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The Intelligencer.
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second class mail matter.
I. 0. NEALE,
Editor and Proprietor.
Saturday. Seitkmbeu 21, 1901.
I'RKSIDKNT KOOSILVELT. -TlMiuirh
tlu- liand of the assassin
lias removed fnm the Held of national
ait ion William MeKinley, whose
mortal remains now sleep in the Ohio
town in whieh lie was known as citi
zen and friend, the piveriinient at
Washington still lives the wheels of
commetve eontinuo to revolve and the
pulse-heats of the American hnsiness
world are normal. Soon after the
death of Mr. MeKinley Theodore
Roosevelt was inducted into the office
of chief executive of the nation on
making oath that lie would support
the constitution of the United States.
Thus the hroken thread of gover
mental succession was rewelded. and
affairs, national and otherwise, moved
along In their regular channels, only
touched with deep grief at the great
calamity that threw the country into
the deepest of mourning and wounded
almost unto death the heart of a
devoted wife.
IVsident Rooevelt has Invited the
members of the MeKinley official
family to remain permanently in his
cabinet and his first utterance after
taking the oath of office was that he
would carry out the policies of his
predecessor. As ,this other, how
ever, more anon.
It is generally conceded that Presi
dent Roosevelt, though perhaps too
much given to the cow-boy practices
of the "wild and wooley west," as the
effete east would designate, and may
. hap a tritle too fond of cheap notoriety,
is an honest man a man of stroug
convictions and withal candid. He is
classed by the press of the country as
against trusts and since entering upon
a successful race for governor of New
York on his return from the Spanish
American war he has been looked
upon as opposed to machine politics.
It is a well known fact to the student
of political history that the Hanna
contingent of the republican party,
lacked by the trusts and the tariff
barons of the world, has never missed
an opportunity to defeat, if possible,
Roosevelt in his ambitions, and the
most plausible reason that can kbe
assigned is that they fear him. It
was with a view to the political anni
hilation of this man that the nomina
tion for vice-president of the United
States was thrust upon him, the idea
being to preclude the possibility of his
nomination for president later on.
All knew that this conspiracy to kill
was hatched and carried out bv
Hanna, Piatt and other machine poli
ticians of the republican party.
Sow that providence has intervened
and made Roosevelt president, what
will be the result? Will he be equal
to the emergency expected of him by
the American people, or will he climb
into the band-wagon of political mam
mon and do the bidding of the mas
ters of his party bv vieldine to the
autocratic dictates of heartless corpor
ations in order to secure a fat fund
for the next campaign-' The eye of
the country is reused upon Mr.
Roosevelt and of hj,n ,nut.n ls
expected.
We believe in condemning no man
prematurely, hence judgment will be
suspended in the case of the new
president until he shall have had an
opportunity to show to the American
people the material of which he is
made. In the meantime the con
tempt in which the Hanna machine
is held by the people of this nation
the intelligent, thinking masses
Khould be a warning to President
Roosevelt that if he would retain his
place in the affections of his country
men he must steer dear of all such
contaminating influences.
The Fulton (jawtte is wrong in
wiving that the compromise effected
by Callaway county with the .Chicago
& Alton railway ,, tle Question of
back taxes is the tost s , far Stained
by any county through which that
r-d runs. The percentage of the
total amount the Alton agrees to pay
to Callaway county is n!v 75, while
In Lafayette it is m and a fraction.
And Lafayette county never brought
any suits against the road, either, as
did Callaway. The county court of
this county is entitled to the blue
ribU.11 in the ring of lton Ux settle
ments. The percentage of settlement
in Audrain county was only M.,S and
yet the county court of that county
thought it was doing well.
ROME LOTE HIS GKEATESTTIUTt'K
"All's well at home." Sweet
solacing thought! 'Home:" The
nu.t endering word in the vocabular
ies of the world's languages. "Happy
home:" The most priceless heritage
of man's estate. "Home, sweet
home:" Immortalized in verse and
given forth in melody universal
melody it means to him who holds
sacred his vow at the altar of God the
true solution to the philosophy of
life contentment; a transformation
of things heavenly to those earthy If
such were possible a contented self
satisfaction that reaches to divinity
for it.s origin. "
Messed is the man who loves his
liome, and therein was the chief
crown of glory that rested upon the
head of William MeKinley. Home
was his pride and his marriage vow
his most sacred governing rule by
both dav and night. A iHtunteous
affection for the woman whom he had
taken to wife was the most
lovable characteristic that governed
the life of this man who tilled many
places of trust, chief among which
was the presidency of the greatest
nation of people the world has ever
known. The glare and glitter of
social life at Washington as the first
man of beloved Columbia was but
cnatl before a ruthless wind when
home needed his care. "Let no man
put asunder" was the vigilant rule of
his being. Courteous and obliging to
foreign diplomats who surrounded
hiiu in his official capacity, ever to
the front in the nation's affaire, vet
underlying all this affability and de
votion to public duty was a deep love
for the wife of his bosom that made
him greater in the hearts of the
American people than all the high
and exalted position ever thrust upon
him bv a confiding constituency.
What greater heritage could man
leave to his posterity, to his country?
None earthy, for indeed the love of
home is heaven liorn.
Upon the American home depends
the perpetuity of this government
upon the contentment of its people
the future of our free institutions.
It is while around the fireside that
these people engage in that soIkt
second thought that molds them into
the lest of citizens. Our laws declare
that man's home is his castle, In de
fense of which he has the right to
kill. The poet has said, "1 it ever
so humble there is no nbu-p liku
home."
How true! How universally true!
Yet 'tis not of the humble home
that we write. Rather the home of
political power and a supremacy
respected and honored of all the world.
Rut no difference: Home to William
MeKinley was dearer than all the
pomp attendant upon the leadership
of men more pleasing than the
splendor of diplomatic retinue more
abiding even than the affections of
his countrymen yea, of the world.
The love of William MeKinley for
home is doubly accentuated when we
consider the proneness of men high in
authority to drift from those nearest
them through heavenly tie and float
out upon the sea of social distinction
and worldly desire. Few men place
behind them the plaudits of nations
and when called hie themselves un
ceremoniously to the liedside of a
disease stricken woman whom they call
wife. Tis man's nature to love
greatness to' stand forth and lie
gazed upon as on dress parade as the
most illustrious object of his country's
production. But there are some who
sacrifice ambition to love for home
and leave behind them the vain
things of life for those of true happpi
ness. One of these was William Me
Kinley, beloved of his wife, beloved
of his countrymen, beloved of his
Kl. Unlike Napoleon his first
thought was for the noble woman
who had forsaken all to follow hi,,,.
The sorrows of pu.r unhappy Jose
phiue could never have fallen to the
wife of William MeKinley for home
love was his nature and' true man
hood the immovable rock upon which
he stood. And yet, the world called
Napoleon great. Avaunt! His life
proved that all was vanity and vexa
tion of spirit that it had been a
mistake as to the promise of future
reward. The earnest, devoted hus
band who lx-lieves in a union of
spirits beyond and bases his hope for
eternal life on the promise of Him in
whom IMlate could find no guile,
never allows personal ambition to
bring sorrow to the family circle and
so it was with William MeKinley.
Napoleon lived for a day. MeKinley
for eternity. The lot of the wife of
imperial, ambitious Napoleon was
characterized by unhapplness, sorrow,
tears that of the wife of President
MeKinley by a golden sunshine of
connubial love that passctu human un
derstandlngsand therein for her lies the
greatest solace, coupled with Christ Ian
hope, in combatting the present tidal
wave of trouble that has swept over
her in the fickle, changeable sea of
life's action. "Hope springs eternal
in the human breast" and when
based upon faith in the goodness and
justice of Jehovah, 'tis most beauti
ful bouys up when all else would
cast down. Christian promise today
whispers to the heart of this bereaved
woman that darkness will soon give
way to light that ere long God's
eternal sunshine will fall upon the
heads of reunited love that lieyond
the sunset's radiant glow there will
lie a reweldlng of kindred spirits that
no assassin's stroke can dissolve an
eternal reunion at home forever.
"Goodbye, Ida, goodby. It is
(rod's will. His way, not our's lie
done."
These were the last words of our
martyred president spoken to his
wife. Rrave resignation to the pro
visions of providence and lovable
declaration of Christian fortitude.
"Nearer my God to thee." Thus
he chanted in his last period of con
sciousness.
God protect William MeKinley and
bless the noble example he set for his
countrymen In his love for home.
And may the mantle of sorrow rest
lightly on the heart of his devoted
wife until the two shall finally be
reunited in that home not made with
hands eternal in the heavens.
Sempre il mat uon vein per nuocere
THE WORDS OF GARFIELD.
The sentence "God reigns and the
government at Washington still
lives" was given to American history
by James A. Garfield during the
great excitement attendant upon the
assassination of President Lincoln.
Garfield, who afterwards became
president only to fall at the hand of
an assassin, was in New York
when a telegram came from Washing
ton announcing the nation's misfor
tune. A furious mob of eight thous
and people surged through the streets.
An attack on the New York World had
In-en planned, and was about to lie
executed. "It was a critical mo
ment," says W. I). Owen in the
Genius of Industry. "A telegram
had just been received from Washing
ton. Seward i dying.' Just at that
juncture a man stepped forward with
a small flag in his hand, and beckoned
to the crowd. "Another telegram
from Washington:" and then, in the
awful stillness of the crisis, taking ad
vantage of the hesitation of the crowd,
whose steps had liecn arrested for a
moment, a right arm was lifted sky
ward, and a voice, clear and steady,
loud and distinct, spoke out: "Fellow-citizens,
clouds and darkness are
around him! His pavilion is dark
waters and thick clouds of the skies!
Justice and judgment are the estab
lishment of his Throne! Mercy and
Truth shall go be fore His face! Fellow-citizens.
God reigns, and the
government at Washington still
lives!"
A headline in the usually very in
telligent Kansas City Journal a day or
two since played up the story of a
stampede or jam at ithe capitol at
Washington as a "horrible holocaust,"
or what might have lieen one. That
headline was written certainly not
with the view to tipping the reader
as to the contents of the story to fol
low as the narrative 'neath the cap
tion whispered naught of either Jewish
sacrifice or of death by fire.
The Kansas City papers 011 Tuesday
of this week printed stories under
"scare headlines" to the effect that
Major William Warner would lie
offered a place in President's Roose
velt 's cabinet. The next day these
same chroniclers of fact (?) gave out
the statement that the new presi
dent had Invited the old cabinet
to remain his official family. And
there you are.
Columbia is a school town. Colum
bia capital is building 130 houses for
residence purposes to accommodate
those who wish to locate there. Lex
ington Is a school town. There Is not
a vacant residence in Lexington and
mine in course of construction. Idle
capital should lie utilized. Mg Inter
est can be realized. Go to work and
build up Lexington.
The opening of the football season
In college towns and the country at
large has caused a smile of bright an
tici pat inn to adorn the faces of mem
bers of that profession given to the
reduction or bone fractures and the
rearrangement of dislocated joints.
Mark Hanna hits In-en enabled To
find one grain of consolation during
the past few days. Congressman
Daugherty of Missouri has mentioned
his name In connection with the re
publican candidacy for president.
EDITORIAL SNAP-SHOTS.
li ns hone that the effort to erect
a statue of Napoleon on the world's
fair grounds at St. Louis docs not
mark the managers of that enterprise
as imperialists.
Now that there is n cli :i. e in the
presidency Editor ..ryse.i 01 un
Iouisiana Press inav i.wh the pinna
cle of his ambition and liecouie post
master at that tow n.
If Roosevelt as president should
continue the war he made on trusts
while governor of New York it will be
in order to revive that old-time
query: "What's the matter with
Hanna?"
The Schley court of Inquiry tempo
rarily suspended operations following
the death of the president. lresldent
Roosevelt has never taken sides in this
affair and it is probable that no feel
ing will lie manifested on his part in
liehalf of either Schley or Sampson.
Instead of "Teddy the Terrible" it
is now I'resident Roosevelt. Should
our chief executive, however, continue
to evince a fondness for the gun it is
to be hoped that his desire to exter
minate the mountain lion will lie as
pronounced against the British pro
duct.
If Hanna 's pet ship-subsidy steal
should now receive a set-back an un
holy scheme of a set of the grandest
rascals that ever went unhung may lie
thwarted. And this assertion is made
in the face of the fact that we may
lie accused of treason by the esteemed
Kansas City Journal.
It seems strange that the GIoIh--Deinoerat
and the Kansas City Jour
nal don't move out of Missouri, I wg
and baggage. Each could rest assured
tliat expression of regret at their de
parture would not burden the columns
of those newspapers that always stand
up for the state.
With the Kansas Citv Star utter
ances of democratic leaders all licar
the same significance. It is a case of
"you'll lie d d if you do and vou'll
lie d d if vou don't." Col. Nelson's
fealty to organized wealth is quite
blinding to his sense of truth and
justice if he has any.
The fact that at a meeting of
eminent theological students who have
lieen ordained to preach the gospel of
truth, held in the east a fortnight
since, the deduction was reached that
a material hell of fire and brimstone
does exist, some effect should manifest
itself in the editorial columns of the
Kansas City Journal.
William Marion Reedv of the St
Louis Mirror has once more reminded
the people of Missouri that there is
such a personality in his home town
as Col. Abe Slupsky, the mention (
whose name was suggested in giving
birth to a story painting the virtues
and shining characteristics of Col
Pinky Blitz of Kansas City. The pen
picture will be found in another
column.
Historians have dug up the fact
that an attempt was made on the life
or President Andy Jackson January
30, 1835, by an English house painter
named Lawrence. "Old Hickerv
was attending the funeral of a friend
and while in the procession Lawrence
presented his pistol and pulled the
trigger. The cap exploded, but fo
some reason the powder was not fired
Propping the pistol the would-be
assassin pulled another from his
pocket but it, too, failed to do iti
work. The attempt to murder Jack
son was the result of a conspiracy but
It was hard to make the tighter of
national banks see It. Lawrence was
sent to an insane asylum where 1
died.
MISSOURI POLITICS.
J. II. Whitecotton, speaker oft
Missouri house at the last session
he
of
the legislature, paid Columbia a v
Isit
a few days since, appropos of which
cue ueraiu states that the gentlemei
from Monroe may be a candidate fo
governor to succeed Mr. Dockerv
There is no harm in being a candidate,
as the field is open to all. It
settled fact, however, that
Whitecotton will run up against some
very warm company.
The tragic death of President Mc
iv. in ley is causing alarm among the
present republican "ins" at Kansas
City. They feel as though their main
prop had lieen removed and that they
are liable at any moment to find
themselves trying to live by grazing
on gnissless pastures. Walter Dlckev.
cnairiuan of the republican county
committee, has had his Rculnim?
knife out for some time for some of
g. o. p. federal office-holders in the
Kaw town. lUckey is close to presi
dent Roosevelt and thereby hangs thu
cause for alarm. However, political
troubles In Jackson county are noth-
Ing unusual. They are usually
thick as leavrs In vallanihrosa.M
as
Ncwsiuviivr goissip is responsible
f.
r the statement that Hatt Senator
'rank Faris, who aspires to a sent In
F;
ingress but who Is fippotctt by the
ily democratic paper J" .his
m.etown. Is to establish a printing
01
h
I1
laid at Sloelvllle, Crawford county,
to
help along his Uioin. Senator
. . ... .. . 1 . ...
Fails
'aris is a son of J. . rans, ui one
ti
me speaker of the , Missouri house,
and who was defeated for the nomlna-
ion for lieutenant -governor at the
tate convention at Kansas City last
ear.
Ex-Gov. W.J.Stone is lmck from
his fishing trip in south Missouri
thoroughlv .restored to health and
ready for the coming fray in the
senatorial comvsi which promises 10
grow very warm. That Stone will
make his strong personality felt In
this fight is generally conceded. by the
press of the state, judging from the
tone of which the man who beats him
ill don the official toga of Senator
Vest.
t
A horth Missouri paper rises to
remark that if Senator Vest is of the
same opinion now that he was w hen
lected to' the senate the last time-
that he will not lie a candidate for
re-election he could settle a much
mooted question and allay much ap
prehension by speakin' out in meet In'
and letting people know "where he is
at." In the meant hue the senator
pescrves a most annoving silence and
the guessing contest cotinues.
Col. Iaul H. Moore, private socre
tary and brother-in-law to the late
governor, Urn V. Stephens, has
partially abandoned flirhtitiir men
(politically speaking) and is now pi v
ing his attention to a warfare on cow
that run at large In his home town.
In his newspaper he advocates the
arrest of each and every cow and in
extreme cases favors the infliction of
capital punishment.
The novelty of ex-Gov. Stephens'
"sharps and Hats" column in the
Ilooncville Advertsier Is wearing oil
and interest isabiting. The people
of Missouri are Intelligent enough to
realize that there Is no argument In
abuse and that "sharps and Hats"
carry with them nothing save the ex
governor's private opinion of some in
dividual citizen expressed in language
more liecoming to the lar-room than
to the drawing-room.
The democratic press of the state is
giving considerable attent ion to Con
gressman Cooney anent the disposi
tion he has mad? of his salary since
his people sent him to Washington
The Intelligexceu takes the posi
tion that this is a matter that con
cerns Mr. Cooney alone. , Writing
letters in political life lis frequently
i-augni wiui great uanger and is a
specific practice which one should
shun if he would succeed. This
Cooney controversy reminds tine of
Bob Hurdette'8 story of the bull-dog
and the parrot.
t
Ed. Butler the garbage contractor
and lioss politician of St. Louis
assumes the credit In a public inter
view of having elected Rolla Wells
mayor of that city. The entire inter
view overflows with "gall" and
points to Mr. Butler as a man of more
man ordinary self-esteem. It was
the lamented John S. Marntaduke
who told Butler in one of the corrl
dors of the Llndell hotel .at St. Louis
that if he could not I governor with
out his support he would prefer the
si ing or defeat. This crushing re
buke, however, only made Butler tlu
ooioer ana it seems that he still
clings to the opinion that he is "it."
Bossle Francis, the Johnson county
murderer, hits not as yet been appre
hended. The Sedalia Capital killed
him a few days ago but the Intellu
GENOEii regrets that the story was a
fake.
..very wheel on several of the rail
roads of the country stopped for five
minutes Thursday while the funeral
of President MeKinley was being held
through respect to the honored dead!
The death of James A.arfield oc
furred just twenty years to the day
prior to the funeral of William Mc
Kinley. Roth, victims of -dMhVii
bullets.
Thank '
Jackson Examiner,
The Lexington I.ntkluok nckk of
last week presents a line picture of
r Congressman, Ho,,. WU. . s. C((W.
White L.fayet.e.eoun.v isno
""K-r a part, of the ,fUl district she
has a feeling for former associates.
J.vth0waytheoldI.VTELUoENCEHU
MWng quite pryu hcr oldaget
""A COLLEGE ptu,.T
ILZATIOJ
j lkterially "1
lege course is of i, -
For a minnritv it ':',' .5
vt 7h fl,a ,u;
tilings: thc-Arericul Vwi.
principles connected (1
TIMS lSronltK t : - . "
-y-f Vl jjenerai coitus
friendships that are r,f stark to
uow ano nercaiier. 'if .
these .things, and 'can taUu
OUSIV.ftCO le?eigltcrnr,J..L.. .
ti. ,, TWlflttDf
v-uuuuk iuus appreciate at
one of them, he would hiUajatw
rnlhxro at all 'I "
it n a nannnt t- k- 1 , ....
None of these things MnUt..
with. They must all to .BuL'!
hard work none the kss
vuuse u is so onen pleasurable.
11 a boy thuiks that Hp
theory is a short and easy t-n
attainment of practical t
graveiy umiaicen. it is quite a-t-from
practical skill, and its r4
how themselves more in' the a;,
stages ol the student's deveW
mu uiej uo wnen ne nrst goj
the office or the shop. Ttatfc.
mechanics or of physicsis notto J
iiuaiea Dy lectures and-txperimft.
It means knowledge otanalvtW.:
ometry and he differential calcals'
li taeory fif alfeuiittry is tot to';,
learned , "by amusement in, the
tory, but by attention to dry priu,
pies which rrethe utmost ear,
tude of application. The theorjf
political economy ie not to be la
by the reading of entertainingbocl
and magazine articles. A stufe
who1' Would really master it roust n
derstand the principles of 1st k
ethics' which are more difficult tk
those which he meets, in the rontit
'ordinary business. Those (-ct!V
thtones. which c re easily acquirtdu.
glibly recited are nu t, in pncti
with a contempt which ig U jJ
6erred. -Arthur Twining IU&
President of Yale University, in Si;
cess.
WHEN SEEKING A POSITION
Toun? Han Should Remember lift
Thlngi ' Influence an Employer.
Managers of large institutions ait
business houses tell us that thty n
ject a great many 'applications iu
hoy and young men, bccauOi
ly spelled and carelessly writu-n kv
ters. The handwriting and uvk.ofi
letter are reliable indications of ci
character of the writer. A nwliga:
letter with careless sentences audit-
accurate expressions, indicate ssi
different mind. Thestructureoflii
sentences 6hows the teiture of &
mind which uses thtui. As & rule,!
neatly written letter, with well cot-
structed sentences containing cot
cise and oointed exm-essions. ii
cates a careful and systematic "mid
A loose-jointed letter shows carete
ness in the choice of words to'exprai
a thought, and sisnifies a loosely cot-
structed mind which would be
less in evervthinir. These would it-
pear to be small things, but trife
make perfection. '
An employer is influenced mostbj
the little things- in an application f;r
a portion. Tha little remaiai
dropped, the appearance, th dre
the collar, the cuffs, the nails indthi
hairall of thee, which stem trifle,
htva proved stumbling blocks. t to
advancement of many a youth.
careleea eim-twoon in conversation,
the use of slang, a failure to look to
iuperintendent or manager in the j
when talking wjth him, forgetful
in removing one' hat, holding t
garettc, even an indication ofthe
of tobacco, or the, feign of some other
bad habit, gruffricre&ack of polit
H,ese, and the hunted other ttei&l
trifles, have barrel 'tie progress
many a youth. .,
Learning to spell correctly, to ir.M
a plain, straighif orward letter, W
out superfluous wor4e,fiprr&et!j
tuated, 'aid in goad,' iarse EfcgliA
will form a very important stepp0
lone in the career" of rtottth'.;
inn C,u ir.-i .-j W:. ;,,"'
u wncvk juarucn, la kJUClxm. (
Aa Orchid That DrhikV ;,i
What is probably ihenMiett1
flinary plant ever din oovmd-flap'"
been found by Mr. E. A. SuveW
of Philflddnli 1A. in Snli th. 'Amend-
Itisn orchid Uinr.tafcMftdrinflwbtfi
tubento tlie water, the tuhwbenB,
in use, being coiled upoV't'op ,
the plant. Mr. SuvwlMSSrie
llfl Ma I .. 111..!.. ' f
i ue uii 1114,
. Paper Worth Xaltlof.
. The Taris Figaro advises if f
era to subscribe to thV government
J ournal OCieiel, aa the paper on 1 ki
k ia printed, l sold to dialers, jit
bu& tmt than thi Jcunalc