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Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
personal AND OTHERWISE.

The car Of Russia has decided to take his
summer vacation alone. Mrs. Car is com
pletely absorbed in designing baby clothes.
Sim Francisco. a Butler. Mo. lawyer. who
is the proud father of a recently arrived pair
of twins. has named the youngsters Gold
and silver"
Prof. Glibschin of Saddle Creek is incubat-
ing a movement for the free and unlimited
coinage of golden corn. If this isn't trea-
son, where are we at?
Serious doubts are rearing their hideous
heads in Farmer BANDS mental garden as
to the efficacy OF free coinage as a specific
for plutocratic army worms.
General Francis \. Walker of Massachu-
sets is reported in fairly good health and
bravely bearing up under the weight of seven
college degrees, recently conferred.
a Chicago girl fell three stories, landing
heavily on her jawbone without fracturing
il. The incident unlocks for her a vista
of possibilities as a campaign orator.
"a birthstone trust is proposed from
New York. The current belief Is that there
has been a fellow at the head of such a trust
for long years past, and that he has done a
big business.
James H. Eckles, comptroller of the cur
rency, takes no interest in athletics. He
does not ride a wheel or anything else. The
only exercise he takes, according to a jealous
silver organ, is confined to his mouth.
Ii Hung Chang has been amazing the
Germans by his capacity for food and drink.
At the banquet given him by the Electro
Technic society in Berlin he consumed two
bottles of champagne and part of a third
within two hours and went away straight
and sober. Although he is over 20, he
has shown surprising vitality and seems
never to get tagged out.
Pilgrimages to the Hermitage, Andrew
Jackson's old Tennessee home, net the asso-
citation in charge a sufficient income to keep
the house in repair. a great increase in the
number of visitors is looked for during the
summer and fall. Democracy's wheel-horses
who nave drawn inspiration from his life
only to find themselves kicked outside the
breastworks, Knocked and jeered at by the
mob, should journey there and amid hal
! lowed surroundings register the vow OF
Henry Watterson, " no compromise without
6iShonor
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
SOME OID-TtMIsRS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Durgin are hale ard hearty
PEOPLE, living near Portland. Ne. Mr..
Durgin Is 1O2 years Of age aud his vile 20.
Mrs. Mary Putnam sharpe OF Pomfret,
Conn. now "a years Of age. is the only
surviving great grcat-grRnddaugAter Of
General Israel Putnam.
An old lcdy in Brussels who recently eel
cbratcd her 1toth birthday relates that
when Napoleon passed through her native
village OF Fumay in 1910. a peasant having
fallen on his knees to ask q favor, the en-
pCror said: Get UP and mover knccl except
to God"
Mrs. Ellis Of Sidney, Me. who will ae
100 years old next January. Is in the full
possession Of her faculties. Some one asked
her the other day II she intended to cplc-
brate her centenary with a Jubilee. "Ii-
bilcc?" she rctortcd. Me have a jubilee?
Why, bless you, | have a juhilce every day"
Mrs. Abigail Bush Of Oakland, Cal, who
was the first woman to preside over a
woman suffrage convention in this country,
Is now Sc years old. Notwithstanding her
great age she is active and vigorous and in
tends to stump the state in the interest
of woman suffrage during the present cam
paign. The convention referred to over
which she presided was held in Rochester,
II. Y, in 1S4f.
Enrolled among The members Of the
WadSwOrth Chaptcr Of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution says the Boston
Transcript, lis one real daughter Of the
American revolution, Mrs. Mary Mclean
WHY'S, living in East Glastonbury, Conn,
at the age Of % years. Her father, James
Mclean, was a member of the Putnam
Guards, fought at Bunker hin and was
twice a prisoner. He die in 1916, aged 81
years. Mrs. Wyllys is living in a house
built before the revolutionary war and
bought by her father some years after his
morrinpp -
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

American people will not permit the
free silver policy to succeed are unwill-
ing to extend their operations before
the popular verdict has been rendered.
Under such circumstance there can
be no doubt that the policy of bust
ness men will be TO allow matters to
float along until November. so that
when the election is over they will be
prepared for whatever the result shall
involve. In the meanwhile the postal
revenues of the government must suf-
fer with everything else,
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
Electricity at the Exposition.

FVFVcTW TTFVVTTVIdH,
Omaha expects to hold an international eX-
position in the year 1898, beginning in June
and ending in November, that shall eclipse
the Atlanta exhibition and be second only
to the Worlds Fair. Preparations for the
exhibition, which will bear the name of
the Transmississippi and International Ex-
position, are actively under way, and the
general government has made a generous
appropriation. Omaha citizens are entering
into the project with great enthusiasm, and
a representative board of directors is en-
ergetically making the preliminary prepare
tions. The department of electricity will
be one OF the most important in the show
and Will me housed in a separate building.
An effort will be made to induce the en-
cheering and technical societies to hold
their annual meetings for 1898 in Omaha
in conjunction with the exposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. SUNDAY, july 10, 1896.

publican, platform is a distinct and un-
equivocals declaration for the main
tcnancc ofr,the gold standard as the
permanent policy Of the nation and it
is so regarded by everybody who can
read it dndtrstandingly. 1t proposes TO
promote .the free coinage OF silver by
International agreement, but it does not
contemplate, as mir. Bryan asserts, the
substitution of bimetallism for the gold
Standard because that is impossible.
The gold Standard may be displaced by
the silver standard, as in Mexico, China
and Japan, and that is what the policy
represented by Mr.. Bryan would ne
COmDliSh.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
A POPULISTIC DEMAND.
The Douglas County Currency Scheme
Dissected.

The populist program is alarming enough
when guardedly declared in the platforms
adopted at the national conventions of the
party, but the extremely radical views held
by the great majority of the %populists are
more faithfully reflected in the resolutions
passed at county conventions which do not
excite attention throughout the country.
Some of these local and minor conclaves
go to great lengths in the expression of
doctrine. and doubtless disclose the real
purposes and ultimate designs of the reac-
tionary and revolutionary party. At the
national convention of the peoples party of
1882 a demand was made for a national
currency, safe, sound and flexible, issued
by the government only, and a just and
equitable means of distribution direct to
the people, at a tax not to exceed 2 per
cent per annum, to be provided as set forth
in the subtreasury plan of the farmers al
lance, or a better system; also by pay
ments in discharge of its obligations for
public improvements" At a meeting of
the Douglas county (Nebraska) populists a
few days ago a national currency was de
manded with a Just, equitable and sufficient
means of distribution direct to the people,
but only TO those who are willing to labor
for it upon unlimited public improvements
at a fixed and fair rate of wages"
These Douglas county populists not only
favor a national currency to be distributed
directly to the people, but they present a
comprehensive plan by which the money is
to be distributed, tOwit, to those who work
on unlimited public improvements" The
coming or printing of fiat dollars is an in
sufficient and incomplete system for making
everybody rich and prosperous. The rabid
free silverites who controlled the Chicago
convention failed to provide in their plat
form any scheme for the general distribution
of the 50-cent dollars; but the Douglas
county pOpulists have done so. and have also
devised a complete system for the employ
ment of everybody. 1t is a Napoleonic con
ception, a bold stroke in political economies,
and If gilded and Furnished by Candidate
Bryan's GlluTing rhetorical pyrotechnics ii
might have great vogue throughout the
country. 1t is one thing to coin 5O-cent
silver dollars by the carload, IL is quito
another thing for the public to get them
without working for them IN some fashion.
To the Douglas county statesmen it makes
no difference at all whether business Is halted
and credit paralyzed by silver imitation.
Work will be provided for all by the gov
eminent at a fixed and fair wage" In an
unlimited amount and for an indefinite pc
Rod There is not the slightest doubt that
this precious scheme OF public plumber
would be carried out II the populists had
full sway in the federal government, and
they are certain to foreclose the mortgage
they now hold on the democratic party by
demanding extreme socialistlc concessions OF
some sort il the democratic-populist alliance
should triumph in November.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
INcREASE nr HnMlctbr.

The somewhat startling statement is
made that during the last six years
there have been 1892 homicidcs in
this country, or 1917 Il year. over
twenty a day. In the same period
there have been 123 legal executions
and 1.lSS ly%nchings. This homicidal
tendency appears to be on the increase,
for last year 1O,5OO persons were killed
by violence and there were more than
twice as many homicidcs in 1895 rs in
tS3O. The thorough reader of the
daily papers will not have failed to
note the alarming number of homicides
daily reported.
1t is not easy to decide upon the
cause OF causes which conduCc to such
IL fearful record of life taking. Doubt
less the hard times have much to do
with the increase of murder. for when
there is no enforced idlcncsS. when
those willing to work can find employ
mcnt and there is general prosperity,
there is greater cOntpntmcnt among the
people ana fewer incentives to lIwlCsS-
ness. Under such Il condition the pas
sions of men are less easily aroused.
On the other hand, when great numbers
Of men who would gladly work are
forced to lead prccariouS lives the
worst instincts assert themselves. pas
siOrs are readily stirred and incentives
to crime of every degree are more
numerous. 1t has been many times
urgrnl that ono tbiup which anntributn.
no little to the increase of crime is
the laws delay, because it takes away
from the evil doer the fear of Just
and swift rctributiOn. There can BE- no
question that there are defects in our
criminal law system and that new
trials, appeals and Il resort to the finest
spun tcclnicaliticS all help to shield
the accused and in many instances to
defeat the ends of justice. The knOwl-
edge of these things is in no small
degree responsible for lynchings. men
constituting themselves both Judges
and cNecutioncrS in cases where they
are apprehenSive that justice will not
be meted out by law. In an address
made soma time ago Justice Brewer of
the supreme court of the United States
referred TO the defects in our criminal
law system and suggested remedies.
This matter of the increase of hOmi-
cides is well deserving of serious
public attention and especially of the
attention of the courts Of the land.
which it is not unreasonably believed
- do ,,tt,l Eos. ,1,a.l.;r. -, 1,,.,:..
this form of crime, as we'll us all others.
Too great lcnicncy on the part of
courts is Il general complaint md re.
form in this respect has long bcen
urged. We have no data showing how
the United States compares with other
enlightened nations in the number Of
homicideS, but there is reason to be
lieve that y comparison would not be
favorable TO this country.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
"JEs' THE BOY ! usT 10 me-"

Written for The Bee.
When the blush Is on the summer
An the land Is fun o. bloom,
An | see the corn agr0wln',
As my nose drinks In perfume;
Then my heart is feelin' happy,
My, IL makes me think I'ze young.
Want ter jcs git IN an dance round
10 the same old tunes I've sung.
An / sit an smoke in silence
Mid the hum o. honey bees,
Thinkin' all the OLD times over,
AS | feel the summers breeze,
Wanderin' over fields an mrddarS
Kind o. lazy like an slow
Same as Indiana zephyrs
Nigh ON city years ago.
An my thoughts gO wanderin' backward
To the time when lie a boy;
Wisht AT / could gee the world round
To that same old linWlne JOY,
Yen. jcs keep yer new inyenshuns--
Al yer wheels an sich frum me,
Only gimme back "A mlnnut
Jes' the boy ] ust to be.
My, the years jess 90 a hyin'.
Doesn't seem but tOther day
Since the time when Ize a yOungster:
Now TO think my hair Is gray,
An I'm nearln' that up yender,
Where / spOZe there's lots OF Joy,
Yet l know IL can't beat either
Them old days when Ize a boy.
HENRY ALLEN.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
How Free silver Will he.

VFTIN"NV TTTIVT VTiTW
Under free and unlimited coinage of silver
silver will be free only to those who are so
fortunate as to own uncoined silver bullion.
To all other Americans it will have to be
procured precisely as silver is procured
now-by working for it as wages or by SELL
ing something in exchange for it. And it
will be worth then only half what it is worth
now.
The people who imagine that under free
coinage of silver silver is going to be got
free by anybody else seem to be numerous
at the present time. Their numbers will
diminish steadily under pressure of common
sense until polling time in November.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

The courts have declared that 5000
900 of the Gould estate received by
George Gould is not subject to the in
heritance lax BECAUSE compensation
for services rendered according to agree
ment. Asa loophole for escaping the
inheritance TAX law this holds forth n
promising opening and it will be sur
priSing indeed if the device is not
brought into frequent use in states
which haEe such laws unless the laws
are nmendeA TO prevent.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

The suggestion is made that McKin-
ley open his personal campaign in Ne
braSka. by all means let Mckinley
come ont here and give the people OF
this state an opportunity to demonstrate
that FOR tue most part they are imbucd
with the principles Of honesty and firmly
set against any public policy that has
for its object the sealing Of debts and
the destruction Of credits.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

In the speech which made him the demo-
cratic nominee for president the Boy de-
clared that the upholders of the gold stand
ard should mot press down upon the brow
of labor this crown of thorns,' but he in
Slsts on pressing into the hand of labor a
53-cent dollar. He declared that the de-
tenders of the public credit should mot
cruelty mankind upon a cross of gold but
he promises to gibbet the United States as
a thief for the world to eXecrate.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Bryan keeps talking about the issue
being between an American financial
system and an English financial sys-
ten. But he says nothing about the
demand made by his platform for an
English income tax system and an
English tariff system. He would jump
ut English free trade if he had half n
chance. But because England has
sound money he thinks this country
ought to 20 into the debt-scaling and
reputation business
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Louisville Courier-Journal Cdem.D.
Sewall, Bryan's running mate. is not only
the richest man in Maine, a railroad mag
nate and a bank president, but he is a rank
protectionist. a member of that officious pro-
tective organization, the American Tariff
league, and went to Chicago to try to Sc
cure the adoption of a ship subsidy plank
similar to that in the republican platform.
He can well stand on the platform of the
Chicago convention, which repudiated the
cardinal democratic doctrine of a tariff for
revenue only" and substituted a plank in
the Interpretation of which all protection
lists can unite.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
IDYLS.

-
Cleveland Leader: What was the hap
piest moment of your life?'
ut was the moment when the jewele
took her engagement ring back and allowed
me half price for it
Chicago Record: II think all children
should learn early to say no.
Yes, boys should, of course, but wiz
girls there are times when they should be
prepared to say yes.
indianapolis Journal: "The butcher Of
fered me his hand this morning. said the
"Ycs'm, He tried to sell it to me with the
scales"
Cincinnati Enquirer: MY dear Jimson,
what is The cause of your joyful expression
of countcnance? Have you received a
fortune?"
Congratulations. And the hgure?'
IT'S a b-o-y!'
st, Louis Republic: He-Can you look
me in the face and say YOU believe all this
stuff about sea serpents?
look into your face the stronger my con-
viction becomes.
Texas SITTER: Il regret to tell you that
our engagement must end today. Here Is
your ring back said q San Antonio society
ance she had made at the Beach hotel IN.
Have you ceased to love me?' asked
Gus.
That's not the cause. ! have just re-
ceivod "A telegram from my husband that
he will be here on the next train"
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The charming
girl in the baby blue shirt waist Xawned
behind her translucent fingers. What is
the matter, Lucia?" queried the tall blonde
with the court plaster mole. The fair
yawncr ran her eyes over the piaZzaiul
of girls and then gazed at the solitary
young man coming up the board wall.
"Thcrc's too much 10 TO | In this business
TO suit me-" she lazily drawlcd. and
yawned again.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
Capacity of The Spnniards.
Minneapolis Tribune.

General Campos estimates that it will
take 10000 Spanish troops to put down the
rebellton; but General Bradley T. johnson
recently asserted that a certain division of
confederate cavalry, If now in its old fight
ing form, could march from one end of the
island to the other and overcome all OPP
position. If that is the relative fighting
capacity of Spanish and American troops.
how many men would Spain have to send
over to whip the United States?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Merchants may as well prepare them
selves for the various catch-penny ad-
yertising schemes which will bc sprung
upon them by fakirS in the wake of the
exposition, The assurance of the eX-
position affords the merchant II good
field for advertising, but the substan-
tial business man has long ago learned
by experience that the advertising that
pays is the advertising in established
reputable newspapers,
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

The Tennessee Centennial exposition
at Nashville will be open from May to
October, 1897 Inclusive. The managers
Of the Trapsmississippi Exposition can
do consideiabIo missionary work in get
ting creditible exhibits from the south
crn states by cultivating he goodwill
of The exhibitors at Nashville. The
exposition ut Omaha should have all
the best features of the exposition at
Nashville and n great many more.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

1t there, no matter what political fortune
may come to him. This is certainly
fiattering to the people of this state.
But there is nothing that can prevent
Mr.. Bryan from changing his mind at
any time he may choose to do so.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Mr.. Cleveland has appointed more
Judges of the supreme court than any
other president. The serious illness Of
Justice Field, who is an octogrnarian,
foreshadowS another supreme court va
cancy for him TO ill by appointment.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Now watch the oratorical prodigies
spring up in every part of the country
in competition for public favor. Youth
full %eloquence will soon be Il drug on
the market if it is To be rewarded with
political hOnOrs wherever it shows it
self
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Presidential candidates need not put
up signs, keep off the grass" nova
days. y day or two sutficcs to remove
all the grass in the vicinity of their
homes, signs or no signs.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Mr.. Bryan's position as editor is gain,
Ing for him the courtesy of the profes,
sion among the newspaper men who are
following in his train rs representatives
of the great papers of the country.
That, however, is about ms much com
won for him.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

The populists have secured Il one-fare
This is unfortunate for them. for it de
prives them of the opportunity to com
plain that the railroads discriminate
against them and in favor Of other
nnrtins
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

There are lots of people who would
gain if the debts they contracted by
borrowing 100-cent dollars could be paid
off with 5O-cent dollars. But fortu-
nately the number of people with that
idea of honesty is not yet large.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

General ]. b. Weaver, who ran for
president on greenback and populist
tickets, is profuse in his proteStations
of support for Bryan. Bryan opposed
Viewers candidacy, but Weaver sees
in him Il successor created in his own
imnua
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

We suppose thar if Bryan should
become president he would re
turn to the original custom of deliver
ing presidential messages to congress in
person. That would be about the only
opportunity for an oratorical executive
TO exercise his eloquence.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Public property should be confined to
public uses. Why should IL flag belong
ing to the state of Nebraska be sent
to Atlanta, Ga, to be used in Il partisan
political ratification meeting?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
RecoIoring the yellow Jacket.


NTTTFT0TNTT " T0VWTTTTTT'
The crowned heads of Europe are using
so much red paint in showing honor to Lii
Hung Chang that the distinguished China
man must have great difficulty in keeping
his famous yellow jacket free from evidence
of the big time he is having.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Ex-Governor Waite of Colorado is for
Bryan. If Tillman is for Bryan and
Pennoyer is for Bryan. Waite could not
consistently keep out of the band
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

For so young II man Bryan has writ
ten and spoken Il tremendous pile of
stuff that he doubtless now wishes
unwritten or unSaid.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

Parties going out OF the city for the
summer may have The Bee sent to their
address by leaving an order at the
business office of the Bee. Telephone 23S.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

IF free silver is not intended for the
benefit of the silver mine owners why
should the silver kings furnish the
democratic campaign funds?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

The mistake the Chicago convention
made was in failing to nominate Ed
ward Bellamy for vice president. Bryan
and Bellamy would have been an ideal
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

We can conceive how the %populists
might indorse Bryan. but how can they
put II populiSt stamp upon Millionaire
Spwall.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
GOSSIP ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Senator Vest in his younger days. they
say, when he was a plain lawyer, wore bears
oil on his hair and went to the dances in
Pettis county, Missouri, as the 'slickest"
beau on the floor. In the Virginia reel he
was the poetry of motion, and when he
tackled the heel-and-toe polka everybody
who didn't carry accident policies got off
the floor.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

indianapolis News.
Schlatter has reappeared in Guthrie. Okl.,
riding a bicycle and wearing a black robe.
1t is to be hoped that he is going to make
a specially of curing the scorching mania.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19
Rabbit Fool Outdou

chicago News.
MIR. Mckinley has shown his contempt for
Mr.. Bryan's rabbit foot by permitting him
self to be elected honorary member OF the
New York Thirteen club.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

An automatic hand-shakcr would be
an invention highly priced by many
eminent men at this season of the year.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-19

There is an incident in Governor Alt
geld's life says the Chicago Record.
which is not generally known. Having no
money to pay carfare or hire horses, he
walked from Mansfield, o., to Savannah,
Mo-, and when he arrived at the bank of
the Mississippi river he had just fifteen
cents in his pocket. He paid five cents for
his own fare across the ferry, and five more
for a fellow traveller who was broke The
rest of his capital was invested in a sheet
of paper, an envelope and a postage stamp,
which were used to tell the girl he left be
hind him that he had reached that point in
his westward journey and that his heart
was true to her"