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AN OBSTINATE MAJOR.
He Had His Way Even After He Was
In His Coffin.

In His Coffin.
Many amusing stories are told of
the great formality blended with a hu-
morous brusqueness and independence
which characterized early Revolution
airy days. An incident Of camp life is
related by the author of Romance II
Realism of the Southern Gulf Coast
In 179S the first United States troops
that came down the Mississippi were
quartered at Fort Adams. General
Wilkinson, Colonel H~amtramck, Major
Butler, Captain Green and other OH
GERS were merry over their punch II
night, and the general, by some acct
dent, got his cue burned off. Angry
at the laugh which followed his mis-
hap, he next day issued an order for
bidding any officer to appear with a
cue. Obedient to orders, all h Off
GERS but Major Butler cut off their
cues.
1.-THE vain old prig!" said the major.
"Fll see hin hanged before | cut off
my cue to crafty him. And he boldly
appeared without changing the style Of
his h~airdressing.
The major was put under arrest, but
he declared obstinately that he would
spend the rest of his life in prison be
fore he would comply with such a silly
command. Soon afterward he was a k
en- very i'll, and, realizing that he was
at the point of death, he gave instruc-
lions for his burial. which he knew
would be witnessed by the whole COM
mand.
"Bore a hole" said he, Through the
bottom of my coffin. right under my
head, and let my cue come through it,
that the old general may see that even
when dead l refuse to obey his Or
der"
And these direction were literally
carried out.
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board of inland revenue, and in 1897
Lord Salisbury sent him to South AT
rica as governor of Cape Colony. Later
he was made lord high commissioner,
which office made him paramount au-
thority over all the British holdings in
South Africa. Two years ago he was
raised to the peerage, with the title of
Lord Miner of Cape Town.
A story is told that illustrates Lord
Miners capacity for work. A young
officer ON his staff who had been hoping
for a vacation had to postpone his APP
plication in order to accompany his
chief on a tour through the Transvaal.
On the return to Pretoria after a fort
night of what seemed to the officer the
hardest labor he had ever performed
he asked for a holiday. Lord Miner
looked at him and said: Vacation!
What has the last fortnight been but
vacation"
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When the candle has burned low, so
as to leave Il tolerably large wick, blow
it out. A dense smoke will arise. If
another candle be applied to the far
thest end of the smoke a very strange
thing will happen. The flame of the
lighted candle will be carried TO the
one just blown out, looking sometimes
like a flash of lightning proceeding at
a slow rate. The experiment may be
performed by blowing out the candle
as often us it is lighted.
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The Best Liniment.

"Chamberlaln's Pain Balm is con
sidered the best liniment on the mar
ket,o write Post q Bliss, of Georgia, Vt.
No other liniment will heal a cut OF
bruise so promptly. No other affords
such quick relief from rheumatic pains.
No other is so valuable for deep seated
pains like lame back and pains in the
chest. Give this liniment a trial and
you will e wish to be without it.
Sold by Cohen Bros, Wildwood; G..
w. Dougherty, Anglesea; M. l.. Bran
in, Holly Beach.
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The Lady and Her Nose.

There is a washerwoman in Paris
who is in great trouble. Two years ago
she had a fight with her husband, in
the course of which so much skin was
taken from her nose that some new
had to be grated on. Recently she
made the horrifying discovery that a
fine coat of hair was growing in her
new nose and then learned that the
doctors at the hospital who had treat
ed her had used skin from a human
scalp for grating purposes. The poor
washerwoman then went to the courts
to ask for a divorce, urging cruelty as
cause, because it was her husbands
brutality which took the original skin
off her nose which resulted in the
grating, the hair and the ridicule Of
her neighbors.
, 1903-11-04
SON OF "LiTTLE MAC"
George ID. Mcclellan. Candidate For
Mayor of New York.

Colonel George B. Mcclellan, Demo-
cratic candidate for the mayoralty of
New York city. is the only son of the
late General George b. Mcclellan, the
Little Mac of civil war fame and
candidate for president of the United
States against Abraham Lincoln in
1861.
Mr.. Mcclellan was born in Dresden,
SaXony, in 1865 while his parents were
on a visit abroad. His education was
begun on the continent under private
tutors. He was graduated from Prince
ton in 1856 and later from Columbia
college law school and was admitted to
the bar in 1892. He preferred a jour
n%alistic career to the law, however.
and for several years was a member
of the reportorial staff of the New
York Herald. In 1890 he was appoint
ed auditor and treasurer of the New
York and Brooklyn bridge, continuing
In that position until elected president
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LORD MINER OF CAPE TOWN
A British Statesman Who Just Now
liz In the Public Eye.

~ III IL hDlAG
Lord Alfred Miner, British high
commissioner of South Africa, who has
been much in the public eye of late be-
cause of the recent changes in the Bal
four cabinet, is n grandson of a British
general. His father vas Il professor in
the University of Tubingen, and young
Miner was not only born in Germany,
but received his early training in a
German school.
After leaving college young Miner
drifted into journalism and was at one
time connected with the Pail Mall Ga
zette. He got his start in the govern
ment service in 1887, when he became
private secretary to Lord Goschen, then
chancellor of the eXchequer. Two years
later he went to Egypt as undersecre-
tafy and made Il reputation.
Returning to England in 1892, he
was for four years chairman of the
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Audiences.

II desire an audience with the a
ager." remarked the dignifed, smooth
faced person as he approached the box
office of the theater
'Step in" replied the man in the box
office. u think he's looking for a few
audiences himself"
, 1903-11-04

If you ask upon what basis we claim
there will be a great rise in property,
we answer that conditions here are
bringing to Wildwood a rapidly in
creasing population and with it a cor
responding demand for property
which naturally means higher prices.
Baker Bros. Il
, 1903-11-04

Wildwood has churches, places of
amusement and al atmosphere of order
and comfort that is pleasing to the
thousands of visitors to this rapidly
growing resort. Baker Bros.
, 1903-11-04

A tax on marriage is still imposed by
the proprietor of Il leading Bombay
hotel. In Il revised tariff of prices the
daily charge for Il single lady or gen
tleman is set down as 5 rupees, but
if the lady or gentleman be married
the charge will be I rupees each.
No explanation of this singular regula-
ton is given.
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of the board of aldermen of New York
in 1898, to which office he was re-elect-
ed the following year.
Mr.. Mcclellan was chosen a member
of the Fifty-fourth congress from the
Twelfth New York district and has
served continuously ever since, being
a member of the present congress. He
has been on several of the important
committees. among them the ways and
means and the military affairs.
Congressman Mcclellan has been an
active member of Tammany Hall since
1887 and was Il delegate to the Demo-
cratic national conventions of 1896 and
1900. He is of short, stout, rather
square build, with smooth shaver face
and gray eyes. He is a member of sew
eral clubs, is popular among his
friends and got his military title for
service on the staff of Governor David
B. Hill in 1889.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
The Power of a Trust.

From the Nebraska Independent.
If a military dictator should issue an order
that some city should collect and pay over to
him $17 900, there would be heard the tramp
of armed men and the clash of sabres on the
streets inside of twenty-tour hours; but when
trust issues such an order, the unthinking peo-
pie pay the money over without protest, and
then 90 to the polls and "vote 'er straight for
the trusts to continue in power That is wha:
the Standard Oil trust did to the city of St.
Paul, Mimi, and the citizens paid the money
and continue to "vote 'er straight"
Suit for personal damages was brought against
the Standard Oil Company in St. Paul by a
man who claimed the improper sale of kero-
sene. The case was clearly against the COM
pany, and compromise was effected on the basis
of $Io, ,oco damages. The next day, the price
of gasoline went up from fifteen to eighteen
cents gallon in that particular district, and
remained up for nine days. During that time,
the company got $I7 ,oot extra, or just enough
to pay the damages and attorney fees. Then
the price dropped down to 6ften cents again.
Of course, this $17 900 was taken from the
pockets of the poor families that nse gasoline
stoves and the hard-working mechanics using
gasoline engines. The rich use very little gas
oline except in running their automobiles, and
there are very few OF them in that city.
The Independent publishes this item to show
the unlimited power to tax that is exercised by
trust. 1t is taxation without representation
in a worse form than King George attempted
to impose upon this country, and against which
our forefathers rebelled. Their degenerate sons
don't rebel. They just pay the tax and say
nothing. Worse than that, they just 60 to the
polls every year and vote for the trusts to tax
them some more. The Independent will give
five-dollar bill to any man who will furnish
better name for man who does that sort of
thing than ''mullet-hea ad.''
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
Pension Expenditures.

Pension Commissioner Wares annual report
makes an interesting exhibit of expenditures
by the government on account of pensions
The following amounts have been paid to SOL
diers, their widows, minor children and de-
pendent relatives on account of military and
naval service during the wars in which the
United States has been engaged:
Revolutionary war (estimated), seventy mil
lion dollars.
War of 1912, forty-6ve million dollars.
Indian wars, 1S32-IS42, $5,Soo,ooo.
War with Mexico, $31 100000.
War Of the Rebellion, $2,744, 900.
War with Spain, $3,275,ooo.
Some experts on the pension question con-
tend that these figures show that unless tie
brakes are speedily applied, the government S
pension expenditures on account of the war
with Spain ultimately will be proportionately
far m excess of the civil war pensions.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
The Threat OF the PopuIists.
Associated Press Dispatch.

Associated Press Dispatch
WAsHINToN, May 22.-If the Democrats
nominate presidential candidate of the Cleve
land type, Marion Butler, chairman of the Pop
ulist executive committee, declares that his
party will put candidate in the field who will
poll more votes than were ever cast before for a
Populist candidate. Mr.. Butler agrees with
Edwin Taylor, the Kansas Populist, only in
part. There may be individual cases, he says,
where Populists, or members of the Peoples
party, will support Mr.. Roosevelt for the pres
idency, but members of the party generally
will not follow the lead of the candidates Of
either the Republican or Democratic party.
Since the interview with ex-senator Taylor
appeared, announcing his intention of support
ing Roosevelt, the influences in the East, which
are opposed to his election, have briskly circu-
lated it. Taylor has been exploited as Popu-
list of the cantankerous type. Mr.. Butler
attributes this activity to the Clevelandites, and
declares it is for the purpose of injurng the
President in New York and New England,
where there is prejudice against the word
"Popullst."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

IA MUNICIPAL lighting plant is successful at
Chanute," grudgingly comedies the Tribune,
which knows brick wall when it butts its
head against it. But why "ligEting plant'?
The plant furnishes natural gas to the citizens
there for heat as we'll as light, and is proving
profitable beyond the most sanguine anticipa-
tions of its advocates. 1t has paid for itself in
brief period, and is putting thousands of dol
lars in the city treasury, which is being used to
improve the appearance of the town and for
making investments in other public utilities.
Chanute is out OF debt, with an assured income
sufficient to pay all the expenses of running
the city--and then some. 1t pays to do your
own business better than to hire some one to
do it for you. Every one knows that is true of
his private business, and there is a cloud of
witnesses in the shape of facts in the expert
ence of cities all over the country to prove that
the same thing is true in public affairs. s.-Kar-
sas Populist, Independence.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Wouldn't Muzzle the Press.

Judge Madden, of Emporia, does not believe
in muzzing the press. Judge Thomson, coun-
sci for the plaintiff in suit, asked the court
for an order restraining the newspapers from
reporting the evidence and the allegations in
the case before the case went to the jury. Judge
Madden refused to grant the order. He said
"No; I will not give an order muzzling the
press" He made a strong speech in which
ne upheld the press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

@>AN old friend who is pretty clear thinker
was commenting, the other day, on the way
things were done at the worlds fair dedication
at ST. Louis few weeks ago. He says that
the feast had been all prepared for the dignita-
ries, and the crowd got hungry and went in
and took what there was, without waiting for
the governors and guests of honor. My friend
says that is typical of what is going to happen
in the nation. Just when the great captains of
industry and trust magnates get everything
fixed to live at ease at the expense of the plain,
common people, the mob will break in and
sweep the platter clean. The American people
can't be cheated out of their birthright, and
they are liable, any day, to upset all the shrewd
schemes of the feecers.-Kansas Populist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

In connection with the recent merger decis-
ion, it might be recalled that the Standard Oil
Company, as first organized, was declared an
illegal combination; but it is still doing bust
ness. The Republican party and the courts
were never so subservient to it as now, and its
power is absolute in its chosen field. Let the
good work 60 on. The faster the railroads
combine, and the more they rob the people, the
sooner the government will get them. Indus
trial Free Press, Winfield.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
Socialist Items from the Coming Nation. ,

Socialist Items from the Coming Nation.
Socialism will build stone wall between
greed and the little children.
Capitalism could not exist if the workers did
not produce more than they consume.
Yes; you could afford to make little trip, if
we were living under the cooperative common
wealth.
Under the cooperative commonwealth, every
man and woman could afford to make tip
around the world.
The independence of the human family is
plain to any one not blinded by prejudice and
superstition.
Is man traitor to his own country because
he votes for his own interests? You'd think
SO to hear Mr.. Parry talk
Strikes being an evidence of prosperity, it
follows that the United States is enjoying the
most prosperous period since the great strike of
1860.
I think it Lincoln were alive to-day, he
would change his mind aIout "fooling all the
people all of the time" He didn't know any
thing about hypnotism.
IT is false statement that there is not
enough work fot all. There is too much. 1t
is quite true that there are not enough jobs for
all, but there is plenty of work. There are
thousands of miles of roads that need atten-
ito. There are millions of old shanties and
novels waiting to be torn down, and houses
erected in their stead fit for human beings to
live In. There are public parks to lay out,
canals to dig and Fairgrounds to be made.
There are innumerable things that the people
need and will have under a system that will
not prevent men from working when there is
work to do,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

]. B. MORAN, Boston lawyer, announces
that he has in his possession written confess
sion of wholesale bribery scheme, mapped
out by Massachusetts, men, which involves
seven prominent Legislators, who are in the
combine. The confession was made by Bos.
ton merchant, member of the legislature in
1901, who disappeared after placing the con-
at once lay his evidence before the grand jury.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

For ten years, made as desperate fight
against organized organized labor as was ever
made by mortal man. 1t cost me considerable
more than million dollars to learn that there
is no labor so skilled, so intelligent, SO faithful
as that which is governed by an organization
whose officials are well-balanced, level-headed
men. 1 now employ none but organized labor,
and never have the least trouble, each believ-
ing that the one has no right to Cypress the
other.-Potter Palmer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

THE laboring people eau get what they want if
they try-if they will vote for it. At Kewauee,
Ill.,, the laboring people put up ticket this
sprinp. and elected it over the Republican and
democratic tickets. The town has heretofore
gone Republican, four to one.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

A coLoRED hostler at Newark, N. j.. died of
gander the other day. This is the second case
on record there in which this disease, peculiar
to horses, has attacked human being.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

THE Lawrence World says Joe Brstow is
going to be candidate foi Burton's seat in the
United States senate.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

KANSAS bankers are holding their annual
meeting at Topeka this week.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29
GARNRTT, KANSAS, MAY 29, 1908
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- THE OLD MAN AND JIM -
BY JAMES WHITCoM RILEY

Old man never had much to say,
'Ceptin to Jim
And Jim was the widest boy he had
And theOldMan jes' wrapped up in him!
Never heerd him speak but once
Er twice in my lfe-and first time was
When the war broke out and Jim he went
TheOldMan backin him fer thee months
And ali that heerd the Old Man say
Was, jes' as we turned to start away
well, good-by, Jim;
Take keer Of Yourself"
Feared like he was more satisfied
Jes' lookin at Jim,
And ikin' him all to hisself- like; seer
Cause he was jes' wrapped up in him!
And over and over mind the day
TheOldMan come and stood round in the
way
While we was drillin', a-watchin jim
And down at the deepot a-heerin' him say
We'll good-by, Jim;
Take keer of yourself"
Never was nothin about the farm
Distinguished Jim.
Neighbors all ust to wonder why
TheOldMan peared wrapped up in him!
But when Cap. Biggler, he writ back
AT Jim was the bravest boy we had
Inthe whole dernregment white er black
And his fightin good as his farmin bad
At he had led, with bullet clean
Bored through his thigh, and carried the
flag
Through the bloodiest battle you ever
seen,
The old man wound up letter to him
Al Cap read to US, at said,-"Tell Jim
Goodbye;
And take keer Of hissef.
Jim come back jes' long enough
To take the whim
AT he d like to 60 back to calvery-
And Oldham jes 'wrappedup in him!--
Jim lowed at he d had sch luck afore,
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

Guessed he'd tackle her three years -
more; ~
And the Old Man gave him colt he'd -
raised -
And followed him over to Camp Ben -
Wade; -
And laid around for week or so. ~
Watchn Jim on dress PARADE -
Till finally he rid away; -
And last he heard was the Old Man say. -
We'll, goodbye, Jim; -
Take keer Of yourself ~
Tux the papers, the Old Man did, -
A-watchin' for Jim -
Fully believin' he'd make his mark -
Some way-jes' wrapped up in him! -
And many time the word ud come ~
AT stirred him uplike thetap Of drum. -
At Pittsburg, for instance, where ~
Jim rid right into their cannons there, -
And TUX EN-, and pinted EN- tother -
way ~
And socked it home tothe boys ing gray -
AS they skooted fer timber and on and -
on -
Jim lieutenant and one arm gone. ~
And the Old Mans word in his mind -
all day, -
We'll goodbye, Jim; ~
Take keer Of yourself ~
Think Of private now, perhaps, -
Well say like Jim, ~
Ats clurnb clean up to the shoulder ~
straps. -. -7.e-v ~
And theOldMan strapped up in him! ~
Think Of him with the war plum through -
And the glorous old Rec: :White-and -
Blue -
A-laughin the news down over Jim ~
And the Old Man. bendin' over him -
The surgeon turnin' away with tears ~
AT hadn't leaked fer years and years ~
AS the hand Of the dying boy clung to -
His fathers the old voice in his ears! ~
We'll good-by, Jim; ~
Take keer Of yourself ~
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

NORTH Topeka is boring for oil.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-29

VIZ DO JOB PR1NTING-the best, too.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-24
IS R % u

All the stock and implements contained
thereon and consisting in part of
81 Thoroughbred Jersey Cows and Heifers,
s Thoroughbred Guernsey Cows and Heifers,
8 Thoroughbred Durham and Ayershire
Cows, Thoroughbred Jersey Bulls, Thor
oughbred Guernsey Bull, Extra High Grade
Cows.
Special attention is called to this Herd of
Cattle, which was selected and raised under
the personal supervision of Mr.. Councilman.
Two Horses, Young Heavy Work Mules,
Six. Horse Farm Wagons and Hay Carriages,
3 Single and Double Spring Wagons, Dayton,
Pony Carts, Sleighs, u Sets Wagon, Lead and
Plow Harness. IS Chain and Leather Halters,
Travelling Feed Box and Trough, Deering
Binder, Bickford Grain Drill Hay Tedder,
Mccormick Horse Rake. Buckeye Mower, ,
Farm Carts, Oliver and Syracuse Pows, Gull
tivators, IIarrows, Rollers, Wheat Fan, Corn
Crusher, Ohio 1Sinch Cutting Box, Wheel
barrows, 4 Lawn Mowers, Shovels, Forks,
Carriage and Wagon Poles, etc. One No. 2
Alpha DeLaval Separator, Star Erator, 80
Milk Cans 3 to 20 gallons each, Ice Boxes,
Furnace and Boiler. Troughs, Clothes Wrin-
ger, Churn, Milk Tester, Bottles and Crates,
Platform and Hanging Scales, Cider Press
and Grinder, Large Lot Lumber for Con-
smith and Carpenter Shop Tools, etc., etc.
Fifteen Tons Hay, II Tons Straw, $50 Bar
rels Corn, % Acres Fodder, Lot Turkeys,
Chickens, Fertilizer. ETC.. etc.
Terms CASH Sale Absolute
SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY
OF BALTIMORE, Receiver.
o. A. kirkland, Auctioneer.
lO4 and 1O5 Law Building, Baltimore, Md
oct l72t
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-24

WE PUT ON OUR OWN RUBBER IIKES.
BarSpecial attention given to Repalring.
warranted.
Refractory opposite Montour House, No:
56 w. Main street, Westminster. Md. feb7
Maryland Telephone.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-24
RATIFICATION NOTICE.

In the Orphans Court of Carroll County.
OCTOBER Term, 1908.
Estate of Gershom Huff, deceased.
Onappication, it is ordered, this 18th day of
October, 1908, that the sale of the Real Estate
of Gershom Huff, late of Carroll county, de-
ceased, made by Edward F. Huff, Executor of
the last will and testamentof said deceased, and
this day reported to this Court by the said Ex
ecutor, be ratified and confirmed, unless cause
be shown to the contrary on or before the Sd
Monday 18th day of November, next; provided
copy of this order be inserted for three sue;
cessive weeks in some newspaper printed and
published in Carroll county, before the I'd
Monday, 9th day, of November, next.
The report states the amount of sale to be
thirty one hundred dollars, ($3l00.O0.)
WILLIAM Y. FRIZZELL, !
JACOB RINEHART, Judges.
l.. CALVIN JORDAN,
True copy,-Test:
JOSEPH D. BRooEs,
oct Il st Register of Wills.