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Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11
A Chnmparne Triumph.

Unsurpassed quality and Unprecedented
importations-1O9, 1903 cases in 1899, or 72,495
cases more than any other brand, are the
features of G.. II. Mumm's Extra Dry, whose
vintage of 1895 now imported is unusually
and
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11
H CAN
These ingredients from Clogging
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Made from the Fresh Green Leaves
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is UNLIKE ANY OTHER.

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frcm the cheapest laundry to the finest
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OF the Tasmauian Blue Gum tree. As a
toilet soap it is simply perfect in every
respect; skin disease cannot exist where it
is used
Sold nv NIL Druggists or scnt by mail.
Price, 25c.
nuE IL II nnnTu CO. IIhnCn. y. Y.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11

Every morning the night arrests are
brought up into the ante-room adjoining the
police court and one by one they are
arraigned before Judge Gordon. One OF the
hard court benches makes an ideal spot for a
sociologist to pursue his studies. The
regulation old time vagrant usually takes up
about ten minutes of the courts time. You
can always tell an old-timer. He knows
exactly where to stand and he recites a
story Re has learned in the cell the night
before with a sad, it-I-only -had-a-job eX-
preston that Is really touching.
The story Of the kleptOmaniac or the
tramp who would eat Christmas dinner at
Omaha's expense runs as follows;
Among the assortment of men brought
before Judge Gordon last Thursday morn
ing was a man who gave the civilized name
of Fred Hall, a typical, frowzy tramp, who
only lacked a tin can Of being the ever
pictured article. The judge read the charge
in the usual monotone and then attempted
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11

noon at | o'clock, when n general meeting
of the Home Patronage bureau Will be held
and the questions relating to the exhibit
will be taken In in detail.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11

10 translate It. you are charged he said,
with being a vaerant and a suspicious
character. What DO you plead to that
The language was too deep for the tramp
and he said so. The court reduced his
language to words Of one syllable, You
loaf. You don't work. You are an idle
man"
oh, never do that, replied the "vag."
DO you want to Get out OF town.
81 guess So
The Judge was surprised. "Aiu't you
anxious to get to Council Bluffs II I let you
go?'
oh, it wouldn't do any good to 90 to
Council Bluffs
Don't you want to leave for Kansas City
when you get out of here?'
The man was agreeable to that. Yes, he
would go to Kansas City. Then you are
discharged said the Judge. go on
The tramp was visibly affected by the
kindness OF the court. The decision was
such a surprise to him. As he shufled to-
ward the door he seemed to remember some
old friends whom he knew would be glad
to meet him in Kansas City and he broke
and ran down the stairs. As he went out
he picked up a c~uspidor and put it under his
coat. Before he had reached the street an
officer was dragging him back UP the stone
STEPS.
Anyway" he said, as he went behind the
bars, I've got some purity good friends In
here
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11
Mr.. Frederick Halter :

Says. you can hunt the town over
time and again without coming across
another such Il bargain as we are show
ing in our $500 hats They p-ssess
all the tone of the higher priced ones
and are made in both stiff and soft
shapes in brown and black colors. The
Dunlap and Stetson hats We have been
selling for n quarter of Il c~entury-they
are at present the same stylish and re-
liable qualities and, as always, the
leaders in hat fashiOns-A line IF com
Portable, dressy caps from 30 cents up.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11

A crcetfallen looking hobo" came out
OF Judge Gordon's court last Monday morn
ing a free man. He said that it was his
first experience in Jail and from his point
of view 1t had been a dismal failure.
The failure came in, he explained, in not
being allowed to plead his case before the
court. He was an excellent talker. He had
served his time with a patent medicine
wagon as a ''spieler." He had spent all the
previous night in his cell picturing himself
trying to explain why he was drunk and
disorderly to Judge Gordon and he had an
excellent speech made up. He believed that
a man might be cleared from murder on
that speech and he thought he ought to be
allowed to deliver 1t.
But the judge had been very short with
him.
You're discharged" he said, that's all
go on"
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11
Telepathy and Prayer.


Telepathy in this sense affords a working
hypothesis for explaining many of the most
familiar phenomena of answers to prayer.
George Muller of Bristol, who maintained
for years vast orphanages, maintained them
by prayer. He received millions in the
course of a long lifetime. He refused ever
to make any personal application to any
man for money. When he wanted funds he
prayed; and in the most extraordinary way
money, in cash or in kind, came rolling in on
him from all parts of the world.
Those persons who sent money to George
Muller used to bear witness to the fact that
they did so under the influence of an impress
sion being communicated to their minds
when they were at prayer or asleep, and this
impression would continue with a persistence
which left them M peace until they had
sent. the money which was needed. In other
words, George Muller's mind wave was
switched on to those persons and the pres
sure OF the continually impinging waves upon
the brain OF the charitable produced a steady
flow of funds. Belief in prayer, then, in
this case and in others, has been irreyer-
emily compared to ringing up the central
telepathic exchange of the universe; and ir-
r~eyerent as this phrase may be, 1t will prob
ably enable the modern man better to under
stand the possibility OF a scientific founda-
! tion for the universal belief of all religions
In the efficacy Of prayer than any other
phrase that could be coined by the devout.
Apart from the evidence supplied by
answers to prayers great multitudee of eX-
periments have been recorded by the
Psychical Research society, which prove that
certain individuals have a faculty OF re-
ceivIng almost at VIII messages from their
friends.
In a company OF ten il is seldom that there
is not one who can be made TO move ia
right or left by the steady will OF one OF
other OF the remaining nine. These expert
ments usually fail from one OF two causes
either the recipient is not sufficiently pas
sive-a thing which frequently results from
making too great an effort to be passive, OF
1.-THE person who Wills is too vehement in hit
willing. As It was said OF one famous ora
tor, that he constantly mistook perspiratior
for Inspiration, so those who endeavor tC
translate mind waves from will spoil the
attempt by straining too much to impress
their thought upon the recipient A deep
quiet. steady, placid thought is far more
efhcacious in producing a wind-wave who's
impact can be felt by another than a fever
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-11
Seeing Through Things.

Hardly have We become accustomed to
the marvel of wireless telegraphy, when we
are told of a new and marvellous invention
by which visitors to the Paris exposition
will be able to see by the aid of the t%elelec-
troscope scenes which are occurring at a
distance OF hundreds of miles. The precise
nature OF this invention has not been made
public; but from the descriptions which have
appeared 1t is evident that it is to do for the
eye what the telephone does for the ear.
Combine the long distance telephone and
New-York tribune., 1900-06-30
DEAR OLD GTS.

Dear old Augustus Van Wyck, having got as
far as st. Louis on his way TO Kansas City to
see that the Democracy is properly embarked
on its antitrust campaign, sends forth one Of
those conservative appeals suited to his make
up for a sound, honest, straightforward and
austere man. such the late Mr. Willetts, of
Alabama. lost, strayed or stolen thought
would make admirable candidate for Presi-
dent. Dear old Gus does not seem to be a
candidate for President any more, but his I'M
selfish devotion TO his country is as great as
ever, and though another may bear away the
palm, he predicts that some of the States lost
in 1896 this year will return to the dear old
homestead Of Democracy" and he feels sure
that those who left the dear old fold will come
back if the party will only adopt his dear old
platform.
His dear old platform is highly interesting,
particularly in its adaptation to the business
Of the dear old Ice Trust 1t calls for honesty
and economy in administration of the dear old
Government, National and State. but has moth
Ing TO say about honesty or economy in the
dear old city. That is probably ont of regard
for dear old Bob. whose administration is
known to be honeycombed with corruption and
extravaganza. He also objects to lending the
taxing power TO monopOlies but SAYS nothing
about lending other powers Of government.
especially the dear old dock leasing and the
dear old freproof material approving power to
monopolies. II would probably hurt the dear
old American Ice Company as well as the dear
Old Croker freproofing business If he failed to
draw his platform with discrimination. Dear
old Gus Is strong against particular kinds of
trusts, for instance the railroads and others
WIN The right Of eminent domain, but he has
New-York tribune., 1900-06-30
JEFFERSON As 4 DESPOT.

Mr.. Bryan's home organ, "The Omaha World
Herald" with that superior insight natural to
those who recognize Mr. Bryan as the rein
carnation Of Thomas Jefferson comes forward
70 enlighten Senator Depew as to the views of
Jefferson on the present situation, and assure
him that if he will go to Kansas City and
listen 10 Thomas Jefferson, he will learn more
about just governments than he ever has
seemed TO know It is led thus to announce
that Thomas Jefferson will be heard at Kansas
City by remark Of Mr.. Depew at PhiIadel-
phis wondering what Jefferson would say to
anti-expansion declarations in view OF his own
start at Imperialism. The oracle answers that
he would say TO Mt. Depew:
What is 10 become of your expansion? Mine
was carved into fifteen great States. Yours is to
be ruled as a dependency Of a crown Mine is
self-goyerning. Yours Is ruled in keeping with
the argument Of kings Mine was carved into
States Yours is held in vassaIage. promised
mine self-government and equal participation in
the affairs OF the Republic You withhold such a
promise from yours and treat its people as sub
jects.
II is true that few men could turn a corner
quicker than jefferson or talk more glibly about
liberty while acting the dictator. but we seri-
ously doubt If the despot of Louisiana would
so far forget his record as to indulge In any
such comparison. There were men in 1903
talk TO Us about the consent of the governed"
and about dependencies of a crown" Thomas
Jefferson, however. was not one of them. and
anybody who studies history and is not merely
sending forth voice from the depth of his
OWL ignorance knows perfectly well that JEFF
ferSon ruled Louisiana as a dependency with
out self7government and without regard not
merely 10 the political but even the personal
guarantees Of the Constitution. Against the
will Of its inhabitants he bought sovereignty
from a foreign nation. Its people were not
strong enough TO resist his power but when the
American flag raised over New-Orleans
history says. the residents wept, and their tears
@ere told Of in Congress and made much of
by the opposition, just as the resistance Of
Aguinaldo IS being made much of by the Demo
Gratis to-day.
Having established his rule over Louisiana
without the consent of the governed" by an
exercise OF power which he himself frankly
declared ne believed was a usurpation Of
Executive authority and unconstitutional lief
ferson proceeded to obtain from Congress au-
thoTiZation 70 govern IT as a dependency outside
the Constitution. territorial government was
established, which was denounced By many of
even the Presidents own partisans I'm Con-
gress as being royal" in its character. Its
supporters were frankly told that It did mot
eyince a single trait of liberty" but was n
violation Of the whole spirit OF democracy and
Ger. The law gave 10 the President the ap-
pointment Of a Governor and Legislative Coun-
ei without confirmation by the Senate. regard
New-York tribune., 1900-06-30
CONTRACTOR AND COMMISSIONER.

For the convenient removal of eXcavated
material one of the rapid transit contractors
has built a tramway in Lafayette Boulevard.
For the pleasure of asserting his authority,
whether with or without the general support of
the Tammany administration do not know,
the Commissioner of Highways has Indignantly
rebuked the contractor, ordered him to remove
the tracks he has laid down. and, finding him
obdurate has submitted the case to the Corpo-
ration Counsel The incident is represented as
a revival of Tammany hostility to the under
ground railroad enterprise, but for the present
we prefer to regard it as merely an ebullition Of
official jealousy on the part of Commissioner
Heating. Whatever it is. the contractor ap-
pears to be not only firm of purpose but serene
of mind. He has the permission of the Rapid
Transit Commission 10 build the temporary
tramway, and is confidently expecting to have
it in operation within day or two He says
that it will be advantageous to the public
we'll as to himself, because it will expedite the
work and diminish the litter. He furthermore
conveys TO all concerned the interesting If not
universally agreeable suggestion that. inasmuch
as there were no doodle contracts let by the
Rapid Transit people, every man having won
his job by a close honest bid, there is no margin
for dickering with Tammany.
There is no reason why Commissioner Keat-
ing should not refer the controversy in which he
has gratuitously involved himself to the legal
adviser Of the municipality If he prefers to do
so, but he might have saved that functionary
some annoyance by running his own beautiful
blue eye over the Rapid Transit act and taking
particular note Of this specific provision thereof:
For the purpose of facilitating construction,
and to diminish the period of occupancy Of any
street FOR the transportation of material any
contractor acting under contract made in pur-
suance of this act or of any act supplementary
hereto or amendatOry hereof may, with the ap-
proval Of the Board Of Rapid Transit Railroad
Commits ssfoners, lay upon or over the surface Of
any street temporary tramways to be used only
for the removal Of excavated materials or the
transportation of material for use in the con-
struction.
1t is for precisely this purpose that the con-
tractor who has excited Mr. Keating's wrath is
laying tracks in Lafayette Boulevard and means
to have a string of industrious mules attending
strictly to business there at the earliest possible
moment. 1t is our impression that the Com
missioner Of Highways will do well to refrain
from initiating the conduct with which those
indispensable beasts occasionally diversity
laborious and unromantic existence
New-York tribune., 1900-06-30
TSE- -HSI-TUAN-YU.

The days lot of rumors from China deals
largely with the Dowager Empress and her
brother-in-law, Prince Tuan. She is variously
reported as having killed herself as having
fed to the Russian camp. as being still In au-
thority, while he is said to be leading the cam
paign against foreigners and also to be aim
ing at her deposition from the Regency. The
facts Of the case will be awaited with eagerness
For while the name of Tse-Hs-Tuan-Yu the
Dowager Empress of China, is an uucouth one
to Anglo-SaxOn ears. 1t is yet one that must be
written conspicuOusly in the latest-perhaps the
last-chapter of the history Of the worlds oldest
empire. For however estimates of her char
acter and motives may vary, there can be no
question that she is the dominant figure in the
present crisis, as she has been generally in
Chinese affairs for the last forty years There
can be no better elucidation of the present state
Of affairs in China than is furnished In re-
view Of her career.
Tse-Hsi was a cOncubine of the Emperor
Hien-Fung and the mother Of his only son.
Tung-Che. on which latter account she was
greatly honOred and received the courtesy title
of Empress. The real Empress was Hen
Fung's wife, Tse-An, but she was chiIdless.
At Hien-Fung's death in 1861. these two women
joined with Prince Kung and formed a trium-
virate, which ruled the Empire during Tung-
Ches minority. Tung-Che came of age in 1873.
but died two years later, leaving no child but
leaving widow Ah-Lu-Te, who was expected
to bear him q posthumous child Under the
law Ah-Lu-Te should have become Regent
But TseHsi quickly seized the reins of power.
and Ah-Lu-Te died. childess-by suicide they
said. 1t then devolved upon the Imperial Clan
to choose an Emperor, and In this Tse-Hsi
exerted controlling power. Her aim was to
select very young person, so that she could
again be Regent during long minority, and
her choice fell, TO the surprise of ALL upon Tsai-
Tien. He was son Of Prince Chun. the latter
being seventh of the Emperor Tao-Kwang,
and thus brother OF Hien-Fung Tsai-Tien
was therefore a cousin of Tung-Che whom
he was to succeed. He had in the eyes Of the
Court and Empire no especial title to be chosen.
But in the eyes of Tse-Hs he had two pre-
eminent qualifications-he was the son of her
own sister and he was less than four years
old
Tsa-Tien thus became Emperor, under the
name Of KwangSu and the two Expresses
assumed the Regency. That was in January,
1915. In 1881 Tse-An died. and Tse-Hsi be-
came sole Regent until Kwang-Su came Of
age, in 1889. Then she nominally retired to
private life. though in fact she continued 10
rule the power behind the throne" Two
years ago, however the young Emperor grew
weary Of her control and ventured TO issue
several edicts of progressive and enlightened
character of which she did not approve He
also showed favor TO Kang- Yu-Wei, the re-
New-York tribune., 1900-06-30
PERSONAL.

Kobei Olivia. a Japanese electrical engineer OF
try, studying waterpower development.
Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Minister 70 the
Court OF st. James is regarded as one Of the
abest among Japans junior statesmen. The early
part of his official was passed in the Depart
ment of Public Works. but he subsequently
transferred to the Foreign Office, where he rose
TO the rank of Vice-Nrnister holding that post
throughout the war with China, and receiving
patent OF nobility for distinguished services.
DR.. Donaldson Smith, OF Philadelphia, the we'll
known explorer, has recently communicated with
the Royal Geographical Society OF England. HIS
telegram Is dated Gebel Ain, May q. Gebel Ain Is
the Upper Nile. and Is probably the first tele-
graph station met with by DIR. Smith. He states
that he has traversed the region between the River
ONO (about degrees. 30 minutes north) to Fort
Berkeley. the Upper Nile and that he found no
rivers west Of the ONO. that Is presumably be-
tween the ONO and the Upper Sobat. His coll
lections and maps, he states, are good" and his
companion, Mr.. Fraser, is well.
Baron de Schckler, whose horse won the Grand
Prix, is OF the most popular sportsmen In
France. and OF the luckiest. In 1865 when he
the Prx de rEmpereur with Suzerain, Napo-
leon III, in congratulating him. said: You must
on breeding horses like that 81 will Your
Majesty, replied the Baron; and he has kept his
promise, for four Grand Prix stand to his credit.
G. A. Lawson has just completed statuette OF
the late General Wauchope and the model.
hibted recently In London. is said to be dignifed
piece OF workmanship. the sculptor having thor
oughly appreciated the personal characteristics of
the dead general. whom he knew well In life. The
Wales who kept it for several DAYS at the Mari-
borough House before it was publicly exhibited.
New-York tribune., 1900-06-30

former The latter was not content with urg-
ing reforms; he openly charged Tse-Hsi with
hideous array of vices and crimes There
upon that extraordinary woman reasserteo
herself She made the Emperor issue a decree
declaring his own Incompetence to rule ana
asking her to resume the Regency, and she
revoked all the reforms and made short work
with all the reformers who did not save them
selves by flight Nor was that all. She showed
that according to the Rites it was incumbent
upon Kwang-Su to provide an heir to the
throne; and that as he had failed to do so he
must give place to another. Qt will be borne
in mind that the succession to the Chinese
throne must always be in succeeding and not
in the same generation. Kwang-Su was In the
same generation as Tung-Che, being his cousin.
He could not, therefore, permanently succeed
him, but could be only sort Of locum tenens,
for the purpose of providing true heir in the
next generahon)
Accordingly, Tse-Hsi called the Imperial Clan
into council again, and dictated the choice OF
a new Emperor in the person of Pu-Chun.
The latter was the son of Prince Tuan, who
was the son Of Prince Tup, who was brother
of the Emperor Hen-Fung and of the father of
Kwang-Su. Therefore Pu-Chun was of the
generation following that of Kwang-Su and
Tung Che, and could lawfully become Emperor
the heir of the latter. That was in January
last. Instantly there was an unprecedented
outburst of protests and petitions from all
parts of the Empire and from Chinese commun-
tiles in all parts of the world in favor of the
retention of Kwang-Su Emperor. These
Tse-Hsi answered by putting to death as many
of their authors as she could and by keeping
Kwang-Su a close prisoner The sequel was
widespread revolt against the dynasty, or
against the Regency, which she with consum-
mate dexterity has transformed into an anti
foreigner revolt Naturally. Prince Tuan fig
ures largely in it. He was the commander of the
Chinese troops that fired upon the foreign
quarter of Tien-Tsin, and he is now reported
to be at the head of the whole outbreak, his
aim being to place his son, Pu-Chun, upon the
Dragon Throne. Whether he and TseHsi are
still allies or have become antagonists is one
of the supreme questions Of the day, upon which
depend the remainder of Tse-Hsi's career and
perhaps the future integrity of the Empire
which she has so long ruled
New-York tribune., 1900-06-30

nothing to say against ordinary trusts such as
corner necessaries of life and charge the poor
of the tenements. where children die by hun
dreds from heat and spoiled food. 60 cents
a hundred pounds for ice. Instead he Is firm
for the sure protection of property rights yer
haps he fears they may be invaded by Repub-
lcan antitrust laws such as Justice Chester is
holding the Ice Trust subject to, much to the
disadvantage of the dear old holders Of its dear
old stock
This is not the sort of platform that dear
old Gus was making a year ago. Then he
didn't pick his way so daintily among the
trusts but denounced them all and was anxious
for the protection of poor consumers from the
ravages Of insatiat manufacturers and specu-
lators in the things necessary for their COM
fort Did he let the man who cornered wheat
escape then because he did not use the right
of eminent domain as an instrument IN MS
nefarious oppression? The dear old protector
of the poor was not so mealy mouthed then.
Why the change? Can it be because the rec
ords of the American Ice Company are said to
show that on June / dear old Gus owned 1,1OO
shares Of the preferred and $500 of the COM
mon stock of that corporation? Dear old Bob
has told about his holdings and how the stock
was given to him on trust. We wonder If dear
old Morse loved dear old Gus so much that
he gave him, too, some stock for a nominal
cash payment Or did he-whO. though draw
ing a salary of $17,50O year. was too poor be-
fore he ran for Governor to pay personal taxes
on more than $2O00-did he have quarter of
a million dollars for stock speculation? How
ever it was arranged, dear old Gus, of course,
had the interests of the dear old people at
heart and was planning to put down monopo-
lies and get the country back into 'the dear old
homestead of Democracy" Dear old fraud!