Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 25, 1893, Page 4

1 THE DAILY BEE. . ROSEW A FR, Editor VERY MORNI TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, nily Bee (without Sunday) One Year.. § 8 00 R.u’ and Sunday, One Year v 1000 1x Sonths 500 roe Months . 2 50 anday Beo, One Yenr 200 turday Bee, One Year 150 feekly Bee, Ono Year 100 OFFIOES. Omaha, The Ree Bullding. South Omaha, cornor N and 26th Streots incll Blafs, 12 Pearl Streot, Chieago Office, 317 Chinmber of Commerce, New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bullding. Washington, 613 CORR All communications relating editorial matter should be nddressed: Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS All business lotters and remittanc be addressed to The Beo Pubiishing ¢ Omuha. Drafts, ehecks and_postoff 10 bo mado payablo to the order of the pany. Parties Joaving the city for the summer ean bave the Bex sont. their address by leaving an order at this offic 4 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY SWORN STATEMENT OF CTROULATION. Btate of Nebraskn, | County of Donglas, { 1. Tzschuck, neeretar ompiny, does Soleninly SWear that the Metual efreulation of Tk DAILY BER for the week 1803, was as (ollows ‘ourteenth Strect. SPONDENCE. to nows and To the of Tie Bre Pub oy Friday. il SBaturday, July i SWORN 10 betore n ad NP Frr The Bee in Chieago Tre DAILY and SUNDAY Bk Is Nicago nt the following places: Palmer ho Gsand Page Auditorium hot Great N = on sals in BEE can e sean at the Ne- bullding and the Aduinistration build- position erounds. ——— EAST bound tourist rates from Colo- rado seem to have gone down to bed rock. I7 18 only a question of time when the city hall is to be finally accepted and formally thrown open to the public. THE gates of the World’s fair were closed Sunday. But this is no assur- ance that the debate on Sunday opening is closed. WORD comes from Lincoln that a new sewing machine factory will soon be in full blast in that city. That's the way to discount hard times. ANARCHISTS have obtained a foothold n Spain. Internationalism is the trend of all modern movements and anarchy dees not propose to be left in the rear. IN THE absence of political competi- tors in tho Ohio gubernatorial race Governor McKinley is still running aguinst time with a fair prospect of boat- ing the record. is entirely too much of the in the conduct of the fellows vociforously declaiming dramati who are so against the new maximum rate law. ' It hasn’t gone into effect yet. THE nationalists are circulating peti- tions urging congress to pass laws estab- lishing a govornment telegraph and tole- phone service. Some good may come from the Bellamyite agitation aftor all. THE distressing news comes from South America that another revolution has broken out in Brazil. These South American revolutions are becoming almost as exciting as a chess tourna- ment, IT MAY not now be out of place to in- timato to our representativesin congress that tho early bill gets into the com- mittee first. The additional appropria- tion for our federal building can be secured oniy by commencing early and fighting long. —_— GOVERNOR CROUNSE'S proclamation calling an extra session of the Nebraska legislature to repeal the new maximum rate law exists only in ths disordered imaginations of the railroad editors. The proposition is as prepostorous as it is ridiculous. THE Maharajah of opurthala has arrived in this country. He assures us that his visit to the World’s fair is to be purely a pleasure trip and that he has no intentions of increasing the revenue of his principality by accepting a lucra- tive position on the Midway plaisance, I TRANSPIRES that all the talk about Emperor William visiting the World's fair was mero idle talk. If the Infanta Eululia would only treat the emporor with the story of her adventures on our shores we doubt whether u foar of broken rules of etiquette would bo able to hold him by LATEST annovncemen reduce the period of soveral months which railway officials asserted to bo necossary in order to prepare tho new freight rate taviffs to a period of several weoks. By the time August 1 comes around we may expoct to hoear that the industry of the computing clerks has exceeaed all an- ticipation and that the new tariff will be ready for immediate enforcoment. PEOPLE who are making the numer- ous complaints over the provisions of the proposed ten year garbage c¢ollection contract should not be backward in giv- ing voice to their views. The mayor is undoubtedly willing to make uso of his voto power whonover he is assured that the best interests of the community de- mand such action. Protests addressed to bim will go far toward advising Lim of the true state of popular opinion on this subject. * wy,, SILVER men continue to speak of *the orime of I873.", What they mean by a orime is quite incomprebonsible, A orime is ordinarily a violation of the luw. Whero any law was violated by dropping the silver dollar from the list of American coins it is ditficult to seo. If anything that offends against the ideas concerning advisability or justice of a particular individual is to be called & orime, the word loses all signiticance and may us well be entirely discarded. SIAMESE WAR CLOUDS. Siam's refusal to accede unecondition: raised a war cloud which seriously | threatens the peace of Europe. 8o bold has France been in her persistent de- mand for territorial acquisition in the enst that it is now almost impossible for her to recedo and to compromise upon & line of territorial division. Should Siam refuse to be cajoled into modifying the answer which has been given, only the interference of outside powers will be able to prevent a resort to open hostil- ities, The action of France from the begin- ning of the Siamese trouble appears to have been arbilrary and planned with a view to coerce her weaker enemy into a n of a large portion of his domin- ions or to compel him to give her an opportunity to help herself by main fores If this was the program of ths French government, the outrages said to have been committed upon French citizens in Siam were merely a pretoxt to enable the ministry to begin action upon the field of foreign diplomacy in order to divert the attention of the Fronch people from the internal issues of the day and then to secure in the fortheoming parliamentary elections the support of all who desired to have French honor maintainea abroad un- impaired. As a diversion for the peo- | plo the move is proving eminently suc- cessful, The great danger is that it may become more costly than at first anticipated. However much France may resent the so-called foreign interference, the interests of the European powers are 80 bound together that the solution of the question cannot be confined to I'rance and Siam. It was not once nor twice only that the European war cloud has swopt up from the east and history will only be repeating itself if the present complication results in s war in which all the leading European powers rango themselves upon one side or the other. Already England has been lending countenance to the Siamese cause, while China has openly offered assistanc Russia and France are said to be acting in unison and German war shipshave been dispatched to Siameso waters to insure the safety of the coss| empire’s interests, The withdrawal of the French minister from Bangkok and the orders of the French fleet to blockade the Siameso ports are almost equivalent to a decla- ration of war, Nothing but skillful di- plomacy can now tide over the strained relations without resort to foree. A European war at the present time would be ot momentous importance to the United S . American commerce would receive an impetus of no small proportions. Army sapplies and muni- tions of war would be sought in our markets by all the powoers concerned, and the renewed activity in these indus- trial branches would soon be communi- cated to industries throughout the country, while all who have the inter- est of humanity at heart must depre- cate war and hope for a peacoful settle- ment of thé Siamese dispute, yet if war must come, the United States isina position to make the best of its opportu- nities. A DECLINE IN IMMIGRATION. The statistics of immigration just issued show the number of immigrants landing on our shores for the fiscal year onding June 30 was a little over 121,000 less than for the provious year. This is a notable decrease, but still the addi- tion to our population from Europe during the year was not far from 500,000. The falling off was due to a more thorough and efficient enforcement of the immigration laws, which has had the effect to make steamship companies more careful as to the character of the emigrants taking passago to this coun- try. Doubtless this is not the sole cause of the decrcase, but the new legal restrictions are sufficiont, if properly enforced, to keop out the classes whose entrance tho laws prohibited, and it ap- pears that thoy have accomplished this. There has bren no complaint for a year or two past that the laws were being violated to any extent and if the officials continue vigilant there is reason to be- lieve that there will be no cause of com- plaint hereafter and that it may be some years before immigration will again get beyond the half million point. But the demand for still further re- tionsis still heard. Objoction is mado to cortain classes of the poo- ple who figure largely in the im- migration returns, notably the Ital- ians, who come in large num- bers. Opposition to these immigrants has been pronounced in the east for sev- oral years and does not show any abate- ment. They are regarded as a most un- desirable acquisition, being for the most part of the lower class of the Italian peo- ple, with habits and customs of living that are very objectionable. It is not apparent, however, that anything more can be done to check the coming of theso pooplo which will not oporate also to keep out those who are regarded as more desivablo. We cannot make any law or vegulation discriminating be- tween the nationalities of Europe, and whilo the right of the goverment to sy whether it will permit any immigration or not is admitted, it would unquestion- ably not be good policy from any point of view to establish restrictions that did not apply equally to the people of all European countries. This is so clear that thore can be no controversy about it. Another reason for further restric- tions is urged on the ground that some portions of the United States ave get- ting to be a little crowded now, and wo are likely to need the thinly settled por- tions for the natural increaso of our pop- ulation to overflow in. It is true that portions of the conntry ave crowded and unfortunately & vory large number of the people who came from abroad re- main in these portions, but tho idea of cutting off 1mmigration for the purpose of retaining the thinly settlod parts of the country for the natural increase of our population contemplates a slower de- velopment than most practical and pro- gressive Americans would be satisfied with. The United States is capable of sustaining a population of seversl hun- dred millions and the curious can figure how much time would be requived to reach this development with a natural increase of a little over 2 per cent a ally to the ultimatum of France has | | yoar. The result will hardly bo nssur- ing to the patriotic aspiration for the financial and commercial supremacy of this republie. Thero isa suggestion put forward in connection with this subject derived from recent legislation by France. That country has just adopted a law by which every foreigner who settles in France, including artists who go there to exercise their trade or profession permanently, must obtain a permit from the authorities of the city or town where they settle. Foreigners already settled in Krance must within a specified time take out a permit. Provision is made for the expulsion of aliens who fail to register and for the punishment of those who employ nncertified aliens. It is doubtless entirely practicable to enforce legMlation of this kind in a country like France, but it would be utterly futile to attempt it in the United States, and be- sides it is iegislation that savors of the monawchial rather than the republican system of government and therefore would ot be approved by the American people. No expedient of this kind is likely to receive sorious consideration. The existing financial and industrial conditions in the United States are very likely to operate as a check upon immi- gration during the next twelve months, 80 that the number of immigrants for the current fiscal year will probably b less than last year. AN IMPO. DITION. The so-called bimetallic congress held at Topeka last week resolved against the repeal of the silver purchaso act, ex- cept upon the condition that congress adopt a law ‘‘placing silver where it was prior to its demonetization in 1873." If the Topeka gathering simoly meant by this that congress should restore the frea coinage of silver this can be done, but no legislation can place silver where it was before the passage of the act of 1873, which uid not actually demonetizo silver, but merely put a stop to the coinage of the standard dollar, sub- stituting the trade dollar for use abroad. When this was done silver was worth more than gola at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the owners of the white metal were not asking to have it coined. It was more profitable to them to dispose of it as bullion, and nearly tho entire silver production of the country at that time was thus disposed of and went abroad. This had been the situation for years. As overy- body knows, who is at all familiar with the subject, the whole number of silver dollars coined between 1793 and 1873 was only 8,045,838, and these dollars were not in circulation. The number of silver dollars coined since 1878 has been over 419,000,000. Thus in the last fifteen years the mints of the United States have turned out more than fifty-two times as many silver dollacs as were coined duringthe eighty years prior to 18 and yet silver has not been placed where it was before that year. 1t is manifestly incorrect to say that the logislation of twenty years ago de- monetized silver. It simply recognized the facv that the silver dollar in our currency was practically obsolete and there was no objection made by the sil- ver producers to this recognition. They did not then take their silver to the mints, but to the markets, and hence when the legslation was proposed which they now charactorize as a consviracy there was no voice - representing the silver interest raised in opposition to it. The subsequent efforts to restore silver to its former value have failed for rea- sons so well understood that it is unnec- essary to elaborate them. A steadily increasing production of the white metal for a number of years has had most to do with its decline in value. No act of congress can change the conditions which have brought silver to its present position and those who look to legisla- tion by the United States alone to placo that metal where it was before 1873 are deluding themselves. An international agreement that would reopen the mints of the world to silver might eflect that result, but congress is powerless to do it, and there is little prospect of such an agreemoent in the near future. It may be reached in time, but it will not be hastened by the adoption of such recom- mendations as were made by the so- called bimetallists who met at Topeka. These people are really mono-metal- lists, for their obvious desire is to estab- lish the single silver standard. This is what they mean when they denounce it as inconsistent with sound public poliey to confer or advise, directly or indi- rectly, with any foreign nation as to what the money or currency of the United States should be. They do not want an international agreement, but demand that the United States shall declaro its financial independence of the rest of the world, making silver, of course, the corner stono of its monetary structure, The idea may bo patriotic, but it is not practicable, unless the United States is prepared to stop doing business with countries which prefer the gold standard. It scems hardly necessary, howover, to discuss a proposition of this kind, for it makes no appeal tothe serious consider- ation of intelligent and unprejudiced men, SIBLE c0, THE Ohio democratic convention will be held early next month, and meanwhile the party is sorely perplexed to find a suitablo candidate for governor, Rx- G nor Campbell would probably have by far the best chance of securing the nomination if he signified & willingness to accept it, but he has not done so, though it is believed he wil be heard from before the convention meots. Law- rence Neul, the author of the anti-pro- toction plank in the democratic national platform, is understood to aspirve to the governorship, but he has not formerly announced his desire to be & candidate. Thero are, perhaps, a dozen other gon- tlemen, of more or less prominence, who are willing to be nominated, some of whom ave actively at wbrk. The indi- cations are that a very interesting tight will be developed in the convention, the tendoney of which will not be favorable to party harmony, Thbe republican pros- pects in Ohio are thought to bo very good and steadily improving, —— A PARTY of intelligent workingmen from Scotland came to this country to investigate the condition of American workingmen. They have been talking THE OMAHWA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JULY 25 about the results n(’ ’helr inquiries and ‘ they say that the wdrkingmen of this country are bettor housed, live better I and roceive better wagos than do the workingmen of Greft Britain, Abund- | ant statistics have been presented from | time to time showing the superior con- | dition of the working olasses in this { country, but they have always been de- | nounced by a cortain lass of politicians | as untrustworthy, “Perhaps theso poli- ; | ticians will refusé’to accept the state ments of the forelgn “visitors, but th will not be rejected by*the anprejudiced, | who desire to know the truth regarding | the relative condition of European and American workingmen. It is not to be | questioned that in all branches of skilled mechanical labor our workers havo a great advantage over those of Europe in wages and in all the conditions of com- fortable living. ————— CONGRI AN JERRY SIMPSON wants the United States to buy out the British possessions in America. Why stop here? Great Britain itself might be a | profitable investmont and when sufficient | returns are secured from that enterprise itisonly a short distance across the channel to the unconquered lands of continental Europe. A good thing ought to be good the whole world over. LLING of Kansas ck the keynote of the situation of the coal minors strike when he said that this was an unfortunate time for the laborers to make demands of their em- ployers. Besides the inopportuneness of the strike, the leaders are alicnating the public by counseling & further ve- sort to violence. If the strikers cannot win by lawful methods then their cause must be a desperate one. WHEN reports of government bureaus get into circulation only after a sojourn fora year or more inthe government printing office it has become highly ad- visable to initiate some reform that will expedite these volumes on their journey to the people. Reports of public ofticials lose their value after they have become of certain age. Between tardy delivery and total abolition thoere is very littlo choice. THE duke of Voragua is willing to accept the sympathy of the American people as a balm to his financial em- barrassment. Whether that sympathy would be most attractive in the form of a money contribution, the duke hesitates to say in s0 many words. The duke, like the celebrated Pooh Bah, is evi- dently anxious to be insulted. THE notorious Gevernor Pennoyer of Oregon has condescended to receive Vice President Stovenson when he calls at thestato house. . The vice president would pay a merited rebuke to the man who told the president to attend to his | own business by refusing to take any notice of him whntz;\'m;% IF THE Sandwich islanders are tired of their experimental Fovernment they might induce John Boyd Thatcher to come there and set'up one of his little autocracies for which his conduct in the matter of the Warld's, fair awards has made him 5o justly famous. ANOTHER ruined city has been dis- covered in Arizona. That is not a cir- cumstance to the number of ruined men and women who can be discovered much nearer home. One View of It, Norfolk Journal. The republican party will invite defeat if it does not renominate Samuel Maxwell for supreme judge. ———— Corn nnd Siver, Ctneinnat Commercial. Corn is mightier than silver, and even corn is not king. Nebraska's corn'crop this year is valued at $50,000,000, A . Love Him for 1lis Enemi Schuyler Herald. The fight on Judge Maxwell is still being kept up by the republican press of the coun- try, but the people still love the judge for tho enemies he ade, —————— Colorado’ sovund Lhought. Globe-Democrat, When Colorado’s resources as a_grain-pro- ducing state are fully utilized she will won- der why she ever permitted herself to be hysterical on the silver question, ——— shot the Wrong Log. Norfolk News. The humane society should turn its atten- tion to the police department of Omaha, An intoxicated man waz found on the street guarded by his faithful dog. Both were taken to the police station. 1n tho morning the man was discharged and the dog shot. There is something inhuman in the treat- ment of a dog in such a case. ———— Got What They Voted For, ; Chicago Inter Ocan. ‘The people in November last voted for “a change” and they got it. Tho wisest thing they can do now is to make the best of it. The duty of the patriotic citizen is first to his country, regardless of the party in POwWS Stand loyally by the country’s iu- terests and trust to the intelligence of the ballot to correct any mistakes of the past. —_—— His Fears Endod. iiladelphia Ledger, Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horsos suffered in reputation from an inexpressive name. He was a good Indian, not afraid of his horses orof anything else. His name was intended to express one of his good qualitie Ho was afraia for his horses; that is to say, he took good care of hus stock. He was, moreover, a friend of the government, whose loss may be severly fej. —— Why Acouse Ol Comrades. Washington ‘Post, Is it not rather latg iu the day for demo- crats and assistant dbgcerats to denounce and decry ol)olml jlrml hold them re- sponsible forall thiills the country has fallen heir tot The Bopu)ists have changed 10 nothing since thif'tinte a year ago, when the democrats in Kausas, Colorado and other states, acting under shewdvice of the party leaders, thought them good enough to sur- render to. Then why, load them with op- probium nowt —t nza ABiiE Reporte hicd’p Aist. Rev, Dr. Albert G. Bail! a Congregational minister of Melrosé, Mnss., says that re- porters are a curse. Dr. Ball is right. Re- porters are a curse to silly sensational and sickly sentimental preachers who are often restrained from idiotic and maudlin whoop- ing and weeping by the fear of type. They are a cursa to men who long to indulge In evil prdbuices, and would if they could, keep their indulgences secret. ‘They are s curse to men who are dishonest in intention and desire to but dare ot be dishonest, in_fact, because they know they will surely be found out and brought to justice. They are @ curse to men who want 1o beat their wives and children, who want to elope with their neighbors’ wives, who want to swindle their neighvors' widows, who want to give the loose to their lower natures, who want to prey upon society. They are 4lso a curse to the men who actually do all these things and @ hundred oth Certain | situation is growing in interest | keep an oyo on the Stam episode 1804 THE SLAMESE EMBROGLIO, Springfleld Republican mand for indemnity from Siam {8 o repoti tion of the demand of the wolf on t for reparation far troubling the st which both were drinking, tho 1 the mouth than the wolf. Kansas City Times: Tho Ewmopean war Strangel enough, 100, the prosont embroglio has hai its origin in a quarter where an uprising was the | Thoe French de m from nb noarer ussia, where a war was doomoed most no new complications have arisen Philadelphia Ledger: Tt will bo woll to Blg wars getstarted by just such disputes as this, China fs reported to be backing up Siam and Russia_ supporting France, while England has an eye on the contestants, because of threatened encroachments on her territc Y New York Commoreial: Conditions ar ripening in Siam for a conflict. Already four powers have tentatively asserted themsclves -Russia intimating that France may call upon her for assistance, China expregsing sympathy with the browbeaten Siamese and England, by cabinet mectings and pop: ular discussion, giving evidonce of growing unwiilingnoss that France should: absor this territory which now 8o conveniently acts as & “buffer” to British Indi Philadelphia Recora: The method adopted by France of wresting from a weak Asiatic kingdom an immense territory the sover. eiguty over which is at least disputabte is unworthy of that great republic, To say nothing of ier manner of extorting an in aemnity fixed by herself, without awaiting the result of an inquiry, the demand for the cession of a region nearly us large as the wholo of her present possessions in the east, with only forty-eight hours grace and under threat of bombardment, is contrary to all 1 dent, even under the somewhat bar- barous code of the laws of nations, Washington Post: France being in dead earnest and Russia ready to co-operate un reservedly, it would seem safe to prophe that England will stand aside and let the deal proceed without interference. Bnglana is wotting ready to bluster just now because there is 4till n possibility that France may not be willing to proceed to extromitios. 1t costs nothing to fume and bluff. That is a game at which England is expert. Much has been accomplishiod in that way hereto- fore and much more may be accomplished in the future. But in our opinion England will stop at fuming and biufing if she finds that [Prance is resolute and Russia roady to sus- tain her, wnd poor littlo Siam will bo di vided up at the discrotion of her invaders, New York Sun: A glance at the map will show that the territory whose surrender France is aiming to extort by a throat of bombardment, is scarcely smaller than the whole of the "Anamite empire proper, ex- clusive of the French possessions in "Ton- quin, Cochin China and Cambodia, rious as it is, this region, to which geographers givp tho vame of Laos, is even o dis tniuished for forulity. It times been tho seat of owertu sive kingdoms; and even now it contains populous and prosperous cities, of which ang Phrabang is the best known. The notion that so vast and valuable a country can, without tho preceding negotintions and djudications needed to make good the EFrench titlo, bo wrested by force from its nhistorical and actual possessors, a notion more worthy of a pirate than of a civili power. If this preposterous demand be the Figaro asserts, included in_the ultiina tum, France need not expect the sympathy of any well informed and fair-minded person in the United States. _ PEOPLE AND THINGS. in former and aggres- "The conviction is growing in Wyoming that the clouds of crickots thereabouts are ®old bugs in disguise The discovery in California of two tails to the comet disproves the story that the vint- age of the Golden stato was a dismal failure) “The mubarajah of Kapurthala will soon land on our shores. In tenderingr tho usual greeting home brown maharajahis will get in their worlk Spenker Crisp is wise enough, in view of the approachi sion, to seal his mouth and let others agitnte themselves about rules and chairmanships. Solon Pothoff, duke muke, Alio Slupsky and other genial c paragraphers, are tempe the calorie sons of Colorado, Buffalo's uew directory has 100,000 names. ‘Tho Chicagoratioof 1t0 4 would show a population of 400,000, but Buffalo is not a porker, and is content with 300,000, The Kansas wail of anguish procedes a new calamity, which depri: populist oflicials of free passes on railroads. Put up or walk is the rule, Truly these are troub- lous times. Miss Kato Field is one of the judges of wil at the World's fair. She is not re- quired to sample the exhibits. Her maule admirers gencrously agreed to relieve her from that duty. General Bragg may be a candidate for gov- ernor of Wisconsin on the democratic ticket. ‘The numerous enemies he has made will be glad of the opportunity toget n whack.at the doughty general. The modern boarding house keeper is nothing if not up with the times. A pro- gressive Omaha house has ordered a set of Harneyized steel plates for the accommoda- tion of buscuit shooter: It is elaimed the closing of the World's fair on Sunday clinches th wrtion that this is a Christian nation. Yet thero is no visible sluckening of speed in the chase for “‘the root of evil” of the legal tender varioty. co President Morton has been inter- 1 with regard tb the recent commercial ion and advanced a new theory, to the effect that the business phenomens of last month were merely a lato result of the Burings’ failure. The San Francisco Examiner announces that M. H. De Young, publisher of the Francisco Chronicle, may suc Stanford in the United States s De Young, besides being a wmillionaire, has many aaunrable qualifications for the ex- alted position. An eastern factory has constructed for ex- hibition at the fair' a needle twenty-eight feet long, with an eye 10x4. Aftée all, the rich man's prospects of heaven are not as hopeless as the bible suggests. The man who cannot squeeze through a 10x4 eye ought to be doomed. The go-as-you-please along the highways leading from the Rockies to the east is a discournging spectacls, yet it has a bright side. It is possible for the democrats of Ouio to find among the pilgrims one suffi- ciently inured to hardship to lead a forlorn hope against McKinley. Lizzie and Emma Borden have voluntarily transferred about #4000 of property which belonged to their murdered stopmother to Mrs. Whitehend of Fall River and Mrs. Fish of Hartford, who wera half-sisters of Mrs, Borden. ‘The two Borden girls have mado up their minds to leave tho old homestead on account of iis unpleasaut associations. They may go to Boston. Prof. Alfonso Carpentieri, the famous gynecologist of the University of Nuples, bo- came suddenly insane a few days ago. Ho imagined that he was flying from starvation and thirst, and entering a restaurant drank four cups of coffea, o bottle of wine, a bottle of cognac and ate fittean sandwiches and more than a dozen eggs. When the proprie- tor declined to serve anything else the pro- sor sprang on the table and cried, with the voice of Stentor: “Ezgs, egg i cggs and keep me from starving!” When he began to break chairs and tables he was overpowered and placed in a hospital, Ho is one of the most famous physicians in ltaly, —_— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. des of weary ily eclipsed by The boot and shos stock of "R. MoLeod of Chadron has been selzed by creditors. Tnere are saia to be thirty-two residents of Fairbury who aspire to b sheriff of Jof- ferson county. Tho Hastings county independents will hold their annual picuic the second Suturday september. he Nebraska Tolephono company now has its line extended to Aurors and is still pushing west. B. H. McGrow has retired from the Craw- ford Gazetto and has been succeeded by Frank Wingfield, Five miuutes attor being taken with a so- vere pain in the back of her head, Mrs. Red- oline aigd at Fairbury. Hamilton county democrats aud independ- euts huve already begun to figure on fusion duriug the coming campaign. Says the Norfolk News: A. Sattler con- tinues toadd to his corn collection, the latest specimen _being a stalk which stands ten foel high, bearing six ears. Very fow | wloh telands, Mea Eila M Dowe e lamb | 1St expected, whilo batween Gormany | Aftor thirteen years absenca fn the Sand 18 visiting her old homo in Gago county rs. J. 8 Illiott of Blvo Spri was found dead in bed Sunday morning. She w years of age and gool health had proviously boen in Heney Brane, a Wayne county farmer. was v Jumping from ack and alighting tlo of a pitchfork that prerced his bowaols, dren He leaves a wifo aud four chil intries wift produce half a TN per stalk, but even that N0t too groat for the rich soil of John Shipman of Fremont has gone to Miller, Buffalo county, to close & deal on several fine farms inone body a fow north of that village. His aeeroga! pur chases amount to £11,500. Ho has a herd of the finest breed of eattle to put on his ranch atonce. The attractiveness of the Wood river valley is becoming known Small boys star tozen ears of lortaking i8 hraska, d a fire near some stables back of the mills at Gordon, and, but the fact that the wind was from tho ath and not strong and the mills had a od well and hoso, the mill and the wost ido of Main streot would soon have been destroyed. As it was only the stables and some sheds were burned, the wholo loss be. ing about §100, H. H. Warren, a well-known resident of Nelson, died last woek at Colorado Springs His budy was taken to Nelson, whero it was intorred under thoe auspices of G. . Thomas i Grand Army of the R b Deceased served during tho wariu the Twelfth regiment from Wiscon- sin. He o native of New York, born in 1832, Ho leaves to mourn for him his widow, _lll}rt'n daughters and two sons and their fam! ilics, —— RAILROADS AND RATES. Norfolk Journal: Tho railroads havo fi- nally decided not to fight the maximum rate law. Now if they will withdraw their hog- train passenger sorvice on branch lines, thero will bo no necessity for callng a special ses- sion of the legislature. Tilden Citizen: The rocont detormination of the railroads to give sthe maximum rato law a fair tial is undoubtedly the proper thing to do. 'The people as a rule are not jn- clined to wantonly persecute the railroads, and if the presont law prove burden' somo to them, it modified. Schuyler Quil ent moeting In Chicago of the presidents and general man- agers of the railroads it was decided to com. Ply with the new maximum rate law i this stato But what a difforence in tho howl! Now the roads claim that the bill reduces trates 831 per cent on the average and but a short time ago the report was that it really raised tho rate. 1t is dificult to ob- tain tho truth from a railroad man ora favored shipper concerning the matter. “Time will tell tho tale, Fairbury Gazetto: The now froight lnw. goos into CFéct next month and the freight awents of the various lines interested are ¢ arrainging their wariff shects. One nt question to bo settled has boen the equestion 0° rates for long and shory hauls from competing points. It is reported that the conclusion arvived at is to lot tho road with the shortest mileage do the busine: It this po! is pursued the Kansas City and Omaha will abandon its Omal business to the Rock Island and make St. Joseph and Kansas Cit, pine points for stock, the two r ing for St. Joseph' business, the distance being about the same. As the Rock Island will havo by far tho shortest line from this county to South Omaha, 1t should help this place materially as a market for stock. S COMICAL CHUCKLES, its ship- s compet- New York Tribune gist. who exclaimed yi th u It was a popular drug- erday, “Lot me draw soda witer of wnation and'T care not who kes its luws. Jagson says he has no ob- ction to a forelgn alr if it Is disinfoctod. L Harper's Bazar: Beach th “Sino from tho bread, 1 i over from last your. Troy Press: Some men never ent much of afizuro unddl they have been made au exaum- ploof. Lowoll Courler: It Is singular that so many western banks should be swamped when tho peoplo have so thoroughly drained them. Washington Star: “Brackens Is a very con- stent man,” said the bankor. “What makes you think so: “Whenoyer he gets short ho talks 1o mondy- syllables. Toxas Siftings: Teacher—Now, you were a man and had )0, and - you wanted to buy o house worth #10,000, what would you do? Tommy—I guess T'a try and marry somo woman with 88,000, Philadiiphia Record: 1ave you a roally respe Tommy, It Careful mam able novol th ? a— 1 let my duugliter re Shopt 0, m, ono of thoso in thut big pile there: But you hive so many that they can't be pop- ular © No, ma'am, they'ro not. They're highly respoctable. Indinnapolls Journal: Ho (mallclously)—Tt s only the fomale mosquito that annoys peo- ple. Sho (musingly)—T notice that you take a groat delight {n mashing them. NOW SHOVEL SNOW. Washin jton Press. When tho summer sun Is bu deeply aro we yoarning For a chitiice to take n shovel and to clean the witlks of snow; When tho wintor snows aro flylng thon we sit in saduoss, sighing For n sunstroko on subscription, ns we had long months ago. ng then how ————— NERKASKA CROP ROTEN Chotry County Tndepondent: We are (n formod that nearly all the rye fn the county is in the shock and & good deal of the oats, Beatrico Fxpross: From every quarter comes the encouraging roport of tho great good the corn realized from th out raing. Rrayton Banner ome of the corn thay was injured by hail a woek ago looks nlmost as though nothing had ever interfered with 18 rapid growth Fremont Tribune company will comum mense crop of about The Bindor Trwine ence cutting its im, 000 acres of homp this week. Tlio erop 18 said to bo the best over grown here and will furnish material for a vast amountof twine to be manufactured during the next y Ravenna Nows wheat, raised was throshed yestorday bushels per acre is repo: poor piece of wheat and bofore threshing it was estimated that the vield would not ox- coud five or six bushels per acre. JIph Times: By the simple multipli n of 15 with 1,000, the first representing bushels per Dr. on his farm Hontloy's winter north of town, and a yleld of ten 1. Tt was a vory acre and the second acroage, no circumstance occurring, will be wheat in_ bushels M. O. Liv Ingston expocts from his farms this year. Uhry * hundred acres of corn will also make L average titor of Alliance Independent on Buffalo ty 1 had a good opportunity to Ve the condition of the During tho past six weoks this section has had plon- tiful rains. The prospect for a crop of cor is excollent. If the weathor continues favor able tho farmers of this section ol the coun- ry will have an immense crop of corn, A Considerablo acroage of winter whoat was put out last fall. 1t is mostly in shock now and the crop is excellent. Some fields will ®0 thirty bushels per acre. Spring wh and oats are looking well, Seward Reporter: Last Thur: aftor- noon the drouth was broken and such a shower foll (s made glad the hearts of evorybody. The windows of heaven wero opened pretty wide and peopie laughed to sea the way in which the rain camo down. 3 c rood rain camo and the 1 this vicinity was thoroughly soaked. ho rains were not very general, but the one of Saturday covered ider’ scopo of territory than the other. The corn crop is pretty well assured now, and farmers and business men are in much botter spirits than they wero a week ago. Norfolk News: Much has boen said lately about the glowing prospects for corn in this country, every word of which Is true. But corn is not all that is having a phenom: enal growth this year by any means, whoat, oats and vegotables being “equally’ prodig: ious, while the sugar boet crop is the most Dromising ever grown. he one advantago raising beets that tho price is fixed before the seed is put in the ground, and the greater the crop the more a farmer makes off his land, while wo often when there is alarge yield of corn or small grain the price s 0 low that only about a cortain amount is realized upon an nere in any event. Sugar beots will withstand either more drouth or more rain th other crop, and with tho price fixod ave ¢ aforand more profitablo than any product of the farm, The Modern Su r School, New York Tribune, Ono of the remarkable signs of the times is tho growth of summer schools, under which name may bo included all sumimer as- semblies, religious, sociologic nal, - Whether of not they are to be a pe Lo open o que but it cannot be denicd that for the time at least they have legitimate reason for beme. In ancient Greeco and Rome ly all the schools of philosophy were oteric. They neither expected nor desired to make converts an iz the multitnde, who were regardod as incapablo of understand- ing the questions discussed. This was also substantially true of tho medineval schools i and oven tho philosophors of ighteenth century wero content to ap- only to the small inner cieclo of kindred ts, who by education or intelligence > qualified 0 tako part in their specula- tions. nanent feature of civilization v ion Aty R THE FARM 'S RESOLVE, Harper's Bazar. T acerAn advertisement. ina clty magnzine, Of sonio now patent modicin, they called 16 Tiredine, An’said a quart—ten doses—was tho surest kind o' curo For them whose inclinations for to work was ruther pbor. 15 to mo that thut's the stufl for me to go an’ buy For that young son o' mino to tako a make him s He ‘noods & thuper bracin’ ap when haytime comes around. ) fish 1s runnin’ good ho's protty u' sound. ' sort o n to twoenty miles, an' think in’ fun, s suthin® for to do that's in the in' line, V't oven soem to have the sympton of aspine. Ho'll take in all the picnles, an’ ho'll worlk like all possessed Atpushin’ scups for country gals, but nover has no chest Whon't comes to tossin’ up the hay, or gathor- in' in the whoat— Tho vory idea of that scems to knock him off his foet, 0 1 think I'll g0 to townan' samplo that ioro sLuff, 3 An’ mebbe buy a lot for Tom—ono bottlo aln't onough. Ton dosos may suflico to put an avorag In trim But Tom, for hin) An' o man think Ll hafter get a dozon quarts BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturers and Rotallors ol Vlothing in the World. A Seasonable Suit. Looks like it might be cool. ~|'cause there’s hoops on it. A fellow could have a stawving good time with a riglike that over at Courtland Beach or Manawa--Not changing the subject of seasonable suits we want to give it out real cold and chilly that next Wednes- day It's in style, too, will see the greatest hacking up in prices of sea- sonable suits that has been seen during this entire panic- Ky season—But wait a bit, we most forgot to say that there’'ll be a line of odd pants in with the cireus. Watch for Announcement. BROWNING, Store open every evenln om0 R T urd ay il L KING & (O, o |5, W, Cor. 16t1 and Douglas Sts, e