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King McnclIk Ill.

Special Cable DeSpa,ch 10 THE sun.
PARIS, Aug. l2.-According to advices
received here King Menelik Of Abyssinia ID
seriously ILL
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snowfall In Omaha.

OMAHA. Neb., Aug, Eft began showing
here at 10 o'clock to-day and continued
for several hours. The SNOW, melted
nearly as fast as it fol-.
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Albert Won Leyetzow Dead.

Special Gable Despatoh to The SUN
BERLIN, Aug. l2.-Albert Won Levetzow,
former president of the Reichstag is dead.
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These navy orders have been issued;

IICWt Z. y NtAnWDTTTI, WTTIuVHVU NJ IUg THT'HU
or &C 20 the Franklin, navy yard. Norfok.
Surgeon T. VI. Edgar detached fra N tho Wabash,
navy yard Boston. 10 Asatc station. with de.
tachmcrt OF marines leaving Washington Aug. u.
surgeon q. n. Wilson, detached naval hospital
PustCn, to the Wabash, NY ytrt, Boston.
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CYCLONE SIGNALS KEPT UP.
Vessels warned Not 10 sail for the G'ilf
From Atlantic Ports.

From AtlanlC fOTts.
WASHINGTON. Aug. r. - The weather
Bureau. this morning, ISIS ed the following
special bulletin
West Indian storm apparently recurring
northward toward south coast OF western
Cuba. Gale will set in over southeast
Gulf, southern Florida and western Bahia
mas this afternoon and night, and prob
ably over northeast part of Gulf OF Mexico
and along and of our south Atlantic coast
Thursday
at is impossible now to determine whether
the storm will reach our Middle and North
Atlantic coast. Due and timely notice will
be given if il shapes course toward these
coasts. Vessels have been warned not TO
sail southwark from Atlantic ports
At the local Weather Bureau yesterday,
news Of the progress OF the West Indian
cvclone was not more definite than on
Tuesday. At 10 o'clock Forecaster Emery
received this bulletin from the forecast
official OF the Washington Office:
Mobile to Jupiter. Hurricane centre appar-
emily approaching south coast western tuoa.
Dangerous for vessels all classes 70 san Tor
South Atlantic east NuIt ana CUBAN poT's
to-day and tomorrow.
Late in the afternoon this despatch came
over the wires from Washington:
4:4O /. M, jacksonville. Savannah and Charles
ton storm apparently recurring NORTH,
ward near extreme western Cuba and should
enter southeastern Gulf tonight.
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At the office Of the Ward Line in this city,
il was said Yesterday that the Santiago
had been reported passing Jupiter, Fla.
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COUNTRY DBARD


IN MOUNTAINS (Rerkshires. near LenoI) --Lo-
cality noted. finest conditions. attractions no
couy enent expresses: bathroom. pl.
szza. &C.; exceptional board New York retar-
ences: adults only: rates $40 Circular, r. Mac
Pittsneld. Mass.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-04
Rabbit Hunting

In January, says Country Life, bunny is
to be found in bramble tangle and close
grown thickets, to be tramped out or run
with beagles. When he is in mood for a
run he will furnish a lively bit of enter
tainment. Those who love the music Of the
hunt find rare pleasure in listening to a
brace of beagles as they unravel and bring
to naught all the twists and turns and
clever wlles of bunny. Indeed. not a few
put their dogs in with no intention of kill
ing the game, but for the pure delight OF
watching and hearing the dogs work. 1t
sometimes seems as if the rabbit was aware
of their peaceful intentions at these times.
for he will play about in a small circle for
half an hour or more before holding up.
anording many opportunities to observe
and study the ways Of this long-Iegged lit
tie graycoat. Indeed, he seems to quite
enter into the spirit Of the game, and a
delightful winters afternoon can be thus
snent
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-04

a year for his home, but only the fewest
save money. The people are great drinkers.
In this region every third house is a saloon,
and the most of the wages go for drinks.
The people drink alcohol, and the women
drink as we'll as the men.
Belgium spends more than eight times as
much for liquor as it does for schools, and
the average drink bill is about s. per head,
or $25 per family. | am surprised at the
number of saloons. They are known as
"estaminets, and you see them everywhere.
There is hardly a block in the city without
one or more, and they are scattered along
the country roads. There are more than
200, 600 saloons in Belgium, and it is said
thai one person in every thirty of the whole
population is employed in selling intoxicat-
ing drinks.
Many of the workmen get drunk on Satur-
day and lay off over Monday. Similar con-
ditions prevail in England, where drunken
ness is, if anything, worse than here.
There are a number of workingmen's as
sociations in Belgium. The men have their
trades unions and their cooperative sOci-
cites. There is one kind of organization,
known as "Mutualities,' which has over
so, eco members. There are societies for
mutual help so formed that the members
support each other in times of trouble, pro-
viding medical attendance and other such
things.
Many of the societies are protected by the
government, and to some the state gives
subsidies, increasing their funds for med
zeal attendance and support in time of sick
ness. The state now has pensions for such
workingmen of over 65 who need them and
also associations which insure the lives OF
workingmen at low rates.
Belgium has a ministry of industry and
labor which has to do with matters reldt-
ing to "workingmen, and there is also what
is known as the superior council of labor
organized to consider labor interests anC
prepare measures regulating them for pres
entation to parliament. This council i:
composed OF sixteen workingmen, siXteeI
manufacturers and sixteen scientists. 1t il
said to be Of great value TO labor interests
The governments are becoming more an,
more paternal in many of the European
countries. They are taking the place of
father to the people and trying to beneh
them in a variety of ways. In Belgium tn,
state has erected dwellings for working
men in certain localities, and has arrange,
so that they can buy them on easy terms
P 1t is helping the farming interests b
: schools of agriculture, and through its rail
e road service is reducing freights and facil
+. itating the marketing. have spoken of tn
e postal arrangements of Switzerland an
c France. whereby the farmer can expires
! his goods to consumers through the postot
r fees. Here in Belgium the government ma
put on fast trains for England for the ship
0 ment of dairy products. 1t facilitates trad
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-04

and it seems to be on the outlook to help
the producing classes.
| am surprised at the enormous manufac-
turing industry of Belgium. The country is
a very beehive of work. 1t has about 6,0OO,-
eco people, and fully 75O,O OO of them are at
work making something to sell. The fac
tories are as thick as in the black country
of England, and the land teens with house
industry. There are about 5000 work
shops which employ on the average only
three hands each, and an enormous amount
of cotton and linen cloth is woven at home.
On the eastern edge of the Belgian coal
field is Liege, which has Ia, 900 people,
and which was built up out of manufac-
lures of iron. 1t is the Sheffield of the
country, making vast quantities of firearms
for home use and export. 1t has 10000
workmen, who make nothing but guns, and
most of these work at their own homes.
The manufacturer furnishes the material,
and the workmen take it home and make
the different parts of a gun. One man
may be employed upon locks, another on
barrels, getting from 2 to 8 cents for his
work on each gun. 1t is only recently that
much machinery has been introduced, and
this is used only with the cheaper kinds
of firearms.
Parts of guns are also made for export.
We get many of our steel gun barrels from
Liege, and also the Damask gun barrels,
which are made nowhere else in the world.
The secret of making the Damask barrels
is carefully guarded, being handed down
from father to son. Only the most skilled
of the wOrkmen can make these bar
rels. The ordinary rough-bored barrels
are turned Out in great quantities; they
cost from 60 to 20 cents apiece, when
ready for export.
When the United States has finally set
tied its mining troubles our exporters can
study the Belgian market with profit. This
country imports something like 1000, 900
tons of coal a year, the most of it coming
from France, Germany and England, and
necessitating comparatively heavy freight
charges. There are six lines of steamers
sailing between Antwerp and the United
States, and American coal should be landed
there at low rates. The freight rates of
the present are based upon the grain rates,
and are consequently high.
The Belgium coal will not compare WITH
the best grades of our coal. The anthra-
cite here has not the hardness nor bril-
liancy of the Pennsylvania product, and it
is lighter in weight. Some of the Belgian
bituminous coal has 70 per cent slack. so
that ii is used for the making of briquettcs
rather than for export.
Some of the Belgium mines have given
out, and, as the coal area is limited. the
country will eventually have to import
more than it does now. Not only here, but
in all parts of Europe there should be a
market for American coal, and if care
fully nuTsed a business can be built up
which will materially increase the balance
of trade, which is already in our favor.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-04

CT the United States. And still they Wee
toiling like so many horses, pushing the
cars this way and that. Some were lifting
great Jumps of coal weighing from fifteen
to twenty pounds each, and others were do
ing all sorts of work which in America
would be done by men.
In one place a ditch was being dug and
lined with brick and cement. A girl of
Is was mixing the mortar with a hoe, and
a little further on at a brick pile three
sturdy girls were loading bricks upon a
wheelbarrow, which a fourth girl pushed
upon the car when it was full. They were
working hard, and the perspiration stood
out in white beads upon their dusty faces.
l took a photograph of them, and my heart
came into my throat as they smiled.
have said that the women who sort the
coal earn about 80 cents a day. Some get
less, but there are others who make as
much as 40 cents, and in the mines they
are paid as high as 46 cents. Men miners
get 70 or so cents underground, and about
80 cents at the surface. Boys of II and 10
are paid AZ cents, and children about 20
cents and upward. Altogether, there are
124, 900 miners in Belgium, and of them all
doubt whether 10 per cent make 81 a day,
And still the Belgian working day aver
ages from ten to twelve hours, and the
average number Of working days every
year is more than 300. Low wages and long
hours are the rule. There are 100000 work
ing people here, and of these nine-tenths
work ten, eleven or more hours per day,
OF all the workers one-fourth make less
than 40 cents per day; one-fourth from 4C
to 60 cents, and another fourth from 20 tc
so cents per diem.
Women are everywhere paid less thar
the men. and about half of the femalC
workers make less than 80 cents a day
while in the whole country of more thar
5000, 600, half of whom are women, onl!
1896 women get as much as so cents a day.
Among the best-paid women here ar,
!, those who work underground in the mines
, The work is hard and degrading. 1t un
sexes those who are thus working ava,
day after day in the semi darkness, and il
time makes them animals. In old age the,
are little better than the horses and don
keys which work with them, and whic'
stay in the mines until they die. Some O
the horses will live from ten to twent
. years after going down underground, bu
: they become perfectly blind at the end c
!, three years.
A | have been interested in the life of tn
a people. Every great mine has its dwellin
g houses built about It, a collection of littl
r two-story bricks built together in block
Each house has FIVE rooms, two on II
g ground floor, two above and a little att
under the roof. The families are large an
It the average number OF children is six {
II seven. The miners are miserably poo
IS Nearly every one pays a rent OF SO or s.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-04

from l6 to 20. Pretty girls! rosy checked!
round armed and plump, with races
smutty with coal dust, but at the same
time comely! Their eyes are bright and
their beauty is accumulated by the coal
dust on their faces through which the red
flames forth like that of the dark moss
rose. They are very tiger lilies set in a
background of black DIAMONDS.
Come with me and let us visit one of the
mines. We enter the great work where
the mighty shaft is jerking up and down
raising the coal to the surface. At the
mouth of the opening stand a half dozen
of these Belgian girls, their heads done
up in blue and white handkerchief turbans'
their sleeves rolled up high above the ell
bows and their shapely ankles plainly
showing between the ends of their skirts
and their white wooden clogs. See them
grasp that car as the engine stops ana
shove 1t over the rails to where II Is 10
be dumped for the %sorters. AS they do so
another gang OF girls takes their places
to handle the next car and others shoot the
empties back to the other side of the SHAFT
There is no fooling about this. The women
work like bees, and with the strength OF
horses. They do more than the men, and
they are, | am told, more conscientious In
their work.
Leave the shaft and come with me to the
%sorters. The coal rolls down a chute into
the cars. Women stand at the side OF the
chute and help it onward with hoes, Girls
of IA or 20 sit further down picking the
refuse and slate out OF the coal with their
hands. StiIl further on there are more
turbaned. bare-armed maidens, sooty and
dirty, working away as fast as their fingers
can move. and In the railroad car itself
into which the coal drops, there are Other
women hoeing the coal this way and mat
sorting the waste. All the work is done by
the piece, and the girls are paid in proper
ton to the amount they perform. l asked
as to the wages. and was told that the rat
is . cents a basket, and that the best work
ers can pick about a basket and a nal
every hour, thus earning as much as q
cents in their day OF twelve hours,
And still the women miners or Belgium
are far better OF today than they nav
ever been in the past. Their condition ma
been VIGOROUSLY bad. For a long time lit
tie children were employed in the mines
They were harnessed in carts and coal car
!, with straps and chains so that the
; crawled along on their hands and knee
| dragging the coal to the mouth OF tn
1 shaft. Now women under Fl are prohioite
by law from working underground an
hence those whom you see on the surtac
% are young girls. They could get oett.
E wages down below, and many OF them WI
leave the surface work and go into IN
% mines as soon as they are old enough,
r As a result, the surface girls are not Del
/. and broken. and those l saw we're as We
{ developed physically as the prize got err
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Chasing Chances.

Derby machini his hope of
s n luck
He a supported
n
All
And at last he found himself in the iron grip of money sharks Then
his wife children
il a denousnent?
s 70 lin?
His character is all askew His conceptions of the hard pcales
al He has
s
a
could character only
power a
mited himself hther hther
the o of
tragcally
family
the idea there
for nothing
circumstances. -,
leaves the totteg
s
Fourhfhs of the discovered entertainments are among who took
who find
the Of
apparently
be
with
The straightforward a a
he
Maybe you knew how long and hard practice is required and how little
regular 81
Chance that nO~eaes the
happiness.
happiness built up
by settled high aspirations wholesome
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TREE
Twenty-Five Years q
Landmark Must
Now Go.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3l.-Another old
New York landmark is doomed. The
old poplar tree that has stood guard
in front of the old Van Buren, house
on the north side of Fourteeth street,
midway between Fifth and Sixth
avenues, has been stripped of its bran
ches and is to be cut down. The trunk
of the old tree is about twelve feet
around the base. 1t is one of the old
est landmarks on Fourteenth street.
1t has perceptible incline over the
street, and in former years its green
leaves gave an air of country life that
was decidedly effective in that busy
thoroughfare.
The tree is estimated to be seventy
FIVE years old, and the house it guards
is more than fifty. Two years ago
the top branches were Topped off, signs
of decay having shown. The tree put
forth few green leaves each summer
since then, but is now dead It is
feared it might be blown down during
some wind storm, and so it is to be
cut down to prevent possible accidents
to passing pedestrians
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Artificial CdInphoP
Is Found al Last

COBURG, Ger, Dec. BE. Callem-
berg of Lank -on-Rhine has succeeded
In preparing, on a commercial basis,
pure Carbohydrate of terebinth, com
monty known as artificial camphor."
and has found that this pure body
has many valuable properties.
1t is soluble in nitroglycerin, dimin-
ishing greatly the maximum tempera-
ture reached during explosions, hence
1t may prove useful in the manufacture
of safety explosives. 1t further low
ers the freezing point of nitroglycerin
to very marked degree, solution
containing from to pc, cent of the
carbohydrate solidifying at ten degrees
to Is degrees c., the product being a
gelatin dynamite of improved quality,
while the pure solvent in ntrogylcerm
dissolves in the cold every Kind Of
gun cotton, including the so-called in
soulable varieties.
According to La Nature, the chic
rhydrate has also proved useful in the
manufacture of explosives containing
nitrate of ammonia.
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Summer Wedding
kept a Secret
Out al Last

EAST ORANGE. N. J.. Dec. 81
After keeping their marriage a secret
since last summer Richard II. Trimpi,
Trimpi of East Orange, N. j., and
Eleanor Matilda Mayo, who has Just
turned 49," "'fessed up" today to
their parents and schoolmates that
they are husband and wife. They
would probably have gone on keep
ing their romantic union to them
selves had not a friend of the boys
family accidentally come across the
certificate of marriage among the
records in the county clerks Office at
Newark
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BELLE OF RICHMOND
NEAR UNTO DEATH

NEW YORK, Dec, 3l.-Miss
Ellie Boscher, a belle of Rich
mond, Va, is critically i'll from typhoid
fever and was taken from the home of
Mrs. s. Barton French, No. Is West
Fifty-frst street, to a private hospital.
Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H.
Boscher, are hurrying to the city from
their home in Richmond and are ex-
pected today
Miss Boscher came to spend the holi-
days with Mrs. French, who took a
liking to her when the southern beau
ty was at the Horse Show. She was
apparently in good health when she
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A CPldIPOn Hero
Wins a Bride

ARCOLA, ILL.,, Dec. 3l.-Francis M.
Cayou, the once famous halfback of
the Carlisle Indian team, who some
years ago made himself famous by
making 95-yard run for a touchdown
while playing with his school against
the University of Illinois team, has
just made another touchdown, and this
time instead of carrying football he
carried away Miss Anna Snyder, the
beautiful lS-year-old daughter Of M
L. Snyder, a leading citizen of this
place. Cayou is half French and half
Indian, and while resident of this
place always moved in the best society,
being a college graduate and a splen.
did type of citizen. The objection Of
the brides parents had to the marriage
was for no other reason than that theiI
daughter was too young.
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EIGHT REASONS

why SCOTS Emulsion is an
ideal food-medicine:
1. 1t is partly pre-digest.
ed and therefore passes
quickly into the blood
2. 1t imposes no tax
upon the stomach or other
digestive organs.
3. 1t does not cause
fermentation such as usually
results from ordinary food
when the stomach is weak.
4. Its action is mild and
even, insuring the greatest
nouriShment with the least
effort.
S. Its quality is always
uniform.
6. 1t feeds and strength
ems the bones, blood, nerves
and tissues.
7. 1t is one OF the great
est flesh producers known
to medical science.
8. 1t is palatable and
agreeable to the taste and
easily taken.
Wen send you a sample free upon request.
SCOTT d BoWNR, 400 Pearl Street. N. Y
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FORT WRIGHT WILL
HAVE new BUILDING

The necessary plans and specifiea-
lions for the Fort Wright exchange
and gymnasium have been placed lat
the office of Cutter & Malmgren, arSh-
fleets. for the convenience of con-
tractors. Estimates have already been
made and the building will, no doubt.
be completed early in the spring. 1t
will be handsome two-story brick on
a line with the present quarters and
add greatly to the beauty of the post.
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The basement floor will be divided
into two parasitic gymnasium, 79x
B5 feet, and the exchange, 35x55 feet.
| On the ground floor there will be a
lunch room, Kitchen billiard room and
toilet while the upper floor will con-
tain a lecture room, storeroom and
reading room. Washington fir will be
used for the exterior finishings. while
tamarck will adorn the interior.
Granite stone work and repressed
brick are among the specifications.
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Typhoid
Still RACES

PASSAIC. N. J.. Dec. 31.-While
experts from the state board of
health are seeking the cause of the
epidemic of typhoid fever in Passaic,
N. J., new cases are being reported.
Four more patients were yesterday
added to the list that has grown so
rapidly since the disease first mani
Tested itself a little more than a
week ago and the physicians have
several suspicious cases under their
care today.
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came and did not become i'll until
Tuesday night, when she complained
of fever. Physicians were called, but
her condition became so serious that
it was determined best to send her to
a private hospital where she would
have all the advantages of such an in
stitutlon. Her parents were not told
of the seriousness of her illness until
yesterday.
Miss Boscher was introduced to soci-
ETY. in Rishmond last winter, and al
most Immediately became the favorite
Her beauty is famed throughout the
South
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Caught in
the Act
Car Barn Bandit Tries to
Escape from Jail.

CHICAGO, Dec. 3l.-Eml Reiski, an
accomplish of the carbarn bandits, was
surprised while cutting away the bars
of his cell today in an attempt to es-
cape. The bar was SO nearly severed
that it fell out. Through this he could
have gained an entrance to corri-
dor giving access to an OUTSIDE window.
The officers are unable to find the saw
with which the cutting was done, but
it is supposed to have been given to
the prisoner by outside aocomplices
A number of detectives have been or
dered to reinforce the Jail guard.
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A YEAR OF DISASTER
FOR COTTON MILLS

BOSTON. Dec. 31.--The year end
ing today has been an unsatisfactory
one for the cotton mills of New Eng
land, as is shown by reports from
New Bedford. Lowell, Fall River and
other centers of the milling indus
try. There have been a number of
contributing causes for the disaster,
but over and above all others the con-
ditions that have ruled in the cotton
market for the past twelve months