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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1896-08-26


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Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.

The onerous duty that comes to every
head of u family once a year. and which
is classified under the comprehensive term
of Christmas shopping, is now being con-
scientiously performed, the burden seuer-
ally falling upon mater familias. The busi-
ness is not yet at its height, but the climax
may be expected early next week, when
the trading will be fast and furious.
But the duty is not altogether unpleasiiis.
Though i good deal of responsibility is in
CURED. there is pleasure in the chase. In
the first place the children, God bless 'em,
must be looked after. And If there is u per-
son in Kansas City who has never under
gone the delightful experience of buying
Christmas presents for a girl or boy. that
person should try it once, just for the novel
experience it affords. There is such be-
wiIdering array of dolls, and wagons, and
seds. also books by the thousand every
one the identical book a healthy boy or girl
wants to read All sorts of games that
make ones head ache with their excessive
variety, then more dolls, and skates, and
muffs. and gloves, and tin kitchens, and q
million other things provided by artful
and designing shopkeepers TO gladden. d
child's heart and TO tempt the pocketbook.
It may be that many of these things have
been purchased every Christmas since the
child was Il baby, and it is more than likely
they have. but what then? They are al
ways perennially fresh in the Juvenile eye.
The doll for instance, never grows unpop-
ular. being the same yesterday, to-day and
forever although often much the worse for
wear before the next Christmas brings a
new one.
There is much secrecy observed in SNUG
Cling into the precincts of the home circle
all these various purchases and much de-
lightful pretense of not knowing what
there is in store for one when the future
recipient discovers it unexpectedly in some
place of concealment where loving hands
have hidden it away. Everybody looks as
if burdcned with deep secret, and mys-
terious bundles and boxes that are contin-
ually popping up when least expected make
the house look like it was a receptacle
for contraband goods
The Christmas season may truly be said
TO eliminate in a large degree the trait of
seIfishness for the time being. The uni
yersaI feeling of joyousness pervading the
atmosphere. the social gladness and the
general good cheer abounding everywhere
omen the heart ond the purse strings SIM
ultaneously and bring home to everyone
the truth that it is more blessed to give
than receive.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19

up they have too little time and too much
dignity for mauling one another. Take the
ceaseless friction of the Eastern question
out of it. and We find the greatest of Old
World empires Britain and Russia. the
lords of sea and land, without anything
nearer war or cause of war than the re-
preston of subject races since Waterloo.
For fear of arousing the wrath of the pres
ident of the board of police and other mil
liant Christians we admit numerous excep-
tons to the general rule. They merely
prove it.
But We have said only that the ratifica-
ton treaty should pass the senate. We
venture no guess, even. that it will. Unlike
the young Virginian at the Second Georges
court. that nobody has no eyes to turn TO
setting sun. 1t left two excellent treaties
of President Arthur's in the air. and one of
Harrison's. There are pregnant hinges in
its knee. but they crook in one direction
only. 1t Is toward the thithsr side of every
inauguration day. Woe betide the foreign
minister who leaves the making of his rep
utation as a negotiator to the melancholy
days between the defeat of his party at the
polls and the appointment of his successor
in Office.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19
pRoor OF MAcEo,s DEATH.

Havana papers, it is said, are demanding
that Maceo's body be produced as proof OF
the conflicting reports in regard to his
death. The rumors that are flying thick
and fast in the capital have confused the
people and the papers say that the sensa-
tioual stories afloat are injuring the Span
ish cause and that it is the duty of the
government TO substantiate the claim that
the insurgent leader has fallen. While
most OF the papers express confidence that
Maceo is dead they are urging upon the
military authorities to eNhume his body
and that of young Gomez. and bring them
TO Havana for identification.
II is not, however. the mere fact of con-
ficting rumors of the death of Maceo that
is injuriug the Spanish cause. rs these pa
pers seem TO think, but the manner of it.
II a body is exhumed and it proves to be
that of Maceo, and if he fell in honorable
battle. the imperial government may felici-
tate itself upon its victory. But If Maceo
was treacherousIy slain, as the insurgents
charge. the odium will rest upon the Span
ish arms as one of the bIackesr crimes in
the history of modern warfare. 1t be-
hooves the government at Madrid TO do all
it can to dsprove the charge of assassina-
tion which is seriously affecting its stand
ing in the eyes of the civilized world
In the meantime, while the Cuban junta
IS said to have accepted his death as a
fact, it is still denied in some quarters. In
reality. it is not known to-day whether
Maceo is alive or dead. The exhumation
of the body buried as his may settle the
question of his demise. but the manner of
his death will be more difficult to establish
and will probably always remain an open
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19
Spain and the Philippines.
From the Philadelphia inquirer

From the Philadelphia inquirer.
The interest which Is naturally felt In the
progress of the revolution in Cuba has
dwarfed to some extent the Importance of
the uprising against the oppression of
Spanish rule in the Philippine islands. and
vet the latter bids fair to he as serious for
Spain as has the rebellion in the former
island. While the revolt in the Philippines
only began last August Spain already has
been compelled to increase the small force
which she kept there to 10000 men. and
with all this the rebels are steadily gain
ing. They are said to number from 1000
to 1900 men, and almost the entire group
of islands is affected. Spanish warships
have been sent there and every effort is
being made to crush the rebellion. but the
Malays, who constitute the greater part of
the population, have shown a ferOcity in
warfare which is not natural to Cubans.
and the task of suppression promises to be
a difficult one.
The cruelties which are reported to have
been inflicted by Spain upon suspects ex-
ceed anything of that character which has
been attempted in Cuba, and they have
only added fuel to fire and made the NAL
contents more determined to have justice
It cannot be said that Spain has ever sue
ceeded in colonizing the islands. She has
simply been In possession. and has so"0h'
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19
The Clock Ticks On.

The song that we're singing bears with 1t
moral,
To be taken to heart by the young and
the old:
While Time. envIous fellow. so quietly
stealing.
Shall whisper-go print 1t in letters OF
gold
THE clock ticks on"
The maiden who trifes with honest at
fection.
Who thinks youth eternal. ah! let her
beware;
She'll find out too late, with a bitter re-
Election.
That Time is Felentless-she's no longer
fair.
THE clock ticks onr'
There's the note that you gave-such an
easy transactions:
Three months to elapse ere the payment
is due.
How hard to consider that Times stealing
on you.
And the day of protesting you'll bitterly
rue.
"The clock ticks onT'
Your friends are departing-how sadly you
miss them
But you count not the hours so mourn
fully told:
And sadly oblivious to time that Is passing,
You dream not a moment that you're
growing old
THE clock ticks on!''
-Harper's Weekly
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19

to know it at once, for to know it will be
to repudiate it.
Our country's position in the Venezuelan
controversy is not that of an adjuster Of
differences between two foreign countries
so much as that of vindicator of a clearly
enunciated governmental principle of our
own which We have insistently stood by
for more than half a century. If Secre-
tary Olney has in any manner waived any
of the prerogatives of the Monroe doctrine
he has proven false TO the trust reposed in
him and will receive the excavations of an
Indignant people.
Everybody concerned appears to be pos
sessed of more information about the Ven
ezuelan situation than ourselves, and it is
high time this Olney-SaIisbury treaty
should reach the light of day.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19
Torrens Law in Germany.

From the Chicago Post.
Persons interested in the adoption of
practicable version of the Torrens law
should place themselves in communication
with Mr.. Fortescue- -Brickdale the assistant
registrar of the land registry Office in Lon
don. Mr.. -Brickdale has just
made a report on the practical working of
the land registration systems now in force
in Germany and Austria as the result of
official Investigations. He finds the system
of registration of title in operation there
differs in no essential particular from that
established under the Torrens acts in Aus
tralia.
What Is of great Importance, this En-
glish investigator found that the new sys-
TEN had been substituted for a diversity
of complicated methods and tenures with
out parallel in this country or even in
England. The titles to vast ancestral
domains, requiring huge volumes to con-
tain their history and conditions, and ''the
tiny subdivisions of the peasant proprie-
tors of the Rhine provinces" under the
code Napoleon were reduced to democratic
simplicity by the new registration. Not
withstanding all the complications arising
from the diverse character of the tenures
in the different states of Germany and
Austria Hungary, the assistant registrar
found that by every test as to practical
efficiency the Continental registers ap-
peared to give complete satisfaction. They
itually to transact sales and mortgages
with an ease, rapidity, cheapness and Sc
curity which to persons accustomed only
to the conditions of land transactions in
this country (England) will appear almost
incredible"
Some idea of the cheapness may he had
from the fact that in Prussia the fees run
from pence for a value of e1 to E61 los
for a value of G1OO,O0O equivalent to $307.JO
for value of s500,00O In Vienna s. is the
usual fee for the purchasers lawyer in
vestigating the register and $50 lis high
fee even in large matters and with wealthy
clients
Passing TO the security which the sys-
tenn affords, we are told that in Prussia
a bona fide purchaser or mortgage from
a registered owner becomes Immediately on
registration absolutely secure from all adj
verse claims. As result of the system
banks have been formed both in Germany
and Austria-Hungary for the purpose of
lending money on the security of land.
In commenting on the report the Lon
don Economist says that It demonstrates
the necessity for great cheapening and
simplifcation of the antiauated and ex-
pensive methods OF procedure in England
"a reform which "the opposition of an in
terested class is not likely to be much
longer permitted to block There. as
here the legal profession is the interested
class that has interposed obstacles to the
cheap and secure system of land transfers
provided by the Torrens system.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19
What to Buy for Christmas-An An
swer to Doris.
From the Chicago News

From the Chicago News.
Somewhat reluctantly we give public rec
oSnition to the following communication
reluctantly because of the great RESPONSE
bility an answer carries with it:
To the Editor:-I hope you will pardon
me for sharing my trials with you, but l
seek advice upon matter which to me is
important. 1 desire to give a present to Il
dear gentleman friend of mine and, may
add, of my parents. too. 1 have thought
and thought, and gone from store TO store,
hoping something would suggest itself as
the appropriate thing. Here it is only q
week before Christmas and l have not
found what I want. What shall I do?
What shall buy? Won't you please help
me by suggesting something? DORIS"
Doris, We can help you, perhaps, by tell
ing you what millions and millions of your
charming sisters have done under similar
conditions every year since the exchanging
of gifts has been a Christmas observance.
Beyond this We cannot go nor would We
care to go if we could.
There are two articles which custom has
deemed as proper gifts from woman TO
man. 1t matters not what is the age of the
Siver or the receiver; what is their station
in life, their hopes, aims or motives These
two articles are always appropriate-in
fact, they are always selected and given
one is Il necktie. And the homelier il is
the more ardor with which your dear sis
tiers have pounced down on it and in some
mysterious way got it into the house of the
intended recipient. He knows it will be
there on Christmas morn and this accounts
for his sadness; he feels intuitively that
some woman has purchased for his espe-
Cial benefit and delectation a ready-made
ready-tied necktie. Hints that he has ties
to burn will not deter his feminine friend
from her mad course. She has set her mind
on a tie and a derrick couldn't bulge her
The other is a pair of beaded slippers.
Doris, We wish we could tell you the an
guish a man suffers at the thought of
Christmas. He knows that Just as sure as
the sun shines he is foreordained to receive
pair of beaded slippers. This knowledge
deadens his energies and makes the void
around his life hollow and empty. In his
tossing sleep he can see them, mile too
big for his feet, the big glass beads burn
ing like Goals of fire into his young soul,
the heart on the horseshoe on the Glow
er design taking on the shape of Satan
and grinning Economically at his suffer
ings. He would ward off the impending
calamity, but he is not the man he was be-
fore these beaded slippers entered his life.
And, base deceiver that he is, he thanks
the giver and makes a bluff at wearing
them.
Doris, If you care to see your and FAM
ily's friend happy turn away from the
necktie and slipper counter. Somebody
else will give him these sarticles, SO don't
crowd the mourners. You will be reward
ed after he recovers and, clasping you in
his arms, cries: THANK heaven, Doris, it
was not your
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19
A General Arbitration Treaty.

There should be no difficulty in securing
the ratification by the senate of the gen.
eral arbitration treaty with the negotia-
tion of which Secretary Olney will close
his diplomatic career. 1t Is a tentative
measure which may be allowed to lapse
without "denunciation'' at the end of five
years. Moreover. II is understood that it
will exempt questions involving the nation
all honor and sovereignty of the contracting
parties from its negotiation,
Surely, then, this is a first step which
costs little. 1t is toward the converting of
the parliament of man and the knitting
of the federation of the world. Nor is
it slight step in the millennial direction
indicated. There may not be said to be
disarmament party in Europe Even Mr..
Gladstone has of late breathed slaughter
to the Turk, and the peace-at-all-prices
Liberals can scarce find voice to protest
against a project to put the British army
on a Continental footing. But there is a
disarmament sentiment in Europe. 1t will
undoubtedly be increased even more than
the occasion warrants by the spectacle of
two nations which have fought two wars
and threatened at least four others, finding
a business-like way of adjusting at least
their minor difficulties.
Moreover, the advantage which Great
Britain would derive from freedom from
transatlantic ENHANCEMENT would be not
at all unlikely to be sought by her Con-
tinental neighbors Other arbitration treat
les might follow. Each one would tend to
make the position of this country more
honorably unique in the family of nations
We can conceive no grander national or
racial ideal than that of a great republic
pledged to the studious neglect of small
causes of quarrel with all mankind. We
can imagine no sight better calculated to
shame the world TO peace. For after ALL
most fighting is pretty childish for world
as busy as this world is now. Such a war
as Spain is now conducting is infantile in
its motive AS countries, like men, grow
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19
GROVER sLAYs DUCKS.

While the country is being worked up to
a fever heat over the Cuban difficulty and
innumerable companies OF militia are
yearning to immediate themselves upon the
altar of Cuba libre, Mr.. Cleveland, presi-
dent of the United States and commander
jn-chief of the army and navy, displays no
emotion. Although "the next breeze that
blows from the South may bring to our
ears the clash of resounding arms, this
high official shows no trepidation. HIS
eagle eye is on ducks. His strong right
arm is nerved to bring down the quarry,
and the fowl that has the hardihood to
tempt his aim is sure to bite the dust-or
the water, as the case may be.
Already. il the reports that slowly per-
coIate from South CarolInian Businesses
are to be relied upon, Grover has proven
himself a mighty Nimrod. In one short
day twenty-eight fat mallards fell prey
TO his prowess. and it only whetted his ap-
petite. His ardor is tireless and he Is as
alert after game as for an opportunity to
veto pension bill II, peradventure, he
wearies of the anserine slaughter he takes
the trail in pursuit of deer, and his cheer
full hilli-hi-ho mingles bravely with the
deep voices of the hounds as he urges the
chase after a stag of ten.
1t is glorious sport and Mr.. Cleveland
pursues It with all the ardor and abandon
of an Apollo or Diana or Danl Boone.
1t will do him good, for in short time
he will return TO his laborious duties with
the roses in his broad cheeks and the light
of health in his piercing eve The solemn
responsibilities of state will then sit as
lightly upon him as thistIedown upon the
placid stream. and his sturdy form stand
once more as a buckler between our be-
loyad country and all danger
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-19
Better Leave 1t n. 1t Is.

From the New York Sun.
Representative Treloar of Missouri, has
introduced Joint resolution in favor OF
amerding the constitution so that tho
terms of representatives may be increased
to four years, of senators to eight and the
term of the president to eight. He too.
has got the notion that an election in the
last case is an upset to the business of the
country. while in the other two it is an up
set to the legislators concerned. The old
and conclusive argument with regard 10
such change in the case of the chief ex-
eCutive is that four years Is long enough
to put him in an isolated position and out
of sympathy with the opinions of the peo-
pie at large. Besides, If eight years would
make a better period than four, sixteen
years would be better still. frcm the Same
point of view. And just fancy sixteen
years of Cleveland