Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 7, 1901, Page 4

ne a here | | | | | } Al \LL CASES peal Eye en ie ns fan By, Skat ion WA guRE YOu Beores of Men Who Rob Ranks Are Never Brought to the Bar of Juctice, “alvord’s theft of $100,000 and Schreiber’s of $106,000,” said an expert | accountant, according to the Philade’- phia Record, “go to show that in all} business it is impossible to prevent dis- | honest men from stealing. No matter | how thorough the auditing may be, no | matter how closely the heads watch those under them, every man who handles money can steal, with a reason- able chance of escaping detection. | ‘That more such men don’t steal speaks | well for human nature, but I must qua?- | ify this statement with the additiona! one that many do steal and are caught, | but their employers, while discharging them, do not make public their crimes. | It isn’t charity which impels the em- ployers to do this, though; it is a fear | of hurting the credit of the firm. “You can safely say that 90 per cent. of the thieving employes of Philadel- phia are not brought to justice. Usua: ly they arrange to pay back their defal- cations on the installment plan. Iknow abachelor of 43 whoin his youth robbed the bank that employed him of $4,999, with which he speculated, hoping to make encugh to marry. He lost all, was discovered and is still paying off, t of a paltry salary, that debt ot shame. I know the histories of scores of defaulters, and in every ease the thefts were, in a way, innocently begun. Yhe money was taken with the deter- mination that it would be replaceé,” | | Quicksilver Flasks, The bottles or flasks used for trans- porting quicksilver are generally made of boiler iron and are cylindrical in shape, about 12 inches in height and four inches in diameter, with a screw plug inserted in one end. The capacity of a flask is 7614 pounds and its weight about 14 pounds. Such flasks are used by all producers of quicksilver, and pass through the hands of various dealers till they reach the consumer. The total num- ber used in this country cannot be very large, as the total product last year of quicksilver in the United’! States was but 28,879 flasks, and the | same fiask can be used again acd vgain till it gets too rusty inside. a flask can easily last 25 years. We un- derstand most of those now in use are made abroad, but an American firm also has made them. Most of the sec- end-hand flasks can be bought for 25 or 30 cents apiece. New Form of Phonograph, Among the exhibits at the Paris exposition was a phonograph, invent- ef by Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish en- ginger, which uses a ‘wire-wound in- stead of a wax-covered cylinder. The wire is of steel, and over it, in place of the usual stylus, passes a small clectro-magnet connected with a tel- ephone transmitter sad battery. The sound waves cause a variation in the atensity of the electro-magnet, and the magnet, acting upon the wire passing beneath it, leaves a perma- ueot impression upon the latter, Upon reversing the action the wire reects on the magnet and correspond: ing sounds are transmitted by the tel- epbone. In order io obliterate the magnetic trace on the cylinder it iz only necessary to revolve it under the magnet while this is subjected to a continuous current. Diseontented Turks, The nuanber of discontented Turks must be 6normous. Forty-eight thou- sand have been exiled during the last ii years. To these must be added ‘hose who have fled and those whe ore related to the exiles. During the | jast five years more than $4,889,000 _ has been spent by the sultan in try- es to persuade the Ss sacs 20 Be AKING HABIT. lowed in Almost Infintte Variety. ris, says This is the pres- Po. fashion af takicg 1 medi- ge quantiiics and in almost ty. Several distinguished alists from Germany attributed to this habit, which is common in rly. the whole werld. the orgin of several intestinal affections practically ‘ation and Gne of th fat in laxativ in the mi pan kag gone benefit of means of supply to be consumed w. jal have not been forthes: present gen is distinctly eater of sw not of fats, but whi the former ply, the heat be obtained f: ata, supply cert: which are so important fo: performance of the. int: nl. fe tions. The use of the fats, that is, butter an@ crenm a3 well as milk itself was recommended as this form Jb RFERRINGS AND SAWDUST. sieney of t qualities 7 the proper Asphalt Pavemonts Way Be Made from These Subs The notice of ma icially tr scoms SO burlesque. sovtant jadustry. Unitar States Ranks @hira. it is just aos well to be truthfur Bron Beves ‘aerite Bevien| | t the rank cf the United Staics Paris exposition, as indicated | ne awards of prizes, says the Bos- | hy ton Herald. Commissioner Gen Peck's,’ Statement that the United States, efter France, secures the great- | est honors at the exposition is not cor- rect. The, latest figures show that, ‘erring France, it is Germany that is far and awey ubead of all other na- tions. The United States comes sec-} ond; Great Britain, with the British colonies, third. Germany has secured 251 grand prizes, the United, States, | 218, and Great Britain 179. these three great competing countriea Germany triumphs in fifty-one of tho 121 classes comprised in the exposi- tion. The United States wins in thiry- one classes, and Great Britain in thirty | classes. In other words, the verdict of As among} the international grand juries is that: the world’s fair, in proportion to that | of Germany, is as three {¢ five, Pubil aaa Sat By a a KILEY & SON. IN wo DOLLARS A YUAK ADVANCE qntered in the Postoliice at Grand Rapids Minnesota, as Secong-Class Mutter. “Oficial Paper of Itasca County, village of Grend Repids and Deer River aud Town of Grand Ranids. ND ON TCHR HER Prospects for Passage of the Army and Ship Subsidy Bills ia the Senate. MEASURES NOW I DERAS 3REAT flave Been Favorably Reported Oa by Two Successive Congresses-= Undeserved Opposition Attributa= ble Oniy to Pilibustering Tactics. {Special Correspondence] i Washington, Jan, 24. Before these words will reach the eye of the reader, doubtless, the army reorganiza- tion bill will have been disposed of in the senate. At. this writing the majority are so wrought up over the filibustering tactics pursued by a few populists who have been diseredited by their own home siates, and by a few renegade republicans, who fee! that they must oppose everything that will inany way strengthen the hands of the edminix tration, that there is every indication of some vigorous taikng, and, if that don’t work, then some vigorous action, that shail effectually squelch these hypocritical ene mies of American progress. As a matter of fact, when the people, by their votes, in last November, indorsed the administration and reelected President Me- Kinley, the people also indorsed the prin ciples and the polices advocated by the re publican party and by President McKin'ey. ‘These senators, however, who are now op- ng adminisiration measu: army bill, for instance, know very avell ine deed that they are attempting to thwart the will of the people in taking whatever ac- tion may be necessary to force to the rear where they belong ‘these discredited pops and renegade republicans. The tion has been repeatedly mado that the filibustering against the army bill in the senate is not that measure as it is agai mae the shipping bill, the latter being another great measure demanded by republicans wn their state and national conventions, sear after. year, and which. has been before two successive con- , and twice favorably reported for ge by both the bo nd the senate ttees having th in charge. But it is being seen, » that the shipping bill does not deserve this aspersion. The army bill, on its own me is opposed by the fag ends of repudiated and d ed and bobtail parties, solely to embai the pres- ident, and to give aid and comfort to the nation’s enemics in the Philippnes. The shippng bill, too, stands upon its own merits, and will, by the time this reaches the reader’s eye have been tored’ to its po- sition of precedence as unfinished business, the senaic, After the experi the senate have undergone in the discu: of the army bill they will be in nok a mood to sit tamely and permit the eo- ealled “kickers” in the senate to. occupy time in filibustering. And after the sh ping bill has been finally passed, it will be discovered that the actics of the pops and reneg: republicans will be just as much in evidence, no matter what the measure that they may have under dis- cussion. In short, the real purpose of the filibus- terers is to delay action on all administ tion measures, even the appropriation bills, in order'to embarraés the president and compel him to call congress in extra s: sion. If this despicable plan is successful, then these very people who have caused the extra session by preventing action upon im- portant measures during the time available will be the first’ to excoriate the president and the repubtican party, for what they will charge as extravagance, and a desire to pub through ali sorts of indefensible measures. The worst of it all is that, although the sin- cerity of a number of these objectors has long been questioned, it is only recently that their personal honesty has been impugned, but such pointed suggestions have been car- ried from them to those in control of af- fairs on the other side that “for a consi eration” they would cease their ‘‘opposi- tion,” that: the most unworthy of all mo- tives now seems to be at the bottom of some } of the most active and malignant of the op- ponents. >The effect of the passage of fhe ship- ping bill will be two-fold: 1. It will add to our quasi-military and naval strength, and give us a power and a prestige upon the’sea which we sadiy lack at present. 2. It will | gradually give to our own people the carry: j ing of our $2,500,000,000 worth of foreign commerce, and hence to our own people tha employment that goes with the payment of | $200,000,000 for carrying our foreign -com- merce, 91 per cent. of which now goes into the pockets of foreign ship owners. E7It is to be regretted that three or four influential republican senators should have | seen fit to secretly nurse grievances against the shipping bill so long, without frankly j stating the basis of their discontent. But as the matter has been brought to iight and 80 adjusted as to unite all republicans in ! favor of the measure, what might have hap- pened a month ago is likely to happen at any moment, now—that is to say, the passage of the bill. ‘TURNI G THE TABLES OUR English boys stood on the deck of a fast-sailing craft in the Mediterranean —which seemed to be making for the north coast of Africa—working sullenly and with downcast faces. One would rather have expected them to be looking bright, and keeping time to thei work with a song, for the day was beauti- fully fine, and the vessel bounded over the smooth sea at a grand rate. But their gloomy looks were fully explained by the | presence of a dozen or more dark, keen-eyed, fierce-looking men in eastern dress, one of whom—a big, powerfal, savage fellow, with a hideous scar across his. bearded face-- | shouted some order to the four lads every | now and then, followed up with a volley of | abuse in a strange, outlandish tongue. His manner was enough to depress any- one, and then his cursing and abuse were felt harder because they had never been ased to such treatment before. The thoughts of the boys were as gloomy as their faces, and ‘under the circumstances it eould hardly be different. The fact was that the Bristol bark Jacob, to which these boys belonged, had been cap- | tured two days before by a Turkish corsair, and the pirates had decided upon carrying their prize into Algiers, and selling her crew as.slaves to the Moors of Barbary—the usual fate of Christian captives in those days. But a sudden squall had separated the two vessels, and the Jacob was left alone upon the sea a crew of 13 Turks, in- cluding the big officer above mentioned, and the four English sailor lads, who had been put on board to assist in working the ship. Certainly the poor fellows might well look gloomy, with such a prospect before them; but anyone who had looked closely at the | face of Jack Long, the eldest of the four, a tall, active, curly-headed lad of 17, would | have noticed a sudden gleam in his bold, brown eyes which showed that he had not lost all hope even now. “I say, Harry,” whispered he to Harry Cook, while helping bim to haul in the slack of a rope, “are you gaine to fight if there’s a chance of our breaking loose?” “Rather!” answered Harry, emphatically —“anything rather than be made slaves 4 by these rascals.” “Well,” said Long, srl tell you how, 7 think we might do it.” And, bending forward, he whispered -a few words in his comrade’s ear. Harry Cook’s face brightened at once, and he was just about to.speak, when a warning gesture from Long checked him. “We mustn’t be seen talking together, oz these chaps will suspect something; bat, when you get a chance, just tell Jones and Tuckey yonder what we've planned, and see that they’re ready to bear a hand wher | they’re wanted.” Jack Long’s plan was simply to wait till the greater part of the pirate crew had gone below to rest (which they were now doing one by one, having been kept on deck all night by the storm), to imprison them by clapping on the hatches and battening them down, and then to attack those who were left on deck. It was a desperate venture, and certain death if it failed; but death itself seemed better than the hideous bondage that await- ed them in Algiers, and when Cook had succeeded in communicating the scheme to Tuckey and Jones, the looks exchanged by the four young heroes showed that they “meant business.” Meanwhile the day was wearing toward afternoon. The breeze had died away, and everything was stiflmgly hot and close. All of the Turks had gone below but five, four of whom were lying ha!f asieep on the deck, while the grim commander himself, Hussein Ali, had sat down to smoke his pipe in the shadow of the mainmast, still keeping a watchful eye, however, on the four prison- ers. All at once he rose to his feet and looked anxiously upward at. the sky, as if fearing that this sudden calm might betoken an- other storm. Then he shouted: “Take in the mainsail. 3g deh ee ispered Long, as they “| stow that sail elum- and come aloft to show us how to do then, the minute you hear me sing out: cleag below!’ grip him and chuck him over- board.” Brave as they were, all four felt their hearts beat quicker as'they mounted the rigging, » knowing that a few mimutes more must decide whether they were to live or die. To wi y went, and, as Long had forescen, i shouting, angri i“Is that how you stow a sail, you Chris- tian dogs? Your backs shall smart for this presently.” n- Ali soon came rushing aft, “All clear below!” eried Jack Long, es | ch s buiky figure was eee do ; bhe ie powerfu’ Mussulinan was not te be so eas of. Instead of alighting the water, he fel! | of the sail, and, clu ve, swung him- self on to the port bulwark. In another mo- ment he would have been safe on the deck; but just then Lo: i i lightning’ by a w up 4 heavy spar and ¢ the Turk ne within re; into the hollow on the head that seut iim down juto the sea | like a stone. “Now, Jones,” said the young leader, “clap the hatches npon those fellows below, while we jump for’ard and tackle the rest.” Jones obeyed, but the noise that he made in doing so fairly aroused the four sleepers on the forecastle, wlio had been already d turbed by the sounds of the scuflle with Tlussein Ali All four sprang to pheir feet at once, and, drawing their long knives, rushed upon the English boys. But just at the right moment Cook let go the forebrace on the starboard side, and the heavy rope flew back among the Turks, knocking one overboard and completely stunning a second. Long’s club felled the third, while Tuckey grappled the fourth, and soon had him at his mercy. Then, having tied the four disabled men to the mast, our heroes let loose the helm, which had been lashed amidship, and pro- ceeded to pet the craft's head around. But their perils were not over yet. A heavy thumping suddenly warned them that the nine imprisoned pirates below were try- ing to force open the closed hatch, which trembled et every stroke. “Drag that coil of rope on to the hatch, boys!” shouted Long. “‘All together, now! Pulling with all their strength, they suc- ceeded in getting the heavy coil upon the hatch, and, piling on top of it spars, blocks, chains and everything else they could get hold of, imprisoned the ruffians beyond all power of escape, : : The ship was now their own again, and early next morning the four daring lads “brought her safely into Gibraltar, which at that time belonged to Spain, where they turned the tables upon the pirates by selling them to the Spaniards for $50 apiece, which Long remarked, swith a grin—was deal more than. ‘the Saar were olden Dars.. Se ee aiid i i i | | | VSVSV a SoBSlSVeder bs cal vt } it century in advance of other ready mixed paints. For Sale by ws CHICAGO ee ’ i W. 2. & H. D. 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