Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1893, Page 3

WILL THIN 0UT THE RANKS | Moat Inspection Force to Be Farther Re- dnced at Onoe, O TRANSFER A PORTION OF THE EXPENSE Agricnltural Department Institating In- quiries with Reference to Compelling the Packers to Take Charge of the Work in This Line. FourTersti STREET, WASHINGTON, July 1, Secretary Morton today took another step looking toward a further reduction of the meat inspection force employed in the vari- sus slaughter houses of the country. As is well known, the object of having govern- ment inspectors stationed in the great ex- porting abattoirs, was for the purpose of sonvincing the Europeans that our meat products are free from disease. Thus far the inspection of meats for Ger- man and French consumption has been a very expensive proceeding and our exports to those countries are not in proportion to the cost of inspection. ‘he bureau of animal Industry has been very extensively used in the past by senators and memfers to sccure lucrative places for their constituents with the result that this particular branch of the povernment service is greatly overloaded. Secretary Morton addressad a letter to the large pagking houses in Buffalo, Chicago, Omnha, Kansas City and other points where the government hus stationced meat inspec- tors. The secretary desives information from these vackers as to whother an inspec- tion of meats by the mi of the Ag- ricultural department is required because they are exporting meats to countries which demand certificates of inspecsion. He also desires to be informed as to whether it is necessary to continue inspec- tion, and if it be deemed to be important in order to facilitate the sale of American meats in Europe that the suid meats sheuld be ingpected and tag, Mr. Morton in his letter also asks the packers if any good reason exists why they should not pay the cost of inspection and stamping just as browers and distillers pay for stamps on their goods. Secretary Morton has already effected a considerable saving to the govern- ment in the matter of meat inspection. Since he became secretary of agricult he has 8o reduced the bureau of animal indus- try soas to savo 437 and the persons whose services have been dispensed with number 252, To Discuss the Sliver Question. One of the results of President Cleve- land’s action in issuing & prozlamation call- ing an extra session of congress to convene August 7, is to stir the Bimetailists league to its very depths. General A.J. Warner, the president of the league, hus been in the ity for several days since the proclamation was issued. He has been engaged in tele- graphing toall the more prominent members, regarding the advisability of calling a con’ vention of their association to meet at a date prior to the convening of congress. A convention of the league had been arranged to be held in Chicago to discuss the silver question. Now it is practicully decided to hold the co..vention at Chicago about the miadlo of July. N News for the Army. The following army orders today: Captain Robert Craig, signal co proceed to Worcester, Mass.. on oftl ness. . Licutenant_Colonel Edwin V. Sumner, Eighth cavalry, is relieved from further Vuty in New Yorx City. First Licutenant Charles H. Bonesteel, Twenty-first infantry, will be relieved from duty in the Departmient of California. The following transfers in the Seventh cavalry are made: Captain Edward H. Godfrey from troop D to troop H; Captain Charles C. Deerudis from troop H to troop D. o Teave of absence for two months, to. tnke effect on or about August 1, 1893, with per- mission to apply for an extension of 4 month, is granted Captain Greenleaf A. Goodale, Twenty-third infantry. TLeave of absence for four months, to take effect from the date of his relief from duty as acting Indian agent, is granted First Liou- tanhny William D. McAneny, Eighth cav- alry. Captain Abram A. Harbach, Twentioth in- fantry, in. relieved from further duty per- taining to the exhibit of the War department at the World's Columbian exposition, and wilt report in person to the representative of the State department ut the exposition and by letter to the secretary of state for duty with the bureau of American republics and in connection with the exhibit of the Depart- ment of State at the exposition “The leave of absence granted First Licu- tenant Robert C. Williams, Twenty infantry, Department of the Missouri, tended onc month. ‘WasuixaroN Beneav or Tue Bre } were issued . will 1 busi- is ex- The following pensions granted are re- ported: Nebraska: V. McGill, Town: Original widows, ete.—Jessio F. Bonebrake, Laura S. McDougall, Buretta “Phrall, Rebecca Wilab, South Dakota: Rei Original widows, Anna Brown, Original widows, ete.—Julia ssue: Joshun Brown. ete.—Julis A, Lawton, Miscellaneous. Ex-State Senator tes of Nebraska City has received his commission as_special agont of the Agricultural department. Mr. attes will be sent to Europe to endeavor to induce European distillers to use American corn, PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT, Figures That Will Hve An Interest to Every Reader In the Land, ‘WasmNaroN, July 1.—The public debt statement issued this afternoon shows that thero was a net decrease of $1,216,258 during thomonth of June. The interest bearing debt increased §1i%99; debt, on which inter- esthas ceased since maturity, decreased $90,000: debt, bearing no interest, docreased 224,108, and cash in'tho trensury inoreased The nggreeate interest and non-interest bearing debt June 39 was $061,431,760; May 81 it was $061,750,888, ‘The cortificates and treasury notes, offsot byan equal amount of cash in tho treasury June 80, were #584558.020, o decrease of 007,007 The total cash in the treasury was §745,004,001, the gold reserve $05,480,4 and the net cash balance §0,076,877. ' In the moth there was a decrense of $5,003,177 in &m coin and bars, the total at the close ing $188,455.442. Of silver there was an incrense of 5,360,005, Of the surplus there was in national bank depositories §18,052,- 578, agaiust §71,640,142 at the eud of the pre- vious month, ho receipts for the month of June were 30,083,521 and the expenditures §24,200,451. May he receipts were $30,971,407 and tho ex- penditures §30,572,502. _Customs receipts de- creased from §15,424,853 Lo $14,964,500; reve- nuo receipts increased from $13,212,108 to 14,008,137 The payments for pensions de- ereused from $14, 256,020 to §11,411,501, DEPARTMENT OF COLORADO, Reorganization of the Depurtmenl of Ari- 20na—A Neoded Change. ‘WasmINGTON, July 1.--The president, before leaving Washington yesterday signed an order reorgunizing the military department of Arizons under the name of the Depart- ment of Colorado, with headquarters at Denver. 'The Department of Arizona con- sisted of the territories of New Mexico and Arizona and that portion of California south of the thirty-fifth parallel. The new order abolishes the Department of Arizona and places Avizona and New Mexico, Utab and Colorado in the new department. California is restored to the Department of California, with headquarters at San Francisco. This change has been urged by military author- ities for a year past. The headquarters of the Depariment of Arizona was Los Angeles, !lu'ln‘ eneral McCook, commanding ho deparunent at the extreme part of his department. This caused great delay i communicating with the army headquariers at Washington, as all matters iu his section I were sent to him and by him to Washington With his headuuarters at Denver he will be at the extrome east of his department and in the closest communication with Washing- ton, This, it is believed, will effect economy in time and money and greatly facilitate the disbursement in supplies and ammunition. Genergl McCook will' command the new de- partment, Thanks from Eoialia, Wastitxotoy, July 1.~President Cleveland has received an autograph letter from the Princess Eulalia of n, thanking him most cordially for. the hospitality she re- ceived from himself aud Mrs. Cleveland during her recent visit to Washington. The president decitnos to make public the text of the letter. —— GOLDEN TROUT. Magnificent Fish Found in One Ntream, The pride of California in the fish line centers ubout & peculiar variety of trout that has been found only in Whitney creek. This stream springs out of bald Mount Whitney and after tumbling down mountain gorges for forty miles merges at last into the Big Kern river. The Big Kern is full of trout of the ordinary silver gort, but no one has ever caught one of the golden fish in that stream. Any one can fill a basket with common trout in the Kern where Whitney creek runs into it, and a hundred yards away tho golden trout bites just as voraciously. The San Francisco Fxaminer says one can sce the aureal glint in the mist of the ripples, like reat gold fish in a parlor aguarium. Whitney ereek is full of falls, and it is in the white water where thesc catar- acts tumble into the deep pits that the fisherman finds his greatest reward. He has only to cast his fly into the mist and foam and the glorious trout fairly leap at it. Its brilliant colors are by no means all that the golden trout has to recommend it. It is as gamy and full of fight as any fish on the continent, and its flavor equals its hue. The water it swims in is freezing cold, with the blue- white of the snow stillin it. Of course, few of these fish ever reach the city. Whitney creek is too far in the moun- tains for that, and the only men who can teil of the joy of eating this fish are the hunters, who do not mind the leagues of mountain trails that lie between the railroad and Whitney creck and the miners and prospectors who haunt the wild canons absut Mount Whitney for the gold that comes out of the rocks in- stead of the ereeks. A bald deseription fails to convey an adequate 1dea of the golden trout, but the naturalists have written this deserip- tion of him: “The base color is ared gold. Down the spine the rich color shades into abrown, but there is still the glint in it. The belly from the gills to the tail is a brilliant carmine—not a pale intangible red, buta regular rose color. The fins are golden at the base, but darken toward the edges and are tipped Wwith that same vivid carmine. Back near the tail the fish is dotted with black. the specks extending to the end. The body color of the tail shadeslike the fins from gold to carmine. From the spine at intervals equal to their width transverse stripes of pale purple drop almost to the belly. The head is brown- ish on top, pale gold on the sides and pink below. The scales are m scopie.” There are many other little streams that have their sources in the furrows on bald Mount Whitney's face, but though mountain trout are plentiful inall of them, Whitney creek is the only one that holds the golden trout. The existence of these trout has only recently become known. Prof. Jordan, president of the Stanford university, the great authority on fish, recently made a v'olport onthe Whitney trout and gave it a Latin name. His report is as follows: The fish is a distinct species of trout, entfrely different from any found else- where, either in the Rocky mountains or the Sierra Nevadas. The very small size of the scales, the lack of teeth on the byoid bones and the peculiar color markings ave distinctive of this trout. It seems evident, so far as one can judge of such matters, that this trout is a de- scendant from the trout of western Colo- rado, which abounds in the tributaries of Clear river, the Green river, the Grand and in the Gunnison dis- trict.” alifornin Lot 08 SN, Balloon gocs up this afternoon. A2 L O BOOKS AHD PERIODICALS. “A Fatal Misunderstanding, burg. a collection of tales of German life of pure style and rather sentimental turn, but very pleasant reading fora warm sum- mer , if one is inclined toward love stori Worthington company, 147 Broad- way, New York. The editor of the Truth Seeker writes a sixty-page phamphlet on “Design Argument Fallacies,” as a_refutation of the argument that nature exhibits marks of having been designed by an intelligent being. This is an old deal that has heen gone over many a time before and rests on the authority of reason or traceable logic, being higher thaun faith or intuitive reason—a form of reason Yeaching toward bases or promises border- ing onthe vague, but manifestly existent though possibly misinterpreted. The real differences are rather of defining than of fact. The Truth Seeker company, 28 Lafayette Place, New York. The Forum is always in line and the July number 1s no exception to the rule, being full of timely articles written by authors who need no introduction to the public. One of the most interesting of these is by Coionel C. McK. Leoser, **The Grand Army as a Pons‘on Agency.” John Mulone contributes a brilliant paper, “An_Actor's Memory of Edwin Booth.” ‘The Fourth of July and the World’s fair receiveattention in leugthy and origial articles. Mr. Louis C, Tiffauy shows how Americans have excelled all ancient and modern work in the art of stained glass. Besides these are hall a dozen readable papers by the best writers of the times on various matters of interest. The Forum Publishing company, New York city. “Religion & Curse, Reoligion a Disease, Re- ligion a Lie,” is the ratner rabid title under which Samuel P. Putnam swings his double- edged brondsword of argument against the impalpable armor of faith. It is a case of Don Quixote fighting au army of ghosts and doing blooay work among the rounded sacks of wine; it is the chivalry of reason mounted on the steed of materalism rushing forward to combat—seeking to conquer the world and bring the entire universa under its do- minion, It is a case of the old bigotry of creed breaking loose from aunother side—a creed of anti-enthusiasm attempting to arouse the judgment. It is the water trying to swallow the oil after the latter had failed signally in holding the former im- l:risullud in its slippery body. It is a terrific attle of words—words us shppery s the banana peel and as shavp and cruel as the bloody sword. At the bottom of the quarrel it is all one meat, though on the surface are mountains of glittering bubbles—words, only words. The Truth Seeker company, 25 Lafayette Place, Now York. e An Interesting Relic. One of the most interesting of the many events of the history of Tllinois is the Lovejoy episode, which was one of the first agitations of the slavery ques- tion in the state. The Lovejoy episode is botter known as the Alton riot in which Elijah Lovejoy, an editor, was killed, his™ oftice broken into, and his printing press thrown into the er, all owing to his earnest advocacy of free tervitory and anti-slavery. For a num- ber of years the old printing press re- wained at the bottow of the river until it was finally raised and put in use by an lowa editor. Last week it was pur- chased by C. F. Gunther and placed among the many interesting relics in the, Libby Prison War imuseum in Chicago. “The Alton riot Mcurred the night of November 7, 1837 by W. Heim- e r— Balloon gees up this alternoon. NEARLY KILLED BY ROBBERS J. 0. MoMahon's Midnight Straggle on the Eleventh 8treet Viaduot. HIGHWAYMEN SLUG AND ROB A DETECTIVE Colonel MeMahon of Colambus Has & Thrill- 1ng Kxperionce—Nervy Mrs, Kuhn 1at- tles with a Sneak Thief—Chicken Thieves In Jail—Police Notes, J. C. McMahon, a B. & M. detective who is ex-chief of police of Columbus, Neb., and who formerly owned the Drum saloon in this city, is in the surgeon's care, because of an experience with a couple of footpads Friday night, from which it is a wonder that he came out alive. He was cut with a knife in a score of places, his clothes being slashed to rags, and he was pounded over the head with a coupling pin until he was nearly killed. McMahon came to the city with £00 mn greenbucks in his possession, He was ac- quainted with Tom Murphy. who runs a saloon near Thirteenth and Jackson, and spent the evening at that resort, but ae- cording to all stories he did not drink, and when the place was closed at midnight he was perfectly sober. Several of those who had been in the place satoutside for a while after closing and when Murphy finally started for home McMahon started for the unmon depot, intending to take an early freight for home. According to his story, he changed his mind after reaching there, ana started back up town, to find a hotel and go to bed. He crossed over on Mason to Eleventh street and was on the viaduct when attaci He tells this story of the assault upon him. Straggled Against Odds. “I saw two men standing a short distance from the approach and they separated as 1 came near. One was tall, the other shorter, neither as heavy s L Suspicious of the move, I kept my eye on the big feliow when the other hit me in the face with some hard substance. I struck back, sending him down, and grappled with the other. We strugled along the rail, all three of us. One of them tore the sleeve from my coat, the othier drew out a knife and slashed at my head and abdomen. The slit in my coat is 1014 inches long: the knife went through the cover of my book of insurance tablos und even cut the shirt. A second lunge ripped he men at length got the best of mo after we had worked down to the south end of the viaduct and threw me over the fence. When I came to my pockets were turned in- side out and my money gone. My papers and letters had been fingered by bloody hands, and I myself was covered with blood. 1 went up to the police station and then to my room. G **No, I have no idea who the men were, I have been a detective and know many of the crooks in this part of the country, but did not recognize the men and probably could not ientify them. They must, howeve been covered with blood.” Mr. McMahon disp clothes, the slashed coat, ves and had his head well banda Fell Bleeding to tho Ground. The fall was enough to kill a man, as it is over thirty feet from the viaduet railing to the tracks below. It so happened, however, that the fall was somewhat broken, as Me- Mahon had not gotten far_enough on to tho viaduct when assaulted to be beyond the foot of the bank below the structure, so that when he was thrown over he had a sheer fall of about fifteen feet, when he struck the stoping bank and rolled the remaining dis- tance, although the bank is so steep that to roll down it is almost as bad as a sheer fall The police immediutely went to work on the but had no clues for their guidance. In looking over the scene of the assault, blood was found on the floor of the viaduct above where McMahon was found, while quite a pool had collected where he luy on the grouud below, and some of his papers were scattered about. It is believed that the.highwayman dis- covered that McMahon had a roll whileat Murphy's, and followed him to the aepot and back until a favorable opportunity was found to *do” him. It is stated that ho did not flash his roll, but that on the contrary when he bought somo cigars he told the bar- tender to ‘‘put it down,” because he had **too much money to change in here.” Eqrly yesterday morning Chief Detective Haze made a tour through the bottoms, look- ing for traces of the robbers who held up McMahon last night in a saloon at Fourth and Walnut streets. He found two men who_answered the description given by MeMahon and that the men had displayed a large roll of money and had left two lurge revolvers with the bartender for safe keepig. H put up a job on the per- son who would call for the guns, and shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon John Burke blew in. He was promptly arrested. At the Jail the man gave the name of John Burke and said his occupation was that of a seaman. He disclaimed all knowledge of why he was arrested and said he was at his room in the Ruropean hotel all Friday night, He refused to give the names of his part- ners, but said he left them at a saloon under one of the viaducts. He had .85 on his per- son. Jack Burke, James Fay and William John- son arve booked at police headquurters on suspicion of having had a hand in and robbing J. C. McMahon on the street viaduct Friday night. — ATTRAC OF THE FAIR. From the Far Off Shores of Malay Archi- pelago Comos a Pleasing Exhibit, Cuicaco, July L.—[Special to Tug Bee.]— Passing off without ostentatious ceremony and modest display, yet the really popular eventof the closing week at Jackson park was, by all odds, the Java opening. Among the first to arrive were these picturesque, chocolate-skinned islanders, their curious customs and neignborly demeanor attracting more than anything else among the polygist gathering on the Midway Plaisance. They hive been fayorites in the fold of all nations. The Oceante Trading company, promoting the euterprise, became iuvolved in some dificulty with the management, resulting in a delay that was exceedingly vexatious to a public whose curiosity had been wrought to a towering altitude by mere giimpses of the pretty bamboo cottages from outside the fence, pariicularly considering that the theater was complete and the buildings finished. A last its doors were swung ajar, the quaint little winamills on the side poles set agog and since then the public has been swarming thitherto in musses. The charm of novelty is what draws the throngs, for Juva's villige has u most destructive novelty, It was constructed under the supervision of a man named Kirkhover, the son of the wealthiest planter on the famous coffee isle. He has effected a perfect re- production of a Javauese village, and the idew was carried into execution of erecting it entirely without the use a single nail, weoden bolts and rope sewing in- stead. The sight of the undersized little people, half standing, half clinging at their work and keeping wp a powerful chattering as umf' went along with it. has become a familiar, as well as an intering, spectacle to strollers down the Midway. In the Village. The village consists of two shovs, a church where Mohammedan worship is held every day,arice nouse, kiosk, dwelling hous and a theater. A high bamboo fence su rounds the beautiful group of buildiugs. About the grounds arc tall poles, at the top of which is the windmill that is pecu- liarly a Java institution. They are made of a single stick, twenty feet long, that re- volves in the slightest breeze with astound- ing speed, accompanied by a thunderous clauter. Flunf from a bamboo flagpole in the center is the wreath una ord of Batavia, the ensign of the Dutch East India Trading company. The Javanese theater is the largest of the balf dozen foreign places of amusement on the Midway. The architect has reproduced the Sloo theater, seating over 1,00. Every hour or so an orchestra of forty pieces de- livers selections, and a large irouve of the famous solo dancing girls give exhibitious, I'THE _ OMAHA DAILY REE: 2, showing what Is the concaption of terpich- orean grace and agijjty in Java, which is said to make the T sh and the Egyptian theater attraction€ “Jhis line appear hor- igly poor by contrast, There 18 not ?. klh'lo in the gntire Javanese collection. fér sale among thé booths that s not of Java manufacture, o condition Tot existmg- with Fespect to the Japanese ware that finds a ready sale UNDAY, JULY with the import dwiy appended, whereas no | import duty at all, is paid_for the stuff, pretty and useful atd?all that, is mostly made, nevertheless, here in Chicago and duplicates can be purchased, as many people have discovered, at a \comparative sacrifice in the down-towh _stores. Every structure is constructed of material brought from Java except the cage containing one of the chief- est exhibits—a mammouth chimpanzee, who would demolish a bamboo cage as a freight train would go thrbueh a circus hoop. Mr. Klass—that's the cchimpanzee—is therefore more securely ensconced back of neavy ron bars. The women in the village are pretty in their own quaint way. ‘“Ihey aren’t much on dress, maybe,” but they ‘are all smile and sh 'I_\*’pn\m- The Javanese mother with a family of thirteen has an appearance lead- ing the innocent visitor to make miscalcula- tions. She doesn’t look to years of age. Java is a sure enough success and will gev the cream of the midway busi- ness for a time at least. Miss Republie, Often from time to time have I heard people remark there wus somothing strangely inartistic, almost grotesque, said some, about the huge figure of the republic to the shore side of the perstyle. A writer or two have gone castward and reviled Miss Repubiic as a monstrosity, instead of the thing of beauty which she should be. I have heard coarse comedians say the golden goddess’ hand was poised as if she were reaching out hungrity for a ham sandwich. other similarly frivolous remarks about tho mammoth figure were entirely uncalled for and unwarranted. Yet the humble layman, making no pretense to accomplishment in passing upon works of art, has felt there was something about the towering gilded figure, the sight of which failed to fill the soul with delight and instead jarred rudely upon the sense of vision, Some writer has suid in defining criticism: *“Itis describing something you knew and saw all the time, but didn't realize until it was painted out.’ So with this figure. It remained for a little woman to pick out what she considered the flaw in this big and gilded maiden. When I asked her recently what she thought of it the answer was: “There is too much drapery about and under the shoulders und the sleeves should not have been cut off so high, That's all’s the matter with the statue.” It strikes me plenty of people will appre- clate the icism. The art critics have never said much about this Republic statue. Nebraska's Sugar Industry. Material is being put in place at the Ne- braska building to muke a complete exposi- tion of the beet sugar industry of the state. Glass jars on top of smail pavilion in the center of the main ground floor room show the various stages between the beet seed and the clear, white sugar and large photo- graphs show the machinery and demonstrate the process of beet sugar making. The ex- hibit is made by the factories a and Island and Norfolk, under the supervision of Seccetary Mobley. A duplicate exhibit is also being made iu the Nebraska section at the Agricuitural building. Several thousand small sample boxes of the saccharine are be- ing given away daily. The beet sugar indus- try of Nebraska i8 certainly assuming promi- nence here. 3 Care o~ the Bables. Technically there's no exhibit in the Chil- dren’s building, still there isno exhibit more interesting anywhere than the display there of those curious: little animals, babies. Laughing, sputtering, sprawling, crawling, “mewling anp puking in the nurses' arms. ¢ cosmoporitan collection of infantile and a truly ‘unique feature of the ‘World’s exposition.” From early till late the fanciful antics are watched, and the uis- tine iqely buby music listened to by gapiag crowds. Folks who don't et a clance to see muih of babjes go curiously and study the duplicntes of their carly selves with more interest than anything they saw in the greu palaces of art and science. The creche isthedepartmént where the children’s building does the most business. Here is the boon to many mothers with babes in arms. The crecha is for real young babies ‘whose mothers are compelled to carry thém or wheel them about because they haven't got into the knack of Yu\m locomotion. Only fifty of these infantile exhibits can be ac- commodated at the creche. Therefore mothers ull go early to avoid the rush, and fail to avoid it. There is a scramble for the vacancies, somebody’s babies always getting left. The checking system i§ adopted to prevent owners of babies with no hair to speak of getting back babies with red wool and owners of nandsome babies well along in months from having ugly, ignorant and uneducated children palmed off upon them. At the office the matron makes a record of the applicant’s name and age, name and address of parents, a Jittle brass tag is strung about the neck of tne new boarder and the precious package delivered into the recention room A duplicate tag is furnished the mother, she pays 25 cents and goes away serenely confident_that baby is going to have as good a time all day as she. Seven nurses take care of the baby exhibit inside of a litle low fence to restrict the crawler in its peri- grinutions. About the nursery are ranged the ‘‘cutest” cot beds, to which the tots are relegated when Morpheus comes to woo. There is a regular dinner at 12:30 for the boarders and a lu 3 S Foresters Dance, Court Eclipse No. 167, Independent Order of Foresters, gave a most enjoyable dance at Germanis hall last night, Foresters and heir friends to the number of 300 attending. The program consisted of twenty-six num- bers, which were renderea delightful by the excellent music furnished by the orchestra, The efiicient committee in charge consisted of Messrs, Yutes, Fitzsimmons, Muther, Hayes, Weiss and Tong, all of whom may well feel proud of tee success of the enter- tainment socially and financially, G Balloon goes up this afternoon. R The Darkey Tumbled. Theodore Hallam was standing on the steps of the Covington postoffice yester- day, says the Cincinnati Commercial, when an old colored man came up and, touching his hat, asked: “Kin you tell me, is dis de place where dey sells postage stamps?” “Yes, sir; thisis the place,” replied the lawyer, seeing a chance for a little quiet fun, *‘but what do you want with postage stamps, uncle?”’ *“To mail a letter, sah, of course.” “‘Well, then, you needn't bother about stamps; you don't have to put any on this weck."” “I don't?” " “No, sir.” 1 “Why—for npt?! “Well, you see, the conglomeration of the hypotheluse has differentiated the parallelogram .80 much that the con- sanguinity don't (emulate the ordinary efforvescence and 80 the government has decided to send letters free.” The old man took off his hat, ‘dubi- ously shook his head and then, with a long breath, remarked: Well, boss, all dat may be true an’ don't say it ainlt, but just sposen dat de ecksentricity of de aggregation tran- substantiates de ignominiousness of de puppendickelen - gnd sublimites de ;mu\)icuhy of de consequences—don't you qualificate dat de government would confisticate dat derg letter? 1 guess I'd ;‘aul better put some: stamps on anyhow, or luck " And he.passed solemnly on, R Sandow, the modern giant, gave a private exhibition of his strength in New York re- cently. Prof. Sargent of Harvard stood on the palm of the gant's left hand and was lifted onto a table. The mere fact that Sandow had a man on hand does not glve him & monopoly of superior strength. The country will soon witness a feat surpassing that of Sandow. In a letter to a Massa- chusetts college accepting an invitation to visit the college next October, President Cleveland “‘says: “1 will bave an extra ses- sion of congress on my hands about that time.” As Cleveland is now actively train- ing it behooves the German giant 10 look Lo his laurels, be over eleven | PAGES 1893 -SIXTEEN Omaha's Fourth of July will be Quiet but Patriotio. SEVERAL PICNICS ARE ON THE PROGRAM Courtiand will Cateh a Crowd—Many Citl- zens will Tuke it Cool and Ruminate on the Heroes of Colonial Days—Running Races. Unless some of the wheels of progress slip & cog in the meantime, next Tuesday morning will usher in the 117th birthday of American independence, and, while the city of Omaha will not indulge in any wild patriotic demonstrations, bear in mind the fact that the day is the ever-adored commemorable and glorious Yourth of July. gphey will bear in mind that it was upon this particular day of the month, 117 years ago, that the American eagle first chewed up its iron cage and, with a Yankee-Doodle eam, pounced down upon the affrighted tyrants aud tore their despoti® habiliments~ into & thousand giblets. They will als) bear fn_mind that the day is one that is worthy of being the first day of the year, as well as being o day that will be emblazoned by the latest posterity when all other days have sunk into oblivion *‘non compos mentis.” While they are rememoer- ing this they will at the same time remem- ber that the day marks the date upon which the ancestral progenitors ununimously fought, bled and 4idd, that their cuildren’s children might cut. thoir, own vine and fig treo without being olested or mado afraid of any person or nation on the faco of the earth, Will Think of Colonial Dnags. Having revolved these thoughts in their minds, there are but few of the Omaha citi- zens. who will sit supinely down next Tues- day when this prognostic auniversary is passing along into history without thinking of the great epochs of the revolution, the blood-bespangled plains of Bunker Hill, Monmouth and Yorktown. Then they will follow those revolutionary heroes of a past century through blood stained snows and trackless forests and deserts, realizing the adorable ments, privileges and pre. which now fall like heavenly dew American residing between the and the evergludes of the fisheries of the At- lantic ¢ yellow banks of Cali- fornia, the jingling of tne yellow boulders mixes up with the screams of the catamount. With the coming of t and tried American will el his dignity, shake the dew drops from his hunting shirt, sound the tocsin, blow the horn and beat the cymbals until the start- ling echoes, reverberating from hill top to hill top, shall cause the adamantine moun- tains of the east, the sage brush of Wyom- ing, the agricultural districts of Nebr and the auriferous particles of the Black Hills to prick up their ears aud ask their neighbors, “Where are wo at!" For once the residents of this great metropolis. situated upon the banks of the mighty and murky Missouri, will uot cele- brate in accordance with the plans followed by the patriots of 4 century ago, but instead they will indulge in looking backward, while they patronize the peuny booths along the strects, buying cheap explosives and filling themselves with red lemonade, aftor which most of them will hie themselves to their homes to escape the small boy, who will be as happy as a colt released from winter's confincment, as he explodes his stock of firecrackers and beholds the sizzle of the pin wheol, without having any particular regard for the feelings and appreciation ot his elders. However, not all of the Omaha contingent will go into retire- ment to get rid of the smoke, noise and con- fusion, for some of the orators will betake themselves to the country, where in the shady groves about some of the smaller cities of the state, they will reach up and pull the tail feathers from the graud old eagle that is symbolic of American freedom, after which they will mingle with the masses, re- counting historic events ana picnicking from, the corpulent lunch baskets, which will abound 1n the greatest abundance. Several quict events have been arranged by the socictics and clans of this city. and while they will not be exclusive they will not be free-for-all affairs, though a fewof them will be strictly upon this order and the general public will be invited to take thefr wives, babies and sweethearts and attend, in order that Old Glory and the eagie may be spread out in the most con- spicious manner possible. Programs us Propired. Without doubt the crowning event will bo the “running meet” at the fair grounds, where a large number of the most patriotic steeds have been entercd and backed for all the “long green” that is in sight—some of which will also be out of sizht, atter the forests Florida is day overy true ate himself upon butchers’ picnic that will be held at 1ills has the promise of being u gath- vill draw one of the great crowds. Arrangements have been made for si trains, which will bear the peovle 1o the grounds, where prizes will be offered to the cexperts who can skin the greatest number of cattle and sheep in the shortest space of time. In addition to this, there will bea game of base ball between a coupleof the pucking house gangs, with a prize hung up for the winner. Out at the Young Men's Christian associa- tion park at the intersection of Twentioth and Miami streets, two of the mpion clubs of the city will participate ina game of basket ball, to be followed by some bicycle riding and a complete bill of athletic sports. Courtland beach will catch the crowd, where the general public will bathe and boat, while the Ancient Order of United ‘Workmen will hola the antual picnic. The fact of the holding of the picnic will not bar @ soul on earth, as the beach will bo open all day long to those who have a desive to unjo{ an ouunf at that popular resort. Alawn fete §s booked for the evening, to be held on the spac grounds of Mr. and Mrs, Wiliiams, at Twenty-fifth and Charles streets, where there will be Chinese lanterns and refreshments galore. Several parties have been planned for Manawa and Burlington beach, but they are private and _exclusive and_ will not be par- ticipated in by those who have not been in- vited, Money Will Go Up in Smoke, All of the hotels and the restaurants of the city will make a special spread, serving the regulation Fourth of July dinner to their many guests. During the evening, which will follow tha closing hours of the day several thousand dollars worth of money will go up in smoke, as the rockets and rockets, accomdanied by Roman coandles will shoot heavenward from overy hill and dale. Most of these displays will be of a private nature, but the promise is that a great many new und novel pieces will be exhibited for the edification of both young and old. Tuking everything into consideration, the Fourth of July, 1803 gives promise of being one of the most pleasant ones that the people of Omaha have ever been called upon to celebrate, though the man and woman with sensitive nerves can congratulate eachother upon the fact that it will not be so loud as some others have been. _— Skipped by the Light of the Moon, Arthur A. Remillard, the “*head pusher” ina watch club, has assumed an invisible form and even the services of a first class spiritualist has failed to reveal his wherea- bouts to numerous subscribers who are out various sums of money. He had an oftice In room 619, Paxton block, and for the past two years he hasrun “ielubs,” in which each wember was guaran- teed » gold watch or diamond ring in so many draws. These drawings were con- conducted on Saturday nights, and like auy other lottery had many customers. The lot- tery has been run ‘on the square” long enough to secure a large list of patrons, but a8 the World's fair is now in progress the proprietor evidently wanted to visit Chi- cugo and have enough money to purchase o sandwich for each meal. ‘With this object i view, it is alleged, he secured all the jewelry he could on credit, aud with the payments made by working: men he became conspicuous by- his absence at the drawing, which was 0 have tuken FIRECRACKERS AND FLAGS citizens will | | place [ast night. Constable Adams has taken charge of the effects in the office, and the Maq Meper company have filed an atfachs ment against what Mr. Remillard could not conveniently pack in his grip. Remillard is several dollars ahead on the deal, and his dupes are considerably wrathy. —_————— CHURCH DIRECT ORY. Unless otherwice stated, s the various churches at 1 p.m vices are held in 80 A, m. and 7:80 ADVENTISTS, Seventh Day Adventists Cuming stroets. Seryivos 8: school it 2 p. Reg Praver meoting y evening at 8 p. P. M. Buchanan, missionary In charge. BAPTIST, Fighteenth and urday. Sabbath vices wt 3:15 p. i pastor. Leavenworth Calvary sixth stroets. Rev. Thomas Clitton 111 Baptist Mission - Forty-fourth and ant streets, N vening servieo Trumanuel—North Twenty=fourth ney strocts, Kountze Place. F. pastor. and_Twenty- CrsOn, PASLOT, W. Foster, 4 cnnisTiaN, Cynthin--4318 Nicholas stroot. Schiwartz, pa Rev. Albort ‘orner, arles |, Taylor, pastor. orne pitol avenue and ntlethstroot. Rev. T. K. Cramblet, pastor, CONGREGATIONAL. First Church—Corner Ninct enport strocts, Rev. Joseph T pastor. nd Twenty- ith and Day- Juryen, D D, wenty-seventh and St. Wright Butler, pastor. ing service by Prosident Rrooks ot Tabor colloge, lowa. No ovening seevice. Park Pluce—4015 Dodge street. Rov. William 3. Paske, pastor. Hilleidé—Thirtiath and Ohlo streots, G. . Powell, pastor. mouth—Corner of Twentleth and Spencer ts. Dr. Thain, pastor, atoga Congregational—Corner fifth and Ames ave pastor. % Cherty 1111 Congregational--North second near Saratoga street. rad, pustor. Rev. ty- George A Con- No evening service, UNIVERSALIST, Universalist Churel teenth and Lothrop streets, Kountzo Children’s day seryvice in the morning. MISSIONS. 110 North ening at 7:30 by A, W ry. schoolat 3 p. s evory evenlng durlng the ring the fron Hill Sun ot and Mil Cornar Clifton 1sses mect ut 3 ose fumday school, Wi tian Temperance unton, me First Prosbyt and Dodge strects. 3 h A cordial Invitation extenided to all interested in mission work UNITED PRESHYTERIAN. urch—Twenty-first and Emmet Rev. First ( Rey. | Centril—11 John Williamson, 1 Park Avenue—l pastor. Ontario Chapel streets. Preaching PROTE nth street. pstor, John A, and Henderson, Nincteenth Outario 4p. PISCOPAT. ith Tenth thingion p v, Alexan- jest in el Chireh of the Good and Twentieth strects, cetor, ‘rinity Cathedral—Eighteenth strect itol avenue. Very Rev. . . Shepherd—Co Rev. J. P D, or Ohlo Llwyd, and dner, Andrew's, Walnut Il chio! evice: 3 first_door wost of irty undiy 7:30 and 11 . 51 and y-sixth and Franklin. m. and 7:30 p. m. Windsor Place, South nels. Service, 7:30 p. we DTHERAN. Kountze Memorial xteenth and Harney streets. Rev, A, J urkle, pastor. St Mark's ngelical —Corner Twenty-first and Burdettestreets. Rev. J. 8, Detweller, D.D. astor. P "Paul’s Evangelical—Southwest corner Tt and Barker streots, - Kev, . 1, tor. angelical—Twenty-sixth strect, be- opplaton and Woolworth avenues, sv. Luther M. Kubuns, pastor. METHODIST. Twentleth and Davenport nk Crane, pastor. prefeth and Hamilton, | T. C. Augusting Thirty-third und First streets. Wesle; rect—Corner nth and v. d Hodgetts, D. D, pastor. Castellar Street—T Monmouth Park — strect und Larimor . P. Yost, pastor. Thirty-fourth South Twenty-ninth Rev. William P Mur- Town hall, Rev. 1 in and Hickory or “Twonty Rev, W Cornor D. K. Tindall, venth and DR, DASLOT, " West Omu stroets. Rev. ing service only. '8 Crunei. ighteenth street, hotween People’s Churc ' Webster strects. Iev. C. W, Oalifornia_und Suvidee, pastor. min | nzelical of Twelfth Dorcus streets. Brucchert, pastor. UNITARTAN. Soventeenth and ¢ Revy. Newton ) South t corner Ite W. Unity vicoat 10,45 of the chul s§ streets. Ser- i, winistor PRESBYTERIAN. Lowe Avenue—Corner Fortieth and Nig lasstreets, 304, m.and 7 m. Rev. Charles Virst Chur, Dodge stroets. J Second Ohur strects, e Clifton Hill- teenth and . M. Putterson, pastor. wenty-fourth and Nicholas £ M. Ware, pustor. of Clifton strect and Militury road. (. Davis, pastor. Westiminster — y-Ninth' ‘and_Mason ohn Gordon, D. D, pustor. Nineteenthi and Ohio streots, d, pastor. ar Stroot-Sixteenth ana Castellar Tov. J. M. Wilson, pastor. Southiwest—Cornerof Twentieth and Leaven, worth stroots.Rev, 45 D. 1., pastor Vedanta Branch Theosophic y meots Sunday afternoon at4 o'clock in Royil Arca- num hiull, Bee building BCIENTIS First Chureh of Christ and 17 Patterson blo fevonteenth and Farnam streets Sunday 5. m. Sundiy school imme= ristian Science ce bullding, room 288, schiool, 1 45 w.m. Services, 8 - ip this afternoon, — ous Duns. A bundle of puzzing envelopes were sidetrac in the city postofice on Tuesday, says the Clevelund Leader, The envelopes w heavily bordered with black. In the left hand corner were three texts of seripture, as follow, “Let us walk honestly,” Romans 12-13; “Owe no man anything,” Romans 12-8; “Many days and years shall ye be troubled,” "Isaiah 33-10, There were fifty of the letters, each bearing a 2-cent stamp. The postollice authorities d cided that the epistlss were being used by some one of the many collection agencies and contained “duns” to those to whom they were addressed. Accord- ingly the entire lot was held and will be orwarded to Washington. The law specifies that requests for the payment of debts shall be sent neither on postal cards nor inclosed in envelopes bearing evidence of the contents. The supposed object of those sending out tho envelopes in'question was to cleverly evade the law. At first sight the envelopes ap- pear to have emansted from a tract so- clety. Sanctim, e “Paste diamonds” ure artificial diamonds mado of what is known as “French paste,” amixture of gluss and oxide of lead. Keal diamonds are very successfully imitated by the use of this material. —_— During sea voyages ull dogs lose their ‘game nose," 3 OPENED STATE BARROOMS Governor of North Oarolina May Now Exeé pect His Answer, SOUTH CARCLINA NOW SELLING WHISKY Nineteen Conntles Where Lignor Can Tte Bought of Government Martendors— Evershody in Charleston Has & Private Supply on Wand. CHARLESTON, 8. C,, July 1.~-Tho poo ple of the Palmetto state at midnighf. last night entered upon the now dispe sation and the government took charge of the whisky business, From the oftl« clal returns it appears that the state opened dispensaries in nineteen out of the thirty-four counties in the state. In at least six of these tho state barrooms were established and the cocktail dise pensers appointed by the county boards of control, an opon violation of the law, which requires the endorscment of & majority of the freehold voters of a come munity for the establishment of a diss pensary. In these counties the courts will be appealed to for {njunctions to prevent the opening of state barrooms, and the stato will find itself with half a dozen new lawsuits on its hands. The situation all over South Carolina yesterday was a peculiar one. In Charleston there was in progressall day a huge whisky fai The air was tilled with a tintinnabulation of the auction bells and with eries of auctioneers, In dozens of liquor stores were erowds of American citizens buying whisky and wine and beer, to lay in a stock against the dry spell. In the fashionable gro- cories extra forces of- clerks were at work day and night for a week or more putting up demijohns and kegs of whisky, brandy, rum, gin and wine, and a battalion of drays and delivery wagons has been employed carrying the goods to the railvond depots and to the homes of purchasers. It is no ex- aggeration to s that there are no 10,000 out of the 70,000 homes of white people in the city which are not sup- plied with liquor enough to last a year. Thus far the requisite endorsement of a majority of the frechold voters of this city has not been secured for the estab- lishment of o dispensavy. It is ex- pected, however, that in accordance with instructions from the governor the board of control will take the law into its hands and start a burroom next week anyhow. Two hundred barrooms in this ecity closed their doors at midnight. Many of these will be roopered for restaurants for the serving of lunch and soft drinks. Itis probable that 100 or more blind tigers will open their side doors today. The governor has already organized a sccret constabulary all over the state, but refuses to give the names of the ap- pointees. Altogether there is promise of lively times in the state during the next six months. ol W. M. and J. Flelds ooy Ly Serious Trouble. Waterroo, ITa., June 30.—W. M. and J, Fields, comprising the firm of Fields & Bro., which recently failed at Cedar Falls, were arrested today on the charge of obtaining money under false protenses. They cous trolled the majority of the stock in the First National bank of Cedar Fails; which was compelled to suspend through their failure, Personal notes of the firmof Fields & Bro. were issued instead of certificates to de« positors of the bank. Hearing of the case ‘was deferred until next Thursday, Falg s Mennce to Clvilization, CEDAR RarPIDS, Ta., June 30.--[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee. |—The Cedar Falls district Methodist conference in session at Clarks- ville adopted resolutions reaffirming its unswerving loyalty to the principle of prohi- bition of the liquor trafiic and is opposed to any subterfuges to invade prohibitory enactment and regards the disposition in some locahities to disregard the luw asa most ominous condition of affai raising the issuc as to the paramount importance of obedience to the laws of the commonwealth, expressing sympathy with the vietims of the Museating outrage and declaring the; saw in the open doors of the Columbian exs hibition on the Sabbath day a menace ta civilization and wellbeing and deprecatq such violation of the Lord’s da; Wit 156 Conservatiy Des Morses, June 80.—[Special Telegram to Tk BEe.|—The commission to report a bill for the revision of the revenue laws will file its report tomorrow, the law fixing that date for the termination of its labors, No information as to what the character of the report will be has been given out, but it is hinted that the commissioners have ens deavored to be conservative, Convention o Workers, MARSHALLTOWS, Ta., June 80.—The Young People's Christian union of the Universalist chureh of Towa closed its fourth annual state convention today. Harry C. Richardson of Waterloo was elected prosident for the ensus ing year and Cora M. Lane of Waterloo, sece retary. Declared s Dividend, CeDAR RAPIDS, Ta., June 80, —At a meeting of the board of directors of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway company, « dividend of 114 ver cont was declared, po; able on and after August 1 didi MUBSICAL AND DRAMATIC. The Bostonians celebrated the 1000th performance of “RobinHonod” last week, in New York. Thomas W. Keene has engaged Arden to play leading pa next season, Mr. Arden himself. . Baltimoro capitalists are money for the building of s new theater in the business part of the city, which s to cost §150,000. he Old Maids orchestra has appeared in London, but not under that title, though oat of the eighty-five members about seventy were spinsters, Sigrik Arnoldson, the Scandinavian prima donna, has made a six months contract with Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau to sing in grand opera 1 this country Edwin Gordon Lawrence will return to the stage next sewson, APPESring in & new In- dian melodrama from the pen of Emerson Benuett ot Philadelphia. Mrs. James J. Corbett, wife of the chams pion, 18 supporting him a minor role incident to “Gentleman Jack,” now being piayed at the Haymarket, Chicag “The costumes for the new play “A Lady of Venice,” which is to introduce Miss Kath- rine Clemmons as a star, uuder John W, Hamilton's management, are to cost, accords ing to Mr. Hamilton, $11,000, A new play called “Captaia Paul,” founded on events during the war of 1812, and writ- ten by K. E. Hose, stage mansger of the Boston wmuseum, is to be produced next seu- son, probably first in Boston. Miss Ellie Wilton, who retired from the stage about four years ago, will make her TeapPearance next season in one of the leads ing roles in “Charlie's Auut.” Miss Wiltou was last seen in the character of Mrs. Op- dycke in *The Henrlotta.” It is said that Edwin lines were these, 1 the nd seene of tha fifth act of Hamlet: “We defy augury: There's & special provideuce in the fall of o sparrow. 1f it be uow ’uis not to comes if if be not o come it will be pow; if it e nol now yet it will come; the readiness is al¥ Since no man knows aught of what he leaves what is't to leave botimes?” o this afternoon, Edwin ts in his company hus been a star subscribing Booth's favorite | Balloon goos up