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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1903)
June 28, 1003. THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. 15 Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Paco Twelve.) is ised. The average farmer has a plow made of wood with an Iron shear bound on. Such plows as come from abroad are usually German, the American article be ing too expensive. Some kinds of our ma chinery have been admitted free, but this will not bo so under the new tariff. We havo the monopoly of harvesters, binders, mowers and reapers, for we make tho best In tho world, but the American plow, drill, cultivator and other such things are not known here. Within the past year or bo a few threshing machines havo come In, but at present the most of tho agri cultural machinery outsido of reapers and mowers is of German make. The Ger mans sell more than 100,000,M0 worth of such machinery every year, the Knglish more than $t, 000,000 worth and we tag be hind with a paltry J10,000,CO0 or more. There Is a good opening here for all sorts of farm tools and farm wagons, and It Is wonder ful that our people do not see It. Russia has more street railroad plums than any other country on the Interna tional tree, Aji far as electricity Is con cerned the empire Is practically undevel oped, and the company that could get a monopoly of tho concessions would make bigger proflta than the United States Steel trust. The field, as far as city concessions are concerned, is enormous and as to lines con necting towns It is beyond computation. The people here live In villages, towns and cities. There are no houses standing alone on the landscape and connecting lines could go from village to village, tapping a vast population. In European Russia there are 10G,0OO,O0O people. There Is a village for every five square miles, and In some parts of the country there is a village for every Square mile. There are many large cities, some of which I had not heard the names before I came to Russia. St. Petersburg Is bigger than Philadelphia, and it has only horso cars. Moscow is more than twice the size of Hoston, Warsaw Is bigger than St. Louis, Odessa Is as large as Cleveland, Riga and Kiev are each about the size of Kansas City. Have you ever heard of Ixdz? It Is one f Russia's boom towns which has grown up in the past few years. It Is a great manufacturing center and has 315,000 In habitants. Let me give you a few towns which are new to the average reader: Kharkov, 174.846; , Una, 155,000; Yekater Inoslav, 12,000; Rostov-on-the-Don, 150,000; Astrakhan, 112,000; Tula, 111.000; Kishinev, 100,999, and Saratov, 107,000. Russia In Eu rope has nineteen cities of over 100,000 people and thirty-eight between that and 60,000. It has 118 towns which range be tween 30.C00 and 50,000 each; 315 between 10,000 and 20,000 and 30,000 others which have a little less than 10,000, but which might upport electric railroads. Tho best opportunities are In Moscow and Bt. Petersburg nnd Americans are trying to get the concessions. The Westinghouso company Is after them, and among other applicants are men from Pittsburg, headed by Murray A. Verner of that city. Such concessions will be very valuable and It la not probable they will be granted with out the Russians themselves have a good bare of the profits. FRANK a. CARPENTER, Premier Balfour (Continued from Page Four.) men, his memory for events is remark ably acute when they are called to his attention. Mr. Balfour's most striking character istic, perhaps, la his even temper. Nothing aeems to ruttle him. In the old coercion days he would sit for hours on the treas ury bench of tho House of Commons with a pleasant smile on his face while the Irish members were comparing him unfavorably to Nero and Herod, and saying that if they aw him in the company ot Ananias and Bappliira they would consider him to be In tho bosom of his family. Other con servative members would Jump up angrily and Interrupt but the man attacked never Showed a trace of annoyance. He sat quiet and wore "the-smile-that-won't-coine-ofT." His friends say that only once has Mr. Balfour been known to show anger In put. lie. Some young torles Bnowballed Mr. Gladstone when he visited li ver during the last years of his lifs. Mr. Ralour had to address a tory meeting at Dover soon afterward and he took occasion to de nounce the cowardly outrage in unmeas ured terms. His language usually si c ilin and philosophical, became a torrent of aas elonate Invective, and before lie lin:.s..eU be had lost control of himself, "I believe he would have wrung the neeks of those young fools if he could," said the chairman of the meeting afterward Though Mr. Dalfour has never married, his whole life and character have been moulded by a worn in his sister, Miss Alica Balfour. She is an accomplished, high minded woman, who wields great influence In English political circles. It la said that Lord Salisbury used often to ask her nd.lce and lean upon her Judgment. Probably she persuaded him to give her brother the great chance of his life as chief secretary for Ireland. It generally agreed that she has kept him In political life, conquered his natural Indolence and mmle a prac tical, successful statesman out of the phil osopher who wrote two big volumes to ex plain that nothing Is worth worring about or striving for. Driving Car Officials (Continued from Tage Three.) It, It was not thought worth bothering about. Hut this man thought otherwise, Ho began by writing a letter to a news paper. It was funny and the president and I laughed over It. Thon unother let ter was printed In another newspaper. In tho course of the next few weeks, some how every paper In town had received and printed a letter from him. The headings that the editors put on them showed that the papers were amused by what they thought the crankiness of a crank, but it was deeper than that. Darn me If ho hadn't figured the whole thing out aa a way to annoy us. "Those letters being, as I said, funny, captured the publio sense of humor, and as this particular man was pretty popular he managed to keep the thing going when ever he met a crowd that he knew in a car until at last the passengers In that par ticular part of the town got to calling our president Mr. Untlll, and a politician who was addressing a property owner as sociation down there denounced him as a man who couldn't even write the English language. The climax was reached when his boy came home from school one day and told his mother that the other pupils had begun to ask him to spell 'until.' "That settled It. Those cars were hauled Into sheds and tho stencils were replaced with new lettering. It cost us ubout a thousand dollars. "Then this man, too, wrote to our di rectors, sent them all the clippings nnd told them the whole history of what he called his 'little reform movement.' He wound up by congratulating the president and me on having at last learned English, and promised to keep an eye on us and find something else in case the car service was not Improved. "Of course there's a big lot of persons who are after a railroad company' all the time for damages always threatening suit and so on. But these folk that I'm telling about don't want anything. They are purely 'unselfish,' so to speak. They want nothing except 'a little revenge, and for that reason they not only succeed nine times out of ten, but they do it in such a , wiy that we can't fight back. "Our new president headed one man off only lately. He wrote a long four-page letter describing the shortcomings of the system. It was a 'bird.' It wasn't abusive, but, on the contrary, polsonously polite; but It was written In such a way that every word would make even a hardened trolley official wince. I was po mad when I read It that I wanted to tear it up and hurl It out of the window. Hut our presi dent dictated nn answer In which ho ac knowledged a lot of faults and promised frankly to do better. The next mall brought tho man down from the tree, and now he Is a pretty good friend of the sys tem and has really helped us In more ways than one to Improve the service. But It Wasn't a nice letter to read, all the same. "It's all very well for people to say that we're thick-skinned and don't care, but, as a matter of fact, no man can remain quite happy under a constant dally flood of kicks, abuse, sarcasm, objection and In vective. It gets to be very wearing after a while, and when I go away on a vaca tion the one thing I'm moat glad to escape are the unknown but extremely personal enemies who are 'laying' for me all the time because they didn't get a car when they should have had one. "It's a tough thing to know that you've got a lot of vindictive and unforgiving foes especially when they can get 'square' on you the way these fellows do on us." Loneliest Mail Route (Continued from Page Five.) a hole In the Ice. That was all. In the same district the frozen body of a mall carrier was found and Identified by his watch. He had been lost three years previously, Harry Frayne, a mall carrier from Valdes to Eagle, started out last January with the expectation of meeting the carrier on the next stage. He found tho dogs and the sled. The carrier, Tuflln, had abandoned them when the dogs were exhausted, nnd had started off with the idea of carrying the mnil on his back for the rest of the distance. Some Indians found his frozen body six miles from the summit of Mon tana pass. He had plodded with the mail until he fell In the snow, frozen to death. From the lower end of this lonely trail of 2,000 miles to Nome there Is often In the local newspapers brief mention of the dis appearance of a mall carrier, and people, appreciating the risks they run, are en tirely unmoved. It is an episode of daily life, exciting no more comment than a runaway horse doea In a big city. These mall carriers. In their humble way, are doing more than anybody else to spread civilization to the uttermost ends of the earth. The I'nlted States has behaved lib erally to Alaska in the matter of malls. Mall matter In some parts of this vast terri tory pays the government about 30 cents n pound for transportation, and costs about $1 a pound to carry to its destination after It reaches the seaboard of the territory. Costly as this policy Is It places the lonely prospector In touch with civilization nnd tends to keep him civilized In a larger de gree than any other agency could. Hut tho cost to the mall carrier Is often times life Itself. It is strange that men can be found to undertake a task full of such extraordinary nnd terrible risk. There Is never any difficulty, however. The adven turous! life appeals to men of grit and spirit; they say they prefer It, with all Its perils, to a humdrum occupation. Leaving all danger and adventure out of consideration, It Is still a rough, hard life. Do not Imagiuo tho carrier reclining at his ease, covered with warm robes, while tho dogs lope along over a smooth surface. He has to guide the sled from one side of tho river to the other to miss the heaped up ice, the soft places, and tho snowbanks. Where tho trail Is good, he grasps the long handles at the rear and at a continu ous jog trot guides the sled along. In fairly smooth places he Jumps on a narrow board, resting a good part of his weight on the handle bars. In a temperature of 60 degrees below zero, which is common, he has to keep warm, and yet he must not perspire, or the molsturo will immedlatelyfreeze. Instead of warm robes, he 1ms a parka (a smock frock with no opening except at the neck) which Is made of ticking. This Is light and keeps out the wind. His greatest care is as to his footwear. He has two or three pairs of woolen socks and over them a pair of mocassins mndo of deer hide. Should these get wet his feet freeze, and ho Is Utile better than a dead man. After he has made his distance for the day, ho arrives at a lonely cabin under some feet of snow. He has to put on his snowshocs to break a trail to it for the dogs. The cabin contains a rusty stove and some provisions for himself and the dogs. He has to chop wood after his day's work, and must first cook the supper for his dogs. Then he cooks and eats his lonely meal nnd lies down In his clothes to sleep. There is no furniture. In a coun try where fuel is scarce tho temptation to chop It up for stove wood would be too great. Only men of Iron frame can stand tho hardships of such a life. Tho others are "weeded out" after two or three trips. Sent Girl Home to Rival Mary Stanbro, who has been employed as a servant In a family at Keasby, Middlesex county, N. J., will mill for her old home in Budapest to wed un old-time lover with whom nho quarreled several years ago. Sho passage home is paid by William Koslup, who followed her to this country In a vain effort to persuade her to marry him. Koslup and another man wooed the girl In the old country. She favored the other man and the wedding day was set. Then there came a lovers' quarrel and tho girl came to America. Koslup, thinking ho might succeed, followed, and after some time found the girl In South River. 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