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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-06-28
Third Attempt at Suicide.

Lima, June 26.-Ervin Peltier, aged
25 years, confined in the county Jail
charged with attempting to wreck a
fast passenger train on the Pennsyl-
vania, made third unsuccessful at
tempt at suicide today Fastening
the bed clothes together he suspend
ed himself in the cell and was all
but dead when found.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-06-28
Murder Suspected.

Lima, June 26.-Murder is suspected
in the discovery of the dead bodies of
Elmer Mason and Rolla McDorman
in this city this morning. Both had
their skulls crushed. They were
found laying near the Lake Erie G.
Western tracks. Their pockets had
been rihed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-06-28
Swallowed CARPET Lacks.

peck, aged IA years, a member of the
Miami family boys industrial school,
yesterday made an unsuccessful at
tempt at suicide. He swallowed a
handful of carpet tacks and for some
time was in critical condition. The
physicians now think he has chance
for recovery. He was sent from Tole-
do for incorrigibility.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-06-28
General Hartsuff Dead.

Port Huron, Mich, June 26.-Gen-
eral william Hartsuff, who during the
civil war was inspector general of
the army of the Ohio, died today in his
home here of diabetes. He was SO
years Of age and native of New York
state.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-06-28

doesn't make prosperity if the expenses
are greater. Did you eyerfgure out what
sickness costs you per year; doctors
bills. medicine bills, ETC., ETC., to say no.
terrors OF this disease are headed off
Painkiller relieves muscular cramps,
lumbago, neuralgia and sciatica. 20 and
: so cent bottles.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-06-28
Charles Dickens Stopped There.

Bellefontaine, June 26.-The old
brick hotel at Richland, this county
is being razed. 1t sheltered Charles
Dickens when he tot red the state in
stage coach.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-06-28

Vienna, Ala, today after criminal as.
sault on three white girls at Eupora,
Miss, ten days ago. He was brought
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
She Declined the Seat.

George was a well behaved little
boy. He had been especially taught
by his father to be polite to ladies'
and in a crowded car always to give
up his seat to one of the gentle sex.
regardless of age, social condition and
good looks. On Subway car last Sun
day papa had an unlooked-for and en-
barrassing illustration of how we'll
George had learned his lesson. The
car was crowded, but George had pre-
empted a seat A handsome young
lady entered at one of the stations at
which the train stopped. There was
not vacant seat.
Take my seat, ma'am,' said little
George, as he dotted his cap.
She didn't take the seat. She look
ed fierce enough to box his ears, and
the passengers had to laugh in spite
of her modification. George was sit
ting on papa's lap when he so gallant
ly offered to give up his seat to the
pretty young y.-Exchange.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
One On the Mule.

William H. Taft, secretary Of war,
weighs 800 pounds. His predecessor
in office, Elihu Root, tips the scales at
only half that figure.
When Secretary Taft was civil gov
ernor of the Philippines his health was
sadly undermined. He was laboring
under great responsibility in govern
ing the archipelago, where conditions
were yet so disturbed as to give Sec.
rotary Root and President Roosevelt
much concern. Mr.. Root therefore e.
quested Judge Taft to keep him ad-
vised by the new Pacific cable as to
the state of his health. One day this
message came to Mr.. Root from Gov.
Taft at Benguet, in the mountains
near Manila:
Rode ten miles on a mule to-day.
Am feeling much better. TAFT
Mr.. Root chuckled and doubled with
mirth in the chair which Secretary
Taft has since discarded as too small.
He dictated this reply:
Taft, Benguet. Glad to hear it, but
how is the mule? ROOT
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
Phonoaraph Takes phone Calls.

A man up town whose business
takes him much from home, but whose
business communications come to the
house, has made an odd combination
of the telephone and photograph. His
wife speaks little or no English, but
can manage to answer the phone calls
in his absence. AS soon as she has
learned the name of the speaker at
the other end of the wire she starts a
monograph and, requesting the caller
to leave message, thrusts the re-
ceiver close into the bell of the phon.
ograph horn. The record is faint but
Ineligible, and obviates the necessity
of having small boy who speaks
English in attendance at the house.
That same photograph probably
registers more odd tongues than any
similar instrument in New York. The
owner has polyglot acquaintance and
fad of having his friends talk into
the machine. In a single evening it
has registered French, German, Greek,
Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Japan
csc and Italian speeches and songs,
and he has collection of more than
fifty tongues and patois.-New York
Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16

number of pieces. 1t is more than six
ty feet in length, made of red granite,
and weighs 900 tons. 1t was brought
from the quarries of Syene, but how
no one knows. 1t was beyond doubt
the finest statue of this king found
in Egypt. The few columns still stand
ing, with their capitals representing
the papyrus flower, speak much of the
beauty that prevailed in those long
forgotten years. Other scenes on the
walls show the capture of town by
use of ladders. The Memmon looks
rather dilapidated, but it's mate is in a
fine state of preservation, and sits
there looking over the splendid reach
of fertile country between it and the
noble river, just as in the long ago.
An hours ride took us back to the
Nile, where backsheesh was demand
ed and paid, and recrossing the river
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
The Goddess From the Machine.

Singing for monograph seems to be
as high-paid musical exercise as there
is. A monograph company has offered
prima donna, who sings at the Met
ropolitan opera house this winter, $14,-
900 for four songs. That is, $4,000 as
soon as the songs are sung, and $4,000
year for four years as reward for
not singing into any other machine.
Great and many are the means of in
come of a goddess of grand opera.
She could live splendidly on what she
can get for using a pill, perfume,
piano, or a phonograph.-With the
Procession, Everybody's Magazine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
Independence for Norway.

The family and the friends of Ibsen
having decided to publish Ibsen's cor
respondence with the leading literary
men of his time, we get in the French
reviews two interesting series of these
unpublished letters, says the Review
of Reviews. Among the most i'm
portant are those to Bjornstjerne
Bjornson, now published in La Revue.
They cover the years 1S65-67, when
Ibsen was in Rome, and the years
1884-85. In the first letter from Rome,
dated Jan. Is, 1865, Ibsen is concerned
about the independence of Norway.
He says: when you write, give me
your opinion of home affairs. What
course ought to be followed in Nor
way? What can the leaders do with
the present generation? You will re-
assure me. do not forget that you
are full of hope, but | should be happy
to know on what your confidence is
based. 1t often seems unlikely to me
that we shall disappear. l state may
be destroyed, but not nation.
But even if we do lose our independ-
epce and have our territories taken
from us, we shall still exist as ma.
ton. The Jews were state and
nation. The state is destroyed, but
there still remains Jewish nation.
l believe that all that is best in us
will continue to be, provided that the
national soul is strong enough to grow
under misfortune. All! if l only had
faith, confidence!"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
Edison and Pasteur.

Thomas A. Edison has settled down
to the life of country gentleman I'M
der the shadow of the New Jersey
mountains. Americans are inclined to
forget that his is one of the great
names of the world.
Anent this fact says a writer in the
Brooklyn Eagle, recall an interview
with Pasteur, the immortal French
bacteriologist, in which he said, with
the simple and unaffected vanity of a
Frenchman Your Edison is great
man. When the history of our genera.
ton comes to be written the two
names that will stand out most promi.
nently in science will be his and
mine"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
) Tombs of Egypt's Kings
GA-or~-~ar aN..~~ar-~ar~~~ar~~ar~S
Especial Correspondence

Making an early start, we left the
little town of Luxor and its majestic
old ruined temples which are all that
is left to mark the place where ancient
Thebes with its hundred gates -four
ished in the height of its glory 1000
years before the Christian era. Cross
ing the grand old Nile in native boats,
we found our donkeys and attendant
Arabs in waiting on the banks to take
us to that place of mysteries. the
graves of the kings that ruled Egypt
when the worlds civilization was
young. After the pickering, scolding
and stronger language that is the rule
with the donkey boys was satisfactori-
ly concluded, we finally mounted our
little beasts and started on our way
over the hot sands to the Libyan
mountains. After a jaunt of perhaps
three-quarters of an hour, during
which our sober donkey ride of the
beginning resolved itself into an excit-
ing race, we made our first stop at
the Temple of Kooneh. This is an old
ruin consisting of three rooms, with
walls covered with Egyptian hero
glyphics and the whole fronted by
row of eight-futed columns. 1t is in
a fair state of preservation, and said
to be a Ptolemaic structure. Forty
minutes more through the Valley of
Bab-elMalook brought us to the DESC
late, verdureless mountains in which
the tombs are situated. We visited
those Of Rameses, third, fourth, sixth
and ninth, section 1, with it's long ap-
proach of stone steps beautifully hewn
from the rock, and, to crown all, that
of Amenaphs the Great, discovered
only about four years since. All of
these burial chambers are magnificent
specimens of the grandeur of the final
resting places of those mighty kings
but that Of Amenaphis is by far the
finest of them, and l will try to give
faint idea of it's awe-inspiring dig
nifty and magnificence.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
A Toast.

Let him who will drink to his love,
Or pledge a friend in wine;
A rousing toast I'll give to thee,
o enemy of mine!
Pour forth the amber liquid fill
Your glasses to the brm:
Here's to the man whose heart for me
Bears naught but hatred grim!
How oft when steep ascents / climb
Would l cast down my load,
Did not his royal enmity
My tagging footsteps goad!
So drink again. your bumpers raise
And gayly cink with me.
Here's to the man who hates me we'll
Down with Mine Enemy
blanche Goodman, in Smart Set.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
Kimberley "Siege" Babies.

During Lord Roberts tour in South
Africa he CHANGED to be in Kimberley
on his 72d birthday and the people Of
that city presented him with pair Of
diamonds. One of the "siege babies"
boy of years, made the presenta-
ton speech. During the siege of KIM
berley by the Beers about fifty babies
were born. Lord Roberts had his pho
tograph taken in the midst of the
"siege babies" on the steps Of the
town hall. Most of the "siege babies
bear names recalling the war. Thus,
while "French," Butler" "Methuen,"
"Bops" and 'Kekewich" occur,
Rhodes" is even more frequently
used and "Siege" seems most popular
of all.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
Copyright, 1904 by Daily Story Pub. Coz
~ R1. H2E2k15Hx2Y:. M,RNI

Il reckon I've cured you of your
contrariness for good and ALL" cried
Farmer Haines, swinging in at the
kitchen door, standing an old shot gun
behind the stove and scowling fiercely
as he took his accustomed seat at
table. His blazing eyes challenged
those of a slender girl engaged IN
emptying the steaming contents of
several pots into a line of waiting
dishes.
why, father, what have you done?"
The girls hand went up as if she felt
clutch at her pretty throat and her
eyes flashed back a look of defiance
not unmiXed with fear. IF you have
killed him, finish your mad work and
shoot me, tool" she cried, dropping a
saucepan and rushing for the door.
The old man turned to stop her, but,
even as his arm was raised, the door
flew open and young man, minis
terially CARRIED and very much out of
breath, nervously dabbing at his club
by face with large silk handker-
chief, entered precipitately and con-
fronted the young woman.
Dora Haines!" he gasped, ''you look
all worked up. What's the matter? |
thought l heard"
ASK father-he knows" faltered
Dora, breaking from the affectionate
grasp of the Reverend Giles Faxon
and flying down the pathway leading
to the road.
"What-what's happened?" asked
the parson, seating himself and gaz-
ing with impatient curiosity at the
stalwart Haines, as he proceeded to
transfer his dinner from the stove to
the table. "What-what's Dora so put
out about? l thought l heard"
you heard nothing" declared the
farmer, pausing to level warning
finger at the preacher, do you under
stand? You heard nothing!"
''But certainly"
Haines in one stride was at the
others elbow. His great fist was
within an inch of the reverend nose.
you shut up and let me talk" ne
hiooCu. hdL Ddi hcl lClloW udo ucCu
shopping around here again contrary
to my orders. He's after my Dora,
and she-the ninny-loves him. Hear
that? Loves him!"
But Bankers a forger-I thought
he had left the country"
will you be quiet? Dora would
have run away with him if | hadn't
kept my eye skinned. l warned him
that the next time he came around
I'd put shot into him, and l guess
I've kept my word"
"Oh, trust you haven't"
"Never you mind. You've heard
nothing and you want to let that stick
in your memory or you may come to
harm. If you have any idea Of mar
rying my daughter, mind what I'm
telling YOU"
WAS Dora going to him when I
came in?"
go and see, for all I care-but re-
member-you heard no shooting"
The Reverend Giles Faxon, in any
thing but happy frame of mind, left
the house. Several farm hands were
coming in from the fields to dinner.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16

clergyman floundered around for sew.
eral minutes without observing any
sign of scuffle. Suddenly he heard
a voice and, guided by the sound,
soon came upon Dora Haines kneeling
beside the PROSTATE form of man.
Dora appeared not to notice FaXon
who, as soon as his eyes fell upon his
rivals face against the girls heart,
cried out
How can you, Dora? He is felon
he who forged old man Cotton S
name-the man whose arrest is worth
five hundred dollars"
Dora turned upon him with scorn
in her beautiful eyes. He is inno-
cent?" she cried. Barker stirred and
the farmers daughter again gave him
her attention, calling him by endearing
names-names the Reverend Faxon
had never before heard from her
lips. A sigh escaped Dora's lover and
suddenly he sat up, looking longingly
into the girls eyes and then letting
his gaze wander to the surprised
countenance of the parson. Dora
knows I'm innocent, he said, and
then something like smile brighten
ed his handsome features-a smile of
triumph. Faxon made move as If
to withdraw.
mot YETI cried Barker, and there
was strength in his voice. "Stay!"-
and Barker's hand was raised In it
he held shining revolver. "Dora's
father told me, before this little forg-
ing incident, that she loved you, so
when you stopped to forge anothers
name and further stopped to accuse
me-old Cotton's clerk-for love Of
her, believing that she really loved
you, | let it appear that left the
country. But was not very far away.
One night l stole to Dora's window
to say good-by, and learned from her
lips that her heart was mine. Her
father interrupted us and, believing
the lie you spread concerning me,
would have held me to claim the re-
ward. Dora pleaded for my liberty
and her father let me go, threatening
" 0uOOI llt L again NC cSCh VIZ
his place. To-day | came to expose
you and to take Dora away as my
wife. l managed to send her a
message to meet me here, but her
father saw me and kept his promise.
AS for you-you will soon change your
ministerial garb for a striped suit"
"You can prove nothing"
"That will come later; just now you
have work to do-the last task you
will perform as clergyman, | think
for some time-marry us!"
The Reverend Giles Faxon trem-
bled, hesitated and suffered. Dora
hid her face on her lovers shoulder.
The point of Barker's pistol rose
trifle and-Faxon dill his duty.
Twill he live?' asked Faxon, for
Dora and Barker were very silent fol-
lowing the strange ceremony and the
clergyman feared-or did he hope?-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16

Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in %-pound pack
ages, and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. II your grocer tries to sell you
1907. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
tiers and figures "16 ozs." Demand
Defiance and save much time and
money and the annoyance Of the iron
sticking. Defiance never sticks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16

that his vic Hl 5n- be passing be-
yond the pc 20 aa1lsa him to the
world.
Live? Yes Live 20 SEQ you well
rewarded" cried Barker. springing to
his feet.
"Why-why, thought you were
badly wounded" declared the Rev
erend Giles Faxon.
'He would have BEEN" said Dora,
nesting close in her lovers arms,
had | not thought to put blank cart.
ridges in fathers gun"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
MINERS CARRY GREAT WEIGHTS.
Strength of ChiIeans Sustained With.
out Meat Diet.


out Meat Diet.
Perhaps the greatest weights borne
for any distance are the loads OF ore
brought up from the mines of the An
des by the miners of Chile.
Darwin visited a copper miEe in a
ravine leading from the main range OF
the Cordilleras, where the work was
carried on by such primitive means
that, though the mines had been
worked in the mountains for at least
two centuries, the water was removed
in some by carrying it up shafts in
leather bags on mems backs.
Sir Francis Head, when visiting d
similar mine, found that all the ore
was carried up to the surface, ver-
tical climb of $50 feet, by the miners,
and that the average weight carried
was $50 pounds. This load was not
carried up winding stair. but up
notched trunks of trees, set almost
upright, one touching another.
The food of the Chilean miner, &C.
cording to Darwin. consisted of rations
of sixteen figs and two small loaves OF
bread for breakfast; for dinner boiled
beans; for supper wheat crushed and
roasted. They scarcely ever tasted
meat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16

since Faxon, on his way afoot from
his school to dine with Haines and his
daughter, had heard high words from
clump of trees near the creek by the
roadside words, followed by the re-
port of gun. He had distinguished
the voices but, being of a timid ma
ture, had FASTENED his steps toward
quire into the cause or effect of the
strange occurrence.
Arriving at little bridge that span
ned the creek, Faxon, leaving the road,
tremblingly plunged into the under
brush, calling: Dora! Dora! Where
are you, Dora?"
There was no answer and the young
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
Italian Judicial Scandal.

A singular judicial scandal has
broken out in Naples and the district
depending upon the Neapolitan tri.
bunal where the discovery has been
made that no fewer than 10000 pub.
lie prosecutions, great and small, have
during the last few years been allow
ed to lapse and disappear from the
lists, owing to magsterial neglect and
corruption. The excuse for the magis-
trates is that they have only followed
a system of long standing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
Fishing Wheels.

A curious plan for catching f1sh ID
used on the River Columbia. A num-
Der of wheels are set up in the mid
die of the stream, which, as they turn
around, catch up the fish and cast
them into troughs by the river banks.
AS much as five tons weight CT fish a
day has thus been taken.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16

His first impulse was to inquire of
them as to Barker and the shooting,
but he remembered Haines' warning
and let them pass unquestioned.
"Perhaps he is lying wounded down
there by the creek" he thought, per
haps-oh, God-perhaps Haines killed
him-and it is all my fault. / will
20 and see. Dora II she expected him,
may be there before me-"
Less than half an hour had elapsed
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
In the Tomb Chamber.

The entrance into the passage is
about twelve feet square. and con-
tinues for several hundred feet, direct
ly into the mountain on a gradual in
cline till the tomb chamber is reached
The sides and ceilings of passage and
chamber are deliberately covered by
Egyptian character showing the great
ness of Amenaphis and the esteem in
which he was held by his subjects,
who are represented in vast numbers,
bringing offerings of fowls, fish, fruit
and wine. The characters are in
painted sculpture. in the shade of red,
green, yellow, black and white; and
while those near the entrance are
much faded those of the chamber are
as bright as when placed there, 1000
years ago. This chamber is about
twenty-five feet square, with ceilings
seemingly supported by square stone
columns also covered with sculptured
characters in praise of the "distin-
guished occupant" These old fellows
evidently did not intend that their
light should be hidden from the world
to come or their own estimate of their
greatness be permitted to fade. A por.
ton of the floor of this chamber, about
ten feet square, is somewhat lower
than the rest, and in the center of 1t
is the stone sarcophagus, heavily
carved. In this lies, in wonderful
state of preservation, the mummy of
tho GREAT king II was Wonderful tn
gaze upon him. resting where he was
placed forty centuries ago, looking so
natural that one could know the man
ner of man" he was. He is the only
one of those ancient rulers thus far
discovered in his tomb, the rest hav-
ing been found hidden in caves near
the temple of Queen Hatazu, where
they had been placed to prevent fall
ing into the hands of enemies.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16

Inquiry into the history of every in.
mate of lunatic asylum will develop
the fact that he always believed in
clairvoyants and fortune tellers and
spirits.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
In Mans Behalf.

Most women begin to get stout after
they are 30 years of age, but they
can't understand why their husbands
don't keep right on yearning to hold
them on their knees.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16
Expert Testimony.

There are fifteen symptoms OF
drunkenness" said medical witness
in an English police court. The Judge
hastily fined the defendant SIS and
called for the next case.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-12-16

The we'll earned reputation and increas-
ing popularity of the Lewis "Single
Binder" straight &c cigar, is due to the
maintained high quality and appreciation
of the smoker Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.