Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 21, 1891, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: KEEPIT BEFORE THE PEOPLE. Th) Real Relations of Money to the Farmer wd Wegeworker FIATISM REVIEWED IN LIGHT OF THE PAST. Popular Prosperity and Wealth Cane not e Decreed by Law or Created by Act of Congross. Cunris, Neb, Mareh 10.—To the Editor of Wwir By Astho American people march upthe bill of buman and national progress, 1n developing the true principles of the mon- etary sysiem and promoting our individual Prosperity ouasafe and sound hasis, now aud thena person who s incapable of com- prebending the broad and public principles of cconomic sclenco will begin to lag, and ultimately will roll to tho bottom of the bill, and getup transfigired and burrab for the remnants of greenbacikism. In the columns of Tk Bee of late I no. ticed a letver from Mr. Avery, which, T pre sume, was areply to my former arucle, He ‘would have the dear people impressed with thoideathatin orler 10 capture the gold calf and retire to the age of jubilectheymust resort tothe use of that currency in which itsdomois ouly a rainbow of hope. After wmuch deiberation on the gentleman’s mani festo T find ithas been weighed in the bal- anbe and found wanting. Therols nouse sum marizing Mr. Avery’s stiten,onts, as we are well acquninted with the theory of the greenback party. As an exunpleof greenbackism and the demerits it contaring, 1 must say it stands pre-eminent. There isa goneration of people who believe goney 1 ‘a purely creation of law." X regret that the Aladdin palace made by the greenbuck party consists only of a gloritied mist. | wishit had been a reality. If this government coula make money what a rich nation it would be!. We would have no pau- perismas we could put every poor man in a palace and fot his life boa perpetual feast ¥ 1 The controlling clement of the allianco tells us the government has the powerto put its sovereign impresson n picco of paper and amake it yood money. There would seem then n0be noneed of the gov t collecting taxes from us, Itneedssimply to stait the prosses and grind out ship loads of paper and abolish poverty by pay- fug its own taxes. Thousands of farmers Yave beon misimformed by their leaders on tho money question, They are informed that the greeuback is the money for the poor man, Did anyone over hear beforo of money that Soughtont ouly tho poor man and despised momey kings and banks? Alden has truly suid: " “Before anythingis money it must be such that its possessor ean go into_ market and_immedintely use it in purchasing com modities or payingdebts, It is of the es f moncy that itis capablo of making sdiste payment cither to_satisty seile ditor. ‘What wo arc familiar with the most aproved form of money, other kinds of wvilue, What was the cause of tho great national calamity 1n 18571 It had its root through laud and railroad speculation, by, converting ern- ments, into something of a stable value, That er of speculation, which sapped the founda- tins of business, destroyed financial confi- the irreleewable paper currcac, which was A issued with authority from state gov was tho disaster that come from the lack of a specie basis, The panics of 1837-78 were cused by the fluctuation in_the volume and valie of the national currency. Out of tis had arisen & wild dence and ended in disaster. Joseph H, Wallcer, an eminent cconomist, has truly sild: “In alldeparture from a rency, sich as our country made, the suffer- dug and loss of the wageworkers' are many fold more than any other class,’” Advocates of eheap money always claim that such measures will benofit the man in moderate circutnstances, and particularly the wage.workeers, The exact contrary i tho fact, as tho following tables indicate Whilo wages — slowly increused from 161 in the number of dollars pid the workman, their purchasing power-the real value' of his wages, m, urea by what they would buy—justas sure ‘ sound cur- decreased. For Instanco, “dyers who e ceived 67 cents a day in 1860 and 31 in I8¢ receiving oue-half more than in 1860, to-wit: $1.50 in metallic currency, which will buy twice as much as $1.50 would in 1364 under aninflated currency. J. B. Herold Rogers n Work and Wages s “Whoii prices of tho necessaries of life rise, wages do not rise Wwith them. No crime against labor_is more injurions than expedients adopted on tho yart of government which tends to raise prices.” The experiment of depreciating the cur- reney was never tried i any country unaer cireumstances maro favorable to the wage- workers than here, A war was inprogross during four yoars of tho time, of such vast yroportions ‘that the consumption of the ag- gregate products of labor was increased by fully “one-teuth, besides whie moro than one-terth of the men who competed with eich other in the lbor market were em- ployed in military operations, which was tho equivalent of increasing tho market for tho lborer by onefourth. Undor theso apparently favorable conditions for tho wage worker, the valuo of his wages ought to have materially increased, in- stead of depreciating, if it is possible for biim o over save himself from 1oss in periods of o debased ctirrency. Any injuryto the ereditor class is an injury 1o the dobtor class. Fellow farmers, boware ofan iredeemable currency. We ‘are not counted outof theclass injured by inflation, What we demand 1s o soud currency, so that it shall be insured tho paymentof it creditsin the best money-—money as good and of as great purchasing power as that of the most favored creditor class, Then on the Justice of thenext great demand, for a fairer distribution of the benefits of wealth. Prevent it from being concentratod in tho handsof ecentralized power. I mean thoso who have aceumulated millions from tho bands of their fellow men, and not those who accumulated their wealth 'in a legitimato and honorible way. Whilo the farmers are demanding reform from the grievaace they now endure, they need no legislation on such defunct schemes as Jerry Sockless Simpson has proposed, to abolish poverty among the impoverished farmers, as it willend only in disaster, Thery are many ragical leaders who are dictating to the misin formed farmers visionary schemes for their redress. The rosumption act of 1879 brought a depreciated currency to par and strengthened our national credit. 1 be- lieve national credit 1s natioual wealth, Today by virtue of the gold redemption fund, which has been muntained for several years, every greenback is ns good 13 gold, Among the foremost duties of the treasury of the United States today is to preserve a sound currency, to maintain public confidence, and preservve a firm basis for the sound busi- ness of the country, The country was laboring under a disad- vantage in 873 of & paper currency. It was nvolved in meshes of paperwith the metallie corrency at a premium. The greenbacker believes that congress can say, *‘Lot there be adollar” and thero is a dollar. Tamnot an fuflationist. ‘I have norespoct for the absurd dogma of the supreme court that congress las power to make anything a legal tender, because not prohiviged by the constitution from so doing. supreme court never held that s greenback could work out its own salvation and redeern itself. Thore must be specie behind it, to be had on asking, or the greentack will depreclate. 1 reiterate my former statoment: *By the coustant use of papor vepresentativés of money we come to regard tho symbol ns the thing liserf, and mistake the shadow for the substance.” frange has o stronger basis for & paper circulation than any other nation. Her metallio currency exceeds tho paper by more than a third,she does not wish ta resort {.pap for e circutting medum, Tho kig facllities United States, with her as the thing that will most certainly bo recived in payment all over tho world, is com of the precious metals.”” It is obvious, I think, why the cluims of theso are 8o univirsally acecpted; firstis, that they do 1oL merely rprescnt ilue, 18 wo shall find money do, but they really are could only buy with their §1 in 1864 whai they could buy ‘with 50 cents in 1850, Their zeal wiges, therefore, in 1864 wero one- quarter less than in 1860, while nominally one-third rore. And today, in 1801, thoy are and present per‘capita in eirculation make it l have wastly more money in circulation and nearly adequate with that of Franco. By reforring to the past bistory of the mofictary system wo will find the rudimen- tary commerce in the early =tages of civiliza- tion was conducted sololy by barter, The people would exchange either hores, sheep and cattlo for grain or_something of propor- tional value. Veryearlyin the worla's his- tory, 8o carly that the date is lost in oblivic silver and gold begn to he used for this pur: pose. Ultimately the cofii has come into use. Now, the fact must be tived in the mind that theact of coining-the governmental stamp on the coin-is merely the goverament's guarantes of the weight of the i and tho fineness of the metal, of instance, the steamp on the wold dollar tells ar to whom it may be offered that it v grains of metal; that is, nine-tenths of its weight is of nure wzold and one-tenth of alloy. Keeolloct. this— that tho government stamp confers no valie upon the coiln. 1t merely certifies to its weight and purity. T history of our coinnge shows clearly the fact that, when two coins are put in circulation side by side and the metal in one is worth move than the moial in the other, the ono _ worth the more will leave the country, The less v able drives out the more valuable. The with paper currency. We must in mind that tho trade wns not made a nl tender, he was not intended at all for cirenlation i country, but to be an aid to for where " it hoped it woull sane as the Mexican dollar. Thi not realized, howeyer, and coner: that portion of the law relatin > their coin age, called them in and melted them intobul Tion, which is now in the treasire vaults, We cannothave i this comntry the lirgo issie of the national notes during thecivil war without any considerabloamonnt of gold d silver in reserve, eitler in the hands of e pewple_or in the vaults of the gov- ament. Tts rapid depreciation, was not m a want of faith in the government ulty tely paying these motes, but because it was apparent that the government could not then payin coin. It is not the amount of money or its cheapnoss that makes good and prosperous times. The step to make cheap money out of paper is easy. Massaclusetts By led the way in this country in 1600. Her £40,000 in paper, as one of herown historians tells us, made a legal tonder for taxes, was the fore runner of that avainche of colonial and con tinental paper money so disastrous in its mwsults beforo and dur- ing the war for independence. Soon came the recognition of the true principles of money. They were no mare deluded witn issues of unconvertible paver. Experience was their teacher and it taught them au irre- deemable paper currency was a delusion and snare, They could impress their sov ercignty on apiece of mper, leatier ortin, but thequestion confronted’ them whether ornot itwould be good policy answer wasno. From all thes evils came the constitution, with its g money chart, A change for bettertimes b setin’ bofore uch was the schooling of our ancestors, and such the sit aation when they camo to the constitution. No people ever better reason to desive reformation in their monetar ws; none wiser or at men to devise and formulate the charges needed. Thoy ~wrote in the constitution and their words cannot be too closely studied in the light of their situation and ex- pericnee, by every intedligen teitizen of todi M. Justice Clifford says: *That the pur pose of the framers of the constitution was to provide a permanent. standard of value, which should at all times and under all i cumstances consist of coin, fabricatel and stamped from gold and silver. “It guard against fiexibio mone pleaded so eloquently and it is the horible recollection of assignats, as well as John Law's Mississippi bubble that caused tho French tohaveno faith 1 paper uwoney and the prolonged sufferings whach resulted from too much *‘flexibility” in the currency. Ouglitnot we Americans to have equally aslively a recollection of continental money, confecerate money and thejwagon loads of shinplasters and paper frauds that circulated in this country before tae war: Mr. Avery says he “has touched lightly on the subjeet.’ 1t is evidently seen that ho” has, for if he had touched very hard he would navo touched thecorpso of the greenback party. For it has had its day. The statistics T havein my possession af- fords mothe followiog facls: As near as an be iscertained, the greatest amount of United States notes, commonly _called areenbicks,” in existence July 1, 1864, was &i4 . but of that amount” thire was in od States treasury S2,184,213. That left i actual circulation §415,115, 0. were in_civenlation at the sime time other forms of paper money amountiog to § 7, 864, makine an ageregate paper circulation of 54406385, July 1, 1864, there was in existence of paper money formerly 1ssued in the U nited States the following amounts: State bank notes .. Compound interest Fractional curre conbacks ... . Vational bank note: 156, 648,067 e United States treasury $1,235,270 of greenbacks leaving in circulation as before stated, 463,854, The population at that time is est. maled to have been 34,046,000, which made anaverage of §19.2 of paper money for each man, woman and child at that time in the country. It must be borne in mind that at that time neither gold nor silver was being used as currency 1 the United States. Both were then at high premium, and wore bought and soldascommaiti Gold was used in payment of customs duties, and the govern- ment paid the interest on its bonds with gold, There was estimated at that time to be of ®old coin in this country the of §£203,000,000, 1 was in the tr toat date’ $18,653,580. There was also est mated to be 810,000,000 of silver in the Uni States at that time, of which #25,300 was in tho treasury. I these amounts of old and silver were' added to the paper mouoy then in circulation the sum would be increased to $815,184,008, which would have been §24.01 for each person in the United States at that time. There was outstanding July 1, 1564, one and two years' notes of 1863 tothe amount of $153,471,450. These notes were not included as paper money, because they were interest-bearing obligations of tho govern- ment, were atthattime at a_premium and were being rapidly funded in 5-20 and 10-40 bouds. Of" course such obligations could in no sense be called currency, but if treated as clrculating ‘mediom and added to the paper moucy then in cireu- lation, 1t would haye raised the amount of paper money to $24.74 por capita. 1f the gold and silver wot in the treasury at that date be added to that sum, it wilt make 001,656, 355, or §20.42 per cpita. You must’ bear in mind, as these notes were not mouey, and as the metallic currency was not in circulation, the real amount of” eirculating medium at that time for cach person was $19. Now, Mr. Avery, the amount of greenbacks was decreasal from year to year, up to 18 and then there wasa new issiio of §20,000,000, soon July 1, 1574, there were outstanding $152,000000." From that date thero was 8 gradual reduction in the amount up to Jume 1, 18, when the sum ontstanding was $346,68,016, Atthattimethe law was approved which forbade the retirement of any more of these United States notes, and thatis the amount of greenbacks now in existence, From these staloments it is evident that thore is now £100,610,987 less of groenbacks in existenco than were outstanding July 1, 1864, when tho highest was probably reached. The to- tal_amount of money outstandigg and in cir- culation July |, 1878, was 8754705807, Thero wis in the treasury of the United States $61,- 40,896, Deducting thatamount from the en- tiro sum issued, itleaves $00,764911, which was the amount of monoy in civeulation July 1,187, Gold is not included in the estimate, because it was still at & premium and ot in geveral use as monmey, The population at that time was 47,708,000, which shows that on that date there was in circulation as money only #1450 per capita. The leaders of the farmers' alliance have informed us that the volume of eurrency has been constantly contracted for many years past, which | presumed was the gospel (ruth, By referring to the documents in my posses. sion, under the ofiicial signature of the treas. wrer, 1 flud the amountof cirulating medium in_existence February I, 1301, was ®,142, 517,004, and the amount i’ the ‘treasury was 015,791,743, Deduct that amount ~ from £,142,60,99 and it leavos the quan. tity of money in aotual circulation among the people, which is $1,25, The census just taken shows that we 'have & population of 63,010,000, So that today thers s In actual clreulation for every man, woman and ohild in this country the sum of §4.50, as against $15.56 in 1578, and $10.22 1 1864, provided you inelude as money at those dates only such currency @s was in actual use as money at the time. It proves that we really half as much again as in the god times from 197 to 185, Some may rofuto tho estimato as to 1864, and claim there was thon £2040 per capita, which I deny for thor sons formerly given. Prices wore good and | times were then prosperois. Is it not suMicient evidenee for us to look somewhere else for the canse of business de- prossion than to the amount of arculating medium! Good houest dollars, tho monoy of the constitution, 18 what we want, and what will be better for the entire peopie in tho end of any nation. Solong as our curroney is wll convertible, without expense to_the holder, 1nto the best, it will all_ be good. Go to the Argentine Republic for its_ history of pa currency, and where gold is at 250, and ob. serve the eflects it has on the people. Wo havo today as gool & money asany nation can boast of. Letus resolve to keen it tr est R. 8. BaKER. The bald man's motto: *“Thera is room at theton.” This top may be suppliea with a good crop of fine hae by using Hall's Hair renewer. 'Try it. AGUINST OHARTER AMENDMENT Mr. Ehrenpfort'’s Petition and the Men Who Sizned It Not a little indignation has been expresseil by leading citizens over the petiton which certain residonts of the First ward have sent tothe logislature at the solicitation of As. sessor BEhrenpfort 1t is chargel that the latter male misrepresentations fo many tax- payers in order to secure their signature also, that the assessor stated that the siguers of tlie petition wanted to kill all pouding log- islation relating to Omuaha when such is uot the fast Its clasimed further that Ebrenpfor's in terest in the matter is purely seifishs that he feared ho would lose the position of assessc in that ward. Thecity pays him 8130 year for his services, but it is hinted that thero aro greater inducoments within reack Following is the potition and a list 6f some of the signers To the honorable assembly of the T wenty second sossion of the legisiature of thestate of Nebraska for the year 1501 W the undersignea residents, freeholders and taxpayers and all others in sympathy, citizens of the city of Omaba, kindly request your honorabl body of both houses of tie __ lexislature assembled at Lincln, state of Nebraska not topuss senate files No, 04, 05, 06 and 110 introduced by Senator Switzler from Doag las. Your petitioners are of the opinion that ¢ presont laws as described in ot larter for metropolitan cities wh wis passed by the honorable e lature of the twenty-first session of Nebraska in the year 1330, is far preferable to the proposed amendment describ | thie senate files named above except we lorse theclause in the proposed amendment, sec tion 1, senate file No. 110, reluting ection, which reads as follows Line one (1), section cleven (11), the gen eral city electivg in all cilies goveried by this act, etc., ete. And the clause in section 14, senato No. 110, relating to treasurers i’ me tropoli- tan cities, which re lows Line two (2), sectic all funds of the city shall, et ete. We hercby present also fiest copy of our present charter for metropolitan eities passed by the twenty-first. session of the le isliture of Nebraska, and second a capy ¢ the pronosed amendment. as introducel by Senator Switzer of Douglas, And in ouropinion we think as freeholders aud taxpayers that we have a certain right which we presumo to justify in our prayer. J. M. Bemis, Bemis’ Omaha bag company; Frank Dellone, Louis Schroeder, I Stubbea: dorfl, John Batmer, V. L. Vodica, H. New man, W. Segelke, (. Pomy, W. McHugh, John W. Bell, Motz Brothers, S. Kline George 1. Hughes, Christ ' Rissi, C. 1. Goodman, A Holler, ' R. Wilde, Henry ' Pund, 8. J. Howoll* J. M. Metealf, John Christopherson, Michael Dee, S. I, Burgstrom, C. N. Frick, C.Hor- bertz, Churchill Pump company, &, R. Grotte, John 'Butler, Gustave Bencke, 1. Streitz, H. H. English, John Tiedomam, H.' C. Loson, W. 'L Risasor, 'G. H Hoigland, John Foitick, = Ferdmand Fredenschien, Joseph Wolf, H: Stein huuser, erd Haarman, H. Schaéflor, John_loth, Joiu Mulvihill, F'rank Kas par, Joseph Vrand, J. Engelthater, Frank Swoboda, 1. Sinliold, August Schroeder, Julins Rudowsky, Joun Kramer, J. L. Wdshans, J. A. Wakofield, Enil .Streitz, Jonn Gurvey and about sev- enty-five mo b s WHO AND WHAT? Tacoma Ofiicials Inquisitive Concern- fnza Mystorious Mrs. Quaife, Atelegram from Chief of PoliceL. D, Ellis, Tacoma, Wash., was recoived at the contral station late yesterday ufternoon asking the police for information concerning the follow- ing aescribed woman : Mrs. Walter Quaife, height, five fect five inches; age, about twenty-six years; hair, rather darke; florid complexion, and som what freckled; hazel eyes; weight, 130 pounds. When last seen Mrs, Quaife had on a black dress, navy blue cloak trimmed with black braid, a lsce bonnet trimmed with yel- low flowers. Itis clasimed that Mrs, Quaife loft Tacoma on the 13th, and should nave arrived here yesterday, but nosuch person was seen on tho arriving trains, The telogrum also stated that the mother of the woman wanted lived in Omaha, but that her name was unkuown to the Tacoma officials. “ This leaves tho police completoly in the dark and without a possible clue 1s to the whereabouts of the woman. It is not known what she is wanted for. ———— < IN THE JUIRY'S HANDS. Twelve Good Men Deliberati Warbington's Samty, The case against Cary J. Warbington, charged with mutilating the famous pal ing, *“The Return of Spring,” during tho Oumahaart exhibit, was given to tho jury yesterday morning. Up tosupper timé the jury had made no sign and Judge Clarkson announced his in. tention of waiting until 10 p. m. fora ver- dict At that hour noverdict had been re. 1and the judge deciied not to wait any or, and so departed for his home. Tho they find a verdict before morning, will have (o remain locked up antil the open- ing of court today, e L il Wanted in Denver. G. B. Ritmaster was arrested yestorday afternoon on the strength of a telegram from Deuver. The charge placed against his namo on the blotterat the city jail was obtaining money under false pretenses, Later on the prisoner was released on bond. The Denver officials were notificd and an ofticer 15 ex pected today or Wmorrw to tako Ritmaster back. Thero were no particulars of the offence” in the telegram, and of course the accused re- fused to make any statement, — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, Mr. and Mrs. A, Frank Richardson of New ork are in the city. Henry Wilke, anotherold resident, died yes- terday ot his homo in Jofferson precix ct, aged 71years. Tho deceased was the father of . Wilke, of Wilke & Lauther, and had resided n 'that precinct for thiricen years, The funeral will take plice tomorrow “from the late residence of the deceased, e Barker—Tony Buen wud wite, Kunsas City N, L. Baker, Dallus, E. 8. Locke, Kanshs Oity: J.'C. Rulston, Ogd . Dabsey, B crol . Wilson, Lin. Baker, "Dave port; Lewis Howum, Tal ‘ortiand; A. Edmision, Tacou. John Forester, jr.. Dubugque ). Brinkihofr, 0. B, Hole ¥ Goodrich, New York A Ware, dt. Louis; ¢ L. Wilson, New York; O, G, Or O. . Bucheldov, Hutehinson, Kun.; T, B. C. R Borry, A. C, Dawes. 8t. Hollister, New York: J, T.Joy e, Chicagor B Hutches. Galveston N, C. Abbott, Lincoln: Mrs, A, Thayer, Lincoln: Mis Vom Orman, Canada; 8. C Stoha, Canada. The Murcay—H. J. Olasgaw, A. L Holman, F.l. Flower, E. 8 Root, Y, 0. Travor, A. K. Walker, 1. M. RRoagers, . &, Huiching, J. Hilburs, Chicago; L. John Melntire, P, E. sohuitlr. 1. 11 Jon . Shiolds. New York i Hofeler, Rochester: O, 8. Boynton, Wilmot, Dubuque; C. ¢, b J.F. l(lw:n-y.i'\!nmn, . ¢ Cloud, Minn.: 8. L D, Krau W. Effelor, Atlant . Botts Tonawanda, Penm.; s Lo ML Flizhugh, Cluclunatl ansas City, SATURDAYY MARCH A SAIL ON THE BRINY DEEP, 1501 ~TWE Continental Clothing House. SPEGIAL SALE OF 0ys and Children’s Suits. This week we have inaugurated an important sale of Fine Suits for Boys and Ora Whirl by Rail to 8ix American Pleasure EVERYTHING PRE-PAID AND FIRST CLASS, IfYou Want to Takes Trip This Su Expense, Particl- patein The oo’ s Matoh- Arrangoments publishers of Twe Ber which ko anovel and posed to devote erey toward procurng new sabseri bers Tur Ovarta Wity Bz betwoen this date aud the have beon effe tractive offer to Children, manufactured for last scason'’s husiness, and which we propose to close out now as we haveat other seasons 4 7" AHOUT ONE PRICZS. | last season. This offerwill bo open only to liciting subscribers in Neoraska Dakota and Kansa lowa, South HALF LAST S. The stock comprises all the fine suits carried from 1 few figures to show the reductions ASON'S lod, and the awards made without partiatity EUROPEAN To the person that will rof eash subseribers for Bep or Tnu June 10, 1891, will be ROUND TRIP EUROPEAN will meludo first orle to Kurope and r cludes also all traveling Ll trip will ve party gotten We quol ch will be made at this sale. If you paid £10.0) for one of these lots | lnst season, expect to buy it now at $5.00. [f you paid 2800 for one of them last SAsON, you may expect 1 buy it to-day Lot No. 2—=We olfer 200 Fine Scotch Plaid, Velour Finish, Cassimere Suits, All Wool—cloth Excelsior Woolen Mills, worth §1.75per made by the ing ex penses, .00 for a first-clas: WoolSuit last season, you will find it iile thissale lasts marked at $350. Andso on. be in charge yard, male competont wuides, The ur overs all the principal Do not miss the opportunity. A suit which has been sold re clothe your hoys and ehildren inexeel- very best fubrics at one-half Berlin, Romg $7.00 throughout the market, ctired by us worth the price to- 3.00 a 8yt $3.50 a uit. $3.50 a Sut, SEVENTY-THICE DAYS OF from Now Y urns to that city by last year’sy Read the li S deshil] We offer 300 of the Finest Sawyer Woolen Co.'s Faney Cassimere years, the tinest o made by tho famn- wlen Co., which than #7.00 to CANADIAN list of subseribe - Omaha to San for hoys i to 1: quality of Cassim, Maguificent mountain sc. the beautiful | 25,00 cach, ge price on these lots, o California wil cducator, and ho vastness of s best features ot die happy 8 notdiehapy made this senson, and in reg- ular sizes fromd to 13 Luy thems ab this sale af 0 Each. $4.00 Each. $400 Each. * the third Lar A Brewe offer atickot tiful St Lawronce in templato the beanty of Thousand Isles is de- i leligghtful to visit them when in verdure clad for obtining s bers to the Wiekey aud SUN Ay Bk, or the fourtn licgestli offer a free ticket frow O Philacelph i of su bseribers we alin to New York, LOT NO. 3. We offer 200 boys' dark plaid fancy cnssimero suits, in hoavy weights suits ablo for use in March and April, one of the neatest patterns in our stock, sold rogularly at# poc suit the entire toa- son, and a bargain at that price. For | the purpose of closing them now rap= idiy, wooffer them to close at $2.60 PER SUIT, 8250 PER SUIT. $2.50 PER SUIT. In regular sizes. 4 to 18 yoars. Lot No. .—Weo offer” 100 suits flne diagonal Scoteh Bannock burn , made by the celebrated manufacturers, Phillips & Kunhardt, for boys 4 to 13. One ofthe handsomest patterns in our stock, for merly sold at$7 per suit, now offered at $4.00 PER SUT 8400 PER SUIT. $4.00PER SUIT. Our limited space. provents on men = tloning but fow of these burgnin lots, butwe offer you more than different styles of suits to selectfrom, nearly all of which you may purch at about one-half lastseason’s prices $10 suits for & 88 suits for $1. $7 siits for $3.50, 36 suits for &3 to $3.50. $5 svits for #2.50 to 3 Lot No. 5.~\We offer 1,000 pairs of boys fancy cassimere knes pants, for boys 4 to 13 years new, fresh goods, in excellent & Oc per pair, worth regularly 750 to 81, {IN OUR MENS DEPARTMENT WE ALSO OFFER Lot No. 6.-~A special line of 200 me- dium 1 lored melton overcoats, excellent stylo, with silk facings, a gon~ teel, dressy overgarment for young genlemen, such a8 is ordinarily sold at $12 everywhere. Our prico, until the lot is closed, will be $7.50 each. lte- member thoy ave the very latost stylo, longroil, silk faced, made in the best possible manner, only | 87.50 FACH. $7.50 EACH, $7.560 DACH. Sizes from 34 to 40, Inour meon’s department we have ywo extraordinary bargains in fancy assimere suits now open on our coun= tors. Lot No. 7.—Wooffer 250 strictly all wool Aberdesn cheviot suils.in medium brown mixtures, regular sizes, § to 42, single-breasted conts, which wo offer to closeat #7 per suit. Reducod from $10last season. Remember these suits arostrictly all wool, and are fully worth 10 today. You can buy them during this salo at #7.00 PER SUIT. #700 PER SUIT. #7.00 PER SUIT. Look in ourlarge show winlow for sunplesof these lots, You will seo some of the moststriking bargains ever |oTered at tho Continentil since we have been in business, There are no poinls ontns continental Amerivan i izon until he has The personsand points wmnumerable a yisit there is %k and Philadelphia scial centers of the SAMPLE SUITS WILL BE SENT TO ANY ADDRESS with tho privilogo of examinatios, our expons'c if not satisfactory. FREELAND, LOOMIS & CO. THE LARGEST CLOTHING HOUSE WEST OF THE MISSL SIPPIL. W ashington tull of inter asthe commercial country are always interesti All thus sight_ seemg ‘andt traveling given <Ly or SUNDAY B For the fifth largest a free ticket from Ormiha lversiace your childish doscription in the of subseribers we A ROARIN andfthe girl did not know what to do. She hact Fulls and retuen. wonder was aroused by th old sehiool readers of these wonderful fall Herw is the op. exeursion and The Way Boiler Inspection is t Be Done. Joseph HL. Staudeven is city boilor inspeo tor at asalary of $1,50 and has one Clair, who recelves a a Payilliou banker, bec me acquainted the focts and took th A most deligat ful one without expense, given for securingsub. WEELIT 0 SUND AT B For the sixth Largest st of subscribers we offer a free tickot from Omana to Salt Lake The famous Mormon _ city are of her until Thename of the not given, but the girl says he kuew she was fromn her uncle. City and return, wst becoming a Gentile ¢ time loso much of terest. seen Thursday at the office of the inspector ina sem-intoxicated condition. stated that; the work of inspection was done principlly on ments were closed on that day and e dedined to state how the wetk days were spent. “Ayer’s medicnes have b een satisfactory to me throughout Ayer's Chary Pectoral, which has been by muy of my patients, one of whom suy ho knows it saved his 1ife—F, M. D, Brooklyn, N. Y. Now, this s 00 time to visit the boom of course in- cluded in the trip. the lake is a delightful placoto pass a few of the hot summer days. number of subs Sixpay Begand take the trip. eventl largest List of subscribers we offer a free ticket o Denver and Manitou o shortertrip than any of it combines many pleasant_fe the queen city of the plains —is always worth secing while the health > Manitou are delightful Why not_secure —— s SR ATTORNEYS DISAG ibexs for the WeEKLY S toliow oftenla ISAGRE od hesaid they “got nearly Standeven kept. ali tho nothing about inspected per builer was inspe aroundin a year. he said, and he knew Lawyers Platte and Adams Fall Out and Break Up. Thelaw firm of Platte & Ad up and trouble is brewingin Lawe quantities whero the individual interests of the pact- ners seem 0 meet and mix. dissolved practically, if not legally, and now the partuers are quarreling about the matter that continues to He was asked aboutthe ordinance relating t0 “salety plugs” and stated that hedid not subject “*as he He cxpressed the opinion that the things werc useless as a gool engi- understood his business had no Besides that, ¢ ontheinnerend of the plugs and pr them from fusing.” A visit tothe oigo: comptroller showd had made 1o first of the year. and sammerresort: anid sublimo scenery—what toholdhis job.™ All this pleasure for securing r WeskLy Beg, trip could be possession of il come nddressed to tho firn, forred with United States District Attoruey Bakcor regarding the matter and he has nd- vised them to let Uncle Sam according to laws providing and the disputea mail will probably be sent 10 thedead letter oftice and helduntil the dis- pute is setiled. Accompaniea by Thomas P. Mitchell, T, D, Armsirong, Albowt ashington, Mr. subscribers to the Suxpay CONDITIO Now whatare the conditions_upon which these tickets are given awayl of the largest list WeEKLY or S nced of them, The securing ribers 10 Tk No Snews paper in the west is so well and favorably known and 38 found it an easy mat- Tine BEE'S sulb. of the aty clork and bat tho boilér inspector He made a deposit of §0 with the triasurer_on February 3, covering during Jamary. quires hin to make quarterly, and “montbly if roe- solicitors havo aly ter to_securo subser seription listhas always kept pace with reputation and it deisres to add new names to its longlist of friend people’s paper Being at all times st unpanrod It makes friends with all | " Pheaccounts of the boilor checked by the comptroller to amountof money turned over ror corresponds w of recepts for that these partics had bec The subscription priceof Tk WeekLy Brr lrmirTpati ar i A, v postpaid to any place i da, or §2.00 if sent to a 0 the treas- ththe subs in inspections und. i There is 1o check inthe ofic these stubs, fees is the same as erintendentof . is nothing to | ing his “personal receipt’ ess and pocketing the latter, Austin, engineer at ashand door factory, and s of the Omaha lodge of stationary engi stated that the *safoty plugs” were He had hud expericuce with them and was satistied they were of no practical utility. the inner end of the plug prevented it from fusing when the water was low been in use for and nud proved a failure. ingof Standey oven) was i poorexeuse for an engincer, os sevoral instance which he had asked applicants for engineers’ censes very folish questions, re othercases in which lic granted without asking questions atall. Washington complained cetved small amounts fi rvices ostonsibly and that these amounts hal be advance of any tangible forts, which that Adams had re n conntry. mthem as a fee for " Bee Is $2.0 per year the quarterly SexDar Bep | gyste a subscribers for will notbe counted in this competition, your friends subscribe cpies forwardel rosults from his that in the offic s u plain vioitionof law. (iet up a list. for the paper. free on request. Persons desiring to compete for these prizes will please say so when sending in their first order Kemittancoin full must accorpany overy inspector from g 10 nausea, no rt's Litlle Barly Risers are taken, AEWS OF THE NORTH useless contrivane Two six mon'hs subscrintions or four three months snbscriptions will be counted as one order, Nebraska, George Gibbs of Fuirbury was teribly in- jured by falling throngh ai elevator, Thoballof the Unon Pacific employe: Columbus was o social and financial sucees Mr. and Mrs. 5. W. Hayes of Norfolk cole oir golden wedding amiversary the vife had been a sufferer for some timo in the back; freely used and Tam clad tosay my wife to- W. B, Council, Balti river steamn uffors vo pain. id he (Stand- In colds of great obstinacy (Austin) kenew chroniccoughs use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, the favorite, and_ hacking The old Grand Island was destroved by firo supposed to luye been started by incendiaries. T'he authorities at Auburn are bound torid anblers and the laders of the gang havebeen arvested Seward County { furiiture as a prie toany the grounds durini nses hiad been pplicaits any Counterfeiter Ruland Tices of Play- Alsts Bodi, Sun deven tad inspected the bo tho millon No- Augrust, 150, made by Standeven Clty Physician Gapen was called to Des wood a short time agg,to testify anity expert inthe case of Harry Ruland, who was arrested us oo of a gang of counter- feiters,and who felgued insanivy, T d'itto be a. genuine d that the pris- couple who will wed on the fall extibi Hebron Kaights ting the other night No inspection had petween those date: : L Libor held a the inspections of bollers are doing much of anything, according to Austin. The board of engir David Gilbert and Avthur | two Jatter receive 4 cach for Their duties applicants for lice There areno cants being subjected to an o medy Hard Timg Ata meating of Lo villige trustees of Cov ington Attoriiey M ors consists of Stande- case, but Dr. was instructed rocecdings ot once & Paul, Mimeapolis & Omuba ompany tocompel them to make a station at that place, >lattsiouth Baptists bave purcnased Park and intend to com- 6,000 church as soon The material and that needed for the foundation is already on the ground Thunder Bear, & Sioux Indian Europe the through Rushville the ot/ to Pine Ridge with 4 white bride, whom he He was a show- Wiid West show. this morning stating that be was correct and that the prisoner had g on March 12 the Unmited South Dakota left Deadwood for Sioux I States court was (o o On the way Ruland rojuestod wsic the marshal what would bo done in case Le.gave up being in- are to examine Itseems that marshal for questions, the appli- al examination, sitein South mence thoerection of a 15 tho springg hus except members of the board, knows whe been ordered an apjlicant foran engineer's cortificate lus been: asiked one or one hundred questions, stub ina book 13 the ouly L work of the inspector. was iuformed that the marshal would sy a good word for him, and shon ay, Mr. Marshh and 1 au going ng insane, aud I want you deal as lightly as possible’ with thut tine on he was asrational as any one. e now wants totell of the gang of counter- feiters and et off easy, s trying 1o be cray bardest work h acket up much lon g He complained very much n coufinement, Risers: only pill to to the bowels. De Witt s Litle ear cadache and regu e e b b Lot Her Uncle, Mary Dougherty, a six-year-old _girl, came here Thursday evening f; meet ber uncle had married in wan in Buffalo Bill' The silver wedding of Supervisor D. Evaus and wifo, who have been residents of Spring Ranchesince 15 11th justant and the oceasion was made mem orablo by u gatheriug of their friends, who vestowed on w Baavis, 1a., to Thatrelative failed to appear rred on the treatment while said that biscell had oniy been cleaned out ouce 1 the fifty days ho was there a did not have a bath or @ change, that every time the jailer came up with visit- ors he would say, *Why I only cleancd his coll out vestorday and washed him the day before that,” but Rutland was in for insanity It is the last time ho the couplo A farmer near one nghtlast v Spring Ranche i by his dog seratching on He got up, took bis gun and found two of hisn comerib stealing When Baby wanslck, we gave her Castorla, ehbors in his When she was a Child, she eried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria, Whieo shelisd Clildren, shie ave o Castoriay his wife lighted a lamp =0 as to seowho they and could not squeal were, and told them to skip, leay Sioux Falls and will plead guilty when court opens. He lso claims that if D, Gapen had not testified he believed that all of tors in Deadwood would have said he was Rock Islind passenger train and the king and demolishi 1 with grain. Engincer Harry Walker Lad bis arw broken sud was otherwise in- SEND FOR SAMPLIS. to bereturned at jured. Fieman Frank Wallker, seing the accident could ot buaverted, jumoved from the engineaud escaped serious injury A Methodist colloge is 0 be estallished at Douglas, Otoe county. The projectors ask for adeed to the land and §1,000 in cash, and the demand will be complicd with. Hunenstine, the Custer county murderer, whois senteu'ced to Avril 17, has nude a second attempt-to kil himselfin ‘the jail at Broken Bow. This timo he tied hatging, using a picce of his bedelthes, The suird, however, discovered the seheme and nippe it in the bud after Hanenstine had adjusied the noose about his neck and attiched the otherend of the improvised rop to the ot of his cell, Ovwing to tho remarkable increase 1n the school ation, at Plattsmouth the pres- ent accommodations ave found to be inadequate to the requirements, ana it is claimed that two more school houses areab- solutely necessary. The school board is dis- cussingz the question, and numerously signed petitions will be presented to tho city _coun- cil atits next meeting praying for a eall for an clection to vote bonds vothe amountof £15,000 to be used in the construetion of two uew brick school houses of four rooms cach. Tow A Pan-American atbletic club has been or- ganized by Fort Dodge young men. Ata funeralin Carroil county last woek the liearse was upset, but no danuge was done, . I'rank Smith, a wail earrier, eloped from Clarinda with aprostitute leaving o wifeand four children in destitute circumstances. Some Davenport pople will try to reform a tramp who cliims that at oo time he was & minister, an editor, a poet and an intinute of many well kiown literury prople, Carroll papess state thavall the saloons in that town are running just as they wero be- forethe late prosecutions by thé state tem- perance allianes and that two new salons have been opened. Suloonkeepers of Museative have heen per- mitted to run the past tvo months without paying Now thatthe wunicpal dec- tionis over the Journal says the monthly fines for nning *disorderly louses” will bo collected is heretofore. A gentloman from the rural districts was fined for drunkenness in the Dubuque polico ceurt theotherdey and tho judge wis nmazed when the fellow Sail he couldn't seo the jus- tice of sending him o jail whilo the man who sold him tho liquoz wen tunpunished, Julge Lynch of Carroll has adopted the Uowing novel way of performing a mar- 20 ceromony: *Stand up! Take hold of hands. 1 do hereby dedire you mon and wife from now intooternity, so held me God, and in conclusion will charge you %L Burlington’s city council reduced the salary of ity clerk from $600 to &40 per anium. Themayor of thatanciet byg must now offico with the city marshal, as the #00 allowed list year to that fulctionary for clerk hire and oftico rent has beeu eutirely cut off. Rov, David J. Burrell of Dubugquo has ae- cepted & cali tothe pastorate of the Colleginte Reformed church of Now York ity at an salary of £15,000. Thecall is practi- cally for life, as the salary gos on justthe if ho is incapacitated from duty by old > o sickness, uda man, who has been in the nabit of beating his motherless children, struck his twel ear-old boy with o horse whip and put out aneye. Neighbors sent a phy- sician to attend ‘tho boy and the inhumin fathor declared he would pay o suct bils, andsaid the boy should he Sent to the poor- house. The women of Nevads have taken the case in hand and proposo to have the heartless wreton properly punished, Tabor, a Little villige in Fremont county, is insome respects un unique place. 1t was settied by a colony in 185), Diring the greater part of its history the peoplo haave all worshiped together in oo lirge church-—- Congregational —more than four-fifths of the eoplo belonging 1o that denomination. hen & tax was voted to aid the Tabor & Northero railroad the vole was unanimous, and at the recont municipal and school clec- tions onlyoneticket was placed in nomina. tion, It'might be truly said that the gregatioual{sts have a monopoly in Tabo Two Imperial Doctors. SirMorrel Macken zie and Profusor Koo he highest authorities in Europe, unhesita- tingly recommend the Soden Pastillcs (tro- ches forall Throat, Lungand Catarrhal di- seases, It you am sulering from a congh B« sl bron il calarrl, or iny Throut Trouble, the Sodon Mineral Troches will positively rolfeve wh I edso i by “Tho gening articlo has the signature and recommendation of Sir Monli Naekenzle with cuch box, Price e