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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

tion telling when the house was built
and when restored, and perhaps q pi-
GUS sentence in old German text, says
the Christian Register. The roads
through this valley constantly excited
our admiration. They seem built for
all time and are as we'll kept as q
lady's parlor floor. These beautiful
highways over the widest passes
show how effectually paternai power
watches over the safety and comfort Of
the traveller.
Some of the prettiest villas upon
these hillsides are the summer houses
of wealthy Swiss cooks, restaurant
keepers, confectioners and hotel pro-
prietors to be found in all the large
towns of Europe, and who return to
their native valleys for rest and rec
reation. Though they may not be So
cially distinguished in the places
where they have acquired their wealth
they have as good a position as need
be desired in their early homes. The
castle of the old family has often
crumbled on the hill, but the new fam
lilies in the valley survive and flourish
here as elsewhere.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26
Lunacy Increasing In Prussia.

The steady increase of insanity in
England has long been attracting at
.tention, but it seems from a recent
German official return that in this re-
spect Prussia is not whit behind, if,
indeed, it is not tending to fill it's lun-
attic asylums at more rapid rate than
this country. In 1871 the total num-
Der of lunatics in Prussia was 55 ,O63 in
1880 it had risen to 66,345, while in 1896
it had gone up to $3.50. 1t is curious
ly interesting to note also that, while
the growth of insanity is general it is
more marked among men than among
women. OF 100000 Prussian males it
seems 27S are found insane, but in a
like number of women only 243. From
figures given in the same return. it
would seem that blindness is diminish.
ing while the number of deaf NUT
Is rather increasing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

would Il be proper w consider here
what effect this act Of congress might
have or these organizations or any of
them.
81 r:ay DC permitted to say, how
ever, that the methods and aims OF
many of these exchanges and boards
of trade are not altogether beneficial
to the business and commerce Of the
country. That they are beneficial to
the members and perhaps to the To-
cality may be admitted. 1t must also
be admitted that properly conducted
agency or medium through which the
vendor and vendee might readily sell
and buy everything that enters into
commerce or trade is demanded by the
business interests of the whole coun-
try; but this agency should not be
permitted to tamper with or in any
way restrain the natural flow of the
stream of industry or commerce.
"Yhe crying complaint of today and
the great menace to the welfare OF the
people is the tendency of wealth 10
monopolize and control the industries
of the country, and it must be con-
fessed by every thoughtful observer
that many of the so-called stock and
produce exchanges are among the most
potent instrumentalties for the &C
complishment of these purposes by
spectators and Adventures.
Men who add nothing to the pro-
ductive wealth of the country grow
rich or poor by gambling on the
wealth produced by others. Men daily
are selling through these exchanges
millions of bushels of corn, wheat and
other products, who neither have nor
expect to have bushel, and others
are buying millions who never expect
to receive bushel. Both sides are
tampering with the normal prices fixed
by the law of supply and demand and
attempting by false and dishonest
means and methods to serve their
ends. The courts have uniformly con-
demned this class of business as lille
gal, though it is under the ban of the
law, still flourishes. The remedy must
be looked for in legislation, and not
in the courts alone.
at is indisputable that all the live
stock shipped to these defendants for
sales from other states than Kansas or
Missouri, after it had entered the cur
rent of commerce between the states,
continues and remains a part of such
commerce until the transportation is
terminated and the property becomes
a part of the general property Of the
state.
1t is also we'll settled that while this
property is the subject of interstate
commerce, no state, municipality or
other power but congress can impose
taxes, restrictions or regulations for
the protection of the health, morals
and person of the citizen, and except
for proper charges and regulations for
the use of the local instruments as
aids or incidents to such commerce"
The decision caused a great deal of
excitement at the stock yards. Just
what effect the decision will have on
the methods of business at the yards
in the future is a matter of conjecture.
Some members of the exchange say
the dissolution of the exchange will be
a severe blow to the live stock inter
csts if the decision stands the test in
the higher courts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

In a decision handed down in To-
peka September Goth, holding that the
Kansas City Live Stock Exchange is
trust, organized in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law, United States
District Judge C. j. Foster made some
severe criticisms upon the formation
of trusts and combinations to coptrol
trade. The exchange is an organiza-
ton of commission men who control
the sale of live stock in Kansas City.
All live stock must pass through the
exchange. Judge Foster issued an in
junction restraining it from doing bus
mess because it is an unlawful COM
bination.
Counsel for defendant" said Judge
Foster, have with commendable zeal
and industry submitted to our consid-
Grafton the rules of great number of
exchanges and boards of : trade
throughout the cities of the United
States, dealing in corporate stocks,
grains, live stock and various other
things, and contend that they are es-
sential, If not Indispensable, to the
commerce and business interests of
the country, and that to grant the
prayer of this bill would be the death
blow of these institutions Courts can
not shut their eyes to the results of
their judicial conclusions, but how far
such results should control thoses con-
illusions depends on several conditions
not necess; ry to discuss here, nor
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26
A Moorish Execution.

A correspondent at Tangier gives
the following account of the execution
of a native for the murder of Herr
Hassner, a German banker, in Decem-
Der last, says the London Times. The
circumstances of the murder have re-
manned extremely mysterious The
German legation there put pressure on
the local authorities. After a short
time woman went over to Gibraltar
for safety and sent word from there
that she could throw light on the af-
fair. Upon her information three men
"a Spaniard and two Moors-wcre ar
rested and thrown into the kasbar
(prison). Here they were tortured by
the thumb-screw and the Spanlard
confessed. He, however, was claimed
by the Spanish authorities and what
has become of him l do not know.
The other two were kept in prison.
They lay chained hand and foot by
heavy three-inch chain in small dun
geon, where they remained in almost
pitch darkness from the end Of De-
cember, with nothing to eat but bread
and water and very little of that OF
course, had not the murdered man
been a European, little would have
been heard of the matter.
A message then came from the sui
tan that one of the men was to be
shot. The basha, who is an authority
here, desired this to be carried out IN
private, but the German minister in
sisted upon a public execution. On the
day of the execution l went down to
the Soko (market place.. About a
dozen Europeans only were present
and among them were two French la
dies on horseback. A posse Of SOL
diers soon marched through the gate
way, having in their midst the con-
demned man himself, seated on a dom
key, with his feet chained together
think ne was too much dazzled to COM
prehend fully all that was passing.
The prisoner was taken, unreslsting,
off the donkey and made to kneel with
his face away from the soldiers. Two
OF the men were told off to shoot him.
They refused, upon which the basha's
head man with asperity repeated the
order. Then they walked up to within
five yards of the prisoner and fired
two shots into his back. He rolled
over, but was not dead. His body con-
tinued twitching spasmodcally for
fully five minutes, when an order was
given to dispatch him finally, where
upon one of the men walked up to
him, placed q gun close to his head
and fired The corpse YVES buried in
sacred ground. All the Moors, even
the authorities, basha included, looked
upon the prisoner as a martyr Why,
they asked, should a good Mohamme-
dan die for dog of a Christian? The
feeling is universal and if it were not
for the legations Europeans would not
be very safe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26
MuzzlinG the Donkey.

Donkeys instead of dogs may soon
have to claim the serious attention of
the board of agriculture, with the pos
sibility of the proclamation of a gen.
eral muzzling order. A man flap.ed
James Knight of Chobham recently
purchased a donkey OF known vicious
character from a person who had been
unable to do anything with the brute.
Knight, who is powerful man, set
himself to cure the animal of its evil
habits. He turned it out on the COM
mon and when he wanted to capture
his charge he enticed it to him by hold
ing out loaf Of bread. This answer
ed we'll for awhile. The owner was
satisfied that his treatment was effica-
cious but day or two ago, when
knight was endeavoring to secure the
animal in this fashion, it suddenly
turned upon him savagely and fixed
it's teeth in his throat, and it was with
great difficulty that the brute was beat
en- off. Knight was found to have sus-
tanned very serious injuries and DR..
Hope, who was summoned, ordered
HIS immediate removal to the neigh
boring infirmary at Ottershaw.. where
he now lies. AS for the donkey, a
swift remedy was discovered. Eight
men secured it with ropes and dragged
it 20 a yard, where it was shot.-Lon-
don Telegraph.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

In the current issue Of the American
Federationist A. S. Leitch has an ar
ticle entitled THE Ignorance of the
Educated Glass;" which will accom-
plish world of good if it assists in
making clear to the employers Of Am
erica the danger which must inevita-
bly, come as a result of the misery 1T
tending lack of employment. Mr..
Leitch says:
Anent the great strike of the miners,
brainy editor of one Of our big dailies
sapiently advises the miners to stop
their foolishness and seek some 9TH
er occupation that is not overcrowded,"
thus reducing the labor supply at the
mines. whereupon wages will natur-
ally rise to that point where those
remaining can worry out miserable
existence. He failed to offer a reward
for the discovery of the elusive occu-
patton that is not overcrowded.
A very popular fad is to advise the
voorhees, to go to farming" Even If
capital (of which the workers arc
minus) was not absolutely necessary in
farming as we'll as in other ventures,
when the would-be farmer runs up
against a few crop failures, battles
with the festive potato bug, and falls
into the clutches of the pluck-me store
run by the country commission mer-
chant, he is liable to breed discomfort
even there. He may want to know
why it is that when there is dollar
wheat" he has no wheat; when he has
wheat it invariably "draps,' to so
cents. If he is an inquiring cuss he
is likely to get down his old shot gun
and polish up the lock; perhaps adj
journing to a clump of woods and. be-
gin practicing on dummy grain
Spectator or an effigy Of a railroad
president.
Another brainy editor can see nos
good result possibly accruing to the
miners through the strike, pointing out
that, even should they win, there is no
surety that the coal barons will long
abide by the agreement, rs has been
the case before. He admonishes them,
against the evil of allowing 'profes-
sional labor agitators" to lead them
astray, and gravely advises them to go
back to work.
Possibly the brainy editor can see
as far into a milestone as /, yet, to me,
the miners strike appeared a very
good thing for the miners. and the ia;
Dor movement 1t attracted public at
tcntion to the miserable condition Of
the workers in one trade, and, en- pas
SAINT, to the worlmen's condition
generally. 1t brings pertinently to the
front again the land question and
starts the trend of thought once more
along the lines Of occupancy and use"
as the title to land.
Having had considerable time on my
hands, l have delved into editorials,
comments, essays, ETC., ad nauseum,
bearing upon the miners strike and
have yet to find one line from the pens
of the educated class that indie ltes The
fsintest conception of anything beyond
surface Swimming. To them the strike
Is the kick of few thousand men for
II few more pennies in wages.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

Japanese children love also the
sport of kite-fying. They make l;ites
with strips of bamboo on whic., Is
fastened the paper Of very tough tex
ture, common in Japan. Some kites
are Of huge size and can be raised
manv hundred yards. Veritable swarms
of them may often be seen flying about
villages. The children attach to them
little devices that under the influence
of the wind give out most curious
musical humming sound.
"The Japanese child is neither rough
nor brutal. He is full Of life and spir-
its. nothing more. He spends his
money for fruit and candy like other
children. and takes his pleasure in a
more rational way than the American
child, being both less strong and less
combative. Wickedness seems I'M
known to him.
1.-THE coolie child, with his brown
face and bare legs. is always interest
ing. How many things he can carry
on his back! Under his big
straw hat you often see finely form
ed face, but it is almost always sad.
with the resigned expression common
to children who suffer.
But the child that attracts the most
attention IL the child of the sampan
(boats). Each sampan is generally
navigated with the aid of two heavy
sweeps, managed by two children, of
whom the youngest is often not more
than eight or ten years old. Under
the eyes of parent or patron, the young
boatmen give proof Of incompatible
address and agility. They live on
board the boat, eating and sleeping
there, and so are trained to be excel
lent sailors for the Japanese navy.
Foreign firms also employ in their
offices certain number of japanese
children as clerks or errand-boys.
It is said that all little Japanese.
especially these messenger boys, have
special talent for whistling. They
even whistle European tunes!
in Japan people love children so
much that when they have none of
their own, they adopt one, and II a
Japanese thinks he is too poor to sup
port his child, he hastens to get it
adopted by some rich family, which
he always succeeds in doing."-Select-
ed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

Late advices from Washington are to
the effect that President Samuel Com
pers, by Frank Morrison, secretary has
issued a call to all affiliated unions for
the seventeenth annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor, to
be held at Nashville, Tenn, in the hall
Of the house of representatives at 10
o'clock Monday morning, December IS
next. The session is to continue until
all the business of the convention shall
have been completed. Resolutions of
and character or propositions for
changes in the constitution intended
for consideration by the convention
must be submitted to the secretary at
least two weeks prior to the meeting.
The committee on credentials will
meet at Nashville three days previous
to the meeting Of the convention.
The objects of the convention are, in
part. thus set out in the call:
"The seventies of the industrial
stagnation of the past four years have
not yet been abated; the wrongs from
which the workers suffer have not been
righted; the injustice imposed upon
our people remains unremedied; the
unemployed many are still testimony
to the folly of our age; the employ
ment of children in our factories and
workshops, though modified, fingers
with us STILL and the spectacle is wit
messed of idle men and laboriously
busy children; legislatures more con-
cerned with the privileges to the few
than to the rights of the many; with
public assembly and free speech in
vaded, threatened or forbidden. and
the modern judicial weapon of injunc-
ton utilized in the efforts to crush
labor. These rights and wrongs, and
others of equal Importance but too
numerous for reference here, must of
necessity be considered by the forth
coming convention, and such action de-
vised as shall tend to attain the one
and set aside the other"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26
Japanese Children.


A French magazine lately publish
ed an article on Japan that would al
most make the reader think that coun-
try a children's paradise. American
boys and girls will like to read few
paragraphs translated into their own
language. The writer says:
"Truly Japan is children's para
disc! Nowhere are there more OF
them; nowhere are they better
loved. The sweetest religious senti-
ment of Japan is fllial love, and
parents who love their children
passionately are amply recompensed
for this affection by the care
and respect with which they are sur
rounded later in life, when they have
reached old age.
"It is a charming spectacle to see
the children in Yokohama, when they
90, at the beginning of springtime, to
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

look for shells at low tide. They come
in groups from all parts Of the city,
carrying with them baskets and boxes
hanging from their backs. Having
disrobed, they run joyously over the
beach, prattling and crying out with
glee, devoting all their energies to
the search, while the heads of sleep
ing babies are balanced funnily on the
hips of older brothers or sisters.
1.-TWO days in the year are exclusive
ly devoted to children. At Tokyo, Kio
ia, Yokohama, and in all the cities of
Japan there is a day when the shops
are full of toys, little models Of per-
sons or things, or even figures Of the
entire Japanese court in miniature.
This Is on the great holiday for lit
tie girls. At this time, large and small
are dressed in garments of all colors
and affect the most extraordinary head
dresses. The mothers are very proud
Of these toilets.
"The corresponding boys holiday
falls on May 5. Then they are seen
scattered everywhere about the coun-
try. At each house Is raised bam-
boo mast from which hang, blown
about by the wind strings of paper
fishes. These represent carp, and are
symbols Of energy and consistency. For
as the carp can ascend streams against
the strongest currents, just so STU
dious child can, in following the diff
cult current Of life, acquire fortune and
rencwn. There are as many of these
paper fishes at each house as there
ere children in It. so that at Some
aocses as many as dozen fish may
ia counted on the masts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26
Odd Optical Illusions.

In the following figure one pair of
lines look gray and the other pair
black. If now the page be held side
ways the lines which look gray now
appear black and the black lines have
become gray.
A very curious illusion is due to the
fact that different wave-lengths OF
light arrive at their maximum sensa-
ton at different times. Thus If the
disk Figure q be cut out (and made
into top by mounting it on card
board and pushing wooden match
through the center) it will be noticed
that if spun from left to right the out
er band will appear red and the inner
most one blue. If the top be spun in
the opposite direction the colors will
be reversed. This is known as Ben
hams color top. In the same way il
the disk Figure 81 be made into top
and spun the white band as it Is spun
from left to right will appear fringed
with colors.
Another illusion Of color, discovered
by Mr.. Shelford Bidwell, T. r. S.. IL
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

cling to tr-t sweet parting kiss:
Mavourneen, Thy dear face | see at the
door,
Eileen ALBANIA Angus Ashore
Faithful I'll be to the colleen | adore,
EILEEN ALBANIA Angus ashore;
Soon I'll be back to the colleen L adore.
Eileen ALBANIA Angus ashore.
Eileen ALBANIA, Eileen Ashore,
The oceans blue waters wash by the
shore
OF that dear land of shamrock, where
thou dost abide,
Waiting the day when I'll call thee my
bride.
God bless you. darling, I know you are
true
True to the boy who would die now for
you.
My heart is now bleeding to its innermost
core,
Eileen Allana Angus Ashore.
-Towpannd
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26
onut Tree

CULVER In every breeZe
There's the brilliant maple, with oranches
red,
And the ash, dressed out all eyes to
please.
The oak is sturdy, the elm all grace,
And the dogwood strings its scarlet
beads,
But of all the trees in the wildwood place
There is only one that the schoolpoy
needs.
So. give MS n day on the wind-swept NIL.
With white clouds floating far and free,
And then you'll see us run with Will
For frolic under the chestnut tree!
Annie l. Willis.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

A motherly old Hen brooded the
eggs of a viper and nourished them In
to life. A Swallow seeing what she
had done. said. you silly old granny;
don't you know that these vipers you
have Matched will, when grown, inflict
injury not OILY upon you but on every
one?'
Moral.-Wrong is not to be counte-
nanced though 1t may be dictated by
good Intentions. --Aesop's Fables.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26
IN THE ODD CORNER.
BONE STRANGE. QUEER AND
CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFE.
4 Moorish Execution-HOw o Murdere
Was Put to Death for His Crime
An Odd Optical Iilusion-ln . Turk
ish Harem.
Eileen ALBANIA.

ILEEN ALBANIA. FL
leen ashore.
Light OF my soul
and its queen
evermore:
1t seems years have
fingered since
last we did part,
EILEEN ALBANIA, the
pride of my
heart,
Oh! darling loved
one, your dear
smile / miss.
NV liDs geeln to
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

BRIGHT, bright day
and a wind-swept
hill,
And white clouds
floating far and
free.
All! this is the time
to run with q will,
And frolic under
the chestnut tree!
There's the graceful
birch, with its
swaying head.
And leaves that
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

produced as follows: Cut out the
disk Figure ~ and mount it on a card.
Cut out the gap between A and b.
Stick long pin through the center
and push it up to it's head. Now hold
the pin by its pointed end so that the
card is suspended few inches above
q page of small, sharp print. Spin the
card at the rate of five or six turns
second by flicking it with the finger.
letters seen through the gap of this
disk will appear red color, especially
if you take the precaution to avoid
shadows and to see that the print is
brightly Illuminated.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26
Swiss Village Houses.

Some of the village houses in Swift
'rland have quaint sundials upon the
front, and, where there are very Gae
here Is not infrequently an inscrlp-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26

Odd mistakes sometimes happen in
the making Of newspaper. Not long
ago an article on the conversion of the
heather and recipe for making to-
mato catchup stood side by side in the
composing room ready to go into the
form. In some way they were mixed.
and this was the result:
"They are accustomed to begin their
work by securing heather children and
educating them. The easiest and best
way to prepare them is to first wipe
them with a clean towel; then place
them in dripping pans and bake them
until they are tender, then you will
have 10 difficulty in rubbing them
through your sieve, and save time by
not being obliged to cut them in slices
and cook for several hours
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-26
FOR BOYS AND'GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.

Tho Little Men and Women Of Japan
That Country Is q Paradise for Youth
How They Pass the Time-The Chest
0nut Tree.