THE OMAHA DAILY BEE
E. I108EWATER , Editor.
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Publishing company , being duly sworn , says
that the actual number or full nnd complete
copies of The Daily , Morning. Evening and
Sunday Bee , printed during the month or
July , 1S99 , wns ns follows :
17 25ouo
S . 27,0(10 .18 2I,7 0
B . 2.1,110 U 2-1,700
4 . ar.,400 20 2-l , 70
5 21 2-1,580
22 21,720
7 J5.I1O 23 20,2rtt
8 -J 21,000
9 23 21,5 :
10 ' " ' ' ' "
II 27"a ! ! ! ! ! T70
J2 2S 24Wa
13 . BBa a 29 2-1,810
30 20.1BO
J5 . 31 25,010
16 . an , < i4o
Total . .783,888
IC unsold a'nd returned copies. . . . 10,470
Net total sales . T7fl,4O
Net dally , avcrago. . . . . , .
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often as desired.
If meat goes up much higher consid
erable less of It will go down.
Watch for The Sunday Bee. It will
be above standard In every feature.
Attorney General Smyth Is still look
ing for 'another ' trust willing to be do-
.Toured. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The White mail's burden over In Iowa
IB likely to become Irksome before elec
tion day rolls around. '
The democratic primaries may be
gummed up In a word the gang Is a
trifle disfigured , but still In the ring.
A South Dakota man named Ham
lias been arrested for stealing a steer.
There would have been nothing so surprising - ,
prising about It If he had raided the
liens' nests.
The calamity wall has been lost in
llio corn fields and the only people Interested -
terested In preserving Its life are too
busy gathering their share of prosperity
to search for it
One man was beaten In the democratic
primaries by writing In the name of an
opponent on the printed ballot. Who
enys democratic education Is not Im
proving In Omaha ?
The railroads are commencing to make
concessions on rates to the Greater
America Exposition nnd people who
toavo been delaying visits on that ac
count will no longer have that excuse.
The republics of South America
have caught the prevailing Idea ot
forming trusts nnd propose to join In
a combination. But they are already
BO heavily bonded there will bo little
room for additional water In the stock.
Another expedition has returned
from the Arctic without coming within
Bpcaklng distance of the north pole.
CChe members were fortunate In one
respect In not leaving the usual num
ber of human bones In the snowy
[ wastes.
County Attorney Shields has not yet
tailed upon the judges to summon a
special grand Jury to Investigate viola
tions of the criminal code. The dis
trict judges are , however , empowered
to net without waiting for the consent
of the county attorney.
I )
The class of people who are always
looking for work and hope never to Und
it are getttlug- out of South Dakota ns
fast as they can. The demand for
harvest hands Is so great they fear they
may bo persuaded to work In an un
guarded moment
A session of the grand jury should be
held In this county at least'once a year.
The expense would bo more than offset
by the saving effected In the bills for
prosccutlug men against whom no posi
tive : evidence can bo produced , but who
nro kept In Jail waiting the pleasure of
the county uttoruey.
Silver republicans nro pretending to
( jotd u. great many conventions through
out the state , but when they arc run
down It Is dllUcult to flnd traces of
their existence outside of the handful
of otllco seekers nnd ofllce brokers who
nro trying to maintain themselves ns
factors In the coming campaign.
The lire department is already dccl-
mated by disasters to the force nnd
the proposition to lay oft a company
for want of funds will bring the city
face to face with the question whether
1 ( can afford to assume the risks of a
general conflagration with a crippled
department rather than raise the ncccs-
turf funds to lusure its etlldcncy.
THE WEST
The president of nn eastern trust com-
pony who has recently visited the west
told a Boston paper that ho did not lie-
Hove the west will have to borrow a
dollar from the east this year to move
Its crojw , except possibly to draw on
Its eastern balances. He had found
money cheaper In western financial cen
ters than In Boston and In largo supply.
I ast month there was apprehension In
New York of n tight money market and
some alarm was felt that there would
bo dlfllctilty In meeting a demand from
the west to move the crops. Then a
strange thing happened , pays the corre
spondent of the Philadelphia Press , BO
strange that It not only had never been
experienced In New York before , but
none of the veterans of the exchange
and clearing house would have dared
to predict its happening. Itlght at the
season of the year when for nearly two
generations the west and south have
drawn on New York for money there
set In a flood tldu at that financial cen
ter. Money began to be received there
not only from the great cities of the
west , but from the smaller cities as
well. This contribution from the west ,
which must have been to n considerable
amount , changed the conditions and
confidence supplanted apprehension.
This demonstration of the excellent
financial condition of the west Is spoken
of , remarks the correspondent , as per
haps the most Important of all the
astounding changes through which our
financial and commercial world have
passed In the last year or two. In its
political effect It Is deemed of the high
est value and commercially it means a
healthful distribution of the Increase of
the wealth of the country that has progressed - j
grossed so marvelously In the past three
years.
Perhaps the west will require for
moving Its crops some assistance from
the cast , but If so It will be small.
There Is no danger of a serious tighten
ing of the eastern money market by
reason of western demands. Finan
cially the west Is In splendid condition
and Its resources are steadily Increas
ing.
TUB ONLY irxr our.
It was manifest from the outset that
the effort to raise by private subscrip
tion sulllclent contributions to pay the
railroad fare of the First Nebraska
regiment would prove abortive even If
all the newspapers in Nebraska had
taken a pull at the towllne. The low
est charge at which the railroads
offered to perform the scrrlce would
mtiko the aggregate expense $35,000.
The amount pledged to date is only
$10.000 and the time limit has expired.
If any practical result Is to be
reached It must be by taking up the
plan suggested by The Bee of negotiat
ing with the railroads to accept in pay
ment certificates guaranteed on the
faith of the state to bo redeemed by
legislative appropriation.
It was to have been expected that the
railroad managers would not encourage
this proposition , because they feel sure
that the men will have to pay their way
back to Nebraska anyway. The rail
road managers also contend that If they
accepted certificates from Nebraska
they would be obliged to do the same
for other states , besides setting a prece
dent which might embarrass them In
the future.
These objections would , however ,
have doubtless been waived If the rail
road managers did not own the popo-
cratlc railroad commission. Two years
ago the governor of Kansas pledged the
Sunflower state to raise $30,000 to de
fray the expense of a creditable state
exhibit at the Trausmlssisstppl Expo
sition. When half of the amount had
been subscribed by various cities and
counties Governor Leedy called upon
the railroads to make up the other half
and when they politely declined ho
served notice on them that he would
call a special session of the legislature
to make the appropriation and Inci
dentally enact such laws as were
deemed urgent. Thereupon the rail
road managers came down from their
high perch and volunteered the desired
subscriptions.
If Nebraska's populist governor was
of the same make-up as Governor
Leedy ho would have found a way by
this time to secure the co-operation of
the railroads In his effort to bring the
First Nebraska homo at state expense.
This might bo done yet If the governor
would stop trying to give a political
color to a project that should have been
undertaken in the name of the state
and to make capital for politicians and
a partisan newspaper , whoso editor
hopes to ride into congress on the brass
baud charity chariot.
DEKOVK01NO PROTECTION.
Democratic denunciation of the pro
tective policy Is still heard , In splto
of the overwhelming evidence of the
good results of the policy alike to the
labor and capital of the country. "All
that the free traders have declared im
possible under protection has been
achieved , " says the Washington Post.
"Not ono of the deductions of their
philosophy 1ms escaped demolition , "
and that paper proceeds to point out
that while our manufactures arc
steadily gaining In the markets of the
world "we have kept our homo mar
ket the greatest commercial prize on
earth for our own labor and capital. "
The Post declares that with the busi
ness activity and prosperity now pre
vailing throughout the country it Is
"a bud time to hurl anathemas at pro
tection or to yawp praises of Its ex
tinguished opponent. " Yet the demo
crats of Iowa , a state conspicuous for
the Intelligence of Its people and whoso
manufacturing Industries owe their ex
istence and prosperity to protection ,
condemn that policy.
Whoever Is familiar with the demo
cratic attitude toward the protective
policy must concede It to be true that
all that party declared to bo impossible
has been achieved. It said that the
tin plate Industry could not be built up
by Imposing a duty on the foreign prod
uct and that the only effect of such
a duty would be to rob the consumer.
But wo now have n tin plate Industry
that supplies nearly the entire homo
demand , giving employment to many
millions of capital and an army of
labor. The democratic parly wild that
the protective policy would keep our
timmifiU'turcs out of the markets of
the world , yet during the last two
years wo have been sending more of
the products of our mills and factories
Into foreign markets than ever before ,
challenging our commercial rivals for
trade everywhere , even In their homo
markets. Today Kngland regards this
country as Its most dangerous competi
tor , while Germany fears our competi
tion far more than she does that of
Ungland. The democratic party has
contended that American manufactur
ers must have free raw material In
order to successfully compote with for
eign manufacturers , and the fallacy of
this has been fully demonstrated. The
Wilson tariff law wus drawn on this
theory and Its author told British man
ufacturers that they must look out for
their markets. They not only found It
unnecessary to do that , but secured
while that law/ was In operation n
larger share of the American market
than they had had for years.
The experience of this country with
the last democratic tariff and the
benefits the country has derived from
the present law furnish n conclusive
argument for.protcctlon. The vindica
tion of that policy Is In the wonderful
Industrial development of the United
States and the progress It Is still mak
ing.
ing.As
As to the existing tariff law , It Is
meeting every promise made by Its
supporters In respect to reviving Indus
tries and making a demand for labor ,
wlille yielding revenue nearly or quite
equal to the ordinary requirements of
the government.
TUB SUNDAY a BE.
The Sunday Boo tomorrow will pro
vide a literary and artistic feast , in
addition to all the news oQ the world ,
that should and will satisfy the most
exacting newspaper reader. The Bee's
news facilities arc admitted to be
superior to all competitors , and Its spe
cial Sunday features countenance com
parison only with the metropolitan
papers of cities several times the size
of Omaha.
The pictures of the flghtin ? First Ne
braska regiment , whose home-coming
Is eagerly awaited by friends and rela
tives , give realistic photographic views
of the camp life of the men. For a
frontispiece is presented a group of
all the commissioned ofllcers of the reg
iment , taken by the ofllclal photog
rapher for the War department
shortly before the death of Colonel
Stotsenbcrg. Other views Illustrate
incidents since the return to San Fran
cisco from photographs made specially
for The Bee , Including portraits of
the most prominent figures In the
camp.
Friends of the f6ur firemen who lost
their lives in the Mercer fire will find
line half-tone portraits , equal In most
respects jto the photographer's work ,
and which will serve In a small way
as a memorial to their self-sacrifice.
The fashion plates prepared by pho
tographing live models attired In the
latest creations of the dressmaker's art
are specially designed to please women
readers.
Another Interesting Illustrated fea
ture Is a sketch of the provisional gov
ernment of Nebraska , with portraits of
the provisional governor and the pro
visional delegate to congress , who were
instrumental In procuring the Kansas-
Nebraska act in 1854.
Carpenter's letters of travel are al
ways readable. This week ho writes
about the graveyards of Porto Rico , ex
plaining many peculiar customs found
In our new Antillean possession.
Read The Sunday Bee. All the news.
An entertaining and Instructive maga
zine.
The correspondents of the London
papers who are reporting the Dreyfus
trial are said to be almost unanimous
In taking a gloomy view of the pris
oner's prospects , one of them insisting
that unless the German government re
veals the name of the real traitor the
BUIUO verdict will be returned as in the
previous court-martial. If this Is the
case Dreyfus Is certainly in a pretty
bad predicament , as the German gov
ernment can hardly be e-ipected to re
veal the name of anyone employed to
act as Its spy. All the European gov
ernments are In the spy business con-
etantly and have subsidized agents at
the capitals of their neighbors. If Ger
many should betray the identity of the
man who procured the bordereau It
would bo the same as serving notice
upon all of the other spies In Ita
employ that they are running the risk
of the same treatment. In other words ,
Germany must protect Its own spies as
a matter of self-protection. It Is to be
hoped , therefore , that the establishment
of the guilt or Innocence of Dreyfus
may not depend upon the action of any
foreign government.
The Jacksonlan picnic , with Colonel
Itryan as chief orator , Is suggestive.
What Colonel Bryan will say In the
open will cut little Ice , but what he will
> ay confidentially to delegates-elect to
the Douglas county democratic conven
tion is expected to play an Important
part In carrying out the program of the
popocratlc machine.
One of the silver organs has figured
It out that the democrats will carry
thirty states next year. It would have
been just as easy to claim th6m all and
deiM'iul on the people forgetting all
about It before the election compelled
the editor to revise his figures.
The untimely death of Kills L. Bier-
bower will cause profound sorrow , not
only among a large circle of personal
friends in this community , in which he
has been a prominent figure , but also
among the people of Nebraska and ad
joining states who knew him when ho
occupied a high position In the federal
service. While filling various positions
of great responsibility and trust Mr.
Blot-bower won the esteem and confi
dence of all by his unassuming tit-
monitor and his straightforward busi
ness
Democrats throughout Nebraska
talked bravely a little while ago of
what I hey won * going to dournud Itt
the wny of nominations this fall. As
the county and Judicial conventions are
held It Is painfully apparent that tlu <
talk made little Impression. In every
populist county the populists allow th > >
democrats to take the experience while
they keep the profits of the partnership
to themselves.
Major Estcrlmzy is certainly the most
mistreated man of the age. While his
first story has been proven false , those
who know him best refuse also to credit
his confession of guilt He would doubt
less like to know what ho must do to
be bellevc'd.
Contly
Baltimore American.
Our troubles arc Increasing. Cobit and
Negros promise a rebellion and the feuds of
Clay county , Kentucky , arc growing more
portentous.
nit to a fiitoil Till MR.
Globe-Democrat.
American occupation of Havana has re
duced the death rate by fifty-seven a day.
Considering that our oceupatlon has lasted
nearly a year and that thousands of lives
have been saved , Cuba should justify us In
holding on a llttlovhlla longer.
Tlin .Mimic of FiilHclinnil.
Baltimore American.
The way In which the officers opposed to
Dreyfus refuse to toll the whole truth , on
the ground that It will bring on complica
tions In some mysterious wny with various
foreign governments , Is suspiciously like the
excuse of the character in Dickens who
sheltered his profound Ignorance of the rleo
and fall of the Roman empire on the ground
that It was not a fit subject to pursue In the
presence of women.
TelcKrnitliy < it Sen.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The great feature of the British naval
maneuvers which took place recently was
the use of wireless telegraphy between a
convoy of food ships which ono fleet was to
succor or the other to capjure , according as
cither was able , and the friendly fleet. It
was used successfully over a distance of
thirty miles and as there happened to bo ti
dense fog on the day of the maneuvers It
was of Important service. This was a test
as nearly practical as any that could be ob
tained short of an actual state of war.
Where n Mnn Look *
Atchlson Globe.
Whenever there is a procession wedding
you can always wager that the bridegroom is
unwilling. It is the time when a man la
always out-argued at his own wedding.
The affair couldn't go on without him. but
ho doesn't like to quartel with the angel
who Is about to rnarry him , so ho consents
and makes the lone ; trip to the church look
ing like a man approaching the scaffold.
Indeed , wo have often wondered that ac
counts of weddings don't say that the bride
groom was resigned and ate a fried egg for
breakfast with good appetite and asked his
jailer to forglvo him for the trouble he had
caused and meet him In heaven.
Those Terrible Onc-I'nunilcr * .
Boston' Transcript.
If It Is true , that the British consul at
Chicago has protested against the arming of
the practice yacht Idler with two rapld-flro
one-pounders to bo used by the Illinois
naval militia , it does not follow that his
action Is Important. The consul Is re
ported to contend that the armament of the
Idler Is In violation of the treaty between
the United States and Great Britain , which
limits the naval , force of either power on
the great lakes to just ono gun more than
nullity. As a matter of fact , there Is no
treaty to this effect , but simply an agree
ment.
The agreement Is of value to the Canadian
politicians. They bring It up whenever
they wnnt the British Hon to do a little
roaring that will bo heard in the back dis
tricts. Just now Sir Wilfrid Laurler is
playing for the gallery that has been ac
customed to throw bouquets at Sir Charles
Tupper only. Laurler wants some of those
bouquets and the agreement probably af
fords him an opportunity to stir up Great
Britain to ask about those terrible one-
pounders of the Idler.
LOXU 11AXOU FOIUSCAST5.
Some of ( lie SnecrnNfiil llllx JInilo by
the AVeutlicr Hun-ail.
U. S. Monthly Weather Review.
While recognizing that forecasts based
upon legitimate data can not be regularly
made for a period greater than forty-eight
hours In advance , the chief of the Weather
bureau has encouraged' ' the forecast officials
to give to the public all information regard
ing unusual and severe types of weather
permitted by their reports and experience.
Preceding special events , a forecast for
three days is of Interest and often of great
value to communities and districts , and upon
occasions to the entire country , and during
periods of intense heat or cold and In the
presence of drouth or continued rains In
formation bearing upon the Indicated dura
tion of existing conditions Is at times of
Incalculable value not only to tbo agri
cultural and commercial Interests but also
to the public at large.
The month of Stay , 1SOD , was not marked
by unusual or severe types of weather.
Two events , however , called for special ,
long-rango forecasts. The first of these
was made for Chattanooga , Tenn , , for the
period covered by on open air festival.
The Chattanooga News of May 10 com
mented upon this forecast as follows : "The
festival committee was much gratified over
'
the weather during the festival. Nothing
better could have been desired. Four days
before the great event cumo off tbo com
mittee made a. request of Mr. L. M. Plndell ,
the Weather bureau observer In charge here ,
for a prediction of ' .ho festival weather.
This was furnished to Washington and a
long , advance forecast three days ahead was
made for the week. The prediction was
verified to the letter. The committee feels
under great obligations to the Weather
bureau and Mr. PJndell. "
From May 23 to 25 , inclusive , a Peace
Jublleo was held In Washington , D. C. As
this was an open-air celebration , a knowl
edge of the probable character of the
weather during the three-day period which
It covered was valuable to the committee
on arrangements. The vsrather bad been
unseasonably warm , and this was a condi
tion which In common with rain was not
calculated to contribute to the success of the
undertaking. On Monday morning , May 22 ,
tbo following forecast for the District of
Columbia was made :
"Continued cool during the next three
days ; tonight will be cloudy and threaten
ing , tut generally fair weather la Indicated
for Tuesday , Vedncsday and Thursday ;
fresh northeasterly winds. "
Barring a shower which passed over the
eastern part of the district early Tuesday
afternoon , no rain fell during the three
days , the temperature conditions were Ideal
and the forecast , made for a period of four
days in the presence of weather conditions
which were far from being settled , Indicated
with greet exactness the character of the
weather which actually prevailed during the
dave of the jubilee.
I'OI.ITICVIi D1IIKT.
Baltimore rets aside eight dnys for the
registration of volw for the November
electl it.
San Francisco people have routed the
old bouses of footh parties at the primaries.
Several new foosscs are chuckling over the
prospective harvest.
> Mr. David Bennett HIM Is not straining
his voice these mellow dnys , but he Is not
as dumb as he looks. That wood pile at
Wolfert's Roost must be a huge one.
Kcntucklnns resent the lilca of Brynn
being shot It he goes there. As W. J. Is
|
strlptly temprrato , there Is HO possible
chance of throwing high balls Into him.
William C. Whitney Insists that he Is not
a political sprinter and would not run for
the presidency on the democratic ticket If
given the chance. The fact of the matter Is
William cannot run as well as eomo of hU
horses.
Demila Kearney , the notorious sand-lot-
ter of San Francisco , Ions since ceased to
howl for the oppressed nnd cat Chinamen
as an evidence of good faith. Dennis has
accumulated a pile and now hobnobs with
the plutocrats of the Golden Gate.
Editor Wattcrson Is throwing harpoons
Into the Kentucky bolters. Henry has
a large.stock of harpoons colllcctcd thrco
years ago. His experience In the warm
days of ' 06 enables him to enjoy keenly the
impalement of the bolters of today.
The most pathetic spectacle In Washing
ton at present Is said to bo James Hamilton
Lewis , cx-M. C. , .from the state of Wash
ington , the dude of the last congress. Ho
blew Into the national capital a few days
ago In a forlorn and bedraggled condition ,
the result of a successful hustle to save a
client from the rope.
The accommodating Joslah Qulncy , mayor
of Boston , is willing to run for a third
term , Just to prevent a. faction fight In the
party. Nothing short of n dynamite bomb
could disconnect Joslah's grip on an ofllce.
Senator McMillan of .Michigan is so con
fident of re-election that ho wears Pingreo
tans and butters Pingreo potatoes.
Mayor Fagan of Hobokcn , N. J. , Is trying
to flnd out how much It costs to feed n
horso. The city has flvo horses -which arc
used In the street department. The bills
for their feed are $100 a month , nn average
of $20 for each horse , which the mayor
considers altogether too much. Ho refused
to audit the .bills until ho has Investigated
the matter thoroughly.
The sudden snufllng out of the Tammany
plan to project Augustus Van Wyck Into the
presidential arena Is not likely to produce
Insomnia in the apartments of "My
brother Gus. " Gus Is doing quite well ,
thank you much ibetter financially than ho
could In the White House. Since his de
feat for governor , Tammany haa thrown
Into his lap six receiverships and twenty-
one references , all of which yield handsome
commissions.
I'KOUUUSS OK THE TIlfSTS.
Sninn In < c ItccrultN for the Grnnil
Army of Comliliipii.
Philadelphia Ledger.
fTho growth of trusts , temporarily stayed
by a Wall street scare ten weeks ago , has
resumed , each day bringing forth some now
Industrial monster. One of the latest of the
trade combinations is the American Ice
company , with a capital stock of JGO.OOO-
000. This concern , it Is asserted , has taken
in the Consolidated , Union and Crystal Lake
companies of New York ; the Great Falls
and Crystal Lake companies of Washington ,
D. C. . and the Knickerbocker Ice company
of Maine , the latter havlnc branches in
Philadelphia , Washington. Baltimore , New
York and Boston. Accordinjr to the New-
York Commercial , it is the intention of the
American Ice company to operate In every
largo clty lu the country on.a.clan some
what similar to the Standard Oil company.
Artificial Ice companies throughout the
union are being organized into a system.
The Philadelphia Interests , It Is said , ore
represented In the Standard Ice Manufactur
ing company , a New Jersey corporation. The
artificial Ice syndicate , it Is announced. Is
under the direction of wealthy brewers. The
New York Sun records that the Consolidated
Ice company of that city , which Is affiliated
with the trust , has advanced the price of Its
commodity to smaller customers from 25
cents the 100 pounds to SO cents.
The cattle trust , uosslbly to recoup for
losses on account of the damaged reputation
of "embalmed" meat and unsavory canned
goods , has notified wholesalers In Now York
of an advance In the price of meats from 1
cent to G cents a pound. There appears to
t > e no necessity for this advance. The great
western packing houses absolutely control
the market. They dictate rates to "the farm
ers who sell cattle and the consumers who
purchase the meat. They succeeded In hav
ing a duty of 16 per cent placed on hides ,
and having Increased the price of hides they
pocket every penny of this extra profit.
Shoo manufacturers did a profitable business
while hides were on 'tho tree list ; but they
are about to advance the price of shoes to
meet the Increase In the cost of material.
The Ice and cattle trusts do not depend
upon the turlff for their existence ; but It is
noteworthy that the beef combine Is not
averse to securing the imposition of a duty
on hides for Its solo benefit and advantage.
At the same time that the price of meat is
raised 'to ' American consumers refrigerated
beef from the United States Is sold In
Europe cheaper than in the land of Its
production.
With ice and meat cornered by trusts , It
Is fitting that tbo dining table and Us ap
purtenances should also submit to exactions.
Therefore the announcement will occasion
no surprise that the National Glass company ,
a consolidation of tableware glase makers , Is
to bo Incorporated with a capital Block of
$8,000,000 nnd that tbo details are to be
completed tomorrow In Pittsburgh. Whore
Is this movement to end ? On this ques
tion the Boston Transcript eays :
"The public Is warranted In Interfering
with private enterprise when It encroaches
on the rights of the public. The present
condition of a state of warfare between pro
ducers and consumers , In which neither
pays any attention to the just claims of
the other , is likely to provoke political agi
tation culminating In drastic changes in the
laws.
"Yet It Is written that no merely selfish
policy can in the long run prosper. The
stock watering privilege , with all Its fla
grant abuses , Is a powerful factor In bring
ing these trusts Into being ; yet , unleea
there Is a strong economic basis for their
existence , they carry within themselves the
germs of their own destruction. At thu
present rate of consolidation the capitaliza
tion of the trusts would amount to a sum
In excess of the total real value of all the
property In the United States when the
population of this country numbers 100-
000,000.
"Even Intrenched behlng the barriers of
the present federal and state constitutions ,
ho would bo a bold man vtha would pre
dict that before that time comes the power
of Haw will not have been successfully In
voked to tear down tbo defenses behind
which private monopoly , in opposition to
public policy , rests apparently secure , "
oTiinn ii.\ > iH THAN oirns.
The Boers are receiving from their gov
ernment new Mauser rllles In rxhangc foi
the somewhat older and less effective weap
ons which they have used. Great stores ol
ammunition are l > clng placed at th ( mrst
available points , and the quantity of muni
tions of war on hand Is said to be equal tc
the entire stock of some of the Kuropran
powers which nro far more populous and
prominent than the South African republic.
j The Dutch farmers who follow Paul Knigor
evidently do not menu to be caught 111 prc-
' pared for the worst that may befall their
land. On the other side the array of forces
at command become moro and more out of
proportion to the resources of the Transvaal.
U Is announced In India that about 12,000
native troops from the country will be scut
to South Africa as soon as war shall bo
deemed Inevitable. About 30,000 men will
bo embarked at ports In the United King
dom to reinforce the 12,000 or 1S.OOO British
soldiers already In South Africa or on their
way there. Some of the Australian colonies
nies have offered volunteers , ami they will
'bo accepted. Canada Is counted on to send
sonio very good rlllomen. Altogether plans
have been made to muster some 60,000 sol
diers to flght a nation which has only about
22,000 men of military ago to draw upon ,
even If they could nil bo spared for field
service at the same time.
This democratic state of affairs In Flu-
land contrasts , In a most singular manner ,
with the social system of Russia , Kduca *
tlon Is widespread In the grand duchy , and
In within the reach of the poorest citizens.
To rcduco Illiteracy to a minimum great
sacrifices have been made. Notwithstanding
the fact that the province Is sparccly popu
lated and that the 2,500,000 Inhabitants are
spread over a largo extent of territory , pub-
llo schools are as numerous as In Sweden
and Norway , and the proportion of Illiter
ates Is as small as In these two countries ,
which , according to recent statistics , hold
the first place among European "nations as
regards primary education , whereas Russia
stands at the foot of the list. Following la
the most striking Instance of the superior
ity of the Finnish people over the Russian
In the matter of education : Out of 1,000
army recruits In Russia , 750 on an average
can neither read nor write , whereas In Fin
land out of the same number of men called
upon for military service and recruited
from the same social classes , between thrco
and flvo Is the maximum of illiterates !
These figures arc , In themselves , sufficient
to prove the incompatibility between the
masses of the people of Russia and Finland
so far as their social llfo Is concerned , and
explains why the Finns have made nuch de
termined efforts to maintain their autonomy.
Russian Chauvinism Is not confined to
questions of religion and education. Lately
a decided movement of opposition has
sprung up against the numerous foreign In
dustrial companies In the empire. The
amount of foreign capital Invested In Russia
Is much greater than Is generally supposed.
The following figures concerning these for
eign enterprises are significant. The amount
of Belgian capital Invested In Russia
amounts to about J150.000.000 ; next comes
French capital , which figures up to J100.-
000,000. The German and English Industrial
enterprises rank next , the first with a total
of $80,000,000 , and the second with about
? GO,000,000 of Invested capital. The French
and Belgian Industrial companies In Russia
are particularly profitable , many of them
paying a high rate of Interest , as , for In
stance , the Dmeprovlenno company , founded
by the Cockcrlll firm , which pays 100 per
cent , and the shares of which are quoted on
the market at from 8,000 francs to 9,000
francs. The Russians view -with deep dis
pleasure the success of these foreign com
panies , which Is in such marked contrast to
the results obtained by Russian enterprises
of the same kind. It is now said that an
Imperial ukase will shortly bo published .for
the purpose of limiting the action of these
foreign companies as a first step toward
their final suppression.
* * *
IRussIan aid was responsible for the sup
pression of the Kossuth revolution of 1848 ,
and Russia today feels that she has , in cer
tain contingencies , a mortgage on Hungary.
This mortgage she will seek to foreclose
when disintegration sets In. Not only this ,
but she casts envious eyes upon the im
portant province of Gallcla , which she
bounds on the north and east and. which Is
inhabited chiefly by Slavonic races , as well
as upon certain of the southern provinces
bordering the Adriatic sea. Russia's great
rival In Austrian acquisition is Germany ,
which stands In equally close geographical
relation. Germany would seek and proba
bly secure Bohemia which is already peopled
pled by Germans and was formerly ruled by
German princes ; and other territory on tha
westerly side of Austria would also come
within her longing. The relative ambitions
of Russia and Germany are likely to clash
at more than one point la the promised in
ternational shakoup. Therefore it behooves
Russian dlsplomacy to maintain , undam
aged , an alliance with Franco which serves
as a counter-irritant for German aggression ,
as well as a weapon against England. There
fore , too , It Is natural that Austrian military
plans should fall Into the bands of the al
lies. And while Europe Is speculating over
the recent visit of the French foreign min
ister to St. Petersburg , It might bo well not
to overlook the Austrian situation , which
promises a chance of French recovery of
Alsace-Lorraine in the event of Germany's
conflict with Russia.
i
The British government will naturally not
object to the settlement In Newfoundland
of the thousands of Flnlanders who , It is re
ported , are about to expatriate themselves
because of Russian oppression. In fact , Co
lonial Secretary Chamberlain has already
been especially active In offering assistance
to the deputation of Finns who are now on
a tour of Inspection In the neighborhood of
St. ( Johns , N. P. The Flnlanders ought to
bo welcome in any country. Industrious ,
hardy and of good repute , they naturally do.
velop Into the most desirable sort of citizens.
It Is qulto probable that within the next few
years the population of wretched Finland
will have been noticeably decreased by the
exodus of many of the people of that country
to tbo United States and tbo British North
American cosseaalons.
AMI : It 1C A. AUAINHT THIS WOULD.
UiifjucNdniivil J.i'iiiliTHlilii of the Conn ,
try In < lie Iron Triiilc.
Kansas City Star.
Tbo United States turns out more than
a third of all tbo pig iron produced In the
world. The figures for 1898 were 11,773-
000 tons la this country , 8,631,000 tons In
England , 7,282,000 tons In Germany , 2,534.-
000 tons In France , 2,193,000 tons In Russia ,
and 3,242,000 tons In all other countries.
The production in tbo United States for the
year 1899 will exceed 13,000,000 tons , with
only moderate increases in other parts of
the world. This country's lead Is greater
ettll In the manufacture of steel. The out
put last year was 8,932,000 tons in the
United States , 4,665,000 tons In Great Britain ,
C,779,000 tons in Germany , 1,473,000 , tons in
France and 3,275,000 tons in the rest of the
world , It Is worthy of note that 75 per cent
of the pig Iron produced In tbo United States
goes into use in the form of steel , whllo In
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. .
OVH UKINO PQVIrOII CO. , * IW VODK.
Great nrltaln the proportion Is only 64 per
cent. Germany stands above the United
States with SO per cent. Steel is but Iron
In an Advanced stage ot manufacture and ,
therefore , these figures on the production
I of steel arc the more significant as a in ins
ure of the relative Importance of this great
Industry In the countries named. The
United States Is making such progress and
I has such unlimited supplies of Iron ore that
this country is destined In a few years to
, produce halt of all the Iron used In the
world to turn out ns much as all the other
countries put together. To such greatness
Is the American republic attaining that It
makes its comparisons now in this Industry ,
and In some other matters , too , with all
the rest of the world instead of with ono
j country. Illvals In the rnce are so far dls-
| tanced that It has become a case ot the
United States against the Held.
Ilcttiriieil from the Klondike.
MAllYVILljR. Mo. , Aug. IS. ( Special. )
Krnest and Hafo Alexander , two Maryvllfo
young men , have Just returned from the
Klondike , where the former spent six years
and the latter two. They owned several
mines In tbo richest part of the gold region ,
but have sold them and returned homo to
stay. Humor places the amount they re
ceived at $100,000 , but both nro extremely
closemoulhed nnd refuse to cither confirm
or deny any rumor concerning them. No
person outsldo of their immediate family
knows what they have done.
SMILING IU3MAIIK5.
Chicago Record : "Why nro camp meet
ings held In the warmest weather ? "
That's the time people nro afraid of hot
climates. "
Cleveland Plain Denier : "There's ft moun
tain of evidence against you , " said the
young lawyer to his Ilr t client.
"Tunnel It , my boy , tunnel HI" cried the
old sluice robber.
Indianapolis lournal : "Graplitcr M > y he
will run his olllcc in the Interest , ot neither
the rich nor the poor. "
"Well , you know Ornphtcr Is nclUicr
rich nor poor. "
Chicago Tlmcs-Ilcrnld : "Poor Bllklns Is
Head. lie drank n Ballon and a half of
Htralprht whisky , fourteen hlKh balls nml
hnlf a keg of beer night before Mai. "
"Is that so ? What wus the cause of his
death ? "
Washington Star : "Dirt you liavo any
luck In the Klondike ? "
"Yes , " answered the perspiring cltllzcn ,
sadly. "Hut I didn't know Hick when I
saw It. 1 found more Icebergs and snow-
cnppoil mountains than 1 could shako a
pick und shovel at. "
Chicago Tribune : "And you slugged him.
did you ? " Inquired the magistrate , "for
calling you an old goose ? "
"No , your honor , " said the populist poli
tician. "I wouldn't ImvR minded that. He
said I was a dead duck. "
Cleveland Plain Dealer : "That new hired
girl of oura must be from Boston. "
"Why this Inference ? " . . . .
"She left a note on the ball table for mo
this morning , and instead or adding the
usual fcmlnlno postscript , she made It a.
'not a bean. ' "
Somervlllc Journal : The man who talks a
good deal about himself Is always sure to
have at least one appreciative listener.
Chicago Post : "What's happened to
Bllktns ? "
"He went broke backing a comic opera. "
"Well , It's only natural. I can remem
ber as a youngster he wns always singing : ,
-want to bo an angel , and with the angels
. ' "
gels stand.
Detroit Free Press : "So you've decided
to ask Susie Smnrtwced to marry you ?
Why did you prefer lier to Julia Jones ? "
" 1 didn't. I preferred her father. Old
Jones Is a fire-eater In bulldog shoes. "
V12IIV MUCH 3I1X13D.
J. T. Du Bols In Nashville American.
Met a feller t'other mornln'
Host atnuBln' sort of cusa ;
Had a cur'us style about him ,
Cert'nly couldn't \vell bo wuss
I says : "Where you hall Cm , pardncr ?
An' ho smiled In a know-In' way ,
An' replied In forren lingo : ,
( "Porto RJco ; U. S. A. " , f
Seen a feller down on Broadway ,
With a shockin' head of hair ,
An' a lot of tropic garments ,
An' a most outlandish air.
"Whur's he frum. " a , feller shouted ;
An' before we'd time to say
Thin yere heathen turned an' ans'r'a ;
"Honeyluler , U. S. A. "
Met a feller here on Olive ,
With a somber-e-ro on ;
Had a lot of shaggy whiskers ,
Nearly all his clothes wuz gone.
Stopped an' n t me fur a qua.'ter ;
Says : " .My 'homo Is fur nway. "
"Whur you frum ? " The varmint answered :
"Santiago , U. S. A. "
Seen a feller at the Southern ,
With a heavy Iron box ,
Overcoat was lined with bearskin ; /
Wore a. dozen pair of BOX.
Sized him up to bo er miner ,
Judgln' by his awkward way ;
Seen him write in big char-ac-ters :
"Circle City , U. S. A. "
Seen a saddle-colored , heathen ,
Wcarln' earrings In his nose ;
Linen curt 'round Tils ankles ,
Most indecent lack o' clothes.
"Wtoero's this heathen guy here spring
frum ? "
I Inquired In lofty way ;
An' he hod the jicrvo to answer ;
"From Manila , U. S. A. "
"Hully Gee ! " sayB 1. "I never heard o *
These hero cannibals before. "
Air these heathens yore all voters ?
Will wo ston * fur enny more ?
Nex' you ask a feller
Whur's he frum , an' he'll say ,
With a lordly kind o' nourish :
"AH creation , U. S. A. "
Just
Before
We place our new
fall and winter
clothing for men
and boys before
the public we
are going to make
an extra cut on
all remaining lots
ofspring and sum
mer clothing. For
a few more days
you can find what
you want for half
and less than half
the regular price.