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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19

In the sixty diminutive rooms or
the hotel 1875 persons were crowded
when the flames broke out. Only
fourteen of them were residents OF
Chicago. The others were stockmen
and farmers attracted here by the
live stock show or railway mail clerks
and travelling men who could not Sc
cure accommodations at other hotels.
All the space possible was utilized.
Even the hallway closets contained
cots on which men were asleep,
though there was not enough room in
these improvised bedrooms for a
chair in addition to the cot. In one
room on the top floor the window OF
which opened to the only fire escape
on the building, was bed and cot,
alt effective barrier, in the darkness
and smoke, to this means of escape.
With almost the first burst OF flame
the fuses on the electric switchboards
burned out, stopping the elevators
and leaving the building in total dark
ness.
Before the fire department could ar
rive, in response to the alarm were
flames roaring from the rear windows
Of the building. Faces, white with ter
ror, were appearing at the front win
dows of the upper story. From the
sides of the Inflated building men
and women, shivering and half clad.
,fv0 oil in RI fo
of the adjoining buildings.
The cries of the men imprisoned
on the top floors could be heard above
the clatter Of the fire engines and the
roar of the flames. The proprietor of
the hotel asserts that he started to
mount to the endangered men and
lead them to the windows where
they could safely reach the roofs on
either side of the hotel, but that ne
was stopped by the firemen. At that
time, he declares, all could have been
saved il some one familiar with the
upper floor had been allowed to show
them the way to the windows. The
firemen contradict this. and say no
one could have reached the fourth
floor through the rapidly increasing
volumes of smoke. When fire-insur-
ance patrol, No. 6, arrived, its mem
bers started up the stairs from the
office to the third floor to rescue the
men, whose cries were rapidly becom.
Ing weaker, but their captain refused
to permit them to face almost certain
suffocation, and ordered them to re-
turn.
The escapes of some of the occu.
pants of the rooms were little short
Of miraculous. Six men, a woman
and little boy, saved themselves by
jumping to the roof of restaurant,
adjoining the hotel on the west Four
mail clerks. who said they had a pre-
monition of danger, arose at 4:30
o'clock, dressed, and left the hotel.
G. H. Foster, another mail clerk, who
occupied the room with Corey and
Ewing, both of whom are dead, re.
ceived a telegram early in the even.
ing that his wife was i'll and hurried
away from the hotel to her bedside,
leaving his valise with his fellow
clerks.
room with Corey and Ewing, was
nearly an hour late In arriving in
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19

est progress in ocean transportation
in this age IS Norway. without dol
lar Of government subsidy or support
of any kind. Among the maritime
nations, on the other hand, that have
made the least progress are France
and Italy, with the most subsidy.
Three-fourths Of all the ocean trans
portation is done by tramp ships, to
whose owners government subsidy is
Observation-Disclosures Record.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
The Farmer "PaYs the Ereiaht."

Grain exports for ten months are
$81 100000 smaller than last year;
provisions and live stock have fallen
off 33,000,000. But manufactured
goods were sold abroad in quantities
greater than last year. The sorry
joke is that the farmer gets the same
prices for home aid foreign sales,
while the manufacturer extends his
market" by charging American farm
ers and other consumers so per cent
more than the export price with the
aid of the benefit ent tariff.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19

Imprisoned in a fire-trap hotel,
fourteen men were suffocated at day
break on the morning Of December 4
at Chicago. Only twenty minutes
elapsed after the alarm was sounded
until the flames were extinguished.
but in that time fourteen guests Of
the overcrowded Lincoln hotel, It's
Madison street, blindly cropping in the
dense smoke, had persisted in the mar
row hallway and closet-like bedrooms
Of the top floor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19

Chicago that morning and slept in his
mail car. Philip Koch of GAINESVILLE,
Wis.,, saved himself by sliding to the
ground by means Of rope made from
strips of his bed sheet. w. ]. Thorn
IS, another mail clerk, climbed to a
window ON the fourth floor and was
rescued by firemen just as he was
H. G. McMasters Of Minneapolis,
mail clerk who usually occupied the
about to drop from exhaustion.
Olaf Oldorf climbed downward
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
Fred Shepard.
Mrs. J. Shepard.

Fred Shepard. Mrs. J. Shepard.
himself. H. E. Jett of ST.. Paul was
awakened by the screams Of a woman
and, with four other half-clad men
ran into the street and was given ref
uge in a saloon. The same screams
awoke Edward Davenport and J. N.
Westerland of Chicago. They were
members of the party that was saved
by jumping to the roof of the restaur-
ant.
John w. Higgs of Lansing, Mich.
escaped from the upper floor with the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
Before and After Election.

A month before election the little
great men of Congress were clinging
frantically to the Presidents anti
trust policy as the life preserver that
was saving the Republican party. Now
some of them are going back to Wash
irgton with all manner of objections
to the Presidents plans. A states
man who refuses to take the same
view of public opinion after election
that he recognized while a candidate
Is not worth listening to.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
TARIFF WILL STAND
REPUBLICANS HAVE NO IDEA OF
REVISING 1T.
Appointment of a Commission, II
This Is Done, Will Result In Moth.
ing-Scheme Of the Party In Power
ls to Fool the People.

The statement which comes from
Washington that the President is op-
posed to any attempt to revise the
tariff before the next presidential
election is strongly supported by the
known fact that he is in favor of the
creation of a commission to recon-
mend changes in the tariff from
time to time.
Everyone who is familiar with the
history of such commissions knows
that they never have accomplished
the ostensible purpose of their crea.
ton.
That fact is well known to the
President and to all other politicians
of respectable intelligence. They
know, therefore, that the only effect
OF creating a commission would be to
provide congress with an excuse for
emitting to take up the tariff ques'
ton.
Not improbably Mr.. Roosevelt is in
favor of smothering the tariff question
in congress because it would mar his
own and his party's political pros
poets to take up the subject and fail
to do anything through disagreement
between the two houses or otherwise.
But he has never given the country
any reason to believe that he is In
favor of any downward revision OF
the tariff. He never has uttered an
unequivocal approval of the views ex-
pressed by Mr.. Mckinley in his last
speech.
So far from that, he has manifested
a disposition to join the Grosvenors
and Dalzells in constituting all the
meaning out of that last speech In
advocacy of a more liberal CONNER
cial policy.
There Is reason also to doubt
whether Mr.. Roosevelt means much
by his advocacy of additional anti
trust legislation. If he really meant
ously in favor of depriving the trusts
of their tariff shelter as he is in favor
of tariff concessions to Cuba. But
he is opposed to disturbing the tariff
even to that extent.
1t is now intimated that the house
will promptly pass bill amending
the Sherman antitrust law on the
lines indicated by Mr.. Knox in his
Pittsburg speech, but that the senate
will put it to sleep in a committee
which will take good care not to wake
up.
This seems to be the program. The
public is to be fooled, If possible, b.
the creation of a tariff commission
and congress will do nothing out OF
pretended Difference to that powerless
body.
Then the public is to be entertained
by lot of meaningless buster about
amending the antitrust law.
In this way the party of the trusts
will 60 into the next presidential cam.
paign without offending the monopo.
lies, while the people will be made to
believe that it Is opposed to trusts OF
the bad sort and in favor of the tariff
revision when the commission gets
ready to report
Will the people be made to believe
those things? Possibly not. There are
evidences that there will be mucn
kicking over the party traces in the
middle West if this program is car.
ried out.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
A,lison,s Attitude Chanoed.

Uncle William Allison states that
1.-The tariff is, as Gen. Hancock once
said, something Of local ISSUE" This
is interesting as indicating Uncle
Williams change of attitude as he
wakes in years. If recollection be
not at fault he was one of those
whose deep haw-haw resounded the
loudest when Gen. Hancock advanced
that theory some twenty years ago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
judge jackson Outdone.

We fear for the health Of that ven
cradle injunctionist, Judge Jackson
of West Virginia, when he learns that
brother jurist in New Jersey has is
sued an Injunction against corpora
ton at the petition of labor union.
At his time of life shocks such as
this are likely to prove serious to the
venerable Jackson.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
Tariffites Welcome a Commission.

Tariffites Welcome Commission.
The fact that the tariff is local
issue" with those enjoying it's favors
is again being demonstrated, together
with the fact that no Republican is
willing to sacrifice one cent of protec.
ton to the interests of his own Sec
ton for the benefit of the country at
large. Every tariff thief in the coun-
try and every juggler in protection
false pretense welcomes the commits
sion idea. 1t will at once appease the
Republican protestants against Ding
leyism and extend the time Of the
protected buccaneers who are piling
UP loot by hundreds of millions at
the expense of the great public.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
Nav Be Needed Again.

Secretary Shaw will do well to
sleep in his clothes with gripsack
full of currency beside the bed. The
Napoleons of finance are hitting -cr
UP" again in Wall street and there is
likely to be another loud and peremp-
tory howl for the secretarys aid at
any hour Of the day or night.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19

from floor to floor by means Of the
iron shutters before the flames had
begun to break through the rear win
dows. R. c. Hamilton. while cropping
for the fire escape entered a room
where a man was kneeling in prayer.
He disregarded the mans admonition
70 give up hope, but continued his
search for the fire escape and saved
Mother and Son Saved from Fire.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
Phrases Mean Nothing.

When the Republican leaders dis
cuss tariff revision they elaborate
fine phrases which on analysis are
found to mean nothing Mr.. Roose-
welt sets the pace in no such public
question, but conforms to the opinions
oil those he thinks can do him the
most good in the next Republican con-
vention.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
Mr.. Babcock's cowardly Tactics

Mr.. Babcock is again to the front
with his declaration for tariff revis'
ion. But Mr.. Babcock is no longer
taken seriously. In the last session,
when he could have forced his free
list remedy for trusts, he abjectly
passed under the party yoke. He has
the habit of subsiding when the bat
tie surrounds and of coming forth to
howl when all is peace.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
Doing Better Without Subsidy

John Dalzell asserted with no little
daring at the Union League banquet
last Saturday night that the merchant
marine of foreign nations has been
built up by "subsidization." One Of
tho nations that has made the great
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19

upon his eighty-fifth year apparently
in the best of health. He was hale
and hearty at a recent family gather
ing at his home in Gramercy Park.
Mr.. Bigelow was born at Maiden, N.
Y, on Nov. 49, 1917.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19

Aged Statesman In Good Health.
John Bigelow. former United
States minister to France, has entered
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-19
Air in Southern China,

In southern China the air is so hui
mid in summer that, despite the in
tense heat, clothes cannot be dried in
the open air.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-01-24
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Coats, Capes
and Jackets

To those who have not as
yet bought one of these
elegant wraps, we would
state that we have marked
our stock down at least 45
per cent less than they were
formerly. We want to close
out every one Of these gar
ments, SO don't miss this
chance to get something
nice and durable for a little
money. This chance will
never come to you again.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-01-24
Linens & Drapery.

Table Clothes, all patterns.
sizes. colors and qualities,
form 50 cents toS1. %. These
prices are all 35 per cent low
err than they have been sold
We can sell you a lovely pair
of curtains, no starch, b yds.
long u yds. wide we'll worth
50. 70 set now S1.75.
Napkins, Doilies, Towels,
Table spreads, and all other
goods are marked down 30
hper cent lower than eyer be-
lore.
S*A
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-01-24
Clothing

It IS a fact familiar to every one that we
carry the best line Of Clothing in Mont
peIier, Suits that have formerly solo at
Slo. 30 and Sl4.OO are now marked in
plain figures So, SO and $40.
No show to be over charged, or to pay
90 90 more for the same article that
your neighbor did.
Don't take our unsupported say SO, come
and see our prices. If our goods are not
marked low enough don't buy it. But
don't ask us to come down we Positively
wont do it.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-01-24
GROCERIES.

When you buy groceries OF
NJ. Lewis & Go. it's like put
ting money in your pocket.
We can save you from 10 to 80
per cent. The following prices
will convince you:
Currents per pkg. III cts.
Raisens per pkg. IL cts.
Mothers Mush per pkg. IL cts
s brs MCKEE Plate soap % cts
Cross & Buckwells chow
chow per bottle 80 cents
California pickles per btl. zoe,
Breakfast bacon per ID. IA cts
Salt bacon per ID. III cts.
Swifts silver leaf lard in
5 ID cans per ID. Is cts.
Schillings Tea per pkg. 20 cts
Tea that we consider much
better than Seedlings
per pkg. Ia cts
IL OF can DR.. Prices Bak-
ing powders 30 cts.
All kinds of spices per 10.
221-25 cts
Arbuckles coffee per 10. % C
Sugar l63 lbs. Tor 5l.Vt
First-class rice per ID. y cts
Rolled oats per 10. A cts
Beans per Id. Al cts
Parlor matches per doz. Is c
Citron, lemon & orange
peel per 10. 10 ct
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-01-24
DOMESTIC.

American Calicoes in all
shades and colors, former
price u cents now 5 cents.
Outing Flannels in all shades
and colors, former price q
cents, now 81 cents.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-01-24
DRY GOODS, DEPARTMENT.

Black Lusters, former price IS cents now % cents
Black Brocaded novelties former price % cents Ia cts
Black Silk Crepon forme" price SloO now % Genus.
Red and Black novelties former price 35 cents now 70 cents
Our entire Dress Goods Department has been marked
with prices to please you all But do not ask US to eoHe
down, we will not do
For the benefit of the public we quoteAkEe
following prices, and these prices wont GU
be on our circulars, but every single artlclesia
our store will be marked in plain AmericaN
figures so every man, woman and child W.
be able to get their moneys worth. ~
Your produce of all description in firsE
class condition is as good as the cash TO Us
no additional charge made on merchandise
when you fetch your produce we pay you
highest market price.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-01-24

We carry as good an assert
ment Of shoes as there is in
he town, if not better. We
SO guarantee every pair
fgive you entire satisfac-
pn or we return your mon
IS freely as we take it.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-12-18
PITMAN GROVE.

Stanley Dilkes has purchased the Owen
cottage on Broadway, for $1,000.
Miss Rulon's pupils spent a delightful
evening at her home on the evening of Dec.
5.
Mrs. Isaac Lillyer, of Vineland, is
spending few days with her sister, Mrs.
Isaac Haines.
Mr.. Allen S. Clark is we'll pleased with
his Pitman home, and is enjoying COM
plete rest after twenty-five years of CON-
mercial life.
John Lacy's new house is enclosed and
promises to be very nice structure.
Mr. Clarence Owen and Miss Abbie Skin
aer, were married by Rev. Mr.. Ogborn on
Thanksgiving Eve. The young couple are
popular and have the best wishes of large
number of friends
The storm of Friday night and Saturday
played havoc with electric light wires. The
Company managed to light Pitman on Sat
urday evening from seven to twelve. A
Saturday morning, and miniature thun-
der shower seemed to be in evidence for a
time.
Miss Emma MCGOWAN is a member Of the
class Shorthand Department. which will
be graduated by Peirce School tomorrow,
Friday evening, at the Acadey of Music.
Susannah, wife of T. A. Goodwin, died
on Wednesday evening of last week, and
was buried at Manahath cemetery on Sat
urday. She was sufferer from violent
headaches for many years, but had been
confined to her room for about three months
with complication of diseases. Mrs.
Goodwin was genial and warm hearted, and
will be missed by many friends. She
leaves a husband and three children to
mourn her loss.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-12-18
What Will the Winter be z

There is conflict of opinion between
those two veteran weather predictOrs
Captain Chadwick, life saver of the North
Jersey coast, and Elias Hart, goose-bont
prophet, of Reading, Pa.
Captain Chadwick claims to be able tc
forecast the coming seasons with almost
supernatural accurancy, his prophecy being
based upon movements of the migratory
wildfowl and the natural conditions along
the ocean front and -Barnegat Bay. He has
told us that we are to have wet but mild
and open winter.
Just as we were congratulating our
selves-with the full problem in mind
upon this prediction, along comes the
Pennsylvania goose-bone man and knock:
Captain Chadwick's forecast into smither-
eens. &.
'sThe goose bone never lies" he says
land tell you we're going to have an old
fashioned winter, with plenty of snow and
a long spell Of freezing weather. Tht
winter will start in early and last long"
Now there you are-you may take you
choice. One is the prediction of a salted
weather wise old man who communes with
the sea and the wild fowl and the other al
Interpretation of the goose-bone.
Motives of state pride, as we'll as the
prospect that the fuel problem might no
prove so perplexing, induce us to pin oul
faith to ''Cap" Chadwick. Here's to him
hoping that his prediction will come true
Telegram.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-12-18
CLARKsBORo.

VIM. Wilson moved to a farm neal
Mickleton on Thursday last, his mother who
has been living at Mantua for few years
past, will keep house for him. Howard
Reed has taken Mr. Wilson's position al
the Aims House.
Emmanuel Schwebel has moved from
Mrs. Carter's house into one of Johr
Kellar's which has lately been completed.
Clement Bruner has sold his butcher
business to Selby Weatherby who will take
charge the first Of the year. Mr.. Brunei
will engage in the commission business il
the Spring.
Extra meetings will begin in the M. E
Church the first of the year.
Jennie Waddington gave stereopticor
lecture before the pupils of the Friends
school, Mickleton, last Friday She gave
an interesting account of trip il
Florida.
Ella Carter was thrown from carriage
last week and had collar bone broken.
: Mabel Haines visited friends at Rancoca,
last week.
Mahlon Costell visited his sister al
Pedricktown last week.
Charles Blensinger has rented his farm tc
Mr.. Owen; he will have vendue about tht
middle of January.
Last Friday being the seventy-ffth birth
day of Mrs. Abbie Dawson, she was giver
surprise at her home in Mickleton. AL
of her children and grandchildren wert
present and enjoyed the afternoon and
evening.
A literary will be held by Mickletor
Grange this evening.
The average weight of the ten hog
slaughtered on the county farm last Mon
day was 455 pounds.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-12-18
Theatrical.

Klaw q Erlanger's massive and magnifi-
cent production of the famous Drury Lane
Spectacle, ''The Sleeping Beauty and The
Beast, is now in its fourth week of pros
perity at the Chestnut Street Opera House,
Philadelphia, and that it will be continu-
GUS is best told by the way the advance
booking Of seats is going on. The sale is
open three weeks in advance SO it will be
wise move for local theatre-goers to write
Nixon & Zimmerman, Managers of the
Chestnut Street Opera House to reserve
seats if they intend patronizing this gigan-
tic entertainment. The engagement there
is limited one, extra matinees will be
given on Christmas and New Years Days in
addition to the regular Wednesday and
Saturdays matinees.
No better illustration of the present day
invention of trick stage mechanism can be
offered than the work of the Grigolatis
Troupe of Aerialists in this glittering bal
let spectacle. They actually dance in mid
air in the gorgeous ballet that confuses the
eye and intoxicates the senses in 1.-THE
Sleeping Beauty and the Beasts, y the first
real Drury Lane spectacle that has ever
been presented in this country, thanks to
Klaw & Erlanger. The stage is a panora-
ma of moving colors; hundreds of dancers,
phalanx upon phalanx, troop down the
broad stairway at the back of Prince Charm
ings palace and melt into the brilliant pic
ture that spreads out behind the footlights.
1t is the Ballet of the Seasons. Out of
woodland scene, soft with the delicate tints
of growing verdure, come host of chill
dren typical of Spring. Close behind them
press increasing numbers in the vivid,
deeper hues Of the Summer.
The scene changes and the flaming orange
and crimson hues of Autumn, mixed with
sombre brown, are diffused over the stage.
| Winter follows, covering the picture with
| 1ecks of white
| Suddenly raven-winged figures of women
swoop downward, seemingly out of space
and alight, delicately and gracefully, in
the centre of the stage They dance with
the Others and then take flight again and
soar away.
They are the flying ballet, the most
etheral and beautiful that the American
stage has ever seen.
Soon they reappear, darting hither and
thither across the picture, posing motion
less in mid-air, or winging softly above the
heads of the dancers
| A great cloth OF thin silk is spread and
carried half way to the proscenium arch by
six of the group. Then down upon its
surface settles the seventh dancer, joining
in the ensemble as the curtain falls.
The illusion of the flying ballet is almost
perfect. Every movement is as light as
feather and full of grace. 1t is, without
doubt, the prettiest vision and the most
bewildering ballet ever conceived by the
inventors of this line of stage work.