Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 26, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY s E. ROSEWAT nEE, Fditor, = ey PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, afly Tee (without Sunday) One Yoar inily and Sunday, O e 10 00 ix Months wwoveon SO0 (hres Montlhs o 260 undny Bee, Ono Yenr 200 nturday Ree, One Yol v 150 ookly Beo, Ono Yonr ....ooivivmioe 300 OFFICES. Bailding rner N and 20th Streats Coumell BlafMs, 12 Pear! Stroot, g0 Offico, 317 Chamber of Commeree. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 16, Tribune Building Washingte 513 Fonrteonth Stroot CORRESPONDENO ANl con tions relating to news and ditorial mattor should bo addrossed: To the Adltor. BUSINESS LETTERS. Al business iottors and re ces ahould 110 The Bee Publishing Co mpany, dmuhn. Drafis, checks and_postofice orders 0 be made payublo to the order of the com- any Parties loaying the city for the summer can have the e sent thelr address by leaving an order at this office. wH BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebrask [l v of D o 1. T2 ishing compny etual efreniag g.m...\ July 16 Wednenday, ) e I i aturdiy, July ~e | SWOR bt v of THe BEr Pub. W wolemuly swear that the ¥ DALY ik for the week was i follows The Bee in wgo. LY and SUSDAY lie at the following plac Bep can bo soon at the Ne- Draska huilding and the Adujnistration build- g, Exposition erounds, 21,210 NEBRASKA is keeping well to the front L:’l the Tarners' tournament at Mil- aukee. THE little controversy botween France and Siam may compel the geographers to revise their maps of Europe and Asia. THE ship of state can hardly be ex- pused from wabbling in its course as long as Quartormaster Correll is at the helm. THE generous treatment accorded the tourist miners by the citizens of Grand Island is cortain in the end to redound Lo their benefit. THE fallen heroes of Wounded Knee now have a weil-earned memorial in pnduring granite as well as on the Ineffaceable pages of history. THERE are only 9,191 places in New York City licensed to scll intoxicating liquors. And our prohibition contem- porary is also published in that city. THE city of Lincoln is to be congrat- ulated ovor tho admirable manner in which its financial institutions have weathered the storm in the face of so many disturbing rumor: Tue Chinese are bound to create trouble. Now it is the detection of eight federal officials who have been assisting in smuggling contraband Chinamen into this country at Portland, Orve. THE Dorgan-Sewall outfit at Lincoln make an open seeret of the fact that they will never be brought to trial on the serious charges laid at their doors by the Lancaster county grand jury. THE desperate situation in the mining distriets of Kansas ought to commend itself o the warlike instincts of the gov- ernor of Colorado. If the worst comes to tho worst he may yet bo able to urgo his panting steed through billows of blood. T anxiety of Colorado's idle popula- tion to reach the eastern states is in marked contrast to the incendiary con- duct of the governor and some of tho leading citizens. The laboring men want work with bread, rather than blood with hardtack. SENATOR MARTIN believes that the castern leadors of the democratic party are sounding its doom by their attitude upon the financial question. Is this not ungratoful from a senator who owos iis seat to the parlinmentary manipulations of theso vory leadors? e el A counTy official gives curreney to the apparent pavadox that the more mortgages filed, the botter the times, and ho supports his assertion by statis- tical evidence, This is no doubt true. A littlo reflection will soon cause the paradoxical aspect to disappoar, Towa railroads have withdrawn the obnoxious rulo raquiring prepayment of charges for hay shipments without wait- ing for the heaving and decision of the railroad commissioners upon the com- plaints filed against 1t. Nebraska rail- roads are still some distance behind the standard of their competitors on tho other side of the Missouri, N Nicaraguan revolutionists are expected to observe the rules of conduet prescribed by eivilizod nations for the government of belligerents, The pro- tost of Minister Baker against their vio- lation is timely, concise and dignified. The revolutionists, if successful, would apply for recognition from the United States, but they will find that their ac- tion in bombarding the capital without giving previous notice is not the course of action to insure such recognition. VERIFICATION of the report that one of the largest railway systems of the east intends to supplant its telegraph service by the long-distance telephone will bo awaited with much interest. The telegraph monopoly has always dis- couraged the introduction of the tele- phone for commercial purposes and up to this time has been successful in carry- ing out its polivy. An extensive use of telephones for railway service ought to resultin its general employment with consequent reduction of tolls all along the line. FREIGHT RATES UNDER T1E SEW LAY |t political “entangling alliances” Tt was scarcoly to be expeotod that th railroads of Nebraska would quietly sub- mit to the operation of a muximum freig rate law, however small the enforced re- duction in charges might be, withouy ultimately attacking its constitutionality in the eourts, But when th at their meeting a fortnizht ago came to an agreement to abide by the logislation for the time being and to fix their tariffs according to the legal schedule, the hope was universally aroased that a fair test of the lnw would eonvince the railway managers that they had not been treated ¢ as they had imagined and that they would prefer the law as it now stands to the uncertainty of what might follow the repeal if made obnoxious to the paople by a too literal or forced con- struction of its provisions, The injunction begun by the Burling ton company to secure an order from the United States court resteaining the State Board of Transportation from per- forming its duty under the law is evi- 10 presidents 80 b dence that that road does not want the law to stand, although a fa trial should show that its provisions are neither arbitrary nor unjust. By a cir- cuitous route it proposes to hamper the enforcement of the act bofore it can go into actual operation, and its attornays reiterate their confidence in their abil- ity to prove tho unconstitutionality of that measure. Yot it is difi- cult to see how the entiro bill could bo declared null, even if the present injunction proceedings should succoed. The new statute exprossly de- clares that it applies only to rates for transporting freight between points within this state and the paragraph authorizing the railroad c¢ommission to roduce unreasonable charvges refers only to rates upon intrasstato froight. Assum- ing for the moment that the clause in question should be declaved void for technical defects, it does not necessarily follow that h defoct rendors the whole law unconstitutional. One other aspeet of the present situ- ation betokens insincerity on the part of some of the railvoads which joined in the agreement to obey the provision of the maximum freight rate law. This is the unceasing efforts of their officials to render the law unsavory in the es of the jobbors in interior Nebraska towns. Because one or two of these towns had been enjoving differen- tials discriminating in their favor, the retention of which is not enjoined by the now statute, the railways have at- tempted to make the abolition of these unjust discriminations appear as a menace to every intevior town, and thus toarray them all against the continu- ance of the law. If this is their pur- poso, to be forewarned is to bo fore- armed. The new law simply fixes a mileage rate as the maximum charge to be made. That rate is on the average some 20 per cent below the present charge At the maximum rate the law docs nothing more than place ev jobbing center in the state upon an equal footing with overy other. If ono or two towns appear to be in a less favorable relative posi- tion than horetofore, it is only because up to this time rates have been in foreo grossly discriminating in favor of such towns at the expense of every interior point. The apparent advantage of Omaha about which so much noise is being made is the result of the removal of existing differentials which discrimi- nate against its jobbers and not of the imposition of rates in its favor. The abolition of all d minating differen- tials affords fair play to every town in the state. It places all on tho samo plane of competition without favor to any. Interior merchants and jobbers must not let themselves be blindly mis- led by any transparent vuse of the rail- voads or their organs. ! A SIMPLE FINANCLAL PROGRAM. Representative Harter of Ohio at- tained prominence in tho last congress as one of the mostactive and determined amony the demoerats who opposed tho free and unlimited coinage of silver. He is a practical man of affairs who has given intelligent studv to the financial question, and except his advocacy of ro- peal of the tax on state bank issues his ovinions have generally been sound. Mr. Harter is believed to hive the con- fidenco of the president and it is prob- able that he will exert considerable influence in the Fifty-third cong where he is likely to be again conspicaous in leading the demo- crats who favor a sound and stabie cur- rency. He will doubtless be one of the trustod supportersof the financial poli of the administration. Mre. Harter has recently submitted for public consideration a simple financial program which he thinks wiil meet the immodiate neds of the country. It em- braces four propositions: Pirst, the un- conditional repeal” of the purchasing clause of the so-called Sherman act. md, the national banks 1o be allowed to issue notes up to tho par value of their bonds deposited to secure their eir- culating notes. Third, authorizing the of tho treasur, with the approval of the president, to issue 3 per cent bonds when he deems it necossary for the purpose of maintaining the paper and silver money of the United States at a parity with its gold money, or when he deems it necessary in order to pay promptly all debts of the United Statos as they become due and vayable. Fourth, give authority to the presidont, when ho shall have been properly ad- vised that not less than fen of the lead- ing nations of Europe, including Great Britain, Germany and France, have opened their mints to the free and un- limited coinage of both silver and gold as logal tender money, to open the mints of the United States to the free and un- limited eoinage of both metals at the samo ratio as then governs the European mints, There is merit in these propositions, but they will not have the approval of the free silver men or of those who in- sist that there is not now sufficient cir- culation to do the business of the coun- try. The former will not bs willing to awalt the action of European govern- ments regarding silver. Their position is that the government of the United States should act with absolute inde- pendence in the matter, that this coun- try should be as free from financial as r033, with foreign nations <in a word, that we should have & monetary systom of our own regardloss of the rest of the world. There ia no prospect of any Furo- ntry going back to the free and limited coinage of silver and there- fore the free silver men will not be satisfied with Mr. Harter's fourth proposition. The people who demand more currency will k for something more than allowing the national banks to issno notes to the par value of the bonds deposited to secure ion pean o ren That would not make up for the loss to the circulation of the monthly issue of ver cortificatos, The silver men and the inflationists may therefore be safcly counted on to oppose the plan of the Ohio congressman, should he present it in congross, But nono the less the plan is worthy of consideration as a compro- mise in which there is no menace tothe soundness and stability of the currency and which would place the country in as independent a financial position as it is porhaps possible for it to tako with safoty to its nonetary relations with other countries, GEITING READY P WORK. It is announced that Prosident Ciove- Tand has eommeneed work on his mes- sage to tho extra sessicn of congross. 1t is also said that the president is fecling quite confident thas the financial policy of the administration will prevail. The assistant seerotary of the treasury, Mr. Hamlin, is quoted as authority for this, That official is reported to have said a fow days ago: “Wo shall carry the day 50 quickly and 50 unanimously that you will hardly know tha’ thore is an opposition.” The conservative financial and business men of the country would havery glad to know that this confidence is well founded, but there is rea- son to apprehond that he assistant sec- retary of the treasury takesa rather more optimistic view of the situation than the facts warrant. There are men in Washington who have had a long pc- litical experience, some of whom are in hearty sympathy with the financial pol- icy of the administration, who are not sunguino that it will be an easy matter o seeure the unconditional repeal of the stlver purchase clause of the Sherman law. On the contrary, these shrewd pe- litical observers are anticipating a pro- longed contest and predict that there will be no intermission between the extra and the regular sessions. The chanees of passing & measure of repeal in the house are believed to be fuvorable, though a great deal will de- vend upon whether the ruies are changed so as to prevent filibustering and to enable the majority to carry out its will. This is admitted by democrats favorable to repeal 1o be necessary, but it will not be accomplishod as easily as some may suppose. Tho elomont op- posed to it is strong and will make a vigorous fight to prevent any check being placed upon it. There is overy probability that it will be defeated, but the passage of a repeal measure by the house will not insure its adoption by the senate. Tt is by no means certain that there is a majority in the latter body favorable to the unconditional repeal of the silver purchase act, but if there should be a strong majority could provent the passage of a repeal measure for an indefinite time. There is no re- striction upon debate in the senate and the ability of a minority to defeat an ob- jeetional meakure is simply a matter of endurance. Thoy may “‘talk itto death,” as has been done many times. The free silver men have already given notic that they will resort to tactics of thi kind if they find it ne to do so, and there can be no doubt that they will make good the promise. The real fight- ing ground over the silver question is therofore pretty certain to be in the senate, and there appears to be every assurance that the battle thero will be uncompromisingly waged by the frec silver champions, It is pertinent to note in this eonnec. tion that there seemed to be a dispcsi- tion amwong senators to resent the idea that they can be influenced by the ad- ministration, cither by the use of pat- ronago or otherwise, A democratic sen- ator is quoted as saying that the presi- dent 1 no right to intimidate or bulldoze the legislative branch of the government or to seck to force it to obey his command; The statements that have been made as to the design of the president to resort to a coercive poliey toward membors of s may ha been wholly unjust to Mr. Cleveland,and it is fairly to be presumed that he is too good a politiciun to adopt such a eourse, to say nothing of the regard he should be supposed to have for the independence of the legislative branch of the government, but that their effect has been detrimental to the legitimate and proper influence of the administra- tion scems highly probable, From present indications the country muy prepare for a long conflict in con- gress on the silver issue, and nobody can suy, with any degree of covtainty, what the result will be. The chances are, in- deed, somewhat favorable to the silvor purchase clause of the so-called Sher man act, but it seems inevitable that there will have to be some sort of a com- songr promise acceptable w the free silver advocates, 17 HAS been found upon examining the new bids for the superstructure of the new federal building to be erectod at Omaha that the prices for granito ave not materially lower than when bids were previously received. This means that granite cannot boe selocted as the material unless an additional appropria- tion is first secured. In the meanwhile the prospect is that the contract will not be completed until another effort is made in congress to secure the desirable funds. The federal officials appointed under the present administration m now kegin to caleulate whether occu- paney of the new building will commence before or after the expiration of their terms of office, THE marquis de Barboles, brother to the duke of Veragua, foels certain that his veins contain just as much of the blaod of the renowned Columbus as those of the duke. And when it comes to a showing of poverty he is able to discount his brother. [If compensation is to be made at this late day fur the THE_OMAHA DAILY BERy WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1803, advantages conferred upon the inhab itants of tho UTimss) Statos by his groat ancostor, the mal{lis is quito assured that ho will o atde to fulfill any condi- tions that may b [preseribod as proro- quisi 0 to a shar fn the spoils. When the subseription fand attains attrs proportions we nédl not be surprised to werty-stricka doscondants of Col unbus spring up by the hund overy part of the gobe, vo Tite decision of fhe United States su- preme eourt in thacase of the Union Pa- cifie, vendered a fow days ago, was more far-veaching than was indicated by the press dispatch reforring to it. It fully sustained the statute of Colorado, under which the case was brought, and in doing 80 it doclared the right of a stato logis- lature to make such vegulations as shall be deemed necossary to protect the pub- lie from disorimination on the part of common earriers and to put all persons having business with common car on an absolute equality. Tho eourt also recognizes the right of a legislature, while prohibiting differences in rates, a8 botweon persons or batween places, to empower a commission to grant rveliol from the operations of that rule in spe elal cases. The decision is said to be r garded by the Interstate Commercs ¢ mmission as an indorsement of its con- struction of the second and fourth sece- tions of the interstato commerce law and to regard with especial satisfaction that portion of the decision in regard to eriminal violations of tho law which dis- countenances *fabricated claims for dam- awges™ as the basis of rebates from pub- lished tariffs. Tho defense. pleaded by the Union Pacifie, the court de- clared, if held to be valid, would open the door to the grossest frauds upon the law and practically enable the rail- road to avail itself of any consideration for a rebate that it considers sufficiont, and to agree with the favored customor upon some fabricated claim for damages, which it would be difticult, if not impos- sible, to disprove. The decision is im- portant and will greatly help in the en- forcement of laws rogulating common carriel fers THE ativitudes of the newspapers of Paris and of London constitute ono of the remarkable features of the turn which the Siamese affair has taien. The French journalists continue to insist that the question at issue is solely be- tween France and Siam and that Great Britain has no justifiable cause to inter- fere. At tho samo time they assert that British aid is being given to the Siam- ese and that plans for open assistanco when hostilitics once begin are practi- cally adopted. The London papers, on the other hand, maintain that France is aiming more at Ergland than at Siam and that active eforts must be made to check the movement, With a public opinion so suspicions of one another it cannot be surprising if the tension be- tween the two countries is soon stretched to the fighting point. ENNESSER court has remoyed a sheriff who failed to protect a negro from the attacks of a mob of organized lynchers, Summary. proceedings of this kind scem to be the only means of bring- ing such oflicers to a sense of their duty to their prisoners. A general imitation of the action of the court might possibly serve to lessen the number of successful lynchings that are now becoming so common, SILVER purchases at less than 70 cents per ounce will be a re tion to the sil- ver owners, who thought that they could fix their own price for the treas- ury. The resolute stand taken by the troasury ofticials and their decision not to purchase the authorized amount un less offered at reasonable rates are sery- ing to prevent the biddevs from taking undue advantage of the Sherman law. TiE Bek wishes to assure its readers that when the name of their distin- guished fellow citizen, Allen Root, ap- peared in the list of delegates to the bi- metallic convention as Allen Rott the mistake was purely a typographical error, Tho intolligent comnositor was not aware that he was casting aspersions upon the characteristic utterances of this esteemed populist. OMAHA ought to offer inducements to the parents of the numerous twins which are to be exhibited in Chicago to make their homes within its limits, 1 se of this city during the last census period had been by twos instead of at the ordinary single rate, our percentage of population increase might have been a greater record- breaker than it was, el in Armor. Cincinnati Commereial, The tests that are being made with guns and_armor plate in this country show that we have gradually becomo possessed of tillory of great power, aud that our armor plates are the most infpenotrablo in- propor- tion to their weight that have boon manu- factured, We aro in protty good shape, even now, to defend ourselves i case any power should provoke us to do so. - Fresh Lair of the Tiger, Philadelphia Record, South Carolina’s ill-gonsidered dispensa law, with its resultaut legal muadios, provi- ises to make as 1ine a_harvest for the attor- neys as it has dong for the “blind tigers," The latest discovery 13 that many of the bot- tles in use by tho stath’ give short measu and 1o true South Caroling freeman can he expected to stand tiat. Of the twenty-two dispensaries openod’ by tho state, one-third are already in tho cojuts LTI i toilary Measures, ashoille American, When the extra session convenes it should before daring to proceed with_ silver legisla tion, incre; the army to about 2,000,000, strongly fortify the line of the Mississivpi to guard against invasioms from the wild and ¢ west and concentrate the navy in Cal- ifornian waters, sowsjo sustain o baso of operations there wgainst the powerful revo- lutionists. After all this is done let congress proceed tmidly and cautiously with its work, ever keeping an anxious” oye ucross the Mississippi San Franelsco Chronicle A nephew of Dr. Whitman, the pioneer missionary to the Indians of Washington, is now endeavoring to colloct a claim for depre- dations committed by the savages over forty years 4 Whitman's life abounded in ho- voic and picturesque incidents, but none had in it more dramatic_elements than his ride in winter across the pluns to save the United States from 1sing Oregon aud Wash ington. I'his service ought to have assured his heirs generous treatment, but our gov- ernment is like a big corporation—it appears t have uo bowels. Probably some time in the next coutury Whitman's heirs may get the modest sum for which they have waited all these years. HOUND AnOUT THE FAIR A Chicago man exhibits & machine for cleaning fish in the Fisheries building The Brazian government appropriated about &H0.000 for exposition purposes and the display made 18 creditablo in every re. spect 1n comparing the furniture made by Ameri- can manufacturers with that which is for- eign built, one eannot fail to note how much more comfort our own productions provide for. The assertion that the Florida state building is one of the most popular on the grounds is borne out by the facts. The building. which is a reproduction of the old Spanish Fort. Marion at St. Augustine, s crowded with visitors daily. ‘The exhib are typical Florida products, Rumford Inn 1s the jolly sounding name | of the Massachusetts sanitary cooking hibit. It is connected with the board of hygiene and sanitation. A professor of chemistry is in charge and besides the healthful, sciontific moals, invalids’ dishes © 4180 10 be prepared thore Gradually Uncle Sam is arranging the government exhibits so that the peopls may see thom and appreciate the working of the machinery by actual tests, 1t took « long time for tho officials to realizo that ic wheols and still boats and dry oars and tents of war implements had no attraction for visitors. Practical demonstrations of life | saving was the first movement in the form, Then came the opening up of the ship Blake to the inspection of the public. The Brazilinn building is one of the hand- somest and most attractive among the struc tures erccted by foreign governments, It is ornamented in staff and painted white. The | structure is in the form of a Greek cross, and in architocture it is a pure class of I'rench renaissance. The interior isa vast arena, the walls and coiling of which are highly ornamented in - sculpture and orna- ments emblematic of historic events por- taining to Brazil. There aro no_exhibits in the building. The offices of the commis- sioners are on the fivst floor. Tho clephant’s hide in the leather exhibit weighs over 500 pounds and it took threo years to tan it. It isono of the curiosities Of the building. Another is a tanned horse hide with the head, main and tail on it. An alligator's hide tanned with the head strotches out thirteen and a quarter feet iong and back of it is a goat skin water bag that had nctually scen eighty years service in Jerusalem. In Machinery hall is a leathe belt which is said to be the largest in th world. The shoe and leather building 1chs at it,and shows o belt_twelve feet wide, capable of transmitting 5,000 hor: vower. It aslo says it has the longest belt in the world in the twelve-inch bolt, which is 10,000 feot long A crowd is around the “Grace Darling" boat, which stands in tho center of the Transportation building, from morning till night. The boat is painted green and white and black, and is interestingly battered and arred and unsafe looking now. One end has a hole which looks as though it had some time run against s crowd does mot always know what it is Iooking at; it looks because some one else is looking. 'When they read, “In thi boat, in 1888, Grace Darling, at the age of 22 years, with her father, saved the lives of nine men,"” they are inclined to think that this is not particy remarkable; that iv was atsort of eighteenth century heroism that in these women are braver by the scove, where theu it was only one, ana be- sides that she had her fathertodo the work. But in the time of the herow act thi country and other * countries rang with praises of the bravery of the girl, and the deed has become histovic. Improvoments in Pothooks. Chcags Herald, The stenographers are to meet in congross soon. 1If they will adopt cortain rules and make them mflexible they will add vastiy to the usefulness of their calling and confer in- calculablo benetit on an afflicted country. First, let them require at loast a_minimum of literary qualitications in those they admit to their association—say power to spell com- mon English words and knowledge of En- | glish grammar sufticient to n verbs ana subjects agree. Secondly, they should insist that when a stenographer has distinctly understood a dictator or is unable to re: stenographic notes, w 1 rds shall not be in- serted by guess and ' luck trusted for the re- sults. Thirdly, they should make a vigorous effort to bring ‘about agroement as to pho- netic symbols'so that the notes of any sten ographer who 1s competent shall be readablo by allothers, Thesearca fow of theim- provements that can be made in the busi- ofstenography, which is amost abused ling. e e Put Wires Underground, Washington Star, That all ele wires should be placed underground is roposizion now boyoud the reach of rational controversy. Years ago the clectric companies argued that the placing of working wires in conduits was impracticable, und when that prop w ked from under they used a ereat de over the matter of expense 1y known that underground s satisfactory service when carried beneath the streets s they will if s and across housetops, anc the difference in exponse is not a matter of much moment. Exposed wires are danger- ous, not always from purely ele causes, but nevertheless dangerous. Tele- graph and telephone wires have no damag- ing current, but they are continually getting in the way of the fire department, and so do the clectric light wires which in this ity are too frequently found i the open air, asationalism and Folly, Phitadelpnia Times, Sensationatism would be hurmless boyon thie contempt it invites upon its authors. but for the cowardice that shrivels up common sense with many who have money. The best of dividend payinz stocks are now purchas. ble at the lowest rates for years; but the cowardice that is cherished by thousands uakes them hoard their money. They draw itout of banks and lock it up in boxes. They know that the banks are safe, but othe are afllicted with cowardice and lock up their money, aud they do it without reasoning on the subject. By-and-by, when the securities they could buy today at the lowest prices shall have advanced 20,30 or 40 por cent, they will rush in and make investmonts, and when the banks and the business public will have no need of their surplus money, they will unlock their boxes and deposit it again. 1 —_—— Silly Attacks ou Pensions, Washington Fost. Al this disparagement of tho pensioner: is silly and mischiovous. 1t is neith houest’ nor becoming. There is just ong proper course for the government 1o pursue, and that is to go ahead and detoct and pun’ ish eyery imposter on the rolls. In aoing that tho government will be honoring tho worthy pensioner, because it will be cleans- ing and purifying the system of which he is a part, Every citizen who kuows of a fraud- ulent case should report it to the department 50 that it may be investigated. is truo patriotism and the performance of high duty. The operation of such a plan, strictly ad- hered to, would be to mako the pension lista oll of Honor and to close the lips of scandal mongers for all time to come. st L 1 Growing Evil of Desertion, New York Tribun When Hon. Redfield Proctor was at the head of the War department a determined offort was made to docrease the number of desertions from the army, and at his sug- gestion and on his earnest’ entreaty several changes in the laws were made. Apparently these have not produced the expected ef- fect; atall events there have boen a good many desortions in the last year or two, and the question how to provent. this great and wrowing ovil is pressing scriously on the at- tention of the military authorities. Some of the changes seem, in fact, to have stimu- Inted rather than hindered ‘desertions, aud vepeal is now urged. The whole matter should receive careful attention when cou: Kross meets. r - Now You'ro Talking. Indianapolis Jowrnat, Nutional organizations which seloct any of tho hospitable and beautitul eitios in the corn belt for a gencral meeting ia July or August way flud the weather uncomfortiably hot for the roason that it is adjustod to the carn-growing schedule, and the production of 1,700.000,000 bushels of corn is no slight undertaking. Let them corie in May or early June, September or October and ih will vote thom the most charming citios o the world, SKA AND NENRASKANS, Croditors have establishment at Bea Orleans horsnmon propose to havo a horss in theic city shortly The new Catholic church At 1 withappropriate ceromonios of the pasteboards Harvard has been dodicat manipulator carried off §00 A district Methodist camp moeting will ba held noar Oakdale, Antelope county, August Root, & woll known Beatrics lady, died in Chicago while on a visit to the Waorld's fair. house in Rock coun| and kalled a dog. damage was done. { daughter of J b City foll from a window fifteen foot m, atriking on her head and frac- She may recover. shocked & boy into in Othorwise no Incendiarios Aloxandria, villatns also the houso and stole 3 gold wateh and other valuables, in_county citizens will try to havea rain. and have ordered 5,000 pounds of dyna. mite, explodediin the following towns in the Wellfleot, Brady Isiand. 1t will bo ex ploded in the next three or four days. boya playing with matches John Block. living twomiles south of Peter burg, lost his b As a result of implements, besides a lot twine ho had just bought for the James McNamara had the other limo broken above Jumping from were running, scared srainst thom w by the buggy strikiug going down hill. Those that remained in the buggy were not hit. smoking clgarottes sot fire to a barn Toe of Marvard valued at 00, a cow and buggy and a quantity of hay and grain was Another barn near, belong- organ, caught firo, but by the exertions of the Hre company it was saved. I'he loss to Mr. Leo is about £500, dger tells the folowing ng of o littlo girl's lifo by a V' Id child, Alice, of Norton, living near the ailroud west of town, had an eseape from a horrible death which belonwing to G. W, also consum: story of the sav Mr. and Mrs. G. W, nothing short of "ut to the field, leaving the little crossod the track and went out of little one starte dad and waa g to follow her. ping its way « A0 CXPIOsS ¢ thundering down the road only g mp was plodding his wa, it on some nimle 2 perilous situation of destination, p rock. The his sudden on- He grabbed libped, almost lost his and then started for the bridge with the tr as he left the track his hindmost heel at this time and took tramp sank from exhaustion and fright upon the ground, unable to give h slaught and tried toevade him, itupin his arms, ister, while the Summer Landlord— Indlanapolis 1 thermometer s It does not stand. by about fifte Philadelphin Time Mppant scorn to ¢ ono side of & postage stamp. ultimate of he can't oven lick The ball player who has “eye on the ball” is least apt to get the batl Someryille Journ; L but sho' wants t when she looks at u fa Brooklyn Life husbind g0 1o this* © Wil go dressed as his he servants and polic keep both e ily hotel janitor. ractor does your will never let oW much easier it seems he finding of a h hole in the corner than a purse Danville Broeze L din of embarrassod be i such stra WOren't soni Thei fly that the s not so very fly af out the weaving and Kot taken in. Detroit Free Press: He—-T would that T with thee through lifo Lolding thy Joys and sorrows. All I wish tohvld Is the THAT HE WOULD. whin ton Star, immin’ pool, Keops the water cool. Caleb's father licked him Caleb dian’t mind i, 'Cause he kuowed he would. But fur hin to do it BROWNING, KING Lurgest Manufucturors und Rotailers ol Clothiog tu the World Sawed in 2. We promised a great backing up of prices to begin Wednesday, and after you peruse this if you don’t believe it, come down to the store and we will eonvince you. We have just 85 sea- 1sonablc summer suits, rang- ing in price from $10 to $28 all season that have been placed on one table and will let go Half the Old Marked Price. 20 suits, sizes 33.. I i 6 sults, 51285 35,... .0 o000 2 8Uits, sizes 36 6 suits, sizes 37+ - i i 3 suits, sizes 39...... ......17 suits, sizes 40 9 suits, sizes 42...... ...... Osuits, sizes 44 and only one suit of 46 size. The sizes are broken; that's why you can get them at half price. Besides you don't want a whole suit we have arranged all our $4.50 to $7.50 pants in one grand lot to go at $3.50. The cclors and patters are numerous, but the sizes are not many; however, if' you can find just your size, you will save from $1 to $3.50 on a BROWNING, KING & CO., [8. W, Cor. 16t1 and Douglas Sts, m % g Store open every evening tlil 6.5). Suturday vl 10, PEOPLE AND THINGS, Donver comes oud of the baut with ealam ity shriekers with a voluptuous black sye An Alaskan voleano hag breken ot in g new spot, 1n & hopoless effort to outahriol Populist governors. One by one olassic phrases wither ana faf by the wayside. In the texicon of today fai 18 A conspicuons word Mrs, Leass will vention in Chicago, V tond the siiver con the path of sil ver {a A rocky Ohlo's e convention Assemblos August 9. After that date a Sharp increase in the output of natural gas may be expected Two hundred thousand dollars of the halt million required to put the winter fair on & working basis has eeu subscribed in San Francisco Valuablo municipal records of & Kansas town were eaten by a goat the other day Animatod whiskers are the butt and bane of Kansas lifoe the tomporaturo in north Missourl fsn't & circumstanco to the heat of polities. Hero 18 the Kansas City Times hurling pica title shot at the supportors of the Sherman law. The New York Lribune is firing open ot tors at Gov or Waite of Colorado, Un fortunately there is wo prospect of inducing theso gladiators to come within gore-spilling Jujatijit Singh, maharajah of Kapurthala is viowing the elephant at Coney Isiand. By degrees he is reaching plane from which tho Midway of tho fair may bo properly preciated America’s hair-tricker governors might ba Judiciously employed by the Fronch stirring up & war fecling in Siam. Their appearanco in Bangkok would insurc a peaceful acquisi- tion of more territory by France A brother of the duke of Voraugua wants A share of the projected sum to be raised by American aduwirers. The enthusiasm of pauper royalty for American coin is as charming as the prospect of gotting it is shm, Prosident Cloveland is said to bo hard at work on his messago to congress down at Gray Gables and reporters roosting in thoe woods for miles around with a despernte hopo of gaining some idea of the contents of the document, Benjamin Franklin's mother advised her ambitious printer son not tostart a nowspa: per, “because therc are ¥ LW0 papers in th ountry, There are now 19,57 news. papers published in the Unitea States and Canada, andworo being startod every day. Anthony Drexel Biddle, grandson of the lato A, J. Drexel, who is heir to 1,000,000 by the torms of the dead banker's will, s a ro- porteron the local staff of the Philadolphia Ledger. o the uninitiated this may appear surprising. The trath is, every reporter would be a millionaire if his services to man- kind were cashed at par value, Vice President Stovenson and his party wereat Los Angeles, Cal., when the new Long wharf was comploted and they were mvited to attend tho formal _ceremonies which marked its dedication. Mr. Steven- son was asked to drive the last spike, and ho did so with great vigor, seizing a heavy sledge, spitting on his hands and going at tho job liko & section hand on o railroad, The performance was vigorously applauded Siv Cecil John Rhodes, prime minister of Cape Colony and the richest man in South Afriea, made most of his enormous fortune in the diamond mines at Kimberley during tho 1of speculation that led fo their con. tion under one management. Twenty years ago three partners owned a block of claims on the dinmond fields. One of them has sinco been hanged, another s a loafur and beggar, and the third is Mr. Rhodes. o Insntinble Kansas City The civilized world will wateh with inter- est the contest now on between Franco and wm. England is keeping greedy eyes on the sceno, and at the slightest cause for action Great Britain's boats will be ordered into the Menam river. 1t is doubtful if the Enelish will permit ch protectorate of ithout a quarrcl. for such n hold iu art of Asia by France would give to sceond place in power in the far is u position that England never vod. Times, cast. Th assumes in peace. In the meantime Siam is not to be cousidered much in the inter- national quarrel. The nation, with its native king, princes and all, will likely by goboled up by a Christian power. frmid il GOT 4 WHEEL, Truth. About a month or 5o ago my lfe was free from My howe was full of happiness, with sunshine cverywhe But now there saaness feel: My days ure fuli of anxlousness—my daugh! has a whee! endless trouble, T a certain She rides it In tho morning, on the walk and in the street, She rides it ather “nooning” hour, amid the dust and hoat; Sho rides it in the evening, when the shadows soft] There's nothin tor has o wh 150 but riding, now my daugh= To keep hor off the crowdod stroot most con- stanly I beg, And worry all the time for fear she'll fall and bronk hor But still sho gocs a-spinning, heeding 1ittlo my appral Oh, what a burden life is since my daughter has u wheel, E e used (o like to study—why, sho'd study like aTark! o used to 11ke 1o swey with the work; But now it's v other “deal;’ The house unde and help her mother iTere t, thero 15 quito an- £ono a chango—my daugh- 11 suits, sizes 34 ... 2suits, sizss 38 L