Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-04-10
RUNNING A NEWSPAPER.

Vi THESE CRITICAL IrlenQS IS called to the
following poem by J. Whitcomb Riley:
Jim Jones, he was an editor; that is, he tried
to be.
He bought himself hand press, and started
out to see
Jes' what there was to edith; but when he
canvassed round,
Some fifteen hundred editors in that same town
he found.
They all knew more about it thar Jones could
nope to know.
They told him: ''You must run her, Jones,
jes so an so!
Be sure to boom the Baptists; they're bound to
help you out;
An give the good old Methodists big saliva
ton shout.
"Give every man notice; be sure and put it
down
Whenever Major links is seen to perambulate
the town;
Put in few free locals for all the sto,es an
give
Each man free subscription if you want your
sheet to ive.'
Well, Jones, he did jes' as they said, for fear
they'd make row;
But the more he tried to please 'em all, the
more they told him howl
Until at last he took his book an laid it on the
shelf;
Then the paper in the ground, an follered
it hissef
In the graduating class of the Kansas Med
lcal College, find seven men and two girls;
50 Kansas has two more woman doctors"
The Populists Of the Sixth Kansas district
will bring the into the campaign this
year, and hold school-h house meetings, after the
fashion of the Alliance campaign of 1890.
The first original composition printed in
America was brought out by a woman, Mrs
Anne Bradstreet, wife Of Simon Bradstreet
governor Of Massachusetts,, and daughter of
the celebrated Thomas Dudley She published
volume of poem; in 1912 year after the
first printing press SET up i'll Cambridge,
Mass. -Exchange
At recent trial in New York. which in
volved the right of the mother to the custody
of her child, Judge Ingralam, of the supreme
court, in rendering decision in the mothers
favor, said: ''Modern civilization requires
that the rights of the mother be recognized.
There is no longer that relic of barbarism
which holds the wife as a slave of her husband.
Marital slavery has been abolished" This is
a significant utterance and shows the power of
enlightened public opinion -Phanthropist
Until we recognize the right of the child to
be we'll born, and act in obedience to our high
est conceptions of duty in this regard, we will
be troubled with the abnormally developed If
we would take as great care III the breeding of
human beings do in breeding horses and
cattle, we would as rapidly eliminate the saw
age from their natures. Few children are we'll
born Too few are welcome when they come
Too frequently the mothers made, during
the tender and sacred arte-natal period, the
victims of drudgery and lust, and when the
little ones come into the world, their lives have
received their determining influences, often
toward weakness physically, morally and
mentally. Parcntlio,d is too generally spent
in entertaining the dcvtaizinr, demorali2ing
trinity-brutalizing 'bor, tvrannizing lust and
cruel neglect Whn mankind ascen6s to the
high plane of common and wsdoln and
propagates its kind under the most favorable
conditions, true nobility Of character will not
be so rare as it is now, nor will our annals reek
with the slime of unhollness The Progress
i've Age.