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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
KISSING GAMBETrA's STATUE.

longest-haired and most unshaven of the
'.monome" was lifted far enough up and
climbed further to kiss some part of the
stone body of Gambetta, who stands in a
pose theatrical enough for any Frenchman.
with flag in hand and mouth wide open to
exhort the hope of France to deeds like
this.
The naked children in bronze beneath the
statue smiled a~pprovingly. the students and
a few hundred people who had gathered
Conspuez Zola!'-and France once more
was saved.
The students soon found they were not
the only patriotic Frenchmen that could
shout "Vive rarmee!" and Down with
Zola,' At a meeting on Monday night
Jules Guerin appeared at the head OF his
Villette. What the trouble is all about the
butchers neither know nor care: 1t is all
right so long as Jules Gue-in is mixed up
with it. He has been mixed up In many
things Among the rest, he once urged the
French people to rise in defense of the
the representative of American petroleum
He would be out of a job If he had not
something to cry aloud to his fellow citi-
zens. He has cried aloud on SO many diff
ferent sides that no one is surprised to find
him now the chief lieutenant of Edouard
Drumont. who is very violent on paper. did
not come to the meeting. But Jules Guerin,
tall. broad shouldered, with a twelve-pound
cane and a fourteen horsepower pair OF
lungs. was on hand.
All these manifestations. It must be re-
membered. are one-sided affairs. The SYM
pathiZers with lola have made not a single
disturbance. 1t is the defenders of the
army who go about crying. stop lola
talking about us or We shall do a damage"'
"%Students" Were Not Students.
The anarchists. who act for themselves.
played Jules Guerin a sorry trick at his
meeting. Thirty of them got together,
back to back. around a pillar of the hall.
and one of their number with a louder
mouth than Guerin himself climbed UP.
The moment anything was said on the
platform the anarchist and his fellows bel
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20

Of students.
The Paris populace would cry Death to
Zola,' But "conspuez" is the students
light, and for a week they did little else
from 4 o'clock in the afternoon until MID
night but cry IL aloud in the parts of the
city which the police thought II chiefly
necessary to guard. For what is the use
of crying aloud unless some one is there to
hear?
From their cafes down they came to the
river. by their Boul' Mich boulevard ST.
Michel to the Pont Neuf. Here was the
first bruut of battle. Squads OF policemen
were posted at both ends of all the bridges
TO prevent any crowd that looked like
manifesting from passing over. The STU
dents. at the beginning. We're too much
and too many for the half-doZen guardians
of the law.
They have experience in rushing
bridges" A flying squadron, so TO speak.
is sent on In advance. While the policemen
are parIeying with these the others mass in
force behind the big. clumsy tramway cars
and are past before the astonished gen.
darmes are on TO them. Or they break
through at a run. leaving two or three OF
would content themselves with taking
down the names OF these. or. at the worst.
Juggling them of TO the station, where they
would be at once liberated-if they had
not resisted In that case they have PROB
ably received a sharp saber blow across
the back. Meanwhile the main bands were
across the river uniting for a march TO the
boulevard.
Who Jules Guerlin Is.
On one Of the first days of the present
agitation they met all together before the
on its pedestal In the great court OF the
Carrousel formed by the galleries of the
louvre. In the last days of Louis Sapo-
Icons empire Gambetta did much the same
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
WICKEDBSf In CREATION.
THAT Is HOW CAIRO, IN EGYPT, IS
SAID TO RANK AS A TOWN.
II Is q Place Where q Man Can Steep
His Soul in Every Sort of Moral
Perversity Some of Its
Wicked Attractions

The wickedest town on earth is not in
American, in spite of the claims OF DIAL
ton, Ga, and San Antonio. Tex. These
places are picturesque in their way, but
monotonous.
Klondike is depressingly virtuous. Most
of the miners don even carry guns.
Cripple Creek has reformed. and Hurley,
Wis, hasn't succeeded in getting into the
newspapers much for the past year or
two.
Nice is wickeder than any town on this
side of the Atlantic, but 1t is not the worst
place in the world. Like San Tone ana
Dalton, it isn't an al-round wicked piace.
1t runs to specialties.
In Dalton and San Tone they're, kind o
careless with their firearms, ana poker
games get rather lively in the latter W
puck the tiger all he needs to without
running over to Monte Carlo, and ad-
venturesses from every country OF the
globe wander on the Promenade oes An
glais with wan eyes and cheeks OF I'M
changing red.
Blu there is nothing riotous about Nice.
In a way it's too decorous to be interest
Ing. Cowboys don't galiop into town from
the Corniche road and bang their shooting
irons at all and sundry. Nor is there any
good fist fighting on tap. lie bogues, being
a sport alien to the prevailing Gallo eIe-
some after a while, and causes one to
long for the good red blood of the free
wild West.
Bitter Creek once in a while. when it's
his night to howl.
Tangier. Morocco, has rather an unde--
served reputation for wickedneSs. Lack OF
with several murderers. forgers, thieves.
burglars and other refugees from Justice,
but they behave shockingly well. Except
when the proud and naughty natives knife
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
POPE LEo.s BED CHAMBER.

ton which has been gig on for three
quarters OF a century. no other civil.
izea country on the glo5ts the system Of
WHICH has prevailed up tthe present dsv
In England. So enormoL are the COST,
Of the transfers Of land that country
& on the price of small .nner,iss and
preclude any one from pLhasinT Them
with the motive of making living from
men, , SO, also. the insecity Of title.
because they have been dealt III less care.
fully compels any owner. wheeeds an ad-
vance OF money. to pay usuus interest
a a9r IT. fb @n nIeDsrt MS i, ruin hrd Is sIe'y effected.
the other hand. a large temrary dim
Guilty Is at less cost obviated , a mort
gage, which permits the owner, hold IN
once more reinstates him in ca circmm-
stances and enables him to take %,vantape
Of his o neighbors' necessfs. The
nounced by Lord Brougham sevey wears
ago, and have since been made reatediy
the subject of discussion from the atforw
n OF debate in parliament.
glish lawmaking power to remedy eriev-
ance SO patent as that imposed by . de-
lays and costs of the ~conveyancing sfem
is eur the fo more ise surprising %as asv because Is lonfEo a
tralia. and has been since adopted all
the other Australian colonies. We ,fer
to the so-called TorrenS act, which is civ
to serve as a model for the laws gorn,
ing the state registration and insuran,nr
land titles all over the world. In pursuce
of that South Australian statute, all "a
titles to real estate in the colony were Ca
fully investigated by government search,
and. having been verified, were duly rel
tered. The validity of the titles, thus ve
fled and recorded, was henceforth gura
teed by the state. The effect of this Leg
lation was to assimilate real to person
property as regards ease. Quickness ar
~cheapness OF transfer. For a small fe
which has been gradually reduced till
now amounts to only a few pennies. Il
owner of a piece of real estate receiv,
from the register of the locality where
Is situated a short certificate setting fort
its boundaries. the legal incumbranc,
thereon. if any. and the fact that his tit
is guaranteed by the state. Should he d
sire to sell or mortgage his property. !
takes his certificate to the nearest regi
trar. who in a few minutes, and for an il
significant fee. enters the sale or NOR
gage in his book. and indorses the same Q
the back of the original certificate. In tn
way the certificate of title to real estai
can be transferred as easily as can a prom
issory note, and the consequence is tn;
land becomes the favorite investment Il
the savings Of the poor.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
SOME LITERARY FETIcHEs.
Idfosyncrasies to Which We Are In
debted for Much Good
Literature.

From Iit-Bik.
Charles Dickens had a curious caprice.
He professed that he could not write with
ease and pleasure unless certain quaint lit
tie bronzes We're upon his desk. When they
were there the shuttles in the wonderful
web of fiction flew with magical. rapidity:
He needed three things. blue ink, quill
pens, and his fetiches.
lady who has visited the Norwegian
dramatist. Henrik IbSen, at home. has In
formed the world that in precisely the same
manner he uses a queer collection of copper
animals. They crowd Upon his tabie--gro-
tesoue cats and rabbits and other bits Of
clever modelling. Ibsen finds in their COM
panionship a help and spur, and he Is en-
phatic in saying that II they vanished he
should produce no plays.
Jules Michelet, the French. historian. a
tremendous toiler through a long lifetime,
had a strange love for the coarse boxes in
which he kept his papers. He preserved
Them with him unchanged in his study for
forty years. However damaged. and be-
grimed they might become, and this was in
eyitable, he would not have them changed.
Possibly their presence seemed to assist his
flow of ideas. He was equally faithful to
an old, dilapidated table cover. Holes and
ink stains were not detrimental to its value
in Michelet's eyes.
In the case Of Haydn. the composer. a
ring was the fetch. II he had 1t upon his
finger he could think brilliantly: If he
missed 1t all his skill was gone. He often
declared that without this trinket he was
curiously dull. He might sit down to an
instrument, but all creative power. he
would find, had departed from him.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
BY THE NARROWEST OF SLAVES
At Close Quarters With an Elephant
in the Jungles of
Africa.

AIE1Cds
From Elephant Hunting in East Equa-
torial Africa" by Arthur H. Newman: l
stood to face the elephant and threw up
my rifle to fire at her head as she came
on at a quick run, without raising her
trunk or uttering a sound, realizing in a
moment that this was the only thing to
do. SO short was the distance separating
US. The click of the striker was the only
result of pulling the trigger. No cartridge
had entered the barrel on my working the
s e0l1 af esrs the the t last o shot 7, t ISia desn the
ate situation l saw at once that my case
was we'll nigh hopeless. The enraged ele-
plant was by this time within a few
strides of me; the narrow path was walled
in On each side with thick scrub. To turn
and run down the path in an instructive
effort to escape was all 1 could do. the
elephant o~verhauling me at every step. As
1 ran those few yards 1 made one spas
modic attempt to work the mechanism
of the treacherous magazine. and point
round, tried It again; but it was no go:
Dropping the gum, 1 sprang out of the
path to the right and threw myself down
close. and. turning with me like a terrier
after a rabbit, she was on the top of me
as soon as 1 was down " Kneeling
me with her legs. which must. I suppose.
have been on each side of mine.) she made
three distinct lunges at me, sending her
left tusk through the biceps Of my right
arm and stabbing me between the right
ribs. at the same time pounding my chest
with her head. (or rather, 1 suppose, the
thick part of her trunk between the tusks.)
and crushing in my ribs on the same side.
At the first butt some part of her head came
in contact with my face, barking my nose,
and taking patches of skin off other spots.
and 1 thought my head would be crushed,
but it slipped back and was not touched
again. l was wondering at the same time
how she would kill me; for, of course. I
never thought anything but that the end
of my hunting was conn at last. What
hurt me was the grinding my chest under
went. Whether she supposed she had killed
me. or whether it was that she disliked the
smell of my blood, or %bethought her of her
calf, cannot tell; but she then loft me and
went her way.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
PARIS STUDENTS and ROUGHS
HOW THEY FIGURED N THE RE-
CENT lola REVOLUTION.
Butcher Boys. Led by Jules Guerin,
b Cause of the
Greatest Show Of Troops
Since the M
"Zola has smashed the windows,

"Zola has smashed the windowsr'
This is what a Frenchman does when
he Is determined that the police shall ar
rest him, writes a Paris correspondent of
the New York Press. This is what every
one says Emile lola has done by the letter
which has brought him into court, prosecu-
ted by the government for his terrific ac-
cusaticns against generals and officers OF
the army, whom he charges with conspir-
Ing to suppress Dreyfus.
When a Frenchman wishes only to show
on his courage. he says TO his wife and
child. while rolling his eyes .furiously,
Hold me or | shall do a damage.' Then
breast and cries effusively: IF all men
were like mine there would be no Injustice
In the world" And no damage is done.
Mime. lola Is not that kind of a woman.
She and her husband have climbed up the
difficult pathway of his fame together.
And now. when he has really done damage
by smashing windows that all the world
thought protected. she stands beside him.
while the students-the hope OF France-do
the theatricals. and butchers and bakers
cry Down with Zolat"
There are anywhere from L.. 900 to 10000
students inhabiting the Latin Quarter, on
the left bank of the Seine. IL you count in
the old students. the art students, and the
Gay scholars from the preparatory colleges.
All these are ready to march about, shout
ing themselves hOarse. and smashing win
COWS on their own accoupt-if there are not
TOO many Policemen in sight.
"hen the policemen arrive they circulate
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
Home of
From the London Mail.

From the London Nall
Few even of the lovers Of Charles Dick
ems are aware that a portion OF the old
prison yet stands idden away
behind the borough High street and ST.
church. but the remaining wards
Of the prison. which once was the home
81 Mr.. and Mrs. Micawbe when that gen.
! tenants affairs and arrived at a '~crisis."
J re about to disappear. The new scheme,
; hich has been undertaken by the L. c. c.,
3 lr the continuation of Tabard street into
: te High street. passes the east end Of all
3 ut is left Of the old Marshalsea through
: church in which Little Dorrit spent the
: hit when she had been locked out" will
: sid as a monument Of the great novel;
! u creations.
5 le gateway of the prison. up to court
: N26 High street, stood until a few years
: az and the new warehouse entrance-for
I tnSard which was left so u~tlized-bears
Subscription. This site was originally
t~neAarshalsea prison. made famous by
hes Dickens in his well known work
LII Dorrit.'"
Ttwindows Of the prison ward can be
seerfom the court alluded to. which is
5 the eond court on the righthand side of
the rough High street going from st.
Georis church towards London bridge.
Dfcks was very fond OF painting this
distrit and 1t was in the adjacent Liant
street at Mr.. Bob Sawyer entertained Mr..
, P1ckw. and friends.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
How POPE XIII. LIVES.
ROOMS IN THE VATICAN WHICH ARE
USED BY THE HOLY FATHER.
Furnishings and Arrangements of the
Various Apartments-sncred Cor
ners Into Which Public IL
seldom Allowed to Peep.

The rooms actually inhabited by Pope Leo
in the Vatican are not numerous. and only
the cardinals, his immediate surroundings,
and those who are granted a special audi
ence are admitted. Access to them is
reached from the Corte Damaso by the
Scala Regia- opposite the celebrated Sistine
chapel, which latter. although it actually
forms part of the private apartments. is
not difficult of access TO the general public.
TIL furniture of all the ante rooms is
modern and very simple. being made up OF
red damask and velvet, with gold hang
ings. There is nothing in them specially
to attract the eye or to remind us that We
are invading the privacy of the pontiT,
save the baldacchini or canopies. which
are made use of in professions and other
functions. and which have similar up
holstery- Under one of these the pope
takes his solitary meals. for. by the eti-
quette of the court, he is not permitted to
entertain even the nearest of his relatives
or TO eat otherwise than alone.
Private Library.
The private library which overiooks the
Piazza of st. Peter has three windows. but
some years ago the present pope diminished
its apparent size by means of a richly en-
broidered damaSk screen. artistically dis
posed and lightly supported by elegant col
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
Don't.

From the Chicago Daily News
Don't play cards with a woman who has
winning ways.
Don't boast of your blood-you may need
a purifier next spring.
Don go around looking for trouble I'M.
less you really want to find 1t.
Don't talk too much: a stiff lower Jaw
is as useful as a stiff upper lip.
Don't think because richie have wings
that they're bound to fly your way.
Don't believe that tho kick of a cow is
the most acceptable form of milk punch.
Don't think because a man does you a
favor that he's under everlasting obliga-
lions to you.
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work which lola is now doing. and then
the students were on his side and against
the government. They are still for Gam
BETA, but they are for the army also.
Now. SO they say, lola is against the army,
because he wishes to make the generals ex-
plain their doings to the country.
In one Of their addresses the students
say: THE army is the supreme incarna-
ton of our fatherland." They forgot that
the chief enemies whom Gambetta had to
combat were the generals of his time. Up
they marched in front of his statue, shout
ing valiantly, 'ConspueZ Zolai' BY dint
of hosting and giving backs, one Of the
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20

by the Nubia. and this advance party
was on its way to prepare the barracks
at Meerut. where they are to be quarter
ed. AT nearly every station at which we
the 'bheesti." who is always on
with his water-skin. was kept very
busy in supplying water to the thirsty
men. who without ceremony. glued their
lips to the leather m%outhpiece. Everything
points to a campaign in the spring. and this
fine regiment will have an opportunity OF
rendering a good account Of itself in the
AfridiS' country.
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No Aspfrates.


From Answers
At a very imposing luncheon given by a
we'll known stock broker recently. the host
grammar on the delicacies he had provided.
II notice you have no aspirates." OBJ
served one Of them quietly;
broker. with crestfallen visage. but II
money can get EN-" he added. I'll ave
some of the best in the market next time
you're ere
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20

London Daily Graphic has been making his
way to the northwest frontier of India,
and this is his description of two incidents
of the journey which attracted his atten-
ton:
Our attempts at shaving while the train
was in motion had been attended with so
much blood-letting that when the train
stopped at Ailgar we submitted ourselves to
the tender mercies of the local barber. who
appeared on the platform provided will the
necessary implements. There were only
three minutes in which to perform the
operation. but the native was skillful to
a degree, and made his last flourish just
as the train commenced to move off. A de-
tachment of the South Wales Borderers
travelled up from Bombay with US. and at
Aligar they were paraded on the platform
for breakfast. The regiment has just ar
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20

The result Of the recent experimental
at a balloon at the military camp
of Interbogk. ten miles from Berlin. went
to prove, that at a distance of about one
talon was practically without effect on the
sustaining power of the balloon. the pres
sure of the atmosphere Immediately clos
Ing the small rents made by the bullets.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
Doin. His Level Best.

From the Detroit Free Presa.
do you think Grimly. that you do what
you should to brighten your home"
I've put In gas. electric lights and lamps.
II there's anything else to make 1t brighter
I'm ready to invest"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20

an6 thus keeping theas confined. The
fire of an artillery bat,y. however ar
distance Of some 1900 fds. soon broneht
the balloon to the grou, the shells tear
ing large holes in the corning. and making
TO be kept in constant "A Quick motion if
employed IN reeonnoiteri in the vicinity
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20

American women who have seen Cairo
once or often. and who know very little
about Its darker side. On the surface it
Is simply a wonderfully picturesque COM
They leave 1t to go up the Nile. and come
back to 1t to leave for Beyrout or Pal
ermo.
Cairo does make Rome how in another
winter in Rome now find Cairo more in
teresting. and there is talk OF turning the
biggest Roman hotel into some kind OF an
institution.
MOhammedan Wickedness.
Mohammedans don't know how to be as
boisterous as Christians, but in their own
mild and persistent fashion they can be
very wicked. In Cairo. where they mix
with Christians so much that they lose
their own religion without getting any sub
stitute, they are more wicked than else
where. The koranic law against drinking
ALCOHOLIC liquors is almost a dead letter In
Cairo. OF course. the Egyptians don't get
drunk as successfully as the whites. but
they do very well indeed for beginners.
There's one drawback to Cairone wick
edness. It's the climate: After a month
or SO of June weather in midwinter and
Of the unveiled sun of the sub-tropics;
the pleasures even of p~rizefightinS and
thrashing natives begin to pail. Living is
excellent at the Cairo hotels. and people
accustomed to eating heartily of heating
foods keep right on doing the same thing
with the fleshpots of Egypt; The result
Is that they get out of condition.
say that almost every one is seasick and
bilious coming away from Egypt, and very
few going in that direction.
IL Is rather too bad that the Wickedest
waiting climate. It's the only flaw in the
diamond of its perfect iniQuity.
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A wild Guess.

From thAtroit Free Press.
- seeere.'' said Mrs. Grumpy. that a
Germanhilosopher says that the sun Is
shrinkln What do you think Of it. MIR.
Work the coal trust. I suppose"
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TRAVELLING IN THE EAST.
ing Indian Railroad
LnurnAv

Railroad journeys through India are
not attended by the luxuries of American
travel. No refreshment cars are provided
and on longs trips one can only obtain food
en- route by rushing from the train to the
buffets at the various stopping points-ex-
c%ursions that are distinctly bad for the
digestion. The artist correspondent of the
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a Spaniard for trying to get into a mosque,
or some traveller is caught beyond the
three-mile limit and snickarsneed on gen.
eral principles. things are too dull to be
Interesting.