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TFJE OMAHA DAILY BEE : TUESDAY , JUNE 12 , 180J. 'Ill ROM AHA DAILY BEE. TntMii or . . . . I'.ity Bc ( wllhoul Himctiiy ) . OIKY.tir ' v > | | \\y \ \ iird rfuttilny. One Year > ' ' ' " Mi < Meniin ; ; ; ; ; ; jjjj Mia lay iW. 'oiii"v ir. . ' f K * iinpltr II " , Dn Yenr * " ; _ A cilily He * , Onu Year * Ol'KICBH. His , . , , N. Y.-rit . n.wm U. II ml 15. Trlliun- \UIHI iiKl in , IW I * Mroet. N. \ \ . All cmniiunlrnthin * relfttlnitn n.-n-ji nn.l Mil- toi.,1 mntler slmtiM lw ndilrcmot : 'To the Mltor. IlttMlNKHrt I.BTTBUS. nml rpmlllnncns thoiltit \ > f Ml linln M letters BTATIJMBNT OF CIUCUI.ATION. Ocoiitn n. Trncliurk. accrotnry < > t The IL'c riin- llnhiftic frtinpiny. ln'liiB 'Inly mvorti , unyi" Hint tlio " i" ml n miilr of full nn.l . coinplolo ponlw of Tlio * Dully MornliiK. Bveiilnn nn < l Hun.luy lice ptInto nurliiK the irwntli of Muy. 1801. wn as rmiowii. Tolnl poM BW.erj Dnlly nvrrnEO net cliculntlon J2.1S3 Sunday. aimmn II. TOHCIIt'CK. Btvorn lo before me nml subscribed In my pies- ciico this 2d day of June , isal. ( .Seal. ) N. 1' . niU Notary Public. As the rain cornea down the farmer's hopes look up. _ If It Is proposed to seriously discuss the Union depot question why should not the public bo Invited nnd an opportunity given tor a fair nnd free exchange of views ? No wonder the Italian finds so great an attraction In America when 12,000,000 bunches of bananas nro Imported Into the United States In the course of a single year. The republican avalanche In Oregon as sumes larger dimensions as the complete re turns coino In.Vo can reverse the catch word this year nnd say "from Oregon to Maine. " Senator Allen's senatorial purity bill has ono grave defect. It falls to reach the In nocent mistakes of servants who may send telegrams to stock brokers without their master's orders. The general electric ordinance Is still In the capacious pocket of the chairman of the jolnl committee , and wo presume It will stay there so long as Mr. Wiley does uot want action taken upon It. It Is to bo hoped that these recent rains have not washed the newly macadamized county roads away. A few anchors might become a necessary Investment for the county commissioners. Don't Imagine that Omaha Is being de serted by a large portion of Its mala In habitants. U Is only the exodus of the re publican cohorts to attend the State Repub lican league meeting at Lincoln. Omaha wants relief from the extortionate prices demanded by the local electric light ing company for Its electric lights. It wants relief now , not In years from now. The council has been ( rilling with this elec tric lighting matter long enough. Operations on those new buildings already under way are progressing finely , so that Omaha has good prospects of seeing several handsome business blocks under roof by autumn. There Is always room for more , however , and the season Is not too far ad vanced for the Inauguration of further build ing projects. Two Brooklyn policemen were last week fined thirty days' pay each for getting drunk while on duty nnd n number of others wore flned ten to fifteen days' pay for various breaches of discipline , the total amounting to about | 500. Police discipline In Brooklyn Is evidently something different from police discipline In Omaha. Business generally ought to feel the stim ulating effects of the recent rains upon the crop prospects throughout the western ter ritory. The break In the drouth that was .drying up the corn and small grain came none too soon. With favorable weather and an absence of disastrous mishaps the har vest may yet bo all that It hoped. The Springfield Republican says that I\m- noyer Is probably the worst demagogue which the populist party has put Into Important odlco nnd that that Is saying much. But the Republican forgets that Pennoyor was put Into olllco by the democrats and kept In of fice by the same party. The populists are responsible for a great many demagogues , but don't deprive the democrats of the credit which belongs to them , According to Senator Harris the demo crats do not want to Impose any unnecessary hardship upon the republican minority In the senate through prolonged sessions for the purpose of discussing the tariff , but they rvant to arrange the dally sittings upon their jwn Idea of hardship. The democrats who have become accustomed to keeping nwako nights devising schemes to repay the Sugar ( rust and other Interests would probably bo unaffected by night sessions of the senate. Hon. Charles H. Grosvonor of Ohio will deliver an address at Exposition hall Wednes day night , Mr. Grosvenor Is a man of national reputation as an orator and his familiarity with the vital Issues of the day cannot fall to make his address Instructive lml Interesting. As a life-long republican Mr. Grosvonor will talk from a republican Itamlpolnt , but It Is to bo hoped that nil Masses of citizens and especially workingmen - men will avail themselves of the opportunity to hoar Mr. Grosvenor. An Important decision relating to the /Ight of cities to prevent dangerous over load wiring has Just been rendered by the tupromo court of Wisconsin. The city of fanesvlllo enacted an ordinance providing Shut guard wires be placed where they would prevent the contact of telephone wires with the wires of the electric motor company. The power of the court to compel the street railway company to comply with the ordi nance was Invoked by mandamus. An ap peal was taken to the Biwrema court , and the court sustained the validity of the ordinance. This Is au Important precedent , as It Indicates the trend of Judicial version of the police power of cities In dcalhiB with ijja deadly overhead wire. NO t MWM.VfO.V K/IBB StM'KH. In politics as In business honesty Is Al ways the best policy. The republican party han everything to lose and nothing to gain by wabbling on the silver question , Every attempt on the pftrt of republican politicians and republican papers to placate the so- cnlleil friends of silver who demand free nnd unlimited colnago at a ratio of 1G to 1 by advocating dlicrlmlnatlvo duties and free colnago of American silver weakens the party and gives Incentive to flatlsm. The republican party has stood for honest money a sound currency convertible on demand , dollar for dollar , gold for silver or paper. From this position It can not honorably re cede. The advocates of unlimited coinage nro either right or wrong. There Is no mlddlo ground on that Issue. If they arc right the republican party should come down and admit that It has all along been In the wrong. If the populists and free sli ver democrats are wrong then republicans have no right to recede or recant. Every man who understands the A B C of finance knows enough to know that greenbacklsm Is back of the entire free coinage craze. If the stamp upon a piece of metal makes Its value so does the stamp upon a piece of paper. The doctrine of the apostles of free silver Is Identical with the doctrlno of the grcenbackcrs. If CO cents worth of silver can bo sold for 100 cents by reason of the mint stamp why not make dollars out of dimes or nickels ? And why coin any metal money If commercial value cuts no figure ? Twenty years ago , right after the panic of 1873 , the Chicago Inter Ocean Innoctilnted thousands of republicans In Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Kansas nnd Nebraska with the virus of fiatlsm. Its fallacious and pernicious teachings swept Ilko a prairie fire over thcso states. The great mass of producers In thcso states were borrowers and the cry for more greenbacks was echoed from the lakes to the Rocky mountains. Out of the seed which the Inter Ocean had sown to make Itself popular grew the greenback party , which , for a time , decimated the republican ranks and reduced Its sweeping majorities to pitiful pluralities. The Inter Ocean Is now seeking popularity at the- expense of republican in tegrity by advocating a catchpenny policy on silver. This policy every Intelligent man must ad mit cannot bo upheld and defended excepting by a course of duplicity. The talk about forcing European nations Into restoring sil ver to Its present ratio Is the veriest bun combe. Sliver will never again bo restored to the old ratio unless great mountains of solid gold turn up somewhere and glut the world's money markets with the yellow metal. Silver will never again bo worth $1.29 an ounce cither by discriminating tariffs or by free coinage. Three hundred years ago silver was 11 to 1 , but by the be ginning of the present century It had shrunk 50 per ouit by reason of Increased volume and cheapened production. Unlimited colnago of our own output would simply mean a silver standard for this coun try. It Is all the treasury can do now to maintain the parity of the currency by re deeming paper and silver with gold. A sli ver standard means general destruction of credits and Incalculable disaster. Can the republican party place Itself In an equivocal position on this vital Issue at a tljno when Its prospects for regaining su premacy as the party of honest money ore so promising Just because free colnago flatlsm has a hold upon a fragment of its rank , nnd file ? Why should the party recant or wabble Just to throw a sop to the mis guided and deluded advocates of depreciated currency or to straighten the records of some of Its foolish leaders who happen to bo entangled In the meshes of the silver flatlsts and Imagine they can make capital In the coming campaign by wabbling on this Issue ? The true policy for the repub lican party Isto / keep In the mlddlo of the road on silver and adhere strictly to the declaration inado by the national convention at Minneapolis. On that line they can meet the populists , the free silver democrats or any other combination. svcAit IN run IIOUSK. According to generally well Informed Washington correspondents the fight over the sugar schedule of the tariff bill Is far from ended. It Is said there Is a very bitter feeling In the house growing out of the scandal connected with the framing of the sugar schedule and the enormous protection afforded the refiners , which Is likely to make trouble If an at tempt Is made to sccuro concurrence In the senate rates without change. Chairman Wilson of the ways nnd means committee Is represented to bo very much dissatisfied with the senate bill In many particulars , and may mnko a vigorous fight agalst the favor shown to the Sugar trust. Two programs are under consideration. Ono Is for the house to Insist on a specific duty of 1 cent per pound , Instead of an ml valorem duty , The discriminating duty of one-eighth of a Ofjit additional would , In this case , be ro- talncd on refined sugar , but It would mark the full limit of the protection afforded the refiners. They would not get the additional protection of 40 or 50 per cent which they would derive from the Increased value and consequently higher rate on refined sugar afforded by the ad valorem duty In the sen ate schedule. The protection to American sugar producers would bo Just'as complete as under the senate bill. If the attempt to adopt n reasonable sugar schedule should fall the alternative plan under discussion Is to enact no new legislation whatever regarding sugar , thus leaving the existing bounty In force , with free Imported raw sugars. Many of the house democrats feel that the odium of the senate sugar schedule will prove too heavy a load for the democratic majority to carry , whatever reductions they may accomplish In other schedules. There has been some very strong and straight forward talk regarding this sugar question by prominent tariff reform papers. The New York livening Post recently said : "Tho senate sugar schedule has been received by all parties nnd people with an outburst of Indignation which warrants the hopa that the house will kill It , even at the hazard of killing the whole bill. The .government un doubtedly needs some revenue from sugar for n few years * to come not many , we think but to throw more money Into the lap of the Sugar trust , whether It bo six millions or thirty-four millions , Is an out rage ultOGOther Intolerable. " The Now York Times , summing up the effects of the senate sugar schedule , If It should become n law , says It would divert from a loan public treas ury to the. private coffers of the Sugar trust In one year a great sum of money , possibly SIIO.OOO.OOO , or oven more , taken from the people by means of a tax originally designed to supply the wants of the government. It would give to the Sugar trust , In the first year and following years , In addition to the J30.000.000 , nt losut three-quarters of the protective duty granted by the McKlnley law.This kind of a sugar tariff won't do , " says tho. Times , "and the people expect that the democrats of the house will blot It from the bill. " Besides the benefit to the refining Interest In the form of duties which the senate schedule , proposes there la the f.icl that the scheme provides for practically making a gift of millions.to the trust by postponing the proposed changn until Janu * nry 1 , 1S95. Raw sugar Is not to bs subject to the new duty of 40 per cent until that date. This would enable the trust to buy nnd store away raw sugar enough , free of duty , before January 1 next , to supply the domestic demand for n year , nnd every pound of this sugar would bo sold With the duty added , thereby enriching' trust , at the expense of the consumers of sugar and to the loss of the national treasury , to nn amount variously estimated at from $33,000- 000 to $30,000,000. H has been well said that no such naked gift as that was ever put Into any bill for any Industry or for any trust by any party In the history of the country. But notwithstanding the obvious fact that the senate sugar schedule was framed In the Interest of the monopoly , rather than In that of the American sugar producers , who would got but small benefit from It , there Is not much reason for confidence In the prediction that It will meet with n formidable opposi tion In the house. A prominent member of the senate finance committee Is reported to have said that the conference committee- the part of the house will bo given the al ternative of the senate bill or no bill , and ho expressed the opinion that the senate bill , substantially as It goes to conference , will bo enacted Into law. It Is highly prob able that the result will Justify this opinion. STIMVLA'CK TltK IWTAlh TH.IDB. Omaha Is doing very well as a Jobbing center and gaining ground from year to year In wholesale trade and manufactures. This city Is , however , way behind other towns of much less population In the retail traffic. Our retail trade does not begin to compare with that of many towns In Illinois , Ohio or Pennsylvania with half our population. The reason for this marked difference Is to be attributed to many causes. In the first place , Omaha has a comparative light farmers' trade. This Is chiefly duo to the fact that the lands In this vicinity arc held by specu lators and remain uncultivated. Wo could very readily double the farm population of Douglas and Sarpy counties without crowd ing. As a matter of fact , there Is room within twenty-five miles of Omaha for sev eral thousand farmers , fruit growers and truck gardeners. Why has there been noth ing done to place the vacant lands In this neighborhood under cultivation ? Simply because - cause nobody has taken an active Interest In this subject and our commercial bodies have regarded It as of little or no Import ance. They are baiting for big fish nil the time and neglecting an opportunity for en larging the local Jobbing trade by stimulat ing the retail traffic through suburban set tlements. If thesa settlements are encour aged and built up by homo capitalists , and If Intercourse between country and town was facilitated through motor tramways , our re tall merchants would feel the beneficial ef fects by a marked Increase of sales. Another very serious drawback to the re tail trade of Omaha Is the Importation by our well-to-do people of goods of every de scription from Chicago and New York. Our fashionable society people are habitually buyIng - Ing In eastern cities Instead of patronizing the merchants of our city. These pur chases aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. To all Intents and purposes every dollar paid out to eastern merchants for furniture , dress goods , clothing , Jfcwelry and provisions Is taken from our Omaha re tail merchants , and that means out of the home circulation. It goes without saying that If every man and woman In Omaha would make all purchases in Omaha our re- tall trade would go up 25 per cent , and the beneficial effects would be felt In every direc tion. The Idea that better articles can be bought cheaper In the retail stores of Chicago cage and New York than In Omaha Is a de lusion. Anybody who has done shopping In eastern retail stores of the first magnitude will bear us out In the assertion that retail prices are no higher In Omaha for the same goods , and In some Instances they sell cheaper In Omaha. The only advantage that any ono can truthfully claim for the Chicago and New York retail stores Is a larger as sortment of goods , but that Is largely due to the fact that our merchants are not patron ized as well as they should be by the would-be aristocratic and fashionable people. Why Is It that the Denver , Kansas City , Minneapolis and St. Paul retail shops excel those of Omaha In variety and magnitude ? Simply because they are patronized more liberally by their homo fashionables. If the wealthy and fashionable classes In Omaha would stop buying abroad and sending their money out of town they would have no difficulty In finding the highest grade wares In Omaha retail shops. SKKKRSS EPIDEMIC A score of congressman have had thorn- Helves excused from attendance upon the dally sessions of the house of representa tives on account of sickness. The most natural Inference Is that some terrible epi demic Is making ravages among the ranks of congressmen and that It some precau tionary measures are not speedily taken the whole lower house of congress will soon be laid low by the mysterious scourge. To the Initiated , however , the explanation of this wonderful and unprecedented phenom enon at once becomes plain. U Is simply a result of the newly enforced docking rule that prevents a congressman from drawing his salary for these days upon which ho falls to put In an appearance at the sessions of the house except when detained by sick ness. When a member of congress wishes to absent himself from the house , $13 a day Is a great Inducement for him to suddenly brcomo sick. Congressman McCall of Massachusetts , who Is protesting most vehemently against the Injustice of thu new rule , called atten tion In an Interview a few days ago to some of the absurdities of this epidemic of con gressional malaria. In Its operation It la very funny. It teems to scent congress men from afar , no matter where they may lie , and to single them out without harming any of their neighbors or companions. A congressman Is as likely to bo seized by It whether ho remains In Washington or re pairs to his home , whether ho Is taking nn outing for pleasure or Is stumping his dis trict In order to mcml hla political fences , wliithcr ho Is undergoing treatment at some health resort or Is hunting In the midst of malarial swamps. Another funny fea ture of this new tangled epidemic Is , accord ing to Congressman McCall , that the man about to bo taken by It evidently Is Gifted with the power of foresight. Ho can toll In advance Just when Ills sickness Is going to arrive and ask to bo excused ahead of time. Moreover , he knows Just how long ho Is to bo nick , just when his sickness will end and the exact ilnto when ho will again bo able to be In his Neat In tbo houso. Members will got up and ask for two weeks leave of absence on account of sickness and then go off In order to carry out thu decree of the houso. Kqually funny to Congress man McCall'a mind la the fact that his col leagues do not betray the slightest 1)1 ) effects of their MUcncsj. look thoroughly wellutaor 'toes the epidemic Interfere In the l h > t"wllh their capacity to attend to their o\i'T { private affairs. Ono mnn nrojo In the .Ijnuso the other day nnd requested to lie reretuait on the ground of "Impaired health ilhd"1 Important business , " without being n\\Hfp\of the Inconsistency of his two alleged -jcnscns. While this epldeitllo'bf congressional sick ness Is detrimental .chiefly to the morale ( if the congressmen affected , Its absurdity ought nlono to Impress the house with the neces sity of some nctlolT | ] iat will bring It to an abrupt end. It lscfalmed _ by some mem bers that the docking ! rule Is Illegal. If so , a test case should1 bo made before the epidemic carries riway our entire national legislature. A competent physician Is sadly needed. TllK AMKHIVAJ , MIHlCHAti-l JUW.VB. There Is some prospect of the present con gress taking action on the question of restor ing the merchant marine , which has been reduced to an Insignificant fraction of what It was before the decline of this Important Interest begun , thlrty-threo years ago. In 1SGO there was carried In American vessels CC.5 per cent of the exports and Imports ol the United State * . In 1S93 the amount car ried was only about 12 per cent nnd It Is probable that for the fiscal year 189 1 It will bo still loss. While the number of vessels engaged In the coastwise trade nnd the Inko commerce has , rapidly Increased during this period the American Hag has almost disap peared from the ocean , and from year to year we have become more and more depend ent upon foreign ship owners for the trans portation of our commodities to foreign mar kets. We have paid out an enormous sum of money to thcso foreigners and the annual drain at present may safely bo estimated at $200,000,000 , a sum which , If paid to Ameri can ship owners and kept at home , would bo a splendid contribution to the general prosperity. Men of all parties agree that the question of restoring our merchant marine Is one ol the very highest Importance. It appeals to all Interests , and to none with greater force than to the agricultural producers , whoso products constltuto nine-tenths or moro of the country's exports. It Is the farmers ol this country who pay nearly the entire cost of shipping our grain nnd pork nnd other products of the farm to foreign markets and It Is they who are really moro concerned than any other class of our people In the restoration of the merchant marine , so that not only these products may bo carried under the American flag , but the money paid for their carriage may , In largo part , bo kept at homo to bo expended among our own people and thereby Increase the home market for the products of agriculture. But while all agree as to the Importance of this question , which ought to bo considered entirely apart from politics , there Is a wldo divergence of opinion as to the policy that should bo adopted to attain .tho Idoslred result. A bill has bean' 'introduced In congress which provides admitting to an American registry foreign-built ships purchased by American citizens , It ; has received the ap proval of the democrats of the house com mittee on merchant marine and will prob ably be approved by at majority of the party In control of tlio house. The republican members of the Committee have submitted a report hostile to the measure. In which they present some 'Cogent arguments against the proposed polj'cy. The ship-building In terest of the country , b.as also taken a posi tion against .tbo'blll , tm the ground that It would be destructive to that Interest or else depress the price of labor employed In the ship-building Industry to the European standard. A prominent British ship builder who recently visited the United States said that the only advantage which the foreign ers had was In the cheaper labor ; that so far as the material Is concerned ho could build ships hero at no greater cost than In Great Britain. It Is obvious , then , that If the proposed policy should bo adopted Amer ican ship builders , In order to sustain them selves In competition with the British build ers , would have only 19 cut down wages to the British standard. This Is the strongest objection to the scheme of free ships. Ono thing has got to be admitted. Under existing policy thq merchant marine has steadily declined and there appears to be no reason to expect any Improvement under this policy. A change Is therefore manifestly necessary. Whether the proposed measure provides the change that would effect the desired result Is a question meriting the most careful consideration , from a practical rather than a political standpoint. Largo fires In Dubuque nnd Kansas City have destroyed the plants of several manu facturing concerns which might possibly en tertain offers for a removal of their location before rebuilding to renew operations. No establishment of this kind that contemplates a change from ono city to another ought to fall to have Omaha's advantages as a manu facturing center presented to It. Omaha Is ready with Inducements for new enterprises prises- and Is able to present a strong claim for them. It there Is any possibility of securing additional manufacturing houses the opportunity should not bo lost. This Is work which the 'Commercial club should undertake and In which It should have the encouragement of the entire community. I'.vciry Day Swollx Dlmiitcr. 1'hll.idelphla Record. The delay of congress lu passing1 needed IcKlHlntlon Is every day Inflicting- heavy loss upon business men. From all parts of the country there has been urgent re monstrance against further procrastination. JIlH-ory Urpcutliit ; ItHolf. SprlnefleUl Iteimllcan. The democratic senators , by their action with reference to the Sugar trust , huvo brought upon theirparty humiliation UIIA shuino the like tit , which cannot be found In tbo party's history since the era of se cession and copp'u'ihcndlsm. Not a pany Journal In the country defends them ; not a volco Is rulscHl' to extenuate thla now treason. - ' ji ; * Sir. I lour nml tlio StiiiiforiU. c'/fnV ' ' / ? Herald , Qeorco Frlsblu.Iloar la entirely right in protesting against < ho action of the at torney general , .jwlip . bus brought suit to recover u paltry 415,000,000 from the e.stiito of the Into Senator Stanford. As Mr. Hoar Justly observe8si $ lW > 00OUO menus only 20 cents uplecQ for tile Inhabitants of the United tjtiites , and It Is not worth whllo to bother about * It' Besides , It would be a bad precedent to admit Unit imy senator- dead or ullve was ever guilty of swindling the KovurnmenJ./Folks are talking too freely already. j nor I'in.irwAr. CO.VMKST , Washington Post ; Congress bl meo the administration and the administration blames congress. In the meantime the re- publlcnns carry the elections. Washington Star : Why do the Investigat ing senators refrain from endeavoring to compel members of the house to toll what | some of them know about ttio Sugar trust nud Its workings ? At least one representa tive could name names , but the committee's prosecuting efforts seem to be confined ex clusively to newspaper men. Indianapolis News ; NcpotUm In scn.itorhl 1 Sugar stock speculations seems to have been rampant , What a spectacle , truly , for the , civilized world 1 Members of that once lion- ' orcd and august body , the senate of the , United States , giving tips on the sly to j. uncles , aunts , cousins , children nnd scrv- l ants ! Now "hulling" the market , now "bear- Ing" It , until whole families grew rich o the Infamous betrayals of public trusts ! Springfield Republican : Now come tli Kansas republicans with a demand for th free coinage of silver from American mine ulilch Is as bad as straight-out , free coin age. And the republicans constitute the con servatlvo party In Kansas. Another str.ix going to show that the republicans arc bend Ing to the populistlc clement In their rank Is the platform on which General Grosvcno of Ohio Is rcnomlnatcd for congress. It bor rows the plank In the Pennsylvania platforn declaring for an Increase of the monetar circulation to $40 per capita. Chicago Tribune : The republicans , ivhcthc leaders or followers , ought to undcrstatu that they have no easy task before then this fall , and that It becomes them to cens crowing before they arc out of the woods nnt settle down to steady work. They must per feet their organization ; they must nomlnat their strongest candidates and make arrangements monts for getting out nil their votes ; they must watch the polls to prevent cheating am not neglect a single precaution , and they must refrain from vainglorious boastings which will bo quoted with special deligh by the democratic leaders and press li order to nrouso and exasperate democrats If there arc any sleeping dogs among th democrats do not wake them up. Let th tantalizing and teasing alone till the grca battle next November Is fought and won Then there will bo nothing Improper or un safe In building bonfires , blowing horns am Jubilating and making a night of It. Globe-Democrat : "Wo favor bimetallism , ' said plarik fourteen adopted a few days ag by the- republican state convention In Ohio "Silver as well as gold Is ono of the grea products of the United States. Its coinag and use as a circulating medium should b steadily maintained and constantly encouraged aged by the national government , and w advocate such a policy as will , by dlscrlml noting legislation or otherwise , most speedily restore to silver Its rightful place as a mono ; metal. " The convention which adopted thl piece of lunacy Is supposed to represent th financial common sense of the sound money party of the state , which ranks fourth In population and business Importance of th fouy-four commonwealths the state of Sal mon P. Chase , the nation's great flnanc minister of the war period , and of John Sherman , the treasury chief who brough the hundreds of millions of dollars of th country's depreciated and fluctuating clrcu latlng medium up to a level with gold , th world's currency , and kept It thero. K AX It TIHNUS. The undertaking business Is on the vcrg of a boom In the blue grass region. Gcorgo Francis Train continues camping on Madison square. He keeps off the grass It has been noted In various sections of th country that electric light casts a shadow over political ambitions. Colonel Bill Dalton may bo dead , but untl the certificate of Interment Is Issued those who have tears to shed should bo patient. Bluff old Tudor , who fell Into an argumen over a Jack pot , explained to his bettor hal that his black eye was the latest fashion In poker dots. Some ardent calams up north argue tha the Missouri river Is gradually sinking ou of sight. What of It ? Observation will con vlnce any ono that the Missouri runs down Parkhurst and Croker have sailed for Europe. It these eminent reformers should get together In Europe the vaunted peace in the old world would bo obliged to fly for new quarters. The decision of the supreme court of New Jersey against women as attorneys Is a legal absurdity. The Idea that they canno practice at or pay court. Away .with the monstrous doctrine. John L. Griffiths , supreme court reporter for Indiana , Is called the slvcr-tongued orator tor of the hoosler state. He holds the same office that General Harrison resigned to go Into the field at the. . outbreak of the re bellion. Revelations In the police department , o New York undoubtedly menace the healtl of ex-Boss Croker. A trip to Europe wll probably tone up his system materlaly am relieve him from Impertinent Interrogations as to the whonceness of his wealth. Ex-Secretary of the Interior Columbus De lane ot Ohio , who was first elected to con gress In 1841 , the year In which Governor McKlnley was born , Is now nearly 86 years old , but ho Is still able to ride a horse for oxerclso on his farm near Mt. Vernon , O. and Is as vlKorous mentally as most men of 50. The Tennyson memorial , which Is to bo erected near the poet's homo In the Isle ol Wight , will bo an Iron cross thirty-four feet high. It Is from the design of Mr. John L. Pearson of the Royal academy , will bo placed 710 feet above tidewater , and will bear on Inscription showing that It was erected by friends ot Tennyson In England and America. Johnny Angel , pupil In a Brooklyn public school , went off the other day while the principal was applying a ruler vigorously to the seat of his trousers for Borne misconduct on Johnny's part , the ruler having exploded ono ot a number of cartridges that ho had in his hip pocket. Teachers should BOO that the boys are not loaded before proceeding to extreme measures. The city of Fort Wayne manifests a wholesome dlsllko for electric light monopo lies. As soon as the General Electric com bine laid Its clutches on the local company Immediately organized nn opposition company was ganized , a charter secured , and a contract made with the city. The average Hoosler emphasizes nn anti-monopoly kick with cheerful vigor and promptitude. Assuming that Hon. Bill Dalton has tipped his boots skyward , there nro few members of the family left to maintain Its eminence as funeral promoters. The mother of the boys declares there are four more actively erupting In the suburbs of Oklahoma , and should they attain the Dalton average of twenty killings , It Is not probable the ad vance of civilization will become monoto nous on the border. There nro few members of the senate who do not use eyeglasses or spectacles either all the time or for reading. Pcffor , singu larly enough , la the senator who affects the greatest luxury In his glasses. Ho wears liabltually a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles , and keeps , besides , on the lapel of his long populist frock coat a pair of gold eyeglasses fastened to a gold clasp and attached to a gold chain that Is heavy enough to attract mention. Senator MoPherson draws a sharp dis tinction between speculation and Investment n stock. Ills plan Is to buy stock for In vestment , presumably paying the market value. Speculation ho defines as put Ing up a margin. If values advance and he dU- poses ot his stock , his profits are legltlnm e. who sells 3n the other hand the speculator rising market pockets' an Illegitimate on a pofit. To difference Is In the amount put ! p In the lexicon of the senate there Is no such word as speculation. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report XKllHASUA AXIt ftlilllt.tit.tN. Valley reports a peed cherry crop. Norfolk Is agitating to get nn opera house. Corn In some of the gardens around Pawnee City Is reported waist hlfih. J. W. Buck ot HoldrcRO shipped 10.000 pounds of butter designed for the English market , N'rbr.uka City reports her cherry crop much larger than anticipated mid prices very good. A fight between nn engine nnd n bull west of Holyoku throw the front truck of the en- plnc off of the track. Poles for the Nebraska Telephone com pany's tine from Om.ilm to Auburn arc be ing rapidly put In place. Cass county hnd an Insanity epidemic last week. Three eases wore reported within n few hours ot each other. Water bonds voted nt Ftlllcrton are void the town having p.issc.l no ordinance pro viding for their Issuance. The colored people of Omaha and Council Bluffs will cat ynms and 'possum nt n grand picnic booked for Plnltsmouth the lilst. The Star says that hay Is n very scarce article In Dorchester nnd from present Indi cations It may bo moro so In the future. Joseph Collins of Union township went Into Itoldrcge with a lot of wolf scalps and drew $87 from the county treasurer as bounty. A lighted cigar stump In a sawdust box caused n small blaze In the opera house nt Nebraska City last week. It was luckily extinguished without serious loss. The pops nf Volley county have a candi date for district Judge who hns never been admitted to the bar. Ho has now applied for admission and will bo examined In duo form. The contest over the ccunty sent ques tion , which has existed between Oakdalc nnd Ncl'gh for some time , has virtually been set tled by the voting of n 10 mill tax for building a court home nt Nellgh , the present county scat. The county seat election for Deuel county has been called for Saturday , Junu 23 , with three towns In the race for honors , viz : Chappell , Big Springs and Frold. At the election held In that county same five years ago lllg Springs polled over 5,000 votes for county scat. In reporting the number of pounds of butter turned out at the creamery last week , says the Falls City Journal , Wo stated that 4,500 po.umU were turned out In the month of May , when It should hnvo been 4,500 pounds n week , as 17,300 pounds were turned out during- the month. There are thirty-two cream routes and cream comes from a num ber of points in Kansas. The Shelton Clipper tells of a farmer living ing- near Wood river who raised two acres of peanuts last year , harvesting n yield of forty-five bushels per acre. Ho sold the crop at $1.50 per bushel. The expense was $30 per acre , leaving a net profit of $37.50 per acre. In addition to this he found that the vines of the crop were worth fully as much as the best of hay for feeding. LA VOll AX It WAX t'AT. Chicago Tribune : "Your heart la flint ! " exclaimed the rejected lover , bitterly. "Is Ihut why you have been tryingto 'steel' It ? " said the young woman , her eyes flashing lire. Philadelphia Record : A man from Ken tucky , who Is stopping- the Continental , Is attracting considerable attention. He admits that he Is not a colonel. Now Orleans Picayune : The horse thief keeps a running account of his doings. Texas Sittings : Contentment Is better than money , and Just about ns scarce. Boston Transcript : Hicks What a mnn to smoke CuvemllHh Is ! I called at his house and be was sitting In the parlor puff ing away like a steam engine. Wicks And Mrs. Cavendish ? Hicks Yes , she was there. She Is his smoke consumer. Harper's Bazar : In The Country Grocery : "By-the-way , Miss Hanby I meant to tell you last Sunday to meetln' ye know that last lot o' sugar you bought o' mo ? " "Do I ? Waal , rather. Made a cake with It. nnf nil the family took Hick. " "Well , I forgot to toll ye. It was rat- plzen yo took 'stead o' sugar , an It s 11 cents more a pound. " Life : Do you believe In the transmigra tion of souls ? " asked Mlzer. "Yos. Don't you ? " said Hicks. "Sometimes. What do you suppose I was before I became a mnn ? " "O , I don't know. A sponge , I guess. " Washington Star : "Look here , " said the parent to the school teacher , "I see that one of the lines In my boy's copy book Is , "I.ess , haste , more speed. ' " "Yos. " "And here's another that rends , 'The longest way 'round Is the shortest way home. ' " "Yes. " "Well. I want It stopped. I don't want these mouldy proverbs festooned around his Intellect. I'm educating him for bus iness ndt the United States senate. " AMBULANCE CALL. Her lint wns crushed , her dross was torn , Her hair was wild nnd tangled ; Apparently she had been In Sumo dreadful melee mangled ; But It wns not a railroad wreck Or other dire disaster. That caused her arm to bo In wpllnts Swathed with adhesive plaster. She'd only been In town an hour , And when the doctors found her She lay within a dry goods store With bargains strewn around her. II. MONCKTON-DENE , U. S. A. Fort Nlobrara , Neb. JJKIM.V tr/i.r. nn o.v Member fntni Ihn IMrU .VrliriMlm Will At * Int. . ! the SlUrr < 'oiirlu\i In Onmliii. WASHINGTON BUREAU OK THE HUB. 1107 V Street. N. W. WASHINGTON , Juno 11. Representative llrynn will probably stnrt for Nebraska the early part nf next week to bt > present nl the silver convention ol the ) Nebraska democrats , lo be > held nl t Qnnh.1 on Thursday. Juno 21. Mr. llrynn 1 expect * to bo present , nnd If ho Is unaulo 1 to be In Omnlm nl Hint time It Ix very likely I Hint Congressman Champ ( Murk of Missouri will be prevent in place of Mr. Bryan. Senator Pettlgrow will leiivo tomorrow evening for Sluux Knlls. Chief Justice t'orson of Deadwood , S. I ) . , while out riding this nftern'oon with Con gressman Plcklor , wns ntlackud with n se vere chill , nnd It wns smun tlmo liofuro ho recovered from It. Ho Is foellng much bet ter tonight nnd will probably b ? out In n few days. Congressman Plckler wan todny notified by the Poatolllee department that Increased mall facilities would bo Immediately afforded bo- Iwoen , Slsseton nnd Wllmol , S. D. Senator Mamlersoit . tod.iy presented u pe tition signed by the state olllcers of No- imislm and several prominent citizens of Lincoln prutoatliiK against tlio tnxlng of r"nl bcn ° nclary The determined opposition of Senator Pet- tlgrow to the confirmation nf , \ . T Tlnslcj o bs postnmstor at Sioux Kails rosulti-tl In tinrojcctlon of Tlnslcy by the pc.iato . In executive session on Saturday last u is n custom which has boon observed for many years by the senate to decline to confirm nny man to bo postmaster of a city In which a senator resides If the person nominated U in any w.iy objectionable to the sou.itor The nomination of Mr. Tlnsloy Wls ! o\u-oodlnBly objectionable to Senator PettlRrert' and there fore the senate rejected that nomination It Is expected now Hint the nomination of Iilnlr will be sent to the senate for Sioux K.illa postmusterrhlp , ns It Is Known Unit his np- polntmoiit will bo satisfactory to Senator Pettlgrow. Calvin Hampton has been appointed post * master nt Tllford , Meade county , S. D. , vlca J. C. Means , leslgncil. xorim. The Bellalre Steel works nnd blast furnaces - naces nt Bellnlre , O. , shut down on nccount ot the coal strike. There nro now 30,000 men Idle In that vicinity because of the coal famine. In the largo glove factory ot P. P. Argon- singer , nt Amsterdam , N. Y. , the work of block cutler has been limited to eight hours per day , and tnblo cutters hnvo been put on Imlf time. In n letter recently sent to a friend , T. V. Powdcrly slates that In all likelihood ho will return to work at his trade In the ma- chlno shop where ho was employed seven teen years ago. The Brewers union of St. Paul complains that steam engineers receiving but $20 are taking the brewery workers' places , nnd nlso that they do not comply with the law In taking out n state license. Three hundred worklngmcn drove nway a largo gang ot Italians working on street Improvements In Akron , O. They say that the wages $1 a day which the Italians hnv been getting are not enough to live on. Molders are opposing efforts being made In the Ohio legislature to repeal the bill providing for the labeling of nil peniten tiary made goods expobed for sale , and have appealed to trade unionists for support. Suveral wealthy men of Now York have Incorporated the Provident Loan association and will establish pawn shops In various parts of the city which will loan money to the poor nt low rates of Interest , thus un dermining the various "hock shops , " President Madison of the Illinois State Federation of Labor has Issued n call to nil labor organizations , Industrial associations nnd political reform societies of the state to send delegates to a convention to bo held In Springfield on July 2 , 3 and 1 to consider the American Federation of Labor plat form. The American steam engineers held their convention In Baltimore. Their association refuses to go on strikes or take part In boycotts. The chief of the order states tin objects of the organization thus : "To pro. mete a moro general knowledge of engineer ing ; to assist members to obtain employment ! to help the sick , the Injured and distressed and bury the dead ; to help Incapacitated members ; to do the utmost to extend the engineers' license laws throughout the United States ; to establish schools In which mem bers may study the higher branches of en gineering. " Vulrillctnrliiii'H 1'iirowrll. Mlnneapnlla Journal. Dear friends and classmates , wo are hercv To way good bye and drop a tear In memory's casket ; and I ween Such happy days we've never seen AH those we've spent In alma martyr Toying with knowledge's bung starter. And classmates nil , and teacher dear , Wo weep at parting from you here ; Into the wild and untried world Wo seem to bo untimely whirled. We're tlnleas now , soon we'll bo tinnier For "Nulla dies sine llnca. " At least that's what the poet writ I'oeta nnscltur no lit ; ( Hut If he didn't "lit" for college Ho'd bo a few chips shy on knowledge. ) However that may bo , good bye , The world hereafter Is our pic , Off for Its toll ami wearing strain Wo tnko the 7:30 : train. Prices are High -worthless article is sold for nothing -cosls you something to got it homo. But when you get the finest quality and the latest style suits for $8.50 , $10 , $12 and so on and boys' suits for $2 , $3 and up , accompanied by our guarantee for good value , then you got a bargain , indeed. These are the kind of prices to look for. Browning , King & Co. , S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas.
