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Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
RxrERM1NATE THE GERMAN CARP.

The Ohio fish and game commission has
notified the fish wardens in every part of
the state to commence n war of extermna-
ton upon the German carp. In a circular
which accompanies the notification to the
wardens the commissioners state that the
German carp is a cannibal and. If not ex-
terminated, will utterly destroy the black
bass and other fine fishes which inhabit
Ohio waters. 1t feeds upon the spawn of
every other variety of fsh and very rap
idly depopulates streams and lakes of ev-
erything but its own kind.
This may not be news TO the readers of
the Journal in Kansas and Missouri, but
it is OF enough Importance to hold their
Interested attention. Some years ago the
United States fish commission became very
busy distributing German carp over these
states, and as a consequence the waters OF
many streams are fun of them. They prop
agate with amazing rapidity. They are
the scavengers of the fish tribe and can
live and thrive in dirt and fifth as we'll
as in unpolluted waters. Their flesh is
coarse, rank and unpalatable, and what
guided the fish commission in so industri-
ously cultivating them has long been a
mystery to people interested in such af.
fairs. The only defense we have ever
| heard was from a member of the commits
sion who declared that they were propa.
gated because they would thrive anywhere
and furnish certain people with fish food
who could not procure it from any othe,
known variety.
It is hardly probable the Ohio commits.
sion would have put out this circular un.
less it was sure of its ground. and It ought
to suggest the determination OF the German
carp in Missouri and Kansas waters before
| 1t is everIastingly too late.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
An Anecdote of Hanna.
From the Troy Press.

From the Troy Press.
Last summer, during the progress of the
campaign, when Hanna was abnormally
active. he was informed that one of his
corps of bookkeepers was about to be mar
ried. Hanna at once sent for him and
asked where he intended to go on his we'd
ding tour. AS the young man was poor, he
tirnidly replied that he did not expect to
make much of a trip. How would you
like to go through the Great lakes and re-
turn on one of my boats?" pursued the
magnate kindly. Very much" the book
keeper replied. Frightening up, "if could
be spared so long" II will give you a va
cation and pass" Hanna said as he sent
the young lover away rejoicing. Hanna
went to the captain of one of his finest
boats. told him to give the bridal couple
the best quarters and every attention with
out charge. After you are well out from
shore" continued Hanna, hand the bride
groom this envelope, with my compliments.
and tell him to have good time" The en-
yelope contained 800.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
The WATTS Christmas.

Across the way, in mansion tall,
The lights were beaming ta1r-
Twas merry Christmas eve. ana all
Was sweet contentment there.
Adown the street from hovel dim
A tattered waif there crept-
The peals of Inirth had awakened MIN
While wretched parents slept
He paused and bent his eager glance
JTpon the windows glow o.
Where merry children in their dance
Were moving to and fro.
And from the light and warmth within
His body warmer grew,
And throbbing with that merry din,
He nearer and nearer drew.
TIL up into the easement wide .
He climbed at last to see,
And fongingly and wonder-eyed
He watched the Christmas giles.
A soothing sense of drowsiness
Upon him softly crept:
And by and by the white caress
OF snowfiakes. as he slept.
And in his dreams an angel came
And touched him with her wand.
And kissed his lips and called his name
And took him by the hand.
And led him where sweet waters flow
And all the lands are fair,
And full OF Christmas JOY. and 10,
Tine Lamb of God was there.
All radiant with sunlight came
The dawn OF Christmas day,
And in the easement, crowned with flame,
And robed with white. and free from shame
And bitter poverty and blame,
The waif in glory lay.
Albert Bigelow Paine, in n. Y. World.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
The Spanish Soldier.

From the New York Sun.
1t must have been the same old Spain in
the days of the immortal Don QuiSote;
for did not that renowned and delightful
knight-errant exactly describe the con-
dition of the Spanish lads now in Cuba
when he spoke, with gentle melancholy, of
the soldiers of his day?
I'VE shall find," he said, in his excellent
discourse upon arms and learning, that
poverty itself is not poorer than the SOL
der; for he depends on his miserable pay.
which he receives but seldom and perhaps
never; or else on what he makes by
marauding, with the hazard of his life and
trouble of his conscience. Such Is his want
of apparel that slashed buff coat is both
his holiday raiment and shirt. But see how
he expects night to make amends for all
these hardships in the bed prepared for
him, which never proves too narrow; for
he may freely lay out as much of the
ground as he pleases, and tumble to his
content without danger of losing the
sheets. But what is most to be admired
is that no sooner does one fall, where he
shall never rise till the end of the world,
than another steps into the same place;
and If he also drops, another, and after
him another still fills up the place, without
suffering any interval of time to separate
their Deaths"
In these latter days, scores of thousands
of Spanish soldiers have not seen centes-
imo of their beggarly pay for months. Our
columns tell how they are driven to pillage,
how they fall in the fight, drop by the way
side, and perish in the hospital, while doZ-
ems of cargoes of boys from Spain fill again
the dwindling ranks. Could any chronicler
of this time sum up the Spanish army in
Cuba in fewer words or with more graphic
insight than these phrases of the Knight of
the Sorrowful Figure have done?
Had the hero of Spain's greatest achieve
ment in literature lived to-day. no matter
whether a knight-errant or disillusioned.
his place would have been with Gomez and
Maceo; for his was Il nature sane or fren-
zied. that may always be found on the side
of the fettered and oppressed.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
sam Is Not n silxerite.
the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
One might imagine that environment and
temperament would have made silverite
out of Sam Jones. the Southern revivalist
but it is refreshing to find that remarkable
character giving utterance to the follow
ing in the Louisville Courier-Journal: The
free and unlimited coinage of silver could
no more bring prosperity to the country
than bushy tail would make a rat q
squirrel. The country must be entirely
overhauled. Trusts and combines must be
shorn of their power or disbanded. Man
must cultivate the spirit of independence
and cease to lean on the government to
help him. Why, the whole concern seems
TO be unloading on the government. Now
they want free silver. and then there'n
be clamor for free boarding houses and
free clothing stores and free pitchforks for
the Tillman brigade. And If the thing
keeps on at the rate 1t is hitting now in
less than twenty years every old fellow
with wife and eight or ten children will
call up his gang and say: Now, children,
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
Railroads in Agriculture.

From the New York Press.
Two railroads-the Burlington in the
West, and the Seaboard in the South-are
installing experiments which should be
watched with interest by the farmer. They
certainly will be by those friends of the
farmer who wonder why, simultaneously
with his complaint that corn is 10 cents a
bushel, the farmer continues to raise an
nually some 2250 more bushels of corn.
The plan of the companies is to start ex-
perimental farms for the development Of
new crops along their lines. We do not
understand that they are to be model
farms, the name of which has rather de-
pressing suggestion. The idea is not to
teach the farmer how to farm, but what
to farm. On the Seaboard, for instance,
broom corn. New England beans, celery
and sugar beets are to be raised The
South, it seems, has heretofore imported
its supplies of these products from the
North and West.
This h well, but not exactly new. Gov
ernment has gone this far before. The more
important point, as we take it, is that
whatever these railroads raise will be
something that they know they can sell at
a profit. They will not continue, as the
corn grower does. TO swamp a falling mar
ket with another annual overproduction.
The commercial views of the world at first
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
The Astonishing oIney.

From the New York World.
In published interview Secretary Oiney
says truly enough that the recognition
of a new independent state is an executive
act. Everybody knows that.
But Mr.. Olney, as the official representa-
tive of that championship of Spanish OPP
preston which has aroused popular indg-
nation in this country, goes further. With
an astonishing assurance he asserts that
even if this resolution shall be passed by
both houses of congress the president will
be under no obligation to regard 1t other
wise than merely as IAN expression of opin-
ion by the eminent gentlemen who vote
for it,
Now it happens that these eminent gen.
tlemen'' constitute the congress of the
United States and that their expression of
opinion If made by the passage of this
resolution, will have validity which even
the perverted ingenuity OF a great trust
lawyer cannot set aside or ignore. The
constitution says:
Every order. resolution or vote to which
the concurrence of the senate and house
of representatives may be necessary lex
cept on question of adjournmenO shall
be presented to the president of the United
States; and before the same shall take ef-
feet shall be approved by him, or, being dis
approved by him, shall be repassed by two
thirds of the senate and house of represent
dllNtS iCCOEulIiS 10 lIle rules anu
tions prescribed in the case of bills
If both houses pass this resolution, there
fore, the president must either approve or
veto it. If he vetoes it and it IS passed
over the veto it will become law, as binding
as any other law on the statute books,
and he cannot neglect or refuse to eXe-
cute it without violating his solemn oath
of office.
Moreover, the resolution unquestionably
expresses the convictions and the pur-
poses of the American people. They are
tired of seeing our power and influence
used in behalf of the oppressor and against
the oppressed. They are disgusted with
the spectacle of subservient ministration
to Spanish tyranny under a lawyers fine
drawn pretenses of neutrality" They are
weary of seeing the courts and ships and
custom houses of the United States en-
ployed to aid the Spanish in the butchery OF
women, children, wounded men and other
non-combatants, in assertion of that claim
of a foreign right of dominion which OUT
own Revolutionary war was fought tc
deny.
The Cameron resolution speaks the
| thought of the American people. Wher
congress passes it no president will dare
| ignore it as a mere expression of opinion
| from the eminent gentlemen. who have
been commissioned by the people to make
| laws for them.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
For Another Great Bicycle Race.

From the New York Sun.
We should like to see another six day
bicycle race like the one just ran. at any
time after the very able participants in
that contest have fully rested. 1t is true
that this exhibition, like all others similar
to 1t. called forth a great many expressions
of disapprOval. The complaint has gone
generally that very soon after the start
the riders. ceased to look pretty: they lost
the composure and jauntiness with which
they began; their hair became diSheveled;
they looked dirty; their eyes bulged: they
lost flesh in they checks; they got awfully
tired and terribly sleepy and showed un-
mistakable signs of both states. None of
them reached the prostration that comes
over many a good boy after running q
mile. but manifestly they We're not out for
an afternoons pleasure spin: they were en-
gagged in struggle of intense severity.
Moreover they were all poor, working for
bread, q circumstance not without intu-
ence, We believe, in giving their task a pit
liable aspect. All of which led to many high
sounding condemnations of this and like
affairs as deplorable and devoid OF credit
to actors and spectators alike. But for our
part, we look upon such tests of human
capabilities with great interest, and will
welcome new bicycle test cordially as
we welcomed every trial in the very in
structive series of six day races on foot.
Struggles in physical endurance have no
| horrors for us, Notwithstanding they take
| man out of a bandbox, keep him up
| nights, and put the signs of wear and tear
| on his face. We have viewed. with ever
| increasing pride in our race, the demon
| stration of mans ability to cover ground
| on his legs in six days. Five hundred miles
| seemed at one time beyond possibility. but
| with renewed efforts the maximum rolled
steadily over 500 and on toward 600. until
| it exceeded that, and it was proved that
| man can go well over so miles in a day
| less than a week. We can already assume
| that he can cover 700 mics In a week. or
| 100 miles a day for seven days. That is a
| highly interesting standard of vitality for
humanity to live up to, even If it should
| never be surpassed, which. as All Sins
| friend would remark, we sincerely hope il
| will be.
Since the bicycle has come. mans power
| with it must be known, and as six day
i bicycle races have been as yet compare
| lively few, we await their repetitions alike
| with cheerfulness and hope. When we re-
| member that man on foot has covered
622 miles in 142 hours, the bicycle record OF
| 1.910 miles seems in nowise remarkable an6
| in all reason far from final
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
Hypnotizing santa Claus.

Nv papa has got hypnotic machine.
An he says II you look at 1t straight
When it whrls, that you can't tell red
coiors from green.
or fire from an empty crate.
An he put 1t UP high on the mantel shelf.
An I'm not going to try II. because
My papa thinks, maybe. I'd injure myself;
So I'll use 1t on Santa Claus.
When Christmas Eve comes 1 will wind 1t
up tight,
And have II all ready for biz;
And right underneath it I'll hang up that
night
The biggest old stocking there is.
And Sanity will see that machine and he.u
stop,
And his eyes will he fooled by its shine
And he'll fill that big stocking UP full 10
the top.
Because he'll believe It Is mine
New York World.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
Hill on Mckinley.

From the New York Herald.
In the late summer of 1894 Senator Hill
was asked by the correspondent of West
ern newspaper to give his views upon Nc
kfnley. AT first he refused, saying that 1t
was not his habit to comment upon public
men, but on the correspondents plea
that few words would serve him, but
new in newspaper work, in good stead in
his own Office the senator relented, and
himself prepared the following interview:
Yes said Senator Hill, II know Gov
ernor Mckinley. first met him in the fall
of 1890, during his campaign for reelection
as congressman in Ohio, where had gone
to assist the Democrats in defeating him.
We were both upon the same railroad
train journeying to different places in the
district to speak, and he, learning that
was upon the train, courteously came back
into my car with some mutual friends,
where he was introduced to me, and we
passed a pleasant half hour together in
conversation.
Il did not meet him again during that
campaign, but at its conclusion Mr.. Nc
Kinley generously did me the honor to as
sert in public interview that my efforts
against him had largely contributed to his
defeat. We have only met occasionally
since then, but our pleasant personal ac-
quaintance, begun in the heat of the po-
litical campaign, has been renewed and
continued.
He is easily described. OF small stature,
Napoleonic in appearance, always disnitied,
his face as solemn as benediction, his
manner polite but never obsequious, i'm
personal in debate, Websterian in style,
seldom witty, vigorous in the presentation
of his arguments, apparently candid and
anxious to convince his hearers rather than
to display himself, deliberative and self
possessed, conscious of his own reserve
powers-this is faithful pen picture of the
great apostle of protection.
80 conspicuously has he been i1entified
with that cause that 'Mckinleyism' is now
the recognized synonym for protection ev-
erywhere in the country.
You ask me to predict his future. This
I must decline to do. Although a United
States senator, strange as it may seem 10
be. neither deal in Sugar nor in futures.
I can only say that as the author of the
Mckinley act and as Republican COVER
nor of the great central Republican state
| of Ohio he cannot well be ignored in the
distribution of the honors or rewards which
| his party may hereafter be permitted to
bestow. If the tariff shall continue to be
| the issue in the politics of the country his
| friends may well insist that the great pro-
] lection leader himself, rather than any
| subordinate, should lead the contest on the
| Republican side.
"As a Democrat, am opposed to Cover.
| nor McKinley's political principles, but this
| does not prevent the people nor myself ap.
| preciating his high character as an Amer
| ican statesman. This is all I have to say
except to suggest that It is not my Gus
| tom to either eulogize or criticise public
men of the day in the newspaper press, but
| 1 make an exception to this rule in thi.
| instance, at the urgent request of young
| and ambitious correspondent whom l an
| desirous of encouraging"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24

From the n. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The British people are discovering that
there are very serious difficulties involved
in the eminence of the United Kingdom as
a manufacturing center. In order to be-
ccme "the workshop of the world Eng
land has sacrificed her farms to her fac
tories. The free Importation of foreign
agricultural products for the purpose of
furnishing the artisan with cheap food has
ruined the once prosperous British farmer.
England is no longer self-sustaining
country. An immense preponderance of
her grain supply comes from abroad. Her
people are dependent upon the wheat rais-
ers of the United States. Russia and Ar
gentina for the bread they eat. In case of
war. not merely British supremacy, but
British existence, would depend upon the
ability of her magnificent feet to prevent
anything like a blockade of her coasts.
With their outside grain supply cut off, or
even diminished by one-half, the people
of England and Scotland would face famine
as surely as the inhabitants of a be-
leaguered city whose provisions had run
short
The recent rise in the price of wheat
brc ught about by the existing grain short
age has forced this question to the front,
and aroused the advocates of vast sys-
TEN of national granaries to increased ac-
tivity. For some time the plan of estab-
fishing great governmental magazines of
wheat in the British isles has been per-
sistently urged. 1t has been opposed both
on the ground of its enormous expenses
and because 1t was asserted that such u
precautionary measure would be universal
ly interpreted as a confession of British
weakness. The cost of amassing a suffi-
cient quantity of grain to feed the United
Kingdom for three months would, indeed
be a heavy drain on the British taxpayer.
1t is a question, however. whether some
of the money now annually devoted 10 the
construction of huge battleships and cruis-
err, might not profitably be devoted to this
method of national defense. The problem
of subsistence in time of war is one of
mcmentous Importance TO Great Britain,
and it is likely to command increasing at
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
Good Practice.
le Chicago Post

From the Chicago Post.
My son." said the old gentleman with a
kindly smile that deceived the boy. II un-
deIstand you have made Il great record
on the football field during the season that
has just closed
Well, 1 should rather think so.'' re-
turned the boy, proudly. when it comes
to tackling-'
That's just the point I wanted to get
at" interrupted the old man. "Tackling
is just the point at issue
the boy.
Why there's ton of coal out by the
front gate that wants to be tackled and
rushed into the cellar the worst kind of 4
way
So it happened that the boys training
proved a good thing-for the old man.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24

hand and the best business brains of the
country will be at their service, as they
cannot be at that OF the farmer. They will
know before they sow something of the
price conditions under which they will
reap. They will SOW accordingly. 1t will
be to their advantage, as, of course, it is
their purpose, that their neighbors follow
their example.
We shall wait with great interest the
reports of these corporations on the effect
of these experiments upon their business.
and consequently upon the communities
from which it is derived. Minnesota farm
ers are richer by thousands of dollars this
year through following the advice of the
president of the Great Northern to hold
their wheat. 1t is along this line-of pre-
science of the markets-that the farmers
of Nebraska, Kansas. North Carolina and
Georgia, in which these experiments are to
be conducted ought to be benefited.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
A Victim.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
He bit the dust.
He, the hero of a hundred battles. AZ
last put himself in line with the onward
march of time.
He bit the dust.
Perceiving that his teeth had left two
distinct dents in the coin he thus expert
mented upon, he observed that II they
couldn't put up better dust in change than
lead quarters, he'd deal at another shop.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
What She Wanted.

From the Cleveland Leader.
Lady-'Let me look at some cuff links.
please"
Clerk-"Ah. yes, I suppose you want
something choice for the-the young gen
tleman who Is to
LADY, am looking for something for
my husband
Clerk-"Oh. pardon me. You will and
the plated goods in the rear part OF shs
store
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
THE WEATHER.

washington. Dec 2s.-For Oklahoma and
Indian Territory: Fair, but with increas-
ing cloudiness; colder; north winds.
For Missouri: Increasing cloudiness;
probably light SHOWS by Thursday night;
colder in Southern Missouri; north winds.
For Kansas: Partly cloudy weather;
probably light local SHOWS in eastern por-
ton; slight change in temperatures north
to east winds.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24

-checked-without the intervention of law
If possible. but if not, then legal COM
pulsion ought to be provided. This sub
ject is receiving earnest attention IN many
quarters. Several cities have already taken
steps to minimize the evil which has be-
come one of the curses of the land, and If
the practice can be abated in Kansas City
it Is a consummation devoutly 10 be wished.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
Severe Strain.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
Honest. now, did you injure your eyes
lookin' for work?" asked the lady.
That's jist how" answered Mr.. Dismal
Dawson. who had picked up discarded
pair of smoked glasses.
1T must have been mighty small jobs
YOU was lookin' for" and the door
slammed.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
stiIi vindictive.
e Chicago Tribune.

ii ON the Chicago Tribune.
'I wish" muttered the implacable Wey-
Ter, with a gleam OF baffied rage IN his
eve, that Maceo could have lived long
enough to see some of these obituary po-
ems the American papers have printed In
his honor!''
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
The Old Boys Delight.

It's the little tin horn
Makes Christmas morn &
For many grayhaired boy;
And that's just why
His heart beats high
FAnd he pays the rent with joy! -
Atlanta Constitution.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-24
Per. VIII Have to Hu.tIe.
M the New York Sur.

From the New York Sun.
December ages swiftly. and If the Hon.
William Alfred PETER, of Kansas. means
to carry out his noble purpose of bringing
the number of his speeches up to 800 be-
fore the holidays. he needs TO begin early
and never stop. At present his record is