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Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
OUR DUTY IN CUBA.

The premier of Spain is said TO be try
ing to negotiate loan with the railroad
companies OF the kingdom, which serves
the double purposes of disclosing that the
finances of the country are in desperate
shape and that the ordinary means of
raising revenues have become exhausted.
That there are good reasons for both of
these conditions is very palpable to any
one who has taken the trouble to watch
the expensive and yet impotent military
Csmraigns which the old country has been
conducting in Cuba and the Philippine
islands. Her resources have been sapped
by these campaigns, both IN the matter
o. men and money, until, TO use West
ern expression, she is about at the end
oc her rope.
When the regiments which are now en-
route from Spain TO Cuba arrive, nearly
the entire body of recruits raised by the
conscription act of 1876 will ne engaged in
foreign wars. fighting in Cuba and the
Philippines TO retain to the crumbling
throne those meagcr colonial possessions
which are the sole remnant of n rule once
almost as powerful as any the world has
ever known. Let one of two things hap
pen and Spain will have to take her place
among those countries which have been
shattered and which can live alone in the
grandeur of their history. one is an up
rising of the Carlists. which would meap
civil war, and the other is continuation
of those misfortunes of war which have
marked her operations in the two rebellious
colonies during the year lust closing. To
this might be added n third. even more
fatal than the other two. and that is a
serious quarrel with the United States.
The military budget just put out by Pre-
rnicr Canovas shows that Spain has sent
$4,000 troops 10 the Cuban war. This is
deceptive. because it takes no account Of
The regiments which were already in Cuba
when the war broke out. or OF the so-called
volunteers who have been enlisted in
Cuba for Spanish service. 1t is estimated
that at least 220.0OO Spanish troops are now
employed upon the island, and their work
has been anything but satisfactory. Up to
this date the only visible results have been
the total exhaustion of the Spanish treas
ury and the killing OF General Maceo, the
Cuban leader. But Maceo's death is not i
victory. So far from weakening the revolu-
tionists, The Cowardly assassination of their
leader has aroused them anew and at
tracted the sympathy Of the civilized world
Indeed. the operations OF General WeyIer
have resulted III disaster to the Spanish
cause in every possible direction. His sav.
age DEGREES and their harbarous enforce.
ment have only added fuel to the Cuban
fame. and so far from bringing the rebel.
10 subjusation his brutalities have witness,
cd a steady growth of their numbers anC
an enlargement of their appliances for con
tinUinE the war.
It is obvious. then. that under present
conditions the Cuban rebellion can not b,
conquered. It is also plain that with hel
depleted treasury. her exhaustion of tn,
visible supply Of lighting men, and he
internal perils. Spain can bring TO bear n,
better campaign than she is at present con
ducting. The conclusion from these tw,
conditions is therefore irristible tina
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL THURSDAY DECEMBER H. 1896

ence than the dodo, which was said TO
have sfiourished upon the island of Maui
ritius less than two centuries ago. The
belief in the extinction of the dodo." says
Ingalls,. was accepted by the scientific
world upon what appeared to be Creditable
evidence, and yet its serroneousnesS was
conclusively shown by Oliver Wendell
Holmes. in a case involving the question
tried before the Suffolk common pleas, IN
which the doctor introduced in testimony
bill of sale showing incontrovertibiy that
a dodO had recently been sold in Boston.
and that, therefore, the species could not
be extinct. The document was as follows: Z:
John E. Smith TO Robert c. Greer, DR..
Oct. IS. To one canary bird. 10
Nov. 10. To one do do. Observation-Disclosures. co
Received payment ....-........-.....-...SS 80
Colonel Jennison used the word Jay
hawker" for his regiment of rough riders
even before the war. The following item
was printed in an Ohio PAPER just at the
beginning of the war:
we learn from Kansas Territory that
Captain Jennison, of border fame, has Of
,feredN600 of his we'll known 'Jayhawkers,
all bold riders. and well mounted, TO the
Union cause. Good for X. T.
On September %, 1861, Vanity Fair, the
New York humorous paper. copied the
foregoing paragraph and commented with
a poem under the heading TX. T. as fol-
lows:
From her borders, far away,
Kansas blows trumpet call.
Answered by the loud ''Hurrah.'
OF her troopers, one and all.
Knife and pistol, sword and spur
" Cries X. T.
Let my troopers all concur
To the old flag. no demur-
Follow me-
Hence the song of jubilee.
Platyphllis from the tree.
High among the branches hid,
Sings all night SO merrily-
tx. T. did.
She did-she did,
Thirty score Jayhawkers bold.
Kansas men of strong renown,
Rally round the banner old,
Casting each his gauntlet down.
Good for Kansas one and all
Cry TO her:
Riding to her trumpet call,
Blithe as TO a festival,
All concur.
Hence the revel and the glee.
AS the chanter from the tree.
High among the branches hid,
Sings all night so merrily-
TX. T. did!
She did-she did,
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
A Joe Jefferson story.

Frank Pixley. in Chicago Times-Herald.
a young Chicago matron who presides
over a charming home on the North side
told me characteristic story about Joseph
Jefferson the other evening which deserves
TO be embalmed in print.
Several years ago said she, when Mr..
Jefferson was preparing his autobiography.
he was obliged TO do a great deal of the
work while on tour. \ publishing house
with which l was connected at one time
recommended me to him as an amanuensis
who had had considerable experience in the
preparation of manuscript for publication
and Joined the actor in St. Louis.
Mr.. Jefferson would spend several hours
every night after the play in making notes
OF what he wanted to say. The next after
noon he would dictate to me Usually he
would bring in Il great collection of mem
oranda jotted down on envelopes and
scraps of paper. and sometimes he would
appear with a newspaper whose margins
would be literally covered with queer fig
ures and hentrackS. Walking up and down
the floor. he would dictate to me slowly in
that cracked Rip Van Wrinkle voice of his
| and could follow him easily on the type
writer.
'.One day when we met as usual for work
at the Southern hotel he seemed to have
prepared more elaborate notes than usual.
and instead of walking about the room he
sat down, quite a distance away from me,
and began to dictate the chapter treating
OF his closing Australian experiences There
was pathetic quiver in his voice as he
spoke of the many happy days he had
spent in that far-away land, among COM
parative strangers. and added that he
| hoped his book would come to them as q
| sort of handcIasp between friends who
would never meet again in this life.
ut was very affecting My eyes grew
| misty and had to stop writing. Suddenly
| I felt a kindly hand on my head and Mr..
| Jeffersons voice said: That's what / want
| ed. Cry all you want to, my girl. 1 cried
| myself last night when wrote that but
was afraid no one else would I guess 1t
| will do -
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
Music ns n Remedy.

From the Chicago Tribune.
New York seems TO be la5oring under the
impression that it has made Il distinct dis
coyery in the relations of music to diseases
of the body and mind n remedial agent.
and has exploited it in profuse details. II
is given out that experiments have been
made with good results among insane pa
tients. and that it is now proposed to or
ganiZe what is called 4 medico-musical So
ciety for the purpose of making practical
tests OF the effects of music upon persons
troubled with insomnia, nervous disorders
and other ailments. Society has also taken
it up as fad and We may shortly expect
an invasion of hospitals sanitariums and
retreats by an army of piano Founders. fid-
die scrapers and horn blowers to take the
places of the regular physicians and sub
stitute sounds of various degrees OF de-
pravity for the standard remedies of the
materia medica.
1t would not be in order to treat this
subject lightly or give it other than re-
spectfuf consideration were it not that the
New Workers have simply resurrected 4
fad old as the everlasting hills and
reaching even farther back than the days
of Saul. who was the first conspicuous pa
tient to receive musico-medical treatment.
1t was in existence long before the Chris
tian era. 1t was 4 favorite fancy in the
days of Hippocrates and Galen. The doc
tors of the middle ages repeatedly tried it
as. remedy. In modern times it has been
applied in almost every country = in the
world. Numerous volumes have been writ
ten upon it. Old Burney and Hawkins de-
vote much space to it.
The most that can be said for it is that
music interests the insane. or some of that
unfortunate class. 1t quietS some and eX-
cites others. In cases of those afflicted
with bodily disease it sometimes has a
soothing effect-that effect. however, de-
pending largely upon the skill of the per-
former. There is music that is depressing.
and there is music, also, which may prove
fatal to the patient sufficiently educated to
realize the depravity. But even conceding
the music to be of the best and the patient
to be in a condition to accept it, the most
that can be said for it Is that it may divert
the mind from introspection and have a
record of cure having been effected by it.
/ There is probably nothing a microbe has
moro contempt for than music.
As a pleasant diversion music may be of
benefit in the asylum or hospital. Beyond
this it has no influence. 1t may soothe,
tranquilize and interest, but 1t cannot cure.
1t cannot minister effectively to the mind
or body diseased. This has been the testi-
mony of the ages. The Medico-Musical So
ciety of New York. therefore, should take
this into consideration when it seeks to eN-
plot 4 remedy which was old in the days
when David with his harp exercised the
evil spirit that was in Saul and refreshed
him. 1t should also: bear in mind that the
art of music cure perished with David
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

has written and published a novel entitled
From World to World" claims in partial
cAtenuation that never before has such an
ofiense been committed in so small
town as ASbury.
The unknown man who fell from a train
and was killed in Boone county week or
two ago, and upon whose person several
thousand dollars in cash was found. has
been completely identified as w. B. Nor
wood, of Leonard. Tex, and the body and
personal belongings have been turned over
to Mrs. Norwood by the authorities at
Columbia.
Sedala will be represented at the COM
ing marriage of Governor-elect Tanner. OF
Illirois. and Miss Cora English. in SPRING
field, December 80 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Messerly. Mrs. NJ. and the bride-elect
have been intimate friends for years.
The widow of State Senator Sam Sparks,
who committed suicide in Warrensburg III
1892. will shortly receive 5000 life insTr-
ance and accrued interest, the payment of
which the company has bitterly contested
up to an adverse decision by the United
States supreme court.
vonison from the Indian Territory was
placed on sale in the Rich Hill market
the other day. and, in speaking of the
fact, Judge Kemper. a pioneer in that To-
cality. incidentally remarked that no long.
e. than forty years ago he had frequently
seen many as 100 deer at time on
the ground where Rich Hill now stands.
A home minstrel entertainment is to be
given by the "Bromo Seltzer" Club IN
Rich Hill tonight, and naturally bub-
bling programme is anticipated
The Crescent Athletic Club, of st. Jo-
seph, went into total and permanent eclipse
u day or two ago, chattel mortgage for
back rent for its handsome quarters in
the Tootle Opera House building having
been foreclosed on its furniture. The club
was organized in 1892 with membership
of several hundred and enjoyed wide pop
ulaIity and prosperity for time.
Springfeld's charitable association was
called upon to render aid to forty-five des-
titutc families last week
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
The Silhouettes.

Really and truly. dear grandmother. tell
US,
Did you take comfort in dresses like
those?
Grandfather. too. says he was quite teal
Gus
OF rivaling beaux.
II in that garb you received alteration.
If you were then now nearly as sweet,
What would gown of some modern Gre
alton
Have brought to your feet?
Then that poor grandfather. look at his
collar:
How did he get in that camel-sleesed
coat2
How could he help showing stiffness and
dolor
With that round his throat?
Still. youth and beauty are always In
fashion.
Even in 10. for each fichu'd belle.
''Dandies'' and bucks" could get up a
passion
That did very well.
Fifty years hence-and they soon will be
flying.
AS they have flown by with you. happy
pair
We shall have some of our grandchildren
guying
The clothes that we wear.
Chicago Record.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

foreshadow brighter future for the hu-
man race Nearly all the Ills that flesh Is
heir to come directly or indirectly from
the stomach. When 4 mans stomach is
''out of fix as the doctors say, the man
needs to be laid up on the stocks for re-
pairs. He is sour and morose, full of gall
and bitterness toward everything, and "ali
looks yellow to his jaundic'd eye" But If
his stomach can be taken out and reno
waited. like a mattress or a feather bed,
while you wait" the long expected era
of good feeling will come at once and the
millennium dawn.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
ppobnbly sIistnken Judgment.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
4 Miss Slack, who is secretary of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Wis
iting this country from England. is said to
have expressed fear that drunkenness is
increasing among the women of this coun-
try and to have said that she knows it Is
increasing in England.
So far as this country is concerned, her
fear is probably unfounded. 1t is known
that the amount of spurious liquors
withdrawn from bond was more than
2OOOOUO0 gallons less during the last year
than during the year before. Something
of this may have been due to the hard
times in some way not connected with
drunkenness. but it Is not probable, and
an increase in drunkenness is not likely to
be SynchronouS with decrease IN liquor
consumption, and a decrease in consump-
ton in an increased population IS what the
lessened withdrawal indicates.
1t Is little less likely that Miss Slack is
mistaken as to England also. She may
possibly furnish the key TO her mistake
when she says it is more common now
than formerly to see wives enter places
where drinking is done in company with
their husbands Within a few years
changes of many kinds have served to
bring womens lives more under the gem
ereaI eye than they We're years ago. 1t is
needless to point out the changes alluded
TO The general fact is matter of COM
mon knowledge to everybody in this coun-
try and is presumably only little less so
abroad. The natural effect of this is that
whenever n woman does drink nowadays
it is more likely to he known than in for
mer years. But another effect also is likely
TO be to lead women who do drink to
keep the habit more carefully under con-
troll than when it was INDUCED in secret
If INDUCED at all.
Drinking does not always imply drunk
enness. of course. but. as before remarked.
increased drunkenness Is not likely TO go
with decreased consumption. and in TINS
country. at least. We cannot accept MISS
what she bases II on.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
Rehection. of n BacheIor.

From the New York Press.
When man talks with girl about his
rival he always sneers at his neckties.
When a girl gives man a sensible
Christmas present she doesn't think very
much of him.
Maybe women like small waists so they
won't have to wear suspenders to keep
their clothes up.
No matter how regularly II man goes TO
church as soon as he gets baldheaded the
women all get suspicious of him.
When man tells story which IS pref
ty raCy few of the men he tells it to are
honest enough TO admit they have heard
it before.
The object of women's suffrage clubs is
to convince other women that domestic life
means nothing more than washing dishes
and darning stockings.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

something should be done to stop this war.
Humanity demands it. Commerce demands
it, That principle of human liberty for
which we fought at Bunker Hill de-
mands it.
We do not mean by this that the jingoes
should be given full sway and that the
guns of the American navy should thunder
at the harbor of Havana. but We do be-
IIeve that the United States should exert
that moral power which alone would be
necessary and insist upon an immediate
and permanent cessation of hostilities upon
this island which lies at our threshold.
There must be some settlement of the Gu
ban difficulty which' will do justice alike
to the revoutionists and Spain, and the
United States should set speedily about
discovering it.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
The One Drawback.

From the Cleveland Leader.
1T seems queer that that large lady
Mrs. Darlington, I believe. IS her name-is
never to be seen anywhere without a dog
in her arms. Too bad she has no children
to love"
''Well. I don't know. I've heard her say
that she preferred dogs to children. Dogs
she says, are so much less bother than
children. In fact, her only objection to
dogs is that she finds it difficult to teach
them not to lick the powder off her face
when she's out in company"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
THE WEATHER.

Washington, Dec 16.-For Oklahoma and
Indian Territory-Partly cloudy weather,
probably followed by showers Thursday
afternoon or. might; cooler Thursday night;
winds shifting TO north.
For Missouri-Generally cloudy weather,
probably rain or snow in the afternoon or
night; colder Thursday night; winds shift
ing to northerly.
For Kansas Rains or light SHOWS; cold
er; brisk and high northerly winds.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
Same Old Color.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Talking about green Christmases." OBJ
served Mr.. Billus. who was accompanying
his wife on a holiday shopping expedition
L never could see that the color made
much difference. Any sort of Christmas
usually does my pocketbook up brown"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
Great Cycling and Eating.

From the Cleveland Leader.
If a steamship jogging along easily at
the rate of twelve miles an hour is sud-
denly pushed up TO the rate of fifteen
miles. the increase in the consumption of
fuel is not o. per cent like the gain in
speed, but usually 100 per cent or more.
The greater the pressure put on the en-
gines the smaller the rate of increase in
speed in proportion to the use of coal.
This is a well known law which applies to
all machinery.
1t seems that men are very much like
engines when they work within certain
limits. In prolonged and altogether un-
natural test of endurance, like the six day
bicycle race in New York last week. ath-
letes do not eat heartily because they get
little sleep and are subjected to the strain
of conditions which are physically demor-
alizing They suffer from bad air and
cramped positions, and the body simply en-
dures the terrible ordeal. Nature does not
attempt TO make good the losses sustained.
The time for recuperation is delayed until
the end of the race
In shorter and less destructive feats of
strength and skill the body works like a
steamers engine. The consumption of food
by we'll trained and hardened athletes in
bicycle races of twenty-four hours, for in
stance, is enormous. To people of ordi-
nary physical development and sedentary
habits. some instances of tremendous eat
ing and drinking during such contests
must seem almost beyond belief. We recall
an extraordinary case in England a year
or two ago when the winner of a twenty
four hours race for amateurs consumed
a quantity and variety of food which was
astonishing to contemplate. Perhaps even
a more wonderful illustration of the capa-
city Of the human stomach, under just the
right conditions. comes from France. IT
is the eating record made by Huret, one
OF the fastest and most famous riders in
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
The Thing for Him.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Don't you think 1 ought to take irou7"
laughed the big fat man, who thought he
would be funny with the doctor.
Certainly; and l would recommend hoop
iron"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
some Don't Say Even That.

How oft do congressman awake
To find their hopes have fled.
This is the speech he thought he'd make:
?" :. :?i!I!
And this is what he said:
II second the motion
Washington Star
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
They BIushed.

From the Mexican Herald
Millions of American citizens bIushed for
their government yesterday morning, when
they read the message Mr.. Cleveland sent
to congress.
They did well to blush.
There was no ring of genuine American
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
Wby Percr Want. Rc-cIcction.

From the Columbus (O) Journal
Senator PETER IS prosecuting lively can
vass for reelection. and points proudly to
his record OF AZ speeches delivered during
his six years of service The senator cvi-
IDENTIFY thinks that his constituents should
love him for the noise he made.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
He Got Them.

From the Indianapolis Journal
what sent that dog away bowling SOP
asked the 'possum-
oh said the porcupine. "he was nosinE
around after information. and / kindly
supplied him with few points, that Is all"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

about Maceo. They probably think man
who was in the habit of wearing silk socks
deserved it.
Senator Teller says he doesn't want any
tariff on silver. But the party that is 60
ing to run the government for the next
four years doesn't care for Teller's wants.
In addition to Senators Morgan and Call
we also have the United States army and
navy to rely on in case of trouble with
Spain.
AS we understand it, Major Mckinley S
visit to Chicago is not for the express pur-
pose of inducing the modest people of that
city to say what they want.
1t is safe to assume that the assassination
of Maceo does not add to the personal
safety of Weyler.
Queen Lii says she will explain her mis-
sion when she reaches Washington. We
trust her ex-majesty has taken due pre-
cautions against overconfidence.
1t is rather nervy in a city which has a
board of Chicago aldermen all the year
occasional st. Louis train robbery.
Why doesn't some fiction writer work off
a story about a woman buying her hus-
band a box of really good cigars for Christ
| mas?
Mr.. Pingree may be presidential candi-
date later, but he is not in the field at
present. Mr.. Pingree knows how to hold
his potato.
If the government could only float bat
tleships as easily as it can float bonds the
| navy would be greater success.
1t is less than three short months until
the government will have TO shoulder the
responsibility of trying to run without the
assistance of Mr.. Thurber.
why is Governor Bill Stone so silent?''
| inquiries a Missouri exchange. 1t matters
not mquisitive contemporary, why. Be
| content with the bIissful fact that he is
silent.
Fortunately personal beauty is not an
essential qualification for secretary of the
treasury. Mr.. DingIey will probably get
along all right.
Judge McKenna, of California, is the
latest cabinet appointment at the hands OF
the press correspondents whose business il
is to construct cabinet.
The prediction that Mr.. Bayard will
come home hopeless dyspeptic will not
be verified. Mr.. Bayard is too polite tc
contract dyspepsia eating the dinners Of
| titled nobility.
1t must be admitted that 1Ir. Cleveland:
success at bringing down ducks and piling
up deficits has never been equaled in the
| presidential office.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State OF Missouri.
County of Jackson.
H. Gaylord. business manager OF The
Kansas City Journal, being duly sworn
says that the actual number of fun ana
complete copies of the Kansas City Jour
nal Daily and Sunday, printed during the
month Of November. 1896. was as follows;