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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

is located, and will develop the mys-
terious shafts as soon as possible. The
property is II miles southwest Of Hot
Springs, Ark. Hundreds of others
share his belief that the famous old
mine, a century lost, has at last been
found. There is no telling what fabu-
lous quantities of gold may still be en-
tombed in its mighty depths. 1t en-
riched the Spaniards in the eighteenth
century. 1t enriched the IndSns. 1t
enriched Captain Kidd, the pirate. 1t
enriched everybody who came into
contact with any part or parcel of It.
Mr. Lowery hopes that it will yet en-
rich him. In 1850 the New Orleans
Mining Company was formed for the
purpose of developing gold mines in
this part of Arkansas. Before the COM
pany commenced operations it caused
an advertisement to be inserted in a
New Orleans newspaper offering re-
ward of $4,000 for the discovery OF
the Louisiana NINE Scores Of men
went to work to search for the long
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

The Paris municipal council passed
a vote of censure against the project
of the department of the Seine for not
having convoked an extraordinary
meeting to discuss the question OF
dear bread" On a motion of the So
cialist councillors the council decided
to distribute 100000 francs in bread
among the necessitous Of the Paris
population. The decision Of the coun-
Gil to introduce maximum Of hours
and minimum of wages for all work.
ers engaged on municipal works, as
we'll as a vote of 10000 francs to help
the masons of France strike. was an
nulled by the government.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

After a man reaches fifty he tries to
look guilty when accused of flirting.
No one who is very fat can onvince
anyone of the sincerity Of long cher
ished grief
When you are not supposed to see
thing you can make friends by look
ing the other way.
An Atchison woman who is old
enough to be smoking a pipe, gave a
candy pull the other night
When girls stand with their arms
around each othc when young men
are present, they don't mean it.
In calculating how much ice cream
to buy, count on five dishes to the
quart if it is for party and ten dishes
if it is for church social.
All the pictures in the rogues gal
lery are not steal engravings.
Monopoly throws gold dust in the
eyes of politicians, to blind them.
Any demagogue can talk patriotism
but it takes man to live it and vote
it.
The man with gievance always
proves a grieva nee to his friends
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

A New York Judge has granted wife
a separation from her husband for six
months, with alimony at the rate of
$40 week. The plaintiff was wife
30 years old, the defendant husband
Of 70. Doubtless the young woman feels
herself happy in being rid of the old
gentleman for six months, receiving in
the meantime $40 week. At the end
OF the first term of separation she can
apply for an extension and the old hus-
band is not likely to survive many de-
crees of court. Anything is possible
under our divorce laws, and the prece-
dent set by Judge Gaynor Of New York
may be extensively followed and separ-
alton take the place in court records
extensively occupied at present by the
disagreeable word divorce.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
SHAFT OF THE LOST LOUIS


lost mine, but, like hundreds who had
gone before them, they were compelled
to acknowledge themselves baffled. In
1879 the Mexican government sent out
representative who gave his name
as A. J. Burns to search for the Louis
lana mine. He was provided with a
map of the geography and topography
of the country and started from New
Orleans up the Mississippi river. The
map and information with which he
was provided led him to the town
Of Rockport, on the Ouachita river,
20 miles southeast of Little Rock.
There he found the shelving rock de-
scribed on his map. At that point he
was instructed to leave the river and
start for the mining district. Accord
located either nine miles northwest Of
Rockport or nine miles northwest Of
Hot Springs.
Mr.. Lowery's land is nine niles
northwest of Rockport. He believes
that he has discovered that for which
men have sought for 100 years. Three
years ago, while traversing a rugged
and mountainous section he came upon
a spot on the crest of spur OF the
Ozark mountains which attracted his
attention on account of immense
dumps of pulverized stone, in the
midst of which giant trees were grow
ing. A little investigation showed
great shafts in the earth, which, al
though nearly filled with debris, were
plainly discernible. These shafts were
found to be located 200 or 300 feet
apart, extending mile or more along
the crest of the mountain. There was
every indication that work had been
done many years before. Being .famil-
lar with the history of the Louisiana
mine, Mr.. Lowery at once surmised
that he stood on the site of what is
possibly the richest mine ever known
in the western hemisphere. Though
greatly elated, Mr.. Lowery was pru-
dent enough to maintain silence until
he had secured possession of the land
on which his find was located. Soon
after this event two citizens OF Same
county, while on prospecting tour,
picked up a piece of ore on the surface
within a few hundred feet of one OF
these shafts. When assayed it was
found to contain go per cent of gold
and was valued at $35.
Since that time Mr. Lowery has been
trying to convince the public that he
is the owner of the Lost Louisiana,
and has succeeded in attracting wide
attention. He is financially unable
to open up what he believes.to be the
great mine of 100 years ago.. but he
considers it only a question of time
until circumstances will favor him
and then he expects Ito startle the
world.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

He was tired looking young man
as he leaned up against shade tree
on Miami avenue, and the patrolmar
who came along, halted to look him
over and finally queried:
what are you doing here?"
"More or less tight" was the ans.
wer.
What is that paper you have in
your hand?"
"You can have it."
"Bank check, Ell? have you been
trying to work a confidence gamer"
said the officer, as he scanned it I'M
der the light.
"Oh, no, that was little racket of
my own" and the young man yawned
sleepily.
"How do you mean?"
"Why, am going with girl ho
loves me for myself alone, but her
mother looks at the cash side of the
question"
"And you filled out this check to de-
ceive her?"
THAT is what did. l showed her
that 1 had $4,000 in the bank,
but what did she do but post
right down there and find out that l
didn't have hair pin on deposit y
"And what?"
"Why, that is how I came to get
tight She showed me the door and l
knew from the way she closed it.,
that the syndicate was busted, so
l went to ruin at the nearest saloon"
Detoit Free Press
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
Pullman Left More.

Outside of little real estate ana d
$4,000 insurance policy Henry George
left nothing when he died. His great
work Progress and Poverty" never
realized him much. When he worked
at the printers case he was an active
member of San Francisco Typograph-
ical Union. He was afterward elected
an honorary member.-The New Time.
But he left to humanity the greatest
legacy it has ever received, with the
exception of the Christian religion,
now so badly deformed by the attacks
of rascals within and without the
church.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

Secretary Of the Navy Long sent a
recommendation to congress for an APP
preparation of $4,000 for improve
ments in the battery Of the cruiser
Chicago, and accompanying 1t is a
strong report of Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt, in which he points out
some weaknesses of the navy. Mr..
Roosevelt says: II earnestly wish we
could as soon as possible withdraw
from active service the cruisers fitted
with slow firing guns and substitute
ships with rapid fire batteries. At
present the real fighting efficiency of
ships like the Raleigh, Cincinnati,
Marblehead. Montgomery, and Olym-
pia compared with foreign vessels Of
the same nominal class stands high,
while the reverse is the case Of ships
like the Baltimore, San Francisco and
Yorktown"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
Words of Henry George.

For it is of the very nature of injus-
tice that it really profits no one. When
and where was slavery good for slave
holders? Did her cruelties in Ameri-
ca, her expulsion of Moors and Jews,
her burnings Of heretics profit Spain?
Has England gained by her injustice
toward Ireland? Did not the curse of
an unjust social system rest on Louis
XIV and Louis XIV. as well as on the
poorest peasant whom it condemned to
rags and starvation-as well as upon
that Louis whom 1t sent to the block?
Is the car of Russia to be envied?-
The Land Question.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
Give 1t Up.

The Republican party advocates two
measures: A protective tariff to Keep
European products out of the country;
a gold standard so that We will have
money good in Europe. Now, will
some brainy Republican please har-
monize these two propositions of Re-
publicanism? For what purpose do
we need money that is good in Eu-
rope If we intend to have policy that
will not let the Europeans ship their
goods into this country Mound City
Kan.) Standard.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

Captain Dreyfus in his disgraceful
exile is a factor in French politics far
greater than he might have been If he
had kept his freedom. 1t is certain that
his guilt was not conclusively proven,
and he ought to have had the benefit
Of the doubt in view of the magnitude
OF his punishment. Governments can
not afford to be unjust, and the suffer-
ing Of one innocent man because of
hatred of his race may bring about
suffering to the nation which is respon-
sible for his undoing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

In the tall building it Is emphatically
"a condition. not theory" that con-
fronts us. The many storied office build
ing is a necessary product of certain
economical factors, which have operat-
ed in spite of the architects, and more
intensely in the United States than
elsewhere. This is what has made 1t
so peculiarly an American product. OF
these economic factors, the cost of land
so commonly alleged as the controlling
one, has really been the least import
ant. Land in parts Of Paris and Lon
don Is as costly as in New York and
Chicago, but the fifteen story Office
building has never come into vogue
there. While, on the other hand, build
ings of ten or twelve stories are not
uncommon in American cities of the
second and third rank, where land is
relatively cheap. The causa causans
of the sky scraping monstrosity is to
be sought in the drive and hurry OF
American business life, and in the ac-
companying American propensity TO
save time and labor. The SKY scrap
er" is a huge labor-saving and time
saving device.
Each building is almost complete
city, often comprising within its walls
banks and insurance offices, postoffice
and telephone office, business ex-
changes, restaurants, club rooms and
shops. The business man can provide
himself with clothes, shoes, cigars, sta
tionary and baths; receive and dispatch
his mail and his kilograms; speculate
on change; consult his lawyer and his
architect in their offices, and transact
his own business-all without leaving
the building in which his Office is To-
Gated. The express elevator which
shoots him up to the sixteenth story
or drops him with breathless speed to
the basement is product Of this same
American haste and economy, and with
out the elevator the tall Office build
ing would be an impossibility. 1t is
the triumphant success Of the "sky-
scraper" as a time-saving invention
which has made it so conspicuous and
insistent an element in our American
ture.-Engineering Magazine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

= The Chicago wheat deal is attract
ing much attention. Joseph Letter
continues to hold his immense pur-
chases of high grade winter wheat, an
amount now estimated at 100000
bushels. In the meantime prices are
advancing in all parts of the world,
and it is difficult to predict the figure
which will be reached by May wheat.
The Letter clique claims that the far
mers have long since parted with their
wheat, and points to the fact that
dollar wheat" fails to materially in
crease the receipts at the principal
points. An interesting feature of the
situation is the development that hun
dreds of millers and wholesale flour
dealers have been mixing corn meal
with -four and selling this blended mix
ture as high grade wheat. This is said
to account for "black bread" and the
further fact that flour has not ad
vanced in price in proportion to wheat
This matter has been introduced into
congress and some legislation may fol-
low. The reports of Russian short
age which were at first vigorously
denied, are found to be true, and the
government will probably repeal the
duty on wheat so as to permit imports
The stocks now in Russian ports
amount to II, 100000 bushels, as against
an average of 19,904,000 bushels for
same dates in the last ten years. The
London Tines prints telegram from
st. Petersburg saying that the failure
of the crops threatens worse dearth
than that of 1891. Russian editors are
forbidden to refer to the matter of the
coming reduction in import duties.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

R. G. Dun & Co. compute the liabil
tiles of concerns failing for the month
of November to Saturday last at S.
600, 424, against $4,725,473 for the cor.
responding period last year. Repub-
lican prosperity loves to disguise itsell
in adverse balances and to masquerade
in the humility of large shortages. Tha
is the reason for this little increase OF
liabilities to the amount of $S74,951
for the first nineteen days of Novem.
Der, 1S97.-Ozark (Mo) Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
RECENT MEDICAL DISCUSSION.



ing widespread Interest.
Owing to the recent discussion in the
Jackson County Medical Society Of Mis-
souri, in regard to the wonderful sue
cess obtained by the use Of Thyroin V.
", reporter called on the Van Week
Minter Co., Chemists of Kansas City,
having heard of the wonderful cures
they had performed, and was shown
through their extensive laboratories,
where they manufacture the gland rem
edies which are causing such a sensa-
ton in the medical profession as we'll as
among the many thousands who were
and are suffering from chronic diseases.
These remedies are prepared from the
glands and nerve centers taken from
young and healthy sheep, and the let
tiers they have received from grateful
people of both sex is proof positive that
they have natures own remedy, and
hence the most perfect and positive in
action. They have surprised the world
by curing goitre, idiocy, nervous dis
eases, insanity, stunted growth. indi-
gestion, rheumatism, fat, starvation
and all kinds of chronic troubles caused
by poor nutrition. The success they
AdNC iuduC IL TIC v. 10 q
sure guarantee of the success they will
make from all the other elements taken
from the same source. They have
staff of the most eminent physicians
and chemists in the country, each a
specialist in his own particular line.
The number of clerks and stenograph-
ers in their employ is evidence of the
great success they so well deserve. Mr..
Van Week showed the reporter speci-
mems of sputum from consumption, and
also evidence of cancer, tumors Of all
kinds, and germs Of many dis
eases they have cured. He was
also presented with their beautiful
blue book. called New Life, which they
are pleased to send upon request free
Of charge to all suffering humanity. All
letters addressed to Van-Vleck- Minter
Co., at their home office in Kansas City,
Mo-, or No. ia Dearborn street, Chica-
go, ILL.,, will be considered strictly pri-
waite and secure prompt attention.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

Jay Gould put one man on the Su-
preme bench of the United States, and
1t remains to be seen whether c. p.
Huntington can put another in the
same position by the appointment OF
his friend, Attorney General McKenna,
who shut his eyes to the requirements
of the law he had sworn to obey and
allowed the Pierpont Morgan Pacific
Railroad steal to be contaminated
Shade of Marshall, whittier are we
drifting. -Picayune, Texas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
Victory For Trade Unionism.

Trade unionism won a great legal
victory on Tuesday by the final deci-
sion by the house of lords in the case
Of Allen VS.. Flood, that workman
can not be sued for damages for pro-
curing the discharge of other work.
men by threatening strike. The case
will be remembered, not only because
of it's bearing on trade unionism, but
also because the law lords, being I'M
able to agree, ordered the case to- be
reargued before the Judges of the
high court.-Waterfor Qreland) Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
PRES. M'KINLEY VS.. FREE SILVER.


A battle of giants is going to take
place this summer on 10000 farms in
America, not in talk or votes, but in
yields. Salzer's two new potato mar
wells are named as above, and he Of
fers price for the biggest potato yield,
also $500 in gold for suitable names for
his corn (17 inches long, and oat pro-
digies. Only seedsmen in America grow
ing grasses, clovers and farm seeds
and selling potatoes at $1.50 barrel.
The editor urges you to try Salzer's
Northern Grown Seeds, and to
Send This Notice with 10 Cts. In Stamps
to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, for II new farm seed samples,
worth $1,000, to get a start, and their
big catalogue. VINE.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

A pea-shelling machine has been put
into big canning factory at Frank
linville, N. Y. BY the new process
three machines, operated by five to
eight persons shell as many bushels
of peas as hundred hands used to"
The new labor displacer works auto.
natically and will be operated by one
person after few improvements have
been made.-Exchange
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

Maine is again to enter the list Of
copper mining states. The deposits,
which are numerous and valuable,
were worked more than twenty-five
years ago, but sudden and great de-
cline in the price of copper made them
improbable; improved and cheapened
method Of production is the cause Of
resumption of work. Copper is met
al with which the market is never over
stocked; although consumption in
creases rapidly from year to year, a
good copper mine is more valuable
than a gold mine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case Of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Gatarrh Cure;
We. the undersigned, have known B..
J. Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
out any obligations made by their Arm.
West 4 Truax, Wholesale Druggists.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
mails sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold
by all druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

of Gould's beneficence would not
amount to over $4,000 to $4,000 year.
But when bare-faced lie finds lodg-
ment in the brain of the average Re-
publican politician truth can't pull 1t
out. The fact is that wages are being
cut, or hours of labor are being short
ened, in nearly all the industrial de-
partments. - Advocate (Marysville,
Kan.).
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

How tenderly modern society cares
for the homeless, the aged and the
worn out workers. Have you noticed
that the homeless can go to prison,
the aged to the poorhouse, and the sick
can go to the devil? And that is
about all that is cared about them
Rights of Man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
A Prosperity Lie.

The other day we were told in the
Associated Press dispatches that the
Gould system had advanced the pay
of all it's employees, involving an in
crease in wages Of nearly S1,0O0,0O0 a
year. A day or two afterward truth
pulled on its boots, and the fact
was disclosed that wages that had
been cut down among section men had
been restored, and that the sum total
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

Customer-So this is yosn world-re-
nowned corn solvent? Strange, I've
never even heard of it. Chemist-No,
daresay not. About 25 years ago 1t
cured every corn in the neighborhood,
and now I'm just getting it out again
for the next generation. y.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
A Reason Needed.

Dr. Pulsely-Nobody has any busi-
ness to be sick! YOU ought to be
ashamed to say You are sick unless you
can give reason for it.
Mr.. Badly-Yes l want to have .
reason for it so l sent for you.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

Mr.. Isaacs-I sells you dot coat at q
great sacrifice.
Customer-But you say that of all
your goods, how do you make liv'
ing?
Mr.. Isaacs-Mein frient, l makes a
schmall profit on de paper and string
New York Weekly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

First College Girl-What is to be the
title of your graduating essay?"
Second College Girl Beyond the
Alps lies Italy, What is the title OF
yours?
First College Girl-'Beyopd the Al
tar Lies the Washtub.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

The mayor Of Baltimore has nine
thousand applications for five hun
dred offices. When New York con-
siders this thing it bushes for its sis
ter city.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

Smith-What makes you think Green
is an Irishman?
Brown-His name for one thing you
know green is the Irishman's favorite
color; and besids that he has Cork
leg.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
An Embeliish mont Explained.

"What makes you put u halo over
his head when you draw caricatu re OF
a Politician"
THAT isn't halo, that is a politi'
cal ring" replied the cartoonist Wash
inpton Star
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
A Really Pleasant Topic.

Dicker-Don't talk shop; let us talk
of something pleasant.
Ticker-What did your mother-in
law die off"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

II guess God got tired when He
made the sun and moon, and threw
away the stuff he had left over and it
just spattered everywhere and made
the stars" said little willie. Judge.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

"The Mexicans Intricate their axles
with soap.
Century-They never lubricate their
faces with soap.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Tall Buildings Labor Saving - The
Labor Press Must BE Maintained
How Prosperity Strikes Our Exchanges
Georges Legacy,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

He-Was the elopment success?
She-Hardly, her father telegraphed
them out west to stay where they
were, and all would be forgiven.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18
A Wearing Buslneas.

"Did Hopkins get nervous prostra'
ton trying TO make money!"
"No, he got nervous prostration try
Ing to borrow money"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

Maud-You can tell from young
Blanks conversation that he has
clear head. Clara-Yes; there isn't
anything in it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-02-18

'Here Isl joke about an electric
shock" said the humorist
"Put it under the head of Current
Fun. " replied the editor.