Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE Wi e — == PUBLISHED EVERY MORNTNG. ROSEWATER, F«v"}nn TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ly Beo (withont Sundny) One Year 8 800 wnd Sunday, One Year............. 10 00 M 2 50 3 200 [ dveeives I Veekly Bee, Ono Y ‘ 100 OFFICES, Owaha, The Boe Building. » South Omaha, corner N and 25th Streets. « Street, fengo OM nber of O New York, L 14 Bullding " ¥ Washington, 513 Fourteonth Stroet. CORRFEPONDENCE. AIT communications relating to_news and editorial matter should bo nddressed: To the Editor. peres. Tribune RUSINESS 1 Al husiness fett be addressed to T Omaha, Drafts, ¢ 10 be mnade payabl | remittances should y Mishing Co mpany, veks nnd postoffice orde s to tho order of the com- ¢ for the summer can have the Address by leaving an i order at this off THE BE Tar DALY and SuxpAY BEe I3 on sale in Ohjengo nt the following places: Palmer hou! Paci yriun hotel. roat Northorn hotel ol 24ze-r, 189 State stroet Files of BEE can be seen Hraska building and the Administrat g, Bxposition gronnas. i : : EWORN BSTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Ftate of A\um;-‘:ln. A } @oes solemnly awear that the metunl eireulation of TNE DAILY REE for the week ending June 10, 1603, was as follow, £unday. June Monday, Juno June i at the N n builc ¥riday. June 0. Enturday, Juneio . Sworn 10 before mo and subsoribeld in my or e 1 FEIL, ence this 10th day of Jun Nowats Putiio. Cireulation for Ma ssed a state depositol Nebraska has a similar law, but it is ap- parently a dead letter. THE attempt to reorganize the Cord- age trust is not meeting with flattering guccess. The men who were burned the first time ave cvincing a stubborn unwillingness to put their fingers in the fire again. SoME of the overworked state officials are off ona fishing junket in the lake region of South Dakota. They evi- dently felt the need of a little whole- some relaxation after tho stupendous mental effort made in promulgating the new ‘“‘rules.” THE Denver real estate agents, noth- ing daunted by the tightness of the money market, have heroically under- taken to build an air line railroad from their city to the Pacific coast. Practi- cal railrond men and financiers may sometimes hesitate, but the nerve of the real estate boomer shrinks at nothing. r OMAHA went through a more or less panicky experience concerning her banks during the weck, yet the total clearings as reported by Bradstreef’s for the week ended Thursduy show an in- crease of 13 per cent over the corre- sponding week of 1802, This is some proof that the business of the city is doing well. P MORE interest is being teken in the irrigation question in the Black Hills country this year than ever before. Noting this encouraging enterprise, a Hills newspaper remarks that the farmer with a system of irrigation in this section is assured of a bountiful harvest which amply repays expense of maintaining such a system.” And what is true of the process in that region is equally true in every other section of the country where irrigation may be adopted for agricultural benefit. ToE action of the Pacific Mail in with- drawing from the New York and San Francisco trade and leasing its Atlantic steamers to the Panama railroad is con- strued as the complete surrender of that company. Mr. Huntington gives up the attempt to compete with the North American Navigation company by sea. The defeat may be but temporary, and the lease of the steamers is but for eighteen months. ‘*When the Tehuan- tepec railroad is finished the Pacific Mail may take a hand in the fight again,” says the San Francisco Fram- dner. “‘But if it does it will have to do 80 as a real competing line, and that will be a benefit instead of an injury to San Francisco. It can never stand as the subsidized agent of the transconti- nental roads, blocking the only avail- able sea route between the cast and the west, as long as the shippers of San Francisco choose to prevent iv,” Tug price of wheat has recovered somewhat from the deeline of last week, which carried it down to the lowest price for thirty years, and it is not probable that the price will again this year go tosolow a figure. But on the other hand holders of wheat must not expect any v material advance. It 18 true that the conditions for the crop in this country havo been unfavorable and it is estimated that the yield will fall short of last year's erop by about 109,000, 000 bushels and of the great crop of two yearsago by about 200,000,000, bushels. Tt 1s also probablo that the Rurop- ean crop will be below the sverage, Ordinarily this state of affairs would cause a rise of price,and it dooes not doso now simply for the reason that there is an enormous visible supply of wheat brought over from the crops of the last two years. This visible supply amounted at the beginning of the current month, in this country and Canada, to 89,000,000 bushels, excluding wheat stored at in- torior points in the northwest, so that the available accumulations out of rmers’ hands is probably not less than 100,000,000 bushels, which is from two and a half to three times the quantity which has been available at the corre- sponding date in years past. This sur- plus will go far toward making good the shortage in this year’s crop, and unless there shall be a much larger foreign do- wand than it is rcasonable- to expect the the price of wheat is not likely to rule very much highes, severe BANK FAILURES. The failire of two Omaha banks, which overybody knows were virtually one and the same concern, has furnished the Lincoln newspapors the long hoped for opportunity for making invidious com- parisons as butween Lincoln and Omaha. Incidentally these failures also afford them a chance to indulge in their favor- ite pastime of prodding THE BEr, which they hold up as the archenemy of Lin- coln upon every oceasion. ‘We are assured by the organs at Lin- coln that have sought to build them- | selves up by persistent and conscience- less defamation of Omaha that ‘‘in the present troubles in Omaha there will bo no such soirit manifested in Lancoln against that city, either by the news- papers or individuals, as has character- ized Tnr BEE against Lincoln for months back. Beeause two banks have failed there it will not be charged from here that Omaha is honey-combed with rottenness and that Omaha people breathe an air fetid with corruption.” This exhibition of spontancous gener- osity on the part ot the Lincoln boodler organs is appreciated by Omaha for what 1t is worth. There is as much dif- ference between the bank failure at Lincoln and the bank failures at Omaha as there is between a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut. The collapse of the Capital National bank was the culmination of colossal swindles and monstreus forgeries. Of- ficers of the bank made fraudulent en- tries in its books and covered up onor- mous embezziements of public funds and trust funds. The president of the bank confessed himself as guilty of forging certificates of deposits for hundreds of thousands of dollars and issuing these forged certificates in the name of the bank. Certifieates aggregating $150,000 were entered upon the bank ledger as loss than $300. High-handed imposture was practiced upon the state officials, and more than v quarter of million of state funds ab- sorbed in reckless speculation. As lessce of the penitentiary the president of the bank had branched out into poli- tics and corrupted men at the head of our state institutions. Hundreds of wage workers and scores of widows and people upon whom families are de- pendent for bread were confidenced into placing their hard-carned. savings into stody of this political banker and today they are wrecked and in- distress. In dealing with this gigantic swindle- mill Tne B has not attacked or sought to injurg the credit of Lincoln or any honest man or woman in Lincoln. This was not merely a local failure in- volving a few hundred depositors, but the whole state is intervested. The Omaha bank failures are the natural consequence of a stringent money market and a too liberal policy in making loans. There has been no charge, not even a suspicion of crooked- ness. There is no apprehension of loss to the depositors. If the assets do not pan out the stockholders will have to make the shortage good. ‘The publie funds in the bank are secured by ample official bonds and individual bonds. There is, therefore, no occasion for gratuitous sympathy or bottling up of resentment. *The Lineoln.boodle organists are only wasting their fragrance on the desert air when they go outof their natural orbit of malignant hostility to Omaha to assure us that they will keep still about Omaha bank failures if nothing more is said about the Capital National forgeries and robberies. Omaha’s financial credit needs no props of the penitentiary organ brand. THE PROPOSED INCOME TAX. A recent canvass among members of both houses of the national legislature on the leading questions of finrance and taxation develops the fact that a very considerablo number favor the pro- posed raising of revenue by a tax on incomes. The demand for such a tax is especially strong in the south, but it also has democratic advo- cates elsewhere. President Cleveland’s views have, until recently, been a mat- ter of speculation. The current opinion has been that he was favorable to taxing incomes. All doubt regarding his position should perhaps be dismissed in view of the fac* that the Philadelphia Ledger, whose cditor is known to enjoy the confidence of the vresident to a greater degree thanany other journalist in the country, has stated that Mr. Cleveland has never given the subject any serious consideration, while at the samo time Mr. Childs vigorously op- poses the proposition to tax incomes and espocially the plan of taxing those of #$10,000 and upwards. Ina recent issue the Ledger says: 1f incomes are to be taxed let them all, each for itself. contribute a fair share and part of the general amount. Under no other condition can & tax on incomes be justified. It1s the first law of all equitable taxation that it shall be without discrimination, that it shall be uniform. An wmcoms tax levied only upona single cluss, and that class largely distinguished for its achievements in building up the wealth, power and dignity of the nation, and especially for providing in- comes to the millions to whom it gives em- ployment, is a tax which only the most for- bidding spivit of socialism can defend in a country li his, the government of which is of all the people, by all the people and for all the psople. Class lezislation 1s native to the monarchical, not the democratic torm of government. Class distinctions of any kind are not wanted here, and there can be none which is more out of sorts with American institutions thun an income tax imposed sololy upon those who have schieved wealth by honorable, useful efforts. all which are of advantage to the country. It is highly probable that this reflects the views of Mr. Cleveland, but none tho less it is pretty safe to predict that a vigorous effort will bo made by demo- crats in congress to securs logislation taxing incomes. The policy is advo- cated by some who are strong in the couneils of the party and it is not to ba doubted that the constituencies of many of the members are in favor of it. The objections which the Ledger urges against such a tax are unquestionably sound, but they will have no weight with the people represented by a large number of the democratic members of congress. They will not be influenced by being told that such a tax would be essentially class legislation of the most obnoxious kind, because they have no sympathy with or concern for the class it would affect. They are THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, J INCOLN AND OMATA | indifferent to the fact that such a tax is odiously inquisitorial, that it falls most heavily upon honest men who can- not or will not conceal their incomes, and that it puts a government premium on lying and perjory. We had an in- come tax during the war and everybody familiar with its operation knows that men held as honest and fair-dealing with their neighbors were converted by it into prevaricators and sneaks in their desire to concéal the extent of their in- comes from the government in- quisitor. No law taxing incomes could be framed that would not be evaded and only the few honest men | —the one man in 10,000—and thoso with F fixed incomes would be the victims of suoh legislation, There is good reason to believe that neither the president nor any membar of his administration is in favor of an in- come tax. The democratic national platform does not call for such a tax. But there is abundant indication that it will be proposed in the next congress to establish such a tax and that the pro- posal will receive a large and vigorous support. THE NEW DISPENSATION. The dropping of the names of sixty- seven clerks in the general land office from the rolls in a single batch is di- vested of the significance that might otherwise attach by the secretary’s ex- planation. This wholesale dismissal was made necessary by the failure of the last congress to pass a sufficient appro- priation bill for the payment of these employes. And yet it is amusing in the face of the ostentatious statements of certain administration newspapers re- specting the regard that was to be shown to civil service reform, to witness the rapidity with which the headsman's ax is being wielded in all the depart- monts. In most of these cases men have been dismissed, not because of official or personal unworthiness, lack of efficiency or even for “offensive partisauship,” but simply aud solely to make way for hun- gry democrats. The vacancies thus cre- ated have been immediately filled by ‘new appointees, and so rapidly have theso appeintments been made that it would not be strange were there ground for the criticisms already frequent that the civil service has not been improved by the changes. Last week Mr. Josiah Quinecy, who was installed as first assistant secretary of state for the special purpose of re- forming the consular service, began his work of removal and replacoment at the rate of half a score or more a day, and this expedi- tion has only suffered interruption on account of the president’s indisposi- tion, which, notwithstanding, THE BEE trusts, is but temporary. Before this transformation scene was placed on the tapi was given out that the ad- ministration had determined to do its utmost to promote American trade and commerce with foreign lands, and that the greatest care would be used to place the consular service on a business basis. Now it is boidly asserted that Mr. Quiney has either forgotten this in tory proclamation or else he and the president have been most outrageously deceived both as to the merits and offi- ciency of some of the consular officers whom they have displaced, and the character and abilities of some of the men they have appointed. During the last two months scores of employes in the various executive de- partments have been displaced simply to make room for democrats. This is heing done so quietly as to attract little attention, and excites comment only on account of the pretentious professions of devotion to civil servico reform hereto- fore made by the responsible depart mental officials. What is true of the changes made in the departmental force at Washington equally applies to offices all through the country. Even Post- master General Bissell has succumbed, and heis now sending out notices to democratic representatives stating that he will appoint democrats to all fourth- class postoffices as soon as the four years term of the republican incumbents ex- pires. A prominent democrat of this state who is perfectly content with the recog- nition he esteems he has received in influencing the disposition of the patron- agoe for Nebraska expresses his admira- tion at the rapidity with which these changes are being made. The reason for 50 doing he thought obvious. It is to re- sult in harmonizing*the democratic party. The discontent of disappointed aspirants that must follow every appointment will have the longer time to pass away before the next campaign the sooner the choice is made. But our demoecratic friend is too optimistic in his views. Hell hath no fury like an office-seeker scorned. A RELIABLE STATEMENT, Captain Francis J. Higginson, late commander of the United States cruiser Atlanta, who was relieved of his com- mand on account of alleged delay in obey- ing orders to take his vessel to Grey- town, has arrived in New York. The captain will ask a court of inquiry from the secretary of the navy, and oxpresses confidence in his ability to satisfactorily explain all the consequences attending the departure of the Atlanta for Nica- ragua. Captain Higginson's statement as to the condition of the canal is the latest and most reliable information that has come tq hand respecting the progress of that great enterprise. He says-that one thing is cortain, the men now in author- ity in Nicaragua arve most friendly dis- posed toward the government of tho United States. They in fact favor closer relationship than has yet existed. The new government is protecting the canal property, but no work is in progress on the line. There is now about seven feet of water in the canal at Greytown and the people of Nicaragua are enthusiastic in their dosire tosee the project com- pleted. They look upon the sucesss of the canal as the undoubted success of thelr countyy. Particularly are the leaders of the new government imbued with this idea. The United States gov- ernment employes who recently sur- veyed the projected railroad route across the [sthmus of Tehuantopec have also returned to this eountry. The statement of the captain in re- spect to landing United States marines from the steamer a¥ Groytown is In di- rect contradiotion of, bhat purporting to have been made by United Statos Minis- ter Bakor and Sefipr Castille, tele- graphed from Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, and published in the last dispateh from that point, Instead of the report being absolutely without founda- tion, too absurd for gonsideration, and believed to have beon started in Wash- ington by enemies of ‘fhp new govern- ment, Captain Higgingon says that ho did land the navines and a number of the blue: jackets of the At- lanta. This force he omused to patrol and protect the cansl property at the Greytown torminus, | Hé says, however, that this force was oh shore for only a few days, it being evident that the new government was equal to any emergency that wasilikely to arise. In view of the constant clashing of statements telegraphed from Nicaragua with facts subsequently ascertained, it is evident that the dispatches have been arranged by interested parties through- out all the recent troubles in that country. MILITARISM GETS A HARD BLOW, As was oxpected, the first ballot in the German election was not decisive, and in a considerable number of dis- tricts a second ballot will have to be “taken. This will afford the government an opportunity to make another appeal to the people in behalf of the army bill, and it may put forth still more strenu- ous efforts to secure supporters of that mersure, but, it is hardly to be expected, with any better success than has at- tended its earnest and determined strug- gle in the contest thus far. The fact is manifest that militarism in Germany has been dealt a hard blow, and the knowledgo of this is far more likely to stimulate and strengthen the opposition to the imperial policy re- garding the army than it is to held the cause of the government. The fact of greatest significance in the result of Thursday’s election, which is likely to make a profound impression upon the volitics of all continental Europe, is the largely increased strength of the social- ist party. This political faction had thirty-five representatives in the last Reichstag and the propability is that it will increaso this representation by at least half in the next Parliament, but this will not fully show the numerical growth of the party. The socialists, or socialist-democrats, have been making steady progress for the last three or four years, and this election will probably show that their present voting strength approximates 2,000,000. They embrace in their ranks some of the most intellectual men in“théempire and the party is exerting an inflience that is not confined to Germany. '~ Its continued growth seems to be assured, and the possibility of its becoming within a few years the dominating, power in German politics is everywhers recognized. The more vigorously and arbitrarily the imperial power is ‘asserted the more rapid will be the advance of the socialist parfy. IO It would be usecless torattempt to esti- mate the probable strength of the polit- ical factions in the new Reichstag from the returns of Thursday's elections, but the resuitis very unfavorable to the army bill and it will not be surprising if it be finally found that a larger major- ity hus been returned opposed to that measure than there was in the parlia- ment that defeated it. In that event, the interesting question is, what will then be the imperial policy? He can again dissolve the Reichstag and appeal a second time to the people, but it is not probable that to do this would change the result, and the emperor is not the sort of man to trifle in so serious a mat- ter by taking chances which seem to promite nothing. It has been sug- gested that if the new Reichstag shall refuse to pass the army bill in any form the emperor may as well renounce his project, but he believes too firmly in its necessity for the peace and security of Europe to permit the thought that he will do this. It has been said that he might exercise the imperial prerogative and having dissolved the popular as- sembly declare the army bill a law. This would bo a desperate resort, per- haps too radical for even William II. to adopt. Such a course might bring greater peril to the empire from domestic disturbance than is to be apprehended from external hos- tility. It is obvious that the situa- tion is critical and that at no time since the empire was established has there been a more urgent demand for wise, conservative and prudent statesmanship. It remains to be seen whether the emperor and his advisers will be equal to the demand. An Apt Definition, Philadelphia Times, Another forcible way of interpreting our national letters—-U. S.—might be Unneces- sary Silver. e — Nebrasks Enterprise n Model. Minneapolis T The two beet sugar factories in Nebraska, which have been runnifi two seas: s0 cducated the farmers of th beet culture that this year they will have an abundant supply of ‘beets and will make somo profits. ‘Tlie sooner Miunesota farmers get such a valuable education and proceed to devote some of thewr abreage to sugar beets the better it will be forithem, e ©ost of the Salver Folly, St Paul Piaieer Press, In truth, the United States has paid dearly enough for their yielding' to popular delu- sions inspired mainly by the selfish cam- paigns of the millionaire, mine owners. The cost_of the silver bullion phat the treasury s hidden away in tfie ¢arth is a mere bagatelle when we comb to' estimate the ex- pense of the silver folly.. §f we are to count only the cost during thejlast year it will amount to hundreds of millions. There is not a city, there is notan sindustry, there is hardly an individual who has not suffered from it in pocket. N A Change of Time, San Franeisco Chroniele, The shooting down of ‘the strikers by dep- uty sheriffs at Lemout, IlL., on Friday was in” its way an event fully as tragic as that whichoccurredat Homestead, but it will cause comparatively little discussion. The reason is simj; Democratic demagogues will not see in this affair an_opportunity to boom their party as they did last fall, when they misrepresented and distorted the facts of the Homestead troubles. To dwell on the present strike might direct attention to the fact that the promise of veluna's sup- porters that things would be made better for the workingman if Grover proved suc- cessful is unfultilled, and might sev men to thinking that times scem Lo be getting duller aud duller as the days of Cleveland's admin- istration roll on. OTHER LANDS TRAN OURS, Dr. Miguel, the Prussian minister of finance, in one of his rocent speochos on the German army bill, took the bold ground that the Germans are not taxed as heavily as other nations and ought not to grumble at tho increased expenditure now thought necessary by the governmont. Ho said that it was not true that an increased expendi- ture of 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 marks would overstrain the financial capacity of the na- tion. How did Germany compare with other nations? he asked, and then proceeded to declare that the French pay in taxes and monopolies 61 marks per head, the British 45, the Ttalians 80, the Dutch 87, the Aus, trians 27, the Spaniards 2 and tho Prussians 21 7-10 marks por hoad only. Why, thon, he demanded, “should the Prussians—all other German states aro in tho same situation— not be able to pay115 marks more than they pay already? Again ho do- clared that, apart from the great things done by committees, the oxpenditure on education, justice, tho amelioration of land and on other socio-political and chari- table purposes during the last ten years has increased more rapidly than the military ex- penditure all over Germany, and especially in Prussin. He then said: “If the German nation is resolved to keep what was cons quered under great leadership on sanguinary battle fields it must make the financial sac- rifices necessary to that end. Iam firmly convinced that these sacrifices do not ex- ceed our capability. It is not political con- flicts nor class intorests that are in question —itisa purely national question.” As to Gambetta’s declaration that Fraace would compel Germany to arm herself to death, that is, ruin hor economically, he said: “‘One can only smile at this, but it would be a much worse and sadder case if France wore to beat us morally in energy, patriotism and self-sacrifice. The rejection of the bill would involve us in great diMculties, it would woeaken our prestige abroad, diminish the respoct feit to our power and thus really increase the danger of war,” Y - A correspondent thus describes the char- acteristics of the czar: ‘“I'his man, who disposes of one of tho vastest empires in the world, before whom everything falls down, whom no one resists, for whom it 1s enough that he should raise a little finger to set in movement millions and millions of men, is neither a soldier nor a sailor nor a diploma- tist. Imight add that he is almost what is known here as a bourgeois. He has a horror of fetes, he detests ceremonies, he Joves noither military nor naval reviews. He adores his famly and is contented only with them. He is not one of those Russians who are half sav- age, half Machiavel; he is rather a simple mujik, a lover of truth and a speaker of it. When he returns to St. Petersburg, he bids the diplomatic corps not to come to meet bim. When he presides perforce at a review, he leaves the field as soon as possible and is pleased to get down from his horse, does notlike1t. At Copenhagen his gros pleasure consisted in goingout ina short c and a soft hat, in mingling with the pedes- trians who pretend not to recognize um, and in taking a cab. Indeed, ne once amused himself in a very odd fashion, he and all his family taking a tramcar to go into the coun- try. In politics, as in everything else, the czar’s ideas are simple. He is not communi- cative because he does not know how to de- velop his thoughts. Hoe has mever spoken for five consecutive minutes in his life. When hoisin Denmark or in the Crimea, as his government accompanies him, he devotes half an hour a day to'signing papers, and that constitutes the only business. The military attaches see him at the roviews, but thero is no possible chance of conversation with him, An ambassador may seo him when a ball is given in his nonor, but he can have no conversation with him; or he may see him at a ball at another ambassador’s, or at some small court reception, but these occasions are rare.” * Tho recont greut {loods in the Transvaal have been followed by outbreaks of fever which have carried off hundreds of victims. A correspondent writing to a London paper from Johannesburg says: “‘Of course a great flood like this one left behind it miasmic mud and rotting vegetation on all sides. In addition a good deal of soil has been turned over for railway purposes by the workmen of the Netherlands company, and these two causes have produced an outbreak of fover which outdoes all previous occurrences of the kind. The whites have suffered severely, particularly in the Elands Valley and in and near ‘the lone city of the Kaap,” Barberton, and some heroic work has been done by the handful of doc- tors and nurses in that part of the republic. As to the natives, the death roll has been in- calculably numerous. The rich valley of the Elands river has been swept of its native people with a grim and terrible thorough- ness. The native population of the Transvaal is very large, and in a country of s0vastan area it is impossible to obtain accurate de tails, but the natives have died like flies. ‘Whole kraals of Kafirs and Swazis have been depopulated, and certainly over 10,000 natives have been swept off. The Transvaal govern- ment, to its credit be it said, at once voted £1,000 for the relief of people in the fever- stricken districts, and further aid has since been supplied from the same source, while about £1,000 has been subscribed by the public in and around Johaunesburg; but, of course, that has wot goue very far, and o vast amount of human misery has had to be borne." A In a recent debate in the Norwogian Stor- thing, Mr. Aarestad, member for one of tho chief agricultural districts in the country, maintained that the landowners and farmers were steadily falling deeper and deeper into debt., Those who now, he said, in reality own the soil ot Norway are the Bank of Nor- way, the Land Mortgage bank, the savings banks and traders in towns. The mortgage debt on Norwegian agriculture has more than doubled in the last twenty years. He estimated that the Norwegian poeasant pro- prietor owned 1n realivy only about one-six- teenth of the value of the land, houses and forests in the country, and that the interest on the lund debt at 4 per cent now amounts w one-sixth of the total yield of agriculture in Norway. He declared the condition of the farmers to be desperate, and that unless serious steps were taken they would be entirely ruined. In his reply, the minister for the Home department threw doubt on the accuracy of the statistics brought forward and thought they were somewhat exaggerated, As rogards the increasing indebtedness of landowners or farmers, he pointed out that the value of the land had boeen i sing, but aaded that ne saw no po ility of the agrarian debt being taken over in part by the state, Mr- Lovenskjold, an ex-minister of state, ex- pressed astonishment that Mr. Aarestad had not mentioued as one of the great causes of the indebtedness of the peasaut proprietors the still existing right of predemption, under which the elder son or the senior member of the family had the right of buy- ing out his co-heir or co-heiresy. This had necessitated & constant raising of money which, to some extent, had been carried out of the country by emigrants. ~ Throughout the debate mobody disputed the desperate state to which the peasant proprietors had been reduced. R rrt hot and Killed by Burglars. MixxEaroL1s, June 16.—J, R. Harris, of the Lubricating company, was killed by two burglars in his house last mnight. He dis- govered them Iu bis parior and they shot bim twice. He died this morning. CRICAGO AND THE PRINCESS, Chicago Dispatch: Good-by, Fulalia; porhaps the time may come some day when o royal visitor ean spend o few days in Chi eago with: bei harried and pesterad to death by Chicagn likes you and wishes you a hearty godspoed and a safo re- wurn to Spain, Springflold (Mass.) Republican: The Span- ish infanta has at last asserted hersolf, not at all as a princess, but simply as a woman Sho wants to seo the Columbian World's fair, and finding that all her time was being consumed by attentions which were of no possible value to her and whose motives was solely the social distinction of people in Chi- cago who were of no consoquen: 0 her and whom she would nover sco again, she stops all that foolishness by & word she has a right to speak Kansas City Star: The departure of tho Infanta [Eulalin 1s considered as the end of royal visiting at the World's fair, and there is somo gratulation over the fact to the ef- fect that the simple republican American citizen will no longer bo shocked by the sight of “‘ton " This talk is " he day of the in- fanta’s visit was marked by one of the larg- est crowds of the season, composed of the common run of Americans, who were neither shocked by thersight of the infanta nor by any of the attentions paid he. This “plain ropublican’ snivel is disgusting, Now York Commercial: We need to learn that though people diffor from each othor, oeven “as one star differeth from anothe starin glory,” yet the glory of each is be- cause of that very difference. We need something, even if it be the rod flamo of war, to make luminous for us the fact that Ameri- cans are just as truly men as any other poo- ple under heaven, and that, nine times in ten, in the very particulars in which thoy differ they are suporior. What is the pros- ent worth if it has not improved on tho past? If the children were not wiser than the Knr(\ms the world would be forever going ackward. ‘The most important lessons Americans have to learn is that unless they themselves respect the fact of being Ameri- can the world will not respoct is, —_—— AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRI. Exchange, She can peel and boil potatons, make & salad of tomatoes, but she doesn't kunow a Latin noun from a Groek. And so well she cooks a chicken that your appetite would quicken, but she cannot’ tell what's modern from antique. She knows how to seta table and make order outof babel, but- sho docsn't know Euripides from Kant. Once at making pie I caught hor—Jove! an expert must have taught her—but she doesn’t know true eloquence from rant. She has a firm conviction one ought only to read fiction, and she doesn't care for science, not a bit, . And tho way she makes her bonnets, sure, is worth a thousand sonnets, But she doesn't yearn for “‘culture,” not a whit She can make her wraps and drosses till a fellow fast confesses thut there's nitanother maiden half so swoet. She's immersed in homo completely, where she keeps all things so ne: , but from Browning not a line can she repeat. Well, in fact, she's just a woman, gentle, lovable and human, and her faults she is quite willing 1o admit. "Twere foolish to have tarriod, so we went off and got married, and I tell you I am mighty glad of it. DR JUNE JUBILATIONS. Kate Field's Washington: “Don't you think her presence will give ‘g0 to our party?* “Ye eryone will Ieave as soon as she come: Philadelphin Led ing Water Prossed Brick sure of waterout of the concerns has mado a good sharcholders lately. Nebraska has a Woep- ny. The pres- k of numcrous many weeping Sparks: Poovle speuk of the face of a note, when it's really the figure that interests them. Chester Nows: The Columbian fly Is with us, and has six improved legs, with double- power suckers on his toos. Rochester Democrat: No matter how finely the display window of a store may be fitted up, the pretty young lady clerk will always prove a counter attraction. Indianapolis Jou that city people do Jason. “‘Law, it to look after ns folks 1} have I'd be dead in 1 't no wonder *said old Mrs, as many neighbors vlives in cities must 1o yoar." When tho bathing season 1s on the man with an_uppetite for tho beauti- ful in human form generally takes a run down o some populirseaside resort and fousts on the suud witches thore. BuiTalo Courie: Washington Star: Tt s often saddening to note how hurd it is for some young men to keep their seats on horseback and how cusy 1t is in a crowded street Atlanta Constitution: Bailiff (to rural jus- tice)—Your honor, thoro's 4 man in court hus got a bill for 810 agin’ you. Justice—Good! 1"ll fine him 815 for contempt o'court. Soe tht he receipts the bill an’ fetch me the odd 35, REMORSE. Washington Star. What does ho care though skies are blue And birds aro swoetly singing; Why should he heod the wondrous hue That blossoms wmay be bringing. The thought of nooks whore sylvan boughs Mako cirt'sios 10 tho brovzes o 1s, of all thoughts on earth, he vows, ‘The one that most displeases. lls puce, he says with acconts grim, Was mérry while ho led it, And now vication catches him With neither cash nor credit. Ex-Senator Ingalls WRITES ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE LETTER FOR The Sunday Bee IN WHICH HE GIVESA REPUBLICAN'S OPINION OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC AF- FAIRS. ENTITLED “Our Parties and Our Future. MR. INGALL'S LETTERS ARE ATTRACT- ING COMMENT ALL OVER THE COUN- TRY NO MAN WHO SEEKS TO KEEP PACE WITH THE POLITICAL DISCUS- SIONS OF THE DAY CAN AFFORD TO MISS THE INGALLS LETTERS: BUT THIS IS NOT THE ONLY BRIL LIANT FEATURE OF The Sunday Bee. THERE ARE OTHERS JUST AS ATTRACT IVE. HERE IS AN OUTLINE OF A FEW OF THEM: AN OMAHA PILGRIM WANDERS THROUGH THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY AND JOTS DOWN HIS IM: PRESSIONS, African Legends: * HENRY M. STANLEY, THE GREAT EX- PLORER, WRITES SOME UNIQUE AND HIGHLY INTERESTING LEGENDS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE DARK CONTINENT Colonel Ainsworth: SOMETHING ABOUT THE MAN WHOM SURVIVING CLERKS OF THE WRECKED FORD THEATER BUILDING THREATENED WITH PERSONAL VIOLENCE, Riding Through Easy Street: A LADY WRITES ABOUT MEMB:RS OF HER SEX WHO ARE ALWAYS CHEERFUL AND AGREEABLE—REPROOF OF “FOR- WARD" CHILDREN. The London Slang-Coiners: WAKEMAN TELLS OF THE COSTERMON- GERS OF LONDON—THEIR HABITS MANNERISMS, DIALECTS AND SLANG PHRASES—A CHAPT:R UPONA PECU- LIAR CLASS OF PEOPLE, Woman's Wants and Ways: A BUDGET OF CHATTY,GOSSIPY STORIES AEQOUT WOMEN AND THEIR AFFAIRS---+ THE LATEST |IDEAS IN FASHION'S DOMAIN — THIS DEPARTMENT IS FRESH AND READABLE. The Duke of York and Prin- GOSSIP ABOUT THE'ROYAL PARTIES TOA WEDDING SOON TO BE SOLEM- NIZED. Standard Features: SECRET SOCIETY NEWS, SPORTING GOSSIP, SOCIETY EVENTS, THE LOCAL NEWS ROUND-UP, ETC,, ETC, The Very Latest: THE BEE'S SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS FROM EUROPEAN NEWS CENTERS, ITS COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REs PORTS AND SPECIAL TELEGRAMS FROM | EVERY IMPORTANT POINT IN THE . WEST, MAKE THE SUNDAY BEE A NEWSPAPER IN THE BEST SENSE OF THE TERM. THE SUNDAY BEE. BROWNING, KING Largest Manutacturors and Rotallors ol Clothing 1o the World. Before You Jump Come down and see the extra choice line of bathing suits we have just got in. plied styles. They are made perfectly and in regulation style. the bath comes the under- clothes-—and we are showing probably the very finest line yet out. and neckties we are well sup- After In collars, cuffs, shirts with all the prevailing We are also selling $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 brown stiff hats for $1.50. We will be pleased to show you a summer suit—not only because we want to sell shem, but also to show that we are the only people in town who carry many of the styles here shown. Drop in and buy a bathing suit anyway. BROWNING, 8tore open every evenin Suturduy sl 1 KING & CO., wien |§ W, Cor 15th and Douglas Sts.