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THE BEE; OMAHA', SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1911 19 se afaz,ir(p pee 'fjfrr f)ajf e Mi; ( Roosevelt Has Nothing on Mutt When it Comes to Having a Convention By "Bud" Fisher - J1!P"" " 1 ' I'M-1 .' J T 4 r t CAMPAIGN PMCfTfr Ot CANDiQATG MVTf iltH Hl FAMILY, ALC'CAMWATtS MOVT j Po$e with TNfeiR spogs ANto orrPRfc i The Siege of ftaistricht ''' -II M ' IWllllMli ! Ill " " " ' " "i ' t How a Garrison of Three Thousand Held of the Enemy of . Thirty ThousandStory of a Four-Month Seige. , TM H0M..T6Frt ON6-OP MUTT'S MO yiti AfcLC MrNA66fcS. C0MW6NTI0W -ftuT I ST&OMtLN FANOR CONF LANti OR SITKA, , ALASKA . Outs. QOSE, "-"H (NtlAN DLSGAfG PRQCN N0AMA WhO WiuL MD(USS A LAiGe MCGTV$ OF CHifiese AfLTNOeR. Tomorrow B6TW0EM VeONfeD A.ND COLOdeO DELEGATION MCOiA HAM ,h0 THR-tATENCi) To " VMTH OJAH rR.Ofv Th CONVENTION Because aof body wanted to KNOV WHO OR.D&H "'"HE LOAD OP COAL (N &UMriR. i - , HON.VJltt'N AlWAiTRVAW THt- PeRPe TUAL CAMOiDATg. , A T?R POilNfi. FOR. HI jPNOTfc. VACV &A(0.V M j D0N,T - CARS ABOVT BP IN 6- L CTerj Alt I T TODOM XWlNbTO 5OlV6 THP PHOUUM 0R PeruAL Motion ? By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. -. SL Jnne 89, 16T6. The four months' seise of Maistrlcht, which came to an end ; 338 yean ago ' today, it ' well worth remembering- as an Illustration of what human beings can 'do and dare, Buffer - , anJ enduro, whan Inspired by the devotion to a high moral principle, : The Union of Ut recht waa to; Spain !.what Jtht;:red flag Is to the bull,' and to break up the i famous confederacy between tha Uborty- ; loving puteh pro vincea the . -. reat duk of Frme' pui his legions in motion, the black flag fluttering' lii their midst the while ' they were assisted in every arm,- by the best military science of the time. . ' Maietrtcht had a population of 80,000 and wa garrisone by - burgher' guard of oie ,00(r.meni- -Farma laid siege "to the piaee "wfth an , army of seasoned Veterant equal In dumber to the "entire population of the beleagured town.- ' After completely surrounding the place, tip that help from the outside in the shape of relnfbrceihents or supplies was: ;im possibie, Parma began operations.- With his heavy guns he pounded the walls to a week without letting up day r night, and then sprang upon the battered walls with "his trained veterans; But the plain burgher beat them back every time they advanced. .,. Thep -4,000 coal miners, furnished Parma by the. bishop of Liege, were set to work digging underground approaches,- but the , i, " " i " ',, , ,: , ,- ., "Dutchmen could dig, too, and In the dark subterranean passage! the "opposing forces fought llke'demona. By means of a dam the Invaders .'were deluged- with' boiling war and hundreds :.;were scalded te death. Others were suffocated by smoke from burning. brush blown upon the,m by organ bellows taken from the churches. Above ground, along the walls, the be siegers met with the same heroic resist ance. The peasants beat them down with flails and the women and - young girls threw pails of boiling water and biasing pitch hoops upon them. Maddened to think that . his veteran)) were being, thus: beaten by. townsmen and assault all around the circle, but it did no good. The Dutchmen would not be driven. ;.;;'.' . .. ' In the meantime, however, the chain was tightening about the brave burghers.' Sixteen great forts,- connected by a strong wall, surrounded them, and from these" forts a constant rain of fire fell upon the city and its defenses. The burghers lived upon the ramparts, their food being brought, to Wem By ; the wanien and chil dren. There was no sleeping, no resting, and after nearly four months the garrison had been reduced to less, than 400. One night a watchman In Parma's camp crawled through a break In the ..wall and was amused to" find everybody asleep Exhausted nature had at last given way, fastening; Sack, .the .watchman Informed p'arma f1;h'e. sTtua'tToi,; the walls were scaled and the city taken- Men. women and children wre mercilessly butchered. Maistrecht was taken, and the population of Malstricht had ceased to exist They were not conquered. Put to sleep by the exhaustion of their heroic resistanoa, they were butchered while they slumbered. How to Kill Flies Ingenious Fly Onnt and Other De vices that Can Easily Be Made. By (5AHRETT P. SBRVJSS. Every time you kill a fly you may pre vent a ease -of typhoid. . A few weeks ago Wilbur Wright, on of the greatest inventors of modern times, died a Victim to typhoid, a disease for wJus spread tba Innooent looking house fly lias been proved to be more re sponsible than any other living agent. When you think of Wilbur Wright cut eff in W very prime by this frightfully fatal disease, whose germs are carried by files Into your Uvn$ mm and kitchens, y Truth in Print ; : By CHARLES FERGUSON. T f K Wi If newspaper men were subject to gov ernmental prosecution and possible Ira prlsonment for every honest mistake they might make in their critiolsm of an ad rriinistration the government would soon cease to . be demo cratic,'-. ' 1 .Few ; 5oumalist!r , would be found to' Uke the i inevitable chances of error and ef the failure' of their witnesses. Tha lure - of the financial and social' rewards of the newspaper business would He alto gether on the ' side of a studied syco phancy "... in' the praise and promo tion of the political pawn thai stand back of them. Therft would be. but a short run back to that poUWoal absolutlsm-that worship of power Jn epite 6f every defect of UUe-frora which modern society. KM so painfully emerged. Shall he say then that the thing to do Is to declare for absolute freedom of speech, and : print and to go abroad through the land .stirring men up to Camlnf indignation , against, every re striction of tongue or pent ,,: .1 head a brilliant men make a speech to this effect at a lub dinner of literary men In yew York the other day. ! - The speaker called himself an "an archist" indeed, but his doctrine was not o . very different from that expounded so classically by John Milton In his famous essay. "On the Uberty of Un licensed Printing."; And It was hardjy to be distinguished from A notion entertained by many scholastlo people concerning what they call the rights of academic freedom. It la said by these theorists that teacher in eolleges-lf they will but in voke the sacred name of art and science ought, to be permitted without hin drance or accountability to say anything they, please.. Now this freedom to say anything one pleases In a fell-endowed moral vacuum may be an aeademle ideal. But to practi cal men it has always seemed too academic- i :r . . -', And modern society is likely, in ac cordance with its own genius, to become not leas " but , more insistent In holding people responsible for.; what they say. A society that passes the title to a 'million dollars by. a single word uttered -in the exchange, and that gets great enterprises afoot by the faith- In a sig nature, Is likely to acquire a new and vivid sense of a man's responsibility for his uttered word. And irt general, as hu man relations become more delicate, and intricate in their adjustment, words ac quire a prodigious power to hurt or help. It might be safe to set down the rule, provisionally, that it should b lawful for a man to propose and recommend by speech the doing of anything that it is lawfuj to do. Thus it should of eouree be a crime to advise . the1 commission of a crime. And it should be unlawful to use words In such a manner as tends to subvert the meaning and purpose of the law. .' But such precepts need to be pressed closer home before they can amount to much as working principles. We need to clear our minds as to what is the genius and spirit of modern law before we can Judge what kind of speech should be condemned as libellous or against public property. , Now tho actual social order in America ' is industrial, and is based on property rights. This fs a working society and Its mas ter aim is to put the people in poises sion of the materials of existence. This aim it net to be thought of as necessarily sordid, for the process of earth-subdual and- material production is seen to in volve the fine goods of art and all the spiritual issues. Therefore It is not and should not be lawful in America for a man to use his tongue or pen to destroy rights of property so far as they are genuine and legitimate rights. Speech and the press cannot be too free or too bold hi attacking ostensible property rights that ere not authentic. The whole battle for freedom, of utter ance is likely to be waged around the question of the authenticity of certain contestible property rights. When the battle is over we shall prob ably settle down, to the general convict ion that property la Inviolable, whatever Its amount In the hands of an indvidual, so long a the. manner of Its use and tenure tends to diffuse property through out the whole community, and that other wise it has no legitimacy. . A man may be as rich as he can, if his being rich helps to 'make verybody else rich. But if hit riches make the community poor he will be fair game for anybody with a barbed tongue or a trenchant pen. .- t., i If u r Hunting a Husband The Widow is Surprised While in the Midst of Denounc ing Her Youthful Suitor. -' By VirglniA Tertuwe Va PoWater. It's easy to "believe as you hope. One way to break a friendship is to go broke yourself. ' Truth is indeed mighty U It prevails In a horse trade. you should swat the first fly you see, and If there Is something vengeful In the fore of your blow you need pot feel ashamed of It, for Wlbur Wright's death VSS an Immense loss to th world. You should even go In search of files and hunt them. down. There are many ways of killing flies To catch them in the hand is not agree ahie. thouah Justifiable In case of neces sity, They can be hunted like other anl- male of tha chase, nv fvins now oqe of which Invented In England, Is Bbewa above. It consists of two flat metallic piaws, the uppor one in the form of a sprint, which can be set like the hammer of a eun. The mates are evera - and fixed to a kind of a pistol butt. When a fy ! seen against a winuow pane or on tne wa, me v lower plate Is demy piaceg oeiow , trlfBW PuHo: ht Is the end ot Fly. Anybody can make for niroseu a simi lar device. I remember as a youtn. p coming very expert In killing flies with the old of narrow strip of whalebone, borrowed from my mother's work bas kt. Pressing the edge of the whalebone against the wall or. window pane, within four to six 'inches .of .the fly, bending it back like a bow held at one ena, ana then suddenly letting It go, I never missed the game. The fly, Instantly killed, was shot ay HKe a stone from a catapult. kater I devised a miniature cross bow, with a stout piece of whalebone for the bow, and a guttered tlok for the gun, which would hurl a Wt of damp putty with sufficient force and accuracy to kill a fly tiree or four feet away If the aim w good. Nobody knew then, how dan gerous flies were, but everybody detested them for their persistent tmpuaence ana their filthy habits. ; It would not require much Ingenuity to make a great variety of effective fly gum. ' A miniature air gun, shooting a soft pellet, would help to rid the house of files, and at the same time cultivate good marksmanship. A folded paper, with quick arm action, makes an effect ive fly killer- Oo not allow yourself to think that the destruction of a . few file in such ways Is unimportant You may kill the very fly that is bringing typhoid Into your house. Remember, too, that every fly that Is allowed to live may have millions of descendants within a few months. It la st the beginning of the season that such work counts most. Great pests have been arrested .or pre vented in this way. Tears ago up in the Mohawk valley, there was an Invasion of potato beetles, which put the farmers of the state Into tha greatest of alarm. One of them that I knew, distrusting the use ot Parts green on the vines, bethought Kim of waging war upon the Invader with the aid of Ms boys. He oallcd them from their play and offered then 1ft cents a hundred for all the beetles they killed. His neighbors laughed at him. '"Why," they sold, "those boys can't make any Impression on that army. There's mil lions of them." But the boys gleefully set to work In view ot the reward, which meant riches to them. Ev:dently the destructive powers of the Insects magnified their apparent numbers, for within a few days the potato patch of the farmer who bad thought of this di rect method of fighting the foe, was cleared of the beetles, and bis vines A GAME OF "SNAP" SHOOTING A FLY. The large picture shows a young woman about to pull the trigger of the new English fly gun. The drawings underceatht show the "gun" ready for work, and after the trigger has been pulled. , grew green aqd luxuriant, while those ot his neighbors resembled a mass of burnt weeds. . v v s I don't remember how many dollars the boys earned, but it was enough to sat isfy them for the lost play hours. When you have a known enemy to fight use all the means at your command Pon't depend solely on the wholesale methods. The sharpshooters, picking off the enemy, , one by one, sometimes win a battle which oharging columns would lose. Kill that fly! Little Bobbie's Pa By WILLIAM. F. K1HK. -I . - V Thare wa a awful funny man at the house last nlte. He had black hare ft a red nose. His naim was Mister Swift. The name of the .wlty was Misses Swift. She had black hair too." Mister Swift had newer met Pa & Ma beef ore, put he bad a letter Intro duction to Pa from a trend of his that lives in Camden. Pa dosent like let ters of Introduc tion vary well, he got one oust from a man that calm ail the way from Chi cago without vary much'' munny A ' went hoam With a lHtle chunk of Pa's munny. Pa wud . . have gave htm the family plate, but Ma was there. Anyhow Mister Swift was certainly a funny feller. Ho only had one thing that be was all the time saying, he was all the time saying Surest thing you know. This seems to be a fine day, Ma hap pened for to say.'. , This is the surest think you know, eed Mister Swift " We havent been having what you mite call pleasant wether this June, sed Pa. That Is the truest thing you ewer sed, sed Mister Swift to Pa. Do you like our city? Sed Ma. Surest thing you know, sed Mister Swift. There are a lot of good old (ports In our town, Pa eed. Some, ff them may be a little ruff In thare, fpeech, but thay have true harts that teats beneeth thare honest vests. Surest thing you know, sed Mister Swift aggenh. Our schools here are the best schools In the whole state, sed Ma. The children in our schools learn more In a month than the children in other schools lean in a year. You sed sumthlng that time, sed Mister Swift. . ... After Mister Swift had went hoam Pa began to knock him. It Is this way, Pa toald Ma Sc Me. I doan't care a rap for a man that Is all tha time agreeing with you. I like to see a man once In a while Pa sed, that has a mind of his own. I know one thing, & that is that I wud rather die than be on the easy side of a argument all the time. I wuddent say Surest thing you know if I thought It wud save my life. You wuddent, sed Ma. I certainly wuddent, sed Pa. Then Ma. winked at me & sed to Pa. Listen now, I want you to give me that 130 you promised me last nlte. Are you going to do It? Surest thing you know, sed Pa. Depends on Point of View. Secretary Wilson ot the Department of Agriculture was praising in Washington the agricultural school at Cornell. ' "It la a practical school," he' said. "It wastes no time in useless things. It teaches practical and scientific farming. "This school's viewpoint reminds me of the young farmer who. was asked: " 'Which imould one eay-a setting hen or a sitting hen?' . . , " 'It's immaterial which one says,' the farmer answered. 'But it's tremendously material,' on the other hand, that we should, ask ourselves,, when a hen cackles. . " 'Has she been laying, or Is she 1 lying.?' ".-Detroit Free Press. It is unfortunate that the glow of self satisfaction one experiences after having delivered a merited rebuke of snub should not be permanent. After utter ing over, the telephone her frigid reply reply to Maynard, Beatrice returned to the drawing room and to Henry Blanch ard, congratulating , herself upon : her strength ot will and purpose. But, as the evening wore on, she became less confident that she had , acted , wisely. Henry Blanchard proved to be a less Interesting companion than Robert: He talked no more of his possible matri monial ventures, but discoursed of his business life, his old friends, his polltl. cat views, and, although Beatrice tried to appear ' Interested, she found herself obliged at times to swallow a yawn and her eyes turnd Involuntarily toward the clock, ticking away so slowly on the n antel shelf. . She contrasted this eve ning with the one Maynard had spent with her, remembering how that hid fled all too fast, and how much she enjoyed It .."'.. She did not suggest playing and sing ing for Blanchard, for he had ' said h oared little for music. While she was glad that he did not make It necetsary for her to express any more decided views as his right te marry if he ehose, ebs felt that that topic, would, at least, have contained some degree of Interest or even of excitement. She breathed an Inaudible sigh of relief when at 11:30, he bade her good night and took his- de parture, asking If he might call again. soon, nut aaaea, as sne had with May nard, that she did not know Just now when she would have another free eve ning. But, unlike Maynard he did not ask her to notify him when she would be at leisure, but said that he would "drop In some evening next week," on the chance of finding her at home. After he hsd gone she was too tired and sleepy to consider the matter of her two suitors, 'but , deferred such consideration to a more comfortable season. The following afternoon she sat down quietly to think out the situation and to review mentally once more Robert's be havior after his various libations, and again her anger rose, Her indignation was increased by "the recollection . that she was. apparently, now In the position where she must make the next advance if she would see him. She longed to have the opportunity of declining some Invita tion from him In such a way that he would understand that he had -Incurred her displeasure and ask for an explana tion. . . , "And he shall have one If he asks for it." she muttered between set teeth. Tes, she was angry with hlhi for hsv tng taken a little too much liquor, but she was, perhaps unconsciously, "also, vexed at the knowledge that he had de stroyed her Ideal of him as 'a probable husband. He had, in fact, upset her plans. And while she thus mused, Mrs. Robblns stopped In to pee her on her way home from a shopping expedition. Beatrice was not overjoyed at Helen's visit, but she welcomed her pleasantly, wondering meanwhile If her caller had come to ascertain If Henry Blanchard had been here last night If so, she would find Beatrice On her guard. To her surprise; however, Helen ehose another method of irritating her friend and possible aunt-ln-law. "My dear," she said, after she was comfortably seated and had begun to alp a cup of tea which Beatrice-always had served at this hour of the afternoon "I have come to talk to you with regard tt something I heard a few days ago. Is It true that , you went driving with Robert Maynard?" "It is true," said Beatrice stiffly. "And, pray, why should I not . go with Mr. Maynard if I choose?" "Now, dear," protested Helen, "don't get cross at my asking such an inno cent question as that! Were I not fond of you and Interested in him I would pay no attention to the matter. But I was so pleased to hear that you are en couraglng the dear fellow that I Just couldn't resist the temptation to tell you so." i "Encouraging him!'' exclaimed Beatrice Indignantly. "Upon my word, Helen, that is a peculiar term to use In this connection. Your match-making , ten dencies cause you to appear actually ri diculous. Just because a man whom I have met several times asks ma to ' go tor a drive with him. and we stop for tea on the way home, you say I encour age him. I never thought of such a thing." But her friend laughed good naturedly. "Ah, Beatrice," she mocked,. "If there were not some truth In my assertion you would, not get so angry. It la only the truth that hurts, you know. And, my deer," dropping her bantering tone and looking tenderly sympathetic, "I am glad to think that you are good to, poor Robert He deserves It. "Which.' sha added significantly, "Is more than I can say for soms men " . ' . Beatrice looked at her, perplexed. "What do you mean?" she asked- "Oh, nothing, except that Robert was a' very generous husband and always gave his wife' everything ' she .wanted- Which Is ' not what most husbands do for their wives. Perhaps I appreciated It more because all the men In my fam--lly excepting, of course, my, husband are so close In money matters. Why, even dear eld Uncle Henry will pinch a, sliver dollar until the eagle on it scream with anguish," Then Boatrlce knew that Helen haft, come with the purpose of lessening Henry Blanchard's chances with the widow by representing htm as parsimonious and with the Intention of furthering Robert s suit by extolling his liberality., And. although Beatrice saw Helen's game, sha. could not help wonderlpg if, after all. there mlgh not be- som truth In her; rtatement. Had not Robert ' taken her to. supper and brought her home In a cab,' given her coutly violets and taken her tcT tea, while Henry Blanchard had never done anything except call on her? Was their conduct : realty Indicative of the' character of the two men? And then,"; suddenly, she resented anew Helen's la-: terference. 11 ; "It ,1s no concern of mine whether any. man Is stingy or not," she said loftily "And as fur Robert Maynard, he cares nor more for me than I do for hlm-and,' goudness knows, I'm not breaking my heart for any widower!" Helen looked grave. "I think," she' said, "that he. cares a great deal for you. You are the only woman to whom he has paid attention since hs wife death." "Well," snnounced Beatrice, her tem per still ruling her tongue. "I am tired' ot hearing of hla'wlfe, anyway; and. be sides that,. I would not trust tny man -who 1 as fond of liquor as he is." P "Since when," queried Helen coldly, "have you become such a stickler' for temperance? I did not notice that yaul disapproved of my husband and Robert each taking a highball when we were at supper at the Plaza." ; "No," retorted Beatrice. "I did not mind, nor should I ever mlqd if a man ' took only one drink and no more. But your friend, the widower, does not stop at one-more's the pity!" I In her excitement Beatrice had spoken loudly and excitedly. Before Helen could reply the drawlLg room portieres were swept aside and the maid announced to the startled, pair: 'Mr. Maynard!" s THE THICK OP LOST PAWN TICKETS SUCKER BAIT "While, walking through one of tne prominent street th' other day," said an innocent looking individual, "1 espied an Important looking piece of caper on the sidewalk and picking it up found it to be a pawn ticket for a diamond scarfpio which some careless person had appar ently dropped. "According to 'tb ticket , the pin . had been pledged several 'weeks before for US., 'How am I to find tho owner?', thought I. 'Shall I take it to the Fawn broker? Perhaps if I do the owner will never se It anyway. The pin must surely be a good one and doubtless worth three times the amount for hlcti it v.as pledged. Why not approiri.K it t my own use?' "The name on the ticket was Brown and my conscience' was relieved when I found several hundred of mat name in the directory. I soon made up my mind tu.d started for the broker's office. I asked to see the pin before redeini ug it, bat ing that I had bought tne ticket, and upon the payment of 26 cents was allowed to examine It "It looked all right to me. although I am not a qualified Judge of diamonds, so I paid the principal of SIS aua the inter est of 11.80 and the pin became mine. "The next day I showed it to an ex pert, who declared it to be wortli far less than I had paid tor t. " 'It Is a trick of some people,' he said, to" defraud unwary persons like yourself. The scheme consists of ksu'.ag tl-.'keis- for spurious pieces of Jewelry for amount many times In exoess ot thoir value and" dropping them on the sidewalk In differ ent parts of town wberj unsuspecting persons might find th?m and redeem them, as you did, thus yielding a hand some profit to the perpetrator. "Phila delphia Record. - i i i i f.1 VI 1.4