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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22
SOME FACTS ABOUT KANSAS.


Compiled by the Mail and Breeze.
Kansas has 10 million fruit trees.
Kansas has 10 accredited colleges.
Kansas loans money in the East,
Kansas has 1889 miles of railroad
Kansas has population of 1, AGA, 62S
Kansas contains 5o,572,16 acres OF
land.
Kansas has statehouse which cost
$3O25, O0c.
Kansas has 400 oil wells in Ssh ,otin,,
order.
Kansas has the richest salt mines in
the world.
Kansas last year sold $7,512,331 Go
worth OF butter.
Kansas one year raised 273,SSS,321
bushels of corn.
Kansas furnished the man who cap
tured Aguinaldo.
Kansas Manufactured 2O5, 40 gallons
of wine last year.
Kansas one year raised 90, 1913. O95
bushels Of wheat.
Kansas has an ineEhaustahlc supply
of bituminous coal
Kansas has 1885, dogs, which last
year killed sos sheep,
Kansas raised 1880 pounds of very
good tobacco last year.
Kansas furnished the man who first
scaled the wall at Pckin.
Kansas has but one detected criminal
to 1000 of its inhabitants.
Kansas produces half million pounds
of honey annually.
Kansas people carry life insurance to
the amount of $36l, 130,457.
Kansqs has property with an assessed
valuation of 1856, 399,f43,
Kansas furnished the man who carried
the message to Graca.
Kansas property is insured against fire
in the sum OF $24S, OS4, 564.
Kansas mines produce one fourth of
the zinc ana lead of the word,
Kansas has 1000 corporations en-.
gagged in business at the present time.
Kansas maintain bureau to enable
people out of employment to find Jobs.
Kansas horses have broken the worlds
records on the race tracks.
Kansas people have on deposit in the
banks 500, 119, 6Ss. sG~pcr capita,
S60.SO.
Kansas gypsum is of the highest grade,
and there is an abundance of it.
Kansas sells from 5 to 6 million dallars
worth of poultry and eggs every year.
Kansas cattle, grain and fruit have
aiken premiums at all the worlds fairs.
Kansas has reduced the farm mortgage
Indebtedness 10 per cent in ten years.
Kansas is something of a cotton state.
The crop last year was $3.50 pounds.
Kansas agricultural reports are used
Is text books in many agricultural
hools
Kansas has natural gas fields which !.
ival those of Ohio, Indiana and Penn :
ylvama. /
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

Mr. Joseph Pominville, of Saltwater,
Mimi. after having spent over $4,000
with the best doctors for stomach
trouble, without relief. was advised by
his druggist, Mr. Alex. Richard, to try Il
box of Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. He did so, and is well
man to-day If troubled with indiges
ton, bad taste in the mouth, lack of APP
petite or constipation. give these Tablets
q trial, and you.are certain to be more
than pleased with the result. For sale
at rs cents per box by Tibbetts & Co.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

]. H. McEwen and wife will move to
Topeka this week. We regret to lose
this worthy couple from Garrett They
have been residents of Anderson county
for many years, and they have host of
friends here.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

py vein, presented the diplomas. His
talk to the graduates was short and to
tine point
The AGITAToR extends its very best
wishes to the young people who have
just embarked on the great, broad sea of
life, and hopes th@ir voyage may he
peaceful, and not besct with storms
These young people are all bright, cap
able young women and young men. We
believe all have the energy to make their
lives useful and successful.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

Lucy, the little daughter of Nj. ] Was
mer' jumped on garden rake, Thurs
day of last week, and ran the teeth
through her foot. A physician was call
&c to dress the wound, and she is getting
along nicely.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

X. L. Rowe has been on the sick list
part of the week, and George HUT has
been acting as TAILOR in his stead.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

Fred Hampstead will again engage in
Kansas City. He sold his business there
some time ago and went to Oklahoma,
but he likes Kansas City better. He and
Mrs. Hampstead were here visiting their
parents, last week.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

DR.. Craig, the health officer, wants you
to clean up the rubbish about your
homes. Ifyou don't do it, he will be
after you with sharp stick.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

Little Alice Riley, daughter of Lou
Riley and wife, has good school record.
During the past FIVE years, she has Meth
been absent nor tardy single time, eth
err from sickness or otherwise
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

E. A. Sourwine and sons left, Tuesday
morning for West Plains, Mo, where
they will make their home. Mrs. Sour
wine went down over two months ago,
and purchased home We arc sorry to
see these good people leave but wish
them success in their new home.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

When you want pleasant physic try
Chamberlain Stomach and LIVER Tab
let's. They are easy to take and pleas
ant In effect. For Sale by Tibbetts &
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22
LOCAL NOTES zs ssSs1" s city s1 and an" eon f;s

A number of the High school pupils
held a picnic on North Potawatomie,
near Tanner, Tuesday. They went on the
''plug" in the morning, returning in the
evening The same way. Mrs.C. T. Hiatt
chaperoned the crowd.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

Try HOICOmb's Headache Pow.
ders. They have cured others;
they will cure you.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

held a picnic on North Potawatomie,
near Tanner, Tuesday They went on the
plug" in the morning, returning in the
evening The same way. Mrs. .. T. Hiatt
|chaperoned the crowd.
Ben Hydorn has good memory. He
never lets his time lapse more than a
day or so. He dropped in last Saturday.
and said We'll, nay TING was up yester-
day, ana want to renew for another
campaign" We wish we had several
thousand subscribers just like him.
A young man from Yates Center was
in town, Sunday and Monday. on his
way home from Kansas City, where he
purchased au automobile. He came
home bv ray of Baldwin, where he was
joined by Will McMurray, who cams
home to attend commenccmentc exercises.
Mrs. X. o. Bolman came down from
Garrett. yesterday, to bid goodbye to
her parents, MIR. and Mrs. George Hill,
before leaving on Friday for her future
home at Roswell, n Mex. Her sister
Miss Nina Hill, will accompany her to
Roosevelt to spend the summer Kansas
Populist, Independence.
We see by the Lecompton Sun that
Rev. II. d. Herr has accepted the pastor
ate of the Congreg alional church at
Ames, Iowa. the seat of the State Uni.
versity. Rev. Herr isa cousin of the ed
itor of the AGITAToR. He is quite well
known in Garnett, having occupied the
Congregational pulpit here several times,
He is also former Greeley boy.
Six of the Greeks who have been at
the Good Samaritan hospital at Coffey-
vile on account OF injuries received in the
Buffalo wreck will be sent to st. Louis
Three of them are about well and will
require but very little more attention |
The other three are still weak and suffer-
ing some, but the hospital authorities
thought best to send them with the
Populist, Independence.
The greatest danger from colds and
grip is their resulting in pneumonia. If
reasonable care is used, however, and
chambcrlain's Cough Remedy taken, all
LANCER will be avoided. Among the
tens OF Thousands who have used this
-etnedv for these diseases we have vet to
earn OF single case having resulted in
pneumonia, which shows conclusiveIy
hat it is certain preventive Of that
dangerous disease. 1t will cure a cold
Or an attack of the grip in less time than
my. other treatment. tbs pleasant and
,afe to take. For sale by Tibbetts &
20.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

A union missionary and temperance
meeting was held at the Congregational
church, Tuesday afternoon.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

Do yon like GOOD Job Print
ing? We do it. Prices right.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

Vim. Mahan papered w. W. Webber's
house in Lone Elm township, last week.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-22

the the Oa gh
n last Monday night:
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
MWMMM
THE
STORY OF
ICONDEPOCA,

Fort Ticonderoga, New York, now a
total ruin, except where portions of
the walls are still standing, is a con-
spicuous landmark in American his
tory. The Notifications were built
by the French in 1876, and named by
them Carlton Chime of bells) from the
music of the waterfall near. General
Abercrombie, in 1853, attempted to
take the fort by storm, but, though
having 10000 men, was unsuccessful.
The following year General Amherst,
with 1900 soldiers, besieged the fort,
and the French were finally driven out
July 80, having first dlsmantled it.
The English afterward strengthened
the fort and field works, which ex-
tended owe an area Of several miles,
but after the cession of Canada, in
1868, the fort was allowed to fall into
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
Goethe's Prophetic Imagination.

In one of his conversations with
Erckmann, the record of which HIS
just been discovered, Goethe predicted
that the United States, urged by her
desire for more rapid communication
between the East and West, would cut
a canal between the Atlantic and the
Pacific. This was in 1927, when we
had nothing on the Pacific but the Ore
gon country, which Horace Greeley
twenty years later thought to be
worthless. Goethe said at the same
time that he would like to live long
enough to see the Danube and the
Rhine connected and the English in
possession of the Isthmus of Suez.
These are examples of the prescience
of the scientific mind illuminated by
the poetic imagination. Goethe was an
all-round genius-poet, philosopher and
man of science. The man so endowed
is likely to be something of a seer.
The scientific collector who digs up
and Classics facts has his uses, but
Knowledge does not become really vital
until it has been touched by magma
ton. >iees sstl
1t Is interesting to see how Goethe
dwells on such things as Panama,
Suez, the Rhine and the Danube. The
improvement of natures typographical
work always seems to have had a fas-
cination for him. He made Faust win
salvation through reciaim'ng land
from the sea.-New York World.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

And then what did those louts and looms?
Such lofty grace, in their degree,
Did ever fallen foe receive
From knights of ancient chiyalry?
Slowly the British regiments
LAID down their arms on that calm morn.
FIVE thousand muskets stacked, and heard
No sound the while of scott or scorn.
Great was the victory that brought
Friendship from France. and built on
high
The dream of freedom like the dome
vi some great spiendor in the sky.
The idea fascinated him. He rushed
abou in feverish haste and in remark
ably short time was aboard a rapidly
moving west bound passenger train.
With nothing to do but gaze out Of
the window dependency crept over
him again. He was conscious that a
man had taken the vacant seat at his
side. He continued to gaze out of tie
window at the passing scenery, later
falling into a dose. When he awoke
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
III.

Standing at one of the club house
windows, John Elliott was looking
down at the surging crowd on the
street below. For Il brief space of time
the motley throng would hold his at
tention, and then his mind would revert
back to the phrase, What Is the use to
live the year?" But John Elliott was
no coward; he refused to admit that he
feared a year of suffering, so each time
lie drove the thought away.
AS he stood thus, with his thoughts
shifting from one thing to another,
there came to him this: "Why not
leave this place at once? Go to new
scenes; mingle with different people;
live a new life for this next twelve
months" He rolled the thought owe
and over in his mind; it was like a
sweet morsel.
Fired with this idea, he became en-
thusiastic. He would forget the past,
be thankful for the year with its mani
fold opportunities, become in reality a
new creature with a year as the span
of its life.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

the hurrylng throng rs 1t pushed itself
toward the gates of the clty's only
breathing spot.
Long before all had entered who de-
sired TO do so the park was crowded to
its utmost, and thousands were breath
lessly watching the most gorgeous dis
play of fireworks they had ever seen.
When the attention of the great
throng was most kcenly riveted there
United States flag, across which in
burning letters of red were written
the words: "Hurrah for the glorious
Fourth" For a moment a. deathless
silence swept the vast audience; then
there burst from the threats of thou
sands of men. women and children.
three cheers for the glorious Fourth.
Leaning against one of the massive
oaks of the park stood John Elliott, a
quiet but apparently well pleased spec
tator of the scene.
In his hand he held a sheet of paper
upon which were written the words:
privilege granted John, Elliott to give
a display of fireworks tonight Mt public
park. Signed, Lewis Thompson,
Mayor"
Elliott moved a few steps away from
the tree and drew from his pocket an
other paper which he proceeded to
eagerly sean. \ smile of triumph
rested on his face. Across this paper
were written the words, Marriage IL
cense."
The flag shot into the heavens, FL
liott returned the paper to his pocket
and was one more Il quiet observer of
the scene.-The Sunny South.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

beyond recovery. Her usually stern
gray eyes were quite soft enough now;
indeed, from out their depths sprapg
a surprising tenderness and pity.
Handsome rather than. sweet
was the description usually given her
mouth; but now its firm lines were all
melted. and the pathetic CULVER of Eer
lower lip, as she slowly raised and
kissed her lovers letter. cast around
Its graceful curves IL expression OF
WCndrOus sweetness.
AS she sat there, allowing many a
tear to gain its freedom, she recalled
how often he had urged an early mar
riage, but she had chung to her freedom
ard coolly and Qersistently insisted on
delay until their engagement time had
dragged itself out into years. And now
well, possible she chidcd herself too
much. We usually do when the black
cloud of calamity hangs its shadow
around US.
But not long did she sit brooding-
that was not her nature. When the
time for action came she was always
ready for it. Going over to her desk
she sat down and for an hour poured
out her hearts sympathy, sorrow and
love. Told him she spurned his prof
fered archaeological for just this one
year OF being truly all his own.
Had John Elliott seen her now as she
was, all ablaZe with the truest. ten
derest and noblest emotions, he would
hardly have rcpoUniyn6 +ho ri,.l bo bod
loved so long. No more was she cold,
indifferent, naughty. No; size was q
new creature, fired and irrcsistibly
moved by an overwhelming passion.
Her letter sealed, it was placed in the
hands of a messenger with an urgent
appeal for haste.
She went out under the trees and
let the hot air fan her cheeks-and
waited.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

an occasional bursting cracker sounded
IN the air. A hot wind swept the crowd
on the street. parching their lips and
tanning their cheeks. Elliott stumbled
along with his mind all befogged-a
strange. queer pain at his heart. His
thoughts refused to be steady. Arrived
at the door of his club house he
stopped II hesitated a moment. The
familiar surroundings seemed to some
what arouse him from his trance, and
ne muttered quite audibly: "Yes. I'll
write her. 1t will be fairer and easier
Tor her and safer for me-to write
her"
Then he went In.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
HE LIBERTY BELL AND STAIRWAY TO TOWER.

his fellow-passenger was gone, leaving
behind him an extra edition of one
of the city's daily papers. Elliott
drowsily picked it up. He had but
barely glanced at it, when his whole
body began to tremble violently and he
had to lean over and spread it out on
his knees to read, muttcring as he did
so, my God"
Emblazoned across the front of the
paper were the words. "Dr. Champion
insane. Peculiar mental affection
leads prominent physician to tell all
patients they have only Il short time
to live"
At the next station Elliott left the
train.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

The Colonial Office of the British
Government has formally recognized
the jargon. Yiddish, as a European
language. In the rush of aliens to
South Africa many German and Polish
Jews were rejected by the immigra-
ton authorities because they were
unable to answer the questions put to
them. The chief rabbi of London then
petitioned the government to recog-
nize Yiddish as a language and ap-
point Interpreters so that injustice
might not be done. Henceforth decla-
cations in Yiddish win be received at
the Cape.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
E POCKET BOOK.

She never can remember whe-s
She had it last or laid it down,
Ans never has the time to spare
To find it-so she'll always frown
And say: Its just too badl Dear met
l wish, my darling, that you'd look
Up stairs and see if you can see
That everlasting p~ocketbook.
tits either on the bureau or
IL may be lying on the bed;
1t might be in the closet, for
/ sometimes put it there instead;
Feel in the pocket of the dress
That hangs upon the left-hand hook
i can't remember, l confess,
Where l did put that p~ocketbook."
It's always while the milkman waits
Or parcel with express to pay
Some one who GROSSLY intimntes
He's in a hurry and can't stay, a
And then my search j must begin
In nearly every kind of nook;
j think myself it's just a sin
The way ma keeps her p~ocketbook.
Chicago Daily News.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

moved Il muscle for the five minutes
preceding these words. Through the
closed door of the private Office had
rome the buzz of the conversation of
the waiting patients. DR.. Champion
grew restless.
Elliott fumbled in his waistcoat for
the foe; again the demon Of grim
humor caused a sickly smile to play
around the corners of his mouth. He
graSpeG the Doctors hand with Gcr-
vcus haste, half afraid as he did SO
that he might break out into an idiotic
laugh; and leaving the purchase money
OF his death sentence in the soft cooi
palm he had pressed, he hurried out.
1t was the morning of the glorious
Fourth of July. The iubilant noise CT
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
".

1t was possibly $50 o'clock when the
citizens of the city were considerably
startled by the noise of violent explo-
sions coming from the direction OF the
city park. A glance in that direction
revealed the heavens above it in a blaze
of glory.
With its usual rapidity there spread
throughout the city the report that
several carloads of fireworks had been
hauled there late in the afternoon.
Quickly the population of the city be-
gan to empty itself into the park.
Every moment but served to Increase
the beauty and splendor of the scene,
which only added to the eageIess Of
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

lh9n Gates came on, and closer drew
HIS Yeomanry, and every night
Burgoyne the hostile camp fires saw
Enclrclc him with lines of light.
Surrounded: with no food; the foe
A musket-shot away at most
Fluttered the flag of truce and there
Burgoyne surrendered with his host.
And, %spiendidly ACQUIRED, they
Saw louis and looms in rags and smocks
lbelr conquerors, with rusty pixies
And powder horns and old flint
locks.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

partial decay.
Its connection with the events of the
Revolution began i'll 1775, when Ethan
Allen surprised the fort MAY 10) and
captured the garrison Of fifty men and
all the artillery and munitions of war.
On June so, 1777, General Burgoyne
laid siege to Ticonderoga. He built
a battery on Sugarloaf Hill now
Mount Defiance). The garrison es-
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
~ EARRIETT oFF

Twas that campaign whose fame began
When the Green Mountain men with
stood
~Burgoyne's proud forccs-and as well
Saved Molly Stark from ~widowhood!
Across the Mohawk Valley then
BY many Il fond ambition buoyed,
Despite his Indian ambushcs
st. Lescr marched to be destroyed.
And Washington barred Hove away,
And ill the great invasion sped:
And men and woods and waters he'd
The net that Philip Schuyler spread.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
AFTER THE FUN is OVER.

When Johnny Uttered up the lawn
Upon the glorious day
He whooped for joy and wildly danced
Around and called it play.
When Johnny had to gather up
The rubbish there, next day,
He called it work and mopcd and mourne
So runs the world away.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02

capped to Vermont the mex night, first
sending their stores away. In Septem-
Der of the same year General Lincoln
attacked the works unsuccessfully.
After B~urgoyne's surrender the fort
was dismantled. no effort was made
to keep the fort IN repair after the war,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
II.

If any of the many friends of Viola
Martin who were accustomed to de-
plorc her GOODNESS of manner ana
heart" could have seen her as she sat
with John Elliotts letter lying in her
jar. they would have beer astoulshed
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1903-07-02
A Sophist y.

why do you shoot a lot of fireworks
to show your patriotism, instead of
learning the Declaration of lndcpcnd-
ence by hearth
For the reason" answered the man
who is never at a loss for an answer,
that actions always speak louder than
words"