m.
EpworCh League $3.50 p. m.
You are earnestly requested to attend the
REV. A. II. CHURCH, Pastor.
UNITED BRETHREN.
Preaching regularly every Sabbath. morn
Tag. Sabbath school 1000 IA. m. Young Peor
ples' Christian Endeavor, p. m. Prayer
Meeting Wednesday evening $3.50.
Il. A, DARLING. Pastor
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Preaching Sabbath morning at II o'clock.
Evening Service 1880 p. m.
Sabbath School 1000 a. M.
Young Peoples meeting, $3.50 p. m.
All are cordially invited.
E. 5. RILEY. Pastor
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN.
Preaching Sabbath morning II 30 Il. m.
Sabbath School 1890 u. m.
YP. O. A. Sabbath evening at $3.50.
Preaching at 1880 p. m.
PRAYER meeting, Wednesday evening 1880.
w. T.. MABON, Pastor
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Bible School 9:45 a. m.
Preaching Service II 100 Il. m. and 1880 p. IN.
Junior Endeavor Sunday ut 3 p. m.
Christian Endeavor, ut $3.50 p. m.
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday 1880 p. m
Everybody, cordially invited.
Nj. MOORE. Pastor.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
Regular services, Sunday II ~ m. and 1880
y m.
Sunday School, 10 q. m.
Mid-week Prayer Meeting Wednesday eve
ming, 1880 D. M.
Christian Endeavor. Sunday 6:3O p m.
ARTHUR METCALF, Pastor.
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Better Than a Plaster.

A piece of flannel dampened. with
Chamberlain Pain Balm and bound on
the affected parts, is better than a plas-
ter tor a lame lack and for pains in the
side or chest Pain Balm has no superb
or as a lnimcnt for the relief of deep
seated, muscular and rheumatic pains.
For sale by Tibbctts & Co.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-12
Crushed Her Finger.
MONDAYS Evening News.

Mondays Evening News.
Last Fridiv Mrs. J. r. Bociover
had the misfortune to get her finger
crushed between the rocker and base
of platform rocker, The injury
t, ough not serious is very painful
DR.. Craig dressed the finger and it
is getting along nicely.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-12

PERSONAL
POINTERS
Picked Up Here and
There About People
Who Come and Go.

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So turday's Evening News.
Joe Carey went TO We.lsville to-day
on business.
Miss Iva Putnam of Richmond is VS.
ting friends in town
RS, Ayres went to Paola Yesterday
on business. returning to-day.
Motifs Weesdoffer, sherif-elect of COT
fey county transacted business in town
yesterday.
Mrs Mabel Baldwin of Kansas City
is visiting her parents Mr.. and Mrs j.
Z Scroggs.
Will McEwen came up to-day from La
Harpe to visit over Sunday with his
home folks.
Miss Cora Rough of Harris, took the
morning train tor Ottawa where she
will study music.
Effie Rogers came in YESTERDAY from
Westphal a. She says that her graud-
mother is better.
&. Gordon returned to dav from Osa-
watomie where he has been visiting tor
the past ten days.
Mrs. Margaret Dedrick who has been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. w X. Hunt re-
turned to her home at Richmond this
morning,
Mondays Evening News.
o. G. Long went to Kansas City to
day, on business.
Charley BAILEY went to Chanute, to
day, to look up a job.
Mrs Jas. Archer went to Fridonia,
Saturda y. to visit friends.
Mrs. Duff, who has been visiting at
Baldwin, returned home, to-day.
Fred Taylor and Mr.. Cozad, of Paola,
visited friends in the city Yesterday.
John Vaughn and NJ. Maloney went
o Kansas City to-day, on business.
Mrs. A. M. Joens, of Vernon, Ill.,, vino
has been visiting Mrs. Geo. p. Jones' left
for home Saturday.
Mrs. Celia Peterson came over from
Osawatomie, Saturday to visit her mo-
ther, Mrs. Robert Wing.
Miss Jessie orion, who has been visit
ing Mrs. ChaS. Wolfley, returned to her
home at Westphalia, yesterday.
Mrs. Henry Goddard returned Satur.
day from Kansas City, where she visited
her daughter, Mrs. Frank Douglas.
Leonard Free who has been visiting
his sister. Mrs. w. V. Smith, for the
past two weeks. returned to his home in
Iowa. He was accompanied bv his :
neice, Miss Mary Smith, who will visit
for some time in Iowa.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-12

Charley Wentz says that he HIS
received letter from Pete Peterson
IN which Pete says iha. he has ad
a fine tins listing his sons 1T Chi
cago and tn t he il about ready 10
return home
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Christmas and NewYear holiday rates
One fare per round trip within 2OO
miles distance, no ticket sold or less than
az ccnrs; dates Of sale. Dec. "a, 20 and
/ and ian LIST; return limit, Jan. 2nd.
|. c, BYBRE, Agt.
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Mondays Evening News.

Mondays Evening News.
The Baptist Sunday school is pre-
pairing very nice program for the
Christmas entertainment.
Florence, the little daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Leeper Adams, is
quite sick. DR.. Cunningham is at
tending her.
P. II. Cayot made shipment of
CARPETS and furniture, to Mont Ida
to-day for use in the Methodist
church at that place.
Tom Highley, formerly of Garnet
has purchased the Labor Signal of
Oklahoma City. The Signal is the
official journal of the Central Trades
and Labor Assembly Of Oklahoma.
Yesterday was red letter day at
the NJ. E. church. The morning
services were devoted to the enter
tainment and instruction of the chill
dren. In the evening, the pastor,
Rev. Church, read ABOUT twenty let
tiers that he had received from the
business men and others, as to why
"they did not attic d church." The
letters were very interesting and
many good reasons were given. AT
ter reading the letters Rev. Church
preached one of the best sermons
we have listened to for long time.
Tuesdays Evening News.
Jas. Smith goes to Glenlock to.
: morrow to put the hard-oil finish on
the interior of the new Methodist
, church.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Axtell enter.
tanned number of friends last ev
ering with musical selections play
ed by the Apollo Grand Pianola, re-
Gently purchased by Mr.. Axtell.
Joe Carey informs us that the In
dependent Long Distance telephone
+ COMPANY now has its wire strung
to Olathe and the line is open fol
/ businesa. 1t is the intention to
build the line as far as Wellsvillt
and then discontinue work for the
winter.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
A NEW G. A. R. POST.
The following circular letter sent out:
R G.. A. n.
ff7II Garnett, Kas. Dec 4, 1902
illul Dear Comrade: Over hundred comrades
ESM or this county have signed a application )
keSfM for the organization Of a county post of 5
the g. A. r., and it has Forwarded
TO Col H. c. Loomis, commander the
Department Of Kansas, and writes that he will be
in Garnett all day on TUESDAY. DECEMBER 1e, 1909,
to meet them FOR the Of organizing the new
post The organ1 Will place in the court
house, which the county COMM oners we
can have for meetings. Of the applicants
residing at this CITY secured the A. o.
u w. hall for the 10th, day night is large
commod1ous, with good dining-room to meet
you and all Of the the county who feel
ap1r1t Of fraternity. Charity Loyalty towards
their comrades army, who wish the new post
The meeting the A. o. U. W. hall will be
an entirely social and Informal affair,
ner and supper will be served to comrades and
their wives whe attend, whether they the
new post or not. There are 500 veterans 5
living in Anderson county, to come :
and bring wives and sociable informal re-
union and good Time both day and evening"
who desire to unite with the citing
their organt zat1on at the court house, :
We can have but few Of these Reunions let us
have good time viii comp1 etc Il st of the
comrades Of the Will file,
arranged, can learn the location reg1
ment Of comrade in che county; about
$50 who rest cemeteries Of the county 5;
mustered out". This meeting is just
full you good to drive
home with sweetheart just you used to do.
Comes bring your wife. If the
10th, tell him bring wife. If YOU de-
sire to muster charter post with
the rest of the comrades, early
charge other evidence Of you may have
Will be here to examine them.
DON'T FAIL TO BE ON HAND,
D.
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ton that it meant comparison of in.
diVidual authors, as for example Win
ston Churchill and Mary Johnston for
the purpose of determining their rela-
tive literary merits. Comparative liter
allure, however, as it is to be dealt with
in the journal, considers races rather
than individuals. taking the broad
est possible view of literature as a
comparison of peoples and seeking to
find in all the literatures of Europe the
varied but essentially common voice of 9
single race and single civilization The
value Of SUCH study is to broaden our
sense of literary brotherhood so that
an Englishman or an American may
feel a personal pride not only in Shake
speare. but in Cervantes, Ariosto and
Moliere.
Some of the difficulties of book
making, of which the reading public
never hear, are exemplificd in the case
of Booth Tarkington's new novel, 'The
TWO Fanrcvels.' the advance demand
for which has almost swamped the pub
fishers. In the first place, the cover OF
the book requires cream leaf With the
making Of The first $4,000 the cream leaf
market began 10 run short. Agents were
sent ont to collect it. BY the time 81. 00o
copies were completed there was no high
grade cream leaf left in America. Ger
many was appealed to by cable, but there
IS shortage of cream leaf there also.
and several thousand copies of the book
had to be sent out STAMPED with white
leaf Then there was difficulty about the
gliding. Expert gilders are becoming
70 oh ella Oil ic no
fishers nut out the books to one glider
after another until there are now five
gliding shops busy with 1.-THE Two Var
revcls" and two binderes at work on
it. and the supply is still 10000 behini
the orders. Reused into rivalry by the
Variorum edition Of Fitzgerald, published
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fought for the good land of the rivers,
the deep tree land and of the seashores?
Was not l looking on when there came
from the southland the mail clad men of
another race to win the plains and the
valleys, the mountains also, and the
water courses for their possession? And
have not | borne their dead ones gashed
and CORY to the all-receiving caves Of
Father Neptune, stern men, STOUT of heart
and undaunted? How my children fought
them in the gates. and how they stood
each man with his slaughter weapon in
his hand, true and strong till the invader
was driven hence and the stars shone
upon homes free and bought with a great
price. IN my Businesses the heroes lay
for God and freedom and for the breaking
Of the day.
I'm growing very old. / scarce can
recollect all the words and deeds that
sum up my daily life; but this story
fain would tell as it should be told at the
great day of the telling.
1T is now some nineteen centuries age,
there came to my banks a pilgrim from
an eastern cline. Weary, foot-sore and
travel stained, his form bent and hoary
with its weight of years. 1t was at sun
set, the tranquil tide was bathing dream
lily the pebbles on the shore. The light
was creeping up the distant hills and in
its trail soft purple shadows, wrapped the
dewey fields. To the half-clad men by
my banks did | not hear him say:
Friends from far country am | come
to bring YOU good tidings. 1t is a decree
from my King who rules over a spiritual
Kingdom ba hat no
gave his son to die for US" So love We
one another Love God and men
Twas with joyous raptures he spoke of
st. John. Peter and James. Oft in the
Masters service those weary limbs had
travelled from Judean hills to the shores
Continued on Page Tenn
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Will be that of the hen rampant with
eggs in the foreground. the background
and all around. No more will we be
slandered by being referred to as the
State of tar, pitch and turpentine, but
with all feet up, we will pro@dly tramp
to the front with eggs, eggs, eggs, in
scrbed on our escutcheon.
And history will discount the Lay of
Ancient Rome" and in its place will be
found the Lay OF
GREAT FUTURE the Ancient Hen
PROVIDED BY OF North Carolina"
ANCIENT LAYS. or perhaps the
Ancient Lay of the
Hen will be the choice Of the Seaboard
the Pop politician and the eggt throwing
depot agent From all quarters the hen
will be brought to the State, and an or
binary bird like the American eagle will
Carolina hen is mentioned. There will
be millions in her. or rather we Will wish
there win be millions from her. and that
each one of these will get the Seab oare
standard of value. 1t is a great future
which We see for the State in this egg
production, and as the glad, glad day
of the egg approaches all who labor In
other pursuits of wealth may as we'll re-
tire and give way to the Egg Count,
greater than King Cotton, Duke Tobacco
or the Coal Baron. All hail to the Hen,
the Egg, the Politician, and the Sea-
board
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there in sunshine and in storm long after
we have gone. To me it is a personality.
The waters wear the stones, and the hills
are worn down into the valleys And the
generations of mankind come and go,
while as for the river it is ever there.
AS / stood still to watch it, brown with
the tribute of the hills and fields, go by.
30 river" said /, ''have you no guardian
spirit, no intelligence that can tell your
story as you would have it told" and
out OF the spate, above the roaring of
the tumult of waters and signing and
soughing, as the wind among the trees,
came the voice: THAT story | may not
tell as it shall have to be told until the
great day of the telling. Whence came
II? ask of the irrecoverable past, ere yet
channels of the waters were seen and
while the morning stars were singing for
joy that they were made. Creature / of
the cloud land and of the hilltops where
the vapors rest, of the>woodlands and the
valleys wild birds are crying to their
mates. Begotten of the and of the
sea, from the depths of ocean ! have
come and to the depths of ocean | am
gazing, by many a path and many a fell,
by rocky beds, by the dropping land OF
the mists, and the solitudes. | haste by
the rocks and the fields; by the narrows
and the plains, by shingly pool and weedy
bed, and gathering in my children as | 60
| haste me back to the caves of the deep.
How old am /? Ere man was l am. / num-
Der not my years by centuries; the CEN
turtles to me are but as days. Far away
in the dim hoary past cut my path from
mountain top to ocean. Many a genera
ton of giant birds have stalked solemn
and lone in my waters. They have come,
they have lived, they have died. they are
not Great beasts and scaley reptiles I
have seen across the path of years that
were numbered by the thousand and they
too vanished as the morning cloud as the
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Loads a 0pGh @apoDBna Daily aer@ peuDaBq
In the Realm of Letters.
AJOURNAL OF
Comparative Literature;

A JOURNAL OF

by Oakley, Page & Company, the MacMl-
Ian Company now announces another
complete edition of the works of the
translator of Calderon and Omar. Fitz-
gerald has had a rather one-sided repu
tation in connection with a single book
so it is matter of congratulation that
through editions like these his fame will
be now soundly based on other things as
good in their way as his popular MASTER
piece
While Lady Roses Daughter" is run
ming in Harper's Magazine its author,
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is preparing the
dramatic version of her Eleanor" for the
stage in London and New York Here in
America Eleanor Robson will create the
title role.
But this is not the only magazine item
OF interest that have for you this week
Another concerns itself with a certain
short-lved publication called THE Bran
dur Magazine" weekly, devoted to
stories and short articles. The name Of
it's proprietor, Orlando j. Smith, the
president of the American Press Associa-
ton, created confidence in the success
of the venture among newspaper and
magazine people generally, while the
promise of three cents word for all
contributions, rate which was adver-
tised as being the largest paid by any
magazine in the world must have created
kindly feeling in Grub street In spite,
however of all good omens, The Brandur
Magazine, did not survive its third num-
Der and now makes one more of that
company of multitudinous magazines
some clever and some mediocre. that have
The underlying principle in modern life
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THE STORY THAT THE RIVER TOLD
Mr.. j. M. Monte Visits His Old Home in Scotland and
Falls Into Reverie on the Banks
of the AYR,

early dew, as the SHOWS of the mountains
And what of primal man? All, he was a
creature of but yesterday to me but
recall him as he came gaunt, savage
through the glades. Out of the boys. out
of the fens, out of the forests from |
know not where, he reached my banks to
in his low rude hut to dwell How slowly
and painfully for him the centuries rolled
by. He fought with the wild beasts of
the deep treeland, with other men, men
wilder than he. The sun was his god,
the moon also, and he read his destiny
in the stars. Ever and ever, upward and
onward he pressed; and hard was the war
he waged, he was formed in the divine
image and it was for him the world was
made. The thunder's roar and the light
ning's flash appalled, him not His way
was wild and devious. BY many a terror
1t wound. by smoking altar by war and
tumult and the rending of humanity, until
the day began to dawn for him, and he
came to the destiny whereunto he had
been appointed.
Though | may not tell my story till the
day of the reckoning and though | may
not tarry on my course or stay my ever
ceaseless ongoing to the sea. there are
yet many things | fain would say. Did
| not hear the now long silent voices of
the Druid fathers when as yet they cried
aloud in the ears of the sun god and the
cromlech was reeking with the blood of the
captive slain? Were not my streams
Redeemed with the blood of the ancient
Britons when with club and stone axe,
point to point and man to man. they
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Having been. asked to tell something
of my recent travels IN Scotland, that
land of the purple heather, the mist, the
mountains, and the flood. If | may but
cast into the treasury of the passing
literature of the day my two mites which
make a farthing, gladly leaving to the
scribe who out of his abundance will in
due time bring forth from his collection
box things new and old. During my re-
cent wanderings in my native county Of
Ayrshire, / stood viewing the classic
scenery from 1.-The Aud brig O. Ayr" in
dulging in reverie that was begotten of
childhood memories on the one hand. and
on the other hand of the rains that had
been falling copiously. bringing the beau
tiful Ayr river down in flood not in very
heavy flood, but brown with the tribute
fthe muirs and MOSES leaping and
plunging over the dams with it's tawny
waters 1T of the subeams.
My heart always warns to a river in
spate. There is in it the sense of ma
jesty, of strength of buoyancy, of the
joy of motion OF life itself 1t is not
the mere water that is tumbling over the
dams and hurrying through the streams
and flowing on to lose itself in the ocean;
but the river itself, the same river that
was there when as yet there was no
man on the scene, the same river that
saw the wandering tribes come to it's
banks, and knew the half-clad man that
swung his stone axe upon the trees or
chased the wolf and the bear with his
flint tipped spear. the same river that
knew the centuries as they rolled by.
that is there today, and that will be
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New York, October 4. 1902.


Intelligence comes to me at the mo-
ment of writing this letter. of a new
magazine, the first number OF which
is to appear on the first of January. 1t
is a quarterly Journal of Comparative
Literature, and is to be devoted to the
interests of that most modern of literary
studies, In America and Europe. 1t
will be based primarily upon the De-
partments of Comparative Literature at
Columbia and Harvard. Prof. G. f.
Woodbury. and DR.. j. e. Spingarn, of the
former institution and Prof. j. b.
its editorial MANAGEMENT. A very i'm
pressiVe array of foreign professors
have promised their active support. The
list of universities represented by them
includes those of Zurich, Berlin, Paris,
Innspuck, Padua, Copenhagen, Turin
Florence. Edinboro, Naples and Heidel-
berg. Truly a cosmopolitan gathering,
justifying the claim on the part of the
editors, that it is 'the most cosmopoli-
tan journal ever planned Among ,hese
foreign collaborators in the enterprise
appears the name of j. j. Jusserand, the
who comes from Copenhagen to assist
Monsieur Cambon. Monsieur Jusserand
is the leading French authority on Eng
lis literature. His best known work in
this country is one now used in all col
leges on the English novel
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A $500 Clock.
Warren Record.l

Mr.. T. A. Williams. of Inez. was in
town Wednesday. Mr.. Williams has a
clock. about 100 years old that belonged
to his paternal grand mother He says
that 1t keeps good time and that he would
not take $500 for it.
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A Great Future Provided
1 y s sss1ro. Hens, Eggs and Politicians
FOR NORTH CAROLINA BY

perhaps ready to break the flight of
more of them.
Now comes the serious part OF the mat
ter. 1t is that other politicians are said
to be wildly
NOW EVERYBODY clamoring for
is WILD TO an egg bath,
RAISE HEN FRUIT. and that in or
der that no rail-
road agent may be short on eggs when
the politician is due in the vicinity, the
aforesaid politicians are buying up all
the eggs in the country and shipping
them to every railroad agent in North
Carolina. This great demand for eggs
has showed w the price and the hen and
egg industry threatens to drive out all
other crops in the State AS an active
competitor against the politicians the
Seaboard Air Line is also buying eggs.
but as they buy them they promptly rush
them out of the State so as to keep them
away from their agents, who have desires
TO pelt politicians.
Hence the egg market is on a boom
and ii the price of 81 500 dozen or there
abouts is to be the
THE HEN WILL standard rate quo
BECOME OUR ted the fields
STATE BIRD. and the mills, and
the mines, the
banks and the stores and the offices, are
all going to be deserted in the Wild
scramble to engage in the hen and egg
industry. The statues of the jury at Car
thage which set the price on eggs should
be Dlaced in the North Carolina Hall of
Fame and the most valued coat of arms
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There seems to be some doubt as to
what the term comparative literature
means and it has come in for It's share
of newspaper ridicule on the SUPPOSE