The evening times., 1896-10-26

Nlsittf. GSptdhiHS tI.t
| conversation to tie recent demonstration.
| at Chicago, which the gentleman viewed
| He said il was surprise even to the
Chicago Republicans to see low greatly the
Mckinley people predUminatcd. There has
never been a procession in Chicago. po
liticai or otherwise, in which so many men
were in rank The procession took eight
and Unebalf hours to pass a given point
LCANSAS CITY, Kans, Is the way
IN DR.. +. Baum has his residence down
on the register ut the St. James Ho-
tel. DR.. Baum In Us particular stress ON the
Kansas because he says he is surprised To
find ttat So few people know that kansa.
city is part in Missouri and part in Kansas
The boundary line runs tight through the
main street Of the city. leaving all ON the
west of IL in Kansas and all on the east OF
II In Missouri. To be sure, tlat on the Kan
sds SIDE Is vastly the smaller part but il is
Il IN which the doctor lives and he wishes
II emphasized. This fact that the city lies
III two states gives rise to many complicG-
tons. In the first place each half is under
separate jurisdiction. There is Il separate
mayer for each section and each is pa
tr'lled by separate police force. Often
tie municipal ordinances conflict and then
there is juhiler, indeed. This is especially
tie case in the liquor laws. Kansas as
every one knows, Is Prohibition st2te.
while Missouri allows the sale of in WX-
lchnts. SO while on ore side of the main
street there are no restaurants to be seen;
Dn the other the saloons are in full blast
Tie Kansas polio cmcn will arrest a drunken
u On sight, but those &c ewing .cir badges
from Missouri are more leDicnt with gen
tlem"n Of d bibuiuus turn. So when IA ID an
who has been out sampling liquors goes up
the street on both sides if he spies Kan
sas policeman while he is On that side
promptly vecrs to tie Missouri side. where
he can hurl his defiance at the poweriess
copper. And as likely as not there is po-
i!cenian ON his side of the street calmly
looking n and enjoying the fun. Dr.. Baum
thinks that this difference or the liquor law
may recount for tie greater number Of
iniabit;nt, on the MissoIriSide Of the town.
FHE English universities have much
! longer vacations thJn 10 our own and
this period OF rest is usually taken
advantage OF by the students to make cdu-
catioual trips, usually to the continent.
The Unit.d States. however was chosen by
''Euc bH'hNoFtH' Oh oFtidtGlcign- Home,
som .rsat county, England. ho with his
un'ie. an oxford undergraduate, Rev. W.
Arthur Duckw orth. Is stopping a the Ma
ti"nal Hotel Dr.. Duck " orth and his
nephew have spent two months ln this
c"untry. and during that time have
Travelled from ocean to ocean and back
again, visiting all the principal cities Of
the United states and Canada on their
trip. Mr.. Duckworth, sr., says that he
had o'ly a very hazy conception OF Ameri-
can politics before he cane over here but
sine. brcuming more cuuvcrSant with the
sub erf n ha- become htg!!y Interested in
them. lie found in the course OF his
travel, that thu height Of the free silver
movement is At Denver. Colo, " here every
mais, woman and Chill is shouting for the
" hile metal. lie was told that it is dan
gerous 10! a manto wear a Mckinley badge
in that city, hat Tor that statement he Will
not ynuch. AT other places IN the West he
found the sentiment about evenly divided,
with the balance. il any. slightly ia FAVOR
of the democrats. But as ne left Den
Yer on his Way Eastward, he found that sill
yer men became scarccr rs each mile was
passed. until here on the Atlantic coast
In England he SAYS tine economists cannot
conceive how such palpable fallacies as
those DIva need by the advocates 4 free
silver can ever have deceived such i large
proportion OF population of "a"'n they
have always been accustomed 30 think as
y peopIc no think for themselves