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TODAYJS WEATHER.
TODAY'S WEATHER.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Forecast
for Tuesday: For Minnesota and
Iowa: Fair; warmer; southerly winds.
For Wisconsin: Fair; probably
slightly warmer; winds becoming
southerly.
For North and South Dakota: Fair;
probably slightly warmer; winds be-
coming soutnerly. "
For "Montana: Fair; probably slight-
ly cooler in western portion; winds be-
joming northwesterly.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agri-
culture. Weather Bureau. Washing-
ton, Aug. 19, 6:4S p. m. Local Time,
8 p. m. 75th- Meridian — Observa
tions taken at the same moment or
time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
Plac Ther. I Place Ther.
St. Paul 72 Helena S3
Duluth 60 Edmonton 54
La Crosse 68 Battleford 61
Huron 74 Prince Albert ...60
Pierre :...78: Calgary 72
Moorhead 70 Medicine Hat ...82
St. Vincent 56 Swift Current.. ..7o
Bismarck 80 Qu'Appelle 64
Williston 76 Minnedosa 60
Havre 84 Winnipeg 58
Miles City 84 Port Arthur 60
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer, 30.11: thermometer, 63;
relative humidity, 60; wind, northwest;
weather, clear; maximum thermome
ter, 72: minimum thermometer, 52;
daily range, 20; amount of rainfall dur-
ing last twenty-four hours, .0.
RIVER AT 8 A. M.
Gauge Danger Height of
Reading. Line. Water. Change.
St. Paul 14 2.0 —.2
La Crosse 2.2 2
St. Louis 6.1 ....
—Fall.
Note— Barometer corrected for tem
perature and elevation.
P. F. LYONS.
Observer.
THE GOLD REDEMPTIONS.
The question that will remain for
adjustment after this silver coinage
matter has had its day and gone
to the limbo of collapse*"! bubbles,
will be the settlement, finally, of the
question— which is the real strength
of this silver movement— whether the
government shall issue paper money
or remit this portion of our indus
trial machinery to private enterprise.
The question already looms up in
the background, waiting for the fogs
in the foreground to float away. The
present system is neither one nor
the ether, but a mongrel combina
tion of. both; having, like many mon
grels, the vices without the virtues
of either parentage. There is no
middle ground of safety, as experi
ence has shown, and there must be
entire occupancy of the field by one
or the ether of these methods.
Any system will work well when
the financial seas are calm. It is
when the winds are out and roaring
that its seaworthiness is tested. We
have had two severe storm periods
during which the present system ut
terly broke down. Had the people
not taken the matter into their own
hands, disregarded the law that hob-
bled them at the moment when they
should have been the freest to act,
issuing their duebills, checks, clear-
ing house certificates and other sub-
stitutes for money, the wreckage of
the latest panic would have been
much greater and recovery slow-
er. Had there been entire liberty
of action on the part of the people,
had there been no steel-clad provi
sions of the national banking law
making the process of increasing is
* sues too slow to be of any avail, had
there been no greenbacks or treasury
notes whose integrity must be main-
tamed, we would have felt the panic
but little more than we felt that of
IS9O or of 1884.
It is in this connection that one
of the tables given in Statistician
Ford's report for June is not only of
interest, but of value. It shows the
folly of the greenback, the vice of
the treasury note, issued to buy sil
ver with, the provision compelling
the reissue of these notes by the
treasury when redeemed, in short,
the whole fallacious currency with
-which the country is afflicted. The
two columns in this table that are
valuable for these* reasons are the
two giving the redemption at the
treasury, month by month, in gold,
of greenbacks and treasury notes.
They mark the beginning of the ef
fects of the legislation of the Fifty
first congress, the culmination of the
effects and the subsidence, telling
the story of the rise, the course, the
duration and the violence of the
storni as faithfully and accurately
as the roll of tape in the anemometer
records and tells the story of the
hurricane.
The following is the tabulation of
the yearly redemptions in gold that
began in October, 1891, the totals of
the calendar years being, given:
_. . _ Treasury
Year. Greenbacks. .Votes.
Jgl * $800,249 $*SBfi,S7o
Igg 15,963,813 20.296 747
1593 44,493,512 32 062 808
\fni •••• 123,940.259 17,773,109
lso-» ••• 51,122,578 3,87536
Totals .... 5230,320,409 $74,091,740
Total of both 1*311, 015.1
Between June 1, 1891. and June 30,
1895, a space of four years and one
month, two-thirds of the greenbacks
and nearly half of the treasury notes
issued were presented for redemp
tion in gold, depleting the reserve
three times over, each 'redemption
being. followed by a i-*in:j»uis<**-ry re
issue of the redeemed •■•••••**r. putting
it again in circulation. to float around
again to the redeeming count-it and
draw again and again its amount in
gold. Two-thirds of the redemptions
for the year 1292 were made before
the November / elections had fur
nished Republican apologists with
their explanation of what followed.
To be exact, $11,935,958 of the $36,
--260,560 redeemed that year were
drawn out in November and De
cember, while $20,885,904 were drawn
out in the four months of June, July,
August and September. Six-sevenths
of the redemptions of 1893 were made
before May, a notable lull following
the call assembling congress in spe
cial session. -.:*'*
By* February, 1894, it became ap
parent that congress was .not going
to afford relief by any change in the
vicious system, and gold redemp
tions set in again with renewed force.
Three-fifths of the redemptions of
that year were made between Feb
ruary and July. There was a marked
moderation in the storm from July
until December, between which and
the last of February over $82,000,000
in both kinds of notes were redeemed
in gold. Then came the latest bond
issue, the syndicate loan, and the
agreement to prevent exportations of
gold, and there followed immediately
a calm like the relief after the ces
sation of intense bodily pain. The
entire redemptions since that time,
amounting to $4,319,094, were not as
much as were the greenback re
demptions alone in February, of $4,
--784,907. No man, not wedded to a
fancy, or caught by currency illu
sions, can examine these facts with
out seeing the grave danger that
lurks in a currency of the nation re
deemable in gold; a danger that is
greatest in times when the treasury
should be a source of strength, in
stead of being, as it then is, a source
of additional peril.
' BELL THE CAT TOGETHER.
The mice in the fable, who had hit
upon the sensible expedient of get-
ting warning of the cat's approach
by having her wear a bell about
her neck, were struck with conster-
nation when a simple questfon was
asked; who should attach the tinkling
ornament. In similar predicament
have been the city officials whose
salaries were affected by the resolu
tion of the council reducing salaries.
Controller McCardy did have cour
age enough to audit the pay rolls
in the interest of high salaries; but
the refusal of the council to approve
them kept the gap open. It would
be unendurable to draw no more pay
from, the treasury, and the only
way to extract money from it now is
to bring suit for salaries unpaid,
and let the court settle what the
rate of compensation is to be. It
is right here that the question, who
shall bell the cat, becomes again a
living one.
The prosecution of legal proceed-
ings will not be a pleasant duty for
the individual who undertakes it.
There is to be an election next spring.
Every man holding office knows that
a majority of the voters of St. Paul
approve the salary reductions made.
Tliey may not be legally valid, but
the people believe that they were
morally necessary and right. Con-
sequently, the official who sues for
ducats denied would have to bear the
; entire odium. He would step right
into the embrace of an enraged feline.
In this dilemma, where to hold back
and to go forward seem equally disas
trous, the mice have plucked up their
courage, and now it is said that
every one of them will lay hold of the
string, while they all try at the
same time to fix the bell firmly. All
will bring suits for salaries, so that
there may be no invidious distinc
tions. Financially this may be profit
able, but we doubt much if it will
bring in political returns. The peo
ple are in dead earnest about the re-
ductions of expenses and taxation.
The holder of office who has political
ambitions would find, at this mo-
ment, that the voluntary surrender
of that portion of his salary con
demned by the council, though a
pecuniary sacrifice, would be the best
investment that he ever made. We
advise all of them to think this over
before they make their final concert
ed rush to bell the treasury cat.
AFRAID OF IT.
It requires an optimistic mind to
extract from the speech of the Mar
quis of Salisbury on foreign affairs
the rose-colored opinion of the prob
able policy to be pursued by England
toward Turkey which the admirers
of the present English ministry seem
to entertain. If England is pleased
with the tone of Salisbury's remarks
it is easily satisfied. He says that
the government has accepted the
policy that its predecessors initiated,
which is very well as far as it goes.
But as to the future . he gives only
this guarantee: "The permanence
of the sultan's rule is involved in the
conduct he pursues. If the cries of
misery continue, the sultan must
realize that Europe will become
weary of appeals, and the fictitious
strength which the powers have
given the empire will fail it." This
is a weak threat to pour into the
ears of a sovereign as intractable as
the sultan of Turkey. The power
that rules at Constantinople should
find relief in a menace, when it had
reason to expect action.
The critical phrase in Salisbury's
speech is this: "If the cries of
misery continue." The condition of
action by the European powers, then,
according to the view of the English
government, is that there shall be
another series of outrages in Ar
menia before they will consent to in
terfere. The sultan has already
promised reform. It is an old habit
of his. Nothing is cheaper or more
plentiful in Turkey than promises.
Nothing is more absolutely worth
less. Past experience has demon
strate*-, beyond further question the
useless:?***, of trusting to any rep
resentations by Turkey. She has done
her worst, and will dare do it
u*_;-**i; true to the savage instinct.' of
her people and her faith, until her
power for evil is taken away by the
THE SAINT PAUI, DAIkY O-tioß^ TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1895.
j concerted action of the civilized pow
ers. 7 A 'J- 7" , ••-■'■ ■ •'■- - ■ '"'.'■ -v
"If the cries of misery continue" is
a contemptible utterance to fall from
the lips of an English statesman.
The condition of Armenia recalls
those " passionate lines :of Milton on
the fate of the slaughtered saints in
Piedmont. Well may they who have
shuddered at Armenia's fate cry out:
"How long, O Lord, how long?"
What shall constitute the end and
consummation of Turkey's offend
ing? When will the civilized world
act in the name of common human-
ity? Salisbury says, . although the
powers have already notified the
sultan that Armenia must be pro
tected by their official act, that this
will be done. only "if the cries of
misery continue." Virtually he
promises that the Christians of the
East shall have adequate protection
by the powers when the last one Of
them falls dead beneath the spears of
Turkish soldiery. England may be
proud, of such statesmanship. The
rest of the world will find nothing in
it to admire or to respect.
OUR BEST CUSTOMER. -
Sentiment is all right in its place,
but business is always business. One
need not love the person on whom
his bread and butter depends, but he
is prudent not to quarrel with him,
unless driven to it by honor. Jones
may be no better than he should be,
but if Jones buys half your produce
it is just as well, as a matter of busi
ness, to keep off his neck; and even
to refrain from treading on his coat
tail when he trails it around in a
truculent manner, however provok
ing and tempting it may be. Then,
too, it may be questionable whether
it is good business policy or good
horse sense to be constantly abusing
Jones in public and holding him up
to obloquy as a grasping, rapacious,
greedy, over-reaching and altogether
untrustworthy individual, if he is
the man who buys the most of what
you have to sell. Above all, it is not
prudent to be telling him that you
don't want any of his goods, and
wish you didn't have to buy any,
and that you are trying to get in a
way so that you won't have to buy
anything of him. Jones might take
offense and make arrangements to
get his things of Smith, and then
where would you be? There may
be no friendship in business, but a
decent regard for one's own welfare
would suggest that unnecessary war
fare be suppressed.
All of this is the merest of plati
tudes when applied to Jones and
Smith. They recognize its sense and
adjust their mutual behavior to it.
But when one gets beyond the indi
vidual and deals with the aggregate
man, the nation, we turn sense into
nonsense, and we thump and pound
and revile and abuse the bunch of
men who are our best customers, ob
livious of the fact that human nature
is the same whether bunched or
segregated. England is the man of
straw of our politics, to be set up
and knocked over by every ism that
rises to the surface. Why don't we
hear about French greed, or Dutch
rapacity, or Austrian pauper labor?
Why always "British gold?" Is it
because quarrels between kinsmen
are always the bitterest? Most prob
ably it is just a survival of ancient
antagonisms. But the why or the
wherefore of this incessant use of the
British as a hobgoblin is one mat
ter, and the fact that the United
Kingdom is our best customer is
another, and, from a business point
of view, a more important one. There
is a general impression, derived from
the talk about being flooded with
cheap English goods, that we buy
a great deal more of that country
than it does of us. That England
is our best customer, buying of us
twice what it sells us, is a fact
worth some attention as a mere mat
ter of business and the comity that
brings profit.
In the fiscal year 1895 this coun
try bought, of all Europe, goods of
the value of $383,686,842; and of this
the United Kingdom sent us $159,
--119,698, or something less than half.
Wejsold Europe $627,975,133 worth of
our produce; of which the United
Kingdom took $387,170,615, or consid
erably more than half. While France
sent us $61,560,063 worth of her wares,
she took from us but $45,034,781 worth
of ours; and Germany sent us $81,
--011,443 in goods, and took $92,053,953
from us. Going from generalities to
details, England took five-ninths of
our exports of corn; three-fourths of
our wheat; 58 per cent of our flour;
34 per cent of our copper; 50 per cent
of our cotton bales; 90 per cent of
our hops; 60 per cent of our sole
leather; SO per cent of all other
leather; 55 per cent of our turpentine;
45 per cent of our oilcake; 65 per cent
of our canned beef; 96 per cent of
our fresh beef; 45 per cent of our
salt beef; 75 per cent of our bacon;
S6 per cent of our hams; all of our
fresh and salt pork; 40 per cent of
our lard and 80 per cent of our
cheese. These facts of trade. would
seem to indicate the wisdom of main
taining amicable relations with our
best customer until some overt act
affords a cause for open hostility.
A GOOD SAMPLE.
That charming confidence of the
Republicans last" year, that they
could elect a yellow dog this year or
next, is giving place to a serious
doubt whether they could elect a
St. Bernard even. They are reaping
the fruits of their folly sown so
thickly in '93 and '94. The Globe
then ventured to make the sugges
tion to them that they were im
prudent in charging the panic and
the hard times to the accession of
the Democrats because, if the times
should improve, the same logic that
charged them with responsibility for
the panic would credit them with the
restoration of good times. But they
heeded not the good and disinterested
• counsel, and now, when the country
! is recovering more rapidly from its
j latest than from any former panic,
J not excepting that of '57, the good peo
i pie are seeing how they played the cat
to the Republican monkey, and are
concluding that the Democrats were
right after all; that their policy is
the * best, and - that they should be
given a chance to give it further
extension. . Mr. Whitney was accu
rate when he said the other day that
the prospects of the Democratic par
ty were never so good, because now .
the party - has made a record.- - Not
as good bras full" a one as it should
have made, and would have made
but for the protectionists in its coun
cils masquerading as Democrats, but
good enough for a sample by which
to order more." -^*i 7 !*i.-\*
DIAZ. AND THE REPUBLIC.
The republic of Mexico presents a
strong contrast to the United States:
in one particular. Since the founda
tion of our government there has
been great jealousy on the part of
the people lest its executive officer
should at some time attempt to per
petuate his power. What was a reil
fear in the earlier days of her history
has now passed into a condition of
such continuous and settled deter
mination that no man has ever been
able, however great his ability or
however strong his hold on the peo
ple, to secure a nomination for a
third term in the presidency. The
Liberal party in Mexico, on the con
trary, is now prepared to offer to
President Diaz the nomination for
his fourth consecutive term in office.
Happening elsewhere, this would be
construed as a virtual dictatorship,
and the future of republican gov
ernment would be in danger. It is,
in all probability, the part of wis
dom for the Mexican people.
It has happened almost uniformly
in the smaller republics on the Amer
ican continent that republican gov
ernment was only a name for arbi
trary rule under the forms of liberty.
One president has succeeded in over
throwing another not infrequently
by armed force, and the popular will
has had very little influence in the
choice of chief magistrates. The rea
son for this is that there is so little
educated and patriotic opinion to be
consulted. The mass of the people
in those countries is unintelligent,
unprogressive and indifferent to the
form of rule under which it lives. The
greatest blessing for such a com
munity is a stable government, pre
sided over by a man of energy and
integrity. Under his sway the peo
ple who enjoy the blessings of a
rule nominally republican grow
gradually into a larger appreciation
of the meaning and value of popu
lar liberty. This is what has been
happening in Mexico.
President Diaz is a ruler of great
strength and sagacity. During most
of his long-continued presidency,
peace and prosperity have prevailed
throughout the country. Revolution,
the curse of the American republics,
has not been able to make head
way against him. With far-sighted
policy he has offered all possible en-
couragement to the development of
Mexico's resources, to the attraction
of foreign capital, and to the intro
duction of new industries and the ex
pansion of old. The result is that
Mexico, notwithstanding the quality
of a large part .of • her people, her
antiquated financial system, and her
many disadvantages in competition
with the more highly developed busi
ness system of other countries, has
made enormous .strides forward
within the last few years.
If Diaz were to step down and
out, there is no man in the public
eye who could fill his place. The
probability is that this event would
be a signal for an immediate up
rising of a dozen mediocre candi
dates, who would probably settle
their claims eventually by appeal to
arms, after the old, bad fashion. Ob
jectionable as the continuance in the
office of chief executive of a single
individual for a long period of years
unquestionably is, there are mitigat
ing circumstances in the case of
Mexico which do not exist in a re
public whose institutions are firmly
established by age, and whose peo
ple have been educated in the true
republican spirit. At the rate at
which Mexico has been advancing of
late, her people will probably soon
develop a larger aptitude and a
larger capacity for self-government.
In this period of incubation, it is
probably best for her material prog
ress, and best for the republic itself,
that the presidential chair should con
tinue to hold an occupant so strong,
patriotic and really statesmanlike as
President Diaz.
We publish a communication on
the prices of grain as related to the
probable demand and supply, be
cause it is the policy of the Globe
to give all sides a hearing on ques
tions of public interest; and also be
cause a portion of it is a fair sam
ple of a great many silly things that
are said about crop reports as cal
culated to affect markets. The crop
reports which are published are the
most reliable statements of the most
reliable men that can be found to!
do the business. The figures pre
tended to be given for the yield of;
a farm near Yankton are so obvious-'
ly a misprint that we let them stand;
as they appear in the communica
tion; to show that the writer of it is;
capable of pretending seriously that.
somebody tells of a yield of nearly;
600 bushels per acre. As to the dif
ference between the wheat market
and the corn market, the latter is a.
product of which we practically con
trol'the world's supply and demand;!
so that the conditions of the market:
can be known long in advance. There
are, therefore, no surprises, and !
hence less likelihood of sudden!
changes. Wheat is grown and wheat !
bread eaten in all parts of the
world; and the problem of the final'
relation of supply and demand is
Immensely more intricate and less
quickly determined. . Knowing these
facts, let each farmer study his own
interest and sell at the time and. for
the "price that he thinks most to his
advantage. The more he can get
the better. .
*-'**- |,c*->--' * * -
Our positive and emphatic con
temporary, the New Vim News, ven
tures the assertion, in denial of one
never made by the Globe, that the
Democratic party has never declared
in its platforms in favor of the sin
gle gold standard. Its prediction as
to what will happen should it do so
is .irrelevant." The Democratic party,
clothed with power, has j done some
•' things not laid own in its platforms.
A party is judged by what, it does •
•rather than by its promises of what
'it will or will not do, made when it
is out of power. -..So" applying; this
t&st?7 to the party's 7 action on the
standards, we find, historically, that
it made gold the single standard of
• this country, and that, too, in 1834,
in the administration of a Democrat
canonized in the hearts of thousands
of Democrats today. And gold has
- b?en the., standard, the real, official
and actual standard from that day
, to-* this— even during the days of
greenback suspension — through
Democratic, Whig and Republican
: administrations.
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\f,/t*he Women of the new South are
The women of the new South are
• not behind their brothers in adjust
ing themselves to the new condi
tions that have risen out of the de
struction of slavery. They are tak
ing and holding place in the news-
paper ranks. A woman has been for
several years the city editor, of the
Charlotte, N. C, Observer; they fill
the position of reporters on several
papers, while some of the weeklies
of the state are owned and run by
them. The day when it was thought
disgraceful in the South for any one,
■ and especially a woman, to work
has happily passed away.
These are the halcyon days of the
fast closing summer. Talk about the
glorious climate of California, the
sunny skies of Southern France, the
balmy air of Italy; neither or all
can equal the exhilarating and in
toxicating, salubrious and luxurious,
bracing and breezy atmosphere -of
grand old Minnesota, and its choicest
portion which enfolds and embraces
St. Paul.
Col. Morrison has heard from the
silver Democrats. One of their lead
ers says: "Col. Morrison can get
the votes of free silver Democrats
only on the condition that he climbs
upon the housetops and makes a few
unequivocal and well-understood re
marks to the American people." Will
the colonel climb or saw wood?
It may not be amiss to suggest to
Rev. Cotton, who is to preach on
"The New Woman," that there is still
much to be said for the good every
day, old-fashioned one.
"Valkyrie sent over her boom on a
steamer. A lot of Republican pres
idential candidates could ship theirs
in the smallest dory afloat.
SILVER IN CALIFORNIA.
Delegates Gather to Sonnd the
White Metal Sentiment.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug*. 19.— At
noon today the non-partisan silver
convention, called by the American
Bimetallic league, assembled in Met
ropolitan hall. The object of the con
vention is to sound California on the
subject of the white metal. . The dele
gates have gathered here before to
hear A. J. Warner, president of the
league, and ex-Congressman Sibley
discuss the question. These gentle
men, however, merely cleared the way
for an expression of popular sentiment
by the holding of the convention which
commences today. The convention
will continue in session three days.
The programme today included an ad-
dress by George W. Baker, chairman
of the .executive committee. Then the
business of organization commenced
by the appointment of committees on
organization, selection of officers and
7 tb,e appointment of committees on
-credentials and resolutions. Letters
and telegrams of regret over Inability
td be present were received from Gen.
A. J. Warner; Mr. Harvey, author of
"Coin's - Financial School;" Senator
Jones, of Nevada; Senator Blackburn;
Senator Peffer; Senator Stewart and
others. The principal speakers thus
far announced are Gov. McConnell, of
Idaho; Hon. R. H. Beattle, attorney
general of Nevada; R. G. McClelland;
Justice M. S. Bonnifield, of the su
preme court of Nevada; Hon. H. F.
Bartine, congressman for Utah; Will-
lam Woodburn, of Nevada; W. A.
Massey; Stephen M. White, M. M.
Estees, Hon. Charles M. Fox, Fred
erick Adams, A. H. Cotton, Frona
Waite and A. W. Thompson. It is ex
pected that Miss Phoebe Couzins will
deliver her lecture on "The Silver Con
spiracy and the Worship of the Gold
en Calf."
V Of the SOO members of the conven
tion over 000 are present. In his open
ing address Chairman G. W. Baker
welcomed the workingmen present.but
lamented the absence of bankers and
bondholders. C. C. Powering, a Reno
editor, was introduced as the old war
horse of silver, and made an address
in which he said that Nevada would
never support an anti-silver candidate
for president. After completing or
ganization, the convention adjourned
until morning.
The Tide Has Turned.
Pittsburg Post. , - _
The wisest of the Republican leaders
admit that the political tide which set
so strong in their direction in the con
tests of 1693 and 1894 has turned. It
may not have set in strongly in the
Democratic direction as yet. but the
fact cannot be disputed that the volun
tary advance of the wages of over a
million of workingmen— something un
precedented in the history of the coun
try—the 'general revival of business,
the prosperity of manufactures and
the prospect of bountiful crops have
radically changed the political situa
tion. Republicans were sure of every
thing a few months ago as to next
year's contest, but they are no longer
"sanguine, and admit they have* to
fight, and fight hard.
Hits the Stanford V.
Boston Herald. AA'AI
A higher education provided by plun
dering the people is the reverse of de
sirable. The American people can
hardly be expected to show a deep
gratitude for the diversion of a small
fraction of the wealth thus taken from
them to the training of their youth-
They can, if they choose, devote their
public funds to such ends by ways
more direct than the roundabout chan
nels through which it is dispensed un
der that sort of paternalism.
Apropos to President Harper.
Boston Herald.
. '"'Scholars are, perhaps, as amenable
to* bread and butter considerations as
mechanics and day laborers, and- if
'they are impressed with the fact that
the bold and fearless methods of inves
tigation which are essential conditions
in every branch of learning, and which
alone give value to study, are distaste
ful to those who control the purse
strings of the institution where they
te&ch, their devotion to the truth, to
gether with their enthusiasm for their
work, is likely to slacken. -.yAAA
What Worries Thorn.
Philadelphia Times. *
Mr. Whitnev suggests the true ex
planation of the- apparent worry of
some editors about a third term. The
third-term talk is not due to anything
Mr. Cleveland or his friends have said
or done or are likely to say or do, but
to a recognition of the fact that most
Democrat**-- and many Republicans
would rather see Cleveland president
than anybody else. 77-7-* ""
A- ■ lint the Color '. Does.
Atlanta' Constitution.- 7 "-' ' '' \
Miss Flagler was perfectly justified
in firing a pistol to frighten the rob
bers, who defied her warings, and if
a..ranc"om' shot proved fatal, without
aiiv deliberate design on her part, the
need not be looked upon or pursued as
a willful murderess.. The color of the
j**. who was killed* does not make any.
difference.*
AGAIfITfIE SAVAGE
HEATHEN : CHINESE, MAKING
A MORE TROUBLE FOR OTH-
77-77*7-- ER NATIONS. 7 A^AA
INVESTIGATION IS REFUSED.
CONSULS NOT ALLOWED TO PUR-
; SUE THE MASSACRE IN-
. QUIRY.
PLUNDERING THE FOREIGNERS.
Members of tlie Chinese Legation
Blame Local Officials for the
Present Situation.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 19. — A dispatch
to the Mercury from Foo Chow says
it is reported on good authority there
that the Chinese government has re
fused to allow the American and Brit
ish consuls, J. C. Hixson and R. T.
Mansfield, who accompanied the com
mission appointed to investigate : the
recent massacres of missionaries and
their families at Ku Cheng, to make
any Investigation into the circum
stances of the massacre. .
CANNOT EVEN ATTEND.
HONG KONG, Aug. 19.— The prefect
sent with the commission to Ku Cheng,
together with the Chines* officials at
Ku Cheng, have refused to allow the
presence of the consuls during the ex
amination of the prisoners. The mat
ter has been referred to . the viceroy.
Serious trouble is feared.
FOREIGNERS PLUNDERED.
LONDON, Aug. 20.— The Times has
a dispatch from Hong Kong confirm
ing the Shanghai dispatches containing
the report that the Chinese govern
ment has refused to allow the Amer
ican and British consuls to make any
investigation into the Ku Cheng mas
sacre. fha Times dispatch adds that
soldiers are engaged in plundering the
people, who feel that the foreigners
are the cause of their suffering, and
that therefore the latter should be des
troyed. Further incendiary placards
have been posted at Canton.
LOCAL OFFICIALS BLAMED.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.— offi
cials of the Chinese legation have no
information throwing any light on the
reported refusal of the home govern
ment to permit the members of the
British and American commission to
investigate the Ku Cheng massacre.
In fact, the legation has not yet been
apprised officially of the appointment
of the commission. The only explana
tion given as a reason for the reported
refusal is that the action reported to
have been taken was by the Chinese
local officials, who possibly have not
been informed by the central govern
ment of the appointment of the com
mission to make the investigation, the
local officials acting merely on their
own Inclination in the premises. If
the reported action of the Chinese be
correct, it is apparently not a matter
of very great surprise to the officials
of the state department here. They
attribute any refusal of the local au
thorities to permit the commission to
investigate the troubles to the well
known desires of the Chinese to con
duct such inquiries by their own peo
ple, the dislike of having any interfer
ence by outsiders, and to the general
suspiciousness with which they look
upon foreigners.
-
NOTHING NEW ABOUT IT.
The present troubles, the officials
say, are not dissimilar in any mate-
rial respect from others that have oc
curred from time to time in the diplo
matic history of the governments in-
terested, and a glance at the British .
and American bluebooks will substan
tiate this statement. A somewhat
similar case to the present, it is said,
is found in that of Raymond Margery,
a British officer in the consular ser-
vice, who was killed m the province of
Yunan fifteen or sixteen years ago.
In this instance the British govern-
ment demanded reparation,- and the
appointment of a commission to make
an investigation resulted. At first
there was decided objection by the
local officials to having foreigners take
part in the inquiry.but the matter was
finally adjusted in a way apparently
satisfactory to the British. It is not
feared here, in official circles, but that
any complications that may have
arisen in the present case will be ad-
justed and ample reparation be made
for the lives that were lost in the Ku
Cheng, massacre. :' '7 •
Paradox of the Markets.
To the Editor of the Globe.
The present aspect of the grain
markets of the world shows a curious
state of affairs. It is universally con-
ceded that the crop of corn throughout
every state in which that cereal is
grown is in a magnificent condition,
and the yield will simply be enor
mous. . Even in Kansas, where the en
.tire wheat crop is practically obliterat-
ed, the corn is in splendid condition.
Never in its history has there been
such a promising yield. And yet in
the face of all this plenty, yes super-
abundance, the price of corn is boosted
up three cents a bushel since. last Mon-
day. But wheat, with a yield so small
in some of the states astomake a pros-
pective famine, is so persistently and
incessantly hammered by 3hort sellers
as to. approach the panic prices of 1894,
and the early months of the present
year. The world's supply, according to
the usual accurate statistics of Beer.
bohm, will be 224,000,000 bushels less
than last year. The visible supply of
the United States is 25,000,000 bushels
less this year than the same time last
year. The entire crop, as estimated by
the government statisticians, who cer
tainly are unbiased in their opinions,
gives us a percentage that on a basis
of 500,000,000 bushels as an average
crop will certainly not give us more
than 360,000,000 as the entire crop of
wheat, not taking into consideration
the fact of a . reduction of quite or
nearly 20 per cent In area of wheat
cultivation in the Dakotas, and also
not allowing for the enormous per-
centage of winter wheat that has been
so deteriorated as to be refused for
milling purposes. That this is no idle
assertion, we have but to look at our
market reports. Kansas, a state
that in an ordinarily favorable
year would raise from 75,000,000 to 80,
- bushels of wheat, will not have
over 10,000,000, and less than one-fifth
of this will be fit for miling purposes.
California is reported to have the
smallest crop that has been raised in
twenty-seven years, and so through
all the winter wheat states. The great
Northwest, whose crop on a full aver-
age crop of 500,000,000 is 150.000.000 when
the average acreage Is planted, now
on a government calculation of 95
per cent of an average, is expected to
supply the entire deficiency in the
winter wheat region with its -12. 500, 000
bushels, less the decreased acreage.
Every day the papers are flooded
with Munchausen stories of enormous
yields of wheat. One man in the neigh-
borhood of Yankton, S. D., tells of I
fifty measured acres producing 29,000 I
bushels of wheat, and so on to the }
end. Claims of 280,060.000 bushels for '
the spring wheat crop are made by i
the bearish element. ? And to what j
purpose is all this mass of fabrica
tion? A dealer remarked In answer
to a query, that this is the farmers'. '
harvest, and it i 3 also the elevator [
companies' harvest. The farmer has
to sell his wheat to pay his debts, and"
the elevator is hound! to get it as cheap .
as it can. There are no exports, mas- !
much as the dealers in Liverpool and j
other world's markets will not buy {
until . they, see the end of the ham- *
mering. of prices which they see going J
on. In the mean the farmer aids [
the bear element by incessantly brag- i
ging of the luxuriance bf his crops. ■ ' !
..-. , v .--. "QUIZ." . j
___.
Deporting Celestials.
Deporting Celestials.
' BUFFALO. N. V.. Aug. 19.— Deputy
Marshal Kane will leave here tonight
7•* ;r 7 Every Family should be supplied with 7
Its magic effect in removing Bain frcm all parts of ike
Its magic effect in removing Pain frcm all pai'ts of the
body has given it a world -wide reputation. j v; ; Try it.
for the Pacific coast in charge of eight
Chinese, who are to be deported. Five
cf them were brought here from
Oswego, where they were caught and
sentenced. »
UTAH TOWN BURNING.
Many Buildings in Ashes and the
Fire Stili Raging.
BINGHAM, Utah, Aug. 19.— The
whole town is ablaze, and the loss is
estimated at $200,000. The fire orig
inated at 2:30 p.' m. in Butler's liv-
cry. Roberts' dwelling house, sa-
loon and stable _ were consumed.
Then the flames spread to Chinatown
and swept everything on the west
side of the street. Among the build-
ings destroyed on the west side of
the street were the Griffin house,
Quinn's building, the postoffice, mm
ing recorder's office, United States
commissioner's office, Rocky Moun-
tain Bell Telephone office, the Catho
lic church and a number of board-
ing houses. Many people are home-
less.
HIDDEN TREASURE DIG UP.
Twenty Thousand Dollars'" "Worth
of Gold in a Box.
DIMOND ALE, Mich., Aug. 19.—
While at work on Lewis Potter's
farm Frank Lonsbury and Augustus
Fox dug up a box full of gold nug-
gets and a little sack of pure gold
flakes. The two men kept the find
a secret, carrying their treasure tb
the Ingham County Savings bank at
Lansing. Forty-five years ago an
Englishman named Can* moved into
Michigan. He was poisoned. Be-
fore his death he hid all his gold in
this vicinity. He confided his secret
to neighbors, but they never located
the treasure. Mr. Potter thinks there
is more gold on his farm besides that
discovered by Lonsbury and Fox.
Lansing bank officials say the
amount deposited exceeds $20,000.
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KNIGHTS READY TO MOVE.
KNIGHTS READY TO MOVE.
Two Thousand Missonrians Going:
to Boston.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 19.— Sixteen
commanderies Knights Templar
from this state have arranged for
transportation accommodation, and
fully 2,000 Missourians will atteh the
Boston meeting. The first official
train will leave St. Louis at noon to-
morrow via the Big Four route,
bearing St. Aldemar commandery.
The second train -will go over the
"Wabash direct to Boston. It will
bear Ascalon Commander-','' No. 16.
St. Louis commandery, accompanied
by Ivanhoe No. 8, and Baldwin 50,
will leave by a special train Satur-
day over the Wabash. The grand
commandery train will leave in two
sections over the Chicago & Alton,
one section from St. Louis and one
from Kansas City, Saturday. There
will be two special trains from Kan
sas City and two from St. Joseph.
— «»^*-—
"OLD HICKORY**-?!* SLAVE.
A Negro Horse Thief Story of His
'. . -7H*7:77: Life. '■,:..
FORT SMITH, Ark., Aug. 19— An
FORT SMITH, Ark., Aug. 19.— An
old negro, convicted in the, United
States court today of stealing horses
in the Creek Nation, claims to have
been a slave of "Old Hickory." He
tells remarkable stories of his life,
saying him mother was a slave be-
longing to the Creeks, but was cap-
tured by Gen. Jackson in the battle
at Horseshoe, Ala., where he was
born at Hermitage eighty-six years
ago, and was raised there.
A PAIR OF THEM.
Trading; Company's Manager and
a Rank Cashier Arrested. :
MONTREAL, Aug. 19.— The arrest of
C. E. Carbonneau, manager of the
Canadian Shipping and Trading com-
pany, which promised to have sensa
tional developments, .was followed this
afternoon by the arrest of Cashier
.Bousquet, of the defunct Banque dv
Peuple, Who was also president of
the trading company. When arrested
a letter was found on Carbonneau i
written by Bousquet as cashier of the ;
bank, to the Credit Lyonnais in France, j
This letter introduced Carbonneau and i
requested that all possible assistance
be given him. Bousquet was released
in $2,000 personal bail. --;..;--*;
mi
THERE'S A MARY LEFT.
Farmer Kills His "Wife and Then
Himself.
ABINGDON, 111., Aug. 19.— A double
tragedy occurred at Prairie City this
afternoon. ; William Blanchard, a
prominent farmer who separated from
his wife about a year ago, today tried
to make up with her, but she refused.
He clutched her by the throat and
shot her twice, killing her instantly.
He then turned the revolver and shot
himself. He lived about two hours and
did not recollect that he had done the
deed. A little girl is left.
»gn
SHOOTING RIOTERS. j
Police Using Their Pistols in a i
German Town.
BERLIN, Aug. 19.— Serious disturb- j
ances havo broken out at Mulhelm,
consequent on the Cologne & Mulheim
Steam Navigation company reducing
fares between those places in' order
to ruin a rival company. The police
are unable to prevent rioting. Many |
have been wounded on both sides. The
military have been summoned, but the j
rioting continues, and the police are j
using "their revolvers. ;.* -:
Gome-** Cannot Be Dead.
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.— Tho report
from Havana that Gen. Gomez, the
hope of the revolutionary party in
Cuba and their sympathizers in this [
city, had died of consumption on July I
31, Is scoffed, at by those best posted !
In Cuban affairs. A proclamation is- I
sued by Gomez, a copy of which was in j
his own handwriting, was received by
the United States Brotherhood in this I
city today. The proclamation bears I
the date of Aug. 1. "Now, can Gen. j
Gomez have died on July 31?" asked J
Mr. Trujillo, "when hero is a docu- l
ment in his own handwriting dated
Aug. ir .
. Three Years Over 100.
CANTON, Pa., Aug. 19.— James Coon
ey, who was born "In December, 1792,
in County Wexford, Ireland, and came
to this country, about thirty years ago,
Is dead, at the home of his son-in-law,
Thomas Sutton. Until within a week ;
of his death he was able to assist In
farm work. ■'"•*- ?■•-••?.'"_'-■ 7 •*.''.
. Noted' Senlptor Dead.
CHICAGO, Aug. - 19.— Leonard W.
Yolk. the noted scuiptor, died suddenly
at Osceola, Wis., yesterday, at his ;
summer home. He was sixty-seven J
years old. and famous as a modeler of !
portrait busts. The sculptor was an '
intimate friend of Stephen A. Doug- !
lass, and made the Lincoln death mask, i
None of ; the members of. his family j
were* present when he died. :
-««.
(; old Engaged for Enrope.
."Golil : Engaged for Enropc. j
7 NEW YORK, Aug. 19-Oelrich3 A Co. I
will ship $100,000 in gold to J Europe per;
steamer Spree tomorrow. Handy & !
Hardman will ship 550.00 C gold by the '
same steamer. Hos-klr, -Wood & Co •
•nato * that - they .will ship S7".o.o*'<) to i
31,000,000 gold on Wednesday's B'-fMua-jr.
BARRACKS UNDERMINED. ]
j
Three Hnndreil Russians Killed
Three Hundred Russians Killed
by an Explosion. "77'
LONDON, Aug. 20. — The Daily
News has a dispatch from Vienna
j which says Trieste papers report that
i an explosion destroyed the artillery
i barracks at Toula, Russia, and that
J 300 men were killed, including many
I officers. The barracks were found
ito be completely undermined. Many
arrests have been made.
HARDIN AND BRADLEY.
HARDIX AND BRADLEY.
Democratic Candidate in Ken-
tucky Indorses the Chicago
• Platform. • -r 7
j LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 19.-Long
, before 8 o'clock every one of the 3,000
chairs In the Auditorium was taken by
! the audience who had gathered to
; listen to the first of twelve joint dis-
I cussions between William Bradley and
P. W. Hardin, Republican and Demo-
cratic condldates for governor. The
seats were evenly divided between the
j partisans of the two aspirants. On the
• stage 400 seats were provided for dis
i tinguished people. - These chairs were
j occupied by men well-known in state
I politics, many of them being candi
; dates on the respective tickets. When
, Mayor Tyler called the assemblage to
j order standing room was at a premium.
j When Gen. Hardin came to the stags
' there was a cheer, but partisans of
! Bradley were the more demonstrative.
Mayor Tyler In a few words called the
meeting order and introduced Gen.
Hardin.
, On the subject of the finances. Gen.
i Hardin said he opposed the policy of
j London and New York bankers, and
I the suicidal policy of the Republican
; party. Before the convention, the
I Democrats, as individuals, claimed the
j right to express themselves, and he
; still claimed that right. Gen. Hardin
; talked of the war and reconstruction
j until a Democrat shouted: "The war
lis over; give us something — ." The
I speaker continued for a short time to
talk of the reconstruction period and
I of the. conspiracy of 1873, by whir-h
silver was demonetized. He favored
the restoration of silver to the place
! it occupied before 1873, declaring that
; he stood on the Chicago platform.
The remainder of Gen. Hardin's speech
was a review of the state government
under Democratic rule. It was 9:25
o'clock when Col. Bradley was intro
duced, and his partisans gave him an
ovation. He began by saying that he
would not discuss dead issues, nor
would ho talk of the war. He favored
I the gold standard and an international
i agreement. Col. Bradley spoke for an
hour and thirty minutes, being fre
quently applauded. Gen. Hardin
closed in a fifteen-minute speech.
HEAVY FAILURE AT HELENA.
Prominent Clothing and Liquor
Merchant Assigns.
HELENA, Mont., Aug. 19.— A deed
of assignment was made this morn-
ing by I. L. Israel . & Co. E. J.
Goodkind is named as the assignee.
Israel is one of the oldest Jewish
merchants in town. He is a broth-
er-in-law of Auerbach, of California,
and was regarded as one of the best
fixed business men in Helena. He
conducted a wholesale and retail
liquor store, and a large clothing
house known as the "Boston." The
liabilities foot up over $100,000. The
preferred creditors are L. Auerba__,
i and other relatives. T "'" 7 '
INGALLS IS A CANDIDATE.
; He "Would Like to Begin Again*
I . Where He Left Off.
I CHICAGO, Aug. 19.— Ex-Senator
i John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, was here
' today. Asked if he would again be a
candidate for United States senator, he
replied: "It has been generally under-
stood, since my defeat in 1891, that if
I returned to public life my ambition
was to begin where I left off and re-
sume my old seat. There is gratifying
unanimity among Kansas Republicans
in favor of my return to the senate,
and I am sure, if they see fit to honor
me again, I would accept it as a testi
monial of regard which no man could
afford to despise, and would give to
the state and the nation the highest
service of which I am capable."
Speaking of the Populist movement,
he said: "Not wholly defunct, but on
its death bed; ill with an Incurable
malady; its pulse flutters; its respira
tion is labored; its temperature is low.
The undertaker is waiting. It has
suffered more from its doctors than
from its disease. The people have be-
come convinced that Populism can
afford them no relief from the evils
that afflict modern society."
SOLD OUT AND SKIPPED.
His Lady Clerk Departed the Next
Day/-; 7
MUSKEGON, Mich.. Aug. 19.— Coun
MUSKEGON. Mich., Aug. 19.— Coun
I ty Treasurer Sam Soderberg has dis
; appeared, but his deputy insists thai
! all Is right. Soderberg is senior mem.
! ber of the firm of Soderberg & Done!/
j son, shoe dealers, and has had ful
i charge of the business. Friday he soli
j the entire stock, unknown to hi*
j creditors, and today two of thorn wert
, here, one of them' being Strcetei
I Brothers, of Grand Rapids. Soderberj
i kept the money derived from the sale
j which was all cash, and the following
| day left town, telling his family hi
I was going to Chicago for a few days
j The next day his lady clerk left on the
Chicago boat. The two have been al
theaters and other places together.
Mrs. Soderberg is alarmed, but says
her husband would not leave the chil
dren.
SET BY TWO FIREBUGS.
Incendiaries Applied the Torcn
| to Holmes' Castle.
CHICAGO, Aug. 19.— Discoveries
! made by the police today lead to th«
j belief that last night's fire in th«
! "castle" of H. H. Holmes was of In.;
1 eendlary origin. Several people living
near the burned building saw two men
| enter the house before the fire brokfl
out and leave In great haste. A searcli,
of the building revealed a half can o(
gasoline in the secret stirway leading
to the basement, and a search is be*
ing made for the men, who are sup*
posed to have started the blaze.
New York Taxes Higher,
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.— The flnan_7
committee of the board of aldermen
met today and prepared the report on.
the tax rate for the year, fixing It at
1.92, an increase of thirteen points ovei
the rate last year. The total amount
of money to be raised by tax this yea*
is $38,476,000.
— ■**-**• : — * ; J-.7:
The Last Administration Papers,
lowa Register.
- It Is estimated by administration pa
pers that we will have to take back at
least $15,000,000 of the $30,000,000 of bonds
sold in England. We paid •'them well
for taking the bonds off our hands, and
now we will pay them for taking them
back. . _ ....'.?*
Appointed a New Receiver.
LIMA; 0., Aug. 19.— 1t has just
leaked, out : that* last Friday N. E.
Mathews and J. R. McGrew were ap
pointed receivers of the Ohio Southern
railroad, supplanting George W. Saal.
For some time there : has been fric
tion I between Saal and the first mort
gage bondholders and it is supposed
that. Calvin S. Brice has espoused th|
cause of. the latter.
