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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

No. Through old earthworks No.
2.-Through body and into fresh earth
works. No. 3.-Into fresh earthworks
twelve inches.
range OF two miles; perforate steel
plates; plunge into solid earth for a
distance Of eighteen inches after pass
ing through a human body. But a
small pile of loose, dry earth will ar
rest its flight and tear 1t into frag-
ments. Scientists explanations of why
this is 80 are very unsatisfactory, but
all admit that 1t Is true. DR.. Grifith of
the Missouri State militia, discovered
It several years ago, when he made it
public 1t was announced that he had
discovered the German army secret Of
twenty years standing. To protect
himself against the deadly Krag-Jor-
gensen bullet, soldier needs neither
forts, trees, arinori noessteelspIates. He
can dig up pile of loose earth eigh-
teen inches in diameter with his bay
onet, and, lying down behind this ap-
-~kf~ f~ocoss~n horxfor ~ ~~~..-~1
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

Can the Nervous System Be Educatedf
The question of the susceptibility of
the nervous system for training came
up in a scientific discussion not long
since. There was good deal Of diff
ference Of opinion as to the possibility
of training the nerves. According to
the most comprehensive opinion a
great deal depends on the owner of the
nerves. 1t is possible to train certain
classes and conditions, while others
are hopelessly unsusceptible. The will
of the individual, the pliabillty. or
rather the impressionability, has ev-
erything to do with successful nerve
training. AS matter of fact, the de-
sire to be trained must be present
first of all. 1t comes from within, and,
prompted by the desire of the individ-
ual course Of training may bring
about the happiest results. Train
ing nerves against the will Of the pa
tient reminds one of the old adage Of
convincing a man against his will
"he is Of the same opinion STILL"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

as to strengthen the principles Of the
American Federation of Labor which
have welded us together, We would
urgently request that your esteemed
society will take the necessary ASTON,
which will secure the proper rccogni-
ton for the body entitled to it; and by
so doing establish more firmly the far
welding beneficial influence as exer-
cised by the American Federation OF
Labor and its affiliated organizations
The circular is signed by President
Owen Miller and Secretary Schmalz,
and bears the official seal Of the organ
ization.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02
Something IL Wrong.

Things look bad. All these great
fortunes have been accumulated in the
last thirty or forty years, and the world
has never known anything like 1t. The
poor and helpless seem to be increas-
ing all the time. The moderately we'll
OF are falling among the poor, and the
very rich are growing richer every day.
Something is wrong. and 1t is time for
the churches to find out what 1t is, and
apply the remedies. The churches OF
this country have the numbers
and the wealth to do It, but
the trouble seems TO be that the reli-
gion Is dominated by the wealthy In
stead Of tho, wealth by religion.~-
Dwight l. Moody.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02
American Federation of Musicisns.

The American Federation OF Musi-
clans has issued circular letter to
non affiliated bodies Of musicians
from which we take the following ex-
tract which is self-explanatory:
1T is our most urgent wish that
your body demand Of all musicians and
musicians societies that they must
procure charters from the American
Federation of Musicians, or they will
not be recognized by nor their dele
gates be permitted to occupy seats at
sessions Of your body. II there be dele
gates seated at this present time from
any society of musicians we demand
the enforcement OF the law to govern
same as asserted in the foregoing reso-
lution, compelling them to apply for
and secure a charter under the Ameri-
can Federation Of Musicians or vacate
their seats. 1t is better to have no
musical society represented at your
sessions than to have delegates from
any which refuses to comply with the
direct commands of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. Where there are two
or more societies in one vicinity they
should be compelled to amalgamate
and secure charter, or recognition de-
MED. Wherever there Is a local Of the
American Federation of Musicians you
are demanded to recognize and support
1t and 1t alone. The consequences of
refusal to recognize local of the
American Federation of Musicians
would be a matter of such Importance
as to be Of the very gravest nature and
most painfully felt, especially as affect
ing the fundamental principles of the
constitution Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, which guarantees the
autonomy of the profession to national
organizations. To disobey a rule like
that would in its far-reaching compli-
cations disrupt our powerful organiza-
ton and reduce its influence and power
to an object of ridicule; as in that
event, the value Of Its. protective ageh-
Giles would fall to naught. To avoid
such disruption and disorder, as we'll
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

Pittsburg constables have struck
against serving subpoenas for Is cents
twenty-five thousands garment
workers are on strike in New York
and the trouble is spreading.
The Cincinnati BARRIERS Union has
decided to buy up all the non-union
shops in the city and run them on
union principles.
A mine foreman in Pittston, Pa, is
under bond in the sum. of 5000 to an
swer the charge of selling the right OF
employment in his mine.
John Kane, Of the United Mine
Workers, says there are $4,000 miners
In this country, or about 10000 more
than there are any jobs for.
Glassworkers have been refused the
restoration of their old scale, but the
window glass trust has advanced prices
per cent just the same
The employees Of the Akron, Bedford
& Cleveland Railroad at Akron, Ohio,
were notified that their wages will be
increased from II to 20 cents per
hour.
Six months ago labor was unorgan-
lied in Sault Ste. Marie and Sudburg,
Ont. Now both places are thoroughly
organized, with membership Of 1000,
and still growing.
In making appropriation for the state
exhibit at Omaha the Nebraska legis-
lature made provision that no labor
er, whether skilled or unskilled, shall
receive less than $3.50 per day.
The Cleveland Chamber of Com
merce has declined public debate
with the Central Labor Union of ithat
city on the question Of whether or no
labor agitators are a menace to So
ciety.
The antagonism Of the trades unions
Of Butte, Mont, which has been exer-
cised for years against the Chinese
laundrymen and merchants, has at
length driven all but very few from
that city.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson will
soon make an extended tour of the
South. studying its resources and
needs and getting better acquainted
with the Southern people on their ma
tive heath"
Two years ago the woodworkers of
Denver were securing $3.50 day. They
refused to pay few cents into their
union and allowed 1t to go to the dogs,
and now they are receiving $1.6O a
day.
Cumminsville, Ohio, is the latest city
to establish labor exchange. A CEN
trail goods depository has been opened,
and twenty-five merchants Of the place
have engaged to accept the checks for
goods.
Both the American Federation of La
Dor and the knights of Labor have
made formal protest to President Nc
Kinley against the appointment of T.
v. Powderly as superintendent of inn
migration.
James w. Carson, president of the
Miners Union, says: IF we &C on a
strike in our impoverished condition
we shall starve, and II we accept the
ultimatum of the operators we shall
likewise starve."
The Colorado Federation of Labor is
preparing to test the boycott law re-
Gently, enacted in that state. At itssre-
cent convention the federation adopted
q plan for the organization Of home In
dustry cluha throughout the state.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

pyramids must
have been when this stupendous work
was finished. Modern methods OF
building are .rebuked by some Of these
old piles, and It has been questioned
how much Of our best work will be IN
evidence 5000 years hence. History
tells us that the canal known as Bahr
Joussuf was constructed 1000 years ago
and is yet fulfilling the purpose for
which It was made. The canal runs
almost parallel with the river Nile for
about two hundred and fifty miles. 1t
turns and curves, creeping through
meadows and along the foot hills.
carefully preserving its level until 1t
reaches a point where It turns west
ward, and running through narrow
pass, reaches a district which without
it would be desert incapable Of cul-
tivation and devoid Of vegetable prod
ucts which would sustain life or course
the statement that 1t was built by Jo-
seph, the son Of Jacob, may or may not
be true. but that 1t is of untold i'm
portance to that region need not be
stated. There are traditions that this
canal was originally intended to sup
ply lake which was nearly five hun
bred miles in circumference, and that
this lake was the source OF fish supply
Of that region, and that the value OF
this product was at least two hundred
and fifty thousand pounds a year.
Modern engineers are giving more at
tention to old time methods than they
did half a century ago. They are
learning that undue haste and undue
cheapness are not at all profitable.
They are also learning that here Is
room for even more knowledge on the
subject, that cheap materials and
scamp work are not to be relied upon.
When these old builders built they
bullded to the glory of God and not TO
the enriching of the contractors who
took the job.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

And hopes and waits, shall some time
weep
Ger sighted days and squandered
years,
For he who plants not shall not reap
o. workman by the forge and fire.
o, patient toiler in the field,
The good time, IL you use 1t well,
To you LIES full reward shall yield
II for a better time we wait,
It's dawning we may never see.
And disappointment, grief and pain
Our portion In this life shall be.
Wait not! behold the day that 10
With opportunity is prime,
IT'S wise to use II while we may
The good time is the present time.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

that all the bullets fired at him win
be flattened before they reach him.
Our illustrations show the effects on
the bullet Of the resisting effects Of
old earthworks, human bodies (experi-
ments have been made on cadavers)
and fresh earthworks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02
To Stop q Bullet.

Experiments have shown that the
bullet Of the Krag-Jorgenson rife,
which. has been adopted by the Ameri-
can army has enormous projectile
force. yet it can be stopped by little
pile Of loose earth.
The bullet will bore hole through
an oak tree a foot in diameter at a
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

"Over-production" is the first and
last refuge of the ignoramus who
tries to convince himself and others
that our monetary system has nothing
to do with present prices of farm pro-
ducts. Farm. Stock and Home.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

An Elgin. Illinois, genius has in
vented lawn sprinkling apparatus
called the storm sprinkler, fair idea
OF which may be had by examining the
accompanying illustration. The outlet
is through 9 perforated circle over
which is reversible plate which can
be screwed so as to throw the spray
in any direction desired or In all d.
rections. With ordinary force a spray
is thrown from 80 to IS feet high and
covering an area Of nearly 80 feet in
all directions. 1t is said to be- the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
AND OPERATION OF THE
NATURAL MONOPOL!ES.

Question from the Populist Party
STANDARDIZATION Is That of Reas-
ON and Common Business Principles.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02
Thu vanishing Mountains.

In a paper which he recently read
before the Scientific Congress at Paris.
NJ. de Lapparent expressed the. opin-
ion that all mountains will vanish of
the face of the earth in course of time.
He declared that II the actual natural
forces at work upon our globe retain
their present intensity, in 4.5O0, 900
years all inequalities Of surface will
be levelled He instanced as striking
example the reduction of the Arden
nes, which were once chain Of the
Alps, but which had already shrunk to
their present dimensions at the outset
of the Tertiary epoch. The Alps, he
said, exemplifled the youth, the Pyre-
nees the maturity, and the mountains
of Provence the declining years Of
mountain ranges, while the central
Plateau Of France was typical Of their
death and dissolution.
Fireproof Chimney of Paper.
An absolutely fireproof chimney, 80
feet high. has been built Of paper at
Breslau. In Germany. II IN the only
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.
A Prominent Belfast Woman Worker
Among the Textile Operators of Ire
land-The Federation of Musicians
News Notes of Labor Progress.


HE good time COM
ing! tits the
theme
o I m q n y q
bard's prophet
ic thought;
The good time COM
ing long fore
told
Has come with
brightest PROM
Use fraught.
Who heeds 1t not,
but idly stands,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02
SCIENTIFIC POINTERS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOv-
cry AND INVENTION.
Building for PoStcrity-An Adjustable
Lawn Sprinkler-How to Stop n Bull
1et-various Inventions and Discover
les OF Recent Date.


CCORDING to the
best accepted theo-
ries, the wind. par
ticles of dust, sand
and other flying de-
bris wear away the
surface Of stone at
a regularly estimat-
ed rate year after
year. One can but
wonder what the
,vroynfdq mllat
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

most perfect invention OF tho kinA
ever recorded in the patent office at
Washington.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

The currency question is absorbing
the public attention in Ohio, and the
common herd are beginning to I'M
derstand that it is not the tariff but
the free coinage Of silver that will in
augurate an era Of good times.-Ex.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

Six years ago only 20 cities Of the
United States owned their electric
lighting plants; now the number has
reached $50. and in no case can 1t be
said that multiplication was not
success.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-02

There are II chartered cities in Mich
igan and SO of them have electric light
plants, Of which % are owned by the
cities themselves. OF the 20 cities hav-
ing gas plants. own them; and Of the
60 having water plants, So are owned
by the municipality. OF the 70 villages
having electric light, "a own their
plants.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-26
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People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-26
BETTER THAN COTTON.

Col. Redding Talks of Butter and Dali J
Products.
Col. R. j. Redding, director of the
Georgia Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton at Griffin and President of the
Georgia Dairymen's Association spoke
of the price of cotton and butter in his
address at the annual session of the
Association in Macon last week. The
advantages of dairying were shown as
follows:
81 Dairying takes less fertility from
the soil than other ORANGES of farming
A ton of wheat takes 81 out IF the soil
and sells it for less than SIG. A ton OF
butter takes so cents worth of plant
food from the soil and sells for from
$500 to $500 Comment is needless
2 Butter is Condensed product
Nothing can be made on the farm that
will bring so much per pound.
So. Butter is finished product, 1t
is ready for the consumer when it
leaves the farm.
81 Darying brings in constant in
come. 1t is not one crop a-year plan
of revenue,
'6 On dairy farm the work is bet
ter divided. The grain harvest comes
SO close to the haying that it bridges
over.
''7. Skill and brain work get better
pay in dairying than in any other
branch OF farming,
8. There is more room at the top
more possibilities at dairying than at
any other farming pursuit.
80 Take the country through and
there is no other farm work SO we'll
suited to women as dairying."
Statistics show that the annual pro-
duct OF mi k amounts to less than 80
gallons to each individual or pint per
day. In butter, less than pounds per
person annually Without the supply
imported from other sta es, the aver
age supply would be less than the third
an ounce per day for each person.
Recently there has been a great in
crease in dairy products in all parts of
the state
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-26
GENERAL. PRoP,ogTTToNB

1. We demand the election Of presi-
dent, Woe president and United States
senators by direct vote Of the people
3. We tender to the patriotic people
Of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their
heroic struggle for political freedom
and independence, and we believe the
time has come when the United States,
the great republic of the world, should
recognize that Cuba Is, and of right
ought to be, free and independent
state.
8. We favor home rule In the terri
tories and the District of Columbia and
the early admission Of the territories as
states.
4. All public salaries should be made
10 correspond to the price Of labor and
Its products.
8. In times Of great industrial de-
preston idle labor should be employed
ON public works as far as practicable.
6. The arbitrary course of the courts
In assuming to imprison citizens for in
direct contempt and ruling them by in
junction should be prevented by proper
legislation.
2. We favor just pensions for our dis
abled Union soldiers.
s. Believing that the elective fran
ohise and untrammeled ballot are essen
tial to a government for and by the peo-
pie, the Peoples Party condemns the
wholesale system Of Acknowledgement
adopted in some Of the states as unre-
publican and undemocratic, and we de-
clare it to be the duty Of the several
state legislatures to take such action az
will secure full, free and fair ballot
and an honest count.
9. While the foregoing propositions
constitute the platform on which our
party stands, and for the vindication Of
which Its organization will be main
tanned, we recognize that the great and
pressing issue Of the pending campaign
upon which the present presidential
election will turn is the financial CUES
ton, and upon this great and spect4O
ISSUE between the parties we cordially
invite the aid and cooperation Of al or
CARNATIONS and citizens agreeing waSh
us upon this vital question
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-26
NO MORE BUTLER.

Another POpulist Paper Calls for a Change.
w. S Morgan of Buz. Saw fame has
come to the front, with CONDO mnat'on
If Butler, of North Carolina. If the
leadi' g Populists of the country would
take firm stand against Butler SINH
lar to Watson and Morgan there would
be noticeable change for the better
at once. Why not Populists and the
Populist press open fire on an enemy in
our ranks why let traitor continue
as our national chairman, after hav
ing crippled the party almost beyond
recovery.
If the national committee fail to en-
rse Buffers action why don't they
hold meeting. A m jority of the com
mittee has The right to call meeting
If Butler refuses, maj 'rity, also have
the right to select another chairman.
What is the matter with our nation al
committee any wav and are we becom-
ing so boss ridden this early in life,
that one man can drag us down to
ruin ? What is the Populist status in
the west. where is the man or men who
are more resp 1nsible than Butler? His
treachery is driving western Populists
back to the republican party.
See the situation in Kansas, are we
TO quietly submit to such management?
If there is no redress our cause is help
less Let the national committee meet
Butler or no Butlerl
If they fail to meet, let the Nashville
conference committee take the matter
in hand, there is no reason in party
r~taining a man as chairman, those
every move is against that party's in
terest A man who has the presump
ton of the ID, the more people give
away to such men, the worse matters
become.
Butler should have been removed
long ago. Let him be asked to resign
and if he refuses that is sufficient
Populists may think lightly of Buffers
actions as this is an off wear. But his
work is deep seated, it is gra uallv
wasting away the tails of our party
There is no policy in retaining such
men, we oppose open opposition why
not oppose a secret enemy
The dea with Butler and Jones is to
keep the western and southern Popu-
list divided. When the state committee
meets next month let them condemn
Butter without hesitancy. -Cordele
Herald.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-26
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