Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1893, Page 4

1 DAILY BEF - Ue e THE Summre FWATER, Edttor. NLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION afly Boe olthont Sunday) Ono Year. Dally and Sundxy, o Yoar 1x Moy oy hreo M ceens unday I Yonr nturday lieo, Ono Voar Weekly Toe, Ono Yonr OFFTORS, Omahia, The Bee Ruiiding. wnd 26th Streats. Poarl Stroot, “hamber of Commaerce. 18, 14 and 15, TriY 8800 10 00 5 00 2 50 Conn 1} Chieasy New Vork, Buildin: Washiigton, 518 Fourtarnth Stroet. CORRESPONDENCE. anfeations relating to news and Lmatter should bo addressea: To the Ofice, 817 ooms ANl cone pitor] Editor NUSINFSS LETTERS AL hustness lottors and remittances should be addressed 10 The Beo Pabiishing Company. Omahin. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders o be made payable to the order of the com- pany. Parties lonving the city for the summer can have Tir BEg sent to thelr addross by leaving An order at this ofic THE BEE PURLISHING COMPANY. SWORN STATEM Btate of Nebraska, | Connty of Dotstas, { Geore . Tzschick, secratary of Titr BER Pub- Uahing compiny, does solemnly swear that Retual efreulation of Tk DALY fink for the week nding Aveist 5, 19 14 8 f0li0OWS: Brnday, July 50 Wonday . Jui 51 Auiuat 1 NT OF CIRCULATION Tueadiy i ~'— | SWORN to befor J3RAT iy s == PR Tae DA Chicago at il Palmer hon Grand Pacilic Auditoriu and SUNDAY BE following ple soon at the No- ninisteation build ng, Exposition grounds. Average Cireutation for duly, 1603, 24,258 AN INDIAN supply depot at Omaha is what the government needs. It is also what Omaha wants, ONE hundred odd now vostmastor Laily is not bad work for the reform Post- sftice dopurtment. PROVIDING assistance for the attornoy reneral in defending the injunction pro- tecdings is now the first duty of the fovernor. HAS any one heard of the restoration of any passcnger trains recently abol- ished in consequence of the suspension of the maximum freight rate bill? WILL the thirsty working man refuse 10 patronize a “scab” saloon? Just offer w0 treat the crowd at such a place and wateh how quickly the answor will be riven. ACCORDING to the existing outlook, fark horses will not have great oppor- lunities to push themselves forward as leaders in the present session of con- gress. Tre World’s fair attendance for the weoic just ended fell 2,000 short of the preceding week, The cause is not ap- parent, but undoubtedly has some con- nection with the dubious business out- look. THE railways have no objection to- raise against leaving the injunction pro- ceedings in statu quo. As long as they have a temporary restraining order the stato must take the imtiative in asking to have it dissolved IF THERE are any other police officials fn Nebraska who wish for extended no- toviety all they will have todo is to emu- Jate their Crete compatriot by ‘“‘trying to beat the green goods men at their own game.” Itis a comparatively inexpen- Mive sport. THE mere fact that the Pullman Pal- ace Cav company is averse to paying taxes under any circumstances is no valid reason why it should be ex ed from contributing its just share of the public burdens to the local city and county treasuries. SUNDAY opening promises toremain a farce. If the Worid’s fair directory in- tends to obey the order of the court re- quiring them to keep the gates open on Sunday it will be well for them to adopt cpedient which will mako that on less burdensome to them from a financial standpoint. Tur action of the quarantine officers 18 being watched with much apprehen- sion by people in all parts of the country. Having oxcluded the cholera pestsolong by precautionary measures emphasizes the duty of those officials to neglect nothing that will continue our fresdom from the dread disea To SECURE an Indian supply depot at Omaha is a movement in which all kinds of citizens can conscientiously -join. Tobe Castor has alveady done some mis- sionary work for us and for this he de- rves great credit. Sceretary Morton 18 in a position to assist the enterprise and has shown a disposition to do so. Our congressional represontation are falling into line, A little commotion at this end of the wire will not be out of olace. Tue New York Evening Post calls at- tention to the fact that the phenomenon which we are now witnessing of a pre- mium on currency over certified bank checks is simply a repetition of what happened in 1873, In that year it lasted over @ month, from the 24th of Septem- ber to the Ist of November, The Post maintains that this is simply s substi- lute for a general bank suspension which must be endured until confidence Is restored. THE extension of the time allowed suspe nded pensioners to make & new showing of their claims will be hailed s & modification of the recent pension orders which aims toward fair play to the old soldier. The commissioner of pensions Is apt to have his policy se- verely eriticised in congress and any- thing which he may do to make that policy cause less hardship to those who may be temporarily suspended, but who can successfully prove their right to draw & pension, will make his position all the stronger. THE PUTURE OF WHEAT. Caroful statisticians assert that the time is not remote when the world's pro- | duction of wheat will not be equal to the demand, and at least one of these has expressed the opinion that within the noxt few years, or beforo the close | of the present century, the Unitod States | will have to import wheat in order to meet the requirements of home con- sumption. The probability is that the condition which theso statisticians promise will not be realized as soon as they predict, but thera are cortainly strong reasons for believing that within tho lifotime of the next generation the world's average annual wheat supply will not exceed the demand and that wheat will be one of the most profitable of the products of agriculture. In a comprehonsive articlo veviewing the progress of wheat production 1809, the Now York Sun prosented some very intoresting fignees for those who take interest in the question of the food supply. Agrienitural development in this country, which was r ed dur- ing the civil war, was not actively re- sumed until 1869, and during the next fifteen years the agricultural area was nearly doubled, tue addition to it being no less than 97,000, 000 acres. In the five years from 1874 to 1879 the addition to the culti- vated arca aggregated some 53,000,000 acres, a greater area than is now under cultivation in Missouri, Kansas, Ne braska, Minnesota and the two Dakotas. In 1869 the cultivated acreage of the United States was 98,000,000 acres, in 1880 it had increased to 204,000,000 acres, and it is now estimated to amount to 206,000,000, This increase has been much more rapid than the growth of population and the inovitablo result was a fall in the prices of all agricultural products. The increase of the bread- eating populations during the 70's required an addition to the wheat-be ing area of about 17,000,000 acres, yet the additions made to the whoeat area of the United States during that deeade amounted to more than 19,000,000 acre: evidently in excess of the whole world's needs by more than 2,000,000 acre Agricultural deveiopment has been comparatively slow during the past five years in consequence of the practical exhaustion of the arvable portion of the' public domain, but prices eould not ad- | vance beeause of the excessive food- producing area under eultivation, the more than average world wheat crops of 1887-8 and ) American harvests of 1891 and 18! cluding the great crop of the United States the world’s harvest of 1892 was the greatest ever known with the exeer tion of thavof 1887. The unprecedent- edly low price of wheat is the natural result. Since 1831 tho world's require- ments for wheat have angmented by 324,000,000 bushels, although the acreage has ceased to expand; the crops of the last six yoars have oxcoeded those of the preceding six by an average of 124, 000,000 bushels, though harvested from an avea that averaged 600,000 acros los The product of the crops 1892 exceeded the average of the twelve years in which they are included by 175,000,000 bushels, this ex- cess being equivalent to an addition of 14,000,000 acres to the area; yet the re- serves at the end of the term of twelve years are but little, if any, more than 110,600,000 bushels greater than at the beginning of the period. The world wheat product of 1891 and 1892, in ex- cess of average crops, was duoto ex- traordinary acreage yield in the United ates and the wheat markets of the world have long bten dominated and prices wholly detormined by the abund- ance or paucity of Ameriean suppiic As the result of the great erops of 1891 und 1802 the world enters upon the 1803-4 havvest year with an appavent re- serye of 110,000,000 bushels, which has ex- ertedand continues toexert a de effect upon prices. With re, future the Sun article says that such acreage yields from Amevican fiolds being hitherto unknown it may be as- sumed that they will but ravely bo » peated: and the world’s wheat area, with average yields, being now deficient by more than 12,000,000 acres, an average harvest will produce but 2,250,000,000 bushels, while the requirements are now 2,440,000,000 bushels and augmenting at the rate of more than 29,400,000 bushels per anum—the equivaleny of 2,300,000 new acres. It is therefore to be expected that as soon as oxisting reserves shall have been con- sumed prices will advance to a remuner- ative level, and having once reached that level may reasonably be expected to remain there. Accepting tho figures of the Sun’s article as corrvect, its con- clusions are manifestly sound, and they are of a nature to reassure the American wheat preducer, since s ix- of 1891 and ing ard to the OMAHA AS AN INDIAN SUPPLY DEPOT, The advantages of Omaha as an Indian supply depot must bo appavent to every one who examines the question in an im- partial manner. The government of the United States is bound by its treatics with the various Indian tribes to furnish them periodically a specifiod amount of provisions and othor necessarics, The Interior uepartment advertises for bids from different contractors, from whom the supplies are purchased at the best figures that may be offered. The sup- plic are to be delivered at the depot or spots designated in the proposals, and from those points they are sent out to the places where they are handed over to the Indians, The supply depot 1s the distributing point from which the pro- visions are sent out. To have this distributing point at the most antral geographical position would greatly inure to the benefit of the federal government. The savings effectod avise from the possibility of transporting the supplies in bulk as near to the Indians as possible, so that when divided and sent out for distribution therve will be but a short distance to be traversed in reaching any and all agen- cios. What is demanded for a distrivu- ting point, then, is convenient proximity to the agencies and ample railway facili- ties for transvorting the goods. These qualities Omaha possesses in an eminent degree—in & greater degree than any other western city. It is well located in easy reach of the Indian agencies. 1t is already the supply depot for the Depart- THE OMAI the cattle slanghtering industry. It has | railronds extending in every direction. The advantages of an Indian supply depot to Omaha are also apparent, It would make it the headquartors of an- other government burean. It would bring to the patronage of our business men a number of officers and employes connected with the station. It would afford no little stimulus to the cattie interests at South Omaha. It would in- crease the traflic of the railroads center- ing at this point. With the advantages to the govern- ment so plain and the benefits which would acerue to this city so evident, the mutual interests of ali the parties con- cerned ought to bring about the speedy establishment of the supply depot. The Commercial club has already beon exert- ing itself in this direction. Now is the time for it to put forth further efforts and for all businoss men to join in the movement. b R G L L A S Woman's participation in the World's fair is not confined to the exhibits alone, The part taken by the women exhibitors has been placed under the conduct of & board of lady managors, from whose members a committee on awards was selected. The work of this committe on awards has not been so harmonious and smooth as the outside world had boen led to imagine. In fact within that committee the smoldering embers of a desp-seated fire have long been waiting for the breeze that should fan them into a mighty conflagration. Until recently only the opportunity was wantin for tho fiery tongues of flame to leap forth furi- ously from theiv hidden place of lurk- ing. It must be known that the chairman- ship of the committes on awards was as- signed to Mrs, Meredith. Also that the secretaryship was gobbled up by Mrs, tall. These positions are not to be sneered at, cither. The committes has been entrusted with the expenditure of £100,000 of the money which the govern- ment appropriated to the support of the woman'’s department, and any commit- tow which has tho power of dispensing these little financial tidbits is a commit- teo well worth working for. No doubt the officers of that committee found that thoy were hard besot to treat that money as it should be treated. Some men might have trouble to get away ith $100,000, but those men are few. would at least have diseretion enough to keep their minor quarrels to themselves for fear of losing the favors at their disposal. Not so, however,with the board of lady managers. Bo it known that Mrs. Meredith did not su- perintend that committee to the liking of Mrvs. Ball. She recognized the im- portance and dignity of her position, and she iss aid to have put onall the arro- gant airs which that position would warrant. This was more than Mrs, Ball could stand, and she resented it. When the matter came before the full board of lady managers there wasa scene precipitated. Mrs., Moredith and her friends had some typewritten reso- lutions of censure upon Mrs. Ball which they proposed to railroad through. Mrs, Ball and her friends proposed to let nothing of the kind oceur, and finally the matter went over to the next day. On Saturday tho board approached the controversy before it with difidence. Mrs. Ball obtained the floor upona question of privilege, and she did not ive itup until sho had made the best of her privi She made various charges against Mrs. Meredith which did not enhanco hor ladylike character. Shoe said that she was “an arrogant chair- man.” She heard a fow hisses, but they were not enough to frighten Mups. Ball. Sho continued until she called her fellow lady manazer “a malic ious, ungenerousand vindictive woman, Mind youshe said “woman” and not “lady.” And then the hisses came thick and fast. Pandemonium ensued and Mus, Meredith choked and melted with tears. All this happened before the board of lady managers. Then the members became entangled in a maze of ‘liamentary rulings, out of which they finally emerged when Mrs. Ball conde scendingly withdrew the word “ma- licious.” And all is peace and blissful harmony now. The board of lady managers intends to move to Washington to give congress in parlismentary procedur When it has finished there, it will moy to London and instruct the House of Com- mon After that its s o3 will he at the disposul of whateve slative body offers the best indue lessons AS 10 TARIFE REVISIO, There is a division of sentiment among the demoerats in congress asto the rela- tive importance of the question of tariff revision, somo regarding it us more ur- gent than the silver question and othors iving it the precedence. According to the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, who has tho very best means of information, the mattor of taviff revision will be taken up as soon as the ways and Leans cotamittee is an- nounced, and it is believed that the com- mittee can have a measure ready to report to tho house before the holidays. rovision prior to that time is not expected, according to this correspondent, but a great deal will de- pond upon whether the administration has a moasure alveady completed, or noarly so, for prosentation to congress. Unless the reports current weeks ago were unfounded, the sceretary of the treasury and others have been at work for some time in preparing a tavitf bill to meet the views of the president, and ifsuch is the case a tariff bill ought to be ready for submission to the ways and mesans committee at least at the date of the regular session of congress, and as it is pre- sumed that committee will be con- structed with a view to adopting the tariff views of the administrauion, any bill it may receive having the endorse- ment of the president is likely to be ap- proved without much dela, Undoubtedly it is the desive of the president that the silver question shall be disposed of as soon as possible, a re- cess taken, and the tariff be left for con- sideration at the regular session, and it is said that a number of prominent dem- ocrats in congress think this would be the proper course. From the success weat of the Platte, It s the center of | which the president appears to have had in convorting membors of his party to his financial vipws there is warrant for the bolief thas *he will have little diMeulty, aided bythe influence of the midsummer hoatat Washington, in con- vincing a suMcient numbor of the wis- dom and expediengy of confining the oxtra session entirely to financial i lation, and of limiting that to the repeal of the silver pwsghaso clauso of tho Sherman act. I?m]tmnn.ully the genoral sentiment of the countr, of this. realize would approve But M#! @leveland may also that ‘theortainty ing the tarift revision to be made by his party is having more or less influonce in maintaining distrust and deprossion, and that therefore the country ought to be permitted to know in the early future what to exvect. If he does realize this it is reasonable to suppose that the influence of ths admin- istration will be used to bring about a revision as soon as a bill for that pur- pose can be formulated, and that to the consummation of that work the adminis- tration will be able to give a great deal of assistance. It secms to be pretty well understood that there will be a reorgan- ization of the ways and means com- mittee, the indications pointing to the selection of Mr. Wilson of West Vir- ginia to succeed Mr. Springer as chair- man of the committee. Such a change would bo notice to the country that tarifl revision would be dictated by the administration and that it would not be strictly on the line demanded by the demoeratic national platform. A WRITER in the Jowrnal of Political Eeonomy, after satisfying himself that the character of our immigration in the past has not been all that might have been desired, proposes that every person who desires to emigrate to the United States should be compelled to provide himself with a three-fold certificate of character. In other words he wants a cortificate signod by three persons, the local chiof of police, the chief health officer and the chief ofticer of the poor, stating that the ap- plicant has not been brought before the courts on any cviminal chargo for five years previous, that he has had no con- tagious discase during tho preceding r, that he has received no assistanco from the poor authorities for a desig- nated period. The adoption of such a plan, the writer thinks, would immedi- ately bring the condition of European im- migration to alevel with the millennium. Does ho not see that the persons who could sceure such a certificato are ex- actly those whom ISuropean countri wish to retain and to whom the greatest obstacles would be presented should they make application for emigration papers as suggested? Our experience has shown us that Buropean officials will resort to any subterfuge to rid thom- selves of objectionable characters by providing the m of transporting them to this country. The requirement of emigration certificates would in no way keep these. away from us to a greator extent than is se- cured by existing ‘immigration laws. On the otter haud it would prevent those immigrants from coming who are most desirable. Our present laws pro- teet us amply from tho inroads of pau- pers, criminals and like characters. An honest execution of these laws will leave but few points still to be improved and those will not include any plan by which the immigration of the honest and hardworking laborer will be made more difficult than it now is. A CONTRIBUTOR intimates that theve is not suflicient publicity given to the af- fairs of our national banks and suggests that the periodical employment of an expert aceountant and the publication of his findings would do much to restore the general confidence of the publie in the stability and soundness of those in- stitutions. No one doubts the efficacy of publicity as & means of assuring de- positors that their interests are boing well guarded, and it is to this principle largely that the success of our national banking system can be traced. Whether further development in this direction is desivable is a question that must yield to the dictates of expediency. What we wish first to do, is to extend to all pri- vate and state banking institutions tho same requirements for po stato- ments of condition as are now demanded of the national banks, The fact that the latter find it to their advantage to take the public into th confidenco ought alone to induce the remaining bankers to adopt u similar policy. That they do not is ample justification for rogulative logislation. When this has become all that is necossary it will be time to en- force move frequent statements from the national banis. THE bicycle tournament at Chicago this week will be the Mocea toward which the eyes of the amateur sporting world will turn, ntertelt Chicago Tribune. The people last fall votod fora change and now that they have got it they are not happy, as thoy find loss “chauge” in their pockets than before thdy voted for it. el adoll A L L Proving Thote Solvency. Globe Democrat. Tn nine out of ten eages of bank failures this year, the banks have turned out to ba perféetly solvent, and they woula not have closed their doors if thoir depositors had troated them Justly and fairly. - The Timo to Invest, Kansas ity journal The experience of thosa who bought dur- ing the depression folldwing the panic of 1574 should b a valuablo lesson to thoso who have idle money now. ‘ Tnere will never be 4 better opportunity to idvest in cheap and safo property. ——————— Moro Is Gonlidonco, Philadelplyia Time W feol entirely warranted in saying that the slump in vaiue is ended for good, and as confidence s gradually rostored by the visibly improved conditions which environ all business oporations, we must steadily ad- w the normal prosperity of a nation purces are boundloss, whose people are solvent and whose cnergies are unox- awpled. - Comptroller Eckels in North American Review The present financial depression differs materially from any that hus heretofore oc- curred in our history. The straiu has beeu of unprecedented length and great severity, but there has been uothiug approaching & panio, such as characterized other years under similar circumstances. More sikuifi- cant is the fact that throughout it all there has been wanifest no unusual excitement, despite the general distrust 1 the stability of our moneyed institutions evidenced in overy portion of the country; the daily fail- rogard- | A_DAILY BEEy TUESDAY, AUGUS I' 8 1893, ure of banks, national, state and private; ot great commoreial enterprises, trust compa- nios and eorporations and manufacturing os tablishments, ~ No stronger proof than this could be had of the ro. sources of the country available wealth of the people. Tt demon stratos that no matter how bad the outiook there can bo no genoral bankruptey and dis tross as that of 1837, 1857 and 1878, In all tho circumstances surrounding tho prosent situation 1t is equally at variance with other poriods of liquidation. It has dovel oped at a time whon there is an abundance of agricultural produce and of manufactured product on evory hand, Ovdinary business ast and the | in morcantile lines 18 up to, and in somo | trades above, the standard’ of the same months in times of marked prospority, whilo the actual amount. of money in virculation per capita isas great as that of recent years. Not less worthy of note is it that, in & ma- Jority of the failures that have occured in legitimato lines thus far, the oxcess of their liabilities and of such a char- acter as to cause comment that nstitutions holding them should have been suspend. Baled Hay Recelving Recognition, Washington News, It is indood ploasing to know that Ameri- can baled hay is receiving tho recognition abroad that 1t so ly deserves, The frag- rant balo of hay Is & typical American insti- tution, and none knows it but to loveit, none name it but vo praise. It is not so gaudy as some of the products of our farms, but it makes up by intrinsic worth what it lacks in other directions, and we have long urged that it should be selected as the national flowor. A man should bo sent abroad to show the people there how to propare baled hay for tho table, even as Mr. Murphy explained the morits and mysteries of cornmeal. For man vears it has boen a staple in Am boarding houses, as those who are_pa vegetable soup and corn beef and cabbs can testify, and there I8 no good reason wh, it should ot ocoupy . similarly honorablo sphero in Europe. Tribuns, The experiments which have been in pro- gross for several years ssem to have proved that the North American Indian does not have in him the making of a first class sol- dier, and accordingly the few Iudians now in the service of the army are tobe mustered out. Tho trial wus worth making, even if it as 1ot turned out as woll as was expectod The nature of the Indian makes him unwill- ing to subwit to discipline and routine, and those who enlisted as soldiers soon lost their interest, and some of them became ex- tremely insubordinate when attemnts to en- force regulations wero put forth. Whilo In- dians render excellent service as guides and scouts, it appears impossible to make good soldiers of them and, unfortunately. littlo interest in the matter'is now felt in the W department. A Dangerous Weapon. Thitadetphia Ledger. and business men of Butte ave declared they will not in case or ciroumstances puc. chase anything from any one known to be ntagonistic to the free coinage of silver. Judging by the number of states i favor of unlimited coinage of silver and the number agaiust such coinage, it would seem that the boycott would be a more powerful weapou in the hands of the latter, Should the business men now to be boyeotted take it into their heads to refuse in turn to purchase from the free silverites, it is pretty safe to say that the people of Butte City would feol the pinch. ‘But boycotting is poor business always aud under all circumstances, o) e Thoe Autumn Outlook, Philadelphia ecord. Western railroad men, than whom thero are no better judges of the business situa- tion, fecl greatly elated over the autumn out- look, the crops being large and tho prospect bright for reasonably good prices. The *‘eorn roads’ are confldent of an exceptiol ally prosperous trade; and the feeling is that September, or at’ the latest Octobo will usher in good times for the railronds. Prosperity for the railroads means good times for the farmers, and covsequently an improvement in the business interests of the country at large. R Spoculation and Sulcide. Ctnotnnati Commercial. The suicide of an aged Chicago Board of ‘Trade operator is a solemn lesson to young men who fancy that the life of a speculator is an easy one with a golden future. *‘Broke" at 75, Nelson Van Kirk closed his life deal with a bullet yesterday. ‘Tho wreeks of the Board of Trade fill a dozen come- tevies,” The wiliest, strongest ana richest gambler is sure to meet a **cold deck” sooner or lat When it comes later, suicido follow: Merchants City, Mont., future 1n any - Action First, Debate Aftorward, New York Herald. There is talk here and there of a prolonged debate on the financial situation before the repeal of the Sherman law. Debate should follow, not precede, repeal When u house is on fire it is time for action, not deliberation. When the nation is in tho throes of financial and commercial disaster the cause of the evil must be starped out at once. e SROUND ABOUT THE kAR Musical Director Thomas again threatens to resign. His department is o magnificent failure financially. In the shon and leather building thero is a pair of satin bull shoes with the rows of what look like diamonds for buttons The convent of La Rabida, where the Columbian relics are, is one of the most pop- ular bits of the whole fair, and 1ts quaint rooms and winding corridors ave crowded all diry long. “The California exhibit is said to be tho best state show at the fair. Women revel in the enormous peaches, grapes and other fruits to be seen, The wouths of men water over the wonderful collection of gold in various crude forms, Teu is served cvery afternoon at 5o'clock on-the upper fleor of the New York buiiding, No public aunouncement is ade of this fact. of course, but all comers are we ueverthe ke the elevator on the side of the building. The number of paid admissions during the month of July was 2,750,971, and the largest number of piid admissions was auly 4, when 283,278 tpeopledeposited the admission feo with tho ticket sellers, ‘I'he paid attendance for May was 1,050,047, while that of June more than_doubled this figure, reaching a total of 2,075,113, In the Russiun section of the Manufactures building two copies in lapis-lazull and molachite of the royal palace in St. Pe- tersburg, They are four feet in height, and are valued at £10,000 each. A jade urn worth 35,000 shares admiration with a little topaz vase, Three mahogany and gilt cabi- nets, wonderful examplos of mosuic work, are lent by the Impross of Russia, and are valued at 28,000 cach. Two large halls in the rear of the Guate- mala building contain imitation mountains At the mouth of the caves, among the cruigs and upon the peaks are specimens of Guate mala’s strango animal tife. The cave bear there with his long overlapping snout, A uger, fully grown, but no larger thun a kitten and a perfectly form o taller than a rabbit are other freaks, There are iguanas and lizards and crawling things which are ton unpleasant to write about. The rocking stone of Tandil is one of the wonders which Americans will go to seo when the intercontinental railway begins to carry tourists to South Awerica, On the summit of a low hill on a great plain of the Argentiue RRepublic looms this great mass of rock. It weighs 2,000 or 3,000 wens. A thousand horses couldn’t roll it over. Yeta man can staud under the edgo of it and, put- ting his hand against it, can move the entive mass until it rocks to and fro. 1f a bottle is put close to thoe under edge of the mass, and two or three pushes are given, the rock will roll back and smash the bottle. There is a picture of this curlosity in the Argentine ex- hibit. Paraguay tea! Thirty mullions of people drink it daily. Yet visitors 0 the World's ir suiff their noses as they approach the Paraguay pavilion and fail to identify the aroma. Paraguay hus sent some of her tea, She does not wako it her strong feature, But o mauy people there is nothing more inter- esting in the exhibit. Yerba mate is the more correct name. Mate is pronounced as if it was spelled mah-tay. When tie South Awmerican awakes in the morniug, claps his hauds and calls immediately for ‘“a mate,” he means a cup of this tea, and when he hi swallowed a mute or Lwo he is braced up for the opening duties of the day aud inclined to see life on the brght side. forced to | | abandos ol o sots reported | Aban don the soldiers reun { of the failed concerns have been largely in NERRASKA AND NERRASKAN The Texington Garetto has boen swal- lowed by the Ciipper-Citizen A horse was 80 badly frightenad by a train at Mason City that it dropped dead A Grand Army district reunion will bo held at Broken Bow August 22 tA 2, The Kearnoy Journal would like to seo H M. Sinclair nominated for supreme court 1o by the republicans. Tho oldest son of Hon. J. C. Bunch of Wymore died last week in Wisconsin, whero he had gone for a visit, ho broken Battle Creek Valley bank, has been in the hauds of iteceiver ombe for some time, was transferred last weok to the care of J.'W. Rose, o now receiver. The Curtis Grand Army post has decided, owing to the monotary stringoncy, to n of which an- nouncement had been made, but & pienic for veterans will be heid August 22. Bocause ho permitted a cor traduce Mrs. Grantin nis paper, Representa C. W. Beal, editor of the Broken Bow on, was publicly horsewhipped by the lady and was forced to flo from her wrath, Mrs. J. L. Madison of Superior drove home the other evening from an_ outing aud saw o light in the house. Just as sho entered o tramp jumped from a window and disappoared. Ho had ovortirned overthing in tho house, but didn't have time to carry off tho valuables. Jack Short, a farm hand employed by . N. Bishop, o Custer county farmor, becama enraged bocause ho was threatened with dischargo unless he oboyod orders and stabbed Bishop five times with a pocket knife. Nono of the wounds will prove seri- ous. Short has disappeared. . 0. Bdgecombe, saitor of the Falls City Journal, who lost his sight some time ago b; the prematuro discharge of a gun, has just returned from a wip to Chicago, where ho hoped to have an operation performed that would restore his vision. Several eminent oculists, however, informed him that an op- eration would bo useless. T'ho body of Henry Andorson, who met his death by being buried alive in a_well ut a depth of ovor 100 feet, south of Harrisburg, Banner county, was finally recovered last weok after having been in the ground nearly threo weeks. ‘I'he remains wero in o very badly decomposed condition, but were en- cased at once in a metallic cofn andisent to Tilinois for interment, During the prevalence of the thunder storm a most miraculous escape from instant death occurred in South Superier, says the Suporior Journal. The two-story frame houseof James lon, section foreman of the Missouri Pacitie, was struck at the north end by a bolt of lightning, tearing the siding om the house for a third of tho way down. The current then scemed to divide, part going down the chimney into the parlor, tearing down a stovepipo and breaking the stove to pieces as well ing firo to some clothing on a chair near by and demolishing everything on the norti side of the room. Tho other current turned wost, entered the bedroom, foliowod tho railing of the bed to the footboard and literally toro it nto splintors. On this b Miss Mary Hennesy of Formosa, who the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ion, was sleepi and, miraculous as it may seem, oven a shock from the deadly fluid, but certainly thoroughl; kened, and jumping from the fallen bed she ran to the stair door and callod for Mrs. Ton that the house was struck by lightning and was_on fire. The was anew one with wire springs, on ich was a mattross aud feathor bed. ‘The nonconducting quality of the feathers un- doubtedly saved the young lady's life, sspondent to utterly PEOPLE AND IHINGS, vernor Waite culiarly fitting. tho Baw Governor McKinley proposes to ventilato democratic pension reform in a specch at Caldwell, O., August 2 A New York paper estimates that 86,177 working men are idlo in that city. Come to think about it, New York voted for a mo home was pe- W played “Aftor Neither Senator Peflor nor Jerry Simpson ppoared at the silver jamborce in~ Chicago. he populist wisacres ‘stick to tho middle of the road. There is to be a radical reform in the Midway plaisance dance. The undulating motions aro to be supplanted by lofuy pedal tumbling, limited to the height of the roof. Another prize fighter met a violent death, It scums his opponent in a friendly bout “stopped his jaw.” With that important professional adjunct inactive, life wasn't worth living. Prince Damrong of the royal house of Siam signed the notification to France of the acceptance of her ultimatum. Judging 3 mo the prince appears to have got on the wrong side. Judgo Stein is an_important personage in World's fair matters. His little injunction opened the gates on Sund qucat his name is extremely popular in Midway joints seven days in the week, Aftor the extra session, what? Why, tho fall elections in Ohio, New York, Massa- chusetts and Towa for'a full roster of stato ofticers, and minor elections in nine other A political stringency is u remote possibility. Omaha oxtends condolences to Los Angeles, Doubtless the completion and dedication of the commodious and ornite Santa o depot warrants unusual rejoic Omaha cannot, speak from experienc iz0, how- ever, what pangs the parting with the old ruins produced. Such rendmng of old tie make strong men turn aside to hide their weeps. Railroad agors hereabouts re- ously protect them even though their patrony contract sunstroke or consumption in the roofless expanse of waste. The Chicago grand jury was not as diffuse a8 tho coroner's jury whioh investigated the cold storago warchouso fire, After much cogitation the jurymen could not Bx the responsibility. The talk of a looting con- spiracy ended in tlk Secrotary Hoke Smith is responsible for the assertion that many of tho Indians on the western reservations do not know how tomilk A cow; and yot in the expressive phrase of the day the noble red man occa- sionally “pulls Unclo Sam's leg." Littlo Wound, the now chief of the Stoux nation, is 6 foot tall, 60 years old, and got his name from an injury to his ankle re ceived in a battic with whito men when ho was 12 years old. Ho and Red Cloud have always been on bad torms. Red Cloud was Sitting Bull's friend and ally. A story is being told in the House of Com mons which illustrates Mr. Gladstone's ex- uberant buoyancy since tho orisis of the home rule debate. After tho prime minister had voted in the division on clause 9, Mr. Majoribanks went up to him and said: “ think T can find a pair for you Mr. Glad- tone, it you would like to g0~ homo now." ©A pair!? said Mr. Gladstono, “find mo two pal and 1 may-—! equal to any two tories tonight.” —— SUGGESTIONS, Buffalo Courier: Tho clty oditor pencil often makes a markod differor eW TCOTLOE's Copy. CHEERIN bluo 10 the Y1t T should kiss you would WVell, I wouldn't 1iko to give s nswer without having been put to Tntor Ocenn: you scroam?" Dositive thoe tost., Toston Courler: A man who makes hats Is a hattor, of course, bt wo ought 1ot Lo say thit a baker I8 necessirily o loafer Sommerville Journal: One secret that a woman can generaaly keep s hor honast, wiy- down-decp, “unniodified opinion of the man spect the local veneration for ruins and jeal- wha porsuddud hor o marry hin twouty-ive or thirty years ago. ¢ Baltinore Amord, Unmixed ovils rarely occur. Tho fact that money has hoon tight 15 snld to have rosulted Ina good deal of sober thought. Lite: Ilorso Denlor tomer. Friend skinnod then 1 always plek iy cu Do you? Lwas told that you Chicago Record 1 Want no nore sl Wandorime Wil Woary Wi dronmed T was wo don't slop and Kin' Chicago Tribune: Nol sont me over to ask 1ty bottle o' congh medicine, tell your mother we ke onr strictly for home hor's Toy-—Maw @'d dend haor your Mrs. Kneer—You cough modicing msumption hington § Tunderstand,” sald ano volitician to another, “that Goveraor Waity 15 10 strike anothor voin of thought.” in, nothing ™ was the rejoinder; rtery next tine, sure.” Philadelphia Record : ho ropo walker ulidn't do nuel without an educated rope.” “Aneducated rope? 1T never heard of one.' “Oh, yeos; their rop: 15t alwiys bo Vil bo aut.” THE BULLDOS Minneapolis Jou nal wplet, in thy hour of With appetite thit's hard to ploase, Beforo thoi wallost for ¢ wine, Obsorvo the bulldog’s plaintive 'whing 1ix mouth, which be has justlet off, 1 raucons with a bronchial cough s wayyare rou loves to camp Upon tho trguser of the tramp. Dot gl 11 n Ware River News. »us last November when the vie- wiy i and banners in magnifi- O, tr WHEN 1HE ) T DOWA 0, "twas glor tors © With rod fire centarray! Tow thelr oyes with rapture sparkled, how oach 1oyl heart grew warm At the thought of poor old Benny swampod by cyclones of reform! And how double extra jolly 1t would bo to scoteh and kill Our W. McKinloy and his blamed old rohboer i But adifferent sort of feoling seems o por muate the town, And gas don't count for glory When The Mills Shut Down. 0, 'twas altogether lovely then to nag the G 0. P, And furnished sea don't you sec Slashing up official pudding, ness must bring, While Maxwell gives his hatchot just a little oxtrn swit But hold! here comes another sort of musie in tho uir, That tells of cmpty stomachs and of pockets plucked and Dare Where are these protection killers now, these SPOUters Of renown? Where, oli, where these great reformers on tickots up Salt river, sure, such happte Shut z Down? noblo W it wits ho, 115 squarely on Grover, w vall To plant riseo. And Adlal name How his stirn tru How the. “plutoc- arless, of the weird and awful sy should echo on the fan urn the country over, then turn 1 bl again, And seatter all th hiunts of m *Tis a wlorious prospect thriving town, But it peters out 5o easy When ascals from among tho truly, for many o Tho BROWNING, KNG co Largest Manutacturors an ' Rotatlors ol Clothing fn the World. Why we smile Can’t help it; the men and boys of this city and 'round abouts will insist on wearing clothes and when they buy them they nearly all get them of us—and that makes us good natured. Others talk about hard times-~that maks us smile. N We don’t know whathard times = ——Lare ourselves unless it is the case in hard times that a man wants to make his dollar go as far as possible and for that reason buys his suit of us because it will wear longer and keep its shape better than any other and he won't have to be spending some more silvers before the times get better. Long headed people buy the best cloth- ing to be had. Our prices many broken sizes are about half what they used to be. BROWNING, 8. Lore open every eventng til 6.9, Btore open T Ura By Ll 15, KING & CO., W, Cor. 16t and Donglas Sts.