Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1892, Page 4

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BWORN STATEMENT OF CIR( BuaeotNovraskn 4 g ounty of Dovglas. 1 %% Georgo b Trachick, sceretary of The Beo Pub Iehing compinY. 4008 Sulomn1y Awear thaL the net Mnl cifeniation of TIk DAILY 'BEE for the weck ending June 4, 1902, wan as 101low Bunday, May 2 Monday. Friday, J Baturday, oo 8. June Average... e e dny of June, A o 180 BEAL A DT Notary Pubic. ‘Averago Circulation for April, 24,416, THAT storm centor northeast of us is still raging. — e Nor to be outdone by Minneapolis, Omaha also had a tug-of-war last night. i I WE venturo the assertion thatsum mer is hers. Wiater loft us the other day and spring was lost in the shuftle. THAT funnel shaped cl ing unpleasantly familiar again. had hoped that it had taken a vacation, —ee BUT just wait until that great carni- val of the unwashed and the unsaved opons with a war dance at Chicago. Timo has its revenges. BisHoP SPALDING of Peoria favors the opening of the Wotld's fair on Sun- day for the benefiv of the laboring man. That is a sensible view. —_— ELECTRICITY in its various forms of application now gives employment to 5,000,000 persons. Presidential lightning is also keeping some people busy. —_— RUSSIA has appropriated 80,000 rou- blos, equivalent to $22,000, to equip scientific exploration to Tibet. while TRussia’s peasants are allowed to starve! — THE Australian dog, it is said, never barks. If the Australian pugilist would imitate this excellent example and keep quiet it would be a blessing to the world. THE most important question for Omaha is not volitical. It concerns a vital epoch in this city. The Nebrasku Central bond project is the great matter of importgnee to Omaha. BLAINE'S resignation seems to have filled & long-felt want, judging from the dispatches. Both Mr. Blaine and the president are apparently pleased, and each side at Minneapolis is confident. I 18 reported that Andrew Carnegio has contributed gencrously to the En- glish liberal election fund. The great American iron manufacturer is ever ready to put his money where it will benefit & good cause. ZOLA, the novelist, has again been unsuceessful in his candidacy for mem- bership in the French Academy. As this is his fourth rejection it begins o look as if his style of literature is not without its little drawbacks. SENATOR HILL has called a meeting of his snap-convention delegates to be heid in New York tonight. Mr. Cleve- land should now call a meeting of his anti-snap convention delegates if he in- tends to keep fully up with the proces- sion, THE democrats of New York have a duplicate outfit all around. They h ave two presidential candidates, two delega- tions to Chicago, two state committees, two party platforms and two sets of county committees. And yet they are not happy. —e Wavrr H. BUuTLER, the prudish con- gressman from the Fourth Iowa district, wants all the statues in the World’s' fair art exhibit to be draped. Evidently this fellow is a relative of the crank who threw the chair through Houg- gereau’s “"Return of Spring” in Omaha last year. Earth is too bad aplace for these tender creatures. ———— A St Louis grand jury has been in- vestigating official corruption in that city and hus made a report that is sug- gostive of rottenness. For instance, in the police court, with un increase of 6 per cent in the number of cases during the past five years, the finos have de- erensed 42 per cent and the collections 70 per cent. Chicugo never can heat that. Tre kickers are muking a vigorous campuaign for cash with which to defeat tho Nebraska Central propositious to be voted on June 16. They failed, however, to name u stakeholder. This is too im- portant & matter with them just at this juncture to be averlooked. Tug Beg nominutes Mr. George Striker as o man in whom all the qualities for such a re- sponsible trust are embodied. —_— THE regular blennial election in Ore- gon will excite considerable attention in spite of the uproar at Minveapolis. Oregon olects part of her state tickey, consisting of supreme judge and attor- ney general, also 1wo cougressmen. Harrison carried the state by 6,768, and two years later Thompson (rep.) was elcetod povernor by 5,183 majority, and the only congressman ut that time, Heu- mann (rep. ), was eleoted by 9,913 major- ity. There isno reason to unticipate any great change, ana it is probable that the state wiil have about 5,000 re- publican majority on the state ticket. THE DIFFERENCE, Democratic comment upon the present situation in the republican party is to the offect that the latter is now in the same predicament as that into which the democracy has fallen by reason of its internal dissensions and that honors are consequently easy in this respect. But the two cases are widely different, even if it be assumed that any consider- able defection will ensue from the riv- alry at Minneapolis. The republican party is solidly united upon principles and policies concerning which there is perfect agreement be- tween President Harrison and Mr. Biaine. The rivalry is personal in its nature, and whether the nomination @oes to the one or the other the effect upon the attitudeof the republican party toward the public questions of the time will bo the same. The party goes be- fore the country upon the record of the present administration, in which both of the chief candidates have had a part and in which they hava both won great credit for themselves and for the organ- ization which they adorn. When a man says that he is for Blaine or for Harrison he thereby indicates a choice that has to do with the personality of the candidates and that of the men with whom each would surround himself in the event of his election to the ‘presi- dency, and it is not pretended that the principles or methods of the party would be materinlly affected in any case. The men who are opposing the nomination of the president have no idea of casting diseredit upon an administration whose wisdom and beneficent achievements must bo relied upon to win republican success in the coming campuign, They propose a change of men, but not a change of policy. However inconsistent this position may seem the fact remains that the republican party is united upon the policy of the present administra- tion. The causes of democratic dissension are not confined to personal preferences. The two wings of the party represented by Cleveland and Hill have searcely any points of agreement as to methods or policies, and it is admitted that the har- monizing of these two factions is to be the problem at Chicago. The men themselves cut a smaller figure in this contost than the methods to which they stand nmitted. Senator Hill has Tammany at his back in New York and in other states his support is made up of a similar clement to a large extent, while Mr. Cleveland is supported by the more respectable portion of the party and a mugwump contingent that looks down with contempt and disgust upon afl democrats who do not recognize their idol as the greatest and wisest statesman of the age. In the nature of things it will be extremely difficult to harmonize elements so radically unlike. It is not a question of candidates so much as a question of the predominance of one or the other of two divisions of the party which have nothing in com- mon but a desire for power. Thero can be no comparison between republican and democratic disagree- ments ns matters now stand. SENATOR SLE ILVER. The speech of Senator Sherman on the Stewart silver bill is unquestionabiy one of the greatest he has ever made. 1t therefore goes without saying that uo greater speech has been made in con- gress on the silver question. Its unan- swerable arguments ought to have great weight with tho intelligent peo- ple of the country whose judgment is not perverted by prejudice or self- interest. As a clear and strong state- ment of the position of the republican party toward silver, the utterances of Senator Sherman wiil undoubtedly bava an influence upon the Minneapolis con- vention.in respect to this question. Senator Sherman stated thatalthough in any market in the world twenty- three ounces of silver can be bought at this time with one ounce of gold, yet congress is asked to pass a law that any silver bullion in any form, whether in a teapot or imported from China, with all their characters upon it, or from the mines of Nevada and Colorado and other states, when presented by the holder may be coined into silver dollars at the ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold and made a legal tender for all purposes, dehts public and pri- vate. If we cannot coin fast enough to satisfy the demund, it is further provided that we must issue our notes for it. Our treasury notes promise to pay money at 81 for 871 grains of silver. In other words, like a bunkrupt, we are called upon to give our note for $100 in order to get #66. The free coinage of silver, the senator declared, will result in one of two things, either it will bring the whole mass of silver in the world up to the standard of gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, or it will demonetize gold and ostablish in our country the single standard of silver, worth today in the market 67 cents on the dollar. Such legislation, Senator Sherman de- clared, instead of benefiting the people will be in favor of the rich and against the poor. The rich man can provide that his contracts shull be payable in gold under- the common law of Eng- land, as well as the statute law of the United States, in the act of 1890. Every man will make a contract for payment in such coin us he insists upon and stipu lates for. The result will be that con- tracts will be made with the rich pay- able in gold, but the poor laboring man cannot make such o contract. He may get us many dollars as he did before, but, their purckusing power will be greatly diminished. He may have his #4 a day, but it will only buy two-thirds as much us did the old wages. Free colnage of silver would be an injury to the nation’s pensioners; it would result in reducing to the extent of 500,000,000 the value of the deposits in snvings bunks which rep- vesent the surplus eiraings of our peo- ple, and it would lead to general finan- cial und business demoralization. The pe.ple do not - wunt cheaper money, said Senator Sherman; they wanl more money, plenty of it, all as good us gold. ‘These two 4deas have been blended together in the popular wind as if the only way to get more mocey was by the free coinage of silver, That policy would reduce the volume of money becuuse it would demonetize the whole of the gold we have on hand. How long it would take to supply the vacuum by the hoards of silver hat may cowe ator Sherman could not say, but the im- mediate effect would be the lessening of the quantity of money in our country. THE MONETARY CONFERENCE. The statement is made officially that Germany and France have given their assent to an international silver confer- ence. Austria-Hungary alone, of the great nations of FEurope, has not been heard from on the subject. According to a recent statement of the French minister of finance the French govorn- ment, in accepting the invitation to the conference, reserves tho right of liberty of action both now and in the future, and doubtless this is the case with the other countries. As Austrin is en- deavoring to get on a gold basis, her position with respect to the conference is of especial interest There appears to be no doubt that the bimetallic movement is making head- way abroud, particularly in England, but it would be unsafe to assume from this that the nations of Europe will agree to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. If the conterence succeed in bringing about an arrangement for n more extensive use of silver ns a busis of currency that is probably all it will be able to accomplish. The fact isapparent that the silver problem is ubling European countries almost as much as it is the United States, and this being the case the conference, it is reasonable to expeet, will addross itself very carnestly to the task of finding a practicable =olution. The utterances of Mr. Goschen and others in England show a very strong fecling in that country on this subject, men prominently identified with the shipping. the agricultural and other interests 1nsisting that the single gold basis is not brond enough, while the working classes are largely in favor of bimetallism. But this does not necossarily mean that the fres and un- limited coinage of silver would be ac- cepuable to tho people, and it is safe enough to predict that the influence of England, which will be the most im- portunt in the conference, will not be thrown 50 as to give any encouragement to the advocates of that policy. This matter is pressing also upon France and the other nations of the Latin union, but there is no disposition manifested anywhere to return tofree and unlimited silver coinage. The time is auspicious for holding an international monetavy conference, and undoubtedly its deliberations will have some good efects, though the results may fail short of what is hoped for. OMAHA ENTERPRISE. There is a great deal of pushing, pro gressive enterprise 1n Omaha. The merchants and manufacturers generally of this city are the peers of those of uny other city in the west in busitess energy and tact. A different opinion is not un- common, but it 18 erroneous, Compari- sons are frequently made between the enterprise exhibited by the business men of Omaha and those of other cities of the west to the disadvantage of the former, but a caveful investigation would show such a conclusion to baun- just. The fact that there is less bustle and noise and display on the part of our business men than characterizes the merchants and manufacturers of other cities which may bo regarded as rivals of Omaha does not prove that no pro- gress is being made. Everybody famil- iar with the facts knows that this city is making vrogress—not as rapily as could be desired, certainly, but on safe and conservative lines, and such pro- gress is permanent. Whero Omaha enterprise falls short is in the apathy of capitalists, and in this respect a comparison with other advanc- ing western towns is to our disadvantage. The moneyed men of Omaha are, as a class, not so solicitous regarding the building up of the city, nor so liberal in aiding and promoting enterprises which make for progress and prosperity as are the capitalists of western cities gen- erally. We know, of course, that this isan almost uuniversal complaint. Go anywhere and you will hear the remark that the men of large means are indif- forent and ungenerous, that they are satisfied with a liberal revenue from successful investments which give them no bother, and that it is impossible to induce them to put capital into new en- terptises. We venture to say that there is not a city anywhere, outside of the great metropolitan centers, where the observation cannot be heard, ‘‘What would help this town is the death of a few rich old fogies.” But none the less, itis a fact thut most of the moneyed men of Omaha do not show that concern for the advancement of the material interests of the city which they ought to manifest. Were they reasonably generous in promoting new enterprises and helping those already established the manufacturing industries of Omaha could be at least doubled in the next two or three years, with the result of greatly nugmenting the general pros- perity, Omaha must have mills and factories, in order to bacome & gront city. Every intelligent and practical man un- derstands this. The conditions which favor this city as a manufacturing centerare wall known, and all thatis needed to attain this position is a gen- erous measure of enterprise and public spirit on the part of our men of wealth. The money is here. There can be no question as to that, The evidence is in the large amount of idle capital in the banks. A fraction of this money em- ployed in the dovelopment of local in- dustries, for which there is an ample market, would give a great impetus to the progress and prosperity of Omaha. Tue views of Rev. Dr. Rmnsford in favor of the establishment of respecta- ble saloons by the church are seriously and, upon the whole, fairly discussed by the Wine und Spirit Gazelte, & journal devoted to liquor interests, which ex- presses the opinion that the plan would not succeed, because there would be no money in it. This soems a reasonable objection and it certainly comes from a competent authority. —_— IT 18 not easy to see how Harrison yellers can find any consola- tion in figures. They are evidently de- pending upon a stampede. A close analysis bf the vote estimate made by the furrison wanagers will reveal very the anti- MONDAY, fow blundera % oNgbraska 18 cred with only ten ypFgs for the prosident, when it is corbuim he will receive the enti=osixtoon.: dNow York’s vots is ex- wooy divided, wnd Pennsylvania is re- duced still furtHer. lowa is given three anti-Harti$fn votes, and there cor- tainly canaot bi'ff{ore than five. Ohio is oredited withhut cightesn Harrison votes out of fortgsix, and that is a low ostimate, nd.ga.it is through the en- tire list, which foats up 592 o* 142 more than necessaryaomominats, 1t looks as if the president has the votes, and the kickers have the poli Trens is suggostive in the statement that the yousg University of Omaha now has eighty pupils in the various classes and that the demand for places next coods the accom- modations tha ought to have a col- largo ensugh to aceommodate all It ploaty of room bo provided the matter of equipment will doubtless o of itself. Here is an oppor- tunity for some public spivited fiiend of education, ———— “IT 18 dollars we aro after, gentle- men, and dollars we must huve!™ wus a sentimeat expressed at the mesting of the kickers in opposition to the Ne- braska Central enterprise. ~ With such an inspiring war-cry there ought to be 10 trouble in marshaling recruits. I USED to be said that notevery dem- ocrat 18 a horse thief, but every horse thief dgvelops a demoerat. On the same line wo might say that not every man who opposes the Nebraska Central bonds is a mossback, but every mossback is “agin the bonds:” A PETRIFIED wooden shoe has been found at Hartington, in this state. This would scem to prove that the American Indian was originally a Dutchman. The petrified pretzels which abouad every- whare go to support this theory. Gen ready for tho great exposition of the manufacturing industries of Ne- braskn, which will open in Omaha June 11. This is addressed to everybody in the state who will have the time and means to visit the exhibit. I7 18 just as important for the cities of this state to make exhibits at the in- dustrial exhibit in this city as it is for Nebraska to have an exhibit at the World’s fair. 0, INCR! dledrings and a growing activity in tho grain and cattle market give assurance that Omaha’s business intorests are prosppring. —— ELECTORS who'/now reside’in the dis- trict in which thef last voted will not be required to register for the special bond elegtion, 7t © A e No MAN with n tendency toward heart disease should ‘atfend the Minneapolis convention this,yepr. e TiE reports ‘of* sunstrokes in New York have a strange gound these chilly, drizzling days. . ~ 1 THE Nebraska Central project is not an ice wagon affair. It means business. — A FEW choice, well-selected funerals would be a great boon to this city. Talking from the Shoulder, Creede Chronicle, Some damphool correspondent sent & dis- patch to Now York aay befora yesterday to the effect that Creede was washed away. The Chronicle received -a wire yestordsy asking about the floods, to which we replied by wire as follows: “Willow creck would 1ot wet a burro's belly anywhere in Crecde. Other fellow lies.” el The Wheat Crop, Globes Democrat. ‘The wheat crop of the United States this year will probably be a good deal smaller than it was last vear, but the stock on hand now is much greater than it was twelve months ago. Consequently tho amount available for home consumption and ex- vortation after this year's yield is harvested will undoubtedly be large enough to meet all demands. e Temporizing iggsophobla. Chicago Herald. In sending vack the case of Dr, Briggs for trial in the New York presoytery the general assemoly of the Presbyterian church, by an overwhelming vote, expressed itself as un- willing to deal with the merits of the Brigzs case. While remand does not necessarily imply conaemnation and expulsion of Dr. Briggs from tho church, it is in effect ap- proval of the. well kuown attitude of the presbytery to Dr. Briggs, whoso fricnds bave maintaiued from the begiuning that appeal from the presvytery should lie to the synod of New York. e S The Blalne Element. Globe-Democrat, It 1s o curious and significant fact that the movement in favor of the nomination of Blaine, notwithstanding his letter of deelina- tion, is mainly inspived and controlled by men who have never pefora been conspicuous for their devotion to him. In previous con- tests, when he was an avowed candidate and needed their assistance, they gave their sup-’ port to somebody eise: * * * Thoy are not true friends, but disfghised encmies, whoflud it convenient to makg. & vociferous pretense of good will in ordergo accomplish u treach- erous object; and.Mi, Blalno is making a grave mistake 1n ‘ot absolutely forbidding the use of s nam@ 'ty such an element for such a purpose. ., o Omana's Open Game, St Pagl Globe, I is & curious mpeetacie which Omaha is furnishing forih tethe world. By ordinance of the city councll! duly approved and sigued by the mdfdy, gambling nas been rocoguized as o Jagitimate business aud given the sauction aud protection of the law. A license fee il exacted, in consider- atlon of whick the Yago dealer is entitled to the same immudidy and consideration extended to the bu‘cher, the baker and the candlestick maker. Tnhe gamblers bave ‘‘eome up with toe stufl,"! thrown their hells wide open, sud flung out their alluring baouers from the bitherto uncommunicative walls. You can get any kind of agame, and the police will bo there to see tuat no Gordon Cumming tricks are played on the guileloss banker. Iv is paradise for the “hot sports” —but bhow are the truly good and pious people of Omaba going to like it} It is & rather bad advertisement for tha Nebraska metropolis, aud city real estato values, @s well as city morals, may suffer, We ave very, very vad here in St. Paul, most of us; we know we arc, because the fow good people among us told us so whon they asked us to elect them to the city ofices recently. But, bless you! we wouldu’t own upto beingas baa as Omabas, voleven to please the Pharisces, JUN SOME BLACK HILLS WONDERS @lories of a Spring Trip to That Region of Burprises and Delights. RIDING ALONG THE GREAT PINE RIDGE Crawford, City an Busy. in th Springs and the Marvelous Cave of the Winds, i Sconery The Black Hills country is an agreoable surpeise oven to people who have read a gooa deal about the resources of the country and its scenio beauty. Beginning with the long, serogular border of foot hills, very properly called the Pine ridge, strotehing in & devious course across the northwestern corner of Nobraska, the scenery increases in wild and rugged graudour as ono approsches Dead- wood, the pivotal point of interest in the Black Halls region. . Following tho Burlington route one reaches the interosting sceaery midway between Allianco and Crawford, where the beautiful undulations of tho Pine ridge with innumer- ablo clumps of pine trees come us a most rofreshing and delightful change from the treeless country which is then bemg left bebind. The vaauty of the Pine ridge region is rendered doubly impressive on ac- count of the faot that the altitude of the landscapo rises rapidly as one enters the hills and this produces a very ox- hiliarating effect upon the tourist. Then the numerous glades and glens and sharp decliv- ities appoar to have been kept by somo care- ful landscape gardener, There are no dead limbs, no rubbish or avything to mar the beauty of the scenery. The vast oxpanse of low mountains beautifully embroidered with stately pine trees appear to belong toa boundless park all scrupulously uttended by a watchful superintendent wio has trimmed the troes in symmetrical proportions and gataered up all the broken branches in an- tcipation of a pienic party. In and Newr Crawford, About twenty miles before one reaches Crawford the train takes a dive under a hill that seems rather too high to climb. This is sald to be the longest tunuel in the state. Itis something over 700 feetin length. A very pretty horseshoe is made by the track after leaving the tuunel in order to enable the trains to ascend the next hill. In the vicinity of Crawford the scenery becomes almost mountainous, anu is decidedly picturesque. Three miles to the northwest stands olu Red Cloud Butte, the famous camping ground of the Sioux chief Red Cloud. A littie further on is the equaily famous Crow Butte where the last desperato battle between the Crow and_ the Sioux Indians took place. Here tho Crow tribe was almost entirely exterminated by the warlike Sioux. ‘I'hen the train enters a variegated country that furnishes the tray- elor with alternate scenes of level prairie and sections of bad lands called “‘blow outs.” As ono neavs the stato lineand the Cheyenne river the land becomes smoother aud evi- dences of farming are seen with numerous herds of horses and cattle grazing on the nills and along the narrow valleys. A Beautiful Junction Town. At the beautiful littls town of Edgemont the road forks, the west branch going to Nowcastle and the northwestand the eastern branch keeping more to tho north and lead- ing to Custer City, Hill City and Deadwood. There are large areas of level farming land in the vicinity of Edgemdnt and Tne Ber reporter was informed thatsome of this land was still open to the homesteader. After crossing the Cheyenne river, near the point whero tie old Deadwood stage was held up by the Indians in 1876 and rescued by the United ‘States troors, the Burlington™ road strikes into the Hills, making as straight a course to the north as the ragged surface of the country will permit. Several very protty towns are found along the way. The junction townMinnekanta,where the brauch leaves the main line for Hot Springs, is especially beau- tiful. It is locatea on what is known as the “Bradley flats,” a wide and fertile plateau skirted by low mountains that have a luxu- riant fringe of pine trees. Passing cn from Minnekahta the road runs through several picturesque and promsing towns. Custer City, tho scene of tne gold excitement of 1876, 1s now a town of about 2,000 population. It was once m bustling mining camp of 7,000 or 8,000 inhabitants. Yei the town apbears to be progressing. Severul new buildings were noticed in course of construction and a very handsome club house, about half finished, may be seen in the suburbs. Hill City is the center of the tin interests of the Hills and in caso this industry proves to bo a success Hill City bids fair 10 become 8 very important point in the Hills. The Harney Peak Minivg company bas erected a large and substantisl tin-re- duclng works, and befors many months the question vf producing tin in the Black Hills will be thoroughly answered. Appropriately Named. The query as to how the city of Deadwood ever came by its namo will not “troublo the visitor long if he keeps his eyes open. The bills and wmountains for miles and miles around Deadwood are strewn with dead troes, Years ago, bofore the settlers wero able to keep out, the fires, thevast forests of piae trees that covered the mountains were in places almost totally destroyed by fire that swept over tue mountains, ~leav- mg the treec scorched and dead. to. be biown down by tho winds. While somo of the mountains escaped tho ravages of the flames. a great deal of the country near Deadwood has, at 50,10 time within tho last twenty or thirty years been burned over, and the uame Deadwood is the most appropriate that could have been selectod for the town. Deadwood is not an attractive looking {;lnca_ viewed from an artisuc standpoint, ut ono doos not noed to b there but a very short time to discover that the town makes a specialty of business. The city is located ina deep gulch, ora number of gulches rather, and one has to understand that the real resources of the place are outside of the town before the life sud bustle of the town can be explained. Deadwood is tho center of the Black Hills mining district, and into 1t the wealth of many of the mining camps is poured. Lead City, Bald Mountain and nhalf a dozen svrrounding towns of 1mportance look upon Doadwood as the metropolis of the Hills, Some of the banks of Deadwood are the re- nositories for the wines of the surrounding camps. The mills make their daily deposit of goid buttons unul thoy bave enough to make a brick and then the collection goes Lo the stamping mill. Will Havo a Now Hotel, Deadwood needs a good hotel ana the citi- zens realizo thav fact thoroughly. In all probability a fine new house will be built Lemm tne summer is over, One of the most remarkable things about Deadwood is the fact that it hos three daily papers. How it is possible for three daily papers to subsist in a town of about 4,000 is a problem that only Deadwood can answer. It should ve born 1n mind, howover, that thore are half a dozen suburan towns that look to Deadwond for their news and in this way the fiuld is greatly onlarged. One should spend several days in Deadwood before assuming to tell all about the city. Botween Desdwood aud Minnekahta one sees a number of saw wills all busy getting out lumber. 'The wealth of the Black Hills region begins 10 dawn upon the visitor when he realizes that here 1s found geod buildg stone, excellent plaster in the form of gpysum _from which tho best of stucco is produced, ana an abundance of all the com- mon grades of lumber, furnished by the saw mills of the Hills, All these arefound in abundance to add 1o the wealth that is dug from the mountains. Gpysum fs found in limitless quantities all through the Hills, In tho east it 1s used for fertilizing the land and for plaster as well. 1o the Black Hills gyp- sum is mixed with low grade ore, pulverized stone, and makes & very excellent plaster for house building. The Popular Resort, The most popular resort in the Hills for the pieasure secker is Hot Springs. Tie Beg correspoudent bad the pleasure of visit- ing the Springs at the time the Methodist excursionlsts were thero and 1t was obscrved that the eitizens of the Spriugs knew how to make their guests ejoy all the deliguts of the place. The brethren of the oloth ! King of New York, Dr. woro o torium, which covers an 65200 foot and is filled with water 1o the denth of twelve foot nnd as cloar as over ran from the bosom of the earth. This water enters the plunge bath warm enough to give the bather a delightful sonsation and is ox- tremely oxbiliaratine. It was intoresting to note that Dr. J. M. Wine of Stamford, Conn., Judgo Lawronce of Ohio and others of the party, whohave beon Methodists all tueir lives, could give personal illustrations from the end of the springboard of the bone- ficinl offects of immorsion. Thoy were all Baptists that night. ¥ The citizens of Mot Springs appreciating o £00d thing, beld n mass meoting at the opera house on Sunday afternoon at which Dr. King, Juige Lawronce, Hon. . J. Hill and others addressed the audience upon the sub ject of education. The meeting was planned by Dr. Hancher, president of Hot Springs college, and the occasion proved to be very enjoynble both to the visitors aud citizens. Mijor Evans, who owns a large part of tho town, took much pains to show the around. He is justly proud of his splendi new hotel now almost completed. 'The structure is built of solid stone, quarried from the hills four miles below the town and covers un area nearly 160 feat square. It contains 150 rooms with thirty-five doublo suite. The house will be a delightful sur- Pprise to those who see it for the first time, ‘The cost of the building will be sometbing over $100,000, und on account of tho fact that the stouo has boen quarried so near homo the building has been ercoted at much less expense than it could have been built Omuha, orted to the aplendid area nata. The Cave of the Winds, One of the most _intoresting points in tho Hills is the “Uave of the Winds," tweive miles north of Hot Springs. Through tho kindness of Dr. J. W. Haneher of Hot Sorings collego a small party cousisting of S, Breckenridge, of the Brooklyn hos- tiov. J. W. D. Anderson, of Hot J.'Mills, of Omaha; E.J. Moore, of the Miunekabta Herald, and Tie Bre cor- respondent, made a visit to the cave on Mon- day, May 31. ‘This peculiar and 1nterosting cavern is located at the head of a deep gulch in the hills twelve miles north of Hot Spriogs, The original entranco looks like a wolf or badger hote, and is enclosed and cov- cred by o small log cabio. This entranco was discovered 1n 1884 b7 & cowboy, but the cave was not explored to uny groat extent until 1800, when tho present owners of tho land began to follow the various subter- ranean passages leading into the bowels of tho eartn and found that they had a wondor- ful subterranean amphitheater under their homesteads. They proceeded to blast out a more accossablo entrance to the cave and have exvlored it for soveral miles, and have discovered more than 1,200 chambers of various shapes and sizes, ‘all connected by passuges through which a man can find his way. A very peculiar featuro of this wonderful cavo is the fact that the air 1s almest con- stantly rushing out or in, devending upon the temperature. When there is u low degres of temperature _on the outside the air rushos out and when the temperature is high out- side tho air rushes in. Tho movement apnoars to be governed by the contraction and expunsion of the air, inside the cave the temperature stands at 455 Fahrenheit the year round. The current of air at the mouth is strong enough at tines to carry | a hat down, and the roaring noise can be heard soveral rods. The party which Tne Brr correspondent accompanied spet over four hours in the cave, going in nearly threo miles, The pas- sage was very dangerous and dificult in places, the excursionists oeing oblized to climb down ragged cliffs ana crawl through narrow and devious passages where the water at some age in the history of tho globe bad washed out a channel scarcely wide enough to pass through without tearing off the clothing. These narrow passages load into large chambers beautifully bedecked with stalactiies of liniestono that have been formed by the percolations of the water cen- turies ago. Some of the chambers are re- markably beautiful. In addition to the stalactites there is a formation of limestone colored with fron ore cailed box work. This isa peoultar formation, giving the cham- bers where it is found the appearance of having been lined with innumerable little boxes resemblicg pigeon holes in a deskand in somo instances resembling fancy, frilled wall paper. This box work is supposed to have boen tho result of water seeping through o stratum of clay, carrying particles of lime and iron with itand forming little partitions of this material all through the clay. In due course of time the clay was washed out, leaving the partitions of lime and iron solidified and forming the hox-work. This is of course only conjecture, but it is the theory of Dr. Hancher and others who have given the subject. constderable study. 1n the Garden of Eden. The Motnodist party took what s known &s the *‘Garden of KEden’ route, which 1s al- most three miles in length. The rooms vis- ited on the way are named us follows: The Bridal Chamber, Post Ofice, Reda Hall, Sampson’s Palace, The Devil's Lookout, Milton's Study, Swiss Scenery, Drawing Room, Methodist Church, Dining Room, Gianv's Causeway, the Dark Room, Capital Hall (a very large chamber), tho Amphi- theater, Cross roads, The Fallen Flats, The Hospital, Ciiff Climbers’ Delight, (s most perilous ' and frightful passage of about seventy feet down a narrow and jagged ledge of rock), Five Points and The Garden of Eden, which of itself is well worth the effort of the entiro trip. The stalactite formations in the gardon are supcriatively beautiful. The owners are very careful to preserve the beauty of this exquisite room. While looking at the beauties of this cham- ber Dr. Hancher said: “Bishop Foster should come and see this and then remodel his sermon upon the wonderful Goo.” Near the Garden of Eden there is a smal lake, probably a rod square. It had beer called “'Silent Lake" prior to the visit of the Mothodists, but was dedicated anew. It is now Lake Breckentidge, named in bonor ol Dr. ). 8. Breckenridgo of the Brooklvn hos pital. The lake s fod from the drippings that find thoir way down a vory pioturesquo ledo of rock, at the top of which there is n beaatiful formation called ‘“The Ribbons, on account of their varlegated color aud fength, works o The Hee is There, Leaving the lake the party came to a large and interesting chamber that had never been named. Some one suggested that it should ve called the Beo office and the party proceeded to ohristen the large room tho “Bee building.”” Tourists will horeafter be conducted through the Bee building several hundred feet under ground in this wonder- ful cavern, ,Tho largest chamber in the “Cave of the Winds” covers nearly threo acres. Itisa long way from the entrance and owing to the difffioult passage through which the tourist s to pass to reach it this large room has been visited by only a fow us yot. Thero are seven different routes that “are practicable for tourists, tho shortest of which requires about two hours nard travel to pass over und back to tho mouth of the eave. Tho longest route requires over fourteen hours. Mesare. McDonald and Stabler, the proprie- tors, a0 very accommodating and spare no pains in makiog the toarist enjoy the trip through their wouderful cavern, ~ It1s des- tined to becoms one of the great_attractions of the Hot Springs country. Tho scenery about Hot Springs and on the way to_the *“Cave of the Winds" is captivating and ro- mantic 1n the extrame. Tho soil in the nar- row valleys of the Black Hills country is very prouuctive, and gardening and agrioul- ture appear to bo profitable pursuits tarough this region, JM. G i Squaring Accounts, St. Paul Globe. 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The June bug Binghamton iepublic fos i ut he does ot. mukes more noise than u W not commund half as much A state of uncert AT TH Louise Chandler Moulton. onight, tho stago you s win rises on tho Various pust; h the long procession marching down Tho windy walks of time, Fair women smlo, And kindle with a look the Then vanish. into mlqut The clush of armor s0und; ith princes, Love walis here and all For which men live and die; and dying, pass Beyond the echoes of this worid's applause, ouls of men. v Dr Some maglc strange has brought them back tonight. In habit as they 1ived—these happy dead— Whom this earth's rivalry can vex no more. Bravely they wear their laurels of the past. “Thus," whispers she, “T charmed them, in old wand thus" ho says. “1 strove, und fought, ana won A ! The plaudits of the throng. Lifo was life 1s doubly life! oods Ao, o R P ek, T sco thor snulo and | There, in the wings, waiti— | Choor you the lving—T will praiso tho dexd BROWN! Largest Clothing in ufacturers NG, KINGE 1 Ratallors of the ed Were Damag by W ater--- "; J . . Wt That is to say, rain water, which has gin a clearing sale kept up an almost constanttatoo since March 1, has dam- aged the sale of flour spring and summer goods to such an extent that we've become overstocked. So _Ithis week we be- in all parts of the store; men’s and boys’ clothing, hats =3 and furnishing goo ds, all brand new goods, go at damaged by water prices. Not a thing in the store is reserved. Browning, King&Co To give our omployes thelr evenings, wo WLUI p. 1, exCopt Suturduys, at 1) p close 1. |S.W. Cor. 15th & Douglas Sts ] 1 -