Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 5, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. 'R, Bditor. TFL Maily Beo oy Inily and & Bix Months € OF SURSCRIPTION. at Sanday) One Yoar.. § 8 00 ¥, Une Yoar " AT e, One Yonr lee, Ono Yonr OFFICES, © Building. rier N and 26th Stroats. Chambor of Commorce. ork, Kooms 18, 14 and 15, Tribine “ton, 513 Fourtoonth Streot. ORRESPONDEN All conounications relating to nows and editorial mutter should bo addrossoa: To the Editor BUSINFSS LETTERS. AlL husin e addrose Company, Omaha . check postofficn orders made payablo to the order of the com- Parties [eaving the eity for tho summor can brve Tie Rek sent to thelr address by leaving an order at this ofic THE BEE e SWORN SWORN (0 before 1 rosenco tin NP P érilarhs g n Chivngo. Tak DAty and SUNDAY Bee is oo salo In Chieagn at the following place: Falmer house, Grand Pacific hotel, Auditorium hotel. Great Northern botol. Goro ho BER can bo seen at the No- 12 and the Administ ratton bulld Exposition grounds. WE thought the Rock [sland was one of the exempt roads. | Tur Chinose are apt s Chineso congressional lobby is the latest Qovelopment. T WILL be Lo, the poor Indian, if Mr. Jlolman is made chairman of the house committee on Indian affairs. } THE west continues to gain upon the east. The amateur bieycte champion- Bhip has passed from New Jerscy to "Wisconsin, { THE ne' from Washington would seem to indicato that Tobe Castor has borrowed Headsman Maxwell's ax and that he is using it with frightful exccu- tion. THE democratic assault upon the Postoffice department is beginning to toll. Now for a sortie into the general Band office. An attack scientifically jonducted is more apt to givo the best Tosults. MR. SPRINGER i3 of the opinion that eongress will make short work of the Sherman act. What Mr. Springer prob- wbly really means is that he does not propose to make any extended remarks fon the question. SAM ALLERTON, complaining stock- holder in the Rock Island injunction Kucoodingn. is the san.e Sam who was aten by Carter Harrison in tho last Imayoralty contest in Chicago. always complaining. 1 ——ee— " DeNveER will continue to feed and lodge her unemployed citizens for a while in spite of the expense, but she will foubtless bo greatly imposed upon by the army of tramps and bummers who Mill flock toher borders. Sam is TuoE daily press may be expected to jmake the most of the fact that a banker hamed Silverman has suspended in New [York. Silver men have but little show on Wall street, and the banker who is handicapped by such a name should emi- grate to Colorado. THE fact that greenbacks are worth_| more than gold in New York will un- toubtedly creato intonse enthusiasm in the ranks of the men who wish to flood the country with un unlimited issue of the paper dollar based solely upon the fiat of the govornment. THE public will not be inclined to sympathizo with the employes of the Leadville smeltor who inaugurated a strike the other day because of a reduc- tion in wages. A small loat is much better than no bread at all in these days when 8o many men in the silver states are being thrown out of employment al- togother. I 18 now hinted that the cold storage holocaust at the World's fawr was of izcendiary origin and the result of a gigantic conspiracy. If investigation snould disclose any actusl foundation for this charge the perpetrators should not be dismissed until they shall have paid the highest penalty which the law inflicts for crimes of so serious a nature. EVERY eity in the country seoms to be trying to outdo its neighbors in making a showing of the unemployed within its boundaries. The evident purpose of these disclosures is to discourage pauper immigrants from pouring into the great cities, The best thing for the unfor- tunate laborer 0 do at the present time is to remain just where heis. His efforts to better his coudition by migrating arve apt to end in speedy disappointment. TRADE, as mirrored in the clearing house reports, shows little improvement, the tubulation given by Bradstree’s in- dicating that the contraction of business isstill general. But the reviews of the week furnished by both the Dunand Bradstreet agencies warrant the con- clusion that the bottom of the hole has about been: touched and that the re- covery is near at hand. Bradstreet con- servatively reviews the conditions and suggests that better times are not far in the future. The features of last week were the inward movement of gold and the outward movement of wheat. There is now on passage gold to the amount of $13,500,000, and 40 per cent more wheat than at this period last yoar. INCENTIVES 70 CONFIDENOCE, The fact that the gold reserve of the troasury is again up to #100,000,000, that # eonsidorable amount of gold is on the way to this country, that our exports ot grain have materislly increased, thata large addition to the circulation is promised at an early day in the form of national bank eurrency, and that most of the banks which have suspended dar- ing the past two or three months are preparing to resume, make a combina- tion of strong incentives to financial con- fidence which onght to be widely felt. A New York paper ot a fow days ago printed interviews with a number of prominent financiers in that city, all of whom ex- pressod the opinion that the country had experienced the worst of the crisis and that thenceforward a steady im- provement was to be expected. Events which have since happened have gone far to vorify this judgment. In a timely article suggesting that it is timo to brace up the Philadelphia American observes that it is very much to be desired that the American people generally would fully realize and con- stantly bear in mind the important fact that the enormous depression which has taken place since the first of the yearin tho markoet price of stovks and bonds does not represent any corresponding shrinkage in the real wealth of the country. “In all the es- sential eloments of wealth,” says that paper, ‘“‘tho United States is richer today than it was six months ago by the product of six months' labor and devel- opment. There has been no waste of the national resources, nor any visible impairment in the earning capacity of the enterprises in which the capital of the people is invested.” Anybody who will consider the situation calmly and without prejudice will concede that this view is essentially sound. Thero is another consideration sug- gested by the American that is too little thought of. That is that there is noth- ing in any of the dangers by which the country ‘is thought to ho threatened which can compare with the experiences through which it has sately passed. It is more favorably situated, for example, than it was twenty years ago, when the war bill was still to pay, and the ex- travagancies of the years immediately following the war, when people lived and spent and speculated as though there nover was to be a day of reckoning, were still to be settled for. We then had a depre ed pape cur- rency no provision for whoso redemp- tion had yet begun to be made and the national debt amounted to $2.35 per capita, whercas now it amounts to -only about 36 cents per head of population. Twenty years ago we were enormously in debt to BEurope, having during the ten years preceding 1873 been depleted of our gold to pay the balance of trade that hud been steadily piling up against us, aggregating for that period of ex- traordinary speculation and overtrad- ing more than a thousand million dollars. Yet the country survived all this, which put a vastly greator strain upon its resources and s recuperative powers than they are now experiencing, and having passed through it the American people moved forward to the resumption of specie payments and to a subsequent era of almost unex- ampled prosperity. Remembering the severer crises through which the country has passed, when the conditions to recovery wore far loss favorable than now, and consid- ering the promise of large crops, for which & ready market is assured, there is manifestly reason to look hopefully to the futurc and give heed to the admoni- tion that it is time to brace up. JULY MORTALITY. The mortality report of the Board of Health for the month of July is apt, on its face, to give a wrong impression con- cerning the healthfulness of this city. A person who reads that the number of recorded deaths was 131, an increase of fifteen over the highest number recorded for any previous period of similar length, might be tempted to infer that the sani- tary condition of Omaha was rapidly de- teriorating. The figures given out by the health officers, however, may sig- nify so many different things that it is altogother rash to accept an assumption which may be only apparent and not real. In the first place, mortality is more marked in the early age periods. Of 157 burials, seventy were of children under 1 year and eighty-nine of those under 5 ‘years. A shifting of the age classification of the population may make remarkable differences in the av- orage death rate. The increaso may, therefore, be due chiefly to an increased birth rato or to'the emigration of large numbers of the adult residents, or to both, Then, again, violent deaths, oc- curring mainly among adults, were par- ticularly numerous in July, adding up a total of sixtecn. The mortality record may give a clue to the relative healthfulness of different portions of the city, but here, ulso, the limitations must be constantly borne in mind, The number of deaths must always bo considered in rolation to tho population of the district. Tho distri- bution by wards, as also the census re- turns for 1890, are shown in the follow- ing table: Wards, Population 1890. July Deaths. ¥ oy 13,008 sy 1 19,901 i The secming inconsistencies are largely to be explained by ‘tho char- actor and tho age classification of the population. The greatest mortality un- doubtedly appears among the poorest residence districts, The low number in the Third ward is probably traceable to the fact that its ‘population is almost exclusively adult. Then, too, the dis- tribution of the population may have altered greatly since the federal census was taken three years ago. The health board wisely refrains from giving the public a death rate per thousand. Such a figure would necessa- rily be hypothetical, since it would have t0 be based upon an estimatod population schedule. Computations of this kind are extremely hazardous and likety to lead to serious blunders. The figures given afford ample opportunity for com- parison so long as they are derived from similar data. Those for July, when properly interpreted, give no great cause for alarm, GOV. BOIEN' FAREWELI, ADDRESS., Tt was in Septemboer, 1796, that George Washington made public his farewell address to the Amerlcan people. It is in August, 1803, that Horace Bofes issues his farowell address to the peoplo of Towa. The name of President Wash- ington had been 8o often mentioned in connection with a nomination for pres- ident in the then approaching campaign that he was compelied to believe it proper 1o apprise the citizens of the resolution he had' forfed to decline being considored among the number of those out of whom a choice was to be made. Only a solicitude for the welfare of the people urged him to join to his deelination an expression of certain sentiments which to him seemed all-important to the permanency of the folicity of the people of the United States. 2 Perhaps 1t is nothing remarkabl®that Governor Boies has heard his name so often mentioned in connection with a re- nomination to his office that he, too, is compelled to believe that anything less than a formal dec- laration of his views would be taken as a tacit consent to such use of his name. Governor Boies, more- ovor, has also been induced by the solemnity of the occasion to add a littlo parting advice which he imagines will result in the continued dominance of his party in Iowa. The solicitude of the governor, however, is not for the Amer- ican people nor even for the people of Towa. His broad-minded patriotism ad- drosses itself solely to the chairman of the democratic state central committee and is given to the press merely in order that it may reach those votors who subscribe to the demo- cratic faith. While Washington gave advice looking toward the permancncy of the union, Governer Boies gives advice looking toward the permanency of pat- tisan control. Washington’s wordsare acknowledged to be a sincere and disinterested fare- well; Boies’ letter seems to be a cunning bid for further favors. The platitudes in respect to a third term of office would sound very commonplace were it not for a slight innuendo which they may appear to throw upon the possible future aspivations of the present democratic president. Governor Boies' conscientious opposition to third terms may be intended asa gentle re- minder to his mors successful competitor for political honors, Grover Cleveland. As for Governor Boies himself, his scruples are altogether gratuitous inas- much as the chances that a renomina- tion would lead to a re-election are such that he does not care to sacrifice himself further. He is still too wise to decline the scnatorship before it is offered to him and the republican legislature may be relied upon to relieve him of any embarrassment in that direc- tion. Inone point Governor Boies has improved upon Washington—in the brevity of his farewell address; for this we should all be duly thankful. THE QUESTION OF RATIO. The platform of the free silverites adopted at Chicago declaves “that the only remedy for our metallic financial troubles is to open the mintsof the nation to gold and silver onequal terms, av the old ratio of 16 of silver to 1 of gold.” While this represénts the view of a very large majority of the free sil- ver men some of them are rational enough to see and candid enough to admit that in order to bring the two metals to a parity a change of ratio will be necessary. The radical element pro- fess-to believe that the free doinage of silver at the present ratio would make 412} grains of standard sil- ver worth 10Q cents, and that when this was done in the United States that amount of silver would be worth the same everywhero else. Every practical financier will see at once, we have no doubt, that this is a preposterous as- sumption,without warrant in experienco and unsupported by anything in the re- lations of gold and silver as now estab- lished by the leading nations of the world. This country should not and will not abandon bimetallism. It is not proposed to give up silver as a part of our mone- tary system. That metal |will con- tinue to do service as currency, but in order that in that capac- ity it may not expel gold from a like service it is essential that the ratio between the two metals shall be changed. At the present price of silver bullion vhe ratio is not far from 30 to 1, 80 that the silver in a dollar is really worth less than 60 cents. Probably no one would propose to establish the ratio according to the prevailing price for sil- veor bullion, though it could not be claimed that to do so would be unfair or unjust. A reasonable compromise wapld be found in a ratio of 20 or 22 to 1, and it is to be ecxpected that a proposition of this kind will ‘ba made. Doubtless it will bo opposed by tho oxtreme silver men who ave in sympathy with the mine owners, and the reason for opposition on the part of the latger is entirely obvious, but | such a proposition, if made, will bo very likely to provail, and if it should any ratio between 20 and 25 to 1 that may be adopted will undoubtedly become the world’s ratio for gold and silver coinage. ‘We are not unmindful of the objec- tions to such a change of ratio on the grounds that the silver dollar would have to be very much larger in size and therefore more inconvenient for circula- tion, and also that it would entail @ considerable loss to the government on the silver it now owns both as coin and buliion. As to the first of these objections it is perhaps sufli- cient to say that & comparatively small proportion of the silver dollars npow coined enters into general circulation, #0 that the change could not be very serious in this respect, while if the new coinage were made available for bank reserves it would release enough of other currency to more than take the place of the silver dollars now in cireu- lation. Besides, there could be no ob- jection to coimng bhalf dollars of the same standard of valuo and making them @ logal tender. As to the loss the gov- ornment would Tn!nln. which would be considerable, it ecould hardly be greater than n.R.&n inevitably if the present poli ould be continued long enough to work out its certain con- sequences. 1oy The extremists.an both sides of the silver question mays be expected to an- tagonize any proposal to change the ratio between the metals, but thore is reason to "’"}q that neither the goldites nor the +adical silverites will have their way and: that the rational and practical frienils ! bimetallism will finally be successful in retaining silver as a part of our currency on a basis that will insure its parity with gold for years to come, perhaps compel other nations to adopt a like ratio, and thus avert the danger that now threatens our financial system. There is no more simple, di- rect and cortain remedy for the mone- tary difficulty that confronts us, and in adopting it we should show something of that independence which the freo sil- ver advocates so urgently counsel. THE influence of Nebraska in the east has recently been seen to assume an al- together new phase. When a Jewish vaper announced to the Hebrew resi- dents of the east side of New York that the “Neb. State bank” had suspended they failed to understand the reference and immediately inferred that the bank meant was the State bank of that city, in which their- savings were deposited, and that “Nob.” meant poor or bad. The result was the precipitation of a run on the bank which at one time threatened to prove serious to that institution. It was only with the greatest difficulty that the bank officials succeeded in explaining the source of the mistake. Here is an opportunity for students to.trace the philology of the name of our great statoe. If ‘‘Neb.” signifies poor, what does Nebraska sig- nify? MEN who witnessed the proceedings of the populist national convention in this city on July 4, 1892, and who later saw the session of the Bimetallic league in Chicago this woek, have had difficulty in convineing themselves that they were not attending a reconvened assembly of the earlier gathering. The leading lights were largely the same in both conventions and the character of the utterances on the two occasions would compare favorably with one another. Is there really anything more than a distinction without a difference? —— Ir 1S to be hoped that the railroads will not make a further reduction in their forces here. *It«is not just to visit upon the people Of ‘fhis city and state the misfortunes of western states through which the ‘roads run. Ne- braska is all right and the traffic of this state is bound to be the mainstay of Nebraska roads this fall. THE trials of President Cleveland are but beginning. He was told the other day that he no longer vepresents the democratic party. . Now the Virginia populists denounce him:for attempting *'to consummate the fraud of 1873."” The president is still in undisturbed retire- ment at Buzzard’s Bay. BANK WRECKER MOSHER is now ex- ceedingly anxious to protect the deposi- tors of the bank- which he helped to destroy. For the state he has no such tender fecling. The taxpayers can casily bear the burden of replacing the money which he and his friends carried away. LOCAL democrats have resumed the scramble for federal office. Our dis- patches indicate that tho citadel of the customs surveyor will be the first point of attack. As far as we can learn no one save the restive candidate is erying for a change in this case. THE disgraceful rush of settlers to pre-empt claims in Oklahoma is about to be re-cnacted in the Cherokee Strip. Has the time not yet arrived when our harbarous system of making land grants to settlors is to be reformed Tu t ng. Globe-Democrat. Borrowers have been doing alt the walking for a few months past. Lenders will have to turn peripatetics before long. i dgt, Demunstrate Your Sunity, Indianapolis Journal. Now that time has elapsed to recover from the unnecessary scare let those people whodrew their money from sound banks tuke it back. A Chance to Finish, Louixville Courier-Journal. Perhaps, after things quiet down at Den- ver now, that lone individual in the recent silver convention who was indignantly howled down because he started out by say- ing, *‘Let us De reasonable,” may fiud an opportunity to fiuish his remarks, “hieago Inter Ocean. People may well be profoundly thankful that while the financial troubles are here it is atime of general health and the dunger from the dreaded scourage in another month will be well over, The nation can easily recover from financial losses, but tho ravages of the })luxuu leave the people stricken and sorrowful for the years to como. ————— Speak Ont and Look Pleasant, Boxton Advrtiser. ‘Without departing a hair's breadth from trath, without shutting from sight any re- grettuble fact, without the least bit of whistling to keep onc's courage up, every business man whose views are sought on the financial outlook can logitimately speak words of good cheer. He can point to grand es of bright sky béyond and above the floating clouds. He can call attention to the wonderful American harvests and in- creasing Buropean dewand for our bread- stuffs. Ho can cite the heavy setting this way of the tide of ¢old shipment, amounting o 00 less than £3,000.000 for a single woek. He can strengthen his argument by the de- clarations of many :high suthorities east, west and south, who afiirm their full belief that the present stringency is only tem- porary, e An Exploded, Fals ‘hood, Philadelphia Ledger. Chairman Warner, of the bimetallic con- vention at Chicago, begins by statingian old and long ago exploded falschood to the effect that members of congress, the speaker of the house who signed the actof 1573, and the president who approved it, never knew that it demonetizes er. Mr Warner said: “There was but one man in the United States senate who knew that the actof 1878 demonectized silver, and yet he has never been huug or shot for treason.” This is utterly and completely false. The bill was before congress and the country for about four years, and iu 1873 the secretary of the treasury reccommended such altera- tio n the mint bill "as would “probibit the coinage of silver for circulation in this couutry.” In carrying out lhhxoliny ne trade dollar was authorized. The Bimetallic league will not accomplish much if it bases its work on falsehoods disproved by the easily accessible reporisof debates in con- gross. OTHIR LANDS THAN OURS, Tf France profits by her courss 1 Siam, the theory that all things right themselves in this world will be badly shattered. Tho real origin of the quarrel is French groed. Many years ago, when the king of Anfiam died, he left two sons, whodisputed over the succession. Annam then paid tribute to Siam,w hich possessed unquestioned Suzerain rights. One of the sons entered into an in- trigne with France, whereby he agreed to cedo territory in return for French aid. He ot the aid, but Slam properly denied his right to cede the territory. France was angered, but it dare mnot under- take then to enforce such an unjust claim, but it has harbored designs which it is now seeking to carry out by brute force. It gous further now than it probably ever dreamed of doing at that time, and claims territory over which the king of Annam never exercised authority, even if ho made claim to it. The way in which the blockade has been established, without due notice to England, scems to furnish ground for the charge that duplicity is shown in Paris as well as greed, and tho exercise of brute force in Siam. If France needed territory for colonization purposes thore might bo some ground of sympathy with her, but she does not want and will not use the territory for any such purpose. The French people do not emigrate to any great extemt, and when they do they keep away from the fax east. Kxclusive of the military, there is a mere handful of Frenchmen in the territory now held by France in Asia. Deaths exceed the births among the native population of France, 1If it were not for immigration the population of France would decrease. It is the one nation of Europe which does not need any territory to provide for its growing Ppopulation. .. e Tn the avent of the death of Queen Chris tina of Svain, who is ill, the regency will de- volve upon the Infanta Tsabelia, eldost sister of thelato king and the widow of the ox- king of Naples' cpiloptic brother, the count of Girgenti. The princess is diametrically ovposed to Queen Christina's liberal policy and has as great faith in tho conservative leader, Canovas, as her royal sister-m-law places in Sagasta. Twice during the last seven years has Canovas brought the coun- try to the verge of revolution by his reac- tionary methods of government, and each time the crisis has been averted at tho last moment by the queen regent dismissing him in order to make way for the advent to of- fice of the liberal leader, Sagasta. Prince Isabella's accession to the regency would tail, therefore, the return to power of Cano- vas and the revival of all that republican and Curlist agitation against the throne d his last administrations. The people of Spain, and not alone the peo- ple, but also the parish clorgy throughout tho lund, are essentially democratic at heart, and, having been initiated by liberal doctrines, will be unwilling to permit either the princess regent or Senor Canovas o deprive them of their newly won liberties and prerogatives or to reduce them once more to that state of political nonentity which used formerly to cause foreigners to assert with somo justivo that Spain was at least a century behind every other country in Europe. Remarkably strong-minded, bigoted, und possessed of all that obstinacy for which the members of the house of ! Bourbon are celebraed, the Infanta Isabolla would soon find herself faco to face with a republican revolution, and the only means by which she might possibly bo able to save her little nephew’s throne would be by sur- rendering the oftice of regent of Spain to her younger and infinitely moro popular, as well as more democratic sister, our rocont charm- ing visitor, Dona Eulalia. * Among the principal events of the past montk was the completion of the Corinth canal, which was begun, in the first place, eighteen centuries ago, under the reign of- the Roman emperor, Nero. Even 500 hun dred years previous 1o that era a scheme for cutting a canal across the isthmus was put forward by Periander, but was abandoned on the advice of the Pythia or oracle of Delphi, who declarod that any such project would eutail the anger of the gods, since, if Zeus had wished to make an island of the southern portion of Greece, he would cer- tainly not have left intatt the strip of terri- tory that connects it with the main land. It was not, however, until after the suce ful opening of the Suez canal that the work of piercing the isthmus was resumed under the direction of the Hun- garian patriot and revolutionary leader, General Turr, married to s sister of that lieutenant, Bonaparte Wyse, whose name is 80 closely associated with the unfortunate Panama canal undertaking. General Turr began operations 1n 1882, and although the canal is only about four miles in length, yet, owing to the failure of the first company formed for its construction and to the dif- culty of obtaining the necessary funds, it has taken eleyen years to bring the work to completion. It was on July 2that the waters of the Gulf of Lepanto first minglea with those of the Aegean sea, although the official opening of the vanal did not take place until more than a fortnight later. The voyage between Cephalonia and Athens is now re- duced nearly 200 miles by thenew waterway, besides which the vessels will be spared the dangerous rounding of the southern hoad- lands of Greece, which from time immemo- rinl have enjoyed a most evil reputatioa among mariners, . Bulgaria hus a population of 3,154,000 id & territory of some 40,000 square -milos; its chief cities are the capital, Sofia, with 30,- 000 people; Philippopolis, with 33,000; Rust- chuck, with 27,000, and Varna, on the Black ses, with 25,000. The people are chiefly rural—more so thanin Greece, where Athens ulone has moro population than all these Bulgarian cities —to ssy nothing of Patras, Piracus, ete., that are larger thun Bulgarian towns. But thore are 70.0 inhabitauts more n all Bulgaria than in the kingdom of Greeco, The Bulgariun army is not only bet- ter drillod und armed than that of Greece, but almost twice as groat; for it is rated at nearly 50,000 men, while the Greek army, since the late reductions, is less than 15,000 effec- tives. The Bulgarians ave armed with the Manualicher rifle, said to be the best of re- cent weapons, and they have the name of being very good soldiers, the opposite being saia of the Greeks. The Bulgarian roceipts sud expenses are cach about 90,000,000 francs, or $18,000,000 8 year, of which wmore than a quarter is speat on tho army. The national debt is only 180,000,000 francs—say §26,000,000—the smallest debt in Europe, aud buta meru fraction of the debt of Greece, with which that litule kingdom is nowr strug- eling in order to pay even the interest. The Bulgarian interest charge is high, because it includes a yearly tribute to the sultan, from which the next European war will probably set the principality free. The tariff warfare that has boeu declared between Russia and Germany will tend to anything but an improvem eut of the polisical relations of those countries. 1t is provable, however, that this commercial war, 80 in® jurious to both, will be of short duration. An increase of 50 per cent on existing rates of duty will amount practically 10 an em- bargo upon reciprocal trade. But neither coantry is generally dependent upon the other, unotwithsianding the propinquity of their territories. Germany can draw her supplies of wheat from the United States aud Iudia, snd Rus- 32 can trade with Eogland and othor countrios for manufactured commodi. vles. While this 18 true of the genorml trade of the two countrles, Germany has long boon & profitablo markst for the Agricultural products of the fertile Russinn provinces Iying next the German borders. AV the | same time these provinces have afforded a convenient market for many manafae- tures of Germany. In this condition of things it will not be long until the embargo upon trade shall be keenly felt in all those sections of Germany and Russin lying con- tiguous to each other. From these provinces tho discontent will spread over both em- pires; and thore will be a stroug demand (in Gormany, at least) for a reduction of duties, LA AW, Minneapolis Journal: This whole movement of the silver monometallists is incondiary and destructive. Denver Nows: The resolutions adonted by the Chicago silvor convention cover tho sub- Ject in a forciblo mannor. Cincinnati Commercial: Tho babblo of the silver lunatics at Chicago is evidence of the fact that the heaton the west shore of Lake Michigan produces curious effects on S0me men's powers of reason Kansas City Star: Senator Allen of Ne- braska wants 1t understood that he did not 0 to tho silver convention at Chicago to talk volitics, but merely to call the attention of the meoting to the fact that the populists are bowling on the right alley. Minneapolis Times: Now that the silver ebunition is over no doubt the congressional mind has more strongly converged to the sufoty JK\IHL There is a stronger proba- bility that the incendiary and anarchistio proceedings at Chicago will warn congress of the peril of tomporizing with such an ele- ment. Chicago Post: We are glad these silver cranks are gono. They were bettor never met unloss their moeting may sorve botter to advertise the folly of their cause. The wi sober and dignified men of the silver party —men liko Wolcott, Teller, Stowart and Bland —did not come near them becauso they knew how irresponsible a gang was coming. The ridiculous Waite of Colorado is about the moasure of the crowd. What matters it how such fellows talk! Since they saw fit to meet that was their privi- lege, but we are glad they’re gone and can only hope they have paid their board bills, Kansas City Times: The real friends of bimetallism hoped for something new from this convention—at loast an honest proposi- tion to put 100 cents worth of silver into a dollar—some real ideas that would form a basis for confidence in their proposals, did not get them, but instead, we heard in- flammatory speeches and threats and ancient fallacies that were long since exploded. We have the same old promises and theories and prophesies that were urged by the silverites in behalf of the Sherman law, and that have proven false. Their counsels have brought us to the verge of financial ruin, and it is time to call a halt. Kate Ficld's Washington. Philadelphia possesses a collect h * of horse- Boston a gatherer of bricks, New sugar samples, Louis- watherer of sample flasks of whisky, but Nebraska beats them all. Sho boasts of a man who takes locks of hair shaved from the heads of noted criminals, which he labels and indexes with great care. LIFE'S LUBKICATORS. Boston Bulletin: pull” at a picnic is chap who has brougl The m4n who “has tho gonerally tho thoughtfal ta 3 jourlor: Tho man who gots up a : thing nces himself, Washington Star: «Woll aimed the , " excl dawsel who got. froo admission to the World's fuir, “things have come to msprotty pass!™ olis Journal: Ho called ar ionist pictus should call It a mere excuse for u pleture. It really is ot worth a frame. Sho—O, yes, Itis. It 1s allowable to frame excuses, you know. Indian Philadelphia Record: “Misy Superiice sponks French with un airy diction.” *Yes, also with adictionary.”™ Withorhy—You haven't Vo you? They say he Plankington—I1 he tather takes 1'm sorry for him, old man. Burlington Pross: “Soled out,” he murmured to himseif, as the tather of his best girl guve him a lifvut 2 o'clock in the morning, Rochester Democrat: An_auctioncor, even ifhe does not like his occupation himsolf, wants to have other people follow his calling. Indianapolls Jourual: Watts—What do you think of this idea of putting a dollar's worth of silver in a silver dollar? Potts—I don’ init: Loave the silver iet size It now hus—just the size of u poker ¢ Washington Sta hear that Jagster's Yidow hiay sued v 000.” Tootonian band for $10, What for?" More’ on the way back from his funoral.” IN HER NEW BATHING SULT. New York Press. 8he sits boside the sea toduy Al islon fair and sweet, nd merry, laughing wavelets pla, Around lier feet, ey Unconsclous of the passors she Protends to be, 1 woen; The maiden is not there to sce, But o be seen { wreck and rob a Wabx At leasp ho sel- | ‘That is what s ! s it7 1 kes tho snme thing his | played ‘We'll Never Get Drunk Any | FECANE FROM NERRASKA, City Marshal Dares of Crote Viaits York te See Gireen toods Mon, NEw Yons, Aug. 4.-(Special Tologram to Toe Bre]-A wave of financial depression swept ovor Crete, Neb,, several weeks ago And caused n scarcity of currency. J. A. Dores, city marshal of that town, who owns A big store. whero evorything the country folks usually raquive is sold, was affected by the dearth of ¢ Ho had recoivod a type written lettor from a New York firm of groen goods morchants and docided to come on and do up the metropolitan fakirs, Ho arrived hero yesterday morning and Put up At the Cosinopolitan hotel, paying for his room in advance. He “flow light,” which, in the vernacular of tho hotel clorks, means ho had no bagzage. In the afternoon ho met two men, ono tall and musou lar looking, tho other small and wity, in asaloon, Tho muscular man was the sonior partuer of the green goods firm. He carriod ajapannod box about twelve inches long, nino wide and six deep. Tho city marshal of Croto was pormitted to look into the box. Ho suw threo packages of what appoared o o 8 and $1 bills, There wore two & bills and ono $1 bill visible. The marshal did not know it, but beacath tho visible #11 wero slips of groen papor just the sizo of the bills. The Now York merchants scomed to bo convincod that thoy had a sucker in tow, and tho country buyor from Crote, on his part, folt protty sure ho was coming out ahead of the game. Thoman from Crote is big and plucky, and ho had a_ big 44-caliber pistol in his hip pocket. The Now York morchants said thore wore $,000 in ‘gool monoy" in the fapanned box,and the marshal of Croto ¢ould havo it for $1,000. The from Crota grabbed for the box ana yelled police. He rot both, bus when the box was forced open at hoadquartors the £,000 ho ox- pected ho had found was just $4,830 short of that amount. ‘'he marshal will have to pay $10 for car- rying concealed weapons. Tho green goods men have lost 11 and a tin box. The mar shal has $34.07 to earry him back to Crete. New lgaLcat STRUCK ON A SUNKEN ROCK, Seven Lake George Pleasure Seokers Find Denth in the Waters of the Lake. Arnaxy, N. Y., Aug. 4.—A stoamor with an excursion party left Fourteen Mile island, Liako George, for Pearl Polnt, this morning. At Poarl Point landing the steameor struck a sunken rock and sank, rven lives were lost. The name of tho steamer was tho Rachol Sherman, She had an excursion party of twenty-nino persons aboard from Fourteen Milo island.* The names of those drowned are as follows: OvVIT. AN UNKNOWN LADY. All of the above namod wore from Troy, Brooklyn and Hoboken. °It is said the party was composod mostly of New York and Brooklyn excursionist: Train Kobbers Fouled. ST. Lovis.” Aug. 4.—News has boen ro. coived of an almost successful attempt to h train this morning A rail had been taken ck by the robbers, but the fact covered by the son of the station agent, who flageed the train, preventing a wreck and the intended robbery. e e N near Atlanta, Mo. from t! Don't Want to Be Crowded. Gurinie, OkL, Aug. 4.—The Osage Indians Tofuse to treat with the government for the sale of their reservation of nearly 2,000,000 acres. They possess nearly 1,000 ncres enci and don’t want to bo crowded by the whites e Sk ol 1t tho Same Old Howl, Plattsmouth Herald, Tho howl seems to-bo that Judge Maxwell ist000ld to hold the position he now occus es. Lot it be understood that this is only the cry of a rotten politieal ring and not the sentiment of the ple. whom he has so faithfully served. 1t must be admitted that | he is quito old, but he is strong and vigorous, 4t ho does more work than put together. If tho U him from this cause, it s _insult to tho man who, has the interest of Nt and it is o fact both of his assoc people fuil to would bo a above all others, braska at heart. Sl THE GAME OF GRAB, Troy Times, “Just as T am, without one plea, 4 But please doi but'of me''— Poor, wenk Isheard bec er ald. oms to foel ppenl. n power gives u hoart that s 25 ponse to her Ts this the love to brother man Taught when the Master's relgn began? 1f 80, call homo the mission band— It has no place in Siam's land. *Tls might makes rlght And justice basely yi The Westorn powers “Here peuce with hon as nations hold, ds to gold. sy 1ds Its sway." that you want to watch «Pant Sale.” BROWNING, KING Lurgest Manutacturors an 1 ol Olothing 1n the Worl, Rotailers " Give it to Him. That's what one of our clerk’s said when we offered one of our $6 suits for 4 to 14 year old boys for $2. On aceount of culling out the odds and ends after inventory, we are now making some extra- ordinary reductions. 2-piece suits go at $2, $2.50, $3.50, worth from' $3.50 to $6. 7 —=¥== | Boy's long pant suits go in the general slash, in fact everything all over the store must get out of the way, to make room for the new fall goods soon to arrive. Children’s The special ‘thing our window for is the We have placed from 600 to 800 men's pants that sold for $3.50, $4, $5, $6 on three tables at $2, $2.50 and $3.50. They are broken in sizes, but then we can come very nearly fitting you with a pair out of so many. There are stripes, plaids, checks and all colors till you can't rest, Come over and look in the windows at the samples and if you like, come in, BROWNING, ory eventn Btore Oper urday will I KING & o, HIL® |8, W, Cor. 16t1 and Doaglas Sts,