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New-York tribune., 1898-10-23

went over 10 the hotel, and when ! met the
Senator pinned button on his coat. He looked
at g. and then he looked at and he said
quiet like Say. BIN" who pu, you up 10 that?
Then said my little piece about thinking IL
out my self. Well he seemed pleased and he
said to get out lot. and asked me how those l
had made sold / told him, and he seemed more
pleased than ever. Then ! valtzed back TO
Odclrs room and went through the same per
formance. 1t WASH; long before the Roosevelt
talk took serious turn. and first thing knew it
was decided 10 nominate him"
Here BIN" stopped and looked melancholy
But then he chcercd up and said aggressiveiy:
Say. have got il IN for Payn Aldrdgo and
Black do you know, they near gave me heart
disease? You see, | got stuck on my own
game that began 20 get out Roosevelt buttons
like a sawmiN. got up beauty Big button,
with a rabbits foot dangling at the bottom.
had no end OF trouble 10 get the rabbit feet
You see. I had 10 get the left hind foot Of d
rabbit killed in a graveyard at midnight, al
the dark of the moon. 10y cross-eyed Niger
on a murderer's grave That IS job tell you
We'll sunk every cent OF capital had and had
buttons 10 burn Then Payn sprung that non
eligible racket and l nearly dropped dead.
felt sure that them rabbit feet had hoodooed me
sure raced around like mad, but It all came
right in the end. ] have sold thousands OF those
buttons and tell you. II every fellow that
bought button votes for Roosevelt be VIII
have majority bigger than any candidate ever
had"
BIN" has also done great deaf Of work for
the Democrats. He Is particularly proud OF a
button he got up for Justice Van Wyck with
a horseshoe dangling at the bottom. Oddly
enough the horseshoe attached 10 the button
IS inverted and popular superstition has II that
:his means the luck has run out. He is rushed
"a death just now and his factory Is turning out
buttons ana Autographs IN hoods. When he was
asked TO which side he gave a preference. Re
rutlican or Democratic he said tersely:
~Au candidates .ook alike to me-"
New-York tribune., 1898-10-23

as I was saying, this suggestion about hoose
welt stuck in my head like burr You sec
Roosevc; had been doing some good soldering
and was getting a reputation all right
The mex; morning ! went down - ny Once
anG struck off hundre,. buttons in BE al
tcrIoon ! went III to county headquarters. ana
j walked into M. Quggs room. ard ! saio'
Nj. Chairman. want tr make y on present
pinned 4 Ro.Sc vel; button on his coat; 1t was
n beauty: picture q the Co.oae; in Rough
Rider Uniform. caaraign ha; ana all, and under
meath :he inscription. For Governor-Theodore
Roosevelt. Quigg looked at il n miaute. anc
then he SAID to me in a quiet sort Of a way
WHO told you 10 DC thar
ADVICE FROM QrlGG.
Il says: Nc one. Congressman. jus, thought
Of il myself Quifc looked thoughtfal aud ihtn
he said Has any one hough. any | !old him
tha; Gibbs John Murray Mitchell Van Coti and
BidVtll and some others were wearing them. say
you know am dcal foxy politician, and
knew wba; was coming. Iou sec. QuisS don I
think too much OF Black. and think when
came in lie was Whci;ing a knife under the
table: but riaybe not. Any way he pond"rcd
over The subjcc. for some time. and thfn he
said 70 me Strike of a thousand more and see
how they Sell You see, QuiEg was tapping
public opinion 20 see !. Roosevelt was strong.
81 went off and struck off a thousand and
They went of like no; cakes Then | went up
and ;old Qugg. lie didn't seem surprised and
he aid 20 me, Have you seen the Senator
meaning Mr. Plat Of course. said hadn't.
Then he suggested that 60 over and see him.
New-York tribune., 1898-10-23

The embryo was row "A free swimming larvSv
which was In appCaran and structure curious
" suggestive Of Il tadpOl'. but il was OF vcry
minute size. Openings soon perforated the walls
OF the pharyny region. but the growth OF an
atrum around the pharynx shortly afterward
shut OF these gill-slits from communicating d.
rec,lv with the exterior The tiny larVa. which
thus confurmed completely 10 vertebrate re-
ouiren.snts swan about vigorously !cr "A few
hours by mcars of its Gshlke tail fin and then
"ob, what a fall was there''-it fixed itself by
some little suckers which had appeared under
tho mouth the tail grew less ana less and
eventually vanished altoee thcr, taking noto-
chord and spinal cord with il: the eye and the
organ of hearing disappeared and iho front end
OF tba nerve tub. too hopefully suggestive
Of a brain dwindlcd until nothing remained but
a little shspel"ss mass. Gone. IKE the paseiess
fabric f A yison.' were all veTtebrat" chaTac-
ters save Z. few poo! sIli-s!its. Tbes" sllts IN
creased il number. various changes Ia me rela-
tive size Of other organs occurred and inc AMI
NAL stood revealed, a prosaic and rhiefmauc
sea SQUIRT
New-York tribune., 1898-10-23

and 1880 was CO inches. &C. between 1850 and
1850, 666 between 1860 and 1870 GGS between
1870 and 1880 and &C 8 between 1880 and 1890
II seems too that the proportion Of rejected
soldiers in France has decreased from 81 per
cent in the decade beginning in 1870 80 per cent
In that beginning in 1860. and IS per cent In
that beginning in 1880 TO 30 per cent at pres
ent. The number OF conscripts now rejected on
accoun; OF height Is less every year. IN conse-
quence. perhaps. of the fact that the minimum
height limit Of the French Army has been
steadily deer, ased. American soldiers have pre-
served during many years the same height sub
stantialiy, those from the Western and South
western states, however, being somewhat taller.
New-York tribune., 1898-10-23
THE SYAfTRE or SOLHiEES.

IT Is INCREASING IN CUuN NTRIEs WHERE NO
GREAT STAMPING hKMY Is kEi'r
It Is an interesting fact that. although the
averagc height Of soldiers has decreased during
the last few years considerably in those coun-
tries in which conscrption is the rule. IL ID
found generally that In couDtri's IT, which
peaceful conditions prevail and no great stand
ing army is maintained the stature OF new
soldiers is gradually increasing. THIS. accoro-
ing to the Berlin Tagebatt, Is shown con-
spicuous!y in the case OF Sweden. where the
average height Of new soldiers between lS4o
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27
THE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION FIN
IsHEs ITS LABORS.
BIG INCREASE IN ASSESSMENTS
METROPOLITAN RAILROAD RAISED
FROM 100000 TO 100000.
Ferd Helm Brewing Company's Fig.
ures Sent Up From $4,000 to $780,
OOO-Banks Made No Returns
some of the More Rad
lea Changes.

The city board Of equalization finished its
labors at 1:3O o'clock this morning and adj
journed. The board was composed Of
Mayor Jones. Comptroller Lund. Aldermen
Morrison, Craig and Wolf. The board con-
vened the 2lst and had been in session
every day since. The tax rolls seem to
ave been pretty thoroughly gone over.
and in some instances the raises have
been of the most radical nature. Valua-
lions v been doubled in not a few cases.
AS usual. the Metropolitan Street Railway
Company came in for a great lift, its as
sessment being raised from $4,000 to
1,00O.O 600. The dry goods house of Emery.
Bird. Thayer & Co. was assessed at $685.
900. but the board increased it to $3.50, 900.
Tho Ferd Helm Brewing Company was
raised from 5000 to $4,000. The Kansas
City Electric Light Company was assessed
at SIS. 900. but the board changed 1t to
$4,000. while the Kansas City. Missouri,
Gas Company was Increased from $4,000
to 100000. TIL Missouri and Kansas
Telephone Company was assessed at SIS. 900,
but the board levated it to 100000.
The board will meet as a board of ap-
peals on April II, II and 10 to listen to the
protests of those who believe they have
been assessed too much. None Of the
banks turned in assessments, but the board
took care of them. Following are some of
the greatest changes made:
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27
BROUGHT THE GLAD TIDINGs.
Tame Crow Add to Its Vocabulary
and Astounds a Pennsylva-
min Farmer.

II captured while yet a nesting and prop
erly educated, a crow may be taught to
initiate the sounds Of the human voice so
closely that 1t will a~rticulate words as dis
tinctly as a parrot, although the crows
vocabulary Is not apt to be extensive. Such
words as Good morning." How de dog"
HALO" and similar familiar expressions.
and the name of its master are learned
easily. and the bird will repeat them SO
the crows vocal accomplishments will nat
urally seem uncanny to a person who OBJ
SERVES them Z snr1 for the first ar time; c All tame
and now and then one will astonish even
its friends by calculating a new word or
an expression entirely unexpected and
About two years ago Peter Downs. who
then lived with his father on the Downs
f ia 5ed nesT a KoSs a ana it r pfoS ssRt to ID q . n very
was the wonder of the neighborhood. Early
Downs Pop" and It regula afI,s' every rye morn
ing it greeted him with Good mornin'.
pop!' A year ago the son got married and
from the Downs homestead. taking Rich
ard. the tame crow. with him.. The crow
returned to the old place regularly every
coming by the familiar greeting to Farmer
Downs. Good morning. popT" The bird
usually busted itself about the place until
toward noon. when 1t retured home. One
day last week Richard appeared at the
than usual and almost knocked Farmer
Downs speeches. by shouting:
Good morning, gran'pop!'
The crow chuckled and croaked in a most
ridiculous manner and repeated at short in
tervals. with an JUNCTION never before &C.
companying its ~utterance. Good morning
gran'pop! Gran,pop! Gran'pop!" causing
surprise, and making him wonder where
in tarnation he picked that up" An hour
or SO after the bird came to the farm tc
air its enlarged vocabulary Peter Downs
drove up. looking pleased.
well. pop" he said. there's three OF
US down there now. INCEST boy you evel
see. the third one is. and everybody doin
fine"
"Mornin'. gran'pop." chuckled the crow
Then It was all clear; but everyone abou,
that neighborhood is wondering how in the
world that crow got onto the new dignity
the situation placed on Farmer Downs ant
then hurried to be the first to tell him of 1t
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27
KILLED, WOMAN HURT.
Incline Between Grand Avenue
and Walnut Street.

A mule belonging to the Railroad Trans
fer Company was killed by a west bound
Ninth street car on the Ninth street in
cline between Walnut INT Grand avenue
about 1880 o'clock yesterday morning. Ar
thur Stark. a negro, drove his team out of
the alley between the postofice and the Rial
to building just as the car started down the
steep grade from Grand avenue. Several
people shouted to the driver to stop his
team, but he was on the track before he
heard them. The gripman could not stop
his car and It struck the mules. knocking
them down.. The grip car passed over the
body of one of the mules and had to be
raised before the animal could be taken
from under 1t. 1t had been killed almost
instantly. A woman, who refused to give
her name, was sitting on the front seat Of
the grip car when the accident occurred.
Her legs were badly bruised and sprained.
She was removed to her home in a car
rage. Traffic on the line was delayed about
twenty minutes by the accident.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27
STRANGE CHANCE LIKENESS.
An Artist Paints Picture of q Man
Dead for Years Whom He
Had Never Seen.

From the Washington Star.
THAT reminds me-" remarked one OF the
best known artists Of this city at a recent
convivial gathering. "of a curious expert
ence I had on Nantucket island a few years
aSaj old is Seef befoFe the the I rnsh Of Summer SUI
tourists put an end to Its old-time charm.
I sketched a good deal out of doors, but
Of it by working o what I considered a
pretty good picture OF the interior of one of
the old houses. or at least of one big room
"The people who owned the house were
SO very nice to me that when I finished
my picture I thought to repay them in
a sketch Of my ambitious canvas. For the
figure Of an old man sitting in a big chair
It was a fancy figure. pure and simple, and
drawn without a model, but the face be-
longed to the type that one so often sees
is. unfortunately. growing rarer as the
But imagine my surprise. however, when
for they drew back from it as IL | had
given them something uncanny and the
why that's a picture of my father,
precisely as 1 have seen him sitting In
front Of that fireplace hundreds of times,
days when he eaptained one Of the biggest
whalers that sailed out OF the harbor Of
Nantucket
And his wife bore out his statement. when
she said that it was an admirable likeness
of the old man. who had died many years
before I ever visited the island.
The neighbors were In and
every one Of the people who had known
the old man recognized the likeness with
out a moments hesitation. They said that
in every detail Of face and figure 1t was
as accurate as a photograph could posi-
bly, have been.
Now. of course. 1t was only a coinci-
dence, but you could never have made any
of those people think that there was not
something supernatural about 1t all-and.
do you know. l am more than half inclined
to think they were right"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27
HOW MENDELssoHN W00ED.
Won His Wife by Wi of Brain and
Goodness of Heart-Are Matches
Made in Heaven:

From Success.
The greatly honored Moses Mendelssohn.
was visiting the baths of Pyrmont. There
he became acquainted with the merchant
Gaugenheim, Of Hamburg.
rabbi Noses" the merchant said TO
him one day, I'VE all revere you. but my
daughter especially reveres and admires you
with the greatest enthusiasm. 1t would
be the highest honor to- me to ave you
Moses Mendelssohn was very retiring and
shy. for he was sadly hunchbacked. At
length, he set out for the journey. he
genheim in his counting house. The mer-
chant said to him: 60 up and see my
daughter; she will be delighted to see
Mendelssohn made the visit to the daugh-
ter. On another day, Mendelssohn came
to G~augenheim,s counting h9uS 5e ne
spoke OF the agreeable n intellectual
yes, reverend rabbi" said G~augenheim.
should I speak frankly to you"
You are a philosopher, benevolent and
wise. You will not take it in bad part
from the child; she was shocked when she
saw you, because you@,,
Because 1 have a frightfui hump.
Gaugenheim bowed assent.
II thought so,' said Mendelssohn, but
yet / will call and take leave Of your
He went up into the dwelling apart
ments and seated himself by the daughter,
who was sitting near the window in a
raised seat, with a piece Of needlework in
" and Intimately, but the maiden did not
look up, and Mendelssohn did not look at
her. At length the maiden put the ques-
ton: do you really believe that matcnes
are decided in h~eaven?"
Certainly! And something very unusual
happened in my case. You know that. &C
cording to a Talmudic saying. at the birth
of a child, 1t Is announced in heaven: This
and this one will have this one and this
one. Now. when I was born, my wife was
| that she would, alas! have a fearful hump.
Dear God" 1 said, "a maiden who is de.
formed will very likely be bitter and
| Dear God. give me the hump. and let the
maiden be beautiful and comely""
Scarcely had he said this. when she fell
upon his neck. She became his wife and
| they were happy together. They also had
beautiful and brave children.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27
Thing. That Are Different in Mexico.

From Modern Mexico.
The ceilings Of rooms are universally
wall paper, or, more frequently, frescoed.
The wood passer Is a third man that Is
required on many locomotives in the re-
public on which wood is used for fuel In
stead of coal.
The price Of fruit is naturally reversed
in Mexico. and a dozen fine oranges can
always be purchased for the price Of ono
good American apple.
ary bathtubs: Everyone Is supposed to
own a bathtub. and when you move from
one house to another. you take the tub
Door knobs not only turn to the left.
other door. but locks are always put on
upside do down aseo 9Sa Eev to @. american Al sa ian
serted with the stem at the bottom.
do in the United States. and any do
Of the most delicate shades. The COM
binations Of color are frequently startling
to American eyes at first sight.
While passing through some Of the dry
portions of the country 1t is impossible to
carry a sufficient water supply for the
engine IN the tender, and a tank car IL
attached with a sufficient supply to carry
the train through to the next water sta
ton.
Clothes pins are unknown. The poor
people spread their wash on the ground
to dry, and when lines are used the rope
consists of a number Of loosely twisted
strands, between which tho corners of tho
clothes are deity inserted to hold the arti-
cles in place.
they frequently change the usual order of
grasping each others fingers and instead
hook their thumbs together. clasping the
fingers around the back of the hand. Such
a grip ~precludes a pump handle motion
and the movement is naturally from side
to side.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27
BAD MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD.
in q Strange and Orig
inQl Way.

!. B. Walston, a conductor on the
Twelfth street division Of the Metropoli-
tan street railway, who lives at 1016 Grove
street. told a peculiar story to Inspector
Halpin at police headquarters yesterday
afternoon. He was swindled out Of a dol
lar yesterday morning by a mysterious
passenger. Shortly after 9 o'clock a wom-
an and a little girl boarded his car at
Olive street. The woman, who was about
30 years old and well dressed, had been a
passenger on his car a number Of times.
When he went to collect her fare the lit
tie girl. who was about 4 years old, handed
him appeared to be a silver dollar.
On each side of the dollar was a piece of
round ape glued SO that only the rim
of the dollar could be seen. Walston
turned the coin over in his hand and
oh. it's all right she said. hurriedly.
The paper was on it when I received it."
The conductor rang up her fare and gave
the stock yards. The woman and little
At the stock yards when Walston tried
to remove the paper from the dollar. He
noticed the words. John King Cotton
o. the little circle of paper. He was using
his knife to remove the paper when a
heavy built man with blue trousers got
Ohto IuS lcd4 pidtAotm. AuS mdh CIOSely
watched the conductor as he scraped the
paper off one side of the dollar. The cola
was made of lead in the center, as the
conductor found when his knife blade
scraped 1t.
That's queer money for you to have"
remarked the man who had been closely
observing his movements. Let me lave
that a few minutes" Walston had seen
the man a number Of times before and as
the mans curiosity seemed to be aroused,
Walston passed him the coin, and went
through the car to collect the fares. When
Penn street was reached the man started
to get OF the car.
Hold on a minute" said the conductor,
where is my dollar?"
You had better keep quiet about this
and let me have It," said the man, as he
swung from the car without waiting for
it to stop.
AS soon as Walston had finished his run.
he went to the detective agencies to find
II they had a detective who answered the
description of the man who had taken the
queer dollar, and was Informed they had
not. The conductor concluded the man
was either a confederate Of the woman
who had passed the dollar or else a secret
service agent of the government. He went
to police headquarters and told his story.
planned the conductor" He took my badge
number and the number Of the car before
he got off, but yet 1 think he simply stole
the coin. II he was a United States officer
he certainly would not act like he did.
and II he was a friend Of the woman who
passed the money he certainly would have
given me a good dollar In the place of the
bad one. What I want to find out Is II I
was robbed twice or only once"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27
AN EMBARRASSING HUNT.
Tho Modest Young Man Who Had
Trouble In Finding His
CHlnaanE
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

" Ia AAA
Gripsack.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A modest Cleveland youth. an Adelbert
undergraduate, boarded a South side car a
few evenings ago. and when he seated him
self. carelessly dropped his small sripsack
on the floor behind his feet. Presently the
car began to ill up. Most of the new pas
sengers were girls. and as they came IN
along a little and so got away. from his
gripsack. There were at least a half dozen
girls at his left. and it was in that direction
Pretty soon the car neared his stopping
place, and the Adelbert man %bethought
himself OF his baggage. He put his hand
grip wasn't there. He felt a little way to
the left-he couldn't reach it.
Then nad he %s str hs ned up Nth q somewhat
inflamed countenance.. but I have a grip
somewhere under here" And he dove down
All he could feel was dainty boot heels.
two Of them badly run down. He reached
a little further. Another boot heel. The
girls began to wrisgle uneasily.
Up came the young man again.
His countenance was stu more inhamsd.
This time he arose to his feet: ...
YOU ,1t' do asfe o ssnswh iii try ne a @ahn?re Down WI
the left.
He pulled. but it didn't come.
No. it ISN'T piped a shriIl soprano.
bashful youth realized, that he had hold of
the young .woman's foot.
He stood up at this with a despairing
Perhaps the girls were moved to pity, by
his hopeless look. perhaps they didn't like
the way the other passengers were giggling.
produced the missing bag. And the youth
with the scarlet face scooted from the car.