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Come in and look at our new line of
moulding, mat board, frame ornaments,
&c. We are showing the very latest
patterns in moulding. Cargille's Art
Gallery.
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The Hart and Houston Store
Noteworthy Reductions.

We close the following lines because simpEes the buy
ing for spring With stocks we'll cleared the buyer has no
worries about what he has at home and customers have
no fears Of having last seasons goods to select from when the
new goods come in.
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Buy Gold Dust -four.

ROGERS STAINFLoOR FINISH
Stains and Finishes floors 81 one operation
No Shellaci No oil No Waxi
EaaIy Applied. Dries hard over night
Initiates tiardwoods Perfectly I |
ASK as Zoe samples of wood finished with
Rogers StalnflO0r Finish.
Summers, Barton 9 PARROT.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-02-05

The only original Keller Bro. 8 piano
is sold by Resenblatt Piano Company,
Greeneville, Tenn.
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Gold Dust -four will please tie
oest of you.
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LADIES' SUITS, SKIRTS, Etc

LADIES' Suit, was $1l.0O now $500
Skirts, were $500 and $500 now $475
S were $3.50 and $3.50 now $575
were $500 and $1,000 now $6.75
Wool Waist Patterns were $500 now $1.98
Velvet were $500 now $500
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
The Old.Fashioned Fire.

To steam heat the cities aspire
AS they SILVER and shake in the cold;
But give me the oldfashioned fire
The round, rosy backlog of old!
The warmth and the light
OF It's flame. leaping bright
The drowsy-heads huddled around 1t al
night!
In the darkness the winter wind signing
Made the flame take ruddier glow:
The sparks up the broad chimney flying
Like witch-eyea that cleaned in the
snow!
Oh, the warmth and the light
OF those red flames so bright,
And the comfort and joy Of the wild
winter night!
Far better that friendly old fire
Than building of simmering steam,
With never a flame to admire.
And never a beautiful dream!
oh, the love and the light
Where those flames danced so bright,
And the old-fashioned JOY Of the old
fashioned night.
Frank L. Stanton in the Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20

of the senate. The profound secrets
of the SeRate's executive sessions
leak out as promptly and regularly
as those Of gossiping village tea
table. Senators are, of course, on
their honor not to "divulge," but
they really blab everything like so
many school girls. Moreover, there
is a continual controversy over what
is executive business of the senate
and what is not. When they them
selves thus treat the secrecy Of the
Senate as an absurd survival, why
should the public preserve any re-
spect for it? The truth is that it is
necessarily outgrown with the growth
Of the Senate. The form may be
maintained, but the substance is
gone. You might as well expect a
town meeting to be really secret as
the Senate.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
RECOGNIZED Him.

A professor in the Harvard Law
school has memory which plays him
false on all matters except points OF
law. He cannot remember his men.
When the school opened last fail a
student who prides himself on his rep.
utation with the instructors and
makes himself felt by wise questions
in the class room, approached the
professor and held out his hand.
The professor hesitated for a mo.
ment over the mans name and finally
got it out in triumph.
The student was highly elated and
few minutes after said with proud
satisfaction to the professors secre.
tary:
1.-THE old boy seems to be getting
his memory back. He hesitated only
minute before he called me by
name. Pretty good after a three
months vacation, isn't it,"
why" replied the secretary, 'it's
funny he hesitated when l had just
told him your name. He saw you
coming across the hall and asked me
who you were."-Youth's Companion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
FOR THE NEW BUREAU
LIBERAL EXPENDITURE OF THE
PEOPLES MONEY.
Secretary Cortelyou Has Liberal Ideas
Of the Necessities of His Depart
ment-Many Places Made for the
Faithful.

The main purpose for which the
new department of commerce at
Washington was created appears in
Secretary Cortelyou's first official de-
liverance. 1t was to provide places
and salaries and expense accounts for
several hundred more people.
In addition to the expenditures
already authorized for the bureaus
heretofore attached to other depart
ments and now transferred to that
of commerce Mr.. Cortelyou asks an
annual appropriation of $669.69O for
the new clerks, solicitors and exam
liners whom he finds it necessary to
appoint. AS showing how one thing
calls for another 1t may be said that
he wants twenty men in his own
office, seventy-one men in his chief
clerks office, twenty men in the zap
pointment" office-the place where
the other taxeaters are looked after
seven men in the library which he
intends to establish and nine men to
care for the stationery which he and
his assistants will use.
This is not all, either. The govern
ment having created a new depart
ment with an immense amount of
official machinery, it is necessary, of
course, that it should prepare to
house the institution In a manner
corresponding with it's dignity and
Importance. On this point Mr.. Cortel-
you has ideas of his own. He thinks
the department Of commerce building
should not be inferior in convenience
or beauty to the structures which
commercial and financial houses at
the great centers of American trade
are erecting for the transaction Of
their business, and he therefore rec
ommends the appropriation of $1,000
900 for the building, exclusive of the
site.
For the other running expenses Of
the new department Mr.. Cortelyou
asks s150,0OO for contingent Items
this is to be mere pocket money
$4,000 for travelling and 100000 for
printing. No doubt as other needs of
the strenuous and simple life occur
to the new secretary he will make his
desires known with equal moderation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20

In so far as Mr.. Lodge represents
the administration. it coolly refuses
that the people may gain full &C.
quaintance with the proceedings of
the United States in the Philippine
Islands and of the conditions there
existing. Autocratic monarchy could
net go further than this in dealing
with most reasonable popular re.
quest. There must be reasons for
this refusal, but there cannot be any
which rest upon the broad principles
Of Republican government account
able to the people and ready to give
them full knowledge of all its pro-
ceedings. Nothing could be more I'M
American than a strenuosity of evas-
ion and conspiracy of suppression,
and even the outward look of these
things should be avoided.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
An Evidence of Prosperity

There was very important piece
of news in the papers the other morn
ing. 1t came from Washington and
related the fact that the war depart
ment has notified the governors of all
the states in the union that it is pre-
pared to supply them upon demand
with stock of riot cartridges"
Prosperity being almost sickeningly
abundance and the trusts proclaiming
that the compact organization of in
dustry is a guarantee that 1t will re-
main for many years, is it not little
strange that the government, at this of
all times, should have deemed it wise
to shatter the presidents of more than
a century and distribute to the gov
ernors of all the states a special riot"
cartridge?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20

Cant go down with you, Uncle
Nate? It's only seven miles. and I'll
sit very still in the cab"
The stout engineer scratched his
head doubtfully. EYES," he said at
last, giving way before the appeal OF
blue eyes. "Nineforty, sharp, Bes'
sic. Rod Plat won't be botherin' you
in Welton. Better stay as long as
Cousin Sally will keep you" He
gave an irritable shrug and looked
at his watch. "It's 8 o'clock now.
must be going"
"I'll be there" cried the girl.
'Thank you, uncle. l don't thank
you, though, for being so mean to
Rodney. He fired for you two years
and you thought there was no one
like him. Then, just because he
accidentally hit you with a lump of
coal"
Accident! HUH" snorted Nathan
Bellows. "He done it purpose"
He didn't. He was trying to hit
q bird by the track"
/, "Well, he hit the wrong bird, then.
Niles made his last run with me.
And with you, too. l told him If l
caught him around here again I'd
brain him."
"You did! You mean old"
But the door was slammed and
Bessie Paxson was left to finish her
sentence to empty walls.
81 might as we'll go down to Wei.
ton tonight and ask Tom Sears to
give me a job haying," thought Rod
Plat, recently and unceremoniously
bounced from the company's employ
at the wrathful request of Nathan.
1.-THE old man will never forgive me
and Bess; well, it's hard luck"
The clean built young fireman
ground his big, white, irregular teeth.
"Fangs," the boys on the road dub
bed him, but he didn't mind. I'll
take one more trip with Nate" he
grunted. Passenger, too. Reserved
seat and free ticket"
When No. 1877 puifed her fast gath
ering way by the coal sheds beyond
the round house, a quick form slip
ped out from the gloom and bounced
on the pilot like diminutive spider
on huge insect.
"If Nate knew this" chuckled
Plat, fastening comfortably, he'd
blow up. That dub of Rickett is
firing for him, heard. Shucks! He
cant feed house boiler. Spinning
now, amt WEI"
The night express whirled on in
the blackness-on past the icehouses
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20


airy disorders. diabetes, dropsy. rheu'
matism, Bright's disease.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney
and bladder ills. Read the following
case:
Veteran Joshua Heller of 706 South
Walnut street. Urbana, ILL.,, says: I'm
the fall of 1899 after getting Doan's
Kidney Pills at Cunningham Bros
drug store in Champaign and taking a
course Of treatment l told the readers
of the paper that they had relieved
me of kidney trouble, disposed of q
lame back with pain across my loins
and beneath the shoulder blades. Dur
ing the interval which had elapsed I
have had occasion to report to Doan's
Kidney Pills when noticed warnings
of attack. On each and every occa-
sion the results obtained were just as
satisfactory as when the pills were
nrst brought to my notice. I just as
emphatically endorse the preparation
to-day as did over two years ago."
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid.
ney medicine which cured Mr.. Heller
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Medical
advice free; strictly confidential. Ad-
dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y. For sale by all druggists. Price
80 cents per box.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
ProcIamations contradicted.

Time and again we have received
the very highest assurance that the
Philippines-especially Luzon-are at
peace and we have been asked to con-
template the beneflcent regime Of the
commission, with its complicated
machinery Of justice, its enlightened
and far-reaching system Of education.
and its softening and uplifting infiu-
ence upon the benighted natives.
But we have never seen one Of these
halcyon proclamations that was not
effectually contradicted within a
week, nor do we believe there has
been a time during the past four
years when white mans life Was
safe a few miles beyond the walls Of
Manila.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20

eyes held his head In her tenter lap.
She bent down and Kissed him.
where's Uncle Mater" murmured
Rod, trying to rise and gazing at the
circle of sympathetic faces.
"Here!" growled a husky voice,
which quavered and broke, as the big
engineer fell upon his knees and seiz-
ed Platt's hand. Here, boy, and
they're fetchin' poor Rickett round.
too. I'm aim a"
mo, you're not" whispered his
former fireman, with weak smile.
Just tell me one thing, old man.
Have I got back""
'oure!" cried Nathan Bellows, EN-.
pnatically. 81 guess Wen have to
take him back, Bess, Ell.
1--WE never let him CO." said the
girl quietly, and kissed him again.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
Tariff Reform Sentiment Growing.

Even in his Democratic views on
the tariff Mr.. ingalls, would be able to
command large support from the
Republicans of the west, who are dis
gusted with the refusal Of the Repub'
lican leaders to revise the sacred
schedules of the tariff. There Is not
a particle of doubt as to how western
Republicans feel on this, and it is
strange the Republican leaders are
apparently unable to realize the
strength of this sentiment, so strong
that it almost led to open disunion un.
til the western Republican congress
men retreated from the position that
tie; had taken earlier.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
Plundered to the Limit.

The United States is suffering from
great coal hold-up, with the parties
responsible for it not yet identified.
Coal barons and railroads standing
in with them have produced an intol-
cradle situation. The big strike OF
last year was largely manipulated.
Fortunately the winter is nearly over
and there will be time to study means
of relief. The people are especially
disguised with coal trusts and cor
ners. They have been plundered and
oppressed beyond the line of endur-
ance and demand to be protected by
effective government and legislative
Louis Globe-D Democrat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
Good Radiance to Congress.

This nation has not had many con-
crosses whose opportunities were
fairer than those of these body ex-
piring in confusion to do things both
useful and honorable. It has lacked
any which failed more miserably. 1t
has been in conflict with the presi-
dent; it has been a betrayer of the
public. For nobody has it done so
much as for interests and influences
which are dangerous to the general
welfare and destructive of republican
institutions. For the dying Congress
there are no mourners among the
people of the United States. Good
radiance when it is gone! May We
have better deeds from and sweeter
memory Of its successor!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
EARRINGS WORN FOR AGES.
These Ornaments Are the Survival Of
Very Ancient Custom.

These Ornaments Are the Survival Of
a Very Ancient Custom.
Although few women in recent
years have been wearing earrings, the
fashion still survives, and at func-
lions of select society pendants Of
brilliants are still frequently seen. or
all the ornaments used by human be-
ings earrings are probably the oldest
so far as historical research has been
able to determine. They date from
the remotest antiquity, the earliest
mention of them being in Genesis in
the time of Jacob, about 1892 B. c.
This antiquity has been confirmed by
the finding of costly and elaborate
specimens in the Troad by DR.. Schlie-
mann, in Etruria by Castellani and
in Anglo-Saxon remains in England.
Their use at first was not ornamental,
but superstitious.
Amulets consisting of inscribed
precious stones on pieces Of metal
were worn suspended from the neck
or more frequently from the ears.
Augustine speaks strongly against
earrings worn as amulets in his
time. 1t is a noteworthy fact that the
ears Of the famous statue Venus de
Medici are bored, evidently for ear
rings.
The fashion Of men wearing ear.
rings, which is still common in Italy,
among the fishermen of Cornwall,
England, with Portuguese sailors
and many others, is survival Of the
superstition that they were protec-
ton against evil. Many of the Ital'
ians in New York wear earrings for
this purpose.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20

plainly.
humble. Rod could have touched
him.
Hey! Louder!" called the eng1n.
eer, sharply.
Then Plat heard something else
rush of men, spring, fierce oaths
faint scream, two thuds, then a
long moment of silence.
The chill in his blood pulsed back
into hot wrath, but he lay still behind
the little rock. Now his half blinded
eyes could see more plainly. His
straining ears caught every whisper.
Four men, counting the fellow with
the lantern. What could he-what
should he do?
He knew that Bellows was lying on
the floor of his cab. although he
could not see him. The fireman he
could see, motionless black shape
upon his blacker coal. Something
was huddled against the window OF
the cab upon his side. That he could
not make out at all. He knew that in
the locked express car behind, pale,
determined man was sitting on a
small steel safe, with revolver in
his firm hand. And the three quick
moving shapes-the low, tense
voices
"Uncouple the express car, now
all three of us. Got your dynamite,
Bob? The men are out all right.
Was that a woman up there, Sim?"
Eyes, l tied up her mouth an feet,
Cap. Now, Eddie, soon's we whistle
climb in an start her up. Let her
buzz a mile an stop. Well be on"
The three whisked back like great
cats. The other planted his lantern
on the steps and raised one foot and
hand.
He got no further. The stone that
crashed on his skull may have killed
him as he sank down, sliding under
the truck wheels.
The hand which had held the stone
was on the throttle now. 1t yanked it
viciously to the widest notch. A ire.
mendous, Earring jerk shot through
the link of cars. The great drivers
whizzed, stationary for a second in
their revolution. then grasped the
rails, and No. 127 shot on with a
snorting scream, gasping, straining
demon in the darkness.
Plat heard the wild, despairing
yell behind the express car, and,
laughing uncannily, glanced, back
Yes, he had been in time. The train
was intact.
When he came out of his faint on
the station platform few minutes
later girl with pathetic, fearless
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
MacauIay as a schooIboy.

Zachary Macaulay placed his three
younger sons, John, Henry William
and Charles, as pupils in the school
kept by my grandfather, Richard Ell.
we'll, at Hammersmith, having pre-.
viously, but vainly, urged him to adj
nit thereinto the future great histori.
an and essayist, says a writer in the
London Standard. And my uncle,
Richard Elwell, who died in 1887, in
his ninetieth year, told me that his
fathers reasons for refusing to admit
young Thomas Darlington into his
school we're: First, that the boy was
above ~ years of age at the time Of
application; second, that he was
quite unlike other boys" of pc.
culiarly retiring disposition, delighting
much in solitude, but yet perversely
disinclined to study Of any kind.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
Clearly a Confidence Game.

Representative Cannon, chairman Of
the appropriations committee Of the
present and predestined speaker OF
the next Congress, states with en-
phasis" that neither the Hanna nor
any such bill pensioning ex-slaves will
or can, in his opinion, ever become
law. However, Senator Hanna's in
PRODUCTION "by request" Of such bill
will enable many a dishonest white
rascal to play upon the credulity and
the pockets of that best element of
our Afro-American population-the
faithful, simple and overtrustful rem
nant Of negro freedmen.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
Secretary corteIvou,s ouportunjtv.

The list of bureaus and divisions of
the new department of commerce and
la@r, over which Secretary Cortel-
Grafton of the titles and dignities of
an oriental deposit. Secretary Cortel-
ycG is man of sense and we look
to him to abolish or consolidate about
two-thirds of these bureaus as soon as
he gets the ropes learned, and in the
course of year or two he could
probably wipe out most Of the remain
ing one-third. There is great deal
too much of the circumlocution office
way Of doing business in Washing
ton and too many lite Barnacies in
the service. We have hopes of Cortel-
you.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
Status of the Beef Trust.

The action Of United States Circuit
Judge Grosscup in the beef trust
case at Chicago is not to be taken az
more than a suggestion Of the posi-
bilities in further proceedings. The
utmost point reached by it is a con
cession to the petitioners in the case
that they have a standing in court
Whether they can make good the
averments in their petition is yet to
be shown. The granting of prelim-
mary injunction is the first step
gained in the attack on the beef trust.
1t gives a foothold for more. serious
operations.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
saxauerx Of the Tariff.

The savageries of our present high
tariff law are of considerable variety,
but one that reflects upon our nation
al intelligence less credit than any
other it would be easy to name is the
Is per cent duty on books. The duty
on books is barbarous exaction un-
worthy of an enlightened age and it
is time that public sentiment should
be aroused to the belittling and dam
aging effect of the bigotry which is
responsible for such indefensible leg
islation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
How Rod Plat Got Back.


Shading his eyes he peered ahead
to see swinging lanterns signal of
warning. 81 knew that gravel would
slide down." he muttered. That's
it, l guess. I'll get out Of this berth
and walk the rest Of the way"
AS the engine painted to a halt he
dropped off, hearing the gruff hail Of
Bellows, What in thunder's the
trouble?"
The man with the lantern stepped
forward, speaking in incoherent
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
Had Heard Of It-somewhere.

Senator TON" Platt was lingering
a gilt-edged book that had come to
him in the mail. He seemed SO much
interested in, it that Senator. Quay
asked what he was reading.
"This," explained the New York
'boss," as he turned the pages slowly
sis a reprint of curious volume much
thought of by William Penn and his
followers, but which am told is
scarcely known among their descend
ants"
"And what is 1t called?" asked the
Pennsylvania statesman.
Plat tossed 1t on Quay's desk. II
was the Bible.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
viii They Rest Under the Stigma,

VIII They Rest Under the Stigma?
We have heard much of "the dig
nifty Of the senate" but If its dignity
is not sensitive enough to resent the
charge openly made by the president
that one-tenth of all its members have
been the recipients Of kilograms sent
to them by or on behalf of the great
est monopoly in the country. ordering
not requesting or urging, but order.
ing-them to cast their votes against
bills obnoxious to that monopoly, of
what stuff is 1t made? There was
once a senate Of the United States
on nine Of whose members no such
imputation as this could have rested
for a single day without provoking
their indignant demand for a full in
vestigation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
ALL TIRED OUT.

The W airy,
W or no u t, all
tired fe lin 6 8
come to every
body who taxes
the kidneys.
When the kid
neys are over
worked they fail
to perform the
duties nature has
provided for them
to do.
When the kid
neys fail. danger
GUS disease quick
lY follows: urin.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
Rockefeller as a Trust Buster.

Rockefeller, Of course, did not
mean to do anything, but he caused
rush in the direction of trust legis-
lation such as not even the president
had been able to accomplish. 1t is
funny to regard Rockefeller as q
trust buster, but he really was. In .
sense.