Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1891, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY THE DAILY BEE B ShiToR. [R— PUBLISHED MORNIN TERNS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly Bee (without Eunday) One Year Daily and Sunday, One Y oar T mreeaS® 8838333 Saturday | Weokly B Omaha, The Pee Butlding. Eouth Onha, Corner N and 2th Streeta, nefl Bluffs, 1 arl Streot. of Commeroe. 5, Tribune Bullding CORRESPONDE Al communications relating to news and ditorial m: tter should be addressed o the ditorial Depurtuent. RUSINESS LETTER? Al husiness lotters and remittances should be nddressed to The Bee Pubiishing Company, Omuha. Drafts, cheeks and postoffice orders 0 be made payable to the order of the com pany. The Bee Publishing Company. Proorietors THE BEE BUILDING. !W(II:N 8T \T‘|‘,M l?l" Nun(‘.n! .'\;n lnr;«ll:n, " ;“ George 1. Tzachick, socretary of The Boo Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the sctual eiredlation of Tue DALY Bee for the week ending July 4, 1801, was as fol- lows: Bunday, Jun Monday, June 2 Tuesday, Junc 10 Wednesday, July 1. "I:h]u’rndvnyl. ylul HiERPEMER CIRCULATION {ORGE . TZ8CHUCK. Sworn to betoro mie anl subseribed in ty ence this 4th day of July. 101 L o & 7N, Feim Notary Publie. glns, (88 4 heing duly sworn, de- oses and says that hojsseorotary of TIE BEE Publishing company. that tho actual average of THE DATLY BEE for tho 1800, s 20,301 coples: for July, pies; for A 20,750 coples: 20,871 ;' tor Ovtobor 1800, 22, 1, 25,012 c ople April, 1801, 21,05 coples coples. Grona BT Sworn to Lefore me and subserihe presence this 2 duy of J e ST SOME of the nowspapors are discussing Parnell’s political future. This is a waste of time. Parnell has no political future. “ENGLAND indulged in its first Fourth of July demonstration on Saturday in honor of the arrival of the Germuan em- peror, THE state board of trunsportation will find it profitable to devote the time of their three secretacies to a careful study of the Towa railroad law. A MONUMENT to Danton and Robes pierre in France will bo no more shock- ing to the good sense of the worlcd than one to Joff Davis in America. Both are likely to be erected. WALES and his son wero the thick and thin of the royal family. Tho heir ap- parent was a triflo too bulky, and the heir presumptive too attenuated to fit the German uniforms they woro. BASEBALL and tho uqua as- semblies were the chief instrumentali- ties in furthoring celebrations of the glorious Fourth in Nebraska this year. Without them the day would have been intolerably dull AMONG honest peoplo there is but one sentiment in regard to the two officors of the Hastings asylum for incurable insane who have been on the rack of investiga- tion for a few days. They should be re- moved without delay. ACCORDING to Minister Douglas, Hip- polyte is a lovel-headed man and he was .equal to the emergency iu the last riots. This must be accepted as true, for not enough riotors were left after the butch- ery to dispute the proposition. AN OCALA, Fla., flisherman claims to have captured a fish in which he found a diamond ring. Ocala is respon- sible for Polk and the sub-treasury scheme. It has enough to answer for. It should immedistely repudiate this fisherman and his provarication, Tae Chilean insurgents are again an- nounced to be in possession of the key to the situation. Just how many keys to the situation are required is not stated. To the foreign observer it appears that noend will come to the war until one porty or the other gets a key to the deadlock. EVERY momber of the Grand Army in Nebraska favors Lincoln for the national encampment in 1892 and every veteran can do something tg help secure it. Lettors to old comrades and leading me1 in the order will help. Write them. Thers are #0,000 ex-union sol- diers in Nebraska and they aro almost invincible if united. Boies and his adherents went too far in their platform utterances upon the tomporance issue. They have discov- orod thoir mistake and arc now striving to pateh it up with a declaration infavor of local oj tion. Tho tomporancy ques- tion will give Towa domocrats all the trouble thoy care to expericnce between now and November. CHRISTIANA, the capital of Norway, is boasting of a $200,000 hotel for tour- ists. Itis said to be the finest in the kingdom. The capitalists along the route to North Cupe and the midnight sun are not parsimonious, but itis a small tourist resort in Amoerica which cannot boast o hotol costing twice as m ich, AMONG the charming little cities of Nebraska Crote takes no obscure place. She is one of the several beauties of the Bluo. Always enterprising, this ocity has never permitted herself to be over- looked by persons interested in Ne- braska. As an edueational center Doane college has givon high rank. The first Chautauqua assombly in the state was established at Creto. It has always beon a success and set the example for at least three other cities in t diree: tion. When thinking over the delight- ful places for a fow days’ visit ora fly- ing trip, it will not pay to overlook Saline county’s charming resort, her Chautauqua assembly grouuas, hor col- lege, or her people. NOT SATISFACTORY FIGURES. Most of the bulletins issued from the census office are models of accuracy and contain information of both interest and value. This cannot truthfully be said, However, of that issued under date of June 22, upon the very important sub- joct of the receivts and~ expenditures of the municipalities of the union. The figures purport to show the receipts and oxpenditures of 100 principal or repre- sentative cities of the United States. If those cited for Omahn are a proper cri- terion from which to judge of the value of the tables, they are scarcely worth compilation. The city of Omaha appears from the figures to have expended $1,563,308 in 1859 or $11.13 per capita basing the ratio upon the population of 1890. The ap- proximate exponses of administration are thought to have beon $1,455,363 or $10.86 por capita. The average for the cities of from 100,000 to 200,000 people is #11.74 por capita, while the returns pub- lished herein show Donver to have ex- pended but $4.52 for administrative pur- poses, and Kansas City but $7.05 per capita, On comparing the data from which these figures are deduc observed that iarge sums are charged to both expenditures and receipts in those ties which are omitted in Omaha. und vice versa, For instance in Omahn liquor licenso funds are ropocted ns re- ceived, and no school expanditures are noted, while in Denver liquor licenso receipts run up to 3190,000, and receipts for schools from the state are 333,842 The exponditures for schools are #: 000, Kansas City is represented to have received from taxes as ovdinary receipts $015497, and Omaha’ $1,263,116. But in both cases large balances are included from the year preceding, Omaha having but $357,040, and Kansas City more than half a million. The calculations for Omaha ave not upon the same basis as in other cities in several other particu- lars, and the results are therefore incon- sistent with tho facts. he following are the figures and items appeaving in the census bulleten opposite tho name of Omaha: Popula- tion, 140,452 ordinavy expenditures, $1,- 563,803; per capita, $11.13; approximate administrative expandisures, $1,455, per capita, $10.36; receipts fiscal yoar ending Decembes 81, 1889, aggregate, including balance on hand at begining of year, $2,014,412; net ordinary taxes, $1,- ,116; special assessments, streets and bridges, $35,420; sewors, $1,299; net li- censes other than liquor, $11,897; net fees, fines and penalties, 313.219; inter- ost on deposits, $62; miscellaneous, $7 : total ordinary roceipts, 1,334,885 extra ordinary roceipts, ———; princi- pal on loans, $322,158; principal of funds and transfors, $329; balance on hand be- gining of year, $357,040; ordinary ex- penditures, library, $14,018; five, $70,164; lighting, $40,000; police, $87,102; streets and bridges, 3851,000; sewers, $154,468; buildings and improvements, $27.- vks and public grounds, $16,475; alavies, $150,152; * water, $66,490; miscellaneous, $85,914; total ordinary ex- penditures, $1,563,303; ance on hana ond of year, 3451,109. The tables show no receipts from liquor licenses, none from state for schools; no expenditures for schools; for health; for; charitable objects; for mterest on debt or for principal of loans. The figures are simply confusing and for purposes of comparison with other cities where these items are included are worthless. no 99 - RAILROAD DISA The two terrible railroad accidonts of the past week, one in Ohio and the other 10 West Virginia, are well calculated to alarm the traveling public, and they ought to have the effect to induce rail- road companies to require greater care and caution on the part of employes. The responsibility for the accident in Oniorests upon the brakeman who failed to flag the approaching train at a dis- tanco far enough away to enablo the engi- neer to stop the train, and the very gen- eral opinion is that no punishment could be too savere for the mun whose inatten- tion to duty caused the frightful sacri- fico of life. But it is quite possible that there are others who are somewhat to blame, for if there had bean the right sort of discipline among the trainmen it is altogether probable the brakeman would not have so neglected his duty. This in nowise pallintes his offense, but in the circumstances it was obviously the duty of the conductor 0 have exercised the utmost care to see that the tr: known to b coming was properly sig- nalled, instead of leaving the matter wholly to the care of an irresponsible brakeman, who proved himself to be also utterly reckless. - While, therefore, nothing can bo said in mitigation of tho criminal neglect of the brakeman, it is evident that the conductor is not altogether blameless. The disaster in West Virginia was not due to caveloss- ness and is perhaps to be regurded, in the light of the facts at hand, as having been unavoiduble. The sleepers burned during the night, and therefove the railroad company could obtain no information of the dunger. It wis ono of those accidents against which no preeaation was possibic Terrible as these disusters ave, they should have some compensation in load- ing railway companics to exercise groater care, and particularly to exact from employes the utmost vigilance and the closest attention to duty. Asa rule railway employes are solicitous for the public safely; but mon ave apt to got caroless at times if not held strictly to their duty by a policy of accountability amplo as & punishment and rigidly en- forced. There are too many railroad accidents in this country and the de- mand for remedial measures is urgent. HANNIBAL HAMLIN. The death of Hunnibal Hawmlin, who had reached the venorable age of 82 years, removes another of tho sirong characters of the rebellion period. The repunlican national convention of 1860 aid wisely in placing Mr. Hamlin on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln, for he gave valuable aid to the administration duriog the four years of war. As u rule, for fully half a century at least, the vice president is a& mere fizure- head. He presides over the senate wh Qisposed to exercise his pra- rogative, but he is raroly called into the councils of the administration. Out- side of his relations to the senate he is 10 all intonts and purposes a nonentity. But this was not the case with Hannibal Hamlin when he was vice president. He enjoyed the confidence of President Lincoln and was frequently called upon to advise with him. He mado himself constantly felt in connection with affairs, and throughout the war was an active and greatly useful force, exert- ing himself with zeal and enorgy at all times to pro- mote the cause of the union. The ser- vice rondered by Hannibal Hamlin dur- ing this period wasof inestimable worth, and if hisvecord of pubtic usefulness were confined to that it would bs en- titled to very high considoration. But Mr. Hamlin had most ascoptably served the poople baforo and after his election to tho viee presidency Hs was not a man who commanded attention by rea- son of excoptional ability or the possession of brilliant quaiities. His sound common and his strong devotion to principles enabled Mr. Ham- lin to secure the vespect and confidence of men much abler than he. Ho was a safe man, well balanced, careful and ju- dicious, and when ho passed judgment on any matter it was a judgment that desoerved to be considered. Mr. Hamlin had his share in the work of reconstru tion, and his course was marked by a high conception of what was required in order to render the union more secure. An examination of the record dur- ing the 2 yoars Mr. Hamlin was in -the senate, from 1859 to 1881, will show that he was not idle, but took both an active and a prominent part in connection with the legislation of that eveniful period. His place in the list of our distinguished public men is not in the first rank, but nevertheloss ho rendered the country faithful and valuablo servi and set an example of devotion to principle and of uprightness in public office which can safely bo singled out for emulation. His services wore honorable and useful and his career without reproach. Of the mon who figured conspicuously in the great epoch from 1861 to the closs of the reconsiruction period but few romain, The greatost of themnave passod from this world’s stage. sonse WILLIAM 1IN ENGLAND. There is probably no special signifi- cance in the visit of Emperor William to England. It does not warrant the presumption that some very important political scheme, affocting the interasts of all Europe, is to be pr .noted, for it would be of little value to anything the German emporor might wish done that he obtained the approval and support of the queen and the royal family, Her magesty has little power in affairsand the heir apparent to the throne has even less. So that if William has anything of a political nature to advance he would not look to his English grandmother or uncle for assistance. So that it must be supposed that the driebund, or tho triple alliance, or any other political matter, has nothing to do with the em- perors going to Bagland, and that he is simply there to be entertained. This he will get in abundance during the week of his stay, and the dis- patches report that the public is manifesting far more intevest in him than it did on the occasion of ais former visit, the assumed reason being that he has since developed more manliness of character. It is a fact, that Emperor William is growing in this respect. He has stopped soeking notoriety by promulgating radical social schemes, and he seems to be giving more intelligent attentioa than formerly to the affairs of state. This is not to say, however, that in all respects the government is mani- festing the best judgment. Maintaining a high tax on food that the country must import, and probublyto a larger oxtent during the next year than for many years past, is obviously u very foolish policy, however necessary to the treasury may be the rovenue derived from it. Some recent utterances of the emperor, also, have not boon altogether creditable to his judgment and probably have not made him any stronger with his people. They evidenced a tendency to arrogance which even the German peo- ple cannot admive or approve. But after all the young emperor is thoroughly German in all his instincts and desires, and nothing is more cortain than that the fatherland has in him a pro- foundly loyal son, and a ruler who will soe that all her interests are jealously guarded and protected. William is not a great man, and it is not to be expected that he will sver do anything very re- markable. But if ho preserve the peace of Europe, which ho seems disposed to do and has the power to do, he will have a claim to an honorable place in the his- tory of his country. EX-SENATOR ING is an icono- clust by nature. This is why he por- mits himself to intimate in his great lecture that George Washington loeated of the United States on its nt site because it was only fifteen miles from his possessions at Mount Ver- non. This suggestion is unworthy even of Mr. Ingalls, The facts of history do not confirm the intimation. If the father of our countey had been of a speculative turn of wmind he could just as readily have selected a sito for the capital upon his own vast possossions. He had numerous and froquent opportunities to enrich himselt while in command of the armies and after his clection to the prosidency. Thereis not a scrap of evidence any- whore in the history of his great eareor to warrant the unpatriotic hint of the Kansus ex-Se Washington w disintorestod patriot if one ever existed. Americans naturally resont any iutima- tion to the contrary. especially on Inde- pendence day, and when nothing is offered in proof of it botter than a con- temptible innuendo, or. I'r 15 an extromely sad picture that is prosented to the mind's eye by the res port of Mr. Gladstone's profound grief at | the death of his son, William Henry adstone appoars not to have been a particulurly remarkuble man, but he evidently possessed superior qualities or | his loss would hardly have been so deeply folt by his distinguished father. Ac cording to the dispateh the griof of Mr, | d.at, Gladstone was solterrible inits intensity that serious gonsequences are appre- hended, his physical condition being so onfeebled as to'make such a strain upon it dangorous. 'Ifore is reason to foar that the end of Mr. Gladstone's life work is not far off, ¢ IF KANSAS oveg again expects peoplo in the east to respect her intelligence or helieve in hor kefources and prosperity she should call in her whiskered Pef- for, her sockloss Simpson, her iron- jawed femining orator and such other calamity specimens as have been por- mitted for some eight months to run at large. They are blasting the reputation of the state, maligning its people and making conspicuous cranks of them- selves in Fegions against which Kansas has no right to bo at-emnity. Ready to Aid Omaha. Hastings Nebraskan. * Every city and town in Nebraska will take pleasuro in doing evorything possible to se- cure the national republican convention for Omaha. - Enough and to Spare. Hoston Advertiser. The United States now has enough terri- tory and cortaiuly neod not enter into any plans for the annoxation of countries whoso peaple are ulien in race, language and funda- meoutal ideas, Omaha Will Have It. Norfolk News. Towa swings into line in favor of Omaha as the place for holding the republican national convention. The metropolis of this stato ought to g0 into the convention with the solid northwest at her back. - Political Tidal Waves. St. Lonis be-Democrat, In 1890, whon there was a big democratic tidal wave all over the country, the republi- cans carried lowa for their state ticket by a plurality of 3,365, Their load this year will probably bo ut loast three times as great as this, PR (o 1 Wake Up the Board. Broken Bow Leader., Tho republican state contral committeo is called to meet at Lincoln July7. Taoy should bring such a pressure to bear upon our stato board of transportation as to result in wakiogit up toits pluin duty to the peo- ple of this state. - Crucl and Unusual. Detroit Free Press. Herr Most will be compelled to submit to to the taking of fifty-two baths within tho year to come, for ho must go to prison for twelvo mouths and 1tis required that con- victs take at least ono bath a week. Ho might take another appeal, asserting that the forcing of a bath upon an anarchist is a cruel and unusual punishment, such as is prohibited by the constitution. i el An Imperative Neligh Advocate. The repulican state central committee have been called to meot some time this month. While in session they should make an_im- perative demand upon the state board of transportation to. meet and formulate a maximum rate bill that will do justice to both the people and railroads, and enforce it to the letter. 1t is abiout time the wishes of the rank and file of thp party in this matter should be carried out, and. Character stics o rigration. Philaglelphia Record, Duting the last cleven months the immigra- tion to this country amovated to 487,170, against 401,600 in the same perioa of last yea Tho largest relative increasos ave trom taly, Austria-Hungary and Russian Poland. Kor- merly the largest accessions of foreign popu- lation were from the best woveraments of Europe. Now precisely the reverse is tho case. Government oppression and persecu- tion are the chicf agents of Buropean immi- gration to the United States, —— Republican Gourage. Huper's Weekly, Tho republicans, by nominating Mr. Mo- Kiuloy in Obio, havesot a good example, They have shown thelr confidence and courage. Thoy have prosented what every election ought to present—a deflnite issue and a representative candidate. The docision will be unembarrassed by personal consider- ations. That is tho situatioz which is do- strable in next yenr's gencral election. If tho democrats propose to muke the word ““democracy” the issue, aud run in o fog, thoy should nominato a candidato wao is not a ropresentatives of distinct policies. But it they mean to ask the country to approve cortain intelligible and bencficent logislative measures, they should nominate a candidato Whose name personifies them. i il A Word With the Farmer. New York Advertise Our friends, the agriculturalists, should be careful that they do not neglect this fine farming wenther to ive too much attention to tho organization of new parties, A very good time for political subsoil plowing is in the winter, when the corn is in the crib and thoro is too much frost in the ground for any other kind of plowing. It is & pity to waste the clover-soented days of June in adopting resolutions and por- mitting the Canada thistle to got a start. And yot that is what soveral farming com- munitios are doing. It is & good thing for the farmors to keop an eye on the country at large, and regulate govornment affairs whon need be; but they can select & timo to do this when the crops will not suffer, —— Opens a Vast Field, Kearney Hub. Great efforts aro being put forth at Omaha to provide that city with an elevator system that will make it the grain market of the state. Theso efforts’'should and will un- doubtedly succeed,’ad’ the average Omaha rustler has faith iy, the destiny of the city and 15 built on the biggest plan going. Tho stock market at Omaha is suliciont evidence that a grain markot ean bo built up there if her capitalists ‘36t out to do it and it is a ocgpsummation in which every farmer of i the state s di- rectly and deeply intorestod, now that the warohouse luw of Nébfaska has opened up a vast fleld of possibjy henefits—benelits that will bo made cortain with a great storago system perfectad inA)dmaha, with auxiliaries spread out over the/state where thoy will do tho most good. w0 e DM LIGHT ON A‘*BARK el Hastiugs Nobraska#i Tus Bee's motto seoms to be o *let nGde guilty escape.” Papallion Times: Tue Owaua Bre is routing the Hastings insane asylum thieves, Neligh Leader: The more the Hasting asylum is investigated tho deeper seemms tho rottenness of the whole institution and its wanagement, Crete Videtto: Tie OMANA BER'S €Xp0se of tho rotten management of the insane as, lum at Hastings should result iu the dismis- sal of the whole gang, from the superintend- ent down Graud Island Independent: It looks as if there had be bad mess somewhere in the Hastings asylum—a sort of a laxity iu morals not sltogether creditable for “pillars of the chureh,” but just where this looseness of morals is. is a question of veracity be- tween two sots of accusers. It is bowever, hit somewhere SUBJECT. ovi- there has been oonduct awfully unbecoms ing, and upon the one side or the other of the asylum force some torrible Iying. It appears that all did not continue of tho mind to *‘be good to each other.” It isa disgusting state of affairs from any point viewed. Sutton Advertiser: Governor Thayer, in instituting and crowding the investigation into tho orookodness and numerous steals of Dr. Test and his steward, of the Hastings asylumw, has shown himself to boa republican of the better sort. ‘The old man has blood in his oy, aud gots around very lively for a political corpso, as his encmios claim him 10 be. Broken Bow Republican: The investiga- tion into the management of tho Hastings asylun is developing somo sousational matter in which Dr. Testand Steward Liver- inghouse ure implicated, Thusetar the in- vestigation shows vory dark agalnst Liver- inghouse and Test and places them in a situ- ation anything but enviable. That they have proved recreant to their trust, from the light of the evidence, there can be no question. The boara will g0 to the bottom of the whols matter which no doubt will result in the suspension of Superintendent Test and Steward Liveringhouso and Mrs, Livering- house. SNAP SHOTS AT POSSIBILITIES. Globe Democrat (rop.): Cloveland's latest apoech resemblos all bis provious ones in the fact that thero is not enough yeast in It for the dough. New York Recorder (rep.): David Bon- nott Hill {3 ranning tho machine, but from A calm roviow of the July political situation Grover Cloveland appears to be running tho voter: St. Paul Pioacer Press: Cieveland has some reason to fear that when he uttered those anti-Tro silver sentiments ho unwit- tingly precipitated himself outsido the dem- ocratio breastworks. St. Louis Globo-Democrat (rop.): That sucking zephyr known as tho Cullom boom is not strong enough to stir tho grass on the Illinois prairies. And it will never bo any stronger than it is today. This may be sad, but 1t is s0. Chicago Herald (dem.): Chicago can heartily approve of Uncle Jerry Rusk's man- agomont of tho weather bureau, thus far. Continued cool, summor weathor, light, ro- froshing showers, and double raiubows for Chicago would give his prosidential boom a big start in the westorn metropolis. Now York Rocordor (rep.): In eulogy and admiration of Mr. Blame the republicans of Towa surpass their brethren of Ohio. Less than two weeks ago the state which has won the proud title of the mother of republican presidents, as old Virginia, of which Ohio was onco o part, was the mothor of demo- cratic presidents, doclared for the man from Maine. Harper's Weekly (mug.): Governor Hill has made himself mastor of a strong and efi- cient machine, whilo the friends of Mr. Cleveland trust largely td tho logic of tho situation. They anticipate a coutest upon the question of taviff revision, and they naturally hold that in such a contest Mr. Cleveland is the inovitablo party leader. To put him aside would be a confossion of doubt and an abandonment of the issue. They look, thereforo, for Mr. Cleveland’s nomina- tion by acclamation. — e THE 10WA DILEMMA. Minneapolis Journal (vep): The Iowa re- publicans, in reaflirming their allegiance to prohibition, took too many words to do it. If they believe in it they should not have ro- sorted to circumlocution, but should have como out syuarcly and decidedly for tho principle and without any semblanco of an apology. It is somewhat unfortunate that the resolution on liquor is flavorod that way. It weakens the position of the party. Chicago Herald (dem): The republicans of Towa are to bo admired more for their ob- stinacy than for their discretion. They stick to their prohibition folly with tho bliad courage of fanaticism. They have no apolo- gies to offer for their course on that subject, but they have plenty of stupid charges against the democratic party, which they accuse of nullifying the law—as though the law had not been practically a dead letter when the execution was in their own hasds. They ought to know by this time that probi- bition coes not prohibit, no matter what party tries to onforce it. Chicago Tribune (rep.): Themen whe are managing the party in Iowa cannot help see- ing that it is their obedience to tho dictation of the rabid prohibitionists which has cut down their majorities so that two years ago the democrats were ablo to elect a governer. For yenrs there has boen a steady migration from the republican party into the opnosing camp. Republican leaders deploro this, ana would be glad to have these emigrants back again, Oda as it seoms, there are many Towans who prefer paper prohibition ali over the state and free rum in & good part of it to effectual prohibition in communities whers it can be enforced and tho taxation and roguta- tion of the liquor trafic in communitics whore the salo cannot be stopped though un army roinforced the civil ofticers of tho law. PASSING JESTS, Brooklyn Life: “Look here.” safd an oxclted 1 Lo a AFuggIst, 'you gave we morphine for nine this morning ! U 507" replied the druggist; owo me 25 cents, That's the diily price, “thon you ice In'the Washington Post: ure posted on pusic, ure you note eaid one man to the triend ho b-d just met at the ciub, I should say 50. I have & olear 1dea of the Jocation of evory brass band aud plano school intown. Whenevor I go out walkin: I can ayold thom with neatness and certainty. Smith Gray & Oo.'s Monthly: Pat—Are yez good In arith Mike—Oi om, Pat—Well, If yo b the lend o ' folve lofu? M 1y)—$10. don’t seem ter kiteh onter my od yer for how much would ye hov an’ you don't seom to kiteh ontor my foive doliurs, n! What a fate he found, ifies of building room, sulic public roand Detroit Froe Press: At tho military ball: Ho—You look 80 fis: pect you will capt girls won't stand any sortof a chinco Oh. yos; I'll divide wi . colonols wud leave thei Sh I'll take the he sholls. (B SUMMER HUMMER, Washington 1ot When evening breezes gontly blow And SLurs DO3I0 L0 Come, There s o musie soft and slow In the mosquita’s hum. But when at night, full many a 1o Has left you sore and glun; A war tuno futl of woo and fright Ts this mosquito’s hun Somerville Journal: *Why don't you for work ™" usked the philanthropls o tomun who had Just given w do..ar to ons of Rost “L'va boen Lyling on my baok un treo looking ip 10to tho sk aftor work," saldthe i der plaintiveiy, “but | hav 100k gen- ne of and takn much who Interost In v 1 roads the strikose! HOWSDAD *Do the 1 whe 10 his ofi ~Oing on. keep him o when there ull game Knte Flola's Wash What kind of a b cond Fisheri weton: First Flshermun 1d you huve toduy Aled-hol! Suith, Gray & Co.'s Monthly: Mrs. Baldwin ¥ 15 1640 many mon wre bild av forty? \—Forty Mmes threo hundred and o—woll, about tifteon thousind. Miy, Baldwin~What aro you fi zuring? I 1 —Oh, only bout how many times a J1d bibve Lo waw & nIKLL SLATL OVOF Bis B £OFLY yours CUT DOWN BY THE ELEMENTS, 01d Soldiers' Emeampment at Lincoln Short- enod One Day by Rain, ENJOYABLE TIME HAD NEVERTHELESS. Active Work Begun to Secure the Next National Encampmont at the Stato Capital—Ex- President Hay LivcoLy, Neb., July &—[Spectal to Tnr Bre. | ~Owing to continued raius the reanion and oncampment of tho ola soldiors at Cush- man park was curcailed one day. Nevortho- less a ploasant time was enjoyed by the five hundred vetorans in attendance. At tho annual business meoting the follow ing oficors wore electea: Harey Hotchkiss, Lincoln, president; J. . Clark, Cheney, vic presidont; J. W. Bowen, Lincoln, secrotar: J. L. Hermanco, Lincoln, quartermastor: Henry Masterman, Lincoln, chaplain; J. P. Woods, Lincoln, surgeon. Among the closing events of tho encamp- ment was a characteristio speach by Hon. L. W. Lansing. Itov. Hewitt also mado an caually interesting talk, as ho had served in the confedorate = army, and oftor the war was over he was tutor to neral Grant's children, Other speakers followed and tho oxorcisos woro varied with tho singing of oid war songs. Altogotaer the encampment provod a decidod succass, All theold hoys woro enthusiastically io favor of Lincolu gotting the national encampment. A largo number of the veterans drovped into Tue Bee headquarters to ask concerning the Brw's burcau of claims, They could scarcely believe that for the 'moro price of subseription they not only got the best paper in Nebraska but also would have their pen- sion claims attended to froo of cost APTER THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT. The general committeo appointed to diroct the work of securing tho national encamp- ment, of tho Grand Army of tho Republic for Lincoln next year met last evening and fin- ishod the organization of a system to push the matter. st iv was decided to distributo the work among a number of sub-committeos. each of which is to present to the main com- mitteo the best plans the mombers can devise or suggest. ‘Theso subcommitteos aro as follows: I J. H. MeClay, A. C. Zie- mer and C. E McFarland, It. H. Oakloy and . \ logal incorporation, C. A. Atkinson, J Clay and E. R. Sizor; public tion, H. M. Bushnell, C.A. Atkiuson aud I, R. Sizor. When these various committees aro readv to veport the genoral committes will meot and listen to the various plans and then com- mence in carnest the real work of endeavor- ing to secure tho great cncampment. EX-PRESIDENT HAYES. Ex-President Hayes of Ohio was at the Lincoln hotel last evening ard this morning. Ho was on his way home from the Chautau- qua assembly at Beatrice and decided to put ia a night of rest at the Hotel Lincoln, Naturally his presence attracted a good many people to that hostelry, but tho ex- prosidont was too tired to do much talking or visiting. This morning the distinguished gentleman loft on the 8 o'clock train for tho oust, e e AMONG THF MONTHLIES, AMERICAN SHIPS AND CUBAN COMMERC “Our Cuban Commerce,” writes Gieneral Thomas Jordan in the July Forum, has exer- cised a manifest influenco in tho mainte- nanco of our shippiug interosts. In 1875, when the totsl imports from Cuba agere- wated 85,445,536, 1o less than 2,037,276 of that amount, or 79'{ per cent reacked our shores on 'American ships; and for the same year, 80’¢ per cont of our export trado ~ with that and was like- wise under our flag. Moreover, of the Amer- ican ships engaged in foreign commerce that were entered 1 the ports of the United States for the quartor ending June 30, no loss than 26 per cent were employed in the Cuban trade, carrying 25 per cent of tho whole tonnago thus freighted. It is also to be notod that comparitively nttle of tho sugar imported from other places than Cuba has reached our ports under the American flag, whilo in 1886, 677 per cent of Cuban exports t0 tuis country were in American vessels.” TUE AREA OF PARIS. In an elaborate articlo on ‘“The Typical Modern City,” in July Century, Dr. Albert Shaw says: *‘The existing Paris covers 10,- 275 acres, or ahout 30 square miles, whilo motropolitan London with 4,000,000 popula- tion contains 118 syuare miles, aua Chicago, as recently enlarged, provides an area about as extensivo for 1. 000,000. The wverage distance from the ce ter of Paris to the circumference is only threo miles. Minneapolis, with only 165,000 peo- lo, has & municipal area more than twice as arge as that of Paris. Almost the entire population of Paris is housed 1n the flats of tenement structures averaging from four to five steries in height. According to the rovised figures of the census of 183 tnero wero nearly 75,000 houses in Paris, aud the average number oi peoplo in each houso was about 30. In the old arrondissements of tho inner Paris there aro probably about thirty thousand houses, accommodating about. ono illion people. Fora total conteast in the plan of house construction we have only 10 cross the chaunel and Lo examinoe London, where we find an average of about eight per- sons to a house for the whole motroolis. But tho people of Paris are better houscd, all things considered, than those of London. A population of 2,500,000 withi role whose radius is only three miles is ainly very dense, but it must be remembered that Paris is a many storied city.” HOW PAWIS 1S GOVERNED. In the samo paper Dr. Shaw commends the simplicity of F'rench municipai govern- ment. ‘The peopls elect a council, varying in numbess according to population upon a sealo fixed by general law. Tu all but the large places the counefl is elected upon & goneral ticket. The inportant cities are usually divided into sections, or large wards, to each of which several councilors are assigned, and tho ward chooses its councilors upon a goneral ticket. The councilors hold for four years, and all rotire ~being, of course, eligible for ou. Tne English and Amor- tom of partial renewal annually or bienuially is contrary to I'rench habits and ideas. Tho council names the mayor, and also his executive assistants, from its own membership. The mayor is the presiding of- ficor of the council, as well as the executive head of the municipality. His adjuncts, or executive assistunts, are designatod by thoir fellow councilors. In largo place wumber ten or twelve, and they 10 executive auties excopt such as are specifi assigned to_thom by the wayor. The council holds four ordinary sessions every yoar, cach of which may last for fifteen days, whilo the one in whi*h the aunual budgot is discussod may last for six weeks. But the n or may call extra s sions at guy tims ndhe is obliged to con- voue tho body upon request of a majority of the counciloes, The council apnoints consul- tative committeos whicn meet ad libitum be twoen sessions, with the mayor as no nul chairman ' of , whilo ond of his adjuncts 1s more usuaily the actual chair- man. The mayor has the appointing powor, and nawes the minor offuials of the commune, subject in somo cases, however, 0 the ap- proval of the profect of the department. With the advico of the council, and under the surveillauco of the departmental authort ties, tho MAYOr ox0cutos the business of Lhe commune. Tho council has a largs authority in the levying of taxes, authorization of pub- lic works, provisioa for education, ete., but {n most of thess things its decisions must be approved by the higher authoritios. BISMARCK IN THE OPPOSITION. W1t is certainly to bo desired,” says Privy Councillor (Geffcken in the July Forum, “that & man of marck's {mportan should havo a seat In parliamont, and muc botter that ho shoald have ocoasion to speak his mind publicly than that ho should exhnla his wrath in anonymous newspapor articles and conversations with reportors. But he will bo very much mistaken if he expects to exoroise great influence in the relchstag, Just as Antaus derived his strongth from contact with the oarth, Bis marck was only all powerful at tho head of tho enormous government apparatus which ho had built up, and by which he denied his sovereign s well as_parliament. But as simplo member ho will ba comparatively pow- erless. Ho will stand niono; his sposches will be listened to attentively. but they will bo answered respeotfully yot covclusively by the govornment and very broadly by liberal sponkors such as Riobtor, Bamberger and Rickort, whom tho chanceilor formerly treated with contempt or as eno- mies of the empiro. Besides, Bismarck is no orator; his speeches are the product of much thought and full of incisive arzument as weil as sophistical casuistry, but they derive thelr real importance from tho fact that thoy wero uttored by the omnipitent ministor. Bismarck's opposition, thorofore, is not to ba foured, and will only force tho government to take a more decisive position.” THE MEN WHO IUILT CANADA, Tn “A Brief for Continental Unity" in the New England Magazine, Walter Blackburn Harto maintains that the “Canadians as peo- plo laugh to scorn any idea of closer political relations with Englaid. The wholo trend of public opinian_is in the opposite direction. ho most popular _and influentinl leadors in Canadn are already oponly looking forward to o severance of the tio with Graat Britain, The conservative governmout only retnins power by & curious compound of loyalty and nationalism, which, roduced to plain English moans: Canada for the Canadians, Sir John Macdonald_in the discussion over tuo national policy, was warned by the imperial conser a protective polic Cunada would injure the British conn and his omphatic rosponse was, “So much the worse for the British c tion."” Thoso frionds of unrestricted reciproeity who aro aubbed *‘traitors’’ by the government organs retort by reminding them of Sic John's " fa- mous and popular reply to the imporial crouk- ers. Canadians are essentially democratic in their ideas. The Knglish, Scotch and Irish emigrants who havo buiit up Canada were not recrutted from tho aristocratic classes, and they came hero disgustod with the social gulfs aad poverty of [Suropo, with the deter- mination to establish homes in tho new world whore aristocratic and monarchial in- stitutions would not grind them in the slough of despond forover. PARAGUAYAN IDEAS OF WORK. Mhoodore Child writes entertainingly in Harper's of tho charactoristics of Paraguay ans. A French gentleman,” ho says, who has recontly organized a colony calied Villa Sana, about twenty leagues northeast of Villa'Concepeion, on land belonging to the Paraguayo-Argentine land eomvany, told mo that in the besinning, when he went to sur- voy the ground and to acertain its exact whereabouts—always a troublesome business in these countrios, whero thero is as_yet no topograpnical survey -he had the grestest aiMculty in inducing half a dozen Paraguay- ans to accompany him. They told him that be would never find the land, that ho would be unablo to cross the river Aquidaban, and, in_short, that his was a wild-gooso chase, However, when they ar- ed at the river, and the Frenchman sim- ply Jumped in and swam across, their amour propro was touchcd, aud thoy swam after im. Thoese hulf-dozen Paraguayans havo remained attachod to the colony, but they have lost tho esteem of their countrymen When, after the exploring_expedition, our renchman started from Villa Concepeion with bis sixty colonists and his train of bul- lock carts and impedimenta, the loafers of the town said to the fow Paraguayans who accompsuied him and were belping in the loading: *“What! Are youas big fools as those Europeans, to work like thati FREE COINAGE. “All Europo has stopped the freo coinago of silver,” says ex-Secretary Fairchild in tho Forum, “which it would havo not done had it believed that it, conjunction with us, could maintain tho old ratio of the precious motals. The countries of tho Latin union have a vast amount of silver, and it is much more 1mportant to thom to maintatn tho rquality of silver with gold than itis to us oven yet, and still they are not willing toalo 50 with our help; how much less then must they believe in our power to do this unaided ! Therefore, upon thiniing that thoy saw tl.o approach 'of silver mouo-metallism in this country, the, would also think that our gold coins wero better vroperty than our silver coins, and would tako stops at_once to gotour gold and savo themselves from the possibility ef gotting our silver. They would do this by solling all the securitios created in this country for which they could fina a market. Thoy would soeic that_markov heve, aud tho result woula be that, for a timo at least, this coun- tey would havo the use of much Iess fereign capital than it has now. Cortainly the first result of this action on tho part of foreizn- ers would bo to depress all values hore, a to create more or less soarcity of m this country. Iivery one cam auswer for him- self whother this condition would be well for us or not.” MUNICIPAL BOSSES. Johin Coleman Adams thus pieturds in tho New England magazno characters familiar to all who watch local political offais: A power as real, us active, ns dangerous as that which fostered tho spirit which broi out in the rebollion is at work in svery cone siderable eity and town, grasping the powers and usurping the functions of tho peosle. 1t is not yot o combined power, and in this is our chief hope. But it is taking the control of tho muaicipalitics out of tho hands of tho people. Our municipal governments ro ceasing to be ‘“a government by the beople, of the tho people. ' Thoy ments now “by the bood| aud for tno boodlers.” Our cities and towns o i the hands of oligarchios made up for the most vart of wen who make a trado of politics for what it will bring. The citizens of our largor towns have handed over their vights and priviloges to o small and select cliss of professioual politicians. They huvo created for thomselvos o name, aud sido by sido with “the barous of the voutl” who threatened tho perpetuity of the uuion by to subvert tho bonds which hold 1, will go down the “bosses” of our citics and towns, who are sappiug tho self-zovernment of tho'local bodics. This Is the new threat to tho natioual lifo.” gover , of thoe boodlers, o Minister Lincoln’s Reception July 5.—Mr. Lincoln, the United ave a recoption last evoning at the logation in honor of the Fourth. Mrs, Lincoln and her daughters recoived tho guests, amoug whom were the most promiuent mem- vers of the American colony. Mrs, Lincoln wore & rich black silkk dress with white vost. One of her daughters was attired in o gray crepo and tho other w a grey cambrl “The rooms wero beautifully decorated with rare exotic plants and immenso bowls of rosos. Among tho guests wero Mrs. Mackay, Mrs, Frank Leslio, Justice Fuller, Captain Thomas and Mrs. Thomus, Senator ' Cameron and Mrs. Cameron, Senator Cullom, Colonel Ochiltreo and Dr. Chamborlain of the Komo logation. General Roddy brought Miss M rita Magale, grand-daughter of the late oum- peror of Brazil. There was acrowd of pretty girls and the ladies mentioned displayed Worth's latest fashions, Washington Post (rep.): Mr. Cloveland's most enthusiastic friends must adwit that ho would nov appear to advantage in & tonn is blazer. Mrs. ONDO! Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report.