Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 26, 1895, Page 4

St o WA THE OMAHA DaAny BEE ROSEWATER, PUBLISHED EVER Raitor, MORNING, TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION, fly Tee (Without Sunday), One ¥ w48 m Wy Thee and 8 One Yen g on Blx Montiis voue et ] Thiree Montla Bunday 1 éaturday Weekly Omaha, The Res Mullding Houth Omuha, *inger Blk. Corner Connedl 1Y ot Chicago Of - ¢ Comm Now York It A 15, Trib N. W NDENCE, ne to newa and o se Building CORREST [ BLISHING COMPANY NT OF CIT e Pub- « that the s of the ndn printed was as follows 10,074 10018 2160 L in0n WS TNTL b 11 Tishing actual num! Daily, Morning. Evening Quring the month of May, 45,000 19,004 15,040 Total J ey dedii ‘coples Net salos Dally averaz: *Sundny. aronan ety ™ 1 "B PHL, Notary publ e In the interval Chief of Polic ‘Whi fs attending strietly to public business —_— The tem)u xtension of the De- partment of the Plitte should be made permanent. n fbed in my pres- R —— Perhaps the War department will now be more ready to recognize the fmportance of the Department of tho Tlatte. e The reliving sceretaries of the State Board of ‘T'ransportation might. do something to let the people remember them woere it not so near the end of their terms of office. e No, the Board of ITealth has neither time nor money to attend properly to typhold fever Polities is en- grossing all employes of the board and polities dwarfs all othier considerations in importanee cases, The factional warfare at Bennington geems to have aroused the entire pop- ulace. The fall of THon. Herman Timme affords local political historians a highly interesting chapter. But it was long past due. railrond like the Soo line, traversing an agricultural territory, re- stores the wages of its engineers and brakemen to what they were two years ago, there can no longer be room to doubt that good times ave in sight. When a According to Secretary le, Presi- dent Cleveland did not want to run for the presidency the last time he was nominated. But that is no indica- tion that he will not want to be nom- inated again and run again if nom- inated. “The short books s, according to official statement, over $30,000. The question is, How could the accounts hi gotten into this condition had there been a wateh- ful and eflicient officer in the comp- troller's office? ve The president of the Philadelphia Street Railway company says it costs him $30,000 annually to control the city council. In Omaha all It takes 1s a bunch of free passes and an oc- casional campaign contribution. Our local statesmen are not honest, but cheap. A stalk of Otoe county ures thirteen und one-half feet, taken from a field estimated to yield 100 bushels to the acre. Stories of prolific fields are coming in from all quarters. The outlook is that Nebraska never saw such a harvest as this year's will prove to b corn meas- The Princeton students are fe. When they were apprised of the pres- ence of lLostile Indians they at once set up their college yells and the In- dians hastened to embra them as their long lost brothers. The college yell Is the most effective weapon of Indian warfare. A Chicago man decamped with $45 of his employer's money and at Lincoln gave himself up to the law officers. His conscience was smitten. A Chi- cago man with a good conscience is certainly a rarity. He ought to be taken back and elected to a place in the town council. Secretary Carlisle announces that he will do nothing toward getting the democratic nomination for the presi dency next year. Mr. Carlisle has ap- parently joined in the common eon- clusion that the democratic presiden- tial nomination next year will not be worth working for. Secretary Morton s making W innovations gurating new economie ment of Agriculture. To cap the cli- max appropriately he should see to it that the whole department is abolished as a cabinet portfolio before he gives up the office to which he has been called. There is no re need of a Department of Agriculture than there is of a Department of Meteorology. constantly and inan- in the Depart A Sioux City embezzler tries to plain his downfall by saying prices of Omaha real estate w high when he lived herve that compelled to use his employe: to make payments on it. This may go in Sioux City, but if he were going to be tried in Omaba he would have that o 80 he was woney only to lusist that gambling was what | drove him to wrongdoing in order to secure a lenfent sentence of the judge of the criminal bench o P ———— CARLISLE AND TT1 Soeretary Cnrlisle has told the repr sentative of a Richmond, Va, paper that he does not want to be president L and that he will do nothing toward et ting the nomination for that office. He doos not lack apreciation of the great the presidency, but there | too muceh work and responsibility at tached to it Sherman mad similar obse ina in and expressed the opinion thy [ the chiof executive shonld be a man of leisure vather than an official hack. e { «hould, said the Obio senator, have { time to considor and study the general matters of public policy counceted with lis office and he should not worry him. t over details, The concurrence of these two distingnished men, who have had the hest possible opportunities for in the that the n overworked man is all [ the testimony necossary that such is | the and it thiat thing will have to be done to reliey chief iive of so great labe | responsibility, particularly if there s | any danger that the office may have to go abegsing by reason of its multiply ing and duties, But of as to the matter of a,great deal | depends upon the disposition and tem- perament of the incumbent of the prest | dential office. He can make hi heavy or light, according to the extent | to which he is disposed to leave details | to the cave of the heads of departients. Both Harrison and Cleveland, who are not afraid of work, made the presidency { mueh more laborions than there was lany necossity for simply befause they required know all upout details | which should have been left entirely to the m ament of the department diefs. *A president should seleet men for cabinet positions in whose wisdom and discretion he has confi- dence and leave to them the drudgery of the exceutive branch of the govern- ment. But may there not be something be- the work and responsibility the presidential office to explain why Mr. Carlisle does not now want that Mtico and will make no effort to seeur the nomination for it? Is it not quite possible that he regards the outlook for Lis party next year as hoj nd s, therefore, not disposed to sacrifice him- self should the party eall upon him to do s0o? ‘True, Mr. Carlisle has no very strong reason to beliove that he is likely to be in demand for the presidency. There has been no general expression favorable to him as a presideniial can- didate. A few newspapers, none of them of very great authority or influ- enee, have spoken of him in that con- nection, but no leader has come forward for him and there has been no move- ment in his behalf. Still, he may think there is a chance that his party, poor as it is in available presi- dential material, will call upon him to be ity standard beaver and that it is expedient to let it be known thus carly that he is not secking and does not want the presidency. There is an- other consideration that n influence him—the possibility that Mr. Cleveland will seek a third term, A great many Dbelieve that it is the intention of the president to do this, and the statement of My, Carlisle that Mr. Cleveland had never referred to the matter in presence will have no effect upon this belief. The president is not talking on that subj pt, perhaps, to his most confidential friends, like Scere- tary Lamont, and the fact that those who are closest to Mr. Cleveland have nothing to say regarding the reports that he des a fourth nomination, is at least a good indication that he has not expressed an unwillingness to take it. That Mr. Carlisle should not wish to be considered a possible presidential candidate while the purpose of Mr. Cleveland is unknown is entirvely nat- ural and proper. The statement of Mr. Carlisle will not inerease or diminish the perplexi- ties of the democratic situation. While he is unquestionably the ablest man in the party, he has never had any chanc of recelving the nomination for th presidency. It is now strongly proba ble that if Mr. Cleveland seeks nomina- tion at the hands of the sound money democrats he will get it. Then there will be another democratic candidate on a free silver platform, ness of o Senator | vation recent | view | observation, opinion president is some the and case, suggests | 4 ox <0 cares course work labors to absolute sides possible PREDICTING GOLD IMPORTS; After the prolonged experience of {his country in losing gold, and in view of existing conditions which seem to promise a continnance of this order, it is a relief to learn that there are students of the financial situation who | regard it as more favorable to imports of gold and to high prices within the next few yes than to any consider- able losses of gold. They base their view, it is said, upon the large gold production of the world, the unusual acenmulations of the yellow metal in European banks, the low rate of in- terest in London and Paris, and the demand for American securities. Those who hold this opinion peint out that the United States has been, since the passage the Sherman law, a large exporter of gold. This net excess of pxports reached $87,506,000 in the fiseal 8,000 in 1894, and had Iready reached 3,000 at the end of May, 1 These exports have more than equaled the “gold production of | the country and left no annual margin for use in the arts or absorption into the curren The conditions have now so changed that many observers beliey it the current of gold must also chang nd flow steadily toward the United States. The accumulations {in the European banks were larger than at the present time xceed by nearly 50 per cent the re seye necessary to meet labilities at | the » of one-third of the Habilities, This accumulation is accompanied by isterest rates which are low that mon on call has fallen in London to fa fraction of 1 per cent. It is he lleved that wmuch of the gold in the n banks has been put Yhere by depositors as ¢ investment dur | ing the period of depression than loans at interest. Capital which canunot find employment s said to even more plentiful than its golden token, a re cent estiuate puttiug the awount o never and | of | THE OMATA DAILY BEE ]‘_‘_"IDAY. JULY 26, PIDINBA.. prow N 5 in Tondon at This presentation of the sitnation certainly appears wareant the expectation that a change in conrse of the gold movement will take place in the not future, but wtill there is reason to apprehend that in the meanwhile this country will have to experlence another considerable de- pletion of its stock of gold. It s not to be doubted that this country might at profit from the enorimous amount of idle capital abroad if it wor not for the damaging effect upon fidence of the agitation. awniting investment 2,000,000,000, to remote free silve AFRAID TO FATHER THEIR BANTLINGS When the Churchill fire and polic commission bill was sent to Lincoln for introduetion into both houses the leglslature the task of introducing it fnto the senate was politely declined by | those the delegation who [had taken part in the ovigination of | the scheme and was shoved off upon | the country who was bam- | Doozled into playing the role of sponsow “by request.” When the dark-lantern | plotters wanted to have the ity council I resolute to poke its nose into the | authority of the present Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, Instead of acting by their own representatives in | the couneil, they prevail upon some one | who is orant thelr intent to | present the resolution “at the request L of another councilman, Why all this skulking | Why should not each L N | city council introduce his own tions? Is not the fact that the Is afrald to father his bantling a con fession that there is something wrong with his progeny? Why should any councilman shove his resolutions or measures upon an unsuspect- ¢ fellow councilman if the proposition meritorions and deserving of approval? Should he not vather be anxious to have the credit for whatever e does if there is any | eredit to be derived from it at all? But anonymous politics is the regular practice of the star-chamber coterie that is trying to extend and strengthen its grip upon our local governments, So susceptible their plots and con- spiracies to injury from exposure to the light of day that they ¢ to be liatehed at night or behind barred doors which open only upon presentation of the secret password. So noble is the objeet of this patriotic order that mem- bers are ashamed to acknowledge they belong to it. Men in public office can be sandbagged, Prof. Marble has recently been sandbagged, so much more safely in the dark. The treasury can be looted more readily under cover. Proseriptive methods progper only when bidden from the public eye. When they are exposed in all their hideons ness, as they will be in the coming local campaign, cvery honest citizen who favors good and eflicient govern- ment must repudiate them. members of senator, of ms hiding? of the reso'u ithor and member popular re as . AN ANTI-TRUST WAR. There is a contest going on the New England Wholesale association and the American Tobaceo company, otherwise known as the cigarette trust, the result of which will doubtless interest wholesale groce generally who handle the product of the trast, which said to be one of the most arl and oppressive of its Kind. weeks the a ition, which embraces 1 Jjobbers, undertook to assert its independence of the trust, the son being that the combination had reguired of those who sold its goods that the uld not se'l the cigarettes of any other company. Having got its grip on the association it entered upon an autocratic policy which wed a revolt and the mem- bers of the association resolved to sell the product of another tobacco and cigarette company, as well as those of the trust. The latter has retaliated Dby refusing to consign any more of its goods to members of the ation, and so the situation stands. The mat- ter is interesting chiefly as an ex- ample, because if the New England irocers’ association shall win, and un- doubtedly it can do so if it will tirmly adhere to the position it has ken, it will stimulate those elsewhere who are subjected to a like oppression to unite in ting it. The power of most of the trusts is large in the fact that dealers permit themselves to be cooreed and submit complacently to almost any amount of oppression, when if they would organize a determined resistance to the unreasonable demands and ex- actions of the combinations they could very generally bring them to terms. It is to be hoped the New England 5 s will carry their point and that their example will ve a widespread influence. between Grocers' is nt age sl ass0C| The order of the secretary of war in- creasing the boundaries of the Depart ment of the Platte is in keeping with the recommendations of General Brooke and must greatly facilitate the move ment of troops. It will be noted that this military division has in recent years had more field duty to perform than has any or all other divisions combined. Omaha is naturally and actually the head center of military operations and it Is pleasing” to note the secretary of war sees the impor- tance of strengthening the department. It has been fixed. The papevs are signed, sealed and delivered. For six e nights during fair week the of Omaha will be as light day. This alone will equal any feature of the many attractions vided and it has further merit. The program of evening festivities will be quite as ambitious as the day cad, thus affording all who must work dur- ing the day an opportunity to enjoy themselves, Omaha proposes to put up a high class show. SUCCes: streets one pro ex-warden of the Indiana state captured the wardenship United States peniten Leavenworth, ska furnished a number of can it not for the fact that her ex-wardens are without standing administration, An prison of the new tiary at Fort might hay didates were all but one of publieans and a democratie has re. with the | 5 R i R0 O i A AN A8 KONy 1895, nnlnnnu K DLAST. 1] B Chleago Record: It is shocking that the {agents and representatives of clvilization 14 fail to Take Into ¢ fderation In this case what th Eaue laws mean to an Indian | To torbid an Mdidn to hunt and fish is much | like forbiddim a#white man to eat. When he violates the game law it is in response t A ractal Instiifec A good deal more powerful than any respecy, for ce law, He is a | tlawbreaker, of cdutse, and should be inhibited | from repeating-his offense, but of his crimes this is the one which should be regarded n leniently. 1f 'the main facts of the affuir at Jackson's «Hold haye been correctly re ported there §s ryom for a stern investiga tion | cni been ready. and nobl: set by Fenimor bas rights and 1t w ago Chroniele the “ndian may not nor y Erough injustico has in (his country al be at all thmes great he attain to i per, but being human h 11d not be at all a work supererogation if the administration at Washington. which stands as the parent, pr tector and spons of the red men in Amer iea today, should send to Wyoming one or two men, imbued with a high sense of just and not ignorant of the Indian character, investigate the right in this controversy, a controversy by which thus far Indians alon | have lost their lives, and to endeavor to bring it to a conclusion without the further shedding of blood Chicago Inter Idaho is not nec once of an | whenever gnd | opened far vations that that the wh are abunda selve and He an: The ily alarming Indian outbreak” is chronic wherever the white man has on the frontier of Indlan res ts is quite s In the Jackson's Hole country Iy able to take care of them it already ie reporied that the Indians were “routed by seltlers.”” But if | the situation really be scrious the troops stationed on the frontier may be depended upon. Never has there been hesitancy, far less timidity, on the part of the officers and men to whose eare the property and lives of the ploneers of the far west have been in- trusted, and very seldom has there been lack ot wisdom in their movements. ~Should the 1ndMus of the Bannock and the Shoshone tribes really be on the warpath the end will be short, sharp, and decisive, and disastrous to th news f The “im sm i SH CAMPAIGN, Denver News he English say the Irish are too excitable to be permitted to govern themselves, How about the English mobs? They seem to be rather too excitable to be allowed o govern any one elsé) even the Irish. Minneapolis Journal: Ge married Mary Leiter of Ch at the English election by his liberal opponent ge Curzon, who %0, won a seat 64 majority ove: Curzon's wife worked with him all through the campaign and did more than he did to secure the victory. An American girl can fit into almost any new conditions, jlobe-Democrat: Probably there is more ruffianism in every political campaign in England than there is in the United States in ten campaigns. England has had political parties and political canvasses for nearly two centuries, yet the masses of Englishmen know little about the political amenities or decencles as Digger Indians Philadelphia_Ledger: The parliamentary campaign in Great Britain is attended with more disorder: and violence than attends congressional elections in this country. Sey eral examples of blackguardism are reported from England, where andidates have been freely trented to of stones and mud. The United States has gothing to learn from the mother country in the way of politieal manners, Buffalo Express:’ The British bullies are not, therefore, to be excused on the ground that they are bullies. The fact that the press anl the bet asses treat the knock- ing down of women as worthy of no partic lar notice shows a‘lack of manliness which puts them below out standard. The Express suggests that &n American who feels a ten- dency towerd “Anglemania cure himself of it by studying (s phase of the British charac or. e el Now You're Talking. Indianapolis News. When' Kansas' ‘and Nebraskd takea cheer- ful view of life, it is time for everybody to rejolce. These 'states are boasting of their big crops this year. —~—~ Silver's Real Champio G democrat Bland s the ablest and sincerest man on the free silver side. If the silverltes hav any earnestness and sense of gratitude they will nominate him for the presidency. e Linble to Hit One. St Louls Republic. Governor Boies of Towa is still explainin his last bullion circular. It is hoped by Mr Boies and his friends that the next national democratic platform will be in line with one of these explanations Cutting Out the Spoils, Minneapolis Journal. The employes of all have been placed the pension agencies under the civil servic rules. The agencles have been strongholds of patronage because pension agents have made their own appointments and gave their relatives and henchmen the positions. Man. Both sections of the de party In Ne- braska have Invited Carlisle to \is was prob- Boles the man they were looking for to make speeches on the financial question so that all would be satisfled. cretary n Dattle, Philadelphia Times. There has been no factional contest fn any party in this state since the organization of republicanism forty years ago that approached the desperation of the factional struggle o tensibly between the Quay and Hastings forces of Pennsylvania. Why it should be so is incomprehensible to the great mass of intel- ligent and dispassionate republicans, but it s 50 and must either grow in intensity and bitterness until the 28th of August, or be ended by mutual concessions and compromise. Partisan Drufality, Philadelphia Press. When some English newspapers again call attention to the violenca of American elec- tions and the dangers of universal suffrage it will be in order to ask their attention to the scenes that occurred in Newcastle. Eng., Thursday evening. A mob of Mr. Morley's supporters, disappointed at his rejection at the polls, paradedl the streets stoning the windows and houses of his opponents and at- tacking persans wearing rival political colors, and the disturbamee was not quelled until mounted policetblered the streets. It Is safe to claim that such a disgraceful scene bas not been witugssed in an American city at the close of an election In a generation. Ay —— oom for Swindl Intianapolls Journal It reports ares true, and they seem to be verified by expertende, our extradition treaty with Mexico isovadically defective. It is said that undew:the naturalization laws of Mexico a foreigagrJnay go to that country, and, by renouncing allegiance to the country from which he camd and becoming a ecitizen of Mexico, may avofl extradition for a crime committed in the codatry of his birth. Such a law is calculat®l fo make Mexico a haven of refuge for rgscals and swindiers from the United States, and as a matter of fact it soems to be. fApr government should insist on such a revision or construction of the extradition treaty a€ will close the big hole through which sa/many swindlers are now escaping. A On, that Dista Loulsville Courler-Journal, Some callow siripling who appears to be trying to teach himself how ta write in the San Francisco Bulletin—much to his own discomfiture and wholly at the cost of that otherwise excellent newspaper—affects to be- lieve that the editor of the Courler-Journal is in his dotage. ‘We shall not argue the point but It the venturesome urchin who makes of his impudent levity he would spee find, both in the welght and the agility of open palm upon that part of the human anat- omy which at an early age we are told “was made to bo spanked,” that the infirmity in question has not descended below the neck Bad boys were ever lucky, more's the pity, and 8o we shzl} have to chastise this one at rather inconvenlent range. possible | it were within arm's length of the subfect | i | | | LANE WAS SLOW IN STOPPING Onptain Quick Does Not Take the Matter Very Seriously, SPANIARD WAS IN DEAD EARNEST ire and solta Sent tions € Shot Ac Crew oxs Her 1o Ask Ques- WASHINGTON, Jul firing at Carrie B, schooner, by a Spanish cruiser The an fr the coast has not yet been reported offic the State | the Lane, Ameriean Spanish ally to ite department, and in the absence of officials decline to express an opinion on the subject The important point to be established in this case Is the exact location of the Lane she was signalled to stop. The cap- tain’s statement fs that this was off Cape Antonlo, but does not say whether or not he was in the three-mile limit. 1t he could not claim exemption from ng to a demand to establish his identit ended by for his any definite statement of the act th when is he was he spon as in the was ¢ Allianca following a ar route, one from port to port in the West Indies. In view of the fact that several filibustering expeditions have succeeded in landing in Cuba from the c f Jamaica and other of the West Indlan islands, officials here are not surprised that the Spanish commander should exercise every precaution to make sure of the Innocent purpose of any small sailing craft seen hovering about the Cuban coasts, and it is felt that this particular com mander acted within his rights it he fired a ghot across the Lane's bow if failed to stop when signalled in regular form. The small size and appearance of the schoon it is said, were against her and calculated to excite suspicion as to her object. The government officers here have received no information concerning the firing on the Lane by a Spanish war vessel. Navy officers who read the report of the affair, as described by Captain Quick, express the opinion that the Spaniard did not exceed his authority in overhauling the schooner, if the latter was in the territory of Cuba. The Spanish govern ment, it is held, is menaced by the danger of the landing of filibustering expeditions on the Cuban coast, and in exerting itself to prevent such landing has a right to overhaul and learn the character of any vessel within the three-mile limit that might be suspected of having on board those entertaining designs against the government or a cargo Intend for the f[nsurgents. Captain Quick's stol shows he paid no attention to the man-of- war for an hour or more. This, it is said, probably caused the captain of the latter to Delieve the schooner was engaged in fli- bustering methods and prompted him to take decisive action in preventing her escape. One naval officer with whom a reporter talked was emphatic in his declara- tion that the captain of the man-of-war was perfectly justified in what he had done. As- suming, of course, that the schooner was within the territorial limits of Cuba, it was the business of the Spanish government to intercept any vessel that might be used by the insurgents. The right of a cruiser of one nation to know the national character of any strange ship she meets at sea is sus- tained by writers on international law. It is held that the party making the inquiry must make himself fully known before he can lawfully demand such knowledge from the other vessel. If this be refused, it is Leld, the ipquiring vessel may fire a blank shot, and, in case of further delay, a shotted gun may be fired across the bows of the delinquent by way of positive summons. Any measure beyond the summoning shot which the commander of an armed ship may take for the -purpose of ascertaining the nationality of another vessel must be at his peril. It any report of the affair be made to the State department some steps will likely be taken by this government, should the circum- stances seem to warrant it. If the statement of Captain Quick that a solid shot was first fired directly at his vessel Is true it may make this case a more serious one. THINKS NO HARM WAS DONE. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 25.—The Span- ish minister, Senor Dupuy de Lome, when shown the Associated press dispatch con- ning the fring on the schooner Lane by a Spanish man-of-war, said the dispatch was the first intimation’ he hadsreceived of the affair, and that owing to the absence of full details he was unable to discuss the matter He said, however: ‘“The commanding of- fcors of all the Spanish men-of-war have trict orders not to interfere with lawful traffic on the high seas. There may have been somethin in the appearance of this schooner to arouse the suspicions of the man- of-war and she was accordingly overhauled There was no harm done, anyway, in ascer- taining the nort the vessel hailed from LEWES, Del, July 25.—The schooner Carrie E. Lane, arrived here last night nd reported having been fired on by a Spanish warship, is still anchored off the breakwater, awaiting order for the disposal of her cargo of sugar. Captain F. W. Quick the commander of the schooner, was seen by a reporter of the A ated press today and asked for additional particulars of the inck Captain Quick, who seems dis- posed to treat the matter lightly, said Lane cleared from Cienfugos, which is on the outn side of Cuba, on July 11. A fair wind rried her to Cape Antonio, the western ex- tremity of the fsland, which point she was about being rounded at 3 o'clock on the morn- ing of the 14th, when a steamer flying the Spanish flag,anchored nearly a mile away, fired a shot across her bow. The Lane was then a mile and a half from the shore and of course within Spanish waters. Our vessel was at the time making a tack and as all hands were busy at work we did not stop because of the first shot. The Spaniard then fired a second, which passed about twenty feet in front of our bow and struck the water beyond. We then lost no time in heaving to. A ‘small boat had in the meantime put off from the Spanish vessel. It contained four marines and the officer. On reaching our ship the officer came on board, accompanied Dby the marines. The officer asked to see the ship's papers. I produced them and they were satisfactory to him. The ,marines, under the officer’s orders, then searched the Lane, locking into the hold and forepeak, but they found nothing of a contraband nature and they soon returned to their boat. We then proceeded on our voyage.' Secretary Gresham was but not cruising she NO NEED FOR THE B 2 JACKETS. Governme of Col serve Order at n. WASHINGTON, July 25.—The apprehen- sion of serious troble on the Isthmus of Pan- ama, owing to the strike of railway em- ployes, was much relieved by the receipt of a telegram today from United States Consul General Vifquain at Panama, stating that the governor of the province of Panama had as- sured the consul general of his ability to maintain order there. It is therefore im probable that any warship will now be dis- patched to the isthmus unless affairs assume & more threatening aspect than they wear at present. The United States steamship At- lanta has left the Florida coast, where she was lying off Key West for a week past, and arrived at Havana yesterday, and so would be available for service at Colon if it was deemed necessary to send a warship there, Some mystery 1s made at the Navy depart- ment of the Atlanta’s misston on the Cuban coast, and no one will say what her destina- tion is. There is, however, reason to believe that, as a result of the special cabinet meet- ing held in Washington last week, Secretary Herbert abandoned his intention to leave the Florida coast and the West Indles without a warship, and ordered the Atlanta to remain on the watch to head off thg filibustering ex- pedition which the Spanish minister reported was about to clear from some point in the United States for Cuba bia Able to Pre- e of Letter Carrlers. ~The work of the inspectors who have been letter carriers in the free offices throughout the country continues bear fruit First Assistant Postmaster C ral Jones has sent orders to the postmas at Indianapolis, Toledo and Syracuse, N Y., to suspend or dischar a number of their carriers on charges loafing and In temperance, 3 ds for nget Sou Tmprovements. {INGTON, July 25.—Bids have been ““spot aelivery to on TS postoffice ting” the Hows reported | a vessel | opened at the Navy department for certain Improvements at the Puget sound naval sta- tion. For the construction of office buildings and officers’ quarters the lowest bids were the Zindorf Construction company of Seattle, at $32 881; for dredging the approaches to the channel the lowest bidders e the New ork Dredging company at 387 cents cublic yard for the entirs work, and 38 cents for a limited quantity, with 6% cents addi tional for additional work, For an artesian well and pumping plant the only bid¢ | ward Joylin and J. D, on of Seattle, at ) for the pump, and for the well $100 for 100 feot, $500 for 200 feet, $550 for 300 feet and $5.50 for each additional foot up to 500 feet. BULL FIGHTERS CAN COME N, Trensury Depnrt No Law to WASHINGTON, July The Treasury partment has declined to entertain the pro- made hy the vice president of the Hu o soclety against the admission into this country of bulls and toreadors from Mexico for the bull fighting exhibition at the Atlanta exposition. The & ked that the bulls | be excluded on the ground that they werc fmmoral instruments and the toreadors on the ground that their admission would vio- late the contract labor law. Assistant Secre tary Hamlin in reply cites section 10 of the act of August' 28, 1594, prohibiting the fmpor- tation of “‘any obscene book, pamphlet, draw ing, painting, instruments any other arti- cles of jmmoral nature, vtc.”” The letter then proceeds “I have de- or to inform you that the department is unable to perceive that the importation of bulls for the purpose indicated comes within letter or spirit of the prohibltion contained in the provision of law quoted, and therefore | decline to ssuc the desired instructions | “If, as stated, the exhibition’of bull fighters | Is prohibited by the laws of Georgia, it is presumed that the authorities of that stat will prevent it, but the subject does not ap- pear to come within the jurisdiction of the department. Commissioner of Immigration Stumpf in his letter cites the joint resolution passed by congress Janua . 1895, providing for the exhibition on the exposition grounds of scenes illustrative of arts, customs, ete., of foreign countries and the admission of allens by the secretary for that express purpose. “It therefore becomes the duty of the sec retary of the treasury,” he adds, “to grant admission ta each person holding privileges and concession from such expositions coming within the terms of the joint resolution. It is well known that bull fighting affords one of the chief amusements among the Spanish and Mexican countries, and, it appears the authorities of the exposition have entered into a contract with one J. P. Porteus to bring into the United States certain bull fighters to give exhibitions, as provided by the joint resolution, this department can take no steps to exclude them." CHANCE FOR AMERICAN TRADE. Governo of Martinig Favorable to ed fon of Duties, WASHINGTON, July 25.—Julius G. Tucker, United consul at Martinique, sent to the State department a report of a visit of the newly installed governor of the island, Mr. Noel Parden, to himselt and a confer- ence he had with that official with reference to import duties levied on American products. Mr. Tucker says that he pointed out to Mr. Parden the great benefits which would ac- crue to the people of the island from a mod- ification of these duties, and that the gov creor assured him of a desire to see a re- duction made. Mr. Tucker thinks that should the exc ive duties now levied be modified a large increased trade with the United States would most certainly follow. He adds that he has talked with many of the princi- pal merchants of the island and that they agree that the high duties now levied have proved a failure, in that they have driven the trade to the adjacent English islands. THE PRAIRIE KING, prn's Grip New York our great staple. It is a dis almost an exclusively American projuct, and in value our corn erop s worth more than any other crop we raise. This 15 apparently to be the greatest corn year ever known, and the season is now far advanced as’ to reduce chances of asler to a minimun Ia 1501 we raised ever grown, but we insignificant this y, ered 76,204,000 acres Worl Corn 18 tinctively, %0 dis- the are greatest corn crop going to render it ar, In 1801 coru cov- and yielded an average of twenty-seven busheis to the acre This v tho corn flelds amount to 82,204,000 cres, or 6,000,000 more than in 1891, and all ports indicate a larger yicll p acre than that year But at the same average yleld the crop will amount to 2, 208,000—twg billion two hundred and twenty-two millicn two hundred and eight (housand bushels! Corn worth about 50 cents a bushel not only in markets, but in the feeding of hoge. This crop will therefore add $1,111,104,000 to the country's wealth. Think of 1t! sre than a billion doliars of actual wealth producel In a single year in the shape of & e crop! Who doubts the republic? in prosperity of our great k0 Record. 1t nothing detrimental intervenes try this year will have the largest in its history. 1t comes at a most time. The forei hi the coun- corn crop opportune gn demand for both oats and wheat is declining, while that for corn scems to be increasing. For some years the na- tional government has maintained in Europe 9n agent whose business has been the intro- duction of corn as a food product, and this policy has been productive of good results. Tt has been hard to teach the European that corn was as good a food for man as for other animals, but this fact has come to be understood by the poorer classes—the great food consumers—and the lower pri of corn as compared with wheat has be a powerful incentive to its use. This year's corn crop Is estimated at 2,400,- 000,000 bushels, which is more than 200,000,- 000 in excess of the largest production cf corn on record. With no foreign demand such a crop would be almost a calamity to the producers in this country, but the in- dications are that the export of corn this year will be more than quadrupled. There has ne been so active a demand for corn for export as now, and this demand is more likely to increase than to decline. 1t corn instead of wheat could be made the leading export crop it would be far better for the American farmer. Corn is more easily raised and Is not so exhausting a crop for the soll as wheat or barley. Besides this there is less foreign competition for the producer of corn than for any other grain. The wheat area iy constantly diminishing in America, while the corn area is increasing, and the time may not be far distant when the United States will import instead of export whent for domestic consumption. The growth of the for one of the most hopeful country's foreign trade. gn corn things about trade 1Is this 3 MAD. Dangerons pal G wes-Herald (ind.-rep,) The most discouraging obs that con- stantly looms up to balk the efforts of those who are sincere in their desire for a more conscientious discharge of the sworn obliga- tions of civic officials to whom we commit the public business is that despicable and pernicious stripe of partisanship which sub ordinates public weal to party advantage. While this is notably the era of civie federa tions and of a quickened and d public conscience it is nevertheless a fact that the blindness of abject par'y fealty dally furnishes deplorable instances of moral strabismus in men who in all other relations of life are singularly circumspect and honorable The chastening rod of public discipline re State a ot Chicag per | r was | | portunity AR cently ndministered in various parts of the sountry through the only channel of publio retribution—the ballot box—has not heen without its salutary influence upon the more intelllgent party leaders, and many a caucus manipulator has had the good discernment to see the imperative demand for his permas nent retirement. Dut there yet remain a fow hard-headed bosses into wh oprque craniums the clarion tocsin of civie decercy as not yet penetrated, who still imagine at the despotic alignment of men under a particulsr party title is the highest business in_which the patriot can engsge. The only ar ts many of are based solely upon party considerations. Their zeal for a compact party organization transcends all concern for the public welfare, Is the triumph of any party of ‘igher interest to the people of Tlinols than the punishment of legislative biacklegs? Are the people's tights Lo be bartered and trampled under foot merely to enable legislative vampires to be rotated into offices through the evolutions of party machinery? Has the tariff on sugar or the Monroe doctrine anything to do with the wise and economical administration of the e institutions or the enforcement of city meu them offer the public a_decade party valor. The d business-like management of a city does not mean a lapse of veneration for the illustrious names that adorn the history of political par- ties. Our national contests afford an op for the display of that Inspiring a_common sentiment or conviet that binds men together in party servitude. But in questions fnvolving the enforcement of state law and the | of munieipal fran- chises the fear of a mpairment of party discipline will have no welght with men who value the honor of the common- wealth and the Interests of the citizens as im- measurably above and beyond the selfish machinations of spollsmen whose only zeal for party compactness Is for their own ag- grandizement and and rvice does not nec co of party spirit re for the decent fealty probab! PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, The reorganized weath to fly its Kite pretty his to the project, however M. Beuve, an cnthusiastic admirer of Victor Hugo, has a tion of 4,000 portraits of that author, 2,500 of which are caricatures. William Mack Brooks of Norway, Me., clatms the honor of being the oldest school- master of his state. He has taught 114 terms. Five of tha present at the to use ¢ on abo Lureau threatens There Is a string royal personages who were Orleans wedding were obliged r trumpets to hear what was going t them. People who have wondered how Gallienne, the decadent poet, pronounces his name will be pleased to know that the Lon. don World rhymes it with “battalion."” R. L. Death of Philadelphia always creates a sensation when he writes his name in a hotel register. Despite his melancholy name, he fs said to be a man of genial temperas ment. At last the official fair is completed. It comprises 3 of printed and typewritten matter, trated by 2,000 photographs and twenty-two volumes, A. J. Blackwell, the dian who owns the cit David in Indian Territory, announces that he will build a $300,000 temple at David City, Okl., for the perpetuation of Indian religlons. After more than sixteen years of litiga- tion the contest over the will of Bishop Ames (Methodist Episcopal) has been settled. By the decision of the court all the children will have an equal share of what is left of the estate after the legal costs are paid “Was there a hitch in the ceremony?"* whispered a late arrival at the wedding. “None at all,” repliel the bridesmaid; “the arrangements were perfect and everything worked smoothly.” “I'm sorry to hear it. [ thought that was what weddings were for.” 1t is generally conceded that Attorney Gene eral Harmon possesses In rare measure those qualities caleulated to make his administra- tion of the legal department of the national governmentNa red letter one. He s a scientific base ball player and a connoisseur of ple. gnor di Prisco, an Italian country gentles man, recently dug up on his estate twenty= eight ancient silver vases of Greek workman= ship. He tried to sell them in Paris for £100,000, but under the law forbidding tha export of antiquities from Italy the Italian minister of education began proceedings st him. Conan Doyle has discovered that equal to Dickens or Thackeray tion for American lecturc audiences, He tells his countrymen that a_lecturer makes less money than he would by staying at hom. that $100 a lecture is what he may expeet, and that If hie expects to do much more than pay his expenses while scelng the country he is likely to b> disappointed. Richard Lo report of the World's 500 pases is illus- bound in rich and erratic In- of Blackwell and he is not s an attrac- Washington wilt, wilt, Oh, collir, muistly inert! And’that laundered cuff; What a draggled blufr! "Tis the song of the summer shirt, wilt, Chicago Record. He rocked the boat In foolish glee, And tried to make the others scream; His friends are grappling now to see If they can fish him from the stream, Tnd Music (he ng, napolls Journal. When avenly malid, you was Had § n agent w And by od b Bxploited as Inow) vho her pralses sung? interested friends, was she v infant prodigy? Detroit Free Press. She put her little hand in mine And put it there to s 8o very small {t was that I Was ‘euchered right away. w York Recordes 't some inventor, sage or mentor, nd that chicf of boons, wear-resisting Non-b; persisting, geing pant oons? Detrolt Tribune. There once was a terrible col., Whose thirst was simply infol. If he suffercd a wound, No matter were found, He would treat it as boing intol. Is hovering 'round me yet. Puck. She dives, she floals with zest On the highest breaker's crest; The summer girl is right in the whirl— And she likes high rollers best A ¥ TURE PROBABILI ston grandma, is it really true That men did once delight look on girls as goddesses Who dwelt upon a height? 0, did they really slave for them ‘And think it was but right? o, 0, had they then no grievances "lhey organized to air? Did they ne'er vow her tyranny Was more than they could bear, When woman wore a petticoat, 'And never cut her halr? 0, were men happy subjects once, Of an unconscious queen, Ere yet the sea of Progress’ came "Twixt them to intervene That heavy sea in which, today, We watch her throne careen? Was she a thing of beauty, once, Ere yet she did affright A wond'ring world by blaZing out In bloomerettes bedights Ere Freedom In her books was made Synonymous with Fight? 0, grandma, T was born too late! 'Alump comes In my throat To think that a divinity, On whom all men might dote, Died an unnatural death the day That woman got @ vote. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report Royal ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking owder