Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 12, 1893, Page 4

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I, Tzschuck, Seeret Ang_compiny dovs F eireulation of Tie DALY BEE for the July 8,180 a8 follows T SCHUCK, nd subseribed in of Jiily, 1893, The Bee In THe DALY and Suxpay Be Chicago nt the following pliu Palmor house, Grand Pacif Auditoriun hot Great Northern hotel ll}nr"huh'l Is on salo in ¥, 189 State stroot. e Be san bo seen at the No a building and the Adninistration build- ing, Exposition eronnds, Average Clreulation for June, 1893, 24,216 — THE visible supp! of confidence shows a marked increase over last week. Ir WALL street runs why does it all this ha silver brokers over the o to be paid on the July silver purchases to continue? the treasury, ling with the IN THESE days of wholesale vacations granted to publ ants it is a wel- come reliof to find every momber of the Board of, Education in attendance upon its meotings. STRAWS show in which way the wind blows. The deposits of the several Omaha banks are rapidly increasing. This is the best evidence of returning public confidence. sor FrOM the tone of the latest Hawaiian dispatches it is clearly the purpose of the Sandwich islanders to annex the United States in spite of the protests from this country. COLORADO has not secoded from the union for soveral days now and thero is every indication that her people have laid down their arms and returned to their silver mine: THE extra session may be prolific with surprises, but it is safe to predict that there will be no alliance between the republicans and the freo silver demo- crats to block legislation. 17 MAY be only a coincidence, but it is alittle curious that the announcement that Minnoipolis is infested with counterfeiters should follow so closely aftor the publication of a new directory which \gives that city a population of & quarter of a million, JUDGE FERGUSON has finally settled the county commissionership contest in favor of Mr. Williams, the present in- cumbent. This decision is highly creditable to Judge Ferguson, who has by his action given striking proof that a judge may rise above his party in deal- ing with political issues. An impartial judiefary is the bulwark of our free in- stitutions. THE treasuvy at Washington has re- ceived a contribution of 36 from some one with an overburdened conscience living in Fort Robinson, Neb, It is re- markable how tender'a conscience a man may have when only o small sum of money is at stake, while when it comes to robbing the government of hundreds or thousands of dollars the pangs of re- morse are so diflicult to rouse, — labor” is having its nings at Washington, The supervising architect of the Treasury department has directed that hereaftor all adyer- tisements for contracts on government buildings shall contain the words, *No conviet labor or the nroduct of conviet labor shall be used.” Efforts have fro- quently been made to have such an order issued, but hitherto without suc- coss, THERE is no moré reason for cancel- ing the taxes on the driving park propoerty, owned by one man, than there would be for exempting all lawn tennis grounds from assessment. If the coun- cil will not reconsider its illegal action with reference to the driving park we may all oxpect that Mr. Hitcheock will put inaploa for the excmption of his tennis grounds and dude’s corrall, It would bo just as rational, — THAT the sum of $345,310,000 Ameri- can canital has been invested in enter- prises in Moxico within the last three yosrs will probably be a surprise to those who have given the subject no at- tention. Yot these arve the figures as given by a Sun Francisco paper, which Buggests that the transfer is a possible factor in the present monetary strin- geney in this countr It is further shown that in aggregation of interests this country is ahead of both England and Germany combined in Mexican in- vestments. The figures for the three years ending with 1802 are jermany, 803,750,000; England, 3,600; the United States as above quoted. English investments in agrioultural, coloniza- tion and mercantile enterprises exceed American investments in these lines, but in railroad building, wmanufactures and wining development the United Btates surpusses all other nations. STATE BANK 1SS0 « Senator Sherman concludes his letter to ex-Congressman Walker as follows: ““For me, T will never agree to the re- vival of state bank paper money, which cannot bo made a legal tender, and which, on the first sign of alarm, will disappear or be lost in the hands of the holder Senator Sherman undoubt- edly represents tho attitude of every re- publican in congress on this question. If there is a single republican in either branch of the national legislature who will not vote against a proposi- tion to revive state bank paper money he has not made his position known to tho publie, and it is undoubtedly safe to say that thero will not be a man of them vote to repeal the tax in state bank issues. That there will be an opportunity given the republicans in congress to vote on a proposition of this kind is plainly indicated. There has been no authoritative statement that it is the intontion of the administration to offer as a condition of the repeal of the silver purchase clause of the Shorman act the removal of the tax on state bank issues, but enough has been said by nows- papors whieh are close to the admin- istration to show that such a plan has the favor of the pre dent, which of course means that it is3 approved by the admin- istration. It is quite probable that Mr. Cleveland will in his mossage to the extra session of congress recommend that the tax on state bank issues be abandoned, though he may consider it expodiont to simply lot it be known in an indirect way that he would not dis- approve of the repeal of this tax. Thero are eastern democrats who are strongly opnosed to a revival of state bank paper money and in order to pass a moasure for that purpose it will be necessary to convert these. There is reason to be- lieve that a campaign for this purposo is now being prosccuted. Prominent democratic organs in the east are urging that there need be no apprehension of danger from a state bank currency and they strain hard to find plausible reasons for this view. One of these recently observed that that the roturn to state bank issues, with nearly $600,000,000 ot treasury and national bank notes in circulation, all practically equal to gold, would make any stato sues profitless unless they were as well secured as the currency with which they must compete. This appears plausible, but it is unsound. In states that author- ized banks to issue ourtency there would be no competition, strietly spealk- ing, between such paper money and that now in circulation. The latter would in & brief time disappear, being hoarded in bank vaults and the safe deposit receptacles of those who could afford to keep it on hand, while the inferior currency would find em- ployment in paying for labor and in the small commercial transactions of the people. This might not be the case in all the states, for it is to be presumed that some of them would vrovide such a basis for state bank notes as would place them practically on an cquality, except as to the legal tender function, with the paper money we now have, but nothing is more certain if there should be a revival of state bank paper money than that a very large proportion of it would ultimately botome depreciated, with consequences most damaging to the great majority of the people upon whom it would be possible to force this cur- rency. There are so many ttrong and valid objections to an issue of currency under state authority, and the experience of the country with such a currency was so unfortunate, that itseems extraordinary thata proposal to revive that system should be seriously and widely adve cated at this time and have the favor, as there is good reason to believe 1t has, of the nationsl administration. The fact may as well be squarely looked in the face, however, that thera is to be a vigorous fight made in congress for the repeal of the tax on stato bank issues and, perhaps, it can only be prevented by the solid opposition of the repub- icans, Senator Sherman’s announce- ment of his position on the question is timely. A DIMINISHING CORN SURPLUS, Mr. C. Wood Davis, who isa recog- nized authority on agricultural statistics, in a communication to the New York Sun, points out that there is a steadily diminishing corn surplus in the United States and that it is only a question of a short time when we shall have practi- cally none to send out of the country in its primary form. The statistical facts proseuted by Mr. Davis arc certainly in- teresting. It appears that during the period between 1860 and 1870 we added less than 6,000,000 acres to the corn fields, as against an addition of 24,000,000 between 1870 and 1880, From 1880 to 1890 the additions were but 9,700,000 acres, or 15 per cent, while the consuming’ popula- tion increased 25 per cent. Mr. Davis says that since the census year there has been a decrease of several million acres, as shown by the agricultural reports, though the exact extent of the reduced corn area is not ascortainable from that source. Ho observes that there is strong presumptive evidenco that the acceage 15 now much less than in 1886, when the arcaceased to expand by reason of the exhaustion of that portion of the public domain suited to eorn culture, M. Davyis declares - that the corn sur- plus in primary and secondary form is rapidly diminishing, as is shown by the decrease of the per cap- ita quota of corn land from 1.32 t0 1.07, or 19 per cent He finds, also, in the current price of hogs and pork products evidence of a rapidly dimin- ishing corn area velatively to the de- mand. “The advance since 1890-1 in every form of pork has been fully 100 per cent. The advance has not, as here- tofore, followed from and after a short eorn crop,but after the harvesting,in 1891, of the second largest crop ever grown, and it is directly due to .the absence af any addition to the corn area and the uumber of hog growers since 1885-6, Hogs imply acres of corn,” says Mr. Davis “As declines the per capita sup- Ply of corn, 8o will decline the eommer- cial supply of swine.” Swine furnishing the vehiole that has carried abroad rope noeding all the hogs that we can furnish, Mr. Davis does not think that there is any necessity for any extraor- dinary efforts to secure a European mar- ket for our surplus production of maize. Ho argues that if the increase of area is | not greater than is now promised, we must eithor have yields largely above the average or our people must eat and and drink less in order to enable us to enlarge our exports of corn. *“If wo are to supply Europe,” says Mr. Davis, “with the same proportion of animal products as in the ninth decade, shipping no grain whatovor, the per capita requirements will be an acre and & quarter, and wo should now have 84,000,000 acres under corn instead of the 72,000,000 which seems to be the greatest area possible in 18903." Without undertaking to question the statistical statoments or the deductions of Mr. Davis, which are to be regarded as reassuring to the corn growers of the United States, wa are still of the opinion that it would not ba wise to abandon all effort to encourage the use of corn as human food by Europeans, The cost of what has been done in this direction has not been very great and undoubtedly it has been many times repaid, but at any rate an enlarged market abroad for our corn must mean a better price for it to the Ameri- can farmer, and this is what every friend of our agricultural interest will desire to see attained. It is quito possi- ble that in the years to come we shall have no great surplus of corn to export, but we can certainly suffer no harm from having created a demand that will insure to our producers for whatever surplus we may have a profitable price. OF INTE The repr TO THE WEST. esentatives in congress of western agricultural interests ought to thoroughly inform themselves as to what is needed for the improvement of the waterways through which the pro- ducts of the west are largely transported to custern markets, and alsoas to what may be done for the further development of water transportation. No subject connceted with our domestic policy is greatly superior to this in importance and the question increases in urgency from year toycar. The agricultural de- volopment of the wost is still far below a possible maximum. It is not an unreasonable assumption that within the next quarter of-a century western production will have neurly doubled. But already the facilities of transportation arve found to be inade- quate for expeditiously moving wostern products to the seaboard, and for months every year the western markets are con- zosted. Rail transportation is not now and probably can never be made oqual to the demand, especially if this increases t0 the extent which may reasonably be expected. The producers of the wi must bo placed more and more at a d advantage, boyth from the lack of adequate transportation facili- ties and the increasing cost, of transportation, unless a broad and comprehensive policy shall ob- tain for the improvementand develop- ment of water ways available for trans- portation between the west and the east. Only those who have given the matter careful study have any conception of the enormous traffic of the great lakes. The vessel tonuage passing through the St. Mary's canal for tho fiscal year 1892 amounted to nearly 10,000,000 tons, and the freight tonnage of the Dstroit river was about 25,000,000 tons. This traffic will continue to grow, and with its growth there must come an increase of the facilities o move it. The recogni- tion of this was shown in the convention held at St. Paul a short time ago. In his last annual message to con- gress President Harrison suggested that t was time to consider the expediency of constructing a ship canal around the Falls of Niagara, both in order to be in- dependent of Canadian canals and to avail ourselves of our great natural trade advantages. It is havdly to be ox- pected that the government will undertake so large an enterprise as this in the near future, but there can be no doubt of its ultimate accomplishment. In the moan- time the most important work to be done in this divection is that of deepen- ing the Erie canal, the movement ig attain which has hitherto been re- ferred to. Probably this will have to be dono by tho state of New York, but the great part which this waterway plays in the transporta- tion between the east and the west and the influence it exerts upon rates, make a gocd claim to national assistance for improving it and increasing its useful- ness, The record of the business of the canal shows that in each of the four years, 1888 to 1801, it carried to the port of New York over 30,000,000 bushels of grain, Taking into account only the seven months of each year when the canal is a competitor of the railroads, the canal carried to New York in the four years over 127,000,000 bushels, and all the railroads combined carried 200,000,000 bushels. These figures demonstrate how great a factor the canal is in the problem of transportation, while its value in regulating freight charges, as it competes with all railroads carrying freight to New York, is equally great. The New York Comuercial Bulletin says: “The charge for bringing wheat from the west to this port must control the charge for carrying it to any other port, and the Krie canal becomes a national highway, whose competition reduces the cost of exporting every bushel of grain and every pound of provisions that the country exports, Asthe cost of trans- portation must come out of the proceeds from the sale of the merchandise in Europe every reduction in it is & matter of peeuniary interest to all the farmers of the west.” From this point of view there is & most cogent reason why the national government might properly, for the general good, bear & part of the cost of enlarging the usefulness of this waterway. OF THE eight members at present of the supreme court of the United States, five were appointed as republicans and three as democrats. The vacancy caused by the death of Justice Blatch- ford will of course be filled by the ap- HE OMAHA DAILY BEE;WED a very large part of our corn, and Eu. | pointment of a do rat, making the political standingof the court five re- publicans and four democrats. Of the republican justices the eldest is Horace ay, who is 65, President Harrison appointed throe adédoiate justices of the supreme court, Brewor and Brown re- publicans and Jagkson, democrat. Tt is quite possible that Mr. Cleve- and may be called upon to make a second appointment'during his term of a successor to a ropublican justice, in which case tho supreme court would be- come democratic. It may not bo os- pecially profitable’ to consider what might result from such a change in the political division of this tribunal, In recent years politics has not been so in- fluential there as formerly and it is to bo hoped that the court will never again be s0 subject to political influence as it has been during some periods of its ex- istence. MAYOR WALKER of South Omaha gives the franchised corporations of that city a drastic drubbing in his annual message. Ho thinks the council” has a right to pass ordinances regulating the price of water as well as of gas, electric lights and so forth, and he wants it to make use of that right. He character- izes the street railway company as ‘‘a proud corporation” which ought to be brought to terms, and in passing sug- sests that theso torms might be obtained if the council would impose a liberal tax upon all poles which line and disfigure the streets. Any such proposition will 1o doubt meet a prompt and powerful opposition from all the franchised cor- porations. The prospect of forcing the issue is not just now very promising. THERE was & run on the bank afy Watertown, N. Y., of which Governor Flower is the principal owner. Fiowor is very rich and the bank was positively solvent, but depositors somehow had lost confidence and wanted their money. Thereupon the governor dished out some pretty solid chunks of truth along with the cash. He told his neighbors that it was just such action as their own in demanding monoy they did not necd that was forcing banks to foreclose on mortgages, thereby stopping industri and hurting trade and labor geucrally. The public should recognize tho force of theso utterances. At the same time bankers should remember that while they would have the faith of the people the confidence should be reciprocal. ACCORDING to tho records of the Post- office department, the number of r movals and appointments to postoffices dvring the first four months of the pres- ent administration i3 less than that during a similar poriod of the Harrison administration. If they had compared the first four months ‘of the two terms of President Clevoland, the ratio of de- creasod activity in postal decapitation would probably show a correspondingly great decrease, if not a greater one. The good old days of Adlai's axeare passed. Justnow the hungry herds of demoerats are wondering why they helped to make the change. e m e - TowA authorities continue to practi- cally evade the prohibitory liquor law by imposing fines in the nature of licenses upon those convicted of violat- ing its provisions. Thirteen such of- fenders were recently subject to a fine of $300 and costs in Linn county and eight others to a fine of $400 and costs. The roport has also arrived that the city council of Rock Rapids has fallen into line with its neighbors and has decided to permit the saloons to run openly upon the payment of a monthly fine. High license is making inroads upon the free whisky belt in Towa. THE forthcoming report of the Kansas State bank commissioner is not a bad showing considering the total failure of the wheat crop in half the state and the shortage of over 50,000,000 bushels as com- pared with last year. Up to June 1 the people of Kansas had on deposit $42,000,- 000, $20,000,000 of which was in the state and private banks, and $22,000,000 in national banks. Since June 1, the financial conditions have caused a with- arawal of about $10,000,000, mostly in western Kansas where depositors have little faith in banking institutions, EAST OMAHA nas furnished us an ex- ample of the Towa prohibition saloon. It it to bo hoped that the efforts now being made to exterminate these road houses will_be successful. Were they within the jurisdiction of the Nebraska law it would not take long to blot them out. For the past three or four years Omaha has been comparatively free from the road house vice. This city should make a formal protest to the Council Bluffs authorities and demand that the East Omaha dens be suppressed £verything Goes. New York Recorder. A populist convention out in Columbus, O., has demanded the impeachment of Grover as a eold conspirator “‘pundering to British financiers.” ‘I'his demand was made on the Fourth, and *iv goes,” along with the other fireworks, A Bloe Grass Thrust, Philadelphia Tnquirer, Colonel Watterson's announcement that “President Cloveland has imparted to the vealcer members of his eabnot his dull self- sufticioncy and cold stolidity” is the first relevant testimouy the pulic has had of the star-eyed’s retiromens from politics—under this administration. el The Country: 1s Safe, New York, Tribune, The lutest report from the Delaware peach and his esteomed cowtemporary, the Mary- 1and peach, is most giigpuraging ' They aro feeling first rate and vonfidently expoect to enter the market, on scedule time, 6,000,000 buskets strong. This!# good: nows—and perish the thought thatthe lovely luscious top layer in any one of the 6,000,000 baskets will prove to bo more palatable than any of the wnderlying layers. T Wierd Truthless ‘Tales Philadelphia Record. T'wo ‘auriferous reports come out of the blooming west, which, if true, should serve at least to show a condition of solvency. The first report is that the Mormons in Utah are raising $1,000.000 to buy from congress an enabling act admiwing Utah into the union as & state. The othor report is of a somewhat similar tenor, to-wit, that tho sil- ver lovds in Colorado are gatliering a cor- ruption fund with which to carry free silver colnage through bouse and senate and over he head of the president, willy nilly, into the statute book. If either of these reports could pe authenticated there would be joy awoag the lobbylng deadbeals who hang around Washington to sell impossiblo logis. lation and to gather in the cash of thew dupes. But, badly as the people of Utah may desire statehood, and much as thoe sil- yer miners would Iiko 1o exohange silver bul- lion for lagal tondor silver doliars, pound for pound, they are not raising any money for the Washington lobby, It is an abuse of the public intelligence to print such fabrica- tions, [ —— Sympathy In Misfortune. New York World, Iown is a great, rich, gonerous state, She will take care of her' unfortunate with an ungrudging hand, asking no alms of others, But in her affiction sho has at any rato the tenderly compassionate sympathy of all the peoplo. P — Republicans and Leglsiation, Globe-Demoerat, The country will be made to undorstand At the outset that the republicans recognize no partisanship in the financial question. In all branches of the government the demo- crats are in control, and to them, as the people aro acoustomed to Judes such mattors, will belong tho entire vesponsibility for the conduct of the government on this issue, However, in this oxigency the republicans will repudiate this narrow estimate of party duty and accountability and _ will sink parti- sanship in patriotism. There will be no maneuvering on their side for party ad- vaniage. The sole consideration with thom will be’ the country's prestize and pros- perity. They soe the poril which contronts ndustry and trade and their endeavor wiil bo to avert it. In doing this they will, ns concerns thomselvos, koop politics rigidly in the background and contont themsoivos with the reflection that the country will judge their motives and their actions justly. prdhodie il Inlquity of Loose Divorce Laws. Prof. Brun in_North Ameriecan Review, Once divorce laws aro enactod, married couples take advantage of them who would never have dreamed of soparating and would have patched up their quarrels and differ- cnces it there had not boen such an casy way out of the matrimonial bond. No man would have ever thought, unless the law favored a loose way out of wediock, to write: “Mary. if you love 1ae, or ever did love mo, you will_apply for a divoree, as thero is an’ other woman “whom I could’ love.” As the scope of the lawis littlo by little enlarged, an iucreasing number scek and obtain aivorces, and after a while it becomes o per- foctly rospectablo thing to contract what might be called experimental wmarriages. In the west, especially, socioty receives back divorcees. "Tho palaces of the well-to-do are open to them. Churches do not cast them out, and ministers welcome thom at their communion tables. They ihay oceupy posi tions of trust and houor, two or throe divorees to their crodit side notwithstand- ing. And we aro told that such sights have no influence on the growing generation of boys and gl This is not true. Touch the rising gencration by object lessons ab un ago when impressions are deep and lasting, that men and women may, without losing caste, divorco at pleasurs, and the notion of the sanctity of the family life 15 undermined. Anthony Joseph Drexel, PhiladelphiaLedgor, Upon the groat multitude of Anthony J. Drexel's friends, here and abroad, the ' in- telligence of his death falls with inexpressi- ble sorrow and anguish. To all who knew him it will fall as a public calamity, far- reaching and inestimable. Mr. Anthony Drexel was oune of the proprictors of the Public Ledger, the honored partuer, the be loved friend aud daily companion of the su viving proprietor, George W. Childs. The Ledger can here give no impression of the loss it has suffered, in all w: that make its loss most Kkeenly, profoundly felt. It can buv record fis love, its es- teem, its admiration for ono who stood so wear to it, and who sympathized with it, and its purposes of pubhie good. All those in the employ of George W. Childs and Anthony J. Drexel cannot say farewell to this noble gentleman without paying their tribute of respect to his worth, to his sincer- ity, friendliness and generosity. Anthony J. Drexel’s loss to society, to which he gave the best example of true and noble living, is severe. To those who were near to him, in relationship, friendship, labor, to whom every word and act was indly, fricndly, the sense of loss is greater than can bo ex- pressed. No tribute that shall be paid him will do justice to the nobility of his charac- ter and life. A Christian gentleman in thought and deed, the world is poorer today that hie is no longer of it. A man of greatest worth, his memory will be blessed and kept New York Si There is the ring of a Colorado $10 gold piece in the remark of a Pueblo correspond- ent of The Sun: *If every silver mine in Colorado were closed at once the devression would be serious, but within a few days 90 per cent of all the men involved would be en- wed in other Jines, 8o that tho result would ly be a chahge of their fields of indus- This is the true spirit of strength and effielency. 1If one thing won't go, get at another; if the crops are poor, try teaming; if there is no money in Wall street, look for it along the docks; if the hens don't lay eggs, sheer the sheep for their wool ; if the horse is too luzy trade him off for a mule; if thero is no call for the white metal, dig for the yellow or plant po- tatoes. The stateof Colorado has prodig- ious resources other than those of 1ts “silyer mines. Its farm products have already run up to $60,000.000 a year, its cattle product to §34,000,000, its coal product to £55,000,000, and manufacturing product to' &10,000,000, fand indus- an be enlarged indefinitely to the at one its though but na tenth of the is under cultivation, whilo tho other tries public advantage, ~ In California. time, mining was almost the but now the people give th: the tillago of the soil, the raising of fruits, the making of wines, the breeding of choice. cattle and other industries, which give em- ployment to more hands and greater profit to the community than the mining of the precious metals cver gave. We must toll the few calamity howlers orado that they are not sensible men. The state will be all the better off when thoso of its people who may lose by the fall in silver turn their minds to something elso. SIGHTS AT THE FAIR, It has been settled that the total attena- auco on tho Iourth was 824,344 and now it is promised that on 1llinois’ day the crowd will bo twico as large. Phil ! biggest day av the Centennial was In the Agricultural building the island of Borneo, famous in song, mukes a fine exhibit of tobacco, the planters hoping to_introduco its use as wrappers in America, The leaf is large, silky, of good color, and it is claimed is superior to the Sumatra tobacco now in use. One of tho interesting things Philadol- phians should see at Chicago is the disvla of the University of Pennsylvania, especially the archuolc vart of it, including the Babylonian antiqutios, which are only ex- celled, it s said, by thosc of the British Muscum. An erroncous impression indulged in by many is that tho Woman's building is fillad with quilts and patehwork and kuitted socks, or sowething of tho kind. As u matter of fact the building and the exlibits it con- tains arcas attractive to people of both sexes as anything t be scon on the grounds, In the Krupp pavilion may bo seen com pound armor plate for vessels even thiol than that which proved so usclogs a proto tion for the unfortunate Victoria which went down the other day with hundreds of souls on board. This plate looks as though it would withstand tho assaults of all the bat- teries and all the powerful war rams in the world. But defenses are no sooner made stronger than wmeans of attack grow more powerful. In the Utah silk exhibit in the Woman's building there 18 shown a pair of white satin curtaius, The silk worms and the cocoons were raised in Jwh, the silk was spun there and woven on a handioom, are embroidered with sogo flowers, Utah's ofticial emblew, so that from beginning to ond tho ourtains aro ropresentutive of Utab's industries. Skeins of raw silk, od silk and sll the tools used are-ex- hibited, while n a separato casc is tho first silk dross make i Utah with some. band. made silk shawls twenty years old. The Bedouin Arabs who came to the ex- position under special firman of the sultan of Turkey, now have their exhibition iu full operation 'on tho plaisance. There a nearly 300, incluaing the - women and ¢ dren.” ‘They have their own blooded Arabisu horses with them, and horses from the sul- tan's own stud, ‘camels and dosert camp cquipage, ete. Thoy give » wonderful ex- hibition of daring horsemanship, battles of the desert aud customs of & people fast dis- appearing under the influence of civilization. MOSHER'S NENTENCE, Kearney Hub: Tho sentence Is the lightest permissivle, and although no heavier than expected {s nevertheless too light by abous ten years. Fremont Herald: A contemptibly small sontence of five yoars. If thore ever was s man who betrayed the confidence of his friends, 1t is the Lincoln bank robber. He stole a million and nobody appoars to know whore any of it has gone to, And many well informed people believe he has it yet. Grand Island Independent: The sentonce is an extremely light one and should have been fifty years instoad of five. Tt is botter, however, than to have permitted the erima to bo smoothed over by tho payment on tha part of the thief to the large number of depositors of such sums s he Fobbed them, But the lightness of the sontenco is belioved | by some to be a sort of compromise. If that is true, it forms a sufMclontly serious condi- tion. The rich may compromise; but the poor? Watchman, what of the poor? Fremont Tribune: Judgo Dundy has finally been persuaded to sontenco Bank Wrecker Moshor to the penitentiavy and the poor fellow has been given fivo yoars, which by good behavior will probably be reduced to threo and a talf. I ho had boen promptly sentenced Lo ton years immodiately aftor pleading guilty the people would have boen partly appeased in their demands for justice. They have become irritateds by tempor and delays of the law, and are scarcely mood 1o believe his ‘punishment anything like adequate to his crime. Beatrico Times: Thus onds the farce, We would like to propound just one question to Judge Dundy: Had there been brought before him a man who had broken into tho homes of Lincoln in the night time and robbed her citizens of $200,000, would he for & moment have thought that confinement.in tho penitentiary for a period of five years was anything like o sufficient penalty the crime? Wo think not. And yet hero is a man whose crime is infinitoly worse than that of common burglary or robbory, who. to all intents and purposes, is sent out a free man. A turlesque upon justice is about all that can be made out of the case. Lincoln News: The Mosher travesty is not yot ended. It bogan months ago when the “great pull and haul to save tho bank wrecker was begun by his ipfluential friends and it neared tho end last Saturday when Judge Dundy imposed the farcical sentence of five years in the government prison at Sioux Falls, and ordered him to serve the greater part of tho time at Lincola. The spectacle of blind, groping justice attempting to com- bat the combined forces of wealth and in- fluence has becn a sight for gods and men, and it was fitting that the closing act should bo the administering of a five years' sontonce to a man who had stolen 21,000.000. That the punishment is grossly inadequate to fit his crime the News need not repeat, AND THINGS. PEOP Ambition to get above the rest of mankind partly accounts for balloonery. Towa differs from Kansas on the calamity issue. The former does not howl before or squeal after the blow. Indianapolis is heroically moving to un- cover her pavements, The' oftice of inspec- tor of weeds has beenscreated. Mow power to the Hoosier capital. The hoodoo theory is getting in its work in Ohio. Ex-Governor Campbell has been caught for 5,000, having accommodated a friend with his autograph. A guuner at Governor's ruptured the rules of war by shots on the morning of the Fourth. He is threatened with court martial. Let him emulate Patrick Heunry and appeal to the country, Financial ruin stares the duke of Veragua in the face. The duke 18 said to have in- vested on the strength of an electric-welded tip on French stocks. Nowathe auctioncer threatens to hoist the red flag on Veragua's ancestral castles. At the auction sale the other day of the personal property of the late Governor Halo of New Hampshire, stocks having a par value of 00,000, and promissory notes with a face value of 857,000, were sold to the highest bidder for less than &7. ‘The only sign of great age in Marshal Mac- Mahon, who recently celebrated his 86th birthd is his lack of teeth. When a molar passes the time of its usefulness the ox-president accepts the loss philosophically, and refuses to call on a dentist to repair the damago. . Mrs. Lewis Ri of Frederick, Md., has collected enough money to place a moro im- posing wonument upon the grave of Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star Spangled Banner,” than the flat marble slab which now marks 1t in Mount Olivet cemetory, Georgetown. Some faithful advocates of *the powers that be" are pumping flot invoctive at a vroposition, originating in Colorado, to raise a big roll for use in lubricating congress in a manner. Suppose the roll is large \ ATy aders to infer the rotund democratic majority is susceptible to the in- fluence of *‘de stuff?”” Perish the thought! A Chicago man who lost an arm and three fingers in a collision with a locomotive at a de crossing was given a judgment for §25,- 3 against the offending company. Had tho man been killed outright, 85,000 would have been the limit of the judgment. From a flnancial point of w, the railroads woula be the gainer by killing instead of cr It Mr. Beauchamp Clark, or amp” Clark, as he prefers to bo cailed, is correctly ported, he must. be another Dink Botts. Mr. Clark made a speech at the Tammany banquet on the Fourth of July and sinco that time has been telling the reporters what a island, firing Wiy Wo extra rou lo man he is. Mr. Clark is from somewhero in Missouri and is believed to have a private graveyard, NERRASKA AND NENRASK 4 Hitchoook county will sottle its county seat fight July 81, Dodge couny; changing hand: to &30 per acre, Holdrege poople are proud bocauss the ex- pross company has furnished o fne wagon and team to handle local businoss. The Buffalo county teachers institute which meots at Kearney July 31, will bo en: tortained by a course of leotures on natural history by Dr. Josso Holmes of Washington. 14 Longnecker of Schuylar, who thinks he Is owner and managor of a large opera troupe, has been sent to the Norfolk insane asylum to recuperate. Ho has led & very dissipated life, A 10.yoar-old boy named Anderson has taken rofuge at Wayno from what he al loges is the cruelty of his fathor. The lad says ho was driven from homo by his paront and was forced to walk eighteon miles from the farm to Wayno. Some miscreant entered Boehl & Schier's mill at Holdroge at night and dotached pieces of the enginoe, leaving the machinery in such shapo that when started the whole engine would bo ruined. Luckily the en: rineer discovered vhe condition of affairs and 80 no damago was done . TIPS THAT TICKLE. farms are said to still be At prices ranging from $34 Philadelphin T1 o 806 the glow worr Buffalo Courfel make a game 1 It's InteresUpg eves parking in the park. t lsn't every one who cur 1 qual] New Orleans Pleayuno: A eltizon of O do can force the yleld of ‘silver if ho h mine to, a Cleveland Plain Dealer: The way out of It, for Australia, is to set her pugilists to killing rabbits, J Dallas Nows: In a woll-regulatod family the olive branch of peace Is sometimes u stout hickory sprout. Lowoell Courlor: Although rhoumatism must bo yery undesirable, many peopls seot bout on huviug it. — . Blmira Gazotto: Jagson says the only way 0 make homo attractive to our boys 1s o rent 1610 s0me othor family. Somerville Journal: Noarly every man car- rlos a watermelon homo {n his arms at loast once during a lifotime. Hardly any man, over, does It more thun once. Philadelphia Record: “Most of the people T Ko to see don't caro atall to see me,” sald the collector; “yotnearly all of them ask wme to ‘eall awain, ™ Texas Siftings: A Boston man reafling that wore 4,000 Poles in New York exclalmed: “What u spléndid placo to raise beans!" Truth: “A rolling stone gathers no moss, my boy: don't forget that.” I know, pator; but think what a move it gots on 1tself!" Momphis Appeal: The fool seekoth to pluck the fly from the mule’s hind log, but tho wise man fotteth tho Job to tho Tow st bidder, Yonkers Statesman: Some mien aro so indo- lent that they wouldn’t even take thelr aso it they had to o out of thelr way to get it. Chteago Record: People who have had a chance to study the Chicago river in its pros- ent condition will scoff at the theory that any micrabe could live in it for an instant. A STRING ON 1118 FINGER, TOO. New Yors Press, Broathos thero & man with soul so doad Who never to his wife hath said: STl ot forget a singlo thing That you've requested me to bring When T eome home tonight.” And thon Comes empty handed home again. R Information Wanted. Denver Itepublican. We would like to have some gold bug tell the people of this country just how the re- peal of the Sherman law would induce gold to come into the United States from Europe at the rate of 0,000,000 a vear, especially when the Bank of England refused to seil gold vars at any prico, as it does at present, el CIRCUMS CES AND OASES. Ths Century. “Thore's plenty of work for this morning,” shio o “Thora's buling, uud scrabbing, and swosping oeside.” But she went at the baking with laughter and d as she finishod, “that didn't take And then to the scrubbing—and how she did serub! The bourds were like snow when she gave tho last rub. Her hands were so deft and her arms wero 5o trong: An(? nlllyu :nhl, as she finlshed, “that didn't take long.” And then to the sweeping—she made the dust ly. She Tboked at her work with acritical oyo. And you all the timo she kept buuiming a 50N, And she tack tuke long. 1to the last verse, that didn's » Tho dinner was over, the work was all “And now for that errand,” she said ono; must k comes 80 soon when the days are 50 And off she went, humming a verse of that song. The rond sho'd to travel was as stralght us a dte, Sho know every step, and she meant Just to fly; But she mot an acquaintance down there by the stilo, And somehow—that errand—it took a good while, a out also. tions all along the line, styles are to be had. ry evenin; rday ulll Btore open PO BROWNING, KING Lurgest Manufacturers and Rotallers ol Clothing u 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 slew of summer They’ll have to be sold There are too. On second floor the children's goods are getting That lot of boys' vacation suits at $1.50 are worth nearly twice as much money. Reduc- Economical people will buy now when the BROWNING, KING & CO., wioia |8, W, Cor 10th and Douglas Sts, e