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Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
Personal POINTERS.

That opera boufe claimant, Don Carlos
still appears to think the throne of Spain
is worth fighting for.
The controversy between Count Boni Cas-
tellane and the renowned editor Of Figaro
is carried on by cable.
.Alois Burgsthaler, who has been haiied
in Germany as the coming king of tenors,
was but a few years ago a farm boy in upper
Bavaria.
Chicago learns that ten internal revenue
inspectors have found within its limits 2,O7l
more liquor saloons than the 2,435 city
policemen have reported.
President Mckinley sends to a Cleveland
shoemaker for every pair of shoes he wears.
This shoemaker has been furnishing the
president with footwear for fifteen years.
Representative Roberts of Massachusetts
is playfully known among his friends in the
! house as 1.-The other Roberts to distinguish
his name from that of the recent claimant
from Utah.
In Baltimore a rattlesnake bit a profess
sional elocutionist and died. 1t died by
request presented by a shotgun. The elocu-
ZIONIST drank whisky until he saw more
snakes and recovered.
Despite the continued absence of Aguinaldo
and the diligent search that is being made
for him, South African war news is now
printed on the first page of the Manila Free
dom and gets the biggest headlines.
The appointment of General Bernardo
| Reyes as minister Of war of Mexico is gen
| orally taken to mean that be will be the
successor, at the end OF the next four years,
of President Diaz. Diaz has long reposed
the utmost confidence in Reyes and VIII
make the new war minister his personal
representative while he is away on his tour.
Paderewski kept an audience in Columbus,
O., waiting forty minutes last SATURDAY
night because he could not find his cane
and would not leave the hotel without IT,
Indeed, he sent word that there would be
no performance, but when he was notiheo
nv telephone from the theater that MS
| walking stick was there he put In a belated
appearance.
Nine. Nordioa was on the same tram from
New York to Lakewood last week that
carried Mrs. George Gould and the Caster
lanes in the Goulds' private car. and Mrs
Gould, learning this, sent in an invitation
IN the great singer to dine with her parry
at Georgian Court. Nine. Nordica decllnea
the honor and is said to have remarked
that the sending Of such an invitation, not
accompanied by one asking her to JON the
Gould party in their car, was excessively
rude.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Chicago News: The meaner the man inc
more unwilling he is to assume a small Cd
legation.
Tho older a man gets the less he processes
- rn5erstand the nature of women.
Some people who don't know what they
want complain because they fail TO get It,
Many a man resembles a rooster he aoes
the Growing while his wife does the WORK
The silent watches OF the night should be
replaced by an alarm clock for late risers'
To marry for money and miss it Is less
painful than to marry for love ana miss IT,
The man with a pain in his back and an
other in his stomach isn't necessarily trans
parent.
Nothing on earth can take the bitterness
ort Of lifr and break the spell OF lonel!-
ness like a baby.
An ola bachelor says the kind OF love that
o,duros forever is founded upon the rocks
of the girls father.
The small boy likes maternal sympatnS'
but hc never likes his mother to feel Tor
him with her slipper,
Time may ba money, but 1t is a dllhcu't
matter to convince a man VINO ~ se''ihs
time that such is the case.
Lots Of men might acquire fortunes II
thew didn't waste so much time IN hBurlhs
how to make money without work
Nature works wonders and the enterprls-
ing museum manage gathers theh III
and works the public at 10 cents per heau'
The woman who thinks she Is marrying
rovalist's hero and the man who thinks
be ia marrying a w~ingless angel invariably
discover that marriage Is a failure
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
Willy BOER SPIDERS.
British Fly ChecriIy walks Into the
B~urShers' Pnrlor.

w" i'AN
When One-Eyed Jake, the terror of the
redskins. had to cross a river with his hardy
band of pioneers, he generally found a canoe
or dugout which had apparently drifted to
the bank Just where he wanted it. After
he had crossed in this he suddenly found
himself and party among ambushed Indians,
and the subsequent carnage was all that
could be desired. At other times the willy
redskins lay in wait at the opposite side Of
the only ford the river possessed, and IL
often happened that the hero, Deadly DICK.
the demon of the Delaware, was the only
white man that escaped. The dime mover
literature of early youth seemed to suggest
that things were open to suspicion when the
pursued by redskins allowed a river to be
crossed too easily. Two weeks ago the Lady
smith side of the Tugela river had been en-
trenChed by the Beers for many miles each
way, and wherever a crossing was likely to
become possible. Then the Boer plans were
changed. General Butler marched up the
river a bit and crossed at a well known
ford without difficulty or opposition. An
other general marched part OF the English
troops down stream and found a cable ferry
boat handily moored in the stream, and this
proved moet useful in conveying his soldiers
TO the L~adysmith side. 1t was kind of the
bC-I3 W Z % NiuN pN"' So S 1890
10 leave the ford above unprotected, but the
two items seemed to be partly reproducing
the literature with which American youth
has ambltiously prepared itself for savage
warfare,
The question was, Where was the ambus-
cade? Some armchair critics OF the long
range type thought that as the Boer army
seemed to have disappeared General Butler
was going to be allowed to march practically
unmolested to Ladysmith, and there i'm
prison himself in the town, which is sur
rounded by the outside fortifications and
trenches OF the Beers. At that time it
was suggested that a prize should be offered
to tho first constant reader who should an
swer the puzzle question: Find the Boer
army" But it is now found that the aban-
dormcnt of the river bank and the loan OF
the ferryboat were not such subtleties as
were suggested in tho old authorities on
Indian warfare, but were simply part of an
invitation TO come on to another portion Of
the country, in which the Beers have made
every Hill a fortress.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02

British government. But this hour could
not possibly be contrsband. because it was
shipped to a neutral port. II is as IL Eng
land had shipped -four to st. Thomas or san
Domingo during the recent Spanish war.
This i~nsolent message is sent to the United
states without a word OF apology or regret.
and the fate Of The flour is left In doubt.
One cargo is reported to have been released
and a part OF 1t sold, while another cargo
was to come up yesterday before a prize
court for the ~latter's action. Meanwhile,
American trade with South Africa, which
has been rapidly growing in the last three
or four years, has been destroyed. No one
will ship goods when they can be wantonly
seized on the worlds highway by q British
cruiser, II was not so in 1912, when the
United States went to war to protect its
rights.
The behavior Of England to this country,
for which she has pretended friendship, con
trasts mcst siugularly with her attitude
toward Germany under similar conditions,
She seized HG"hdl ships some OF which car
ried cargoes which could he destined to no
other point than the Transvaal. When Ger
many firmly demanded an apology aud rep
aration they were made. The ships were
released, reparation promised and an assur-
ance given that 1t would not occur again.
A barkload of sulphur is now on it's way 10
the Transvaal because the British govern
ment feared the wrath of Germany. while a
cargo OF American flour, shipped to a Por-
tuguese port, is subjected to the vaGaries OF
a prize court. This kind of friendship is eX-
pensive. The firm maintenance of rights
insisted on by Germany is productive OF
more practical benefit.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
SOME LATE INVENTIONS.

noors can be rIgldly held in any position
nv n new clamp having a prlhg-cohlr0lle
piston, the upp. rJ e@ girc nj TH sIot. Witch viii
hinld ne piston in either a raised or low
cred position.
serted nj the front end of ; bowl, which
can be removed for cleaning, with the bot,
tom az the bow formed OF plastic mateIlal
to take W the nicotine the hllihs peihs
removed when saturated
In Washington a woman has designed a
holder for Displaying coins, comprising a
Hat cardboard base, with a vertical Hat
t tRe si sSl on OF t he S Sape BEING be Ss'e cut , down S'' to
engage only the rim of the coin.
Heads OF a cuff button are securely held
together by a new link, formed Of a single
Slotted TO receive the opposite end making
a smooth internal surface, which prevents
the button loop pulling itself our.
a westerner has nate59teSd ed a aoT wsgnn' a
rod being attached TO the axe near one
neel. with a hook Tor the reins, a device
on tlc wheel catching the rod aud pulling
on the reins when the morse starts M,
Elsa are prevented from swallowing the
hook by "A newly paten. ed guard, which lies
parallel with the shank ana Is slotted az
the lower end, to partially surround the
shank until the FISH takes hold, When II
swingH out and forms a stop by engaging
tho Jaws.
An improved horse collar has means for
opening and closing II AT the top instead Of
pulling II over the animals head, a T.
Shaped Plate being provided. at either end,
collar, with locking devices TO hold no
ends In place.
Books can be automatically distributed
throughout the shelves, OF a library by a
ranged in q circle around a central most,
ne latter supporting a crane which is
dump themselves when coming in contact
with The proper shelves.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
Trying To SIDETRACK THE REAL ISSUE

TRYING To SIDETRACK THE REAL ISSUE
The attempt of Attorney General
Smyth to sidetrnck the main issue raised
by the complaints against the mastery
inactivity of the State Board of Trans.
portation, of which he is Il member, will
hardly deceive anybody who has given
the subject any consideration. Attor-
ncy General Smyth declares that he has
not beer able to bring action against the
railroads that persist in charging dis
eliminating rates between Omaha and
Council Bluffs because the secretary of
the Commercial club has refused to file
a complaint with the board. 1t is ques-
tionable, in reality, whether the attor-
ney general would have accomplished
anything If he had attempted to force
the Iowa roads to raise their rate from
Council Bluffs to Nebraska points or to
lower their rate from Omaha to the
same points in order to make up the
difference between the rates from Coun.
Gil Bluffs and the Omaha rates. The
traffic between Iowa and Nebraska and
vice versa is interstate m and
the Nebraska state board has no au-
thority to enforce regulations affecting
interstate ommerce. All that the at
torney general might have done would
have been to present a complaint before
the Interstate Commerce commission or
make up n case in the federal courts,
1t is doubtful, however, whether relief
,n,,1l hn SonrrnI thpniub thn fnlnrnl
courts under existing laws, although the
diiferential in favor of Council Bluffs
is manifestly a discrimination against
Omaha. Under the interstate commerce
act q railroad has no right to charge Il
higher rate for a shorter haul than it
does for a longer M although it may
charge the same rate for the short haul,
over the same road, as it does for the
longer one. The rate from Council
Bluffs to Lincoln, for example, may be
the same as the rate from Omaha to
Lincoln, but the rate from Omaha to
Lincoln cannot be greater han the rate
from Council Bluffs to Lincoln.
What the shippers and producers of
this state complain of is that the board
has failed to afford n relief against
discrimination and %extortion in the state
of Nebraska, over which territory the
board has jurisdiction. 1t is the mas
terly inactivity of the board and it's sec
retaries, in season and out of season.
that has justly laid the members of the
board open to the suspicion that the
railroad managers exert a potential in
1uence over the members Of that board
and that they consider their obligations
to the railroad managers paramount to
their obligations to the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
TOM N PET.

George Crouch in New York Sum-.
Tom
Our queen wears a glorious crown and
gorgeous robes of state
Dom Paul wears a shocking bad hat and
garments of ancient date"
our queen has a golden scepter. On her
empire the sun never sets"
Dom Paul has a pipe for a symbol. He
rules whatever he gets"
our queen has hosts of foot and horse. in
khaki and red and blue
Dom Paul has an army Of farming men, In
miscellaneous hue
When Tom sticks PET with his bay'net or
Plet plugs Tom with a ball.
Tommy hnrfans isr ms queen and Pieter
Pet heiIs ism when he's wounded, prays
When Piet IS dJRn Tom lends a hand and
ioins when his service is read.
No rage or haze 'twixt Piet and Tom tho
moment the battle is done.
But s%orrowing kin, on either side, mourn
father and brother and son.
Fighting for empire or fatherland, neither
Poor Tom and PET for slaughter meet.
"How long. o Lord, how long,"
Tom
our queen cannot be blamed for this, She
always hated war"
Piet-
Dom Paul kent aeaee as long as he could,
He never thirsted for gore"
Tom and Piei--
Who brought us here in battle array7
Who forced us to mangle and slay?
We wonder and igat. Lot historians tell
For quarters In deepest heli!"
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES.

The upward movement of exports of
American manufactured goods con
tinues to be the most striking feature Of
the returns prepared by the chief of the
Bureau of Statistics. During the last
fiscal year the gain over the previous
year in exports of manufactures
amounted to about $4,000, 600 and the
indications are that for the current fiscal
year there will be about as large an in
crease over the exports Of last year.
Examination of the details shows that
the demand for American iron and steel
products is the chief element in the i'll
creased export trade. The total exports
of manufactures of iron and steel, as
reported by the Bureau of Statistics, in
creased from $62,O00,0O0 in 1897 TO
$1O5, 100000 in 1899, or more than go per
cent within two years and has been
largely in complicated products of
manufacture like machinery, l0como-
tives and typewriters. Agricultural i'm
plements also make an important item
in the account. the value of these sent
abroad in s 9 being owe $4,000 600.
The improvement in the export of cot
ton cloths was almost exclusively in the
Chinese trade, this amounting in 1899 to
over S~1O.OOO,0OO, n gain of more than 60
per cent over the preceding year. There
is no doubt that this trade will steadily
grow if our manufacturers will care
fully study the needs If the Chinese
market. for American goods are said to
be preferred wherever they have been
introduced there.
\ few items of export have declined
somewhat OF remained stationary, bur
in general there is Il steady upward
movement in the highest class of Amer
| lean manufactures and there is every
| reason to count upon Il continuance OF
this. Especially may we expect that
our iron and steel products will not only
hold the markets that have been gained.
but secure access 10 others, 70: in these
products the United States can slccCss-
fully compete with any other country
both as to quality ard price.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02

people, If aid is not given out OF the i'm
pcrial treasury. II is believed that the
government will have to eXpcnd at least
1OO,OOO,OOO rupees upon the famine suf-
fcrcrs by the end of March.
Such an additional drain upon Great
Britain's financial resources at this time
will be Il pretty serious matter, but the
consequences of neglecting the famine.
stricken people of India might he much
more serious. II is of the first impor.
lance that the British government shall
omit nothing necessary 90 prevent dis
affection among its Indian subjects and
neglect TO make provision for them in
the existing emergency would be very
apt to incite in some of them the spirit
Of revolt. Hence this demand upon the
imperial treasury will have to he met.
however evere the strain.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
the INDIAN FAMINE.

Not the least urgent of the matters
with which the British Parliament has
to deal is the famine in India. 1t is Off
cial'y stated that the famine affects
nearly IO,O00,O00 of people-two-thirds
tn" population of this country-nearly
half Of them in British territory ana the
remainder in native states. The head OF
the Indian revenue department state
at Il recent meeting of the council that it
will take from 30,OOO,00 to o .O0O.OOD
rupees to sustain those upon relief
works up to the end of March and this
is probably but "A small part If what
will be required for all who are affected
by the famine. A London correspondent
says il is nonsense to talk of only such
an amount being needed 10 sustain the
people in life and remarks that probably
il means what the government intends
to spend on it's direct subjects. but there
must be an appalling loss Of life in the
native states, in spite of the efforts of
native princes and others 10 sustain the
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
A Magnificent Showing.

TTIITdutIDTIa fteCOTU,
The exports Of manufactures in 1899 foot
up to a grand total Of $3.50, O00, 900. This is a
magnificent showing. 1t is an increase of
20 per cent over the exports of 1898. 1t is
over 81 900, 900 a day. In fact, we are taking
in as much for manufactures exported as we
are paying out from day to day for federal
taxation. During 1899 there was an increase
of 80 per cent in the imports of raw material
for manufacturing purposes; and with this
swelling volume of foreign trade there can
be little doubt that the handicap imposed
by tariff restriction would be abolished on
the demand Of the manufacturers them
solves. --
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
Dangers of the Spells System.

Puerto Rico's government will probably
be a model forithe other colonies and there
fore the plan ought to be prepared with the
utmost care. Upon one point only are We
disposed to insist IN anticipation of the
report of the committee on Pacific islands
and Puerto Rico.H The bill that is intro
duced should afford no opportunity for the
expansion OF the spoils system. The gov-
ernor at first must doubtless be a political
appointee and it may be that the office will
always remain political, but this ought not
to be the case. The law should provide for
a colonial service in which governors should
be trained and from which they should be
appointed.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
TIE MAlOR,S MkSSAGE

Mayor Moores' annual messages will
compare favorably with similar docu-
ments delivered by any and all of his
predecessors in the mayors office. That
much will have to be conceded even bg
those who may disagree with his
recommendations.
The main portion of it is devoted to a
comprehensive review of the work of
the different departments of the mu-
nicipal government during the past year,
pointing out their strength and weak
nesses n outlining the problems be
fore them. In almost every instance il
is shown that the authorities have been
hampered by insufficient funds TO meet
the demands made upon them and what
under the circumstances has been ac-
complished has been more than credita-
BILE. The mayor rightly insists that had
his views prevailed a year ago as to the
tax levy, the oyerlaps and outstanding
Indebtedness today would not require
the prospective addition Cf = or 3 mills
to the 1900 tax levy.
In defining his position on the ques,
ton of municipal ownership, Mayor
Moores reiterates what he has said IN u
previous message to the council in
favor of the early acquisition of not
only the water works, but also the cleo,
trio lighting plant, and absorbing all
the franchised corporations supplying
the necessities of the city and it's in.
habitants. In this he is certainly in
harmony with the advancing sentiment
of the community.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
sEizuRE or AMERICAN FLOUR.
Grent BritaIn'S Treatment Of the
United states mud Germany.
Baltimore American.

Many weeks have passed since the I'M
warranted seizure Of American merchandise
on the high seas by British cruisers. There
we're three of these cases, They were all
alike, without a single detail 10 confuse or
delay action. The goods were not cannon,
or ammunition. or sulphur-only -four, a
peaceeble and harmless article, convertible
into food, and without danger to women and
children and old men. 1t is not. per Sc, con-
traband OF war. The British government
has been forced for its own preservation
10 declare this. II -four were conceded to be
contraband Of war, and England were to get
into a war with the continent Of Europe, is
people would starye in three months.
When England, with her whole might. Is
trying TO seize the territory Of two little
republics, American -four is declared to he
contrabaud. This is, in substance, the i'm
pudent message sent to this country by the
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02

I"HlIaueIDhla Times.
The senate is rapidly becoming the rich
mans club of the nation and when it is
remembered that it should be the most in
t~elligent and reliable check upon govern
mental errors the chief purpose of its
creation is entirely lost sight of by men of
fortune who seek to crawl or climb to the
highest legislative honors of the republic.
The people are the sovereign power of state
and nation and they shout be empowered
to choose their United States senators by a
popular vote.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
OPPRESSIVE TRUST PRICES.
Burdens Imposed on by
Various Combinations.
Minneannlis TimeS.


The great consumer of lumber in this
northwestern country is the farmer. He Is a
consumer likewise of wire, nails, hardware,
glass, tinware, salt, oil, furniture and agri-
cultural implements. His agricultural inn
plements have been advanced from Is to 40
per cent. His nails and wire have gone up
100 per cent in the last year and 300 per cent
in the last five years. If he has timber on
his farm he has gone back to the ancient
custom of splitting rails for fences instead of
buying barb wire. and he is buying his nails
by the pound instead of by the keg. He has
put off building the new barn or the new
house in the hope that prices will fall in a
year or so. The cost of building material
has become cumulatively oppressive.
If lumber or nails or glass or agricultural
implements or fence wire-any one Of these
had been the only commodity to rise in
price the case would have been different.
Meanwhile there has been no appreclable
increase in the price of the armer's prod
ucts. Wheat is only Go cents in the Mime
apolis market. Farm labor is just as high
as ever. perhaps a little dearer. Thus the
farmers revenue is no greater and the prices
OF his machinery and building material have
gone up. What Is he to do?
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02
Not Yet Invented.

DCITUTL FTGG ITtFS.
No one cares to deprive Mr.. Bryan of
these moments of rapture and hopefulness.
The role OF holdover presidential candidate
has enough of heaviness and depression;
let the quadrennial a~spirant enjoy himself
while he may. After the shouting and the
tumult die 1t will be borne in upon him
like the remembrance of a hideous dream
that there is no invention known to man
for transforming CHEERS" Laughter" and
loud applause" into electoral votes.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02

Deposits IN Nebraska state banks in.
creased S3,44O,93O.9S during the pas;
year. As the state banks are almost
exclusively located in the smaller cities
and towns of the state the showing in.
dicates the measure of the prosperity
which has come to the farming com.
munities during the year.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02

Senator Clark of Montana is to take
the stand in his own behalf in the sen.
atorial investigation. While the com.
mittee has the opportunity to secure the
opinion of an expert on the value of
legislative votes it should improve it.
Nevada quotations are no longer con.
sidered reliable.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-02

In refusing TO honor the requisition of
the governor of Iowa for the person OF
Divine Healer James, Governor P9yn-
ter raises "A very intricate question
whether the governor of one state has
n right to interpret the duce of another
state, ever though it conflicts with his
" conception of justice.