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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06

| From the Chicago Times-II Herald.
For = yOungster hardly out of knee
pants the bicycle has managed to get into
court great many times. Indeed, the
courtinS business appears TO occupy Il con-
Slptrable portion of the bicycle output at
that season OF the year when the Young
men and young women are most apt 10
| nave that June feeling of which the rhyme
SterS are wont to sing
But not all of the court business in which
the bicycle is Interested is confined 10
the parks in leafy June. The bicycle has
cOllided with SteTn-viSagcd. St-el-hauded
justice in nearly every city in the I'nio,
Inc hlU"-bUtton"d. uupoetic miuions of The
law nav" grabbed it ruthleSSIy from the
highways on complaint of farmers and
tru, kSters and subjected it to heavy fines
Tor pr"Suming 10 be a vehicle and for TAX
ing up too much of the roadway Having
been crowded out of the roadway il was
also hauled into court for wearing out the
sidewalks and humping against old women
and baby cabs. II has been muIctcd by
outraged justice for causing runaw:tvs; and
ior proving around ut night without :.
lantern.
After a rough shrift in the courts the
bicycle has finally ascertaiued its legal
status After much stubborn fighting it
mas been conceded that the bicycle has
some rights. that it is entitled 10 half the
roadway. that there is no redress for the
man who iS damaged by running into n
bIcycl" and that the bicycle is actually a
vehicle. Just aS the modern cvangeI of
good health and sObriety is swelling its
pneumatic tire over the prospects for 1897
Judg" Nerkes, of Bucks county. Pa, gives
a decision In bicycle suit to the effect
that the bicycle is a promoter of crime"
lie declared that at least oue-third of the
business OF the criminal court WAS made up
by persons who are led aStray by some con-
hectlGn with the wheel One of the wit
neSseS in the case. 4 grocer. said he could
SIT at his front window and count dozens
of persons riding merriIy past who owed
him grocery bills"
We cannot see at this distance how any
deVlce that makes man obIivious of his
grocery bills. even for a few hours in the
day, can be justly characterized as a pro
moter OF crime Why should a man put
aside that which will allure him to forget
fulness of his sorrows2
The decision of the Bucks county iudge
will not stand. The bicycle will appeal 10
the higher tribunal of public opinion.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
Europe Against Americn.

| From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The rumor that comes by way of En-
gland concerning a possible alliance of
Franco, Italy and Germany with Spain.
though unworthy of creGence. vet is in
Structive as Il lesson upon the intcrdepend-
ence of nations. France, it is said will
side with Spain as against the United
States. because France is Il large creditor
of Spain. and the loss of Cuba would di-
minish the Spanish power to paw But
against this it is said that France would
lose far more by one year of war with this
country than by the total failure of Spain
to pay its Indebtedness
France Is more dependent for prosperity
upon the profits of its trade with the Unit
ed States than upon the payment of the
principal and interest of the Spanish debt.
Germany. says the rumor, is somewhat
anxious for war of combined Europe
against the United States. in order that
by destruction of the predominant power
of this country on this continent it may
acquire possession of Brazil and other
South American states as colonies The
sound sense of the German people will not
cherish such 4 chimera, though it prob
ably is one of the many whimsies that
float through the loosely textured brain of
the. emperor.
Italy IS said to be angered because. saws
an English newspaper. the Italians in the
United States are treated as if they were
negroes or red Indians" This shows how
little English newspapers know of Arneri-
can conditions. In the greater part of the
United States negroes are treated just as
white people are. And in all parts of the
United States Italians are treated Just as
Poles, Germans, Irish or native Americans
are. Once, and under circumstances in
which the 1tGlians We're not wholly free
from blame, Il Southern mob lawlessly and
shamefully killed some Italians. But the
whole country was emphatic in disap-
proval. The Italian in the United States
is a we'll used and Well contented citizen
Finally. the European alliance against
the United States is ali in the air" Should
it materialize, all America against part of
Europe-RusSia possibly being with Amer
lrh-Mnmll mlk.. 4 NrrN nr.ILI. IiahI
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06

From the Chicago Record.
the beIated official election returns from
California ana Utah. made public on IN.
last day of 1896. complete the official
record. From the reliable figures it is seen
that Mckinley's plurality has dwfndlcd by-
not far from half the estimates made i'm
II -ediat"ly after the election. The total
N"'e Tor each presidential candidate as
obtained from the secretaries OF state of
th' various Commonwealths is as follows.
Mckinley. 7107.S22. Bryan Dcmocrati
h-N' Se6; Bryan Peoples. "iI.G07: Palmer
l&!,SlS: LeverinG. l3O 10 Bentley. 1s a5f;
Matchett %i.545. Mckinley thus has n
p'UraIitF Of 3'2.,Aa votes over the total cast
TO- BRYAN by the Democratic and Pco-
pie. PARTIES. while the victor's majority
is 9fe %
The total vote cast November ; was i2.-
H.'.26', as against l205S,lG7 in 1892 OF these
total votes the leading parties pollcd the
icllo wing percentages: Republican. 1872
i".N per cent: 1896, 5o.G2 per cent. Demo
era tic, ls92. if.0S per cent, 1Slf 500 per
cent Peoples. 1892. SO per cent: 1895. =.
pee copt. Prohibition. 1892 21S per cent;
lN9i thCth Wings. I02 per cent
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
TBE TuEtTER HtT ,c,Iy

Chicago has graaulad with the thcater
het question i1 % vay that bids fair 10
hri"F the matter 10 % head. Tho city couu-
cil of that town has passed IN ordinance
making ita Uisdomoauor 10 wear any sort
OF hHt i'm ghcatc's during performances and
tho o'ferlao IS made punishable by a fine
Of NOT less than $40 nor more than s..
But ih" uocu'iariry OF IA, ordananco is that
II j. not the woa~ers OF The hats who Aaye
to !s.y tine fines. bat the managers Of th.
,h'a'crs. If lhe propri5tors OF places of
a.uEs"m,u; permit "a lady 10 enter armed
and oH'5ipped with Il high hat, or any sort
Of hat, rhuy will have to pay Tor thus de-
prIyiHr ,ho ninety and nine men who do
not w'sE bats oC th" pleasure Of witness
ing Mime. IiElskipIi in the airy diver
tiscucutz Of the ballet
j. lool.s a. IL tliis plan might solve The
dificuliy. il VIII compel the managers 10
refuse TO sell tickets 10 a lady with "A hat
on. or they will have 10 provide proper
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06

From the New York World
y hOok-reviewer. standing hat in hand
before the lofty and enduring philosOph-
ic.i structure erected by Herbert Spencer,
ends cuIogy to his genius by saying:
Indeed his entire works did not pay
expenses. And to-day. though his repUta-
tion is worldwide, and he is admitted to
be in many respects the greatest English
man livin". his income from his literary
works is tritling compared with that which
writer's of modern sensational novels de-
riv" from their popular hut cphemeraI
works The more honor to Herbert Spen-
Ger for his perseverance in suitc of so
many obstacles
There is no law to prevent book
keeper from reviewing intellectual works
No. is there any law against laughing at
him as he wanders up and down the .lisIes
OF the Temple of Fame with an arithmetic
as Il guile-bOok
MIR. Spencer has always been clear
headed perfectly sane man. He no doubt
kTew when he Deliberately resolved IN
devote his life to philosophy that he was
choosing the road that led away from q
palace. L retinUe of servants and Il bauk
account. As he makes no sign of regret
that his old age has nothing but n COM
p,tonC" and the consciousness of n life.
work nohIy done and royalty appreciated
by all civilized beings who read aud
think. why give him imPertincnt and un-
deserved pity?
Political economy says that money is the
measure of value. The definition u,fybt
possibly lie nearer the truth If the word
material We're put before the word
value" There are several rather fmport
ant things in this world which a rna.ariaI
civilization. bent HpOn attaching q price
mark 10 cv"ryihing. cannot measure i'm
dollars or in pounds sterling For in
stance. there are intellect. a cheerful dis
position health friendship and love. Must
all these bo abolished because they OBJ
stinately refuse to Weld even to the most
improved double-cntry system of book
keeping?
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
N"tulInch and Eugene Field.

From the Chicago Post
stories OF Editor NcCullaGh may be OK
p'ct"' to fill the columns of the newspa-
pcrs for the usual seven days. All chron-
i"icrS agree that McCullagh believed i'm the
theory that individuality of the attacha
SHOULD he lost in the paper although he
Was not excessively particular that this
restriction should apply 10 himself. Sey-
"raI years ago. when Eugene Field was AT
tn" height of his popularity and fame as
a newspaper man and was beginning to he
rocofnizcd in literature, he was approaCh
ed J.! MCCullagh with an offer TO 20 To
st Louis and dispense his talents to tho
rt"6crs of the Globe Democrat. Mr. FiaId
thought 1t could he arranged If the an
pointed work were conEeniaI and the sal
airy "nhclnE. y little correspondence of
diplomatic nature followed and thcu
tn" editor came out plump with the in
formation that he was looking for a
htcht man TO do exchanges 1t seems
rather SuncriluouS to say that this on
chanting offer was not accepted. and that
the paragrapher and poet preferred, as he
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
Fools and Firearms.

From the New York Journal.
The reckless fools who on occasions OF
puElic fun and license discharge loaded
hrcarms should be dealt with sternly
wheE they fall into the hands of the po-
lice. On New Years eve three persons
We're wounded in New York by chance
bullets. one woman so seriously that she
may die. y man got a ball in tho arm
while he was standing in his doorway, and
another was shot in the face No ona
with a particle of sense will fire off re-
yolVer needlessly in u city of this size.
Ihere Is always at best the possibility that
the balls in their descent may strike hu-
man beings. Disregard 50 extreme -for-.ha
safety OF others deserves to be ranked
and punished as criminal. The fact that
the energetic idiot means no harm Is not
valid excuse when harm is done.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06

| Cullagh once had his photograph taken
with u copy of the Cincinnati Enquirer in
mis- hand. For shame! De mortus nil nisi
bonum.
\ man who has lived all his lie in
Kentucky claims that he never saw Il
Iynching. It is Il dreadful thing 10 be horn
blind.
The theory is presented by current
| writer that marriage is a preventive of sui
eide. There may be something in that. We
recall qui:e a number OF married men who
have not committed suicide.
| \ Michigan girl who lost her voice four
years ago suddenly recovered it the other
day while in the presence of her hetrothed
The chiyalrous lover. though taken aback.
declares he is still willing to carry out the
| contract.
Al item is going the rounds about new
machine TING will split Il hair into thirty
seven strips. But Just why anybody should
want TO split hair into thirty-seven strips
is not explained
The question has been raised as to wheth-
er George Washington was. not killed by
his physicians. If it be found that lie was.
the guilty medical men certainly ought to
be held criminalIy responsible.
The year 1896 has been referred to as "a
year without winter But there was 10
time in the twelve months when thousands
Of people could not have truthfuly said.
Now is the winter of our discontent.''
y new Chicago ordinance prohibits the
wearing of hats in theaters. The women
of the country have heard about the great
wickedness of Chicago aldermen. but they
never realized what horrible creatures they
We're before.
In regard TO the administration Cuban
attitude it may be said that Mr.. Olney is
either a great constitutional lawyer or else
has enviable qualifications as Il poker
player.
The weather bureau is making a great
hit with the coal trust and the small boy
with Christmas sled.
Through Mr.. Quays potent efforts. the
Penrose superior to the bargain counter in
the Keystone senatorial contest
That story about Kansas going to send a
trainload of provisions to the poor of New
York and Chicago has been well circulated
all over the country. Kansas had no no.
tion of doing anything of the sort, but is
we'll pleased with the advertisement.
a Chicago man jumped into the lake to
drown himself but was compelled to come
out by policeman who threatened 10
shoot him if he disobeyed. 1t has come to
a pretty pass in Chicago when citizen
can't peaceably commit suicide without
placing his life in jeopardy
Now is the time for Mr.. Francis to win
lasting glory by instructing the gold Dem.
ocrats in the Missouri legislature to pro-
ceed. in the election of senator without re-
gard to his confirmation as secretary of the
interior. '- 1--~s..-..s
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
Bright in MIR, Bryan-

From the Boston Herald
II Mr.. Bryans definition of a fanatic
which appears in his recent lecture at At
ianta, Is original. he has said a decidedly
clever thing. y fanatic he declares to he
one who thinks so deeply upon certain
subjects as TO make himself {. nuisance
TO everybody who doesn't think as decpIy
on the same subject as he does" There
are people who have been in the habit of
ciaSSing Mr.. Bryan himself as Il fanatic.
nut ne has succeeded in escaping from such
Il classification adroitly here He is NOT
a deep thinker, nor are the great bulk of
the men who are in sympathy with him in
ms views upon the currency and topics
which We're made Ccucomitant with it in
the recent presidential campaign to be in
cluded in this department They have
been proved to be shallow thinkers rather,
II they thought seriously at ALL
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
Bicycles. Tariff and Currency.

From the New York Press.
The obiter dictum of Philadelphia
judge to the effect that one-third of. the
crime in his court was due to the bicycle
has not unnaturally given rise to Il series
of humorous-more or leSS-nquiries as to
the effect of the bicycle on Philadelphia
morals. and also as to the uses of Phila-
delphia criminal courts III the pre-bicycle-
an era. ..
But we fancy that an earlier Philadelphia
eminence, one Poor Richard, otherwise
known among men as Benjamin Frank
lyn, might have found food for thought
and material for maXms in an aSnect of
the bicycle fever which does not seem par
ticularly to have attracted the attention of
the judge. This nation has developed to
the mania point in the last few years its
taste for an amusement eXtravagantIy eX-
penSive for three-fifths of those who take
part In 1t. Yet these have been the years
which it has chronicled as it's years of
lowest Industrial depression and keenest
individual distress. For the relief of these
conditions all parties in the state have
turned to government action. 1t is possi-
ble that Poor Richard upon reading of
his townsman. the grocer's testimony in
Judge Nerkes' court, might advise a peo-
pie who have entreated all his savings
with a marked respect that the solution of
their difficulties lay as much in Il study of
domestic as of political economy. Such
in its relation to the bicycle.
The testimony of the grocer was that
Il can sit at my front window and count
dozens of people riding merrily past who
owe me grocery bills.
How many thousands of such groCerS?
How many thousands of dozens of such
customers? Mercantile credit is made
of grocery bills and grocers' notes
GrocerS' notes are not met unless grocery
bills are paid before people ''rde merrfly
past the srocer's window. And banking
systems are based upon mercantile credit.
can YOU not Sce.N might Poor Richard
say. why YOU have never been able to es-
tahiiSh banking system at once sound
and elastic. and why the wiSest of YOU is
unable TO devise one now? You fear one
another'S faith. 'Tis the promptly paid
grocery bill and the promptly met grocerS
note that should take the place of all this
bonded security" This might he Poor
Richards view on the currency i'm its re-
lation to the bicycle.
There is more than n laugh in the queer
ohitcr of the Philadelphia juriSt.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
Compulsory Educo,i,r

FROM the Baltimore American.
Here in BGltimore. where there are III.
nest educational facilities in the South.
NHtre the per capita of expenditure for
Pupht tducAtion is larger than in any
other city below Mason and Dixon.s linz
where the percentage of wealth is high
mere IN this center OF culture and progress
there Is not enough school room to accom-
modate the children who want. without
the force of law behind them. to go TO
school, and outside of the school houses
each day there. are thousands of children
who want to get in and cannot because
there are no places for them. COMPULSORY
education would compel the city to build
len or twenty more big school houses, and
10 that extent it would be Il blessing. But
the city must do it anyhow, and the socn-
er it does it the better.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
Reflections OF n Bachelor.

From the New York Press
Most girls who don't like chewing gum
have read in some newspaper that it makes
wrinkles.
The more Il woman knows about making
n Welsh rarebit. the less she knows about
broiling heefsteak.
When Il man doesn't know enough to
make Il living his wife always says he is
too honest to succeed.
No matter how much man loves n
woman. she Is safer if she marries him
before she gets the smallpox
It's a bright woman who knows anoupr
to drop one of the baby'S shoes in her hus-
bands trunk when he goes to Europe.
When We are little we wonder why won-
en- wear their clothes so different from the
men; after We get older we wonder why
men wear theirs so different from tho
women.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
MISSOURI POINTS.

On his 10000 acres of Atchison county
land, David Rankin is fattening 15,O00 head
| of cattle and 10000 hogs. Il greater number
than any other man in the world.
Although it wasn't Il good day for rab-
| bits some Norborne boys, who went ont
| after some hind feet just for luck one
afternoon recently. succeeded in bringing
| back 165 of the cottontails, and u couple
| of mink besides. ....,
The biggest barn in st. Clair county Is;
! Just being completed for Mr. Iarkin, of
TaberviIle. The dimensions of the build
ing are 60XloO, and 5000 feet of framing
timber and I000O shingles are required for
| its construction.
vagabond law was adopted by the city
council in Columbia thirty years ago last
week unde: the provisions of which any
person convicted of vagrancy was to be
put up and sold at public auction to the
highest bidder for Il term of four months.
State Senator Gray. of Jasper county.
will endeavor 10 have Il law passed at this
session of the assembly requiring that
school funds shall be deposited with the
bank Offering the best rate of interest. as
is now the case with the city money
The rain gauge in Carthage showed a
fall cf 80 inches during the storm of Fri
day night and Saturday morning.
Prisoners are 50 numerous in the Jasper
county jaiI-siXty-three of them-that some
are compelled 10 sleep on the bare iron
floor for lack of bedding.
90.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06

| From the Chicago Trib,1ne
! me tribune published yesterday an ar
| tlcie containing more details of the dis
coverE by Fl. w Campbell of a system by
| "hlch crops can be raised in times OF
| dtoulh without irrigation. Mr.. Campbell :
| pIah III brief Is 20 plow the land deeply at
| the start. cutting the burrows from six to
| hihe inches in depth. thus stirring up the
| son and bringing the rich surface earth
| noWn TO where it will come in contact with
| the roots of the plant. Behind the ulow
| Mr.. Campbell uses Il machine of his own
making for packing the subSoiI 50 ds to
| retain the moisture. The ground is then
| gone over with a light spring-tooth har-
| row OF peculiar form set to cut and pul-
| Nerlze the earth for a depth of not more
| than two inches. Then the crops are put
IN ana from then on until the plants get
too big to allow of free movement among
ihtn the surface OF the ground is kept
finely pulvcrized by repeated scratching
with the spring-tooth harrow. While the
packed soil Retains the moisture the fine
coating of earth ON the surface acts is Il
blanket to ward off the evaporation by
sun and wind"
Mr.. Campbell has made tests of his svs-
ten III many parts of the West and in all
kinds of soil. and has had uniform success
Some of the results reported are astoniSh-
ing. Naturally the greatest interest has
been aroused in his experiments. Tests
have been made by the Burlington rail-
road, and it is reported that similar tests
will be made by the Northern Pacific
Great Northern. the Chicago. milwaukee,
X st. Paul and the Union Pacific. Expert
mental farms will be treated after the
Campbell plan and the results carefully
noted. If they sustain all that is claimed
for the project ii ought to revolutionze
the farming industry in the semi-arid re-
sionS of the West.
1t IS obvious that Il complete demOnstra-
tion of the efficiency of the system is of
almost inestimable value TO the country.
There Is no subject that can compare with
this in Importance TO the people. The tests
should not be left to the railroads alone.
The legislatures of the DakotaS and Okla
homa should take it up and grant prem
iums for the best crops raised in 1897 by
this Campbell process. The legislatures of
Kansas and Nebraska should stop their
Popuiist moonshine and nonsense long
enough to encourage farmers TO try this
Campbell remedy for hard times beyond
the 9Sth parallel of longitude in their
states. Think of 200 bushels of potatoes
per acre instead of twenty or twenty-five
or none; and of big crops of corn. oats.
barley and all kinds of vegetables instead
of almost none. This is what is made pos
sible. apparently. by this Campbell discov-
cry in these states. and the same is true
Of the western half or two.thirds of the
Dakotas. Oklahoma, Western Texas, Wyo-'
ming, Montana and Colorado
The most exhaustive experiments should
he made in all these states and in all kinds
of soil with this remedy for drouth, for if
it does half what is asserted, ii will prove
Il gOdsend to these semi-arid lands.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06
An Exodus of Brokers.
rom the Springfield Union.

From the Springfield Union.
The new German anti-optiOn law goes
into effect next Saturday. In anticipation
oil its rigid enforcement, Berlin stock bro
kers i'm considerable numbers have left
Berlin ard taken up residence in Paris,
Sweden. Amsterdam. and elsewhere. The
new law is hostile to brokers business
activity. and what. with the prohibition of
dealing in futures and Increased difficulties
i'm the tlotation of stock companies. the
business of brokins is practically destroy
Ell. II is believed that as a result of the
operations of this law. the great German
interests in South African mines will be
moved to London. which will aid in soIfdi-
flying England's power in South Africa.