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4 A Till; OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY G, 1916. INFLUENCES OF WAR FELT South American Laborer! from Europe Return to Nttire Land. CHAINS WAIT TO BE HARVESTED AVALANCHE OVERWHELMS PASSENGER TRAIN The photograph shows one of tha heavy steel cars near Corea, Washington, lifted from the track like a toothpick by the rush ing snow and ice, and carried over seventy feet down the mountainside. Four victims were found buried in the debris in the wrecked coach soon after the photograph was taken. (Corr-nr'Ti(l,nr of Tha Aaanclatad Prr ) lil i:N09 ATHKS. Jan 30. Th Influ fno of tha war In Europe aro twin felt acutoly In South, Anwrtne. Tha rou tine of life, its fixed t? the seasons aiut their phenomena. Is thrown out of rear. Immigration return for tha first tlma In nixiiy jonra. show a balance of emi gration. This la attributed to tha no dus of ltsll.m reservists who have rallied to the civnra w.th enthusiasm and Ion tanletr. In normal time tha Italian and Hpaninh ImmlKTanta flock In ahout ennui numlwa to the harvest field of Anrn tlna. Tha efflux haa none on in tha same liroportion, for it I a rcullar fact, on hrh no one seoka to explain, that tha F pan lards a If acted upon by aomo sym pathetic Influence are leaving by every paen"or steajner. It cannot be a Id that they (ulna; In great number, for the simple reason that all thoaa who are not radlrated in tha Rppullo already hare drifted away. This shifting- of labor la not Strang; liut, oct-urrl'iit at a period when tianrt are moat needed and ware are Ma heat, It cauawa a certain fee lint of unoatstoaM. (lie ftood result la that tbe national and provincial authorities hava been Indured to think mora seriously of their natural sources of human energy, and how to or-iranlz.- them. Tho country la ao larsa that with ample railroad facllltlea tha tinemployed hands In tha north, for ex am pV, rtmid be ahlfted to tha south where, at a given per'.od of tha year, ex treme difference of climatic conditions prevail. This organization, ao far ha not made Itanlf apparent by result. Idle t'aaae Treafcle. At tha preaent moment there is a ton aldcrable number of unemployed In the I 'am pa territory, near what may be called tha pteopraphleal center of tha republic. Having drifted there, theae elements are (causing considerable trouble by tbelr truculent and menacing altitude. As the terrltorirs are, of rource, under na tional administration fifty men of the metropolitan police armed with rifle and well supplied with ammunition hava been sent down to reinforce the local pol ice and maintain order. Tha Department of Labor declares that had theae ele ments been amenable to control they would tikt hava drifted, at the precise moment when they were wanted else where, to a point at which they ware not required. It la, however,, difficult to or ganise elements ao Illiterate that they cannot read. Another aerlous effect of tha war la that freighting vessels are few and rates exceedingly hlulu The amount of Argen tine r rod uce held up for lack of transport Is very large. An Idea of ts magnitude can be gathered from the following facta which, relating to a few tones, may bo regarded aa commqft to all. Tha great Central Argentina railroad system, rami fying through the central northern and northern provinces report that over 100,000 tons of wheat and Unaeed of the last harvest are still waiting to be moved. Cora Awaits Exrt. In Rosarlo, the dopot of the north, there la at leant the same quantity of corn of the same harvest stored and waiting for export In addition there are 100,000 tons) stored In outlying stations ready to be forwarded to the port of liosatrlo en rout for the consuming market. There Is, therefore, plethora of grain already, and the stock Is being rapidly Increased as operations upon the sw harvest pro ceed. At the time of writing about 1 er cent of the aeason's wheat and linseed liaa been collected', the quality and yield being very satisfactory. Tha corn planta tion, favored by adequate precipitation and warmth, look very promising too. The great Southern railroad system whiih ramifies through the arable aad j.atur land of the south and west, re j ort Identical conditions. Tlier Is a da. elded scarcity of labor where labor la) wanted, there is the same plethora of (train In tha granaries and abundance In the fields now being harvested. Doubt Irs the Western railroad, which serves a a connecting line between the two great syatema already named, baa tha mu general conditions and phenomena to deal with. It all meats congestion, los and low prices for the farmer who are alwaya In need of ready money. In the meantime the freighters which should t carrying the harvests of South Amer ica to the ports of Europe and feeding the Industries of the old continent are acting as transports, carrying troops and store to the war. UUflrelt to Meaaare Loea. Locally It Is difficult to measure tha possible loss direct and collateral, caused by this dislocation of commercial our reuta when the war to over. Th con sequences of the war will persist. It will be a long tiros before the ports of this rapubllo are again full of shipping from the seven acaa, aa they were a few years aao when, to reUove the preaeure, the port of bueoos Ay res extension works were decided upon and pushed forward. That great undertaking, by the way, is now paralysed, nothing la the nature of a a amicable arrangement or compromiae having been reported. The Germans resident in Argentine, where they form a very Influential and well organised community, acting upon instructions from Berlin, or upon their own Initiative have created a corner In wool. They have. In fact, bought up the whole available clip which la destined for shipment to Germany when the war Is over, and the German mercantile flag la one more seen In South Anvtrioan -waters. Naturally this bulk In store oc cupies a good deal of the not unlimited pace fur alorag lit Argentina. But the Germans are happy about the matter, Since, In addition to having secured the good Vity have prevented the Drttlsh and French from replenishing their sup plies from the River Platte sources. Within ten months will ooour tha periodical (six years) change of national administration. The election Of president and vice president ahould occur within tv next three months, but up ta tha l iewnt there are no candidates before the country'. Itumors are floated dally only to enjoy a very precarious period of languid life and die a natural death. TIxt are no candidates and apparently i. real interest shown by the public. f ana Ljaji usss-ssnii is sp spiisjisji. i,ini.MssiisJsmaji " KT"nr-j TTrTrrrTjT-TTfjr-gjgfTTr -V ..-Ill 1 " s v. ; t i -. 1 :m y . -i - '" m: yen . r-1 ':-" 'v - iV -f J I .o . '-. r ,r -. j ' ' .-. . - 'w ' '' : -' .' '. ',' I , i - t t r- -? --' ' ' X- ' ' : ' -' ; . t I hi i ' Bail f ' ' m &:K--ii:.'A-eyx iia'n'f--:-s litfT"'""' 1 r "' r -i -r '-ri 1 i" -11 in-t-irTra r r n in ' ,jl ACTIVE FIGHTFOR MONARCHY Chinese Kewipapen Now Openly Take One Side or Other of This Question. CINS0S IS SECRETLY AT WORK (Correspondence of the Asaoclafed Presa) PEKINQ, Nov. T. Chinese editorial writers ars devoting practically alt their tlma to ths discussion of tha proposed change In China' form of government Dead wall in Peking and the other Im portant Chlneae cltiea are bright with red posters bearing bulletins of the lateat move made by Parliament. Newsboys are crying extra through the street which contain the latest florid memorial of Tuan fihl-kal or some leader. Tli a monarchlal movement has now gone past tha gum shoe stage. Its supporter no longer speak In a whisper and enjoin secrecy. Newspapers which were vary guarded In their statements three weeks go are no longer on the fence. They are now either for or against the mon archy. However, the activity of the gov ernment agents has limited the antl monarchtat statements Isrgoly to the trsaty porta. Wkr Abaadea Repabllet Tha following editorial from the Peking Daily News, which Is supporting ths monarchy, Is typical of the arguments advanced for the abandonment of ths re public! "The opposition to tho proposal to afford tho people of China an oppor tunity of showing whether they wish to maintain tha existing nominally republi can form of government or to revert to monarch ism appears to be weakening. It has become Increasingly apparent that tho movement for the restoration of ths monarchy ha behind It a much greater weight of popular opinion than was at first thought to be ths case. There are soma Intranalgean and well-meaning, but misguided, foreigners who still bus; the roaa osiuston mat China has reached a stag of political development that ren ders possible the successful application of ffenuiaa republican principles. Ta Atmadon P release, ftBM f tho argument advanced against the proposal to reatnre monarch- (are -are delightfully naive. Thus a well- Vesta Mas K 1114 la Kaautaa. TKCUStShli, Ntb.. Ftb. i.-pecUl Ktiativea of rank Head, living at Vista, have recelt ed word that Mr. Reed was killed at lilue Rapid. Kan., Wednesday Tb.-ie ar no particulars as to bow he m kll'rd, ti.it, as he la engaged in mln ii. K. it 1 s-ii r- i4 e was tha vtcttra of a mine a ,. i.'. T. rgarlin of Vlata I n aoii v i . e i t t i I'.iplJs. Mr. Reed'a I -i j if arc aislfre. known and highly respected American lawyer In Shanghai (T. It . Jemlgan) comes to the Interesting conclusion that It would be unwise to change the repub lican form of government because there has been no republican government. "If there has been no republican government what earthly purpose Is served by pre tending that a republican government exIatsT Is It not better to abandon a pretence that only hampers administra tion and promotes unrest? But the pub licist In question Is not quite correct In saying that there has been no republican government He has apparently forgot ten that the provisional constitution adopted by the National council at Nan king In March. 1913, was effective -until November, 1910. Thl instrument was framed by the moat radical wing of the Chinese revolutionaries and was dis tinctly republican In spirit and substance. The experiment of trying to govern the rountry under this constitution failed utterly. No useful purpose I served by denying fact. The experiment of re publicanism was tried; It failed disas trously, and much better, though not the beat possible, results hava been obtained under a system that Is monarchical In everything except that It perpetuation I not provided for. Denial No Proareea. 'Tha argument that China made no real and sgbstantlal progress under a monarchical form of government In by gone years Is not Impressive. Fifty years ago the same thing could hava been aald with equal truth about Japan, but It Is doubtful whether anyone will summon up the courage to claim that Japan would have made greater progress If she had espoused republicanism. It must always be remembered that tha proposal la to give China a Chlneae dynasty with a man on the throne who has proved himself patriotic and progressive. Te urgo that this would be Inviting disaster because an alien dynasty, directed by eunuchs and court parasites snd noriously Ig norant of modem conditions and require ment, failed to ensure progreea, is te show a singular olrcumscrlptton of mind." I lead The Bee Want Ada It pays! Stat Bays Boada. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Feb. S.-peclal.) Tha atate ha purchased the following bonds as an educational trust funXnveatment: Rus kln, electrio light .600; Nebraska City, paving, 116,000; Inland, electrio light, S300. FORMER STELLA WOMAN DIES IN LOS ANGELES STELLA, Neb.. Feb. a. (Special.) News was received at Stella today of the death of Mrs. Elisabeth Swan In Lo Angeles, Cel., this week. She was a resi dent of Stella for many years and lived In this part of Nebraska from ISftt until two years ago, when he went to Cali fornia, Her maiden, name was Randall and aha was born In Peoria, 111., In 1857. In ISTS she was married to William Clay ton Hayes, who died a short time later, and in 1SS1 she married Lewis M. Swan, who died In 1913 and Is burled in the Stella cemetery. Mrs. Swan Is survived by four children. Miss Minnie Hayes of Los Angeles; Mrs. A. C. Petty of Stock ton, Oal.; Emmet P. Swan of S dney. Neb., and Earl E. Swan of Malcolm. Neb. A slater, Mrs. J. W. Smith, lives at Corning, Mo. MAKING OF GOLD BRICKS Enormous Una of Foreign Coin ii Melted in White-Hot Furnaces, Acrrnnrs of the melting fot JVotea frens York. YORK. Neb.. Feb. (.-(Special.)-Mayor Madget of Hastings Was the guest cf honor at tha Business Men's club last night Judge Hopkins of the county court an nounces that during 191t ho will perforft all marriage ceremonies free where tha bride make sworn affidavit that the made a leap year proposal. Valentino King, who Uvod near Lush ton, died at the homo of his son, Joa King. He was S3 years old. Representatives of tha Commercial club went to Henderson last evening to assist the live business men of that town In organising a Commercial club. Twenty five members were enrolled. Mlsg Bellman Porter and Frank E. Oatlln, both of Topeka, Kan., ware mar ried at :30 Thursday evening. Rev. A F. Ritchie officiated. Faraaere Bay Blevater Rtewk. CAMBRIDGE, Nab., Feb. -(Special Telegram.) One hundred and thirty-six farmer were the guests of the Farmers' Grain and Elevator association at a fin dinner served today by the ladle of the Congregational church. Ovsr 10 . nsw shares were bought principally by new member. The members a well as ths farmers In this vicinity are aware of tha possibilities or co-operative dealing. Nearly all of the prosperous farmers In this vicinity now bold membership in Jh association. ttesd The Be Want Affs. It pay! Shoveling bright golden British sorer rlgns, French napoleons and Japaae ten and twenty yen piece with a big scoop pretty much l the man who tends the furnace tosse coal is the dally task of a force of husky men in an nnder- gtound smelting room in Pin street. New York. The temperature of tha plac I high; roaring, blue-flame gas lets under huge earthenware melting pots' give forth a shriveling heat; there la a peculiar, a s!rkenlng odor In the confined humid at mosphere, and, occasionally, as a portion of clean charcoal ta thrown In, puff of smoke awirl round the perspiring workers. producing a weird effect Tho scene re minds one of youthful Imaginings of the i genii of old In some of tneir extravagant antics, er of mental picture suggested by pages of Albertus Magnus, John De and other ancient alchemists of mediaeval days, when it wsa believed that gold could be mad out of baser metals. And theae shoveiers, naked to the waist like the stokers on a transatlantic liner, are making gold gold bricks of tha shape of an ordinary house brick, weighing! ! about twenty-two pounds, and worth ! about $7,000 a brick. The pace where thl golden transforma tion scene Is beinf enacted six and mora) recently seven days In the week Is the basement of the United State assay office, next door to subatreasury build ing. Verne M. Bovle, superintendent of the office, I authority for the statement that his staff Is being driven harder now than ever before. This Is, of course, be cause of the flood of gold coin pouring Into New Tork to pay the bills of the allies for munitions of wsr and other no- I ceesltles. The balance nf trad being ' heavily In favor of this country and gold I being, of course, the International basts j of pay. It follows that the precious yel-j low metal Is flowing to this country, A day or two ago the writer hoard Mr-1 Bovle say to newspaper men on tblr ; dally visit for an account of tho aura re ceived: t)n!y about two millions today. Not much; Just an ordinary day." MelttBf Dw the Oeld. A year ago thl would have been a big day "tcktnga" at the office, but now It Is accepted aa a matter of course. In ton days, from October 11 to October SO, 7r,!v2.000 In foreign coin and S4H000 In bullion were received at the assay office In New Tork. That Included a shipment of 4,833.000 received by J. P, Morgan tt Co. In the three months and soma days' from July 1 to October S, Mr. Bovle re ceived m.SM.OOO, making some W, 138, Iff) received within the epa;e of about four months. As the average yearly receipt previous to the rush caused by the Euro pean war were about $100,000,000, it Is seen that the four months' receipts are within $11,000,000 of what formerly wer the receipts for a whole twelve month. All gold money if foreign denomina tion must be weighed several times, sorted, dlvtded. assayed, malted, assayed again, and then shipped to the mint at Philadelphia. It is plain that each addi tional million received at Pin stmt means additional work In all departments of an office which we busy when It wsa handling one-half tha amount of gold It now receives. Tha mon are simply being worked at top pitch In a golden shower that Is pouring In from many parts of the world. Every new shipment, and ther I apparently no end to the number, pile the stout steel strapped boxes hlghsr in the vaults and make mors arduous the labor or th sweating men who patiently shovel fortune after fortune Into th big white-hot pots. When a shipment cf gold arrives. If hi first weighed In what I called th de Posit smelting room. This delicate opera tion is carefully performed and tha rec ord as carefully transcribed. Th ship ment la then assayed and la divided Into "melt," each entire shipment having IU own "melf number. Carried In trays to the melting room. It I piled up In con venient form for shoveling Into th big earthenware pota under which bias flames that have heated them whit hot. Th shoveling tgang get to work and scoops up the gold, If. a Is usually th case today. It be In coin, and dump It Into th pot. ORLEANS EDITOR TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR OF STATE ORLEANS. Neb.. Fob, aWSpeolal Tala grnv F. P. Shield, editor cf th Or leans I after, teday forwarded to Secretary of Stat Pool his formal Intention to seek the nomination for governor en th demv craUo ticket. Mr. Shield was hem In Illinois In IDS and cam to Kebrak ' In 194 during which time ha has been prominently Iden tified with th democratic party. Mr. Shields Is now preparing a platform and will make It public In a few day. He Is Irrevocably and unequlvlcally committed-, to equal suffrage with a qualification clause, state-wide prohibition and th ( elimination of fad in public sehools. Crete Dry Federatloa Organised. CRETE. Neb.. Feb. S, (Ppecial.) The following officers were elected in a me, meeting cf Crate eltixens her Yiday night, when a, dry federation was or annlsed: J. N. Bennett president; M. O, Johnson, V'.oe president; VT. R. Orace, secretary.; Frank Banner, treasurer. (TrteTerror of Gripism thePmBT oxects ' .SSII JJ -.! !ly How will grip leave youT You suffer enough while you have it, but the state it loaves you in worries you even more. The disease has an almost fiendish way of searching out the weak spot la your system, getting a hold there, and lingering for months. Sometimes it's the back, sometimes the throat, often the digestive organs. You are la pain all the time; your strength is little, and the Joy of living ceases to be. Such conditions call for a good tonic. But it must be something more, for grip is a catarrhal malady, and the tonic must have special efficacy in catarrhal onditions. When you think of catarrhal conditions, you always think of Peruna. In CoBvalescence-FERUNA It's the one tonic for such conditions. Literally, thousands have used it with marvelous success after grip. Its seems to make little difference what part of the body is affected. The trouble is a result of a catarrhal disease, and when this catarrh is overcome and a good tonic helps regain bodily strength, the patient begins to get well There are many grateful letters, from those who have been benefited by It, and each of them treats of a different phase, Rely on Peruna. It will build you up. ' So effective has it proved that many cow take it on the first appearance of grip symptoms, and these folks ULite in prodaiming PERUNA as a Preventive There is much good sense in this, for grip infection must rind a weak place in your armor before it can harm you. Remove all catarrhal conditions, build ep your bodily strength, clean all waste matter from your system. A good tonic will do this Peruna is an espec ially good tonic for just such cases. Fight off the grip. It's better than curing it. even, but if it gets ahead of you restore, yourself to vigor with Peruna. You should keep Peruna at hand, ready to check any symptom of cold or grip at their firf t appearance. Prompt ness may save you a long and suffering illness. . Remember that Peruna also comes ta Tablet Form Tke Paruaa Ceanpaay, Coluaafcaa, Okie The Proof at Hand lit. Gentry Catea, 8219 First Ave.. Cart Lake. Ala writes: "I had a bad caa at grip. I tried Fentna and it cured ma, I can safely ay it U a fin medicine." Mrs. Gaorf C Law. It N. Pranllln St Brazil, lad. writes: "I aa gatiaftod that Paruna la wonderful retaedy fur gnp, an4 I do most heartily adore and reooounand It Mr. & A. Weir. 127 W. ISA St. Pueblo. Col orado, write: 'There U no better medicine t the world fur cold and trip ttaa Parana. One bottle did boot te rail ere me of a bad cuU and caa cf grip than any remediee that I hare vzt UUa." 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