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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
KANSAS CITY AND THE BURLINGTON.

Just ROW, as Is well known in this com
mUnity, there is a movement among some
OF our commercial organizations and citi-
gems to divert business from the Burling-
ton road, because Of the position taken by
that road in regard to the relation of the
rates on packing house products from
Kansas City and Omaha respectively.
= Kansas City is a great city, great in its
stock yards and packing houses, great in
Its manufactures, great in its jobbing
houses. great in the railroads radiating in
all directions. and great in the character
and quality OF its citizens. The Burlington
read IS one OF the great railroad systems
Of the West. and for forty years has been
one OF the many clements in the develop
rnent of the empire west of Chicago and
the Mississippi river.
Kansas City has long since passed the
point when its growth and prosperity de-
pend in any way upon any one railroad,
and 81 the Burlington is unfair TO. and dis
eliminates unjustly against, Kansas City.
the Burlington road will be the loser. and
not Kansas City. At the same time. IT
would be better TO have peace and har-
mony between Kansas City and the rail-
roads and TO consider all sides Of the ques-
zion before notice is served on the whole
commercial world that Kansas City IS be-
ing unjustly treated by one OF the large
railroads centering here
Mr.. Howard Elliott. the general man.
ager OF that part of the Burlington system
that reaches Kansas City. has made a
statement OF the situation from the view
point Of that company. which appears else
where in this Issue. Fair play always APP
peals strongly to the good American cfti-
zen. and Kansas City is too great a city
to be unwilling TO accord fair play to the
Burlington, or TO any other business enter
prise The Burlington has been managed
and guided for years by men who are
reasonable and human, and in fairness to
the management Of that company. their
side OF the case should at least be con-
sidered- If their proposition is right. Kan
sas City IS too big 10 stand before the
world as unwilling to recognize the right
II they are wrong, they should be made to
right that wrong. and be made to under
stand that Kansas City will never submit
quietly to unjust treatment by the Bur
lington or by any other railroad.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
THE PULSE Is HEALTHY.

II President Mckinley had any doubts
subject of national expansion, those doubts
must have been removed even before he
fairly reached the distinctively Western
section of the country that will be honored
by the president on his tour
Short stops and short speeches have been
The order of the tour thus far, and big
crowds and big cheers have been the char
acteristics OF the public reception given
the distinguished official and his utter
ances. One of the presidents commend
able practices is to feel the public pulse.
He could not possibly have expected a
more hearty response to the policies of the
administration than he has just received.
The applause and cheers that have greeted
his declarations have been spontaneous
and Overwhelming. If there has been any
anti-expansion sentiment. it has failed to
manifest itself in any such way as to spoil
the effect OF absolute uuanimity.
President Mckinley leaves no doubt as
10 the policy he entertains regarding the
obligations imposed by the acquisition of
the Philippines. The keynote of his
speeches is national duty, and he appeals
TO the people not only through the sense
OF duty. but also through the high order
OF patriotism that has ever characterized
the American masses. and through popular
affection for the American flag. Among
the striking utterances delivered on this
tour are these:
our glorious old flag. the symbol of lib
erty, floats to-day over two hemisphere -
u like this symbol-the defense of the
old flag referring to the soldiers monu-
ment. unveiled at Peoria.) That IS what
we do whenever ard wherever that flag is
assailed. and with US war always sleeps
when the assailants OF our flag consent 10
Grants terms of unconditional surrender"
We have not only overcome our enemies
in war, but We have overcome the enemies
of prosperity and scattered their forces"
All this is in keeping with the president S
declaration when presenting Admiral Dew
ey's sword: There was no flaw in your
victory; there will be no faltering in main
tanning it,
These and kindred declarations aroused
the people TO the highest pitch of patriotic
enthusiasm. The pulse throb is salts
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Too Anxious to Be Accurate.

The Horton Headlight tells story which
will bring back memories to every parent:
Last week there was dozen or so
babies born in Horton. Some of them
were the frstborn TO the parents and some
not. At one home where it was the first
the father was told to go and get some
asafetida. the little fellow had the col
ic. The father started on the run and
stopped at the first house he came to and
asked for some carbolic acid. as his baby
had the collie and they wanted to give it
some medicine that would quiet its cry
ing. He took the bottle and started for
his home. Handing the bottle to his moth
er-in-law, he said: There it is. I nope
that it will quiet the dear little thing"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08

industrial conditions: their aggregation in
great cities, and their growing leisure and
luxury. He is convinced that education, if
interpreted in the broader sense that in
Cludes the training of the conscience, the
discipline of the will, the formation of
habits of good conduct, is favorable to
morality and tends 10 make those who pos
sess it better and happier. The question
remains by what methods this broader ed
ucation is to be attained and how far our
own existing institutions conceive their
mission and fulfill it. On this point Mr..
Wendte says:
THE public school system of the United
States has ever kept in view its moral
mission to childhood. We have little SYM
pathy with that reckless impeachment of
our public schools as immoral and god
less by a considerable portion OF our Amer
lean clergy. Morality is not excluded or
passed over lightly in our public schools.
While their immediate object is to inform
and develop the thinking mind of the pupil,
this is no bar to the incubation of moral
ity. Character building. good citizenship,
moral probity, a reliable manhood and
womanhood, are the ultimate aims OF every
public school in America. Not only by pre-
cept and persuasive appeal, but still more
potently by the prevailing atmosphere of
the school-its obedience. order. punctual-
ity, neatncss, industry, patience, the gen
tie manners. justice and affection which
the relations of the pupils with their teach
ers and with each other involve-does it
seek to educate its charges in the DISPOSE
ton and art Of virtue; and to these is
superadded the personal example OF the
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
A SONG OF THE SEA.

stood on the shore when the night was dark.
When the storm tossed waves rolled high.
And they sang song OF the days TO come
or the years that were passing by.
They sang a song of unrest and pain.
OF !ife's mysteries dark and drsar.
or the wreck Of icy and hope and love.
OF all that We hold most dear.
Life is brief. there's nothing true.
courage and hope are gone finn yol.
Their wrecks around yOu .,e.
Life is dark. and sorrows new
Day by day Will come TO YOU.
And make it sweet TO die
stood on the shore-stiII dark was the night.
But in vision l the star
That led to the feet OF the Infant King
The wise men from afar
II told Of One who stilled the wave
As it shone through the storm and the night,
1t told that faith. hope love abide
OF j land where all is bright.
Life is long. eternal iOy.
Happiness. without alloy,
God 10 thee will give.
Peace and hope, and courage strong
Pain is bEief. and pleasure long
'Tis left for thee TO live.
Margaret H. Barnett. in the Presbyterian.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Found UEolino's Bones.

Excavations in the church of Santa Fran
cesca. at Pisa, have brought to light what
appears to be the tomb of Cgolino della
Gherardesca. more familiar to readers OF
Dante's Inferno as Count Cgolno. He
was a Neapolitan who in the thirteenth
century endeavored to usurp the govern
meat of Pisa. and for time succeeded. ex-
ercising his power with great severity. In
12SS conspiracy was set on foot for his
overthrow The count was taken prisoner.
and with three of his sons and one of his
grandsons was left to die of hunger. The
present discovery of a rectangular tomb
with five skulls and some bones in the
place Of burial assigned to the count by
tradition seems to confirm the impression
that these are the remains OF the victims.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
1t Didn't Sound Right.

A Halstead minister's wife heard her
husband suddenly break into loud laughter
in the next room and called to him to learn
what was the matter. He replied, reading
from the Halstead Independent, THE dam
water is gone again" The item was to
the effect that someone had broken a hole
in the dam and the water had all leaked
out, but it sounded wrong to his wife, and
she didn't get over it for several days, even
after it was explained to her.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08

eligible as mediator in this international
problem.
The anti-expansionists have insistently
used the Transvaal situation as a ''paral-
lei'' for the Philippine war. and have writ
ten emotional, peevish and bitter screeds
upon the fate of small republics" Will
lam ]. Bryan. who is opposing expansion
for political purposes only, took occasion,
when asked to sign petition TO President
Mckinley asking him TO offer his services
as mediator, to declare that this country
was not in 4 position TO tender such serv-
ices because of her own unfortunate re-
lation to the Filipinos. This is the sub
stance of the anti-cxpansionists' whine.
II it is true that the attitude of the United
States toward the Filipnos is indicative
of an Irresistible tendency of strong pow
ers TO absorb weak ones" is it not singular
that the president of the South African re-
public should. through his official represent
ative in this country, turn to President Nc
Kinley and ask his friendly services to
avert war with Great Britain" IL Uncle
Sam were in fact, and not in political prop
uganda only, a criminal aggressor,"
would not an isolated and comparatively
weak republic like the Transvaal be sus-
picious that the disintercstcd services of
President Mckinley could not be secured !?
If President Kruger has confidence in the
honesty and high purpose of the United
States government, why should any -irneri-
can citizen question the nations motives
touching the Philippine war?
II is a fact-and it is fact that reflects
upon the kind of patriotism that actu-
ates certain political agitators in this coun-
try-that the only considerable disparage-
ment of the government is made at home
and not abroad. These agitators do not
like to be called copperheads, but that is
what they are. Copperheadism is the out
growth of political frenzy, a frenzy that
permits party zeal or other impulse to take
precedence of national loyalty. Fortunate
ly copperheadism can never assume con-
trolling proportions in this enlightened
country. but it does sometimes give mani
festaticns that are exceedingly humiliating
to national pride.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
MIR. PEYToN's DENIAL.

A few days since The Journal comment
ed editorially on a statement purported to
have been made by John Howe Peyton.
Andrew, in which the American soldiers
in tho Philippines were described as
'drunkards, rakes and gamblers 1t is a
pleasure to be able to explain that Mr..
Peyton, in a letter to the New York Times,
emphatically denies that he made the
statement attributed to him. He saws that
anyone who knows anything of the quail
ity of American manhood must know how
absurd and untrue it is to make the sweep
ing and unqualified assertion that our army
in the Philippines, of 1900 men. is COM
posed of 'drunkards, ralses and gamblers -
Then he explains how the statement got
into the Interview
Il made" he says. mo such statement.
1 know American men too well to be guilty
of such SANDER. ! did say that a promi-
nent Protestant layman in Manila had
used such language in speaking Of the
army, but that, while agreeing with his
conclusion that missionary work among
'A'~ Ai'i44i'S "puih bt So iOilS dS
military operations were in progress. 1 en-
tircly disagreed with his characterization
of the soldiers
1t is to be regretted, for Mr. Peyton's
sake, that he at all repeated the vile
Islander Of the prominent Protestant lay
man. or that. If he believed it advisable
to repeat it, he did not at least so en-
rhatically disavow any intention to in
dorse it that he could not have been mis-
understood. 1t is to be regretted because
it is to be feared that the denial will never
quite ovcrtake the SANDER wrongly cred
tied.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Another Dewey schoorma-ter.

Another early teacher of Admiral George
Dewey has been discovered. or has dIscov-
cred himself. he being Horace r Ste0bings.
now of Chicago, who was born in Mont
pelier Vt, seventy-nine years ago. and
taught school there after being graduated
from the University Of Vermont in 1Si6.
Dewey was 10 or u years old when In the
school. and this teacher says he does not
remember anything remarkable about the
lad. The boys of that day in Montpelier
he says. were sturdy. manly fellows. and
such qualities in a lad did not create as
much remark as the lack OF them would
have done
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
FOR WEEK ENDING OCTOBER :.
THE JOURNAL CIRCULATED 23s, goo
COPIES; DAILY AVERAGE. 42.GGo.
weather Foreca,t for SUNDAY

| WASHINGTON. Oct. For Oklahoma and Indian
Territory: Fair and cooler Sunday; Monday, fair;
variable winds
For Arkansas: FalF Sunday and Monday; variable
winds.
For Iowa ana Missouri: Fair Sunday and Monday
variable winds.
For Nebraska and Kansas: Fair Sunday: Monday.
rain variable winds. shifting to northeasterly.
For Colorado: Cloudy Sunday: fair Monday; north
easteTiy winds
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
VIII Hold Him for Awhile.

a Horton boy, now in Manila. writes
home as follows: 81 was discharged from
the Twentieth Kansas about week ago
and joined the new cavalry regiment that
is being organized here and to-day 1 was
sworn into the United States service and
commissioned first lieutenant, a nice lit
tie promotion Ny salary is sl50-a month
while with that consideration. I have
saved up nearly a thousand dollars and it
will not take me long to save up another
thousand. II 1 can manage to dodge these
Philippine bullets in the future as well as
l have in the past and sickness don't get
hold of me. will be in pretty good shape
when ! get home
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Should Swap VocabuIaries.

The Holton Recorder, referring to the Of
fer of the presidency to Dewey by the
Democrats, says that Dewey replies in ef-
feet. Get thee behind me, Satin; while
in Topeka there is a man whose sign says.
Satan dyed here" Father Beck and the
dyer ought to get together and exchange
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
John Brown. From Bunyan'. Town.

The Lyman Beecher lectures on preach
ing at Yale this month will be by Rev. Dr.
John Brown. one of the visiting English
COngregationalists. He IL pastor OF the
Bunyan meeting at Bedford. that town
where John Bunyan dreamed his immortal
drama, and he has written the life of Bun
yam and a book on The Pilgrim Fathers
of New England
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
"Laying" for Laurier.

The students OF the University Of Chica-
go are preparing to give rousing welcome
to Sir Wilfrid Laurier. the Canadian prem
Ter. when he reaches that city. They want
to show him. as one of the city's papers
says. a sample of American college enthu-
siasm uncorked. and their plan includes a
parade. 4 reception and dinner.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08

From The Worcester Spy RrpJ.
There is nothing on the surface to in
dictate that the country is ashamed of be-
ing ashamed of by Hon. Billy Mason.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Not Con.oIinx to the "Aunties.-

Those anti-expansionists who have hoped
TO be able to quote Dewey as on their side
or to find something helpful in his attitude
are of course not consoled by the news that
every time Secretary Long. in his present
alton speech, referred to the adminIstra-
tons policy in the Philippines the ad-
miral led the applause in Il way to indi-
cate that he stood with and supported that
policy
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
A weighty Advertisement.

How good it must have made the young
wives of Atchison feel when they read in
the Atchison Champion an acknowledgment
of the receipt of an odd paper weight"
which came from one of the large steam
bakeries in Kansas City. The Champion
says it was "a loaf of bread. about four
inches in length, perfect in color and
shape" This would seem to indicate that
young wives are not the only ones whose
bread can be abused because capable of be-
ing used for paving. paper weights, etc.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
THE PAST.
Exchange

said. The Past it is dead.
Will bury it deep and still
With tablet over its head
OF the dead one may speak no M"
dug deep down in the loan.
| sealed up the grave with PRAYER:
But the Past was the first one home.
And waited to greet me there.
Jeanette Bliss GiIIespy. in the Columbia Litsra
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
A Forty-Acre Crib.

A man up in Jackson county, according to
the Recorder. started to build cribs for his
corn. but gave up the crib idea and built i
high board fence around a forty-acre field.
and by piiing it high can get most of his
corn in there
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Better Compromise.

From the Washington Post.
If it be true that the Hon. John ]. In
gals is hesitating between New York
Journalism and Kansas politics, we would
advise him to take to the woods
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Trouble in Any Case.

The Marshall county fair was held at
Frankfort last week, and a prize was
offered for the prettiest girl, the judges
being seven young men chosen by the fair
association. The first ballot showed seven
different ladies voted for. and the commit
tee then went into executive session and
resolved to disagree in order to save them
selves trouble, which would undoubtedly
follow if any one girl was chosen. The
girls raised almost as big u row as ii
a choice had been made, and the young
men have sworn never TO be judges at a
beauty show again under any circu:n-
stances.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
4 Sign of the Times.

The Coffeyville Journal came out last
week with a new dress''-entire new type
and is as much better looking as the
editor is happier. When the editors feel
prosperous. good times are surely here
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Dewey Moved to Tears.

L saw the Dewey reception in New
York, said an Eastern man the other day,
and also the one rendered the admiral
at the capitol on Tuesday. and the one at
Washington. 1 think, was the more inter
esting of the two l stood within twenty
feet of the admiral when the sword was
presented To him, and he was so deeply at
fected that the tears stood in his eyes and
his voice choked. Then. too. the presence
of the president. his cabinet and the other
high government officials added to the in
terest. The beautiful park facing the cap
itol was literally damned with people. and
they were far more enthusiastic than Were
the New York crowds. To the admiral It
was return home. for the national capt.
tai has been his place Of residence for
many years. and he is also 4 governor Of
the Metropolitan Club there, or was before
he went to Manila
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
All Noises Went.

One of the attractions at Saiina was the
Battle of Manila and thieves took ad-
vantage of the noise to rob the postoffice
at Assaria, a few miles distant. People
heard the noise of the explosion, but
thought it a part OF the battle and paid no
attention.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Worth the Price.

If it is true that Benjamin Harrison's
fee as chief counsel for Venezuela before
the arbitration court Is to be $4,000. IT will
have to be reckoned something handsome.
though by no means an Unprecedentediy
large compensation. counsel fees in
such cases go. 1t is. as the Boston Herald
suggests. a good deal cheaper for Vene-
zuela than a war over the boundary ques-
ton would have been, and she undoubtedly
gets more out of it as net result.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Icla's Industries.

lola's new high school opened the other
day, and Chancellor Snow, of the state
university, delivered a splendid address to
the students, making an eloquent appeal
for the higher education of the masses.
The lola Register describes the new high
school building d handsome brick struc-
ture, two full stories and basement, lab
oratory under the roof. erected at a cost of
$1,000. the pride of the town. Among other
attractive features of which the town is
proud, the Register mentions a brick plant
with capacity of 5000 brick day. which
has placed orders for, machinery that will
quadruple its present capacity; two zinc
shelters. an ice plant. two steam laundries
4 creamery, a foundry. planning mill and
machine shops. with a sulphuric acid fac
tory and a rolling mill and large additions
to the zinc smelters in sight in the imme-
date future.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
4 Rather Silly Item.

Nick Chiles, of Topeka fame, runs a
colored newspaper. His editor. after TAX
ing in the sights at Kansas City during
the carnival week, came back home and
Indignantly expressed himself as follows
about his fellow Kansans:
We wouldn't be caught in crowd of
kansans in Kansas City. Kansans always
look silly to us in a big town; they also
act silly. We can pick ont a Kansan from
thousands of others in a big town; you
cannot erase that silly look from their
faces. Probably this is the reason that
all the jays appearing in Puck and Judge
are credited to Kansas"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
Beers DO NOT SEE a PARALLEL.

The official movement on the part of the
South African republic TO secure the media
ton OF the United States government, or
more particularly of President Mckinley.
10 avert war in the TransraaI. should teach
timely lesson 10 those prejudiced or over
sentimental people in this country who
have regarded the United States as in
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-08
OF CURRENT INTEREST.
Her Coolnes. Saved Her.

According to her story of il. there was
one woman survivor aboard the wrecked
Scotsman who retained her presence OF
mind throughout the dreadful ordeal. She
was one of thirteen women who We're let
down by ropes into one Of the lifeboars.
and before she was let down she had tho
thoughtfulness to go to her stateroom and
put L flask of whisky into her satchel.
which she fastened to her life preserver
The sea was high, and the four sailors in
charge of the lifeboat became exhausted
by their herculean task CT managing tho
boat and baling out the waves which
threatened TO swamp them. IL was ~ this
critical iuncture that the whisky was
brought into reGuisition. and the sailors
were revived. SO that everybody In the boat
was finally rescued II is their testimony
that it was the contents of the flask that
saved them