Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 19, 1893, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Edit | - il = D EVERY MORNING. PUBLISH e TERMS OF SURBSC Paily Bea cxishout sunday) nily and Sunday, One Year £1x Months. hpeh Three Months. .., Sundny Tee, Ono Year ulun{n' e, wekiy e, tailding. ner N and 20th Streets. Penrl Streot. Y iambor of Commerce. Hooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Byllding Vo reeenti Stroee. All commitnications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressea: To the Elltor, NUSINESS LETTERS. Al bustness lottors and _remittances should e addressed 1o The Bee Pubiishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 bo mada payable to the order of the com- Friew leaving the city for tho summer can have T'uR RER sent to thelr address by loaving an order at this offic THE BEER PU The ee In Chlongo. Trr DAty and SUNDAY HeR 13 on sale in Chleago nt tho following places: Palnier house, Grand I’ hotel. Auditoriu hotel. Great, Northern hotel. Gore hotel. Loland hotul. Iiies of Tiik BER can bo soen at the No- braska binlding and the Administration build g, Exposition grounds. Btate of Nebraska. County of Douglas. @eorgo 11, Tzschiick, secrotary of Tim Brr Pub- lishing _cony does sodeninly awear that the aetual efreulation of Titk DALY, [ for the week ending Avgust 12, 1893, w: Sunday, Angnst i Monday, A Tuesday, A Wednesday Thursday, Friday. Aty Baturday, A | =~A= | SWORN to {5y o AN ANTI-SMORE crusade order. is now THE lawyers ar fleld of local polit first openly in the THE shower of gold is now setting in s an antidoto to the silver tempest. THE resumption of two failed Denver banks is an indication of returning con- fidence in the very scat of the silver ordinance has let tho proper ke muisance gone into effect. Now wuthorities see that it is not willfully | violated. 3 THE attorney general has another op- portunity to add to the prestige of his career by making a vigorous fight on the bogus hond investment companies. WHEN President Cleveland contem- plates the serious possibility of a split in the democratic party he realizes more than ever that he is confronted by a con- dition and not a theory. THE fact that the national banks in the country have been compelled to de- crease their loans and discoumts $137,- 000,000 since March 4 goes a long way to explain the financial stringency. THE demoeratic state nominating pow-wow will not come off before Octo- ber. It is hoped that by thattime the distillers will be able to raise the money necessary to take their whisky out of bond. THE popuiists of Kansas are demand- ing the impeachment of Secretary Car- lisle. This is one of the indications that extreme hot weather for a long con- tinued period has a tendency to unsettle the minds of a great many people. CONGRESSM believe that the peo- ple need relief, and as they represent the peopie they have proferred to afford the required reliof by voting themselves an immediate payment of their claims for mileage. This is relief with a vim. Tne Nebraska legislature enacted a few statutes during its 1893 session, all of which have now gone into effect. Most people think they have waited long enough for the printed volume of sossion laws to appear. Why all this delay? THAT Nebraska exhibit at the World's fair has been aired through the press until it is no longer an attractive news topic. If the participants in the con- troversy will transfer their discussions to their private correspondence they will confer no small favor upon a long suffeving publio. IT 18 not fair to presume that simply because the free silver men talk the loudest that Nebraska is a free silver state. 'The men who remain at work and say but little are as equally entitled to consideration as the men who stand on the- street corners and discuss the financial question. AGITATION for a demonstration of the unemployed in New York has already resulted in riotous proceenings on the part of some of the more ignorant laborers. Itis to be hoped that.with wiser counsol such unnecessary assem- blages will be discouraged as loading to far greater evil than good. Tue democratic hopes in Towa have been materially weakened by the repub- lican declaration on the prohibition question. The lowa republicans have been manufacturing ammunition for the demoorats for s0 many years that the latter are considerably disgusted over the fact that one of their unfailing sources of supply has been cut off, SUMMING up all the odds on the wrong sido of the ledger, and giving due weight to the faets in the opposition, both Dun and Bradsureet affect to see a shade of improvement in the condition of trade. From various points thoy deduce hopeful conclusions, and argue that soon the in- dustries of the country will again be moving along in prosperity, Even the abnormal decrease in jobbing business, as shown by the bank clearings, is ac- counted for as the purely natural result of the stagnation of trade, and it is as- sumed that the slowly returning confi- dence will soon be sufficiently accelerated %o show & goodly figure on the right side. CURRENCY INFLATION. Senator Stewart of Nevada is advo- eating inflation of the currency to practically double tho present volume, urging that this is what is needed 0 raise values and therehy prosperity. There are a great many people who believe as tha Nevada sen- | ator does, the misapprohension regard- ing the relation of the maney supply to prices being very gencral. Doubt! such an inflation as the more currency people would have would produce for a time a feverish condi- tion of apparent prosperity, just as inflation did in Argentine for sev- eral years. Speculation would flourish, there would be every hand, prices of many commoditios would advance, and ithere would be on all sides the appearancos of & vigorous prosperity, 3ut this sort of thing would inevita- bly run it course, as it always has done wherever inflation has stimulated an un- natural activity, and then would come collapse and a slow and painful recov- In the general catastropho to val- ues millions would suffer disaster, and none so severely as the producers and wage earners who had experienced for a peviod what they fancied to be gennine prosperity. In the reaction certain to follow the unhealthy stimu- lus of inflation, only the speculator would have any chance to escape the ruinous consequonces. Industries would be prostrated, labor without demand, and the check put upon consumption would he disastrous to the producers. This isnota picture drawn from the imagination, but from the plain lessons of experience in the history of almost every civilized country in the world. The advocates of a practically unlim- 1ted issuo of curvency tell the producer that under such a policy he will get more for his wheat, but thoy aro not candid enough to tell him at the same time that he must also pay moro for everything he has to buy. They conjure the wage earner with the promise that he will get more money for his labor, but they omit to tell him that the advance in wages will be more than ofisct by the increasing cost of eve thing he requires, for the pay of labor never keops pace with advancing prices under inflation. Such counsellors as Senator Stewart are false and mislead- ing guides, whose advice is always safe to distrus FOR A NONT d A call has been issued for a meeting on August 30 of the members of the bar of the Fourth judicial district, compris- ing the counties of Douglas, Sarpy, Washington and Burt, to suggest suit- able porsons to fill the vacancies about to occur on the bench of this district. Three judges of the district court will have to be selected at the election this fall, while itis expected that one will be appointed by the governor before that time to supply a vacancy created by the promised resignation of one of the judges now serving. 'The proposed meeting of practicing attorneys will no doubt make recommendations as to all of these places, and for this purpose it is highly desirable that e member of the bar participate in the action which the call contemplates. THE BEE has for years insisted upon the necossity of a nonpartisan judiciary and has never hesitated to point out the evils of partisan politics on the bench. To the courts are entrusted the enforcement of the law, the protection of life and property. These are the things in which every member of the community is vitally interested, and it is of the highest importance that no onc be elevated to a position on the bench whose ability, honesty and character is not entirely above reproach. More than all others, the practicing attorneys are interested in an efficient judiciary. The judges must be chosen from among their number and they, as officers of the court, must have constant relations with them. The practicing attorneys more- over comprise, on the whole, a most representative body of men, men who can rise above party politics when the exigencies of the moment require it. 1f they but recommend as their choice for the vacant judgeships lawyers in every vespect worthy of the positions, their selection cannot fail to sceurs the sup- port of every citizen who has the in- dependence and efficiency of the courts at heart. A NEW FINANCIAL EXPHDIENT. Representative Johnson of Ohio has a new financial expedicnt which he pro- poses to submit to congress that is ve- ported to be very favorably regavded by members of the senate finance commit- tee, among them Senator Sherman, who has taken the matter under considera- tion. The plan is that the government shall convert its bonds into currency on demand, the intorest on tho bonds to be suspended during the time they do sery- ice as curvency. Mr. Johnson proposes that any one having government bonds shall be privileged to deposit them at the treasury of the United States and receive thereon their face value in treasury notes. the interest on the bonds so deposited t0 couse until redeemed by the return of the notes. The author urges in support of his plan that it woula give the coun- try atonce a much largor volume of well seeured currency, and there would be no risk on the part of the treasury, sinco the notes would be fully ured by bonds worth in the markets more than the notes, while the government would at the same time save the interest on the bonds. The savings banks, in the opinion of Mr. Johnson, would be es- pecially benefited by such a law. Being lavge holders of government bonds, which they cannot market ex- cept at a sacrifice when their dopositors are making large drafts upon them, such a plan as the Ohio congressman pro- poses would enable them to turn thei bonds at once into cash without a sacri- fice whon vressed for ready money and procure them again without any loss, except the temporary suspension of in- terest, when normal conditions returned. Its general effect would be to enlarge the volume of currency when, by hoard- ing and the breaking down of eredits, currency is in unusual demand. Insuch an exigency as we now have it is easy to see that it might be exceedingly serv- iceable. The plan has commeuded itself to st ng about | unhealthy booms on | ory roputable | THE OMAHA the favor of others besides members of the senate fnance ocommittes. The Philadelphia Press observes that there is much sense in the pro- posal, providing, as It does, a safe methnd for refunding the currency in ns like this without any risk or to the govornment or those taking out notes on government bonds. That paper suggests, however, that Mr. John- son will encounter opposition to his scheme from the populists and others “‘who will rebel at whatthey will regard loans to bondholders when their pro- | posed government loans on stored hay and corn do not receive even courteous consideration.” As a means of giving elasticity to the currency supply the plan might work well. The plan, at any rate, seems to possess sufficient merit to be worthy the attention of practical financiers. BANK CIRCULA ION If any benefit is to be derived by the country from increasing the national bank circulation congress should make haste to pass the bill introduced in the senate to allow the banks to issue notes to the par valae of the bonds deposited to secure circulation. As hneretofore stated, this proposition would, if adopted, enable the banks to add about $20,000,000 to the curremcy supply on the bonds which they now have de- posited in the treasury, and it is highly probable that it would induce the banks to increase their ecirculation to double that amount. At the time of introducing the bill Senator Voorhees sai “I'am advised by others of groat experience in financial matters that there is scarcoly a doubt but that {t will carry an increase of our currency of from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000, which at this time would be a solace and a comfort toour people in every quarter of the United States.” It would seem that a measure con- taining such a promise would be eagerly supported by the men in congress who insist that there'is not money enongh to do the business of the country, but the opposition toit has cpme from these very ons, who are actuated solely by hos- to the national banks. The spirit of this opposition was expressed in the remarks of Senator Cockrell of Missouri when the measure to allow the banks to issue more notes on their bonds was introduced. He said: *‘I wish to state that I shull never give my vote to any poliey or principle of legislation which tends to recoguize the right of the na- tional banks in the future to issue and control the paper money of this country —never, never. It is not right that the masses of the people should part with their right to control the volume of the money in the United States and place it in the hands of a corpor- ate monopoly.” Senator Cockrell is probably-in favor of restoring state bank issues as a meaws of enabling the peoplo to control the volume of money in the country, but however this may be there is no foree in his objection to the bill in question. It involves no surrender by the people of any right they possess to control the volume of currency, but simply proposes that they shall help themselves by a policy which is abso- lutely safe and which is demanded and justified by the existing financial situa- tion. As to the assertion that the na- tional banks are a corporate monopoly it is suflicient to say that nobody is ex- cluded from going into the busi- ness who can comply with the cquirements of the national bank- ing law, which it is presumed the Mis- souri senator will admit has been shown to be a very good law. It is not necessary, however, to become an advocate of the national banks in order to approve of the proposed logisla- tion. Such approval will find its ample justification in the fact that the exigency calls for the additional currency which the legislation would give the country, that the relief reasonably to be expected from it would greatly benefit all inter- ests, that it would materially assist.in restoring confidence, and that there can be no possible risk or danger in adopt- ing it. IT 18 interesting to note the many ways in which the railroads of the United States fill the courts with ligita- tion in which'their interests are affected either as plaintiffs or defendants. The policy of the railroads to fight every claim made against them for damages arvising out of contract relations or from injurios to persons or property has be- come notorious and has occasioned no end of laws suits brought by private parties. Then there are the many cases instituted by the representatives of the people or against them in con- nection with the enforcement of statutes imposing duties upon common carviers or regulating their retations to the public and t> one another. Statutes of this kind, unless they be of the seeking of the railways themselves, are seldom put into operation without a long legal coutest. Illustrations have been offered in every state where regu- lative legislation has been enacted. Last, but by no means least, are the ap- plications of the stockholders of particu- lar railways for protection against the divectors or mauagers, The appoint- ment of railway receivers was originally wsign that the road was insolvent be- yond recovery without resort to heroic remedies. Now a receiver is demanded wheneyer a stockholder imagines that a voad is being mismanaged and that his interests ave being sacvificed. A rail- way receivership nowadays signifies merely o change in management ef- fected not by the votes of the stock- holders or directors, but by an appeal to the courts. Could we but wipe off of the court dockets all litigation in which railway interests are at stuke no novel expedients would be necessary to expe- dite justice. We ARE pleased to note that our suggestions as to how all deserving ap- plicunts for instruction at the State uni- versity might be accommodated during the ensuing year havg not been en- tirely without result. The chancellor, in an open lettor to the citizens of Lin- coln, admits that the university is carry ing on its preparatory work unwil- lingly, and deprecates the fact that the funds whieh ought to be devoted ex- clusively to the work of higher educa- tion must be consumed, in part, in affording secondary education to those DAILY BEE: unprepared for- Feal university study. This;, he makataing, * cannot be charged to H#k or to those who have the difedbion of the work at the Stite university. So long as the preftatory school is main- tained they canmof logally refuse to ad- mit any who présent themselves at the proper time ang /successfully pass the usual entrance jexaminations. At the same time theéhaneellor accepts the view that thodd people of Lincoln who make nse of the university for purposes of giving theif' children a secondary education at the expense of the entire state are not sating in a particularly laudable manner. Gently smoothing over their embarrassment with the kind assurance that the vesidents of Lincoln have not taken undue advantage of the preparatory courses, he calls upon all the “wood"” people of that city “to be courteons enough and unselfish enough to make the largest possible room for those who are not so fortunate as to be able to secure zood preparatory school- ing at home.” We trust that this advice will not go unheeded by the people of Lincoln. THE fact that the Northern Pacific railway has been forced into> the hands of receivers will not have a reassuring effect upon the minds of stockholders in other great systems, The depression in railroad circles is unprecedented in the history of the country, but it is a de- prossion that results more from the con- servatism of business men than from deeper and more serious causes. This being true, the recovery is sure to be speedy and certain. AND now the dircctors of the defunct Capital National bank want all the litigation that has arvisen over its dis- astrous failure removed to the federal courts. In view of the treatment which their president received at the hands of that court, they scem to be justified in their belief that they will secure all the advantages which the technicalities of the law can allow if they can succeed in securing the removal as requested. CHICAGO people are shocked at the immodesty of some of the dances in the Midway plaisance, but their nerves are unaffeeted by the barbarous torture practiced upon the Indians in order to test their bravory. The horrible exhi- bition which was watched by thousands of morbidly curious persons is a dis- grace to the people and a blot upon the name of the fair. GOVERNOR W AMIT'E of Colorado reiter- atesthat it would be better to wade 1n blood to any depth rather than have our national libarties destroyed.” But Governor Waite wants to define those national liberties'and to include among them the so-calletl' tight to the free coin- age of silver. There's the whole rub. ————— Breath Instoad of Hread, New Yok Tribune, The democracy I3 spving the country in the cheapest possible yway—by talking. e ‘A ILikKY Tratn, Chieago Tribune. There are better Americuns in the Sand- wich rislands who. mever suw America than @ born in this' country and are drawing official salaries at Washington, e The Issue in Uhlo Clear, Pittsburg Dispatch. The issue is now squarely drawn between the foremost chambion of a protective tarift in the union and the author of the tariff re- form plank in the Chicago platform of 1 All other questions will be secondary to th one, and the republican hosts of Ohio are willing and eager to go before the people on this issue. — e An Overworked Frophecy, Chieago Inter Ocean. 1t was a little over one year ago when Grover Cleveland, now president, made the remark that “the McKinley bill ‘fosters no industry so much as that of the sheriff.” He has had time to think about it since, and no class of officials have heen more overworked than the sheriff and reccivers, and even he does not lay it to the McKinley bill. e et The Shadow and the Substance. Phila Tphia. Record. It is in Towa now as it has long been in Maine. While the prohibitionsts have their law, the other people have their liquor; so that everybody is satisfied with tho situa- tion. While the political moralist may de- plore this cynical contempt of law, there is no disputing the fact. —Instead of enforcing aprohibitory law, the tendercy of aquarian tanaticism is 1o diminish the respect for all other laws. — e An Overdoso of Catamity, Washinton Post. ‘There is soime ground for noping that we have seen the last national campaign on tho calamity is 18 reasonable to assume that both have had enough of that, at least for very many years to come, and that the country ‘will not hereafter have to listen 1o the idiotic asseveration by the republican or the aemocratic party, the case may be, that onc-half of the people are resolutely bent on chaos. L Unconaitionat Repaat Impossible, Washington Post. It is best tomeet the situation squarely and without evasion. The truth is not al- ways_ palatable; it may not be aly politic thing to make known, and yet, the country 15 confronted as it is today with a condition of extreme danger, it would seem as if the day for temporizing had passed. “The purchasing clause o the Sherman law cannot and will not be unconditionally ro- pealed. is is absolutely true so far as the Urited States senate is concerned. It is not as likely to prove_true in the house of represeuta- tives, ~ y Substautial Signx of Improvement. Washington star. Tron and steol works of magnitude which had been closed 1 Pittsburg have reopened, and more will follow thair example soon, and employment will be given to 15,000 men. The Bessemer steel works at Pucblo, Colo., con- cerning whose resumpiion of business this ar much doubt was felt, have again ro- sumed operations, giving employment to 800 men. This is done wikliout absolute knowl- cdge us to what congress will do with rofer- ence to silver or the t4gifl. The noeds of a big and healthy country demand that its en- ergies be actively employed, and while fear may cause them td halt for a short time, they are bound to redujibrate. e roper Sfilter Remody. Philadel pheg Times, Let there be free cdinage of silver dollars at say 25 to 1, with the provision that when the ssme amount of silyer in bullion is equal to the silver in coin, there shall be no cost for mintage; but that the cost of mintage shall be the precise difference betwoen the bullion and the coin value of the siiver dollar. That would be honest; it would eliminate the element of robbery from the free coin- age theory ; and with the robbery eliminated, the wading “in blood to the horse's briale" would cease to embellish the political literature of the day. Let us have froe silver colnage, but lot i be honest coinage in honest dollars without favor to any interest, and let the kovernment begin the good work of free honest coinage on the 5,000 tons of silver it has stacked around in Washington at fearful cost alike 10 the treasury and to the credit of the nation. Be sure that coinage is honest; that robbery is entively elimmated from it and then go aheaa night and day. The SATURDAY, AUGEST 19, 1893 OTHER LANDS THAN OUR: France, long held the least stabla of lands, has now for twonty-thres years stood by the ropublio. Year by yoar has soen its strength grow, its voters increase and its policy be- come more conservative. Once forend to look to the radical forces of society as its chisf prop, it has now at its sido thu church, how- ever unwilling; the army, today the strong- est in Kurope, and in the election two weeks off there is apparent the growing support of morchant, property holder and rentier. Do- mocracy.is justified of her childron. tury of oscillation has brought ropose. Twenty years ago the republic was adopted, as least.” Today the republio continues bo- cause it, and it alono, unites Frenchmen. The election soon to bo heid by which the electors of France, about 10,000,000 in num- ber, of whom not over 8,000,000 sre likely to vote, elect in B34 d'spricts of about 100,000 population each, the Chamber of Deputies, is the first in the hiswry of the ropublic in which its existence is no longer challenged by any powerful party or any vigorous faction. A scoro of years ago the opponents of the republic woro in a ma- jority. The vigorous policy of Gambotta re- duced the number of deputles in opposition to the republic to cighty-eight in the Cham- ber chosen in 1831, Their number rose in 1885 to 200 and to 211 in 1839, of whom fory- soven were Boulangists. The personal rep- resentative of such a ropublic 18 President Carnot. His term expires Docombor 2, 1804, The Chamber now elected, with the Senate already in his favor, chooses his successor. At present his only serious rival is M. Con- stans, and, under the conservative spirit now.abroad in France, even he, once radical, stands now on the same platform as Presi- dent Carnot. The French campaign is dull under these circumstances, because pros- perity, peace, order, the- reign of law and the happiness and comfort of the many, in all renlms and times, make dull history. e There are only two public men who have survived the wreckage and devastation of reputations during recent years. One is President Caraot and the other is M. Con- stans. The president was electod as a com- promise candidate with an historic name and unknown qualities. He has become the strongest loader in public life and his re- election to oftice is one ot the issues involved in the appeal to the electors. While ho has shown himself to be a capable, dignified and conservative executive, his increased prestige 1s largely the result of thedisap- vearance and humiliation of rivals. Premiers, ministers and faction ieaders have exhausted their reputations one after another. While they have do- creased, he has increased. The decline of the premiership has not been accompanied by the degradation of the presidency. The ofice has gained stead- ily in dignity and importance since the with- drawal of President Grevy, who had a mor- bid horror of personal government, and was content to be the humble instrument of the Chambers. President Carnot has not been limp and helpless, like the chairman of a Swiss bund, but has exercised commanding influence in grave crises and overned the country with sobriety and judgment. He will be a candidate for re-election next year, and his only formidable rival will be M. Constans, a leader of force and influence, who destroyed Boulangism and has escaped unscathed the havoc of reputations wrought by Panama disclosures and the vicissitudes of ministries. i o The young German emperor has his army Dill and with it the ever grave question of how to secure the funds which will meet the increased burdens it puts upon the German people. The long droutli that has prevailed very generally in Germany has caused great distress and forced the pus se of a large amount of fodder in this country, while the tariff war with Russia adds annoyances of a grave character and leaves the German peo- ple ina poor mood to meet increased tax tion. Last year there was a deficit of over $12,000,000, and the demands of this ‘e over §20,000,000 greater than those t year. The minister of finance proposes increased taxes on beer, on newspaper advertising, and, in fact, upon about everything in sight, while the importations of food stuffs threaten to deplete the stock of gold in the Reichsbanlk, which is already drawn down to about $120,- 000,000, including part of the war chest. It is apparent the German financial situation 1s fai from flattering, and the immense burden of her armament is” telling more and more upon her people every year despite their proverbial industry, frugality and thrift, It is sowing the wind with a vengeance and the whirlwind will be reaped in due’ time, The great indemnity which was wrung from Frauce in 1570 has been for nearly a quarter of a century a source of financial strength to Germany, but it is now a question of her people alone bearing the great burdens im- posca, and they feel to the full now heavy they are. Poor crops render it all the more difficult to bear up under the great load of taxation, * »e Matters appear to be going on from bad to worse in Norway, and there seems to be less prospect than ever of a4 compromise with King Oscar and with Sweden. The Storth- ing has given a practical demonstration of 1ts disapproval of the king's unconstitu- tional action in confiding the administration of the country toa Cabinot that does not pos- sess a parliamentary majority in the House, Dy o serles of measures, each one of them characterized by intense hostility to the king and to the Stockholm government. It has rofused to vote its usual quota toward the Joint diplomatic and consular expenses ; it has reduced the Norwegian contribution to the civil list of both the sovoreizn and of the heir apparent; it has withdrawn the stipend hitherto .accorded to the pro- fessor of history of the Uni- versity of Christiana, o couse- quence of the chair being held by the new winister of justice; it has ordered the re- moval of all emblems of the union witn Sweden from the Norwegian flag, and has finally decreed that henceforth the king can 1o longer issue commands o the Norwegian army, except with the consentof the Nor- wegian mimster of war and of the Norwegian counsel of state. Iu short, the Christiana legislature may be said to have voted for cntire separation and independence from Sweden. Inasmuch as the king has no con- stitutional right to dissolve the Norwegiasn Parliawent, and that it has still an existence of eighteen months to run, it is dificult to seo how the present crisis can be solved, especially when it is taken into considera- tion that any concession on the part of the king to the demands of his democratic Nor- wegian subjects would be resented by his Swedish aristocratic lieges to such an ex- tont that it might almost cause a revolution at Stockholm. ~ . Stmultaneovsly with the news of the opening of the Corinth canal comes the in- telligeuce from St. Petersburg that the Russian government has just compleved its survey of the great canal which is to con- nect the Black sea and the Azoff with the Caspian. The survey goos to show that there are no insurmountable difculties to contend with iu the coustructiou of this im- portant waterway, work upon which is to be begun at once by orders of the czar, The junction of the Black sea with the Caspian would have the effect of revolution- lzing Russia's trade with Persia, Central Asiy and Fodis, sad would tend o reduce Acon- | hiers said, because “it dividod men | l | the | munfcation with tho railrond systems of | wostorn | shoos. | husband, g the presont heavy cost of transportation by the Transcaucasian railroad. Tt is a work of considorablo magnituda, and bids fair to rival in importance and in results the great Transsiberian railrond, which s 9 place Pacific coast of Asia in direet ocom- Europe, up to the vory shores of the Atlantic. - QUL OF THE ORDINARY. . Wine clarifiers fn France use more than 80,000,000 eggs a yoar. One square foot of glass will lose as much h\;\l{- A8 six square feet of twelve-inoh brick It is computed that 70,000,000 people in Urope wear wooden shoes. About the same number would bo ghad to wear any kind of Assuming the working age to be from 20 to 60 vears, and counting only male workers, 440 persons in this country *live on the Iabor of overy 100 workers. An Oregon woman quarroled with her nd to spite him she took a dose of arsenic. Then with true feminino consis. tency she ran threo miles to a dogtor. A novel tunnel is prejocted for the Nova At St. Potersburg. 1t is to bo cylindrical in form, forty-three foot in diamoter, and to have four floors or decks for padestrians, 'V:;hh-ll‘s, cars and telegraph ocubles respec- Superstitious membors of the horse racing fraternity believe there is luck in touching the hump of a nunchback, and a down town crippte takes up his daily stand n the raco track and is gencrously tipped by sporting men, who seek the luck in his hump. A & Irish ereonback, issued by ‘‘Joh O'Mahoney, agent of the Irish Republi undor date of March 17, 1566, and payable ‘'six months after the ackaowledgment of the independence of the Irish nation,” was presented for payment in a grocery store in New York ono day last woek. The Rock Island rainmaker or one of his professional brothers can hear of something to his advantage by proceeding to tho Cat- skills. A drouth has possession of the mountains, which is without parallel, so the natives say, for severity. Mauy of the springs have dried up, and at some points water commands 50 cents a pail. The recontly published history of Hart- ford Congregationalisin gives some interest- ing glimpses of the old days. On a church list from 1670 to 1731 there are four Thank- fuls, two Deliverances, two Patieuces, n Mercy, a Charity, a Temperance, with an occasional Violet, Sybil or Millicont, and ono Magdalene. Some of the doctrinal poety of those days would seem grotesque or blas- phemous now. - e Starting Up Again. Philadelphia Record. Unquestionably the annual shut-down of industrial establishments began earlier this vear, and may continue later. Uncertainty as to the outcome of financial lerislation, in- ability to procure currency to meet pay rolls, and the natural slackening of business dur: ing the summer season, have combined to afford urgent asion’ fora suspension of operations, even had the usual annual re- pairs been unnecessary. ‘The pre of the period of idleness has been seve folt in ove de and product Wages that are not earned are spent, and tho enforced curtailment of expense by a multitnde of workingmen has ted in the lessened orders of rotail traders and in an extraordinary accumula- lllou] of stocks in the hands of wholesale dealer: It is evident, however, that this inactivity is to be of brief duration. From every quar- ter are heard ringing notes of preparation for the fall and winter season, and a glance ch day's news serves to disclose the ng fact that the peviod of suspension sed its climax. The mills ar. art- ing up avamn, and with the passing away of the foolish craze for hoarding currency their operations will be unobstructed. Further- more, they will be unvexed by dread of finan- cial legislation inimical to productive in- dustry. The record of a single day is not without mterest and significance in this regard. In the dispatches printed yesterday by the Record and other newspapers the story was briefly told of the umption of operations in_the great iron works in and adjacent to Pittsburg. By the close of the present week upward of 15,000 men will have 1med. work in this section alone, necessitating the mouthly payment of nearly 1,000,000 in wages. At Columbia, Pa., every industry but one is in suc ful operation. he two L roiling mills in the town started again terday, after two weeks of idleness Delaware Iron works, at Newcastle, Del., have also resumed work, as also have the rolling mills and tube works at McKoesport, Pa. In other b hes of industry may be notea similar evidences of u quickening of the pulses of trafic. Many of the smaller mills will begin operations again this week, and in the great textile tories activity is to be speedily renewed. The hopeful im- pulse and brighter outlook which have led to the resumption of work in the mills of the Merrimac company, at Lowell, Mass., and the starting up of the hugo combination of cotton mills owned and operated by B. B. and R. Knight of Providence, R. L, are ro- flected in all the daily records of business and in current statistics of trade. Very soon the wheels will ail be humming again. e Democratio Protoctionists. New York Sun. One passage in the speech delivered in the house last week by Hon. Richard P. Bland, the leader of the free silver forces, has a curious air. “Now you (the eastern democ- “of sustaining Ameriea against kngland, of sustaining American Industrios and Ameri. can Iaborers ngainet Eoglish industries and English laborers, or of our 1o|nl apart.'" Whatever may be the value of Mr. Bland's other arguments, his classifying silver as an American product and silver mining as an Amorican industry 10 be protected by the govornment, soems odd In a demoorat of 1808 To buy silver or to cofn It for the purpose of bonefiting parsons engagod in its production, of keeping up the profits of mino owners and the wages of miners, soems to b unconstitutional in the light of the domocratic tariff declaration of 18t Protection is a iraud and a robbery; and how can the government do that indirectly which it has not the power to do directly, or show to one American product at the mint a favoritism it has no constitutional power to show to any American product at the custom house! I racy) oan take your choice,” said Mr. Bland, - - Peofors to e Nounced. SAN Fraxcisco, Aug. 18.—~Colloctor of In- ternal Rovonuwo Johin C. Quinn, republican, who recoived a request for his resignation from Presidont Clevoland, has sent a reply that the requess fmplies a dosive on the part of the administration to avoid the disclosure of sumething unpleasant In the administra- ton of hisofiie, He, thorefore, declines o ®ive ground for illnatured criticism by re- signing, which in the future might put him on_explandtion. Quinn says that the only charee brought against him is “offensive partisanship” and that if the president wants bis oftica he can only got it by “bounc- g him." bbb Bhe Sonrclt for Gold, Philadelphia Press, The decline in the prico and demand for silver has givon a stimulus to gold prospect ing and very profitable finds are reportod both in Colorado and Nevada. This is wel- como nows. ‘Thore las been an overproduc- tion of silver. It somo of tha labor and capi- tal heretoforo oxpanded in mining silver, that is not badly wanted, is diverted to in- creasing the output of gold, which is wanted, the task which our government has assumed of maintaining these two metals on a parity will be rondered somewhat easier of accom- plishment. [ S— A Way Thoy Hnve n Kentueky. MoRaANFIELD, Ky., Aug. 18.—Charlos Wal- ton, & colored mutderor, was swung to the limb of a vree by a mob in the woods about midnight. q SRR SUGGESTING SMALES, Troy Press: In tial days such a ,tose . never troubled our manufacturers. Roston Courler: Tho chap who woars gaudy thes Is something of o neck-romancer. Balthmoro American: Some of theso banks are carrying the carly closing movement alto- gethor to fur, Philadelphin Pross: All the world's a stago and all tho numerous doctors morely ushors— both ways. Boston 1 : fully infoy v busy putting up v Philadelphia Lodger: yery strong with the 1ftod & mortgage on b summor girl 15 respect- tho summer man 18 ore marging, Mrs. Loaso has grown nulists, Sho xecently furm, Truth: quito intoxi sho smiles so ummey—Miss Kittish's bea ity Is landors—Thats becin Ause And now the telegraph y and night with the sad all of ‘tho poor misguided kite. T wiras aru woiihte and wretched t: Washington Star: “dah was or sho' nuff fool-killor, some ob ¢ folks dut calls de mos' fur lm now 'ud bo do fus’ ter git in hidin' when he com ‘round.’" ald Uncle Eben, Boston Globe: along like clockwork. the hands of a ree wound up.” mith's business Is golng “"Pooh, his place 1y In That's it, belng Iveston Ne. Clippor has beon arrestod in Tho girls whoso trosses o cut will bo presont athis trlal to upbraid him. CUPID AND MAMNO! Detrott, Free Pre When Cupid saw an aged man, contiaillionaire, : Jonversing very sottly with A maiden fajr; 1t wround another way; Because,” said ho, “I have no business fooling with folks us she; £ I'm about, 1 guess, 101 sob, THE DEACON'S DAUGHTER. Browning, Kin . « Queen of the favored pow, I eannot half roven The thoughts T have of you, With unromantic stocl. Monthly, The stamen of u pink, Dipped in n drop of dow, Would not be pen und ink Too exquisite for you. Thoe music cf the cholr Is pitched In one sw That tells of my desire, And thut of niore ke me. ot koy When roguishly you glanc At me across tho pow, Each ¢ h is a lance That’stabs me through and through, The deacon thinks your wings Are Just about Lo sprout; Well, L know other things, Bui he won't tind them dut. Dear little Mothodist, Suy one sweet prayer for me And 1shall in 1 1ia ol Of the elected be, BROWNING, KING Lurgest Manufacturers and Rotallors ol Olothing in the World The erowded .oondition In which we find ourselves preparatory to re- —< | ceiving our fall goods, compels us to offer more than ordinary induce- ments to buyers of our lighter weight suits now on hand We have gone through the suit stock and taken off from $2.50 to $7.50 on each suit, making such an extra low price that even if you do not need it now, it will pay you better than savings bank interest to pick out a suit now and put it away till spring, This is not a broken size or broken lot sale, but a nice clean stock of the finest suits ever brought to this western coun- try. rapidly taken up. BROWNING, Btore open every evenlng till 6.9). tore ope T arday il 1. If you hesitate you are lost for they will be KING & (O, |8, W, Cor. 161 and Douglas Sts.