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x" THE KANSAS CITY JOUKNAL, WEDNESDAY, FEimtMl? 27, 1805. KANSAS CITY .10UUNAL Tho Journal Company t:tabllshed 1S5I. Ilntered nt (he Poslnnirn In Knnt City, Mo , ns Second Cln Mnll Matter. Dillv and Rundnj, one jenr.,,.,. .....47 60 Dally and Stmdaj. lx month'. Pally niul Rundnj', three months........ I W Pally nnd Stmdnj. per month & Pally, without Sunday, one jcnr fro Fundav Journal, nno jcnr 15; Til-tv ceklj. ono vrnr... JOT Tri-Wetkly. fix month" t w eekly Journal and Agriculturist, ono J rar ., . M spnctAi. JCQT1CK. The snb'erlplloii price of the Weekly Journal nml Agriculturist hn been re. iluerd. for tho present, from 51 to 80 cent' a vcar. , ., rtlvo t'O'loniee address In full. Including county nnd Mate., , , ,, Tn ordering nddro" chin-ted give oil nib-Ires n well n new. , ... , ItnilttnucP wiv he mane either nv draft, pnstnnic nrdrt cxpres money or tier or tcfilMetoil letter, nt our risk. Ad Ires run jotmN w. company. Knhsns City, Mo I'OHTAOr.. Ppr the bnfU of tlinie em'.lnc sin el" ropti of the Journal through tho malt. Kile herewith the transient rnto or for flrn nnd domestic po'tngc 1 Ittiil and twelve pnKe paper, lc. Sixteen nnd twenty page paper. c. to city spttsctiinnns The Pally nnd Hund.iv Journal, delivered, per month. CCc: per week, 15e. nnjKCTKD manuscripts Will not Iik returned nml It I' ueln to -nclose stamp for that putpoe. p.rnn wlshlm- to preserve their literary produc tion should retain entile of nil eommunt rations sent to thli ouic for publication. Tnr.KPHoxt: NUMpnns. Hnlnes ofllee IMItorlal and Society City lMllor .. Sin ..lr,7 .. 12 I'ASTnrtN OPPICH-71 Tribune building, New York. W. Wnrd Pnmon. maimer. WKSTKTIN nppici: 117 Penrbom street, rtoom 4T:, Chicago. 111. lloraco XI. ford, manager LARGEST MQRS1NG C1RCULAT1QS II KANSAS CITY 1 IndUi'tlmis. Washington. Pel , Por M!'otlrl. Showers to-night, rollowod hy fair; south west wliH 1'or Oklahoma nnd Indian Tcnltory. llenenills fair, enst wind. Tor Kiih.is- Pair; south wind?. GOOD MORNING. The Brand Jury it. made nn excellent showing thus fat Let the good woil; go on. Senator-elect linker, of Knnn. ha never even n-en congress In session. Ills iccord is peifoctly olenn. Weather whkh makes sliibh ami rheu matism without matei Lilly helping the cisterns Is n good ileal of a nuisance. A Chicago contemporary, with a, nalcvolent chuckle, point' out that New York Ii.ih C,'J1J horses on Its hum!' ' Ah he show.' no disposition to esgi. !e take it that Sccrct.it y Cull-, ft also cftitcs to lead newspaper conynicnt. The stage Is making a herr.de effort to appear as If t)ie desertlonof John I. Sullivan hadn't matcil.illj weakened it. .,as nvcr dovvn about AVlch- i i. -c i Inoks If it had been in ti. i ilii; without Its sum The Harvard -b1"' are In hard luck. The ftieultj hm dCMUed to abolish foot ball, and jet :tief.' Is no kick comlnK to them 1 Henatoi 1. dRu has temporarily rlroppedil e Hawaiian infamy to roast tin lyJif i t atton on tho bond sale iu famj okl m Populists broke into a Re- nubl .r iti us with a ladder, but 1m- ned -etired. Theie was only ono .-oi " y that President Cleveland is j ud of his recent bond sale . lent 1 probablj" a fake, it Isn't - ole. b.'rs of consres-s are besinpins: to .iio.lt railway time tables with a view J leaving AVashlnRton so as to arrive 1 .m nr night. I T'te Missouri house has passed nn I lions bill. Now let the senate do Its i -lo v and tho two houses get together i sp "dilv as possible, '' h i nothing surprlslns about the pi i'cm m that AVaid McAllister left an es rtt I $10,000. It was utterly Impos sible to take It with htm. h .i.ras City's cattle receipts ypster daj were l,'i57 larger than Chicago's, nl largtr than the cattle receipts at Pi I u a and Omaha together. i- said that the height of a man or ii nn la bis times the length of the fi Hu this is not alwajs true. Chi- h - i jt a tity of giantesses. i qiowth of the protection senti- n i a Uuropo may be attributed In I i u the object leson presented by i.. i v .aiiff policy in tills countiy. if iU. ti ml Jttrle? do thole duty as auhfullj as the grand Jury there will loon be moto uk-ctlon thieves 111 Joffer lon City and fewer in Kancas City. Consiets has refused an appropriation for ti. unlniulns tho gjpsy tuotli. Masi-a.hiHr.tt-i will have to light Its own ngrl uliuicil baltl ., like Kansas nnd MlSaOliri. l is iiuitc niob.tblo that tho Kansas r nd uny encampment will neglect to i lr rt r.ngiiiB resolutions indorsing tho iber.it pension policy of the Cleveland idimntstratiuii. A million standard sller dollars," iajs the lies .Moines Iteglster, "welsh iS,o:s pounds, or nearly twenty tons." This is Intirtutlng. And how much does a ton neigh in Dib Moines? The country wouldn't so much mind tho congressional steal under the gula of extra allowance for clerk hlro if con Kress had tendered anj valuable tn,ul alent for Jt! regular compensation. An Iowa eNchaniM warns California that tin !i3hi'B3lon of an antl-clgarutte law doesn't irn.au that chnrettes are going to be banished, Iowa also has an iipll-clgurette law anil knows how leg Nation of this sort w-orks. The people would like to have a ses sion of the new congress If they bad a new president to tlgn Its bills. Under the circumstances, a special tesslou would be simply a waste of money and an asgrafltion of spirit. The rule udopttd by Judge Edmunds, of St Louis, no; to naturalise aliens wh" lannot speak Cusllsh Is a good on', 1 reigpers who conie to this country rx jicctins lo make (t the p home should be Interested enough In If cntom nnd lii'tltmlons to Iriirn the country's Ian- gllaRf- I'ntll nmc prngre'js I' made till- itlreetlnn they can afford to wait for the yr lieges of eltltenshlp, nnd It I better att'l safer for the cultnlry that thej be compelled to wait. MAki: iiii:m ki:i:p imiiit woitn. A lobbj I nt .lefferon City for tho uirpoe of securing iiermls'lon lo erect it toll brhlge ncros the .MUsotiil river nt KnntiiK Oily. ThH is but nn nttempt to get iiermlB'lon lo elmtge tolls for pis nge on a wngotiwny on the Winner bridge. The .lottrnnl calls upon the ns'tmbly to pee to It that the company which hns the matter In hrtnil I c-nmpelletl to keep lis wonl to the people of Jackson and Clay countle. in order to get congros to eliminate th fiep clnite In the brldgi charter the Hales crowd itfl'teit that It would be Impri'slble to build n wagonway on the bridge. Thl wa almost the sole argu ment used and It was the aigumctit w hlch secured tho de-dred repeal. Now this same company Is attempt ing to Kt n wagnnwuy across the bridge on which It can charge the farm cis nt clay county toll. If the bridge will stand a toll way It will tnnd a flee waj, nnd the legislature should pievent sitcli a bunco game being plijcd on the people of Ml'sotitl by a company which will 'toop to such methods. The right of way was given by num erous farmers and other propel ty own eis of Clay county with the psprcs im deistandlng that the btldge wu to car ry a fiee wagonwny. That flee clause wn' knocked out and now It Is juoposed to make the-e same propel ty owners give thcli land and nlo pay for the priv ilege of crossing the bridge. Th" Missouri grneia'i assembly should not bo a patty to Mir h a tiansactlon i in: I'tiiii i, w niii'isiov. The decision r" the supreme court of Missouri handed down yesteiday In the North Ten ace park case will piovu ben ellcial lather than InJmlous to the cltj. It has dellnUelv t-ettled the method that must be adopted by the city to acquire paiks and bouleuirds. 1'or ears past tin- people of Kansas City tiae been nppeillng to and relying upot, the geneial nemhlv of the state at'evoiy session for the enactment of a Pnik law that should be adapted to the tieed.' nt the citj", and at the Mine time 'be In i.arlnom with the piovl'lons of the state constitution. Tho avowed ob ject of appealing to the legislature was to -ae time; but the lesult pioves that aluahle tlmo ha' been lost, and that the only way which Is open to us has been neglected It seems from the icport of the decis ion Just bunded down in the North Ter race park case, that the supieme court, alter many former -duubtful utterances, has at last definitely established the doctiino that the purely local altalrs of cities, authorized by the constitution to fiame their own chaiteis, cannot be af fected or Interfered with by the state legislature, nnd the people of Kansas City have been plalnlj told that it they deslie to acquire parks they must In voke the power granted to them b.v the constitution to amend their city charter, and flame for thcnisehoa and adopt bj direct vole such laws as maj- be best suited to their needs and wl-dic- Thls Is a great point gained. It clears the legislative atmosphere, and now that we hae been definitely Informed that this Is the only course left to us, nnd that we are secure In this power, we should waste no more valuable time, but take immediate steps for the amend ment of the city chartei by the adop tion of u practical and comprehensive article that will give the city the neces sary power to obtain a park sj'stem. Tho act of the legislature which has Just been passed upon by tho supreme cdurt In the North Tenace paik case seems to answer every requltement of the city and Is 1n entile harmony with the provisions of our city charter. It was carefully framed, under the direc tion of the pies-eut paik board, by some of the ablest lawyers in the city, and after having undergone two vears of I'liiicism and practical application Is pioiioimced bj- the members of the park boatd to ho best adapted to tho needs of tho cltj-, and to be entirely fico from harsh and burdensome provisions. It piobahlj cannot be lmpioved upon. Tho supremo cottit seems to havo found no fault viith It, but has simply de clared that It Is practically an amend ment to the city chatter and must he adopted by tho people In the manner pointed out by the charter before It can be made to apply to Kansas Cltj . No tlmo should be lost. The city council should at once ratify and pass the act as a charter amendment and pro vide for Us submission to the popular vote. Thoro can be no question about tho result under the present condition of public sentiment. Our cltlr.ens are already Impatient over the delays that hao been suffered anil tho oppoitunl tles that lunu been lust. In this cunnucilon it may bo well to i all ntuittlou to tho tact thai tho de cision of tho supremo court bears out the position taken by the Juumal when this park question was llrst agitated. The Journal took ovietly tho gruund covered by this decision, and whllo it whs In favor of a park system was op posed to methods that woro so plainly conttary to tho law. Tor that position the Journal was censured bj thobe who rutfhed Into the question blindly, but the result shows that sentiment is not the t.iifet guide to follow when an object Is to be attained. 'tin; cii.vitiiv iii:m:i'u. The Impuruuioe of making Hie Provl dnii Asboolutlon bentilt a conspicuous eucctiwi should not be underestimated. The association needs eveiy dollar that will come fiom tho generous efforts of I tho proprietors of the Urand opera lions.-, and the Ultns theutrlcal com panic, taking pirt In the cliiultablj work. Thuuuh the resources of tho Provident Askociatlou during tho winter lime been somewhat lurger than usual, the de mands on the worthy Institution have been Breiiter than ever before. It lu the representative publlo charity of the cltj, U Is the place to which all worthy ap peals for aid are (list made. ?n de setting applicant Is turned awny f tho abslstunce uskt'd is such that it can bo given. Tho otllctrs In control of its works are cttUens having the fullest conllilenec! and hearty sjmpathies of tho public Th (uuda whMi have nuintainul its grod work thus far through the winter have come from soutccs which cannot be preed for further contribution' ami the benefit of I'rlday ntletnooti is '.. pend il up n to j leht n handsom sum low.uds providing licie'tltlo' which pnnnot In Igimied With lhoe wh bin tb h i It will tie itwiity doublv w II w nt. for In itililltlon to tho Dttisf.iel'ti nf giving to a good c.iti'e will mine the plrasure of wltneslng a rare dramatic perf.irinnlicts V VIA I I 1 : 1 1 OP lltslM.ss. The lower house public Improvements cmnniltl.Pi for nn nppatent good icasoit. seems to he blocking the I'lfuits of the btl'lne's men of the rlty to gel wluil they are willing to pay for In the mut ter of sprinkling th" street' The one undisputed and llidl'pulnbte fact In the whole arfnlr Is that the piinkllng of the business rtreels of the city is an I absolute neoeidty. nnd the question ro I solves llfelf Into one of accomplishment I rather than expedletiej. It would he vei.v sntl'fnetory lo hnve tho city do the sprinkling, which It can do when It gets, the wntsr vol Its plant Hut It hns not jet secured the Water works plant, nnd tip poultry market Is nevef controlled by unh.itched eggs. It would also be vrtv satisfactory to the proiterty owners If the city could pay for the sprinkling out of the general revenues, but this Is a unction of fnct and not of whnt Would be pleannt Tlu revenues of the city do not appear uf flelent to hpiih' ilu- expense of sprink ling the strfets while the water works company retains control of the plant and chntges Its own ptlce to the conttaetors who h.ue to buy the water for sprink ling the streets from It. it bcomp.s n question of what Is the best wav to get the sttects sprinkled Under the circumstances of the situa tion. The c halter throws around the property owners tho proper safeguard' to pievent them from having to pny for what a majority of them do not want. IT a majority of the propertv owneis on a given street do not want that street bprlnkled thev can prevent the work from being done, but no objec tion has been made by the men who own the propel ty on the business stieets of the city. On the contiary the most Insistent demands for sprinkling come from them and If they want It thej- should have It. The dusty seai-on will poop be here. Indeed, It will be here long before the contracts could be let and the work be gun. The lliegalltj of the sin Inkling tav bllN doe" not enter Into the question so long as the sprinkling companies nie willing to take them and the owners of the pioperty aie willing to pay them. The excessive cost of the woi k is a mole pertinent consideinlion, but it will not cost as much as It done nt pilvate coij tiact. The main thing Is that the street' In the business part of the city must be spilnkled. At i i:i: iin: tiiii: i:. The election thieve', their -jmp.ithlr.-ei and their ei'twhlle oigan have an oppcu tunlty now to leallze the truth of the old sajing that "he laughs beM who laughs In t " The sneers which weie so plentifully showeied on the committee of -nfetj' when It began 'Its work graduallj" changed to silence and then to expres sions of feai. Vesterdaj that commit tee showed that It had been falthfuly at work and had accomplished the unex pected. The Indictments tetumed by the spe cial giand jury are but the fltst batch and theie i no doubt but that the en tire gang will llnallj he lauded In the penitential v An unfortunate leak In otliclal circles permitted hints to get out of what was going on and manv nf the cilrnlnals took the opportunitv to .seek other fields, but theie are still enough to be found to krep the Kau'a' Cltj" col onj' at the penitenllarj' up to the re quited standard. Perhaps, nfter all, it would be Ju't as well not to waste time in leeoiinting the ballots In the recorder of voteis' olllce The nttornej"! for the gang arc detei mined to make an endless Job of the undertaking, nnd when it Is com pleted, If it ever bhould be, there Is very llttlo probability that the showing mnde will bo of any value. The ballot boxes could easilj' have been tampered with, and tho condition in which they weie found Indicates that more than likely thej' weie tampeied with. Tho ftnuds peipetiated can be conclusively shown without this evidence, and they are tuf ficlont lo decide all tho contested cases In favor of the rightful claimants. The heavy rains In Western Kansas and Nebraska mean much to tho desti tute residents. Not only Is much needed drinking wnter piovided for stock, but enrlj' pasturage is assured, and the lan guishing hopes of tho farmeis revived by the prospect of a good crop jear. The next congress will be composed largely of joung men with little experi ence. But young monibeifl with llttlo experience are preferable to old mem bers of proven Incompetence. "A man who wantonly poisons pet dags needs a dose of hlb own medicine," observes a contemporary, lint men do not wantonly poison pet dogs. Miscre ants do that. A MONETARY COMMISSION. A I ator.ilile Itepnrt on the .Vineiidineiit to !-, lid Dihgltl". to the Pnqiini (I Inti ru.iil.Mi.it onfcrciuM . Washington, Fib. W The senate finan cial committee at lis meeting to-duy or dered a favorable uport on tho amend inent to the sundry civil appropriation bill to provldo for the appointment of a com inlkblon of nine on behalf of the I'ulted .StatcsMo auend an lntcrnutlon.il coaler tuce on the luhabilitatlon of blher la cato one thud be decided upon. There were come vuli.it .iiiiendinenib, but tho provis ion foi the i-elecllon ol three members Hum the Ffimte and three from the houm was retulmd The amendments made by the commniee strike out the provision in the oiigtiial iii-oluilon specif ylug the cQuntrlon upon Uiub. Invitntlon the piest deiu shall deteimtnu that this counlis t-huuld la- n pr.-M nu'd and bIiupIj provide that he Hull at wiih Mich contereuce If willed. Trrrp is alio a change In the woidlng of the pioviulon In reg-aid to the appointment of comml.soiieis on behalf uf the Untied Hiatis which 1 made to n?nd us folluws "Tho Unltnl Htatos bliall be iene iiitcd at fciich conference liy nillii deb Kales to be selected as tol lows: Tho nuidileni of the t'nltod State flulll select ihue delegates, the senate bhall belect Hues nienibcu of the senate as delegates and the house of leprcscntu. lives bhall fctlr.'t tluec lilembeis as dele, gates. If at tny time there tli.ill bo any vacancy suili vucancy shall be filled by the president of the t'nlted States." A Mitue nr l.inir.ll (Irani. Washington I'di, W -Another statute will soon b mldt I to the group now in Statuary, Ji.nl at the upltol. It 1 that of Ueiicral L'l S. Clraiit.and will icpresent jilin as he u pp. a red at the close of the war in his drtf as m-neral of he iirinj. The statue Is the work of I'rankllu Simmons U..L, ,.m. ..n .., uiiiici m uifee-iiuil ui rt committee of the national encampment of the a. A. It in piiisuaiu-e of a icsolutlon of congrea- spiiroveil August II lbft', ac icptliiE tin m 'I he Mimic and prdeMal are now in ih' i apiiol awaiting Hie ap proval of 'i lohit library conuulttec of congress briar being pu'-ed In the pott- UV1I ,llkV...-U tui IC. FROM WASHINGTON. v lit M)tti:i) U'vit' i hom (ti'oiioi: 111 (ittt)M.lt. the SrrrH of IninltiK U fU to the tdnls if VtiKhlngtnn ,u,d Vti lilrr Aim rl- i in In the I'nll 'i'm of the Term -I he tiiiilllit of Capital and I aluir. IMItorlnl ('orreionden e of the Journal. Wiishlngton, t'eb. ::. 1S. Tit tiny Is the on" American saints' il.tj for Wnshlhgloh Is no longer a diameter for description or criticism lie Is lh Imhcrronnlloii of our nation-alllj- the "father" of his rmtiitrj. To describe him as to t-tron. rerv Ices or motives is to mar tip perfection of his plcluie lo the Ameilcau mind. We have ns jot this one saint nml the next will be Lincoln when the perspective of n century bus Intervened. Here In the city founded bj hhu nnd called by hi' name hi' petbotinllty I' retained more than anywhere else. Volt rah ltv"hn hour visit hi' tomb, ce and examine the house wheto he lived, the furniture Hint he used and' the loom and bid where he died, pluck Uu.vers from his pit den, sit '., nls pew In the church he attended and ll'ten to the tcmlnlseences of neigh bors that have come down only one generation, ltut still the diameter of p.itiou "aliit belongs to him here ns well, lltly embodied In the highest arti ficial structure In the world elected to tvplfy the estimate of Ills place in the nlTectlon of the American people. Tills unity In sentiment as to Washington Is typical of the sentiment of nationality that has come to be the governing thought of tho American people as dis tinguished fiom that of a confedera tion. Two things hnve tended to make this Idea of nationality paramount, in one sense, .nnd then thee things In another seli'e have been tho expression of that growing sentiment. The two thing' were this Idiallzlng of the per sonality of Washington nnd the senti ment utteied nnd enforced by the mntch le" eloquence and poweiful thought of Daniel Webster: "The Union, now nnd forever, ono and In" parable." Washing ton cea'cd to be n Virginian and be came American, w hile the fervid apos trophe of Wcbstei became n classic, and like a sacred thing was enshrined in the memory of evei v school boj- as an Inspired utterance f a divine truth. People who have In en through the lato civil war and remember the spirit of the great nimles of tin- Union need not be told that this sentiment and the sen tences of Webster were ns battle cries to tho-e who followed the Hag "with not a stilpe erased or a star obscured." And no one can 1. 11 the influence that the name and comm in heliship in Wash ington had to do in I doling the dis co! riant membeis . t a now indissoluble Union I have in discussing metnphvsl enl Ideas contended that a man's whole thought wn' colon-d and controlled bj Lis conception of the creation or origin of the w oi Id, and the fact Is equally true as to a man's p.uilotlsm nnd love of countij It Is In xnct ratio with his conception If Its i.rlgln, purposes and the motives of th who founded and gave It to mankind. And the highest ldi.il as to this nation, the principles nnd pin poses underlying lis formation nnd the spirit that 'animates its mis sion of freedom, are best typllled in the canonisation of Washington and the In stillation of Aehster. And as long a' thej- continue t i be o the nation and the Union will ontlnue and so will its bleslngs. . It Is a bundled jears from Washing ton to Cleveltnd, and the comparison In the mind of the American people to day is almost as great as the lapse of time. Clevel md will never bo a saint In our calendar or a figure In our pan theonbut 1 1 1 1 he selves a puipose In letting us know how far tho nation can diift away from the collect stand ards without li remediable dlsastet. We aie now happily past the danger line with tills toed of the money powet for only ten daj s remain of the congress that did his bidding We have had an object lesson in him of what we read about that sapped the vltalltj" and moral force of tho (lieek and lloman civilizations the cot i upturn of wealth nnd the power of money. And wo have seen how near we have come to icpcatlng their mis take or how near wo are to the tamo fate from the same cause. And It tells us also of the necessity of nt ones call ing a halt nnd coming back to tho Ideas and policy of "Washington and Welntcr American in the full senbe of the teim. On this subject the time has come to speak, and to speak, plalnlj and quit ilemngoglng with supposed preju dices. So widespread has become this habit that the Ameilc.in sentiment has como to be lost and the demagogue has so pandctod to this supposed power as to make It a matter of apology for bellm an American. Out of this has giown the professional foreigner in polities and so apt has the practice been Imitated that we have tho piotesslonnl coloied man added. I think the time has come when, men not only ought but can discuss this question without being visited by tho vengeance and ostracism of ignorance. Some of the clearest headed trlcndb of iree self-government among us aie for eign hoi u cltlens, Hut whul I mean by foreign Influences and evils Is just what those men left lluropo to get lid of. Hut there Is a huge clement in this country that ncvei knew they weie op proofed In thcli old homes or denied their rights for they have been so mis used loi centutles that they have an Idea they wore boiu to Mich lives by the will of noil And they ate being used In this country to fasten the power of theso old i:uiopeau Ideas upon us. What do I mean by tho term Amer ican.' Simply one devoted to the Ideas of self-govcinment that is outs as dis tinct trom tho European Idea, which Is" one uf dabs and casto. And I do not re fer alone to the capitalist class, for to the observer who looks below the froth that the deinugoguo raises on tho sur face, the present conttul and policy of those who persist 111 calling themselves tho labeling "class" Is equally threatinlug to the Amtilcnii Idea and saf-i No change for the better can ever eume to labor as long as this Idea conn wis its councils and the 110110' nf Us Ma-gen If j on accept a wrong as tho basis of things, no tetiiedy can ever conic Capital, In order to get rid of tho American w-orker wth a bnllot In his baud. Imported these hordes of la boicrs horn under and numbed by cen turies of feudal tobbety, nnd they haye enptuted and controlled tho labor organ Uatlons of Ameiica on tho Uuiopeau Ideas To a vast mass of these a Vuu dcrbllt or oilier capitalist employing an army of men Is a Ulns, a duko or lord, who In the right to their toll, their per- sin. tli. ir thoughts niul their soul at neil When their u tide Ide Is of elf are huil theit letntdy I violence. We have fioll'lilj 'n deference to tlemngogl'ln invested th-e people with th' ballot nnd thev Vote by order 11 I' Jtlt such people who make the robbf-tv of cities bv "gang" possible for they vote n often 11 they nrc onltrcd to by the man who prtjs. It Is thl element that I nlo ilnnsrr- oil', for It obey the power Hint pajs II. Let u ee. Augti't Helmotit name other than the mail wn bom to has been the agent of the greatest money power In l.urnpe, nml hns made politic n lender to usury fot a generation, lie ltn even been the chief niltclnl of n I great partj, nnd ns a conequeiice hi I pnrtv hns alone been able to obtain I power b.v the ue nf this eotrupt ele 1 metit In the great cities nf the nation ntnl theie lie the menace to American freedom and popular liberty to-day. In oppo'lng thl danger every Ameilcau In ptlnclple be he born In tlermnny, i'rnnce. Sentiillnavln, I'ligland. Ireland or Scotland tntl't stand together for this loRt land of hope for the progres' of man In freedom and civilization The feudal lonl of the nineteenth century col pontic power allied with the money power of Ihtrope, has, bj". Importing this sort of labor nnd voting It. dl'pl.iccd the citl.eu who seek by hi own enler pilse to win competence nnd a home from the Held of remunerative labor, and by the old of eotrupt elections to fasten their financial and economic Ideas born of motinrchy nnd caste upon the American people. And through drover Cleveland they have mnde their first Innings. Cleveland Is In his policy es sentially n foreigner. V. 11. at tiii: Tin: vtku. McKee Hankln changed hi bill ki't even lng to "The Danltc," the play most Intl inatelv associated with his name, and It wn given with It old time fervor and re ceived with Its old time eiitliulnni at tho Ninth Street. Mr. Itnnkln's appearance as Sandy McCicc Is In ltelf a matter of con siderable Intereat, for I he actor has made the part ono of the distinctive character creations of the American stage. It Is much better understood by the public than Jean Cndeaux, and for that reason more effective, though not more artistic. The Morj is one of a ckics now somewhat lag ging In Interest, but I' so cbeutially human In Its development that it will doubtless hold the stage for n long time to came, Mr. Kunkln s company appears to advant age in this pliy. Mls I'atilce O'Nell gives an excecdlnglj- pathetic and aitl-tle performance of Nnncy Williams, especially In her assumption of the boj's disguise. .Mr. Puller nnd Mt Waleott Iwth did super ior work The line plav will be given this afternoon, this evening nnd Thurrin even ing. Prldnv evening and the remainder of the week Mr. Kankln will be teen In "Hip Van Winkle." At the Auditorium this evening Miss M.il 1 Haas and other prominent musl ilin. In. hiding a considerable chorus, will be heard In a big conceit programme, for the benefit of the mayor's cbnrlty fund. The concert is one of the most elaborate of the season and under the direction of 0 experienced .1 singer and concert man Igor a Ml" Haas, It should be a verj Interest inc musical event. The a.t rehenr-iil will take place at the Auditorium at noon to dnv. An el iborate programme Is being pre pared for the lhe.it! lcul benefit, which will lie given at the (Irani I'rlday afternoon, for ihe Provident Association.. livery eoni panv plajlng In the cltj will be repre sented. The rmi'lcl event of the wek will be the Carl Pactum piano t coital at Music hall Piidav evening Mr. Paeltrn Is the head 01 the New England Cons-ervutorv of Mu sic and one of the best plml'ts now resi dent In America. lMdle I'ov has made a tremendous hit In his new piece "On the Karth " The nio-t laughable trick he does Is a Utile bit In the melodramatic burlesque of the second net and Sadie M.uDonild falls on the lloor This Is done o well that bus weie evin Mondaj' evening that It was ,n accident and that It had never liven done br for It !' theiefore eompllmenlarv to Mr 1'ov. who has a singular kmu k of making you think he Is Improvising, that this has long been a feature of this enter tainment and Is done nightly A Mglllllriiit 'liust, Berlin, Teb The Jmancse minister ef war. Countj' Ojama iwavvo, has le enlled to Jnpan all the Japanese othcers who have be n crvlng In Ihe German iirmj The Jnpnncse envoy to (ieimanj. Count Aolil. gave a farewell dinner last 1 v utnp. Anions the toasts was "A Happj i:mry Into Pelctn " Count Aokl will sail for New York from Hi. men to-daj and expects to leave Van 1 Oliver, 11. C , Manh 14. llfcie.i-i. In Knouts' Zinc Output. Washington. Veil 'Ji An olllclal state on nt of the United States geological mii ve slums thai during the calendar je,u, IS')!, the total product of zinc (snelteii was Tj3JS short tons, a decrease of :',r.ii tons finiii Ihe previous j car, due to lndiibtil.il d. pie.slon. Kansas shows .1 decrease of ;:ijs ton', while all other slates show smaller dei re.ises. AM. OVIlll MISSOIIIII. Uxrelslor Springs hns a "non-sectarian 1 Pilot soeletj " ' Kingston Is to have 11 telephone line between theie and Mlrablle. The Kingston 'limes sajs that the Co luinbli Herald olllce has 100 emplojes on Its pay loll. The clieult couit has decided that Clin ton's oidlnance imposing a J license tax on baiber shops Is legal. Clillllcotlie has about disposed of Its 400 51 tickets, and consideis the opeia house qmstlon virtually settled. The sherllf sold n faun near Springfield last week for S.'.OiO, which during boom times was valued at 31,0ir). Twenty Missouri sheriffs met nt Sedalla S.itur.laj and orjanled foi the purpose of defeating adveiso legislation. A civil btrvlco examination for positions in the local postoillce and cairler seivlco will be held nt Clillllcotlie March 3. Alexander McCandles haR been uiianl mouslj nominated lij- the Republicans of Moheilv as their cnudldate foi 1111 jot'. The Itevlew Is the n inie of a recently established dally paper at lllohinond Williams & Howell .110 the proprietors. l.awieiiop county hns a delegation nt JinVikon city lighting the bill which de laches Jasper county from its Judicial circuit. Seil ilia Is going to rub It in on poor Jeneihon City by aiinnglng for a tiee excuislon fiom the latter place to the former. Hob I.i) lleUI. the "newsboy evangelist." Is conducting a Micocssful berles of 1evlv.1l meetings at the Coiigiegatlon.il church in Sedulia. Carlervlllo his nn enterprising coal mei. chant who boasts of his ability to put seventeen bushels of coil Into a common suit batrel. Hxcelslor Sprlngb Knights of Pj thins ob, se'iveil IIIU IIIIIOVV.VII'I ..Mill rBI J hi tho order In an appropilatc and eujojablc way lat week. "Competent business men, not poll, tlrlaiis, to administer out city ailulrs. Is whut Cartervlll" U pleading for, In view of tho appioachlng election. The plant of the Daln Manufacturing Company at Cariollton has started up iigalu, and within a few ilaj's moie than 100 men will be given emplojment. KlKlit head of tine yearlings belonging to licoige tlibson, a stockman, of Jasper countj', broke through the Ice on Spring liven and weie dtoivned last week, "1 nclp Jim" Thompson, a well known and hl.hlv respected colored man, who had been janitor of the Central school at Moheily foi many jeais, died there last week. The aigus-eyed obseiver of the i'reutnu Tilhiini iiiiiinuucPH that (In 10 are eight, thioe dtfleient stjles of gnrters woin In his town, but regretfully adds: "Thej all look the same across the stieet" The Carrolltnn Democrat tieats Its leud cis to an euteit.ilnlung and Instructive ur th It on Alnphlphoinorphttuiitanlsmlcalla. tlon It Is u masterly exposition of the vi.-vvs of the Demociac on the financial situation , The contract for the imtctilncij lor the Cinliage elci lib lallvvuj bus been let ihioufh Kansas City asents to a Jollet full The outllt hi. hides two Soj-hors . power Hates-Corliss engine.) and a tpltiir JU equipment In every way. VU1V Vl: lAl'OIlT (llll.tl. the ArgumtMil nf the Ablest ttrltrr nn the Pnilllr finlM. Prom the San I'rnm .fro Argonaut If there l any one who does not Uml r Mnnd whj Ihirope i draining the t nlted Mlnte of cold. Il l verv p.ty to explain It Is li'CHiire we ow. Ihirope tnoitej, nnd because we have Im lined the debt In gold. A simple statement of Ihe molttr I given In the next feiv line The fliuins at b.i'd on nn estlmnle made bj Mr, Alfred 1 s Heidellmeh, n well known siatltutan We nre of the opinion Ihnt hl figure are too low, but Ihey will do lo present the eae This Is the Rlt of It! The money spent by American travelers abroad Is nhout $hM,(iri,o) per Jear, the money paid to foreign companies for enrrjlng fremiti In foreign ship l about J10(XHOOO per jear, the money paid for dividend and In terest' Upon Anlerlcnll securities held nhro.iil Is nbout ITS.OiMOoo per jenrt the monej paid for profit of foreign corpora tion doing huMitp line and lo non-residents for their gains fiom Alnerknli leal estate Investment, parlneishlp 111 Ameri can business lion, etc , I about $T,xm,. M a jenr, making a total of Wun.tuV.tW 11 jear. This vast annual Indebteutiess Is III curled in gold If we sell to lhiropo an amount of merchandise which would equal III value this Indebtedness, a balance would be sttuck, and the book would be cleared, mil we do not sell any such amount. Un til we export to llurope merehiindle equiv alent In value to this vnt drain upon us, we still will b exporting gold. Senator Sherman, In the eiuite l.lt Mon day, discussed this question with the pre cision which iilwiija characlerl7cs the tit -teinnces of that veteran tlnanciei lie re marked that the question which was tit I ue now before congress was whether the government should pay Its obligation' In gold or in silver coin, lie pointed out that In cverj mi, every loan and every sale of bonds since 1SW, this government had de manded gold, and that tr we were now to refuse to pay these obligations In the smue colli that Vve tecelved for them, It would be a puictUal lepudlatloii, and thl govern ment would stand dishonored before the woild. In 1 .. the law pledged the faith of the government to pav In coin The lawmakers of Hint jear. when thev said coin, meant g3ld coin, and tho purchasers of the bonds pild Tor them In gold coin. To attempt to repay them In any other currencj would be dishonest. So long ns this government borrows money, whether It be from Its own people or the people of any other nation, and Port on It In gold, It will have to pay gold. We believe that the people of the United Stntes will never repudiate those obligations, but x. Ill pay them In the cuirency In which tl.ey were incut led. Hut waiving the question as to the set tlement of mil Indebtedness, If Is well to consider the fact that this government hns within the last two mouths 11111 pel II ously near to repudiation Under the ex traordinary tlnanctn! ndmlnlstintlon of .Mi. Cleveland and hi cuckoo eongie.", the gold rescive fell lo nearly $10,000,000. On the 17th of January a movement began which nlarmedafhe tieiisuiy olllclal. The withdrawals oi:old Inci cased tapldlj-, un til on the :oth of that month thej amounted In .1 single day to over $7,000,000, on tho :sth to St Ooo.rmo, on the "Oth to ?., 000,009: on the 30th to fl.Ono.OnO. Then the nn noun em nt vv.i made that the Dcmncinllc administration lntindeil to icstoie the gold leserve bj Its peculiar piocess of hoi row ing, and the gold withdrawals fell to a nominal sum. On the ,1th nf I'ebruaty there was u delay In the negotiations foi the loan and the withdlawnls jumped up iigiln. The mo't nliiimlng fentuio of thco withdrawals was "the fact that not all the gold which was wlthdiawn was for e poit. Thus between December 15, 1S9I, and Uebruaij- 1,1, 1W, ovir SSOfiOOOOO war. with drawn In gold, and only Jlil.Ouo.O'i'J wis ex ported for the s-amo period, showing that dining that time ovei $41,000,0.1 had been ilinvii out by the peoivjo of this eountry to bo hoarded This -mows plalnlv that the people of the Unite el States had lost faith In the iibllltv of tho Demociatlc ad mlnlstiatlon to maintain tho currency of the country nt p ir. They feaied that a piemlum on gold wn Imminent, and what was practlcailj- a run 011 the trcasuij- had begun. When we reflect that It Is about a quar tet of 11 centuij' since a ptcmluni nn gold existed In this eountrj u piemlum on gold jenis after the war, under 11 Itepubllcan admlnlstiatiou. the pieniluin on gold had Insensibly dlsappcnieil, so that by 1S7S tho Itepubllcan ndinlulstratlon with Societal J' Shuimau at tho head of the tie.isur.v, had effected specie resumption without the slightest jar. It Is amazing and almost in credible to think that even a Democratic piesldent and Demociatlc congress could so miladmlnlster affairs In a time of peace and piosperltj as to tiling us almost to the verge of repudiation Hut such 1' the unpleasant fact In his extiemlty the pies ldent has tinned and vvillhcd, and bus be sought the itepubllcan mluoiltv lo side witii him and his cuckoo congtessnien In Ills attempt to foice the Demociatlc ma Joiity to adopt his plans nut while thoie was an earnest ilesbe on the )MH of the Hepubllcau minority to do thnt which was piitilotl. lather than that which was par tisan, they could not see that It was theli dutj to join In such 11 bond-Jobbing ton splracv, as was being englnceied bv I'lcs lilent Cleveland nnd Secietarv Carlisle. Whi'ii some of the most cnllgbttucil anel patriotic of the Democratic eongiessmen 11 fused to follow In the president's lead. It s arcelv could be expected that those of an opposite political faith should endeavor to force upon the people a financial scheme, coming tioin a Demociatlc administration, which did not have the confidence of even the Demociatlc majoilty in congress. M'Nii.owiiit si:i:t). A Nemaha county ninn has bought a farm near Mii'cotah for $10,000 , A Sallna man leallzed t(T7 an acre fiom ten acres of alfalfa last je.u (JalPiia's comet band Is 10 give n concert for the benefit of the charily fund. The commissioner of the poor In Cnwlej county gave relief to .170 people last week. In the distribution of the state seed fund Smith countj gets id 151 and Phillip'. $J,M3. An Immense deposit of very superior ,ig atlto Is said to havo been discovered near Mulvanp. .inc orp bt ought JJIM In Galena last weik, said to have been the highest price paid there In jeais. Columbus enjoyed a $W0 sprinting match last week between an Iowa runner and one fiom Kitisas The l.utei very piopeilj' captuied the purse The Itepubllcan savs th it rialena Is en jojing a period of pi asperity greater thiin ever holme known there In the way of mineral development. Hutchinson's glil bachelor club enter tained a dozen or so of the most attractive of the city's male widows the other night at a most enjojable reception. The Home-rtlverslde Coal Conipanj do nated twentv tons of coil to the destltutn of Stockton last week, and two cars of state coal were distributed there also. Ottawa's favorite son, Hon c. A Smart, made the principal talk at a big Washing, ton's birthday celebration under the aus plies of the public si hools of that city. The lallroud boys .110 so popular down In Columbus that the local pipers adver tlso the play soon to bo given bv the home lit am. ilk- club as "Among the Hrakeis." The How Cieek Itrlgatlon Company, of Rooks county, expects to add considerably to Ita f.iclltles this season. It has already invested more than $10,000 hi Its ditch and land'. Speaking nf told weather, an old rest, dent of Itutler county recnlls the Incident that In the vvlnlei of '7J their well bucket froic tight In their well twelve leet below tho surface. Tho .Morrill News luthlessly crushes to the eii tli a mlsguidid iltUcn of that town who Is "agin the paper." hy asserting that lie would make "a good subject for a mu seum of tciatologj." The Sedan Tluies.Star tells of how one of Its lomposltnrs Is hiding out because lie omitted Hie "1" hi plants in the coiusc of this Innocent Item: ".Mis. It h(is the prvltlcst pluiits of any lady In low 11." Weir Cltv's mayor has Issued a proela. matlon declaring that luwu lit a deplorable, sanitary condition and winning till citizens to thoroughly cleanse their piemlses by March I. or buffer the penalty. The entire inniia'ement of the Sterling Ilulletln for lib list week's Issue was turned over toHio faculty of Cooper Memorial college, lMltor Jiinkln In the meuntlnie devoting his attention to the entertainment of a new buy who had ricenlly nirlved ut his house. In a pleasant Utile Interchange bf com. pllmeutb as to the respective ilalms of ihe 1 v ul towns as beaut) ccnteis the Pleas, union Herald sajs of th" lllue Muiuid pen. pie that their faces not only Clucked the glass of his camera, but killed tlm only photographer that was ever In Ihe village, They don't bceiu to cuie for any of the other places, but the way the good, honest citizens are tumbling over one another la the bcranible to get into the race for police Judge down In Wclr City would lead to the inference that theie is a rich and Juicy private snap concealed bomewheie about that publlo olllce. The btateinent that Atchison consumes S!7,0ii0,0i) gallons of water In u yeur maj have no connection with the fact that '.',tu0 foimer At hlsonlans an- now living in Kansas Cil) and St. Joseph, but It's a. co incidence. Itceent statistics fiom the ba. leans of Colonels Pabst and filatz along similar lines arc not Just now available, 'fER . w m rM.Hr 1 . sSiO ,m? tdlffl'i Where was It I kled Iter? Or was It, her sister" Mayhap 'twas neither Not like tne either Or could I have missed h"r? 'Tun n rnre oeultitlon, A kiss of persuasion Though I have foi cot I know 1 ought not Who caused the elation. And nqw I'm despairing, Mv mind 'tis Impairing, Since If It were she At once 1 rotlld be New klH declaring. And now 1 remember, It wn la December, Somewhere in the South And full In the mouth. 'Tnn there that I klcd her, Iloth she and her sister. . 11. Ilulloti, In New Orleans Plt.ijune -w Chicago Tribune: A 111 in who hn made a stud) of It railed the Tribune reporter's attention to whnt he said wa a fad, that women can taiul more cold 111 their feet thnn men, lie said that where it dozen men would be found vveiiilng aictle over shoes more than three times that number of women would bo found comfortiibl with ordinal) rubbers, nnd Hint most of the brst-drowd women who shop down town weal 110 overshoes of any soit. stylish vi:r.vi:r gap.nitlici:. l.lttle side bows are appealing to flutter over the softlv bunched tolls of hair that now cover the e.us of our belles Thce bows, us jet, aie puiely ornamental and solve only to Incieae the extension of the colffuie tioifi side to side. Later they will have a more practical excuse In leveling and securing the ends of the little false side culls that arc sure to come Into use, for fashion demand a bigger showing of hair ovei the eats than anj oidln.iry head can supplj. , New Yolk Ilecoidei. She "Who Is that man with the long hair?" He "He's an awfully clever chap .1 doc tor of music." She "She a doctor of music1 How nice Do j 011 think he 1 ould tell inc v hat's the matter with my banjo'.' I know It's out of Older." Mrs. Nuwed "My husband Is awfully good to me. Whence tr I ask him for monej, ho always tells me to help 1115 self." Mrs. Plujedout "That Is just what mv husband tells me He sajs he cannot help me." Smith, Cray .v Co.'n -Monthl) Almost every bodice of icoent date, for evening drosses and walking gowns alike, has a pouched iront, which conceals tho waist line nnd overhnngs the khl It is only dhectly at the center, for the Mdo tonn? and under-arm ple-ces are as close llttlng as cvei. and therein lie the charm and gcnci.it becomlngncss of the nagging front. Kngllsh walking gloves foi spimg nie of duel) dressed dogskin, or Swedish kill, to wear with piomemule costume-. Thej am produced In most of tho doth shades for matching the suit. Tin re in e gioens, gold en tans, both light and dark. In owns In various handsome tones, deep toppei dyes, olives, mnhognny, dink Vandyke icds and vcllows from oiange to pale corn coloi These fasten smoothly over tho wrist hy four buttons, and an made with pique u stltrhe.1 seams and enilnoideieil on thn hick with stltchlngs of black silk 01 that of a darker shade than the Move Itself Washington Post We hope the el.ij will come when the author of the sociel) nov.l will find .ome new plate for the heioiu to blush. It will be notlte.l thai all of them blush 10 ihe votj mots of then hall Hostoit Transcript .Maude "Mai rlago, thej s-aj, Is a lottel) " lithel "That'll what Carrie thought. I guess, when she came 10 look over her wedding presents. Positively the entile collection wasn't worth ?.'0 " The once fashlonablo and still valuable, ca-hnui shawls of our .fmtuimotheix' time ire being s.icilllced 10 the scissors at last, and made Into sleeves, bodlceis and bins lolris, appealing with black or vvnli dull ud brocade sill; for veij llch aftei noon gowns for eldeily women It seems lather u pltj 10 cut up the old heirloom, but, aft -i all, It Is a gieater pity to u-e it tor a piano cuvel, or lot it ,stu) packed awaj till the moths get into II Jinpoitcd silk eiiqie shawls, as line aa lobwelis, am found cilnklod rieeplj like tho iiepou goods so much in vogue One has oulj to look at the shawl, however, to leallzu what tho othei goods tiles to bo and to 1 pallia at tho same time how dismally It falls. Theater hats continue to be odd little combination of whlih the beginning and tho end cannot be seen. The idea now seems to lie that tho headdiess shall be a. series of detached portions. On the top of the head appears a spreading bow.perlupsj then down by the earn Is a knot ot dowers, while at Hie back of the head at either sldo there Is a little fall of lace All these little detachineiils belong to the s ime "bon net," hut J on do not seo how they ma held together. Indeed, some women really eom jilote a bonnet ilfect by fastening a little knot of violets hero or theie that does not pel mill to the bonnet Itself at nil, Mr. ('.inker (after his wife hns read sev eral pages) "lo there anj news In jour mother's letter, rleaiV" Mrs.Oawkei "l haven't como to the post bcrlpt, )cl,"Tiuth A hot shampoo bath oilce or twice a week is Uenellclal 10 people with moist or oily bklns. Have tho water as hot as can be comfonabl) borne, unit with a lingo bristle brush nnd a take of white, soap (castlles pel. feried). cover jour body with lather, hh Ihu barber does the fact of the man ho li about to shave, then with a wabh rag of Turkish toweling rub and bathe (ho body thoroughly, Hot water used ulonn Is enervating, so a Lipid hand bath of cold water containing cologne bhould follow. Dry lapldl), and after a short but vigorous exeiclse lesume j'our uppaiel. i "I suppose jou otid Tuesday',"' She "Mercy no. 1 noticed that almost eveij'oae else went that day, and I detest a ciowd, so lit run over next Tuesday," Chicago Inter Ocean, That kissing should go by fivor on the stage us oli-iiv. help, is evidently the opin ion of Madame lanthold, a Vienna act less. A coiiespoiulent wiltes. "A tragi, comical war ban been waged for some, weeks past at the Itulmiiud theater, Mad ame l.enthold absolutely 1 of used to be ki-sseri by lierr itanzenberg. her parttier.ln the scenes of a pldj in which the author demaids that she should be kissed. A few nights ago, when It cume tq the polnt.i'rau l.enthold 1 ovei t'd her fuce with tier hands, and Heir Itaiuonbeig look tiiuii down ami kissed hn b) shier fnre-r The dlictor was illslrai led betwein Hiem ami uve ''iau I.enthold's pan to another a 11 ess Peel, lng i,li8 had been iiiijustlj treated, ihe lady guvo notice to leave the th'aier altogether, and her re-lfe-nullou has been accepltti" -f.Jt435 Al 'JJprp MHJ 1 ry m t sift-. -"-"CMTfr.&r.ekjsw-