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avail itself of the opportunity. It
has always seemed to me that, thanks
to the travels and researches of the
late Padre Lerchundi and others OF
his thorough and deligent school, the
Spaniards understand conditions in
Morocco better than men of other
nationalities. They showed it at Me-
lila ten years ago, and I rather think
the commanding officer of the Span
ish contingent in Casablanca is show
ing it to-day when he refuses to ex-
pose his men outside the city to the
furious driving charge of the Moorish
irregular cavalry
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Christians. The policy of his little son,
Abdul-Aziz, has been much more lib
eral, and from the western view point
more enlightened, and is, sad to relate,
one of the contributing causes to the
present alarming situation. He recent
ly consented to the request of the con-
sular corps and the shippers that har-
Dor improvements should be under.
taken in Casablanca. Whereupon the
suspicious Kabyles of the adjacent
mountain Businesses rushed down to
the white House" city and killed IL
or Is Europeans, mostly Spaniards,
who were engaged upon the work.
In making concessions to the Euro
pean spirit of progress and enterprise,
for which his people are not ready, the
unlucky and probably most incapable
young sultan has raised a storm which
may cost him his throne. To-day, if
he stands with his people, he is threat
ened with foreign expedition, while
if he stands by the treaty he runs even
greater and nearer danger at the hands
of the various pretenders to the
throne, by whose activity the sultan's
life has been made very miserable
ever since, or almost ever since. BY
harem conspiracy and the weakness
of his father the young prince was
called to the difficult post of ruling
the Moors.
Present Ruler Unpopular.
Abdul Aziz's accession to the throne
was most unpopular one, and this
fact probably accounts for the fact
that early in his reign he surrounded
himself with foreigners who, with
some exceptions, were not generally
men of a high type-rope walkers,
photographers, balloonists, and sleight-
of-hand men were the representatives
OF western civilization who for a long
time appealed most powerfully to the
young sultan's appreciation of our Gull
ture. In view of the rising tide of dis
content and the disaffection even of
the people of the capital, and the
growing strength of the various revo-
lutions in progress, in the last year
the sultan has dismissed his staff Of
foreign adventures and goes to the
mosque as regularly as his father did
but probably the harm has been
done. In Morocco, as well as in other
countries, a reputation for orthodoxy
is hard to retrieve.
One brother of the unlucky sultan.
Mulai Hafid by name, of whose char
acter and leanings upon the questions
of the day little is known, has been
formally proclaimed sultan in the
great mosque at Morocco City. An
other brother Hassan, it is said, has
been exercising rights of sovereignty
in the Riff highlands, west of Tetanu
and on the Mediterranean coast for
two years past. In the Sus country an
other brother, who bears the name of
Morocco's greatest sultan, Mulai Is
mail. is threatening rebellion with a
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MINNESOTA NEWS
W
Interesting items Gathered in the
Gopher State
State Fair.

Hamline-The 1907 Minnesota state
fair closed after a most remarkable
record. 1t was the best and biggest
fair ever held in the country, the only
drawback being the weather, which
was the worst of the season in some
respects. There were only two days
of the six which were at all favorable,
and the way the people turned out in
bad weather was the best possible
evidence of the merit of the exhibit
ton and the permanence 1t has at
tanned. It was the supreme test of
the loyalty Of Minnesotans and the
excellence Of the fair, and neither
were found wanting.
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Mine Assessment.

ST. Paul-The state tax commission
conferred with the mine owners and
their representatives on the valuation
to be placed on mines for the pur-
poses of taxation. In order to secure
basis for the consideration of the
valuation to be placed on each mine
and the opinions of the mine owners
on these valuations the commission
had prepared a statement covering
each mine. These figures would bring
the total valuation up to about $780,
100000, but the figures were merely
tentative and are liable to be very
materially changed by the commits
sion.
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Robbed of Gold.

Deadwood-By an organized system
Of robbery Erwin M. Hilton, trusted
employee, and others for whom TIE Of
ficers now are looking, it is charged
have succeeded in stealing an un
known sum from the Golden Rewar.
Mining Company. of which E. H. Harri
man, the railroad magnate, is a largo
owner. Hilton is under arrest. When
confronted with evidence, it is al.
legged, he broke down and confessed,
duplicating others in his operations.
Hilton was employed in the precipi
tation room of the Golden Reward.
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A Handy Device.

Madelia-Mrs. Sarah e. Wilson, liv-
ing northwest OF town, has novel
scheme which she uses In connection
with the rural free delivery passing
by her house, and of which she is q
patron. Her house is situated about
D quarter of a mile back from the
highway traversed by the rural car
rier. There is some heavy native
timber between the house and the
mail box on the route, rendering 1t
impossible to see the carrier as he
passes. 81 sA-k7s
One Of Mrs. Wilson's sons has fas-
tened In the mail box an electric door
bell to which he has attached a wire
running to the house. When the car
rier arrives at the box and places the
daily paper and other mail therein he
pushes the door bell, which turns a
dial in the house, thereby notifying
the occupants that he has arrived at
and passed the box.
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Industry in Alabama.

Alabama is now producing as much
pig iron as Pennsylvania did quar-
ter of century ago. In 1887 the
south made trifle more than 100000
tons. Last year it made 100000
tons. The south has. about one-half
the known iron ores of the United
States. A great steel industry has
sprung up in Alabama within the
last ten years, and it is said to pro-
duce better steel rails than saa
north, and at lower cost
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State Institution.

st. Paul-The state institutions last
month turned in to the treasury $685.
93S.O1, according to report. The re,
ceipts from various institutions were
as follows: Anoka asylum, $2S.75;
Hastings asylum, $4S.lS; Fergus Falls
hospital, S450.36; Rochester hospital
s624.29; st. Peter hospital, $545.79;
Faribault school for blind. S301.66:
Faribault school for deaf, $897.64;
Faribault school for feeble-minded, &c..
4S1.26; Owatonna state public school.
$119.80; Red Wing training school,
$6S7.81; st. Cloud reformatory, ST..
02O.S5; Saltwater prison, $11,731.62.
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BRIEF NOTES.

st. Paul-The new Mechanic Arts
high school may be erected at Robert
street and Central avenue.
Preston-An unknown man was
killed by a passenger train last night
near the city. The remains were bad
ly mangled as two trains ran over
him.
Minneapolis. K. Newton of Taopi
was jostled in a crowd when he step.
ped off the train at the Great West
ern station, and later, when he went
to hotel, he learned that his peck.
cts had been picked.
st. Janaes-This county was swept
by furious thunder storm Sunday
night. The barn on G. LindQuist's
farm on the north shore of Long Lake
was struck by lightning and burned
to the ground, and some farm machin'
cry was destroyed.
Crookston-While playing in the
woods near his home at Fosston.
Ralph Gunderson, the nine-year-old
son of 8. Gunderson of that village,
o
died this morning from the effects OF
the wound.
Lake Crystal-The infant child OF
H. Rowlands was badly scalded about
the head and shoulders by the over
turning of pot of boiling coffee. The
child was playing on the floor near the
stove, when the pot was accidentally
brushed from the stove.
St. PaulEHaving lain on the right
of-way along the Omaha tracks near
Post Siding all night, Louis Meyer,
German farm hand, thirty-five years
old, was picked up in serious condi.
ton and taken to the city hospital
in the Margaret street station patrol.
Minneapolis.-"A Fighting Chance"
a new sensational play which will
have a presentation at the Bijou OPP
era House, Minneapolis, the week of
September % is from the pen of the
well known author, Mr.. Theodore
Kremer and is said to be one of his
best.
st. Paul-Gov. Johnson honored
requisition of Gov. Deneen of Illinois
for the return of Albert H. Heyman,
second cornet player in the Innes
band, which was at the Auditorium
last week, who is wanted by the off,
Gals of that state to answer to a
charge Of wife desertion.
Lake Crystalline eleven-year-old
daughter of Lars Sorensen will lose
the sight of an eye through the eff.
fects of stone thrown by a young
son of Hans Anderson while the chill
dren were at play. The eyeball will
be saved, but the child will be blind
in the injured optic.
st. Cloud-Edgar Richer Of Lari-
more, N. D., formerly Of Royalton,
aged seventeen years. an escaped In
mate of the training school at Red
Wing, who recently was recaptured
at Winnipeg, while being taken back
to the institution today, jumped from
the Winnipeg flyer, which was moving
at twenty miles an hour, and sue.
ceeded in making his escape.
st. Cloud-After a trial extending
over several years, the state reforma-
tory officials have concluded that
bloodhounds are Of assistance in few
cases, in the recapture Of escaped
criminals.
st. Paul-Attorney General b. T.
Young has refused to take action to
bring quo warranto proceedings I'd
prevent the holding of the special
charter election in Minneapolis on
Sept. II.
Winona-Kaiser Radmoski was al.
most instantly killed in the village Of
Dakota.
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Durum Wheat.

Minneapolis-Dur wheat has a
weight test for the first time since its
appearance on the market, as the re-
suit of the deliberations Of the state
grain appeal board. Another innova-
ton made at this meeting was the
establishment of a moisture test for
corn.
Hereafter, to grade No. durum will
have to weigh sixty pounds to the
bushel to grade No. q, it must weigh
fifty-eight pounds to the bushel, and
to grade No. 8, fifty-five pounds to the
bushel. This ruling is expected to
do away with the frequent complaints
and appeals over durum grades.
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House" port in every language that is
spoken along the coast. 1t is white
and beautiful, if you lie in the offing
of clear night. Like all the rest OF
Morocco, and indeed, the Mohamme-
dan world, Casablanca is best seen
by the pale moonlight, and to wind
ward, writes Stephen Bonsal in the
New York Times.
Nearby salee, at the very name OF
which our New England ancestors
who went down to the sea in ships
were wont to shudder, and with good
reason, is now closed by sand bar,
which even the daring Barbary cor
sairs would not dare to cross in their
light-drawing feluccas, but the Moor of
the bad country is still pirate,
though the times have driven him in
land from the seas. Until recently he
preyed upon the passing caravans as
a century ago he swooped down with
his hawklike galleys upon our be-
Gained sailing ships. The Kabyle
horsemen who rush with so much fury
and reckless daring up to the French
batteries and rifle pits, do it not only
because they have hatred of the
Christian which their church sancti-
fies to virtue, but because they are
starving to death and want to get at
the men who have taken the bread out
of their mouths.
Held Plains and Passes.
Ten years ago these dashing horse
men, whose gorgeous costumes and be-
jeweled weapons made them most
beautiful if somewhat barbaric OBJ
jects to behold, were the lords of the
plains and the marshes which lie be-
tween the western Soudan and the
port owns of southwest Morocco. They
were the masters of transportation in
this part of the world, and had to be
reckoned with. If you cared to take a
caravan flight in ostrich feathers, gold
dust, slaves, or salt, they would pro-
tect you or pillage you, whichever was
the most profitable.
Sid Boubkehr, who was and is the
most prominent man in this part of
the world, used to rebate and cut rates
just like all the other masters of
transportation, and just like you and
l. He would give caravan protec-
ton at his price or he would pillage
it to secure the just tolls which were
his, as he never doubted, by the divine
right of might. Boubkehr and his
colleagues and rivals got all they
could get out of the job without dis
turbing business or destroying val
ues, and would still be doing profit
able and philanthropic business were
1t not for the recent opening up Of
the Western Soudan by the French,
who have diverted to their own in
terests and profit all the former cara
van trade from Morocco down to Tim
buctoo and the Niger. So without
wishing to be unduly alarmist about
the situation Of the besieged garri-
sons in Mogador and Casablanca it is
clear that their assailants are not
only fanatics, but hungry fanatics
who have been quietly put out of
most profitable and gentlemanly bust
ness, which permitted them the ex.
itravagance of often paying one hun.
dred good dollars for carbine, which
in New York would have been dear at
twelve
/ These dashing bordermen were
bound to the imperial government by
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-20

the slenderest of ties; they were
wholly immersed in their profitable
business operations and in annexing
to their own households the most
beautiful slaves culled from the pass
ing caravans. When the tax-gatherers
ventured into their domains they
buried them alive, but when the late
sultan, Mulai Hassan, who was fight
er, appeared in their neighborhood, be-
ing conservative, clear-headed bust
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ALF way down the Atlantic
coast of the Moorish en-
pire, and about opposite
Charleston, rises out of
the sea the little port of
Casablanca, which is
known as the white
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2e5,263 2s4, 142
Totals
RECEIPTS.
State Employment Agency.

Totals. .........s125, 6os.55 s12s. 4so.45
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and narrow as the closed lid of a box
Miss Greer had been charged with \
murder and on his first interview with
her as his client, James Hobson had
despaired of receiving any assistance
from her as to the conduct of her case
but it was she who had really outlined
the defense which he had brilliantly
carried out and which had resulted in
the triumphant phrase, Not guilty.
He had received his fee: he had re-
ceived the fervid compliments of the
court and the prosecuting attorney on
his clever fight and had felt as beam
ing and buOyant as a school boy over
his victory And now his client was
marring the whole thing with this ugly
whip-lash. sneering riddle Of hers. He
began to entertain a nasty. depressing
feeling concerning his ability. to doubt
his legal insight, to question his intui-
ton, to think little Of his worldly wis
dom.
He thought still less of himself when
in later years he learned the strange
true story, which is this:
When Mrs. Arthur Parsons told her
sister, Alice Greer, that Sterling Jen.
ner would arrive with the rest of the
toWnsfolk for the weekend, Miss
Greer turned page in the book she
was reading and remarked that it
meant at least one decent bridge play.
err.
You take the news that he is com
ing very Enthusiastically" said Mrs
Parsons. There was a time when
you would have jumped two feet in
the air if you knew you were going
to meet Sterling Jenner."
Yes, but that was a year ago
Time changes our feelings as we'll as
our looks, you know, Isabel. And by
the-by, there are certain times OF
which one does not care to be remind
ed"
p beg your pardon, my dear" said
Mrs. Parsons, with fine assumption
of contrition. IF Jenner's coming is
going to be disagreeable to you l viii
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isfaction will be that she shall be my
accuser."
So Mrs. Parsons on the witness
stand, the strong witness for the pros
ecutiOn furnished the State with that
essential-the motive for the crime.
Her direct testimony lasted up to the
noon recess, counsel for the accused
announcing that he would begin his
cross-eXamination when the court re-
assembled
1t was during the recess that Miss
Greer gave her attorney his second
shock. Isabel has done her host to
convict me. Now Mr.. Hobson, she
shall set me free"
Then she told him certain facts con
corning which she had kept studiOus,
ly quiet, though they were vital to her
exCulpatiOn. So when court reassem-
bled and Mrs. Parsons was again on
the stand she had to tell OF the visit
to the well, of leaving her sick sister
in the room, of her hurried trip to and
from the yard, of the bright moon.
light, of seeing her sister at the win.
dow, of speaking with her from we'll to
window, of finding her in the same po
sitiOn and in the same place on her
return to the room, and of remaining
with her until o'clock in the morn.
ing. Mrs. Parsons was made to prove
that the duration of the time when
she did not see her sister was that
covered by her trip to and from the
yard, and that the duration Of that in.
terval would not allow even the most
agile of executiOners to have done the
deed, to say nothing of an agitated and
undoubtedly sick girl.
Then Mrs. Parsons was asked if as
a matter of fact she had not stopped
on her return trip in the corridor near
the room of the murdered man, and
if-again as a matter of fact-that re,
turn trip had not taken her through
the conservatory in which the garden
er had left the weapon.
"Of course" said Mr.. HobsOn, Il on
ly ask these questions to emphasize
the Elementary character of the al
legged testimony against my client
There is no other Interior purpose in
this line of enquiry"
Then Mrs. Parsons was assisted pal
lid and trembling from the witness
stand and in less than two hours aft
erward the jury brought in a verdict
of Not guilty
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II suppose you tlnnh yvu are all ex
ceedingly clever lawyer
Considering the fact that James Hob
son, junior members of the law firm OF
Hobson, Jones & Hobson, had just
heard the jury bring in a verdict of &C.
quittal as the final word in an intense
ly desperate case. and that the person
now twitting him was his client for
whom he had won the verdict, it was
but natural that the young lawyer
turned a rather surprised face on his
questioner.
ut doesn't seem to me-" said young
Hobson, that it matters much what !
think Of my legal abilities. The great
object has been attained. There was
an ugly circumstantial case of muir
der against you and you have been
freed"
Yes; freed because you convinced
the jury that was innocent"
Eyes. because l was convinced that
you were"
Exactly. And l end as l began, by
saying, 1 suppose you think you arc
an exceedingly clever lawyer"
James Hobson looked at his client
again with surprise. 1t was not the
first time that his client had surprised
him. On casual acquaintance Alice
Greer seemed to take only the most
phlegmatic interest in anything that
went on beyond her pretty nose and tC
entertain only the most languid ideas
back of her still prettier eyes. But il
one watched closely and persistently
one might see the light leap into anC
out of those same serene eyes that was
startling-it was like a sudden flash
of an electric light in room that
one had thought empty and that was
was revealed as being full of strange
and unsupported things. Ordinarily
her mouth was up-curved and placid
then suddenly it would line out straight
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PAGE SEVEN.

But Alice Greer was guilty. She dfd
kill Sterling Jenner.
She had planned the deed from the
moment she heard of his intended Wis
it to her sisters. She had watched
the gardener at work In the conservi
atory pruning the vines and had Sc
creted the knife. She had thought
out the little comedy of sickness and
her sisters moonlight trip to the we'll.
She had only made dummy figure OF
her clothes. had seated that dummy
in the window and had inspected the
cheat from the yard and had found
that the mannilin was sufficiently de-
ceiving in appearance. She had
learned the exact hour OF the various
parties retiring and she knew, OF
course, that entrance to any OF the
rooms was unobstructed.
She had creased the latch to Jen-
ner's door and had the knife ready In
the top bureau drawer. When Mrs.
Parsons went down stairs Alice
whipped the dummy from the conceal.
ing closet and laid it on the floor be-
meath the window-seat. Then she sat
shere and talked with her sister. Then
quick as a flash seated the dummy
figure in her place, gripped the knife.
scudded down the passage-way in her
stocking feet, stabbed Jenner with one
strong blow; had fled back to her
room, whisked the dummy back into
the closet and dropped painting into
the window-seat.
But in that time she had killed
Sterling Jenner and it was the quick
est killing on record.
*Vide 81 Johnson IN w pp 347 et
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Bad Baking Povvaes.
-AAH ~ ~@A "esooAEgg Test


The basis of all baking powders is
the same-bicarbonate of soda.
Egg Baking Powder, famous for
purity and wonderful leavening pow
er, contains pure bicarbonate of soda.
But instead ofusing Cream of Tartar
or Alum in making Egg Baking Pow
DEF, we use Wheat PhoSphates and Egg
Albumen.
Here is the cooking test"
Take2 heaping teaspoonfuls of ordi-
nary baking powder, whatever you are
now using, add couple of teaspoon
fuls of water and boil until the water
has evaporated. If it contains Cream
of Tartar and Tartaric Acid the resi-
due will be Rochelle Salts, a stomach
and bowel irritant, having no food
value at all. If it contains Alum. the
residue will be Glaubers Salts. equally
injurious to the stomach and bowels.
Now repeat the experiment. using
Egg Baking Powder. The residue IS
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a little Sodium Phosphate and Egg
Albumen, both not only harmless but
OF real food value. This phosphate
material is most necessary food ele-
ment-the system demands it.
The residue left in biscuit or pastry
by Alum or Cream of Tartar baking
powders is indigestible and positively
harmful. 1t sets up constant irrita-
ton in ones delicate digestive organs.
lfyou took it in a large quantity it
would be better, for then it would be
thrown off. You know an overdose of
poison is better than a small dose.
1t doesn't pay to trifle with nature.
If you take ever SO small an amount
OF poison in the system, you must pay
the penalty in injured health.
Use Egg Baking Powder-composed
of pure and healthfuli ngredients-an
aid to digestion, not hindrance.
Insist on being supplied with it.
There's nothing just as good"