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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
A Disenchanted Mesa

From the Chicago Record.
II remains to be determined whether Pro
lessor William Libbey. of Princeton uni
versty, IS to be thanked for his picturesque
exploit in climbing up the Mesa Encantada
in New Mexico. The mesa has been the
subject of ndles romance among the
tribes who somehow manage to hold to ex-
fstence in the furnace-heat of the middle
plains OF New Mexico. It is a rock 500
feet in height. not unsymmetrical in de-
sign. and standing alone on the plain. Until
Professor Libbey came along n in the
interest OF science shot ropes from a life
saving gun across the summit no human
hand, it is supposed. ever touched the
mesa's crown. At least this Is the belief
confirmed by Professor Libbey's investiga-
tons; for, instead of tabled ruins Of an
Gent cities and the relics of a prehistoric
civilization. he found nothing but sage
brush and the usual dry scrub-growth Of
New Mexican plants.
Science has gained a few photographs of
these things. It has also gained the knowi-
edge that the summit of the mesa is not in
accessible to exploration, provided the ex-
plorer be equipped with enough ropes and
a team OF mules. But a whole world Of ro-
mantle traditions has been wiped out. The
mystery of the enchanted mesa is gone. 1t
might have remained for years useful as a
figure in poetic imagery and inspiring to
the imagination as a haunted and unknow-
able land. Now II is nothing but a colossal
pile OF rock covered with ugly brush. and
interesting only as an emblem of some vast
igneous u~pheaval OF prehistoric times. Fig
uratively speaking. science has again met
poetry and sent her TO the ropes.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
MISSOURI POINTS.

Mr. who deals in hrewater,
is Joplin's most recent acquisition in a
business way.
Moberly has secured the annual encamp-
ment OF the Fourth regiment, the weeks
outing for the soldier boys beginning Mon
day. August p
An old-fashioned country fair, with the
customary attractions supplemented by the
engagement OF Thomas B. Reed and Will
lam J. Bryan, IS talked of in Sedalia as a
possibility this fall.
A philanthropist in the Sedalia council
undertook to secure the passage of an or
dinance making it unlawful, after a period
Of six months, for any gate 10 swing out,
but it was tabled on first reading.
$50
II good reports do not come from the big
reunion at Spickard's next week, II will
he due TO no negligence on the part Of the
man who Is to dispense the wet goods. He
has bargained for 400 cases of pop
CarroIlton is TO have a new opera house
II patriotic citizens who are desirous Of
seeing such an Improvement made merely
will buy tickets enough for the opening at
traction at SO a head to pay for building
it.
The fist number of the Mascot, which
presumably is expected 20 bring good luck
10 the new town OF Melbourne on the Pat
tonshurg road. wherein 1t IS pGhIsned'has
made its appearance. {. T. Allen is its
editor.
The onward march OF civilization has
come to a dead halt in the vicinity Of Rich
Hin until the paramount issue OF the hour
whether the new band stand shall be two
stories in height or only one. can be oeh-
nitely and permanently settled.
The intolerabIe heat tina prevailed there
the first Of the week wasn't the only source
OF discomfort for the average head OF a
family in Trenton. Representatives OF three
different female colleges were in town and
engaged in an active chase for patronage.
ST. Joseph News: Major William Warner.
the Kansas City politician. came up yes
terday afternoon 10 see Consul Blttinger
take the path of office. The oath was ad-
ministered by United States commissioner
Pollock, and the bondsmen are Major 7. J.
chow and August Nunning. The bond is for
$4,000.
Puchanan county observer, eX-Assem-
bIyman b. +. Stuart. who at his nome te-
tween Rushville and DekalD, mas kept TAP
on the thermometer twenty-five years. says
that last Sunday, with its temperature OF
lO1. was a record-breaker for the entire
quarter of a century
Extensive improvements are promised In
The Efms property at Excelsior Springs
by the syndicate of L~eavenworth capitalists
which has leased the big hotel. The same
company has become the owner OF all the
other real estate which was once the prop
erty OF the corporation that built the motel.
A somewhat unusual complaint concern
ing Sunday night church ATTENDANCE is
made in Sedalia. A popular minister OF
that town. in the hope of reaching people
not accessible from the ordinary pulpit, ar
ranged for a series Of Sunday evening
meetings at the opera house for their espe-
cial beneht. but the regular attendants OF
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE.

Kansas City's record as a healthful town
keeps up. The report of the city ply
stefan for the past year shows that the
low rate Of mortality for which this mu-
nicipaIity has become noted has not in
creased with the growth in population. For
the last twelve months the mortality was
My L in 1.ecO. a lower rate than that Of
any other city with the single exception
Of Denver. where the deaths average the
same as in Kansas City.
This gratifying condition is largely due
10 the fine natural drainage of the town
and the s~crupulous care of the streets.
There is no reason why Kansas City should
not always be as free from disease breed
Ing influences as at present.
II is apparent that while the processes
.or making the city attractive and prosper
Gus are going steadily forward, the natural
advantage hold their own against the in
creasing congestion of population.
Kansas City is not only a good place to
live well. but it is also the place to live
long. and a long life worth living is desired
OF all men.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
AJoG FOR MIR. BULLS MEMORY.

To back down gracefully is always
difficult; TO do It with dignity under
the critical gaze of the world is al
most impossible. Yet this is the task
which England is bravely attempting
in the matter Of her free trade policy. The
recent decentralization Of the Belgian and
German treaties IS the Reputation of a
principle of economic faith which has been
maintained by English statesmen more
zealously than ever the English clergy up
held the thirty-nlne articles; it is the con-
fessiOn that conclusions which have gone
unchaIlenged for half a century require re-
vision. after all.
A touching explanation is offered of the
failure of free trade. 1t is explained that
other nations were slow to reciprocate, and
that therefore England was obliged to flock
by herself. But this explanation is not
complete without a Supplementary explana-
ton. Here is a bit of history which proves
that at least one other nation did make just
such an attempt as the British lion has
longed for, in every fiber of his leonine
heart.
South of Canada there is a nation known
as the United States of America. This
people. having become TOO beastly pros
Porous" as an apostle of English culture
who inadvertently strayed south Of Halifax
once feelingly remarked, yearned with a
mighty yearn TO meet England half way
and something over. She therefore sent Mr..
Thomas F. Bayard to warn the English
people against the commercial sins of her
own past. pulled down several lengths of
her tariff fence. pulled up several signs
which read Keep of the grass" and in
vited the manufacturing nations Of the
world to come and play in the back yard
of her home market.
They came. Five hundred factories closed
with a snap. railroads with a capital of
900 millions went into liquidation, IS banks
failed. all in the first eighteen months of
the new tariff policy. The savings of the
frugal poor, the fortunes of the rich, the
trust funds of colleges and schools all went
down in one common ruin. 1t was wonder
full weather for imports. The export trade
was lively too, in one commodity-gold. 1t
was hospitality. but was death to the host.
This experiment came to an end a few
ago. The apparatus with which it was
tried is locked up. and the key is thrown
into the cistern. We, too. are philanthropy
i, but charity begins at home. We are
not without sympathy for John Bull in his
troubles; we know how it is ourselves; but
it strains our patience to hear him accuse
US Of failure TO follow his lead. We went
as far as we could see our way. and then
we went a sight farther. Did Mr.. Bayard
forget to explain how it was. and why we
quit when we did?
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
DREAMS.

Who a tell US whence they come,
What mysterious region from?
In what fairy country lies
That strange city OF surprise.
Whittier We in s'Umber go.
BY a path we do not know7
Is IL near or far away?
And the people, who are they7
Once hen ! was there, the town
Seemed as IL 'twere upside down;
Roofs OF barns and houses stood
Where the stone foundations should,
And the streets all seemed to run
Straight as arroWs Il the sun.
Where. like ribbons. they were wound
Its great, golden spool around.
All the men and horses there,
Topsy-turvy in the air,
Walked and trotted on the blue
Pavements Of the avenue
But at morning when I woke.
! discovered twas a joke.
For b first thing 7 found out
Was that / had turned about.
How to 20 there. who can tell.
Where these fairy people dwell?
Strange it is that mornings light
Cannot show the path Of night:
Stranger yet that we can keep
1t so surely in our sleep;
But the very strangest seems
Being wide awake In dreams.
Frank Dempster Sherman.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
CATTLE. WHEAT, POTATOES. EFT,


Kansas City is rapidly approaching per-
manent pre-eminence as a market for some
of the greatest of the many great agricult-
ural products OF the country.
Although exceptional influences are bear
ing upon our cattle market at this time,
there is something more than the temper
airy expansion in the phenomenal receipts
of this week-receipts that not only broke
the local record, but surpassed those of
Chicago. st. Louis and Omaha combined.
Although the wheat crop may be said to
have just commenced to move. the ship
ments to this city have already broken all
previous records and surpassed those of
Chicago, St. Louis. Minneapolis and Duluth
together.
Since the first digging Of the new potato
crop, one railroad alone has brought TO
this city 100 carloads OF this valuable
product. Kansas City is. by the record of
its receipts, the greatest potato market
in the United States at this time.
The timely rains Of the past few days in
sure an immense crop Of corn, and Kansas
City will be the leading market for this
valuable product.
For several kinds Of domestic fruits a
sas City is the leading market Of the Unit
ed States.
These indications Of present greatness and
future prospects, it is appropriate to note.
are confined TO the city's Importance as a
market and distributing point for the great
agricultural and fruit country Of which it
% 1Aa anti u~blT. rk,,t,~- --suh. l.
given upon interesting details. and a vol
ume might be written on other evidences
Of rapid growth and inevitable supremacy.
1t Is not strange that Kansas City is the
cynosure Of shippers. merchants. investors
and other business men, who make intel
Iigent observations.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

course carried out. Perhaps a reaction was
then natural; and if the system should
ever b. revived. perhaps smaller bonuses
would be paid than those which allow
500, 900 for an extra knot. But at present
the view taken is that. with the experience
gained, premiums are not needed and, in
fact, the composite gunboats and the tor
pedoboat Porter, without premiums. have
far exceeded their contract speed. How
ever, contractors now take into view that
no premiums are payable when they make
their bids"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Let the weather clerk keep this Up for the
next six weeks and all will be forgiven.
The European concert now consists OF the
shrieks o. excitable editors at the new
American tariH.
Tom Watson announces that the Populist
party IS on its last Iege. This would indl-
cate that II has got or Toms neck.
Il seems that M~. Wauamaker's good
sense finally came - The rescue and saved
him from the calamity bowling habit.
Republican weather was delayed too long
in Kansas. The corn crop in some Of the
southern counties has gone hopelessIy Pop
ulist.
After thoroughly lr~ysaugatlng the report
that he r. about 10 resign. Secretary sher-
man is able 70 announce that there Is moth
ing in &.
1t is plain 70 the most casual obseryer
Kansas City's cattle business and her base
bah business.
Mr.. Cowherd talks very learncdly about
affairs Of state for a young man who has
served less than a fourth OF his first term
at Washington.
Irrigation does not mean wett!ng the
whistle in Texas. An irrigation amend
ment has just been overwhelmingly de-
feated in that state.
The story from Iowa about hailstonos
large enough TO block the progress of an
express train will be read with an incrodu-
Ious smile at Topeka.
1T is without doubt the most Infamous
tariff bill that has ever been passed by
congress-" says MIR. CoWherd. cot course
the West will suffer more from it than will
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

but no one a year back could have con-
ceived Of such a display OF india rubber
principles. Here we have our typical Amer
lean politician in action. and like so many
other American products. he beats all Gre
alton We challenge any other country
blessed with parliamentary institutions and
party government to show Mr.. Germans
equal. And In American politics We can
think Of no parallel 10 him of like promi-
hence. He seems TO have beaten the record.
and on this account his case certainly mer-
its passing mention.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE.

Ny thoughts arise and fade in solitude.
The verse that would invest them melts
away.
Like moonlight IN the heayen Of spread
ing day;
How beautiful they were. how firm they
stood,
FIecking the starry sky like woven pearl!
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
Weather Forecast for Thur.dnr.

Washington. Aug. 4-weather forecast
for Thursday:
For Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Local showers; fair Thursday night; cooler;
north winds.
For NIissouri-Fair: cooler in southeast
ern portion: north winds.
For Kansas-Threatening weather; cool
er; northeast winds.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
The Fate of a Yachting Fiend.

From the New York Press.
Il suppose said the wrath OF Diogenes
hercely, that I'll nave to suffer all
through eternity on account Of that old
fling in the Corinth newspapers. I'd just
like to state right here"
The new shade who had timidly ques-
toned him shrsnk tremblingiy.
that my yacht was no more Of a tub
than seneca's. who got UP that story on
me. either"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
On the

From the Chicago Tribune
There's a lot of shOotin' goin' on over
there at Alaska Dicks saloon. Are the
boys havin' fun with the tenderfoot hat
bowed in last nlght?"
Fun nothin'! The boys Is shootin' to
kill. They're hghtin' like hungry tigers
over a raw onion they happened to see
in that tenderfoot's baggage"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
An Optimfst.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
I'm going to Klondike, and"
Suppose you don't find any gold?"
wei in that case, Ill Just keep on till
I find the north pole and be famous, If I
can't be rich"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
Vanished Inhuence.

From the New York Press.
Yabsly-"I understand Brown has lost
all control over that small boy Of his"
Griggs-"Yes. He tried to show him how
he used TO walk on stills when be was a
how"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

any other part OF the country. l
feel that the conditions of trade here have
never been so good as they are at present
Kansas City is all right" Mr.. Cowherd
should endeavor 10 get together.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
He Had smeIt Powder.

From Judge.
First old sOldier-"There's something
familiar about that woman's face"
Second old soldier-"Thats SO. I guess
it's the powder"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Governor Leedy makes no secret Of the
fact that he is ready to honor his oath and
enforce the law whenever the people clam
or sufficiently loud and long for its en-
forcement. In the absence of such clamor
the governor apparently regards his oath
as a very trihing matter.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

In order that President Mckinley may
have a thoroughly good rest the people Of
Plattsburg are getting up all kinds of pa
rades for him to review.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Debs' Social Democracy has repudiated
Billy Bryan. This ought to enable Billy's
faith TO look up a few inches in spite of
the cavortings of wheat and silver.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

AfNA NAA"N NAD ~ -
never been so good as they are at present.
Kansas City is all right" Mr.. Cowherd
should endeavor 10 get together.
In order that President Mckinley may
have a thoroughly good rest the people Of
Plattsburg are getting up all kinds of pa
rsdes for him to review.
Debs' Social Democracy has repudiated
Billy Bryan. This ought to enable Billy's
faith TO look up a few inches in spite of
the cavortings of wheat and silver.
The free silver leaders might take a cue
from the New York courts and refuse to
recognize the divorce OF wheat from silver
on the ground that II is a mere South Da-
kota affair.
Mr.. Cowherd is sure the Dingley bill is a
wholly bad measure. His long experience
in framing and passing tariff bills enable
Mr.. Cowherd TO speak with authority on
this important subject.
Being no longer able to deny the return
Of prosperity. Democratic editors are bust
y dAAAAbAAAAAS II ~ AAAN NAbAIs anu I AAN
farmers remember many big crop years
when there was no prosperity.
Kansas POpulists have begun a vigorous
war on fusion. This will continue until the
opening of the next campaign, when it will
be discontinued for the purpose Of allowing
Populists and Democrats TO fuse.
The decision of the American people to
manufacture most OF the goods they will
consume hereafter has thrown Europe into
very bad humor. They seem TO think over
there that they have been robbed of some
thing.
Pitchfork Tillman is telling his South Car
DINA admirers that he is the only farmer in
the senate That is to say. the farmers are
almost wholly without representation in the
senate, and what little they have is TO
their discredit.
Mr.. Pulitzer assures the farmers that the
hide tariff will not help them in the least.
But Mr.. Pulitzer has assured the farmers
of so many things which were not verified
by events that they arc not at all disturbed
by his hard luck stories.
Governor Leedy makes no secret OF the
fact that he is ready to honor his oath and
or sufficiently loud and long for its en-
forcement. In the absence of such clamor
the governor apparently regards his oath
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Mr.. Pulitzer assures the farmers that the
hide tariff will not help them in the least.
But Mr.. Pulitzer has assured the farmers
of so many things which were not verified
by events that they arc not at all disturbed
by his hard luck stories.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

To hearts which near each other move.
From evening close 10 morning light,
The night Is good; because, my love,
They never say good night.
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

How can ! call the lone night good.
Though thy sweet wishes wing its hightf
Be 1t not said. thought, understood
Then 1t will be-gOod night.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
GOODNIGHT.

Good night? All. no, The hour IS III
Which sewers those il should unite;
Let US remain together still.
Then IL will be good night
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

The free silver leaders might take a cue
from the New York courts and refuse to
recognize the divorce OF wheat from silver
on the ground that IT is a mere South Da-
kota affair.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Mr.. Cowherd is sure the Dingley bill is a
wholly bad measure. His long experience
in framing and passing tariff bills enables
Mr.. Cowherd TO speak with authority on
this important subject.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Being no longer able to deny the return
OF prosperity. Democratic editors are bust
ly a%ttributing it to the crops. And yet the
farmers remember many big crop years
when there was no prosperity.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

JezreeIs temple, on Chatham hill. in En-
gland. on which 5000 was spent, has been
sold for $3.50. and. and the sale probably
marks the end of the Jezreelites. The sect
was founded by a man named White. who
called himself Jezreel and proposed to
gather in the temple IA families of the
lost tribes OF Israel. He had wealthy Jack
ers, and began the building. which is I24
feet square and has never been completed.
as Jezreel died before he had gathered in
the lost tribes,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Il seems hat Mr. wauamaker's good
sense finally came - The rescue and saved
him from the calamity bowling habit.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Pitchfork Tillman is telling his South Car
DINA admirers that he is the only farmer in
the senate. That is to say. the farmers are
wholly without representation in the
senate, and what little they have is TO
their discre6if
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Kansas POpulists have begun a vigorous
war on fusion. This will continue until the
opening of the next campaign, when it will
be discontinued for the purpose Of allowing
Populists and Democrats to fuse.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Let the weather clerk keep this Up for the
next six weeks and all will be forgiven.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

No more will women need to get down or
their knees TO scrub the floor. An English
man has invented a machine which does in
two hours the work of ten women working
on their knees for two days. II resembles
a law mower and is propelled in the same
way. Hot water is placed in a receptacle.
and when the machine is moved. flows
forth gently and is automatically gathered
up by a wiping cloth and brushes to be
found in the rear. The rapidity with which
the machine scrubs the floors and dries
them Is remarkable.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Tom Watson announces that the PopuIist
party IS on It's last lsgs. This would indi-
cate that Il has got on Toms neck.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

Republican weather was delayed too long
in Kansas. The corn crop In some Of the
southern counties has gone hopelessIy Pop
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

The decision of the American people to
manufacture most OF the goods they will
consume hereafter has thrown Europe into
very bad humor. They seem TO think over
there that they have been robbed of some
fbSrr
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05

1T is without doubt the most Infamous
tariff bill that has ever been passed by
congress, says MIR. CoNherd. "of course.
the West will suffer more from it than will