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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-26

THE postal department has been literally
>swamped with holiday presents. The New
York postofice received six thousand sacks of
mail from Europe in one day.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-26

GOVERNOR. ELECT BAILEY has been mention
ed as dark horse for United States senator,
but he says he is not candidate, preferring to
serve the people in the capacity of governor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-26

GERMANY and Great Britain have proposed
that President Roosevelt act as arbitrator in the
Venezuelan case Venezuela names Pope Leo.
Neither one has made answer, so tar. A&1H
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-26

FRAUD is charged in the Kansas City con-
ventionhal guessing contest, and the matter
will be settled in court
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-26

EAT AT THE RED LIGHT
the best place in town.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-12-26

DEADLOCK in the Colorado legislature over
the election of United States senator is ap-
parent, in which case, Colorado will have but
one senator.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-11-12

Very careful was the farmer
who entered a telegraph Office IN
Central New York and sent this
message to a woman IN Canada:
"Will you be my wife? Please
answer at once by telegraph"
Then he sat down and waited.
No answer came. He waited
till late in the evening; still no
answer. Early the next morn
ing he came in again, and was
handed a dispatch-an afirma-
tive reply. The operator ex-,
pressed his sympathy. Twas
a little rough to keep you so
long in suspense" ''Look here
young feller," said the farmer,
':I'll stand the suspense. A
woman that'll hold back her
answer to a proposal of mar
riage all day so as to send it by
night rates, is jest the encono-
mical woman that I've been a
waitin' for"
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The Story Of Jezebei.

The famous ST. Jezebel mar
rative is one of the choice.stories
of present bishop Of Baltimore.
It was just after the civil war
and one of the church bodies was
endeavoring to establish colored
churches with colored pastors in
the south. There was a lack OF
men qualified to be ordained. In
this emergency the churchmen
decided to ordain several colored
men who were recognized ex-
horters among the colored par.
ishers. and known to be,$men of,
piety. Some slight preliminary
examination was deemed advis-
able, however, and they were
questioning a candidate to learn.
what qualifications he possessed.
Of Moses he knew that he had
led the children of Israel through
the wilderness. David had been
a king who played a harp, Paul
wrote epistles, but vagueness OF
detail accompanied each.
In despair the examiners ask
ed the candidate to tell them
something of his own accord
that he did know fully and in
detail. He said he. knew the
story Of St. Jeza Belle, she sat
at an upper window of the Pal.
ace of Samaria looking out: and
King Ahab he came riding along
and he mighty mad and he said,
s'Throw her down. and they
threw her down. And he say,
'Throw her down seven times"
and they threw her down seven
times. And he say, ''Throw her
down seventy times seven!" and
it was done. And the dogs came
and licked her sores, and of the
remains they gathered up twelve
baskets full and whose wife
shall she be in the resurrection!
Baltimore Sun.
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BETRAYED BY A ROOSTER.
Admiral Jouett's Favorite Story Of the Cap
ture Of Blockade Runner.

Of no officer in the navy are
more amusing stories told than
of the late Admiral Jouett, says
a Washington letter. He was
not only a conscientious and
brilliant officer, but also one of
the kindest men the merriest
souls and the cleverest story
tellers that ever wore the navy
blue.
A favorite tale with him, and
one that his cronies never tired
of hearing repeated, was his &C.
count of the capture Of a black
ade runner which came about by
his hearing rooster crow.
''In the early days Of the
war;" the admiral would say, Il
was a youngster of a lieutenant
in command of the Montgomery,
an old sea monster of a mer-
chantman converted into a man.
of-war, which, like the Mary
Dun of Dover, had three decks
and no bottom.
"Her Battery was poor, and
the chase gun, a 10-inch Colum-
bian, had been condemned years
before. The powder was wet
and the fuses of the shells de-
fective.
eve were cruising off the
coast of Louisiana, out Of sight
of land, awaiting the supply
steamer from the north. There
was little to eat, nothing to do
and I was still suffering from the
wound I received when we cap
tured the Royal Yacht.
Zone densely foggy morning
at about 4 o'clock | was pacing
up and down the deck with the
mid-watch when [ suddenly
heard rooster crow. 1t was
some moments before the signih-
canoe of that crow occurred to
me. Then, turning to one OF
the officers, said.
"tAre there any chickens
aboad?"
"sNo sir
Didn't the boats bring off
anv Yesterday"
az think not was the an
swer.
'Well,' said I, when we
swung up north I heard a roost-
er crow. A blockaderunner
has certainly gone out. Call all
hands. Make sall'-it was a
stiff wind-'for Havana. Send
word to the engineer to give me
all the steam he can and send
extra men to the fre-room.
II had been i'll for long time,
dangerously i'll, and at this or
der the under officers exchanged
significant chances.
f'No, gentlemen, said I divin-
ING their thoughts, I am not
crazy. heard rooster crow
and we'll find him when this fog
lifts
"When the fog lifted at 7:3O a:
m. before US lay a schooner, all
sails set, making for Havana.
The condemned gun was fired,
but the powder was worse than
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At Sea On Land.

A clergyman who had neglec;-
ted all knowledge of nautical
affairs, was asked to deliver an
address before an audience OF
sailors.
He was discoursing Oh the
stormy passages of life. Think
inc he could make his remarks
more pertinent to his hearers by
metaphorically using sea ex-
pressions, he said;
Now, friends, you know that
when you are at sea, in a storm,
the thing you do is anchor"
Ahalf concealed snicker spread
over the room, and the clergy
man knew that he had made a
mistake.
After the services, one Of his
listeners came to him and said:
''Mr. -, have you ever been
at sea-"
The minister replied:
''No, unless it was when l was
delivering that address. New
York Times.
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TNE HASIT OF LYING
Ways IN which Prevnricatlo1 May
Be Developed.

Ways IN which PrcvnricaElo0 May
Be Developed.
How does one become liar-thar Is
TO say, how does the child discover g.
lie and habitually make use Of it?
We can admit that at the beginning
there is absolute sincerity. The child
through all its first years neither hes
nor dissimulates. Its sentiments, its
desires, translate themselves into words
and into acts. It's body is the constant
and perfect expression Of its lnmost
being. Such is the starting point-sin-
cerity, absolute transparency.
There is a multitude Of little lies
tolerated which we treat as pardon
able. We tell the domestic to say we
are not at home when we are; we COM
pliment people to their faces and crit
icise them when they are gone; we say
we are happy to see some one and di-
rectly after speak Of having been an
noyed. No more is necessary. The ex-
ample has been given.
We lie to the child himself. We are
pressed by his many embarrassing
questions and in order to free ourselves
from the embarrassment reply with
what is frequently falsehood. Some
fine day he discovers the truth, and the
evil is done. The gravest case is when
the child is taken as an accomplice in q
lie or when his mother tells him,
"Above all, do not tell this to your
papa" This is the ruin Of ali morality.
The third stage is the first encounter
Of the child with society, the first
shock with social life. The child who
tells all he knows, sees and hears, all
that he would better have left unsald,
is called the "enfant terrible" His
parents do not tell him to lie, but they
tell him it is not necessary to tell all
he thinks. This is extremely serious,
as it teaches the child that he cannot
show himself as he is. This is the
revelation of the lie obligatory. Above
all, among his comrades he quickly
learns to dissimulate, because if he Is
naive-expresses all his joys, pains, de-
sires-they make sport Of him; nay,
worse, they abuse his confidence; the
hopes, projects which he has conhdeo
to them he some day sees used against
him.
Thus the impossibility Of living with
out lying is revealed to him. Society
excuses certain forms Of lying which
are inspired by feeling Of politeness,
modesty, shame.
The child becomes liar because al
the. world about him lies. The Gstinc'
ton between the liar and the man OF
sincerity is only relative. There are IN
reality only two categories-those who
content themselves with the lies exact
ed by social life and those who have
habituated themselves to lying more
than society wishes, to lie because OF
some personal interest
An important cause in the develop
ment Of lying in children is the en-
ployment Of excessive and i'll advised
punishments. The child who becomes
liar is the one who lives in perpetual
terror Of reproaches, humiliation OF
strokes. The lie for him is supreme
resource. Tribune.
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Too Cold to Boil Eggs.

"I'll bet this here coal strike
must "a caused tn drundest sort
of suferin' up in tn Klondike. :"
Uncle Bill shook his head at
the very thought Of it.
"Why, it's so pesky cold up
thar even when they do have
coal, that say, did I ever tell
ye th' experience old Cy Dra-
per's boy Jake had tryin' t. cook
eggs in tn Klondike?
"Wal, first mornin he was
thar he took his ice pick an
pried four eggs off'n tn heap of
provisions he'd brought along.
"Then he built a roarin' hot
fire and set tn kettle on. Long
sometime thet AFTERNOON tn
water commenced t. bile a mite,
an he dumped tn eggs in. Late
thet night he shoveled some
more coal on tn fire an then
went tew bed.
':Next morning he thought
his eggs must be nigh done an
fshed one out with the ice
tongs.
you'll hardly believe it, sir,
but when he split it open thet
egg wuz plumb raw. Why, it
wuz scarcely warmed through.
"But Jake wasn't discouraged.
He jest shoveled on more coal
an prepared tew wait spell
longer.
s:At th' end uf tn third day
tn kettle wuz almost billed dry,
an he had to add more water:
-Four days after that he opened
another egg. 1t wuz jest warm
ed through an that's all.
"On th' night of the twenti-
eth day. Jake fully determined
tew bile them eggs at any cost,
SQOSClSu LIS 1CtSU lOiA " SOeeA O-A
an opened all the draughts.
"'Them eggs must be done by
t'morrow.' he said tew himself.
"Next mornin' bright an ear
ly he wuz suddintly awakened
by a terrible squakin an flap
pin.
"He rushed intew tn kitchen
an looked in tn kettle.
"Would you believe it, sir,
thet kettle wuz billed dry again
an thar in tn bottom wuz two
little chickens a dancin' round
an fappin' their wings acrost
their chests tryin' in vain teW
keep warm.
"Ye see, it's so burned cold in
tn Kloddike thet biEn' water up
thar amt no hotter'n an ordl-
nary incubator down here.
"What became of tn chickens:
Oh, th' mint Jake took 'em out
er th' kettle tn poor little crit
ters froze tew death. New
! York Sun.
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the gun, and the ball after roll
! inc on the water for half mile

the gun, and the ball after roll
ing on the water for half a mile
sank.
eve soon overlook her, how
ever. She was flying the Loui-
siana State flag, showing a peli-
can, and as we ranged alongside
her we sound fourteen hard and
desperate-looking men in the
stern.
"'Haul down that rag I yell
ed at the top of my voice.
my order met with no re-
spouse. Thirty marines . stood
on the poop deck of the Mont,
gomery with muskets loaded
with ball and buckshot cartridg
eS.
".sSergeant, ready was the
command. ''Haul down that =
rag you,' 1 called out again
and down fell the pelican from
It's proud pOSlGlOn.
Z" How in the thunder did
you know we were off here?'
asked the captured captain.
"sYou've got a rooster on
aboard, replied I, and he gave
US warning of your vicinity at 4
o'clock this morning.
q" 'I'll,wring his neck!' groWl-
ed the furious rebel.
l"sNo you won't I sharply
announced, hes mine by right
of capture, and since then !
have always maintained that
the Biblical rooster was not the
only historic chanticleer."
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per car or yard. He blasts all
the coal, and this involves judg-
ment in locating the hole, skill
in boring it, and care in prepar-
ing and determining the size of
the shot. The number blasts
per days ranges from four to
twelve, according to the size and
character of the vein. He is re-
sponsible for the propping nee
essary to sustain to roof. Ac-
cording to the law of tie state
of Pennsylvania, the company
operating the mine is obliged to
furnish the miner the needed
props, but the miner must place
them at such places as the mine
boss designates. Most of the
boring is done with hand ma
chimes. The miner furnishes
his own tools and supplies. His
powder, squibs, paper, soap and
oil he is compelled to buy from
the company which employs
him. His equipment includes
the following tools: A hand
machine for drilling, a drill,
scraper, needle, blasting barrel,
crowbar, pick, shovel, hammer,
sledge, cartridge pin, oil can,
tool box and lamp. AS a rule
he rises at 5 a. M, he enters the
mine shortly after 6. In some
cases he is obliged to walk a
mile or more underground to
reach his place of work: He
spends from eight to ten hours
in the mine. Taking 800 days
as the possible working time. in
a year, the anthracite miners
daily pay for the past. 20 years
will not average over $3.50 a
day. and that of the laborer not
over S1.35.
His dangers are many. He
NAV be crushed to death at any
time by the falling roof, burned
to death, by the exploding of gas,
or blown to pieces by a prema-
ture blast. So dangerous in his
work that he is debarred from
all ordinary life insurance. In
no part of the country will you
find so many crippled boys and
broken-down men. During the
last 30 years over 10000 men
and boys have been killed and
25, 900 have been injured in this
industry. Not many old men
are found in the mines: The
average age Of those killed is
32.13.
It is an endless routine of dull
plodding work from 9 years un-
til death-a sort of voluntary
life imprisonment. Few escape.
Once they begin, they continue
to live out their commonplace,
low-levelled existence, ignoring
their daily danger, knowing
nothing better.
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Asleep Amid Flames.

Breaking into blazing home, some
fremen lately dragged the sleeping
inmates from death. Fancied secur-
itv, and death near. It's that way
when you neglect coughs and colds.
Don't do it. DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for consumption gives perfect
protection against all throat, chest
and lung troubles. Keep it near,and
avoid suffering, death and doctor S
bills. A teaspoonfrl stops a late
cough, persistent use the most stub
born. Harmless and nice tasting, it's
guaranteed to satisfy by The, (. b:
Loryea Drug Store. Price soc and
81. Trial bottles free.
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THE LIFE OF A MINER.
How He Begins and Ends His Career as
Breaker "Boy."

O1EGAC4 oSy'
The Rev. John Mcdowell, who
was once a coal miner, gives the
following sketch of a miners
life in The Worlds Work for
October:
"I'm 12 years old, goin' on 13, :"
said the boy to the boss of the
breaker. He didn't look more
than 10, and he was only 8; but
the law said he must be 12 to get
a lob. He was one of multi
tude of the $1,000 youngsters OF
the mines who, because miners
families are large and their pay
comparatively small, start in the
breaker before many boys have
passed their primary schooling.
From the time he enters the
breaker there is a rule of pro
gress that is almost always fol-
lowed. Once a miner and twice
"a breaker boy, the upward
growth of boy to man, breaker
boy to miner, the descent from
manhood to old age, from miner
to breaker boy; that is the rule;
So the 6-year-old boy who is ~
goin' on 49," starts in the break
er. He gets from so to 20 cents
for 10 hours work. He rises at
$50 o'clock in the morning, puts
on his working clothes, always
soaked with dust, eats his break
fast, and by Z o'clock he has
climbed the dark and dusty stair
way to the screen room, where
he works. He sits on a hard
bench built across a long chute
through which passes a steady
stream of broken coal. From
the coal he must pick the pieces
of slate or rock.
It is not hard life, but it is
confning and irksome. Sitting
on his uncomfortable seat, bend
ing constantly over the passing
stream of coal, his hands soon
become cut and SCARED by the
sharp pieces Of slate and coal,
while bis fingers nails are soon
worn to the quick from contact
with the iron chute. The all
| he breathes is saturated with
coal dust, and as a rule the
breaker is fercely hot in summer
ard intensely cold in winter. In
many of the modern breakers, tc
be sure, steam heating pipes
have been introduced into the
screen rooms and fans have been
placed in some breakers to carry
away the dust. But, however
favorable the boys life is a hard
one. Yet it is a consistent IN
PRODUCTION to what is to follow
The ambition Of every breaker
bov is to enter the mines and al
the first opportunity he begins
there as door boy-never oven
II years Of age and often under
The work of the door boy is moi
so laborious as that in the break
er, but is more monotonous. He
must be on hand when the frs
"trip of cars enters in the morH
inc and remain until the las
comes out at night. His duty il
to open and shut the door as mel
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and cars pass through, which
controls and regulates the ventl-
lation of the mine. He is alone
in the darkness and silence all
day, save when other men and
boys pass through his door. Not
many of these boys care to read,
and if they did it would be i'm
possible in the dim light of their
small lamp. Whiting and
whistling are the boys chief rec
reations. The door-boy's wages
vary from IS to IS cents a day,
and from this he provides his
own lamp, cotton and oil.
Just as the breaker boy wants
to be a door boy, the door boy
wants to be a driver. When the
mules are kept in the mines, as
they usually are, the driver
boy must go down the shaft
in time to clean and harness
his mule, bring him to the
foot of the shaft and hitch him
to a trip of empty cars before I
O'Clock. This trip of cars varies
from four to seven, according to
the number of miners. The
driver takes the empty cars to
the working places and returns
them loaded to the foot of the
shaft. They are then hoisted to
the surface and conveyed to the
: breaker, where the coal is crack
ed, sorted and cleaned, and made
,, ready for market. There are
today 10000 drivers in the an
thracite coal mines. These boys
are in constant danger: not only
of falling roof and exploding
gas, but of being crushed by the
cars. Their pay varies from Sl.1O
to S1.25, from which sum they
supply their own lamps, cotton
and oil:
When the driver reaches the
age of 90, he becomes either a
a runner or a laborer in. the
mines, more frequently the lat
ter. The runner is a conductor
who collects the loaded cars and
directs the driver. The laborer
is employed by the miner, sub
iect to the approval of the sup
erintendent, to load the cars with
the coal which has been blasted
by the miner. AS a rule he is
paid so much per can, and deh
mite number OF cars constitute a
DAYS work-the number varying
| in different mines-averaglng
from FIVE to seven, equalling from
liz to Is tons of coal. The labor
er's work is often made difficult
BY vhe water and rock which are
found in large quantities IN coal
veins.
There are 24O00, laborers in
the anthracite mines Of Pennsyl-
vania, each one of whom is look
ing forward to becoming a miner
| in the technical sense Of the
word-that is, the employer of a
Ilaborer. To do this a labore1
must have had two years exper,
ience in practical mining and be
able to pass an examination be-
fore the district board. IT he
passes he becomes a contractor
as we'll as a laborer. He enters
Into a contract with the company
| to do a certain work at so much
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Dress Goods and Silks.

During our twenty in the dry goods business we
have enf more time and the department. of fine dress
goods than all other departments put toether WhX BECAUSE
brains and experience to handle dress gooo
department successfully. os-5 -;, nr+
We have made success of Dress Goods and six Oepar
et and we have being able to present to the Iao
nahless values nevalues that compes the raoe
Inst listen at this 25 pieces of ALL-WOOL Stephens
Fannels, 30 inches wide, value 35c; OUES PFSICh
@ Al oo Trct E1anne 81 inches vide only 25c the yd
~ Al 1oo g1anne 38 inches wide all shades, 40c the yd
~ ~ @ Vano4ians sS inches wide SOC the yd
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Winter Underwear

Those who have provided themselves with Winter Under
yet will do well what have to OTTER as we carry the
largest of Winter Underwear for Gents Ladies and Cdren
to be found in this town.
Mems Heavy Cotton Fleece-Lined Vest and Pants at
........................8 $50 to 81 25 per Suit
Mems and Pants at 81 So Suit vest and pants
Ladies' Jersey Ribbed Cotton Vests at. ......::...
..5Oc 81 and 81 25 per Suit vest and pants
full line Childrens Wool and Cotton Underwear at the
lowest possible prices.
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If YOU are bilious and seeking advis'

IF YOU are bilious and seeking adyis-
ers,
Take DeWitt's Little Early Risers,
Just before going to bed.
You will find on the morrow,
You are rid of your SORROW
That's all; Just enough said.
These famous pills do not grippe,
but move the bowels gently and eas
ily, cleansing the liver. Their tonic
effect gives strength to the glands,
preventing a return of the disorder.
The R. B. Loryea Drug Store.
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Inck in Thirteen.

By sending 13 miles VIM. Spirey OF
Walton Furnace, Vt, got a box OF
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, that wholly
cured a horrible fever sore on his leg.
Nothing else could. Positively cures
bruises, felons, ulcers, eruptlons,
boils, burns, corns and piles. Only
25c. Guaranteed by The r. B. Lor-
yea Drug Store.
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His Art

aob Mr.. Growelle," gushed Miss
Nuoson "how did you eyer learn TO
na.nt such beautiful picturesE
.T asked q man once" replied the aEC-
isl. "and he told me how."-Indianapo-
lis News
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large line Of Fancy Dress D. 20 and 2Oc the va
GRAY Homespun AWoo Sk tngs 81 WIDE only the yd
A large assortment of dress lengths in all of the new
shades, dress in length 81 the va
large 50nch Bead Cloths and Meltons 9oc the va
Black Tafeta Silk 36 inches wide only 2o the yd
Black Tafeta Silks, 26 inches wide. only .ooc the yd
large and beautiful line of Jap. Silks 27 inches wide,
o3l1 .............. SOC the yd
A full line Of Black Mourning Silks at. ~
l0c, al al 20 duu % ~ Pei
Rlac1 Moroir Vallure Silks 81 so per yd