Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 11, 1903, Page 34

Ninth King and Queen of the Realm of the Great Ak~-Sar-Ben MR Carpenter’s Letter (Continued from Page Twelve,) scenes of Hamlet, Copenhagen lies on the narrow strait leading from the Buaude sea out through the Kattegat and Bkagacrak to the German ocean. It has a ftine har.or, and this has made it one of th: most im portant cities of northern Europe. It com mands the straits, and has always been a great meeting place. Three years be.ore Columbus discovered Americu Bishop Ab- galon bullt a castle here and lived off the trade, Since then the harbor has been widened and deepened, and Is now one ol the best In Europe, The city has estab- lithed a free port at a cost of $6,000,000, an | there are two miles of quays, at which the largest ocean steamers can land. Th.rty five thousand saidng vessels and steamers come and go out of Copenhag n every year, and its 1rade extenus to all parts of the world. The Danes ave command ships noted as sailors, aimost everywhere, you will seldom strike a harbor without finding or more Danish captains in charge of the larger vis:cels there. 1 drove out to the free port the othe: day. It has enormoug cranes and all fachi- tles for hand.ng goods. | not.c d several American products among the th ngs load- ing and unloading. Amerlean cotton, petroleum and Indlan corn were . bheing taken out of vessels from New York, and also Minneapolis flour and Chicago pork There were many steamers in the hirbor; several from Russia, two from Norway and They and one FRED METZ, Sweden, three from England and an equal number from Germany. from tha West Indies and South America and alro one about starting out for Green- land. There is considerable trade between Greenland and Denmark. Greenland is'to a large extent a Danish colony, and there are many Danes in Iceland and the Faroe islands. The Greenland colonies are chiefly on the west coast, extending through asbhout 12 degrees of latitude, or something like 700" miles. They have there also a mission and trading station, and do a censiderable exXport business. The trade is largely in the hands of the Daunish Royal Greenland company. It is monopolized by the state, and only govern- ment ve are allowed to sail in Green- land waters, According to Denmark's treat- fes with us the British and other people, thesce waters are closed to all vessels which have not the permission of the Danish gov- ernment, and it is also necessary for trav- elers who wish to go to that part of the country to get such permission. Without a traveler has such permission he cannot enter, and this permission is not granted without the who asks_ for it is backed by his own government person This is done in order to |)I'l|l;~('l “the na- {ives from unscrupulous traders. The gov- ernment will not allow the natives to sell more than they can dispense with lest they be starved in the winter. They will not sell them intoxicating liquors, and they are really doing what theyv «can to elevate their condition The exports from Denmark to Ureenland . There were ships * « Paris,” *colony in MISS BESSIE are chiefly provisions, firearms, dry goods, hardware, tools and impleménts. They send some tobacco, rope and wooden goods. Their imports are seal oil, sealskin, bear and fox skins and eiderdown. Abbut 30,000 seal- skins are sent from fhat island t6 Denmark every vear, and also thosé of the polar bear and of the blue and white fox. The eidérdown is brought as it ¢comes from the nests of the ieder duck. It is here cleansed and prepared for the market. FRANK G. CARPENTER. Dying in Paris “It Is cheaper to live than to die in says a member of the American the City of Light, now visiting New York. “However dear the living may be to their friends, the dead are sure to be dearer—for a short period, a For a stranger in a the affair is still claims the right chamber at the In the case of an American who recently died, leaving two young daughters, as it were, unprotected, the landlord brought in an exorbitant bill for new furniture, paper, paint, and seized the corpse for payment as it was leaving the house for the ceme- tery. It is advisable in a lease to have the expense of dying agreed upon."” If it were not for the natural sentiment of respect for the dead it would be a jolly retribution to leave the corpse in the hands of such a harpy to be gotten rid at his own expense,-- New York Press all events, furnished apartment The landlord and refit the the deceased, worse, to refurnish expense of BRADY. Poor Richard Junior The receiver of flattery is usually sincere, Caution is often another name for hon- esty. Charity covers a multitude of sinners; and it feeds them, too. An apology is hard to make, take, and hardest to shake. A self-made man botches the job when he thinks he has finished the work. Ability never amounts to much until it acquires two more letters—stability. The value of life used to depend on the liver; now it is the vermiform appendix. Wall Street is a very small thoroughfare, but it is not a straight and narrow path, Matrimony may be speculation, but it is well for the girls not to stay too long on harder to the market. It is easy for a man to be willing to put himself in another's place when the place pays $10,000 a year.—Saturday Evening Post, Why He Was Glad It was in one of the prisons not a thou- sand miles from Philadelphia. The story Is told that the other Sunday the chap- lain of the institution, after delivering a sermon to the prisoners, spoke privately to as many as time would permit. To a rather mild looking man he said; friend aren’'t you sorry you are in “My ‘Not on your life,’ “Not sorry? How are you here for?" “I'm here for having three wives,” said the prisoner.—Philadelphia Press. said the man, can that be? What OMAHA POLICE FORCE, ASSHEMBLED AFTER INSPECTION. BY THE BOARD OF FIRE AND POLICE COMMISSION ERS.—Photo by a BStaff Artst