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cotton Letter.
c. W. Lee 6 Co.'S Letter to H. D. Goth

O. w. Lee ~ Co. 8 Letter to H. D. Coth-
 ran & Co.,,
 New York, November 2.-There was one very important development in cotton today. It looks as though the cold wave needed to bring killing frosts into the cot ton belt was at hand. In the extreme northwest temperatures were about 6 de- grees below zero and from the high winds reported in the Western States 1t should beoa sign. of cold weather in the cotton belt. In the event of killing frost in the South avery bearish factor would be removed and everything points to reaction in that case. At the opening this news started an advance and Janu- ary opened at 7.50. A large amount of cotton wassbought at the early advance. and this started the market too high
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Treasury statemen,

Washington. November 2-Todav,s treasury balances exclusive of the go,d reserve shows: Available cash balanca
 u76 Ses, 761; gold. $1o9. .S62, ,227. "oe'
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The Metal Mark.,

New York November 2.-Tin. du1l soz
 copper quiet. a6.S5Q17. .00; lead dull. sl. s7lI: spelter dull, A.s7h; pig iron warrants
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N E. BARKER, President; J. H. WOODWARD, FORD Assistant Cashier
 olREcIoRsMW Brown Robert Jemson F. M Ne Wn A. Walker H. M Tut~dier B. F. Moore N E. Barker W. D. Harding
 The this those who contemplate making
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Birmingham City Bonds.
Fruit and Produce

Birmingham city bonds can be bought on a AZ or AS per cent basis.
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MUCH TIME SAVED in using 8 GAS STOVE.
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New orIeans Cotton Marked.

New York. November 2-Despite that yesterday was legal holiday, there was considerable trading in spot cotton, and the sales made a total of 46O0 bales, be- sides 2150 bales to arrive.
 Today there was a moderate demand for the staple and quite a steady feeling prevailed among factors, who, while of fering freely, showed less disposition to cut under in order to move stocks. On the other hand the further decline in values at Liverpool had tendency to make buyers cautious, and. though they would doubtless have taken goodly lists at the slightest lower shading, they were rather chary about going beyond the limits of imperative requirements. and the sales for today were accordingly held with 400 bales of spots and 2000 bales to arrive. Quotations revised: Ordinary advanced 7-1e; good ordinary A; low mid ding was allowed to stand at even flg- ures, and all the better grades were quoted down 1-16.
 Yesterday was devoted to curb trading in the local market for contracts and con siderable business was done at some what lower range of values. of which there Is no official record. This morning the market opened 2 to 3 points below Thursdays figures, and during the short hours prices nuctuated rapidly over a range of to ( points either way, finally CIObill6 WILL. D6L BdiIlS lIOiA SudJ level of but 1 to points. New Orleans, November 2. = Cotton Very steady; sales 8400 bales; ordinary 15-16c, good ordinary s7-16c. low mid ding y7c, fmiddling 7%c.s good middling 7ssc, middling fair .l7Ac; receipts 1892, stock 164. 152
 46. 235. exports to Great Britain 557, to France 1SO, to the continent 7732 stock 644. 292, --..-s..-..-.. .-..s-4a.s
 New Orleans, November 2,-cotton-Fu- lures steady; November 7ea247 .33c. Janu- ary 7.27@7. .2Sc.1 February 7.2407 .26c, March 7.2497. 25o, April 7.aa@7 ,a4c, May 7.21@7. 2sc. .,...,.,s s..,9S '.,.y Daily statement
 Galveston Quiet; nothing offering; mid ding TIC, sales 300 receipts s6s3, stock .'Mobie--Steady. middiing b7tsc. sales 100, receipts Ss5, stock is0,s74.tega '
 Savannah--steady; middling 3-1ec,sales 623 receipts il, 7O2, stock 124,74e.
 CharlestonslQuiet and firm; middling f3-16c, sales 100. receipts 3103s stock IS, 944.
 Wilmington-FirmJa imiddling 7hc, re- ceipts 1944, stock 20909. i1 ae .ia Norfolk -Qdiets s1middling 7Mc, sales 721, receipts 3903, stock 37,S99
 Baitihore-N Nominal; nafddifng 77sc, stock 855g. ---
 Boston, Quiet; niiddiing .7Mc, receipts 1e6 stock 2834. q fta f@ s.s
 Phiiadelphia4ou mfddling sMc re- ceipts 66, stock 2244
 St Louis. Quiet; middling 7s-1sc. re- ceipts 7224, stock 43, 322. 9ssta
 Memphis Steady; middiing sssc. re- ceipts 5135. shipments 3a99. sales 200. stock s7,s72 T7A a'
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New Orleans. November 2,-Cotton-Fu- tures- steady November 7ss2Q7 .s3c. Janu- ary 7,27G7. .2sc, February 7.2407 .26c, March .24Q7. 25e, April 7.2a@7 ,24c, May 7.21@7. 2Sc.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24
To Lessen Poverty and Crime.

To Lessen Poverty and Crime.
Now that capitalists are giving more
freely Of their time and means to the
betterment of the poor than formerly.
1t is all-important that such aid should
be extended in the direction most
needed. And this is in providing suit
able home for those whose meagre pay
now compels them to live and bring up
family in the r-crowded, ill-smell-
ing, vicious atmosphere Of the tene-
ment barracks, or so-called houses, in
our great cities. Take New York as a
sample OF her 100000 people one
quarter are compelled to live in mar
row, unhealthful and wretched quar-
tiers, unfit for beasts, still less human
habitation. The great bulk, who exist
amid these horrible influences, to their
everlasting honor be 1t said. lead re-
spectacle lives. Honest by nature, they
inherit enough Of the saving qualities
to survive in an atmosphere deadly to
noble impulses. Convinced that health
and morals and happiness suffer in
such tenements, the wonder is that
they have not been RACED long ago. II
the state and the city shirked the
proposition there should have been hu-
manity enough in private wealth to
have done away with this source Of
misery and crime. While the world
applauds Carnegie for providing IL
braries for American cities it would
applaud him the more II his 5000, 000,-
900 could be expended in providing re-
spectacle homes for the millions DOOM
ed to the tenements who would hail
him as deliverer, almost more than
earthly, II he would lift them out OF
wretched abodes into the sunshine of
the privacy attending homes worthy OF
the name. But Carnegie sees his duty
in another direction and with that we
cannot find fault. Perhaps some other
American, pleased with a superabund
ance of this worlds goods, may under
take the amelioration of those obliged
to put up with the horrors of the tene-
ment and do 1t on scale commensu
rate with Carnegie's disposition of his
millions. II not an individual, then let
the millionaires combine for the pur-
pose. The corporations of London and
Liverpool have undertaken such
project, and New York and Chicago
and Boston should not be idle the
meanwhile. The transplanting Of the
tenement population into the country
would have salutary effect all round
and now, with the rapid transit, the
wage earners could live in detached
houses 20 or 80 miles away from the
place Of employment. This would also
lessen by one-half the victims new
made by the herding in the crowded
quarters of the town.-Utica Globe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24
Austrian Public Works.

The Austrian government has in
contemplation a series of vast public
works and will probably undertake to
carry them out at once. They include
railways to cost 4S3, 900, 900 kronen and
canals which will cost at least SOC, 000,-
600 kronen and will probably require
700, 000, 900. At the lowest estimate the
sum of 100000 kronen. or very
nearly $250,000,000, will have to be
provided by the state and the different
provinces for works which cannot pay
more than l or per cent Of the capt.
tai, and for this loan bearing at least
4 per cent will have to be raised. The
construction of the railways will be
spread over the next five or six years,
while the canals will be complete
within ten or fifteen. The chief rail-
way scheme is for second line con-
Meeting the northern provinces with
Trieste, over the Tauern Alps, In COM
petition with the existing route
through the Semmering and Gratz, by
which Salzburg will be brought nearer
to the Adriatic by 179 kilometers. AS
regard the water ways, 1t may be said
in general that the Elbe river Is to be
regulated and connected by new
canal with the Danube. near Vienna;
that onother canal will connect the
Danube port of Vienna with the River
Moldau, near Budweis, whence the
MOldau Is to be made navigable to its
confluence with the Elbe, and, finally,
the Danube-Elbe canal is to be con-
nected with the Oder and, in its con-
tinuation, with the Vistula and the
whole system Of Galician rivers. These
works will give employment to tens
Of thousands Of working men in most
Of the provinces Of the empire and are
expected to allay much Of the unrest
which has been caused by poverty and
political and national animosities.-
Chicago Chronicle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24

Two Chariots.
This is the chariot known as Fate and
these are the horses three,
They are known as Greed, Ambition
and Strife, and the wind is not
more free.
They are coursing the vast arena OF
life and their goal is Destiny.
And who is 1t rides SO swift away, o!
who may the driver be?
Stern shows his face through the
clouds of dust-look and your
eyes will see
The form of daring rider there, and
his name is Enmity.
Now, these are the horses, black as
night, and the driver fierce is he;
They feel the pittiless lash of pride as
onward they swiftly flee
For he seeks the glittering goal be-
yond, the goal that is Destiny.
But look where another chariot goes
and drawn by horses three;
Their driver he drives with a gentle
hand and Love his name shall
be,
For the horses he drives are Faith and
Hope, and the third Is Charity.
White as the foam that vets their lips
are Loves swift horses three;
They, too, are rounding the course Of
life toward the goal that is Des-
tiny;
But they trample no roses under their
feet and none from their path
way fee.
Where Enmity's chariot wheels have
been burning track shall be,
While Love looks back with a linger-
ing smile that all who will may
see;
For Enmity rides with fierce desire,
but Love shall the victor be.
Lewis Tubbs, in Town and
Country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24
Economic, o, Stat. ou..r.hIp.

We paid the late Cornelius Wander
bilt over $1,75O,O00 year for owning
certain railroad stocks, and are pay
ing his young son, just out of college,
about 100000 a year for the same
service. This is more than the COM
bined salaries of the president and
vice president of the United States, all
the members of the cabinet, all the
justices Of the Supreme court, all the
judges Of the other United States
courts, the acknowledgement, major
general and brigadier-generals OF the
regular army, the admiral and all the
rear admirals of the navy. - Paul
Jones on the Bon Homme Richard,
Somers in the harbor of Tripoli and
Cushing driving over the boom that
surrounded the Albemarle treated
their lives as rubbish In the presence
of the work they had to do. They got
a few hundred dollars year for their
services. -" In all these enterprises
the most of the work Is done by sal
aried officials as it is. The great rail-
roads are not run by the millionaires
who absorb their profits, but by super
intendents, managers and presidents
drawing from $1,000 to $4,000 apiece.
The millions are mostly made In stock
manipulation. That would disappear
under government ownership, but the
working staff would remain, and the
public would get at least as good serv-
ice as ever.-East Oregonian.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24
LIGHTING THE WAY
TO INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM IN
THIS REPUBLIC.
Colorado Il I'll ,zing the Way by Chang.
Ing Its Constitution SO as to Admit
the Single Tax IIsa to Trisi-Wnl
Come Like y WhirIwlnL.

The people OF the state Of Colorado
are to be congratulated upon the fact
that the governor has signed the bill
providing for the submission to popu-
lar vote of the proposed constitutional
amendment giving to the voters Of any
county the right to determine whether
or not they will exempt personal prop
erty and improvements on land from
taxation for local purposes. The
amendment will be voted on in Novem-
Der, 1902 1t looks now as though the
Centennial state Is destined to blaze
the way to industrial freedom for her
sister states. The Empire state or the
Old Bay state may yet outstrip her,
for in neither OF them is it necessary
to amend the constitution In order to
secure local option in taxation. An act
of the legislature is all that is neces-
sary either in New York or Massachu-
sets.
But whether Colorado shall be the
first state to exempt the products OF
industry from taxation or not, she has
won the honor Of having taken the
first step toward industrial emancipa-
ton. And the emphatic and almost
unanimous vote OF her legislators in
both senate and assembly Indicates
that she has put her hand to the pillow
and will not look back. At last the
way out of the wilderness Of restric-
lions, letters and hampers, into the
promised land OF freedom, progress,
and happiness, lies open to the people
of one sovereign state of this Union.
1t is delightful to contemplate that In
less than two years from now there
may be an American county in which
industry will not be fined nor enter
prise penalized; In which the right of
the producer to enjoy the results Of his
labor will be practically recognized,
and no assessor will dare to modest or
make him afraid.
No one who has thought at all on
the subject can wonder that SO hideous
a system of taxation as exists In this
country should be SO unpopular with,
and hateful to, free and spirited peo-
pie. Well may they exclaim, as many
Of them are beginning to do, "Oh,
wretched people that we are, who shall
deliver us from the body Of this
death?"
No wonder that the people Of New
Zealand, who for twelve long, dreary
years endured the horrors Of the sys-
TEN, cling so tenaciously to the min
istry that delivered them from its mis-
cries. But it is passing strange that
a people descended from such sires as
the American people are descended
from should so long have groaned I'M
der such system.
There are persons among us who be-
lieve that it will take long time for
the single tax to work it's way into
general application, even after 1t has
been adopted in one state or import
ant city. They are mistaken. 1t will
come in like whirlwind, when 1t once
gets started. The Australian ballot
ran like wild-fire through the states Of
this Union as soon as Massachusetts,
adopted it; but its progress will be as
a snail's pace compared with that Of
the Australian land-value tax, when 1t
Is adopted by Colorado.
JOSEPH LEGGETT.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24


The prompt conviction of sergeant
Of completely in the commissary frauds
in the Philippines, will no doubt be
followed by some more of the small
fry suffering the same fate and it is
possible that the whole gang may be
punished II they have no influential
friends back of them. But whitewash-
ing has been such a favorite pastime
Of the Mckinley administration that
they do not seem able to follow more
straightforward course. But what else
can one expect of an administration
that rewarded Backyard Egan, says
the Johnstown Democrat, that pro-
tected the army beef scoundrels, that
shielded the thieves in Cuba, that pen
stoned polygamists and harems. that
raised the American flag over slavery,
that hauled down the flag in Alaska,
that gave the brother Of the president
immense army contracts, that paid
fabulous sums to ship owners for old
hulks that would not float, and that
promoted an officer, because by forg-
cry, bribery and lying he gained the
camp of an enemy?
Then again the Cuban scandals ap-
pear to be hushed. Rathbone and
Nicely have not been brought to trial,
though months have elapsed since their
frauds were discovered.
The census frauds in Maryland have
quieted down and 1t appears that the
powerful interests which laid the plan
are now able to protect their under
strappers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24

An interesting discussion has been
begun as to the loss OF heat which re-
suits from taking cold bath. An
elaborate series Of tests undertaken In
London showed that very decided
rise of temperature occurred in the wa
ter of the bath, but that the tempera-
ture did not continue to rise. The av-
erage time Of experimentation was,
say, two minutes. In one trial the ex-
perimenter found that his body heated
the water from so degrees Fahrenheit
to Sc degrees in two minutes. The av-
erage result Of the observations Is that
one gallon of water would be heated
through 9.6 degrees in one minute, and
that this corresponds to no less than
two and half horse power. The OBJ
servers determined that the normally
healthy man gives of to the surround
ing air heat equivalent to the raising
OF eight pounds Of water l degree per
minute.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24

Sir Christopher Furness, M. p, the
wealthy ship-builder. ship-owner and
railroad president, in a recent article
in the London Daily Mail combats the
demand which is springing up in Eng
land to re-institute protective duties
upon iron and steel products, etc., in
order to prevent the British market
being flooded by the "billion-dollar
Steel Trust"
He says: Instead Of restricting the
natural development Of industry; in
stead OF trying to divert trade from its
natural channels by so-called protec-
tive tariffs, which confer special priv
ileges and create monopolies by means
of which the few benefit at the ex-
pense Of the many, we should, l main
tain, carry to their logical conclusion
the great free-trade principles. AS yet
exchange is only partially free, and
before we can have true freedom Of
trade, not exchange only but produc-
ton also must be free from all monop-
olies and restrictions. The question Of
our mineral rents and royalties must
be dealt with. Sir Isaac Lowthian
Bell estimates that the royalties on a
ton of pig iron from ironstone, coal,
etc., amounts to $3.50 in Scotland and
$1.60 in northern England, while In
Germany it is only $O.12.
"Our present system Of taxation OPP
crates in a large part as direct fine
upon trade and industry. The true
fiscal policy for this country is not
protection. but the gradual transfer
ence to land values of the dead weight
of rates and taxes that now hampers
trade and industry. The taxation Of
land values would loosen the grip OF
the land monopolists, and labor and
capital could then secure on reasonable
terms land for farming, mining, build
ing, manufacturing, etc.
Protection is economically unsound.
We must, If our trade and industry are
to survive, move step by step toward
the free trade IDEAL"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24

It would be difficult to name any
achievement of medical science which
contains more of the picturesque or ap-
peals more powerfully to the magma
ton than the discovery that two of the
commonest species Of mosquitoes are
responsible. the one for the spread Of
malaria, the other for the dissemina-
ton of yellow fever. Here are two
members Of family long known to be
somewhat troublesome and disagree
able, but usually regarded as nothing
more than a common nuisance, I'M
worthy of any very serious attention.
Meantime, however, mysterious and ter
rible crimes occur. Here man is
bound and tortured. there whole fam
lily is murdered, an entire community
wiped out; and the assassins always
succeed in concealing their identity
and making good their escape. But
the patient detectives at work on the
case pick up one clue here and another
there, until at last the eyes Of the COM
munity are opened, and it sees that the
two Insignificant and despised crea-
lures who have been coming and going
almost unnoticed are In reality the
great criminals for whom the whole
world has been searching. When such a
case is made out against human Of
tenders, Justice is prompt Sanitary
science is proceeding with equal ener-
gy against the two guilty members Of
the mosquito family.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24

The victories of Tom Johnson in
Cleveland, Jones in Toledo and the
three-cent fare ticket in Columbus,
has aroused the Republicans to the
fact that the people favor municipal
ownership. Charles w. Dick, chair
man of the Republican state conven-
ton of Ohio, who is the chief bench
man of Hanna and the president. made
a speech at Columbus before the Pres
idential Postmasters' Association, in
which he marked out some startling
departures from usual Republican cam
paign issues and indicated what to
expect in the next Republican state
platform. Dick said he favored gov
eminent ownership Of all means of
communication and that he fully in
dorsed the postal savings system.
Sooner or later" he said, "the te,e-
graph and telephone lines Of the coun-
try will be owned and operated by the
government and it is proper they
should be, for II the government can
send message by wire for cents it
has no right to permit private cor
poration to extort rs cents for the
same SERVICE"
Dick betrayed no sign that this was
the first time he ever spoke on the
municipal ownership side Of the ques-
ton and the postmasters, recognizing
1t as new slogan, applauded the senti-
ment vigorously.
It is also stated that an important
conference Of Ohio Republican leaders
was held at which 1t was decided to
get into the field first with the dscla-
ration for municipal ownership.
This sudden change of mind of Re-
publicans on the issue they have al
ways been fighting brings to mind the
declaration against trusts in the Ohio
Republican platform Of two years ago
and the turning down Of Attorney
General Monet. the only man In their
party who had shown any effort to
curb the trusts. That Hanna, McKin-
ley and Dick really favor municipal
ownership is too absurd to even be
swallowed by an Ohio granger from
the back counties, for they have for
three or four years been ardent sup
porters Of Public Policy, a Chicago
publication that Is published in the
interests of corporations that own
municipal franchises.
The perfection Of the Republican ma
chine in Ohio 10 brought to the light
BY this meeting Of Republican post
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24

Nine. Barbet- Batifol has hequeathed
an annuity Of 10000 francs $4,000 to
the city of Paris on condition that It
be given to the young unmarried work.
ing girl who by virtue Of her intelli-
genee and good conduct is capable OF
setting up in business and only re-
quires the necessary funds. The ap-
plicants must be French. Each year
the project Of the Seine will select
what he considers the most deserving
case.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24
Stock watering.

The Standard Oil Company has de-
clared quarterly dividend Of twenty
per cent ON its capital stock Of $780,
900, 900, other dividends paid during
the fiscal year make q total Of sixty
per cent or $50 1000, 900 in all. Now this
is the stock that will bear watering
and a good deal Of 1t. as 500 shares
are nearly worth $1,000, but then the
Rockefellers and Flaglers own nearly
all Of It and as 1t is not for sale, II
would be waste of time to increase
the stock. Watered stock IL intended
for the lambs that 20 to Wall Street.
70 b skinned.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-05-24
81 :: 81 XXI

performances are produced most cred
itably by home talent. An apparently
little thing, but indicative Of the COM
pany's interest in the men; hot coffee
is served free at depots and large
terminals whenever the weather is suf-
ficiently cold, and in tAe heat Of the
summer cold lemonade or oatmeal
water is given 10 the men. All this
betterment tends to the great efficiency
Of the individual, which makes him Of
greater value to himself and to the
community, hence to his company
George Fl. Daniels, General Railroad
Agent, in Philadelphia Times.