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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

"Here, dear, is that S. promieel
you." and his thumb and index finger
went down into the lower pocket on
the right side of his waistcoat, and he
laid IS bill on the bureau.
Mrs. Toggs murmured her thanks
between stifled sobs, but refrained
from touching the sacred testimonial
of his dying love. For, surely, Mr.
Toggs was nearing the end of his
earthly career, and his avowed i'm.
provement was only delusion. She
gazed upon him in helpless abandon.
ment to the inevitable.
Mr.. Toggs proceeded with his toilet,
and when 1t was completed he turned
suddenly toward the bureau and, pick.
ing up the money he had shortly be-
fore laid there, said in his old way:
II think, Mrs. Toggs, you saved this
much on me in household expenses.
for l have not partaken Of single
meal while I have been sick. l may
as well pay Elizabeth with It,"
And he FASTENED to find Elizabeth.
AS Mr.. Toggs left the room, his
wife experienced a sensation of Joy.
Mr.. Toggs was better He was his old
self again. She was relieved of the
dread that hung over her and she was
happy.
Here's the five dollars I promised
you," Mr.. Toggs said to Elizabeth, who
was busy preparing the morning meal
He laid the bill upon the sideboard in
the diningroom and strobe away.
Mrs. Toggs and Elizabeth were sc
happy that they could only gaze in
admiration at Mr.. Toggs as they sat
at the table, while he ate sparingly
of the morning repast.
Happy Mrs. Toggs stood with Mr.
Toggs' lustrous high-top hat in her
hand when Mr.. Toggs appeared ready
to leave for his Office. After he had
j taken a last reassuring look at himself
in the hall mirror, he went to the din.
ingroom, and said to Elizabeth, as he
took the SIS bill from the sideboard
81 think your board has been worth
this much for the time you have been
with us as our guest"
Mrs. Toggs never qestioned her hus.
bands intentions. 1t was enough that
he was well once more, and she was
happy.
What Elizabeth thought and said as
she journeyed homeward would not
be complimentary as an epitaph.
All that day Mr.. Toggs' countenance
was lighted with complacent smile.
He was a man we'll satisfied with him.
self.-Frank E. Graft in Boston Globe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

Mr.. Toggs was peculiar: but every
one is peculiar who Is assertive and
does not think in all things just as we
do.
Mr.. Toggs was not considered a gen.
erous man; but then the standard for
generosity varies so that we cannot
always accept even the judgment OF
friends.
Mr.. Toggs was generous with him.
self. This was unquestioningly con-
coded. In dress he was generous to
prodigality. The appearance of his
well-developed feet 2 of physical
manhood, from the luster of his high
top hat and immaculate linen to the
sheen of his No. los was faultless.
1t was in his family relations that
Madam Gossip charged him most I'M
sparingly. She said that he kept no
servant for his wife; that he never
allowed her family to visit her on
account of the added expense that
would be incurred; that while no was
clothed faultlessly, she was-but why
should we be rummaging in ..ther
folks closets to display their family
skeletons, when the very thought
starts a commotion in dark recesses
nearer home.
Remember, Mrs. Toggs never COM
plained not she. Had she not prom
; fsed at the sacred altar to love, wor-
ship-cherish, mean-and obey? And
she did it so thoroughly that all indie
pendence of thought and action was
lost in her devotion to her over-tower-
ing spouse.
Mr.. Toggs fell i'll. He had been ex-
ceedingly generous with himself, and
had INDUCED in late banquet at the
morning with most pronounced at
tack of indigestion.
Mr.. Toggs declared that he had
swallowed the larger part of mill
stone, and that it lay with its crush
ing weight just below his diaphragm.
Then he felt like the Spartan youth
who concealed the stolen fox under
his toga, and he experienced the burn
ings of thousand pitiless flames as
they ate their way into his vitals.
During the first hours torture Mr..
Toggs groaned and moaned and ex-
pressed himself in language that was
as forcible as the conditions de-
manded.
Mrs. Toggs, without any undue dis
play of alarm, gave him the full SER
vice of her devoted nature. He had
been sick once with rheumatism. and
she had witnessed display Of the
lack of all Christian graces in the
nature of Mr.. Toggs when sick, so she
was not apprehensive.
Indigestion may effect a complete
Transformation in its victim. 1t will
make either saint or demon of the
worst or best Of men, or change a
lion into lamb. Mr.. Toggs, after q
few hours torture, became lamb.
He uncomplainingly swallowed quarts
of scalding hot water. He chewed pep
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

the sightseer thereby visits Port Said,
sees the canal, learns what desert
is like in the ride from Ismailiya to
Iz-Zaoaziq, and sees great deal OF
the delta country from there on to
his destination.
Never was a town laid out in so
precise pattern as Ismailiya, the lit
tie halfway stopping place on the
Suez canal A broad road, lined with
trees that look as though they had
come out of child's Noahs ark and
then grown up a little, leads up from
the landing place on the lake, across
the fresh water canal to the DUAL Me-
hemet Ali, broad avenue, bordered
on one side by the canal and on the
other by the houses of the principal in
habitants.
Around Ismailiya lies the white des-
ert, reclaimed only in this small spot
by the ingenuity of man. And when
one sees the wonderful luxuriance Of
the floral and vegetable growth wher-
ever a regular supply of water has
been distributed in the desert, it
seems an unfortunate thing that all
the vast wastes Of Africa should not
be made to blossom; all their aston
ishing fertility now lost and hidden
by some strange trick of nature.
Cairo Is not a holy city, but Me
there is holiday and it is the Mecca
of the pleasure seeker. Every year
the number of fashionable and
wealthy people from all over the
world who gravitate to the Egyptian
capital increases, for Cairo is Trou.
vile, Saratoga, Monte Carlo and the
Riviera rolled into one, with no end
of special attractions of its own in
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
WEALTH OF THE WORLD.
Four Hundred Billion Dollars Is Es.
tmated Total.

Four Hundred Billion Dollars Is Es.
timated Total.
The total wealth Of the world, while
not exactly known, has been estimated
at 100000, 100000, says Gunton's mag
azine. This is probably an underes-
innate of the actual amount of money
and property in civilized and semi
civilized lands. Of this total the
greater part is owned by Americans
and Europeans. The United States
has somewhere near $1O0,000,000, 900,
or about one-fourth of the whole. The
United Kingdom is the richest country
of Europe, it's wealth being estimated
at ,SO6,OO0,OO0, or 9302 per capita
OF the total England's share was
910.O62,00O,O0O; Scotland's, 91,094,-
100000; Ireland's, G650,000,00. In
American money Eat $4.S pound sterl-
ing) Great Britain's wealth in 1895 was
$50, 66S, 100000. A recent estimate
makes it $4,000, 100000, or SLAP per
capita Tin 189D. The annual income
of England's population is said to be
SIS, 100000 while the yearly saw
ing is $1,94S0O0,000 1t should be
remembered that large amount Of
British capital is also invested In the
colonies of the empire and in foreign
lands.
France is the next richest nation Of
Europe. Mulhall estimated its wealth
in 1895 at 9,690,OO0,O00, or 9252
per capita. A recent estimate Of
Frances wealth makes 1t $4,000, 000.-
900, or $1,257 per capita (190D. Ac-
cording to .Mulhall, Germany's wealth
in 1895 was 9S,O52 100000 or 9156
per capita. Prussia's share was more
than half (a4,94O, 100000; Bavaria's.
G949 100000; Saxony's, G456,000,0O0;
Wurtemberg's, 9370,000,000, while the
smaller German States had 91,3S7,-
100000. According to more recent
estimate, Germany's wealth Is $40,-
100000, 900, or sos per capita Q901).
German money loaned or invested
abroad amounts to $8,O00,000, 900 or
more. Russia's wealth in 1895, as Null
hall estimated it, amounted to 96,425,-
100000 or961 per capita. A recent
estimate places Russia's wealth at
$4,000, 100000, or about 1926 per cap
ita estimating the population in 1901
at 108,OO0,OOO). :,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

with a profusion of tropical flowers.
About half-mile south of the Esbeki-
va is Abdin square. in front of the
khedive's palace, where military re-
views sometimes take place.
Because we had attended to it two
months in advance of our arrival In
Cairo, there were rooms waiting for
us at Shepherds. This famous old
hosiery is still, in all essential re-
spects, the most comfortable and at
tractive hotel in the city, in spite OF
the fact that there are numerous 9TH
err hotels of great size and modern ap-
pointments that are even superior in
some points of elegance to Shep-
heard's, as it will always be called in
spite of the fact that it is no longer
Shepherds, and another name is on
the stationery in the writing room
and in the bottom of the soup plates.
Hotels have their associations as
well as homes, and in reality this fine
old place. both by situation and tradi-
tions, is satisfying in every way. The
atmosphere of Shepherds is good
humored, we'll bred, cosmopolitan,
friendly, and in the big white room,
with its old-fashioned panels and stiff
groups of palms hiding in the corners,
one sees the greatest medley of we'll
known people, with and without titles,
famous for many things, from poll
tics to poetry, brains to mere beauty.
Past the hotel steps flows the multi
colored life Of the city, and to the ter
race come the vendors of curiosities,
conjurors, snake charmers and Arab
musicians, with their odd instruments
and barbaric songs, most of them, as
far as the words are concerned, not
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

Toggs, as he turned look of intense
longing upon his unfailing wife and
noted her anxious face, won't you
send for Elizabeth to come and assist
you? You are OVERRIDING yourself"
Poor Mrs. Toggs could scarcely re-
strain herself until she fastened from
the room, when she burst into flood
Of tears Mr.. Toggs was certainly
MORALLY i'll. In all their twenty-three
years of conjugal relations, he had
never before applied to her so pre-
cious an epithet, and for the first time
he seemed concerned about her per-
sonal comfort. And he had broken his
oft-declared law that there would be
no visiting relations of either side
allowed in his home.
Elizabeth had reputation for being
an exceptional nurse, and an expert
in the knowledge Of family remedies.
So upon her arrival there was re-
sumption, or rather addition, of opera
tons. The Indigestion loosened its
hold somewhat, and Mr.. Toggs was
grateful.
"Clarissa, dear" he said assuringly,
as he lay bolstered up in large rock
er, 81 feel much better. and If con-
tinue to improve, and am well to-
morrow, I'll give you S. for your nurs-
ing and care Of me-"
Mrs. Toggs fastened from the room
the picture of despair. She was sure
he was dying, and when she returned
to his side, closely followed by the
faithful Elizabeth, she manifested
no sign of Joy at her husbands asser-
ton of marked improvement.
Elizabeth" and Mr.. Toggs' voice
grew stronger, "I'll give you IS, too.
If am well tomorrow"
Then Mrs. Toggs had presentiment
by rafting in the chest that he was
marked for death. and her little body
stopped in anticipation Of the crushing
blow.
BY noon Mr.. Toggs declared that he
felt well enough to go out for walk
about the block. AS he was adjusting
his lustrous high-top hat, he said, IF
you'll give me the money I'll settle the
account for the medicines at the drug
gist's."
Mr.. Toggs never liked bills to hang.
Mrs. Toggs handed her departing
lord and master shining gold eagle
"a part of her weeks allowance for
all household expenses.
The druggist claimed half of the
gold, and Mr.. Toggs tucked the
change in his lower right-side waist
coat pocket. But feeling suspicious
sensation that prophesied a return Of
the tortures, he FASTENED home and
calmly submitted to the untiring ef-
forts Of his faithful nurses for relief.
That night Mr.. Toggs fell into a
refreshing sleep and awoke in the
morning a completely delivered man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
Making Monkeys Work.

"Monkeys-wild monkeys-can be
made to work in India" said mis-
sionary. "Some little ingenuity is re-
quired to start them, but once they
are got, going they peg away like good
fellows. sr
"They are often put to harvesting
the pepper. The natives, aware that
they are watching with a profound
curiosity, gather the pepper and pile
it up carefully in mounds; then, as
though suddenly revolted, as though
suddenly weary of foolish game, they
go away and leave the pepper.
"The monkeys watch all this. It
absorbs them. As soon as evening
comes they begin to play the new
game themselves. They, too, gather
the pepper carefully. They, too, stack
1t up in mounds. Then, at the end,
they, too, as though suddenly tired
and bored, 60 away.
what is the result? The result Is
that the monkeys have harvested the
pepper."-Philadelphia Record.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

The history of this last oyster Is de-
cidedly interesting. About four years
ago 1t was raked out Of the waters OF
Chesapeake bay by a dredging boat. to-
gether with the false teeth, to which
1t was firmly fixed, and teeth and oys'
ter were acquired by hotelkeeper at
Cowart, Va, whose wife forwarded
them to the Smithsonian institute at
Washington. The matter obtaining
some advertising in the newspapers,
Mr. Webster, residing in Bedford, Ia.
claimed the teeth, saying that he had
lost them while seasick from the
steamer bound for Norfolk. The
Smithsonian people were undecided
at first as to whether they should sur
render the teeth or not, the object be-
ing so great curiosity that they were
anxious to hold on to it. But, not
many days later Philadelphia woman
claimed them, asserting that they
were hers, and actually third party
visiting the institution demanded them
declaring that he recognized them as
having been lost by himself. Prob
ably, from first to last good many
persons have lost their false teeth
overheard in the Chesapeake, the wat
ers of which are liable to be pretty
rough at times. Anyway, the govern.
ment scientists do not care to decide
the dispute and concluded to retain
the specimen.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
Split Tree Limb Caught an Eagle.

Split Tree Limb Caught an Eagle.
Mr.. M. T. Quinton, a contractor,
who has been staying at Blue Lick
Springs for some time past erecting
a bottling house for the Upper Blue
Lick Springs Company, experienced
the rare pleasure Of capturing an
American gray eagle. Mr.. Quinton Is
a crack rife shot, as well as good
contractor. One afternoon he should
cred his rife and started out to do
little hunting. He had not gone far
when he saw a large bird on the top
of dead tree tearing at something
which afterward proved to be lamb.
Before he could get within rifle range
the bird few away and alighted some
distance off in thorn tree. Mr..
Quinton got as near to the bird as
he could and fred. A peculiar thing
happened. The bullet split the limb
and the birds foot was caught in the
crack and held firmly. Mr.. Quinton
succeeded in securing 1t without
much trouble, and brought 1t back to
Lexington with him. The bird proved
to be a gray eagle, and measures six
feet eight inches from tip to tip and
weighs eleven and half pounds
Lexington (Ky) Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
which the seductions Of. the Eas
reaches its greatest subtility.

which the seiuctions Of. the East
reaches its greatest subtility.
Oficially, the khedive of Egypt and
the British government administer the
country, but in the city Of Cairo King
Carnival holds open court the year
round, and there is none. excepting q
few missionaries, to dispute his sway.
Cairo is city of so many and such
diverse attractions, architectural, his
torical and social, that the limits Of
this article prevent any more than
a cursory glance at the chief features
of interest to strangers.
Most of the important hotels and
the principal public buildings face the
gardens or are near at hand. The
New hotel is on the west side, the
Hotel d'Orient on the northeast; Shep-
heard's, with its splendid verandas
and fine cafe, the Continental-the
Waldorf-Astoria Of Cairo-and the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

fit to hear, If they could be under
stood. One might sit still upon the
veranda, and in the course Of a week
everything human in Cairo will have
passed before his eyes.
But it takes weeks for the bewilder.
ment Of Cairo's many-sided life to set.
tie into concrete impressions, to pre-
cipitate into experiences and memo.
ries, but ever afterward he who has
known Carrots good and bad, its
beauty and its hideousness, its splen.
dor and its squalor, its majestic ruins
and it's Arab shacks-loves 1t for
what 1t is, and wistfully remembers
its enchanted days and its Arabian
nights.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
Mr.. Tog6s' Generosity

succeeded each other until five revolu.
lions Of the earth on its axis had been
completed, and Mr.. Toggs avowed that
the milestone was growing heavier,
the fox was unwearied in his endeav-
ors to claw out his vitals, and the mex
tinguishable fires burned with increas-
ing fury, and in the face of all he was
growing more and more lamblike. Mrs.
Toggs became correspondingly more
alarmed. This complete change could
presage only one thing-the coming
end.
"Dear!" gasped the tortured Mr..
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
An oyster with False Teeth.

An oyster WITH T aIse eetn'
Experts of the United States hsh
commission have made special study
of the conditions under which oysters
grow, and, to illustrate the adaptable.
ity of the molluscs they have gathered
a curious collection Of objects. 1t
comprises oysters growing, upon
great variety Of things, such as old
boots, rubber shoes, beer glasses. and
even a lantern. There Is broken
bottle inside of which, as well as on
the outside, oysters have found q
home. And, oldest Of all, there Is an
upper set of false teeth to which an
enterprising oyster lie firmly attached.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
NOVEL SIGHTS OF THE
CAPITAL CITY OF EGYPT
Life There Always Holiday, and the Place the Mecca
Of the Pleasure SeekerPopular Hotel Freqrented by
the Nest Aristecratc Of the Tourists.
Especial Correspondence.)

Although 1t is only a four hours
ride from Alexandria to the Egyptian
capital by the Cairo express, and the
route lies through the most attractive
and fertile part of the Nile delta,
very large number of travellers prefer
to go by sea to Port Said, and thence
down tho Suez canal to Ismailiya, TAX
ing train at that point for Cairo. This
course has much to recommend 1t, as
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

Angleterre, are all within sight or
easy reaching distance.
From the encircling streets radiate
to every part Of Cairo we'll cared for
avenues, those in the adjacent Ismail-
iva quarter being especially fine,
broad, with the footpath bordered by
shade trees. In this quarter are many
private residences of considerable pre-.
tension, with charming gardens filed
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
The Woman's Best.

Toni can't help asking my flancee
occasionally why she loves me.
Dick-Me too. Mine always gives
me a very satisfactory answer.
Tom-That so? What does she
say?
Dick-"Because."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
The Young Of the Condor.

The condor keeps its young longer
in the nest than any other bird. Fully
twelve months elapse before the
yoyng condors can fly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
Dangerous Descent with
SfnsslnR. sharp turn.

These signs are posted along French
highways by the Association Generate
Automobile.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

sin tablets without amurmur. He swal-
lowed DR.. Killers remedies faithfully,
and submitted to applications OF mus
tard plasters until the outer surface
of his body had every appearance OF
being parboiled.
Through it all not one word of COM
plant or rebellion escaped Mr.. Toggs'
lips, and Mrs. Toggs was somewhat
alarmed.
~ day and night In regular order
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1903-12-29
Battle Hymn Of Panama

ID A~~~ -
From no mountain height OF free
dom
Was our glorious Gag uniurled,
And we sought no grandstand
plaudits,
Firing shots heard round the
world.
Times have changed since CORY
heroes
o their fights for country Dragged
Mid no war shouts rose our standard,
But our courage never tagged.
For we sat in secret conclave
When we built us up a state,
Sons Of freedom, cool and cautious,
Subtle, keen, and up-to-date;
Lsid our wires with skill artistic,
Planning 'gainst untimely slips,
With much faith in business methods
And an Uncle who has ships,
No long list OF dead and wounded
Glorifies our virgin scroll,
Though against the constitution
We set out for freedoms goal;
But we've shown how modern heroes
Free from wild, unseemly hate,
Can, without undue excitement,
Build republics while you wait.
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BY AUTHORITY.
WATER NOTICE.


In accordance with Section | Of
Chapter XVI. of the laws OF 1880:
All persons holding water privi-
leges or those paying water rates are
hereby notified that the water rates
for the term ending June 80, 1904,
will be due and payable at the Of
fee OF the Honolulu Water Works
on the lst day OF January, 1904.
All such rates remaining unpaid
for fifteen days after they are due
will be subject to an additiocal ten
per cent.
All privileges upon which rates
remain unpaid February Is, 1904,
tthirty days after becoming delin-
quent), are liable to suspension with
out further notice.
Rates are payable at the Office OF
the Water Works, in the basement
OF the Capitol Building.
ANDREW BROWN,
Supt, Honolulu Water Works.
Honolulu, December 10, 1903.
2690.10t
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R@- Parties viuhingito dispous cstd
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FOE RENT OF LEASE

Six.Roomed Cottage on King So.
next door TO Ssnitarium, Kewalo.
ATtesian water laid. Outhauses in
therea
For terms. apply TO him personal
ly at the Hawaiian Hardware Co.'S
store.
ABRAHAM FERNANDEZ.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-09-30
SHE WEARS
NO STAR
GUT THEY AL rEIL DEPOT
nArRon THEIR TROUBLES

Runaway wives ard husbands are
playing an interesting game II hide
ard seek over the uultsd States just
now ard Seattle seems % be- une af
the look out points for the seekers.
Depot aMtrun Atine - being asked
daily 10 xind the missing ones.
f.art Monday = wofnan from Chi
raeo passed through thF city IN
search Of her husband. Tuesday
Mrs. &. o. Hester % Van Meter,
fszz. Eszss@.s through the citF Sith
her husbandsa arrest. ana by the aid
% a sheriff found him AZ Waila
Waila the merit day. WcdHssdsy an
other woman from Chicago passed
through the city on a similar quest.
and she was followed within the
next two days by one FROM Niles.
Michigan. and one from Oklahoma.
This morning a man living IN the
northern part % the state asked MtH.
stine to find his wife. who passed
through the city several days AE1.
ghs ieft hirn with four children and
not unnaturaily h. wants her 10
cufna hnfna. Mrs, Slime said She
would help him a. much ~ possible
IN his search.