The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-24

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r'They forget that Kansas cast 10000 votes
for Maj. Mckinley. which is very nearly bali
the vote Of tho State. This represents vesy
large community of highly intelligent. indus.
trious. progressive honest debt paying people.
1t represents larger community than the en-
tire population of some States. The men who
voted for Mckinley are the ones who are
building up the State. They are farmers who
are making their farms psy-who are either
ont of debt or rapidly getting in that shape.
They are the men who are running tho stores.
factories. railroads, banks. aud similar enter
prises for the benefit of the community. They
have not their superiors ia any community IN
the country. I think that the State is sub
stantially and generally in better shape than
ever before. You see, the State is really less
than 80 years old. Great immigration to it dad
not begin until some years after the war;
Twenty. five or 80 years is really very short
time in which to build up great State out OF
naked prairie. Yet the eastern third of Kan
sas, at least is in as good condition as any COM
munity you viii find. The farmers there gen.
orally have their lands clear, and something
ahead They have money enough to take care
of themselves and the rest of the State. They
have good, substantial Improvements on their
farms and are making more. They are not
going ahead in the venturesome. / might say
reckless, way of former days, when men
! would buy anything that was offered there,
at any price, and when almost anybody
could borrow ali the money he wanted. or
get all the credit he asked. It is solid busi-
ness now, and everybody is getting down to
business They are not going extravagantly
into anything, bnt pushing ont prudentiy and
conseryatively. For example. they are net
swelling their herds at fancy prices. but they
still have their herds Of cattle and droycs Cd
hcgs and are constantly increasing them.
They arc doing better farming in all direc.
tons, and paying attention to minor products.
Creameries arc s&arting up adj oyer the State,
particularly in the eastern portion, which Is ss
fue for grazing as there il In the world.
Poultry is doing we'll. From my own town OF
Marshall regular trains are run for carrying
poultry. About half Of this is sent to Chicago
and the East, and the other half to Denver and
the West. We sell great deal Of meat to the
West. Our manufactures arc also developing.
They arc already more important than the
mining interests of some of tho mining States.
Altogether, they are in very good shape. and it
| is getting better every day." -
4 :.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon. has no doubts
/ lumbia River is absolutely the finest FISH that
ewims. ard that everybody who wants to be
healthy, happy, and wise should eat literally
of i. 1t pays about s., 0o0.0 900 q year wages t.
the men engaged in canning it.
s
II is estimated that about one-seventh Of oil
| the people ia Washington are victims Of the
bicycle habit in more or less aggravated form
Not only do the comparatively poor and the
fairly comfortable middle classes own machines
but the petted dariings of society; even thu
Cinnamon at the big Legation on coiumbis
flights are not free from the destinations Of thu
steel steed. The women of the Administration
have taken It NJ with energy.
| The fashionable rink, where these ladies
have learned to ride. is in 1.-THE once besutifu
grounds of q stately old colonial mansion
known as the Van Ness place. now fallen int
decay. Here. where once were stiff flower bed
and velvet lawns. they struggled with ant
finally conquered the bicycle.
Mrs. Lamont learned quite easily. She is
graceful woman and quickly learned the diff
cult art of mounting and dismounting. Sin
did not have single fall worthy of the name
With Mrs. Carlisle it was different. Her whee
seemed to play her all manner of tricks It raj
away. In spite of careful steering it woul,
dash into every obstacle she especially deter
mined to avoid. She kept the teachers con
SANITY on the. alert to save. her from ba
tumbles.
The rink is lively place on mild afte,
moons. There is such an astonishing mixtur
, OF people there. There are experts and begin
{ ners. from children. who seem to ride instin,
lively. to very old gentlemen, with snowy lock
and ex pressions of great determination. Their
are pretty girls. stost matrons, and distingu
foreigners from the Legations Now and agai
I Mr.. SEE, the interesting Secretary Of the CHI
nese Legation, drops in. He is ono Of the mo!
picturesque bicyclists in Washington. He veal
. the full Oriental costume on the wheel, and IA
long queue streams out behind him, but h
skirt does not seem TO interfere at all with b
H
Misses Mendonca. the daughters of the Braxi
|, ian Minister, who are pretty girls. and rid
! we'll. The Rev. DR.. Mackay Smith, rector
+ fashionable st. Johns Church, throws asii
his clerical dignity and mounts wheel, IN
Mrs. Mackay-Smith rides Also Mrs Truxtu
: | Beale rides. She 10 daughter of tho L.
!. James g. Blaine. and WIS recently separats
= | from her husband. Baron KettIer. OF Il
Austrian Legation, is IN expert. and 90 is Mi
Mamie Letter. daughter of L. z. Letter, q
. Chicago millionaire. Senator Warren. of W
Q oming; Constantine Brun. the Danish Ainiste
g Tom Reed and his daughter; tho Chilisu Mi
lister; the daughters of Senator Brice; Miss I.
I mage. the preachers daughter; the ladies
! the British Legation Gen. Miles; Miss he
"a bert; Miss Mary Sheridan, daughter Of &c
n Sheridan; and the japanese Minister a
& among those daily to be seen where there
q good riding.
r Beggars, male and female the most Of The
It professional infest the Capitol Building to 81
D an extent that it has become almost unbs,
. able The women arc much moro persiste
q than the men, and not infrequeutly their q
u peals are SO determined and aggressive rs
=, constitute practically to timid persons . " ho
E. up" The evil has assumed such proportio
); since the reassembling of Congress that
= struc,ioms have been issued to the Capitol pol
es TO arrest and bring before the Police Court
II Offenders caught in the act of plying th
e calling