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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
Why She Went.
rom the Cleveland Leader.

From the Cleveland Leader.
minerva Middleton had thrown Off the
ycke OF oppression. She was a nev, v,o
man. She had not donned mans apparel
because She dld not regard that as neceS
sary TO the emancipation of her sex.
But, she said to the members OF tho
twentieth Century Woman's Club tbtt
AFTERNOON, the time has come for US %
STOW that we have ceased to be slavs
Vi IaShlon; that we 10 longer spend ma
Jor portion of our time before our mirrob.
that while we retain a proper rer.rd H.
"hat is beautiful in life, we have chanssNi
our ideas regarding that which constitutes
the beautiful. Let us remember that nov
uer ana laces and perfumes will not maze
woman lovely any more than a hfh
collar Will make n man noble. Let Lls
quit penciling our eyebrows and, oh. nv
sisters, let us rise above the petty little
things that give men the excuse to regard
us as mere dolls"
Her address was received with loud dem
onsrations of approval, and she wert
home glad-hearted and buoyant She coud
not, indeed, help smiling at the thought
OF having lifted herself up to 4 level with
her husband. Her happy. radiant look she
decided must be responsible for the fact
that everybody in the car kept stariag
at her
The handsome man who sat in the o.
posite seat couldn't seem to keep his gaze
from wandering in her direction, and It
gave her the deepest satisfaction to thin,
that she had resorted to no frivolous meth
DDS in making herself pretty. II she was
beautiful, 1t was natural beauty, unas-
sisted by the slightest dab of powder and
there was something ennobling in the very
thought of being thus admired
At last she got home. Her husband met
her at the door, and was about to kiss her,
but he suddenly drew back. excIaiming:
why. Minerva. you've got a chunk OF
SCOT as big as a walnut on the end of your
nCsen
Then Minerva Middleton sat down and
thought disagreeable things and wept. and
forgot that she had risen above the friv-
olous notions that make men look upon
women as playthings that must be pretty
If they would be loved.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
Cannon's 16 to L Substitute.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Senator Cannon, of Utah, has offered a
substitute for Senator Wolcotts bill re-
garding a bimetallic monetary confer
ence. By this substitute the president
is ordered to invite the leading COM
mercial nations of the world to send
representatives to q conference Mt WASH
ington. The United States is to be repre-
sented at the conference by commissioners,
who must urge the adoption of some plan
for athe free coinage of silver at a ratio
somewhere between Is to l and 10 to 1.
Should this substitute be adopted there
will be no conference. 1t will be a waste of
time for the president to invite commercial
nations to send representatives here. Not
one of them will accept the invitation to
cross the ocean and discuss free coinage at
the impossible ratio ratio of 10 or 1G to l.
Il this substitute were to be adopted and
invitation sent out under 1t the United
States would make itself supremely ridcu-
lous. AS long as the actual commercial
ratio is 50 or 81 or 50 to l what commercial
nation will send delegates to 16 to 1 gath
ering?
The great commercial nations of the earth
have the gold standard. They intend to
keep 1t because of its superior convenience
and economy. Free coinage at the ratios
specified by Senator Cannon, or any ratio
except the commercial ratio, would substi-
tute Il deprecated, fluctuating silver stand
ard for the,g gold standard. All commercial
nations know that. and would send no dele
gates to Cannon's gathering.
He is aware of that. So his substitute is
offered in order that there may be no inter-
naticral bimetallic conference. He is OPP
posed to any use of silver on the basis of it's
gold value, beCarse no creditor could be
cheated by such use.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
TURN Anorr.s r,rn PLAY

According to a correspondent of a ST.
Louis contemporary. the high hat agita-
ton is not thing of recent date, but goes
lack sixty years at least. The complaint
at that period. however, the writer says.
was against the gentlemen, who had an
awkward habit CT sitting in theaters with
hats on. In an old playful from a theater
In Mobile, Ala, dated January %, 1856. is
found the following notice: The manager
has been strongly urged by a number of
Nisitants to the theater to institute the rula
Of gentlemen pulling off their hats during
the time the performance is going on.
1t is customary in all well regulated thea
ters. and it is hoped that as it is so essen
Iial to the comfort and convenience of alI
that none will object 10 comply with the
regulation. The ''vsitants" who thus
complained were undoubtedly ladies, rs.
according 10 the correspondent. 1t was the
custom for them TO attend places of
amusement barcheadcd. The rule referred
To was afterwards Instituted i'm the fol-
lowing language: Gentlemen are request
ed not TO wear their hats while the curtain
F' az "'NSt eAal Ile persons behind
Them may have every opportunity Of see
ing the stage"
il Is related that the gentlemen readily
and courtcously complied with. this rea-
sonable request and from that time an
they have removed their tiles at every per-
iormanee, even down to the baldheads in
the front row. Now let the women recin-
r'eate. One good turn deserves another.
Give the lords Of creation. heretofore So
called. show for their white alley.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
THE COLD syAp on ,e,n

The unusual cold weather OF the past few
Gays has revived many memories among
old timers who delight to compare notes
in seasons OF unusual severity. An old set-
tier Of Southwest Missouri, Judge N. J,
Rountree, who came TO the state in 1Sao
gives q graphic description of the winter
OF that ear. which for sixty-seyen Years
has been known in that region as the cold
winter
Judge Rountree left the state of Tennes-
see in the fail. and by the time he reached
the Mississippi river the winter had set in
In earnest. This was about the lst OF De-
cember and then The snow was so deep
that his teams were greatly impeded in
their daily progress. The country was an
inhcspltable wilderness, with only here
and there wagon trail made by. the home
seekers who had gone before 10 the West
ern frontier The snow soon became al
most impossible and they were constantly
in danger OF becoming lost in the traclSless
waste. The weather was extremely cold.
and the country was fun of wolves whose
dismal howiings added to the forlernness
Of the scene. By the middle OF December
the snow had reached n depth of two feet.
and travelling with a wagon was almost I'M
possible. Nearly all the small game per-
ished for the lack OF food Wild turkeys
died by the thousand and most OF the quail
were esterminatod.
Mr. Romuee reached Springfield on the
18th OF January. after a journey of only
two hundred miles, but which required six
weeks to make. ly reason Of the snow and
the cold. The snow remained in drifts un-
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
ExrT DUBOIS.

Senator Dubois. who assisted in sowing
a small wind at the Republican national
convention last June. has reaped an un-
comfortably large whirwind. He win be
succeeded in the senate by PopuIist, a
man of limited education, a formerly of
Kansas man, and one who win probably
not reflect any luster on Idaho.
There will be no sympathy wasted upon
the exit of Mr.. Dubois from senatorial
life. He deliberately cast aside his party
fealty for a financial heresy, and support
ed the Democratic platform with its free
trade plank and its revolutionary senti-
ments. His convention bolt was a grand
stand play for popularity that produced
houmerangic effects, and the general YER
dict will be Served him right" The iron
must have entered into his soul when he
learned that the fatal blow, the grand
coup, was given TO his aspirations by a
'gCldbug. sound money Republican
gave the finishing stroke, and by the vote
of Mr.. Fenn the only member of the e. o.
D. elected to the legislature in that state.
Senator Dubois is relegated 10 private Hfe.
In the meantime. Idaho cannot expect
any great benefits to come from the Sc
lection of Dubois successor. He will have
no influence in the senate, and beyond
voting and drawing his salary wooden
senator might as well have been chosen.
Buf six years hence the people of Idaho
will have come to their senses and n good
Republican. sound money and a pro-
tective tariff man will occupy the seat
once held and credltably filled by Frederick
r. Dubois, Republican.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
Colonel Ingersolr. Mistake.

From the Chicago Times-HeraId.
1t strikes us as clearly a mistake in Colo
mel Ingersoll to refuse to meet Mr.. Sam
Jones in debate. His excuse is very slen-
der. He says in it that Mr.. Jones does not
represent any great religious body" This
is unworthy of D lawyer of the astuteness
of Colonel Ingersoll. 1t is not the views of
any special great religious body that the
colonel combats. He attacks the Bible, the
storehouse of all ,'eligious belief for Chris
tians. Sam Jones' is the defender of that
book, if he is nothing else. 1t is not neces-
sary that he should accept the tenets of
any body of Christians as such to qualify
him to speak on that side. Colonel Inger-
soil evidently did not desire to hold a de-
bate with the dougfAy champion Of a cause.
conflict with which makes SO much the
staple of his capitas as lecturer, but a
man OF his parts might have found a more
plausible pretext fori avoiding the encoun-
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30

plorable condition of affairs we NAV rote
that large percentage OF our population
is made up of foreigners who regard mat
rimony as frivolity: that last wear was
leap year. and that hard times have
pressed most heavily upon the verv h,,m-
blest households: yet even with tbese e,-
plantations it is difficult TO reach anv other
conclusion than that the clergy is largely
TO blame for this growing sin of wife de-
sertion.
Surely a very considerable amount of dis
cretion might be exercised by many gen
uemen of the cloth who decry poverty and
sin and yet are willing to give the benadic-
ton OF the church TO any i'll assorted or
poverty stricken couple that cones before
them TO be married.
A section of the clergy has just report
ed upon the duties of the press. II may
not oe arniss to remind our reverend breth
rem that they, too, have duties of their
own.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
Thawed Out.

From the New York Sun.
After lodging the ex-Queen Liluokalani
on two occasions the Hon. Grover Cleve-.
land consented to receive her in audience
yesterday. When Mrs. Dominis advanced
into the large presence of the president
she found the moral atmosphere of the
room not one whit higher than that of the
frozen air outside. Her great and good
friend had no word of consolation for her.
He said: Don't you find this pretty cold
weather." To which the poor, deposed
monarch replied that she had been in this
country long enough to get accustomed to
it. Could anything be more plaintive than
that soft answer which was clearly of the
sort that, according to the Scriptures, is
calculated to turn away wrath?
The willy Mrs. Dominis then proceeded to
follow up the advantage she had gained.
She thanked the president for the great
interest he had shown in the Hawaiian
people Now, Mr.. c. is particularly sus-
ceptible to the use of the word great in
association with himself. He began to thaw
out. His visitor, instead of reproaching
him for what he had not done; for the loss
of that pension and all the rest. was ready
to give him and was giving him full credit
for having done his best against the Ha-
waian people and in behalf of her dusky
majesty. Surely this was almost reward
enough for all the efforts put forth through
Paramount Blount and otherwise.
But the most touching part of the inter-
view came later. 1t was when Mrs. Dom
inis, her attendants having departed,
turned back for a moments speech with
her friend all alone. What was said there
history Will never know. A veil of secrecy
will cover it. Did he kiss the once royal
hand? Did she kiss the presidential hand?
Did both weep over the private state into
which nd inf
the other is so soon 10 pass? 1t would make
Il great subject for an historical picture
that scene of tears and pocket handker-
chiefs and pathosl
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
KANSAS TOPICS.

Senator Harris is so classical that he has
named the hogs on his farm Acestorides.
Basterbini. Callistagoras, Pachnamunis
and such like.
Why should Governor Leedy go to far off
Egypt for his metaphors? We have relia-
BILE information that the dogs of Kansas
have barked at the moon unanswered for
ninety centuries.
The Abilene Reflector declares that Ed
Little had good Populistic precedent for GO
ing to sleep that time. Ben Glover snored
in the halls of congress.
Cubbison might have known that his bill
to consolidate the spring elections with the
elections in the fall would be knocked sky
high. The people of Kansas would Just
about as readily entertain n bill to repeal
the Fourth of July as one which deprived
them of the excitement of an election.
The Kansas papers have been comment
ing on the handsome beaver overcoat worn
by John Speer and wondering how he felt
able TO eXpend the $500 which the garment
cost. Mr.. Speer did not buy the coat. 1t
originally belonged to Charley Moore his
son-ir-law, who died in Denver Il number
of years ago. and at the beginning of the
present winter Mrs. Moore had it made
over 10 ut her father and presented it to
him. When man grows old 1t is nearly
always his daughters who look after his
comfort.
The Commercial Club of Kansas City
ought to make visit to Western Kansas
and learn something about the country
When tine editors were in Kansas City the
other day Dent Yates asked one of them
in what counties the sage brush grew
Twenty-one years ago III. r. Nickerson,
George j. Hartman and James Keating
were employees of the Santa Fe at Great
Bend. Nickerson was station agent, Hart
man baggage rustler. and Heating foreman
of the section gang. They were insepara-
bic companions and always spent their
evenings together. Keating was the smart
est looking one of the trio and IT was pre-
d.cted that he would get to be somebody
whether the others did or not. Nickerson
is now general manager of the Mexican
Central and receives n salary Of sS5, 900 in
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
A Hedge Needed.

From the Chicago News.
The theatrical manager, having solved
the high-hat problem, should now address
himself to inventing some sort of substi-
tute divinity which will hedge his leading
man while the performance is on.
Vulgar and profane hands have lately
taken most unseemly liberties with histri-
onic art, and the habit seems to be steadily
growing at rate that will soon make the
theater hat look like n trivial and ephemer-
al annoyance.
Unless the manager can fix some way to
isolate his leading man from the rude and
intrusive constable there will have to be a
radical change in the manner of presenting
the drama. Only the other day heartless
emissary of the court, induced by an irate
woman, yanked Iachimo out of the stage
door in New York, and thereby hopelessly
disorganized the court of Britain's legen-
dary king. How could Imogen be in dam
ger of falling prey to the wiles of Iachimo
when Iachimo was tearing his hair in
police station ten blocks away? And Tues
day evening in Chicago as another able ex-
ponent of the drama was about to intro
duce a needful element of villajny in a
chaste play, constable, also melted by an
irate woman, swooped down on him and
carried him off to Jail.
Wnere is tnlS sort OF thinS gong 10 stop!
Could the whole government of England be
tied up because bailiff had Henry VIII.
in hook? Is it just that because some gen.
tleman has done some lady out of a few
dollars or Il trifle of jewelry Desdemona
should be relegated to spinsterhood or shall
low Richmond be given a chance to win a
kingdom hands down, his valiant rival
lacking the necessary bail to enable him
to be personally present at the decisive
battle?
Unless the heavy villain and the irate
lady and her constable can be kept more
separate we must raise a school of dramat-
lists who can write plays with detachable
nnrtS like hicvclns
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.


The selection of Lyman ]. Gage for sec
retary of the treasury is one that Impresses
the country favorably. Mr.. Gage is a bust
ness man of ripe experience; he is widely
known as vigorous thinker and sue
cessful manager of large undertakings. and
above reproach. In the difficult and la
borious position he is about to assume the
qualities which have given him success
and standing as a broad gauged man of
affairs will come into admirable play. In
addition TO the high personal compliment
recognition of the great state of Illinois,
and will be generally so regarded. Major
fact it is a compliment to the entire West
and will be generally so regarded. Maor
Mckinley has thus far made no mistakes
i'm his choice of cabinet material,
Mr.. Gage will take the treasury portfolio
with the cheering assurance that he will
have some revenue to work with.
While in Paris Senator Wolcott may take
occasion to find how the Moulin Rouge
stands on international bimetallism.
Secretary Morton might take a terrible
revenge on Congressman De Almond by
cumming wrong labels on his packages of
garden seeds.
The senate committee is creating the i'm
preston that it really came TO this city
to investigate. And Mayor Jones is deter
mined that it shall not go away with the
cover.
Some idea OF the profits of pugilism may
be obtained from John L. Sullivan's state
ment that his earnings since 1881 amounted
to nearly 100000. better idea might be
obtained if there was any assurance that
John was speaking the truth.
The defeat OF Dubois is causing much
more rubbing OF hands than wiping of eyes
among Republicans.
II looks as if Colonel Dan Stuart had
arranged for temporary transfer of the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons battle-ground from the
newspaper columns to the state of Nevada.
Mrs Bryan's belief that her husbands
smile is decreasing in size is probably well
founded, There isn't much for Mr. Bryan
TO smile at these days.
The Republican party is in favor of a
tariff for revenue only-that is. revenue
for the government and revenue for the
workingman.
January is giving assurance that there
viii be plenty of ice next summer, but the
summer price viii probably be based on the
gloomy December outlook.
1t is not at all certain that Senator Pef-
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
The Ticket,

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mr.. Bryan very appropriately concludes
his new book with a poem by that clear
thinker, acute reasoner and severely NOR
al writer, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The sill
yer orator who relies upon tropes and
figures rather than facts and logic finds
the appeals of the poetess of passion ire
sistible and is satisfied that other people
will be convinced with equal ease. This
happy method of treating a subject which
ii has hitherto been supposed is of an
essentially dry and practical nature is
highly characteristic of a cause which
robbed the cradle and the grave for its
advocates last fall. The silverite mind
turns naturally to the poetry of passion
for the expression of its 'feelinks," as the
speeches of Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Vest Mr.
voorhees, and others abundantly demon
strated, though Mr.. Bryan is the first
boldly to espouse the Wilcox muse But
the idea is no more original with him than
is the 16 to 1 ratio. He gets the songs
from the Populists just as he got the free
coinage of silver from them. Any man
who has attended Populst meeting must
remember that the singing of lacka-
daisical songs constituted one of the most
popular features.
Mrs. Wilcox has not heretofore been in
favor with the bucolic muse Mr. Bryan
is entitled to the credit of bringing her
into political notice, but is there any rea-
son why he should stop there? The silver
ties say they are going to make him their
candidate in 1900. BY that time he will be
ready to accept a nomination from the
woman suffragists, all of whom supported
him last November in states where they
voted, as the returns from Colorado show.
place on the ticket would be no more
than what these ladies should demand and
If Mrs. Lease is willing to step aside how
would 1t do to name Mrs. Wilcox for vice
presidentess? Mr.. Bryan has delfcately in
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30

fer. win either lecture or write book
Like Tom Watson. Mr.. PETER fortunately
has an escape vent in the shape of a news
paper.
The talented cartoonlsts who consumed
SO much space last summer in showing
how Foraker was going to stab Mckinley
are just as busily at work now showing
how Foraker is going TO head off Hanna.
alabama found the Australian ballot law
cumbersome and expensive, and repealed
it. This was well enough. \ state in which
the ballot is merely an empty form should
adhere TO the simplest and cheapest vot-
ing system.
1t is suspected that Dan Stuart bought
up q couple of dozen Nevada voters last
fall and thus packed the legislature
DR.. Lyman Abbott regards the Jonah and
the whale story as an amusing fiction, but
he has discovered that there is nothing
laughable about the indignation of his
congregation at his remarks on the sub
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
Queen LIS Deem Plot.

My brain is a-weary, Thur\er,
And my heart is sore and sad;
/ am very leery, Thurber
That Lilly, my queen, is mad.
I've tried to avoid her, Thurber.
But IL didn't amount to shucks:
would have decoyed her. Thurber,
Fen as the festive ducks.
But she sticks like a plaster, Thurber.
In wait and watch for me:
She owns no master. Thurber.
But her great good friend, G. C.
oh. she's a dark dreSmer, Thurber,
And dreams rosy dreams of me;
A deep, dusky schemer Thurber,
Aye! devilish deep is shei
Does she want to- take me. Thurber,
Afar down the Southern sea?
And would she marry me. Thurber,
And make me commit bigamy?
Or make me a ruler. Thurber,
The king of her dusky crew?
I've scheme to fool her. Thurber;
I'm going to substitute you.
New York Sun.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30

til the middle of March, and during the
winter nearly all intercourse between the
sparse settlements was cut off by the rig
ors of the season. Had it not been for the
abundance of game many of the pioneers
would have starved to death. But at that
early time. when settler wanted meat he
could easily kill deer, and during the
winter of 1890 these animals became so
tame that they could be shot from the
cabin doors whenever the larder needed
replenishing.
Old timers generally agree that the wlr
ter of 1S30-Sl has never since been equaled
in severity. duration and amount of snow
fan,
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
And Now They Don't Speak.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Brooks" said Rivers, did you ever
think what grand figure Admiral Farra-
gut must have been at the battle of Mo-
bile bay?"
"Farraguti He was one of the greatest
naval heroes the world ever saw! To have
seen him in that battle, Rivers"
Yes" interposed Rivers. land how diff
ferent his conduct was from that of a third
cousin of mine who committed suicide II
few years ago from love of a girl who had
Tilted him.
What has that got to do with Far
ragut?"
Nothing, except that one was Iashed to
the mast and the other was mashed to the
last
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
Recrennt husbands.
! New York herald.

From the New York Herald.
Here's state of thiags. By actual count
there are 5000 husbands within the limits
of greater New York row under bonds 10
support their wives.
These recreants have taken vows and as
sumed responsibilities which they are too
lazy, too Indifferent, too lnkuman to fulfill.
The deserted wives, pincfted with want and
often carrying unwelcomeS tokens of fleet
ing passion in their arms, besiege our DO
lice courts and clamor fon recognition and
redress. Twenty per cent OF these wives
are under age; 50 per cent contracted mat
rimony while yet in their teens.
In searching for the cause for such a de-