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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
Attacking the Trusts.

Recently one of our great metropoli-
tan journals, in line with a number
of other papers, expressed a belief that
the trusts could be successfully reached
and attacked. 1t urged that there were
three methods by which they could be
reached First, under the common law,
on lines of public policy; second, by
state legislation; and, third, by ma
tional legislation. 1t cited few in
stances where the sugar and other
trusts have been reached and decisions
rendered by the courts declaring them
unconstitutional. Yet, the fact seems
to have escaped the newspapers that
the decisions of the courts in the cases
cited have absolutely no effect upon
the concerns in question. The sugar
trust and its kindred concerns have
been doing business upon the same old
policy and old lines.
For obvious reasons the lawmakers
and the executors of the law are not
now, and are not likely for many
moons, to be in a position where their
Independence snail VII CIT tuc Coui DC ny
which the trusts may be successfully
reached or attacked.
Our newspapers have labored under
the imagination that they can make
the people believe that they are seri-
Gus in the effort to attack and crush
or wreck the trusts. They do not
understand that the trust is simply
an evolution from the old-time individ-
ual establishments merged into part
nerships, into companies and again
into corporations, and finally into the
company of corporations-the trusts.
Experience will demonstrate that
there is power growing wholly UNI
noticed by our superficial friends of
the friends of the press, which will
prove itself far more potent to deal
with the trusts, or if the trusts in
herently possess any virtue at all, they
shall be directed into a channel for the
public good that shall bring them
within the realm of institutions to fur
Their the general veal, or to smash
them into their individual parts, so
that equality of opportunities may be
opened for all and that growing power
is the much despised organized labor
movement of our country and our time.
Wait and see.-American Federation
list.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
CURIOUS FACTS.

Church bells are tuned by chipping
the edge until the proper note is OBJ
tanned.
The brain of an ant is larger in
proportion to its size than that OF any
other known creature.
There are more wrecks in the Baltic
sea than in any other place in the
world The average is one wreck a
day throughout the year.
If the armies of Europe should march
at an eight-mile gait, five abreast, fif-
teen inches apart, it wouldsrequire nine
and a half days for them to pass a
given point.
From an investigation as to.the cause
Of 1870 cases of poverty it Is learned
that 3S2 per cent of the number was
due to old age; 27.3 to physical infirm-
ity, and $40 per cent was the result OF
accident and sickness.
The cloth of the old Egyptians was
so good that, although it has been used
for thousands of years as wrappings oil
the mummies, the Arabs of to-day can
wear it. 1t is all of linen, the ancient
Egyptians considering wool unclean.
Japanese houses in the larger cities
are of one general shape, two stories
high, and put together with curious
method of mortising, at which these
people are adopts, not one nail being
used throughout the construction of the
building.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
Silver and Famine.

Moreton Frewen, the English b.
metallist, is in Washington, a guest Of
Senator Don Cameron. Discussing the
Indian famine and cheaper silver, he
said: IF India has plenty of produce
to eXport-wheat, cotton, jute and
other things-the balance of trade Is
favorable, so that India is a large con-
sumner for her money metal, silver. AS
matters stand, however, India is i'm
porting wheat, and therefore exporting
silver to pay for the wheat. If the
famine is serious, as | fear, it may ef-
feet the exchanges not only with India.
but with China and Japan, the cheaper
rates for silver greatly stimulating the
exports of both these countries" That
is to say, if India has plenty of crops
to expert. she completes with our
farmers, but is buyer of silver-a
stand-off. BuS if India has famine, she
ceases to buy silver, and it goes down.
Her poverty compels her to push out
exports of manufacture to meet needs
and balances. and she completes with
our manufacturers. At the same time
cheap silver stimulates exports from
China and Japan as well as from In
dia, and we catch it both ways Going
into the monometallic deal of Great
Britain, with Great Britain handling
the lever of the Indian minis, seems to
be very much Of an 'entangiing alli-
ance" that injuriously affects all our
interests, agricultural and manufactur-
ing, directly, and, through them, all
others indirectly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
Waking Up Verlaine.


Passing through a dark courtyard l
had to mount interminable stone stairs,
lighting foul French matches as I went
to relieve the blackness. At last ar
rived outside his door, very near the
sky. l knocked. A voice called out {:
1--WE gone to bed" I explained my
lateness and said l would call tomor-
row. mo, no! Attended," l heard
him jump out of bed, stumble and
grope about and then strike a match ;
and in the interstice appeared homely
night-capped bourgeois pulling on his
trousers. There flashed on me incon-
gruously the thought of our English
laureate's stately home by the sea- in
which, jealousy guarded by hedges and
funkeys the poet chiseled his calm
stanzas; and all the vagabond in me
leaped out to meet the unpretentious
child of Paris. He greeted me with
simple cordially, and, ugly and coarse
though his face was, it was lit up
throughout by a pleasant smile. His
notorious leg was bandaged, but not re-
pulsively. No, "homely" is the only
impression I shall ever have of Yer
laine, the man. Even in that much
maligned "Macabresque" head of his
there was more of the bonhomie than
of the poet or the satyr. The little
garnet was his all in all, bed took up
half the space. On the table stood the
remains of supper. A few shelves OF
books, a sketch or two and bird cage
with a canary were the only attempts
of ornament.-Zangwell's Without Pre-
i,,dicp
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

estranged, will now come b5cL and
settle down to work again. Nov, more
than ever, the necessity of thorough or
ganization is apparent. whether the
party you espoused was victorious, or
whether you are smarting under tenn
pOrary defeat, the union OF your craft
REQUIRES the same solicitude and atten-
ton on your part as it did before. The
phantasies of political promise are as
far off as ever, but the practical Dene-
fits of trade unionism are within our
grasp, if we but devote to it our at
tention and energy.
The trade-union movement, ever
since it entered the lists, has hurled
its strength against the powers that de-
bauch and despoil the workers, has
always taken the part of the producer
against the arrogant demands OF pelf;
has always been arrayed against the
exploiters of labor. Weak at first, 1t
has gradually gained strength with
growth that was permanent. Though
defeated at one point, it forged ahead
at another, and always went onward,
always gaining something even in de-
feat.
To make it of greater value its
strength must be strengthened! This
can only be done by increasing the
number of those who are already
pledged to the cause. BY using every
and all means to increase our member
ship is the paramount duty of every
loyal member of the International AS
ISOLATION of Machinists, and all who
realize the benefits accruing from
Identification of the trade-union move
ment Let all be up and doing; let
each brother bring at least one into
the sheltering fold of unionism.-Me
chinists' Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
VARIETIES.
The British aristocracy includes IA,

The British aristocracy includes IA.
900 persons.
A single pound Of the finest spider
webs would reach around the world
When one is lying down the heart
makes ten strokes less per minute
than when one is standing up.
Only one marble statue of the hui.
man figure with eyelashes is known
1t is one of the gems of the vatican
the sleeping Ariadne, and was found in
1903. ~
The most remarkable canal in this
world is the one between Worsley and
st. Helen's, in Lancashire. II is six
teen miles long and is wholly under.
ground
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

A turnip twentysix inches in cir
conference and weighing eleven and
one-quarter pounds, is on exhibition
in Slater Mo. :.
Forty persons were seriously poi
soned by eating poison ham-sand-
wiches at a wedding in Hollidaysburg
Pa
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
Game in Africa.

In South Africa the country is SIM
ply teeming with big game. Buffaloes
are in immense numbers, one herd
which was seen recently being at least
1000 strong. Bucks are also extremely
plentiful, while zebra and quagga and
lions are too numerous to be pleasant.
Wild fowl are in myriads, from slack
duck, with a white patch on its wings.
down to a sandpiper.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

jim Thompson and bear, caught in
the flood in Skyhomish river, Wash,
scrambled on the same floating tree
For more than an hour they floated on
together, when the roots touched the
bank and Thompson scrambled off.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
The First.

Philadelphia Item: Mr.. Mckinley Is
the first to rise from the rank of pri-
vate in the army to the presidential
chair, and Cleveland is the first to be
drummed out of the ranks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Editor Eight-Hour Herald: Would
not it be an idea to elect the presidents
and vice-president every two years in
stead of every four years? Conf
dence" is the sleep of death. 1t is also
a European idea, and from luxurious
sense which originated in Asia, which
advocates an extension of the term of
the presidency to six or eight years.
The United States government is built
on trades-union principles and trades
unions never permit an election of Of
ficers to go past one year. By right,
and eventually, if the people of this
country are true to their trusts and
principles, they will elect all officers
of the national government every year.
1t will be cheaper and less expense will
attach the oftener we do so.-Peter P.
Quinn.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Philadelphia Item: Abner Mckinley
seems to be posing in the same light
that son Russell did for the Harrison
administration.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

break till we got better place. OATS
dis"
And the tramp cuddled up closer to
the big stove and dropped off into
dose.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
THE "HOBO KILLER"
THE CIRCUIT RIDER TELLS
ABOUT ROUGH TINES.
How He Got Out IA Paper in Colorado
He Breaks Jail in Albuquerque and
Finally Winds Up In the ramps
Mecca.

ES, I struck a
whole lot of funny
leads while | was
skatin' around this
summer" said the
tramp, in answer
to a Chicago News
reporter.
81 nearly got
slaug h t e IRE d | n
Cheyenne. S a y,
dere's a Teller dere,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

New York Financial News The
manifesto of the British Bimetallic
league on the result of our recent cleo
tion is only a proof that the ablest
thinkers in England are finding that
British trade is between two fires, and
that in case OF independent action by
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

Among Vosges peasants children
born at a new moon are supposed to
have sharper tongues than those born
under the last quarter.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

And yet I whisper-"As God Will
And in the hottest fire hold STILL
lie comes and lays my heart all heated,
On the hard anvil, minded so
Into His own fair shape to beat it,
With His own hammer, blow on
blow;
And yet I whisper-"As God will!'
And at His heaviest blows hold
STILL!
He takes my softened heart, and beats
The sparks fly off at every blow;
He turns it DER and DER and beats it,
And let's it cool and makes it glow!
And yet l whisper-"As God will!'
And in the mighty hand hold STILL"
Why should l murmur? for the sorrow
Thus only longer lived would be;
Its end may come and will, tomorrow,
When God has done His work in me,
So | say, trustng-"As God will!'
And, trusting to the end, hold STILL"
He kindles for my profit, purely,
Affections glowing, fiery brand,
And all His heaviest blows are, surely,
Inflicted by Masters hand.
So l say, praying-"As God will!'
And hope in Him, and suffer still.
From the German.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The man who thinks he knows 9th.
ers, is a great stranger to himself.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01
THE TOILER'S CORNER
SOME TIMELY TOPICS OF IN
-EREST TO UNION LABOR.
81 Hold Still''-After the Loan Sharks-
Hustle for the Union-Attacking the
usts--Anti-Monopoly Notes - More
Frequent Elections.

AIMS furnace hot
within me
quivers,
Gods br e a t h
upon t h e
flame doth
blow,
And all my heart
within me
shivers,
And trembles at
t he fiery
glow,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-01-01

The party paper is the instl hment Of
your will and you should tr{at it ac
cordingly. 1t speaks for you. 1t is
your pillar of cloud by day and pillar
of fire by night" With it your cause
is safe. Without it your cause is lost
Papers like the New York Journal and
the Chicago Dispatch, that could not
be purchased in the late campaign, are
worthy types of the true demoG'atic
PAPER.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER II. 1897.
COY. DAN. JONES.
To 0thciate at Lonoke Wedding
 This Evening.

At Loneko this evening at & o'clock will occur one of the most notable weddings of the year, in the union of D. B. Samuels,a prominent young attorney of Little Rock, and Miss Blanche Daniels, daughter of Hon. Dan Daniels, mayor of Lonoke. The ceremony VIII take place at the M E. Church, and will be dis tinguished by the fact that it is to be solemnized by Governor Dan W. Jones, as chef executive of tneState of Arkansas, assisted by Rabbi IT. H. Mayes, Of the Congregation B.nai lsreal, the latter performing the religious and Gov. Jones the civil part of the ceremony. This will be the first instance in many years in which a governor has onicis ated at a wedding. After the eere- mony a reception will be given at the opera house. The happy couple will leave for an eastern trip, and will be at home at the beautiful resi- dence erected by Mr. SamueIs at 1021 West Fifth street, Little Rock, after November l. A large number ofLittle Rock friends will attend the wedding, probably fifty or moro. The best wishes of q host of friends are extended the young people in advanee.-Arkanas Democrat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
A BUILDING SITE
At the Corner of Sixth Avenue and Beech Street Pur- chased By the Chris
 tian Church.


 The congregation of the Christian Church has purchased q lot on the corner of Sixth avenue and Beech street for the purpose of erecting 8 place of worship. The property was purchased from Mrs. B. E. Ben ton and is located it;st across Beech Street from the City Grammar School. The consideration was $500 cash.
 It is the purpose of this eongrega- ton to erect a neat and handsome church building thereon during the present fall or coming winter.
 The GRAPHIC congratulates the congregation upon their purchase.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
NUMBER 3
ESCAPED.
Tom Parker Gets Away From
 The Officer at K Kedron.
Telephone Special to the Graphic.

Telephone Special to the Graphic.
 Tom Parker,one of the negroes inn plieated in the recent troubles at Anderson and who was placed in the Jefferson county jail forsafe-keeping. on yesterday escaped from the Deputy Constable at Kedron as he was being taken back to Cleveland county to stand trial on the charge of assault with intent to kill.
 The negro was tied about the hands with ropes. but at kedron he became so frightened that he jumped from the buggy in which he was be- ing transported, and escaped to the woods. Up tu 3 o'clock this after noon he has not been recaptured.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
ARKANSAS SUGAR BEETS
Experimental Crop Not Up to Possi
 bilities, But Good.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The Secre- tary of Agriculture has completed the anlysis of specimens of sugar beet raised in Phillips county, Ark. He reports that this specimen shows a percentage Of ten-sixty-four one hundredths of sugar on weight of the beets, that is; 100 pounds of these beets would yield about II pounds of sugar He says that this percentage will undoubtedly be ex- ceeded by analysis of beets from other counties when completed. He also says the beet samples from Ar kansas will average over ton of sugar from ten tons of beets.
 Hon. G. A. A. Dean, of Little Rock, is here. Said he: We have tremendous crop of apples in Ar kansas this year The apples raised in the Ozark Mountains are of espe- cially fine flavor, and every year buyers from New York come down and purchase entire orchards. The buyers then ship the fruit to Europe as the product of the Empire State, and thus Arkansas does not get the credit that is her due. But our farmers get good money for their fruit, and do not complain.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
CUTE rRICKOF B0NDSEEN
By It Nebraska 1t Threatened With
 Tremendous Losses.

OMAHA, Neb. Oct. lf. The trial of the case wherein the State is making an effort to collect half million dollars from the bondsman of defaalting Treasurer Joseph Tfart- Icy, has consumed three weeks. and it promises to continue another month.
 A singular feature of the case has developed. This is the multiplicity of defenses the bondsmen will make. The testimony by which Mrs. John Fitzgerald. who qualified for $100, : GOO on the bond, hopes to escape liability, declares that the bond was presented to her day after her husband died, and that she was in sane at the time. She had no recol- lection of having signed the instru ment The other boadsmen assert that if Fitzgerald's signature is not legal the the whole bond is illegal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
STILL TOO UNWELL TO TALK
It is Believed By Those in Posi tion to Know the Situation, That the Spanlards Wink
 ed at the Young
 Womans Escape.

MEN YORK, Oct. l4-I4gangelneo Cossio y Gisneros, who recently escaped from q Spanish prison in Cuba, was q passenger on the Ward line steamer Seneca, which arrived yesterday from Havana.
 At quarantine Sen0rita Gisneros asked to be excused from saying anything about her Imprisonment and escape, as she was not yet re- covered from seasickness. from which she had .auiiered during the entire passage, and which kept her in her stateroom during the whole voyage. On the passenger list she was regis tered as Miss Juana Sola. She was traveling under the care of a gentle man who accompanied her from Havana. When the Seneca reached quarantine the tow boat J. Fred Lohman, with several newspaper representative and four women, went alongside the steamer, and after the health officers inspection was over they went on board and accompanied Senorita Gisneros to the city.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
Jurry Failed to Agree.

GREENvILLE, W. "A, Oct. 14-Thc jury in the case of Mrs. Atkinson, wife of the Governor of the State, on trial charged with forgery of her former husbands name to legal documents. failed to agree and was dismissed by the court yesterday. The vote stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Snow fell at Alpine, Tex, yester- day.
 The Mexieans will place q duty on American hogs
 ". J. Bryan clossd his campaign for Democracy in Kentucky on yes terday at Paducah.
 Nashville will have city election and the ehanes are favorable to the Democrats.
 The Monticello, Ark, Fair is show ing great strength as q drawing at- traction.
 Extensive stealing from the Western X Atlantic Railroad has re- suited in several prominent mer- chants being sentenced to the pen itentiary.
 Whitccaps attacked q negro in Carroll county. One whiteeap is dead and others may follow suit.
 Expert Guiteras will resume the business of featuring in the University of Pennsylvania.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14

Rev. F. E. Sapp and wife leave for St. Louis and Indianapolis this even- ing. Mir. Sapp will attend the Inter. national Convention of the Christian church at Indianapolis October II to a). Mrs. Sapp will visit friends in St. \ luis.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
SILK

Mofe-Velow.s in black, navy blue and greens, good value at SIPS; our price 95.
 Handsome black brocade satns all silk our SIPS quality for 98c; our SI quality for 85c.
 Black brocaded taflata silks, very swell, and good values at $I; our price 75c.
 Fancy plaid silks for waists, all the latest color ings, "A inches wie, warranted all silk, cheap at 75c; our price soc.
 Roman tripes, we have got them-and how they loom np-prices 72c, 85c and IS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
Arbitration Court omplete.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The inter- national court of arbitration, which is to pass on the British-Venezuela boundary, has been completed by the selection of M. Maertens, Q dis. tinguished Russian iurist, as um. pire, and arrangements are being made for the assemblage of the court at Paris during the late sum mcr or fall of next year.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14

Thos. Keene, America's greatest tragedian, will give two perform ances at the opera house during Fair week, presenting Julius Caesar and Richard III. Mir. Kecne has given Pine Bluff one of the dates booked for Shreveport. Mir Keene's dates are the 2lst and 22nd inst.
 Mr. r. E. Dure!. Of Little Rock. is is in the city
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14
TICELLO
 SHOW DRAWING, ATTENDANCE AGAIN MOUNTS INTO THE THOUSANDS. Veterans Assembled in Large Num- bers, and Appropriately Ad- dressed by Hon. R. Miner Wallace Splendid
 Shooting and an
 Exciting Pac-
 ing Event.

MONTICELLO, Ark, Oct. 14.-About 2.000 people attended the fair again yesterday, q great many visitors from distance being present. Every body is well pleased so far.
 Yesterday was Confederate Veteran Day, and early in the morning the vets began to assemble. At 9:30 a. n. u procession was formed and, headed by the Monticello Brass Band, marched to the fair grounds. The exercises were opened with an oration by Hon. k. Miner Wallace, upon the heroes of the Confederacy. His subject was most befitting the occasion, and as he pictured the his tory of the brave soldiers, the sur viyOrs of the Host cause" were thrilled with emotion The address abounded in humor, rathos and logic.
 The flying bicycles were seen again in their wonderful acrobatic and trapeze acting. Their feats would seem impossible until seen performed. The people are delighted with their show.
 SPLENDID SHOOTING. The Monticello Gun Club gave an exhibition yesterday afternoon, when many from Pine Bluff. Arkansas City and Dermott participated. The following is the result, giving first, second, third and fourth places in each event:
 First Event-Ten pigeons; straigths, First place. r. II. Mathews, 10, ]. NJ. Wilson, 10; ". E. Sharp, 10; second place, J. F. Wells. Pine Bluff. 9; W. F. Shields, Arkansas City, 9, third, ". G Hendrick, $; Wilkerson, Arkansas City, s. fourth place, P Rankin. [; L. MeQuiston, [; & Caster z; D. E. Marks. Arkansas City, '; c. Simpson, :;
 Second Event-l5 pigeons. First place, l F. Wells, Pine Bluff, 15; sec ond, ]. NJ. Wilson, 14; third, Rogers, Arkansas City, l3; fourth, l.. l.. Bnrks, F; T. H. Matthews 12.
 Third Event-Ten pigeons at an- gles. First place, W. B. Sharp, 10; second J. E. Wells, Pine Bluff. 9; third, J E. Shields, s; I'll. Mathews, s; fourth. $. Caster. '; JIM. Wilson '.
 @---
 Mr. B. F. Ingram came up from rady Tuesday afternoon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-14

Miss Martha Dye, daughter of Dr. J. II. Dye, passed through this city today, enroute to points south on the Cotton Belt where she will gi9e elocutionary recitals.