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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-03-29

N. X. L. A. X. IL. L. A.
THE only safe place for Populists is in the
middle of the road
SN1DER, the Populist insurance commissioner,
resigned-'by request"
Bob INGERsoLL is said to have come out
square toed for free silver.
IT is to your interest to subscribe or renew
your subscription RIGHT NOW!
THE one-plank silver party is having lots of
trouble to find a candidate for president
THE State Journal says Foghorn Funston is
still running for congress in the Second district.
MORRILL, s friends say Cy Leland is response
BILE for Sol Miller's roast of the present admin
istration.
THE Republicans are having a monkey-and
parrot time over the "spoils." They haven't
begun the redemption" act yet only getting
ready.
OLD Bernard Kelley is now candidate for
warden of the penitentiary He is like the old
maid who prayed for husband. With him it
is ''anything, Lord"
ANDY FELT, ex-lieutenant-governor, now
editor of the Atchison Champion, was a candi-
date for bank commissioner, but Morrill, failed
to give him the appointment, and now Andy's
many friends are up in arms and are swearing
vengeance OH Morrill,.
THE Topeka State Journal says of Gov.
Morrill, "The governor, who was at first
happy and jovial, is now a sad and disappont-
ed man." Brace up, Morrill,. You know you
promised to redeem Kansas, and you should
xuao1y -1-uee6 or 6acDOudeut iutil
have accomplished the redemption
AND now the news comes that Bill Mckinley
will bolt if the Republican party declares for
free silver. If the Republican party declares for
free silver at all, the declaration will have
string to it, and Bill will not bolt, for he knows
the declaration will be meaningless as other
Republican promises and declarations.
THAT animation of whisky-soaked obesity
known as Grover Cleveland has forfeited all
right to the respect Of the American people, and
and were he not doing the work of the John
Sherman Tom-Reed wing of the Republican
party, he would to-day be arraigned before the
United States to answer to articles of inpeach-
ment of misprision of treason, treason di-
rect That last bond issue ought to damn any
man, politically, morally and socially, but it
will not so long as such brigands as John Sher
man and Tom Reed work for or are silent
about such malfeasance in Office. The Ameri-
can republic is becoming the laughing-stock of
the bond gamblers of Europe and the gold
gamblers of the United States. These bond
and gold gamblers are having their laugh now
but there are evidences of an awaling among
the people that will draw their faces on diff
ferent angle. Justice will not always sleep,
nor will an outraged people always remain in
different to such wrongs. A careful reading of
the incidents of the few years Immediately ante
dating Bunker Hill give us pretty fair insight
into the character of the patriot fathers, and
we do not believe their sons are wholly lost to
patriotic impulses. The brigands would be
VI to call off their tools of the CarlisleCleve-
la,si-S -Sherman-Hoa Gorman-Reed school, and
heed to the lessons of history.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-03-29

If a Populist president and secretary of the
treasury had violated the law as glaringly as
Cleveland and Carlisle, the United States sem
ate would be, to-day, sitting as court Of i'm
peachment, and, with the spirit now dominant
in both old parties, it would not takeIa seer to
fortellt the result On with the dance Thieves
and booders,f conspirators and brigonds, have
manned the ship of state. The breakers are
right ahead-but what care they3
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-03-29

WE notice some of our exchanges are spec
ulating on the probability of the president con-
vening the Oath congress in extra session. Pos
sess your souls in patience, boys. There is no
more danger of such thing than that Cleve-
land will be taken to heaven as were good old
Enoch and Elijah, for Cleveland and Carlisle
do not want the last bond deal, by which some
body, bodies, made So, 900, 900, investigated.
The steal has been accomplished, but the meth
cd and the names of all who took part in the
steal will be kept covered as long hs possible.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-03-29
NO. IS.

John Quincy Adams No vote can be lost
or thrown away when it is cast against corrupt
political parties, or to express desive for re-
form in government.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1895-12-14
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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
DROPPED THROUGH A CRACK.
Eighteen Houses Destroyed by an Opening
 in the Earth

Eighteen Houses Destroyed by an Opening
 in the Earth.
 Vienna Letter to Londcn Times.
 A remarkable disaster has occurred in the old German town of Brux. in north western Bohemia, in many respects re- calling the recent disastrous earthquake which almost entirely destroyed the town of Laibach, in Carniola. On Friday even- ing the inhabitants of Brux were alarm ed by the sudden extinguishing of the street lamps, and at first it was surmised that an accident had occurred at the gas works The report, however, spread that a large number of the houses in the Bahnhofstrasse were in imminent danger of collapsing, which was shortly after confirmed and supplemented by the news that the Anne shaft" belonging to the Brux Coal Mining company, in the vicinity of the town had been complete ly flooded by an thrush of sand and water. In consequence of the reports the authorities took immediate steps to clear the houses in the BahnhofstrasSe of their inhabitants, and 1t is owing to the promptness with which precautionary measures were adopted that the Subse- quent series of disasters were attended by comparatively slight loss of life. At about 10 o'clock a house in the Bahnhof- strasse completely collapsed and a ere vice of about three meters in width open ed in the middle of the street, letting out a voluminous and unceasing stream of water. At comparatively short inter- Vals the houses continued to fall, and in some instances the debris caught fire. igniting the edifices which still remained standing. Toward o'clock in the morn ing several houses in neighboring streets likewise collapsed, but the inhabitants succeeded in escaping in their sleeping clothes
 The horror of the situation was greatly prevailed, together with a heavy down. pour of rain. The descriptions of the scene which have reached Vienna are heart-repding in the extreme, the panic stricken half clad inhabitants crowding the streets, not knowing In what direction to fly for safety. Early yesterday morn ing, in view of the danger which still threatens, the authorities ordered the clearance of the houses In that part of the town which has suffered most severely. Up to the present eighteen houses are in ruins, and it is expected that many others Twill have to be pulled down. The dam age is estimated to exceed 1,500. 900 1orins. In consequence of the breaking of the main gas and water pipes the town is without light or water. The distress which prevails is very great. Yesterday, during the last sitting of the reichsrath, the government was called upon to take prompt measures to alleviate the dis tress, and In view of the magnitude of the disaster to make use of the funds at it's disposal for such purposes to assist the sufferer. The money thus expended by the government will be voted during the next session.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
SHOULD HE sHOOTp

Interest in the possibility of the Cor bett-Fitzsimmons fight being pulled off, at Dallas increases as the date ap- breaches.
 Attorney General Crane, in answer to a query from Sheriff Cabell of Dallas county, rules that the sheriff can use fire arms in dispersing the assemblage, if other means fail. In a word, he may shoot them down.
 It is hardly possible that the officer would go to that length, however. If he did he might precipitate a bloody riot The prize fighters, their aiders and abet- ters and the onlookers, while law-break- CTS, would not be criminals in the strict sense of the word, and human life is not cheap enough to be sacrificed in such a way.
 The prize fight can be stopped without the use of cartridges and the managers can be made to understand in many other ways that it will not be allowed. This talk of shooting 'em down" is the very method to create a reaction in fa- vor of the fight. The American people do not take kindly to such procedure.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
A DISTINGUISHED EXILE.

It is a significant fact that Prince Pax, the Corean nobleman, who was forced to flee to this country for refuge from the anger of his queen, has said that the only way to set Corea on her feet as an en- frightened, self-governed nation, is through education and the influence of the Christian religion.
 He is anxious for the United States to extend a helping hand. and uses the fol- lowing words:
 Through your missionaries and your mission schools you could educate ana lift up our people. It would be great aid, perhaps a tedious work, but your great republic could do this. Your mis- sionaries have already done good Worh in Corea. Our old religions sit lightly, and the way to Christian conversion Is open. But love my country and l do not want a Japanzed Corea or Russian Corea. I want a self-governed and en- lightened Corea. We can have this 1T we can be brought to Christianity, and no country in the world can help so much in that direction as your great republic.
 Prince Pax is not a juggler with words. He is an earnest, forceful thinker, scholar and patriot Already he has passed ten years of exile in Japan, and it was then he began to study the effect of the Christian religion upon the pro- gress of nations. It is a significant cir cumstance bearing upon the promise And the truth shall make you free"
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
GRAND AND BEAUTIFUL
Is the Scene From the Warrior River Bridge.
 The Fsherman's Paradise.

TuSkalOoSa Gazette.
 There are a great many people living in Tuskaloosa who know nothing of the beauties of the surrounding country and many others who see these things and never appreciate their grandeur.
 If an artist were to faithfully repro- duee on canvass the scene that meets the eye from the Warrior river bridge and show it to our population we venture to say that there are half the people who wouldn't recognize the place. This would be on account of its great beauty
 Nature has done great deal for the place, and added to this is the work that man has contributed, which lends still another charm.
 The bridge itself is an iron structure. more than fourth of mile long, SUD- ported by four immense piers, and an other is being completed for the draw span, which make five in all, holding the bridge itself nearly 70 feet above low water.
 Standing on this bridge one has love- ly view of the river for five miles, three below and two above the bridge. Below is the lazy sullen bed of a deep, slow flowing stream. either bank of which is fringed with the graceful swaying will low the sycamore and sturdy oak, whose images are clearly reflected in the crystal waters. It is here that the swallow comes for his evening bath, and the mocking birds sing their morning carols. Above the bridge is the dashng, rattling, noisy river where it jumps over rocks, where the sportive trout f1ounces himself high out of the foaming waters as they rush hnadly from rock to rock. It is here that man has put in his work to add to the beauties of the scene.
 Three locks have been built in the river, dividing the falls or rapids into three parts, and at each one of these locks is dam that extends fully across the river. The first dam is 10 feet high, the second F and the third 15 which gives the water a total fall of 37 feet in the two miles. These dams being constructed on per feet level, the water flows over them in a perfectly smooth sheet more than 100 wards wide, and presents a most pleasing scene to the eye, that has the appearance of, a succession of steps over which the laughing waters come tumbling and frol- icking with their ceaseless chatter, like Tennyson's Brook" that goes on forever. It is here in the months of April, May and June that the fisherman finds his paradise The waters fairly teem with shad, bream, perch, buffalo, and the game trout fish that are taken daily by the hundreds.
 The beauties of the environment are not the only values attached to the river and these falls. The work has almost been completed so that their power can be overcome and their heights surmount- ed by the steamboat and the barge, so that these can reach the hills that are covered with rich wealth of timber and that are underlain with valuable coal seams. The forests are soon to disappear before the woodmans ax, and the hills will be robbed of their lusty black dia- monds that will stream down the river to the city of Mobile, there to be placed upon the vessels of the sea for all parts | of the world,
 The days of dreaming are over and the
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
Hloomern In BiIIviIIe.

The women down at Billville have got the blooIner craze. They're ridip round on bicycles an blockin all the ways. They say it makes 'em healthy, an they're gein for it strong An the men are bakin biscuits an cussin all day long.
 Bicycles an boomers
 Never saw the like. Never Is no tellin
 Where lightnin's goin to strike boomers right. They're spinnin down the big road an goin out O sight. They're done with foreign missions, church fairs are goiu wrong, And the men are nindih babies an cusSin all day long.
 Bicycles an bloomers-
 Gittin wuss ah wuss. Lord knows where we'll git to
 Before they're done with usi The women down at Billville-they're goib with will. They're racin with the railroad trains an rolln down tbs hill They've got the fsddest boomers, their bi cycles are strong, An the men Wear "Mother Hubbards" al cuss the whole day long. Bicycles an bloomers-
 All the'men are 'sgoners." Don't khow what we're comin to. Lord have mercy on usl
 -Atlanta Constitution.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
ATTALLA.
Was It Suicide P-Shot for 10 Cents-T Two
 Runaway Birmingham Boys.

Runaway Birmingham Boys.
 Attalla, Aug. 26.-(Special Correspond ence.)-Quite a sensation was produced here yesterday evening at the announce ment that Seaborn G. Wilson, a promi- nent farmer near town, had jumped in Wills creek at Dozier's mill and drowned himself. Your correspondent had a con versation with him Saturday evening, and he was in very cheerful mood, and not the slightest evidence of mental or other trouble was noticeable. However, statements were made to others at diff ferent times recently that seem to jus tify what is the most common idea-that he premeditatedly and deliberately took his own life, though some are inclined to think that the drowning was acci- dental. Family trouble is supposed to be the cause. His wife had deserted him and gone to live with another man some time ago. He leaves several children and a number of relatives. He was bur jed this evening at the city cemetery in the names of Masonry.
 A mixed crowd of whites and negroes were gambling just outside of the city limits Sunday evening, when Champ Green and Tee Stephens quarrelled over a 10-cent wager and Stephens shot Green with a pistol, the ball entering just be- low the heart, inflicting a very dangerous  porter he was resting well. and Dr. Stew art, the attending surgeon, thinks he will recover. Stephens fled, and is still at large.
 Two little boys were taken off the north bound train here Sunday evening and are still in the custody of the police. When seen by your reporter this morn- ing they talked freely and told very plausible story. One of them, the most daring and cheerful gives his name as Eddie Hastein; says his father is brewer from Memphis, but for the last three months has lived on Avenue B and Twenty-first street. Birmingham; says he has a. brother 12 years old and sister years old at home with his parents. The other boy gave his name as Richey Ken nebrook and his fathers occupation as a laborer at the old rolling mill, and resi- dence as Tenth street and First avenue; has lived in Birmingham three years; has two brothers and one sister older and one brother younger than himself at home with his parents, who know nothing of his whereabouts. They had started in company with an older broth- er Dave Kennebrook, to Atlanta, via Chattanooga, to see the fair, but his brother Dave, who he says is 15 years old, got off at Woodlawn and promised to come on to Chattanooga with crowd of other boys last night on the freight train. They all intended to beat their way, as they had no money. The two boys were found on the engine tender while taking water here Sunday evening, and Mar shall Wimpee took charge of them and wrote at once to Birmingham, but at this writing has heard nothing from his in- ouiry. The boys seem fully satisfied with the fair and willing to return home.
 Mrs. Robinson, nee Hatley, and her daughter, aged 19 years, were buried here Saturday in the same grave. They came here sick with Aux and relapse from measles few weeks ago.
 The infant of MT. and Mrs William l. Burke died today at noon with spinal affection. a
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
THE AGE-HERALD READING ROOM.

The Age-Herald has fitted up a neat reading room adjoining its business office. where daily papers from all east ern, southern, western and northern noints will be kept on file for the benefit and information of the public. Papers from the following cities can always be found there: Boston. New York, Phila- delphia. Baltimore, Richmond, Charles ton, Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta, Cln- cinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Montgomery, Mobile, New orleans, Galveston, Houston, Dallas and many other cities not named.
 Citizens of either of the cities above named or any party desiring to read are welcome to call at any and all times, night or day, as the reading room will always be open.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
Personnel of the House of Commons.

New York Herald
 Now that the house of commons is complete, glance may be taken at it's personel as distinguished from its polit- ical, character. As usual the limbs of the law take easy honors, and of barris- ters, in and out of practice, and queens counsel there are 131 Members who are classed as gentry and landowners" come next with 105 members; peers sons and brothers, numbering forty-one. There are fifty-four manufacturers and spin ners and thirty-five merchants. Next in. order come newspaper proprietors and journalists, of whom there are thirty-one, while bankers and financiers take the succeeding place with twenty-six.
 There are eighteen members of the new house who are either brewers or distil- lerS or wine merchants, and eighteen steamship owners or builders; sixteen shopkeepers and traders, fifteen farmers and agriculturists, the same number of colliery proprietors and coal merchants and an equal representation of iron masters and metal merchants. Labor has twelve representatives, civil and mining engineers twelve, also, and the medical profession one less There are ten professors and lecturers, nine dip lomats and government officials. seven printers and booksellers, four stock brokers, four estate agents and account ants, three schoolmasters two hotel pro pretors and one solitary builder and architect. l
 The balance consits of military men and naval officers.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
PASSION FOR CLOTHES.

It Does Not Follow That Dandy Is Brain
 less or Frivolous.
 Boston Transcript
 Whence comes the popular prejudice against dandies? Is it not a compliment, a kind of delicate flattery, when a man is careful to be finely dressed when he comes into our presence? Is it certain that a man is vain and shallow-pated if he Is fond of adorning his person? Does not this trait, on the contrary, rather ar que that he has a low w>opinion of his na- tive bodily charms? Even the extreme types of dandyism-men who, instead of engaging in professional or business pur- suits. are known only as embellishers of sidewalks. illustrators of the fashions or professional time-killers-are generally capable of higher things. Many of them are masters of the manly art of self-de- fense, and pride them selves as much on keeping their bodies in condition as if they were muscle men instead of Chris tians. A calm-eyed, m-mouthed race. they can put pistol ball into the bulls eye of target or pull an oar for miles as quietly as they pull at meerschaum, and would face row of yawning cannon as coolly as they do a row of leveled op- era glasses.
 De Quincey observes that many in- stances during the Napoleonic wars showed that in the frivolous dandy might often lurke the most fiery and accom- plished of aides-de de-camps. Did not Vel lington pronounce his dandy officers to be the best? In our revolutionary war the members of the Maryland brigade, commanded by Smallwood were dis tinguished by the most fashionably cut coats and the most macaropi cooked hats of the union." Yet the gallantry and unfinching valor which they displayed at the battle of Long Island, when hem med in by a superior force, wrung from Washington the exclamation, Good God! What brave fellows I must this day lose!" All through the war this hon. orable distinction of the Marylanders for their personal gallantry was fully main- tadned, until at the last pitched battle at Eutaw Springs we see them driving be- fore them the finest infantry of England at the point of the bayonet.
 Those persons who fancy that a man with @ passion for fine clothes-one in whose intellect. as Carlyle says. the all- importance of clothes has sprung lip. without effort. like an instinct of genius
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-28
CHICAGo's WOMAN BooTBLACK.
She Runs Big Place and Makes a Lot of
 Money-Her Way of Doing It.

Money-Her way of Dong It.
 New York Sun.
 The new woman, with her varied pro- pensites for engaging in all sorts of bus mess which has heretofore belonged to men, is ever before the public, and she of Chicago exceeds all others in searching new fields for a fresh exhibition of ener- gy. Nothing phases her fearless courage to grapple with anything she sees fit to undertake, and the more masculine the employment the more consistent it seems to be with her advanced ideas of woman- ly ways and methods. The fact that the number of occupations open to women have increased from TO to more than 800 in less than forty years must be ex- ceedingly interesting to the feminine public of Chicago, since it has done so much toward increasing the number. And now this city of hustling women boasts with great pride of the "only one on earth who has ever embarked in the shoe dressing business. This is, indeed, a boon to the ladies of Chicago, who find it impossible to walk three blocks with out the need of a polish.
 The woman in question has been es- tablished in this enterprise five months. One removal to more roomy quarters has been necessary during that time, and both men and women patronize her clean parlor. The condition of her own shoes atter a brief tramp through the streets Of Chicago suggested the growing pos abilities of this unique business for women, and her present success more than justifies her judgment. A place where women can go to have their shoes cleaned and polished is certainly a ne- cessity in Chicago, and Miss Edison, the l. sole proprietor and manager of the busi- ness, has a fortune in prospect. The room is fitted up with nice, comfortable chairs. Capable gentlemanly boys are hired to do the work and they receive salary which is more than they can earn alone. Being situated on Dearborn street, in the center of the large office buildings she has the best class of cus- tom. little stand where good cigars and chewing gum are sold, adds to her revenue, and young women who work in the various offices leave their bicycles with her for storage for 25 cents a week.
 Miss Edison Is described by the Chi cago Tribune as a young woman with a business manner, who knows, in a west ern sort of a way, how to take care of herself and make her customers observe the proprieties of her place. Saturday is her busiest day, and often as many as a dozen women are in the chairs at one time.