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TURKISH TROOPS CREATE A
nUBUB IN C0NSTAMTlM0PLE
Especial to The Free Press.1
= + + + = + + + = + = = =

: Constantinople, April l3.-Ser-
+ ious disturbances of revolu
+ .tionary character have broken
= out here. Two battaliOns of
= troops quartered in the minis
: try of war marched out at dawn
Z headed by their officers and pro.
Z ceeded to the Mosque Stsophio
+ from which point they surround
+ ed the building of parliament.
Z They demand the dismissal of
+ the grand vizier, president of
+ the chamber, and the minister
+ of war. A panic seized the peo-
{ pie of Constantinople and all
+ though city shops are being
+ hurriedly closed.
n. q q q z. 4 q 4. q. q. a.
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Will Hold a Special Meeting.

The North Mankato council will hold
special meeting Saturday evening, to
open bids for filling up Belgrade ave-
nue.. The North Mankato school board
will hold a meeting tonight.
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Brooklyn Eagle: The Preacher
(quoting) Go to the ant, thou slug
gard. The Tramp amt got no aunt,
boss. She's been dead three years.
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Take 1t Out on the Umpire.
Duluth Herald: If you don't like
the Payne bill, take it out on the
umpire. He'll be handy soon.
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OLD RESIDENT DEAD.
MRS. SARAH THOMAS DIED AT
NINE O'CLOCK YESTERDAY.

Was the Mother of the Cahsier of the
MankatO State Bank; Death Due
to Old Age; Came to America
From Wales Many Years Ago;
Settled in Blue Earth County
in the Year 1863.
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TEAR OFF THE YOKE
PEOPLE OF NEW YORK GET AFTER
THE MOTOR MANAGES.

Public Safety and Sanity Is the De-
mand of the Hour in New York;
Better Element With Their Autos
Are Arrayed Against the Fool
Speeders; Women of Gotham Are
Wrought Up Over Payne Bill.
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MAKES HIS PROTEST
CASTRO DOES NOT WANT TO BE
DEPORTED FROM MARTINIQUE.

International Law Violated; Claims
That Expulsion From French Ter
ritory is Denial of the Rights of
Individuals; Removal of Former
President of Venezuela From the
Hotel to Steamer a Pitiful Sight
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DAILY
MARKET REPORT

Furnished by W. Fl Dickinson & Co.. Mem
oers Of the Minneapolis and Chicago Ex-
changes. Room No. IL. Free Press Bldg.
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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Mankato. Mimi. Apr. IA. 1909
The sun., 1909-06-30
The Language Of Baseball.

To THE EDITOR or THR SUS-ISir: Shakespeare.
who was famous for the use OF a large vocabulary,
Is apparently so far surpassed In this regard by
one OF our modern writers that the superiority
should not remain unnoted. For the act. more
or less simple, OF making base hit in a game OF
baseball with which most Of us are familiar the
gentleman who reviews the ball games, as PLAYED
In Manhattan. for THE SuS uses a large variety
Of verbs all expressive: and to the fan each word
carries a different shade OF meaning. The one
hundred words which follow the hrst which
have occurred to the writer; there may be many
more. Instead OF being confined to the one eI.
preston the batter drove a hit" THE SrS says
he
Stung siugved. lined. smote smacked. spanked.
soaked. smeared. swattcd slammed, scorched,
knocked. crashed. clubbed damned. lunged,
laced. burned. bored, fayod punched. pelted'
pasted. prongcd. thumped. hammered, pounded.
pummellcd, walloped, banged. burned. whacsed,
whaied, splashed. spilled. slapped. dumped,
dlneed pluuked, plastered, planted. pumped,
plugged swung, sunk, shot, swept, switched.
pulled percoiated. brushed, landed laid, whipped.
thrust carved, carromed- careened, uncorsed.
produced, discharged, put, cut. emblakoned.
elected, cmpucd. festooned. picked. aimed.
registered heaved, rolled, divulged, poured.
scratched. sizzled SKINNED. sandwiched. slipped.
dribbled. bounced, glanced, ncRcd. dipped.
bumped. pcaled. crowded, jammcd. uundled.
trickled. forced sailed. scared. lifted. lobbed-
arched. forked. popped pushed. WINGED.
Thus In ono OF these hundred different ways
he reached first base.
Thus indeed has our great national game
added another genius TO the field OF literature.
V. N. BOSTON.
REACH RiiryF Mass Junc 8
The sun., 1909-06-30
Peace Mt Last.

No matter how ferociously the war
dogs yap and snap, Peace will posi-
lively, in the beautiful phrase of Mr..
LOWELL the rosy edges of her smile lay
bare. The Hon. RICHARD BARTHoI.DT
of st. Louis, the House of Represent
atives and the American Group OF
the International Parliamentary Union,
has introduced resolution directing
the President to make three persons,
at $500 a year, a Commission on Per-
manent International Court Of Arbitral
Justice, and three more at the same price
n Commission on the Limitation Of
Armaments. The other signatory Pow
ers of the Hague conference are to be
asked to create similar commissions. y
will be the laborious duty Of the AIne
lean commissioners to make repor' ~
least two years before the next Hague
conference meets. A hard task, but we
have firm enough faith in the dignity
of American labor to believe that stern
and self denying souls can be had for
the money.
Mr.. BARTHoLDT whose sincere and
disinterested work for international
peace We regard with all respect. says
that this his resolution is backed by
"the force OF the whole peace movement"
hero and abroad, and that it Expresses
in succinct form what is now demanded
by the advocates Of peace and arbitra-
ton" Emphatic as this language is, it
is cold and pallid by the side Of the facts;
and if we have ever doubted the coming
of the day when the lion and the lamb
will lie down together and lap certi-
fled milk from millennium plate, that
doubt was unworthy and is here cast
out formally and finally. Peace is
practicable and no dream. Peace and
salary! Multiply the commissions! By
the way, the United States is doing great
work for peace. Let it be the generous
hope of every philanthropic heart to
make peace as expensive as war.
This seems to be what statesmen are
striving for; and they will succeed.
The sun., 1909-06-30
4 Hot Day In the Senate.

II it is not reactionary and inhuman
to say so, We almost regret this mitiga-
tion Of incandescent days and nights
intolerable. Regret it, that is. for the
sake OF Washington. On Monday the
Senate was edifying, moral, instructive.
This oven,' as the Hon. BENJAMIN
RYAN TILLMAN called that illustrious
chamber, refined as well as baked that
conscript clay. Take Captain T1LLMAN
himself. We are very near the devils
Kitchen, he murmured as he passed a
red bandanna across his burning brow
A red bandanna on a day like Monday!
No wonder the Senate steamed. In the
present state of things, however, that
red bandanna, carrying us back to the
Old Roman is the best, perhaps the
only Democratic badge and memorial
left to the Democratic party.
But We must not turn away to ALLEN
GRANBERY THURMAN; no, not even for
the purpose of saluting his old friend
the Hon. GEORGE FRANKLIN EpMUNDs
now of Philadelphia, type of a Re-
publicanism in comparison with which
Stonehenge seems modern. We merely
utter our joy at finding Captain Till
MAN in properly pious frame Of mind.
The fumes are coming up to oppress
us, he says; some of us are getting a
touch of what will happen 10 ,ls here
after" What will happen to some OF
us" at the hands OF Legislature or pri-
mary in 1911, 1918 or 1915 bothers them
more but Captain TILLMAN's warning
is none the less salutary.
While South Carolina preached West
Virginia practised What would we
have not given to see the Hon. STEPHEN
BENTON ELKINs in fatigue uniform.
His wearing apparel" THE Sun told
us yesterday, was Of the lightest tex
ture, and without collar he seemed
to bear up brnvey under the intense
heat" Stole nnd Indian, if ever there
was one! For what does it profit the
Hon. STEPHEN BENTON ELKINs to be
clothed in the thinnest raiment to
divest his Phidian neck of collar, to
be armed with fans? What should il
profit him though he sat in his shirt
sleeves, like JOE WALKER Of Worcester,
or in his stocking feet with his feet on
his desk, like WILLIAMSON CALL Of Flor
ida? No absence of clothing no sum-
mer donudation, can bring GOODNESS
to those wide surfaces and enormous
decps. The Hon. STEPHEN BENTON
ELKINs ia involved in his own virtue,
and therefore heavily clad always.
The sun., 1909-06-30
sit a Debt OF Honor?

For those who find it difficult to be-
lieve that a man OF WILLIAM HOWARD
TAFT's judicial temperament and in
formed intelligence and general sanity
can possibly approve the corporation
tax with all that it must necessarily in
volve there is possible explanation of
his present course.
1t may seem elaborate, far fetched,
for already President TAFT has made
us forget that he was the creature Of
THEODORE RoOsEvELT's ruthless e1er-
else of power a year ago. He has so
satisfied our expectations in most re-
spects. so dismissed the saturnalia of
the last six years and 80 completely
ushered in the regime Of order and COM
mon sense and wholesomeness that We
have permitted the old unpleasant men,
ores of his debt to ROOSEVELT to lapse,
and have come to consider him the Ieo-
ple's spontaneous and inevitable choice.
He was so, We do believe, upon election
day last November, and would be SO
perhaps tomorrow; but we know that
he was not in January, 1908, and we are
now reminded that only Mr.. RoosE-
vELT's unscrupulGus employment Of
the Governments official army and the
ruthless use of his personal influence as
President forced TAFT's nomination on
the Chicago convention. Even then, it
is said by we'll informed observers close
to the sources of contemporaneous in
formation, ROOSEVELT would have failed
had not the Republican leaders believed
that he was waiting and hoping for the
rejection Of TAFT in order to seize the
nomination for himself.
We do not say that Mr.. TAFT had any
explicit bargain with his predecessor
and patron, but it is inconceivable that
he is destitute Of gratitude, and it is a
we'll known fact that above all other
crazes and infatuations THEODORE
ROOSEVELT cherished with a fanatical
obstinacy the idea OF harrying, prose-
cutting and eventually subjecting to
official domination all the vast and COM
plicated business conducted by private
corporations throughout the land.
There is good reason to believe that in
his message to Congress Of December
of 1907 he had clause to that effect,
a clause so violent and sweeping in
character, 30 unbridled and vicious and
destructive in its inevitable operation,
that his legal advisers of that period
were compelled TO assure him that even
were a servile Congress to enact such
legislation every court in the country
would disqualify and denounce it with
out n second thought. The clause was
erased, reluctantly no doubt, but now
comes President TAFT with proposition
as nearly to the same eifect-the con-
troll subjection and enslavement of
corporations within the States-as a
sane man could approach the adumbra-
tons OF malignant lunatc.
Mr.. TAFT's corporation tax scheme is
notoriously not revenue measure. 1t
The sun., 1909-06-30
THE ART OF PRICE MAKING.
Valuable Advice and Directions for Fig.
urtng q Loss,

To rBB EDITOR OF THE SuS--.Sfr: He who
neglected to read the clipping from the Bingaiore
Indenlor's Guide on The Art OF Price Making"
missed valuable Information on that subject
1t gives for the benent of those whose heads
arc father ihiSs" table of how 10 compute per
cent. pronts, as follows:
To make pront Of ies.s per cont add 20 per
cent. 70 cost.
To make pront Of 30 per cent. add Is per cent.
to cost.
To make a pront of IS per cent. add IS is per
cent. 10 cost.
To make a pront Of as la per cent. add 50 per
cent. 10 cost.
To make proht of 50 per cent. add 100 per
cent, 10 cost.
Why did he stop hcreI II would be interesting
to follow II up 10 say million per cent. 10 see
how much proft can be lost for apparently the
more you make the more you lose. On this idea
reverse the proposition and compute per cent
losses and we have:
To hgure loss Of i6a.S per cent. subtract 20
per cent from cost
To hgure a loss Of 20 per cent. subtract Is per
cent. from coat.
To ngure loss Of Is per cent. subtract IS is
per cent. from cost.
To ngure q loss Of - Is per cent. subtract 30
per cent from cost.
To ngure loss Of 50 per cent. subtract 100 per
cent. from cost.
This explains the phrase often heard. making
a loss" Example: With the pront table use .
quart Of water as your unit. To make 20 per
cent. take one quart In . pitcher. add one quart
200 per cent?: result las per tablet equals one and
a half quarts. With the loss table Il is rather
remarkable. To lose so per cent. take one quart.
pour out one quart 100 per cent) and there viii
remain In the pitcher half q quart. II Ia an i'm.
provcment over the old system. BY :his method
you eat all your cake and sti have one half left
This way for me. W. c. OrHKssoN
NV YORE luna 20
The sun., 1909-06-30
The Heartrending Fate OF Major
MinnamasCot.

1t is not necessary to recall to the
enlightened political economists OF this
nation how important was the part
played in the last national campaign
by the jackass given to the Hon.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN of Lincoln.
Neb., by the Minnesota State Fair. IT
Is fresh in mind that the jack was
welcomed at Fairview with enthusiasm
and gratitude; that a valorous news
paper correspondent undertook to ride
it; that this man was thrown ingloriously
by the symbolical representative of De-
mocracy; that Colonel BRYAN, eager to
compliment the bestowers OF the gift,
immortalize the name OF the gentlemen
whose bravery was tested on its back,
and to describe properly the function of
the beast, named it Major Minnamascot; !;
and that in moment Of prodigal gener-
osity or enlightened self-interest the
Colonel offered to give it to the voting
precinct which showed the largest per-
ccntagc of gain in Democratic ballots
cast at the election.
Major Minnamascot became an in
sttution, II totem. Photographs Of the
patient beast, articles about 1t, illusions
70 II decorated and embroidered tho
The sun., 1909-06-30
WHEN MRS. SNYDER MIIkS
Sir. snyder Promises to Go Along and
Tote the Pail.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUS-!Sir: I am quite
satisfied with the compliment implied by your
Monticello correspondent 10 Mrs. Snyder In your
issue OF TO- day. In which he says the buck and doe
were seen By her when she went In the neld 70
milk.
MIS-. Snyder can milk. but up to date has not
been compelled TO do her own milking. Maybe
this account Is representation OF disaster that
shall reduce us TO the necessity. In any event,
] am personally not incapscitated. and you are
hereby authorized to assure my friends that when
she does the milking I shall carry the stool and
tote the full pals to the dairy meanwhile thanking
God for the ino product and conEratuistlne our.
selves that We have such truthful chronclers as
neighbors. EDWARD LAYTON SSrDkR
OF :: Prospect Park West, Brooklyn.
kIAAEsHA, n. y, June q.
The sun., 1909-06-30
The Mountain OF siexsido.

To THE EpIroR OF THE SuS-Sb: Your cor
respondent Hyacintho RlnGrose could not hAvs
looked far for the word Armae eddon, which
thanks to Mr.. Balfour has Inquired recently In
English speeches and newspaper for had he con :.
suited the Standard Dictionary he would have
found II there defined lin the section Of proper
nAmesl as the plain OF Esdrnelon: scene OF
Israelltish victories and disasters"s
Or. Meiancthon JAcotNs In his recently pub
Ilshed Standard Bible Dictionary says: "Har.
Masedon Is an apocaiyplc symbol for the con-
hIci between the forces OF good and evil. but
Its explanation depends upon the form OF the
underlying Hebrew. Hlppolytus is supposed 70
have read something like Valley OF Mcgiddo
with alusion 70 Zcch. ali. H." where the valley
Is spoken OF In the authorized version as the
valley OF Megddon" "Origcn's reading WAS
Ar. .Miqaedem (the plain before,. Luther's mar
ginai gloss 10 based on the New Testament. but
derives the word from cherem. meaning curse. -
GunkeI and Hommcl sug ggest that tho Hebrew
was Har Mo'edh (mount Of testimony. and they
connect II with the Babylonlan notion Of world
conflict on somc mountain height. The COM
monty accented rendering however, II simpi
4 Greek transliteration OF the Hebrew for "moun-
tain OF Meggido." Although the term does not
occur In the Old Testament the Plain Of Meriddo
was the scene of decisive conflicts See Zech.
XII. II: Judges W. 10: H. Kings H. 81 and Kill. ~
Professor Shailer Mathews. writing on the
subject In another Bible dictionary, says that
another explanation OF tho word may be found
In the survival OF the name OF the place In which
the gods OF Babylonia were believed 70 have
defeated the dragon 11Amst and the other evil
spirits. lie adds: such view compels q series
OF highly speculative corrections OF the tex, as
well various critical suppositons regarding the
structure Of the Book OF Revelation"
The amount OF information and speculation
that can he found on this term In the English
dictionaries and encyclopedias recently pub
lished would more than nl column OF THK SUN,
but possibly this Is "suf,ccnt unto the day."
FRANK II. VixxrHI.Lr
New YORK, June 20.
The sun., 1909-06-30

To THE EDITOR or THE SuH-Su: u. +. NJ"
should obtain not one dog but two for the pro.
lection OF the ladies OF his family In their lonely
country house.
Let him buy short, chunky bulldog Of about
S This breed is quiet, obedient faithful and
requires very little care. When rightly directed
besides It's snsppy bark. Its bite will tear the
s'unhnk out OF any Rafies trying TO get away
with y. T. Ms" silverware And treasures
The ladies with just little patience can train
him very nicely 10 do their bidding Cali him
Jack for short.
Besides this, let -. +. NJ" 70 10 the BIde Wee
home for dogs and he will nnd number OF faith
ful and true protectors anxious and willing n
attend TO the breeches part OF the wandering
Weary Willies during the day time. When
chosen call him Tatters.
In the daily strolls Of our friends family, with
Jack Nesting lovingly In a hand bag and Tstters
happy and joyously running around them. no harm
can befall them.
In the night Tatters will guard them and sound
the alarm, and one single bark from Jack, pro
vidins, OF course he Is properly trained, will do
the rest
All OF which Is respectfully submitted 10 the
attention OF your sollcltous correspondent.
BHooKLYN. June n. CHARLEs II. ScHorr.
The sun., 1909-06-30
President TAFT and the Corporation Tax.

To THE Ep1IoR OF THE SrN-Sn: II we
may Judge from the deluge OF protests from
all parts Of the country slready recorded
against the corporation tax. 1t is an unde-
niable fact that president Taft has en-
harked upon voyage of discovery fraught
with peril. II is incredible how any man
OF Mr.. Tafts legal pose. Judgment and ex-
perience could have reconciled himself to
the socialistic doctrines OF a Bryan or
La Toilette. The corporation tax as out
lined by the Administration Ia unjust and
impracticable in its conception and utterly
indefensble in law and morals.
To not few OF the Presidents admirers
IL has been rude shock to their conf
dence In him as careful. experienced and
conservative Executive. A.B.H.
NEW IoIx. June %.
The sun., 1909-06-30
Bryan's Promise and Taft's Per-
formance.

Bryan's Promise and Taft's Per-
formance.
In the platform of the Organized De-
mocracy this resolution was adopted at
Denver on July TO- 1908:
We favor an income tax as part OF our revenue
system. and we urge the submission Of constitu-
tonai amendment specifically authorizing Con
gress 70 levy and collect tax upon individual or
corporate incomes. to the end that wealth may
bear tts sproportionate share Of the burdens Of
the Federal Government"
On june IS, 1000, at the instance OF
President TAFT, there was introduced in
the Senate a joint resolution proposing
this amendment Of the Constitution Of
the United States:
TAas Congress shall have power to lay and
collect taxes on incomes from whatever source
derived. without apportonment among tie sew
eni osates and without regard to any census
enumeration"
Thus less than one year elapsed be-
tween the promise by BRYAN and his
party and the beginning of the at
tempted redemption Of that promise by
President TAFT.
Meanwhile Mr.. TAFT, who now with
such magnificent if unconscious gener-
osity undertakes to made good the polit-
ical pledges Of his adversary, had beaten
BRYAN and the Denver platform by $50
electoral votes and by a plurality Of
/ l,23S, 900 in the popular vote.
We assure you upon our word of honor
that this incident is taken from the true
history Of the United States. and not
from the narrative Of ALICE's travels in
Wonderland or from the metrical COM
positions of Mother GOOSE.
The sun., 1909-06-30

In Otsego county the Republicans who
have adopted Governor HuoHRs's direct
nominations measure have won a oon-
siderable victory-the first clear cut vic
tory to set against the numerous defeats
in various other rural districts. The con-
test was between the present member,
CHARLES SMITH, and STEPHEN C. CLARK.
SMITH had voted against the Hnman-
Greene BILL and this vote was made the
issue Of the fight, in which the local Or
ganization supported the present member.
SMITH, however, secured but 20 of 50
delegates, while CLARK has SIS. This
success Of the direct nominations cause
is somewhat overbalanced by their COM
plete failure in Franklin county. where
the Hon. FREDERICK d. KILBuRN, q rec
ognized anti-Hughes Republican, won in
the fight to secure the delegates for the
convention which will nominate Sem
ator to succeed the late WILLIAM T..
O'SEIL.
The sun., 1909-06-30

newspapers. Then came the election,
and interest in Colonel BRYAN abated
to an alarming extent. We recollect
vaguely that Maj jor Minnamasoot's name
appeared in conjunction with that of
some unhappy constituency in the West.
The jaokass was good STUFF before
election After that fatal day in No
vember it ceased to attract.
How completely this once petted and
pampered companion Of greatness, this
dweller in the warming rays Of the spot
light, fell from public esteem and luxury
we confess we had not known, nor had
We cared, until friend sent to us yes
terday the subjoined extract from the
Goldfeld Tribune Of June 23:
The glory OF the Democratic mule has been
ecpsed and the Major from BRrAN's farm has
descended TO the neld OF usefulness By dragging
beer wagon around Goidheld. This Ia hard on
prohibition Nebraska, but harder on tho mule.
which had grown accustomed to life Of case"
Thus Major Minnamascot, stripped Of
the greater portion Of the name 30
paipstakingly bestowed-the Mimi
for Minnesota, the "a" for agriculture,
the mascot" for descriptions reduced
to the prosaic and humble task Of
dragging beer wagon through
mining town, getting none Of the beer
either The frolics at Fairview, the
attentions OF the great, the caresses Of
he thoughtful and talkative and
rnishty of the land, are exchanged for
he strong and bitter words OF the
brewery driver and the stinging blows
Of a whip welded by base minion Of
the corporationists. The pleasant days
of dreaming and Of rest are past; the
harsh realities Of life oppress Major
Minnamascot.
1t is a sad fall, a heartbreaking reve-
lation of the inequalities Of life among
jackasses. And Colonel BRYAN, while
his former companion, inspirer and
confidant wearily draws the beer wagon
in the Nevada mining town, breaches
Prohibition from the platforms Of Ne
braska and looks forward longingly and
lovingly to November, 1912.