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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
MISSOURI POINTS.

The Chillicothe women are demanding of
the council that an anti smile between
acts ordinance be enacted now as a COM
panion document for the one recently
adopted requiring them to remove their
high hats at the theater.
Colonel Frank Scruby of Chillicothe. has
been designated as commander of one of
the Missouri divisions which will take part
in the Mckinley inaugural parade.
The manager of the Carrollton opera
house advertises as a special inducement TO
theatergoers that he will keep them warm
or refund their money, his intention, pre-
sumably, being to restrict his stage offer
ings exclusively to entertainments of the
hot STUFF variety.
A student of the Chillicothe normal
school plead guilty to the charge of petty
larceny in the circuit court the other day,
paying fine of $40 and costs.
Public opinion will be even more clamor-
Gus than heretofore that there shall be no
unnecessary delay in the execution of the
sentence of the court in the case of Muir
derer Duestrow now. that it has been
learned that he is addicted to the practice
of smoking four packages of cigarettes
daily.
Rich Hill miners TO the number of 1000
have united in petition to the general as
sembly asking that their occupation be in
Cluded in any fellow servant legislation
that mary be enacted.
Colonel Bill Phelps and John Carroll the
distinguished gentlemen who are credited
with being at the head of the Influential
department" at the state capital take no
chances on the provender furnished by the
JEFF City hotels, but tickle their appetites
with dainties prepared in their private
quarters by chef imported from st. Louis
for their exclusive service.
Added to the terrors death ordinarily
has in store for the average Individual is
the knowledge, if one happens to be resi-
dent of Cole county, that his estate will
have to he settled up under the supervision
of n probate judge, who, though a capable
and courteous official answers TO the Jaw
breaking name of Solomon Umphalbaugh.
Winston. the man who bought Demilt's
wife in Chillicothe not long ago for SIS. is
said TO be confined in an Illinois iail on the
charge of having betrayed young woman.
Winston and his $l5 woman only lived to-
gether about a week.
Windsor citizens to the number OF several
hundred attached their signatures to a pc
tition asking the assembly to reduce rail-
road fare from to cents a mile.
An epidemic of the grip prevails to such
an extent in Fulton that services AT some
OF the churches have been abandoned.
The Glove Shoe Company has determined
TO remove its establishment to a location
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
MIR. sHERMAN's FOREIGN POLICY

The purposes of the Mckinley ,adminis-
tration in regard to leading features of do
mestic policy-tariff and finance-are pref
ty well understood, in a general way. But
there is some uncertainty and considerable
interest felt as to what its foreign policy
is 10 be-notabIy in regard to Cuba. AS it
is definitely settled that Senator Sherman
is to be secretary of state. a search has
been made through Mr.. Sherman's recent
speeches and writings to discover. if pos
sible, his personal views on the live for
eign problems with which he will have
TO deal. The closing paragraph of his book
of recoIlections, published about twelve
months ago, is thought by some to supply
an important clue to his future course as
head of the cabinet. He wrote, as his vale
dictory message to the people:
II hope that our people Will be content
with internal growth, and avoid the compli-
cations of foreign acquisitions. a republic
should not hold dependent provinces or
possessions. Every new acquisition will
create new embarrassments. The Union
already embraces enough discordant ele-
ments without adding others. If my life
is prolonged l will do all I can to add to
the, strength and prosperity of the United
States, but nothing to extend its limits or
TO add new dangers by the acquisition of
foreign territory"
This quotation doubtless accurately ex-
presses Mr.. Shermans sentiments-or at
least the sentiments he held at the time
it was written. But it does not follow
that Mr.. Sherman. secretary of state. will
pursue the same course that would have
been pursued by Mr.. Sherman, senator
from Ohio. a member of the cabinet is
supposed to subordinate his personal views,
in large measure, to the wishes of the
president; while he may give counsel to
the executive, he cannot dictate TO him
nor shape his administration contrary to
his wishes.
1t will not do, therefore, TO assume that
personal opinions expressed by Mr.. Sher-
man a year ago, or held by him at the
present time. are trustworthy key TO the
country's foreign policy for the next four
years. While it is probable that President
Mckinley and his secretary of state will
get along harmoniously and pleasantly to-
gether. there is no reason to suppose that
the president will turn over to any mem
ber of his cabinet the responsibility of
running his administration. 1t cannot he
predicted with any certainty whether the
Mckinley administration will favor annex
alton or oppose it. or what its attitude will
be in regard to recognition of Cuban bel
Iipernncv
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
BRYAN,s DEDICATIoN.

One of the amusing things about Bryans
new book. apart from his expansive smile.
which is so graphically described therein
by Mrs. Bryan is the fact that the work is
dedicated to General Weaver, along with
Bland and Teller. as one of the foremost
champions of bimetallism. So far from
being a noted bimetallist Weaver is known
as a radical fiat paper man. He believes
the government has the right, and should
exercise it. to print paper money enough
TO make everybody rich without the trou-
BILE and inconvenience of working for it.
For years he has been a greenbacker in all
that the name implies, and it was only re-
Gently that he came out for silver, and
then only because free silver was step in
the direction of absolute fiat.
General Weaver not only has never been
he has never really been a metallist at ALL
although he has been almost everything else
under the sun. The best financial policy, in
his estimation, is TO start the government
printing presses to running. and turn out
six or eight billion dollars every year for
few years until all the downtrodden
masses will be enabled 10 produce "wad'
that would do credit to Rothschild or
Vanderbilt.
In view of the well recognized fact that
free silver is too dead to be resurrected. 1t
is not beyond the bounds of possibility that
Bryan and Weaver may stump the coun.
try in 1900 for free and unlimited paper, and
If My First Battle" ever gets beyond a
first edition new dedication may be nee
essary. 1t might run thus: ITO General
Weaver. a hatist from wayback, and one
who favors greenback billions for the
masses. but not cent for the plutocrats.
Free paper, free presses and free distribu-
ton.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28

would. as Mr.. Mckinley says be more i'm
pressive to people at home and abroad than
il the money is squandered on music and
decorations to enhance the splendors of
civic event.
Doubtless it will be a sore disappoint-
dispensed with. 1t has grown to be the
chief society function of the national cap
ital and is looked forward to with bright
anticipations. But with the pressure be-
ing brought upon the authorities of nearly
every city in the country for funds to re-
lieve distress and suffering, it is to be
hoped that Mr.. McKinley's appeal will be
prevail
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28

outside of Missouri at an early date, a fact
which isn't particularly to be wondered at
when it is remembered that it has been in
Deepwater ever since it was established
in this state.
A lobby of handsome Springfield women
will endeavor TO persuade the legislature
TO SO amend the statutes that members OF
their sex may hereafter be eligible for
service on the municipal school board.
A plan for providing Joplin with an ath-
letic park and haf-mile bicycle track is
well under way there. The sum of $500
it is believed, will be sufficient for properly
carrying out the scheme, and a good start
toward securing 1t has already been made
Joplin's old frame school house. aban-
doned last week after twenty years serv-
ice, is to be used as kindling for starting
fires in the furnaces of the more modern
shooting galleries provided for the local
young IDEAS benefit.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
His Awful OGense

From the Cleveland Leader.
'Adolphus. she sobbed, you have
ceased to love me-
He drew back in alarm. and tried to
think of the last wicked thing lie had
Gone. He was n floor walker in one of the
greatest dry goods emporiums in the
country and often had fiirtatious that
twas well his wife never heard of. That
very day he had pinched the pretty lace
counter girls ear, and she had playfuHy
slapped his cheek. Could it he possible
that there was spy in the store? His
face flushed. and his voice was husky as
he asked:
Why, my darling, what has put such an
absurd idea into your head?"
of course" she replied, waving him
away, and pointing to a bunch of roses
that stood on her dressing table you
don't know, But mother-dear. dear moth
er-knows. She sent them to me!'
He looked at the flowers and tried to
imagine what they meant.
And brother Jack she continued, while
rer tears began to flow afresh, hasn't
ceased to care for me. That box. there is
from him. He will protect me If the worst
comes"
Adolphus Bulwinkle trembled. Her broth
er Jack was six feet tall and as strong
as an OK. To be hit by him would be al
most certain death for a man of Mr. Bull
winkles size, and the frightened floor
walker was half inclined to sneak out and
hurry away for parts unknown.
Once again. he finally said. will YOU
let me know what have done-what crime
L have committed? This suspense is be-
coming tiresome"
''Thi-thls is my birthday" she sobbed.
''and you haven't given me a present of
any kind Only the second one since We
wera married. toor'
With glad cry he caught her in his
arms. clasped her to his heart, and mur-
INJURED:
Forgive me. darling. You have only
yourself to blame. When a little wife
seems to grow younger all the time, how
can her hubby be held to account for not
remembering that she has birthdays?''
'oh. Dolphy," she wept. do you mean
that?"
But he only kissed her. and again the
white wings Of peace tapped joyfully above
them.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
MIR. Bryan.x Expansive Smile

From the Chicago Post.
William j. Bryans book THE First
Battle" or enough of it to review for ad-
vertisins purposes only. is out. 1t is chief
ly rehearsal of how he ran for the pres
idency how he came TO run and how he
might have been elected If he had received
votes enough at decisive points in the
game. OF course Mr.. Bryan goes into an
extended history of the silver movement
and of his participation in 1t. The book
is dedicated to those three eminent silver
ties, Dick Bland, General Weaver and
Senator Teller loftily ascribed as ''the
foremost champions of bimetallsm in their
respective parties
Happily, The First Battle has some
thing in it TO commend it to the favor of
the curious besides the oft-told tale of the
skyrocket presidential career of ''the Boy
Orator of the Platitudes" 1t is intro
duced by a biographical sketch written by
Mrs. Bryan, the boys most devoted ad-
mirer and guardian. This lifts the lid"
so to speak. from the incident that seven
teen years ago made their two young lives
one. 1t was in the parlor of the young
ladies' school at Jacksonville that the fair
lmogene met Alonzo the brave He was
tail. he was thin. he was pale But from
beneath two heavy brows looked two dark
eyes containing two tiny miniatures of
me, as Tom Moore so beautifully ex-
presses it. Imogene was not especially i'm
pressed with Alonzos nose, which was
prominent and too large to look we'll"
she thought. nor with the broad, thin
Tipped mouth and square chin" that conn
pleted the contour of the face"
But what Mrs. Bryan noticed particu-
larly" in the youthful get-up of the en-
bryo boy orator were "his smile and his
hair" The latter was BLACK In color.
fine In quality and parted distressingly
straight" But although William was
neatly though not fastidiously dressed"
the future partner of his joys would not
have given him Il second thought but for
that smile which was so Expansive and
expressive She says that mo one has
seen the real breadth of that smile who
did not see it in the early days" ere Mr..
Bryan's cheeks checked Its onward
march," With wifely loyalty Mrs. Bryan
stamps as campaign lie the story of a
heartless observer that Mr.. Bryan could
whisper in his own ear"
She pronounccs this Cruel exaggera-
tion" with an emphasis that should warn
the "heartless observer to preserve his
distance from the wife whose Expansive
and expressive smile has been so 'cruelly
slandered''
We wait impatiently for more fiy-leaves
from the memoirs of our own Marie Bash
kirtseff and her little Willie.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28

than it has ever been for years. 1t Is now
per cent. which rate it has gained by a
steady advance from per cent in August.
1896. The discount rate in Berlin has risen
during the same period from u. to Az per
cent.
The change in the discount rate. which
was made on September 10, 1896. when the
rate was raised from 2 per cent to 2Is per
cent. was the first change which had been
made since February q. 1894. For nearly
three years the bank had not found it
necessary TO protect its gold holdings by
this means.
While English financiers have always
T. been firm believers in the Bank of En-
glands system of arresting gold exports
by the raising of the discount rate. for
eign tinanciers have criticised it. and it
would seem that their criticisms were justf-
fled in view OF the fact that the dawn of
prosperity in America. after a long period
of industrial depression. and the chances
FOR favorable investment of capital here
are more powerful.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
MISSOURI MINING STATISTICS.

Some statistics of interest to Missouri
readers are presented in the report of the
state mine inspector for 1896. In the coal
industry the output for the year was 2,42O-
III tens. an increase of 1S7 O66 tons over the
previous year. This coal was worth S. IA
III. There were thirty fewer mines in oper-
alton in '96 than in '95. and the average
number of employees throughout the year
was 6,5SS. In getting out this coal sixteen
lives were lost and twenty men We're In
jured. One life was lost for every 151 272
tons of coal mined. There are thirty-fou1
counties in the state producing coal, and
ing 51,654 kegs of powder were used. at a
cost of S72,9O4.10, and the average price of
the coal at the mines was Sl.13. Macon
county ranks first in coal production, the
output last year being 5196 $40 tons: Charlton
county ranks as thirty-third, with an out
put OF S55 tons.
The production of lead ore last year
amounted to 65,504 tons, an increase of near
ly 1900 tons over the prior year. The aver
age price of the ore was sSO.33 per ton, and
the product sold for s1,9ST155, an increase
VI heaiiS Ti''VVV oNei TING sates VI 1899.
Eight counties in the state produce lead
ore, and ass shafts were operated, including
those worked for zinc ores. Nearly 5000
men are employed in mining and prospect
ing for these ores. and during the year
thirteen employees were killed. For each
life lost 12,173 tons of ore were mined In
1896 R,754 tons of zinc ore were mined,
worth $1,S3l,S56. the average price per ton
being s19.75. The value of the coal, lead
and zinc mined in Missouri last year was
sc, SEC. .723
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28

motion being as smooth as over asphalt
surfaces.
The omnibus will travel forty miles with
out recharging. and. unlike other horseless
vehicles. does not disgust the occupants
with an oppressive stencil or distracting
noise. Cabs constructed on the same prin-
ciple will soon be in service in London, and
by the end of the present year 1t is believed
the cab and bus horse will have disap-
peared.
If this vehicle proves as successful as its
first trial would indicate. it should be of
great service in solving the rapid trtinsit
problem in large cities.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
IT NEEDS AMENnING-

Representative Dalton, of Stevens coun-
ty. has introduced in the Kansas legisla-
ture bill which seeks 10 make il 4 mis-
demeanor Tor any person to occupy for
private uses or in which TO sleep any pub
lie building. The Iaudable purpose of Mr.
Dalton's bill is TO prohibit the use of the
state house or OF county court houses for
anything but the transaction OF public bus
mess, but he has been singular!y uufortu-
nate in the use Of language.
II is the custom OF American courts to
oonstrue the ''statoots" as made and pro-
vided with inncxibe literalncss. and it is
obvious that a law which unqualidcdly
pronounces against the use of public
building in which to sleep is dned with
danger TO many worthy citizens. For cx-
ample. The good man who dozes Off in
church beneath the somnolent influences Of
81 prosy sermon becomes at once the tar
Get for the laws vindictiveness, and the
Juryman who curls up for n cat nap be-
tween ballots in the weary watches of the
night is no longer a patriot in the per-
formance Of his duty but "A maieractor
against whom the county attorney must
Verforce proceed.
1t is needless TO multiply examples. but
one very recent incident is so apropos
that we cannot pass it by. When the Hon.
Ia Little. private secretary To the gov
ernor. OF Kansas. had finished introducing
Murat lIalstead to his audience at WASH
burn college last Friday night. he sank
into the welcoming depths OF an arm
chair. and in less than ten minutes his
Fnores were rumbllng among the dadoes
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
Prepared for the worst.

Fohth O. Mahoh is comm an Is gwineter
git in line;
Eff 1 doesn' hab er 'pintment. 'twon' be
any fault o. mine.
is filed my application an rs ready foh
ter do
Mos anything dat Uncle Sam sees fit ter
me to.
Is rallied up my influence an got a kyah-
pet bag
Chock full o. recommends dat sho'ly gibs
me leave ter brag.
But. in case O. disappointment. I won
grieve myself a bit
Case dis life ain all dependin' on de office
dat yoh git.
Yoh kin allus watch de sunshine ez Il rolls
away de gloom.
An dey kahn change no admission for ter
see de vi'lets bloom.
Hit don make any dir unce eff yoh clothes
is out o. style
Oar is muffin mo- becomin' dan er mex
pensive smile.
An de concert in de fores'. rs been told.
is tes' as sweet
As de. singin' whah de white folks pays TO-
dollars fur a seat
So Is gwineter keep good-natured, eff de;
mahk 1 fails ter hit
Dis life ain all dependin' on de Office dat
yoh git. Washington Star.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
Successful Electric Omnibus.

From the Chicago Chronicle
AT last a successful electric omnibus las
been perfected. The vehicle was given a
trial in London January Q. ana, though the
streets were in bad condition, it's perform
ance is said to have been satisfactory m
every respect. Starting with a load OF
twenty-five passengers. u route was select
ed through some Of the most crowded thor
oushfares of the metropolis: all of which
We're traversed with less difficulty than is
experienced with horses. The slopes of st.
Martins lane. which present grade about
Ike the eastern approach TO Washington
street bridge. though considerably longer.
we're mounted with ease, though the road
was bad going" and the rough surface Of
the London embankment not only caused
no difficulty to the vehicle but Its occu-
pants experienced no jolting whatever, the
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
HUMANITY BEFoRE TEsTrv1TY,

Mr.. McKinley's protest against the ex-
penditure of $4,000 on the inauguration bail
and his recommendation that the money
be devoted TO charity. speaks much for his
sound sense and his goodness of heart.
Fifty thousand dollars is a large sum TO
spend on ball. far too large for even so
important an event as the Inauguration Of
a president of the United States. II this
money is used in relieving the distress of
thousands now suffering from cold and
hunger in the large cities of this country
and in far of India and Armenia 1t would
not only be most worthily expended, but
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
England Fails to Check the Drift of
Gold to America.

From the Chicago TimesHerald.
The amount of goli in the United States
continues to increase and that in England
to decrease. The amount of the gold re-
serve on Saturday was $143332,690 which
is greater than it has been for years. In
January, 1896, there was less than S50.OOO.-
900 net gold in the treasury, while in jan
uary 1895. there was less than s45, 1000 600.
That the increase will continue seems
probable. The calendar year of 1895 show
cd net gold exports of S2.066 .2S7. but the
calendar year just closed showed net i'm
ports of SAG, ,023, ,59i.
1t is interesting to show the drift Of
gold to the United States from Europe by
comparison of the figures for the last
five months of the calendar years 1895 and
1909.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
Cruel on Willie.

From the New York Press.
First palmist-'William Waldorf came to
me yesterday to know IL he would marry
the Princess Maud"
Second palmist-"Yes?"
First palmist-"He's just recovering from
an attack of jaundice'
Second palmlst-'Is he? What did you
tell him.
First palmlst-"Told him 7 couldn't read
A Yellow Astor. Mad? Say
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28

From the indianapolis Journal.
watts-''I see that Sam Jones said that
he'll with within half a mile of Boston,
while he was in that city. l remember
his saying the same thing of Chicago,
when there
Potts-"The statements are not contra
dictory Perhaps he means 10 convey the
idea that hell is never more than half q
mile from sam Jones'
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28

that they were specially called to the
reformation of criminals. That preachers
have an eye to the main chance as well
as their sinful fellow citizens Is apkly Illus
trated in the story that Governor Riddle
told while responding TO the address of well
come offered the National Editorial Asso-
citation by the mayor of Jacksonville Fla.
There was a preacher, he said. who had
been invited to leave one church and go to
another. He assembled his congregation
and offered his resignation with the state
ment that he felt that he was called" to
the new field of labor.
How much salary are you to get there?"
inquired rather worldly-minded member
of the congregation as he rose in his pew
My salary is to be 5000 responded the
preacher.
That's $500 more than you get here, isn't
it?" continued his interlocutor.
Yes" said the preacher.
We'll, that's no call. it's raise"
Governor Morrilrs lecture on THE Good
Old Times has no reference to the period
at which he was wrestling with the Kansas
City police board.
I'VE could, If we wished, go Governor
Leedy one better" says the Wichita Eagle,
for we have information that the Chinese
poodle dogs have been barking at the
great wall for more than eighty centuries -
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28
Two Ways of Doing 1t.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Godfrey, there are six families down the
street here that are suffering for food and
fuel. ! am going TO look after them. Coma
along"
"Scorjel, l haven't time I've got to at-y
tend a meeting that has been called for
the purpose of taking measures for the re-
llef Of the destitute"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28

coIonades like the crash and jar of myr-
lads of discordant worlds in far-off chaos.
Do we understand Representative Dalton
to say that the Hon. Ed Little is a male
factor? No. no; a thousand times no!
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-28

From the indianapolis Journal.
Shelf you were to find that had lost
all my fortune-every penny of it-would
you hesitate TO carry out our engage
ment?"
He-"I would hesitate at nothing"