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there must be an open sea, else she
would have been beached elsewhere,
and the other that the current must
practically be continuous in given
direction, that is, from Siberia toward
Greenland.
There have been hundreds of thou
sands of dollars spent on these dashes
for the pole and big sum is asked
for this unique scheme. Andree tried
to reach the pole in balloon and mas
never been heard of. Nansen con-
structed an ice breaker and tried to
butt in. Peary LETT his ship and with
sleds and dogs tried to reach the
coveted spot. All to no purpose. but
all acting as a spur for others 10
make the attempt. No one has ever
thought of the idea, or, probably a
fairer way of putting it, has ever pub
licly presented the idea OF conquering
ice by ice. 1t will be a trip crowded
with perils. for it is the purpose to
force the ship into the ice with all the
attending dangers of having the YES
sci crushed and being left to freeze
to death. There is one precautlon
taken to guard against this mishap IN
that two ships are to enter the pack
together, and, while at long dis
lance apart to be held in communica-
ton one with the other by wireless
telegraphy. The explorers expect that
II will take from three to five years
to drift across the pole-years of eX-
IRENE hardship, with all the attendant
suffering that the most intense cold
can impose, such cold that no one
except men who have made voyages
to the north can understand, being al
most beyond human endurance.
1t is of unusual interest at this time
also because Commander Peary, the
American, is about to undertake an
other trip to the north. Will the
American or Frenchman reach the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
BHLAB0R zN1 HH
W INDUSTRY @
over the Iron Trail.

WV shS ''S''
Outward and outward on wings of steam
over the iron trail.
While the hills and valleys browse ana
dream,
With a greeting loud and hale.
The hosts of endeavor journey fast
And earth grows rich with gain
While the room for the soul grows still
more vast
On the face of the fertile plain.
For the trains that speed on the golden
West
Carry the ages there.
The love that fashioned the plowshare
The good that makes life fair;
And with every thought that forms
With every deed that is done.
The notes of mans new song outring
And "A victory glad is won.
There is knowledge to save the toiling
Fine art to pleasure the eye
And increasing chance for the faithful
Who. yearning. try and try.
The poor grow Drawer the rich more
There's growing love of love.
There's a saner trust in each creed de-
fined
A hope all hope above.
There's bit less care, grain more
mirth,
A SAVIOR of sweeter rest.
AS a truer culture rests on the earth
Ever along the West
And they who live in the field or mart.
Honest and earnest and true,
With TRANSPORTED gaze see the old de-
part
And welcome in the new.
Thus n feeling is born within that shows
The spirit is key to life,
And the raptured soul still brighter
CLOVIS
Despite the grasping strife.
And so. as the cars glide on and on
Over the iron trail.
They travel forever within the dawn.
And the peace of the world avail.
Charles w. Stevenson.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

The very latest suggestion as
means of reaching the North pole Is
to use the very barrier that has hith-
erto blocked the way of ambitious nav
igators.
The suggestion is the prainwork
of a Frenchman, founded on the adj
vice of DR.. Nansen, the famous Nor
wegian explorer. Take ticket of ice
in the big train of ice" and drift. 1t
is not a chance where luck may de-
eide, but is based on knowledge Of
Arctic Ocean currents that are known
to cross the pole from the coast Of
Siberia to finally wash the shores of
Greenland.
M. Charles Bernard, a French naval
officer, has attracted the scientific ear
Of the world by this suggestion and
the proofs he offers to sustain his the
cries. Time and time again daring
men have attempted to force their
ships through the mountainous ice
packs that bar their progress further
north. Not so with Bernard. He would
use the ice. He feels certain that the
drifting will do the rest, for has not
Siberian mud been found on the coast
of Greenland, sustaining his claim
that glaciers from the Russian shore
have crossed the open polar sea"
and been thrown by the oceans cur
rents on the shores of the big CONT
nent of the north, but little known,
for vast portions of Greenland are
still an UNEMPLOYED region.
This is not the only proof of the
course of this Attic drift, for there is
the story of the Inflated Jeanette that
was abandoned by Explorer De Long
off Bennett Islands, situated north of
the Siberian northern coast, and
which, after years in the ice, was
thrown upon the coast of Greenland.
1t is the Jeanette that has been, ad-
vanced to prove two livingstone, that
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Origin of the Double Eagles.

Both Russia and Germany display
two-headed eagles on their standards.
Yet this symbol is considered by
some heralds to be merely the result
Of the heraldic practice of "dimidia.
ton"
This was simply childs way of
impaling two coats-of-arms on the
same shield by the primitive method
of cutting each in half and taking the
dexter half of one and the sinister
half of the other and placing them
back to back, as it were. Strange
two-headed beasts naturally resulted
as, for instance, when lion and an
eagle were halved and joined togeth-
er. The griffin is supposed to have
been evolved from two lions rampant
by dimidiation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Just a Question of Route.

Some time ago DR.. Colt, now bish-
CD of Truro, was travelling on the
underground railway in London, ac-
cording to the Onlooker. One of his
fellow passengers was religious man
CT the aggressive type, always anxious
for the souls of others, but wearing
nothing in the way of white tie to
make known the fact to the world at
large. Quoth the enthusiast, Where
are you going to-" DR.. Colt, with his
gentle manner, answered, ITO VIC
toria," to which his companion replied,
Pm going to heaven so, | hope,
am l." said the future bishop; but
I'm going via Victoria"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Criticism of the Tartar.

An opponent of Russia writes to a
foreign newspaper: There were at
least four great Tartar thrones, each
standing on the ruins of other civiliza-
tions. Those four were the thrones of
Moscow, Constantinople, Delhi and
Pekin. At Moscow the Tartar calls
himself Christian, at Constantinople
Mussulman and at Pekin Buddhist;
but his spirit is always the same. and
we know what it is. East and south
and west the Tartar roamed and the
only country that flung him back into
his native barbarism was Japan"
Then he goes on to argue that Rus
STA is itself a yellow peril.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

goal first? Will both fail? Will they
ever come back?
Such questions may be fairly put
when an Arctic explorer starts on his
voyage to the regions of the midnight
sun.
The Bernard expedition will have a
rival in the field in the shape of the
German south polar ship Gauss,
which has been refitted for Canadian
expedition, and the Peary expedition.
Both these expeditions are more on
the lines of former parties and rely
on the superiority of their outfits and
good luck for their success
Part of M. Benard's speech, trans
lated is as follows
"The only means of crossing the
great polar basin consists in making
again the voyage of the Fran of Nam
sen, but little more to the north,
and to take, as hansen said, "a ticket
of ice in the big train of ice. In
! fact, it is necessary to remember that
, the first idea of the crossing of the
! great arctic current originated in the
| discovery of driftwood and Siberian
mud on the eastern and southern
| coasts of Greenland, and also in the
sighting at Cape Farewell of the
wreck of the Jeanette, which was
| abandoned by her crew to the north
of Bennett Island.
80 it is necessary in that case to
start from a Norwegian port, from
| soc or Vardoe, to cross the southern
| part of the Barren Sea, to touch at
| Karabova to take on board an equip
ment of Eskimo dogs, and to steam
up between the concrete ice and the
| land, up the Yalmal Peninsula, calling
at Fort Dickson to coal from a ship
| that should be specially chartered to
| cruise at the end of the summer along
the coast of the Taimyr peninsula,
reaching in autumn the Island of New
| Siberia, and rush for a point situated
on the 15Sth degree of longitude east,
regardless of cost, and even at the
| price of wintering in one of the Lliak-
off Islands. When at that point the
! ships of an expedition have but to let
themselves drift with the concrete
ice, and If they follow route sensi-
bly, parallel to that of the Fran, they
will cross the Arctic maritime basin
on lines quite different from those of
that ship, and will incontestably cross
in the very immediate neighborhood
of the North pole, following in fact,
| the route which the wreck of the
Jeanette has most probably taken"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Curious Spanish Counting.

Counting in Spain is conducted on
curious principles. The Spanish girl
is almost always attended by young
man who is known as her novio. and
who squires her on her walks, al
though the courtship seldom ends in
marriage. The young lady is always
accompanied by her mother or maid,
as well as by the novio. So long as
this state of things continues the girl
is loyal and obedient to her gallant.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Cost Of Acquired Territory.

The cost of the acquisition of vast
territory by the United States is given
in the following list: Louisiana, $15,,
100000; Florida, $5,OOOOOO; Texas,
$4,000, 900; California and New Mex
leo, $15,00O,00O; Arizona, $4,000, 900;
Alaska, $3.50, 900; Philippine islands,
$4,000, 900; Panama canal, $4,000
900; Panama canal strip, $4,000, 900;
total, $14O,750,000. In addition the
United States when 1t annexed Ha-
wall assumed debt Of 100000.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
President Acts as spotter.

H. H. Vreeland, president of the
New York Street Railway company,
never uses free pass on his line, but
invariably pays his fare. Should an
unlucky conductor overlook him on
his collection tour, as conductors fire.
quently do with others in the rush
hours. he would probably hear from
the presidents Office the next day.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Lesson. From the Ants.

On teeming summer day throw
yourself on the ground beside an ant
hill, and see what little lens-costing
perhaps so cents-will do for you in
opening before your eyes world
whose largest inhabitant is scarcely
half an inch long, but wherein there
exists perfection of social organiza-
ton and marshaling of industry that
may well amaze an unlocking philoso-
pher.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
DeIhi's Ivory Carvers.

The whole trade of ivory carving at
Delhi is practically in the hands OF
one family, the head of which pays
the carvers. Some of the latter are
paid very high wages, for at the last
moment a slip through carelessness
or want of skill might spoil the work
Of months. Prices are sometimes
very high, as much as ESQ having
been given for small piece Of carved
ivory.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26
Manufacture of Eau de Cologne.

When the originator of the genuine
eau de cologne died, aged eighty, he
gave his secret to his nephew ana
heir. Since 1909 only ten persons
have seen the recipe, which is kept
in a box trebly locked. The laboratory
in which the oils and essences are
mixed is guarded by doubly locked
doors. The oils and essences are
poured into barrels nearly filled with
alcohol, and in two weeks the mixture
Is chemically complete.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

When we read that crude rubber is
selling at $1.20 pound it make us
wonder If that isn't really what some
times comes to the table disguised as
a porterhouse steak during these meat
strike days.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

A baseball umpire at Williamsport,
Pa, announced, at the close of the
game, that he could lick the whole
crowd in the grand stand. He has
since told the attending physicians
that he is convinced that he spoke too
hastily.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

America makes more beer than
Germany, more caviare than Russia,
is rapidly overhauling Italy in the
spaghetti business, and as for Dutch
cheese. Holland is nowhere in COM
parison with us.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

The trolley car is said to be largely
responsible for appendicitis. That's
queer, considering that the disease in
question is distinctively rich mans
malady.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

A Geneva professor has discovered
that a blue light has soothing ef-
feet in dental operations. Strange
the blue feeling which precedes a
visit to the dentist doesn't act in the
same way.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Probably the young people don't
need to be told that a hammock is
about the best place from which to
see the meteors-of course. if the
leaves above are not too thick.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Publishing newspaper in Mexico
has it's drawbacks. In consequence Of
President Diaz's efficient system OF
collecting taxes there are no delin.
quent tax lists to print.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Mrs. Goelet will remember that as
soon as the story of the loss of her
Jewels got into the papers the jewels
turned up. There is nothing like pub
licity, which is the essence of adver.
Using.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

A man whose fiancee had protested
against his drinking whisky promptly
drank poison. While this was not ex-
actly the style of reformation the girl
had in mind, it was better than none.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Charles M. Schwab has returned
from Europe with the biggest automo-
bile that money would buy. Perhaps
he intends to get even with some OF
the people who said hard things about
him in connection with that ship
building trust
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

At any rate it did not take the Brit
ish half as long to get to Lhassa as it
will take them to get away from
there.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

William c. Whitney's heirs object
to paying an inheritance tax of S222,'
222. Why can't the State of New
York be generous and cut it down to
1921 ,999,99?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

While it is a mean trick to rob a
defenseless slot machine, a short-tem
pered man frequently is sorely
tempted to throw things at one.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Don't be too harsh in your judg-
ment of the sultan. He has his trou-
bles. How would you like to sleep in
a bomb-proof room in the summer
time?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

A French scientist has given a
learned and plausible explanation OF
kleptomania Now will somebody dis
cover that he plagiarized it?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Edward Atkinson says that he con-
siders the comments on his smoking
an impertinence. Now, OF course,
they'll stop.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Being fined s17.60 for over-speeding
his automobile bothers Reginald G..
Vanderbilt good deal less than an.
other mosquito bite would bother you.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Now, if King Edward would start a
fad for wearing trousers bagged at
the knees some men would consider
him a real benefactor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

John l.. Sullivan is to open a cafe
IN New York-but not with the dox-
ology.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

A Kentucky business man has used
the same steel pen continually for IA
years. That's the sort of pen that is
mightier than Kuropatkin's sword.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

The millionaire may smoke only
dollar cigars himself, but he has to
smell the five-cent cigars that other
men are smoking.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

The stamp collectors have just held
a national convention at Pittsburg,
but they didn't nominate a candidate
for President.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

A writer in Harper's asks, do
men manage their wives?" A good
many Of them manage to think they
do.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Hayti is now having a revolution
every thirty minutes, and apparently
possesses a fair claim to the revolu-
zion record.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

Now the czar will set up the cigars
for the boys, no matter what happens
at Port Arthur.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

That automobile which scalped a
woman in New York the other day
must have been "red devil"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-26

"A stage held up" The pity is that
1t does not happen oftener, for the
stage SO needs such aid
Williston graphic., 1904-07-07
Thought She Couldn't Live.

Moravia, N. Y, june 6.-Mr: Bentamn
Wilson, Z highly respected resident of this
place, came very nearly losing his wife
and now that she is cured and restored
to good health his gratitude knows no
bounds. He says .:..... 20. -.
my wife has suffered everything with
Sugar Diabetes. She has been sick four
years. She doctored with two good doc
tors but kept growing worse. The doctors
said she could not i've. She failed from
200 pounds down to 100 pounds. This
was her weight when she began to use
Dodd's Kidney Pills, and now she weighs
100, is well and feeling stronger every day:
''She used to have Rheumatism % bad
that it would raise great bumps Ill over
''Dodd's Kidney Pills are God-send to
those who suffer al my wife did. They
are all that saved her. We can't praise
them enough ~
Williston graphic., 1904-07-07
Prison for Children.

One of the most remarkable school.
rooms in the world is surely that Of
LA Petite RoQuette," the Paris prison
for juvenile offenders. The system of
this prison is that Of solitary confine.
ment, the whole building being so con.
structed that each of the detached cells
is overlooked by a warder stationed on
a small observation tower. The school
room consists of 200 cells in the form
of an amphitheater, from each Of
which the teacher, and the teacher
only, can be seen. Each of the youth.
full offenders takes his place in silence,
the first in the fathermost cell and the
others in rotation. The closing of one
of these cell doors opens that of the
next cell. The voice of the teacher is
the only sound to be heard in the
building. Religious cervices are con-
Quoted in the same way, each of the
inmates being able to see the omciat-
ing priest, and him alone.--Boston
Transcript.
Williston graphic., 1904-07-07
BREAKS RIB By COUGHING.
Brooklyn Man, with Severe Cold, II
Victim Of IN Extraordinary
Accident.

Henry c. Hubert, of Brooklyn,
broke one Of his ribs during a fit of
coughing few days ago. Physicians
cannot recall q similar case.
Mr.. Hubert contracted a severe cold
and when the accident happened was in
bed, resting on his right side. He was
seized with a violent fit of coughing
and in order to relieve his distress at
temped to change his position. The
sudden movement, coupled with the
paroxyism of coughing, caused a COM
plex action of the muscles, which broke
one of his ribs.
Mr.. Hubert will be confined to his
home for some time He is a director
in the Pullman Palace Car company
and retired from active business sav-
eral years ago.
Williston graphic., 1904-07-07

Behind the chair there turks a brave
But that IS not a chair;
1t Is the entrance to cave,
And he is watching there.
He waits, the cunning. willy foe,
And sings war song deep
While craftily he crouches low
Bold little Laugh-a- Heap.
A feather duster on his head
Hist! Would you meet your doom?
The feathers bound with strands Of red
Are Laugh-a-Heap's war plume.
The wooden dagger in his hand
All, no. A cleaning knife
With which he means to make his stant
And leap into the strife.
And yonder is q hobby horse
A hobby horse, indeed!
You should be burdened with remorse
Not to have known that steed.
1t Is the faithful thoroughbred
On which our chieftain rides.
Observe the proudness Of its head
And note its well-groomed sides.
Why, here's a boy upon the floor
Hush! Wearied with the fight
The warrior could strive no more
And 20 rests for tho night.
The smiles still nnger, round his eyes
And laugh dreams I'LL his sletp;
War weary, battle worn he lies,
Brave little Laugh-a-Heap.
w. D. n. In Chicago Daily Tribune.
Williston graphic., 1904-07-07
(Copyright, lsol, By Daily Story Pub. Co..

ttX7OU wish a loan Of $4,000, then
What security can you give?
The pale eyes of the visitor shifted un-
easily.
"A mortgage on q farm in Kent coun-
~: as fine a quarter section as ever lay
out doors"
Burdick looked him over keenly.
"A first mortgage, of course. know
Kent county. What is your name?"
Emmett Warren" The visitor pro-
nounced the words almost brazenly, it
seemed to Burdick. He started slight
", flushing under his clear brown skin.
"Not the Warrens of Orton township?
You are not-John Warren's son?'
His only child" the young man
nodded eager affirmation. my father
died four years ago. Tho farm was
willed to me-"
Burdicks pen clattered to the floor.
He stopped to recover it. When he
Strengthened up there was a queer,
drawn look on his face.
"Your mother" he paused.
Young Warren set the tips Of his slim,
unfarmerly fingers together.
Mother has-ahem-no control Of the
property" he said, smoothly. II attend
to everything. The farm 10 in my
name"
! Burdick's face. cleared. Then he
.f-owned.
"Do you mean that your father left his
wife DEPENDENT" he asked, sternly.
The confirmed bachelor had ideas of his
own concerning such matters. "Are you
married?" He looked his client over
with cold, critical dislike. The latter