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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-02-07
then adopted. and as further mark
of respect, tho Senate adjourned.

then adopted, and as further mar
OF respect, tho Senate adjourned.
FIFTEENTH DAY. Friday tho Senat
passed the insurance bill. Chnrlesto,
and Columbia excepted from three
fourth provision. The bill relating t,
building and loan associations, intro
duced hy Mr.. Mower. was the frs
special order taken up. A protractet
fight was expected to be nude OF
this measure, as i'll it's original form
1T seemed to impose conditions upo1
all building and loan associations that
would have hecn Objectionable to Ioca
Companies, but Mr.. Mower Offered
several amendments, which wore
adopted, making the provisions of the
bill apply to all building and loan
associations doing IN interstate bust
hess but relieving purely local com
pames oil thnt character from the re-
strlctIons, which would have proved
onerous to the small concerns The
bill then passed to third reading.
The public school bill was passed. As
1T stands, the graded schools will have
to employ teachers with certificates as
State teachers, bat under Mr.. Buist's
amendment they can determine tho
capacity Of sUch teachers ut any time.
The bill for the protection of dis.
charged employees, to prevent black
listing and for other purposes, was
reported without recommendation. A
favorable report was made on the bill
to provide for holding elections, and it
differs but little from the bill intro
Innpn N y,
of the session, or from the election law
heretofore of force, tho essential
differences being that it provides for
only one set of Iuurugcrs aud one set
OF commissioners, and but one polling
place, doing away with the federal
managers and the separate election
boxes for presidential electors. etc. 1t
ratains the eight-box feature. provid-
ing that the State aud federal boxes be
arranged in the s0,no row. The follow
ing new bills were introduced:
10 regulate the sale Of milk butter
and cheese, and to prescribe penalties
Tor the fin!aw,"t sale ~ exposure for
sale Of any watcrod or niuitcratcd or
unwholcS"my .n!l!. und limitations Or
adnltcrntUuS 81 butt. or cheese.
10 M IL Ii"c ! n, tt iIaig and such
other citizens 0t th:r state ~ NAV be
with him 20 construct npd
MAINTAIN boat huWac on the shoals
south OF the cltv OF Charleston.
10 amend aud extend the charter of |
uf the board of directors
OF the Theological seminary Of Georgia |
and South Carolina.
Joint resolution to authorize and re- |
quire the State Treasurer to repay
money borrowed under n convention !
TO amend the nct regulating the
hours of labor in this STATE.
TO limit the number of acres of lnnd
any corporation or their agent may
own or charter Ia this State.
To provide for tho formation of
mutual protective associations.
To regulate formation of boards of
lcalth.
An unfavorubie report was made on
he bill regulating traffic in seed cot
on and unpnckcd lint cotton. It was
placed on the calendar.
A number OF claims for payment of
election notices and commissioners of
N.
The Senate took recess until Tues
lay.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18
Labor and Industrial.

Cincinnati's Labor Day celebration
was the largest in the history OF that
city.
Boston has $4,000 trades unionists,
being one of the best organized cities
in the United States.
The Premier steel works at Indian
apolis. Ind, started up during the
week, giving employment to 2oo men.
Cardinal Manning says Labor has
the same right to protect itself by
trades unions as any form OF capital
might claim for ITSELF
A dispatch from Elwood, Ind, says:
"The industrial situation in this city
is the dullest ever known even at this
time of year. All our factories are
idle. and the men out of employment. "
The Standard Oil heading factory st
Kokomo Ind, which has run thirty
wears without a stop, was closed down
Indefinitely last week, throwing 15O
men out of employment. 1t is thought
the works will be removed to some
noint where timber is more plenti-
full.
Six hundred employees of the Adams
Express company in New York and
New Jersey went on a strike agalns<
a Is per cent reduction in wages. The
strikers are laboring with the COM
pany's employees at other points in an
effort to have them join the strikers.
The Hoopeston, ILL.,, canning works,
which usually runs eight weeks and
ships it's immense product OF canned
corn to the Pacific coast. has closed
down after a run of two weeks, throw
ing over 200 hands out of employment.
The Illinois Canning company at the
saline place will not can any corn this
ceaSOn
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

and Machine Conveying company the
chief concern of the mayor of the city
Of Cleveland, o., seems to have been
to find an occasion for trotting out the
militia. He has found the occasion at
last, and now the works mentioned
have been transformed into veritable
fortress, with inside and outside sem
tinels, the place bearing every evidence
of being in state of siege. There Is
no earthly probability of the works be-
ing attacked by the strikers, and the
mayor and the militia know this to be
absolutely true. Why then, go to the
expense of calling out the militia? This
might have remained a mystery for
some time, were 1t not for chance re-
mark let fall by one Of the doughty
"colonels' in command, who inadvert-
emily gave the scheme away. His re-
mark was to the effect that "he was
tired Of fooling with these strikers"
What did this Ohio. warrior mean?
Simply that he was waiting for an &C.
casion when he could order his troops
to fire upon the strikers, just as the
mayor had waited an opportunity for
sending the colonel and his braves to
the works.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

After the great strike of the garme!,t
workers in Chicago, a number OF the
members of that union were black
listed and could secure no employ
ment. Several of the number started
in the tailoring trade, as the M. M.
Jacobs Tailoring Company. Shortly
after they started the attention of the
G. S. was called to the fact that the
work they made was made to the order
of each individual customer. We inn
mediately raised the point that our Ia
bel had jurisdiction. over such trade
and not the garment workers label
The case became urgent and the G. 5.
went to Chicago to consult our local
No. 5, and the NJ. M. Jacobs Company;
the conclusion finally reached was,
that the general officers of the Jour-
neymen Tailors' Union of America and
the United Garment Workers of Amer
lea formulate an agreement between
the two organizations, clearly defining
the jurisdiction of each union, and give
a clear understanding of what is GUS
der to avoid disputes in the future.
Pending the effort to secure such an
agreement of a general character, the
M. NJ. Jacobs Company should be al
lowed to use the garment workers la
bel on their trade.
find that our members are greatly
divided on the question: TO whlch
union does such trades as Nicol, Arm
helm, Jacobs Bros, and hundreds OF
others of the same class, belong? Are
they custom tailors, or are they manu-
facturers of ready-made clothing to the
order of each individual customer
Their method of making trade is exact
ly the same as the great ready-made
firms; on the other hand, they sell their
trade to the order of the individual
customer, and to the individual meas
ure cut and have it made. Until clear
agreement Is secured, disputes Will
arise as to the right of the Journey
men Tailors' Union of America or
United Garment Workers of America
to jurisdiction, and we hope to secure
an agreement that will be just, and
will avoid friction between the two
unions. Failing to reach an agree
ment it may be possible to reach an
amalgamation of the two unions that
would protect the best interests OF
Notwithstanding Lennon, in The Tall
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18
All the Comforts of Home.

Jimsmith-Hello, Johnbrown! How
do you prosper now that your family
is away for the summer? Pretty
lonesome and unsettled, eh?
Johnbrown-Not Il bit of it; getting
along finely.
THAT'S queer; I should suppose you
would feel the loss of your accustomed
surroundings.
$50 l would, my boy, if / hadn't
dropped into just the boarding house
did. You see, the landlady is par
ticular body and she calls me down
every time l miss meals or stay out
late. Then the young woman in the
room across the hall has spunky
pair of twins who do their yelling be-
tween and II every night, so that L
can go to sleep with the usual accom-
paniment Talk about all the COM
forts of homer wouldn't leave that
boarding house to go to the best hotel
in town as the guest of the proprietor. ="
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

read It in Mr.. Monks Office while she
was waiting for you, and while was
talking to Mr.. Monk. When you read
it picture her feelings, and you will
understand everything"
Grant turned away and left me alone
with the letters.
Which should I open first? Viola's,
of course. Sad though 1t might be, 1t
would contain some word of love which
would be precious to me. I kissed 1t
and tore It open. Here it is:
Dearest: You will read this, know
ing all. Had we not met-had you
even believed me faithless to you, I
could have carried the dreadful secret
to the grave, and you at least might
one day have found yourself happy
again. You have forced the truth
from me, and the truth shows you that
this letter is an eternal farewell. At
times. thought, when years and years
have passed, we might meet again.
Dearest, it can never be. Even that
hope is denied us. Julian, fate has
been cruel, and seems crueler now
that you must share the sorrow and
the shame. Farewell"
laid the letter on the table and
opened the second packet. Another
letter in a woman's writing; also two
long, narrow strips of paper. / read
the letter:
"My Daughter: IF I am dead, this
will be given you on your twenty-first
birthday. The name under which 1
pass is not my own. l am the Wife
YOU are the daughter-of Julian Lo-
raine, of Herstal Abbey, Somersetshire.
How he treated me, why left him, are
matters upon which need not speak.
He was fiend in human shape. l shall
never see him again. He does not
know whether l am alive or dead. l
tell you this, not that you may seek
him and claim the rights OF daugh-
ter, but that you may shun and avoid
any one bearing his wicked name. He
is rich. but riches do not bring happi-
ness. Live your own sweet life, marry
a good, honest man, and let your true
name, or the relationship you bear to
the man who so cruelty wronged me,
never pass your lips. If ever you fee!
tempted to go to this man and say, !
am your daughter think Of me and
the years Of suffering he has caused
me. Let him die without knowing hs
has a child so fair and loving as your
self, Your affectionate mother,
"MARGARET Lorraine"
CONCLUDED IN OUR NExr)
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

EYES," said the tourist on Lookout
Mountain to the stranger who was
surveying the scenery, "a great battle
was fought on the spot where we
stand"
"lndeedw
"Yes. The Federal and Confeder-
ate troops had terrific engagement
here, and at one time during the ac-
ton the entire mountain was ablaze!"
"Indeed"
"Fact, sir. The banks of the river
below there were lined with the dead
and wounded and the trees were
shattered and stripped by shells"
awful"
"You may well say so. By the by,
where were you at that timer"
II was in the battle that you were
speaking Of" replied the stranger
serenely. Chicago Times Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

ashamed to do So" I added with a
faint laugh.
He took no notice of my self-depre-
citation.
TELL me all about yourself-as short
as possible, but pass over nothing"
So in few words I told him the
story which, years ago, Julian Lorraine
had told me.
How was born in mid-ocean, and In
a curious way established some sort
of a claim on Mr.. Lorraine. My tale
was but half finished when Grant left
me, and heard him in the outer Of
fee shouting for Geographic forms in
a way which scandalzed the decorous
clerks. He wrote two messages rap
idly, threw down sovereign, and
asked for some one to go at once to the
telegraph office. Then he seized me
by the arm.
Gomez he cried "all that trash
meaning the business papers-"can
wait. Come with me-"
He swept me out of the office like
whirlwind, down the stairs, into the
street.
He shouted for a cab, and in mo-
ment we were tearing at full speed to-
ward our hotel. Had l not guessed
that something deeper, something con-
corning my own fate lay under his
excitement, l should have thought
Eustace Grant had suddenly gone mad.
No; l knew that he had made some
discovery which wrought great
change in everything.
"What Is it? Tell me-" said.
81 can not. I can not speak. Walt
one minute"
'Tell me that it means good to Viola
and to me-"
He grasped my hand. Julian" he
said, ut means everything"
I sunk back speeches.. For min
ute or two I was willing to rest con-
tent with this bold assertion and ask
no more questions. I said no more
until we reached the hotel.
Grant carelessly threw money to the
cabman, passed his arm through mine,
and led me to our sitting-room at a
rate which made us the observed of ALI
Once there he grasped both my hands
and shook them vigorously. Then he
left me.
In a minute he was back again. He
held two letters in his hand. He gave
me one.
"She wrote this" he said; cit is a
farewell, and was to have been given
you when you had learned ALL"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

The question at present agitating the
more thoughtful and scientific trades
unionists is how to increase the effect
iveness of strikes. In palmer terms,
economic students are asking if there
is not some better method by which the
demands of labor may be enforced than
those now employed With the cigar
makers, whose national convention is
soon to be held in this city, this ques-
ton of strike effectiveness will be the
chief matter for consideration and will
doubtless take the form of providing
cooperative factories for the employ
ment of all strikers. While this plan
may prove an advance on the one at
present in vogue, which is the mainte-
nance of the strikers in idleness from
a defense fund, it is the opinion OF
leading thinkers outside of that organ
ization that it will not prove sufficient.
In a general discussion of this subject
in Trades Council hall the other day
one of the participants said.
Let us go to the A, b, c of this
matter. Why do we lose strikes? 1t
is because employers find others to
take the places of the strikers. Why do
others take our places? Is 1T because
they desire to displace union men and
women? Not at all. There is no anti
union sentiment amounting to any
thing among non-unionists. That much
is settled, then. The reason persons
are found to take the places of strikers,
almost without exception, VIII be
found in the necessitous condition at
such persons. They are in absolute
need. and must have work at any price.
Now,if the pressing necessities OF these
persons could be relieved, it is morally
certain that so large proportion OIL
them would refuse to work under
strike that the strikers would gain
their demands. Under present arrange
ments unions can only offer argument
and persuasion to such persons, and
argument and persuasion have very
little weight with an empty pocket
and an empty stomach. l candldly De-
lieve that if the unions were in posi-
tion TO offer such persons one-half or
one-third the amount they are to re-
ceive as non-union workmen they
would refuse to go to work; but the
union is not able to offer them a sin
ole crust of bread. l am certain that,
had one-fourth the cost of the strikes
of the past ten years been used as
fund for the sustenance Of persons who
we're employed to take the places of
the strikers, nine out of every ten of
the strikes lost would have been
gained. And such fund could be
! raised and maintained by a tax SO
small, apportioned to each member of
the American Federation, as not to in
Aict the least distress. When we are
able to take care Of the persons who
take the places of the strikers we shall
he able to win every strike, and not
before; and when we are able to do
that we shall be able to reduce the
hours of work to such point that no
fund for the sustenance of such per-
sons will be required, for there will
be practically no idlers to be utilized
in defeating strike" One thing union
labor should remember always-capi-
tai is ever on strike against labor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

There is a federal law against circu-
lating counterfeit weather predictions.
1t makes the offense misdemeanor,
and the penalty is fine not exceeding
five hundred dollars, or Imprisonment
for not longer than ninety days. or
both fine and imprisonment. The law
was intended to prevent the influence
ing of market prices by spreading spur
ious weather reports; but it HIS been
invoked recently in the west as warn
ing to persons who, with unaccountable
mischievous intent, have tried to create
pahic by circulating false predictions
of approaching tornadoes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

The pleasant effect and perfect safety
with which ladies may use Syrup Of
Figs, under all conditions, makes it
their favorite remedy. To get the true
and genuine article look for the name
Of the California Fig Syrup Company,
printed near the bottom of the pack
age. For sale by all responsible drug
RiStS
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

Showman-This is picture of the
Israelites crossing the Red sea.
One of the Audience-But l don't
see the Israelites!
Showman-Oh, they've just crossed
over!
One of the Audience-Well, where
are the Egyptians?
Showman-They've just gone under.
Saw, how much will you take to take
your money back? Pick Me-Up.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

A Dexter selectman, taking the AFT
nual inventory, called at a certain
house and inquired If the family had
any musical instrument and he was
greeted with a reply in the affirmative.
The readiness and joyousness of the
acknowledgment were explained when
the assessor was ushered into the pres
ence of a melodious infant ir cradle
and he Immediately raised that hap
py taxpayers valuation $4,000. Lew
iston Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

Disappointed Washington cores
pondents assert that when Prince Ytur-
bide arrived in court to defend suit
brought by his servant "he wore BIZ
cycle suit and he would never have
been taken for man who wears a
title" The correspondents should rec
ollect that 1t would be hard work If
1t were windy to keep on crown while
riding a wheel and that an ermine
cloak would be apt to catch in the
sprocket wheels.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

Another determined effort Is being
made by distinguished jurists all over
the country for national divorce laws,
by which this ticklish point Of law
will be on identically the same basis
in every part of the country, thus elm
mating the thousand and one differ
ences which now exist and through
which a divorced man may be legally
married in one state and be biganist
in another.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18
The Way She Took It

Mrs. Lovey proudly)-"Yes, Mr..
Lovey and / have been married for
twenty-five years and we have yet tc
make up for our first quarrel" Miss
Pert-"Isn't that rather long time to
?'-New York World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

The Spiritists at Lily Dale have a
psychic class whose members will soon
be ready to project their egoes to any
part of the world" That is taking a
mean advantage. What harm has the
world done them?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

A Chicago man insisted on keeping
his hat on in the theater because
lady in front of him kept hers on. The
man was arrested and the lady-well,
she still enjoys unequal rights.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

Ii Hung Chang ate the same dinner
every day while on board the st.
Louis coming to this country. 1t con-
sisted of chicken broth and sucking
pig, carefully prepared by his own
cook. This is not bad menu by any
means.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

Differs, reading-Science now recog-
nizes condition called 'intoxication
by radiation Many cases of drunk
enness are cited in which the victim
had touched nothing alcoholic, but
had simply been in the company of
drinkers"
Whiffers-Gee Williken! Cut that
out. 1 want to show it to my wife.
New York Weekly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

The Rev. Sidney Strong, known as
the bicycling clergyman, was on board
the St. Louis and it is said that Ii
Hung Chang had several long talks
with him on theological subjects dur
ing the voyage.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

The oyster crop this year will be
extremely large. but the man who Or
ders dozen tried and gets thirteen
by mistake will be just as tickled as
though the bivalves were as scarce as
gold nuggets.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

SNATCHED 1t and
would have opened
1t.
stop a mo-
ment," he said.
This one Is a let
ter which on her
deathbed Viola's
mother told me to
give her daughter
on her twenty first
birthday. Your wife
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

The host of a dinner company in
Germany asked the representatives OF
several nations who were present y
say what they were most proud Of in
their own countries. An American
woman was one of the guests. She
understood German, but could not
speak it, When her turn came, though
She could not say anything, a happy
thought helped her to respond effec-
lively. She excused herself for a mo-
ment. Returning with an American
flag, which she always carries abroad
with her, she unfurled it and thus
gave her answer to the hosts question.
The hearty and general applause which
followed showed that the company
thought her symbolic reply very elo-
quent and effective response. The flag
has language which is its own inter.
prefer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

The Mr.. Sire, who has paid Miss ia
cobs over fifty-two thousand dollars for
breach of promise is good deal more
of an infant than his name would indi-
cate.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

With malarial disease, but with prodigious
violence afterwards. if you neglect immediate
measure of relief. The surest preventive and
remedial form Of medication is Hostatters
stomach Bitters. the potency of which as an
antedote to miasmatic poison has been dem
onstrated for over forty years past Tho liver
when disordered and congested, the bowels il
constipated, and the kidneys if inactive. are
promptly aided by it, and it is Invaluable for
dyspepsia nervous debility and rheumatism.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

Among the recent discoveries in as
tronomy is moons moon. An OBJ
server using the great Lick telescope
noticed tiny satellite revolving
around one of the moons Of jupiter.
Speaking more correctly, the larger and
the smaller satellite were revolving
around a common center, in accord
ance with law governing the move
ments of all celestial neighbors. An
other interesting and a somewhat weird
discovery was dark body passing be-
tween the earth and the moon. 1t was
visible only while crossing the moons
disk, and this glimpse furnished nc
data for solving the mystery of its
hitherto unsupported presence in space.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

Byron was crafty jealous of every
woman he loved His loves were al.
most innumerable, and sooner or later
he made every one miserable.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

The Kneipp cure consists in walking
barefooted in the grass morning and
evening. Let us hope that the tack
throwers will not get after that fad,
too.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-09-18

There is a great difference between
what you do from sense Of duty and
acts performed from spirit of gener-
osity.