Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 29, 1901, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY THE E. ROSEWATER, OMAHA DAILY BEE. EDITOR. PUBIISHED BEVERY MORN TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION, Daily Bee (without Sunday), Laily Bee and Bunda Jilustrated Hee, One Bunday Bee, One Year Batirday Bee, One Yo ‘Lwentieth Centu IFFICES, Umaha. The Bee Building, . south Omaha: City Hall tuflding, Twen: ty-uith And M treets. Councli Bluffs: 10 Pear] Street Chicago: 1640 Unity Bullding New York. Temple Court Washington: w1 Fourt CORRESPONDF Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS. letters and remittances should The Bee Publishing Com- th Street. Business REMITTANC B Remit by draft, express or postal orde payavle to The Bee Publishing Company. ily 2-cont stamps accepted in payment of maf| ints. Personal checks, e Umaha or castern exchang THE BEk PUBLISHING STATEMENT OF RCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s.: George B hick, secretary of The Bee Publishing’ Company, being duly sworn, #ays that the actual number of full and te coples of The Dally, Morning, ing and Sunday Bee printed during the hoof June, 101, wus as follows: 26,050 16.... .. 28,400 1. 18, 16, 20. 25,880 21. ..25,780 ! 20,170 26,400 25,850 25,760 26,540 25,000 46,480 25,610 25,000 25,510 25,800 0,220 770,045 L ONTe 706,171 25, B, TZSCHU GEORC 3 sence and sworn to Subscribed n_my p before me this th day of June, A: De, 1901 M. B HUNGATE, Notary Publie. Net total sales. Net dally average PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER, Parties leaving the city for the summer may have The Beo went to them regularly by notifying The Nee Busin office, in peraon or by mail, The addres 1 be changed an often as desired. —_— w According to the local bank clearings figures, it seems also to have been too hot to write checks, The auditor] las subsided for the summer season, but the power canal project is again looming up on the hori- zou. ) The advent of coplous rains through- out Nebraska will compel the crop statisticians to revise th--lr’vnflmn!es and issue new editions. m The antl-consumption congress recom- mends that everyone shall carry his own pocket cuspidor. This should bring into life an entirely new industry. It s a little bit too sultry for ordi- uary peoplé to distress themselves about the fall campaign, but the candidates are_proof against the high temperature, The Omaba public library is another of our institutions that shows dis- tinctly the effects of enervating weather, It has been too hot to read books as well as too hot to go after them, South Omaha is accumulating a neat nestful of judgments against the city. The privilege of paying the taxes to liquidate these debts will surely be ap- preciated by South Omaha property owners, The democrats of South Omaha are all torn up over Tom Hoctor's job, which expires with the end of the year, It will require a powerful leverage at the end of a mighty crowbar to pry To away from the county erib. The managers of the rallroads center- fog In Omaba evidently entertaln no doubts as to the future or they would not be buying up connecting lines that have been serving as feeders. Hot weather does not wither railroad op- timl — Our amiable contemporary insists that after another summer like fhis the man who wears a shirt will be deemed in- sane. We take it that this forecast is intended to predict a speedy resurrec- tion of the old fig-leaf costume once 80 popular in the Garden of Eden. The bank statements tel story all over the west of Increased bank deposits. The mortgage records echo the showing In increased mortgage cancellations. Nebraska and lowa are in good shape financially without refer- ence to late crops yet to be harvested, the same We may be sure now that everything connected with the land drawing In Oklahoma will be conducted on the square since we find among the mem- bers of the committee selected to rep- resent Nebraska applicants our old friend George H, Hess, lately of school board notorlety King Edward Las been trying on the British crown to make sure that it fits properly for the coronation ceremontes, Should he require a new plece of head- gear he can get It cheapest and best by asking for bids from Americun crown- makers who will be pleased to open up an old world trad The mortality statistics of horses that have succumbed to the hot weather em- phasize another point of advantage that an automobile has over a vehicle propelled by animal power. But when winter comes and the water tanks of the automoblles begin to freeze up the time will come for the horse laugh Speaker Henderson has been revisiting the place of his birth and the scenes of his youth in Scotland. If the speaker's parents had been wise enough to locate the place in this country instead of on the other side of the Atlantic they might have enjoyed the distinction of seeing their son ranged in the class of aresidential eligibilities, S ] SION--PAST AND PRESENT. | tle and populist papers in > braska are engaged once more In active discussion of the merits drawbacks of fusion and the advisabll- | Ity of continuing the fusion farce. By | a pecullar turn the democrats who | two years ngo were predicting that after 1000 there would be no more fusfon but rather only two opposing partles, the democrats and the republicans, are for the most part appealing for the perpet- uation of the masquerade while the pop- | ullsts are taking the lead Iu declaring that the alliance has scen the end of its usefulness, While this diseussion I In progress the managers of the fusion machine who have found the combination more lucrative to them than the go-t-alone course are setting up the pins for a re- newed engagement of the old three- ringed circus. With a remarkable ex- hibition of harmonious colncidence, each of the so-called reform party commit- tees las been summoned to meet at the samwe time and place to fix upon ar rangements for the state nominating convention of thelr respective organiza- tions which in all probability by coln- cldence of course will be called for si multaneous meetings as per previous fusion programs. How far the rank and file of demo- crats and populists who in reality have less affinity for one another than they have for republicans will submit to such machine manipulations remains to be seen. What has been accomplished in | the past in Nebraska by fusion, even where successful in its immediate ob ject of capturing the spoils of office holds out no promise that can satlsfy the dewands of ayy honest rmer. The fus'on machine may force upon the conventions another combination ticket, but force the voters to swallow it will bo a different thing. ¥ Deme PANAMA ROUTE ADVANTAG The advocates of the Pansma canal route wlill find some enconragement in the views of Mr. Caracristi, an engineer of high standing, decidedly favorable to | that route. In an article in an eastern Journal he says that it will not require more than §75,000,000 to complete the Panama luteroceanie waterway “and that for $15,000,000 the United States cun buy the Isthmus of Panama, the ennal concession and all that goes with it. The total cost to the United States for the Panama system would therefore be $90,000,000, or $3,000,000 less than | one-half the cost of constructing the Nicaraguan canal. He also states that the latter route has bad or next to im possible harborage on either ocean. while there Is no such objection to the Panama canal, In addition to this ln-‘r figures thut the annual cost of operat- Ing the Nicaraguan canal would be more than twice that of the Panama, whige there Is no reason to think that the tratfic through the latter would not be quite as large as through the for- mer and possibly larger. There is no sort of doubt that so far as the financial consideration Is con- cerned it Is very decidedly in favor of the Panama route, but whether or not this will have any Influence with éon- gress s a question. It is said, however, that there is a growing sentiment in Washington friendly to the Panama route, on account both of the financlal consideration and the international com- plications that would be avoided by the acceptance of that route. What Is known regarding the conclusions of the canal commission is well calculated to strengthen this sentiment, yet the feel- ing In congress is so strong for the Nicaraguan route that it Is very doubt- ful if a proposition to secure the Pan- ama canal, however satisfactory the conditions under which this might be done, would be adopted. If an accepta- ble treaty with Great Britain I8 nego- tiated there will probibly be little op- position to the Nicaraguan route, Other- wise the Panama canal advocates may have some chunce of success. s THE CUBAN SUGAR QUESTION. There {8 a growing interest in the question as to what policy the United States shall gdopt respecting Cuban sugar. The Increase in the capital of the Sugar trust with the avowed pur- pose of developing the sugar Industry of Cuba, and the statement of the presi- dent of the trust In favor of glving Cuban raw sugar free admission to the American market, assures a vigorous campalgn on the part of the American Sugar Refining company to secure the legislation it desiréw. Discussing the subject the New York Evening Post says that “one kind of arrangement to put inordinate galns in the treasury of the Sugar trust would be to admit raw sugar free and to put a duty on refined.” More than thf, such a policy, as we have heretofore pointed out, would mean the ultimate destruction of the domestic sugar industry. American beet sugar producers could not compete with the Cuban sugar If admitted free to the United States. Indeed, they may not be able to do so even with the ex- isting dutles on sugar applied to the Cuban product, so much wore cheaply can sugar be produced in Cuba thau hel We have heretofore noted that this yeur's production of Cuban sugar will be about double that of last year and that it 1s the belief that within a few years the {sland will produce an amount of sugar nearly equal to what this coun- try annually jmports. The total area of Cuba shows approximately 28,000,000 acres, at least one-third of which can be made avallable for sugar production. It is possible for Cuba to raise on such an area as wmuch sugar as the world is now consuming and still leave her farming land enough for the food sup- ply of her people and enough extra on which to raise a few hundred million dollars' worth of tobacco, coffee, fruits and other things. The free admission of Cuban sugar to the American market would tremendously stimulate its pro- duction and it is not difficult to under- stand what effect this would have upon the American sugar industry. It simply could not survive so formidable a com- petition. It we caunot, without sacrificing our own sugar Industry, give free admis- siol 10 Cuban sugur, what coucessions ' will be revolutionized at no distant day | can we safely make? That 18 a ques- tion which will need to e very care- fully considered. The Baltimore Amer fean thinks that concessions should made, but It remarks that “we must be mindful not to Injure too extensively the business of our own sugar planters and the beet sugar industry. Let us be generons,” it urges, “but not profl gate, in dealing with our ward; at the same time let us be careful not to im palr our domestie Interests.” It will ob- viously be no easy matter to determine how far we can go without Injury to the domestic industries to be affected by Cuban competition, It is a qv hardly second in importance to with which the next congress will have DIRECT PRIMARY EXPERIMENTS. Indianapolis has just had its first ex- perfence with the new Indiana law for direct primary nominations, by which the republicans of that ity have put up a compfete municipal ticket from mayor 0 to alderman. According to the %« the direct primary esperiment has come fully up to expectations, more than 11,000 votes being recorded, which s considerably more than usually brought out by the ordinary primary eleetion, Commenting on the first trial under the new law the Indlanapolis Journal, one of the staunch republican organs, says: The experiment under the primary elec- tlon law must commend itself to all those who belleve it to be important to have the voters of a party control its primaries. A much larger number of republicans went to the primaries and voted than usually attend on kuch occasions. Moreover, precinct and party lines wore carefully observed. No gAngs of men went from precinct to pre- cinct to stuff ballot boxes, and no demo- crats took a hand to force upon republicans an objectionable candidate. These are facts which are known to all who took any cog- nizance of the trial of the law which marks a new departure and the initiation of a great reform. In two or three precincts amiable election officers permitted candidates to as- sist voters In marking ballots, none of whom were successful, but as a whole the law was observed, and In most precincts the morking of ballots was as free from espionage as If the voting booth had been used. In'the wards it can be said, where there were contests, that the decision was made by republicans voting according to law. This could not have been said of many primaries which have occurred heretofore The primaries also demonstrated that the delegate, in municipal affairs at least, is unnecessary, even it a vocation has been destroyed. It is not probable that so gen- erally acceptable a ticket for councllmen at large as that selected could have been made by a convention. The Journal may be too sanguine over Tuesday's experiment when it says it fully believes that it marked the beginning of better methods and of more satisfactory candidates for both parties. It has proved to republican voters that it s now within the power of a majority to make candidates as well as to elect those made by others. This fact established, primarles will be sure to be well attended when can- didates are to be selected. Laws gimilar to that enacted by the Iast Indiana legislature have been adopted in Minnesota and several other states under its lead, indicating unmis- takably the flrift in this direction in the matter of election reform. Theke experiments will be worth' watching by Nebraska people. Ne- braska was in the van in the adoption of the Australlan ballot and in enfore- Ing other modern safeguards for the protection of suffrage and should the system of direct primary nominations prove successful elsewhere this state will want to come in line promptly with the wovement, The story of the preacher wlio wanted to scll Governor Savage a sure prescrip- tion for breaking the drouth for the small price of $5,000 is characteristic of the pious mountebank. Any preacher, or for that matter, any other person who possessed such a valuable secret able to bring relief to millions of suffering humanity would be In duty bound to glve the public its full benefit and trust the people to make proper recompense for such a boon. The demand of a price Is the best evidence that the whole thing s a fake. Fortunately the preachers as a class are not afflicted with many members belonging to this category. According to returns made to the county board the receipts of the office of clerk of the district court for the past year have not been equal to the expen- ditures, the reason ascribed belng that litigation is at a low ebb and the fees correspondingly light. If that Is so, the work of the office must be lght—light enough to dispense with enough clerks to bring the balance into better propor- tions. If the office i8 economlically con- ducted, however, the county Is sure to reap a net revenue from this office under the law that limits the share of the clerk to $5,000. — Business men In Omaha and elsewhere throughout the country find that, under the regulations established, It Is next to {mpossible to secure rebates for unused revenue stamps on hand at the time of the repeal of the internal revenue duties. To get stamps redeemed a person Is re- quired to answer under oath questions that have about as much to do with it as a kindergarten exsmination. A little less red mfio and the exercise of rea sonable prudence on tie part of revenue officers would relleve the situation with- out impairing the efficiency of the rev- enue servie With only $15,000 in the clty treasury there 18 no use making such a great fuss over the refusal of South Omaha banks to bid for the privilege of becom- ing the depositories of the elty cash. Their refusal to bid, however, is an indication that a comwmunity of interest exists between the bankers to get public money without paylng interest—except on the side. The nine detectives of the Omaha po- lice force have had their portraits taken in a group, which goes to show that the Omaha detective force is oblivious to the fact that the usefuluess of a detective depends largely upon his keep- ing mnder cover. When a detective s kmown to everybody he becomes a belled cat. The telephone system of Philadelphia \ the Keystone Telephone company, u” which Congressman Forderer s the head. According to ite published pro- gram the company will install a set of | telephones, free of cost, that will reach | ery household and place of business, | and each call will cost the small sum of 2 cents, The experiment will be | watched with a good deal of interest in every section of the country. Ameriean barkeepers at Parls are tak ing precautions to prevent French dis pensers of drinks from learning the se- crets of their mixtures, Next in order | will be an International cocktail trust. Kansas City Star. Don't refer to it as the “hot wa wave Is something that comes and goes, It doesn't stand still for six weeks or two months, v &l Vitality of Wing Corn. 8t, Louls Globe-Democrat, Corn is no fair weather soldler. It glo- rles in sunshine and nights of breathless heat. Rains may revive it in the drouth section to a greater extent than is sup- posed. After Prayer, Plan Irrigation, Loutsville Courfer-Journal Some day the farmers will quit depend- ing on providence and prayers for rain and will do their own frrigating. Then we shall not know the meaning of crop fail- ures from drouth. A Garrulous Sea Dog. Minneapolis Journal Admiral Sampson continues to give out petulant Interviews, in which he finde fault with Schley. The latter rarely says any- thing about the controversy, but when he speaks he utters words that are calculated to allay rather than intensify bad feeling. Pretty Smooth Skipper, Indlanapolis Journal True American enterprise was shown by the shrewd ship captain who stood “oft and on” the port of New York with a cargo of 1,200 tons of sugar from Porto Rico until he could land it free of duty under the praeident’s proclamation. It was a neat stroke of business. Mot Alr St. Paul Ploneer Pross. 1t is safe to say that tbe statistiolan who estimates the loss to the farmers from drouth at $620,000,000, without counting the losees on bogs and cattle, has more inter- est in bulling the prices of corn and hogs than in achleving a reputation for statie- tical accuracy. No doubt the disastrous ef- fects of the prolonged drouth and exceselve heat fn some of the states of the corn belt have been very great, but there Is a dispo- sition in some quarters to exaggerate th extent of the losses for speculative pur- | poses. The government reports are a far more reliable authority in these matters than the guesses of the epeculative statls- ticiany. Shamen Her Christian Allies. New York Tribune Now Japan announces her willingness to walve the claim for extra indemnity. She proudly disdains to haggle over a few mii- lions. Not for her does the jingling of the guinea help the hurt that honor feels. Other nations—great, clvillzed Christian powers, which were in the forefront of clvili- zation when Japan was yet a hermit bar- barfan—may fuss and haggle and delay negotiations for the ‘sake of squeezing a | few more brass “cash” into their coffers from the pockets of Chinese coolies. Japa has no stomach for such “high finance.” She went into China last year to .restore order, to save the' lives of beleaguered Europeans and to promote clvilization, and it the European powers, whose people she rescued, are not willing for her to be reim- bursed for the actual expenditures, lest thus they be debarred from grabbing all they covet, why, Japan can stand it. A Populistic Pointer. Madison Star (pop.) The time is rapldly approaching when the fusiontsts of Nebraska will be required to choose a candidate for judge of the supreme court to sudceed Judge Norval, who will re- tira in January prox. After having sur- veyed the entire feld and considered the claime and merits of other candidates we tre convinced that, all things considered, Judge E. R. Duffe of Omaha should receive the nomination. Judge Duffiie served eight years as district judge in lowa, twice In the same capacity in this state, and {s now one of the eminent and nc- complished supreme court commissioners of the state. A man in the full strength and vigor of his Intellectual manhood, of splen- @1 legal attainment, wide and copious edu- cation, eminent judicial temperament and aptitude for the dutles of the bench, to which may be added location, he becomes by all means the most appropriate man to be selected for this eminent poeition. The Ster s for Judge Duffie. PERSONAL PO Comwul General Stowe has had enough of South Africa. The British feel the same way. King Edward hae decided to abolish the anclent ceremony at the coronation of the peers kissing the king. Peers and king are to bo congratulated. The Canadian horses are all growing long talls In order to be ready for the arrival of the duke of Cornwall, before whom no docked animals, it s eald, are allowed to appear. Henrl Fournier, the Paris chauffeur, who is slghing for new worlds to conquer, now wishes to race with some of the American automoblilists. This may cause him to sigh for other reasons. President Diaz of Mexico has com- pletely recovered from the lliness from which he suffered so severely during the latter part of the past winter, and Its last i1l effects are now epid to have disappeared. It was one of the freaks of fate that after the New York Herald representatives had been excluded trom the Fosburgh trial a colored hackman named James Gordon Bennett should be the last witness for the prosecution, 1t hae been discovered that a “pure milk' company supplying the Chicago county hos- pltal with 300 gallons per day has been “‘preserving” the milk with formalin. That I8, the company has “embalmed” the milk, rendering it non-nutritious in all cases and polsonous 1g many. Prof. Willlam de Witt Alexander, who recently resigned from the Hawallan De- partment of Surveys and accepted a place in the United States const and geodetic sur- vey, 1 one of the greatest authorities on everything pertaining to the Hawallan Islands-and has written several books on such subjects. “1 am admonished n many ways," writes Mark Twain, in response to an Invitation to participate in n Missourl celebration, “that time is pushing me inexorably along I am approaching the threshold of age; In 1977 1 shail be 142. This is not time to be fitting about the earth; I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and in- ertia proper to that season of homorable senllity, which is on its way and imminent indicyted above [ | with the democrats bec: POLIT IN NEDRASK Kearney Democrat ‘onel Erlc Johnson, dtor of ths Wahoo New Era, one of t grandfathers of fusion, announced in b paper last week that he is opposed further fusion. Nobody knows better that tusion s @ big fraud than Eric does Columbus Telegram (dem.): The populists of Custer, the banner populist county of the | ftate, have made a poor start looking | townrd fusion this fall. They have put up | & stralght populist ticket, without consult Ing the democrats on the subject of fusion In view of the accepted fact that Custer county has been in the habit of setting the populist pace for the state, this action | Is taken by many to indlcate that populists generally are determined to abandon the fusion iden in Nebraska. However, since Custer has of late been drifting toward the republican shoals, perhaps the balance of the state may not be eager to follow its bad example. Last fall Custer was the hot bed of middle-of-the-roadism and now that D. Clem Deaver, the chief mid-roader, has recelved a $3,000-n-year republican reward perhaps there are in Custer a large num- ber of patriots looking for like showers of blessings and that may account for thelr hasty action in Ignoring -the demo- crata to Central City Democrat: To fuse or not to fuse, that's the question that is agitat- ing some of the fellows who assume that they are “leading’ the democratic or the people’s party. The object fs to find out which party casts the most votes, so that| spolls may be properly distributed. Un- neceasary defeat {s a high price to pay for that useless piece of knowledge. The demo cratic and the populist parties stand for practically the same thing in Nebraska; to| all intents they are one party. Together they are sure of victory, why, then, divide? | Perhaps no harm would result. In caso Judges Sullivan and Holeomb were both sure to live out thelr terms, no special | harm could result from having one re- publican on the supreme bench. But no man is sure of life, so it would be wors than eriminal to perpetrate the proposed folly. Let us nominate together and ele one good man. Whether he calls himself | democrat or populist makes no difference. | So long as we have the supreme court the opposition can injure him but little, there- fore take no chances of losing control of the bulwark of our liberties. Grand Island Democrat: Anent the dis cusslon as to whether Acting Governor Sav age can serve out the full time of the un- expired term for which Dietrich was elected, it is well to remember that it is always a safe and sound principle to get close to the people. It is clearly within the meaning of the state constitution that whenever a vacancy shall occur in an elective office that that vacancy shall be filled by the people at the next general clection. One of the main elements of strength In a representative form of gov- ernment s that by which a public servant must constantly recur to the people for his grant of authority. The public cannot expect the best service when its servants are far removed from the source of au- thority. At the forthcoming state conven- tlons the fusion forces should place in nomination a candidate for governor; then | bring a mandamus to compel the secretary of state to place his name upon the offictal ballot, it he Is unwilling otherwise so to do and thereby place the question before the supreme court for adjudication. Any action that brings our elective officers more closely under the will of the electorate cannot fafl to have a salutary effect. Wahoo New Era (pop.): In state politics we are not opposed to co-operation with our democratic friends when we are of the sume mind politically and aim at the same object. We do not refuse to ftellowship ise they call them- selves democrats. No, we have time and again refterated that we entertain as high regard for a sincere reform democrat as we do of a populist and we have always been in favor of treating our democratic friends fairly during our political co-opera- tion, as we surely gave evidence of as members of the conference committee at the last state convention. It is the double or treble headed convention scheme that we find fault with and shall continue to op- pose. Several months ago we editorially asserted that ex-Attorney General Smyth was our first choice for supreme judge. Was that an evidence of “clinging more tena- clously to party name than to great princi- ples?’ We are in favor of “holsting high the populist banner,” because therein les the key to the situation. Let the impres- sion become general, in the popullst ranks, that we are going to be absorbed by the democratic party and fully one-third of the rank and file of the populists will return to the republican fold. Brother Howard attributes to us language that we do not recognize, but even admit It, what assur- ance can Brother Howard give us that the democratic party will remaiu loyal to the good principles advocated by the old-time Independents. What we have written on fusion has speclal reference to the local situation In Saunders county. Unfortu- nately the little coterie of democratic lead- ers here are not of the same generous spirit and bullt on the same broad gauge as Brother Howard. Conditions ares reversed in Platte county; we shall awalt with in- terest to see how very liberal the demo- crats will be to their allles, the populists. However, as we are strenuous bellevers in “home rule” we shall not even offer to criticise, whatever thelr action may be. Holdrege Progress (pop.): Notwith- standing the fact that there are five-foll more adherents to the cause of populism today than there were In 1890, populism as a national organization Is well-nigh a de- funct inetitution. The principal rcason why is not difficult of solution. In fact every true reformer knows without a suggestion. Fuslon evidently means confusion, which tact has been amply demonstrated in the democratic-populist policy since 1896, There are times when coucesion I8 prudent in the affairs of political parties as well as indl- viduals. The endorsement of W. J. Bryan in 1896 by the popullsts the Progress be- lieves to have been not only expedient; but wise. Since the election of 1896, however, the writer has been opposed to fusion, but a majority of the popullsts have been of the opinton that the fusion policy was the wise course and the Progress has supported the ticket on the principle that the majority should rule, notwithstanding that ite edi- tor saw disaster ahead. Many democrats and free silver republicans are In accord with populist principles—then why maintain three distinct organizations? We, in the main, It not literally, believe alike, then why encournge & tripartite organization with no other object than a division of offices. Such a policy 18 not popullsm; It Is not reform; It Is not a guarantee of good faith to the masses. Fusion has accom- plished 1ts purpose and if the popullst party Is consclentious or has any hope of bring- ing about the reforms enunclated in Iits platform at the Inception of the party it «hould rejuvenate and menifest to the peo- ple its faith and sincerity In the advocacy of the principles which the party recog- nized and belleved to be to the best Inter- ests of the masses when popullsm was in- stituted. While we denounce a continuance of the tripartite regime which has existed in the past we cordlally invite all those of whatever party, who recognize in our prin- ciples a betterment of general conditions, to co-operate with us and exercise what- ever influence they deem fit in the achleve- ment of hetter and more equitable laws for the common people. There aro many dem- ocrats who belleve as we do and should unite with us In an effort to dethrone corporate greed and & imperialistic tendency, » | ROUNDABOUT COPENHAG Etchings of Life at th Denmark, ttal of days are long but few writes Willlam E. Curtls In a letter from Copenhagen to the Record-Herald The people enjoy them all the more after long cold, stormy winters that are pecullar to this climate. They spend as much time as they can out of doors and plenty of oppor- tunities are furnished them in the parks and promenades, in the forests that sur round the city and on the water that en cireles the many felands and peninsulas which are called Denmark. There are no end of old palaces which have been trans formed fnto museums and pleasurs grounds within walking distance of each other and the inbabitants of the garrets and base ments and the slums of the city pour into them at the close of work each day with thres or four hours of twilight for pleasure befora bedtime. The Danes are a pious people, but, like the Germans, regard Sunday as a day of pleasure and reat as well as worship and These summer {on Sundays you will sec processions start from all the churches strafght to the parks and promenades as soon as the benediction is pronounced. The artisans and trades men, with their wives and children, take thelr dinners with them and spend the rest of Sunday loafing and Iying in the wrass, playing games and gossiping and drinking beer in the cates. Formerly the city was fortified with a wall and a moat which have been turned into parks in these days of peace and plenty, and surround t older portion of Copenhagen like a circle The branches of the sea are connected by canals, upon which eleetric boats are ply ing. The rates of fare are so cheap that even the smallest wage-earners can enjoy them. The great place of amusement 18 a garden called “Tivoll,” where, under the green trees through all the summer months, from 4 o'clock in the afternoon until midnight, | people of all ranks and ages meet for en- joyment, It fs a democratic assembly and all comers are treated alike. The aristoc- racy and middie classes sit at the beer tables side by side with workmen from the ity and peasants from the country and en- joy a program that is equally varied kinz himself and the mémbers of the royal family are regular habitues. They come 8o frequently and are so well known that their presence does not attract much attention, except for the deference that is due to them. The peasant and the banker both | it their hats when their sovereign or one of the princes or a woman of the royal family passes by, but the heir to the throne rubs elbows with the servant girl and their soldier Jovers when he watches the pan- tomine or the fireworks There 1s plenty of music from 4 o'clock in the afternoon until midnight and on holtdays the place is kept open until morn- ing. One can hear all kinds of music, too, from the glddy airs of the cafe chantants | to the heavy classical compositions of tiee old German and Danish masters. Acrobats and athletes, rope dancers and animal trainers, jugglers, clowns, trapere per- formers and acronauts do thefr “stunts” at varlous stands and people rush from the merry-go-rounds and the scenic rallways to see the fireworks. Everything is glven out of doors except the classical music, which is performed by the royal orchestra of accomplished per- tormers supported by the government and producing serfous compositions. Denmark has several notable composers, and it is one of the functions of this orchestra to en- courage the development of local musical talent. On Saturdays it is understood that the program will always contaln novelties and compositions of native composers 8o that it usually draws to the glass dome a large audience of critics and others of musical education. And there is no lack of beer there or anywhere. It s part of the life of the people. Copenhagen 1s a very clean town. Ac- cording to an ancient custom, every house- holder 1s expected to sec that the sidewalk and strect pavement in front of his prem- ises are properly swept several times a day, and as a consequence of the natural neatness of the people the busicst streets are as clean as the floor of a Dutch woman's kitchen. The public squares and parks are kept clean by paupers and pris- oners, who are marched out of the alms- houses and the police stations every morn. ing In squads, each carrying a broom, a watering can and a shovel, Copenhagen has an excellent street car system, which reaches every part of the ity with electric cars that are clean and comfortable. There are also electrle launches upon the canals that run through the city and upon the lakes In the parks which will carry passengers a mile for penny. The franchise for the street cars expires within a few years, when the tracks will become the property of the municipal- ity and the city may operate the system or lease the tracks for whatever rental fs thought proper. The schools are abundant and excellent; attendance is compulsory for children be- tween the ages of 7 and 14 for seven months In the year. The schools are free up to what we call the high school grade, when a marticulation fee is charged. The amount Is small, but it is sufficient to pre- vent the children of the laboring class from attendance, and that seems to be one of the objects. The Danes abolished their nobility half a century ago, but at the same time public sentiment creates a caste, and the peasants are not encouraged to seek higher education on the theory that it will unfit them for manual labor. There are plenty of manual training schools and pro- fessional schools of art and sclence up to the university. The system is as compre- hensive as that of any other country, and | pupils in the ordinary schools who show an aptitude for learning in any particular di- rection are not only encouraged, but are assisted to pursue their studies A HISTORY OF BRYAN ed in a French Newapaper As it Appe Recently. Des Moines Leader. In a paper published in the south of France 13 found an amusing account of the early lite and exploits of Colonel Bryan The story, it appears, was written by the Parls correspondent of the provinclal paper and {s based, 8o the writer avers, on in- tormation furnished by intimate friends of the candidate who had been prominent at the French capital during the exposition. The western wag who filled the French- man so full of new and startling Informa- tion must have smlled to himself as he read in cold print the statement that “M. le Colonel Bryan first came Into famo as one of the strange, half-savagé band of cowboys''—grandeur de vahees, it appears in the orlginal—"who roamed over the far west fighting the Indians and wild beasts Imitating, perhaps, the custom of the Indlan chiefs, edch of the cowhoys bore a nlck- name based on some of his exploits as a hunter or fighter. Thus M. le Colonel Bryan's title among his rough but brave and sturdy comrades was Silver Bill, the dead shot. After the treaty of peace was signed with the Indlane at Chicago In 1894, Colonel Bryan went out of the cattle business and became one of the bonanza farmers of the west. He can now sit on his back stoop, as the rear veranda Is called In America, and look over his flelds of corn etretching The | rection. Ae a rosult of his early training on the piains, where he spent months at a time without an opportunity of talking (o another human being, the candidate for president {s extremely taciturn and car hardly be persuaded to express his oplgiou on the lssues of the campaign. He ithor of a book of adventure calle T st Battle, in which some of his en counters with the Indlans of the Tammany and other tribes are described at fength. o the effort to partially neutrallze the strength of M. le Colonel among the cow- boys and Indians who make up the largest part of the voting population west of the Allegheny mountains, the republicans have nominated M. le Roosevelt for vice pros dent. M. le Roosevelt Is one of the leading cowboys In America, and 1s especially fa mous for once having vanquished a grizzly bear in siugle combat During the present ampalgn M. lo Roosevelt has ridden a series of horses all over the country, giving exhibitions of rough riding such a8 were seen in Parls a year or more Ago under the direction of another American statesman." ———— EXPORTS OF FARM PRODUCTS, Ameriean Geanar Supplying 014 World Needs, 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat | Last year the farmers of the United States | sent abroad a larger volume of exports than ever before. The sale of thelr sure plus products to other countries raised the Aggregate of our forelgn trade far beyond the $2,000,000,000 mark. European papers have much to say of the growing excellence of American manufactures, but keep track less closely of the progress of American farmers, In a gencral way the standard of our agriculture fs the highest in the world. Our agricultural machinery is fn a superior class of its own. It has beem invented and adapted efther by farmers or by those who knew practically what was needed. There are some instances n which we are not first, but they are few. Den- mark is further advanced in dairying, Ger j many in beet sugar production and France | fn wines, but the gap is closing. We are | learning to grow and handle the sugar ‘Ivu'l, and much of the wine that comes from France is of Amerlcan growth. We i)m\‘- no near competitor in raising cornm, | cotton, wheat and many other staple artt- | cles of world-wide demand. In growing | and exporting apples this country fs first, | and the fact is one of the most significant as to the progress made. | Turning to the future of Amerlean farm- ing, other great achlevements are in sight. | A few days ago Secretary Wilson delivered an address before the Natlonal Farm school, near Doylestown, Pa., in which he touched on the further development of American agriculture. The United States during the last flseal year patd $420,139,258 for agricultural imports, and this was an Increase of $65,000,000 over the preceding year. Sugar was the largest item, reaching $101,000,000. Secretary Wilson says this | country should be more successtul than any other in beet sugar production. The Industry here is growing at an encouraging rate. Our fmports of tobacco cost $13,000,- 000. But we have learned to ralse the Sumatra wrapper leaf, and took the first medal awarded for it at the Paris oxposl- | tion. Cuban tobacco grown in Florida has won prizes over that produced {n Cuba. Our bill for tea in 1900 was $10,000,000, It 18 said that we should raise our own tea In the south, but little headway has been made in {ts culture. Foreign wines cost us 47,000,000, and some of it has made a trip across the Atlantic to be manipulated and returned under forelgn labels. Coffee {m- Ports cost us less than 852,000,000, —_— LINES TO A SMILE, Puck: Mrs., New told ‘mo_inat evemmaCha e, De Smythe with ongwee. ening that she is troubled T ewrlche—What's that? Mrs. Newriche—Doar met 1 d I've looked all through the different dictionartes and such word. 't know, of thres can’t find any Press: Mr. the battle v weary oo, Pretty soon Spai i et It int Jer head that she waian't cked at all, and then she d re- possession of Caba bp B “‘Have you matriculated Vassar college senfor of a saw wandering dlsconso- mpus. was the horror-stricken t even married yet." Philadelphia quarrels aby muke me ex Mr. Penn-—-M Pitt—Thesa 1t of Santlago vy Town Tapi ye uskced th new student she lately about the Matriculated !’ response; “I've 1 Record-Herald: ing for his health Why, T didn't know he was 111" » 18n°t, but one of the men he induced to put money into th ad mine he wis PIOmMotng turns out to be an ex-pugilist. * 8, Burkley s travel- | Judge: Miss Slappem—That Clara Wilder is as good as a circus! Think of her being engaged three times this summer! Mr. Goodheart (extenuatingly)- Waell, she wouldn't be an up-to-date circus without three rings! Denver Times: Te was thoroughly happy when he entered the front door with a package in his hand and exclaimed: “I've got romething here for woman I love better than all the ", don't object to but I do object to yo;l Jbuying expensive' presents for the ook, Hut then, vou see, she judged him by his appetite, not his heart ordinarily LAY OF THE LAST MINSTR J. J. Montague in the Oregonlan. An aged negro minstrel once lay dying In Alglers, exlle for full Where he'd in_lonely *d outfit of conune many weary ye He had sprung his ¢ drums o'er and o TI his flerce and outraged countrymen could stand for him no more. s «gather:d ‘round ppled with him there | with lved him as what corker, on you), from childhood, so they “tage I8 rather youthful stunner for its age) I was always late in rising, cume o star (You'll be har tutored as y but, of but a %0 1 soon be- up to that u are). one, all-un- My best jokes were seldom spoken were ‘nearly always bawl (Bald with age—I'll whisper 1a8t one had you stalled) I was called a burnt-cork artist, aldn’t always draw (It you tumble next to that t my mother-in-law') ver learned the knack of getting popular with folks THl my father left me all his superannuated Jokes While my bro the old ma they you If that though I one, may I hers and my sisters sacked money bags (Bee 1t?7), 1 sald Take ibles, but give me those anclent when my remaining fire's nearly up the chimney flew will soot me (grab retall to you a few And your chifdren’s children's children, ff, perchance sometime they may Tread th rds as negro minstrels, ean make use of them some day “Why does our old Shanghal rooster cross the road with stately stride’ “Stmply just becuuse he wants to get upon the other wide.'” “When the late Jay Gould expired and his daughter Anina wed pray teil us, were the drinks on?* Here's the answer 1 the dead ' “It fx sald Miat at Niagara auch a fall a man will get,” “You way Nlagara? Wh Place running yet?" Friends, 1 see that 1 am dylig by your Sympathetle glance: dog, my breath s coming in ah- tated pants, you keep these treasures of the wit of other days, Itke chickens, to convert marketable la Like the man that with the tied, Now, It n! grab ‘em!) to Who is that Ho Ana, them 1nto " 124 the camel, 1 am going farther than the eye can reach in every di- | Which last witticism choked him, and he winked one eye and dieds