Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1893, Page 4

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SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION of Nehraski, | ‘weerotary of Tie BER Pub- s solnnnly awear that the 1k DATLY TR for the woek 1. 1503, wan s (0110wA Sunday, July 21 Monias iy dny. July 26,060 a1 i Saturday, July 20 = | SWORN to batore this anid subseribed fn 1) iy of July 1 P. FEiL, Notary Publi The Beo n Chioago. and SUNDAY BER §s on sale in + follow ng plices hotol n hotol nhotel. Auditori Grent Nos Gore hote Leland hot. Flion of Tie Bek can ho Braska building and the Administration build- ing, Exposition grounds, Average Cire soen at the Ne- ton fordune, 1893, 24,216 UsT weather s not boginning THE tin tin abulation of the tinkling silver ean now be heard across the entire continent. RETRENCHMENT scoms to b the order of the day for both public and private undertaking: PEOPLE of speculative tendencies still haves fow days left them for making and breaking of committee ch nships. slatos irm; congrossional TOM BRENNAN steps out of the street cleaning department in Now York and Mike Brennan steps into the police de- partment in Ch honors are easy in the Brennan THE entertainment which is graced by the dance to which Anthony Comstock objects on tho ground of its immorality may prepare to receive a greatly aug- mented number of daily visitors. ly passago of a deficiency postoflico appropriation bill would be the right thing to enable the postal fa- cilitics to be extended up to what the business of the country already de- mands. DrPosITS withdrawn from the banks and hoarded in privato houses continue to supply the festive burglar with ample pocket money. The risks of the bank are generally smallor than those of tho secrot hiding place. FDISON, the inventor, hastens to closo his shops temporarily and thus to put himself on a plane with the othor in- mates of the *‘national lunatic asylum. The man of today might as well be buried as be out of style, WHEN the assistant secretary of the intorior has to assure the public that ‘“‘the administration is not hostile to the soldier who fought for the union” ovidence of its friendship for the vet- erans must be extremely scarce. THE railroads, here,as olsowhere, are cutting down their working forees and restricting tho hours of lubor 1n their shops. What a pity that they are unable to ascribo their action to the baneful effcets of the maximum froight rato law. AUDITOR MOORE displays his good senso in roplacing his bond signed by ofticers of the defunct Capital National bank with a new one. An inquisitive person might possibly ask whether there are any other oflicial bonds on file at the state house, the signatures to which have become worthless, MISSOURI miners now threaten to in- augurate a strike in spmpathy with the Kansas strikers unless the operators agreo to arbitrate their differonces, On the merits of the controversy, the public is not well informed, but that this is a poor time for workingmen to strike is without doubt the universal public opinion. CHICAGO papors describe the army ot unemployed in that eity, which is being constantly increased by large daily ac eretions, and warn the immigrants that work is not to be had at any wage. The sllurements of & large city prove irre- sistible to the untortunate laborers, and they continue to pour in notwithstand- ing the unfavorable outlook, The re- sulting misery must in many cases be ascribed to the hasty actions of the suf- ferers thomsolves, THE republicans in the house of rep- resentatives will of course give Thomas B. Roed tha compliment of a nomina- tion for speaker. He is the acknowl- edged leador of the minority party in that body and no one would venture to contest the position with him. Of his capacity for itin every way there can be no question and he will have a great opportunity during the coming congress to demonstrate this. From present in- dications it seems pretty certain that Mr, Reed will have the great satisfac- tion of seeing his methods, which were so vigorouisly wbused by the domocrats of the Fifty- first eongross, adopted and put into practice by the prosent demoocratio house, and fhat with the concurrence, it not at the suggestion, of a democratic administration. | that measure parliamentary | THE OMATIA DAILY l‘l‘lh_’l'lll'[{_fil)‘\\'. AUGUST 8, 1x03. MAXIMUM LAWS BEPORE 1118 COURTS | We are hearing <o much nowadays of tha confidence of the railway attorneys in their ability a decision of | the federal comrt declaring the N braska maximum froight rate law to be uneonstitutional and void that the im prossion’ as gained ground in quarters that the constitutionality of is already doomed. DBut the power of the states to enact meas ures for the regulation of railway rates is one which, though often attacked, has never boen authoritatively denied. An examination of the course of maxi- | mum rate litigation will show that the above-mentioned confidence of the rail- way attorn is by no means so well founded as they would have us believe. Maximum rate laws first came into the United States courts in connection with the granger legislation of the early 70%s. The railways at that time had as little disposition to obey the laws duly enacted by the state legisla- tures as they now have, and when they violated their provisions and the cases came to be heard their confidence in the ability of their attorneys to secure an affirmation of their unconstitutionality was jusgt as outspoken as at present. But they found that it was not so easy to have their own way as they had im- agined. All the cases then appealed were hoard together by the supreme court and the judgments were similar in every instance. The first suit decided was that of Munn vs Tllinois, involuing the question of maximum rates for elevators and warchouses, and it was here held that the act of the general assembly of the state of Illinois fixing such charges was in no way repugnant to the constitution of the United States. Chief Justice Waite, who delivered the opinion of the court in all these cases, insisted that private property when devoted to public interests becomes subject to public regu- lations. He went on to say: “Down to the adoption of the fourteenth amend- ment it was not supposed that statutes regulating the use or even the price of the use of private property necessavily de d an owner of his property without due process of law. The amendment does not change the law in this particular, it simply prevents the states from doing that which will operate as such a de- privation.” Aund when it was objected that such a power was dangerous, he re- plied: *“We know that this is a power which may be abused, but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislation, the peple must resort to the polls, not to the courts.” The principle enunciated was extended to a1l the so-called granger In Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Railroad company vs lowa. the act of the Towa legislature of 1874, entitled, “An to Establish Reasonable Maxi- mum Rates of Charges for the Trans- portation of Freight and Passengers on the Different Roads of This State,” was upheld as strictly within the authority of that body. In Peik vs Chicago & Northwestern Railway company the court affirmed the constitutionality of the Potter law fixing maximum® rates for transportation upon Wisconsin railways. Here again Chief Justice Waite explained the underlying principle as follows: “Where property has been clothed with a public interest the legislature may fix a limit to that which shall in law be reasonable for its use. This limit binds the courts as well as the people. If it has been improporly fixed the legislature, not the ecour must be uppealed to for the change.” Similar decisions were made in respeet to @ maximum rate law passed by the Minnesota legislature in Winona & St. Peter Railroad company vs Blake and later in the railroad commission cases in respect to a Mississippi law of 1884, which estabhished certain maximum rates and author- ized a commission to establish othe The same ruling was mado once more by the supreme court when the rail contested the constitutionality of an Arkansas statute of 1887 fixing maxi- mum passengor fares as decided in Dow vs Beidelman, The only recent case that has been carrvied to the supremoe court of the United States, and which hes resulted in some measure of success for the con- tentions of the railway attorneys, is the Minnesota milk case, decided some three yoars ago. The dissenting opinion in this case claims that it practically re- versos the principle of Munn vs Tllinois, but the majority does not appear to have desired 10 o s0 far in their judgment. This case really held that a law was unconstitutional because depriving persons of their property with- out due process of law il it delogated to 4 commission the autiority to fix rates finally without appeal to the regularly constituted ju- diciary as to the reasonableness of the rates 5o fixed. It did not directly ques- tion the power of the states to preseribe maximum rates for railway transporta- tion within their territorial limits, On the other hand, the right of the state to s0 limit charges was expressly reaf- firmed in Justice Miller's concurring opinion in these words: *In regard to the business of common carrviers limited to points within ngle state, that stato has the logislativo power to estab- lish the rates of compensation for such carriage.” From what source the railroad attor- neys have derived all their confidence in their case is not, in view of the long sevies of decisions by the United Statos supreme court, 5o easy for an ordinary mortal to discover, to secure many here cases, pad s a s WirH Governor Boies out of the field, with a plain straightforward platform avoiding complication with all sige | issues and with honest mon in nomina- tion who inspire the confidence of tho people, Towa republicans will have difti- culty in finding an excuse for defeat at the state election this fall. Battling with good men and a thoroughly repub- lican platform they -can not possibly suffer defeat. Nor oughit there be any trouble in finding good men to place upon the ticket about to be framed by the state convention this month, A number of names have been mentioned in councction with the gubernatorial place, most of them of men at once capable and popular. Of these | meaning man, so far as his gene | lations are concerned, and a good eitizen, none would ex-Senator James Harlan has boon a 1ife and represents republi moaning servo better than Harlan Senator long_republican anisl in all its He has held high office and acquitted himsolf creditably in many capueit To lead in & campaign that promises to restore to the republican party the full control of the lowa state government would crown with honor a long ecareer constantly devoted to the | interests of the public. PLAYING ON THE OLD STRING Nothing better was to be expected of Mr. A. J. Warner, president of the Bi- llic league, than the charge that the legislation of 1873 was a crime. For years that gentleman, who is a well al re- has been nursing this idea and nothing in the way of facts or of argument could possibly convince him that the law of 1873, which stopped the coinage of the standard silver dollar, was not the rosult of a criminal conspiracy against the white metal. Kverybody who has in- vestigated the matter knows that the so-called silver demonetization act of 1873 was the result of careful delibera- tion and that at the time of its passage silver was worth more than gold at the ratioof 16 to 1. Itis a matter thatought to be generally familiar that for eighty- one years during which gold and silver were on equal terms in the mints of the country there had been coined only a little over 8,000,000 silver dollars and that for years before 1873 not u dollar of thisamount was ia circulation. All well- informed persons, including Mr. ‘Warner, must also know that when the much-abused legislation was enacted and for a long time before the owners of silver did not take their metal to the mints for the sufficient reason that it was more profitable to sell it in the market. It was only when silver bogan to decline as a consequence of incroas- ing production that the silver mine owners began to agitate for a restora- tion of silver to the position it occupied prior to 1873—a position it can never regain by any legislation of the United States 5o long as the other great nations refuse to give it its former recognition. The crime which the president of the Bimetallic league and other free silver advocates denounce had its origin sev- eral years before the legislation of 1873 was passed. A bill to revise the laws relating to mints, assay offices and coin- age was introduced in the United States senate in 1870, and among other thing: it omitted the standard silver dollars from among the coins thereafter to be issued from the mints. This bill passed the senate in 1871 and was sent to the house. It was under considera- tion from time to time for nearly a year, when a substitute was offered which provided for the coinage of a 384- grain silver dollar. This passed the houso and went to the senate, where it was amended 5o as to substitute for the #84-grain dollar a dollar of 420 grains,to be used exclusively in the trade with China and known the trade dollar. Afteraconference committee had agreed to this measure it was concurred in by both houses and became a law by the approval of President Grant on Febru- avy 12, 1873, Itis thus incontrovertiblv shown by the record that for nearly three years the silver legislation of 1873 had been before congress and that during that time every phase of it was thoroughly con- sidered and debated. John Jay Knox, who was deputy controller of the cur- rency in 1870, is authority for the state- ment that the bill introduced in that year proposing to discontinue the issve Iver dollar pieces was printed thiv- teen times by order of congress and once by the commissioners revising the statutes, and was considered during fivo successive sessions. It must be apparent to everybody whose judg- ment is not warped by prejadice that there was nothing in the nature of a conspiracy connected with this legisla- tion, and if it was a crime the record shows that the silver men of that period made no effort to preventit. The ex planation is found in a statement n in the house of representatives in 18 that “silver is out of relation to gold, being worth now £1.03.” "HE GULD BASIS, Mr. Allen W. Thurman, permanent chairman of the silver convention at Chicago, said in his address, which evi- dently had been cavefully prepared: *I deny that gold alone affords a suflicient basis upon which the circulating medium and credits of this country should rest.” It may be pertinent to remark that this Mr. Thurman is the son of the eminent democratic statesman who was the candidate for vice president of the United States in 1888, and who in the days of the greenback infla- tion craze was one of the leaders of the demand for an unlimited issue by the government of legal tender notes, The comparatively young gentleman who was selected to preside over the silver convention therefore came hon- estly by the opinions he now holds gavding silver, and as his distinguished father departed from the eurrency views which he entertained nearly a quarter of & century ago, %0 it is by no means improbable that the son will in the ise his opinions and put himself upon the platform on which the democrats of a generation ago stood, and none of them more firmly than the veteran statesman, Allen G, Thurman of Ohio. The assumption that gold does not afford a suflicient basis upon which the circulating medium and credits of this country should rest is so obviously or- roneous that it is surprising any man of intelligence would ereploy it in advocacy of a double standard. When has there been a time, except during the suspen- sion of specie payments incident to the war, that the circulating mwedium and the ecredits of the country have not rested securely upon gold. The resumption of specie pay- ments was accomplished in 1879. Has there been an hour since that time that course of time re | the gold basis has not been suflicient to maintain the eredit of the government and lteep the circulating medium unim- paired? Would there be any financial disturbance now if the country was suie that the gold basis would be maintained? Ts not the distrist that pervades the whole conntry A8 largely to the fear that the gold baglamay give way to a silver basis and shat we shall substitute o silver for a g @ $tandard? The sllver advgeates lay groat str upon the assertion that there is not gold pnough with whigh to do business, but granting this to be true it would not Justify the free coinage of silver at the existing ratio, ‘g% they demand. But what is the fact a% to the supply of gold? Simply that it is: groater now than ever before in the hfstory of the world, and under the stimulys now being given to its production the supply promises to be largely increased. According to the most trustworthy statistics the world's average yearly gold production from IST3 to 1887 was $103,025,000, F five years since 1887 the average pro- duct has been $119,633,000, and in 1802 it roso to 135,000,000, The share of the United States in the production of gold, apart from the amount used in the arts, has been in excess of the growth in pop- ulation and business, While the supply of gold is increasing the demand for it in international exchanges and in do- mestic commerce does not grow in equal ratio. The various forms of eredit now do the work of cxchanges in interna- tional trade which formerly required gold, so that commercial transactions amounting to mitlions are now effected without the use of a dollar in gold. ‘That motal retains its function as the standard of value, but in actual use it plays but a small part in the world's ex- changes. The supply of gold as a basis of circu- lation and credits is ample under pre ent conditions, but it would not continue to be if the policy of the free silver men were to prevail. That would speedily result in depleting the country of gold and substituting a silver basis, upon which every dollar of the remaining currency would depreciate in purchas- ing power and the government eredit would suffer, to the irveparable injury of every interest but that of the silver pro- ducers, THE Siamese affair refu its place on the program of Buropean diplomacy. But whils the colonizing powers discuss the question of tervitor- ial adjustment, Siam will remain at tho merey of the Fronch, Weakness is an unpardonable sin in any nation that as- pires to maintain its independence. s to give up THE people’s party convention, ealled for Septembor 5, will have about 900 delegates. It is safe to assume that no one faction of that party will be able to dictate tho acts df the convention. Where is Paul Vithdbrvoor Kentueky's Fres C Lowisrille Cour Jeurnal, 1f it is absolute! cnsable to the prosperity of this conutry that the govern ment shall buy somothing every month to store away in its cellars the “logic of the situation’ clearly is thas 1t shall buy whisky instead of silver. e Demand 1or a Kost. Indianapolis Journal, It is about time that the orga silver mine millionairos, who want the coun- try to take their metalat twice its value, ceaso calling the advoeates-of sound monoy the dupes of the money kings of Burope. Just Wait and See, Nevraska City News, The ralroads as usual have sccured the aid of the courts in knocking out, for the time being at least, the Newberey bill, Th News predicts that the next legislature will have to passa unew bill, and one that will stand, for this ono the courts will knock out or render it uscless, e SRR A Jolly O1d Jnjat Jit. Washington News. Jajat Jit Siugn, king of Kapurthala, sat by the sad sea waves at Manhattan beach unday and ate Amer ams, while and played “After the | nd other selections from the grand old m 5. Tho king was accompanied by his secrotary Dowla inago Plan. s of the was pleased with American clams; ho was pleased with American women. Al of which goes to show that Jajat Jit Singh is a singuiarly appreciative sovercign, and gives promise that he will enjoy himself as long as he may be with us. ‘0 the Farms. Havelock Times Prudent farmers are not f of the prevailing havd times to any appro- ble extent. Nor will they through the winter should the country be'so terribly un fortunate:as to witness a continuation of the present conditions during that period. In shertthe intelligent farmer is on top these days and his lot is the cheeriest one of all, Present facts enforee what the Times bus all along advocated a larger agricultw population. America nceds more tiller. the soil and still higner dogrees of cultiy tion and more improved mothods, Diver- sified farming will make any industrious w common_ sense entirely in dep s will come nearer realizing freedom in its fullest senso than will those 1 any other vocation, Let there be more agriculturists, Amcricans to the favms, e e N NEBEASKA AND NEBRASKANS, ling the effc The Shelton Mail, after cight months of existence, has quit running. Twenty-five Pawnee City started for the World's fair. The excavation for the. cellar of five two- story brick bulaings is in progress at Clay Center, A Louisvillo through his guar on a horse race. Lightning struck and shattered the home of John Battam, near Alma, but noue of tho family were injured. C. 8. Cool, an old sottler of Buffalo county, died recently at Haterville, Kau., whers ho was visiting his son. An incendiary fire i Schmelzol's drug store at Humboldt was Uiscovered in time to prevent the dama; deding §25 Bathing is popular gt Hastings in_July, Thero were 600 baths taken in the Young Men's Christiun assoclation rooms there during the past mouth, Mrs. Joshus Beemuh, wifo of a Harlan county farmer, took a*dose of poison with suicidal intent, but her condition was discoy- ered by some chilaren and her Life was saved by the neighbors, Fire started in a barn at Aurors, spread to a corn crib and was thpn communicated to Dietz's lumber yard, | Lhe ficemen arrived in time to save the ¢ yard, but the people have outh has bogun a suit an to recover money lost lumb barn and erib were destroyea. While William Bruff, 67 vears of age, vas mowlng near Cordova his team became frightened, throwing thoold gentleman from th seat of the machine, s loft foot being caught in the drive wheel, breaking and crushing his ankle, also the bones near the knee. A colt's head is on exhibition at Beatrice, suys the Exgress, that is about as strange spectacle in the monstrosity line us has ever been secn in the west. The head is fairly well developed, except that the eyes are about half an jnch apart and that' it has neither nostrils nor an upper jaw. The lower Jaw protrudes out four or five iuches and t tongue comes out where the nostrils should be. The monstrosity was born alive at the farm of Ed McCleve near the city this morn- ing, aud lived only about an hour. ‘The body and limbs were perfectly developed, but it was also destitute of a tail. Mr. MecCleve will endeavor to have the peculiar head of the animal preserved and sent to some museum, PRONLEMS OF TRE HOUR. Globe-Democrat: Something over 100 national banks have closed their doors this year, but no person holding a noto of any of these banks will 1ose a cont by the failure The iances also are that not a depositor will lose n cent. How very diferent th condition would be if we had the old state banks of issue in operation now. Philadelphia Record: Comptroller Fokols gave the panio mongers & sockdolagor in tho neck in fssuing at the mek of time his stato. ment showing the stamina and substantial solidity of the national banks of the coun- try. Less than 3 per cont of stovpages dur- ing six months of stress, doubt and money stringoncy ! ‘Uhis is a showing that has no suggestion .of weakness about it; and it should command admiration as woil as con fidence. Philadelphia Press: Manufacturers are unwilling to stock up heavily with their own produgt, apprehending a general dump ing of foreign goods in our markels as soon a8 a free trade tariff is enncted. Our silver policy aggravates tho trouble, but its in fluence is inconsiderabl compared with the tariff fears that are now paralyzing every manufacturing industry in the country Botter times cannot bo expectod o long s our industries are threatened with destruc tion by hostile tarift legisiation Philadelphin Times: The first great need of the country is honest money and restored public credit, and all other issucs are now, and must remain, secondary until that act of Justice to the people and their government shall have been accomplished. It is not nocessary that silver should be rejected as money ; indeed, such action would be unwiso; but it is o supreme necessity thata govorn: ment dollar shall be a dollar in value, or the represontative of a dollar in value, whether gold, silver or pavor: and it should bo so clear in its futrinsic value that the business world must respect it. Brooklyn Iagle: Experienced bus men say’ that thero was nover a better op- portunity to make money th. now. do not " sugwest what is commonly speculation, that is buying for a rise. safer to buy and hold the stocks or bonds permanently, or until a better income can be derived from solling them and investing tho mon in other securities. The people chiefly Interestea in creating a_belief that the times are bad are men who want to eseapo the payment of their debts. ‘They may bring dows upon their own heads the 1 which they profer should befall thoir ditors. The times are good and they are woing to be better. Philadelphia Ledger: Forecasts respect- ing the action of congress deal with moro uncertain_ elomonts than forecasts of the weather, but a nico program has boen out- lined by one of the Washington cox spondents. Congress is to get to work vromptly, and to repeal the purcnasing clause of the Sherman act without delay. Then thereis to bo long discussion of substitute measure, with the outlook un certain, and tho tariff 1s not t be taken up, oxcept in committee, until the financial ques: tion is out of the' way. The important thing about this announcement is t promises a prompt and unconditional repe of the silver purchasing clause of the She man act, 1t will b time enough to discuss other things after this has been accom- plished D gt vt ROV nBOUT THE FAIR. July’s paid attend that of June by n An Tndian girl weaving featuro of the Colorado Woman's building. What the World's fair wants is a spring gate that will swing both ways on Sunduys, resvonsive to every breath of the law. Chicago 15 ma rrangements to re- ceive Lord Mayor Shanks of Dublin, Tho city clerk, Henry Campbell, wio is of the party, was Mr. Parnell’s privato secretary. From this time on the attendance at tho furr will be most likely to steadily grow until the present averige attendance is doubled. 1t will need to do this if the ente prise is made to pay out. The movablo sidewalk is doing a big busi- ness. Many peaple take their lun s on it and ride for hours. 1t is somewhat trou- blesome to get off it, since if the passenger steps in the wrong direction he is protty suro to be thrown down. “There are more fish in the aq Pisheries building than you e names of. They are al Swi round in immense glass tanks in full view. The exhi- bition is very popular and the tanks ave sur- vounded by a delighted throng all the time. Poor Nicola, the Greek model, who bears o strong a resemblance to Jupiter that he N 10 represent that god at the px- position, b ‘throno in a dingy 1ittlo fiut on Cairo street, where, in an ill-fitting robe of white and red, he waits for homage from the sons of wien. An interesting part of British Guiana's exlnbit is a youthful member of one of the twelve tribes of Indians which inhabit that country. His name is Adolphus Dauiel, With a kind of erim humor he tells how upon his first appearance at the World's fan somebody shouted “Esquimau!” and an old woman | ran the street calling, “Where? where? Corn bread, corn other forms in wh atable, are now ser 4 at nino kitchens at the exposition. Juliet Carson cooks itat the New York kitchen. Tho Massachusetts kitehen also makes u foature ofit, Mrs, Lorer serves it in 200 different ways in the Woman's building, and the Chi- cago corn kitchen, in the Manufactures building, is specially devoted to it. Tt has been arranged that on_the ev of the 17th the denizens of tho p will hold a grand international ball and con- gress of all nations at the Natatorium build- ing. 1t will be the biggest society event of tho year. Jtwill also be made one of the wost spectacular cvents the world has ever seen. Nothing of the kind was ever at- tempted beforo beeause the fons have sver been such that such a strange lot of ple could be got together. Forty-five nt villages will take part in the open- 2 grand march, The participants will all be in native costume, but there will be no straining aftor grotesque offects, In the Dakota exhibit ure many petritied wood, cut and beautifull v Sioux Falls, The petrifactions ‘Arizona, but Sioux I nee at the fair exceeds y 46,000, blankets is a section of the vium in the eard the 58 kes and the h that grain is made pal- different ning sance nples of polished ne from alls is the only place in country where it can bo cut. it 1s many vder than stecl, and it requires ty duys to cut, with the aid of diamond dust, a log vwelve inches in diameter, Here also cuttings of silicate wood, found in the A forests of the Black Hills, and which lly_intcrosting as proving one of ure’s most marvelous processes, The ground whero this material is found in lar part is silica, and by capillary attraction the substance was taken with the moisture up into the trees, gradually and for hundreds of years, Uil all fiber was replaced by it. - IND THING PEOPLE At lastaccounts France had not annexod any of the 800 wives of the king of Sinm There 13 a provability that gory Coly- radoans will grow weary wading for reform Despite the slump in social affairs the tele phone girl is favored with the usual number of calls, Even the haycock s a savings bank dangers, P has irie fires render them - No city appears envious of Chicago's ent monopoly of superhoated free coin- aker Crisy has ope ootion with o gons mint trimmings A Denver mwan Las issuea a challengo to cat 500 raw onions. Isn't the population de creasiug fast enough? It is 1 1 Senator Stewart did not ex hibit in Chicago, a8 & guarantee of good faith, those gold coupons attached to his mortgage: The Philadelphia Board of Health insinu- ates that the designation “heart failure’ iy 4 cloak for medical ignorance, and will have none of it in death certificates. A despondent Chicagoan filled his mouth with powder and blew it off with & match The experiment was intended asa useful suggestion to the statesmen gasping for gor Mrs. Eli Potter, who ran for mayor of Kans City, Kan., last spring, decl, 8 Lthat she will capture the Kansas republi convention in September, “if she wade in blood up to her ears.” A party of old boys, renewing their youth, went down to Nahaut from Lyuu., Mass., the other day to have a good time. And they had it the youngest 60jyears old and the oldest 5. Awong thew was ex-Congressman John 1, ed his campaign ous supply of has to avious | an stato | “There were over fifty of them, ( years. There Lord Harrls, Poter M. Neal James Wheoler, S4, and Philo Clifford wore soven George W onch 83 Jamos and_Willinm oach 85, octoganATa Lord and Stone, & Moserse Thore was no_Smith hout the band of Tsrael. " Ever the Brooklyn doctor canceiled the Tabernacle debt and invested in o bulldog ho has developed a mania for knocking tra ditions into smithereens. The Donver Republican, with more courage than discrotion, places Omaha within the circle of the city's manufacturing domain The movement of Denverites enstward pro- claims in vociforous tones that Editor Hill is svouting through his tile, Governor Pennoyer has discovered “for fiftoen centuries the world h lapsing in_barbarism.” His accider takes tho world for the Pennoyer legion. As proof of his assertion the Oregon exceutive frequently opens his hair-trigger mouth Although newsvaper readers are protty familiar with the doings of Mrs. Hotty G 0, the wealthiest woman in Ameri littlo is printed about her husband, who is also a millionaire several times over. He is a familiar character in Wall strect, and at one time was prosident of the Louisville & Nashville road. He is about six feet four inches high, broad shouldered, has a grizzly beard, and ‘walks stowly and with apparent difeulty. Talmage assord and thro that boen mis- —— Wheat Sells Under 60 Conts, Greensburg, Ind., Review (rep). During the last campaign the democrats of this city displayed a banner in their proces- sions bearing this inscription A Vote for Grover Cloveland and got $1.25 0 bushel for your wheat. A liberal reward will be paid for that ban- ner at this oftice and no questions asked. — - TICKLISH TRIFLES, Galveston News: No person whl ever got there on a lame excuse. Yonkers § The ndvance agent Is not necessarily a forward man Lowell Courle : That Just ills the bill, said the robin sl sol ed n fat worni, Somerville Journal: Boston girls are always auite popular in summer time. They have such chilling ways, you know. New York Journal “Been fishing! “Many bites?" “Just look at my face Detroit Free Press: Tom—T have boen told that Higking Is gotting to bo u rathor fast fol- oW, Dick—Well, T knew he was running In debt pretty rapidly. Atlanta Journal; A man_traveling ono of the sawmill roads in Dooly county uvers that the poad wits 8o crooked that o “mot. himselt coming buck. Philadelphia Times: Y a girl excited talking of feo cream microbes, Tho more she oats the coolor sho gots. Comics: There is n groat diferenco | military engagements: and love enig Inono ihere 15 of tallin the othor there is u u can't got twoon 1t ing out. Texas Siftiy do not_seo that protty 1t Inwn. Sho must spend most SYes, " roplied Brown, “Sho widow." noon the ne thore. toes; she's o grass Son Journal: Husband T thin is n burglar Wife (excitedly)—Morcy mo! enp on stralghty (listoning)— house, Is my night- SUMMER, Boston Courier. Now dips and sways the laden gratn, The hayeocks dot the meud Thro' leiity shades a goldon Sprays fi On stiowy cloud, 1ik Floats calmly o'er the While yet the Sleok potate Doth browse on paris gre il V OF THE SEASON, Harper's Bazar, Tho summer girl's in vogue again down by tho wave-lappod shore, Clad fn softlawns and hroad straw ribhons, too, gnlore, She sifles on every m upon tho boys, And never seems o 1oso at all Ler wondrous equipoise. QUEL hats and 1 thatcomes, she beams She walks upon the sandy beach the while the moon looks down, And says the things to Tommy Hicks she said Iast'night to Brown, She sives young Jinks a deal Tonpkins foeis that From what she s, wlon Wwith eestasy. )t hope, and ‘can fill her heart Young Brokely's manly bosom with a wondrous wlidness swells Tonot ing caramels Which from the he brought to her, Just as, ndeod, that solf-samo lght makes Wilkin's pulses stir’ the love-lizht in her oyes while munch- ted ety no that day has And In thoe ballroom every I with Jack Vano he nover, never hoped to danco the waltz t sho waltzes n, Thouich later on the hotel porch she glances at Perri B he thought that he alone of all mien was divine, Such trifling with very wrong We mustr are s And thi 1o the Each kn sun those but then nber, Brown or e, 15 by 1o means their fiest short visit ore. ws her well r girl befor, manly hearts seems nd Tiicks et al, for each has met the in and in | ss that houso T | TOBE CASTOR'S POSTMASTERS Recommendations of the Nebraska Demoorat Now Being Acted Upon. IN SMALL WILL COME INSTALLMENTS Few Romovals to o Made Daily in This State Until All the Republioan OfMolals Are Dise posed OF, FountrrSTH STREET, Wasnixaron, Aug. 2 Today the first: installment of Tobias Cas tor's fourth class postmasters for Nebraska was announced, but it was & small list, The appointments are to come out from day to day in lots of four or five, it is said, tho policy being not to give too much time to any stato to the exclusion of others, Today's Nebraska appointments wore as follows: Alexandria, Thayer county, G. W. Bowen, vice W. L. Whitnoy, removed. Butte, Boyd county, T S. Armstrong, vico . O. Blake, resigned Elsie, Perkins county, P. C. Carstensen, vico F. L. Pearson, removed. St. * Bdwards, ' Boone county, A. Schieb, vice R K. Williams, removed. Towa—Luverne, Kossuth county, A. R Darr, vice 1. P. Harrison, removed; Carnar- yon, ‘Sae county, J. J. Fishback, vice Louis Hunefeld, resignod. Idaho—Cedarville, Noz Perce county, J Stalwaker, vice I.'A. P Avon, Fulton county, I I3, Simmons, removed. South Dakots and Wy oday the comptroller of the currency completed a synopsis of the statements of the forty national banks of South Dakota mado on July 2 last. The combined resources of tho South Dakota b us ana discounts, & i duo from banks i checks and bills of ‘other b Wasmxarox Bunreav or T “ll,} Q. A sorve agent, ash iteins, $40,900; 10; fractional ‘vur: | §H0,002; legal tendor toral, §8, 884, pital, $2550,000; surplus undivided profits, 8219,30; ¢ ton, $018,095; individual doposits, §4,10; United States deposits, $105,038; doposits of United States disbursing officers, &1,417; due to other banks, $311, “ounts, $155,500; Dille payabie, $170, average ret serve held por cent. Following is an epitome of the statemonts of the thirteen national banks in Wyoming, rendered for July 19: Resources—Loans and discounts, $2,710,5%7; overdrafts, & duo from reser: et and_other bauk $231,403; cash items, $24,460; bills of other nation i fractional currency, legal tendor notes, #1,10 3, $4,033,170. Linbilities—Capital, ' "$1,210,000; surplu: a7 0: undivided profits, £45,902; cire individual déposits, $205, 14 T52; rediscounts, ' 815,17 0; averago resorve held, 205 due banks, $ bills payable, s 25,15 per cent. Turned Bryan Down. This ovening's Washington Nows, which draws official democratic inspiration in the course of an article upon the make-up of the house commitiee on ways and means, makes this positive statement, which will be r with significant interest'in Nebraska: “Mr. Bryan or Nebraska, who earned a reputation as an orator in the last congress in the de bate on a taviff bill, will not be a membor of the commitiee during the coming session.” Westorn Pensions. Tho following pensions granted are ro- ported: Towa: Original—Lafay Baxter, Robert Shaffer, Horace Dutton. Increase™-George A. Sens, John Herman, George \W. Warden, William A. Casteel. Original widows, ete.—Amanda R. Wolf, thoda Liun. 3 South Dakota: Increase—John § Miscollaneous. Misse: ¢ J. and Abbie B. Godfrey of this ci ne to the World's fair and from there will visit friends at their former home in ited Oak, Tu, Today's Wasiington Post eidorses the observation of Iepr Mercer that the finaueial dis- imagination and fright.” The Post declares that while Mr. Morcer muy N0t be a statesman, his frankness in acknowledging that ho'does not know what ought to-bo done is admirable in a politician, P.S. H, stto Barrd, James Oliver 'Nelson, . Smith, in a leading e How France ndles Her Silver, Globe-Democerat, “How is it that France, of only 40,000,000, can ke P 700,000,000 in sil ver at par with gold 7" asks a Virginia orator mentioned by Senator Vest. Tho answer is very simple. France's mnts are closed to silver while open to gold. She ha gold thau silver and her gold is inc while her silye which m that it reasing relatively to gold. These facts are well knowa to everybody in s they are to everybody outside of who knows “anything about the v question. Hence nobody in I is worricd over the situation, no distrust is excited among her people, sho has no silver problem and sho is able o' keep silver at par with gold n a popuiation BROWRING, KING Largest Manufacturors and Rotailors ol Clothiug o the Vorid It makes me mad To think that I have lived to see the day when my boys will wear store clothes. They haven't any more use for the regula- tion tailor than we used to when I was a kid. But be- tween you and I, the store clothes ain't what used to be-—of course you've got to buy them at the right place. ain't in it any more. store clothes Co. backs of my boys just beat they Tailors The that B. K. & are the putting on anything I ever saw—and tailors too—and at such a moderate cost that a man can't keep from buy- ing. I got a hat down there for $1.50—not this one—but a brown stiff hat that I wouldn’t trade for any $3 hat in town. BROWNING, KING & (0., Btore open every evenlng t1i1 630, PO aturduy til 10 [8. W, Cor. 16t1 and Doaglas Sts, e —