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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

and the police and I've departments Is
practically the steEle every day Of the
week, and the Sunday contingent in
newspaper worg - about two-thirds
that on Weekday The attitude OF
workingAnen toward Sunday work
was made the subject of inquiry. A
curious contradiction is shown be-
tween the well-known opposition OF
organized labor to Sunday work and
the general claim Of transportation
companies, particularly those engaged
in the street railway business, that en-
ployes> are as rule able to get of for
Sunday whenever they wish. 1t is un-
doubtedly true that the employees de-
sire for the added wages, especially II
he is married, often leads him to
forego the Sundays rest. 1t is also
probable. however, that the organiza-
ton of the business on the plan Of
seven days work by most Of the regu-
lar force dominates his choice.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

The Germans have a proverb, He
losses away the infant with the bath"
and use 1t to characterize person who
is quick to draw general inference
from particular case. Just now wise
orators and writer's Of this nation have
much to say in criticism of laboring
men in general, and organized labor
ing men in particular. Not long ago
there were bloody riots and murders
at Wardner, Idaho; during the Cleve-
land street car strike property was
dynamited and men were wounded and
killed; there has for year or more
been war, latent or active, in certain
Illinois coal fields; in New York city
great newspaper is being attacked by
one of the great trades unions and its
allies Whether labor, organized or
unorganized, instigated the destruction
of life and property, and whether la
boris boycott where it exists is war
rantable or not, will not here discuss.
That is a matter more properly in the
province of the newspaper organs of
the several occupations concerned. But
assuming that labor, organized or I'M
organized, was and is wholly and solely
at fault in each case-which is not my
conviction at all-what of it? Not, as
the baby-tossers say, that labor can't
be trusted; that it is irresponsible; that
organization is bad thing, an odious
tyranny that must be crushed and eX-
terminated If American liberty is to
survive. Not at all. Assuming that
labor has been at fault in all these in
stances, it simply follows that Of all
the millions who toll several thousands
made several mistakes; that of all the
hundreds who exercise executive DOW
ers in labors hosts, few lacked dis
erection. These orators and newspaper
writer's pass judgment upon labor, and
labor's organization, on basis differ
ent from that upon which any other
subject of like nature is met. The
general rule, based on the unvarylng
fact, is, that where many are combined,
errors will be committed that do not
attach to the party or organization as
a whole; but this adverse criticism
proceeds on the erroneous assumption
that in the realm of labor any one
mans act is the result of the deliberate
determination Of all, or the inevitable
consequence of organization.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

paralysis, epilepsy and similar affiic-
tons.
American medical men are naturally
jubilant over the fact that one of their
number has succeeded in solving a
problem with which some of the most
famous scientists in the world have
struggled in vain for years. Prof. Koch
of Berlin, DR.. BrownSequard of Paris,
Dr. w. A. Hammond of Washington
land others of almost equal fame have
given the best parts of their lives to a
study of this subject in various forms
without material satisfactory results.
They have accomplished just enough to
convince themselves and the medical
profession in general that they were
working on the right lines SO tar as
the idea of lymph treatment DS1
concerned, but were never able to
reach the grand finale of being able to
demonstrate itG merits in a practical
way.
1 During all the years that these IA
nous men were experimenting, quiet,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

The Massachusetts Bureau of Labor
Statistics has published the results of
carefully executed inquiries on Sunday
labor. 1t appears that the early state
law of Massachusetts, which in general
restricted labor on Sunday to works
of necessity and charity" has in re-
cent years been subjected by the leg
islature to many exceptions, and has
to soAe extent been treated as re-
pealed by custom. OF the total num-
Der Of persons engaged in gainful &C.
equations in the state, which, accord
ing to the state census of 1896, was
1,075,000, no less than 100000 perform
work on Sunday. OF these nearly S.
900 are engaged in domestic service
and $4,000 more in agriculture and The
fisheries. OF those remaining $4,000
are occupied in the various branches
of transportation, and the balance or
10000, are distributed through hotel
and restaurant service, public depart
ments, certain lines Of trade and other
miscellaneous occupations. In some
instances, notably that of the bakery
trade, concert Of action by proprietors,
or restrictive legislation, might do
away with Sunday work, without seri-
GUS harm to anybody. Aside from do
nestle service, transportation affords
the most conspicuous extension of
Sunday labor. While 1928 persons
are employed in the various branches
of this business on weekdays, the Suh-
day average is 1894. On street rail
ways the figures are respectively 1926
and S,282; that is, almost as many
persons are employed in the street
railway business on Sunday as on any
other day. The corresponding num-
bers on steam railways are 81 ,4S0 and
6,71S; on steam boats, 1923 and SO7;
on express companies, Its and S05,
and on telegraph and telephone COM
pa nies, .2,1S5 and 443 The number en-
ployed in the milk business, bakeries.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03
What Organization Does.

want to allude to few facts that
show how puerile is this criticism Of
organized labor when held up to the,
reality. Every authority on industry,
the federal bureau Of labor, state bu-i
reaus, and similar departments of for
eign lands, asserts the fact, based on
observation of conditions, that the
mode of life OF laboring people is stead
lily improving; that the condition or
organized laborers is greatly superior
to that of those unorganized; that
where the greatest advance has been
made in increasing wages, shortening
hours, improving shop conditions, or
ganization has been strongest. Some
of the greatest employers of the world
have of late expressed the opinion that
they preferred to deal with organized
men, and that the near future would
likely see the masters Of great indus
tries insist that every man engaged
therein be member of trades union.
The manual toll Of women and children
has always been in the market, and
received a pittance. 1t had not entered
the mind of any statesman to make an
original move to remedy this wrong.
From George Washington, who owned
slaves and grew rich from the fruits
Of the unpaid labor of black women
and children, to the political leaders
Of today who cut coupons, all were
content to let matters rest. It re-
NAMED for organized labor to say that
If given piece Of work is worth dol
lar If done by man, it's worth hun
bred cents If perform by child or a
woman. These are few of many
things. They are marks Of move
ment that is international, progressive,
for the better citizenship and higher
manhood. And the criticism and con-
demnation Of this movement, because
of possible errors committed now and
then, are like picking a quarrel with
nature because she allows the sun to
go in eclipse.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03
What to Tell the Carpers.

And just one final word, for the chap
who wants you to rush to the front
with a condemnation and reputation
of your organization, or another mans
organization, if you believe wrong
stand has been taken: Ask him if he
bolts his political party every time
the nominations don't suit him; ask
him if he renounces his father, aban-
dons his mother, turns traitor to his
children, every time any one of these
may do a thing that doesn't seem to
him right-that may be wrong. And
If he says he does, you may thank
God that you are not like him and still
not be Pharisee.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03


As we sit and dream in the silent porch
Together my pipe and /.
A sloud of smoke from the old brown
bowl
Floats up TO the dappled sky;
And l watch through It's dim. enchant-
ed haze
A little sunbonnet go
In shadow and shine DER the grassy
links
That lie in the vale below.
For early and late, all the long. bright
day.
1t is busy fitting there,
With a caddie wandering In Its train,
While the white ball flies in air;
A sunbonnet ancient OF pattern. such
AS Priscillas sweet self wore
When she walked with the homesick Pill
grim maids.
Long SINCE on an allen shore.
And the jolly lads in the jackets red
There's never one goes by
But he Stacks his pace and he turns his
head,
And he feels his heart beat high
At the Flance he gets and the bloom he
brings
To the roguish face within
That sheltering scoop, with Its soft
strings tied
In knot beneath her chin.
But bide my time on the silent porch,
For / know whom she loves best,
And that by and by, when the game is
done,
And the day dies in the west
She will hang the sunbonnet on her arm
And the peeping stars will see
What a soft light lies in her happy eyes,
AS she wanders home with me!
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

In response to invitations from
prominent physicians and scientists in
Paris and Berlin, DR.. B. F. Roberts,
formerly of Greene City, Mo-, has gone
to Europe to explain his discoveries in
animal thcrapy and to demonstrate tho
value of the goats lymph treatment.
There is no secret or patent or copy
right on the lymph. The formula has
been given to the medical profession,
and DR.. Roberts main work now Is the
obstruction of physicians IN its use.
This is the remedy which effected tlas
sensational cure in the case Of Irwin
Fuller Bush of Joliet, Ill. Mr.. Bush
Is wealthy man, who seven months
ago was committed to an asylum as
hopelessly insane. After all other
known methods of treatment had beeu
exhausted the goats lymph was used,
and today Mr.. Bush is attending to his
business affairs and is apparently as
sound and perfect mentally as any nan
IN the country.
Previous to this the lymph had re-
ceived the Endorsement of eminent
physicians in all parts Of the country
one of them being DR.. W. n. Hartwell
of Vandeventer and Washington ave.
nues, st. Louis, who says he is using
It in his general practice with crafty
ing results. Its newspaper notoriety
has been attained by the cure in the
Bush case, and it is has therefore come
to be regarded as specific for in
sanity. Medical men say this Is an
error. The goats lymph is not spe-
cific or a panacea or cure-all either
in insanity or any other form Of dis
ease, and no such claims are made for
It by the discoverer or any of the repu-
table doctors who use it. Its principal
value is as a revitalizer, rcstorer of
lost functions due to advanced age,
and in a number of annoying ailments,
such as rheumatism, locomotor ataxia,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03
Notes.

The Typographical society Of Lon
don, England, has offered to Big Six
of New York loan of $4,000 to be
used in it's struggle with the Sun.
Pressing demand for iron and steel
has caused the rehabilitation of num-
Der of old and abandoned furnaces in
the south, especially in Tennessee and
Kentucky, and the reminding of fires
which have been quenched for many
years.
A project is on foot for building
in Pittsburg which is to be the joint
headquarters of all organized labor in
that city. The national headquarters
that are now there and all local head
quarters are to be concentrated, ac-
cording to the plan.
The anti-department store law OF
Missouri has gone into effect, 1t i'm
poses license fee of from $500 to $500
wear on all classes of goods desig-
mated by it and sold in any store CIV
ing employment to fifteen or more
persons. There are department stores
in Missouri that deal in ninety or
more different classes of goods. At a
minimum rate, such stores would be
compelled to pay from $4,000 a year
upward in taxes.
Canadians declare that very soon the
st. Lawrence canals will be taxed to
their utmost capacity by an enormous
wheat traffic from the northwest and
Ontario wheat and corn from the mid
die and western states, iron and iron
ore from both sides of Lake Superior,
and forest products from the great
lakes district and the Pacific coast.
The capacity Of the canals now nearing
completion will be at first about 3,000,-
900 tons year in one direction. This.
capacity is to be gradually quadrupled-
Mr.. Theodore ]. Schaffer of Pitts !
burg, president of the Amaigamated
Association of Iron and Steel Work.
ers, testified before the federal indus
trial commission that he had respect
for great combinations and did not cali
them trusts. In his dealings with COM
binations in the iron and steel business
his experience had been most salts
factory. They had brought about
better understanding between the cor
porations and their employees, and the
tendency was toward more concentrat-
ed action. There had been a marked
change within the past two years in
the sentiment between employers and
employees. This was due, he said, to-
the fact that both sides were recognize
ing that their interests were PRACTICAL
ly identical
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03
SAID TO Be A GREAT DISCOVERY.

structure of the bone, 1t having largely
lost the peculiar signs of old age so
readily discernible by anatomists, and
assumed the characteristics Of youth.
These experiments were conducted to
point at which DR.. Roberts was salts
fed he had mastered the principles Of
cell transplanting, and then he turned
his attention to the discovery of an
agent by which the cell life might be
preserved and kept In its natural con-
dition.
All this time the medical profession
was kept fully informed on the prog
ress Of the Investigations, but, being a
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

simple, country doctor, and practiclng
in an obscure hamlet at that, DR.. Rob-
erts received scanty attention from the
scientists. 1t was absurd to expect him
to succeed when much greater men had
failed. Like many another man VINO
has solved some immense problem In
an humble way, while hundreds OF dis
tinguished scholars confessed them
selves baffled, he was called a "crank."
Even his patients who had faith in MS
pills and other prescriptions were at
first unwilling to have the goats
lymph tried on them, and the good doc
tor had hard time finding subjects.
He got a few apparently hopeless
cases, however, and before long the
people of Greene City began to notice
marked change in the condition OF
some patients who had hitherto been
pronounced incurable. Men and wom-
en- bowed and bent with rheumatic af-
flictions rev spry and active; several
cases of locomotor ataXia, for which
physicians declared there was no help,
were greatly benefited, and long list
of other diseases were radically cured.
The most notable effects were obtained
in people of old age, who seemed to be
rejuvenated and endowed with new
lease of life. At last, with ample evil
dence of the merit of the lymph treat
ment all about him in his own home,
and presented in manner which could
not be challenged, DR.. Roberts sud
denly became a man of Importance in
the medical world.
Patients flocked to DR.. Roberts
home at Greene City in large numbers,
and his fame spread all over the
world. Then came a demand from the
medical profession for the formula of
the lymph, and DR.. Roberts at once
made it public. He did more than
this. He invited physicians to come
to his Missouri home and study the
treatment so they might use it in their
general practice. Among those who
went were a number of Chicago men,
including DR.. Joseph r. Hawley, pro-
lessor of physical diagnosis in the Chi
cago Clinical school, and DR.. Hartwell
OF st. Louis.
Like most of their fellow practition-
ers, Drs. Hawley and Hartwell went to
Greene City as doubters, feeling 1t was
another trip after a will-o'-the-w
such as the medical fraternity have
been making at periods for many
years. After close investigation,
however, they came back thorough
converts to the new treatment. They
investigated the entire process care
fully, talked with patients who had
been cured, obtained evidence that
over 800 people had been treated with
out a single failure, and then said:
Or. Roberts, you owe 1t to the medi-
cal fraternity and to humanity to
transfer your headquarters to some
larger and more central point where
you can reach more physicians. There
are lots of doctors who cannot afford
the expense of trip to Missouri to
study your treatment; there are thou
sands of sick people in similar plight"
DR.. Roberts did not hesitate. He had
made his formula public when by re-
tanning the secret he might have made
millions of dollars. His first intention
was to locate laboratory in st. Louis,
but 1t was finally decided to establish
it at 1907 Prairie avenue, Chicago, with
a branch in st. Louis under the direc-
ton of DR.. Hartwell, at Vandeventer
and Washington avenues. Distin-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03
1.-THE Card-Playing Duchess"

A queer story has reached London
about the "card-playing duchess"
whose fondness for the card table has
earned her that appellation. 1t comes
from a seaside resort, where the duke
and duchess have a family mansion.
Card parties on the lawn on Sunday
afternoons are said to have been made
a feature of the present country sea-
son, and as the lawn is visible from the
high road, shocked churchgoers wit
Messing the spectacle have been moved
to protestation.-Eastern Daily PreaD.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

guished physicians are now coming
fog from all parts Of the United States
to the laboratories to master the de-
tails 81 administering the lymph.
In ono particular DR.. Roberts shows
remarkable discernment. 1t is not ev-
cry doctor that he will make acquaint-
ed with the process. There are some
physicians yet in practice who affect to
despite antiseptic precautions and kin
dred "new-fangled" ideas. To these
men DR.. Roberts says:
ut would be useless for me to waste
my time In making you familiar with
the lymph treatment. A man devoid
of common sense In this advanced age
is too dangerous person to intrust
with the healing Of the sick"
The lymph is administered in Its
natural state, just as 1t Is drawn from
the thoracie gland Of young goat, the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

country doctor IN
Missouri was read-
ing the reports
of their investiga-
lions, as printed in
the medical jour-
mails, and trying to
solve the knotty
problems in his
own way. For
twenty-five years
or so DR.. B. F.
Roberts Of Greene
City, Mo-, has ex-
perimented with
the lymph treat
ment, and it is
among his former
patients in and
about that little
town that the
strongest evidences
of his success may
be found. DR..
Roberts early be-
C a m e convinced
Alck hsc i1lncf nIIS
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Would Apply to Either.

"Ah," she would exclaim, as she laid
aside the little volume with the crazy
quilt cover, 1T is so full Of hidden
meaning. 1t is written in such seem
ing mystery and yet is so clear and
simple once you understand it." Her
brother looked at her for minute and
then asked: what are you talking
about? A piece Of poetry or doctors
prescription ?-Washington Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

In the canning factories tomatoes
are bought by weight not measure
They are washed and scalded by ma
chinery, peeled and cored by hand.
Then they are sorted, packed In cans
by machinery, sealed and steamed for
about an hour. The cans are next
soldered, cooled, labeled and packed
in eases.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03
His Revised Version.

A gentleman from neighborlng
Town in Mississippi told the following
recently: II walked into small store
The other day and found the proprietor
lying on the counter just doing of
into a steep. He reused himself on my
approach and jumping to the floor
uuoted the familiar line--'A horse! A
horse! My kingdom for a horse!
Where did you get that?' asked. oh,
ion't you know? That's what Absa-
ION said when his horse ran under the
tree and left him hanging by the hair
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

The lighting Of the Red sea seems at
first to be too practical infringement
upon an ancient fairyland. But Sir
Thomas Sutherland and other members
of parliament interested in shipping
are naturally anxious about the prog
ress of the lighthouses with Which the
porte promised to bejewel the southern
waters Of the red sea.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

maximum dose be-
ing fourteen min
inns, or drops, in
jected hypodermic-
ally in the arms
and hips. At first
one injection a day
is given, and these
are gradually in
creased in number
in severe cases I'M
til the maximum of
four is reached.
linen, When signs
of Improvement are
manifest, the injec-
tions are gradually
reduced until, to-
ward the close Of
the treatment, only
one a week is CIV
en-. Physicians have
long known the
value Of lymph as a
restorative agent.
DR.. Roberts discov-
cry is mainly in the
manner in which
the life cells of the
lymph are pre-
served. Only one
lot of lymph Is TAX
en- from a goat. The
animal recnyers In
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

to limb. thought everybody knew
where that came FROM memphis
Scimitar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

time and secretes more lymph, but the
process is slow and it is cheaper and
safer to get new goats for each opera
ton,
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LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME NOTES OF INTEREST TO
UNION N'ORKMEN.

Some of Those who Toss Away the In
FAINT with the Bath-What to Tell
the Carpers-what Organization Does
Very Interesting Notes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-11-03

roworkers were laboring on false
basis. The object for which all
these men were seeking was the same
they sought to perfect plan by which
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-08-24

they stay is surrounded with siX-foot
wire netting and contains three acres
of well-drained land.
The food of the old pheasants is the
same as that of the common fowls, eN-
cept in breeding season that we give
them some barley meal. l estimate
that it costs about one dollar each to
raise the pheasants to six months of
age. The males weigh 21a pounds, fe-
males two pounds. We have but little
trouble with hawks or other pests.
There is no shade in the field and we
provide during i.ot weather an artificial
shade by means of boards. Pheasants
are very hardy and we never keep them
confined because of wet wea Their or wet
grass. The young pheasants are fed
largely on patent meal obtained from
England, made especially for pleas
ants. They could be raised on maggots,
but these are offensive to have on the
place where there are visitors. There
is good demand for pheasants for
stocking parks, game preserves and pr-
vate grounds, the lowest price being
$50 per dozen. When the pheasants get
away they make for brook or run
ling water, hence we can usually man
age to catch them, although with some
difficulty.
During the blizzard of November, in
which the aviaries were drifted full of
snow up to the very top, under all this
snow were so breeding pheasants. Men
started to dig them out, which took a
number of days, and the sixth day they
supposed they had them all, but it
seems they had not gotten few of
them, which were recovered from the
snow after II days and lived through it.
Ability to stay showed under for II
days without food or water, and to come
out bright and in good order, is a good
enough indication of hardincss.-Amer-
lean Agriculturist.