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.
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it first and there will be no mistakes made. 3
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