Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1891, Page 6

LODO FINANCIAL REVIEW. | Plentiful Bupply of Money In European Markets During the Week. FEARS OF A FINANCIAL STRINGENCY. Apprehension That the Present Week May Produce Serions Fluctuations In Stocks Generally Throughs out the Continent. Loxpox, Aug. There twas a plentiful supply of money during the past week. Dis- count was quoted at 1lg per cent for thre months and !5 per cent for short loans with no domand. A small drain of gold continues toward Germany. There is nothing to indi- cate any lurge immediate withdrawals frow the bank of Eugland from any quirter. hough discount houses are obliged to work at absurdly lower rates for short bills, six months drafts are not revarded with favor. On tho stock exchange during tho wee business was exceedinply quiet, yet prices beeame firm toward the end of the week aad the tone became more cheerful. The public is beginning to think that things have now reached their lowest lev A small stream of investments mukes businoss slightly mol active in spite of the holidays, In forcign securitics the chief feature was u recovery of cent in Argentine nationals on rumors that the British government was about to iuterpose in the Argentine financial nents in view of te enormous British involved, Nothing definite s however, con‘irming tne rumors fos mdvanced 23 per cent and Chil per cent, due to speculative r buying. English railway securities were dull, owing to the poor holiday trafic Afnerican railroads were altogether better excepting Union Pacific which was actively sold on adverse rumors, and the latter has not quite recovered since the official d of the rumors. The course of dealings since Wednesday encouraged the hope that tho tide has turned in this department. The upward movement is likely to be kept within moderate compass, yet a steady rise 18 assured, Variations for the week in prices of Amer- fean railroad securities include the following Decreases—Union Pacific shares, cent; Pennsylyaniu, 'y per cent. Increa Lake Shore, 11 per cent; Norfolk & ern preferred, per cent; Northern cific and Wi preferred, 1 per c Denver & nde common, nary, Louisville & Nashville, Me tral, Wabash debentures, New York, tario & Western and Central Pacific, 3, per cent each; (lnois Central, 1 per cent; St. Pail common, 17 per cent. Canadian railway ecurities bec slightly firmer on the rec: cipts of cablegratns Henry Tyler's views regard- ing the friendly relations between the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacitic systems. Canagian Pactfic shares and Grand Trunk first and second preferred advanced 2 per cent on the week. The securities of the Mexican railway were dull and first and sec- ond fell 1% per cent each on the week. Among the' miscellancous seenrities, Primi- tava nitrates gained 7 pereent on the week estos 11, per cent and Kastman's and Rio Tintos 1 per cent each. Trusts con- tinue on the decrease. 0. n 2 tod pe arran interests known, Brazilian secur 1 Market Review. HavaNA, Aug. 9.—The market for sugar was quiet during the week, and only a small business wes done, at irregular prices. Holders, however, hope for an improvement in the near future, Scock is scarce. Quota- tions aro as follow Morasss Staan—Regular to good polar- fzation, 2,121 wold per quintal: mus- covado, fair to good and refining, 85 to %) degrees polarization, §2.121¢@2.25; centrifu- gal, 82 to % degrees, polarization, i hogs- heuds, bags and boxes, §2.54 @ 3.04! 5. ocks in_warchouse at Havana and Ma- 28 boxes, 1,115,500 and hogsheénds. Recoipts of the weelk, 808 bigs and 50 hogsheads. Exports of the week, 4 boxes and 15,500 bags, of which 12,500 bags to the United States, Bacox—$4.25, gold per cwt. Burren—Superior American, $20.00, gold per quintal, FLoun—American, §13.00, gold per barrel. Jenken Beee—£0.00, gold per quintal. Hvs—Americar sugar cured, $17.00, gold per quintal for northern; §23.00 for southern. Lakn—In kegs, $12.50,” gold per quintal; in tins, §14. PoTATORS — American, $1.85, gold per bar- rel, Snooks—Nominal. Breaxs—White navy, #.75, gold per quintal. CurwinG Tonacco—§24 00, gold per quintal. Hoors —Nominal.® Freianrs—Quiet. EXCHANGE—Firm; g Spanish gold, $2.30@ On the Berlin Bourse. Benruiy, Aug. 9.—On the bourse during the past week business was dull and prices weak, Kussian securities dropped % per cent ves- terday on the announcement of the story of the prohibition of the exportation of corn. The final quotations include the following: x. on'fon, Long Bx. on Lon 21030 | Private discount | Deutsehe biik Moxiean o Roubles Bochumers On the Par Pawis, Aug. 9.—On the bourse during the week business was at o standstill. Three per cent rentes rose ¢ during the weelk, due 1o buying for savings banks, now averaging 1,000000f daily. Credit Poucier rose 15 aud Rio Tinto 71, f: Banlk of France lost 5% f and Panama Canal lost 215f at_a nominal quota- tion. The Russian government hus granted the Credit Lyounms authority to establish a brauch at Odessa 2083 i 034 rae, « nkfort Bourse. Fraskronr, Aug. 9. —There was a genoral decline iu foreign securities yesterday aver- aging '/ per cont. Tho final quotations in- clude the following : Italians, 90; Portuguese, 573 Spauish, 70, Snorr BExCuaxaE—On London, 2 PIIvaTE DISCOUNT—3. e RS ON 0,33, POINT WHEAT, Text of a Circular Letter Sent Out by a Well Known Firm. Dernoir, Mich., Aug. b, 1801.—Thus far we have refrained from ivin: public expression of our aninion on the wheat outlook, but as 0 many of our friends seom to imagino wo aro good guessers, wo will venture a synop- sis of our viows without, however, advising anyone to act ou them. The couditions seem to us similar to those | of 1879, In July of that year, a versoual in- speation of the wheat crop abroad, convinced us that a calumitous crop falure was certain, and that thero was a foreign market for our surplus, however groat. Wo predicted that wheat, then selling for about W cents, would 5000 0 to §1.25, and that undue speculation might send prices still higher. In the face of the fact thut farwers were rushing wheat on the market, and that timid speculators were fearful of being erushed under enormous receipts, prices soon reached #1.25, and the bear interest, suddenly transformed into the wildest bulls, ran prices up to $L30, thus checking for a time all exports and producing a ruinous collapse. On the sharp decline, the spring of 1580, exports were rvesumed, and for the three years of 1870, I8N0, 1881, averaged over 160,000,000 bushels annually, until the depleted reserves were again filled | up. Prices most of this time $1.00 & bushel The preseut year crop, and the quality in Ohio and Illinois hus The last goverumeut probable yield at ubout 500,000,000 bushels. Flter roports ran' as high as 530,000,000 bushels, und some enthusinstic amateur g sers place the figure at 650,000,000 bushels, A more conservative estimate would be 40,000, 000 acy at thirteon bushels per acre, or 520,000,000 bushels. If the yield of wheat still uubarvested and liable to d from frosts is whut enthusiasts olai mught got a erop of 530,000,000 or 540,000,000, T'hough with ubout the same acreage, the crop of 1884, the largest crop ever raised, was rogis- terod at 512,000,000 bushels. With bowe requirewents of §00,000,000 ranged over gives us another good Michigan, Indiana, varely been equaled, estimate placed the bushels, this outside estimate would leave us about 180,000,000 busliels for export. Our aryest export, thus far, was in 1881, reach- {ng 196,000,000 bustels. That the foriegn demand this year will be as large, or larger, than ever before, can scarcely be doubted With the immenso shortage in the rye crops of Rusaia and Germany, estimated " at 800, 000,000 bushols, and a deficiency in France 100,000,000 bushiels of wheat, it~ would seem |1|mv. at anything like present prices, we should find n market for 250,000,000 of whe: and flour if we could only spare it Whother these large amounts will be taken before next July, or part of the demand run over into the fall of 1502, will largely depend on prices. At present, wheat is being bought and ex ported as fast as transportation can be fur- nished, In Indiana, Ohio and Ilinofs, farmers have been selling freoly. By tho middie of August, the movement in Michigan will_be under headway, wnilo the winter wheat of Kansas and Missouri is now only held back owing to its dawp condition, The Chicago bears and the miliers’ syndi- cate are selling the spring wheat crop before it is harvested, at a discount for the December option The alliance is advising farmers to hold back their wheat, a course which, i the end, would surely prove disastrous to the furmors ‘#themselves, for an unnatural advance in the rlv part of the season would doubtless bo followed by an undue depression later on Our own experience proves that board of trade speculations, as well as those of furm- ers, only affect prices temporarily, and not the wverage prices of the year. If the movement of wheat is not unduly interfored with, we shall expect to see prices gradually advance, for speculators once find- ing the market relieved of Jthe burden of a heavy surplus will muster up courage to take hold and carry prices to a higher point, and be more permanent than could resuit from the farmers attempting to run an amateur corner. Respectfully yours, Gy G T & Havr, n Commission. — THE BEE BURE AU OF CLAIMS. Who Compose 1ts Couns 1t 1s Managed. and How About sixty ago a new departure was naugueated by the San Francisco Examiner, now the leading paper on the coast. 1ts pro- vrictor, Mr. Hearst, son of the late Senator Hearst of Californin, who has a very large fortune at his command, conceived the idoa of establishing a burcau of claims at Wash- ington, manned by the ablest lawyers and specialists couversant with the routine work in the various departments and bureaus of the government, When the announcemnt of this new depart- nure was made negotiations were at once en- tered into between Tii: Bee and the proprie- tor of the Examiner to join hands and mu ually share in the enterprise. Theso ar- rangements have beer: perfected and agree- ments entered into by whica Tue Bee is to prosecute all cisims arrising in the territory where Tur: Bee enjoys so extensive a sub- seription patronag Under this agreoment all clnims, either for pensions, Tndian depreda- tions land or mining clmims, patent or pos- tal claims in the states of lowa, Kansas, South Dalkota and Nebraska, will be taken in hand by Tue Bee Bureav or Craivs o Omahaand through 1t fowarded to hea® quarters at Washington where they will be prosecuted to a tinal aud speedy conclusion Tuk Bek takes pleasure in offering to all its patrons and particularly to subscribers to Tur WeekLy Bk, the services of its new bureau whic have no doubt. will prove of great adv. " 0 them, . both in prosecu- ting new claims to a successful issue aud i expediting all elaims entrusted to Tuz Be bureau, Tur Ber Bureav or CLans been referred to m these columns, but up to the present time, no reference Las been mude to the manner ' which its important work performed. This is one of the most inter: Ing featuras connected with tho enterpris The Bureau's Counsel. To begin with, the services of three most emiuent councilors have been retained, These uro A. L. Hughes, O. B. Weller, and P.J. Butler, They are aenominated “gen- ernl counscl” They are men of mature years and learned in tne law. Thoy have made a specialty of practising in the the United States supreme, circuit, and dis- trict courts, the United States court of claims aud before all the departments and burcaus of the government. They are qualified to pass upon the general merits of any claim, as s00m as it is presenied. ‘This saves a great deal of time, because, when @ elaim has' been passed upon by thom, it is generaily one which is entitled to a standing 1 court. When a claim is rejected by them, it means that it s cither outlawed or that it lacks cer- tain clements which would lead to its final approval. Examiners and Exverts, s these gentlemen there are also a g uttorney, un examiner and expert h dopartment in which Tie Beg pro- poses to prosecute claims, namely, those of patents, pensions, postal and land claims and Indian depredations, in fact in any depart- ment in which a claim may arise against the federal government. These attorueys pro- pare the petitions and tend to the claims be- fore the several courts, while the examiners and experts make aspecialty of scarching tho l"l'\'nl'ah and arranging the evidence neces- sary to strengthen the clam., The gentleman charged with this duty re- garding Indian depredations has been the as- sistant chief examiner of these Indian bureau of the interior departument for many yi His comprehensive vnowleage applications for has frequently st w | of details, facts, status of and evidence in the cases heretofore liled or the outbreaks out of which others yes to be filed have arisen, rendors his services extremely valu- able. ‘Then there is a general manager, John Wedderburn, For years he was privato sec- retary to Senator Hearst, the father of Hon, William tlearst, the projector of the present enterpe He'has also been for years the Washington correspondent of the San Fran- cisco Examiner, with which Tug BEE 1S no v co-operaiing. Fleis o maa of universal in- formation and is especially adapted to the responsible position he now holas. Than this force noue more capable could be found in the country, Its services have been retained ut great expense by the bureau, tho saluries alono reaching at the present time $1,500 per month, As has been stated, the San Francisco Ex- aminer inaugurated the enterprise, and through it Tk Bek was allowed to estalish 1ts bureau for the accommodation of cluim- ants in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. This privilege was fivst, of all the papers in the country, extended to Tie Bee, becnuse of its known pluck, enterprise aud energy. Tho underlaking, however, has at- tracted o much attention ' throughout the country and be greatly appreciated Indian victims, and defrauded governmont clamants, t ding pipers elsewhere have asked to be admitted to enjoy the privileges of the bureau. Awmong thoso papers there is a leading one in Minna- sota and others in Hoston, Ciucinunati, St. Louis, Atlanta and New' Orleans, It is thought that Mr. Hearst, the proprietor of The Examiner, and tho gentleman who in- augurated the system, will grant the applica- tion. Claims Comin Tue Ber Cuay Brreav o existence one month and yot Iugian depridation claims 2,000 and the amouat is being con- stantly added to. This is a remark- ublo showing, and yet it is but u feaction of the claims which remain unrecorded und ua. waid in the siates coutrolled by Tuk Bee Bukeau oF CLaiMs, uamely, South Dukota, obraska, lowa and Kunsas, On March 4, of this year, an act for the payment of Indisn depredation claims was approved. 0 this act, it is nece sary to divect the atteution of cluimant who has suffered at the hands Indiaus. 'This refers to those vietims claims have alroady been filed as well | those who still coutemplate iling them. Up to the date in question, thousands of sufferers hud filed theirclaims with attorneys in all parts of the country ana were in most | cases charged excessive ‘tees. Mauy of the claims, too, had been pending for years Satistied that, in many cases, the claimauts had contractedavith the attorneys in ques tion and, without fear of prosecution = for annulment, could not trausfer their claims to other agenls or attorneys who might expo- dite the collection, cougress unacrtook to afford the aesived relief. This it did in the act in question o Kecover fo Indian Deprode fons n. not been in has listed aggregating it of Parties desiring 10 avail thewselives of the of | whose | THE OMAHA auestion ro. ot claims depredations Bureav o author court of detailed edch value, tribe act In recovery growing out of Indian should forward to Tue Bee CLaims power of attorney, gravting ity to appear in their case in tho claims. They should also furnish a statement of loss, including specifie article lost, its date, county and state. band or of Indians commicting depredations, names and present, addresses of witnosses whose testimony they expect to use in substantia- tion of their claim, and such other informa- tion bearing upon the caso us they may POSS08S, PO pon receipt of this simple information, Tuk Ber BUreav o CLaivs will immediately attend to the more intricate or difficult por- iom of the preparation The claims must niot ha based on depreda- tions extending back beyond 186 Readers of Tie Bre or those who may file cluims _for collection, are_respectfully ro- quested to furnish Tne Bee BUREAU oF Craims with the names and addresses of any other parties who have suffered similur losses at the hanas of [ndians. Many people are as yot unaware of the it favorable Jegislation by which these claims can now, if properly propared and presented be collected. But Indian depredation claims are not the only ones which T Beg BUreAu or CLAIMS proposes to handle. In brief, it will look after any claim which any citizen has aguinst the government or any department of the government. it will be specially service- wble to soldiers of the late war. - UNDE Il(.l(fll ND WIRES, of the the benofits garding stablished Order of Things in Every Progressive City. The Engineering Magazine says the greatest suflerers by the burial of the wires are the telephone compan systems conneet with the long-distance lines. A short length of underground cable has littie or no effect on telephone transmission, but when a few miles of underground cable a e joined on to sev- eral hundred miles of overhead line, the effect is very marked, the specch be- coming muflled, thick and indistinet. All cities ought’ to make allowance for this apparently insuperable difficulty naallow the wires of the long-distance ystem to be carried overhead, Fov local telephone work underground wires vork admrably. The telephone system of New York from the Battery to the Harlem river is entively underground, and there are today under the streets of New York considerably more than 20,000 miles of wire used for telephonic com- munication. The type of underground cable now in general use should have a very long life. The lead covering is practically indestructible; if laid in iron pipes it cannot be affected oven by galvanic ion, because iron is electro-positive to lead, and the iron would be attacked. s the insulating material is hermeti- ally sealed \\lllnn the lead covering, it is sifo from deterioration as long as the lead remains souad. So that unless 1t is found that the _insulating materials de- teriorate by rewson of the action of the curvent, the depreciation on under- ground cables of this class should be placed at a very low figure. In contrast, the depreciation of overhead lines is very considerable, e lly in towns where the wires are exposed to the ac- tion of smoke and gases besides the influ- ence of extremes of weathel In large towns and citie grouna system 1s among the established order of things, while freedom must be conceded for overhead wires in the open country and on restricted routes. - The Luc A faney of the hour for men is a *lucky™ scarfpin, This may be a four- leaf clover, with the tiniest diamond or moonstone resting on one leaf; a horse- shoe with seven jewelled nails; or asol taive star sapphire or moonstone forming the kuob of a pin. All and any of these pins to be desiable must be ex- ceedingly small and daint ‘When profusely jewelled, such pins are more suitable, small as thay are, for my Lady’s Ascot tie, worn with her Marlow shirt, than for gentlemen’s wear, Asa rule, men prefer a pin typi- cal of their tastes. For yachtsmen there are tiny crossed fiags, anchors and var ous designs of the sea; for those fond of the turf there are horses, some of them painted in enemel from famous racer: whips and jockey caps; and for sports: men with the reel and rod or gun there are tiny trout in enamel and squirrel brushes. '8 whose s carfpi A Remarkable Freak. A ren able freak of nature is found among the hills of Delaware county, N. Y., in the sunken luke covering about three acres of surface, which lies be- tween two parallel ridges not far from the New York, Ontario & Western rail- road. The whole surface of the lunke is covered with a thick growth of moss, whose stems extend to an unknown depth, but certainly further than the arm can reac weh tuft of moss is of adifferent color from its neighbor, so that the surface looks like thatof a beautiful colored carpet. In walking over the velvety surface, the foot sinks down a few inches without encountering the water, which least two teet be. low the surfuce. Near the, shoreina few places, the water comes to the top. The buried pond is & wonderful natural curiosity. Pleasa The villages of New are among the pleasantest in the worid, and the chief secret of their cnarm s sum- med up in one word: ‘Trees. The peo- ple who laid them out, a century or two ago, had the rood sense to plant a few score of young trees about the green and along the streets. Now, look at them Glorious elms arch the streets, and en- velop the place in shade. The meanest cottage is good to live in if it nestles un- der giant trees. Plant trees, Plant them round the schoolhouse. Plant them round the church. Plant them on the common., Plant them along the street. Make all the villages and towns pleasunt with trees, s A Competent Engineer, Not long since, in an arbitration case a Toronto engineer was thus examined as to his professional experience and eapacity: “How long have you been in the profession?”? “Twelve yeurs.” *Are you thoroughly acquainted with your work, theoretically and practically? “Yes,” “Do you feel competent to undertake largo constructions?” **Yes, most certainly.” *In wt engineering works have you been engaged during the last twelve years?” ““The manufue- ture of iron bedsteads.” A Capital Barometer. The coffee cup is a capital barometer, After the sugar has been put in, if the bubbles collect in the middle of the cup the weather will be fair; if they leave the center and adhere to the sidesof the cup, forming n ring of bubbles with a elear space in the middle, there will bo rainy if they scatter themselves indiffer- ently on the surfuce the weather wiil be variable, while acl of bubbies on one side of the cup indicates rain, e 2 Drug Business in Kansas. w York Tribune: *‘I was recently wyed at a Kunsas deug store,” says wan. “Most drug stores in that . virtugily saloons. The eounter is conveniently arranged for trade, The initiated, tho man who is known, may walk behind and get o vegulution drink, while the one who is not known must sign an application assigning some cause of illness. It is the quality of the whisky, however, that counts, The ster N emp o youl DAILY 'l BE#: proprietor of the ‘Sthrc which T was empioyed hough¥”whisky at £1.10 per gallon. Think of Anis—with 90 cents yer gallon tax to the government! This 10 added to by polgans and crmpounds, making a big gain on a barrel. And this is what you driik in a prohibition countr, in - TO HEAVEN AND BACK AGAIN. of a Califo:nian Years-Old. The Tale Thirteens A story of a soul’s exporience with the hereafter and its sybsequent return to the body is causing a great deal of intors estin San Jose, Cal. Daisy Willinms, the thirteen-year-old daughter of Alfred Williams, living at the corner of First and Martha streats, has been sick for the last three months with quick con- sumption, superinduced by an attack of measles, The girl died on the 31st of of Jul Her parvents stato that four weeks ago their daughter to all appearances died. After a period of twenty minutes, during which no sign of iife wus manifested, the givlsud- denly revived and said to her little s ter Maud, I have come back to stay a while with you.” The girl then told that she had been in heaven, and said that on her arvival her little sister, who had died nine months before, took her by the hand and introduced her to Jesus. Her descrintion of heaven was most vivid. She related that she saw a_host of winged angels flying in every direc tion with the swiftness of light, Sho told who she had seen in heaven, gave the names of many relatives of the family that died before she was born and names of persons whom the tamily say she could not have known and never heard of. She stated that Jesus had led her by the hand and showed her a view of hell. She saw many persons there, but recognized only one, neighbor who died here some ti ago. She snid that Jesus told her she must on he turn to earth tell her family what she had seen and if they did not believe the statement that ho would cometh aself or send ner little sister to convince them. The girl says she saw God. *Why, they re just like men nid that she hud no conception of what they looked like before. She told her family that Jesus' message to them was that they would be saved if they would be good. She told her father that Jesus had instructed her to say to him that he must stop swearing, and he would be saved. During the time of her purport- en transitition and death the girl repeated the story to several without the slightest deviation. The family at first did not believe it, supposing it was the result Id delirium, but now are positive the girl v never delirious during lness and that her story was cor- rect. Representation of whit she saw makes many of those living in the im- mediate neighborhood firmly convinced of the truth of her expericeco as nar- rated. s with Music. Tt is now seriously proposed that a musical guild should be formed in Lon- don for the treatment of illness, to be called *“The Miksion of St. Cecelia, The first instance. recorded of music having been tried usa curative agent was when David played the harp to the sick King Saul: and it is chronicled that early in the performance Saul threw his javelin at the young harpist. The guild in question to be composed of lady vocalists and violinists, a combination in the presence of which even persons in vobust health have been kunown to tremble. One of the rules for the guid- ance of the proposed guild is that the music shall not bo played in the sick room but in an adjoining chamber. This would be a wise precaution. The per- formers could make their escape before the irate patient should have time to reach them with his bootjack. s The Banana: We Eat. Tt is not without good reason that the banana has become so popular in recent years. For it is said to possess in itself all the essentials to the sustenance of life for both man and beast. Tt belongs to the lily family, and is a developed tropical lily, from which by ages of cul- tivation the seeds have been eliminated and the fruit for which it was cultivated greatly expanded. In relution to the bearing qualitics of this fruit, Humboldt. who early saw the wonders of the plant, aid that the ground that would grow ninety-three pounds of wheat, but that that the same ground would grow 4,000 pounds of bananas, consequently to that of wheat is 133 to 1 and to that of pota- toes 44 to 1. e The Relationship Denied. Zenith City (OklL) Torch of Liberty: Our "tPossum creck subseribers are here- by warned that the uncurried personage with his hair cut short in the John Bun- yan style and his shirt outside of his pantaloons, who is rouming about in that neighborhood claiming to be Count Leo lnNIul, the author of *‘Looking Backward,” or something of that kind, traveling incog., is an imposter and fraud. We undorstand 1iml he some- times varies his programme by vepre- senting himself as a cousin of ours. We \I('nv the relationship. He hails from oneville, Mo., und is there known as oiled Ratigan The Money Makers, Silver dimes are now turned out at the rvate of 100,000 a day. No less than $3,- 176,476 in silver dimes have been struck off in the past three years. For this purpose all the uncurrent silver coin is bheing re-worked, notably the silver hatf- dollar, which isa clumsy pocket-piece and very unpopular. The three mints of Philidelphin, New Ovleans and San Francisco are kept busy supplying the tho wants of the people 'in this line. e Telegraphy Without Wires. Telegraphy without wires is said to have been accomplished in England. Mr, Pierce, the head electr! 1 of the postal system, sucgeded in establishing communication agross the Solent to the Isle of Weight, /and telegraphed also across the river Beyern without wires merely using earth'plates at a suflicient distance apart, Lt is now proposed to make o practical mse of this system in communicating with ligntships. — e = Ventilating frailvoad Cars. A new method of ventilating railrond avringes and proventing dust from en- tering with the 'air has appeared in France. The more quickly the train moves the more rapidly the apparatus works. The uir is, made to traverse a receptacle containing water,which cools it and velieves it of dust, after which it goes through another filtering before entering the carviage, Weed and the Varnish, The recent discussion on tobacco and aleohol, following Tolstoi’s sereed against their use, has man whe ked for seventy years with- out interruption, consuming between st and nine thousand pounds of to- b ud yet retained perfect physical and moral health, [\ mereiless roved 1o Test G ne Money. The true test of genuine American paper currency is to hold the bill up to the light so that you cun discern two lines running parallel across its entire length; these arve a red .md blue silk thread inside the paper; no counterfeit has thew, . led u | former than of the latter. | | MONDAY AUGU SONG O CORN, A Boston Apostrophe to the King of | Cerea Boston Lranscript: Now wive, all over e land, the proud tassels of the Indinn rn. Of all our cultivated plants this is at once the most universal, the most useful and the most characteristically American, Like the onk and the pin it is one of the oldest inhabitants, for long before the white man's face ap- peared it nourished the red tribes from Peru to Massachusetts bay. viiiage SALLaround the hapy n und shinin Stood the malze flelds, gri The secret graneries of the aborigine, happily stumbled upon in distressful | times, preserved the infant colonies of our forefathers from gaunt famine, and later the forgiving savage taught his new neighbor to plant the yellow kel nels.putting a dead fish in each hill for fertilizer, A new era opened, The white man, never content with things as he finds them, goes to improving them, und now gy changes begin in the ancient plant of the Incas. Under the hand of the Saxon agriculturist, it bocomes won- fuilly productive, expands in differentintes in many ways, developing innumerable varieties, eich suited to some particular loeality, climate or sen- Tt waves its plumes over millions of nieres, and yields a product 8o enor- mous that one st at the figures presented by statisticians. In 1890, a lignt yeéar, say the authorities, the yield dmounted to over one billion and a quarter bushels, or twenty-three bushels per head for the entire population of the United States, and 50 per cent more thun the average production per head of all coreals in Burope. It covers the land, north, south, east and west; fills barns and granaries; great storehouses and elevators overflow with it; railrond and steamship lines are taxed to move, market and distrib- ute the immense product, representing a value of three-quarters of o billion of dollars. [t gives food to man and beast the birds of the air got what they may. The farmyard fowl, especially the turkey, fattens upon it and the Thanks- giving table may groan under his weight. [t overlays the ribs of the western hog with layer upon layer of thick lard; the eart horse champs con- tentedly his half peck or so of corn and goes forth like n giant to his nor- culean labors; tho southern darky bakes his hoecake: his ncighbor, the “*poor white,” varies his everlasting hacon with the equally unfailing hominy. The table of the northern farmer is never at its best without the smoking and fragrant johnnycake: every New Englander worthy of the name would 1l say, with Whittic ive me the bowl of sump and milk By homespun beauty poured!” while, spite of French cooks and new- fangled notions, pop corn, hulled corn, succotash and brown bread still hold their own. Well may the royal “soft and yellow hair out the gay ved siik strange, perhaps, with cluims, its clear Ame picturesque appear not, ere now, cmblem. S0, zors maize wave its aloft and shake its waist, It is all its historic n title and its nee, that we have adopted it as a national ——— A BARBARIO Hideous Crimes Perpetrated vy Instituti N. Y. Advertis Backed by the knowledge that what it publishes is the absolute “truth, the Suuday Adver- tiser presents today a deseription of the inner workings of one of the penal insti- tutions of the state of New York which should awaken the indignation of every right thinking wan and woman, and cause immediante action by the authori- ties under whose sanction this theatre of horrors maintains its hideous spectacle. Ciinton prison, or, as it is commonly known, Dannemora, has within its walls about eight hundred conviets, who are at the mercy of as cruel a gang of taskmasters as ver wielded the knout in a Siberian mine. No punishment has been found too sevore, no ingenuity devilish enough, to devise new means of tortuve. TIr law permits teicing up with shackles by one wrist, for serious offenses, but in Dannemora the keepers are a luw unto themsclves, There they string up the weak, the demented, the insubordinate and the meek, without distinction. o1 does it require a serious infraction to demand the horrors of the rack. A con- viet who, in his agony, attempts to move from a hot furnace, where his skin is being blistered, a ‘‘correction” is thrown into a dungeon, after being beaten into insensibility, and for days lives without food or water, Suspen- sion from a “teapeze” with a w cord sunlk far into the fleshof the wris freezing a convict, shackled so that he cannot move u muscle for twenty-four consecutive hours; beating prisoners with clubs, fists, iron bars, while help- lessly suspended, are afew of the wronies inflicted, and of which ther oxists ample and incontrovertible evi- dence. That such brutality ean be earried on in a reformatory institution in the nine- teenth century, and in free America ulmost surpusses belief, but that it does st in the infumous institution hidden from prying eyes in the Adivondack forest admits of no doubt. In the name of humanity and of en- lightened people, living not as serfs but as sovereigus, this deplorable abuse calls for correction. Superintendent of Prisons Lathrop is a kindly and a just man. Governor Hill has the principle of justice inplanted in him. These horrors have been enacted, it is safe to say, without the slightest knowledge on their part. Sufficient is shown o war rant o searching investigation, a_ swift conviction, or the absolute abolition of the foul place, whose existenco is an in- sult to humanity ai a reproach to American id of right. - A Queer Way th Bat. The king or horseshoe crab chews its food with its legs; the linle animal grinding its morsels between its thighs before it passes them over to its mouth, Doctors’ Incomes. It is computed that there ar about a hundred doctors in New York, ch of whom has an_annual income of 10,000 and ove Only twenty-five of theso are to be reckoned among tho nd over.” A score may make from $20,000 to $30,000 a year. Among them 15 Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobl, who is re- ported to eurn the largest income of any professional womun in- America. Ne ing the top of the golden pyramid are some th or four who make as much as $50,000, and at the very apex stand the two famous specialists, Dr. T, Gail- lard Thomus and Dr. Salisbury, each croedited with an annual income 100,- 000—the amount being given with more positive emphasis in the of the S0 it may bo makor Dr New York PRISON. in a Epoch: assumad that as a mone { Thomas outranks all his brethren ANK C. CONDON it & Condon, INVESTMENT BANKERS, 800 8, 18 £1., First National Bank Buil 1 \oans, oo buak sluck, of iher urlty JOUN A. MCSHANE. McShane ing Deal 10 e per. ot A approved collateral s OMAHA Manufcturers™ and Jobhe DIRECTORY. AWNINGS AND Onnlm Tent & Awml TENTS. | ing Co., AL e RSP BAGS AND IWIN Beanumh.wa: o | Lmporters ani Manufac- | turers Flour $a ks ielaps and W ine e BICYCLES. | A. H. Perrito & Co.| M. 0. Daxon. | Bieyeles sold on monthly b yments 105 Do fgo Stre it 1 for our catalogne and prices 10071¢ Farnam st,, Omah —_— BOOK BINDE and STATIONE Ackerman Brothers & Hein'ze | Printers, binders, clectrotypers, blank book manu- frct irors 16 Howard str | N . Omaha. BOOTS AND “Obias, A, Coede Co, | Kirkendall Jones&Uo facturors and Job- | Wholealevanafictur're bors Azon s for loson Rul Bior. Shoe © . 1100 and 1105, lar oy stioet [ W. V. Mors: & Co., ctory.Corner 1t and Douelas ste Cuabin Merehante nvited to Nob. el i oxnnn. SHOES 1109 Howard s Williams, Van Aer-| nam & Harte 1212 1a BONES I John L. Wilkie i paper box £ TCHE Lmnkl[i”x‘n tory < and - Packers, N1 supplivs. Boot sl oot on L =110 Douglas, Orders promptly filed CARRIAGE W. T. Seaman, Omaha's Larest Var ety WAGONS AND CARRIAGES. CARPE Omaha Carpet Co., Carpets, oll, cloths mat tings, curtain koo ds,ete 1511 De stret CLOTHINCG. Gilmore & Ruhl, Manufacinre s and Whole-nie Clothiers, West & Fritscher, Munufactures fine ol Jobbers of tabice 1011 Farn o Sivet, rs. KE, ETC, | Contant & Squires, | Hard and soft coul ship- COAL, CO Omaha_Coal, Coke & Lime Co,, Hard and sott coal cor. it and Dou streets Amrican Fuel Co, Howell & Co,, 2178 1410 Street, Omann, Neb. Johnson Bros,, 914 Farn. m Stre “Nebraska Fuel Go., 203 8. 15th Street, 0, Neb Omaba N cor \ /(0 Eagle Cornice Wurks, | Stunutacturers of Galvanizad 1ron Cornten. Window cups, motallic skvlights, ete.” 1110 and 1112 Do lge St F. Ruemping, Galvanizd iron e Dirni e wiido cape. fniaie e iron and +11te roo VT Favim St CEMENT l ND LIME. Cady & Gray, Lime, ¢ 1. 3. Johuson & Co, | 288, Lith Streat, ment, ete., ete. Omabu, Neb. Cor. 9th and Douglas Sts, DRY GOODS M. E. Smith & Co, Dry goods. notlons, fur- nishing goods. Kllpxnmk Koch Dry Corner 11th and Howard. | cor. 1th and Howard Sts SUPPLIES, DE ELECTRICAL Wolf Electrical Co. Hiustr: ROIT - AUTOMATIC Eleotric Motors 1 catalogue s d Catalogue i1 Capitol Avenue. FARM MACHINERY, Parlin, Orendorff &| Martin Co., o8 and th Sts, | i, Neb, BIC T. G. Northwall, andia Ilow Co., 1340-141 Sherman Ave, Corner Jo o FLOUR. E. L. Weleh & Co,, |R. T. Davis Mill Co. 1012 N. 18ih Strect (&) 3. K. MeCray, Man Manuger Millat Henderson, Minn. | Cor. Sth Omaha Milling Go., s Street, | Merchant Millers, | omce ana St 118 Noren E. linck anager. | i st .- FURNITURE AND CARPETS. Beebe & Runyan Fur- niture Co. vnderwood, at Omaha. Jnckson St £, F, Gilman, 1013-15-17, N. 10 Dewey & Stone Fur- niture Co., Successors to . A, Beobo Furniture and carpets, Fro, 116-1119 Farnam Steeet | Grace and Bth Sts.Omaba e GEN1T'S FURNISHING GGOODS. Solme der & Loomis, | J. T. Robinson Notion | Co. Gonta' frnishing goods. | m i colebrated brand Cliek-kon " overnd iy o t Jobbers and fmporters of notlons und furnlshing kouds v 111 Howard Str S, PAINT, OIL AND DRUGAS, J. A, Fuller & Co,, 1402 D .Kennard Glass and Paint Co, il Omihin, Neb uglas Streot, Omaba. Blake, Bruce & Co,, | 05 T envenworth St William Cummings Oumla, Neb. Omulia, Neb, LS. Meyer & Raapke, 1403 Harn G 1rOC Paxton & Gallagher, 705711 5. 10th Street, 140: y Street, Owaha, Nob, Omaha. Nob, D. M Steele & Co, |8loan Johnson & Co,, | uthand Le; Sty 1105 Jones Street, aworth b Owahn, Nei Oord, Brady & ufi [ 16th and Leavenworth Omaha, Ne Allen Bros,, 11081110 Harney Street Omahn, Neb | | Nel | GUNPOWDEIR. Hugh H. Olark, )\ Agent Fng ¢ Gon'l Wosl Db $ive bianting v 16 Lariey stroeb b AND PROV ISIONS. 8 A MoWhorter 18t Nat'l Bank, Brok- | wires o toaRo and Bt Louls. Cash boughit for all GRAl "o 1oray & Bryan, Rrok 1ons 1t to Chien and New York | - e F. 0. 8wartz & Oo,, Tirokers.Gratn, Provisions Tivate wire to 8t, s and Chieago. Offc V14t Nav1 fank, Omana. Ao bA'R, 8. Omahe Cockrell Bros Nrokers, Privato wires 10 New Chicago, & | 0 St Lou s 1 HAR Illl lI(h. Rector & Wilhelmy Oo Cor.10th And Jackaon Sts. Omaha. IRON WORK Paxton & Vierling | Omaha Safo & Tron Tron Works, Works, Wrought and oast tron t 'k work enstnos, | Manut rs fire and burglar: e wo wonorn I foundey, machine | and and Blacksmith work. UL b, Ry and | LIQUORS R. R. Grotte, |H\K-\‘Mv| and Jobber of "L Kirsoht & o, | Frick & Herberts, Wholesale Liguor Deal'rs [ Whole aleLiquor Dealors Ter & 0y Lignor More st 07400 8. 10¢h St £01-505 S, 10th St. LUM G.W.. Douglass & Co] Hardwood Lumber, | John A Wakefield, fmported, American Port- LandCement, Milwau Koo iydranile “Cament | ant Quiney White Lim Wyatt-Bullard Lum- ber Co. 200wt Tzard Stree Louis Bradford, Lumbor, lime,coment,eto. 1510 North 1ith Street Charles R, Loe, Hardwood Tamt or, w 124 D uglas Street. — e 1III LIN IAI‘ TAND NOTIONS. 3 0. A. Stonchill, | L Oberfelder & Oo,, Millinery, Notions.Cloaks | Tnporters and Jobvers in Ete. M 204210 and 212 South 11th 116118 8. 16th St Omaha, Streot. _—— \[l SICAL ll\.\lhl MENTS, l'll' Mnx Mv'\\r& BroOo| A Hospt. Ir, ks Strect. =) Cons iidated Tank Line Co. Refned 014, ux R PRODUCE, Ribbel & Smith, Dealers in country prod uee, fruits, ve los et 1207 Howard Street. Robert Purvis, 1217 Howard Streot Write for prices on but- tor, exes poultry, and Kame, COMMISSION. Schroeder & Co., | Cash nuyers butter ana kg, and general com= il ants. 421 South 1 Streot. E. B. Bnuch & 00., fruits of all 14, oysters, oot Jas. A, Olark & Co,, Bt cheose, exus Voultry and game, G South 15th Street, Kirschbraun & Sons, ., ogis and poultry 200 Howard Street, Bates & Oo,, Country p fruits, o’ , ete. Williams & Cross, oduce and frufts. 4 Harney Stroet i Rmuhno & Sau, o IS tath S RUBBER GOODS Omaha Rubber Co., Munufacturers and fob- bers all kinds rubber kool 120 Farnam Streot. Carpenter Paper Co., Carry n full_stock of weapplig and aper, card pa- | Ca prin wilting Emerson Seed Co, Seed growers, d krnss, graln o eo w00y A21-12) South 15th. S10 VES. James Hugth, Staves repatrs of all kinds Cooks and Heaters for w (07 8. 15th Street BLINDS, B 1C Bohn Sash & Door Co' mould- SASH, DOOR! M. A. Disbrow & Co, Manufu rs of s doore. blinds and Braneh of 10 Teard Sy, ings, blinds. o oo 42 STEAM AND WATER SUPPLIE U. 8. Wind Engino & | A, T, Strang & Sous, Halllday Wi Mills. %% Mt Street. Omala. Neb 1A, COFFEE, “Consolidated offee Company, Wleand 1416 Hinrney St, Omahia, Nob. SPICES. TOYS ! BILLIARDS, iy Oo. The Brunswick- Ay Qo e B o house fur- | gyiiard mere 11 B H Toyn, dolls, fancy ko i ren's e i, 4 S Owal SOUTH OMAHA. STOCK YARDS CO., LIMITED Hunter & Gre 0 Exehn UNION A.D. Boer & Co,, xehnnge Butlding, | 0 Bullding, South Omabin. | South Omaha pany that will pay & 20 por cent dividen L. $100 shares for $85. Write {or prospectus Rr om 0, Ger, Am, B'k Bldz., 8t. Josaph Mo, WANTED COUNTIES, SCHOOL DISTRICT WATER W, nlnms &G(.‘MPAN\’ Bankers, 5 Wa'l Street, NEW YOIK 70 Reate 81 ROBTON STEEL PENS. GOLD MEDAL, PARI3 FXPOSITION, 1889, 1 am offoring 8ta0% in o & . HARRY KBENE, Total Issues of CITIES, cDMP‘"lEI ST.R.K. FOMI’AN'FS'IW 163 65 nearborn Sirect, CHICACQ JOSEPH GILLOTT'S THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS. V4 g