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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
WOOD PAVING.
A New Method Said to Be the Best
Known.

A New Method Said to BE the Best
Known.
The decision Of the city council OF
London, upon recommendation Of the
city engineer, to pave two new streets
with wooden pavements has caused
new interest to be taken in wooden
pavements on both sides Of the At
lantic. This new system Of wood paw
ing is said to be the most durable and
the most easily repaired. 1t is said
that it is the only kind Of wooden
pavement that can be relied upon to
stand the traffic of cities like London
and New York. Instead of fashionine
the wood blocks into dice, hexagons.
polygons or dove-tailed complications
in any form, by the new process
barked trees of any size or quality are
sliced into cylindrical pieces about 1a
inches in thickness. The largest pieces
are put down first into good founda-
ton, and then the smaller pieces, until
the remaining interstices may be filled
up with what may be called pigs,
Ramming renders the whole one solid
mass of timber, and not chip is vast.
ed. The surface presents end grain
only, and with the different sorts and
sizes afford much better foothold than
either granite blocks or asphalt.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
Stuart Reid's Active Career.

From the work bench to the pulpit,
from the pulpit to the rostrum as a
labor leader-such has been the career
of Stuart Reid, general organizer of
the international Association OF Ma
chinists, one of the men who settled
the machinists' strike. Mr.. Reid was
born in Dundee. Scotland, thirty-three
years ago, and received his education
there and at st. Andrews. In his ma
tive country he acquired his trade and
worked at the bench until IA years ago,
when he came to America. Here he
followed his trade. but became inter-
ested in literary pursuits and scien-
tific study of the industrial conditions.
Shortly after. in 1892, he became a
preacher in the Methodist Episcopal
church. being licensed by the Buffalo
district conference After two years
in the ministry he abandoned the pull
nit to take up the work Of organized
labor. Since that time he has held
several Offices of trust, having been
president of the Buffalo Central Labor
union, vice-president Of the New YORK
state branch Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. and the first president
of the first local lodge in New York
affiliated with the machinists' national
organization. At the convention held
at Kansas City in 1897 Mr.. Reid was
made a member of the general execu-
tive board of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists, and at the con-
vention in Buffalo last year he was
made general organizer. Mr.. Reid has
made his home in Toledo, Ohio, where
his wife and two little girls are ex-
pecting to welcome him after the
formal close of the strike. When in
dications pointed against an amicable
settlement OF the difficulty Mr.. Reid
constructed a play, entitled who
ilhall Serve" and calculated to create
sentiment favorable to the strikers.
The production was almost ready for
a Chicago opening when the strike
was brought to an end. Notwith-
standing that fact, B. ]. Eckard, To-
cal machinist, has made arrangements
for tour, expecting it to prove pay
ing investment as a purely speculative
enterprise.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
AMERICAN SHOES THE BEST.
foreign Makers DO Not Make the Com.
Portable Kind.

Foreign makers do NOT mako the Ooms
Portable Kind.
We are very apt to think Of I'M
ported goods as something superior
to those of our own manufacture.
This is particularly wrong Of Amer.
ican shoes. Nowhere in the world is
made the equal Of our shoes. l know
women who find from experience that
1t is best to carry with them on
trip abroad, whether to the land Of
French heels or English common
sense soles, full supply of footwear
to last until their return, finding II
impossible to buy comfortable shoes
In any foreign land. There are some
facts about shoes that one should not
disregard If they would have that
most desirable thing-comfortable
feet: Never wear boot or shoe tight
anywhere, or one that will not allow
the great toe to lie in straight line
Never wear a shoes that pinches the
heel, or that is SO large in the heel
that the foot is not kept in place.
Never wear shoes that presses up
into the hollow of the foot, nor have
the top of the boot tight, as it inter-
feres with the muscles and makes one
walk badly. Never wear one pair OF
shoes all the time unless compelled to-
Two pairs of shoes worn a day at a
time alternately will last longer, be
more comfortable and much more
healthful 1t is restful to have light
shoes for house use. Never imagine
that feet will grow large from wear.
ing a comfortably large shoe. Pinch
ing the foot makes it grow not only
large, but unsightly. Allowance for the
natural use of the muscles makes q
foot compact and attractive.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
McKinley's Cabinet.

Alger-Beef trust. The former Sec
rotary of war was forced to resign aft
err the embalmed-beef scandals and the
trucking to the meat trust became
public.
Gage-Money trust. The secretary
Of the treasury, by his marked favor
itism to the Rockefeller banks in New
York, gave them the opportunity of
creating panic.
Hay-Anglomania The secretary Of
states un-American policy and aban-
donment of the Monroe doctrine were
rebuked by the senate committee
which amended the canal treaty.
Long-Ship trust. The secretary Of
the navy now opposes the peoples will
by declaring against building our war;
ships in the government navy yards.
Root-State trust. The secretary of
war violated his obligations as direc-
tor of financial institution by lend
ing 100000 to a dummy" for the
use of other directors.
Next?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04

the land so that there are no lots left
for the poor. Instead of preaching to
the poor about the sin of covetousness,
all such preaching should be directed
toward the rich, who have not stopped
with mere coveting but have taken
possession. 1t is not covetousness to
desire what belongs to a person by
right. 1t is merely assertion Of ones
rights. Instead of preaching industry
and economy to the poor, who always
suffer from overwork and starvation,
these doctrines should be preached to
the idle and luxurious parasites who
live off the earnings of the poor. In
tead of preaching to the poor the duty
of submission and resignation, the pull
pit-pounders, If honest, would preach
to the rich the duty of getting off the
backs of the poor and ceasing to rob
and plumber them.
OF all people on earth the &C.
clesiastics are the most dishonest or
stupid. Suppose man had garden,
one-half of which was always too wet
and the other half too dry. And sup
pose that when he watered it he always
put the water on the wet part and
none on the dry! Suppose man had
two sons. and one was always illtreat-
ing, robblng, abusing and outraging
the other And suppose that instead
of putting a stop to this he should
teach the injured one that this sort
of conduct was all right, that it was
his duty to submit to 1t and love the
other. How could we decide whether
this man was a knave or fool? And
yet this is just as the clergy do The
poor are defrauded of their natural
rights. plundered, degraded, outraged
and enslaved. And instead Of preach
ing against the oppressors, and endeav-
oring to establish justice, the church
upholds and justifies the oppression
and breaches virtue and submission to
the victims of outrages that necessari-
ly rob them of any virtue or manhood
that they might otherwise possess. 1t
is this utter prostitution and perver-
sion of the functions of religion that
causes so many to desire the destruc-
ton or abolition of religion altogether,
not knowing that the true function of
religion is the application of truth to
right uses. Religion as we have 1t now
is merely a hired apology for all ex-
listing governmental crimes and abuses.
j. L. Jones in Discomfort.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04

ammonia darkens the wood, ana when
1t Is remembered that forty years are
required to bring about the same tones
when wood is left to time, Its value to-
day may we'll be established. Several
coats are to be applied with the brush.
An ordinary two-inch paint brush Is
used. After the ammonia has been
used the stain is applied. The Or
binary wooden-ba nail brush has
been by all authorities pronounced the
best. After the stain has been APP
piled, shellac, in many instances, espe-
cially on oak, is applied, but this is
rubbed down carefully when dry with
pumice stone and oil. Beeswax and
turpentine are used to give further
polish.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
Malcolm Di|n't Object.

Tie proprietor of Glasgow chip
yard, having heard that his men did
not start work at the appointed time
recently paid an unexpected visit to
his establishment at $3.50 in the morn
ing. He caught sight Of joiner
idling in the yard, with his kit un-
opened, and asked his name. Being
informed that it was Malcolm Camp
bell, the shipbuilder called the man
into the office, handed him four days
pay and told him to leave at once.
When the joiner had departed the
head of the establishment went to the
foreman and told him that he had
made an example of Malcolm Camp
bell by paying him off for not start
ing his work at the proper time.
Great Scott" exclaimed the fore
man; that man was only looking for
a job"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
COUER D'ALENE CONDENSED.

There was disturbance. property
was destroyed, two lives were lost.
Standard Oil interests wired the ad-
ministration and got hundreds of col
ored troops shipped to Idaho the very
day of the trouble.
Hundreds Of innocent citizens who
had no more to do with the trouble
than you have, were driven into "bull
pen" by soldiers armed with bayonets
and rifles.
There were no warrants for arrest,
no indictments and no trials.
Citizens were imprisoned for months
under most brutal and humiliating
conditions.
Their business was destroyed.
Their wives and babies were left to
starve.
To force confession of crimes Of
which they had no knowledge, the
Spanish inquisition was revived.
Men went insane and died under this
torture. Others died from bad treat
ment and exposure.
When these innocent citizens were
released, the right to even seek fer
labor was denied them.
Only by signing permit could they
look for work or obtain 1t.
Refusal to sign this permit" meant
discharge and Imprisonment If the
foolish citizen stayed in the country.
Get off our EARTH" commanded the
trust, and McKinley's U. S. soldiers
enforced the command.
In this permit" the citizen is obliged
to swear that all labor unions are
criminal, and renounce his right as a
citizen to join one.
Under this imposition Of martial law.
the persons guilty Of destruction Of
property and acts of violence were per-
mitted to escape.
Only innocent citizens were prose-
cuted.
How do you like 1t, American citizen,
to re-elect Mckinley, and in two years
from now you may be the victims Of
militarism applied for the trusts.
The Standard Oil interestA in this
case, did not desire to punish wrong
doors. They desired to take away the
rights Of citizens and cow them into
submission.
e. MCDONALD VALESH.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
Conundrums.

What is it that is supposed to fol-
low everybody, which everybody is
supposed to follow, which don't follow
and isn't followed? Why, the flag, Of
course.
Shall the constitution follow the
flag, or the flag follow the constitu-
ton, or shall they stand side by side
and neither follow the other? Does
the flag follow trade or trade follow
the flag, or are they both following
something else?
What does follow the flag, or rather,
what does the flag follow? What
flag follows the which, or-Great
Heavens! The whirligig has run away
with the chocolate eclair backbone.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
A Smile Wasted.

A stout old lady, seeing at one Of
the English railway stations an auto.
matte machine from which, by drop.
ping a penny in the slot, you receive
the portrait Of celebrity, carefully
reconnoitered it. She dropped the coin
in, and wearing her best smile. posed
herself in front Of the machine for a
few seconds, opened the drawer and
drew out a portrait. Adjusting heI
spectacles and looking at 1t, what
should meet her astonished gaze but
the portrait of lady acrobat in cos.
tune. WELL" she calculated. $50 this
is me, Ell? If r don't speak to the
authorities about this. my name is not
Maria Jenkins!"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
Lounge Business Only Fair.

Some of the lounge manufacturers
say that while business is good, 1t Is
not up to that Of last season. Retail
ers, they say, year ago, saw the
prices of raw material advancing. and
knew what that meant. They laid in
heavy stocks at the old prices, and cut
down the business that the manufac-
turers would have done this season.
Those stocks are about exhausted now,
and trade would be better If winter
had not been so backward in breaking
up. March is usually good house.
cleaning and furniture-selling month,
the manufacturers say, but its pro-
longed wintry aspect this year was a
setback to the trade.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
Lament of the Irish Emigrant.

NOiu ocIlcS.J
I'm sittin on the stile, Mary.
Where We sat side by side.
On a bright May mornin' long ago,
When first you were my bride;
The corn was springin' fresh and green.
And the lark sang loud and high
And the red was on your lip Mary,
And the love-light in your eye.
The place is little changed, Mary,
The day is bright as then,
The lark's loud song Is in my ear.
And the corn is green again;
But miss the soft clasp Of your hand,
And your breath. warm on my cheek,
And still keep list'ning for the words
You never more will speak
It's but step down yonder lane.
And the little church stands near;
The church where We were wed, Mary,
l see the spire from here.
But the graveyard lies between, Mary,
And my step might break your rest
For I've laid you, darling down to sleep.
With your baby on your breast.
I'm very lonely now, Mary,
For the poor make no new friends,
But, oh! they love the better still.
The few our Father sends!
And you were all had. Mary,
My blessin' and my pride:
There's nothin' left to care for now,
Since my poor Mary died.
Yours was the good. brave heart, Mary,
That still kept hoping on,
When the trust in God had left my soul,
And my arms young strength was gone.
There was comfort ever on your lip.
l. t.xI IL hrn
bless you, Mary for that same,
Though you cannot hear me now.
1 thank you for the patient smile.
When your heart was fit to break,
When the hunger pain was gnawin' there,
And you hid it, for my sake!
/ bless you for the pleasant word.
When your heart was sad and sore
Oh! am thankful you are gone, Mary,
Where grief can't reach you more!
I'm biddn' you a long farewell,
My Mary-kind and true.
But I'll not forget you, darling!
In the land I'm going to;
They say there's bread and work for all,
And the sun shines always there
But I'll not forget old Ireland,
Were it fifty times as fair!
And oft in those grand old woods
I'll sit and shut my eyes,
And my heart will travel back again
To the place where Mary lies;
And I'll think / see the little stile
Where we sat side by side;
And the springin' corn, and the bright
May morn,
When first you were my bride.
Lady Dufferin.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
Women Carpenters.

Miss Alice French-Octave Thanet-
takes great pleasure in carpentry. She
has built two picket fences, one heavy
and three light wire fences and nine
or ten gates, all Of which can shut.
Another woman who can WELD a saw
and plane with as much skill as her
pen is Beatrice Haraden. While liv-
ing on ranch in California for her
health she became quite expert as a
carpenter, helping upon occasions to
build a fence or fences. She set out
with her own hands a small orchard
and attended to the grating and prun-
ing. 1t was also her proud boast that
she could harness horse as well as
any cowboy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04

The theory was recently preached
that the prosperity Of country may
be estimated by the amount of sugar
which its inhabitants consume in o
year, and certain political economists
do not hesitate to maintain that sta
tistics bear testimony to the truth Of
this theory. These statistics show that
each inhabitant of the countries named
consumes on an average the following
amount of sugar in year: England:
91.31 pounds; United States. $3.50;
France, 31.O2; Germany, 1922; Aus
tria-Hungary, 1874; Russia, 1901;
Turkey, 7OS; Italy, 6.2S.-New York
Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04

Wooden bedsteads are coming into
fashion again, not only in this coun.
try, but in England, whence the idea
of the metal bedsteads was imported.
Aside from the love of change which
has its effect in causing many house
keepers to. revert to the wooden bed.
the advance in the price of brass Is
partially responsible for this revival.
Then many persons like to have sets
of furniture and can match things up
better with a wooden bed than With
one Of iron or brass. Most people who
have welcomed the simplicity and
cleanliness of the metal beds will be
loath to give them up or believe that
any one will, but the fact remains that
dealers are selling five or six times us
many wooden beds as they did last
year.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
THE SHIPPING SUBSIDY sllL,

raid upon the United States treasury
appears in the Hanna-Payne shipping
subsidy bill now being pressed for
passage In congress. The bill pre-
tends to be one ito promote the COM
MERGE and Increase the foreign trade
of the United States" and provides for
the payment of Compensation" for
twenty years to vessel owners, whether
of American or foreign built vessels,
the total annual compensation" not to
exceed 100000.
There is a tremendous opposition to
this bill, which is declared to be in
defensible, an opposition. which, says
the Boston Herald, grows out Of the
firm belief that, instead Of proving Of
assistance in the upbuilding of great
merchant marine for the country, 1t
will be a decided hindrance. Already"
continues the Herald, "the great ship
building concerns of the Atlantic sea-
board have arranged the preliminaries
for trust, into which their interests
are to be merged as soon as this sub
sidy bill becomes law"
The New York Evening Post adds
it's testimony to the mass Of evidence
going to show the utter shamelessness
of the promoters of this scheme. 1T Is
an open secret at Washington that a
combination has been formed between
the Hanna-Payne subsidy and the Mic
aragua canal. Senator Hanna had
agreed to await the report Of the 18th
milan commission. and the president
had accordingly recommended delay
On the canal bill for that purpose, but
there has been sudden change in
both quarters. Mr.. Hanna has put his
name to the report for immediate ac-
ton on the canal bill, and he thinks he
has secured a sufficient number OF
votes for the shipping subsidy bill"
1.-THE magnitude of the fraud sought
to be perpetrated upon the taxpayers
of the United States" says the Post
(and the Chicago Tribune looks at the
subject from the same point Of view,
"can best be understood by making a
comparison of the sums actually APP
propriated by Great Britain and those
proposed by the Hanna-Payne bill"
During the last year the British gov
eminent paid S230,000 subvention for
eleven vessels as reserve merchant
cruisers, and 100000 for carrying the
mails from the United Kingdom to
New York, total outlay of $730,O0O.
ha
bill this International Navigation COM
pany (British) will get over 100000.
Various foreign residents, doing
business in New York." adds the Post,
'haye filed notices within the pre-
scribed time which will enable them to
comply with the stipulations of the bill
in securing subsidy payments on still
greater amount of tonnage now In
course of construction to be put into
the American trade later. Thus the
estimated 100000 for subsidy APP
preparation is likely to be fully used,
the lions share going to the Interna-
tional Navigation company and other
owners of vessels which are foreign
built"
Well may the Chicago Tribune ask:
"Why is it essential that vessel owners
should be given a bounty of nine mil
lions year to develop foreign trade?'
To which may be added the query:
How are American shipping interests
to be aided by given foreign vessel
owners, on foreign bottoms, nine mil
lions of American money per annum?"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
Yalua of Diamonds.

An idea of the great increase in the
cost of diamonds impaired by the Ia
Dor of polishing and mounting, as well
as by the,profits of the traders, may be
obtained by comparing their price at
the mines in South Africa with the
prices in the jewelry shops. A diamond
weighing one carat, mounted in ring,
may cost the buyer $100 or more, but
at Kimberley the average value of dia-
monds is only 1888 per carat. The
value, of course, varies with the size
and purity, of the. stones, but the to-
tai value of the 22,S43, carats of dia-
monds found in the Transvaal in 1898
was only s212,sl2, an average of s9.S2
per carat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
APERvERTED GOSPEL.

! The gospel of love would be hiuch
more effectual If preached and applied
the right way. Instead of preaching
to us to love our enemies, it would be
more to the point to preach to our
enemies to love us. Instead of preach
ing to the poor to be contented with
their lot, 1t would be more reasonable
to preach something about the sin Of
greed to those who have grabbed all
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04

An Irish servant girl, who Ind
very hard mistress, one day became
angry and threatened to commit sui
eide. IF you do" said her mistress,
"you will surely go to hell" "Wel."
said the girl, 'lf 1t isn't better place
than this, won't stay there"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04

Mr.. Mckinley and the sugar trust
may have differed as to "our plain
duty" at one time, but just they
are Hopping together in harmony
too touching for words.-Albany Ar
gus.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME NOTES OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKERS.

Labor LEADER Who Was Once . Work.
man Then = Staining
Crsft-Women at Mems Trades-Man
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1900-02-21
Gle. GLE. TRApSATLANTIQUE
VaFores correOs franceses

A partir de l.. Enero del ano actual.
los vaperes de esta Compania de la
Inca Havre, Burdeos y Haiti, haran
la escala de Santander asi la ida
como al regreso admitiendo carga pa
IA dicho destino.
En- adel ante esta Compania admit
"a tambien carga para los puertos de
San Sebastian, Yigo, Bilbao, Malaga
Y Barcelona
Para detalles, acudase a los agentes
en- esta plaza. Sucesores de Mayol
Hermanos Compania en- G..
Febrero l2 de 1900. | N. a