THE OMAMA DAILY BEE : SATURDAY , JUNE 17 , 1893 , I
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iin adjourning the Illinois lciis-
Inturo passed ft stdto doimsitory act.
Nebraska hag a similar law , but it is ap
parently ft dead lottor.
Tun attempt to reorganize- Cord-
ngo trust is not ineotinp with fluttering
KHCCOM. The men who wore burned
the first time ftfo evincing a stubborn
unwillingness to put their fingers in the
fire again. _
SOMIC of the overworked state oftlcial
are oft on a fishing junket in the lake
region of South Dakota. They evi
dently felt the need of a little whole
some relaxation after the stupendous
mental olTort made in promulgating the
now "rules. "
THE Denver real estate agents , noth
ing daunted by the tightness of the
money market , have heroically under
taken to build an air line railroad from
their city to the Pnuilie coast. Practi
cal railroad men and financiers may
sometimes hesitate , but the nerve of the
real estate boomer shrinks at nothing.
r OMAHA \yont through a more or less
panicky experience i concerning her
banks during the week , yet the total
clearings as reported by JimdstrcePd-tor
the week ended Thursday show an Jn-
crcaso of 13 per cent over the corresponding
spending week of 1892. This is some
proof that the business of the city is
doing well.
MOKE interest Is being taken in the
irrigation question in the Black Hills
country this year than over before.
Noting this encouraging enterprise , a
Hills newspaper remarks that "the
farmer with a system of irrigation in
this section is assured of a bountiful
harvest which amply repays expense of
maintaining such a system. " And what
is true of the process in thnt region is
equally true in every other section of
the country whore irrigation may bo
adopted for agricultural benefit.
THE action of the Pacific Mail in with
drawing from the Now York and San
Francisco trade and leasing its Atlantic
Btoamers to the Panama railroad is con-
Btrucu us the complete surrender of that
company. Mr. Huntington gives up the
attempt to compote with the North
American Navigation company by bca.
The defeat may bo but temporary , and
the lease of the steamers is but for
eighteen months. "Whim the Teliuan-
topec railroad is finished the Pacific
Mall may take a hand in the fight
again , " sayn the San Francisco Exam
iner. "But if it does it will have to do
BO as n real competing line , and that
will bo a bonolit instead of an injury to
Ban Francisco. It can -Jiovor stand as
the subsidi/.od agent of the transconti
nental roads , blocking the only avail
able sea routu between the cast and 1
tin ) west , us long us the shippers of San
Francisco choose to prevent it. "
TiiK price of wheat has recovered
Bomowhat from the sqvoro decline ol
last week , whioh carried it down to tlic
lowest prioo for thirty years , and it is
not probable thut the price will again
this year go to so low a figure. But on
the other hand holders ot wheat must
not oxpoot any very material advance. It
Is trim that the conditions for the crop in
this country have been 'unfavorable ' ami
it Is estimated that the yield will fall
abort of lust year's Drop by about 103,000-
000 bushels and of the great crop of twc
years ago by about 200,000,000 , bushels ,
It is also probnblo that the Europ
onn crop will be below the
uvorago. Ordinarily this state of attain
would cause u rlwi of priuo.and it does nol
do so now uimply for the reason that there
is an enormous visible supply ofveiv ] |
brought over from the crops of the lasi
two years. This visible-supply ainountei
ut the beginning of the current month
in this country and Canada , to 89,000XK , (
bushels , excluding wheat stored ut in
terlor points in the northwest , so thai
the available accumulations out o
noru' hand * is probably not less thai
100,000,000 bushels , which is from tw <
and u half to three times the quantity
which has bean available at the cor'ro
spending date in years pas > t. Thlssur
plus will go far toward making good tin
shortage in this year's crop , nml unlos
tlioro nhall bo a much Jurgar foreign dc
muml than it is reasonable-- expect th
Uio prlua of whcut Is not likely to rul
very much highor.
DAKK FAlLVRES-LlXCOLNANn OMAHA
The failure of twoOtnalm banks , which
everybody knows wore virtually ono nnd
the same concern , hns furnlahcd the
Lincoln newspapers the long hoped for
opportunity for making Invidious coin-
parisons ns butwoon Lincoln and Omaha.
Incidentally those failures also afford
them a clianco to Indulge in their favorite -
ito pastime of prodding THE BUB , which
they hold up as the archenemy of Lin
coln unon every occasion.
Wo are assured by the organs at Lin
coln that have sought to build them
selves up by persistent and conscience
less defamation of Omaha that "in the
present troubles in Omaha there will bo
no such spirit manifested in Lincoln
against that city , cither by the news
papers or individuals , as has character
ized THR Hun against Lincoln for
months back. Because two banks have
failed there it will not bo charged from
hero that Omuha is honey-combed with
rottenness nnd that Omaha people
breathe an air fetid with corruption. "
This exhibition of spontaneous genor-
oslty on the part ol the Lincoln boodlor
organs is appreciated lij Omaha for
what it is worth. There IH as much dif
ference between the bank failure at
Lincoln and the bank failures at Omaha
as there is between a chestnut horse and
a horse chestnut.
The collapse of the Capital National
bank was the culmination of colossal
swindles and monstruus forgeries. Of
ficers of the bank made fraudulent en
tries in its books and covered up enor
mous embezzlements of public funds and
trust funds. The president of the bank
confessed himself as guilty of forging
certificates of deposits for hundreds of
thousands of dollars and issuing these
forged certificates in the name of the
bank. Certificates aggregating 8150,000
wore entered upon the bank ledger as
loss than & 100.
Iligh-lmnded imposture was practiced
upon the state officials , and more than
a quarter of-mlllion of , state funds ab
sorbed in reckless speculation. As
lessee of the penitentiary the president
of the bank had branched out into poll-
tics and corrupted men at the head of
our state institutions. Hundreds of
wage workers and scores of widows and
people upon whom families ar6 de
pendent for bread wore confidoncod into
placing their hard-earned , savings into
the custody of this political banker and
today they are wrecked and in distress.
In dealing with this gigantic swintile-
mill THE BEE has not attacked or
sought to injury the credit of Lincoln
or any honest man or woman in Lincoln.
This was not merely a local failure in
volving a few hundred depositors , but
the whole state Ls interested.
The Omaha bank failures are the
natural consequence of a stringent
money market and a too liberal policy
in making loans. Tlioro has been no
charge , not oven a suspicion of crooked
ness. There is no apprehension of loss
to the depositors. If the assets
do not pan out the stockholders will have
to make the shortage good.The public
funds in the bank are secured by ample
oftlcial bonds and individual bonds
There is ; therefore , no occasion for
gratuitous sympathy or bottling up o
resentment.
' - > The Lincoln-boodle organists are only
wasting their fragrance on the doser
air when they go out of their natura
orbit of malignant hostility to Omaha to
assure us that they will keep still about
Omaha bank failures if nothing more is
said about the Capital National forgeries
and robberies. Omaha's financial credit
needs no props of the penitentiary organ
brand.
THE I'HOl'OSfiD 1SC031E TAX.
A recent canvad among members of
both houses of the national legislature
on the leading questions of finance and
taxation develops the fact that a very
considerable number favor the pro
posed raising of revenue by a
tax on incomes. The demand for
such a tax is especially strong in the
south , but it also has de mocratic advo
cates elsewhere. President Cleveland's
views have , until recently , boon a mat
ter of speculation. The current opinion
has been that ho was favorable to taxing
incomes. All doubt regarding his
position should perhaps bo dismissed in
view of the fao * . that the Philadelphia
Lcdijcr , whoso editor is known to enjoy
the confidence of the urosidont to a
greater degree than any other journalist
in the country , has stated that Mr.
Cleveland has never given the subject
any serious consideration , while at the
sumo tlmo Mr. Childs vigorously op
poses the proposition to tax incomes and
especially the plan of taxing tliodo of
$10,000 and upwards. In u recent issue
the Jjulycr says :
If In com 03 are to-be taxed lot them all
each for itself , contribute a full * share anil
part of the Kcnor.il amount. Under no othoi
comlitioncan n tax on Incomes bo Justllled.
It 13 the Unit law of all equitable taxation
that U shall bu without discrimination , that
italial ! bu uniform. An inuonia tax lovlod
only upon a single class , and that class
InrKoly dlstlngulshoJ for its aulilovoincnts In
building up the wj-.il th , power mul dignity o :
the nation , and .cspou-lully for providing in
comes to the millions to whom it gives cm
ployment , is a tax which only the most for
bidding spirit of socialism can ilofuml hi t
country Hlco this , the government of whlcli
is of all thu iiuoplo , by all tha people and foi
all the pooplo. Class legislation is rmlvo tc
tlio monarchical , not the democrat to Jorra ol
govcrnmont. Class distinctions of any kind
are not wanted hero , nnd there can bo uom
whlim Is nioro out of sorts with Atuarioan
Institutions than an incsino tax Imposed
solely upon these who have achieved woalit :
by honorable , useful efforts , all whioh are o
advantage to the country.
It U highly probable that this reflect
the views of Mr. Cleveland , but now
the loss it is pretty safe to predict thu
a vigorous olTort will ba m : do by demo
crats in congress to sou'.iru ' legislation
taxing Incomes. The policy la advo
cated by tfomo who are strong in the
councils of the party and it id not to h ;
doubted that the oonstituenoios of many
of the members are in favor of it , Th
objections whioh the JjttJijer urge
against such a tax are unquostionabl ;
sound , but they will have no weigh
with the people represented by a larg
number of the democratic members e
congress. They will not bo influence
by bolng told that such a * ta
would bo essentially class lejjlslatio
of the most obnoxious kind , bocaus
o they huvo 110 sympathy with or conccr
for the class it would affect. They or
ndllToront to the faot that nuoh a tax
s odiously Inquisitorial , that U falls
nest heavily upon honest men who can
not or will not conceal their Incomes ,
nnd thnt It puts a government premium
on lying and porjiiry. Wo had an in
come tax during the war and everybody
familiar with its operation knows that
men held as honest and fair-dealing
with their neighbors wore converted by
t into prevaricators and sneaks in their
dcslro to conceal the extent of their In
comes from the government In
quisitor. No law taxing Incomes
could bo framed that would not bo
evaded and only the few honest men
the ono man In 10,000 and these with
l.xed incomes would bo the victims of
suoh legislation ,
There is good reason to boltovo that
neither the president nor any membarof
his administration is In favor of an income -
como tax. The domoeratlo national
i > latform does not call for such a tax.
But there is abundant indication that it
will bo proposed In the next congress to
establish such a tax and that the pro
posal will recolvo a largo nnd vigorous
support. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
TlIK iVBir DISl'KXSATIOX.
The dropping of the names of sixty-
seven clerks in the general land ofllco
from the rolls in a single batch is di
vested of the significance that might
otherwise attach by the secretary's ex
planation. This wholesale dismissal
was made necessary by the failure of the
last congress to pass a sulllciont appro
priation bill for the payment of these
employes. And yet it is amusing in the
face of the ostentatious statements of
certain administration newspapers re
specting the regard that was to bo
shown to civil service reform , to witness
the rapidity with which the ncadsmnn's
ax is being wielded in all the depart
ments. In most of these cases men have
been dismissed , not because of official or
personal unworthinoas , lack of olllciency
or oven for "oiTonsivo partisanship , " but
simply aud solely to make way for hun
gry democrats. The vacancies thus cre
ated have boon immediately filled by
'now appointees , and so rapidly have
these appqintrnents been made that it
would not be strange were there ground
for the criticisms already frequent that
the civil service has not boon improved
by the changes.
Last week Mr. Josiah Quincy , who
was installed as first assistant secretary
of state for the special purpose of re
forming the consular service , began his
work of removal and replacement
at the rate of half a score or
moro a day , and this expedi
tion has only suffered interruption
on account of the president's indisposi
tion , whioh , notwithstanding , THE BEE
trusts , is but temporary. Before this
transformation scene was placed on
the tapis it was given out that the ad
ministration had determined to do its
utmost to promote American trade and
commerce with foreign lands , and that
the greatest care would bo used to place
the consular service on a business basis.
Now it is boldly assorted that Mr.
Quincy has either forgotten this initia
tory proclamation or else ho and the
president have boon most outrageously
deceived both as to the merits and effi
ciency of some of the consular officers
whom they have displaced , and the
character and abilities of someot the
nen they have appointed.
During the last two months scores of
employes in the various executive de-
mrtmonts have boon displaced simply
, o make room for democrats. This is
) cing done so quietly as to attract little
attention , and oxcitcs comment only oh
account of the pretentious professions of
ilovotlon to civil service reform hereto
fore made by the responsible depart
mental officials. What is true of the
changes made in the departmental force
at Washington equally applies to offices
all through the country. Even Postmaster -
master General Bisscll bos succumbed ,
and ho is now sending out notices to
democratic representatives stating that
ho will appoint democrats to all fourth-
class postoflicos as soon as the four years
term of the republican incumbents'
pires.
A prominent democrat of .this state
who is perfectly content with the recog
nition ho esteems ho has received in
influencing the disposition of the patron-
aso for Nebraska expresses his admira
tion at the rapidity with which those
changes are being made. The reason for
so doing ho thought obvious. It is to re
sult in harmonizing'tho democratic party.
Tno discontent of disappointed aspirants
that must follow every appointment
will have the longer tlmo to pass away
before the next campaign the sooner the
choice is mode. But our democratic
friend is too optimistic in his views ,
Hell hath no fury like an olllco-sookor
scorned.
A RELIABLE STATEMENT ,
Captain Francis J. Higglnson , late
commander of the Unltod States cruiser
Atlanta , who was relieved of his com
muml on account of alleged delay In obey
ing orders to take his vessel to Grey
town , has arrived In Now York. Thi
captain will ask a court of inquiry fron
the secretary of the navy , and oxprosso :
confidence in his ability to satisfactorily
explain all the consequences attondini
the departure of the Atlanta for Nicn
rngim.
Captain Higginson's statement as t
the condition of the canal is the latos
and most reliable information that ha
como to , hand respecting the progress o
thnt great enterprise. lie sayn'thnt oni
thing is certain , the men now in author
ity in Nicaragua are most friendly dis
po od toward the government of tin
United States. They in fuel favor clpso
relationship than ' has yet existed. Th
now government' is protecting the cana
property , hut no work is in progress 01
the lino. There ia now about seven foe
of water in the canal at Greytown am
the people of Nicaragua aroenthusiastii
in their doslro to see the project com
plotoil , They look upon the succass c
the canal as the undoubted success c
their country. Particularly are th
loaders of the now government imbue
with this idea. The Unltod States gov
eminent employes who recently sui .
voycd the projected railroad rout
across the Isthmus of Tohuantepoc huv
also returned to this country ,
The statement of the captain in re
spout to landing United States marine
from the steamer ajf'Oroytown ' Is In di
rect contradiction ot njit purporting to
hnvo been tnmlo by Unltad States Minister -
tor Baker nnd SohOr' Castillo , telegraphed -
graphed from Managiio , the capital of
Nicaragua , nnd published In the last
dispatch from that p lnt , ' Instead of the
report bolng absolutely .without founda
tion , too absurd for oonsldoratlon , and
bollovod to have boon started In Wash
ington by enemies of'flip now govern
ment , Captain Illgglnspn says thnt ho
did land the marines and a
number of the blue , gnckots of the At
lanta. This force ho caused to patrol
nnd protect the canal firopcrty at the
Greytown terminus , "no" says , however ,
that this force was dh shore for only n
few days , it being evident that the now
government was equal to any emergency
that wastlikely to arlso.
In view of the constant clashing of
statements telegraphed from Nicaragua
with facts subsequently ascertained , It
is evident that the dispatches have been
arranged by interested parties through
out all the recent troubles in that
country.
3IlLlTAniS.lt OKTS A. I1AHD
As was expected , the first ballot in
the Gorman election -was not decisive ,
and In a considerable number of dis
tricts a second ballot will have to bo
taken. This will afford the government
an opportunity to make another appeal
to the people in behalf of the army bill ,
and it may put forth still moro strenu
ous efforts to secure supporters of that
morsuro , but , it is hardly to bo expected ,
with any bettor success than has at
tended its earnest and determined strug
gle in the contest thus far. The fact is
manifest that militarism in Germany
has boon dealt n hard blow ,
and the knowledge of this is far moro
likely to stimulate and strengthen
the opposition to the imperial policy re
garding the army than it is to hold the
eauso of the government. The fact of
greatest significance in the result of
Thursday's election , which is likely to
make a profound impression upon the
politics of all continental Europe , is th'o
largely increased strength of the social
ist party. This political faction had
thirty-fivo representatives in the last
Reichstag nnd the probability is that It
will increase this representation by at
least half in the next Parliament , but
this will not fully show the numerical
growth of the party. The socialists , or
socialist-democrats , have boon mak ing
steady progress for the last three
or four years , and this election will
probably show that their present voting
strength approximates 2,000,000. , They
embrace in their ranks some of the most
intellectual men in ° thci'bmpiro and the
party is exerting an Irifltfince that is not
confined to Germany. I Its continued
growth seems to btf 'assured , and the
possibility of its becoming within a few
years the dominatingpqvter in Gorman
politics is everywhere 'recognized. The
rnoro vigorously afiil arbitrarily the
imperial power is 'assented the moro
rapid will bo the advance , of the socialist
parfy. t , >
It would bo useless to-'attempt to esti
mate the probable strength of the polit
ical , factions in the rigW Reichstag from
the returns of Thursday's elections , but
the result is very unfavorable to the
army bill and it will not bo surprising
if it bo finally found that a larger major
ity has been returned opposed to that
measure than there was in the parlia
ment that defeated it. In that event ,
the interesting question is , what will
then bo the imperial policy ? Ho can
again dissolve the Reichstag and appeal
a second time to the people , but it is not
probable that to do this would clmngo
the result , and the emperor is not the
sort of man to trifle in so serious a matter -
tor by taking chances which seem to
promito nothing. It has boon sug
gested that if the now Reichstag
shall refuse to pass the army bill in any
form the emperor may as well renounce
his project , but ho boliovcs too firmly in
its necessity for the peace and security
of Europe to permit the thought that ho
will do this. It bos been said that he
might exorcise the imperial prerogative
and having dissolved the popular as
sembly declare the army bill a law.
This would bo a desperate resort , perhaps -
. haps too radical for even William II. to
adopt. Such a course might bring
greater peril to the umpire from
domestic disturbance than is to
bo apprehended from' external hos
tility. It is obvious that the situa
tion is critical and that at no tlmo slnco
the empire was established has there
been a raoro urgent demand for wiso.
conservative nnd prudent statesmanship.
It remains to bo seen whether the
emperor and his advisors will bo equal
to the demand.
An Apt Definition.
I'htlaMpMa Tint * .
Another forcible way of interpreting our
national letters U , S. might bo Unneces
sary Silver.
I-
Nobr.isUu KniurprUo'ii .Modal.
.Vfrnicapolfs Tline-s ,
The two boot sugar factories in Nebraska ,
which have boon running two seasons , have
so educated the farmers of that state in
boot culture that this year they will have an
abundant supply of beets and will make
some profits. The sooner AJtunosota farmers
got such n valuable cd\fc'ition ; and proceed to
uovow some of their dl/rcnRo to sugar beets
the bettor It will bo fomhum ,
Cost of tlii > , ilYf > r l'"olly ,
St. 1'itul I'bmtff J'reu ,
In truth , tlio Unltod HtfiCoslms paid dearly
enough for their ylomlng1 to popular delu
sions Inspired mnlnlyxby itho solflsh cam
paigns of the millionaire inlno ownors. The
cost of the silver bul , oujhat , the treasury
has hidden nvrny In tlio earth is n moro
buirutoHo when wo comb to' cstlmato the ex
pense of the silver folly.r.If wo nre to count
only the cost during thqllast year it will
amount to hundreds of million * . There U
not n city , there Is no Van ilndustry , there is
hardly nn individual wliq has not suffered
from it in pocket. , .
A Chun CD of Time.
San Franc tico Chromele ,
The shooting down ofthu strikers by don-
uty sheriffs ut Umioui , III. , on Friday was
In its way nn event fully us tragic us that
which occurred at Homestead , but it will
cause comparatively little discussion. Tlio
reason is slmplo. Democratic demagogue :
will not sea in thU nffalr nn opportunity to
boom their party us they did last full , when
they misrepresented und distorted the facts
of the Homestead troubles. To dwell ou the
present strike might direct attention to the
fact that the promise of _ Clovoluno's sup
jKirters that things would bo made bettui
ro lor the worklugman If Grover proved suc
cessful is unfulfilled , ami might sot men tc
'thinking that times seem to bo gutting dullei
and duller as the days of Cleveland's admin-
istrutlon roll on.
T.AXIM THAN oun.i.
Dr. Miguel , the Prussian minister of
Inanco , In ono of hU recent speeches on the
Gorman briny bill , took the bold ground
thnt the Qormnni nro not tftxeil as heavily
as other nations and ought not to prumblo
at the increased expenditure now thought
iccessary by the government. Ho said that
t was not true that nn Increased expendi
ture of 50,000,000 or 00,000,000 marks would
overstrain the financial capacity of the na
tion. How did Germany compare with other
intlonst ho nskod , nml then proceeded to
declare that the French pay In taxes nnd
monopolies 01 marks per head , the British
45 , the Italians 80. the Dutch 37 , the Aus-
irlatis 37 , the Spaniards 20and the 1'russlnns
21 7-10 marks per head only. Why , then , ho
demanded , "should the Prussians nil other
3orman states are In the same situation
not bo nblo to pay 11-5 marks moro
than they pay nlreadyl Again ho do-
clnrcd that , apart from the great
things done by committees , the expenditure
311 education , justice , the amelioration of
land and on other socio-political nnd chari
table purposes during the last ton years has
increased moro rnpldly than the military ox-
pcndlturo nil over Germany , and especially
in Prussia. Ho then said : "If the Gorman
nation Is resolved to keep what was con
quered under great leadership on sanguinary
bnttlo fields It must make the financial sac
rifices necessary to that ond. I am firmly
convinced that these sacrifices do not ex
ceed our capability. It is not political con
flicts nor class Interests that nro In question
It Is a purely national question. " As to
Gnmbottn's declaration that Franco would
compel Germany to arm herself to death ,
thnt Is , ruin her economically , ho said :
"Ono can only smile at this , but It would bo
a much worse and sadder case if Franco
were to boat us morally in energy , patriotism
and solf-sacriflco. The rejection of the bill
would involve us in great difficulties , It
would weaken our prestige abroad , diminish
the respect felt to our power nnd thus really
Increase the danger of war , "
* *
A correspondent thus describes the char
acteristics of the czar : "This mnn , who
disposes of ono of the vastest empires in the
world , before whom everything falls down ,
whom no ono resists , for whom it is enough
that ho should raise n little flngor to sot in
movement millions and > inillons ! of men , is
neither a soldier nor a sailor nor a diploma
tist. I might add that ho is almost what Is
known hero us n bourgeois. Ho has a horror of
fetes , ho detests ceremonies , ho loves neither
military nor naval reviews. Ho adores his
family anu is contented only with them. Ho
is not ono of these Russians who are half savage -
ago , half Machiavel ; ho is rather u simple
mujik , a lover of truth and a speaker of it.
When ho returns to St. Petersburg , ho bids
the diplomatic corps not to como to meet
him. "When ho presides perforce at a review ,
ho leaves the field as soon as possible and is
pleased to got down from his horse , for ho
docs not like it. At Copenhagen his greatest
pleasure consistedingoingoutlnu'short coat
and a soft hat , in mingling with the pedes
trians who pretend not to recognize him , and
in tnklnir n cab. Indeed , no once amused
himself in a very odd fashion , ho nnd nil his
family taking a tramcar to go into the coun
try. In politics , ns in everything else , the
czar's Ideas are simple. Ho is not communi
cative because ho does not Icnow how to de
velop his thoughts. Ho lias never spoken
for five consecutive mlnutns in hisllfo. When
ho is in Denmark or in the Crimea , ns his
government accompanies him , ho devotes
half an hour a day to'signing papers , and
that constitutes the only business. The
military attaches see him at the reviews , but
there Is no possible chance of conversation
with him. An ambassador mav see him
when a ball Is given in his nonor , but he can
have no conversation with him ; or ho may
see him nt n ball nt another ambassador's ,
or at some small court reception , but these
' occasions are rare. "
*
The recent great floods in the Transvaal
> ave been followed by outbreaks of fever
which have carried oft hundreds of victims.
A correspondent writing to a London paper
'rom Johannesburg says : "Of course a great
lood like this ono loft behind it miasmlc
mud nnd rotting vegetation on all sides. In
addition a good deal of soil has been turned
over for railway purposes by the workmen
of the Netherlands company , and these two
causes have produced an outbreak of
fever which outdoes all previous occurrences
of the kind. The whites have suffered
severely , particularly In the Elands Valley
nnd in and near 'tho lone city of the
[ Caap,1 Uarbcrton , nnd some lioroicwork
lias been done by the handful of doc
tors and nurses in that part of the republic.
As to the natives , the death roll has boon in
calculably numerous. The rich valley of the
Elands river has boon swept of its native
people with a grim nnd terrible thorough
ness. The native population of the Transvaal
is very largo , nnd in a country of so vast an
area it is impossible to obtain accurate details
tails , hut the natives hnvo died like files.
Whole kraals of Kafirs nnd Swnzis have boon
depopulated , and certainly over 10,000 natives
have been swept off. The Transvaal govern
ment , to its credit bo it said , nt once voted
1,000 for the relief of people in the fovor-
strlcken districts , und further nid has since
been supplied from the same source , while
nbout JCt,000 has boon subscribed by the
public in and around Johannesburg ; but , of
course , that has not gone very far , and n
vast amount of human misery has had to bo
borno. " *
In n recent debate in the Norwegian Stor
thing , Mr. Anrcstad , member for ono of the
chief agricultural districts in the country ,
maintained that the landowners and farmers
were steadily falling deeper and deeper into
debt. These who now , ho said , in reality
own the soil ot Norway nro the Bank of Nor
way , the Land Mortgage bank , the savings
hanks and traders In towns. The mortgatio
debt on Norwegian agriculture has moro
than doubled In thu last twenty years. Ho
estimated that the Norwegian peasant pro
prietor owned in reality only nbout ono-six-
tconth of the value of the Ian J , houses and
forests In the country , nnd thnt the Interest
on the land debt nt 4 per cent now amounts
to one-sixth of the total yield of ngrlculturo
In Norway. Ho declared the condition of
the 1 armors to bo despi > rate , nnd that
unless serious stops were taken they
would bo entirely ruined. In his reply ,
the minister for the Homo department
throw doubt on the nccurncy of the statistics
brought forward nnd thought they were
somewhat exaggerated. As regards the
increasing Indebtedness of landowners or
farmers , ho pointed out thnt the value of
the land hud been increasing , but added that
ho saw no possibility of the agrarian debt
being taken over In part by the state. Mr-
.uovunskjold , nn ex-minister of state , expressed -
pressed astonishment that Mr. Aarostad had
not mentioned as ono of the great causes of
the indebtedness of the peasant proprietors
the still existing right of prodoinplion ,
under which the older son or the senior
member of the family had the right of buy
ing out his co-holr or co-heirosi. This had
necessitated a constant raising of money
which , to some extent , had bco ' i carried out
of the country by emigrants. Throughout
the debate nobody disputed the desperate
state to which the peasant proprietors had
been reduced.
Shot ami Killed Iir
MiXNEArous , Juno 10. J , K. Harris , of the
Lubricating company , wns killed by two
burglura in his liouso last night. Ha dis
covered them iu his parlor nnd they shot
him twice. He died this morning.
cntCAao AND TIIK
Chicago ll pateh ! Hood-by ,
perhaps the tlmo may rome some dnywhcn
n roynl visitor onn spend n few dnys'in Chi-
rftgo without being harried nnd pestered to
death by "society.11 Chlrnpo likes you nnd
wishes you n hearty godspeed nnd n safe re
turn to Spain.
Springfield ( Muss. ) Republicans The Span
ish Infanta hni nt last Asserted herself , not
nt nil ns n prlncors , but simply ns n woman.
She wants to sco the Columbian World's
fair , nnd finding thnt nil her tlmo was being
consumed by nttonllons which were of no
possible vnluo to her nnd whoso motives wns
solely the .toclnl distinction of people In Chicago
cage who were of no consequence to tier nnd
whom she would never sco again , she stops
nil that foolishness by n word she has a
right to speak.
Knnsas City Star : The departure of the
Infnntn Kulnlla is con.ildored as the end ot
royal visiting nt the World's fair , nnd there
is some grntulatlon over the fact to the ef
fect that the simple republican American
citizen \ vlll"no longer bo shocked by the
sight of "tondyinc to royalty. " This talk Is
cant of the worst sort. The day of the In-
fantn's visit was marked by ono of the larg
est crowds of the season , composed ofho
common run of Americans , who were
neither shocked by thotslght of the Infanta
nor by any ot the attentions paid hov. This
"plain republican" snivel Is disgusting.
'Now York Commercial : We need to learn
that though people differ from o-ich other ,
oven "as ono star dlfToreth front another
star in glory , " yet the glory of each Is because -
cause of that very difference. Wo need
something , oven If it bo the ml llnmoof war ,
to make luminous for us the fact thnt Ameri
cans nro just ns truly mon ns any other people
plo \mdor heaven , nnd that , nlno times In
ten , in the very particulars In which they
differ they nro superior. What Is the pres
ent worth If it has not improved on the past ?
If the children wcro not wiser than the
parents the world would bo forever going
backward. The most important lessons
Americans hnvo to learn Is that unless they
themselves respect the fact of being Ameri
can the world will not respect It.
AX OLD-VASIirUXJSl ) G2K1 *
.
She can peel nnd boil potaton.1 , make a
salad of tomatoes , but she doesn't know n
Latin noun from n Greek.
And so well she cooks a chicken that your
appotlto would quicken , but she cannot toll
what's modern from nntiquo.
She knows how to sot n table and make
order out of- babel , but- she doesn't know
Euripides from Kant.
Once at making pie I caught her Jorot
an export must have taught her but she
doesn't know true eloquence from rant.
She has n firm conviction ono ought only
to road fiction , and she doesn't care for
science , not u bit.
And the wny she makes her bonnets , sure ,
is worth a thousand sonnets , out she doesn't
yearn Jor "culture , " not a whit.
She can make her wraps nnd dresses till n
fellow fast confesses that there's niH another
maiden half so svvoct.
Shu's immersed In homo completely , where
she keeps nil things so neatly , but from
Browning not n line can she repeat.
Well , In fact , she's Just a woman , gcntlo ,
lovable and human , and her faults she is
qulto wHlinc to admit.
"Tworo foolish to have tarried , so wo went
off and got married , and 1 tell you I am
mighty glad of it.
rvxit , TUIIH..ITIOXS.
Kato Field's Washington : "Don't you think
her presence will glvo 'co' to our party ? "
"Yes ; everyone will leave ns soon as she
conies In. "
Philadelphia I/odiror : Nebraska has : i Woop-
R Water l'rosed llrlek company. The pres
sure of valor out nt the stock of numerous
concerns hiis mailo a good many weeping
shareholders lately.
Sparks : Poonlo speuk of thn face of u note ,
when It's really tlio llguro thiit Interests tnoin.
Chester News : The Columbian fly Is with
us , nnd has six Improved legs , with doubla-
) > uwor.suckers on his toes.
Rochester Democrat : No matter how finely
the display window of a.store may bu fitted up ,
tlio pretty younn lady cleric will ulway * prove
a counter attraction.
Indianapolis Journal : "It ain't no wonder
thnt city people don't II vo Ion ? , " said old Mrs.
Jason. "Law , mo ! if I had ii- , many neighbors
to look uftor us folks that lives In cities must
have I'd bo dead In lo s'n u year. "
Buffalo Courier : When the hathlng season
Is on the mnn with nn apputlto for the beauti
ful In human form Runonilly takes a run down
tos-omo popular oiisldo resort and rousts ou
thu sand wltchoa tlioro.
Washington Star : It U often saddening to
note liow hurdjt Is for some young men to
keep their -.eats on horseback und how eusy It
Is In u crowded street car.
Atlanta Constitution : ] iaTto | ] | ( ( rural jus
tice ) Your honor , thoro'w u man In court tiua
got n hill for 810 iiRln' you.
Justlco Good ! I'll IhiohlmJlG for contempt
o' court. See Unit ho receipts the bill an' fetch
mo the odd $0.
HEMO1LSK.
WaiJtiimtnn Star ,
What does ho euro though skies are blue
And birds nro sweetly singing ;
Why should he hood tho-wondrous hue
That blossoms iiuiy bo bringing.
Tim thought of r.ooks where sylvan boughi
Make cnrt'ales to the brooms
Is. of all thoughts on earth , ho vows ,
The ono that most displeases.
Ills pace , he says with accents grim ,
Wns merry whllo ho led It ,
And now vacation catches him
With neither cash nor credit.
j.v- Senator Inga Its
WRITES ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE LETTER
FOR
The Sunday Bee
IN WHICH HE GIVES A REPUBLICAN'S
OPINION OF POLITICS AND PJQLIC AF
FAIRS. ENTITLED :
* Our Parties and Our Fiilnrc"
MR. INGALL'S LETTERS ARE ATTRACTING -
ING COMMENT ALL OV& THE COUNTRY -
TRY NO MAN WHO SEEKS TO KEEP
PACE WITH THE POLITICAL DISCUS
SIONS OF THE D\Y CVN AFFORD TO
MISS THE INGALLS LETTERS ;
BUT THIS IS NOT THE ONLY BRIL
LIANT FEATURE OF
The Sunday Bee.
THERE ARE OTHERS JUST AS ATTRACT
IVE. HERE IS AN OUTLINE OF A FEW
OF THEM :
Glimpses of the Empire City :
AN OMAHA PILGRIM WANDERS
THROUGH THE STREETS OF NEW }
YORK CITY AND JOTS DOWN HIS IM
PRESSIONS ,
African Legends : *
HENRY M. STANLEY , THE GREAT EX
PLORER , WRIT = S SOME UNIQUE AND
HIGHLY INTERESTING LEGENDS OF
THE PEOPLE OFTHE DARK CONTINENT.t
Colonel Ainsivoi-th :
SOMETHING ABOUT THE MAN WHOM
SURVIVING CLERKS OF THE WRECKED
FORD THEATER BUILDING THREATENE6
WITH PERSONAL VIOLENCE.
Riding Through Easy Street :
A LADY WRITES ABOUT MEMBHR3 OF
HER SEX WHO ARE ALWAYS CHEERFUL
AND AGREEABLE REPROOF OF "FOR
WARD" CHILDREN.
The London Slang- Coiners :
WAKtMAN TELLS OFT HE COSTERMONGERS -
GERS OF LONDON THE.IR HABITS
MANNERISMS , DIALECT3 AND SLANG
PHRASES A CHAPTER UPON A PECU
LIAR CLASS OF PEOPLE ,
Woman s Wants and Ways :
A BUDGETOFCHATTY.GOSSIPYSTORIES
ABOUT WOMEN AND THEIR AFFAIRS
THE LATEST IDEAS IN FASHION'S
DOMAIN THIS DEPARTMENT IS
FRESH AND READABLE.
The Duke of York and Prin-
fess May of Teck :
GOSSIP ABOUT THE'rtOYAL PARTIES
TO A WEDDING SOON TO BE SOLEM
NIZED.
Standard Features :
SECRET SOCIETY NEWS , SPORTINO
GOSSIP , SOCIETY EVENTS , THE LOCAL
NEWS ROUND-UP , ETC. , ETC ,
The Very Latest :
THE BEE'S SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS
FROM EUROPEAN NEWS CENTERS , ITS
COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS RE
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NEWSPAPER IN THE BEST SENSE OF
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Before You Jump
Come down and see the extra choice line of
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in. They are made perfectly
and in regulation style. After
the bath comes the under
clothes and we are showing
probably the very finest line
yet out. In collars , cuffs , shirts
and neckties wo are well sup
plied with all the prevailing
styles. We are also selling
$2.507 3.00 and $3.50 brown stiff hats for $1.50. Wo
will' be pleased to show you a summer suit not
only because we want to sell shorn , but also to
show that wo are the only people in town who
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