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and recovered the guns and anchors
that had been thrown overheard, the
Bashaw soon had the Philadelphia, a
thirty-six gun frigate, added to his
navy, while her officers and men were
confined in filthy dungeons
Mr.. N. C. Nissen, the Danish consul
at Tripoli, befriended the American
prisoners and through his aid Capt.
cambridge was able to communicate
with the American fleet and suggested
the destruction of the Philadelphia as
she lay at anchor In the harbor.
stephen Decatur, Jr., then in command
of the Enterprise, proposed to Capt.
Edward 'Preble that he should under
take tie task. He had rival in Lieut..
r Charles. Stewart, but Decatur was
chosen and began preparations for the
dangerous task. He had captured a
Tripolitan .ketch called the Mastico,
and 1t was determined that he should
ekter the .harbor in this vessel. which
would excite less suspicion than an
American rugged schooner.
A picked crew Of sixty-two men was
put on Board, together with dozen
young ,officers, including Decatur, who
was then "a years old. and Midship-
men Thomas McDonough, 20 years old,
and James Lawrence, lad of 16.
On the 18th of February, the wind
being favorable, the Mastico was head
ed for the hafbor with the Siren in at
tendance outside to help rescue the
crew in case of need. The night was
clear and starlit, and as the Mastico
entered the harbor the Philadelphia ly-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21
Pollock in SWarms.

A novel sight in Quoddy, Me-, the
other afternoon was the large schools
of pollock, so many in number that
they ushed the water in waves before
them in their efforts to obtain the
palatable scrimp, which, in trying to
escape, piled themselves in helpless
masses on the shores. Hook and line
were of no use in the seething mass,
so the fishermen used the gaff and
fork. filling their boats with the finny
beauties in short order.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21

'Sneakin' away like that, you pig-steal-
in thief O. the night. you'll says he
If I'd had the gun that Jonas borried
and hain't brung back yit, bet you
wouldn't a-done it, cOnsarn his pictur!
But sence I'm on your trail I'll foller
it, by cats, and show you some tricks
that maybe you hain't heerd on yit!
says Uncle Jep, and he follered the
bar till night, and then bunked in at
Ellis, t'other side o. the swamp. SOS
he could be on hand early next morn
IN to show the bar them tricks.
Aunt Hubby woke up in the night
some time and heerd the pig squeal-
in. She jumped out O. bed and ran
to the winder. The moon was shinin'
bright as day. Aunt Hubby jest give
one look, and then says:
"'B'ar after the pig!' says she. "A
sockin' big bar, and he'll have that
pigpen smashed down in less than a
jiffy,' says she. And there amt a
gun in the house! II there was says
she, I'd sneak out and blow the top
O. that bars head off, says she. The
idee O. Jeptha lendin' his one gun to
Jonas, who hain't brung 1t back yit.
and then goin' off with t'other one
and campin' all night on bars trail!
/ Consarn that Jonas! If l had him
here I'd-no, wouldn't, neither! hol-
lers Aunt Hubby, who'd been looking
out O. winder all the time she was
talkin'. No, wouldn't, neither! she
hollers, clappin' her hands. 1T was a
smilin' Providence that made Jeptha
lend that gun to Jonas and KEEP Jonas
from fetchin' of it back!' she hollers,
and then she scooted down to the
kitchen. grabbed her clothes line, tied
slippin moose in one end OF 1t, and
started oilt on run lords the pigpen.
1.-THE bar stood on his hind feet
bangin' away at the pigpen, and the
splinters was fyin' tremendous. Then
the door went smashin' in, and the
bar reached in an yanked the pig
out. He hadn't much more than done
it, though, when from round the barn
Aunt Hubby come rushin'. She give
a YELL The bar dropped the pig like
a hot p'tater, and fore he could turn
and see what it was that had skeert
him Aunt Hubby dropped the moose
end Of the clothes line down over hie
head, pulled it tight, and jumped be-
hind the big pine tree that stood jest
comfortable jump away.
at was smiiin' Providence says
she, that made Jeptha lend his Other
gun to Jonas and KEEP Jonas. from
fetchin' OF it back says; she, for oth.
erwise me and Jeptha would be out
jest ten dollars!' says she.
1.-The bar come to himself and
sprung after Aunt Hubby He slune
his big fore legs. around the tree tc
ketch her where she stood, holdin' on
to the rope, and in less time than \
took him to fetch a good breath Aunt
Hubby had circled round that tree
enough times to bind him to the trunh
as snug and lastin' as IL he'd been
knot CROWN there. and she KEEP righ'
on windin' the rope around him and
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ing at anchor under. the guns Of the
Bashaw's castle could be dimly seen in
the distance. Decaturs plan was to
foul the Philadelphia at her bow, where
his vessel would not be exposed to her
guns, and to board her at once. AT 10
o'clock the Mastico was challenged by
a sentinel on the frigate. Decatur
stood beside Salvatore Catalano, the
pilot, and directed his movements.
The pilot said that the ketch had
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21

Aunt Hubby had some amazin
p'ints," said the loquacious and rem
iniscent man from the Knob country
$50 had that bar. He was a genuine
speciment O. what the Knob country
could turn out in the way O. bar when
it sot out to do it, that bar was, and
he had been raisin' the very old Ned
amongst the pigs and farm proJuce
generally for so long, and had KEEP 80
regular and aggravatinly shet OF all
the traps and tricks that was sot and
tried to waylay and circumvent him,
that at last what did old man Nose,
over to the Eddy, do but declare ne
would give 500 in cash for that par
fetched in dead, or $40 if anybody'd
run him in and hand him over alive.
"'Alive!' folks hollered when they
heerd of it. Anybody that tries to
fetch that bar in alive they says,
will more than likely find their own
selves bein' fetched in dead!' they
says; but folks didn't know 1t all, and
they hadn't stopped to consider Aunt
Hubby.
"'Jeptha' says Aunt Hubby to Uncle
Jep one day, jest about that time;
'Jeptha,' says she, seems to me that
If l was you I'd sort O. take holiday
this AFTERNOON and wander over to'rds
Big Injin Swamp. Mebbe you mowt
run foul o. that pesky bar. OF course.
seys she, you can't hardly expect to
nj h,rt THINGS hpinR
mortal here below says she, you
mowt accidentally git him dead III
you do, says she, it'll be $40, and $40
will buy a cow says she. II
Uncle Jep didn't see but what
that'd be a proper idee, and he
knocked CT stump-grubbin', took his
old smoothbore rifle and started out.
"'Jonas went and borried that 9TH
er gun o. mine, ding his pictur, and
hain't brung it back yit,' says Uncle
Jep, as he started.
1.-the bar III fetch jest ezacly as
much If you git it with the smooth
bore as it will if it had come tumb-
lin down before the gun that Jonas
borried,' says Aunt Hubby. So don't
waste your time grumblin',' says she.
Go look for the bar 81.
$50 Uncle Jep went, sayin' that II
he got on to the trail O. the cunnin'
old varmint he'd foller it If he had to
camp on it all night He got over
Jest this side O. Big Injin and hadn't
see no sign O. that bar or any other
bar, and was beginnin' to think that
II him and Aunt Hubby didn't git a
cow till they got it with the price O
that bar they'd never quarrel about
who'd do the milkin', when he heerd
somethin' snort He turned. and there
he see the bar, standin' right out IN
plain sight, and actin as If he was
afeard Uncle Jep was goin' on with
out seem him. Uncle Jep knowed II
was him, cause that bar was the only
one in the hull Knob country that had
white spot on its brisket.
"'This is the first time l ever was
to a shootin' match for cow! says
Uncle Jep, and the idee tickled him Sc
that he had to take his gun down from
his shoulder till he could git through
his laughin'. "A shootin' match for Q
cow says he, and he hauled up agin
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21

Just arrived from Malta, and. having
lost her anchors in the recent gale, de-
sired permission to make fast to the
frigate's, cables. While the pilot kept
up the conversation the Mastico was
nearing the ships cables, but at a
critical moment light puff of air
from the south set her aback, and she
was som exposed to the frigate's
broadside. 1t was trying moment,
but Decatur. with great GOODNESS,
turned the Mastico for the forechains,
and sent out boat with hawser to
make fast. The Turks also had sent
out a hawser, intending to make the
ketch fast to the frigates stern. This
would have interfered with Decaturs
plans, and in the end came near to
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21

THE WILD ROSE.
Oh, a wild rose bloomed In a fair retreat
Where zephyrs gently blew.
Flooding the nook with her incense
Queen of a scented crew.
But coyest of all was this wild rose
with her dainty petals fair.
When the west wind came with his WOO
ing keen
trGs .ove to declares
And day by day through the springtime
He sought In lovers mood
To lay his heart at the roses feet
Near the border of the wood.
Thus in sun and shade did the west wind
To preserve his counting sway,
While the wild rose bloOmed TO matu-
rity
And loved in her rosy way.
All. she gave herself to the am'rous wind.
AS he sped the westland down;
And the bold groom blew the rose away
To the rolling fields of brown.
He kissed her cheeks in a merry race
Throughout the livelong day.
But at dusk he tired of her fragile face
And carelessly sped away!
Into the clods of serried field
She fell with fragrance spent.
But the west wind never a sigh did yield
For the flower innocent.
In tire chilling field. all torn ana rife.
The wild rose dropped and died,
But the angels wrote In the Book 81 Life
OF foweret sanctihed!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21
Shark In Strange Waters.

A shark measuring 8 feet and 6
inches in length and weighing more
than 300 pounds became tangled in
the nets of George Kelley short dis
lance south of Northport campground,
in Maine, last week. A large fish had
been seen in the vicinity several days
and fish in the nets had been eaten,
but the intruder got tangled and was
unable to get away. 1t Is said to be
the first shark ever killed In Psnob'
scot waters.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21
~ ;.n'.syNI't''
a ElnraI'CIock..

In the public gardens Of Edinburgh,
Scotland, is a great floral dial made
of golden feather pyrethFum with the
twelve hours marked omit: "A zinc
receptacle in the shape of a'''cl0ck
hand, planted with dwarf vegetation. is
moved by clockwork and marks the
time with great correctness.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21
The IRONY of ,Fate.

A lady purchased a nice new door
mat the other morning with the word
"Welcome" stamped thereon in glow
ing letters, and fRe first to come along
and put his nupber'eleyens on it was
tax collector. ~, ~ s,.,s,.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21
Orlaln of Ox.TaiI Soup.

Ox-tail soup, now regarded as a IA.
tional English dish, was first made by
the very poor Of Huguenot refugees
from France, after the revocation of
the edict of Nantes, because OK tails
then had no market value.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21

and whanged away at the white spot
on the bars chist.
"The bar give a start. felt of his
rhist with one O. his paws as If some
him was ticklin' of him there. and
then turned look on Uncle Jep, as
much as to say: y,
"Look a-here, now! What a you
kandlin' that gun so ding keerless
around here for?'
"The bar looked mad, too, and Uncle
Ten was so took back at the unmiti-
rated critters pot tumblin' and givin'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21
Newspapers are all right in their
way, but the trouble with the great

THE LOCAL NEWS.
Journals of intelligence is that they do
not give the local news. In fact, it
is only over the backyard fences Of
this eventful and excitement pro-
ducing country that news is news.
The newspaper reporter smart enough
to play eavesdropper to back alley con-
fidences, will copper to enough news
to make his paper famous in two is
sues. OF course, he must take his
own chances on enduring to enjoy the
fruits of his labors, but living, he will
have only again demonstrated his ex-
traordinary ability.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21
The Mexican panthsbb!!

President Diaz of Mexico HAS hsa.,
kurated the work upon the Pantheon
which is intended to be monument
to the illustrious men Of his country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21

ABOUT TO DROP A LINE"
sides of the paper. 1t is also advisable
to choose as correspondents those
farmers who are noted for their lib
eral Sunday dinners. Herewith we
present typical correspondent about
to drop a line"
SSS
At an Indian wedding in Oklahoma
recently the bride wore pink silk
foulard with pink ribbon sash, blue
collar and cuffs, black hat with vel
low and lavender trimmings, green
veil and black gloves. The groom
wore the customary black minus his
coat, the day being warm. Hiawatha
and John are still some degrees re-
mote from entrance into 40o-society.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21

YOU KNOW HIM
From morn till night despite the law
The hose plays on the grass;
1t waters everything in sight,
Including those who pass.
From endless stream it spurteth wild,
With not a curb or calk;
1t showers every one VINO dareS
To tread upon the walk!
Pedestrians are drenched and wet. =.
From dainty toe to wig
A bas! the man that vets US all
With his old sprinkling rig!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-21

ADVICE TO NEWSPAPER MEN.
Great care should be exerted In
choosing your country correspondents.
for much depends on whether or no
the rural journalist writes on both
New-York tribune., 1903-06-08
srru71ork 1aiiu 9ribn1te
MONDAY. JUNE S, 1903,
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING

FOREIGN - One hundred persons We're
drowned in a collision Of TWO steamers OF lLLe
FrzisseneI Line near Marselues me l-4oall sa4lS
before assistance could be rendered 10 many oL
~ -a SseDre-e and crew. MT. toISeT mas
sem a disDatch 70 Secretary Hay susgesuns
that an inquiry ne made regarding diieseo ~
5s-ances OF Count Cassini n relation TO the cor
--sr+-ess IF M Coyger's statement OF RUSSIA ;
s-,.-5z ar china - The British Minister
g, caracas has protested gainsJ The recent &c
Greg NJ President Castro which closed CustOIi
...-,r a. ,e,.a-s1 r,o-rs A6viCes from Sa-
lorica told Of the defeat Of Bulgarian nallos "S
Turkish troops
01MFSTIC-Ir Is reported tha{ re foSe ~ G
1fsa ny the cloud burst in South taTo-llia ~eN
-7o-s than the fifty first reported. me i,.tP
errv loss is estimated a. So.9t3'N9- -
zTieefsei-7ri Al s. Louis has reached the hlshe9l
stage since 1855. many lives are IN t-issI - -.
-17p- vicinity and aD attempts II rescue 80 t
@1yrfle- Kansas has suffered more har '-IlE JIM
states IN the amount Of damage oone. So
T9s-E checked the spread cf fires N me AolI"-i
6actys and greatly benefited tne crops 'ei7
-ras no rain in Northern New-tnSlaho
CTTY-The drouth Of fifty-twO days IN the
cfrz- was broken by showers whch zen lIIous-l
OUT the DAY. the aggregate ralhlal- oziIis ~
s-7rl,. showers ware predicted for TO-DAY -
7-.--,s-e and f-rrir growers believed tfaI the
rainfall would save their most lIll9oI tA-.' ~-Nt,
- Il was learned THAI the railroads naQ Iio1
sslas 1o- the rrivilege Of using the Alllaills-
F1J-g bridge and tnat trains might not pe Iull
on n I'll long after il was built - AeeI.
.nEs denouncinE the butcheTy o. Ihe 'e"s q
Eishireff and calling on the government 20 y
sAs- 10 Russia were held n me AcaceIny o.
nF7,sfc and the Temple BETHEL - senator
Plat SAID he was going 10 W aSIllIss soA l4I-9
-raalz % consult with President Roosevelt -
THE F2e,- Or Gordon. Of Boston preached Ihe
S,o-cco1a,-sp-a sermon 10 Columbia seniors II
the university gymnasium - a pa pa oI-II 1
of the FlaGbush-ave- staten was sIloI A11o PIoD
ably fatally wounded while chasing a bu1glar-
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for today;
showers. The temperature yesterday; Highest
as degrees; lowest, g.
New-York tribune., 1903-06-08
BRIDGE BLOCKADES.

The Brooklyn Bridge blockade of Friday
evening, with its attendant panic and semI-riOt
happily passed off without any serious results
One policeman was knocked down and trampled
upon, and the same fate befeII a good many
other persons. Hundreds probably, had their
clothes torn and bundles or other property lost
or stolen in the wild crush, and not few suf-
fered bruises, sprains and other physical in
juries. It is really wonderful that many were
not MANNED or killed outright. For so dense
was the throng about the trolley cars that 1t
was impossible for the police to keep the tracks
clear, and more than once or twice a car slowly
ploughed its own way through the press, the
people actually being pushed along in front of
it by its dashboard or fender. 1t speaks much
for the nerve and judgment of the motormen
that in such a process people were not ground
beneath the wheels.
This blockade Of the worst on rec
ord But 1t was only one Of many, and II was
actually surpassed in respect TO pressure and
peril the very next day. Similar suspen-
sions Of car traffic occur at painfully short
intervals, and almost invariably at the most
crowded hours. The cause usually is, as 1t was
on Friday, the derailing of a car. OF course.
such accidents cannot always be prevented, and
IT is to be assumed the operators OF the rail
road guard against them as we'll as they can.
or as well as they think they can. It is. how
ever, fairly open TO question whether some ad-
ditional safeguards against them might not be
provided. Certainly it seems as though the de-
railing of cars on such road ought TO be made
all but impossible and unheard of
Moreover it is TO be considered whether IN
case of such an accident the public ought not
TO be prevented from crowding into the bridge
terminals in such numbers. All who wish to
walk across should, Of course. be permitted to
do so. But there is nc reason in letting people
crowd into the trolley terminal twice as fast
as the cars can possibly carry them away The
crowding is bad enough every day when both
car systems are in operation. But when the
railroad is blocked and all its thousands of pas-
sengers are sent down 10 the trolley cars the
state of affairs is simply appalling On Friday
as many as 125 passengers were packed into cars
the full normal capacity of which is only sixty
each. 1t would be better to compel people to
stand in Park Row and wait half an hour. or
70 go to the ferries, than to permit such brutal
tty and acute peril TO limb and life as prevailed
on Friday Saturday and many former occa-
sions.
New-York tribune., 1903-06-08

self that the opportunity is favorable one. 10
all inteDts and purposes. it may be taken for
granted that rarely, if ever, will a case OF this
class be presented in which it will be prac-
ticable TO secure other testimony than that or
the woman who is insulted- If more is needed
&c lead TO punishment no one viii be punished.
what, then, viii be the practical effect of a
decision like Magistrate Cranes? Mothers who
live near any of the city parks, and WHO have
been accustomed TO send their children thither
for recreation and health in the care OF maid,
will be more reluctant TO do so in future than
hitherto An exceptional feature of the case
under consideration was the presence Of the
mistress in The immediate vicinity and her
prompt and energetic interpositiOn in behalf Of
her servant. In that one respect parallels
would be rather infrequent, perhaps; but Magis-
trate Crane offers no encouragement to other
employers to act in the same way. Finally, if
any of the hundreds of unscrupulous men who
lounge in the parks of this city are tempted to
insult other unprotected young women they
now have some reason to think that they can
do with impunity.
New-York tribune., 1903-06-08
WELCOME RAIN.

The full story Of the storm which appeared
in the Ohio Valley on Saturday and has since
worked It's way northeastward cannot be
written for day or two yet. Enough is
known about It. however. TO offer great en-
couragement Some portions Of the region
lately afflicted with drouLh have just enjoyed
g greater amount of rain than had previously
fallen for nearly two months. The western
frontier of this area was invaded by showers
at Buffalo fully ten days ago. Washington,
Baltimore and Lyncbburg. near its southern
limit were similarly favored. but the greater
part of Pennsylvania. New-Jersey. New-York
and New-England still remained dry. 1t is
now apparent that extensive districts lying TO
the south. west and north Of the metropolis
have derived benefit from the northeastward
movement Of the latest storm which has ap-
peared east of the Mississippi Much more
hope is afforded for the Adirondacks and the
Eastern States than has been justified for sew
eral weeks. Even if the forest fires should not
be entirely quenched or all the crops saved by
this latest benefcent visitation. il has done
much good. and the occurrence of any rain ct
all is itself a promise Of more in the not dis
tant future
Striking differences are manifest IN the vio-
lence Of the precipitation along the northern
and southern boundaries of the same storm.
In New-York and adjacent States it came slow
" and gently, and thus had a chance to soak
into the parched soil, The utmost good to be
derived from a given quantity Of rain is OBJ
tanned under such circumstances. In the mean
time South Carolina, West Virginia and prob
ably other Southern States have not only ex-
perienced excessively heavy showers, but sew
eral Of those phenomenal local deluges called
cloudbursts. with melancholy destruction of
life and property. The northeastern part Of
the country has occasion for thankfuIness in
what II has received and what it has escaped
New-York tribune., 1903-06-08
TIE NAVYS NEW SHIPS.

Bids for the construction Of three new 16, COO
ton battleships-the Kansas. the Minnesota and
the Vermont-were opened at the Navy Depart
nent on Wednesday. II is promised that within
four years after the contracts are given out the
American Navy will have three of the best
equipped and most complete battleships afioat
each larger by than thousand tons
than any vessel afoat under construc-
ton for the navy. It is no doubt disappointing
that no bids came from the Pacific Coast ship
builders, and that the Cramps bid. being higher
than the others, viii probably preclude them
from getting any Of the contracts.
Since the present type of battleship was intro
duced. more than quarter Of a century ago, in
Italy, important changes have been made in the
manufacture and the resisting power Of armor
plates, well as in the construction and pene-
trative power of heavy guns. Changes have
also taken place in the size and design OF battle
ships since that time, but they have not been so
far reaching the changes and improvements
in arrnor plate and artillery. Practically speak
ing. however. there has been no substantial in
crease in the dimensions Of battleshtps since the
Italia and the Lepanto Of about Il. 900 tons dis
placement EACH were built over twenty years
ago at a period when arrnor plates were i'm
mensely inferior in protective power TO those OF