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THE OMAHA DAILY IHflK : TUKRDAY , AlKHWT 21 , 1807. TIIE OMAHA DAILY Bin- : F. . noSEWAlT.n , Eilllor. I'uni.isiii : ! ) Rvuftr MORNING , T1-3U.MS OF HUUSCUIITION. llee ( Wllhnut Sunday ) , On Year..It < "l Pally lire nml Sunday , One Year 00 BU Month * . . . < 00 Three Month * * < Beimlny Dee , One Year ' f Saturday Ii e , One Year. . . . . . . 1M Weekly Dee , One Ycnr K OFKICUSi Omaha : The llee liulldlnir. South Omalm : Singer Illk. , Cor. N nnd Hlh SU Council lUurr * : 10 1'enrl Street. Chicago Olllcei 317 Chamber of Commerce. New York : Ilooins 13 , M nnd IS , Trlbunt Illdj. \VusMDKton : Ml Fourteenth Street. COItllKSroNDKNCE. All Pomnninlcntlons relating to news nnd < rial matter fhould lw mldrcMCil : To the K , 11USINKSS 1.UTTBUS. All Lunlnefii tetlem nnJ remittances houlil b nJJieMeJ to The llee I'ubllMiIng Company , Omaho. Draft * , checks , express nnd poitotlic * money ortlcrs to be made payable to the onler Of the cnmnaliy. TUB linn I'tniMsniNo COMPANY. STATKMKNT" CIHI-'UI.ATION. Btnte of Nebraok.i , Duuglnii County , s. : Oeoigc II. Tzucliurk , ECfrftaiy of The ll e run- llshlng company , being duly aworn , fays that tne ncteial number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning , livening nnd Sunday Hee printed during the month of July , 1SD7 , was as follows : " 1 19.JCS 17 19,810 ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' a ! . ! . . ! ! . . . . . . 19'cW 10 13.401 4 19.COO 20. 13309 i 19.429 21 l'J.322 G.I la.ST3 22 13.147 7 19,500 23 19.271 fi 19.401 SI 19.405 S3 13.4(0 ( ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' joill ! . ! . . . . ! . . ! . . ib'.c49 2C , 13.W 11 i9cir , 27 19.301 U . - 19.SM 25 19.273 n is.r.tr 29 13.175 14 13.f,07 > ( ) , 19,3113 lb 19,433 3t ; ; ; 19.003 16 19.4CG fj-onj ( C02.733 " " ' ' i ioiVuctlons"'for' nnd returned - I > ' i ( un oM s 1-3 turned coition > - Tutnl not pales. Net ilally Sworn to before me nnd sitb rrlbcd In my pres. * ncc thin 2d day of August , 1S97. ( Seal. ) ' N. P. FKIU Notary Public. TIM : nun o.TH.VINS. . All rnllronil iHMVdlioy * nre Hlll | > lll'll M'ltll fllllllKll Ill-Oil tn iH'oiminnnliilit'vrry iitin- KCIIKIT tvlm miiitM 1 renil 11 inMtini | | . InslMt IIIMIII linv- lutT TiltHer. . It yeti ciinniit nri't a llee ui n train from the ni'WN iiKcnt , itli-ast ! rii > rt tlu > fin-1 , MluUniv the Irnlii nml ra llriiiiil , to tin * Circulation l > i > iiiirltiiciit of Tlio Hue. The liceIn for Male on all trnliiH. INSIST OIIAVINK nisi ? . PAUT1HS I-KAVIXC KOIl Til 13 SU.M.MI2U I'nrllcN It'iivlniv ( lie cly fur ( lie summer eiiii liuru The llee MiMit to ( hem fcKiilarly by iiiitlfyliiK Tli < ; llee liii.il- neNN of llee In ] > er.s ii or by mull. Tlic aililrcMM ivlll lie e limited an ofleii n ileNlred. What is the Ministerial union to do about tlic slot machine ga devices ? NobiasUa is on the high road to per manent prosperity. There is no "if" or . "will be" about It. If dollar wheat is republican luck , it Is tlio kind of luck tlic farinem would like to keep with them always. Mexico will have a government ex hibit at the Transuiisslsslppl and Inter national Exposition , with the accent on the International. Don't fowt that the State fair this year will lvu a glimpse of what No- 'braska's ' exhibit at the Transniississippi Exposition will be. When the farmers enjoy good 'times , everybody enjoys good times because 'agriculture is the foundation upon which all other pursuits are built. Omaha's crodlt has always been .as gilt-edged and for that reason there ought to be a brisk competition for the forthcoming Issues of renewal and re funding bunds. Property owners should move at once .for the repavement of the streets on which their property abuts. They may never again see paving laid in Omaha ns cheaply as It can be laid now. The two men to be nominated for uni versity regents by the republican state convention should be men specially quall- Ik'tl to perform the duties of the position. Such men will add strength to the- repub lican ticket. The fusion State Hoard of Transporta tion lias discre.etly set the bearing.s of the complaints p nding before It against rail roads and telephone companies for dates * after the state conventions of thu popo- era tic parties. When the railroads are forced to run every scheduled freight train In two nud three sections of full st/.n in order to ac commodate the tralllc as they are doing In Nebraska , there Is no use denying that the revival of business has set In. Two Americans who have inventions tiat ) promise to revnlntIonize telegraphy iiavo had to go to Kngland for an oppor tunity to make practical experlmonlH of their devices. There must be some pro- jjrcsslveness in government-opprated pos tal telegraphs after all. Our amiable popocratie contemporary nml organ of the gamblers , the World- Herald , has returned to the publication of tins free Talmage syndicate sermons , but it has not yet explained why It sup pressed Talmage's denunciation of the gambling evil a fuw weeks ago. It looks as If Great Hritaln were ready to push the concert aside and go It alone In the peace negotiations betwton Turkey ami Greece. It may bi > put down as cer tain , however , that the concert will not consent to be suppressed , but will play on until the end of the program Is reached. Prom tlio results of tlio county conven tions now In progress It develops that tlio sentiment of the silver parties is by no means unanimously for fusion , in counties whcro the populists have an as sured or even fair prospect of carrying the election , It Is hard to persunde them that they ought to divide up the olllces with democrats and so-called silver re publicans. To attempt fusion without reciprocal bunellts between the elements Is too much like tryluj ; to make bricks without atrawt HAtHINIl THH O Tlio recent advance In the plci ! > of breadstuff * has been seized by the tralllc managers of the trunk lines cast of Chicago cage ns a pretext for Increasing freight rates on Hour , wheat and corn shipped from Chicago to New York. The raise In the freight rate on corn Is fiom li > cents to L'O cents pe-r 100 pounds. The new rate , which Is to go Into effect Septem ber 0 , will , therefore , be n forced con. trlbntion of 'I cents on every bushel of corn carried by rail from the farms west of the Mississippi to the seaboard. As suming that tin1 states of Iowa. Kaiwas , Nebraska and South Dakota export only 800,000.000 bushel * of corn this year , the tribute levied by the trunk lines upon the productive Industry of these states will be equal to $121.000.000. We can conceive of no valid excuse for such an arbitrary advance In freight rates at this time. The rate on corn from Chicago to New York has been Ifi cents per 100 pounds for more than a year. It was established by tin * railroad malingers , and from the judicial stand point the rate which they themselves fix can not be regarded as unreasonably low. Inasmuch as the volume of grain to bo transporlod to the seaboard is much greater ibis year than it was a year ago , the railroads nre assured of correspondingly increased earnings from that source. With these Increased earn ings from Increased business tin1 roads should bo content. Hut the trunk line mummers persist In applying the princi ple of charging what the tratlic will bear. They see In the upward trend of the grain markets an opportunity to appropriate the profits which belong legitimately to the farmers of the west who for several years past have been growing crops at a loss. It is tliis arbitrary system of railway rate making that has aroused , such uni versal hostility to the railroads among western farmer. ; and exasperated them to the point of retaliatory legislation. Why tlni railroad managers of the east ern trunk lines should now give a. new incentive for anti-railroad agitation is incomprehensible. The plea that exist ing rates between Chicago and New York are not remunerative will hardly bo accepted ns well grounded. The fact that the roads between Chicago and New York have been declaring regular divi dends and their stocks are quoted higher now than for years justifies the con clusion that they are not conducting a losing business , but on the contrary , are getting their full share of the revival of prosperity. FllEXCll DITrrnS OX HllKADSTlWFS. The agitation In Franco for a reduc tion of the tariff duties on brcadstuffs is but In the Incipient stage and it ! H highly probable that very serious trouble may grow out of It. According to latest advices the sentiment in olliclal circlet * Is against any reduction , this being largely prompted by an Indisposition on the part of the government to do any thing that might give offense to tlic wheat producers , though of course rev enue considerations have something tc do with It. On the other hand the great body of consumers and especially the wage earners , who must pay more for bread while their wages do not In crease , Insist that the duties should bu lowered. If the price of bread should go no higher than at present those who make this demand might be persuaded to recognize the interests of the govern ment and tlio French wheat growers , but In the very probable event of bread still further advancing there can be nn doubt that the mass of consumers will more earnestly and lirnily press their demand for lower duties on breadstuflV and if the government rejects their ap peal it may tlnd a very grave dilllculty on its hands. The lot of the French wovkingman is not altogether pleasant under the most favorable conditions. The compensation of labor in France furnishes only a meager subsistence when the cost of living Is lowest. An ad vance in the price of bread consequently means a great deal to the laboring class and they will not easily be persuaded to submit to a duty which they know adds to the cost of the "staff of life. " This matter of dearer bread In France is therefore pregnant with possible trouble for the government. Under such circumstances it Is obvious folly for French ministers to talk about further discriminations at this lime against American products. Any action on the part of the government In that direction would certainly bring on a political crisis that might have very seri ous results. DISCUHDAKT llKl'UJirIUS. It seems that the recently heralded Greater Republic of Central America Is already threatened with disintegration and that there is even possibility of a war between some of the states composIng - Ing It. It Is reported that Costa Hlca and Guatemala will probably refuse to proceed further with the plan for the consolidation'of the llvo republics of Cen tral America Into one nation and that the present Greater Ik-public , comprising Salvador , Honduras and Nicaragua , will soon separate. It appears that the ni > - polntmcnt of a United StatPrt minister who is regarded with disfavor by the governments of some of the Central American republics Is in part responsible for the changed condition of affairs , but undoubtedly the chief cause Is to be found In the Jealousies of political lend ers , Certainly our government will not Insist upon sending a representative to Central America who 1 not acceptable , so that this is not a matter which should cause any controversy or discord among the state * composing the Greater Itepubllc of Central America. It may furnish a pretext , however , for creating a disturbance and tills appears to bu the case. The real fact Is that one or two of the republics are Intensely Jenlou.s of the others and It is said that Costa Ulca and Guatemala will refuse to become a part of the Greater Hepubllc , the result of v.'lilch will be the collapse of the plan of uniting the live Central American republics aa practically otic nation. It Is to be regretted that such is the sit- nation , for together these republics would constitute a power that would command respect. They could maintain an army and a navy adequnto for de fense anil they could advance In material development. Separated they will have little respect and will continue on in thu slow pnco that has characterized them , while being consiaully 1'nble to K > n ' . tie revolts and war among th 'iiwlves. The plan of union was judiciously framed and Its success was desirable from every point of view. e/.UMX J.v Atiittn't.rtniK. Is the tlmo near at hand when our own population will consume th ? entire wheat product of the United Slates ? The opinion is expressed by those who have given careful study to the matter that our agricultural development In some lines IH probably at Its climax. It Is thought that unless the reclamation of arid lands shall avail to open up new territory thu greater purl of the wheat laniN of tile United Slates are now under cultivation and the limit of our wheat production is probably not far from 5(10,000,000 ( bushels. Several years ago a statistician gave o'ut the opinion that before the close of the present century this country would find it necessary to import wheat. There Is no present In dication that tills prediction will be vcrl- lled , the estimated production for tills year exceeding the domestic require ments by more than 100,000,000 bushels , but It Is possible , of course , that there may be a year In which the yield of wheat here , with the present area , will not be sutllcleiit for the home demand. The Idea , however , that , there Ks little more land available for wheat produc tion Is not to bo accepted unque.stion- Ingly. The fact that Nebraska hits neatly doubled this year the average ciop of previous years Is an Instance In point , suggesting-that the wheat area in the United States may be Increased considerably without the reclamation of nrld lands , ( lie value of which for wheat production Is altogether problematical. ISut It Is quite possible , If not probable , that the time is not very .remote when the United States will have very little wheat to send abroad and when the for eign demand for brendsluffs will huvo to be largely supplied by our corn. We re cently noted the fact that exports of this cereal had largely Increased and there seems to bo very good reason to think that the demand for it will grow from year to year. So far ns Europe Is con cerned wheat production has probably reached the maximum. Wo do not mean by this to bay that this year's crop ? measure the limit , but that the best years of tlio past will not be exceeded , The countries generally of Europe have no more land available for wheat and nc very marked progress is being made in wheat production elsewhere. Wlial future developments there may bo it If Impossible to foresee , but the situation as now presented certainly seems to war rant the opinion that the world's wheal supply may within the next twenty years be found inadequate to the de maiul and that corn will enter more largely into use as human food. It is an interesting fact that while in 1805 our exports of corn were valued at only ? 1.COOOCO , in the ILscal yeai ending June HO , 1S07 , the value of tin exports of this cereal was $ .V ,000,000 The shipments for the current fiscal.yvai will show a further increase. Even i1 those now living should , see the day when the United States consumes all iU own wheat , they will also witness tin vast extension of the use. of American corn for food. And the day will prob ably never come when we will be un able to produce enough corn to feet Europe and ourselves. In common with every other citizen and corporation owning property In Omaha , The ] ! ee is interested in having the most clliclent police protection tin. money in the police fund will procure. . That Is tlie reason it protests against the appointment by order of Governoi Ilolcomb of a man as chief of police who has hud no police experience whatever and has no qualifications for the place , Such an outrages upon the community should be respnted by every law-respect ing citizen who docs not want the city thrown wide open to thieves , tbugd and professional crooks and free reign given totlio vicious classes during the exposi tion year. Men who acquiesce in this law-defying appointment do so either be cause they do not fully understand , the serious consequences it Involves or feai to incur the displeasure of the police authorities. It must not be forgotten that the in creased price of sheep Is due largely to the increased price of wool traceable to the new tariff. American cattle , too , command belter prices since the new tariff shut out the competition of Mex ican cattle. The tariff is a factor in the farmer's prosperity no matter what the popocrntlc orators may say about it. Some people will not go straight 11 they can possibly go crooked. The World-Herald will not tell the truth If It can possibly squeeze in a lie. That explains Its fakes ab.mt Uodowatei' want ing to go as a delegate to the republican state convention and being an aspirant for the chairmanship of the republican state committee. As was to have been expected , the slot machine- license ordinance ls en couraging and multiplying gambling in the community. With a protecti-d gam bling machine located In every drug store , cigar shop and saloon It will bu a miracle if any of the growing genera tion escape the gambling fever. Shipping cattle by weight instead of by- carload is all right If It is not a rover for an Increase of freight charges. If the change. Is simply a cloak for adding to thu cost of transporting live stock to the markets , It certainly should bo resisted by shippers the MUIIO as If It were an open raise In the freight tariff. Bryan will not return to Lincoln until shortly before tlio tripartite silver con ventions of tlio populists , democrats and free silver republicans are to meet , Itelng a lawyer , 1m Is afraid that if he exposed himself the popoenits might in. si t on running him for the place on the supreme bench of Nebraska. ui'm tin Kuny Street. Minneapolis Tribune. A Nebraska farmer who bought a farm ol eighty acres and gavu a mortgage ot $1W ) ( on It lias raited 2,200 bushels ot wlntei wheat off of it this season , to nay nothliif ot other products aud coiiot < iuoiHy ! lu on eat ) ) rrr Atrcct t thb4 > rA ht writing And lie U only ono if thou. uiJMhrj-.tRliout the turtlnvcat \l rifllnT ( Too FprlnxlltM l.Mnm.l ll-paMlenn. The engineer * ! trlke In Kngtand Is * pro.ij- Inc. but iiOitidgi haa yet ventured to o-.rjola It or nny part'6fllt. How improRr wlvc they a.o over thrro.-i liHciVc * * In t'rlnon. K4n. fl CitsPtixr. . \Vo bo.i.-.t .1' ' cdod deal about the splendid civilization of tlib nineteenth century , but all the same thcf'tonvlcts In tbo penitentiary at lndla ; > ipo.i ! ! alt" 'required to rarry one brick nt a tlmo I ) } ' \vny \ of prolongliiR their worlc on seine repairs- about the Institution mid Dicvcntlnc tlirttt 'from ' becoming lotano. Tlic Spanish InnrflslMon In Us palmiest dayn dc- vlfled nothlnR more hellish thnn the enforced Idleness which prcvalU In some of the Male prisons In thk land ot Gospel light and privileges. K Out reunion S Minneapolis Tribune. The pension department has Juat made a ruling which will doubtless arouse the an- tiiRon'sm of a certain class of pension at torneys. Hctotorore It has been the cus tom to send penolon checks In care of at torneys. the object of the latter undoubt edly being In many Instances to make sure of tholr not always Just fet > 3 by withholding the check or having It endorsed In their favor. Commissioner Kvans rules , however , that mall for peraloncrs must hereafter be delivered to them direct and not in care ot anybody , IMNIION In Nr Now York Mnll nnJ Kxpress , Mr. L'rj ' an' demand that the slate cam paign In Nebraska this year dial ) bo fought out along the lines of the- national silver platform of tSOC should command the ready acquiescence of the republicans and all other frlc'idti of hnncst money. They should bo perfectly willing to meet the leader of the free- coinage craze on his own ground and Join with his In rcaubmltUng the Issue ot ISOfi to the people of Nebraoka. The popo- crats carried the state last year by 10,000. Wo don't believe they can carry It by any Hiich majority thlo year , or that they can carry It at all. Republican prosperity has recently been doing eomo very active mis sionary work In Nebraska polities , and when the votes arc counted It will prove to have been of a tremendously effective sort. lIlMliop At'ummi nml Temperance. Chicago Chronicle. If It had been delivered to any other class of hearers than prohibitionists the ad dress of Illshop Newman at Saratoga might have been seed cast upon a fertile ground , but it is feared that It will bear no fruit except denunciation of the eloquent Method ist leader r.s an upholder of thu rumshop. Called upon to address the aMombly upon the subject of temperance , he counseled moderation Instead of inconsiderate and un compromising denunciations. lie called at tention to the fact that while wines and liquors are not Indispensable to the welfare of mankind they nevertheless have tholr legitimate uses , and that , while all confirmed drunkards were once moderate drinkers , all modcrato drinkers do not become confirmed drunkarda. Ho likewise told them plainly that occasional drinking of wines and liquors IB not drunkenness ns denounced by the bible. Ho believed , ho said , that what was needed In alt classes was magnanimity born of self-denial , which would create an ap prehension of the dangers of drinking and which will make It unfashionable. This Is a liberal and enfclblo stand upon the ques tion , and Bishop Newman deserves great praise for bis courage in taking it. "A IIAI'I'V KVHXT. " Alno "a llrllllii lit liixplrntlout of AVlHiloni ami I'ntrtollNiu. " New York Sun. There is noticeable a disposition to look upon the 10 per .cont discriminating duty , ' whereby the Dlng'ley aot has prevented the Canadian Pacific railroad from sharing the carrying business pf the United States , as an accident , or , as an error In the framing of the law. This Is not porolblo. Taken by itself , this sfoplaV.'ecctlon of the tariff law Is a brilliant inspiration ot wisdom and patriotism. What particular statesman brought It about we do know , but he deserves before he dies to become the president of the United States. The Canadian Pacific railroad Is a subsi dized creation of the government of Kngland , built ao a military road for England's power ; and it Is the arbiter of Canadian politics. It has lived for years on its earnings from the carrying trade of the United States. Not until the Canadian Pacific ceas.cs to bo a military and 'commercial menace to us , and Its country becomes a portion of the American union can it bo placed upon a par with American railroads. It was a blessing when the privileges that the Canadian Pacific formerly enjoyed In this country were withdrawn , ami It would bo a national misfortune It they should bo restored on any other condition ex cept that of Canada's consolidation with the United States. WIVES KOll ICI.OMMICKHS. A 111(7 SclieimDevoloiilniir in ( he Ml ml of iv DnKodi Mrill. L. M. Keenan lives and thrives a South Dakota town bearing the abbreviated namr of Ola. Mr. Keenan has p < matrimonial scheme of a philanthropic nature. He wants to carry n little sunshine Into the gold fielrty of Alaska and pocket a few shekels for the labor Involved. His plan Is to send a con signment of marriageable young women to the arctic clrelo next spring. Ho Intends spending the winter scouring matrimonial ranges In the states In search of material for the venture. The first steamboat up the Yukon ken In 1S9S will carry his stock tt > market. Personable damsels thus he reasons arc- worth their weight In gold to the. mlnera. Many respectable spinsters would gladly avail themeslves of the opportunity , hut they lack the means to reach the digging. Those who can pay their pawage have IK dealro to seek husbands under such condi tions. Mr. Keenan Is an oltl rattleman. For years ho shipped stock from the South Da kota and Montana ranges to the eastern market , I-a t spring the stories of gold strikes on the Yukon lured him from lil home at Melville , Mont. , to Kort Cuddy , Alaska. Ho soon reached the conclusion that more money was to bo made In trade with the minors than by actual work In the gold fields. Dnt , without the backing oi millions of capital , he saw It would bo use- les to enter Into competition with the trans portation companies already in buslnra-i. Women were scarce. Why not supply the minors with wives ? At flrft ho laughed over the Idea. Then ho resolved to put It into execution. U was already too late to accomplish anything during the seciWn1 ot 1807 , eo ho returned to the states to look for volunteers. Ily spring ho expects to have 300 ready. He will pay their faros , to thu Klondike. The'c the entire stock wIU be auctioned off to the miners , Mr , Keeujn Is a strict Presby- terlon. He co\ufnancvi \ ( nothing that smscks of Impropriety. So a clergyman will accompany the piitflf , Kach maiden will bo pledged , beforp Jie'r. departure , not to leave the steamboat untj | ( she ami her would-be wrtncr have been married In due ami proper form ( Trr'hls way cast , Mr. Keenan stopped off at Ola for a brief visit with friends , In an Interview concerning his remarkable - markablo scheme , ho said : "Some people think I can't make my speculation succeed,1 I know hotter. I've been at the Klpndlkn and Been the situation. I'vo talked with UIA miners and I know what they want. Nlco 18 or 20-year-old girls , rc- spoctable , good-Iouklhi ; and willing to work , will go like hot cakes , Medium grades should brliis $2,000 or $3,000 a. head. That'll cover the cost ot transportation and leave a handsome profit. I expect It'll take some thing to get 'em out. I can't rush 'em through. I'll have to stop often to feed and water. The best I can do , I expect there'll be considerable loss. Somo'll bo sick , Per- hapa Bomu'll die. Prob'ly a few'll kick over at the last and have to bo fetched back. Mebbo BOMIO won't sell , and I'll have 'em left on my hands. I should call $2,000 a head a conservative estimate of their value on the market. I ship 300. I market 250 , My expense la $240.000 , My receipts are $500,000. Orofcs profit. $200,000 , Likely I'll have to bring a few back. Put that and In cidentals at $25,000. That leavro margin ot $235,000. That's pretty fair for one season's business , Dotter'n freezing and starving over a placer and mebbc maklni ; IC-ES'U your keep at that. " MAllt'll OK tMtOSt'KIUTYf niouc-Dcmof-rat : This -ountry In Bond Ing steel rails lo Irclnml And India and an eloctrle railway equipment to London. The outlook for our manufacturers Is better than cvir before. Minneapolis Journal : This la the farmer1 ! prospprlty , Ills products arc the first to advance - vance and ate advancing flvo or six llmca more rapidly than any others. All the con ditions work together for his good , and the agriculturist ! ! of the country are Rolng to feel the roMirn of good times sooner than nny other class. New York Mall and Kxpress : Foreign buyers took 12,000,000 more bushels ot American corn In July ot this year than they did In the eorrespdndlng month of 1S98 , and tlio chances are that the shipments will Increase still moro largely as the seas-on ad vances. The old world Is only beginning to appreciate our corn , and when tlio. merits of thai cereal arc fully understood it is bound to become one of the most popular of all American products. New York World : Hollar wheat means a great and enduring good to the whole coun try. U means an average of more- than CO-cent wheat to the farmer , and that , on our crop of fiOO.OOO.OOO bushels , minus $300- 000,000. Moreover , the farmers still hold nearly the entire crop. A week ago the > had sold only 72,000,000 , or only a little moro than one bushel In seven. This means that the farmer Is to bo well off again. Ho will pay his debts and buy all the nec essaries he wants , it means that the vll- lago merchant will thrive and "stock up" again as ho has not done for years. It means that the wholesale merchants will in crease their purchases of the manufacturer. It means that the manufacturer will em ploy more men on fuller tlmo. It meant ) that the butchers and bakers and grocers will sell more goods to consumers and In their turn buy more for their own use. Dollar lar wheat means a return of prosperity to the entire community. Chicago Post : As this year's crop of wheat will amount to about 530,000,000 bush els. It follows that at present prices the farmers will realize $300,000,000 In addition to the sum they received for the crop ot 1S9C ; for not only Is the price almo't double , but the yield Is at least 75,000,000 bushels larger. The advance in com Is also contributing a sum bcaldes that added by wheat to the fanners' wealth surprising In Its vastness , considering that the gain In its prlco compared with last year Is only 7 cents a bushel. On about 2,800,000,000 bushels , however , which will approximate the amount of this year's crop together with the quantity lefl over from that of the previ ous season , 7 cents a bushel would be $19ti - 000,000. The rise In oals , barley and Hax- sccd will also help to swell the vast aggre gate of this season's excess of agricultural wealth. Flaxseed alone , which , compared with wheat and corn , Is as the small change ot the coinage to $10 and $20 bills , has ad vanced 40 cents a bushel In the last sixty dn > s ; which , on a 10,000,000-bushel crop , means $4,000,000 more than there would have been at thu old prlco to distribute among the fanners. What the result will bo to the latter of such a stupendous addition to their wealth and Its ultimate effect upon the well- being of the whole community can be easily foreseen. To one class only will it prove dlfiastrous the calamity-howlers' occupation will be gone. IlIil'HUIATIXK 10 TO 1. Minneapolis Tribune : Governor Boles last year express * * ! himself as oppooed to a dogmatic ratio , and. had his wiser counsels been listened to , had the democratic national platform simply declared for free coinage at a proper ratio , with insisting upon 10 to 1 , it la possible that the result of the elec tion would have been different. It is as Mr. Boles says , fear of the 1C to 1 ratio is only grounded in the public mind. .Burlington Hawkeye : Governor Boles re pudiates Fred White's flatlsm. He admits that White's gospel is simply the goqpel of silver monometallism and consequently of repudiation , financial chacs and general col lapse. Ho courageously declares that even If attainable , free silver at the arbitrary ratio proposed would not be "desirable. " He concedes everything that the sound money men have ever claimed on that point. Cincinnati Tribune : Thla public declara tion on the part of Governor IJolcs marked his departure from the camp of the fanatical IG-to-l adherents. In the presence of his own party followers , and with all the em phasis at his command , ho declared that , in his opinion , the proposal to coin silver in unlimited quantities at the ratio of 1C to 1 was a dead Iseue , and that such action , even If attainable , would bo harmful to the United States. Ottumwa Democrat : Governor'Boles Is but ono member of the democratic party and bin Interpretation of the silver problem is but an individual expression at variance with a great majority of those who will vote the 331110 ticket that the governor Is supporting. The national and state convcntiors have declared in favor of free coinage and It Is to the wisdom of these bodies that all demo crats filiould bow rather than to the In dividual expressions of Governor Doles. Chicago Tribune : The general drift of Mr. Boles' speech shows that , so far as he Is able to give direction to the pending Iowa cam paign , It will be fought on other Issues than the financial one. This ! s Indicated by his attempt to stir up the ghost of hard times to frighten the farmer and the- laboring man. in face ot the fact that the one Is already receiving larger prices for his commodities while ) the opportunities for employment at remunerative wages are opening up to the other. Chicago Journal : It lo Ictss than a year and a half ago that ex-Governor Boies was waiting , all eagerness , for a nomination to the presidency by a 1C to 1 convention. Thursday ho repudiate ) ] 1C to 1 and a plat form which lie wan expected to advocate. Mr. Bo'cs has a caeti of conscience to settle with himself , for ho Is not a practical Joker , but the damage he has done will go march ing on , The promise of a revival of pros perity makes thi. . . > a very bad tlmo for dla- p.ffoctlons. It has changed the complexion of affairs entirely nlncu the meeting of the state convention , and the wicked example of the ex-governor is likely lo have many Imitators. 1'KItSOAAI. AM > OTI1ICIIWIMK. The Japanese Jingoes have subsided , and the republic of Hawaii will remain in the midat of the Pacific until further notice. Andrew Carnegie has been given thu freedom of seven , Scottish cities. Ho enJoys - Joys considerable freedom In tills country , too. Emperor William's views on duelling are a clear plagiarism on those of the gentleman who wa "in favor of tlio law , but agin ita enforcement. " Notwithstanding the strike In his shoo fac tory , Governor Pingree Is diligently pegging away nt the "encmlos of labor. " The gov ernor has a convenient impediment in his hearing at short range. Long Wolf , an old Indian warrior on the upper Columbia river , Is Ihe proud pos sessor of u lariat made of the hair of white women who have bcou scalped. It ks said to be strong enough to hold a wild buffalo , A great milk tnwt la In process of forma tion , to control the milk bualucfd of New York City. Ten million dollars ) Is said to bo behind the deal. Handling the milk Is an Incident of the business. The promoters are after the cream. Mr. llockt'fcller was recently condemned for refusing to aid the distress which was so prevalent In the town of Virginia , Minn. It ha > j now been discovered that Instead of sending a cheek for $1,000 , as .Mr. Carnegie did , 'Mr. ' Rockefeller sent an agent to In vestigate , and on his report opened a mine at that place and hired many of the starving men , Mayor ( ) uncy [ of Boston committed the unpardonable ) offense of refusing to shako the hand of Sullivan at a recant function , The outraged dignity of the Hub , fortunately for the country , found a vent 111' a challenge from John L. to fight the mayor to a flnlah for re-election. That 1. * the least harmful move Sully haa raado In flvo yearn. The beauty of the plan Is he cannot feel the blow that knocks him out. It Is reported that Clarence Berry , the Klondike mine owner , has offered to write a 5,000-word article ( or $3,000. This Is only CO cents per word , or 40 per cent bolrnv par , and yet It ta to be supposed that the article waa to treat of gold , lion , Abrain 3. Hewitt , former mayor of New York , eqn-ln- law of Peter Cooper and ex-member of congress - gross , waa once offered , by the late ThorudyUe Htce , $10,000 or $1 per word for an article consisting of 10,000 words , for publication in the North American Itcvlew , Hewitt declined the offer. AJf IMItAN ttXIttlllT. Should lip n l.i-iullnu Wnlurp of HIP Sioux City .tournnl , The aiiKRMtlon that an elaborate Indian exhibit bo given In connection with the Transmlsslsslppl Imposition In Omaha next year Is receiving 'serious consideration by the exposition managers. The Idea Is a good ono and it ought to bo tarried out. There Is now' no question that there will bean an exposition In Omaha and that It will bo attended by many thousands of visitors from the transmlsMsslppt region and other parts of the United Status. No exposition moro pretentious than n local affair haa ever been held so near the last of the- hunting grounds of the American Indians , and It would bo easier to prepare an Interesting exhibit re lating wholly to the .Indians tor the Omaha exposition than for any other. The plans balng considered for the exposition contem plate something that will Interest the Amer ican people and show the progress of the Indian toward civilization and something that will Interest the Indian and bring him nearer to his while neighbors. Them would bei an exhibit of relics which have been gathered from the Indiana , of Indian work manship nnd of Indian warfare ; there would bo samples ot Indian nklll In the old Ravage ditys ami In the days of modern schools , and iheru would bo an encampment of In dians from the reservations show Ing their ol < l customs and games and their modern life. life.Tho The United States government Is engaged In a flivat work with the remnants of the Iiiitl.tn Mlhea. Missions are maintained and encouraged , schools nre supplied , food and clothing are given the Indians , they are taught household work anil farming anJ everything Is being done- that la pwslble to prepare them for Independent living at a * early a date aa possible. If the government olllclals have not miscalculated the Indians now on the western reservations will be self- supporting within twenty-live years. Then the old Indian life will bo In truth a thing of the past. To bring Indians from all the res- crvatleins to Omaha during the progress of the exposition , to show them what Is being dour by Indians whn arn schooled and to broaden their mental horizon by contact with the things which show best the great progre.s of the world , will bo n valuable lesson to the Indians , There will bo many visitors to that ex position who know little about the Ameri can Indians. They will be pleased to learn that there are no wild Indians ro.uning the prairies Just outside the city limits of Omaha and other western cities , and they will be astonished to learn what advancement the Indians have made within the last fe-w years. The Indian exhibit la a good suggestion and the Omaha exposition managers will do well to act upon It. (5 A IN Kill. OrCI'I'ATlOXS. Inter ) ' * ! liii ; l'iifN ( ( ili'inicd front it I.nliiir Itiillt'tln. Plillmk'lplila Ieili ; < M' . The J.uly Bulletin of the Department of Labor presents some Interesting data con cerning the workers nt gainful occupations in this country. The Bulletin shows perhaps moro clearly than any previous publlcatlu of this character has done the extent t which women have occupied remunerative. posits which in former periods were ap proprlated almost exclusively by men. Ii the census of 1S70 it nppe.ired that 9.C3 pe cent of all the women of the country wer employed in remunerative employments , bu twenty years later , as exhibited by the cen sus rt turns of 1800 , the ptopoitlon of womei thua employed had reached 12.81 per cent o all the population of that Bex. It is .ipparcn to the moat casual and curs-cry observer tha the number of women in the various Held of Industry will be lu 1)00 ! ) very much greate relatively to tlm whole number of womei than at the close of any previous decade This increase in the number ot women enter Ing new indiistrics has been accompdulei by a decided decrease in. the number o women engaged iu domestic and persona service. According to the department's digest of the census returns of 1870 nnd 1S30 , It ap pears that In 1SOO more than one-sixth of the total number of persons at work in the country were women , as .compared with a little moro than one-seventh at the census ot 1S70. The compiler says that the Increase In the proportion of women work ers is especially noticeable In professional service , in which class the women consti tuted In 1S90 very nearly one-third of all persons so occupied as compared with lees than one-fourth In 1870. Women are also very numerously representeel in manufactur ing and mechanical Industries and In trade and' transportation , In clerical posi tions for the most part. The representa tion in these branches of Industry grow from 2 per cent in 1S70 to 7 per cent in 1S90 of all persons so employed. In 1S70 in Pennsylvania , 13. 1C per cent of all pereons over 10 years of ago In gainful occupations were women ; In 18SO the per centage was M.90 ; In 1890. 1C.5I. In New rsey the percentages are : 1870 , 15 per cent ; 1SSO. 1C.S3 ; 1S90 , 19.50. Thus , In IS90 in New Jersey nearly one-fifth of all persona In gainful pursuits were women. In some of tl > ° Now Kngland states and In certain southern states the percentage was much higher at the last census. The employ ment of colored women In field labor In the south and the largo number of woman engaged in the eastern factories explain tlio high percentages In these communities. The Bulletin announce * that the District of Columbia haa the largest proiwtlon of women workers. In 1SDO thy constituted 1. 7 per cent ot all tlio gainful workers. In * due o the fact that the departments of the na of thc cxlllhlt culturel ] , ' tl10 decline In nurl- employment throughout the em , - nomilTi nnrn" ° rt 8how" tllat ot tlle wl < ° ! population tlio percentages of perrons thus employed were IC.-I3 iu 1870. 15.38 In is"n and 13.CS In 1S9U. At the census of 18'Otlio " " ( ' HBrlrulturo nM"T cc"KaBC(1 in the , , united States numbered 2.070.C1C or "l la per rent of tlm total population ! in ; the percentage was not materially changed. Iho figures for the past thirty ye-ars Indi- eato to the point of mathematical demonstra tion the progrcealvo decline In the proper tion of persons employed in agricultural pursuits. In Pennsylvania those employed in agriculture In. 1820 numbered 110,801 ; In 1SPO , 323 S73. Thcso employed in the state * In 1S20 In manufacturing and mechanical Industries numbered only 00,215 , and in 1S90 they numbered C2S.SS7. Seventy years HKO thcsei classified as agricultural workcra In Pennsylvania were moro than twice a nu- meirous as thotje working in mechanical In dustries. The conditions are now completely reversed , the last cenmi-j showing that C28- 000 mechanical workers were * employed here , against IJ2S.S73 agriculturists. The compiler of the bulletin , Mr. William C. Hunt , snyn : "Kxcludlns the District of Columbia from consideration , there > was no state or terri tory in 1S20 which did not have moro than one-tenth of Its total population engaged In agriculture , the percentages ranging from 12.13 in Massachusetts to11.60 In Indiana. In 1S90 , however , persons iicni-rcd In agri cultural pursuits constituted hut little more tlun 3 per cent of the' total population of Massachnsettu and Uliodo Itland , lent than 5 per cent of the total population of New Jcr- r'oy , a little more ) than C per cent of the total population of Connecticut. New York and Pennsylvania , and not quite ) 9 per cent of thu total population of Maryland. " Royal makes the food pure , vv.'iolcsomo ' nnd delicious. Absolute/ ! Pure ROYAL HAKIM POWDIR CO. , MOXKV TO IHIUJf IN ICANSAS. Now York Tribune ; Knnstia ho $ IS,000.- 000 more In bank deposits than It had on January 1 Issl. and with wheat at the dollar point the prospects of the free llverltra there run lower than the continually de creasing price ot that metal. The calamity howler there 1 out of buMne ? * , and Kanfta. * politics will go on swimmingly without him for eomo time to come. Springfield Hepubllcan : According to the populist state bank examiner of Kansas , Iho banks are no full of money that they are a * their wits' tcid lo know how to employ It : the people "have 'money to burn , ' " and a RO.OOO.OOO-bushpl wheat crop Is moving out of thu stateat high prices. No wonder thl bank examiner has fallen under the suspicion of hlfl fellow | > o\nil\rt5. \ \ He was ehemeii as a calamity howler and has proved faithless to his ( runt. New York Sun : The K.IHMS avlnpi banks are stuffed with money walling for borrowers. State Bank Uxamlner BrendcntlMl. populist aud sllverlte , myn officially that the * KaiiRnn farmers "have money to burn. " The t'nlloil Statcj currency sjstem Is good enough for Kani i . that famous school of calamity slngera. She doevn't need a lot of Mt.vo banks to Issue money for her , as many ot the b.ink currency cranks would like to SIH > . Neither docs any state of the union which , like ) Kansas , IMS goods to sell. \\IIITT1Fl > TO A POINT. PlillndelpliH Ueoord : The man with tin Iron will ami tmiscles of steel Is often iiiitreel uiion his mettle. Somervll'e Jeiurnnl : Homebody wnnt n ' ! * - ttnetlve American metre1. What's tlii > mut ter with meet her aa the HUH goes iio\\n ? Detroit Jotirnnl : "Havo you seen tombstone ? 1 bet It falls down In II-SM a month. " " 1 diippnre It will be Imnl to get evn a tombstone to stnnd up for Billing * " CleVe-laml P'nln Dealer : " 1 htvl n now peiiKntleni when 1 asked old Bullion for i.u eluughter. " "Thi'ii lie kicked you ? " "Kicked mo ? Tlmt wouldn't hnve li < vn n new sensation. He hit me on the Huso. " Cincinnati KnquirPr : "You me clurtiliijT me mont horrible prleies , " complained tlio prospectiveKlondlker. . "It I * just this \\ny , " sill : theScnttlo merchant. "You'll either strike it rich or freeze to doatii ; so ellner wny you won't miss the money you nre li'.ivliig behind. " Huston Tranierlpt : "I like n good drii-k of bill water In the morning : , hut wtan't Kt-t It let our hoiinlhiK lioti'e. " "I u i',1 t- > have thu same illlllculty In our lnnMIng liexixe , but new 1 take coffee.It nnswnt every puipope. " Judge : The Fat l/.vdy ( sweetly ! pnrelonl Did 1 ell em you , sir ? The I-.DIIII Mnn ( crnnklly ) You did , mud am. The Put I.mly ( brldilng-Oli ) , well , I tin re say you needed it. Washington Ktnri "My wife la very con- flUlorate-.of me , " cnld the yotniK imim-'il man. "She wis ; nfnild my rest wir < being Interrupted too much and last wt-i-k Blio bought a burplnr alnrm. " "Does It make any difference ? " "Yes , Insle'ail of getting up to son whether thrre are liui'Klnrs In the hnuso I gut up to wee whether the nhirm Is sot. " 1113 OOT IT ON HIS I2A11. Chicago Tribune. "If this little hand were mine , " he "If this Huh ; band wenmini1 " And IIP sighed nnd looked away from the bench , To the -Jilll top : ? , clad with pine. "And If It wore , " she murmured low , And blllsbliiKly bowed her htmil ; "What would you do with It , miiy I rtU ? " "I'el wash It , " he simply said. A I'AHAIIO.V. \VnslilDBton Stnr. Oh , wlmt n helpless lot we are In tills old world of woe ! It Is the very worst by fur That we can ever know. Eacli mourns because the o plans of hi * Are ninile te > cnll a hull ; His failure to reform life Is The other people's fault. There never was a mortal yet Who didn't H.-iy he hnil J motlon * of Intense regret Because thi < ) woild Is liiel. : Dut , somehow , mini can lind no way Its ntniiilarelt to exsill ; The Individuals all H.iy "It's the oilier people's fault ! " Know the value of appear ances. The poorer they are the more they hae to con sider how they dress , and the haiclcr it is for them to dress as they would like. No one need pay more than $15 for a suit of thoroughly well made clothes af good materials. The finer : loths cost more of courseand 5ne may indulge himself in uxurious trimmings , if he ikes , for a third less than the : ustom tailor charges for sim- larly good materials and work manship. Put even our lowest price : ! suits are as correct in cut and it as the host , if not quito so jxpensively finished , and no ) ne can make a good suit for ess than we can. Cheaper ; uits than ours are inferior in : very way.