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were refused Mr.. Perdicaris is 10
years old, and in poor health.
Raisuli is the same bandit that last
year kept captive Mr. Walter B. Harris,
correspondent OF the London times, and
foreigners in Morocco attribute the pres
ent bold act of brigandage to the iudif-
ference shown by the government al the
effcnse, the bandits then going uppun-
tshed. But it should be understood, be-
fore quick judgment is passed upon the
laxness of the powers that be, that brig
andage prevails to such an extent in
Morocco arrests and punishment of indi-
yiduals might easily lead to general
civil war, and the overthrow of the gov
eminent.
And who is this Raisuli that he dare
steal citizens of great nations, dictate
terms to great nations? One of the
oldest and most influential of the
Sbereefau families, therefore not in
awe oil any nation. any people; a brig
and that can flee to the mountains so far
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this Thirty-ninth street conduit and in
tercepting sewer system. Patrons of
the Illinois Central suburban service
could see gangs of workmen employed
at something, but only a comparative
ly few of them understood what tho
work really was.
There are to-day two tunnels under
the Chicago river of which it is safe to
say that not one person in 10000 know
of. Both are large enough to drive
wagon through. One was built by the
Edison company as a conduit for it's
electric wires, and the other is part
of the tunnel system of the Illinois
Tunnel company. Neither of them will
be affected by the recent congressional
legislation ordering the lowering of the
river tunnels, as both are some 40 feet
under the bed of the river.
Another work Of which the Chicago
public are more or less in ignorance is
the filling of the Lake Front park
Through the system of tunnels under
TIE down town district cars are to car
ry the debris of the streets and the
RACED buildings to complete the filing
of this big tract of lake, which will add
800 acres to the Chicago park system.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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er, Raisuli, seized the two men and fed
with them to the mountains. Mr.. Perdi-
carts is OF Greek origin, but is
naturalized citizen of the United States.
He is very wealthy, has been resident
of Tangier for years, is married to an
Englishwoman, and his stepson is a
British subject-which latter face brings
down upon the sultan's head now the
wrath of two nations. 1t is in accord
ance with the oriental custom, that our
consul at Tangier has asked the sultan
that he advance money for the ransom
demanded, the consuls immediate con-
Germ being the safety of the lives of the
captives. 1t is reported the brigand
chief more than once has enjoyed the
hospitality of Mr.. Perdicaris in Tangier,
where the American is owner Of one of
the sultan's palaces; but that the brig
anGs mean business, and death doubtless
would overtake the captives if the terms
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SSCIGldIS SOIlelyOu.
his death sent
word to President Roosevelt that he was
making mistake The message was
sent by Don Cameron, who received it
from the lips of the dying senator.
81 want you to tell him as soon as
possible" Quay is quoted as saying.
Probably I should have no voice in
the selection, but tell the president
that he is surely making mistake.
"Don," he is reported to have said
further, "the coming campaign will be
a hard one. 1t will be one of the hard
est fights in the history of the repub-
lican party. The opposition is strong
and it may grow stronger, and on this
account the new chairman should be a
man who has had the greatest political
experience that it is possible to OBJ
tain"
Senator Penrose is also supposed to
be opposed to the selection of Secre-
tary Cortelyou, and is said to be maxi
ing an effort to unite eastern republic
ans on some other candidate for the
place. Rumor has it that the choice
OF this dissatisfied element has centered
on Senator John Fairchild Dryden.
1t is said the opposition to Cortel-
you results from lack of consultation
on the part of the president with rec
ognized leaders of the party before his
selection, but the president and his
friends seem not to fear tie result at
the coming convention.
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the bad feeling then engendered, piracy
on the Riff coast has increased 1t may
he of interest to readers to glance at
few words from an article written for
an English magazine by Mr.. Perdicaris
on Piracy in Morocco" the author
doubtless not dreaming at the time OF
writing that some day he himself was to
fall a victim to this very piracy. RIFF
fan mountaineers, men of a race which
has, alone, succeeded, alike in the past
and present, in maintaining their indie
pendence; men who were neither utter
ly quelled in bygone times by Carthage,
Rome nor Goth, and who, to-day, defy
the sultan of Morocco as they do the
greatest of the European states, not one
of whose subjects has penetrated that
territory except as slaves or captives
held as ransom, although the Bocoya
country is situated in the very sight of
Gibraltar"
The strife between the sultan of Mo-
rocco and the pretender continues
When the excitement was at it's height
last year, the London Times CORE
spondent, Mr.. Harris, spent three weeks
of captivity with the mountain rebels,
of whom Raisuli is the leader, in the
region about Tangier. .Raisuli has laid
to his account highway robbery, black
mail and murder, and it may be some
of the cruelty of which he has been
guilty has been dealt out in payment for
the years he spent in one of the worst
of Morocco's VIGOROUSLY bad prisons.
Mr.. Harris describes the brigand, Rails
uli as still young, quite handsome, with
no appearance Of the ferocity of which
he has proved himself capable. Mr..
Harris says his captors Indignantly re-
fused all offers of ransom for his re-
lease, declaring their motive in holding
him being not robbery, but their idea
that the retention of foreigner
might get them from the government
certain much-desired concessions, one
| of these concessions the liberation of
imprisoned brigands. Mr.. Harris free
dom was finally purchased by means Of
l6 to one ratio, 16 men from the Tan
gier prison being exchanged for the
British subject. The Englishman said
the liberated prisoners were in deplor-
able condition, Morocco's prison meth
Gus being the most inhuman, while he
himself came from under the brigands'
hands in the fine state of health.
AS to present-day piracy in the land.
Mr.. Perdicaris writes that the Bocoyas
of Morocco weaken the boasted security
Of Gibraltar by waylaying the smaller
sailing vessels that are unluckily driven
their way; shoot down those on board
that resist, and carry off captive officers
and men remaining. Italian, Portu-
guese, French, Spanish, all have had tc
make acquaintance with the tender
mercy of the up-to-date Moorish pl.
rate.
| KATHERINE POFE.
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entered only by tribesmen and captive.
a place of intrenchment far from coast
and battleship, a retreat most difficult
for outsiders to reach in safety.
Morocco has an area of about $4,000
is desert. Across the country, from east
to west, extend the Atlas mountains.
In the plains and mountains dwell the
turbulent Berber tribes; in the north
the Rifian tribes. The leading races
are the Moors, Jews and Berbers; the
latterIstyled "the free people," superior
to authority, folk that do not pay OBJ
servance to, seem scarcely to be con-
scious of the existence of, that gentle
man of supposedly autocratic power, the
sultan of Morocco. Constantly they are
getting the sovereign into trouble by
reason of their high-handed deeds of
robbery and kidnapping, and the sultan
is ever mixed up in international broils,
is very often called upon to pour into
the Golfers of the offended goodly thou
sands. No one nation, however, ap-
pears ready to interfere to the extent of
assuming control of Morocco's internal
affairs, and the country confines land
Of political unrest, of lawlessness and
also of oppression.
Recently the brigands have been espe-
cially bold in their depredations. They
cross into the spheres of French and
of Spanish influence, seize upon any
Christian" that may come within
their reach. In 1893 the Riffian tribes
came in collision with Spain, and the
government was forced to pay a large in
demnity to the Spanish nation; since
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We Will say that
you apply for loan of 5000. You sign
notes for that amount bearing seven
per cent. interest, and make an as
signment of your salary to cover both
principle and interest, to which also is
added the cost of correction. You re-
ceive in cold cash possibly SIS, more
or less, depending entirely upon how
you are rated. If the notes are paid
promptly all goes well, the employer
knows nothing of your borrowing, and
when you have returned about $3.50 for
the SIS which you have received the
debt is cancelled.
Should you miss payment on note,
however, the ShylocK is there at once
to demand every ounce OF his pound of
flesh, nor do the pleadings of the af-
flicted or the homeless make one bit
of difference to him He is as cold
and heartless as a piece of steel, and
hounds the debtor for the last cent
with new and greater costs of collec-
ton added
Men quit positions to escape, they
change their names and places of resi-
dence, but skilled corps of detectives
hunt them out, though it may take
months to do so, and the judgments
which the well-paid justices deliver
must be paid before peace can be de-
clared.
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quay. that he is out of
active politics for good. 1t is not prob
able that Pennsylvania will soon have
another man in the senate like Quay. He
was one of theworst hated and best liked
men in Washington. Though he figured
prominently in national politics and
was considered as one of the leaders
of his party, he has but few notable
achievements to his record as legis-
lator, and never played a conspicuous
role in the deliberations of the senate.
found in the senate chamber, nor did
he give greater attention to the meet
ings of the appropriations committee,
of which he was member.
AS story teller Quay could always
secure an attentive audience, though
there were but few outside of a coterie
of intimate friends who were privileged
to listen to his tales. One of the last
stories he told in Washington was re-
lated while standing in the senate
cloakroom, and was intended to illus
trate the high standard of morality in
the keystone state According to Quay
an old Pennsylvania Dutchman, a
thrifty but not wealthy farmer, was
elected to the legislature. Several
"meaty" railroad and other corpora
ton measures came up for considera-
ton, and after the session had closed
the old farmer surprised everybody
by buying and paying cash for prop
erty worth 100000. Some one asked If
fortune had been left to him. ooh,
no." was the reply. 81 have just been
saving money while in Harrisburg at
the legislature" ''Why, Hans" said
his friend, you could not save $4,000
in three months when your salary was
only three dollars day." "Ah, but
you forget" explained the old man as
he stroked his beard complacently
my wife didn't keep hired girl all
! the time"
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explanation to the
effect that the advertisements are in
tended to open the way for business,
and that they are in the business OF
selling money instead of loaning it.
There are many unitemized expenses
connected with the selling of money
which the purchaser must pay in addi-
ton to the legal rates of interest.
Like many another crying evil the
deepest dyed villain is not the one who
is receiving the greatest amount CT
condemnation at the hands of the pub
lie and the newspapers. The public
blame the men whose names appear on
the advertisements, the men who sit in
magniicently furnished Offices and
amuse themselves by playing with
piles of $50 gold pieces for the edifica-
ton of their customers, the men whose
names figure as plaintiffs in the suits
brought in the justice courts for judg-
ments against the unhappy mortals
who have bought of this gold and have
not paid the full measure they prom
!sed to. These men, and the justices
who render the judgments against the
unhappy debtors, and the constablea
who serve the garnishees, are fully de-
serving of whatever hard words may
be said of them, but the real founda-
ton of the nefarious business lies
deeper. The deepest-dyed villains of
the lot boast pious countenances, wear
Prince Albert suits, ride to and from
their places of business in decorous
equipages and pose before the world
as capitalists. They it is who furnish
the $40 gold pieces. The fashily
dressed man at tho desk, the justice
and the constable are merely their SER
wants, with whom they divide the
profits of the business.
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A Useless Printing Press.

Some of the most remarkable print
ing machines in the world are to be
found in the government printing Of
slce. They are such marvels Of inge-
Auity that they seem almost human.
But the most ingenious of all these
machines is the great perfecting press
which has stood in the press room for
half year waiting for experts to de-
termine why it would not run. 1t was
Bought especially for printing the Con-
gressional Record and will, if ever put
in running order by the makers, cost
the government $38,750
For six months a mechanical sharp
from the factory has been going over
fhe mammoth machine, and. although
he has declared time and again that it
was in 'the pink of conditi0I" and
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publications from every department of
he government.
Though not member of the senate
committee on printing Senator Hoar
has nevertheless shown a greater in
tcrest in the printing Office than mem
bers of that committee, and records
his vote for every appropriation for it's
maintenance or expansion. He was
strongly in favor of condemning the
old government printing Office and
erecting new one, and urgently
worked for that end before it was final
ly accomplished.
In some respects Senator Hoar is
like Lincoln. He has way of illus
trating point with a story. To illus
trate the condition of the old govern
ment printing Office he has several
times told the following story, which
is an incident of his early law pTac-
tice:
81 am reminded" said he, "of some
thing that happened in the supreme
court of our state some years ago.
They held court at Northampton and
went over to Mount Holyoke, where
there is an elevator which takes trav-
elers up the side of steep rock a
hundred or two hundred feet to avoid
the difficulty of climbing.
The judges, as judges are apt to be,
were, nearly all Of them, rather corpu-
dent men. They saw that the rope that
held the car in which they went was
very much frayed, and they asked the
manager if he did not think it was a
little unsafe.
Yes" said the manager. it is
wholly unsafe and likely to break every
minute, but we are going to have a
new one next Monday"
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of them do, are but food for the firebrand,
and insists that some means should be
found for stopping their publication.
"These pictures often carry a joke
too far" he says and to illustrate his
point he tells a little story of an in
stance which happened in Iowa when
he was boy:
"There was an old judge on the
bench in my town who was something
of humorist in his way. One day he
heard case in which new attorney
appeared for the defendant. The young
lawyer pleaded his case most eloquent
iy, but the burden of proof was against
his client and he lost. After the judge
got home that night he received a call
from the counsel for the defence.
Judge said the young lawyer.
you ruined my life to-day. am start
ing out on my legal career. l had a
good case, and before went into it l
told my client that l would win. 1t
was my first case, judge, and if had
won 1t it would have done me world
of good. AS it turned out, am a
ruined man.
T" oh, don't feel that way about it,
replied the judge. Just go to your
client and tell him that it was all my
fault That it was the instructions l
gave the jury that lost you the case.
"The next time the judge stepped
out of the house he found the defend
ant in the case waiting for him with
blood in his eye. I'll teach you to in
struct the jury to defeat justice!' he
Ahundered, as he pitched into his
honor.
$50 you see joke can be carried al
together too far. I think some of the
funny picture men are overriding it.
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In this cOnStruc-
ton, and the great sewer. ranging in
size from 121s to 16 feet, will drain
10000 acres of land, the sewerage OF
which has previously gone into the
lake to contaminate the water supply.
When the Thirty-ninth street con-
and the enormous pumping station at
its head is installed, there will be sent
into the drainage canal from this
source 1,4O0,OO0,O00 gallons of water
per day, and with the completion of the,
North Side intercepting sewer Is per
cent. of all Chicago's sewerage will be
carried over the canal dam at Lock-
port, instead of into the river, as it has
been. The big pumps will draw from
the lake four times as much water az
the city water works, and will increase
the flow over the Lockport dam to
about 350.000,000 gallons of water per
minute. These pumps will not be ready
to run until next February but some
relief will be had on July l, when set
of small pumps drawing 1000 gallons
o. water per minute will be started
The cost of the South Side sewer and
conduit has been about 100000. One
million of this was spent in the con-
struction of the sewer south from Thir-
ty-ninth street, another million in
building the Thirty-ninth street con-
duit, and the third million in equip
ping the pumping station. The work
was originally undertaken by con-
struction company, but it failed, and
the city has completed the job by day
labor at an estimated saving of more
than S30O000
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toonists of t h 9
country went dur
ing the last presi-
Dental campaign
has brought a pro-
test from Secre-
tary Shaw against
the use of what he
alls anarchy
breeding pictures"
in the coming
campaign. He be-
lieves that these
pictures, where
they go to ex-
tramoS &C MANY
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being solved in the
city. The Illinois
Telephone & Tun-
mel company exca-
waited some IA
miles of tunnels
under the streets
of the business
district and had
freight cars run
ming in them al
most before the
public knew any
thing of it.
Not one person
in q thousand in
the city knew of
tho h,,ildinp Cf
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airy loan sharks.
There is q classii-
cation for every
one with any sort
of a position which
offers an opportu-
nifty for the collec-
ton Of the debt.
At the same time
there are but few
who escape without
paying the full
p e n a i ty pro-
nounced by the
money lender. And
this is how i.
works.
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velorirg against
Secretary Cortel-
you as the nation
al pu b Ii C a n
chairman. Quay is
said to have start
ed the opposition
to the selection of
the young secre-
tary of commerce
and labor. and but
a few hours before
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W LII 1lo C1lOl u "
secure pure drink
ing water was
completed when
Mayor Harrison
laid. the last brick
in the intercepting
sewer extending
from Thirty-ninth
street to Seventy
fourth, a distance
of four and one
quarter miles.
Thirty-two mill
lion bricks, all
made at the city
nriS0n wara ,lSed
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The man who adj.
vertises to advance
money to salaried
employees at legal
rates of interest
and without en-
ployers knowing Of
the transaction.
1t seems unnec-
essary to say that
t h e ir advertise
ments are the veri-
est lies. They will
tell you so if you
ask them, possibly
not in so many
I'M
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people in Wash
ington are interest
ed. If Washington
were consulted in
the matter it is
probable that At
torney G en- e r al
John P. Elkin
would be the man,
but Mr.. Elkin is
the candidate for
the supreme bench
in Pennsylvania,
and hasanno1IOcod
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government print
ing Office. The big
print shop has
been a sort of hob
by with him, and
he never tires of
visiting it and
watching it's won
derful machines
turning out count
less thousands of
nages nf official
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tIdue, DuI WITHOUT
effect. With pres
ent laws justice Is
helpless, and the
unhappy d Q b t or
can find no relief
from that direc-
ton. In a recent
decision the Hi
nois supreme court
ruled:
"a b orro W e r
may assign his
wages or anything
else, and the law
will enforce the
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Fighting CortleYou.

An echo of Quay's political influ-
ence is found in the fight that is de-
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) Is {

ORoCCo and piracy have
been associated in our
minds ever since school
days taught us a little of the
history of the Barbary states,
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Modern shylocks

But few applicants for assistance are
turned away empty handed by the sal
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The MONEY LENDERS
LOAN SHARKS ARE THE CRYING
EVIL OF CHICAGO.
AS HEARTLEss AS sHYLocK
The Courts Are Practically Powerless
to Help the Unhappy Debtors-A
Big Intercepting Sewer Sys-
tenn Just Completed.

Chicago-The crying evil of this city
these days is the salary loan shark
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The Courts Cannot Help

Time and again the courts haye been
appealed to to stop this nefarious
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washington letter.
LITTLE STORIES GATHERED. AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
OBJECTS TO THE CARTOONS
Secretary Shaw Thinks Funny Mems
Pictures Breed Anarchy - sena-
tor Hoar the Friend of Print
ers-other Capitol Gossip.

Washington-Reco of the
extremes to which some Of the car
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Quar,s Successor,

Who will succeed to Quay's place in
the senate is question in which many
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Hoar Favors the Printers.
Senator Hoar has for years been
looked upon as the guardian of the
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Big Engineering Feat.
One of the biggest engineering feats
by Chicago in connection
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Justice Is Bound and ,,,irn,o,4 U,,o,,
Helpless ,s,
not wipe out the obligation. The whole
business Of the money lender is done
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The Public Does not Know.
1t is astonishing how little the pub
lie know of the big problems that arc
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KATHERINE POFE.
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Money. "9' oe ~ 80
explanation to the