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Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

single industry which is now lagsins be-
hind, for each is closely bound TO another
and all are affected by the wave OF prosper
ty. In former days this was not the case.
The farm was then small principality in
itself, and it produced almost everything
that the farmer and his family required in
the way OF focd and rament. The wants OF
the average wageworker we're few, and OF
intellectual ambitions he had no thought.
Now all these conditions OF life have been
greatly modified by the universally OF free
education in this country. Every wage
Garner is today contributor to hundreds
of industries not directly connected with his
trade The wageworkers are the largest con-
sumers OF manufactured products, and as
soon as activity in one branch OF business
becomes well established and the employees
begin to earn n little extra money they
commence to replenish their wardrobes. re-
stock their larders, and even to indulge in
many luxuries Of more or less expensive
character
For a period of years this great complex
mechanism, which we call modern civ
ilization. has been running more and more
slowly, like a clock which needs cleaning
and regulating. Now, however, 1t is thought
by some persons to be running too fast.
Nevertheless, 1t is quite evident that the
worlds machinery is in good order, and,
barring accidents, is likely to so continue
for a long time to come.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.

Most men begin to save after they have
spent all.
The first thing you see in boiling water
is the scum.
Christians are like eggs, there are no
medium ones.
Self-forgetfulness is only acquired by re-
membering others.
The world is a vessel in whose hold the
fire is already burning
Gods first act after the creation was the
organization OF home
Many public professions are criminal
over-issues OF religious stock.
When there is a fire in the church the
people will gather about the hearth.
When a man shows his goodness in his
home the chances are that goodness has
its home in him.
The worldly are spending the winter OF
life in collecting snow balls, forgetting that
the summer comes.
When the Lord listens for the din of his
workshop He too often hears but SYM
phony of snores from the droning churches.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

The Kansas City idea of arbitration
is a unique one. The people down that
way are perfectly willing to arbitrate
the packing house differential rate
question and will abide by it only in
case their contention is upheld. Should
the arbitrator decide against them they
announce that they will refuse to play.
Just where Omaha is to gain from this
kind of an arbitration is not clear.
Kansas City has carried its point on
many occasions by just this kind Of
bulldozing, and as no patent has been
taken on the method Omaha might not
lose anything by meeting them at their
own game.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
TIE WEST IN CONGRESS-.

Washington correspondents of num-
Der of eastern papers are calling atten-
ton to the fact that in the Fifty-sixth
congress the west will practically dom
mate in the transaction of business in
the house. For the first time in history
the speaker will come from state
west of the Mississippi and the chair
men of most of the important commit
tees will hail from states west of the
Alleghenies.
The change of the center of influence
from Maine, where it rested for the last
two congresses, to the Mississippi val
ley is jump which has no parallel in
congressional annals. This change in
reality is simply an evidence that con,
gress is conforming itself more and
more to the altered conditions of the
country.
The importance of the west has been
gradually increasing and with the
American flag floating over Hawaii and
the far off Philippines what was for
merly known as the west more accu
rately speaking, becomes the east. The
west furnished the men who bore the
brunt of the fighting in the recent war
against Spain as well as those who
stood on the firing line in the distant
suburbs of Manila. The west Is sup
plying most of the men now shaping
the policy of the nation. 1t has the bal
ancc of power in the electoral college
as well as in congress and the recogni-
ton of it's Importance now is simply a
delayed realization of the facts by the
people of the east, who have persisted
in closing their eyes to the actual situa-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
Personal AND OTHERWISE,

London is inclined to regard war news
Last weeks siege of star-gazing doubtless
! resulted favorably. A large crop of engage
ments may be looked for presently.
Reports from Ladysmith, Mafeking and
Colenso go to prove that the whiskers Of
the Beers do not get tangled in their shoot
ing irons.
Boston is prolific of color symphonies. Two
black girls, named Green and White, are in
trouble there for stealing from a white
man by the name OF Gray.
Notwithstanding the critical state of affairs
in the Blue Grass state, Colonel Jack Chinn
persistently declines to unlimber his jaw.
Possibly he is handler with a gun.
If memory is not at fault, Kentucky was
the most vindictive assailant OF the over
turning board system in Louisiana in 1876.
1t makes a great difference whose OK is
gored.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie is the boss library
promoter OF the land. He has offered the
city of Louisville $125, 900 to be used in
constructing free circulating library. All
that he requests is that the city make
proper provision for it's maintenance.
The authorities of the Flowery Kingdom
Chinese societies known as the "Order of the
Red Fist" If the authorities mean bus
iness the O. R. F. might move to Coney
Island and continue business undisturbed.
Hoosier put under restraint at Evans
vile, Ind, proved conspicuous failure in
the marriage line. He had gathered in only
three wives when he fled to the Jail for
relief and mercy. Chicago's record OF
fourteen stands unequalled, il the sultan OF
Sulu be excluded from the compilation.
A Chicago man, standing on the threshold
of eternity and forgetting the decorum and
loyalty befitting the solemn occasion, ap-
peaed to his official shutters for two quart
bottles of st. Louis beer. The trap was
sprung instantly and the unfortunate per-
ished with his thirst. Had he asked for
Chicago beer he could have had tubfull.
Lieutenant Winston Churchill, reported
missing at Colenso, Natal, has published a
book on the Omdurman campaign, in which
he says Kitchener was directly responsible
for the killing of wounded dervshes.
Churchill's picture of the conquering gen.
eral is, indeed, most unfiattering, describing
him as a man without feeling and one who
looked upon wounded man even among his
own soldiers as an incumbrance.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

Reference to the report of the ord
nance bureau of the army indicates
that in case of trouble the United
States would be able to give foreign
foe a much more lively reception than
would have been possible a year ago.
Two hundred and tifty-siX guns of
large caliber, ranging from eight to
thirteen inches, have been finished dur
ing the year. While no immediate
prospect threatens that the big guns
are likely to be needed, their possession
is an insurance policy on the security
of the future.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
ARIsToCRACY of CORN.
Sources of New Wealth in COrnstalks,
Cob md Kernel.
RrOOl<lyn

Dollar wheat knocked the free silver
| lunacy into moral limbo, but that is nothing
to the financial, social and political revolu-
| tion likely to spring from the discovery of
| new use for cornstalks. The indigestibIe
| pith OF this fiber, which has been used
chiefly for electrical experiments before the
classes in physics in the old fashioned high
schools, is found to make almost as good a
protection for war ships below the water
line as steel. Its great lightness and its
capacity to swell on the application OF
moisture, in which it far exceeds the dried
apple, make it pretty nearly impervious to
shot. genius named Marsden discovered
this use and he convinced the Cramps, so
that packing of cellulose-which is the
commercial name of corn pith--is now used
on new war ships.
Marsden has a factory for the preparation
OF this by-product at Owensboro, KY, where
he handles 900 tons of cornstalks year
He proposes to build other plants, one at
Peoria, H., another at Lynden, Ind, and
one somewhere on the Atlantic seaboard, to
prepare his celulose for export He has al
ready interested foreign capitalists in the
project and according to the hopeful Mars
den-whOse name does not seem to be Null
berry Sellers-it is only question of time
belt of Kansas and Nebraska. When that
glad day comes look out for a development
OF prosperity which will make the fortunes
heretofore piled up by the cotton kings, the
coal barons, the owners of oil and gas wells
and unlimited wheat farms, and the Klondke
millionaires look commonplace.
See what Marsden has done for a few
farmers around Owensboro. The corn on an
acre OF ground Is worth somewhere from So
to 81 and the fodder has heretofore been
worth from 40 to 60 cents. There are two
tons OF stalks to an acre. Marsden pays the
farmers $3.75 a ton for this product de-
livered at his factory after 1t is dry, which
means after husking time, when the fall
work is cut OF the way, so that the hauling
will be easy, Instead OF 81 an acre the
farmer Will reap close upon $15 from his
corn land. Now, count up the hundreds Of
thousands of acres of prairie already devoted
to corn, without the inducement OF doubleI
value for the crop. Instead OF being mil
lions in It, like the eyewater, there promise
that 1t works, or at least has begun to work
There will be three cellulose factories ready
for next years crop, and how much the
future uses OF the new product will develop
the industry no one can fOresee 1t must
be vastly cheaper than cork for life pre-
servers, for one little item.
All this new wealth is to be made right
in the heart OF populism. Really, Bryan
should be sure to get elected next year. |
After that the stars in their courses and the
cor oInstalks on a thoueand pTaries will fight
against the prophets OF calamity.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
Everybody Using the Telephone.
T,aSlia'S Week1y

The telephone has become necessity of
modern life, and whatever tends to cheaper
the telephone service and enlarge its sphere
of operations deserves support and encour-
agement There has been rapid increase of
Independent telephone companies 1t is
stated that the close Of this year will see
$500 independent telephone exchanges in
operation, having over 100000 instruments.
In 1880 there were under rental use in the
country 60,S73 telephones. One year later
the number had increased to 1872, ,692 In
1898 the number of telephones in use was
over 100000. In 1885 there was in use
in the various systems and modes of build
ing 1928 miles of telephone wire. At the
beginning of this year the mileage had in
creased to 1,15S,0O0 miles. The use of the
telephone is more common in the United
States than in any other country
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
TO PUSH THE NICARAGUA c.

TO PUSH THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Representative Hepburn of Iowa, who
was chairman of the committee on in
terstate and foreign commerce in the
last house and probably will be in the
present congress, intends to introduce
Nicaragua canal bill at the opening
of the session and proposes to push it
to action. Mr.. Hepburn is quoted as
saying that the friends of the Panama
route will of course throw all possible
obstacles in the way of the United
States building the Nicaragua canal,
as the construction of one canal will
preclude the building of the other and
he evidently desires to kill the Panama
enterprise, on which considerable
progress has been made and which the
projectors say can be completed with
further expenditure of $1OO,00O,O0O,
or about two-thirds the sum which
would be required to build the Mica
ragua canal. 1t is the opinion of Mr..
Hepburn that the United States need
not bother about any of the concessions
which have been granted for the con
struction of the Nicaragua canal and
he has no doubt that Costa Rica and
Nicaragua will be glad to give the
United States any territory and any
rights it may need to prosecute and
complete the canal.
1t is to be expected that strong pres
sure will be brought to bear by the ad-
vocates of the Nicaragua route, but IL
II is not probable that they will be able
to induce majority in congress to act
pending the report of the commission
authorized by the last congress to in
vestigate all routes and which is now
engaged in the performance of that
duty. The creation of this commission
was the result of strong sentiment
in and out of congress that ii might
be found to the advantage of the
United States. financially and other
wise, TO favor the Panama route, which
Ii has been quite conclusively shown
Is superior TO the Nicaragua route for
commercial purposes. According TO the
latest information more than one-third
of the Panama canal has been built
and work on it is going steadily for
ward. The projectors claim that they
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

The most momentous decision from
the standpoint of social etiquette has
just been handed down at Washington
by that high society tribunal, Secretary
to the President Porter, who holds that
the wives of great men outrank their
daughters for precedence at state func-
tions This edict is final and irreversi-
BILE, there being no appeal, and will be
duly registered in the gilt-edged re-
ports containing the fundamental law
by which Washington society is regu-
lated Woe be to the woman who in
ours the penalty of contempt of court
by ignoring this requirement.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
IN THE FALL AFTERNOON.

Harriet Prescott Spofford.
There's a burnish of fine scarlet on the pear
that drops today,
Now the glory of the ripe and rich au-
tumpal moons has come;
The peach Is over-mellow, and the apple
bends the spray
And there's honey, yes, there's honey in
the purple of the plum!
With dust upon the dropping of his gold
and azure wings
The butterfly clings loosely where the last
flowers flame and shine;
Down the dusk of lonely garden aisles the
yellow leaf still clings,
And the grape upon the trellis is bursting
with its wine.
There's bloom upon the mountain and
there's mist upon the stream,
There's light burns low in heaven that
never Shone before;
We sing softly with low voices in a slow
and waking dream,
While far off the breaker feathers in duh
music up the shore.
But by fitful flow and falling there blows
a boding breath.
wind that steals from spaces of un-
known and nameless chill
And 1t wraps about our dreaming a darker
dream of death,
And takes the singing from the lin and
makes the music still!
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

Megaphone advices from the state
house ut Lincoln announce that Gov
ernor Poyntcr has had printed for spe-
cial circulation an edition de luxe of
his Thanksgiving proclamation in the
form of folder with silver seal and
blue ribbon attached to it. This hand
some reminder that the chief executive
of the great state of Nebraska is still
laboring under the delusion of 16 to 1
free coinage will be mailed out to his
fellow governors in other states to in,
form them to what ridiculous pettiness
silver fanaticism will lead. 1t is only
fair to state that this idiotic practice
was inaugurated by Governor Poynter's
predecessor. but it was supposed that
the present incumbent of the office
would exhibit more regard for the dig
nifty of the position and refuse to stoop
to such meaningless mummery. The
people of Nebraska will have double
cause to give thanks when they secure
a governor who will not mutilate his
Thanksgiving proclamation with a po-
litical cartoon.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
Loss of the Charleston.
Oh Ii n 4 al alt,l,ia

The loss of the Charleston on an un-
charted coral reef is particularly unfortunate
inasmuch as it is the first war vessel lost
since the beginning of the war with Spain.
The destruction of the Spanish fleets was ac-
complished without any particular harm to
the American vessels engaged There does
not appear to have been any neglect on the
part of the officers of the Charleston. An
unknown and submerged reef is something
no officer can guard against. The Charles
ton, for her class, was probably as good a
vessel as could be constructed now, and it is
doubtful if she could be duplicated for the
$1,017,500 she cost eleven years ago. The
nation has reason to feel thankful that no
lives were lost as a result of the wreck.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
INDUSTRIAL REGENERATION.
Renewing the WOrnOut Machiner!
of the World.

Philadelphia Record.
The more carefully we study our changed
industrial conditions the more plainly ap-
parent it becomes that the wornout ma
chinery of the world is everywhere being
renewed, and this process of regeneration Is
of far greater magnitude than has been gen
orally recognized. The activity OF business
is not confined to any particular industry
nor to any specially favored country; 1t Is
everywhere and in all industries. Take cot
ton manufacturing, for example Two years
ago the mills in New England were over
stocked with unsold goods and were working
on short time or were closed down entirely.
Print cloths were selling at less than cents
q yard; wages had been lowered to point
never before known in the trade; dividends
were reduced or passed altogether and there
was a general fear that the halcyon days OF
cotton manufacturing in New England had
gone forever. Now all this Is changed; the
mills cannot turn out goods fast enough to
supply the orders at an advance OF 80 per
cent in price. The Chattanooga Tradesman
in discussing the rise in price Of raw cot
ton says:
"Shortness OF the crop is not the only
reason for the rise. The demand for cotton
goods is great beyond precedent All Of the
mills, all over the world, are busy. Many In
this country are running day and night and
still the market is comparatively bare OF
some kinds OF staple goods. II the price
holds up to its present level the people who
produced the crop of 1893 will get $50, 900 900
more for It than they would have gotten at
the August quotation. II 1t goes up to
cents, then the planters will get 800 900, 900
more than they did for like number OF
bales last year"
The demand for lumber, bricks and all
other materials 10 unprecedented all over
the country. In short. II Is dificult to name
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

Des Mones has seen the curfew or
dinance and gone it one better. Not
only must children remain off its
streets after dark, but grown people
must remain indoors after II o'clock at
night or be able to give good account
of themselves. The penalty for fail
ure to observe the ordinance is fine
of so. Whether the police will con
slider an earnest effort to accumulate
Il spirit of hilarity as a reasonable ex-
cuse for staying ont late is point not
yet determined.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
FRANCHISES IN CUBA,

A Washington dispatch states that the
president will make no recommends
tions to congress touching the repeal of
the legislation prohibiting the granting
of franchises in Cuba. 1t is also said
that this action of congress has greatly
hampered the efforts of the administra-
ton to forward the development of Gu
ban industries and advance the cOndi-
tion of the people. This is perhaps true,
but it has also kept out of Cuba specu-
lative Adventures and greedy syndi-
Gates who had they been permitted to
freely so there and exploit the island
might ultimately have done more harm
than good.
The purpose of the Foraker resolution
was good and it's adoption by congress
was approved by all save those who
were looking to Cuba as a promising
field for speculative operations. The
action of congress was taken upon the
entirely correct idea that as Cuba was
to have an Independent government the
United States had no right to open the
island to exploitation and fasten upon
its people corporations and syndicates
which might be Objectionable to them
when they should have established
their own government and which in the
meantime might mercilessly rob them.
The duty Of this government did not in
volve the right to grant privileges to all
sorts of corporations to operate in
Cuba.
Undoubtedly strong pressure will
be made for the repeal of the Foraker
resolution, on the ground that it's effect
is to retard Improvement in Cuba, but
the same reasons that prompted its
passage are equally valid now and per-
haps even stronger in view of the fact
that Cuban independence is probably a
matter of the near future.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
King Corn Harvests Billions.
pl,i1olainhi, D,n.,

The highest yield of corn per acre in this
country, according to official estimates, dur
ing the last eighteen years was 2S.2 bushels,
in 1896, and the lowest 1914 bushels, in 1894
The present crop is estimated to have yielded
25.2 bushels per acre on an area of 81, ,600-
600 acres, or an aggregate, in round num-
bers, of 2,O56000,000 bushels. Many per-
sons believe that the estimate OF the federal
department Of agriculture is too low, and
that the production this season has really
surpassed all previous records.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

The state treasurer of Iowa is urg-
Ing the abolition of the discriminating
tax against the foreign insurance COM
panies. Such taxes may operate 10
build up home enterprises, but they
also involve the ignorant polcyholder in
the danger of patronizing weak con-
Germs subject TO collapse at the first
Jar. The best Insurance ought TO be
none too good for the common people
whether the company has its main of
flee In the same or different state.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

The discovery that the present clerk
of the supreme court has two and a
half years to serve before reaching the
end of his term will be a severe shock
to the popOcratic crowd preparing for
the fight for the plum. To come up
against Il barb wire fence just as the
prize is in sight is an agonzing expert
ence, but we may trust them to find Il
way to climb over If the feat is possi
I,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

The Chicago Board of Trade Is again
busying itself with the problem how TO
prevent the .bucket shops" from doing
business, From the board of trade
mans point of view this may be an
important matter, but to the sucker
who is to be skinned In the deal il
makes precious little difference whether
the operation is conducted by a board
man or an outsider.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

Nnlcago news: Us my new hat all right?'
Yes, dear; you look like a laundress
head"
Brooklyn Life: The Elderly Lady-They
say his wife has money.
Well that ISM his fault. They've only
been married short time"
Detroit Journal: The ideal husband Is the
having his own way, without the neighbors
being made to think he Is having his own
way.
Chicago Tribune: DO you think" said
his elder sister. with cutting sarcasm,
marry man as bowlegged as you are?'
do you think he retorted with equal
scorn, there are no knock-kneed women?"
Chicago News: Jones is a man of
domestic habits"
Then ..n,r o., pity him."
Because a man of domestic habits can't
live up to his reputation unless he stays at
home every night"
indianapolis Journal: Women is de-
ceivin'," said the thin man.
Whats the matter with you?" asked the
fat man.
81 was thinkin' of the number of times
my wife has told me she never would speak
to me again." ..- ... -
New York World: Attorney-You can sue
him for breach of promise, madam, but 1t
seems to me preposterous to claim s25O0OO
damages"
Fair Client-I want to get so heavy a
judgment against him that hell Just have
to marry me-the Scoundrel!
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

The recent elections generally indicate that
If the old and steadfast democrats who ad-
here to the principles of Jefferson and Jack
son shall have no alternative but to decide
between Bryan and Altgelds free silver
coinage and state socialism on the one hand
and less threatening dangers incident to a
continuance of republican rule on the other
they will not be found on the side of BRYAN
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

1t begins to look as if we were enter
ing an era of labor strikes in various
parts of the country. 1t is noteworthy
however, that the history of human III
bor shows strikes to be most successful
in times when business is brisk and
work plentiful.