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at era o dully circulation of TUB DAILY HhK for
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Oclolirr , 1M > , l , f ' 17 copies ; for November. 1S89 ,
10 ; in copies , for December. 1889 , OT.tMS copies ;
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for April , 1820 W.OCI copies ; for May 1800 , LUI80
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Tin : doslructivo elements cannot bo
accused of slighting any particular sec
tion of the country.
INCUEASKD vigilance and competency
In the inspection of puhlic works is duo
Ihopioperty owners who foot the bills.
No cor.LncriON of "studies in still
lifo" is complete without an oleograph of
the Onmlm combine in secret session.
Tin : plunge of woman suffinglste into
politics in South Dakota instties a four-
cornered campaign and a vociferous do
mestic diatut banco during the dog days.
Air , accounts ) agree that the national
fish commission is a distinctive family
affiiir with just enough federal coloring
to enable the members to laugh and
gio\v f.it at public expense.
Tin : enthusiasm evoked by refer
ence to Grover Cleveland in various
democratic conventions nortkaud. south ,
envelopes the. wigwams of Hill and Dana
in a Greenlundish temperature.
THK Lincoln business men are all poli
ticians and they are afraid of their
shadows whenever a campaign is on.
That explains why they did not allow
their names to bo printed on the anti-
prohibition lint.
. IlAViiMUYKii , king of the sugar
trust , recently managed to pay over
half a million dollars premium on a lifo
insurance policy. This is but a fragment
of the saccharine extracted from the
public by the combine last year.
TIIHKK is a wailing and a gnashing of
teeth in the Chicago railroad bureau.
The report of the interstate commerce
commission denouncing the present ex
orbitant grain rates in the west struck a
tender chord in the corporation
anatomy.
WHISK railroads secretly and persist
ently quote rates lower than these recom
mended by the interstate commerce com
mission , they will find it difllcult to
convince intelligent men that they can
not nfToid to mnlco the public and secret
rates correspond.
AsrilAr/r , petroleum and graphite are
among the latest mineral discoveries in
Utah. Gentile push and enterprise are
rapidly opening the hidden stores of
wealth In the late land of Mormonism.
The territory is in the infancy of devel
opment. Its future is the most promis
ing in the west.
Tin : certainty of the anti-trust bill be
coming a law haa already produced a
commotion among the combines. The
collapse of sugar trust certificates is a
i gratifying result of the measure. The
j country is to bo congratulated on the
prospect of depriving of a legal existence
these combinations against the common
good.
I M H VMW
TUB llshermon of Newfoundland re
cently threatened to whisk the British
lion's tall unless the French invaders
wore driven otT. Now como the seal
l poichors of Victoria with dire inuttor-
3 ings against the United States for pro-
touting the Alaskan seal islands , liar
| majesty's warlike subjects in the Dominion -
ion are peppering for a vigorous spank
ing at both ends.
WHIM ? congress is struggling to enrich -
rich the bullionairos and furnish prov
ender for speculators , there is an almost
total absence of serious effort to enact
measures of practical benefit to the pro
ducers of the west. The agricultural
product of the utnto of Nebraska for lust
year equalled in value the total output
of the silver mines of the west , yet con
gress devotes days to increase the
stored of men already rich and sup
presses measures calculated to aid the
struggling producers.
PKOFKSSOII MKAD of Wyoming lias
concluded an oxhuustlvo examination of
the water supply of the territory. Ho
finds the volume capable of irrigating
ten million acres of arid land. Several
hundred , thousand acres of land huvo
boon brought to a high state of cultiva
tion by this moans , but the area of agri
cultural land far exceeds the water sup
ply , consequently much of the land must
forever remain in its present condition ,
The empire subject to irrigation , if cul
tivated , is ample to supply the needs of
thft surrounding population for genera
tions.
KXTnAVAOAfTCK OF TJIK SKX0TE ,
The United Sinter sonnto has ap
pointed n committee to take Into con
sideration Iho state of the administra
tive service of that body tint ! report what
measures should bo adopted in respect
to the greatest cfilctoncy and economy of
the service" ' Last week , when It was
proposed to amend tho1 legislative , ox- *
cculivo and judicial appropriation bill so
M to make the pay of clerks to commit
tees eighteen hurtdrod dollars a
year there w.ts some discus
sion of the administrative service
of the senate , in the course of which
several senators , and particularly Sana-
tor In gal Is , showed that there was ur
gent demand for a readjustment of the
whole committee and clerical fdrco of
the senate.
Mr. Ingnlta stated that there are at
least twenty of thu standing and select
committees that uro absolutely supor-
lltioua and unnecessary. It has bcon
dlllleult to tlntl names and invent func
tions for thorn. They hnvo been created
and established , said the Kansas senator ,
merely for the purpose of assignIng -
Ing Bomo senator to a chairmanship , giv
ing him n room and providing for him a
clerk. lie gave it as his judgment that
iho committees of the senate should bo
largely reduced , that they ought to bo
brought down to the proportions of the
business that is to bo transacted , and
that the clerks assigned to committees
ought to do committee work and nothing
else , instead of practically being , as at
present , private secretaries to the sena
tors. Senator C'ockrell stated that there
nro forty-two standing committees
and cloven known as select com
mittees , these latter being of the
superfluous class , and he , too.thought it
was necessary to reorganize and reduce
the committees to such point as the busi
ness capacities of tho- senate require.
It is with a view to doing this that the
committee on the administrative service
of the sonata has been appointed.
There was thus disclosed a condition
of affairs that has long prevailed which
is anything but creditable to the senate ,
and which undoubtedly would have
been continued had not the ques
tion of rearranging and equaliz
ing the pay of clerks arisen. The
fact developed is that for years
the senate has boon wasting thousands
of dollars of the public money upon the
clerical employes of superfluous commit
tees , such employes really performing
no other service than that of private
secretaries to the chairmen of these
committees. Herein the country is
afforded one very interesting example of
the way in which the higher legislative
body manages to provide comfortable
positions for the personal or political
friends of senators nt public ex
pense , and n thorough investiga
tion would disclobo other examples
of senatorial waste and ottrtiva-
ganco. Senator Halo , in referring to
this question of clerical salaries , said :
"The tendency all the while is to in-
crcnso the force of the senate and to in-
cioa&o its pay , and some day or other
the result of it will bo that public atten
tion will bo called to the expenditures of
the body , and if a scandal is not created
at any rate great public censure will bo
\ imtcd on this body. " The Maine sena
tor said further that the bo&t-paid places
in the whole range of the government
are the subordinate places about the
senate. For the same work , for the
same time , for the bamo responsibility ,
they are bettor paid than any other em
ployes of the government in any depart
ment.
The United States senate , with a mem
bership of eighty-four , codt- > the people
very nearly as much as the house of rep
resentatives with a membership of three
hundred and thirty , and if the increase
of the force in the senate now proposed
is allowed the expanditures of that body
will bo greater than those of the house
of representatives , Senator Allihon stat
ing the figures for the respective houses
at four hundred and eight thousand dollars
lars and three hundred and ninety-two
thousand dollars , a dilToronco of
sixteen thousand dollars in favor of the
house. Obviously the , time bus como
for a readjustment , and while the senate
committee is engaged in that task the
house will pot form a duty to the people
by refusing to allow the increased ex
penditure asked for by the senate.
Under existing circumstances the pro
posal to largely increase the already
extravagant expenditures of the senate
indicates an indifference to the general
welfare \\hich it is the imperative duty
of the representatives of the people in
the house to rebuke.
IS KOT THIS OKKKItOUSt
A SHOUT tirao ago Congressman Hen
derson submitted in the house an esti
mate of one hundred and sixty-seven
million dollars as the amount of the ap
propriations made by the present congress -
gross for the benefit of the old soldiers.
This was a conservative estimate made
by a representative most friendly to the
men who defended the government , and
is more likely to fall below than to dx-
cecd the expenditure of the government
on pension account for some years.
For example , Mr. Hondorson esti
mated the cost of the dependent
pension bill at thirty-five million dollars
lars , while Senator Davis , chairman of
the senate committee , thought the cost
of that measure would not bo less than
forty-two million dollars per annum.
13ut granting that the estimate of Mr.
Henderson will not be exceeded , is not
the amount generous ? It Is a sum nearly
three tijuoa the total yearly expendi
tures of the government just before the
war , and without intending any
invidious comparison , it is a
larger amount than is expended by
tfny of the great powers of Europe ,
except Germany , for sustaining their
immense military establishments. The
txrmy of Germany costs the people of
that country about ono hundred and
ninety million dollars a year , that of
Franco ono hundred and twenty million ,
Russia ono hundred and thlrty-tlvo mill
ion , Great Britain's army and navy
eighty-live million , and Italy's military
establishment sixty million dollars a
year. There la of course a wide differ
ence In the character of these expendi
tures , but the money required for all of
them must bo obtained lu practically
the santo way , by taxing the industry
und enterprise of the whole people.
But ffouurous as the provlsloa'U which
the government hns miylo for the old
soldiers < who have n Just claim to its
bounty * there continues to bd a demand
for still further enlarging pension ex
penditure. Men whofto controlling mo
tive Is the dcslro to advance their polit
ical fortunes are still inciting the Vet
erans to insist upon demands which
if complied with would absorb
the greater portion of the rev
enues of the government. Of such
nro the bills in congress providing
for the repeal of the limitation clause
of the pension arrearages net of L879.
Commissioner Raum a short time ago
furnfshdd figures showing the number of
applications filed and the number of
certificates issued , together with the--
number of claims pending since 1870 ,
and ho estimated that to pay arrears to
pensioners now on the roll would require
two hundred and sixteen million dollars ,
and to pay arrears In cases still pending
would require two hundred and llfty-llvo
million dollars , making a total of four
hundred and sovonty-ono million dollars
lars that would bo taken from
the treasury by the repeal of the limita
tion clause of the pension arrearage law.
The statement of such figures ought to
bo conclusive with every representative
of the psoplo against the proposed ro-
pcal , and yet it is believed that a bill
for this purpose has a chance of passing *
th house.
Pension legislation that would take
this vast sum out of the treasury would
destroy any party responsible .for it. The
generosity of the nation toward the old
soldiers has been most munificent , and it
has reached a point beyond which it
cannot bo carried at present with n Just
regard for the interests of the whole pee
ple. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
MISSISSIPPI Is about to hold a conven
tion to frttmo a new constitution. The
present organic law is a remarkable
one. It is of the lloxiblo kind , designed
to match the 'peculiar politics of the
state. There is no provision requiring
a now constitution to bo submitted to a
vote of the people. The work of the
convention will therefore "become a law
without any action on the part of the
voters. The Importance of the law is
apparent and is particularly convenient
nt the present timo. The politicians
in control of the btato reali/o
that they cannot safely continue
the shotgun and tissue ballot and retain
power. It is necessary to adopt measures
that will insure permanent control of the
state without annually oiUragirig public
sentiment by brutal vote suppression.
This they propose to accomplish by giv
ing every person ono vote , and
ono additional vote for each forty
or eighty acres of land hold by himself
or wife. As comparatively few of the
nogrocb are land owners it will be soon
that this scheme will double if not treble
the white vote and thus overcome the
voting strength of the negroes without
resorting to the persuasive force of the
shotgun. _ _ _ _ _ _
A NUMIIEU of western cities have
taken from private control the matter of
street sprinkling. The system adopted
in St. Louis , and now under considera
tion in Kansas City and St. Joe , com
mends itself to the authorities of this
city. The board of public works is in
vested with entire control of the busi
ness , and the cost is assessed equitably
on the property abutting the streets
( sprinkled. The work , being lot by con
tract , materially reduces the cost
and makes all property bencfitted
bear an equal share of the burden.
The system in vogue in Omaha
needs remodelling. It imposes unjust
burdens on enterprising merchants ,
while the penurious derive equal bene
fits for a trifle. By placing the work in
charge of the board of public works , to
bo lot to the lowest bidder , the cost will
bo reduced to a nominal figure and a
larger area of streets sprinkled. The
system presents the most piucticnl solu
tion of the question.
TUG volume of business throughout
the country continues very heavy and
Omaha is no exception to the rule.
Trade has been largo in Juno to date and
heavier during the past six months than
for the same period in any previous year
in the city's history. Collections are
good. Report * on the crop situation in
dicate that this year's product will bo
greater than last , and while prices are
not high there is some margin loft to the
thrifty farmer after expenses are paid ,
and undoubtedly should anticipations bo
realized the people of Nebraska will bo
in better financial condition than for
many a your at the oloao of 1890.
A SIIOWEH of challenges has been
fired at the editor of Tin : Bins from all
sections of the state to debate prohibi
tion. All these people are respectfully
advised to forward their suggestions in
aboriginal packages to Prof. Samuel
Dickio and Rev. Sam Small , who are to
appear as champions of prohibition in
the joint debate at the Beatrice Chau-
tauqua July 5 to 7.
DKNVKH is still holding back her
census returns so that her enumerators
can rnko in every man , woman and child
that passes through that city on the
way to Manitou , Colorado Springs and
other summer resorts. If they keep on
with this work another month they may
possibly catch up with Omaha.
THR local Tammany gang has a
wholesome dread of Dr. Mercer's polit
ical scalpel. From a moro matter of am
putation , it has become a question
whether usulllclont number of fragments
of Iho combine can bo collected af tor the
contest to make n respectable post
mortem.
Tin : overhauling of the delinquent and
cancelled tax rolls of the county will fur
nish an enlarged view of. local tax shirk
ers.
Too Muoli
San tVitncho ) Cltranlcl-e.
Ono mcmbor of the tcmponinco congress at
Now York told the assembled clergymen and
prohibitionists that tlioy must make an actual
study of the wants of tua worklugmcn before
they can expect to do nay practical Rood lu
checking the llcjuor Imblt. Tills faJluio to
understand the laboring man Is the chlof
source of woaknOiis in all charitable and torn-
pornnco work. I'lmrUalsm taluts tlio whole ,
and there U nothing which Is so rapcltant to
the man who needs aid und sympathy as this
spiritual m-ldu that l > uU tUo ugeut of mercy
nml help on a plU-W and Induces him to lian J
out alm < i In kid flfJvcs for fcAr that ha may bo
contaminated UJTCb touch of a hand begrimed
with labor. * '
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A BolutUmipf tlio lee Problem.
A" < ; i ( lrorfc lltraltl.
It is more than probable that In the courao
of a few years cvefry family will have Its lee
machine and nwk'o thb day's supply before
breakfast. Yonkfio genius has solved harder
problems than
Tliayeris llcst Support.
Jfuffotlt Ifeut.
The Omnua W rld-IIcrald's report that
t
Governor Thayer was to accept a government
position and not lii a candidate for the re
publican nomination for governor la making
him lots of friends , and It may yet succeed
in giving him a third term It it perseveres.
Having Fun with Air. Cleveland. '
AVur Vorft Sun.
It seems to have become a recognized Joke
in the smaller colleges to hold mock conven
tions and nominate Mr. Cleveland for presi
dent. In fact there is a lamentable tendency
In some of the colleges to use Mr. Cleveland
as a sort of n substitute for and successor of
that celebrated academic lecturer and human
universal dictionary , the late lion. Daniel
Pratt , G. A. T. Such a tendency ought to bo
checked at once. It Is downright unklndncss
to make a man of Mr. Cleveland's waist meas
ure write letters In hot weather.
1'rotfy Ijlbcral Treatment ,
CuicfiumU Cnmmnclal.
Congress lias dealt liberally with the veter
ans. The bill reported ftom the conference
committee adds about § 50,000,000 to the pres
ent pension roll , and the next annual pension
appropriation will bo fully 6150,000,000. Dependent -
pendent parents , the disabled , the widows of
all .soldiers and their orphan ! ) are included In
the btlL The service pension feature Is
omitted. The classes named above should of
course take precedence la pension matters.
With the contemplated decrease of flfty or
sixty millions in the revenues und the heavy
Incicasc in the ordinary expenses of the gov
ernment the time docs not seem to have come
for it general service pension.
Beet Sugar and the Tariff.
ClitMoo Tribune ,
If the beet sugar experiment Is to bo a suc
cess congress should hesitate before It takes
off the duty on raw sugars , depriving the
government of $00,000,000 of revenue and sad
dling it with the payment of bounties which
may soon run up to § 10,000,000 , a j ear. If
Louisiana could furnish all the raw sugar Iho
country needed the duty would not bo taken
off. Why should It bo if in America as In
Germany beets are to supply all the sugar ?
Congress should wait to sea about the beet
industry. If it is to bo a failure It should not
bo bolstered by a bounty. If a success it.will
need no bounty. Tlio Nebraska experiment
will settle the question this ensuing full.
BK-KK/iKS.
A Precautionary Measures
3teatl Ailwmtc.
Census Enumer.itor Primley has ordered a
cast iron patch for his pants , as Uo finds some
peopio who are not convicts , und never wcro ,
but they are awful Kickers.
Setting a Hi-other JSI ht.
i\'or/o/i ! / jVetti.
' 'Tho town of lirudslww this state was Ht-
erarily wiped out of existence Tuesday
night , " is the way- the hist Battle Creek Twin
Freak reported li icccnt ralainity. The same
thing-will happen tb Battle Creek ono of these
days if the chimpan/eo keeps on.
Ilia Kditoriul Mouth.
irecjitni ; Water /tepubHatn.
Wo heard a lady who attended the picnic
at Wabasb on last Friday discussing tuo de
licious dinner shu had , and it made our
mouth water , so wo concluded to announce
that wo were ready for all such engagements
while our better hall' is away. Ladies , iu
planning picnic dinners in the future , we
uopo you won't foigct us.
This Muse Needs Mending.
SiottiitleitM ,
lie who fishes and dshes and gets no bite ,
May lisli again some other night ;
And ifbo would the linnics dead suio seek
Let him go 'way do\\n to Davis cicek.
AVhy Wo Are Sad.
Itono I'ine Journal.
Wo are sad. Almost heart-broken. When
we publish something that puts a stiong man
OD Ills car and causes him to clump the bit
and paw the cnith w ith rage , \ \ o only smtlo.
But when two or three of earth's angels who
ha\e passed the "pullet" ago and may now bo
properly classed as "old hens" wlth.Uoinan
beaks come foith in their dignity and declare
war because of something did not say ,
then it becomes entirely a dllToient matter.
GREAT MKN.
The kiifg of Slam has a private fortune of
&oOOJO,000 , with an annual income of $10,000-
000.
Adolph Busih , the St Louis beer king , is
at the head of an establishment which
cmplojs : t,000 men , and ho icccives a salary
ot .W.OOOu jear.
Senator Qua } ' , It is lumorcd in Washing
ton , has a large sized surpuso in stoio for Iho
Pennsylvania 'popublicans in the shape of
Pobtiiia&tcr-Uoiicral Wunamaker as a can
didate for goernor. .
Chicago gazed in solemn awe one day last
% \cok at the spectacle of the chief justice of
the United Status supreme com t going shop
ping vv ith his wlfo and carrying her parcels
for her.
A histoiian who Is compiling the letters ,
etc , , of President Lincoln has finished a
search of the records of the executive ollco of
Ohio. But ono autograph letter was found.
It Is dated April'J. ) Islit , and accepts thu offer
of the governors of Indiana , Illinois , Iowa and
Wisconsin to furnish b5,000 troops for 100
days' service.
The duo d'Orleans ' , when ho loft his recent
prison , addressed a letter "To the Conscripts
of My Class , " saying that ho was still bound
to bo a soldier and , "Keep mo the place In the
ranlcs which I dreamed ot inoiir midst ,
near the Hag , I shall como and take ill"
The Hov. John Atkinson of Bon ton Harbor ,
Mich. , is the oldest living preacher In the
United States , 'add ' peihnps In the world.
I ( owns bom lu Flcinington , N. .1. , in 1TU7 , and
was licensed ta > preach in the Methodist
church in,1814.
TheodoreTllton Is tllsciibsd by a lady who
lecontly saw him In the now Salon In Purls
He has grown | oit ) , and his long , \ \ hito hair
was pushed bohlml tits cars and his face hud
a icstfullook peculiar to men of leisure. Ho
was sauntering around , seemingly uncon
cerned about people or pictures and only
caiiug to \ \ liilo nuity a moment of ennui.
Wordsworth's1 cdltago and garden , which
rcmuln almast thaisama us when ho lived , uro
to bo puixlraseil uiud put under a trust , Ilka
the blrthplucu of SlUkospcareJns ) a permanent
memoilul of Uio ; [ oijt.
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Poisoning In India.
The Bengal police have published the
followingjoxtraordlnary warning' to pas
sengers at all the stations on Iho Eastern
Bengal Railway : "Passengers are here
by cautioned against taking anything
to eat or drink from unknown pontons ,
as there are many who live by poisoning
travelers. They first of all court
acquaintance with passenger in a sarui
or some other place and then gain their
confidence on the plea of being fol-
low-travolors going to the same place.
When they roach a place convenient
for the purpose they poison the water
or food of the piiHdungorti , who become
insensible , and then they decamp with
all their property. They also at times
poison the passengers water when
being drawn out of wells , or sweetmeats
brought from the bazaar , or food when
being cooked. "
"STATE
Ncbrnflkn.
Elsie needs ulumhcr yard to nccommfldata
the builder ? , who are now rushed with work.
Isane KrntXy residing near Hebron , was
found dead In bed the other morning. Heart
disease.
Prof. C. A , Dean of Edgar goes to Oakdalo
toasanmathoprincIpaUlilp of the seminary
at that place.
Dodge county spent nearly 8.,000 to nnd
out that an ex-trciwurcr owed the county
$101 , which , will never ho collected.
* The tlf tcen-ycar-old son of H.I1. Herman ,
sen of Howard county , woo taken with hem
orrhage of the nose ono day last week und
bled to death.
The Stranglteporter complains that some
person or person * entered the onlcc , pled the
typo and otherwise destroyed the good ? , and
oners $30 reward for their conviction.
A number of wind mills in the vicinity of
Hardy were blown down during a recent
storm , and a stone school house , an old land
mark ; seven miles north of town , was de
molished.
Scwanl has expended $30,000 In an attempt
to supply the city with lire protection and
wat 'rfor household use. The prospect at
present for on adequate supply4i not very
cheering.
Ilov. W. J. Oliver , pistor of the Presby
terian church at Falrbury.has returned from
his vacation with a bride whom ho secured in
Pennsylvania. The newly nwrrlcd > cotiplo
wx'ro tendered a grand reception upon their
arrival at Fulrbury.
Bert Shellenberpcr , a young former near
Beaver City , had his skull crushed by the
kick of a horse. He remained unconscious
for some hours , but finally revived and has
good prospects of recovery.
.T.N. Young , residing about six mites south
west of Hebron , while- attempting to take a
curbing out of an old well , was smothered
by the dirt caving In on him. When the
rescuers reaioved the dirt the man was dead.
Mr. Young was an iullucntlal fanner.
Captain C. M. Copp of Wahoo was recently
married at Salt Lake , Utah , to Clymcna
Servlss of the latter city. The newly married
pair retutned to Wahoo last week to bo
present at the wedding of Captain Copp's
daughter to Lelloy Mayno , formerly of
Omaha but now of Ogdeii.
William nines of Lawn Itldgo , Cedar
county , was arrested la t week and fined $100
for brutally assaulting a thlrtccn-ycar-old boy
named John Johnson whom ho had taken from
the Kearney rcfoim school. Hincs chastised
the boy with a cattle whip , cutting a deep
gash In his face and laying open ono thigh
several Inches. The gash looks as though It
had l > eeii inflicted with a sharp instrument ,
but the boy insists that Hincs Kicked him.
Iowa Items.
Sac City is over § 10,000 in debt.
Boone and Carroll are after packing
houses.
A Swedish syndicate has purchased a 1,300
acio stock farm near Dow City.
A Scrouton butcher found a purse contain
ing § JO in gold in n cow's stomach.
Whisky caused H. Lippett of Fall-field to
commit suicide last week by shootlug himself
through the head.
Work has commenced on the Crcston blue
grass palace und the structure will bo com
pleted in a few weeks.
Aliss Lucy Smith of Toledo is suffering
from a fractured collar bono , caused by fall
ing out of a hummock.
In the past six months $ lii5,000 worth of
horses , cattle and hogs have been shipped by
farmers in the vicinity of Morning Sun.
Ono of the largest cornfields in the state ] is
near Module. It contains 500 acres and sev
enteen cultivators aie kept busy turning the
weeds down.
O'Brien county proposes to build a So.OOO
jail building. Heretofore the county has
been paying out about $ . " > 00 annually to neigh
boring counties for keeping its prisoners.
Iowa City has raised $ J5,000 towards the
erection of a Young Men's Christian asso
ciation building , Mrs. C. D. Close , widow of
the linseed oil manufacturer , giving $10,000 of
the amount.
Fritz Drncr , n farmer living near Giay ,
Wudnbon county , while digging n well a few
days ago found small mmntltics of gold at a
depth of forty feet. Ho refused to sell out at
a good round price and Intends to thoroughly
investigate his IInil.
The Cedar Ilapids police found Charlie
Ross the other day they found him in a
bcabtly state of intoxication. While they
were taking him to the station in a patrol
wagon ho assaulted his finders , jumped fiom
the wagon and succeeded in losing himself
again.
The marriage of George W. Catt and Mrs.
Cariio Lane Chapman occiured at Seattle ,
Wash. , recently. Mrs Chapman was for a
number of > cars principal of the Mut > on City
schools , and duung the past Ji'ar gained
quite un extensive reputation as general lec
turer of the Woman's suffrage society.
Duiing the storm at Sibley the other day
lightning struck the chimney of D. F.
Caughey's residence , entcicd the kitchen ,
btirring up the contents , then entered thu
bed-toom anil struck near a bed wherein
wore three occupants.passed around to the
head of the bed , knocking the plastcilng on"
the walls and a piece of the bcil post. The
foot board was set on fire. After burning
up two dresses it made its exit into the cel
lar.
lar.The
The SUcldon district camp meeting Is in ses
sion nt Spirit Luke and will continue until July
1. The meeting Is under thodiiectlonof Kov.
J. Cole , assisted by the preachers of the dis
trict and others. Geoigo D. Kldorkin of Oak
I'uik , Ills. , leuds the singing. Mis. Henry of
Kvanston , IHs , conducts the bible reading ,
nnd Uov. G. W. L. Brown of Hock Kapids ,
has charge of the } oung people's mass
meeting.
The Two DnkotaH.
The Ulk Point creamery shipped a largo
consignment of butter to Boston lust week.
A Yunkton girl icfused to bo married after
her lover hud procuicd the necesarry mari -
i iago license.
A company with a capital stock of § 100,000
is being organised to establish u linen factory
at Sioux Falls.
William Nolty of Ilighmoie , while cross
ing a pond ou horsobacic , was thrown out of
the saddle and drowned.
Giubotms aio doing some damage to
( lax und coin In small portions of Blown ,
Spink , Clurd , Hamilton and Codington
counties.
A. ranchman on the reservation started out
several yeais ago with a solitary cow , and
now owns ! i,00) head of cattle , ( JOt ) horses and
thirty-two buffalo and crosses.
There are at present nlnoty-ono convicts In
the Sioux Falls penitentiary , fiftv-four boys
and glils In the refonn school at Planklngton
nnd5t Inmates In , the insuno asylum at
Yankton.
The committee having in charge the selec
tion of the location of the North Dakota
Methodist college will moot utGrundFoiks
August 12 , when tlnnl action will bo taken.
The highest bid thus far is fiom Luiimoro.
Chuiles Judcn otSmboin county tried tote
to paint the city of Mitchell a deep voniill-
lion hue and dashed around on horseback ,
shooting oft lovolvers nnd yelling. The
pollco captured the hilarious young man and
no was fined JO and costs.
A Chinaman In this city has a garden ten
feet wiclo nt ono end , twenty at the other and
foity fcot long , thut has produced moio gar
den truck this year and will produce moro
Mian any whlta man's truck pitch of an ucio
of ground , says the Hnpld City Hi-publican
Whlto men could get pointers on agriculture
from these same heathen Chinese , as It has
been their study for centuries to know how
to utilize every squiiio foot of thu land they
cultivate.
On thn farm of H J Murston In [ Sully
county u well was sunk roo-nUy and a pump
placed In It , nays the Stanley nntorpri.se.
There Is one thing , however , that is pulling
Mr. Murston. Ho s.iva thut a flow of natural
gas Issues from the pipe- and lifts the valves
of the pump so that no water can bo obtained.
He , however , Is elated over the find of gas ,
which burns rapidly , giving a clear ll bt ami
feels confident that go * In paying qualities
for boating und lighting purposes Is to bo
found In the vicinity.
TENNYSON'S IIAIUTH.
He Shuns iho Crowd , hut IH Neither
Grim nor Gloomy.
Like most all utithorn , Tennyson does
the greater part of his literary work in
the morning hours , between breakfast
and luncheon , and sometimes breaks the
back of his work before breakfast , writes
Goorgu Makepeace Towlo in Prank Los-
liu's Monthly. His invariable ) habit Is
to take a long walk before luncheon , ac
companied often by ft friend , nnd always
by two of hi * tloga. Tha afternoon and
evening are given up to rest and social
recreations.
Tlio poet (9 ( seldom , as wo have said ,
scon In the streets of thcinctroK | > lIaj but
occasionally his tall , sturdy form , his
brand soft- lint and inevitable cloak , his
Hhnggy , grizzled Chocks of hair , his
deep dark eyes beneath heavy brows ,
and heavy gray beard , may bo soon
threading- the region round about
St. Tutu's. Although flhunnlng tlio
"maddening1 crowd , " It must not uo In
ferred that Tennyson is in n social sonsa
grim and gloomy. "When with n few
liovotcd friends , ho delights In conversa
tion , and often takes up himself the
thrand of talk in fascinating monologue ;
describing- , sometimes , the days of his
own youth , and Romatlmcs talking feel
ingly of the eminent people ho has seen
and known through out his long life.
Especially fond ia Tennyson of reading
extracts from his own poems to appre
ciative listeners.
"Heading , Is It1'says Miss Thackeray.
"Ono can luirdly describe it. It is a sort
of mystical incantation , a chant in which
every note rlsea nnd falls and re
verberates again. As wo ait
around the twilight room at
Farrlngford , with its great oriel-
window looking to tlio garden ,
across fields of hyacinth and self-sowed
daffodils toward the sett , whore thu
waves wash against the rock , wo seem
carried by a tide not unlike the ocean'H
sound ; it fills the room , it abbs and Mown
away ; and when wo leave , it is with a
strange music in the cars , feeling that
wo have for the first time , perhaps ,
heard what wo may have road a hun
dred times before. " _
SOUNDS MA1 > IJ VISIUhK.
The Curious Process of Producing Pic
tures ol'MiiHicnl Notes.
When our fathers wore told that the
sun could bo made to turn artist they
told the early photographist to carry
such stories to the marines. Now , when
wo are told that pictures can bo made
by notes of musio wo are equally In
credulous. But it Is true , and Mr. Kow-
botlmrn , in Caasoll's Family Mugtuino ,
tolls us all about It as follows :
A lady , Mrs.Vatta Hughes , who orig
inally intended to devote herself to the
art profosssionally , thtough failure of
health renounced n public career and un
dertook intitoad delicate investigations
into the nature of bound. The experi
ments are conducted as follows : A hol
low receiver i& procured , over the mouth
of which is stretched an elastic mem
brane. The surface of the membrane is
covered with a semi-Quid pabto of such
consistency that very light impressions
can be easily received. The singer then
approaching the apparatus , sings on to
the surfaeo of the mumbrane exorcising
greatest care that his notes are sin
gularly steady and perfectly accurate in
the intonation of the given sound. At
once the musical uotu mirrors itself on
the paste , and in the most unexpected
forms. The fonnd of Honors , Ks perfect
as if thev wore drawn , occur among the
rebt , and , indeed , contribute the major
ity of the figures. Daisies ) , with every
petal exactly shaped , are common ; lilies ,
as , symmetrically made , are not rare. A
change of note , or of timbre , will pro
duce a miniature tree on the pas , to. By
some slight variation impossible to esti
mate the figure of a starfish will appear
on the surface of the membrane ; an
other imperceptible difference of
sound will lay , side by side
with the starfish , an ane
mone. Occasionally the vibra
tions presumably owing to an uncon
scious augmentation of force on the part
of the singer will imprint themselves
in the form of shells , beautifully voluted ,
the wrinkles of the scroll beingso incis
ively indented that when photographed
they appear as if creases in the picture.
Suddenly deserting theo miirlnu forms
as capriciously as it took them up , the
sound will create forms , suspend bunches
of fruit and otherwise adorn with similar
emblems the surface. When the .sound
is producing Honors on the paste the
singer can at pleasure increase the num
ber of petals by gradually making the
tone ascend. At each fraction of a tone
on which his voice rises , a now petal
is added to the ilowor. lie can
thus by a careful management of his
voice increase a pigmy daisy that lies
first imprinted on tlio paste to a gigantic
sunllo\\er , occupying nearly the whole
surface. In the other forms o. g. , the
Hholls this addition of piece by piece
does not appear , and the scroll once
fashioned remains.
The forms thus produced on the paste
are photographed whilst the membrane
is in' sonorous vibration ; or water
color impressions are taken , which
art ) transferred on to glass im
mediately nftor being produced.
The advantage of the latter method is
that the minute beauty and delicacy of
the forms can bo shown to perfection by
the use of various colors for different
parts of the same object.
A Cosmopolitan Poet.
The lifo of u poet as of a prose author
is most often uneventful. It rarely
abounds in startling episodes or dramatic
situations , writes George Makepeace
Towlo in Frank Leslie's Monthly. The
history of the triumphs of intellect and
imagination is initially quiet , and often
monotonous. Throughout his sixty
years of labor as a medical professor and
as nn author of prose and verso , Holmes
has lived in the midst of men , either in
Cambridge or in Boston , with busy
streets and many human boing'd
as familar sights. While Whittier has
been secluded in depths of the country
and has sung under the quiet inspiration
of the lovely pastoral countryside of
Kssox , "Ilolmcs has always chosen to
dwell with the compact multitude in the
metropolis. Of brisk and genial social
temper , and with eminently social tastes ,
Holmes lias boon in his person the be st
known and most easily recognised of Bos
ton poets. Throughout all these years ,
and today almost as much us over , his
Himill , well-formed figure , his oval face
with its slumping oye.s , its fringe of gray
hair , its long , round , boardlo s chin ,
and its pleasant , smiling mouth , have
been familiar to the passers to and fro
in Boston's crooked streets. People
wonder to see the physical activity , the
spring in the step , and the prompt ,
nervous gait , which tells so cheerful a
story of preserved vitality at the gioat
ago'of eighty.
Holmcri , too , has as freely mingled with
men on public occasions , and as cheerily
and effectively taken bib share in them ,
us he has made himself a well known
Dostonlan on thu streets. How many
attor-d inner feasts of reason and fancy
has ho graced 1 How many neat little
speeches in honor of this or that brother
man of loiters or brother man of medicine -
cine lias he made ! How often has the
eagerly expectant company around the
fe.stivo board seen him take from bin
pocket a sheet of paper , written over
with his dainty anil dollcnto chl-
rography and read therefrom , with clear
nnd well-modulated voice , some uom of
his latest fancy , uomo tribute to a great
man dead , or Bomo good-humored natiro
on the foible of the day ! Up to within a
recent period ITolmon always , for many
years , nttondod these brilliant tiymporiia
of the Saturday club , composed o ( the
oromo do la cromo of the Boston literati ,
where the boat , the wisest , the wittiest
thing was said on every possible subject.
LlkoBrowning , Holmes has always boon
a thorough mini of the world , onjoviiiK
Houioty , liking contact with humankind
and glad to uuiuso und teach young and
old.
IN THE nOTUN'DA.
Dr. Morrison Man font , editor nml proprlo-
Jprof the Kansas City Times , mndo hh first
visit to Omalm yesterday. Tlmt Im wiw stir-
prlicd to llnd on his arrival hero such n well
'
built , attractive npoearlnu town hardly ox '
presses It. "I had formed a general Idea , " *
Biild the tloctor , "that Omnnn was qulto un
Importiint place , but Intrdly expected to sea
so mnny line building * , handsomely paved
streets nnd largo public ; Improvements. "
Aflor looking throuRh TUB DKH building
ho dcchirctl it to bo this finest , besl
equipped und most conveniently arranged
newspaper onleo lu thta country ,
"nnd , " ho continued , "I Imvo seen nearly
all the now ones. " The doctor has been In
Now York recently.
Spooking of Kmisas City , Dr , Mtmford
said that the census mutter had bocn attract
ing moro attention there recently than any
thing clso. Whllo the enumcnitlon gluv
the city 150,000 population , ho thought tlio
enumerators hud overlooked at least 25OUO
people ,
Hcplylng to an Inquiry regarding the polit
ical outlook beyond Nebraska's southern bor
der , the doctor declared that matters wcro
taking nn Interesting tuni In Kansas. "Tho
farmer's alliance of that stnto Is attracting
wide-spread attention. It proposes to put n
full ticket , attito ami congressional , In tlio
Held runt fall. nnd leading men
nroeonlldcntof sufcess at the polls. They
are going to glvo some of the congressional
districts u great stirring up. I bollovo the
alliance will elect its candidate In the Sixth ,
because Webb M. Hall , who lias been nomin
ated by the republicans , Is very unpopular.
Whllo the district U republican by ! > 5,000
majority the prospects are that thN will bo
overcomo. ICelloy of the Third In probably
safe , but I am told that the others have great
fears. I'ctcra and Merrill have w Itlulrawn ,
but Funston and Judge forks hone to bo re-
elcctod.
"Tho important question with many of us
1 < to determine what course the democrats
are going to pursue. They have nn opnor-
tunlty to make a great combination , but
whether the old war horses can makeup their *
minds to break away from strict , party lines "
and go into a mixed light or not U tbo
point.1' vX *
* -X
ICopulillcaii Stuto Convention.
The ropubllcaii electors of the stuto of No-
brasl.a uro requested to bond dolesutcs from
their several counties to meet In contention In
the city of Lincoln , Wednesday. July 2.1 , utB
o'clock p. m. , for the purpose of pl.iolns In
nomination mndtdatos for tlio following btuto
oOliu-t : '
( JovcMiior ,
Moiiton\nt : Oovernor.
Socrct.iry of Stuto.
Auditor of Public Accounts.
St.ito Treasurer.
Attorney Conor.il.
Coinnils-slonorof I'ubllo Luiula and Hulld-
IIIRS.
Siiperliitondcnt of Public Instruction.
And tlio ti.insacUon of sueli other bnslneai
iia may como befoiu tlio eonxentlon.
TUB Al'l'OUTlONMI.Xr.
Tlip Kpvcr.il uonntlus are entitled to rcprn-
scnt.itlon at. follows , belns h.ispil upon thn
votu cust for Hon. Uc-orKO H. Hastings , presi
dential elector In IfiSH , gU Inj ; ono tlnlorruto-ut-
lar o to ouch county , and one for e.uh 1VJ
totes und tliinnujor fraction tburc of :
It Is recommended th it no proxies bo ad
mitted to Dm convention , and th.it the dolo-
Katesiiiest'iit bo utiUioilrud tu cast , thu full
vote of tlio delegation.
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