Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-24

than ever before within his knowledge. It
10 not to be understood. however. that Mr..
Knell wishes to convey the impres sion that
he regards the unprecedented activity in
his line Of business As . prosperity
straw"
Rev. N. r. Pitman, an Audrain county
Baptist minister. recently visited relatives
in Virginia, and while there met John Jas
per. the famous negro preacher, who in
sists that 1.-THE sun does move" Speaking
Of one Of J~asper's discourses Mr. Pitman
said: Outline that sermon? I do not be-
lieve any one could attempt such a thing
and do that preacher Justice. While he
preached 1 saw the right hand of God. That
sermon is only a memory now. out it has
good old way"
Governor Lonnie ". Stephena of Mis-
ment of {. certain remedy useful AS 4 nerve
tonic. and his picture has now been added
to the galaxy Of great men who have been
snatched from the greedy clutc aes OF old
King Pain. To those ~unacquainted with
Missuuri's great war governor. his letter
and picture came as a surprise. and to
many as a shock. but to those who know
him 1t is surprising" the Missouri Valley
Farmer insists. 'only In the character Of
the medicine he recommends. They were
looking for something OF the k!rd, but ex-
pected 1t to break out in a laudatory let
ter recommending Paregoric. Matted Milk.
or Mellin's Baby Food. Mrs. Pirkham and
Carter's Little Liver Pills had him on the
string for a time but could not land him.
Lonnie was a good thing. and the patents
should have combined and syndicated him."
49,
AS evidence OF the fact that ''de
/, world dc. move" in one direction or an
other. the Clinton Democrat reprints the
following unique preamble and resolutions.
which appeared In an issue Of that paper
In December. 1869. and appended to which
were the signatures Of the of some of the
towns most prominent citizens: 1--WE, the
undersigned. Christian brethren of this
town. deeply convinced of the great evil
of lotteries, railing. grabbags. ring cakes.
baby shows. fish ponds and all other such
means Of raising money in the churches.
contrary to the word of God, feeling called
| upon by our Divine Master to abstain from
| the very appearance of evil, and follow
ing the injunction of God not to suffer
| sin upon our brother do hereby declare
and resolve. That we believe and will here
after act on the principle that no means
of raising money in the churches but such
as can BE- justified by a bold and con-
fident appeal to the Word Of God to sus-
| tain and defend them are lawful and
proper"
"A curious story comes up from Charlton
county about young Arthur Dodd, Of Men-
don. who was married recently to Miss
Maggie Koehl." says the Macon Repub-
lican. They went to Kansas City to spend
their sugar-moon and while the lady was
admiring those wonderful creations SO dear
to the feminine heart at one end Of the
establishment the groom walked to the
book department and picked up a couple
of Bibles to examine them with a view to
purchasing. While still holding them
he stepped across to another counter. and
the f1oorwalker had him promptly arrested
for shoplifting. The Bibles were worth &. ID.
The young couple had arranged to return
home Friday night and rather than be de-
layed by waiting for Mondays court, young
Dodd plead guilty and was assessed a fine
OF 81 and costs. Then 1t all came out in
the newspapers and there was the mischief
to pay. The affair was written up in all
sorts o. ways. and 1t is probable young
Mr.. and Mrs. Dodd will never want to light
on Kansas City soil again. The groom is
n wealthy young man. has held official
positions in Charlton county and would no
more think Of stealing a Bible than he
would Of running away with q steam en-
CINE"
Claude c. Warner. who IL back from Cos
ia RIGA for a weeks visit in Carthage with
his parents. says that II anyone wants to
see the beauties Of free silver they should
take a trip to Costa Rica. The people
there have tried that policy and are heart
lily sick of it. 1t has been decided to adopt
the gold standard. but so far 1t has not
been accomplished. owing to the country's
bad financial condition. A man with money,
MI. warner says. CdH get along 1d1rIy
well in a free silver country, but he must
be shrewd in figuring discounts and esti-
mating In advance the effect of conditions
on his cash. for money is in such a country
a commodity that varies in price just like
any other article of trade. But the poor
man who is forced to support himself
by his own labor is the one who suffers. His
wages are small, and they will buy moth
ing. A laborinS man In Costa Rica merely
exists. he does not live. He probably tastes
meat not more than once a year-and the
silver standard Is conceded to be largely
responsible for his misery. A colony of Ore
gon Populists located in Costa Rica n few
years ago and even they have found that
free silver is not the dream of bliss which
they once imagined it to be. They got along
very well, Mr.. Warner says. until their
money ran out and they had to go to work.
1t was then they began to get at the true
merits OF the free silver policy and there Is
not one of them now who does not heartily
despise II. Mr.. Warner thinks Costa Rica
a grea- coffee country and says that when
a person has once used Costa Rica cofee
he will never be satisfied with coffee from
any other country-it is SO much superior.