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A Pieces
Printed China Silks , 22 in. , now styles : 22 in. crenm
real .lap Habutais , 2i : in. plain Pongees , 2(1 ( in.
Blk. Surahs , 22 in. Satin Tricot lues. 19 in. Swis- <
Skirting SlllcH , cte. , former price 'I0e. 1'Jc , 05c and
Too yd. Your choice entire "lot"
IN OUR BASEMENT
Table Oil'
Yard and a half wide ,
in marble and dark
colors , worth 2.e ,
Goes at
Best Calicos.
10 eases Standard
Dress Calicos ) , includ
ing rtirkoy red and
indigo blue , as well
us all other w < > .l
known brands.
Thousands of yards pure silk and wool
PIN CHECK GLORIAS
Changeable effects ; worth 81. goatuOcyard
Ladies' Lfc'it and Dak :
MALE
With Wattean back
and largo ruttles over
the shoulders ,
worth $1.7. ) , go at
IN OUR BASEMENT
200 Pieces Very Wide Imported
WOOI. CHARLIE 3
Light grounds with
binall lloral designs
worth 50c a yard.
sop
Pieces
27 in. wide real .lap Printed Silks. 20 inVash
Plald24 in. Colored Surahs 27 in. Natural
and Hluek Jap llabltimis , 21 In. Dln k ar.d
Colored Moire Antiques , etc. , former price
73c. 91 , 11.25 and $1.50. Your choice entire
"lot"
Lonsdale Muslin ,
cases of best grades , '
yard wide , bleached mus
lins , ineludii g L ns-
dale and other leading
brands
Cliildfens1 $1 $ Lace Caps ,
1.000 childrons" lace caps. " bonnets
and hatH. all the
latest style , elegantly
embroidered ; worth
$1.00 ; gout
50 PIECES
Very wide and ex'ra quality ,
Worth 09c yard ; go at 2."c yd.
Ladies' Handsome French Sateen
WAISTS ,
In blnek grounds , with
small colored 6c-
signs , made in the
h'.test style ; worth
SL.'O , go at
IN OUR BASEMENT
40 Pieces Light and Dark Ground
PRATED QASE ER.S ,
Extra wide new wash
T"
fabric , worth 2je ; go at
the rate of exchange with ono of these boxes
of balls strung on wires , which form the
slates and pencils of the ct-lestlals. It is
wonderful how fast these men can figure In
this way. They push the balls this way and
that with their aristocratic , long finger-
nailed yellow hands , and In less time than
you could put down the figures th-y give you
the result. They are always sure of them
selves , and If they make a mistake the firm
by whom they are employed expects them to
make it good. They are under heavy bonds
often running up Into the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars , and there are few default
ing Chinese cashiers. These"compradors"
and "shroffs. " as they are called , keep track
of the Chinese markets for the foreign firms.
They have cashiers' or bankers' meetings , as
It were , every day among themselves and re
port later on to their masters. They know
all about the standing of different Chinese
banks and firms. In speaking of them they
divide them Into four classes. If they say a
bank Is a number one bank It Is sure to be
as good as the gold. If they call It num
ber two It is fair. If numbsr three. Its repu
tation Is cloudy , and If four , you had better
let It alone.
THE DEFT COUNTERFEITER.
Chinese bank notes are more like promis
sory notes than our bank notes. There Is
not and never has been a national bank ,
and notes are not used as currency to any
extent. The banker merely writes the
amount on the note and puts his private
seal or chop over It. Such notes are made
out forfeit sums from five to twenty thou
sand taels , and the Chinese banker never
goes back on his signature. He pays the
notes when they are presented , In silver or
gold. The silver Is usually paid according
to weight. In lumps the shape of a toy bath
tub , ranging In value all the way from a
dollar up to ? 50. The usual size is worth
about ISO. and It weighs about five pounds.
The gold Is made In long , thin cakes , and
Is twenty carats fine. The banker stamps
with his private seal every piece of silver
he pays out , anil even the Mexican dollars
are marked thus with India Ink. Every
big bank or company has a man who takes
all of the silver dollars that come In and
fits them Into holes made In a board , so
that even when they lie In them their sur
face Is Just level with the board. He then
takes a brush and water and washes them
as white and clean RS though they had
Just come from the mint. Ho now stamps
his chop on each of them , ami this means
that he guarantees their payment. Any one
who has been In China will see the neces
sity for this. There are no shrewder coun
terfeiters In the world than the Chinese ,
and they are especially adept In the plug
ging of coin. They will born holes In a sil
ver dollar and Insert other metal which will
make It weigh the same as a good dollar ,
Ojid they nro willing to chip an atom of sti
ver oft a large number of coins In order to
make good wages out of the sale of the dust.
The other day an American got a silver
dollar In trade at Hankow , ami-attempted to
pass It at the bank there , lli was told It
was not good , and upon his questioning the
matter the Chinese cashier sent for a candln
and lit It. He then held the coin over It.
anil , lo ! In a moment It began to melt. The
sides fell off , and In thn center there was
a piece of copper. The counterfeiter hail
split a genuine coin and had hollowed out
the two pieces on the Inside so that the
copper could be fitted Into them. They
were then patched together so neatly that
only the experienced ear of the Chinese
shroff could detect the fraud.
BUSHELS OF MONKY.
Silver dollars will not pass In Interior
China , and outsKta of ports silver Is tuken
entirely by weight. The only coin current
In the empire IB the copper cash , of which
( t takes 1.000 to make a dollar 111 silver. A
thousand cnah will weigh about nine
pounds , and ten of our dollars changed Into
cash would weigh nearly 100 i > ouml . and
would form a fair wheelbarrow load of
money. I see lots of money earrled on
wheelbarrows through these Chinese cities ,
ami a common night Is a coollo going out
to market with strings of these copper
coins slung over till shoulder. The caib
IN OUS BASEMEPJT
PURE SILK
Worth |
S 1.2 *
UJI8RELUS ,
IN OUR BASEMENT
25 P.ieces , double fold , fine quality
BUCK SATEEN ,
Extra Wide.
< Worth 29e ; go at
arc about the size and shape of our old red
cents , save that they Rave square holes of
about the size of the tip of your little fin
ger running through them. They are strung
In strings of 1,000 on ropes of twisted straw
.and at the end of every 100 a knot Is tied In
the string to mark the I count. Tliese cash
are made-.at all of the ! provincial capitals ,
and the viceroys are expected to turn them
out. They cost at the/present / time more
than their face value tq make , and copper
of this kind Is , In fact , here dearer than
gold. I saw such coins being made some
years ago at the big mint at Canton , and I
watched a new machine turning them out
at the rate of seventy a minute at the Klag-
nan arsenal the other day. The copper went
Into the machine In the shape of a hoop , of
about the width of the Iron hoops which we
use on cider barrels , .and stamps which
worked through holes In a plate cut the
metal Into round disks , , Stamped the charac
ters upon them and cut out the central hole
In each coin all at-a single stroke of the
machine. It was workedfby steam , but even
at this rate of seventy per minute It turned
out only about $4 worth of coins an hour.
It Is even erse at "the , other Chinese mints ,
where the coins are bast , and the copper
and the labor makes the production of them
a loss to the nen who ire told by the govern
ment or the viceroys that they must furnish
so many cish within a certain date. The re
sult Is that these cash are often made of
spurious metal , and I have seen some of them
which were sp poor that 1 could break them
In two with my fingers. 4 At the present rates
of exchange I could byy " ,000 of these coins
for one of our dollars/ and It would take
twenty to equal the value of a little Ameri
can red cent , and you qould buy a pound of
them for a nickel : I bent my Chinese serv
ant for $10 worth of these cash today , and
he came back loaded. Ills hands were full
and his shoulders were covered with strings
of cash.
SHYLOCKS , AND USURERS.
Tie ! banking system of Clilns Is the oldest
known to man. According to Chinese records
there were banks of discount and denoslj here
as far back usCOO B , C. , and the Interest
laws of China were madq long before Colum
bus discovered Ambrica , There were Shylocks -
locks hero 1,000 years before the real Shylock -
lock was born In the' mlntl of Shakespeare ,
and nowhere on earth jlmong civilized people
will you find higher rules of Interest paid ,
more money borrowed and more debts con
scientiously paid. The legal rate of Interest
In many of the provinces of China Is 30 per
cent and In others It ; ( a 36 per cent. Still
millions are lent , I dm told , In the shape of
call loans In the seaport towns at 6 and 6
per cent , and all sorts of money transactions
are entered Into. China had n system of
building and loan associations long before wo
began to exist as atnatlon , and all over the
empire there are asioclaUons for the loaning
of money , In which the different members
pay so much a month and the Joint capital
Is passed from one member to another from
year to year , so that each gets a chance to
use It for a parl > of the ten years during
which such associations usually run. There
Is no place In the world where capital com
bines more readfly than In China. The
bankers have their guilds or associations ,
which fix all their rate * of credit and Inter
est. Every city has Its clearing house , which
settles up the buslneM5 > fctween the banks at
the close of each day , .and the native banks
Issue circular letters bfcredlt to traveler ! )
going through the empire. There arc big
banks who puah Chinese patent medicines ,
and llttlo ones who lolif out turns which we
Americans would hardly , think worth while
borrowing. There nrq Crudes union of all
sortti and oven the beggars club together and
are bound by the ruW u > { their union. Farm
ers combine : og lhvr | o buy cattle , peddlers
buy and sell the on stain of particular streets
to their fellows , and a man who wants to get
married and has perhaps not enough money
to buy a wife will go Into une of these loan
associations to got I' .
SAFE BUSINESS , METHODS.
I tried to buy some plc urns at Kiuklang ,
but found the dealer's Htore shut and waa.
told that he w s doted untfl uo could get
ON OUR MAIN FLOOR.
Siikoline Dress Fabric ,
In dark and light colorings ; the exact copy of our 91.00
China Silk , on sale on oil" bargain square.
j avre : :
1,000 Pieces
Black SUk Bourdon Lace , Hlaek
and Cream oilk Chantilly , Oriental.
Point do Veni-uand Pointu'lrlande ,
worth up to "oc ,
4D PIECES
mporled French Novelty Dress Goods '
LIGHT SUMMER COLORINGS ,
STRICTLY ALL WOOL WITH SILK MIXTURES :
Handsomest good * shown , worth up to $2 a yard , go at
75c a yard
LADIES' LISLE THREAD and
Handsome Silk Em
broidered
With ribbon trimming
IN OUK ll\3tliNT ! :
Thousands Of yards fine
figured
Worth 2TC yard , go at. . . . ,
i
CHINESE MOSEY BAGS
How the Greatest Empire in the World
Manages Its Money Matters.
WHERE ALL BANKRUPTS ARE BEHEADED
Five Hundred Millions of People Who Do
Business in Copper Cash ,
OLD MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATIONS
Obincso Stock Exchange Presents Scenes
Familiar to Americans.
V.HY FINANCIAL PANICS ARE IMPOSSIBLE
I'runk U. Cnrpontur THN About tlio Culca-
tllll llilllUIliKSjnU.nlVhote . \ntlii\llly
l > nti- Hack --MHIO II. C. Jinny
Interesting I'acts ( iloiined.
( Copyrighted 1SD1 by Trnnk O. Carpenter. )
HANKOW. China , May 1. ( Special Cor
respondence of The lice. ) The silver Ques
tion Is a far more Important matter out
here In Asia than It lias ever been In Amer
ica. The Japanese are trying to uphold
their end of the financial question by rais
ing their prices , but the five hundred odd
millions of Chinese do their business In
copper cash on a sliver basis , and the cost
of their Imports are now fust double what
they were a few years ago. 1 cashed $50
In g Id the other day and received flOO In
silver for It , and American dollars are now-
quoted In China at 212. The Imports
have to bo bought with gold and sold for
silver , and the prices must , of course , be
doubled for the merchants to come out
oven , The prices of labor and of Chinese
products have not risen , and the thooeamls
and mlllona of Chinese fanners who are now
coming to the cities to buy their sup
plies of cottons and other foreign things
ore charged double prices. They cannot un
derstand It , und they won't pay them , They
think they are being cheated and they
won't buy at all. They simplyi say they
can't afford the goods , and they go back
home und cut up their old gowns Into
pants for the llttlo glrln and petticoats for
the boys. The result will be u great falling
off In China's Imports from Europe and
America , and It will act as * a sort of pro
tective tariff to stimulate home production.
There arp now on foot a number of schemes
for the manufacture of foreign goods In
China , and some of the Chinese capital
ists themselves are seriously considering
how they can take advantagu of the present
situation In the building of factories. The
empire now has a foreign trade of some
thing Ilku $300.000,000 a year. Heretofore
more than half of this has consisted of Im-
jxirt * . The goods lm\e been shipped Into
the open port * of the country and from
thence carried In Junks , on camels , on wheelbarrows -
barrows sad In Chinese cart * all over the
500 Ladies' Waists
In white and colors ,
with laundoreu juITt
collars and bosom ,
worth 81.50 , go at
IN CUR BA EMENT
500 Fieces Beautiful Tinted
SWISS LAWNS
With floral designs , worth
liie yard , go at
empire. Far beyond the Chinese wall , on
the borders of Thibet and In the wilds of
Mongolia you find strange people wearing
English and American cottons , and many of
the huts of the Thibetans In the Himalaya
mountains are roofed with tin pounded out
American coal-oil cans. I see our coal oil
carted on wheelbarrows through the streets
of these Interior Chinese cities , and there
Is a great oil reservoir at Shanghai , where
the petroleum is stored awaiting its ship
ment into the Interior. NT < j have been send
ing In the nelghborhooif of forty million
gallons of coal oil to China every year for
Homo time , and many a Chinese home along
the Yangste Klang Is lighted with the
fluid that flows from the pipes of the Penn
sylvania wells.
wells.A
A RICH COUNTRY.
China contains between 400,000,000 and
500,000,000 of people. With its tributary
provinces It Is said to have the enormous
population of 537,000.000. Since the begin
ning of our government we have coined all
told about 401,000.000 silver dollars , not In
cluding the dimes , halves and quarters , and
If the whole could bo gathered together and
carried to China there would not be enough
to give $1 to each of Its Inhabitants. China
Is generally supposed to be very poor. I be
lieve , on the contrary , that It Is a rich coun
try , and It must retiulre a vast amount to
do Its business. It Is true there are many
millions of poor , but there are also millions
of well-to-do and millions of comparatively
rich. There are few countries where Jewelry
IB more commonly worn , and where the
clothes of the better classes are more costly.
I have seen since I came here thousands of
ordinary citizens dressed In long gowns of
brocaded silk lined with furs , and nearly
every other woman you see outside of the
laboring women wears a silk'coat and silk
pantaloons , while her little pinched toes are
covered with silk , silver or gold embroidered
sheep. She has silver or gold ornaments in
her hair and her silk headdress is often
decorated with rows of pearls. Both sexes
wear gold rings , and a well-to-do Chinaman
experts to fit out his daughters with gold
ornaments on the occasion of their marriage.
They look upon the change In the prices of
money as a rise In gold rather than a fall In
silver , and I hear everywhere the question ,
"Why for makee gold so dear ? " They real
ize the change when they have a daughter
whom they want to marry off , anil the rlso
Is , hi fact , so surprising to many of the
people that they arc selling their go-Id orna
ments. They are bringing out the gold
bricks they have hoarded and the -country la
being drained of Its gold.
HOW TlinV DO IT.
The Chinese are a great business people.
Their cities are beehives of work , and they
require a great deal of money I IT do their
trading. The city of Canton absorbs about
3,000,000 of silver dollars a year. It takes
millions to do the business of Shanghai and
Tientsin , and there are scattered over this
land thousands of native banks which do a
regular banking business and some of which
Issue notes. There are 400 native banks In
Peking. 300 In Tientsin and hundreds In
Shanghai , Fee Chow , Nlngpo , Hankow and
Canton. All of the big cities have their
stock exchanges ami In these the brokers
mtct daily and buy and sell like our bulls
and bears do In Wall street. I eaw 1,000
such brokers pulling , hauling and scratching
at each other In the stcck exchange In Pek
ing , and 1 am told tint many of them have
recently lost great sums In betting on silver.
The Tuotol or Chinese mayor of Shanghai
has lost , It IB said , 1600,000 within the last
three months In buying silver , and he nan. In
fact , speculated himself out of office and his
place , will shortly be flll.dvith u now ap
pointee. In all of the treaty ports the for
eign us we.ll as the native business Is really
done by the Chinese. All of the foreign
firms have Chinese cashiers , and these men
make all of the calculations and handle all
the- money , Whn you go Into a bank the
English clerk Mill ra\l \ a Chinaman to figure
out your exchange for him and It will be
the Chinaman who will pay you your money.
If you make a depoult or pay o bit ! It la a
Chinaman who handles ever } sllv r dollar ,
testing It carefully by ringing It before he
accepts U , and estimating the amount and
I enough iffoney from his friends to pay his
I last year's debit. All firms here have to
i settle up at thp close of the year , and It Is
the greatest disgrace to go Into bankruptcy. .
Bankrupts often commit su clde , and the
son feels bound to pay his father's debts.
U is the same with other relatives. The
debts of any member of a family arc a dis-
giuee to the whole family , and rich men
having failed will go to work at the most
menial occupations in order to pay up. Big
failures are always punished by law. If
the amount Is from $1,500 to J5.000 the bank-
1 rupt Is banished , and If It runs above that
amount his head Is taken off. There Is not
much discussion about the matter and the
law Is that the bankrupt who becomes such
from unavoidable 6lrcumstances Is decapi
tated Just the tame as the fraudulent one.
There are no lawyers and no Juries and the
Judges or officials of the town pass the sen
tences. Sometimes the bankrupts carry
heavy chains for weeks through the streets.
At others they ore put In the cangue and
not Infrequently they lose their heads. If ,
however , the bankrupt can save enough out
of the failure he can sometimes buy off the
Judges and thus save his head. In many
cases the creditors forgive their customers
their debts , and many a man at the annual
settlement day , which always comes at the
close of the year , has his friends come to
gether and start him anew clear of debt.
If tie cannot clear himself In some way his
shop .Is kept shut until he announces his
fayuro or gets the funds to continue. ThU
prevents there ever being a great panic In
China. The actual standing of the different
merchants and business men Is known
at least every twelve months , and there Is
no chance for a man to continue a long
career of fraud and failure. The pride
which the Chinese take In keeping up the
i reputation of their towns , their business and
their families Is very remarkable. I met at
Canton o.ie of the richest men In China. His
name was Houqua , and he Is said to be worth
$50,000,000. He has big Investments In
American and other foreign securities , and
he support * about 400 of his poor relatives.
This man's father was the Jay Gould of
Canton. At the time that the British gun
boats came before the city they demanded
an Indemnity of f6.000.000. They threatened
to bombard the city If this amount was not
paid In forty-eight hours. A subscription
paper was passed around among the Canton
capitalists and Houqua put down his name
for $1,100,000 and paid It over to the col
lector ? . In the donation he said ho "gave
$20Q,000 of U In token of his affection for h s
beloved wlfo , $500,000 as a thank offering for
the prosperity which had attended him In
business arid $100,000 In recognition of the
fidelity of his son. "
A Now ( irnmul forDhorre.
Out In San Francisco a sensitive husband
Is suing his wife for divorce because she
bleaches her hair. In his petition he says :
Bleached or artificially colored hair Is
easily distinguished us such and does not
appear natural , nor docs It deceive any per
son , but It Is perfectly patent and noticeably
conspicuous. It Is regarded by the majority
of right-thinking persons as an Indication
of a loose , dissolute und wanton disposition ,
and Is regarded.as ami commonly held to be
a practice never affected by modest , pure
and respectable women.
The husband claims that he Is mortified
and humiliated on account of the change In
the color of IIH | .wife's hair. He adds :
"She U a brunette naturally. Her hair U
n ! a chestunt brown color , which , In Its nor
mal state. Is modest and becoming , and har-
monUrs with the natural color of her skin
und eye * . Since we married she has against
my wishes and protests and with Intent to
vex , annoy , exasperate and shame me , dyed
her hair and changed Its shade to n con
spicuous and ihowy straw or canary color.
AH it consequence of ' .hU artificial coloring
she has b < wn obliged to paint her face to
wcure an artificial color complexion In keep
ing with the artificial color of her hair. The
combination has given her a giddy , fast and
sporty appearance. "
FIRST" PAPER IN NEBRASKA
Liberty of the Press Found a Footing Be
fore Statehood Was Achieved.
THOS. MORTON'S ' EARLY-DAY ENTERPRISE
He-Ilex no I'lilliulluin Suw tlio Light NRI |
I'orty Years Affii Mom"lhliiK Alimit
tliu I'lm Nuinljcr Iti-cl-Lutlcr
Day for tlio Tc-rrlturj ,
It was' at Bellevue that the first news
paper 'n ' Nebraska was ever published. And
pity 'tis that the founder of the Palladium
could not have lived to ECO what his first
puny effort has brought forth. Himself a
practical printer , unaided except by a boy ,
ho llr-t brought light and wisdom to the
now great state of Nebraska.
It has certainly been proved ( arbitrary
'and prejudiced courts to the contrary not
withstanding ) that the press of Nebraska
must be free and untrammeled. From
newspaper accounts taken from east , west ,
i rth and south , letting alone comments
by the state press , It would seem that the
verdict Is unanimous , lacking one Scott.
The founder of Nebraska Journalism was
an unassuming man , and , as often hap
pens , his name may go untaught and un-
tung. While differing radically politically
from The Dee , he was always found on the
side of the worklngman , the poor and the
oppressed.
Thomas Morton published the first paper
ever printed In Nebraska. The date was
November 18 , 18.)1. A copy of It Is still
extant. It Is old , creased and yellow , and
In places badly tcorched , having passed
through the great fire of .May 12 , 18GO.
The leading editorial reads as follows :
"The Palladium office was the first news
paper establishment put In operation In Ne
braska , and the present number the first
ever Ishucd In the territory. The 'first
printer * In the ofilce who have set up the
present number ziYe natives of three differ
ent Ktates Ohio , Virginia and Massachu
setts , namely , Thomas Morton , foreman ,
Columbus , 0. ; A. D. Long , compositor , Vir
ginia ; Henry M. Heed , apprentice , Massa
chusetts.
"At the very time our foreman had the
prebs ready for operation the followng par
sons were not by'Invitation , but providen
tially , present to witness Its operation ,
i.amcly : His Excellency T. ti , Cuinlng ,
governor of Nebraska , and Mrs. T. II. Curn-
Ing ; Hon. Kennor Ferguson , chief justice of
Ncbra-ku ; Mrs. P. Ferguson , Ilev. William
Ham Iton of thn Otoo and Omaha mission ,
Mrs. William Hamilton , Major James Gate-
wood of Missouri , Illrd II. Chapman , candi
date for congress from Nebraska territory ;
George W. Ilolllater , CHO , . , of Uellevue ; A.
Vandergrlf , et.0. . . of Missouri ; W. A. Griffin
of Ilcllcvue ; Arthur Ferguson of liellcvue ;
Theodore 6. Gllmoro of Chloigo , III. ;
Miss Mary Hamilton and Miss Amanda
Hamilton of Bellevue. The first proof
sheet was taken by hit excellency ,
Governor Cumlne , which was taken from
the prers and read by his honor , Chief Jus
tice Ferguson. Thus ciulPtly and uncere
moniously was the blrthtlme of printing In
Ilellevue , Neb. , celebrated. Thus wai the
Nebraska Palladium Inaugurated Into the
public , service. This event , although to
seme It may seem unimportant now , will
form ah epoch In history which will be re
membered ages after those present on this
Interesting occasion are no more.
"Tho Palladium Is Issued from Dellcvue ,
a beautiful ipot amid the far-off wilds of
Nebraska Issued In ttie very wake of
heathen darkness , and. we might almost
say , In Its midst. We have taken Joint
pofctetslon with the aboriginal occupants
of the soil. Our office Is frequently vltlted
by the dark children of the forest and prai
rie , whose curiosity prompt * them to wit-
Too Summer Corsets Q Q / -
nOc lllni'kSllk Mitts
35cSillc Veiling
SOcSilk WimlborTIcs
Ladies' Richelieu Ribbed
Heavy Silk Embroid
ered , worth 75o . . .
oimsini.vr. .
10O Pieces
CHALLIES
Da'-k grounds , beautiful
combinations ? of flowers ,
worth ] iJc ! yard , go at. .
ness the operation of the to them Incom
prehensible art by which thought Is sym
bolized and repeated In ever enduring
forms on the printed page.
"As the Ind.an disappears before the
light of civilization , so may the darkness
and error of human mind ( Ice before the
light of the press of Nebraska. "
At the head of the editorial column Is
this short paragraph :
"This is the first column of reading mat
ter set In the territory of Nebraska. This
was put In typa on the 14th day of Novem
ber , 1834 , by Thomas Morton. "
The advertising columns arc mostly oc
cupied by St. Louis firms and Missouri
river transportation companies. The first
copy that taw the light of a glorious Ne
braska day IB now In posses'on : of the pro
prietors of the Nebraska City News , the
legitimate successor of the Palladium ,
Tlio I'lpu f Pencil After till ) Vrnllct ,
A dozen Indians , wrapped In blankets , tut
In sllonqe in un office In the Hyde block last
evening and smoked the pipe of pence , says
the Spokane Review. It followed the ver
dict In the Slschlmoo murder cate In the
United States court. When it was an
nounced to the IndlaiiB In waiting that the
jury had readier a verdict , the prisoner's
sad-eyed father brought forth the < famous
pipe of peace and slowly filled It with
tobacco. Then while the Jury was being
polled the Indians sat In alienee and awaited
the result. When Colonel Winston entered
thu little room a few minutes later with the
prisoner , Simon Slschlmon , the boy'u face
was wreathed In smiles. Ho grasped his.
old father's hand and spoke In the Indian
tongue. The disconsolate expression left ,
the old man's face , he fcinllcd , and shook ;
his boy's hand warmly. Then , whllo Simon
was shaking hands with others of the circle ,
the old father applied a match to the pipe.
A few whiffs were taken , the smoke being
exhaled through the nose , then It was passed
around. Everything was excitement about
them , but the circle was unmoved by emotion
or Interest until each had gone through the
ceremony of peace ; then they arose and
rushed out to get their certificates for fees ,
which amounted to $15 for each witness.
Alilu riimnrli-rlni ; .
One of Spokane's bank presidents has a
habit of taking an airing each evening on
the front emf of a street car , absorbing the
ozone and throwing off the cares of business
while chatting with the motor-man. The
other night he met a genius , und his match.
The story was too good to keep and finally
readied the Spokane Tribune , which pub
lishes It as follows :
I After the usual exchange of courtesies
the motorrnan sold : ,
"Mr. Blank , you consider yourself a finan
cier , I suppose. "
"Yes. " replied the banker , "I guess I am ,
or I could not hold my Job. "
"Well , you don't know anything about
financiering , " the motorman made bold to
state. "But my 'boss , ' ( referring to the
president of the Direct car company ) U a first
clasH financier , ho Is. Why , do you know
that every Sunday he achertlneu for a Berv-
ant and Monday twenty or thirty girls rldo
out to his house near the nnl of the line
to get the place , but find madam can't Bee
them , so they rldo back , and repeat the
Journey several limes before ih y are finally-
told that the old tlrl lias decided to Htuy a
while. Now , tha"s financiering. Fifty cents
paid out for advertisements and $8 or $9
taken In for car fares to swell the annual
dividends of the boss's company. "
The banker BOW the point , told the story ,
on Ills friend , and the "boss" la looking for
that particular motorman with blood In tils
eye ,
Tlmn Knoucli.
"Some women make me very weary/ '
said the first agliatrf-sR. "I asked ono
woman If she Iwllevixl In woman suffrage ,
and she didn't know ; she'd have to ask her
husband. "
"Did you find out how long she had been
married ? " asked the second ugltatrcss ,
"Yes. Three weeks. "
"Oh , never mind , I guess she'll do to call
on again In a year or two. "