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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
MISSOURI POINTS,

Talk about times being hard-it's all in
your eye says a Northwest Missouri pa
| per. Harry Myers paid 80 cents an hour
this week for laborers to help on his farm"
So
Rev. Jesse Z. Moreman. who for sew
eral years was a regularly employed min
lister in Ncdaway county, is now a news
boy on the Burlington road, making daily
trips between Creston. Ia, and St. Joe.
ss
A former resident of Scotland county,
James Stevens, died in a Des Nome hos
pital a few days ago. Mr.. Stevens had been
a member of the Fiftieth Iowa volunteers,
and the fatal disease was contracted while
he was recovering from a wound received at
Santiago.
Maxwell Blake, a Missouri boy who. after
more or less local success as an amateur
actor. succeeded in breaking into the links
of the professionals, is a member of Mans
fields company this season, and plays the
part of first pastry cook in 'Cyrano de
Bergerac."
Windy Walter Vrooman, well known in
several of the larger cities of the state
lIlOuSh llS ala SiiSllS LII Z WIG
| We're features of some municipal and other
i campaigns, is now in London. it is said. en-
| gagged in an effort to organize a college
| there for labor leaders.
Recent information is to the effect that
Colonel Jones has acquired no interest in
the Louisville Dispatch and probably win
not. On the other hand, it is likely. the
Jefferson City Tribune says. that his wig.
orous personality will be found and felt
in Missouri, not Kentucky. journalism"
| sss
The manifest disposition on the part of
| a lot of the wooden-headed lawmakers at
Jefferson City to give the state university
a black eye, if possible. calls forth condem-
nation from Colonel George Trigg. who de-
clares that such a course would be a case
| of cutting off the nose to spite the face"
The old chap with the hour-glass and
scythe rather distanced Cupid in the race
| for business in Boone county during 1885
the only year In its history. with a single
exception, the Herald says. in which the
deaths were so numerous and the number
of marriages so small. And yet Columbia
| persists IN voting uOWn sewer DOnt prop
o%sitions.
| The one achievement of which Judge
1 Daily. president of the board of regents
of the Warrensberg normal school. perhaps
is proudest. is the gathering together and
satisfactorily instructing of the largest in
fant Sunday school class in the state-the
one in the Christian church at Sedalia-
the membership of which is above 200.
The circuit clerkship in Missouri seems 10
be a natural and frequently used stepping
stone to the editorial control of a newspa-
per. J. p. Campbell. of the Doniphan Pros
pect-News; ]. r. Lowell. of the Moberly
Democrat; George w. Trigg, of the Rich
mond Conservation; II. A. Hutchinson, OF
the Boonville Advertiser, and Lon Luther,
of the Lamonte Record. have all exempli-
fled the tendency.
Wellington Napton, son of one of Mis-
souri's supreme judges. has been appointed
a district judge in that state by the
governor Of Montana. Two other former
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
An Interesting Future.


From the New York Sun.
There is already sufficient testimony con-
corning the horseless carriages running
around the streets of this city and of other
cities. in steadily increasing numbers. to
make it certain that before long the horse
will be taken away from vehicles of all
sorts in town as completely as he has been
taken from the street cars. Electric car
riaSes. even in the present early stage Of
their development. provide a veritable rapid
transit with which horsefiesh can not and
would not be permitted to compete. The
horse will ultimately have to onfine him.
self as an article of pure luxury to bride
paths and speedways. where. of course, the
motors can not follow him, since with them
there could be no fun in racing.
The ways of science hid us hope that when
transportation On lard is perfected, flying
machines will not be very far off.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
THE WOLF IS AT THE DOOR.

There's a haunting horror near ~
That nothing drives away:
Fierce lamping eyes at nightfall.
A crouching shade by DAY;
There's a whining at the threshold.
There's a scratching At the floor.
To work, To work. In Heavens name,
The wolf is at the door!
The day was long. the night was short.
The bed was hard and cold:
Still weary are the little ones.
Still weary are the old.
We are weary in our cradles
From our mothers toll untold:
We are born to boarded WEAKNESS
As some to boarded gold.
We Will not rise, We will not work:
Nothing the day can give
Is half so sweet as an hour Of sleep:
Better to sleep than live!
What power can stir these heavy limbs,
What hope these dull hearts swell,
What fear more cold. what PAIN more sharD
Than the life We know SO we'll?
To die like a man by lead or steel
Is nothing that We should fear.
No human death would be worse to feel
Than the life that holds US here
But this Is a fear no heart can face
a fate no man can dare
To be run to earth and die by the teeth
OF the gnawing monster there.
The slow. relentless. padding step
That never goes astray-
The rustic in the underbrush-
The shadow il the way
The straining nisht-the long pursuit
The steady gain behind
Death wearied man and ~tireless brute.
And the struggle wild and blind.
There's 4 hot breath at the keyhols
And q tearing as of teeth.
Well do I know the bloOdshot eyes
And the dripping Jaws beneath.
There's a whining at the threshold,
There's a scratching at the door.
To work. To work. In Heavens name.
The wolf is at the door,
charlotte Perkins Stetson, in the Conservatos
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

hfty-ive, as many as eighteen will be
from New York. and all of these except
three from the city of New York alone.
The free silver South, with the assistance
of this city, therefore. will have all the
Democratic representatives of the Union
except forty. That is, take out the city
of New York and the solid South. and the
Democratic party would be reduced to
practical humiliation in congress. All the
Populists or silverites will De from the
little silver states. except one from Kansas
and one from North Carolina.
No comment on such n state of facts is
necessary, for none could add anything to
the impressiveness of the lesson it conveys.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Chairman Cook. of the Democratic state
committee. has been appointed to the ma
tional Democratic finance committee, and
will have equal authority with Coin"
Harvey. 1t is probable that Mr.. Cook will
be the bookkeeper of the combination.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
The state OF the Democratic Party.

From the New York Sun.
In the next or Fifty-sxth congress there
will be ninety senator's Of whom twenty
six only will be straight-out Democrats, all
except six OF them from the states which
composed the old Southern Confederacy.
Except two from Utah, there will be no
Democratic senators from the states for
merly known as the free states. as distin-
guished from the slave states, and there
will be four from the old border slave
states, Missouri. Kentucky and Delaware.
That is. the Democratic strength in the
senate will be wholly Southern. except two
senator's from Utah, II they can be called
Democrats and not fusionists. 1t will be
increased, however. by the alliance Of the
Populist or fusion senator's. nine in num-
Der: but all OF them. with the exception of
one from North Carolina, will be from
Northern states beyond the Mississippi
river, petty silver states almost wholly.
In the house of representatives of the
Fifty-sixth congress there will he 1S5 Re
publicans to fG3 strict Democrats and nine
Populists or silverites. or a Republican ma
iority OF thirteen over the Bryanite coali-
ton. OF the 1Gs Democrats, eighty-four
will be from states making up the old
Southern Confederacy and twenty-four
more from former slave srates-10s in all.
or about two-thirds. OF the remaining
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

"If Andrew jackson were alive to-day"
says an Ohio orator, he would be found
fighting shoulder to shoulder with our in
trepid leader. William ]. Bryan" Fortu.
nately for 'Old Hickory" his reputation is
safe in the custody of authentic history.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
Out of Jerry's Reach.

From the New York Press.
Some persons are so insignificant or count
for so little that it is impossible for them
to insult an ordinary man going about his
business. What, then, can Jerry Simpson
expect when he attacks President McKiin
lev?
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
weather Forecast for Saturday.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1s.-For Oklahoma and Indian
Territory: Fair: northwesterly winds.
For Missouri: Fair. preceded by rain in southeast
portion: northwesterly winds.
For Nebraska: Partly cloudy weather; variable
winds.
Fer Kansas and Colorado: Partly cloudy weather:
variable winds.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
Explained.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Eve got an invitation to a party. What
do these letters r. s. v. p in the bottom
corner mean?"
"They stand for a French sentence that
means Come If you haven't got the grip"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
Pap. wouldn't Buy 1t.

From the Harlem Life.
Addict should never ave recognized
this other photo of you, dear. 1t looks so
careworn and old"
Mabel-"Yes, that was taken when papa
wouldn't buy me the Duke of Santiago"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
AKIN.

/ saw 4 bird-'twas g~rieving so.
The reason / was fain 10 know;
] peeped into the leafy nest
A wee. dead bird lay meath its breast.
I saw a mother fair and young.
No tender lullaby she sung.
Deep sorrow bowed her golden head
The cradle held her baby dead.
hleen Kavanaugh. in New Orleans Times-pcmo-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

1t is said that Adlai Z. Stevenson has
come out against expansion. Mr.. Steven
son. it will be remembered, is the gentle
man who-who- By the way, who was
Adlai Z. Stevenson. anyhow? The name
certainly sounds familiar.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

Mr.. Tomaszewskeimer. a resident of Mas
sachusetts. has been to the trouble of hay-
ing his name changed. In some way or
other Mr.. Tomaszewskeimer seems to have
got an idea that his name was not a pretty
one
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

If Senator Caffery is really opposed to
expansion he should go to the Philippines
and make his speeches. What empties the
senate galleries in such short order ought
to do much toward keeping people out of
the islands.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
Hi. Latest and Greatest.

From the New York Sun.
The Hon. William Joel Stone, Of Mis-
souri,, is said to be at work on a concord
ance of William Jennings Bryan and Rich
ard Croker.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
Tn. unomciaI st.,i.tician.

From the Indianapolis Journal
The people of the United States says
the Unofficial statistician. use about $50
go lead pencils each day, of which at least
20,0O are borrowed
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

The many admirers Of Senate Hoar
about hearses and resume his rightful place
in the Republican ~bandwagon. Mr.. Hoar
is not living up to his splendid privileges.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

1t seems that all Missouri counties looked
alike to Messrs. Kennedy and Ryan. This
was a serious optical illusion.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

General Miles will hardly regard the lat.
est roast issued by the commissary general
as a piece of embalmed beef.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH.

We are stronger. and are better.
Urder manhood's sterner reign:
Still We feel that something sweet
Followed youth. with flying feet.
And will never come again.
n. II. Studdard.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

a soundw alloping to Aguinaldo the sooner
it will have an unpleasant job off its hands.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

II WILL nave an unpleasant gOD OH It's lanQS.
Our military commanders are talking at
each other with a vim and viciousness that
should cause our p~ugilists to look to their
laurels. -
It looks as if Colonel Kennedy will nave
difficulty in showing that the authorities
at Macomb ave got the wrong Mr..
Wright. -
1t can be said for Mr.. Depew that his
| entrance into the United States senate will
not increase the output of dry oratory In
that body.
Our distinguished train bandits are in a
| fair way to find that an alfbi, in order to
be effective& Wright county. must be the
genuine thing. -
Mr.. Sharkey announces that he can. whip
any mar in the world. Is Mr.. Fitzsimmons
a man in the world? If SO. he may con-
slider himself addressed.
A horticultural contemporary declares We
can successfully raise the date in this
country. Certainly we can. Didn't we do
it on the LIST of January?
The country has been contemplating Hon.
Billy Masou's anti-expansion speech for
several days now, and is still unable to see
where the laugh comes in.
Let us trust that the quarrel between the
commanding general and the commissary
general will not result in drawing these
worthless into a French duel.
The Indiana lawyer who made his argu-
ment in poetry and cleared his client prob
IDLY convinced the jury that the prisoners
offense was trifing in comparison.
The Cuban commissioners who want con-
gress to appropriate si0.oo0.oo as back pay
for Cuban soldiers rather overestimate TIE
dimensions of our prosperity tidal wave.
Professor Charles Eliot Norton has de.
cided to regard expansion as an inevitable
evil. That is about the way the country
has decided TO regard Professor Charles
Eliot Norton.
The declaration of Hon. Paramount
Biount that expansion doesn't meet with
his approval is not one of those sweeping
surprises which lift the nation of its feet
and slam it around.
General Eagan's words were Incorporate
and imprudent. but there are thousands oil
people in the country who believe thai
Miles deserved the faying. The command.
ing general Of the army, by his over
weening s~eIf-importance and reckless talk
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

Kansas City energies from the week O
fog to find herself still spinning along a
the same clipping gait.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

has succeeded in making a rather robust
nuisance of himself.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14
NOTES.

If we understand Aguinaldo. he will not
whip the American army and navy If they
are good.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

Our military commanders are talking at
each other with a vim and viciousness that
should cause our pugilists to look to their
ln,hrnlc
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

1t looks as if Colonel Kennedy will nave
difficulty in showing that the authorities
at Macomb have got the wrong Mr..
urr;gbt
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

General Eagan's words were Incorporate
and imprudent, but there are thousands OF
people in the country who believe that
Miles deserved the fiaying. The command
ing general of the army, by his over
weening self-importance and reckless talk,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

1t can be said for Mr.. Depew that his
entrance into the United States senate will
not increase the output of dry oratory In
+b,% IaJr
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

Our distinguished train bandits are in a
| fair way to find that an alibi, in order to
be effective& Wright county. must be the
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

Mr.. Sharkey announces that he can, whip
| any man in the world. Is Mr.. Fitzsimmons
a man in the world? If SO, he may con-
| slider himself addressed.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

A horticultural contemporary declares We
can successfully raise the date in this
country. Certainly we can. Didn't we do
II on the LIST of January?
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City.
Missouri, for transmission through the
mails. as second class matter.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

The Greater New York assessors have
now brought the valuation Of the real es-
tate of that metropolis up to the stupen-
dous total OF Ss.95o.0 46. 81. These figures
overtop the total assessed valuation Of any
state in the Union outside Of New York
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

The declaration Of Hon. Paramount
Biount that expansion doesn't meet with
his approval is not one of those sweeping
surprises which lift the nation of its feet
and slam it around.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-03-16
A Correction.
Kenosha, March 10, 1899.

Kenosha, March 10, 1899.
To EDITOR EVENING NEWS.
Dear Sir-In your issue of the 9th a
notice appeared of " A Peculiar Suit
The Heirs of John G.. Holmes would
eject the widow" which is not the fact.
John C.. Holmes and wife signed a
mortgage for ST., 1000, to be used to fix
up the house to her tastes and desires.
He died and forty four acres out OF the
ninety eight acres were sold to pay
that mortgage, leaving fifty-four acres
to be divided. Fourteen acres of the
choicest land was set off to Mrs. Holmes
also the used of the homestead, as the
heirs made no objection, which they
could have done. In 1883 Mrs. Holmes
married William Greer. According to
the law made and provided, the home
stead passes directly to the heirs, but
while they knew they could claim pos
session they allowed her to occupy the
place for the plst ten years paying
taxes, only her dover remains to her
while she lives. But the heirs want
what belongs to them and think they
have been liberal toward her. These
are the facts for all to weigh the case
as it should be.
ONE OF THE HEIRS.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-03-16
French Literary Pirates.

II the contest now raging between
Chicago and Paris over the original in
spiration Of "Cyrano de Bergerac" is
1oing nothing else it is bringing to
light the fact that the theft of ideas
has not always been one way hereto
fore. 1t appears from the testimony
of a well-known !, Partisan critic that
several works OF Fenimore Cooper and
Washington Irving have at various
times been dramatized in France with
out a word of acknowledgment. The
Leather Stocking Tales were produced
in Paris as an original play, called
Bias de CUR, by Montepin & Dornay,
without any mention of Cooper. Plan
quette's comic opera Rip was taken
bodily from Irving's Rip Van Winkle;'
Uncle Toms Cabin is, published by
Calmann Levy as an original play by
DEnnery; Sardou's Scrap of Paper is
nothing else than Edgar Allen Poe's
'Purloined Letter in French attire.
The list is almost endless"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-03-16
A MAIN STREET FIRE.
Dangerous Confagratton in the Business
Portion of the City.


About o'clock Friday evening fire
broke out in the building on Main
street occupied by NJ. Hoag as notion
store. The fire resulted from a falling
lamp which had just been lighted.
The lamp was large one and when it
fell to the floor more than gallon of
kerosene was spread over everything in
near proximity and large blaze at
once ensued. An alarm was at once
sent in, but before the department ar
rived the fire had done considerable
damage, both to the stock of Mr.. Hoag
and to the building which was owned
by r. O.. Gottfredsen. Grave fears
were expressed lest the flames might
be communicated to surrounding bust
ness houses and the fremen used the
hose vigorously to prevent any possible
spread of the flames.
The loss from the fire will be consid-
cradle. The building is damaged to
the amount of $3.50, while the stock of
Nj. Hoag is regarded as almost COM
plete loss, for what was not burned was
ruined by the water and chemicals
which we're thrown in great quantities
by the fremen. Mr.. Hosg says his
loss will be considerable above $500.
The building was insured for $500 and
the stock for $500, and thus the actual
| loss will be very small.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-03-16
BIG DEAL REPORTED
SCHLITZ co. WILL BUY KLINKERT'S
INTERESTS IN KENOSHA.
$4,000 THE PRICE TO BE PAID
Agents Of Both Brewing Companies Admit
That Such a Deal Has Been Proposed
but Say it is Nc. ccncladed-Much
Real Estate Concerned.

1t is reported that big deal is on
between the Schlitz Brewing company
of Milwaukee, and the Klinkert Brew
ing company, which if madeswill result
in all the interests of the latter firm
in Kenosha passing under the control
of the former company. The deal has
been on between the two companies
for some time and it is claimed that the
final deal has been made.
The officials of the two companies in
this city claim to know nothing OF the
deal. Mr. Klinkert was here Friday
and in several of his saloons he limited
that such deal might be N" lie at any
time. M. Greenwald, the local agent
for the Racine company, is now at Hot
Springs. and the people of the local
Office while admitting that such deal
is on, refuse to say anything for pub
LEGATION without the consent of Mr..
Klinkert, the head of the company
Peter Steinbach, the agent for the
Schlitz company in this city, was seen
today and stated he had heard of the
deal, but as yet had heard nothing
from his company and was unwilling to
believe that they had purchased the
interests of the Klinkert company
without notifying him.
The price said to have been paid for
the saloon interests is said to have been
$4,000. The interests of the Racine
brewing company in this city are the
third largest OF any in the city. They
control the sale of beer in about a
dozen saloons and many of these have
been established many years. Some
of them are valuable sites, which
include, as far as can be ascertained
the building at 3O7 Main street, now
occupied by James Peterson, the one
on Market street, occupied by Herman
Miller, the valuable property on Mil
waukee avenue, known as Columbia
Hall, and the old Zievers stand at the
north end of Main street, conducted
by Capt. Mont. Besides the real estate
the deal will include the unexpired
leases held by the Klinkert company
on several other pieces of saloon prop
erty in different parts of the city. The
addition of these saloons to the large
number of places now held by the
Schlitz company will make them the
largest holders of saloon property in
Kenosha. The transfer, if the proposed
deal is affected, will probably go into
effect at once.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-03-16

DR. Krohn. a prominent educator, a
graduate Of Yale, and who has studied
in France, Germany, Austria, Italy and
England, says that he is firmly con-
WINGED that the system Of public
schools in this country is far in ad'
vance Of all other nations, but that
our system has too much forcing and
unless much care is exercised in that
regard it will tell on the children. He
further says that precocity, unless
carefully guarded and directed, is al
most as dangerous as imbecility.