Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1910, Page 14

MASOURIDES EVIDENCE E DS‘ @ i ;.l‘rhl of South Omaha Greek Down to Oratory. DEFENDANT IS LAST WITNESS Man on Trial Tells Story of the Shoot- ing with Little Variation from at Given at the For- mer Hearing. All the evidence was in at noon today in the Masourides murder trial, but it is not likely that the jury will take the case | before some time tomorrow. A full day | of argument s probable Opening speeches for the state and the defense are being made this afterncon by | Deputy County Attorney A. ¢. Ellick and | J. B. Rait respectively and J. M. Mac- farland was expected at least to start | his address this afternoon In behalt of the Greek. Whother he will finish this aft- ernoon was regarded as uncertain by hin self. County Attorney English will take at least two houts to close for the state. Mr, English has an address which has been corked up a full year. At the first trial, it wil be remembered, the defense walved argument, when Mr. Elifck had concluded and the case went at once to the jury. In view of the verdict which resulted It I8 not likely that this procedure will be repeated this time. The defense did not put Lillle Breese on the stand, but closed its case in chlef with the testimony of the defendant, who was subjected to a long cross-examination county attorney developed some discrep ancles with Masourides' testimony at the first trial, but these were not on Impor tant points and the defense explained that #ho first interpreter incorrectly translated the Greek's answers. On direct examina- | tion the Greek told, on the whole, the | same story as before; that he had at- tempted to slide h's gun out of his pocket 80 that he would not be fined for carrying concealed weapons. Some plausibility at- taches to this excuse because just before this & number of ‘Greeks had been fined in Bouth Omaha police court on charge. Masourides asserted (hat the officer first put his own hand on the Greek's forearm and then, Jumping to one side, fired twice at the defendant. Not until then, averred, did he fire himself, The prisoner at the bar was followed by Dr. Elizabeth Lyman, who made an ex- amination of Lillle Breese foliowing the shooting. Her testimony, as last year, was such a he favorablo to the girl 18 The state in rebuttal offered little and the morning session closed at 11:30. Mr, Ellick began speaking at 2 p. m. It generally held that the state has made out, a little stronger case than at the first trial largely owing to the new witness, George H. King. On the other hand the Greek himself has made & much better impression both as a witness and In gen- eral appearance. BILLBOARD REFORMS IN CITIES Impulse of the Olty Beautiful Gain- ing Strength in Many Directions. 1s While our cities still suffer seriously from the billboard evil, the efforts to cur- tall it continue unabated. Massachusetts men are making another effort this year. 80 18 Chlcago. The supreme court of INi- nois has affirmed the right of the police to censure immoral posters. Montelalr women have introduced in that city the Idea of refraining from purchasing goods ad- vertised cn the billboard Worcester, Mass., under the leadership of Mayor Logan, I8 exercising @& most rigld over- sight. Various federations of Roman Cathollc women have entered the fleld and have been particularly active in Cin- cinnati. The Cantabridgla, a club of wo- men In Cambridge, Mass., s reported as having resolved not to buy any article advertised at the expense of the town. As a prellminary move in the campaign of moral suaclon, circular letters have been sent out to loading advertisers, asking their | co-operation fa the beautification of the city 9nd In the preservation of such natural beautles as already exist, and thus far the results have been surprisingly favorable. Many business men have agreed without conditions to abandon the billboard method of making their wares known, and som have agreed to join the movement p vided others will do so. The San Fran- olsco Real Estato board has been conduct- ing a determined crusade against bill- boards, because, in the language of an offi- clal, “the practice of placing the slgns | conspicuously in front of property not only | works a dire injury’ to the property Itself. but is very unsightly and creates a falso impression In the minds of visitors as well as our own eitizens. * There Is an ordinance in force regulating this matter, and it is well that this ordinance will now be strictly enforced.” Washington, D. C., has begun an carnest effort to rid the national capital of offensive boards, the commissioners of the djstrict having agreed last summer to refuse any more permits. It is about time, for the records show that from January 1 to July 15, 1909, permits for billboards on 182 walls and f1°t; six fences had been issued. All the un- slghtly boards fn the nelghborhood of the new Union station have finally been re- moved and steps taken to secure, if pos- sible, the removal of the signs on the walls. The corporation counsel of Scattle has recommended that the legislature be urged to amend the law glving cities the right to condemn publie property for ‘*‘public uses” in such way as to bring the right to use property for billboard advertising within the eminent domain power of mu nicipalities, thus grauting municipalities the power to condemn such rights. Such act, the Post-Intelligencer points out, would, I sustained by the courts, enable the cities of the state to rid the streets of unsightly signs which now mar them, and they would do it, of course, by Instituting condemnation procecdings and by award- ing of damages, agreeably to the practice in other cases where property Is put to “public use.”—The Outlook, New York. TRADE EXCURSION BEARS FRUIT Over Six Hundred Columus of News- The fact that the Omaha trade excursion creates a Eroat deal of Interest In the sec- tion visited, is borne out by the fact that over (00 columns of news In'regard to the trip and the party that took it has been sent to the Publicity bureau of the Com- mercial club from South Dakota papers alone. It Is expectéd that other papers will be received which will increase the space to at t 1,000 columns levue yesterday afternoon, RHB, 001100000841 000000001132 Wesleyan, Crane, ~ Miller, Campbell and Stringfellow; Bellevue, Sweetland and Stookey. SUTHERLAND—PFred Plerson, one of the best known land men In western Nebraska, was taken to Omaba for an operation for sppendicitis. ller Weleh ana | articles ar | the special departments are unusually fn- | Thomas Bamson Miller offers another of | the usual \ June Magazines In the June Scribner's Mr. Roosevelt con- tinues his narrative of his hunting experi- ences in Africa, and the photographs of | wild game arc among the best ever taken. Among the other articles are “Some Ameri- can Preparatory Schools” by Arthur Ruhl, The Proposed Development of Inland | Waterways” by Samuel O. Dunn, "Skagen,"” an account of a Danish village frequented by painters, by Rickert, and “Mo- lere and Louls X1V" by Brander Matthews. In addition to the serfal by Maurice Hew- lett the fletion Includes short stories by Edith Wharton, Nelton Lloyd and Gerald Chittenden The Century for June contains & paper by George Kenni reviewing the events | that have taken placs in Russia since the Bloody Sunday” of January, 1905, and R. MacMechen and Carl Dionstbach pre- sent a novel forecast of the possibilities of aerlal warfare. Andrew Carnegle contrib- | utes an article on “Peace Versus War” and Willilam M. Chase writes on “The Two Whistlers.” The fiction includes the serfal by May Sinclair and short storics by Ade- line Knapp and Dehorah Joy. Harper's for June opens with. an article n the origin of the Marselllaise” by Desh- | Florence Lucas Sanville Life of the Silk Mil v ore.” les W. Furlong eontribut “Among the Shcep Ranches of agonin” and Galllalrd Hunt writes of s Madison's First Drawing Room.” The fictlon is by Fannfe Heaslip Lea, James Iopper, Winona Godfrey, Caroline Brett McLean, with another installment of the serial, “The Wild Olive." With the June number Everybody's cele- brates its eleventh birthday, and the end of the seventh year under the present ownership. Harrls Dickson and Isidore P. Mantz contribute an article on “Will Your Widow Get Her Money?' which calls at- tention to the weakness in fraternal life insurance and how it may be cured. Judge Ben B. Lindeey answers his crities In a final article, and Frederic C. Howe writes of Cleveland's “Glolden Rule” chlet of police. Among the writers of short storles are Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Donal Ham- fiton Haines and Bessle R. Hoover. Hampton's for June opens with the story of Rostand's “Chantecler Peary contlimues his narrative of “The Dis- of the North Pole Charles Ed- ward Russell has another paper on the Southern Pacific railroad’s control of Call- and the fiction Is contributed by erick Palmer, Ellis Parker Butler and rles Belmont Davis, In the June number of the Strand, George Edwards writes his “Reminiscences,” and Willy Clarkson discourses on the “Art of Disguise.” An anonymous writer contributes an article on “The Art of the British Work- ing Man,” and another series of life;sized portraits 1s glven. The fiction Is clever and Interesting. In the World magazine for June, shark fishing, bear hunting, show boating, swim- ming. etc., are all dealt with, and Laurence D. Young affirms that a man accomplished the superhuman task of swimming the Whirlpool Rapids of Niagara. Other articles include an account of the little known kingdom of Ternate and the “Enchanted Islands.” The World Today for June contains “The Elimination of Graft* by Brand Whit- lock; “What the English Have Done for Egypt,” by Henry C. Morris; “Ploneering Universal Brotherhood 'he Security of Investments in Mexico,” by Theodore K. Long; “Health for the Makers of Health Foods," by Truman Armstrong; “The Har- vest Moon/' by Augustus Thomas, and “A Holiday in Norway,” by Garton Foster, Lippincott's for June opens with a story by Marie Louise Goetchdus, entitled “Fran- eine,” and among the short stories are “The Wendstone of the Corner,” by Eden Philpotts; “A Cabin and a Claim,” by Will Levington Comfort; ‘‘Stage-Struck,” by Copinger; “Dr. Blodgett's Duty,” by Arthur Stanley Riggs; “The Chauffeur,” by Eleanor ‘M. Ingram and ‘“Bluebeard Closets,” by Elisabeth Maury Coombs. The June Smart Bet contalns a new story by Baroness von Hutten, and among the short storles contributed are: “The Strates ' by Bllen Duvall; “Twenty Minutes,” by Lucine Finch; “A Bottle of Yquem,” by T. D. Pendleton, and “For the Girl Back North," by ward Marshall Other features are a one act play by Edmund Elllott Shephard, and verse and sketches by Theodosia Garrison, Arthur Stringer and Elizabeth Payne, In the Delineator for June the special “The Man Who Has lutionized Five Hundred Bunday Schools, by Allen H. Benson; ‘“The Theater School for Discipline,” by Louise Closser Hale, and “Women In the Indlan Serv- ice," by Francls E. Leupp. A Kipling stoty ledds the fiction and there are short storles by Alice Drown and Majorle L. C. Plckthall. There ars the usual number of fashions shown and teresting. In the Woman's Home Companion for June, Grace 8. Richmond begins a new ro- mance, and among the writers of short storles are Annle Hamlilton Donnrll, Hastings, Hulbert Footner and Heaslip Lea. The.speclal departments are filled with timely and good advice, with the usual number of fashions by Grace Margaret Gould, The Columbian magaszine opens with an article by Edward Marshall entitled “The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt,” and Mrs. Quinby, the wife of Now Hampshire's governor, writes briefly in behalf of wo- man. Former Governor Francls, appeals | to the south to achleve and hold the place which belongs to it in our union of states, and Dr. Willlam T. Hornaday, director of the New York zoological park, describes, with many {llustrations, the wild antmals under his care. The Red Book for June opens with & story by Robert Herrick, entitled ‘‘The Kiss" Onoto Watanna contributes an amusing Anglo-Japanese tale entitled he Marriage of Okiku-S8an,” and Leo Lebowich, & new ghetto writer, tells of the ‘“Ambitions of BSamke Rodinsky," his tales of the west coast of Africa, and Willlam Hamilton Osborne has one of his #Dorothy Dacres” tales In this number. The June Alnslee's contains serials by Harold McGrath Gnd Emily - Post. Other storles are: “The Pocketbook,” by Jo- seph C. Lincoln; “Dust Ahead,” by Allce Prescott Smith; “The Three-legged Man, by Ella W. Peattle; “The Living Tl by Samuel Gordon; ‘“Mrs. Roland by Jane W. QGuthrie; “A Mid- winter - Night," by F. Berkeley; “The Sacrifice,” by Owen Oliver; “Jupiter Ann, by Eleanor H. Porter, and “The Widow's Crulse,” by lan Hay, Harper's Basar for June 15 made up of | artillery company of Boston, many yeass SATURDAY, Thompson contributes an article on “The Passing of the Shaker,” while the fiction is by Alice Brotwn, Annle Hamilton Don nell and Marguerite Merington. The June Bookman is & Mark Twain number, and among those contributing articleg are Firmin Dreed, Charles Han- son Towne, Henry M. Alden, Balley Mil- lard, Arthur Bartlett Maurice, Harry Thurston Peck and Frederick A, King Max Nordau tells of Rostan Chante- cler,” and Clayton writes of ropean Dramatists on the American Stage,” and there is the usual review of new booki MARK TWAIN AS A SOLDIER How He Fought for His Country in the 3 of Mine “If you tight as well as you feed, God protect the enemy,” exclaimed Mark ‘I'wain in addressing the ancient and honorable ago. The humorist was himself a warrior, had felt the thrills and throbs ot warriors in peace and war, and claimed to have made & record as a soldler as glorious as any ancient within reach of his voice. This was his experlenco as a soldier: In the earliest summer days of the war I slipped out of Hannibal, Mo., by night, with a friend, and joined a detachment of | the rebel General Tom Harrls' army (1 find myself in a minority here), up a gorge behind an old barn in Rolls county. Col- onel Rolls swore us in. He made us swear o uphold the flag and constitution of the United States, and to destroy any other military organization that we caught doing the same thing. In other words, wo wers to repell invasion Well, you see, this mixed us. We couldn't really tell which side we were on, but we went into camp and left it to the god of battles (for that was the term then). I was made second lleutenant and chlef mogul of a company | of eleven men; for we had no captafn. My friend, who was 19 years old, six fe"t‘ high, three feet wide, some distance through, and just out of the infant school, was made orderly sergeant. His name was Ben Tupper. He had a hard time. “Ben Tupper had been rightly reared, and when he was ready for bed he would start to pray, and if a rat would bite him on the heel, then he would sit up and swear all night (laughter), and keep everybody awake. He was town bred and did not seem to have any correct idea of military discipline. If 1 commanded him to shut up he would say: ‘Who was your nigger last year? One evening I ordered him to ride out on picket duty about three miles, to the beginning of a prairfe. Sald he: “What? In the night! and them blamed Unfon soldlers likely to be prowling around there any time!’ S0 he wouldn't go. Next morning I ordered him again. 8ald he: ‘In the rain!—I think I see my- seltl’ He didn’t go. Next day I ordered him on plcket duty once more. This time he looked hurt. Sald he: What! on Sun- day? You must be a damn fool! (Laugh- ter) Picketing was impracticable, 0 I dropped it from my military syst:m “We had a_good enough time there at that barn, bairing the rats and the mos- quitoes and the rain. We levied on both parties impartially, and both parties hated us Impartially. But one day we heard that the invader was approaching; so we had to pack up and move, of course, Inside of twenty-four hours he was coming again. So we moved again. Next day he was after us once more. We didn't like it much, but we moved rather than make trouble. This went on for a week or. ten days, and we saw considerable scenery. Then Ben Tupper lost patience. Said he ‘War ain’t what it's cracked up to be; I'm golng home if I can’t ever get a chance to sit down. Why do those people keep us a-humping around so? Blame thelr skins, do they think this is an excursion? Some | of the other town boys began to grumble; they complained that there was an insuffi- clency of umbrellas. So I sent around to| the farmers and borrowed what I could. | Then they complained that the Worcester- | shire sauce was out. There was mutiny | and dissatisfaction all around and of course here came the enemy pestering us again— as much as two hours before breakfast, too, when nobody wanted to turn out, of | course. This was a little too much. The whole command felt insulted. I sent an alde to the brigadier and asked him to cselgn us a distriet where there wasn't so much bother golng un. The history of our | campaign was laid before him, but instead of belug touched by It, what dld he do? He sent back an indignant message. He €ald: ‘You have had a dozen chances inside | of two weeks to capture the enemy, and | he is still at large. Feeling bad? Stay where you are this time or I will court-| martial and hang the whole of you' I| cubmitted this rude message to my com- | nand and esked their advice. Said the | orderly sergeant: ‘If Tom Harrls wants the cnemy, let him come and get him; 1| aln’t got any use for my share. And who's Tom Harris, anyway, that's putting on so many frills? Why, I knew him when he wasn't nothing but a darn telegraph oper- ator. Gentlemen, you can do as you| choose; as for me, I've got enough of this sashshaying around so's you can't get a chance to pray, because the time's all re- quired for cussiug. So off- goes my war paint—you hear me! The whole regiment | sald: ‘That's the talk for me! 8o then| aud there my brigade disbanded itself and | tramped off home. I at the tail of it. 1| hung up my sword and returned to the| arts of peace.” HOLLAND AND ITS TULIPS| ¥loral Charms of Today Memories of Anclent Swinale, In going from Amsterdam to Copenhagen, Mr. Hoosevelt went from the scene of a great swindle of the seventcenth century to the scene of an equally notorious swindle in the twentleth century. Conrad Gessner| had successtully transplanted the tullp from | Constantinople to Germany in 1559, In the forepart of the seventeenth, originating in the Netheriands, the “tulip mania” im- poverished investors all over Europe. As| high as 13,00 florins—$5,20~was paid for | one bulb of the species, known as Semnar | Augustus. Ownership, even in a single bulb, as frequently divided into shares; there | as the wildest speculation on bulbs not yet In existence, by men who possessed | not so much as a squaré foot of land for a garden. Large quantities of bulbs were | s0ld on paper, far In excess of the num- | ber actually produced. When the crash | finally came thousands of the speculators | lost all they had. It was a long time be- fore tullp culture in Holland recovered from the -effects of the financial disaster that | overtook the vietims of the tullp mania But when the sturdy common eense of the people returned they set to work in sober | earnest to rationalize the cultivation of the | flower, with the result that today there | are 1,800 recognized varieties grown in the | Netherlands, and 8,200,000 pounds of bulbs | are shipped every year to the United | States, Between The Hague and Haarlem | in the season thousands of mcres are given over to the cultivation of these beautiful flowers, whose languorous incense monop- | olizes the alr thelr gorgeous coloring transforms the earth into an Orlental car- pet.—Philadelphia Led, Revive | A Shooting Serape with both parties wounded, demands Buck- len's Arnica Salve. Heals wounds, sores, burns or injuries. 2c. For sale by Beaton | departments, and Jean M. Drug Co i Let This Be Your One Aim. land! it now! Buy Buy Every man should own a lot of land. Certainly every young man should own some. The opportunity is greater now than it has been in fifty years to realize on good property. 'In The Bee today many tempting offers appear. People who acquired large estates are willing now that others may share with them. Wide awake dealers are advertising these liberal propositions today. Take advantage of it! Do it now! There is no possible way for you to ever regret it. For further information regarding this property call Doug- las 238, or address The Bee Land Department.