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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-30
NOTICES,

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT-Notice Is here
nv given to all creditors and others interested In tho
estate Of James E. Lewis. deceased. that l., Hannah
A Lewis, Administrative of said estate, intend to make
A final settlement thereof at the next term OF the
probate court OF Jackson county. to be held az Kan
sas CITY. Missouri, on the 2lst day of February. lssS
HANNAH A. Administrators.
yeaeer & Strother. Attorneys.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT-Sotice liz here
by given to all creditors and others Interested in ths
ss,ata OF John W. Kelley. deceased, and the partner
xnip estate Of John W. Kelley and Brother. thai I
n G. Mosman, administrator de bonis non. OF saiS
estate. intend to make a final settlement thereo, ~
the next term OF the probate court of Jackson county
IN be held at Kansas City. Missouri. on the 2Ist day
Of February, 1898. o. c. MosMAN.
Administrator de Bouis Non.
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FINANCIAL.
MONEY to loan in sums to suit. on house
hold furniture, pianos. diamonds. watches
and real estate. Lowest rates. Business con-
fidential Money always ready. Notes bought.
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MONEY to loan on improved inside prop
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ALLEN INVESTMENT CO.,
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5h AND PER CENT money to loan
on real estate security.
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MONEY to loan OF real estate at lowest
rates. RIEGER-MOORE REALTY CO..
Hest bldg.
TO LOAN-From 81. 600 to $1,000 at lowest
rates on improved real estate. Apply to
Frank Allen. Journal Office.
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ECONOMY : : q; \: r. ;::.

DOUBTFUL claims collected anywhere;
this country or Europe. without charge un-
less successful. international Law and
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SCHARNAGEL'S free concert hall-Rice
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cago. Matinee Saturday afternoons.
ALL kinds of chairs recaned and re-
paired. Frank Clifford. 413 East 10th st.
BEST lump, Ssh per ton. Citizens Coal
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WANTED-AGENTS,


WANTED-District and local agents. In
eCrance men and members of fraternities
everywhere for the newest thing and
quickest seller in the world" Call on or
address at once w. c. knight, General
Agent, National! Registry Company, Boom
VILE, Missouri.
WANTED-Agents; men or women at
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GIN work at once. Mutual Manufacturing
Co.. le6 Chambers st. New York.
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X. CTS PRIVATE DETECTIVE.

J.. A. M'MAHON. rooms II and IS, 11a0
Main st. Consultation absolutely confiden-
tial: q general detective business; advice
free. .
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-30

NOTICE OF FINAL sETTLEMENT-Notce is here
by given TO all creditors and others interested In the
estate OF Edward II. Allen. deceased. that the UNDER
signed, Agnes b. Allen and Ethel B. Allen, admin
istratrices Of said estate. intend to mako a ina!
settlement thereof at the next term OF the probate
court Of Jackson county. to be held at Kansas city.
Missouri. on the 2lst day Of February, 1888.
AGNES z. ALLEN.
II u. ALLEN,
ADMINISTRATORS Of Estate Of Edward II. Allen. De-
ceased.
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NOTICE Is hereby given that letters testamentary
on the estate of Mary c. Burgess. deceased. were
granted to the undersigned by the probate court OF
the county o: Jackson. state Of Missouri, at Kansas
City. on the 25th day OF January. 1898. All persons
having claims against said estate are required to ex-
hibit the same to the undersigned for allowance.
within ono year after tho date OF said letters. or they
may be p~recluded from any benefit OF said estate. and
~ such claims be not exhibited within two years from
the date Of this publication they will be forever
barred. WILLIAM j. BURGESS Executor.
Dated this 25th day OF January. 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09
WAR AS AN EDUCATOR.
W hat She Had Not Learned Was Not
Worth Learniny

She was winsome young wife. all sweet
ness and pink shirt waist.
'Oh, Harold, she twittered over. the
newspaper, lit is perfectly dreadful to have
a war and to read in the newspapers day
after day of how the poor soldiers are be-
ing killed, wounded and missing, but it is
an i'll wind that blows no one any good
and, while there must be all kinds of hor-
rors, there is in it all an education for
many Who would not otherwise be edu-
Gated"
He had never heard her talk In such a
strain before, and he was greatly surprised
not TO say alarmed.
Why, dear" he replied noting her cIose-
ly, what is it?'
1 was thinking, Harold, what we learn
by nearing 50 constantly about the war
where II Is fought and the weapons with
which 1t is fought. Why do YOU know
GEAR. / hadn't the least idea before of the
diHefehce between protected cruiser and
one that was on the free list thoupn for
the longest time L have heard you and
papa talking about the tariff. You see
dedi' II never seemed to come home so to
me until our own boys went forth tn meet
the foe" 80 ~ iiee'
He stared at her quite helplessly.
ana there are those machete guns" She
went on, or would have gone had he NOT
stopped her ~ i i'o'
Machine guns 1 guess you mean. don't
you! he ventured, in a tone that She did
not wholly approve
Of course, / do, stupid" she resnonded
with confidence. "A machete is a machina
ana OF course, machete gun is a machine
gun and what's the difference I'd liSe to
Know 1t seems TO me that some uenn,e
nave learned as much about the war as
they have had opportunity to " ava -
arose before the smiling Harold and sfeI-
pea out upon the piazza, where she coufd
commune with herself undisturbed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09
Green In His Eye,
From the London Mail.

IT.
Walter Savage Lander used to insist that
green eyes were the most wonderful In
the world. In support of his argument he
told the following story: 1T so happened
that when l was young man at Venice I
was standing in the doorway of the Cafe
Florian one day watching the pigeons on
the Piazza San Marco, when an old gentle
man rushed up to me and said: Pardon
me. sir, but will you allow me to look into
YOU eyes? All, I thought so. Sir, You
have green eyes. ] never saw but one pair
before. and they belonged to the late EN-
press Catherine of Russia: they were the
most wonderfully beautiful eyes in the
world l have reason to remember this y
Mr.. Lander was wont to end up, '.for while
the old gentleman was examining my eyes
had my pocket picked"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09

fy wagon exclusively, and in it's day was
very extensive affair"
X x
"One of the most difficult brutes to
Photograph is tha monkey" said man in
New York who makes a business of taking
the pictures of all sorts of animals and
birds, to Star reporter. you may try as
much as you like. but you will never sue
ceeG in making a monkey look straight int 0
the center of camera for even a second.
Its glance always shifts off to one side or
the other. Nor will it ever catch your eye
fuIl or fix its own upon yours, and I have
ecme to the conclusion that monkey can
not look at camera any more than it can
a human beng in the face.
axe a dogs head in your two hands
and look into its eyes. The beast will re-
turn your gaze, not for long perhaps, for
the contemplation of human intelligence
distresses all animals. But it is not SO with
the monkey. Hold its head as patiently as
you please between your hands, and it will
cast its eyes up to the ceiling and keep on
WIN ing or cast them down to the floor as
II asleep or twist them around in a most
absurd fashion to look over one side or the
other, but never, even in passing by it,
will it catch yours.
Why is this? 1 don't know, unless it is
that the animal has some secret regarding
our own origin that 1t does not wish us to
fir out. However, if they are bashful,
they are very inquisitive, and if 1 were to
leave my camera unguarded for ten min
utes in a cage containing a dozen monkeys
half the family would be busy taking pho
tographs of he other half"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09
First Elephant in America.

From the Owensboro' (Ky.) Inquirer.
It is not generally known that former
citizen Of Owensboro' brought across the
OCEAN the first elephant that was ever In
America. The name of the gentleman was
Moses Smith. who at one time owned
vast body of lend from the mouth of Pam
Their creek up the river, embracing nearly
all the present farms in the neighborhood
OF Sorgho. Mr.. Smith was at Paris with
his brother, and had more money than he
knew what to do with" He told his
brother that he intended taking something
to America that the people had never seen.
''You had better buy an elephant" said the
jocular brother, and that was what Moses
did. He picked out the biggest animal he
could find, and paid an enormous prics for
it. He brought 1t to New York. where 1t
was a nine days wonder, but the owner
soon found that he had something worse
than the proverbial white elephant on his
hands. He tried to sell 1t. but could find
no buysr, and at last undertook to give 1t
away. in which he was equally unsuccess-
full. Finally he found a man who agreed to
Fay him 500 for it, and this individual put
1t on exhibition. He was so successful that
he went into the show business and made
fortune out of Mr.. Smiths folly. Col
Frank McKernan of Adairville is q grand
son Of Mr.. Smith. who lived to great age
At his homs In this county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09
IT MIGHT NOT BE.
She Could Meyer Manage to he n .fs.
ter to Him.

ter to Him.
There is a Washington youth living in
that part of town west of 18th street north
OF U street who has that in his face and
general appearance which makes the be-
holder wonder how it could be possible for
him to be as big a one as he looks. and
still he is not utterly hopeless.
For something like year, and until the
middle of last month, he paid assiduous at
tention to an estimable young lady of the
same part of the town, who managed to
endure his devotions as long as they were
not imperative in demanding remuneration.
Just before she was departing for the sum-
mer he felt the noW-or-never feeling that
comes to every man some time in his emo
tional career and at once proceeded to pro-
pose to her.
Il am very sorry, Indeed" she replied. as
kindly and politely as she could, "but really
my dear Mr. Blank, l can only be a sister
to you"
Whether he had ever heard the expression
or not does not appear from the data but
he understood in part and after blinking
his eyes dozen or so times to recover from
the jar he exclaimed:
''Oh, but you can't be that don't Won
know. I've got two sisters already. and
mamma has such hard time trying to get
them married off that she says If the Lord
had sent her another daughter in place of
me she would be so provoked about it that
she would give up her Christianity and be-
come a rank infidel. You can marry me or
not as you please but you can't get into
much you may want. to. Good evening""
and leaving the, young lady In quite as
daZed a conditiop as he himself was the
youth went out Of the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09
Posting u Ship at LlOyd's.
From Good Words. II i

,rt
When a ship is, overdue, an opportunity is
sometimes afforded for gamble at Lloyd 8.
1t can be readily understood that undsr-
writer's who are, interested in the "over-
dues" are only too willing to get rid Of a
risk by paying a premium on the insured
rate to those who are willing, on their
tsrms. to relieve them OF their responsible
tiles. The premium varies with the chances
of the vessel turning nup; the smaller the
chances, the higher the premium. and vice
versa The rates paying on "ovsrdues''
serve as accurate barometers of the proba-
heard OF again. These underwriters who
speculate on "0verdues' are generaily
known by the significant names of doc
tors" The insurance on an Overdue" NAV
pass through many channels before the
ship Is, on the one hand, posted at
Lloyds as missing. or. on the other
hand. she arrives in safety.
A ship Is never posted" until the COM
mittee is thoroughly satisfied that her case
Is hopeless, and until the owner is of the
same opinion. Before posting q notice
Is put up for week inviting any informa-
ton concerning the vessel II this eIicits
no news the committee at its next meeting
votes the ship as missing and a notice ia
posted" accordingly. The loss is then set
tied and paid for. 1t may be Incidentally
remarked that posting" at Lloyd's con-
stitutes legal death certificate for any
ons on board the missing ships.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09

A Dream Realized.

Nobody on the block was better known
than the small man whose coats were al
ways too short in the sleeves. Very few
people took the trouble to learn his name,
but there was no one, even among the chill
dren, who did not know that it was just
o'clock when they saw him starting out in
the morning and just half-past when he
returned at night. In spite of the curve
in his shoulders and the whiteness in his
hair, he looked young. His face had not
the marks of worldliness which usually
come with years. His brow was wrinkled
slightly, 1t is true, but there was no un-
gentle meaning in the frown. And his
laughter was SO subdued that 1t always
seemed the expression of well-wishing, and
not of any inward joy. Year by year his
cheeks became little more sunken and
his chest little narrower, in spite of his
invariable practice of pausing on the door
step each morning TO take three long
breaths Of fresh air.
Nobody seemed to know much about his
wife beyond the facts that she kept her
two children neatly dressed at all hours
of the day. paid her bills at the corner
grocery. and worked hard. Her husband
was never with her when she sat on the
front door step to keep her children from
playing with other children. And there was
q light burning IN his room every night
until after all the other people on the block
had gone to bed. 1t was with some diff
Guilty that the big, good-natursd citizen
who lives across the street scraped an ac-
quaintance with him. But by borrowing
his lawn mower and his garden hose when
he did not need them, he succeeded in en-
gaging him in conversation. 1t was the
big, good-natured mans small, good
natured wife who had melted him to neigh
borly advances, but 1t was impossible to
establish a calling acquaintance.
II don't have time TO go about any," the
man with the short sleeves said. I'm too
busy"
But you've got to have some recrea-
tion." the big man biurted out You can't
work all the time, you know"
81 realize that. And I'm going to take
things easy some day. OF course it's i'm
possible now"
Don't you have any vacation?"
''Oh, yes. But 1 can't afford to use 1t
for anything but study. Vacations are very
expensive IL you employ them in the ordi-
nary way, YOU know. But some day I'm
going to take good. long rest. I'm going
into the country, where there isn't any
rattle OF wagons nor changing of bells I'm
going to have everything trim ana COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09

studied nonchalance of the man who prides
himself on being able to pump people with
out their suspecting it.
Yes replied Miss Cayenne demurely; "a
great many"
And there are some Sioux, and Arapa-
hoes. and Plutes and Philadelphans?"
''Oh, yes And besides them we< have
Apaches, and Balumoreans. and Califor-
Mans and Wimodaughsis and ever so many
mora"
Dear mel 1 don't see how you remem-
Der their names. | recall reading in a book
on America that there was once a tribe
known as Diggers. Are there any of them
around here?'
IT'S little early for them yet
DO they have seasons?"
They haven't materialized very largely
as yet. But they are about due. 1t won't
be long before this war is over. Then the
country will become alive to the necessity
of an isthmian canal. And when that hap
pens We'll be a whole nation of Diggers."
Hs turned away with wild look in his
eyes. When he found a remote corner he
sat down and in few minutes he had
written all over both his cuffs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09
RI HBER WARSHIPS,
They Have Great Advantages Over
Vessels of Iron.


Vessels of Iron.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
An Ohio man has come to the front with
singular request. He wants Uncle Sam
to build his Warships of rubber The Ohio
man thinks it would be a good thing and
there are reasons for believing that his
sanguine views have some substantial
backing. Suppose the new battle ship Ca
outchouc, for instance. stuTnbles on the
enemy in midocean-or in midsummer The
dastardly foe at once opens fire on her at
short range. The first shot misses her.
The second strikes her squarey aInidships
and bounding back carries away the das-
tardly enemy's high smokestack, his cooks
galley and all the captain 5 official bric-a-
brac. If there is third snot it may not
strike the Caoutchouc SO squarely. If it
takes gancing blow it is likely to fly into
the air to such tremendous height that
when it returns its momentum will be suf-
hcient to carry it down the enemy's open
hatchway and straight through his copper
sheathed bige cellar. If he survives these
set-backs-or bound backs-he may fool
ishly attempt to ram our rubber pride of
the seas. What will be the consequence?
The more forcible the blow the more shock
ing the rebound. sixteen knot collision
OF this character would undoubtedly fling
the enemy back with such force that it
would be quite characteristic of him to
land-if there can be any landing in mid
ocean-Wrong side up, a position which
may be classed among the most embar-
RAISING of marine situations. And all this
without shot being fired by the defenders
of our flag. =
ram, Rubberneck. An ingenious contriv-
ance could enable her to suddenly stretch
out her ramming department and strike
the enemy solar pIexus when he least
expected it. And the very impact of her
blow would at once cause her to rebound
to point of perfect safety.
Then think of the extra number of troops
the rubber warship could carry by a little
judicious stretching. If she struck a. rock
she would simply bound away. If she
grounded herself all that would be neces-
sary would be to loosen a few of the in
ternal joints and girders that hold her
elastic sides apart, when she would at
once partially collapse herself free.
Oh, that Ohio man isn't such a wiId-eyed
dreamer as certain envious eastern editors
profess to believe him. A rubber warship
is something more tangible than a mere
stretch of Imagination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09
HAD AN OLD DISEASE,
But the Name Was New and the Symp-
toms Very Bad.

The mercury in the thermometer had
dropped off point or two, and the air re-
spended to it with an effect of residence on
the spirits of the average human being
which made all the world seem less like the
Other place where good Americans don't
so when they die. Notwithstanding all
this. the man in the northwest corner of
green car No. 1853, coming down Capitol
Hill, showed signs of depression.
What's the matter with you?" inquired
friend who came aboard at street and
got a place beside him
My wife has punomania," replied the
man. gloCmily.
Pneumonia! What is she doing with
pneumonia now, when she's got all winter
and spring to have it in?''
L said punomania,' corrected the hus-
band.
''Oh, excuse me. What's punomania?'
The disease of making puns''
"Geroosalemr' exclaimed the last man.
is 1t catching? If it is I'll send my wife
around She never said funny thing in
her life
Neither did mine" groaned the first
man.
Why 1 thought you said she made
puns?''
Il did, but that's no sign she says funny
Things. A pun once in a thousand years is
endurable, but as a steady diet puns are
worse than the horrors of war That re-
minds me. The other day she asked me If
Miles and Shafter and Wheeler and some
more OF that rank were general officers
VINO were particular officers and before 1
could swallow she asked me what the last
era of Spanish defeat was, and when |
thought she was serious, and started to tell
her, she gave me the hoo-ha and said it
was Cerv-era. Yesterday at breakfast she
SAID that Notwithstanding the war was
over in Cuba they were fgnting there and
when L failed to catch right on, she asked
me II L didn't think there ought TO be a
colcneI in the hull of a ship instead of A
captain or commodore. And 1t has been
going on that way ever since married her
The war only makes it worse by giving her
greater field Why, this morning, as |
left the house, she asked me for some
money to go shopping. and l gave her half
a dollar. She objected to the amount and
began to argue and she snapped out that
Il was money that talked, and when snap
ped back and wanted to know what il
talked she said it talked cents: at least
mine did, and then she went pack into the
mouse anu came away wondering what in
thunder she meant by that. All I've got
10 say Is, groaned the victim, that YOU
ought to thank heaven for sending YOU a
wife who isn't so darned smart"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09
The Speed Of Insecfs

From the Chicago Chronicle.
1t is the popular belief that the flight OF
BIRDS Is much swifter than that of insects
but number of naturalists who nave been
making study of the matter think that
Such is not the case. A common house fIy
Tor example, is not very rapid in its flight.
hut It's wings make 500 beats a second
and send it through the air twenty-f,-e
Ieet under ordinary circumstances, in that
Sl'ace or time. When the insect is alarmed.
however, it has been found that 4 in
creases its rate OF speed to over $50 feet
per second. If ii could continue such ra mid
night for mile in a straight line II woIid
cover that distance in exactly thirty-three
seconds.
II is not an uncommon thing, when tray-
cling by rail In the summer time to see a
Dee or wasp Keeping up with the tram and
Try ing to get in at one of the windows A
swallow is considered one of the swiftest
hying birds, and il was Thought Until a
short time ago that no insect could cscs De
IT. naturalist tells of an exciting chase
re saw between a swallow and a dragon
ny, which is among the swiftest Of Insects
The insect flew with incredible speed. pnd
wheeled and lodged with such ease that
the swallow, despite its utmost efforts
completely failed to overtake and cap
ture it.