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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-12
THE SACK OF FLOUR.

Guilty, Judge, and own the crime
slipped away with sack of flour
They nabbed me just in the nick of time
I'd have had it home it half an hour
Only, the constable on the hill,
Knew that must have jumped the bill;
Knew as we'll as he could, that |
Hadn't the money with which to buy.
"I.arceny' that's the proper word
There's never crime but Law can name
Only, wonder if Law has heard
That any one but the thief's to blame
Say did the constable OH the hill
Tell you about the closed-up mill ?
Tell you of men that must beg or steal,
To give their babies and wives meal
Yes have begged-and III tell you how:
walked the roads and the fields and lanes,
And asked for work with pleading brow,
And came back empty for all my pains
Say did the constable on the hill
Tell YOU the wheels of trade were still
Tell YOU, when work was dull or dead,
The wife and the child might go unfed
Guilty, Judge-let t'e law be paid
But it you had children four or five,
AS pretty as God has ever made,
And lacked the food to keep them alive,
Lacked the method but not the WILL
hell CRIES Ol HuuSel W sup dHu o'iii
And then saw oceans of food in view
For Gods sake tel; me, what would you do
Say if you had a wife whose heart
Had fed your own for a score of years,
And never moment walked apart
From all of your griefs and hopes and fears,
And now in that faithful bosom had grown
A little life that was part your own,
And Hunger narrowed them through and
through,
For Gods sake tell me, what would you do ?
Dollars by thousands stacked away
Harvests rotting i'll barn and she'd
Silks and ribbons and fine display
And children crying for lack of bread
Wealth and famine are hand in hand,
Making the tour of heart-sick land
Half af the country's future veal
Crushed by the Presents selfish heel
Guilty, Judge-and | own the crime
Put me in prison without delay
Only-please work me double time,
And send my family half the pay
And tell my children, if ever they ask,
That was working my gloomy task,
Not for pleasure or money or GEM
But for the love that | had for them.
WILL CARLETON.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-12

SOME of the editors of religions papers have
strange conceptions of what constitutes man
hood. Among these is Jesse Bowman Young,
editor of the Central Christian Advocate, the
official organ of the M. E. church published at
St. Louis. In the Advocate of March 3rd the
editor puts Grover in niche in the temple OF
fame along side of Washington and Lincoln.
He does not do so in direct language, bnt the
peans of praise he sings in his honor could be
consistently given to either of those great COM
moners. How pttiable; yea! how contemp-
tible, appears the conduct of Grover Cleveland
when placed along side the acts of Washing
ton and Lincoln. He lost the opportunity to
immortalze his name, and if there is one pres
ident, and one only, in the long list OF names
whom posterity will cover with infamy, it will
be Grover Cleveland. Nowhere in all his ut
terances, official and semi-official, is there one
found which can be construed as favoring the
enactment of laws which would bring the great
est good to the greatest number. He went in
to the presidency poor he leaves it million
are. He consorted with those who have, for
long years, forced the producers of wealth to
pay tribute to them. These men recognized in
Cleveland their strong ally. With his tongue,
he at long intervals, uttered short, patriotic
sentences, but he was as sounding brass and
tinkling cymbal." His whole presidential life
has been lie. He was not the president OF
the people, nor did he utter one sentence during
the eight years of his power which has endear-
ed him to them. He was with the oppressor,
-:.:. I,
with the "oppressor of the hireling in his
wages" was too significant for DR.. Young or
any other editor or divine to explain away.
The men and women who labor at some pro-
ductve labor are the men and women who up
hold nation, and Cleveland's hand has been
yanst thenf from start to finish. His general
disregard of the rights of the many millions of
tire nation cannot be overlooked. 1t would be
a crime against humanity to do So He has
wrought evil in the land and brought hunger
and woe and want to millions of homes. He
has exempli6ed to an intense degree that truth
truth of the Word "When the wicked rule,
the people mourn" While we have particular
lothing for him, for his utter failure to rise TO
the full dignity of his Office, and be the pres-
dent of the whole people, the English language
is barred of adectives when we attempt to an
alyze his brutal utterances against the men who
lad the courage to do battle for the nation
whilst he was hiding behind substitute.
When preachers write and publish pane
eyrics of such dictators as Grover Cleveland,
they need not wonder nor ask why their hear
ers ard few and dwindle in numbers. They
need enlightenment.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-12

THE Republican party cannot ignore the de-
mand for bimetalism. The country was prom
ised this and an earnest effort must be made to
obtain it, Tariff is all right in its place but it
nev-r can bring prosperity alone. Its twin sis
ter, bimetasm, must 60 along.-Lawrence
World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-12
NO. 49,.
ROTHSCHILDS PLEASED
WITH McKINLEY'S ADDRESS.
It Suits Them Exactly.

LONDON, March 5.--The financial clauses OF
President McKinley's message to congress have
been received in business circles here with every
expression of satisfaction.
The representatives of the Rothschilds bank
position taken by the President, adding cit
is excellent-most excellent"
The governor of the Bank of England, AL
bert c, Sandman, said the financial Gle ses were
"thoroughly sound and of clear, honest con-
servatve tone" He would not express an
opinion on the international bimetalism clauses.
Howard Brown, of Brown, Shipley & Co.,
remarked: cit is quite in line with what ex-
pected. If President Mckinley appoints
commission to revise the monetary laws there Is
no doubt that good will result. The country
must be thoroughly sick of the situation"
All Of the morning papers contain editorial
reference to the inaugural address. The Morn
ing Post says that in view of ''the embittered
relations produced between Great Britain and
the United States by President Cleveland's i'm
pudent message, it is satisfying to note Presi-
dent McKinley's words of weight and wisdom
with reference to the arbitration treaty." The
paper thinks it is also "gratifyng to find that
he does not discourage the policy of interfer-
ence abroad, and keeps an open mind on cur
rency and economic questions" "
The Daily Telegraph regards the message as
ga most relentless and unfinching declaration
for protectionism,' and adds sarcastically
"Fortunately our conviction for the unassailable
{ fraa do tO
regard a comparison with eqanimity."
The Daily News considers the address "most
satisfactory and raassurng, and especially so
in its references to arbitration and non-interfer-
ence abroad" The paper thinks the Presi-
dents attitude toward bimetalism "safe, sooth-
ing and altogether unobjectionable. The Pres
ident's references to the developments of the
American merchant marine are thought ";nost
significant"
The Daily Chronicle says: "It is very safe
uttcrance, showing that President Mckinley, if
not great man, is prudent man. Evidently
high tariff is to be the sheet anchor of the new
administration President Mckinley will stand
or fall however, by his strength of resistance
to the encroachments to organized wealth."
"The Times says: 1.-The obvious proml-
nence given the protectionists idea in its most
uncompromising form must put an end to any
active cooperation between the Republicans
and the free traders who assisted them in fight
ing against Bryanism propaganda. The Presi-
dents language on the currency is encourag-
ing, though vague. He has given the jngoes
cold do,iche ,and though we do not feel as con-
fdent as we might it is to be hoped the senate
will ratfy the arbitration treaty without mutt
lating or minimizing its provisions"
The Standard says: "The address is smooth
and kindly but it has one serious underlying
purpose, namely, protection. Experience has
been useless either to President Mckinley or to
the American people"
SENATOR WOLCOTT announces that he is
IL l.. L.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-12

SENATOR WOLCOTT announces that he is
we'll satisfied with his interviews with leaders
of Europe on bmetalism, and has started for
home. Inasinuch as they totally ignored him,
the senator must be easily satished.-Lawrence
World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-12

MRS. HENRY WARD BEECHER died, Monday,
after protracted sickness. She died on the
10th anniversary of the death of her husband
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-12

CARLISLE is to be general attorney for the
Pullman company. Eminently proper.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-28
Free Cure For Men.
Al MICHIGAN MAN OFFERS ~
SEND HIS DISCOVERY FREE.
Claims to be a Benefactor to Weakened
Mankind.

Mankind.
There is always more or less suspicion
attached to anything that Is oIereu Ire! zee
but sometimes man so o'erho"s w.
ganerositv that he cannot rest until MS
discovery is known to the world in order
that his fellow men may profit by What
he has discovered. 1t is upon this primer
nile that a resident of Kalamazoo, Mich,
desires to send free to mankind pre-
scrintion which will cure them OF any
form of nervous debility; relieves them OIL
all the doubt and uncertainty which such
mon are peculiarly liable to and restores
the organs to natural size and vigor. AS
If costs nothing to try the experiment IL
yould seem that any man, suffering with
tbe nervous troubles that usually attack
mon who never stopped to realize what
might be the final result, ought to be
deeply interested in a remedy which VIII
restore them to health, strength ana
yicor. without which they continue to
live an existence of untold misery. AS
the remedy in question was the result OF
many years research as to what combl-
nation would be peculiarly effective IN
restoring to men the strength they need,
il would seem that all men suffering with
any form of nervous weakness ought to
write for such a remedy at once. A re-
quest to Fl. G. Odds, Box 1922, Kala-
mazoo, Michigan, stating that you are
not sending for the prescription out Of
idle curiosity, but that you wish to make
use of the medicine by giving it trial,
will be answered promptly and without
evidence as TO where information came
from.
The prescription is sent free, and al
though some may wonder how Mr.. ODDS
can afford to give away his discovery,
there is no doubt about the offer being
genuine. Cut this out and send TO Mr..
Odds that he may know how you came to
write him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-28
Talk About Water.

Nature has supplied us with remedy
or every disease. Many of the RENE
lies are found in roots, herbs and barks,
and to effect cures the medicinal prop
critics must be extracted and put into
concentrated form, and then properly
compounded.
Nature has also placed some of the
very best medicines in water, common
ly known as mineral water" One of
the best of these is the famous OTTER
BURN LITHIA WvTER. For Indigestion
kidney, bladder and diseases of like ma
ture there is nothing better than Otter
burn Lithla. And the price is moderate
! handle it in large quantities, and am
the sole dealer in Raleigh. Bring your
own containers and I will furnish the
water at 90 cents for half gallon, 35
cents per gallon, or 80 cents in gallon
lots. Extra charge if / furnish con
tanners. By the glass at my sooa foun-
tain, carbonated, s cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-28
TAKING THE CENSUS.

The county supervisor is required to
mail to each committee, on the firss Mon
day in May, a blank report, on (which
they are to report the census Of the: school
property and children in their township,
which report must be returned ito the
county supervisor ON or before the first
Monday in June of each year. A new
census will also be taken this fall for the
January apportionment.
If the committee finds that there are
too many school houses in the district,
and the average is less than sIxty-five
pupils to the school, then it will be their
duty to decrease the number of: schools
until the average is reached, orr if they
find they have the required average
without interfering with any schDol, still,
they should not hesitate to discontinue
any school wherever it is possible to do
so, and the children are not inconveni-
enced thereby.
The law does not require that each
school shall have sixty-five children as
signed to it, no more and no less, for ge-
ographical reasons, in certain localities,
it will not be practicable to have as many
as sixty-fye children, and for these rea-
sons one school may have fewer than
thirty children, but the average, in the
whole school district should not be less
than sixty-fve.
The committee of each township, on or
before their January meeting, should fix
the dividing lines between the various
schools in their townships so as to des-
lignate the school for the children in each
locality to attend.
The census report for NORTH Carolina
shows that only 81 per cent of the chill
dren of school age are enrolled in the
public schools, and the average attend
ance is only 62 per cent of the enroll
ment; consequently there is little danger
of making the districts too large, pro-
vided the children can reach the school
house without great Inconvenience. When
the districts are made larger and the
number of the schools reduced, then will
the schools have longer terms with the
same money.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-28
]. H. BOBBITT.
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(Trade-Mark Registered.)
THE IDEAL LAXATIVE
AND CURE FOR
CONSTIPATION.

AS pleasant as honey and sure cure TOR
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Thick and SalIow Complexion
And very many other diseases and com
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PRUNELINE is the safest and surest
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thoroughly cleanses without gripping,
purifes the blood and removes all waste
from the system. 1t does away with
Castor Oil, Salts, Blue Mass and all
other nauseous purgatives. 1t tones and
energies all the great organs of the
system. 1t is free from all harshy act
ing drugs, and is always safe, always
ready, always reliable.
Keep the:Head Cool, the Feet Warm.and the Bowels
en,-using PRUNELINE for the latter purpose.
/ -
PRUNELiNE
IS THE PERFECT FAMILY MEDICINE.
Sold by all dealers, or sent on receipt OF
80 cents to any address by
WinkeImann & Brown Drug Co.
SOLE PRoPRIEToRss
g. vIMoRE Md, Y s..
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-28
MINERAL HOTEL,
CHASE CITY, VA.
Now Open for Guests. Handsomely
Painted and Papered. Thor
oughIy Renovated.

The celebrated Chase City Lithia and
Chloride Calcium Waters are found here.
Specifics for Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Tor
pid Lived and al Skin, Blood and Kid
ney Diseases.
Only those who are guests of the Min
eral Hotel and of such private residences
as have made arrangements with the pro-
prietor for the accommodation of guests,
are permitted to use these waters. Spe-
ciaI rates for the months Of May and
June.
Write for description, circulars, testi-
monials, etc. w. d. PAXTON,
Proprietor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-07
sr4BBER cor ON CABLE CAR.
Lii Victim and q Policeman FoIiowed-An EX
citinx Episode In seventh Avenue.

The passengers OF q Columbus avenue cable
ar. which was going uptown about 8 P. VI. yes
ertay, were startled by the sudden invasion of
hecar, first ny a negro who was trying to es-
cape the police, then BY a white man who had
Just been stabbed, and finally By a policeman.
Pretty soon the car was surrounded by a crowd
Who we're yelling. Lynch the niger" As a
result Of the turmoil one woman tainted and
others screamed, and most OF the other passen-
gers scramble out IN a hurry.
ice row OF whith this was the wind up,
staFtei IN a billiard room at s02 Seventh ave-
nue.: while James Reese. % years old. q negro.
VISA seventh avenue, was playing pool In the
sSioon. Daniel Roach. a white man, "a years
oG- Of 2O1 Vest SiNty-seventh street, began
Buylng him about his play. The two had some
70 words. and then Roach went out. Reese fol-
owed MN 70 The siGew Tx. and there the quarrel
" continued. James DOdson. another negro.
TtIoS lhlrf avenue, was in the saloon wh-n
se row began. He followed the other two ont.
Duo, running up. caught hold OF 70 ch and.
hoaen says. held him while Reese stabbed him
WIN a poke, knife in the shoulder.
a ssoou az Reese had cut ROa, h he ran and
Jumped on The cable car. which was Just passing.
hotcn followed him, ana Policeman Ker also
sanea IN the chase, ker signalled to the grip
San 70 stop. and as the car slowed up Rorch
.emgea INTO l.. with ker after him. AS Ker
STsssat Reese two detectives also came up.
a. turned Reese over TO them and caught bod
W W, ne TWO negroes were locked up at the
ppnat Forty'seVenlh street police station and
"~~SH Vas sent 10 Roosevelt Hospital.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-07
THE MAGEEs BLAMEL ESS.
Charges or Forgery ana Larceny Against Then
Due to n bicycle Dealer. Mistake.

New BRUNSWICK. y. j., Sept. 6.-The arrest
on Sunday OF Seth and Edmen Magee on q
charge OF forging the names Of two New Bruins
wick citizens and stealing a tandem bicycle was
due TO an error. The order for a tandem which
the young men presented to the bicycle dealer.
A. Craig Voorhees,. was signed by John VI. Daily.
brother OF Z. f. DAILY. and did not purport TO
have been si-nei by 2. F. DAILY. Mr.. voorhees,
had failed to notice the name John NJ. DAILY. and
when p. +. Daily denied having signed the order
he thought Il a clear case OF forgery. The sig
nature. W. H. Hooper, on the note addressed
TO Mr.. Coopcr's clerk. Fret Cunningham. is
PROBABLY genuine. Mr.. Cooper is out o; town.
but his Sookkeeper, Miss Carrie Quad. says that
the signature IS Mr.. Coop RS. The two young
men have been NJ Monmouth Junction. where
they have a travelling Photographic outfit
worth some $500. They were released to-day,
bail being furnished by P. F. DAILY.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-07
roo MUCH HEILrH BOARD.
Fort Richmond SUFFERING from . surrsit 81
sanitary Competition.

Port Richmond SUFFERING from . surfeit or
sanitary Competition.
The village OF Port Richmond Staten Island.
is having a surteit OF health inspection and
health boards these days. A rupture in the
village Board of Health divided it in two fac.
tons. each OF which alleges that it is the legal
board. The result is that the two bodies are
holding distinct meetings and are hustling about
for business. each making efforts TO Guido tho
other.
The row was precipitated when the counsel.
Herman 8. Butler, reported that the board was
illegally constituted. in that 1t had more mem.
bers than the law allowed. The coard had been
increased FROM i've to seven members when tho
reform Board OF Trustees took Office. In the rc-
organization II. +. Buel was elected Chairman,
deposing Archibald Fulton. When the re.
port was made Fulton assumed his old
office as Charm IN. and the board split. Tho
old board stuck to Fulton and the newer
members to Buel. The Buel faction Is
recognized as the official one by the Board OF
Trustees, who declare they will not pay the
debts or the other body At present there arc
two health officers, Or. Frederick I. Barber and
DR.. j. Walter Wood: two clerks. and a veteri-
nary surgeon to keep m tiers straight. Tho
Fulton board would like to BEGIN legal proceed
ings TO have the other body bounced. out the
trustees have been careful not to DO anything
to give them IA chance for u suit. For this
reason they cannot lind ground to bring action
on.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-07
LIye stock Market.

NEW YORK, Monday. Sept Or celpts OF beevrS
yesterday and to-day were I,lBs heLd-lsS cars d.
rect to local slauzhterers and so cars ( r the market.
Trading fairly brisk aud prices steady, except on
common and medium stee =, which showed a sll Sht
decline. The ards were fully cleared. Native steers
III at 81. l0GLb5.J = 100 rs. sraxs and oxen at
81. 75Gsi.5O. bulls at sZ.30GS3, dry COWS at SIS
$3.50. Or. 50 d beef hrm at !GSL2r. y 4. for
native sides. CahIfs from British markets quote
America steers at lOh4sli ne. v n, dress d weight;
Ameri an r.frlgera:or beef at -t.Hssc. y n. No cx.
tiers Of beef.
Receipts Of calves yesterday and to-day. including
81 direct, were 2.l0- head, A tive; yeals 40 +c.
higher: other caves lac stronger. The pens were
fuzzy cleared. Yeats sold AZ 1Sas775 Y 100 rs.
grassers and buttermIiks at t3.75ss43o. Western
calves at e5.2J.
Receipts Of sheep and lambs yesterday and to-day.
including II cars direct TO butchers. were 5000
had; 67La cars on sale. She . a'tiye and nrm
lambs slow at q decline OF 4S lac, = q. About 3 cars
were unsold at the hni-h. sheep sold at ~ .60,Ge4.25
Y 100 rs. lambs AZ ab $3.50.
Receipts Of hogs e'terday and to-day were 2,0O<
head LIZA head on sale; dull and weak at e4.45e
Sal ) y 100 bs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-07
ROYAL ARCAxUu CORNER STONE
Laid In the Foundation OF n View Hall In Tomp-
kins Axrnue. BrookIyn.

The corner stone OF the new Royal Arcanum
building in Toupkins avenue. between Jefer-
son avenue and Hancock street in Brooklyn. was
laid yesterday afternoon in the presence OF sew
eral thousand memhers OF the order. Charles A.
Turner. Chairman OF the Board OF Directors.
presided. The Rev. Otto F. Bartholow. pastor OF
the Fleet Street Methodist Church. mad the
opening prayer. and the corner stone was laid by
Supreme Regent Edison VI. Srhryver OF Balti.
more. The Grafton was delivered by District
Attorney Foster L. b tCkus. and James \. Rier-
don. Grand Regent OF the State OF New York,
also made an address. A reception was given
the visitors at Arlington Hall. in Gates avenue.
last evening.
The new Building will be the headquarters OF
the various Brooklyn councils. There will be- a
large hall for public entertainments. billiard
rooms, and a bowling ally. The building will
be completed in the spring.