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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
UNIVERSITY OF NoTRE DAME
Notrs Dame, Indiana.

We call the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of Notre
Dame University, one Of the great ed
ucational institutions of the West.
which appears In another column of
this paper. Those of our readers who
may have occasion to look up college
for their sons during the coming year
would do we'll to correspond with the
president, who will ssnd them cata-
logue free of charge, as we'll as all par
ticulars regarding terms. courses Of
studies. etc.
There is a thorough preparatory
school in connection with the univer-
Bity. In which students Of all grades
will have every opportunity Of prepar-
ing themselves for higher studies. The
Commercial Course. intended for
young men preparing for business. may
be finished In one or two years ac-
cording to the ability Of the student.
st. Edwards Hall, for boys under thir-
teen. is an unique department Of the
institution. The higher courses are
thorough in every respect, and stu
dents will find every opportunity Of
perfecting themselves in any line Of
work they may choose to select. Thor
oughness in class work, exactness In
the care Of students, and devotion to
the best interests Of all. are the distin-
gushing characteristics of Notre
Dame University.
Fifty-seven years Of active work In
the cause OF education have made this
Institution famous all over the coun-
try.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
John Mitchell. Organizer.

Mitchell has not gained his position
without struggles. They were strug-
giles which broadened him, which
taught him much. His life has been
a busy one. He was born in Braid
wood, ILL.,, in 1869, of Irish parentage.
His father was a miner. He went to
school, when possible, until 10 years of
age, and then his parents being dead,
he got work on farm. At 10 he was
working in the mines, at 16 he had
Joined the Knights of Labor, and,
seized with the desire to travel, started
through the west, working in the
mines as he progressed and visiting
all the states where there were min
ing operations. At 18 he returned to
Illinois a man, knowing his fellowmen,
and imbued with the conviction that
the miners condition was deplorable
and should be improved if organiza-
ton could improve it. At 10 he was
elected president of the local assembly,
Knights of Labor, at Spring Valley,
Ill. For the next five years he was
active in labor matters, attending dis
trict and state conventions and build
ing a stock of information about min
ing. In 1896 his first big step was
taken. He was elected secretary and
treasurer of the northern Illinois sub
district, embracing all the organized
territory of the state. The same year
he was made chairman of the legis-
lative committee and stationed at
Springfield to work for labor legisla-
ton. The next year, when the miners
of the state went on strike, he be-
came a national organizer. His rise
then was rapid, he was chosen to fill |
important positions in the United Mine
Workers and the American Federation |
of Labor, his prestige grew, and, in
January, 1899, at Pittsburg, he was
elected president of the United Mine
Workers, and reelected in January of
this year.-Leslie's.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
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cause that lady would not permit sr
to enact the part Of the Hired Girl
as set form by Mr.. Sheldon. Yet the
Sheldon book is success in Chicago.
1t is a well-known fact that at Win
netka, under the roof of Henry D..
Lloyd, the economist, and Mrs. Lloyd,
systematic attempt has been made to
portunity possible for pleasure and inn
provement. If interesting CONVERSE
ton was in progress in the parlor the
servants were invited In to hear and
participate in it. And on occasions of
rejoicing 1t was a matter Of course that
the servants should share in the jollity.
Good results came from it. Mrs. Coon
ley-Ward, the writer, who has large
corps Of servants, selects them care
fully, provides them with pleasant
dining room and sitting room Of their
own, the latter being provided with
case of entertaining books, good pic
lures, sofa and comfortable chairs.
and when her family is not at home
she accepts invitations from her serv-
ants and gives constant encourage
ment to the little daughters of her
coachmen, who have some musical tai
ent. No one in this city, 1t is safe to
say, has more loyal servants than
Mrs. Ward. Mrs. Emmons Blaine, in
setting fixed limit to the hours of
each domestic's work, requiring them
to work no more than eight hours, also
made conscientious effort to help to-
ward the adjustment Of the domestic
situation, though she did not recon-
mend this plan to others, or, indeed,
intend that the fact should be known
outside Of her doors. She was probably
well aware that in the small menage
such an arrangement would have been
practically impossible.-Chicago News.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
color.d workers in wash,ng,o ON.


The Union League Of Washington
has just made an exhaustive inquiry
into the status of the colored popula-
ton there. 1t finds that commend
able progress has been made in bust
ness, in spite of good many draw
backs. there being over eighty-three
varieties of business in which colored
people are engaged. There are more
than thirteen hundred colored propri-
etors, one-fourth of whom have been
in business more than ten years. They
have 1854, 761 invested in business, and
they do an aggregate Of business
yearly of $1,750,00 Barber shops, res
taurants, cobbler shops, express de-
livery and similar callings constitute
the larger portion, but there are sew
enteen contractors, seventy-five fish
dealers, 1870 grocers and forty-nine
market stand proprietors, and in all
this lot only eleven poolroom keepers
and nine saloon keepers. There are
fifty-three physicians, twelve trained
nurses, ten dentists and thirty-three
lawyers. Among other conclusions
reached by the investigation is that
colored people are not disposed to
patronize one another in these classes
of business in which the whites seri-
ously compete for trade This is as
cribed partly to lack of confidence, but
partly to envy and jealousy.-Indian-
apolis News.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

The fashionable magazine article of
the day Is success prescription, writ
ten for the benefit Of the young. Trust
presidents and bankers tell how they
succeeded, and the young person who
reads is expected to adopt their meth
DDS and achieve the same results. One
cannot fail to be struck with the low
ideals that pervade nearly all the cur
rent writings of this character. They
furnish evidence, If any were lacking,
that we live in a time that sees the
apotheosis Of the commercial. After
a course Of this success reading, a
young man had better peruse the Book
of Job, and fortify his spirit with the
reflections of Solomon. The begin
ming and the end Of success, accord
ing to the magazine standard, is to
feather your own nest. Yet history,
human nature and the statistics Of the
commercial agencies prove that to
stake ones happiness on the hope Of
acquiring riches-that is, to make
money the goal of SUGGESTS in the
case OF the average man to court dis
appointment. The time is ripe for the
appearance Of wholesale idealists, who
will inculcate notions of loyal service
and work for works sake. There is
no danger, under modern conditions,
that we will not be practical enough
for all bread-and-butter purposes.
There is in reality nothing more prac-
teal than a high ideal. Here is the
success prescription Of another sort,
that of Robert Louis Stevenson, who
himself exemplified it in life that
was worth more to humanity than that
of any trust president who has ap-
peared up to date: ITO be honest, to
be kind-to earn little and to spend
a little less. to make upon the whole a
family happier for his presence, to re-
nounce when that shall be necessary
and not be embittered. to keep few
friends, but these without capitula-
tion-above all on the same grim
condition to keep friends with him
self here is a task for all that a man
has of fortitude and delicacy."-Mil-
waukee Wisconsin.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
Her Ancestors Wore LAWYERS

Mrs. Emma R. Bailey, upon whom
has just been conferred masters de-
gree by the Washington College of
Law, was born in Alabama and comes
from distinguished ancestry. Her
great-grandfather. grandfather, and
father were all lawyers. Mrs. Bailey
married young, and when her husband
died few years ago she found that
1t was necessary for her to support
herself and her children. She secured
a position In the department Of the In
terror and then studied law.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
Who're Immigrant. Settle.

Four-fifths of all the immigrants
who come to New York declare their
destination to be the North Atlantic
states. New York attracts the greater
number Of these-42 per cent in all.
Nineteen per cent declare for Pennsyl-
vania, while but per cent favor
Massachusetts. The same number go
to New Jersey, and but 3 per cent are
bound for Connecticut. A comparative
ly small proportion Of the immigrants
go to the far west. It is supposed
that the cheapness OF land and other
attractions offered in the middle west
attract the greater part of them. Last
year of $4,000 odd immigrants who
landed in New York only about 300
went to Iowa, 600 declared for Mime
sofa, and small numbers were bound
for Kansas, Idaho and California. Yet
many of these states contain large for
eign colonies. which might be expect
ed to attract those of the same tongue.
The so-called foreign population of the
larger cities of New York state is in
creasing rapidly. The new census
shows that many of the foreign ele-
ments seem to have signaled out par
ticular city to settle in. In Buffalo,
for example, there is large Polish
colony, numbering over 10000. Roches-
ter has a Russian population large
enough to support Russian news
paper Auburn has population of
native Englishmen nearly as large as
the Russian colony in Rochester. Troy
has large population Of Irish-born
citizens, while Oswego has large col
ony of French-Canadians. Syracuse
has more than 1000 German-born resi-
dents. In jamestown is the largest
Swedish population Of any city in the
state apart from New York. Utica is
well known for it's colony of Welsh
men.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

"Oh, SIR" said a poor woman to .
Scottish minister who was by no
means popular preacher. well do
| like the day when you give us the
sermon" Indeed" said the minister.
flushing with pleasure. II wish there
were more like you, my good woman.
It is seldom l hear such words from
any one." Maybe their hearings
stronger than mine, sir" said the
woman, promptly, but when you
preach I can always get good seat"
New York Tribune.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

Montezuma, eldest son of the famous
Sioux chief. Sitting Bull, is prosper
Gus bootblack in Philadelphia. His
wife is Winonah, also full-blooded
Sioux, and the pair are known in the
Quaker City as Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Parker. The husband is graduate of
the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. He
has saved considerable money and
owns pretty home.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
Posting the Editor.

The following unique letter has been
received by the Philadelphia Record:
IF my wife writ eny STUFF to you in
regard to young Ladie in yuer city
do not writ her up in yuer paper as
the ladie will bring SANDER and dam
ages against the Reckerd If you do as
there no need Of my wife being jlous
OF that Ladie as that young Ladie Is
all right and q perfect Ladie"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
A Maior.a riencs.

Major Scott. says the Jimtown Ana
Mas. being suddenly awakened last
night. found FIVE snakes In bed with
him. The major jumped out Of the
front window and climbed tree. He
had not been there long before hurri-
cane blew the tree down; the tree fell
on the house, smashed the roof, de-
molished the bed, and killed all the
snakes. The only damage the major
suffered was having a couple Of his
legs broken.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
Hotel FOR woman onlx.

A twelve-story hotel in New York, for
women only, will charge from SO to $40
per week, on the European plan.
Among its features will be a hair
dresser's shop, gym ,asium, bicycle
room and bowling a sys.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
New Jersey. Constitution.

The present constitution of the state
Of New Jersey, adopted in 1874, has re-
manned unchanged for fifty years and
remains practically the same as when
first adopted. The term of the gov
ernor Of New Jersey, which expires in
December, is three years. and New
Jersey is now the only state in the
country which adheres to the three
years term.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

The maid In the family of Rev.
Charles M. Sheldon, and the hired
girl" in Mr.. Sheldon's book, Born to
Serve" are two different persons. The
maia promptly left Mrs. Sheldon be-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

University Extension for St. Helena1
st. Helena is to have a university
extension. The Cape University is 60
Ing to send examiners to the island
for the young Boer prisoners who ara
studying to enter the university
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

When In doubt use Wizard OH ror
pain; both suffering and doubt viii,
vanish. Your doctor and druegist
know 1t. ee"'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

Lots of people kill themselves try
Ing to be popular.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an nfallible
medicine for coughs and colds.-N. W. SAMUEL,
Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. II, 1900
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

After a man makes a reputation he
has to double his efforts to keep it up.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

It's easy to gain notoriety; but it's
hard 10 get any real good out Of it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

A loafer sitting around livery barn
Doesn't seem so much out of place.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

FITS Permanently Cured. ohts nervousness after
first days of DIR. Kine's Great Nerve Restorer.
Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise.
DE- r. II. KLINE, Ltd sSi Arch St., Philadelphia Pa.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes
use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large OF.
package, cents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is constitutional cure. Price, 75c.

A request for conference is an in
vitation for kick.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADEDf
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them
white again. Large 2 OF. package, cents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
aammation. allsys pain cure, wind collie CSC bottle
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

The queen of May has had long
reign.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12
KATHLEEN GRAHAM.

KATHLEEN GRAHAM.
Miss Kathleen Graham, 1859 Florida
Ave-, N. w. WASH, D. c., writes: AT
the solicitation Of a friend I was ad-
vised to use Peruna and after the use
Of one bottle for dyspepsia felt almost
entirely cured. take pleasure in rec
ommending your remedy to anyone
who needs an invigorating tonic. -
Kathleen Graham.
Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of The
q prominent authority on women's ca
many cases Of female cafarrh az make
months. Advice free. Address DR.. S.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

cTApK best b. Tea-rYHARs. weDAV CASE
MeESS WANT MORE SALEsMEN j ~ ] Weekly
Vl1 Stark Nursery, Louisiana. Mo-; DansvllIe. ~
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

When Answering Advertisements Kindly
Mention This Paper.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-12

FLORENCE ALLAN.
Miss Florence Atlantis Walton Place.
Chicago, ILL.,, writes: LAS tonic for q
worn out system Peruna stands at the
head in my estimation. Its effects are
truly wonderful in rcjuvenating the
entire system. keep 1t on hand all the
time and never have that tired feeling
as few doses always makes me feel
like different woman."-Florence AL
Ian.
Hartman Sanifariun7, Columbus, Ohio,
arriaI diseases will take charge of as
application to him during tho summer
}. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-11-06

them have sought places of abode In all
the far portions of the world drawn
under the protection of the British
flag.
The population of London, roughly
speaking, doubles itself every four de-
cades. In 1901, out of every ten peo-
pie in England and Wales one person
lived in, London. To-day one out of
every seven persons in England and
Wales lives In London. This growth, 1t
is scarcely needful to point out, has
not taken place in central London,
where the population has been dimln-
ishing by about one-twelfth in each Of
the last three decades. The increase
Is in the suburbs, where the small house
never ceases to encroach and multiply.
In the central area, which includes the
districts of st. Georges, Hanover
Square, Westminster, Marylebone, st.
Giles, the Strand, Holborn, the City,
Shoreditch, Whitechapel and st.
Georges-in-the- East, the number Of
houses which cease to be Inhabited, or
are transferred to the category Of
''houses not occupied Mt night"
amounts to more than 1000 each year."
The fourteen largest provincial towns
In acknowledgement, Manchester.
birmingham. Leeds, Sheffield. Bristol,
Nottingham. Bradford, Hull, Newcas-
tie, Stafford, Leicester, Oldham and
Portsmouth-do not amount in joint
population to the figures of London,
even If the growing. Outer Ring of
suburbs be excluded.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-11-06
ENoLAND's GAIN AND 7lRELAND.s Loss.

Great Rritaiil's census is expected to
show a total population in England,
Ireland, Scotland and Wales Of $4,000,
600. This expectation is based upon
the average decennial rate Of increase
shown during the last half of the CEN
fury. The figures contrasting the pop
ulatlon Of these divisions of the empire
a century ago and as estimated to-day
is interesting:
England Including
Ireland Ta1eS ti,rs, counted in ss4'4' ssoooooe
1s2I 1900. $500. -. .6.s01,S27 4.25O.00
scotland 1850. ....... .1.60s420 4,350,00C
Most remarkable showing of all-if
one excerpts the decline of Irish popula-
tion-is the gain of London, first city
IN the world in size and financial pow
err. AT the beginning of the nineteenth
century the imperial city had popu-
lation of S64,s45. This has grown to
more than 100000 at the beginning of
the twentieth century.
The rate of increase in most of tile
divisions of the empire have steadily
declined since 1850, and the rate of
loss in Ireland has also fallen CORE
spondingly, n hopeful sign for the EN-
erald Isle. The losses are due almost
entirely to emigration. In the case of
the English emigrants the colonies have
been the gamers mainly. Most of the
Irish who left their island have come
to America to make homes, though a
considerable number of the millions
who have put the dust of Erin behind
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-11-06
ToN1ETTA's QuEsL.


SHALL 80 to America! All Amer
leans are rich! Why need we
starve here, when plenty is walt.
inS.. the angry words rang ever In lit
: ue Ionietta's ear, and she could shut
ner eyes ana see again the father stern
ana iorbidding; the mother, pleading
ana fearful, and the handsome, dark
eyed brother. who had gone from their
Noor IN far-away Italy. that summers
day, and from whom they had heard no
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-11-06
Palm, for Arid ploin,.


The Department of Agriculture seems
to entertain the belief that the date
palm may solve the problem of what to
do with the arid and alkall lands of
Arizona, California and other Western
States. Experiments have been made
in the past by the department and ex-
pertinent stations, but renewed interest
Is being taken by the section of plant
Introduction of the Department of Agrl-
culture, and Prof. d. G. Fairchild,
agricultural explorer for the depart
ment. now. travelling in Africa, has pro.
cured number of suckers, or offshoots,
from the delta of the Nile, which he has
shipped to the department and which
will be distributed in the southwestern
part of this country.
In the United States the date is m
article Of luxury, but in Its native
country 1t is most important food,
many regions in Arabia and the Sahara
being uninhabitable but for the date
palm. The United States annually i'm
ports nearly $1,0OO,OOO worth of dates,
but 1t is possible, the department be-
lieves, to raise all the dates needed in
this country. The date palm, although
grown profitably only in arid and semi
arid regions, is not in the proper sense
of the word desert plant. 1t requires
fairly abundant, and, above all, a
constant supply of water at the roots,
and at the same-time 1t delights in a
perfectly dry and very hot climate.
The date palm is able to stand much
more cold than an orange tree, but not
SO much as a peach tree.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-11-06

hoBs. BUCHANAN. when 10 years of
age. Immediately he determined upon
n literary career and went to London.
Three years later he produced his first
volume, which was well received. Soon
he became one of the most yoluminous
of authors, poems, novels, plays and
criticisms coming from his pen in start
ling profusion. His writings ranged
from the very good to the very bad but
his successes were more frequent than
the failures. His dramatic ventures
We're almost without exception most
pleasing to the public, his success be-
ing attained by clever anticipation of
the popular taste. His career marked
him as a man of rugged force and hon.
esty who. from excellent and even lofty
motives, was continually laundering
into indiscretions which drew ridicule
upon him.
In America he became known princi-
pally by reason of his championing
Walt Whitman and calling America to
account for its failure to recognize and
crown the good gray poet" as its rep
resentative genius. The letter, which
was widely discussed, was resented not
only by the American public but by
Whitman himself.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-11-06

LORENZO SNOW. than 60 years of
his life to the work of the church, and
In that time travelled more than 15O,-
OOO'miles on missionary tours, in which
he carried the gospel of his sect
throughout the United States and Eu-
rope and to the islands of the Pacific.
Mr.. Snow was native of Ohio, and
was a student in Oberlin College more
than 60 years ago, when Joseph Smith
had gathered his first colony of con-
verts at Kirkland, Ohio. He was trav-
cling to the college one day when he
met travelling elder of the Mermons
and engaged in theological discussion
with him. The result was visit to
Kirkland, his conversion and baptism,
and the valuable services he rendered
to Joseph Smith in the wanderings of
the society throughout the Middle West
and to Brigham Young on the journey
to Utah and the rehabilitation Of the
people.
He was early made member of the
quorum Of IL apostles. and as such
served until the death of MILFORD
Woodruff, when, under the order of
succession in the church, he was made
President. prophet, seer and revelator
Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints" in September. 1898.
To the influence of Mr.. Snow was az
trlbuted the serious attempt to revive
the open practice of polygamy among
the Mormona. He had been imprisoned