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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
THANKSGIVING DINNER IN 1921.
Was Fit to Set Before
q King.

1.-THE state Dime Of the occasion-the
real Thanksgiving d~inner-took place OF
Saturday. the last day of the celebration"
writes Clifford Howard. of THE First
Thanksgiving Dinner in America, in the
November Ladies' Home Journal. Mot
w~ithstanding that the kitchens Of these
wilderness homes were sadly wanting in
many of the common essentials of cookery,
there was no lack CT good things nor of
appetizing dishes at this great feast. The
earth. the air and the water had yielded
of their bountiful supplies, and the good
ingenuity by setting before their hungry
guests and companions a repas as sump-
tuous and tempting as 1t was varied and
delightful. Foremost Of all there was roast
turkey. dressed with b%eechnuts; then came
rare venison paSties. savory meat stews
with dumplings Of barley -four, delicious
oysters the gift of the Indians. and the
first ever tasted by the white men), great
bowls of clam chowder with sea biscuit
floating on the steaming broth, roasts of
all kinds. broiled fish, salads, cakes and
plum porridge; while the center of zach
OF the long tables was adorned with a
large basket Overlooking with wild grapes
and plumS and nuts of every variety.
1T was the time of the Indian hummer.
The soft. mellow sunlight shone warmly
through the drowsy haze. illuminating the
somber woodland with a rich, golden light,
While the gentle winds of the south, laden
with the sweet perfumes the forest, came
as a lingering dream Of summer to add to
the JOY and brightness Of this Thanksgiv-
ing feast. Upon the balmy air arose the
of many voices and the merry music |
OF laughter. as the Pilgrims with their In |
9ian guests partook Of the feast that the !!
frovlder OF all things had given them"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
TO DESTROY INSECT PESTS.
Electrical Contrfvances Tint uov.
Been Madc and Are Now
I'm Use.

The destruction Of insect pests has been
attempted from time to time in all sorts
OF ways. 1t is not long since Mr.. Tesla
Chained an invention to sweep trees clean
o, parasites by a brush of electric current.
ana he may one day elaborate the system.
a FRENCH nventor devised a permanent
eVaporator. composed of a glass bottle hav-
ing a lateral aperture closed by a cork, which
IL suspended from the branches of a tree
after being filled with a peculiar insecti-
eide. These bottles are to be strung all
over an orchard. In some parts of France
large open air fires are made in the even
ing; into which moths and other insects fly
and are burned. the adjacent trunks Of
trees being smeared with honey. molasses
atiu otner viscous substances, to which in
Isc.s coming IN contact with them adhere.
pesiaTu OF Paris combined the two princf-
pies mus employed by building a Iamn
surrounded with q conical frame of eaIvanp
lied iron wire smeared with bird Iima II
destroyed not only moths, but also ali
noeturnai lepidoptera and coleoptera. The
most practical of all devices OF this kinS
Is mat recently invented bv DR. Ror;g Il,
Mnich q powerful electric lamp is inciosed
~ 4 ~nexagohal lantern. every side of which
Is proViued with a strong lens set within a
broad conical reflector. through which In.
sects, attracted by the light, can enter
AT It's upper part the lamp is formed Of n
pyramidal cover, having yentilators th,t
allow of the exit of the hot air. but nre.
vent the escape of the insects. IT. is
closed at the bottom by a pyramidai base
that leads to n reservoir, into which IL MT
a saccharine and odoriferous mixture tbat
lures the insects. ~
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
IMPURE WATER AND DISEASE.
HOW TO Keep Water Pure and Palat-
for Use in
HOmea.

A Few years age chemical analysis was
relied on to determine the fitness of wa
ter for drinking, and sufficient dilu,ion
OF poisonous matter was regarded as
making IL harmless. This is changed.
The problem is now looked upon as a bio
logical rather than a m one. and
the purity of the water is judged by the
character OF the organisms II may con-
tam, the fact being recognized that even
the minutest possible quantity of foreign
matter-if II be i disease germ-may be
sufficient to start an epidemic. The dam
ger consists not in the QUANTITY of s,cb
organisms. but in their power of growth
under certain conditions. Typhoid fever
cholera and certain forms Of dysentery
are the chief diseases whose infection II
Is generally admitted can live in water
but DIR. NJ. A. Needer has maintained
that the term malaria. meaning bad air.
is n misnomer, and that diseases of this
class are very largely, If not exclusively
conveyed In water. Admitting this, drink
Ing water brings two classes of danger.
In many localities safe water can only be
had by publication, and for this an inter-
mittent Misunderstanding advantage of n
recently discovered antagonism between
what Is known as nitrifying organisms and
disease germs-may be better than Sane
iiitration alone. the water being al
lowed to stand in the filter until
home saa time pnlif, fS destroy o r .her foes Ses For
most convenient. DR.. Veeder's plan is
to allow the boiled water to deposit its
edimen In a stone jar. then TO transfer
IT TO alright fruit Jars and store in a
cool cellar or in an ice chest. Such water
Is clear and palatable and keeps long.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
STORIES OF WRITERS.
lola HAS AN UNCOMFORTABLE
DREAD OF THE NUMBER IL.
Mr.. Howells, In Paris, Talks OF Ameri.
can Fiction-The StinEiness Of
Alexander Dumas-Djornson
ms a Reader.

The eminent writer. NJ. Emile lola. quite
recently. while he was going down Rue
de la Chaussee d'Antin, at Paris, was
Knocked down by a hack, which passed
over his legs. without. fortunately, doing
any other damage than bruising him. NJ.
Zoia has a superstitiouS horror of the NUN.
Ger L. This number is to him unIucky.
Efter he arose, he looked at the number
OF the hack. added up the figures in u
nash, and found the total to be seventeen,
Inc great writer had, for a long time.
Reid the belief that the number seventeen
mad a maliSn influence upon him, and that
aggravated the case. DIR. Tolouse has re-
Gently devoted a volume to a. study Of NJ.
LCla, IN Which the character. temperament
and the very sources of the iilustriols
writer's talents are analysed with all The
1a1e' antso OF psycho!9 g and physiolosy.
have a bad influence upon NJ. lola. Ii the
number of a hack. when added up, forms
inns Inquire, he will not engage the We
nncie or. II he is obliged to do so, will fear
Eor that he may not succeed in
tne business that he has started out 10
10. Such superstit;ous idea may super
Sene apropos OF any of his arithmomant-
acaI impulses.
For a long time the multiples of three
aEpeared favorable to him: but now it is
in the night 1t often happens that
he will open his eyes seven times in or
DER to prove to himself that he is not 60
ing to die. On the contrary. the number
which recalls to him a sorrow
ful date. seems to him to be unlucky, and
cEsrce has ordained that he should rec.
ceEize a coincidence of certain unfortun-
ate occurrences with that date. Similar
superstitious ideas exhibit themselves out
s.ds of all arithmomania. Thus, he will
certain acts with the idea that.
II ne does not do so, some annoyance will
Nal III en- 10 him., So he will fOncb tho n
burners that ne meets with in the streets.
an obstacle with the right foot,
walk upon the pavement in a certain way.
etc. For a long time he feared that he
would not succeed in the proceeding he was
ecing to undertake unless he started out
the house with his left foot foremost
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
CLUBS WITH MISSIONS.
The Ideal Woman's O-rxauixatiou
Ought t. Have SomA
Fun.

From Scribner's for October.
Here is the higher mission of the wom-
ans club-to give women the occasional
chance to rest. both in mind and body.
For such a club as this. developed along
the line of ease. of relaxation, of pure
Vacuity If one wished. with exemption. and
not responsibility. as its first privilege.
above all with abundant inclination In tn.
souls OF Its members toward nothing but
that profitable idleness which, CT Mr.. Ste
vensor says. consists not so much H.. DOING
nothing as in doing a great deal that Il
not usually recognized as such
a club I would be almost willing to be.
a ~propagandist! For here no insid-
ious. desire for work would be allowed 10
under the guise of recreation.
and no amount of recreation would serve
to carry any Interior purpose of elf-goy-
eminent. There would be luncheon for
iuroheon's a k and women would sit down
&c eat 1t, greedy and unashamed. And YOU
may be sure there would be no papers
read. and no members fined because thew
were not there to listen to them. Thus a
normal and natural intercourse would be-
In which the sel~f-government.
though. incidental and half unconscious
be real and permanent. because de.
veloped upon the plane on which one Gus
tomarily dwells.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
CAN SLEEP AND SWING A CLUB.
The Remarkable Accomplishment of n
Kansas City, Kas., Po-


| The Kansas City, Kas., police force has
| always been noted to some extent for pos
sessing remark able Offices. OF all the re-
narkaDie men who law. carried a club aud
worn a star in the city across the Kaw,
Frank Cogsweli. formerly Il member of the
Kansas City, Has, force stands at the
head Of the list. Cogswell was a brave
cheer. but then this is n't the most re-
markable thing about Officer Frank Cogs-
Well.
- is the only man VINO ever served on
~ force who could 81 .cp and keep his
club moving at the same time.
Captain Porter in speaking about the
d:fferent men who had worked under him
refers TO Officer Cogswell as being enc
OF the hardest men to eaten mapping who
ever served Gu the force.
Why" said he, 81 .,nk could lean UP
against a telegraph POI. aud fall sound
asleep. but with the regularity of Il clock
he would hit the pole with his club. A
sergeant could always easily locate him on
lis beat from this noise, but Cogswcil
would invariably be wide awake by the
time the sergeant reached his side"
The story as told by the old men who
served with this officer runs like this.
Much complaint had been made about
policemen sleeping on their beats and the
chief decided to put a stop to it. All SER
Seants doing night duty were instructed
to keep Il close watch on the patrolmen in
their respective districts. Nearly n third of
the men Were caught and reported before
the patrolmen discovered that they were
being closely watched. Cogswell was sus-
rected of taking a nap occasionally but
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
kind Of labor, will be transformed into an
excursion of pleasure.
The Cost of Building.

THE c%heapness with which my revoiv-
Ing train can be built, / feel, will draw
the attention of all car builders to it ut
once The greatest cost of a railroad of
TO-DAY, however, Is the roadbed, and a
great saving will be made in this by my
Invention. Now my train is mounted on
an elevated structure. which is of the SIM
plest design, and the great expense of grad
ing Will be done away with to a large ex-
"A number of local capitalists now inter-
ested In railroad projects have closely ex-
amiEed my invention. and I lave had a
EuMber OF offers to purchase 1t, but 1 do
NOT wish to dispose of 1t at any price. It
mas been conceded for some time past by
everyone at all interested in railroads that
the travel Of the future would be on ele-
waited roads. but, Of course. they were not
expecting II to come quite SO soon, 1t is
my intention to form a company with can.
ital enough to build a through line from
New York to San Francisco by the way
OF Chicago. I certainly expect this line
To be In shape to run not later than 1909.
and when once in operation no other road
can DO business in opposition to US, as the
vast amount of time we will save to tray-
eieIs Will make everything come our way,
at now costs a man over 800 to buy a
ticket from New York to San Francisco.
but We will be able to carry a passenger
This distance for SO and make money"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
JOHN DAILY WILL LECTURE.
Released From an English Prison, HI
Comes Here to Work for Other
TnfOrfuuotc.

Jchr DAILY, who was released from an
English prison in September last, has ar
rived IN this country. He will give lee
lures here for the benefit of Irishmen now
IN prison for alleged political ofenses.
Mr.. DAILY was convicted thirteen ye,r,
ago in Liverpool. the charge being that he
Tao a dynamite bomb in his possession.
ne was released because it was thought
~ VS. dylns as a result of his cruel treat
Inent IN prison. He is now in very good
Ieaith. he is more than six feet tail. has
a me head and wears a full beard and a
He declares he was unjustly convicted
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
REVOLVING RAILROAD TRAIN
IT WILL TRAVEL ONE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY MILES AN HOUR.
b Inventor Claims the Test of the
Model yVns n Success. md DEM
Onstrnted the Feasibility
OF the Invention.

M. c. Maloney. of Philadelphia, has In
vented a revolving railway train.
In speaking Of his enterprise Mr.. Maloney
says
My revolving train can reach and main
tain a speed of $50 miles an hour without
the slightest trouble. / am not alone II
my belief. as l have given already 4 pri-
vate test of my model when the leading in
SeEtcrs and men Of science Of Philadelphia
were present.
These all expressed the greatest aston
1shment at the results shown by my re-
vclv.ng train, and thought my statements
regarding the train and what II will ac-
complish as exceedingly modest. / have
been hard at work on this idea for nearly
three years, and 1t has only been a couple
OF Ecnths past hat my model has given
results satisfactory TO myself.
Speed has not been the only object In
view in inventing this new mode of travel
nithough, of course, il is the main feature
that will recommend it to the railroad
bCilcer and the traveller. In constructing
my train / have looked after the comfort
OF the traveller also. and when the pas
senger steps into my cars he will find that
a journey, now regarded as the hardest
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
Mr.. H0WELLS IN PARIS.
He Says That the Present American
School Entirely Satisfies

Mr.. Howells is in Paris. and. it appears.
he has been visited by the interviewer, who
Is row almost as busy and all pervadins
an Individual in Europe as he is in
America.
Mr.. Howells views his country's fiction
with spacious complacency. The TRANSACT.
iantic realistic school satisfies him entire.
y. Messrs. Brander Matthews and Ham
IN Garland, Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins
seem to him to be doing excellent realism
of the Jane Austen sort" American
writers. Mr.. Howells added, are getting to
DC more distinctively American-''the flow
er1ng of our modern literature is to come
For modern American poetry Mr.. HoweI,s
even with all his national enthusi-
asm and leniency. say very much. These
are bad DAYS. he admits. At most Ameri-
cans can boast some captivating song
sters:" All things considered. he contin-
ued, It is not possible for America to claim
Mr. kipling. No. it Is not. Still, as some
consolation for this inability. Mr.. HoweIls
ADDED that neither could England claim
hiri. MI. ,kipling, he explained. is a co.
does claim him..
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14

The Arab Is no respecter of persons, I'M
dead: then he makes amends for the neg
lect of his ancestors. and builds tombs 10
their memory. This will account for the
great number of kouhbas. or tombs, and
the vast collection of m%arabouts, or Arab
saints.
To become a saint in Arab estimation
one need not do much. A marabout may
be one who knew Il little more than his
%neighbors. or who had invented n new kind
of kouss-kousS, or who merely went mad
and muttered verses from the Koran. He
may have been allowed to starve while
iving but after his death was honored
with a tomb on a hill crest. or shrine hid
den within a grove of olive trees.
Only the male Arab rose to his distinc-
ton: the female. in life degraded. in death
forgotten, could not aspire even to postum
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
A MAN Of HIS WORD.
How Thomas Moody, OF Kansas City,
has., Got His Reputation for

Honor.
There is an interesting inciden
n the life of Thomas Moody
the young colored man who wa.
beaten for the Office of justice Of tn,
peace of Quindaro township. Wyandottt
county, at ths last election. Moody. whc
has considerable white blood in his veins
Is somewhat of a politician and has figured
more or less in politics in Kansas City
has:. n Wyandotte county for years
and mas always been considered a good
man In a campaign. as he can line up the
men OF his race on election day as success
iu,iy as the average ward politician.
"A ward heeler'S rating for truthfulness
is ordinarily very low but Moody's case is
an exception. He has always enjoyed the
reputation OF being a man of his word and
SO thoroughly has thisi impression prevailed
! among his followers that whenever he
plomlsed TO DO a thing. the job was always
considered done. Now Moody established this
some ten years ago, before Moody became
a Inquire in politics. he became involved in
a quarrel with his father-in-law and the
quarrel developed into an alteration at
Whlch razors and pistols dominated.
Moody took a shot at his father-in-law and
II was not his fault that the bullet did not
and convicted on the charge Of feIonious
assault. He was sentenced to one wear in
the p%enitentiary.
!: Bowling was then sheriff of Wyan-
dotte county, and, although a Democrat,
ne nad the utmost confidence in this GER
tam colored man. After sentence had been
passed on Moody the prisoner informed the
Snerln that he had some business matters
ne would like to settle up before being
transferred to the pen" and assured the
sheriff that II he would permit him to do
TINS he would go to the penitentiary him
self and surrender to the warden of the
prison. 1t required only a couple of lays for
Moody to ~straighten out his business at
1airs and after completing all details he
called at the sheriff's office and asked for
the papers OF commitment. Sheriff Bow
ing gave the prisoner the papers which
calied LOT his incarceration in the state
penitentlary for one year. Moody placed
the in his pocket and started on
loot Tor the pe%nftentLary, which is a dis
lance of about twenty-five miles from kan
SaS City. kas. He walked all the way and
Landing at the pen he called on the war-
den and informed him that he was Moody |
the man who had been sentenced from
W,yandotte county. The warden was some
wnat surprised at the mans remarks and |
was half inclined to believe that Moody's
mead was not exactly right. However,
asked to be shown his apartments. The |
warden was yet disinclined to take the |
man at his word, even though IL was
packed UP with the necessary papers 81 |
ne telegraphed to Sheriff Bowling demand
Ing concerning the matter. He
was promptl informed that Moody had
peen allowed to go TO the penitentiary un-
guarded. From this day on Thomas Moody
was known as a man of his word. He was
many favors at the ..nen'' d,rins
MS stay there and after his release he RE
turned to Kansas City, Kas.. with a hot
ter reputation than he had before he he
came a convict. NC
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
LONG TRIP INA WAGON.
"A western With His Famil,
Completes the Journey Across
the Continent.

A house on wheels. which, in March, 1894.
started from Port Angeles. state of Wash.
ington. has reached New York city after
having Travelled about 1000 miles. The pro-
rrietor is NJ. E. A. Lasley. who describe.
Himself as a tourist, traveller. miner and
Western pioneer. N
During the three years and n half that
he has been on the voyage he has worn
OUT twenty horses. His wife has become
ire mother of two children during the
Journey. His dog Mig is still with hin,
moving footed it all the way.
TIE mouse wagon is about as large as a
mealun sized horse car on ordinary wagon
Tackled a cyclometer. mas a'-
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nous honors. The only one of this SORT
that rises TO view crowns a cliff above the
African city of Tlemsen, and covers The
years dead. That was about the proper
perspective. from the Arab point of view
as In the case of the father-in-law of Ma
monet who was made caliph and
Is now honored because of his paternaI
connection.
In ones memories of Algiers rise the
many koubbas that dot the landscape Their:
conspicuouSiy one near the town of Blidah.
embossed in a sacred olive grove. Snow
white IT was. and d~ome-covered: above it
limb: Silent Arabs glide in and out-
Stealthily. r~everently. pausing an instant
70 pray-at least to scowl-then disappear
ing IN the gloomy recesses of the holy
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
SPIRITS LOCATE MINE.
dwar Curtis Claims That His Gold
Discovery L. Due to q
Medfum-

Edward Curtis says there is a rich gold
and cope mine in operation near Crys-
tai. Col. which he and a partner from
influences.
Mrs. Curtis. who is a stanch advocate of
spiritualism and passes considerable time
near Crystal Springs. Mich. where the spir-
itualists hold large camp meetings and
thrliiing seances. undertook to delye into
the soil over 1000 miles away some time
prehensible.
A lady colleague in the spiritualistic faith
demonstrated her gifts in this direction.
She Y several sittings and prepared a
description of a spot where lay buried the
yellow metal, and drew a map of the sur
ronndings OF the favored spot.
Curtis was in ecstacy over her reye!a-
tons, and: though he had mined unsuccess-
Iuily IN Colorado at various intervals, left
promptly for the section described by the
pen or the communicating medium with the
world of spirits. He was not doomed to dis
appointment: as many foreshadowed. and
to-day stands prepared to vouch for the
success OF at least one seance
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
Incident of George Daniel.

or George Daniel. who was one of the
famous English book collectors of the ear.
Her half of the century, 1t is remembered
that he was a cautious buyer and a hard
mcuthed ~bargainer. but that he could show
emotion when 1T cost nothing. When he
bought his precious first folio Shakespeare
from Mr.; Pickering for s1OO-a high price
In these days-the bookseller was for wrap-
ping the volume in paper. INC, no." cried
Daniel; nothing less than silk! Fetch me
enc OF your best silk handkerchiefs,' And
III SILK. and in a hackney coach. the Vol
this folio that after his death was sold
ID the Baroness Burdett Coutts for eS2
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-14
Analogous to stiematixations.

1t is probable that this is analogous to
the famous "stigmatizations' Of the middle
ages: This term was applied to persons
bearing tattooed marks or brands. and they
Were supposed to bear the mark of the dew
II. The sign of the devil was a hand. I'M
derneath which was a cross: Those who
were supposed to be infested by any evil
spirit were tried in this way. If the mara
was raised on their backs they were pitt
liar frightful death.
II IS also probable that much of relig-
ious fanaticism of the latter centuries was
produced by some similar phenomena. ST.
EraLcls: OF Assist. who was meditating on
the sufferings of Christ. was branded Inv
the marks of the wounds inflicted upon
Him on His cr%ucifxion. ST. Catherine Of
Slena, who was likewise stigmatized. was
krcwn to suffer attacks of hystero-epilep-
tlclsm- for which she was eulogized as the
trieu servant of the Lord. She is said to
have borne the imprint of the crown Of
tEcrns on. her brow as well as the marks
Of the divine ounds. In short. more than
10 other cases of similar sufferers are re-
ported: all marked by that i%ndisputable
condition Of the phenomena-a profound
penetration into the sufferings of Christ.