The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-02-20
WILL NOT GO.

visit Washington, writes as follows, through the Boston Globe:
 have just received your kind and cor dial invitation to come to Washington and spend several weeks there among the eminent men ct our proud land. l would be glad to go as you suggest, bnt 1 cannot do so at this time. l am pas sionately fond of mingling with the giddy whirl of good society. hope you will not feel that my reason for declining your kind invitation is that feel myself above good society. assure you 1 do not. Nothing pleases me more than to dress up and mingie among my fellow man, with sprinkling here and there of the other sex. It is true that the most pro- 6table study for mankind is man, but we should not overlook woman. Woman is now seeking to be emancipated. Let us put our great strong arms around her and emancipate her. Even if we cannot emancipate but one, we shall not have lived entirely for naught.
 am told by those upon whom l can rely that there are hundreds of attractive young women throug bout our joyous land who have arrived at years of discretion and yet who have never been emanci- pated. met woman on the cars last week who is featuring on this subject. and she told me all about it. Nov, the ques tion at once presents itself, how shall we emancipate wom n unless we go where she is # We must go right into society and take her by the hand and never let go of her hand until she is properly eman- cipated. Not only must she be enamel pated, bur she must be emancipated from her present thralldom Thralldom of this kind is liable to break out in any community, and those who are now in perfect health may pine away in a short time and flicker.
 My course while mingling in society's mad whirl is to first open the conversa- ton with young lady by leading her away to the conservatory, where 1 ask her if she has ever been the victim of thralldom and whether or not she has ever been ground under the heel of the tyrant man. then time her pulse for thirty minutes, so as to strike good aver age. The emancipation of woman is des- tined at some day to become one of our leading industries.
 You also ask me to kindly lead the german while there. would cheerfully do so. but owing to the wobbly eccentric ity of my cyclone leg it would be a sort of broken german. But could sit near by and watch the game with furtive glance, and fan the young ladies between the acts, and converse with them in low, earnest, passionate tones. like to con- verse with people in whom take an in- terest. ] was conversing with young lady one evening at a recherche ball in my far-away home in the free and unfet- tered west, very brilliant affair, l re- member, under the auspices of hose company No. ?. was talking in loud and earnest way to this liquid-eyed crea- ture, little louder than usual, because the music was rather forte just there, and the base viol virtuoso was bearing on rather hard at that moment. The music ceased with sudden snort. and SO did my wife, who was just waltzing past us. If had ceased to converse at the same time that the music shut of all might have been well, but did not.
 Your remark that the president and cabinet would be glad to see me this winter is ill-timed.
 There have been times when 1t would have given me much pleasure to visit Washington, but did not vote for MT. Cleveland, to tell the truth, and l know that if were to go to the White House and visit even for few days, he would reproach me and throw 1t up to me. It is true that did not pledge myself to vote for him, but still would hate to go to mans house and eat his popcorn and use his smoking tobacco after had voted against him and talked about him as have about Cleveland.
 No, can't be hypocrite. am right out, open and above board. If talk about man behind his back, l won't go and gorge myself with his victuals. Twas assured by parties in whom felt perfect confidence that MT. Cleveland was moral leper," and relying on such as- surances from men in whom felt that could trust, and not being at that time where could ask Mir. Cleveland in per son whether he was or was not a moral leper as aforesaid, I assisted in spreading the report that he had been exposed to moral leprosy, and as near as could learn, he was liable to come down with 1t at any time.
 So that even if go to Washington shall put up at hotel and pay my bills just as any other American citizen would l know how it is with MT. Cleveland at this time. When the legislature is in ses- sion there people come in from around Buffalo with their butter and eggs to sell and stay over night with the president. But they should not ride free horse to death. Imay not be we'll educated, but am high strung till you can't rest. Gro- ceries are just as high in Washington as they are in Philadelphia.
 hope that you will not glean from the foregoing that have lost my interest in national affairs. God forbid. Though not in the political arena myself, my sym pathies arc with those who are. l am willing to assist the families oi those who are in the political arena trying to obtain a precarious livelihood thereby. was once an official under the Federal gov ernment myself, as the curious student of