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The Grenada sentinel., 1897-07-03

A full line Of Mosquito Bars
with frames and cords complete,
cheap ut Grifiis'.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-07-03

The cornerstone Of the new colored
Baptist church OF Grenada is to be laid
with appropriate ceremonies on July 3,
and the public is invited to be present.
The new church will be Il substantial
and commodious structure. which will
stand for ages as monument to the
efforts of the faithful pastor and con-
gregation who have made its erection
possible. Rev. Jerry Weathers, the
pastor, will be assisted in conducting
the cornerstone services by a number OF
local preachers, after which IA supper
is TO be served by the women members
Of the church. 1t will doubtless be a
pleasant occasion.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-07-03
GriftiS will sell ..NeckWear at
greatly reduced prices for the
next ten days. Cali for them.

OF a sample Of water from the famous
Gibbs spring, submitted to Prot A. l..
Metz, NJ. D., OF Tulane University,
New Orleans, whose authority as an
expert chemist is accepted every
where without question, he returns a
careful analysis, and adds that ''this
water is an alum and saline water, and
from sanitary standpoint it is very
satisfactory Since receiving the
analysis Mr.. J. E. Gibbs has filed
orders for some of the water from the
Mississippi State Hospital at Nicks-
burg, from prominent physician at
Jackson, and from noted practitioner
of medicine at Memphis, which
proves beyond a doubt the value of the
water.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-07-03

You may hunt the world over and
you will not find another medicine
equal to Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhea Remedy for bowel com
plants. 1t is pleasant, safe and
reliable. For sale by J. E. HUGHES,
Druggist.
The Grenada sentinel., 1897-07-03
Copying and TypeNritinH

June l9-lln.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26

correct ii is easy to forcscc what kind
Of currency revision the president and
secretary of the treasury will recon-
mend to- congress at the regular session.
although the latter was recently re-
ported as holding the opinion that re-
tircmcnt of the grccnbacks could not be
accomplished at present Whether or
not this is Mr. Cages belief it is n fact
ard it is pretty safe to say that it will
be very long time before there will
be Il congress favorable to such course.
The president says the sentiment of
the country is strongly in favor of early
action by congress to revise the currency
laws and remove them from partisan
contention. 1t is true that there Is
very considerable sentiment of this kind,
but ii is probable that the president
somewhat overeStimates It's extent. He
certainly does if he thinks that ma
jority of the people favor II revision that
would eliminate the legal tender notes
and give the banks the control of our
paper currency. But the president has
done what he could to satisfy the de-
mnnd of the currency reformerS and
this should end for the present the agita-
ton of this subject continuance of
which cannot bc otherwise than unfa-
vornble to Il restoration of the conditions
essential to prosperity.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26
PERIODS GOLD HrNTLNG.

1t is to little purpose, perhaps, to warn
those who have made up their minds to
seek fortune in the Klondyke gold re-
gion that it is Il most perilous undcrtak-
Ing. Most men who fall under the in
tluence of the gold craze will risk any
danger in quest of the yellow metal. 1t
is well, however. to state the fact thai
nowhere on the known earth is there Il
moro inhospitable region than that in
which the new discoveries of gold have
been made. 1t lies within the Arctic
circle and of course winter holds per-
petual reign there. the temperature fall
ing to 60 and 40 degrees below zero.
During six months of the year thcre is
no sunshine in that region and those
who have visited it say that in this
period it is indescrbably gloomy. 1t *
almost inaccessible and under the most
favorable conditions as to weather those
who go there must experience great
hardship before reaching their destina-
ton. BY October the Yukon river be
comes Il solid mass of Ice, transporta-
tion by this route stopping, of course,
much earlier Great difficulty will there
fore be found in keeping this region
proysioned and it is needless to say
that there is very little to be found there
for subsistence. In a word, it is re-
gion barren of almost everything neces-
sary to sustain human life and many of
those who have gone there have died
of starvation. Many more, there can be
no doubt will experience the same fate,
while some will succumb to the terrible
cold and to the hardships they will en-
counter.
Going to the Klondyke gold region is a
very different matter from going to the
Cripple Creek region. for instance. In
the one case the gold hunter takes him
self far beyond the pale of civilization.
while in the other he was within the
bounds of civilization and where there
was an abundant supply of everything
necessary to subsistence. But as we
have said however great the perls and
dangers of going to the Klondyke region
they will not deter those who are de-
sands of men will stake their life on
this chance and many will lose the
stake, while relatively few will reap
fortune even if the region should prove
to be as rich in gold rs the most san
guine believe it to be.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26
ASSESSMENT REFORM,

The state government of Nebraska re-
GuireS in direct taxation S1,200,OOO a
year in round figures. This amount
must be raised whether assessments OF
property are high or low. When the ap-
praised values go down the tax rate
goes up il proportion.
The policy of assessing property all the
way from onc-fourth TO one-tenth of its
actual market value has helped
only to assist the influential
taX-shirkers who can get assessors
to connive in undervaluation and
omissions to return taxable prop.
crty. The honest and conscientious tax
payers who constitute the great mass OF
the taNpaying citizenship gain nothing
by low assessments while the state at
large is seriously injured by unfayorable
comparisons of its wealth and resources
with those of other states.
The aggregate value of taxable property
in Nebraska is not less than 81 ,2OO,00O,-
OD0. This years grand assessment cred
its Nebraska with S1610O0,000 of which
amount more than one-eighth is in Doug
las county. The imperative necessity OF
Il thorough revision in our revenue laws
and an honest enforcement of their pro
visions governing assessments must be
apparent to everybody. The adjacent
state of Iowa, where the abuses from
which Nebraska is suffering have not
been so marked, has recently revised its
revenue laws through Il special revenue
commission. I hat Nebraska must in the
no distant future follow the example OF
Iowa is Il fOregone conclusion.
Those who favor assessments at actual
value have for several years been urging
the creation Of n special tax cOmmis.
sion for Omaha and separate as
scSSment for municipal taxation. The
problem now presents itself how 10 inau-
Eurate the proposed reform under the
new tax commission without involving
the city in in eXtrayagant outlay for
deputies and special assessors. The sub
iect demands caution and thorough con
s;dcration. While the majority of the
taxpayers doubtless desire change in
methods of assessment and the raising
of the total valuation. they do not favor
the creation of Il body of taXeaters.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26

TIE MAIN PROP KNOCkED OUT
The continuous decline in the price of
silver in the face OF marked improve
meut In business conditions cfrcciually
disproves the theories by which Ameri-
can farmers and producers have been
dccoyed into making common cause with
the mining stock spectators and silver
bullionaires who desire the government
to open the mints to the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver at the ratio of 16
To /. The contention of the bullionaireS
and their champions from Coin Harvey
to William i. Bryan has been that the
price of silver governs the price of
wheat and all other farm products.
Every silver orator in the land insisted
during the last campaign that the Amer
lean farmer is vitality concerned in the
restoration of the price of silver to S1.20
an ounce because silver and wheat had
always kept each other company in the
worlds markets.
The course of the quotations for silver
and wheat as well as for other farm
products during the past twelve months
affords Il revelation to men who are
willing to do their own thinking in
stead of allowing others to think for
them. on the 10th day of July, 1So6
when Bryan was nominated by the Chi
cago convention, spring wheat sold ut
Chicago for 80 cents per bushel, and on
the same day silver was quoted in New
York at 90 cents an ounce. Since then
the price of silver has been steadily de-
clinins. On Saturday, July 2i, 1SoI,
silver was selling in New York ut
fraction above 80 cents an ounce, while
wheat ut Chicago brought 20 cents
bushcl. In other words, while silver
has within the year gone down 10 cents
an ounce, wheat has advanced 20 cents
II bushel.
The same marked difference in prices
Of other staples and silver may be noted
by comparison. Cotton has gone up
half Il cent Il pound, or about per cent
while silver has declined 1G per cent
Hogs have advanced from $3.50 to $500
per hundred ut Chicago and pork has
risen from S6.45 to ST.I5 Il hundred
While the price of corn In July, 1896
was about the same rs today. the fact
that its price remains practically sta
tionary while silver has gone down 1G
per cent affords abundant proof that the
price of farm products is not governed
by the price of silver.
lnasmuch as this delusion about the
interdppendence in price of silver and
farm staples was the main prop of the
free silver campaign, the attempt to
keep up the imposture Oh the plea that
the farmers will be the benefciarieS of
free coinage must prove dismal fail
ure. There is nothing so effective in
knocking out baseleSs theory as stub
born facts.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26

with us. Even such a very desirable thing
as commerce may be purchased at too high a
price
Political liberty In the American sense
does not exist In Hawaii. The total popu-
lation by the census OF 1884 was S057S In
1890 the native population was 81 .4S6. Only
Hawaiians have the right to vote Repub-
lican institutions In the islands rest upon
very tltmsy foundations, with more than
majority Of the inhabitants prohibited from
voting, Among the qualifications for seats
In the Hawaiian senate and house OF repre-
sentatives are the possession OF property OF
the value OF $4,000 for senators and of the
value OF $1,000 for members Of the house
These measures are necessary to exclude
the large foreign element from the voting
privilege and to prevent irresponsible per-
sons In the monetary point of view, from
legtslatng for the country. They indicate a
distrust of the majority of it's inhabitants
and yet We are invited to annex to the
United States a nation in which such en-
traordnary precautions are necessary to
preserve the sCmblance of republican gov
ernmcnt Hawaii II annexed. will ultl-
mately become statc--as soon as a par
tisan eNtgency here seems to require its ad-
mission as a state-aud then we shall see
the senators and representatives from a state
in which 1t is unsafe to allow more than
half the male population to vote logisating
for the commonwealths OF New York and
pennsVlVania
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26
Natures wicked Schemes.

The wicked, cQnluct of nature toward
some Of its children, who are engaged in the
p2pulist and pop9crat business Is particularly
wicked in KANSAS THE state" says the
Topeka Captat-- shss $1,000. 900 worth of
corn in the crib. the prospect of 200 900 900
bushels OF oew corn and its wheat this year
viii sell for S25 900 900 more than last year ;
crop" This is a pleasant prospect for think
eTs who have arranged a program of weer.
ing and waiing for the next three yea 3.
What is the zoe of cultivating whiskens and
pathetic eloque nee, and OF having a talent
fer dlzmal prophecy, If things will lnslst
on looking so irredeemably cheerful? Here
is Governor Leedy OF Kansas, a TDpullst
full OF tears and fire to the gunwale, making
this horrible admission:
"Kansas finds herself today with more of
her debts liquidated and her finances in
better shape than, perhaps. any other state
in the union"
So despair after despair is lest and state
after state turns away from the popOcrat5
fud ths p9pul!sts, forswears disaster, and be
GENES TOO busy and prosperous to stop aGd
listen to the shoutings of the calamity army.
Every feeling heart viii pity the populists
and the popocrats Everything is against
them. They have to be prosperous them
selves.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26
THE HOUSE COMMITTEES.

The standing committees of the house
of representatives, announced by
Speaker Reed just before final adjourn
ment, show no changes from the last
congress in the more important chair
manships Mr.. Cannon of Illinois, who
has made an excellent record as the
chairman of the committee on apprO
printiOns is continued at the head of
that committee. Mr.. Cannon is in favor
of retrenchmcnt in public expenditures
and undoubtedly his influence will be
eXerted in that direction. Mr.. Walker
of Massachusetts retains the chairman
ship of the committee on banking and
currency. He has not made Il particu-
larly distinguished record in that posi-
ton. but he is Il man of unqueStionable
ability and force. Mr.. Hit of Illinois
remains at the head of the committee
on foreign affairs. where he belongs by
virtue of his superior knowledge of our
foreign relations. In this respect Mr..
Hit is the peer of any man in congress,
Will" he possesses that conservatism
.,c!l IS 'ust now so necessary to pre-
vclt !,iSla,ivS on the part of congress
in regard to international affairs. Mr..
Boutelle of Maine is very properly kept
mt the head of the committee on naval
affairs, where he will continue to do
good service.
Iowa fares well in the distribution of
charmanships, having no less than six
These are: judiciary, Henderson; inter
state and foreign commerce, Hepburn;
military affairs, Hull; public lands
Lacey; expenditures in Treasury depart
ment, Cousins; printing, Perkins. Ne
braskn is hOnored with the chairman
ship of one of the most important com
mittees, that of public buildings and
grounds, Of which Mr.. Mercer is chair
man.
For declining to announce the com
mittees at the opening of the special sc;S-
sion Speaker Reed was subjected to
harsh criticism by some Of the demo
Gratis ana populists of the house. but his
course is approved by the intelligent
and unprejudiccd Judgment of the coun-
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26
OUR TRADE WITH HAWAII.
United States Control Furnishes No
Reason for Annexation.

lhlladelphla Ledger.
The report just issued by the federal De
partment of Agriculture shows that the
United States controls 81 per cent of all
the export trade of the Hawaiian islands.
The Stateman's Year Book, tine carefully
prepared and authoritative English annual.
also reports that 81 per cent of the trade Of
the islands is with the United States. This
trade is progressive, the Hawaiian returns
indicating that it reached 500, ,924 ,3O6 in 1896,
the highest figure yet recorded. While we
bought nearly all the Hawaians had to sell
duling the past decade we have only sold
to the Hawaians about thrse-fourths of the
goods purchased by them; but our exports
to the ISLANDS are growing at a promising
race. In 1896 we sold the islanders about
81 .0OOOCO more than for any former year.
Before the year 1876, when the first reel
procity treaty was made with the United
States. the total exports and imports of the
islands averaged a little less than 81 900, 900
The trade with the United States for the
current year shows a large increase over
that OF 1896, the banner year. The islands
send us sugar, rice and bananas as the
leading articles Of export. The imports from
the United States consist principally of
groceries and provisions, clothing grain, tim
beT. machinery hardware, cottOn goods, fer
tlli2ers and tobacco.
The figures given furnish no reason what
ever for the annexation of the Hawaiian
group. On the contrary, to the reflective
American they present the best of reasons
for maintaining our present relations with
the ISLANDERS. The stock argument for the
assimilation Of tie motley population un-
prepared for free government and self-rule
is the commercial necessity for securing and
holding Hawaiian trade This trade we have
already secured, as the figures indicate. by a
procIs0 of natural appropriation, development
and by fostering trade conventions. Com
merce Is not matter of sentiment, else
all the South American republics whose pO-
ltlcal institutions are modelled upon those
OF the United States would long since have
found ways and means to give the great
northern republic the bulk OF their exporting
and importing trade. Traders buy and sell
where they can buy and sell upon the best
terms, and with countries with which com
munication is the mcst convenient. We
have established important and profitable
commercial relations with Hawaii without
making the Islands an integral part OF the
United States, and We shall maintain these
relations irrespective of the fate OF the an
nexaton project,
If substantial portion of this trade were
lost by our refusal to absorb Hawaii our
escape from the political evils flowing from
annexation would more than compensate us
for the commercial loss If the doctrine be
recognized as advanced in this case. that
annexation i9 desirable or necCs AIRY to secure
and maint3in trade, such considerations will
stand in the forefront of the pretexts ad-
vanced by the Craftsmanship OF the period
fer the absorption of all the Islands In our
proximity which naturally trade extensively
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

John d. Rockefeller has notified the Des
Moines Qowa) Baptist college that he will
give SO for every dollar the college will
raise from other sources.
Mr.. Te5la's invention of telegraphing with
out wires would be great thing for An
dree to have with him on his balloon voy-
age. He could use the aurora bOrealis for
his electric current.
That Chicago inventor" says the Phi,n-
Gelpha Ledger, "who had the secret OF
transmitting base metals into gold must have
gene off in the Omaha arship. He and
it disappeared about the same time"
Senator Joseph Hawey when in the class
Of AZ in Hamilton n. Y, college, was at
tho head of band of sOphomores who stole
the college bell. For fifty years the nance
of the perpetrators wert Kept secret but al
the recent reunion OF the class they were
made public.
The production Of bolt of artificial light
ming by an electrical expert at the DeS
Moine9 Chautauqua is heralded as a distinct
modern achievement novelty, rather but
not a new thing. The smthies of ancient
times, not to mention those of today, could
forge a bolt. Even Jove Numbered.
Tho latest aspersion Of senatorial dig
nifty is that the senate clings To it's so-caled
sec.et sessions because, when the doors are
closed, the senators are allowed to smoke.
When the Tumor-makers bunch their hits,
it is found that we are threatened with war
land. singly or in couples.
Mr.. Chauncey Montgomery McGoyern and
Mrs. Chauncey Montgomery McGoYern Of
Roston have struck a new lead in the fad
business. They have organized a society
for the betterment of the human species,
and have elected themselves president and
vice president respectively. The object CT
the society is to kill off mental and physical
crippes and tone up the human family to
the point OF perfection. Mr. and Mrs. Nc
Govern were married recently. not for love,
but fer scientific reasons. An anxious world
must wait awhile to learn how the plan
works
Fortune seekers heading for the Klon-
dyke gold fields might study the cost Of
living at Dawson City with profit. For in
stance -four costs sl2 per 100 pounds;
moose ham, 81 per pound and bacon 40 cents,
Butter costs $3.50 roll. sugar 20 cents a
Dound and coffee so cents a pound. Ac-
cording to the schedule of prices. there are
two e. adss of eggs on the market, Eggs"
quotes the price list $3.50 per dozen; bet
ter eggs, 81 per dozen" Lemons can be
had for 20 cents each, tobacco for $3.50
pound. and straight booze so cents a drink.
II takes pretty good gold mine to reach
the altitude OF living prices in the arctic
circle.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26

The latest drop in the price of silver
is explained .by unfavorable conditions
in India and China. But that will never
satisfy the rs to free coinage fanatics.
There must be some new conspiracy of
the money power and another dark
crime against silver somewhere. The
Rothschilds and the money lenders of
Europe must have had Il hand in the
deep, dire plot. Why else could silver
so down?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26
Cnpitulntion of the sultan.
pnstpn (.lpip

If the Turkish ruler has really concluded
to accept the best terms which the powers
can give him. regarding Greece, such
course will SHOW that, with all his pride
over the putting 70 rout Of Greece, Abdul
IEamid has his moments of common senoe.
What would it tproat Turkey or Islam, in the
long run. to challenge the allied nations of
Europe to an armed conflict which, however
costly it might prove to the powers, could
result only in ultimate defeat and humiia-
tion for the commander of the faithful, how
ever far his cry for jehad, or holy war,
might be heard and find response.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26

The talk about railroads confiscating
coal is not strictly correct The coal is
simply appropriated and the market
price paid for it, but without the formal
tiles that are usually required for the
exercise of the railway right of emf
nent domain. SO far as the party whose
coal is taken without even asking his
leave is concerned, however, the result
is substantially the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26

1t is possible that if it belonged to pri-
vatc parties the new Omaha federal
building might have been completed
within II period of three years from the
adoption of the plans. But it must not
be forgotten that it takes time TO plug
up springs at the bottom of the founda
ton walls, construct sewers to carry off
the Seepage and dig encircling bitches to
cut off the underilow of water.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26

peded their movements by taking up
their street railway passes As the law
making the giving of passes to city Of
fcials n iiiiSdtmeanor was passed by n
fusion Legislature and signed by popu.
list governor. this is bringing the rcspon-
sibility for the lawless outbreaks to the
wrong door. The police slsuths will
have to invent another excuse for their
nnIlininnrvLL- n
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-26

The assessment of city property for
taxation for 1896 cost just S6,S24. That
assessment may possibly have been dear
ut the price, but it does not Justify
spending twice the sum for the 1898
assessment unless we are to have fun
returns on the investment. 1t ought not
to cost much more to make an accurate
and equitable assessment than to make
Il faulty and inequitable assessment.