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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
KANSAS TOPICS.
Another Case of 10 to 1.

Another Case of 10 TO 1.
The Tagalogs of Kansas must have ex-
perienced a double grief when they read
that account of how Lieutenant Monroe
with fifty men captured 500 Filipinos. The
Filipinos met defeat exactly at the ratio
of 16 to ].
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
KANSAS crTy,s CONVENTION RIVALS.

KANSAS CITY'S CONVENTION RIVALS.
The most formidable rival Kansas City
has in the effort to secure the next Dem
ocratic national convention has just en-
tered the field. There has been no har-
mony or serious purpose in the Chicago
movement to capture the prize. Milwau-
kee has made an earnest fight, but her
claims and chances are in no wise so
strong as those of Kansas City. Now
comes New York, lavishly fourishing a
Tammany roll, and obtrusively claiming
that when that city takes a notion to go
after anything all rivals might as well
stand back. 1t is doubtless true that IL the
convention Is to go to the highest bidder,
New York will get the plum; but it is not
committee are going to auction off the
honor. If this were the belief, or, rather,
II 1t had been, no effort would have been
made by Kansas City, especially if it
had been known that Tammany was to be
q bidder
The committee will doubtless bear In
mind that It is only fair to the people Of
the West that they should have one of the
great conventions now and then, and 1t will
also remember that Kansas City was first
in the field with an organized effort and
a pledge as to the amount necessary to
handle the big gathering. AS to the po-
litical considerations that may influence
the committee in making its choice we do
not profess to be intimately informed; but
looking at the situation in general way,
1t would seem that Kansas City can pre-
sent as strong arguments on the ground OF
policy as any other place in the country
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Last of Chicago. Pioneer Lawyers.

Judge Calvin DeWolf. who died last
week in Chicago. was the last survivor
of the pioneer bar of the city. He became
widely known in 1860 through having issued
a warrant for the arrest of a slave hunter
who was pursuing a runaway negro girl
who had taken refuge in Chicago. For this
he was indicted for an offense against
the peace and dignity of the United States"
but when Lincoln became president the
indictment was Quashed. He was long
prominent among the anti-slavery people Of
that section.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Not Old Zach,s Grandson,

Letters from Southern members Of the
Taylor family indicate pretty surely that
Lieutenant c. c. Wood. of the North Lam
cashire British regiment, who was recent
ly killed at Kimberley. South Africa. was
great-grandson of President Zachary
Taylor. but not a grandson of Jefferson
Davis. Jefferson Davis married General
Taylor's daughter. Sarah. DR.. c. Wood
married General Taylor's daughter. Ann
NJ. and the late Lieutenant c. c. Wood
was their grandson. his father having been
Lieutenant Wood, of the Confederate navy.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Should Have EmuIated His Ancestor.

Mr.. Plato is suing for divorce at To-
peka. He alleges that his wife is not
what she ought to be and that he made
great mistake in marrying Mr.. Plato Is
not entitled to sympathy. If he had curbed
his affections after the manner indicated
by his distinguished Greek ancestor he
would rot have had this trouble.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

summer seems to have regained possession
of the ball.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
OF CURRENT INTEREST.
A story of General Dix

General John A. Dix was great stickler
for accurate quotation. In an address
which he delivered at Union college he adj
monished the students never to quote from
the dead languages without verifying.
That the general was accustomed to prac-
tice what he preached In this particular is
shown in an incident which 4 friend of his
related. Late one night in Albany" he
said, while General Dix was governor he
rang my door bell. l was entertaining 4
party of gentlemen and answered the bell
In person. The governor said that seeing
lights in my house he had ventured to ring
because he wanted to look at Horace. Did
happen to have a copy of Horace, that
could conveniently lay my hands on? L
went to my library and found Horace and
handed 1t to the governor. He turned over
the pages. and. after q little, said: L was
reading in the executive chamber this
evening an article in which there was q
quotation from Horace. 1t occurred to me
that the quotation was not accurate. and
find on examination Of this volume that I
was right"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

terest. Indeed, the Gazette says that 1t Is
quite the customary thing for parties of
citizens to visit the place and poke around
the dark and noisome cellars. for which
privilege each person pays Mr.. Macke 10
cents. The admittance fee also includes
the privilege of talking with Mr.. Macke
about the days when Emporia was a sad
old dog; when she cooked her hat over her
left ear and said the devil might take the
hindmost. Among the stories told by Mr.
Macke with great gusto is one about the
defeat of Governor Eskridge for the legis-
lature. Eskridge had voted in the house
for the submission of the prohibitory
amendment to the people, and, naturally,
the brewery people were not pleased with
his action. So, when he appeared for re-
election, Macke carried beer by the kes
down to the railroad station and gave 1t
out free to every voter. The opponent of
Governor Eskridge was preacher and
probably he was as much in favor of pro-
hibition as his rival, but Macke was after
vengeance and he got it. And SO 1t passed
into history that the only preacher ever
elected to the legislature from Lyon coun-
ty got there through the influence OF free
beer-a most shocking record, indeed, for
| a town so virtuous that 1t wouldn't let a
bandy-legged female dancer ragtime In a
| tent at it's street fair.
Atchison's FIRST Effort for n School.
The death of +. G. Adams recalls to the
Atchison Globe the first attempt at estab-
| fishing a public school in Atchison. 1t was
| in 1858 and a meeting had been called to
vote on levying school tax. Thirty-seven
| men were present and the debate ran high
for some time At last vote was taken
and it stood thirty-two against the tax ano
five for it, the five being f. G. Adams, l.
A. Anderson, DR.. Grimes, Glenn Rohr and
l. N. Bridgeman. After the vote had beer
announced +. G. Adams called for di'
vision in order that the friends and enc
mics of free schools might be known. II
was ordered that those in favor of thu
tax should proceed to one side and stand
was walking out to take his place in linz
| someone tapped him on the shoulder will
q cane. Bridgeman at once knocked thu
man down and n big fight followed. though
our historian does not say who licked
Presumably, however, the five patriot!
We're roughly handled by the thirty-twt
anti-taxers. The death of Adams Leaves
just one of those five alive-Mr. Glen
| Rohr, of Atchison.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Elder Again to ..Wield the Tripod"

1t is said that P. P. Elder is to resume
the editorship Of the Ottawa Times. Let
us hope that the old man has reformed
from the status which he fixed for jour
nalism when lie swore in court that "us
editors sometimes lies"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Handsome Christina. Gift.

The increase OF the capital of the Ma
tional City Bank of New York from
81 200. 900 to s10OOO.O0O will make a nice plum
for the stockholders. OF the 100000 in
crease, S. per cent is to be allotted to the
stockholders pro rata and paid for by
them at par. and the remaining 10 per
cent Is to be distributed among the new
directors. the recipients of It to pay for it
$50 per share. of which $50 will be divided
among the stockholders, and the other sicO
paid into the bank. At the market price
for the present stock of the bank. the
SIC. 100000 to which the banks capital will
be increased will be worth about $40. so
that the distribution of 10 per cent of the
additional 100000. or. say. a.3o.Ooo
among the directors at $50. will work out
substantially a gift to them of s2,1G0.OO0.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

Good Training, IL They Live Through
From the Philadelphia Timea.
Football is all right for military and
naval cadets. The shock of battle here
after won't come so new to them,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Hard German Sense.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Milwaukee Herald by It's canvass
of representative German-American Re-
publicans in every county of Wisconsin
ascertained that over 80 per cent of them
cordially support the presidents policy in
the Philippines. This was a stunning blow
to the Bryanites, who in the recent cleo
lions In Iowa and Nebraska made special
efforts to win German-American support
and were loudly Dragging of the alleged
eagerness of the German-Americans in
Wisconsin to rebuke the president. Now
the Chicago Chronicle learns that only
ten of the III German-American newspa-
pers of Wisconsin support the ideas Of
SchurZ, Atkinson G. Co. This Is another
knockdown blow for the anti-expansion-
lists.
The Chronicle attempts to soften these
sturdy German blows at the Aguinaldo
Aid Society by belittlng the character and
influence Of the German-American country
editors in Wisconsin. 1t points out that
one of the ten newspapers which support
Schurz and oppose the president is the
Germania, of Milwaukee, which it alleges
has greater influence among German
Americans of the Northwest than all the
other German newspapers of Wisconsin
put together. The Chronicle then adds:
II IS q case OF IalSe pleteIlSeS 10 cidlnl
that large number of small country Ger
man newspapers, supported mostly by adj
ministration patronage. represent the opin-
ions Of the German-American masses as
| against metropolitan journal which has
a larger circulation and more powerful in
fiuence on public opinion than all the small
fry put together
The German-American editors of Wis
consln will know how to resent the Chron-
icle's Misrepresentation. The writer of
the paragraph quoted evidently knows
| nothing of the real position and influence
| of the American country" editor, whether
he write English or German. The fact Is
| that the editor of the average country
newspaper exercises far more powerful
influence upon his readers than the metro
politan'' editor can hope to obtain over city
readers. The insinuation that l07 Wiscon-
sin German American editors. according to
the Chronicles own figures. are bribed by
administration patronage" to suppress
their honest convictions is as false as II
Is insulting.
| Suppression of truth, garbling of facts
and imputation of sordid motives to all
who disagree with them are the ear
marks by which all men may know the
Aguinaldoites. The anti-eXpansionists are
still dazed by the blows given them by the
German-Americans of Wisconsin and Iowa
Therefore they strike wildly and utter fool
| iSh words in their rage.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
A Costa Rican Table Delicacy.

Down in Central America" said for
mer New York man. back now on q visit
from Costa Rica, the other day, "a fire.
quent item on the menu is monkey. I
want to tell you that nice. tender young
monkey, roasted to the right turn. is 4
dish fit for an epicure. At first was
somewhat prejudiced against eating the
little animals that bear such a painful SEM
blance of man. but got bravely over that.
and now look on them very much as I
used to regard rabbits or opossums when
lived in the States. You see. real good
meat is a scarce thing in the I4atln-Amer-
lean countries, and how We yearn for
juicy beefstsak. but yearn in vain. II may
be that IL steaks had been plentiful I'd
have never tried monkey. but having had
the experience. can give a sincere In
dorsement of the simian for food"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
The Path of Safety.

From the Richmond Va.) Times
No reasonable man will say that the
Times is unfriendly to the Democratic par
ty because it tells that party the truth.
1t is not Democracy that business men are
afraid Of for true Democracy SO far from
being q menace to the country is great
conservator of our institutions. 1t is that
which holds Republicans in check and
guarantees popular government. But Bry-
anism and free silver and Populism are
a terror to business men.
If In the year 1900 the Democratic party
should say through its representatives in
the national convention that it did not
propose to overturn the financial system
Of the country; that it did not propose to
repudiate the gold standard and adopt sill
yer monometallism; that it did not propose
to do anything which would disturb the
country's prosperity: IL the party should
adopt any one of its oldtime platforms.
business men would make themselves easy
and free and from a business standpoint 1t
would make little difference to them which
national party prevailed. But when Mr..
Bryan goes through the country telling the
people that If the Democratic party shall
be successful In 1900 and If he shall be
elected to the presidency the party will
open the minis Of the country to free Sill
yer and carry into effect all the Populistic
and revolutionary measures Of the chicago
platform, any indication of Mr.. Bryan
election upon such platform as this were
scarcely less than terror to business. Mr..
Bryan asks the people to swap the genuine
and assured prosperity which they have
for his visionary experiment, and the
whole business world would tremble If
there were any sign that the people were
going to do this thing.
With the Democratic party the path OF
duty is the path of safety. If the party
will only plant itself squarely upon an old
time Democratic platform. forswear Popu-
lism, and turn its back upon Populists. it
will at once regain the confidence which 1t
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Rank Injustice.

There is woman in Atchison who keeps
seven cows and peddles milk among the
neighbors, but the Globe says her poor
husband has to work for living just like
other men who are not married to women
of immense wealth.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
COburn's Latest,

Secretary Coburn has issued another OF
those card souvenirs which tell the happy
story Of Kansas. On one side is an ap-
propriate engraving and on the other a
table of figures showing the products of
1892
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
MERCHANT MARINE AND THE CANAL

I'm the line Of Industrial development
there are no more important recommends
tons in the presidents message than those
relating to the merchant marine and the
Nicaragua canal. The proposal to foster
and enlarge American shipping and the
scheme to connect the Atlantic and the
Pacific by means of an isthmian canal are
closely related.
The need of a larger merchant marine
is too apparent to require review or reit-
Grafton. Suffice IT to say that while our
ceast trade is larger than that Of any other
nation in the world. our seagoing trade Il
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Decker's Dreyfus Scheme.

George c. Musgrave, who assisted In the
rescue of Evangelina Cisneros by the New
York Journal in the fall of 1897, says In his
new book about Cuba that Paul Decker.
who was the head of the enterprise. formu-
lated n plan during the winter to rescue
Captain Dreyfus from DEVILS island In 4
way which it is believed would have avoid
ed international complications, but that the
Maine disaster and what followed put an
end to all consideration of the scheme
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Our New Tropical Products.

From the New York Mail and Express
The annual report of the secretary of
agriculture contains this year some in
teresting references to and suggestions
concerning the products of the soil in our
new island possessions. In one direction
particularly these are striking. We are no
longer strangers to the good work done
by the department in recent years through
the agency of experimental stations. of
which there are now forty-eight, and Sec
rotary Wilson makes personal acknowledge
ment of the value of cooperation on the
part of the states. tending toward increased
appreciation by the farmers and benefit to
their interests.
This experimental work has already been
inaugurated in Alaska, and the secretary
urges that It be extended to Hawaii. Porto
Rico and the Philippines. The wisdom and
Importance CT the proposition are not far to
seek. Our importations Of tropical products
now amount to more than 500, 100000 an
nually. These may, by proper study and
aid Of the soil physicist. be confined al
most wholly to our own territory, with the
financial and industrial benefit that this
must entail.
In the single item Of tropical plants, for
example, our importations are valued at
about $500. 0O0-more than four times as
much Us the present total plant exports
of all the islands mentioned. There is
reason to believe that they could be made
to supply practically all our needs in
oranges, lemons, cocoanuts, and bananas;
and a large part of our coffee consump-
tion-more than $65O00.OOO in 1S9s-could
also, with proper encouragement, be drawn
chiefly from the same sources. 1t is pointed
out. further, that the Philippines apparent
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
The Old Mans Life sorrow.

Louis Martin is the name of an old coll
ored man in Abilene who is famed far
and wide for his industry and his skill
in digging bitches He is plain old fell
low and one would never imagine that his
life held romance and q tragedy. When
he was slave in Missouri his young wife
was sold away from him. and he has never
ceased to grieve for her. He never mar
ried again and he talks about meeting his
first love on the shores beyond.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
wants 100000 for Her Leg.

One day in 1883, Saber, the 2-year-old
daughter of Mr.. Rouse, a section foreman
on the Frisco railroad in Cherokee coun-
ty, wandered away from the house and lay
down on the railroad track. Soon she was
fast asleep, and she did not waken until
q freight train came along and cut off one
of her legs just below the knee. Nothing
was ever done In the way of holding the
railroad responsible for damages, and little
saber grew into happy girlhood and then
attractive womanhood in spite of her sad
Disagreement. Just before the date OF
her 18th birthday, however, she was
advised by someone to bring suit against
the railroad for damages. and last week
the attorneys of the company were notified
| that action had been commenced in the
court of Cherokee county for $4,000.
Emporia's Vacant Brewery.
For ten years before the prohibitory Law
| went into effect Emporia had a large
brewery run by one T. H. Macke. The
establishment was located on the side of 6
hill north of town and long cellars were
| Jug u.to INC NH ior stoidSe places dHC
cooling rooms. With the coming of the
prohibitory law. however, Mr.. Macke closet
the brewery, though he still resides with
his aged wife on the premises, and to thi.
day the place is pointed out as one of the
sights of the town. Emporia is so goot
and pure that naturally she shudders G
little when she presents this monument o.
her former wickedness to whilon
stranger. but nevertheless she feels fol
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Feather.' Long, sIeeple.s Vigil.

Kinsey Feathers is the name of the toll
gate keeper on the Frederick turnpike, One
mile below Ellcott City, Md. He has been
there for sixteen years. every day at his
post of duty except Fourth Of July and
Christmas in each year. II is asserted he
has never slept in bed in all that time.
but managed to catch maps sitting in
chair ready to come at moments notice
to collect his toll and let the traveller pass
through.
The Most Youthful Congressman.
The youngest member of the new con-
gress Is Martin H. Glynn, of Albany. He
is q lawyer and managing editor OF the
Times-U Union. Mr.. Glynn was 26 years old
when he was elected. He Is self-mads
man., having worked as an accountant to
get money to go through college.
Lew Wallace VIII Raise Trout.
General Lew Wallace has purchased q
tract of land near Charlottesville, Ind.
and will make fish preserve Of It.. The
land is watered by a number of excellent
springs and creeks, which will be damned
for the purpose Of trout breeding.
Money In Tourists.
Consul Ridgely. of Geneva, reports to the
state department that. according to the
best estimates no less than 100000 tourists
have visited Switzerland this season, and
that they have each left in the country
an average Of $l5.4i. or total Of $sS, 600. 900.
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Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-11
AUSTIN'S HAWAIIAN WEEKLY.

Senior Canavarrho's statement is of the
greatest Importance. The Portuguese have
been tried, as both contract and free
laborers, and have not been found wanting.
Furthermore, they make good citizens and
have accumulated wealth in few years.
Their criminal record is the most extra
ordinary of any people that have been
induced to come to Hawaii. Although
representing nearly IS per cent of the
population, no Portuguese has ever been
convicted of murder and in all other ways
their respect of the law has been particu-
larly noticeable. The stability of these
people and desire to earn their money, is
well known. Senior Canavarrho also states
that his people are still emigrating, but prefer
other parts of the world, such as Brazil end
South Africa to Hawaii because the domes-
tic comforts which were afforded them by
the planters of the old regime are not fur
nished to-day, and immigration to this
country has become unpopular. Would it
not be we'll for the Planters Association to
invite Senior Canavarrho to address them
on this subject, pointing out what improve
ments are necessary on this score to induce
the immigration to Hawaii of people who
have proved to be our most efficient free
labor. The Senior has been here as the
representative of the Portuguese Govern
ment for nearly twenty years, and is pro-
badly the best posted man on labor in the
islands.