Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-04-07

rible onslaught of the old party press,
backed by corrupt and party leaders,
and they believe that though a battle
has been fought and a glorious victory
won, the war is not over. They are not
ninety-dav men but are enlisted for the
war. They are fighting in as good a
cause as ever engaged the attention or
heroism OF men. Their homes, their
happiness. their adj AYE, the perpe
tuity of their country itself are in the
balances. Little wonder that they are
determined. o, laugh and scott, rave,
foam and lie, We assassins OF private
character-ye mercenary hirelings OF
plutocratic populace-laugh while you
can, for the time is coming when yOul
laughter will be turned TO weeping,
and it cometh on most rapid wings
Washington KS Record.
what are women wearing?" Asks
a female society writer-meaning by
women" in this connection, those o.
her sex who ''toil not, neither do they
spin" May it please your innocent in
quiry, they are, my dear. wearing the
hearts and lives OF hundreds OF thous
.ands of other women-mOstly beautifu
girls of tender years--in sunless, soul
ness factories; in sewing ,dens, located
| in buildings whose touch is cOntagiOn
in printing offices, that shatter the
nerves and load with the pOisiOn OF leat
| the delicate feminine frame; in book
binderies, where the system becomes
arugged and drunken with analine; il
canning establishments, whose walls
reek with filth, and whose halls rims
with ribaldry; in cotton and wooler
mills, that Strangle the lungs with dus
and dirt blast the health, blight the
life and pluck the roses Of youth. Nay
more: THESE women with their crue
exactions for things to wear, force girls
of fairy form and feature fit jewellers o
the ''palAce of the sylphid queen") t.
associate with coarse and angular char
aeters of positively beastly dispositions
and so, the thought becomes less pure
the sentiment less refined, the words
less filthy chosen, the fairy face les
attractive; the mouth becomes coarse
and vulgar, its cline OF beauty" destroy
ed and ugly, and the eye reflector o
knowledge that is death to all tina
makes woman a woman. These, an(
more, my dear, are what some OF thu
women are wearing.-EX.
California fills its vacancy in thu
! United States senate caused by tn,
death of Senator George Hearst, by the
election Of ex-Representative Charles
N. FELTON,. He was in the house in the
10th and 50th congresses. Mr.. Feltor
is SO years of age and is one OF the re
publican mOnOpOlists whose large
amount of wealth has made him potent
at the Golden Gate" He has not beer
one of the class who would exclaim
''They best serve who stand and wait.
His majority was returned at lob votes
at his election in 1884; In 1886 he lacked
I.004 votes of having majority, but
his vote showed 119 greater than tina
of his opponent, Frank j. Sullivan, wht
made contest for the seat but, the case
was never reached by the house. Hon
M. NJ. Estee, his late main republican
contestant for the senate, said this or
the 18th inst: II have nothing to say
for publication except that / was de-
feated because had not enough O.
votes. No poor man has chance Il
aspire for Office in California. no moi
intend to say that money was used fol-
the election of Mr.. FELTON,, but he GER
tsinly had with him the influence O
corporations like the Alaska Seal Flu
company, sugar refneries, federal bre
gade, etc. The men who stood by me
are men against whom there has neve
been breath of suspicion. After m,
defeat congratulated Mr.. FELTON, OF
his election, and wished him man!
happy days. l am satisfied, and I d
not want the Japanese mission evel
now. California climate is good enough
for ae." This man FELTON, will be {
good mate for Edmunds, Hoar, Sher