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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
Landscape Study an Important Art.

Professor y. $. Shaler. in the December Atlantic
We may fairly reckon that with the land
scape motive, as with the other forms OF
the sympathetic emotions, all sound train
ing VIII but serve to enlarge and emanci-
pate the instinct, giving il a chance TO at
tain something like the place that music
and acting have won with like aid from the,
rational side of the mind. As regards the
art of approaching the landscape. We are
at present in the state in which music and
acting were before the score and the stage
had been invented Men whistled. sang
and mimicked their fellows before they
brought these actions into set FORM No
one Will, however doubt that the higher
steps have been well taken, and that the
musical and dramatic motives are really
inner than they were of old.
If. as seems likely. We can by educatiye
means bring the emotions which lead to
pleasure in the landscape into definite
shape. we shall thereby add another i'm
portant art to those which serve to dignity
our lives. The art of seeing the landscape
We have invented in that the data it uses
are ever before those who are blessed with
eyes. Outside of prison. 4 man is sure of
the sky-the largest, most varied, and in
some regards the richest element of all
scenes. The earth about him may be de-
filed, but rarely in such measure that it
will not yield him good fruit. Every look
abroad tempts him beyond himself into an
enlarging contact with nature. Not only
are the opportunities for this art ever So
liciting the mind. but the practice of it
There is much satisfaction at the very be-
ginning Of the practice; it grows with ex-
ercise. until it opens the world as no other
art ca do.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
SOME "LADlES."
Csages of the Word That Have
Brought 1t Into Dis
favor.

From the Youths Companion.
The word lady" still has about it a GER
tain halo which ought to prevent its indis-
criminate use. In this country We can
hardly expect to see social distinctions re-
Elected in the use of the word; and vet we
might, perhaps. expect to see IT employed
more eQuitably than it was by a certain
dry goods storekeeper in a Massachusetts
town not very long ago.
The daughter of senator of the United
states drove one day from her father S
summer cottage to a store in city near
by and ordered some articles to be sent to
her fathers house.
When the goods were sent mistake wa.
made: and the senator himself stopped at
the store to correct it. The proprietor cali
ed the saleswoman. and after consulting
with her apologized for the mistake
You see. SIR he explained, the lady
who took the order didn't quite understand
what the girl said"'
somewhat similar story was told of a
remark made by a Yankee servant of the
IAN On one occasion. when the historian
was at home on the ancestral estate near
Boston. and when his Brother James was
also there. an intimate friend OF the family
who was sojourning at the house came out
from Boston on a late afternoon train. The
family coachman met him with a carriage
the guest said to the driver:
DIG any one come out on the earlier
oh, yaas.' said the coachman, "the' was
dies"
The guest knew that John and Jim"
We're the historian and his brother but he
wondered who the ladies were. Afterward
he found out that they We're a seamstress
and new chambermaid
The most extraordinary use of the term
that we are likely to find any record of IS
related from England. The house surgeon
or London hospital. We are told. was at
lending to the injuries of woman who
mad been badly bitten on the arm. AS he
was dressing the wound he said:
cannot make out what sort of n
creature bit you. 1t is too small for n
horses bite and too large for dogs"
on. SIR said the patient. sit wasn't a
hanimal-it was another lytlyr'
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
Washington as a Sentinel.

From the Ladies' Home Journal.
William Perrine gives a graphic picture
of Washingtons memorable winter of suf-
fering at Valley Forge. "Sentinels pacing
in the snow on the outposts took off their
caps and stood in them to save their feet
from freezing" he writes. Here and there
could be found even officers in a sort Of
dressing gown made of old woolen bedcov-
ers. The stout hearted women of New Jer-
presents, with the patriotic jest that as
women were said sometimes to wear the
trousers, so now there would be an eX-
cuse for men who might wear the petit
coats.
Washington. who never exaggerated
said that few men had more than one
shirt, many only half one and some
footed, and occasionally might be seen a
soldier who was all but naked, Sometimes
there was nothing to eat in the camp
but rotten salted herrings Men were
known to snatch at the dough of half
baked cakes in the kitchens of the farm
ers' wives. The contractors and the COM
miSsary agents and the continental con-
gress had brought 1900 men to the verge
of starvation, and the blood of General
Wayne ran hot with rage as he looked on
his poor fellows weak with hunger.
Indeed. there was but one horn tumber
and also but one wooden dish for eyery
mess. Washington himself Gined one day
on potatoes and hickory nuts. My good
man he said to the sentinel in front of
his headquarters. pacing up and down In
he bitterness of a cold morning. have you
reply. Give me your musket. then and 90
inside and get some breakfast and the
tall commander gravely walked up and
down as guard over his own house,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
GENEROUS CHARITY.
Three Churches Contribute to Defray
the Funeral Expenses of Mrs.
Mary Sweet and Child.

The death of Mrs. Mary H. Sweet, yes
terday, and the sad incident of destitution
connected with 1t, was told to the congre-
cations of the Baptist mission, 2il2 Vine
street, the Christian mission, 24o1 Vine
street, and the Troost Avenue Methodist
church. South, at Twenty-siXth and Troost
avenue. Collections We're taken up at these
churches to defray the funeral expenses
Mrs. Sweet lived with her husband and Two
little boys. . and years old, in two rooms
on the second floor at 2401 Flora avenue
Her husband, an electrician. has not had
regular employment for months. but the
family had managed to get along without
charity. The parents were devout Christ
ians.
Mrs. Sweet gave birth 10 twins. a hoy
and girl. last Friday. The girl lived one
day and few hours afterward the mother
died. The boy is healthy and will probably
live. The father Is without means and has
three motherless children left to him. He
did not know how he could pay the funeral
expenses Of his wife and infant child, but
neighbors, members of churches in that
vicinity. agreed TO ask for contributions
last night after the services.
The father has lived here three or four
months. His wife was % years old. Funer-
al arrangements will be made to-day.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
The Sierra Grouse.


Jonn Muif, IN the december Atlantic.
l have seen young broods of grouse run
ming beneath the frs in June at height
of $500 feet above the sea. On the ap-
proach of danger. the mother, with a pc
culiar cry, warns the helpless midgets TO
scatter and hide beneath leaves and twgs
and even in plain, open places 1t is almost
impossible to discover them. In the mean
time the mother feignS desperate lameness
throws herself at your feet kicks and
Easps and ffutters. to draw your attention
from the chicks. They are mostly able TO
fly about the middle of July: but even after
they can fly we'll they are usually advised
to run and hide and lie still. however closely
approached, while the mother goes on with
her loving, lying acting. apparently as des-
perately concerned for their safety as when
they were featherleSs infants. Sometimes
however, after carefully studying the cir
cumstances. she tells them to take wing:
and up and away in blurry birr and whir
they scatter to all points of the compass,
as If blown up with gunpowder. dropping
cunningly out of sight 800 or 100 yards OFF
and keeping quiet until called. when tho
danger is supposed to be past. If You walk
on a little way without manifestng any in
ciination to hunt them. YOU may sit down
at the foot of a tree near enough to see
and hear the happy reunion. One touch of
nature makes the whole world kin: and il
is truly wonderful how love-telling the
small voices of these birds are. and how
far they reach through the woods into ona
anothers hearts and into ours. The tones
are so human and so full of anxious afTsc-
tion, few mountaineers can fail to be
touched by them.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
Other Death. and Funerals.

Frank Belemy. aged 60 years. died at his
home. corner Southwest boulevard and
Summit street, yesterday Of neuralgia of
the heart. He was sittirg in his easy chair
when he suddenly fell forward. dead. He
was native of Bohemia. cook by trade
and was well known old resident of
Rosedale. He leaves widow. five daugh-
ters and one Son.
The funeral will take place tomorrow
afternoonat 3 ocIock.
Mrs. Maggie Rutter, aged &c years. died
at her home. Is West Fifth street yest4r-
day. The funeral services will be held at
Wagner's undertaking rooms at . o'clock
this afternoon.
The funeral of Richard II. Warn will he
held at the Fifth Presbyterian church. Cor
ner OF Twelfth and Brooklyn. at ) p. m.
to-day. Rev. Mr.. i. p. McCurdy will con-
duct the Srvices. Burial Will be at Elm
wood ceniVtery.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
InvaIids. Real and Imaginary.
David Starr Jordan. in the December Atlantic.
l know of few things more pItiful III

David Starr Jordan. in the Decernbe. Atlantic
I know of few things more pitiful than
the annual migration of hopeless consump.
tiveS to Los Angeles. Pasadena. and San
Diego. The Pullman cars in the winter
are full of sick people. banished from the
East by physicians who do not know what
else to do with their hopeless patients
They go TO the large hotels of Los An
geles or Pasadena, and pay a rate they
cannot afford. They shiver in half-warmei
rooms; take cold after cold; their symp-
toms grow alarming; their money wastes
away, and finally. in utter despair thev
are hurried back homeward. perhaps to die
on board the train Or it may he that they
choose cheap lodging houses, at prices moro
nearly within their reach. Here. again
they suffer for want of home food home
comforts, and home warmth, and the end
is just the same. People hopelessIy i'll
should remain with their friends; even Cal
ifornia has no health to give to those who
cannot earn it, in part at least. by their
own eSertions.
Another class of health-seekers receives
less sympathy in California and perhaps
deserves less. 1t is made up of jaundiceed
hypochondriacs and neurotic wrecks These
people shver in the California winter
boarding houses, torment themselves with
ennui at the country ranches, poison them
selves with nerve foods" and perhaps
finally survive to write the sad and squalid
truth about California" Doubtless IL is
all irrepreSsibly tedious to them: subjective
woe is always hard to bear-but it is not
California.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
BLIZZARD AFFECTS THE MINES.
Impossible to Load Cars-Price of
Zinc Ore Hits Top
Notch.

JOPLIN. MO, Dec. 4-(Special) TIE
week in the mines closed with a howling
piizzdrd, the like of which has seldom been
experienced in this district. 1t had the
ef1ect OF curtailing the sales very material
iy, for much ore could not be hauled 10
the cars and hundreds of tons were left
III the bins. The storm will also cut short
next weeks production, as many of the
mines cannot be operated on account IF
frozen gistanks and exposed surface works.
1t Will, however, by curtailing production.
prevent the buyers from bearing the ore
market. which, during the past week, they
nave shown tendency TO do.
The price of zinc ore opened last Monday
at sa9 per ton. but by "Wednesday night the
market had risen to $3.50, which proved 20
De the highest price of the week All
grades OF ore advanced in proportion and
good average for the entire district IS
sSs.oe Some of the ore buyers stuck at SO
and declared they would pay no more and
several buyers got together and decided TO
hold down the price.
Their combine would have worked all
right, had the weather man not been on
the side of the miner and sent the worst
blizzard ever heard OF to overturn their
plans. As it was, the sales for the week
were only second TO the record breaking
sotsAi Va lNp "tehS aSO, when tlltS
gated s195.000. The week did break the rec
ord for the price of zinc ore. the advance
being 81 per ton. This price, Si0.Ja, is the
highest ever paid SO far as known, and
It is believed that the limit has not Yet
been reached.
Six months ago the total sales for the
year We're expected to reach s6.0o0.eco. To-
day 1t is q certainty that the yearly aS-
gregate will be 100000.
As compared with last week the sales for
the week just ended show an increase OF
], l,6o2,22 go pounds of zinc ore: 2Sl,5so OF lead
ore: in value. S3i.2S1.
As compared with the corresponding week
of 1897 the sales show an increase of S025.-
go pounds of zinc ore: 1.6920 pounds OF
lead ore; in value. $685..
The sales for the Is weeks of 1855 just
completed show. as compared with the
corresponding period of 1897, an increase OF
SI,6 ,140 pounds of zinc ore; a decrease of
6,35s, $50 pounds Of lead ore; an increase in
value of s., l4l ,663.
The prices paid during the correspondents G
week Of 1897 were s24.5O for zinc and 81
for lead, as compared to $3.50 for zinc and
s20.25 for lead this week. The spelter mar
ket continues strong at S5.lono.2o, accord
ing TO grade. The pig lead market begins
to exhibit signs of strength and there is
hope that 1t may go higher. The low
prices have caused such 4 falling off in
the production of ore that there is danger
of the smelters running short of ore for
fiuxinS. AT recent meeting in Denver
it was decided to combine to bull pig lead
so that SIS might be paid for ore. AT that
price the production would be greatly
stimulated. At present there is nearly
100000 pounds of lead ore stored in the
bins about the district waiting for the
price to reach SIS. The weeks statement
nj
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
Thoroughly Up to Date.

From the London Chronicle.
The newsboy who drew himself to his full
height and. peering up into the sirdar S
face, calmly offered for sale a copy of a
book on the khartoum campaign is not the
first of his class who has been very
smart on an Edinburgh station platform.
The caustic wit. Alexander Russell, the ia
nous editor of the Scotsman. was entering
a train one day when q boy pressed him to
buy that days issue OF his, own paper.
No said the great man. but I'll give
YOU a shilling for a copy of tomorrow s
Scotsman" Whereupon--it being a Fri
day-the boy at once whipped out of his
basket a copy of the Weekly Scotsman
dated. of course, Saturday. Russell was
hugely pleased.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Reaching Out and Opening Up
New Markets.

Kansas City packing houses are reaching
out after the foreign trade and Made in
Kansas City, L. S. A. is legend becom-
ing familiar to the people who until a few
years ago never heard of Kansas City.
Armour Swift. Fowler, the Schwarzschild
& Sulzberger people are carrying the name
of Kansas City into the most remote cor
ners of the earth
Within the past week Dolds have re-
ceived large orders from Trieste. Austria;
and Venice and Genoa, Italy. These are
entirely new markets for this company.
| Orders have been shipped to Hamburg tor
two years, but within the last six months
shipments have been made to Stettin. Bre-
men. Danzig and Koenigsburg, Germany !:
Copenhagen and Aarhus. Denmark; Nal
vive. Trilleboro, Stockholm and Ystad,
Sweden. Rotterdam, Holland, and Antwerp,
Belgium.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS.
Republican State Committee Consid-
erinE AdvisabiIlty of Keeping Up
ORGANIZATION Headou1rferx

TOPEKA, Dec. 4.-(Special3 The Repub-
lican state committee will maintain head
quarters until the first of the year at the
present location. There was a large amount
of clerical work to finish up after the cleo
ton and the committee decided to clean it
up before abandoning headquarters. There
is a movement on foot looking towards the
maintenance of headquarters permanently
The result of the recent election proved the
necessity of thorough organizat ton. 1t is
claimed by many Republicans that the ex-
pense of keeping up the organization with
a permanent office force of a couple of
clerks would be less than that of effectinS
a new organization before each campaign,
The latter always necessitatss the employ
ment of large force. The state commit
tee will give the matter serious conside.a-
ton before any action is taken
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
REVOLVER TO HER BREAST.
IncOnsoIabIe Over Death of Her Hus.
band, Mrs. Carrie Andrae
Ends Her Life.

JEFFERSON CITY. MO. Dec. 4-(Spe-
cial.) Bowed down with grief and incon-
solable over the death of her husband
some days ago, Mrs. Carrie Andrae placed
a revolver to her breast at her home in
this city this afternoon and killed herself.
Her tragic end was a terrible shock to her
relatives and friends as they did not dream
that she contemplated such a desperate
step. she was devoted to her husband and
her loss prayed upon her mind to such
without him. She was about 10 years of
age and was daughter of the late Major
]. b. Kaiser. for many years proprietor
of the Madison hotel in this city. Before
her marriage to Mr.. Andrae she was a
belle of Jefferson City society and Il re-
markably beautiful girl. Her husband left
died
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
For Winter Coverings,
From To NNew York Sun

Salt hay IS used in winter for covering
various kinds of plants that grow close to
the earth. II has long staple and serves
this purpose we'll. Straw with a long sta
pie is still used for building up plants and
shrubs having stalks Salt hay is used in
cemeteries to cover over ivyClad graves
The ivy Is thus kept in better condition
than If it We're lest exposed to the blasts
and the cold of winter. The brown hay
Is laid lengthwise upon the grave in a COW
which is held in place by bent rods set
tied down upon II at intervals. hooplike
and with their ends In the ground on either
side.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
IN PRIVATE SESSION.
Peace Commissioners at Paris Deny
Current Rumors of New COM
plicatiOns.

PARIS. Dec. 4.-The United States and
Spanish peace commissioners held private
sessions to-day. Afterward representatives
of both sides predicted confidently that the
treaty would be signed within a week
unless unforeseen complications arise.
The American commissioners say there
is no foundation for the reports circulated
in the United States and cabled back that
President Mckinley has forwarded to the
American commissioners instructions to in
sist upon unyielding coaling base in the
Carolines. and that the Spaniards are en-
deavoring to renew their opposition to a
ceSsion OF the Philippines.
Both commissions recognize that the lat
ter question is settled.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05

heavy wind storm blew down a signal pole
on the New York Ontario & Western rail-
way at Peckville tonight. A few minutes
later a passenger train that was hurrying'
to this city trough the binding snowstorm
crashed into the pole and engine and tender
left the track and rolled down an embank
ment, killing the fireman, David Davis. of
Carbondale. The engineer, Reuben Lewis,
OF this city. escaped. The passenger
coaches remained on the rails and all the
passengers escaped with slight bruises.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
REFUSE TO VOTE.
A Peculiar Condition of Affair. in n
Western Precinct of Okla
hOmu.

BEAVER, o. T. Dec. 4.-The return Of
the vote in the western townships of this
county show an almost entire absence of
votes in one precinct. This is in the ex-
treme west end of the county. The people
living there transact most of their business
IN New Mexico and many of them have
never been here. II is $50 miles in direct
line to this place, the county seat. and the
trip must be made on horseback or in
wagons and the men of the precinct dislike
so much TO be drawn on jury and forced
to mako the trip that they have refused
TO vote as a cure means of keeping their
names off the fury list.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
IN THE SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Representative Fairchilds Says Sam
Amidon Would BE Strong Man for
Attorney General in 1900

TOPEKA, Dec. 4.-(Special) Representa-
tive Glenn Fairchilds. of Kingman, is the
father of a scheme to swing the Seventh
congressional district Pops into line for
Sam Amidon, of Sedgwick. for the nominee
for attorney general in 1890. He says that
-Amidon will make strong fusion can
didate can be found. in the event BOYLE
does not want to be vindicated and re-
moves from the state. Amidon is the coun-
ty attorney of Sedgwick at present. He
was reelected at the recent election He
is brotherin-law of W. r. Smith, as
sociate justice-elect.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
Death of David Deibert.

WEBB CITY. MO, Dec. 4.-lSpecial) Da-
vid Deibert, of this city, died to-day from
a complication of lung and bronchial trou-
bles after long illness. He was &c years
was one of the best known residents of
this city. He was n native of Pennsylva-
mia and leaves a widow and five grown
children.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
Treaty Progressing Smoothly.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 4-Adyices from
Judge Day. of the Paris peace Commission
received during last nights cabinet meet
ing are OF gratifying character and hope
iul OF the signing of the peace treaty with
In reasonable time. Members of the cab
met express satisfaction at the progress be-
ing made and say negotiations are pro-
gressing smoothly. There are various de-
tails, however, concerning which the chair
man desires to learn fully of the presi-
dents wishes and 1t was an inquiry OF thi.
character which formed the burden of the
latest communication from Paris
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
Colonel Bryan at Savannah.

SAfANNAH, GA. Dec. 4--Colonel WILL
lam Jennings Bryan, of the Third Nebras-
ka regiment returned to Savannah to-day
after thirty days sick leave. He was
met at the depot by his regiment and es-
corted to the camp.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
striker Disappointed.

TOPEKA, Dec. 4-lSpecial) Probably
the worst Disappointed Pop i'll the whole
for reelection is State Superintendent
Stryker. He felt positive that he would
lead the Pop ticket. The vote shows that
he is the tail ender. Stryker thought the
textbook law would make him popular.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05

forthcoming biennial report. State Auditor
Morris refrains from making any recon-
says that the result of the recent election
Is evidence that the people of Kansas don't
ho!d the same views as he does and as
TO suggest to them what should be done.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
Approve stanley,s Position.

FORT SCOTT. kAS.. Dec. 4.-(Specal)
There Is favorable comment over the posi-
ton taken by Governor-elect Stanley about
the board OF pardons. Many refer to the
board as having been more or less of d
disgrace ever since it has been created and
this being its history. the general feeling
is that it should be officially killed.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-05
Major Boyd to the Front.

TOPEKA. Dec. 4.-tSpecial.) Major Boyd,
assistant adjutant general, has served no
uce on his friends that he will be candi-
date for the nomination of secretary of
state before the next Pop state convention.
He was candidate two years ago and was
defeated by w. +. Bush by a narrow
margin.