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The Siege of ftaistricht
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How a Garrison of Three Thousand Held of the Enemy of
. Thirty ThousandStory of a Four-Month Seige.
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MUTT'S MO yiti AfcLC MrNA66fcS.
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CONF LANti OR SITKA, , ALASKA .
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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
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0R PeruAL Motion ?
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. -.
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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
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"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.
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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-
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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.,
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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.
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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. -
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