Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1893, Page 4

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Tk DAy and Svxpay Dee s on sate in Chieago at the following places: Palmer house, Grand Pacific hotel. Auditorinm hotel. Great Northern hotel Gore hotel Leland hotel Wells B. Sizor, 180 Stato stroot Files of TiE BEE can be seon at tho Ne- uflding and the Administration build- Ixposition grounds. Average Circulation for May, 18 417 ol bbb e S THE way to make money circulate in Omahu is to give employment to every man and woman who is willing to work. AS THE managing editor of the city’s expense account Mayor Bemis uses the ‘blue pencil with judicial diserimination. THE crash of tho Tremont house at Fort Scott verifies the assumption that paper shell hotels are not confined to Chicago. TIr WAS not entirely unexpected, but the action of the council of India in- dofinitely postpones froe silver coinage dn the United Stat THERE should be very little of poli- tics in the September sess) of con- gress. What the country needs is con- sorvative financial legislation, but not too much of it. THE democratic newspapers continue toevince an extreme roluctance to dis cuss the tariff question, despite the al- most frantic appeals of Charles A. Dana and Henry Watterson. THE German elections bear a marked similarity to one of the old time elec- tions in the south. Theyare still voting over there, and the polls are not likely to close for several weeks THE late Lelund Stanford was said to be worth 000,000, It would be curi- ous tonote just how much of a shrinkage the figures would have sustained in the presence of an income t: THERE will be but little consolation in the fact that there is a silver lining to the financial cloud as long as the govern- ment is compelled to pay 100 cents in gold for about 64 conts worth of lining. Jim NorTH'S only regret, 48 not ablue grass lawn around the Omaha federal building He can lock his doors against the place hunters, but he can't warn them to keep off the grass. that there > RECEIPTS of live stock at the South Omaha market prove that whatever Nebraska may lack this year in the production of small grain she will more than make up from her surplus of meat products. THE Ohio democrats are still hope- lossly divided in their efforts to find a worthy opponent for McKinley. This is certainly strange in view of all that has been said of the great revival of democ- racy in the Buckeye state. A GEORGIA newspaper alludes to our own Congressman Bryan as “the hand- some and talented dark-eyed child of the west.” Nobraska people who have always felt cortain that the young con- gressman would win a name for himself have now realized their fondest expec- tations. WHEN American wheat goes to Turope gold is bound to come back. All the theories of the financial wise- acres of the country will not be able to controvert 50 simple a proposition, But as long as the balance of trade is against the United Statos, just so long will the balance be liquidated in gold. THE Chicago peoble, who breathed a sigh of reliof when Kulalia departed, have more trouble in store. The nawab of Rampur will soon be with them, and now comes the official announcement that the gaikwar of Baroda is coming, But very fow Chicago people know ‘how to properly entertain a genuine gaikwar, —_— IN THESE troublons times the men who areon the bonds of custodians of public funds feel vory uncomfortable, It remains to be seon, however, whether any bondsmen .will ever be made to make good the shortage of a treasurer, 8o far, we have not heard of a single in- stance where the shortage of a treasurer has been made good by his bondsmen, SENATOR BLACKBURN is said to be a little nervous and uncomfortable over the fact that his term of sorvice in the senate expires on the ne day that Mr. Carlisle’s period of service in the cabinet comes o a close. This would seem to indicate a lack of universal con- fldence among Kentuckians that their state will furnish the next demooratic presidential candidate. . 4 will fc | ais l law it is probable that it will wot be long A SERIOUS BLOW 10 SILVER. A London dispateh conveys the highly fmportant news that Karl Kimberley, secretary of state for India, announced | in th House of Lords that the Indian council had passed an act for the imme- | diate closing of the mints to the free coinage of silver and that it was in- tended to introduce the gold standard in India, though gold would not be the sole logal tender. - That is to say, India is to enter the list of bimetallic coun- tries, with a monetary systom somewhat | similar, it is presumed, to that of the United States far as gold and silver are concerned While it has been understood for some time that the question of such a change was being sorfously considered, as in the | of British financiers offering the only remedy for the perplexing condi tion of Indian finances, still the decision to make the change was unexpected. The proposal to abandon tho free coin- ago of silver and adopt the gold standard for India was made and discussed whilc the Salisbury government was in power. Such a policy was strongly urged by the British officials in India, who foreibly pointed out the disadvantages of the silver standard to that country and the benefits that might reasonably be ox- pected to result from the abandonment of that standard and the stoppagoe of the | freo coinage of silver. Tho proposal | was supported by prominent English financiers, but the government was not disposed to make so radi a departure from a long-established policy. The de- cision to make the change indi that the subject has been under con- sideration ever since. It is a fair infor- ence that the exigency justifying this departure is felt to be very urgent. India is one of the principal silver- using countries, and the effect of this change of poliey regarding silver can- not fail to be far-reaching. Without at- tempting to forecast all of its pos- sible consequences, one thing be predicted with certainty. Tt a blow to silver that will further depre- ciate the market value of the white metal and go far toward sottling the question of its use as money by the lead- ing countries of the world, except as subsidiary curren The fact that gold is not to be made the sole legal tender in India may somewhat mitigate the ef- fects of the change, bat they will be felt more or less in every country where silver enters largely into the monetary and it is to be expected that they atime intensify the unsettled condition of financial affairs genevally. The establishment of a gold standard in India will of course necessitate draw- ing a supply of gold from other coun- tries, a prospect which, under existing mstances, the people of the United cannot vegard with perfect com- cy. England has at prosent a good reserve of gold, part of which she will undoubtedly be able to send to India: but thore is reason to apprehend that she will draw on the United States for tho greater part of what she may need to establish the gotd standard for her Indian possessions. At any rate there is created by this change a large demand for vgold and it is most natural to expect that we shail have to supply a portion of it. The action of the Indian council | is in harmony with the financia policy of the British government and it may be aceepted as definite notice from that government that it has nosympathy with any plan or proposal looking | to the larger use of silver as money; 1t will doubtless be so regarded by all the European conntries, so that it manifestly will be useless tor the United States to attempt to secwre an international ratio for silver and the free coinage of that metal by Furopean governments. Havy- ing discarded it they do not propose to return to it. The abandonment of the silver standard in India will deprive the advocates of the free coinage of silver in the United States of an argument they have used with much potency with a class of our people, namely, that India being on a Iver basis our wheat growers were at a lvantage in competition with the wheat producers. This argu- ment, always unsound, must be aban- doned when the Id - standard is established in India. There will still be advocates of the free coinage of silver by the United States, on the ground that this country should muke its own finaneial policy regardless of what other nations may do, but it is safe to predict that the number of such will hereafter not be s0 large as it has been nor will their zeal be so ardent. 80 view can Indian THE ILLINOIS ANTI-IRUST LAW, The anti-trust law passed by the Tlli- nois legislature and just signed by the governor is a very comprehensive meas- ure, which if rigidly enforced will do away with every kind of combination or agreement in that state that can affect competition in trade or transportation. In regard to the business of transporta- tion it goes further than any other state law or than the federal anti-trust law, although one or two federal judges have held that the latter act applios as well to combinations of common carriers as to any other form of combination. cording to one interpretation of the lllinois law it authorizes pro- ceedings against passenger and freight associations, and it is stated that the attorney general of the state will be asked to proceed against the West association with a rostraining the roads embraced from combining or agreeing to lix rates 10 Chicago during the World's fair. The provisions of the law which are held to apply to transportation agreements will be found olsewhere, and it will be seen that thoy are far-reaching, The act provides that any corporation holding a charter under the laws of Illinois, which shall violate any of the provisions of the act, shall thereby forfeit its char- ter and franchise and its corporate it > shall cease, while as to every reign corporation violating any of the sections of the act it isdenied the right and prohibited from doing any business within the state, the attorney general being roquired to enforce this proy by injunction or other coedings, From what is already being propo with regard to the enfo 'n Passenger vie therein ion proper pro- ement of this | porations d | which | law. | goes considorably further THE OMAHA DAILY BERI TUESDAY, betore it is given a judicial test. Sofar as corporations deriving their existence from the state of Illinois are concerned there is perhaps no doubt that tho law can be applied and enforcod, but there 1is a question whether it can be mado to romch foreign cor- ng business in that state. Undoubtedly the legislature of Tllinois has the power to prohibit and punish combinations botween railroads char- tered under the laws of that state, but it is obviously a very differsnt mattor whon it undertakes to deal with foreiga corporations engaged in interstate com- merce. An attempt to prohibit such a corporation from doing business 1n Ti- of its failure to comply with the anti-trust law would doubtless be de- feated in the courts, but it is possible that the enforcement of the law against the state railroads might lead the foreign corporations doing business with those of the state to aban- don any agreements between them could be held to violate the The act, as already observed, than ny other legislation relating to combina- tions, and as [llinois affords a good field in which to fully test such alaw. the resuit of the offorts that are to bo made to enforee it will be awaited with very general interest. Regarded as an ex- pression of popular sentiment hostile to overy form of combination in restraint of trade and suppression of competition this legislation is important and signfi- cant. The people of Tllinois, whose representatives passed this comprehen- sive anti-trusv law, are not more anxious than those of tho other states to break down the monopolies and eombines that oppress them. If the Illinois law can be made operative it will be widely fol- lowed. PROTECTION OF THE SEA Mr. Phelps, of counsel for the United States in the Bering sea arbitration, is credited with having made a very brill- | iant argument in defense of the right to protect the scals. The distinguished ad- wte confined his discussion to two main questions, one being as to the right of pelagic scaling, with the inevitable vesult of ultimately destroying the secal , and the other as to what could be done, in the event of that ht being conceded, to prevent the extermination of the seals. ‘\l"i Phelps vigorously maintained the American contenticn that the indiscriminate slaughter of the seals i inhuman, barbar- ous, and a violation of the laws of all civ »d nations for the protection of wild animals in their breeding and he pointed out that the B counsel did not fairly and squarely meet the question as to whether the right to Ao this exists, but exhausted all their urces to evade it. Before the arbi- ion treaty had been concluded Great wver defended pelagic seal- ing, and that government had professed a readiness to aceept all regulations ne 'y to presorve the seel, but now Great Britain had veered around and based her case upon an elaborate de- fense of pelagic scaling. insisting that no regulations would be acceptable to her which were incon: mt with the prosperity of the pelagic hunters. This is not the only inconsistency in the attitude of the British - government past and present which has been developed during the remarkable discussion of this issue before the tribunal of arbitration, in notable contrast with the straight- forward position taken by the repr sentatives of the American government. One notable concession has been made by the British representatives, and that ntained in the proposals submitte by Sir Richard Webster for interna. tional regulations regavding the time, place and mauner of pelagic scal- It was suggested that such sealing be absolutely prohibited within twenty miles of land. This was y an abandcnment of the British ion as it had been enunciated by Lord Salishury, who contended that thore could be no private or national property in marine animels found mor than three miles from land. This w the original contention of the British counsel, and their departur m it to an extent which in principle concedes the American claim suggests that their intercoy with the members of the court has given them a new light. With all civilized nations the limit of sea- st jurisdiction in adjacent waters is o miles, If it be granted that by reason of the special na- ture of the seal property in dispute pelagic sealing may be prohib- ited within twenty miles of the shore obviously the property of the United States in seals may be protected and de- fended at any distance in the occan. There is reason to believe that the British government does not expect that its position will be sustained by the court of arbitration. A remark made recently by Mr Gladstone, when the question of establishing an interna- tional tribunal of arbitration was pr sented in the House of Commons, im- plied that the cess of Great Britain's case in the Pa ourt was not ant pated. The Awmecrican has ¢ tainly been presented with great force and ability. e thry THE FIRST PHING IN ORDER, The new quavters of the Comme club in the Board of Trade building will soon be ready for occupancy and the club will be in position to draw its mem- bers into eloser relationship with cach other by daily contact, and to entertain guests and visitors from abroad. But dining and entertaining is not the main objest of this organization. Its chief aim is, and should be, the promotion of the commercial and industrial pros- perity of Omaha. How this can be most effectually achieved must be the special business of its managers, The first step in the direetion has been taken by the enrollment of several hun- dred active business men into iip. The next step must be the king up of warring factions into h this city has for years been di- vided, It isan open secret that almost every project in the interest of Omaha has aroused bitter opposition and con- tention. Whatever one setof capitalists desires to undertake, another set is always ready to kuite because they do not happen to be inside. It is of vital import that all the men interested in rial its mem- I Omaha should pulti agether, and if the Jommercial club ds In harmoniz- g all the discord yolements its ex ence will not have™den in vain. JUDGE ROGER A (PRYOR, once the noted confederatestfesman and soldier, now of the commom pleas court in Now York, caused sométhing of a sensation by an announcemetit he mado from the bench the other day. After having given the usual imgtructions to the jurors not to allow affybody to approach them about the cade, defendant’s lawyer requested him to also charge them not to read the newspapers. This the judge declined to do, *“They should read the newspapers,” he said; “they are intelli- gent men.” We are told that, as indi- cating that this decision wasin accord with the popular spirit as well as with sense, it was reccived with a burst of applause. Judge Pryor’s admonition, if generally recognized, will render it less difficult for courts to select a jury than heretofore, while the interosts of justice will be even more substantially served by boing ontrusted to the consideration of intelligent jurymen. THE appointmont of a collector for the port of New York, which has repeatedly proven the most vexatious task that has ever befallen the appointing power, is now engaging the attention of the presi- dent. The selection of this office has more than once split the administration party in the pire state in twain and forever blasted the political hopes tue appointment was expected to subserve. There arc as usual several applicants representing diverse factions of the dem- ocratic party in New York for the posi- The most prominent of theso is retary of the Treasury Fairchild who is chairman of the custom house commission now investigating the ad- i tion of that office. Although airchild has repeatedly declared that he would not think of taking the place there isa general belief that he would dosoif requosted by the president. COUNCILMA HaAscALL when le says that public funds correct the withdrawal of and private deposits would “bust” every bank in town. Bank make their money by loaning other people’s money—not by loaning their own. But the question is, how can this state of affairs be made responsible for the present financial stringency? There is very mearly as much money in this country now as there ever was, even il we compute the volume of money on the population basis. But there isa terrific contrac- tion of confidence which means credit, and that does not in the least depend upon the volume of mpney, or upon the willingness of people to trust each other. THE undesirable immigration ques- tion is once more brought prominently to the surfac by the fact thatiwo tramp steamers, cach bringing soveral hundred immigrants from southern Russian por are now due at the port of Philadslphia. The immigrants were of such an un- desirable character that the' regular stoeamers refused to take them. The en- tire country will bo interested in any attempt that the Philadelphia authori- ties may make to prevent the question- able visitors from landing. The United States has more worthless people to take care of than she ought to have and any further additions will be decidedly un- welcome. Tag small debtor who owes less than $20 has a potent influence upon the financial condition of the country. If all of him would pay up, the retail mor- chant would bo able to meet his obliga- tion to the jobber, who in turn could then satisfy the importer. The banks would not be called upon for such heavy loans, interest would come down, money would seek investment, real estate would bo in greater demand, new enterprises would be inangurated, the demand for labor would be increased and times would I t deal thus de- pends upon the smaller debtor clas THE infantry and cavalry school at Fort Leavonworth is largely increasod by the order just issued from the War department detailing the cluss of young ofticers from the military academy to undergo a two-years' course of instrue- tion. It comprises forty-eight mem- bersand is the largest class ever ordered to this camp of instruction, THERE is, atleast, one redeeming feat- ure in the failuve of the attempt to re- organize the great Reading combination, It will throw $10,000,000 worth of an- thracite coal upon the market at once and throttle the attempt of the coal com- bine to rafse prices another notch, UNLESS all signs fail Nebrasia will this year harvest $50,000,000 worth of corn, which is equal to one year's silver prodnet of Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Utah, The total silver product of the United States is only $70,000,000, ATTORNEY GEN. Y has de- cided that the World’s fair people are not entitled to the congressional appro- priation. His decision in regard to pro- ding against tho trusts has not yet been announced. Arity Beginsat ifome. Kearney b The greatest duty that Nebraska people owe to themselves 1s i patronize home in. dustries | Condemned by the Author, 14lulurluv‘nm'l'uh The man_who framed the Sherman law says that it ought ta.ue repealed, and his judgment in the matter is that of an expert. Chicago Iuter ( cean, Look for a cyclono in Nebraska and buy your insuranco at once. The Chautauquas Circle in that state has asked J. J. In and Mrs, Lease to speak from the same stund the same day. 11 the two cannot bring a “Kansas zephyr” nothing will. Dollar, Philadelphia Ledger, The silver in the standard dollar, accora- ing to the price of the last purchase’ of bul lion, 15 worth about 635 cents, and the legul tender quality of thul coin 'is, therofor made up of loss than Lwo-thirds of intrins value. It is uo wonder that forcigners | fer a gold dollar worth 100 cents the woi over. B Cremantion 18 the 3 Aansas City Star, Chicago is making s fairly satisfactory ex periment in the cremation of garbage, The JUNE 27, 1893. pmefis is carried on without smoke or stench, and it fs belioved that, when the system is fully perfocted, the commeroial valus of the ofls and volatile matter which can be saved will be suficient to pay the operating oxpenses, ———— Fishing and Thinking on the S Holdrege Citizen, The tired state officials who have been working so hard of late to keep from being impeached are recruiting in the lake regions, where they are su od to be fishing and planning for the discomfiture of those who have vexed them Juast the Kind of Men Needed. Bloomington Keho. State Auditor Eugeno Moore has refused to audit a large number of vouchers as sent in by Commissioner Garneauof the Nebraska World's fair commission, on the grounds that they are exorbitant and unjust. With such men in all the state oftices the interests of the state would be well looked after and there would be no grounds for impeachment. ————— Paralyzes While You Wait. Denver Republican, . Unfortunately the people must wait at icast three months before they can de- termine what congress is likely to do at the spocial session which President Cleveland has promised to call, and 1n the meantime there is littlo reason to expect any marked improvement in tho business outlook, be- cause the president does not seom capable of understanding or willing to avail himself of the opportunitics he enjoys to restore con- fidence by a strong and con cing declar, tion to the effect that the policies of the re- publican party regarding the tariff, coinage and bank notes shall bo continued during his term of oftice . —a On with the Obsequlos. Butler County Press. Several republican newspavers are indulg- ing in their old stereotyped announcement that Roscwater is dead. We have heand the same thing from the same class of editors during tho past twenty years, but Rosewater continues the most potent factor in the ropublican party. Tue Bee is the only big daily that has given uny evidence of its bolief in the theory that tax payers have rights which state officers are sworn to re- spect and protect when thieves are looting the stato vreasury. If for this is pronounced sontence of death, the party which he rep- resents had better engage a funeral director foritself. Rosewater, as ) i herd can casily bury what is left the hired mourners and let the fun sgeapasy Two Pletures to Look Upon. Boston Jowrnal, One year ago business throughout the country was prosperous. Week by week. through the first half of 1802, the veports of mercantile failures showed a falling off compared with the corres) 1802, The volume of our for the twelve menths endin was the largest in our history gate value of exnorts ana imports of me dise for that year was $1, 1 rain of more than §125,000.000 over the preceding year. ‘The baly trade in our favor was 2. How is it now cantile 4 1Yo runuing about twice as high t this time last y is everywhere curtailments of credits and a feeling” of un- dinty and apprehe ance of trade against us for the five months ending May 31 of riod w: tremendous change? papers tell us that it i nothing but the Sherman silver that and the business of the coun revive as by But we had th man silver law a3 it had then been in operation two i yey the business of the country w cdingly prosperou Must we not look for some new factor to count, in part. at least, for the change which has come about within a year? The Bosses and the ) Lincoln Herald, st and sturdy and democrat Charles D. Casper has been turned down and o man named Cook has been appointed postmastor at David City. office for which Casper had made applicati ) is nova_democrat in Nebraska who does not know Casper’s life-long service to the party “his fide ability, his full measur s union soldier, his al- oSt unm scrifices for the good of the party because he believed that meant the good of the people. Who knows Cook? Nobody but his imm diate circlo of neighibors and’ the petty, es whonamed him postin could use him to punish C: n solfish purposes. This all democrats who pra sume to think aud act for themselves, ull demwocrats who despise and distrust republi- an_ afibation, all democrats who do not to the boss’s whip as the tenderfoot o the cowboy's revolver, are to bo out of the party. It sets th nd that will bo the rule in Nebraska atic polit Very well. There was time for a conflict. between the b and the voters ses can swallow it a5 a gospel truth that they will only bo fol- lowed by the truculent recipients of the slops they pour into the patrouage swill trough, while the hone unbribed the prin- for the convinced will best s of the country, —— asses, And s0 ho never a better The railr fight of retal 1d comuanies have bogun the tion they threatened last win ter when the maximum rate bill was up for consideration. Last weele President Por- kins of the Burling d a visit of inspec tion to all lines in Nebrasia, ana _immedi- ately upon his return ordered a now time g on the time card on branch From Edgar hereafrer n o cach northwest lin several posseng lines will be dis to Holdredge there will bo only o freght way daily @xcept Sunday. No passeng: trains will run hereafter on the branches north of Aurora, thus leaving towns like St. Paul, Central City, Greely Conter, Burwell, Arcadin and others without any passenger service. A freight will leave Aurora each morning and conneer at various junctions with other freigits, finishing its rin at Ar- cadia and consume the entire day in doing it It is also botioved that in the near future the passenger trains will bo taken off the braneh from Ashland to Sehuyler, and per- baps one from the Lincoln-Wyiore run, The discontinuance of these trains is n pursuance of an_agreement made with the Union Paciile, which also has a numper of branch lines in the Aurora district. Al pas- sengers trains on that road will also be dis- continued in that region, and the service on all of the Kepublican Valley lines reaching to Columbus, Stromsburg and_Beatrice will beeut down. ‘The reason given for this chang that it is necessary to reduce ex- penses. These actions of the railroads will doubtless cause 4 wave of indignation from traveling men, residents of the portions of the state affected, as well as the general public, traing continued e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, A Knights of Pythias lodge has becn ganized at Osmond W. L. Greene of arney is about to leave for the Hot Springs in search of health, A newspaper has been established at Red- ington by Bruce Wilcox and christened the Iecord. John Collins, who formerly resided at Schuyler and ran a buteher shop, committed suicide recently at Remini, Mont. “Phree buggies were demolished by a run- away teain at Hubbell and several people were seriously injuced, but none fatally. ick Bartlett Riggs and Miss Ade. laide A. Rtideout, teachers at the dautee Indian agency, are 10 be unitbd in marriage Wednesday at Niobrara. I'he corner stone of the Fillmore county court house ut Geneva will be laid July 6 with betitting ceremonies and addresses from well known speskers. The men who were given the postofiices st Hemingford und Alliance are announced by bourbon organ of that section 10 be ights,” with no “pap taints.” he, a veteran who had resided alone at Milford for twelve years, was found dead in bis home. He had evidently died while sitting 1o his chair and fell from it, as he was lying directly in front of it us though he had pitched forward, He had no rel- atives. or- | THE VICTORIA DISASTER. Philadelphia Tnquirer: Tf ft1s but neces- $ary to ram one of those great giants of tho sea, then speed and tho ram must boe. come the important features of naval arch- lk\evn.n, na the guns an after consideration, I\r:\v York Times: This seems to bo sug gestive of the vulnerablity of the immense top-heavy floating war machines of modern navies, but ina hostile action it would be yery dificult to give one of them such a fatal blow as the Victoria received by ac cident from one of her own consorts, Chicago Despateh: Modern war ships are constructed on the “‘compartment systom,' which is popularly supposed to render a ship safo from sinking, no matter how great n rent is torn in her hull. England has o vended millions in_perfecting hor “compart ment system.” Has the latest naval horror demonstrated that this has beon all in vain? Philadelphin Ledger: But notwithstand- ing all the allowances that may be made it will be a shock to the ad 08 of great battleships to find that one of the greatest among them may be %0 easily disposed of by A& ram. She had eighteen inches of oom- pound steel armor on her sides extending several feet velow the water line, and it seems incredible that this shouid have boen crushed in by aceidental collision. Philadelphia Press: Tho disaster will sottlo much innaval engineering. It will confirm the judgment that gins of the size ried by the Victovia have no place on board of a ship. It will add greatly to the Arguments ainst high-mounted turrets. 1t will enforce the necessity of a greater division of compartments and of some bot- ter way of protecting the ongino room com- partment, the woak point in every vesse New York Tribune: A naval engagement will offer a supreme test of armor. guns, models and machinery. Meanwhile, disas- ters from wreck or col n have morals of their own. They discrodit the seaworthiness defensive power of the armored levia- thaus, They magnify the importance of the ram. They favor the view that the strongest battleship is the one having the highest speed and tho greatest mancuvering power, Philadelphia Times: Two things strike the attention at once in considering this tremendous Loss of life and treusure. st it is always when the collision bulkheads are opeu that collisions occur, Socond, it is ab- solutely and incontestably unsafe to maneuver irouclads in closed squadron. These propositions require no further com- ment. As to collision bulkheads, it is pretiy obvious thut they are a fall watertight compartments are the only pro- teetion, Philadelphia Record: ‘These huze marine monsters, so powerful of offense. withstand nderous iron” rain from > guns, prove as fragile us 1 egashell when tapped amidship by a friendly prow. This clement of weakness seems inseparable fro; 1y sel which the hand of man h 3 able to con- struct. Below the water line the most formidable of modern battleships ave helpless against the blow of a ram as a Gloucester fishing smack would bo. hicago Hevald: War ships scem to be | morc dangerous in peace than in war. Th loss of the British ironclad Captain while on a trial trip in the Bay of Biscay is an in- stance of the unseaworthiness of theso mon sters, and the historie o rophe in which the Royal George was involved is known to overy school boy. The awful loss of life which follows tne sinking of & modern iron battleship even in calin weathor shows th hter which will ensue when these float- ing forts shall engage in combat, und thi: fact is likely to render Boston Advertiser: Americans hardly less lishmen. Our own setts is enough sugEest some. gravi of the Atlant specting the disaste very step uth about the bout the liabalit, will be eagerly w end that i itshall mistake has | natioas of th naval construct] 1 it inte battlesnip like tho V thoughts. On this side fresh development re- i the of the Victori; of similar vessels to tehed here at home, to the, r a fundamental ed by the maritime carth in modern methods of and equipment, the United ned in time. The Nawab of Rampur is said to be traveling incog in California. Jockey Garrison appears to be tho proper mount for “the spur of the moment.” After the 1stinst. 1t will be in order for the governor of South Carolina to say some- thing. _Ahose intelleet wheelmen are sci “kyphosis bicychs Philadelphin rog as ground oo saci humps affected ntifically known arum.” rds Independence square d for tl shington monument and aunother site must be chosen. Fears are entertained that Mrs. Lease willnot be able to keep her Chautauqua engagements. A recent hot wave affected tier nerve. The hungry and picless, it may firmed, witl not object if Cleveland ti Banting orany other system of r their wait. Mrs. Amanda Dickson, who has just died in Augusts, Ga., was U woman in the Umted States. estate worth $500,000. Duriug the 1ate plowout in Kanszs by as be af- | She left an Marlborough club by the prince of Wales And has boon, of course, olected. This eiyes him the hall mark of the genuine Lonfon swell and his fashionable standing is as. surod Captain N C. Creede, the foupder of Creede, Colo., is looking about in San Francisco for a rosiden on “Nob hill." Ho is not _particular what it costs, for he is worth several millions. Five yoars ago Pueblo storekeeper would not “grub stake’ him for the prospecting expoedition which led to the discovery of the Creede lode. Willlam C. Todd, who recently £50,000 to the Boston publio librar; POrt & newspaper roading room, is old, and a graduate of Dartmouth class of 1814, Ho taught school vears, since whic » has spent most of his time in travel. His home is 1n Atkinson, N, H. bul s winters are generally spent in Washington. Mrs. Abigail Smith is 94 yoars old and lives at Patchogue, L. 1. She has a romark. ablo memory, reads without spectaclos and considers herself quite young and frisky, A few days ago she fell and broke a leg, which caused her to remark sadl, '\\'l‘fi.l sup- pose now that I shall be a cripple for life." She is bearing up under the infliction ro- markably woll, however, M. K. Ingalls, president of the Big Four road, doclares ' that a prophet is without honor in his own country. o was on a visit recently down in Maine where he was born, and met one of the old inhabitants of tho village, who inquired as to his welfaro, and iy asked if it was true that Mr. Ingalls president of a vailrond out west. Upon ivo rovly the old sottlor reflected, took a fresh chow of tobaceo and remarked firmly: “Well, all T have got to say is that good men must be mighty scarce out there.” gave up- ars in the for twenty to Now Hampshiro Day. (10200, June 26.-The weather is still ht and pleasant, and the World's fair visitors are making the most of it. More had passed the turnstiles up to 11 this moru- ng than during the entire day yesterday, and the indications are that the total for the day will bo three times as groat. The New Hampshiro building was formally opened today. The oxercises were partici- pated in by Governor J. B. Smith, Lieuten- ant Governor Mclanesmembvers of the leg- islature, the state World's fair commis- sioners and other prominent citizens. e ING MATTERS. o Widhington Star there any insuran o pres ture “1 knowi but that's because it's a water A burning auestion—was Ao Tnter Oconn: “What a strango ex- nJagiot ha about his mouth in his ple- New Orloans Pieayane: Tho ruling passion is'Strong In i bookkeepor. Lowelt ¢ ductors fair, urier: If pretty women were con- ‘nwouldn't try to evade the car Rochester Demoerat: The law is 1ike tho Atest troublo Is caused by 1ts my money in man whose business” was agreat he y low v S from e swear in three lungua Philadelphia Lodg, Mam. for b you don't want o suddenly drop out of the Bwim be careful how you got into it. At rived blowout. “ndeed. anta Constitution: “Colonel Jones ar- stnightand tho town gave him o big and the unty." ieen houses unroofed you like When ud: Pray, L why tlo yo nuch pains ve upon Beethc Tndianapolis Journal: shiy brickle thing. 5 itinter his own hands, GRATUITOUS ADVICE, Bufalo Courier. They tell us that in summer w ur winter' should buy Al v snve by doing so would make us L roll; an we work this schemo “XWANT TO KNOW. Boston Cou 0wy down o ing introdiced, she | Mo there 1o recapitulito The city’s phases up to date; And wihien my full directory T had rotailod, sho said to e “Lwant (o lnow!™ me fr st, they sald, 1 told her overythine T know That worthy w of Interview; Retajled to hier cich shopping mart, The ha s of dramn, music. art, T S, ries and parks; Deseribed with eloquent remarks The wateri wees roundabout, Enthused ove oxcursion route, Talked tl, in fact, my tongue grow wok, hail- cum- Joneore stone measuring thirtecn inches in ¢ ference dug a hole in the earth Another struck i Courtlund and elements in tha racket on the surfac William Waldorf Astor is getting there He has been proposcd for membership at tho Then henrd again,'in nts meek, “1 want to kuow!" Angels of merey! Had T then Obeyed the impudse born of men, And with warm maledictions hurled That spiuster to the lower world From open window where 1 sat, Would not the zods xpproved of that? 1 want to know! BROWNING, KING & Lurgest Manufactu co rors and Rotallers ol Uiothing in the World. Such a Fuss As some men make over their toilet when the clu it's cool and comfortable, if your summer wear, weather would They claw at their collars is a little warm make you weary. teh at their cuffs, and rip out rough remarks in front of the looking glass, and get so steamed up genecrally that a wonder the mercury stays on the glass. It doesn’ cost one individual, solitary, lonesome cent more to dress you know where to goy Cool coats, cool shirls, i)l vests, cool collars, cool underwear, cool hosi cool neckwear, cool hats; all at the lowest pricas ioe high class stylish goods. BROWNING, Btore open overy eventog t1116.0. Saturday til 10, IS, KING & € W. Cor. 16t and Dong 254