Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 11, 1893, Page 4

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Parties loaving tho city for the summer can havo the likk sont thelr address by leaving an order at THE BEE 0f TR BER publish- r that the actual r the week ending Bulurday, duy s Ay, X A i B TEsoHUCK, YORN 10 before e and enbsoribed in this Rih d‘lil of J“Ri 1893, P, Feir, Notary Publlo, n Chicago. TaE DALY and SusxpAy Bee Is on salo in hicago at the following places: Palmer houso, Grand Pacific hotel. Auditoriam hotel. Great Northern hotel 4 180 State stroot. Files of Twe' BER ean bo scon at tho Ne- Draska bullding and the Administration bufld- $ng, Exposition grounds, Avernge Clrealation for June, 1893, 94,216 THE rots in Paris have been quelled, but the bad Latin quarter Las not yet been retired from circulation. IT 1S yet an open question whether Kontucky is as barbarous as Texas, but the odds still rest with the latter state. WHEN there is any serious discontent In Paris the people get togother and in- nugurate a riot. In the United States they form u political part, THERE is a great deal of pelitical method in the peculiar type of summer madness now prevalent in Colorado over the moncy question. OMAHA'S financial condition cannot be 80 bad after all, when it is noted that many cities and towns in Massachusetts are borrowing money at 7 and 8 per cent. LIEUTENANT PEARY is off once more upon another Aretic expedition. Pre- pare for a now, enlarged and thoroughly revised course of public lectures, to be delivered upon his safe return, THE fact that General Colby has issued orders for the mobilization of the Ne- braska militia may not disturb the peace of Europe, but it may have a favorable sffect upon the German army bill. Now that the Mexicaa government has decided to abandon its policy of sub- Ppdizing its newspapers, the railroad torporations of the United States ought $o pluck up the courage to do likewise. THE financiers who are determined to repeal.the Sherman law have no per- Tunctory task before them. The silver men have a better organization and will be able to malke the fight not only a long one but a bitter one. THE proposition to invest the city's ldle funds in sewer warrants is at least worthy of investigation. If it is feas- ible and can be done legally the work of public improvements can go on and sey- eral hundred men be given employment, No oNE will seriously question Grover Cleveland’s democracy; but there are many reasons for believing that he would be glad to commence the work of the extra session with a round republi- @an majority in both houses of congress. MR. MOSHER extends sympathy to himself and his depositors, but cheer- fully admits that he doesn't care a rap for the state. His unconcern for the interosts of the state secms to bo shared by others more intimately associated with the state government. HONEST people in Chicago have been startled by the discovery that the city has paid dishonest paving contractors for thousands of yards™ of paving which have never been laid. The people of the Windy city are a queer lot if a little thing like that will startle them. e MCKINLEY is having rather a lone- pome time of it running for governor of Ohio. The reluctance of the Buckeye demoerats to engage in an early cam- paign is lending a one-sided aspect toa contest which otherwise would be one of thoe most interesting in the country. BENATOR ALLEN'S refusal to talk about the offect of the anti-silver agi- tation is in marked contrast with the haste of Peffer and others to rush into print with opinions which make them ridiculous. Nebragka's native modesty weems 10 assort itself upon all occasions, THE oppressive heat has unduly af fected tho minds of a great many poli cal lights of the country., The most dis- tressing case seoms to have been re- ported from Ohio, where a populist leader demanded the impeachment of President Cloveland for high treason on the ground that he is the “'paid emissary of the British money power. Se——————— A DENVER investment company with liabilities amounting to $2,362,113 has failed. The company had been specu- lating heavily in real estate in western boom towns and had invested large sums of money in electrio railways. The fail- ure is but another proof that an invest- ment company cannot enyage in gques- tionable financial transactions without soming 1o grief sooner or later. WILLCONPINE HIS MESSAGE TOSILVER) There is good authority for the state- ment that the only executive communi- cation which will be presonted to the oxtra session of congross will bo that of the president, in which he willelaborate the views briefly stated in the proclama- tion convening congress. It is under- stood that the message will be confined ton discussion of financial conditions, Jollowing the course adopted by the president in his celebrated tariff mes- sage at the opening of the scoond ses- sion of the 'iftieth congress. With the idea of duly impressing the national legislaturo with the gravity of the situation and the importance of early action, it is oxpected that the president will act now in roference to silver as he acted in 1837 in reference to the tariff. He will confine his atfention o that one subject, leaving the tariff and other matters to be considered in the message sont to tho regular scssion in December. This is judicious. The financial situa~ tion supplied the reason for calling an oxtra session of congress, and the ur- goney for somo remedial logislation makes it necessary that the attention of congress shall be wholly directed to the consideration of the financial con- ditions and what should be done to remove distrust and restore confidence. There is no reason for hurrying taviff revision. The country is in no peril from the operation of tho tariff law and so far as can be dis- corned is not likely to be. If thero is any trouble coming from that source it is duo to the uncertainty as to how far congress will finally go in revising the schedules. The offect of this feeling is doubtless somewhat dopressing to the in- dustries of the country, notwithstanding the fact that it must be a year and prob- ably longer before any general measure of revision can go intocffect. It is quite possible that this depression will become more marked and that there will e curtailment of production until a new tariff law shall go into operation and the manufac- turing industries of the country can adjust themselves to it, but while this very likely nas had a measure of influ- once in producing existing conditions there is no pressing necessity for dis- cussing it now. The silver question is the one of supreme importance and urgency, and congress should be asked by the executive to devote its exclusive attention to that question until it is dis- posed of. It would be a great mistake ) complicate it with any other subject, or to place in tho hands of the opponents of a change of financial policy the means to obstruct action. They may be de- pended upon to find devices enough for this purposo without any help. The indications are that the contest will in any event be prolonged. The free silver men avow their purpose to use every effort to provent tho repeal of the silver pur- chase clause of the Sherman act, and they are making thorough preparation for the campaign. They do not lack skillful leadership, a number of them being veterans in parliamentary war- fare, and they have plenty of persist- ence and determination. Their first struggle will be made against any change in the rules by which fillibuster- ing would be interferred with, and if they should be successful in preventing a change they would be in a position to carry on the fight against repeal indefin- itely. Noone is authorized by present appearances to say that the uncondi- tional repeal of the Sherman act is as- sured. a BISMARCK’S CHANGED ATTITUDE. The whirligig of time brings its re- venges. No more apt illustration of this adage could be cited than the senti- ments expressed by Prince Bismarck to the excursionists from the principality of Lippe, who were visiting him av Friedrichsruhe. -€hanged conditions exert groat influence over public men, and the character of an audience often becomes a powerful factor in inspiring their utterances. In this instance, tho iron ex-chancellor has turned a complote political somersault. As imporial prime minister, he was the incarnation of centralized powor. Now that he is no longer the power be- hind the throne he secks to exert his in- fluence to embarrass the dominant p in politics, Formerly his addre were issued to the whole German people, or at least to the people of all Prussia, His ideal of national development was the empire. Now he boldly turns his back on the policies he formerly advo- cated and seeks to uphold tho solidarity of the principalities and small states that constitute the German empire. The significance of Bismarck's latest utter- ances is that he gives vent to sentiments strongly states rights in their character. While he was speaking to peoplo from Lippe only, he treats Lippe as the type of the seventeen frec states which have a single vote each in the fodoral council, Heo wants these states to persist in hold- ing on to their representation as now distributed notwithstanding the d pavity in size, population and wealth, Lippe, for example, with less than 50,000 people, has one momber of the federal council; Hamburg, with ten times the population, is given no more. This is a mark of strong confedoratism, and it is this which, Bismarck now insists, shall be forever maintainod. *‘God presorve for us the constitution of the empire as it is,” he says. **And God preservo for us the present number of federal govern- ments, which form the federal council, that the latter may at ali times stand by the side of the Relchstag as a legislative co-efficient of absolutely equal rank and with absolutely equal rights.” Is this the same Bismarck who once guided the destinies of the German people and assisted in council and in war to consolidate group of loosely bound petty states intoa single unified nation? Was this identical Bism, scrupulous about the smaller principalities? A little investi- gation into history not yet ancient will disclose another Bismarck, a Bis- marck who treated the lesser princes of Germany with a violence that indicated disdain and contempt. His manifesto issued upon accepting the office of Prussian prime minister toward the close of 1862 contemplated a veform in I'HE which would decrease the power of the smaller members. His attitude toward the Schleswig-Holstein question was not such as to inspire the improssion that he would ba careful in respecting the rights of other helpless states. Nor did the Prussian proclamation of 1866 de- claring the federation at an end, convey any consolation to the princes who might dare to oppose the plan there out- lined. At the close of the Austra- Prussian war a fow months later, Count Bismarck himself personally read in the Prussian landtag & royal message announcing the annoxation of Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Nassau and Frankfort. Schleswig-Holstein was also incorporated into Prussia by a patent of January, 1867. J%r these successful efforts in trampling under foot the rights of the smaller states, large dona- tions were on motion of the government voted to Bismarck, Neither did the imperial chancellor- ship bring to light any greater solici- tudo for the continued strength of the lesser principalities. It was Bismarck who played a lealing role in the in- trigue that compelled the Bavarian king to to propose an empire for the first William. It was Bismarck who sought tonationalize the German rail- ways. Tt was Bismarck who changed his views upon the tariff because he thought it would strengthen the im- perial government. And finally it was Bismarck who inaugurated the dis- graceful prodeedings which almost by sheer violence forced Bromen and Ham- burg to give up their constitutional privileges as free ports. And now ‘he _expresses his anxiety for the future ‘‘that the national idea may be stifled in the boa con- strictor of bureaucracy” and wishes to introduce a new policy of seeking the national spirit in the petty principalities which he has hitherto antagonized. The German princes have failed in the past to show that broadness of view which the development of the empire has demanded. They have been ultra- conservative and tenacious of states rights. If the fervent prayer of Bis- murck is granted—tho preservation of the constitution as it is—the path of federalization and centralization will be forever obstructed in the German em- pire. NO AL FOR ALARM AvLuaxce, Neb., July 9.—To the Editor of Tne Bee: Ihave noted with much alarm and disappointment the stand many papers take upon the Catholic question, and as I nareader of Tus Brr I have read upon different occasions in your paper long and pompous articles of the doings of the Catho- lics. You cannot fail to noteif you have kept yourself posted upon the question, what the Catholics are trying to accomplish in this country and will accomplish if American citizens do not do their duty. Those who are placed in a position should fight them and will fight thom if they wish to promulgate the interest of American citi- zenship. Why is it people are demanding protec- tion from Catholics in different parts of the state? And why is it firearms are being shipped into Catholics all over the state labeled “'groceries,” “fruit,” etc.? And why is it that newspapers do not make mention of this fact and other facts equally alarming regarding Catholic aggression? These facts present a very dubjous aspect to the people, for we cannot fail to foresee what will inevitably bo the result if Ameri- can citizens do not prove themselves loyal to America and its institutions. Oh, that I had the power to weild an 1n- fluence agaiust them that newspapers and y others have. Their belief and creed is a complete de- flunce and menace to our constitution, and every man who 1sa loyal citizen will fight them. Many keep still through fear, for they are a dangerous class to fight, for they willstoop to anything to accomplish their purpose, and this fact alone should be enough to arouse the people to their danger now, before it is 00 lute, Does anyono know what this command to Catholics, through Catholic papers, means: “To be ready for action on the23d of August, 18937 Letus hope and pray and act that it may not mean a sccond St. Bartholomew's massacre. Smile, you unbelieving. Verily, the time is coming. If it is not the 234 of August it will come later if something is not dune to check Catholic aggression in this country, Mgs. J. B. THE BEE does not hesitate to assure this particular subscriber and all others that may bs in a similar state of sus- pense and alarm that there is no danger whatever of a Catholic uprising, either on the 23d of August or any other time. ‘We regard the stories about the impor- tation of fireurms billed as groceries, fruit and coffins as a fiction without the remotest shadow of substance. It is too preposterous to receive the eredence of any thoughtful man or woman, In the first place, there is nothing to prevent Catholies from buying firearms open and above board, There is no rea- son why thoy should import guns, re- volvers or swords secretly, In the next placo, if a religious war should really break out in Nebraska the Catholics would stand no show as against protest- ants. There are fully eleven protest- ants and non-Catholics to every Roman Catholic in Nebraska. And even if such a thing as overpoworing 1,000,000 people by 100,000 was possible, the Catholics would be exterminated by the over- whelming numbers of non-Catholics that would pour into Nebraska from other sections of the country. At any rate, no rvational man or woman would assume that the 10,000,000 Catholies in the United States would dare array themselves in arms against 53,000,000 non-Catholics. Another pal- pable fact is that the Catholics would searcely jeopardizo their own lives and fortunes in a conflict that must termi- nate fatally, as it always has where the odds in numbers and resources are on ono side. “The Lord always fights with the battalions” is an old adage. ' Right here we desire also o state that THE BEE is asecular newspaper. It does cot engago in religious, contro- versies on its own account. It will always print the news, whether it comes from St. Peter’s or St Paul, Ifany- body knows where and when firearms have been imported secretly ints this state by Catholics or by Protestants we will publish the fact. Until we do have sueh information from a reliable sourcoe we shall treat the reportsof an impend- ing uprising as a bugbear. the federal constitution of Uermnuyl A CALL has been issued by the St. OMAHA DAILY BE, TUESDAY. Paul Chamber of Commerce to similar organizations in g/fiimber I statos, in- cluding Nebraska; asking them to send delogates to a edpvéntion to be held in St. Paul, to give Wgpression to the busi- ness sentiment regarding the ropeal of the silver purchasolaw. It is to be pre- sumed that the request will be very gen- erally responded 10 dnd that the conven- tion will be representative of the busi- ness intorests of the states embraced in tho call. Tt is manifestly important that there showld be the fullest possible expresslok of opinion re- garding the repsal of tho Sher- man act from practical Dbusinoess men, and morsover it is desirable that the business intorests of the northwest shall be heard more explicitly on this question than thoy have yet been. ‘While the commercial organizations of the east have spoken with no uncertain sound those of the west very generally have been silent. The time has como for them to give uttorance to their views and to exert the influence that naturally belongs to them as representing the com- mercial interests of the section whose people aro particularly concerned in, having a sound and stable currency. The proposed convention ought to be largely attended, and if so there can be no doubt that its effect will be good. THE government has commenced the task imposed upon it by the stipulations in the purchase of the Cherokee Outlet of expelling the intruders from the re- mainder of the Cherokee possessions, As was to have been expected this will prove no ecasy matter. The intruders have organized and are determined to stay. Their main hope is that the ap- proaching negotitations with the five civilized tribes for forming a regular territory of the union will result ina recognition of their right to remain. Butas the legislatures of the nations have demanded their unconditional re- moval as a preliminary to hearing any proposition from the government com- missioners it scems as though they must go. It is stated that the federal troops will be given peremptory orders within a few days to summarily remove any person from the lands whom the Cherokee nation does not itself recog- nize as a citizen. THE Italian Chamber of Daputies has just adjourned for the summer holiday. Yet we are afforded somo consolation by the other legislative bodies of the world’s great powers. The British Parliament is still steadily grinding upon the home rule bill, ‘"The French Depu ties and Senate .ave employing their surplus time in investigating the causes of the recent student ripts in Paris. The German Reichstag has begun to wran- gle over the adoption of the notorious army bill. Nor will we have to wait long until our own nnapproachable con- gress commences 6 dispense to its con- stituents huge chunks of financial learn- ing. No, the Italian Chamber will not be missed. THE Kansas City gas company offers the city council a running*bonus of 3 per cent of the gross resipts in considora- tion of the rewewal of its charter for thirty years. The city council may not accept the offer, as the franchise is cer- tainly worth more, but the fact that the offer was made, is an indication that the people of at least one city in the west are waking up to the value of municipal franchises. It will be gratifying to every old soldier to learn that the decision of the attorney general that the secretary of war has authority under the law to obtain lands at Gettysburg by condem- natory proceedings is likely to put a summary stop to the further desecration of the famous battlefield by the trolley railroad company. A WELL KNOWN populist leader tem- porarily sojourning in Omaha, boasts that a crop failure will be to the advant- age of the third party. There is food for reflection in tho fact that the state- ment is true. Nothing will bias a man’s political views s0 much as discourage- ment and financial disaster. Iowa democrats who wish to enter Boies for a third term must fully appreciate the pastoral homily about toting the donkey to the water tro They may enter him for the gube natorial race, but they can't make him run. OuUR Canadian neighbors are need- lessly alarmed. Carter Harrison was merely talking in a Picwickian sense after his wont. They don’t know Carter, Getting on the Right Side. Globe-Democrat, On the finance question Cloveland has al- ways been a ropublican, and there is a grow- ing suspicion in his party that he {s getting over on the republican side now ou the tariff. e A Prospootivi DId Time, Ngw ¥ork Advertiser, The muddle as to what will be done at the extra session seems Lo grow moro confusiug as the day approaches on which it will open. One thing stands out with startling distinct- nese, und that is that the row in the demo- cratic party will excond:anything heretofore recorded. o — Koep Politips Out of It, New York Limes. The business men of the country are impa- tient of any attempt to-make politics outo f the silver question. “There is a way, how- ever, in which the demodrats can securoe f their party a notablepelitical party adv; tage. It is in the way we have indicatec by prompt and unconditional repeal of tho Sherman act. 1t will, be timo to talk of a substitute when congress meets iu the fall, ————— Wil Creede Secode? Indianapolis-Journal. The people of the mintng town of Creede, Colo., hgve asked theim.represcntatives in congress to demand sublia loosening in the bonds of the confederatign of states by con- stitutional amendment as. will permita de- partment of the east and a depariment of the west to legislate as separate cougresses upon financial questions, having reference only to the free woinage of silver, The proposition has the merit of novelty. e s We Are the Feople. London Truth, In many ways the United States have edu- cated the world in politics, and I, for one, do not hesitate to say that their scheme of goy- chnwent is the best that has ever been estab- lished by a nation. But in nothing do we owe wore to the Americans than for their having afforded us the great ovjuct lesson of a state pursuing the even current of its way without that meddling in the affairs of other states which has been the bane of European powers, Hero we Mave a couutry, rich, powerful, industrial and commerclal, yet nover troubling itself with what happens outside its frontiers, or annexing forelgn lands on the plea of philanthropy, or on the JULY 11 18 round that fn some centuries it ares will @ too small for {ts population, or in order to croate markots for its goods. And what is the result! No one dreams of attacking the Unitod States, or of ploking a quarrel with them, The ow and White, New York Commereinl, The totalsilver product of the United States s but $0,000000 a year, and No- braska alone expects to harvest §0,000,000 in corn this fall. * All together too much at- tention is paid to the growling of those ‘white metal men. P T —— Jimmy, Take a Pull, Chica_o Tribune, General James Field, who permittod him- self to bo dragged by the heols as tho play- thing of the “populist party,” is trying to get before the public by saying that Harrison ought to have boen impeached, and that it isn't t0o 1ato to administer the same dose to Cleveland. Jimmy neods another pull from tho nursing bottle of Aunt Mary Loaso. Jtindhnbstuie it Cheering Signs. St. Paul Pioneer Press. One thing is certain. The goneral sus- pension of manufacturing fn cortain lines of goods and the almost universal diminution of production in nearly overy branch of in- dustry, outside of agricultural pursuits, will soon lead to a depletion of stocks, which will be speedily followed by a strong rebound of industrial activity which will extend into all commercial circles. i — Foolish Fears, Globe-Demoerat. Safe deposit boxes are tho proper recopta- cles of bonds and other valuables, but green- backs and currency are outof place in them. There never was unything but foolish fear to justify their use for this purpose; and as this fear has vanished, it 18 now in oraer to relieve them of such contents and put tho cash back into tho banks, where it will be quite as safe and 1 do much more good. [T i The Senator und His Law, Philaelphia Press, There is no more earnest opponent of tho so-called Sherman law than tho dis- tinguished sonator whose name it bears, He consented to it reluctantly whon it ‘mnad and was the first man in either branch of congress to propose its repeal. When congress meets under Dresident Cloveland’s call the leader in the senate in the movement to suspend silver purchases will be the republican senator from Ohio. S i No Proof of Hard Times, Boston Advertiser, Tosum up the whole matter: There is roally no proof anywhere that “hard times" have como or are coming. Whenever we getat the pith and truth of things we find plenuty of proofs to the contrary. There are falso predictions, foolish whisperings, nced- less trepidations,unreasoning anxieties,mere fog which the sunshine will soon drive away, mero ghosts, sheeted and shivering in the night air, that’ will spoedily dopart at the cock-crowing of sobor truth and plain good sense. —_— Mako 1t Short. Philadelphia Ledger. The extra session of congress should con- centrato its attention upon the repeal of the Sherman act, accomplish that object and adjourn. Midsummer is not the time to originate tariff bills, debate unon state bank issues or transact regular business, It is a crisis which demand$ that congress shall meet in advance of the extra session, and that may be met by abolishing the act for silver purchases. Any other legislation may be accomplished much better at the regular session. Premature Heat in Canada, Glob:-Democrat. ‘There {s no necessity for Canadians to got excited when anybody in the United States talks of the possibility or probavility of an- nexation. Most of the talk heard on this subject is from the other side of the line. Canada has more interest in this question than this country has. The 1nitiative lies with her. She has more to gain by a union with us than we have, and she will have to decide formally and unmistakably in favor of union betore the matter becomes an issue in practical politics in this country, e D Preferonce for Young Men. Washington Star. The preference that the president shows toward young men in making his appoint- ments is quito natural. Young men have energy and their minds are free from the prejudices of the past. Besides, a young man is not solikely to have burdened himself with an embarrassing political record or to have so much that needs forgiveness in the line of personalities uttered in the heat of a campaign as an older poli The older war horses have more ing, but the youngsters are not likely to be quite so heavily handicapped. — e ¥rosperous Nobraska. Kearney Hub, Nebrasia,” the home of the prosperous farmer, again sends greeting to the wholo world. There are neither doubts nor fears as to the crop outcome. A bountiful harvest is assured, and regardless of single or double standards, remonetization or demonetization, gold bugs or silver bugs, the state is pretty well able to take care of herself. That is to say, that notwithstanding business depres- sion and financial upheaval, Nebrasia will produco enough to carry her through the worst that can come. And it looks now as though we had already experienced the worst. ROUN Sosa e ABO FAIR, No fish could be brought from the Gulf of Mexico to tho _exposition until the natural temperature of the water at Chicago regis- tored sixty degrees, as a colder climate would kill the soutnern fish. Indian corn thus far has the call in the voting for a national flower. There are but three candidates, and of every twenty votes rol, one for sunflower and the remainder for corn. Russia’s section in the manufacturers building incluaes an Asiatic room, illustrat- ing the life and belongings of tho Russians in Asia. rho rugs and carpets shown in it aro particularly handsome, “There is a protty girls 1n tho electricity building who is now coming in for s bunch - of advertising. She is Iu chargo of the Edison phonogragh exhibit, and the more sho is advertised the higher will go her wages. One of the most extraordinary things in the Catholic educational exhibit at Chicago is a picture in hair of the “Landing of Columbus.” It contaius some of the hair from the head of every Catholic bishop and archbishop in the country oxcepting one, It must not be understood” that it was from any luck of sympathy that he was unwilling togivea lock of his hair. He had not any. Norway displays drinking cups 200 yoars old, with still more ancient drinking horns and scont boxes, The silyerware shows much filigree work, but its distinctive fea- ture is the enumeling, which is zich and elaborate. The skates, snowshoes and sleds make un intoresting exhibit; the skates are nailed 1o the shocs when in active sery- ice. Wax figures are shown, dressed in the different Norwegian costumes. An Itatian publishor, among many mag- mificent publications, shows a scientific 1i- brary of 800 volun 1t will probably be purchased entire for some American lustitu- tion. The sawe flm exhibits & copy of Daute two inches loug and ouc and u half inches wide, 8o perfectly printed that it is casy reading. The edition was brought ouy fifteen years ago, limited to 300 copies, and the type was at once distributed. The price has advanced from 10 to $150 per copy. The warship Illinois is a raro counterfeit. With cables fast to her wharfand gangplanks leading up to her deck, she looks as if she was atloat. People have been told time and again that this is no ship , only a model built ou a brick foundution 'in the shallows near the shore. ‘But they forgot when they come down and see the trim, smooh toutline painted white o the water's edge. They almost imugine they can see some motion when they ate oo deck, and some of them ask Captain Taussig whether the Lllinois is going to o fight. The representatives of the Six Nations, whom New York promised to send to tHe fuir, have arrived aud gone into camp among the other aboriginal tribes at the southern end of the park. Amoug them is Solomon O'Bail, 85 yoars . old, who is the grandson of Coruplanter, the famous friend of Washing- ton. Another member of the party, Frank Johnson, has won distinction by breaking a ruuning record 1n a contest wituessed by tho prince of Wales. Ho ran ten miles in fifty- Hive minutes and somo seconds. Tho other Indians are Lutherand Loulse Jack, Ewiline Patterson, Fmma Reoves, Kitty Contes, Myron and Ananias Silvortisels, Taufs Bon! nett and Lucy Plores. Iaving spent their Tives on reseryations in New York state, they are well ndvanced in civillzation. They ato in chargo of John W.Sanborn, a mis- sionary among them, without whose fuflu- onco i might have boen impossible to Lring thom. R PROPLE D THINGS. Peoplo at the sea shoro presumably enjoy the surfside of life. Ohlo, Towa, Massachusotts and Virginia elect overnors this your. Yale is a product of the Nutmeg state. Wherefore, it L grator than Harvard. "Kyphosis" has no torrors for the bicyclist who stoops to conquer a refractory wheol. Down in the land of Tillman no jag is genuine unless tho state seal is blown in the tile, Whon the French troops bogan firing real bullots anarchy shrieked ana fled affrightod Mobs have a wholesome fear of lead poison- ng. Tacoma is making herole efforts to boost the Sound country as a summor rosort. A gigantic sca serpent is swashing around in tho imagination of the residents. A skower trust has been formea. People who whet their teeth on untanned hide sold as beefstake will rejoice over the pros pect of a combine reaching tho butchers with a sharp stick. Kentucky legislators are the envy of their brethren. They have just closed a session of 531 days at a direct cost of &00,000 to the taxpayers. A “pull” so gigantic should be presorved and exhibited. The exhaust of an air brake is mellow and soothing to the ears of a weary traveler compared to the gruesome snorts and sounds long drawn out from the half corked olfac- tories of sleeping car snorors. The total receipts at. tha New York cus- tom house for tho fiseal year that ended June 30 wore $13%,082,028.04 compared with ious fiscal year, or . 3 300,000, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Haskins of Litchfleld, Sherman county, Neb., havearrived at North Adams, Mass,, having traveled the entire distance frof their homo, over 2,000 miles, in a ‘“‘prairie schooner,” one of the old- fashioned emigrant wagons. At her home in Madrid the Infanta Eulalia bubbles over with enthusiasm for America and Americans, Had she seen the great wost and onjoyed iis unstilted hospi- tality, instead of turning back when at its threshold, the Spanish for enthusiasm would not express her admiration, A controversy has again arisen over the authorship of the poem, *‘You Kissed Me," As the erotic verses appeared some thirty yours ago, it is probably the author's des Tor osculatory exercise have been satisfied, If not, the plaint at this stage of the game will hardly evoke an encore. A bronze tablet commemorative of a great historic event was unveiled 1n the mayor's room of New York v hall. last Saturday. “The memorial is inscribed: “Noar this spot, in the presence of George Washington, the Declaration of Independence was-read and ;lulv)lislum to the American army, July 9, 00 The statistics of the Unitea States mint show that the world has 3,63 000 in gold money and £3,068,700,000 in silver, of which India and China have $1,006,000,000. Franco has the largest amount of both, $300,- 000,000 in gold and 700,000,000 in silver. Tho United S follows™ with $0654,000,000 in gold and 8575,000,000 in silver. Miss Harriot Eliza Green, who died ro- cently at Oakland, Cal., one of the lead- ing authorities on hbrary aloguing. For many years she had been employed in the Boston public library and the Boston Athe- nium. She was also connected with the Columbia college library, where she gave instructions to students in her department. The majority of fruis epicures who admire the Concord grape are probably unaware that its originator, Ephraim W. Bull, is living in Coucord, Mass., at the advanced age of 87 years. In his garden he still shows the old mother vine of the Concord grape, which he developed from the seeds of a native wild grape planted just fifty years ago. Dashing remarks are becoming painfully common among governors. Ina short inter- view recently, the executive of South Caro- lina punctusted his remarks with enough dams to run a colony of factories. 'The bland expletives, we are told, were not de- livered passionately,but ina delicate matter- of-fact way, to emphasize his points. Al- though the constitutional jaggeries are in their infancy, their influence is already manifest in executive deliverances. Harrisburg Patriot: There is nothing wrong with the Christian religion; the difi- culty is to find it practiced, though there are very many good men and women in th world. There 1s nothing wrong with man and woman whoare thorough Christians, though they are perhaps a little lonely at times. Buv there is a great deal wrong with many of those who pretend to guide avight the footsteps of those who are too willing to . For these are the daysof false Details of the strides of medical science appear rogularly in the press, but ravely is the public taken into its dence when re- ports refiect on the profession. At a New York hospital recently, a man injured by a cablo car was treated for contusion of tho kneo and sent home. Two days later he ro- turned to the hospital complaining of pains in tho chest, intimating that he feared a recurrence of rheumatic trouble. Ho was given a supply of anti-rheumatic medicine. That evening he was found dead in his room, An examination by the coroner showed that the man’s neck was fractured and five ribs broken. NERNASKA AND NERRASKANS. A oamp of Sons of Veterans is to be mus tered in at Valontine July 4, Throe bouneiug boys, triplots, were pro. sonted to Charles Templo of Seneca by his wifo the other day. During the celebration at Butte an Indian child wag shot through the head with a steel poluted arrow and instantly killed While preparing supper Sunday evening Mrs. Sul , wife of a well known farmer near Meadoly Grove, dropped dead of heart discase. James Tibbles of Craig offers a roward of $15 for the arrost and detention of Wayne Tibbles, aged 18, who ran away from home three weeks ago. A mob at Spencer entered the Bee office and “piod” the forms of the paper becauso thoy Jid ot like tho attitude of tho editor on county mattors, While playing in the roller mill at Ithaca, the clothing of the little daughter of Mr. Milenz caught in the shafting and sho was lashed to death before the machinoery could be stopped. Tho Winnebago Indians wero not at home on the Fourth to colebrate, being on a visit to South Dakota, but on their return they will indulge in & grand jubilation. July 15 is the dato fixed for the ‘doings.” Doc Middleton is organizing a wild west show to take advantage of the advertising he socured by means of the cowboy race. Ho is “outfitting” at Chadron and will have twenty-five Indians, soveral cowboys and soldiers in his troupe. L. J. F. Taeger, now city clork of Chadron, but who was once on o time well known in Omaha as “Billy tho Bear,” has been pro- prosented with n pair of artificial legs by Colonel Cody, Biily lost his natural limbs Dby lying out on the prairie duriug a howling blizzard. The announcement that tho rounion of the Southeastern Nebraska veterans at Curtis would be abandoned this year was proma- ture. The Grand Army posts have taken the matter m hand, and they propose that the reunion shall be hield, according to pro- gram, August 22, 23 and 4. Thoy concluded that by securing the attendance of bands and speakers gratis, and doing the work free, ns did the Curtis committee last yoar, thoy could have a botter reunion than last year at about half the cost. Brass bands will be patriotic and donate their services, and martial bands will ' be numerous enough to make all the noise that any one will want. A prize will be offered to the best brass band and one for the best martiai band. —_—— NUMMER SMIL Galveston News: Ttls not enough to take what comes. Go after something. Troy Pross: After all, the differenco between a truo heartod glrl and’a flivt is only trifiing Detroit Tribune: “Poor fellow! Did ho lose his oyes in the war?” “Oh, no. Ho tried tc pass o woman on tho street when she had. her umbrella up." Tnter Ocean: since his stay n ges seem changed T il to drink any kind o “Yes “Doos she sing?" asked splied the girl to whom he wat & v, all_her neighbors stay awake nights listeniug to her." Brooklyn Lite: §ho—Am 1 the only girl you ever proposed to, darling. Te (sincerely)—No, but you are the only gir who ever uccepted x Those Lovely Girls— Abby 80 quiet now; she pratiler?” “Some one the principle by which th by its teoth also upplios ¢ used to be un s told her t the human race. Puck: Lawyor—You think, then, that you assnilant attacked you with malice prepenso Cliont—I dunno, sah—he might 'er had one o dew kind o' mallets; but de principal thing he used wor a razzer, sah! dolphin Times: s n term fairly exprossiv To not do a “hand' turn’” f 1 but it can't be applied to the or NOSTON AT THE Phitadelphia Norti A Boston lady dled one And mounted up on hish, And knocked upon tho Pearly Gates And murmured “1t is 1" “I've Just arrived from st. Peter cried with gl “Iknow you have, or elso your pass Would bo to shout 1t's MK ™ Boston, Mass. s THE ALL-ROUND GENIUS. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, I sing thie wonders of th: serponts swim and monster Dillows hig) seon the sea. Itell of wild and awful deeds of men who fight for heathen creeds, and trumpo forth tho heathon needs, but 1t thoy worry m T mako tho hload withtn you boll by writing ot the crimsoned soil “whore soldiors in mad turmoll, but I would dodgo cmpty gun. I prove that dtath fs but reposo, this fittul lever's gentle close, but when my stom- ach painful grows, 1 seek the doctor on 1 praiss tho 's homespun coat, and aise the poor man’s homespun coat, an DI rasp tho wealthy Tordiing's throat: but the lordling hands & note o me | take It in, of course; I preach ut length of wedded Dliss, the wifoly smile, the husband’s kiss; and, tell me, is there aught amiss, that I'm applying and calf and lamb in mellow vors ibaln, nor does 1t hurt my littlo punlm thut [ ilospiso tho rura In fact, I writo on overy themo from addle ©oggs to frozen_creim, and people really do not seem to know a genlus from i fruud, BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturers and Retallers ol Olothing In the World. It's this Weigh:— We've still on hand a whole suits. this season, so we've put the prices way down. some beauties among them. There is also a big wad of those skeleton-lined coats (or un- lined) coats and vests which we must get rid of this week. Straw hats must go, They're marked down about one-third. slew of summer They’ll have to be sold There are too. On second floor the children’s goods are getting a cut also. That lot of boys’ vacation suits at $1.50 are worth nearly twice as much money. Reduc- tions all along the line. Economical people will buy now when the styles are to be had. BROWNING, |8 Bto re open every evening till 6.30. P atorday uill KING & 0., W, Cor. 18th and Douglas Sts, fi