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, 1903-01-20

DANISH Observation-Disclosures at
G. A. R. hall third Thursday evening
Of each month.
Mrs. James NJ. Christensen, Pres.
Mrs. Emil "Thirkeldsen, Secretary.
, 1903-01-20
GENTLEMEN ORGANIZATIONS.

LARAMIE LODGE NO. s., A.. F. and
A. M. Meels first and third Monday
evening" Ia Masonic hall.
F. 8. King. W. M.
]. 2. Gates. Secretary.
, 1903-01-20

CUSTER POST NO. 1. g. A. n
Meets second and fourth Monday ~
enings In @. A. r. hall.
H. A. Robinson, p. c.
]. A. Cokefair, Adjutant.
, 1903-01-20

WAsATCH TRIBE No O., l. Z. r. N.
Meets the second and fourth Frtdsys Of
each month in l. o. F. hall.
Thomas c. Hunt, SacAsn.
Charles M. Nissen, C. of r.
, 1903-01-20

BLACK HILLS LODGE NO. Sc. B
of L. F. Meets every Friday at 3 !
m. in g. A. R. hall.
g. v. Mclaughlin, Master.
Lee Deuel., Secretary.
, 1903-01-20

ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION NO.
103, B. of L. u. Meets frst I'D third
Saturday evenings at 1880 Ia @. A. X
hall.
J. W. Costin, Chief Enst.s~
Farley Mathison, First Assistant
, 1903-01-20

CACTUS LOYAL ORANGE LODGE
NO. 2s2. Meets first and third Sat.
urday EVENING" in l. o. o. F. hall.
p. D. Titus. W. ~.
e. A. Buck. Secretary.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

She was good woman. She
frowned upon. all yanity-except in
the matter Of silk dresses and dia-
monds. Worldly amusements she
foreswore. She regularly occupied a
seat in church, led an adult class in
Bible study, did her duty in every re-
lation of life. And yet her children
never seemed at home with her. They
were abashed in her presence.
She was good, good woman. or
rigid principle, orthodox, a well-wish-
er to everybody-except those who
failed to walk in her straight and mar
row path-incapable Of harming any
living thing. And yet the bull terrier
owned by an unregenerate younger
member of the family always sneaked
out of the room when she came into it.
She was good, good woman. Every
body said so, and yet everybody felt
uncomfortable in her vicinity. There
was a churchy rustic about her skirts,
an occasional upward lift of her cold,
gray eyes that made you think OF
stone affairs; never of the warm col
oring of stained glass, Of pink-tinted
marble, always of stone, gray stone.
Her very salutation was so churchly
as to hush young voices from the riot
BUSINESS of laughter.
She was not a success somehow. She
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

We tread narrow valley where Joy
roses all abloom
Are mingled with the nightshade of
black misery and gloom;
Some wander onward gayly; others move
with bitter tears.
Each marking his own pathway through
the Valley Of the Years.
Sometimes the sky is clouded and we
grope along the way
With anxious lamentation and a longing
for the day;
But always we are moving Ger the path
that leads alone
On to the mystic mountains Of Eternity
Unknown.
Some turn aside and wander for a few
brief, idle hours
And hope to find forgetfulness among the
lotus flowers:
But always comes the waking-and yet
palmer still appears
The pathway to the Mountain through
the Valley Of the Years.
The monarch Of a nation and the sacre-
dotal king
Upon more lowly travellers their sneering
glances fling,
Then draw their cloaks around them and
pass on to tread alone
The misty, mystic mountains Of Eternity
Unknown.
Behind them, shrieking, singing loud
Bacchanalian song,
A band of ribald jewellers goes stumbling
ly along;
An evil thing pOlluting every tender thing
Goes onward to damnation through the
Valley Of the Years.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Take on old umbrella and open 1t.
Well soak the fabric with water, and
sprinkle over it mustard and cress
seed. Put the umbrella anywhere
on coping, fiat roof, or in any posi-
ton where it can get plenty Of sun
and water it we'll two or three times
daily. In a week or two a crop of ex-
cellent "'small salad" may be cut.
One would hardly expect to find
garden on a fishing smack, yet such
thing is in existence. The smack is
one of the Exon" feet, and the gar
den" is tucked away by the bowsprit
and windlass. 1t is in pots and small
boxes, and consists chiefly of scarlet
geranium.
The skipper Of the smack admits
that it gives him a good deal OF trou-
BILE, as a sudden squat or dip wipes
away all traces of horticulture at once,
and the flowers have to be reneIsed
occasionally.
Canal boats, which work under more
favorable conditions than fishing
smacks, are frequently improved by
small gardens, usually in boxes, on
their cramped cabin roofs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Bertrand Edward had misconducted
himself gravely, so gravely his father
felt 1t to be his duty as parent to
administer corporal punishment. He
administered 1t accordingly and Ber-
trand Edward smarted-not only ply
sically, but mentally-for he was not
used to that form of correction.
First of all, Bertrand Edward went
up to the nursery and bowled vocifer-
ously. That proceeding usually
brought his mother to soothe him
with gentle Observation-Disclosures
honey cookies-but this time his
mother seemed deaf to his cries.
Downstairs his father was impressing
her with the necessity of ignoring the
walls of her offspring and thus maxi
ing him sensible of his iniquity. This
the fearful mother eventually prom
Used faithfully to do.
Upstairs Bertrand Edwards yells
gradually became less frequent and
the intervening silence more profound.
At such times he tiptoed to the stair
case and listened. He heard his moth
er's voice. but she was seemingly
talking to the cook about domestic
concerns. He heard her say: "And
we will have the tartar sauce with the
whitefish for lunch, Mary"
It was evident that she was thor
oughly heartless. Bertrand Edwards
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Are the bodies Of animals inhabited
by the souls of human villains dead
and gone? Don't sheer too hastily at
the question, for if it should be an
swered finally in the negative science
is at loss to account for the utter
depravity of the animals. 1t is ap-
parent to the dullest observer that
dumb beasts exercise a malign In
tluence over man. Think of the temp
ers ruined by cows that have kicked
over half-flled pals of milk. Think
of the regulations for truth that have
been destroyed by trout. Think OF
the honesty that has been turned into
deceit by the horse, so that they who
trade in that animal are by-words
among their less sorely tempted breth-
rem. Think of the indefinite prolonga-
ton of this list that might be made
and then consider if animals are or
are not animated by the souls OF hui
man wretches that have passed away.
Some such theory must be accepted
/ nd it is not open to doubt that rea-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
Gardens in Queer Places.

Gardens are feature Of several OF
the South Wales coal mines. It Is
true the crops are generally limited
to mushrooms, but they are, none the
less, gardens. The earth is taken
down in bags by the miners and q
mushroom bed formed, into which
broken bricks of spawn are put.
This system of underground garden
ing has prevailed for some time in
Paris, for most of the "champignons,"
or button mushrooms, used in that
country, as well as a good many OF
the ordinary kind, sre grown in the
disused subterranean stone quarries
on the left bank of the Seine.
The fashionable freak gardening In
the shape of Japanese fern balls, birds
and elephants, which have just been
introduced, are beaten hollow in rap
idity of production by the common
horseradish. A barrelful Of this COM
modify may be plucked in Worcester.
shire to-day. On it's arrival in Covent
garden it will be sprouting freely, and
in the course Of the next couple OF
days the barrel will be almost COW
cred with green foliage.-Stray
Stories.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
She Was a Good Woman.

never seemed to inspire love in any
living thing. Her daughters grew up
wild, and her sons were of no particu-
lar account, and her husband rarely
sought her society, and she never I'M
derstood any of these things. She
considered herself unfortunate. 1t was
a pity, for she was a good woman.
Yes, she was. And yet she knew not
how to be hospitable. Very, very sell
dom did she offer cake or plate OF
ice cream to her callers. Not that
she grudged her best, but her mind
scared above such trif1es. Her idea
of a gift was to present you with a
tract; of entertainment, to read you
her exegesis of some scriptural pass
age. Gliding on to loveless old age,
she dreamed dreams and saw visions
on the way.
A good, good woman. And yet there
are many others not half SO good-in
a way-who go through life showering
kisses on little children, patting dogs
on the head, doing little trivial kind
nesses here and there, more because
they can't help it than from princi-
pie, who CLEAN riches of love in this
present time, and who will be far
more missed and mourned hereafter
than this poor, good woman.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Poverty may be handicap to some
young men who are born with the
shadow of the hoe and the skeleton
like form of the hay fork before them,
but to William Henry Stubs 1t Is
nothing more than an inspiration,
soul absorbing desire to reach the
higher attachments Of life as well as
the lowly scudi.
He acquired early reputation as
q rising young man when he offered to
go up in the balloon at the country
fair in place of Monsieur Dago Scarf
buss, who had been hitting the rural
istic hard cider all forenoon and was
not acquainted with the bird-in con-
sequence of which Monsieur had gone
into retirement for the rest OF the day.
William Henry rose with an adagio
movement that was the very poetry
of action.
After that Williams life was a
dream, and he forgot to notice his
former comrades. He became both
success in the lofty art Of raising as
we'll as falling. He scared up in
balloon and came down in a large
parachute; he made bags of mon, and
was the envy of all who came in con-
tact with him. Few young men OF
10 ever reached such high attitudes
of fame or sunk to such depths OF
glory.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
The Destiny Of Human Souls.

sonable people will accept this: The
souls of the wicked are condemned to
pass into animals and to stay there
until they have discovered prospective
tenants worse than themselves.
This theory explains everything. The
liars inhabit fish, the tricksters horses
and those given to butting in become
goats. In the attempt to end their
tenancy by finding suitable success.
sors the evil spirits resort to tempta.
ton, with, alas! unfailing success. The
half-pound trout dropping off the
hoop flaps his tail in ecstatic certain
ty that the angler will proclaim him a
five-pounder at least. And the look of
human anticipation on the face of a
goat about to knock some unsuspecting
person into barbed-wire fence can
only proceed from the knowledge that
the resultant explosion will lower an.
other soul Into the mire as stepping
stone for himself.
The theory is irrefutable and its
general acceptance would hslp the
world to higher plane.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
Young Mans Rise and Fall.

He got the huzzahs at both ends OF
the flight, and reaped the plunks
thereby. He received the merry shout
when he went up and he was smother
ed by the loud acclaim when he came
down. The vociferous plaudits were
mingled with the soothing rustic Of
the long green and the dazzling clink
of the yellow boys at either end OF
the route, and he always got his gate
receipts, whether the thing panned
out good for the managers of the fair
or not.
He might have dragged along
through life hoeing corn, tossing
clover to the knee or chopping the
fine cut for the toothless nag-but he
aspired to go up as well as come
down. Last week he went up-and
then he came down.
Pop said a mighty fine farm hand
was lost when they pried William
Henry Stubb's form from the daisies.
The good folks who had paid their
coin to see a fool human being try
to soar like a bird and drop like a
chunk Of lead because something fail.
ed to work all smoothly and properly
d. I'VE home in the cleaning with the
idea that man though born toothless
was not destined to wear wings and
fly-that is, not always, or at least
not until his time comes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Marshall P. Wilder has friend
who, according to the humorist, Is
much averse to any display or cere-
mony.
This spring the friend of Wilder be-
came engaged to a charming young
girl many years his junior. When the
time came to talk over the details OF
the wedding, Marshall's friend was
for having things done as quietly and
unostentatiously as possible, dislik-
ing, as he does, the "fuss and feath-
ers."
The girl held out against the idea.
For her part she was anxious to have
a swell church wedding, with all the
publicity and ceremony that such an
event entails.
Finally. however, the prospective
bridegroom gained his point. The girl
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

indignation became too deep for cry
ing. WELL" he thought, "Ill just stay
up here until she does come. l expect
I'll starve to death, but don't care
I'll be glad of 1t. Maybe they'll be
sorry when they come up and find me
dead"
Time passed and the pangs OF hung
er assailed him, but he had pref
ty stubborn will of his own. Slowly
the afternoon dragged along and the
shades of evening began to fall. At
last there came to him the sound OF
plates and knives and forks, and he
knew that the family were sitting
down to dinner.
Then he weakened and went down.
stairs.
The family were at table, as he had
supposed, but nobody took any par
ticular notice of him. 1t was embar-
RAISING. When the maid had served
him his parents began conversation
in quite a matter-of-course way, and
without any reference to his protract-
ed absence.
Bertrand Edward felt that some
thing had to be done to break the ice.
Looking down by his chair he saw
Toozelums, the. cat, demurely making
her toilet.
WELL" said Bertrand Edward, In
his incest and most polite tones, 81
see you have the same cat here STILL"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

ciate this fact, for there are dozens OF
nets set up daily.
The greatest sport of all, however,
is the bathing. The water at Ostend,
notwithstanding the fact that 1t is the
North sea, is very warm as compared
with that of our own New England
seaside resorts. It is also very buoy
ant, so buoyant, indeed, that it seems
as If one could not help but swim.
Swimming, however, seems to be a
rare accomplishment among the wom-
en- bathers, for the swimming of an
American girl, only the other day,
caused the widest excitement among
the bathers.
One uses a bathing machine at o.
tend, an experience which is quite
novel to an American. One procures
a ticket at little booth on the beach,
and, bathing suit and towel under his
arm, he sallies forth into the midst OF
the village of little houses on wheels
which covers the bathing beach. An
old lady in white cap and kerchief,
with her blue skirt pinned about her
waist, disclosing a red underskirt and
bare feet, takes the ticket and calls to
the cocher. She is called a mistress
of the baths"
The cocher comes forward, seated
on a sturdy horse, which he bitches
to one of the little blue or yellow
houses. You enter the little house
and shut the sliding door, and imme-
olately the journey to the water be-
gins. When the water reaches the
horses knees the house is turned
about so that one may descend the
flight of steps at the back into the
water. Then the cocher taps with
his whip on one Of the tiny windows
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

II one can imagine Long Branch,
Atlantic City and Narragansett Pier
rolled into one, he would have a very
good idea of Ostend at the height OF
the season. The most important sea-
side town on the continent of Europe,
Ostend we'll deserves its title Of
queen of watering places"
All sorts of sports are provided for
the visitor to Ostend. There is lawn
tennis, polo, golf and horse racing.
The hard sandy beach makes the best
of tennis courts and the younger spor-
ton of the visitors apparently appre-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
The Valley Of the Years.

The scented pet of Fashion idles listless
through field
Where flowers of every hue perfume to
his senses yield;
And yet his dainty feet at last must VEN
ture out alone
Unknown.
The sound of choral singing thunders
loudly in my ears,
Where earnest, patient toilers tread the
Valley of the Years;
The music of their marching Is a mighty
That reaches Ger the mountains to Eter-
nifty Unknown.
Faith. hand in hand with Patience shows
each striving one the way.
Repentance calls to Virtue when the
stumbling foot would stray;
Sometimes the path is watered with COM
mingled blood and tears,
Yet straight the pilgrims press on
through the Valley of the Years.
And many. bent and broken with their
loads of grief and pain.
Toll forward down the valley through
dark and chilling rain
Toll forward with hope song ever bat
Ting with a groan,
While Faith leads Ger the mountains to
Eternity Unknown.
We tread a narrow valley where a mil
lion million feet
Pour onward like torrent with steady
rhythmic beat;
Yet every foot must fashion out path
way of it's own
On to the mystic mountains of Eternity
Unknown.
Lowell o. Reese. in San Francisco Bull
letin.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

I amt given much to idols. and I like the
Lords own way
OF turning our eyes upward when we go
so far astray
AS to dote and keep a-doting on the
things that fade and wilt,
But somehow, spite of conscience, I love
a patchwork quilt.
I pieced this one up the winter that Tom
went off to fight;
T could stand it through the daytime, but
as soon as it came night
All the horrid scenes of battle right be-
fore my eyes would fit,
SO I went to setting patchwork, just to
ease my mind bit.
When I come to choose a pattern, I
picked out 1.-The letter L"
Not because 1t was so handsome, but II
stands for Tom you see;
And 1t was little comfort. in those days
so DARK and cold,
To have even that much OF him which
nv hand could grasp and hold.
Now I see old friends and neighbors COM
ing through this patchwork door
Smilin' at me 'bove the pieces like the
dresses that they wore;
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
Must Have a Ceremony.

relinquished most tearfully many
Of her ideas of what goes to make up
wedding.
Come now, my DEAR" said the
benedict-to-be, don't take it that way.
We're going to be just as happy after
our quiet little wedding as we would
be if we had the most ostentatious at
fair in the world. Really, for sem
sible people there's no need of cere-a
The girl bridled up instantly. Nov.
mony."
see here, Tom! I've given up the idea
of big church wedding; I've given
up the idea of bridesmaids, and I've!
given up the idea of lots of other
things that girl going to be married
sets her heart upon-but, understand
me, Tom, shall certainly insist upon
"a ceremony" "A
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

such as one would see on such an &C.
casion at home. Everybody was show
erred with confetti but they laughed
gayly and shook the little disks from
their hair and clothes and returned the
compliment by volley from their
own store.
And the parade! There were dozens
of vehicles, from a drag to perambu-
lator, each buried in flowers and driv-
en- by beautiful woman, gowned in
colors to correspond with the flowers.
There was one English dog-cart,
which, had we been Judge, would have
won the first prize. 1t was solid
mass of azaleas, the horse wore
wide collar or azaleas. and the beau
tiful French girl, who was driving,
was gowned in soft red crepe, with a
hat of red chiffon.
The digue presents beautiful pic
ture when it is lighted in the evening.
its three miles of electric lights gleam'
ing in a semi-circle like diamond
chain, with the great group Of lights
at the kursaal hanging like pendant
in the middle. Ostend, by evening,
with its lights and music, and cafes
filled with women in gorgeous evening
gowns and men in spotless evening
clothes, is quite the "maddest, mer-
riest" city in Europe.
10 not think, however, that the
fine hotels, the sea-bathing, the con-
certs and the other summer amuse-
ments form the whole of Ostend. They
are but small part of the town.
Go into the back streets behind the
digue and you will see quaint little
milk-carts drawn by dogs and filled
with huge brass cans and with an old
woman in wooden shoes, and curious
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
The Old Patchwork Quilt.

And their faces look familiar, but those
have brighter glow
That have come from that good country
where the heavenly flowers grow.
There is grandma in a Bingham that I
loved to see her wear
AS she sat serenely knitting in her big
old-fashioned chair;
Aunt Maria comes a-singing, and her
dress of cherry red t
Is no brighter than the sunshine that her
hopeful spirit shed.
Now / see some little children dancing up
and down the quilt
This was one of Lucv's dresses, the High
land plaid was Bertie's kilt;
And those tiny dots and figures were my
little Annie's frocks-
Oh, the blessed thoughts and feelings
sewed together with these blocks!
There are other things we treasure that
can speak of days gone by;
other things that set us thinking, make
us laugh, and make us cry; :
But of all the dear reminders ever shaped
or ever built.
There's nothing beats the story of good
old patchwork quilt
Sara A. Davis in Boston Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
SUMNER PARADISE
coeeEsPoN oENoE

which occurred this year on the 18th
of August. The writer was so fortu.
nate as to be in Ostend on that day.
The parade took place on the digue,
which was thronged with crowds of
gayly-dressed people, laughing and
chatting as they pelted one another
with bright-colored confetti. There
were several bands playing at inter
walls along the digue. Old women car
rying baskets filled with bags Of con-
fetti mingled with the crowd. calling
Confetti. mesdames; confetti, mes
sieurs!" There was no rowdyism
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

a distance-a wellaimed bootjack
often miscarries.
A dog cannot climb tree.
Hunger may sharpen the wits, but
If you sharpen well your claws your
wits will need little sharpening.
Life is not all a bed of catnip.
Where there Is cream there must be
milk.
A mouse fears cat by the length
of his whiskers.
A loud purr Is valuable asset.
Don't jump from high places simply
because you can land on your feet
you may not.
Envy not the sedate Tabby nor the
dignified Thomas, for the race Is not
to the sleek nor the battle to the fat;
boots and bootjacks happen to all.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
Every dog has his day, and it is bet

Every dog has his day, and 1t is bet
ter you be not In 1t.
Think of your first life as your
ninth, and your days will be longer.
Remember you are not the only cat
that can see in the dark.
Take not overmuch pride in your
voice on the fence-top, as mans ap-
plause is often overwhelming.
You may play with a mouse. but
you must kill a rat.
Claws should be felt and not seen.
Judge not q dog by his bark-a
brave bark is most often sham.
A woman married is friend lost.
Rest well on Thursday, for Friday
Is fish day.
Best admire your lovers voice from
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

and demands his ten centimes and woe
betide the man who refuses to give
this, as the cocher has his revenge by
refusing to take him back to the
beach.
The bathing suits which are fur
nished would cause panic at one Of
our beaches, for they are the same for
both sexes, and consist of but one
piece of red and white striped flannel,
made with loose knee trousers.
The great event Of the summer at
Ostend Is the "bataille de Fleurs,"