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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07
Sugar Drops.

New York, Dec. 3.--Arbuckle Bros
have reduced refined sugar Lie 1t is gen.
orally understood that the other reinerie:
will follow with a similar deduction.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

There are three varieties of the dog that
never bark-the Australian dog, lie
Egyptian shepherd dog and the Zion.
headed" dog of Tibet.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

We Will ferfeit $1,000 IL any Of our pub.
iished testimonials are proven to be not
genuine. The Piso Co.. Warren, Pa.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

The new cable which has been laid
across the Atlantic weighs $50 pounds to
the mile. This is the biggest of all the
cables.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

To Cure Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
orussists refund money II 1t fails to cure. a5e.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

An important industry of Paris is the
manufacture of toy soldiers from sardine
and other tins have been thrown away.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

No person in Norway may spend more
than cents at one visit to drinking
place.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

elTe Permanently Cured. n o nus or neryouspes
suo after first days use OF Dr. Kline's Gr.s,
Nervf .testorer. Send for FREE $500 trial
Arch street, Philadelphia, P
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

Among every 1000 bachelors there are
80 criminals; among married men the
ratio is only Is per 1000.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

The deer really weeps, its eyes being
provided with laehrymal glands.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

A breech-lod ing cannon, made in 1859,
has been dis Sered in an old museum
at Hamburg, which explodes the belief
that such we3pons are an invention Of
the present .cS,tury.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

+ To make proper freproof nothing more
is necessary than to saturate the paper
in aAssrepg solution q alum Vater, and
when =. Vder &GI resist the
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

Of Shakespeare's famous characters it
is said that Hamlet speakes 1869 lines,
Iago 1907, Othello $50 and Lear no.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

San Francisco, Dec. 5.--Bar silver, sole.
Mex an dollars 473c.
Lea, N s0l
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-12-07

Wire Communication stopped.
Chicago, Dec. 5.--The wires Throughout
the east or either down or stormbound.
Up to midnight Detroit, Mich, and other
cities east had not been reached by tele.
graph or telephone.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20

"You must admit" said man to me
the other day while discussing the SUBJ
ject of trades unionism, that there are
many good men outside of the unions
fully as good as those who are in them.
They do not join because they like
their liberty-they do not like to be
dictated to by either a union or boss.
You must admit also that trades unions
are sometimes very arbitrary"
Yes, there are many good men out
side of the trades unions, but it is not
their goodness that keeps them out,
nor are they good because they keep
out. Thy would be, no doubt, much
better men were they to join the union
of their trade.
1t is true, and pity it's It's true, that
trades unions are sometimes arbitrary
and do very foolish things, but expert
ence testifies conclusively that the
unions "dictation' is aimed to beneht
the members. while the dictation OF the
boss is invariably in his own interest
and not in the interest of the workmen'
II would rather seem the better rea-
son. therefore. to bear the dictstlon OF
the union. even if it be somewhat arpl-
trary at times, than to bear that OF the
boss.-Detroit Sentinel
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20
To MY Left Hand.

/ envy you your life of rest. You live in
luxury.
You e'er enjoy the very best fates reserve
for me.
You've never worked in all your lie.
you've never known a care.
You've always lived apart from strife
existence sweet and rare.
My right has e'er my writing done, while
you have stood aside;
You've had your full share of the fun,
and yet in peace abide.
You've never penned line for me, nor
ever struck a blow,
known woe.
And yet, dear friend, l cannot say the
time will ever be
That there will be the dawn of day when
you're not dear to me.
My right hand is more useful, yes, but
prithee, do not pout,
You are a friend, l must confess, 1 can
not do without.
So here's to you, my left hand, may you
ever live in peace,
And may the joys that round you stand
forevermore increase!
passed in luxury,
And ever placed in happy ways, you're
mighty dear to me.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20
GIRLS ARE PIGEON-TOED.
1t Is Because the Southern Town They
Live In Is So Hilly.

Live In Is So Hilly.
They were sitting on the veranda of
country clubhouse.
mar" said the Virginia man reflective
ly, "I'd never ride a bicycle or play
golf or sport with the surf"
whats the matter with the Lamar
girls?" asked his companion, leaning
forward to see the young woman who
had suggested the reflection, but fail
ing to find her.
Short skirts aren't becoming to
them" the Virginia man said posi-
lively.
But the whole town hasn't some
thing the matter with it's legs" his
friend protested.
Hasn't it? That's all you know
about it. Everybody in the town is
pigeon-toed."
The hearer tried to figure out that
interesting problem in natural history,
but didn't succeed and, finally, curl
0sity-which men call feminine fail
Ing-got the better of him and he ask
ed more questions.
But why?" he said.
The other man, who had been smok-
ing placidly. looked surprised.
why what?" he replied blankly.
Then he remembered. "Oh, about those
girls. Well. Lamar is the hilliest town
in the south. You can't walk block
there without climbing a young noun
tain. The hills are so steep that the
sidewalks are made in steps. I've oft
en- called on one girl and. then asked
permission to go up to her attic and
step out of its back window into the
yard of the place where l intended
making my next call.
Il lived there year; and l discov-
cred that most men and all women,
when they climb hills, walk pigeon
toed. l don't know why it is but it's
a fact, and the Lamar girls do so much
climbing that every blessed one of them
is terribly pigeon-toed. I just saw a
girl from Lamar going by to the gdf
links, and she wasn't an exception"
Great Scott" groaned his friend.
Think of the future generation of La
mar citizens!"-New York Sun.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20

To many interested in the labor
movement the phrase "The organiza-
ton of labor" means simply the bring
ing together of work people for united
action in the matter of raising wages,
or for insisting for better conditions
under which to do work. To me 1t
means this and much more. too. The
end in view In bringing men and wom-
en- together into industrial association
is that they shall learn that land be-
longs by right to every person, that
each one shall have the power to make
that right operative, and that they
shall voluntarily associate themselves
together in the production, distribu-
ton and enjoyment of wealth.
To organize anything means to ar
range or constitute body in parts,
each having special function to per-
form. A musical instrument is consti-
tuted of different parts, each part pro-
ducing different sounds, the whole is an
organization for producing music. A
wagon Is composed Of separate parts,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20

ago and there has been no return Of the
disease. The cure was effectual and per-
manent, and feel satisfied that no other
medicine could have produced SO marvel
Gus a result. We feel rejoiced over the
restoration of our son, and cannot help
but feel that. DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People are the most remarkable medi-
cine on the market"
such 6. blessing to mankind as Br. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People. Acting direct
ly on the blood and nerves, invigorating
the body, regulating the functions, they re-
store ME strength and health in the OK
hausted patient when every effort Of the
physician proves unavailing.
These pills are sold in boxes at 80 cents
box or SIX boxes for $50, and may be had
of all druggists, or direct by mail from DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, NJ
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20

each part doing a special duty, the
whole is an organization for transport
tation. Ia printing office there are
authors, typesetters, proofreaders,
make-ups, stereotypers, pressmen, etc.,
the whole is an organization for pro-
ducing books and newspapers. The
Industrial world is composed OF me-
chanics, agriculturists, ETC., each per-
forming special function, the whole
producing commodities for the use and
enjoyment of society.
This division and subdivision OF
functions Is "the organization of labor
and the best organization is that In
which efforts are so arranged and d.
vided as to produce the largest amount
of commodities and do the greatest
amount of useful work with the least
exertion.
Labor today is not well organized
that is to say, 1t is not so we'll organ
lied as it should be. There is waste
of energy on every side, and this waste
cannot be stopped so long as the great
captains of industry" pit one body OF
workers against another body of work.
ers as they do under the prevailing
competitive system.
The object of the labor movement is
not merely to get the workers COM
bined to resist unjust encroachments
upon their standard of living by the
bosses, but to SO organize the laborers
that each can make the most of his en-
ergies and reap the full results there
ok.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20
Remarkable Secret Association.

History has it that in March OF the
year 1922 there was an encounter De
tween a little band of Sicilians and
a party of Frenchmen, who were mold
ing a festival. A Sicilian bridal party
passed by, and Frenchman, under
the pretext of searching the party for
yaluables. offered some rudeness to the
bride. The bridegroom caught the
mans sword and ran it through the in
truder's heart. Thereupon the Slcll-
ians drew their stilettoes and fell up
on the French with great fury, leav-
ing over two hundred of them dead
after the fray. 1t is estimated that
over eight hundred persons persisted
as the result of this outbreak; neither
age, sex or rank being considered. The
populace took up as war cry these
words. "Morte allie Francese Italia an
ello." Death to the French is ltaly's
cry.) Many persons have wondered
at the name of the Italian secret
league called "The Malta" The initial
letter of each word Of the original mot
10 Spells lUe udluo. vi 5uhihSu ~ ~ ~
to some extent, at least as an engine
for protection, the society," by an
addition of INSCRIPTIONS men and
measures, acquired rather bad name.
Recent acts attributed to this band
have led the government to make a
thorough investigation Of its doings
and place at the proper door the re-
sponsibility for various heinous
crimes that have been committed
against persons and property. So per-
feet Is the organization, however, that
it is almost out of the question to Sc
cure evidence. One phase of their
wrath takes the form of vendetta,
which is cruel, ruthless and relent-
less beyond belief. Once the order is
given for death there is practically no
escape. One never knows how or
where, but, like thief in the night,
the dagger of the assassin steals in
and the work is done. Possibly the
lack of comprehensive and efi-Nnt
laws may have had something to do
with the growth and progress of this
society. A thoroughly organized court
and legal machinery would put an end
to these violent measures.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20
The Standard Dictionary,

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadel-
phia: 1.-THE arrangement is admirable.
Especially to be commended is the
giving Of the definition Immediately
after the word, leaving the etymology
to follow later, and the grouping Of
the divisions and subdivisions Of a
subject under a general term so that
the user is not compelled to engage in
long searches. Men of every occupa-
ton express their qualification at the
satisfactory manner in which this par
ticular field has been covered. The
better 1t is known, the better 1t Is
certain to be appreciated"
See display advertisement Of how to
obtain the Standard Dictionary by
making small payment down, the re-
mainder in installments.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20
Where "Colonels" Are Born.

John Dickinson of San Antonio, Tex.
registered at Wizards last night, and
then commented on a prevailing hotel
custom. 1.-The minute that l write
Texas after my name people insist on
calling me colonel. Now, am an ev-
ery-day travelling man, hardly 40 years
of age and l don't get to my home in
San Antonio three times a year. But
every hotel clerk from Tucson to Ken
nebunkport calls me colonel as soon as
he sees my signature. The bellboys
follow suit, and SO do the walters. They
seem to think that every Texan is a
colonel, with his pockets full of pis-
tolls and his mouth full of fine cut. In
the same way they seem to think that
every Kansan is a farmer and every
citizen of Colorado is a miner. Wash
'ngton Post.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20
GULL ISLANDS MULE.
Won't Work for Anyone but an italian
and Kicks Every American.

Won't Work for Anyone but an italian
and Kicks Every American.
Over on Gull Island, where the foun-
dations for the big guns are being pre-
pared and where work, work, work, is
the order, day and night, the rigid rules
of the contractors and government in
spectors are sometimes relaxed for a
few moments and laughter goes the
rounds of the workmen, born Of the
.rolleries and wit of the Irish laborers
at the expense of the diggers from the
shores of sunny Italy. There are about
200 workmen on the island, and when
off duty, which for the main part is
to sleep and eat, a few minutes of rob
licking are enjoyed.
On the island engaged in the work
are two animals, among the others,
which have acquired reputation. One
is mare and is called Kate Church.
The other is a mule and has been
dubbed the Spanish mule" Kate
Church has a morbid dislike for an
Italian, and as soon as one comes in
her vicinity she kicks up her heels,
neighs in disappearing horse manner
and acts generally in an erratic man
ner.
The Spanish mule Is we'll named.
Evidently the work on the fortifica-
lions is not to his liking, and his SYM
pathies are strongly with the Spanish
and the darker-hued diggers of the
soil, the Italians. Only an Italian can
work about him, and as soon as a light
er-complexioned workman draws near
out go his heels in an endeavor to raise
the object of his dislike into the air.
One of his enemies was reached yes
terday, and the workman sustained a
severe bruise on his limb. 1t was so
painful that he had to knock off work
and return to New London for treat
ment.
The antipathics Of the two animals for
each other is extraordinary and Is typ
ical of the relation of the workmen
from Italy and those of America.
Whenever a chance affords to have a
little fun with the italian it Is taken ad-
vantage of and general laugh results.
The only desire of the friends Of Kate
Church now is to get the dark-faced
men near Rates heels so the mares
prowess in that direction can be re-
| allied by the hackers of the Spanish
mule" who kicked the Irishman.-New
London Comm Day.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20
One Word.

A certain irrepressible bore had q
formula which he always used when Il
was sought to put him off, and spare
the objects of his attentions the trou-
BILE OF an interview with him: But
l assure you want but one word with
him-only one world" He called once
on a celebrated lawyer. The lawyers
clerk met him very solemnly with
the remark: Why, haven't.you heard ?
Mr.. B. died last night" He had
scarcely got the words out when the
applicant was saying, concliatingly:
But / assure you l want but one
word with him-only one wordv'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20
PATENTS.

Higdon, Fischer & Thorpe, (Registra-
ton No. 2O37), Patent Lawyers, Dia-
mond Building, Junction Main and
Delaware streets. Kansas City, Mo-,
report the following list of patents is
sued week ending May, 10. 1898, to
inventors living in Missouri. Kansas
and Nebraska Telephone 1912.
MISSOURI
James E. Hawkins, St. Louis; cork
pulling machine. .,'jr
John d. Hogan, St Louis, awning.
julius ]. Karges, Kansas City, moist
ening device.
Charles I. Meme, st. Louis; cithern.
David Miller, Garden City; gate.
John F. Rutland, Wellston; railway
switch.
Ferdinand Schwedtmann, st. Louis:
dynamo or motor.
George F. .Steedman, st Louis; shin
gle saving machine.
James b. Thomas, st. Louis: auto
matte combined car and air brake
coupling.
James B. Thomas, St, Louis, COM
bined automatic car and air brake
coupling.
John P Lynott, Louisiana; design
for stove.
KANSAS
Harry F. Gardner and T. J. Bensco-
ter, Macksville; lock nut.
Emma Hughes, Wichita; desk or
table attach ment for furniture.
Warren Lindsey, Frederic; draft
equalizer.
James II. osten, White City; tire
tightener.
Mary E. spielman, Alma;. book
holder.
Jacob veith, Kansas City, pocket
! cigarette former.
William A. Wilson, Centropolis; corn
header. ~
John Player, Topeka; car. bolster.
NEBRASKA. -
Eli L Shotwell and j.. Brims- David
City wire reel.
Joseph Urbank, assignor of two
thirds to 7. E. Molacek and NJ. Palmer
Schuyler corn planter
Total Issue of May 10 1898.
Patents. .......... .'"- .. 1874
Designs ...... .............. 10
Trade Marks. 30
IOudl. ............... ..........' QUA
A copy of any patent in the above
list will be furnished on application
for 25 cents.
Send for book of instructions free
Please mention this paper
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20


Some of our optimistic millionaires and
their toadies will point to the fact
that Lincoln was rail splitter and
became President, therefore every
other man may do the same, forgetting
that there is one chance in several
millions for such an occurrence. and
absolutely no chance for the average
man who forms a large part of our pop
ulation.
Look at the perpetual struggle for
existence even among the mercantile
and employing classes. Bradstreet says
80 per cent of those who enter bust
ness eventually fail, and those who
enter business are presumably more
pushing and better qualified than
those who remain in the ranks Of the
employed.
We have millionaires and multi-mil-
lionaires, men with thousands and
hundreds of thousands, but the foun-
dation of large aggregations of wealth
is always found in laws made to give
away special privileges. Sometimes it
iron ore the rich deposits are worked
at enormous profits. Sometimes 1t
may be to enable other deposits to be
kept unworked, and so deprive not
only the miner of employment. but
force the consumer to pay an increased
price. Sometimes it may be by giving
an inventor powers which shut out
other inventors from the market, and
enable him to force the consumer to
use his or none. There are many ways,
but there is only one foundation-man-
made law!
1t is strange that men with gleams
of common sense and native honesty
should offer remedies for such a rotten
state of society? That socialists
should seek a governmental contro. OF
all undertakings? That anarchists
should want the government to Keep
its hands off and allow the individual
to do what he can for himself with
out infringing on the rights of others?
And that between these two extremes
various degrees of reformers should be
! doing their best to show better sys-
TEN of life.
| forgot to mention another way to
get rich-eXposed in the Evening News
some years since-where lumbermen
bought ''forties' and then cut pine OH
hundreds of thousands of acres. And
these men have had a good deal to 90
with making the laws which enabled
them to rob the people, as have the
other interests which have become so
colossal as to overshadow the law
! making power.
Is it strange that with such examples
| before them of how the law is made by
debauched representatives, working
men especially should periodically turn
| to independent political action IN the
hope Of electing men free from the
| chains of capitalism-men who Will
honestly endeavor to legislate for the
benefit of the masses?
They will fail. as they have failed
| before, for the stakes are too great to
lose. The men who have loaded the
! dice before are fully alive to their own
| interests. and will never allow the
voter to have more than the shadow OF
power. He may vote for representa-
| tiyes but they will not be his. He
may make the laws, but not in his own
interests. And he never will until he
knows his own friends, and will stick
to them in defiance of his enemies. He
has starved his friends and forced
them to take service with his enemies,
| and the results are here.-J. r. B.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20
AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS

We are asserting in the courts our right to the
exclusive use of the word "CASTORIA." and
PITCHER CASTORIA, as our Trade Mark.
I, DR.. Samuel Pitcher of Hyannis, Massa-
chusetts, was the originator Of PITCHERS
CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does
now bear the fac-simile signature of CHAS. H.
FLETCHER on every wrapper This is the
original PITCHERS CASTORIA" which has
been used in the homes Of The mothers OF
America for over thirty years. Look carefully
at the wrapper and see that it is 1.-The kind you
have always bought" and has the signature Of
CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No
one has authority from me to use my name ex-
cept The Centaur Company, of which Chas h.
Fletcher Is President.
March 8, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER. M d.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20

Tht Smiths, man and wife, discussed
en- armistice, and the man began one.
The wife, however, demurred with a
loud voice and arms akimbo, as if she
were persistent rebel in Cuba;
,Jhereupon the man said, in state OF
disgust, well, if that's an armistice
we had better for the sake of peace
90 to war again" Some people think
it takes both sides to create an aImis-
tice. What if Lincoln had proclaimed
one and jefferson Davis had said he
wouldn't have it?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20

The thirty-one women who want TO
marry General Cassius M. Clay have
no respect for the divorce laws and are
indifferent to the terrors of old age.
One can have no'respect for the thou
sands of women who want to go to
war on horseback, though they are
tough enough. But as to the courage
of the sex there can be no doubt. There
is nothing they do not dare to do I'M
til they are generously given the OPP
DOrtunity
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-05-20

During the past two months the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad company has
received LILO new box cars, 1899
double hopper gondolas, and 224 coke
cars Of the order of $3.50 recently plac-
ed with Pullman's Palace Car COM
pany, the Michigan Peninsular Car
works, the Missouri Car and Foundry
company and the South Baltimore Car
works. Deliveries are being made as
rapidly as the cars are completed.