Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1900, Page 6

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State of Nebraska, Douglas County George B, Tzachick, sec y of The Bee Publishing company, being duly * bworn says that actual number of” full and {omplete copies of The Daily Evening and Sunday Bee, printed during the month of July, 1900, wis as follows 27,0 27 660 27,195 27,870 2 27,560 27,570 27,500 27 680 27,010 27,310 27,500 .27 600 27,810 Total . v 850,055 Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net daily average, 2! Bubscribed ane o o rernSHUCK Mst day of July, 190, M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Publ PARTIES LEAVING Fon SUMMER, Parties leaving the city fon the summer may have The Bee sent (o them regularly by notifying 1 Business oMce, in person or by mall, The address will be chauged s often aw destred. Guesses on Omaha's census figures are still safe. But the time of the popula- tion prophets Is growing short. e — The soldiers of the allied power. dently failed to see the * grass” signs around the imperial Chi nese cit s evi Is there anything suggestive in the fact that a heavy windstorm was coin cident with the formal opening of the popocratic campaign in this stute? — The stars and stripes are now waving on the walls of Pekin. But who con- tends that the constitution has followed the flag into the Chinese capital? Popocratic oratom, in the opening speeches of the campaign, were ovi dently of the Impression that Aguinaldo Wwas @ voter. A close inspection of the poll books fails to reveal the name, It Bryan meets with disappointing crowds during his campaign trips it is not because they have not received enough advertising, but because he fs no longer the drawing card as of old, —e The list of old line democrats who are not supporting Bryan is a long one, but the democrats have Webster Davis. As MF. Hearst's San Francisco paper says, theYe 18 only one of him and that is plenty. It is intimated that Mr. Conger may ask for a leave of absence to come home to recuperate from the effects of the ordeal through which he has passed. Mr. Conger has earned all the vacation he may require. Li Hung Chang assures the pow that the Boxers have been dispersed From this distance they do not appear to have entirely vanished, but what dis- persing hus been done was accomplished by the troops of the allies. The man with the multiple spectacles has now discovered a plot to defeat Ed gar Howard by hanging up a big prize for a straw candidate to enter the race, A first-class oculist should find ready femand for his services among our poy seratic friends. Se—— The United Christian party has at last found a man willing to stand us its can fidate for president. His work in the campalgn need not be difficult and the aomines will have the satistaction of seelng his name printed in next year's statistical almanacs, ——— Eanator Pettigrew is quoted In an in terview as saying he would rather of re-clection himself than to see Presi dent McKiuley re-elected. As President McKinley is to be re-clected, the South Dakotu senator might as well start mak Ing arrangements for retiving to private lite. And now Russin wants to borrow $150,000,000 in this countr; hat is a large sum, but if Russia really wants it bad enough to pay fair interest and put up good security it can be found by dig ging up a few old stockings whose con tents have been laid away for a rainy day. The farmers of the country are taking advantage of the present prosperity to have a little outing, and the result is the lurgest attendance at the Farmers' con gress during the twenty years of its ex istence. During democratic tim it kept the farmer scratching to stave oft ihe mortgage, The business men's excursions to sur rounding towns have proved so populur that the Commercial club and Kuights of Ak-Sar-Ben are likely to have more lnvitations than they can accept, While It 1s possible to have too much of a good thing, Omaha business men can hardly bave too many of these excursions, Morning, | 1 sworn to before me this | Keep off the | [besocnars axp rue constzurion | The claim of the democrats that they | ure the special defenders of the consti tution and the particular expouents of the Declaration of Independence the Cleveland Leader Thronghout its Listory, says that paper, | party has pretended stand on the constitution and the Decla ition of Independence, and in that way | it to Justify all its attac upon the integrity of the country and it cherished institutions, | | Referring to the the demo- | cratie party, the Leader points out that | in 1864, when the very life of the nation | was threatened by rebellion, the de cratic national platform de tha ifter four years of fallure to restore th union by the experiment of war, during which, unde military necessity or war power higher than the constitution, the constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and pub- | | tie liberty and private ri | den down, and the material prosperity | | suys s nothing new the democratic [ has sought record of ared the pretense of i the country essentially impaired, jus the public immediate efforts hostilities.” | of the democratic | + the rebellion to was crushed and if 1 been elected in that yenr | would have succeeded | and the United States would have been | divided, If the democratic paety in 1864 could have had its way we should not now have the “perfect union” which the fathers of the republic established, but on the contrary there would be two republics within the present boundari of the United States—one a republic of freedom, the other a republic of slave It is worth remembering that a million and a half of democrats in the midet of the rebellion recorded their votes in fa vor of the proposition that the war for the preservation of the union was a failure and that it was the duty of the government to let the confederate states tice, humanity, liberty welfare demaud that be made for a cessation of That was the attitude party ar destroy the union McClellan the confed one ra The attitude of the democratic party at that time, with Vallandigham as its chief exponent, was not essentially dif ferent from its position toduy under the leadership of W. J. Br. The party then, as now, was in favor of a fiat cur rency, it w 1 upon the flag, it put it selt in opposition to the honor and the patriotism of the American people, Thirty-six yeuars ago it demanded the re treat of the union armies; it urged that they had failed to accomplish their pur- pose and should abandon the struggle. | 1t is doing the same thing today in re gard to the work of our soldiers in the Plilippines. Had the American people leeded the counsel of the democratic party during the period of the civil war they would uot now be able to boast of this republic being the foremost power | in the world, 1f they follow the lead of that party now they will put this nation on a backward course and deprive it of the advantages, the honor and the that are now before it. ay | SUMMER H While Oma tunafe In esc AT AND PUBLIC HEALTH. has been singularly for aping the usual fatalities produced by summer heat, as extreme | as it been during the pust two weeks, still our people ought not to over look the ordinary precautions for pre serving the public health under these abnormal conditions, ‘The health records of the larger cities show that with the return of each July the number of deaths from intestinal diseases increases largely, producing. peciall ‘hildren, a mortality that is cha d as simply appulling. A New York physician, writing on this subject in a recent number of the Med 'al Record, calls attention to the fact that the number of children under years of age succumbing to one class of this disease in that city for five years aggregated 1,007 in June and 4,320 dur ing July, and declares that this enc xcess 18 in a large measure pre- e, He goes on to enumerate the ‘nt ways in which public authori ties can and should contribute to the reducing of hot weather mortality. “The first point of importance which he emphasizes is the need of a safe and adequate milk supply. The efforts of the local authorities in Omaha to insure the delivery of pure milk to milk con sumers are in line with the recommenda tions urged in this paper. and our people should realize the far-veaching effects of thorough milk inspection, particularly in the summer season. Other food supplies must also 1 watched with ful scruting. The consumption of fruits and vegetables in a city the size of Omaba reaches enor mous proportions, and their distribution in an unsound condition is sure to work havoe upon the health of the commu nity. What may seem to many to be an unnecessary intrusion upon private busi ness in the enforcement of sanltary reg ulations is really demanded for the pul lic safety, aud any neglect of this duty on the purt of the city would Immed ately be reflected in the mortality rec ords. Still another sug in this same direction is that the embellishment of a city by the planting and cultivation of trees contributes to the maintenance of healthful conditions by absorbing the leat into the folinge and reducing the temperature, A general purltication of the air is also produced by the uction of vegetation upon the component parts of the atmosphere. These great benefits are 100 often overlooked in the agithtion for tree culture, and a city government could with propriety enforce the plant ing of trees in its residence districts as a purely sunitary measure, The health and comfort of the nhabit ants must be the first care of every progressive city, and the inhabitants should understand iu just what way the public authorities are working to that end so that they may co-operate with them. has | amon mous stion o The protest against the contraction of the fire lHmits filed with the eity council Is timely and in ord Omaba's five limits ave not too extensive and iwy no unnecessary hardship upon proper owners. The only way Owmaha can b built up to be a city of substantial ap pearance is by the strict euforcement of the regulations agalust erecting tive | of the kind OMAHA traps in the business ar fors by comparison western cities of its « through the cheap character of many business blocks than from any other one thing. remembered that the first im pressions of visitors are often lasting and for that reason the city should do (Il it can to fmprove its general appear ance, to suy nothing of the safeguarding and protecting of other property which is always exposed to danger by the er tion of gauzy buildings in their vieinity —_— A FALSE CHARGE the republican party is warn ing the country against the dangers of Bryanism to financial and industrial in terests, some of the Bryanite organs are asserting that the republicans are en deavoring to create a business panic. The Baltimore Sun, for example, which four years ago nothing but dis aster for the country in Bryanism, now suys that the republican party “is un dertaking by every means to disturb the business of the country, to undermine confidence and to create a state of public sentiment which might, under certain ondition, lead to panic.” Tl Omaha suf mor with other nss It must too Becaus saw rational man should understand, that the democratic party stands today for the same financial and economie pol Iefes that it stood for four years ago and that if those policies were then intmieal vory to the interests of the country they are | %o now. This is a per and legitimate contention. The Bryan ite party is foday the party of fr silver as fully as it was four years ago tly reasonable Mr. Bryan himself insisted upon having | the silver plank of the Chicago platform specifically reaffirmed in the Kansas City platform. His very lutest utteran shows that he still devoted to that proposition. A considerable portion of his supporters believe that if he fs elected he will do all that he possibly cun to defeat the purpose of the gold standard law and promote the cause of e silver man in the ountry conti v believes that in the event of Mr, Bryan's election he will use all the power that he would possess as president to pay the obligations of the government in silver and there is no doubt that he would do so. There is difference of opinion, it is true, as to how the judgment of the ablest financiers is that without passing a free silver coin age bill and without the support of a free silver congress, a silverite president could do fmmense financial harm to the country. He could pay a considerable part of the oblications of the govern ment in silver and thus practically bring out a suspension of gold payments 1t cannot be necessary to point out what this would mean, The charge that the republican party is endeavoring to work up a panic, to unsettle finances and to promote a feel Ing of distrust which may prove dis astrous, is utterly preposterous. The warning which the republican party is | giving to the financial and industrial in terests of the country is enti legiti mate and is fully justified by the dis tinctly defined attitude and the clearly proclaimed purpose of the Bryanite party. That pafty has unqualiiedly de noune the gold stundavd law and de manded its repeal. Mr. Bryan is in full accord with this and if elected will do all that he possibly can to carry it out. Four years ago plenty of people had time to listen to Mr, Bryan when he was announced to make a speech. %0 busy now that only an indifferent They are | erowd could be drummed up in Suun ders county to the formal epening of the atiec campaign in this state. 1t - enthusiasm is at a lotbed, where do the calamity- their following this Popoc o in t ites expect to secure fall? 0 The story that the German paper pub lished at Lincoln had been bought by Mark Hanna, assiduously civculated in popocratic organs, is now denied and apologies are being offered by those who were so loudly repeating the misstate ment, If the democrats are foreed to take back all the fukes they arve starting they will be kept busy from now until election day. Texas juries have recently struck a severe blow to one of the great indus of that state Several men en gaged in a lynching enterprise have been sentenced to the penitentiary for life. 1f this precedent is to be consist ently followed the next may show a material inercase in the popula- tion of the state boarding house. 1t looks as if Adlai had o dead cin, on that populist substitution to the pla m it by the withdrawal of Mr. wne as sceond tail to the Bryvan kite, A few mare promises of appointive johs to be redeemed by Colonel Bryan may be required to line up the members of the committee vested with the authority to give the certificate. The charges against Police Judg don are now tuking formal shape and it rests with the council to say whether they shall be pursued to the point of calling the police judge to account. It may be put down as a safe prediction that the people of Omalu will stand by any action that will regenerate the po lice court — Mect nde Expausiol Inc anapolts Journal It has been ascertained that the large buginess houses in Omaha are employing 50 per cent more traveling men noy four years ago. There Is probably no city in the west which does not have more men on the road now than in 1895, census de v Glory for the Jap Springfield Republican No one can read the story of the oper atlons of the Pekin campaign without concluding that to the Japanese belong the chief honor and glory for the rescue of the envoys of the powers. them the expedition at this not have been possible. time would American Conl Trade Ahroad. Philadelphia Record There is a continued scarcity of coal in Continental Europe and no new sources of supply in that part of the world are in «lght. Both France and Russia want coal for their pavies and the necessary supplics DATLY republican party is doing nothing | It is simply urging what | r he could go in this matter, but | low ebl | than | Without | THUR Al or was formerly | must be secured in the in Canada. Soft steam coal supplied to European navies by England and Wales, but during the Inte session of Parliament a law was enacted forbidding the exportation from the United Kingdom of coal to used for military or naval purposes. Once established, the Amer can export trade in coal should advance from | T 1o year by leaps and bound United States nr. Hall County's Nest Bleett Hall county has seen for a long time the | most discouragingly bad examples of re | publican railroad attorney management which have shown its unhappy effect in a very conspicuous way in the fall election of last year, when we had to elect county officers and district judges. The railroad leaders up the slate in their usual way and forced their friends on the voters who acecpted two of them, electing democrats and populists for all the other county offices. This’ proved bad judgment But with perfect idiocy they acted in the selection of candidates for district judges. Our district comprises a dozen of counties in all of which, Hall county excepted, the have a smaller or larger ma Trade Friendship ¥ | Minneapolis We are dolng business more and our trade with that country greater than It was before the war. In 1867, the year preceding the conflict, ex- ports from the United States to Spain footed up $10,612,7 This year the total is $1 650. The United States has bought goods Spain to the value of $5,050,047 this year, against $3,631,973 in 1897. The busi- ness men of the two countries are trading away as if nothing had happened and Spain Is beginning to think it is better off with | deniospot out those islands than it was with them. | c™O-POPS A very pleasant war, Indeed, is one that (s\’“r”v g Thel L Sreut nhh“rr"""j. et satistactory to sl parties Somcerned. [ Pectaty v’vy'v-;q:llrnuvl agents and similar | classes of people ’Mnl_"'“'" 3 | For the two judges to be elected in this Philadelphia district the peculiar wisdom of our cor- Already more pensions have been applied | POTation lcaders selected as republican for on account of the war with Spain than | ¢Andidates two railroad attorneys, one of the number of men who actual fAght whom bad served the railroads for over a Ing service in that war. Such is the recora [ AUATter of a century, the other for ten or of the pension ofce brought up tor July ‘\l\\‘l\- years! It is nearly Incredible that of this year. In 1899 the pensions alloweq |"0Y person laying claim to leadership were to ould commit such a bungling blunder. Invalids and 178 to widows. | i ' _ fom 2 Up to July of this year the numbers allowed [ DUt It 18 true. And they were forewarn no republican law- 926 to invalids and $88 (o \\yvlw\\u_‘hr“""" ":’h"ll‘livln I»’:“l: i u law making a total of 1,81 the two years. |7 om Hall cou could be elected 4L 4TS | that it was absolutely necessary to take |1n the 30,081 pensions that have been ap- | . LR T D A R R O b R Ll Rl widows whose husbands died of discase in | of ward ere possibly uahealthy camps or from cating bad beot | ailable candldate might have been mumfl and other food. ut they in their superior sagacity coul not take sensible advice. a railroad attorney of Grand Island, who did not even get majority in his own county, and a rallroad attorney from Ord. Both suffered crushing defeats, a result ex Hows Pe Times with ce. Spain once 1 made only a Military Crithe New York Tribune ngland’s military establishme eral s in_ for a shi Cr . a at in gen- | coming pness of They proposed | | REPUBLICAN Prospects in NEBRAS | pected by overy sensible man from the be | ginning. And it was not the result | these candidates' legal inabilities’ or other | especinlly bad qualities. They were good lawyers and respectable men, but disliked and absolutely unavailable on account of their connection with the railroads, and who had no such bad name in this district, one of them being one of the former judges of the district, | Bood lawyer and popular fusionist | The whole campaign was also misman aged by these corporation leaders chairman of the republican committee and their stupld newspaper organ committing continual blunders, hurtful to the repub lican candidates Undoubtedly a good many counterparts to this little sketch of a Hall county tion could be found in other counties showing the folly of relying on the man- agement and the propositions of these old leaders, and the voters ought to have them before their eyes when they select the candidates for the legislature. These lead ers look out mostly for the cquisition of offices and nearly all of them hold an office or have held one. The voter, however ought to take a higher view; he ought to care for the interests of his country and his party and ought to act independently and intelligently, not obeying the dictate of the corporation men The time Is propitious for a republican victory in Hall county as well as (n me other counties, as the bellef in the honesty and sagacity of the demo-pop leaders i | destroyed by their bad management of our | state affairs, and quite a numbver of old intelligent adherents are leaving But the excessive blunders of the corporation leadership must be That 18 | opposing candidates | ana them | tormer avoided. | of they had not a ghost of a show against the | the the absolutely necessary _| | condition of republican success The Hall county fon of this fall has in one respect some similarity i Judicial election of last fall senator Hall and Howard counties district, and while in Hall ! publican majority may be expected majority in Howard county is probably the other side, unless a very popular publican of Howard county is nominated It last fall's blunder is repeated by nom nating an unavailable Hall county man present of the senatorship will be made to the fusionists Great care also ought to bo taken in ection of the two representatives whom Hall county fis entitled, and the railroad attorneys ought to have little i fluence in the it we want good sults. Independence from corporations | & necessary in our and popularity among the especially the German element, which has been allenated by the arrogance and in judicious action of the railroad servants We have in Grand Island several intelll gent and popular men of German descent one of whom would make a splendid cand: date for the legislature, and eould, to gether with a strong man from the sur rounding county, beat the fusion to pieces But sensible management the un avoidable condition Experience fs publicans of our county should heed the Tessons it has sought for long vears and more distinctly than ever in our last fall's campatgn. 1t the party has learned place confidence fn monopoly leaders and if they will put independent and popu- 1ar men in nomination, a republican victory with all its important consequences fs in sight FRED HEDDE Grand Island eloc . with For state form one T the on re I me, re " candidates forelgn, requis " 1s teacher, and the A great no Neb. riticism to which it has not been subjected since the time of the Crimean Viscount Wolseley's declaration that the 30 000 men just maneuvered before him at Aldershot were “utterly unfit to send abroad, badly led and badly taught,” will fall rather dismally on the car of John Bull, who pays the bills and expects his drilled fizhting men to come up to a good standard it is wholesome,. it disagreeable, that should know the truth about them, and there is no reason to doubt that Lord Wolseley has imparted it to him in a divect, unvarnished man war, | ro) CAL SNAPSH Washington Post: The democrats can | confer a favor upon Mr. Bryan by turning their heads while ho is engaged in accept ing the populist nomination Philadelphia Times: Candidate he will have a million and a half which shows that even a populist may be mixed up with one of the bigkest | trusts the country ever knew. Indfanapolis Journal: Senator Stewart |of Nevada signalizes his return to the re | publican fold by a forcible and concise | statement of reasoms why Bryan and his | party should be beaten. It is not often | that so much political horse sense is found in so little space Sult Lake Tribune: When Mr. Bryan's next speech on imperialism appears the men of the United States, after reading it should turn to the great Lawton's last words to his countrymen. They were these “It I am shot by a Filipino bullet it might | he Barker says votes, CHINA AND THE CHINESE, th of One of the Oldest Captnins in the American Ar In the shadow of the hoary wall of Pekin, With victory achieved by the allted army war claimed as a crifice the gallant Cap tain Reilly, one of the oldest captalns in | the American army and famous as au officer of the “Fighting Fifth." He commanded the cragk Battery F of the Fifth artillery Captain Reilly was a fine, tall er man, | with an iron-gray imperial, blue eyes and | most engaging manners. A man who rode use I know that the continuance of fight- as It his horse and himeelf were of one | Ing here is due to reports sent out from body, whose discipline was severe without | America.” being harsh, strict without being hard-—-a St. Paul Ploneer Press: Senator Stewart | man who was a superior being to his men, | of Nevada announces that he will vote for kind to them iu trouble, always polite, al- | President McKinley. He criticises Mr. ways mindful of merit—that was the Captain | Bryan fr ely, thrusting his lance Into more Reflly his regiment knew than one cranny of the rickety armor of Dr. E. F. Robiuson, late of the United! him whom he supported so valiantly in 1896, "5'41'9! army, now practicing in Kansas City, Talk about strawe! It is more than a | says of Captain Reilly in an interview in|wind—it is a gale which blows so stalwart | the Star: “He was not only w thoroughly a Bryanite as old Stewart back into the competent army officer, but he had a hold | republican fold [on his men that few army officers ever| .. prancisco Chronicle | acquire. His men had the sublimest con- | uv'in, prevailing prosperity of the coun. fidence in him. try is largely visionary and yet the | “Personally -he was ; doubling of his own property assessment fatalist ‘It you are to be hit,' he would during the past two or three years glves say, ‘you can't escape your fate, so why the lie to the statemeat. Besides Europe should you try? At another time he sald: |, 5 19, (I8 BWIHOAL Hesides Eurene ‘If the bullet and 1 get to the same [lhl'l-:.“"l the latter has just hecome England's | at the same time one of these days, “_"k‘)‘“ banker by lending it $25,000,000 in gold for [ riant. Dacvaptsterremilt & donit trouble | i5ihonag onithe Woftest kina of a notics about it." He had no premonitions of deatn, | o4 i 5 yan talks too much. because he had no worry or fear of it | B 3 Captain Reilly's family, consisting of wite| FPhiladelphia Ledger: There Is much and four children, reside at Fort Hamilton, | truth in Senator Morgan's declaration that IN. Y. One of them, Harry, Is a cadet at|there is no paramount issue in the cam | West Point | patgn, because some voters will pay more | attention to one issue and some to an Butler, | other, and this is what makes it dificult United States Marlne corps, the | to be certain of the people’s will on any ew York Sun, “and hoping he may soon [of the topics embraced in the discussion cover from the wound he received at Tien | This is really what has impelled Mr. Bryan n. Captain Butler is a vi |vmnrknl\h>‘ to reopen the issue of 16 to 1. He think | boy. He was 19 years old on the last day | the people did not condemn that, but some- of June and has taken all the part he could | thing else, in the election of 1598, It is in three wars. He was a second lieutenant | probable, however, that another defeat | of the Marine corps, “appointed for tem- | this year will convince even Mr. Bryan. | porary service,” during the Spanish war; he | was appointed permanently on April §, 18¢ J and promoted the same day to first lleu- | tenant. He commanded the marine guard on the Newark and made a name for him- | latter years of his self in the Philippines fighting guerrillas. | writings and lectures | On June 14 he was sent ashore with the|a year. | marines at Taku, and was promoted captain | Now Hampshire farmers are not worried | & tew days aftes he fell with a bullet in bis | 4y (he price of wheat, Some of them | thigh in front of Tien Tsin. He I8 the| po golling grasshoppers to the state at a youngest offcer of his rank in the navy— | gollar u bushel perbape lo. any of the m‘!'[ o L o] Richard Henry Stoddard, the biind banker lives will ba brigadier "‘“";" Coorps ‘e | #nd poet, has given up dictating mueh of of the United BLAtes A AmE O be o |Nib copy. and. writes tmost, of it.. In spite of hope he may reach that rank; he M - | his blindness he writes a remarkably clear worthy successor of the famous sailor 's who have held it, if he keeps on as | hand. soldlers who have 4 It is, of course, too violent a presumption he has begun. to conclude that the empress of China, just because she has disappegred, has eloped with Aguinaldo, or that her intention 15 to Join him. One ot those to take part in the recent celebration of “'Old Home Week" at Buck- field, Me., was Secretary of the Navy John D. Long, who was born in Buckfield, and at the celebration delivered an address. Second Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee was born a deaf mute, learned the use of the organ of speech by artificial methods and mastered the art of lip-reading. Later in life ke came to hear partially Walter Warder, who, in the absence of Governor Tanner, s acting governor of Ilinols, won popularity in Chicago during the Haymarket riots by hls fearless action before the mob and the ready ald he gave the wounded Few men of his age are athletic as Secretary Hay but still indulges in all sort including a fast walk every afternoon, Every morning at 7 o'clock he undergoes massage treatment at the hands of a skilled Swedish operator W. A are by Clark is palace in i at from them, more Bryan asserts a good deal of a | ut Smedley D, exclaims “Here's to Captain PERSONAL Mr. Ingalls, during the lite, made out of his as much as $15,000 POINTERS, It is sald that “The Chinese are the politest people in the world,” said a man who has seen much of the diplomatic corps in Washington, “but I have seen one iustance where Americans were not hehind them in god manners. 1t was at a big dinner party Among the gucsts were the president and his wife, the Chinese minister and an | attache who had just a d from China The dinner was an excellent one and the new attache, who very cultivated man, won golden opinions all around. As soon as the last cour removed, how- ever, he gave us a surprise, Leaning back in his chair he crossed his hands on his stomach and delivered himself of a deep, | resonant, heartfelt grunt. There was just a second of silence, broken by a similar effort from the hostess, a creditable grunt too, but not so vigorous as that of | celestinl. When the president's | grunted, followed by the president, Chinese minister and all the guests, would have thought you were in a sty “Later the Chinese minister explained that it is the custom in China for a guest to grunt after dinner, to show his ap preclation of the good cheer ho has joyed. But It was the American that saved the gituation.” was a the wite the pig and s0 agile He 16 past Clark and Marcus Daly of Montana mere coincidence both in Paris hunting up pictures for his new New York and Daly lles serfously his hotel. Meanwhile in the state which they hail the fight between waged by thelr constituents, grows nd more bitter Admiral Dewey's appli ship in the Dewey in milltary organization th hostess A curious sight s to see wealthy China men traveling on board of a coast or ocean steamer,” says a correspondent of Collier's Weekly. “They all retire to their cabins | to remain there during the voyage. Here they will eat, drink, amuse themselves and smoke opium, with the pungent of | which the neighboring cabins are | pleasantly filied. On a voyage from Ningpc | to Shanghal I once visited a Chin \ge: th over 700 men and womeu crouched on the floor, smoking their pecu lar water and opium pipes, the smoke of which filled the whole ship. It is a great curlosity for a stranger to enter one of the public places Chinese houses, where a kInd of sofa arrange went for opium smokers may be found Places exist with more than a hundred of | such sofus, on each of which | men generally lie, the one conversing, while the other holds his pipe over a small burs | ing lamp and pufts the smokable extracts of the Indian poppy. Of course the fumes | render it impossible for a foreigner | remain in such a place for any length of | time ation for member- . an fodependent blished at Mo beginning of the Spanish fter the admiral when he oot Manila bay, fs o In his applica upation as admiral of wiii try his best to tr est Keesport war and ed sank the anish calising surprise his o in s00n un P BLeer-| yion no the be gives navy and says he « good soldier were oni ays o Baltim Ramanza, ¢ in Mis Ameriea Christian Chaffee & mostly Adna the names signify Pleasant song without words.” Wheneyey there is anything doing in Chaffee's par ticular e of musical efforts bullets sup ply the word deficiency bestowed n General 1R ir alt, The Us Detroit J are about it the allie to make Pekin a wide ater to circumference, While they dently intend town from open well come from one of my own men, be- | of exercises, | REAT WALL. FALLING OF THE Stirring Up the Du f Ages in the Somber ¥ ire. Philadelphia Saturday Post “The dawn comes up like thunder out of China And it is the thunder that seems to presage the final storm of d n that will sweep China eparate and independent power, out of existence Its monster wall, which was built when Han- uibal was fighting the Romans, has sym- bolized the Chinese policy in things ma- terial and mental and political. But the wall is crumbling For decades this result has been ticipated, For years It has been looked upon as U'kely to happen at any time. China has to0 many enemies, eager to snatch at its territory There is a grandeur, a solemnity about the impending dissolution of China | make it one of the most stupendous events | in the history of the world. China antedates | 11 history. “The Prophet Isaiah spoke of it as the Land of Sinim. Ptolemy wrote of the Chinese as the Sinae. Before Romulus and Remus were wolf-suckled China was gray with age. There was a great e ipire of yellow-faced, silent men into which Alex ander the Great did not atte ipt to pene trate. China inventea gunpowder and the mari ner's compass and the art of printing. Had | It wished, it could have furnished powder to the Huns and Vandals who devastated Europe, and it could have put the account of their devastations into print 1t could bave given Leif Erikson a needle to guide him across the Atlantic. But it hid its discoveries away. China had its wars, its troubles internal and external, and it finally reached the settled conclusion that true happiness lies in tsolation. So with its mighty popula- tion it shut itself in behind its wall and the sea, and asked for nothing but to he let alone. It had an elaborate form of government, a civil service system that made it possible for the poorest man in the empire to reach any rank except that of emperor; it had a civilization that was curously advanced; it had a religlon that was mainly philosophy It was no menace to other nations. 1lis defense to the charge of.{ntolerance was the same as that of our own early Puritans | Who tried to force themselves into the land, Nor has China been without advanced Ideas of actlon for the definite benefit of | its own people. When it found that th importation and use of opium were work- Ing great injury it ordered the importation #topped. It at once found ftself at war with the greatest naval power, represent- ing the highest civilization. The result was that opium continued to go fn, and that civilization made mone It reminds | one of the pititul attempts made by lead- ing Indian chiefs, in this country, to stop the sale of whisky among the tribes. Hand in hand with hatred of foreign en- trance into his country goes the China- man's love for his own land. When absent from it, his strongest hope is to return. When he dies abroad, other Chinamen see to it that his ashes are returned to his native shores. There is something fine about that. The heathen Chinee, with his smile so childlike and bland, s within limits a true portrayal, but is far from represent ing the race, so silent, so somber, so reticent. One can almost hear the crumbling of the wall. And when it falls the dust that it raises will be the dust of countless cen turies. Spanning the ages, Mirza saw o bridge, with its farther end hidden in mlsts and storms. Such is China. It bridges all known time, and storms and elouds bave descended upon this its latter end truct as a an SOME NEBRASKA CoNDJ View of the Situation ereabouts. New York Times, A great effort is being made in Nebraska by the populists and democrats, enthusiaem for Bryan and to carry th | electoral vote of that state for the Kan sas City ticket. The confidence of Bryan in the loyalty to him of his own state is sald to be complete, or completo | to warrant him in believing that if he | | not elected president he will at least be chosen from Nebraska to be a sen tor of the United States to succeed Mr. Thure ton But Mr. Bryan that he has som unfavorable circumstances to contend with in order to obtain the electoral vote, The | state has enjoyed great prosperity for | nearly four years, in spite of the drewd | predictions uttered by Mr. Bryan in the | campaign of 1596, When he made those gloomy declarations money was searce | Nebraska, and even upon the best re state security it was difficult to borrow 8 and 9 per cent interest | Two years later money began to seek in vestment, but horrowers were few even ut f and O per cent. Now money is abundunt and the banks are filled deposits of farmers, and prices i"""” for farm products. | Four years ago the election of McKinley could offer no comforting assurance than that the tim s could not be much worse than they ore Bryan promised that he would roy them, and that McKinley must make th infinitely worse than they were, There | many persons in Nebraska who fur | ago voted for Bryan to change the condi tions of their life 1 to improve the pr | pect of the future. Very few of (hem 50 aMicted unable to remembor the predictions of the popuiist leades, aud 10NS, A Down-Ens to arouse euough easy, with the are satls advocates of (| im as 10 be that will | I none who | diction | Nebraska's tion glves a alternative suggestion elocted prestdent the United States senate. A really con- fident candidate for y sident would not permit this alternative to be discussed. It | it has Mr. Bryan's approval it certalnly permits the supposition that he is not | sure of his success in his own state. And it he cannot carry the electoral vote in Nebraska he cannot win the legislature, for we understand that the republicans may be beaten in the state and yet carry the legislature, and that the Euccess of | their electoral ticket in the state will as- sure to them an overwhelming majority in the legislature. resent the fallure of his pre- satistaction with interest its condi- to Bryan's that if he be not hall be chosen for curlous Philadelphia Press. well meaning man, @ little wholesome occasion arises. | thing | It costs you | said the wise m “1 Lelieve, N giving v 1dvice It doesn't sald the r friend Whenever the COSL you any- YOur friand, very aften, Chicago | psyehologlst more vividly men ! course, my dea n to dream about reams remember theirs 1 KNow you have us m 2 4 Cleveland Plain Deale must go!" sald the tretched himself out | ture 8o must the tartar, operator. “The Chinaman fentist's vietim o in the chair of tor- remarked the gen- ‘What did Aunt shirtwalst man 1o keep his belt in e right place all the time he'd find out Wasi't any smarter than womun, Washington Star: A down the ladder o' succe de same way ho climbed, “Ef his foof slips he gener'ly trip, kersmash." f | th he man can't back un’ by roun,’ 1d Uncle Eber s de who s Detroit Fr my husband Mrs. Dulle Press: Mrs. Sharp—I Wpomerang. hat do you give uel | an odd name as that fors S c NiM such Mrs. Sharpe~Because no matter how | I throw him away he always cames b | agatn call far « Chicago Record: My fessor, works all the ti establish perfect the universe." 20 you assist him? Jear me. no; I've keep cook in a' good late to his meals,” We confessed that the husband, the pro- me on his'theory to hurmiony between_ man &ot all 1 can do to humor—he's always Detroit Journal public were unduly severc “For.” we observed, indulgently, dispense large sums (n charity!" “Decldedly™ replied the Commerelal Oc- topus. "I do not let my other hands know what my seventeenth, forty-third . and elghty-sixth hands do! ' No. sir! s was quite In accordance wit previous impressions. ity our ING OF SISTER CA “you DAN LIND, Frank L. Brler Will n Stanton in Leslie's Monthly m play de fiddle—Sister Ca'lina light a-gwine ‘round’ me, ez | an' right D en dos wing co'n 1, dat dancin’'er ‘em all!” “w o hull is de eall- Ca’line t is out- De flo' wuz des winders shak En de ol' folks sorter what we make; En betwix' “em dar's a scufe Per ter dance de double shuffle Sister Ca'line gwine 'roun’ 'em wid flounces en de ruffle. Bister Cu'line—Sfaer Ca'line, dancin’ mighty much? I mighty “fraid de preacher gwine ter tu'n you out de chu'ch! But I tu'n en see de preacher De sollum gospill teachor A-swingin' Sister Ca'line ever could reach he a-creakin' en de frosty fdget at de music ain't you time dat ha “Sister Ca'line too! you stop untell de preacher take en marry me en 3 But de preach F'um his she 1 ain't gwin no time I is tired, en de fiddle tired Can't T Kick the stubble, %, en swing ‘em double; marry folks—dis ain't fer troubl, But w'en we breakin sec de g de wa En hit Des_ lay When he ‘low marry her gwine home'ards—'bout de er de day 1 rcher huggin' Sister Ca'line all ' did tak on de sh hop so lively, myse’f my bref f Magazine Cyclone No. 12 Alumniun Plate Hold- ers, 1900 Model $6.75 33 113 Discount on all Premo Cameras. ] | | | Mail orders filled J. C. HUTESON & (0. Photo Supplies 1 1520 DOUGLAS STREET