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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.
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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. ,
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