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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
FOR WOMEN ANDHOME
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS
AND MATRONS.,
Hockey for Ladies'. a Game Much Ad-
hired in England-Attempt to Arouse
Interest In This Country-American
Girls Would Excel In 1t.
HOCKEY COMES NEXT.

Hockey for the ladies, long the vogue
in England, is now about to be intro
duced in this country by an energetic
young Englishwoman who has come to
America and to Boston for the express
purpose of inspiring in our girls all
interest in this sport. Miss Cons lance
Applebee, the sister of the Rev. ]. H.
Applebee, the minister at Theodore
Parker's church, West Roxbury, thinks
that there is no game to compare with
this one, for which she is to be sponsor
hereabouts.
1T is most extraordinary" she says,
that the game has not already been
introduced to the American schools
and colleges. In England, Girton col
lege at Cambridge, and Somerville col
lege at Oxford, have splendidly coached
teams. The two great girls schools.
Wykeham Abbey and the Roedean
school, also have well-known teams,
and indeed 1t would be difficult to find
in England a high school of standing
or a preparatory school for women
that does not boast Of its hockey
eleven.
1.-THE All-England Women's Hockey
association was founded in 1895, and
ever since then there have been
matches played throughout the king
dom. The All-England team is COM
posed of the best players in England,
picked from the winners at the county
matches. 1t has played matches with
the teams from Ireland and from
Wales, and it still remains invincible.
During my study at the hemenway
Gymnasium this summer l had ample
opportunity to observe the temper and
characteristics of Americas athletic
young women, and l am certain that
they could do excellent work In hockey
were they properly coached up In 1t.
Regarded from the point OF healthy
muscular exercise, there is no sport
and 1 know them all, basket ball, fen
cling. swimming, walking, bicycling and
golf-that compares with hockey. 1t
exercises every muscle in the body and
it is something that can be played all
through the year, except In the very
hottest and coolest days. Our English
girls play from about the end OF Sep
TENDER to the beginning Of May, with a
slight intermission about Christmas
time.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
terview With tho Republican members

terview With the Republican members
of the ways and means committee. Tho
other kind Is the new brand, samples
of which are seen in the reciprocity
treaties now before the United States
senate. The new Kasson brand is VIC
lently opposed by the Protective Tariff
League, and in the matter 1t Ia fur
nishing to the Republican newspapers
it said:
Very many Of the reductions strike
directly at some established and i'm
portant industry. The textile manu-
facturers and the jewelry manufacture
ers of Massachusetts, have opposed
with especial earnestness the ratifica-
ton of this (the French) treaty by
the senate" 1t then goes on and says
that "the free trade newspapers are
favoring this French reciprocity" In
reading these Nominations of the
league one has to make allowances for
its misstatements, such as calling the
tariff-reform newspapers free-trade
and SO forth, for the league is in dire
distress just about now. Its scientific
tariff is under fire not only by the ever
wicked Democrats, but by those of its
own household. Even President Nc
Kinley in his speech at Buffalo said
that reciprocity treaties are In har-
mony with the spirit of the times.
measures Of retaliation are not" But
let these tariff doctors fight out who ia
best capable of making diagnosis of
the disorder that is troubling the over
protected patient and inquire II either
Of them are likely to strike at the root
Of the disease. 1t is not the question
OF five or ten per cent reduction of
the tariff on few articles, as the
French treaty provides, even allowing
that the constitution will allow reve-
nue. to be lowered or raised by the ac-
ton of the executive and the senate,
but shall the protection given the
trusts in the present tariff be taken
off or continued. The French reci-
procity treaty, nor any Of the eight
others now awaiting ratification, does
not touch the monopoly granted the
trusts and this is the main question
Of the tariff reform that the people
want settled. The reduction of the
tariff to a revenue basis will follow
when the present extravagant and
wasteful Republican party is replaced
by one pledged to an honest admins
tration who will be free from lavish
ness or waste.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
WRENoHED FOOT AND ANKLE.
Cured by st. Jacobs OIL.

Gentlemen: A short time ago ]
severely wrenched my foot and ankle.
The injury was very painful, and the.
consequent inconvenience (being
obliged to keep to business), was very
trying. A friend recommended st.
Jacobs Oil, and l take great pleasure
In informing you that one application
was sufficient to effect complete cure.
To busy man, SO simple and effective
remedy is invaluable. and I shall
lose no opportunity of suggesting the
use OF St. Jacobs Oil. Yours truly,
Henry ]. DORIS, Manager the Cycles
Co., London, England.
st. Jacobs Oil is safe and sure and
never-failing. Conquers pain.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

What help it will be to the farmer.
the storekeeper and the workingman
when Hanna gets his ship-subsidy bill
through Congress. 1t is true they
will have to pay the s1SO, 100000 the
bill calls for, but that will all be re-
turned to them with large interests by
the lower freight rate the shipowners
will be able to charge. At least that
is what the clique who are forcing the
bill say, but these Republican leaders
may be mistaken and the steamship
trust may keep the money and not
make any dividend to the people, OF
course they will have to pay percent
age to Hanna as chairman of the Re-
publican national committee, but this
will go to the strikers and healers who
the people would be ashamed to own
as of themselves.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
To Check Profanity,

Curse cards are being used in Swift
zerland and Germany to check profan-
ity. People go about with the cards in
their pockets and whenever they hear
bad language present one to the
swearer to sign. The card has printed
on it a pledge to abstain from swear
ing for specified time or to pay a
small fine for each oath to some char
ity. Nearly 10000 of these cards have
been distributed in Switzerland alone.
Chicago News.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

II Secretary Long desires to show
his fairness to Admiral Schley, he
should issue an order assuring naval
officers that they can testify freely be-
fore the court of inquiry without fear
of getting themselves on the depart
ment blacklist if their testimony does
not suit the Sampson-Crowninshield
clique now running the department. If
Secretary Long will not do this the
president should take the matter into
his own hands, he is commander-in-
chief of the navy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

Prof. Sparks Of the Chicago Uni
versity told the history class the other
day that periods of prosperity such as
we are now having, are always follow
ed by one of depression. He advised
the students to save their money In
view of the coming hard times. There
must be some mistake about this, pro-
lessor, for the republicans tell us that
President Mckinley has just started
his prosperity and good crops under
way.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

Lord Roberts, according to the &C.
theological Magazine, had to pay about
$3.50 for his earldom-a charge which
reminds one Of Bismarck's anger at be-
ing requested to furnish 5000 francs
for the insignia of the Order Of the
Golden Fleece. The chancellor angrily
informed the Spanish ambassador that
had he known the cost he would never
have accepted the honor, and. indeed,
the bill was never settled.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

Although without knowledge of sur
gerry, Theodore Austin, aged sixteen,
probably saved his own life the other
day by the application of little prac-
tical knowledge. The boy was work.
ing at home in Philadelphia, when he
ran his hand through a pane Of glass
and severed an artery in his wrist. He
started for the hospital, but had not
gone far before he realized that 1t
would not do to wait to have the flow
of blood stopped. He bound his hand
kerchief tightly around his wrist.
above the cut, and by sticking pen
Gil through the knot, improvised a
tourniquet by which he succeeded In
twisting the handkerchief until the end
of the severed artery was closed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

Mrs. Catherine Babcock Of Washing
ton, d. c., widow Of Colonel Babcock.
who was a member Of General Grants
staff, was committed to the Govern
ment insane Asylum recently, to
await an investigation by the court as
to her sanity. Mrs. Babcock has the
idea that some one is going to steal
the body of her daughter. buried In
Baltimore, Nd, and hold 1t for ran
som.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

There is great gloom at the head
quarters Of the Protective Tariff
League and the Home Market Club.
They fear the tariff is about to be
meddled with and that even some
reasonable Republican hands may be
helping to break open the shrine at
which they worship. They are still
firing blank cartridges at the Demo-
Gratis, but it is only in a half-hearted
way. They should reserve their am
munition and pour some hot shot into
these recreant Republicans, and they
may keep up the Chinese wall while
longer Their allies, the trusts, should
be called upon to give more material
aid.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

It is a familiar example Of irony in
the degradation Of words that what
a man is worth" has come to mean
how much money he possesses; but
there seems deeper and more mel
ancholy irony in the shrunken mean
ing that popular or polite speech as
signs to morality" and morals" The
poor part these words are made to
play recalls the fates OF those pagan
divinities who, after being understood
to rule the powers Of the air and the
destinies OF men, came down to the
level of insignificant demons, or were
even made the farcical show for
amusement Of the multitude.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
Output of the British Mint.

The recently issued report Of the
deputy master Of England's mint
shows that the output Of new money
was beyond all precedent in 1900. A
total Of 102 tons of standard gold, pa
tons of standard silver and 391 tons
of bronze was coined into 107 ,6S9, BIB
pieces. In addition nearly 100000
pieces were struck in the colonial
minis. The output Of the English mint
amounted in value to about $7S, 900, 900.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

why do you speak SO slightingly Of
that eminent SCIENTIST" II didn't
mean to speak slightingly Of him."
answered the young man with the
striped shirt front. But 1t does seem
peculiar to me that a man who knows
just when the next comet will arrive
and just how far 1t is to the moon
should be so utterly ignorant when 1t
comes to a question Of when it's time
for dinner or what train to take to get
to the nearest town."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

Another protege of Perry Heath's Is
in trouble, one William M. Hoey, GUS
toms collector of Nogales; he is
charged with implication in the
scheme for smuggling Chinese from
Mexico into the United States. He
came from about the same locality in
Indiana as Nicely and Rathbone. What
an enterprising set of Office holders
the republicans have produced from
that state.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

Seventy-six vacancies exist in the
Medical Department of the United
States Army, for which there are
comparatively few candidates Young
doctors on entering have the rank and
pay of first lieutenant. and generally
promotion is more rapid than in the
line of the service. 1t is surprising
that more applications should not be
received, considering the salary and
rank attaching to the places. The same
trouble is experienced with vacancies
In the medical corps of the navy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

DR.. Z. w. Allen, assistant superin-
tendent of experiment stations, con-
Quoted by the Agricultural Depart
ment, has returned to Washington,
after a ten weeks tour of inspection
of the stations in Alaska. DR.. Allen
reports that all the hardy vegetables
are being grown there and he predicts
that the time will come when Alaska
will grow sufficient supply Of them.
He also says that wheat, oats, barley
and rye have been matured at the sta
tons, and he thinks it practicable to
raise beef for the home market. He
says there is considerable inquiry for
land along the coast from people liv-
ing in Northern Europe, and thinks
the time will come when many OF
them will find more comfortable
homes there than they now have.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
Uncertainties of Political betting.

The uncertainties Of political betting
were shown in the last national cleo
ton in the case of the contest in West
Virginia. The success OF Mr.. McKin-
ley was conceded in advance, but as to
his majority opinions differed. Some
wagers were laid by sanguine Repub-
licans that he would carry the state by
not less than 10000. These bettors
lost, the official Mckinley plurality in
West Virginia having been 1885,
New York Sun.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

Some Austrians living in Geneva
conceived the project Of placing a
memorial tablet in the Quai du Leman.
where the Empress Elizabeth was as
sassinated. The authorities. however.
refused their permission on the ground
that it would be improper to commem-
crate the deed of mailman and help
to preserve his name. In place of the
tablet, it is now proposed to erect a
chapel in honor of the Empress.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

Show me the man you honor.
know by that symptom better than
any other what kind of a man you
yourself are; for you show me there
what your ideal of manhood is, what
kind of man you long inexpressibly
TO be.-Ben Johnson.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

The jingoes in Congress and out of
it have at last President after their
own heart. They were never satisfied
with Mr.. Mckinley. His foreign policy
was too tame for them, but perhaps
Mr.. Roosevelt will not be SO strenuous
now he is president.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
Church Cats of Naples.

In Naples there exists race OF cats
which live in the churches. They are
kept and fed by the authorities on
purpose to catch the mice which in
fest all old buildings there. The ami
mails may often be seen walking about
among the congregation or sitting
gravely before the altar during the
time of mass.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

1t now appears that Hoey, who has
been admitting Chinese by the back
door for consideration, is another
friend of Perry Heath, who was also
sponsor for Nicely and Rathbone.
Heath's Republican friends seem to be
on the make wherever you find them.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

It now appears there are two kinds
of reciprocity, the James G. Blaine
brand of 1872, which was forced by
him on the Mckinley tariff bill after
his historic and exciting personal in
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
A ROMAN EXAMPLE.
ARE WE BECOMING A NATION OF
GAMBLERS 2
Speculation by Guess Work at the Prices
People VIII Pay in the Future for the
Necessaries of Life-Legalixed Gam

What a nation of gamblers this
country is getting to be! We bet on
stocks, on wheat, on corn, on cotton,
on horse races, on baseball, on yacht
races. Every town, even most of the
villages, has its gambling shop, its
stock ticker. 1t is even stated on high
authority that many society women are
desperate gamblers, not only buying
and selling stock, but playing poker
and bridge whist for enormous sums.
This is great evil and will result in
the destruction of all that is greatest
and best in the American character II
allowed TO continue without protest.
Tile vast sums Of money locked uD in
these gambling transactions are be-
yond computation, the amount that is
paid annually to Chicago and New
York by the country is probably
enough to pay the national debt. 1t is
a constant drain, for on the average
the country gambler has a large per =
centage against him, the commission
charged on every transaction in the
end eating up any profits. The banks
encourage this gambling, for they
make most of their money by lodnlng
on the stocks or produce gambled in.
OF this evil the Nebraska Independ-
ent says: This gambling is a loss 10
the state of such magnitude that no
nan can compute it. Hundreds nj
thousands of men are withdrawn from
productive industry and Legitimate
business who spend their lives in gam
bling. Many hundreds Of millions of
money are employed in gambling,
which IL put to work into legitimate
industries would give employment t.
thousands END appreciably raise the
price of farm commodities. That is
not the worst of it. If 1t continues to
increase it will result in a race Of eff
Terminate degenerates and the destruc-
ton of modern society. Every think
ing man knows this to be true. vet
we hear no general cutlery against 1t,
and the great churches are silent. They
admit to their communions the most
notorious gamblers-not those who bet
sinai; sums, hut those who put large
fortunes at stake every day of their
lives, sometimes losing all and some
times making immense fortunes. A
man who goes on the board OF trade
and bets on the rise and fall Of prices.
who has no goods to sell and neve: ex-
poets any to be delivered to him when
he buys, is simply gambler.
A similar condition of affairs existed
in Rome before the fall of that repub-
lie, and President Roosevelt, who in
his speech at st. Paul so strongly
hoped We should emulate the example
of the Roman, should warn his coun-
trymen against trying to vie with that
degenerate people instead of holding
them up as glorious examples.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
GOVERNMENT MONEY LOANED TO
THE TRUSTS.

THE TRUSTS.
Why should the dastardly attempt
on the life of the President have made
Wall street quail and call for help
from the United States treasury? In
no event would financial affairs be
changed from the present program, the
succession to the head of the govern
ment was assured to those who would
carry out the policy of the present ad-
ministration. A new Congress with
large Republican majority is but wait
ing to be called together. Wall street
saws business never was better and the
large fortunes that have and are being
amassed by the favored few is an in
dication that prosperity is in full blast
in that favored region. And yet there
is an undercurrent of trouble that any
untoward event will bring to the sur
face and prick the beautiful bubble
that has been blown with SO much
care and patience. The banks there
have but little cash beyond the reserve
they are required by law to keep, and
the issue Of clearing house certificate
is talked Of. There must be something
radically wrong with system that has
so little stability. One of the causes
is over capitalization of the trusts
whose stocks the banks have taken
as security for loans, and Morgan,
Rockefeller and others are also loaded
ND with them awaiting the time that
the least desirable can be unloaded
on the investing public. A vast amount
of these stocks and bonds have been
paid out in lieu of cash for the plant:
of the manufacturing concerns when
the trusts were organized and good
many of these stocks and bonds are
constantly being thrown on the mar
ket by their owners, either because
they would sooner have ready money
or they fear they will decrease in price.
The underwriting syndicate who or
ganized the trusts are obliged to buy
these stocks and bonds or the price
would decline and more would be
thrown on the market and the bears
would take hand and sell for a de-
cline and panic would soon be in
evitable.
This Is the reason that the trusts
magnate and their allies, the banking
interests, call for aid for the United
States treasury, and it may be fairly
said that every dollar that is advanced
or loaned to them is used to bolster
I'D the trust securities. So it comes to
this that the people are being taxed
beyond the necessities of the govern
ment to create fund to be loaned to
the trusts and the gamblers of Wall
street.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

There is a terrible coercion in our
deeds which may first turn the honest
man into a deceiver, and then recon-
cile him to the change.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11
KANSAS.

There are more newspapers published
In Iowa, in proportion to its population,
than in any other state Of the Union
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-10-11

According to DR.. Rijnhart, the med
ical attentions lavished on invalids in
Thibet are of very primitive char
acter. For headache, large sticking
plasters are applied to the patients
head and forehead; for rheumatism, a
needle is often buried in the arm or
shoulder; a tooth is extracted by ty-
ing a string to it and jerking it out,
sometimes bringing out a part of the
Jaw at the same time; sufferer with
stomach ache may be subjected to a
good pounding, or to the application
of a piece of wick soaked in burning
butter grease, or, if medicine is to be
taken internally, it will consist prob
ably of piece of paper on which
prayer is written, rolled in the. form of
a pellet; and, If this fails to produce
the desired effect, another pellet Is ad-
ministered composed of the bones OF
some pious priest.
At a demonstration held on Lam
bourne Common a resolution was pass
ed calling upon Colonel Lockwood and
others to remove the distractions to
the public right of way on about 100
acres of forest land. A procession
numbering about 800 persons was
afterwards formed and the fences on
Colonel Lockwood's land were fore
IDLY removed. About thirty of the Es-
sex police, under Supt. Womack, were
present, but showed great forbearancei
and the object of the demonstration
was accomplished. Proceedings will
be taken for damages and trespass.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-03
NElGHBORS AT OUTS
MRS. ALBERT DuRsIxI THREAT
ENED By JOHN PENsKY.


Mrs Albert Dursky living on the upper
fats, walked into the Central police sta
ton about A o'clock yesterday morning.
very much excited and in broken English
told Lieut. Babe that a neighbor of hers
named John Penskey,s had threatened her
life with a shotgun. She was seantily
clad and was shivering from the coiu.
and rain. She displayed marriage
license to show that she was legally mar
ried and said that her husband had been
drinking at Penskey's house all day and
night Shortly after O'Clock. Yesterday
morning she claimed, Penskey came over
to her home and on gaining admittanee.s
pointed the gun at her and threatened 70
shoot. She said that he. shot twice m
the yard outside the house to frighttselha;;
3her.5
officer Ansley was sent : with tine
frightened woman to her home, but Wneh
they arrived there Penskey was 4not.Rhe'
1be' found. They went over to- ms mouse
and finally succeeded in reusillg. hifa.;
Officer Ansley searched the house a Ile,
found the gun, which he took to the stat-
ton, in spite of Penskey's protests p
husband was still at Penskey's mouse. anu
rema med there until morning. zEs
Some time ago the Durskys and a TAM
lily named Urhanski, had some troupie
over the alleged stealing of Mrs. Durskysss
ducks during which it was alleged Mrs.
Dursky was struck with the barrel OF
a rife by one of the Urbanskls.