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fc • t " , ' BUSINESS SIGNS. 5" _ _ _ _ _ _ | * THEY ARE NOW OF AN ENCOURAGING - ! & " COURAGING NATURE. \ < "J ; " Financial nnil Commercial Reports Good , f' " unil I.ogitdatlon JSelnsr 1'uslied tit n T " Galloplne ; Kato The Era of Prosperity f. Is Now Fairly wllh Us. V ( Washington Correspondence. ) There are unmistakable signs of business improvement , not only here but in all parts of the country , and reflected here. Th9 reports of the banks , the reports of the commercial agencies , the reports of the merchants , the reports of their traveling salesmen and , above all , the reports which the members of congress are receiving from their constituents are all encour aging. The most accurate business barom eter is that whick indicates the prog ress of business among the banks of the country. If. their loans and discounts - ' • ' " counts are heavy it is an evidence that the business men are preparing for re entering into active business pursuits. The May reports to the comptroller of the currency show a much improved condition of the national banks of the great cities in this particular. Their loans and discounts are increasing , in dividual deposits are heavy and there is a general tone of improvement and an evidence of business revival which will increase from month to month when business is able to adjust itself to the new tariff. Moro Southern Protectionists. The protection party in the senate received another acquisition to its ranks this week in the transfer of Hon. J. C. McLaurin from the house to the senate , to succeed the late Sen ator Earle of South Carolina. Mr. McLaurin's speeches in the house dur ing the consideration of the Dingley bill re strongly in favor of protec tion .d against the democratic the ory of free raw material. There were already five southern protectionists in I the senate and thirty in the house. Mr. McLaurin's transfer to the senate strengthens the protection wing in that body , and it is probable that he will be succeeded by another protec tion democrat from his own district in the house. ' Gold Scorned by Democrats. The political outlook ior the gold democrats is not very cheering when they turn their faces in the direction of the so-called democracy. In New York. New Jersey , Virginia , Ohio , Kentucky , Iowa and in pretty much every state where there are to be elec tions this fall the free coinage of sil ver is being made a leading issue , and such "leaders" of that party as Will iam Jennings Bryan and Richard Parks Bland are loudly proclaiming that there is no place in that party for men who do not believe in the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Ex-Candidate Bryan knows which side of his bread is buttered. He is quite conscious of the fact that the return of the gold democrats to the \ ranks of the democracy would be fa tal for his ambitions for the presi dential candidacy in 1900. Hence he has issued a pronunciamento announc ing that gold democrats cannot be ad mitted to the democratic party unless they abandon the * gold standard and accept free silver as the principle of democracy. Secretary Gage Hopeful. Secretary Gage , who has an excel lent opportunity for feeling the busi- Lct 111m Go Home. ' - = ? = - - ress pulse of the country , in his recent meeting with the business and com- ' ntercial men of four great cities at Cincinnati and during his visit to the eastern cities , expresses himself" very much gratified with the outlook. "The commercial clubs which met at Cincinnati , " said he , "are composed oi representative commercial and -nan- ufacturing men from four great cities oi. the country Boston , Chicago , St. Louis and Cincinnati. They are the heads of the greatest commercial and manufacturing houses cf these great cities. Each one of them is in touch ! with his representatives in all parts of the country , and thus obtains in formation concerning business condi tions all over the United States. Take such a man as Mr. Armour , for in stance ; he b.s hundreds of represen tatives located in not only all the great cities , but the smaller places of the country , and of course is in touch with them ' constantly and able teL L- . . . . - , - . - . . ; A. . . . . t _ _ THEIR CUPS ARE EMPTY. judge of business conditions the coun try over. The same may bo said to a great extent , perhaps , of Marshall Field , whose business lines bring him in touch with every part of the United States. Another Chicago house repre sented there does a large business in the manufacture of elevators , engines and other products of that class. Mr. Pullman reaches through his sleeping car system of course every part of the country , and is able to accurately diagnose business conditions and judge of business activity or the re verse. I mention these Chicago houses not because they are more representa tive , but because I know of them more in detail in a personal way. The rep resentatives of other cities and other lines of business have equal facilities for judging of business conditions and of the feelings of the business public the country over. "I was gratified to find , " continued Mr. Gage , "a very satisfactory feeling among those gentlemen , who thus formed their opinions by their contact with the business and commercial men in all parts of the country. They re ported a better business condition and better feeling than has been realized for a long time. By this I mean not an extreme growth of activity , but a marked improvement , and one which is accsmpanied by confidence on their part , that it is the beginning of a per manent improvement. We have , of course , seen in the past spurts of busi ness improvement which were only temporary , bdt the feeling among these gentlemen was that the improve ment which they observed is likely to be permanent and to continue to in crease with such legislation as will assure them regarding currency as well as tariff. " "Your assurance , then , Mr. Secre tary , of action regarding financial mat ters following the tariff must have been gratifying to them ? " "Yes. A great many of them so ex pressed themselves to me. They all recognize , I think , the importance of having early action upon the tar , so that that question may be out of the way , and manufacturers and merchants may know what to depend upon , but they do desire legislation after that upon the currency question , and ex pressed great satisfaction that they have reason to believe that it will come. The general impression among them was that with the proper legis lation , which we have reason to be lieve will be had , the business im provement which is now beginning to be felt will continue to increase , and that a season of prosperity will fol low. " "Do you think that the free , silver sentiment is as strong as it was three months ago7" "Of course , the people with whom I came in contact represent the cities only , so that I could not judge so ac curately from what they personally lccw ; but it is quite apparent , not only from what I learn through them , but from other sources , that the silver sentiment is on the decline. Events of the past few months have been de cidedly adverse to it , and must have hod a depressing influence upon its ad vocates and upon the theory itself. Japan , for instance , to which they called particular attention during the campaign as a shining example of free silver prosperity , has adopted a gold standard. So have Peru and Russia , and the tendency among ether silver using countries seems to be in that direction. All these things , coupled with the continuous fall in the price of silver , is not only showing people the unwisdom of the proposition which ihese leaders so strenuously advocated , hut are showing to those leaders : r-em- selves the improbability of inducing the American people to again support such a proposition. G. H. WILLIAMS. Gladness. It was a choice between two policies as radically opposed as those cham pioned by Lincoln and Douglas a gen eration ago. It is only a question of time when even the defeated party will be as glad that Cleveland won in 1S92 as all of us now are that Lincoln won in 1S60. N. Y. Evening Post , No vember 21 , 1892. How glad we were , and how glad we have been ever since , "that Cleve land won in 1S92. " And so "glad" has the Evening Post been since 1892 that it has not always extended the "glad" hand to him. Stop Robbing Labor. A bill that even Grover Cleveland refused to sign and approve should have no place among American laws. Put a good republican bill in the place of the free-trade monstrosity that robs our wage-earners of upward of a mil lion dollars during each and every day of its existence. Jtliilne's Words Promised Prosperity. The commercial history of the Unit ed States has been a history of alter nate waves of depression and prosper ity. They recur with unvarying uni formity , nor is there much difference in the duration of each period. Blaine in his work , "Twenty Years in Con gress , " charged these fickle conditions to tariff changes. He conclusively showed that whenever the Democrats secured control of the government a low tariff immediately followed and a panic invariably followed the low tar iff. The panic caused the overthrow of the Democratic party , whereupon the Whigs , and later the Republicans , rode into power , restored the tariff , and prosperity immediately ensued. This has been the commercial record of the United States. It has never been dis puted , for it is cold history , as distinct ly marked as wars and presidential successions. This being the case , we are evidently entering upon a season of renewed prosperity. The next three or four years ought to be a period of good times. And the indications will prob ably be realized. It pleases the busi ness class all over the country to be lieve so at any rate , and the business class is never very far wrong where its cash box is concerned. San Fran cisco Call. Need Adequate Protection. The Farmers Dolnjr Better. Here is what the Topeka ( Kansas ) Capital ias to say about those people who , like Mr. Bryan , are dissatisfied because the republican party , in less than three months , is unable to en tirely undo and rectify the errors which it took the last administration four years to commit. The Capital says : No sensible person ever said , and no reasonable person ever expected the blunders of four years to be all corrected and everything made lovely in the twinkling cf an eye. Reasonable - : able people will be willing to wait until - : til McKinley and his party have had tme to crystallize their notions into ; law , and get the governmental machin- < cry to running in harmony with their : notions before criticising them. But we'd like to ask these disgruntled - ! gruntled editors if the mere anticipation - i tion of these things hasn't already I started a pretty good-sised wave of prosperity ? Have ycu heard anything since the : 4th cf March about the goid reserve ] playing out and bonds being issued to < maintain it ? > And will you please name a single ! thing that the Kansas farmer raises that does not bring a better price than ' it did a year or six months ago ? \ How is it with cattle ? How is it with hogs ? How is it with sheep ? How is it with wool ? How is it with wheat ? How is it with corn ? How is it with everything on the market , except , possibly , Pop Legisla tors ? They are cheap , very cheap. j ] "Why Not ? I If it is a solemn duty to redeem the pledge that was made to restore a protective - 1 tective tariff , why is it not equally ob ligatory to redeem that other solemn ' pledge to restore the early American ' policy cf discriminating duties ? : _ 1 KUl It. j Kill the free-trade tariff and wipe ] every vestige of democratic "perfidy I ( anc dishonor" from our statute boks. _ _ - " " S- FOE BOYS AND GIRLS. SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. ttio Kitten that Lived lVIth the Piss Honesty and Fidelity Among tlio Street Arabs of New * Yorls The YVlialo Headed Stork. Two Maidens. . * & ! tra , KNOW a winsome \ If "Ue ! maid. ° c _ - , 'ij\ II So fair to see 2 V & 1 J Her face is like a o ji sSS t _ i dainty flower , WjS&tl7 * nc So lovingly * * k jr ty She look- upon this 1JA \ Si world of ours , * fflJ& " * And all who pass , "i /jT That sweet content t < . y 2 makes beautiful te ' t / My little lass. * s < ? I know another maiden well , She might be fair Her chrek Is like a rose-leaf soft , Like sold her hair. But ah ! her face is marred by frowns. Her eyes by tears , For none can please. I dread to think Of coming years. Would you , dear , errow to beauty rare In thoughts and deed ? Then learn the lesson these two teach To those who heed. And in your heart , as life begins. Give thl3 truth place ; 'Tis only lovely thoughts can make A lovely face. Gertrude Morton Cannon , in St. Nich olas. The Kitten that Lived With the PI < ; . "Puss , Puss ! " called Bess , , as she stood by the pigpen. There was no sound , but a little gray shadow ran swiftly out of the pen , and across the road to the orchard. "I wish , " said Bess soberly , "I just wish that kitten wouldn't live with the pigs ; it doesn't seem right , and we do so want him to stay in the house. " But the kitten had disappeared , and couldn't hear what the little girl said. Ycu see , this gray kitten's mother had died two months before ; she had been a barn cat ; the pigpen was close by , so what more nat ural than that the motherless little puss should make friends with the kind brewn pigs that were nearly always - ' ways asleep in the sunshine. Plenty of food was poured into the long troughs , more than enough for the pgs , surely , a little left over for a hungry kitten. He slept in the yellow straw that carpeted the pigpen in short , was one of the family. Some times the pigs , boldly pushing down the bars , entered the dim orchard and rooted in the grass for the sweet ap ples that could be found on the ground. Though the kitten didn't eat apples , he did enjoy the trip , and climbing up ibto the low-branching trees , he would wait until his friends were ready to start for home , then scamper on ahead , always reaching the pen first. Bess , loving little soul ; longed to have the kitten for her very own , and every day tried patiently to make friends with him. He was such a clean , fat pussie , with a long fluffy tail and big blue eyes how could she help loving him ? One warm August afternoon the sky grew dark , thick clouds hid the sun , and the peals of thunder were so loud that they quite frightened Lion , the big shepherd dog. who crept into the kennel and hid his head in the straw. ' "This is going to be a very hard show er , " said Mr. Mason , Bess's father , as he came into the kitchen , where the lamps were lighted , just as if it were evening. How it did rain ! The bar rel under the water spout ran over , and little streams ran across the road lasp- ing and foaming like real rivers. Then something like pebbles tapped sharply against the windowpanes they were hailstones as large as walnuts. Bess's face grew very sad ; she was thinking about the gray kitte i. Oh , what would become of him ? As soon zz it stop ped raining , Bess and her father started out to search for the kitten. How dreadful ! The pigpen was half full of water ; he couldn't be in there. Oh , what had become cf him ! Sudden ly Bess ' s bright eyes spied something crouching outside the pen against the fence , a very draggled gray some thing that didn't look much like a kit ten. But it was , and almost drowned. He was so chilled and frightened that he didn't even struggle , but lay quiet ly in her arms while the little girl car ried him into the farmhouse kitchen and put him into a bte cretonne-cov ered rccker , close to the stove. She stroked his wet fur very gently , and presently a soft little purr could be heard. When bedtime came Bess dread ed to leave her pet , and felt quite sure that he would run out as soon as the . • dtchen door was opened. Early the next morning down ran the little maiden to find the kitten. The big rocker was empty. He wasn't under the stove , but what was that standing an the doorstep arching his back , and looking as friendly as possible ? It rvas the gray kitten , who had decided to stay and be a proper little house ; at. Alix Thorn , in the Sunday School Times , Philadelphia. ISuying a Taper. Frsm the Christian Intelligencer we Jopy the following -story : "Here , boy , let me have a Sun. " "Can't , nohow , mister. " "Why not ? You've got them. I lieard ycu a minute ago crying them loud enough to be heard to the city ; iall. " "Yes , but that was down t'other alcck , ye know , where I hollered. " "What does that matter ? Come , iow , no fooling ; hand me a paper. I'm n a hurry. " "Couldn't sell ycu no paper on this aere block , mister , cos it b'longs to Limp j * . He's jest up the furder end iow ; you'll meet him. " "And who is Linipy , pray ? And why loc-3 he have this especial block ? " "Cos us other kids agreed to let him _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ At " * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WBBMM _ _ _ WW have It. Yo ace It's a good run on count of the olllcos all along , and the poor chap Is that lame ho can't got around lively like the rest of us , so wo agreed that the lint one caught sellia' on his beat should bo lit on an' thr. 3hed. See ? " "Yes , I do see. So you newsboys have a sort of brotherhood among yourselves ? " "Well , we're a goln * to look out for a little cove what's lame , anyhow , you bet ! " "There comes Limp now ; he's a for tunate boy to have " 'h friends. " The gentleman bou.it „ two papers of him , and went on his way down town , wondering how many men in busi ness would refuse an opportunity to sell their wares , in order to give a weak , halting brother a chance in a clear field. The Little Girl With Two I'aciw. I heard a strange thing the other day. It was of a little girl who aad two faces ! When she i3 dressed up in her best clothes , when some friends are expected to come to tea , or when she is going out with her mother to call on some neighbors , she looks so bright and sweet and good that you would like to kiss her. With a nice v/hite dress on , and perhaps a blue sash and pretty little shos , she ex pects her mother's friends will say : "What a pretty little darling ! " ' or "What a sweet little face ! Let me kiss it. " And so she always has a smile on her face , and when she Is spoken to , she says , "Yes , ma'am , " "No , ma'am , " when she ought , and "Thank you , " very sweetly , when any thing is given her. But , dr you know , when she is alone with her mother , and no company is expected , she-does not look like the same little girl. If she cannot have what she would like , or do just what she wishes , she will pout and scream and cry , and no one would ever think of kissing her then. So you see the little girl has two faces one she uses in company , and puts it on just like her b&Jt dress ; and the other she wears when she is at home alone with her mother. I also know a little girl wno has only one face , which is always as weet as a peach , and never sweeter than when she is at home , and her mother wants her to be as useful as she can be and ; help her. I think that I need scarcely ask you which of these little girls you like the best , or which of them you I would most like to resemble. Olivs Plants. Advice to IJo3'H. Horace Mann gives a bit of advice to boys : "You are made to be kind , boys generous , magnanimous. II there is a boy in school who has a club foot , don't let him know you ever saw it. If there is a boy with ragged clothes , don't talk about rags in his hearing. If there is a lame boy , as sign him to some part of the game thai doesn't require running. If there is a hungry one , give him part of your dinner. If there is a dull one , help him to get his lessons. If there is a bright one , be not envious of his tal ents , for if one boy is proud of his talents and another envious of them , there are two wrongs and no more talent than before. If a larger or stronger boy has injured you , and is sorry for it , forgive him. All their school will show by their countenances ; how much better it is than to have a ! great fuss. And remember who said , i 'Love your enemies , ' and 'Bless them which curse you. ' " A IVhalc-Hraded .Stork' . i In singularity of aspect few birds surpass the whale-headed stork 1 j known to science as balaeniceps rex with its gaunt grey figure , some five j feet in height , its large head , surmounted - mounted by a little curled tuft , the t scowling expression cf its eyes , and I its huge bill , in form not unlike a I ' head this last l wl ale's suggesting its generir name but tipped with a formidable - ) midable hook. The shape of the bill \ has also prompted the Arabs to call t it , according to their idiom , the "fa- ( ther of a shoe. " and it has been desigi rated "shoe-bill" in English. This tp- j markable bird is found in a limited ! dir-trist of Africa , and nowhere else. * Vtemalns of Six Fingered ilonkcys. I Science News says that in several 3 places in the Cape Colony and Orange i Free State of South Africa caves have j been explored which yielded hundreds I -nummified remains of a queer r species of six-fingered monkeys. All 1 of the full-grown specimens of this re'J markable race have the tail situated high up on the back from three to five inches farther up than on the c modern monkey and other distinguishing - a guishing marks , such as two sets of ' { canine teeth , beards on the males , etc. s . . . . . . ii.i .i. nmrri n.imaMiinriV miUBVBMtr aal'T ' lWllw m W.W _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE BARTLEY CASE. M VThat U Uolnjr Jlroujjlit Out In t ! > o Inrca * UM tatiin. fl The defense in the Bartlcy trial rnst ' \ cd its case yesterday , mij-h the Omaha * * B lice , sifter having1 hud the right of way jjH for four days , and the fitntc commeno Jmm ed introduction of evidence in rebut- * ? tal. According- the evidence intro- f H cluced by Hartley , as viewed from hit * V l standpoint , the state owes him 539,000V which he advanced from his private H fortune in order to help the state out. jH * He introduced evidence which was iid to show that he had checked out 3f the Omaha National banlc 5100.000 , M ivhich was transferred to the First M National and Columbia National of Lincoln , and that he had placed in the Omaha National S. .O.OOO to the credit M of the state , taking1 the money from his own pocket. Jn this manner he ue- counts for S10,000 , or $38,000 more than the amount he is charged with /M embezzling , hence the inference is that ; ( the state is indebted to him for that M amount of money. This evidence him been introduced in a most ingenious way and in a manner calculated to befog - S fog the minds of the jury and to leave W them in doubt as to just what was , M done with the money. P The rebuttal of this evidence to bo a | introduced by the state promises to be | more closely contested than was the 1 introdution of direct evidence , and m several days will undoubtedly be con- fM sumed before the evidence is all before M the jury. The state has yet to call its | experts , who have cheeked up Hartley's M records. ' V Nearly all of the tree hours of the * morning session of the tenth day of I the trial was occupied by the defense % in attempting to get before the jury \W the records of the state treasurer ' s of- mm lice , showing the account of that otlice with the three banks of Lincoln which were state depositories during lh'Jo. / r 1 These banks were the American tex- , 1 change. National , Columbia National , 1 and Merchant's National bunks , ami 1 the defense endeavored to establish the j fact that the full amount of deposit of d state funds to which these banks were .1 entitled under their bonds was kept in i them at all times , and that therefore jl Hartley was compelled to use. a Lincoln a bank which was not a state depository 1 as a clearing house in order to deposit m remittances of county treasurers and M distribute them to authorized depositories - I ries through the clearing itouse in order - M der to keep the general fund and other U state funds separate , as required by a the depository law. j The contention of the defense is that J all remittances are received in the AA form of checks , drafts , postal orders , _ etc. , and that the treasurer is eonip'-ll- 4 M ed to use some bunk as a clearing | house in order to divide tlie.se remit- H tanees into the several funds covered B by them , and that the First National I bank of Lincoln wa. > used for that purpose - f pose because the authorized depositories - 1 ries had all the money they were au- A thori/.ed to receive. jfl All of this testimony was mlcd out , B the ruling being based on the objecflfl tions of the state , to the ell'eet that even if this were true , it could be no V excuse for the treasurer to remove the B money of the state from the control of L\ \ the state by putting it in a private H bank , and that if it were necessary to H have a bank as a clearing house , one B or more of the state depositories fl shoui- have been used tor that purpose. /j Aiidrt-u * at 111 * lfU. J. fl The new auditor of the treasury de- l | * ' partment , Hon. W. E. Andrews of Nebraska - ' | H braska , telegraphs the Washington B correspondent of the Lincoln Journal , fl has settled down in his otllee in the fl big building on Fifteenth street and is fl attending to his duties in an oilieial J and efficient manner. It has been less 1 than a week since Mr. Andrew * was 1 appointed , but he has assumed charge * of the auditorship as if he had been an J auditor all his life. lie has four divi- M bions in his bureau , necessitating , all Jfl told. 101 employes. His room is located S in the central corridor of the second .jM floor of the trej-.ury building , and 9 while not as elaborately furnished as * ire the rooms of Assistant Secretary of T * * _ ' " War Meilrlejohn. are comfortable and ? M large enough for the duties of the ' 3Hice. Mr. Andrews first choice was / /A for the auditorahip of the interior de- / partment. a position paying the same | salary as the one he now holds , but , 4H having- , perhaps , a larger amount of / . business transacted through it. The rooms assigned to the interior auditor ire on the third iloor of the treasury building and face directly on Fifteenth 4 street and the avenue. Senator I'harston tried to secure this position M for Mr. Andrews , but as President Me- fvinley had already promised it , Mr. _ Andrews was offered and accepted the fl luditorship he now controls. Mr. W Andrews is thoroughly qualified for M lis new duties , which will consist of inditing and checking- accounts of H : he treasury department. Kvery dolfl ; ar to be expended under Mr. Gage's lirection will be accounted for by Mr. fl Andrews and certified up to the war- _ -ant division before \m the money can be $ obtained. , H Indians Preparing : for the Xonrth. aH A Valentine dispatch reports that B ? reat preparations are being made by S he Indians to properly celebrate the _ nation ' s natal day. Already several fl thousand dollars have been coutribfl ited by the Indians and is now in the fl lands of Agent McChesney. It prom- V ; es to be one of the most interesting J celebrations ever witnessed or partie fl lated in by the noble red man and may r W perhaps be the last as the Indians are M • apidly taking their allotment of land vhieh will forever prevent such a _ fathering as the one contemplated on M he Fourth. Indians from Pine Iiid"e f k\ \ md other agencies will be present. fl Jne of the most interesting features V vill be a sham battle personifying Cus- _ er massacre. Several that will take M > art m this were participants in that M ncmoable battle. H Aubcrn dispatch : Warrants have _ jcen issued for the arrest of T. J. Mafl or * , jr. . son of ex-LieuL-Gov. Majors ; AM fall Majors , son of Wils E. Maiors , WM ' ' • rankMcMinney and Uoy Kin ' of _ 'eru. charging- them with statutory V issault on the person of Hath Ellis _ | igcd 1 i years , daughter of Prof. Ellis ' T H ate of tiie state normal school faculty ' JTI ' L'he officers succeeded in arresting 1 i\ \ Lom ! } Jaiors' McKinncy and Kin f Jail Majors got wind of what wS i : ommg and skipped out and escaped ' ] irrest. McKmney and King arc both " 1 oung married men. The two Maier j > oys and the Elli * gbrl wete no ? J chool students. J n