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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
WATERING THE LAND
HOW IRRIGATION IS PROGRESS
ING IN IDAHO.
Heretofore Arid Regions Being RapiAV
Transformed Into Gardcns-RarmsFP
Societies In Many Instances own Tie
Irrlgating Works.
(Boise, Idaho, letter.

Most Of the people who farm in tho
rainfall regions suppose that the irri-
cation of land is complicated process
and that the art of doing it can only
be acquired after years of experience.
whereas, as a matter of fact, 1t Is
about the easiest and most simple
work the western farmer has to do. In
most cases the children attend to IL
under the direction of their parents,
and any boy Of 10 or IL can do mans
work when 1t comes to irrigation.
The western farmer is wholly lndif-
pend upon it in the least. The water
that interests him Is that which flows
down into the valley from the melt
ing SHOWS in the mountain ranges.
These waters he diverts into great
canals which run along the rim OF the
valley about the irrigable lands and
are tapped at stated intervals by what
are called "laterals" or sub-ditches
which flow from farm to farm and out
of which the farmer takes the water
All hlo hCluo. IN oOLlc CdoCo luC WdtCio
OF these mountain streams are acquired
by the community of farmers along
their course, each one holding as many
shares of stock In the cooperative
canal scheme as he owns acres of land,
and being entitled to so many inches OF
water for every acre of his ownership.
This Is the usual plan. But when the
construction of the main canal, owing
to engineering difficulties, is too expen-
sive piece Of business for the farmer
take the work and build the canal into
portions Of the country where large
areas of land are to be reclaimed.
These Irrigation companions are Com
mon carriers of water and furnish 1t
for nominal price per acre per an
mum to the farmer. Sometimes these
Irrigation companies own large tracts
under their ditch which they sell in
small farms with the water right, to
settlers at nominal prices per acre.
In other instances they do not own
land at all, leaving that to be acquired
by the settler under the various acts
Of congress.
Perhaps no portion Of the Union is
now making such active progress in
irrigation development, or Is receiving
80 large a quota Of immigrants as
southern Idaho. There are millions Of
unoccupied acres in that state which
only await settlement to become as
productive as the lands upon the Nile.
Efforts arc being put forth by the state
authorities to bring the advantages Of
these lands to the notice Of the eastern
farmer, and the several railroads Of
the state are engaged in the work.
Perhaps the easiest and the hist way
to acquire information is from the
General Passenger Agent OF the Oregon
Short Line at Salt Lake City, from
whence conservatively prepared pamph-
lets descriptive OF irrigation meth
DDS and containing reliable informa-
ton about the various localities now
open for settlement, are being mailed
free.
The time Is certainly not far distant
when the unoccupied public domain OF
Idaho will be entirely taken up, con-
dition which will be most unfortunate
to those who delay taking advantage OF
the rare opportunities now offered.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
Criticising q Kansas Professor.

A professor of English literature In
the Kansas university once posted this
notice: I'm communicating with them
selves the students will whisper as
often as possible" He was Mortified
next morning to find this written I'M
der his notice: That is to say, talk
to yourself in whispers as much as
you can"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16

Nets are now to be tried as means
Of lessening the motion and force Of
sea waves. They are foated on the
surface of the water by an invention
of Baron D'Alesandro and are said to
be more eficacious than oil when used
for the same purpose.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16

Jcnes-"Dear me! Why aren't you
fer expansion" Because
| don't want to stay at home all the
time. If we keep on expanding there
won't be any abroad to go to-
Kansas City Independent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16

be spent by all the people. The money
that comes back will come to syndi-
Gates organized to exploit the ISL
ands.-William Jennings Bryan.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
YARD STICK LUNACY.
STILL PERSISTED IN BY VIC
TINS OF GOLD.

The Editor of the st. Louis Journal OF
Agriculture Pulverizes tho Theories OF
Man Who Imagined He Knew All
About the Double Standard.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
THE NEW DEMOCRACY.

Dr. Stanton Colt has given his native land is the United States, but he has
 been living in England, and he has not
 only been living there, but he has been
 thinking there. As result of his thinking he feels qualified to come over
 here and lecture before the Philadel- phia Society for Ethical Culture Tn his lecture he gave a few of the conclu- those who were once his fellow citi- zens. He said, for instance, that "the American people are a hypnotized, ig norant, sordid, vague, and uncertain people, that 'the Tories of all times have always been right" that 'the workingman should have no voice in government because he is absolutely stupid" that democracy is a synonym for corruption, and accordingly democ- racy is failure,' that Government SnOuld pc the mother or the Cnufcn, and that "a pure contempt for the it. literate masses must be the basis of the new democracy if the new democracy is to be successful.
 pr. Colt has convictions and courage, but he will find 1t hard to bring the American people out of their hypno- tized state. And perhaps 1t s lucky for him that they are so comfortable and with their hypnotzed. ignor- ant, sordid, vague and uncertain lot If they should come out of their trance suddenly while he was talking to them they might make it unpleasant for him.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
MORE FROST ERYTy,

It never rains but it pours. There seems to be no limit to the new pros- pefity. As we have lately seen, turkeys nave become diamond mines, and val uablo diamond has also been found in the stomach of a New Jersey pig, A report comes from Watertown, Wiscon- din, that nuggets of gold have been dis covered in a duck at that place, and it Will not be surprising to read soon that the English sparrows have taken to pro- ducing Irish-green emeralds.
 These are truly gorgeous times. Pitch in and get your share, or, as the Span iards more beautifully say, When the heavens rain gold see that the skirts of thy garments be spread"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

siping like equals, eating little cooked
 nuts and sewing or embroiderinsS The
 No. ? and No. wives are no wives at
 all-mere concubines They are bought en shattels, and wait upon the true
 wife, who is very proud of having them, and says to her less fortunate friends,
 Your man does not take proper care of you. My man has two No. wives,
 whom I order about" Should she fail
 to bear son, and should one of the jconcubnes bear one, it goes hard with
 the true wife, who then-and only then Hoses "face," and sees the boys moth
 CT held in the esteem which she longed
 tu keep.
 This is because girl babies do not Icount. You can get them for next to
 nothing in famine times in the north, and even in central china, where the people are prosperous and where girls can earn money in the silk mills, girl
 babies fetched only G4 when I was
 there. It is quite right that this should
 be so, from the native point of view,
 because after a man dies he has no place in heaven unless there is Q son on earth to worship him and provide him with spiritual occupation and a reason for continuing to exist. Girls are only a care and an expense" As the women sit about exchanging scandal and telling stories and sewing, the true wife says to one of the serv- ants, "better take the little Slop Basin and wash it and put it to bed. Or, she says, T think the little Pig is hungry Give it the breast'-for, because of a notion introduced by the Manchu worn- en, very nice Chinese women bandage their breasts so as to have none, these appendages being vulgar and of use only for menial work, which wet nurs- es can do as well.
 The servant who is bidden to wash the Sop Basin or to suckle the little Pig, at once picks up the baby and per forms these offices for it.
 Strange, you think, for mother to call her little son such unpleasant names. It is not strange. You would consider it very wise and proper if you were Chinese, and knew not at what | moment an evil spirit might be hiding under your very chair, waiting to seize your baby and give it fatal Illness or cross its eyes, or poison it's little heart | with Wlckedness Therefore, the first | one of the several names a Chinaman bears in the course of his life-for he | has baby name school boy name and an adult name-is always an oppro- brious nickname or the name of some thing inanimate, to be called out so as to deceive the evil spirits. Thus is has | happened millions of times in China that a demon has been all ready to spring upon baby when it has heard the child called q Dust Pan, or some such thing, and has said: "Why, that is no baby at all. l must go to house where they have babies. have been wasting precious time"
 We have here obtained mere glimpse of the limitless superstition of these people into which our missionaries Vaiiantly persist in struggling to let in the light of ruth.-London Mail.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
HOPEFUL.

We believe we shall live to see the time when the race question will be set tied, says the Mobile Register; when each man will fall into his proper place in the commonwealth; when policies will be voted for according to their merit; when we shall have two healthy political organizations in each southern State; when ballot-box stuffing will no longer be necessary; when we of the white race aleo shall be free. Necessarily the Republicans will profit by such revolution, but we will not begrudge them what they get out of it, seeing that ours will be the greatest gain."
 This is a pleasing and 9 hopeful vii sion. Just now it seems to be about as likely to be realized as the predictions of the meteorological prophets. But it is decidedly cheering to find that a Dem- ocratlc paper in the South can have such a vision.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

representing striking energy of 1887, 130 foot tons, while the weight of metal discharged from the guns available on one broadside in a minute is seven and one-half tons, giving striking energy of just under one million foot tons. The ship is divided very thoroughly by water tight compartments, thus giving her all the possible protection against submarine attack or accident The Mi two years, and Is the forty-seventh kasa is the second battleship launched from the Vickers yard during the last Warship built at the Naval Construction WorkS.--LOndOn News
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

With properly squared shoulders man
 dressed in this style looks about twenty
 pounds over weight. It gives him an
 athletic appearance, and that just now
 is very desirable.
 There have been years when the men
 who appeared at the horse show in the
 afternoon without frock coats were the
 exceptions. This year they have great ly increased in numbers. The average
 man dislikes a frock coat. Those who
 did W1ar them, of course, were numer-
 ous, Their coats did not reach the
 knees in length, and, like the sack coat,
 there was decided suggestion of
 epr1ng in them. The Waistcoats were nearly all double e-breasted and made
 either of the same material as the coat
 or of subdued pattern in fancy styles. A few men appeared wearing high-cut f double breasted white waistcoats. It
 was g noticeable fact also that the men
 who were the most formally dressed in
 frocks wore with them soft, colored
 shirts of bright designs. This may have been merely a concession to the fact that the occasion was horse show or it may mean that the colored shirt may appropriately be worn with frock on the most formal occasions.
 The evening clothes ranged from the conventional long tailed coat with white or black single or double breasted waist coats to the short dinner coats with derby hats. Properly worn, the dinner coat demands a black waistcoat and black derby hat. Many of the wearers of dinner coats, however, wore double yytita with oO11 buttons Some men in evening clothes wore what is now known as the cam paign hat, of felt with broad brim.
 In the matter of overcoats the range of styles was wide. The loose Raglan coat, which has been worn for the past year, outnumbered all other styles The | really horsey men turned out in driving coats, loose and baggy, and constructed | according to the owners own pet ideas. | It is mark of horsey distinction to | have a driving coat unlike any one | else's, and some of these coats were | enough to make the wearers weary Of l life, if they had to walk around much in them. For the men who did not drive or pose as drivers, in addition to the Raglans there were the so-called Ches- terfield coats and a straight hanging loose coat which reached down just far enough to hide. the skirts of frock coat. One of the things which cele- brated English writer commented on satirically after a visit to New York years ago was the alleged fact that most of the men whom he met wore sometimes two or three diamond rings. This was many years ago. The less iewelry man wears now the more cer- tain he may be that he is not offending the dictates of good form. A single gold seal ring seems to be the only ex- ception to this rule.-New York Sun.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
E.fCClNATTON.

l The Massachusetts Board of Health makes timely contribution to the dis cussion of vaccination. It's records for the past fifteen years show that of the
 number oe vaccinated persons in the State who contracted smallpox, 7.6
 per cent. died, while of the unvaccinat-
 ed 26 per cent. died, or more than three
 times as many. Considering the ques-
 tion of vaccination in connection with
 age periods, these interesting facts are
 brought out. Only one vaccinated in
 fant under one year was attacked with
 three unvaccinated infants under one
 year were attacked and eleven of them ed persons under fifteen years of age
 tneia were 2E attac1ys md no deaths
 Among unvaccinated persons under tif- teen years there were 96 attacks and IS deaths. or 1S,7 per cent. Among vac cinated adults over fifteen years there were Ill attacks and 16 deaths, or 94 per cent Among unvaccinated adults over fifteen years of age there were 9S attacks and 27 deaths, or 275 per cent. There were 51 children Of school age five to fifteen-attacked, and 26 of them were unvaccinated. All of the 51 re- covered, this being the age period when the specific intensity of life, or power to resist disease, is greatest. Of the 209
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
INSIN U-1TIO.NS.


 She-I wonder if there ever was such person as the foolkiller?
 He-Don't ask such nonsensical quea- tons, How do you suppose 1 know?
 She (sweetly)-Of course, dear, l know you never met him.-Philadelp 1 Record.
 Unkind Insinuation."M Homewood proposed to me last night" said Miss Northside to her dearest friends, Miss Manchester l He lost an election bet. I suppose" :" l was the latters comment.-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
 According to the Boston Globe, "Bos- ton beauties-femlnine and equine, too were conspicuous at the opening of the New York horse show"
 It is so funny about those elusive feminine Boston beauties. Nobody ever sees them in Boston.--Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 pr. Quizz (school committeeman)- Young man, have you been at school to- day?
 Boy (proudly) -Hully Gee! Wot question! Dyer t'ink l got desc two red squirrels and yeller hammer fer stand ing at de head O me class? Well, hard ly!-Puck.
 Young man, began life as an office boy, and through long years of unremlt- ting toll worked myself up to the top of the ladder. And now you come to me without a cent and want to marry my daughter"
 That's all right, sir l am only prof iting now by the mistakes you made'- Life.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
She luucull tud Jnnrter
ADVERTISlnG RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other smal advertisements, One Cent a Word each h. eert!on. Five Gents Word for full week tseven times,
 Display advertisements, per Inch. one ln- serlion, S1 20; each subsequent incer'io ion, 4o cents; one week, s320; one month, Sl0; one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices. In prose or verse. ID cents per line. Notices of Births, Marri uges. Deaths. and Funerals, 50 cents each Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own Immediate business Gall matter to be nnobJectlonable), and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let, For Sale. etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

who were recorded as having been vac- oinated, 115, or 55 per cent, were vac- cinated in infancy only, Easing the figures on the experience of other coun- tries, it is said to be safe to presume that the sixteen deaths of vaccinated adults occurred among this class exclu- siVely
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

One of the latest inventions tried on the South African soldiers is called ''solid beer" It is a jelly made from malt and hops, from which beer can be made anywhere and fermented. It is said to make excellent beer and to work equally well in hot or cold climates, the process being very simple, and the mil tary authorities have reported favora- bly, upon it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

 What were they worth unless you came To see your lover garlanded? If all the sovereignty of earth In one sole scepter Wo0ed my grasp, What would its heavy gold be worth Unless your hand were mine to clasp? If all the roses summer knows By pleasures hand were plucked and StrOWn, Should l raise up one single rose If l must drink its scent alone? There is no kingdom but your heart, There is no laurel but your praise, The rose is but your counterpart, Your dear delight of all my days. Yet would had the scepter gold, The laurel fine, the roses rare; The scepter from your hands to hold, The rose and laurel for your hair
 Pail Mall Gazette.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

The population of Russia was esti- mated at about 75O0O,0o0 in 1861, the year of the emancipation of the serfs It is now calculated to be more than 136, 0000 000 according to a statement just published by the Ministry of Finance. This estimate is obtained by adding the calculated annual excess of births over deaths, which is certainly 2O00,000, to the total given by the census of Janu- ary 2S, 1897, which was 126, 400, 900 with out the Grand Duchv of Finland or 129,O00,O0O including Finland The Sla- vic population is 73 per cent. of the whole, Russians alone numbering S6,- 100000, or 66 per cent, and the Poles 5000, ,00G, CT per cent. The total Fin nish population is more than 5000, ,O0O and the Lithuanians almost reach the same figures, numbering 5,6O0,00O. Va rious Turkish peoples of the Volga, the Crimea, the Caucasus and Siberia num- Der II ,000,0 ,000, or about g per cent. of the whole. There are 100000 Hebrews and about 1,OO0,O0C persons of Germen de- scent or birth.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

Recent sales of real estate in Calves ues are held at only about one-half tho figures prevailing prior to the storm.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

A shipment of 100000 young peach trees from Georgia nurseries, bound for Cape Colony, and Natal South Af- rica. will be made next week. They go largely into Natal, and a large num- Der of the trees going to that country are consigned to Ladysmith.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
IS ANOTITER RACE VAR WEED ED ?

IS ANOTHER RACE VAR NEED ED ?
 As if there were not enough race wars on this cont nent MT. Tarte, Minister of Public Works in the Canadian gov ernment, is advocating that the French Canadians throughout America should unite against "the fanatcal Anglo Saxons who are waging q race war upon them" MT. Tarte points out that there are 3,0OO0OO in Canada and 1,OO0,- 900 in the United States, and he believes the French Canadians in Canada should extend the hand of brotherhood to their friends in the United States and that together they should form one compact body to insist on their rights.
 It will be newsto many that the fa- natical Anglo-Saxons are waging race war on the French Canadians, but if they are something should certainly be done about it, and perhaps MT. Tarte's plan is as good as any that could be in- vented
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

He-This is the third letter of refusal l have received from you.
 She--What are you complaining of? No two of them are ealille.--Indianapoli Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

Explaining the increased Republican vote on the Pacific slope, and the posi- tion of the voters there on the Philip pine question, the San Francisco Chron- fcle says that the people of California, Oregon and Washington "expect to see the Philippines made part of the American Union just as California, Ore gon and Washington were made by the process of expansion. They do not de- sire and would protest against the a lop- tion of policy of exploitation of the islands, for they clearly recognize that it would overreach itself"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

The new bill on strikes, which the French government, through the agency of it's Socialist member, M. Millerand, has just introduced into the Chamber provides that in every factory employ ing fifty or more men a printed notice shall state whether or not arbitration is one of the conditions of employment. In case of the affirmative--and all State contracts will require this-the men are to elect delegates, who will submit any complaints or demands to the employ CT, and failing an agreement, both sides may nominate arbitrators If the employer refuses to do this, the men may resolve by secret ballot on a strike, but the votes of a majority of those present and of one-third of the men employed are necessary. There must also be a weekly vote to decide on the continuance or cessation of a strike.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06

Any infraction of the rules at Girard college, says the Philadelphia Record, s'is punished with twenty minutes on q stool of repentance When the institu- 'sttffcr sttffcr first adopted this scheme of pun- ishment one stool was enough. As the college expanded the stools multiplied, and to-day no less than sixty four-eg- ged, painless instruments of discipline are in more or less constant use in a room devoted exclusively to the punish ment of those who have transgressed the rules. There is absolutely nothing to the dlsciplining except the order to sit on a comfortable stool for twenty minutes and think it over.' Any of the lads would sooner take a sound thrashing and have done with it, but the stool of repentance has proved it. self an ideal punishment and it has come to stay at Gfrard colege.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
OId-TiIne Love Song.

If all the laurel wreaths of fame
 Were twined for my unworthy head, What were they worth unless you came To see your lover garanded?