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

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George I Ashing o actnal cfre ending July of THE BER Pub- inly swear that_the ¥ IR for the week Bunday, July 21, Monday, Jul Tuesday, Ji GRONGE B. TZECHUCK. ~t= | SWORN 10 before and subseribed in SEAL by prosence thi N. Tre DAY and Suxpay Bee 1s on sale in Chicago at the following places: Palmer house, Gore hotol. Leland hote Fites of Ty braska buildi 1ng, Expositic BEE can be seen at the No- nd the Administration build- grounds. ton for Jaue, 1803, 24,216 RANCE has d the blockade. Siam must now raise the indomnity. PosToFFICE appointments are coming this way—and they are coming fast. THE pienic season is now in full blast. Bo ready for reports of poisoned igo cream, THE royalists in Hawaii cannot- ad- vance their cause by antagonizing tho American minister. ACTING the hog has become a very low practice sinde the price of the porker went down with a thump. Towa prohibitionists must now look around for another gubernatorial candi- date to be sacrificed at the head of their state ticket. me of those $236,000 does not interest the people of this state so much as the queistion whether it is to be returnea to the treasury The people of Nebraska do not feel called upon to pay $236,000 in taxes as a contribution to the wreckers of the de- funot Capital National bank. —_— THE success of the Superior reunion should bestir the state encampment committce to make the assembly at Grand Island equally attractive to the old soldier. R —_— IT 18 to be feared that it is the fiat in the silver dollar that is making the loudest noise at the Chicago convention." The real silver part of the dollar is doing the thinking. —_— No EFFORTS should be spared by the management of the coming state tennis tournament to make that event one of interest to the entiro state. A state tournament cannot well be conducted with contestants from this city only. THE reductions in the salaries and working forces upon the railways throughout the west is not a local affic- tion. It is duo to the general policy of retrenchment, not to any depression traceable to so-called hostile legislation, THE fact that the veteran soldiers of Nebraska refuse to recognize the fuc- tional quarrels of politics was pointedly illustrated at Superior the other day, When the same band served as an escort for the ubiquitous Church Howe and his bosom friend and ally, Tom Majors. THE slump in the pork and cattle mar- ket last week is the first shock the Ne- braska producer has sustained this year. Corn, oggs, poultry, hogs and cattle have brought gilt edge prices especially the past six months and the farmers of the west have profited immensely thereby. —— IT'HAS come to pass in this state that the little stockholder of a big railroad has found a way to make himself heard Inity affairs. He has got himself into a novel predicament and is bound to get the worst of it in time. The little stock- holder, however, is nccuswnmd to rough usage. JOHN J. INGALLS, once the irrides- cont statesmen of the Sunflower state, is showing many signs of mental decay. His latest sensational prediction that the transmississippi valley is hanging on the verge of anarchy and ruin proves conclusively that a statesman out of a job is sure to run rapidly to seed. THE gold roserve in the treasury at Washington hag again reached the 8100,000,009 limit. It dropped below the limit about the time thatthe present financlul stringency bogan in all severity. If there was any causal connection be- tween the two events, the silver ecrisis should now be approaching its end. WHEN the adyocates of the free and unlimited coinage of silver are forced by the meagerness of their numbers to put such & man as Vandervoort upon the commitiee of ways and means as repre- sentative of the great state of Nebraska, the time seems to have arrived for them to fold up their tents and disband. MiNISTER BLOUNT will return from Hawaiiby the next steamer. Perhaps his report will be of sufficiont interest to detract the attention of the publie from the tiresomo discussion of the silver question. Jf it is, the mission of the paramouns statusman from Georgia will schieve & new and added distinction. THE VOLUME OF CIRCULATION One of the arguments of the free silver men is that the supply of money is not suffiorent to do the business of the | country. They put this forth among the declarations of the Chicago convention and there can be no doubt that it is an influential argument with millions of people. Belief in the efficacy of an abundant currency to create wealth and business prosperity has been a dominant financial heresy from the beginning of thegovernment. Because rich countries have more circulating medium than poor ones it is illogically inferred that all that is needed to make a country rich is to give 1t plenty of money, no matter of what kind. The original colonies went through various phases of this delusion, emitting such quantities of paper money that at the close of the war of the revolution it had little more value than confederate scrip at the close of the rebellion. The coun- try has since experienced numerous financial collapses, all P ded by an excessive issue of currency. According to the statement of cirenla- tion just issued by the Treasury depart- ment the per capita on August 1, based on an estimated population of 67,000,000, was $24,02. The general stock of money issued is given as amounting to $2,213,068,640, of which $512,809,63: is in the treasury, leaving as the amount, in circulation $1,701,009,017. For twenty years the per capita of circulation has been higher than on August I of this year but once before, in 1892, but then the estimated population was loss by at least 2,000,000. One of the most pros- perous periods this country has known was between 1870 and 1883, There was no lack of monoy felt. The supply was suflicient not only to fill the treasury, but to meet the demands of commerce and an extraordinar 58 activity followed by very high prices. - Yet the averago per capita circulation dur- ing that period was only $20.61, In the period cfrom July, 1800, to the present, a period of great monetary stringency, the average per capita culation has been $23.65, thus demon- strating that there may be hard times and scarco money with the most abund- ant circulation. With the single ex- ception of France the United States has more cireulation per capita than any other of the great commercial nations of the world. According tw the latest trustworthy data the per capita circula- tion in the United Kingdom of Great Britain is $19.34. Of this, $14.49is gold, cirenlating freoly among the people. Of silver there is only $2.63 and of paper $2.24. The per capita circulation in Germany is still less, being only $17.56. France has a seemingly large per capita circulation, $11.07, but of this $17.95 consists of silver which was coined prior to 1873, while silver maintained its relative intrinsie value to gold. The finances of France aresteadied and made secure by the possession of at least $800,- 000,000 in gold, furnishing a per capita circulation in gold coin alone of $20.52. More than half of its depreciated silver, a total of $700,000,000, lies idly in the Bank of France, where it is likely to remain unused. The disastrous panic of 1857 followed a period of unbri- dled issues of state bank cur- rency and the equally damaging panic of 18713 was the direct result of speculation and overtrading induced by the greenback era. Taking the example of other great commercial nations—which the free silver people, however, propose to ignore—aud it is plain that there is no good ground for the claim that our currency isinsuffi- cient for the wants of business. It is not an inadequate supply of cur- rency but tho reckless abuse of credit { which is chiefly responsible for the cri: through which the country is passing. An inflation of the volume of currency, whether with silver or paper, with tho cortainty of its ultimate depreciation, could not help matters. What is needed to restore financial confidence is legisla- tion that will insure the maintenance of the currency we have ona sound and stable basis, making provision at the same time for increasing it as the growth of population and business shall demand, and removing for years to come, if possible, the danger of a chango of standard. ENFORCING SUNDAY OP. The officers and dir World’s fair little dreamed of the trouble which they were preparing for them- selves when they began the agitation for opening the great exposition upon every day of the week. When a compata- tively insignificant stockholder, in an- ticipation of the injunction proceedings that were being pressed in tho federal court to insure Sunday closing, suc- ceeded in securing an order from one of the state courts restraining the direc- tory from closing the gates on Sundays, overybody applauded the act as showing a commendable cunning. Every one connected with the exposition was so eager to have the grounds kept open to the public that their enthusiasm scarcely knew bounds when the decision of Chief Justice Fuller established their right to pursue their long cherished plans, In the general jubilation the injunction granted by Judge Stein dropped com- pletely out of sight and the directors held their breath in expectation of enormous Sunday receipts. If the financial results of Sunday open- ing had turned out all that had been ex- pected or had even proven sufficiont to justify the procedure, no further legal complications could have avison exeopt perhaps in relation to the return of the money advanced conditionally by congress, Sunday opening ended in financial failure and rather than have the expenditures for that day exceoed the receipts, the plausible excuse that the people did not want to attend the fair on Sundays was conjured up to justify a re- versal of the previous decision. The gates to the White City were elosed on July 23, The fact that they were opened again a week later indicated that the directors had gotten the wind of an impending calamity and that calamaty soon appeared in the form of several generous fines imposed by Judge Stein for the violaton of the order of his court. The aggregate fines amount to #5,750 and if that rate is to be the minimum, the directors displayed excellent judgment in ordering the gates to be opened on Sunday last. The judge has evidently made the seriousness of contempt in his court depend upon the magnitude of the operations involved in the judicial order. He allowed the directors who were fined an appeal from his decision, but it {s unlikely that they will venture to again order the gates closed unless that appeal results in overruling the judgment that imposed the fines. Sun- day closing at the price of $5,750 per day is altogether too expensive a luxury for even the pampered World’s fair di- rectors. The prospects for continuing Sunday opening are at present exceed- ingly bright. DANGEROUS RAILRUAD CRUSSINGS. Once moro a coroner’s jury summoned to investigate the death of a man wantonly sacrificed to the deadly rail- road crossing has returned a verdict that no blame attaches to any one in the matter. It was developed during the in- quest that the accident occurred shortly after 6 o’clock in the evening, at which hour the flagman retires from his post of duty. The railway authorities evi- dently proceed upon the theory that whiio a flag of warning is necessary in the daytime, people crossing the tracks at night, when it is more difficult to see the passing trains, require no further protection than is afforded them by their own eyes and ears. If it is neces- sary to keep a man at a crossing in order to protect life and property previous to 6 o'clock it appears to be indefensible carelessness to withdraw such protec- tion just at a time when it is most needed. he condition of the railway crossings in this city is a menace to the safety of the community. Unprotected by gates of any description, pedestrianand driver are allowed to onter upon the tracks, and eyen when trains are passing no efforts are made to stop persons ap- proaching until they are within a few yards of the danger line. At some points the grades are so deep as to pro- vent pedestrians from obtaining a clear view of tho field until they are practi- cally upon the brink of the precipice. A situation of this kind would not long be tolerated in other cities. Everywhere gates are required in the larger munici- palities at all crossings over which heavy traflic is maintained, and flagmen ave raquired t5 be present at all hours of the day and night. ordinarily to be to the interest of the railways to provide proper safeguards at such places and thus to avoid the pos- sibility of damage suits consequent upon accidents. Here, however, they profer to save tho present expense and to as- sume the risk of fighting litigation to the courts of last resort. The lives of the persons using the crossings cut no figure whatever in their calculations. So long as exonerating verdicts of the coroner’s jury are so ecusily obtainable, no adequate provision will be made by the railways in this connection until compelled to do so by the public authori- ties. TARIFF REVISION BY COMMISSION, The plan of having the tariff revised by a commission, to be compoged of prac- tical business men and political econ- omists, their work to be subject, of course, to the approval of congress, is not new. There was a tariff commission appointed in 1882 and it reported a bill to congress which by many was regarded as a very good measure, but it received hardly any consideration from congress. The measure reported by the commis- sion provided for a reduction of duties of about 20 per cent, but it was rejected and a bill passed which did not make so large a reduction of duties. Thus the work of the commission was practically to no purpose and the time and expense involved wasted. There is no reason to suppose that another taviff commission would have any botter success. Doubtless most people will conclude on first thought that a body composed of practical business men and learned economists, free from political and par- tisan influences, could make a much more judicious revision of the tariff than a committee of politicians necessarily more or less under partisan influence. It seems reasonuble to assume this, but, if it be admitted, the difficulty is that congress will not abdicate its function of tariff mak- ing. The men who will compose the ways and means committee of the house of representatives cannot be induced to believe that they are not as well quali- fied as any other sot of men to frame a tariff bill, and however admirable a measure & commission might present it would not be accepted. When it was suggested some months ago that con- gress be called together to create a com- mission the proposal found very few sup- porters among the democratic repregen- tatives, They may generally have thought this an insufficient reason for calling congress together, and 80 indeed it would have been, but a stronger con- sideration than this was the feeling that the duty of revising the tarift according to democratic views could only be prop- erly and safely committed to the men chosen by the people for this duty, There can be no reasonable fault found with this view. The party in control of congress is committed by the platform on which 1t was elected to a certain policy regarding the tariff. It has de- clared that protection is a fraud and a robbery and without constitutional warrant; that the government has no right to levy duties except for reve- nue. This position of the party must be borne in mind in revising the tariff, which would not be done by a commission. The suggestion of such a body to revise the tarifl, which is again made, is not, therefore, likely to be heeded. The administration has on hand a measure framed by a committee of the Tariff Reform league, and it will perhaps be able to give valuable as- sistance to the ways and means commit- tee in this way, but this is doubtless as far as congress will go in seeking out- side aid in the matter of revising the tariff. At any rate it is entirely safo to say that there will be no tariff commis- sion, POTTAWATTAMIE county republicans come out squarely with a resolution of their convention favoring such a modifi- cation of the present prohibitory law in force in Towa as will permit separate counties, in which a wmajority so ex- presses itself by ballot, to inaugurate a | misrepresant [t would seom 4 systom of high licgnge. A volicy of this kind, they say, will,place the saloon in logal subordinatiom in localities where the existing law faithoperative, No one familiar with the’sltaation in Towa still ventures to assert fHat prohibition has proven a success in that state, and eo the sooner a law. which violates the sentiment of the people is taken from the statute book. ‘the sooner will a healthy regard for law and order de- velop in those communitios which have never pretended ta observe the pro- hibitory enactment. So long as the saloon must contifiié to exist to cater to an effective popular demand for intoxi- cating liquors, some kind of regulation remains an absolute necossity. As yet no better device has been invented for this purpose than the restriction of the liquor traffic by means of high license. The success of high license in other states ought to commend that system to the consideration of fowa legislators without respect to political party. WE REMEMBER the ory that arose dur- ing the last presidential: campaign that Grover Cleveland was better than his party. Some thought this a point in his favor, others regarded it as weighing against him, Now we are informed that the president does not represent the democratic party because he is said to it on the question of money. The silverite who gave vent to this expression of his disgust with tho president’s actions meant by it to read Mr. Cleveland out of the democratic party and did not hesitate to class several other prominent democrats in the same category. If we will now wait patiently for a little while we may be entertained by the sight of two factions, each claiming to be the true democratic party. The prospect for democratic harmony does not, appear to be rapidly improving. THE serious problem which most con- cerns the west at the present time is the question of securing sufficient - funds to move the immense crops of small grain to the markets in tho cast. The crop movement requires large sums of money every year and heretofore the banks have advanced the necessary funds with alacrity. At the present time, however, the banks are declining to advance the needed cash and the grain men are seri- ously embarrassed. In the emergency it is likely that tho farmer and the grain men will be compelled to adopt some planof mutual crediv by which the graincan be moved without the cosort to cash payments at the time of delivery to the elavator. THE governor of Colorado attached another string to lis recently acquired famo by repeating his bloody bridles speech at Chicago the other day. The distinguished exponent of populistic doctrines is evidently determined to hold fast to what little notoriety he has already achieved, even if he does so0 at the expense of the:reputation of the sober-minded members of his party. THE same telegraph wire Which on yesterday brought the intelligenco that Congressman Bryan is to beidropped from the ways and means committeo brought the mournful news that the sil- ver convention passed over the young congressman in making up its ways and means committes, and gave Nebraska's place on that committee to an individual named Paul Vandervoort. IT1s barely possible that the time may come in Nebraska when the candi- date for state treasurer who pays the highest cash bonus for the privilege of handling the public school funds will be given the keys of the treasury. The state will then be sure of collecting the bonus, even if it is certain to lose what happens to be in the sev- IF POLITICAL considerations will be ig- nored during the extra session and an honest effort is made to extricate the country from the predicament that has followed as the logical result of the panic strickon imaginations of the people of the whole country, the outlook will be greatly improved and confidence will onco more be restored to a gold basis, ToBIAS CASTOR, confidential adviser to the appointing power of the Post- office department, wishes it distinctly understood that he is not to blame for the terrible situation that permits nu- merous republican postmasters to con- tinue in office under a democratic ad- ministration. He is doing all he can to remedy the evil, RECEIVER HAYDEN of the defunct Mosher bank has just made a declara- tion that will not contribute to the per- sonal comfort of the bondsmen of ex- Treasurer Hill. Little by little the impression gains that Mr, Hayden means business. To whose advantage this now aspect of the case will work remains to be seen. 1r THE freo silver men had their own way they would impeach the secretary of the treasury for mot construing the provisions of the Shorman silver pur- chase law in the way “most favorable to the silver owners, ‘Byt if the free sil- ver men had their, way, what would they not do? i GOVERNOR BoIes still insists that there are no strings attached to his formal retirement from Iowa politics. In order to make sure, the people of Iowa should require-the governor to give a good and sufficlént bond for the faithful excoution of hs withdrawal. T THE gold reserve is, once more intact and every steamer from Europe is bring- ing fresh supplies of the yellow metal. Uncle Sam will soon have more gold than he can dispose of at a profit if the influx continues at the present ratio for another year. A Usndld Lund Grabber. Detroit Tribune, Frauce is at least entitled o the respect which the world grants 1 fravkness. If England were engaged in gobbling up Siam, the dispatches would be filled with columns of pious pretense about civilization and hu- wmanity, and everything else except the truth, The Hunger for Land, Chica,0 Record. For 200 miles along the borders of the Cherokee striv in lhufind ian territory there is cne unbroken cawp of prospective settlers, bent on a rush Into the promised land when President Claveland shall declare the coun- try open to sottlement. Ten thousand poo- ple are suprosed to be waiting for th proclamation, and every day their numbers are mmwlng larger, ile this demonstration Is not Nhnll{ noew, it is, nevertheless, a remarkable exhi. bition of a spirit truly Amorican. There have been hardsnips endured in the long momhs of waiting on the borders of this new territory. Thore will be additional troubles'to be borne. From the deserted mines and manufactories of the west work- ingmen have trooped to this borderland and will Join in the scramblo. No one has as yet more than a fighting chance for place, and if the territory is opened late in iho ‘season thousands of people must suffer during the winter in preserving their rights. The wisdom of miners and mechanies flock- ing to the ter.itory may be questioned. Tuiy a wild country, destitute of _agricultural or manufacturing resources. How shall theso penniless people mamtain themselves until another crop season! And how can they hope to successfully till the ground without money for implements and without a knowl- edge of soed-planting and cultivation? ——— Time for the Tables to Tura. Howells Joural, The Chicago, Surlington & Quincy Rail- road company has filed a petition in the courts praying for an injunction to prevent the authoritios from compelling it to obey the laws of Nebraska in regard to freight rates. In other words, the company refuses to comply with the maximum freight rate law passed by the legislature of Nebraska and will attempt to prove it to be in- operative, because not constitutional. It seems as though the railroads have finally come to the point and rofuso to submit to the will of the people, whereas it would be much better for thom to comply with the popular demand and respect our laws. Another legislative body will meet and pass laws two years hence. 1t would have boen policy to have allowed tho law to go into effect, ‘given it a fair trial, and then if they could not do a paying busi- ness thev would at least have convinced the people that they were willing to acquiesce to the public demand, and no_doubt, steps would have been taken to rectify the wrong. It has boen very little mercy the railroads have shown the masses when a different state of affairs existed and tbe railroads dictated the laws to be enacted. They ought to be compelled to take a dose of their own medicine and sec how they relish it. Towa ¥ d the Rallronds. Stowr City Jowrnal. If it be true that corporate influence is being used unduly, within the democratic or within the republican party, with a_view of determining action at the approaching state conventions, some evidence now would be more important than at any time later. The membership of either purty, on the whole, profer to attend to their own business; the; prefer to be free of dictation from corpor: combination, and they are certaiuly opposed to the nomination of meu for vonsible public servico who may be under emba ing obligation to tho cor After the nominations have been made it is not so casy to getimpartial public attention. The presumption is strong that partisan influence, then, is the source from whence disclosures spring; and so far as mere partisanship is answerable for what is said, rather than purpose to protect the cause in court of the peovle, the public is quite justified in heedlessness. The very best time to warn the people is now. il i by Ought to Have Tried 1t Blair Courter, Judge Dundy issued some four or five tem- porary injunctions on Saturday, the intent and purpose of which appears to be the con- stitutionality of the new maximum freight rate law, but the real purpose of which is aimed to acfeat all its provisions and pur- poses. The injunction is at the instance of shoreholders and restrains the railrond com- panies, the State Board of Transportation and county attorneys from putting the maxi- mum freight rate law into effect. We wish they had tried it, inasmuch as the multitude of Nebraska people want it. 1fit would prove to be a good thing wo all wantit. If it would prove to be a bad thing we would soon find it out and could then get relief from tho supreme court. As the case now stands the new freight law hangs on the court hook and nobody can tell when it will bo taken down. ——— Protense and Population, Chicago Terald, The population of the states and territories producing silver is a little over 1,000,000, or one-sixty-fifth part of the total population untry. Tho total popular vote of ry in 1802 was 12,154,542, The vote Lyer states and territories was one- fiftieth of the total vote; the vote of the states separately was less than one seven- tieth of the total vote. The electoral vote of as but 13 out of 444, or hirty-third of the whole. ‘Lo hear the vociferous declamation, the stormy harangues, the lurid menaces and the furi- ous denunciation of the shouters and brawl- ers this week, 4 person who knew no better might suppose that they constituted the vastly greater majority instead of the in- significantly smaller minority of the popula- tion and the voters. e The Opportunity of a Lifetime. Philadelphia Inquirer, Hero 15 an opportunity for a great man. It President Cloveland sizes up to the sit he will force a brief and most direct policy upon congress. It will be this: Repeal tho silver act without condition; adjourn at once and give the country a chance to settlo down before taking up the tariff. And on tho repeal of the silver act every senator and representative who believes in hos t money und in putting an end to the panic ought to unite without regard to political afiiliations. Drop partisauship. e e Jack's Blulr Called. Globe-Democrat, The failure of “Jack" Cudahy in Chicago, while it may have its effect on prices for the time being, ought not to make any impress upon the financial situation. Mr. Cuduhy was heavy dealerin phantom wheat and phuntom pork. He hardly ever saw u bushel of actual wheat or a barrel of actual pork, and yot he deals by the million i each of these articles. His failure should have no more commercial importance than the clos- ing of a big gambling house at Long Brunch or Saratoga. As Good s the W Sewrd Blads, While we read daily of banks, business houses, great manufacturing enterprises, ote., closing up and suspending payment, nobody has yet read of a farmer making an assignment. The farmers all over the United States are in better shape than any- body else. When the farmers begin to make assignments woe be unto Lhe people. Colu rt for Boles Denver News, Governor Boies of lowa announces his withdrawal from politics, and will not be a candidate for senator or governor next fall It is well and wise. These aro cold days for trimmers, Unreliablo s a0 Acrobat. Kearney Aub, ‘The World-Herald has flopped to the bi- metallic sido of the fence, but in downg so nearly broke iis neck. It proposes silver coinage at & ratio of 25 to 1. Don't all faint at once, —————— Roaching Out Jor Snaps. New York Commereial. Each day adds to the eagerness with which London reaches out after our stocks and bonds. As arule,"in matters of this kind, London knows a good thing when she sees it. Stated Just & Littio Too Strong, Kearney Hub, Omaha's council is engrossed with a scheme to clean the city. It needs it Owmaha lea every other western city in dirt as well as in everything else. Now Buy, Indianapolis Journal, The man wh) invests in American securi- tios ?l present knows & good thing when he sees it. S — Nothing but Wreckage Found, SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 8.—A telephone message from Lompere says a party of men who went to find the reported wreck of a steamer at Point Conception have returned. No sign of a vessel, save the wreckage, was seen, and it is thought she was lost with all on bosrd. It is supposed she was a small freight steamer and got close in shore dur- ing heavy fog. PEOPLE AND THINGS. The duke of Veragua should be tendored the leadership of the calamity band. 1t is estimated thero are 150,000 idle work- ingmon in Chioago. The fair oity is ap- proaching a winter of discontent. The pross of the country is a unit in the laudablo work of enlightening congress on its auty. Now is the time to subscribe. The author of “After tha Ball" is said to have cieared $100,000 from his song, besides coutributing to several privato asylu Tho turning down of Holman, Springer and Bland, if carried out, will raise a ruc- tion that will strain the arnica market to reduce. From the peaceful remarks emittod in Chicago it 18 evident Governor Waite's Appetite for gore was appoased by masticat- ing the ear of a Denver reporter, Finding his povularity at zero in this country, John T. Sullivan isabout to sail for England. Ho is determined to rojuve- #1ato his record in the British Parliament. Admiral Humann, tho French naval com- mander at Bangkok, was at one timo in com- mand of the Newfoundland squadron. Tho Siamese are inclined to think his name a ad misnomer. William Zegler of Detroit s said to bo Krowing a new tongue immediately ovor the one that nature originally gave him. The name of the insurance company he is solicit- ing for is not given, Dr. Rupert of Gireonbrier county, West Virginia, is the father of fifteen children, whose names all begin with the letter L and end with a vowel. ‘Thochildren’s nanios are Ledona, Lavira, Livigua, Lorena, Lycena, alzo, Leanoy, Lacelia, Ladura, Leonida, Launa, Lydaho, Lomoga, Lenida and Leslie, A San Francisco genius has planned a bridge to span the bay and connect that city with Oaklund. ~ The Structuro would bo six miles long, cost §0,000,000 aud require fifteen years to build. Two_very serious obstacles appear to bo overlooked in the project—tho cash_and the cordial approval of the South. orn Pacific company, A Boston paper reports that the rajah of Kapurthala did Boston pretty thoroughly in twenty-four hours, and displayed a wondor- ful groed for seemg chings, it being re- marked at the theater that only the many- eyed son of Arestor could have succecded in tho task that he appearcd to have set him- self—that of sceing everythiug on the stage and everybody off of it at the same time. THE YELLOW TADE COMING IN. Philadelplua Record: Gold continues to flow from Europe to America. The tide is a little late in settiug this way, but very welcome, Chicago Record: Gold is coming br from Kurope just in time to inflame the ver conference brothren to a whito heat of indignation, Globe-Democrat: Whether we need it or not we will have to accept a good deal of gold from Kuropo in the next few months. Over $,000,000 of it is on the ‘way to this country now. Kansas City Journal: to this country at a that Europ all the Amer they care for, Philadelphia Press: Gold imports aro the first_result of the general conviction that congress will suspend silver purchases. The suspension 1tself will start them toward this country ina flood, for exports have never moved more fully abroad. Chicago Tribune: Cousiderable quantities of gold “arc now in motion from Kurope toward the United States, reversing the current which for many months past set strongly the other way. The prico of ster- ling exchange is now so low that the inflow would be much larger were it not for the dificulty of making the requisite financial arrangements at our scabos —— Colorado’s Eastbound Tourlst; New York Tribune, It would be the highest and truest benev- olence to halt these mistaken men, and oblige them to take such work as they can ot on western farms and rauches. Thous- ands of them could there find opportunity to earn a living, if nothing more, and it is to bo presumed that those who have started east- ward thus blindly have not families behind them. Any occupation, however poorly paid, which will give them shelter and food until better opportunities arise, would be far bet- ter for them than the strugglo for subsis- tence in which they will huve to engage it they reach Chicago or cities further east- ward. Colorado itself is a state 8o rich in land and in climate that they could hardly have hoped for better opportunities else- where in times like these. But it is evi- dently the worst misfortune of these men that they have iittle knowledge of their country or of the time, aud ave listening to advice which no man of sense or uprightness could give them. —_———— Safety of Savings Banks. New York Times. As an unwisc persistence in drawing de- Posits out of savings banks, in spite of all reason, might after a while compe sacrifice their investments iuan un arket to obtain cash, to the actual injury of the depositors and to the peril of tho banks hemsclves if the process was long kept up, itis necessary to put in force the rule re- quiring notice” for the protection of all con- The savings banks are in no danger g hurt by anybody but their own depositors and the latter should rest easy in theassurance that they arc the one class in the community whose financial security is impregnable if they do not assail it sthem. sclves. Gold is returning rato which indicates i capitalists have bought nbout an securities at bear prices NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, A now fire company has boen organized at Hartington with twenty-five members, Thero are five Tecumseh horses particl- pating in the Silver City races this week. A rally of the Sunday schools of Adams county will be held at Hastings August 30, According to the names in the new Heat. rice directory, that city now has over 15,000 population. The Kearney papers are booming Judge Holcomb for the populist nomination for the supremo bench, Tramps burglarized the residenco of Farmer Jolinek, near Crete, but they so cured little of value. O. P. Hettler, for many years a resident of Crete, dropped dead of heart disease at Kingfishor, Okl., where ho had settled justa woek ago. On complaint of the Yrv!llh‘nt of the Choy- enno county alliance, L. €. Stockton, eaitor of the Sidney Poinard, has been arrested on a charge of embezzloment and released on $1,000 bail. While cutting heavy timbers in the planing mill at Plattsmouth, W. O. Moore had two fingers ripped open’ by tho “hungry hum- mer,” and he will leave the machine alone for some time to come. Burglars secured a fow dollars in change, a quantity of liquor and several boxes of cigars from Twinborn's saloon at Ponca, but when they tried to break into the safo they found the job too big for them. Somo sneak cntered the house of C. . Palmer at Nehawka and mutilated and do- stroyed the furniture, evidently just out of pure spite. A reward of #0 has been offered or the conviction of the miscreant. A party of railro men living at Ponea met with an accident near Nows lo when gning home from their work. They were on a hantear and coming along at a livoly rate, when without any warning whatever they ran into some barbed wire that some flend had stretched across the track. . Vedder and J. W. Gillette, Wwho were on the forward end of the car, wero badly cut with the wire. The others escaped with a fow bruises, A Plen for nker. Chicago Inter Ceean, Poople who havo tho iden that banks and bank officials are antagonistic to the publio interests aro narrow-minded. Thay aro men dopendent upon the prosperity of the whole people. T'he people's interesis are their i terests. As a rulo there are no cleares headed, more straightforward men of busi- ness than tho bankers of the country, AND BRIEF. Washington Star: The glad season 13 here when a_man cannot tell whether he Is being pursued by a mosquito or o small boy with & }u\\"n harp. Gulveston News: A gront many people ox- press opinlons that should bo sent off by rolght. New Orleans Plenyuna: Tho girl who had a fulling out with hor friend Wil not try the hamnock agal. Toston Globo: “I wish T wero an ostrich,” sald Hicks, o H rily, as ne trlod to_cat one of his wife's biscuits, but_couldn’t. “I wish you sturnod Mrs. Hicks. “1'd got u few for my hat. Indianapolls Journal: Watts—T can't seo what reuson you have for comparing old man 1500 Ause his f any conseque Pe stuffis all that makes him Lowell Courfor: When n pasliamentary division ends in a freo fight both the eyes unj nose are apt to have it. Philadelphia Record: New Boarder—Mrs. Skinley, will you please pass the goat? Land- ludy—$ oW Boarder—I bog pardon—1 should say the buttor. Somervillo Journal: Iatoly have adop lary as a profession, wowman generally is not adapted for such work. If there s a pier glass in the room she entors, she Is almost certain to bo caught. “Why do you go on thoso 1 alwuys feel religious when I'm getting overono. I tell you, it's a &ood thing to think of your hereaftér now and then.” “What shall we name him, 0 and motlicr. 3 honest, hard-working husband'and father looked at his fourteenth cherub, blink- ing helplessly in its cradly, and sighed. think, Mary Jane,"' he suid, “we'll call him Dennid.” Life: She—I had a dream last night that you , gitve we i beautiful dress for m; birthday. He—It's curlous what highly improbable dreams one has ut time Ohicago Tribun Hiran id OUTDONE. Washington Star., A bailet girl wont to the soashoro ono day Whero seekers for pleasure wore flocking. She gazed for x moment, then hied her away. “It is plensant,” she murmured. “but such a 15 100 dreadfully shocking." AL HARD TO CONQUER, Thero's the girl who's s the girl who's just comy what interested in the art of self-defes Thero's the girl who's good at riding, and the g o takes to siriding over lcagucs of { mountain with encrgy | re's the gir] who worships row ono who's fond of 0y ; ready, with a en woeful dan- But despite the munly scorn of marringe, Wl ludies seein to think s riago i the open e tho {ndependent at they're lost com- BROWNING, KN Largest Manutacturers ani Retal ol Olophing T the Worlds *>''°™ 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 [ 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 that B, K, & Co. backsof my boys just beat they Tailors The are putting on the anything I ever saw—and tailors too—and at such a moderate cost that a man can't keep from buy. ing. 1 got a hat down there for $1.50—not this one—but a brown stiff hat that I wouldn't trade far any $3 hat in town. BROWNING, Store open every oventuy till 690, P atarduy slil KING & (0., 18, W, Cor. 10t1 and Donglas Sts.