Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1891, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEK: TH E_DAILY BEE. " E. ROSEWATER Eniton. LIS RY MORNING. TFRNE OF SUBSCRIPTION, ay)One Yenr Datly and Sunday, One Year us . o monthe Fevve Bunday Boe, Une ¥ 8ar..... L. Satirdny Boe, One Yo, Weekly Bee, One Yoar OFFICE: Cmoha, The Bee Butldir Bouth Opaha, Corner N and 2th Streets Counctl BIufls, 12 Pearl Stroet. Chiloago € fiice, 117 Chamber of Commerce. [jew York. Kedua i 141nd 15, Tribunc Building ashington, b 4 Lo rteenth streot. CORRESPONDF Al communic ations relating to news and editorial matter should Le addressed tc the kditorial Departi ent. BUSINESS LETTE ATlbusiness lefters and renittances should be nddressed to The Bee Pubiishing Drafts, cheeks and postoffice ace paynble to the order of the com The Bec Frblishing Company. Provrictors THE BEE BUILDIY BWORN STATEMENT O CIRCULATIO Etate of Nolraskn, | County of Douglns, {59 . orut Tschuck, seeretary of The Beo Pullishing company, does solemnly swour that the actual circalation of Tiik DALY BER for the week ending 1, was s foilows Einduy. . ceeer . 27,0058 GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Eworn 1o before me nnd sulscribed in my presence this Dth day of August, A. D, 1801 NP P, Notury Publio. Avernge.... Etate of Nehriskn, | County of Tongias, (%8 Ceorge 1. Trschuch. Teing duly sworn, de- 0808 and KuvS Uit b fssecretary of Tie BEE “ublishing compiny. that the actual averag dally circulation of Tug DAILY BUE for th month of August, 80, 20,75 coples; for Septem!or, 20570 " coples; for October, 1M, coples: for No- venler s for Decmber, 1RO, 21,471 101 23446 soples; for copless March, 150", 2 for copiest for Miy, 1801, 6,84 June, 1801, 20,017 coples, July, 1901, 47,02 o GEOCE: 1L Eworn {0 beforo me and subscribe presence this i day of August. A, D, Copl 1801 312 In me, y Puniic. —_— A KICKING public sentiment produces a tender conscience in official quarters. —— THE F sh speaking people of the arth all join in America’s griof in the death of James Russell Lowell, WHETHER wheat be held buck by the farmers or otherwise prices are reason- abiy certain to bo remunerative. THE government’s land purchase act may give Ireland a real estate boom and relieve somo of the nobility of very un- profitable population, NO MAN at this distance is competent to judge between the Chilian liars and decide which side is the more gifted in the power of prevarication. CoLoNEL PoLK of North Carolina ought to know that John Sherman will be remembered and his memory will be honored long ages after the existence of Polk has been forgotten. MR. GrORGE KINNAN'S articles on Siberia will doubtless grow more and more profitable to their author, but he will never again include Russia in a continental tour. It would hardly be safo. JAY BURROWS is not named in the resolutions of the Lancaster county in- dependent convention condemning intermeddling and bossism, but the effect is exuctly the same as those of Adams county, where he waus named, S0 FAR as non-professional opinion is valuable it is to the effect that the new medical law is of no value whatever to the peovle at large, and is of little con- soquence to anybody except the three physicians who comprise the stato board of health, i RYF in this country has never been a particularly profitable crop, but the czar’s ukase forbidding its export from Russia sols Germany nearly wild with apprehension and the man that happens o have acrop of rye this year is a lucky individual indeed. TaE Fifth ward kicking club, as it is called, is not laboring in vain, It fro- quently kicks at ubuses which deserve something worso. 1f overy ward in the its taxpayers for a similar purpose thore will b fower jobs forced through the city council and the board of county commissionors, A HASTY glance at the delegations se- lected from the various counties for the Hastings independent convention of to- morrow reveals the presence of a very remarkablo number of rocently activo local prohibition workers. Thae story of Jonah and the whale 1s commended to the independent convention ns the serip- tural lesson to be road at itsopening sos- sion, On10 will not dishonor herself by re- tiring from public servica Senator John Shorman, hor greatest living statesman, a man entitled to rank with the grestest, bravest and best of her dead sons, A state which would permit froaks like Simpson, accidents like Peffer and viragoes like Mrs. Diggs to swerve her from loyalty to John Sherman would deserve tho contempt of history. EUROPE being now dependent upon America for bread, the stroam of gold which set so strong to the continent the first half of the yoar will reverse itself and flow toward New York, Including the exports of gold, the balance of trade for 1891 has been in our favor thus far, and by the end of the yoar the balance to our credit will be something unpre- codented. Itis America’s year of jubilee. LANCASTER county independents de- serve commendation for declaring *‘that all acts of the people’s independent party should be open, free, and candid,” and “'gacret voncluves for slating tickets are the fruits of ignorance and tyranny and the aots of the cunning kuave who is afraid of honest competition in the race for office.” This is the gospel which Tue BEE has steaafastly proached. In free America no oathbound society can long maintain political power, however successful it may be tewporarily, THE HASTINGS CONVENTION. Tomorrow the indopendent convention will meet at Houstings to adopt a plat- form and nominate a candidate for asso- ciate justice of the supreme court of the state and two regents of the state uni- versity. The convention promises to be large and judging from the names published in the press it will be made up chiefly of representative men particularly from the intevicr districts, Whatever may be thought of the principles of the inde- pendent party its membors must com- mand attention and respect. [ts delib- erations will be followed with intense interest by the people of Nebraska, and its platform will largely determine tho® political action of thousands of persons in this state who are yot wavering in their choice between the partics, There are three grave dangers con- fronting the orgrnization: The sub- trensury foolishness to which the Cin- cinnati convention committed itself; the secret onthbound caucus by which the party has thus far been manipulated by bosses, and the machina- tions of the rdefeated but sullen prohibitionists. If the convention shall espouse the sub-treusury plan and its kindred fiat money doctrines it will forfeit the respect of the business com- munity and tho condemnation of thinking men in all ranks of society. If it shall permit the prohibitionists to direct its proceedings to their advantage and reopen the question which the people determined by a majority of 50,000 in November, 1899, it will commit political hari-kuri and must take the consequence The Lancaster county convention has declared in strong terms against the so- vret causcus and the control of polit by onth bound organizations. This in accord with the American idea. No se- cret society ever has or ever will for any considerable length of time control the politics of an American community. The fights which are conducted in this land on all political fields must be kept free from the hidden influence of dark lantern meetings and secret cabals. No organi- zntion which seeks political power by in- fluences cmwinaving from behind barred doors deserves the confidence or support of freemen. For the honor of the state and American patriotism it is to be hoped the Hastings conclave will de- claro its unalterabie opposition to state- making in the lodge room, and partisan political movements influenced by grip puss-words and onths of secrec —_— A STANDING DISGRACE. A sick man lies on a cot in the clty jail suffering for medical attention or receiving such as may be oxtended him from a physician’s assistant under pro- test. Whatever service is extended to him by the city physician or his ropre- sentative is grudgingly performed. The city physician holds that it is a gratuitous servico for which the county physician s remunerated. Ho may have heart enough in it so far as the individual is concerned, but he is thoroughly out of patience with the city council and board of county commissioners for implicdly leaving upon his hands cases for which the law provides the county authorities shall provide. In consequence of this feeling the city physician would be a philanthropist rather than a doctor of medicine if he performed such service ad circumstances compel at his hands with the attention due the unfortunates in the city jail. The factis the jail pa- tients are neglected. They are visited and treated, but that is all. Another sick man has been foisted upon the county authorities by a prevar- ication. Being too sick to return to the city the county physician is forced to ad- minister to his wants. The county phy- sician belioves that this patient should be the charge of his co- laborer in the city. Hence he gives him that half hearted attention which naturally comes from the feeling that he is being imposed upon in having to treat the suffering man. He is paid a salary of 51,800 a year. The city physician ro- ceives $2,000 a year. The $1,800 comes out of the county fund, more than four- fifths of which is contributed by the city. The city physician’s remuneration comes from the city fund, but practicaily the entire #3,800 is taken from the pockets of city taxpayers. It therefore matters very little to the indi- vidual taxpayer so far as the cost of the service is concerned which ofiicer treats these paticnts. It matters a greav deal to the people of this city, however, that it can be vossible fora pauper or other unfortu- nate porson to suffer from neglect because these two salaried offi- cors cannot agres between them- selves as to what duties properly belong to each other, Itis a crying disgrace that for a full year this unseemly con- troversy should have gone along un- settled. The people of Omaha are in- dignant at the two physicians, at the council and the board of commissioners that so disgracoful a possibility should bo known and recognized and yet not be provided against. In the name of do- cency take this shameful contention out of the hands of the two physicians and effect some sort of sottlement which shall reliove the community from tho stinging wortification which its frequent rocurrence occasions. — THE INDEPENDENT CONVENTIONS, The county conventions of the inde- pendent party, held Suturday last indi- cated n very genoral sentiment in the party favorable to the Cincinnati plat- form, with the sub-treasury pian in- cluded. The Douglas county convention was especially caveful not to be misun- derstood as o this mutter, but it is to be noted that its endorsoment of the sub- trensury scheme is made with a reservi- tion. It is to hold good ‘*so long as the government shall issue monoy on whiskey, tobacco and foreign goods in bonded warehouses and to national banks, and no longer,” This is a quite remarkable utterance, and the authors of the platform, for the en- lightement of the party, ought to have accompanied it with some explanati of how the government issues mwoney on the commodities numed. It would be a very Interesting piece of information to a great many poople who are ignorant of the fact alleged to exist. deserve But | subpose it bo adwitted, for the sake | of argument, that the government does Issue money on whiskey, tobaceo and foreign goods in bonded warchouses, it the independents regard this as an abuse is it thoir fdea of reform tv increaso the abuse? Do they think the wrongs they alloge exist will bo sooner rsmoved by adding to them? Would they, for in- stance, as a means of destroying trusts, adviso that combinations should bo formed to control every department of business in ihe country? They de- clare in effect that they will be satisfied only when the government shall prac- tice toward them what they impliedly confess to boan improper use of gov- ernmental powers. This is not the way of wise and sincere reformers, and the independents make a great mistake if they suppose they can maintain a party organization on such a platform. They will not bo ablo to convince thoughtful and honest men that they ave very anxious for reform when they declare their willingness to participate in what they profess.to bolieve are abuses. If it is wrong for the government to issue money whiskey and tobacco the wrong cannot be made right by requi ing the government to extend the prac- tice to wheat, corn and other commodi- There arve principles avowed by the independent party which every on will approve, but its attitude re- garding the sub-treasury scheme and its endorsement of the class privileges pro- posed in the Cincinnati platform ought to be fatal to it as a political organization. No party can obtain a permanent foothold i this country which advocates a policy s0 utterly. hostile to the purposes for which the government was ordained as the sub-treasury scheme, whatever its pretensions may be in other resp The intelligent farmers of the country, whose interests it is assuved would be advanced by the adoption of thisseheme, will assuredly come in time to sco that nothing could happen, in the way of legislation, more certain to result to their injury, and the masses of working- men cannot reasonably be expected to have any sympathy with a plan which leaves them wholly out of consideration. THE NATIONAL FINAMCES. There was nothing very extraordin: in the fact that Secretary Foster, being in Ohio, should confer with Senator Sherman regarding financial affairs, That is, there was nothing 1n the ¢ cumstance to warrant an inference that the national treasury 1s not in a condi- tion to meet all obligations, or that the secretary is apprehensive that it wili not be. But there is disappointment rogard- ing the extension of the 43 per cent honds, and as the secretary of the treasury is very anxious to help tho money market, and this would be accom- plished to the extent of $25,000,000 if the bonds were extonded, the expected fail- ure of that plan mukes it nocossry that some other way be devised to meot the now urgent demands of the money market. In such an exigency nothing could ba more natural and proper than that Sec- zetary Foster should consult his prode- cessor in that office, and the man who is universally recognized as the highest financial authority in this country. It appears from the dispatches that Senator Sherman is not favorable to the plan of extending the 43 per cents, probubly for the reason that he does not think it good policy to depart from the course that has been maintained by paying the dobt as it mataves. To do so is certainly a con- fession of wealkness in the national trens- ury, and Mr. Sherman appenrs to beliove there is no excuse for making such a confession. He is reported to have ex- plained to Secretary Foster that the troneury can easily take cave of these bonds when they fall due, and this being the case it was clearly wise to take care of them, wiping out that much of the debt and the interest charge on it. As to the matter of ad- ditional circulation, which Secretary Foster had explained all along- was the real motive for proposing an extension of the bonds, Senator Sherman ap- peared to regavd itas not at all serious, He took a very sanguine view of the outlook, and saging that the goid we have sent abroad would begin to return us -exports enlarged, and that the movement of the ecrops and the payment of new revenues would mako things easy. It istobo hoped that this view of the senator will be alized, but the conditions do not appear altogether favorable for the re- tarn of any large part of our gold at once. Well-informed opinion is that we shall have to take back a consider- able amount of our securities held in Europe before we shall begin to receive any gold in payment for our grain. It would seem that the banks have made a mistake in not secur- ing the 44 per cent bonds held by private parties and issuing additional currency on them, but since they have not done this it is not clear that the secretary of the troasury has any meuns at command to help the mwoney market, beyond what will come from taking up the bonds, It is presumed that he is purchasing the required monthly aver- uge of silvor, and beyonda this there seems to be nothing he can do to in- crease tho circulation. The announce- ment of the trensury policy will be awaited with great and general interest. ARCHDEACON FARRAR, the foremost man in the Anglican communion, p the memory of the late Jumes Russoll Lowell a most delicate honor in being the fivst in Kngland to utter a publi culogy of the dead poet and to deliver his mournful and touching address from his own pulpit in Westminister Abboy. Archdeacon Farear was likewise the first Englishiman to Iy forensie tribute upon the grave of General Grant. on good b JAY GOULD is an angler of acknowl- edged skill whether he be fishing liter- ally or iguratively. He is very indiffe ent as to the character of bait-used, but overything makes for his from Wall street to ldaho. hook ANOTH ported to the interior department in relation to a section of land neur Pierro cluimod by Indians an allotment. This report gives the whites thereabouts great joy, it is adverse to the red men us because Two or three former reports were favor- l able to the Thiljans, but as the land is | very valuably the case is reopened every | little while, wnd it looks now as if a spe- cial agent réprésenting the whites had been secured,, 'For two years the matter has been under investigation [P ELL GWYSN was o fair and frail friend of Charles IT and the morry mon- arch bestowed a titlo upon her son with a salary of £2,(00 a year as master of the hawks, he son and his descen- dants have drawn this salary from that day as the dukes of St. Albans. A com- promise has been effected, however, whereby the present duke receives £2000, per annum for ten years asa final settle- ment, Eogland is a very conservative country. [ —— A HALF-BAKED editor in theso parts affects to see a possible danger that Hon. Thomas B. Reed will attempt to retain the speaker’s chair in the next congress by resorting to revolutionary This may be taken as con- clusive proof that half-baked individuals should not in the per busi- A mun ecapablo of perpotrating ich a theory in America has too little senso for o clown in a nickel plate cus. measures he news ness, TiE council biames the board of public works for delays in public work, id the board charges the council with deretiction in duty. The business of shifting responsibility is very active in this municipalit ACCORDING to the notion of the Kan sas City smelting works managers it is only one step from their institution to paradise, and very littlo reason exists for spanning the insignificant chasm of separation, COMBINING contracting with their official duties is what Deputy City Clerk Giberson says so many councilmen are doing. Mr. Giberson will bo an import- witness before the grand jury this fall. SI0UX CITY invites Omaha and Doug- las county to make an oxhibit at hor corn palace, and the invitation should be accepted. The Sioux City corn pal- ace is a very creditable enterprise. MERELY for the encouragement of the dictator attention is particularly called to the fact that Gen. C. H. VanWyck heads the delegation from Otos county to the independent state convention, INSPECTORS of public work hired by the month have leisure enough this seuson to put up no end of political jobs. The Altiance Annex. Kansas City Star. Senator Gorman has veen endorsed by the farmers’ alliance in Maryland. The alliance in the south manifbsts a strong disposition to work within the old parties, and the older tne party the better it is suited. —————— The Lot a Happy One, Globe-Democrat. During the present year tho farmers have been gottiug better prices for their products than they received any of the five pro- ducing years; and 1t follows that they are MONDAY, AUGUST 17, not much inclined to listen to the orators who tell them that their lot is the most un- happy one on the earth. et iy Falling Into Evil Ways. Denver sun. The people’s party of Nebraska is having a good deal of trouble because two, three or four of its members are contending for every unomination iu sight. It is strange bhow soon uew parties, organized to reform and trans- form everything, fall into some of the ways of the ald orgauizations. 3 e Realizing Verne's Dream. Philadelvhia Record. Jules Verne's dream of travel under the sea is not likely to ever be realized; but the Sims-Edison electric torpedo boat promises to introduce effective submarine warfare into the naval conflicts of the future. In an ofMcial test of the boat recently completed for the United States government the craft was propelled with great velocity, and was at all times under the control of the operator at the koy-board. It is mado to carry under ordinary circumstances 500 pounds of dynamito—enough to destroy the most vowerful ironclad oven when exploded at a distance of fifty foet from tho vessel assailod. The dread which such powerful engines of destruction will engender will bea better guarautee of the peace of nations than that aftorded by treaties and alliances. @'s Irish Allics York Recorder (Rep. The returns of the British census show a great falling off in tho population of Ireland. ‘The decrease is due of course, to omigration, 1ot to the physical declino of tho Irish race. Tu the returns, however, tho London Times finds a text to congratulato itself and its readers upon ‘“the steadily Incroasing im- portance of the English elemont in the pop- ulation of these islands.” It forosoos the day when thero will not bo an Irishmau in Ireland and is happy over the (to it) alluring picturo. “The London Times is joyous over the Irish oxodus #for another reason, to which it prudently does not give oxpression. It is that Irishmen in America are, as a rule, moro useful to Eugland here than thoy ave on their own green hills. In Ireland thoy cannot voto for freo (rade—for the surren- dor of the American markot to the cotton lords of Manchoster, tho iron mastors of Bir- mingham, tho shipbiilders on the Clyde. It is only in America, thoy can do that. Tho domocratic Lrish-American is the best friend England has in all the world. Cau't he open his eyest calopaie s HILL IN THE SADDLE, New York Recorder (rop.): Yestorday's action of the democratic state commitice means that the Hijl-Tammany combinatiou is supreme for the moment, at least, and that tue machine has mado terms with Flower and Steeban for the state nominations. Hill is in the saddle and the frionds of Iand aro to hiave no quarter. A vote for the democratig state ticket this year will bo practically a billgt in favor of il for president, unless thestate convention of tho dom, ary to all indications, © of the committee. Itepub lcome tho issue as oW outlined, could not be a botter oppor. tunity 10 make an end of Hiliism and cousign that “odious system of peroicious poiitical Jjobvery to the oblivion it merits Now York Advertiser: The democratic state commitieo wasted but littie time yoster- | day over tho question of choosing a place for tho state vonvontion, The business was dis- posed of in Hifto minutes, having been primarily cut and dreied, » atoga was Lhe place selected and Soptember 15 the time, The meoting of the committee was open to the public, but the business 1n hand was dis posed of with 50 much expedition that the publie had little opportunity to study tho workings of au importaut part of the political chinery of one of the great partics of the | No less importa than the licans otion — of the time and v p cunvention was th e expressed by commilteemen, 1891. candidate for governor. It was _dis. tinetly a Roswell P, Flower day, and if the sentiment, as soomed to bo in the air, meots with the approvol of Governor Hill, the next democratic candidate will be Banker Flower, Does the governor approve! THE 1OD A GAMPAIGN, Political Gymnastics Practiced the Democrats New York Iribune: The lowa democrats, led by Governor Boles, ara conducting fa queer kind of campaign. Apparentiy, it is thelr idea that they will win votes by de- nouncing their state, its resources and its op- portunities. Bofes himself struck the keynoto of this tuno by decluring during his rocent visit in New York City that “for the last ten years the farmersof lowa have cultivatod” their ficlds at o loss,” and that “the stato was coverod thick with mortgages," u reassuring statoment, truly, to those who might bo thinkiug of makig Iowa their home or the sceno of their investments, The motive of this erucl slander upon the commumty that had litted Mr. Boies into sudden distinction by making him their chiof magistrate was, of course, to injure the republican policy of § tection, Mr. Boies was simply repeating tho old, old drivel nbout protection incronsing the cost of ceverything and was proving his charge to the mindsof his New York hearers by telling thein that Iowa was the home of upers, the land of industrial gloom where morney hopelessly sought for safe investmont and labor was thrown away—‘ull on account of” the tari. Ttis probublo that Mr. Boies did mnot think about the chicken he hud atelied here going home to rcost. Ho was talking to New Yorkers, not, to . lowans, For partisan political effect’ he was giving testimony as the governor of a groat agvicul tural state conceining the effect of the tarift upon agriculture. He wus talking to those who presumabiv knew nothing of the facts, and he dido’t caleulato how his crazy non sense would sound in the eurs of those who dia know and had votes in the coming oloc- tion. He thought he was far euough from home to bo safe in slanderiug his peoplo if only ho could gain a political end at their ex- pense, His words, however, travelled swiftly back to Towa and created, naturally, the pro- foundest —indignation. The people who according to Boi for ten years had been galloping into baukriptey and were mow overwhelmed with mortgages, kuew, as a matter of fact, that toeir thirtv-five' years of republican’ self- government had left them with scarcely a dollar of state indebtedness and with a good balance in bank. They kunew that durin the ten years mentioned by Boies their population had increased _from 1,624,615 to 111806, or at the rate of 17,64 per cent, and that their state and county debtedness. taken altogether had decreased per capita from the trivial sum of 2215 to the still mong trivial sum of $1.91, leaving them as to pub- indebtedness — second iu hooor among the forty-four states the union! They = knew that mortgages with which their gov- ernor, the man of all_ men who shouid have defended their financial station, had said the wholo state was *covered,” in point of fact covered only 9.13 ver cent of their total acreage, and ropresected a form of debt that argued erowing prosperity instead of ad- versity, a debt” contracted for laud, stock, machinery and_improvements, all of whici were working at a profit. They knew that they were growing one-seventh” of all the corn and one-twelfth of all the wheat grown in this ontire country and were using less than a third of their available land to do it in. They knew, in a word, that despite short crops in the last two years, there 1o political division on the earth's surface whose farmers as a whole wero better off than that described as Towa, The republicans, whose government had accomplished these results, thought logically that the best answer to make to Governor Boies’ hurtful attack upon the state would be the nomination of o representative farmer who would stund out as an illustration of the men who were cultivating Towa's fields *at a loss.” Accordingly they uominated Mr. Hiram C. Wheeler, and tho democrats aro in a laughable ailemma. _Mr. Wheeler is shown 0 be worth about 00,000, made out of Towa's fruitful soil, and a portion of the democratic press is attucking him as an aristocrat and a bloated camtalist. But it 1s also shown that he owes about $60,000 on a mortgage, and the other half of the democracy are denouncing him as a bankrupt and citing him in proof of tho governor's charge that farming in lowa is a failure. This isa ludicrous situation, and the democrats must get out of it as best they can. So far as Mr. Wheeler is concerned, ho is willing to give them all the votos they can obtain, whether in an attempt to show that farming in Towa is bad business because it produces millionaires, or that lowa is a de- lusionto- home-seolers and a suaro to cap- ital, by rank of the Jeweler's Weekly: Silyersmith—Do want a satin finished Indle? Grandma Crockitt—Liuw me, nao! T daon't want naothin’ tew hung up an’ look purty; I Want it tuw dish up saoup with. you Detrolt I'ree Press remarked a smart find a bill of furo th than a fable d'hote. “Every now and then," Detrolt “drammer, “you s nothing more'or less First “Robber Is really u good thing Kat Baron for the Second “Kob' er Baron"—Yes, voters don't g0 up with th Just so long as rest. GOT THERK, JUST THE SAME, Detruit Free Press. wn in our town, And ho was wondrous wise; He took u gun and pointed it Precisely "twist his cyes. But when he (he bullet wentn vain To search about his no Fora modicum of br Tie then made up his mind to live And S0 it ere (0 pass o didn’t blow i ins out, But ho did blow out the gas. Phitadelphia Pross this torninz She looked pos L wonder Wit the reason wis? Clare! Hadn't Heird what, Emma? Yo she's’ ougaged. “Imet Annlo Hughes vely rudiunt. mated. He—1 thought your country 1 arranged. It won't bu trooklyn Lif straw rido wus Sho—0, no. yet. He—Why thi oW have sp ready for a week dolay? olng 1n two wov to clussify the < to ouch other. wagons and we people who don’t OBSERVED BY OLD EBONY, Munsey's Weekly, hoodooed, [ ' zone, had bad Luck In ralsin’ (ovls In the early part ob duwn But de chickons nceds no ' tention now, Dar'y something still mo' tine, Do watermellon big a 0 Is lnughing on the vine! Oh dear, I'vo iblo! s the mat Donvor Sun: First Sweot Girl haud such i shock—tf twits U Two Other Sweet Girls—What w ter?, What was it? “You know that handsome Jing mustacher" “Yes, yes—what ubout him? “At e restaurant tonlght ho our tab) “How lovely nd—and tenor, with the Was he hurt ¥ seate at he happened to look ucross at his mustache was fuil of soup.” “Oh, glris RNING MAXIAL Yorle Press, at to rise when the birds begin To wolcome the vernul diuwn, When tho early robin is rakin Ths Worm on Lhe skaven lawn Tho roblu's wisdom one may dis As bis captured vietims squira But what 15 the losson wo may luira From the fate of the early worw? o Now York Woekly future—Grest snakos tiag to quist that baby? Just drives mo wild, Young Mother calmly to serventi—Marie, bring in my husband’s mother's phonogenph and put i the eylinder maried “At Ten Months. T want him to hoar how lis volce sounded whon s wis young Young Father (in tho Can't you do some- Lt elornal squsl- work of that Wushington Post: Attention to the fish romancors lo s to the conelus'on Detter fish huve buen caught than wore 1n the sea troe 15 known W nghampton Lendor: The yhiflie-Lr by its fr at you cun't tell a that Wiy the herry season wiien br s Guzett ¢ S0US0D, Elulra SIT‘TTLIN(} WITH THE INDIANS, Commissioner Harries Talks of the Efforts at Adjusting Some Diffioulties. STATUS OF AFFAIRS AT ROSEBUD. Treaty Concluded and Stolen by a Dissatisfied Sioux -Something Should be Done for the Northern Cheye One-third of the Sioux Commission—Com- missioner George H. Harries of Washington arrived in the city yestorday after noon and is at tho Millard, *‘Wo have had nearly three months of active lugian diplomacy,” said Mr, Harries to a Bk reporter, “and foel as though we had carued tho right to rest in tho midst of civilization for awhile. Our last formal meeting was held in Butte, Mont., on Thur: L and as soon as our report hus be made up wo will be private citizons more, “Huvo we dono all that was oxpe us! Porhaps not, but it would bave difficult for us to have done circumstanc To com ote the Tk en- trusted to us would oceupy the entiro atton- tion of threo most energotic men for at least six months, The approvriation at our com- mand is now oxbausted, so further effort oa our part is at prosent impossible. More important than any othor branch of our duties was the settloment of the dificulty betweon tho Lidgo and Rosebud Indians, By the terms of the Fos- ter-Warne, 0ok treaty the boundary lino batween th vOo reservations was moved oastward uearly twenty miles, ‘Puis action, agreed to by {he Rosebud Indians (who werd the losers) rendered about six hundred Roso- bud people homeless, unless the Pine Ridgs folks consented to their being transferved to the Pine Ridge agency rolls, 10 socure this consent took about six wecks of the most active campa much alleged oqunce ition of extra rations, our work was apparently done, some oppouent of the ratified agreement stole Chairman Pearce’s valise right from under chairman’s nose, and as the valise con- tained all the ofticial documents, the loss was a serious one. Luckily, however, we had check-nists from which” it was possible to consiruct a duplicaté of the missing agroe- ut, and this duplicate, properly certitied, has veen accepted by the lnterior depart- ment as satisfactory und binding, The thief has temporary possession of a good valise, a first-rato pair of field glasses and a supe fino whisky- ilask, but he f to vitiate the agreement by eapturing and destroying the papers: which we suppose te did, t Roscbud and Lower agencies we collected much valuable information on which congressional or departmental action may be based, but nothing in the nature of a treaty was negotiated. It was gonerally understood, prior to our visit to those places, that the 'controlling element at Lowoer Brulo desired to sell the entire reserva- tion and to settle upon the northern edgo of the jRosebud reservation. just south of White " River, but our investigation cou- vinced us that tho time for such proceedings has not yet arrived. Both the Lower Brulo and Kosevud Indians are, however, discuss- ing the provanilities with all seriousness, and they may soon reach a conclusion among thomselves and without any *white-man’ in- tervontion.” “You visited the Northern Cheyennes at Fort Keogh,” ntimated the reporter. ‘“Is uot the situation thero somewhat strained ' “Hargly strained,” repliod the comims sionor, “‘nd yet there is a good deal of har- mony ‘missing. Most of the white people of "Montana are anxious to bring about the removal of the Choyeunes to some other state, and they are working to that end with' much vigor. I do not care to discuss the question—our official report bas not yet been madd—bur I do see no reason why I should not say that the Northorn Cheyennes deserve moro cousider- ation from the government and have recoivod less than any other trive of Indiaus in the United States.’” oneco od of beon What the Northwest Corner of the State Can Offer Home Scckers. Hanniso, Neb., Aug. 16, —[Special to Tup Bee.|—As tho harvest excursions are due in the near future Sioux county wishes to pre- sent claims for the consideration of those who may take advantage of the opportunity offered to visit our state. Sioux is the extreme northwest county of Nebraska. It is soventy miles north and south by about thirty miles east and west, It contains 1,500,000 acres of land. Of this about one-sixtgeuth has beea proved upon, leaving about one million two hundred and cighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty acres in the county, the title to which is still in the government. Sioux county hus advantages possossed by no other part of the state. The pine riage crosses it from east to west, and this ridge is covered by pine trees from'which lumbor is obtained a great deal cheaper than in other portions of the stats. It contains muny small streams, along the banks of which vine tim- ber grows, furnishing the settlers with post: fuel and logs without cost. The timber malkes it possible for the settler to improvo a picco of land st much less cost than can bo gone in the timberless parts of tne state. Moro than this, the coal fields of Wyoming are close at band and fuel of that kind can be obtained at small cost. Tho great draw- back to the sottlement of the othor portions of the state wus the high price of lumber and fucl, and both_of these difiiculties are done away with 1 Sioux county. ‘e county is crossed from east to west by the Fremont, Biknorn & Missouri Valley railrond and the B. & M. railroad crozses o northeast part of the county, and thus tho coal fields on both lines aro ' opened to the county, and besides furnishing fuel chieap ulso create a market for the products of tho soil “Tho altitude is high and the air fine and bracing. ‘The nauve grasses are of the rich- est quality and catlle and horses thvive thereou boih summer and winter, and right here let it bo understood that the winters hero aro much milder than in tho eastorn portion of the state, thus making it a more ploasant place to live and also makes it so that tho stock grower can winter his stock much cheapor thun in the older portions of tho state. Tho soil is very productive and the just boing gathored will comparo fave with those 1 ay part of the state, wheat, oats, Yy, Hax, etc., grown aro of excollent quality, whils the y large. Potatovs and all kinds of vogetables thrivo woil and in qua ol those pro- daced in the older settled of tho stato, In the coming inaustry of Nebraska—the production of beet sugar—Sioux county promises to take a leading pl as the made last year &t the state unive y shiowed that tho boets grown in Sioux eounty were unusually rich in sugar, some yielding as high as per cent of sugar, and o farmers ure taking n lively interest {n the development of tho industry, and 1t wilt not be long until Sioux county's ciniins s & rich sugar produeing county will be recognized. There ure about twenty-five hundred peoplo in the county aund there is room for many thousands more, and when the haryest excursionists who have been paying high ront for land in the east come to seck & homo whers they cau secure a piece of ugaln Lo bury e more under the | land of their own let them comoto Sioux county and see what is here and what ean be socurod, and in order to do this they should purchase their excursion tickots to Harrison, tho county seat of Sioux county, Nebraska. - - IN RAILROAD CIRCLE Row East na Rates at ¢ 2o, 7’ CiicaGo, Aug. 16.—~Charcos have boen pro ferred against the Chicago & Irie road for cutting passonger rates botwoon this city and Niagara Falls,. An oxcursion is to bo run from Crown Point to the Falls noxt Tuesday for which the round trip rato nas fixed at 83,50 and it is said that the Chi eago & Erie hns onterod fnto an arrangemont with an excursion agent to take ady this ,rate from Chicago. round trip rate botwoen Chicago and Crown Point is $1.00, which, addod to the oxcursion rate makes a round tvip rate, Chieago to Niagara I'alls of £5.40. Tho tarift round trip rate is §24. Oficials of tho Erio say they are not partics to any such areango- mont, but that they cannot provent anybody from buying tickets to Crown Point aud then taking ‘wdvantage of the excursion rates, Vice-Chairman Donald of tho Central TrafMe association is investigating the matter. Charlton still talking. The committoo of general passenger agents that: recommended of a rato of one fare for tho round trip by all roads culminating in Chi- 0, on the oecasion of the unveiling of the ient, has heard from the Chi The genoral passonger agent road” writes that will take no action at prosent but the Alton will cortaluly maje as low rates and sell tickets on as favorablo conditions us any other ratlroad. Ho reservos his decision ho says bocause ho might fipd 1t me tisfactory to his pairous, and moro profitable to lis company 10 taka indepondent action at a later dato, - - or THE Another Over Bos b I'ho local tion NEwS NORTHWE: Nebraska. Oakland’s water bonds have boon sold to a banking firm at pa Custer county will build a bridge across tho Loup at Arnold Tha Kearaoy browery is comploted and ready to begin operation's, IPrank Hardy of Norfoll, broke his collar bone by falli 1w a horso. ‘T'he republican judicial convention held at Burwell September 11, Jotn Rogofsky, aged twenty, droppoed dead whils pitching grain noar Cordova. The Ohio people of Gage county will hold a picuic near Blue Springs next Saturday. The stockholders of the broken irst Na- tional bank of Red Cloud have voted to re- organize, Material for Tekamah's watorworks is on the ground ana the work will be pusted to complotion. Fire at Palisade destroyed Kantine's drug storo and the Grand Avmy building, causing a10ss of 32,000 with no insura The Seventh-Day Adventists begin their camp meeting this weck at § It is ex- oected - that 600 peoplo will camp on the ground, ‘Phree sons of 15, O. Morritt aud two othsr boys, all of Long Pine, were poisoned by cating cornod beef, but recovered under skil'ful treatment. Two burglars, Clark and Parras, broke juil at Madis e the ‘otuer night and aro stili nt liborty. ~Parras had just beon sentenced to eighteen months in the pen. Tho teath annual rounion of the Pioneors' aud Old Seutlers' association of Dakota county will be held on the beautiful and timo honored grounds of Cliuton park ut Dakota City on Saturday, August 22, The Beatrice cannng factory is now in full operation with a big force of hands, Vast quantities of swoet corn ure being stored away for next winter's consumption by the concern, for the trade from the Atlantic to the Pacifi Abrabam Williams of York, mot with quite an accident ono day last' week, Ho liad occasion to o up on the windmill and when about fifteen foet from the ground, tho board ou which he was leaning broko, letting him full, striking bis head on_the platforin, breakiug his uose and otherwiso bruising his face, The property owned by R. K. Johnson of Valpariiso, hus been séized by the United States marshal on an order of attachment in favor of a Chicago capitalists, Mr. Johnson says that the order for attachment has been wrongfully obtained and that he oxpeets to have it quashed. 1t scems that this claim is on an ola bond that he signed several yours ugo with ono Samuel Skughter, a man who a thiet timo lived on one of Mr. Johuson's farms, but has since moved to Colorado and is now dead. The claim is for ,500 and originated six or seven years ago. will be Towa. A train frightened a horso to death at 1da Grove. A Pilot Mound mule kicked Aadrow Lar- son to death, Tho wild plum crop will bo immense in Cherokee county. Several Clay county farmors roport a yield of 100 bushels of oats to the acro, L. Nelson, u farmer near lowa Fulls, | gathered 140 bushels of apples from ten troes. Waterloo beekeepers say tho honey crop will be light in quantity, altnough of good quality. Ray Dodd, a soven-year-old Dos suflers from a broken leg ro wying to board a moving wagon. Tho body of Alexander Clarke, who dicd while mnister at Liboria, will bo brought from Laberia to Muscatine for burial. Tho Marshalltown gluceso works have closed down for the summer. It is thou it will bo converted into a beet sugar facto Laura Williams of Des Moines, wauts orco from her husband, who is confined in the penitentiary for stabbing and tryin, to murdor hor, A Crawford county 7 Moines boy, vived while wyor is going to mako a trip around the globo. Ho has constructed a boat of his own, which will bo tricd ou Wall lake bafore ho starts out. A couple liviug in the westtrn part of the state wero married in Dos Moiues, wua constablo acted as the bost man, The bride s now in a private hospital in that city, Au old couple were recently marvied at Riverside, aged respoctively 71 and 72 years, The groom has been marriod four timés and is the father of twenty-tive children, Tho bride has been marriod soveral times und has raised families, The wedding was coleorated with a dance, and the aged bride and groom stepped to the music as long and lightly as auy of the young guests. Mack Conner, a Washington grocery clery, found a half cent copper coin of the date |35 in a packago of Indin cloves. It is about tho 510 of a f-cont pioce aud is of the India mint, Some time ago he found threo grains of Gua- temala corn in a sack of coffeo from that= country. Ho planted thom and tney ave now fiveo feet high, tho stalk purple, but the leaves aro liko the corn grown in this country. Peter Galle and Poter Papp have be arrestod at Dubuque for an attempted cri inal assault on Theresa Wagner, u fourtcen- vear-old German girl, The fellows went to her father's house, and finding no one thero but the girl, attempted tho assault. he girl's scroams brought another girl to tho scene, und the young villisns then amused themselves throwing the furniture about the house until they became tired and wout away, S S Defective Flue, A defeotive fluo was the causoof a slight fire at the residence of William King, 202 Cass street, about 4 o'clock yesterday aftor- noon. The building was owned by H. I Clark, Loss, about #, Highest of all in Leavening Power..—Y.atest U. S, Gov't Report, Baking Powder _ ABSOLUTELY PURSB g