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G THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : TUESDAY , SEPTEMBER i0 ! , 1808. THE OMAHA DAILY DEE. E. ROSEWATI2R , Editor. PUBLISHED BV13UY MORN1NO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ! Dally Uco ( Without Sunday ) , Ono Year.lG.OO Dally Uco and Hunday , Ono Year 8.03 Six Months t.W Three Months 2.1X ) Hunday Uee , One Year Z.t ) Saturday Uee , One Year 1.50 Weekly Uee , Ono Year t OFFICES. Omaha : The Hen Rulldlnc. Houth Omaha ! Slnccr Block , Corner N and Twenty.fourth Streets. Council DIuftH ! 10 Pearl Street. Chicago OJIlce : C02 Chamber of Com merce. New York : Temple Court. Washington : 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and editorial matter should bo addressed : To iho Kdltqr. "BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters nnd remittances nhould bo addressed to The Rec Publishing Company , Omaha. Drafts , checks , express and nostodlcQ money orders to be made payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btatc ot Nebraska , Douglas County , SB : George B. Tzschuck , secretary of The Bea Publishing company , being duly sworn , Bays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally , Morning , Kvenlng nnd Sunday Bee , printed during the month of August , 1S98. was as follows : 2 2oOIO 18 UlMUd 3 2Hr,7i ID 27,470 4 2SS.7-IO 20 2:7,7fKI 6 US , 120 21 2Mi e -.JM.ono 22 211,872 7 2JM.OOK 23 A.2 ,2I5 ( 24 .1(1,810 25 JM\'M 10 . an,7iii : 20 JO,7tS ! 27 12 28 is 29 MjKll 14 : ! Hiio : 30 35 2W.OIO 31 10 88,0211 Total . ' KtM.NIM Less returned and unsold copies. . . . lt,5la Net total sales H4rtll ; Net Dully Average 27i629 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before mo and subscribed In my presence this 1st day of September , ISO ? . N. P. FEIL. Notary Public. WULCOMH TO Tim 1II3I3 IIUIMHNG. Kn vlnllnr to Oinnlin mill the cvxponltluu Hlioulil RO IMVIIJ- without ltiNiectlnir The lice liullilliiK , thr liirKCHt iicnu- impcr hnllilliiK In America , mill The live newspaper plnnt , conccilril tn he the ilncnt between Clilc-n < > nnit Sun FriincUfii. A conlliil welcome It extended to nil. The Spanish troops tire Just ns glud to got Imck to Spniu ns the American sol diers arc to get buck to their homes. Agulnultlo wants the people of the Unlteil States to know that ns n letter- writer he claims Homo prestige for him self , x The weather man only wants to re mind us that although the cnlemlm Biunmcr Is over our Indian summer h yet to come. Fence Jubilee week approaches. 1'rc pare for the biggoHt crowd of people ever gathered In the city of Omaha ni any one time. Omalni , unquestionably , needs add ! tlotuil High school accommodations , bin It does not need two now separate nut distinct High schools. Next local convention will make noml nations for places on the school board It Is to bo hoped all political parties wll In-lng out only their best men. King .Ak-Siir-Hon's new fall outfit Is nlmost ready. In two weeks more in will be ready to present himself nm liis regalia for public Inspection. The announcement that experiment ! have proved successful In making eggi out of milk ought not to bo so snrprls ing. The enterprising milkman has bcci making milk out of chalk and water fen n long time past. Altgeld and Tanner arc exchanglni compliments In Illinois as to which 1 entitled to the credit of giving the st.it the most economical administration. A the lust exchange , the democratic ex governor had gotten to the excnsliij etngo and according to the Krone ! mlnge the man who excuses himself at cuscs himself. In the Indian encampment at the ex position the government has made th most unique and Instructive cthuolog ! cal exhibit ever gotten together , am Its like will never bo seen again. .N one who visits the exposition should g tiway without putting In full tlmo stiulj ing the types of aboriginal American at the Indian encampment. The transfer of Senator Gray of. Uelr ware from the Canadian commission t the peace commission will not luterfcr with the work of the former , for in place has been tilled by the appointmeii of Senator Faulkner of West Vlrglnl us his successor.'There Is every renso to believe that the comity be twee Canada and the United States Is stcai lly growing stronger. The general plan of garrison dut evolved by the War department coi templates the me of an army of near ! 100,000 men distributed In Cuba , 1'orl Itlco and the Philippines. This , too , ! without reference to the regular arm posts of the United States and tli newly acquired Hawaiian islands. Tl outlook for a material reduction of tt American military forces at an carl day Is certainly not ovcrpromlslug. Delegates to the charities nml co rectlons congress denounce the systei of handling prisoners In vogue In 01 county Jail. Wo will have to have new county Jail some day , but win wo need most Is n workhouse In whlc eontenccs to hard labor can bo workc out. As a matter of. fact , howove which even the critics admit , our Ja eysUnn , while far from perfection , a vast improvement on whnt exists I many other communities which profei to bo Just as progressive as Omaha. TlIK ( ! 01D DKMOCHAG V. Ex-Congressman Byntnn of Indiana , In resigning as chairman of ' the national gold democratic organiza tion , states his belief that the party has nerved Its purpose ami cannot accomplish n reunion of the two wings of the democratic party. Mr , liynum thinks that the Uryau wing will renfllrm the Chicago platform In llKHj and renomlnate Its leader unless It Is overwhelmingly beaten nt the polls this fall and ho urges that the way to se cure such a result Is for gold democrats to support republican candidates , lie proposes to Join the republican party and work for It on the stump. It Is certainly true that the gold demo cratic organization has not made mucli headway , but perhaps there Is no need of taking so pessimistic a view of the situation as Mr. Bynum does. There Is evidence that this wing of the democ racy Is not wholly and everywhere without influence. It is showing this In Now York , Maryland and Wisconsin , While nearly nil the democratic conven tions of this year have rcatllrmcd the Chicago platform a few have not pronounced for freesilver. . In Now York there is promise of a sharp contest In the democratic state conven tion between the gold and silver wings , the latter having announced that If the Chicago platform Is not endorsed and candidates * favorable to free silver nonr luatcd there will be two democratic tickets in the field. In Maryland the silver democrats , convinced that it Is the Intention to put up gold men In thai state and to ignore the Chicago plat form , have called a convention , wulcli Is to meet In Baltimore tomorrow , tc organize a silver democratic party Elsewhere there are Indications If nol f the influence of .gold democrats upot he party , certainly of the waning powci f free silver. These facts would seen o offer encouragement to the gold demo rats to keep up their organization unt ontluuc their efforts to restore tlu emocrucy to Its traditional chaructci as a sound money party. Still there Is no doubt that the uoli leinocrats can best promote the caus < or which they stand by voting wltl he republican party this year. If tin liver democracy is overwhelmingly Joateii In the congressional election ! his fall there will certainly follow nion or less disintegration , which will glvi he gold democrats the opportunity the ; iced to effect a reunion of the two wing of the party on the old lines. Wltl wo years In which to labor for thi hey would probably be able to tic compllsh It. There Is every reason ti mlleve that another decisive defeat o he free silver forces would so demor nllzc them that they could not agali ) ccome formidable. That they arc no is strong now , by perhaps otic-third , awe wo years ago , we think cannot reason ably be doubted. Conditions have s < completely demolished the free sllvc contentions that It Is Impossible to doul ) that hundreds of thousands of voter vlio supported free sliver two years ag lave been convinced pf Its fallacy. . Ac other defeat , with continued prpspcrltj would by 1000 , we confidently believe reduce the free silver party to a rein nnnt of what It now is 'and render l powerless for harm. The gold democrats can most el 'octively aid In bringing about this re suit by following the example of Mi iJynum and giving their Influence UDJ their votes to the republican party. AOVIA'ALDO IS FR1EXDLT. The declaration of friendship cor veyed to the American people throng the Associated Fress by Agulnaldo 1 said to be regarded by the authorltle U. Washington as highly Important. ] s couched In very explicit and unqual fled terms and Its spirit Is such ns t ; > ermlt of no doubt respecting Its slucei Ity. It must be concluded that this It surgent leader has been mlsapprehcndei or has he learned since he came to dcr with the American forces a respect l'c the power of this nation which he dl not have before ? It matters llttl which , so long as he shall show In deed : is well as words that ho Is friendly an that ho harbors no Intention to do ani thing Inimical to whatever policy th United States shall assert or whatovt Interests It shall claim in the IMillI ] pines. Ho must more and more rcnllz the futility of doing otherwise. Meanwhile our government proposes 1 strengthen Its power at Manila. Moi troops are to be sent there and tli squadron will be reinforced. This ma have no significance so far ns the li surgents arc concerned , but It will fu nlsh them nn object lesson which en hardly fall to exert a beneficial cffec The present aspect of the sltuntloi both in the Philippines and In Cub ; Is altogether reassuring. I'.IY OF AUUASSADUnS. It nppours that oim of the reasons ( hi caused Senator Hoar of Mnssacliuset to decline the tendered appointment < ambassador to England is the ealar , This Is ? 17,500 a year three and n ha times the pay of a United States se : ator but It lias been found iundecnia to meet the expenses of the posltlo If the incumbent lives In n way coi ir.cnsuratu with his station nnd meets n its social and other requirements. Kvei representative of the United States i the Court of St. .Tames for many yea has found it necessary to draw upi his private means in order to "pay Ii way" nnd Senator Hoar is not po sessed of n fortune. Although n lei time in public life nnd having a co sldcrablQ legal practice , the dlstl gnlshod Massachusetts senator Is ate to be in most moderate clrcumstanc nnd cannot afford to part With any pc tlou of what ho has in the service his country at a K\iropeau \ court. Co soiiuently the pro.sldent must tlnd man for the Kngllsh embassy wl unites with other essential qualltic tlons private means which ho Is wlllli to draw upon to meet the expenses the position. This is the case witli most if not : of our ambassadors nnd mlnlstci They are compelled , in order to mal tain the dignity and clinraqtcr of tlu positions , to use their private resources , w that they get no ri'turn for tin ? per formance of their duties except the honor. Is this quite ! cro-dHablo to so wealthy a nation as the I'nlti-d .States ? 'ertalnly this country could at least af- ord to provide a residence for Its nm- mssadors and ministers , as Is done by II other governments , Instead of re- ulrlng Its diplomatic representatives to ay their own house rent. If tills was one the present salary would bo suf- clcnt , for the larger part of It In some ases goes for tills purpose. Indeed a brincr minister to Furls was said to avc paid his entire salary for the rent f Ills residence. The United States an afford to be more liberal In this latter and there arc obviously valid ciisous why It should be. TlIK VOUOK SCAXIJALS. The'machinery of the police depart- lent of Omaha , has become nothing lore nor less than nn adjunct of thieves nd gamblers. Flckpockets are plying heir vocation without molestation and lousebreakers and highwaymen seem to perato under n llceuso from the police. Mfteeu or twenty resorts known to be ens of robbery are dally doing a whole- ale business of fleecing strangers with ollco connivance. Victims are system- tlcally spotted , lured into these holes , tripped of their money and valuables , ml if they have the temerity to regls- cr complaint they are detained and In-own Into jail as complaining witness vhllo the police-protected thieves arc urncd loose to continue to prey upon 10 public. Whenever thieves who do not stand In vlth the police make n haul they are rresled , but no complaint entered gainst them until they have made their 'eace ' with the shyster police court law- crs who act as agents of the gang , and hen If they turn over the booty the hargc against them is reduced to that f being merely suspicious characters , nd they are given the freedom of the ity. ity.The The organ of the police board , which ms always been the newspaper fence or thieves of every description , pro- ends to be Indignant at the publicity cu to this scandalous police system ind tries to make people believe that complaints against police-protected rob' bory and thievery are political , when oven its own columns , over which police censorship is exorcised , ciinnot bo kept clear of reports , of the alarming inci-ense of hold-ups , housobroaklnp and confi dence swindles under the very noses oi the police. In view of the notorious fact that the > ollco are Instructed to suppress all news of crime and depredations , It may hi safely asserted that the reports thai each the public through The Bee dc not Include one-half of the cases knowi o the police. This scandalous state ol affairs Is , however , no surprise to thosi familiar with the luelllclcncy and rotten ness that has permeated Omaha's' police department since the Hcrdmaii gangjiai jeeu la control. In a public interview Joseph 01mm jcrluln , the British colonial sccretarj who Is visiting In this country , declare ! that America should hold on to tlu hlllpplncs. In other words , Urea' ' Britain Is quite eager to have the Unltec States go Into the land-grabbing bus ! less so that Its mouth may be shir when England takes Its turn at expan slon , possibly within reach of America ! borders' . The British Interest In Amur ca's welfare has usually turned out t < be a selfish Interest In the British wel fare. Senator Teller's anxiety to see th < organization of a silver republican pnrtj maintained Is equalled only by his anx lety to have the silver republican masquerade querado used to keep democrats nm populists In every ofllce except that o United States senator from Colorado which he reserves for himself. Ilcxultx OntwclKh the Coat. Globe-Democrat. General Kitchener's expedition up thi Nile , occupvlnc several years , Is said ti have coat England $200,000.000. But thi British papers are not demanding an In vestlgatlon. They think the country has it money's worth. niiiiieo'n Viilii Indianapolis Journal. Captain General Blanco expresses regre that the peace protocol was signed befon he had an opportunity to measure arms wltl the army ot the United States. Had thi opportunity occurred he would probably no\ be on his way to Spain as a paroled prlsone Instead of still exploiting himself In Ha vana. Dentliiy of Culm. Phlladelohia Record. The United States Is firmly bound t recognize any stable and suitable govern merit which the people of Cuba may organ Ize and maintain. To this end every pos slblo aid will bo rendered the Cubans. The ; have their destiny and their Island In thel own hands , It they shall only prove equate to their opportunity. Sennntlounl Storieit Itcfutcil. Globu-Democrat. The mortality In General Lee's corps c 30,000 men at Jacksonville has been muc below the average of military camps. I 871 cases treated In ono division hoaplto between July and September there was total of twenty-seven deaths. The figure are a remarkable contrast with the sensa tlonal stories set afloat. llore the Ilriuit of the .Fighting. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. The depleted character of the regiment of regulars which have returned to thel old posts , there to await further orders , I proof that the soldiers of the regular arm bore the brunt of the fighting during th short war with Spain. It Is probably tru that the regular army comes out of th war with the admiration of those who liav heretofore pinned their faith entirely upo the volunteers. The volunteers are as brav at the regulars during a fight , but the bravery Isn't properly supplemented wit discipline. C.llli TnlU of IiiipLTlulUtx. Sprtnglleld ( Mnra. ) Republican. Imperialists with us talk glibly aboi Increasing the regular army of the Unite States to 100,000 aud 200,000 men or mor Do they know certainly where all the : men arc to come from ? We raised an arm t of over 200,000 men , and could have ralae one of a million , to shako Spain's hold o Cuba ; but the army so raUed la unanimous ! opposed to continuing In the service or dc ' ! Ing the earrlson work required by an In * perlallat policy. Are the young men < r , military ago by and large over the counti probably any more farnrnbly disposed to the work ? It is very easy to call for a great Imperialistic standlnc army , but there Is only ono condition ot nVfu'rs.vhlch ' renders Its recruiting and maintenance easy , nnd that la Industrial depression , unemploy ment , poverty and distress among the people. Oi eriloliiK a Cooil Thlnir. Minneapolis Journal. Germany has found that It made a serious mistake In tampering with the laws of trade. Us discrimination against our p'lga and cattle has Inflicted on tt something like n meat famine. The price of all va rieties of this commodity has advanced so much as to Impose a serious hardship on the poorer classes and greatly Inconvenience these who are better off. Within the last three years the Importation ot horned cattle , has fallen off moro than ono-thlrd , while that of swlna has entirely ceased. It Is possible to overdo even a good thing. Thorn ii it lily ChiirnctcrlNtlc. Wushlnston Stnr. It now transpires that the motives which actuated the Spanish officials In Havana In cfuslng to admit , frco of duty , the sup plies which this country sent down for the cllef of the starving people of that un- rnppy town , wcro as reprehensible as the act Itself. It was done In the Interests of he merchants of Havana. The Spanish merchants In the city wanted to delay , If possible , the landing of the supplies until hey had ground out the last centcslmo rota the poor wretches In Havana. These lelplcss pcoplo have very little money left , iut what they have Is wanted. If provisions o the vnluo of moro than $100,000 were distributed among them It would cut down ho opportunities for gain possessed by the ealers In the necessities of life. The charge Is openly made In Havana that the Spanish merchants raised a purse sufficient o Induce the officials to obstruct the ad mission of food supplies sent by the United States. It was n contemptible pteco of mslncss but It was thoroughly character- stlc. TOAVM3 TALKING NOXS13XSE. Well Known Truth * Conveniently JK- nori-il by n Tlipnrlnt. Philadelphia North American. Wo do not know what Mr. Towne was linking about when , for the silver men at ho Omaha convention , ho said the "experi ment of the gold standard Is In a state of ncompletencbs. " Ho was not thinking of he well known fact that the commercial world has maintained the gold standard for moro than a quarter of a century , whllo the ; reatcst commercial nations In the world lave for moro than sixty years had the gold standard. England has had that standard for moro than eighty years , and congress adopted It sixty years ago. Slnco 1S37 this country has measured values In gold by law , and It has al ways so measured values In fact. Every commercial nation now has the gold standard , and not ono of them proposes to have any other. If that Is n state of Incom pleteness then we cannot pretend to know anything about completeness. Again , this Is the greatest commercial era o "world has known , at least In historic times. It has become such an era since the adoption of gold as the standard ot value by statutory provision. Some people have taken the ground that from 1862 to 1879 seventeen years wo had a paper standard. That Is a mistake. Prices were always reckoned by gold , even In that period , and It was always easy enough to buy goods at much less tn nominal price , as the difference In gold and greenbacks , if gold wag tendered. Hence the paper was strictly measured by gold , oven then , and as everything even silver- was prior to that paper era. It Is one thing to talk sense and anothcr to talk nonsense. Mr. Towno talk's nonserisfe. SEND THE SHU'S EASTWAIID , Opportunity to Show Onr FlKhtlng Shlim In Enropeun AVntera. New York Times. Slnco It Is decided that the Iowa and the Oregon are needed In the Pacific It would be wise to send them thither by way of the Suez canal. Indeed it looks , on the face ol It , to bo qulto too good an opportunity to lose. Our navy has gained so much pres tige abroad that we should lose no oppor tunity of Impressing upon Europe a lively sense of our sea power. We cannot avail ourselves of the opportunity to let our greal battleships flash along under the gaze ol European experts ft wo send them to Manila or Honolulu by way of the Straits of Ma gellan. No ono will see them as they skirl the coasts of South America except a fe\v who already know what they look like. Bui If we send them through the Mediterranean sea and the Indian ocean wo may bo sure that Europe will see to It that the naval commanders in these waters observe what they are doing and how they do It. This plan cannot bo objectionable on the ground of expense or time. The Washing ton authorities bavo stated that the distance to Honolulu Is about 13,200 mllee. It Is nol qulto 14,000 the other way. It would take the two vessels somewhat longer , perhaps , on account of the necessary delay In goln § through the Suez canal , but the difference would not bo a serious ono. It would be moro than counterbalanced by the fact thai the ships would bo able to touch at more ports where they could be reached by tele graphic communication. Furthermore , Ma nila would be directly in their course. GoIng - Ing to Honolulu by way of Magellan thej would on arriving at Hawaii bo cut off froir cable communication at a point over 2,00 ( miles from this country nnd nearly 5,00 ( miles from Manila. That 5,000 miles coulc be saved In case of necessity by going thi other way. U seems that all the argumenti are In favor of going eastward , and th ( two ships ought to be sent In that direc tion. AVOIIIC OF THE HEGULAIIS. Cheering mid Truthful Trlhutc to tlu I'rofeMftloniil Soldier. Baltimore American. Very llttlo has been said In praise of thi regulars , The volunteers have all recelvet more or less commendation for their par In the war and oven where their service : have been confined to camp duty thel : home-coming has been a joyous one , as be < fits the reception of the men who hav < freely offered their lives to the country. Bu the regulars have no homes to wclcomi them. The theory Is that they have bee : hired for a few dollars a month to kill o : bo killed , as the occasion may demand. Thli theory forty years ago had some basis. Thi country had a small standing army abou a sixth of what It has now and the rani and file was not particularly choice. Within ten years this has been changed The enlistment regulations are far raon rigid than they were and they relate ti the moral and mental , as well as the phys leal , qualifications of ths applicant. Th result has been a marked Improvement ii the army. The government has gotten to gethiir a flno body of men and U Is not ex figuration to say that the rank and fll ot the United States army Is superior t < that of any army In the world. The raei are Intelligent , brave , self-reliant and self respecting. They are a credit to the coun try and deserve all honor for their achieve i ments during the war. They were engage' ' in ell the preliminary skirmishes just afte the landing at Santiago , some ot which al most arose to the dignity of bcttlce , am they bore the brunt of the heaviest flght Ing around Santiago with such consptcuou courage and self-possession as called fortl the encomiums of the foreign correspond ents. I In the civil war there were some i Instances of fighting by tbo regulars. Sher man's old battery at Mannssas fought until annihilated and Syke ' regulars nt Mcchan- Icsvlllo wcro as steady ns n monument , but the regular army was so completely over whelmed In that struggle by the mass of volunteers that little was known or said of Its services. The regular army In the present conflict has been to the fore In every engagement. Its losses In ofllccrn and men have been , proportionately , very heavy. It has measured up to every requirement. It has naturally resisted the mismanage ment ot the War department better than the volunteers , but baa shared like the latter the malignant fevers of Cuba. It deserves well of the people , all tha moro so because It has no homo but the nation to extend a welcome to tt. * POSTOFP1CI8 SHLF-SU1TOHTIXG , Prospective .Surplus I.lkcly to Kecnrc Necilcil Iiiiiirovrnicntn. New York Sun. The year 189S has been ono of excep tional and abounding prosperity for the PostoMlco department of the United States , The postal revenues have Increased at n greater rote than ever before. It Is ex pected that the tutal Income of the depart ment will exceed $100,000,000 ; It has never previously been higher than $32,000,000 In ono year. It Is , moreover , expected that the nostal revenues for the year will ex ceed by fully $5,000,000 the expenditures of the department. The convention of the National Associa tion ot Postal Clerks has recently been In session at Detroit. Its members have given their support to a bill having for Its object a rcclasslflcatlon of the uojtolllco clerks and their salaries In all first and second class ofllces , and carrying an appropriation to pay for substitutes whllo clerks are on vacations. There Is at present a law giving to each postofflco clerk fifteen days' vaca tion In each year , but no appropriation for substitutes was made by congress when the bill was passed. The committee of the clerks reported that these bills had made llttlo progress the last year. They have been favorably reported by the postofllco and postroads committee of the house , and the legislative committee of the association will endeavor to have congress consider them at the next session. Last year's appropriation for clerk hire In the Postofllco department of the United States was $10,600,000 , a sura CO per cent less than the total paid as compensation to postmasters. The postal clerks of the country do a surprisingly largo amount of work with an almost Incredibly small percentage of er rors and the claim which their association makes for some Increase In payments has the warrant ot support In the recommenda tion of First Assistant Postmaster General Perry S. Heath , contained In his last an nual report , as follows : "Experience has amply demonstrated that Eomo of the brightest and most Intelligent young men who enter the service soon be come discouraged by reason of low salaries and simply remain a sufficient length of time to enable them to secure positions In other vocations. This works a great hard ship upon the Postofuco department by rea son ot the fact that oftentimes as soon as a man becomes proficient ho retires and thus makes ot the pqstofnco a training school. Increasing the salaries ot em ployes rather than their number has been productive of good results , but without the necessary legislation , embodied In the pro posed classification act above referred to , It will bo Impossible to continue on this line to any marked extent. " There has not been a profit from the rev enues of the Postofflce department In any fiscal year since 18S3 , when the revenue exceeded the expenditure by about $3,000- 000 ; but the policy of the government Is not to make a profit from postofflco operations , but to apply the Increased revenues to Im provements In the service , to an enlarge ment ot Its facilities , or a reduction ot rates. The certainty of a surplus this year from postal revenues , larger , probably , than ever before , encourages the postal clerks to count upon a favorable consideration of their requests by the next congress. OK A KIND. Washington Post : George Fred Williams took the floor at Omaha and told the finan ciers the story of his past political life. It was an exciting bit ot romance. Buffalo Express : The monetary confer ences In Omaha como at a tlmo when they should bo of use In Instructing voters on the Issues of the fall campaign. Every side of the financial question Is presented In Its most reasonable light and the educational effect consequently Is excellent. Indianapolis News : The silver men at the Omahrt monetary conference showed that they are still possessed of the old , quantlta- tlve-theory-of-money Idea. Credit Is noth ing and facility of exchange Is nothing. All products are In one balance and silver and gold In the other ; take but a dollar from the balance and the products go down. Yes , they really believe It , or say they do. New York Sun : Hon. George Fred Wil liams has asked and answered the money question this week , and so made the Omaha Monetary congress precious ito historians. Next week , perhaps , ho will make up his mind as to whether he wants the democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts or not ; but a man with a mind of the Williams stzo Is entitled to bavo considerable time to make it up In and then to ask for an ex tension , If necessary. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. The populist vote In Maine Is only about 10 per cent of what It was four years ago. The middle-of-the-road Is a little dusty this year. year.Walter Walter Wcllman , who accompanied Prof. Gore on the Frldtjof and who has returned to Tromsoe , Norway , Is now on his way to this country. Emperor William of Germany has re cently In ono week forty photographs taken of himself In the various costumes which ho will wear during his eastern tour. . Connecticut declares for the gold stand ard , yet nineteen of the twenty-two con cerns that have entered Into the new sil verware trust are doing business In that state. The biggest peach story of the season has just arrived from Maryland. The biggest peach la said to be twenty-seven Inches in circumference and nine Inches In diameter , The venerable Dick Thompson of Indiana will not go on the stump this year. He Is 30 years of age , has done fifty-six years I of political rustling and Is entitled to a rest. Workmen are excavating the foundation for the statue ot General Sherman , which Is I to stand on a vacant lot south of the treas ury building In Washington. Three years will elapse before the statue will be finished. Thomas Henry Hall Calne , the English novelist , Is thus described by a New York writer : "He is not a bit better looking , though ho Is less hairy , thoan Zangwlll , who Is not a hlrsutoclnercous patch on Richard Lo Galllenne , Ho could make a marvelous difference In bis looks were he to have his hair , trimmed and bis face Bhaved. " The republicans of California have rcnom- Inatcd K. P. Colgan of Sonoma for comp troller. He was chosen In 1S9 < for that of fice when the head of the ticket , Mr. Estee , failed of election by a small margin. The republican candidate for governor , Mr. Gage. Is a New York man by birth , a native of Geneva , and a flno campaigner , as Is bli democratic opponent , Judge Magulre. The republican candidate for lieutenant gov ernor la a Placer county miner. KCHOUS or Tim LATH AVAIL Reports from American sources of Span ish losses In the Santiago rampalgn left the Impression Invariably that our losses wcro considerably less than these ot the enemy. Stories have been told ot the awful slaughter ot the Spaniards In the trenches and on retreat and estimates of killed and wounded wcro well Into the thousand. ) . A report ot Spanish losses prepared by Gen eral Tornl prior to his departure from San tiago and copied by a correspondent of the Chicago Record shows them to bo much less than the losses on the American side. The report covers losses on land from May 18 to July 11 nnd show 124 killed and 628 wounded. Of the killed 17 were officers and 107 privates ; captured nnd missing , 7 offi cers and 110 privates. American losses were 231 killed , 1,283 wounded , or double that of the enemy. General Toral's report does not Include the losses ot life on Admiral Ccrvcrn's fleet. In the La Quaslma fight with the Rough Riders the Spaniards admit a loss ot 9 killed nnd 27 wounded , while General Young claimed his troopers counted 48 dead Spaniards. In the battles of July 1 , 2 and 3 the report shows 94 killed and 376 wounded , The correspondent says the fig ures were shown several nrmy officers nnd they regarded them an conservative. The 'Ill-feeling ' engendered In post life at Fort Sheridan between Captain Loverlng and his company of the Fourth Infantry was washed away In the bloody struggle nt El Caney. The Fourth , or what Is left of It , U back at Fort Sheridan , and Captain Lovcrlng Is the Idol of his men. They declare he was a typical soldier In the fierce heat ol battle , leading his company Into the thick of the flght and escaping unhurt. When the flght was over and the Spanish were retreating from their fortifications the cap tain of Company C , with the tenderness and sympathy of a woman , turned to hU wounded and dying soldiers and saw thai they were carried off the field to the hospi tal. No nurse In the Red Cross service spent moro hours In the hospital than Cap tain Lovcrlng. When the tropical fever at tacked the regiment Captain Loverlng nurscO his men back to health. The care he tooli of them Is beat shown In the record ot the company on Its return. With five men dead and eighteen wounded , only eight men were left in fever hospitals. "It was a hot flght , " Captain Lovcrlng said to a Chicago Chronicle reporter. "We got right Into the range of the Spaniards The men stood ns steady as nt parade. Thej never flinched. I had some trouble In get ting the wounded to go back out of fire Wo were on the flank and caught the lire trom front and side. Wo got the range quickly and It was the hottest half hour 1 ever saw. " "How about the suffering and prlvatlom of the troops ? " the captain was asked. "Wo were hungry sometimes , " ho replied "That happens In the army anywhere , bui there was no starvation. The loss from the tever was frightful In many of the volun teer regiments , but that was due to lack ol precautions. Why , our company lost only one man and he did not get sick until ho re turned to the United States. Ho wai wounded and recovered and took typfcoli fever at Camp Wlkoff. "Tho Second Massachusetts was campei next to our regiment. The men drank th ( water that natives and soldiers were bathIng - Ing In. They had no need to drink tt. Then was good water to be had by going for It Wo got It. The trouble Is that the officer ! of the volunteers do not know the fighting trade. The regular officer does. That make ! all the difference In the world. " Eight companies of the Fourth left Forl Sheridan 495 strong on April 10 , and re turned 240 strong on September 16 ; 20 were killed In battle , 35 wounded and 200 sick 01 detached. Ono of the members of ( ho Sevcnty-flrsl New York volunteers tells this story of hi ! experience at the front : Blair , a regular said to bo ot the Seventeenth , was shoi through the groin at El Cauey , July 1 Two wounded men of the Seventy-first New York fell beside him In worse shape- thai he. They could not move. Ho could t little. A Spanish sharpshooter on their right hac the range of them as they lay there , theh comrades having pushed on. Although down , the three men were his target. "Spit ! " and one of the bullets cut a loci of hair from Blair's forehead. "Spltl" again , and ono of the New York ers winced as his shoulder was cut. Blair for a time could not locate the fol low , but finally discovered him 300 yard ! distant up a tree. He was Incautious am : displayed himself In taking aim. Blair hai his gun besldo him , and with ono she ! brought him down. Then , wounded In the groin as he was he crawled 800 feet to his enemy to gel his canteen of water and 000 feet back not touching It himself , and poured It dowr. the throata of the two New Yorkers. Ho died holding the drink to the lips ol ono of them. His only remark as to hi : journey was : "I'm a regular. You fellows have homes. " The Sisters of Charity , as well as the Red Cross nurses , have done a noble wort during this year of suffering. Moro than 110 Sisters ot Charity have been assigned as nurses at various army posts through out the United States. President Mo- Klnloy asked the mother superior of the order In America for 100 sisters In America and more have been served. The original Intention not to have any women nurses Ir camp has been modified In many ways. When the Eighth Now York regiment was on the way homo from Chlckamauea the train was stopped at several places for sup plies which people brougbt. At ono of these stops the conductor roughly Informed Major Ncff that ho would start In halt nr hour. "If you start before these supplies of milk , Ice , etc. , for tbo sick men are on board , " said the major , "I give you mj word that I'll shoot you dead. " The trait remained over an hour. Ship * ' CrtMVH Turn Unlil-ScekrrN. SAN FRANCISCO , Sept. 19. A special from Seattle says there will be no rush of the disappointed back from Kotsebue sound this fall at least and that four or live Sac Francisco schooners are preparing to go Into winter quarters there. They have no choice In the matter , for the crews have deserted and gene to the goldflclds. Men to take their places cannot be secured at any price , There are tow on the sound , about l.SOC of the 2,000 pcoplo landed having gene lute the Interior , The Royal U tlie highest grade baking powder known. Actual leiti thotv It goes o e- tklrd further thai aay other braid. Absolutely Pure ROYAL tAKIKQ fODI CO. , HCW VODK. POMHIir.D HUMAIUCS. Detroit Journal ! "Your children will rise tt | ) niul cill you blessnl. " " 1 clem't doubt It. They're terribly stuck on themselves. " Truth : "I don't sec an much of Flosh- lelRh as I used to. " "llml nny trouble with him ? " "Oh , no ; but he's lost over forty pounds. " Indianapolis Journal : "Cholllo nays ho Is In fiivor eif expansion. " "How on cnrth elld he over happen to have an Idea on the subject ? " "I don't know , but 1 think It struck him OH something rwell. " Chicago Tribune : The eminent Burgeon e-losed his pockctbook with a niinp on the J100 fee a wealthy patient had just paid him fur a Hucccsaful operation for appendicitis. "Tell me the appendix vcrmltormla Is u useless organ , will you I" ho soliloquized. Detroit Free 1'ren ? : She Let mo see ; you wcro admitted to the bar three months ago. I mipposo that you arc practicing now ? lie Yes ; economy. ChlcnRo Record : "Pa , what's a pace- miikcr ? " "Well , Mrs. Flaxton , next door : every time ( the gets a new frock your mother haste to hnvo a better one. " Detroit Journal : Jones No ono would ever think of talcing Uakcr seriously. Ilrown No. Kven his photographer asked him to look pleasant. Indlnrmpolls Journal : "Do you bellovo liiKB always come In threes ? " "Not always. Sometimes they run against " Somcrvlllo Journal : No woman yet was ever offended by hearing oven a perfect stranger say of her : "How beautiful elio Is ! " Indianapolis Journal : Willie I once knew a girl who nearly died from Ice cream polnonlnp. Nelllo The very Ideal I would never have dreamed of such a thlnt ; happening tea a girl of your acquaintance . Indianapolis Journal : The Sweet Young Thing I wonder If you over felt the pangs of love ? The Savage Bachelor I had a deep and abiding love for green apples when I was u small boy. Chicago Tribune : "It seems unnecessarily cruel to name a Rlrl Jerupha , or Semlra- inls , or llcphzlbah , " said Aunt Ann Pce- lilcH. "Parents can't bo too careful how they christen their girls. It doesn't make , BO much difference , of course , about the last name. That can bo changed. " T1IU IIUG'JLAII AU.1IV MAX. . Joe Lincoln In L. A. W. Bulletin. Ho nln't no gold-lnco "Betvlderc , " Ter sparkle In the sun. Ho don't parade with gay cockade , And posies In hm gun ; Ho ain't no "pretty soldier boy , " So lovely , spick nnd span , Ho wears a crust of tan and dust , The Rcg'lar Army man ; The marchln1 , parchln , Pipe-clay starchln' , Reg'lar Army man. Ho ain't at homo In Sunday school , Nor yet at social tea , And on the day he gets his pay He's apt ter spend It frco ; Ho ain't no temp'rnnco advocate , He likes to nil the can , He's kinder rough an * maybe tough , The Reg'lar Army man ; The rarln' , toarln' , Sometimes swearln' , Reg'lar Army man. No statc'll call him "noblo eon. " He nln't no ladles' pet , But let n row start anyhow , , They'll send for him , you bet ! Ho don't cut any lee at all In Fashion's social plan , Ho Kiln the job to face a mob , The Reg'lar Army man ; The mlllln' , drlllln' , Made fer klllln' , Ree'lar Army man. They nln't no team shed over him When ho goes oft ter war , Ho gits no speech nor prayerful "preach" From mayor or governor : Ho packs his llttlo knapsack up And trots ot In the van , Ter start the flsht and ctart It right , The Reg'lar Army man/ . Q I ! The rattmr , battlln1 , ' Colt or datlin' . Reg'lar Army man. Ho makes no fuss about the Job , Ho don't talk big or brave. ' Ho knows he's In ter light and win , Or help fill up a grave : He ain't no "mamma's darlln' , " but Ho does the best ho can. And he's the chap that wins the scrap , The Re-R'lnr Army man ; The dandy , handy , Cool and sandy , Ree'lar Army man. OUll DA1IA' SAN FRANCISCO , Cal. , Sept. 20 , 1898.- Gcneral Mcrrlam is booked to arrive hero today from Honolulu. Thus , ono by one , the evidences that the war Is over multiply , and It Is expected that the Merrlam contin gent will soon bo mustered out and tent home. "No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a HllSCnieT. . Phaednts. Your good will is more to us than the trifling profit on any garment that might not be to your complete satisfaction. We hope that you will always deus us the favor to report to us any causes for dissatisfaction. We are pretty sure that no one will find that "a mischief" has been done him in any suit or overcoat that we have made for this season. If it is good clothing that you are looking for , you are sure to find it here ; and here's our word for it , with the clothing itself to justify our assurances.
