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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

The aggregate of the public debt of
the United States on Jan. 81 was, ac-
cording to the treasury statement,
s1,6S7, 1SO,7SS. This total includes GER
tiflcates and treasury notes Offset by an
equal amount of cash in the treasury,
amounting to 62,542,773. The aggre-
gate of interest and non-inter-
est-bearing debt amounted to $1,124,-
638,015, which represents net decrease
for the month amounting to $685., 446.-
so. The certificates and treasury notes
show a decrease of $5,4S0,9OO, and by
chasing these as debt net decrease is
shown. The gold holdings of the
treasury amounted on Jan. 81 to $685.
693, 356.57 and the silver holdings to
s5O5, 421 ,S1S.6S. The gold reserve had
fallen on that date to $49, S45, 507 and the
net cash balance amounted to $121,-
746,271.27, leaving an aggregate cash
balance in the treasury at the end of
the month amounting to $171 ,591 ,778.27.
This represents decrease Of $685.
423.65 for the month. The government
receipts for the month Of January
amounted to $29, 237,670.21, which rep
resents an increase not far from $3,00O,-
900 as compared with the preceding
month, and over $1,4O0,000 as COM
pared with the corresponding month
of last year. The internal revenue re-
ceipts, which exceeded those from GUS
toms in December last, fell below them
in January by more than $4,000, 1000,
but the disproportion between them is
less than it was in January of last year.
The expenditures for the month
amounted to $32,529, 34O.65, which rep
resents an increase of over $6,70O,000 as
compared with December last, but
decrease of nearly 100000 rs COM
pared with January, 1895.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06
Figure 1t Out.

Here is an example in arithmetic
with which the schOolboys may keep
their wheel turning during the even
ing: A young man went to a preacher
to get married and the preacher asked:
How old are you, John? He replied, l
am half as old as my father. How old
is your father? He is two years older
than my mother. My Oldest sister is
two years older than my youngest sis
ter. My youngest sister is four years
older than her brother and my brother
is five years older than my young
brother. How old are they all together?
asked the preacher. The young man
replied that five of the children are
seventeen years older than his father
and mother together. How old is John
and each of the children and his father
and mother?- Advocate.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

Special attention is being given by
the French military authorities to the
questions of succoring the wounded on
battlefields when night comes on after
great battle. Experiments have
been made with powerful electric arc
lights but the apparatus has conditions.
At length it has been practically deter
mined that the ambulance corps men
shall wear little incandescent glow
lamps in their hats, just like ladies Of
the ballet in spectacular extrava-
ganza. Each man is to carry little
primary battery in his pocket for the
production of the current. The wound
ell in need of succor will look out for
the little moving lights and if possible
drag themselves toward them.-Ex.
change.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

plain, ungraceful speech had the effect
tiveness of eloquence at times, and was
always pitched upon a popular key.
When his official life was in danger 1t
rose upon one or two ccasions-notaply
in the famous parliamentary conflict OF
1S5O-very nearly to the height OF great
ness. But even the blunt, half-humor-
GUS, decided manner had certain spe-
ciousness about it that was characters
tic of the man. In his mouth a cant
phrase-his famous Civis Romanus sum
is case in point-simulated life so we'll
as to deceive the very elect. He man
aged to galvanize it into wearing its
grave-clothes as jauntily as though they
had been holiday attire.
Mr.. Gladstone Is credited with saying
that the secret Of eloquence consists in
giving back to ones hearers in drops
what one has received from them as
spray. If this be Mr.. Gladstone's analy-
sis of his own power, we venture to
suggest that he does himself injustice.
But it serves admirably as a figurative
expression of the essence of Lord Pal
merston's popularity. He knew his
public to perfection. Their national
prejudices appealed to him as man,
and upon these prejudices he built his
supremacy as a foreign minister. OF
course there were not lacking those who
saw through all this. Indeed, they rep
resented very considerable and highly
respectable opposition. But Palmer
ston knew so well what the galleries
liked, and played to them with such as
sduity and success, that he could al
most afford to ignore his critics.
To say this is in no sense to assert
that he was without positive convic-
tons, very unusual administrative
abilities, or a smattering of disinterest-
ed sentiment A man may possess all
these and yet be little of demagogue
and very much of bully. Lord Pal
merston admirably exemplifies the
statement The fact that he was sue
cessively tory, disciple of Canning,
a Peelite, and liberal is simply to say
that he was man of generous instincts
who made an honest effort to keep pace
with the inevitable progress of events.
II it be laid to his charge that he aided
and abetted Sir Robert Peel on that
famous day when the latter found
the wings bathing and stole their
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

the unique prestige of Mr. Gladstone.
Mr.. Gladstone's power, however, is
built upon foundation very different
from that which bolstered up the fame
of the greatest of jingoes. There is
moral austerity in his character, a lofty
idealism in his eloquence, certain
philosophy of craftsmanship to which,
in spite of chance and change, he has
been true, that compel popular esteem
and respect which seem scarcely dimln-
ished by the general recognition OF his
marvellous intellectual subtility. 1t re-
quires no prophet to foretell the lasting
quality of Mr.. Gladstone's fame, writes
Edward M. Chapman in the Century.
Palmerston's hold upon the people,
on the other hand, was due in no small
measure to the absence of the very
qualities by which Mr.. Gladstone is
characterized. His moral ideals, so far
from being exalted, were common to
the last degree. His talents command
ed consideration by their quantity
rather than their quality. He could lay
little claim to eloquence, though his
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

rived at the regents court. While
they were waiting in the ante-cham-
Der heavy thunderstorm occurred.
There came a flash of lightning, fol-
lowed by peal Of thunder so deafening
that an awed silence reigned among the
courtiers for a few moments. 1t was
broken by Voltaire crying out in loud
voice: Things could not be worse up
there if the heavens were governed by
regent" The Marquis de Noce re-
peated this remark to the Due d'Orleans
and suggested that Voltaire should be
sent back to the Bastile, but the regent
only laughed and promised the young
wit pension.
II am much obliged to your high
ness" said Voltaire, for giving me the
means to procure food, but beg of
you not to trouble yourself in future
about my lodgings. "-All the Year
Round.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06
LABOR NOTES.

st. Louis is making an effort to build
a labor hall.
General Master Workman Sovereign
of the knights of Labor has made his
residence at Sulphur Springs, Ark.
Women are now being taught silk
ribbon weaving in the Pennsylvania
mills, the trade having been exclusively
confined to men hitherto.
Good progress is being made in the
effort to bring all .woodworkers in the
United States and Canada into one
international organization.
/ OF the 5000 applications for employ
ment filed with the California labor
commissioner at San Francisco. not
tailor was among the number.
Ohio has a law prohibiting children
under 16 years from being employed in
factories, but it is enforced no better
than that of Michigan where the age
is IA.
The best English authority gives the
average wages in the United Kingdom
Of those who follow manual labor as
| iOiioWo. NlCu, pO.UD WCCA,
1904; lads, $2.14, and girls. $1.52.
Indianapolis factories and railroad
shops that have hitherto burned natural
gas are returning to coal, as gas is
diminishing. It is feared the dimin-
ution may result in the closing Of some
of the industries with which gas is es-
sential, particularly the bicycle facto-
ries.
A conference will soon be held in New
York to prepare bill for introduction
in Congress providing for postal or
federal system Of savings banks. the
same as was Endorsed by the American
Federation of Labor at it's convention.
Sydney, N. S. W., authorities furnish
all worthy applicants for work with a
pass to the gold fields and a miners
right to prospect There were 9,572
such passes issued in 1894, and since
the inauguration of the plan the amount
Of gold obtained in the colony has risen
from 1928 ounces in 1893 to 324,7S7
in 1894.
w. A. Klapetzky, president of the in
ternational BARRIERS union, holds that
the eight-hour work day is the first
thing for labor to secure. He says:
eve should have eight hours for work,
eight hours for sleep, and eight hours
to spend as one pleases. This reform
effected, We shall have time to look
after others of equal Importance"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06


An unusually rare case of supposed
nervous hysteria was exhibited at
Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New
York, the other day, by DR.. Herman
w. Biggs, professor of nervous diseases
at the college.
The patient was a healthy. intelli-
gent woman, So years old, who had sud
denly become deaf and dumb, as it was
believed. There was an effort to speak,
but no sound could be uttered. At the
same time the patient did not, or pro-
fessed not to, hear what was addressed
to her. Rest and quiet did not bring
relief, nor did calm reasoning, by
means of writing, with the woman pro-
duce any change such as would be pro-
duced by mental treatment in ordinary
cases of hysteria.
An exam,nation revealed the fact that
no local disease interferred. the trachea
was in healthy condition, but the pa
tient had no control of the vocal cords.
No vibrations could be produced; and,
consequently, no sound was heard. IL
was clear that the vocal cords were
temporarily paralyzed. Prof. Biggs
told the students that if there was no
permanent injury to the cords the local
trouble would yield to and be disposed
of by the use of electricity. The cleo
trio battery was then called into use,
the cords were relaxed and the woman
spoke as formerly. Hearing and speech
were both estored.-Exchange.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06
ELSEWHERE.

Now that Bar Harbor has succeeded
in putting an end to rum selling, roller
skating is coming into vogue.
George Augustus Sala had a vast
amount Of collected notes on all mat
tiers, carefully indexed. These he would
consult. Then he would walk up and
down the room for time, after which
he would write or dictate without
pause.
The last time Sarah Bernhard saw
Alexander Dumas she congratulated
him on the fact that the thousandth
performance of la Dame aux Camel
las" was soon to be given, with proper
ceremonies. "Ah, madam" said the
dramatist, 81 am very willing that the
event should be celebrated but on one
condition-that l be not present. And
he was not.
Professor Richard T. Greener, the
first colored man to graduate from Har-
ward, is lecturing in New England on
"The New Rebellion in South CARROLL
na."
Rev. D. Elias Riggs, missionary OF
the American board in Constantinople.
though IS years old, is still in active
work.
Political foes of Sir Henry Campbell
Zimmerman charge that in recent
speech to his constituents he defined
the radical program, as he understood
It, and then added: These, gentlemen,
are our principles; If you don't ike
them they can be chanGed."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06
WHERE MONEY is NO OBJECT.
A Paris Restaurant Where Walters Pay
for the Privilege of Working.

A few nights ago in the quaint Ger
man cafe of the Waldorf, according to
the New York World, Thomas M. Hill
lard, Mr.. Boldt's manager, who has but
recently returned from trip abroad,
said:
while in Paris I visited the most
unique cafe in the world. 1t is known
as the Cafe Cubat, and 1t is located on
the Champs Elysees. The building
itself is one of the sweetest little houses
in all Paris. 1t was built, l believe,
for the favorite of Napoleon H.. The
lower floor is devoted to the restaurant
proper, the upper part being divided
into supper rooms.
"The staircase and wainscoting are
of onyx and the bathtubs are of solid
silver. The proprietor of the place was
formerly chef to the emperor of Ger
many. Instead of combining his atten-
ton to the kitchen, as he should, he
spends his time in the cafe, helping the
walters.
81 called for bill of fare when l
had seated myself at table and on eX-
aiming it l found that while the list
of dishes was an extensive one there
was no price affixed. My waiter in
formed me that as the restaurant was
patronized exclusively by people to
whom money was no object it was
deemed unnecessary by the proprietor
to have the cost of the wines or viands
entered on the menu.
Laying the card aside, I told the
waiter that / wanted him to bring me
a soup, fish, an entree, a roast and
a salad, which, in his opinion best rep
resented the cuisine of the establish
ment. He did as I requested, and the
result was the most delightful dinner
I ever ate. The soup was dream Of
culinary art, the fish was perfection,
and the entree was fit for the gods.
when my bill was brought it near
ly took my breath away, but l paid
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06
a Smoking Queen.

The queen regent of Spain is a con-
firmed smoker Of cigarettes, and when
at work is seldom without one between
her lips or in a box near at hand. 1t
is the especial pleasure of "Bubi' (his
Catholic majesty King Alfonso XIII.)
to light the cigarettes for his mamma.
Carmen SYLVIA" the queen of Rou-
mania, is also an ardent cigarette
smoker. Her royal highness might set
the baby king a better example, but he
may have a mind Of his own and not
adopt the vices of his elders. 1t is quite
likely that when little 'Fonso becomes
old enough to reign over nation he
will have no Havana in his.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

The great Siberian railway is maxi
ing good progress. Last year 1863 miles
of track were laid, bringing the terminus
to Krasnoyarsk, a distance of 1914
miles east from st. Petersburg, and
thus completing a continuous mail
route from the capital to the bank of
the Yenisei river. OF the 4,572 miles
from Chelyabinsk, the starting point
near the Europe-Asia border, to Vladi-
vostock on the Pacific, 1858 miles Of
track have boen laid, besides the branch
of $50 miles from Chelyabinsk to Eka-
terinburg, which is also completed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

Clothes" 1t may be pleaded in extenua-
ton that the bathing wings had no
vested right in the garments, while
Peel and Palmerston had grown to their
size and did hard work in them.
PalmerstOn's worst enemy never
questioned his administrative powers
or his devotion to work. IN his long
terms at the war and foreign offices, as
well as during the years when he was
prime minister, the amount of efficient
labor which he bestowed upon the pub
lie service puts him in the front rank
OF working Minister'S while his three
years as home secretary served to Illus
trate both his industry and his versa
tility. Nor need there be any question
that his sympathies, other things being
equal, were always on the side OF the
oppressed, and that he rejoiced to
strengthen the guarantees of freedom.
But then, other things never were equal
Here lies the great indictment that Is
to be brought against Lord Palmerston
as a foreign minister. He made what
he called patriotism fetish-a blind,
despotic, tyrannous thing whose ignor-
ant and imperious demands must be
satisfied at once, regardless of all large
rules of right and wrong. National ag-
grandizement, national self-assertion,
without account of consequence or the
higher demands of justice, were the
ends which Palmerston sought to OBJ
tain, and national prejudice was the
charm with which he conjured.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

Voltaire was put in durance vile in
his young days and it was not his fault
that he did not go to the Bastile di-
rectly after he came out The regent,
who rightly judged that it would be
better to have young Voltaire for a
friend than for an enemy, sent the
Marquis de Noce to the Bastile with
orders to release the young satirist and
bring him safe to the Palais Royal. The
order was duly obeyed and, late in the
evening, Voltaire and the marquis ar
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06
A CHERRY TREE STORY.
But an OIL Man Blankets 1t at the
Start with o Watch Yarn.

Start with q Watch Yarn.
"You observe this plain gold ring on
my little finger" said the man from
Chicago in the presence of a New York
Herald reporter, turning the circlet off
as If it were brass nut on screw.
1T has my wife's full name engraved
on the inside. Well, it Is our engage
ment and wedding ring. My wife lost
it one day when we lived near San
Francisco, and, though we searched
high and low, we couldn't find it. One
day nearly two years later friend Of
ours insisted on presenting me with a
small cherry tree"
'I'll take cigar this time, please"
remarked the man from Oil City.
II said cherry tree" continued the
man from Chicago, land I'm giving you
a true story. Well, this offer of my
friend was declined at first, but my wife
insisted, saying that we could set it out
in particular place in the lawn. She
marked the spot and sent for the tree.
dug down about fourteen inches where
she designated and, so help mel
turned up this ring! How it got there
we never could guess"
There's nothing improbable about
that" said the Oil City man, unless
it is the cherry tree. But did l ever
tell you the story of my watch? This
same watch"-pulling out a gold
hunter. Several years ago l was drill
irU in hn iotr tnt
and had got down about 1000 feet with
out any sign of luck. l was looking at
the hole under the derrick with some
thing like despair one day-for we had
stopped work on it. Pulling out my
watch, which carried without fasten-
ing, it suddenly slipped from my fingers
and down she went, chuck! into that
dry hole. The idea of adding that to
my loss riled me, so l got a cylindrical
tube, such as we get tests of sand with,
and put some putty near the open end
and let it down the hole, which it fitted
neatly. My watch came up with the
suction, stuck fast to the putty. 1t
hadn't stopped running
Eyes, and do you know We renewed
work on that hole the next day and got
first sand in six hours!
II hadn't finished about my ring"
put in the Chicago man. 1--WE had
moved to Iowa and my wife lost it
again. offered 500 reward for it, but
no use. We came to Chicago and seven
years after l had left the Iowa place
l received the ring through the mail
from the man we had sold out to. He
said he was pulling cabbage in the gar
den and found it solidly grown on the
root of eabfage"
We began to move away before the
Oil City man could recover.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

1t cheerfully, as the dinner was worth
all it cost. For the same amount, how
ever party of four could dine sump-
tuously at the Waldorf. A bottle Of
wine for which SIS is charged here cost
$25 there. The hallboy at the door told
me that he paid 6 francs a day for the
privilege Of working in the place, and
the walters 10 francs. The tips re-
ceived by these worthless from the
gilded youth of the capital are said to
be the highest paid for any restaurant
in the world"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

The following dispatch comes from
Pender, Neb.: "Three Indians =" the
Winnebago reservation secured jug
of whisky and, after imbibing, stripped
for an old-fashion war dance. When
they had exhausted themselves they
sunk into drunken stupor and were
found dead this morning" This is
proof positive that the war dance Is
not suited to the modern Indian. 1t
might have done very we'll for his an
cestors and the romantic braves that
frisk about the pages of Cooper's novels.
but the up-to-date red man is not built
on the same plan and should attempt
nothing more complicated than polka
or a two-step.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

Politeness costs but little. but it pays
we'll. Courtesy in the home is like
morning sunshine pouring in at every
window. An employer can well af-
ford to be polite to an employee, for it
makes the workingman do better work
and binds together the two classes in a
beautiful fellowship. In the effort to
settle the differences between capital
and labor, if we could bring into con-
troversy more courtesy and less bitter
ness of speech it would help amazingly
in solving the question: John l..
Jacobs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

Some Of the medical journals are
strenuously contending that what we
now call malaria should be called
malague because it is produced by bad
water and not by atmospheric condi-
tions. We presume that quinine will
continue the favored specific whatever
the doctors may decide about the
name.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

A gold star was stolen at meeting OF
the Chicago city council the other night
and suspicion naturally points to SO
many men that the chances of recovery
are small.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

The Board of Education of Traverse
City, Mich, has forbidden its school,
ma'ams to dance. Naturally, these
worthy young women are making u
'kick."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

Thrift" said the youth with the
downy lip, who thought himself an
aphorist, sis contagious by example"
Even So" said the corn-fed philoso-
pher Turn loose two or three right
thrifty persons in a community, and
pretty soon the others have to be thrift
ty to keep from starving. "-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06
War and Peace.

The militant ornaments of modern
nations excel those of any previous
period in human history; and the very
power and effectiveness of the modern
enginery of war is a powerful factor
in assuring peace.-Rev. L. G. Jones.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

Engineer johnson, formerly in the
eun1oy of the Iron Mountain Railway
company, has been given verdict for
81 535 damages for breach of contract
and blacklisting. The suit was brought
bv the discharged engineer. 1t was
based upon an agreement between the
railroad company and the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

A Minneapolis gentleman has been
commissioned to complete history Of
the Worlds Fair. Why not make it a
history of the pyramids? If you're go
Ing in for ancient history, go in deep.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-03-06

The royal crown of Roumania is
made of bronze, the metal once having
done service in the shape of cannon.
Specimens of metal from sixty-two diff
ferent guns, each captured from some
enemy, are included in the makeup Of
this oddly constructed imperial insig-
ola.