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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
sONBONs OF ANCIENT ORIGIN.

sugar Plums, rastilles, and Burnt Al
monds Ds to Back to III ID. =.
The most popular and most ancient
Of bonbons are sugar plums, pastilles
and burnt almonds, but how many
persons know their history? Sugar
plums date from Roman times, for
the Romans were the first to think Of
covering almonds with layers of sugar.
The inventor was a certain Julius
Dragatus, noted confectaOnsr, who
belonged to the illustrious patrician
family of Fabius. He made this great
discovery, which has wrought so much
damage to our teeth for twenty CEN
turtles, in the year III B. C.
These bonbons, called dragati, after
their inventor (dragees in French), re-
NAMED the exclusive privilege Of the
family of Fabius. But at the birth or
the marriage of one of that family a
great distribution of dragati took
place as sign of rejoicing. This GUS
tom is still observed by many of the
nobility Of Europe.
hO PdoSillC 10 VI ldl idtCi OIlSln,
having been invented and introduced
into France by an Italian confectioner,
the Florentine John Pastilla, a pro-
tege of the Medicis. When Marie de
Medici married Henry w. Of France
Pastilla accompanied his sovereign to
the French court, where his bonbons
had tremendous vogue. Everybody
wanted the Florentine's pastilles, and,
strange to say, they were perfection
from the beginning. He made them
with all kinds Of flavors chocolate,
coffee, rose, violet, mint, wine, straw
berry, raspberry, vanilla, heliotrope,
carnation!
Burnt almonds are purely of French
origin, owing their inception to the
gluttony Of certain French merchant.
One day Marshal Duplessis-Pralin, an
old gourmet, sent for Lassagne, his
chief confectioner and promised him
J great price for some new sweet that
would please his palate, dulled as it
was by all the pleasures of the table.
Lassagne, who had already invented
many toothsome dainty, was a man
of resource. He searched, he reflected,
he combined, until finally he conceiv-
ed a delicious bonbon, which he bap-
tized gloriously with the name of his
master, Praline, the French for burnt
almond.
This is the history of the invention
of bonbons, for all others are mere
combinations or developments of these
three-the sugar plum, the pastille and
the burnt almond.-New York Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
QUEER SCOTCH LAIRD.
Some Ebullitions of Landlordism That
Involve q Lesson.

Some Exhibitions of LandlOrdism That
Involve q Lesson.
If Scotchmen have lost their native
shrewdness, the ebullitions Of land
lordism which are constantly reported
should teach wholesome lesson to
those who, during recent years, have
been lured into the landlords political
camp. No doubt the permeation OF
the country with Toryism encourages
a more naughty insistence upon pro-
pictorial rights. Within the last few
weeks J. w. H. Grant, the Laird Of Ell
chies, has given an amiable expo
sition of his views as to his duties as a
landowner. Over the Spey, between
Aberlour and Elchies, Is ferry be-
longing to this young laird. Owing to
the danger of crossing, there has long
been an agitation for the provision OF
a foot bridge over the river, and the
recent drowning of two prominent res
idents brought the movement to ell
max. The requisite funds for the pur-
pose have been guaranteed, and all the
Laird o; Elchies was asked to do was
to grant a site for the pier Of the
bridge at the ferry on the north bank
of the Spey. Once before, when he was
approached on the subject, he laid
down the practically prohibitive con-
dition that the bridge should be built
at spot where the river is SO wide
that the work would have cost thou
sands instead Of hundreds Of pounds.
This time he has refused to grant the
proposed site on the ground that If he
did 50 lie would run the risk of losing
a valuable patrimonial interest in the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

The Rev. Walter L. Vrooman and
MIR. Charles A. Beard, two Americans,
have opened the doors of unique COL
lege in Oxford, England. 1t is called
Ruskin hall, and its purpose is to train
men to become competent leaders in
industrial movements.
The Rev. Mr.. Vrooman is well
known in this country. He has
achieved prominence among those who
study economic and social conditions,
and is held in high esteem as man as
well as teacher or leader In reply to
the question why he had found it
necessary to establish a new college,
he wrote:
There are men who may not aspire
to become professional men and schol-
ars, yet many of them will doubtless
touch life more directly and effectively
as men Of affairs, members of town
councils, or even of congress, and
their education is at least as important,
not only to themselves, but to their
country, as that of the classes for
whose benefit universities have been
SO literally endowed. These men need
to be educated for the duties that
await them-the duties Of citizenship
What has been said as to the made
Quacy of free scholarships In the uni
versities is true also Of technical
schools, with this difference: That,
whereas the universities train work
ingman out Of his class. the technical
schools regard him SO entirely as q
member Of class that the fact Of
his relation to society as a man, and
not merely a producer Of things, is en-
tirely overlooked. The humanity Of
the living instrument of production is
forgotten; thought is taken only Of
bringing the instrument of production
to the highest possible degree Of
efficiency. To say this is not to criti-
else either universities or technical
schools. But the workingman recog-
nizes himself as a citizen, a voter,
possible legislator, maker Of future
social conditions, as we'll as a present
endurer of present ones. He does not
subscribe altogether to the creed that
so comfortably ascribes his somewhat
servile condition to the will of God.
To him it appears sometimes as the
will of majorities, as the work Of his
men whom his own votes have in
vested with power"
The rate for tuition and boarding at
Ruskin hall is almost nominal, and
many American and British students
are expected. think every reader will
agree with me when l say that not
only the cause of Labor in particular,
but the country as whole, needs all
the well-trained, honest, bright, and
generous Industrial leaders that can be
produced.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
CHARACTERS IN A LIES ROMANCE.

ferry, which, by the substitution of a
bridge, might be entirely lost" A re-
quest Of the local authorities that he
should name any terms he wished to
impose was met with a further re-
fusal, and, consequently, though there
seems to be an undoubted right of way
over the river, the erection of bridge
is prevented. The value of the 'patri-
monial interest" which is thus allowed
to stand in the way of the safety and
convenience of the public may be esti-
mated from the fact that the ferry,
combined with house and farm, pro-
duces rent Of ELS year!-London
Truth.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

to connect all parts of our vast en-
pire, so that London shall be in ready
communication with every place on the
globe where Britannia holds sway. The
idea is grand one, and, what is more,
1t is feasible at comparatively low
cost-namely, five or six millions, the
price of half dozen battleships. 1t
is true that most of our possessions
are in touch with the mother country
already; but the cables are not owned
by the state, and many of them run
through foreign territory. In the new
proposal every cable would find its
shore end on British ground, and each
point touched would be in connection
with every other point by two routes,
extending in opposite directions. The
importance Of such a means Of COM
munication in time of war cannot be
overestimated, and would put us in a
position which would be quite unat-
tainable by any other nation Of the
earth. More than this, the realization
of the project would do more than any
thing else to add to the unity and solid
ity of the empire. There is every like
lihood, too, that the enterprise, vast as
it is, would represent paying concern
from its start; for, if communication
between the various parts of our i'm
mense empire could be made at cheap
rate, thousands would exchange tele-
grams with distant friends and rela-
lions who never think of sending
wire now, except in case Of emer-
gency. AS an additional and most i'm
portant aid to national defense, the
new cable scheme should act as the
harbinger Of peace.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
Real Romance in the Lives Of Two Old Com.
panions Now Bitter Enemies.

CATION again, he purchased the tunnel
himself, and 1t since has become Of
great Importance to him.
Doyle began to realize in 1897 that
the Portland company was quietly lay
ing plans to get rid of him, and he
surprised everybody by selling out his
entire holdings Of Portland stock for
about 100000. These shares were pay
ing dividends of IL per cent yearly,
and his action seemed incomprehensi-
BILE. The mine Is one of the best pay
ing in the country. There was meth
cd in his course. He employed large
force on the Uintah tunnel and the
production of ore was begun. His in
innate acquaintance with the Portland
taught him that the Uintah would tap
the bonanza veins Of the great pro-
Queer. This would insure to him an
immense revenue from blind lodes, or,
in other words, from the bodies Of
mineral which could not be followed
from their surface.
The Portland company became
alarmed and secured an injunction re-
straining the Uintah from operating on
its ground. The case went to court,
and Doyle was sustained. The deci-
sion was a great blow to Burns, who
was now beginning to hate his earlier
companion as cordially as he had for
merly loved him. Political rivalry also
widened the breach, both men aspiring
to be mayor of the little town of Vic
tor. Doyle was the most popular man
in Cripple Creek, Burns was not ia
vorite; Doyle had married handsome
woman and owned handsome house,
Burns was a crusty bachelor. Doyle
now occupies cell in the jail at Col
orado Springs on charge Of contempt
Of court brought about through the
action of Burns in lawsuit instituted
by Doyle against Burns owing to
trouble over the stock Of the Portland
mine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

there is free competition at homs.
America can undersell her competitors
In any market in the world. Anything
that interferes with this free competi-
ton operates to close the worlds mar
kets against us and invite a flood of
importations. However, If working
men are to participate in the price ele-i
walton, there will be rich compensation
for the enhanced cost of articles to-
consumers With prices of nearly all
commodities booming, and iron and
steel products in particular, it seems
to the Tribune that the upward move
ment has hardly vt assumed the
proper proportions"
These two extracts are significant, as
take them. They come from a strict
ly conservative newspaper, not given
to exploiting new theories of econom-
les, yet they assume, as matters OF
course-and the assumption is correct
that competition is dead, and that
syndicate of trust heads can-and
does-say who shall work, how long
he shall work, and what he shall re-
ceive for his work. However, II
workingmen are to particirate"-say
the Tribune, recognizing that the de-
cisicn of the point whether the laborer
shall get what is his rests altogether
with stranger, who may be gracious
and honest enough to give it to him,
or greedy and dishonest enough to
keep the most of it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
Organization Keeps Pace.

From statements made by repre-.
sentative labor leaders and papers I
find that, contrary to quite general
experience, organization of working
people is fully keeping pace with rise
in wages and increase in number Of
employed. This marks advance in
thought. The time to create, develop,
and intrench organization is when men
have money to invest, and are in de-
mand by employers. 1t means that
when, sooner or later, more or less
pronounced slump comes, Labor will
not be the earliest victim selected tr
bear the whole burden, as has hereto
fore been the case.
1t is old advice, but nevertheless the
best, to tell all isolated men to organ
izS, and gain the stability and strength
that come only with compact numbers.
You may not like every feature of the
union that invites your presence and
aid. Possibly you may not like every
particular duty and association that
goes with American citizenship. Yet
YOU DO not therefore remove from
America. You should not let the fact
that the union isn't exactly your ideal,
restrain you from Joining it. Go in.
Benefit yourself. If you see where it
could be improved. try to improve it.
It is as much workingman's duty to
attach himself to a trades union as it
is for him to provide shelter and food
for his family and life insurance for
his widow and orphans.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST 70
UNION WORKMEN.
General Recognition of Fact That Few
Men Today Control the Producing
Interests of This Magnificent Coun-
Try.


A thousand years shall come and 60,
A thousand years of night and day,
And man, through all their changing
show
His tragic drama still shall play.
Ruled by some fond ideals power,
Cheated by passion or despair,
Still shall he waste life's trenholm. hour
In worship vain, and useless prayer.
All! where are those who rose in might.
Who fired the temple and the shrine
And hurled, through earths chaotic
night
The helpless gods It deemed divine?
Cease, longing soul, thy vain desire!
What Idol, in its stainless prime.
But falls, untouched of axe or fire,
Before the steady eyes of Time?
He looks, and 10! our affairs fall,
The shrine reveals it's glded clay,
With decent hands we spread the pail,
And. cold with wisdom, glide away.
Oh! where were courage, faith, and
truth
III man went wandering all his day
In golden clouds of love and youth.
Nor knew that both his steps betray?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
WEALTHY "PALS" ARE ESTRANGED.

show remarkable petrifying qualities.
and petrified wood found in these parts
is made into homes. It is we'll stocked
with fish, and its shores are frequented
by the swan, heron, Mttern, teal, and
other waterfowl. The largest lake in
Scotland Is Loeb Lomond, which has
an area of forty-five square miles, and
which is only 20 feet above the level
Of the sea. Windermere Is the most
extensive English lake, through 1t il
a mere pond compared to its sisters Of
Scotland and Ireland. It has been
called the Queen of the Lakes" from
the superiority OF its scenery over that
of the other lakes Of northwestern
England.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
Cigar Makers Union.

One of the most energetic and thor,
oughly organized trades unions in
America is the Cigar Makers Inter-
the furtherance of the industrial well
fare of the people the members of this
sterling organization throughout the
country are ever in the lead, nOtwith-
standing the fact that there is no
branch Of production in which so many
discouraging conditions have to be met
and counteracted. Prison and child
labor. sweat shop and tenement house
states, machine competition, and con-
slant warfare with unprincipled manu-
facturers and dealers, who counterfeit
and infringe on the use of their trade
never-ending problems and contests
with which the International Union
and it's affiliated local organizations
have to deal. The admirable benefci-
airy features of the union are tower
of strength and constitute one of the
strongest elements of its success. 1t
pays a loan travelling benefit, strike
benefit of SIS per week, 50 week out
of-work benefit, IS week sick benefit,
a wife or widowed mothers funeral
benefit, and a death benefit ranging
from $50 to $3.50, according to length
Of membership, which latter sum is
payable to the heirs of a member OF
fifteen years standing.
During the long industrial and COM
mercial depression which began In
1898 the International Union paid out
In benefits about four hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars annually,
the out-of-work benefit being the larg-
est item, and which for the year 1896
amounted to nearly one hundred and
seventy-six thousand dollars. The
strongest and most interesting features
Of the union are its system of high
dues, its protective benefits, the union
"blue label" and the initiative and
referendum method of elections, voting
and legislation. The beneficiary feat
ures have a cohesive tendency that
serves to hold the membership intact
during periods of industrial and COM
mercial stagnation, and the famous
blue label" is given gratuitously to all
manufacturers who pay the union scale
of prices and conform to its general
regulations. The most notable
achievement of the international
Union was the successful inauguration
of the eight-hour day on May !, 1886,
and the increasing Of wages from 10 to
80 per cent wherever it's organization
extends. Records of the Cigar Makers
Union show that wherever non-union
shops have been organized, wages have
risen from 10 to so or more per cent.
The same is true of other crafts. The
organized" man always gets more for
the same work or time than does the
'unorganized" man. Possibly you, as
a1 individual, may not care to get
mere pay for your work than you now
receive. If so, keep out of the union.
But if you are not averse to getting
more money than you now receive,
come in.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

Tho eTaze for Cripple Creek mining
fortune to two men who came from the
east to the west in search of gold.
Their names were James Doyle and
James Burns, and they were known
everywhere throughout Colorado as
the modern Damon and Pythias. But
sold brought in its train the loss of
the friendship Of lifetime, as we'll as
dishonor and rancor.
It was this unfulfilled dream of
desire for gold which spurred on Doyle
and Burns from Portland, Me. They
were chums in the old town on the
rugged coast Of New England. They
bent over the same books at school,
did their sums, fought their school bat
ties together, championed each others
interests, and in all were brothers. AS
years went on the early friendship was
not broken, and it promised to last to
che end of life.
In those early days Burns found the
town Of Portland too prosaic for his
chafing spirit, and so he ran away to
sea- Doyle wandered about and struck
Cripple Creek. In the meantime Burns
prowled around the big globe, and
finally concluded to try his lot on land
once more. By some unexplained mag
netic force he, too, was drawn toward
the west. He, too, reached Cripple
Creek. and met Doyle.
1t is an uphill task to make mine
without money, but Doyle and Burns
enlisted the attention Of few others
TO help them. They were to receive
In exchange for their labor interest in
. nine-tenths of an acre claim which
they staked out and called the Port
land. Jimmie Doyle and Jimmie Burns
were true Pythians. Their names were
ever associated in those days and were
q synonym for twinkle affection.
Their mutual love and mutual con-
centration of purpose speedily gave
them financial returns. Their mines
began to develop new riches and their
shipments began to be very heavy.
Doyle and Burns were now very
wealthy men in every way. Their
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
CHANGE OF THE LANGUAGE,
Example of tho English of Today and
Olden Times.


Olden Times.
Here Is the Lords prayer in the Eng
fish OF former times, the best example
OF how the language has changed:
A. d. 1258-Fader ure in heune, hal
eeweide beoth thi neune, cumen thi
kueneriche, thi willie beoth don in
heune and in erthe. The suerysh dave
Dried gif our whilk dave. And vorzi-
fure dettes as vi vorsifen ure dettoures.
And lede Gus nought into temptation,
bot delvvor of evel. amen.
A. D. 1300-Fadir our in hevene. Hal.
ewyd be thi name, thi kingdom come
Thi will be done as in hevene and in
erthe. Cure urche days bred give us
to-day. And forgive us cure dettes, a.
we forgive our dettoures. And lede
us not into temptation, bote delyvere
us of yvel. Amen.
A. D. 1582-Ovr father which are in
heaven, sanctified be thy name. Let
thy kingdom come. Thy will be done
as in heaven, in earth also. Cute VS.
to-day our super substantial bread
And lead us not into temptation. But
delieurs us from evil. Amen.
A. d. 1611-Our father which is in
heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done, in
earth as it is in heauen. Glue us this
day our dayly bread. And forgiue vs.
our debts as we forgive our debtors.
And lede VS. not into temptation, but
deliuer VS. from evil. For thine is the
kingdome, and the power, and the
glory foreuer. Amen.-'he Gentle
woman.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

The largest lake in the British isles
is Tough Neagh, situated in the pro-
vince of Ulster, Ireland. 1t is eight
cen miles (English) in length, and ell
even miles in breadth, contains 9S,255
acres, is 100 feet in greatest depth, and
Is As feet above sea level at low water
1t receives the waters of numerous
streams, of which the principal are the
Upper Bann, the Blackwater, the Moy-
ola, and the Main; and its surplus wa
tiers are carried off northward to the
North Channel by the Lower Bann. In
some portions Of IT,. Tough the watsrs
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05


and at eight feet is assayed at $500. Inc
mariners kept their discovery pro-
found secret, and it was more than
year afterward before a single item III
regard to the Portland having STRUCK
II" found it's way into print, and tneh
It was wholly by accident that IT be-
came noised about. OF course, they
we'll knew that there would be no emu
of litigation If their find became known
before they had secured patent LOT
their claim.
After the ore chute was settled
thing they conceived the idea OF buiiu-
ing a cabin over their shaft, and they
worked their little mine with the great
est secrecy. They employed prom
iuent mining attorney. Many or the
iufunctions asked for were granted
and at one time the mine was SO com
pletely tied up that they were allowed
to take out ore only In space not
much larger than an ordinary bed
room.
The mine continued to ship enough
to keep UP legal expenses, and the at
torney was willing to take his snare
TN Portland stock. These legal diff
culties which followed would have ap-
nailed men of weaker fiber, but Doyle
and Burns hung on. OF the forty-two
ar more suits that were instituted,
some were beaten and some were COM
uromised; in some cases the jumpers
were met with shotguns, without even
burial being promised. The affairs of
the Portland were managed SO well
that the property grew by purchase and
consolidation until it has increased to
1856 acres on Battle mountain. The
Portland Gold Mining company was
organized in 1894, with Doyle and
Burns holding a controlling interest In
the stock of the new company.
Doyle is possessed Of keen business
ability and foresight. In the early his
tory Of tho Portland he noticed some
stakes near the Portland ground,
which proved to be the location stakes
of the Uintah tunnel, the mouth of
which was on tn. opposite side of the
bill. He looked up the law, and 1t
occurred to him that, as the right OF
7he Uintah was prior to the Portland.
some trouble miaat ensue if this Vim
tab ground became valuable. His part
ner did not care to have anything to
do with the tunnel, and they did not
see with Doyle'i eyes. Fearing liG.