Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1893, Page 4

+ numerable have made the ‘e One else. 1 THE DAILY BEE. e NOSEWATER, % i - SESEEY PURLISHED EVERY MORNING = “IERNS OF SUBSCRIPTION out Sundny) One Year ay, Ono Yoar 1900 10 00 5 00 2 50 2 00 iy 189 out . 100 Threo Months Banday Ite Saring oekly 1 r OFFICES, Omaha, Tho ee Batlding South Omaha, corner N and 264 arl Stront, 317 Chinmber of Commerce. Kooms 13, 14 and 16, Trihune Bailding Washington, 513 Fourtoonth CORRESPONDEN munieations re 1 matter shouid be add Strouts to nows and ssea: To the Editor. BUSIN Al business lot Yo nddressed 1 Th Omaha. Drafts, chy 10 bo made payable to t pany. Parties hnve T an orde LETTERS, wand_remittancos should e Pabiishing Company d postoffice orders order of the com- y for the summer can Ving the g ving 1ber sent to thelr address by lo A This ¢ BE PUBL G COMPA SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Stato of Nebraskn, | Connty of Dotuilas. | 1 Grore B s Huck. mecret et etroutailon of Tk DALY AR for the we endine Ju 3, Wath 4 follows Sunday. of Tie Bre Pub- Thursda Friday. Ju) Saturday, July s b GronaE B TZECNUCK. — | SWORN to bofore me and subscribed in {my presence this 20t day N TiE DALY and SUNDAY BER 13 on salo in Chicago at the following places: Palmer house. Grand Pacific hotol. Auditorium hotel. ont. Northern hotel. Gore hotol, olund hotel. I‘iles of THE REE can e seon at the Ne- braska building and tho Administration build- ing, Exposition grounds, A Average Circuln for June, 1893, 24,216, REMEDY by ipjunction is a two-edged weapon. It sometimes cuts both ways. T H newspapers will now claim that they wero the power that brought Siam to time. THE railroads appear to have the upperhand just at this moment. But things are not always what they seem. OMAHA retailers agree that businkss is no worse now than at the same season last year. A little more confidence, joined to the reappearance of hoarded money. will restore financial transac- tions to their normal conditions. NO EFFORTS should be spared to in- duce the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men to establish its general headquar- ters in Omaha. The work of the local members should be supplemented by action of our commercial bodies. POLITICIANS innumerable have an- nounced their ret:rement from the. field of politics. Governor Boies is the last one to do so. Retired politicians in- reappear- ance upon the field of politicsand Gover- nor Boies may bo the next one to do so. PEOPLE should not be over hasty in condemning those city officials who ére telling the incoming Colorado miners to “move on.” Towns which might take care of a few immigrants coming singly are being doluged by the extraordinary influx occasioned by the present silyer crisis. OUR fricnds in the democratic ranks who are watching for federal patronage to come their way must not let the gyrations of the Hon. Matt Miller drop outof their sight. The district attor- neyship can not be given to two Matts at the same time. Some inoffensive third party ought to step up and sacrifice him- self to the bourbon cause. THE spectacle presented by the mer- chants of Lincoln in flying to the district court for an injunction to prevent the the State Board of Transportation from reducing railroad rates is a fit subject for the comic stage. Tho threats of the board have not in the least alurmed the poople, who know that it is simply act- ing a part at the instance of the rail- road prompte SCHEMES for eolonial aggrandizement seem to be popular in Buropoe just now. Only recently Belgium amended her con- stitution in order to cnable her to ac- quire tho Congo Kroe State. Now France has extended her jurisdiction in tho east at the risk of war. England, Russia and Germany will have to oxert themselves to keop the balance of power in counterpoise. mmm—— THE decision of the Denver authorities %o givo no relief to the unemployed miners except to such as aro will- ing to work upon the stroots of that city will soon sift the honest from the dishonest. Nothing so injures the cause of charity as to have charitable funds consumed by worthless tramps whon hunareds of deserving unfortu- nates are waiting for meritod assistance. THE Rea! Estate Owners association will, when the proper time comes, con- test the validity of the garbage contract that was recontly railroaded through the council. Tt is safe to predict that the men who hold this contract will bave to fight for its enforcement. There are many good citizens who will 0ot submit to the impositions which the contract, if enforced, would subject them to, CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is expected to arrive in Chicago chis week. The sole purpose of his visit is purely philanthropie, as he intends by his pres- ence to save the fair from financial ruin. Psychic force will works wonders and if the fair finally turns out to be a success it will be due to Citizen Train and to no To residents of Omaha anl others who huve derived great ber .t from the psychic force, this result will oceasion no surprise. Citizen Traln has shown his power more than once and in more than one place. By sacrificing himself to the good of the great Colum- bian exposition he will only be giving additional grounds for continued endear- ment to the people, the children and the birds. STOP THE SCARE, The wadvice comes sources, irrespective of politics, to stop the scare which has so much to do with continuing the oxisting depression. It is good advice, he man knovs little of the and the recuporative energy of this country who fancies that it is on the road to ruin. Thers are splendid crops growing which will add hundreds of millions of dollars to the mal wealth, bushel of wheat above the de- mands of home consumption will be wanted in Europe, that thero will be an unprecedented demand from abroad for our corn and our meats, and that we shall export of nearly everything that our farmers produce a larger amount than for many years. This means two most important things—a return of gold and the profitable mar- keting of our agricultural products. he supply of currency in tho country is nearly if not quite as large as it has ever been, and if all of it were available —that is, il it were in circulation in- stead of boing locked up by banks and individuals—would be ample for the transaction of the legitimate business of the country on the most prosperous bas All these are most encouraging conditions which, if rightly understood, it would seem must as once have the effect to remove distrust and re- store confidence. That thev are widely understood there can be no doubt, and the question is, why do they not produce the effect roasonably to be expected. Mr, William C. Whitney,who did more, perhaps, than any other one man to se- cure the election of Mr. Cleveland last year is one of those who advise that the scare be stopped. In a recent interview Mr. Whitney said that he did not re- gard the repoal of the Sherman act as a panacea, but merely a palliative. *The currency question,” he said, “is not the most vital one with which we have to deal. The poison lics deeper. No tem- porary anodyne of financial legislation will eradicate it. The silver scare will not be long oyer before some other scare will bogin, unless we go to the bot- tom of the trouble and get the business and industry of the country off the arti- ficial basis upon which it is being con- ducted and upon solid ground again. The country’s prosperity will never be permanently established while an annual tax of £300,000,000 or $400,000,000 is laid upon its industries.” It is the tariff which, in the opinion of Mr. Whitney, is at the bottom of the trouble, and he urges that when the silver scare is out of the way there should be no delay about tariff reform. Has 1t ever oc- curred to Mr. Whitney and those who think as he does that perhaps the un- certainty and apprehension as to what tho democratic party will do with the tariff may have something to do with the scare which they would have stopped. It shonld be remembored that there was no indication before the last presidential election that the people were scared. Distrust and doubt and fear have been developed since. Since the demecratic administration came into power the government has purchased at 20,000,000 ounces of silver bul- reby adding a few million dol- lars to the more than $1,500,000,000 of currency. Is it not obviously absurd to assume that this alone accounts for the depression in business, the closing of mills and the general curtailment of in- dustries? No rational man will believe that if we had only the silver ques- tion to settlo there would be any such condition of affairs as exists. Tho fact that the party in power is pledged to overturn the economic policy which has prevailed for more than thirty years, forcing a readjustment of all classes of industries to new conditions, has had a very potent influence in producing the present situation, and it is doubtful whether the scare will subside until the country knows definitely how far the democratic party will go in its fight on protection—or to put it more clearly, perhaps, how far it will go in the direo- tion of free trade. There is abundant faith in the resources of the country, but very little confidence in the wisdom of the party in control of the govern- ment. resources every REQUIRING SIXTY DAYS' NOTICE. The feature of the past week in finan- cial circles is the resolution of the presi- dents of all the savings banks in New York and viemity to enforce the rule requiring sixty days’ notico bofore de- positors will be allowed to withdraw their deposits. 1t has been ‘known for some time that savings banks all the country over have boen suffering a con- siderable contraction of the resources. Every now and then, when demands of creditors camo too suddenly upon any particular banks, the weakor ones have been compellod to give way and failures have been the result The savings banks, as a rule, hold deposits of small sums placed in their keeping by hard working laborers, who Ao not understand the theory and practico of bunking. The more ignorant no doubt believe that their monoy is simply kept on hand for their call, while many others imagine that the assets of the bank can bs converted into currency at a moment's notice. Be- cause under ordinavy circumstancos they are pormitted to withdraw their deposits on demand, they fail to se that the concerted withdrawal of deposits by any large number of depositors means ruin to the banking institution. It is owing to these facts that runs on sav- ings banks are of more frequent occur- rence than runs upon banks dealing only with members of the business com- munity, Itisalso on this account that the banks reserve the right to enforce the rule for sixty days' notice of with- drawal, Whether it is advisable to enforce this rule is a question upon which there may be wide difference of optnion. The eastern savings banks have found that they were experiencing a small but con- tinuous shrinkage of their aeposits, and although few of them have as yet been seriously embarrassed by this state of affairs, they were gradually coming to position where asudden demand might force them to fall back on the rule un- der stress of necessity. This they con- cluded would prove disastrous to many of their number and hurtful toall. To apply the rule of notice by united action #ud at » time when no immediate dan- trom various | | the THE ( | wor was in view, appeared to them to be the wisoss poliny to pursne. By thiv means thoy ean put & sudden oheck to tho 1oss of deposits; time will bo given for the restoration of confidence and At the ond of the period, banks will be in no worse condition than at present were no such rule in existence. On the other | hand, they obtain time to strengthen The promise is that | their position. The dispatches announce, however, that instoad of quicting the foars of dee positors, the presidents’ agreement cons cerning the rule of notice has had tho immediate result of precipitating small runs upon all of the banks. Those de- manding their deposits wore met with the enforcement of the rule—a move which no doubt failed to inspire them with any greater confidence. These de- positors might possibly have demanded their money in the absence of the recent action of the banks and when tho sixty days expire they may be content to leave their money uncalled for, but for the present their restlessness must be in- creased. Were o single savings bank to fall back upon this rule, it could not but injure its reputation among the people, but when all act together no one bank can sufter by compavison with the others. All must suffer together. This may be bad policy, as many contend, since it leaves the weak banks unsup- ported by further resource when the period of notice shall have elapsed. It affords present rolief to the banks at the risk of embarrassing disadvantages in tho near future, but it denotes a confi- dence in an early recovery from the present stringency, which is notoworthy, coming as it doos from the whole body of eastern savings banks presidents. THE CHANCES OF REPEAL, The Fifty-third congress will assemble in extra session one week from today. The question as to the chances of a re- peal of the silver purchase clause of the Sherman act is one of paramount in- torest. According to the careful and well-informed correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger there is no room for doubt that a large majority of the members of the house favor repeal. The public utterances of members establish this, and while many want a sub- stitute of some kind most of these will vote for unconditional re- peal, it tho question should be so presented. The correspondent admits, however, that much depends upon the rules to be adopted and upon the management of those who may be in charge of the measure. Unless the rules forbid the right to filibuster, the silver men will be able to control a sufficient number of votes to prevent the majority from doing anything not agrecable to the minority. It is assured that an effort will be made to materially curtail if not positively forbid filibustering, but it is evident that the democrats who de- sire such a change in the rules will have no little difficulty in bringing it about, and must rely upon republican votes to effect it. The plan proposed is to introduce & measure repealing only the first section of the Sherman act, which would put a stop to the pur- chase of silver, leaving torms of agreo- ment for future operations in silver to be considered after repoal is acoomplishod, While the chances of passing a repeal measure in the house thus appear to be good,” the prospect of getting such a measure through the senate seems also to have improved. Senator Stewart of Novada, one of the most uncompromis- ing advocates of silver, was reported a few days ago as having admitted that repeal would bs accom plished, and when he is prepared to capitulate there will be few who stand with him who will be disposed to hold out. It ismot expected that any rule will be adopted in the senate to restrict debate or to prevent recourse to any of the tac- tics known as filibustering. Under the time-honored practice of the senate the advocates of free coinage might fight re- poal indofinitely, and so far as this congress is concorned, talk it to death. The admission of Senator Stewart wa rants the inference that it is not the in- tention of the silver senators to take the fullestadvantage of their prerogative. It would be a mistake to assume, however, that the free silver advocates in both branches of congress will not make a gorous and determined struggle to avert the defeat of the policy they represont. Iven though thoy know they are fighting a forlorn hope, they may be expected to contest every inch of the ground and to lower their flag only when compelled to do so, TODAY is the last of the month and thus far only 2,072,000 ounces of silver have beon purchased by the treasury un- der the provisions of the Sherman silver purchase law. Unless there are large of- fers accopted at the market price before tomorrow, the month’s purchases will for the first time fall far short of the author- ized amount. If the silver owners could only be induced to refuse to sell except at prices above what Socretary Carlisle thinks the market warrants, and the secrotary should persist in his policy of refusing to buy on such terms, we would have without further legislation what would practically amount to the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law. If the silver advocates are socsrtain thata stoppage of silver purchases by the treasury would result 8o disastrously to the country, here is an opportunity for them to prove their assertion and to convince their opponents by one brief experiment. STOCKHOLDERS of Nebraska railways who have plunged into the wholesale in- Junction business may learn something to their advantage if they come to Ne- braska. It is highly probably that if they compel the line officials to report the number of passes given on political account the past two years an order will be prayed for to restrain the official from deadheading a majority of the del- egates to state and county conventions. These officials muy also have to explain to the owners of the roads, why every attorney of any prominence in the state is given an annual pass for alleged in- fluence. They might also have to ex- plain why the lieutenant governor was providedwitk blank puss books during the campaign last year and why that state official was provided with a bunch of conductors' checks with which be passed OMAHA DAILY BEE MONDAY, | train load of logislators and camp fol- Towers to and from Fremont on the coca: on of the Gratilf Army encampment. The great mass 'of 'shippers and pro- ducers of this state, who contribute most of the business of 'the roads, are vitally interested to know why the stockholders of the roads do not pus a stop to this wholesale distribnitton of favors to poli- ticlans who have Tj)tlé to give in return, We venture to say that if the owners of Nebraska roads will enjoin the givingof passes in this state, they will have no complaint to make on the score of ro- duced earnings, HE real extent of the lack of confi- dence which now sdoms to be general throughout the United States could not be better illustrated than by the decision reported to have been reached by the savings banks' presidents in New York and Brooklyn by which they agreed to enforce the rule requiving sixty and thirty days’ notice for withdrawals of deposits. According to the telegraphic dispatches, they propose to require sixty days’ notice for all sums over $300 and thirty days' notice on all lesser sums. The purpose of such a policy is of course to check the constant decrease of the savings banks’ deposits, which has been so noticeablo for over a month. It is hoped that by the expiration of tho designated period oconfidence will be in whole or partly rvestored and that thuse persons who have made use of the required novice will then decide not to avail themselves of the privilege which then becomes their right. In the meantime the banks will be in a position to fortify themselves against the ex- pected contraction of their liabilities and will be able to pay all legitimato claims that may arise from time to time. The only questions that they must ask themselves are whether the adoption of this rule is expedient at the present moment, whether it does not tend rather toadd to and prolong the lack of con- fidence on the part of the depositors, and whether in the long run it will, in fact, benefit the banks. These are the prob- lems that confront cvery savings bank when its deposits are threatened, and they have not always been determined the same way. The numerous experi- ments now being tried in enforeing and in overlooking the rule for notice may be expected to give some data upon which to base action in similar cases that may arise in the future. SOME prominent commercial bodies have recently expressed themselves in favor of allowing the national banks to issue notes to the par value of the bonds deposited to secure circulation. The banks can now only’issue notes up to 90 per cent of the par value of the Bonds, and as they mist pay a consider- able premium in order to get the bonds there is little indicament to issue notes. In the last twehty ‘years the capital stock of the natiodal banks has in- croased from $498,000,000 to about $700,- 000,000, yet their -circulation has fallen off from $348,000,000 to $171,000,000. That is, while the capital has grown nearly one-half the circulation has shrunk over one-half] and instead of the two being approxinately equal, as they were then, the capital stock is now'more than four times the circulation. If the banks were allowed to issue notes up to the full par value of the bonds it would atonce increase the circulation about $19,000,000 and would encourage -a still further enlargement as the business of the country demanded it. The guar- antee of safety would be ample, since there is absolutely no likelihood of United States bonds going below par. The proposal to do this will doubtless be made at the coming session of con- gress, but it is hardly probable that it will carry. THIS is an off year in Nebraska poli- tics. But the circumstances are such that it is of the utmost importance that a man be elected for the supreme bench who will not betray the people. For fifteen years the producers have sought the enactment of a law which would in- sure reasonable railroad rates. Such a law now graces the statutes. Its enforce- ment will be fought with bitterness and tenacity. The roads will contest the right of the stato to regulate their tolls, The courts will be invoked upon every pretoxt to declare tho law defoctive or unconstitutional. The experience of Towa teaches us that the contest will not be abandoned by the railroads until they are compelled 1o obey the law. Colorado’ PRnae Denver Republi Wo neod more money instead of less, aud tho bos:, ousiost, aurcst and quickost why ta ReLiL is to provide for the free and unlimited coinago of silver on equal terms with gold at tho ratio of 16t0 1. e Timely Advice. Philadelphta Ledger, Real values and market, values gonerally agree, but not in times of ponic. This 13 i time for small investors to keep their wits about them, and not make unwise sacritices of dividend-paying stocks. L, Angling and Correct Thinking. Chicago Inter Ocean, President Cloveland after all is wise, In 1o condition in this life can a man_do moro solid and correct thinking than while ang- Ling In quiet waters far away from the noiso and bustle of life.” Tho grave responsibili- ties resting upon thie chief magistrate in the present emergency, cabnot bo doubted, and gvery loval man, rigaraloss of party, should stand shoulder to shoylder and uid as best he can to bring order out pf chuo The Time to Tnvest. Philadelpyia Times, If people have ey, or have borrowed money on msu:ll,nlewl. t are depreciated and have no more to put up, they wust sell out, There is no help for i, But those who sll qut at a time like this because I.lm{ al f&uhmned and sacrifice their securities needithsly, have only them- selves 1o blame for vhieir losses. Aud those who have money to invest and let the present o) funity go by are also among the foolish ougs. There will not be another such chiaige 10 buy good ~stooks” for the price of bad bifes, Delightful Tinies for Kaiser Wilbelm. Philadelphia Inguirer. The attitude of Germany toward the pos- sible belligerents in Siam is curious, For once the complicatior ;r.ah lu-::: h‘g:l'u‘l;m 0ng emperor can sit aud grin wit i‘he overreaching spirit that France is e hibiting in Asia coulfl not 1ail to give him pleasure. Auy check that Great Britain may choose to put upon France in the mat- ter musi prove eminently satistactory to the kaiser. Should Russia™ consent to take hand in the affair the measure of his joy ‘would be full. Such & contest for empire in the east would not ouly free him from the menaces that have long threatened the Ger- wan veople on both frontiers, but it would make him the arbiter of Eurcpe, It Is nov suprising, therefore, that from the outset JULY 31, 1893, Gormany has assumed an air of inditference, with & rather impartial disposition to on' courage all the parties in interest to the Slam affair to mako the most of it. The Real Distar Indianapolis J The success of the demoocratic party on a r(ln”nrm demanding the repeal of the Mo inley tariff has produced alarm and un casiness, stagnation of trade, bauks, business houses and factories, thrown thousands of men out of avork, reduced the wages of other thousand d causod & gen- eral paralysis of business. Thore never was A more convineing proof that th cmocrat PATly 18 an organized monace to national prosperity. fatlures of Plagiarism and Robbery. Nebraska City News, The World-Herald accuses Hattie Aldrd of plagiarism, and proauces both Beatric and Hattio Aldrich’s lotters in parallol umns to prove that sho did plagiarize. Now thero is nothing strange in_that, for should some one do the paraliel column act on the World-Herald thero might boa striking re semblanco betwoen tho matter in that sheet and that which appears in papers pub bofore it. Still no one would ever think accusing the World-Squirrel of plagiari Nosir, nover. Usaver Men Charleston News, The farmers of the south who unite with the western silver miners in demanding that 55 conts of silver shall pass for a doilar would bo perfectly gonsis just as considerato of their own interestsif the: should unite with tho westorn wheat growers in demanding that sixtoen pecks of wheat should pass for a bushol at bushel prices. Why any farmer should object to roceiving full weight monay for his produce rather than half weight money passes all under- standi e ——— wald Be Missed. Butte Miner, The man who wants to know if it is hot enough for you; the individual who knows ho is conferring a great favor by saying “'good morning,” and shows it in_his ner; the brainy citizens who persist in taik- ing loud and saying big things on small oc- casions, and the icoman who fails to call on hotdays and is prompt when you need an overcoat are all alive and enjoying robust health. After all, there are a large number of people who would have presented a fine appearance on top of the cold storage tower at the World's fair. — Ultimate Fate of Home Rule, Philadelphia Led er. There is now no doubt even in tory circles that the home rule bill will be passed through the House of Commons, but it is Just as certain that it will be beaten in the House of Lords. That, however, was well understood at the outset. The thing to be done then will be to reduce the House of Lords to submission, and that is not as great a task as might appear. If the nation shall persist in 1ts aemand for home rule for Ire- land the lords will gracefully yield, as they have becn known to do before, rather than run the risk of losing their rogatives. I e, A Fatal Blunder Ato Philadelphia Led,er. The testimony at the court martial of the captain of the sunken battleship Vietoria i8, s0 far as taken, favorablo to the accused, Captain Bourke, and confirms first impres- s1ons that Vice Admiral Tryon was respon- sible for the fatal order that brought his vessel and the Camperdown in collision ‘The admiral is at the bottom of the deep and cannot plead for himself, but Lord Gill- ford, a staff officer, testifies’ that after the accident the admiral admitted that the fault was his alone. Probably he faced death willingly as the ship lurched and went down in preference to the stigma which would never leave him in life. S Sound Philadelphia Ledger, If the list of suspended banks, and the amount of monoy nvolved in their suspen- sion, much of which will be finally recovered, be compared with thy number of solvent banks and the vast sums of which they are the trusty guardians, it will be found that there need be no apprehension of the-col- lapse of the banking system. Comptrolier of the Currency Eckels declares that a suffi cient number of national bank reports have been received under his last call to estimate their general condition. He says these re- ports show that the banks properly con- ducted are on a sound basis, avd the failures are only of weak banks and such as are run as aids to other schemes. od, — What They Will Get. Lincoln Ne At last something definite about the per- centage which the Capital National bank will pay depositors has been given out. Receiver Hayde n yesterday informed one of the unlucky ones that in his estimation he wouid receive from 10 tod2 per cent of his claim. ‘We presume that if the depositors are anxious 10 secure any more they are at per- fect liberty to draw upon C. W. Mosher, caro of the Douglas couuty jail, who not long since stated that he was sorry for the poor depositors who, with himself, were being pushed to the wall and he would help them all he could, 1If the stockholders would nay up in full the bank ought to pay 50 per cent of deposits, but no money will be gotten out of either Mosher or Outcalt, and through the slowness of the authorities to act some other of the stockholders have embraced the opportunity given them to place their prop- erty beyond the reach of executions, = INDUSTRIAL MATTERS, Glasgow 'busses have pneumatic tires. Photographing in colors is accomplished. Germany has a wagon propelled by ben- zine. Florida women substitute oranges for s0ap. Ircland’s linen Industry employs 100,000 persons. Canada supplies nearly all the plumbago used by American manufacturers of lead pencils, A process of eliminating smoke from the combustion of coal has been discovered by an ingenious German. British manufacturers of agrioultural ma- chinery and hardware acknowledge that the United States is in keen competition. An immense deposit of petroleum has been discovered on the ocastern coast of Siberia. The oil can be had at 1 cent per gallon. Over a quarter of a million of the English conl miners have resolved on a big strike, in spite of the result of the cotton and other lockouts. The iron and steel works of Jones & Laughlin, at Pittsburg, resumed operations last week, giving work to 5000 men. The steel, iron and finishers' scales of the Amal- gumated association were signed. Notwithstanding the world’s great me- chanical progress, there are wine districts in France, Spain and Italy where the grape are still trodden with bare fect, under the idea that the wine is better when made so In tho southern states three new cotton mills and & koitting mill have been un- nounced during the weex ending July 21, to be built this year. A considerable number of new fudustries of different kinds have also been formed, It is seldom tuat wood which has grown more than 4,000 years before the Christian ora is used in the constriction of a prosent day residence, nud yet this really happencd recently in Edinburgh, where a mantel- piece was fashioned from wood said to be 6,000 yeurs old. Niety per cent of the energy in coal Is now lost in converting it into power. It goes off in heat through the chimaeys and is per- ceived in any room where there is a furnace and boiler. "A means of saving this waste will vastly cheapen the cost of everything manufactured by electric or steam power. Experiments have been made with alumi- num for horseshoes by & Peuusylvania manu- facturer within the last few month Methods and machines used with steel 10 be modified & little first. The shoes are light, of course, but they wear pidly, not Iasting over o woek or ten days on & dirt road and breaking easily. The exverimenter thinks that possibly an alumioum alloy might be more serviceale. The Midland Railway company on trains from London to Glaszow has iniroduced the American system of dining cars, but has bet- terod it by serving meals for both first and third-clags passengers. The dinner, first- class, is 85 cents; third-cl: 060 conts. Passongers who prefer may dine a lacarte, ordering & cup of coffee for & cents, or tea with bread and butter for 10 cents, or & chop with bread and potatoes for 30 ceuts. CORN ¥, Fremont Tribune: The Co | wilt find employment in Nebra husking one of tha biggest vrof State ever produced. York Times: Lot Nebraska pe thoir attention to some-plan _for fuer, tho price of corn and pork. The silver owners a take car of the cegs produced in this 3 h s than the silver ¢ vorn is worth a dozen Central City No v turn Vsing nine riol: It is not the farmer but the man who oxports the farm | OF'8 products who would be benofited by froo coinage. The exportor would buy silver in the choapest market ia the worid, have 50 or B0 conts worth of it coined into s doll and with that buy a dollar's wor farmer's wheat, e would then Wheat 1o some gold standard coun a dollar in gold for it. Kearney Journal When Nebraska farm. ter year have sold cheap corn they tnreatened o seceds from the union, or that they would wade up 1o their horses® bridles in'tha gore of tho board of trado gamblers who were keepiug the price down. The Colorado man, when comp | tosell cheap silver, howover, is diff from all reports, and horo is whe ska man 18 foolish in passing resolu ustaining the Colorado hot hoads. e PROFLE A But one obstaclo remains to chill the cour- age of the progressive woman—the mouse In serting the World's fair n't bo beat,” peoble overlook the 85,000 passes is- sued ‘Thera is no limit to thoaympath on the duke of Voragua, but th ful scarcity of cash to back it up. Iven though the munagement does not boast of it Cortland’s collection of “spoons™ on moonlight nights is worth going miles to see. There is not a shadow of hope of osrablish- ing peaceful relations between the Western Passenger association and the nowspapers of Chicago. A Sheridan (Wyo.) chicken, giftod with four legs, utilizos the surplus pair in fanuing itsell and kooping flies at o respectful distance. It has boen discovered that Governor Waite of Colorado was onco o republican. This only proves that he lost his scnso when he left the party. Murs. Emeline Best of Kansas City, Kan., who is approaching hor Wth birthday, is the riother of twenty-two children, of whom but two are now living. Lo Bengula, king of the Matabelo nation in South A h is suid to have risen against the whites, is 70 yoars old and weighs 300 pounds. He has 100 wives and bostowed o is & paia- That & humorous writer on ono of tho Cloveland papers committed suicide is not surprising. The wonder is that an epidem of suicide has not broken out among readors of Cleveland papers long ago. Two patriotic tramps, appreciating tho present perilous contraction of the currency. adoped and exceuted heroic measures to vrove the circulution. A farmer drew & from a bauk and deposited it under the pet. The p. t.'s checked itout and made themselves and the money scarce, Dr. Johu Rae, whose death at the ripo ago of 80 years is announced from Londou, was perhaps the most famous of arctic explo after Siv John Franklin. To Dr, Rue's loss encrgy is almost wholly mination of the entire North American coutinent archipelago. Mrs. Frances R. Lybrand of Ohio has heen on the examiner's corps in the Civil Engi- neering department of the patent oftice at Washington for about ten yeurs. Railways are her specialty, and sho has the annual task of passing upon about 8,000 alleged in- ventions, of which & dozen may perhaps be praoticable. An interior debating such stale quest undertook to sol utility in ov passed the pe doubtless remember how father grew in proportion to love for the duughter. " But whon tho governor, in o moment of reckless familiarity, carosses his would-be_son-in-law with his boot, that ocean of vezurd and admiration unddrioes 4 mizhty chunge. According to one of tho disputants, the contact of positive and nega- tive anatomy produces an eloctric shock which percolates through the nervous sys- tem and produces a revulsion of sentimont against the the positive pole or foot. An- other contended that there was no connce- tion betweun tho bise of the spine and the bump of affection; therefore, while positive and unexpected concussion islocated mat- ters, the effect is temporary. The socioty did 'not reach a defimte conclusion anil ned in confusion. The question of dis- ng the mysterious chord continuod to agitato the interested in the villago and was finally submitted for solution to the perspicacious warrior of the Wlaming Sword. He elucidates as follows: *Tho two poles of the solstitial colure, or that in the microcosmic form corresponding thereto are the ganglii Ribesand Impar. The first is situated at the anterior portion of tho brain, on the anterior communicating artery, and the other at the caucal extremity of tho spinal in front of the cocoyx. They are the two connecting extremes of the two sy mpa- thetic hemispheres, and are the two termi- nal points ot tho general sympatheti Yous system with the cerebro-spinal The polo of Ribes relates to the art venots system, and the pols of Impar o tho muscle and skin.” Long may Ribes and Im- par reign, re due the deter- const linc of tho acing the Arctic ociety, discardi Iver and tho tariff, blem of practical Those who have s young dream’ regard for tho It’s Funny May S EE———————— e —— RE NG TO RATHS, Minden Co | the maxit | thi | stan Che railroads will take Ut rate iw into the courts. They K the rody 1 18 more than they can How does 1his comport with the that was prevalent a short time ago, wainum rate law advane o8 While 0 maximum wili oated 1in the : w biil wili ting the de. he cocoa ' %0 that we will In freight v il with some in et Auburn Granger: Tho railroads are now having a time with tho city Lincoin, and they realize that it would have been better for them iF they had weaned tho calf boforo @ sucked 80 1ong. Lincoln, that has § ated in “diferentials, t though the rate | om - to neq m. Tho position t 1 to take is that U \ss i voints in tho state 18 is Lincoln ol Horald iuation on th y chan this city o necessiry ul that othor n - entitled to prompt display of f Lancolu to re wd rates that will do ce s a1l that will be found No such change will be made, But if by any possibility such o thing should be attempied the roads will bo the greater suffcrers anti-monopoly. senti- ment of this s such u leader- ship as Lincoln ¢ would gve it to make su ilroads as would squoezo millions more of wator out of their stocks and shuko the markets from Sun Francisco to Berlin, JOKERS VELS. Philadelphia Record: “Smith has adovted thoe chind left at his door tho other night.” “He doosn’t refor to it us astopehild, doos he ™ Galvoston Nows: Tho mian who nover thinks any is wlways ready to spe Chicago Inter Ocoan: A r nt invention converts waste puper into kegs and barrols. 15 I8 ono way af hooptug up the spring povm businoss. Detrolt Freo Press: Tom—-Well Dick 15 oft for the summor. Harry—That Is nothing un- 1,18 167 T thought i was off miost of the Lowell Courier: Rp field i from tho muster mostly of a unif \ chiracter. Phitadolphia Times; Tho calamity howlor who says tho country {s gofng to the dogs fm- plies that the old ship of state s really w mis- erable bark This baby ot yours soms piosy olid," satd Hankinson, hold mp: in's baby up in hisarms. "OF course he is, rotortad “Tompldns, “did you think b wis Dlato Harpor's Baza Now York Terald: Doctor—Ho has the strongest will of any ian L over met. Lawyer @bsent mindediy)~Lll bet I can bréuk it. Indianapolis Journal You are not inour set,” eluckod the old shanghui hen, pulling the BOOSC egg out of her nest with her bill, Phi delphin Record: Justly Hed a lay m The hen ihor of socioty Tho dollar of our dad- v descendunts, Clovel The saddest of all songs is t of the collector: A due, kind friends, a duoe! may be Boston Transcript dies {3 the dolc 't nd Plain Doale The stroet paver Isn't far Bumalo Courier: a zing his work us bencath wrong inchuracto hiian. Roaton Gazotte: Landlord—You ALWAYS DAY 18 YOU KO, yOuug miu nious T, Truc; bt I don' for six months yot should Tnpocu- tend to go Puck: Judze—Was there no policeman about when your feuit stand was robbod? Antonio— plenta policaman, but dey rob not so as U u Wostfiold Standard: At the hicycle meot the s make the motion and the timekeeper soconds it den of & “hicago Tribune: “How does the S 7 inquired n banquet’ strike you, anylow goose, coldly sarcastic. 5 A corn bangiet fills the bill,” clucked the old Tien, pecking awuy with all her might. THE SONG OF SILVER. New York sun. Sing a song of silver, A pocket fuil of vold, When the session opens Tho sliver men will sing: b “Give 1o us frec coinage, silver now is king. nd's zone a-fishing, Lo he'lT cateh n whale; bought a \l)}'l{l:\ni ) find the comet's tail; arlisle’s in tho tr A-paying out the wttleo for the siiver The western men huve sold. —_—— HI'S OFF, T'm off!—The signal, “All aboa Kinds i my heart résponsive ¢ O for the woodlunds, cool and sweét, ar from the dusty, crowded streot,— Down by the river's reedy brink; Mo find xomo healing spring and drink; adows’ fitful rly holiday. » spend n well spont rest my hours, With hooks and sleep In sconted bowersy Toswing my hammock where the bees Hun drowsily on the noontide broe sh d ol hours that fly, & rostful, cool July. BROWNING, KNG Largest Manufacturors xnd Rotallers 1 Clothing in the World: How people will rise up and slay the umpirs, and it is just as funny how people will wait till the last of July to buy asummer suit— be they don’'t—may be they buy a suit somewhere and it wears out before July. They don't get it here. At ;ny Tate we have had quite a run on our summer suits in the past, probably on account of the phe- nominally low prices. We never carry over any suits, even if we do sacrifice on them. Weare also making some extraordinary prices on straw hats to close out the few we have left. tiff hat for $1.50. BROWNING, Btore open every evenln ore OB rday uill 1 wem |g A $2.50 brown KING & CO., W, Cor. 16th and Donglas Sts.