Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1893, Page 4

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At Lincoln close connections are made with trains south and westbound, which makes it practicable for Tue BEE to cover a vast territory witha completo newspaner. Heretofore wo have been compelled to go to press at & much earlier hour thun s now done under tho now arrangement. The superiority of Tine Ber's telegraphic news is conceded throughout the west. Its special cable nows, unrivalad vress dis- patehes and its special telegraphic service from every important point have gained for this paper an enviable reputation not alono confined to this state. With improved facilities for roaching ihe people at a seasonable hour by Tire Bu spe- cial newspaper train, there can be no doubt that our patrons will continue to show their appreciation of newspaper enterprise. THE Ttulians are trying hard to show the world that they are equally as hot- headed as the French. ‘WHEN stuck watering is to be taken into consideration, all the railroads of Nebraska are to be found in the same box. DENVER comes forward with an offer of provisions to relicve the unemployed of New York City. This is a considerable advance over mere incendiary talk. IN VIEW of the many alarming rumors concerning the president’s health, an official statement of his condition is something to which the public has be- come entitled It 18 now said that the World's fair directors want Theodore Thomas to come back to his old position. We thought all parties concerned had had enough of the former arrangements. CARTER HARRISON evidently repudi- ates the idea that marriage is a failure. Carter belioves in setting a good ex- ample to the unmarried men of Chicago, even though he has to take a third wifo in order to do so. THERE arc a few more Omaha city bonds in blocks of $160 and upwards still 10 be had. Here is an opportunity to re- turn hoarded money to circulation, to make a good investment and to bo patri- otic at the same time. THE Omaha Board of Trade should spare no offorts to induce oxcursions of western business men passing through this city on their way to the fair to stop over and inspect what we have to offer 1n the line of trade and industry. THE long debate over the home rule bill in the House of Commons will come to an end tomorrow. The measure's successful passage through the Com- mons is assured, but it will, no doubt, be decently interred in the House of Lords. THE State Banking board is beginning to stir up the bogus bond swindies that are gperating on the gulliblo investors of this stato. In their efforts they de- serve the encouragement of all who are opposed 10 the development of gambling manias. FINANCIAL disasters throughout the business world do not prevent the Com- mercial elub from exerting itself to se- cure the location of additional indus- tries in this city. Commissioner Utt re- ports that he has mot with success in his negotiations with one manufacturer. His efforts should receive general en- eouragement, IT WAS cruel in the press dispatches o compare the audience which listened to Senator Voorhees' speech to the crowds which were wont to be attracted by the magnetic eloquence of Ingalls. Ingalls never drew a more erowded floor snd gallery than when, in his famous speech on the president’s message, he lashed the Indiana senator and taunted bim with bis war record. That little event cannot but cause painful recollee- tions to arise in Senator Voorhees' mind. NOIES A THIRD TIME. In placing the name of Governor Boies once more at the hoad of their state ticket tho domoorats of Towa at once discredit the sincerity of the utter- ances of their own nominoe concerning the advisability of third term nomina- tions and also make a confession of weakness which they evidently fear may imperil their success. They dis- credit the sincerity of the utterancoes of their nominoe because he has taken pains to assert his uncompromising hostility t> & sccond renomina- tion. Just three wecks ago Gov- ernor Boles announced in & pub- lic lettor that he would no longor consent to the continued use of his name in connection with such nomination. It may bo well to recall his' own words upon this subject, ‘I am conscientiously opposed,” said he, ‘‘to third terms in an offico so important as that ot gov- ernor of a great state, and in this view the unbroken precodents of all political parties in our state teach that my views aro in substantial accord with those of the masses of all our people. To ignore those precedents and violate this almost universal sentiment would in my judg- ment bo seriously detrimental to the best interests of the democratic party.” If the prediction of Governor Boios is based upon a sound interprotu- tion of the facts, his second renomination cannot but bo seriously detrimental to the best interests of his party. Towa democrats have made a con- fession of weakness in that the nomina- tion of Governor Boies in the face of his emphatic declination signifies that their party can furnish no other man who has the slightest chances of success. Like a drowning man grasping at a straw, they insist that one man only can possi- bly save them from defeat, and this in itself presages a fear of defeat. On national issues Jowa went republican at the last presidential clection. Relieved of its prohibition burden, the republican party will more than hold its own in the forthcoming contest. THE AUTHORITIES ACT. The banking department of Nebraska has taken decisive steps on a question of vital importance to the people. It has branded as swindles the so-called bond investment concerns, and proposes to prosecute vigorously the promoters and agents of financial bubbles. After a thorough investigation of bond schemes, the department sustains the conclusions of Tii BEE, and denounces the schemos in emphatic terms. It declares that “the so-called bond investment com- panies ave transacting business in the state in violation of law,” and further, that they *are illegitimate and swin- dling concerns which take the money of our people and make no return there- for.” These plain words have but one mean- ing, and that is that bond companies must conform to existing law or suffer the consequences. Clearly their pro- moters cannot continue a system of bogus banking, pronounced and demon- strated vo be a gigantic swindle, with- out incurring the penalties imposed for violation of law. The action of the department brings to light another important fact. Bond companies attempt to refute charges made against them by asserting that the system combines the best featares of life insurance and buiiding and loan associ- ations. Nebraska has enacted laws regulating insurance companies, build- ing und loan associations and banking. These laws are much more liberal than like laws in older siates. Yet theydo not afford a warrant fov bond companies which pretend to operate under systems governed by these laws. On the con- trary, the banking department has ro- jected every application of bond com- Ppanies for authority to transact business in the state. Good results from the department’s proclamation may be insured by the co- operation of other states. Missouri, Kansas and Massachusetts and the fed- eral authorities of Colorado are invok- ing the law against lotteries and swindles. Nebraska follows with com- mendable promptitude. If the officials of Iowa will now do their duty the western statos will avi the calamitous operations of bond concerns as demon- strated in Massachusetts, and sat forth by Deputy Commissioner of Insurance Smith in these warning words: The net results then are the ruin of thou- sands of poor families, a general demor- alization and distrust of all fraternal and mutual Beneficiary institutions, the encouragement of a pernicious gambling spirit, four of the promoters serviu terms in the penituntiary, and o score | of others fugitives from justi MEN. As announced a few days ago, the more extreme silver men in the senate, in their determination to leave nothing undone to prevent repeal, propose to utilize to the utmost tho filibustering tacties which the so-called *‘courtesies’ of the scnate permit to delay action, hoping in that way to defeat rep Ror this purpose they will use th to allow tho nationul banks to iss reney to the par valueot bndsdeposite to secure civenlation, offering all sorvs of amendments in order to supply tar- gots at which to diveet their speech. An examplo of thisis the amendment of Sen- ator Cockrell providing for tho P tion of such 2 por cent bonds as may be offered and for payment in a new issue of troasury notes, This proposi- tion has no relation whatever to the question of allowing the banks to issue notes tothe face value of bonds, and when its author was called up:m to ex- plain what he hoped to accomplish by it he could say nothing that was satis- factory to any rationsl mind. His only plea in suppory of the proposition was that the people want more currency and this would cnable them to get it, but, as was pertinently asked by a senator, why stop at the 2 per cent bonds, amounting to $25,000,000? Why not pay the whole debt, #400,000,000 or $500,000,000, by a practically unlimited issue of our demand noto: The fact is, the mis- souri senator knew it was simply a de- vice for complicating the discussion and securing delay. Men of all parties agree that theve is no valid objection to sllowing the na- tional banks to issue ourrency to the face value of their collateral. The pro- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; THURSDAY, AUG UST 24, 1893, vision limiting the issue of notes to 90 per cont of the par value of the bonds was judicious when the national bank- ing law was enacted thirty years ago, because then and for some time after the bonds of the government sold balow par, reducing the quotations to a go'd basls. It was a prudent and reasonable restriction, but since bonds have been selling above par it is entirely unneces- sary. The security is absolute and every- body knows it to be 0. As to this there is and can be no debate or difference of opinion. 1t is also true that the adop- tion of the proposed legislation would give the country at once about $20,000,- 000 and at no very remote time would add perhaps double that amount to the circulation. The country urgently noods the currency and it is not questioned that if it were provided it would have a most wholesome effect in helping to the restoration of confidence. Yet the silver senators, fully aware of all this, will not allow this relief to be promptly given to the people when it can be of the greatest servico to them, because they can usn this question to block the way to action on the proposal to stop the purchase of silver by the government. The country will take note of the desperate character of the contest which the advocates of the free coinuge of silvor are carrying on. In its distress, in its extremity, these men refuse to give it any relief, actuated by a reckless determination to defeat the demand of a majority of the people for a change of financial policy which they believe to be absolutely essential to the maintenance of a sound and stable currency. There is some encouragement in the thought that the course of the radical silver sen- ators indicates that they have not now the strength which they had when con- gress met. GUARDED STATE BANK ISSUES, Senator Voorhees, chairman of the senate committee on finance, who ap- pears to represent the administration so far as the pending financial question is concerned, said in his speceh Tuesday that he favored a guarded issue of ecur- rency by state banks. This is likely to be regarded as indicating that tho president is not unfavorable to state ban suing notes if they can be kept on aspecic basis and the note holders adequately protected, and, of course, if it be practicable to supply and main- tain these conditions nobody could rea- sonably object to such a curren The whole ground of objection is that with forty-four states granting authority to banks to issue notes it would be prac- tically impossible to maintain these issues on a specie basis and give abso- lute security to note holders. Doubtless at first ample safeguards would be pro- vided, but the danger is that gradually these would bo abandoned in many of the states, resulting in time in flooding the country with a mass of worthless currency, from the circulation of which the classes of the people who could not protect themselves against such a cur- rency would suffer. Senator Voorhees did not suggest any plan for guarding state bank issues, but it i8 to bo presumed that he has one. Other advocates of this policy have suggested various plans, some of them undoubtedly sufficient to secure a sound state bank currency if they could be adhered to. Tn the houso of repre- sentatives a few days ago a Now Jersey member suggested that insteal of re- pealing the tax in state bank issues absolutely it should be provided hat when banks of any state gave sceurity for their circulation to the satisfaction of the comptroller of the curreney, and it was duly certified and approved by him, thesecretary of the treasury should be empowered and directed to cause to be paid a rebate of 85 per cent of the 10 per cent tax, thus placing the state banks on a level as to taxation with the national banks. Possibly a plan of this kind would work, but as the security of such banks would be mainly, or altogether, state, county and munici- pal bonds, the task of determining their value as security, which would vary in different states, would be no easy one. Besides, it is questionable whether a plan of this kind, admitting it to be practicable, would be allowed to stand. The influence of the state banks would be likely to bring about its abandon- ment, s0 that they might have the privi- lege of issuing notes entirely free from any sort of federal supervision. The people who want state bank issues re- stored are not favorable to the general government having anything to do with the control or regulation of such issues. They hold it to be a right of the states which should not be interfered with, As yet the advocates of & restoration of state bank issues have offered no argument that would justify congress in vepealing the 10 per cent tax. Their assumption that a state bank currency would be cavefully and amply guarded by state laws i not convinecing or satisfactory. It may be granted that this would be done by some of the states, but thore canbs noassurance thatail of them would doso, and the i only wise and safe eourse is to maintain the tax until there are bat reasons and a more obvious necessity than now exist for having reeourse to a state bank cur- rency. Meanwhile, it seems a fair infer ence that Senator Voornees in express- ing himself as in favor of state bank issues had full knowledgo that he was in harmoeny with the administration. ONE of the most recent announce- ments of a panacea for financial depres- sion comes from Henry George, but Mr. George's remedy is none other than his old stand-by, the single taux on land values. According to his explanation, the whole troable arises from the fact that all advanco and improvement add to the value of land and that under a regime in which we allow the ownors of land to appropriaie this result of the gen- eral growth the advance is diseounted by speculators. Land,” says Mr, Geaorge, “is held from use and held at a higher price thau it will yield at pros- ont, in the expectation of a future in- crease. The advance in land values finally reaches a point at which labor and capital cannot profitably engage in production. There is a checking of pro- duction, which, on the other side, is a checking of the demand for commodities and services. Finally comes some- thing which acts a8 a shock to crodit and ¢he fictitious valucs that have been created col ajse. All this accoils ‘very nicely with the well known dagegiption of the phenom- ena which accompany a crisis, but as an explanation ofi#Re cause it is woefully lacking. Whenee comes this some- thing which acigas a shock to eredit?” It is that ‘‘something” outside of mere speculation timtiidemoralizes the busi- ness of the community while the specu- lation to whicl1§%puts a stop is current in many fields”8ther than those con- nected with lafd’ values, No defect in the present industrial organization of society ever comes to the surface but what the single tax, socialism and a hundred other isms are immediately ad- vanced, cach as the onme all-curing remedy. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND doubtless in- tends to maintain the closost supervision over the work of tariff revision. This has been apparent for some time and the substitution of a southerner for Mr. Springer at tho head of the ways and means committee furnishesanadditional proof. GENERAL BROOKE commends tho work of the Indian companies which have been incorporated into the standing army of the United States. He has had no little experience with Indian troops and his opinion should go far in bearing against the proposal for their disband- ment. — “LET us stick to the moaey under which the nation has prospered for ninety years,” cries an enthusiastic 16 to 11free silver coinage man. Yes, but when the nation no longer continues to pros- per on account of altered conditions, why cling to the sinking ship? An 0us Comparison, New York World, The people of the United States are not propared to tolerate a senate that boasts of its similarity to the House of Lords. —————— A Vit One. Glbe-Demoerat. The conclusive objection to prohibition | Towa, as elsewhere, is tnat it hurts the r publican sparty more than it helps the tem- perance cause. ——— Fuil Logal Tender. Stockiam, Neb, Aug. 22.—To the Editer of Tue Bre: 1s the silver dollar a full legal tender for any amount or is tho amount limi ? D. Ans.—1It is a full legal tonder. ————— That's the Talk. Tecumsch Chieftain, There are quite a_goodly number of manu- facturing industries. already establishea in Nebraska and if the people would be partic- ular about buying home made goods there would soon be many more. Factories as well as farms are.nceded to produce the highest degree of prosperity S S Where the Chicken Got the Ax. Gerig Courier, One old, blind veterin has had his princely income of $12 per motith suspended. He is Wil n Mcintosh of post No. 285, Grand Army of the Republic, of Arcadia. Serves him right, he ought to have stolen cotton instead of lugging a nifisket around through Georgia shooting at rebels. This cannot be charged upas a reptiblican lie, as the Arcadia Courier, which prints the staiement is edited by a democrat. — The Millennium: Fits Too Quick, Philadelphia Inquirer. Prophesies of the aporoach of the. millen- nium have been made over and over acain. Most people, if they woreto -rely on the evi- dence: of their, senses, would not be aware that one millennium prophesied has arrived thedemocratic millennium. Nevertheless, it is around and about us everywhere. Its chief trounle is that it fits everybody, from flnancier to day laborer, most uncommonly and uncomfortably close. 000 state and 0 privute banks in_the’ Umted States, a 3 somewhat diminished since May by uspensions and insol vencies, but still in 7.800, scveral suspended banks having, s ion, resumed. “The gross depos | banks of the United States amount to $1,500.000,000; in state banks to #050,000,000, i Vi banks to £100,000,000, & tof The gross per cent gres equal to about 60 per cent of all the gold coin in the world. ————— 3o Reasonnble, Burt County Herald, . Some of our dear ropublican brethren re- fuse to yield a single concession on the non- partisan question and are obstinate in their partisan position. They seem to_think they havo the power and will “take all_they can v keen all they get.” It never was the de- sire of the Horald todoprive them of a parti- sun power except in courts and where partisan politics should never and then we did not ask for our par single thing. Conservative and sensible men of all parties have approved of the wis- dom of thus selecting these candidates, and it is only selfish spoilsmen who interpose ob- jections. Republicans are not yet out of the woods, We would admonish” them to be reasonable, Chicago Tribune. Senator Manderson is one of thoso well proparod men who always have in readiness achunk of statistics with which to knovk down his populist colleague, Allen, when- ever the latter gets to frothing fiat at the mouth, The other day Allen asserted. with great solemnity, that “uine-tenths of the People of Nebraska were unalterably op- posed to anything looking to the perpotui- tion of the nationol banking system.” There- fore he was opposed to allowing them to issue notes to the face value of len“huln sl bonds, but wanted to confiscate the interest on sid bonds. Senator Manderson replied that the last report of the comptroljer of the curr showed that there wepe in Nebraska national binks, with paid up capital of $10,000,000 and deposi #20,000,000. The couclusion is pluin. L gine-tenths of the vo unalterhbl¥ opposed” 1o ua- anks Lhat opps on would manifest f in fewer nutiondkianks and swaller cposits in them. A Dangurous Qogsolidation, r‘h.’nuufi":“ru ae. It is reported from Paul that & move- ment 15 on foot to consofidate the Norther Pacitic ana Groat Norihiern vaironds, whici cover pravticaliy the whglo uorthwost It is allogod that vhis will 'he urged “on the ground of cconomy of opération.” Such a pretext undoyiAdly will be put for- ward if the report of ihe' desire to amalga mate 1s true. But it Mvj§ wov be the re reason, which will bo_the desire to oblite ate competition in Mgntana, Washington and North Dakota, #hd, in the northern parts of Oregon, Idilo and Minnesota Tne aim of consolidation would be to put the pzople -of those states and parts of states in a_position where they would have to pay whatever freight aud passenger rates wore demanded or do without railroad facilities. Competition being wiped out, the rosds would impose rates which would give them tho largest revenue in rewurn for the least service “They would ascertain, levy and collect the highest tax which tho people could pay. They would exact all the I bLusiness would erefore, if the veople of the states d wbove have any regard for she intoresis thoy will lpft up thelr vol st any such consolidation as that r forred to. There is a great 1o0-do at this ow woment in Montana over what the state is losiuz by vhe depression of ihe silver mining industry. Mountana will suffer far more and more generally if 1L allows railroad competi- tion within its limits o ccase aud becomes the prey of a cousolidated system. CURRENCY COMMENT. Washington Nows: When Colorado_con- gregations consolidato ana dismiss all the proachers but ome in a town. it is time for the clergy to ride in blood up 1o the horse's bridle. Globe:Democrat : does look that wa, into the countr; “The worst is over!" It Gold keops on flowing mills and banks aro resum ing operations and confidence seems to be returning. Now if this financial question was settled we could say that the “panic” of 1809 was only a reminfsconce, Globe-Democrat: The gold imports are beginning to bo reflected in the condition of the New York banks. The jncreaso in the os of those institutions last week, ch was due to this cause, will undoubt edly be continued this wook. and tho situa- tion accordiagly will be improved. Philadelvhia North American: According to nowspaper dispatches congress is full of ‘tysung men with a rondy flow of language and a quickness of opinion.” Perhaps if the “language” wasn't quite as ready to fow and the “opinion” was more mature and de- liberate we might have less talk and more work-—less promise and more performance, Dotroit Free Pross: While the battle of the standards is going on in congress the people are rapidly putting themselves in shape for better times. Tho judicious in- yestment of idlo money, the payment of debts and the resumption of business with tho banks as tho safest and best depositories for surplus capital are rapidly solving the problem of bringing renewod prosperity to the country. Detroit Tribuno: Once upon a time there lived o goose which laid golden eggs exclu- sively. The fowl was naturally the subject of much remark among the neighbors, Ono day the owner of the roosa.cut off its head, whereat the neighbors were greatly shocked and mystified. “Why" they demanded of the man, *‘did you kili the goose that laid the golden eggs?” *Hecause,” was tho re- ply, “as a conscientious believer in the double standard I really had no use for the blllrd." They marveled much and were silent. Louisville Courier-Journal: The present financial and commercial enfergency s dangerously rich soil for the sceds of social- ism. At a time like this evil may be done to the relations between labor and capital which much patient effort in better d: will hardly suffice to ropair. If the blatant agitator undertakes to make a bad case worse by an uppeal to passion and to prejudice, or to drag honest labor down to the follies of socialism and anarchy, he should be shown the door or thrown out the window. Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio (in a speech): The cry comes from all over the country, “Lot alone the tariff; let the Me- Kinley law stand where it is.” The cry comes— irom forges where no fires burn, n mills where wheels no longer turn, From looms o'er which no shuttles loap, chants' shops—whero sheris keep— Erom banks go ocks gono down, Erom God-mudo n-mado town, n Wall strow rom sons of toll, Erom the bron Hors of the soil. EFrom north, from south, from east, trom west, Business is crying with i zcst— “Doni’t monkey with thoe taeifr." Minneavohs Tribune: The facts of indus- try, finance and commerce, the confidence expressed in our finances by Europe's weekly gold investments, the resuming banks and factories, the first carloads of the incoming wheat crop, the busy whirr of the govern- ment printing presses engaged in the issue of new and crisp currency, the daily arrivals of gold-lnden steamships and the daily do- parture of produce-laden carriers, agree with the testimony of the best authorities that there are rifts in the clouds, that the tide has turned, that the sky is brichtening all around, and that on some early mocning close at hand we will awake to find that the financial mists have lifted and rolled away. Philadelphia Times: The funaamental ult of our existing currency system is the absence of any ‘)ru on for expansion and action with the varying needs of bu: A volume of currency that is redun ant ono month is inadequate the next. the cente of checks and clearing house certificates, which are practically bank notes issued on the combined securities of the associated banks. Butin the country these devices cannot be applied. Modern banking science could no doubt solve the problem easily and scurely 1f left to itself, but unaer the artifi- cial and unscientific legislation of the United States periodical disturbances like the pres- ent are mevitable. Kansas City Star: Financial ‘“crashes” and ‘‘stringencies” have the resalt of revea ing the financial truth. While the road is smooth nobody looks out. It is when the tree is cut down that the rottenness at its heart is revealed. Investigation follows amity. Just now a general coroner's in- «quest is going on in the financial world, and what revelations are being mad Here the tracks of a defaulter are foun there the foes of a financial institution are discovered to be those of its own household. ~ And who shall say that this period of ripping up and tearing down, and shaking and sifting will be without goou results? The true will be gathered out of the false; honest men will be at preminm and brave men will be more ad- mived than ever. Itisan old observation, but as true as anythinz in meteorology, that the storm clears the air. — PEOPLE AND THINGS. n s this difficulty is met by the use The mercury 1s uncommonly sensitive to signs of fall. T'ne turning down of Watchdog Holman was doubtless a peace offering to artists on the loot. The Sherman law continues its d. work. An embankment burst in Sioux the other day. he Tuukmoer of Bungalow Is said to bo moving on Chicago. Mayor Harrison will try conclusions with him. Mem: Grant onco said the democratic party, once in power, would break its back on the Alleghenies. According to Crisp's revised edition, the locality is south of the Potomac. It is probable Larry Neal will ba forced to withdraw from the gubernatorial race in Ohio. His supporters have been thrown into a panic by the discovery that Larry doesn’t smoke, chew or drink.” Such virtues aro intolerable, John D. Rockefeller's losses in his railrond investments are to bo reckoned well up in the millions, but he has still eal millions tospare. The Standard Oil business 15 yet good and it is wn inexhaustivle mint” of money for I5 proprietors, Mrs. H. H.. A. Beach of Boston, who com- posed a jubilate for the Columbian ceiebra tion, is authority for the statement that be- tween the years 1615 and 188 women com- posed 153 inusical works, tncluding Af serious operas, six cantatas and fifty-thres comic operas. Francis Allen, the architect of tho Coliseum put up in Boston at the tim peace jabiice in 1869, celebrated his S7th birthday recently in that city. The struct- ure seatod 50.000 people and was designed cntirely by Mr. Allen, who consulted with 1o one excopt the late P. 8. Gilmore. Hon. John L. Blair of Blawstown, N. J., celebrated his 91t birthday on tho 220 inst. Mr. Blair was an imposing fi in western development not many v He was the chief promoter of sov rond lines ouri valley in Nebraska and 1o hington co Nebrasks, was named in honor of him. Henry Labouchere, discussing the recent publishied statement that Miss Braddon had reatized $00,000 from her novels—i state- ment whi disputed by most of the London writers ~declares that in his opinion who has received a much larger sum, and adds that the continuous sale of her novels i unprecodented in the records of British publishers Congressman it on of Virginla, who succeeds Springer as chairman of the ways apd means committee, is a scholar and an orator, but as @ chaivman Le has proven o dismal failure. Those who saw his feeblo attempts to maintain a semblance of order in the Chicago wigwam will agreo that he lacks the aggressive force necessary to hoid his party in bine in & tariff wrangle, Hadji Hassan Ghooly Khan, who will be membered as the Persian minister at Washingion who kot mad and went home to Leheran because the newspapers jesied about his namo, is said to ba comiug io the World's fair incog. Mr. Ghooly need not able to disguise his iden- uty. After the names we have wrestlod with this summer his cognomen appears foeble aud unworthy of notice. Senator Woleott of Colorado presents on his broad breast the most wonderfully kalei- doscopiv succession of shirts, ties and waist- costs to be seen under the capitol dome. Oue day it is a shirt front of robin's ogg have taken the L ! blue, with a fourdn-hand of dosp sanguinary | erimson and a snow-white vest; today it is | A bow of delicate, soulful Blue, & bosom of | pink ‘like that popularized by the earl of | Craven's “beat man, yo naw.” and a striped | vest, while tomorrow tho stripes are an tho | and the tie a nirt, tho vest is spotted, shimmering cream. - . | NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. The Gosper county fair will he held Sep- tomber | The Fromont city clerk has issued just 270 dog liconses this yoar. _Tho independents hold their convention in Kearney next Tuesday for the purpose of electing delogates to the state convention. Monday the Blair canning factory was al- most buried benoath sweet corn, and it is now running night and day with'a forco of about 230 people. At a meeting of the committee of Cuming ity township upan the Approprintion of road nionoys to the construction of roads in that township some $1.500 were appropriated Mr. David Richie, who was & stock dealor in Blair for some yoars and who went from there to Deuver, roturnod to Blair last week and at once set about looking up a house. William Nevilie, the raflroad contractor, who for the past several weoks has been moving dirt for the B. & M. north of Bellovue, reports that a rich mineral spring has beon discovered in that neighborhood, and within a stone's throw of the tracks. Notwithstanding the promiso early in tho season of a tromendous crop of potatoes, they do not appear to bo & very great suc- cess this year, although thoro Is occa- sionally a field that has yielded well, The quality is not as good as most years, and they are scarce enough so that the price is still high, A public menting called in the Intorest of socuring another important educational in- stitution for Fremont was well attended, and those present showed a commendable interest in the project. Various matters in connection with the enterpriso wero dis- cussed, and two_committees were appointed % secure subscription: Will 8. Cameron, who formerly lived in Tocumseh, met with a horrible death by being crushed in a well at Cawawba, O., last week. Ho was working in the well and a large maul fell on his head, fracturing his skull. He lived several days in intenso agony. He was a young man of good chur- acter, respected by all who knew him, Some of these days there will appear s Sunday issue of the Lincoln Journal which does not contain two and a half columns about the masterly failure of Commissioner Garneau, Man Friday Mobley and the No- braska exhibit at the World's fair to ao justice to the state and its resources; then, says the Fremont Tribuue, its subscribers will order their vaper stopped. A horse race at the Superior falr grounds Monday afternoon was the cause of a couple of badly battered heads. The Burdick boy was riding Marks' horso and was winning therace when his rival struck him over tho head with a loaded whip handle. Tho Jjudges gave Burdick the money, which caused another fight among the spectators and one man was badly used up. The Missouri river ferry squabble between Archer and O'Neill & Thomas at mouth 13 becoming quite warm. ill & Thomas maintain that Archer has right to operate his ferry, while Archer insists _that his competitors are in . It appears that O'Neill & Thomas got ahead of Archer on this side of but first blood . 216 is generally concoded that there 13 not enough business for two forries, and tho public is boginning to wonder whather ono will drop out or whether both will operato ata loss. ey Value of Arb.teation, New York Sun. We hear a great deal from time to timo of the value of arbitration as a panacea for all international controversics. That it has value in preventing resort to the sword is certainly true, but the remedy is usoless un- less applie ‘We have seen in the Siamese incident an urgent appeal from the ruler of a “heathen” country to settle the boundary dispute by impartial arbitration; and a per- emptory reply from so-called Christian France to yield summarily or be punished under the law of the stronger. That this is discreditable to nincteenth century ideas of civilization is not disproved by the fact that it has so many precedents in_the conduct of other European countries during tho past century. Lnst Stages of Home Rule, Philadelphia Ledyer, Tt is now said that the final vote on the home rule bill in the House of Commons is to be taken on August 31, It will be a relief to Gladstono when it has been dis of. for he has been nagged continuously, not only by the opposition, but by factions among his old followers. ' Mr. Chamberlain, it is said, will endeavor this fall to provoke the government to take an appeal to the country, but there is no re why the chullenge should be accepted. The prévious tory administration held on to power a lo while after it had been aiscredited, and veatedly declined to aceept challenges to go before the electors. —————— Cabling the I'a lie, Priladelphia Re The now company which proposes to lay a cable between Australia_and California will obtain a subsidy from the German govern- ment for the sections of the line botween the Fijiand Sumoau islands and betweon the wmoan islands and Honolulu, Tho prepar- atory soundings botween San Iran nd Honolulu having been recently completed and a practicable route found. “the olectri- Laurgest Manufuct: T \ulull L‘/,"‘é,f A lw l/ XV broken size or broken lot try. Ifyou hesitate you rapidly taken up. BROWNING, 18 Store opon every ovealng till 6.3). POt urday Uil 10 BROWNING, KNG now and put it away till spring, This is not a ' clans may scoi realize the fairy fancy of Puck and “put a girdte ‘round the earth n forty minutes.” LET GOOD ENOUGH ALUNE. Owaria, Aug. 91, ~To the Editor of Tnm Bre: In your relisble paper 1 note with PAIn the distress and misery now raging in Now York as & result of our socalled re- forming roprosontation 1n present adminis- tration, 1t is only natural that ourlonding Farmer's alliance ropresontatives shonld appeal to tho westorn farmor for the rolief of a gone sclontious, hard working people who sup- ported the alliance causo through the earn- st ploadings of hor sore hoaded politicians, These poople are to be pitied. and some re- lief should bo providéd. Thoy were (in ono sonse through ignorance) buoyed ub by ox- aggorated promisos, to do as they did, and induced 1o supvort & hopoloss vause only to eloct und play into tlie hands of an evomy, {demiocrady), for which tho result s plaaly s Our country has been in a prosperous condition too long, it would seem, for an oxperience of this kind to become nocossary. Our common workingman votes tho straight ticket, without the forcthought of any possibilities, simply bocause he isn democrat, or an advocate of its prineiplos. Ttisto b hoped thoy will in tho futurs ropudiate the loud mouthod eloquence of our silver tonguod agitators of trouble and vote to.let good enough aloae. A Sywparnz —_——— TACIN BHL 1eard from at Last, WaSHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Chairman Wilson of the ways and moans committeo today said: “The committeo will probably pro- pare a general taviff bill in aceord- anco with tho declavations of the Chicago latform, | think iy auite probable that congress will find itself in a position to adjonrn about the middlo of September until the dato of tho begfuning of the regular session." In talking about the work of tho gppro- priations committee Chairman Sayers made similar observations. e The Board of Zducation did not hola a special session to settle the Central school muddle yesterday alternoon, as conteme plated. It appears that the'parties most concerned canuot amicably agree upon the respective amounts due them, and until they do so the board does not prohose to take any action. Thero will probably bea special meeting held to decide the matter, the date of which is not yet decided upon ——— Presidontinl Nominati Wasm~aron, Aug. 3. president today sent to the senate the nomination of 1. Dodge of Wi ant attorney general, v roy, resigned. ousin, to bo assist- William A, Mau- Whon a business hou ssettles” it ot its having o firnt found tion. Cleveland T Dealor: Tt is cruel for the lynching party to tiny In suspense. certainly keop the vié- Boston Herald nation of slamn who 8'lum. Walter Besant calls us o . Oh, no! I the Turks Buffalo Courfor: Tho man who has no use for tho temporance pledge very froquontly hats for the pawnbrokoer's. Philadelphia North Ameriean: Girls ac tho Sunmor rexorts havo made popular the todlons gamo of choss—bocnuss 16 18 played with mon. A Indy reader wants to Kknow It wo belleve In curos by “luying on hands.” Wo do, mudim, wo do most for vently. But asiipperor pino shingle Is bottor, veston News Washington Star: “I wish," said who went' into the country for a vacation “that thore wasa little more witer In that ul logod trout stroam and " litto loss - th milk, Detrolt Tribune: Beloved—Papa says he §oes no reason why we shouldn't be, marrled. Lover (eestat —Then he wasn't pinched in that last d 2 Philadelphia Ledger: Hops fn York, when pleking beglns i erugo only half w crop. uppor Now next woek, will ay- It's been the samo way all simmer at the seashoro hotels. Atl it Constitutio find your cir or (to_ sick 1s not very show this man the " mailing « tho K's ement and ‘the lust postoflice ro- sworn s ceipt. CURRENCY HOARDERS. Indiinapolis Journal. Bacloward, turn buckward, O Timo, n your ght. Give me back my plle again just for tonlg Kok T deind byakent sy honcy e ot And that comes of keepin it under the bed, From my trusted bank T drew out the pile And hid 1t awiy 1n th awhile And, as T was si gentleman crook Made entrance and all of my rich treasure tool Tt mado me quito w 50 much so I wosp. “Kiek mo o sleep, Juckiss, ki o sloop.”t ——— ONE OF THE BROWNIES, a0 Tribune, wry valo ihe shore, vy whito on before. But soon the sun hega s chvelcs tho paf 5 friends the after called that 1 The russet loather kid, S 2 arors an | Retallors 0l Clothing In the World. A ship like this If seen on the ocean now-a-days or even on ,lthe Missouri would create quite a sensa- |tion, but no more of |a sensation than that taken off from $2.50 to $7.50 on each suit, making such an ex- [tra low price that leven if you do not 1need it now, it will /pay you better than | savings bank interest to pick out a suit sale, but anice clean stock of the finest suils ever brought to this western coun- are lost for they will be KING & CO., . W, Cor. 15t1 and Douglas 8ts, )