Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 9, 1901, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE MONDAY, SE IEMBER 9, 1901 MINING IN THE BLACK HILLS Galena Distriot Devalops Symptms o arked Activity, DEEP DESIGNS ON RAMIFIED VEINS Twenty More Stamps for Uncle Sam Mill=Ore Shoots Demonstrate Pe. callar Freaka—Hidden Fortune Reveals Much Richness, LEAD, 8. D, 8ept. 8.-—(Special.)—The Galena mining district is extremely lively. This is due partly to the building in of arrow gauge roads by both the Elkhorn and the Burlington rallway companies. This district was at one time worked to A great extent for silver ores. There Is & theory that at a depth of something like 500 feet, all of the surface veins, which cut the ground In every direction, will come together, forming one large hody of galena ore. Capital has not been centered there strong enough to sink a shaft in a centrally ¢ltuated place to determine this theory. Just as soon as the rallroads are com- pleted, the attentlon of capitalists will be turned that way. Twenty stamps have heen ordered for the Uncle Sam mill, on Elk creek, owned by the Clover Leat Mining company. The mill has sixty stamps already. This mine s turning out to be a remarkably rich pro- ducer. It is stated that the monthly clean- up amounts to over $75,000 and that from only twenty stamps. The company which recently acquired the property has spent seversl hundred thousand dollars in open ing up the ore ledge and it ie said that ther Is ore enough in sight to run the mill a number of years, full capacity. The next largest hofsting plant in the Black Hills bas been erected at the shaft. The com- pany has acquired several thousand acres of mining ground. The mine is on the southern end of the Homestake ore belt Montaua cattlemen are backing the enter- prise. Freaks f un Ore 8 N The peculiar freaks of an ore shoot in missing a certaln property and going con- trary to all expectations of mining men and experts, has been shown on the ground of the Sunset Mining company, a Minne apolls concern. The ground is in the Bald Mountain district, surrounded on all sides by mines that are heavy producers Golden Reward ard Horseshow have large mincs there, pany bought this particular ground it generally supposod that the mammoth 8hoots of silicious ore that have kept the Deadwood smeltes and the Pluma chlori- nation works busy for years, would be found running acrcsy These shoots usually run o a north and southerly direc- tion {n the Black Hills, resting conformably upon the lower quartzite. The Sunset com pany bought good hoisting machinery and put down a shaft to quartzite.’a distance of 250 feet, and then a crosscut tunnel was rin clear across the north end of the block of ground, a distance of 1,700 feet, but no ore of any consequence was encountered The company spent a lot of money and finally bad to close down the work Recent development work by the Golder Reward company has located th of ore, scheduled to cross the Sunset prop- erty, lylng farther east and on another company's ground. It was at first believed that the Tornado shoot of ore passed across the Sunset ground, but it, too, has been found to lie farther west, so that both big shoots of ore have been found to turn thelr courses contrary to the usual law. The Golden Reward company gets one of the big shoots, which Is about 400 feet wide, and has been hoisting ore from it through the old Unfon shaft, but it has now been decided to sink a new shaft Dearer the shoot. These shoots of ore are companies and when the com was big shoo from five to elght feet thick and resemble | large courses The Sunset Mining company has not entirely abandoned its prospect in this dis- trict, although it has commenced the de- velopment of another property in Colorado, The uncertainty of mining is illustrated in the perverse course of the two ore shoots, which most mining men said must certainly pass through the property of the Sunsot Mining company. The shaft of the Black Hills Belt Devel- opment company Is now nearing 'the 600- foot level, at which depth a crosscut will be Tun east and wost, unless ore should be en- countored in the shaft bottom. It fs lieved that the ore vein will not be far from the shaft. It may be necessary to sink the shaft to the 1,000-foot level before the ore shows up, for the formatlon dips in that direction. The shaft wili be sunk 1,000 feet it necessary. This company fs operating on a block of ground located im- mediately south of the Homestake mine. The Hidden Fortune company of Denver 16 meeting with great success in the de- velopment of a property north of the Home- stake mine. The shaft that was started on the top of the hill is getting Into a s0lid ledge of free-milling ore, which as- says about §15 a ton gokd. It is one of several ledges that run parellel In that particular part of the ground. They widen out with depth, formink a large ledge of good ore. This company has sold several hundred thousand dollars worth of stock the large mining estate having been paid tor already, with ample working capital The Highland Chicf Mining company {s bullding a cyanide plant, which will be uvsed in connection with a twenty-stamp mill. The property is at the north ot Spruce gulch. The mine was worked sey- eral years ago at a profit, until the ore be- came too refractory to be haudled by amal- gamation alone. The plant will be ready to start by November 1. There are already ore reserves at the mine that will pay well by the addition of the cyanide annex A carload of machinery has arrived for the Titanic Mining compuny, which owns a large tract of patented ground in the Car. bonate district. A shaft is to be sunk to the quartzite level, where ore bodies are supposed to exist. Chicago parties have taken up the Old Bill mine, four miles north of Custer, . It 18 owned by N. Ross and B. R, Wood of that city, In the early days ore was hauled by wegon from the mine to a stamp mill at Central City, which pald the owners well, Run High in Gold Va A complete holsting plant, with electric Arills, will soon be installed at the shaft that 15 being sunk on the ground nine wiles northweet of Custer by the Saginaw Mining company of Michigan, A shaft is being sunk on a ledge of ore that run bet- ter than $50 a ton, There are four ledges within Bfty feet, all of which run high fa 8014 values. A carload of the ore was shipped to Denver last week for a test run with the expoctation of finding out the best process for its treatment. The company Wil erect a plant ot the mine. The ground joins the North Star mine on the north, which 18 Proving to be such a bo. nanza property. The Univereity company doubled its working shift the Arst of thix monih and will rush the work of sinking the main shaft to the ore ledge. It is expected nincty feot of the shaft will catch the ore, which was sunk upon 100 feet from the ebaft on an incline. The owners of the Clara Bell mine, east of Oreville, are about o ivstall & steam holsting plant at the mine. The ore still rewains rich, tho cleanups from s two. stamp mill amounting to several (housand doilars a mouth, rivers, being continuous in thelr The | 'Ro be- | entlemen of the Transmis sition and Fellow Cltizens genuine pleasure that I meet with the people of Omaha, whose wealth of welcome s not altogether unfamiliar to me and whose warm hearts have before touched and moved me. For this renewed mani- festation of your regard and for the cordlal eception of today my heart responds with profound gratitude and a deep appreciation which I cannot conceal and which the lan- guage of compliment is inadequate to con- vey. My greeting s not alone to your city and to the state of Nebracka, but to the people of all the states of the trans- mississippl group participating here and I cannot withhold congratulations of the evidences of their prosperity furnished by this great exposition. If testimony were needed to establish the fact that their pluck has not deserted them and that prosperity is again with them, it 's found here. This pleture dispels all doubt In an age of expositions they have added yet another magnificent example. The hise torical celebrations at Philadelphia and Chicago and the splendid exhibits at New Orleans, Atlanta and Nashville are now a part of the past and yet in influence they sUlll live and their beneficent results are closely interwoven with our national de- velopment, Similar rewards will honor the authors and patrons of the Transmis- slssippl and International Exposition Their contribution will mark another epoch in the nation’s material advancement One of the great laws of life is progress, and nowhere have the principles of this law been %o strikingly illustrated as in the United States. A century and a decade of our national life have turned doubt into conviction, changed experiments into dem- onstrations, revolutionized old methods and won new triumphs which have challenged the attention of the world. This is true not only of the accumulation of material wealth and advance in education, sclence, invention and manufactures, but above all in the opportunities to the people for thelr own elevation, which have been secured by wise, free government Hitherto, in peace and in war, with ad- ditions to our territory and slight changes in our laws, we have steadily enforced the spirit of the constitution secured to us by the noble self-sacrifice and the far-seelng sagacity of our ancestors. We have avoided the temptations of conquest in the epirit | of gain. With an Increasing love for our | Institutions and an abiding faith in their | stability we have made the triumphs of our system of government in the progress and prosperit; of our people an inspiration to | the whole human race. Confronted at this | moment by new and grave problems, we | must recognize that their solution will af fect not ourselves alone, but others of the family of nations. In this » of frequent mutual dependency, we cannot shirk our | international responsibilities if we would; they must be met with courage and wisdom must follow duty even if desire No deliberation can be too ma- ture or self-control too constant in this olemn hour of our history We must avoid the temptation of undue aggression and aim to secure only such results as will ippl Bxpo- it 1s with once more intercbange ani and we | opposes. promote our own and the general good. It hns been sald by some one that the normal condition of nations fs war. That 1s not true of the United States. We never enter upon war until every effort for peace without it has been exhausted Ours has never been a military government. Peace, with whose blessings we hava been 8o singularly favored, is the national desire and the goal of every American aspiration On the 25th of April, for the first time for more than a generation, the United States sounded the call to arms. The banners of war were unfurled; the best and bravest from every section responded & mighty army was enrolled; the north and the south vied with each other in patriotic devotion; scienee was invoked to furnish its most effoctive weapons; factories were rushed to supply equipments; the youth anl the veteran joined in freely offering their services to their country, volunteers an! regulars and all the people rallied to the support of the republic. There was no break in the line, no halt in the march, no fear in the heart, no resistance to the patriotic impulse at home, no successtul re- sistance to the patriotic spirit of the troops fighting in distant waters or on a forelgn shore. Patriotism Flames Out. What a wonderful experience It had been from the standpoint of patriotism and achievement! The storm broke eo sud- denly that 1t was here almost before we realized it. Our navy was too small, though forceful, with Its modern equip- mont, and most fortunate in its trained officers and sallors. Our army had years 480 been reduced to n peace footing. We had only 10,000 available troops when the war was declared, but the account which officers and men gave of themselves on the battlefields has never been surpassed. The manhood was there and everywhere Ameri- can patriotism was there and its resources were limitless. ' The courageous and in- vincible spirit of the people proved glori- ous and those who a little more than a third of u century ago were divided at war with each other were again united under the holy standard of liberty. Patriotism banished party feeling, $50,000,000 for the national defense was appropriated without debate or division, as a matter of course, and as only a meré indication of our mighty reserve power. But If this is true of the berinning of the war, what shall we say of it now, with hostilities suspended and peace near at bhand, as we fervently hope? Matchless in its results! Unequaled in its complete- ness and the quick succession with which victory followed victory! Attained earlier than it was believed to be possible; so comprehensive in its sweep that every thoughtful man feels the responsibility which has been so suddenly thrust upon us And above all and beyond all, the value of the American army and the bravery of the American navy and the majesty of the American name stand forth in upsullied glory, while the humanity of our purpose and the magnanimity of our conduct have given to war, always horrible, touches of noble generosity. Christian sympathy and charity and examples of human grandeur which can ever be lost to mankind. Pas- McKinley's Omaha Speech [ micisipt Eaposion. | October 12, 1895, lon and bitterness formed no part of our impelling motive and it is gratitying feel that humanity triumphed At every step of the war's progress The heroes of Manila and Santiago and Porto Rico have made immortal history They are worthy successors and descendants of Washington and Greene, of Paul Jones, Decatur and Hull and of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Logan. of Farragut, o ter and Cushing and of Lee, Jackson and Long- street Heroes of the Line New names stand out on the honor rell of the nation's great men and with them. unnamed, stand the heroes of the trenches and the forecastle, invincible in battle and uncomplainiug in death. The intelligent, loyal, indomitable soldfer and satlor and marine, regular and volunteer, are en- titlea to equal praise as having done their whole duty, whether at home or under the baptism of forelgn fire Who will dim the splendor of their achievements? Who will hold from them thelr well earned distinction? Who will intrude detraction at this time to belittle the manly spirit of American youth and impair the usefulness of the American army? Who will embarrass the govern- ment by sowing seeds of dissatisfaction among the brave men who stand ready to serve and die, If need be, for thelr coun try? Who will darken the counsels of the republic in this hour, requiring the united wisdom of all? Shall we deny to oureeives what the rest of the world &0 freely and justly accords to us? The men who endured in the short but decisive struggle its hardships its privations, whether in field or in camp. on ship or in the slege, and planned and achieved its victories, will naver tolerate impeachment, either direct or indireet, ot those who won a peace whose great gain to clvilization is yet unknown and uawrit ten. The Christian natlon recog- nizes the hand of Almighty God in the ordeal through which we have passed Divine favor seemed manifest everywhere In fighting for humanity's sake we have been signally bléssed. We did not seek war. To avold it, it this could be done in justice and honor to the rights of our neighbors and ourselves, was our constant prayer. The war was no more invited by us than were the questions which are laid at our door by its results. Now, as then, we will do our duty. The problems will not be solved in a day. Patience will be required, patience combined with sincerity of purpose and unshaken resolution to do right, seeking only the highest good of the natlon and recogrizing no other obligation, pursuing no other path but that of duty. Right action follows right purpose. We not at all times be able to divine the the way may not always seem but it our aims are high and unsel- fish somehow and in some way the right end will be reached. The genius ot the nation, its freedom, its wisdom, its human~ ity, its courage, its Justice, favored by Divine Providence, will make it equal to every task and the master of every emergency. faith of a ————————————————————————————————— i | Such days as thos: we have just gone ! through in Prag, and, for that matter, such |4 time of new impulses in the old realm of Bohemia in general, the present generation | ot Bohemians surely has never seen. Older | or younger, it has scarcely ever dreamed of | seciag such, The emperor In Prag—re- siding for halt a week with the Vienna | court in the magnificent old Hradchin, put | into sumptuous order for the royal visit— | the emperor in the majestic Karlstein castle mperor entertaining and entertained the proudest and oldest feudal aristocracy of Prag, many of whom have hitherto heen conservative as to such honors almost to {the point of discourtesy—the Thuns, the | Waldstel Coudenhores, Czernins, Traut- mannsdorf, Kinskys, the Lobkowitz, the i hwarzenbergs—the emperor making | speeches in Czechisch and the most embit tered Czech making speeches to him in Ger- man-the emperor opening the new public bridge named for him that crosses the | Moldau and prophesying in set terms it | symboltsm as well as praising its utility. |and all Prag and German Bohemia in a | delirium of enthusiasm and fireworks. | Surely this is a strangely fair contrast to the scenes in Vienna and the capital of | Boheria within recent years. And every- body (or every other body) talking of the “real,” permanent suspension of the bitter fight that has so long been waged, even (o the casting of inkstands and rulers at one's Austrian adversaries, in lleu of javelins and daggers, and over and over again one overheard the words, “When the coronation of the king comes off"—'“the king of Bo- | hemia,” “When the court is in residence i here mext time.” Old Tycho Brahe, the great astronomer, whose bones have just been verified in his grave in the Teynkirch, never read such a wonder in his star-gaz- ins, and as for somebody elses bones—those of King Ottokar of Bohemia—well, it is a marvel if they have rested quietly through such Hapsburg proceedings and triumphs. Tt will not be worth while to describe, especially as ocean posts are at their best slow transmitters of such special corre- spondence, half of the aspects of this hur- ried fete, the splendor and dignity and beauty with which Prag has been clothed for so extraordinary an event and political cpisode. Literally the old city put on its beautiful germents as not for fifty years, perhaps for a hundred. Draperies, banners, flags and garlands were the clothes, and | by night the blaze of electricity running riot across every historic or trivial facade was as jewels. Morcover, old and rich na- tional costumes were brought out, fur- bished up and worn, day by day, by princes and peasants. All the world of Bohemia came trooping to Prag in “Acht und Tracht”" fashion. Every now and then you saw, in @ suburb especlally, groups of men and women that made you rub your eyes and ask yourself if you were not at a bi gratis performance of Smetana’s “Dalibor’ or “Prodanoi Nevesja." The Bohemians are not, as are the Austrlans and Hun- garians, a handsome race—to my mind. They lack beauty of feature and elegance of figure. They have not the exotic and Orlental richness of physique whereof the Magyar is so justly vain, is there anything quite so overcome with a sense of his own charms as 4 Hungarian Lite guardsman? The Hussites and Protestantism and op. pression have ipfluencad the dress of the | aristocracy, perceptibly to its sobriety, Still, only {n Hungary will ou seen certain color effects most seductively, if accident- ally, occurring. Perhaps the height of this sort of sartorial kaleidoscope came by day, when the Franz Josefs bridge was opened, or by night, at the gala opera per- formance, when part of Dvorak's new opera, “Rusgalka,” was sung in the National thea- ter—an amazing spectacle as to jewels and stuffs that outdid the stage show. In the supplement to this imperial trip to Prag, the visit of the emperor to Leitmeritz anl Aussig and Thereslanstadt, there was really not much less of pational costuming and of Bohemian suggestiveness in many de cades—although those localities are Ger- man-Bohemian so largely in population and thorough going party spirit, as the politiclans of the empire know to their woe. The opportunity to air goodly vestments drather than grievauces was simply one out yal Fetes in Bohemia | of a thousand. “For,” says Dickens, when telling us of the supposed hostilities be- tween Mrs Gamp and Betsey Prig, at the tea table in Kingegate street, “for a quarrel can be taken up at any time, but a limited quantity of pickled salmon cannot be.'" This was Prag's day for pickled salmon-- or, it 1 may make so iame a pun, pickled “Slava! Slava!” One hear that exclama- tion of greeting and joy hour by hour a blessed pickled salmon ‘“‘Aus- have been really begun by this incident? And will it last—an era of pick- led salmon, peace, mutual concessions, national brotherhood between Austria and her wonderful old tormentor-in-chief? Or will the quarrel be takea up and over in Vienna the ink bottles and paper weights soon again go flying about the Parliament house in stormy sessions and ferce per- sonal indignation—like Mre. Gamp's pippins that fell in a wooden rain on the heads of the combatants? Is this visit of the unorowned but titular king of Bohemla to precede not only other visits of the em- peror and his immediate tamily (for Prag has formally requested that an archduke he “stationed in residence” in the capital!), but the actual miracle of miracles, a coro- nation In Prag, and a “King of Bohemia* in very truth?—a Bohemian government, for itself?—exactly as Hungary possesses her crowned sovereign and autonomy, and its crowned sovereign and autonomy, and has so smiled disdainfully at the folly of an excessive and undiplomatic Moldavian patriotism that has made its rival so un- fortunate. 1t would be easy to answer these ques tions in Austro-Hungarian politics too en- thustastically in the afirmative, on the one hand. Many persons lately, carried away by the spirit of the hour In Prag, have so enswered them. On the other hand, the Kind of sneering skeptical reply that cer- tain bitterly ' partisan temperaments are making in a grumbling sotto voce is equally unwise and thick-sighted. The highway to the coronation of the king of Bohemia, of course, 1s not yet by any means made straight. Nobody need begin to cut roses to strew in the path of Franz-Josef to the Cathedral or the Teyn church in Bohemia's capital, and the king of England will be crowned before the Hradachin is decorated for the anointed ruler of the Moldau land But 1 have yet to meet any person-—and 1 have talked with many, intelligent and cautious in the topie—who denles that there is every indication that the long lane of embitterment between Austria and Bo- hemia has really A turning, that calms, Mke storms, occur when no weather prophet sees thelr advent. There is much reason to believe the change has really come, the hour of peace—the peace that is a preface 1o a definite accepted monarchial unity. As for reasons—the truce absolutely necessary. The stress was at the degree when vield- 1ng or breaking must come. In such hours s those lately told off to Bohemla even the demagogue feels that he has reached the stopping place—nay, has been a fool; and the most dull-witted, arrogant aris- tocrat, suddenly out of nerves and Freat: can be mado to realize that he is au ass; that, like Hamlet's famous ape, he will in a moment o break his own neck down' by a valor that is suicidal. Whether the famous remarks l1ast year by the em- peror, Intimatiog that he would suspend the constitution—an act involving such serious complications for the empire that it seems scarcely a praticable thought— has worked such a honey spell or not, is a doubtful suggestion. Certainly the Parlia ment opened in a fashion not suggesting much raspect for such an idea. But equally certainly the Parliament is s peaceful now as @ pan of mew muk; the emperor has visited Prag and German Bohemlia, and he will go there again soon, and, what is more, into Czech Bohemia. The Czechs, old or young, appear to have taken a leat out of the political book of Hungary, and to have realized that good children are to be rewarded surely, and bad ones kept in a corner—and much good may it do them so to feel. The other afternoon, in a Prater farce here in Vienna, an actor asked, in course of his part. “Not a Chinese? What are you then? Oh, a German Bohemian— & German Bohemian? Really, are there any nowadays?’ with an effect oo the audience that was immediat will gleich™ Iraneas Prime-Stevenson in the Independent. One accent alone of great importance, especially failed, in the general greetings and joy of all in Prag—the Catholic clerical volce. Glacial, formal, behaving with per- fect dignity and unresponsiveness, were such churchmen as the new Prince Cardinal Skrbensky and his assoclates, day by day, testa by festa. Parsons and rabbis were open-hearted and outspoken. But though the cassock and beretta were in all, not once did they show a sign of really being sympathetic to anything that was in pro- gress. The emperor's speeches (in perfect tact and taste, like all Franz Joset's utter- ances in public) were often of & sort to invite a response or to meet some sort of recognition from the religious rulers of Prag: he sent orders and gifts in discreet and generous measure to such reciplents as deserved that sort of formal attention on the occasion. Dut there was an ominous Catholic silence, and not one really im- portant token of the good will of Catholic Bohemia, Catholic Prag. to the king of Bo- hemia was made manifest through all the program for the royal stay. Evidently Cardinal Skrbensky, 80 new to his title (I saw him receive it with a fine proud hu- mility in Rome a few months ago, in every gesture and look the diplomatic and ele- gant priest of the aristocratic political world), does not purpose to commit himselt to any new things, mor to help Austro- Bohemian brethren to dwell together in unity by his benedictions. 1n fact, he and other of Prag's hierarchy have walked about as it they did mot think such fraternity particalarly ““good and pleasant.”” Whether they will hinder it or help it we must wait awhile and declde. “King of Bohemia" phrase for Hungarlan ears. Nor is it loved elsewhere in the empire. But sometimes one thinks that Hungarians and Galiclans and Bohemlans do not look often enough at what {8 inscribed on the current colnage of the great and complex dual-monarchy— really a triple, a quadruple or a sextuple monarchy, so curiously devolving on the mere duke of Austria. But one step for one means other steps for all. If we have a king of Hungary, and it there is to be soon a crowned king of Bohemia, with whatever is to come with that concession, why, just so must there anon be an ofly pacification of wrangling Galicla and a coro- nation in Lemborg, a crowned king of Gallela, as well as merely that sort of monarch on a crown-plece and in an alma- nac of politics. They are talking of just that very possibility over in Gallcla this week as never before. The example of Prag is catching. However well we will do to walt before buying tickets to an Austro-Hungarian-Bobemian-Galician sort of political Utopia, where everything is to be adjusted to everybody's good pleasure, and all such trifies as taxes, religions, lan- guages, boundaries, titles, suscessions, and %0 on, are in lovely equipoise, one may dream deep of the trip. And meantime one can remember that algo on the colns of the falrest and most perplexed ruler in Europe is to be ready the hopeful, manly personal motto of an emperor unspeakably dear to the mingled races he rules—"Viribus Unitls." She Showed Him Her Work. is hardly a sweet The woman had her arme in the tub and was flercely scrubbing one dirty garment after another, rolates the Chicago Tribune. Book Agents don't often penetrate to that part of Chicago, but this one did He knocked on the front deor until he was tired and then he went around to the back door. The woman was bobbing up and down aver the washboard “Good morning, madam,” suid the agent, plearantly 0od mornin’," said the woman, shortly Pleasant gay.” observed the book agent sparring for an opening Good enough,” answered the woman “Bxcuse me, madam. said the hook ent, “but I have here a work that | would like to show you.' “Have you?" answered the woman. *'Well I've got a lot of work that I'd like to show you. She took one soapy hand out of the tub and waved it at a great pile of dirty clothes “That's my work,” went on the woman. It your work can beat that, all right; if it can't, why, skip ou book to Lrery packoge of hiscuit have ing this seal the Patent Package, In-er-seal Patent Package. design at the end of the box. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY = T S i proof aganat moisture, dust and germa, Even if you live next door to a bakery you can go around the corner to the little grocery store and get your biscuit in the In-er-seal Patent Package just as freshas you could get them at the bakery. No matter where you get the In-er-seal you will find the cona tents are fresh, and full of flavor. ‘When you order Soda, Graham, Long Branch, Milk, Butter “Thin and Oatmeal Biscuit, Vanilla Wafers, Ginger Saaps, and Saratoga Flakes, don’t forget to ask for the kind that come in Look fo the trade-mark IR, oy EEE——— NEAR VIEW WAS PLEASING fhort Range Observation Changes Notions of & Visiting German. THOUGHT US UNFRIENDLY AT FIRST the Likes Physieal Cleanliness—Reward for an Inventor—His Warn| to Fatherland. Our Exercise and Since 1t is always profitable “to see our- selves as others see us,” says tha Phila delphia Record, it s interesting to read a condensation of a review, transiated from a prominent German paper. of certain pub- lished obscrvations and deductions by prominent German, Mr. A. Van Gulpen, founded upon his experiences and travels in the United States. Mr. Van Guipen was one of the most prominent delegates from Germany to the International Commerelal congress, held in Philadelphia last fall under the auspices of the Philadelphia Commercial museums. Some of the deduc- tions made are deserving of close attention, as he traveled from Philadelphia to Cali fornia and from the north to the south The review quoting the author says: “That which really astonishes the Euro- pean in North America is the method of work and the energy expended npon it. Upon this Is found the rapld growth of all industries and of agriculture and in connec- tion with them the extension of the cities and the increase in population. 'For cen- turles the most energetic and able people of all natfons emigrated to the land of free- dom, while the less energetic remained at bome and doubtless the mingling of that element in the different races had a favor- able influence upon the population. many of those who left the older countries for moral, pecuniary or political reasons Assisted in bettering the race in Americ where room existed for many miilions and where the surplus of energy which in Europe was a detriment became an advan- tage. “In Americe much more stress upor physica! exerciss than fn Germany In Germany no one has a conception of the passion and enthusiasm with which all forms of sport are carried on fn America The writer first learned this fact when by cbance he attended a foot ball match be tween the students of Berkeley and Stam ford. Thousands of people decorated with the colors of the contending parties oc- cupled the enormous stands hullt especially for the purpose, and displayed an interest and an enthusiasm which tu forefgners ap- peared incomprehensible. With yells and cheers the players were received and en couraged. In the arena. however, it was no play. It was a combat for the honor of victory, where even the endangering of Ife was not shunned, and, indeed, a sur- geon's ald was often needed. in earliest youth one begins in America to strengthen the body in a way which, if introduced in Germany, would, for both mind and body, be an excellent preliminary schooling for military service Fducational Faculties. “Alongside of the different sporis in- struction {s cared for In the most gener- ous manner through elementary schools, high schools and free public libraries with beautiful reading rooms. The writer says at Columbia college in New York, near the fnstruction and study halls, a well-equipped gymnasium and a splendid, clear, inviling swimming pool. All in all, the American pays more attention to the cleanliness of the body than does the German. The numerous free baths and washing basins in the hotels glve rise to the infercnce that similar arrangements and corresp use of them exist in private houses. In the railroad tralns numerous towels with soap are always at hand. German rallway management could learn much in America. Even in German express trains there is not that to be had for money and kind words in the way of cleanliness whi‘h in America is everywhere customary and gratis “Beside this custom which redounds to the common good is the fact that the grea extent of the United States gives rosm for | productive growth. Many talents arie erljp | pled in Germany like plants in pots, too small because there isn’t room for th. de- velopment of all. Everywhere In the United States one finds the same scale of work and the same manner of living. Wherever one goes, let it be New York, San Fian- cisco, Chicago or 8t. Louls, one eats, drinks and lives exactly the same way. Eloull someone invent something practical short time he is a rich man, for his inven- tion finds acceptance at once thioughout the entire country. In Germany, on the contrary, everything that suits Norih Ger | many does not suit South Germany aud many {nventors before they achieve suc- cess become old and poor. “The location the oceans waterways in the interlor of (ho | the cheap freight rates and the | dinanly developed net of street ruil ald the striving to rise and asels: iho | healthy development of the cities in tro highest degree. In some American (i ics | one can ride for seventy-five miles icr th small sum of 5 cents. The many cen | experience of Europe and ¢normous cheap | stretches of 1and are at the diey | Americans in layiog out their cities. All these udvantages give from the beginning a capabilit | extension and a suitability for | industries hitherto undreamed of. Suca intercourse with individua's acd cf (he | dificrent strata of the people with one an other s different and (s in the old states of aid rules more or less “Formerly the wilter thought the Ameri- a on country extracr- #nl of the packs and he cition for quick all Kluds of more Eurcpe where Even | is laid | ding | the great | cans rather unfriendly, but he no lxvh(--r} thinks so. Thelr manners and their ways | are only different and the stranger must | accustom himself to them before he {s In a position to give judgment. Apart from certain evil habits like spitting, whistling, etc., the manners of the Americans through their simplicity are more favorable to the work of the individual and the flourishing of the people than the German social ar- rangement under which one approaches an- other only with cautlon. From this uncon- strained association only the money bags holds bimselt aloof. In the cage of the awells (swells are the millionaires) «n creeps in and another falls out, but the other classes have erccted no partition be- tween themselves, The president of the United States is concisely Mr. McKinley “For the American, money-making is the principal thing. The American carries on his business without rest and with a cer- tain lack of consideration for himself. He eats and drinks in the greatest haste. His house, even in the citles, is mostly very simple, often a wooden house, and the cities in which the industries are concentrated, Iike Chicago, St. Louis and others, deserve 10 be characterized as nests of smoke. Labor and Trade, or the workman in America the ar- rangement of the dally wage is very favor- able. Wages are higher than anywhere else, and necessaries of life are comparatively cheaper, though houses are deurer. While in Germany the state is compelled to care for the aged and the fnvalid, America teaches its workmen the ‘help yoursel' motto and encourages them to save in time. As offsetting our cheap wages of labor the American uses many labor-saving machines The enormous natural wealth of the land adds to the above-mentioned favorable con- ditions, which are aided further by splendid governmental Institutions for the support| of industry and agriculture. The Commer- | clal Museum in Philadelphia 18 an example | which might serve as a model for every country in the world. Considering the man- | ner in which Amertca fights against the in-| | troduction of foreign products, Germany| would be today entirely justified to tax the | products of the American trusts with a dif-| ferential tarifr. | ‘Tho United States secks to control ail| America. They will eventually win for themselves South and Central American ex- port markets. This ehould serve as a warn- ing to Europe to seek in time the same goal |and to ferm a European ‘sollverein,’ In! America a more capable race i3 at work than the European. Europe need expect no' | consideration Necessity will compel Europe | to take the steps later which today are | neglected. The United States Is a werking glant in bis youth. Thut is exemplified best by the rocklessness with which it at-| tacked the old gentleman, the Spaniard, ani the joy which it has experienced over the easily secured victory. Germany must look about in time for other avenues of trade for her industries as a substitute for the decline of the market in North America, and must seek to cultivate a market 15 the| country itselt for export to North America, | for Germany s on he point of dying out.| For the present the Americans cannot do without Germany and Germany cannot do| without the Americans. The arrangement | of commercial treaties is a matter of mutual | Interest, but as on the other side a pan-| American union {s the aim, so in Europe should it be a ‘zollverein.’ Feared the Worn A customer in an apothecary's shop up- town, who was plainly a stranger in New York, reports the Post, saw an article he | desired to purchase on a card on one of | the showcases. The article was one of a! none dozen of the same Kind on this card nd was of which had yet been disposed of, o fastened only with a rubber b The customer, in a nonchalant way, took one of the packages from the card and looked intently at the spot where it had been taken from. Prin n large type (after the manner of these cards) was the word, “851d." Seeming puzzled for awhile, the stranger called the drug clerk’s attention to the word and remarked in dead earncst ‘Say, there, young feller, does that rofer to me?" WOMEN WORKERS IN WASHINGTON, Wages Recelve § ployed in Number Em- Departments, “Nearly every city {s more or less famous for one or more types of {ts women,” said a Washington globe trotter to a Washington Star man, “and the capital musi not be ex- cluded from the list. “In the stores employes with gray hair past middle age, They are mostly voung girls. In the departments probably 33 per cont of the female employes are middle lite, und 25 per cent are over 50 years of age. Thero are hundreds of women In the departments over 70 years of age, carning from $900 to $1,400 and $1,000 a year. In no other fleld of labor are positions paying such very high salaries opened to be filled by women of 70, grandmothers In fact “According to some late figures compiled by the United States civil service commise sion some extremely Interesting analyses, comparisons and deductions may be drawn. “Of these 8,000 salarled queens nearly one in every elght recelves $1.000 & year, and over, or, to be oxact, 903 drew salaries ranging from £1,000 to $1,800 a year, three Iadies satling around the top notch of sale aries paid by the government for clerk hire, getting 31,800 a year. In no other employment for women on a salary are wages from $10.21 to $34.61 a weck pald to oue out of elght of the wageearners. Of this special class 300 recoive $1,000 a year, 50 receive $1,200, 100 receive $1,400, and fty receive $1,600 per annum. The rematn- Ing 7,000 draw from $660 to $500 per ane num. In the bureau of engraviog and printing, where Uncle Sam's money is made, there are 1,260 female printers’ as- sistants, who recelve $1.25 a day, who are not included In the above estimate. In the census office there are over 1,00 women, most of whom draw §14.61 a weck, or $7 a month, and the aggregate total of our quecns rises, therefore, to considerably over 8,000 who earn over $2 a day, or more than a large proportion of men in salaried and wige-earning pursuits. Naturally, they look cool and comfortable as they ride to vork every morning in the open cars. “During the past seventeen yoars, 2,044 women have entered the service of the go ernment in Washington through the means of the competitive examinations of the civil service alone. In the clvil service there are no less than fifty-seven different ex- aminations which are open to women. One- third of the entire force of the government in Washington s composed of women, and they are being appointed through the clas- sified service channels at a proportion of about one-sixth to the total number of all clerks appointed by this means. In the une classified service this proportion I should estimate at not less than 26 per cent, and perhaps nearer 40 per cent, as in the rural mall delivery service, for instance, the pers centage {8 not far from S0 per cent, it not above this figure. ‘The percentage of woman appointments through the classified service varies in the different years, as it does in the unclassis fled positions. For Instance, in the first the highest percentage was in 1595, wh l 13 per cent of the total, it is rare to see women The Art of Framing— Pictures have reached the highest point of perfection with us. 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