Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS V IM Clement the wellknown mining mi-ning man returned yesterday from a five months trip over Europe with Mrs Clement and they art nov guests at the Knutsford In reference to the Paris fair Mr Clement Inclines to hc llevc with Mr Roosevelt of New York that the fair Is a good deal of a fake It does not compare with the Chicago fair he said last night To be sure It looks very attractive from the outside out-side and the sculpture and the gal lerles of paintings for the most part are very creditable ut outside of that It ssemH largely tinsel and glitter The actual condition of the fair is being realized by the general public and American travel In particular ha fallen fall-en oft wonderfully In fact steamers are leaving this side now with empty cabins something that was entirely unexpected However there Js one thing the Parisians have learned and that is how to skin Americans and they do this to the Queens taste Exorbitant I Ex-orbitant prices obtain everywhere In Paris where Americans are customers Mr Clement considers the Chinese situation very serious and that there Is hardly any telling what will occur But for the war In South Africa there Is hardly any doubt but that England would have become embroiled In a war with Russia The sentiment In Europe about the UnIted States is that Uncle Sum Is a jerJion of some consequence after all rind thai American soldiers do know hgw to fight England Is very much ashamed ot her record In Africa In the first stages of the war and owns up to It Mr Clement Is en route to California on mining business q a M Brown a mcbhanical engineer and a resident of this city five years ago when he wont to South Africa is at the Walker house with Mrs Brown They are en route back across the water wa-ter having come from Australia and New Zealand Mr Brown owns property prop-erty near this city which he went to look after yesterday and will be In town for several days Pic was In Capetown at the breaking out Of the war and had to abandon a nicely furnished fur-nished house In the Transvaal not daring to return to it Yes I was an Ultlander he said and the situation was growing more distressing than ever for our people The Boers simply t wanted to crush out everybody but themselves and they were In a fairway fair-way to do It Coin Paul deliberately started the war expecting European complications complica-tions In which England would speedily speed-ily become so entangled as to make it Impossible for her to successfully fight the Boors Then the English would all be driven out of South Africa and Oom Paul have held full sway Mr Brown did not believe the Boers could have damaged the great mines much had they really set out to do it In coming lo this country his vessel was not allowed to enter the port of Honolulu and from the steamers decks he witnessed the burning of Chinatown o a The Nebraska feeders have done a profitable buslneps this spring with shcop as prices were such that they could fatten sheep for the matkots and make money remarked John Petrln of HJP Burlington last evening at the Kunyon Bui the cattle market has not been KO that the feeders could make mtmcy In that direction There arc no more sOioep In the feeding grounds in Nebraska and consumers will have lo put up with grassfed stock until the corn crop comes In nnd then there will lie cornfed Shoal on the market age In So It happens thnt thire Is considerable icosc chango throughout Nebraska tills summer and people are feeling good 4 S W R Kelly an English resident of Assam is at the Knutsford on an American transcontinental trip Tie sjild yesterday There Is nn sentiment senti-ment In Aimuni In the mutter of the presence of foreigners as the country hns been a dependency of Great Britain Brit-ain since 1331 and It IS practically an English country Then the distance Is such from Peking that Chinese politics do not cut any figure with UH and war up there would hardly affect our part of the world |