I I ’ ECKELS TO BANKERS. ML me talks on prfsent fin an M^ Cl A L INTERESTS. Kilr»v«|MiHi>i of I lif r««l l>orrlf Burnt interest bring by .lames H. Eek els, comptroller of the currency, ile began; "The country stands rid, for some years at least, of tariff agitation, and irrespective of the merits or demerits i of tlm now act, every hubiucsn rqan knows, in no far as it is concerned, upon what basis to engage in inanu | factoring, trade and commerce. Tho evidence accumulates with eacli day’s || advices that, the long continued de ^^^Nnrcsi.ion in financial circles lias passed, wBPo&d, thunks to live years of forced economy and cessation of speculation, B vouplcd with to-iluy's abundant har r vests at remunerative prices to the i agriculturists, a new prosperity Is | owning to tho people. This prosperity, I If it is to he of real worth, ought to tie I permanent In character and reach to | till classes and interests.” [EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE PAST Mr. Eckels said that no thoughtful •tmbut of affairs could fall to know hjv.v largely a. a contributing ulcuiunt t-i :,st idleness, agitation, distress •ml poverty liad been the extrava gance that has entered into the Ameri can's every day life and ho ulso at tributed the bad effects mentioned in a measure to rash speculation by bankers, adding; “The stundard of the bankers integrity, prudence und economy und the standard of the rela tion which lie beurs to his fellows •ught to be placed upon the very high est piano, for of all men in a com munity ho occupies the one place where arc given within hi* keeping, In tlio largest measure, the business in terest; of those about him.” The speaker sharply criticized Con gress in its relation to coinage, saying in part: “One of the world's most distinguished philosophic historians b has declared that the indispensable W thing for u politician is a knowledge of political economy and history. If the statement be correct, a review of the currency legislation of the United ' States for a third of a century deinon L strati", how few, if any. politicians in tiie historian's sense have had to do with it in ail its range evidence is everywhere to be had of a disregard of the underlying principles of political economy and a woeful ignorance of the facts concerning monetary history. An analysis of its parts bears testimony to the truth of the assertion. A consideration of the y whole places it beyond cavil. That which wo call our currency system is one in name only. It lacks every ele ment of what rightfully can he called • system. It violates in every essen tial feature wliat in all other depart ments nf imvernnientai affairs we dor.inate a system. It is not an or derly combination of parts into a whole, according to some rational principal of organic idea. livery where there is want of unity, and instead of presenting to the world flnaucial com ' pletcness it exhibits itself as a work of shreds and patches." THE BLAND-ALLISON ACT. “By the operation of the Bland-Alli aon ail,” continued Mr. Eckels, “was caused the coinage of many millions of silver dollars at a value far more than the commercial value of the sil ver metal in them and of far less value than the metal in the gold dollar with which it is provided tlioy shall be of equal legal tender value and alongside of which they are expected to circu late. And as if to add the crowning act to a scries of complications already perplexing to an unheard of degree, the Sherman law has given us still other silver dollars and treasury notes to burden an already overbur dened gold reserve, without in the smallest measure adding to its safeguards. We search in ^ain fo find some solid foundation up on which all this structure rests, hut the statute books reveal nothing, save that there is drawn about it what I* deemed 'the sacred circle' of govern incut protection, in the declaration ostentatiously made, that It is ‘the eatahlished policy of tne Tolled Mats* to maintain the two metals at a parity with t-ach other u|k>ii the present legal ratio nr such ratio as may be provided by law ' The declaration ts made and then to proclaim the sham and prs trior of It the secretary of the tress ery la denied the full and adequate powers necessary to enable him, under any nud nil ctrcumslaueea. to enforce that policy to the credit of the nation and with the tenet expense to the eitisena' Mr Kekela declared that tha elttsaa whe Bated the trend of events must tee thnl the eteud o* the horiaon was tha ambiguity la trod Mead tn govern meal ewe I tee la hr legal tender teaeee deoted the seattmealaitty of those whe would relate the greeeheche he sause of war associations, and assart st that the temporary issue* of the* Any. despite the appeal* of tha ehtef • teeuUv* and *•-•#**' a *es of tha Irsst e»y. are stilt a Used part ef the Put erne ef the «urroa>» s i.nurni. irins s»:».t>Ktt "It te assorted, soul Mr Mehela "the* »hee the reseeaea of the go* prnmeat exceed It* aeeeaeary aspen t Mere* no further trouble will Ml**, ltd Mb* argument bes*d open hfnsi condition* under a plethora of money In the treasury l* ndranerd In •up port of the contention. It I* forgot ten. Uowcvor, how grrntly tho bur den placed upon Iho Irene-' 'V has been Increnscrt through alive* purchase* and Issuos, and how under e* I..ling conditions of to-day the treasury has no gold income from tho ordinary channel* of ro coipts. Tho difficulty is a more far rcurhlng one than lark of revonuo. It touches 1110 vital ooint In trenching upon tho confidence of those drilling with us in our ability and continuing determination to maintain gold pay ments. flomplrte confidence cannot be restored by increasing the govern mental income, but even If It eould there would be no guarantee against future impairment of It through the sumo ruaao. 'That danger ran only bo eliminated by rendering it impossible to have the treasury the one source of gold supply for tho people of every nation. It Is not sufficient to have our currency good to day, but art earnest must bo given that it will he good to morrow and throughuut tho future. That promise cannot be accepted unless legislative action once for all establish beyond the perad venture of a doubt that ours Is a gold gold standard country with law* es tablishing the fact so plain 'that ho who run* may road,’ and with a treas ury so equipped and resourceful us te be unmoved, no matter how strongly assaulted. It will not he fully credited as long as it is but the policy of uu c* ecutivo officer, aud not the uuc^ntro dieted expression of statutory law." MEN AHE ol AH VINO. ICot timing KlondlUftrs flu*# Doleful Tslftf to Toll. San Fbancihco, Aug. 19.—One of the clearest accounts of tho situation at Dyea and Ska'faway where several thousand prospectors are now camped walling to pet over the divide was given to-day by (ioorga D. Kish, a prominent grocer of Oakland, who mude tlie trip in order to see whether there was uny chance for rushing sup plies into the Klondike this fait, lie found the outlook hopeless. He said; “If you want to do a service to bu* rnauity advise men and women to stay awuy from Dyea and bkagaway. The day 1 left Dyea there were three fun erals. Two were those of young men who had attempted to cross Dyea river. The last funeral was that of a young man who had reached the sum mit of Chileoot pass. He was entirely out of provisions, and, goaded to des peration by starvation, he stole a side of bacon. He was detected by two of tho party from whose outfit he stole, and was shot to death. An inquest was held and the verdict was justifi able homicide. "At least 8,ouo people are camped at Dyea and iSkagaway. and the ma jority will remain there through the winter. Starvation and death will stalk among them. There are many lawless adventurers in the two little towns on the bleak coast; nicu and women of a stripe who will not hesi tate at tlie commission of any crime when money and food become scarce. “I was ashore for nearly three days, duriug which time I made close ob servations. People who had arrived at Dyea two weeks before had been unable to move owing to lack of trans portation. There were 1,500 people be tv txu i ryi:a. auu uiu qumiiiiii«, auu w»»n included mnny women. Thero were about 3,500 from Nkagaway road to Dawson through White pass and down to Lake Dennett. It is impossible to get through the pass and there is a swamp of feven or eight miles to cro3s before reaching Lake Dennett.” He said few of the prospectors had the courage to advance, and many had no money to return. FIVE CENT RISE IN WHEAT. The Most Sensational Advance of th* Union Recorded. Kansas City, Mo.. Aug. 10.—Wheat went up more than 5 cents a bushel to-day—the biggest single day's up turn since the remarkable advauce commenced, a month ago. September wheat in Chicago sold nt 88 tj cents at the close of trading. The December price, wV.eh lias been a cent under September for some time past, closed at 8s^ cents, and May wheat closed above 00 cents. There was a corresponding advance In cash prices in Kansas City. No. 3 hard wheat, which sold yesterday at 7814 cents, to-day sold above SI coats toward the cud of the trading, though most of the day's business was done at 81 cents, before the big advance oc curred. New Cun.umptluu Cure. N*w York, Aug. 1ft—Dr .1. M. Illeycr, a reputable physician, an nounces that lie has discovered a new cure for consumption by electricity. He claims to have cured a doaen per sons classed as hopeless eases com pletely. and many physicians of high standing are said to agree that the cures are complete and effectual, the Humboldt Dida I Salt Ska tti a, Wash,, Aug. i»— The steamer Humboldt, which was to sail yesterday foe St Michael's. Alaska, with I hi passengers and HO tuns of freight destined for Dawson City, la ta the hands of a t ailed Stales marshal When th* boat was about to sail the passengers discovered that a largo amount of their freight was W» he left on the doeh. TiM te Mi e Irst Mawsaa, X I., Aug It Yesterday was st Hueeot day. and a number of little Italian* were contributing te th* eeiehretton by their eiders when Dae >4**1* Pare*!*assure *f his teeth, death being lastaataaeoua Missouri I Pore Are* nasaead. Matte*. Me, Aug It —■ Aaothue good rata has rums te thia aaetioa, mahiag a htg one* crop a sertaiaty. Height Mma* appear te be In sloes foe the yreptu tbta lau NO PLACE LIKE HOME ESPECIALLY IF THE HOME RE IN NEBRASKA. The Mate to Ntay With and Manil I'ft Foi —Mow Those Who Are persistent ■nit Kiilerprlslnu Haft Thrived * Louie West nod Inspect Pro gressiva Nsbrsska. Those Who How Will Kenp. A Custer county (Neb.) farmer thus writes to the Omaha I tee: I have de sired for some time to add my in I to through your pupcr to help further its work In railing attention to our state as a desirable home for the tenant elans in some of the eastern (dates. I have bcon n resident of the state 194, and which came up ami flirted with us a fe.v weeks anil tlfen disap peared,” he says. “What we want to do now is to blow out the light and frighten ourselves with a frost. Tin fact of the matter is. however, that we have the biggestorops in Nebraska this _ . ... .. I._ _1 »•»!. ...t.i is selling rapidly, and this makes early money, and the result is that there is a general relaxation in the state. And follow ing tlw wheat, oats, barley ami rye, come the sugar beet and this enormous corn crop. Why. 1 know a man w ho bought an eighty acre farm in the state lust fall, and he has paid for it with this year'scrops; and anoth er man out in the western purt of tlie state bought a IttO-acre farm lust win ter, and lie will pay for it. with the ex ception of $loO, w ith this yeur's erop. And there are many others. This | shows von how the Nebraska farmer is fixed tiiis year." ('nmiiiK to Senator Pritchard s committee to in vestigate tiie workings of eivil service reform w ill lie in Omaha within a few weeks to take testimony respecting tile discharge of employes during the last administration. Senator Alien introduced a resolution to »p ■cMeali.v investigate dismissals at South Omaha, which was afterwards, on molkm of Senator Hoar, broadened so as to call for a general Investigation of the cu tire cjMestion. The people of tireeley were* shocked by the news of a tragedy northeast of UConnor lu which John 1). Maw as saulted a mure led daughter, Mary J Hughes, with a hauiuier and so injured her that there isd.mio.if her n-coverv. He pemtided her over the lo ad crush ! lag the skull and in M» mad fury I drove |ha faiui'y from the house and then set lire to the faint wheal Held : and tlw house amt burned them to the 1 ground, lie has twen in the mi turn and has been considered mentally un sound, hut waa thought to Iw harmless. Mag IrMcsk la lufe.ic « Basic. A hug r|od,cuts' Is prevalent on the bottom lands in this county says a Ihvhoia i tty .t epateh bat d-1 a farmer eaeapmg its ravages Already a low tsilicate on the amount of swine lost would he §"■.»»< The disease dess noi hn*e theaymptesms of hog cholera, hai is more on the typhoid pcyeunvsmia order Usni f aimers here ksat their entire herd of swine, as many as twvn It dong one day from urse tserd The disense seems to he coa lag urns and • leans mil a herd with great rapidity, •ftealtmea resulting fatally twelve Iswys after • » mg torus hast dsvsupest STOCK GROWING. Ulirintloii of i tf'rl|ht i'cntf* Hlinat Itra* Iim On* Hollar. " ll ha tin, Aiik Wheat went up over 4 cent* a but hr I to-day a bl gger ml ranee than the renrational one day l>efore yeaterday. Chicago September wheat, which rioted yetterday at 47.lie. aold t'cday ae high at 93Ji«>, and cloned with all hut a half cent of the re mark able advance held. No. 2 herd at Kanrae City eold at 90 rente end No. 2 red at tie rente. There pricer, how ever, were right at the cloee, and were made after the bulk of the day'e hurl near wee done The Chicago market war up nearly 4 rente at the atari. September wheat went up to 91 tie, dropped hack to 89}ic, advanced to 9Z '/tr, declined to 911*0, then went to 92He, and cloerd at 93 rente The lie eeruber price waa part of the time at Vjc premium over the September All the murkete of the country went up proportionately with Chicago. Wheat aold at 81 in Mbim-anolia and St l,ouii and above 81 at II the ecahoard mar beta. 'J'he oil van(•« war duo mainly to a ‘ ihhiitirmu! iMi/irf iif u i/rt frnf shortage In Hungary, Liverpool price* went up nearly 5 cents a bushel in the face of the drop here yesterday, Kansas Cirr, Mo., Aug. 5'.- Thl Kansas City market very quickly foi lowed tbs Chicago advance. I’rlcei went up 5 to A cents. Hard when sold as high a* 90 cents and near th« clow; a car of soft wheat sold at In cents. There was an active demanr for all the wheat offered. The prici of 9s cents for No. 4 soft wheat wa s© near the dollar mark that the feel ing was general that it might sell s a dollar at arty tone. At St f»uls No 2 red wh'-st sold at. a dollar a bushel Receipt* here to-day were 315 ears only ten less than those of last Friday. They arc decreasing very slowly which is very remarkable, for It ha been the experience In previous year that a big advance In prices lead farmer* to bold their wheat for stil higher price*. Kansas farmer* bar sold at least )I,(Kit,iKM bushels alrea/1. —a quarter of the estimated crop -an< tin; wheat movement ha* been uudei way only a month. In some parts o the state the crop has hardly coin menced to move yel.. and th* be* posted grain men on the floor are o the opinion that Kansas has raised i good deal more than 50,90.1,000 bushel of wheat _ MURDERED QN PIKE’S PEAk A Nebrsskaa round Shot Through th. Head With All Valuable* O—* j Cocoa a no Srniaog, CoL, Aug. 51 . ! The body of a man, on whose coat wa . a tag on which beside* the name of th< I maker was “K. W. Kirton, Wisner Neb., has been found near the summi of Pike's peak, with a bullet hole ii the back of the head at the base o the brain and the hair singed. Th man wa* about 55 years of age. near) six feet tall and woighed about 17 pounds It 1* believed that the man was mm dered while walking up the peak t view the sunrise, a popular fad amon tourist*. Whatever money or valt able* he may have had had been »to • n. The murderer left a revolve near the dead body, apparently fc the purpose of giving the impressio • Via# (Via man ku/l m.mmitftol BHIpifli M’KIN LEY WITH VETERAN Participate* la tbs Kean Ion of th Army of tho Potomac. Troy. N. Y.. Ang. set.—Great prepai I ations had been made to entertain th 3,000 visiting members and friend* a the Army of the I’otomac who gatt cred here to-day for their twenty eighth annual reunion, and the meet ing was a success in every way. Follow ing closely upon the arrivi of the President the various arm corps composing the Army of the P< tomac met independently and hel , business meetings Then came th parade in honor of the President an the veterana. nearly l.aOe guardsme and l.ooo survivors of the late wai being in line. The three nation* guard -ompauie* of Troy acted as ei ; cort to the Presidential party an j Governor Frank & Hiack and stall All aloog the tine of mareh the par ading column wu greeted by thout i ande who lined th# pavements aa> filled every available point of van j »***- ,_ Mraatlad by Petse ImIS Wichita, Kao.. Aug tl —O. T sta moos, a prominent real estate dealei died to day la a fit of straagulatioi , Tea years ago be swallowed a plate e three falae teeth, which eaaaed hi death lods> hk tiled phy>wieaseoal do aothiag for him la the poat im tern esamiaatlwa th* teeth were feu a la hie uwsuphagua A MWfclgaa tsks|« Meek Closed Motaf Ptasasat. Uwh, Aug tl • Th* Peoples b*»t*g* beak et th. place el j**«I lie door* thia motalag <>si*k»ar* te* should he weured The rob beta live tu tdtkahuma t‘»ty •eeatkh tasiesywi turret team tads* (atrt tta. Aug tl - The ufikh , Gee* it* will to bush a notion ttamws , euw that Ihs Turhtah s*»snaps et 1 sabab and Maiumhtu. ar* to be pen | hibitnd teem vieuulatiua tu India HE MARRIED THE MOTHER. If»t> • K*»to«by Haitian 4* >i>ilr«4 a •tt»i»fa«li»» Intifaf] of a lliitaa* In the White Oak neighborhood in the eastern end of the county, lived a comely widow, Mrs, Martha Herry, aged about fiirly and her pretty datigb • er, Matilda, who had Just entered her eighteenth year. In the same neigh borhood lived Johnson Whitley. * prosperous farmer of thirty and a wid ower. Whitley had been paying .it tent Ion to Mrs, Herry's daughter for the last six months, and It waa gen*' ally supposed throughout the neigh borbood that they would lie married noun. The mother, however, would not give her consent to the mmteb, but she did not object to the young widow er's call* He pleaded with the widow for the hand of her daughter, and the young couple decided on an elopement, say* the lamlavllle Courier-Journal All the arrangements were made for the clandestine leave taking, hut the watchful mother discovered what waa < n foot, and on Friday night, the tiff)" set for the elopement, she went to her daughter's room shortly after dark and bound the girl hand and foot, Hhe also tied a gag in her mouth and took her to her own room and tied her to the lied, Hhe then returned to the daughter's room and when Wbltely »arne to steal away his lady love the widow answered the summons, and without speaking a word Joined the young man In the yard He aaalsted her Into hi* buggy and drove with her to Crayson, the county **«» of Carter viesi a e> 4 n uil....... 1. . L,. d m»aiI so/ it k Judge Morris to perform the ceremony. Whitley man struck by the sller-e* of his companion, but as she leaned con fidingly on bis arm and appeared to be sobbing all the time, be could do nothing more than carets her now and i then and eheer her up by telling her that her mother would forgive her He had no Idea that he was carrying i off the mother Instead of the daughter, and it was not until after the eere ; mony wa* performed on tbe Judge’* front porch and they had repaired to a hotel that the deception wa# dlscov* • ered by Whitley, y _ * A FAMOUS VESSEL GONE. i (4NM of th* Cup* If on* I'lftoo Hr r a Us tf»« fat* of Old Htggrrm* i The famous whaling bark ''ape Horn : Pigeon la no more. Hhe was loat In r the Japan Sea recently while cruizing 1 for whales. Her crew, consisting of twenty or thirty men. many of wuom 1 are known In and about New Bedford, were saved, but tbe old vessel wa# a I total wreck. 8he was one of tbe old * 1 time fleet that sailed out of New Bed - II ford when whaling waz tbe chief buii 1 j ness of that port, and at a time when I Nantucket, Bristol, Warren and 8too Sngton were in the swim as whaling resort*. The Cape Horn Pigeon, says > the Providence Journal, waa not a large craft, but waa a handsome bark In her day when she cruised with tbe » Milton, Mattapoisett, James Arnold. i which now flies the Chilian flag; Attle , boro and other square rigger* that l balled from New Bedford and small 1 port* in Buzzards Bay. It was in the f fifties that the Cape Horn Pigeon left t the stqck* In South Dartmouth, and ' took her place In the large fleet, but ’' finally she followed tbe other lost whaler# to the bottom of tbe sea. Tbe^ steam whalers of San Francisco bare ' driven most of New Bedford's calling f fleet out of tbe business, but tbe Cape ’ Horn Pigeon. California. Mercury and others continued to look for oil and r bone in tbe wide Pacific and South At* B lantlc. The Cape Horn Pigeon was a , lucky craft. Sbe aided in making the city of New Bedford known all over ■» me woria. cue uau a rmira oi many fine catches, and only a short time be • fore sbe went down her master sent home two thousand pounds of bone. - valued at $10,009. When she sank sbe 9 had two hundred barrels of sperm and - whale oil In her bold. Sbe had been " cruising most of the time since sbe left the stocks in lh&3. and had paid for herself several times over in returns. Sbe was only 100 feet in length, but with her canvas spread she made a r fine picture. Her breadth was 25 feet j and her depfb 14 feet. Her gross toa* g uage was 212 tons. i FOR THE HOUSEKEEPER. \ To keep cut Bowers bright from day , to day add a little carbonate of soda tv j the water, which should be changed every day. . Beef tea will not prove so mceoto • I nous a diet if a different flavoring la 1 used each day-suck as clove, bs^lesf • or celery salt To remove mat from steel articles mb them with kerosene oil and let r ibem soak In this for twenty-four '. hours Make a paste of emery dust . and kerosene and rub this on with rut • ten-stone • Ueml , isgev has in treats and cental warn map I be eattrsiy wvarasm* by ihsfngbtp try lag the salt and Nvunalefy gym aitag wuh M a email pervwatags af *nr stared ar arrewmse ream • te M pee eat m empty an* *eni tar tbs meat humid utmaupbeeu as m ifca vuu *»m»aiags at tha starvh la §*• mat fas a'sad ptaas.