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Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
FIRST FRUITS OF THE EXPOSITION.

Omaha, Nebraska and the transmits
sissippi states have already received
more effective advertising from the
Transmississippi Exposition than from
any other single enterprise ever under
taken in their behalf. The exposition
has been made the subject of discussion
and legislation in congress and dozen
state legislative bodies. 1t has been
called to the attention of foreign govern
ments by invitations to participate, and
it Is rapidly turning toward the west
the eyes of eastern capitalists and in
vestors. By means of the exposition
host of national conventions are being
induced to fix upon Omaha for their 1898
meeting place, and the information about
the west spread before these orSaniza-
tions is being disseminated by their
members in all parts of the country.
More important still, the progress of
the exposition has reawakened among
our own people confidence in them
selves and their abilities to push great
enterprises to successful completion.
This confidence is urging them on to
extend their business or embark in new
business ventures. What has already
been accomplished for the exposition is
an incentive to further cooperation for
public purposes, and the old-time cry that
this or that is too big for us to under
take is no longer common when any
great project is proposed. Confidence
of community in itself moreover be-
gets confidence of Others Men with
money are much more prone to invest
it in places where the people are
evidencing a spirit of push and progress
than in places where everyone is laying
back waiting for something to turn up.
We are seeing proof of this more and
more every day as the exposition takes
on more tangible form, and it in turn
reacts to the benefit of the exposition.
With such advantages accruing from
the preparations and preliminary work,
the people of Omaha, Nebraska and all
the other western states ought to bend
their energies with renewed vigor in
the great combined effort to make the
Transmississippi Exposition not alone
creditable to the wonderful region whose
resources and products it will illustrate
but success financially and artistically
second to that of no similar exposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

When the state treasury shortage was
first exposed to the public eX-Treasurer
BARLEY explained the whole trouble as
due to his self-sacriticing loans of public
funds to tide over banks in stratened
circumstances, and assured the people
that he had been paying over the state
money to his successor as rapidly as it
could be withdrawn with safety to the
banks, and would continue to do so. But
not one penny of the missing money has
been turned into the treasury since that
time. After such n bluff. it is only
natural that Bartley's defense should
rest entirely upon legal bubbles and
technicalities.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
A NOTEWORTHY UTTERANCE.

There is dissension in the democratic
party in New York, as there is, indeed,
throughout the country. There is great
stake to be fought for this year in the
municipal government of Greater New
York and the leaders are active in pre-
pairing for the contest. There is a fac
ton that supports the Chicago platform
in its entirety and demands that it be
endorsed. Another faction would ignore
that platform and make the fight on
local issues. AS now appears the former
is the stronger and it is certainly the
more aggressive. There has been some
doubt as to the attitude of certain lead
ers, ex-senator Hill especially. He has
made known that he is not in sympathy
with Bryanism and this fact is import
ant in its bearing upon democratic poll
tics in the Empire state, If not more
generally.
In speech made few days ago
Mr.. Hill said he believed the country
will be prosperous in the future and
declared that its financial policy "will
not be directed by cranks, demagogues
and political adventurers." There is no
mistalsing the meaning of this language.
Its application is perfectly obvious 1t
gives assurance that ex-senator Hill
has concluded that the time has come
for him to take decided stand and
that he proposes to be found in the COM
ing campaign championing the tradi-
tional principles OF democracy. Mr.. Hill
is a shrewd politician. Few men are
more sagacious in detecting the trend
of popular sentiment and in discerning
political probabilities. He expects pros
perity and he knows that prosperity
will be fatal to the free silver cause.
David b. Hill is still force in New
York politics and popocracy there will
find him IA formidable opponent
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
FORESTRY ADVANCING.
Preservation of Forests Commanding
Legislative Attention.

Legislative Attention.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
1t Is a gratifying fact that the proper
care and preservation of the forests of the
country is subject of growing importance
In our legislative bodies. The truth Is Eow
forestry are vital to the welfare of the whole
people. Congress and some of the state
legislatures are taking hold of the matter.
and a number of important laws are al
ready on the statute books. While congress
has extended the date of the majority of the
the postponement until March 1 next Is to
ascertain the rights of lawful settlers, and
not to permit inroads upon the forests. A
short time ago President Mckinley laid be-
fore the senate detailed report Of the
Forestry commission, selected by the Ma
our public lands. The report touches on the
permanent evils that have resulted in
Europe from the reckless slaughter Of forests
and 1t makes the point that herdens are
sometimes more to be dreaded than lumber
men. 1t is not proposed to close the forest
reservations against miners or settlers ex-
cept by restrictions against waste. The COM
mission would use, but not abuse, the 40,-
100000 acres included in the reservations.
The state of New York stands well to the
front in forestry. 1t now owns SO2 900 acres
in the Adirondacks, and has an appropriation
of 81 100000 in hand to eniGrge the reservl-
tion, which will eventually embrace $500, 900
acres. Prompt action Is necessary, for the
Adlrondacks are stripped OF wood and timber
at the rate OF 100000 acres a year, and land
sharks throw every impediment possible In
the way OF the state authorities. Pennsyl-
vania has a forestry association. but the
state has been slow to support its efforts.
Meantime the lumber industries of the
state which produced s22. 900 900 in 1879, arc
vanishing. On the Merrimac river large
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
Chinese Before Columbus.


II reports Of recent discoveries in Poly
nesia and Mexico are to be relied upon it
would seem as though corroborative evil
denue had been secured of the existence of
the Chinese in Mexico before the Christian
era 1t Is a singular fact that about the
timo of the discovery of a rock covered with
Chinese inscriptions in the state of Sonora
Mexico, there should be found In the Caro-
line islands evidences that a lourishing
trade was carried on between China and
Mexico by way OF those islands at least
twenty centuries ago. 1t has long been
theory of some ethnologists that the Aztecs
and our own Indians had their origin with
the Chinese or Japanese and that the Alas
kans, too were of oriental origin. 1t would
not be astonishing to learn that the Chinese
whose empire seems to reach back almost to
tho beginnings of time, had explored and
settled this country centuries before Colum-
bus was born. The question then arises,
who was the original Denis Kearny who
said the Chinese must go?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
American Rails for India.

UIUDt-lJtfnOcTat.
Maryland steel company, according to
this weeks Iron Age, has captured a large
order for steel rails for India. This is a
notable American triumph. Heretofore In
dia generally obtained her supplies of this
sort from Europe, particularly from England.
When the pool here broke a few months ago,
however steel rails in the United States
dropped in price to % line below the British
rates. The price has advanced since then,
but 1t is still notably low. OF course the
increase in demand which will come through
the general business improvement will send
prices of steel rails as well as of all other
important commodities up, but for the time
being purchasers can get these articles in
this country on almost as favorable terms as
can be had anywhere in the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Springfield Republican: 1t was a good
speech which President Mckinley made at
Nashville. Stir 1--WE can remember time
when, il the then president had made it, It.
would have beeh talled "encyclopedic" by
quite chorus 6f newspaper voices,
Globe Democrat; President Mckinley said
at Nashville: tsNhateyer adverse conditions
may temporarily impede ths pathway of our
national progress pothing can permanently
and croakers will labor in vain to break it
down.
Philadelphia -farees; President McKinley's
visit to Nashville and his address at its Cen
tennial exposition will be a reminder to tho
country at large that worlds fair Is now
in progress al Nashville in celebration of
Tenneseee's admission to the union. which
1t is well worth the while of people far and
near to visit and inspect. President McKin
ley's address, HAe all his public utterances
OF this characteT lis apt and suitable TO the
occasion. patrotic'and sympathetic in its tone
and breathes a spirit of broad nationality.
Phiadelphia Ledger: After all the United
States is a republic, and nothing illustrates
the fact better than the Importance attached
to the presidential office. President McKln-
ley's official visits to New York and PhIla-
delphia in connection with the recent demon
strations in these cities. gave to those af-
fails a popular Interest which they could
not have had in any other way. while his re-
ception at Nashville. now in progress, could
scarcely be surpassed by a royal fete. Thou
sands OF people from many miles around the
city have focked to Nashville in anticipation
of his coming, today has been declared a
public holiday In his honor, and all along his
route he has been received with the loudest
acclaim and the greatest demonstrations Of
respect.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
AROUND THE BEND.

Cora Stuart Wheeler.
There comes a time just once a week
When nothing matters much;
I'm waiting for step / know,
smile, a voice, a touch;
Hes coming, coming" sings the wire.
With sweet proSaic jar,
For Dick, my Dick, dear fellow,
Takes common, five-cent car.
But never maiden rich and fair
'Mong cushions satin fine,
In gown of silk and laces rare
Had dearer love than mine.
So every Saturday ! wait
The happy moment when
His car comes swinging round the bend,
And Dick has come again.
He glances up; know II, though
| will not let him see;
For not yet may i tell him
That / love as fond as he.
Then comes the bells far tinkle
And the maids reluctant feet,
And then l hear him on the stair,
And then at last-we meet.
My heart beats so | cannot speak
He thinks me coy and cold;
1t is because of depths of love
The which | have not told.
But when the autumn leaves are crisp,
When snow has come again,
Dear Dick will be my own my own!
Perhaps I'll tell him then.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

In Ohio the silver democrats have
rigged up their convention call so as to
exclude from participation in their party
nominating machinery all who did not
vote for Bryan last year and who do not
subscribe to all the doctrines in the
Chicago platform. With such pressing
invitation to stay out from under the
banner OF democracy, the sound money
men of Ohio ought to be encouraged TO
help repeat the lesson of 1896 for the
benefit of the debt-scalers and repudia-
tionistA
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

No one in this part of the country OBJ
jects to the Chicago newspapers having
all the special trains they may require
to carry their papers to their patrons.
But the people of the west object de-
cidedIy to being taxed to pay for al
legged fast mail trains whose sole benefit
accrues to the Chicago papers. Let us
have the mail trains we are paying for
and let the Chicago newspapers pay for
their own special trains.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

The cost to the taxpayers of the prose
cution of n defaulting official like Bart
ley is something enormous. But they
will gladly stand this burden If the trial
result in strict justice and put damper
on public thieying for all future state
officials
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

The railroads seem to be getting along
very nicely without pooling law and
to encounter no great difficulty in evad-
ing the anti-pooling decision of the SUI
preme court. Why they should be
apparently so anxious to have the anti
pooling clause of the Interstate law re-
pealed is mystery solvable only by
railway men on the inside.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

An Omaha minister put it to a vote
of his congregation Sunday whether or
not in view of the oppressive heat he
should dispense with his discourse, and
the response was unanimous in favor of
listening to the sermon. Is not this u
sign of religious devotion that would do
credit to any community?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Philadelphia Ledger


Correspondents in the Orient continue to
assert that there is great danger that the
Greco-Iurkish war will not only be re-
newed but will involve the greater powers,
and some confirmation of their belief is found
in the report that Bulgarian marauders have
invaded Turkey. If the chronic fighters OF
tho Balkan states take a hand in the proceed
ings, there is no telling how far the trouble
NAV SDread
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Senator Thurston has expressed him
self in favor of anneXing Hawaii. Per
haps it might not be out of place to re-
mind the senator that Canada is con
siderably nearer Nebraska and has sew
eral times the population, wealth and re-
sources of the little Pacific mid-ocean
reDublic
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Our amiable contemporary bestows
editorial praise upon "our excellent fire
department" Would that it could with
equal cause speak of "our excellent
police department" But alas, the
record of unpunished burglaries, high
way robberies and murders puts that
out of the question for the present.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

May and June are always the months
when the suicide mania manifests itself
most prominently. That is no reason,
however, that Omaha should do more
than its share to- swell the number of
Observation-Disclosures If SO many people
must commit suicide every year, we
should be willing to let the other COM
munitipS furnish them
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Jones of Arkansas continues his sena-
torial grandstand plays against trusts
ana combinations. Jones is the man
who is organizing a new cotton trust,
capitalized in the millions of dollars and
processing to control patents that will
give 1t an absolute monopoly of the bale
cotton business.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
A CHnnce for Train.

washington star.
II George Francis Train wearies In his
enterprise of claiming the propretorship of
omaha, he might turn his attention to Jack
son City. A large number of people who
believe that any Kind of a change there
would be for the better would be glad to see
him establish a title to the place, provided he
would undertake to run it..
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

The National Electric Light associa-
tion will be warmly welcomed should it
conclude to meet In convention in
Omaha during the exposition year. No
one subject more completely embodies
the wonderful spirit of material progress
which distinguishes the close of the
century than the application of electric
ity To commercial uses.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
LAUGHING MATTERS.

Puck: Van Dabble-This is my latest pic
ture l sold ii yesterday.
Yisitor-lndeed? You are genius!
Chicago Post: She was heartbroken
"My beautiful bathing suit is absolutely
ruined" she moaned.
How did it happen?" asked her mother
anxiously.
II accidentally got 1t wet"
Truth: Mrs. Newed-Was nervous dear
during the ceremony?
Miss Sptefu-Well a trhe at first dar-
ling, but not after william had said Eyes"
Cleveland Leader: He-June Is the month
of weddings, isn't it?
She-Oh. Herbert, why didn't you speak
earlier and give me more time to get
ready?
Chicago Tribune: Several times during
the delivery of his commencement day ora
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
THE DEE ON TRAINS.

supplied with enough Bees
to accommodate every pns-
senger who wants to read
newspapers. Insist upon hnv-
ing The Bee. II you cannot
get IN bee on n train from the
news agent. please report
the fnct, stating the train md
rnilrOad, to the Circulation
Department of The Bcc. The
Bee IL for sale on NIL trains.
INSIST ON HAVING THE BEE.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Strawberries from the south or from
the Pacific coast may be the first in the
market and make the most beautiful ap-
pearance on the table, but when it comes
down to real quality and flavor. the
delayed homegrown Nebraska Iowa
strawberry is not to be excelled any
yyharp
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Instead Of moping at home and rend-
Ing illusory walls OF impending calamity
and delayed prosperity In popocratic
papers walk abroad and contemplate
your city, which shows in every street
and block the influences of revlving
business and better times.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Quite as many citizens are kicking at
the hot weather MS were heard to com
plain of the continued cold And in the
meantime the corn, which supports all
classes of men and all branches of in
dustry, keeps on growing under the rays
of the sun
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Chicago Times-Herald.

An Omaha man who wandered away from
nome awhile ago returned home the other
day and startled his friends by insisting that
he spent seven days in hell" 1t was sub
Gequently learned that he was not so very
far amiss In his statement after all; he had
been aimleasly wandering about st. Louis
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

The stomach of the "human ostrich"
who has been living on scrap iron and
broken bottles, has been successfully
emptied. Now let some of the default
ing officials and other rapacious crea
lures be forced to disgorge.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

The way to capture a national CON
ventiOn is to go out and work for it.
If you don't want to help in the cam
paign. at least refrain from backcapping
it. This is not the time to let personal
grievances stand in the way of the pub
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

The president has all the information about
cuban affairs now which he needs and is
justified in giving that information deliberate
and careful consideration. If he takes his
time he is not likely to make a mistake.
Something certainly must be done sooner
or later to remove the Spanish nuisance off
our southern coast
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Railroad men say the passenger busi-
ness is picking up, and, what delights
them more, the improvement does not
rest on the indiscriminate distribution
of free passes.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
PARTIES LEAVING FOR THE SUMMER

Parties leaving the city for
the summer can have The
Bce sent to them regularly
by notifying The Bee busi-.
ness office in person or by
mnil. The address will be
changed as often ns desired.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

BY the time suitable passenger sta
ton is completed in Omaha it will have
conclusively proved its right to exist on
the theory of the survival of the fit
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

lie welfare. Omaha is wrapped up in
the success of the exposition and the sue
cess of the exposition will depend
largely on ATTRACTING visitors at the
same time to a conventions, congresses,
encampments9d :f
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

What cheap way the new Royal
Victorian order opens up for the queen
to reciprOcate the fayOrs of the numer-
Gus. presents received from so many
different sources on occasion of her dia-
mOnd jubilee Of continuous ruling SOW
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

1t cost $7,O00,OO0 to connect Paris and
Marseilles with an underground tele-
graph. 1t is needless to add that the
telegraph system in France is owned
and operated by the French government.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
A Newspaper Deficit.

chicago Times-Hefald.
a Lincoln, Neb.. paper says editorialy:
In the eleven months ending with May
our expenditures exceed our receipts by
about $33,O0OO0O." Such deficit as that in
time Is bound to knock a big hole in the
profits of even a Nebraska daily
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15


Five hundred public horseless carriages
viii be placed on the streets of Paris after
July l, and a large number of cabbes are
practicing on them in the suburbs. The
drivers will be called chauffeurs, and the fare
proposed is one franc.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Perhaps If that Spanish mission We're
raised TO the plane of an ambassador
ship the rush for appointment might
be stimulated
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Detroit Free Press: "Well--well--it Is sad
to see pedestriansm waning into lost art"
Lost art Not much; since the advent OF
wheels and trolley cars the human race is
twice as nimble as 1t used to be-"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

The farmers are said to be generally
feeling good. That ought to be enough
to make most everybody else feel good.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

expect to have corn weather during the
corn season.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

tion he paused and took n drink of water.
He was very dry"
You mean he was very thirsty"
Yes he was thirsty, too"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Cleveland Leader: NO" he said at Is
impossible TO take something from nothing"
she picked a long brown hair from his coat
collar"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Truth Cholly (spl45hing about In thei
briny)-Oh, girls, ! love the ocean! 1t does
me good.
Miss Pert--Yes, and the salter the better.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

When 1t comes to raking targets of
European soverelgns it is apt to be the
most exalted that are the easiest hit
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Harlem Life: Parker-Whatl That your
mother? Why, she doesn't look old enough
to have daughter as--a-ahem-as-er-a
young as YOU
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
THE CROAK Err.
Cleveland Leader.

A croaker sat upon box
And croaked the whole day long:
Prosperity has not returned"
Was the burden of his song.
And so he croaked and croalIed and croaked
And never worked a stroke.
For had he worked he'd had no time
To sit up there and croak
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

Total .''.'.oEiV'
Less deductions for unsold and re-
turned copies ...................s''.ss''' V'"Hf
Total net sales .......,.........,.........6 .6l5S03
Net daily average Observation-Disclosures. 1881
GEORGE II. TZSCHUCK.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence this LIST day of June, 1897.
(Seal) N. r FELL,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15
srATEMENT or c1ncuI.Ar1oN.

State Of Nebraska Douglas County, ss
George -. Tzscluck Secretary OF The Bee Pub
nshing company being duly sworn. says that the
actual number OF full and complete copies OF The
Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
he of Max was ag follows.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

mot an exact one" said the Cheerful
Idiot. For instance, when a man has his
temper rufiled, his brows are knit"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-15

indianapolis Journal: THE face" said the
oracular boarder ''is an exact index to the