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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10
The Ascent of Woman,

In an article in The Young Woman
for February on THE Ascent of WON
an" we are told that whereas the cen
sus taken six years before Queen VIC
toria came to the throne contained no
occupations for women except domestic
service, there were at the date Of the
last census 1000 women dressmakers,
10000 employed in the public houses,
$500 in printing establishments and
4,721 in mines. Even the postoffce,
edged about with red-tapism as it Is,
has nearly 10000 women as clerks. tel
egraphists, sorters, ETC., and there are
included in these figures no fewer than
100 head postmistresses and $3.50 sub
postmistresses. Where there was one
lady clerk in 1871 there are now four;
and-to take two industries only
there are now 121 women per 100 men
in the tobacco industry, as against AZ
per 100 in 1871; while in hemp and jute
the women workers have increased
from 81 per 100 men to 1876 per 100.
There are throughout the kingdom
nearly 100000 women engaged
In teaching almost three times the
number of men; and 200 women have
worked their way into government de-
partments as typists. 1t is significant
of the part that woman now plays in
British commercial life that in a re-
cent year there were 1853 women bank
rupts, whose aggregate liabilities
to $4,000.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

We are suddenly, without warning
face to face with the actualities OF
empire. 1t is no longer possible to
sugar it with bland phrases like "be-
nevolent assimilation" To rule we
must conquer; to conquer we must
kill and must get used to hearing of
the killing of our soldiers.
Fully as startling as the news itself
is the amazing coincidence that this
mournful battle occurred just at the
exact moment when the first news Of
it would be still fresh in the minds of
the senators as they cast their votes
upon the treaty.--New York World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The white people Of the south un.
derstand the negro character thor.
oughly, and hence are at all times
ready to extend sympathy and help.
There never would be any friction be-
tween the races If the matter was left
to the mass of the negro race, which
has nothing to gain from agitation OF
from politics. 1t is the insolent and
talkative colored politician, anxious to
live without labor, and ready to sell
his vote, who creates strife and urges
his people into trouble, which he him
self escapes.-Atlanta Constitution.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The president is clamoring for a 400
per cent increase in the army. The
imperialists want millions for the navy
ana for coast defenses. The pension
roll is becoming more burdensome.
The ratification Of the peace treaty
calls for an appropriation of 100000
900. Every branch of the public sery-
ice is calling for more money and in
the midst Of this we are told the war
tax is to be maintained for two or
more years, and even then a bond is
sue may be necessary. But this does
not deter Hanna in his efforts to push
through the ship subsidy steal, and the
president does not hesitate to suggest
another big subsidy for a Pacific cable
Dispatch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The Burlington route, advertising
from its Office in Omaha recently, Of
fered cash prize of 500 to the per-
son who would send them the best plan
for encouraging immigration to Ne
braska. Among the letters received
was the following:
Republican City, ncb., January II,
1899. ]. frances, & p: saw youer add
in your paper asker advise of how to
settle nebraska, for my 20 years expe-
rience that the crate part of nebraska
is old batchus and air longen for
wife or housekeeper and the eastern
world is full of old mades and widoes,
now II the railroads wood trasport
the old mades and widoes to nebraska
free theair woodend bee no further
truble about settlers. l tell you tn
wimen HEAR that hain't Engaged air
scaris then henes teath and most Of the
girles marcy when theair Is. now II
theas old mades and old batchus go to
keepen house and the men HEAR that
all the widoes heaiv ship to nebraska,
you felowes wood just half to put on
extra traines to carray the men.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10
No Chance for the Bounty Bill.

There seems but small likelihood
that the Hanna-Payne marine bounty
bill will pass at this session Of con.
gress. Even the protection-saturated
sentiment Of the metropolis of New
England cannot stomach so bold and
colossal piece of legislative robbery.
The opponents of the bounty scheme
have calculated that it will take from
the treasury fully $4O0,0O0,OOO, and
even Mr.. Payne, the champion of the
bill in the house, admits that 1t will
result in an aggregate expenditure OF
5000, 900, OOO.-St. Louis Republic.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

There is a class much affected by
the question as to who is going to haul
down the stars and stripes at Manila
This is the sentimental feature of the
business. The heavy hand Of taxation
has not fallen with all the force that
is in store for the people. There is
practical trouble ahead. Before we al
low our enthusiasm to run away with
us, let us remember that the fiddler is
to pay, and that he is high-priced
Observation-Disclosures Enquirer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

mittee and the general patting on the
back he has received from the presi-
dent and the Alger ring, General Eagan
feels quite his own man again, and
fully capable Of enjoying all the good
things that come his way.
Like Bunthorne, his air severe was
but mere veneer. He was not really
angry. He has the laugh now on his
fellow officers, who have never insult
ed any one, but have to wear the har-
ness and bear its honorable drudgery
until retirement day come.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The burdens Of taxation laid upon
liquor saloons are regarded with
equanimity by the average citizen. The
decision Of the commissioner Of inter-
nal revenue requiring the payment of
a special tax by propricsors of rum sa-
looms who may employ an orchestra
to attract customers will be accepted
as justifable and exemplary. The per-
Torrance is held to be musical enter
tainment liable to taxation. A source
of misery may be protected by law, but
its maintenance ought to be discour-
aged in all legal ways.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The American people, regardless Of
party, will continue to support the ad-
ministration of William Mckinley in
all measures to attain the best results
of the war upon which we entered a
year ago. They will forgive much, and
allow a good many bygones to be by
cones. but they will not be wheedled
into the belief that everybody has been
wise, straightforward and just "too
good far anything" at every stage OF
the ceedings-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10
Windmill zoo Years Old.

One of the oldest windmills of the
marshes of Norfolk, England, where
the marsh country is often very beauti-
full, is quaint. Its wooden tower still
defies the strength of the winter winds
which sweep across the lowlands from
the sea, but two of it's canvas frame
sails are gone, and those that remain
are fast falling into decay. For geo
years it has been one Of the safeguards
Of the adjoining meadows.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

A policeman on duty in Hong-KSng
harbor the other day noticed parcel
wrapped in mating tied to one of the
buoys. The officer found that child IS
body was inside the wrapping, and
after celebrating whether he should
send for the dead box or take 1t ashore
himself he took the latter course. The
parcel was slowed away in coal bas-
ket, and the policeman's surprise can
we'll be imagined when on opening the
mating live 6-months' girl, who
howled most Justify, was found inside.
The waif was taken to the hospital
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Admitting the truth of all that is
said about Alger, the fact must be
borne in mind that the president put
him in office, the president is keeping
him there and the president is respon-
sible for him. If Alger is incompetent
and that he is so is apparent to all
President Mckinley, and not his in
efficient servant, is principally to
blame for the mistakes that have
brought disgrace upon the republic
Manchester Union.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

His Air Severe Was But a Mere Veneer.
From the New York Herald: With
the true spirit Of brotherly love, the
Philadelphia Public Ledger arises to
remark:
General Eagans sentence, which
practically amounts to six years va
cation with a salary of $500 year,
would not be punishment at all ex-
cept to a heightened soldier, sensitive
of his honor. General Eagan does not
appear to be that kind Of soldier"
We beg your pardon. Since his
apology to the war investigating COM
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10
Deafness Cannot BE Cured

By local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion OF the ear. There Is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by consti-
tutionai remedies Deafness is caused by an
infiamed condition of the mucus lining OF the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is indamed
YOU have q rumbling sound or imperfect hear
Ing. and when 1t is entirely closed deafness 10
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to Its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out OF ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed condition OF
the mucus surfaces.
of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. SEND fos
circulars, free. ,o r., n
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

His position should have saved Sec
rotary Alger from the treatment he re-
ceived in Boston, but 1t seems that
something of this sort was required to
get under his rhinocerous hide which
has prevented him from feeling the un-
utterable contempt in which he is held
by the country at large.-Louisville
Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

An application has been made by s..
L. Hutchins, John E. Patton and other
leading colored citizens Of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, for charter for the Ma
,tional American Colonization AsSocia-
ton, the object being to organize
branches in the southern states. The
association is formed with view to
1colonizing negroes in the west and Sc
curing from congress a concession to
allow the colonies so formed the right
of state government and representa-
tives in congress, etc. The plan was
organized by S. L. Hutchins. negro
lawyer, who has given the question Of
"What to do with the negro?" great
deal of study. Hutchins was a circuit
fudge in North Carolina during the
reconstruction days, and 1t is said OF
him that he came nearer to giving sat
isfaction to the whites in his circuit
than any negro who ever held like
office. Hutchins gives a reason for
his proposed colony that "the people
of the United States should be given
an opportunity to see whether the ne
gro is capable Of governing and hold
ing office" The application for char
ter says that at is not fair to Judge
of the negro's ability to conduct pub.
lie affairs, to judge him by the fail
ures he has made in Office in the
south. Given an opportunity when
they are altogether dependent upon
themselves, the negro will solve the
question speedily as to whether he Is
worthy of citizenship and to be an in.
tegral part of the governing people,"
Hutchins claims that number of the
leading negroes Of the south are in
sympathy with him in the movement.
At the dedication of an immense
convention hall in Kansas City the
other afternoon, somebody uttered a
loud call for pryor" one of the solo,
lists with the Sousa band, which had
been engaged for the occasion. The
crowd Of people present mistook the
enthusiasts call for an alarm of fire
and it was with great difficulty that a
panic was prevented. AS our civiliza-
ton advances and things become sys-
tematized it will, no doubt, be neces-
sary even to suppress old and honor
able family names in the interests OF
>uhlic safety.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

When Senator Billy Mason talks of a
Lafayette for the Philippines he for
gets that Lafayette was friend of this
country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Meat is worth 81 pound in Manila.
This is probably due largely to the fact
that most of the Manila butchers have
recently gone into the saloon business.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

What helped you over the great
trials of life?" successful man was
once asked 1.-The other trials gave me
q lift" he answered.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The sultan of Sulu Is to be offered
home rule under the American flag,
but he will never be able to realize the
full extent of his good luck until he
hears from the dime museum man
ayers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The word Spread" as slang word,
originated at Cambridge university. 1t
did not imply profuse feast, however,
but poor one, spread over the table
to make a show,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Catalogue tells how to grow 1918 bus. Pc,
acre as easily as 100 bushels. Largest
growers Of Earliest Vegetables and Farm
Seeds. Earliest vegetables always pay
Salzer's Seeds produce them weeks ahead
Of others Coffee Berry l5c per Id. Pota.
toes $l.20 a Bbl.
Cut this out and send with lac for great
Catalogue and 10 packages of vegetable
and flower seed novelties to JOHN A
SALZER SEED COMPANY. La
CROSSE. WIS. Iw.n.i
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

4 A prisoner escaped from the Toledo
workhouse and took the bloodhound
along with him. That man ought to
be at the head of some trust.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

One of the dogs entered for the Chi
Icago bench show is the possessor of
gold-filled teeth, and therefore has an
Intrinsic value which will remain even
If he doesn't draw prize.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

1t did not, however, require an Of
fetal note from Sampson to tell the
world that Schley was there during
the denavyizing of Spain.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10
70 Drain a Coal Field by Electricity.

70 Drain a Coal Field by Electricity.
One Of the great coal fields Of Eng
land. some thirty-two square miles In
area has numerous pumps established
at many different points to pump out
the water. Now 1t is proposed to work
these pumps by electricity. They will
be so connected that at a single point
the necessary switching can be done
to throw them all into action at once.
There are fifty pumps in all. II the
project is successfully carried out It
will be one Of the most striking appli-
cations Of electric distribution and
control of power yet installed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

! Washington, it may be remarked,
was enough of an expansionist to
crowd the British invaders off the
United States. We need a Washing
ton right now.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Arthur Balfour is the latest English
man to hint that John Bull is looking
for a partner, preferably a tall man
with goatee and straps to his trou-
sers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

II the car means business why does
he not incorporate his disarmament
scheme under the laws of New Jersey:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The name of the new president Of
France is pronounced as though it
were spelled "Loobay."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Gen. Miles is acting in way that
justifies the national honor in regard
ing him as bold, horrid man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Hobson has kissed a bride in Japan.
The young man simply can't resist the
temptation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Beauty is but skin deep, but home
Illness measures twelve inches to the
foot.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10
Health for Ten Cents.

Light thoughts are often heavy
enough to drag men down.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10
RAID ON TREASURY.
ONE AND HALF BILLION APP
PROPRiATED.
The Revenue Deficiency for the Current
Year May Reach to Two Hundred
Million DolIars-Chairman Cannon Is
Alarmed at the Outlook.

Total appropriations made
by this congress at reg
ular and extra sessions
in 1898 1892, SOC, 900
Total appropriations to be
made during the present
session, ending March A. 675,000,000
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

, TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Ia blets An
druggists refund the money II it fails to cure
25c. The genuine has L. b O. on each tablet
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Atheistic arguments are but the
whistling of towards in the dark.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The arguments of the loquacious in
dividual are mostly sound.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

The individual who stands still Is
sure to lose ground.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Cascarets make bowels and kidneys act
naturally, destroy microbes, cure headache
billiousness and constipation. All druggists
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

When a man loses faith in humanity
he hits himself solar-plexis blow.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10

Drink is a noun that many men are
unable to decline.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-10
hoods SoadqbmM
ClAz21.E2l23:lElD

Hoods Pills cure liver ills, the non,irritating and
the only cathartc to take with Hoods sarsaparilia
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-27

cock seldom weighs much more than
twelve ounces; yet In the year 1905 the
keeper Of the lighthouse upon the Hill
of Howth, In ireland, found a pane Of
glass, more than three-eighths Of an
inch thick, broken by one Of these birds.
which, attracted by the strong light,
had flown against the pane. The un-
fortunate bird struck with such vio-
lence that its bill, head, breastbone and
both wings were oil found to be COM
pletely smashed. Woodcock feed al
most solely at night, and by conse-
Quence lie up closely during the day
In those snug harborages, In warm and
sheltered woodland, to which they are
so partial. Their food consists almost
entirely Of worms, larvae, small water
and mud insects, beetles and the like.
They have inordinate appetites, and
with their long bills bore countless
holes In search Of food In the soft places
TO which they repair. The digestive
process of this bird is extraordinarily
rapid. "A tame woodcock, which had
breakfasted In the morning upon half
a 1ower-pot fun Of worms, was found
the same afternoon with its stomach
perfectly empty, while the viscera con-
tained no perceptible trace OF its ample
breakfast.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-27

would know their leader, and follow
her with so little trouble that two men
could conduct drove OF several hun
bred. Nevertheless. IL the foremost
mule turned aside, all the others would
blindly follow her like a flock of
sheep. ~ recall an amusing Instance
Of this 'follow-my-leader' motive" says
Prof. N. 8. Shaler in .Domesticated
Animals" 81
Engaged In survey work In Southern
Kentucky,I was passing along a quiet
road when In the distance heard a
thunder Of hoofs, and ina moment saw
n great drove Of mules. the appointed
leader of which, a man on white
horse, had fallen to the rear of the col
umn. The creatures. thinking 1t their
duty to overtake the missing master,
We're going on the full run.
Needing the shouts Of the troubled
herder, turned my wagon across the
road, which, being at that point very
narrow, was effectually barricaded by
the vehicle. Although the rush was 50
Wild that the brutes nearly oyerset my
outfit" they were brought TO a full
stop. 49, tr
Unhappily, on one side of the road
and one hundred feet from it was a
comfortably built Southern house, with
broad gallery extending along the
front, while in the door Of the man
sion were some women whose atten-
ton had been attracted by the tumult.
No sooner had the mob Of mules been
brought to stage Of surging quiet,
than one Of the creatures jumped the
picket fence, and started for the open
house door. 80
In much less time than 1t takes to tell
1t, hundred or more mules were on
the gallery, the floor of which gave
way beneath their weight; they quick
ly broke down the, columns which sup
ported the roof. so that the whole
structure at once became heap of
wood and mules.
The unlucky proprietor Of the drove.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-27

one Of the most pugnacious and deter
mined of all birds, and the courage and
devotion shown by both the parent
birds in defense of their young is, In
its way, almost unequaled.
Why does the partridge tower? That
is a question once holly debated. but
now set completely at rest. A tower
ing bird has been so hit that 1t suffers
from an escape of blood into the lungs
or v-indpipe. 1t chokes, and In Its pit
eous desire for air flies upward and
upward until 1t can fly no higher. Then
1t falls, rocket-like, to earth, and Is
found stone dead, usually on its back.
In spite of the coddling with which
the modern pheasant is so unduly sur
rounded, its natural instincts of wild
ness and suspicion are so deeply i'm
planted that few days of roaming In
woodland and covert suffice to render
the hen-reared bird almost as truly
feral as its wild-bred congeners. A
curious instance of the strange ner-
vousness of the pheasant happened
many years ago $3.50 In the south of
England. When the terrible gun
powder explosion in March of that year
occurred ut Curtis e. Harvey's mills at
Hounslow, the dull shock and concus-
sion were felt perceptibiy in West Sus-
sex, more than fifty miles away. And
1t was remarked by Mr.. A. e. Knox,
the naturalist, and by a number Of la
borers engaged at work among some
coverts In that part of the county, that
a loud and alarmed growing proceeded
from the pheasants in all parts of the
wood for many minutes after the ex-
ploslon.
1t has been well said that Here to-
day, gone tomorrow" may fairly be
called the motto Of the delicious wood
cock. To-day they may be seen in num-
bers In favorite covert, yet to-mor-
row not a cock may be found within a
score of miles. If you know that wood
cock are about, lose not an hour IL you
are wise. but take your gun and go In
search Of them. They are, in truth, the
most evanescent of birds. The fight
Of this bird during migration must be
enormously swift. A well-fed wood