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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

New Orleans Picayune: The mine
owners at Pana, being unable to in
duce their operatives to enter the
mines at any lower price than that
named in the scale, brought in negroes
from Alabama to take their places.
The governor of Illinois found it nee
essary to use state troops to enforce
and maintain order, and the troops
are still on duty at Pana and Viz
den.
The meaning of all this is that there
are 800 mines in that state, and 7SS
of them are now operating under the
Springfield scale. The only mines
which shut down were those at Pana
and Virden, but they are now operat-
ing with negroes, at such wages as
will enable them to undersell all the
Illinois coal mines. Should this COM
petition reach the point where the
other Illinois mines will be forced to
import negroes from the south, many
thousands of white miners will be
driven out Of the business to make
way for the cheaper negro labor. II
all the illinois mines should be driven
by such competition to adopt negro
labor, that might have SO profound
and far-reaching an effect on the coal
market as to force all the western coal
operators to secure cheaper labor also.
It may take some years to bring
this about, but, the premises consid-
cred, the outlook is by no means I'M
likely. At any rate, the negro ques-
ton is going to become so closely in
volved in the labor problem of the
northern states that it will profound
ly affect political and social conditions
there.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
Russia's Railways.

An American gentleman, who has
travelled steadily for more than year
over the vast Trans-Siberian and
TransiCaspian railways, and who has
just returned to London, says he has
been taken by train to the Persian
frontier, to the Indian frontier, and to
the Chinese frontier, and that Russian
troops are being moved about with an
ease which shows that Russia can
presently concentrate half million
soldiers at any point on the frontiers,
and that British supremacy on the sea
cannot alter the fact that Russia will
drain the whole trade of Asia through
her mighty railway system, which is
far beyond the reach of British war;
ships.
1t is this tremendous fact that i'm
pels British craftsmanship to seek to
ALLEVIATE the United States from Rus
STA and to convert Russia into an
enemy rather than friend. British
spies are watching every foot OF rail-
way construction along the Asiatic
frontier.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
japanese Morality.

The Yorudzo, a newspaper OF Japan.
published in a recent issue a long ar
ticle roasting the Japanese members
of parliament for their lax morality.
The paper says that once upon time
a Chinese. emperor took fancy to a
slender woman, and the court ladies
laced themselves SO tight that some Of
them squeezed their little souls out
of their bodies. So with the Japanese
members Of the house. The paper says
the masses follow in the footsteps Of
Marquis Ito, Marquis Yamagata, Count
Okuma and Count Itagaki, which ac-
ton has engendered low standard Of
political and social morality. If these
great men do it, why should not the
humble Jap, who certainly has GER
tain vicious tendencies, and he does,
and the influence Of Confucianism and
Buddhism is destroyed. The paper
then makes the startling statement
that the women of Japan are insulted
in various entertaining ways, but very
rarely respected. Woman is house,
hold chattel but that is all.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

A canvass of the house has been
taken to ascertain the exact sentiment
of that body on the ACCESSIBILITY Of
holding an extra session for the con-
sideration of monetary legislation. The
result shows an almost overwhelming
majority in the negative. The Indian
apolis monetary commission, of which
H. H. Hanna is chairman, has been
supporting a lobby at Washington,
and the canvass was made at Mr.
Hanna's instigation. The Indianapolis
people are also flooding the country
with literature calculated to mold pub
lie sentiment in favor Of further leg
islation.
The gold-standard Republicans, as
well as Republicans, are almost unani-
nous in favor of letting what they
force themselves to call we'll enough
alone. The President, it is said,
wishes the subject to go over until the
next regular session of congress. BY
that time he figures he will have a
Republican in place of silver ma
jority in the senate, and any measure
which the house might agree upon
would stand chance of becoming a
law.
This would postpone the whole sub
ject until December, 1899. and the
spring of 1900, and make the question
again a campaign issue, and the ac-
ton of the Republicans a party pro-
nouncement.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27


Baltimore, Jan. 23.-One of the largest
bridge contracts that has been award
ed in many years has been let by the
receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. In order to place the lines
west of the Ohio river in proper shape
to handle the heavy freight equipment
that is being used east Of the river
the receivers found it necessary to re-
build 81 bridges between Benwood, w.
Va, and Chicago. That the structures
might be rapidly pushed to compile
ton it was decided to divide the work
among three companies. The Youngs-
town Bridge Company Of Youngstown
will erect 81 bridges on the Central
Ohio division between the Ohio river
and Newark, Ohio; the Pencoyd Bridge
Works was awarded the II bridges on
the Lake Erie division, Newark to
Sandusky, and the Edge Moor Bridge
Company Of Wilmington, Del, will
erect the bridges needed on the Chi
cago division. The total cost of these
bridges is in the neighborhood of $780,
900 and it is expected that all will be
in place by September. Nearly six
thousand tons of steel will be needed
for the structures.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
The Days That Are Gone.

OF all our earthly possessions time
Is one Of which we are possibly the
most recklessly extravagant, and
1t is the one we can least
make good when it is squan-
dered. A measure of health may
be brought back oftentimes when it
has been wrecked, by much effort:
wealth, il lost, can be regained;
friends, If estranged, can be won back;
knowledge acquired by earnest study:
even blasted. regulations can be re-
stored; but moments sped can never
be recalled. They have slipped ST.
lently out; the other hours which come
so swiftly to us are not the same.
Other duties come pressing home with
them, which fill all the days and leave
not an instant to make up for lost
time. Our days are but span breadth.
and after while they will be num-
bered.
God has given lis many opportuni-
ties with all the days that were, but
how few OF them we really and tu.lv
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Two painters each painted a picture
to illustrate his conception of rest
The first chose for this scene a still
lone lake among the far-off noun
tains. The second drew on his canvas
a laundering waterfall with a fragile
birch tree bending over the foam; at
the fork of the branches, almost wet
with the cataract's spray, robin sat
on its nest. The first was only "Stag-
nation;" the last was Rest" Christ's
life outwardly was one of the most
troubled lives that was ever lived,
tempest and tumult, tumult and tenn
pest-the waves breaking over it all
the time till the worn body was laid
in the grave; but the inner life was
sea of glass. The great calm was
always there. At any moment you
might have gone to him and found
rest. And even when his enemies were
logging him in the streets Of Jerusa-
lem, he turned to bis disciples and Of
fered them, as last legacy, my
peace Henry Drummond
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
Fast Mail to Seattle.

The widespread public interest in
the contest for the fast mail contract
between Chicago and Omaha has
caused one temporarily to overlook
the similar achievement of the Great
Northern railway in establishing
quick mail communication from New
York. via Chicago and st. Paul, to
Seattle, and thence to the Orient. The
fast Pacific mail service by way of
st. Paul to the Puget Sound country
is now quite as remarkable as that via
Omaha to San Francisco. On January
the Great Northern placed in serv-
ice fast through mail and passen-
ger train from Chicago to Seattle, on
which the mail pouches never once
leave the car after the transfer at
St. Paul.
From New York to Seattle the time
by this Northern route is just four
days. East of st. Paul the mails are
carried on several roads, but west OF
that city-on run exceeding the
eastern portion by 500 miles-the
mail go"s through without change
across five great States on the tracks
OF the Great Northern. Forty-five
lulIuleS dIC CUISulucu III
the mails in Chicago, and thirty min
utes in St. Paul. After that the
Northern Oriental flyer does the rest
without a pause until the Asiatic
mails go on board the steamers OF
the Japan Mail Steamship Company.
Both the Importance of Seattle as an
Oriental shipping point and the speed
Of the Great Northern transconti-
mental mail service make the achieve
ment noteworthy feature of Amer
lean railway progress.
The Puget Sound cities have al
ready become formidable rivals OF
San Francisco as regards the freight
and passenger traffic for Japan, China
and Asiatic ports. The steamer route
from Seattle to the Orient seems to
be more free from storms than that
from San Francisco, and as a large
proportion Of the Oriental exports arc
products of the Northwest the freight
traffic has naturally taken this course.
The fact that the full capacity of the
Japan Mail Steamship Company's
boats is engaged as far ahead as next
August is in itself striking proof of
the growing Importance of the
Oriental trade that has its outlet at
Seattle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

AT party given by a lady an
extra" maid was engaged to assist
the regular servant in passing tea and
cake. The extra hand" to whom
this duty was entirely new. became
rather excited, and hustled to and fro
with more energy than grace. When
about to retire. after going the round
OF the room, she suddenly stopped, and
pointing to portion of the company
IN an adjoining apartment, innocently
inquired of the regul.r housemaid,
loudly enough for the whole company
to hear: "Hev yeez fed them crathurs
over there YETI"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
Gan Old Favorite.)


All worldly shapes shall melt In gloom,
| The sun himself must die,
| Before this mortal shall assume
Its Immortality.
l saw a vision in my sleep,
That gave my spirit strength to sweep
| Adown the gulf of Time;
] saw the last Of human mould,
That shall creations death behold,
| AS Adam saw her prime.
The SUMS eye had sickly glare:
| The earth with age was wan;
| The skeletons of nations were
| Around that lonely man.
Some had expired in fight,-the brands
Still rusted in their bony hands;
In plague and famine some.
Earth's cities had no sound nor tread,
And shifts were drifting with the dead
To shores where all was dumb.
Yet, prophet-like that lone enc stood.
With dauntless words and high,
That shook the sere leaves from the wood
AS II a storm pass'd by,
Saying, We are twins in death, proud
| Sun,
Thy face is cold, thy race is run.
TITS mercy bids thee go;
For thou ten thousand thousand years
Hast seen the tide of human tears,
That shall no longer flow.
What though beneath thee man put
forth
His pomp, his pride, his skill;
And arts that made fire, floods and earth,
The vassals of his will;
Yet mourn not I thy parted sway,
Thou dim, discrowned king of day;
For all those trophied arts
And triumphs that beneath thee sprang,
Heal'd not a passion or pang
Entaild on human hearts,
Go, let oblivion's curtain fall
Upon the stage of men,
Nor with thy rising beams recall
LIES tragedy again.
It's piteous pageants bring not BACK,
Nor waken flesh upon the rack
OF pain anew to writhe;
Stretched in diseases shapes abhorr'd,
Or mown in battle by the sword,
Like grass beneath the scythe.
Even I am weary in yon skies ."
To watch thy fading fire;
Test of all sunless agonies,
Behold not me expire.
My lips that speak thy dirge OF death
Their rounded gasp and gurghng preath
To see thou shalt not boast.
The eclipse Of Nature spreads my pail
The majesty of darkness shall
Receive my parting ghost!
This spirit shall return to Him
That gave its heavenly spark;
Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim
When thou myself art dark!
No! 1t shall live again, and shine
In bliss unknown to beams OF thine.
BY Him recall'd to breath,
Who captive led captivity,
Who robb'd the grave of victory
I And took the sting from death!
Go, Sun. while mercy holds me up
On Natures awful waste
To drink this last and bitter cup
; OF grief that man shall taste
Go. tell that night that hides thy face,
Thou sawst the last of Adams race
; On earth's sepulchral clod,
The darkening universe defy
To uuench his immortality,
Or shake his trust in GOD!
Campbell
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

The Bookman has heard of a Scotch
professor who has been advocating
the advantages of athletic exercise.
THE Roman youths" he cried. used
to swim three times across the Tiber
before breakfast" The Scotch pro-
lessor exclaimed: "Mr. McAllister,
why do you smile? We shall be glad
to share your amusement" The can
ny Scot replied, II was just thinking,
sir, that the Roman youths must have
left their clothes on the wrong bank
at the end of their SWIM"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
J. NERVOUS DEPRESSION.
? IA TALK WITH MRS. prNxHAx.1

~
A woman with the blues lisa very uD-
comfortable person. She is illogical,
unhappy and frequently hysterical.
The condition of the mind known N
"the blues" nearly always, with wo-
men, results from diseased organs Of
generation.
1t Is source of wonder that in this
age of advanced medical science, any
person should still believe that mere
force Of will and determination viii
overcome depressed spirits and nerv-
BUSINESS in women. These troubles arc
indications of disease.
Every woman who doesn't under
stand her condition should write 20
Lynn, Mass, to Mrs. Pinkham for her
advice. Her advice is thorough CON-
mon sense, and is the counsel of q
learned woman of great experience.
Read the story of Mrs. +. S. BENNETT,
Westphalia, Kansas, as told in the fol-
lowing letter:
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I have suf-
fered for over two years with falling,
cHldT SCulCAu dAu ulCCIdIlOu OI Tie
womb, and this spring, being in such
a weakened condition, caused me to
flow for nearly six months. Some time
ago, urged by friends, wrote to yon
for advice. After using the treatment
which you advised for a short time,
that terrible flow stopped.
81 am now gaining strength anG
flesh, and have better health than
have had for the past ten years.
wish to say to all distressed, suffer
ing women, do not suffer longer, When
there is, one so kind and willing to
aid you"
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is woman's remedy for wo-
mans ills. More than a million wo-
men have been benefited by it
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
Catarrh Cannot BE Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they cannot
reach the seat OF the disease Catarrh Is a
Hood or constitutional disease, and in order TO
cure it YOU must take internal remedies. Hairs
Catarrh Cure is taken internally. and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
r. was prescribed by one OF the best physicians
in this Country for years, and is a regular pre-
scription. 1t is composed OF the best tonics
known. combined with the best blood pur'hers,
setting directly on the mucous surfaces. The
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Halls Family Pills are the best
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
Shall Porto Rico be q State?

Our public men are trying to decide
what action should taken regarding
the status of Porto Rico. We have
never before had to deal with SINH
lar condition. Neither have we ever
had such reliable medicine for dys-
pepsia, Indigestion and nervous ness as
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t makes
strength to resist future attacks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

1t has been lately proved in Italy
that yachts having copper bottoms,
anchored near the steel and iron ships
of the Italian navy, have exercised
highly injurious effects upon the ships.
Actual contact. It appears. was not
required to produce the result. The
water in which the yachts lay was
sufficiently powerful agent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

A. Godsend Lufkin has the distinc-
ton of owning the queerest name in
Maine. Owing to the terms of his
grandfather's will he was to inherit
$780, 900, being the first grandson in
the family. When the clergyman asked
what name he should bestow, the
child's father said: II think you bet
ter call him godsend, because he has
proved that to my family"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

The Westminster Gazette learns from
an Indian paper that Mr.. and Mrs.
Thambynayagampillai are now on a
visit to Vovilkudyirruppu Mr.. Than
bynayagampillai is son of Judge G.
S. Arianaygampillai and son-in-law of
A. Jambulingammudelliar.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

The Electric Light In tho Arctic Regions
At last two places within the Arctic
circle have received the electric light.
Hammerfest and Tromso are now
lighted by electricity. so that they
have an artificial daylight during the
long winter darkness.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

A western inventor has patented o
wagon which will turn around in a
small space, the reach being double
and X shape, with the ends attached
to the axles by hinges, SO that when
one end of the forward axle is pulled
ahead it draws the opposite end of the
rear axle with it, until they are at an
angle Of 80 degrees or over
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

One hundred years from now, says
the Philadelphia Telegraph, when the
newspapers are chronicling the. death
of the oldest woman inhabitant, the
paragraph will be headed, "She Kissed
uohSop ~
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
A Big Thing.

Browslow-Fakerly has his eye on a
big thing. Taterly-What's that? Brow
slow-He's made application for the
position of advance agent for Emperor
William philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Northern Labor Problem a. Viewed bv
southern Newspaper-No Monetary
Liquidation This Ycar-Russia's Rail.
ways.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Dropsy treated free by DIR. Fl. II.
Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The
greatest dropsy specialists in the
world, Read their advertisement in an
other column of this paper.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
A Good Match.

"They met at lawn party. Appro-
pirate wasn't it, seeing she was grass
widow" Yes, and he such a rake
Louisville Courier Journal
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

A japanese bride gives her wedding
presents to her parents as some slighS
recompense for their trouble in rear
ing her. In America the bride often
gives her parents the groom to take
care of.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

A Single Dose of give Drops"
will benefit you for la grippe-its use a
few days will cure you. See their ad-
vertisement in another column Of this
paper, containing strong testimonials.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Thesordinary relation between bank
kers and depositors is that of debtor
and creditor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Churches are said to be the buildings
most commonly struck by lightning.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Rome has a cemetary which Is said
to contain the names Of 6,00O, 900 peo-
pie.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

When you go a-courtin' pull down
the blinds; love may blind but the
neighbors are not.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Night is the shadow eternity hath
loaned to sleep for the soverlet OF her
earthly bed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Richards Magic Catarrh Expellant
Co., Omaha, Neb. Write for particulars.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Mrs. WinsIow's soouning syrup
Cor children tcething softens gums reduces imam
nation aays pain cures wind collie rs cents bottle
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Richards Magic Catarrh Expellaat
Co., Omaha. Neb. Write for particulars.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

The musical scale was invented in
1912
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

AS chatterbox the phonograph is
still in the lead.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Richards Magic Catarrh Expsllant
Co., Omaha, Neb. Write for particulars.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
II Prevents and II
cures Badness

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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27
Health for Ten Cents.

Cascarets make bowels and kidneys act
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

1t is a long love that has no chang
ing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

Nothing but wheat: what you might
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ada. For particulars as to routes. rail-
way fares. etc, apply to Superintendent
of Immigration, Department Interior, OF
West Ninth Street, Kansas City. Mo.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-27

What does it do?
1t causes the oil glands
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Itcleanses the scalp from
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