Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 18, 1893, Page 4

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SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. of Nebraska, | County of Dougla. { Geo, B, Tanchuck, Sacroty noen mpa wolemnly swoar that the S tinon Fiow Tor 1o wook July 15,1 Sunday Mo 8800 10 00 5 00 2 60 200 150 100 t Commerce. 15, Tribune Sta July Bl Thurada Friday, J ~t= SWORN to before me and subscribed in The Beo in Chicago. Tre DALY and SuNpAy BER 1s on sale in Chieago at the following places: Palmer hou Grand Paci Auditorium hotel. Great Northorn hotol. Gore hotel, Leland hotel. Files of Tk Ber can bo secn at the Ne- braska building and the Administration build- ing, Exposition eround Average Clrculation for Ji ONLY three weeks more and tho con- gressional grist will be grinding. DISTANCE bicyelo rides to the fair have become a fad. Bidders for cheap and flickering fame continue to multipl. ARIZONA rowdies have burned Presi dont Cleveland in effigy. This is about ws far as the bold-tongued silver men will venture to go in carrying out their threats of bloody vengeance. WHEN the governor of Colorado fully realizes how thoroughly he has been sat down upon it is altogether likely he will wait a good while before giving ut- terance to another silver-man yawp. ProPHI I is in disgrace. The total ction of the World's fair builaings which he predicted for Sunday did not oceur, of course. Mr. Plunkett will begin to realize shortly that the world existed long before he 'cumbered it. ANOTHER noteworthy European li- *brary - is coming to the United States, this time to become the property of the University of the City of New York. The appreciation of culture has obtained a strong foothold in this country. Only time is neefled for its general recogni- tion. THE World's fair intorcollegiate base ball tournament has ended. For a monoy muking scheme to which none of the larger univorsities gave official countenance, the tournament has: been making a great deal more noise than its position in the college world would war- rant, ‘WHILE the Omaha police are not able to foresee just where a murderous out- break may occur among the lawless ele- ments, they are not failing to apprehend the criminals before they have had time to escape. The police are doing their duty. The rest remains for the prose- suting attorneys and the courts. THE program promulgated by the committee for the Grand Army reunion at Grand Island this summer is one that offors many attractions for the veteran. Columbian year has called forth extra efforts from those in charge of all the great annual assemblies and the coming Nebraska encampment promises to sur- pass those of previous years. Tue New York Sun chronicles the exit of a piece of glass from a Staten Island man’s cheek where it had been lodged thirty-two years. As if that were anything remarkable! Just come west and examine the hard substances found in the cheeks of most of our poli- ticians whore they have been lodged for years innumerable without succeeding in working an escape. ToE path of Wandelkolk, the admiral who decamped with a Brazilian war ves- sol, has not proven so smooth us he no doubt had hoped. Itisa serious thing for u naval officor to disobey the com- mands of his superiors for he is every- where subject to summary proceedings. In those days it requires more than one vessel to support & naval war although smong the needy republics of South America, THE attorneys for the Jay Gould es- tate have secured a writ of certiorari to have the valuation of the property left by the millionaire railway magnate ro- duced from $10,000,000, at which it was fixed. The heirs evidently put no faith in the compensatory thoory of the in- heritance tax which proceeds on the ground that it sceks merely to make up for the taxes which the deceased evaded during his lifo time. Thoy prefer to evade taxes both before and after death. Now the Colorado silverites have dis- covered that what impelled India to dis- continue the free coinage of silver at the time it did was the fear that the *teUnited States would get ahead of it by repealing the Sherman silver purchase act first. Just what bearing this im- portant piece of information has upon our present financial situation is too in- finitessimal to be seen with the naked eye. Congress must view the suspen- sion of silver coinage in India as an ac- complished fact. The motive that led to the accomplishment is altogether im- waterial. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. Throee of the savings banks of Denver olosed their doors yesterday because they were unable to secure the currency needed to meet urgent obligations. They are reported to be in perfectly sound condition so far as assots are con- cerned, but they required currency to s considerable amount, and when they sought to obtain it in the east they met with refusal. Eastern bankers may not have been especially alarmed at the incendiary threats and frenzied utterances of advo- cates of free silver coinage at the Denver mecting last woek, but they most nat- urally concluded that it was the part of wisdom not to send any more of their money to that section for the present. There is already & very large amount of | eastern ecapital invested in Colorado. The development of that state, as of other western states, was made possible | by the investments there of castern cap- ital. Doubtless these investors have done well and in the end will lose noth- ing, but in view of the attitude of a por- tion of the people of Colorado toward the capitalists of the east the latter can- not fairly be blamed if they decline to go in any deeper in that quarter. With conditions that call for the utmost caution it would manifestly be unreasonable to ex- pect eastern bankers to look with favor upon any sort of secarities from a state where such sentiments are entertained as have been uttered by Governor Waite and other free silver advocates. The talk of repudiation and revolution that has come from Colorado, however ridiculous it may appear to most people, 1 is taken seriously in financial circles, and although an attempt has been made to mitigate its effect by asserting that it did not rvopresent the general sontiment of the people it is dem- onstrated that its influence has been detrimental. That it will take some time to overcome the damaging influence of the intemperate utterances of the free silver men is certain, and in the meantime the experionce of the people of Colorado is likely to be such asto lead them to rebuke most vigorously the violent and unwarranted declarations of the men who have assumed to speak for them. They must realize that the cause of silver has been injured rather than helped by the reckless threats and wild vaporings of the champions of free coin- age, and in addition thereto there isa 1oss of confidence in the integrity of the people of Colerado, which is a far more serious matter to th than would bn the absolute demonetization of silver. Colorado is being taught a lesson that ought to be generally instructive, and which we hope will not need to be re- peated. CONVINCING BY EXPERIMENT. The United States has from the very beginning of its history been one vast field for a succession of experiments in all branches of human activity. The federal constitution adopted in 1787 was viewed largely as an experiment by its most ardent supporters. The Missouri compromise, thé compromise of 1850, the reconstruction acts, the interstate commerce law—all were instances of ex- perimental legislation, for the suceess of which their promovers had unbounded hopes joined with many misgivings. Our currency laws have almost univer- sally been in the nature of experiments adapted in more or less degree from the acts passed by foreign or domestic logis- lative bodies. But the Sherman silver purchase act is, we believe, the first ex- periment of so great a magritude which was inaugurated by the votes of men who viewed the measure purely as a means of showing that it was inexpedi- ent and wrong. Senator Sherman in his recent letter addrossed to Congressman Walker says distinctly that the act to which his name has unwittingly been attached was in- tended to convince advocates of the free and unlimited coinage of silver that their position is untenable. He pre- ferred a compromise such as was en- acted to the veto of a free coinage bill because he did not believe that a veto by the president would dispel the craze that then existed for free coinage. “Many people,” he says, ‘‘wanted the experiment tried. The result of the experiment of buying 4,500,000 ounces of silver a month at its market value was the bost antidote against the pur- chase of all the silver of the world at one-third more than its market value.” In other words, the astute senator means to say that he was willing to give the calf a little rope in order to show that, if it had more, it would ultimately hang itself. As to the results of this measure en- acted into law for the purpose of con- vincing by experiment, few will be able to coincide in their views with Senator Sherman. He assumes that the repub- lican senators and members who agreed to the roport of the conferonce commit- tee in 1800 will in the main vote for the vepeal of the silver purchase clause and hopes “that our political friends who folt bound by the local interests of their constituents to advocate that clause of frce coinage will be convinced by that experiment made that the only position we can occupy in the interests of our country at large is one of a fixed stand- ard of value and the use of both metals maintained at par with each othor on & ratio as near as possible o their market value.” No doubt a fow of the republican senators have with Senator Sherman honestly changed thoir minds aud are ready to vote for a dis- continuance of the experiment. Some of the congressmen who supported the conference report in deference to the wishes of their constituents may have become so0 bold as now to stand by their original personal convictions, A few more may be brought over by a skillful use of federal patronage. But to imagine that the disastrous workings of the Sherman silver purchase act have really altered the opinions of many of the real free silver men is folly of the worst kind. Any one who will look around at the vigorous campaign which the free coinage men are at present making against the repeal of the act in question will understand that instead of being convinced that the law of 1890 went too far, they feel that it did not go far enough, and that nothine short of the free and unlimited coinage of silver will THE OMAHA DAILY B restore the country to its former pros- perity. Exnerimental legislation 1s very good in its place. Every such law has its own function to perform in doveloping the institutions and customs of the veo- ple. An experiment for which we may reasonably oxpect success may be de- fended although it fails. An experi- ment whose sole object is to convince people that it is itself wrong, is indefen- sible. LIOENSE TAXES IN NEBRASKA, Judge Scot® must have been imagining that he was laying down the law in somo ideal commonwealth of his own fantastic construction when he gave his decision declaring that the city of Omaha had no authority to impose a license tax upon the coal dealers doing business within its territorial limits. If the judge, be- fore writing out his opinion, had taken the troublo to cast his eye over the pages of the act governing cities of the metropolitan class, he might possibly have discovered a paragraph reading something like this: Section 65. The mayor. and council shall have power to tax, license and regulate pawnbrokers, auctioneers, employment agen- cies, commission merchants, brokers, insur- ance officers, fusurance agents, surveyors engineers, architects, house movers, hawk- ers, peddlers, telegraph, telephone or ex- press interest or business, coal dealers, and also such kind of business or vocation as the public good may require, ete. If this is not express authority given to the city to raise revenue by taxing certain designated occupations we should like to know how the grant of power could be made more express and explicit. How can the city collect a tax or a license without deriving a revenue? Does the word tax give any indication of tho purposes to which the re- ceipts are to be applied so long as they bo public purposes? Or does the word license imply anything re- stricting the amount to the sum neces- sary to defray the expenses of regulat- ing the particular business or occupa- tion? The charter says “‘tax, license and regulate,” not “tax and license to defray the expenses of regulating.” Having misread the provisions of the charter, the judge goes on to” say that oven if there were an express grant of such authority he would none the less declare the coal dealers’ license ordi- nance void and of no effect. The reason upon which the decisson is based is that his financial theory contains no place for a license tax. It is “wrong in prin- iple” and when anything conflicts with his personal idea of principle, it must be turned down, all constitutions, charters, ordinances to the contrary notwithstand- ing. In Judge Scott’s ideal commonwealth license taxes may be “‘at war with the genius and spirit of the government.” In tho state of Nebraska, happily, they have received support from that tribunal to which we all look for authoritative interpretations of the law. In the case of State vs. Bennett (19 Neb. 101), a li- cense tax imposed upon liquoe dealers by the city council of Plattsmouth was upheld although it amounted to 500, and was an addition to the license ex- acted under the state law. After citing numerous decisions in support of his po- sition, Chief Justice Maxwell said: Many other cases to the samo effect could be cited, but in view of our constitution and statute-it seems unnecessary as the power to impose taxes upon certain occupations, including liguor dealers, is expressly con- ferred. % Another opinion of the chief justioe in Caldwell vs. Lincoln (19 Nebraska 569) has held that the city council of Lincoln had authority to levy license taxes upon any occupation or business within the limits of the city with the sole proviso that they be uniform within the class. Finally in Magneau vs. Fremont (30 Nebraska 843) it was once more decided that cities of the second class had been given authority by the legislature to raise revenue by means of license taxes on particular occupations. In this case Judge Norval went very carefully into the question of constitu- tionality and concluded that the only limit upon the exercise of that power is that such taxes be uniform as to persons and property. Such being the decisions on the sub- ject within this state, it seems altogether unnecessary for any judge to attempt to overrule,without regard to them,statutes duly enacted by thestate legislature, Ttis fortunate that we have a subreme court wisely ordained by the framers of our constitution for the express purpose of correcting the errors committed by in- ferior tribunals. SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS. Ex-Governor Thayer cannot forgive Superintendent Burnham of the World's fair for discarding the plans of Archi- toct Wood for a Nebraska building and substituting those of Henry Voss. Ina recent interview on the subject General Thayer is quoted as saying: In thrusting aside Woods, and his plan, Superintendent Burnham of the World fair was guilty of low trickery and decep- tion. His conduct was most discreditable of all officers of the fair. He was the willing instrument in having Voss made tne archi- tect. For what purpose may hereafter be disclosed. Tho building is charged up to Nebraska as costing $16,000. Builders and men who have built extensively say the building ought never to have exceeded $3,000 by one dollar. But grant it justly cost $10,000, why is it made to cost §16,0001 A gentleman who knows whereof he af- firms states that a great number of protests have been filsd agaiust Burnham for one cause or another. He will probobly get over- hauled yet. Ho is snid to have become very wealthy, 1know nothing as to that. Ne- braska has not done with him yot. This is not the first time that General Thayer has given voice publicly to these grave accusations against Mr. Burnham, While the general is guarded in his language, ho might just as well have made the positive statenient that he had knowledge of corrupt transactions on the part of Mr. Burnham in connection with the construction of the Nebraska building. The effect of his inuendoes will be fully as damaging as would have been a direct charge against Mr, Burn- ham, Allegations of crookedness on the part of Mr. Burnham in this matter cannot be made without challenging the integ- rity of Commissioner Garneau and the contractor and architect of the Nebraska building. No one but ex-Governor Thayer has felt called upon to condemn TUESDAY. tho work of thess men. the Nebraska hulv g at the fair has been a disappointment to many, but when the cost of it is considered, there is little ground for just complaint. Wo beliove that the ¢hatfres should be sup- ported by some More tangible evidence to entitle them to any. eredence It is true that NICARAGUA PXNAL TROUBL The Nicaragua canal entorprise has come to a halt. @hes money of the con= struction company has been exhausted and work on the canal has stopped. Tt is thonght that thestéppage will be only temporary, but this will depend entirely upon the ability of the company to raise funds for carrying on the work. It has aplan for issuing bonds to the amount of $85,000,000, and figuring the probable costof the canal down to $56,000,000 it is proposed to use the difference between the newly ostimated cost and the amount of the bonds for the payment of interost durtng construction. Itis also proposed to establish an active propaganda all over the country, preliminary to placing the bonds upon the market. In view of the fact that the canal com- pany has not been able to raise the amount necessary for the completion of the enterprise during the period when there was an abundant supply of money secking investment there is obviously vory small chance of its bsing atle to market bonds undor present financia l conditions, and it may bo considerable time before the money market is in a shape to take any large amount of securities of this kind. It is somewhat remarkable that after all that has been said and done to show the com- mercial importance and the probable ul- timate value as an investment of this un- dertaking, the investing public should still manifest such a lack of confidence init. There has never been any exten- sive demand for canal securities, and of course thero is less now than ever. Had the government assumed responsibility for the boads of the canal company, as was proposed in congress, doubtless the work would now be actively advancing, but public sentiment was clearly against the government having any finan- cial identification with the pro- ject. Very likely, however, another effort will be made to secure national aid. The canal will undoubtedly be completed at some time, but it will be long after the date named at the incep- tion of the enterpr FRIENDS of the impeached and ac- quitted state officials insinuate that the application for a rehearing of the cele- brated case is inspired by a desire to re- duce the appropriation, of which there remains unexpended ahout $5,000. This story will not wash, of course, but it shows the spirit of. the Lincoln crowd toward the impeachment managers. These latter gentlemen have done their duty to the swate, whose interests they watched and ' protected with ability and firmness. When the case had been tried and a decision rendered, only two-thirds of the appropriation had been used. This is a creditable showing for the impeachment managers, who have been painstaking and economical in the conduct of the case. Instances have been rare in this state where a balance on the right.side of the ledger could be shown in any appropriation made for a specific purpose. ‘WHATEVER may be the final outcome of the issue between the city and the coal dealers in respect to the license or aceupation tax, the council should adopt radical measures for the preveation of short weight coal. The price of havd and soft coal in Omaha is and has for years been cxcessive. Consumers are forced to pay enough for full weights. Existing ordinances designed to protect private consumers from short weigit are practically inoperative. ANOTHER Parisian correspondent has gotten entangled by his dispatches, and this time he is threatened with the loss of his French naturalization. Truly the lot of the European news gatherer is not an enviable one. Smacks of Gore, Philadelphia Time: It is omnious in connection with the state's present thirst for the country’s blood that Colorado is good Spanish for red. e noouraglug Sigo. Globe-Democrat. The most encouraging feature of the busi- ness situation is tho long trains of cars loaded with grain that are now moving from the west to the east. e The Poor Man' nie, Philadelphia Pr Mr. Chauncey M. Depeyw is right in think- ing that the poor man’s panic is to como. Meddling with the currency has brought on a famine by which rich men have suffered. Meddling with the tariff is bringing on a panic by which poor men will suffer, ——— Let the Tarlr Watt, Globe-Democrat, If congross pushes its silver vepeal bill vig- orously and takes lots of time over its tarift bill ali will bo well. Four out of every five persons in the country want repeal justas s00n a8 it can be had, whilo the same propor- tion of persons are willing to wait for tarift changes for a year or two yet or longer, s The Army of Kalirond St, Louis Liepublic, The increasing mmportance of railroading inthe United States 'is shown by tho crease in tho number of railway employ 55,000 having been added! to tho list during the year covered by the last reportof the interstate commission.” One person in about every ninety of the country's whabitants is now engaged in railroading. il Fallure of Fater, New Yqrk, World. These attempts to ambody vagaries and vicious thoories in law are quite too prey- alent. The legitimate functioas of republi- can government and (the rights of individ- uals are alike overlooked by the fanatics and the ignoramuses who atrive to crystallize their crankiness in law, Tho failure of the state dispensary experiment in South Caro- lina is excellent as & warning. emrrergr— The Rel ng. Grand Mamfm ppendent. Tho impeachment committes unanimously moved for a reheaving of the caso against the state ofticers, Allen, Humphrey and Hastings. Hon. G. M. Lambertson has been instructed to prepare and file the necessary motion aud argue the same. The points upon which this action is stated are not given out. The result of the previous trial was not satisfactory to the peoplo of this state and it is to bo~ hoped thay the rehear- ing will not be a farce. e—— No Compromise, New York Triune, President Clevelaud cannot afford to give the htest countenauce Lo a0y compro- wise, He has uothing to gain thereby and everything to lose. ‘I'hie country has tray- cled 80 far on the road of liquidation aad coutraction of credits that it can infinively An ployes. lsm, ] botter make an end of monetary agitation without some new exporiment. Confldence is already so far impaired that 1t is not to bo resto 1 by huif measures. loast y 1 ing to evil tendencies in the president's party would now destroy his influence. Thus the president cannot now afford to consider the state bank scheme, which would only arouse new apprehension at home 1 new distrast abroad. Ho cannot afford to think of coiuage on somo new ratio, for the world has beon rapidly educated of late to the idea that the rolation botwoon sitver and gold is not and nnot be determined. ey Monest Mon led by AlL Philadelphia Times, Thera is no hattle botween the masses of the people and the so-called “gold bugs on the currency issuo. 1t is tho intorest of all classes and conditions, and cspe torest of all industrial peoplo, t 3 est money should bs known 1n this countey; and no 1 1 bo honost that 1s not in trinsic or that does not repres nd is convertible at she will of o holder. Honost, monoy—that is, dollars which are dollars in fact or ropresentatively is essontial to the safetv of all. 1f gold or silver, it must bo worth its faco value; 1f notes, it must bo redocmablo in what is a dollar at home and abroad. In shott, honost money 13 what is needed by every class and section of the union, and whenover we get honest money the country will prosper. - il To Wed Silver and Gold, Mr. J. M. Bomisof Boston, president of the Bomis Omaha Bag company, has ad- dressed the following lotter to tho editor of the Boston Traveller: “Changes are the inevitable result of timo. Progress is a rosult of changes. Sailing ships aro supersedod by steamshins; horse power by stoam and_olectricity; muils by telephono and tolograph. Products for pro- ducts do not now constituto the basis for the world's commerce, but products for money. “Each nation has its own standard for what it calls money, gold being the ono motal most in favor, but gold production does not keep pace with civilization and pop- ulation, both of which demand more moncy. *Now let the nations of the world in money matters wake up and take a_progrossive step as they have done in overything el promote civilization, namely, lot the for silver bo wedded' to the maid gold, and form a new union coin composed of twenty parts silvor and ono part gold. Lot tho two bomade one. Then havo froe coinage the world over. All moneys are_transported for an advalorom charge. I'ierefore tho woight has nothing to do with the rate for trans- portation. “International bimetallism is the only solu- tion for the present money conditions In the world, ana the quicker this wedding botween silver‘and gold is consummated, tho botter it will be for all concerned. Once consummated, the rejoicings over the marriage of the duke of York and Princess Mary of Teck will be exceeded by 10,000 times.” PEOPLE AND THINGS. Headsman Maxwell has taken a vacation, but the ax will continue business at the old stand. v three members of the Borlin congre aro now alive—Bismarck, Salisbur, ddington. A Kansas rainmaker who smote the am- bient air and produced a cloudburst is now confrouted with a large bill of dama proverty. Ivena rainmaker may overdew the business. The nawab of Rampur is v cred whito elephant in Ch young. fair looking, well edus and enormously rich. A score of wives are guarding tho seal of state during his ab- sence. Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge, re- tived, is suid to be the oldest living ofticer in the United States navy. Heis now in his 91st year, and was appointed as a midship- man from Massachusctts on New Year's day, 1818 In bidding farewell to Lioutenant Peary at a dinner given to the latter at Portland, Me., ex-Speaker Reed said he (Reed) was going back to Washington soon, and was thereforo entitled to as’ much sympathy as was the adventurous Arctic explorer. A temperance socicty in New York sends under ofticial sanction, a lunch wagon to overy fire, As soon as an alarm is sounded driver and cook spring upon the wagon, and while it is being rushed within the fire lines hot coffee wnd a generous lunch are pre- pared for the firemen. Two or three years ago, against the advice of all her friends, the wife of Senator Stew- art of Nevada boughta silver mine in Mex- ico. Then she went for a trip around the world, and recently returned to find herself the owner of a bonanza that almost cquals anything Nevada ever knew. She is now building a large villa near Washington. Champion Jim Corbett has been ordered to move himself and his mouth from the Mid- way pla e. The mission of the plai- sance is suid to be educational and moral, therefore the accidental champion is out of his element. It would remove much perplexity if the relations of grand ana lofty wumbling and high kicking to Midway education and morals was accurately defined. Kansas City firemen are back from the international tournament held in London, where they won new laurcls and opened the eyes of the old world fogics. In the contest forspeed in hitching and getting to a fire the Kansas City boys got out of their tem- porary engine house, with their machines ready for duty, in eight and a half seconds, while the British needea over a minute, the French took three minutes and the Germans nearly ten. Judge Jenkins, who succeeded Judge Gresham on the United States circuit court bench, has been arrested in Milwaukeo under an indictment charging him with being an accessory to the wrecking of the Plankinton bank “in that city. Although o director of the bank, neither he nor his associates were aware of the wrecking operations of the president of the institu- tion, but under the law a director is responsible for the criminal acts of the manager. James McMullen, who died recently in Bardwell, Ky., at the reported age of 116 years, was thought to be the oldest man in the United States. He was born in Virginia only about three months after the Doclara- tion of Independence, and was 23 years old when Washington died. He said he remem- bered Washington well. He moved to Ten- nesseo about the year 1800; while thero he met Davy Crockett, and 1t was one of his nroudest memories that he hunted with that great backwoodsman five years, An_apparatus has been constructed for telephoning simultaneously over telegraph wires. The systom has been in operation for some time on the telophone line from Buda Pesth to Szegedin, a distance of 124 miles The results were satisfactory. The appa- atus can easily be insertod in a tolegraph circuit and used at once, It is said that simultancous telegraphy along tho wire does not in the least interfero with telephoning, and that the offects of induction and all dis- turbing noiscs are completely removed, Many of the apparatus used for maintain- ng telephonic communicttion botween divers At the bottow of the sca or river sna the boat overhead have been found unreliable and unsatisfactory. An improved system comprises a Hunnings transwitter, combined with a receiver wound with a low re tance coil, suitable for a battery current. The circuit leads to & receiver and transmitter contained within the hood worn by the diver, The operator above the water can control the tonversation by means of the break key. When the diver wishes o speak he pulls on the life line and notifles the operator overhead, who then presses the koy and puts the circuit in condition for communication, The whole outfit is com- pact and handy, e JROUND ABOUT THE FAIR. ving the He is Buffalonians will make a descent on the fair August 23, Fifty tons of paint and 80,000 panas of frlass Wworo used in the Manufactares build- g The fincst buffalo robe now in existenco is among the exhibits from the Canadian Northwest territory. 1t is valued at $500. Miss Edna Eaglefeather, an Osago Indian, fives daily exlibitions of hor skill in short: hand and typewriting in the Woman's build- ing. Five hundred Philadelphia school teachers arc now doing the fair. They came in a body aud are doing their best to make the visil & season of profit. Augustus Hemeuway of Canton, Mass , de- serves a permanent place among publee bene. factors. He has invited all tho schoolma'ams of the village, twenty-six in pumbe Lo visit the World's fair at his expense. They will return with a_valuable store of knowledge for futuro use in the schools, as woll as with brightor ayes and ruddier cheeks Tho chanc 0 Viking ship wiil remain in Chicago. Norwaeglans of the northiwest are raising m purchase it for that pur Tn the Canadian exhibit from the Sudbury mines of Ontario is an_fngot of nickel that woighs 4,500 pounds. There are also fine f asbostos and mica from the prov- A special commissioner from Guatemala is at Sun Francisco on his way to the exposi- tion. Ho brings with him four Indian boys and two lotters writton by Columbus, which were found in the old city of Antigua. Their genuinenoss has boen attostod The cod fisheries of the Pacific are intro duced to goneral notigo in the Canadian section of the Agricultural building. In the same section aro shown salmon from both the Atlantic and Pacific consts. Johoro is a far away country, but it has opened an exhibit which stands up woll with tho best. Tt is lavger than that of Mexico. Thero is not room for all that is to be shown, but arrangements will in a day or two be made for putting everything in piace. The empress of Japan has sent sonio spoci- mens of raw silk from her palwce to the Woman's building at the exposition, The Empress Dowager, too, has sent some fabrics which were woven in hor palace, A poem written by the empress is yet to be put into place. It is in Japauese and translated is: VAs tho hazo ascends from the crest of Mount Yorhino the plover's call is heara far up tho stream." The crowning feature of tho exhibit from Columbis hus at last arrived. It1s a large collection of articles of solid gold worn by the inhabitants of South and Central Amer- ica when first found by the Spanish con- querors. Nobody can toll how much these relics aro worth, but it is easy to find out how much gold 1s in them, for the precious wetal is unalloyed. — And such huge pioces; a waist ring, for instance, two inches wide and vory thick; shields for warriors largo enough to protect the breast of a large wan; rings for the nose, armsand anlkles, and birds and animals fashionea entirely of the pro- cious yellow stuff. The collection looks like a Jewelry case from a giant fairy queen’s home. ————— NEBRASKA A HRASKANS. An old sottlers association has been organ- ized at Bloomfield. A baby lion was born at Oakland Saturaay whilo the circus was in town. The independents of Custer county have called their convention for September 2. Lightning kitled several head of cattlo be- longing to Opp brothers, ranchmen, near Stuart. The livery barn of W. M. Gordon at Cole- ridge was entirely destroyed by fire, but all the horses and carriages were saved. The old sottlers of Nuckolls county will hold their second annual reunion September 2L and ex-Governor Furnas has been iuvited to deliver an address. Hob. George F. Keiper, who once ran for congress, has returned to his home in Pierce after six months spent in touring over the carth, accompanied by his wife. Thomas Simpson is a bad boy, whose home has been in Holdrege, but ho will spend the next few years trying to learn how to be good at the reform school at Kearney. After being engaged for twenty-two years in the clothing business at Ashland, i, H. Shedd has concluded to quit and try to got enough mouoy together to pay all his debts. The Winnobago Tndian school has been closed thiity days to repair the building. The Homer Independent thinks it will taka the entire police force to corral the pupils again. Cantain O. Butt, a well known river man in early days, and for many years a resident of Nebraska City, is dead. He 1ssud to have ferried over the first locomotive over landed in Nebraska. “The wife and daughter of Jacob Lohnes, formerly a policeman at Plattsmouth, were burned to death at Pekin, 1L, by the ex- plosion of 4 can of keroseno with which Mrs, Lohues was starting tho fire. Tho Beaver City Tribune has printed a fac simile of the Furnus County Herald, the flrst paper ever published in the county. It was printed on & cigar box and was dated October. 1874 Tho paper died after its first issue, Its fate isn't to be wondered at. If the fac simile is a good one, the Herald wasn't very healthy. Tho marshal of Randolph tried toland ght tramps in jail in a body, but he only succoeded in locking up six, as two broke away ond fled to the woods. While themar- shal'slumbered and slept that night the two tramps returried and with o trusty crowbar they tore down the bars of the bastilo and liberated their imprisoned comrades in idle- ness and all disappeared. A gun in the hands of an insano man named Ozzazai resulted in a lively time near Schuyler. The maniac drove his family and the neizhbors into a cornfield, but he was finally captured by the sheriff and landed in joil. “Later a deputy sheriff took him out of the cell for an airing and he broke loose and gave the ofticer a lively chase through the strects, but was finally captured. Frank Shirley received a letter a fow days since from an old lady on hor deathbed, with the request that it be answered ‘‘quick,” says the Crawford Gazette. The burden of the letter was that thirty-eight years before her husband had borrowed somo money of Mr. Shirley and had nover been able to revay it. During the latter part of his life tho borrower becamo moreprosperous, and at his death, which occurred two or three years ago, ho charged his wifo to cancel the debt. In the con- fusion of adjusting the affairsof the estato it had untll now been overlooked, The del | has long since besn outlawed, but in morals | never loses the foree of an obligation = - LOU MAY'S TWO JOB Mo Can't W Natlonal Comm\ Fish Judge at the Same Time. Crieaco, July 67 —The Natfonal World's Fair commission this afternoon sent back ta the commwittoe of awards the name of W. La May of Nobrasks, named as ono of the judges of awards in the Fisheries dopart. mont on the ground that he is & member of the national commission. Among the names approved were orge Martin, Hudson, Wis., and Androw Jensen, Iidgerton, Wis., in the Department of agriculture; R. L Joyner, Wyoming, Wis,, Department of electricity. [SR— ANOTHER COMET IN TNE TAIL Strange Discovery Made by the Astronos mers at tho Lick Obscrvatory. Sax Josn, Cal, July 17.—Photographs ot the now comet show an intorosting fact. Another comet is eveloped in tho tail of the first ono. Its tail is also merging in the other. It appears to move in the same orbit or one exactly parallel and at tho same rato of speo ho astronomers at the Lick obseavatery ara much clated at tho dis- covery, The second comot is not visible through the tolescope. Berket i Oy Think They Ha Lynched Him., Brnaixonay, Ala, July 17.—A posse has boen searching sinco Saturday night near Briorflold for a negro, chargod with the assault, robbery and murder of two women. Ho retronted into 4 swamp, which was su roundod last night and it is believed ho was captured and lynched. s SO Shot an Intrader Dead, Cnicago, July 17.—Joseph Midoe of Dole Rock, Ark., was fumbling about in Louls Dilloa’s room at 4 o'clock this morning. Dillon, waking suddenly, drew a reyolver and stiot Midoc dead © Viee Prosid SAN Dikao, Stevenson and party havo gon Barbara. President to Santa ar: mes 1iko this nroad without a shuddor of how 16 feels to troezo to deatl. Philadolphia Times: Comots serve purpose ifonly that for a time tl W highor view v 1 The way out of it alla s o set her pugllists” to killing a useful y load men Clovy for Aust rabbits, Truth: Fred—The very first thing sho sald to me when I ealled on' her Iast night giave me hopo. Arthur: What was 1t? © said hor little brother was asleep.'” 2 said Spri o riiions ton T plied Wigeins, ant prospect for your grandso L that 1t 15 ub & plons- w Orleans Pleayune: Tt [s host to go slow 1 betting on a fast norse that has his ups aud downs. Times aro hard indeed asaloon doesn't doa rush- Buffalo Courle: when the bouucer i ing business. Troy Pross: Almost any employe can toll you that some one Is liablo to be fired when the boss gots hot. Philadelphia Record Vhi like voice Miss Budloy has, Hoton. "Yes." said Miss Budlo; hus u’ birdlike volce. owl's." a_sweot, bird- sbsorveil Mrs, s rival, * It is Tike u sér Tammany Tim newspaper) ~No wor ? Mr, Peterby—How do you explain it Petorby ~They ought to bo feverish they absorh so much wator. Cloveland Plain 1 Nap, why do they speak hoarsely’ In Nap (who had been licutenant): they have to keep so Willle: “Uncle ¢ ofticers “Because ool they cutch cold.™ NEWS FIOM THE SEASHOIE, New York Sun, The malds are hero from the inland towns, In their dainty hats and summor gowns, erulean hosiory and shoes of tun, 'wenty maids to a singlo man. COMMENT FROM THE CITY. However greatly you must deploro Thls sad condition along the shoro, You still must seo that [t s better than Twonty malds to a marrled mau, ———— DESPERATION. Washington Star, The early morning fly now bores An ampl ge ihrough the scroen, And gally seoks the man who snores With mind and muscle all seren low wondrous peaceful is the scone, Where Morpheus his kindness stores, Until the insect, ierco and lean, Comes through the not's clastic porest How sudly brokon s that napt How madly sings the flondish fly! Tho siartiod sleopor aims a sTap And lands on his dofensoloss oyo, And whon ho rises, by and . o s00the the pain of this miship, Ho finds his features bralsed, awry, And parti-colored like u map. Is thero a nelghborhood near by Where some one has a room tolot, Where songsters thrill the midnign® skyy Where wails the moody elarionet? *Tis there o youth his Tot would sot And wake all Dight without a sigh; is thus alone that ho will got A chanco to doage the morning fly. BROWNING, KIN & co. Lurgest Manufacturers n Rotallors ol Clothing 1u the World. Chopping Down— ~ We're knocking out the suits now. Just read Those for $1.50. on and we'll save you money. $20 Summer Suits $13.50, All styles, colors and grades. Some other suits marked down as low as $5.00. $3.60 Boys' Wash Suits $2.00. We're getting out all boys' sumraer goods with a rush. §2.50 boys' suits go now Men's and Boys' Straw Hats Half Price. And summer coats and vests—the prices are so low we're afraid to print them. All the ladies’ waists we have left goat 50¢ and $1.00. You will find they are bargains. BROWNING, Btore open every evening till .50, Buturday ull 10, |8 KING & CO., W. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts.