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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
THE ORIGIN OF FAIRIES.
Many Legends Connected With Their
Existence,


Many Legends Connected With Their
Existence.
The fairies are considered by arch
biologists as the heirs and descendants
of the inferior pagan divinities, good
and evil. The demi-gods and demons
were reduced to this condition when
heathenism was outwardly brought
to an end. However, the popular be-
lief is that the fairies were those
angels who, at Lucifer's revolt, did
not openly join him, but felt kind of
sympathy with his wicked aspirations.
When the rebel angels were precipi-
tatsd into hell these cOwardly spirits
fell no farther than the earth,
on which they are to remain
till the day of judgment, UNI
certain during the whole time
whether they are to be pardoned
or condemned. The Irish fairies are
the spirits of the Daanan Druid chiefs,
who after their death took possession
of the chief subterranean caves
throughout the kingdom, and con-
tinued, according to their good or evil
dispositions. to succor or injure the
descendants of the Milesians, by
whom they had been dispossessed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
MRS. MALAPRoP IN REAL LIFE.

Comicai Phrases Ascribed to Newly
Rich American Woman.
A young Philadelphia who has
just returned from abroad travelled on
the same steamer with Molly Elliott
Seawell, the novelist, and found her
to be a woman with keen apprecia-
ton of humor. She told of a very
rich but rather vulgar American
whose daughter had married into the
nobility and who was veritable Mrs.
Malaprop.
1.-THE old lady spends considerable
Of her time with this married daugh-
ter" said Miss Seawell, land when l
met her in London she gave me a
very pressing invitation to come out
and see her at her daughters coun-
try house. Then she started to de-
scribe what evidently had been an old
baronial castle remodeled. only she
referred to it as baronical castle,
whatever that may be. In the hall
they have the loveliest pair of ant
lers horns you ever saw she said.
And the hall has been entirely rum
Mated
Il ventured to express the hope that
the stairs had not been altered, for l
have sort of generation for the stair
ways and balconies that are charac-
teristic of the old English houses. oh,
goodness me! yes she said. They
have spinal stairway now -Phi'"-
delphia Record.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04

leads from nowhere to nowhere in
particular; 1t has no staple industry;
three out of four of its inhabitants
would not take work ii 1t was offered
them, and the fourth would be
mighty particular in his choice of
what he took.
But it was not ever thus. Until
well into the nineteenth century Lit
tile Pedlington was the busy center
of a very large and lucrative-well.
we were going to say trade, but as
trade" implies legality, we had bet
ter call 1t occupation. for, il Little
Pedlington held one thing more than
another in abomination, it was that
responsibility which is conferred by
loyal adherence to the laws of the
land. Briefly, Little Pedlington was
the local metropolis of smuggling. Its
position, scattered about the wood.
lands clothing line of hills which
at the time of Caesars invasion we're
sea-washed cliffs, and overlooking an
expanse of dreary, trackless marsh
land, favored it. Boats landed their
tubs on the marsh edge, strings of
horses carried them along the devious
marsh ways to the foot of the hills,
up through the woods by deep sunk
tracks still known as the "keg ways"
to Little PedlingtOn, and thence to
the markets of the country as oppor-
tunity offered. Once In the Pedling-
ton woodland and they were as safe
and remote as anywhere in the world.
1t was roaring business they car
ried on in every sense of the word
lucrative, but only to men possess
ing qualifications not far removed
from the heroic, and withal saturated
with the charm which ever appeals
to certain natures with irresistible
force-the charm of illegality. 1t was
desperate occupation, and. accord
ingly, as its rewards were great, so
were its punishments heavy. Very
short shrift was melted to the snug
gler, justice to him was rarely tenn
pered with mercy, judges were large
ly ruled by the code of Lydford law,
and the result was that the constant
process of retaliation gradually trans
formed community of simple evad-
ers Of the law. robbers, II you like,
into gang of desperate rufians who
stuck at no crime, and who finally
brought about their own extinction
by the unwarrantable violence of their
behavior. Elsewhere smuggling died
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sufficiently with the times to adapt
their homes to modern requirements.
Along the roofs of one line of houses
in Little Pedlington there still runs
the secret escape passage of the
smugglers, an arrangement which for
bids standing upright in the living
rooms below; every house has Its dis
proportionate cellarage, its hide and
seek passages, it's odd means of
egress, it's high lookout windows and
various other peculiarities of a bust.
ness of which the keynote was eva
sion. Strangers come occasionally
out of their way to see our church,
because it is fine in itself, and as
striking an object in the landscape
as the famous Pedlington poplar.
which, some say, threw its straight
stem so feet into the air when Domes-
day Book was compiled, but they do
not know that Pedlington church was
as intimately associated with the
smuggling business as was the Wal
nut Tree Inn, at which they have
lunched.
Old Slingsby, the last human link
between to-day and Pedlington's great
past. who died last year, aged 1913,
used to tell how when a new parson
was appointed to Pedlington he would
find on his lawn in the morning after
his arrival goodly tub Of spirits or
a key of tobacco or box of tea or
of rice, with scrawled intimation
that as long as he was deaf and blind
to much that went on around him
generally. and in his church in par.
ticular, all would be well with him,
and many generations of Pedlington
parsons found 1t worth their while to
acquiesce. 1t was old Slingsby who
pointed out an altar tomb in the
the emblazoned side of which,
being removed, revealed descent in.
to the vaults below, where collins and
kegs stood side by side. and who told
Of the new parson who was puzzled
at the constant smell of tobacco dur
ing service time, but who discovered
that on Sundays there was usually a
larger congregation under the church
than in it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
eriton,s Love for the Sea.

One in every thirty-six of the males
over Is years of age in Great Britain
Is a seaman in the mercantile marine
or fisherman. That by no means
represents the proportions of Britons
who go to sea in ships. For the cur
rent year the total number of officers
and men, active service ratings pro-
vided by the estimates for the royal
navy, is $1,000, being an increase of
1900 over the previous year. Taking.
the two totals this means that one
in every twenty Britons is sailor,
which is an enormously larger per-
centage than that which any other
nation can boast, even with the con-
scription which supplies the seamen
Of several continental countries.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04

"I reckon youns'Ii hev ter kim back
an marry me wen youns git rich.'
did toward the little girl back in Ten
nessee.
"As soon as he was well he adopted
me and changed my name, and then
my education began. Being an edu.
| Gated man, the hermit had charge OF
my studies until was fitted for col.
lege. He nodded me according to
his own conception of manhood, ever
impressing upon me the sin of ingrati'
tude. AS boy and man had talked
and thought about the little mountain
lass. You have no idea how tender a
romance could be built upon founda-
ton as slender.
Before l entered college my bene-
factor told me that l was to be a
gentleman; that l had unlimited
wealth 1T my command, and that l
must spend money freely for the ben
eft Of others. He had fortune left
him, which had increased rapidly dur
ing the years of his seclusion.
II suggested that go back to my
old place and see if l could do any
thing for the little girl who had been
SO kind to me. No act of mine ever
pleased him more. Travelled to Ten
nessee and found that her parents
had died some years before, and that
she had been adopted by widow, who
had moved to distant part of the
country; but found no trace that l
could follow. | advertised, but to no
avail. She has been in my dreams all
these years, and | determined never
to give up the search until knew
what had become of her. Now for
your advice. Should I marry before I
have found this girl?"
you certainly should not" she re-
piled, raising her eyes for the first
time.
Il had hoped for a different an
swer.
Il can give you no other"
But she may be married, or dead"
he urged.
"You are not sure"
"And perhaps she is as illiterate as
the people from which. sprang, and
whom detest for their ignorance and
lack of ambition"
"AnG If she were?"
81 could never marry her. Every
man has his ideal. Mine has been the
little mountain maid; now, you are
my idea of perfect womanhood. Could
you not grant my hearts desire by
marrying me?"
Are you sure you would care for
me, even If you knew my past?" she
asked tlmidly, after pause.
81 am sure no other woman will ever
hold the place in my heart that you
hold. / care nothing for the past if
can have you in the future"
shall tell you of my childhood"
''If yon wish, but it will make no
difference" After a long pause he
said, please do not keep me, in sus-
pense."
"You were born in the mountains of
Tennessee" she began, land I, too.
was born in the mountains Of Tennes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
THE CHANCE OF HIS LIFE.
Automobilist's Opportunity in Sunday
School Parade.

T. Suffern Taller, who is one of the
most energetic automObilists of me
Newport colony, frequently acts as his
own chauffeur, and invariably drops
into the Casino after one of his long
spins through the country and relates
all its incidents, always concluding by
stating that the run was accomplished
without accident. Upon one occasion,
after he had given his usual detailed
account and conclusion, one of his
friends spoke up, saying:
Look here, Tommy, you appear to
be so much surprised at freedom from
accidents that it seems to me your
tone of voice indicates regret that
you got through safely without killing
anyone"
The following day he was back
again in his old haunt rehearsing his
experience, when the same friend
dashed in and in an excited voice ex-
claimed:
Hurry up, Tommy; get into your
automobile quick, there's Sunday
school parade coming up the street,
and you've got the chance of your
life. Now York Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04

They were seated on rustic bench
at fashionable water place. She
WAS a fair woman of 26; he a tall,
dark, handsome man of 80.
Il want to tell you the story of my
life, Miss Arlington" he was saying.
Il don't suppose it will prove interest
ing to you, but l have a selfish desire
for your opinion after have finished.
I will not tire you with details, but
will state as briefly as possible the
principal facts. shall picture to you
a dirty, ill-clad, ill-fed boy, who knew
nothing of schools nor books, at the
age of thirteen. My mother died when
| was quite small, and l stayed with
my father, whose business was work
ing one of those numerous stills In
the mountains of Tennessee, and dodg.
ing the revenue officers, when he was
not too drunk to do so. My duty was
to scout around and warn him IL dan
ger threatened; and for my faithful
ness received but kicks and threats.
At last he was killed while defending
the still, and was left alone-A fam
lily took me to work for my board. but
the treatment received at their hands
was more than l could stand, so one
night ! went away. All night l ran
through the darkness; every noise in
creased my terror lest should be
iovertaken and carried back. After
lsunrise crept into thick clump of
pines some distance from the road,
and with my bundle for pillow fell
asleep. Several hours later / was
awakened by little gill bending over
me.
'Where'd youns kim from?' she
asked calmly, as / opened my eyes.
l bounded to my feet, expecting that
was about to be captured and taken
back. but there was no one else in
sight. What youns 'fraid of, boy?' she
asked.
After she had repeatedly assured
me that she had not seed anyone after
me, and she knowed her pa and ma
would not let me go if anyone came
for me- and l had cautiously peered
behind nearly every tree in the vicin-
ity, l told her my story. l at once en-
listed her sympathy. which was sweet
to me, as it was the first had ever
known.
When my story was finished. she
came close to me, and, patting my
cheek with her little brown hand, told
me again how very sorry she was, and
assured me that l was safe as long
as / stayed there, and that If anyone
should come she would hide me where
nobody couldn't never find me- She
irvited me into her playhouse, which
was nearby, and there we played until
the evening shadows began to fall,
then reluctantly resumed my jour-
ney. She walked short distance with
me, and saying that she would have
her par shoot anyone who might be
looking for me, pointed the nearest
way to town, and as we parted, said:
Il reckon youns'll hev ter kim back an
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04


One sang, and many turned aside to
hear,
And they whose souls were fashioned to
conceive
The beautiful still listened with delight
And inly blessed the singer and the song.
Till far and wide, in countless homes, the
strains
Flowed from the lips, familiar and be-
loved:
And often the charmed world, half envy
ing, said.
"Why joy must fill the soul that thus can
Above the woes Of earth, its pains and
cares,
And bless and beautify the lives of men
With treasures gathered from the realm
of thought"
And far away lonely woman dwelt,
Whose feeble flesh had often shrunk be-
meath
The touch of pain, and who in silence
bore
A bitter fate and fed hungry heart
On dreams of love, and for the power of
Paid with the loss of all life held most
sweet
Maud Rose in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04

see My parents died when was =
child, and was adopted by wealthy
lady, a cousin of my mothers, and"
"Well?"
IL remember the little boy whom
I found asleep beneath the pines"
Her listener started. you! Miss
Arlington" he exclaimed, lifting her
head so that he could look into her
eyes. ARE you my little mountain
maid?"
YES" very family.
my darling!"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
THE LITTLE MOUNTAIN MAID
BY DOROTHY G. CLARK
Copyrghted 1903 by The authors Publishing Company

ued, Il had worked my way to the
far west. A few weeks later l found
an old man lying in one of the noun
tain gorges, crushed and bruised. I
assisted him to his cabin. procured
medical assistance, and nursed him
back to health. He was a recluse. and
was known as bad man, but my act
completely changed his nature. had
been good to him without any selfish
motive. and he felt toward ME, as /
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04

marry me wen youns gifts rich,' and
promised her, of course.
miss Arlington, that was my first
and last experience in childish com.
partnership, and my first taste Of the
sweetness of human kindness and SYM
pathy. have never since seen my
little mountain girl; but can you won
der that she still has warm place in
my memory"
Miss Arlington was looking intent
" at the ground, and made no reply.
'In two months time" he contin-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
Preferred Bad Money.

An acquaintance from the country,
having visited some friends, and be-
ing about to depart, presented little
boy, one of the family, with half a
crown in the presence of his mother.
please, is it good one?" asked the
little fellow. "Of course it is" replied
the gentleman, surprised. why do
you ask?" Because I'd rather have
a bad one, and then they'll let me
keep it. If l get any good money it
goes into the bank. and l never get
1t again. STRAY Stories.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
SMUGGLERS' HAUNT


Little Pedlington is one of the hun.
dreds II places in England the aspect
of which provokes the stranger to
ask: How does 1t exist?" There is
no life. much less stir, in it from
years end to years end; one may
traverse its surrounding hills and
fields for hours without meeting q
human being. The road through it
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04

marsh has been reclaimed, and is now
a vast grazing ground, and the three
or four old towns which dot 1t have
been awakened from their sleep of
long years by week end golfers and
military experimentalists, but 1t is
still solitude, and to wander off its
very few main roads means perdition.
Not even have the people moved
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
Fast. but Don't Run.

twill these colors rum" asked an
elderly lady who was shopping in q
Lexington street store. mo, indeed"
replied the affable clerk. They're
too fast for that" Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
Loving Grandparents.

When the proprietor of a Ports.
mouth, N. H., millinery store arrived
at her place OF business at 8 the other
morning she was somewhat surprised
to find an elderly man and woman sit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04

a natural death; III eabouts' it was
crashed because it developed into &C.
tual brigandage.
The country has not changed much
since those days. The woodland is
still trackless and impenetrable; the
old 'keg ways" still run deeply be-
tween high banks. now aglow with
fresh young foliage, and blue and
gold dfapery OF hyacinths and prim-
roses, a. they ran Of yore; the great
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-04
Bananas and Potatoes,

The banana and potato are almost
identical in their chemical compost
ton.
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Sailing Per Alameda.

The following are booking to
leave tomorrow for San Francisco
by the Alams da, sailing at IL O'Clock
noon:
Mrs Mehrtens and child, V L Ten
ney, Mrs Henry Wilcox, Miss Green,
Mrs Fl M L Walker, Mrs Beard,
Mrs Howard, Z r Neumann, Miss
N Jones, Mr. and Mrs Paley, DR. and
Mrs Gushing. Mrs Pixley, Jas Nc
Mullen and family, Miss D. Lar
tigue. Mis- G B Wells. Miss L Wells,
Ben Bruins, Gao 81 Baldwin, Mrs
X l. Redmond, Miss M Redmond
L Hoyt, A F McNse, W r Doug
las, E g Noyes aud wife, j B Jer-
man, e L Cutting, j Il Clunie, f A
Jacobs, Mrs w A Jacobs. Miss Bur.
rows, Guy G Barton and wife, d L
Wilmington, G N Weaver and Tho
mas w Grey.
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Passen gers Departed.

These passengers sailed by the
Kinau tod.y for Maui aud Hawaii:
WE Skinner, vOP Emersou, ,
A Hspeberg, A L Louisson'
Ms, NJ E Hoy, j D Moi
fat and wife, f E Confer, @ I Day,
A G Hoyt, Theo Wolff, Miss Maud
Wight, Otto w Rose, wife and child,
Mrs l. Rowell and two children, Mrs
T Frank.
The following are booked on the
Claudine sailing at 5 p m today for
Kahului:
HP Baldwin, Miss l. E Wilcox, D
b Case, j R Brown, Mrs @ Sommer-
field, Linn Leong, Tang Young, Miss
r Naukana and niece, Mrs Kenui,
Mrs NJ Achong, Mrs l. Achong and
child, Rev j E Kekipi.
For the Orient, per S S Gaelic,
April 2l-F Gaylord and wife, E b
Hibberdina, q @ Dunn and wife, E
G Stolber, r V Dsnnison.
For San Francisco, per S S Doric,
April 2l-S D Eldridge, Mr. and
Mrs Fern and daughter, W Won
Bunsen.
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Elleford's at orpheum.

The Elleford Company had a
most gratifying, and perhaps as
suriog, audience at the Orpheum
last evening for the opening of it's
sesson. THE Lions Heart" was
the bill, and it was staged in q
m ost satisfactory way. Tonight
the same play will be put on, and
tomorrow night the company will
present "Mizzoura."
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have been corrected without affect
ing the lidity OF the bill.

Fault finders must and ought to
look further than that one copy.
When the work OF enrolment was
turned over to the clerk, the copies
given him by the chairman OF the
committee were the copy Of the Bill
made by the Senate and sent to the
House and the copy of the same
made by the House with its amend
ments inserted. Neither the revised
printed copy nor the original one
introduced were handed him. And
the copy sent to the Governor is an
exact Counterpart OF either one OF
the copies sent to the House aud OF
the one returned to the Senate The
missing words and lines were not in
either one Of those copies, the Sem
ate copy sent to the House not even
having them 10, and therefore, these
material clerical errors happened
there and were catried through in
the other two subse equent copies.
But on the omissions being discover
ed by comparison with the revised
printed copy, it was plain that had
this copy been handed to the enroll
ment clerk as we'll, no such material
discrepancy would have been found.
And further still, had the first type
wyitten copy, also another rush job,
been compared as it should have
been, these errors would no doubt
have not occurred. But the errors
were carried right on and through
the whole three typewriter copies.
When the enrolled copy was handed
over by request and demand he pass
ed it without being satisfied as to its
correctness, but it was urged that it
must reach the Governor before the
expiration OF the time limit although
the clerk asked for further time to
go over it again before being salts
fed and passing upon it 6nally.
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10 excluding men from their min
strel show the ladies OF the Y WCA
are taking deucsdly mean advan-
tage of themselves. 1t will take
them all Summer to convince their
gentlemen friends that they looked
and acted like real "nigger" men.
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Such being the care, the blame
should be placed elsewhere than on
the enrolment clerk and the type
writer's. All in the foregoing state
ment can be easily provep,if desired.
Yet there are some who do not care
to look further than they see at q
glance, and endeavor to. place re-
sponsibility where j! rightly belongs.
1t is. for instance claimed by one to
be "mangled," because the work was
done by Home Rulera, who had
grated themselves upon the Repub.
lican Legislature. And the "Home
Rulers" who did the job upon the
County Bill are considered to be Of
the best who can attend to such
work, the chief OF whom who had
the work in charge has been compli.
msnted for the expeditions manner
in which the work was gotten out,
although not satitfed with passing
upon it's correctness.
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FOR SALE.

6A 0G0 LEASEHOLD ON BERE-
9Tivvu tania satsset. 80 years
turn Present net income 800 pr
month. Apply to
WILLIAM SAVIDGE & co
ana Mayohant Sty
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Toa SALE.

a5OO HOUSE AND LOT ON
Liliha Street near King. Only small
cash payment received. Apply to
WILLIAM SkVIDGE & CO.,
zoo Merchant Stre
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WANTED

Party with $500 or 5000 to invest
in paying business. Good chance
for right man. Address
"X" The INDEPENDENT office.
24S4-1w
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Two outside communications were
read in the House last night from
Hawaiian country engineers 10 op.
position to the bill now before the
Legislature relating to the exami-
nation Of engineers. Both blamed
Previous Question"or Organic Act"
Dave Kupihea for it, and in one in
stance the writer says that Kupihea
will not receive any votes in the
future Much laughter was created
on the reading ofthem, one being
iu broken English. Mr. Kupihes is
receiving the onus for this bill, yet
he is not its introducer, but Mr..
Harris.