davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

their purpose we'll. The working wom'
en- usually battle after dark, and sell
dom venture out into deep water, but
remain hIddled together close to the
shore, muttering in unison prayers to
the Virgin to preserve them from the
perils Of the deep.
The religious festivals chiefly cele.
brated on the Island occur in the sum.
mer months, and are days Of general
rejoicing. On the evening of these
glorni di festa," the Piazza, or paved
square, is brilliantly illuminated, fes'
toons Of flowers and colored lights are
hung around, gorgeous display OF
fireworks and deafening discharges OF
giant firecrackers are interspersed
with music Of the band gayly dressed
people thrOng the terraces and bal.
comics, and the cafes entertain crowds
at their little tables; altogether the eff.
feet is most spectacular.
The amount of money spent in fire.
works and gunpowder by this pleasure.
loving people would add materially to
their comfort, although, owing to the
prosperity brought them by tourists
and resident foreigners, they are much
letter conditioned than most of the
peasantry of Italy, and one is not pain
ed by the importunate and miserable
beggars that infest other parts Of that
country.
In the early autumn the islanders
are all occupied with the vintage. most
important of all the industries here.
When one is told that the juice is ex-
tracted from the grapes by the maid
ems treading them with their bare feet.
one imagines that this must be very
beautiful sight, suggesting the ancient
pictures of the festivals in praise Of
Bacchus. But, alas! The reality is
far from attractive. To see lot Of
untidy girls, their skirts spattered and
feet streaming with purple juice. mash.
ing down a mass of grapes in huge
shallow watts, and to notice that they
frequently jump out Of the watts and
rim down the dusty path for drink
from the water jar, returning to the
grape treading with the dust and grav.
ell sticking to their feet, does not in.
crease ones desire to drink the wine,
which, however, is excellent, in spite OF
the primitive method of production.
At this season of the year large
flocks Of quail pass over the island on
their long flight to their winter home
10 Africa, and the manner in which
they are caught is most cruel and un.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

she considers she is
This deduc
qualified architect or builder
business which
Of kind 1t useless to argue that
sentimental In wildcat
Speculation gambling
this venture? Has she studied
avoid being what she calls by traces
studied pubic 10 winch she
fol namely her husband?
butcher example, and ask for his estimate and wh
got it,
week know that all these
and that business steady custom
willy off what discount will allow me?
living tell such thing could not be done?
living tell me she has done 1t?
glad to hear it, and think most women will be
mdcass house large city burns from ff
of coal and offered to send her
twenty will deliver required indie
strikes this would fairly large house about dollars
Women suffer under the delon h e custom is TOO small "
they hate and nothing than
adeseope To explain the folly OF this Will relate an
family life
years picturesque but thriving
custom to have fresh roll for breakfast
bread day old One
after arrived
being delivered time fetched by
discovered
the insisted
written and the account closed My wife
begged that baker
one in the district
would punish baker richer
and cared nothing
promising puncuaty stood The
would him another said
interviewed wife, his daughter inter
till left the bakers
late bread
about fifty business good
twentysx dollars
only domestic
tighten their ves lives
near them
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
A CHEERING Word.

It ought to be cheering to the
fathers of many unsuccessful crea-
lions that the names they revere SO
much were unheard of while their
owners lived. Take Gainsborough' s
case. He had during his lifetime only
a limited market for his portraits. But
those same pictures are worth fabu.
lous sums to-day. One which he paint
ed for a carrier who had obliged him
was sold lately for 100000. More en-
couraging still, Trith lived to see his
Dinner Party at Boswell's Lodgings"
change hands for $22,S35, and Rey-
nolds was asked to place value on
one of his own early works which he
failed to recognize. Millais, when a
young man, accepted task which all
his brother artists had refused-the
painting of a lady who fancied herself
refused admission to heaven because
her earthly work was unfinished. He
did not have to wait long before all
the town was asking to see the pic.
tire.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
Women to Catch Smugalers.

Uncle Sam has seven women in.
spectors at the port of New York to
make things disagreeable for women
who would smuggle. Whenever a pas.
senger ship arrives there is a woman
inspector at the gangplank. If the yes.
sci is one of the big, popular lines
there are two or three. The women
inspectors do their work as quietly as
possible. Sometimes tearfully, but
oftener in state of indignation, the
woman who is suspected Of trying to
smuggle follows the inspector up the
gangplank to the steamer that has just
arrived and into stateroom, where
the thorough search of her clothing
usually brings to light valuable
articles that are dutiable. It is usual.
ly found that the women smugglers
are connected in some way with whole.
sale milliners and fancy goods dealers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
MARRIAGE.
the trunk

met an auld caillach I knowed right
well on the brow o. Carnashee;
1.-THE top o. the mornin'" I says to her.
God save ye!" she says to me;
IAN ocn! II IT'S you,
Tell me true,
When are we goin' to marry?"
"I'm here" says l, "to be married to-
morrow,
row."
LAS sure as ye're young an fair" says
she, 'one day yen be ugly an ould:
says she, ito call ye in out O. the
Left ter yerself
Laid on the shelf
Now Is yer time to marry.
Irusha! don't tell me yell be married to-
morrow,
WI the man to find an the money to bor-
row."
IT may be dead ere I'm. ID" says /.
"for nobody knows thei day,
never was feared O. the could" says /,
but I'm feared to give up my way.
Good or bad,
Sorry or glad,
IT'S mine no more when I marry.
So here stand l, to be married tomorrow.
WIZ the man to find an tine money to
borrow"
The poor ould caillach went down the
hill shakin' her finger at me,
IT'S on top O. the world we think yer
self still, an that's what it is" says
But thon was the day
Dan McIlray
Had me promise to marry.
So here stand /, to be married to-mor-
row.
The man he is found, but the moneys to
borrow.
MORA ONeill
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
THE SOUTH AFRICAN BAoBAB.
Tree Said to Attain Age of Thou
sand Years,

Sdnd years.
Most of the timber of the South At
rican interior consists of various kinds
of thorny acacia, one Of the handsom-
est of which is the spreading giraffe
acacia, or kameel-doorn. Here and
there is to be seen the gigantic bao-
bah, invariably called by the colonists
the cream of tartar" tree. These
enormous trees are found in the low
veldt. Their timber-if timber it can
be called-consists of soft. spongy
growth, quite useless to any one. The
bark, however, is used by the natives
for making kind of strong cord,
which is effected after submitting its
flbers to due soaking and heavy
pounding. No harm is done to the
tree by this stripping of the bark; in
deed, the baobab seems to defy time
and all other kinds of enemies. 1t is
one of the most long-lived vegetables
in the world and a wellgrown speci-
men is estimated by scientists to at
tain to the age of at least 1000 years.
A fair-sized baobab will measure at a
height of three feet from the ground
as much as eighty-ive or ninety-feet
in circumference. The roots some
times extend forty or fifty yards from
the trunk.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

and the sirens resolve themselves into
a group Of vigorous peasant women
eagerly clamoring to carry the travel
er's baggage, which they balance on
their heads with the fine poise pecu-
liar to people who make n practice
of carrying loads in this manner. And
such loads! A large trunk seems to
them mere bagatelle. For a wage
that in America would be 1eemed
scarcely sufficient for one no r. they
will trudge all day long up al | down
the steep, stony path leading t ON the
landing place to the village estling
on the side of the cliff, nea ly five
hundred feet above the water, bearing
great baskets of lemons and oranges,
casks of wine, and even bales of hay,
chatting meanwhile to each other in a
cheerful manner, and seldom is 1t that
one sees a careworn or discontented
face. Their placid countenances and
strong, 1.-THE figures give to them an
especial CHARM some posse IS real
beauty, suggestive OF the ancient
Green type, heritage from their Hell
lenic ancestors. The little girls, de-
sirous of initiating their elders. play
at carrying loads on the head. and
seemingly derive great pleasure in
walking about in sedate manner with
several good-sized stones balanced on
their round little pates. These young
sters never need dolls, for the babies,
Of which every family has a continu.
GUS supply, are left almost entirely to
their care, and the patience and good
nature they display in guarding thei'
small charges is highly creditable.
The picturesque effect of scenery
and brilliant color tones, so distinctive
OF Capri, prove especially seductive
to artists of all nationalities, Here
they come, many to remain for years,
end occasionally one marries Capri
maiden who has served as his model.
Indeed, the artists have made such an
Impression on this susceptible people
that the Roman Catholic priests have
interviewed, and prohibited the girls
to pose for the painters, which on the
whole Is a wise measure, as the Cap.
riotes are of jealous, suspic GUS ma
ture, and the maid who poses for the
foreigner will win no lover among her
countrymen.
Unfortunately but few American
travellers see Capri in the summer
time, kept away, probably, by the &C.
counts one hears of the excessive heat
IT. Southern Italy. The writer re-
trained here from May to October, and
only on the occasional days when the
"s;rocco" blew was the temperature
decidedly unpleasant. They sky was
never obscured by cloud or fog, and
though at times the suns rays beat
down somewhat too fiercely the air
was generally famed by sea breeze.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
rAILLEss CATS OF MANx.
Belief That They Originally Came
from Cornwall.

Belief That They Originally Came
from Cornwall.
II seems probable that the tailless
Manx cats originally came from Corn
wall. They managed to survive longer
as a distinct breed in the Isle OF Man
than in Cornwall, the predominance
of the common tailed cat being, OF
course, aided in the latter district by
the fact that, although remote, 1t Is
part of the mainland of England,
whereas new cats could be carried to
the Isle of Man only by sea. The
Manx cat which first attracted mod
ern attention was very different
animal from the variously col
ored specimens which now take prizes
at cat shows. 1t was always OF the
color of a hare and had fur like a
hare. Like a hare, too, 1t always
moved its hind legs together. Its
chief food was crabs caught on the
beach and when transported inland
from the seacoasts it very seldom, II
ever, survived long. No cat OF this
kind has been seen for many years
in the Isle of Man, though there are
plenty of tailless cats, its crossed de-
scendants, to be purchased there.
Wherever it originally came from, the
Cornish or Manx cat was more nearly
a separate species than any kind OF
show cat now existing. 1t was a sea-
coast animal, with fur, color, absence
of tail and method Of locomotion OBJ
viously adapted by the inheritance of
ages to it's habit of catching crabs and
uther small life behind the ebbing tide.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
Mark Twain Missed the Boat.

The success achieved by Mark
Twain during his boating days on the
Mississippi river was due not only to
the fact that he was skilful pilot,
but that he was an earnest one, as
well. During a talk over old times
at Mr.. Clemens summer home, Quar-
ry Farm, Elmira, N. Y, recently, a
guest who knew Mr.. Clemens in
those days told the others how the
genial humorist once missed his boat.
Instead of inventing an excuse, as
many of his companions did, he re-
ported to his superior officer as fol-
lows:
my boat left Mt $40. arrived at
the landing at 500 and could not
catch IL" ft{yy
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
The Canny Scot.

Andrew Carnegie told several good
Scotch stories the other night. One
ran thus:
A Scotchman and an Englishman
went to see Douglas" and after Nor.
walls great speech, the Scotchman
asked his companion:
What do we think Of your Willie
Shakespeare the noo?"
WELL" was the answer, you have
claimed Chaucer, Milton, Spencer.
Wordsworth, Byron and most of the
others; l suppose you'll be claiming
Shakespeare as Scotch"
"Weel," said the Scot, yell allow
there's prima facie case for that;
yell allow he had intellect enough"
Another told Of the theological dis
putes of some shepherds, who could
not agree on the characteristics Of
Paradise, until finally one old fellow
said:
20, ay-that's easy-it maun be
Just like the Hielan's. New York
Tribune.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
Especial Correspondence.)

The rocky islands of Capri and
tschia seem like giant portals placed
10 guard entrance to the charming
Bay of Naples. It is claimed that
Capri is the ancient island of the ST.
rens, being the first land that Ulysses
would have passed after leaving Gree
at Ischia on his voyage to Sicily. On
its southern shore the white lime
stone rocks, still called lie Sirene,"
represent the human bones that
whiten all the ground" of the poor
sailors who were lured to destruction
by the song Of the sirens.
To-day the song one hears on ap-
preaching the island is less alluring,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

srortsmanlike. In the first place, a
few are shared, and their sight de-
stroyed by soaring their eyes with a
red-hot wire. They are then put in
cages placed under large nets,
stretched between trees, where, be-
cause of their blindness, they keep
constantly giving their call, which at
tracts the other quail, who become en-
tangled in the meshes Of the net, and
are killed in great numbers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

The Japanese are making real"
pearls by forcing a grain Of sand into
oysters and planting them until the
pearl is formed by deposit around
the foreign substance Of the material
from which the shell lining Is formed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

Set yourself earnestly to see what
you were made to do, and then set
yourself earnestly to do 1t; and the
loftier your purpose is, the more sure
you will be to make the world richer
with every enrichment Of yourself
Philips Brooks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
A Luminous Fly.

The lantern fly Of Surinam, South
America, has two sets of eyes to catch
the light from all possible directions.
The luminosity which CLOVIS from the
head is so brilliant that 1t Is easy to
read by 1t.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
Check on Dishonesty.

A dealer in marine stores in Eng
land is compelled to have his name
painted in letters at least six inches
long over his door. Nor may he buy
from any one under the age Of sin
teen.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

Ice New Thing for Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is at least $500 years old,
but not until three years ago did the
natives begin the use Of ice. A diminu.
tive French plant was the first one
started and now the hotels are all
well supplied.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
Siberian Railroad Fare.

The transsiberian railroad has the
cheapest rates Of any road in the
world and an emigrant can buy a
ticket which will allow him to travel
5000 miles, which takes nearly three
weeks, for about SO.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01


very exactg ambition surely The question IS DO we get M Let us see
thoroughly we'll
clothes
her bills with
French ndifereny, it, or Doll
well easyo women-bu let us sup
That Is the womans
cooked WELL she be absolutely proficient in all
o
end The chop is typical
thinks cooking the last the hop
knowledge
would that she now
at Does any woman
chophat she the remoes da
OF money? what is the
procedure? because chop is the first thing
imagine woman buying
hat such princpe!
of socald
willingly butcher of bone and
cauhower make
palaab will be told cauEowe
dollars
caulfow You told eighteen cents Thun
would of paying the
buying hat and hatpns to keep
1t her head too dear
the least idea Of the value OF
their married
Of (afterwards) they robbed
consrng
who do not know their business out are
getting the best value for the least
Of
anythng-east OF
this
about the
conducting other of their business namely he oce have
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
DANCING as a Religious Act

In ancient religion dancing came to
be one Of the chief acts of worship.
Religious professions went with song
and dance to the Egyptian temples.
and Plato said that all dancing ought
to be thus an act of religion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
The Secret Of Success.

ITO be successful" he remarked,
thoughtfully, "all we have to do is to
make as much of business Of our own
business as we do Of the things that
are none of our business"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
Electric Aue.

Electricity is fast ousting hydraulic
power in the equipment of continental
Europe, and slowly superseding 1t in
Great Britain.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

Profit In Squads.
A well-known breeder declares that
SQUADS will pay profit of 70 per cent
on every thousand dollars.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
pain Makera In Australla,

The rain-making hoax, which has
run it's course in this country, Is being
worked extensively by "drought-bust.
ers" In Australia.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
New York's Visitors.

The average number Of visitors In
New York city Is estimated at 100000
and their stay Is ten days.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
Calico.

Calico.
Calico is named for Calicut. town
IN India. where It was first printed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

Bandanna ls Indian.
Bandanna is derived from IN In
dian word signifying to bind or tie.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01

During the summer season the tenn
perature of the water remains almost
constantly at so degrees, and bathing
is a delight INDUCED in daily by nearly
every one. One end Of the beach is re-
served for the women and the other
end for The men. AS there are very
few lighthouses, the bathers hide
themselves under sheet while dis
robing and robing; the effect Of these
sheets waving around In wild tor
tions Is very comicai, but the We
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-01
Domestic BIunders of Women

ny a MERE MAN

contention that could his house better
than his wife, his mother his sister his daughters or
combination any them. Good! Now to the proof
give every chance, will take their own
standard Of Every at time other has
said that the mans heart is down his throat This
polite way Of saying that gourmes II not gour
mands don't believe it, but there be something In It.
Anyway accept moment it stands to
that most work all their days from the time they
boys till they old and seldom get more out
1t than carthorse merely harness. food and bed at
night they have right expect that their stable should
be comfortable their branmash fit to eat and their rest
disturbed must be accepted that nearly all we earn
spent homes and the luxury OF our women foik
What do get out Of 1t?
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
OFFICIAL.
GROUND RENT LOTS.

Attention is called to the following:
Resolved, by the Mayor and Alder
men of the city of Savannah, in Coun-
Gil assembled. That all holders of lots
in the city of Savannah commonly
known as ground rent lots, held under
fee simple conditional titles shall be,
and are hereby permitted to pay to the
city treasurer the balance of purchase
money due on said lots, respectively,
and thereby make their titles fee sim
pie absolute, on the following terms:
that is to say:
First. Those who pay into the city
treasury said balances of purchase
money at any time on or before April
l, 1904, shall be allowed a discount on
the same of twenty-five (25) per cent.
Second. Those so paying at any
time after April 1. 1904, up to and in
Guiding June J., 1904, shall be allowed
a discount of twenty 600 per cent.
Third. Those so paying at any time
after June l, 1904 and up to and in
Guiding July 1, 1904, shall be allowed
a discount of fifteen (15) per cent.
J. ROBERT DREAMER,
E1aplx If Council
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06

cent remarkable fires throughout the
country have been such as 10 snow
the modern fire-proof building IN
favorable light.
In Chicago even. when the Iroquois
was burned, the building itself was
not greatly damaged; the destruction
being confined mainly to human life
and scenery. In Baltimore, it is true,
homie modern buildings were de-
stroyed, but had the fire started in
one of these buildings, instead OF
building of older type, the flames
would never have had d chance to
spread. In this city the other day
fire broke out in the American Tract
Society building, one of the tallest
and most modern buildings here. 1t
took a long time to put this fire out.
but of the building itself only few
wooden doors were burned; all the
damage being to paper and goods. In
Rochester the Granite Building, the
one modern fire-proof building in the
burnt area, is reported TO be standing.
with floors, walls and roof intact, ap-
parently about as solid as ever. Be
yond a doubt, say architects, city
composed of such structures could
not be destroyed by a confiagra-
ton.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06
TIPS ON Securities, pecision.

For several days Wall street has been
full of advance tips on the Supreme
Court decision in the Northern Securi-
ties case. So confident are some of
the custodians of this advance infor-
nation as to the correctness of their
adv1ces that they are offering odds in
company. Bets have been made 3 to
| on this proposition, although a strong
belief is prevalent that the finding of
the lower court may be softened or
modified to some extent. On the other
hand positive assurances are heard
that the decision of the Supreme Court
will be drastic and that it will afford
no loop-hole or escape for the Hill COM
bination or any chance to continue the
holding company under a new guise
Already sanguine Wall street people
are saying that If the Supreme Court
rules against the Securities Company
bill will be Immediately passed
through Congress amending the Sher-
man and other antitrust laws, so that
railroad combinations may be made
along the lines originally projected by
Mr.. Hill and his associates. A child
like ignorance and innocence of the
way things are done IN Congress is
SHOWN IN comments and predictions OF
this sort.
The extreme provinclallsm OF the av-
erage denizen OF Wall street finds illus
tration IN the passing discussion on
legislative possibilities IN Washington.
TO hear the average Wall streeter talk
one would imagine that the only thing
required 20 get through a law Of this
description would be for a committee
Of the Stock Exchange or a group u
railroad fnancierH 10 frame a bill ana
send u down 70 Washington with or