Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1893, Page 4

THE _OMAIA DATLY BEE; I'HUI THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor pes PURLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday) One Year Dinily and Sunday, One Bix Monthe Three M. Eanday . Suturday e ¥ . o ! kly Bee, One Yo OFFICES, e oo Ballding * N and 26th Strests. arl Stroet. fiamber of Commerce. 13, 14 and 15, Tribune s, Wee Omnlia South Ok Connetl Blu Chis New York, Hooms ston, 513 Fourteenth Stroot. SPONDENCE, relating to r should be addressoa Al con editorind 1 Editor news and To the munications it BUSINESS 1, Al bustness Tottors and be nddressed 10 The Beo I Omahn. Drafts, chocks 10 be made payible to the pany Partios Io have Tae Bk an order TIE SWORN STATEMENT OF ERS remittances should A postofiic ‘Srdor of the com ving the elty for the to their addre this office BEE PUBLISHING by leaving COMPANY. CIRCULATION. orge 1, T2sehicK. seeret n company. Aok s Wl efreuInon of THE DALY iz AUISE D, 1503, Was a8 fo lay, July Jily Ay Atigdl 1 wdny, Aueist @ Ty, Angust 3 Atirt | aveney Auieust 5 el GrONGE B, TZ8CnUCK to before e and wubseribed in Iy proseries s G day of August, 1803, N. P, FEL, Notary Publie. f Te REE Pub. r that the the week 085 Friday Saturdiy —i 5WO {u AL tee in © Trk DALY and SUNDAY T} o at the following places: Palnier honse Grand Pacific hotol. Auditoriun hotel Great Northern hotel Gore hotel Leland I Filos of Titk Bek can ho soon at the No- braska building and the Administration build ing, Exposition grounds ago. 1s on sale in alized bridge tolls limmering. Daviv B, Hin to be found togethe sional bald head row, ittle bill are the congre his in and THE plentiful multiplicity of bills pr sented to must remind its memibers of the recurring advent of the first of the month. con: ress Eurork has more to fear from cholera this year than from w All the armed hosts of the Triple Allianco cannot op- pose the progress of the Asiatic scourge. Tur program of the braska Breeders mect, now being held in this city, is one that cannot but be attractive to thoso who are interested in turf events. PUBLIC opinion in gencral commend the straightforwardness and simplicity of the president’s message. What now intorests the country is how soon congress will acquiesco in his recommendations, inclines to A gPECIAL agent of tho Agricultural department is going 1o Europe to try to induce the brewers there to make use of corn in brewing their beers. Better go all the way ata leap and push the con- sumption of the corn juice pure and un- defiled. THE friends of the old-fashioned wild- cat currcncy lost no time in offering a bill for the repeal of the law imposing a tax on state bank issues. The frantic silence which followed the introduction of the bill is o pretty sure earnest of its reception by the conservative thinking people of the country. THE action of the Lehigh Valley di- rectors in caneeling tho lease of that road to the Reading is just as much a surpriso as was the original leasing. That these momentous changes are con- tinually oceurring in the railway world botokens tho unstable condition of the existing railway sitnation. THE republican members of congress Bave by all odds the bestend of the silver fight. They are in a position to practically dictate the terms of the final sottlement of the money question and this fact is a sufticient guarantee that the intorests of the country will not be endangered by unwise legislation, THE railvoad managers complain their injunction petitions that at 3 cents ver mile their passenger traflic does not pay expenscs. They neglect to inform their court just how much their passen- gor recoipts are cut down by reason of the pass books held by the blue-shirt brigade along about convention time. in WEIAVE & stalk of Nebraska corn bearing four undeveloped cars. It was eut from a growing field in Washington county which it is estimated will yield eighty bushels th the aere worth 38 cents. farmer is s Corn is now This explains why the much better off than any- body else in these days of business do- pression. DETROIT receives 4.6 per for the city mone, proved local banks. placed with the h it interest deposit in ap- The deposits ave \est rosponsiblo bid- d and are sceured by adequate bonds, Furthermore there is real competition among Detroit banks to secure the money., Omaha might learn a lesson from Detroit. on THERE are ovidences in faiv-minded man to the conclusion that the State Board of Transportation means 1o support the attorney efforts to defend the r regulate froight rate tolls, that tho board will and purpose manifost lend the attornoy aid in the impendin, goneral and that it will genery contest, REPRESENTATIVE MERCER was quoted in Tue Bee's Washington dispatches yestorday as being much displeased with puid message. called Sherman law, without giving any We mossuge. definito reason therefor.” that Mr. Mercer read the T our mind, about nine-tenths of the docu- ment covered definite reasons for repeal. 8800 5 00 2 50 2 00 50 100 mmor can | t tolead a in his ght of the state to 1t is hoped malke its full intent all vossible suggest | wiLn rEPEAL RESTORE CONFIDE! The question whether the uncondi- tional repeal of the silver purchasing | provisions of the Sherman act will fully restore financial confidence is one which it may be safely assumed is receiving very general consideration. There certain obvious effects which repeal will produce. Tt will establish confidenco home and abroad in the continued sound- ness and stability of our currency. With the stoppage of silver purchases by the government thers will be removed all reason for doubting tho ability of the governmont to main- tain the currency parity of gold and silver, Unquestionably this would bean important aid to the restoration of con- fidence. It would probably putan end to =0 much of the depletion of gold as is vepresented by the return of American securities and it would also doubtless induce a return of foreign eapital to this country for investmont. Large amounts of Buropean capital have been with- drawn from the United States within the past year or two and the offer of high tes of interest failed to call back. There can be no reasonable doubt as to the explanation of this. It was due to the fear of foreigners that the country was drifting to a silver basis, and that their investments would thereby be imperiled. With the aban- donment of silver purchases by the gov- ernment this fear will vanish and for- eign capital will again be attracted here. These wholesomo conditions are cer- tain to follow the repaal of the silver purehasing provisions of the Sherman act, but something more is needed. Will repeal beget, on the ono hand, that popular confidence in the banking institutions of the country which will lead the peoplo to restore to the banks the millions of money that have been withdrawn and are now in hiding, and on the othor hand induce the banks to adopt a more liberal policy toward the business com- munity in the matter of extending credits? Everybody who can take an intelligent and practical view of the sit- ion that it is not a but rather a re- that the prime distr Mak- allowance for the held out of eircula- tion by hoarding, there is still money enough to transact the business of the country for which money is ordinarily used, but there is an enormous contrac- tion of credit and this it is that is doing the mischief. = Will the stoppage of silver purchase by the government give relief in th divection? This is a pertinont question which 1o one can answer with any cor- tainty, though the probabilities are in favor of the assumption that the pro- posed change of policy regarding silvor will tend to a gen fidence. are it understands reity of curren striction of eredit, cause of the financ ing the most liberal amount of currency storation of con- TRANSIER SWITCH LAW. ransfer switch law went nomi- into effect on August 1. Butno s yot has heard of the erection of any such switches by the railvoads as are enjoined by the statute or even of any move on the part of the railvoads of this state indicating that they in- tend to obey the law. The results con- templated by the legislature are at the present moment no neaver attainment than before that body convened. The caso then which S. Dart brings before the State Board of Transporta- tion to secure the benofits of the new law will very shortly bring the matter to the front and show the public what attitude the railways propose to assume in relation to the duties thus imposed upon them. The purpose of the Packwood bill is briefly this: Tt requices all railroads in the state touching at common points or at some near point, whoro freight is re- ceived and delivered, to build and main- tain switches for their common use in transferving freight in carload lots from line to the other. It aims furthermore to compol them to forward such freight by the shortest line be- tween the points of consignment. And this is to be effected by giving a through way bill to the place of destination, for which no greater amount is to he charged than the sum of the local rates, which charges ave to bo apportioned pro rata according to the mileage of the different railways over whose linos the freight is transported. The ad- vantages accru'ng to the shipper are that his freight goes by the shortest and quickest route and that the charges ave based on the lesser mileage. Another feature of the law is the pro- vision by which any railroad may secure practical immunity from its burdens by showing to the satisfaction of the State Board of Transportation that the con- struction of the contemplated transfer switch is unusually burdensome and con- sequently unjust and unrensonable, Tho penalties do not attach until the expira- tion of sixty days from the time the law goes into foree, so that private rights of action cannot acerue for some months to come. Before the end of the sixty d is in sight we may expect to see every THE The nally one one voad, which 18 crossed by any other rail- way in this state, apply to the railroad commissioners for exemption from the provisions of the law, It amounts thon simply to this, that the rosponsibility for the enforcement of this law with the State Board of Transportation, How it will consider the cases brought before it will arouse no little public in- terest when the time comes for it to act. rests BusiNess is dull. Everybody knows that. But trade conditions’ in Omaha have not fallen tothatdepth of weakness reported in other eitios west, north and south. Surrounding Omaha is a vast tervitory producing abundant, diversi- fied erops, the product of which is wealth dug out of the carth. Herein lies the hope of this metropolis. No other city in the west is so adequately fortified against commereial disaster or collapse of values, In Colorado the mines have supported the trade of Denver; in Min- nesota, wheat is the crop upon which the trade of that state depinds; in No- braska, cornis the staple. The mining | industry of Colorado is all but ruined, the wheat crop of Minnesota is, compar- o | atively speaking,s failuve. The corn erop of Nebraska is unprecedentedly large. In other words, conditions are such in the p nt's Incidentally he said: *The president closes his me sage with a bound by suggesting a peal of the purchasing clause of the k1 | this stato that trade may bo expocted to rapidly revive under favorable financial legislation EQUALIZED BRIT OLLS WITHHELD. It is now announced that all consid- eration of the application of Omaha manufacturers and jobbers for equalized tolls over the Missouri river bridge at this point has been indefinitely post- poned. The local shippers have years been agitating the abolition of the diseriminating differential by which lowa merchants are enabled to compete with them on favorable terms in their territory while they have been almost shut out of the Towa field by reason of the unjust railway charges. When the Commercial club took the matter up a fow wecks ago and pushod it so ener- getically it scomed for a short time that the railways wore inclined to listen to its demands and to yield to them so far as they are well grounded. The failure of the Western Freight association at Chicago to take any action in the matter leaves Omaha jobbors to plod along as best they can, handicapped now as they have always beon. The roason assigned for maintaining the bridge toll is unsatisfactory in eve particular. There was no proposal to lower rates on transmissouri shipments, but simply to equalize them. The bridgo toll and the local rates under the maxi- mum freight rate law have no counec- tion whatever. The former should not be affected by the complications that have arvisen over freight rates within the state, especially since those compli- cations are sololy of the railways' own making. The Omaha morchants should not let the matter drop. Persistent action and unceasing efforts must even- tiially securoan equalization of the bridge tolls. TARIFF AS A DISTURBING CAUSE. President Cleveland plainly implied in his message that ho recognized the fact that silver is not the only cause of the prevailin financial distrust and business depression. This languagoe from the messago is significant: “It may be true that the embarrassments from which the business of the country is suf- foring avise as much from evils appre- hended as from those actually existing. We hope, too, that calm couhsels will prevail, and that neither the capi- talist nor the wago carner will give way to unreasoning panic and sacrifice their property or their interests under the influcnce of exaggeratod four Fur- ther on in the messago the president refors to tarifl reform as having lost nothing of its immediate and permanent importance, but it scems a fair inference from the above quotation that he in- tended to convey the assurance to the country that there is no reason to ap- prehend, so far- as the administration is concerned, any dangerous departure from tho fiseal poliey of the nation. There is warrant for this view in the fact that Mr. Cleveland has not at any time since his nomination indicated the least sympathy with the declaration of the democratic national platform against the policy of protection. Tn his Madi- son Garden speech, when ho was in- formally notified of his nomination, he said that the democratic party was not a party of destruction, thereby imply- ing that the industries of the country were in no danger of being destroyed in the event of the success of that party. There was not a word in his inaugural address to show that he meant to carry out the demand of the platform for the abandonment of the policy of pro- tection. In that address he recognized the obligation to reform the tariff, but not on the lines laid down by the ox tremists. “While there should be no surrender of principie,” said the presi- dent, “our task must be undertaken wisely and without heedless vindicetiv ness. Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrongs.” Tt highly prcbable that Mr. Cleveland has becomo move strongly convinced since his advent to oftice than before that the democeratic policy proposed at Chicago cannot be carried out without the most disastrous consequences to the business interests of the country. If he is a careful student of current events he must real- 170 thut tho apprehension with regard to the possible course of his party in rela- tion to the tariff has no small influence in producing the state of affairs which everybody deplores, and for the correc- tion of which the stoppage of purchases by the government will not be all-sufficient. The manufacturers of the country are practically unanimous in saying that tho closing of mills and ctories and the curtailment of produc- tion are mainly due to_fear regarding what the party in power may do in the name of tariff reform. It would have been well if the presi- dent had with more directness assured the industrial interests of the country that they need not fear a destructive change in the tariff, but what he did say ught to have a beneficial effeet, and 'y likely will have, though it will be impossible to all and apprehension until a measure of tarifl revision is reported w h will unmistakably show how far the party in power is disposed to goin a departure from the policy of protection. is remove THE apparent anxiety of the demo- ceratic mombers of congress to avoid all partisap coloring in the discussion of the silver question is one of the most ve- freshing features of the extra session, And yet it is not certain but that many democratic memb will themselves force the parti issuo. Bland is posi- tive that the democratic party is the friond and sole advocate of free silves Mr. Bryan is equally positive that his party is the especially ordained cham- pion of the free silver poli Both gen- tlemen are men who do not hesitate to express their convictions in no uncer- tain phrases, and they are perfectly willing to fasten free and unlimited sil- ver coinage upon the financial policy of the United States and claim a partisan credit for an 0 doing. A MEMBER of the House of Commons asserts that the necessity for the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law may be traced to tho recent action of the British government in India upon the silver question. The stoppage of Indian silver coinage nodoubt had a depressing effect upon the bullion market, but tho demand for the repeal of our silver pur- for | uncertainty’ ohase law is of much longer standing The ovil effects| b} thiat law have been bocoming daily ‘more visible for many months and its repeal was only a mattor of time, w gr, the course of Euro- pean governmefitd might have been o long as they continued in their refu to join in the movement for international bimetallism. atever IF THE governdrs of the different states reflect the' epinions of their con- | stituents, the cdhvass made by the New York Herald of the attitude of thirty- six stato executived toward the Sherman silver purchaso law is ver) The For uncondi- tional repeal, 19: for conditional repeal, 11; agal repeal, 2 noncommittal, 4 This is probably an approximate repre- sentation of the relative standing of the whole country. signi results secured are: THE proposal to have the World's fair continue for another year does not meet & very hearty recoption at the hands of those most closely interested in it. The directors have ovidently had enovgh of their thankless task, while the stockholders have given up their hopes of financial profit and ase now willing to let well enough alone. THE World's fair directors have finally decided to ask for a dissolution of the injunction which forbids them to close the gates on Sundays. Why did they not do this before they disobeyed the order of the court? Those who were fined for contempt are probably wishing that they had acted move prudently. NEBRASKA democrats who are appli- cants for fedeval appointments would do a profitable turn by clubbing together and hiring Tobe Castor to stay right in Washington until the last republican has made his exit. The Sitaation Aptly Charcterized. Philadelphia Lecord Tnventor Edison hus partially shut down his phonograph works av Orange, N, J., for the reason, as he has quaintly said, that “the proprietor thereof, seeing ihe country has resolved iself into a national lunatic asylum, decided to wait till the wave sub- sided somewhat.” These words aptly haracterizo tho situation, 80 far as con cerns the ravings of silver flatists in the vest ov the equally irrational behavior of timid investors in the cast - ratio Dodging in Towa, Chicago Ints Ocean. Governor $oies of Town shr poses to eschew national politic: full well that the democratic party has no show of success this year except upon purely local or side issucs, But the governor will find that busincss interests have more claim upon public attention than the minor ques- tions, *“‘to beer or not to beer,”” which he secks to place at the front. Very natur- ally, in view of the threatened collapse of industrios resulting from their success, the democrats are Just now anxious to change the subject, but the policy of evasion and avoidance will not work. Governor Boics will be confronted by a condition resulting from democratic theories, and even that old bottle of Dutch sugar, which ho carried in the campaizn of 1500, will not save his party in this your's campaizu. No artful dodging will avail. tly vro- . knowing s el Five Months of Democracy. Denver Rejublican, Just five months agy the republican party turned the government of the United States over to the democratic party, and the chango in the business affairs of the country which has occurred in that brief poriod caunot ve caunled iu the entire previous history of the nation. Then all our business interests were prosperous and the outlook for good times in the future was bright. Now all classes from ists to coal heavers are complaining times, falling markets, closing ad mills, failing banlks, lessening rutlway trafic and starving labor. We do nov claim that all theso great chunges are duc to the substitution of democrats for re- publicans in the control of our government, but it cannot be doubted thut the political revolution which the majority of voters de- t November has had a great deal to do with the business revolution which has 30 closely accompanicd it. 2 SR, The Com ng i3oam. Philalelphia Telrgraph. Here we havo a nation of 67,000,000 of peo- plo, the richest, tho best fed,” the best clothed, the best housed and the best pro- vided the world has ever seen. Our con- sumption per capita of the good things of this world is greater than that of any other people, We buy more and use more than anybody elso on the face of the earth, and, what is more, we are abundantly able to do 81, Now, we are going to live well this fall, Jast as we have heretofore done. There m b some enforced cconomics fora time in this or that locality, but what will that amount to in the average of domestic exchanges ag- grezatmg during the scason of active deal- Ings more than §100,000,000 daily? That so will not be much below that figure after September 1, no matter what congress ma, shall want about $100,000,000 worth of one thing or another every day in the weel except Sund, nd it 15 0 bo hoped that the manufacturers, merchunts and forwaraers will bo ull ready and well prepared to supply our demands. ngerous Gamo to Pl Norfolis Joarnil, The railroads are evidently attompting to play u very sharp game in regard to the maximum freight rate law, but it is one that is fraught with great danger to themselves. After a protense at being willing to give the hew law u trial on its merits, at the last moment suits were brought in the name of stockholders to enjoin the rallway managers from putting the new rates in force, thus in effect abrogating the law until the 'pending suits snall be adjudi ed uand the con- stintionality of tho law settled. The pli is # very shrewd one, and will huve the effect of saving the payment of the fines imposed by the new luw for failure to comply with it whilo it complishes the samo object as if the rail- ways had set the law at defiunce. v may be two yeurs before the lit tion ends, for suits have been brought before Judge Dundy whose decisions all show an inc ion to a belief that the railwags are private con- cerus not amenable to state control. ‘The railroads will however, that delay is all they canhope o gain by the new moy and that while ) fora time the onward march of the sentiment in favor of state control of freight rates, they cannot thwart its ultimato triumph. The people of Nebragka are not in the fight fora day or tor a year, but for alt time to come, and the duy of judgment for the misuse of Dower by pig-headed railwaymanagers is as certam 1 dawn as that thostars will hold their course in the heavens. Al CONGRESS THAORDIN ARY. Minneapolis Times, srom Tndiana crossroads and from Toxas' loud X panso They ure gathering, fre gathering, these ex- Deris of fnand From Lonisiana’s low bayous and from Cali- forain's shores oy uTo DIKIK to the stutions, congressmen Dy seores They tumble frow the Rockles, they drip from out the floods, ‘l.hl'fY gather from the prairies, they hustle Yo the woodss They cowe in squads and companios, gather- fug brigades From north 1 pine Trom svorklados, Al soris and kinds of statesmen are In tho wmotley throng, All 'Sorts and kinds of whiskers they lkowise Dring along Allsorts und kinds of notions through thoir noddles straylng, Forvery kind of stgtesmauship are all the peopls paying K gather from the east and o th south And they gather from the west where they gathor mostly mouth, They ure plunging on 0 Washington to save Chis bibssod land: 1t they don't, thei noxt eloction we'll bust tho bidssed band. woods come they, also they gather DAY, AUGUST 10, 1893. PEOPLE AND THIY o pettifogging. No party domination! e Maryland peach crop is harvested and is an_abundant ono. Bring oa your con dence. Tho country 1s safo. Dospite its malarial condition in a busi ness senso, public confidence in the summer girl grows warmer as the season wanes According to democratic testimony Clove 1and did not wait for the ropeal of the dem. ocratic platform. He repudintes the wig- wam utterances. gh the event-is not down in the biils, t of Honry Watterson spiking the tic platform to Cleveland's bedpost will draw like a houso afire. What the countey needs, and that quickly, is legistation to maintain tho pairity of the hammock. That would restore as well as facilitate the exchange of confidence. Wood euts of tho ‘“wild Borneo,” which Barnum scattered newspaner oftices n_genoration doing duty outlining tho physiognomy of the Samoan rebel leader was a patriotic_compositor who set “waving cornfields” for “waning confidence in the prosident's messago. Such 1o; tho west is poculiarly rofreshing whil doubt stalks abroad and financial cure-alls afllict the land, Tho moral regulators of Indiana received au effective backsot with lead. Four of tho clan whitecap went forth at night to punish ain offenders. Their joint funeral thirty- s1x hours lator iilustratod the folly of stick- g olfactories into othor people’s affairs. dward 1. Soarles, who some timo ago gave the Hopkins-Searles’ mansion at San F'ran- the Art association of that city as manent home and agreed to giy £,000 a ¢ toward its maintenance, about to present tho assooiation with a num- ber of valuable paintings as the nucleus of a collection. Baron William von Faber, the only son of Baron Lothar von Faber and part owner of the world-renowned lead pencil factory in Nuremberg, died in Germany a fow days ago. Few men have made a greater or more universal mark in the world's affairs. He was considerate to a degree. leaving an abundance of material with which to edit his obituary. Father Vinez, the eminont Cuban_ meteor- ologist who died at Havana “July 23, was a practical optician and mechanic. He man- aged and repaired his own machinery, ob- served, made his notes and wrote his report to the socioties with which he was in spondenge, all by himself. His published work on hurricanes ns observations extending over many years. Its scientific value is recognized by ‘the highest author- itics, A pantry groaning with federal pie lends a silent but impressive force to Cleveland's message. It is an emphavic iteration of the Kentucky sentiment: “He whe dallies Is n dastard, e who dodges is damned.” ot the haymakers of the Ro up and look pleasant. Frae coin proaching. A current item announces that castern_farmers are coining money out of hay. They bale it and ship it abroad. A handsomo granite sarcophagu to the memory of Barney Hughes, 'was un- veiled at Elmwood cemetery, Meinphis, re cently. Hughes began lifo a8 a printer, but finding this an uncongenial pursuit he en tered and achieved distinotion in the field of telography. Ho is the first who by touching his tonguo to the broken wire could “take" tho interrupted message. For o time he was chief telographer in General Bragg's army. He identified himself with the fortunes of the south in her struggle, and on one or nmore fields was complimentod for distin- guished services, After the war he a sisted i establishing tho overland telegraph line to Salt Lake City, and was the first man to operate a telegraph line from that tern city. ckies brace ge is ap. erected BISHOP NEWM v IN NEW YORK. Noted Omaha Divine Tells of His South American Trip. W Yonr, Aug. 0.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bree)—Bishop John P. Nowman of Omaha isin the city, having just returned from his official visit to South America, where he made the annual examination into the condition of the missions carried on there by the Methodist Episcopal church. He says: “Ifound our church has proporty worth about 700,000, and from fifty to 175 men and womon engaged in teaching or preaching. There are 4,000 communicants, and 15,000 adherents of the Methodist church. In Buenos Ayercs on Sunday 1 saw 2,000 Spanish children ava Methodist Sunday school taking part in the exercises of Children's day. The constitu- tions of the republics, or most of them at least, favor the Catholic church, but the liberal party in most of them is opposed to a union of church and state. Bocauso of the growth of their liberal sentiment, there are evasions of the comstitutional quirements that the Catholic church shall be the recognized church Two or threo illustrations of this occurred my visit. At Lima I wanted to ch, and on consulting the authorities I found that T wouid not be allowed to preach in Spanish, but might preach in Euglish. In Uruguay I was again confronted by the con- stitution, but it was inter, according to the old maxim that ‘What's not forbidden is permittod.” As the constitution did not specify against the Methodist forms of wor- ship, I was allowed to preach.’ ro- SUPPLIED NAMITE, Kentucky Convi Daring Plan to Gain ‘Their Liberty, Fraxkront, Ky., Aug. v.—Auother daring attempt among the convicts to blow up tho penitentiary walls and escaps was discovered by Warden Norman last night, but details were made public this time. I'he principals in the conspiracy were the two Ieeves brothers and & fellow by the name of Millard, all desperate men, who are sorving terms of thirty-one years each for blowing up a bank and attempting to burn the town of Tompkinsville a few yoars ago They had acted suspiciously “for some I and upon mvestigation tho warden found in their possession two pistols. a huge quantity of dynamite, nitro-glycerine and other combustibles, and they evidently in tended to muke a death strugzlo for liberty after blowing up the prison walls, Thoy e fused to talk, but somo of the other prison. crs who elaim to have not been i th spiracy revealed the plan of escape. S arveillance will upon the prisoncrs, who are sullen and dis. appoiuted over the failure of their schomo, P A HINT FEOM I 11, European Edition New York Heralds VISITING TOILET. Blue crepon is the material of which this effective visiting costume is fashioned, to gether with a volant of beige mousscline de solo. The pleated collet is of the sawe wma- erial, raCTS AROU Trontment of the Whits Metal by the Na- | tlons of the World, Eaward O. Loach, rocontly dir United States mint, sketches the the dethroning of silver during quarter of a contury and the for. Hosays the “civilized countries have declarod that, by of its cumbrous ness, the enormous quantity producea and tho violent fluctuations in its value, silver 18 1ot fit to serve u8 & moasure of the valuos of other things; that horeafter gold shall bo such @andard of value, and that tho busi ness of the world shall bo with gold money and an eulargod uso of fnstruments | of credit which nineteentn contury eiviiiza tion has provided as substitutes for actual | ¥ monoy." This modern vreferonca of gold for sil says the Chicago Tribuno, manifested itself | ¢ firat and most strongly among people of the highest civilization and of the inrgest com mercial pursuits, Ono great reason for it was a noed for the use of the motal contain- | i ing the grontest valuo in the least bulk, thus | 1 making gold the monoy of commerce, (irost Britain adopted tho gold standard in for tho oxpross reason, a8 stated in thoe act | i of Parliament, that inconvenionco | v had arisen from both those procious metals | t being concurrently the standard v value and equivalent for prop: Bxeopt tingland all Europe had tho- silver standard forty years ago and silver coins constituted | the great bulg of tho monoy of transactions. Today nota mint in Burope | i is open 1o the coinage of full debt-paying | v silver coins and the gateways of the Orient | have been closed against it. 1 tor of the of st roc 1story the rousons there son done er, | 1 Here is & brief statduient of the acts of silver coinage susponsion: In 187183 tho German empirs lod 1 modera movenient to adopt the gold s ard, 1t called in £257,454,000 worth of silvor thalors, and, in ordor to procure the neces anry gold for cofnage purposes, sc fino ounces of the melted silver at u lo 000,000, or nearly 10 o 1 mous stock of silver coins, ¢ beon in circulation as money this loss voluntarily as tho cost of placing itself on a sound monetary basis. 1 In 1874 France, Italy, Beleium, Switzor- land and Greed Latin union, decided to stop the coi 5 pieces, those being the 3 silvor coins -of full debt-paying power, and they closed their mints to the coinago of full logal tonder silver coins, which kas not | nco been resumed. Thus they practically adopted The Scandinavian countries of Norw Sweden and Denmark entered into a mone- t tary treaty 1872, adopting gold as the solo legal tende standard and making silver subsidiary, to be coined only for small chanze purposes v Tn 1875 Holland, which was full of silyer. closed its mint to the coinago of silver, thus adopting the wold standard; and in April, | t 1884, authorized the sule of 25,000,000 silver | number of states. florins whenever the state of the currency demanded it, v In Septembor, 1876, Russia prohibited tho coinagze of silver, except such as was necy i sary for the Chineso trade: v Three years later the Aust ro closod its mints to the comnge sil- | v ver for individuals, and wore recently has adopted the single gold standar by the s stand- | predecessor, & In 1300 Roumania adopted the gold ard and witndrew about £5,000,000 worth of silver coins from circulation, which were afterwards sold as bullion at a heavy loss. In the United States silver was practically domonetized nftor 153 and legally in 1 In 1575, ilver dollavs, with our cu Id, and_our stoc of gold incrcasing rapidly and wo took the first backward stopin the move: | meut of eivilized countrics from a silver to 1 gold standard. AU the itter faalono | v was thogreat absorber of sily reall tho [ s surplus silver discarded by Europs gravi | tated as naturally as water flows toward tho | ¢ sea. 1ts pe le, mostly very ignorant, exchanged tho products of their toil for silver bullion, the coins from which { answered the barbaric demand for orna ments as well us serving for o medium. of exchange, In the last thirty y ports of silver by Indin wmounted to about $1.100,000,0003 and_the enormous of that country to absorb silyer undoubted has saved “the metal from a very much | ¢ grenter depreciation than has tuken place in recent years. But India has grown tived of the absorbing process of a depr metal. Two roval commissions pointed to consider the ve evil Convenicnces resulting to Dritish from the depreciation of the gold i sil Following their re the free coinage of silver in India has beou stopped Contrary to the general fmprossion that | g silver has been the money of mote generations, it is notmany v itadopted the silver standard, money of the Hindcos was this was supplemented by silve coins remained legal tonder till 1 Siiver wis made the_solo standard and gold was domonetized. Yot large quantilies of gold have been imported there since that timo for forcign portations for the eight fiscal yeq with 1870 amounting to nearly § though gold is not & legal tend coins 40 ot circulate. 1t may be added that Holland was o ver basis from 1847 to 18i5 al Hungary from 1557 %0 1870, ars the im- | ¥ were ap- i idin e in since nt In 1518 . gold ending | 0,000,000, v ana gold a sil 1 Austria- The following recapitulation shows tho sumber of mations and peovlo who ha changed their money standard, deciding in favor of gold and” dropping out silye nd r SILVER. moro or la Scandinavis Moxico as the only 1816 | which continue to purchase silver and coin actual | country cossive | chronologic the states composing the | cemoer il ho gold standard “On the obverso ay, | printed the head of a young with each other in Docember, | extent that she of wind.* neatly-dressed woman in a flowing a-Hungavy | in enormously, | ran its erratic ance. yo ating | seo e ommendations, | 55 India from re- | us fashion in 1s bound to be de . whon | novel expericnce Juggs b XChange purposes, the im- | troubie at all.’” adopting gold as the standard 5t valuos sermany, demonetized silvor in ntains, prople : od diiver colnnge in 4 fond has filled up with gold, plo Stopped 88,000,000 silver colnage in Wled up with gold, 80,000,000 1 standard 6,000,000 ndopted Ars KO, 4,000,000 onetized siTver in 1872 Hand Peop 10,000,000 denionetized people Ta-Hunenry Iver in 1879 gold, people Rouminin, adopted gold stanaara in 1890, people Russin, stopped siiver colnage in 76 and is fling up with gold, siiver in 4,000,000 notized up with dén flling 88,000,000 o 10,000,000 tritish India, stopped silver coin age I 1898, prople. dreat Breitian, demonetizod silver in 1516 and all its colonles have followed the example, propls Total, 606,000,000 of people, vesides th: n tho United States. The late action by 3ritish India leaves tho United States and countries {n the world 0 tinto legal tender money, and Mexican sil or coinage really cuts no figure, bocay hose coins are largoly melted down by per sasure of | sons who uso them at their bullion value. The silver dotlar, which is again a disturb ng eloment in the financial prosperity of tho scems to have had & lot of troub) n its day and generation, and it 8 now g jng back at the United States treasur with alarming porsistency. Some of tho acts concerning it ara of immediate inter- st aud will bear summing up. Hero is tho 1 history of the silver dotlar Authorized to bo coined, act of Awril 2, ; weight, 416 grains; finencss, 802.4 Weight changed, act of January 18, 1837, to 1 grains, noness changed, act of January 18, 18 X Coinage discontinued, nct of February 12, &7 Total amount coined to February £3,001,238, Coinage reauthorized, a 878, Amount coined from March 1, 1875, to . ISST, 283,21 07 (including €1,- rocoined) Total amount coined 7000, 250, Tho fivst silver dollar was putin_ cireuia- ion in 1704, 1t was a crude design,’ et of February 25, to December 31, 1850, a historian. coin was 1m- lady facing 1o Hor hair was owing to such an looked us if taken ina gulo says or fuce of th he right Il he congress stepped in to the aid ot ypical damsel and tied her hair up with a bit of ribbon The fifteen stars w o the original thirte » after this reduced n in recognition of thy Tn 1536 the design was again changed, hesilver dollar bore the full tigurc of a garment. ‘he designer forgot, however, to but in thy hirtcen stars and the coin was soon called Any person now in possession of one of hese dollars has a valuable souveni T'hie new design had the lidy surrounded Tt was an improvement on its v the air of the femalo figurs was defiant‘and stiff, The dollar of 1835 was the fivst artistio of silver coined by the United States mint. On April 22, the first dollar having We Trust,” was coinod f tho trado dollarof 400 That troublesomo dc surse in just five years. In 1878 the liberty dollir mado its appear- Miss Anna W. Williams, a teacher in he s Normal school at Philadelphiz, at for the portrait, her profile beiug then onsidered the most perfect obtainable.” Ho assic features still decorato the silver poor and very | dollar. PLAUDITS IN PARAGRIPHS. as Siftin rs staund own and ro: lysician of “twenty jnve a chanco o sib 1o Courier: v Lof urun? ompany beat the audion: o first pla the town linite they teied it o=hid_you eetly sifont? hid “asked which ovor Decker was the oldest. Record: “Did I understand yo ling 1said he wis any tongu 5 a doctor. Philadelphia lis Journal: Wibblo—Tt soems so sre should be such a thing s, W i 't necossarily d right, no m A funeral ter how it 1y onducted Chicngo Int “That was a very 1 lasunight when o hed home. Ctind tho for keyholo an hour or ho was perfectly sober, and had no Somerville Jowrnl The girl aitor hat Ls W neats In fier suit She s fair t As sl trips i t. She knows sh But whit d hat? Fhiere’ A n Of the young lved in the plu 1with the sailo BROWNING, KING & COo. Lurgost Manufacturo rs an1 Rotallors ol Ulothing in thy World. This cold weather Reminds us that C and men’s light weigh prices that we are busy these times a man wa hristmas is coming, and before many weeks we one of the finest lines of new fall goods ever brought’, etc.— will be “showing you know the song. But we'll talk about that later. We now showing are some great bargains in boy’s suits at such dealing them out. nts to low In make his dollar go as far as possible and for that reason buys his suit of us because it wi Il wear longer and keep its shape better than any other and he won’t have to be spending some more get better. ing to be had. Our prices silvers before the times Long headed people buy the best cloth- many broken sizes are about half what they used to be. BROWNING, KING & CO., every evening till 6.30. Store ope saturday vl 10. |8, W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts.,