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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

The Bushmen of Australia, are the
most primitive tribe of people in the
British empire. Some of them do not
build even the simplest forms of huts
for shelter. They gather a lot of
twigs and grass, and taking them into
a thicket or jungle, they build a nest
for home, much as does bird. The
nest is usually built large enough for
the family, and If the latter be very
numerous, then the nests are of a
very large size. Into this place they
all turn and snuggle and turn like
kittens Sometimes the foliage will
grow together and form sort of ma
tural covering, but there is never
any attempt at constructing protec-
ton from the rain and storms, and
it is marvel how they endure them.
Sometimes in a good piece of jungle,
hundreds OF those nest-homes are
found together.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

better for him to begin in the general
offices, and that to learn how accounts
are kept and the system Of railroad
bookkeeping was the best way to start.
He accordingly began work in the
treasurer's Office the other day. After
having served in the Office as an as
sistant to clerks he will, with the aid
of his chief clerk, get an idea of how
the executive end of the Office is han
died. How long he will remain in the
Office of the treasurer will depend upon
himself More than likely he will go
from there into the auditors Office,
and there gain an insight into the way
accounts are handled as they come
from conductors and the passenger and
freight agents. He also may spend a
short time in the Office of Mr.. Daniels,
the general passenger agent, and some
time in the statistical department of
the auditors Office, wher5 all things
are recapitulated in a manner which
shows to fraction Of a cent what it
costs to carry a passenger mile or to
haul ton of freight from ono station
to another.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

possessions, and will learn the details
of railroad management, so that he
may in time assume the responsibilities
which his vast wealth imposes upon
him. The prospective event is his mar
riage to Miss Elsie French, hand
some heiress, which is to take place in
January. Vanderbilt's fortune, which
amounted to $40,OOO,000 when he came
into his inheritance, is now placed at
s5O,OOO,OOO.
The young man was born in New
York in 1877, and was the third son OF
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who died a year
ago. His oldest brother, William, died
while attending Yale, and his other
brother, Cornelius, incurred his fathers
Ill will by marrying girl whom the
older Vanderbilt did not like. In this
way the young man received the bulk
of his fathers property. He had gradu-
ated from Yale and was making a tour
Of the world when his fathers death
occurred. Up to the present me- has
been extracting all the enjoyment pos
sible from life, most of his time being
spent at Newport, but recently he con-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

scientific research. Dark, draughty
corridors wind about between high
ceilinged rooms with polished floors
and unfinished, but for few his
toric telescopes and the portraits OF
great astronomers; but under the min
iature hill in the garden the American
girl has given her rooms the appear
ance Of home. She Is slender, deli
cate, and in her pale blue eyes there
Is look of mystery communicated
from the stars into whose light she
gazed for so many years. The janitor
and the gardener speak of her rev.
erently, and she is highly esteemed
by the Astronomical Society Of France.
of which she is the only woman men-
Der. She speaks and writes with equal
force in English. French and German.
Daily Mrs. Klumpke unites her fam
lily of remarkable daughters, who,
though variously occupied during the
day, dine with her in her small apart
ment every evening-that she may then
study the result of having given her
children unlimited opportunity and of
having stimulated them to take ad-
vantage of it. Two OF them guard the
outposts Of emancipation in France,
one has glorifled art and friendship and
the fourth promises pleasure for the
world"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

There has for some years resided in
Paris a most remarkable American
family, consisting of a mother ana
four daughters, Klumpke by name.
With high ambition for the wise ed
ucation of her girls, Mrs. K'lmpke
left this country some years ago, tax
ing her young family first to Ger
many, and from thara TO Paris ,c com
plete the studies she had uiiasrtaken
tor them. The eldest daughter de-
ternined to be an artist, the second q
physician, the thiiG an astrort:'"r
and the fourth, WHO is pupil o.
Ysaye, violinist. Women had stud
led medicine at various times at Paris,
but none had ever a6rved as inteiIe
in the hospitals, and Miss Augusta
klumpke's plan to do this wd5 met
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

81 have seen here" writes a Has
kell county boy from Pekin, "the soa-
diers OF nearly every country on earth.
The straightest and most military
looking are the Hindoos from India
but for service the Japs and the AM
orleans are about on top. The Japan
csc are the finest little people ever
met, and they think the American SOL
diers are all right We have great
times with them, trying to talk to
them and they are anxious to learn
the English language. kansas City
Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

"a portrait which now may be seen
in the Luxembourg where only the
best Of contemporary art Is admitted.
Anna Klumpke now resides a part OF
the time at the Chateau de By. which
was Rosa Bonheur's home near Fon-
tainbleau.
Julia Klumpke, the youngest daugh-
ter, is devoted violinist, promising
pupil of Ysaye.
But 1t is the third sister, Dorothea
Klumpke, whose portrait we print,
whose work is perhaps farthest from
the ordinary vocations of women. in
recent issue the Express printed this
paragraph: Miss Dorothea Klumpke,
an American astronomer, employed reg
ularly by the French government at
the Paris Observatory, has been given
charge of the balloon work. She as
cends almost daily. 1t was Miss
Klumpke who observed the recent
eclipse from a balloon manned by
Comte Castillion st. Victor and Man
ager Guiifroi, three of the ablest mem
bers OF the Aero club. They assembled
5000 feet. Miss Klumpke's experiments
are said to have been immensely valu-
able"
An article on THE Klumpke Sisters"
in the September Critic gives an in
teresting review of Dorothea Klump-
ke's career, which it says has been
even more remarkable than those OF
her sisters. She passed the baccalau-
reate and successfully took all the eX-
aminations in science and mathematics,
and then made application for adnis
sion to the Paris Observatory. Some
German professor had given her as a
child a small telescope, and with this,
watching alone at night she had seen
sights which delighted her so that she
often reused her sisters, begging them
to come and share her pleasure.
"The directors of the observatory
consulted the statutes; no woman had
hitherto proposed herself as a col
league, but there was no rule oppos
ing it, they themselves approved, and
so they gave her a telescope to make
her own observations, and after tin
she completed the work begun by Nine.
Kova levska on the rings of Saturn,
which she made the subject of her the
sis and when she had become doctor
of science she was given a decoration
by the institute and made on Cthcier
de academic. AS soon as the Inter-
national Astronomical congress under
took cataloguing all the stars as far as
the fourteenth magnitude a new de-
partment for the accomplishment of the
French share Of this vast undertaking
was created at the Paris Observatory,
and Derothea Klumpke was placed at
the head of it, with four under assist
ants. She had lived for thirteen years
in the quiet gardens of the observatory
whose main buildings present the
austere aspect common to places for
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

Plain Words from Church Dignitary
In discussing the rights and duties
of labor, Cardinal Gibbons of Balti-
more, Md, few days ago stated some
hard facts. He said:
No friend of his race can contem-
plate without painful emotions those
heartless monopolists exhibiting a
grasping avarice which has dried up
every sentiment Of sympathy, and a
sordid selfishness which is deaf to the
cries of distress. Their sole aim is
to realize large dividends without re-
gard to the paramount claims of JUS
tice and Christian charity. These
trusts and monopones compel
their operatives to work for starving
wages, especially in mining districts
and factories, where protests have but
a feeble echo, anu are easily stiied
by intimidation.
To such Shylocks may well be ap-
piled the words of the Apostle: Go
to, now, We rich men; weep and howl
for your miseres which shall come
upon you. You have stored up to
yourselves wrath against the las. lays.
Behold the hire of the laborers,
which by fraud hath been kept back
by you, crieth, and the cry OF them
hath entered into the ears of the God
of Sabbaoth."
How forcibly this language applies
now to Cur own country, and how earn
estly the warning should be needed by
the constituted authorities The SUI
preme law of the land, should be vim
dicated and enforced, and ample pro-
lection should be afforded to legiti-,
mate competing corporations as well
as to the laboring classes against I'M
scrupulous monopolies. But if labor
organizations have rights to be vim
dicateu and grievances to be redressed
it Is manifest that they have also
sacred obligations to be fulfilled and
dangers to guard against. They should
exercise unceasing vigilance in secur-
ing their body from the control of de-
signing demagogues who would make
it subservient to their own selfish ends,
or convert 1t into political engine.
They should also be Jealous of the
reputation and good name of the rank
and file of the society as well as of It's
chosen leaders. -Pennsylvania Grit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02
Encourare the workman.


There is nothing so unworthy and
really unnecessary as the constant
comparisons made between the condl-
lions of the rich and the poor. Much
is being said and written for politl-
cal effect, and we often wonder that
so many workmen will listen to talk
that makes them feel worse than the
slaves of Egypt, or makes them be-
lieve that they are in country where
starvation stalled with fiercer mlen
than in India. While no one will deny
that the workman is not getting his
Just share of the pronts of toll, nor is
it entirely impossible for him to i'm
prove upon present conditions by
steadfastly moving forward in various
ways, but we do say, and firmly, .nat
no country in the world has ever mad
such a prosperous and intelligent class
of working people as we have in this
country. They enjoy greater comforts
and have more diversified enjoyments
than at any other time in our history.
We certainly believe in and welcome
any move that will tend toward better
ing his condition yet more, but we
despise any disturbing demagogue that
deliberately makes the poor man dis
satisfied with his lot, merely to get
his vote, against existing conditions,
which no amount of legislation will
remedy. We learn from history, and
we see that, least of all, violence never
yet has brought any lasting good. is
it not a deplorable thing to see even
newspapers advocating and encourage
ing violence, that will not remedy, but
make conditions worse? Is 1t not bet
ter to encourage the workman to be-
come better mechanic. to become
more intelligent and use his brains.
To use his limited means to the very
best advantage for his family's and his
own comfort? Don't get him to pity
ing himself. Teach him to be more in
dependent Tell him to be up and at
it, and he will be surprised, with the
grit we know he has, that his condi-
ton will improve with his intelligence.
Then he will hiss and scott at the
writer or speaker who tries to make
him believe that he is only starving
cur. Our laws are not perfect, and our
rich are not all good, but we say that
the alarmist who dares to make the
statement that the workman today is
poorer than ever is, knowingly or ig-
norantly, speaking falsehood, and is
not upheld by reliable statlstics.-C. j.
G. in Philadelphia Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

. employment IOT women III
A progressive Englishfnan calls at
tention to the rapidity with which
women are entering every profession
and business in this country. He re-
marks that the majority of people sup
pose there are few women doctors,
whereas he has looked the matter up
and found that in London there are
81, while in the whole of Great Britain
he estimates the number as 256. He
notices also that there are small
number of dentists, while he knows
of several chemists shops entirely
managed by women, and many are
employed in pharmacies, and he recon-
mended it as both a suitable and profit
employment for women and suggests
that many women might get the post
of dispensers of drugs in hospitals, and
earn $500 and over a year. To come
down a peg lower, he notes that quite
a decent army, some 155 women, travel
in England as drummers, and do well;
also that women make excellent rent
collectors. He thinks, however, tina,
any Englishman will be astonished to
learn that there are female account
ants" and says that not so long ago
a woman applied for admission to the
institute of chartered accountants.
She was denied admittance, but the
Royal institute of architects welcomes
women members. He speaks of the
many photographers, landscape gar
deners, compositors and hair-dressers.
1t appears that hairdressing is lucra-
tive profession in England, women
earning as much as 81 and IS a week.
Whine he is proud that women have
made way for themselves in so many
businesses, he is glad that some en-
pigments, such as working under
ground in mines is forbidden by law.
He does not. mention the comparative
rates of mems and women's wages in
Great Britain, but it is probably like
those of other countries-women are
driven by poverty to take what they
can get, to the general detriment of
the labor market. Universal trades
unions, which shall include both men
and women is the next step demanded
by common sense. No fixed rate Of
wages, nor hours of labor, will ever be
arrived at, until men and women worK
together for the good of all.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

From a cable from London printed
in several newspapers a few days ago,
= take the following paragraphs, as
they quite correctly describe some
things every workingman should bear
in mind: ,rl fF
The average pay of all workmen on
the English railways, from passenger
porters to managers, is 24s. 3d., or
s616 a week. Out of 25O,OOO employees
fewer than 10000. received over 4Cs.
($1O) per week, while nearly half re-
ceived less than 20s ($5). The average
wage per hour for engine drivers is
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02
He Hos Lately
Gone TO Work
For q R-aiIrooi
Comp any. ~ 20
Alfred @.
Vanderbilt

cluded to go to work. He had a talk
some months ago with the men who
have his future in mind as to the best
thing for him to do to fit himself to
take charge eventually of great prop
erty. They advised him as they would
son. They told him that ordinarily
the best place to begin a life of rail-
reading was on the top of a freight
train. But, as this might ondanGsr
life and limb, they decided !. would be
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

The authorship of the amusing
verses. "Hoch der Kaiser" made ia
nous on certain occasion by Captain
Coghlan, of the Raleigh, has been err
roneously ascribed to Captain Myers,
who had command Of the United
States marine guard at Pekin previous
to the capture of the city by the allies.
AS matter Of fact the poem was
written by A. M. r. Gordon, news
paper man, and first published in the
Montreal Herald in October, 1887 Cor
don died soon after in Montreal hos
Commercial.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

Two events, one of which is pros
pective, have recently brought Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt into prominence in
the newspapers This young man, the
wealthiest person of his age in the
United States and perhaps in the world.
has taken up the active duties of life,
beginning work in the offices of the
New York Central railroad, which
made his family Croesus-like in its
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

with persistent opposition. eve shall
do all we can," the doctors warn.tC her,
ito prevent your entering" But she
and her sisters each won conspicu~
Gus success. Augusta Klumpke, now
wife of DR.. Dejerine, practices medi
cine in Paris, and is a collaborateur Of
her distinguished husband in science
and in authorship.
Anna Klumpke, the Oldest sister,
studied art, became the intimate friend
of Marie Bashkirtseff, and later of Rosa
Bonheur, whose portrait she painted
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02
IndIana's School Books.

The "non-union school book" ques-
ton will be actively taken up by the
printing trades unions in Indiana this
winter, and the State Federation will
take hand in it. 1t is said that many
of the books are non-union "all the
way through" but that others are
only partially so. There are several
union firms that make a speciality of
school books, and an effort will be
made to have the state board look
with favor on these houses.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02
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less than Sd. (16 cents) an hour, for
firemen less than AID. mine cents).
The wages of engine drivers are COLI
sidered high when they run to 5Os.
week, or $12.50.
This low wage scale is one of the
great causes of industrial unrest in
England, but it is difficult to see how
railway companies and manufacturers
are going to pay better wages when
they are as hard pressed as now to
keep up their dividends.
The average British workman Is in
the position of the man who sits on
the limb of tree While he saws 1t OH.
An English manufacturer has been
telling this week how he is prevented
from nutting an american labor-sav-
ing device into his factory because the
labor agitators declared that labor
saving devices were the enemy Of Ia
Dor. This manufacturer, who sees his
trade vanishing because American
made goods are competing with his
own on British soil, must go on max
ing goods by old-fashionel and eXpen-
sive methods When his trade is gone
and the men are out of work the men
will find they have been saving OFF
the limb that supported them.
Working side by side the superiority
OF American workmen over British be-
comes very manifest. 1t is not dit1-
cult to understand why Pennsylvania
steel is sold at a profit in Shefiield
The theory upon which the British
workman does days task is that the
less work he turns out the better 1t
will be for himself and his fellow
workmen in the end. With more WORK
left to be done he thinks there Will be
less chance of finding himself out OF
employment. On the same principle
he takes as many holidays as the law
allows, with a few more added.
At the annual meeting Of the Gates
head Iron company last week the
chairman of the board stated that the
directors found themselves Obliged to
consider the desirabiiity of closing part
of their works. Their profits had been
seriously affected, re said, by the neg
lect of business on the part of their
workmen. They did not grudge holt
days to workmen after the reilef OF
Ladysmith and Mafeking, the chair
man said, but when a holiday was
given it was followed by further days
in which the men remained off. Dur
ing the year the company had actually
lost in this way six weeks and had
been prevented from fulfilling orders,
and was losing customers in conse-
quence.-Pennsylva Grit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

Hon. Myron H. McCord, Ex-Governor
of New Mexico, IN letter to DIR. Hart
man, from Washington, D. c., says:
Dear Sir-At the suggestion of a friend
I was advised to use Peruna for catarrh,
and after using one bottle began to feel
better in every way. 1t helped me in
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colds, coughs, sore throat, etc. ! but as
soon as / had taken your medicine
began to improve and soon got well. I
take pleasure in recommending your
great remedy to all who are afflicted
with catarrh.-M. Fl. McCord.
Thousands of eases of chronic catarrh
have been cured by Peruna during the
past winter. There are no successful
substitutes for this remedy. Send to
DR.. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, for q
free catarrh book. at4s
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

Edward Carroll recently resigned the
presidency of the Building Trades
Council at Chicago. He was succeed
ed by William G. Schardt. The resig-
nation Of President Carroll was fol-
lowed by that of Vice President Frank
Buchanan, delegate from the Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers. His
place was filled by Henry Callahan of
the plumbers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

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first and third Tuesdays of October.
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Woman may be n conundrum, but
she always has a ready answer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

Adam was the only man ever mar
ried on his wedding Eve.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02
GIRL ASTRONOMER.
AN AMERICAN AT THE PARIS
OBSERVATORY.

Kiumphc Emplored by tho
French Government u, Expert in TAX
ing Measurements of the Heavenly
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

The Bluest Blue makes the whitest
white, that's Red Cross Ball Blue.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-11-02

Tea is now considered the best bev-
erage with which to fight alcohol, and
is proving such in Russia. 1t was
first imported into that country in
1898. Today the annual consumption
is 100,OO0,0O0 pounds. That of st. Pet
ersburg alone is reckoned at from
three to four pounds per capita. Tea
and sugar cost Russia yearly 1854, 0O0,-
900. Spirits, beer and wine are con-
sumed to the value of s140, 1000. 900 only.
He who cannot feel friendship is
alike incapable of love. Let woman
beware of a man who owns no one
but himself.-Talleyrand,