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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1901-05-31
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About this time Goodyear met Ss,h-
saisi Hayward. sGg vas fassias with
rubber in a factory at wobuTH. where
he was regarded as a harmless crank.
To Hayward It vas revealed in a
dream that rubber could be hardened
by mixing sulphur with Il and expos
iaE the compound TO the sun. lie
took out a patent on IL. Goodyear.
being struck with the idea. bought the
patent. The two men leased a build
Ing and went in for making life pre-
servers. Hut the secret had not been
discovered. although Hayward was on
the right sccnt-in hot weather IL
seemed a wrong one TO purchasers of
life preseryers. Goodyear was not dis
mayed. After more experiments he
took a contract to make 80 rubber mail
bags for the government. The bags
were credit TO his skill. but in July
the handles dropped off and the SUBJ
stance melted.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1901-05-31
Ts,smph .. Accident.

The wolf was again at the door and
Goodyear had to divide time in the use
of the kitchen oven with his wife.
He was always baking the compound
of sulphur and rubber. One night
while gesticulatins on his fayori,e
theme with piece of suiphurated gum
1t came in contact with the red-hot
stove Instead Of melting. as usual.
the stuff charred like leather. Was a
very high heat needed to harden rub
ber7 The enthusiast tremblei with
anticipation. But there was the cold
1t was winter night. Would the
mass lose Its fexibility in the freezing
air7 Goodyear nailed II against the
house. The next morning the COM
pound was as elastic as ever. lie had
discovered vulcsniaation. The. secret
was that rubber, with a slight sdmiS-
ture of sulphur hardened and lost its
adhesiveness. but not its 1exibility
when subjected to temperature of go
TO 2T0 degrees.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

Landscape gardening, in the eyes
of Miss Beatrix Jones, has attractions
superior to those of society. She has
adopted it seriously as profession
and finds it ever so much more stimu-
lating than dances and dinners. MISS
Jones is a daughter of Mrs. Cadwaia-
der Jones, and belongs to the -four
Hundred of New York, but she es-
teens it a far greater distinction that
she Is the first woman landscape gard
ener in this country, and that she mas
been chosen a member of the eXecu-
tive committee of the American so-
ciety of Landscape Architects.
Landscape architecture is the mouern
name for this fascinating pursuit, anu
it is really more fitting than the oiuer
term. since gardening implies the cul-
tivation of plants, rather than the lay
ing out of parks and grounds aceofu-
ing to artistic standards.
In the two years that she has de-
voted to her calling Miss Jones has
achieved notable results, says writer
in the Home Magazine. She has de-
signed the grounds for several new
residences at Bar Harbor and other re-
sorts of fashion. One of her most re-
cent patrons was Edgar Scott of Phila-
delphia, who has established himself
next to George W. Vanderbilts estate.
Miss Jones does her designing in a
studio that she had fitted up for her
self in her mothers home in New York
There, surrounded by objects of art,
she works hard over her drawing
board, planning how to mold forest
and lawn and shrub land so that they
will simulate the widest effects OF
nature or the fairest groves of an
tiQuity
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
WHAT PROGRESS WE MAKE.

When the United States annexed the
Hawaiian islands there was in exist
ence there a convenient and success
full system of postal savings banks,
similar to those prevailing in most
civilized countries of Europe, which
were utilized by 40 per cent of the
people, with deposits of $1,000,000,
from population Of 10000, making
over SO to every inhabitant Every
postoffice was a depository, the secur-
ity was perfect, the interest rate was
good, the government found the
money of service; altogether the sys-
TEN was priced highly. But as soon as
took charge the system was abolished
and the people deprived of a very use
full institution.
So, also, under Spanish rule, Porto
Rico had postal telegraph system
which was profitable and which con-
tributed materially to the revenues Of
the postoflice department. The United
States, having no postal telegraph sys-
TEN, such as most civilized countries
possess, of course the one existing on
the islands had to be abolished. The
United States is being held up in such
enterprises as that by our telegraph
monster, and it would not do to have
such system in Porto Rico, lest 1t en-
danger the grip the great monopoly
has upon us. We, as people, like to
be trodden under foot by great corpor-
ations, and intend to be right along
in spite of the example set by bar
barous islanders. Else why do we fill
congress with agents and wire pullers
of the great monopolizing corpora
tons?
The largest diamond found In this
country weighed over twenty-three
carats.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

The Firms in this country a year
ago organized the Kansan synod with
a view to Americanizing their religion.
The anniversary of the society was.
recently held at Ashtabula, O.. and the
fact was there brought out that the
synod will soon establish its first Fin
nish university in this country. prob
ably locating 1t In Ashtabula, which Is
an important Finnish center. There
Is already one other Finnish univer-
sity at Hancock, Mich, established by
the Svoni synod
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

y i've KEEP school," said Kentucky
mountaineer, whose eyes were opened
by visit to Berea college. but l can't
say I've ever taught" With more ade-
quate provision for training and an
ever-rising standard Of qualification.
the pedagogical profession is taking on
new dignity and power. All the more
important is it not to rush things, for
the finest results must depend on full
tides of vitality. In twelve states as
sociations of teachers met during the
recent holidays. Schoolroom work is
wearing to brain and nerve, and it Is
open to question whether 1t is wise to
pack the vacations with shop-work,
however attractive or handsomely
done.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

On the Interoceanic railway OF
Mexico a part Of the track has been
laid on ties Of jarrah wood imported
from Australia for this purpose. The
.jarrah wood is obtained from one Of
the largest tress of the forests Of Aus
tralia, which grows to an average
height of two hundred feet, and Is
about four feet in diameter at the
trunk. There is usually an interval Of
$50 feet to the first branch. These
trees furnish timber which is sound in
every respect, there being an absence
Of dry rot, gum veins and other de-
fects that often characterize large
trees.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

Mrs. Elizabeth Lidy, so years old, six
times married and five times divorced
has been adjudged insane at Peters
burg, Ind. She began her matrimonial
ventures while still girl, and she
continued through life discarding one
husband after another, hopeful that
she would find an ideal one. A COM
mission decided that this hopeless am
bition was evidence of insanity and
ruled accordingly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

A "New-Laid-Egg Society has been
organized in England. In furtheranse
Of its object collecting depots are being
established at various points. The
formation Of such a union not only
suggests the almost universal propen-
sity Of human beings to increase the
varieties and numbers Of societies, but
it testiies forcibly to the fact that
recentAess in an egg is form of new
riche1s which sarcasm spares and
good sense welcomes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

The New Hampshire legislature will
be asked for an appropriation for the
erection on the Capitol grounds of a
statue Of Franklin Pierce, the only
New Hampshire man who has been
president of the United States. The
body of Mr.. Pierce rests in Concord,
in the old North Cemetery.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
Kansas New Laws.

The following Is list of the most
important bills enacted into laws by
the Kansas Legislatures:
Regulating railroads.
Knocking out fusion.
Relating to foreclosure of money lien
mortgages.
Providing for free employment agen-
cies in first class cities.
Providing for cattle brand inspec-
ton in Western Kansas.
Organizing mutual hail insurance
companies.
Providing for the parole of pris-
oners.
Permitting soldiers in the Federal
Soldiers home vote.
Relating to the resignation of absent
voters.
Permitting railroad and travelling
men to vote away from home.
Apportioning the state into repre-
sentative districts.
Cutting out exemplary damages in
libel suits.
Giving the live stock commission
additional powers.
Making stealing a ride on a train a
crime. The trainmen are clothed with
authority W make arrests.
Prohibiting prizefghts and boxing
contests
To prefer the wages of employees of
defunct corporations.
Providing for the care and control
of neglected children.
Creating a state board of medical
registration and requiring physicians
to be examined.
Reorganizing the system of manag-
ing the state charitable institutions
and providing for the trial of persons
charged with insanity before medical
board instead of jury.
Giving the state board of health
power to enforce is quarantine rules.
Accepting the abandoned Fort Hays
military reservation and providing for
the establishment of branch normal
school and agricultural experimental
station thereon.
Raising the fees for the inspection
of grain.
Giving a district judge the right to
punish for contempt of court without
trial by jury.
Recognizing the state militia on
regular army lines.
Providing for the erection of a gov
ernor's mansion at Topeka
Consolidating school districts and
enabling school boards to transport
pupils to adjoining districts.
Providing for a tax commission to
revise the tax laws of the state and
report to the next legislature.
Making joints nuisances, and declar-
ing that government liquor stamps
shall be prima facie evidence of the
existence of a joint.
Prohibiting the sale of morphine.
cocaine and choral, except upon pre-
scription of reputable physician.
Placing the Mother Bickerdike home
under the contro- of the state.
Accepting Pixies Pawnee Indian
Village in Republican county and APP
propriating money to fix It UP.
Abolishing off-year county elections
and providing for a constitutional
amendment to make township officers
elected on even numbered years.
Giving the sheriffs the right to call
In bystanders to serve on a jury when
the regular panel is exhausted.
Providing for the vacation of about
IS additions and townsites.
Appropriations made by the legislature
this session for the fiscal years of 1902
and 1903 follow:
Determination Of ri
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

A man named Chandloux has just
hanged himself at Nevers, France. The
circumstances of the suicide are in no
way extraordinary except for the fact
that the man was the fifth husband OF
a woman, all Of whose previous hus-
bands came to a violent end. The first
hanged himself, the second persisted in
a. fire, the third drowned himself, and
the fourth and fifth have both been
found hanged, and in each case,
strangely enough, on a pear tree.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

A Philadelphia judge is reported as
having a most exalted idea of the i'm
portance Of his court, for he fined a
physician for contempt because, being
a witness, he had kept the court wait
ing half an hour. while at the bed
side of a patient so i'll that he could
not safely be left. Said the judge: "It
is better that patient should die than
that the court should be treated with
contempt"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

Pound together in mortar one Ia
blespoon of butter, two ounces o
Roquefort cheese, one saltspoon y
salt, one heaping saltspoon of paprik;
and sufficient tarragon vinegar to mil
all to paste. Spread over Zephy
crackers and arrange on a pretty plate
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
THE TEXAS OIL LAKE AFIRE,
Flames 800 Feet High Lighted the
Country For Fifty Miles.

Sparks from locomotive set fire
to the oil in large pond near the
great Lucas geyser, Beaumont Tex,
and in short time the whole lake of
petroleum was on fire. 1t spread to
the oil banked along the railroad track
and the flames increased in fury. A
large boarding house where live eigh--
ty workmen was destroyed. The oil
covered an area of probably rs acres
and the quantity amounted to about
100000 barrels. The flames at times
leaped to height of 500 to 600 feet.
and Illuminated the country for fifty
miles around.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
William X. Vanderbilt has ordered

William X. Vanderbilt has ordered
a new automobile in France that will
be nearly so per cent more powerful
than his famous white Ghost" His
present machine has road record OF
fifty-five miles an hour, but the new
one will be of forty-two horse power,
and able to go at rate Of seventy
seven miles an hour. 1t will cost S12,-
600.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
KANSAS AGITATOR.
BARNETT, KANSAS
BARNETT,
KANSAS

At the coronation OF Edward VII, the
duke Of Norfolk will be the stage
manager" His ancestors have been
masters Of ceremonies at all corona
tons for centuries. He is entitled to
a drinking cup OF pure gold, either
from King Edward or somebody else.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
A FEMALE JOHN BROWN.

Mrs. Carrie Nation has recon-
menced her campaign against the
Kansas saloons. No sooner is she out
of Jail than she renews the good fight.
She has been reinforced by three other
brave and self-sacrificing women.
They armed themselves with hatchets
and destroyed two more of the hell
holes of iniquity. Mrs. Nation was ar
rested and >discharged-she was rear
rested and Is again in jail with two
OF her comrades. They are making
that grim old Jail tuneful with the
strains of Nearer, My God, to Thee"
The heroic crusader says she Is in
spired Of God to destroy the saloons
of Kansas. This Is the most reason
able inspiration we ever heard of, and
II she accomplishes her mission, we,
too, will believe in divine inspiration.
Would that the cowardly men of Kan
sas might also be inspired to wipe off
Of the fair face of Kansas these foul
blots on her purity-the death dealing
and fatten in open violation of the
fundamental law Of the state. The
saloon in Kansas Is an outlaw-it is
entitled to no protection from the law.
Mrs. Nation and her supporters so re-
gard it and they think that that I'M
lawful nuisance should be abated.
They are going to abate it, too, II
possible, and it is possible. If the
good women of the state will come to
the help of their dauntless leader they
will certainly win the battle. You
can't arrest and try and convict 10000
women. An attempt to do so would
raise cyclone of Indignation that
would envelop the saloons and all their
ruin.
An infamed mob of desperate men
burned negro at the stake in Leav-
enworth and the state is helpless to
punish this open and notorious viola
ton Of the law. Will not the state be
just as helpless to punish a mob of
women who are only attempting to
enforce the prohibitory law of the
state? Will Kansas forgive break
ers and punish women law enforcers?
We do not believe so. Mrs. Nation
can blot out every dive in Kansas II
the women will help her. Her cour-
age may be sustained by the inspira-
ton from on high, but her success
will only come from the assistance
afforded her by the true women of the
commonwealth. We believe that the
saloons are up against the hardest
proposition they have ever met and
this little lever may be the power that
will move the world.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

Ever since the alabaster box Of
precious ointment was used for be-
nign purpose by the woman of Beth
any. and the question was asked by
those who saw the sacrifice: ITO what
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

The superior quickness of American
workmen was strihingly illustrated not
long ago, when number of them were
sent to Europe with shipment of
American locomotives. With previous
consignments only foreman and his
assistant had been sent, a nd local
labor was relied upon for all the work
save superintendent; but the foreign
workmen were SO leisurely in their
habits that 1t took them twice as long
as the same force Of Americans re-
Quired for the task. Hence 1t was
cheaper to send all the men necessary
to set up the locomotives.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

The peanut seems to be playing the
part Of "civilizer" in some of the for
eign possessions in tropical Africa.
Traders give negro a bushel of nuts
for seed on condition that he returns
four bushels from his crop, and since
the yield in good years is twenty-fold,
the black man generally has a surplus
which he can sell at the rate Of shill-
ing a bushel. From single station in
Senegambia there were shipped, in
1898, twenty-nine thousand tons. Small
boys and scientists have long been in
agreement touching the value Of the
peanut; now statesmen also will have
to do it honor, since 1t seems likely to
lead the native African into the paths
of agriculture
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
DRESSING THE HAIR.

There are varied opinions about this
new revival of the fashion of dressing
the hair low on the neck. Their tone
depends very much on whether or not
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

This holds out beautiful prospect
for us and our children. A vast army
of fighting men 5000 miles away from
home for year after year-an expendi-
ture of $3.50, 100000 a year for nobody
knows how long-the ocean plowed by
transports carrying fresh soldiers to
foreign charnel house and with re-
turning cargoes of sick, wounded and
dead men. The American people know
but little of the dreadful truth about
the unexpressible horrors of our Ash
attic war-only once In while an hon.
est correspondent tries to tell the
whole truth, but always fails before
he gets half through the accumulation
Of horrors. If the American people
knew the exact condition of our affairs
in the orient a wave of indignation
would arise that would sweep this
cruel and murderous administration
and all its time serving followers clear
out of the world.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
IN THE ORIENT.

A gentleman who moves in high Of
fetal circles in Manila writes a long
letter to the New York Post from
which are taken the following ex-
tracts: 1T is openly and repeatedly
asserted by army officers in Manila to-
day that the American army is on the
defensive in this archipelago and that
it has been on the defensive for more
than six months. 1t was on the defan-
sive when General Otis went home to
tell the people of the United States
that the Philippine situation was wei
in hand Perhaps the official code of
ethics forbade his successors discI dit
ing that statement, at least until af-
ter the election, but the time is at
hand when something radical will
have to be done.
"A few weeks ago a number Of staff
officers went on a cruise among the
southern islands of the archipelago
This number included Colonel NJ Bar
Der, adjutant general of the division
at that time; Colonel Greenleaf, the
chief surgeon, and other prominent
officials who had thorough Office
knowledge of the conditions. Since
their return several of these gentle
men have been heard to condemn via
orously policy that is Largely re-
sponsible for the present situation,
viz, a policy that attempts to recon-
cile the two directly opposite forces
of war and beneficence.
"They report that the garrisons In
two-thirds of the territory visited are
in a state Of actual siege and that
they dare not 60 more than few hun
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

dred yards outside their potts for fear
of capture or of encountering an over
whelming force Of insurgents; that all
of the garrisons are too small for the
territory watched over and that not
day passes that several American
soldiers are not picked Off by the
watchful and treacherous natives"
This does not look much like an i'm
mediate peace. In another part Of his
letter the correspondent says that the
Filipinos hate us worse than they
ever hated the Spaniards, that the
war will continue for long years to
come and that We need right now an
army of occupation consisting of 1OO,-
600.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08

purpose is this waste?" the world has
had manifold illustrations of the spirit
that prompted the query. A love OF
the refnements of life, the delicate and
beautiful in dress, and the time and
money and patient labor expended In
producing work that shall please the
eye and crafty the taste, are often
condemned as something worse than
vanity-a waste of precious moments
Is 1t not the misuse Of the luxuries and
adornments of dress. rather than the
love and wearing of them, which Is
open to censure by complaining crit
les? These critics are satisfied with
the carrots and cabbages of this life
believing that the wilderness or gar
den which blossoms with the rose Is
so much waste ground; clothing them
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
judges and stenog-

appropriations Tor deficiencies or [
now due or to become due before j
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-23
KANSAS NEWS.
A ssHigh RolIer'' With a Fond
ness For Young Ladies
Has Been Creating Considerable
Comment at Wellington.
COULD CURE EVERY ILL
Chased Out of Offices aud Fined
in Police Court.
Engaged TO a Widow Another
Woman Puts in Appearance
Took His High Hat and Fled
During the Night.
COULD CURE EVERY ILL

Wellington, April 23.-Dr. Hartman
Bishop, the man with a Mother Hub
bard overcoat, a silk bonnet and a tack
hammer head, left before sunrise this
morning on southbound freight
Whence he came and whittier he goes
are matters of mere speculation-that he
cut a wide swath in tall clover while
here is well known. His income was
apparently something short of a million
dollars a year and his style was that
of man talking to the moon through
a tail silk hat.
He represented an institution that
mixes dope for imaginary diseases Gre
ated by reading the symptoms described
in patent medicine almanacs. His main
hold is blowing about the marvellous
cures he has performed and taking con-
tracts to cure all the ills of humanity
for a vaIua Bile consideration in advance.
The druggists say he couldn't write a
prescription and the physicians say he
was a fraud.
He had tried to introduce himself to
ladies on the street, had been chased
out of an office with a poker, was fined
in police court and had tried to make
love to several young ladies. Thursday
a physician of this city was consulted
by a well-known widow and asked his
opinion of Bishop. He told her in a
WOrd-''fake."
Later it was learned that the widow
had engaged herself to marry Bishop
OI MAY o. anu ne threatened " O1Al5
suit for breach of promise if she threw
him over.
Yesterday a woman who is believed
to have been deceived came to town
seeking Bishop and claimed to be his
wife.
whether she had any claims on him
or not is unknown but he got drunk
on opium or something else, and part
ner who had Joined him the day before
kept him off the streets.
In the evening the drummers at the
hotel made Bishop believe that a man
from Oxford was hunting him to kill
him, and later the whole police force
was after him He went out on some
vacant lots and hid behind a fence.
asking one of the drummers to take
care of his silk hat. He was kept behind
the fence for several hours. When he
came in he accused the hotel man of
stealing his hat, but it was found this
morning hanging on tree in front of
the hotel.
He had intended to speak on the street
corner today and had threatened to
burn the newspapers-bu he is gone
hence.