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. , B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 2, 1909 ADANA, LAND OF MASSACRES Country Swept by Fire and Sword for Centuries Fast. STAMPING GROUND OF ST. PAUL Fvrr Since the tiara of Alesaaaer and Tomper It Haa Been a District for Destruction Ancient Roles. There la nothing like pergonal familiarity with locality to arouse a real Interest In nrwi concerning It even If that news be of so startling a character aa to merit the name of a massacre. Poor Adana! There was a time when I knew Ita broad wheat field, allvery streams, luxuriant garden and the wild mountains that hem the fer tile vtalley In. for I went there In a smart corvette and fetched away a marble sar cophagus that had held the remains of a Roman princess for a thousand yenrs and more before It came' to be a show piece In the New York Metropolitan Museum. Now I venture the annertlou that not one person In ten thousand who has read the late startling dlttpatches ever heard the pretty name before or knows whether It be longs to a town or a district or where to locate It except as Indefinitely somewhere In the nultan'B Asiatic dominion. In fact, the general tenor of the dispatches where the name is found Indiscriminately classed with Aleppo. Bcrrut. Damascus, etc.. gives the. natural Impression that It Is somewhere In Syria. If old St. Paul were alive he would surely pour out the vials of his ready wrath upon anyone who dared to rail him a Syrian, for he was a Clllcian. and the Roman province of Clllcla of hla dny Is the vilayet of Adana today. Off to the northeast of the Island of Cy prus. Just after the mainland makes a lharp bend from running north along the Bvrlan coast to west along that of Asia Minor, lies this, the finest natural granary of the whole Mediterranean coast, and Its three principal towns of Merslna, Tarsus and Adana lie almost In line completely through Its center. Hiding and camping eut on the banks of the Oydnus our care free band heard from the native story tell er traditions Innumerable of the fair land that Is so unfortunately located as to have been the battleground of nations since the dawn of history. The name of the myth ical Sardanapalus Is claimed as that of the founder of every town and village. Within Its boundaries Alexander the Oreat won the most famous of his victories. Ponipey the Urcaf reached the pinnacle of hla fame here when his legions captured the prov ince for Rome, scarcely thirty years before Ft. Paul was born. Then the Arabian Moslems swept up and across It from the m, iiiv nawigc- iiiruin ii.i iiiiiii inn mountains In the north dovaxtated It. The Christian emperor, Baldwin of Constanti nople, hrougtit fire mid sword from the eat; Creeks and Venetians harried the nast from the south, and so down the renturles the little provlive, simply from Sclng a military key to surrounding peo ples, waa kept In poverty and desolation Until great Haroun al Raschid gave It the ew name of Adana and brought peace nd plenty to the' land. ' A Conantar A Brent. There was' a wealthy uutive of Tarsus tamed Abdo Dabba. who for many years Had prospered under the protection of an Ippolntment aa consular agent of the United States, and It so came about that In one If hla fields was uneaVthcd a. fine marble arcophagua, which aa a mark of apprecia tion, he made a gift to the United States, with only the iomvIbo that some one should ix sent to take It. And ao It came about (hut the Shenandoah waa ordered to the eastward to pick It up, and In due time let lo Its anchor In the snug harbor of Herein. It waa a grand opportunity fop old Ibdo, beyond hla dreams, to have a man- of-war aa ocular proof of his hnportance, and ha made the moat of It In the beat of ways, for not only were hla house and gar dens placed at our disposition, but at the iret mention to him of the Interest that was most natural to see the battlerrounda of Alexander, he eoultiped a complete camp, even to a detachment of Turkish In fantry, to take us throughout the province. Over the campflre at night the etorlee were told that, true or false, brought to our ears the famous names whose vic tories and defeats had alike brought only misery to a peaceful people. Of all those names so often heard, one only, Haroun at Raschid, our Arabian Nights hero, waa called blessed. It seema queer that two of the greatest namea of Christianity and of Islam should find their common ground here of unalloyed reaped. All through the rolling plain and In the foothills of tho Taurus were In this time of thirty-odd years ago fine fields of grain, orchards and luxuriant gardens, and all that should make a people happy and well-to-do, but the war storms of nearly 3,000 years have stamped an Indelible murk on the people. Poor Adana! One moro mas sacre Is but a drop In the stream. Ancient Ralni, Just beyond Merelna and on the sea beach are the rulna of two old cities that gave our men a grand scope for the exer cise of amateur archaeloglcal research. Jtill'Tpolls. named for Pompey's wife, the daughter of Julius Caesar, and Pompeopo !ls, which waa an altered name for the an cient seaport of Soils. The old breakwater that formed the original harbor was traced out in the Band by making soundings, and Its outer edge was found to be fully 3P0 feet Inboard from the present sea-water line. The perfect pillars of an rid temple were 'standing, and the men captured one of the capitals complete and uninjured, by sending a line over the top of the pillar by a kite, and so rigging a means to climb the pillar, pry up the capital, and" lower It to the ground carefully. It Is my Impres sion that that work of art Is now In the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. As for the sarcophagus, the secret of Its soul will never be betrayed, for It bears no Inscription, nor was anything recovered from It. Probably, whatever It contained was stolen by the laborera who unearthed It. Its bulky eleven tons was hoisted to our quarter-deck, the beautiful sculptures carefully boarded in, and the last home of a countrywoman of Saint Paul, like him a Roman, came on Its long voyage to ret In a country unheard of and unsuspected when It waa created. E. W. Very, U. S. N. In New York Post. WILL CONFER ON CONGESTION Call Issued for Meeting to Discuss Amelioration of Over crowding. A call has been Issued by Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secretary of the "Com mittee on Congestion of Population In New York," for a national conference on "city planning," to be held In Washington, D. C, May 21 and 22. Congestion of population In most of the large cities of the country, discussion of such measures of city planning practiced abroad which are applicable to the United States, amelioration of the present conges tion and the means of preventing its recur rence In the newer districts of the various cities, will cngago the energies of the con ference. President Taft has urged that such a conference be held and will address the conference at the opening meeting. Borne of the leading exponents of city planning from' foreign countrica will be invited. Ap propriate exhlblta of the bst features of city planning and congestion of population will 1 contributed by numerous societies already engaged In this work. Kemper, Hemphill & Buckingham. All kinds of plating. LIBRARY CONES TO OMAHA Swedish Institute Oiren Fart of Sward Collection. NOTED CLERGYMAN'S CAREES Man Whose Books Will Be Olren to Perpetuate . Hla Memorr Honored la America and wedea. The Immanuet Deaconess Institute of Omaha is about to receive a valuable ad dition to Its library in having assigned to It a part of the extensive collection of the late Rev. P. J. Sward, D. D., who died in 1901 In Mora, Sweden, where he was rector of that parish under appointment by King Oscar II of Sweden. Rev. Mr. Sward was a leader among the Swedes in American and had won much renown as seaman missionary at Brooklyn and Baltimore and as pastor of churches at Vaaa and St. Paul. Minn., and in Omaha. He waa repeatedly chosen president of the Augustana Synod of North America, the general body of the Swedish Lutheran churches of this country, and filled the chair of professor of church history and other branches In the. synod's theological seminary. Aa a member of the moat im portant board of the synod, he waa In the position to take the lead in all the Impor tant church activities. Later In life he returned to Sweden and waa appointed to the Important rectorship of Mora, where he ended hla faithful and busy life in 1901. His wife, Mrs. Selma Sward, returned to America, bringing with her the valuable library of her husband, consisting of several thousand volumes, In tending to donate It to some of the Insti tutions of the Augustana Synod. Her death taking place before she could make arrangements for the division of the li brary, the work of distribution was taken up by her children and heirs. The Insti tutions to be thus favored are the Augus tana College and Theological Seminary of Rock Island. 111., Gustavus Adolphua col lege of St Peter. Minn., and the Immanuel Deaconess Institute of Omaha. The committee to apportion the books to the several institutions was ai-point! by the heirs of Dr. and Mrs. Sward and con sists of Martin Sward of the University of Nebraaka, Rev. P. M. Llndberg of Omaha, and Rev. Peter Peterson of St. Paul, Minn. Tho committee has completed Its work. The only condition laid down by the donors was that every book be stamped with "Prom the Memorial Library of Rev. P. J. Sward. D. D. Donated by hla children." The hclra of Dr. and Mrs. Sward who have In this manner perpetuated the mem ory of their distinguished father are: Dr. E. J. C. Sward of Oakland, Neb., secre tary of the State Board of Health; Dr. Edward Sward, dentist. Oakland, Neh. ; Mrs. Lydia Romson of Nora, Sweden: Miss Ellen Sward, trained nurse, Omara, Neb.; Martin Sward, medical student. Lincoln, Neb., and Miss Ester Sward, Mora, Sweden. The Rev. Dr. Sward was highly esteemed by the king of Sweden, Oscar II, who con- i ferred upon him a special honor by ap pointing him commandant of the Royal I Order of the North Star. ! Not Bodr of Miss Lewis. CHICAGO, . May l.-The Identification yesterday of the body found In the lake near Lincoln park aa that of Miss Ella Lewis waa an error. Miss Lewis was dis covered alive today. Miss Lewis' appear ance leaves the Identity of the supposed suicide still a mystery. ' Bis; Sale of Mine Property. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May l.-The 20,000 acres Included In the J. R. Walsh and J. K. Selfert mining properties in Sullivan and Greene counties were sold today at publlo auction to the Equitable Trust and Savings company of Chicago for $1,600,000. There was only one bid. NEW ENGLAND'S IDEAL KITCHEN Economy of Spare and Concentration of Eonlpment the Chief Fen to re. It the proverbially busy housewife could wear, a pedometer for Just one day, she would be amased at the number of miles she walks right In her own kitchen. It Is no wonder that she Is tired from morning till night, and this is perhaps the cause of the unfailing Irritability of cooks. Walk ing in the open air Is refreshing and en joyable, and one may tramp for miles without feeling in the least hit tired; but an endless round from kitchen stove to pantry and across the room again to the cooking table, jut perhaps to get a spoon or bit of flour, la nerve wenTlng. The old fashioned New England kitchen, with its great expanse of floor space, which must be scrubbed every week. Is enough to wear a woman out. The kitchenette, now so popular In all the first-class apart ment Iioukcs, Is a happy solution of the labor-saving problem. For the woman who does her own work the arrangement Is a real blessing, for she can keep house beautifully In the smallest of kitchenettes, a mere cupboard, with a window, sink, gas stove and cabinet. A kitchenette that Is eight by nine feet, however. Is large enough for one, or even two women to work In most comfortably. There is so much to be said In favor of kitchenettes that one hardly knows where to begin. In the fiTst place they- save time, which is about the most Important consideration nowadays. Everything Is right at hand Blnk, stove, table, utensils may be reached by a mere step. Kitchen ettes are sanitary, too, for there are no corners to stow things away In. Then everything Is light, open, airy and gen erally sunny. A little nursery refrigerator Is provided for the food, and, owing to Its smallneps and simplicity of construc tion, may be kept immaculate. It Is said that poorly kept refrigerators put out In equally badly cared for back hallways are a menace In many families. The abso lute cleanliness possible In a kitchenette Is one of Its highest values. Even the most careful scrubbing does not take, one-quarter the time that a big barn of a kitchen takes, .for all unnecessary spaces are elim inated. The kitchenette is well fitted out and one could cook for a good-sized family with perfect ease. The sink Is white porcelain and there is one set tub at the left of It. A board covered with white oilcloth is placed over the tub. It Is delightful to have the window over the sink. foT while doing the dlshca one may take refreshing peeps Into the 'outdoor world. The gas range Is a model made espe cially for kitchenettes and has three holes on top and an oven largo enough to roast a good, generous-sized turkey. An ex cellent idea Is the asbestos mat, hound with tin, which Is hung back of the stove. Over the stove Is a tin-covered shelf for. the flatlrnns. Thla must be put up with strong Iron brackets on a firm waH. A little shelf, with a clock and a pepper and salt shaker, will be found a great conven ience when cooking. At the right of the shelf la a package of broom forns, with which to try cake. The little spice cabinet contains every Im aginable spice and flavoring. Under It Is a tool rack, with the flat holder at one side. A row of frying pans hang near the stove. The compact cooking table Is about the best feature of the room, with Its tempting array of bowls and spoons. At one Bide of the table the bread and pie board hang and the rolling pin at. the other. Small utensils are kept In the table drawers. Under the table Is a wooden platform for different tin cannisters, and a vegetable basket. This basket, with the different colored vegetables, such as gay carrots and silvery onions, actually gives a deco rative touch. The platform la on casters, so that It can be rolled out on sweeping day. The china dishes may be prettily ar ranged in the cabinet, which has glass Will You Have a Slice? Could You Ask Us For a Better Proposition? If we should hand you two dollars for every one you hand us? That Is Just our argument ond we certainly prove It up when we tell you that our Electrical Piano Players, (coin operated), absolutely pay for themselves, besides jay you 4 handsome bonus every month. Our KlctUlc Piano Players are conceded by every one who has sccd and heard them to be the UKST on the. market. They are perfection mechanically and send forth the beautiful tone shades of an artist. They are always ready to play; never tire out. They furnish you music any time without roFt. We have Electric rianos that play entirely through, the vacuum system with a perforated music roll which Is cut perfectly to correspond with the touch required. Th9 muslec is played in an endless roll; tt never plays out. No automatic reverse or rewind to get but of order. They are alwavs ready to play when played either by hand or coin In the slot. Ageucy for Berry Wood, Peerless. Stand ard, Electrola and others. Easy terms if desired. Come In and see these wonderful Instruments In operation and listen to all the latest operas, songs and dame music. Everybody cordially Invited. SchmoIIer & Mueller Piano Co. 1311-1313 Frnam St., (Wha, Neb. doors. On tpp of the chest of drawers under the cabinet Is a good place for cook books. In the top drawer are kept the large cooking utensils, such as cake and bread tins, saucepans and all manner of tins and enamel ware. White enamel ware, by the way. Is the best for the kitchenette, both because It Is safe to use and lonks so delightfully clean and dainty. In the sec ond drawer of the chest are a fresh supply of jtltchcn caps and aprons, clean towels and crisp muslin sash curtains, which should be changed each week. Another convenience of the kitchenette Is the laundry shelf over the tub. Here may be kept soap, bluing, starch, ammonia and flatlrons. A favorite color scheme for the kitchen ette Is buff and while. The walls should be painted so that they may bo washed. Tho floor Is covered with linoleum, with rubber mats at the sink and table. A small radiator at one end of the room, finally. iiiHUrrs tho warmth generally supplied by the cooking stove. IJoston Herald. LIQUOR SALE NOT LICENSED. GOVERNMENT REQUIRES TAX Collector Hammond Explain General Misconception with Itrunrd to Dealing; In l.lqnur. "There seems to be a popular misconcep tion regarding the government's special tax for dealing in aplrituous and Intoxicat ing liquors, and into which no Jens a dis tinguished a person than Mr. Bryan has fallen," said Revenue Collector Rosa Ham mond, Friday morning. "Tho government does not in any sense grant a license to sell liquor. It simply ex acts a special tax from those engaged In Its sole. It is In the nature of an occupation lax. and is provided for under section 3213 of the I'nited States revised statutes, which says: The payment of any tax imposed by the Internal revenue laws for carrying nn any trade or business shall not be held to exempt any person from any penalty or punishment provided by the lnws of any state for carrying on the same within such state or In any manner authorize thu com mencement or continuance of such tradn or business contrary to the laws of such state or In placea prohibited by municipal law; nor shall the payment of any Much tax be held to prohibit any state from placing a duty or tax on the same trade or business for state or other purposes. "All so-called government licenses are not licenses, but are occupation or special taxes. The granting of licenses was origin ally a war measure and the system was (hanged from license to special tax In July 18S, being the first of the war tax reductions. "The special taxes now In force and the amounts of such taxes are: Brewers of less than 500 barrels $ 50 Brewers of fiOO barrels or more loo Rectifiers of less than 600 barrels l-ni Rectifiers of 500 barrels or more 2.1) Dealers, retail liquor 2j Dealers, wholesale liquor 1M Dealers In malt liquors, wnolesale 5 Dealers In malt liquors only, retail 2 Manufacturers of stills & And for each still manufactured 1. And for each worm manufactured 3 Manufacturers of oleomargerine . Wholesalo dealers In oleomargerine 4Sii Wholesale dealers In oleomargerine, not artificially colored 20 ItetHll dealers In oleomargerine tt Retail dealers In oleomargerine, not ar tlSielaJly colored t Manfl?actiirers of renovated butter TA) Maufacturers of adulterated butter Si Wholesale dealers In adulterated butter -sf. Rolall doilcrs In adulterated butter 4S Manufacturers of filled cheese t) Wholesale dealers In filled cheese 250 Retail dealers In filled cheese 1.' Manufacturers and packers of mixed flour u No special taxes are imposed upon dealers in renovitid butter. GRAFT BILL IN JCHICAGO Members of Miialneers' Hoard In dicted for Taklnsr Money from Applicants. CHICAOO. May lU. J. Griffin and John Jenkins, members of the city's Hoard of Examining Engineers, were Indicted today, charged with obtaining' money under false pretenses from Joseph Ilornyanskl. Art al leged go between, Louis Bour, was Indicted yesterday. It in alleged Bour collected $92 from Ilornyanskl, claiming he needed the greater part of the money to bribo tho examiners in the city hall. Sturdy ouks from liltlo acorns grow advertising In The Dee will do wonders for your business. nsau)),p.'.wyiy j. 1 iniiniii.ti.iniiii nm ;.- .. .:. v , A. -f" r 111 !Wa1iialslslsa1lii iM Ill's I II I Hit i Ml JOHN P. CRICK Present Assistant City Engineer Recommended highly by the late An drew liosewater, and is a candidate for City Engineer. The following Is self-explanatory: This Is to certify that during the yeir ending April 1). 190DMr. John P. Crick, assistant city engineer, has betn continu ously engared in tho service of the City of Omaha, and to the best of my knowl edge and belief has given satisfaction in his personal conduct and In the perform ance of bis duties and has kept and ren dered his accounts correctly and without default. ANDREW ROSE WATER, City Engineer. Dated at Oniaha this 3d day of April, 1!MI. t ' THE OMAHA BEE Goes Into the Homes ' ' y' gella (iuodii for the Advertiser. "HKMlHinn ynflWim,n) p.Sff-'.n 'p nj BjasCTPM AM : AJOO) To the Members of the Personal Rights Leagues and The prohibitionists are making strenuous appeals to voters iu behalf of the Anti-Saloon League ticket for the Fire and Police Commission. They have centered their fight in this campaign upon the regular party candidates. They denounce the republi cans well as the democrats and are doing their utmost to foment discord in the ranks of the regular parties. By such tac tics they hope to scatter the opposition and thus, together with the aid of the non-partisan petition candidates for Police board the prohibitionists expect to break into office. In other words, they have made a slate of their own and are maligning and. traducing every other candidate for the police board. An editorial April 9th, 1901), in The Omaha Issue, the news paper of the prohibitionists, says: "THE FIRE AND POLICE COMMISSION." "Our vote can be centered on four men. The other vote can not be centered except in part. Much of it is bound to be scattered among the various candidates. And it will be OUR TICKET AGAINST TH1KVES" In the same number of The Omaha Issue, the following para graph apjears: "The other people will have their slate, and the brewers, saloon-keepers, gamblers, pimps, and public service corporations have already be'gun to prepare a slate, and it will be our ticket against thieves, with all the extra candidates pulling support away from their ticket." The same Anti-Saloon League organ, dated April 30th, makes the following editorial comment ujKin the democratic and repub lican Nominees for the police board: "It should be remembered that these eight men, though claim ing to stand for a greater Omaha, as a matter of fact, really 6tand for a wide-oien town and brewery rule, with unhindered lawless ness and licentiousness. They stand for everything the brewer ies want, and are the Brewers Nominees, and not the nominees of any political party, except as Judge Kedick's decision secures to them the pilfered party designation." ' In another paragraph that paper alleges that any man who votes for the men referred to, "Will place himself on a level with gamblers, grafters, saloon-keepers and sabbath breakers. The issue is not republicanism or democracy but good government or bad government, morality or immorality, open or closed town." Every republican and democrat in Omaha should resent this libel upon the candidates of his party. These shameless assaults upon the character of ruputable can didates whose only offense is that they are opposed to prohibition will be bitterly resented by every fair-minded voter on Tuesday. These attacks upon well known citizens who refuse to jwear the prohibition label are made by impractical, narrow-visiorted bigots who have become Mono-Maniacs upon the subject of the liquor traffic. They form a class by themselves and among them are few, if any men of financial standing and business ability. Manifestly there is but one way in which to cope with such tactics. That is, for every liberal minded voter who is opposed to prohibition to center upon four candidates for police commis sioners who seem to be stronger than the others. This view of the matter was taken by the Executive Committee of the Nebraska Personal Rights League, whose members believe that the surest way of circumventing the prohibitionists is by combining the entire strength of the liberal element upon four candidates. After mature deliberation the committee reached the conclusion that it . was forced to take a positive stand and select four candidates for recommendation to the voters of Omaha. This the Committee did after a full and free discussion of the merits of every candidate, and the committee's selections are made without prejudice to other regular party candidates. The Nebraska Personal Rights league ta'kes pleasure in recommending to its members and to every voter in Omaha iu Voters of Omaha : favor of good government the following candidates for Police Other commissioners: FRED II. HOVE, Republican, by Petition In order to bo sure that your vote will be cottnted do not vote within this circle o but make a cross In the nquare a f te r each of these four najnea. IX W. .7. HUNTER, Republican, by Petition X CIIAS J. KARBACH, Republican, by Petition X WM. F. WAPPICII, Republican, by Petition X These men are well known in Omaha They stand for law en forcement and for the maintenance of peace and good order. We believe that they would be just, fair and conservative in the ad ministration of the affairs of the Fire and Police Commission. On the other hand, we believe that the candidates of the Anti-Saloon League would adopt the old methods of radical prohibitionists by resort to the spy system and other reprehensible measures by which v neighbors are embittered against each other, and false construc tions are constantly attempted to be put upon the statutes. In this connection, we must not overlook the fact that the statute wisely gives to the office of police commisioner, acting as an excise of fiter, wide latitude for the exercise of individual discretion in the performance of duty, and this being the case it is our duty to see to it that narrow-minded bigots are prevented from holding such office. The position calls for able, honorable, broadminded men of capacity for the conduct of public business along rational lines. In view of all the circumstances of the case, the Personal Rights League officers feel justified in asking the voters of Omaha to forget, for the moment, party affiliations and to cast their ballots for the above ticket. In such a course there is less risk than other wise. We must center upon a given ticket if we would be sure to win. . BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ROBERT O. FINK, Secretary Nebraska Personal Rights League. -N