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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME NOTES OF INTEREST TO
UNION WCRkMEN.
W. j. Bryan aud Boarke Cochran Dis
cuss Trusts-Some Results OF Govern
mental Direction ct Labor Affairs In
New Zealand
The Old Church ,r For Sale.


I've worshipsd there fer many year
they never seen me fasl.
But now they've come an told me that
the GA church is for sale
The auctioneev is ready, an they're goin'
to let her go
The old church where we praised theS
Lord from whom all blessings flow!
jest can't help the heartbeat-the mist
that's roun' my eyes
For there l read my titles clear to man.
sions In the skies:
An there In years that had their tears,
/ found salvation free
And knew that sweet, amazin' grace that
saved a wretch like me.
knowed the "amen ccrner"-I knowed
the anxious seat
An when the organ shook the walls. or
died In music sweet,
Like n little child a-dreamin, / closed my
old eyes there,
An my soul went up to heaven on the
wings of love an prayer.
There was sweetest consolation in the
holy, heavenly calm
That led us into Gilead, where we found
the healin balm;
Twas there we glimpsed the beauty OF a
better, brighter sky
That bent DER Canaan's happy land,
where our possessions lie.
But the old church now is throwed aside
they're buildin' of new,
But the same salvation's In it-thank the
Lord! for me an you.
But no matter how they build 1t, my
heart will always go
To the old church where we praised the
Lord from Whom all blessings flow!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27
SEASICK ON SEA LEGS.
Omcers and Sailors of the Navy Free
quently Distressed.

"The officers and sailors of the navy
are frequent sufferers from seasick-
ness, even after they have got their
sea legs on" observed naval surgeon
to a Washington Star reporter. IN
deed, l think l can safely say that,
young and old, one-third of the entire
navy officers as well as men are seasick
during storms as well as at other
times. In theory naval officers and
sailors are entirely free from such So
called weakness, but, in fact, they have
stomachs and are sufferers at times the
same as the rest of humanity. The
sailor, in this respect, has many ad-
yantages over the naval officers, and Is
less sensitive to seasickness, for tAe
reason that he seldom has what is
called shore duty to perform, and he is
on the ship all of the time, barring the
DAYS off now and then of liberty. When
an officer it is entirely different, for
he seldom has to spend as much time
on the ship as he does on shore. The
three years sea duty is generally fol-
lowed by tnree years SHUle uu.y, uuiih5
which time his sea legs and stomach
entirely disappear, and have to be built
up again. 1t is rare that an officer on
return to sea duty does not have to
go through all the painful and dis
tressing experiences of his first sea-
sickness, and | am net sure but eacn
recurrence of this experience is worse
than the original. | know dozen
officers of from fifteen to twenty-five
years experience in the navy, and l
know of at least fifty others who admit
that they are as liable to seasickness
now as they were when they were
misdies fresh from the Naval academy.
Why. even Admiral Dewey, with his
twenty-five and a half years expe-
rience at sea-he completed his forty
fifth year of service in the navy Satur-
day. Sept. 23-is still subject to attacks
of seasickness. and he makes no enort
to conceal it, and could not conceal 1t
If he desired for when he is sick ne Is
sick all over"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27
QUALITY AND NEWS.
FAME AND EXCELLENCE ARE
DETERMINING FACTORS IN
SUCCESSFUL DEVELOP
MENT.
One of the Important Functions 81
High-Class Newspapers.

In presenting interesting phases OF
scientific and economic problems,
high-class newspapers frequently give
information OF as great value in their
advertising columns as In those de-
voted to the publication of the prin-
cipal events of the day; and when
the fame of a product is extended be-
yond its natural limits into foreign
lands, and a large demand created
throughout Great Britain and her col
onies and the principal seaports and
cities of Europe, Asia and Africa, 1t
becomes a pleasant duty to note the
fact and to tell Of the points OF ex-
cellence on which so great success Is
based. We refer to the now world
famed laxative remedy, Syrup OF Figs,
the product of the California Fig
Syrup Company. The merits of this
well-known excellent laxative were
first made known to the world through
the medical journals and newspapers
of the United States; and is one OF the
distinct achievements of the press. IL
is now we'll known that Syrup of Figs
is an ethical proprietary remedy, ap-
proved by the most eminent physicians
everywhere, because it is simple and
effective. yet pleasant to the taste ana
acceptable to the system. and not only
prompt in its beneficial effects, but
also wholly free from any unpleasant
after-effects. 1t is frequently referred
to as the remedy Of the healthy, be-
cause 1t is used by people who enjoy
good health and who live we'll and feel
we'll and are we'll informed on all sub
jects generally, including laxatives.
In order to get its beneficial effects, 1t
ia necessary to get the genuine Syrup
of Figs, which is manufactured by tne
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

The Hebrew Zionists, who recently
held at Basic, Switzerland, third an
nual council, have for their object the
purchase of Palestine and its repeo-
ping with Jews. Influential Zionists
privately assert that sufficient money
is already in hand for the purchase,
and that the sultan would gladly SELL
The serious bar to the plan is the fam
atheism of the Turkish people, who re-
gard Jerusalem as only second among
holy places. Whatever may be the out
come, marked change in some por-
tons of the landscape of Palestine has
already been effected by Jewish colon
lists. Lord Amherst, of the English ex-
ploration society afIirms that places
which in 1870 he saw as desert land
have been converted into gardens,
vineyards and olive groves, and that
quite generally Christians and Moham-
medans are following the Jewish col
onists' methods of agriculture.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Alexander the Great gave away 50
much spoil that one general asked him
what was left for himself. my hopes"
was the prompt reply. In his last an
nual report, the president of Harvard
cites the like generosity of a modern
Alexander. In the last twenty-five
years, DR.. Alexander Agassiz has ex-
pended from his private purse three
quarters of million dollars ON the
Museum of Comparative Zoology,
without making any communication
on the subject to the president Thus
are the hopes of one of Americas
greatest scientists being realized
through his son.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27
Notes.

The Tennessee Coal and Iron compa-
nv ia in big hands and is making $685.
OOO a day. It's capital is $21 100000,
and it is earning over $10,OO0,OOO a
year. ;.
At a meeting of the striking street
railroad men Of Cleveland, Ohio, it was
decided by unanimous vote to con-
tinue the strike. Four hundred strik-
ers we're present, and the speeches
predicted victory.
general strike among the union
carpenters of Birmingham, Ala, has
occurred. between 300 and 400 quitting
work. Their demand for minimum
wage of 81 a day and nine hours in
stead of ten to constitute days work
was rejected by the contractors.
At a Joint conference of representa-
tiyes of the operators and striking min
ers of the Chicago and Alton sub-dis-
trict Qllinois) and state officials of the
United Mine Workers an agreement
was reached, and the strike, which has
affected over 1,00l men since April l
last, is declared off.
State Labor Commissioner Lacy of
North Carolina has made very inter-
esting report on labor in cotton facto-
ries. This shows that while in 1895
there were employed 6,S22 men, 10,567
women, and 6,046 children, there are
now employed 1890 men, an increase
of 100 per cent; 1887 women, an in
crease of so per cent, and only 3.44O
children, decrease Of 80 per cent.
This decrease gives the commissioner
great satisfaction. The number of
spindles is now 100000, an increase
of 331a per cent since 1896, and labor
has increased in the same proportion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Professor Adolf DIR, an accom-
plished German scholar and linguist,
has invented system of shorthand
symbols which will enable stenogra-
piers to report in any one or all the
chief European languages as readily
and correctly as they can in their re-
spective mother tongues. This sys-
TEN, upon which Professor DIR has
been engaged for long time, is ex-
planned in volume which will prob.
ably be issued in few weeks by
Paris publisher. Professor DIR is
master of some thirty languages,
oriental included. His system has
nothing whatever to do with "Vola-
puk," dismal fad, which also was
made in Germany, but which the pro-
lessor has ridiculed. He has advised
all people in search of universal
language" to learn English, and he has
given his reasons. English literature
is the richest and greatest in the
world. English is more generally
spoken than any other language since
the mishap at Babel, it is the univer-
sal language Of commerce.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Surgery deals with unfavorable con-
ditions, when it cannot secure the
proper environment with the same
courage that it exhibits under favoring
conditions. A city patient is tenderly
borne to hospital operating room,
where every precaution known to mod
ern science favors the case. Lieut..
Peary, with frostbitten feet is dashed
to a sled and hauled to his ship. Am
putation follows, under primitive con-
ditions, and speedy recovery concludes
a remarkable experience. Here, as in
many another instance, the man I'M
der the knife, as well as the man be-
hind the knife, is an important factor
in making surgery successful.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

The following is extracted from an
ESSAY written by a schoolboy, aged 1O,
on a play he had been to see: Inc
yillun curled his mustarsh, and seez-
ing the pure vurgin shreeks ha ha be
mine or deaths blud is on my head
this dagger stabs thee to thy utermost
sole ha ha vengunze. But the good
hero comes and says o hevins stur won
stem and thy ded body lies at my door,
Lay one parm on the vurgins korpse
and it was better if You was drownd
with a milestone. Avarnt avarnt from
the sweet Aorpses presunz. "-Tid-Bits'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

of this great question can be male IN
10 short time, 1t is hoped that be-
ginning may be made and plan adopt.
ed for following up the work along
practical lines. In the opinion Of the
committee on resolutions this confer.
ence is without authority, and II
would be inexpedient for 1t to adopt
resolutions purporting to declare the
sense Of the conference upon any as
pect Of the subject under discussion u
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

The number of breadwinners added
to the dependents shows total OF 73'-
S53 persons benefited by the work OF
the department.
Speaking generally there has been
full employment for all classes OF
workmen, except in two trades. Build
ing operations have been unusually
brisk all over the colony; clothing fac
tories and wooden mills have been
working full time. Unskilled LABOR
found more avenues to employment
than have been open for many previ-
Gus years. The two branches OF labor
that have not shared the general pros
perity are those of the printers and
the bootmakers. The printers are feei-
ing. and will unhappily continue to feel
the competition of improved machin-
cry. The bootmakers complain not
only of the improved machinery GUST
ing them from their employment, but
of the growing speed insisted on at
factory work and early exhausting the
worker, and also of the glut OF low
priced imported goods. 1t is noticed
that there are now few old and decrep-
it men tramping the roads in search
of work, and this hopeful sign is prob
ably the result of assistance rendered
them by the old age pension act. The
steady increase from year to year in
the number of factories and OF the
hands employed, has been well main
tanned, and their annual average raised
by the numbers shown in the follow
ing return: For the year 1899 the fac
tories number 6,2S6 and the employees
1895, an increase of 6S5 factories and
1893 workers therein on the return CT
1898. The figures for the last few
wears stand as follows in regard to
working people employed in registered
factories: 1895, 29,S79; 1896, S2,3S7;
1897, sG,s1S; 1898, 1852; 1899, 45,SO5.
This shows an increase Of 1926 per-
sons in four years. These figures do
not include 1,24S men and 152 appren-
tees employed in the railway work
shops.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Lieut.. Gilmore's party is still in Fill
jrino bondage. An American naval Of
ficer writes from Manila that the cap
tives are in pitiable condition, desti-
tute of clothing, without shoes of hats,
and forced to provide for themselves
out of the miserable allowance of four
cents day. Spanish accounts say that
the lieutenant and fifteen American
soldiers are guarded by 200 Filipinos.
If 1t needs so many of Aguinaldo's men
to guard these starved and sick Ameri-
cans. the capture of few more might
seriously cripple the insurgent forces.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27
HOw's This =?

case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned. have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
lions made by their firm
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo
O.; Walding, Kinnan g. Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price
75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists
Halls Family Pills are the best
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27
A Hard Job.

"The worst thing about this acci-
dent" said the suburbanite, limping
around as best he could among the
ruins of the wrecked train and picking
up all he could find of his scattered
bundles, sis that l shall never be able
to make my wife believe l had all the
things with me she told me to get. -
Chicago Times Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27
Perhars dog ways his tail because
he considers his end accomplished.
PATENTS.

A word to Inventors Prepare your invention
with care and precision. Best not divulge
your ideas to any one II it can be avoided. until
Patent Ofiice at Washington City; don't jeop
ardize your invention by sending 1t twelve or
fifteen hundred miles away. Write or call on
HIGDON & HIGDON, Patent Lawyers: They
are reliable in every sense of the word Es-
tablished in 1879. Send for their revised price
list and ca dialogue FREE. Their Kansas City
office is on the second floor in the Diamond or
Junction Building junction OF Main and Della
ware Streets Kansas City, Mo.
What good time a giraffe must
have rubber-necking!
If woman can't gst baby to pet
she is bound to have pet to baby.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Democracy is government the basic
stone OF which, and the keystone of the
arch of which, is righteousness and
consciousness of responsibility.-Rev.
E, 6. Hlrsch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Germany and Great Britain are in
harmony. The kaiser has painted
three sea pieces for Queen Victorias
yacht.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Admiral Dewey is reported resting
quietly on farm, with nothing to dis-
turb the quiet but bands and bonfires
and excited throngs of country people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Nat Goodwin is under contract to
play in America and England at the
same time. Has Nat imbibed the ex-
pansion idea?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

1t is easier for a man to forgive his
enemies than it is to forgive his
friends.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

1t is great privilege to meet some
men-where they are unable TO mono
police the conversation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Sometimes a mans will is broken
after his demise and sometimes after
his marriage.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

A girl pulls the wool over a mans
eyes and then laughs at him because
he looks sheepish.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27
Big Wine Collars.
E1az21.ESl33jl3D

The Duchess Dues has 2S,000.000
bottles of champagne stored in her
cellars at Paris and Rheims.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

The American savage on the war
path was just about as bad as he was
painted.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Be sure your sins will find you out
and so will your wife.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27
Accounted For.

Lady-Oh! what nice, clean little
baby that is! Little girl-Yesm; she's
only z weeks old vet!-Puck.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

1t is only waste of time to call
liar a liar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

The tandem is responsible for a
good deal of back talk.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Paradoxical though 1t may be-
spoiled children are usually fresh.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

Spend and the world is with you,
sponge and 1t can't get away too quick.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-10-27

New Zealand Is q state where affairs
are run on pronounced socialistic ba-
sis. The report of Labor Commission
er Seldom for the year ending March
81, 1899, shows the conditions that
have prevailed there. The following
paragraphs are taken from the report
The labor market has kept pace in Its
records of employment with the gen.
eral expansion of industry, even though
part of this expansion may have been
due to improved machinery, increased
facilities of transit and extended mar
kets. The department continued its
duty of assisting to bring the work and
the worker together, and 2,1l5 men
obtained work or received temporary
advances of passages, ETC., to enable
them to reach employment. or these
937 were single and 1,178 married men,
the latter having 4,759 persons depend
ent on them. The woman's branch OF
the department in Wellington also
found employment for 426 women and
girls during the year. The summary
of those for whom employment mas
been found hitherto is as follows:
Depend
No. ents.
June /, 1891, to March 81,
1892 .................. 1888 4,72O
April l, 1892, to March 81, -1
1893 .................. 3,Sf4 booI
April l, 1898, to March 81,
1894 ................. 1871 5000
April /, 1894, to March 81,
1895 .................. 5000 $3.50
April /, 1895, to March 81,
1896 .............. 2,s71 S,124
April l, 1896, to March 81,
1897 .................. 1,71s 4,719
April /, 1897, to March 81,
1898 ..'............ 2,os5 1923
April 1, 1898, to March 81,
1899 .... 2,115 4,759
Total .21,6O7 52,246
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-01
A Foolish Man.

There was once a man who thought
what a dreadful thing it would be if he
were blind, and closed his yes as he
walked along to see how it would be. In
this way he walked over a purse of gold
which another man picked up. There are
people to-day just as foolish. They
moan over their poor health, thinking
nothing will help them, when a trial
of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will cure
their ailments. 1t brings steady, vigor-
ous nerves to people. 1t puri-
fies the blood, tones up the stomach,
and brings back real health by making
Indigestion and constipation impossible.
1t is absolutely the greatest remedy
known for all stomach troubles, and
is to be found in every drug store.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-01

leo and your comrades in arms, al
low me to hand you this beautiful av-
airy sword as a token of the respect and
gratitude of the people of this city and
throughout the entire territory. When
drawn, this sword is an emblem of war.
When s%heathed, it is an emblem of
peace, and, now that the wal Is over,
we present it to you as an emblem of
peace.
Take it then in the spirit in which
it is given to you.
Take it because you won it.
"Take it as a token of the love and
respect We have for you, and when in
the future you shall take off YOU armor
and lie down in peace to rest, transmit
it to your children, as a testimonial to
your valor and WORTH"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-01

Last fall / sprained my left hip while
handling some heavy boxes. The doctor
/ called on said at first it vas o slight
strain and would soon be well, but 1t
grew worse and the doctor then said !
had rheumatism. 1T continued to grow
worse and I could hardly get around to
work. l went to a drug store and the
druggist recommended me to try Cham
berlain's Pain Balm. l tried 1t and one
half OF q 5O-cent bottle cured me entire
ly. l now recommend 1t to all my
friends.-A. A. Babcock. Erie, Pa. 1t Is
for sale by A. G. ireland.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-01
DR.. PierCe'S
Golden Medical
Discovery

I was hardly able to do my work at all;
had pain i'll my left side and back, and
had headache all the time. I tried your
medicine and it helped me. Last spring
l had a bad cough; got so bad I had to
be in bed all the time. My husband
thought l had consumption. We
thought we would try DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery and before l
had taken one bottle the cough stopped
and l have since had no signs Of its
returning"
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-01
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot Ease, a powder. 1t cures
painful, smarting, nervous feet and in
growing nails, and instantly takes the
sting out of corns and bunions. It's the
greatest comfort discovery of the age.
Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight or new
shoes feel easy. 1t is a certain cure for
sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching
feet. Try it today. Sold by all drug
gists and shoe stores. BY mail for 25c
in stamps. Trial package FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen s. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-01

Connections with the main line and
branches as follows:
At Antonito for Durango, Silverton
and all points in the San Juan country.
At Alamosa for Jimtown, Creole, Del
Norte, Monte Vista and all points in the
San Luis valley.
At Salida with main line for all points
cas- nd west, including Leadville.
At Florence with T. & c. G. R. R. for
the gold camps Of Cripple Creek and
Victor.
At Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Den
YER v 18th all Missouri river liues for all
poin s east.
Through passengers from Santa Fe
will have reserved berths in sleepers from
Alamosa If desired.
For further information address the
undersigned.
T. ]. HELM, Genera heent.
Santa Fe, N. M
s. X, HOOPER, G. P A.,
De yer Coo.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-01
Thousands are Trying It.

In order to prove the great merit of
Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective cure
for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have pre-
pared a generous trial size for 10 cents.
Get it of your druggist or send 10 cents to
ELY BROS, Sc Warren st., N. Y. City.
Isuffered from catarrh of the worst kind
ever since a boy, and l never hoped for
cure, but Ely's Cream Balm seems to do
even that. Many acquaintance have used
it with excellent results. -Oscar Ostrum,
As Warren Ave-, Chicago, III.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no cocaine,
mercury nor any injurious drug. Price,
so cents. At druggists or by mail.