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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
BEATS THE RECORD.
San Gabriel, Cal, Woman Ii Great
Grandmother at 40.

San Gabriel, Cal, Woman Ii Great
Grandmother at 40.
The youngest great grandmother in
the country lives in southern Califor-
mia, in San Gabriel valley, says the San
Francisco Call. She Is a good-looking
vivacious woman of middle age and her
name is Mrs. Jennie Nelson. Before
she was Is, Mrs. Nelson was mother.
at 80 she was grandmother and at 40
she became great grandmother. That
is a record which Is seldom equaled.
Mrs. Nelson was born in San Bernard
inc, CAL, in May, 1850. Her mother
was Spanish woman and her father
an Englishman. Her maiden name was
Jennie Fawcett and she was particu-
larly handsome and attractive girl. AT
that time there were very few white
families in that section and so those
which were there were friendly. Inc
nearest neighbors and closest friends
of the Fawcetts were the Nelson's, and
when Miss Jennie was only IA years old
she was married to George Nelson,
young man of 10. When Jennie lacked
two months of completing her fifteenth
year she became the mother Of bright
baby girl. The youthful couple moved
to San Diego and there in the course OF
eleven years six more children were
born to them. The eldest child was
girl and was named Isabelle. She was
soon famous far and wide around San
Diego for her beauty, and her friends
were not surprised one day to hear that
she had come home from school to an
nounce that she had been married to
Earl e. Phelps, dashing young man
from the east Miss Isabelle was in
short dresses still, but her mother for
gave her, and the couple went to live
on young Phelps ranch near the town.
There, when Isabelle was 10, her frat
child was born. This made Mrs. Nell
son a grandmother at 30. Since then
the grandchild Amelia, has grown to
girlhood and last year she became en-
gagged to young Orange county ranch
man, Henry Walker. They were mar
ried short time ago. AT the age OF e6
years and months Mrs. Walker be-
came the mother Of little boy. This
interesting little chap has the most
remarkable set of relatives. Besides
his 46-year-old great grandmother he
| has an aunt who is week younger
than himself, and he has q grand-uncle
who is less than three years old. Baby
Walkers father is but 20 years old,
his grandfather has just passed his
| thirty-fifth birthday and his great
grandfather Nelson is barely 40.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
Greenbacks Must Stay.

Senator. do you seek to avoid an
extra session of congress to stifle the
New York bankers proposition for a
retirement of the greenback circula-
tion?"
This question was asked of John
Sherman the other day
THAT is all fudge he said. THE
greenback circulation will not be re-
tired. There is no necessity for it..
New York clamors for such retirement
because the bulk of it's great business
is not done with greenbacks, but with
bank checks, drafts and bills of ex-
change"
Did the results of the election sur
prise you?"
YES" he said, Gin sense they did.
had expected McKinley's election
with more emphasis. did not expect
to see it even so close as it is. >"
When asked why he Endorsed the
Dingley bill he said: Il am opposed to
an extra session of congress. The
Dingley bill will tide the new admhis-
tration over until congress convencs
in regular session, when the attempt
will be made of general tariff revision.
1t will do away with the necessity for
any additional issue of bonds. consider
it almost monstrous that the Cleveland
administration should have sold $780,
900, 900 of bonds to meet deficit in
revenue of it's own creation
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

Shortly before the election Messrs.
Lehman Bros, Usage City, KS, re-
ceived letter from Seymour Lemen-
helm, a prominent glove manufacturer
of Gloversville, N Y, in which he set
forth the great prosperity that would
attend the election of Major Mckinley.
They have waited until the date given
to send him a reply, copy of which
follows:
Seymour Lebenbeim, Gloversville, N.
Y.-Friend Seymour: Please send us
at once a sample case of that genuine
prosperity" which you Republicans
promised us would follow the election
of Hanna-we mean Mckinley. We
know you have lots of 1t in the east,
for the papers tell us that the mills are
starting up and giving employment to
thousands of hands. We have none of
that prosperity in stock-even the rem
nants of it are closed out long ago. Our
customers have used up the last they
had, and are eagerly calling for more.
Strange to relate, corn, which was to
advance in price after the election,
because the eastern factory employees,
receiving steady work and good wages.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
The First Union Label.

John Strigel, the veteran labor agi-
tator, who has just returned from
trip through the state in the interest
of the shoemakers' union label, relates
that while reading a history of Abys-
sinia in the public library recently he
came across an account of the use of
the union label in that country 300
B. c. He says: 1T appears that there
was a union of god-smiths, those en-
gagged in making gods out of metal,
wood and other materials, when an op-
position concern entered the field and
began to cut prices. The union at once
adopted a label to protect their craft
and carried the agitation to complete
success. The people refused to worship
any god that did not bear the union
label, and the interlopers were soon
driven from the field"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
England and Ireland.

Two incidents have recently attract
ed attention to the relations of England
and Ireland. One is the meeting at
Dublin of the Irish National conven-
ton, attended by representatives from
the United States and the British COL
onies as we'll as from Ireland. The
purpose of the convention was to recon-
Gle the warning factions of the Irish
parliamentary party, but the effort met
with only partial success. The other
incident is the publication of the re-
port of the Royal Commission Of Thir-
teen, composed mainly of Englishmen,
which has been for three years investi-
eating the subject of Irish taxation.
The conclusion reached by ten of the
thirteen members is that for fifty years
England has beSn taking from Ireland
on the average about thirteen and
three quarters of a million dollars an
nua,ly more than her due proportion OF
the burdens Of taxation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
Old Egyptian Builders.

There are stones in the pyramids of
Egypt that weigh as much as $50 tons
each. There are stones thirty feet in
length which fit so closely together
that a penknife may be run over the
surface without discovering the break
between them. How did the builders
move such great stones? How did the
masons fit the stones so perfectly to-
gether? Both questions are almost I'M
answerable. 1t is certainly fact that
even in this great age we have no ma
cbinery so perfect that it will make two
surfaces thirty feet in length which
will meet together as the stones in
the pyramids meet. 1t has been
suggested that they were rubbed back
ward and forward upon each other I'M
til the surfaces were assimilated, maxi
ing them the worlds wonders in me-
chanical skill.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

1t robs the world for a man Of ability
to live in idleness.
Half million dollars worth of car
wheels, on which work will be COM
mehced at once, have been ordered
from the works in Fort Wagner.
Americas population was augmented
by 100000 emigrants last year. They
brought $4,917,31S in cash with them.
In the same period 300 were debarred.
Railroad building in China is con-
templated by an American syndicate,
with $35,00O,000, and the Chinese gov
eminent will try to borrow $25,OOO,OOO
to help along the project.
In order to foster agricultural enter
prise, such as tobacco planting, raising
of bananas, cocoa, coffee and sugar, the
government of Costa Rica has recently
decided to spend $4,000 every year in
increasing desirable immigration.
The total output of the Cripple Creek
district from 1892 to 1895, inclusive,
was s13, 100000. 1t is expected that this
years output will reach $1O,OOO,OOO,
making a total of $23, 100000. 1t is
claimed that of this years output 3d.
500 900 will be net profit to the owners.
The resolution protesting against the
appointment of military instructors for
the Kansas City public schools, adopt
ed by the industrial council, represent
ed that the scheme involved an amount
of money which could be better spent
in providing for free text books.
The Trades and Labor Union of st.
Louis. Mo-, has adopted resolution in
dorsing the Socialist labor party. This
is the first instance of genuine CEN
trail labor body succumbing to the
Establishments of this political party,
and the action is generally denounced
in trade papers.
To offset the effects of a possible
worlds maritime strike next year
huge combination is being perfected
bv the ship owners of France, Ger
many, Holland, Belgium and Norway
TO resist the demands of their employ
ers. A federation will also be entered
into with the British owners.
The spirit of cooperation and colony
organizing is growing, and projects of
the sort are on foot in nearly all the
eastern. middle and central western
states. Strange to say, Socialists, who
profess to believe in universal cooper
alton. are the last to put their theories
to a practical test.
The ant-convict labor law passed by
the last New York Legislature, went inr
to effect November /, and is having the
effect hoped for by organized labor.
| All prison-made goods must bear tho
brand Convict made" and their sale
has almost wholly ceased. Some of
the managers of prisons ignore the law
as to goods shipped out of the state,
and but for this the convicts generally
would be idle.
The movement made by Montreal re-
tailers in opposition to the city bylaws
recurring shops to be closed at p. m.
is being vigorously combated by the
clerks of the city, who assembled the
other evening to the number of 500
and declared the necessity of the early
closing bylaw from the point of view
of their educational, sanitary and aes-
thetic needs The Retail Grocers' asso-
citation held special meeting and
agreed upon a form of petition asking
the city council to suspend the opera
ton of the bylaw until Judgment upon
II is given by the supreme court.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
Never See u Dollar in Money.

S. +. Russell, of Pentwater, Mich, has
written Harry C. Barter, asking Mr..
Barter to do all in his power as presi-
dent of the Michigan Federation of
Labor to procure the passage of law
by the legislature requiring employers
to establish and maintain a regular
payday for their employees, and to
prohibit their payment in anything ex-
cept legal tender. Mr.. Russell says
many of the large employers of labor
in the sparsely settled localities MAIN
tain truck stores, and pay their work.
men in due bills; that there is no such
thing as a payday, and that thousands
of workmen never see dollar in
money for months, at a time. Mr.. Bar
ter will favor a bill to abolish the use
of due bills and the truck-pay system
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

found strength, overthrow beyond the
bounds of reason. The truly democratic
statesman, who adhere to the tenets of
the founders of the republic, will listen
and be advised; he will discard pallia-
tives, thrust aside false legal traditions
for humanity's sake .endeavor to restore
to the workers of the nation fair
share OF the products Of their in!iustry,
and lend his aid to lay for al time the
gaunt spectre of misery and want that
so frequently of late has stalked de-
struction through our land.-Iron Mold
ers' Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08


A medical scientist having observed
that deaf mutes never suffer from sea-
sickness fact which is perfectly well
understood by those who have had
charge of these unfortunates-the in
Quiry was naturally suggested to his
mind, why this immunity from this
distressing malady? After varied and
exhaustive experiments, 1t was decided
that the absence Of sensibility in the
auditory nerve was the occasion OF
the entire freedom of deaf mutes from
seasickness. He says: "In deaf mutes
there is absolute deafness, or very
great reduction in hearing, dependent
upon the destruction or serious i'm
pairment of the function of the perl
pheral distribution or sound perceptive
elements of the auditory nerve, in
which process the semi-circular canals
are included. Both physiological ex-
pertinent and pathological observation
point to that part of the inner ear
known as the semi-circular canals as
exercising a controlling influence over
the maintenance of the erect posture
and sense of equilibrium. AS those
functions are frequently disturbed on
shipboard by the rapidly changing mo-
ton of the ship, it seems probable that
this has much to do with seasickness,
If 1t is not the sole cause Of it. A RENE
dy which has been effective in num-
Der Of cases is an anaesthetic applied to
the inner ear by dropping. A prepara-
ton of cocaine is suggested
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

All the horrors of previous famines
in Ireland promise to be repeated this
winter owing to the failure of crops,
and hunger and starvation will be the
lot of the Irish tenantry. The land
lords, knowing that should next years
product be unusually large it would
not be enough for two years rent, have
opened a campaign of eviction the like
of which has never before been wit
messed. Whole families now without
food are being deprived of even shelter
from the elements. The report that
the land owners do not deeply sympa-
thize with the Armenians, however, is
unfounded.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

Love me, love my dog" is an old
saying, but it does not apply to cats.
Mr.. George Fleischmann loved Miss
Stella Davis, Missouri belle. He could
not go the cat, especially when he dis
covered that Miss Stella loved puss
better than George. Whereupon George
took all the cats nine lives at once.
AT least Miss Stella says he did. Some
one did, and George was the only one
who esteemed the cat his rival for the
fair Stella's heart. IN. B.-The cat did
not come back; neither did George)
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
The statesman's Opportunity.

That statesman is unwise, indeed,
who affects to see no feeling of unrest
or discomfort in the great substratum
of humanity, or, seeing it, thinks it of
no Importance or a mere passing
spasm. It is not alone the idle and
vicious that are grumbling, it is not
the mutterings Of anarchy, but the
awakening thrill and pulse of mighty
force among the mass who toll
and spin yet are not arrayed, which if
stihed and ignored will some day burst
its bonds and, intoxicated with its new
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
Zig Int Hour Law.

The state Supreme court of Utah has
Just rendered a unanimous opinion sus-
tanning the constitutionality of the
eight-hour law. In accordance with the
constitution of that state the legislature
enacted law forbidding the employ
ment of men in underground workings
of mines more than eight hours per
day, and making the enforced working
of men for more than that time mis-
demeanor punishable by fine. William
Hooley was compelled by Albert F.
Holden to work for more than eight
hours in a mine, and Holden was prose-
cuted, found guilty and fined $50. He
refused to pay the fine and was COM
mitted to Jail. He brought suit of
habeas corpus in the Supreme court
for his -elease, and on the writ the
case was argued and decided. The
opinion was by Chief Justice Zane and
concurred in by Justices Burtch and
Miner. 1t reviewed the provisions OF
the state constitution, and also of the
federal constitution, which it was al
legged were violated by the statute, and
arrived at the conclusion that the act
was in contravention of neither the
fundamental law of the state nor the
nation. The right of the state to pass
such law was emphatically affirmed
The writ was therefore denied, and the
plaintiff remanded to Jail until dis
charged according to law. This opinion
settles long discussion in Utah as to
the merits of this measure.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
ON BEING A SNOB.
Take People as They Come and Don't
Be Narrow.

Be Narrow.
Goodwill would come easier IL we
could all contrive to make our expecta-
lions of one another bear a more rea-
sonable relation to facts, says Serb
ner's. Mos. of us are apt to have
general standard of looks, conduct,
morals, intelligence and agreeableness,
and to think favorably Of persons who
come up to it or surpass it, and more
or less unfavorably of persons who
don't. People who come up to our
standard are mice" and we like their
company and cultivate their society,
and other people are not mice"
and we are apt to speak OF
them with some disparagement, to
avoid being thrown with them, to sigh
when they ask us to dinner and to
think the time spent with them is
wasted. But We can easily discrimi-
nate overmuch and be ungenerously
fastidious about our companions. Peo-
pie whose circle of playmates is limited
to a select few of certain scarce kind
are bound to be narrowed by their So
cial squeamishness. 1t is much better
for them to compel themselves to take
people more as they come and try to
get some pleasure out of every one,
even if it is only such self-denying
happiness as comes from pleasure
given.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
"Perpetrating a ruse on truth" is

"Perpetrating ruse on truth is
what a prominent statesman called a
roundabout method of bribery exposed
in the recent national election. One
is reminded of Pepy's unblushing rec
ord of direct lying by telling a half
truth, as given in his famous diary two
hundred and fifty years ago. Captain
Grove" he says, did give me a letter
directed to myself from himself. 1
discerned money to be in it, and took
it. knowing it to be, as found it, the
proceeds of the place I had got him.
But I did not open it till came home
to nv office, and there I broke it open,
not looking into it till all the money
was out, that I might say l saw no
money in the paper If ever I should be
questioned. There was piece of gold
and four pounds in silver. So home
to dinner!"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
An Ancient Clock.

Baron Ferdinand Rothschild pos
sesses an old "grandfather's" clock
that originally cost over $15O,00O. The
mechanism records the day of the
week. month of the year, the phases
of the moon, and strikes each hour.
The quarters are chimed with a diff
ferent bell, and "a rare thing with these
clocks) it has a second hand. The case
was made by Wertheimer, and stands
fourteen feet high. 1t was originally
the property of Louis XVI.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

Bishop Potter of New York, acting
as arbitrator in four important strikes
within the last eighteen months, makes
the following statement: IF l were
asked to say which side-employers or
employes-was distinguished for the
better manners, I should unhesitating-
" declare in favor of the laboring
men," He also spoke Of the singular
dignity" with which the men listened
to the arguments of their opponenes'
This is impartial testimony from one
whose fairness as an arbitrator makes
his words worthy Of consideration.
Good manners, good Judgment, and a
sincere desire only for what is just as
between man and man, would soon re-
concile the alterations of labor and
capital.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

A singular omission in the matter
NJ legal formalities is the failure of
the federal laws to provide for notify
ing president-electt of his election,
The electoral votes are counted, and
the result of the enumeration is re-
corded in the journals of both houses
Of congress; but it is left for the pres
ident-elect to find cut the result in
whatever way he can and to present
himself for Inauguration on the next
succeeding fourth day of March. AS a
matter of fact the person elected to
the highest Office in the republic gets
his notification from the newspapers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

The Boston Transcript complains
that too much of the commercial spirit
has entered into the shooting OF game
in Maine. 1.-THE slaughter of moose
and caribou in Maine is all tabulated in
the newspapers nowadays" says the
Transcript. Figures are given with
counting-room accuracy concerning the
number of animals killed, with the
comparative increase of shooting for
two years and the amount of cash ac-
cruing to the thrifty state of Maine by
the increased interest in shipments OF
game"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

A bill is being framed by st. Loufs
representatives to be introduced at the
coming session of the Legislature of the
state of Missouri, part of which will
resurrect house bill No. sos, which Fro
vided for the creation of state inGus-
trial reformatory, where certain clasaec
of criminals and those under age may
be sent and hired out to farmers under
certain conditions. The bill will also
make provisions for criminals and
tramps to be employed on road i'm
provements. and to create a board Of
charities and correction with jurisdic-
ton over the above named reform
measures. The bill, it is said, will do
away with prison competition to honest
labor. 1t is being claimed that the
farmers of Missouri alone would profit
by the employment of convicts on road
improvements to the amount of $12,-
100000 annually, and it goes without
saying that the measure will be of in
calculable benefit to honest labor in
nbolishing the competition of the
prison factories. Organized labor
there says it would be only too glad to
hail reform movement of that sort,
and aid to the best of it's power the
passage of the bill.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
American influence is making itself

American influence is making itself
felt in China. Three engineers from
this country have been engaged to
build the first extensive railroad line
to be constructed in the fiowery king
dom, and an American syndicate Will
furnish the money to construct it. Eu-
ropeans have too many political pro-
jects to further to suit the Oriental and
Americans are smarter railroad build
ers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

A. L. Doris, wealthy farmer living
near Union, Ind, signed a contract last
week by the terms of which he agrees
to forfeit 81 900 if he shaves or cuts his
hair until Bryan is elected president.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
LET US ORGANIZE.
v PROSPERITY FAILS TO COME
SILVER WILL WIN.
The Keynote of the Next Battle OF the
Ballots-Givc the Republicans a Chance
They VIII Hang Themselves In Short
Order-Lanc's Address.

0 more sensible
political document
has ever been is
sued to the public
than the address of
Charles d. Lane Of
the National bime-
tallic committee.
He urges the BIZ
metallists who sup
ported Mr.. Bryan
to cease agitation
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

Australia will have to import more
than 100000 bushels of wheat this
year, owing to the failure of the Aus
tralian harvest. The bulk will come
from America and Canada.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

Chicago has on its public school rolls
the names of 2O6,209 scholars. The av-
erage attendance is 49, 62. The num-
Der of teachers is 4,7S9.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08
Did She Take 1t!

Hetty Green, the richest woman in
the United States, was witness in
court one day this week, and earned
so cents. Did she take It? Well.
the United States, was a witnes in
court one dasy thi week, and earned
so cesnts. Did she take it? Well.
rather.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-08

One of the greatest Affections that
can be placed on person is to bear
the surface indications of being a nui-
Eance.