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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13
BRYANISMS
From The Commoner.

From The Commoner
The Pen ,syvania legislature has again re-
elected Mr.. Quay to the senate, although the
certificate will b. ar the name of Boies Penrose.
By returning to Mississippi, President Roose-
velt will be able to find fully as much g. o. p.
harmony as he did bear meat.
The Republican promise to throttle the trusts
meant about as much as the Republican resolu-
tion of sympathy for all peoples struggling for
liberty.
Mr. KnoXs communication explains ve1y
clearly that if Mr.. Knox has his way, the trusts
will be properly taken care of by his depart
ment.
1t appears that Mr.. Knox is keeping his de-
partment busy trying to evade the duty OF en-
forcing the criminal clause of the anti trust law
Five hundred thousand dollars worth of this
sort of thing should be amply sufficient
According to the testimony Of the anthracite
mine owners, the condition of the miners is so
pleasant and profitable that we wonder why the
owners do not give away their holdings and get
Jobs in the mines as wielders of the pick and
shovel.
Knowing that China is silver-using nation,
the powers exacted an indemnity of colossal
proportions Then silver was hammered down
20 cents an ounce and China's debt thereby in
creased one.third. This is what gold standard
financers call honesty.
Those people who complain because the min
ers refused to work on New Years day are the
people who insisted that mine owners had per-
feet right to do as they pleased with their own.
In other words, mans property is sacred;
mans labor is merely public co venience, ac-
cording to their logic.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13
BY LORD VAUX.

ut is generalization from history that law
is the perfection Of reason"
Another sentence that comes in under the
character of The Irishman. If the Justice
means that law of to-day is the perfection of
reason, should say that reason is like rare
beef-steak. The beef needed a second rarng
to make it palatable. If lawmakers had
aimed to make law the perfection of reason,
the attainments III that direction would have
produced far different results. Law is defect
i've or reason is blended with but scanty al
lowance of justice. The principle of the
Declaration of independence is reasonable, but,
so far, the laws enacted and administered have
fallen tar short of the principle. Law does
not embrace, never has fully embraced, the
teaching of reason.
We have enthroned very faulty monarch,
but we grow, and growth is along the lines
that lead to perfection. Perfection is in the
principle.
The Declaration of independence ell braces
the ideal. The ideal is perfect. God is the
author of the ideal. The ideal cannot be at
tained to except through persistent effort. 1t
may take centuries of efor: to even climb the
foot hills.
The true reformer respects the minor chief
tains, but he kneels only to the real king.
The Justice is right only as to what ought
to be. He would have us believe that we have
attained to perfection. He ascribes to statutes
now in existence the virtues of fundamental
principles. He sees no need for further effort.
He is fair type of the majority of his profess
sion. The law protects his babes. That is
enough for him. The reformer wants law for
the miners babes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13
DRINK AND HEREDITY.

Professor Mcdonald, on "Heredity and Men
tai Deficiency" after investigating 10000
children, reached the conclusion that heredity
plays an extremely important part in deterlnin-
ing the mental capacity of children. Of the
ten thousand, 885 showed mental deficiency
Of the SS5, All were born of drinking parents
He traced the family histories of 463 children
through three generations, and of these, 313
had drinking fathers, and 81, drinking moth
ers. OF these children, 76 per cent suffered
from organic disease. In ST families having
231 children with total.abstinence antecedents,
only three per cent suffered from neurosis.
l wonder if drinking people know, or c,re
to know, that drinking habits may entail a
curse upon the objects of their dearest aft c.
tions Fathers and mothers, stop and Ia, k
before YOU drink. Would you have your sous
and daughters born healthy, or diseas 4?
Would you transmit the vigor that grows III
letes, or sickly dwarfst Would you have u. IL
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13
A NEW DEPARTURE.

A III mher of the Legislature has introduced
bill i'll the house to prohibit the marriage Of
peopl- suffering from incurable Diseases or
who are idiotic or threatened with insanity.
The Till is the forerunner of legislation along
new line, and prompted by recent agitation.
Such legislation is of the preventive of grow
ing menace to civilization. No doubt such
measures will be fought with all the venom of
ignorance and prejudice.
Some men prefer to wear the filthy old gar
ments OF semi-barbarism to, doing the clean
of new thought and higher advancement.
The agitation will proceed.
The deepest thinkers of the day are of the
opinion that the breeding up the human race
is of far greater Importance than breeding up
grains and animals. We deprive our scrub
animals of the power to propagate their DIS
eases and inferiority Is it wrong to deprive
our fellow beings of the power to transmit
curse to the human race in death-strcken
bodies aud paralyzed minds.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13
tai giants, or insane and idiots, to bless or curse
your lives and the human family?
WHAT PROHIBITION Is DOING.

1t is interesting and cheering to know that
prohibition in Kansas is accomplishing good
work. The average consumption OF intoxi-
cants in the United States, per capita, is about
sixteen gallons. The average for Kansas is
about two gallons. The saving in dollars and
cents is about $4,000, 900. The per capita
cost, in internal revenue, for the whole people
is 81. The cost to the people of Kansas is 20
cents.
These figures are about correct, and knock
out the falsehoods of the saloon Ananases. If
there is less iq,or sold, there is less drinking,
and if there IS less drinking, there is less
drunkenness.
The prohbitionists have strong position in
defense of prohbitory laws, and make the
prediction that Kansas will never 60 back to
the licensed saloon. The whole controversy is
over Methods. Prohibition is the best method,
so far. What we need is honest enforcement
of the law fair trial and no favors is all
the prohibitionists ask for, and surely such is a
reasonable proposition.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

OLD KING COAL is still merry old soul
that is, the coal kings who have put their stup-
e:dous, ponderous feet down upon the supplies
which God gave so abundantly for the comfort
and life of mankind. They are calling for their
pipes and bowls and 6ddlers three, while help
less women and children are dancing and dy ing
out in the cold. Still the mockery of "commis-
sons to look into the coal situation" goes on.
"tariff on coal imports" is talked about as if
TALK would keep people from ezing to death,
and-and day of riot and revolution is
rushing on and up What means this forcible
c.n6scation of coal trains?-Word and Works.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13
GIVE US MORE SENTINELS.

People who do not know politicians would
be surprised to learn that our legislature is to
be watched on the question of prohibition
The suspicion is abroad that the present
legislature is friendly to the saloon.
In some localities, petitions have been circu
lated praying the legislature to keep its hands
off the prohibitive liquor laws.
We are in the position of the man who hired
a man to guard his horses, and who stood SEN
tinel over his employe. Evidently, the peoples
servants are very untrustworthy and 1t costs
NOR. to guard the servant than it would cost to
do the work at fist hands.
Nowadays, it is not enough to watch the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13

legislative bodies. We need guards over the
judiciary and executive.
l am in favor of dividing the people into
three great boGies-one body to watch the
legislatures, one the executive and one the
judiciary.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-02-13
10 McDILL'S MUSINGS.
A BOW-WOW.

Recently, the Kansas Day banquet was
a.pulled Off at Topeka. There was consider
able of a bow-wow. note solre tf the things
the state of Kans2s. Burch responded to the
toast claw and Lie qno'e:
''In this couu.Ty, we enthrone the law as
king. 1t is our monarch. We weave TOR II
the purple OF royal power
Burch strained point-,cvera points. We
don't enthrone the law as king. The prohib-
itory law is not king i'll Leavenworth. 1he
anti-trusf law is king nowhere in all this great
world power of him of the striped breecheS
and swalow-taled coat. The liquor interests
wear the .roya purple" in Leavenworth. In
nhat place, alcohol is ''onr monarch.' The
coal barons, the railroad magnates, the steel
mergers and oil squeezers wea about all the
purple that is worth mentioning in all the
country over which flies the screaming eagle.
AS the Justice proceeded he warmed to his
theme, and declared:
y"It the law heeds the cry of the humblest
orphaned babe"
CRYING that the law pays no attention to.
Either the law is not much of a mother bird as
to wings, or she forgets to spread out. 1t was
the Justice that spread.
The law heard the cry of the orphaned
Goulds and Vanderblts, but, so far, 1t has not
heard the cry of the orphaned children OF the
coal.miners; and yet Burch is afraid of too
much law.
The mind of lawyer is hard to fathon
We have dived down into the ocean and bored
down into the earth, and brought to light Sc
crets that were hidden from all eternity. In
keeping secret, the earth and ocean are not
!. in it compared with politcian-lawyer.
Burch is afraid that we might be over
whelmed by law, and all in the same breath,
wien he would have lis believe that law wept
at the cry OF an "orphaned babe"
| can't see, if law is such good thing, why
I've can have too much law. Burch might be
able to explain, but he can't be forced to; and
so there is deep mystery Cat least, think
SOY chucked away under the purple OF Burch' S
incomparabe legal intellect
suspect that Burch would punish five-cent
thieves, and heed the cry of millionaire babes.
In all reason have enthroned monarch
whose purple is turning to Crimson
No man can talk for long time without
saving something that's true. The Justice is
no exception. He said
"The essential principle of life is growth,
and growth brings change"
I seldom admit anything that lawyer-poli-
tician asserts, for the simple reason that
LAWYER is like an Irishman: He must be taken
at what he means, and not what he says. il
the Justice means that the law will eventually
hear the cry of the miners orphaned Labes, he
is on the right track. If he means that the
law would give the millionaire babes another
boost he is away off. Figuratively speaking
the ears of the law will have to be treated SC
that il will be much better able to hear than IN
,.the mast. The law ears OF the present are in
omparably dull compared with the ears thai
shall be. This assertion is in harmony with
dictum of the Jusice. Growth brings change
and the new growth will hear the cry of starv
mo babes of the laboring classes
Again quote:
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
SOME QUEER RULES.
Directions Governing the Household
 of Henry VIII. of Enoland.

OIreCtl0nS U0vern1ng the douSen0lQ
 of Henry VIII. of England.
 The only alteration in the fol- lowing, says the London Mirror, is the difference of the orthography. They are extracts from curious manuscript, containing directions for the household of Henry VIII. of England:
 His highness' baker shall not put alum in the bread nor mix rye, oaten or bean four with the same, and, if detected, he shall be put into the stocks.
 His highness' attendants are not to steal any locks or keys, ta- bles, forms, cupboards or other furniture of noblemen's or gen tlemen's houses, where he goes to visit.
 "Master cooks shall not employ such scullions as go about naked or lie all night on the ground be- fore the kitchen fire.
 No dogs to be kept in the court, out only a few spaniels for the la dies.
 ''Dinners to be at ten and sup pers at four.
 'The officers of his privy cham Der shall be loving together, no grudging or grumbling or talking of the kings pastime.
 "There shall be noromping with the maids on the staircase, by which dishes and other things are often broken!
 "The pages shall not interrupt the kitchen maids.
 "The grooms shall not steal his highness' straw for bed, sui ficient being allowed them.
 "The brewers not to put any birthstone in the ale.
 "Twenty-four loaves day for his highness' greyhounds.
 "Ordered, that all nOblemen and gentlemen at the end of the session of parliament depart to their several counties, on pain of royal displeasure."
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
Facts About the Deep Sea.

Great Britain and America do more deep sea measuring than all the other nations put together. More than one-half of the sea floor lies at depth of a little less than three miles. Some of the deepest places are holes in the ocean bed. One of these in the South Atlantic covers 100000 square miles, or seven per cent. of the surface of the globe. The In- dian ocean is the greatest place for deep waters, "A out of the known 43 "holes" lying at the bot tom of that body of water. Sea near the coast usually slopes away gradually to depth of 600 feet, and then drops rapidly to depth of coco feet. Variations of tenn. perature do not extend deeper than 600 feet. Below that the temperature never varies.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
WHAT RAILROADS DO FOR US.
Perishable Small Fruit Transported
 to New England Markets.

Perishable Small Fruit Transported
 to New England Markets.
 In this wet and sunless season, when fruit has been so scarce, the best melons received in the Hart ford Conn., market have come here from Mexico and Colorado, says the Hartford Courant. These have been very choice and nota- bly, fine, not the makeshift of an emergency. Who would have i'm agined, comparatively few years ago, that perishable small fruits would be carried such distances |? The trunk line of railroad, the re. duced cost of transportation and the introduction of the refrigera- tor car have made this amazing result possible.
 And, after all, that is only one of the many astonishing incidents of the markets of the day. Just thin of the statement now made public that last year there were imported into this country over 25,00O,000 punches of bananas. It is not so long ago that banana was a luxury. It has become one of the cheap and abundant fruits. In their time we get strawberries from as far as Florida and peach
 from Georgia, and the supply of California fruits that the cars bring us is said to be only the sug- gestion of what is coming later. They have found cases in Mon tana, Idaho and other far western states where it is said that the finest fruits of the country are grown. As this fruit culture de yelops the market of the east will get the benefit.
 It is with these small delicacies that the marvel of the transpor-
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06

tation seems most evident, but m fact we are dependent on the cars for practically everNthalnns we need. Our meats come fr0m oe- yond the Mississippi and our Noul comes as far. We could not live a week on our own resources, and the whistle of the steam engine and the roar of the cars are the announcement of the coming of the things that we must have to keep a-going. On the other hand, of course, the things that we are making are necessary to the pro- ducers elsewhere, and it is in the exchange of these services that we all keep busy.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
HOPE FOR THE BIRDS.
French Milliners Agree Not to Use
 Stuffed Birds on Hats.

Birds are to be worn more than ever in millinery, but the bird -lov- CTS need not despair, for these trimmings birds are made in Paris and never sang a song, says the San Francisco Argonaut. The stuffed bird, in fact, is being eliminated from millinery for what might be termed natural causes.
 They have come to be regarded as tasteless by French milliners. as they cannot be handled with at all the same ease and effect that the made birds can. The wings of the stuffed bird are stiff 7e of the made bird are plI@ and easily | t to follow a crown or bent around the hat rim. g
 The feathers of common bi killed for food or because they are nuisances are used to make these birds.
 The much-criticised heron's egret will not be seen in millinery after the first of the year. the nilliners' association having gome to an agreement with the Audubon society to that effect. Aigrettes, however, will be seen. whose use will not violate this agreement. It is found that pea cock and other common feathers can be chemically treated to du- plicate almost perfectly the egret.
 COque plumes are to be very much used. Beautiful specimens are shown, rivaling in exquisite finish the best ostrich plumes Marabout feathers, too, will be popular and beautiful, and costly feather capes of this and other va rieties will be worn by those whc can afford them.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
Paper Stockings.

Paper gloves and stockings are now being manufactured in Europe. The stockings have been carefully examined by experts and they are loud in their praise of them. Let no one assume, they say, that these stockings, because they are made o. paper, will only last few days, fur they will last almost as long as ordinary stockings. The reason is because the paper of which they are made was during the process of manufacture ren. dered into substance closely re- semblins wool, and then woven and otherwise treated as ordi- nary wool.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
PHARAOH'S CORN A FAKE.
Crop Proves to Have Come from Seed
 Bow Planted.

Boy Planted.
 Some time ago there was won derful story in the European jour- nals about certain grains of an cient Egyptian corn which had been planted in Germany and had duly come to life.
 The grains, they said, had been found in an Egyptian sarcopha- gus and had been planted by a Dresden florist. Some days later the corn appeared above ground, much to the surprise of scientists, who did not suppose that there was life in grains which were 4,O0C to 5000 years old.
 The corn, however, says Stray Stories, was certainly growing, and even the most incredulous among them soon became con- yinced that grains have lease of life to which there is practically no limit.
 Alas. A boy employed by the Dresden florist has now confessed that he planted some ordinary grains in the same place where his master had planted the Egyp- tian ones and only a few hours after the florist had completed his work.
 This was sad news for the sci entists and for the numerous journalists who had written en- Enthusiastically about the miracu- lous qualities of the ancient grains.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
PUBLIC BATHS OF PARIS.
Conservative Dislike of Water Out. wardly Applied Hard to Overcome.

A curious little print has come to light through the publication of a report in the French Bulletin Official of the number of people who have profited by public baths to give themselves an elementary wash. It is needless to say that the number is not startlingly large in proportion to the popula- tion. The use of the bath makes but slow progress among the French, except in the upper class es, among whom it is an honored institution-in Paris, at least. The provincials are little behind hand in their love of water out wardly applied, and still speak of a '.bain de proprete" or ''bain de sante" as remedy to be used but sparingly.
 French workingmen are more apt to adopt habits of personal cleanliness than working women, who are strictly conservative in these matters, and look upon these matters with deep suspi. cion. Nevertheless they are in one respect more enterprising thln the men. Onl, man in every thousand, according to the Bull tin Official, takes swimming lessons from the bath keepers, while one woman out of every if teen does her best to acquire the art. But this only proves, what the philosophic observer of man. kind has long suspected, that women are even more anxious than men to be always .'in the swim.''
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
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SultS .Yegan to examine the burned part of the building, and it struck me that some substance might have struck the teeth of the gin and ignited the cotton. After a most careful search, what do you think l found? Some small charred bones, which offered suffi- cient explanation. I showed the bones to the manager of the gin, and after thinking a moment he exclaimed: Why, that's all that's left of our old cat and her kittens He said that he had missed the cat and kittens, but thought they had been destroyed in the fire, and never dreamed that they had caused the fire. From this expla. nation it appeared that the cat took her kittens to the cotton bin above the gin, and, having gone to sleep, was carried down into the gin, and the bones striking the saws caused the fire.
 Another case came under my observation which caused me some amusement. A saloon keep CT had a fire, during which IS bar rels of whisky were rolled out of the building, and after the fire was put out they were rolled back. The damage was very slight on the building and stock, but he claimed loss of about one third of each barrel of whisky rolled out, caused, as he claimed, by leak age. The barrels were gauged, but I didn't believe him and held up his claim. I soon afterward got hold of the revenue inspector for the district and got his report on the mans whisky, which proved that at the time of the fire there was more whisky in the bar rels than there was when the in spector gauged it, which was vi, olation of the internal revenue law. The inspector took my cue and immediately went down and made another inspection, with the result that the saloon keeper was fined $500 for having contraband whisky on hand, and, in addition eight barrels of the liquor were forfeited. Did 1 pay the claim: We'll, 1 guess not"
Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
Engine Stopped by Mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes stopped 7OO-horse power engine at a factory in St. Louis. Examination showed that the insects attracted possibly bv the oil on the engine, had been smashed to death until they formed a sticky mass that even steam pressure could not over come.