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MEXICAN MINING LAW.

Liberal Previsions Lately Made ~
Congregational Enactmsnt.
The Mexican congress has passed
law empowering the president to grant
for one year special concessions to pros
psctors and operators of gold mines and
plncers. says the San Diego Union. The
new law is of great importance to min
ing men operating in Lower California,
where customs duties and operating ex-
penses have killed all mining except
ing vertable bonanzas. Placer mining
will also receive an impetus from the
new law.
For the purposes of the law q gold
bearing region is defined to be one in
which the commercial value of the gold
extracted exceeds that of all the other
metals with which it is associated. As
soon as the nature OF the ore changes in
such manner that the value OF the gold
contained does not exceed that OF all
other concomitant metals, all the
special concessions and privileges here
after mentioned shall be regarded as
revoked.
The limits of each exploration zone
shall be clearly defined in the respective
CJICocblOus Wlbulu 6uCu Luu0 b60 C0d-
cessionaires are to be at liberty to take
up as mluy claims as can be located On
unoccupied territory, and to incorporate
with the zone exterior claims already bs-
longing to them, or such as they may
subsequently acquire by purchase or
other legal means.
Concessionaires are to be granted an
exclusive exploration permit, good for
six months. empowering them to prog
pect the zone covered by the concession.
They are to have the right>to import
machinery, tools, appliances and appa-
ratua of all kinds used in the prospecting
and operation of gold mines. as well as
building material for the mines and re-
duetion works, without payment OF cas-
toms duties.
They are to enjoy a reduction in the
annual mining tax for q period not ex-
ceeding 10 years, paying in the first year
one-tenth of such tax, and an increasing
amount every year. until the full tax be-
comes payable in the eleventh year.
They are also to be free for 10 years
from all federal taxation, with the ok
ception OF the tax msntisned in the
foregoing paragraph, OF taxes payable
in stamps and OF mintage and assay
dues.
4Hcy dio W opouu III prospecting duU
developing work at least $500, 900 during
the first three years and another $780,
900 during the five following years. A
deposit of earnest money of not less than
$4,000 in securities of the public debt
will be required. to be returned to the
concessionaire when 5000, 900 have been
invested.
The exemption from taxes spoken OF
above does not refer to the operation Of
aluvial gold. The discoveries of such
gold shall pay while operating it one
third OF the regular taxes.
Within twoyears from the issue OF the
concession, the concessionaire shall be
required to erect q metxllurgical estab-
lisnment capable Of treating at least 400
tons OF ore per week or shall execute
some other public improvement of equiv.
alent value to be determined by the de-
partmeDt of encouragement.
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ACTOR AND ACTING, by ALFRED AYREs; a
book about theater folk Publsheo by
David Appleton & Co., New Y ork. FOR
sale by the Stoll Il rhayer company, l3o
South Spring street,
Some years ago it was etill a traoition
that the best'English spoken in the best
manner could only be heard IN the the-
ater. That tradition is bosh. A stage
which has no curriculum .is nos apt to
have cult. And in this drift period,
when the profession OF acting is mere
hux of clever young men or unosyeiopeo
young women. who are undecided Wheth.
er it is menage or a market, most OF
the old standards of articulate excellence
have been swept away.
Most, but not all. Mr.. Alfred Ayres
remsine. The brave defender of the
queens English and dauntless stlckler
tor the grammar of art still hurls his
verbal arrows, and stands unmoved
amid the crash OF traditions and the
wreck OF schools. Mr.. Ayres, in his
domain, which is that of pedagogy.
rather than estAetics, deserves we'll OF
the few remaining veterans OF an almost
lost cult. He writes and speaks the
English language with absolute correct
ness; he has weighed every word in our
vernacular, and knows the weight OF
every syllable and the relative import
ance of every letter. He has made cor
rect utterance the study of his life, and
he has kept his unflinching eye upon the
New ork stage for years. Other CRITICS
compromised with the slipshod favorites,
gave them the benefit OF generous I'M
concern or exalted their arms and legs
while they shut their ears to their
speech. Mr.. Ayres, never.
He has just published book which
bears the title of Acting and Actors. 1t
is compact little book, but, like an
egg, is full OF meat, and, unlike all
other recent books or acting, it ecru-
profession and pins himself down to
what Mr.. Ayrss believes to be the funda-
mental laws of good acting.
Mr.. Ayres ia already widely and
favorably known to actors of repute.
and to scholars who are not actors. by
his other works. The Orthoepist and
The Verbalist are the best, because the
only books of exactly their kind that we
have, and hie Essentials of Elocution,
while not attempting to be brilliant or
original, ia q careful and honest attempt
to formulate the laws of defamation.
In the latest work. Acting ana Actors.
the author gives himself little more
rope, and in bringing together.the inter-
/ esting papers which he has for several
years been contributing to the dramatic
and other journals. he permits us to see
how uns CRYING and in the main, howcoi-
rect he is in his opinions of the many IA
vorites who have come and gone within
score OF years.
If all the right royal mummers will get
ie-JitslaJer niure Jnefe IS IN emphasis
than they ever suspected. and they may
be awakened to new respect for the
mere dynamics OF utterance.
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other dream is shattered, and unless
he happen to be man OF
high morality and inhexible honor,
he seeks solace for his misfortune in
some othar direction, and usually bad
one. In the other classes of lie it is
the same. Marriage is frequently fol-
lowed by excessive vanity, by extrava-
ganCe. love of pleasure. any distraction,
in short, to cure the monotony of home.
The woman, no matter how high her
rank, who gads about in search OF dis
sipation while her husband is working
hard at his profession or occupation, is
tolerably sure to meet with an admirer
among the idle votaries OF pleasure,
thousands OF whom are ever on the
watch for vain and weak minded women.
There would be little occasion for our
divorce courts il married women re-
manned at home and did their duty in
their husbands absence. And if women,
alter marriage, were as sssiduous to
please them az they were to please their
lovers, such courts might be dispensed
with altogether, except for few ire
claimable men.
After marriage hus band and wife are
too secure OF each other from legal
in greater liberties than are consistent
with mutual comfort. There should be
larger reliance on good behavior. AT
present the marriage bond is too strict,
and needs much relaxation. We bind
two people together go tightly that we
strsngle their happiness. Ii their con-
tinued union depended upon their salts.
faction with each other; il they could
be separated at will. there would be
every inducemcnt for them to strive
to please each other, and married life
would not be the spiritless or wretched
existence that it 30 often 10 now. Moth
ing less than radical change in our
marriage laws can improve the relations
OF married people, for these laws are in
compatible with human nature. Abso-
lutte possession blunts enjoyment and
destroys desire. Limited possession &C.
cords better with the frailties OF hui
manity. We Sigh for what We have
by slender thread. 1t is the irrevoc-
ability of marriage that demoralizss it,
as though it we're a scheme specially
invented by priests to damn those who
entered into it. Make 1t revocable by
mutual consent and by simple rsgistra-
ton, and it's purity and usefulness to
mankind will be restored. The ahom-
Unable crimes which daily stain our
social history, and which have black
ened our annals for centuries, will at
once expire. Then love will not die
after marriage, as it does now, but will
be regenerated and purified with every
successive age.
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without being dsfiled? Let the records
of the divorce cour. furnish an ans Her I
All experience has shown that woman
is prone to extremes. Like the young
lady with the hirsute frontal adorn.
ment, whenever she departs from her
normal condition of extreme goodness.
''she is horrid.''
What then 10 tho penalty to be paid
for the Emancipation of woman" Is il
not to be feared that il will be the desc
Grafton Of that venerated spot known by
the name OF home; name 30 dear to the
people OF our race? Woman has ever
been the home-maker. CAST back the
veil that time has thrown over the past
and peer into its misty depths, before
civilization was, at time when man
had not ceased to be wanderer and
vagabond on the face OF the earth, and
we still find the mother and the home,
though that home was miserable tepo
of twisted saplings and untanned skins,
yet it was the germ OF what We all hold
dear. Throughout oil history-as
dwelier in the tents of the sons of Shem
in the log hut OF the Teuton; in
the splendid villa of the Roman
she has been the presiding goddess and
preeerver OF the home. The good woman
has power to transform the most squalid
abode into temple meet for our wor-
ship; she glo.1fies it with her gracious
presence and makes it holy ground.
1t is said that be whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad. De-
mented indeed must be q people who
would look with equanimity On any
threatened danger to their homes. and
it may be that the new dispsnsation In
its final workings will bring nothing but
good, but unless the indications are at
fault its first fruits will be to give more
work to the divorce court. furnish re-
cruits for the industrial armies and sup.
ply inmates for orphan asylums.
ARTHUR JOHNSTON.
Santa Ana, June 80, 1894.
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MANS COLUMN.

CONDUCTED BY COG AND MAGoG.
In the Forum for May is an article on
The Stability of the House OF Lords
containing sentences which must make
the theughtful American vince. Fo,
instance, admitting the necessity of a
second chamber, despite the Able
Sieyes' famous epigram that. eff it dis
sents from the frat, it ia mischievous /;
II it agrees. it is superfuous," he will
assert his preference for house of peere
over house OF millionsires; an aris-
tocracy of blood over an aristocracy oil
noodle. And the American of today can
hardly speak with the same pride Of his
upper house aa could his father of the
chamber in which Clay and Webster,
Calhoun and Sumner fought the battles
OF intellectual giants. The reign OF
peace on earth and good will among men.
we can hope ia coming, but it is
not yet here, and perfect national equal
ity OF conditions seem as lar away as it
ever was, despite the growth OF democ.
raey and popular government. Even in
the United States the development OF an
sriatocracy of money and monopoly, of
fashion and custom, is one OF the feat
ures OF the time. And Americans, in
denouncing the house of lords with all
It's imperfections freely admitted can
still afford to remember their own con-
gress affirmed and maintained for long
Yeas the right of human slavery, and
that IL the lords for awhile opposed
Roman Catholic emancipation, the duke
OF Wellington finally granted it, and
long before the United States senate
O RI ! al
fugitive from the slave owner.
After hauling us over the Goals in this
sort of fashion, Dir. j. Castell Hopkins
OF Toronto, the writer of The Stability
OF the House OF Lords, then goes on to
admit that Proposals are once more
atoot for vigorous action against the
lords, for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFORM"
Now it is just possible that what our
congress needs ia root-ana branch re-
form. We have Tor years past been
sending there our moneyed men, rather
then our men OF manly wealth, OF in
tellectual farsightedness and disinterest-
edness, OF tho Christ heart And very
naturally we have got the legitimate re.
Reconsideration in the interest OF
money. L think it is Herbert Spencer
who has affirmed that the class best
represented in the halls of legislature
10 the one to obtain the most favorable
legislation In its own behalf. II now q
different kind OF legislation ia wanted.
tne people must see to IL that their rep
resentatives arc OF their best, regardless
OF the sack in hand or at its behest.
Let the people search and bring out
men OF the Jefferson and Lincoln type !
OF the Patrick Henry and Charles Sum.
ner order. And, when the time is ripe,
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g. II: Clifford, New Cassel, Wis. was troubled
with Neuralgia and rheumatism, his stomach
was dtsordered, his liver was affected to au
alarming degree, appetite fell away, and he
wao terribly reduced in flesh and strength,
Three BOTTLES OF Electric Buffers cured him.
running sore on his leg OF, light years stand
ing Used three bottles OF Electric Bitsers and
seven boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve and his
leg is sound and well. John Speaker, Catawbl.
o.. rad five large fever sores on his leg, doctors
said he was fncurable One bottle Electric
Buffers and one box Bucklens Arnica sntvs
cured him entirely. Sold by G. F, Hcinzcm 4 n,
druggist and chemist, 222 n. Main street.
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Beautiful steamer Hermosa making
daily trips. Special excursions Satur-
days and Sundays. See railroad time
tables and display advertisement, this
paper. or 100 West Second street, Will
mington Transportation company.
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Drop in at the Casino and enjoy the
afternoon concerts. Rspt accom- odA-
tons for families; Refreshments of every
kind; etrict order prevailing. Wagner
q LANCER, proprietorH.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05
Bread-winning Women.

The report of the last census, as
nearly as can be ascertained, shows
that. outside of domestic service,
America had, in 1890, 2,7O0, 900
bread-winning women and girls
working outside their own homes.
There were ll0 lawyers, l65 minis
ters, 800 authors, 5SS journalists,
9. 2.O6l artists, 2, 1876 architects, chem
lists, pharmacists, 2,lO6 stock ralsers
and ranchers, 5.l35 government
clerks, 2,43S physicians and sur
geons, l3, 1872 profes sional musicians
Sc 900 farmers and planters, q l,O7l
clerks and bookke epers, Ia ,465 heads
of commercial houses, 156, 600 pub.
lie school teachers-based on the
census of 1890.
Here is all army of women de-
pending upon themselves for sup
port and probably taking care OF
themselves. Any talk of RELOCATING
these women to life of dependence
is mere foolishness. The question
to consider is how best to adapt this
new factor to existing conditions,
or how to shape the conditions to
the best interests of these wage
earners and the commonwealth
Kansas City Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05

and stuffing and all manner of Chi
canery usually practiced by poll
ticians of 'he old parties. 1t re-
lates of one instance where the
count SHOWS more Republican votes
cast than there were inhabitants,
men women and children, in the
precinct. The Republicans of Ore
gon followed the example set by
Virginia Democrats last fall. Set
the figures for the majority the day
of election and then counted to
them. Our boys are badly organ
lied as they were in this state when
Willets was counted out in 1891 =
Exchange.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05
Is Government Ownership OF
Railroads Visionary?

In these days of trusts and con-
solidations, strikes and cut-downs
between labor and railroads, it may
be interesting to note what has
been and what can be done to rem
edy these evils. We never hear of
any strikes, cut downs or labor
troubles on the railroads of Austria
lia-and why? Because the gov
ernmeut owns and operates them in
the interest of the people.
Ia Australia, you can ride dis
tance of 900 miles across the coun-
try for Sc. 50--first class, too-while
working-men can ride six miles for 2
cents, IL miles for 4 cents, 80 miles
for 10 cents, etc, and railroad men
receive from 25 to SO per cent. more
wages for 8 hours work than they
are paid in this country for 10 hours
of toll.
In Victoria, where the above rates
prevail, the net incomes from the
roads last year was sufficient 20 pay
all the federal taxes.
In Hungary, where the roads are
state owned, you can ride six miles
for l cent, and Gince the government
bought the roads, wages have doub
led. Belgium tells the same story
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05

Mrs. Clara B. Colby. editor and
publisher of the Woman's Tribune,
Washington, D. c., says in her pa
per, June 10th "The Republican
state convention in Kansas rejected
the woman suffrage resolution, but
the Populist convention finally adopt
ed it on the morning of June IL.
The committee on resolutions voted
against it l3 to 8, but the brought
in minority report, which was dis
cussed for half a day, and then
adopted by vote OF 349 to 26S.
amid the widest excitement. The
enthusiasm was greatly increased
when Miss Anthony and Rev. Anna
Shaw stepped to the front of the
platform and assumed the Populist
badge. The Tribune can assure the
Populist party that by this act they
have gained thousands of adherents
all over the nation, and the editor
will do her level best, in at least a
months campaigning, to win sue
cess for the amendment and the par
ty that dared stand by its principles
of equal rights to all and special
privileges to none.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05
"A Republican Year."

The Republican state central COM
mittee of Virginia have decided to
call no conventions for congressional
nominations this year, which is a
very prudent course to pursue-foI-
lowing the example of Alabama and
Georgia.
Still. there are men who will call
the Republican party national
party.-Dak0ta Ruralist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05
Ahead Of Kansas.

In the Kansas Populist convention
an equal suffrage plank was adopt
ed by a vote of 376 to 280.
In South Dakota, it went through
by acclamatlon, less than dozen
feeble votes responding "No."
South Dakota Populists will keep
in the van of reform. Dakota Ru-
ralist, Huron, S. D.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05
what You Don't Know About
California

Is told in beautifully illustrated
and entertaining book entitled "To
California and Back" Ask u. L.
Nicholson, G.. P. A Topeka, Kas.,
tor copy. 1t is free.
The San Francisco Midwinter
Exposition will attract tourists to
the Pacific coast this winter. Write
to above address for pamphlet de-
scribing the Worlds Fair, Jr. The
unexcelled climate, cheap lands and
sunshiny skies of all California are
attractive every day in the year
Low rates via the Santa Fe route.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05

The news from Oregon has as last
come in by freight and the counting
is still going on. The Republicans
have the election machinery, and if
tbe count is not correct, it is their
fault. The Portland Leader occu
MES columns in relating instances of
frauds at the ballot-box, repeating
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05

fares and freights cut down one-half
and wages doubled; yet, the roads
pay a yearly revenue to the govern
ment of 100000
In Germany, you can ride four
miles for cent on government
owned lines yet, wages are lZo
per cent. higher than when the pr'
vate corporations owned them, and
during the last ten years the net
profits have increased Al per cent.
Last year, the roads paid the Ger
man government a net profit Of
$25, 100000.
If our government owned the rail-
roads, we would 60 from San Fran
cisco to Boston for $40. Look at
the proof:
Uncle Sam pays the railroads not
quite 1915 to transport loaded
postal car from Boston to San Fran
cisco. A passenger-car will carry
fifty passengers, which, at $40 each,
would be $500, or clear profit OF
1925 a car-and this, too, after pay
ing l-2 per cent. on watered stock,
which is fully 100 per cent. on the
cost of the roads,
To show how our railroads have
watered stock, point to the New
York Central & Hudson River rail
road, which, when the Vanderbilts
obtained control in 90, was capital
lied at $40, 100000. They at once
watered it up to 500, 100000 More
watered stock has been added until
the present capital stock is SAG,
600, ,0OO-all but $45, ,0O0,e 600 being
watered stock.
Government ownership would save
the people the gigantic sum of S1O,-
600, 100000 year, and bring
shorter hours and better pay to the
700, 900 railroad employes.-The
Morning American.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05

EVERY reading person should take
advantage of the extraordinary offer
made by the Farmers Tribune
General Weaver's paper-the bright
est, the newsiest and the best re-
form paper on the list. They only
ask 25 cents for this large 4S column
weekly from now until January l,
1895. 1t is bargain and we hope
every one of our readers will take
advantage of it at once. Tell your
neighbors about it. Address
FARMERS TRIBUNE,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05
POPULIsT STATE TICKET.

For Associate Justice,
GEO W. CLARK.
For Governor,
L. D, LEwELLING.
For Lieutenant Governor,
D. I. FURBEoK.
For Secretary Of State,
J. w. AMIs.
For Treasurer,
w. III. BIDDLE.
For Auditor of State,
VAN B. PRATHER.
For Sup't of Public Instruction,
II. n. GAINES.
For Attorney-Ge eneral,
JOHN T. LITTLE.
For Congressman-at- Large,
w. A. HARRIS.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05

SEND us a dime and get "Keep-
Off-the Grass" badge. It's a daisy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-07-05

No compromise ! Stand firm !
, 1894-09-07
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