Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1903, Page 29

Holland’s I' IS odd that senate or con Bress investigation committee h perceived the necessity of King a p through Java, the Pearl of the Orient, and {its sister island, Sumatra, or at least parts of the latter tion to be visited without fatal cor through such island as are quences Holland many that face the Uni 1a these posses the problems sions of he Philippin have been under methodical and cosy, if not brillia ol ion for alraost a century For a century the Dutchmar burden i Achin has amused itself by flou : his au thority ard also cutting his head off, when ever possibl erved timistic and smoking it to be pre Every few months the Hollander announce to an patient o} indif ferent world that the last fight h b fought, and that within a day or two therc \fter the Dutch troops will enter v ri somehow one never ars of that final arrival, and the suspicion is ways in the air that what percent Dutch troops does at last enter the ese capital does so in the venirs of the oc torious Achir form of sou sion The Achinese sits in simple ecase and with cheerful readiness to do murder fr his country of A which lies in th northern end of Sumatra. \When the Dutch send troops out from Batavia they face about the same prope I if they had to send troops through wild and moun tainous country from New York to Chicago for that is about the length of Sumatra Gleam SCOTT, Kar T FORT the othe day a jury ir he d ict cour returned a ve finding a cer tain accused | ilty of lar ceny. The ve had not beer priepared in the technical desired and the judge sent the jury back to make the necessary corrections. Th I was gone for half an hour, and when it returned it brought in a verdict acquitting the prisoner, But a verdict even more amusing was per- petrated by a jury at Pittsburg last Mon- day. The case eriminal one, and after a few minutes’ consultation the jury filed into the box from its room. *“Have you agreed upon a verdict?” asked the judge. **“We have,”” responded the foreman, passing it over. ‘“‘The clerk will read,” said the judge. And the clerk read, “We, your jury, agree to disagree.” was a ““The funniest experience that T have ever had in all my years of practice at the bar occurred during a murder trial,”” said a lawyer quoted by the Philadelphia Lcdger ““An Irishman was to be tried for murder, and from what I had learned about the case I felt that my client wonld be con victed, if not for first degree murder, then surely for second degree murcer. 1 was 80 uneasy about the matter that I went to an Irish friend of mine and deliberately planned to prevent conviction in either de- gree. This friend of mine was a juryman and his chances of getting on the jury in the murder case were very good, so I urged him to stick until the last for a verdict of manslaughter. He said he would, and I knew that he would keep his promise ‘The panel was exhausted, and my friend Pat was one of the twelve men in whose hands rested the fate of my client. I was positive that he would not hang. The trial was an interesting one, and the jury re- tired after listening to the judge’s charge Seven hours passed before they returned ‘““The poll of the jury showed that the prisoner was guilty of manslaughter, and Players of Nebraska Wh Beyond the fact that the Achinese are upon him in state, with constant assur- cious bird in a golden cage T'o do exceedingly industrious in their national ances that he is sitting somewhere else honor, a squadron of square-shouldered profession of killing persons who invade entirely Dutch cavalry never fails to escort them, little is known about them. They So it is that the Javanese is happy in the when he goes out do not encourage visits, and Achin is pr conviction that his holy dattos or Kkings To make sure that he shall no eminently a bourne from which no traveler &till rule him. The emperor of Sura illness or fatigue by going out too karta still holds his gorgeous imperial the elder brother has so arranged it juently the most accurate and re court in beautiful Surakarta, whose land ecach residency that his royal highnes liabl l fcs that cven the statistic scape looks as if it were chiseled out of shall never venture from his golden palace mad Dutcl can produce about this lapis lazuli and emerald, The twenty-one until that good elder brother shall brother of our own T logs is that more her kings and princes and dattos have considered the wisdom of it Neither than 10,00( tout Dutch soldiers have de their grand palaces and their dancers and his royal 'ighnese be annoyed by fmprope parted this life and about one hundred their ministers. Their people and their persons. The elder brother takes care million stout Dutch dollars have done the officials still crawl toward them on hands that, too, by scanning the names of intend same, in efforts to make the Achinese a and knees ing visitors before permitting them to ¢ good Dutchman. And the net result is that So careful is the placld Durchmun not to To do still further honor to the Javanes the Achinese is identically as free, mur- hurt the feelings of his burden that the brinces, the affectionate Dutchman derous and native as he was before the Dutch resident who is stationed in cach of built very pretty fort &0 situated first Dutchman landed on Sumatra these twenty-two provinces of Java is not ©ve Javanese palace Is commanded neatly South of Achin are several millions of ©ven known as governor, although he js and completely kindly savages who are the result of an the great boss, with almost all powers of Once the Javanese princes started ingenious mixture of the blood of Malays @ king. Instead, his title is that of eld move their palace or kratol which from the Malay peninsula, head-hunting brother to the king or datto the native hame of the big groups of build Dyaks of Borneo and gentle Hindoos. Thi The Javanese prince v holy pe 1 ings that are necessary to the majesty mixture, which is known as Battak, is indecd, to his subj I'hey approach him the brilliant life. The prince highly successful in ite own way Some of only with awed veneration, and his wish that it was a religious law that the th tribes have the fad of cannibalism: s sacred must not remain on the same site for others have chosen the Dutchman's “‘squar Almost all of the twenty-two native rul. than a century, and ihe century was face,” and under the soothing influences ¢€rs are immensely rich. Indeed, if it can up of his gin and his money they labor in the be said that any human being can have Whatever the Dutchman may pepper and tobacco plantations and are Without stint whatever he desir be it thought about the religious part of the model citizens according to their dim what it may, it may be 1id of these Jav planation, he did not wink an eyelid lights. anese greatnesses, whose divine authority agreed cheerfully. Only, he remarked As in the Philippines, the dattos, or Is recognized by the majority of the 33,000 course he would feel it incumbent on native chiefs, have serious of the been, and are, the mest 000 people who dwell in the Indies There is only one exception to the list «f the what they have. That one exception is freedom. The Javanese Dutch East to many factors in the tangled problem of colonial empire The Dutchman has treated the datto with placid and truly Dutch poanderosity, sitting may ruler is a pre of Mirth Which Brighten after the jurymen were discharged I walked until I brought them around to manslaugh- up to Pat and said: ) e ‘‘Pat, you saved the day. It was a —@ great piece of work for you. How did you Bert Nortoni of Macon, Mo manage to bring the other eleven to your suit in the federal way of thinking?' few days ago in a way Oh, 1 had the divil's own time of doin' yers—by silence. Mrs it This is on the quiet. When we first of Macon sued the began to ballot, eleven of thim fellows Santa Fe Railway company was for acquittal, but I stuck to my job claimed that won a law Hannital a unusual amoag law- Murtha B. Phipps Atchison, Topeka & for $15,000. She a spark from one of its en- court at (CHINESE SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, OMAHA t League Who Took Part in the § honor the forts also course, would gines husband’'s business property at testimony stopped at of the fire, but also that the fire was well under and the road's attorneys ridiculous to maintain that a fire could started by a spark and get in such a short princes by moving the kratons in their new site And said the Dutchman, the no doubt, be borne by the burning of her Ethel caused the showed that the Ethel four minutes the way before the train pulled argued that it well under time, Mr Flashlight Photo by a Staff Artist Tournament at Omaha--Flashlight Photo by a Staff Arti incur often, have may that leclared kratons mors about have Dutch so that they ehould still protect expens princes decease Santa Fe trah night Nortonl devoted Method of Governing in the Orient The princes have not changed the loca tion of their kratons The Dutchman control of the dways in absélute situation, however. There is a Javanes Bismarck He is so clever that the Dutch have given him the name His right name is more difficult to re member It is Raden Adipati Sosrodinin sister of of Sura in that similar to the post of wrat He is the husband of the karta, and occupies a rand court position that is premier or imperial chancellor in Buropean courts T'he importance of his lized when it is that the rule of the native chiefs is direct I'hey govern the people under I the Dutch hide behind dthough they pull the men the Euro tive wre judged and ruled by the princ AS | the policy of the Duteh, in add tion to this, to conciliate the native popu making it feel that {ts interest are prote d particularly, the tendency is to give the native the best of it in natives and white men office can be 1 tood more clearly unde native law them, so tha strings of govern ean s well as the na lation by alway disputes between Consequently, the character of the impe rial chancellor at Surakarta is of vast im portance All leases, contracts and other plantation stand between transactions connected with come before him, He must the princes and the Dutch government, and that i& no sinecure, for the Javanese prince is an autoeratic and haughty person, who is spoiling for a scrap with his elder brother, and also the preat father 1" Hatavia olemn Court Proceedings practically his entire argument to this point He said, says the Macon Republican ‘it a young fellow was sitting on a sofa ‘playing hands’ with his girl, time tray eled like an express (rain, but if you parks on the pine summer time dumped a lot of engine roof of a dry building in four minutes were ample to settle the fate of the structure in spite of all efforts to save it There incredulous smiles at this. The attorney took out his were some watch and handed it to Juryman L. 8. Har lan, a banker of Clifton Hill, Randolph county, and requested him to signal when four minutes had passcd, The jurymen leancd over and looked down at the watch Then they got tired and settled back in their seats. Mr. Harlan lowered his hand and rested it on his knees. The attorney shifted his feet a few times, and sat down in a chair. Judge Adams looked at the clock aud then out of the window. ““A deputy marshal put his head in at the door to see what was the matter and waited the result of the curlous scene Nearly every man in the room that had a watch was studying its face. The speaker was sacrificing four minutes of his allot ted time, but he felt that it was well in. vested, At last Juror Harlan announced the four minutes had expired and handed the watch back to Mr. Only four minutes, and yet to every man in the room it had seemed, under the suppressed ten sion, to have been twi The court remarked after the case had been de cided that it appeared fully fifteen min- utes, The wearisome suspense was an ef- fecetive object lesson to the jury and a startling exposition of what might trans pire iu that time. The jury found that the defendant's engine had ample time in four minutes to fire the restaurant buila- ing, and they brought 1n a verdict for the plaintiff for $14,198.28—the exact sum her proof showed her loss to be.” The case had been pending In the courts ten years. Nortoni. as long was