Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 16, 1893, Page 4

1 THE DAILY BE F, ROSEWATE litor TPUBLISIED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTTION, | Dafly Bee without Sunday) One Yoear.. 8 8 00 | Dally and Sunday, One Year 10 00 Bix Months [ Months v Thre 50 Eandny Bev, One Year 00 ekly Bee, One Year e & | OFFICES, | Omaha, The Bee Building. N and arl Stre Bth Stroets. t Eouth Omah, c¢ Comncil Rinfrs, 1 Chiengo O \her of Commerce. New York, Hooms 14 and 15, Tribune Bulldin; Washington, 518 Fourteenth Stroet. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communieations relating editorinl matior should ldrossea: Fditor. WUSINESS LETTERS. ATl business lotters and remittances should e addressed 10 The Bee Publishing Company, | Omaha. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders | 0 bo mnde payable to the order of the com- | vany. Partios lenving the city for the summer can htve vk oy st 10 UhGIF Address by T0avIDg an order at this office, F PUBLISHING to nows and To the COMPA The 1300 In Chivago. Tre DAty and SUNDAY Bee Is on sale in Chieago at the following placos: Palmer | Grand Pacific hotel, Auditoriuni hotel. Great Northern hotel. Gore hotel, Leland hotel, Iiles of Ti¥ DBEE can ho soon at the Ne. braska building and the Administration build Ing, Exposition grounds. SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. te of Nebraska, | _County of Douglas, { g B, 7 of Trx BEE Pub- USHIBK compitn 1 efre LY I Augz a8 follows: Friday. At Baturday, A oK. eribd 1n st 1803 Notary Public. SWORN 10 befd my presence s | N 1 iy of A P FKIL Averago Cironlatio July, 1893, 24,268 — e THE noise of factional quarrels over democ claims to postoffices is already arising in interior Nobraski tic RuODE [SLAND republicans have been the courts. democrats vindicated by action of the sharp rebuke. The illegal deserves a SPEAKING of hard times, there's noth- {ng like an immense crop of corn, wheat and pork 1o call money from its hiding place. PREPARATIONS for the celebration of Labor day ave beginning early. A well prepared program is the fi intial of a successful demonstration. THERE is no excuse for delaying the appointment of the important commit~ tees of the house until after the silver debate has closed. Let the congress- men begin their work. SENATOR HILL is to the front with a bill to repeal the federal clection laws. The federal ¢lection supervisors make altogether too much trouble in New York to suit the Tammany chieftains. JusT because the old proverb insists that specch is silver and silence is golden, it is hardly fair to presume that all of the members of congress who are not participating in the great debate are gold bugs, Now that the railroads are econo- mizing there will doubtless be a marked diminution in the number of passes is- sued to the political strikers at the com- ing state convention. There iy a dark time ahead for the strikersin this state. DENVER ministers want the president toset asidea day for genoral prayer and fasti We thought that a large portion of Denver's population had all the fasting that they waated and wero averse to fasting longer than absolutely necessary. COMPTROLLER ECKELS has established o reputation for conservative counsel on the money question, and his opinion that the circulation of currency hitherto hoarded will soon bring relief ought to quiet the fears of all who are inclined to be “‘panicky.” THE Dbill to repeal the tax on state bank issues is fathered by the th Carolina delegation. Various other schemes, such as nullification, have emanated from South Carolina, but re- ceived littlo favor in the remainder of the United States. NO WONDER complaints are made con- cerning thoe inadequacy of the Nebraska exhibit at the World’s fair. The com- missioner general forgot to include in the display o few spocimens of that now crop of huilstones which is oxpected 0 tako the place of buse balls and hen's eggs in the near future, JUDGE JouN P. ALLISON of Sioux | City has publicly declined to allow his name to be mentioned in connection with the nomination for governor in the Towa democratic state convention, ‘We can scarcely blame the judge. Most people with common senso dislike to be sacrificed to a hopeless cause, RUMORS of still further reduced train sorvice on westorn railroads ave con- stantly increasing. If the trafiic is so anprofitablo the companies might cease | to operato the roads and forfeit the charters. Such a suggestion, however, would cause the railway officials to un- dergo a cold shudder, despite the sum- wer temporature. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is said to have intimated that he will veto a free coinage measure, no matter upon what mint ratio it is based. The president is not aceustomed to announce in advance what action he will take in certain con- tingencies, und if he has made this an- nouncement he has departed from an old and wisely established precedent. THE Congressional Kecord does not, as a rule, accept advertising matter at any price. But a little pull with some mem- ber of congress will secure the insertion of an advertisement of a metropolitan newspaper in the report of t'e daily congressional ~ proceedings. However much these papers object to advertise- ments in the form of reading notices, they entertain no scruples in having THE BERING SEA CASE The decision of the court of arbitra- tion in the Bering sen case is & substan- tial victory for the United States, al- though several of the claims which this country deemed important were not al- lowed. One of these was the claim of exclusive jurisdiotion over the sea as having been derived from the cession of Alaska to the United States, tho ns- sumption of this government being that Russia had exercised such jurisdiction with the consent of Great DBritain and therefore the right came to the United States when they obtained possession of Alaska by purchaso from TRussia. 'his seemed a plausiblo claim, but the court found that Russia had never asserted or exercised exclus- ive jurisdiction and hence the claim had no foundation. Having thus found the court might, with strict adherence to international law, have confined the jurisdiction of the United States to the three-mile limit, as contended for by the British counsel, but it scoms to have been influenced by tho broader prinei- ples advanced by the American counsel, with the result of laying down a sixty- mile protected zone arvound the seals islands and also establishing & close season to be maintained for the threo months from May 1 0 July 31 in the North Pacific ceean and Bering sea. Pelagic sealing will be allowed from August 1 outside the pro- tected zone, the use of firearms being prohibited, and these restrictions, it is believed by the American arbitrators, will put an end to pelagic sealing. With regard to the claim mado and strongly urged by our government of property right in the seals it appears to have heen measurably conceded, the protec- tion of seal lifo being left to interna- tional agreement. is It stated that the judgment of the court satisfactory to the American arbitrators and it is to be presumed that it will be so regarded by the country. Certainly there will be a feeling of relief that this long-pending controversy, which for a time threatended to seriously dis- turb the friendly relations between Great Britain and the United States, has been amicably settled and that all danger of further trouble regavding the seal fisheries has been removed. The decision plainly indicates that the court was not unmindful of the interest of mankind in the preservation of the seal fisheries, a consideration of which the American counsel made much and with manifestly good effect. The di guished lawyers who represented this country before the tribunal may well be gratitied with the result of their efforts, while the world has been given another most instructive object lesson in the value of arbitration for the settlement of the most complicated international’ controversies. IGNORING THE TARIFF PLANK, That Mr. Cleveland is believed by some of his most carnest friends and supporters to have no sympathy with the tariff plank of the demcecratic national platform is unquestionable. In an editorial referring to the nomination of Mr. Neal by the Ohio democracy, the New York: Times said: *“Mr. Cleveland was notified of his nomination at a great mass meeting of the democracy at Mad- ison Square garden on the evening of July 20 Before taking his stand upen the platform prepared for him at Chicago be deliberately kicked out of it the plank which Mr. Neal had in- serted therein.” This is foilowed by a quotation from the address of Mr. Cleveland on that cecasion, in which he said in reference to the tariff: “*We need not base our attack updn questions of constitutional permission or legislative power. * * * Oursis nota destruc- tive party. We are not at o the rights of any of our citizens. are our countrymen, We are not reck- lessly hoedless of any American inter- ests, nor will we abandon our rogard for them, but invoking the love of fairness and justico which belongs to true Americanism, and upon which our constitution rests, wo insist that no plan of tariff legislation shall be toler- ated which has for its object and pur- pose a forced contribution from the carnings and incomes of the mass of our citizens to swell direetly the accumula- tions of a favored few.” The Phila- delphin Ledger, which is perhaps moroe nearly the organ of Mr. Cle and than any other paper in the country, also in reforring to the nomination of Neal speaks of him as “the author of the tariff plank which was ignored by Cleve- land.” The New York Sun, which pe sistently urges that the democratic party must redeem the pledge garding the tarilf made in its national platform, professes to believe that the president will not disregard that pledge, and it finds warrant for this belief in the reference which Mr, Cl land made to the tariff question in hi to the extra session of congross, There are good reasons, however, for doubting the honesty of the Sun. The 0- messi > are none whatever for questioning the sincority of the other papers. They speak with unreserved candor, and one of them at least, it is safe to assumo, from an intimate knowledgoe of the tarifl views of the president. What Mr. Cleveland said in his latest mes- sage goes no further than to roitorate his devotion w taviff reform and implics no sympathy with the doc- trine that the protective principlo i ceastitutional, Thoere is not a reason- able doubt as to his disagreement with that doctrine, and such being the case theve is substantial ground for the ex- pectation that when he announces to congress the policy which he think ought to bo pursued in revising the tariff it will be found far removed from the policy contemplated by the plank of the democratic national platform, de- nouncing protection as fraud and robbery and declaring it to be unconstitutional. When the presidgnt, in his message to the extra session, admonished capitalists and wage carnors not to give way to unreasoning panio “and sacrifi property o: their interests under the influence of exaggerated fears,” he recognized the effect that uncertainty and apprehension regarding future tariit legislation was having and clearly in- tended to reassure the industrial inter- ests of the country. From all this the un- ve their heir wares noticed i this way. fair couclusion seems to be that so far | considerable 1HF ()MAHA D! | a8 tho administration is concerned thero is to bo no destructive war made against protection, and while there is a very element in the democratic party that is still piping with mo less vigor its demand that the tarifl sys- tem of 1846 shall be restored, there is good reason to helieve that the pr dent will bo able to control the situation. INVESE IN OMAHA BONDS, The bids received by the city treasurer in response to his call for proposals for $262,300 long and short time bonds, while inacertain measure disappointing, ought nevertheless to be considered as gratify- ing evidence of the city's credit. With a market overcrowded with offers of similar bonds, with a financial strin- gency unparalleled in recent yoars, with abond bearing 5 per cent interest not disposablo at figures bolow pur, the pro- posals received for nearly $100,000 of the amount offered show that Omaha has by no means sunk so low as many of her sister cities. The same number of the United States Investor, which contains the advertise- ment of the Omaha city treasurer, makes frequont mention of unsuccessful o or sie attempts to flout bonds, From it we learn that not one bid was received by the city ciork of Paterson, N.J., ro- cently for the issue of $125,000 school and city hall bonds; that only one bid was made for the $497,000 of ten-year 5 per cent waterworks bonds of Toledo, O., and that being conditional had to ve refused; that a Cleveland firm had decided not to take the bonds amounting to $35,000 which had been awarded to them by the Franklin park commis- sioners of Columbus, O.: that the city treasurer of Boston on opening nroposals for 2 $1,000,000 city loan on August 2, found but one bid, ana that for only ten of the $1,000 bonds. And the reports of unsuccessful bond financicring in smaller places ave almost legion. In view of these fucts, Omaha could hardly expeet outside firms to mako offers for herbonds at tho present time. The commendable spirit displayed by the local contractors in taking the bonds whose sale is necessary for the prosecu- tion of the work under their contracts might well be communicated to other tizons who have money to invest. 1tis a call for benevolence or philan- thropy. Omaha city bonds at par, bear- ing 5 per cent, are excellent investments. Their sale just now will enable tho work of public improvement to prd as mapped out in the early spring. per cent and local patriotism ought to bring out a few more bids from the moneyed men in our midst. not REFGRM IN MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. One of the most timely, interesting and practical of the various congresses which have so far been held in conne tion with the World's fair at Chicago was that which was devoted to the con- sideration of topics relating to local gov- ernment. To this local government con- gress contributions were made by men who had studied the questions from the standpoint of thoory and also by those who had gained their experience from active participation in municipal affairs. There seemed to be little or no differ- ence of opinion upon the proposition that our city governments are radically wrong and require renovation from the bottom up. In suggesting the remedy, however, some difliculty in uniting upon a single simple recommendation became manifest. The first essential in reforming mu- nicipal government is to know the cause of the existing defects. According to Prof. John H. Gray, the failure to establish decent municipal government in America is due to the fact that the great hody of intelligent citizens have failed to realize what their duty is and ‘to doit. The point he seeks to impre: is that reputable business men have no seruples whatever in voting for men whom they know to be unprineipled and corrupt, that as regards city affairs we have no sense of public morality, public duty or public service. President Low of Columbia college, twice elected as reform mayor of Brooklyn, expressed his views in much the same way. The one eause of bad government most deep- seated of all, said he, was that good citi- zens went to the polls and nullified each other’s votes for honest municipal gov- ernment because they differed on na- tional politics. They were partisans be- fore they were citizens. The city must be taken out of politics. To secur ity government we must have eflicient city officials. Effi- cient city officials canuot be picked up from the scum of ward politicians: they must be sought among the men who have been successful in their own pri- vate affairs. We have quite generally divorced the city election from the national election, but we have not yet reached that position where all parties vie with one another in nominating tho best men for the good of the eity. The reform in municipal government is wait- ing for the active participation of real reformers in municipal politics AMONG the numerous charges made against the 1 York police and its Tammany rulers in the recent muni- festo of Dr. Parkhurst's scciety is the following: **Saloon keepers pay for not being disturbed on Sundays. Some ar- rests have to be made, in order to keen up appearances, The rule is that there shall be sixty-seven a Sunday. The variation from that figure, up or down, has been slight since February., A b Kkeeper said a few days a; ‘It will be my turn to be arrested pretty soon. I was to have hauled up this week, but the boss arranged to haye it put off fora ccuple of menths.,! Perhaps that makes it easy to understand why it was that Tammany last winter killed the bill thut proposed to give saloon kéepers a wet Sunday. It would have cut off just 80 much opportunity for blackmail.” What has become of the New York Voice? 01 been THE disposition shown by some of the extrome advocates of free silver coinage toarouse sectional feeling cannot be too strongly condemned. The attempt of these people to arvay the west against the east will fail, but the spirit that actuates them is none the less reprehen- sible and none the less deserves public reprobation. They utterly misrepr sent the people of the west when they ATLY BFE] !WEDNEA DAY AUGURT 893, 16, assert or fimp!r\ thut there is danger of croating here ' g genoral sentiment of hostility toward-the rast because of & difference of apinion regarding financial volicy. It mag he freely admitted that there is a considerable number of west- ern poople who entertain such a feeling, but it4¢! far from being general and is for the mokt part confined to an clement of the:population which is by no means the most inflvential. Western men of substartial standing financially and commercially have no feeling of hostility to the gast, while of the masses of the people—the producers and wage enrners—the number is relatively small who entertain any sectional animosity or prejudice. As to the question of the free and unlimited coinage of silver there is not a doubt that a majority of the intelligent people of the west are opposed to the policy under existent conditions. The men who are endeav- oring to create sectional hostility ave doing their cause no gocd and they are the worst enemios of the west. IN OPPOSING the bill providing for an incroase in tho national bank circula- tion, Congressman Bryan ovidently takos ecounsel of his prejudico rather than of his judgwent. time the national At the present banking system is a part of the financial economy of the government. It cannot be abolished until an adequate substitute is provided, and until such a substitute is offered and accepted the national banking sy: tem should be encouraged to the fullest possible extent consistent with good policy. Senator Vest's bill would add many millions of dollars to the circulat- ing medium of the country within a very few weelks, and every dollar of that cur- rency would be as good as the gold with the cagles of the mint stamped upon it. THERE are many good reasons for be- lieving that the injunction proceed- ings now pending in this state, by which the operation of a law duly passed by the legislature and signed by the gov- ernor is for the time rendered in- operative and ot no benefit, will be dissolved in the interests of the people. The time has not yet ar- rvived in this country when a c¢ipora- tion can employ the courts to defeat the will of the people plainly expressed at the polls, emphasised by its representa- tives in legislature assembled and at- tested by the signature of its governor elected by a popular majority. IN REFERRING to the latest Chicago hotel holocaust the firemen say that the place was the worst kind of a fire trap and that at least some of the loss of life is due to a defect in the law by which hotels less than four stories high ma; avoid putting up fire escapes. There is no excuse in these days for allowing fire traps to stand as virtual invitations to death dealing conflagrations. There are doubtless other places equally unsafe both in Chicago’ arid other cities, and if the firemen are aware of their danger- ous condition they:should be held to ac- count in case any fatality results from their negligence. THE abuse of the injunction was hap- pily illustrated at Louisville, Ky., the other day when the two leading distil- lery companies secured an injunction vestraining the collector of internal revenue from proceeding according to law in the collection of whisky taxe which were due and unpaid on that day. The day may be approaching when the sheriff may be restrained from execut- ing & condemned eriminal or a judge en- joined from pronouncing sentonce upon a wan convicted of a crime. THE populists are not the only people who will take a hand in the independ- ent state convention Lincoln on September 5. A crowd of republican strikers ave already volun- teering their services in the work of making up the slate, and the independ- onts will be sorely handieapped unless they give the ringsters distinctly to understand that their meddlesome inter- ference will not be tolerated. which meets at EX-POLICE JUDGE JOHN R. PORTER is authority for the statement that not nearly so muny persons are arrested nor hulf ‘so many crimes committed Omaha now as in the duys. We have always m Omaha was improving commer good old early ntained that clally, in- dustrially and morally. And the im- provement promises to continue un- abated. UP 70 the present writing but one newspaper in the state has musterod up sufficient nerve to commend the action of the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings in conducting important state business behind closed doors, And that newspaper, it is unnecessary to remark, is the one which has always profited by the underhand work * done at the stato house. Ir CIT1ES are required to compete for the location of an Indian supply depot by fering site and facilities, Omaha will do as well if not better than the next. But the depot ought to be estab- lished solely with reference to the ad- vantages accruing to the government; for these Omaha is unsurpassed. THE Nebraska: congressman who studies political epdnomy in the editorial columns of his favorite hyphenated or- ganette is sure to come to grief when his figures run up against the cold truth from the Treasury department. THE millionyg n' Unmlm savings were invested in Omaba bonds thou- sands of dollars of ‘Omaha money would be annually saved to Omal tion. I o s circula- CONSIDERING the unfayorable cireum- stances, Omaha has done remarkably well in securing bids for the bonds of which it has souyht to dispose. Playing Horse. Puiladelphia Témes. It is worse than childish to dispute whose fault it is that the country is in dange danger first and settle the respou- sibility afterwards e Cuuse ¢ Trouble. New York 1imes, Nothiog could be plainer than that the closing of mines, the shutting down of mills, the running of industries on short tiwe, wud all the other iucidents ihab are throwiug labor out of smploymont aro duo to the pre- vailing apprehension about the currency In some cases tha check or stoppage of in- dustries due solely to diffficulty in raising money for paymonts, and such devicos a the use of small bank chocks or person due bills are resorted to for reliof. In other cases it is attributea to a lack of demand for goods which comos from the stagnation in business that want of confidence hus pro. duced. For months the apprehension that causes all this trouble has had one source, and that as unmistakable as the infection that produces fear of pestilence. To attribute it to something else, to a cause not in opera- tion, is as irrational as to ascribe cholera to the appearance of a comet, il Prosperous - Nebraska, Kearney Hub, It 1s a matter of note and congratulation thatso farthe manufactovies of Nebraska to close down, run oun half their help as they have done st. The Kearney cotton mill has pindle humming and the company it impossible to keep up with its he beev sugar factory at Graud Island " is making every arrangement to handle thenow crop, tho twine factory at Fremont is reported in a flourishing condi- have not had time or redu in the e tion and numerous other industrics in tho tate seem o be getting along as woll as ever. An agricultural country may havo its hardships and its drawbacks, but just now, during this general doprossion and lack'of confidence, Nebraska is not sufforing badly as the manufacturing sister statos in the east or her mining neighbors on tho west. Nebraska real estate is always good property. P - They May Regret Their Action. Howell's Journal. There is no longer any doubt that the railroads of this stato intended to fight the maximum_froight rate measuroas long as possible. They now have the caso in court, and there :no telling when a final decision will be reached. Itis notatall improbable that another legislature may convene boforo tho present law is put in force. The law is 10t in any senso_unreasonable, and it would be much better for the roads if tuey would submit to its provisions. They may suc- ceed foratime in evading its provisions, but in the end they will find that the peopls have rights that they are bound to respect. e ke e Talk Regardiess of Consequences, New York Evening Sun. In these circumstances there is only one recourse. The debato itself. While indus- tries totter and property decays we can hang upon the utterances of *Lafe” Pence of Colorado, the sophistrics of Bland of Mis- souri, the impassioned buncombe of Wheelor of Alabama and consolo ourselves with tho fervent and superfiuous homilies of all the excellent me kuow the dire situation of the country and know that repeal is the only remedy, but who recognize no peril and no catastrophe so fearful as thut of their failing to make v specch Boycott the Monger. Philadelvhia Led jer, At present there ave a great many peovlo engaeed in inventing or publishing false stories of business doprossion or in_publish- ing true stpries in such a way as to awaken sh distrust and increase the panic they fee o doplore. Whether they are acti- sive for pevsonal gain or by par- levolence_or publish disheartening tisan news under “scare” head lines merely for the of creating a ‘“scusation,” they should be regarded as public enemies. Cause for Congratulntion. Chica_o Dispatch, Sec Carlisle descrves the ry one who hong Amorican womanhood, Ho. has. fo board of lady managers to adjourn sine die by threatening to refuse to pay the vouchers for salaries. The board has been snuffed out, temporarily at least, and the wholo country will heave a sigh of relief. ————— A “rerrible Exampl Fremont, Tribune. The Fullerton Journal “mentions” Brad Slaughter for governor next year. Fullerton is modest; it already 4 congressman. Fullerton’ is many times smaller than Fro- mont and Fremont tried to get a governor and congressman, both at once, and failed. Buffalo Bill will have the preference yet awhile. —— A Burglar Leaves a Clew. St. Pawl Pioneer-Press. An_amateur burglar broke into a church in Nebraska, bored a hole in the safe, poured gunpowder in it, touched a match Lo the charge and blew himself through the church door. The police think they have a clew to the thief, as they have founi several thumbs and finges in the churchyard. e First Joke of tho cumpmign. Elmira Advertiser.s The democrats of Ohio have nominated a man by the name of Neal to run as governor against Major McKinley, the republican nominee. There is a prophee; name. 'lhedemocrats are but in November they will be trate. S — One Flourishing Business. o York Tritune, The “green goods” business doos pear to have been seriously interfered with as yot by the financial stringency from whith the country is suffering. And the crop of gullible persons who would be rich by dishonest means is percunial. not ap- e Uncertalnty Checks Confid Philadelphia 1iguire, The country demands repeal and prompt repeal, The mation is in no condition to stand trifling. The house has got to worlk The senate should understand that action is expected of it. 1t is uncertainty that kills S CBRASKA AND NEBRASKAN nee, Fire in the new brick Rapids did #00 worth of da Attempts 1o build a new ele bave collapsed, at least for the | Mrs. Hubert Reed, a well & of Boone county, died last we sult of cancer. The corner stone of the United Workmen templo been laid with impressive coremonios. L. W. Hastings bas leased the Aurora Republican to 1, P. Wilcox and W. . Hellings, both experienced newspaper men venteen-year-old James Johnson aud Alice Goldsuiith, aged 18, cloped from Osce ola, and theiv relatives have failed to sccure any trace of them. Everything has been arranged for tho reunion of the Ploneers and Old Settlers association of Dakota county at Crystal luke on the 81sv inst, A beastial fellow named J wiven teniminutes to lenv of enraged citizens of time with o fast team. 1. C. Van Trump, & prominent Grand Army of the Republic man, died at Enfleld, Groe- ley county, aged 40, Ho was a4 member of company G, Fourth Towa regiment. A very mild_cyclone visited Vi sout a few things flying theouzh only fatalities reported were dence ot Mrs. Harrison, wher five hogs were killed, T'he Boone county independents will hold two conventious this year—on August 81 und September 25, The former is to elecy dele giles to the state convention and the latter to put in nomination candidates for county oftices. A correspondent at Hastings writes Tue Ber: ~On Saturday, August 12, Seotion Foreman James Muliany, together with five yard age. at Cedar at Genoa ent »wvn resident I as the re Ancient Order of at McCook has H. Wilson was town by a crowd Kenesaw. He left on ley and he air, buy U the resi cow and a men, were working on the scction on the B & M. railroad four miles cust of this city, when they encountered u huge snake, evi- dently of the blacksnake variety. crawling across the tracks, thesuake being a littlo over five fect in length and at lcast tive inchies in diaweter, Mr. Mullany a to kill the snake, while his wen fled in con sternation in all directions. He tried in vain Lo approach the reptile, which showed fight and emitied o hissing souud; out finally, securing a large wrench, he threw 1t and struck the snake squarely and laid the monster low. His men approaching and , thinking the repule rather corpulent the blacksnake species, decided to cut it open, which they did, when lo! a sight met their gaze never to be forgotien. Number- less small snakes oue foot iu length com wenced to dart their tongues out and crawl off in all directions, which the men dis- patchied. In counting them they found ro were no less than seventy-five of the all reptiles they had killed. “Their added cugth, combiued with that of the mother wakes ® total of eighty feet of snake killed. WPUSIEDEM CLOUDS AWAY. New York Sun: Present indications tho incroase in the volume of cire tion this month will bo unparalieled in history of tho country Globe-Democrat: This Will bo a good weok also for gold importation. Betwo 000 andd $12,000,000 of the yellow this momeni on the way to States. Kansas City Star: As theé outflow of gold from the Cnited States was tho origin of the distrust fn inancial circles, the change in the movement of the yellow metal ought to create a promptrovival of confidence, appears to be a plain application of tho aw of causs and of Minneapolis lnhuuu‘ Tho financial cloud of the past ninety days has now taken on a old lning of deep and radiant hue. The fold arrivils of the past woek from London, Paris and Berlin roso to nearly $14,000,000 and there is stll a good substantial Yolumo of gold afloat for our shores with every pros- pect that the yellow metal will increase with the increase of home and foreign confidence in our finances and securitios and with the export of the fall crop. Philadelphia Record: With the introdue- tion into_the ciroulating medium of an ad- aitionat £,000,000 in gold coin, of the lower denominations, which is to bo struck off at the mint in this city. the use'of gold for cur- rent payments and the demands of retail trade may be considerably incroased. The treasury has on hand a considerable stock of gold bullion which might bo advanta- geously coned and brought_ into general use. The yellow metal should be as familiar to the public eye as any other form of legal tender money, Chicago Inter Ocean terday contained numerous reports i regard to industrics. A fow additional shut downs were reported, but they did not amount to much as ecompared with the resumptions, Tho nco was largely on the right side of the industrial ledger. This affords grounds for hope that the worst is over. F'he most important announcement was to the effect that the great strike of coal minors in Kan- sns isover. It began May 19 and fnvolved 1o less than 10,000 men,a population pre- sumably of 50,000 Itis'expected that the details of the adjustment wili be concluded this week. Ten thousand men idle about three months means great loss and hard- ship. Perhaps the most notable labor news is the announcemont that the strike at th Carnegio works has been adjusted, Thet is some lowering of wages roported, but ) the motal is at the United The press of yes: more payment by check or some form of paper not likely to be hid away ina stocking Tho contraction of the currency by such sequestration tends to the shortening of tho discount lines necessary to the continuance of operations in mills and other lines of lubor. 1t is a hoefal sign of tho times that steps are beine taken to countoract and offset this pernicious distrust. T ND THING: PEOE The golden stroam is flowing hither. may be havpy yet, you be A toast to the Blue Grass state: all its faults, wo love it still.” The ratio of sease to populist wind 1s bo- youd tlie reach of congressional cnactment. As well try to plug the new postoftice spring as to attempt to check the flow of silver We “With The perversity of human nature is a hown painful want_of contid, Mr. nd’s fish storics. A man named Constant Agony died New York the other aay. probably a base ball umpire. A French bug sharp discovered millions of microbes in paper money, but that will not slacien the pace for the filthy. ~ The patriotic devotion to silver in Kansas uch that a l0-cent piece was found rded in the eraw of a rooster at Topoka. Ik about the conspiracy of 18731 That “erime’ is a victuo compared with the de monetization of wampum, the original Ame ican money. The full name and title of the Indian prince who is visiting us _is Muharaja Sir Waghiji Thokore, sahtb of Morva. Tho title came ii sections. The sporting editor will be pleased to r ceive briof reports of ihe doings of the soda fountam sports. They properly belong to the fizztic profession. “The author of “Daddy Wouldn't Buy Mo a Bowwow” is locked up m New York on a charge of chronic alcoholism. Retribution is slow of pace, but deadly in exeeution. sorge Gould, on returning from Kurope a days ago, declared he would find it dinicult” to 1aise £10,000.000, Aftor thinking the matter over ho discovered a remed. A cut of 10 per cent on the wages of Missour! Pacific employes was ordered, Worthy son ay! working ice in in In life he was ratio of harmony between ew York is a present impossi- a pictorial Chicago porker off the h. Who vk for retaliatin s resignation, that ho east wine,” Kicked th blame Nuw Yo anent the Thom pearls befor 1ditor Lafe Young of the Des Moines Cap- ital wants to bo governor of Iowa, and he doesn’t hesitate 1o say s0. In his paper he malces this simple announcement: To tho Republicans of Towa: The editor of tho lowa Capital is s candidato for governor und solicits your suppor Wost v Spartanlik papers _are praising mayor of Shepherdstown, that state, who fined himself the other day because he had allowed nhis cow to run ot large, in violation of local ordinances, but they f1il to state waether the mayor's fines are his personal porquisi te Tht late *Tom” Moss of Missouri, known throughout the west s & succ the m well s ful BROWN! Lurgest Manutacta Cur-tailed — done by that we d benefit of children’s the price more money, but thes School caps curtailed to 5 the same price. We don oom for other goods. rchance to get a cheap curtailed. BROWNING, Btore open every evening tiil 6.3 Suturdyy Uil 10 1 $10,000,« ol Clothing In the World. The cur-tailing here depicted was probably tailing expenses, boys’ suits. ~We start the greatest mark down sale of the age in our suits down to $2, and a lot of others down Lo $3.50 that are all wool and in ages 4 to 14. Boys' long-pant school suits, 13 to 18 years, cur- tailed down to $5, $6.50 and $7.50. in the price of our boys' neckwear; in fact, we have curtailed the price on every single thing in the boys' department to get 8. contractor, was only 35 year of his death, but he had A ol at the time omplished mora ‘o | than most men of twice his age, for ho was president of two railroads, two steamboat lines and a construction company and was worth $1,000.000. o bogan lifo s humbly a8 a typical president, working on a farm for his board Senator Jo Mlackburn of Kentucky ap- peared at the opening of the session in a shirt of pinkish hue, tie of & delicate mauye, and the cont, trousers and vest wero of & beautiful ice cream color that shone amd the black-conted southorners about him like | o singlo star pinned upon the bosom of the night. Barnes Grooloy, thoonly suryiy ing brother of Horaco Greeley. lives, at the aga of 19 years, on the old Greeley homestead at Chappaqua. e is described by a recent Iady visitor as tall, loosoly jointed, sham- bling of gait, with soowy hair and board, mild bluo eyes, peaceful visage and a tongue that is the nearest approach to por- potusl motion yot discovered. - Prohibition Must Be Settle: Cedar Rapids (la.) Gazette, Any offort on the part of the republican state convention to shift the issue will bo fruitless o than fruitless. The men are al clectod who wust settle the financo and’ tarifl questions and the first will without doubt bo settled before tho date of our state election. But the prohi- bition question must be settiod and the men 1o do the work are yet w be elected. - A Thne to Rejolo Fairbury Enterpris The farmers of Nebraska have no good grounds for complaints on prices obtained for the products of the farm during the past y 1ay alone sold on tho stroats of Kair- for fully one-half, if nov and would soll for. When a man can realize ono-half of Lis investment tho first season he should not complain, ——— Work and Vote Right. New York Tribune. Adyico to republicans in congross: the democrats do all the quarreling and most of the talking, but be sure to vote right yoursolves on the question of repeal. i e ANAPEY SAVINGS. Lot Washing have alre don. n Post: The Buzzard's ly exporlenced a retu flsh L of bontls Roston Transeript: 1t Is meet that breach of prowmlise cases should bo heard in a court house. Yonkers St reck sty atosman o many churche aman's standing in the cliurch by his o Washington Sta the fright- en young ma who h ntered some westorn rond agents, “Is_positively my list APPEATANCO O (Y SLago. Boston Herald gold 15 your mi Sixteen of silver and one ot \ o thit deserves a place only in "Ratio. Philadelphia Recor prisoner's name? M He's a Russtan, and What's the sistrato- 1 don't know. here's his name written out by himself; what do you think it looks like? Reporter (studying =Lt looks to we like an alphabotical delivium, Reporter Clothier and Furnishert hear you have pds with i party on y Tuck? 1should Say so. Bunker—Tello, old been up in the Maino hunting exvedition. W Did you have i il Dot. 1 won $50 on ono Jack An Ohio m duction of persous. ladelphin Lodgor: fuctory fort shos of eren o urn u good d Jour i stood e sleepy. Tndianapolis J Mrs, Watts—Good- ness! Aron't. you afraid you will ruln ar digestion by cating atso rapid a rate? ou ought 1o eat more slowly. Hungry Higglns— 1 may not eat slow, mum, but Leat mighty seldom. n has put ases Lo hold Ho must ex- groatidlot ot rl that you I 1o ) “Oh, sho Tlieant that Kant always mado mo ors' Bazar: “Yon make a You told that on I with ' Chicago Inter Ocoan Mr. Sweotly. ! pieturo looks much olider than your slsior. Younger Sister—I guess it is, forsho's suveral yours younger than Whon tht was takon, This THE COMMC New York From forges where no fires burn, Erom mills where wheels no longer turn, From looms o'er which no shuttle: . i merchints” shops—which sherlffs keep, m 1o up, from stoe o down, From God 1o country, man-made town, Erom Wall strect men, from sons of toll, om the bronzed tillers of the soll, I From north, from s h, from east, fr Business is erying with o zest— “Don't monkey with the tarif.” MELON 1N 111 m west, THE 2 WELL Atlanta Covstitution, Tho folks keop cool in Billvillo, blessod man Has got a linen duste An’ whon the weith tor aspell, Phey Jes' mivke'the acqualntance of tho molon fn'the wellt For the coolest dew that ever On the pantin' Hlies toll I\lllll\nlnln to the melon— melon in the well, for every and a big pulmetto fan rilos e and biles "¢ The folks keep cool In Billvillo; nono of ‘em dress in style ch more br down In a niile in @ race with s you'd tell, Chey bent 1t ali to flinders to the melon In the woll e An' in & minuto than you'd ran nshine, heap quicker than Jlest hroeze th ho dihiras in hin' (o the mel melon in the well NG, KING rors an | Rotallers vor lell a boy, and the curtailing o this week is done forthe a boy. We are not cur- but curtailing department, curtailing of about 150 boys' Some others for e three are the dandies, Oc and up, and shirt waists e a whole lot of curtailing underwear, hosiery ‘and Now, boys, now is your outfit while the price is KING & CO. W, Cor. 161 and Donglas Sts. )