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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
Pearls Among Women.

The word Margaret" signifies in
Greek a pearl and in French daisy.
The simplest of flowers and the most
recherche of gems bear one and the
same name. AS we tread down the
wee, modest, crimson tipped floweret
which brightens and beauties our
lawns we may remember that Burns,
with a poets instinct, called 1t
gem" A daisy chain and a string OF
pearls have much in common. Both
are simple and yet elegant. This
union of simplicity and elegance,
when they meet in a female charac-
ter, has a wonderful charm, and 1t is
remarkable that almost all the ladies
Margaret of history have been women
whom contemporaries and posterity
have alike delighted to honor.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

The year 1900 will offer a consider
able range of choice to persons inter-
ested in anniversaries pertaining to
literary men whose claim to remem-
brance is indisputable. Scholars will
have the five hundredth anniversary
of the death of Chaucer in mind, and
will repair with fresh delight to that
well of English undefyled." Richard
Hooker, the English divine, will have
been dead three centuries. His dis
tinction had the added felicity of win
ming Izak Walton's pen to record its
fullness The centenary of Cowper's
death is to be numbered with the
notable days in the new year. Many
to whom his works may not otherwise
appeal will be grateful for the
spiritual refreshment which they owe
to his devotional writing. On the other
hand, the centenary of Macaulay's
birth will be commemorated, at least by
special recollection, by the large COM
pany who are his debtors because when
he wrote history, the poets magma
ton kept dullness at a distance. There
will be other days and names for end
of-the-century mention which good
readers and good listeners will not
forget.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
The Dead May Not Rule the Living.

Every age and generation must be
as free to act for itself in all cases as
the ages and generations which pre-
ceded it. The vanity and presumption
of governing beyond the grave is the
most ridiculous and insolent of all tyr.
annies. Man has no property in man;
neither has any generation property
in the generations which are to follow.
Every generation is and must be
competent to all the purposes which
its occasion requires. 1t is the living
and not the dead that are to be ac-
commodated. When a man ceases to
be, his power and his wants cease with
him; and having no longer any par
ticipation in the concerns Of this
world, he has no longer any authority
in directing who shall be it's govern
ors, or how its government shall be
organized or how administered. Those
who have quilted the world and those
who are not yet arrived in it are as
remote from each other as the utmost
stretch OF mortal imagination can
conceive. What possible obligation
can then exist between them? What
rule or principle can be laid down that
two nonehtities, the one out of exl3t-
ence and the other not in, and who
can never meet in this world, that the
one should control the other to the
end of time?-Thomas Paine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

What is the remedy? The control
of the public highways is the most i'm
portant duty of the government. Mr..
Chairman, give me the control of the
highway over which the products of
your labor must go to market and let
me fix the charges, and | can make you
my slave.
take the railways the highways of
the people, away from these corpora
lions, make them public property, let
the government own and run them,
make them what they should be, pub
lie highways for the people. over which
every man can go to market just as
cheap as any other man. Do this, and
these great trust monopolies that now
Cypress us, will lose their power for
evil as they meet the honest competi-
ton which will arise from every hand.
Make these highways highways indeed,
declare to every man that no Standard
Oil company, that no sugar trust, no
meat combine, no coal combine, shall
have any advantage that is not open
to taa poorest man in the land. Re-
establish the equality of our people
over the highways of the republic.
When you have done this the people
will do the rest.
with absolute equality over the
railways of the country so that every
butcher could ship car Of cattle just
as cheap as the Big Four beef COM
bine. the Big Four beef combine could
not hold a monopoly of the meat bust
ness of America for twenty-four hours.
Today, under government manage
ment. the letter of an oil producer,
miner, or butcher goes to its destina
tion with the same speed, at the same
cost, and with the same precision as
the letter of an Armour or a Rookie
Teller. Send their oil, their coal, their
meat to market upon these same terms
of equality, and these great trust COM
binations will soon be getting rid of
their $25,000-a-year lawyers an their
$25 ,000-a-year managers. upon the
proposition that their business will not
stand such high-priced men.
1T Is because these eleven billions Of
railway capital, together with all of
the men which it controls, are in poll
tics clear up to their armpits, and it is
because this capital and these men are
in politics for corrupt and selfish pur
poses, irrespective of the public well
fare. 1t is because these eleven bill
ions of capital, together with all of
the capital of the trust, are corrupt
ing our public affairs and debauching
:ur public men, that constitutes the
important reason why these railways
rust be taken away from these corpo-
atoms. The record Of the last twenty
i've years has demonstrated that the
government must own and control the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

London correspondents state that
after twenty-five years Of bankruptcy
Americas first colony, Liberia, is now
rehabilitated, the interest on its pub
lie debt being paid. In 1871 Liberia
floated loan of 100000, chiefly in
England, but three years later the lit
tie republic failed to meet the interest,
and this condition of affairs has pre-
vailed ever since, until now Liberals
fiscal agents in London have an
nounced that the government is once
more able to meet it's obligations. This
step was rendered feasible by a new
source of revenue derived from rubber,
and the interest which the bondholders
despaired of getting is now being paid
from the royalties turned into the gov
eminent of the republic by the Lii
berian rubber syndicate, an essentially
English concern. The development or
the rubber industry in Liberia has at
tracted considerable attention, which
has not confined Itself to the CONNER
cial aspect, and there is likely to be
in the near future diplomatic activity
in relation to the status Of Liberia.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

Masked highwaymen in Greater New
York climbed aboard trolley car the
other morning, robbed the conductor
and left the motorman tied to a tree
in a lonely patch of woods. Possibly
the Englishmen who came over expect
ing to chase buffalo along the New
York boulevards and shoot Indians in
Brooklyn we're not so far astray in
their reckonings after all.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

There are little industrial communi-
ties in small Massachusetts towns that
are practically without any work to
do as a result of the policy of the
trusts in closing down the smaller or
the less pretentious mills. The public
mas heard but little OF these cases, as
generally the mills are not large
enough to secure much notice in any
single ase.-Boston Advertiser.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

A firm at Sycamore, ILL.,, has started
a turtle farm on the banks of the Kish
waukee river. Both before and after
death it appears that the festive turtle
is to be in the swim.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

Sir Thomas Upton was banqueted
on his return to London, just the same.
He had certainly done as well as could
have been expected, considering the
circumstances.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08
KANSAS.

The BARRIERS face must be his shay
ing mug.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

No woman should ever be allowed
to vote until she is able to sharpen
a lead pencil for the purpose OF
scratching her ticket.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

IT'S said there are but few great
women orators; but when it comes to
great talkers-well, that's another
proposition.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

A man is liable to cast his bread
upon the waters during his first ocean
voyage, but it's his first excursion in
balloon that makes him soar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

Political reform may be all right, but
political corruption has the advantage
of age and experience.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

places all reference to the Standard Oil
company has been taken out and other
words substituted. Figures and dates
have been changed or eliminated, and
the censored testimony is weak affair,
according to the witness. Some of the
expurgated paragraphs follow:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

The man who is the architect of his
own character often puts up a job no
other man would take off his hands.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

photographers think favorably of
changing the word politician to pulli-
tician.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

The flirt of today will be the old
maid of tomorrow
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

When tle landlord raises the rent
the tenant must raise it also or get
out.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

Even the deaf mute is able to hear
money when it talks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

Somehow the more you try to be
funny the more people don't laugh.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

If vanity fails to catch man in one
disguise it assumes another.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-08

The testimony anent the Matthew
ease has been cul out entirely in man
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
Dewey Really Sick.

The interview of the English officer who attended
Dewey was present an account Of which a
peared yesterday mornings dispatches leaves no doubt
admiral a serious physical cond
ton It age, little sixty years
strain which the response
bity position kept him constantly under now for
year This debnitang effects Of the
climate accounts look unsteady hand and
his whitening hairs Dewey says he would rest
does believe possible another in the absence
Of his experience TO in and satisfactorily place
The most economical satisfactory way to settle the
Philippine situation is vigorous campaign. With suf-
Gent force to wipe otherwise bring to speedy terms
the forces Of Aguinaldo campaign up night
and day until the entire cleared UP. Army Of
fcers stationed Manila are anxious for forward move
ment against the rebels. They declare that few we'll
directed blows against rebels viii weaken ard discourage
them that the Instruction inevitably collapse The
resolve Of the administration urge forward movement
has occasoned rejoicing among the officers and men
Of the American forces in Philippines They know well
that the forces AEunaldo cannot withstand their advance
and that it is but question few weeks before the mill
Ty power Of the rebel leader will have been destroyed
The administration has wisely in this matter L
viii be better for the officers and soldiers in the Philippines
better FOR the people Of this country if the forward move
ment IS carried out With energy and gor and the nsurg-
ents promptly crushed VIII be better for the Fpinos
themselves in the long run.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
Auditor of State Cole.

The Constitution provides election auditor of
state The p mary duty officer is to guard the
state treasury against illegal claims whether just unjust
10 protect the peoples money short against official and
other scheners The present incumbent of that place in
previous term demonstrated office import
tofore it had been administered part per-
functory way But bills claims and against
the state must only their rendering, but
explicitly authorized by law otherwise they incon-
.entIy turned down Every Official every contractor and
every board and institution two years
ply strictly letter and the spirit Of the law
in rendering their bills against the state
The Pop senate before adjourning, undertook reward
some party friends attempting make eppropria-
tons to cover the extra expenses simply by
luton Of that body full legislative necessary the
appropriation Of any state monies The Pop majority
lied one Anderson charge senate chamber and
keep they March 81 for the
purpose Of an extra session settle contest case
to have enc hundred dollars for the work. seems When the
ferred the matter to attorney general
that right The attorney general rendering
his opinion points nothing with
caring for the state house which is by law placed in the
hands executive board, furthermore the
constitution distinctly provides money be paid
out Of the treasury specifically appropriated by
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18

east middle west this country. On the
other side pond, especially the women Of
Spain France and Italy, the habit has long since been con-
frmed The of the English and German races
addicted but the habit is in the
homes of the Slav and the
port the forbidden of the Russian
cigarettes in her This action Of
czarna has aristocrac
danes addicted to the habit 1t said that most
royal pncesses smoke nearly all of the aristo
cratic dowagers carry books of rice in their rcues
and roll soothing wad of Turkish without putting
their specacs Even the Dowager Empress OF Austria
Queen Roumania Queen Regent SPAIN Prin-
Henry of Prussia and the Queen Of Portugal
pert a the business Mexican senorita Cuban
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
Cuban SeIf-GoYernment.

One of chief difficulties in establishing stable gov
in other West Indian islands is the
neracy Of the people About one-third of the
inhabitants blacks and semi blacks and Of
persons, white and black neither read write
This upon which the Of the
United States has undertaken build in Cuba the fabric
Of settled suitable segovernmen. 1t is appalling
task. Some of the capacity for sefrule Of
the better class Of CUans furnished by the treatment
corded General Gomez by the military assembly. Not
withstandng rendered
the insurge islanders by this aged and intrepid
has been cashered denounced traitor by Of
SNUG gentry beholden to him for
their lives and estates How long will it take to whip
shape orderly constitutional government
promising the membership of this Cuban
bly, appear alike incapable acting
personal gratitude for service
rendered?
1t is altogether probable that Admiral Dewey is right in
his shall suitable material the
East Indies in the West Indies for building up
pubcs Left itself Cuba would take its place along
Indian islands, which, abandoned by
their European conquerors, back condition
of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
Daily eagle
Governor stanIey's Philippine Responsibility.
W. W. MURDOCH. Editor.

Governor Stanley s FnIIIppi1e F<CSpoiiSiOiiAJ'
Unquesonably Governor Stanley is set upon by local
and other political pulls constantly as to render ms 0clai
life anything but round joty of even contentrt
There are the interests greater and more pretenous
state combines and the schemes of local pulls
all insistent many Of and some threaten
ing The cooperators Of bigger combines burthen the
present with dictatons the future with threats
while the lesser coaescence wall unless their man
is taken care Of the township is hopelessy lost 10
the party And there other interests and influences
not at all political such as denominaona the corpor-
ate the moral and the social that Governor
taneys perplees are not confined this continent His
RESPONSIBILITIES have taken root shooting in the far
Philippines dispatch Of yesterday notes the fact that he
IS IN receipt Of cablegram Manila from Colonel
Fred Funston insisting that recommendations for pro
motions in the Kansas regiment followed The trouble in
this case as It seems is that composing the com
nland want others number promoted The prvates
are backing men whom the does like and nine
thousand miles is 100 great distance chance for the
governor to institute personal inquiry It is not pleasant
thing to turn the commanding officer down. to ignore
the appeal Of the rank and short there is than
politics in the demands Of the situation, which linked
with the impossibty personal inspection for better
determination renders the little embarrassing
If uneasy lies the head that crown which is held
secure how about any the head which carries an
insignia Of authority dependent preu-
dice and public caprice
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
Admiral SIMPSONS rlanliness.
Of semi-savagery

Admiral SIMPSONS letter to President Mckinley lament
ing the alleged fact that senatorial antagonsm his
motion by the rejection the
claims Of other naval officers for like honor and suggesting
renewal Of the presidents action with the writer's
omitted manly expression in which small minds will
only theatrical appeal to the galeryin this
the historian Of the with Spain The admiral has
what may termed decent thing" But fails
the impartial that should be
voluntary sacrifice either senatorial spleen political
wirepung in the navy. AS Admiral Schey remarked
there is honor enough for a and if Sampson
his share the lid box should the
entire supply pigeonholed meento of extraordinary
seIishness.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
A Census of Cuba.
selfshnesS

The United States will take Of Cuba The
Der people living guessed with
varying degrees inaccuracy Spanards, and
Americans the past century Now it proposed
and learn the population of
country nearly decided necessary before
any election held no better
than the of mankind doubt would
boxes if they could do successfully. necessary
know the number people residing
know whether the result the election held
reported correctly The entire island
depend upon election and
the United all its power to make the bal
loting fair and honest.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
BRYAN Sits ON Croker

Billy Boy Bryan has snubbed Boss Croker and viii -.
attend the big banquet which to unite the scattered
forces Of Democracy with Croker recognized head
pilot Bans refusal to he present deprves the affair of
national character and makes il but pow-vow The
reason f'r his refusal that Mr. Croker has pronounced IN
favor Of expansion ana the SD standard Nj Bryan does
no. believe in either Of these doctrines and he viii not so 70
banquet presided over by who has announced that
the Democracy mus ad these principles in 1909 Bryan is
national figure He might compromise himself by going
% the Croker banquet Not with the local Democrats
who are national characters only in the sense tina; they re-
side within the borders OF the United states.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
Nicaraguan Canal Commission

President Mckinley is determined accomplish as much
as possible for the Nicaragua canal bill
vding for the expenses Of commission of new survey
He will continue the Walker commission in service and will
instruct 10 return to the isthmus again make more
detailed Il is probable report of the COM
mission will be in keeping ideas and plans Of the
president He determined begin the construction of the
canal during term induce congress if pssi
bic to take up the scheme.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
The Care efihe Eyes

Don't try TO DO eye work with the Nsht
shining IN the face.
DONE have bright coiored shades on the
reading amps; use white Or ground glass.
Don't battle infaned eyes wiki cold va
ter, that which IS warm as 4 can be borne
Is batter.
Don't sleep opposite a window n such a
manner that a strong light Viii strike the
eyes on awakening.
Don't above al. have The children sleep
so that the morning sun shall shine in
their eyes 10 arouse them
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
An Unworthy Aspirant,

Don Carlos will neither Spain to lead his
followers in armed revolt permit them active
part in Spanish elections politics He seems timd
and easygong like pretenders to thrones
nowadays One OF the great obstacles way dsoya
factions in varogs countries weakness and lack Of
and elements Of leadership they desire to
seat thrones. The claimants daring nor
maserful They merely sulk for something i'm
possible up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18

4 woman evangelist = converting many
sinners i Missouri. says TIE New YORK
Tribune i one q he addresses TIRE 9TH
- day she sat1: There = Dz1 L
n house who IS untrue % rs VIE, ] an
going % throw this hymn book - him "
Shs raised Ire book as Il sAs vas gong
70 throw L. and every nan bat oze IN
Re house ducked his head . zvol5 the
aoox Then sac b.istsred re dodgers
ard izu5sa tie ooe frEe nan L vas
stterwzre learned hat as ~ss teat az
dumb.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18

Women have begun to take flowers to MoIneaux's cell
This agers the newspapers who call the fools 1t
IS gratifying 70 know however that when all the
against a the kindly women perhaps too sa,tj
mental who stand by him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18
The Ciearetle Of tie 0risetta

Il is halfway admitted. by humorous suggestion and
Otherwise. that cigarette king is bsc5,, -. -
habit with N fashio-241a Or exclusive f~,s = -,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18

A Boston man recently bought a grand piano from a
wrecked steamer for fifty He got the piano for a
song that is if he set the between the
strings. &c
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18

Willie Wilde. brother Of Oscar Wilde is dead Willie
gained fame by marrying Mrs Frank Leslie and
getting divorce Immediately thereafter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18

Yesterday was 81 Patcks day, when the national cry
was temporarily changed To three cheers for the while
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18

One q our troubles Philippines IS that we viii
the FIlpinos 70 stand still long enough - conv
them that they should surrender
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-18

As time America will understand that while #
IS OF the blood England nation ronistic
10 monarchcal form of government.