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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18
Lodge Directory.
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF JUSTICE meet
X and 2 Hall on the lSf and ard TUESDAY

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF JUSTICE meet at
x. and p. Hall on the lst and 3rd Tuesday.
ANCIENT ORDER OF PYRAMIDS meets at the
X. Of L. Hall on the End and 4th Tuesdays of
each month. All Pyramids are invited.
GARNErr LODGE. No. lG. |. .. o. F. meets
every. Tuesday. evening at odd Fellows
building. Members of the order visiting the
city are cordially Invited TO attend the
meetings.
DAUGHTERS OF REBEKAH. COlfax Lodge No.
II. holds Its meeting the End aud 4th Monday
evenings OF each month at Odd Fellows hall.
DELPHIAN LODGE. No. A. Masonic, meet at
their lodge room on the lst and 3rd Thurs->
lays OF each month"; and cordially invite all
visiting Masons to attend.
ZiON CHAPTER No. n. Royal Arch Masons,
meet the End and 18th Fridays OF each month
Royal Arch visitors are always welcome.
A. o. wv. LODGE No 2i2, holds Its meeting
every Friday evening at 1880 o'clock. Mem
bcrs of the order visiting the city welcome.
TRIPLE TIE LODGE.meets the End and 4th
MONDAYS OF each month ut their lodge room
DEGREE OF HONOR meets the 1st and Bird
Thursdays OF each month at Workman Hald
The kNIGH:s AND LADIES OF SECURITY,
hold their meetings the LIST and Bird MONDAYS
or each month ut Workman hail. !
The ROYAL NEIGHBoRs meet at Woodmen
hall the end and 4th Friday evenings OF each
month.
The FRATERNAL AID ASSOCIATION have
their meeting place ut Modern Woodman
hall the End and 4th Thursday evenings of
every month.
The MODERN WoODMEN hold their regular
meetings every Wednesday evening. V.si-
tors members of the order are welcome.
KNIGHTS OF PYrHIAs meet every Monday
evening at their lodge room ON west Fifth
Avenue.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18
ATEMPEST IN A TEAPOT.

Jane Adams, Of Hull House, Chicago, in
vited Eugene v. Debs to deliver Lecture in
that institution few days ago, which invita-
ton he accepted. Whereupon, a lot Of Chi
cago "sky.pilots" untottled their walls of
wrath and proceeded to abuse Miss Adams,
who has done more good to humanity than all
of her traducers put together. Miss Adams
admits that she is Socialist, and has no apol.
ogy tor 9ebs' speech.
Here are a few things Debs said, and his en-
tire address was along the same line:
"It is commendable to relieve crime, but in
6nitely more rational to prevent it.
"Could any man with good heart be salts
fed with the world as it is?
"The machine leaped from the brain Of the
laborer, but he let it slip from his hands.
81 do not find fault with the capitalist: he
does as he must. find fault with the system.
"Political liberty is rooted in industrial free.
dom.
"This earth is vast auction.bl in which
labor is sold at so much per day.
"The society queen at Newport know of
no one more in need Of emancipation than she. I"
What could those preachers find what can
any reasonable person 6nd-in those utterances
to condemn? We do not believe one of those
critics heard Debs' speech. There is nothing
in those utterances that cannot be fully endorsed
by every true Christian.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18
Not Over.Wise

There is an old allegorical picture of a
a girl scared at grass-hopper, but in
the act of heedlessly treading on snake.
This is paralleled by the man who spends
large sum of money building cyclone
cellar, but neglecting to provide his
family with bottle of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as
safeguard against bowel complaints,
whose victims outnumber those of the
cyclone hundred to one This remedy
is everywhere recognized as the most
prompt and reliable medicine in use for
these diseases. For sale by Briggs &
Prother
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18
Women at the Polls in Australia.

Exchange
The coming federal elections in Australia
will have unusual significance, because for the
first time the entire female citizenship of a
continent will exercise the unrestricted right of
suffrage. Over $4,000 women voters are reg
istered, and, needless TO say such great in
crease OF the franchise has introduced uncer-
tanties into the election sufficient to cause even
the most experienced politicians to lose their
prophetic bearings entirely.
It is believed that women are entitled, under
the federal constitution, to occupy seats in par.
lament as we'll as to vote, inasmuch as the
word she" which is used in defining the quail
i6cations OF Legislator, is regularly interpreted
in Australian law to include women as we'll as
men. The president Of the Victorian Women's
Federal Political Association has, consequently,
announced her candidacy for seat in the fed.
eral senate from Victoria, and she will doubtless
make vigorous campaign.
The platform of this Victorian women's asso-
citation is a straightforward document, with four
planks. First, it asks for equality of women
before the law, specifying particularly marriage
laws and ofice-h holding. Then it has health
plank, demanding pure-food laws and ban
upon imports Of opium. Next, it asks for the
promotion of industrial peace through courts
of couciliartion and arbitration. And finally,
it has an international peace" plank, propos-
ing that the military and naval forces be organ
ICED strictly tor defensive purposes, and that
volunteer citizen soldiery be encouraged in
preference to regular military forces.
The Australian women are not novices in
political activity. In South Australia, they
have voted III state elections since 1896, and in
West Australia, since 1901. In New South
Wales, they were given the state franchise last
year. The New Zealand women are, however,
the advance guard of Australian women, for
they have had full parliamentary suffrage for
ten years.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

Character is the genuine coin. Reputa.
ton is the spurious.
The jointist pulls corks and legs. but
seldom pulls JOINT out of place until he
is pulled.
Quite true, association makes or mars
a reputation. fla man shoots craps out
behind the stock yards with a gang of
mongrel mulattoes, he is n thug" but
If he bucks the stock market or has "a
string" of horses to back, he becomes a
Monte Christie, and society welcomes
him
We'had nice little elbow" prepared
for last weeks paper, in which we parad
ed the virtues of the town in its lack of
many Objectionable features with which
other towns are bothered. such as Jack
the pepper, etc, when, just before going
to press, Madam Rumor told us that we
had this species of the genus pusillani.
nous within the borders of this corpora
, ton.
wal, I'll be jiggered," said Uncle
Jerry, as he came in the kitchen door,
picked some wisps of hay off his trousers
iSSS anu tuiCW luClIi III tiC DiS SlatS III
the end OF the kitchen. Uncle Jerry being,
of an economical turn OF mind, tore Il
strip off last weeks paper, folded it up
into taper and lit it in the CRATE to
light his pipe, and, having taken a few
full fledged puffs and filled the air about
him with the opalescent haze until his
head appeared above the fog of smoke
like snow. capped mountain above the
clouds, he continued: III wuz into Binks'
store while wuz in town, an Binks WIZ
tellin' some o. the boys what good paw
Kiah Watskins is. Kiah had jes' paid
him bill he'd ovid him fer nigh onto
three years, an Binks. he wuz that tick
led, he wuz praisin him TO the skies.
But wuz jes' thinkin' as how I'd paid
Binks the hard cash fer ver'thing I've
got of him fer mighty nigh twenty years.
an nobody ever heard him holdin' me
up as an angel o. promptness at payin'
my bills" And Uncle Jerry stoodi in the
middle of the kitchen, pipe in one hand.
forcibly jesticulating with the other. At
this juncture, he put his pipe into his
mouth and sat down by the CRATE. and
Rover, the dog, laid down at his feet.
There was knock at the door, and
Uncle Jerry called out, Come in.' and
'Kiah stepped inside. Have seat?"
and Uncle Jerry got up and offered him
chair
Nope, amt time Mr.. Brown, | jes
come over ter see you. Thought mebbe
| might get few dollars of you ter
awhile. I'll give you my note
He was gone, and Aunt Cynthia look
ed over her specs" at Uncle and said,
with halt-smile: Jerry, if you get any
praise in this world, you've got to beat
somebody out of it,"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

THE membets of the Kansas coal trust have
refused to answer questions asked them by the
court, and they have been arrested and jailed,
6guratively speaking, but not in fact. In the
mesntime, they 60 right along "doipg business
at the old stand" Their case will not come
up in court again for several months-some
time next spring-when nobody needs coal.
Had some little independent coal dealer done
what these trust fellows did, he would be in
jail-behind the bars-and his business would
BIZ stopped
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

Mrs. Nellie Allen, of South Fork, KY,
saws she has prevented attacks of cholera
morbus by taking Chamberlain's stom-
ach and Liver Tablets when she felt an
attack coming on. Such attacks are us
ually brought on by indigestion and
these abets are just what is needed to
cleanse the stomach and ward off the
approaching attack. Attacks of bilious
collie may be prevented in the same way
For sale by Briggs & Bros.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

NEW YORK city, which averages one saloon
to every one hundred Of its population, and
gets revenue from all of them, hasn't school
room for much more than half its children of
school age. Nothing like going into partner
ship with the Devil in order to get revenue
with which to run town, you know.-Ed
Hoch, in the Marion Record.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18
This Suggestion IS NOT Wise or Democrat,

The Chicago American
The New York Sun suggests that, in view of
President Roosevelf's use of public vessels,
there should be regular appropriation for the
Presidents personal marine" The Sun sug.
gests that FIVE bundled thousand dollars be ap-
priated annually for the Presidents yachting ex-
penses.
In the first place, the suggestion is prepos-
ferrous. To pay president fifty thousand dol
lars year salary, and tack on ten times that
amount for yachting expenses, would be diotic.
Besides, as we have seen, one yacht, no matter
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18
THis, That AND T'oTHER.

THERE are reports of an epidemic Of diph-
iberia at Baldwin.
IT is reported that Senator Chester l. Long
is very sick man. :
RAIN, sleet and snow make conditions in the
northwest very discouraging.
THE Agricultural College at Manhattan start
ed out this year with 1900 pupils.
AN immense grocery trust is being organ
tied, with capital of $II,2So,ooo
JAPAN, backed by Great Britain, demands
the evacuation of Manchuria by Russia.
GREAT loss of life and property is the result
Of fierce storm. in Great Britain last Friday.
Many vessels were lost.
AND now it's Russia that is worried by So.
cialism. Well she may be worried, for Social
ism means death to monarchies.
THE State Normal at Empora opened this
year with 2,Ioo students-the largest number
in the history of the institution.
GERMAN Socialists are wide awake and pre-.
pairing for vigorous campaign despite the eff
forts of the Emperor to crush them.
THE Topeka commercial club will investi.
gate the tax squabble between Albaugh and
Kelley, and try to find out who's lied.
BY the marriage of American heiresses to
titled snobs of Europe, the latter have secured
two hundred million dollars from America in
twenty-five years.
THE Western Electric Company, of Chicago,
demands that its employees lead cleau lives.
Gambling, betting, drinking and cigarette
smoking are absolutely prohibited.
SECRETARY SHAW is preparing to put upon
the black list all national banks which seek to
reduce their circulation. These banks will get
no deposits of government money.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Kansas City,
Wednesday morning, destroying the main ex
change of the Missouri & Kansas Telephone
Company. The fire was caused by crossed
wires.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has abandoned the
idea of calling special session OF congress in
October. His present plan is 10 summon con.
gress Nov. 9th, which will give representatives
chance to take part in local campaigns.
AS result of Missouri Pacific freight
wreck one mile west of Toronto, Monday night,
ten cars of wheat and an empty coal car were
piled up at the bottom of the Virdigris river,
and the large steel bridge which spanned the
river was carried out. Nobody was hurt.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18
THE SOUTH FOR GORMAN.

Senator Clay, Of Georgia, expresses the
opinion that Georgia and other Southern
states will send German delegates to the next
Democratic convention. Clay says the South
is tired Of seeing Bryan's name in the papers,
aud that he is no longer considered seriously
by the practical Democrats of the country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

Tom JOHNSON seems to have scared up the
Republicans in Ohio. Besides Senators Hanna
and Foraker and other high moguls in Ohio,
they will have in the campaign nearly all the
leading Republican senator's and congressman
in the country, as we'll as several members of
the cabinet
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN was Kissed in London,
the other day, by lot Of workingmen, while
on his way to a cabinet meeting. This was an
unusual occurrence in England, and it was sig
ui6cant in that it shows the unpopularity of
Chamberlain with the common people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

THE Office of DR.. S. B. Wilson, one of the
oldest physicians of Olathe, was raided by or
der Of the county attorney last Saturday, and
the Doctor was arrested on charge of violating
the prohibitory law. Forty gallons of whisky
was found in his Office.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

SENATOR CARMAcK, of Tennessee, will in-
troduce in the senate, at the next session OF
congress-, resolution to repeal the Fifteenth
amendment to the constitution. In this, SEN
ator Carmack exhibits lack of judgment, to
say the least.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

how we'll managed, would not suffice, since Mr. =
Roosevelt has required three fol himself and
his family.
1t is bad enough to have the President using
national boats without authority for private
purposes. But it would be still worse to ap.
proprate five hundred thousand dollars year
tor one single branch OF White House extrava-
gance.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

The longevity of death is unlimited.
A word to the wise is generally spoken
by some hrainless idiot.
If you would be we'll spoken Of speak
we'll Of others.
"No, Maye Belle, poker hand isn't the
fist of a pugilist."
Writing checks has proved the most
efficient way to check the right.
Many men to assure their social stan
ing, do not hesitate at morally falling
The harder the average woman tries
to look sweet when she is lust as mad
as she can be-" the madden she looks.
mo, Nave Belle, the brew that made
the village of Milwaukee famous was not
made OF frog legs. It's different kind
ofhops.
The achievement of true greatness is
like getting out Of crowded building.
Keep pushing, and let everybody stepon
your toes.
The Turks have decided that Uncle
Sans intentions in sending Admiral
Cotton over there are all woodland a
yard wide.
Andrew Carnegie's Discrimination to
lend aid to Kansas food sufferers may
be attributed to the TACT that he foresaw
the recent slump in watered stock.
This is the darndest trick ever did, Z"
said the hand.emdroidered sock as it
rubbed a blister upon that part of
mans loot that is always last ia a kick.
A man from Montana encircled the
globe in little over 50 days. Now, if
we were to try it. it would take us let's
see; how far can man walk in day?
A fellow up in Kansas City killed him.
self because he didn't know whether he
was disappointed in love or had malaria.
About five minutes after he killed him
self. box af flowers was received from
the girl who Tilted him. Well bet he's
sorry.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

EAT AT THE RED LIGHT
the best place in town.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18

VIZ DO jon PR1NT1NG-the best, too.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-09-18
CURBSTONE JOTTINGS.
BY WILL CARLETON CHAMPE.

Hi. there, Mistah Ovah'cOat,
Hanging on the wall
Get yo' down an bresh yo' up.
Summers gittin' fall.
Evenin's getting chilly now;
Hard for me keep VAIN;
Put yo' on, old oyah'coat,
B'lieye it's gwine to sto'm.
Leaves is fallin fas' now;
Trees is lookin bare.
Come on, Mistah Fall time,
Guess dts coon dom care.
Haze is on the sun now,
Durin' all de day;
Postum in the tree.top,
Heah dat ole houn' bay!
Git down my ole shotgun;
Clean the scOundrel up;
Go down in the timber,
Train that triHin' pup.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
DISCUSSES BILL FOR LOCAL BOARD
J. S. Lehmaier Tells About Proposed Law to
Give This City Railroad Commission.

In regard to the bill drafted by the West Side
Citizens Transit Reform Committee of One Hun
dred and introduced in the Senate by John w Rus
sell and in the Assembly by Frederick E. Wood.
providing for local board of railway commits
sioners James S. Iehmaier chairman of the com
rnittee on laws and legislation OF the committee.
said:
The bill provides for three commissioners. to be
sppouted by the Mayor. the first set to serve two,
four and six years. and their successors six years.
In providing for their appointment we had in mind
that their duties would be quasi judicial as well
as administrative. They would be empowered TO
had in mind that the Mayor should appoint one
commissioner from Manhattan. from Kings
and from the outlyirg borouShs. so that the
board would be constituted of men familiar with
the conditions I'm different parts Of the city
The bill provides that the salary OF each commits
soner shall be 5000 to be charged against the
city. and the board is given power to appoint such
assistants may be necessary. The bill further
provides that the commissioners may. in business
hours. enter the cars. offices and stations of all
railroad corporations under their control and may
examine the books and affairs of any such cor
poration.
II is also provided that the board shall invcsti-
gate the cause of any accidents such rail-
roads IL any railroad appears to be violating or
neglectfng the provisions of any law recon-
mendation of the board. after giving notice to the
corunration the beard IL, according to the pro-
posed law to present the subject to the Attorney
are to apply all railroads wholly or for the
most mart In the city OF New-Tork, and to the
corporations individuals operating or leasing
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
ASKS FUNDS FOR CONSERVATIVES.
Charity Organization Society Plans House In
Country for Women Patients.

The Charity Organization Sccietys committee on
the prevention of tuberculosis now has charge OF
ono hundred families in each of which there are
one or more sufferers from the disease. among
these there are not than twenty for whom care
in sanatorums or board in private families III the
country is regarded by their physicians as essen
ttaI All OF the sanatoTiumS are filled to oNer1oW-
ing and most have waiting lists, The committee Is
therefore obliged accept the alternative OF board
ing these patients in suitable boarding houses
There has been much difficulty in finding such
places.
For the remaining patients who cannot be re-
moved from their homes, special diet and other
forms of relief are required in an amount which
cannot easily be supplied from existing relet
agencies.
The committee asks for special fund OF So'V'e
for the relief of cases under its 1t is desired
to rent in a suitable situation, farmhouse
and to equip and maintain modest boarding mouse
in which accommodations can be PROVIDED, unoer
medical supervision. for from twelve TO hIteell
young women, whose removal from their preseht
unfaVorable surroundings is most imperative a
portion of this sum should also be available Tor
the relief of those who must remain at home Con-
tributions will be publicly acknowledged, ana VIII
be devoted strictly to the purpose Indicated
For the expense of its general work the COM
nittee last summer appealed for $4,000 and re-
ceived SS.el0 The remaining 5000 asked Tor VIII
year the work which the committee has under
taken Contributions for either purpose should he
the Charity Orga imitation Society. No. 100
East Twenty-second-St.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
STORM TROUBLES ELEVATED LINES.
Sleet Hinders Traffic Mostly on Sixth-ave.
Roed-Slush on Streets.

For the third time this winter the Manhat-
tan Railway Company's elevated service was
crippled last night. result OF the ice forming
on the third or contact, rail. All afternoon there
had been a drizzIing rain. which followed a stiff
snowfall in the early morning hours, and the
streets covered with a slush OF half an
inch more in depth. Following the cessation of
the snowfall there slight rise IN the tenn
perature. and up to O'Clock in the afternoon the
thermometer just hovered around the freezing
point. 1t not cold enough. however, to make
any trouble on the elevated Ines At o'clock the
temperature dropped degree, to 81, and then the
ice began TO form the third rails. An hour or
so later there was still another degree difference
ana the ice began form quickly as the drzzie OF
rain heavy mist kept falling.
BY 10 O'Clock the real trouble began 1t was not
nearly 50 bad the two former occasions
when the elevated roads were tied up of
the branches shutting down altogether, while
others only trains internationally and carried
but few passengers. The SiNth-avc. line seemed
third rail Presumably the sharp curves at Fifty
third-st., Third-st. and other points on the road
On the Ninth-ave. line most Of the trains are still
puea oy & sa so rs wSs srn m W
ing for the motor cars to creep out OF their way
DELAYED before midnight: After that the rain iT
and by o'clock a semblance of regularity was
obtained IN the running time. In the delay before
viii, he snail STEEL pTS,sh r5nrr. ai"ns, M fyppt
from the contact rail to the motor. In spite OF
these brushes. however ice would collect under the
shoes and then would follow most brilliant cleo
trieal displays, Though not nearly brilliant as
before, when the road had been blocked for hours
In the last sleet storm the flashes of electric fire
sufficient to bring many their windows
where they watched the trains they passed
splitting great sheets of many colored flame from
the shoes
Conditions on the surface lines were far better
than on the elevated lines. In some places for i'm
stance. the steep hill In Amsterdam-sTe.. at One
hundred and twenty -ninth-s on Lexingt at
Ninety-ninth-st. and on the approaches to the
Brooklyn Bridge. the trolley Iabored along and
climbed up slowly Liberal applications of sand
generally saved the day. however.
The sidewalks were in deporablc condition
There had been enough snow TO call ont the
brigade il Just melted during the after
noon and turned into mud and sluSh. The pave
ments were sIppery: and had i been 2 weekday
truck horses would have Jared badly. As IL
cab and carriage horeAs had hard time in Broad
and about the theatres ard uptown restau-
rants.