The Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 6

Page Six. THE DECATUR I Wednesday Evening, August 11, 1909. Last Act In Spain's 400 Years of Failure the of Tunis, Algiers and Oran, in LI GEI LINCOLN falling fight that runs back 400 years. Those who wibh to get Spain's colonial story in a few words will not fail to read the article, and they will be Interested. The Sun man says: In widespread censure Which the recent tragic events in North African history have evoked, a.

Teal if an unintentional injustice has been done the Spanish nation. To the critics who haw recognized in the fighting about Melilla an effort to renew in Africa Colonial fortunes ruined In America the tragedy of the hour is hidden completely. Not 10 extend but to retain the remnants of an empire, the Spanish monarchy has risked its existence. Not to revive the dreams of Charles but to maintain the few raltry footholds a 400 years of fighting, Alfonso XIII. lias put his very throne In jeopaidj.

National honor, the history of the race, could hardly deserve less at the hands of Us sovereign. TJwe is a sad significance in the anniversary which the guns of Melilla celebrate. It Is 400 years exactly since Spanish arms triumphed in North Africa, and Oran, Algiers and Boujrio 'were conquered for Spain. It was In 1509 that conquests were made, and in 1535 Charles with his celebrated Admiral, Andrea Doria, captured the Goletta and made Tunis also a Spanish v.issal state. As for Melilla, four rears after Columbus set sail for America the peninsula fortress passed to Spain.

All that has happened since has been in small ttie story of Spain herself, the story of attrition, of d- lining greatness illumined only by the of bravp deeds ami impossible feats of courage which but postponed the Inevitable. The visitors to Oran today find at -very turn The evidences of Spanish occupation. For almost 300 years, with a single brief Interruption. Oran was Spanish territory, side UIP city nn From the hills he- a clear day one sees the Sierra Nevada in Spain, and every rock and ravine has been the scene of struggles innumerable. For the story of Oran Is the story of Melilla: 300 years of siege, ending, as It now seems as if the present siege -must end.

when Spanish troops at last sailed away. The traveller who enters the beautiful bas of Algiers sees almost his firsl landmark the Penon, the lighthouse of the old regime, built by Spanish Tiands upon the little islets that gave Algiers its name. Here for marly nine years of daily bombardment a Spanish garrison maintained Itself, surrendering at last yielding to the apparent destiny of Spain in North Africa. Oran is a French city, will broad avenues, splendid buildings and the color of a city of metropolitan France But its people are still Spanish. Of its 100.000 people half are Iberian this belongs to the French and not the Spanish.

Three hundred years of fighting has been in vain, and the history of lost causes roust Include that of Spain in Eastern Barbary. Since the days when Charles V. gathered broken army under the walls of Algiers and fled, the ebb tide has remained constant. Of all the future in North Africa, which 400 years ago opened so broadly to the Spanish, only Melilla and Ceuta are left. They are the tombstones rattier than the signboards of empire, however, and there Is ft certain cruelty ascribing to the present Spanish npalgn either the ambition or tho desires of conquest Tha truth, of is that It only another day the four centuries of siege, another of the fatal days, It seems.

Is it to be the last? By the agreements of France, Ireat Britain and Spain, which the subsequent Algeciras conference Impaired without actually destroying, this 1 Rif- tian coast, so long watched by Spanish garrisons in Melilla and Ceuta, was was finally allotted to Spain to rule. From the light bank of the Sebu to the of the Muluya the primacy of Sp.nn was conceded as of right, the recognition of claims that date from the day of Columbus. The great empire of North Africa, of course, has passed to Prance. Out of the wreckage there has been left to Spain this pathetic fraction to have-if she can hold. Her failure here can mean but one thing.

Already French troop" garrison Oudj-a and Casablanca. Across the Algerian frontier French regulars, not but -soldiers of the legion and native troops of battle training, are waiting. If the troops of Alfonso XIII. fall, if the present boy king adds his name to that of the great Charles V. on the long list of African failures, end cannot, semingly, long be postponed-and M.lllla may follow the course of Oran and become a Spanish city under the cncli flag, and Cueta complete the humiliation that Gibraltar must ever a for the proudest of peoples.

Not for conquest, then, but againsi destinj, Spain is fighting the fearful fight at Melilla. It Is not the beginning of a new story--the effort to OMIT to a fresh page in colonial greatness--that has caused this bloodshed on th" Rifflan coast- It is not invasion, but defence, the latest, perhaps the last page in a siege 400 years long Only the most unfeeling and unsympathetic of critics, therefore, can fail to see in the tragedy at Melilla an appeal to sympathy rather than censure. Not to 3iave fought at Melilla would have earned for Spain the on- reproach that in 400 years of empiie she lias never yet deserved -not in lu-r darkest century, which bfgan with Saragossa and ended, at New York, Aug. D. Brenner, who designed the Lincoln penny, is malting a strong protest against having his Initials taken from the new cents.

He calls attention to the fact that the initials of Augustus St. Ggud- ens are on the gold coins which he INITIALS. Mr. Brenner understood that his full name was to be stamped on the coins and he is disgusted at the proposition to reduce his credit to the single Initial Coin collectors at first were much perturbed at the idea of calling in the new issue. But it appears that there have already been issued enough to supply one of the D.

pennies to one out of every four people and there seems small likelihood of a run. RUN ON SUB-TREASCTtV. But there was a run on the sub treasury at New York when the issue was first made. Newsboys in the Wai street district did a i i busmesi in Lincoln pennies. The police were needed to keep tin applicants, for new coins in line a the subtreasury and took at least ai hour of waiting to get to the window where they were being" issued.

To pre vent a monopoly the assistant treasure refused to issue more than $10 -nortl to anyone. The government issued 27,000,000 the much discussed Old Decatur Lawyer Took Delight In Sending Murderer to Death The August number of Law Notes' contains an interesting story of a former Decatur citizen, Judge Kirby Ben- There are few if any of the old lawyers here now who knew him personally, though all of the older members of the bar remember hearing him talked about many wears ago. He was one ot the first attorneys to come to Decatur Judge W. B. Nelson came here' in 1867, but Kirby Benedict had gone west before then.

Judge Nelson says that Klrby Benedict left behind him a reputation of being a good lawyer, a sharp, shrewd man, rather eccentric and something of a genius. This is amply verified in the story about him In Law Notes, headed "Rubbing It which is as follows: JUDGE BENEDICT WAS GLAD. When one Jose Maria Martin was in the vear 1S3S convicted of murder in Taos'count. N. sentence was pronounced upon him by Judge Kirbv Benedict as follows: "Jose Maria Martin, stand up.

You have been indicted, tried, and convicted by a of your counts men of the crime of i and the court Is now about to pass upon vou the dread sentence of the law. "As a usual thing, Jose Mariiv Martin, is a painful duty of the judge of a justice to pronounce upon a being the sentence of death. something horrible a it i naturally revolts from the Victor D. Brenner "Russian-American artist i the Lincoln pennv Ten Years Ago Today In Decatur of Mr. and Mrs.

O. Z. AUG. 11, 1809. Dr.

Will Barn'-s was president of a of men that were making ef- to get a country club launched fall. The Psalemas division of the Woman's club held its annual outing at the home of Miss Ella Lindsay on South Webster street. The patrol wagon was out of the shop with a new set of rubber tires and a coat of paint. Plymouth Glee club of the First Congregational church, was entertained at the home Greene. There was an excursion to Chicago and 125 people took advantage of the $2 rate for the round trip.

POTSOFGOIJ) CELLAR One and Another S9.000 Unearthed. Leramie, July 11--Two pots of gold found In the cellar of Willam Taylor of Rock River, have caused legal complications. Taylor lured Reuben Stockwell and J. White to enlarge his celar two weeks ago. While digging the men uncovered a pot containing J3.500 in gold.

The divided the money and began painting the town red. While drunk they re vealed their secret and Taylor, claim ing his father had buried the gold. ha( Ihem arrested. They were put unde heavy bond and a dozen of the richest men In the country bailed them out. They now have begun suit against Taylor for recovery of the money.

Taylor yesterday dug up another pot containing $9,000 In gold and will keep on digging. i a There Is som and a of such a duty. 'Happily, however, your case Is re- liPMil nf all such unpleasant features. The court takes a positive delight in sentencing you to death. You aie a young man, Jose Maria Martin, apparently of good constitution and robust health.

Ordinarily vou might have looked forward to m.in years of life and the court lias no doubt have and expected to die at a green ok age, but you about to be cut of: in consequence of your own act Jose Maria a i it is now the spring time in a i i the grast, will bt up green in these beautifu a and these broad mesas and or the a i sides. Flowers will b( blooming, birds will be singing theli carols and a i will be put sweet ting on her most attractive robes, and life will be pleasant ajid men will want to stay. But none of this for you, Jose Maria Martin. The flowers will not bloom for you, Jose Maria Martin. The girds will not sing their sweet carols for you, Jose Maria Martin.

When these things to gladden the senses of man, you will occupy a spa(e six by two beneath the sod, and the and these beautiful flowers will green growing about lowly lead. "The sentence of the court is 1 that you be taken from this place to county jail. That you be safely kept and securely confined in the custody ot the i the day appointed for i our execution. "Be a i Mr. Sheriff, that ha have no opportunity to escape, and that you a him at the appointed place at the appointed time.

That you be so kept. Maria Martin, until Mr. Clerk, upon whit day of the month does Frida about two weeks from this time come?" "March 22d, your honor." "Very well, i Filday, the 22d of March, when will be taken by the sheriff from your place of confinement to some safe and convenient spot within the county, and that you be there hanged by the neck i dead. 'And the court was about to add, Jose Maria Martin, 'may Qod have m-r- on your but they will not assume the responsibility of asking an All Wise Providence to do that which a of your ppers have refused to do. "The Lord could not have mercy on your soul.

Howeier, if you affect any religious belief, or if you are connected with any religious organization, it i be well for you to send for your priest or your minister and get from him. well, such consolation as you can, Waiting for Pennies Scores of New York Newsies formed In i at I lie a to i South American Diplomats Think So and Give Reasons. Washington, Aug. 11. Is Bolivia seeking a pretense to bring on a war with.

Peru? This Question Is being asked seriously, too, by South American diplomats, who are watching every development in the situation in which Argentina, Bolivia and Peru are directly interested, and Chile and Brazil Indirectly. AWARD TALK OF BLIND. Some of the diplomats profess to thiuk that the excitement In Bolivia over tho Argentina award, which was favorable to Peru, Is really a bllud on the part of the politicians there to bring about an armed conflict with Peru, nominally to secure a more satis- app(M1 factory adjustment of the boundaries of the disputed tract, but actually aimed at territorial conquest. EYES ON PROVINCE. Bolivia has no seacoast.

A successful war with Peru might give her an outlet to the bea by demanding as an indemnity Mosquegua Province, the southernmost in Peru, and adjoining the Chilean frontier. Portrait of Cleveland Will Go On New Ten Dollar Issue. Washington, AUK. important changes In the debigns. on the paper money the country are to take place soon.

Secretary MacVcagh, Assistant tary Norton and Director Ralph of the bureau of enslaving and printing h.i\r under consideration a geneial for systematizing the designs ot a issues of paper money in buch a m.mnei that the samo portraits anel i i i im BUYS CAFE, TURNS CHEF; ASH HEAP LEFT Logansport, Aug. 11. Three Ihoiirs alter "William Eddlngton, Genoa, I1L, bought a restaurant here, it burned, including In the damage all of Eddington's personal property worth $100,000. When the new proprietor for the first time lit the gaboline stove t)lre-re was an explosion. THE DAILY REVIEW.

PUBLISHED EVERY DAY. OUR FEET TO BECOME HOOFS Boston, Aug. 1. Medical experts of this city predict that civilized man will have hoofs, instead of feet, in a i housand years. Dr.

David D. Scainnell, urgton and ex-Harvard athlete; Lewis Small, orthopedist, and Dr. R. Q. ranston and Dr.

B. Bradford of Harvard medical school, this robability. Dr. Small says the civilized races are owly reverting to hoofs' and that we iub-t go to the Japanese to learn how walk Foot troubles are unknown mong them. IMPRISONMENT TURNS BIRD WHITE Lenox, Aug.

Parfc- today discovered a white swallow In unused oat box in his barn. Mr. says the box had not been op- ned in two years. He thinks the bird ntered the box before the lid tvae urned down in 1907 and has sustained oats and rain water In the box and hat the confinement turned Me feathers white. Entered at toe Dtcatur, Illinois PoatofOo, matter.

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to i 1 a no ill i i i a i SIRA rli.mKP the curl en- i i inpl.uii'n pir'friiE ON BILL Jt cin be stated authorltatU nly a a pom.lit of the late Grover Cleveland soi 10 appoar on all ten dollar bills. Tin- plan has been in contemplation be- i a a i a was oidered by i i h. Cortelyou, i i socr tary of i tii-asury. Secretary M.icViagh, upon i i i held the order up, not on oC political considera- i but in to permit the question ol general ip-designing of the papei uf the to be taken up. A ABOLISH 52 NOTE.

i i in i for one a five i i i i a i dollar bill-, and pi i h.ip.s those of even i i OILS, have been prepared. Tim two dollar bill may be abolished, It i.s i (-ported. Itn a now hangs in tin balance theie a i many a i i i against i owin If the two dollar bill retained, it is a that i design i lie sneli as to make it fl isl, nut Horn .1 i nl "He lolhir or i doll.n i i a prominence tn.it i permit of no mistake in iu hahdllncr. but the court advises ymi to place no reliance on anything of that kind. "Mr.

Sheriff, remove the prisoner." The sequel of the above remarkable sentence Is interesting in that Jose Maria Martin "escaped from the county jail" and several years afterwards a met his death In Lincoln county by falling backwards out of a wagon and breaking his neck. 40 YEARS' DREAM TO BE REALIZED Water llnrbnr to Ko Built at Seattle at Once, tlp. W.T-'h., 10 WurK on the Lake i i i s-hip tvinal. dcslffnctl to sivc Seatt a ft osh w.itn harbor, u'lll be pin i i MMi dais. Slaj.

0. W. Kuu rlncf ot Vmtod Stales engineers, Saturday awarded Hie con- 1 1 an for pi i a a i betw, ecu i nnd Lako Union. For fortv ear" Seattle has hopod i it uns the issue on A --title as and H. Mt.Oi.iw i nn a inal a i be i at and 100 feel at tin- i MlO feol lonp.

It i Imver Lake ei nl feet and penult c- Hints at Startling Charges to Be Set Forth in Letter. N. Aug. 1--representative fharlcs N. was one of the insurgents on whom Speaker Cannon inflicted punishment by deposing him as chairman of the committee nn a i and i declared Monday that he is preparing an open to the speakei of the House i be made public in a day or two.

Mr icfusecl to make anv of of the letter. He declared a It was of a i a imp a clis-elose a fact i go i to the root of the winch resulted in Speaker Cannon meting out i to the leprescntatives had opposed him as speaker of the House at the begin- i of the session. Speaker Cannon's action in deposing him as head of the committee on banking and currency had made him stronger Mr declared, and he i not be from ins purpose of i i afrain't Hie i i i which i representative ib ta- miliar. rnnal UUL a i bt nhoul R1AN tVALKEK. POPE'S CORONATION WAS SIXYEAES AGO Horns, Aug.

sixth tuvnlvor- sary of the coronation of Pope Plus was celebrated with great pomp Monday. Hig-h maas wag celebrated in the sistine chapel, with Caixltnal Merry Val, the papal secretary of state, officiating. A large number of tile cardinals, members of the diplomatic corps, and of the aristocracy, several of the pope's relatives were present. A grand concert was given at the Vatican, PAYS HIGH FOR A REMBRANDT President's Brother, Charles, Gives $600,000 for Art Treason. Cincinnati, Aug.

10--A Rembrandt painting IB the latest addition to the art treasures of Chat-leu P. Taft, brother ot President Taft. Negotiations for the purchase of the picture were completed last week. It J9 one of the best known of all Bom- branflte. described as "The Toung Man Rising from a Chair," and has been In the possession of the Pertales family In their home in Paris for more than a hunderd years.

The painting It Mill to have cost Mr. Taft $500,000. Mrs. WOMAN'S BAKXEBS. they say that anybody "takes the count" it is a prize fighting expression, isn't It? Mr.

R--Not necessarily, mv dear, 1 ma? refer to an instance of Oman's weakness for titles. NEVER LOOKED TOUNG. Rlla--Bella has alwaa looked old, even from childhood. Stolla--Yes, she has one of those pre- usturic faces. TIME WILL TELL First Farmer--I hear Hliam Sinn- em's got a lot of Mirmnei boardeis down tew his place i year Art they rich? Second Farmei--Well a i they came to board with Hiram.

TO RUN NEGRO FOR LEADER Colored Ili-pulillcpn of ci York Dlwtrlct Choose I'hjNle-lRn. Yoil; AUR 11--Dr I'. A Jilin- Min. a colored phvslcian ha 1 b'''n placed in the i as candiiUto for leoder in the i Assembb district hy colored Hepublicaiih thore who are opposed to Michael H. Blake-, the preb- nt leader Dr.

is the fir.st colored man who has ever a to un for i i I. adcr in i party and lone been icsidcnt in the i th District. There has been a lot of 'iisatisf tlon amons some of Ine- I voters in i i nil" say i compoi i of N'nt long ngo some, of them Shea, a former le ulcr to make a fight against Mr. Blakr-. a i a Porson however, has sent out word that there must be no a i fight this year if thye can be- avoided and Mr.

Shea refused to when he learned of this. Wild Animals Are Sent by King of Italy to Griscom. York, Aug. 11. Six young wild boars were brought in on the Duca degli Abruzzi, of the Roya Italian Mail line, a gift from the king of I a to Lloyd C.

Grlscom the former ambassador to Italy from this countiy. They aie to go to a game preserve that is owned by Mr. Grlscom and his father in Canada, and atter they are in the animal quarantine at Athenia, N. J. for several days they will be shipped Luig! Gaddoni, a for Mr Griscom, i his wife and her brother Giuseppl Grifalconl, another chauffeur had the charge of the boars on tl-e oyage and they required but llttlr ttention in i comfortable quarter 1 the boat deck.

In fact the roya oars traveled in pens de luxe, big ases that kept out prying hands an. most eyes. Yesterday they wer eaceful enough In their crates an te greedily of acorns and shelled con ust like any other pigs. One observe emarked that the famous razor bacl- og of the south seemed to be a elation. The boars came from the royal parl i Xapl'S, and papers were with then lat told they were safely put on boan the steamship by Cavallena Amadei ongobardl, the commander of tlr ola, the royal yacht.

A representa ve of Mr. Grlscom met the a nd the boars when the steamship ar ived at the West i'hirty-fourth stree ier. DRIVES AUTO Richmond, Aug. 11. Flndlnj S'orth street very rough for automo Dile travel, Howard Ashley, a well known young man, drove his big tour ng car for a block along the sldewall ind a policeman who saw the act, wen i and notified Ashley to ap iear at police The ro and city attorney searched th statutes and city ordinances ind something to fit the case, but thi afternoon it was stated Ashley coul not be prosecuted and would be dls harged.

There is no law or city ordin incc against the use of automobiles sidewalks, the attorney for Ashle jointed out. GARY WORKMEN DEMAND BEER a Serhms DIFFERENT KINDS OF LAWX. Mrs. Jinks--What's the bcbt anil eafa- lost way to wash lawns? Mrs. Blinks (absently)--Wait i it rains.

QUEER. (Jills--What's the excitement? Dills--Man run down by an auto, I can't i a i i lo carry him be i etcher. ith all tl trouble i Stcc-1 Work Face Labor Famine. Chicago. Auff that beer an indispensable part of their daily food, hundreds of men employed in the steel woi ks and blast furnaces at Gaiy threaten to quit work unless tho brverage is restored to them.

Many aheatU done so and officials of th Indiana Steel company faie a labor famine. So ycnou" lias the a i become tlia when F. P. Deem a Broadway business man a petition a morning ask' Mayor Knotlb to peimlt the delivery eer to residences he obtained 3X uatui es from merchants and steel work Blind piffs had been i Gary eral months until closed last week. When they were the trouble started.

In the final stages of the Uce crusade Johnson, a negro saloon-keeper, eaus the in rest of A. A. Rodeman, one of th tormers. charging that he iilci i burn his saloon i Rodemai savs Johnson, who lormerly a preclnc captain in the First ward, Chicago, his arrest for (JUUWN don't seem to as ma? seinents as used to Hotel Proprietor--No. don't know to a i it to local option or the i food law.

IGNORE CALL MADE BY "SKINNY" MADDEN Chit-ago Aug. I I A crushin blow was dealt "Skinny" lladden, pres dent of tho Associated Building Trade and recently convicted grafter, wlie the workmen he called on strike at tl' Argo plant of the Corn Products con- pan returned to work yesterda morning. No concessions of any kin were granted tho plumbers, for who Midun called his "Hympathetic" strike, which tesulted in a fizzle, and the i men who refused to i at tho bidding of tho former "czar" declared his power was broken. BABY BURIED INSAND, DIES women Work Through Eluht toot Cave-In, In ValB. Aug.

nont, 13 months old, and four littl companions were playing on the edge of a sandpit Monday morning when th bank gave way and took three of then- down with it; The other two rat to neighbors and three wo nen with shovels rushed to the scene Two of the children soon were ref cued, but Albert had been buried undci eight feet of sand and when the womei reached him life had left his body. EFFICiCY TESTS BlflrTI) "POLL' Treasury Department Put Down the Screws. Shut Her Off. Chir-apfo News "Whlrh vou rather see," began Mrs, Wiggins, "a uoman a mattei of fact," interrupted Wiggins, without looking up fiom liis paper, "I'd lather see a a In tho kltchea than on the lecture platform. Washington.

Aug. wave of efficiency tests, started in the department commerce and labor, has struck the treaarus department, here It III be even sweeping. Before leaving Monday for his summei home in Xcw Hampshire, MacVeagh a- pointed three assistant secretaries as a com mission to work out reform. Many employes received their appomtmen through political friends and many are being usged by them, greatly to the an noyance of officials. When these aiise the secretary writes to tlie dlvletolf chieL as follows: "Please say to John I am confident he la not responsible for tha large number of persons visiting the ment in the Interest of his promotion, caut-c he doubtless is familiar with the cxe i order on that subject, of which I close a copy." The order issued by Roosevelt forbids eraJ ploycs to use auulde Influence to gain ancement.

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