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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06

confessed" that they were an league with TIA
handful Of unarmed English at Amboyna for the
capture OF the fortress. which was held by two
hundred soldiers and twenty-four guns A
drunken Englishman, a barDer-surgeOn. who
was shut up In the castle prison for a minor
offence. shown the racked and blistered
Japanese, told what they had Confessed
and was himself subjected TO the agonies they
had suffered. until on the rack he affirmed
whatever statements his tormentors put into his
mouth 1t was enough to seal the fate Of the
English company's men, They were all ar
rested and on Sunday. February is. 1923. after
the Dutch Governor and his companions had
had formal prayers. they spent the rest OF the
day in hendish torture OF nine Englishmen-
Torments by the rack. by fire. by water. they
endured until in delirium they moaned out
whatever they were hidden to say. The bravest
OF them all was Clarke, who was subjected
to the water ordeal three or four times until
his body was swollen TO twice its size and his
eyes protruded so far in their sockets as to
brighten the beholders. that his tormentors
Taxed. averring that he devil or wizard
that could bear so much" Then they burned
him carefully with lighted candle till the poor
creatures wits went wandering and they even
tually wrung yea. yea to Ithel story Of a
plot to seize the castle and put the Governor
and the rest OF the Dutch to death" Towerson
the agent at the head of the English band
who had been on terms Of friendship and hos
pitality with Van Speult was spared until the
following day. Then
The prisoners were summoned ostensibIy TO
prepare themselves for death While they were
there. holding themselves steadfast as they
could" two soldiers approached Towerson He
was singled out from the rest: he was conducted
TO the torture chamber. Two great Jars of water
were borne in after him. and the Others shud
dered. we'll knowing what these things por-
tended What TOwerson went through will
never be known His drawn and livfd features
were only seen by them the following 6av
on the scanold- Yet II appeared that he also
had been forced to subscribe to a Confession"
Only four of the Englshmen were released
when the others were executed they were
transported to Batavia. and Master Herman
Van Speult's process OF ending commercial RI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06

struyed Here was news for q practical and
respectable pirate who knew IN the course OF
business what opulence the hated Spaniard
drew from further IndI England soreIy needed
a trade outlet" but Queen and merchants alike
had dreaded the Spanish navy and observed
punctillousy the long existent policy OF non
interference with the rights claimed by Spain
under the Papal decree Cavendish felt that
the time had come for England to share in the
commerce with that wondrous East Of gold and
gems and silks and spices-commodities which
the Englishman then obtained only from 'the
hands of Dutch and German mddlemen-- He
straightway sat down in his inn at Plymouth
and wrote to friend at Court concerning his
adventures I'm heather regions where" he said
our countrymen may have trade as freely as
ye Portugals II they themselves win; and
later in London he discoursed copiousy to the
solid men OF the Royal Exchange to the same
effect They urged him to draw up a memorial
on the subject. and this, being presented to
Elizabeth. drew from her consent to a trading
venture-no doubt a reluctant consent for the
Virgin Queen. we know, did not care to get
into avodable difficulties with other nations
Three ships were sent forth by the London mer-
chants In April, 1891 One OF them soon re-
turned with crew stricken by dire disease;
one was lost at sea, and the third, after great
disasters. struggled home with half ruined
cargo OF spices The author points out the sig
nifcance OF the fact that this expedition left
England full four years before the Dutch mer-
chant adventures first began those solid and
splendid attempts to GUST the Portuguese and
make the chief commerce between Europe and
Asia their own" The thing could be DONE said
the London merchants. but while they hesitated
the Dutch had undermined the Spanish Portu-
guese monopoly.
1t was not until 1899 that band OF English
burghers. all men of substance. met to form the
Society of Adventures to the East ladies'"
year later they received their charter from
the Queen. collected the necessary funds from
their members. and dispatched their first fleet
Three years passed before the first of its ships
brought back rich store OF pepper. cloves, Gin
namon and gum lacquer. 1t was In the Eng
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06

land Of the seventeenth century a cargo so
valuable that the company felt obliged to pro
vide for the Iongshoremen who brought 1t to
land six suits of canvas doublet and hose with
out pockets" This and the next voyage OF the
company returned. 1t is said. clear profit OF
90 per cent on the outlay. The great enterprise
was well started. But at what a cost Of life
and energyi For many years the English strug-
gIed desperately to gain substantial footholds
in the Indies, and were worsted over and over
by their rivals, the Dutch and the Portuguese
There was no theory of Tive and let live" about
these haters of the new company-they were
frankly determined to keep the trade for them
selves by dint OF battle. murder and intrigue
with native potentates. OF all the tragic cpl
sodes portrayed by the author that of the Am
boyna atrocity men will longest remember
In this island Of the Mouccas. an island rich
In spices, and a centre Of traffic. was strong
fortress built and occupied by the Dutch The
English merchants and factors OF the East
India Company-there were only nineteen all
told-lived In a house OF their own in the town.
and were practically unarmed The Dutch Gov
ernor. Van Speult. resolving to be rid Of the
English. Matched a scheme to accuse them Of a
murderous plot Several wretched japanese
were arrested and cruelty tortured until they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06

II the late George Glssing never had the
popular success which has been the portion OF
many inferior writer's, the way i'm which he is
mourned shows that 1.-THE English Balzac," as
he has been called in France, has made a deep
impression upon thoughtful Englishmen One
who believes that Gissing will be remembered
10y London as her second great Interpreter after
Dickens. tells US that the author felt that what
was needed in English life was the HelleniZing
of the barbarian; and he thus summarizes Gis-
sings convictions i'm the matter: "Seek first
the things Of the mind, and the evils Of society
will disappear. Indifference TO the beautiful
hatred of ideas that cannot be turned TO inme-
date profit, contempt for intellectual things
stamp our civilization as at least undeserving to
survive in its present form. is II really so GER
TAIN. Gissing asks Of the AnglO-Saxon, that all
virtues Of grace dwell with those who can rest
amid the ugly, and not know IL for uglinessY >"
We regret the loss TO realistic fiction caused by
Gissing's death. but we regret still more that
his life came to an end just when he was be-
ginning to exert, through books like "The Pri-
waite Papers OF Henry Ryecroft" and by the
Ionian Sea-" the very influence which we now
know he was so well qualified to bring to bear
upon English life and letters. His passion for
the beautiful could not but have stimulated
many Of his readers in the right direction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06
"JEH4N KOMPANI."
EngIanRs Great Trading Monopoly.

pary of Merchants or England 1TaulnS 10 TIC
Fast Indies O59g-1S7D BY Beckles Wilson
Two volumes Octave. pp- AZ and "a Long
mans. Green & Co.
In these volumes Mr. Beckles Wilson tells In
full and consecutive detail the history from
foundation to extinction Of the great East India
Company-ctherwise John Company or
"Jehan Kompani." he has apparently left no
collection Of material unexplored. and he has
not permitted the military and political phases
OF this great romance OF trade to cast into the
shade what he calls the ledger aspect" This
Is not the story Of British rule in India, but
the biography Of John Company, "the richest
the most romantic, the most colossal private
commercial. military and governing body that
ever dourished or ever can flourish on
earth"
The Elizabethan prologue opens In September.
15SS when the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Thomas
Cavendish, came back from buccaneering IN the
Pacific and the Indian Ocean. and heard. OF
the Lizard. that the Armada had been de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06

ct am n blessed Bendevere:
"Tis mine TO speak and yours TO hear~g
You've but to learn and I've to teach
You must be silent while 1 preach:
And when I've fnished-not till then
You may assent with an Amen"
OF this the application mark,
Pro tenn I'm parson, you are Clarke
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
FAMILY LIFE OF THE ZUNIS
Villages Look Like Huge Beehives
and Have Hundreds of Cell
like Rooms.

The little half-civilized children OF
Zuni 90 aroused our curiosity that we
drove through 40 miles of sand and
sage-brush, from the railroad at Fort
Wingate, to pay them a visit. AS the
Indians do not provide for travellers,
We took our hotel with us-tents, beds
and food-and capped just outside
their village, writes Maria Brace
Kimball, in The Children of zuni' in
St. Nicholas. The village looks like q
huge beehive made of clay and stuck
fast to the top of a sandy knoll. Tn:
hive is filled with a mass of cells
800 single rooms, placed side by side
and piled in rows one on top of an
other.
In each of these rooms lives a ZuGi
family. There are no inside stairways
leading from story to story, but If the
boys and girls living in one row wish
to pay a visit to a house above them,
they must go outdoors and climb Il
ladder, On the slope between the viii
ldBe anu lnt LuHl river are n hummer
of small vegetable gardens, each one
incloscd by a mud wall. Zuni has no
inns, no shops, no saloons, not ever
proper streets, but only narrow alleys
that thread their way through the
strange town. AS we walked through
the village, all the world came out to
see us. Girls and boys clustered or
the roofs or sat on the o~vens-queer
little Dimes of mud which seem to
grow up out of the house-tops-while
fathers, mothers and babies peered
out from dark doorways to stare al
the visitors. When we had finished
our tour of the roofs and alleys, we
were Hospitality invited indoors; even
there the children followed us, and as
we glanced up to a hole in the ceiling
which served as a window, a girls
laughing face filled the opening. We
must have looked strange enough In
our hats and gloves and long skirts
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Unflattering Smile.

In the smoking room of the Oceanic
a number of Americans were talking
about promptitude and p~unctuality,
according to the Baltimore Herald,
when Clarence Macak said;
"Punctuality is a virtue that We may
insist on gracefully as a rule. In one
case, though, it is ungraceful and un.
dignifed to demand punctuality with
any emphasis,
This odd fact was brought home
to me at the London 700. | visited
the ZOO with one of the fellows Of the
Geological Society last month, and in
the magnificent carnivora house We
found ourselves, at the feeding hour,
wedged in a corner behind an old
man and a little boy.
"a terrific and continuous roaring
reveberated through the building, and
| heard the old man say to his charge:
Don't be frightened, Herbert. The
lions are about to be fed. That is
what makes them roar So
"'Oh, | amt frightened" returned
the little boy. Father goes on just
like that when his meals amt ready"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
GETTING THINGS STRAIGHT
Smart Man Gets Hotel Proprietor to
Put His Bill in Proper
Terms.

"See here" said the smart mi1 to the
hotel proprietor, I've just had an argl.
ment with my friend on the matter Of
terms, and | want you to decide"
Fire away said the proprietor, ac.
cordlng TO the New York Press.
well, | told my friend | was coming
down here to the office to pay my bill.
My bill, you understand? Was that
right
OF course. What did he contend?"
"lle said ! should have said your bill.
How about it,
well, yes. 1t certainly is my bill.
That seems to be correct.
But you SAID Just now my bill was
right"
20, well; it's both. It's your bill and
it's my bill"
That sorter makes it our bill, doesn't
yes" assented the proprietor, anx-
lous to get rid of the man. That's what
1t is-our bill"
well, that decision suits me to a T..
Just you make out my half Of it and I'll
pay you right away. There'r aothing like
getting things straight"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
The Last lob.

During a recent discussion on the
evils of the old spells system, A. w.
Cooley, Of the civil service commits.
sion, told an experience which Gov.
ernor Durbin, OF Indiana, had with an
oficeseeker.
The governor was SO annoyed by
oficeseekers that shortly after his in,
a%uguration he vas compelled to make
public announcement in the press of
the state that in view of the numer-
Gus applications to him for Office he
would be unable to give consideration
to them all.
A short time after this the governor
received a letter reading as follows:
Dear Mr.. Governor see by the
papers that you are going TO take a
month off to destroy the thousands Of
applications for jobs. Now, my dear
sir, If everything else is gone, then l
should like to be engaged TO tear up
the letters, Exchange,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
MADE HIM
Least Intelligent Member Of the Au-
dience Pleasantly Acknowl-
edged the Truth.

A famous scientist whose early home
had been IN a country district had long
promised to visit the scenes Of his boy.
hood and deliver a lecture in aid of the
funds OF one Of the institutions Of the
place. At last he fulfilled his promise,
ana the lecture was given, relates London
Tit.Bits.
When, at its close, he was conversing
with some of the principal promoters oil
the affair they warmly congratulated him
on the facility with which he made his
rather technical matter interesting and
clear to his somewhat uncultured audi
ence.
"Oh,' said he, by way of explanation,
u invariably fix my attention upon that
member of my audience who strikes me
as having the least intelligent face, and |
continue to explain any subject upon
which | touch until | see by that per-
sons expression that he understands it,
Almost directly afterwards the leading
public official Of the little town came into
the room and made his way to where the
scientist was standing.
Sir" he exclaimed, you cannot pos
sibly believe how much real pleasure you
have given me tonight. 1t seemed to me
all the time as II your eye was never away
from me, that you spoke to me alone, and
that your whole wish was TO make me
understand every word you SAID"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Science in Ancient Sharon.

From time immemorial. the gardens
In the ancient plain of Sharon, famous
for its roses and its oranges, have been
irrigated with water lifted by wheels,
with double rows of buckets, turned by
mules, Modern practical science now
promises to revolutionize this time
honored method, greatly to the gain of
the gardens and their A few
years age oil engines we're introduced
from Germany to take the place of the
mules. At first the innovation made
slow progress, but its advantages are
beginning to be understood, and it is be-
lieved that the recent rapid growth OF
the orange gardens, some Of which in
clude from 5000 to 10000 trees, will
stimulate the substitution Of engines
for mules.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
A Corner on Ice.

An extra piece of ice was wanted,
says L%ippincott's. An ice wagon was
at a neighbours door, but there was no
small coin in the house wherewith to
pay for the desired article.
well, neve mind" said manma;
you run out, Blanche, knd get a nick.
els worth. The man wifi trust yoa I'M
til tomorrow"
Now, Blanche was not accustomed to
dealing on credit, and did not take
kindly to the idea, but was moving
very slowly to do her mothers bidding
when some words in large letters on
the top of the wagon attracted her at
tention and suggested an unanswerable
objection.
But he won't do II, mammal! Look
there IN the wagon! 1t says: Not in
the trust"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
N FOOD
Some Very Fine Results Follow.

The wrong kind of food will put the
body in such a diseased condition that
no medicines will cure it. There is no
way but to change food. A man in Mo.
says:
For 2 years | was troubled so with
my nerves that sometimes | was pros
trated and could hardly ever get in a
full month at my work.
my stomach, back and head would
throb so | could get no rest at night
except by fits and starts, and always
had distressing pains.
Il was quite certain the trouble came
from my stomach, but two physicians
could not help me and all the tonics
failed and so finally | turned to food.
When / had studied up on food and
learned what might be expected from
leaving off meat and the regular food
| had been living on, | felt that a
change to Grape-Nuts would be lust
what was required, so l went to eat
ing 1t.
From the start | got stronger and
better until | was well again, and from
that time | haven't used a bit of medi.
cine, for | haven't needed any.
81 am so much better in every way.
sleep soundly nowadays and am free
from the bad dreams. Indeed, this
food has made such a great change
in me that my wife and daughter have
taken it MP and we are never without
Grape-Nuts on Il table nowadays.
1t is a wonderful s%ustalner, and We
frequently have nothing else at all
but a saucer of Grape-Nuts and cream
for breakfast or supper" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Good food and good rest. These are
the tonics that succeed where all the
bottled tonics and drugs fail. Ten
days trial of Grape-Nuts will show
n the road to health, strength and
vigor. There's a reason"
Look in each pkg. for the famous lit.
tie book, THE Road to MELVILLE"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
Twas Badly Jumbled.

While Secretary Hay vas in the
country one summer an important
piece Of official business was pending,
relates the Argonaut, and he arranged
with Washington that any new that
might arrive concerning the matter
should be telegraphed to him in cipher.
Day after day he waited, but no tele-
gram came. One morning, happening
to 80 to the lonely little telegraph Of
fee, he said to the operator:
81 suppose you have received no dis.
patch for me?'
why, yes, sir" the operator repli'
ed; there was a dispatch for you the
other day, but it was all twisted and
confused, and | couldn't make heads
or tails Of it, so | didn't think it was
any use to send it up to YOU
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
BATTLE WITH H0LD-UP MEN
Two Men Killed aud mother In
jurcd at Riverside, Ill.
by Robbers.

Chicago. Sept. 20,-Two men were
killed and another shot and seriously
injured in a battle with hold-up men
at Riverside, a small town on the IL
linois Central railroad, 10 miles south
of Chicago, Monday night. Two rob-
bers broke into the section house,
which was occupied by several Italian
laborers and the railroad men who
had retired for the night, and ordered
them to produce what money they had
in their possession. Instead of COM
plying with the demand, the Italians
rushed on the robbers and tried to
overpower them, In the fight that fol-
lowed, revolvers and knives were used,
with the result that two Of the Italians
were killed and another severely in
jured.
Seeing that they were getting the
worst of the fight, the other occupants
of the section house fed from the place
and left the robbers in full possession.
The two hold-up men then secured all
the money which the men had secreted
about the place and made their es-
cape.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
New Zealand.

New Zealand is the interesting coun-
try to which economists refer when
they wish to prove any old thing.
1t is situated a good way from any
where.
In New Zealand political corruption
is unknown, and yet it is unfair to
conclude from this that the people
there don't know much. -.
There are no very rich persons in
New Zealand. and while there are
newspapers, these necessarily contain
no society column in the true sense.
New Zealand has no submerged
tenth, no help problem and no trusts
But there is the weather, and stomach
troubles are beginning to come in, so
that conversation can be kept up, after
a fashion.
Many educated New Zealanders
think imperially, but the masses still
fancy Aristotle a bigger man than Joe
Chamberlain and cling superstitiously
to the old categories Puck.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-09-24
WAS AN AWFUL DISCOVERY
And Yet, When the Truth Became
Known 1t Wasn't So Bad
as Supposed.

The advent OF the telephone III ,no
rural districts has introduced an ere
Inent Of freshness and variety into the
lnonotony of farm life that makes an
instrument a real necessity to every
household. Many incidents attest the
a%daptability OF the instrument in COM
mon use in the country towns and ham,
lets 10 the varied needs of country lie.
It seems to be no longer necessary 10
visit round" to learn what the neigh
bors are doing, for the party wire"
telephone, an instrument where all the
subscribers are on one wire, which Is
the kind in general Use, signals to each
one on the circuit when any special call
is rung and then the others may AXE
down his or her trumpet and listen to
the conversation. 1t isn't eve possible
for a fellow to make an evening engage
ment with his best girl over the tele-
phone without letting all the other SUBJ
scribers know of it.
A few evenings ago, on a Sunday, re-
Iates the Times, a New York mar was
spending a few days at a farmhouse
boarding place in the Litchfeld hills.
Connecticut, only seven miles from the
"Gunnery," a private academy of the
n%eighborhood, He rung up Central" to
connect him with a place out of town.
AS he took down the trumpet he over
heard this conversation:
"Have you tried giving him whisky"
"Yes; but to no purpose
us he intoxicated? say, is he intox.
icated?"
81 cant catch that, What did you
say"
"Is he drunk? Have you got him
drunk"
mo. | cant get anything down his
throat"
81 thought you said you had given him
whisky"
81 tried to, but | couldn't get 1t down
him"
"Well now, you do just as ! tell You,
and it'll be all right. Buy a quart OF
whisky. the cheapest kind will do, and a
quart will be enough. even if you don't
ret it all down him. Then take a rubber
tube and put a funnel in one end of 1t.
and then run the tube a little way down
his throat and pour the whisky down.
He'll be drunk a day or so, but he'll be
harmless, and you'll find it will do the
work"
but, doctor, he'll bite the tube in two,
and then
well, pry his jaws open with a good
sized stick, or something else that will
keep his jaws apart so that he can't
bite"
The New York man was COMPOUNDED,
He had been In town several days, and
had learned that it was a local option
town, and that the town agent was the
only person who kept strong liquor, and
that he could dispense 1t only upon a
doctors prescription. The boarder had
learned the physicians name. and de-
cided to pay him a visit, but realized
that he would have to be polite at first,
and, then, If he didn't succeed he would
threaten to put the law upon the disciple
of Esculapius. The visit was made, but
much to the New Workers. disappoint-
ment he learned that the whisky was in.
tended to be used on a dog to stunt his
growth.