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THE OMAHA DAJLY BEErr ; WEDNESIAY , JULY 12. 1803. THE DAILY BEE. K. UOSKWATKK , Kdltor. I'UHUSHED EVERY MOKNINO. TKI1M3 OK SUnSCltll'TION. Pnlly Tire ( without Sunday ) Ono Year. . 18 00 Iinllv urn ! Sunday , Oue Yenr. . . . . in JO Bin Months . . . "V TlitfoJUrmtlu. . . , . 3 GO BiimJnv Ho * . Ono Yr ! . - ? * ? JJ Pfttnnfny Hoc Onn Yo.ir . > , J % \Vccklj flop , -Ona Yenr . - 1 ° ° 01TICKS , Olnnlm. Tim Itca TUllMlnff. Soolli Oinniin , cnrnnr N anil 20th StreoM C'liini'll H'ufT . 1-2 Vtnrl Street , C lil , ' tro Onioo , 817 Chamber of Commerce. N. w Yorlf , Itooms 13 , 14 ixnd IB. Tribune IliitldliiK. Washington , Gin Foiirtcontli Street. All ronuiiimlcatlnns rolalliu to news ijnrt "lltorlal matter should bo addressed : To tlio Editor. im.siNrss w-rrraa. AM business lot tors nnd rnmlUiuicns should t > fl addressed lo The JIPO Publishing Company , Oiniilin. I > rtifts. clior.Ks nnd postonico orders In 1)0 nmdo payable to tlio order of tlio com pany. Parties Inavlng thoolly for tlio summer can liavo the llr.n i < mt their nddrosi by leaving an order nt Ilils onicc. THBni2K inmUSmNO COMPANY SWOHN STATEMENT OP CIHCIJLATION. Slain of Ni-brank.1 , I Conn ! v of tiniiclan. f . . . . Ooo. II. Trwliiick. gpcrrtniy of TUB Tir.r. publish- Inir roinpanv OOPS tolcmtilv rtwair Hint HID actp.ii circulation of Tun DAILY lu.t : forllio wcok ending July HI 181it : , was nn follow * ! Hunilny. July 2 . , 2nOJn Monday , 3\i\rl\ \ \ . a'l'8fl Tuesday. Jnh'-l . S3.R1. WiMlnraOay. July r . T . 2.1,8.1" Tliiirwlay. July 0 . Sn ! : ) o Krldav. July 7 . 23-n7,5 Saturday , July 8 . 2.1.1)8 ) ° OKOIIOK n. TrscnurK. , iSWOKK to tjofiiro nm mid subscribed In inypn > Hcnc tlilNHtli0.iv ot Jnlv , 1803. N. 1 * . Km. , Notnry 1'tiullo. TJin lice In Clilnlgo. TltR DAILY nnd BIINDAV Htm Is on sale In ChlrnKont the following nlncon : J'nlmnrlimtsn. Ornnd I'm-ltlrholol. . Audllnrliitn hnlol. Client Northern hoteL Oorolmtol. Io I a ti 11 Imtul. \\Vlls II. Hirer. 180 St.-Un ntront. Kilos of Till ! HKK can bo soon ntthoNo- l > rn ki ! bnlldlm ? nndlliu Administration build ing , Exposition uruuinls. AlorngoG'Irrilliitlmi lor .1 imp , 1KIM , 84,310 Tim visible supply of confidence shows a marked increase ever last week. IP WALL btrcot runs tlio treasury , why docs it all this haggling with the allvor brokers over tlio price to bo paid on the July silver purchases to continue ? IN TIIKSI : days of wholesale vacations granted to public servants it is a welcome - como relief to find every moinbor of the Board of Education in attcndanco upon its meetings. STKAWS show in whioli way the wind blows. The deposits of the several Omaha banks are rapidly increasing. This is the best evidence of returning public confidence. FttOM the tone of the latest Hawaiian dispatches it is clearly the purpose of the Sandwich islanders to annex the , United States in spite of the protests , from this country. CoijOKADO has not seceded from the union for several days now and there is every indication that her people have laid down their arms and returned to their silver mines. Tin : extra session may bo prolific with surprises , but it is safe to predict that there will bo no alliance between the republicans and the free silver demo crats to block legislation. IT MAY be only a coincidence , , but it is a little curious that the announcement that Minneapolis is infested with counterfeiters should follow so closely after the publication of a now directory which\givcs that city a population of a quarter of a million. JUDGE FraausoN has finally settled the county coramissionorship contest in favor of Mr. Williams , the present in i- cumbent. This decision is highly creditable to Judge Ferguson , who has by his action given striking proof that a judge may rise above his party in dealIng - Ing with political issues. An impartial judiciary is tlio bulwark of our free In stitutions. Tun treasury at Washington has re ceived a contribution of $0 from someone ono with an overburdened conscience living in Fort Robinson , Nob. It is re markable how ' tondor'a conscience a man may have when only a small sum of money is at stake , while when it comes to robbing the government of hundreds or thousands of dollars the pangs of remorse - morse are HO difiloult to rouso. "OIKJANISSKU labor" is having its innings at Washington. The supervising architect of the Treasury department has directed that hereafter all adver tisements for contracts on government buildings shall contain the words , "No convict labor or the product of convict labor shall bo used. " EITorts have fre quently boon made to ha\o such un order issued , but hitherto without BUO- COBS. c ia no mord reason for cancel 1- ing the taxes on the driving park property , owned by ono man , than there would bo for exempting all lawn tennis grounds from assessment. If the coun cil will not reconsider Its illegal action with reference to the driving park wo may all expect that Mr. Hitchcock will 1 put in a plea for the exemption of his tonnls grounds and dude's corrall. It would bo just as rational. THAT the Hum of 8315,310,000 , Ameri I- can capital has been invested in enter prises in Mexico within irco the last three years will probably bo a surprise to thobo who have given the subject no at tention. Yet those are the figures itaa given by a San Francisco paper , which suggests that the transfer is a possible factor In the present monetary strin gency in this country. It ia further shown that in aggregation of interests this country is ahead of both England nnd Germany combined in Mexican In- vestments. Tlio figures for the three ' years ending with 1802 are ; Gorraanv > , ' 803,750,000 ; Kugland , 8213,500 ; tlio United States as above quoted. English investments in agricultural , coloniza tion and mercantile enterprises exceed : American investments in these lines , Init In railroad building , manufactures and mining development the United States surpasses all other notions. STATE I1ANK ISSUES. Senator Sherman concludes his letter to ox-Congressman Walker as follows : "For mo , I will never agree to the roth vtvnl of state bank pnpor money , which cannot bo mndo n legal tender , nnd which , on the first sign of alarm , will disappear or bo lost In the hands of the holder. " Senator Sherman undoubtmi cdly represents the attitude of every roth publican In congress on this question , If there Is a single republican in olther branch of the national legislature who will not vote against n , proposi tion to revive state bank paper money ho has not made his position known to the public , ( and it is undoubtedly safe to say thnt there will not bo a man of thorn vote to ropcul the tax in state bank Issues. That there will bo nn opportunity given the republicans in congress to vote on a proposition of this kind is plainly indicated. There has boon no authoritative Btiitoment that it is the intention of the administration to offer ns n condition of the repeal of the silver purchase clnuso of the Sherman act the removal of the tax on stnto bank issues , but enough has boon said by news papers which nro close to the admin istration to show that such a plan has the favor of tlio presi dent , which of course means thnt it is3 approved by the admin istration. It is qulto probable that Mr. Cleveland will in hiu message to the extra session of congress recommend that the tax on state bank issues bo abandoned , though ho may consider it expedient to simply lot it bo known in nn indirect way that he would not dis approve of the repeal of this tax. There are eastern democrats who are strongly opposed to n rovlvnl of state bank paper money and in order to pass u measure for that purpose it will bo necessary to convert thoso. There Is reason to believe - liovo that a campaign for tills purpose is now being prosecuted. Prominent democratic organs in the cast are urging that there need bo no apprehension of danger from a state bank currency nnd they strain hard to find plausible reasons for this view. Ono of these recently observed that that the return to state bank Issues , with nearly $000,000,000 , ot treasury and national bank notes in circulation , all practically equal to gold , would make any state Issues profitless unless they were as well secured as the currency with which they must compote. This appears plausible , but it is unsound. In states that author ized banks to issue curtoncy there would bo no competition , strictly spoak- iner , between such paper money and that now in circulation. The latter would in n brief time disappear , being hoarded in bank vaults and the safe deposit receptacles of these who could nlTord to keep it on hand , while the inferior currency would find om- ployinent in paying for labor and in the small commercial transactions of the pooplo. This might not be the case in all the states , for it is to bo presumed thnt some of them would provide such-a basis for state bank notes as would place them practically on an equality , except as to the legal tender function , with the paper money wo now have , but nothing is moro certain if tlioro should bo a revival of stnto bank paper money than that a very largo proportion of it would ultimately become depreciated , with consequences most damaging to the great majority of tlio people upon whom it would bo possible to force this cur- roncy. There are so many itrong and valid objections to an issue of currency under state authority , and the experience of the country with such a currency was so unfortunate , that it seems extraordinary that a proposal to revive that system should bo seriously and widely advc- icated at this time and have the favor , as thcro is good reason to believe it has , of the national administration. The fact may as well bo squarely looked in the face , however , that thcro is to bo a vigorous fight inado In congress ( or the repeal of the tax on stnto bank issues and , perhaps , it can only bo prevented by the solid opposition of the repub licans. Senator Sherman's announce ment of his position on the question is timely. A DIMINISHING COltX HUKl'LUS. Mr. C. Wood Davis , who is a recog nized authority on agricultural Htatistics , in u communication to the Now York .Siui , points out that there is a steadily diminishing corn surplus in the United States and that it is only a question of idu short time when wo shall , have practi 1- cally none to send out of the country in its primary form. The statistical facts presented by Mr. Davis are certainly tsn teresting. It appears that during the period between 1800 and 1870 wo added loss than 0,000,000 acres to the corn fields , as against an addition of IM.OCu.OOO between 1870 and 1880. From 1880 to 1890 the additions wore but 0,700,000 acres , or 15 per cent , while the consuming' population - tion increased 25 per cent. Mr. is says that alnco the consusyoar there is been a decrease of several million acres , as shown by the agricultural reports , though the exact extent of the reduced corn arua is not ascortainublo from that source , Ho observes that there is strong presumptive evidence that the acreage is nov much loss than in 1880 , when the area ceased to oxpund by reason of the exhaustion of that portion of the public domain suited to corn culture. Mr. Davis declares -tluit the corn sur plus In primary and secondary form iris rapidly diminishing , as is shown by the decrease of the per cap ita quota of corn land from . P32 to 1.07 , or 10 per cent Ho finds , also , in the current price of hogs and pork products evidence of a rapidly dimin ishing corn area relatively to the lo mand. ' 'The advance binco 1899-1 in every form of pork has boon fully 100 per cent. The advnnca has not , us here tofore , followed from and after a short corn crop.but after the harvostingln 18U1 , of the second largest crop over grown , and It is directly due to .the absence of ' any addition to the corn urea and the number of hog growers elnco 18S5-0. Hogs imply acres of corn , " bays Mr. Davis "As declines the per capita sup ply of corn , BO will decline the commer cial supply of swlno. " Bwlno furnishing the vohiolu that has carried abroad n very largo part of our corn , and Europe - rope needing all the hogs that wo can furnish , Mr , Davis does not think that there is any necessity for any extraor dinary efforts to secure n European market - kot for our surplus production of malzo. IL argues that If the Increase of area ia not greater than is now promised , wo must either luivo yields largely above the average or our people must oat nnd nnd drink less in order to enable us to enlarge our exports of corn. "If wo are to supply Europe , " says Mr. Davis , "with the same proportion of animal products as in the ninth decode , shipping no grain whntovor , the per capita requirements will bean an aero and n quarter , and wo should now have 84,000,000 , acres under corn instead of the 72,000,000 , which scorns to bo the greatest area possible in 1893. " Without undertaking to question the statistical statements or the deductions ofMr. . Davis , which are to bo regarded as reassuring to the corn growers of the United States , wo are still of the opinion that it would not bo wlso to abandon nil olTort to oncourngo the use of corn as human food by Europeans. The coat of what has boon done in this direction has not been very great and undoubtedly it has been many times repaid , but at any rate an enlarged market abroad for our corn must mean a bolter price for it to the Ameri can fanner , and this is what every friend of our agricultural interest will desire to see attained. It is quito possi ble that in the years to come wo shall hnvo no great surplus of corn to export , but wo can certainly suffer no harm from having created , a demand that will insure to our producers for whatever surplus wo may have a profitable price. OP lyrmtKST TO iin : The representatives in congress of western agricultural interests ought to thoroughly inform themselves as to what Is needed for the improvement of the waterways through which the pro ducts of the west are largely transported to custom markets , and also as to what may bo done for the further development of water transportation. No subject connected with our domestic policy is greatly superior to this in importance and the question increases in urgency from year to year. The agricultural de velopment of the west * . is still far below n possible maximum. It is not an unreasonable assumption that within the next quarter of' a century western production will have nearly doubled. But already the facilities of transportation are found to bo inadequate - ' quato for expeditiously moving western products to the seaboard , and for months every year the western markets are con gested. Kail transportation is not now and probably can never bo made equal to the demand , especially if this increases to the extent which may reasonably bo expected. The producers of the west must be placed more and more at a dis advantage , both from the lack of adequate transportation facilities - ties and the increasing cost of" transportation , unless a broad and comprehensive policy shall ob tain Iw the improvement and develop ment of water ways available for trans portation between the west and the oa'st. Only these who have given the matter careful study have any conception of the enormous traffic of tlio great lakes. The vessel tonnage passing through the St. Mary's canal for the fiscal year 1892 amounted to nearly 10,000,000 tons , nmd the freight tonnage of the Detroit river was about 25,000,000 tons. This traffic will continue to grow , and with its ) growth there must come an increase of the facilities to move it. The recogni tion of this was shqwn in the Convention hold at St. Paul a short time ago. In his last annual inossago to con gress President Harrison suggested that t was time to consider the expediency of constructing a ship canal aro.und the Falls of Niagara , both in order to bo in dependent of Canadian canals and to avail ourselves of our great natural trade advantages. It is hardly to bo ex pected that the government will undertake so large nu enterprise as tins in the near future , but there can bo no doubt of its ultimate accomplishment. In the mean time the most important work to bo done in this direction is that of deepen ing the Erie canal , the movement 10 attain which has hitherto boon re ferred to. Probably this will 1 have to bo done by the state of Now York , but the great part which : ; this waterway plays in the transporta tion between the cast and the west and the influence it exerts upon rates , make : a gocd claim to national assistancp for ) improving it and increasing its usoful- nebtj. The record of the business of the canal shows that in each of the four yours , 18S8 to 1891 , it carried to the port of Now York ever 30,000,000 bushels of grain. Taking into account only the seven months of each year when the canal is a competitor of the railroads , tlio canal carried to Now York in the fpur years ever 127,000,000 , bushels , and all the railroads combined > carried 209,000,000 , bushels' . These figures demonstrate how great a factor . the canal Is in the problem of transportation , while its value In regulating freight charges , 13W 13S it compotes with all railroads jparrying freight to Now York , is equally groat. The Now Yoik Commercial UuUetin suya : ' 'The charge for bringing wheat from the west to this port must control the charge for carrying It to any other port , and the Erie cuual becomes a national highway , whoso competition reduces the cost of exporting every bushel of grain and every pound of provisions that the country exports. As the cost of trans portation must como out of the proceeds from the sale of the merchandise * tlHn Europe every reduction in it is a matter of peaunlary interest to all the farmers of the west. " From this point of view there is u most cogent reason why hey national government might properly , for the general good , boar u part of the cost of enlarging the usefulness of this waterway. OP TUB eight members at present of the supreme court of the United States , five wore appointed as republicans and three aa democrats. The vacancy caused by the death of Justice Ulutch- ford will of course bo filled by the ip- polntmont of ft democrat , making the political standIngi-of-tho court five re publicans and four democrats. Of the republican justice tUo oldest is Horace Gray , who is Co. . president Harrison appointed three nftsfalato justices of thu supreme court , Broffor nnd Brown re publicans and Jackson , democrat. It is qulto possible that Mr. Clovo- and may bo called Upon to make n second nppolntinont'durlng his term of a successor to n republican justice , in which case the supreme court would bo"- como democratic. It may not bo es pecially profitable1' to consider what might result from such n change in the political division of this tribunal , In recent years politics has not boon so In fluential there as formerly and it is to bo hoped that the court \vlll never again bo so subject to political influence as it lias boon during some periods of- its ex istence. MAYOR WALKER of South Omaha gives the fraiichlsod corporations of that city a drastic drubbing in his annual message. Ho thinks the council * hns a .right to pass ordinances regulating the price of water as well as of gns , electric lights and so forth , and ho wants it to make use of that right. Ho . .character izes the street railway company as "a proud corporation" which ought to bo brought to terms , and in passing sug- scsts that these terms might bo obtained if the council would impose a liberal tax upon all poles Which line and disfigure the streets. Any such proposition will no doubt moot n prompt and powerful opposition from all the franchis6d cor porations. The prospect of forcing the issue is not just now very promising. THEUB was a run on the bank o Wntortown , N. Y. , of which Governor Flower is tlio principal owner. Flower Is very rich nnd the bank was positively solvent , but depositors somehow hud lost confidence and wanted their money. Thereupon the governor dished out some pretty solid chunks of truth along with tlid1 cash. IIo told his neighbors that it was just such action as their own in demanding money they did not need that was forcing banks to foreclose on mortgages , thereby stopping industries and hurting trade nnd labor generally. The public should recognize the force of these utterances. At the same time bankers should remember that while they would have the faith of the people the confidence should bo reciprocal. ACCOUDINO to the records of the Post- ofllco department , the number of re movals and appointments to postolllcoa during the first four jponths of the pres ent administration , is loss than that during a similar period of the Harrison administration. If they had compared the first four montli3'Jof the two terms of President Cleveland , the ratio of de creased activity in postal decapitation would probably show a correspondingly great decrease , if not a greater ono. The good old days of Adlai's. axe are passed. Just now the hungry herds of democrats nro wondering why they helped to make tho.changb. IOWA authorities contihuo to practi cally evade the prohibitory liquor law by imposing fines in the nature of licenses upon these convicted of violat ing its provisions. Thirteen such of fenders were recently subject to a fine of $300 and costs in Linn county and eight others to a fine of100 and costs. The report has also arrived that the city council of Rock Rapids has fallen into line with its neighbors and has decided to permit the saloons to run openly upon the payment of a monthly lino. High license is making nroads upon the free whisky bolt in Iowa. Tun forthcoming report of the Kansas State bank commissioner is not a bad showing considering the total failure of the wheat crop in half the state and the shortage of over 50,000,000 bushels as com pared with last year. Up to Juno 1 the people of Kansas had on deposit 812,000- 000 , 820,000,000 of which was in the state and private banks , and $22,000,000 , in national banks. Since Juno 1 , the financial conditions have caused a with drawal of about 810,000,000 , , mostly in western Kansas where depositors have little faith in banking institutions. EAST OMAHA has furnished us an ex ample of the Iowa prohibition saloon. It in to bo hoped that the efforts now bolng made to exterminate these road houses willbo _ , successful. Wore they within the jurisdiction of the Nebraska law it would not take long to blot them out. For the past tlu'co or four years Omaha has boon comparatively free from the rend house vice. This city should make a formal protest to the Council Bluffs authorities and demand that the East Omaha dens bo suppressed. JSverytliln ? floes. ticw yitrk llecunler , A populist convention out in Columbus , O. , lias iloiimndoa Urn impouuhmont of Graver as a cold conspirator "pandering to British tlminciors. " This demand was inado on the Fourth , and "it goos-1' atyng with the other llroworks. , A Illutt ( irami Thriint. 7H < jiirer. Colonel Wnttcrson's nnnouncomont that "President Cloyolnud Ijns Imparted to the wculcur members of his. C.ibmot his dull self- sulllutonuy and cold .HWlldUy" is the first rolevuut testimony the putilio 1ms hud of tno atur-cycd's retirement from' politics under this administration , t ' Tlio Country * u tjufo. Kew The latest report froiu.tho * Delaware poach anil his ca too mod coiltaniporary , the Alary- land puach , Is most oiffipuraglng. They rote fouling lira t rate niil''iIbnfldontly ' ' expect to enter the market , on 'saodulo ' tlmo , 0,000,000 bankets strong , ThltfiU goodi news ami porishtho thought that the lovely luscious lop layer In anyone of .tho 0,000,000 bnsUots will prove to bo moro palatublo than any of the underlying loyora. Wlord Truthleu VliHatltlfiMa Heconl. Two auriferous reports como out of hove blooming west , which , if true , should servo at least to show a condition of solvency. > The llrst report is that the Mormons In Utah are raising f 1,000,000 to buy from congress ! an enabling uut admitting Utah into the union as a state. The other report Is of hon somuwliat similar tenor , to-wit , that the sil ver lords In Colorado are gathering a cor ruption fund with which to carry free silver coinage through bouso and sonata and ever the head of the president , willy nilly , i to the statute book. If cither of tucso rts could DO authenticated there would bo joy among the lobbying dcadboats who hang around Washington to sell Impossible legis lation and to gather in the cash of their dupes. But , badly as the people of Utah I may ilcslro st.itnhood , nnd much ns the sil ver minors would Ilka to cxohnn o silver bul lion for lognl tender silver dollars , pound for pound , thny nro not raising any money for the Washington lobby , It Is an abuse of the public Intelligence to print such fabrica tions. Sympathy In Misfortune , jV w Yoik H'orbl. Iowa is a sreat , rloh , generous stato. She will tnko wire of her unfortunate with nn ungrudging hand , asking no alms of others , Hut In her affliction slio hns nt any r.ito the tenderly coiniuvlonato sympathy of all the pooplo. l ! I > iil > llcnnR nnd OtobcDemocrat. . The country will bo mndo lo understand nt thooutsot thnt the republicans recognlr.o no partisanship In the financial question. In all branches of the government the dome- era ; ts are in control , nnd to thorn , as tlio pcoplo are accustomed to juduosuch matters , will belong the entire responsibility for the conduct ojT the government on this Is uo. However. ( In thh exigency the republicans will repudiate this narrow estimate ot party duty nnd accountability nnd will sink imrtl- nanshlp in patriotism. Thoio will bo no maneuvering on their side for party nd- vantage. Tlio solo consideration with thorn will bo the country's prostiiro nnd pros perity. They see the peril which confronts Industry nncl trade and their endeavor will bo to avert U. In doing this they will , ns concerns themselves , keep politics rigidly in the background and content themselves with the reflection that the country will Judge their motives nnd their actions Justly , Iniquity of I.0 ( n Dlvnrco I.nw * . Once ( livorco laws are enacted , marrloil couples tnko advantage of thtim who would novcr have dreamed of separating and would hnvo patched up their quarrels and differ ences if there had not boon such nn easy wuy out of the matrimonial bond. No man would have over thought , unless the law favored n loose wavout of wedlock , to write : "Mary. If you love mo , or ever did love mo , you will apply for u divorce , ns there U nn- other ivoman whom I could love. " As the scope of the la\v is llttlo by little enlarged , nu Increasing number seek nnd obtain divorces , and after a ubllo It becomes a per fectly rcspoctnblo thing to contract what might bo called experimental marriages. In the west , especially , society receives back divorcees. The palaces of the well-to-do are open to thorn , Churches do not cast them out , nnd ministers welcome them at their communion tables. They may occupy posi tions of trust mid honor , two or throe divorces to their credit side notwithstand ing. And wo are told that such sights have no influence on the growing generation of boys and girls. This is not true. Teach the riling generation by object lessons at an ngo when impressions are deep nnd lasting , that men and women may , without losing caste , divorce nt pleasure , and the notion of the sanctity of the family life is undermined. Anthony .Joseph Drcxol. I'litladclpMti Ledger. Upon the great multitude of Anthony J. Droxol's ' friouds , hero aim abroad , the intelligence - telligenco of his death falls with Inexpressi ble sorrow and anguish. To all who know him it will fall ns a public calamity , far- reaching and inestimable. Mr. Anthony .T. Drexel was ,0110 of the proprietors of thn I'ublio Ledger , the honored partner , the beloved - loved friend nnd dully companion of the sur viving proprietor , George W. Childa. The Ledger can hero give no Impression of the loss It has suffered , in all ways that make its loss most keenly , profoundly folt. It can but. record Its love , its es teem , its admiration for ono who stood so near to It , and who sympathized with it , nnd its purposes of public pood. All those in the employ of Guorgo W. Uhildsnnd Anthony J. Drexel cannot say farewell to this noble gentleman without paying their tribute of respect to his worth , to his sincer ity , friendliness nnd generosity. Anthony J. Droxol's loss to society , to which ho gave thu best example of true and noble living , Is severe. To these who were near to him , in relationship , friendship , labor , to whom every word and act was kindly , friendly , the sense of loss is greater than can bo ex pressed. No tribute that shall bo uaid him will do justice to the nobility of his charac ter and life. A Christian gentleman in thought ana dead , the world is poorer todnv that ho is npjonger of it. A man of greatest worth , his memory will bo blessed and kept green uy the lossous of his lifo. Ailvloo to Colorado Uitlnini. Kcw I'oifcSiin. There Is the ring of a Colorado § 10 gold piece in the remark of a Pueblo correspond ent of The Sun : "If every silver mine In Colorado were closed at once the dourcsslon would bo sorlous , but within a few days 00 per cent of nil the men involved would bo cu- gaged in other lines , so that the result would merely bo u chniigo of their fields or indus try. " This is the true spirit of strength and ofllciency. If ono thing won't go , got at another ; if the crops are poor , try teaming ; if thorois no money ( in Wall street , look for it along the docks : if the hens dnn't lay epgs , sheer the sheep for their wool ; if the horse is too lazy trndo him off for n mule ; if thcro is no call for the white metal , dig for tbo yellow or plant po tatoes. The stnto of Colorado has prodig ious resources other than these of its silver ininos. Its farm p'roduots have already run up to $00,000.000 a y.ear , its cuttle product to Sal.OOO.OOO . , its coal product to $55,000,000. and its manufacturing product to $70,000,000 , though but a tenth of the land is under cultivation , while the other Industries - trios can bo enlarged Indefinitely to the public advantage. In California , nt ono tlmo , mining was almost the solo industry , but now the people civo their energies tc the tillage of the soli , the raising of fruits , the making of wines , the breeding of choice ; cattle nna other Industries , which glvo em ployment to moro hands nnd groatcr prolll to the community than the mining of the precious metals ever gave. Wo must tel the few calamity howlers in Colorado thai they nro not sensible mon. The state wll bo nil the hotter off when these of Its people who may lese by the fall in silver turn their minds to something clso. SH1IIT3 AT Till ! fdllt , It has boon settled that tno total attend ance on the Fourth was Ittl.ullaml now It Is promised thnt on Illinois day the crowd will bo twice as largo. Philadelphia's biggest day at the Contcnnlnl was U74U17 , , In the Agricultural building the island of Borneo , famous In song , makes a 11 no exhibit of tobacco , the planters hailing to introduce Us use as wrappers in America. The leaf is largo , silky , of good color , and It is claimed is superior to tlio Sumatra tobacco now in use. use.Ono Ono of the interesting things Phlladol- phluns should see at Chicago Is the dlsulay of the University of Pennsylvania , especially the urchuiologlcal part of It , including the Babylonian antiquities , which are only ex celled , it Is said , by these of the British Museum , An erroneous Impression Indulged In by many is that the Woman's building is filled with quills nnd patchwork and knitted socks , or something of the kind. As a matter of fact the building and the exhibits it con tains are as attractive to pcoplo of both sexes as anything to bo seen on the grounds. In the Krupp pavilion may. bo BOOH com pound armor plato for VQssuls oven thicker than that whtuh proved so useless a protec tion for the unfortunate Victoria which went down the other day with hundreds of souls on board. This plato looks ns though it would withstand the assaults of all the bat teries and all the powerful war rams in the world. Hut defenses ura no sooner inado stronger than means of attack grow more powerful. In the Utah silk exhibit In thn Woman's building there is shown n pair of white satin curtulus , The silk worms ami the cocoons were ruUod in Utah , thu silk was apun there and woven on a handloom. The curtains are otnbroidercd with sego ilowcrs , Utah's official emblem , so that from beginning to end the curtains nro representative of Utah's Industries. Bkcius of raw silk , reeled silk and all the tools used nro-ex hibited , while In a separate case is the llrst silk dross make In Utah , with some hand made silk iihawls twenty yoaru old , The Uodouln Arabs who came to the exposition - position under special llrmaii of the sultan of Turkey , now have their exhibition In full operation on the plnUanco. There are nearly UOO , Including thn women and chil dren. They liuva their own blocxlod Arabian horses with them , and horses from the sul tan's own stud , camula and desert camp equipage , etc. They glvo wonderful ex hibition of daring horsemanship , buttles of the desert and customs of a people fast dls appearing under the Iniluoacc of civilization , 'n NKXTKXCK. Kcnrnoy Hub : The sentence Is the lightest pormlsslolo , ami although no heavier than .xpectcd Is nevertheless too light by about on yo.us. Fremont HeraldA contemptibly aumll ontunco of flve years. If there over was a man who bolrayoil the confidence of his rlends , It Is the Lincoln bank robber. Ho tolo a million anil nobody npponr.s to know vhore any of It has gouo to. And many well nformod people bcliovo ho has It yet. Grand Island Independent : The sentence s nn extremely light ono and should have > een fifty years Instead of flvo. It Is bettor , lowovcr , than to have permitted the crimp o bo smoothed over by the pay men ton the > art of the thief to the largo number of loposltors of such sums * .i ho robbed thorn , iut the lightness of the sontcnco Is believed > y some to bo a sort of compromise. If thnt s true , It forms n sufficiently serious condl- Ion , The rich may comnromlso ; but the > oor ? Watchman , what of tlio poorj Fremont Tribune : Judge Dundy has Inally boon persuaded to scntonco Hank Wrecker Mustier to the penitentiary and tlio > oor follow has boon given llvo years , which > y ROW ! behavior will probably bo redurod o three anil n half. If ho had boon promptly sentenced to ton years Immediately after ilnadlng gullty.Uio people would have boon tartly appeased In their demands for justice. i'hoy have bccomo Irritated by temporizing nnil delays of the law , nnd are scarcely In a need to believe his punishment anything Iko adequate to his crime. Ooatrlco Times : Thus ends the farco. Wo would llko to propound Just ono Question xj.ludgoDundy : Had there boon brought soforo him a man who hail broken Into the tomes of Lincoln In the night tlmo anil robbed her citizens of $200,000 , would ho for a moment have thought that ronllnomcnt.iu the penitentiary for a period of llvo years was anything llko n sufficient penalty for the crime ? Wo think not. And yet hero Is n nmn whoso crlmo is Infinitely worse than that of common burglary or robbery , who. to all intents nnd purposes , is sent out n frco man. A burlesque upon Justice is about nil , hat can bo mailo out of the case. Lincoln News : The Moshcr travesty Islet lot yet ended. It began months ago when tno great pull and haul to Rave the bank wrecker was begun by his influential friends and it nearcd the end last Saturday when Judge Uundy Imposed the fa1rclc.il sontcnco of live .voars in the government prison at Sioux ITalls , and ordered him to servo tho. greater iart of the tlmo at Lincoln. The spectacle it blind , groping Justice attempting to com bat the combined forces of wealth nnd In- llucnco Iras boon a sight for gods and men. mil It was fitting that the closing net should bo the administering of n llvo years' sentence to a man who had stolen $1,000,000. Thnt Lbo punishment is grossly inadequate to lit his crime the News need not repeat. J'JXJl'fjK AM ) TlllSOS. Ambition to get abova the rest of mankind partly accounts for balloonory. Iowa differs from Kansas on the calamity issue. ' The former does not howl before or squeal after the blow. Indianapolis Is heroically moving to un cover her pavements. The ofllco of inspec tor of woods has becnocrcatod. Mow power to the Hoosicr capital. The hoodoo theory is getting in Its work In Ohio. Ex-Governor Campbell has boon caught for $5,000 , having accommodated a friend with his autograph. A gunner ut Governor's ' island , N. Y. , ruptured the rules of war by firing two extra shots on the morning of the Fourth. Ho is threatened with court martial. Lot him emulate Patrick Henry and appeal to the country. Financial ruin stares the duke of Voragua in the faco. The dulto is said to have in vested on the strength of an cloctric-wolded tip on French stocks. Nowitho auctioneer threatens to hoist the red flag on Voragua's ancestral castles. i At the auction sale the other day of the personal property of the late Governor Halo of Now Hampshire , stocks having a par value of $2,700,000 , nnd promissory notes with a fnco value of $57,000 , were sold to the highest bidder for lot's than 87. The only sign of great ngo in Marshal Mac- Mahon , who recently celebrated his 80th birthday , is his lack of tooth. When n molar passes the tlmo of its usefulness the ox-prcsldont accepts the loss philosophically , and refuses to call on a dentist to repair the damage. Mrs' . Lewis Klco of Frederick , Md. , has collected rnough money to place a moro im posing monument upon the grave of Fr.incia Scott Key , author of "Tho Star Spangled Banner , " than the Hat marble slab which now marks it In Mount Olivet cemetery , Georgetown. Some faithful advocates of "tho powers that bo" nro pumping flot invective at a proposition , originating in Colorado , to raise a big roll for use in lubricating congress In n silvery manner. Suppose the roll is largo nnd Julcv , nro readers to infer the rotund democratic majority is susceptible to the in fluence of "do stuff ? " Perish the thought ! A Chicago man who lost an arm and three fingers in n collision with n locomotive at n grade crossing was given n Judgment for f25- 583 against the offending company. Had the man been killed outright , 55.000 would have been the limit of the Judgment. From a financial tx > int of view , the railroads would bo the gainer by killing instead of crippling. It Mr. Bcauchamp Clark , or "Camp" Clark , as ho prefers to bo called , is correctly reported , ho must , bo another Dink JJotts. Mr. Clark made a speech nt the Tammany banquet on the Foucth of July and since that time has been telling the reporters what n remarkable man ho is. Mr. Clark Is from somewhere in Missouri and is believed to have a private graveyard. SRnilASK * ANtf XKIIRASltAXS. Hitchcock county will icttla Us oount.v so.it fight July ni , Dodge county farms nro stilil to still bi changing hands al prices ranging from | 33 to $ .V ) per ncro. Holdrcgo pcoplo nro proud bccauso the express press company has furnlshod n line wagon anil team to hniidlo IpcM business , The Huffnlo county toachora Institute , which moots nt Kearney July 31 , will bo on- tortnlnod by A course of lectures on natural history by Dr. Jesse Holmoi of Washington. I-M Longnockcr of Schuylor , who thinks hi is owner nnd manager of n largo opera troupe , hns been sent to the Norfolk Insans asylum to recuperate. He has led n vorj dissipated llfo. A 10-year-oM boy named Amlorson hns S taken refuge at Wnyno from what ho alleges - \ logos Is the cruelty of his father. The Inil says ho was driven from homo by his parent and was forced to ivalk eighteen mlloi from the farm to Wayno. Some miscreant entered Bochl & Schlor's mill nt Holdrcgo nt night nnd detached pieces of the engine , leaving the machinery In such shnpo that when started the whole englno would bo ruined. Luckily the en gineer discovered thocomlltlon of affairs nnJ so no damage was dono. TIl'S THAT T1CK1.K. 1'hllnilclphln Tlniost H'a Interesting OTCI to sue the glowworms .spni-klni ; In the park. nulTnto Courier : It Isn't ovcry ono whocai make a game man qunll. Now Orleans Picayune : A cltl/on of Colorado rado cnn force the ylold uf silver If ho 1ms u mlno to , Cleveland Plain Donlor : The way out of It , for Australia , Is to sot her pugilists to killing rabbits. * Dallns News : In n woll-regnlntod family th ollvo branch of pe.ico Is bomctlmos a stout hickory sprout. Ijowoll Courier ! Although rheumatism must bo very undesirable , ninny people scorn bout on having It. Kliulra Gazette : Jngson sayg the only wny to mnko homo attractive to our boys Is to runt It to somu othur family. Somorrlllo Journal : Nearly every man car- rln.s a wnturmelon homo In his IUIIH at least once during n llfotlmo. llnidlyany inuu , however - over , does It moro limn onco. Philadelphia liccord : "Most of the people I go to see don't care uUnll to sue mo , " mildtho collector : "yot nearly all of them ask mo to 'call uKuIn , ' " Texas Sittings : A Doston mnn reading that there wmo1,000 Poles In Now Yorkuxclnlmod : "What a aplomlld plucu to ralso boansl" Truth : "A rolling stone gathurs no moss , my boy ; don't forgot that. " "Vet , I know , piitur ; but think what a move It gets on itboltl Memphis Appeal : The fool scokoth to pturk the Ily fiom tlio'mulo's hind log , but tlio wUu man fottoth the Job to the lowiv > t bidder. Yonkers Statesman : Some men are so Indo lent that they wouldn't oven take their nasu If they luid to go out of thulr way to got It. Chicago Itprord : Pcoplo who have liiul a cmincu tohtudy the Chicago rlvor 111 It-s pros- cut condition wIlUuolTnt thu theory that uny microbe could ll\o In It for an Instant. A STHI.VO ON HIS FIN'tlEU , TOO. Kcw Yor < Press. Breathes there a mini with soul so ( load Who never to his wlfo hath said : "I'll not forget a slnglu thing Thsxt you've requested mo to bring When I como homo tonight. " And then Comes empty handed homo ugalu. Information Wimteil. Denver UepubUcan. Wo would llko to have some gold bug toll the people of this country Just how the repeal - peal of the Sherman law would induce gold to como into the United States from Europe at the rate of $50,000,000 a year , especially when the Hunk of England refused to sell gold oars at any price , as it docs nt present , OIUVO3U > TlSWSa ASlt OASES. Iht Centura. "Thoro's plenty of work for this morning , " she crlod : "Thoro's baking , and scrubbing , and swooping Cut she wont nt the baking with laughter and And'suld ns sbo flnUhod , "that didn't take long. " And then to tlfo scrubbing and how she did burubl The boards were llko snow when she gnvo the last rub. Her hands were so deft and her arms wore seAm Am ? she said , as she finished , "that didn't take long. " And then to the swooping she matlo the dust Uy. glio looked at her work with ncrltlcal oyo. And yet all the tlmo bho kept humming a Andsho'tnckocl to the last verse , that didn't take long. " 4 Tlio dinner was ever , the work was all done ; "And now for that errand , " she said ; "I must run. " , . Six o'clock comes so soon when the days are ho And off she wont , humming n verse of that song. The road sho'd to travel was ns straight as a She know every stop , and she mount Just to Ily ; Uut she mot an acquaintance down there by thoHtlln. , , And somehow that errand It took a good while. ' 91 a COL Largest Mannfiiottirors ami Retailers ol Ulotului ! in thu World. J * ' It's this Weigh- : We've still on hand a whole slew of summer suits' . They'll have to be sold this season , so we've put the prices way down. There are some beauties among them. There is also a big- wad of those skeleton-lined coa.s ( or unlined - lined ) coats and vests which we must got rid of this week. Straw hats must go , too. They're marked down about one-third. On second floor the children's goods are getting a out also. , That lot of boys' vacation suits at $1.50 are worth nearly twice as much money. Reduc tions all along the line. Economical people will buy now when the styles are to be had. BROWNING , KING & CO. , 6torooponHororjroTonln lil0.ta | S < fl ,