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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
THE RAILROAD TRUST
PREPARING THE WAY FOR
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
Tho Day VIII Come When tho People
VIII See the Light-Pubilc Ownership
of Pubic Franchise-The Equalization
OF the Combines.

The story about the new company to
control all the railroads of the United
States may or may not be true. IL 1t
is not true today it will be tomorrow.
1t is merely the last, inevitable step In
a process that has been going on stead
lily since our railroad system began
aud that has been making more rapid
progress in the past few months than
ever before.
If Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan, Mr.. Will
lam X. Vanderbilt, Mr.. James j. Hill,
Mr.. Edward d. Hartman, Mr.. George
]. Gould, Mr.. John d. Rockefeller Mr..
Jacob II. Schiff and Mr.. James Still
man, " ho have been named as the au-
thors Of this scheme, should under
take to control all the railroads of the
United States, they could do it with
out any trouble. The only question is
whether they think the time has yet
come to take the step.
The railroad system of the United
States was capitalized last year at
twelve billion one hundred and sixty
five million three hundred and twenty
seven thousand eight hundred and for
ty-nine dollars.
That is over twelve times the bonded
national debt of the United States.
1t is four times the debt of Great
Britain.
1t is equal to the capital of dozen
Billion Dollar Trusts.
1t represents over a hundred and
twenty of the Hundred Million Dollar
Trusts that were considered the mons
tiers of finance few years ago.
But the railroads are not so unman-
ageable when they are approached by
the right men in the right way. CT
their total capitalization the stock rep
resents only S5,742, 1871, ISL, of which a
majority, giving a controlling interest,
would amount to less than $2,S75,O OO,-
900. AS many railroad stocks are SELL
ing far below par it is probable that a
majority could be bought for $2,000,-
600 900.
buJ III is IOJ HeCtoSdTy lOl wi. MIL :
gan, Mr.. Rockefeller and their asso-
cates to own a majority of the stock.
When the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
died it was found that he owned lesH
than one per cent Of the stock of tho
New York Central, the typical ivan"
derbilt road" With $500, O0O,O 900 in cash,
their skill in manipulation and their
control of banks, industrial enterprises
and financial agencies of all sorts, the
members of the proposed syndicate
would have no trouble in securing the
mastery of every railroad in the coua-
try.
When the Universal Railroad Trust
comes, whether today, tomorrow or
next week, it will handle revenues
more than twice as great as those of
the national government and employ
ten times as many men as the United
States keeps in its army on war foot
ing. And then the Americans policy
Public Ownership Of Public Fran
chises"-will be the central issue of
practical politics.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

tediagraph you can send your
photograph from New York city
to your friend in San Francisco
and get his letter of thanks within
the space Of a single hour. Nor will
the letter you receive be mysterious
series of dots and dashes, but it will
look exactly as your friend has writ
ten it. 1t will be in his personal hand
writing; not in the handwriting of
telegrapher.
Notwithstanding the wonderful feats
performed by the tediagraph, its prin.
ciple is so simple that schoolboy
readily comprehends it.
On the 10Th of April the agreement
with the papers that have had exclus.
i've use of the Telegraph will have eX.
pired, and then it will be available for
various uses, such as the quick appre.
hension of criminals.
Singularly enough, E. A. Hummell,
the inventor of the tediagraph, is nor
telegrapher. but merely clockmak'
err. He never paid any attention to
telegraphy until after he had drawn a
sketch of the machine he had in mind,
and his knowledge of the subject be-
fore that time was derived from such
meager sources as the newspapers and
his school textbooks.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

is almost automatic in its action.
needing but one pull on the trigger
to empty the chambers in short order.
The gun shown has breakdown bar
rel and cylinder, and it will be seen
that the action of opening and clos
ing this mechanism operates lever To-
Gated underneath the cylinder. Tho
rear end of this lever is slotted and
toothed internally to rotate the shaft
in the body of the revolver. On this
shaft is mounted toothed disk, which
is locked against backward revolution
by engaging the trigger. When tho
gun is opened for reloading and also
as it is closed the lever winds up
spring on the shaft, and the revolver
is ready for use the instant the barrel
is in place. A pull on the trigger re-
leases the disk and allows the shaft
to rotate, which not only turns the
cylinder containing the cartridges but
also operates the firing mechanism.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
AN APOSTLE OF get THERE"

Tom l.. Johnson has always been
known as a hustler, but even his enc
mics did not expect him to put such
triple expansion energy into his hus-
Ting as he has this week. 1t was ex-
pected that he would take office ten
days after the election, according to
the usual custom. That would have
given time for the retiring mayor to
sign an ordinonce giving away most OF
Cleveland's water front to a corpora
ton. An injunction temporarily pre-
vented this action, and by hurrying
the election board in the canvass Of
the vote Mr.. Johnson succeeded in get
ting his certificate, taking the oath OF
office, filing his bond and taking pos
session of the mayors desk just thirty
seven minutes before the injunction ex-
pired.
That explains some of Johnson's sue
cesses as a leader. He knows what
he wants and goes as straight to his
mark as a Krag-Jorgensen bullet. The
public interests will not be sacrificed
while he is on hand or anywhere In
the neighborhood. And he can DO .
good way of and still get there In time
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

is 1O7 years old, and there Is nothing
problematical about her age, for she
has documents in her possession
which the parish priest has examined
and pronounced genuine, and which
substantiate everything she has said
of herself. She was born in Vol
grayitz, Poland, in 1894. Her parents
were of the poorest class, and as soon
as she was years old she was sent
into the forests to pick up bark for
the charcoal burners. Her maiden
name was Maria Pavleschinsky. When
the French invaded Volgravitz the in
habitants fled. Mrs. Reese then a
young woman, remained behind in the
town trying to save some of the
wretched belongings Of her family
from pillage. The French soldiers
had entered the place before she could
get out, and one of her neighbors
pointed out to her a stocky little man
on horseback as the emperor of the
French.
When young woman she married
Conrad Chappon. They had three
children, two of them died in Poland,
while the third died at Dunkirk, N.
Y. Upon the death of her first hus-
band she married Andrew Katschin-
sky, who was "a years younger than
herself. In 1870, when nearly an
octogenarian, having been left a
widow for the second time, she came
to America, locating in Dunkirk,
where she met and was married to
Ferdinand Reese on July 5, 1876. Two
years later the couple migrated to
Laporte county, Indiana, where the
husband owns 10-acre tract in Hud-
son township.
Both of these old people attribute
their great age to the simplicity OF
their habits. They eat two meals a
day, each meal consisting chiefly OF
corn bread and coffee.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

For eight crops-corn, wheat, oats
barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes ant
hay-covered by the reports to the de-
partment of agriculture, the farmers
Of the United States received almos
5000, 100000 more in 1900 than they OBJ
tanned for the same products in 1899
Buckwheat and barley were the only
crops in the list which showed a de-
crease in value, and the advances, il
corn and hay especially, made this de-
felt seem slight. We quote the stats
tics mainly as matter of record. The
contented smile. on the American farm
er's face is proof enough of itself thai
he is doing very well indeed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

Some years ago there was a man
who was a figure in the upper social
life of New York. He was the sexton
of Grace church and his name was
Brown. He was sort of grand cham
berlain to Kew York society of that
day and employed in every social func-
ton from the christening OF the babe
of aristocraoy to the marriage of the
damsel. Dancing men then, as now,
were scarce, out Brown was equal to
the occasion. He organized band of
presentable yvung fellows, who knew
how to dress, how to dance and how
to behave themselves, whom he mar
shaled at hou.es where they we're need
ed. These we're known as Browns
Young Men," and not few of them
danced themselves into good positions.
One of these young men was Hubert
o. Thompson, who, in later life, be-
came so prominent politician as lead
er of the county democracy. He used
to say that when he was young he led
the german; when he grew old he led
the Irish.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

A mammoth black walnut tree on
the farm of e. P. Gaus in Williams
county, Ohio, has just been sold for
$4,000. Several lumber dealers have
examined chips from this tree, and all
have declared it to he the finest speci-
men of that kind of wood they ever
saw. The tree was eight feet in d.
ameter, forty feet above the stump, and
extended seventy-three feet from the
butt to the first limb.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

Bavaria has resumed relations with
Greece for the first time since the
Otto. AS one result Prof. Furtwangler,
director of the Munich Glyptothek,
will go to Aegina next summer to ex-
cavate the site where the Aeginetan
statues of the Munich museum were
found, in the hope of discovering evil
dence that may decide what is the
relative position of the groups to each
other.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
Hetty Green's Humor.

Mrs. Hetty Green is not without a
streak of humor, though perhaps it is
a trifle saturnine. Recently an over
dressed woman, while in conversation
with Mrs. Green, commented at I'M
necessary length on feminine apparel.
"Oh, WE'LL" said Mrs. Hetty, wealthy
people can afford to dress poorly, you
know. The poor and vulgar must
wear fine clothing, If only for purpos-
es of disguise"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

In expectation of an heir, the King
and Queen Of Italy have had brought
to Rome the tortoiseshell and gold
cradle which was used for King Victor
Emmanuel when a baby. There is
a very curious family cradle" in the
possession of the Errolls. 1t has a
carved wooden serpent at one end and
a dove at the other; the idea being
that the child who uses the cradle will
possess the wisdom of the serpent and
the harmlessness of the dove.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
Andrew Carnegie's last speech to hi

Andrew Carnegie's last speech to his
workmen at Homestead contained a
passage we'll worth remembering. La
Dor, capital and business ability" he
said, "are the three legs Of a three
legged STOOL Neither is first, neither is
second, neither is third. There is no
precedence, all being equally neces-
sary." All efforts to make the stool
stand on one leg or on two have been
failures, but when it rests upon all
three it is hard to upset.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

Recent experiments in wireless teleg-
raphy, in connection with the French
feet, have been so satisfactory that it
has been decided to provide the whole
Mediterranean squadron with wireless
apparatus, when will be subjected to
decisive tests during the coming cruise
of the squadron.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
Wife Left Too Often.

Frederick Rhodes has applied for a
divorce in Akron, o. In his petition
he declares that his wife has left him
twenty-seven times, and that he has
at last grown tired OF such foolishness.
The last time Mrs. Rhodes deserted
him she said she had gone for good.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

Astronomers figure out that the d.
ameter OF the earth at the equator va
ries 3.048 feet, so that our planet Ia
not only fattened at the poles. but
siightly squeezed in the middle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

Some remarkable relics Of the early
civilization in Egypt have recently
been unearthed and deposited in the
British Museum. Among them is a
beautiful impression of a royal seal
which represents the king wrestling
with a hippopotamus and spearing a
crocodile That must have been the
kings busy day.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
THE OLDEST MARRIED
WOMAN IN AMERICA

Mrs. Ferdinand Reese, who resides
near Laporte, Ind, enjoys the distinc-
tion of having not only lived in three
centuries but of being the Oldest mar
ried person In America. Mrs. Reese
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
KANSAS.

The Minnesota senate has passed,
with amendments, Senator Chilton's
bill prohibiting the marriage of in
sane, epileptic and idiotic persons, and
requiring a medical certificate of all
applicants for marriage licenses.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

Miss Ella Ewing the Missouri giant
ess, who is feet inches in height,
recently built house for herself. Her
new home has doors 10 feet high, cell
ings Is feet high and is equipped with
chairs, tables, beds and everything in
proportion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
STORY OF THE ASPHALT WAR

According to Washington corre-
spondent the trouble between the
United States and Venezuela grows out
of the dispute between two American
asphalt companies and out of nothing
else. Even the arrest and imprison-
ment of the American consular agent
in the asphalt state Of Bermudez arises
out Of that dispute.
The story is. in short, that what is
known as the asphalt trust acquired
certain rights in the asphalt lake on
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

That the art of cooking ranks high in
the estimation of British army officials
Is shown by the recent grant of $1,000
to the widow of the late staff Sergt.-
Mai. Thompson, in recognition of the
valuable services rendered by her hus-
band who was for many years the
chief instructor of the army school Of
cooking at Aldershot.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

which has
been in quiet
operation for
two years,
the inventor
having seen
fit to give
the exclus-
i've use Of
the appara'
tus to a syn
dictate of sis
A m e ricaD
newspape r g
for that Pc
r / o d. BY
means of tho
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

Thirty-eight inventors have taken
out hundred or more each Of United
States patents since the beginning OF
the year 1872. Mr.. Edison leads all
with 742 patents, Prof. Elihu Thorn
son is credited with 444, and Mr.. West
inghouse and Sir Hiram S. Maxim both
occupy high places on this modern
roll of honor. Should our government
set out to decorate" the men who con-
tributed most to national wealth and
progress during the nineteenth GEN.
fury, the list OF inventors would yield
names as deserving as any to be found
In the record Of statesmen or soldiers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

The poet records that he shot ar
arrow into the air, but could not SEE
where it fell to earth. Long afterwart
he found it in the heart Of an oak. II
is for protection against reckless use
Of firearms, possibly in the hands o.
other needless poets, that the Adiron
dack guides have recently appealed tt
the legislature. The modern small
bore rifle sends bullets far beyond the
necessary hunting range, and fire.
Quently kills persons whom the gun
ner cannot see. A true aim, steady
arm, a square hit are in all the walks
Of life justly commended. But wha
about the so-called spent" bullet, witt
it's lingering power to wound? Mus
not society as well as law hold the
sportsman responsible?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
Pictures Sent by Telegraph

A curious and rema; Kable invention,
in the April number of Frank
Leslie's Monthly, is the Telegraph,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26
new AUTOMATIC REVOLVER
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Evidently the inventor OF the fire
arm illustrated herewith has come to
the conclusion that the double-acting
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-26

The rain falls--but it gets up again
In q dew time.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-18

The victim might refuse to give
awey the name OF his torturer al
though ordered to do so, and be
would be expelled for insubordina-
tion. An appeal to the honor OF the
guilty cadet would be made to save
his comrade from expulsion. Should
he fail to respond the elass would
be commanded to deliver him up
or take the consequences, and fail
uro to do 30 would mean the expul-
sion OF the whole class, and every
cadet expelled would find it seri-
Gus matter in sfter-life to have al
lowed himself to be swsyed by a
Don Qui1otic Interpretation Of boy.
ish honor.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-18

Hazing is very ungsutlemanly
pastimp, cousisting OF Offering per-
sonal indignities towards the young
sters who enter the school. 1t is o
remnant OF the dark ages, aud is not
tolersted in any military school in
Europe. Congress has ordered an
Investigation aud commission Of
officers high in rank is now taking
evidence ia the case which has
stirred up tha matter. The intelli-
gent press, as a whole, writes strong
ly against hazing, but, to our sur
prise, we notice a jouraal Of tn"
high standing of ths San Francisco
Argonsut defending the custom and
seriously claiming that it cannot be
stopped. We never expected to see
such arrant rot printed in the Argo-
nautas the following paragraph:
"There is one sido to the matter
of hazing at West Point that we
have not sesn discussed. 1t is this;
A high spirited and hot-tempered
cadet, newly arrived from pistol
carrying districts, might streuuous-
ly object to the physical indiguities
OF hazing. Young men who incline
To a soldiers life are apt 10 be
high spirited. Such cadet might
consider that tamely submitting TO
physical indiguities would he un
worthy of soldier. 50 believing,
he might, iu accordance with the
customs II his naive State, use q
weapon il he had one Very likely
h. might be 'heeled.' In the sad.
dan access OF passion he might shoot
or stab bis immediate assailant. 1t
goes without saying that he might
hA shot or stabbed iu returu-in a
fight, the other fellow is always do
)1g something, too. Thus it could
result that two cadets might die
sudden aud bloody deaths, tbe
hszsr and the hazed. Such tragedy
would SO shock thu adolescent cadet
mind that hazng would probably
siop for eight or ten years, and then
gradually be resumed. But we can
think Of no other way in which the
cadets could be made to discontinue
h, z pg."
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-18

In the managers report Of the
Observation-Disclosures il is suggested
that Scandinavian benevolent 80.
ciety should bs organised on the
same plan as the Portuguese socie-
iies which are not alone self.sup-
porting, but are conducted on q
nost excellent system OF mutual
help. We do not think the plan is
feasible. There ara very few Scan
diuavisns in Honolulu and the
fraternal feeling among them is n OF
very pronounced. Many Scandi-
usvians come here as sailors. Some
lssye their ships here and we be-
lieve that it must be from that class
that applications for help are re-
ceived by the associated charities.
The Scandinavians who have rssid-
ed here for some years are nearly
all fairly we'll to do, although none
OF them are in very sfflent circum.
stances. We fully believe ia the
advantage to be gained from socie,
ties by coun:rymsn for countrymen,
but the principle will not work
among the Spaudinavians. We have
not yet known of an Instance where
Swedea, Norwsgiaas and Danes
could pull together without friction.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-18

We presume that the Argonaut,
which, by the way, always opposes
prize fighting and rough football,
will admit that tha officers in the
European armies are as brave, cap
able and geutlemsnly as any OF
those graduated from West Point.
And yet they have neither hazed
nor been hazed.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-18

Po r, indeed, must the discipline
be at West Point il the officer 10
charge can stop hazing only when
ope OF the cadets should he killed
while exercising the glorious privi-
lege Of heaping insults and indigni-
ties upon the head of junior cadet.
la Germany, Austria, France or all
the other couutries where gentlmsn
only are admitted into the military
school, and where no baokwoods
Senator or Congressman has any
thing to say about the material from
which the cadsts are to be selected,
h zjng would be stopped in double
quick time or the military career,
even Of whole class OF cadets,
ruiued forever
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-18

We think it would be great i'm
provement if the mounted police
were furnished with o lariat as
part OF their equipment and taught
h DIV to use it, and at the same time
the sungaiply Mcclellan saddle be
replaced by neat serviceable Mexi-
can saddle. One Of the principal
duties OF the mounted officers is to
stop runaways and we know OF no
better method than the using the
lssso. We were witnessing run
away few days ago. A horse with
out bride but with part OF the
harness on cams tearing along
King street with mounted officer
in pursuit. The officer was up to
the runaway and could have stopped
il il there had been bride ON the
horse or if he had been equipped
with a lasso and a saddle with q
pomnel on. AS it were the horse
kept running until another officer
appeared from the opposite .dirsc-
tiou and succeeding in stopping
the runaway before any damage
was done. The usefulness OF the
officers should be the main point
ia their equipment, the handsome
appearance OF the men is of smaller
moment. The High Sheriff can do
the "pretty" act for the whole
department.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-18
les. resides at Waikiki and takes Of

less resides at Waikiki and takes Of
course no interest in the conditions
OF the roads at Pslam a, nor does he
feel called upon to stop the illegal
act Of the Rapid Transit Co. Why
should he. as long as the waikiki i
road is no. interfered with and the
Rapid Transit only breaks up tho
road for QUE block at time while
laying rails in McCandless' diree-
ton.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-18
TOPICS or 1HE DAY.
gresham,

If buhsch powder contains
enough poison 10 kill an adult when
taken internally the fumes from it
must certainly be unhealthy. The
mosquitoes faint from the smoke
arising from the burning and many
people inhale the poisonuos smoke
while crusading against the hum
ming, stinging little pest. The
Board OF Health should see that the
buhach tins are marked poison and
sold uuder the regulation relating
to sale Of poisons. As it took ten
days for the powder (probsbly aide d
by soIne other agency to get in it's
deadly work on Japanese woman,
it cannot bo elassed as virulent
poison. At the sams time, eve, y
precaution should be taken before
it becomes the fashion among peo-
pie sucidally inclined to indulge in
mosquito powder as a food.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-18

We suppose that the expelliug of
G cadet from West Point for hazing
would be resented by the Congress
man who nominated aim and by the
ward heeler who fathered the boy
and got him to West Point for po-
litical services rendered the Con-
gressman.