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Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
Personal AND OTHERWISE

II Barney Barnato's death was due to worry
over his millions ii goes to prove anew that
one can get too much of a good thing.
The eight islands comprising the Hawaiian
group have an area Of 1000 square miles,
population of 109, ,020, a debt Of $4,000, 600
ana the largest leper colony in the world.
There is something more than mere CO.
incidence in the fact that the summer so
Ciety exodus sets in at about the time when
the Cherry sisters are reported to be
headed this way.
grave objection to the annexation of
Hawaii is overlooked by opponents of the
treaty. 1t is the one-string Kanaka fiddle.
This country has an overproduction of one
string instruments.
Forty-five years ago this spring Joseph
H. Choate was the sautatorian Of his class
in Harvard, and his son. Joseph H. Choate,
jr., Is to be the class poet in the same in
stitution on June 80.
Moses Fielding an Indian, who died in
Norwich Conn, recently, was direct lineal
descendant OF Chief Uncas of the Mohegan
tribe of Indians. Only three members of
this tribe now survive.
One branch of the Pennsylvania Legislature
has been persuaded that it is bad business
for municipalities to compete with existing
franchsed corporations and has passed
bill compelling cities to purchase existing
electric light plants before erecting substl-
tute plants of their own.
=. NJ. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers who has been max
ing a tour through the west, says: The
entire west has the appearance of pros
perity. Much depends on the crops that
now promise so Well / hope the producers
may realize much from what they now seem
to have assured There is a growing con-
fidence in the coming of better times, and
the people appear to be willing to allow ma
tiers to work out in their natural way. 1t
takes time to recover from reverses. | take it
the whole west is recovering, and | am sure
the condition of the country is growing bet
ter in a healthy way"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
ELI PERKINS AS TRUTH TELLER


He Finds the Country Once Afflicted
by DrOuth Now Garden of Eden.
Under date of Orleans, Neb.. June -, Eli
Perkins writes as follows to the New York
Sun:
"The east can prepare to rejoice. You
would rejoice now if you could see the Won
derful crop of corn and grain which is now
waving over drouth region which has missed
crops for two or three years.
"Copous rains have come all over the far
west from San Antonio up through the
Texas Panhandle and on through Kansas
and Nebraska to Dakota. Western Nebraska
and Kansas are soaked with water clear up
to the Colorado border and the people are
wild with joy.
Il have passed over this entire country.
They have already harvested 10000, GOO
bushels of wheat in western Texas, and now
tho reapers in southern and western Kansas
are running in wheat fields loaded with grain.
Everywhere, wheat, corn, oats and rye could
not look better. Good times are coming
from the west to help Mckinley in the east.
For three years western Kansas and Ne
braska have lost their crops. Nebraska stood
tho drouth from Colorado to Lincoln for two
years, and then parted with her hogs and
cattle. Last year she had superb corn
again, but no hogs or cattle to feed 1t to.
Miles OF corn bins line the railroads. Corn
is selling for II cents a bushel and not
hog in sight Last years crop Is still In the
bins. They are waiting for the pigs TO grow.
BY fall pigs will be here and then two crops
of corn will be turned into pork,
"The railroads which will profit by this
wonderful crop are George Goulds Missouri
Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington Quincy,
Santa Fe, Rock Island and Union Pacific.
Tho ST. Paul and Northwestern are wheat
roads, and their crops in Dakota and Mime
sofa look fine
Nebraska is doubling her acreage of beets
and chicory. There is one chCOry farm at
O'Nein. Neb covering $500 acres. The old
McKinley bill put cents pound duty on
manufactured chicOry and let raw chicory
come in free. This policy brought twenty
seven chicory factories from France and
Belgium to America. The Wilson bill took
Cff that tariff aud the twenty seven Mckinley
chicory factories closed down and our money
went to Europe for chicory again. The new
Dingley bill puts 2h cents on the manufac-
tured chicory, cent on raw, This tarin
viii bring back the factories again, and
chlcory Will take the place OF much wheat
land in this country.
THE free silver craze In Kansas and Ne
braska is wearing out. They all say that
Cleveland hard times, the stopping OF fac-
tories in the east and bad crops in the west,
drove them to silyerism. When they were
drowning they caught hold OF anything
The prosperity which the big crops VIII
| bring TO the west viii make the railroads pay
| dividends set the 10000 idle railroad men
| west cf the Mississippi to work, make the
| farmer rich and happy, and Kill Bryan s
| silverism as prosperity once killed weaver
! ELI PERKINS.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
IMPROVE THE TRAIN SERVICE.

With the revival of business and the
noticeable Improvement of both passen-
ger and freight traffic on the railroads
it should soon become incumbent on
the managers of the railroads serving
Omaha and Nebraska to revise their
schedules of train service in the dfrec-
ton of more liberal accommodation of
the public. No one asks or expects an
immediate return to the prodigality and
eXtravagance that characterized the
boom times when special trains were
run in and out of, empty townsiteS and
freight hauled often ut an absolute pc
cuniary loss. But since the financial
depression beginning in 1893 western
roads have been steadily cutting out
trains that they thought could be spared
temporarily and reducing service to the
minimum consistent with the acceptance
of all business offered. For some time
they have been operated at the low
water mark so far as the number and
character of trains are concerned,
greatly to the Inconvenience if not detri-
ment of their patrons.
The time seems to be approaching
when it cannot be considered any
thing unreasonable for our people
to demand of the railroads 4
gradual expansion of accommoda-
tions for travel and transportation
in Nebraska and surrounding states.
This is no more than natural when it
is taken into consideration that the
movement for improved train service is
making Roadway in other parts of the
west Kansas City, for example, is just
rejoicing in the success of its efforts
to secure more direct and effective mail
connections east and west by the addi-
ton of two new special mail trains TO
be put on by the Santa Fe July |, from
which great advantages are expected to
all cities and towns along the route.
Kansas City boasts that the recent re-
vision of the Missouri Pacific train
schedule in it's favor was the result of
the activity of its business men and an
nounceS still further improvements likely
to be made in the near future that viii
put II III Dettef cOnulllOn 10 compete
with other commercial centers on equal
footing.
If the railroads centerng in Kansas
City can be induced to make changes
and additions in the public interest there
is no good reason why, upon proper rep.
resentntion from shippers and patrons
the different railroads centering III
Omaha should not be persuaded to make
similar concessions. The prompt and
expeditions delivery of the mails and
! the opportunities for country merchants
and buyers to make quick trips TO the
city without unnecessary waste of timl
are all-imp0rtant factors in building VI
the business of a community. A little
energetic work along this line ought
to bring valuable results.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
ANNEXATION COMMENT.

Buffalo Comm ercial rcpN: The alleged
threatening attitude Of Japan hardly seems
sufficient warrant for making Hawaiian au-
ueNaton an exception TO the wholesome rule
lail down so explicitly by Secretary sherman
less tEau two years ago. There are uuques-
tion1bly other reasons for this radical change
Of policy and thcse reasons should be frankly
stated Tor public information and cnllghton-
ment, before final judgment is passed on
this important question.
New York Commercial Advertiser (repO:
The United States does not want the Ha-
waiiau archipelago. There is no place for it in
our federal system There is no room for
it under our flag. It's population Is Of the
most undesirable character. with it's tens Of
thousands OF Asiatic coolies its degraded
native elements and it's sprnkling of cosmo-
politan adventurcrs from every quarter of
tho globe. We have quite enough objection
able people under our institutions now, with
out adding to their nuihber and saddliug
ourselves with another race problem.
Springfield CMass) Republican dnd) The
presidents Hawaiian treaty is a painful
blundcr. When the patient is i'll with a
large aud staggering number of diseases
does the experienced and wise physician seek
to cucumber him with still another malady?
Are not Sufficiently afflicted already with
the tuberculosis of hard times, the nervous
prostratior of a disordcred money system
and the sleep killing hedlam of civil war In
ncighbcring Cuba to be spared at this time
Cling mass of 80, 600 Kauakas, $4,000 Japanese
and about 10000 Chinese, who form the bulk
of the heather population of the Hawaiian
islands?
Philadelphia Ledger OepO: With respect
to annexation, constituting, as 1t does, de-
parture from our national policy, iuviucible
reasons should be assigned before We decide
to erect a new territory, and eventually a
new state, in a group of islands 1000 miles
away. The possession Of such territory will
impose upon the government new duties
and new and grave responsibilities; and
| whatever may be the benefit to be con
| ferred upon Hawaii by becoming an inte-
| gral part of the union the effect of
| the relation upon the United States is the
Crucial question for us to decide. The
| only safe way to consider this matter Is
from the viewpoint OF American interests
American safety and American destiny
In acquiring additional territory for the
| hood of this territory must not be ignored.
| ADOPTING the statement of Senator White Of
| California az correct, there are about 5000
| Americans in Hawaii out Of a total pOpua-
| ton cf 100000. The population OF the
| island is Of a motley character. The Cfi-
| nese Q5. 0GO) and the Japanese OS,0GO) nearly
| equal the native population, and how the
! great issues of the suffrage and civil rights
| are to be finally settled in such cont
| munity SO as to bring them into something
| like harmony with the civil and political
| Institutions Of the American states is a
| problem which is certain to test the ability
| of the proGCundest statesmarship.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
the POSTAL CONGRESS.
Results of the Session Conservative
pnd Important.


The results accomplished by the Universal
Postal congress, the final session Of which
on Tuesday last was devoted to the formal
adoption of the revised general treaty that
VIII govern the management OF the Universal
Postal union, were important, though no
radical innovations were adopted by the dele
gates. The entry OF Korea into the Postal
uuion can scarcely ba regarded as a momCn-
tous event; but IL was a step In the dice
tion OF the completion OF the world post"
system. The Chinese empire having de
clared its purpose to observe the regulations
OF the union as soon as the organization ot
its service shall permit, and the Orange Free
state having expressed the hope that II will
soon be able to come in, the prospects seem
favorable for tho early realization OF pos
tai system which shall be universal in the
literal sense of the word.
\ material reduction " the intermediary
transit rates for postal matter charged by
countries like Belgium. over whose lines
large proportion OF the mails between con-
ttnental Europe and Great Britain and Amer
lea are carried; the decrease from 10 cents
to cents of the penalty colleciblc for un-
prepaid postal cards and the inclusion Of
typewriter circulars when sent in guam
ties of twenty or more in the same class with
printed CirCulars-thtse are the changes
made in the regulations which are OF gen
eral interest The proposal to adopt a uni
verSal international postage stamp WAS rele-
gated to future congress, although the prof.
cct to secure uniformity OF color In the
stamps used in the international mails seems
to be in line with that proposal. While the
changes made in the general postal treaty
were conservative enough, they mark prog
ress. The Postal congress seems to have
selected for its rule of action the motto:
Without haste, but without rest"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

The county board of Buffalo county
has refused to honor the reQuisition of
the county agricultural society for II
special tax levy for its benefit and thus
prccipitatcd the question whether or not
under the statute this tax levy is man
datory when prescribed conditions are
fulfilled. If as seems probable the courts
are called on to give an authoritative
Interpretation of the law, it will clear
the atmosphere on this matter which
has been the source of contention in so
many counties in the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

Iowa state institutions seem to be en-
joying peculiar streak of bad luck the
burning of the library of the state uni
vcrsity seemingly marking its culmina-
ton. The loss of the building can be
made good. but the loss of many of the
books must be irreparable for the reason
that no money can replace them. All
the great institutions of higher cduca-
ton, however, are being provided with
new modern library equipment, and we
may therefore expect to see the Uni
vcrsity of Iowa replace Its burned build
ing with magnificent new library fully
equal to the demands of its students and
teaching force.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
ITE
COLORADO WILL BE THERE.
Centennial state Moving for an ES-
hibit al the Exposition,
Denver Republican.

OF course Cotp;adp should be we'll repre-
scented at the transmits isGippi Exposition
to ba held in qYaha next year. About th.
there can be 40 quesi ion in the mind of
any intelligent Hltlzsn of this state
IL is well to.apnsker the matter now, al
though there would seem to be ample time
in which to prepare proper exhibit, The
exhibit should consist of complete repre-
3entation OF the products ard Industries OF
he state. There should be no aim TO give
undue prominence TO any one industry. II
should rather be the object to SHOW how
mplete ColoT.Go "a in itself ana conse-
quently how little dependent upon other
parts of the union.
C dorado should easily take the lead OF
al other states II the variety Of it's re-
sources were alone considered. It's indus
trial development is not as great as many
ether members OF the union, but one object
of ths exhibit would be to show the indus
trial oppcrtuntiCs existing here and the
openings for the investment Cf capital. II
II hoped that the state as a whole and every
community in it viii recognize the i'm
p1rtance OF making a proper showing al
Omaha when the exposition is opened In
order that this may be done the work Of
preparation should not be to long de-
laysd,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
TAXING ALIEN LABOR.

A remarkable law will go into effect
in Pennsylvania on July l. 1t provides
for levying Il tax of three cents n day
upon every alien male employed in the
state, employers being required to de
duct from the pay of such laborels the
amount of the tax and turn it over to
the county treasurerS. All employers
hiring aliens must make quarterly re-
ports To the county commissioners, fail
ure TO do which is punishable by heavy
fines, The Philadelphia American
thinks this law wise and necessary,
rendered SO by the large numbers of
aliens who nave crowded the mines
and workshops of Pennsylvania 10 the
exclusion of American workmen 1t
suggests that one effect of the law will
be 10 enhance the value of citizenship
in the eyes of all newcomers and un
doubtedly in this respect its operation
will be good, since il Is certainly de
srable that all who come to this country
from foreign lands to live and labor
shall become citizens. But Is such leg
islation in accord with republican prin-
ciples? Is il consistent With our pulid
cal system and with the spirit and pur-
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

The United States can take an effective
hand in the game of retaliation if other
nations insist on playing it. That seems TO
be the pu! port of Secretary Wilson's utter
ances on the subject of the discrimination
by several foreign nations against American
food products We want foreign markets,
but we can do without them. Foreign ma
tions want our markets ard they cannot
do without them-at least not without far
more inconvenience than will be compen-
sated by any advantage they can gain by
discriminating against us, We can stand
retaliation rather longer than they can.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

Freight rates on the great lakes have
reached the lowest point ever known. The
charge for transporting a buShel of wheat
from Duluth to New York and loading it
upon a steamer at the latter port is now
about cents, or hardly one-half of the rate
prevailing a few years ago. The season
rate for ore fran the head Of the lakes to
Lake Erie ports fs now only G5 cents against
81 O5 last year A chief cause of the de.
cline is the deepen1ng of the channels and
Use of ships of larger tonnage than was
possible formerly Vessels of 5000 tons
are now becoming cbmmou, where previously
a 1900 ton ship was rarely seen,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

The delay of the charter decision
should not be permitted to delay the
preliminary proceedings for repaving
and other street improvements. The
petitions now out should be completed
without interruption, so that the author
tiles may be in position to act SO soon
as they are enabled to sell the improve
ment bonds already voted and let the
contracts in time to have the, work fin
ished during the present season.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

With the everyday citizen of Omaha
the question of police reorganization is a
plain business proposition. He has been
paying taxes for police protection and
not getting more than half his moneys
worth. He does not care particularly
how many uniformed policemen walk up
and down the streets or what their creed
or politics. What he wants is the main
tenance of law and order and the secur-
ity Of life and property. lie wants the
police force directed by competent
chief who has had experience, not only
in handling criminals, but also in en-
forcing discipline over a body of men.
He wants n chief who has had expert
ence, not with one class of criminals
only, but with all classes of criminals
He wants finally chief who viii at
tend to police business and leave politics
to the politicians. This is business pure
and simple.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

Members OF congress often change
their minds upon important pending
measures after having had an Oppor-
tunity to 90 home and consult with
their constituents. Perhaps postponing
the consideration Of the Hawaiian an
neXation treaty over the extra session
recess may have some such effect on
some of our senators.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
POINTED onSERV ATOMS.

Puck: Bacon-Each salmon, it is said, pro
Egbert-And they don't cackle about it.
either.
Cincinnati Commercial: Love is a halucl-
Ieve that they can set up housekeeping ON
a gas stove and canary bird.
brooklyn Life: The Fond Mother-Every-
body says he is such pretty baby! am
sure the poet was right when he said that
The Uncle unfeelingly)- he should
have added, 80 does everybody else"
indianapolis Journa,: Ever notice" asked
the boarder who thinks he is sarcastic, what
a chilly reception man. gets when he walks
at seems to me" said the Cheerful Idiot,
that It would be better form for him to
walk in on pair of feet
Chicago Post; You seem to have taken
quite fancy to Miss Barnes"
yes. She's ,;., a very strong girl" ,,,
shes the right kind of a girl to take out
or a tandem. l never was fond of work my
self"
Detroit Journal: Trouble" repeated tho
hostess host, Sin. in speaSng Of it afterward' you
give such function You lie awake nights
to make up the list of those whom you won't
invite, and even then there win be painful
omissions. 1t is provoking to please some
body you really wanted to hurt"
Missouri are commended by the Washngton Post
tonic for the poet laureate of England:
Lite Willie, from the mirror,
Licked the mercury all off
Thinking, in his childish error,
At the funeral. Wies mother
Smartly said to Mrs. Brown:
"'Twas chilly day for Willie .
When the mercury went down"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

The new Gulf railroad will be in opera
fltu this week over continuous line
from Kansas city to Port Arthur with
ell the southern gaps completed. The
management of the new road has prom
isrd fe run into Omaha before the sum
m .r Is ended II is 10 be hoped their
Ntprtfafiols in this direction will b.
auickly realized.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT.
DIR. Dana Gives His Impressions of
Present Conditions.


The indications of improving business
conditions begin to be recognized by the
most conservative observers as unmistak
able and they are appearing in all parts OF
the country simultaneously.
The more hopeful outlook is practically
demonstrated in the more confident tone of
Wall street speculation. The influences pro-
ducng bear or bull markets there may seem
to be caprcous and ephemeral at the mo
ment, but in the long run they are indica-
tive of business conditions actually pre-
vailing. The stock market does not rise
steadily from a low level or descend stead
lily from high to a low level, unless there
is in such conditions sufficient reason for
the change.
Simply from a study of the variations of
prices at the stock exchange the general
tendency of trade and industry, whether
toward prosperity or downward TO adversely
can be pretty accurately measured for con-
siderable periods of time in the past Prices
are determined by something more than the
bowling and the bustling on the floor Of
the stock board. The brokers only
puppets moved about by forces operating
over wide field. and reaching every de-
partment of business and industry.
Governor Flower and other cool and com
petent observers who have travelled re-
Gently over the union have discovered evil
dences satisfying them that Improvement
has begun everywhere, slowly but actually
The increasing confidence in speedy set
tlement of the tariff question, not merely
for this congress, but also probably for
long time to come. is giving spur to bust
ness, which needs the basis of such a set
tlement on which to build substantially.
Moreover we have now adminstra-
tion which depends for its justification on
substantial prosperity for the country. For
four years up to the 4th of last March
the whole spirit and tone of the white
house was bearish. Everthing was wrong
with the republic. according TO the Cleve-
land administration. because the people
resented it's depressing influence. 1t was
dead weight upon the country. That weight
having been removed, there begins TO be an
elastic upspringng of every industry which
promises 10 become bound in due time.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

In their fight the creamery men seem
to have the better of the butterine manu-
facturers SO far. Notwithstanding the
commonly prevailing notion that butter
inc Is stronger than butter
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22
A BOSTON BELLE.


She mastered all the points of etiquette with
great facility:
In earning to play whist she showed
markable ability; .... ~ ..t .5.
She understands the harp and plays the
violin DELIGHTFULLY."-:
A discord--if it's not the Wagner kind
annoys her frightfully.
She sings, and paints, and rides to hounds.
and dances very prettily;
She speaks the French of Paris, and she
talks in German wittily:
AL modern ways to charm young men, in
fact, have been disclosed to her:
But she can't bake pot of beans-so no ono
has proposed to her.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-22

There is no necessity to handy words
with eX-Queen Lii on the annexation
treaty. The United States cannot recog-
rights in the affair and there are Sutii-
cicnt good reasons why the proposed an
ncXation should be rejected without ref
erence to the status of eX-Queen Lii or
her friends and supporters.