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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

able reason has wreaked vengeance
on dumb animals.
Who is the fiend who has so re-
lentlessly and persistenly poisoned
COWS, cats and fowls?
This is a vital questionSwith the
people of Attleboro, who with blood
in their eyes are on the qui vive Tor
the miscreant.
1t began a few weeks ago, when
one night all was still on the Bon
Accord farm, the home of DR.. George
Mackie, who is an ardent nature
lover, and who usually walks about
his farm until midnight. On the
night in question he went in the house
rather earlier than usual, having first
whistled to his pet peacock perched
.aloft in a massive elm and received
in reply a full throated call from the
bird. Out in the stable was COM
fortably housed his prize oxen and
several valuable cows.
The next morning the doctor was
Mortified to find an OK dead and the
other dying. the result Of paris green
poison. as an examination later
proved.
A few lays later the peacock was
found dend, then came in rapid sue
cession the deaths of two Angora cats,
q pea fowl, and many cows belonging
to neighbor.
Many theories are rife as to what
object any person could have in mind,
il he poss essed a mind, in perpetrat-
ing such deed.
Some allege that the food Of the
animals may have been mixed with
paris green, but this theory was dis
proven when on examination 1t was
found the animals had been given a
large quantity.
Others place the preposterous acts
at the door of some person who had
revenge as q motive.
It did not need many to look upon
the death throes of the innocent vic
tins, that writhed in agony and
looked appealingly and wonderingly
at the irate citizens, before vigilance
committees were formed, and farmers
armed nail and tooth posted them
selves at unexpected places, on bor-
ders of fields and behind fences.
And the direct result of this Juror
of excitement is that Attleboro for the
time being is transformed into scenes
and actions similar to those Of the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Dark Lantern Currency.

Secretary Shaw's currency scheme
bears the Wall Street brand and
should be acceptable to the Republi-
cans in Congress, but it can hardly be
that President Roosevelt has approved
IT, The President dotes on publicity,
but the Shaw scheme provides for Sc
crecy, and Wall Street appears to have
captured both him and the President,
for it is impossible to believe that the
Secretary of the Treasury would pub
lish this scheme without it having
been approved by the President. The
absurdity of the scheme is exposed by
the New York World. which says:
1.-THE chief merit of Secretary
Shaw's plan for an elastic" or rub
ber.neck currency, in the mind Of it's
author, seems to be the secrecy with
which it's proposed note-issue could
be manipulated. The only persons,
he remarks with pride, who would
know of it's existence would be the
Comptroller, the bank and the few
people who take sufficient intereN in
the published statement Of the bank
to compare the volume of circulation
with the amount of Government bonds
on deposit in the Treasury.
The naivete of that Iowa idea" al
most disarms criticism. When Wall
Street feverishly watches for the
weekly bank statement and stocks fly
up or down in response to fluctuation
of few millions in the relative vol
umes of loans and deposits, does Mr..
Shaw seriously imagine that $780,
100000 of new notes could be put out
in the dark without attracting atten-
ton except from few persons whose
idle curiosity led them to delve into
volumes of statistics?"
Secretary Shaw had better look out
on his periodical visits to Wall Street
or the few lambs left there will be
nibbling at him, for he is the green
est Secretary of the Treasury we were
ever blest with.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
FAILURE IS CERTAIN
INSTRUMENTATION OF THE PHIL.
lPPINES A DREAM.
Az Result Of the Policy Of Imperial.
ism We viii Always Have Depend
ent Colonies Filled With an Allen
Race.

Colonization of the Philippine Is
lands by Americans is now confessedly
improbable If not impossible. Even
American officials in the customs serv-
ice are ready to resign or to ask for
new assignment after years work in
the Philippines. Americans will not
stay in the languid, hot climate, sur
rounded by horde of Malays or Chin
ese, any more than Englishmen will
stay In India. Colonization is simply
out of the question, and ever will be.
An alien race will to the end OF time
fill the islands, dominated by rotat
ing lot of officials, army officers, and
business men. All of the dominating
population hope to get away soon.
There are not many business opportu-
mites, and the Americanization of the
islands will therefore be confined to
officials and army officers. The rest,
ten millions in numbers, will be just
about what we see there to-day.
1t is idle to think we can do in that
climate what England has not been
able to do in nearby Borneo, or in
India, or in any other densely popu'
lated land in the latitude of the Philip
pines. The climate is forbidding, and
none of the other conditions are in.
viting, and the sooner we recognize
this fact the better we will under
stand the situation.
! We may be able to establish public
schools, and to institute sanitation,
and to do other commendable things,
but the islands cannot be American.
lied, not even small one of the num-
Der. The Malays are there to stay,
and the Malays are not a bit Ameri'
can, and they never will be. Just as
England rules Egypt or India, so we
must rule the Philippines, and this
means that we have dependent colo.
MES, filed with an alien race which
has nothing in common with the main.
land. To this complexion Imperialism
hath brought us at last. and as we
have made our bed so must we lie
in it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

the shadow of barns and sheds,
crouched behind hay mows, lying low
beside stone walls are the men whose
farms have been earned by the sweat
of the field and garden. A more de-
termined lot of men never met to
guard their property in times OF
peace. They are awake and alert, and
mean harm to any persons they can
find about without valid excuse.
Along the highways others are trav-
cling. Many tramps have been STOP
ped and asked to explain, and then
ordered to leave the county by the
shortest route. Wives are behind
closed doors awaiting the return or
their husbands and praying that any
encounter they may have may bring
no harm to them.
Still the search for the fiend incar
nate, the Quixotic demon, or the odo
fanatic, whichever it may be, con-
tinues ruthlessly and thoroughly with
out avail.
1t may be that the surest proof that
the work is that of mentally de-
ranged person is the fact that no par
ticular person is singled out upon
which the revenge has been praticed.
Besides DR.. Mackie, there are many
other citizens who have suffered
loss from the cruel work Of the pol
soner
At night there has recently devel-
oped a superstition and fear among
the inhabitants only equaled by be-
levers in the occult.
The click of gun, the call OF
sentinel sends a man home quicker
than the cry of the Banshee would to
a native of Ireland, or a raven to
Frenchman, who would regard it as
sign of death in the family.
There are those who say that the
result will be a superstitious fear
handed down to the posterity of Attic
boro as a result of this long, nightly
watch and untiring efforts Of the vigil
lance committee.
The citizens wonder whether the
person is a stranger, or a native OF
the town, sane being or fanatic,
a man or a woman? The ministers
expound texts and theological reasons
as to the cause of such behavior. the
lawyers employ their cool-headsd ga
gacity, their shrewdness, quips and
wiles, the farmers exert their natural
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Is Secretary Shaw coIor.eIlndY

The following report from New
York, dated Sept. 2, speaks for itself:
"R. G. Dun & Co. report S12 COM
mercial failures in the United States
In August, involving total indebted
ness of $1O,S77,7S2. In the corresponds
Ing month last year there were $40
bankruptcies, but the liabilities were
,nly $S,O6S,525. The total
losses in August were larger than in
the corresponding month of any year
Ginse 1896"
We did not observe that Secretary
Shaw mentioned these figures in his
great speech on THE Business Out
.ook" at Chicago on Sept. 2. He then
whooped it up for prosperity to beat
the band. In great burst of eloquence
and confidence he said:
There exist to-day no one fact and
no combination of facts the logical Sc
uuence Ct which suggests disaster.
= Not while these conditions
continue will prosperity cease"
Perhaps not, but there are whole
lot of signs and facts the logical Sc
uuence of which suggests that the con-
ditious which he enumerated are about
TO discontinue if, in fact, they have
not already done SO. Some of them
and it is strange that he overlooked
them all-are:
/. Numerous and important strikes
all over the country. Similar strike
periods in 1872. 1884 and 1892 were
followed by years of business depres-
sion.
2. Great depression in Wall Street,
The center of the credit system of this
country.
8. Decline in prices of iron and
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Enoineer Earned Money.

When Engineer Warboy took the
special train chartered by Mr.. Lowe
to take him to his daughters bedside,
the latter, in his anxiety to complete
his wonderful journey, offered $50 for
every minute gained by the engineer
over the schedule. The run from San
Bernardino to Los Angeles is 60 miles,
and Warboy covered the distance in
G2 minutes, nine minutes ahead OF the
schedule. A great part of the run
was at the rate of a mile for every
SO seconds. IN,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
She viii Not Get Back.

Let the relatives and friends Of Miss
Hulda Todd of Greenwood, Del, save
their railroad fare to Oyster Bay,
whittier they are said to be going to
ask Mr.. Roosevelt to reinstate the
young woman as postmistress at the
place named. They will not succeed.
Miss Todd has been removed from
office by Postmaster General Payne
at the instance of Senator Alice on
the ground that she is personally
and particularly obnoxious" to that
statesman. 1t is declared that this
is only another way of saying that
Miss Todds male relatives are op.
posed to the Honorable ]. Edward Ad'
dicks. That gentleman is the proprie-
tor of Senator Alice.
How, therefore, can the friends OF
the expenditures hope to accom-
plish her reinstatement? The Presi.
dent has let it be known that he ap-
proves the ambitions of Mr.. Addicks
and recognizes that statesman as the
regular" Republican boss OF Della
ware.
1t follows that he must aid Mr.. Ad-
dicks in keeping up his fences. If in
order to accomplish this end 1t Is nee
essary to remove not one postmaster
but all the postmasters in the state
Col. Roosevelt will undoubtedly feel
Obliged to make the removals.
The President, 1t may be observed,
is becoming an intensely practical po'
litician as the date of the national
convention draws near.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
STRANGE chrysanthemums.

Chrysanthemums In Japan are
trained into numerous quaint shapes.
In Tokyo there are gardens filled with
life-size figures made entirely of the
flowers and leaves, the faces being
masks, and these chysanthemum fig
lres accurately represent court ladies,
warriors. children and animals, one
of the favorite designs being young
lady with a fox's tail peeping from
under her dress, and a mask which
by the touch of a string turns into
Reynard's head.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25


wild and woolly West, where lynch
law prevailed and self-appointed sher-
IFS dealt out the law.
Private citizens have formed regu-
lar posses, which plan out their cam
paign of action and act accordingly.
i Armed men patrol fields and roads
from sunset to dawn. listening to
every sound, suspecting every shadow,
waiting to shoot the man or men who
destroy their livestock.
Men suspected of wrong-doing, and
knowing that the farmers are. armed
against them, leave the township,
stealing away for fear they may be-
come victims of the vigilants.
One man, while crossing a lot, just
why no one seems to know, it being
one where no trespassing was al
lowed, was charged upon by an in
furiated bull, who rushed at him full
force, the man barely escaping
through the bars in time. for the
bulls horns struck the gate with such
force that they stuck fast in the
wood for short time.
Old guns that have not been used
since the war days have been brought
out and new ones have been bought.
Men whose business it is to reap and
plow have been armed with clubs
and every bush contains tonight its
determined guardian, ready to hold
up marauders who shall approach, and
to get them II they can.
Scattered about the fields, hiding in
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
! SEEK ANIMAL KILLER
ENRAoED FARMERS RoUsED TO
DESPERATION.
Fiend or Lunatic Is Poisoning Live
Stock Of Attleboro, Massachusetts,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Well Armed,
Seek His Life.

Education science and the general
spread of knowledge have let In light
on many a common darkness that ex-
listed even so late as fifty years ago.
What nineteenth century thinking
person but shudders at the recollec
tion of the Salem witchcraft, that blot
on Americas pure pages of history
Yet right at the very doorway OF
Boston, the center of advanced ideas
and mind culture, there is enc mind
so stepped in darkness, some one so
soul warped that for some unfathom-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

steel, generally considered the baron
eter of industry.
=. Closing of many coal mines be-
cause of lack of demand for coal
which is attributed largely to closed
textile and other mills.
Many similar signs point to impend
ing disaster. but what is the use OF
enumerating them? Secretary Shaw
is color-blind to all colors except those
OF the prosperity rainbow which his
party and the trusts are chasing. He
doesn't want to see them and none
are so blind as those who won't see.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

Persia, and Mira Ali Kuli Kahn OF the
Royal College, Teheran, a scholarly
young Persian who is also educated
in English, and who acts as interpre'
ter to Mira FAIL.
The spirit of tolerance, the cry for
economic and social adjustment, the
efforts toward peace and unity which
are abroad in the world at the present
time are said to be due directly to the
presence of the great prophets Of
this faith. who have been manifest.
ed" in Persia during the past sixty
years. Since the advent of Jesus the
western world has been prone to
brush aside all such claims as an
worthy of notice.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Worst Scandal of All.

The Indian scandal is the most I'M
savory with which the government has
had to deal, because it furnishes evil
dence of an apparently uncomfortable
desire on the part of almost every gov
eminent official who has the oppor'
tunity to use his position of RESPONSE
bility and trust for the purpose of max
ing money illegitimately. The postal
scandal was a trivial matter in CON-
parison when viewed in this light.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
A Landmark VIII Remain.

It is semiofficially announced that no
matter what changes Speaker Can
non may make in the house commit
tees, the galleries will not be deprived
of the daily delectable treat of seeing
Serene Payne of New York smilingly
and somewhat pompously preempt
the first aisle to the left of center and
move that the house do now ad-
jourh."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
PREACH A NEW RELIGION.
Persian Missionaries Seek Converts Ia
New England.

NEW 6U0IdUus
It will doubtless startle many peo
pie to learn that Persians, descend
ants of Mohammedans, are at work In
Flew England trying to make converts
And the religious movement which
they represent is not only purely
Eastern but Persian, and in a sense
Mohammedan, since 1t originated in
a reform movement of Mohammedans
New England has certainly reached
an interesting period in its history
when Persian monks Of a religion that
did not exist when the Mayfiower
came to anchor there are not
only preaching but making converts
The new religion is represented by
Mira Abul FAIL, an eminent oriental
scholar, formerly distinguished pro-
lessor in the leading college Of phi
losophy and theology of Teheran'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Wonderful Memorizinq.

Rev. David Rosenfield Of Musk, Rus
STA, who is now in Seattle, has so
memorized a book Of twenty volumes
that he can instantly tell you the
first word on any page you may name,
can repeat exactly all the words In
any particular line on any page, can
repeat the whole book from beginning
to end, or take any chapter at random
and do the same.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
The First Repeating Rifle.

Dr. W. R. Tinker of South Manches-
ter, Conn, has what he claims is the
first repeating rifle ever made. 1t
was patented by c. N. Spencer March
6, 1860. The rifle is the model on
which the patent was granted and
came into the doctors possession as
gift from his father-in-law, John
Sault 1t was given to Mr.. Sault by
the inventor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
|HUrI0l)|
|OF THE lN1
Hadn't Scared.

understand" said the Philoso-
pher, that you are financially inter-
,sted in Slangley's flying machine" |
"Yes," replied the Wise Guy, he
et me on the the ground floor"
"Well?"
"Well, l am still there-and SO IL.
Ihe machine"
Sail ho!" called the lookout.
"Whereaway?" asked the first mate,
"Six p'ints of the lee bow"
make 1t eight pints." ordered q
thirsty passenger, 81 can drink quart
myself any time."-Judge.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
OPPORTUNITIES for Graft"

Perhaps it might be we'll to go
through the POstoffice department
more thoroughly. The public would be
startled again could it know what op'
portunities for graft" remain in the
system of inspection and examination
by new hands just put in at the call
of Influence"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Attractive.

"Then you've been to Niagara?"
eyes. l was quietly married last
Tuesday week, and the next day
reached Niagara. Soon as we got
there l started out to see the Falls
with my VIII"
Magnificent, eh?"
"You bet. You should have seen
all the other men turning around to
look at her as we passed"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
No EMPLOYEES Use Tobacco.

In the twenty years during which
the First national bank has been do
ing business at Concordia, Kan, 1t
has never had an employee who used
tobacco in any form. No restrictions
were ever placed on the employees,
and the use of the weed was never
considered in selecting officers or en-
ployes. 1t just happened SO.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

Mrs. Casey-Yis, an l think it's
good husband he'll make her, too. Ye
can always tell what's in a man from
the look NV of his eye.
Mrs. Kelly-Maybe, Ellen, maybe.
But many's the time I've seen the
tears rise in Denny's when it wasn't
salt water he'd been drinkin'.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
And Not Over Here.

"T think you must be mistaken, sir"
the old man Clipped in.
what about?" demanded his neigh
Dor in the crowd.
Didn't just hear you remark you
were glad the war in Bulgaria was
over?"
"Not exactly. I said was glad 1t
was over in Bulgaria"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
A Reasonable Utterance.

Treason! Rank treason! Here's the
San Francisco Chronicle declaring that
the Honorable Beet Sugar Oxnard is
"a carpetbagger whose senatorial as
pirations are disgrace to the state"
Call out the militia
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Male Stronger Than Horse.

After quarreling over the respective
strength of horse and a mule two
farmers at Segovia, Spain, decided to
settle the matter by tug-of-war. The
animals were harnessed, one at each
end of a cart. After desperate
struggle the mule triumphed, pulling
the horse off it's legs and galloping
away with 1t.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
LARGE Potato sprout.

G. w. Hawver of Williamstown.
Mass, exhibited potato sprout the
other evening that measured more
than seven feet. The sprout grew on
a small potato about an eighth Of an
inch in diameter in his cellar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
cheerfulIy Contributed.

"Say." whispered the stranger In
church, whats this collection fort"
"This Offering" replied the maA
with the collection plate, rs for for.
eign missions"
That's all right, then" said the
stranger, producing dollar; IT was
goin' to say If it's fur the choir 1t amt
worth It,"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Summer Ihouqht.

This heat is enough to drive
man to suicide"
"ff he's a fool"
I'm not so sure"
"Wel, good man won't kill him.
self anyway, and a man who isn't
good certainly would be foolish to kill
himself to escape the heat."-Detroit
Free Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Some Phonetic Spelling.

Assessors in Kutztown, Penn, In
their recent report introduced the fol-
lowing persons and Diseases: Hart
faler," "Berta," "diphatheeria,"
"krupe," "Rybecka," "braine fever"
"rumaticism. "Willum," "Isick," and
Flip"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

The GUNNER Resort Band.
That band leader is very obliging
and considerable.
Hadn't observed it, answered the
crusty citizen.
"Why, he plays everything that any
body requests"
"Yes. And IL you ask him not to
play something he takes encorss on {
IT,"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

long-headedness, calculations, and
maybes, the village gossips add to
each story and jump at conclusions,
but all come to the same end, they
give it up in dismay."
Meantime DR.. Mackie and the posse
search and the wholesale poisoning
continues Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25
Best Kind of Proof.

"Here.." exclaimed the trpte Gus
toner to the trunk dealer. Il thought
you said that chest bought OF YOU
was mothproof.?" ~
Well" said the dealer. WASN'T itS 4
moi When opened 1t my thinN
were fan of moths!" 7els
Great SCOTT, man! What bette!
proof Of EN- DO you vaS
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

Immense Field Of Cabbage.
Horace Booth Of New Britain
Conn, has cabbage field said to con.
lain $4,000 plants.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-25

Oldest Horse In New England.
A black stallion named Dexter,
owned by Marion Monson Of Fort
Fairfield, Me-, was 3S years old last
December, and he is believed to be
the Oldest horse in New England.