Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 12, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEER FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1895. B i T s T ———— — P e e e e e ——— ] Dany BEE. ‘ PURLISH MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCHIPTI Dally Dee (Without Sunday), One Year..... Pally, e and Runday, One Year.. Bix Montiy ‘ . Threa Montha Raturiay lioe, Weekiy Iloe, Omaha, ts meree. ribune Dullding. ANl commiaicat ating to news torial mattor v m el nces shuld be Compnny praers. § company A0 1K PUBLISHING COMPANY. KTATEMINT OF CIRCULATION. George 1, Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub. Ashing comprny, being uly sworn, tays that tho AGtnat mumber of full and compiéte copies of the Haily, "Morning, Evening and Sunday Teo printed daring the month of May, 185, was as Folows: wom 1004 Lo €10 i e 5 L 30im Troat i o e o024 018 "7 1om 1124 A7k 1 18 i 2. 20,160 | © 19001 19,108 Less deductions for unsold Not snlie Daily avernze e ARORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to hefore me and subscribed In my pres. ence this st day of 180 by, ablie. Notary " There is nothing the matter with the latest Neb crop report. mnd Cuban ing very well Cuban - revolutionists weather scem to e worl together. Towa republicans have nominated a drake for governor and a parrott for lieutenant governor. — 1f the linois legislature only had a few more speake to the chanees of real lively times at Spring- field would be greatly enhanced. i) City Treasurer Dumont has an oppor- tunity to revolutionize the work of the city treasurer's office and introduce business methods into the eity’s busi- ness. choose Hope is dawning that Siv Harry Mil- ler will yet see the error of his ways and join heart and hand in the citizens’ movement for reformed loeal govern- ment. Democrats have denounced President Cleveland before and then turned around and worked for his re-election. History may possibly repeat itself on this point. Spain 13 excited over that alleged in- torview with the American ambassador to France. Were Mr. Eustis running for office in Spain he would apparently not be in it. Will the council committee that was appointed to Investigate the comptrol- ler's office dare to bring in a whit washing report in the face of the ad- missions of gross negligence and incom- petency made by Mr. Olsen himself? The extraordinary drop in the price of whent Tuesday proves to have been the result of manipulations by specu- lators. There was no legitimate cause for the slump. Fact of the matter is wheat will go higher before it goes Tower. That was a neat mark of confidence n the new chief of police given by the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners In accepting without modification the Hst of recommended applicants for ap pointment to the force made up by Chief ‘White. Nebraska is no place for bogus in- surance companies, whether they travel under the name of benefit fraternal organizations. So lo as the state insurance laws are strictly enforced they will eateh no vietims in this state. ve societies or Comptroller Olsen admits that it possible t some of the police court receipts may never have found their way into the city treasury. It seems to have been not only possibility, but ac- tuality. What is the use of a comp. troller who Is no protection to the tax- payers? Judging from the direction which the activity of the State Board of Health takes Omaha is the only place in Ne- braska where quack doctors and illegal medical practitioners hold forth, If a crusade is to Dbe started against medical imposters it should not stop short with any one city. The newly chosen State Board of Transportation are making frequent visits to the state house at Lincoln, although they do not enter upon their supposed duties until October 1. If they were not on the railrond free list long ago they cer- tainly must be by this time. retaries of the General Churchill is quoted as saying that the B of Publie Lands and Buildings never done any work at the Deaf and Dumb fusti- tute, but merely stopped the work of some one who cluimed to the authority of the board. That is not, however, exactly the question. The question is, What authority Mr. Church Hl had to detail Sam Ma the work stopped. The World-Herald, whose editor is still suffering with chronic Rosewatero. phobia, tries to stewm the tide of the citizens' movement by reproducing editorials from The Bee in support of republican candidates who have turned out bad. We venture that he will not reproduce the editorials of The Bee commending oue G. M. Hitchcock as a republican eandidate for the coun eil. Had he been elected we might Attorney have od to have to say | vention for MeKinley, | esteem | senior | desire of the republic | world, have had the chagrin of being com pelled (o confess that he was not what The Bee thought he would be. SENATOR ALLISO! Although the Town vention did not proclaim nator Al son a candidate for the presidency or give any pledge in his behalf as such, as was done by the Ohio republican con- the constituents of Mr, Allison strongly manifested their for him and left no doubt thelr willingness to support him as a presidential pdidate. “With especial pride,” it was declaved, “do we remem ber the distinguished services of our tor, whose long and honor ile record as a servant of the state en titles him to expressions of our full con fidence and our enduring aff We hail with sati m the un ns of the state to coutinue him in his present field of use- fulness until called to the larger sery ices of the nation.” Republicans every where will heartily endorse this justly merited tribute to nator Allison. It is safe to the lowa dele gation to the next republican national convention will be a unit in favor of the nomination of Wil B. Allison, and it is probable that he will ls considerable support in addition to this That he may be the second choice of a very large number of the supporters of the men who are now regarded as the leading candidates is altogether likely. No man can forotell with any degree of stainty who will be the republican eandidate for president in 1896, It is possible that neither of the distin guished party leaders now most promi nent in the public mind will secure the nomination, however promising the chances of either at present appear to be. Whoever will examine the history of national political conventions will find that the men who have gone into them with the largest support have not always received the nomination. This was the case with Seward in 1860, with Blaine in 1876, and with Grant in 1880, and other instances in our previous h tory could be cited. The indications are that there will be a very spirited and perhaps prolonged contest for the nomi- nation between the now pronounced didates in the national convention, and the dArift of supporters of each of these to a man who had not antagonized either would be most probable. In such an event perhaps no one would be more likely to profit by the drift than Sena- tor Allison, who enjoys the respect and confidence of the republicans of every section of the country and Is every where recognized as one of the ablest, safest and most loyal of the republican AT HOME. republican con- el o leaders, There is one consideration that might operate against his nomination and that is the fact that he is a senator. If we mistake not, no party has ever taken a presidential eandidate from the United States senate, unless Mr. Garfield be ex- copted, he having been elected to the the year he was nominated, he had never served in that body. Service in the senate has seemed to operate as a bar to the presidency, though many senators have had presi- dentinl aspirations and have gone into conventions seeking nomination, notably among living man and Ambass yard. But th consideration wi'l not influence the fowa supporters of Senator Allison, who will undoubtedly send a delegation to the national convention of 1806 pledged to stand by him as long as fhere is any chance of his being nominated. WINNING TICKET TFORM. The ticket nominated by the Towa re. publican convention will command the full support of the party, which mes that it will be elected by a large ma- jority. General Drake, the candidate for governor, is a popular man, even democratic testimony conceding to him ability and charactel He has a credit able military record, and he has used a part of his wealth in philanthropic work. The one objection General Drake is that he is intimately identified with the railroad inte , but it is only fair to assume that, in the event of his election, he would regard his duty to the people as being superior to any claims upon his favor the corporations might urg It is well understood that the railronds desive the repeal or ma- terial moditication of the staiute u- latin pected they will se £ in the next legisiature. In that event the gov eleeted next November will be compelled to arvay himself on the side of the people, at whose demand the law was enacted, or with the rail- roads. General Drake should leave no doubt in the mind of anybody, in ad ince of the election, as to where he would be found if, as governor of the state, he were called upon to act upon a proposition to either do away with or emasculate the ilroad regulation law. That act was passed by the re- publican party in compliance with the popular demand, its operation has been in the public interest, it has worked no injustice to the railronds. Such being the case, it has proved to be a good law and therefore ought to nd, It will be wise on the part of the repub lican eandidate for governor to make it entirely plain to the people that he is not opposed to this law and that ir slected he will give his influence and his authority to sustaining it. If he will do this no republican will have any excuse for withholding his vote from him. The platform will be approved by all republicans who believe in the protec tion of American industries and Am ican labor, In the commercial policy of trade reciprocity, and in a sound cur rency. The republicans of Towa have always been among the strongest ad herents of the protective poli and they are no less earnestly devoted to it now than in the past, as their latest declaration of principles fully attests “We denounce,” says the platform, “the doctrine that a tariff should be levied with a view to revenwe only, and re affirm the doctvine which has wrought in Ameriea the most marvelous indus trlal development ever known in the viz, the doctrine of protection to home Industry.” The currency plank of the nationa! platform of 1892 is re atfirmed, supplemented by an espres slon in favor of an international ag ment regarding silver. Perhaps soum will wish there bad been a wmore ex senate though A P 1S to K to accomplish th of | plicit declaration of opposition to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the present ratio, but the republican declaration of 1802 still reflects the po- sition of the party on the currency question. Undoubtedly the result of the conven- tion was disappointing to some, but there is reason to think t iy feeling of this kind will be of short duration nd that there will be no defection of consequence, Let the republicans of Town now go forward with the work of organization and there will be n doubt of their winning a signal victory next November, THE MALIGNITY OF MEDIOCRITY. The fmpudence of imbecility is only equal to the malignity of mediocrity. Every man, woman and ¢hild in Omab: G. M. Hiteheoek, as an and publisher, has proved him- self a lamentable failure. Inheriting a fortune that might have made any man possessed of ordinary brain power or business ability independent, he labors under the hallucination that he has also inherited a grievanee and a mission. The grievance was the utter failure of a political dynasty founded on corrup. tion and backed by limitless boodle to destroy The Bee in its early struggles | against the domination of the worst clements of the republican party. The mission was perpetual opposition to every measure, right or wrong, advo- cated by The Bee and striking down every public man or private ecitizen, no matter how honorable or deserving, who enjoys the support of The Bee, After seven yoars of such insane war- fare the poor monomaniae has succeeded in dissipating his inheritance and mak- ing a complete wreck of two papers which in eapable hands would have been paying properties and potential factors for the public good. Utterly incapable of building up anything and by nature irresponsible for his lack of honest convictions on any subject, the wretched imbecile is more to be pitied than despised. The strain to which his forlorn condition has for years sub Jeceted him - has been altogether too much for a man of his makeup to be: Like the poor old horse suffering from blind staggers, his vision 80 distorted that e sees only the spectral phantoms of a diseased brain. It is really too bad that a young man who entered life with such promise of a useful and successtul eareer should in short a period have suffered ship- wreck by his lack of Dballast and balance. The Bee has never borne him ill will or wished him rm. It be- lieves now, as it has believed for year: that there is room in Omaha for two metropolitan dailie: It has no fear of being distanced in the for public favor by any competitor. It does not believe that its only salvation lies in driving the World-Herald out of the field. The secret of The Bee's suces be found in its superiori a8 news gatherer, its unswerving integrity of purpose and its unfiinehing opposition to corruption and official delinquency. On those lines it has waged its warfare and won publie confidence and support. On those lines it is always glad to co- operate with any competitor or rival. In the future, as in the past, it will zealously labor for the promotion of every interest that promises to develop and build up the resources of this city and state, whether it fights the battle s -handed or in conjunction with others. The dog-in-the-manger policy which other publishers have pursued, and which Mr. Hitcheock is pursuing, will not deter The 1 n the least from continuing the even tenor of its way is to toe THE GLASS TRUST. What the dispatches des greatest combination the window gla industry has ever known has been ef- fected. The scheme of forming a glass trust hy under consideration for long time, but there were difficulti in the way not easy to be overcome. There has been an active and sharp competition in the business and some of the most extensive manufacturers have heen averse to entering into any sort of combination. With the redue- on of the price of glass to a point which d to have left little profit for the manufacturer and the prospect of a still further decline if the strong competition were maintained, th in the industry who had shown an un- willingness to enter into combination at last yiclded and the trust w ized, it would seem upon terms which are likely to hold it together, unless it can be reached by the law, which ex- perience teaches is not likely to be in voked rinst it. The avowed purpose of this combina- tion is to restrict production and raise the price of glass. It Is designed to make this industry as nearly as pos- sible a monopoly. The competition through which the market price of glass has been cheapened will be suppressed and the trust will exact from consumers such tribute as they shall deem expedi ent. This will be sufficient, at least, to recoup the parties to the combination fu 1y losses they have suffered from competition. Already the order has gone out raising the price of glass 2 per cent, and it is understood that thi is but the beginning. As the combina tion has its headquarters in Indiana and the factories composing it are there the authorities of that state ought to lose no time in instituting an inquiry as to whether it is amenable to the law as being hostile to the pub lic interests. It would seem that the case presents an excellent opportunity for another test of the prineiple that all such combinations are illegal, but it is to be apprehended that no such test will he mad The obvious sugges tion that more stringent anti-trust legislation, both state and national, urgently needed. officials are unable to make 1id out for the expenses of overnment stay in circulation, That does not indicate any very erying de mand for more silver colns among the great masses of workingmen who con stitute the bone and sinew of the nation, ———— The Patriarchal Circle of Ame favers Omaha with its national cony tion. Fraternal and benevolent socie- s been is se is Treasury the silver fea T ties are multiplying with great rapidity | and yet the Ihnft has apparently not been reached,” "They would all grow much faster i€@maha were made their permanent hedgdarters, The suit brought by the United States against the Leélhnd Stanford estate and ceently decidid_adversely to the gov- ernment in thedower court is to be ap pealed immedintely to the eireuit court of appeals, | {here Is any possible | way of recovering the money that was ongfully dfyerted from the Central cific to the directors’ pockets it cer- tainly ought to be pursued to the end. government will be upheld gen i whatever honest effort it to reach a decision that will allow the people to recover the money that really belongs to them, There seems to be no impediment in the way of contemplated improvements in the water works system save an or der of the court directing that the work proceed. Tt is to be hoped that that order will be issued within the next ten days. The enlargement of the water mains and other improvements have be ome a public necessity and ey should be begun in season while such can be done and laboring men anxious to do the work The Central Labor union has a declared for civil service rules affecting all city offices and has named a com- mittee to what ean be done. The declavation of principles of the Citizens' league embodies a provision whicn is the frue basis of civil service reform. Let the labor unions take note of this fact and also of the further fact that civil service reform will last no longer in straight organizations than a snowl work are see r of Rus: offered to loan the United States all the gold it might need at the time of the itened condition of the treasury and that the offer was declined with thanks. Perhaps this is true. But Russia would not run the risk of re peating the offer to certain individuals who would accept so quickly that there would be no time for Russia to recon- sider the proposition before it was cepted. The World-Herald W. Richardson as “a reputable lawyer.” And that after Mr. Ri rdson been taking active part in the organiza- tion of the citizens' movement. Is it possible that any one can remain rep- utable in the eyes of the W.-H. after he has identified lifmself with the citi- zens' movement? s to Mr. R. We are glad to hear that the World- Herald has at last discovered that the Seljan butehery can be explained only on the theory of murder. Up to this time it has been trying to make its read- | believe that Seljan killed himself and then threw his own dead body into the river. Mr. Bryan's Proper Place. ‘Washingfon Post. Why does Hon. Bill Bryan cavort about the country while the Omaha base ball team is In imminent danger of going to pieces The proper place for Bill is right in Omaha Where s the Muzzle? Indianapotis News. “The veinless viscera of vaculty, v volumes of value,” is a phrase of the secre tary of agriculture, whom the president should muzzle in justice to the sensible men in his cabinet. b SR S ghts for n Koving Nhouter. Savannah News. If Billy Bryan of Nebra thinks the people of the south are in danger of suffering or starvation because the colnage of silver is not free, he cught to go out and look at the crops in any southern state he may happen to be in. The great fields of smiling and odding grain would make the boy orator ashamed of himself - to Pabilc Affaire. Burton in American dne of Clvics. Standing on the ocean beach one sees the perpetual roll of the waves toward the shore and wonders how there can be danger for the bathers, but the student of science knows that underncath the surface there is | a silent current, known as the “‘undertow," which sometimes overcomes and drags un- der the strong limbed bathers. The student of sociology knows that underneath all the talk about the rule of the majority there is a dangerous undercurrent of indifference in regard to what shall become of the pub- lic funds—a feeling among the majority or the voters that the public funds are not their funds. In brief, this may be ex- preszed as an alienation from the common- wealth, a feeling among the employed non- property owning classes that they have no part in the commonwealth of the com munity. It is this alienation from the com- monwealth that constitutes the dangerous political undertow; for, preach in politics as we may, so long as a majority of the voters belicve that a robbery of the public funds is in no sense a robbery of their funds, just so long will they remain indifi- erent to it. ——— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Indifference Holt county is again agitating the county division question. Colfax county claims 137 veterans of civil war among her inhabitants, The Hartington Building and Loan associa- tion earned 22 per cent for the fiscal year which closed on June 30. Among the packages delivered at the Ar- lington postoffice the other day was one containing two rattlesnakes. The Missouri river opposite the city of Blair is still hesitatig between its present channel and a new oue’ four mles on the lowa side. John Maulden died at Tecumseh at the ago of 82. He was a residgnt of Tecumseh thirty- eight years and was 4 veteran of the Mex!- can war. Michael Suchman of Howells held a ecan- non fire crecker v, his hand just a little too long. When it expladed it carried away one finger and tore the hand to shreds. Arlington claims to be the home of a man who makes a spedialty of following young women who go Akhing and bathing and the citizens are warning him against the prac- tice. Sherman county cfzjms that her crop this year will be the biggest in the history of the county. She estimates that oats will yield from forty to seventy bushels to the acre, wheat from fifteen {0’ thirty and rye from fifteen to twentysfive. 1 A Wisconsin man named Cooper has brought suit against the Blair Separable | Horse Collar company for 50 cents royalty on every collar sold within a certain terriiory He claims to have purchased the territory of the original patentee. the Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roal ABSOLUTELY PURE | two | standard money, although no loss and some BANKERS DISCUSS CURRENCY Henry W, Yates of Omaha Makes tho Prin- cipal Addrees of the Day. FREE COINAGE WOULD BE A FATAL MOVE Parchase in Limited Quantities for Gover ment Aecount at & Fixed Frice by In- ternational Agrecment Might Steady the Price. SARATOGA, July 11.—Ex-Congreseman Michael D. Harter of the coinage weights and measures committtee of the Fifty-third congress delivered an address on sound money this morning before the New York State Bankers' association. The was carefully considered and occupled over an hour in the delivery. He sald in part: “If the free coinage men were compelled to organize a party of their own their numbers would prove ridiculously small—only tolerable, perhaps, by comparison with Coxey's army. Let us make it safe and sure by redeeming and cancelling the greenbacks and getting the government out of the banking business; letting the people conduct their own business affairs and supply all the paper money they | need, providing for its prompt redemption in gold, and let nations know that the United States is for all time a sound money, honest dollar nation Henry W. Yates, president of braska National bank of Omaha, follows on the coinage question “Upon the remarkable theory that free sil- ver means free money are founded the wild claims of the populists as to what consti- tutes and should be received as money, and it forms the basis of union between the members of that political organization and the so-called free silver democrats, Your genuine free silver politician is a_pure flat- ist, or for sound money, as he calls it, just as the occasion suits. An amusing illustra- tion of this is taken from the proceedings of the late Iilinois free silver democratic convention, which in its formal declaration of policy decided, among other things, that the constitution of the United States pro- hibits the use of anything but gold and silver coin as the legal tender for the pay- ment of debts. This is a plain and direct attack upon the populist theory, and would lead, it persisted in everywhere, to a dissolution of the union between the apparently different forces, and upon which union the hopes of political succe are based ISSUE MORE CLEARLY DEFINED. “The issue has lately become more clearly defined. The silver advocates do not now claim so confldently that bimetallism will be the result of free coinage. It is prac- tically conceded by them that silver will become the sole standard of value, but they declare with a flippancy which shows what little reflection and business experience prompts the words that as between silver monometallism and gold monometal- lism they will take the former, In these words they assert that in order to sustain their hobby they are willing to change from the standard of value upon which the entire business of this coun- try has been prosecuted for more than Lventy-five years, according to their own ad- mission. Iver has not yet been demonetized. still money and doing a large share regulating the commerce of the world. But that its existence as money Is threatened there cannot be the slightest doubt. The metal silver has lost its character of money in the gold standard countries, and the same destruction s threatened in the countries still holding to its use. The use of silver for fractional currency and perhaps for money in sums of $10 and under, while it would banefit silver to some extent, would not be sufficient to steady its value, for there is now more silver in existence than could be appro- priated In this manner, and productlon must 20 on. Silver must be made use of as money just as gold is money or it is doomed and will eventually go the way of copper and brass. Is the world prepared for this con- gency whether it comes quickly or is strung out through a century? It would mean the destruction of capital to the extent that silver now represents capital. “International action has mainly caused the trouble with silver, and it may be depended upon to stay its progress downward even if it should never bo restored to its old ratio. This threatened destruction of capital is the true and only necessity for bimetallism. The stock of gold is ample to transact the business of the world, and there is no actual require- ment for the use of any other metallic or address the Ne- spoke as It is in benefits would follow silver aside from what I have indicated. Free colnage at this time at any ratio Is impracticable. No government could be in- duced to open its mints to silver at the old ratlo. Equally impracticable would be coin- age at a higher ratio. This would either depre- ciate the value and standing of existing coins or demand tha heavy loss of recoinage. COINAGE ON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT “There is, however, no apparent objection to coinage on government account, and an in ternational ~agreement to this end would seem both possible and practicable. The alue of silver would be made steady all over the world. It is not possible that any onsiderable addition would be made to the volume of silver in the gold standard coun- tries under this arrangement unless it was wanted and the price was made sufficiently Ligh to obtain it, but the monetary systems of these countries can easily sustain withou! K a largely increased amount of I think, is shown in the follow- 5. The total production of the us metals since 1492 down to 189 ent _circulation, and the disappea as follows: the concurrent use of are Pro- Circu- uction lation, p 1a +0.88,999,101,000 $3,963,500,00) $4,423, Iver 0,000, 41,000 4,035,700,000 HAL N “From this it will be seen that 18 per cent more of silver than gold has been produced but 32 per cent more of silver has disap- peared, leaving the aggregate volume of the two metals in circulation as money curlously equal, constituting of the total production 41 per cent of silver and 47 per cent of gold It certa'nly shows that the desire for silver beyond the demand for its use as money has exceeded that of gold, and this outside demand may be depended upon in the future I have sclected six countries who carry nearly all the gold of the world and 40 per cent of the silver, and the respective holdings of each and the ratio of silver to the total metallic circulation are as follows $7 825,000,008 anid | . 1 669,000,000 stria-Hungary 30,000, 00| tals covee.1$3,320,600,000[51 “The respective volume of gold and silver is about equal in the world, yet these nations carry on an average only half as much silve as gold, and subtracting the United State with 50 per cent, France 37 per cent and Aus tria 48 per cent, the remalning averags woull be only 22 per cent. It cannot therefors, I think, be contended by any one that free mintage at the market price could endanger the maintenance of the gold standard. At | Baking Powder the same time it will accomplish for n!h'nrl all that thero Is the slightest possibliity of belug done. With a united and practical program for action the International confer- ence asked for by congress could be held with some prospect of agreement, but without stich program It will prove as futile and use- less as all previons commissions have been.” The convention then took up several sub- Jects for consideration. James G. Cannon of New York spoke on “Losses from Bad Debts and the Part Taken by Statements from Bor- rowers in Preventing Losses.” Judge mour Baxter of Elmira discussed ““Wasted Profits, Charges on Country Checks and Country Clearing Houses for Checks.” J G. Hanford of Penn Yan spoke upon “What is the Best Method of Making a Bureau of Protection Against Fraud.” - KITE WILI. BRING PEARY HOME Explorer Expected Next Seprembe ST. JOHNS, N. F, July 11.—The steamer Kite will sall today with the Gre scientific expedition to relieve Lieutenant Peary. Captain John Bartlett, the master, is an able mariner and commanded an expedi- tion to Greenland when only 24 years old His chief lieutenant is Patrick Dunphy, who was north two years with Peary’s first ex- pedition. McKinlay, the englneer, has a similar record. The weather reports from Greenland dicate a mild winter and littie ice, and it is thought it will be possible to ach Peary's headquarters, Falcon harbor, Bowdoin bay, about the 4th or 5th of August. All hope to be safely back in St. Joh by the end of September. Peary Is supposed to be now somewhere in the extreme north of een: land, ONE Greonland o Return R — OF ME, THURBER'S GEMS, How He Congratulates with Threo PITTSBURG, July 11.—Frank Kay and wife of Grafton have three little girls named Ruth, Esther and Naomi, born in the order glven. Mr. Kay Is a jobber of glassware Struck by the coincidence in his famiiy and that of the president, he wrote to the latter and received the following reply: My Dear Sir: The president directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your recent kind letter in which you inform him that your two oldest children bear the names of sther and were named In each the children of the president Both Mrs. Cleveland and the much interested in this c incldence and express the wish that your little children may have long and happy lives and that they will always be a joy and comfort to you. HENRY K. THURBER, Private Secretary. PE RSONAL AND OTHER Plttsburg Father rin. ca were nam president are . IS E. From an ornithological view point the Iowa republican ticket is right in the swim. New York boasts of a gentleman who is classed as a peach. Iowa has a state ticket headed by two birds. The Elks have concluded that touching horns s more conducive to harmony ani gay- ety than locked horns, It would be a salve for wounded national pride if the Cornell crew would crawl into its shell and hermetically seal it. Mr. Cleveland has the great comfort of knowing that none of his family is likely to break into politics as the son of his father. Towa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohlo, Pennsylvania and Virginia will vote for state officers in November, The tragic death of C. E. Cole, the amateur desperado, is a trumpet-toned warning that the peace and quiet of Chicago as a sum mer resort cannot be violatel with impunity. The private secretary of the prince of Wales announces that his royal nibs will not visit New York this year. The announce- ment will hasten the departure of the faith- ful from the vicinity of Hell Gate. An attractive exhibit in the negro buflding at the Atlanta exposition will be a bust of Charles Sumner by Edmonia Lewls of Rome, Italy. It is a contribution by Dr. W. H Johnson of Albany, N. Y., to whom the bust was presented by the scuiptress, Prof. Edward Emerson Barnard of the Lick observatory, who will soon take charge of the Yerkes observatory in Chicago, was born in Nashville, Tenn., on December 16, 18: Outside of a fow months attendance at a pub- lic school he is entirely self-educated. Captain John M. Brooke, a professor at the Virginia Military institute, is one of the few survivors of the Monitor-Merrimac fight. Ho served on the confederate man-of-war and an additional claim to be remembered as the inventor of the deep-sea sounding appa- ratus, Reformer Roosevelt struck a hot trail out of Harlem the other day. The residents of that collar-and-elbow section of New York, having survived an appalling Sabbath thirst, espied Teddy in their midst and set a pace for him that vividly recalled his Dakota bear hunts, He esecap2d by dodging into a moving train, Mr. Morley Roberts, an English novelist, recelving ovations from his countrymen for what {8 termed a new drink introduced by him. The constituents are ginger ale, lemon, ico and a dash of rum. It is due to Mr Roberts to say he don’t claim the invention as his own, but is a beverage of western America Colonel Alexander G. Howes of San Fra cisco recently left for London, where he ex pects to remain for some years. The fad of Colonel Hawes for a long time has been the collection of all kinds of swords and he has a wonderful lot of them which he has pro- cured from various countries of Asia, Burope, Africa and America. Is nland | in- | SCIENOE AND THE GOOSE BUNE. Philadelphia Inquirer: Mr. Morton is ered- ited with having sald recently: “There is more sclence ln the way we predict weather than thers 1s sense. I would rather have an old farmer, with rheumatism fn his shoulder and a soft corn on his foot, than all the pro- fessors and thelr confounded books that Hare rington has got.” However hard this may be oh science and ntists, {t promises to intro- duce a novel feature into the sefence of weather prognostications, Thers will be a collection of Dbirds and animals In every weather office throughout the country, as aleo old men with rheumatism in their shoulders, a “misery” In their heads, and hard or soft corns on th feet. Instead of having to pass an examination in the science of meteorslogy, candidates for office in the weathor bureau will be asked to show their knowlodge of the habits of cats, rats, dogs, sheep, wild geese, | ehickens, cows and horses when the weather is about to change. No more will we be troubled reading about barometric indications, high and low preseure, relative humidity, hot and cold waves, cyclones, and so on. An era of common sense fs about to dawn. All hail to the renaissance of the goose bone, the corn and the bunion, Philadelphla accuracy in p until it ran higher, the Pross the percent kept on iner 1 from 85 to 80 per cent and groat value of the bureau was aps preciated even by the Secretary Mor- ton, however, in ths removal of Prof. rington and the substitution of Prof. Moore, has £0 managed to raise a question as to the bureau’s value, and has made such an extra- ordinary attack on sclentific research, fncom- prehensible in this age, that it will take years for the bureau to recover its former prestige. This is not a question of men, but of science, Prof, Moore may make an excellant chiof. We hope he will. He may develop the sc'on | tifie work of the bureau, or, rather, allow it to develop; but, unfortunately for him, his superior has in no unmistakable terms et up standards which are not recognized in the sclentific departments of any of the clvilizel governments of the gicbe Mortoa's views a® to the relation of scl and prae tical work would disgrace a backwoodsman. hey proceed from a fatuity which is as unenlightened as it is stubborn. He may find many in this country equally ignorant who will applaud him, but abroad he will be laughed at, 101 JINGLING RIHY MES. Washis “What will you t Kentucky the plied “1 guess I'll have sound money stralght— With silver on the side.” ton Star. the nation sald Indianapolis Journal 8o many different planks That none will truly fit; The statesman who would stand on Must learn to “do the split.” ‘twill have all ngoles xpross such earnest friends they harried I8 no longer now they're married. They were The other But they are fr And just becau cni s on the bushes, butter In the churn, Cattle in the pasture, porkers in the sty: When the blizzards get here Ul have to burn Couldn’t quit a-smiling now if T should try, lerr| Philadelph'a Record “My country nd T go," The candidate Al the town Before election ruth ‘tis so! He's gone. his country called him—down. Because Sald Kalser Bl “T must expect, i That some day, like Napoleon, you Will be a Yankee fad.” e Bl Town Topic There was a little girl Who had a little curl Anad she spooned on the beach with her Jackj ‘And_when her papa found her, Jack's manly arm was ‘round her, And her golden hair was hanging down her back! Boston Courder. She took off her hat and laid it down, Then looked about in dismay; Her husband had pinncd it on his coat, Thinking it was a boquet. e HER M AJESTY NO. ITL Post. have o We have no king the people siy But that is wrong, b always must obe It's known, in truth, on every men may rise and full, one supreme. o whom we bow. baby rules us ail g0 we no queen, o all ause there's one we side, though Ther: the In hut or palace, town or wood, in circles high or low At home, ad, we may Ko, say we're Independent In whatever we may do ; And yet we show our slav'ry when we hear @ baby coo. br afloat, ashore, wherever we We dance, we sing, we clap our hands, we buy all kinds of toys; We do all sgorts of foolish things we think the child enjoys There's nothin this wide Toyery one must Know, We will not do that we may hear the baby laugh and crow. wide world, as We have no king, we have no queen, so all the people say: , Jut that is wreng, because there's one we always must obey. It's known, in truth should give us jo ! The babe is boss of all t i you, Grove, old boy n ev'ry side, and it e world—what say “Little Girls” They are darlings and a joy, Grover wishes 'twas a boy do we. But and so Boys make men—Men wear clothes—perhaps ours—we hope so. Anyway, we ar e after the men to advance their interests in life, to give them contentment, ease and luxury. tell you how: We can do i There is a whole lot of remarkably fine suits in our store, that are being sol d very reasonable. This is the time of the year we reduce that quanti ty and assortment we always carry. WE ARE HAVING A BIG CU Would like to have you drop in squint at our windows, of the many bargains we a It's all Browning, King & Co is reccommend enough. E all respects. You take no it perfect. TO TAKE IT. T SALE, DID YOU KNOW IT? if you can’t, take a You will see a fair assortment re offering. 's own make—that very piece is guaranteed in sk when our salesman pronounces If it don’t suit you YOU DON'T HAVE We leave all to you and the virtue of our suits. A great line on sale at $8%, $10%, $13%, $14%, $15%, $17° and $19™. From §3.00 to $5.00 saved on every suit you buy at this cut price mid-summer sale. Browning, Largest Makers end R-tailers S. W. CORNER 15TH We'll trade back if you'd rather have the money. King & Co,, of Fine Clothing in th) Worid, AND DOUGLAS S @