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

OMAHA DA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1900 ) THE ©MAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBACRIPTION. Batly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$.00 ily Beo and Sunday, One Year <0 Tilustrated Bas, One Vear ... . Bunday Bee, One Year Bdturdny Bee, One Year... Weekly Bee, One Year... OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Bullding. City Hall Bullding, Twen- Blufts ar| Stree 0: 1640 Unity Bulldin ew York: Temple Court. W fllhl"f(o": 0] Fourteenth Street. Bloux Clty: 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE. Commurfcations relating (o news and edi- torial matter should be addre; i Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. INESS LETTERS, ters and remittances should The Bee Publishing vom- fnens I be addressed pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order piyable to The iee Publishing Company nly nt stamps m‘n'!’vl\‘(l in payment f al ount: ersona ecks, except on Umaha or K o8, Not aceepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. “STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa.: George B, Tzschuck, secrbtary of The Bee Publishing duly sworn s that the of full and S)mplvlr coples Morning, vening and Bunday Hee printed during the month of October, 190, was as follows 3 1. .27, 27,800 27,470 27,670 LN, I 1... 20. 2, 2. ke I ¢ 20,080 27,620 80,080 27,480 Total ", Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales. Net dally average GEORG Subseribed In my pr before me this first da D, 1000, . B, HUNGATE (Beal) M By Pubtle, (it iyl " With Thanksgiving only one week off Mr. Turkey Is walting eagerly for the returns. of That auditorlum brick factory should stir up its fires. The brick supply is running short. There 18 hope for American young men yet. It is reported that about all the fmpecunious European uobility have been married off, With such an unsupplied demand for horse doctors it is a pity the market for regular and frregular physiclans cannot be relieved by some method of trausfer. A grand jury In Omaha would have plenty of work to do If it confined its efforts solely to' the fusion frauds com- mitted in South Omaha at the recent election. Another batch of ambitious disciples of Blackstone has been admitted to practice before the ‘courts of Nebraska. No one ‘with an excuse for a lawsuit need lack a lawyer. The eminent local reform organ that champlons Crokerized Bryanism de- clareg that it would prefer a city run by Croker to one run by Parkhurst, This 1s reform with a vengeance. Shanghal correspondeits are again sending out alarming news from China. The powers might try the ex- periment of inoculating these cor- respondents with the lymph of truth, if auy of the virus can be found in China. — For the benefit of the public it 1s only due to lnform it that the Nebraska cor- respondént of the Chicago Inter Ocean, quoted in the World-Herald, is an at- tache of the World-Herald, Inspired by the same fake methods that characterize that paper, —— The courts have decreed that Cornelius Vanderbilt {s not entitled to any portion of his mother's estate, There 1s o necessity, however, of tak- ing up a' collection for his benefit, as a few dollars are still left of the Vander- bilt fortune, iy Agaln this section of the country comes to the front as the possessor of the finest brands of weather to be found anywhere. 1n every direction disastrous storms have raged, while the worst Omaha has experlenced is a little snow flurry and rain, After all those tempting rewards for republican election frauds not a single prosecution. The “stop thief” cry of the fusion machine proves to have been ex- actly what The Bee charged, pure bun- combe to cover up the crooked work of the fusionists in South Omaha. 0ld General J. B. Weaver is again to the front with advice for the reorganiza- tion of the so-called reform forces. It has been so long since General Weaver was connected with a successful polit- fcal movement that his advice is not likely to hit anyone very hard. The Cuban constitutional conventlon bas progressed with its labors to the point of adopting rules for its own gov- ernment, Under these rules It Is not allowable to draw more than eight days' pay at any one time without at- tending a sesslon of the convention. This 1s moderate for a starter, The present attorney general has put in a lafge portion of his time during the four years he has been in office on cases growing out of alleged trusts and the Bartley defaleation. It will take a microscope of higher power than any now in use to discover auy practical re- sults to the state from all this litiga tion. Em—— Those six-thousand-dollar-a-year rail- road commissioners will hold on just long enough to draw another salary fu- stallment and then fold up thelr tents and sllently steal' away. All the tax- payers will have to show for the money will be the beautiful autographs on the back of the pay vouchers flled away with the other public documents In the state house, e WILL NEVER SURRENDER. In his response to the addresses of wel come at Marsellles, Mr. Kruger sald that the Boers will never surrender. He de clared that they would fight to the last extremity and that If the republics lost thelr independence “it will be because they have lost every man, woman and child.” ‘There i8 no doubt that this volces the feeling of Kruger's country- men, at least that portion of them still in the field, but as these now number only a few thousand, recently estimated not to exceed 12,000 to 13,000, it is not casy to understand how they can have any hope of preserving independence, or of recovering what has been lost. The British army in South Africa is at least twenty times the number of the Boers in arms and it holds most of the posi- tions of advantage. The best the Boers can do I8 to carry on a guerrilla war- fure and while in this way they can an- noy and harass the British, nothing of substantial value to them can be ac- complished. Without - assistance, of which there ‘I8 no promise or prospect, the struggle Is utterly hopeless and is everywhere so regarded, The obvlous fact is that the Independ- ence of the Transvaal and Orange Free State is already lost and cannot be re- stored by the Boers aloue. I'here is no nation disposed to help them and expres- sions of sympathy, such as they will freely get In Europe, are little better than a mockery of their disaster and suffering. “Their fate Is one of the most deplorable tragedies of the century. THE PHILIPPINE CAMPAIGN, The campaign In the Philippines, which during the long ralny season was almost at a standstill, promises to grow in Interest. General MacArthur has been preparing for active operations and with a force of 70,000 at his com- mand and the co-operation of the navy very effective work should be done within the next two or three months, ‘While there appears to be absolutely no information in regard to the number of hostile Filipinos and probably none is attainable, It seems hardly possible that it can be large, but a few thousand op erating as guerrillas can keep busy a considerable army, especlally if much of the population is In sympathy with the guerrillas, as appears to be the case in Luzon. Notwithstanding statements to the contrary, there appears to be no doubt that a large element of the Tagals approve the Insurrection and will do what they can to continue resistance to American authority, Those who have accepted our sovereignty are apparently loyal, but they seem not to be able to exert any influence upon their fellow countrymen who are stiil hostile. 8o far as the Taft commission Is con- cerned 1t does not appear to be accom- plishing anything in the direction of pacification, though it is but fair to say that as yet there has been little op- portunity. The military must clear the way for the, work of the commission, A great deal is expected of General Mac- Arthur, He has a fine and well-equipped army, he is a capable and experienced soldier and he should have a very thor- ough knowledge of the field of opera- tions. It would seem that he ought to be able to very greatly restrict if not entirely subdue the repellion within the ensuing three months. E—— A CHECK TU NEGOTIATIONS. The announcement that a point of difference between the forelgn min- isters at Pekin has brought negotia- tions to a temporary standstill, and that the matter will be referred to the home governments, should cause no surprise. Late indications have clearly pointed to such a situation. There will naturally be much curiosity to know what this point of difference is. It may be in regard to the question, of punishment of those who are charged with responsibllity for the trouble and it may relate to Indemuity, or both these matters may be involved. At any rate it has been apparent that the questions of punishment and of Indemuity were very sure to prove a bone of conten- tion that would obstruct progress to- ward negotiations. 1t is possible that the position of the United States is responsible for this and if so it is not a matter for regret, since it I8 a humane, reasonable and Just position. This government has declined to be a party to any blood- thirsty policy in China and it has also refused to acqulesce In any scheme of plunder and robbery., It Is not alone in this respect, but there are two or three of the powers which have mani- fested a determination to make excess- ive exactlons, They ask for the sever- est punishment of princes and others gharged with having conspired against forelgners and they show a disposi- tion to demand indemnity which they well know China cannot pay. They would at once crush the spirit and bankrupt the empire, It Is not unreas- onably conjectured that the aim of these powers {8 the ultimate partition of China, in spite of thelr protestations that they have not such purpose, 1t is said that ¢wo courses are considered for the payment of indemnity, each In- nocent on its face, but both meaning partition. One course is to exmct ter- ritorial pledges, the other to have China issue bonds guaranteed by the powers. In the one case the powers would be given a mortgage certain to be foreclosed, while in the other the bondholders would sooner or later de- mand territory in payment of their bonds, Thus in either case partition would come at some time in the fu- ture, The United States is explicitly and it s to be hoped unalterably opposed to any such schemes. It does not want Chinese territory and it will not guar- antee any bonds. Whether or not its attitude will finally be adopted by all the powers or an attempt will be made to force it out of the concert remains to be seen, but ou government has already glven notice that it will not withdraw and will not allow itself to be driven out of the concert without the most ample assurance for the security of its rights and Interests, It cannot do so with a proper regard for its self- respect, its just claims and its future welfare in China. In this the United States is not playing the part of a dog in-the-manger. Its policy has been long defined and well understood. It is making no new departure, but simply adhering to that course which ft an- nounced at the beginning of the trouble and in which all the powers then ex- pressed thelr concurrence. Acting in- dependently it 1s possible that the United States could not secure the pay- ment of its just claims, but it can bet- ter afford to lose them than to become a party to schemes for the spoliation and digmemberment of China. —_— END OF THE DO-NOTHING BOARD. By the decislon of the supreme court the law creating the State Board of Transportation has been declared un constitutional and vold, because of de- fective proceedings in its enactment, Without commenting on the reasoning on which the decision 18 based or the colncidence of its pronouncement just on the eve of a change in the politieal control of the state government, The Bee has no hesitation in saying that the result will meet popular approval, The State Board of Transportation in Nebragka from its very inception has been a costly luxury for the taxpayers without any adequate compensating benefits. It owed Its origin to rail- road manipulation, by which it was con- stituted as a buffer between the rail- roads and the people protesting against excessive charges or undue discrimina- tlons. With few, If any, exceptions the personnel of the railroad commis- slon has been dictated by rallroad man- agers and Instead of representing the people the board has constantly looked to rallrond headquarters for instruc- tions and orders. In all of its history, extending over more than a dozen,years, not a single case of substantial good accomplished for the public 18 to be found among its acts. On the contrary, it has achieved the well deserved but unenviable name of the “do-nothing rallroad commission” and of late years has served only to pro- vide soft berths for popocratic bosses drawing salaries from the state treasury while devoting thelr time exclusively to the propagation of fusion politics. * Under such clrcumstances the people of Nebraska are well rid of the Incubus, without inquiring into the method or source of its extinguishment. The commission should have Leen abolished by legislative act long ago and the supreme court, in relleving the legisla- ture of that duty, deserves commenda- tion. 1t is fortunate the decision which In- validates the state Irrigation laws,| should have been rendered at thid time, if It was to be rendered at all. The legislature 1s soon to convene and can speedily remedy the defects iIn the present law., A large portion of the land in the western part of the state must of necessity depend upon {rriga- tion if It is ever to be rendered valuable for purposes of raising crops, and now, while times are good and money can be secured for legitimate enterprises, is the time to push irrigation works through to completion. Is there anything improbable in the wertion that Nebraska's population has Increased by more than 100,000 since 18067 Four years ago everything in this section was at low ebb, from which we have recovered by a period of un- precedented prosperity, supplemented by various public enterprises, such as the Transmississippl Exposition, that helped to draw people back to take the places of those driven out by drouth and crop failure. Watch Nebraska during the next four years for a population spurt of twice 100,000, The house committee of ways and means has decided to recommend a re- duction of $30,000,000 per year in taxa- tion. This Is the answer to the demo- cratic charge, made before electlon, that all talk of reducing taxation was for political effect. Republican administra- tions always raise sufficient revenue to meet the expenses of the government, but lay no unnecessary burdens upon the people. —e Almost $400,000,000 of the govern- ment debt has been refunded at the rate of 2 per cent and the new bonds are now selling on the market above par. Not another governmeut on earth can flont & loan at this rate of Interest and have the bouds above par in the open markets, and. even this country could not do it under demoeratic administra- tions. e Very Shy on Integrity. Baltimore American. The integrity of China now depends upon the integrily of the powers, and so far that scems to be & very emall factor in the case. e A Forgotten Leader. Washington Post. Nobody has offered Jerry Simpson $10,000 a year to edit a newspaper. Yet, Jerry is one of the pioneers of the political move- ment which collapsed on the 6th of the month. P ] Forced Retreat to the Woo Globe-Democrat The situation is constantly improving in Vebraska. The republicans are in undis- | puted possession of the state, Mr. Bryan | has retired to his farm and the rest of the populists have taken to the woods. Tip for the Governor-Eleot. Milwaukee Sentinel. Governor-elect Dietrich of Nebraska is a widower and is worrled to decide what he shall do with the executive mansion at Lincoln which was procured by the state only @ year ago. Why not rent it to the leading citizen of Lincoln who wants an executive residence before anything else on earth? Civillsation Among the Heathen, Springficld (Mass.) Republican, For how many centuries has the con- quering Saracen Omar been cursed by “western” civilization for his destruction of the Alexandrian library! Now let & begin to curse the invaders of China in thi year of grace for the destruction of the Chinese libraries at Pekin and Tien Tain. They contained the whole history of China, by the principal authors of a country which had a history apd a literature thousands of years before the ancestors of the Teutons and their offshoots, the Anglo- Saxons, had emerged from the period of savagery, It 18 & grotesque awnd hateful 1LY BFEE: i ]—;nel that the United States has been aiding the western powers in obliterating the in- estimable records of probably the oldest race on the globe. If the Ming tombs are really to be destroyed by the German vil- laity, then the greatest monuments of Ghina's art at its commanding period are a dead loss to the world. Abdul's Jollying Mood. Chicago Record. On the very day on which the sultan of Turkey was directing the transmission of his ‘warmest congratulations to President McKinley on (he result of the election, felfcitating both of them on the assurance of continued friendship between the United States and Turkey, the battleship Kentucky and the cruiser Dixle were ordered to Smyrna to do a little “blufng” In regard to the payment of that overdue $100,000, Will the sultan take the coincidence as an evidence of the frony of fate or was he hilmself doing something In the nature of ““Jollylng” the creditor? Do Bank Examiners Examinet Philadelphia Ledger. Another trusted bank officlal has followed some §200,000 of the bank's funds fnto obscurity and it has just now been dis- covered that, while trusted implicitly, he has been juggling with the books and the money for u series of years, during which time the bank has been repeatedly exam- a natlonal bank must be, by gov- ernment officlals. Isn't It about time to put & new rulo in force and hold the bank examiner responsible when it Is found that theft has beén going on under his nose for yeats, when he should have detected it at the first visit? If he cannot detect such things, of what use Is he? POOR LO HANGS ON. Comfortably Fitted with Aunu and Waxing Prosperous, Brooklyn Eagle. According to statements made by the com- mistloner of Indlan affairs, we have about 268,000 red men In the United States, of whom more than 57,000, beside those in the schools are kept in a state of pauperism by rellance on government rations. We are treating our charges better than we used to do, be- cause we are trying In a small way to make them independent. With the disappearance of game In this country, especially the buffalo, which was the most important of the food animils of America, it becomes necessary to feed the Indians who formerly fed on game, unless we can educate them out of barparism and qualify them for earning the same sort of living as a white man. This we are dolng, at last, as the schools fn Carlisle and on the reserva- tlons Indicate, vet the fact of keeping the Indlans on a reservation, of inflicting punishments on them If they leave and of treating them like children and paupers is a deterrent to thelr mental and moral growth and Independence. It has been a comforting allegation, of those who take comfort In such bellefs, that the Indian was rapidly decreasing and that the complete dominance of the white people would solve the problems that are at present oftéred by his persistence in remaining on earth. The figures of the census takers, however, indicate that the Indian is a per- manence, and if he 18 to be cared for as we care for him now, he will be more than a permanence; he will bo a growth. He can- not remain forever isolated from the people who are closing in upon him; he cannot be a drag on progress; he must earn his own Itving in the land, as others do. The way to & better state is to apportion their lands in severalty among the people, leaving to such as will the task of working them and to others the Woney proceeds of_thelr sales, a8 capitdl (o bulld homes elsewhere or start In business of some sort, to dis- continue government clothes and rations, to enforce school “attendance on all the children, to &mualgamiite them with our own population. The Indian is at least as well entitled to & volce in our affairs as are four in five of the immigrants who have come to this country in the last twenty years. After centuries of support, red families like athers tend to become weak, oven helpless, but there is no reason why their sons dnd daughteré whould not rank with the best of us. As the college foot ball games have shown, they have a splendid physique, thelr sonses are clear, and In the reservations of our more settled states the standard of morals I8 superior to that of the white towns near by. With proper echooling, with proper homes, with pfoper sanitation of his villages, with proper and profitable industry, tho Indlan would make his mark and would enter into the brotherhood of races that make this republic. He shows increasing willingness to do this, and the time ap- proaches for admitting him to citizenship. EXPANSION AND EXPORT, Result of the al Campaiw New York Electrical Review. The result of the general election held in this country last week, in its emphatic endorsement of the policy of the present administration and its condemnation of unsound financial policies, was the one thing needful to make the success of our export trade a cortainty, Even under the adverse conditions which accompany polit- ical discussion we had begun to bulld up an export trade of large volume, but of in- finitely larger promise. Tho ~impetus glven to American export business by the results following the Spanish war, and its accompanying demonstration of the superb effectiveness of our navy and army, while in fitself great, must be less than that which will result from the clearing of the political atmosphere aud the endorsement of an administration that has glven us both prestige and prosperity. For these reasons we may look ahead confidently to o magnificent future for our export trade and to the bullding up of a com- merce that will be second to none in the world. Whils most Americans know and realize that In many departments of industrial activity we lead the world, and while it s universally conceded that we are a nation of inventors and mechanics, the fact that we are the largest cfvilized nation in the world has not generally been understood. With thelr population of more than 76,000~ 000 of intelllgent and educated citi- zens, the United States may well claim to be the largest national unit in the world, in so far as all that concerns progress and civillaation 18 regarded. Russia, with its enormous area and swarming population, must be consldered Inferlor to us because of the {nterior value of the unit of population; the British and German empires come next in order, with France as a poor fourth Taking this indisputable fact in connection with our establishment at the gateway of | the east-in the Philippines and the amaz- ing resources possessed by our country, toth n agricultual, in minerals, in forests and in climate, it {8 not diMcult to per- celve that more and more we must make our {mpress upon the progress of the world and that the coming century will see us far in the lead in industrial and material prosperity. This nation has multiplied its population thirty-one times in the last century; Its export cdmmerce in the last three or four years as much more than equaled fhat of all its previous history, With Internal digsension and dissatisfac tion stilled and with a policy regarding international relations that commands re- spect abroad and support at home its des- tiny is plain. The opportunity cqnfronts us and 1t Is not to be supposed that we will allow it to pass, or that the olectrical in- dustry—-the most alert and advanced of all our modern activities—will fai! to selze a8 ita own the broader fleld that is now rapidly opening before it | products, DUKE AND DUCHESS, New York World: It fsn'c every Ameri- can girl who can elope with a duke. Not that every American girl wants to do 8o, elther. Chicago Record: 1If the new duchess of Manchester is worth $1,000,000 in her own name she would do well to hand out spend- ing mouey to the duke in 25-cent pleces it she wishes to retaln her fortune. Chicago Chronicle: About the only com- ment necessary upon the latest inter- na‘ional wedding Is contained in the old quatrain: Cloton and Cleo aro wedded-— Marrled and settled for life. She's got a fool for a husband; He's got a fool for a wife. Chicago Tribune: It the new duchess will begln by making strict regulations and will see that they are enforced it may be that she will in time be able to accomplish the work which she bas under- taken. Otherwise it is to be feared that the ducal coronet will rest uneasily on her falr brow. That the duke of Manchester, along with a majority of the English and continental nobility, needs reforming will not be denled. That young American helresses are born into the world for the purpose of accomplishing this reform may be fairly questioned. Detrolt Journal: The duke of Manchester fell desperately in love with the daughter of an American railway magnate long be- fore he had the honor of making her papa's acquaintance. In complete ignorance of her patrimony and unmindful of her ante- cedents he bestowed upon her the title of duchess, made her a present of his beautiful castle in Ireland and then, to his unspeak- able surprise, learned that she was heiress to $30,000,000 or more. This discovery al- most took away the breath of the duke, but he will manage to regain his mental equipoisc and live down the terrible news. PERSONAL NOTES, Andrew Carnegle, it seems, still has $200,000,000 between him and that honorable death in poverty which he craves, From December 81 to March 4 Theodore Reoeevelt will play what is for him the unaccustomed role of private citizen, Frederic Remington, the artist, began drawing when & very small boy and al- ways chose western types and nes for his subject. The widow of Supreme Justice Stephen J. Field has presented to the United States cir- cult court of appeals In San Francisco a finely exceuted oll portrait of the jurist. Hawall seems to lead the empire in fts increase of population since 1860. The gain was 711 per cent. But nearly the whole Increase came from China and Japan. General Thomas H. Taylor and General W. F. Perry, two of the six surviving ex- confederate brigadiers in Kentucky, are very {ll. Perry commanded a brigade in Longstreet's corps. The 4-cent stamp in the new series to be issued and sold next year in commemora- tion of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo will have as its central picture a motor wheel, reprosenting the latest form of transportation. William Parke Custis, who recently died in Baltimore, was the oldest male descend- ant of General Jobn Custis, who settled In Accomack county, Virginia, in 1650. Washington's wife was the widow of & Custis of this stock. It 1s now elghteen years since Sir Fred- erick Cavendish was murdered in Phoenix park, Dublin. Since that day Lady Caven- dish has never appeared in public save in black, her thin, careworn face is known by many women who are engaged In charity work, which is now the widow's chief con- cern. William Astor Chanler, the millionalre New York lawyer, last week defended one Henry Allshoe, who was acquitted. A few minutes later Chanler found him shivering in the lobby, ‘“Here, take my overcoat,” sald the pitying Croesus, at the same time slipping a bill into the fellow's hand, and before the later could even thank him he jumped into a passing cab and was driven away. _— FRUIT GROWING IN AMBRIOA, Marvelous Development, Variety and Value of Orchards, Chicago Tribune. The loaded orchards so generally noticed earlier in the fall by the overland traveler and the surprising scenes encountered at focal points of fruit trafiic, while inducing a distinct sense of general abundance, could glve but a meager idea of the real size and importance of fruit growing as a whole in this country. The total annual turnover involved in the traffic is not accurately keown, but in an article on the subject by Theodore Dreiser in the current Harper's Monthly it is estimated to be not less than $1,000,000,000, Recent development in fruit culture has been rapld. Not only is the parent concord grapevine—a seedling sprung from selected wild grapes and still to be seen at Concord, Mass.—less than three score years old, but the grape-growing industry, which has now reached such enormous dimensions in many states, 1s principally an event of the last quarter of a century. Within twenty years the strawberry-produciug area supplying what is now Greater New York has in creased from Long Island and New Jersey to comprise eleven other states, including Mississippi and Arkansas. In 1890 nearly 41,817,016 pounds of raisins were imported. Now California has reduced the imports to one-fourth of that amount. Twenty years ago there were ot a dozen large prune orchards in this country, and ten years ago we imported nearly 60,000,000 pounds of prunes. Today ur prune orchards can pro- duce 100,000,000 pounds, and limportations have practically ceased. One resident of Benton Harbor, Mich.,, makes $30,000 in a single year from his peach orchards, one ccunty In New Jersey markets 500,000 baskets of peaches, and peach-growing has recently become so extensive In Georgla that frult is disputing the kingship in that state with cotton. The capacities of our country and of the carth's sofl in general fgr food production are likewiso suggested not only by the fact that the apple crop of four years ago was estimated to have been worth $150,000,000 to the growers, but by the fact that the orange crop of California—estimated at trom 15,000 to 18,000 carloads this year— will two years hence be sufficlent to supply every market in this country and will need no tarift protection. This enormous increase of the fruit-grow- ing Industry in our country has, of course, stimulated at the same time that it has been rendered possible by the improved facilities for transporting and, storing the This interdependende, however, 1s perhaps an unequal one, and the growers often feel themselves largely at the mercy of those who control these facilities as well as of the middlemen. One of the most interesting features of the fruit-growing industry in southern California has been the co-operative assoclations of the grow- ers for marketing their product. As the writer of the article in question indicates, a review of this expanded branch of food preduction tends chiefly to unsettle the mind of any Malthusian and suggests the essentially unacientific and merely alarmist character of any present appre- hensions of overpopulation. That the limi- tations upon social progress today concern not the fruitfulness of the earth but the stage of organization reached In production and distribution is & truth enforced by studying the present facts and indicated possibilities of fruit growing in this coun- try. N AN ABLE EXPONENT. Plainview Republican The next legislature will be re- publican in both branches. The candidates for United States sena- tor are getting numerous. We are of the opinion that the whole state ticket Is indebted to The Bee for its magnificent support and it is also true that the fight for the legislature could not have been won without it. The national ticket Tiad no more able exponent in this state than the editor of The Bee, who labored with tongue and pen with the energy of a Titan. The splendid results of the elec tion will raise the stock of the Omaha editor., Rosewater has enemles and vivals, but it would not surprise the newspaper boys if he reached the senate, @ecccccctteccccssssssssees® S DOING O fome Incldents of werved by Correspondents, Thoughtful ders of the dispatches from China are at a loss for an explana- tlon of the frequent notes of discord emanating from the concert of the powers. The reason Is not far to seek. A corre- spondent furnishes this clue: “A curfous incldent noticed by few hap- rened. The Russian band had been play- ing full lungs the ‘Marseillaise,’ the repub- lican march of France, but a forbidden air in the manarchi neighboring country of Italy, “As the French were sented, the Itallans came immediately be bind them, just as the ‘Marseillalse' that was In full swing was being played. The Russian general discovered at once the faux pas and tried in vain to sigual the bandmaster to stop. They were going at thelr hardest when the general's aide-de- camp was dispatched across the line to the musicians. Just in time. In a hurry- scurry fashion the republican march ceased abruptly, and the ‘Inno Reale' of Italy was struck, much to the reassurance and rellet of the Itallans, who seemed perplexed to march under an air foreign and ungrateful to their ea : meagerly repre- A correspondent of the London Telegraph sketches in an entertaining fashion the characteristics and qualification of the va- rlous national troops constituting the fn- ternational force on the march to Pekin, and pays a high compliment to the skill, courage and individuality of American sol- diers. He says British were steady under callous, the French composed, and the Americans different from all. The English correspondents, he says, sometimes took off thelr hats to the gallant Americans, “and on other occassions the Americans seemed no more than a mob of tramp: the foreigners being amazed at the lack of the ironclad discipline which rules the forelgn troops like slaves, and which no American cltizen would stand for a mo- ment. The correspondent says each Ameri- can geemed to be a law untp himself, the idea appearing to be that the fighting unit was the wan, not the brigade, the regiment or the company. He thinks that if there had been no fighting the foreigners would have formed a very pcor opinion of the Amerl- can goldiers, but luckily for their reputa- tion there wes fighting, and of this he says: . “You see an American private advancing under fire, you begln to think there is something In the idea that tne Mighting unit of the future is the individual. Private Sflas P. Holt acts by himself, for himself. He and his companions make for a common objective, not like stiff, trained soldlers, but like panthers stalking at prey. Their eyes flash, their lithe bodies swing for- ward; there {s murder and deadly intent- ness in evary movement, When the Ameri- can soldier lies down to fire, he does so with the intention of killing somebody. Most troops fire, not at the enemy, but in the direction of the enemy; not so the Americans. Allled to their feline stealthi- ress the Americans in battle have a most reckless courage. At times they exposo themselves with a strange contempt for death. An officer will take chances no European would care to take. The fleld battery was generally to be found in places where no one read in tactics would have dared to put it. General Chaffee and his staff always rode where the enemy was most lkely to see and shoot at them. Young end Inexnerienced correspondents were warned by older hands not to go dur- ing an action near prominent bulldings, large graves or the American staff.” Another compliment given the Americans ts that they went prepared for a fight and each man had 510 cartridges, while the Russians had but 140 each, and the others trom 130 to 810, The disposition of the loot secured by the allles In Pekin excites much interest among the forelgners in the Chinese capi- tal. The British portion is being auctioned caily in the vicinity of the embassy. A New York Sun correspondent says the British call the captured stuft prizes and the wmoney obtalned from its sale goes to the Tommies. “Prizes include everything from a carved mahogany table or a sable overcoat to an ordinary Chinese fan or an opium pipe. There are rolls of silk, yards of gorgeous embroldery, curious pleces of fade, heavy bronte urns and tiny bronze vases, clolsonne ware 100 years old, skins of rare animals and wardrobes of rich mandarins—in fact, everything which Gen- eral Chaffee described in a recent order to the United States forces as ‘looted and stolen property.’, It s not unlawful for British soldiers to plunder, but all lpot must be turned Into the common heap, which 1s auctioned off. The officer or en- lsted man s by this means enabled to acquire what Is recognized as a proper title to his souvenirs of Pekin and he lkowise puts money back into his own pocket. “Some of the plunder bring ridiculous prices, while more of It runs very near what it is worth. A fine garment lined with sable will on some days bring $50 in silver and aguin as much as $160. A heavy brcnze urn, which stands a poor show of being trunsported back to England, cost its owner $65. An ordinary Chinese fan not worth 15 cents was, just for the fun of the thing, run up to $3 and knocked down amid great merriment to an officer of the Welsh Fusileers. The next moment & Tommy watched his chance and bid in & bandsome leopard's skin for $§ “Some three weeks ago, after te British auction had begun Ita datly session, the Americans got up a small auction of their own and now every evening at the head- quarters of the Ninth infantry the en- listed men have the pleasure of seeing what was at one time their loot disap- pearing to highest bidders. For several days following the occupation of the city it was the palnful duty of officers to relieve soldiers of watches, jewelry, fur coats bolts of silk and other plunder which the men artlessly brought into camp and ex- posed. This stuff made a big pile, which was augmented by & mass of stuff taken from deserted houses In the American quarter in order to keep it from falling into the hands of Russian and French soldiers an well as Chi “The proceeds of the American sale are not to be divided like the proceeds of the British sale, for an order issued from the [ R R R e fire, the Russians phlegmatic, the Japanese | headquarters of General Chaffee has pro vided that the money obtained from (he sale of ‘stolen and looted property’ shall be applied for municipal purposes In the districts governed by the Americans. Tnis means that it will be expended on streat cleaning and fecding the destitute Chineso when the rigors of winter eome and leave them without proper food and shelter. Some 82,000 silver has already been acquired for the municipal fund Nothing has been heard concerning the disposition of Russian, French or German plunder. The last arrived late and with the desire of revenge burning flercely in their souls, and so they have completely stripped the houses of the district in the southern city ruled by them. The Rus- slans are reported to have ransacked tao rooms of the Summer palace, fifteen miles west of Pekin, and to have boxed up the rich cloisonne, rare china and silver orna- ments for shipment to St. Potersburg.” AMERICA'S SCHOOL ARMY, Relntion of the Schools to the bility of the Republie, Kansas Clty Star, The fact that nearly 17,000,000 pupils are enrolled in the schools of the United States, as reported by the commissioner of education, should dispel the fears of those who have forebodings for the fu- ture of tue republic. Almost one-fourth of the whole population is receiving fin- structfon in varfous branches, from the primary department to the university. By far the larger propurtion of the younger generation Iy thus learning the fundamental principles of good citizenship. Tliteracy is one of the chief sources of danger to a popular government. There might be danger of “imperialism’ were there a large falling off iu school attendunce, At the end of the civil war (he govern- ment had to face a question of great mag- nitude on account of the lack of educa- |tion among the negrocs. Then came an influx ot illiterate foreigners In the years of excessive Immigration during the 'T0s and 'S0s. The importance of the problem was understood. School work was at once pusbed by private as well as public organi- zations, and during the decade from 1880 to 1860 some headway was made in reducing the amount of flliteracy. Ten years ago the census showed that the number of illiterates above the age of 10 was only 13.3 per cent of the popula- tion, By far the larger proportion of these, naturally, were negroes. Educational work in the south has now been undertaken In earnest in secondary as well as elementary schools. With the development of the re- sources of the southern states thelr school | #ystems may be expected to show corre- sponding progress. The work of education among the neeroes should advance durlug the mext decade as never before. , in a government by the people the edu- cation of the masses, who are the real | rulers of the nation, is esfential. Russia can get on with a high percentage of {llit- eracy, because the Russian peasant has little to do with his government. But such a state of affairs in a republic would be fatal (o good order. It Is the llliterate vote that offers the most truitful oppor- tunity for corruption. Men wlithout edu- cation are the most prone to follow an unreasoning but eloquent speaker. Even it a boy does not go beyond the age of 14, ho has the foundations on which he can educate himself. He Is able to read the newspapers, and if he does that he is In a position to defend his rights. With 17,000,000 children and young people in chool, the liberties of the nation are se- cure. Every year a part of this great army assumes the dutles of cltizenship. These graduates of American schools may be depended on to safeguard the institu- tions handed down from the SAID Detroit Free Pry power of repose. 'O, that 18 too aweeping, of Americans who haven't anything else.” Cleveland Plain Dealer: “That friend of mine in the British army sent me a keg of Chinese wine that ho looted In Pekin. The stuff was balf water.” “Evidently diluted! Indianapolis Journal; take a boom now.' “Why do you think so “Oh, it does disappointed politicians lots of g0od to see other men get mauled,” Américans lack the 1 know plenty ‘Foot ball will Washington Star f my nelghbor has a Thanksgivin' turkey, an’ I ain't,” sald Uncle Iben, “I kin bo a little thankful, anyhow. ‘1 ‘won't hafter listen to any kickin' f'um him." Detrolt Journal: “Hehold the t.iedical charging the cohorts of The cohorts of the diseased, you doubt- less mean!” Chicago Post: “I think 1 will propose to her by letter,” said the youth, sDon't.!" returned the man of experience. “You will miss a whole lot of experience ;hn;ldm;yvr can be collected afterward if you do. Detroit Journal: *Now that the elections are over, we settle back to the old hum- drum, 1 ‘suppose.' “And what a rellef humdrum is, after so much humbug Cleveland Plain Dealer: gratifying bit of philosoph Fived ‘from the flihess f “What Is {t?" ““That the typhold glves an em) as good a run for his money as ordinary plebelan," ““There I8 & hizing to be de- the czar. ooy, Just t does an Boston Transcript: Hazlitt—8o you reall: think that Miss Mezzotint 18 A genuing artist? And yet you never heard her. Harsad—No, but she freely admits that she sings her sclections. She does not claim that she “renders’” them, Philadelphia Press: Offloe-seeker—I think m& campalgn work should entitle me to an office. Leagder—1 nover heard of you. What did you do? OfMce-seaker—Well, T “also spoke' twenty-one different occaston Chicago Tribun I am to have week, you things | must do. on Bweet Young Thing— coming-out party next Tell me some of the Miss Flyppe (who came out geveral seasons ago)— 1t won't make any differ- ence, child. “Your friends will all say vou carried vourself like an angel and the en- vious ones will say you were pert and dis- gusting or that you dldn't know what to do with your hands and fee DOWN 10 SLE| Helen Hunt Jackson ovember woods are bare and stil November days are clear. and brigh h moon burns up the morning's chill; orning's snow s gone night ach dny my steps grow slow, grow Tight, As through the woods I reverent creep, Watching all things lle down to slecp i vor knew before what beds rant to smell and soft t rest wifts and shapes 1 never knew before how Of human soul there is in uch Low tones as through the forest creep When all wiid things He down to sleep. y I find new coverlids Tucked In and more sweet eyes shut tight, Sometimes the viewless mother bids Her ferns kneel down, full in my wight, 1 hear their chorus of “good night; And half 1 smile and half | weep, Listening while they lle down to’sleep. ‘What Shall We Have for Dessert? 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