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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13
jim HUTCH IS DEAD.
Hired for Life by Editor MediIl, He
Held His job Until the Time
Expired.

From the New York Sun.
His name was James G. Hu.chins. but all
the old printers in the country knew him
as Jim Hutch and the office in which he
worked for forty years knew him as the
Skipper" He made up the paper in the
mornings. He knew everybody's manu-
script and footprints and earmarks. He
had seen editors and city editors and re-
porters and night editors and their assist
ants come and go. He knew the names of
all the out-of-town correspondents. When
the rush hour came and there were but
few minutes TO elapSe before the last page
went down and the air was sulphurous,
and smiled. Between the first and second
editions he told stories of the old days in
the office.
When the big fire occurred in the town
Jim Hutch Tom Sullivan and Jim Snow
were working at the case. They stayed
Until the plaster fell from the ceiling and,
hot and blisterinG, pied their sticks The
attic and helped him get out the first news
paper after the great fire. 1t was n typo
graphical curiosity and not much larger
than a sheet of letter paper. but 1t was the
only one in :he town that day.
They continued to work in the attic until
the newspaper resumed its former size, and
in larger quarters, and the editor. Mr.. Me-
dill, said one day: Ton Sullivan. you be
foreman: jim Hutch. you be night fore
man.; Jim Snow, you take the 'ad case.
And each of you hold your job as long as l
am editor and as long as you live. for If i
die first / shall arrange to have you stay"
Jim Hutch" is the first to go. Mr.: Me-
dill is still editor of the Chicago Tribune.
Tom Sullivan is brennan. Jim Snow has
The lad" cases.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13
I would like to revisit the pl.ces your

I would like to revisit the pl;ccs your
letter recalls. Perhaps I shall be less
pressed by work when June CONES round;
and if so will avail myself of your KING
Invitation to be present at the reunion OIL
the G.. A. r. to be held at your town,
You ask if / have any specimens of the
red pipestone. No: l have nothing OF II
left: what / had has disappeared along
with other relies that the intervening time
has carried away. l am sorry cah 1ete
Ter. which has recalled freshly some pleas pleas
ant years. Later l may Write again
-. C. Fremont.
"Charles H. Bennett. ESD. Secretary
pinestone Historical Society, Pipestone,
Mimi" ,,r+on
cbanter in the career of THE Pathfinder.
and the essential Roinssss aw Tsre e anperin.
tanIent Of the Kansas City Helping Hand
institute. who recently returned from pip
very successful revival meetings. MI.
shawhan was delighted with the Village
and its environments and predicts LOT II a
prosperous future.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13

wagons cannot be used. There is not a four
wheeled vehicle in the whole country. Carts
can be used only in Port Stanley. All trav-
ell is or horseback, and a strange dare not
Il guide. Such hauling as is done by the
shepherds is on sledges dragged over the
wet but srowless ground by horses. Ali
herding of sheep is done upon horses and
with shepherd dogs, which are raised and
trained for the purpose.
Sheep Raising in the Falklands.
Notwithstanding all this, the islands are
excellent for cattle and sheep. The lati-
tude here is about that of Holland, and
the animals feed all the year round. Before
sheep were introduced the islands fairly
swarned with wild cattle and wild horses.
About forty years ago 1t is estimated that
there were about $4,000 wild cattle oil the
island. Now these ave all disappeared
and almost that many sheep have taken
their places. The wild cattle Were the first
cause of the settlement of the islands.
A rich cattle and hides dealer of Monte
video named Lafone bought the right to the
all the wild cattle in the islands in 1874 for
$1,000 down and the promise TO pay $4,000
additional in ten years from 1852. IN this
deal he got over 6gJ.U0 acres of land and
the skins of the wild cattle. In 49, he
sold out his property 10 the Falkland ISL
this company has been the leading power
in the Falklands. 1t has bought more land
ard it now probably has more than 100000
acres. 1t has about 10000 sheep, and II
has a sailing vessel which goes to London
once a year to carry its wool and bring
farming implements and other things re.
uuired by the islands. 1t has a line of
boats which periodically make the rounds
of the islands. carrying the farmers u
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13
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At that time Fremont was a member of a
government expedition ORGANIZED tor IN
exnIoration of the country between Inc MIS-,
soiIri river and the northern frontier; ana
was second in command. the leader BENG
Jean Nicolas .Nicollet. Prior TO tnai qrns
Fremont had led an active life, but IL was
while he was on the expedition wlilcn
caused his presence at Leaplns isoch INA
he was made a second lieutenant nnu as
signed to the Typographical engineering
corps. In 1870 he returned to washington 10
prepare his report, and 1t was there IhaI
he met his fate and future VIE s smsns s sem
ator Thomas H. Benton. From the time Oh
his departure from Leaping Rock his ad-
vancement on the PatnWay 3ha ,r~onauf
of pathfinders across the continent. d INT
cd States senator, a presidential candiudte,
iife towards the last was embittered:, but
no American ever advanced more Iapldiy III
public esteem in the short space OF tWchSy-
i've wears than did the thoughtlesS young
ster who. in 1888. in an unknown wilderness.
carved the record of his eTpedition : nisi.
on the face of a rock which had for ages
withstood the assaults OIL d RAGING 'oi'e"'
without scar or blemish.
The Mystery Clenre Up.
History had told the members of the
pinestone Historical Society that Fremont
had been in the Pipcstone country, and
they knew that the inscriptions on Leap.
ing rock were the record OF the visit, but
the initials &C; Fin pn u Een rneii' secre-
tary OF the society. wrote to General Ere
mont. explaining the perplexity the mem
beers were laboring under and promptly
received the following reply:
New York, $50 East Sixty-fourth Street
~ September 3. 1885.
Nj Dear Sir:-I thank you for your in
teresting letter of July Is. l had hoped TO
he able to discover some data which might
throw light upon the obscurity of now
nearly half n century ago. but fire and
frequent change of residence have made
havoc among my papers and can only
give YOU the meager outline which MEM
DRY retains of those Journeys. The nut
you mention was not ours, We passed no
winter there. Our campaigns. were sum-
mer ones, and the green of the prairieS
and the herds of buffalo are the Leading
features which remain in my mind. We
made a camp at the Red Pipestone quarry
ard met there a band of Sioux Indians.
l wonder II the chimney which stood in
front OF the encampment Is still standing?
1t required a sure foot to jump from the
main rock to the top of it. The two sets
of initials inscribed to which you par
ticularly refer are for Charles Fremont.
as i then commonly wrote my name. and
/. Eugene Flandin. n young gentleman
from New York who was attached to the
party. The names of Lakes Topic and
Benton were given by me, and were for
my wife and her father, Senator Benton.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13

She even recognized that she owed some
Acknowledgement to her neiShbor for kind
ness after proceedings rebuffs. This started
her talking. My. how she did talk for a
while. 1t did not matter what II was that
she said. anything that buzzed into her
mind flew to the tip of her tongue, which
kept on milling at a great rate.
"Lea6viIle," she said, didactically. Lead
vile * said to be the tallest city In the
world. No, that's not right; 1t can't be the
talIest city. Oh, yes. it's the highest city;
It's high up. It's high time we got there:
there used to be high old times-no. that's
not quite right. either. Can you sing?
l know you can sing. That Is a great
thing to go up so high. We should all join
in an appropriate air. No. you needn't
hush me. I'm all right. and I'm enjoying
the trip, Let US sing Of the noble Duke
of York. He had 10000 men and marched
them up a hill one day. and then he
marched them down again. That's just
what is happening to us on this trip to
Leadville. Oh, when you're up you're up.
up, up, and when you're ~down-why don't
YOU all sing, because it's just what we're
doing. And when you're neither up nor
down you're half way up, but II doesn't
seem just all right somehow. Still it's a
singularly appropriate song for US"
Then the whisky. plus the altitude. got In
the rest of its work. and the prim traveller
went to sleep. Somewhere in New England
there Is a woman who ought to rave a
charitable sympathy for the poor people
who drink It too much. for she knows what
II Is.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13
WHIsKBovE THE CAT LINE
Its Eject n Woman Unused to the
eadviIle Alti-
tude.
From the ChIn.er Ocean.

From the ChInter Ocean.
L~eadvilltey tell you in Colorado. Is
above the line. Water line. timber
line, snow, these are all more or less
familiar. line. however. is new and
seems to Iest a practical joke some
where in Iealment. Yet 1t is not so
meant. Gesidents say that, because
of the altt and the attenuation of the
air. cats ct keep alive in the carbonate
CITY. Criminals have beef known to
feel the et of the thin air; from ex-
h~ilaration high old time is an easy
passage.
If 1t hat been for an unscheduled
trip to Idle a certain woman ONE
where in England could. not lay claim
to sympatlth a certain class of social
offenders. is a strict church member
and teetotl at home, but on this trip
when she h herself suffering from a
cold whic1inary remedies would not
relieve, shSwed a fellow passenger to
give her dwhisky. 1t Is quite likely
tina the In lady had no very good
working Hdge of whisky. except in
rare medi3ergencies. Surely she had
no acquaif with the fact that the
effects of ts-in fact, the paralyZing
power of ky-increases more rapidly
with the ali. The sick woman helped
herself; shs clearly an allopath. and
she took a that would have proved eff
fectual at Eter. At the high altitude
of Leadvilhich is roughly two miles
in the air, enefit was immediate. The
sickness I'd the pallor vanished. the
prim womaked UP most conspicuously.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13
where Birds Come From.

Manufacturers of artificial birds buy di-
rectIy from the farmers and make up their
stock with no particular regard for the ac-
curate representation of a species Just at
present the birds in fashion for mourning
hats are small black parrots, and there are
no such birds in nature. a fashion is in
vogue to match the costume in the plum
age OF the bird trimmings. and manufact-
uTers use their best art to supply the de-
mand. Sooner or later this fashion will be
the means of establishing regular farms
nurposes. There are ostrich farms in Cal
tfornia existing solely to supply feathers
10 the trade. and there is no reason why
the same idea should not apply to other
ar regular intervals for the market. This
is n bit cruel. for the plucking causes pain;
his periodical stripping very much.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13
Relative Values.

From the Detroit Free Press.
There are metals more precious thai
@ course, in some kinds of business a
man can't earn any money unless he has
hroScr
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13

Woman! woman.-Mrs. Knowit-"Mrs.
~strongmind is gradually developing her
husband into an ideal man. He does every
thing now just as she wants him to-" Mrs.
Sharper-"Yes: and when she has him per-
feet she will despise him because he didn't
nave a mind of his own"-Puck
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13
ENGLAND PROPOSES FROM THESE
TO CONTROL TIL MAGELLAN.
PORT STANLEY, THE CAPITAL
SOME OF THE BIGGEST SHEEP
FARIs IN THE WORLD.
The Vegetable Cocktail and the BAL
sam Bogs-The Postal Savings
Bank and other Curious
Features of fhe Thrifty
Little Island.

Copyright. 1895. by Frank C. carpenter)
PORT STANLEY. FALKLAND ISL
ANDS. Oct. Ii have come TO the FAX
land islands because they promise to be
one of the news centers of the world in
the near future. Their governor tells me
IL is true that Great Britain will prob
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13

From the Detroit Free Press
VIVA is 4 phenomenon. pa?"
"a Well. a woman who
b,,vs y hat in the first miliiner shop she
comes to-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13

I, is always cloudy in the Falklands. The
ctr Is moist and the aspect OF nature is
drcary in the extreme. Imagine a dull,
lcaden sky hanging low ever reddish brown
rnaors. out of which here and there jut the
ragged teeth of white rock masses. ana you
and lapdscape. The islands are gently roll
ing. with here and there n ragged hill; the
land is as black as your hat. run of peat,
Ia here and there streaked with little
atreams and spotted with treacherous boys,
IN which horses and men are sometimes
lost. The ground Is SO soggy, in TACT, thai
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13

This life of the shepherds must be a lone,
~ one. They are, you know. all Scotch.
men. who have been brought out here from
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12
Patriotic Kansas City Priest.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March I'm
marked contrast to the position of
Father Weber, of Rondout, n. Y,
who told his congregation that it was
the duty of Catholics in the event of
war to take up arms against the United
States, because Spain is Catholic
nation, Rev. J. NJ. Dalton, pastor of
the Church of the Annunciation, of
this city, one of the best known Cath
olic preachers of the West, declared
to-day that the United States should
60 to war immediatelf should it be
proven that Spain or Spanish officials
were in any way responsible for the
destruction of the Maine. Father
Dalton was addressing the 1900 pupils
Of the high school on Cuba" when
he made this declaration. In closing
this address, he said: "If Spain is a
nation that would be guilty of so
iendish crime, We should blot her
out of existence, and God will speed
US to destroy this enemy;
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12
How to Look Good.

Good looks are really more than
skin deep, depending entirely on a
healthy condition of all the vital or
gans. If the liver be inactive, you
have bilious look: if your stomach
be disordered, you have a dyspeptic
look: if your kidneys be affected, you
have pinched look. Secure good
health, and you will surely have good
looks. Electric Bitters" is a good
Alternative and Tonic. Acts directly
on the stomach, liver and kidneys.
Purifes the blood, cures pimples,
blotches. and boils, and gives a good
complexion. Every bottle guaranteed.
Sold at w. C. Haman's and all drug
stores, 80 cents per bottle. D
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12
Shipping Ammunition.

NEW YORK, March 1.-The Della
ware Lackawanna and Western Rail
road last week shipped $4,000 tons of
gun powder and ammunition from the
government storehouses at Dover, n.
j. Z train load ofpowder and ammu-
milton left Dover each night last week,
and AT Hoboken was placed on light
ers and taken to the coast fortifica-
tions.
Employees in the railroad yards at
Hob0ken made no secret of having
received orders to have a train ready
for carrying ammunition in case of an
emergency.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12

appreciate any kind and tender at
tentiOn to her from them in her old
age. The last of her time and gener-
alton she long unobtrusively fingered
among US, but now in the early spring
time of the year, lamentsd by four gen.
erations of her descendants and many
friends, she goes to her peaceful and
silent home, to her long rest. Soon
gay flowers will bloom above her, the
fragrant air will be filled with per-
fume and soft summer winds will sing
her requiem.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12
Gone To Rest.

Died, on March l, 1898, Bertha, the
youngest daughter of Mr.. aud Ms.
Otto Keller, aged years and 8 days.
The funeral services were conducted
by the Rev. PlantZ of GordOnville,
Mo. So quietly and quickly did
deaths angel claim our darling that
ere We were aware, her little spirit had
taken its flight: our darling had left
US for brighter and better home
above. No more will her bright face
be seen at the tire-side: no more will
the little prayer be lisped at mothers S
knee. Her innocent prattle is hushed
forever. she has gone to join the an
gels and her little brother, who was
called away just four months ago.
Only four short years had she tasted
the joys of this earth and shed her
sweet influence around US, when she
was summoned by our Creator who
said, "Suffer little children to come
unto me, for such is the Kingdom of
Heaven.
To the bereaved parents We extenG
our heartfelt sympathy, and trust that
Divine Providence will sustain them
and grant that solemn and sacred COM
fort that no earthly power can take
from them. \ FRIEND
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12
Notice to stockholders.

Whereas, it appears that ata special
meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Southeastern District Agricultural
Society, a majority of the Directors
rendered their resignationsas such Di-
rectors, and as it appears that the
President of the Society is left with
out a quorum to do business,
Therefore, l, G. G. Kimmel, Presi-
dent of the Southeastern District Ag-
ricultural Society, call meeting of
the stockholders of said Society to
meet at the court house in the city of
Cape Girardeau, county OF Cape Cir
ardeau, Missouri, at l o'clock p. m.
on Saturday, the 18th day of March,
1898, for the purpose of filling the va
canees existing in the Board of 7
rectors and such other business as
lawfully come before them.
Polls open from one o'clock to
o'clock D. m.
G. G. KIMMELL. Pr
E. b. ENGELMANN, Secre'
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12
CITY COUNCIL.
Resolution to Improve Good Hope
street.

Resolution to Improve Good Hope
street.
Whereas, in the opinion of this
Council it is necessary that Good
Hope street, from Sprigg street to
Spanish street, should be graded,
graveled, curbed and certain parts of
said street guttered, and said street
otherwise put in condition for public
use, therefore be it
RESOLVED, That said Good Hope
street. from Sprigg street to Spanish
street, be graded and curbed and that
said Good Hope street. from Snrigg
street to Frederick street, on the north
side, and from Lorimier street to Span
ish street, on the south side, also be
guttered, and that said Good Hope
street, from Sprigg street to Spanish
street, be graveled, excepting that
part of said Good Hope street, from
Sprigg street to Spanish street, between
the street car tracks and twelve inches
outside each rail, and be it further
RESOLVED, That the cost of said
grading be paid out of the Street
Grading fund and the cost of the other
improvements assessed and taxed
against abutting property owners, and
the City Clerk is hereby authorized
and instructed to publish this resolu-
tion in the newspaper doing the city
printing for two consecutive weeks, to
the end that said work may be done. .
(Signed) G. G. KIMMEL.
February 2lst, 1897.
certify that the foregoing resolu
ton was read and adopted at meet
ing of the City Council held on Mon
day, February 2lst, 1897.
[sEAL.l GEO. E. CHAPPELL,
City Clerk.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12
Sorry HeLeRrned.

Ibid you ever know the difference
between a boy who has been brough;
up with girls and one who has not:
The one whose acquaintance with girls
of his own age has been slight is apt
to be awkward and unobserving:
whereas the boy who has breathed an
atmosphere of feminine influence
notices the occasions for the small
politenesses of life.''
The speaker was a young woman
who had had experience, and she pro
c,eUed to unfold them.
Il was thrown last summer" she
went on, with Il college boy, who had
no sisters nor cousins. nor aunts, to
polish him off. At Yale he had studied
hard, and mad not wasted his time. :
as he would have called it. on girls
affairs. He didn't know how to do
the few thousand small services that
women like, and as he was really
clever and nice, l proceeded forthwith
to polish him. l never went for any
thing l wanted. He had to go on all
my errands. l dropped my scissors
or book or parasOl fifty times day
to teach him to pick them up. At first
l had to remind him, but after awhile
he did it quite naturally; and at the
end of the season he thanked me sin
cerely.
"The sequel came a few days ago,
when | received a letter from him re
preaching me ruefully for having
made him ridiculous. I'm always
jumping around TO help people when
I'd better let them alone, he says
The fellows can't drop a pencil in
class but l find myself sprawIing on
the floor after it before Istop TO think.
1t will take years to undo the direful
work of last summer. New York
Telegram.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12
No Longer A Baby,

II the telephone were citizen it
would now be entitled to vote 1t has
reached abe voting age. Twenty One
years ago the first practical telephone g
line was opened with a message from
Professor Bell, at Lynn, Mass, to the
Boston Globe. 1t was regarded as a
wonderful triumph of science-even
more wonderful than the opening of
the first telegraph line by, Morse, from
Baltimore to Washington. To talk
to friend and recognize his voice
over a wire few miles in length
seemed almost supernatural. Now We
have become sa accustomed to it that
conversation over many hundreds Of
miles of wire cause scarcely second
thought. What vas wonder and
luxury twenty-one years ago is
now an every day affair and busi-
ness necessity.
The principle of the telephone has
been known for years, but it remained
for Professor Alexander Gil aham Bell,
of Boston, to discover a method by
which all the characteristics of sound,
pitch. intensity and quality, could be
transmitted by wire.
AS early as 1887 Professor Charles G.
Page, of Washington, discovered that
the rapid magnetizatlOn and demag-
netization OF tron bars produced a
change of sufficient intensity
to cause sensible sound, and six
years later Swiss, Professor De la
Rive, increased these musical sounds
by operating on long streached wires.
In lS54 Charles BoMrseulle, an under |
inspector of telegraph lines in France,
suggested the practicablity of trans |
mitting speech by electricity In almost
precisely the way in which it has been
by the telephone of to-
day, but the matter was not fully |
tested. In 1873 Professor Elisha |
Gray. of Chicago, proved the pract-
liability of transmitting composite |
sounds, such as chords, to a distance. |
BY his apparatus the intensity as well |
as the pitch of sounds was reproduced.
To-day the telephone is nc longer
an ornament, but necessity, In
common with other great inventions it
immeasurabiy to the pub
Ilc comfort and we'll being.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-12
Keeping Lent.

Any one who wishes to know if there
is actually such a thing as keeping
Lent by the average girl, except in a
change of employment, should make
Investigations in the candy shops, ad-
vises the New York Times. The first
thing 1.-The girl" thinks of in con-
nection with sacrifice is candy, and
that is the first thing she decides to
give up. That is not only to save
money for her pet Lenten charity, for
she not only does not buy candy for
herself, but she does not allow any
one else to buy it for her. The down.
town candy shops patronized by hus-
bands, brothers and lovers suffer as
much as the uptown esta ablishments
when my lady is wearing sackcloth.
II may not be certain as to whether
1.-THE girl" does this entirely for the
Of her soul or her body
Lent is time Of recuperation for
both-but she does it. The statistics
of the bonbon maker say so, and sta
tistics never lie.