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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
EVILS OF SPITE LAWSUITS.
Very Poor Way of Obtaining Salts
faction or Revenge.

One Of the most Improbable, and
in the end most unsatisfactory, pro-
ceedings in which a person can en-
gage is to commence lawsuit mere
" because he is boiling internally
and can think of no other safety
valve. 1t is very much cheaper to
buy a punching bag. There may be
certain preliminary satisfaction IN
reading notices the plaintiff himself
has caused to be inserted in the news
papers that he has sued his enemy for
q round number Of thousand dollars.
After a time, however, the litigation,
if It has not substantial merits, be-
comes irksome in itself and expen-
sive, and the humiliation OF a spite
suit that ends in Judgment for the
defendant, with bill OF costs, ranks
among the acute forms OF human
misery.-New York Law Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
AN IDEAL AMERICAN CITY.
Peaceful Life Led by Inhabitants OF
Mount Cory,

Ten miles southwest Of Findlay,
Ohio, lies the peaceful hamlet of
Mount Cory. 1t is model utopia OF
righteousness, according to the Kan
sas City Star. Seventy-five houses
compose the village, and seven Of
them are occupied by preachers Of
the gospel. No saloons are there. In
the winter the residents swap yarns
by the side of the friendly stove in
the corner grocery, and in summer
they white hickory sticks and cut
their initials in the soft pine OF the
store. There is a mayor, but no
brawlers are ever brought before him,
and his chief labors are those OF a
notary or uniting two souls whose
lives have flowed into the course OF
the other. Years ago there was
calaboose, but now the hut is used as
village pound.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

jealousy nerved Victor Roland
O'Shea to kill his young wife at the
home Of her parents in Chicago last
week and attempt to take his own
life after a vain effort to shoot her
mother. The tragedy brought to light
the fact of secret marriage over a
year ago and a growing disposition
on the part of the wife to repent OF
her choice.
A courtship extending over a year
eliminated July. 2, 1901, in the mar
riage of young O'Shea and Miss Ame-
liza M. Hogenson at Waukegan with
out the knowledge of their parents.
The young couple returned to Chi
cago and went to their respective
homes, intending to keep the fact
of their marriage until they could
gain the sanction of their parents,
but through the misplacing of some
papers by the young man his mother,
Mrs. Patrick ]. OShea, discovered all
Sept. Z, 1901.
Then began the unhappiness Of the
young couple. The brides father OBJ
jected to the union because Of the
youth of O'Shea, who is %, and be-
cause he was not in position to
provide for his wife. The young
mans father, Patrick O'Shea, an at
torIey with Offices in the Unity build
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

years old. His first and greatest
strike was the Independence mine, IN
the center of the present Cripple
Creek field. 1t made him many times
a millionaire, and was ultimately sold
by him to an English syndicate Tor
S11 100000.
Stratton was an eccentric character
in many respects, and had his own
ideas about using his money. While
indulging in the freaks a rich man
can afford he did not like the idea OF
having idle surplus on his hands, SO
he made many investments in Colo
RADIO real estate, and many OF the best
corners in Cripple Creek and Colorado
Springs belong to Stratton.
Personally Stratton was OF simple
tastes and habits, with marked dis
like for notoriety and publicity. His
charitable deeds have been many, and
most of them have been marked by
good Judgment. He redeemed the ia
Dor properties for the widow OF Sena
tor Tabor in gratitude for kindness
shown him when he was poor, and al
who displayed unselfish goodness to
ward him in his days of poverty nave
had no occasion to regret 1t.
No one knows what his fortune Is
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
Hot CORNER for Such as These.

In that land of shadows where men
are supposed to repent the wrong
deeds done in this life some obscure
corner will doubtless be reserved for
those who have been worse than sim
ners in that they were blunderers.
There will meet the trolley man who
did not notice, the boy who left the
door of the elevator open, the man
who rocked the boat and the individ-
ual who did not know it was loaded.
doubtless, too, this will be one of the
most unhappy groups among the null
t.tudes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
War Statistics.

According to the calculations OF
the Hospital, an English medical
journal, 5,776 officers and men were
killed in action in the South African
war. and 2,O19 died of wounds which
they received. The deaths from dis
ease amounted to 1922.
In action one officer was killed to
every 1915 men, and one officer was
wounded to every 11.34 men. But
of those who died from disease only
one in every 1856 men was an officer.
The number Of invalids sent home
during the war was about 10000, and
of those more than 5000 died or left
the service. The vast majority, OF
course, were restored to health. To
prove that the war after all was not
a big one, the Hospital quotes the
figures of the battle of Gravelotte, IN
which the victorious Germans had
s2s officers and 4,e0o men killed and
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
Lots of Energy.

The energy of a single discharge
from a twelve-inch gun is equal to
that of nine forty-ton locomotives run
ming sixty miles an hour. Taking
only the battleships and cruisers OF
one modern fleet, their guns, If fired
for only ten minutes, would develop
at least 1OO,OOO,OOO foot-tons Of ener-
gy. If this were applied to the base
of the great pyramid of Cheops it
would in ten minutes lift that monu-
mental mass of eight and half mil
lion tons twelve feet above the Esyp-
tan sands.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
onoer and Easier Lives.

We are living longer than our lore
fathers did, according to recent cen
ans report. This is fine tribute TO
medical and sanitary science. pu. tne
extension of human life is only eight
" revealed in the statement that tne
average age at death Is rising hlgner
and higher. Our lives are not meas,
,,red solely by the "hours on the dial
and the figures of the mortality nsls.
In comfort, in the humiliation OF tlme
and space, in the provision Tor tne
enjoyment Of existence, in the variety
Of his experiences. the life OF t ,le
twentieth century man IT, ' ous. 80 a
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
DEED OF JEALOUS YOUNG HUSBAND

ing, is said to have opposed the mar
riage at first.
Young O'Shea went to the home OF
the Hogensons and asked to see
Amelia, saying to her mother that
he was about to depart for Mexico
and desired q last word with her.
The young woman stepped into the
outer hall and closed the door behind
her In a few moments Mrs. Hogen-
son heard the report of a revolver
and faint scream. Running to the
hall door she opened 1t and saw her
daughter lying on the floor and the
young man sitting beside her, a re-
volver in his hand.
Selling a chair near at hand, Mrs.
Hogenson struck O'Shea over the
head as he pointed the revolver at
her, telling him to the floor. AS he
fell he turned the revolver against
his chest and fired twice, one bull
let passing through his body and the
other lodging in his lung. He may re-
cover.
The young woman was wounded
twice, one bullet piercing her heart
and the other lodging in her right
side. She died almost instantly. The
Young man regained consciousness
but offered no explanation for his
deed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

railway rails. The bolt locks the nut
so it cannot slip. A patent has been
applied for, and the SHOW girl" Miss
Gertrude Arden, hopes to make for
tune with her invention. She Is
widely travelled and well-read woman,
and has been prominent in Southern
society, At one time she owned an
orange grove in Florida, but one win
ter, three or four years ago, a frost
swept her trees away, and she turned
to the stage as a means of livelihood.
Prior to this change OF occupatlon'
Miss Arden had encircled the globe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
Weakness OF the Gar.

In st. Petersburg an odd little story
us told illustrating the cars lack OF
self-confidence and decision. "Nicho-
las, you are complete idiot" near
relative of his majesty's was heard to
exclaim. one day. after a reception In
the course of which the car had as
sured at least a half dozen men. eX'
pressing widely opposed opinions, that
he quite agreed with them. you are
perfectly right, my dear. quite agree
with you," the czar replied quietly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
Hibernians TO incorporate.

1t has been decided by the national
board of directors of the Ancient Or
der Of Hibernians to incorporate each
state division of the order. President
Dolan was authorized to act as the
president of the order in the United
States. Canada and Mexico in arrang-
ing the details of similar character.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
ST. LOUIS DOODLE COMBINE.
One of the Principals Has Made &
Full Confession.

E. E. Murrill, former speaker OF
the house of delegates of the st.
Louis city council, made full con-
fession of his part in the Doodle
combine. He is brother of j. K.
Murrell, who came back from Mexico
to free his mind.
John X. Murrell made the follow
ing statement to several close friends
about his flight from the city and
the causees that led him to come
back.
"The penitentiary could not hold as
many terrors for me as being fugitive
from justice. My own mental an
guish and my wife's desperate plight
in St. Louis, where she was deserted
by those who had promised to aid her
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
Advancement In India.

One of the native rulers OF India,
who was educated in England, mas
issued a decree permitting the re-
marriage of widows. When 1t is
known that in India there are more
than 20,OO0,O00 widows, many OF them
children under 10 years of age, and
that the condition of widowhood is
virtual slavery, the significance OF
this decree as an entering wedge IN
removing one of the curses OF India
Its child widows--is plainly appar
emf ~ h 8 < q s y Z. N Is .ssts kia
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
ALTON RESUMES FAST ST. Louh
TRAIN SERVICE.

Passengers destined to St. Louis
and points east should go via the Kan
sas City gateway, thereby securing
the advantage of the Chicago & Atoms
fast night train, leaving Kansas CITY
at 9 D. m, arriving in st. Louis at 7:oS
a. m. Chair cars free of extra charge
Compartment sleeping cars. The Al
ton keeps their light a'shining 5us'
ahead of the rest. Write to L. u
Cooper, Travelling Passenger Agent
Chicago g Alton Railway. Kansas City
Ma. for lowest rates
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

says such attacks are unjust and I'M
called for. The true AGO." accord
ing to Miss Biddle, are composed OF
men and women of refinement and
culture, who have gained entrance
to the charmed circle by their gen.
tility and brains, and among them
there is no lack of morals such as is
attributed to what is called the So
ciety of the east Miss BIBLES
400" know none where virtue and
intellectually do not constitute the
highest badge of man and woman.
mot even the countries of the old
world" says Miss Biddle," can show
a nobler or finer set"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
| fluids the weakening drain of their

fluids the weakening drain of their
discharge is prevented.
The medical profession is just begin
ming to awaken to the fact that chronic
catarrh, especially systemic catarrh, will
soon produce condition SO nearly re-
sembling nervous prostration that it is
very difficult to tell one from the other.
Peruna cures these cases without
fail.
If YOU do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna'
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case. and he Will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis. -.
Address DIR. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium. Colum bus, u.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
Pasteur Institutes In India.

The Pastelr institute for the treat.
ment of persons bitten by rabid ami
mails in Calcutta is rapidly gaining IN
popularity among the natives. In the
eight months ended May 81 last 352
persons were treated, and the NOR
tality was only per cent
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
Rexond Even Moraan,s Reach.

First Citizen Morgan says there is
one thing he wants more than any
thing else" and that is to keep his
name out of the newspapers. The
First Citizen has evidently never
learned that as even he cant get all
he wants the way to be happy is to
want what he can get.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
One of the greatest pleasures In lie
is to be found in counting the money
we expect to make.
Had Crazy spells.


West Pembroke, Me-, Sept. e.
The thirteen-year-old daughter of Mrs.
A. l.. Smith suffered with peculiar
affection which her mother describes
as follows:
1T is two years now since she was
first taken with crazy spells.
"They kept on coming at intervals
and could get nothing to do her any
good.
1.-THE doctors gave me no encourage
ment. They all said they could not
help her.
1.-THE crazy spell would last about
nine days. then she would be well
about nine days, but would eat very
little and was very yellow. Even the
whites of her eyes were yellow.
81 heard that Dodds Kidney Pills
were a great remedy for young girls
and decided to try. them.
after taking one box she was CON-
pletely restored and she has not had
one bad spell since. OF course we con-
tinued to use the pills and she used
altogether five boxes last fall.
"In March l thought saw symp-
toms of the spells again and l got
six boxes of which she has taken
four and is in splendid health.
Her case was certainly remark
able one and we are very thankful
to Dodd's Kidney Pills for the great
good they have done my daughter"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
INVENTION OF AN ACTRESS.
Miss Gertrude Arden Expects Fortune
from a Railroad Device.

One of the young women who poses
in the front line of the chorus in Foxy
Grandpa" is of mechanical turn OF
mind, and she has made use of her in
ventive powers to make and have pat
ented a lock bolt to hold the plates on
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
Youthful COLLEGE Professor.

Prof. ]. Anderson Fitzgerald, who
has just been named by the State
Board of Regents as instructor in
Greek at Marshall College, in Hunt
ington, w. Va, is perhaps the young
est college professor in the United
atafes h IL hut 3 veara old 3.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children
Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
in the Chidren's Home in New York Cures
Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething DIS
orders, move and regulate the Bowels ana
Destroy Worms. Over $1,000 testimonies
At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. al
dress Allen s. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

If you wish beautiful. clear, white clothes
use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large o.
package, 8 cents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
MAKES DEFENSE OF SOCIETY.
Miss Sarah Bidde EuIogzes Wealthy
Set of America.

Set of America.
Miss Sarah Biddle, a member OF
the Philadelphia family of that name
and a young woman Of social prom
inence in the east, mas written de-
tense of smart society under the IT,
tie, Letters Of an American Con-
corning Love and Other Subjects,
which will be published in Novem-
Der. Miss Biddle's book is consid-
cred an answer to Henry Watterson
recent attack on the 1900" She
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

It's a whole lot better to kiss miss
than to miss a kiss.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

One of natures remedies; cannot harm
the weakest constitution; never fails to cure
summer complaints of young or old. DE-
FowIer's Extract of Wild Strawberry.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

How much a man does fer his wife
depends on how much she doesn't 40
for herself
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

It's folly to suffer from that horrible
plague of the night itching piles Doan's
Ointment cures, quickly and permanently.
At any drug store, 30 cents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

The customs inspector goes where
duty calls.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

It's not the broad minded man who
has the big head.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

Hoax-"The automobile is here to
stay" Joax-"I rather thought 1t was
here to 60"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

The soda clerk may be recognized
by his phiz.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
PEOPLE AND
EVENTS
GREAT MINE OWNER DEAD.

Winfield Scott Stratton Paeses Away
After a Brief illness.
Winfield S. Stratton, the millionaire
mining man, died at Colorado Springs,
Colo, Sept. IA.
Winfield Scott Stratton was born IN
Jefferson county, Ind, in 1S4S, and
went to Colorado when he was "a
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26
MORE FLEXIBLE AND LASTING.

MOKE FLENIDLE AND IN"
won't shake out or blow out; by usims
than possible with any other brand ana
one-third more for same money.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-26

The pickpocket goes to church that
he may watch and pray.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-05-28
DESCENT or THE BARINGs.

History of Great Commercial Family
-@-- Extending Through Centuries. 1T
Two centuries ago there lived at Bre-
men, in Germany, a pastor of the Luth-
eran church named Franz Barring, or
Baering. In those days, says Spare
Moments, the ministers of his order
might be men of great learning, but
their circumstances were at the best
moderate. His son. John Barring, went
to England and established himself as a
clothmaker near Exeter, in Devonshire.
From the ranks of the cloth drapers and
the linen diapers, quite as often as from
among the goldsmiths, the merchants
ard bankers Were then recruited. John
Baring's son, Francis, born in 174o, was
sent-at an early age tolearn the tart,
trade and mystery of a merchant, and
before he died he made himself, by con-
sent, the first merchant in the world.
He was director in the Honorable
East Indian Company. then one of the
highest rewards to which merchant
might hope to attain; Tor time he was
the great conpany's. chairman; for
TWENTY-FIVE years he sat in parliament,
then a far more exclusive body than it
has become under the extended suf-
frage; in 1898 he was made a baronet;.
in 1910 he died. But his first title to
honor is that he founded the house of
Earrings. His sons were the first Barring
brothers. L.ss
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-05-28

f.
Order to show cause on application of
guardian for order of sale of rea
estate.
In the County Court of the State oil
Oregon. for the County of Benton.
Ip the matter of the guardianship of
Luther S. Woodruff and Ida B. Wood
ruff, minors.
s It appearing to this court from the pc
tition this day presented and filed by
Catherine P. Woodruff the guardian of
the person and estate of Luther S Wood
ruff aud Ira B. Woodruff, minors, pray
ing for an OF der of sale of certain real
estate belonging to said ward that such
real estate should be sold. tits hereby
ordered that the next of kin of the said
wards and alipersons interested in the
said estate appear before this court OH
Monday the 9TH day ofJuly u, 1902,
at 10 O'Clock m. at the court room Of
the court house in the county of Benton
then and there to show cause why an or :
der should not be granted for the sale
of such real estate described in said. Pc
tit1on as follows: The undivided o-2S of
the East and TT of the West I-2
of the Southwest Id of Section T 13 S
R 6 West of Will Mer in Benton county
Oregon
And 1t is further ordered that q copy
of this order be published in the Cor
wallis Tines for three successive weeks
before said date
E. WOODWARD,
County Judge.
Dated this 10th day of May 1902.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-05-28
AN ILLINOIS SNAKE.
Takes Up Quarters In a Newxpan.,
Once and Expels the
Mice

Every well-regu1ated printing Office
has watering can in which water is
kept to wet the type. For want of
a better place, the one in the Home
journal Office is usually kept on
window sill on the north side of the
room. One day during the recent
drought two of our printers were
sitting on their stools at this window
sticking type, when they were nearly
petrified by the sight of snake pro-
truding it's head above the sill from
the outside. The boys almost broke
their necks in getting away. Reach
ing over into the pan, the snake took
a good drink, and, before the startled
printers could secure a club with
which to dispatch the reptile, it had
disappeared, says the Lacon Qn.)
Home Journal.
The next day at the same hour the
snake came for another drink, and
this was repeated the third and
fourth days, but the last time it was
attacked from the rear by big
black Thomas cat that makes its
home at Testers livery barn, next
door. 1t was a lively fight for few
seconds, but the cat was too much
for the snake, although it was fully
four feet long, and the reptile made
a shoot for the rear of the office. The
cat was after it like streak of light
ming, but the snake found a hole in
the brick wall and disappeared under
the building.
That was two weeks ago. Before
that time the printing office was
overrun with mice, but since then
there hasn't been a mouse about the
place. Any of our readers who are
troubled with mice are cordially in
vited to come and borrow our snake
for few days.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-05-28
Notice of Final Settlement

In the County Court of the
State of Oregon.
Benton County.
La the matter of the 3 tate of
Harriet B. Mason, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that /,
Joseph A. Park, administrator OF
the said estate of Harriet B. Mas
on, deceased, have filed NY final
account as such administrators with
the clerk Of the County Court of
Benton county, Oregon. and that
said court has fixed Saturday th,
+1th day of June. 1902, at the hour
of two O'Clock in the afternoon as
the time, county court room in the
court house in Corvallis, Oregon,
as the place, for hearing any and
all objections to the said final ac-
count and the settlement thereof.
Dated this May 10, 1852.
Joseph AIPark.
Administrator of the Estate of
Harriet B. Mason, Deceased.