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Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The next trouble will be to learn to write
it 1887"
John Jacob Astor and Governor Morton
are members of the SChell Hose company
of Rhinebeck
Sara B5rnhardt claims to have refused
100000 for short series of performances
in Germany. Yet she is said to be far from
wealthy.
Hermann could pick gold dollars out Of
anybodys ears. and sometimes he made
$780, 900 in a single season, but his estate is
bankrupt. His wealth had wings and flew
both ways.
Henri Rochefort derives an income of
$50 900 yearly from llntransngeant. The
D7Sats reproaches him with socialism and
with giving no benefit to his employees. II
is believed, howevo:', that NJ. Rochefort Is
exceedingly generous to political refugees
and he spends carelessly.
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgnson
was 73 years old last week, and his many
friends will be glad to know that he has
now so nearly recovered from the serious
Illness that afflicted him on his last birth
day anniversary, and for months afterward,
as to be abla to follow his usual pursuits.
At the Schubert festival to be given in
Vienna in commcmoratiOn Of the composers
Tooth birthday one of the performers will
be Miss Caroline Giessler-Schubert of Lon
don, a pianiste. She is a grandnieCe of
Schubert and has the name of being an eX
cellent interpreter Of her illustrious relatives
music.
Mrs. Emma Forsythe, an American woman
who owns 100000 acrea of land in the South
Sea islands, is most energetic woman, EN-
ploying several hundred natives as well as
many Europeans on her plantation. She was
left a widow at IS, with scarcely enough
money to exist, but she has since amassed a
largo fortune.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has a hobby which
he insists upon riding even while restrained
from business by sickness lie takes
personal interest in the dairy and the poultry
yard on his model farm near Newport Praise
of the gilt-edge butter produced on that
farm is sweeter to his ear than the most en-
thusiastc commendation OF his costly and
artistic mansion
The late Henry L. Pierce of Massachusetts
bequeathed $3.50 coo to be divided to the Of
fcers and employees of the corporation of
which he was the head. Out OF an estate
OF $1,000 900 this is a very large sum to be
so given The poet, Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
who was befriendcl anonymously for many
years by Mr.. Pierce, receives 100000; his
wife a similar sum, and their two sons $780,
600 each.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
npYAN As 4 LECTURER.

MINNEAPOLIS Tribune, one william Jen-
nings Bryan, who has bccn extensively ad'
vertised for course OF hlgh-prlced non
partisan Lectures on financial and economic
subjects. tells a Chicago interviewer that he
regrets having entered into the contract
Can Il be that the failure Of the public 70
wax enthusiastic over The prospect OF pay
ing So 600 or 81 600 a night to near the
lectures has anything 10 do with these
frankly expressed regrets?
Philadelphia Record: Mr.. Bryan. 1t Is
said. does not like the lecture business and
It Is easy to understand why-hc ls out OF
place on the platform, and he feels It. ON
the stump he can sway the passions Of the
multitude, aud, being Of an intensely emo
tioual nature, the power to hold the attention
of his hearers comes to him naturally. In
the lyCcum he is compelled to iCt passion
alone ana to handle the coolest intellectual
questions. His nature chiils at such
prospect and the suggestion that he may
cancel his contract is entirely IN consouance
with the glimpscs which the people have
thus far had OF his character
indianapolis News: It is not surprising
that Mr. Bryan has failed, or only meas
urably succeeded, as a lecturer He eN-
presses himself as dissatisfied with lccturing.
II does not give him the opportunity for
political pyrotechnius, which are necessary
to his success before audiences. It was
Bryan the politician, who recently attracted
so much attention; Bryan. the nou-political
lecturer, is quite another person. and the
public, which is nothing II not wary OF
tircSome entertainments, will likely givo only
charity of its dollars to the latter. Mr..
Bryan has struck the lecture field late in
the day Many men OF distinction talk to
half filled houses. A man must have some
thing very interesting to communicate to
get and hold audiences, and we fear MIR
Bryan's message TO the world has already
been delivered free OF charge and that what
may remain will hardly command the re-
spect of the box office.
Buffalo Express Mr.. Bryan's lecture
tour may come to an end sooner than any
one anticipated. His appearance in Atlanta,
Ga, was no. the success expected although
he had large audience. 1t appears that
tho receipts were only 81 ,53i, from which it
is to be inferred that good many dead
heads were present. The orator Is to re-
cciye 81 900 for each lecture, according to
the contract The expenses for manage
ment are considerable, and in Atlanta very
little could have been made by V. T. McBoe,
who has charge of the enterprise. Whether
It was this consideration or the fact that
the officers of the Seaboard Air line do not
approve of having their general superintend
ent engaged in an outside undertaking,
something has induced the railroad man TO
transfer to an eastern syndicate or club
the management of Mr.. Bryan during the re-
mander of his tour. The change OF hands
Mr.. Bryan's friends say he is not enthus-
get away from it, The news certainly is |
Nobody ever suspected him of
not wanting to talk whenever he had a
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
COMMERCIAL wax WITH GERMAYr.

COMMERCIAL WAX WITH GERliANY.
1t would seem to be the settled pur-
pose of the agrarian element in Germany
to force a commercial war with this
country. Our State department has re-
Gently received from the American con-
sui mt Cologne information of Il renewed
attempt to discredt American meats
and of n demand upon the German
government for additional restrictions.
1t is charged that our beef is infested
with maggots and also that it is pre-
pared with boraX in an astonishing
manner. These charges proceed from
an agricultural association, so that
there is no difficulty in divining their
motive. They are prompted by the same
purpose that has dictated the entire pol
icy of German discrimination against
meats from the United States and
which was adopted in utter disregard
OF the assurances of our government that
all meats exported from this country
are subjected to the most careful in
spection.
The hostile action of Germany to-
ward American products has been about
as offensive as it we'll could be. Beef
and pork in every form have been eX-
cluded from the ports of the empire,
with oleomargarine, glucose and pc
trOleum. BreadStuffS were made duti-
able. Still the agrarian element seems
not to be satisfied. 1t is true we are
ourselves somewhat to blame for this.
The abrOgatiOn of the reciprocity az
rangcmcnt with Germany, done with
out any formality, and the imposition
of diifercntial duty on the sugar of
ernmcnt held to be in contravention of
our treaty, invited retaliation But il
would seem that this has been carried
far enough. OF course the German
government has disclaimed that it's
course was intended to be retalatOIy. |
but however that may be the time has
come when our government should Sc
riouSly consider whether some decisive |
action to check this commercial hostil- |
ity is not desirable. The new tariff
will offer Germany another opportunity !
to enter into a reciprocity arrangement
with the United States and if that |
country declines it which in view of
the influences there is more than likely |
to be the case, our government will be
fully justified in adopting II regulatory |
policy, even though it should bring on
IA commercial war
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
VICTIM or IMPOsToR-wHJCH2

When n public officer charged with n
miSdemeanor hires Il lawyer to defend
him it is cminently proper for that nj
torncy TO earn his fee by making his
client ont to be the victim of foul
| conspiracy. In his plea in abatement
for city Engineer Howell before the
council committee Attorney Ransom
not only roasted the editor of The Bee
for making public the attempt of the
city engineer to hold the water works
company up for II SlOO-a- month Sinecure
for Mr.. Wiley, but also declared Mr.
Howell to be an honest man who is
being prosecuted because he has taken
II bold stand in defense of the city's
rights and interests.
There is Il common adage that the
man who travels on straight road is
were "honest in his dealings and in his
office" he would have had no occasion
for hiring II lawyer Engineer Howell
was educated in the United States
Naval academy, where n man is taught
to consider his word of honor as the
essence of integrity. How has Engineer
Howell stood that highest test OF
honestly lie stood up in the council
chamber before an audience of the best
citizens of Omaha and upon his honor
rs man and an officer denied posi-
lively that he had ever approached any
one connected with the water works
company with any proposition to place
Mr. Wiley on the pay roll of that com
pany or had ever had any conversation
with any one upon any such subject.
lie stood up in the city attorneys
Office before Henry r. Clarke and
Curtiss Turner the committee origi-
nally appointed to Investigate the
charges, ana made not only n sweeping
and general denial, but also n specific
denial of every allegation in the charge
against him. Would an honest man
tell deliberate falSehood, even though
he were not under oath?
When confronted by three crcditabla
witnesses giving testimony under oath,
who each affirmed that Howell had
made the proposal to put Wiley on the
water works company pay roll and re.
peatedly cOnyersed with them about It.
Mr. Howell again made general
Genial but finally, under cross-eX-
animation, admitted as his attorney
puts II, that he had simply asked for
n place for his friend Wiley at paltry
figure OF 500 month" And i'm his
pent-up indignation Mr.. Ransom rose
to the occasion by proclaiming: "If
this were corruption, then no man who
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29

Senator Allisun's particular reasons for do.
cluing. II ls believed that Immediately N
the fact being made known that Allison Is
on ntlrcly out OF consideration In connection
with the cabinet that the Iowa delegation.
the republican congressional committee and
the house committee on military AFFAIRS will
present the name OF Congressman Hull for
secretary Of war.
Sioux city Journal; when Iowa became
state nifty years ago there were twenty
seven counties organized, all along the Mis-
sissippi river, The only land upon which
white men could legally settle when Iowa
territory was organized was a strip along
the river fifty miles wide but the Indians
were induced to reHuquish their entire hold
ings In the territory before II became state,
Already there were few settlements on the
Missouri slope. and there were trails across
the territory leading to interior settlements.
Other western states have had a larger pop
ulation at the beginning than Iowa, but the
men Of 1916 knew very well that on tho
broad prairics and along the wooded streams
there was room for millions OF homcmakcrs,
who would soon come when safe govern
ment was established They were not mis-
taken. Iowa has grown every day Of the
Hrty years, and will so ON growing and
urospcrlng. At nifty years OF age 1t is
magnificent state The foundation was well
laid and the builders have never made
igf "a
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29

ever had an office must ever ask any
one to give mutual friend n position
or else he will be called corrupt"
\ legislature Of this state once inn
pcachcd a governor and one of the nrtl-
cles of impeachment was that he had
falsiiicd i'm a report to the legislature.
Mr.. Howell stands sclf-convictcd of the
same ofrcnsc. He has lied publicly on
his honor and his oath has been con-
tradictcd by three men, one of whom
had gone so far as to submit Mr.. How
ellis proposal in n letter to his supcriors
in the water works company. In the
eyes of his attorney the demand FOR
a paltry 500 n month for his friend
Solon l.. Wiley, may seem very trivial
ofrcnsc, but 1t proves beyond n doubt
the insncerity and rank hypocrisy of
Mr. Howell as the self-constitutcd cham
pion of the city's rights.
Mr.. Howell not merely asked for a
subsidy for his friend Wiley, but he
represented that by so doing the water
works company would remove all obsta-
cles in its way to securing the conccs-
sons which he now dcnounceS as mon
strous imposition on the people. This
is not all. Mr.. Howell has testified that
he went all the way to New York to
solicit the appointment of general mana
ger from the owners of the plant. Had
they acceded to all his requests, does
any one believe that this honest engineer
would have written that flaring mani
festo declaring that they have no fran
chise or contract rights whatever? What
is it that actuates him in his course?
Is it an honest desire to rouse the com
munity to n threatening danger, or is he
playing a part for other parties who
have private interests to subserve?
In his grandstand play before the citi-
zens Engineer Howell vouched upon his
honor that he had written every line of
that brief and not word had been in
spired or suggested by anybody. But on
the stand before the council committee
he was forced to admit that he had
called upon the attorney representing the
stock iobbcrs who had wrecked the
water works company before its plant
was forccloscd and procured from him
documents from which he drew his con-
illusions. Why did the honest city cngi-
neer prevaricate about this matter? Why
did he mislead the mayor into the belief
that his estimates of the value of the
water works plant were made from his
own actual measurements and computa-
tionS when he must have known, as he
aftcrward testified. that they were mere
guesscs based on general information?
The investigation of the council com
mittee has established conclusively that
City Engineer Howell has no regard for
his word of honor and no appreciation
of the responsibilities of his office. No
man of this character is fit for any public
office.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29

They would not need to look abroad for a
market for beet sugar The home demand
would absorb 2uOOO0o tons annually and
until this amount was exceeded the beet
sugar farmers would have their market at
their own doors, At The low price OF 2
cents per pound or $40 a ton. this would
keep $50. 900 600 at home that are now spent
abroad FOR sugar As a matter Of fact the
country has been paying more than SlO0,-
600 OOO annually for raw sugar FOR the last
fivo years, and as we increase In population
this sum will increase IN like ratio. Why
not occupy this field aud thus add most
valuable aud extensive article OF agricultural
production to those we now have?
The 1900 tons Of beet sugar grown In
1895 while q relatively small amount COM
pared with tho product OF Germany and the
other sugar growing countries, Is sufficient
to constitute guaranty Of successful sugar
culture when the farmers OF the country
once turn their attention to the cultivation
OF this staple. There are now three beet
sugar factories in California one iu Utah,
two In Nebraska. one In New Mexico,
small one In Virginia and one Just cStah-
liShed In Wisconsin,. Within this belt, eN-
tending from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
beet culture is possible. and when the nine
factories now In operation have been in
creased IN number to twice the i05 factories
now in operation IN Germany, the greatest
beet sugar country In the world, we shall
only have reached the capacity OF supplying
our own wants in sugar
There should be as much enterprise, in
genuity and science among the farmers OF
the United states as among those Of any
country In the world and attention is called
to this Industry as one capable Of indefinite
expansion. Give beet sugar an exhaustive
trial. 1t will help to secure higher prices
for corn and wheat, besides making us in
dependent Of other countries for our sugar
supply
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
THE FIELD FOR FARMERS.
Supplying the Home Demand for Beet
Sugar.
PhlQdelphIa Times.

ihNadelphla Times.
The people of the United States consume
upwards Of sixty pounds Of sugar annually
per capita, which at the rate of cents per
pound fer the manufactured product costs
the consumers upwards of 5000 600 600 OF
this amount We produce less than 1000
tons and import in, the neighbOrhold Of O.
100000 tons. That ls we purchase from
South America the West Indies and the
Beet sugar countries six pounds or more OF
sugar for every pound we produce. What is
more, the cane sugar production Of the
United states CannCt be greatly extended
ewing to the fact that about all the cane
sugar producing territory is now under
cultivation. Event. we possessed Cuba we
Hhculd sim have to buy sugar from other
countries, as me largest crop yet produced
In tEat island Gid not exceed 100000 loas
We should ncedG another Cuba at this rate
to supply our wHhts unless We could make
two canes grow. Were one grows now.
II we would turn our attention to the
production of beet sugar we have the soil
and climate TO supply all our own needs in
this direction without Cuba. Already the
worlds production OF beet suga: exceeds
that OF cane sugar by more than one million
IONS, but while the United States produced,
In 1895, 29O, 900 tons of cane sugar, on.y 30,-
600 tons OF beet sugar were produced. The
cane sugar area OF the country is fully
occupied. but the beet sugar area has scarcely
been entered upon at ALL The 1926 900 tens
of beet sugar produced in 1895 were grown
In Germany, Austria, France, Rus9a,
Belgium, Holland and Sweden and a few
smaller European countries, and yet In none
OF these are the conditions Of soil and climate
for sugar beet culture superior to those TO
be found over a large area OF the United
States.
Here is field for the farmers who have
5e:n growing more wheat and corn than
Ihey could sell at remuneratiYe price
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
nnIGuT AND nnEEZy.

Chicago Tribune: "Iow did It happen
those countcrfcitcrs lived a whole year next
door to you without your ever hnding them
''Why, they knew my husband was
detective, OF course, and they were always
on their good behavior
Up-to-patc: shc-Joncs is a deep young
Hc-Very; heard his father say he had
no bottom at all.
Detroit Free prcss: "Shyboy what made
you change your boarding house,"
"Why, my landlady gave me mustache
cup with Love the Sivcr' on It
cleveland Plain Dealer: That's a pretty
maid YOU have Mrs Frnmp.:o, n,or-
sighted, and too proud to wear glasses
Philadelphia North American: Morlibone
Isn't that Spanish officer rather darker
than usual?
Pratt-Um, yes. But. you sec his face is
from one of Weyler's famous Ink campaigns
against the Cuban Insurgents.
indianapolis Journal MIR watts--Tho
idea of the pastor getting UP at the close
of the church fair and saying that he was
Mrs. Watts-And why shouldn't he
"Bccausc he was the only man there who
hadn't been; that's way.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Pepper. what Is. a
license to steal? heard q man on the
street car say that the profit in his bust
ness was as good as a license TO steal"
"Thcy don't issue licenses to steal. They
issue certificates of appointmont-or elec-
ton"
Detroit Journal: How did YOU happen
to call this place Auburndalc, colonel?"
"Fellow that founded it was named
Dale"
But I don't quite understand"
simple enough Dale was rod-headcd."
WASTED EFFORTS.
Cleveland Leader.
Against the wall the burglar bumped
His head until IL bIcd.
And 1t would be a sin to print
The horrible things he said.
For he had doctored bolts and bars
AS only burglars can,
To find at last that he was in
The home of an editor mani
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
DIspARIrIEs ~ Tiin VOTE.
Difference In That Cast for Rcpub-
lican ana Popocrntic Electors.

A comparison of the vote cast in a few Of
the states in the recent presidential cleo
tion will show how baseleSs was the argu-
ment of Mr. Bryans supporters that their
strength would not be fairly represented IN
the electoral college. 1t can be made to
appear that they were not only fully repre-
sented. but were overrepresentcd in nearly
one-third of the states.
The four states which cast over 1000 900
votes each were New York. Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois. All of these states were
carried by the republicans by large ma
jorites, the aggregate majority in the four
states being over $50, 600. The following
table gives the total poll in these states the
republican vote and the electoral vote:
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
Totals ............................ 2.O12C5a n

Here are sixteen states with a total vo.e
OF 2,Ol2 053 and 115 electoral votes. Their
aggregate population is about 10000. 900
which would give one elector to little less
than each 10000 of population. This shows
that the supporters of silver are more than
fairly represented in the Electoral college
If the population in New York Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Illinois were represented
on the same basis. those states would have
a total of $50 electoral votes instead of 1l5
votes, as they now have. comparison of
electoral and popular votes is still more
striking. In the four republican states
there were 4,660,73l votes cast, and as they
have 1l5 electoral votes there is an average
Of one Of the latter to each 40,5OO of the
former. But in the sixteen Bryan states
only ,O53 votes were cast, and as they
have ll5 votes also in the Electoral college
there is an average of one elector to each
II 500 votes cast. This is a wide disparity,
and 1t shows how unjust was the claim
that the silverite strength would not be
fairly represented in the Electoral college.
Another fact in those two tables is sig
nihCant. In the sixteen Bryan states the
total vote was not less than two-ffths OF
the total vote in New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois but it was GA ,G37 less
than the Mckinley vote alone in the four
states mentioned. This makes still more
ridiculous the claim of the Bryantes that
they were at a disadvantage in the Electoral
college Instead of not having an equal
chance they went into the campaign with
a good many advantages in their favor, and
now that they are beaten they should accept
the verdict with good grace.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29

Bryan's Atlanta lecture gives album
dant evidence of recent study of the
career and writings of Andrew Jack
son. Mr.. Bryan has plainly been prepar-
ing carefully. for his Jackson day ad-
dresses, and if he is not hailed as II
second Andrew Jackson before the
fortnight is over it will be only be
cause the time has been too short for
him to divest himself entirely of the
role of the second Abraham Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
The Outlook in Nebraska.

The vast crop of corn is perplexing the Ne
braska farmers, because it is difficult to take
care of so much of even a good thing. But
with the cr'lbbing and the shipping it is keep
ing all hands employed now, and when the
returns come in there will be compensation
in the feastng and frolic which properly fol-
lows an abundant harvest This corn crop
is a great boon, because it gives employment
to vast army of willing hands in harvesting
and shipping. The year now drawing to a
close was a good one for Nebraska but the
coming one promises even better results
Tho proceeds of the crop of 1896 will be
available for improvements in 1897. and
while the corn cribs are being filled and
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Sioux City Times The people of Iowa
ate a large part of the $25OOOOO worth of
apples gathered in Iowa orchards, and no
body has a better right to cat Iowa apples
than Iowa people.
Davenport Democrat: They have evidence
in Dubuque that the election went the right
way. That city has just sold refunding
bonds to the amount of $36O,OOO. The bonds
are to run twenty years and they bear in
terest at the rate of per cent. Only a
nominal premium was obtained.
Des Moines Capital: Two Iowa friends
of Senator Allison may visit Canton within
a day or two to give the presidenc-elect
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-29

No time should be lost and no means
neglected if Omaha is to have the ma
tional meet of the League of American
Wheelmen in 1898. Other cities are
after the prize, which is one of the most
desirable in the list of national gather
ings, and it will take hard and per-
sistent work on the part of local wheel
men to secure it for the exposition wear.