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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
The Shortest and the Longest.

From the Washington Post
The briefest biography in the congress
sional directory IS that of a Missouri con-
gresham. 1t simply says:
Dorsey W. Shaekl-ford tDeInocrau. of jefferson
City. elected to the Fifty-sxth congress 10 I'LL
the vacancy caused by the death OF Richard P
Bland June 10. 1859. receiving 10. 33I votes.
The longest biography is that of Ch4un-
cey N. Depew. Il occupies nearly a rage
in the directory and would fill half a column
OF the Post. Nothing has been allowed to
escape. from tho hour he was born to the
day he was elected TO the senate. He tells
how his political life began in 1861. and mar
rates with careful detail all the offices to
which he was appointed aud declined lie
notes with equal thoroughness the three
great national and international occasions
upon which he was the chosen Orator-:he
unwilling of the Statue of Liberty the CEN
tenniel celebration Of Washington's inau-
guraton. and the opening of the worlds
fair. His other oratorical efforts are also
cataIogued. He does not forget to state
that he was a candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination in 1855. but 1t would have
added to the picturesqueness of the MARIA
tive if he had only reproduced the placards
which We're scattered broadcast in Chicago
while the convention was in session They
read:
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
FOR THE GOLD STANDARD.

Although President Mckinley does not
say In so many words that he is in favor
OF one or the other of the currency bills
prepared by the senate and house commit
tees, the presumption is that he wants legis-
lation OF the general character found in
both. He is pronounced in wanting con-
gress TO declare unequivocally for the gold
standard. and this is really the main pur-
pose Of each of the pending bills.
AT the adjournment of congress last
spring committees of sound money men
were appointed in the house and senate TO
sit during the interim and frame bills for
currency reform. From the senate the
committee was made up of the Republican
members of the finance committee. and
Senator Allison became its chairman. From
the house committee of eleven was ap-
pointed with David b. Henderson as chair
man. Each of these committees has ready
q bill 10 report. and somewhere in or be-
tween these bills we may look for the COM
ing financial legislation. The main feat
ures of the house bill may be summarized
as follows:
That the present gold dollar shall be the
standard unit Of value in the United States.
That all interest-bearing obligations of the
United States, and all United States notes
and treasury notes shall be deemed 10 be
payable in gold and that all obligations
public private. shall be performed in
conformity with this standard. That there
shall be established In the treasury depart-
ment division of issue and redemption
uhis is directly recommended in the rresI-
dents message) which shall keep a gold
reserve for the maintenance OF the parity
OF money separate from the fiscal opera
tions of the treasury. That this reserve
shall be equal TO at least % per cent OF the
notes outstanding. That the secretary may
sell bonds whenever II IS necessary in order
10 maintain the reserve
The senate bill differs from the house
measure in that It provides for a larger
reserve and gives the secretary of the
treasury broader powers, except in one di-
rection where they are importantly re-
served. The house bill provides for main
tanning the silver dollars at par by authoriz-
ing the secretary at his discretion 10 ex-
change gold for them. The senate bill will
leave no discretion with the secretary. but
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08

had not reduced mems wages by-hsr in
dustriai competition. The Rev. Dr., s. G
Smith, of the department of Sociology.
Minnesota State university
1t would be unscientific 20 talk in that
way about oxen or honey bees or oysters.
Every man has individuality. and women
are full of it. Sweeping CONGRATULATIONS
may be permitted to the ethnOlogist. who
has to deal with whole races of men: or
to the anthropologist, whose subject is all
men through all the ages Sociology has
for its field the relations of man to his
fellowman. There the infinite details that
make up the sum of human conduct are
the very subject matter of the inquiry 4
detail so important as the uniikeness OF
temperament or circumstance that makes
men and women differ from each other in
inclination or behavior cannot be disre-
garded by the conscientious student of
human society.
Nobody but a very raw and hasty So
biologist would denounce wage-earning BY
women as a crime against natural laws.
and then try to limp away from the con-
sequences of his assertion by declaring
that society cannot be organized upon eX-
ceptionS to its laws. You might as Wei!
declare that all apples are white. treating
red apples exceptions for which II Il
not worth while to formulate law. as
to try to ignore the very great number OF
women who from preference or mischance
| remain single and without male support
1t is doubtless better for society that
women single and unprovided for should
support themselves than that they should
be cared for as paupers out of the earn
ings of men Tha, is where DIR. Smiths
sociology breaks down. The number OF
women who have no natural protector can
not Ia. senSihly diminished by preaching
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
OF CURRENT INTEREST.


Persistence is requisite in any occupa-
ton. but in the selling of books il is H..
most essential factor" remarked a noted
expert in that line recently a glib tonxu.
ana good address are necessary auaiirica-
lions. but they won't win the tight unless
the seller hangs ON like grim death until
MS object is accomplished | have lost
hundreds OF dollars by not having this
faculty, for often / have been ashamed To
continue canvassing subject who, with
proper importuning, would have finally
yielded The best book agent that | know
anything about IN the United States to-day
IS woman. She has rare tact and clever
ness, and is now averaging about 500 J.
week Her plan is simple. but effective.
She visits only the residences of wealthy
people, for the work she is exploiting is u
costly one, and only the rich can afford It.
II Is bad day when she doesn't get at
least couple of orders. and they mean
$50 for that days labor. Her manner is
impressive. and if she can ever get the
attention of any one for five minutes there
are long odds in favor of her carrying the
daV"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.
Young Men in Politics.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Senator Hanna, of Ohio. and there is no
better authority on the subject, says that
politics as a profession Is a bad thing
that his advice to all young men would
be to let politics alone a profession,
but that there never was a time when
this country needed more than it does now
thoughtful young men in politics-workers
and hard students looking to the better
ment- of conditions
To the superficial reader these utterances
will sound contradictory, but they are con-
sistent and as true as consistent. Politics
as a profession is as bad as Senator Hanna
pictures 1t and no young man should enter
the political field with the intention of get
ting his living out of office. No matter
with how exalted a purpose a young man
may enter politics If he has no other means
of support but his official salary he will
surely shape his course so as to retain that
salary rather than labor for the public
good. As profession there is none so I'M
certain as Office seeking There is none so
demoralizing. The moral sense and the
finer instincts are blunted by the constant
chase after office and spoils instead of
principle become the controlling motive. 1t
is a bad thing as Senator Hanna saws,
and no young man who values his moral
and mental welfare should disregard the
advice to shun 1t.
But it is Just as true that politics needs
young men, earnest, thoughtful. high mind
ed young men. 1t opens to them a field for
usefulness which they can find nowhere
else. and. when rightly followed. it affords
satisfaction which the pursuit of ones
own selfish interests can never give Poll
tics pursued in this way is just as broad
ening and liberalizing as politics pursued
for the sake of office is narrowing and de-
basing. And there are signs that young
men are realizing this. The old boss
system is passing away. The methods it
demanded and the subserviency to corrupt
politicians required are going into disuse.
A constantly growing number of young
men are coming from the universities every
year who have made history. politics and
government close study, and their infiu-
ence must soon permeate the whole body of
the people. The level of intelligence is
constantly rising and it demands a higher
standard of worth and efficiency in office
And the young man of high principles and
proud fitness who enters politics. not as n
profession, but as a means of stamping his
character and influence on the public has
a steadily increasing prospect of success.
There are bosses now and there will be
for years to come. But their Importance
will lessen Just as the standard Of intelli-
gence rises and the number OF men in
creases who enter politics, not for the mere
sake Of office. but as means of lettering
their generation and exercising the higher
intellectual powers with which they may
be endowd. In the broadening field of poll
tics which opens before America to-day
there is need for workers and thinkers and
the younger generation must meet the de-
mand If the helm of the ship of state is to
be guided rightly.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08

presiding judge was the late Nathan Price.
The judgment of the court and jury was
against the heirs of Regis Loisel, but it
was followed by compromise, through
which each side got something. OF the
last act ingalls, says:
The two windows rafting In their rude
easements were curtained with frost of
the thickness and consistency of tripe. Be-
tween them, with his head dangerously
near the rough mortar of the ceiling, sat
his honor, the judge, surveying the scene
from an inverted packing box, his boots
interrupting his vision and his chair in
clined against the wall. The harangues Of
the advocates were enlfvened by the mu-
steal clinking OF glasses. the festal notes
of the rustic Cremona, and boisterous
bursts of inebriated laughter from beneath.
Planks of splintered pine. sustained by a
beggarly account of empty boxes, soap and
cracker. spice and candle, from adjacent
groceries, afforded repose to group o.
dilapidated loafers who crouched and shiv-
cred around the smoking stove.
As they masticated their fiat terbacker'
lHeS HieuitdIlVely eSpeCtOFateu III inc
three-ply sawdust that carpeted the floor,
and listened to the will of Regis Loisel.
THE subtle potency of the soul of the
bold adventurer spoke imperiously from
the abyss of a forgotten past. His voice
emanated from an unknown grave across
the interval of three-quarters of a CEN
fury. His restless and uneasy ghost ami
mated the mysterious syllables at whose
utterance arose the phantom of law.
which irresistibIy forbade intrusion upon
sixty square miles of Kansas prairie in the
name and by the will of Regis Loisel.
And the drama ended. Three gen.
erations have passed away. The sQualid
hamlet had expanded into an opulent me-
trOpolis, of which his descendants are en-
inent and honored citizens. States had
sprung like an exhalation from the wilder
ness. An intense civilization pervadsd the
profoundest soiitudes. Nothing remained
unchanged in the wild world of his brief
life save the impassive and desolate river
which wears as then, and will forever
wear, the impervious mask of its sullen
mystery; which bears as then, and will
forever bear. the burden of its secret unre-
vealed, yielding no response to the living
who tempt its incOnstant wave. nor the
dead who sleep by its complaining shores"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
The club women. parl. Trip.

From the New York Sun.
The club women are to the fore again,
this time with a trip TO the Paris EXPOSE
ton The scheme is not quite upon par
with that offered by the Franklin syndi-
cate, but it has its idiosyncrasirs. Very
many places are included in the itinerary
very little time is allotted to the visiting
of any of them, and the amount of money
stated as requisite to foot the entire bill is
surprisingly small. Three days. for in
stance, are given to London. other places
being proportionately limited. OF course
none but club women need apply. but 1t is
doubtful whether many of these will find
the prospectus in all ways suited to their
tastes. Already murmurs of dissent may
be heard upon all sides because of the itin-
erary's failure to state just how much time
will be spent at the milliners' and mo-
distes' in Paris. Without doubt ample
provision will be made for this most i'm
portant detail of the trip. but it is incon-
venient not to know something about the
preparations beforehand. that the clubbists
may plan accordingly. What badge wear
er would care to go to Paris even under
the most propitious conditions unless she
was assured of glimpses Of sartorial glories
that might be turned to account in next
winters club campaign? 1t is said, how
ever, that those in charge of the pilgrima ge
understand this, and that visits to the
niilliners and modistes are the true object
Of the trip, the exposition merely serving
as blind. But only to those familiar with
the ways of club women will 1t be blind
How many hearts under how many badges
are to-day wildly beating at prospect of
seeing for themselves the native lairs of
bonnets that have heretofore been known
to them only upon the heads of favored
president or some lucky chairman of ex-
ecutive committee, 1t is to be hoped that
Paris is prepared for the proposed pill
grimage of the club women. The EXPOSE
ton itself pales beside it in novelty and
H.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
A Picture That Will Become Famou..

Theobald Chartran has returned TO this
country from Paris. bringing with him j
large historical painting which probably
will be hung in the capitol at Washington
IL was ordered by Henry c. Prick. of Pitts
burg. before MIR. Chartran left this coun-
try, last spring. The artist went TO Wash
ington and studied the character and faces
OF the men who figure in the group. Pres
ident Mckinley, William r. Day. secre-
tary of state at that time; NJ. Cambon. the
French ambassador; NJ. Thebaut. his Sec
rotary. and Messrs. Moore. Adee and Grid
Ter. of the state department, will be seen
in group which represents the signing of
the Spanish-American peace protocol at
Washington. Ii the picture is not hung in
the capitol ii will be presented to Mr.. Nc
kinl-y- France paid S-0.0oG for a painting
which is TO be exhibited b. NJ. Chartran ut
The Paris exnnsition
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
Dewey Arch will Cos. 81 .ooo. COO.

The New York committee having in
charge the erection of the permanent Dew
ey arch has estimated the probable
cost of the arch and colonnade To be ap-
proximately sl.oooo0o. The mass and i'm
portance OF the sculpture involved exceeds
that OF any similar monument of modern
times There are nearly eighty statues or
figures Of colossal scale. the greater num-
Der of which are ut least double life siz-.
and many of them still larger, besides tina
historic portrait medallons and other
sculpture enrichment-all in addition to
the architectural details.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
NATU RES ROBES.

Each bush and tree. with empty palm.
outs;retched in grief bes0ught an aims
Kind heaven. With sfiu-Iee oppressed
The humalest weed in jewels dressed
Aai every fsllow field o'erspr-ad
With covering for bridal bed:
While frelSht-d branches bending low.
Wrought beagty's curve With fakes Of snow.
Ella Gilbert Ivsa
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
JOnatha N and John Bull.

The Anglo-American League has issued q
report of its first years work, in which It
is noted that there are indications in the
United States of the continued growth OF
friendly feelings toward the old country.
and of a belief that the true interests of
both nations are identical. so that the more
cordial their friendship becomes the better
will it be for the political and commercial
welfare of both How widely similar feel
ings prevail in this country. and how sin
cerely they are held. every one in Britain
| In
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
A sIap-Da.h sociolosi.t.

From the New York Times
THE world would be better off If all
women were turned out of their Jobs to-
morrow. l would except school teachers
and perhaps very few other classes On.
of the greatest evils of modern civiliza ton
| think. Is the woman wageearner Hell
existence Is crime against natural laws
Nature intended man to be the producer
woman the consumer.
Some women, it's true, won't marry
Some women should never marry, but you
can't organize society upon the exception.
to its laws. The healthy woman. tn.
woman of the majority. should marry, I!
she can get husband, and she would be
much better able to find q husband II shs
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
An Available Issue.

From the New York Sun.
Colonel Bryan's new issues of militarism.
imperialism and death to trusts have not
received much applause. and he must be
ready for still newer ones. Here his gigan-
tic friend, Hon. James Stephen Hogg. of
Texas. may help him. Mr. HoSs is an eS-
pansionist: but he is also dress reformer.
Colonel Bryan may add dress reform. OPP
position to plutocratic apparel. to his list of
issues 1t is much more sensible than the
nf them
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
DECEMBER.
When the feud of hot and cold
Leaves the autumn woodlands b1re:

When the feud of hot and cold
Leaves the autumn woodlands b1re:
When the year Is getting DID,
And flowers are dead. and keen the air:
When the crow has new concern.
And early sounds his rauc-ns note:
And-where the late witch-hazeis huEn-
The squirrel from a ehuckIing thro-t
Tells that one iarde.s space is aiieJ.
And Tits upon TAVERN. tree
And. valiant. quick, and keenly thrilled.
Up starts the tiny ehIckadee
When the suns still shortening ar
Too soon nights shadows dun and gray
Brings on. and fields drear and DARK
And summer birds have flown away
feel the years slOw-beatiny hHs=-.
The sky's chill prophecy know
And welcome the eonsummate art
Which weIyes this spotl-ss shroud OF snow.
Joel E-nta1-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
Weather Forecast for Friday,

WASHINGTON, Dec. For Oklahoma and Indian
Hriiory: Rain Friday: northeasterly winds; satur
fair
or Arksnsas: Fair Friday and Saturday; variable
S,hds.
fFor Iowa, Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska: Fair
Ftday and Saturday; easterly winds becoming south
oily
Tfor Colorado: Fair Friday. with warmer in west
en- portions: Saturday. fair: southerly winds.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
To Win 800 with a "Quart~r-

Solomon Watson. of Reading. Pa, has
had silver quarter in his mouth since Sep
TENDER 4. when he found the coin in the
street. As the result Of some bantering
talk with a friend he bet sle0 that he could
keep the silver piece in his mouth for q
year. eating. drinking and sleeping with u
there. e. -
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
Honor. for a Young sculptor.

Augustus st. Gaudens, the eminent Amer
lean sculptor. who has been elected CORE
spondent in the sculpture section OF the
Academic des Beaux Arts of France. is still
very young man. He is a graduate of
the Cooper Union art school In New York
and studied in Paris and in Rome. He was
born in Dublin of French and Irish parent
age but was brought to the United States
when an infant He made the Farragut
statue in New York and designed the medal
for the worlds fair here.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
Indiana. "Good Roads Exhibit.

Governor Mount. of Indiana, is personally
supervising an elaborate exhibit for his
state at the Paris exposition. One of the
features of this will be series of large
photographs to show the progress of the
good roads" movement in Indiana. where
there are now 5J.CO0 miles of graded and
graveled highway.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
AN OLD GAELIC CRADLE SONG.

Hush. the waves are rolling in.
White With foam. white with foam:
Father tolls amid the din:
But baby sleeps AZ horne
Hush the winds roar hoarse and dep,
On they come. on they come.
Brother seeks the lazy sheep,
BUT baby sleeps at home.
Hush the rain sweeps DER the knox-s.
Where th-y roam. where they .oaIa:
Sister goes 10 seek the cows.
but baby sleeps A. home. -Auonym.u,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
An Obvious Advantage.

From the Boston Herald
The services OF the blind chaplains are
still retained in congress. They are useful.
for the reason that their feelings are not
hurt when their congregations are slim.
This serves to remove all friction.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08

The Chicago Tribune is shocked by IAN
inhuman lynching" in Kentucky. If the
esteemed Tribune will glance back through
the records 1t will find that the humane,
benevolent kind of lynchings are quite rare.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
The Bishop Got an Early start.

Bishop Potter says that, coming of an
ecclesiastical family. he owes his love of
preaching to those grandfathers and
great-grandfathers. He adds: Il began
preaching before kits gave place to trous-
ers. Ny pulpit was an empty stall in the
barn my audience the chickens and the
hired man"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
Trouble Ahead for n Tyran,

From the Washington Post
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease is TO emulate the
example of the Hon. Thomas B. Reed and
take up her residence in 4 New York fiat.
Here is where the janitor will get the worst
of it,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08

Why Bryan and Hogg?" inquiries con-
temporary. Why not Hogs and Bryan?
Hogg is the bigger man of the two In
bulk, yes. But Democratic leadership is
not measured by avoirdupois. Which can
talk the louder and oftener? That's the
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
Diplomacy.
From the New York Pres

From the New York Press
There only two kinds of diplomacy.
One is craftsmanship and the other is fiub-
dub.
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A $1,000 Orchid.

William Rockefeller's new and rare or
child. which Is valued at si.oJ1. is q cross
between I.indleyanum and Candatum.
There are only seven plants OF this variety
in existence. II took Mr.. Rockefellers gar
properIy
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08

1t must be admitted that Mr.. Roberts
talks very glibly for a man who has been
living with three wives for number OF
yearS
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Aguinaldo is still jumping about among
the rocks and crevices in wretchedly I'M
done and uncaught condition.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08

Hon. Billy Mason shows excellent judg-
ment in shifting his sympathy from the
Tagals to the Beers. 1t is letting himself
down easy
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08

What shall We eat?" asks the Boston
Globe. Such question from such a source
is rather startling. Was the bean crop
a failure2
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-08
They All Do 1t.

They're so accustomed to that sort of
thing in Jasper county that it doesn't
even jar them when an item like the fol-
lowing, from the Carthage Democrat. ap-
pears in print: Captain Mcmillan went
down to Hell's Neck yesterday TO look
after his mines there