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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1919)
RAISULI BANDIT OF RARE CHARM Perdicaris Declares He Foun# Himself Beginning to Like the Man. HAS A SUPERIOR CHARACTER Morocco Chieftain, Who Now Disturbs Spain, More Like Patriot States man — Pained to Hear Child Cry. Washington, D. C.—That relentless bandit, Raisuli, the Villa of Morocco, whose present raids have caused a po litical crisis in Spain, has another side. “He could not bear to hear a child cry, while on several occasions I no ticed his care even to avoid allowing the bees collected on his cup to drown,” is the surprising statement, not of a friend, but of the wealthy American who was held for ransom by Raisuli in 1904, until President Roosevelt sent a fleet of war ships and his famous ulti matum, "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead” to Morocco. Ion Perdicaris’ own story of his ad ventures as the prisoner of the “Moroc can Robin Hood” is told In a communi cation sent by him to the National Geographic society soon after his re lease. “In many respects the man Inter ested and attracted me, in spite of all 4, my natural motives for dislike,” said Mr. Perdicaris. “Raisuli was at once so gracious and dignified, not to us only, but to his own wild adherents, who evidently idolized their chieftain, whose position among them seemed that of the head of a Highland clan in the olden times. Has a Superior Character. “He was quick to see the humorous aspect of a situation, while his repartee was as immediate and to the point as though he had been born in County Galway itself. In fact, I discovered to my consternation that I was beginning to like the man, in spite of my natural resentment. I found myself uncon sciously accepting his contention that he was not a mere brigand or cattle lifter, but a patriot struggling to res cue his Berber followers from the tyr anny of the corrupt shereefl'an official^ His charm of voice, the natural poise and dignity of his manner, his self control under provocation,—all be trayed a superior character. He is, in fact, a born leader, and with a certnin statesmanlike quality. He deplored the condition of his country, the feuds which separate the tribes, the many deeds of violence and the blood so use lessly shed. “While stnnding near Raisuli one day on the village green, of which we were now allowed the freedom, one of his followers came up from Tangier, almost breathless from his haste, to report the arrival of the two American squadrons. The man described how the eight frigates had entered the bay, one after another. He told of the anx ious deliberations of the Moorish au thorities and of the alarm of the na tive inhabitants, who feared the town might be bombarded. ”1 watched Raisuli with anxiety, lest apprehending the landing of marines, with a view to our relief and his own capture, he might endeavor to drag us to some more distant and inaccessible v retreat. What was then my surprise when, looking up with a bright smile, he said: ‘Well, I think I can now con gratulate you!’ “ ‘I do not understand you,’ I re plied. “ ‘I mean,’ answered Raisuli, ‘that the presence of these vess ! - will lend the authorities at Tangier to make' such representations to the sultan as may result in his acceding to my de mands, and then you will be able to re turn to your friends.’ Part as Friends. “Tlie next morning it was still dark when our men began loading the pack mules, and we reached the crest of the mountain, which lay between us and Tangier, just as the sun rose. “At last the mules, bearing the silver dollars, carefully packed in boxes, ar rived; but now luncheon was again served in honor of Mulai Ahmed, and must be partaken of, after which the bullion was counted in another room. “ ‘The silver,’ said Raisuli, address ing me, ‘has been counted—$20,000, as stipulated, in Spanish dollars, but these letters,’ showing me as he spoke a check book containing certified' checks on the Comptoir d’Escompte, the French bank at Tangier, ‘of the value of these, which are supposed to represent $50,000, I know nothing. However, I will accept them on your personal guarantee.’ "When I had examined the checks certified by Torres and El Gannam, the sultan’s delegate minister of fi nance, I gave the required assurance verbally, and Raisuli, leading me to the door, where I found my horse wait ing for me, bade me adieu, saying that he had learned to look upon me as a friend and that he hoped I cherished no ill feeling on account of my deten tion. He furthermore assured me that should any danger menace me in the future not only he himself but any of the men of the three tribes under his orders would hasten to my relief. “Thus I left him, and pushing on as rapidly as we could we were soon in the midst of the large armed escort which had come from Tangier to see us safely home.” FIND STEAMER LONG BURIED Dredging Operations in the Mersey Disclose Remains ot Vessel That Had Been Fo gotten. For some time pas t the Mersey docks and harbor board has been con ducting dredging ope atlons In the neighborhood of the Burbo bank, one of the huge accumulations of sand which Impede the navigation of the Mersey entrance, and these have re sulted In a “find” of remarkable in terest. It Is the remains of n steamer which have evidently been embedded for generations. Her date is long ante rior to that of iron shipbuilding. Of sound English oak were her timbers and framing, to which circumstances doubtless is du£ the fact that they still retain cohesion and shape, and have so wonderfully resisted the forces of decay as to supply an abundant quantity of material for the souvenir manufacturer. Her beams, in point of fact, are described as being ns “hard as Iron." The machinery has practically per ished. but the engine bed-plates and the funnel remain, and relics of pot tery and other articles are plentiful. The vessel, cleared of superabundant sand, is not only visible, but accessible at low water, and has been visited and examined by many Interested people. The prevailing opinion is thnt she Is the William Huskisson, a paddle steamer belonging to the City of Dub lin company, and trnding between Liv erpool and the Irish capital, which on the 12th of January, 1840, was wreck ed on her passage to the Mersey. She had 12o passengers on board, of whom 05 were rescued by the ship Hudders field, and the remainder perished. Captain Clegg of the Huddersfield subsequently received handsome pres entations from the citizens of Liver pool in recognition of his good work.— Manchester Guardian. REMAINS OF ROMAN SMELTER Intensely Interesting Discovery Said to Have Been Made in the North of England. A lady member of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian so ciety of England has had the good for tune to discover what is believed to be a Roman bloomery, or ancient smelt ing furnace. Her attention was drawn to the place by the work of moles, which recently exposed some of the remains, and again later by the burn ing of the whins formerly concealing the hearth and other features of the bloomery, near Forest How. By some exploration with a spade, she traced the foundations of a large hearth, twelve yards in diameter, and a number of heaps of cinders, slag and ore; and she also turned up spec imens of Roman tiles, with pottery, slag and hematite. The size of the hearth of the Forest How bloomery marks It ns quite different from the ordinary north-country medieval iron furnaces, which run from seven to nine or ten feet in diameter, for the one just found is twelve yards across. This appears to be worth further ex ploration and probably money for that purpose will be found. Hadn't Seemed to Work. An oldish man In rusty-brown clothes and with a rusty-brown beard met up with a pin. It was shining sharply bright on a flagging, and he stopped to pick It up. He hnd stiff Joints and his fingers were in that state Informally known as bungly. So he had trouble picking up the pin. A young man pnused to ofTer his services., but the old one refused. He just grunted and grumbled until at last victory came his way. Then he straightened up his rickety Joints and tint a bund on his back. ‘Tm not as young ns I used to be," he admitted, as genially as his Joints would allow. “But you know the old saying: “ 'See a pin and let It lay, you’ll have bad luck all the day. See a pin and pick it up and you are sure to have good luck.' “So 1 never pass one by.” And yet he didn’t look ns lucky as a man ought to be who had made a life habit of picking up pins.—Wash ington Star. Flax in the War. Witli the restoration of industry on a peace-time basis, cotton once ugaln, according to recent authoritative state ments. forges ahead of linen in the world's favor. The exigencies of the recent conflict raised flax to the posi tion as leader among fabrics, a rank which it had held for centuries but had lost almost simultaneously with the advent of the cotton gin. With a real ization of the importance of cotton la the making of munitions, there came a speedy reversion to linen for the more commonplace usages—waistcoats, sails for ships, even "wings” for alr p’anes having lately consisted of ma terial woven from the sun-hued fiber. But flax has reached the end of it* days of monopoly. King Cotton now rises to the fore in ordinary pursuits, and linen once again becomes tk* aristocrat In this field of supply. High Minded. The teacher was impressing upon her scholars the need of suylng theli prayers. To illustrate the lesson she showed the class a picture of an Arab with head between his hands, and looking upward. "Now, Billy Cubbs,” she said to a boy who had not been piwdng close attention to her words “what is that man doing?” “Er—er—please, teacher, he'i •-lookin' for—er—‘planes.’—Blighty, LINCOLN LETTER OF STATE WIDE INTEREST The Board of Commissioners re cently announced the appointment of Dr. G. D. Griffiths, Superintendnet of the Beatrice Institute for Feeble Minded, to succeed Dr. J. D. Case as Superintendent of the Lincoln Hospi tal for the insane. Dr. S. J. Stewart, for the past three years attached to the Miliary Hospital at Washington, D. C., where nervous and mental diseases were treated, is appointed superintendent of the Beatrice Insti tute for the Feeble Minded. A school of instruction is being con ducted at Beatrice to prepare teachers who have charge of the mentally de ficient in Nebraska state institutions to apply special mental tests to de ermine the degree of feeble minded ness. The method of determining the degree of intelligence is of great im portance to the youth and to the teacher. Terman’s scale is used which is a modification of the original scale used by Bannet. The intelligence test reveals the relation between the chro nological and the mental age of the individual, and is of great benefit in the training of the state’s wards in our institutions. At the recent conference of Govern ors at Salt Lake City a great deal of attention and overwhelmingly favor able comment was given to Governor McKelvie’s paper on the reorganiza tion of the state’s departments and commissions along the line of the civil administrative code. He was asked to have his address, together with the chart he used, printed so that they could be used by the legislatures of the forty-eight states, and the refer ence bureaus and the committees that have been appoined in the different states to consider and work out a Civil administrative code in their own state. The reorganization of the state’s government was by far the most prominent subject discussed at the Governor’s Conference at Salt Lake. The application of business methods to the business of the state makes a strong appeal to every citizen. The attention of not only our own state, but all the states, is centered upon the working of the code, and the study of the plan of organization, as given herein, together with the classified rating and regulations for the em ployees working under the provisions of the code law proves that the work of the departments involved in the change will be done more efficiently and with great saving of money to the state. The powers of the governor are not increased. None of the con stitutional offices and commissions are in any way affected, nor are any con stitutional chages involved. The gov ernor will make fewer major appoint ments under the code than under the old law. The following are the code numbers applied to the respective de partments to be used in keeping ac counts, together with the organization of each department into bureaus and subdivisions: 1— umce Ol Hievuim;. 2— Department fo Finance. 21. Office of Secretary. 22. Divisions -Of Accounts and Budget. 23. Division of Purchase and Sup plies. 24. Division of Taxation. 3— Department of Agriculture. 31. Office of Secretary. 32. Clerical and Records Division. 33. Bureau of Foods, Drugs and Oils. 331. Division of Dairy Industry. 332. Division of Foods, Drugs and Oil Inspection. 333. Laboratory Division. 34. Bureau of Animal Industry. 35. Bureau of Markets and Marketing. 351. Division of Weights and Measures. 332. Division off Seed Analysis. 353. Division of Agriculture Statistics. > 354. Division of State Develop ment. 355. Division of Publicity. 36. Division of Game and Fish. 4— Department of Labor 41. Office of Secretary. 42. Division of Compensation and Investigation. 43. Division of Free Employment. 5— Department of Trade and Com merce. 51. Office of Secretary. 52. Clerical and Records Division. 53. Bureau of Banking. 54. Bureau of Insurance and Fire Prevention. 541. Division of Insurance. 542. Division of Fire Prevention. 55. Bureau of Securities. 6— 61 Office of Secretary. 62. Bureau of Health. 631. Division of Contagious and Communicable Diseases. 622. Division of Vital Statistics. 623. Division of Venereal Dis eases. 624. Division of Sanitation. 625. Laboratory Division. 63. Bureau of Social Service. 631. Division of Child Welfare. 632. Division of Charities, Cor rection and Parole. 64. Division of Examining Boards. I 641. Division of Medical Ex aminers. 642. Board of Osteopathy. 643. Board of Chiropractic. 044. Board of Dental Examiners. 645. Board of Examining Nurses. 646. Board of Pharmacy. 647. Board of Optometry. 648. Board of Embalmcrs. 649. Board of Veterinarians. - 050 Board of Chiropody. 7—Department of Public Works. 71. Office of Secretary. 721. Accounting Records. 722. Motor Vehicle Registration 72. Clerical and Records Division. Records. 73. Bureau of Roads and Bridges. 731. Division of Road Construct ion. 732. Division of Maps. 733. Division of Road Equip ment. 74. Bureau of Irrigation, Water Power and Drainage. During the p&st weeks the people of the country have had a practical demonstration of the effectiveness of the speech of Congressman C. F. Reavis on the Disposition of Surplus Food. This speech by our Nebraska Congressman was made before the House of Representatives on July 29th. It discloses the policy of the War Department in holding vast quantities of surplus food in storage while it deteriorated in value, eventu ally being dumped and burned. This policy protected the packers, but the effect on the consumer was disastrous. By August 15th the results of Con gressman Reavis’ efforts to unlock the surplus food were apparent in the sales of army stores in the eastern states, and on August 27th the people of Lincoln bought in two hours, at greatly reduced prices, the quota sent to them. An allotment of six and one half cars has been made to Lincoln for the next sale. “The ark wasn’t noted for its speed, but it got there.” • _ , “Why is 2ob so downcast?” “Oh, 1.3 ' always getting engaged to girls, you know, and worming out of it.” “Yes.” “Well, this summer he failed to get away with it.” “How so?” “He happened to propose to a woman lawyer.”—Florida Times Union. I A Mistake j Don’t try to do your own dry cleaning with the aid of some patent spot remover that you may have picked up somewhere. Many a good garment has been ruined by the home dry clean ing process and then brought to us for redemp tion, but the chances are ten to one that all we I: can do is sympathize with you. 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