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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24
When Mckinley Is President.

"All nature is sick from her heels to
her hair.
Wen Teller is out of job
She is all out of killer an out Of re-
pair
Wen a Teller is out Of job.
Amt no juice in the earth an no salt
in the sea,
Amt no ginger in life in this land Of
the free,
An the universe amt what It's
cracked up to be,
Wen a Teller is out of job.
Watts the good of blue skies an Of
blossomin' trees
Wen Teller is out of a job,
Wen yer boy hez large patches on both
of his knees,
An Teller is out Of job?
Them patches, l say, look SO big to
your eye
That they shut out lan'scape an cover
the sky,
An the sun can't shine through 'em
the best it can try
Wen Teller is out of job
Gwen a man has no part in the work
of the earth.
Wen Teller is out of job,
He feels the whole blund'rin' mistake
of his birth
;e ~ iok.
He feels he's no share in the whole
of the plan,
That he's got the mitten from natures
own ham,
That he's rejected and leftover man,
Wen Teller is out of job.
For you've jest lost your holt with
the rest of the crowd.
Wen Teller is out of job;
An you feel like dead man with
nary shroud.
Wen a Teller is out of job.
You are crawlin' aroun, but yer out OF
the game;
You may hustle about, but yer dead
just the same
Yer dead with no tombstone to puff up
yer name,
Wen Teller is out of job"
Sam Walter Foss.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

Far through the future shines the
golden age,
OF brotherhood. A new humanity,
Foretold by poet, prophet, saint and
sage,
Will work together, when the world
is free.
Then science and religion will join
hands
And follow nature to divinity.
Then strife will cease between united
lands
And peace will prosper, when the
world is free.
Then those who toll will be the ones
who own,
The slave no longer then will bow
the knee,
The king will then be driven from his
throne. .
The people regnant, when the world
is free.
Then greed and poverty will pass
away;
And all will share a true prosper
ity.
The god of Mammon, with his feet a.
clay,
Will be demolished, when the world
is free.
Then will be little law-the Golden
Rule
Will be enthroned-the law of eQui-
ty.
The thief will vanish with his creed
and school,
And truth will flourish, when tho
world is free.
Then will be happy homes. and happy
And happy women, raised from slav-
cry,
And happy children. All the dark
has-been
Will be forgotten, when the world is
free.
Oh, when the world is free! Tran"
scendent TINS!
The golden age Of dream! The
years to be!
From better unto better men will
climb
Unto the highest, when the world Is
free.
j. A. EDGERTON.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

Some persons find difficulty in under
standing how, since the images Of OBJ
jects looked at are inverted in the eyes,
we nevertheless see the objects right
side up. Recent experiments by Doc
tor Stratton indicate that we possess an
interesting power of adjustment in this
regard. He wore inverting glasses
which reversed everything within reach
of his eyes, so that, for him, the ground
was above and the sky below, while
things on the right side were seen on
the left, and things on the left appeared
on the right. Continuously for eight
days he wore the glasses, and within
that time all his bodily movements be-
came adjusted to the new order, so
that he could walk the streets without
much difficulty.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24
Popular Low Rate california Excursions.

Popular Low Rate California Excursions.
The Santa Fe daily excursions to
California in tourist sleeping cars are
deserved,y popular. Cars are of new
est pattern and very comfortable, hav-
ing every necessary CONVENIENCE.
These excursions are accompanied
by Pullman conductors and porters,
and are patronized by many of the
best people. Low ticket rates.
The Santa Fe California line is re-
markably picturesque Its middle
course across the continent avoids ex-
tremcs of heat or cold
For descriptive literature address
Geo. w. genbuch, P. & L, A., A. L.
& S. T., Ry., Kansas City, Mo
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

No sensible woman expects a man to
take Off his hat and keep it off be-
cause she happens to enter an elevator.
1t is foolish thing to do. 1t means
nothing in the way Of Difference, and
1t is extremely dangerous to health.
There are more draughts in one ele-
vator than in twenty streets cars
more grip, more bronchitis, more pneu-
monia. An elevator is not drawing
room. 1t is vehicle, and we know
of none in which it more behooves one
to be careful.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

The Dingleyites are congratulatins
themselves that Americans are COM
peting with foreigners in the sale OF
goods in all parts Of the world, even in
London. At the same time they are
congratulating themselves on the wis
dom of preventing the foreign manu-
facturers from competing with our
manufacturing trusts at home. It may
be regarded as assured that no matter
what occurs the Dingleyites will find
1t a cause for congratulation. They
are easily pleased.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

! The United States Board on Geo.
graphic Names, which meets at stated
intervals, has just rendered decisions
determining the spelling Of 149 geo.
graphic names. These include a num-
Der in Alaska, significant at this time
In view of the Klondike excitement.
Many variations of nomenclature for
the same place are encountered, and
the boards action settles the uniform
usage. Following is summary OF ac-
ton taken relating to places conspic-
uously mentioned in the gold stories:
AS to Klondfke, the decision is to spell
It as here given, and not Clondyke,
Klondyke, Chandike, Chandik or Deer,
Reindeer, Trondike nor Thronduck.
One of the lakes Of the upper Yukon
was named Lebarge by the Western
Telegraph Expedition in 1858 after
Mike Lebarge, a member OF the explor-
ing party, who is now living some
where near Ottawa, Canada. Late pub
LEGATIONS have fallen into the error OF
spelling this Labarge, but the board
adheres to the original form, Lebarge
There is Lebarge river in Alaska
When Schwatka descended the Yukor
in 1883 he named one of the lakes on
its headwaters Lindeman after. DIR.
Moritz Lindeman, now vice-president
Of the Bremen Geographical Society.
This sometimes appears enormously
as Lindemann and Linderman. The
board adopts Lindeman. One OF the
principal tributaries Of the upper Yu-
kon ia the Lewes river, named by Mr..
Robert Campbell, Of the Hudson Bay
Company, about 1S4S.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

1t is better for city to spend $10,-
600 in providing work for supplicants
than it is to give $4,000 away to re-
lieve temporary needs. Aid at the best
can be but temporary work when once
begun may become permanent. Moth
ing breeds pauperism so quickly as
the knowledge that one may live with
out working.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

II there is one thing in which
churches, as a rule, need to be more
careful it is in this matter of preach
er's salaries. With an indifference
and an insensibility which we cannot
understand many churches seem to
think that a contract between them
selves and their minister is no con-
tract at all. They promise him def
mite salary and then pay him whatever
is convenient. The gas man, the coal
man. and even the SEXTON must he
paid but the debt owing to the minister
is looked upon as altogether righteous
and proper.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24
Secs Months of Talk Ahead.

Louisville Times: julius Caesar
Burrows makes the bloodcurdling PRE-
diction that congress will remain in
session from December to August, and
that large part of the seven or eight
months will be devoted to the cur.
rency discussion. But let us not dwell
upon such nightmare the me.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

A representative-elect to the Ohio
legislature, who is republican, made
his canvass on this question: IF Han
ma is the friend of labor, who in HI
or heaven is its eenemy?" Mark Han
mas friends in that district cut his
ticket in tatters and shot him full Of
holes with their ballots, but he won,
and Hanna has not answered the ques-
tion yet.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

The wealth of John d. Rockefeller
has now reached the sum of 1924, OOO,-
oOO, and, Furthermore, is increasing at
the rate of $1,50O,0O0 month, or $780,
600 day, or $2,0S3 an hour or $34.5O a
minute, or 81 cents every second Of
time, day and night, Sundays and hol-
idays. No wonder the man calls on
the churches and colleges to relieve
him of some of his riches.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24
Poor, but Honest.

'My opponent" shouted the orator.
"has seen fit to refer to the fact that
my mother took in washing. She did
and what is more to the point she al
way took it back"
After that there was nothing to do
but cast a majority vote for the man
whose parent showed such evidence
of honesty.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

TOMMY want to make a name
for myself in the world and be q
hero.
Mother-The dear boy And why do
you want to become a hero, Tommy?
Tommy-Because heroes have bully
time and never get killed Any how
that is the way with all of the heroes l
ever read about. Boston Transcript.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

To recklessly experiment upon himself with
trums for this malady are as the san DIS ofthc
sea. AND, presumably, about as eficacious.
Indigestion, that obstinate malady, even If
of long perpetuity, is eventually overcome
tizing tonic and Alternative, which cures
constipation fever and ague, bilious remit
tent, rheumatism kidney complaints and
feeblepeSs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

Kansas City Star: The future field
Of the American manufacturer is not
the home market. 1t is the wide, wide
world, and the statesmen at Washing
ton will be forced to recognize that
fact before long and will shape their
tariff legislation in accordance with
that idea and not for the purpose of
shutting up this country and restrict
ing its trade with other nations.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

1t is a curious comment on the cries
OF Down with immigration" and
America for Americans" that even
while the chorus goes on with its re-
rehearsal the Indians of the plains,
who are the only ones who have a
right to sing it, are not opening their
mouths, but are packing their goods
in silence to migrate to Mexico.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

A former Dakotan, who has just re-
turned from several years sojourn in
che Klondike, reports that the climate
up there is no more severe than it is
In the Dakotas. But whether he in
tends this as recommendation of his
new home or drive at his old is not
apparent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

It is necessary to give the result Of
the recent elections in Kansas in de-
tail again this year, to correct the mis-
representations of the Republican
press. The following table shows the
number of officers elected by the Re-
publican party and its opponents, to-
gether with a statement of the num-
Der elected in 1893 and 1885,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24
Do You Dance Tonight?

Shake into your Shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy Cures
Corns, Bunions, Chilblains and Sweat
ing Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Adj
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24
Nothing Serious.

"What is going on in your house
tails morning Tommy?'
"Oh, it's just BERTHE. When he was
playing in the pantry he knocked the
molasses jar off from the shelf and
the nurse is combing his hair" Col
lier's Weekly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24
His Real Object.

~ see that new york preacher
wants to abolish Santa Claus"
"Oh, no that isn't his object"
"What do you mean?"
HE just wants to get his name in
the papers,"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

Who are injured by the use of coffee.
Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores a new preparation
called GRAINO, made of pure grains,
that takes the place of coffee. The
most delicate stomach receives 1t with
out distress, and but few can tell it
from coffee. 1t does not cost over n
as much. Children may drink 1t with
great benefit. Is cts. and rs cts. per
package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

shameful about those two Ken
lucky girls quarreling over that bat
;leship"
"Yes; they act as though it was a
man."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
WAS AN INSLATIONIST AND A
FlATIST.
Therefore He Was Obnoxious to the
Money Lords and Incipient Aristo-
Gratis OF the Colony of Pennsylvania-
Some Of His Wise Writings.

Americas great philosopher, BenJa-
min Franklin, understood the money
question as well as he understood
most other questions. In the colony
of Pennsylvania the people had a fight
on their hands Gas in all periods) with
the moneyed classes in regard to the
volume of currency, and Ben Franklin
led the peoples fight.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

cry homo there was comfort. The
people generally were highly moral,
and knowledge was extensively diff
fused"
II will venture to say" said Cover
nor Prownell, that there was never
wiser nor better measure. never one
better calculated to serve the interests
of an increasing country; and there
was never measure more steadily
pursued or steadily executed, for forty
years together, than the loan office in
Pennsylvania, founded and admins
tered by the assembly of that pro-
vince"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24
1t IL As in Old Time.

1.-THE foxes have holes, and the birdA
of the air have nests. but the Son of
Man hath not where to lay his head"
Jesus.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

: Eating plenty of onions" says an
authority, will give one a fine COM
plexion." Yes, and the freedom of
the car. too.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

In thicket in the upper Harz
mountains has been found a
granite monument with the following
Inscription, Here in the year 1747
the first trials were made with the
cultivation of the potato"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

1.-THE early notes OF the colony,
says Phillips American Currency,
seem to have kept their credit well
and had not the revolution intervenef
they would all have been redeemed at
par, as ample funds were always pro-
vided by taxation or excise duty, IN
the same act that issued the bills, Tor
their gradual but total extinction"
David Hume, the historian, says in
substance: In Pennsylvania the land
itself is coined. A planter, Immediate
ly on the purchase Of land, can go to
public loan Office and receive notes to
the amount of half the value OF his
land, which notes he employs In all his
payments; and they circulate through
the colony by convention. No more
than certain sum is issued to any
one planter; and each must pay back
into the public treasury, every year,
one-tenth of his notes. When they are
all paid back he can repeat the oper-
ation."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

Could there be higher authority for
the belief that the increase OF the
volume of currency in proportion to
the increase of business is beneficial
to producers, and that any kind OF
money, in reasonable volume, will not
depreciate so long as it is receivable
for taxes? Both Franklin and Jeffer-
son were not only bimetallists but they
cite actual experiment in Pennsylvania
and Virginia to prove that the treas
ury note, bottomed on taxes, is tna
best circulating medium.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-24

At later period, DR.. Franklin,
speaking Of the paper money issued by
the colony of Pennsylvania, said:
: Between the years 1740 and 1775,
while abundance reigned in Pennsyl-
vania, and there was peace in all her
borders, a more happy and prosperous
population could not be found. In ev-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-14
A FOUL SPOT.

II there were authority vested, sny, in
an international board OF health the con-
ditions existing in Cuba would be deolar-
cd a nuisance and ordered abolished in
the interests Of the health of the neigh
boring United States to which they are
nm awful menace.
whether or not there is an epidemic OF
yellow fever In the lower Mississippi
states there Is no question that yellow
fever exists and TO an extent that justihes
the alarm that Is felt along the Gulf from
Florida 10 Texas That the imported
dlsease may not threaten 10 spread 80 ap-
pallingly as IL did in the Memphis section
in the epidemic Of somo 90 years ago j.
due 10 tho improved sanitary conditions.
the prompt and vigorous efforts OF the
government and the season Of tie year
that, fortunately. the outbreak awaited
The fact remains that the menace exists
In the Islanc Of Cuba, that thence the
disease has been Transported to our shares
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-14
THE CLOCK SUPERSTITION.

The old clock superstition occasionally
rcyives in unexpected places and in novel
phases. An old cight-day clock built at
Brunswick, in 1893, and now owned by
descendant, +. f. Douglass of West
Dover, has acted peculiarly several times
SO strangely, in fact, as to excite the
Interest of the family which is OF staid
Quaker descent, and not affected by the
vagarics of superstition. One morning,
late in March, 1923, the elder Mr. Doug
lass being Obliged to look after some
property in Vassalboro, arose early and
was surprised to find that his clock had
stopped for the first time in fifteen years
He drove to Vassalboro and stopped mt
.he house of friend near the present
site OF Oak Grove seminary. The next
morniug he was found very sick with
fever, and on the 18th OF March died at
the precise hour on which he had found
his clock stopped on the morning OF his
departure from home. In March, 1871,
Edward +. Douglass removed from Bruins
wick to West Dover bringing with him
the old clock, which still kept good time
Several years since, during severe III
ness of the owner, the clock, which had
been cleaned short time before, stopped
and could in no way be induced to tick
again as the old gentleman who kept it
in his room was very anxious TO hear it
strike. After few days sickness, on
the evening of the Goth day of March, at
o'clock, the old gentleman passed away,
and the hands so long stopped pointed to
the same hour on the dial Of his old clock.
The next morning, in arranging his
room the old clock was moved few
inches, ms it had been on several occa-
sions before, when to the surprise OF all
il began to tick. 1t was Mt once moved
back into its corner, and has kept perfect
time ever since, ticking and striking as
loudly as ever The Kennebec journal.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-14
THE Ell DORADO MYTH.
How the Term Came TO BE Applied to
Sources OF Uncommon Riches

Eldorado is the term now heard on
every side In connection with the placer
mines OF Alaska and the northwest terri
tory of Cauada. It's derivation is of in
terost. In the fifteenth century it was
rumored that there existed in the north
orn part of South America city of great
wealth called ..Manoa whose king FL
Dorado by name was periodically
smcacd with oil or balsam and then
powdered with gold dust, until his whole
body had gilded appearance. Ii was
said that on these occasions he threw
gold emcralds and other precious metals
and gems into a sacred lake, in which he
afterward bathcd
beginning in 1899 the Spaniards sent
phantom city, and most of them ended
tisastrously hundreds of lives being lost.
One explorer, Orcllano, avcrrcd that he
found FL Dorado in his voyage down the
Amazon in 1910 This was disproycd,
but the search was continued down to
the eighteenth century. Some OF the re-
suits wcrc the conquest ana settlement Of
New Granada, the making known To the
world OF the mountain region of Vcnc-
zucla. the discovery OF the noble rivers
the Orin0co and the Amazon, and the cx-
ploration Of the vast forests west Of the
Andes About the end Of the sixteenth
century an English expedition either sent
out by or under the personal leadership
Of Raleigh penetrated into Guiana, there
by obtaining claim on that country
which has resulted in the requirement Of
the modern British colony OF that name.
IL has been supposed that the origin Of
this fable arose from the yearly cclebra-
tion Of tribe OF Indians near Bogota
whose chief was on these occasions gildcd
with gold dust. hut this ceremony was
never witnessed by the Spaniards and
the story may simply BE- another version
of the IL Dorado myth.
The name III Dorado was commonly
used to describe the city or country which
was the object Of the search but n later
usage of the term has been its hguratiVc
application with rcgsrd to any region Of
morc than common richrcss. ElsDurado
county, In California. was the scene uf the
famous gold finds OF '4g. and since then
the expression has tccn used to describe
manv gold camps, Pittsburgh CONNER
cial Gazette.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-14
YOUR WATCH FOR A COMPASS.

Several weeks ago in London, said an
English tourist az the Holland House, 81 was
standing beside an American acquaintance,
when / expressed wish 90 know which
point was the north He pulled ont his
watch, looked at IL and at once pointed in the
right direction. | asked him whether no hat
a compass attached 90 his watch. al
watches are compasses, nc replied. Then
he explained 90 mo how this was. Point tho
hour hand 20 tho sun, and the south is ex.
actly half way botwo5n tho hour and the
figure XII on the dial For instance, sup.
pose 10 Is o'clock Point tho hand indcat
ing four 90 the sun. and II on tho watch is
exactly south. Suppose, again, that 10 Is :
o'clock Point the hand indicating to the
sun and the figure y on the dial IL duo south.
MY American fricnd seemed surprised
that did not know this and. not wanting 20
be left alone In my Ignorance, asked Henry
NJ. Stanley whom met the following day.
whether be- know of this simple means of
taking The points Of tho compass. My self.
esteem rose when that famous traveller told
me he had never heard ~ it. So, perhaps.
thorc may D. plenty Of folks IN your country
who still remain tn my original state 90 ig.
norance. don't know what place my Aineri.
can friend halls from. but somewhere I'm your
great West THE sun.