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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
THE NINETY AND NINE.

There are ninety and nine who toll and sweat
In this beautiful land today
That one IN splendor may idle fret
And fritter his time away;
Mid surfeit Of riches, clothes and food.
And prodigal waste of coal and wood.
He Tolls in the lap of indolent ease.
While the ninety and nine must starve and
freeze.
There are ninety and nine sweet children fail
In our cities noisome cells,
Dying for want of hight and air,
While one mid plenty dwells
These helpless babies, these lambs Of God.
His heirs to sunlight and air and sod,
Are crowded out Of this beautiful land
BY the cruel acts of brothers hand.
II he who noteth the sparrows' fall"
Concerneth himself in rain or shine.
Some day a vision will sure appall
The one who robbeth the ninety-nine.
Was Cain more guilty of murders ban
Than he who starveth his fellow man?
II brothers a keeper. since Adams line,
Who keepeth the veal of the ninety-nine2
DIR. A. s. HOughtOn.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
Man Against Money.

Don't be fooled with claptrap. The
third party is formed to capture the Re-
publican party and also the Democratic
party. We are going for both of them.
The prime necessity, the overwhelming
question of the times, is the impoverish-
ment of the people by the destruction of
the money of the people. The fight is
between money and man, and am for
the man. Twill bow to any royal house
with a man at the head of it. but, so help
me God, will never bow to aggregated
wealth headed by shylock of w II
street, but in the words of Patrick
Henrys "Give me liberty or give me
death flames G. Field.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
Rally Round the Flag.

A Daniel has come to judgment, and
his name is The People. He is translat-
ing the Meme Teke now glazing on his
country's wall, and the Belshazzers
heed it not. Drunken with the wine Of
power; feasting on what they have
stolen from the widow and orphan; deaf
to the cry of want and the wall Of squat
id poverty; inviting the Pinkertons
and cattle barons to continue the blood
letting, piling up their Gould, Wander
bilt and Rockefeller millions, they will
feast until the gates of their temples
shall creak upon their hinges for the
last time. Oh, my countrymen. rally
around the flag once more.-Judge Bal
lard, of California.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
A Sure Throw Away"

A vote for Harrison is thrown away.
for he cannot possibly receive 223 cleo
toral votes, and if the election is thrown
into the house the fight is between Cleve-
land and Weaver. A vote for Cleveland
in this state is worse than thrown away,
as it is vote for Harrison. We would
advise the few Democrats and Repub-
hcans left in Nebraska to come in out of
the wet and make Nebraska's protest
unanimous against the goldbugs of Eu-
rope and the eastern states.-Omaha
Evening Public.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
A Laughing Corpse.

The Champion says that the Demo
cratic party has not only passed in its
checks. but it is now sitting up in its
coffin and making faces at the funeral
procession. The expression is CHASTITY
funny on its face, but on inspection it
proves to be roaring joke. The alleged
corpse is simply enjoying itself laugh
ing at the chief mourners, who are all
Republicans and all engaged in telling
between weeps how they had loved the
deceased. Topeka Advocate
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
The War ON "Nothing."

"Whoopee! These calamity howlers
don't amount to anything" Then why
don't the dignified old parties go on their
way rejoicing and let that which doesn't
amount to anything alone? Probably
they have got in such habit of doing
that which does not amount to anything
that they by force Of habit are compelled
to strain every nerve against this moth
buffalo (Mo.) Peoples Paper.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
Claptrap and Reality.

am glad to see on all sides the evidences Of
general prosperity, and am glad to belong to a
party which is never unhappy when the people
are prosperous. If there is any party in this
country that thrives upon calamities, it is not
the Republican party.-Whitelaw Reid at
Braidwood, Ills. Aug. Is.
The same day press dispatches reported
troops called out i'll four states to keep
the peace between workingmen and CAPT
talist corporations.-Iowa Tribune.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
What Would They Say?

A few more tramps will walk out
from Buffalo as result of the black
listing of the striking switchmen. and
the moneyed aristocracy that the Re-
publican party has been twenty-five
years building will heave sigh of re-
lief and say it is as it should be. Better
make a Thousand tramps every month
than intimidate the capital that has
been so bravely invested in railroads;
80 says society" What would good
old Abe Lincoln or Andrew jackson say
were they alive?-Topeka Advocate.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
Populists VIII Win.

Parties just home from Colorado de-
clare that the Populists will beat both
the old parties. The state is already
conceded to Weaver. If few more
states in the northwest would desert
Harrison his defeat would be assured.
At the same time the Democrats must
work like beavers to prevent Weaver
breaking the Cleveland column in the
south. -Vicksburg Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22

Will 5 per cent. reduction in the
tariff, which means saving of about
$50, 900, 900 to the people, pay the IS, OO0,-
900 mortgages on the homes of the peo-
pie? Think about it. Twenty millions
Of money means about thirty cents per
capita. This is all there is in the tariff
question. ARK Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22
A Strong Stomach.

Stump Ashby. of Texas, is the cham
pion story teller of the third party. He
mas another name. several others in
fact. but nobody ever calls him any
thing but Stump.
"Once there was a man." said Mr..
Ashby, "who was paid twenty-five cents
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22

The Portland Qnd.) Inlander formu-
lates this ciusher: 1.-THE average cost Of
an acre of corn in Nebraska last year
was $643, and the market value was
$7.58, leaving the producer $1.15 profit
per acre, without the cost of marketing.
No wonder the farmers are mad"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22

New Jersey is getting into line. Wea-
yer and Field clubs are springing up all
over the state. An active campaign
will be carried on among the wagework-
ers in manufacturing towns. especially
in Newark and Jersey City.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-22

At Houston the Democrats forgot to
pray until after they had divided. 1t
was too late then-"a divided house
cannot stand" 1t is too late to pray
when the devil comes.-Southern Mer-
curry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21

I have travelled considerably, and ought
to know, and really do know, q great deal;
am afraid to tell you how much, lest you
should feel too keenly your own narrow
limitations / have been to kickRpoO
Town and Harker's Corners; once l drove
to Toulon, Stark county, and in all these
countries found scarcely living human
being except people. Peoplel Why they re
common as grass. Peoria county used to
be full of them when / was a boy. I've
seen hundreds of them; l suppose that il
one reason why they never awe me any
more. Great people-that is, people who
look wise and talk bass, and lift their eye
brows, and say ''Ahp except at other
times when they say ABR" with a circum-
fex that fairly runs up and down your
back; people who are afraid to walk very
near the edge of the earth lest they should
tip it over and slide of.
used TO be afraid of these people, and
take off my hat and say Sir" and
MA am" to them. But soon / observed
that they were the same kind Of people
had always known. Just like the man who
kept store in Mossville, and the woman
who run the church fairs out on Orange
Prairie, and the girl who taught school at
Richwoods -Robert j. Burdette in Ladies'
Home Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21
River Pollution.

There are said to be some people, and
among them even some physicians, who
still hold TO the fatal fallacy OF the late DR..
Letheby. medical officer OF health of LON
don about twenty-five years ago. that
sewage, when it Is mixed with twenty
times its volume of running water and has
flowed = distance of ten or twelve miles. L
absolutely destroyed. the agents Of destruc-
ton being infusorial animals. aquatic
plants and fish. and chemical oxidation
This theory appears 70 The Medical Record
10 have been based upon DR. letheby's ina
blIIty 20 detect the sewage under such cir
CumstsnceS. hence ke believed IN is totaA
destruction, notwithstanding abundant evil
dence adduced Of the prevalence Of cholera
and typhoid fever among persons who
drank such water, he mad more faifh Ia
AIs chemical tests anu microscopes than Ia
the fatal results
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21

The most remarkable fact concerning
the queer plant, the goatseys, is that IL
has been proven by experiment to be the
parent Of cultivated wheat. This fact was
accidentally discovered by French agri-
culturist. He wished 10 determine what
effect cultivation would have upon the
goatseye and planted remote from any
fields Of grass that might mingle with II .
few Of the seeds. The first crop showed
much difference from the original, being
two or three times taller and more grains
to the stalk. At the end Of seven years ex-
perimenting the yield was over 300 grains
for each one planted, and the Transforms
ton was complete-every plant was true
representative Of cultivated wheat. Later
he sowed them in open fields and in no in
stance have they returned TO the form Of
the original goatseye grass.
The same experiments have since been
tried by the English Agricultural society
with the same results The nearest form
70 true wheat now found wild u the creep
ing couch grass, perennial closely agree
ing In all essential particulars OF structure
with our less cultivated annual wheat
Chicago Tribune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21

They shut the chief up IN Fortress Mob
roe for awhile, and then allowed him to re-
turn to his tribe. He died at village on
the Des Moines river Oct. 8, 1888, and was
buried in Davis county. A doctor stole
the corpse and took it to Quincy, Ills,
where the bones were cleaned and var
nished ready for wiring. The governor Of
Iowa secured the return Of the skeleton,
and Black Hawks widow made him a
present of it. A physician became the
next owner, and finally the battered rem
nants Of the great chief were again con-
signed to earth, this time in the potter's
field Of the Aspen DAY cemetery.
In connection with Black Hawks state
nent, given above, the following extract
from The Galenian of early date in 1882 has
considerable interest:
To the citizens Of the mining district en-
bracing tho county Of 10 Daviess, in the state
of Illinois and the western part Of the territory
of Michigan on the upper Missiseippi-1nbab-
iting as we do q country isolated from our
brethren both of the state and of the Union 20
which we belong, surrounded By savage and
hostile enemy, who has raised both the toma-
hawk and scalping knife elike on the defense
less inhabitants and the soldier going forth to
battle, already have we witnessed the fall of a
Durley, St. Vrain, a Halle, Fowler and a
Aawley on this SIDE OF ROCK river, while the
scalping knife is still reektng In tho blood Of
our fellow citizens between Rock river and
Peoria, and two sisters Sylvia and Rachel HAlD
nre grooming IN captivity among q savage
enemy. We are prevented By Indian
hostility from cuItivating our farms and gar
deps, receiving but little succor from the state
or from the general government, receiving but
scanty supplies by way Of the Mississippi,
which must every day become moro preca-
rious.
Sylvia and Rachel Hall are spoken of "a
~groaning in captivity" Black Hawk
asserted that he and his people never
raised hand against any but warriors"
and, so far as the Hall girls are concerned,
he told the truth. They regained their
liberty and returned to their friends abso-
lutely unframed, and one of them, Rachel,
now resident of Texas, hopes to be pres
emit at next Junes reunion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21

on, as claimed, by the unwise precipitancy
of the settlers. The west was In an up
roar. Governor John Reynolds of Illinois,
called for state volunteers and the national
government turned out the regulars
General Winfield Scott conducted one
branch of the campaign, and Colonel Zach
airy Taylor another. Lieutenant Jeffer-
son Davis WAS actively engaged and Lieu
tenant Robert Anderson, acting as assist
ant inspector general, mustered into the
service a lot of "Clary Grove boys" from
Schuyler county, including Abraham Lin
coin and John T. Stuart. Among others
who participated in the brief struggle were
Henry Dodge, A. Q. Dodge, G. w. Jones
and Sydney Breese.
Here indeed was a collection of talent in
the wildernessl Two future presidents Of
the United States, the leader of the south
ern confederacy and the defender of Fort
Sumter; Stuart was to be known as the
''silver tongued congressman" and Henry
Dodge as Wisoonsiu's governor and sena-
tor; A. q. Dodge and Jones also became
senators, and were ambassadors OF the
United States at various foreign courts.
while Breese found distinction as lawyer
and rose TO the bench of the supreme court
of Illinois.
Associated with these people were the
venerable and honored few who hope to
participate in the reunion at Lena next
June. Captain ID. s Harris, Of Galena
commanded a company at the battle Of
Wisconsin Heights; Cyrus Lichtenberger,
of Apple River, His. fought under Colonel
James VI. Strobe, and w T. hewitt, of Al
bRny, Ills, was in the mounted volunteer
,,,E,
ON the list of the survivors, were mere lads
when they enlisted to fight what WAS
termed in the extravagant and unfounded
language of the hour the British bought
band of savage invaders"
Now they are approaching or have passed
the eightieth milestone in the march Of
life, yet probably none Of them regrets old
age, for the sixty years between the fight
at kellogg's Grove and the reunion at
Lena were we'll worth living. Think Of
the notable events occurring between the
dates 1852 and lS92-the nullifcation ex-
element, the commercial panic and the
wiping out of the national debt in 1896;
DORIS rebellion, the war with Mexico, the
exploits OF Frsmout the Pathfinder, the
discovery Of gold. the oratorical battles of
Clay, Webster and Calhoun. After those,
John Brown at Harper's Ferry. the civil
war. the assassination of Lincoln, the pyr-
chase Of Alaska, the great Chicago fire. the
Staying of Garfield and the subjugation Of
Black Hawks ancient foes, the Sioux
Where these old men fought as lads
more than 500 cities, towns and villages
now dot the plain, and the Rock no longer
flows with stately cam Her waters are
chained 10 do the service Of man. end tum-
BILE over dams, shoot through mills and
bear the burden az vessels
As for the Sacs and Foxes, once so
dreaded and powerful Lhay ara now httIa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21
Work and Long Life.

Thoughtful medical men are now con-
tending that it is not advisable for a per
son to drop all work with advancing years
as both mind and body are like pieces Of
machinery, which wear out more rapidly
from the rust Of disuse than from ordinary
work The fact. which seems to make 8
good argument, is pointed out that those
of the public men who have remained in
harness have retained their mental facul-
ties unimpsired to the end. The theory ts
perhaps a novel one, but IL would sppear
% demand consideration
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21


well in recent years in English speaking
countries. Wong Chin Foo, the New York
Chinese newspaper man, and Stepniak,
the unknown author of able articles on the
Russian question, are notable examples of
success achieved because Of the demand
for literature which may be described as
''out Of the ordinary"
Two recent candidates for popular favor
are Prince Malcolm Khan, ex-Persian en-
bassador TO Great Britain and half dozen
other countries, ex-favorite Of the shah,
ETC., and Sic Hassan Ben Ali, an Arab,
who describes himself as "a Morabet, ma
tive Of Aggadeer, In Sus Morocco, other
wise Mahgrib Alackssa, and also in tho
secret service Of the sultan"
Prince Malcolm Khan is writing for the
press Of England. while the United States
Is the base of operations for Hassan Ben
Ali
Malcolm Khan's work is In great demand
just now, owing to the evidences Of deep
research manifested in some thoughtful
articles contributed to one Of the leading
London papers. He has given the subject
of the material advancement of Persia
much attention. His conclusion is that the
reason why eastern races have not been
able to assinilate European civilization Is
because Of Mohammedanism. Therefore
he suggests that this religion be so modi-
fed as to remove the objection and still
retain all of the essential principles of
Islamism. This has been done TO a certain
extent. A new Koran has been prepared,
and it Is believed that good results will
follow, as religion Is intermingled with
everything in Persia.
Prince Malcolm khan's career has been
a remarkable one. He was thoroughly
educated in Paris and then became pri-
vate interpreter and aid-de-camp to the
shah. He obtained a wonderful infu-
ence over his master, who sent him on
treaty missions to various governments.
His views were too progressive for resi-
dent Of Persia, and although he is said to
have been the most decorated man in that
country, it was deemed advisable to make
him the representative at some foreign
court. he served several years in Berlin,
Vienna and London. He was recalled in
1880, but soon regRined his influence over
the shah. He again went to London az
minister, and was, a few months ago, de-
prived OF his numerous titles and honors
and ordered to return home forthwith.
He, however, wished to retain his head 80
he continued in London and took mp a lit
erary life.
Sic Hassan Ben Ali deserves mention
not so much for what he he's accom-
plished as for what he proposes to do. His
only contribution to literature so far is a
poem entitled, Song to the First Gray
Hair" 1t is said to exhibit the true poetic
instinct, and Hassan has been encouraged
to continue his compositions. His princi-
pal object in visiting the United States just
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21

Clinton, commander OF the British forces,
retired to the Hunters Home for the pur~
pose of devising ways and means for con-
tinuing the campaign
The house was built by Jacob Bergen,
forwhom one of Brooklyn's longest streets
Is named. 1t has passed through a num-
Der OF widely divergent experiences One
of its owners was man named Anderson,
who invented the foghorn so familiar TO
sailors. Some of the proprietors were per
sons Of such low character that they were
practically driven out. Sarsoparillo, the
present occupant, owns the building, which
Is now about as un-American in almost
every respect as it could be If it were To-
Gated in Moscow or Florence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21

new commonwealth is growing up at the
south end of the Dark Continent. Indeed,
it is scarcely an exaggeraJion to say THAI
TO reading Americans Cape Colony is only
the land of Olive Schreinsr and except for
the casual references in her writings they
would know very little of its scenery OF
people.
Just the same. Cape Colony has 2Oo, 600
square miles, and Natal, Bassutoland,
the Orange Free State and other divisions
a much larger area, and they win exhibit
at Chicago an amazing variety, from
the wild Kafir to the diamond miner at
work. The government OF the Cape of
Good Hope has appointed Mr.. l. Wiener,
president Of the Cape Town chamber OF
commerce, as commissioner for the fair,
and he Will be assisted in his work by Mr..
j. Alfred Ellis, secretary of the chamber.
NJ. Berling, of New York city, is CONNER
cial agent Of the colony, and therefore as
sistant in the work.
Several tons Of blue earth VIII be trans
ported from Kimberly, and the whole proc
ess Of diamond finding and washing viii
be displayed. There will also be ex-
hibits of every kind of wool and hair, OF
ostriches and their eggs and feathers, of
buchu leaves and everlasting flowers, and,
In short, of every kind of fur, fin, feather,
skin, wood and flower indigenous to that
section.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21
THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND.
It Was Planned In Building Now Ussd
as an italian Lodging House.

It Was Planned In Building Now Ussd
an italian Lodging House.
Few Of the many thousands who daily
pass the italian grocery store at the corner
Df Jamaica avenue and Broadway, in
Brooklyn, know that important history for
the United States has been made in that
little building which is now said to be the
home Of more than seventy natives of Italy,
and this despite the fact that there are but
half dozen rooms in the place besides the
store.
From George Washington, Pater Patria,
20 Dominica SarsoparilIo, lodging house
and Italian grocery store keeper.
What DESCENT
1t is enough to recall Hamlet's words to
Horatio at Yorick's grave, ITO what base
uses we may return" for it was in that
building, with its quaint old Dutch archi-
lecture, known as the Hunters Home, that
Washington laid his plans for the battle O.;
Long Island. After the fight Sir Henry
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21

The Pail Mall Gazette tells Of Httls
thirteen-year-old heroine In Lower Suyden-
ham Her name is Maud Hood. There
are seven motherless little ones IN Asud's
home; all young. Their father, working
matchmaker, has 20 earn the household
bread, and one brother helps in the process
by acting as 3 green grocer's errand boy.
Another is an invalid confined TO bed, and
the cares OF the household and the over
sight OF the younger ones al fall upon
Little Mother Maud Maud's devotion 10
her little foUr-year-old brother who severe
ly scalded himself was Of such csSrac-
ter as to attract the attention Of the a1-
thorities, and Maud got into the news
papers" Scores Of charitable persons have
now come 20 Mauds aid. but Is is feared
that her privacions have affected her
health An English clergyman very truly
remarked recently, If any one deserves .
prominent place IN the Book Of Golden
Deeds, Maud Hood oertsinly does"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21
FOUGHT BLACK HAWK
PROPOSED REUNION OF SURVIVORS
OF THE SAC AND FOX WAR.

But Few Are Left of the Little Army
That Wrcsted Northern Illinois from
the savages Sixty Years Ago-Distin-
guished Indian Fighters of That Time.
There are twenty odd survivors of the
Black Hawk war These ancient veterans
have arranged to hold a celebration of the
sixtieth anniversary of the battle of Kel-
logg's Grove at Lena. Stephenson county,
Ills, on the 18th of next June, and for
many reasons the occasion promises to be
one of more than ordinary interest.
The conquest Of the Sacs and Foxes will
always be memorable, not so much because
of savage forays and swift reprisais as be-