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Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
SINCE PoLLYE SHOT THE CHUTEs
Denver Post.


The world looks brighter now to me, and
in my gleeful soul
There burns a fire of ecstasy scarcely can
control.
My lips are bubbling DER with song, such
as the angels sing,
And when | walk my shoe heels smite the
pave with snappy ring
I now can lock my arm around her waist
without rebuff
Can hold her to my throbbing heart with
out prot sting bluff;
Within her breast the weed of fear was
plucked out by the roots
And flower of trust was planted there when
Pollye shot the chutes
When I would seek the privilege which all
true lovers crave
OF arm-oring her shapely waist she'd tell
And threaten me with banishment If per-
sisted in
never hone to win
Shed let me held her shapely hand mo-
But seemed to think that even that was
bordering on crime.
But now her modest instinct into hiding
quickly scoots
At every sparkling matinee since Pollye
shot the chutes.
When seated in the flying boat she trembled
with alarm,
Nor murmured when around her waist
threw protecting arm,
And as we started down the slope she
snuggled up to me-
And round her went the other arm in
AS trustful as little child she leaned upon
my breast,
Said, Hold me tight and to that end
did my level best;
Don't talk to me of budding love- I ate the
ripened fruits.
Plucked from the tree of ecstasy, when
Pollye shot the chutss.
When seated on the sofa now within her
par'or she
Seems freed from all the old attacks of
prudish modesty,
And since we've hx:d upon day in smil-
ing. sunny June.
From maidenly timidity she's happily i'm
mune.
Wen sit and talk of future bliss and OF
that love-crowned day,
And oft upon my 'raptured breast her cum
ming head she'll lay.
And in a voice that sends thrill down to
my very boots
She'll cuddle yet more closely up and say:
lets shoot tha Chutes."
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
STARVING CUBAN CHILDREN.

Another urgent appeal has been sent
out for contributions to relieve the dis
tress and privation of the army of
Cuban children whose parents starved
to death through the cruel policy Of re-
concentration instituted by the infa-
nous Weyler. 1t is stated that there
are 10000 of these unfortunates and
their condition is described as pitable in
the extreme. The larger ones do what
they can to provide subsistence for
themselves and those too young to work,
but there is very little employment for
any of them and their lot is as mis-
erable as can we'll be conceived of.
The appeal to the American people to
provide relief for these helpless chill
dren should not be in vain. The trustees
of the fund being collected for these
orphans-the victims of a barbarous
policy that shocked the world-say
that a million dollars can be expended
advantageously and it would seem that
it ought not to be difficult to secure
this amount if systematic efforts were
made 1t is not to be doubted that if
DnllulUuTODlc WOllleu WOulu StlleIdHy
take hold of this charity, which makes
the strongest possible appeal to Ameri-
can mothers, million dollars could be
collected within a month. made up of
popular contributions in small amounts.
The government can do nothing for
these starving Cuban children. Even if
congress should be disposed to appro-
pirate money for their relief that can
| not be done for six months and in the
meantime many of them will die from
hunger. 1t is a deplorable and most
pathetic situation that needs to be
promptly met and this can be done only
by contributions from our people.
Every consideration of humanity pleads
for these helpless ones, who have fallen
| to our care and the call that is made in
their behalf by men entitled to the
| public confidence should be Immediately
and generously responded to.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

a greater chance OF striking human hablta-
tions and 1t will innlct correspondingly great
damage.
Ten years ago the cyclone which devas-
tatcd Herman. Neb would have swept
across the prairie without accomplishing
any damage. It would not have been re-
ported in the newspapers. because no one
would have heard Of it, The town OF Her
man was not then in existence and the
cyclone would have found nothing upon
which to wreak its fury. 1t is because the
storms now strike populous districts in
stead Of open wastes that we get the i'm
preston that they are increasing in num-
ber. In point of fact 1t is probable that
the reverse is true. The erection OF build
ings and the cultivation Of the soil have
tendency to interfere with the most IA
vorable conditions for the generation of
cyclones, which abound on level and un-
broken plains and large bodies Of water,
but which are rare in the hills and unknown
in the mountains.
But whether the settlement OF the Coun-
try will decrease the violence OF storms or
not we may be sure that there is not nor
will there be any Increase in their number.
We shall hear more about them-that Is all.
The great winds which now sweep through
the pine forests OF Michigan and Minnesota,
levelinE nothing but trees, will In few
years encounter towns, villages and farm
houses in their path. The tornadocs OF tho
western plains will find human habitations
where there are now sage brush and buffalo
grass They will be more destructive, be-
cause they find more to destroy. But they
will not be more numerous. nor. taking the
increase of population into consideration,
will there be any greater individual peril
from cyclones than there is today or than
there was fifty years ago
AS with lightning. railroad wrecks and
other forms of accidental death the total
number Of cyclone victims is likely to in
crease, but the ratio of the number to the
whole population is more likely to diminish
than to augment.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
CYCLONES NOT INCREASING.
Destructiveness Increased AS Towns
and Cities Multiply.


IT Is probable that people are Just now
disposed to credit the theory advanced by
some meteOrologists that cyclones and other
atmospheric disturbances are yearly becom-
ing more numerous in this country. The
recent trio of disasters beginning with
Kirksylle, Mo, and including New Rich
mond. Wis. and Herman, Neb certainly
indicate that the havoc wrought by the wind
increases in magnitude year by year, Spring
and the early months OF summer become
more and more prolific of disaster
Yet a moments reflection will show that
while the damage and loss of life are heavier
each year it does not follow that destructive
wndstorms are more numerous than they
were fifty years ago. Cyclones kill more
people and destroy more property because
there are more people and more property TO
be destroyed, That is to say, cyclones are
not more frequent, but they are more effect
i've. And II is probable that their destruc-
tiveness will continue TO increase as the
country continues to fill up-as towns and
cities multiply and as farms are divided
into smaller holdings. The cyclone will have
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
PIE FOUNDRIEs COMBINE.
The Fnvorite National Pastry Mem
aced by Trust.

Chicago Tribune.
The latest "industral' has just been or
ganized under the laws of New Jersey with
81, 900 900 of preferred and $2,oOo,oOo OF COM
mon stock, and with the sounding name OF
! "The American Pastry and Manufacturing
company" The title in terser English
would be "pie trust for the production
! of pies is the object of this latest monopoly.
II this incorporated evil were in danger OF
acquiring absolute control of piemaking and
could drive all individual piemakers out of
the field the American people would rise
indignantly as one man and clamorously
as one woman and cry hands
off," Fortunately there is no such danger
from the pie trust. There are sacred re-
! gions in the home and hallowed associa-
tions OF the oven which even trust is pow
eress to violate with its audacious greed.
The pie is not exclusively an object of
! commercial barter. 1t has moral and es-
thetic attributes. OF course, there are pies
and pies. The Tribune is not now consider
ing the pie of the bakery, the lunch coun-
ter, the boarding house or even the hotel.
That pie in its best estate is a poor imita-
! tion of the original. 1t is one of those
things Dr. Holmes so pithily describes as
untold horrors between crusts of indiges-
ton, or words to that effect. The pie that
mother made Is the only pie that deserves
the name. 1t was the pie which Emerson,
the sage ate every morning for his break
fast and which another New England sa-
want characteriZes "a good, familiar crea-
ture." 1t was this pie upon which New En-
land divines and scholars fed and laid the
foundations for their usefulness, and whether
it was golden pumpkin, spiced and sugared
apple, delicious cranberry, Turing cherry di-
vine mince, or even namby- -pamby custard,
1t was 'the pie that mother made and
consequently was the paragon of pies.
Daughters wives and mothers-in-law have
striven to make them. Spinsters have tried
their hand at it, but one has succeeded
who was not a mother to the consumer.
The pie is maternal in its origin, its COM
position, its virtue, its association, its ira
dition, and many a bearded man. grown
callous by the worlds friction and faith
less by it's deceits, with all his sentiment
worn threadbare, still preserves in cor
ner OF his memory the recollection of the
swing shelf in the cellar with its long
procession of the pies that mother made"
! about Thanksgiving time. He loves to re-
vert to it when he is oppressed with pies
I which have various vices and few virtues.
So long as there are mothers the "pies
that mother made" will not be a lost art.
The pie trust cannot run them out On
the other hand, It is likely 1t may lead to
a renascence of the maternal pie Once 1t
has flooded the country with the things
it makes and rushed up prices in order to
pay dividends on preferred" and swindle
people on common" there will be revolu-
tion in the popular taste and the mothers
pie will be in demand. Fortunately the
mother cannot be estopped from making
them. The commercial pie will be anath-
ema maranatha. There will be slump in
stocks.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
EXTENSION OF THE DRY BELT.
Uncle Sans Semi-Arid Region Trans
ferred TO the East.

New YORK World.
Never since a scientific weather record
was established in New York has there been
50 Tong continued drou;h as that which
has afflicted this region during the last
eighty days. The total rainfall since April
l has been only 2.40 inches in the city, while
in many parts of the surrounding country IL
has been much less-n some places nothing
at all. Last year in April and May it was
S7S inches.
Under a fierce sun which has added ex-
cessive heat TO extreme dryness the gardens
round about have been parched into COM
plete unfruitfuness; the orchards, laden
with young fruit have been withering for
the want of moisture and even the forest
trees have been helplessly shedding their
leaves in June as if it were mid-autumn.
Fifty years ago such a drouth would have
left New York without vegetables or fruit.
To-day our markets are abundantly supplied,
the only difference being some enhancement
of price. In This age OF railroads and steam
ships no great city is dependent upon the
country rounda5out for lis supplies. Gail
fornia is practically nearer to us now than
poughkeepse was before the age of steam.
And the far south, once so distant that yis-
itors from that region were as rare as Kam-
chatkans now, send us a daily supply OF
vegetables still fresh from the garden when
they come upon our tables.
generation ago, or even half genera
tion, such a droutn would have left New
York without water to drink or to bathe in.
Today not even a warning Of scarcity comes
except from a recently annexed quarter and
that only because the municipal assembly
has for political purposes held up" bond
issue that would have ayerted the danger
Intelligence has made this a much better
| world TO live in than 1t was in the good old
/ times" when our fathers were young.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

President Gilman of Johns Hopkins uni
versity is said to be a member Of more
boards and commissions than any other man.
A real live baron Of France has been SEN
fenced to "do time" for four years. Even
barons may harvest trouble by indulging in a
cane rush
M Deschanel, president OF the French
Chamber of Deputies, has, since last sum
mer, smashed three bells in calling members
to order. The bell he began with had lasted
unhurt since the establishment Of the third
republic.
BY order of the Board OF Commissioners of
South Side park, Chicago, vehicles propelled
by electricity and, indeed, all automobiles
are to be excluded from the park driveways.
The board believes that automobiles are
dangerous to life and a detrment to the
park system.
Booker Washington tells this story OF a
negro camp meeting which he attended last
summer: The exhorter offered the ambigu-
GUS prayer "Give us, oh Lord all pure
hearts, clean hearts, sweet hearts" The
"amen" from the congregation was extra
ordinarily fervent.
Charles w. Hathaway, who has just died
at San Lorenzo, Alameda county, Ca, was
one of the first of the forty miners and a
I
committee of 1852. He was the first alder
man in San Francisco and one of the com
mittee of one hundred which started the
republican party in California.
Hon. Abram G.. Hewitt has relinqushed
his residence in New York and become res
ident of New Jersey, where he will hereafter
cast his vote. He doesn't escape from the
New York jurisdiction for the purpose of
getting rid of his taxes, but he goes to his old
home to spend the few remaining years of his
life Mr.. Hewitt is II years old
| Severn Olsen, who lived in New Rich
mond before the storm struck 1t, took out
! tornado insurance on his houFe only few
minutes before the hurricane reached the
! town. He paid the premium of $7,20 and
! will now receive 81 200, the house and its
contents having been entirely destroyed. So
far as known this was the one tornado in
surance policy in the town.
| Chief of Police Devery of New York has
! invented a great improvement over the II
! don't know form OF testimony which has
| been used so much by Witnesses before the
! Mazet commission. Deyery attended the
| Fitzsimmons- Jeffries fight and saw the whole
! thing from front seat. Accordingly he was
! asked by the examining counsel for the com
! mission: "If Fitzsimmons was knocked down
! by Jeffries, why didn't you arrest them ?''
/ and he answered at was my personal
/ opinion that the man was knocked down.
/ but had no official knowledge by which
knowed that the man was knocked down"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
COL. GOODWIN SEES THE LIGHT.
Early Manifestations OF the Betrayal
of silver In Democratic Camp.
Salt Lake Tribune (s.. repO


Salt Lake Tribune ISL. rep)
A few weeks ago the Tribune stated Its
belief that under present conditions II was
idle to keep up the shouting for free silver.
Since then we have been steadily accused by
a whole array OF party newspapers which
never did understand the silver question,
which never did the silver question any spe-
cial service, with treachery and baseness
and some have gone so far and have been so
generous as to express the belief that 1t has
been a direct selling out to the godites. But
we find that MIR. Wharton Barker who for
many years in Philadelphia, through his pa
per- the American, was perhaps the ablest
champion of silver that presided over any
publication, is declaring now that 1t is use
less to make campaign on silver and he
has gone bodily over to the populists and
wants the currency of the United states
placed on a basis OF irredeemabe paper We
find further that the father Of the silver
cause in the United States, the man who
has travelled farther, spent more money and
time, has made more speeches and written
more articles on the subject than any other
man. General A. ]. Warner of Ohio, for
years the president of the National Bimetal-
lie league, now saying that he believes that
imperialism and trusts are issues that tran
scend and take precedence over silver" He
has never been anything else except demo-
crat and we hold that this statement is
something more than his individual opinion
We take 1t that he speaks for the democratic
party next year. We do not think his refa-
tions with Colonel Bryan are changed in the
least we believe he is his strong supporter
and we further believe that the purpose is
now to 60 cn and formulate platform Tor
next year that Mr.. Cleveland and Colonel
Bryan, Mr.. Whitney and George Fred Will
'iams, Colonel Watterson and Congressman
Towne can all stand on and make hght
for president. That is not ali. When IL is
all completed and silver occupies only per-
functory place in the platform we shall see
the Salt Lake Herald, the Boise Capital, the
Anaconda Standard, the Reno Journal and
every other copious weeper over the back
sliding of the Salt Lake Tribune indorsing
fully the platform and ticket, no matter how
the platform may read, no matter VINO may
be named on the ticket. For the democratic
party, no matter what else 1t may do, is
bound to stick by its platforms and when It's
pope, the national democratic convention,
publishes a bull that is infallibe to the rank
and file of the party; so fixed are its follow
ers i'm their principles and so paramount
with them is the principle that the party can
do no wrong that then there is nothing lett
for the faithfuf except to declare that Allan
is great and to look to the convention to see
who shall be his prophet
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

The Cubans are just beginning to re-
alize that for the first time in their lives
they are dealing with a government
which will do what it promises, and
while willing to do what is just and
proper cannot be coerced into doing
more. When this fact becomes gener-
ally known and acknowledged among
them the settlement of affairs in the
island should be easy. The ambitious
leaders who have not been given all
they demand are trying to prevent the
masses from seeing the truth, but the
people are rapidly getting their eyes
open and the result, instead of augment
ing the prestige of the old leaders, is to
discredit them.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

People who have been heaping just
encomiums upon the heroes of the war
should pause long enough to recognize
the heroism of the brave Omaha fireman
who gave up his life In the discharge of
duty trying TO protect the lives and prop
erty of others from the grim fire mon
ster. Heroic self sacrifice in obscure
places merits the same If not greater
tribute as that in exalted station. The
death of a fireman like Thomas Ruane
is a loss To the whole community.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
What One Freight Conductor Did.

Pollock is freight conductor on the Sioux
City & Pacific, but he is no ordinary man.
Last Sunday when the freight train under
his charge was nearing SaliX, the big cyclone
that played such havoc on the farms near
there was seen bearing down toward some
farm houses not 300 yards from the track
AS soon as possible Pollock and his crew
went to the rescue. They did what they
could to help the stricken Malloy family and,
taking the caboose off his freight train and
turning it into a hospital car, Pollock
hitched en- the engine and started for Sioux
City with several of the severely wounded,
in the hope of being able to save their lives.
Exceeded his authority, you say? Probably
did, but Pollock was not thinking of that,
and he figured that two human lives were
worth more than all the freight he had side
tracked to go on his errand of mercy. He
violated the rules of the road perhaps a
dozen times that day, but he did his duty as
man and there should be a promotion com
ing his way soon. 1t was easily done, you
say? Perhaps, but then that is not the point.
Many of us are given opportunities to per-
form great things with ease and yet we do
not act.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

George Fred Williams intimates in an
interview as his reason for believing
that Bryan will be the democratic
nominee for president in 1900 that ''if
he and the Chicago platform should be
thrown over he would be nominated
upon another ticket" This can be
taken in no other nature than as a
threat that the Bryanites would bolt
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

Captain Palmer expresses surprise MT
the aspcrsons against Chief Redell and
the fire force in the report of Saturday. g
disastrous fire in the Omaha Fakery.
But why should he be surprised at any
thing that sheet might do to undermine
the present fire and police authorities
No fake calculated to discredit the men
who supplanted the Herdman gang is
too raw to find place in it's columns.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

One of the defeated popocratic candi-
dates for the late Legislature comes
boldly to the front with the suggestion
that the crying need of the hour is
some law that will make the people
come out and vote at every election. SO
far, so good. But how is the law to be
framed to make them vote your way
when they do get to the polls?
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

Our amiable popocratic contemporary
tries TO be facetious by referring TO
Colonel Henderson of Iowa as the
monkey wrench statesman. There is no
way, unfortunately, for preventing the
editor of such an organ from making a
monkey of himself. Natural character
istics sometimes will out.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
Hopes and Preparations.

Gnl-adelDhla Ledger.
General Otis thinks he now has the center
from which the insurgents received their
supply of ammunition, and 1t is reported that
they are greatly demoralized, and that the
end Of the war is in sight. Let us hope that
these things are true; but it must not be
forgotten that similar reports have been re-
ceived and similar hopes raised in the past
only to be dispelled by fresh outbreaks OF
fighting. 1t is still the wisest plan to "hope
for the best but prepare for the worst
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

The fool-killer has been losing bets
hereabouts. Brihing newsboys to in
publication can have no other effect
than 10 convince the boys that the pub
lication is one the sale of which would
net them handsome returns.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

A law which provides n limit of ten
hours for n days work applicable to all
female employees will BE regarded as
eminently just by all classes of citizens.
Any employer who dismsses females in
his employ and gives their places to
males simply because II is not Illegal to
make men work more than ten hours a
day merits and doubtless will receive
popular condemnation.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

the democratic party in case It failed
to put their candidate at the head Of
the national ticket. What other party
Mr.. Williams may refer to is not clear,
as certainly the populists would not
take up candidate discarded by
some one else
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

Notice the numerous advertisements
proposals for the erection of new school
houses. Only prosperous towns and
villages build new school houses.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

around the borders of Omaha awaiting
the outcome of the case against the
chief of police may just as well hunt
other pastures.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

George Fred Williams, having told
how little he thinks of ex-senator Cor
man, it may be in order for Mr. Cor
man to express his opinion of the
Massachusetts, pigtail of the popocratic
combine.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20
Lost Influence of New York.

New York today hasn't as much influence
in nationaf politics as a country crossroads
in Indiana or Iowa. We have the biggest
number of delegates in national convention,
the biggest number of votes, the biggest
number of votes in the electoral college, the
biggest number of representatives in con-
gress, the biggest number Of everything but
big public men; our influence is nothing
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

General Otis cables that all the re-
turning volunteers prefer to be mus
tered out at San Francisco. The travel
pay prize p:oney will not be allowed
to eScaDe.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

GlObe-D

In May, 1898, the deaths IN Havana were
2469 and In May of this year the number
was 6O7. The general sanitary condition Of
the city is probably better than ever before.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-20

Even Colorado has larger interest
i'll gold than in silver. The report of
the director of the mint shows that
the production of the yellow metal in
that state exceeds the white.