Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1895, Page 4

S ot e s | 'THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. 7N)GHWA'I R, Ldi L BLISHED EVERY MORNING, M8 OF SUBECIIPTION t Bunday), One Year, and Sunday, On . ‘Ons Yea [ Omahn, Ths Nes Tul) Bouth Omahn. Singer Bk Council Diuffs, 12 Pearl Biroet Chicago Gffice, 317 Chamber of New Yotk Ttooma 13, 14 ana 13, T Washington, 107 F Strect, N. W. CORRESPONDENC All communications relating to fiews and_edi- torial matter should be nddressed: To the Editor DUSINESS LETTER All husiness « and yemittauces ghould be addressed 5 The Tise Publishing Company, Bo made pivable 19 tha order of the company A1 BEE PUBLIZHING COMPAN rer N and 21th Sts Bullding, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George . Tasehuck f The | MNahing company, being wworn, siy the actual number of full and complete cople the Daily Morning, Lvenin 1 Sunday printed during the month of A was Tollows 1 Pub that duly 1.1 1,1 19,0 Tot w8 deduct opies wnd returnel Not « Daily EORAR T TZECHTCK Sworn he and subscribed In o my presence this 2nd day of Sopt mber, 1595 (Senl.) N. . FEjL, Nofary Public. Kelr Iardie onght to have remained at home and watched his own political fences. to build up Omaba s to merchants and buy The way patronize Om home made goods. TReeeipts of eattle during August were greatly in excess of those of August a year ago, while the prospect is that 1806 will be the greatest year in the history of the South Omaha mark In the bright lexicon of youth there fs no such word as fail.” With this motto inscribed on their banners the managers of the State Fair association have overcome all obstacles and re- deemed all promises. The large hofels should not put up their prices during state fair week. If done it would injure them as well as the town. Hotel proprictors should lose no time in advertising their rates ¢ the fair, so that prospective visitors may know what to expect. The Grand Army reunion at Louisville commences today and promises to prove a highly successful gathering. These national meetings of the Grand Army have come to be events of much more than local importance. This year's re- union will draw veterans from all parts of the union. The frosts have arrived and are doing trifling damage in sowe parts of the state. The principal crops, however, are well heyond injury by anything but the heaviest frec Only-+ an unusual climatic change can prevent Nebraska from havvesting one of the biggest corn erops known to its hi Between the dispute over the award of the governor's cup and the complaints over the failure of the advertised sham battle to materialize, this year's en- campment of the Nebrask ional Guard threatens to hold the hoards for weeks and monthis after the time al- lotted to it on the military program. The international yacht res will continue to be the uppermost topic in the sporting world this week. The Ameriean representative having made 50 good a beginning will naturally be expected to keep up the showing. The widespread interest in the event onl shows with what rapidity the popu My of yachting and yachting races is Increasing. Ex-Speaker Crisp says that Whitney 18 the man for the demoeratie presiden- tial nomination. Mr. Crisp has just re- turned from his European tvip. Were it not for the fact that his recent visit o his Dirtliplace In England impressed upon his mind his ineligibility to the presidency by reason of his foreign birth, Mr. Crisp might be saying that he is the man himself. Silver Dick Bland has it all planned and settled for a split in the democratic national convention next . The di- vision, Mr. Bland assures us in an inter- view, is inevitable and is to eleave to lines separating the enstern demoerats from the western. This may perhaps not be what will happen, but it s what the free silver democrats appear to be working for. The question is simply, Will they succeed in their purpe Prince Bismarck needs the assistance comes to forming an opinion as to the quality of American whisky., Whenever the prince wants any help we know of several eminent American authorities on this question whom we can recommend both as to ability and capacity, and who we are sure will be willing to accept that high honor. They will tell whether the prince's whisky Is good whisky or not, even if they have to drink it all in order to find out. Prince Bismarck will not have to call for volunteers more than once, The story which comes from London of the disaster that has overtaken the members of a negro colony sent from the United States to central Africa by one of the colonization societies ought to eall for an investigation Into the facts. According to this story, Amer- fean negroes are lured from their home with promises of a lucrative field fo work In Afriea and practically sent to their death. If such is the case the men who are promoting these colon!, tion schemes are the ones upon whom the responsibility rests and who should be made to pay the peunalty of their misdeeds confesses that he of experts when it | that they cannot pass | interest in IMPORTANT INDUSTRY THREATENED, The lrrepressible conflict between the men who have raised the price of steel | billets and the manufacturers of tin plate will be watehed with a great deal , {0f Interest by all Americans who dosire 1o see the Industry permanently estab. lished in this country. The steel billet | manuracturers have vecently succeeded in raising the price of their commodity to a point that threatens 1o closo the tin plate mills and throw the ¢ i plate trade into the hands of the British concerns, The tin tire plate manufacturers agsert petition with the product of foreign mills that employ cheaper labor and enjoy the privilege of exporting to America at a m nominal import duty. Whether this is true or whether the complaint is made for the purpose of vesisting the ad- vance in the price of steel billets Is not definitely known. If the marked ad- vance of the steel product is the result of a_combination the tin plate men may succeed in compelling a reduction that will enable them to keep th miils open. The men who are operating the for their stimulating a demand thefr products instead of dviving patrons out of bus If, on the other Dillets Is due hand, th to ine idvance in steel ased cost of | i ¥ produetion, no permanent relief can be looked for until the tin plate duty to a point that will en- able American mills to compete with those of England and Wales, ufacture of tin plates in the United States has passed the experimental An industry that comprises 187 20,000 congress restores period. mills and men and has sustained itself in the face of cut-throat competition with European wares, and in o time of unprecedented Dusiness depression, must have a sub- stantial foothold. With a tariff adjusted on a rational basis that will counter the advantage of cheap labor the English tin plate manufacturers enjoy the industiy would be sure to expand until the whole Ameriean de- mand for tin plate would be supplied by the home product. BALFOU EXPLANATION. The explanation given by Mr. Bal- four of hiz declaration in the House of Comun which wi gererally accepted an assur- ance that the Salisbury government would do nothing to countenance or en- conrage an international monetary con- ference, does not put the matter in any more favorable light, although it w: presumably the intention of Mr., Balfour to do this, or at least to lessen the feel- ing of disappointment among the British bimetallists which his declaration caused. The conservative leader in the Commons 8 fon to reiterate his faith in international bimetallism, but there I8 nothing pavticularly reassuring in this, because nobody had ever ques- tioned or doubted it. What value does it possess, however, in view of his posi- tion that an international conferenc: would be useless unless the governments that would be represented in it came to some under ing on the main point at issue in advance of a conference? It this were done what necessity would there he for a conference, the object of which is to enable financial exports to disenss and if possible agree upon some plan for submission to the several gov- ernments interested? The idea of an agreement between the governments as a prerequisite to calling & conference ysurd, notwithstanding its high source, and if having any design as heing intended (o obstrvet the movement 1tional conference. Mr. Bal- four's explanation will not help the eause o which e professes 1o be friendly. gives employment to ake 1 INDIAN TERRITORY COMMIS It is to be hoped the commission of which ex-Senator Dawes of Massa- chusetts is chairman, now in session in the Indian territory, will be able to ac- complish something for the adjustment of the difficuities which have made that territory a scene of lawlessness and trouble for years, to the reproach of the government, which has not per- formed its whole duty in the matter, The Indian territory has too long been a dark spot on our map as the refuge of desperate men and the scene of out- vages and crimes the perpetrators of which have generally eseaped the pen- alties. It is not the fault of the In- dians that this state of things has ex- isted, but the failure of the government to protect them in guarantesd rights, The task of the commission s to bring about a new order of things, which will be just alike to the Indians and the whiteg. . For the latter the most important matter to be settled is the town site question. It is stated that there are 300,000 white people in the territory under various conditior some at the vequest of the Indians some by thelr permission, and many more because nobody objected to their being there. These white people have built up towns, but are mere tenants at suffrance, without a particle of title to the lands on which they built. The Indian courts are closed against them, as are the Indian schools to their chil dren, 30,000 of whom lave no other opportunity for schooling, excepting those parents ave able to hire private teschers, They have no voice in the government of the five Indian na- tions, nor a police officer to protect them or their property against vie- lence. Mr. Dawes says the commission is directing its attention especially to obtain for these white people some title to the lands on which the towns are built and that protection in the govern ment necessary to preserve the peace. Another question to be deter- mined is that the tervitory shall be held either according to the original title, for all Indians equally, or shall be al lowed in severalty to them, so that each may Lold his own share in fee, Blections were held by the different tribes last month, these questions being the issues, and it is said the commis- sion is encouraged to believe that be fore the meeting of congress it will be able to report essential prog toward their favorable solution. 1t is impossible that the present con- dition of affairs in the Indian territory can permanently coutinue and so ur- STO? whose sly continne com- | steel mills will donbtless see their own | The man- | MONDAY, went ix the demand for a change that it would scem the hopeful expectation ’.,r the commisslon may be renlized. Its proposals, however, ha met with a great denl of opposition, for there are some who are interested fn hay existing conditions continue, WHERE REFORM MUST BEGIN. The consensus of opinion among all | of Tooley street. (%It was not { classes of our cit change in methods of loeal taxation and admiaistration has become an imper tive necessity. Even those who still de- | sire to meet this demand of the hour on partisan lines are agreed in this. The only question upon which opinion is not yet completely erystallized is, How ean reform be brought about most speedily and most offectively and what course shall be pursned? It is an indisputable fact that the abuses from which this eity and county are suffering Ia if not wholly due to the system which enables profes- stonal politicians to foist themselves into offic for which they have no qualifica tions and makes the distribution of places and perquisites the rewards of political activity, Even under ordinary Teonditions it has been extremely difficult v the better elements of the com- munity to assert themselves in primaries land fons. The stream never rises above its source. When conven- tions are made up of ward bummers and men with no visible means of sup- port, except a political pull, the candi- dates either trot with that ¢l are bound up with it and mortgaged to it in advance. The result is extravagance, incompetency, multiplieation of tax- |eaters, excessive salavies, wretehed serv- |lce and defaleation. Under present con- {ditions when an oath-bound combine of {unknown irvesponsibles dictates nomina- | tions and policies, reform in local g | ernment on partisan lines becomes solutely inpossible, No movement, however, will plish material reform unless it s the tap-root of overtaxation and administeation. The office most portant to the taxpayer is not the 000 a year sagar plum of district court nor the $6,000 a year treasurer- It 1s the oftice of assessor, council- mer and member cony S8 or accom- mal- im- ship. man, county commn of the Board of Bducation. Under the tax system in vogue the assessor ean do more to make taxation burdensome than all the taxeaters that draw salaries on the pay roll for doing nothing. The out- rageous favoritism and discrimination systematically practiced by our as- sessors has become almost unbearable 1d no relief can be obtained unle spaying citizens pool issues and elect unpurchasable and fearless men as as- SESSOUS, But honest assessors alone will not protect the taxpayers from treasury raids and o aps. The demand of the hour is for a business administration in the city hall and court house by men of known integrity and business capacity, who will accept the positions not solely for the money there is in them or the opportunities they offer for jobs and perquisites, Reform must go from the bottom up- ward and not from the top downward. THE TRON AND STEEL BOOM. There is no more noteworthy fact in connection with the business recovery than the steady advance in the price of iron and steel, due to an extraordinary demand. A Pittshurg dispateh that the present demand for some forms of steel is almost unprecedented and customers insist on pushing for sup- Dplic Particularly this the condi- tion in the demand for boiler, firehox and like forms of steel plates, and it is =aid that manufacturers of this line will accept no orders at any terms for the next three months. Manufac- turers of rails have recently ‘been in conference discussing the advisability of an advance and it is to be expected that the price of rails will go up. A Cleveland paper remarks that con- servative men in the iron trade n hardly belive that such a rush of orders as has been experienced during the last few months can continue to keep the mills and furnaces running at their top speed. The production of iron and steel bas been above the demand s0 much of the time for the last twenty years that the present condition of the industry altogether abnormal. Nevertheless, this paper s it s quite possible that the buyers of iron and steel will be hard to satisfy, for at least a year or two. So much of ihe natural consumption of iron and steel Dbeen postponed on account of the hard times, for the last two years, that the accumulated needs of the country would alone ereate an extraordinary demand for iron in many forms. Some of this delayed business has not yet begun to be felt. Railroad building has amounted to little for a long time past and when it revives there will be a new demand upon the mines, furn and mills which can hardly fail to keep the iron industry moviug at a good rate for at least a year or two. The condition of the iron and industry 1y regarded as criterion of general business condi- tions, and if it may be so regarded now it certainly shows the situation to be very satisfactory. At any rate that industry has rarely experienced higher degree of activity and prosperity than it is now realizing and this means a great deal for the labor of the coun- tey. It may be pertinent to ask whether if demoeratie policy as embodied in the Wilson bill had been carired out there would now be this activity in the American iron and st industr; Very likely not and instead the British industry would be thriving, whercas it is considerably depressed. some seems is ns Bob Ingersoll says that we have a land where 500,000,000 men and women and children can be supported and educated without any trouble. It is of course not a question of precise figures, but it is plain that we bave by no means ap- pronched anywhere near our limit of population, The only way to aug- ment the ural rate of increase is by welcoming the immigra- tlon of desirable citizens from other ountries. Imuigration must continue £0 long as there is tervitory in the United States still to be developed, g the | zens is that a radical | 1) NENRA MK 10¢ yn Globe-Democraf: Tho Nebraska democrats | are trying the experiment this year of divid- | Ing themselveX {nto two parties when there [ 1sn't any eharfée for them to succeed as a | single organizit(oi), Dubuque Telsgraph: The resolutions d by the state convention at Lincoln h the ktatement he democracy Nebraska eoagratulates,” ete This re- calls the old $tory anent the three tailors STRATGHTS, but the federal Meehotders of Nebraska who congratulated.” foux City Trihune: At the Lincoln con- vention there was no covering up of any- thing. The hall was packed with sure enough democrate, and there was no getting down on knees to populists begging for coalition, It was a gathering of geunine democrats, and the platform adopted has the ring, and the fire of sound democracy. It is not cxpected, however, that the republican can- didates can be defeated, but the work of the Lincoln convention will result in bringing wandering democrats back to the party, and in 1896 the party will present a solid front. As an f{llustrat of what strange bedfollows politics sometimes makes, it only needs to be said that Mr. Mahoney, the democratic can- didate for supreme judge, is the law partner of Mr. Smythe, the chairman of Mr. Bryan's state central committee, ———— Plalnt of n Sufferer, Indianapolls News. Tha man %ho spends an hour or two each evening eprinkling his lawn can sympathize with Secretary Merton's anxiety about the desiruction of grasses. @ Podbagre Gorman Ready for ¥ Chicago Record. 1t Grover Cleveland were more of a pol- itician he mi see how a little tender sclicitude on behalt of Mr. Gorman just now might convert that gentleman to a strong conviction in favor of third terms — Freedom's Struggle in New York Sun t that Spain has uzed Cuba as a mere means of income for herself, Impos- 1g all sorts of burdens upon the island stands in the way of any compromise in the present struggle. The patriots have learned that no rellance is to be placed upon her professions of a desire to deal mcre le- niently or more justly with the Cubans, and that in any case Spanish administration would make impossible any amelioration attempted by the laws. Free Cuba is their cry, and with that as thelr motto they hope ce. Cuba. The very ecked. Journal. ach of the public service is the of the goverument care more con- ucus than in the preservation of the for- ests, At every session of congress there are bills under consideration . to save the trees n the government land from destruction, and from these it appears that the work of spo ation goes on in spite of all efforts to the contrary, not sellom with the and connivancs of the government agents A similar complaint {s heard from time to time with reference to timber lands belonging to some of the states PR Prog % Polnts the Way. St Louls Republic. Fraker's captura {s another example of the conquost of civilization over erime. From the newspapers a drummer—a member of a fraternity which is one of commercial civil- izatton's highest products—got posted. He posted the insurance companies. =~ Fraker's companfon was kept in sight by means of mails and wires. All distances were over- come and the wrongdoer was captured Philosophers say. that education does mnot necessarily improve the moral nature of man- kind. , Maybe not; but modern progress makes the way of the trangressor harder and harder. Seeref of Politieal Suce; St Paul Dispateh, Tt is an absolute condition of success in American politics that leaders who desire to lead the people nu$t get near the people and stay with them to the end. This sitting back in luxurions Union League club rooms or in elegantly equipped political club rooms and merely giving orders cuts no figure in leadership with the people. It i3 men like Quay, Gorman, Brice and Platt who get near the people, who take the cake, whetber their influence be good or bad. 1If men favoring a good cause care to dethrone ““boss| they must off with their kid gloves and do as the devil does. Until the policy is changed in that respect “hossism” will ba on top and will only be scotched—not killed. gt s Drifting Toward Crisin, Cincinnatl Enquirer, The crisis for which we are heading so straight involves the question whether Great Britain shall be permitted to cla'm righ's under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, despite the fict that she has never treated it as bindin upon herself. Her fin of Niciragua last spring weuld alone tify this govern- me in refusing to listen e mon to the pretensions that she has eny existing treaty s under the treat: Great Britain will nct participate in the construction cf a canl in Nicaragua or any otler porticn of Central America. A canal will be ccnstructed by Americans under the protecticn of the United States government, and perhaps with its aid. The neutrality of that canal will be guaranteed by this government, which will be the sole Judge of its own duties with re spect to that neutrality. This question will 1 upon at the presidential election It Great Britain should be per- o1 by the president to do anything to conflict with American interests in this mat- ter it would be undone by his successor, by command of the American pepl Any services renderel by him to Great Bril in this directicn, or any admission by h that Great Britain now possesses any rights in Central America, and espee y in aragua, would only Intensify the Amer'cin spirit throughout this country, ard make more emphatic the American policy, which weuld come to the front when he cou'd no lomger obstruct it. This, and only this, Is the crisis for which, zccord'ng to the St. James Gazette, we are heading so straight. Western Rivers Drying Up, Chicago Record, Notwithstanding the fact that many people traco the Missouri river in name from the Ycllowstone country to the Gulf of Mexico, United States engineers are asserting the pos- sibility of that sircam becoming only a dry ravine. Government gauges at Sioux City, Ia., show that the registered measurements for twenty years indicate a gradual decrease, until in 1895 the volume of water passing that point Is 20 per cent less than in 1878, Civilization has always played fast and lro0se with the geography of a new country. It has leveled the trackless forest and torn up its roots, It has encroached upon arid lands and made them fertile and productive, In nothing, however, has It worked more changes than in the great rivers of this country. East of the Mississippi the great rivers hav suffered less, and yet the denuding of forest lands has materlally affected ths average depth ef the Ohio. Forest lands which once wers natural reservolrs of the rainfall have been stripped. The suft loam of dead leaves has become firm (before the plowshare and the unveiled sun, , Phe rainfail rushes down in the wet season flooding the lowlands—no longer trickling down throughout a whole summer and through a thousand springs, brooks and creeks. In the great semi-arld west there have been the most changes, Rivers which once floated steamboats are now crossed by small boys in kneo breeches, Fed from snows in the moun talns, the Arkansas, the Platte and the Kansa: are almost drained befdre they cross the Colo- rado line eastward. ' Irrigating ditches have wrought great chznges, ahd every year the drain is Leavier and heavier, Engineers are af ‘d 10ss to account for the decrease in upper Missouri currents, unless it bo that the artesfan basin of South Dakota, which has- been 50 successtully tapped, s draining it. Whatever the caunse, it may be safely conjectured that careless methods of uandling enierprises aftecting rivers are at the bottom of the apparent phenomenon. Modern the democracy | the spirit | co-operation | SEPTEMBER 9, 1895, WHAT THE CORN CROPF MEANS, The BEnormous Harvest and Tte Com- parative Value, New York Pre In corn, as in cotton, and not as in wheat, the American supply controls the market Our annual production of corn happens to be about equal to the wheat production of the whole world, and governs the price in pro- portion. Our actual export of corn for the year 1804 was only 41,808,711 bushels, which | brought $19,378,801.20, s0 ‘that the export Is only one-fiftieth of the crop. The export of hog products during the same year, |including oleomargarine, amounted to a round $100,000,000. Except in the form of hog products, there- fore, corn may be regarded as non-exportable | and’ dependent for its price wholly on the American market. Pork, being the finished product into which corn is convertible, eacl becomes the chief sympathetic influence | determintng the price of the other. Hence the same dispatches which announce the brilllant prospects for corn inform us that in pork “prices average about 10 cents per hundred pounds lower than a week ago, and there has been a reduction on pork of 85 cents a barrel, on lard of 16 cents per hun- dred pounds, short rib sides of 80 cents,” It is a little remarkablo that those who so glibly record the vanishing prices on the pork into which the corn must be converted before it can be sold” should so persistently expect the farmer to be enriched. For there will be from 600,000,000 to 500,000,000 bush:ls more of corn divided among them In its finished form, as pork, but the question whether farmers will be enriched or not will depend on the price pork and corn will bear under this enormous weight of product. That the aggregate returns for a very large crop may be, and sometimes are, less than the aggregate returns received for a | moderate or even a small crop is a fact that has _long W familiar to statisticians of markets, and also to farmers. In 1888 a crop of 1,987,700, corn had an aggregate value of $677,56 being 34 cents a bushel, while in 1880 a crop Cf 2,112,862,000 bushels fell to $507,918,820 in aggregate value, at an average pri of 28 cents per bushel. Here an increase of one- sixteenth in quantity of the total price was companied by a fall of two-sixteenths in average prica. If this fall in price was due to this increase in quantity produced, then the farmers would have saved $79,642,351 in money price of their product by burning up 135,102,000 bushels of corn or not producing it, except in so far as the increased supply of corn and consequently cheapened supply of pork may have indirectly returned to the farmers in more abundant supplies of manu- factured gocds, transportation, etc., Induced by the oversupply of food. But the last is an immeasurable factor. In the same year, 1888, the crop of wheat was 415,868,000 bushels, a crop 10 per cent less in quantity than the a for the decade, but brought an aggrs return of $285,248,030, or 92 cents per bushel. In the following year, 1889, the crop was 490,560,000 bushels, being one-fifth larger than in 1883, which brought a return of only $342,491,707, at 69 cents per bushel, a drop of 23 cents, or Just one-fourth in price. Here again, if this increased production caused this ' fall in price, then the farmers would have got $42,- k more in money return if they had raised a smaller quantity by 74,692,000 bushels of wheat. An increase of 1,301,188 head of swine was attended in 1890 by a deciine of $17,888.857 in value. "An increase of one-thirty-eighth in quantity was attended by a fall of one- sixth in value. 1 the same year a rise of 654,258 number of milch cows was drop of $13,074,243 in value. A rise of 1,816,607 in number of oxen and other cattle was then attended by a drop of $36,611,675 in value. The same result appears in the crop of po- tatoes in 1887 as compared with that of 1886, and again if the crop of 1885 is compared with that in 1884. Again, if the crop of cot- ton in 1887 is compared with that in 1886, and again if the crop of hay in 1885 is com- pared with that in 1883. Again, if the crop of (¥heat in 1882 is compared with that in These facts need not be Invarlable in order to attract the cerious attention of farmers. It is sufficient that they are frequent. They show that agrioultural competition is so close to the no-profit tine—especially In those prod- ucts in which there is a nearly universal in- ternational competition—that there fs a nearly constant tendency of prices to call a halt on the farmers and warn them oft from a competitive race for foreign markets in which the production is almost certain to cceur at a loss. If a permanent prosperity is to come, it must come mainly through the Increased activity of our production of those products which Americans chiefly consume, ING SHOW. and on in the attended by a Des Moines is in the right meod to condole with St. Paul. Both are short on census. Mr. Keir Hardie might ald to gafety of the evils he portrays by frequent refercnce to the crime of '73. A Joyfully jagged individual leaned against a hydrant for support and softly murmured, “Still waters run deep and s-s-sinuously. Speaking about lamentations, the uttered anguish of Jeremiah is clearly outclassed by the muttered melancholy of St. Paul The inventor of the Chassepot rifle, the weapon on which Napoleon I relled to de- jeat the Germans in 1870, keeps a hotel in The late Colonel Breckinridge of Kentucky threatens to take the stump for Wat Har- din. If the colonel agrees to take nothing else his resurrection will be tolerated, After Robert G. Ingersoll's address to the old soldiers of his command at Elmwood, T, last Thursday, some impious rascal towched his pocket and made away with $250 in cash, Sir Henry James, who might have been lord chancellor had he liked, wears the shab- biest of clothes and a tall hat conspicuous for its glossiness. But, then, ccecentricity the badge of genius. Hon. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, has returned from his annual jaunt through Europe in superb health and with the halo of his dowe bristling with subdued adiniration for the administration. Susan B. Anthony has decided to take a rest and yield the mantle of emancipation to younger women. Miss Anthony s 70 past, and a suspicion has penetrated her inner con- sciousness that she is no longer a new wo- man. Having handled the Christian Endeavorers and Knights Templar with profit and satis- faction, Boston proclaims its readiness to give the republican and democratic national con- ventions a whirl, Boston’s nerve is on straight. Millions upon millions of gallons of water were stolen from the mains of Chicago by means of blind pipes, and the loss to the city averaged $500,000 a year. The thieving, which was confined to the stock yards, sur- passes the best efforts of New York in the stock watering line, The latest popular story in Germany about the emperor is to the effect that ‘e recently asked his brother, Prince Henry, what he (the emperor) could do to make another sensation. “Stay at home for thre nsecutive months,” was the reply of Prince Henry. But the chances are that the suggestion will never be adopted. Here is one of Bob Ingersoll's inimitable word plctures, taken from a recent address to old soldiers at Elmwoocd, Ill.: “I do not know which Is better—lifs or death. And it may be that death is the greateat gift that ever came from nature's open hands; we do not know. There is one thing of which I am certain, and that is that if we could live forever here we would care nothing for each other. The fact that we must die, the fact that the feast must end, brings our hearts together and treads out the weeds between the paths. And so it may be after all that love is a little flower that grows on the crumbling edge of the grave. So it may be that were it mot for death there would be no love, and without love all life would be a curse.” Ro Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. 8. Gov't Report WEZTHD Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE, BRADFORD Canght Plates NEW YORK, of the United gether with his day in recapturing Dr. 0. B Brockway gang, with n Set of © AT il OLD DBUSINES anterfeit in His Possess Sept. §.—Chiet W. P, Hazen States secret service, to Ives, succoeded y Bradford of the . Who escaped from his office dete on August 4, while under arrest charged with counterfeiting. three other arrests valuable eviden Bradford was Bsq Bagg, Dyroes Hundred and hired a furnished room. room $200 in go counterfeit lower drawer a The plates wer to imitate the § 1880, with t} and ‘back plates baing complete all ready for use, with the excepti number plates are the index says the that the count. dangerous, Als room were of inks, rollars counterfeiting. The others ari merly a keeper Dradford when tence for malpractice has served time a dentist Chief Hazen tried on the w rested. That w nection with th. county, New Je new plates in h charges being “I1 have to admi never went out new deal, straining every LILLY BRINGS § Prepare t to Her A NEW YORK, has at last bogu husband, Edward Langtry. irell, assisted by Agents G. R plates, found a quanti Incidental to made the capture were and ce secured, arrested at noon by Agent Bage, 8. 101 East One where he had In a search of the 1d money was found, and new concealed between the nd the bottom of the bureau. © of copper and were made 100 United States notes, series Lincoln vignette. Both front were found, the back plates while the front plate was n of having Chiet Hazen remarkably good, and orfeit would have been' very 0 concealed fn a basket in a v of paper, a lot things used for somo and Flyan at Fifth street, engraved and other rested were John Nixon, for- Sing Sjng, where he knew the latfer was serving a son John L. Courtney, who for forgery, and Carl Bently, aid Bradford would not be rant on which he was ar- arrant was for alleged con- * Brockway gang in Hudson rsey, but the finding of the is possession will lead to new drawn here. Said the chief re the nerve of the man, who of town and embarked in a Fnowing the detectives must be nerve to capture him.' - DR DIVORCE, negland ana tors, Sept. 8.—Mrs. Lilly Langrty un suit for divorce from her The piim-ry move in the affair was the placing of papers and a retalaing fe> of $700 in the hands of Abe Hummell of the law firm of Howe & Hum- mell of New York. Th up by Mrs. Lar sent to America compla‘nt was drawn ngtry's London soli by a ors and peclally commissioned bearer of the momentous decree. The grounds for the sult are desertion and neglect. Mrs. Langtry is a citizen of California and brings the sult as an property owner there at interva In the court to award little daughter, J Holyhead bounty of his be Mrs. Langtry is had a distressin rheumatism, w suit for and has oric She a 'large in California and has lived Is during the last ten years. divorce she beseeches the her the guardianship of her Jeanne. Mr. Langtry lives at been a pens‘oner on the utiful wife for many years. on the continent. She has g, but not serious, attack of ich ‘interfered with her keep ing her American engagement for this season. Sir George Lew seerets of all wocial Mrs. Langtry. the keeper of the deadly ngland, is solicitor for The complaint is simple enough, but when Sir George's clerk returns there will be facts or some Anarchist me wonderful suppression of stounding disclosures, e and Soclalists Darred. CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 8.—About 200 d:le- gates are in thi e city to attend the annual convention of the Polish National Alliance of America, which assembles In the morning. The delegates attended mass at St. Stanislaus this morning, afl a reception. Garfield’s tomb organization s be'ng to educat land and rights In the afternoon to assist None but naturalized or native born ter which they were tendered they visited in Lakeview cemetery. The a patrioiic one, its object e the Poles in their native them n getting their citizens of the United State are eligible and anarchists and s SMASHING ritish Railronds Long ocialists are barred. THE RECORD, Take the Distance Speed. ead for Chicago Tribune. England question of rail upon the ground made to Parliament president of the he b is just now agitated over road raclng. the Protests based d of public safety have been but without avail, as the Board of Trade replies that no power to interfere in the matter and that the public must rely upon the com- mon sense of offenders agains are the Londor London & Grea run their trains deen. At the the Great Nort route in elaven while the the railway companies. The t whom complaints are made 1 & Northwestern and_the t Northern companies. Both between London and Aber- time competition first began hern ran its train over the ours and thirty-five minutes, orthwestern occupled eleven hours and fifty minutes and both times were con- sidered ~best. Since then, however, both trains have been gaining on their own time. Wednesday last the Northwestern made its n into Aberdeen, 540 miles, in 538 minutes The next day has a shorter route, 520 minutes. On the western made 540 miles In then followed thi distance in 5 the Great Northern, which made its 527-mile run in same day the North- 5 minutes and up by running the same minutes, which beats the record the world over. Thus far no American train on a long run has made any s world's record uch time, claimed It disposes of the by the New York Central fiyer, which made the trip from the Grand Contral dopot in New York City to Buffalo, 440 miles, in 520 minutes. But, as the New York Sun remarks, both these Bng- lish roads have great advantages over the American, so far as fast running I8 cone cerned. There fw not a grade crossing on eittier of the English lines, £o that they do not have to reduce tholr speed going through cities and towns, The New York Central, on the other hand, can only run through cities at the rate of eight miles an hour. Agaln the American tralns ars much heavier than the English. Still, all this does not interfers with the fact that tho English companies have broken the records, and as the two trains in question are still racing, notwithe standing Parllanentary irquiry, they may still further reduce time. $o far as the ques- tion of safety is concerend i would probably never occur to an American. If he could go 640 miles in 612 minutes ho would ask for nothing more. John Bull, liowever, is more conservatiy COMIC CHU 3 Philadelphia Record: matter strange It may seem, a good joko i appreciated when iUs cracked Chicago Tribune: The M Mask -1 don't believe you tiers, Juniis. No how only with the Tron en know your 1 like your face! zette: Dozber -Do you think that constantly wearing a hat has a tend- ency to mak n bald? Jazlin—No; but when a min s bald I've noticed that it has a tendency to make him constantly wear a hat Roxbury (¢ otroit Free Pre My’ wife is afraf For what reason? “Why, you sce, match “Why don't you keep | of lorses.” we made a runaway Harper's Bazar: Miss Gaskett—She fs a sly little minx. Miss Fosdick—Well, T've always thought her a very quiet girl. 'She's almost silent. Miss Gaskett—That's where her sly comes in. She's dreadful anx- jous to married, ‘and she knows that “llence gives consent Washington Star: t'inks he knows it “gin'rally seems justified in de low ! he seems ter put on human intelligence, “De kind of a all," said Unc! Indlanapolis ~ Journal: T said, “that all thos tender association: sponded, *they ary rings.” suppose,” he rings you wear have “Oh, no,” she re- merely engagement Life: “I don't see any it, old man. She isn’t the only girl in world.” " “That's just what I'm blue ut. Think of the ‘chances 1 have of use In getting blue Judge—Where do you live when at young man? Culprit=1 have no home, Judge—Then where did you st night? Culprit—At my boarding house, Washington Star: “‘Gener: sald subcrdinate officer ' n the Spanish army, wother column of our troops Is advanc ing. SAll right,” was the reply. “Put a dis- play head o it and get it in'shape for ous first edition.” the A MINIATURE. Harper's Bazar. This minfature portrays a maid Who with the hearts of love Of heart herself—unfeeling jade— She gave 1o token, Till, 10! the conquering hero came, Quite equal to her little game. (He really wasn't much to blame, If truth be spoken.) He flirted with the naughty minx (The al amorous high jinks), And now, poor child, she really thinks Her heart i3 broken. WAIL Harper's Bazar, I've traveled o'er the continent; eled o'er the sea; I've tasted San Francisco joys, and those of Napoli; I've set my sunny fished estless Restigouche, hunted moose in Maine, I've trav- eyes on picadores and bulls in pain; I've and I've mounted many an Alpine helght; on giaclers T have slid; I've jumped from crags fo other crags, any chamois kid I've cycled o'er the ro siedded o’er the snow, Along with sundry yelping breed was Esquimau like ds of France; I've dogs whose I've yachted on Tong Tsland sound; I've wum the Heliespont; I've climbed the lofty pile of Cheops, the hills of old Vermont; I've done my Paris through and and every London nook I know as well as any man or woman's known a book. through, On Afric's shores T've wandered, from Al- to the Cape; I've swung from Congo trees as free careless as the a I've done the vast Yosemite, lives who can Point out a spot I have not seen in China or Japan. and and no one And yet—I wonder why It | known the joy, can I ever know it now, that's feit by my small boy When ‘at the dinner time he comes, with hungry, eager eyes, And sees upon the table set a pair of pumpe kin pies, ?-I've never Nor Oh, would T might be young again, to taste' that joy of his! There's nothing in the wide, wide world so likened unto bliss, L0 i I'd give a decade of my days n bound within a simple could Of finding h Jearn the art plece of tart! Ladles Rest in our parlor on second floor. Always wolcouo. “Where will you take me, my pretly maid," “Zo Browning King's, sir, she sayed—" $7.50 —For a Boy’s Two-Piece Suit— In brown and gray mixed cassimeres—ages 4 to 15 years—the very best style points in every suit—made up in our usual careful manner—strong, durable and neat—of course we have others at §3, 3.50, $4, $5—and Reefers—a good selection at $3, $4 and g5—all new goods to satisfy every taste-——money back if you want jt, Browning,King & Co S. W. Cor, 15th and Douglas Sts,