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The Detroit times., 1910-04-19


Soon they will co. he said.
IL was only a stray, but II was more
valuable TO me as an indication OF
llopular sentiment than all interview
with the prime minister.
And, speaking Of prime ministers,
tie representative Of British authority
IN Egypt now Is Sir Edwin Gorst, a
nan who is generally conceded TO Dc
timid and over-cautious. During the
Cromer regime things were run with
the same strong hand that pushed the
british forces soath To Khartoum AMI
fought the Mahdi's forces at Kerreri.
Cronler is now back in England ana
colonial affairs in Egypt and the Sudan
are ambling along under loose rein.
Administration Is Weak.
Whether one believes that Egyp.
should be self-goverhing under con.
stitution, CT should submit indefinitely
to the benevolent incubus OF Eng
lands army of occupation" there eau
be NO dispute as 70 the evils of weak
administration And that the present
enc in very weak viii be seen in the
striking fact that Col Roosevelt was
'begged To eliminate from his speech
ton of the assassination of Butros
Paskaw. late minister OF finance
IF | speak at ALL" Roosevelt ro-
Dlied. Il snail denounce assassination.
And he did And in his farewell
message Sir Edwin Gorst thanked him
Tor his words
But the immediate consequences
we're amazing. Indignation meetings
we're held by the nationalist, the ma
tive press teemed with criticism, ana
finally thcre was demonstration In
front OF Shepherds hotel when sew
eral hundred young men in red tar
boushes marched by. chanting like a
college crowd the Arabic equivalen.
ior Down with the hypocrites." Hur-
rah for the constitution"
Problem lo Complex.
II was not exactly an alarming dem.
onstration. They were evidently stu
dents and were. on the whole, well
dressed, intelligent looking crowd. But
in their wake were molly array OF
Arabs and natives ready for anything
that might happen-as picturesquely
illainous a looking Jack-of'cutthroatS
as ever graced the deck OF pirate
snip. IL Is lnlS tleIutHl III Ebyp dhh-
ed to the great number OF densely
ignorant blacks, which makes the proc
lem of constitutional self.governmenr
6 rather dubious one. And 1t Is this
element plus an overwhelming major
!;y OF Moslems. liable at any moment
TO fame with the fires Of fanaticism.
as in the days OF the Mahdi. that
causes the English and Cropt and 9th
ers of the Christian element to lie
awake and dream daylight nightmares
after such events as the killing o.
Butrcs.
Roosevelt promised not to talk
politics. foreign or domestic.
And | haven't" he says. "Thod
shalt not xiii is not talking politics.
Or If ii is, | shall have to add reser
walton TO my promise"
One paragraph especially in the col
oners speech was seized upon by the
radicals as cause for offense. IL was
that In which he said that paper
constitution would not By itself in
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
RAILROAD PAYS TAXES.

LANSING. Micn. April 19.-(Spe-
cial THE Lansing Southern Rail
road Co paid S24S.0S taxes TO the au-
this morning. The Ian
sing Southern is strip of road one
mile long. running through the city Of
Mason. II is a branch of the NJ. L. r.
which was incorporated as a steam
line in order to get through the city
against the wishes of the council.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
IDA M. TARBELL COMING.
Noted Magazine Writer Will Address
Board Of Commerce.

Miss Ida NJ. 'Tarbell, whose articles
on the Standard OIL Co. and John D.
Rockefeller have attracted worldwide
attention, will be the guest OF the De-
troit Board of Commerce at luncheon
in the Cadillac, Thursday noon, and
will give an address. Miss Tarbell is
the first woman 10 be invited TO ad.
dress the board. A record attendance
Is looked for
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
Hog WeIahs s75 Pounds.

FLORENCE. Ala. April 19.-T. c.
Hanghton has shipped to Memphis a
male nog of the Red Duroc variety
that weighed $50 pounds. 300 pounds
heavier than the Berkshire recently
slaughtered by Wiley Putnam OF this
county
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
oLoBE.TRoTTER RELEASED.

GRAND RAPIDS, MiChu April -
Gottfried Rodriguez. who left Amster-
dam. Holland. Jan. /. 1909. without
money or luggage to make a trip
around the world. was in police court
here today for fighting Judge Hess
suspended sentence provided the
globe.trotter left town Immediately.
Rodriguez came here last Friday from
npfroit
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
is FOUND DEAD IN BED.

PORT HURON, Mich. April 10
The dead body OF William Address
was found In bed at the home of his
brother-in-law. William Drake. Mon
day afternoon. Coroner Schwickert
and the police investigated the case
and IL Is believed Address died a
week ago from heart disease There
Will be no inquest.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
pitcher WiIlett Divorced.

Edgar Willett, one of the Tigers
star pitchers. was granted a divorce,
Monday. from his wife, Emma He
alleged that she deceived him before
her marriage, which took place in
Windsor. The wife put in no de-
fence
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
PAIR TRY SUICIDE.

CALUMET. Mich. April 19.-After
agreeing to die together. John Kupari,
aged % years. and his wife, took large
doses of morphine at their home in
Hancock last evening. Kupar is dead
as a result. bu the woman will live.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
TO QUELL UNREST
IN EGYPT IS BIC
PROBLEM
Times Staff Correspondent Says
Country Is on Edge of Revolution
Against Occidental Methods OF
British Government.
Another Kitchener Is Needed To
Stamp Out Flame of Discomfort
and Hatred for Foreigners.
BY gibson GARDNER.
Copyright. 1910. Newspaper Enterprise
Association.)

CAIRO April IL.
Egypt is OH the
edge OF revolution.
When II will break
nobody can say;
but conditions are
such that It might
come any time.
| felt IL in the air
the day | landed
In Alexandria. |
fell into the hands
OF an evil pirate
who called himself
u guide, and wa
driven about tho
city under his help
tul chaperonage.
The English
crowned Moham-
med Alec. Yes.
There are too man.
OF them. "
He made "A ges-
lure like murder
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
Mrs. Hammerstein Wants Divorce.

RENO, New, April l9.-Mrs. Arthur
TIammersteln. wife of the theatrical
man. began suit for divorce yesteI-
day Mrs Hammerstein has been liv-
ing I'm Reno for six months under her
maiden name, Gene Allison.
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19

sure any people constitutional gov
eminent; that ability for selfgovern-
meh: must come gradually with edu-
cation and training. Although cx-
pressed in terms of a generalization,
and so obviously true as Ito seem To
the American mind quite bromide,
this Was material to provoke riot In
Egypt. Here. said the native press,
was a thrust at liberty. How could
such words come from the ex-presi
dent OF a republic? Was IL any won.
der that the American senate had de
termined TO drop this Roosevelt from
the pension list? A traitor 70 free gov
eminent ought 10 be dropped!
Missionaries Are Pleased.
The last allusion apparently had its
origin in the belief that all eyofficl
ais go out OF office on a life pension
and that the senate is the distributor
OF personal and political rewards. and
has the additional power TO discipline
pensioners for any lapse from poltl-
cal grace.
But whatever was the sentiment in
native and official circles. there is no
doubt of great enthusiasm aroused by
Roosevelt's words in missionary cir
Giles The American missionaries are
quite colony in Egypt They have
their schools and churches in Cairo
Assiut, Luxor. Assuan, Khartum and
even up on the Sobat river thousand
miles above Khartum, and IL is an
open secret that the assassination OF
Butros Pashaw, the mutterings of
revolution and the 1abby attitude of
the British authorities at home, have
caused them great uneasiness. Tele-
grams and letters flowed in during
the days following Roosevelt's uni
vcrsity speech. thanking him for say
Ing what nobody else had dared to
say.
Turkish Influence Domnent.
Egypt is strongly marked with the
Turkish characteristics. and the new
Turkey movement, and its success
has given impetus TO the revolutions
airy movement here. Similar in
religion. customs, and often allied by
race and family ties, the Egyptian
feels that he is quite as competent
for self-government as the Turk.
Which. quite possibly, is true. The
main difference In the two cases is
the difference between the rule of the
recently dcposed sultan-a rul of muir
der, intrigue and stupidity-and the
rule of the British army of occupa-
tion-which is a sort OF benevolent
imperialism. There is no doubt that
Egypt is better off in all material re-
spects than ever In its long desolate
history. IL has It's de luxe railroads,
its good currency. it's enlargement OF
irrigated areas due to the Assuan
dam, its improvement of the Nile, its
government telegraphs and steamship
lines and its order and prosperity.
"Ah, yes" says old Sheikh Aliou
seph. owner and editor OF the leading
radical paper. the British have done
many good things for the material
welfare of Egypt But how about edu
cation? How about this training fol
self-government, which is said to take
SO long a time? When is this to be
gin?''
Which Is fair criicism and an
unanswered question
The Detroit times., 1910-04-19
MEssENGER-TAxiC MAIN ass.

Commercial CredIt Go. Ratings.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
The Spanish Letter Swindl:

CTUNG? Yes. indeed HUNDREDS
~ boys grown big get 1adly stung s's
Just by such little rrICbs IS these. h--
clever crooks are busy SpendIng otnai 3
money. most OF il obtained by ta11s {
tage of the almost universal human =
for getting something Tor nothing -
brick game, the machine Tor making ol--
the money printed from stolen Tow
plates that cannot be told from the se--
tine steel engraving for ten cents u q
the Spanish prisoner letter are stlA =
good revenue 70 the uuScTupulouS.
Lest there Is some one who has neVs- :
the Spanish letter swirile, a copy oi =
Is here printed for the Eiue hundred an
ninth time,
"MADRID.-AlthouEl I know YOU q
good references OF YOUR honesty, nv y. =.
ton compelS me 10 reveal 70 YOU an y.
affair IN which YOU can procure a n
tune, saving at the s. me tune tna1 . =
ling daughter.
Before being Imprlsoned here "
liShed as a banker n E.-sSla, as yOn -
the inclOSed article about me OF man. !.
papers which have p15iShed my -
London
Il beSeech YOU u help me 20 oo'-Iii <
of four hundred and eighty thOuSAnl =
have IN America. and % come q :.
seizure of nv baggag5. paying 10 ., q. !; /.
OF the court the expenses Of nv IL
cover nv pOTtman-e-- cOnt,inhs
pocket where | have hidden the alN--
dlSpenSable TO recover the >aid sum -
AS a reward I wi.i give up 70 w -
part, ms, one hundred ard xiv taV--
lars. | cannot receive vour ans~- !
prison; but YOU must send cao.ss
person of my confidence who vii o'-'-
me
Awaiting YOUR cable TO lntrus1 W.
secret. / am sir. NourS truly, q
'' "BslIIs.
First of all answer by cable nO' =
as follows: IS
ESTRADA LEGINNIroS % TEScSN'-
MADRID. LES.
Does anybody ever sable anu ~
money! Sure thew DO Why eiSe Sc u,
letters kept coming 70 people =
United States for the last twenty w.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

finally eighteen thousand dollars, for =
He added that the ledge ran thrUug. :
joining farm and that II was his purplz
one of the farms, he did not care mn,
and start putting down a well at orCs
was every indication that there was 4
oil there. and he was willing 10 add al
an eighth OF all oil discovered # II
would close the sale at once. If not =.
close for the adjoining farm
\ sudden light dawnei on the fzr-z
FIVE hundred dollars he had received 2
before for the sixty-dav option did II
large as it had. He asked for twenry-i.-
TO consider the matter and drove rs
town, where he found the holder Of Il
at the hotel. Explaining that he hai Z
rot 70 sell, he tried % return the I'VE Z
and cancel the option. The would beF-
was adamant. He had the option, ar
going 10 keep it The outcome Of I e
the farmer paid him twenty-five hun-z
lars, all the money he had IN bank, il-z
render OF the option.
Unfortunately. the supposed St-1z
agents never returned 90 close the ta-
were too busy helping the first wo1- I
chaser to spend the two thousand do--1
OF the transaction
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
cLAssEp WITH GUINEA plS ~.

IF any city in the United states .',,,srs -
L its share of thoroughbred nIFss ~ ssl {
Washington. where they hour'sn .,'rr 2
entity multiply. and they are o. ~ ne
type and variety One can nm k Z
who viii represent thcmSelv.Ts ..,an - ~
ANYTHING within the sphere oi ass., .ssv u
ties: and impoSSibihtieS. too Il w.
when YOU aren't booking ,ft Tx =
An old fellow met an othcia,s = ,,.rr
sonian Institution walking m Ine .esrra,. ST.
mall one day, and graSPcd an vtSe w hls
untold his tale of woe rePreSsh.S II ?
be a friend since bovhood daNS ~ "
guished Confederate General anu aEes D I
the Generals wife was then resi|iIh reIoi Ihs :.
ington. and was a personal triSnS Sviiee yiiee
he took the fellow 70 her, with - : wls
ing the unfortunate. providing ~, Z, hi
Mrs. General converSed with H.
and then remarkeu. raia'l
We'll sir. YOU remind me oL : s,srisa srisai
The man looked at her IN aili';sa'l IA =
she finally added. You know I. ic,Tasa
all, and it does not come from w.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
THERE ARE OTHERS. soNErlS

WILLIAN COLLIER tells OF cs,,s'
" once eSSaved a repertoire 0I =.
can parts in the tank towns u
West.
The ambitious TheSpian, N a IiiOia--,s -
eroSity, had given a pass 10 ths
served hum at the hotel n one tow *
"WeiI BilI" Ssid the actor at brs4s. b.,,...
morning. YOU saw me rs Nacosu 4,
Il did" growled the Servl'oE 8
whose goin' to pay me for my ''''
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
The Regretted Option

THE favorite oldtime wav of parting a farmer
from his money was to inveigle him into
some game of chance and let him win a large
sum; but before paving 1t insist that he show
an equal amount to prove that he could have
paid up If he had lost. After he had drawn the
money from the bank. it up to the Swindler
to get it from him by substituting envelOpS, or
selling him a gold brick or sometimes lust by
plain robbery. Those methods are much too
crude for the twentieth century confidence
man. He has devised a way by which the
farmer comes and begs to have his money taken
from him. Here is the method
a stranger visited a farmer IN Iowa and asked
if his farm was for sale. The farmer replied
that he had never thought of selling.
Suppose You did asked the stranger.
what would YOU say 1T was WORTH"
The farmer pondered for awhile As nearly
as he could figure. the whole place with i'm
provements was worth about sin thousand
dollars: but as he had no desire TO sell the price
he named was nine thousand dollars.
The stranger argued for awhile that it was
too much; but finally made this proposition:
"Ill tell YOU what I'll do III meet YOU more
than halfway. You want nine thousand dollars
for Your farm and are not sure that YOU want
to sell it, want To buy 1t; but | IN not willing
to pay more than eighty-hve hundred for it.
Now let's take little time and think 1t over.
Ill pay YOU five hundred dollars, and YOU give
me option for sixty DAYS. agreeing that if
YOU desire to sell the farm within that time
YOU sell 1t 10 me at my price, eighty -hve hun
dred dollars. In case YOU decide to sell me the
farm, the five hundred will apply on the pur-
chase price In case YOU have decided not to
sell YOU keep the five hundred and I'm out just
that much"
The farmer did not see how he could possibly
lose anything by the transaction. Alert, how
ever, for possible fraud. he drove with the
stranger to the county seat. where they went
TO the bank. his own bank and drew up the
option agreed. and the stranger. who IT seemed
had opened an account there drew out hve
hundred dollars and paid il over. Well satisfied
with his bargain. the farmer went home.
y week later he discovered two other
strangers, beSpectacled and armed with NINE
ralogiStS' hammers. tracing a ledge OF rock
through his farm. He tried 10 ascertain what
they were doing: but they were very myS-
teriouS about IL Finally they told him that
they had discovered oil bearing rock on his
farm One of the men who said he an
agent of the Standard Oil Company, then and
there offered. first ten thousand dollars. and
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
The Lure of 4 Lord

THE experienced gardener" game netted an
industrious writer of letters several thou
sand dollars year, until the pOStoftCe inter
fered- This enterprising swindler every morn
ing read all the help advertisements in several
newspapers. He answered many of them; but
from the examination of his mail when 1t was
seized it appeared that his favorite pose was
that of a gardener
He would write to persons who advertised
for gardener saving that he had Just arrived
from England, where he had been employed on
the estates of Lord So and So and Sir Edward
Thus and So. He had had the very highest let
tiers from both of these men; but unfortunately
few DAYS before he had been robbed of his
wallet containing his letters and all his savings.
While the wages offered were less than he was
accustomed to receive, his misfortune had left
him stranded and he would be compelled to
take whatever he could get. If the advertiser
was willing to give him trial without refer
ences, he was confident that his ability a
gardener would soon be proved. He regretted
to mention the fact; but it would be necessary
to ask that his railroad fare be advanced to
him, together with a trit1e he owed for the
room he was oCCupying,-SIX dollars. he gen
orally said,-the advance to be charged against
his first months wages.
What woman could resist the notion of hav-
ing Lords gardener working for herr Almost
invariably they sent him the money asked for;
but he never came He was too busy writing
letters
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
Stung
ConhnAsd from page ?

ton was, "Well, how about that check Of
mine?"
With an 81 told you so" expression the
ieweler laid the check with the = No funds ="
Slip before him \ look of blank amazement
came into the Colonels face as he studied 1t,
and then he burst out laughing.
We'll, no wonder it came backi" he said.
1T is drawn on the wrong bank. | asked the
clerk up at the hotel for a blank check on my
bank, and he gave me one on some other bank
No wonder it came backi"
With profuse apologies he pocketed the check
and, opening a we'll filled wallet, drew out two
one hundred-dollar bills and rendered them in
payment for the ring Il guess YOU won't OBJ
ject to taking this kind of money" he said
He got the ring and departed, and the jeweler
didn't find out what 1T was all about until a
couple of days later when another bank called
him up to say it had cashed a worthless check
for thousand dollars. As he had indOrsed IT.,
and he was the only indorser that could be
found it would hold him responsible for pay
ment of the amount. Then he realized that the
purchase of the ring and the putting through or
the check was only a nefariously clever scheme
to get good Endorsement on a bad check.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

report the Blackstone
the best selling Mas
sager ever handled.
The low price puts it
in reach of all. Some
agents are selling 20
NJ a S s a gers a d ay.
Write for a gents
terms.
Evening journal., 1910-02-23
WEDNESDAY. FEB. % 1910
THE PHILADELPHIA STRIKE.

a course the paramount question that con-
~ fronts Philadelphia is the preservation Of
law and order and the suppression of mob vio-
lcncc, even if II be necessary to call on the state
troops Wherever there is a labor disturbance
<nf any sort the lawless element breaks loose and
INDUCES in disorder thus damaging the cause OF
the strikers and alternating public sympathy
from them. And while the strike leaders declare
that they do not encourage lawlessness, they
have no means of controlling the disturbers OF
the peace or of holding them in check
The fact that so large a number of men have
quit work in Philadelphia shows that they must
believe that they have serious grievance. So
MANY stories have been printed purporting TO
tell each side of the matter that it is hard to
arrive at conclusion. But the thousands of
employees of the Rapid Transit Company and
the management of the company have been at
odds for some time. Negotiations for peace
failed and as a result parts of Philadelphia are
in a turmoil with great injury to property and
life. The company evidently long ago decided
not to deal with the union and considering the
strength of the unions in that city it was only
question Of time when there would be an open
rupture.
The chief sufferers by this dispute are the
public In an ordinary strike, even of large
dimensions, the public may not be directly con
cerned, may not be put to inconvenience or
trouble, but where public service corporation
is involved, the public is at once directly con-
cerned; first, to preserve order and then to con-
slider means Of bringing about adjustment Of
the difficulties
AT present there seems to be but little hope
OF arbitration and compulsory arbitration is not
possible Therefore, so long as the public is
content.tvith having no interference by the state
or municipal authorities in the regulation Of
public service corporations, so long must the
public be satisfied TO be inconvenience and dis
tressed by the furious clashes such as are wit
messed an Philadelphia.
How long it will take the people to learn that
the state should have rights in the control OF
public service corporations, and that because of
the monopolistc privileges such corporations
enjoy, they are upon a basis different from that
OF ordinary manufacturing or business corpor-
ations?
Evening journal., 1910-02-23

inside explosion should be definitely set
tied. This can only be satisfactorily done
by raising the hull Of the cruiser, which
stil projects from the murky waters Of
Havana harbor.
The Maine memorial service held in New
York city Sunday was attended by a
large number of Spanish War veterans,
seven of whom were survivors OF the ex-
plosion. On this occasion a resolution was
adopted requesting Congress 'to enact
legislation for the immediate removal of
the wreck of the bsttleship to our own
shores, and the recovery of the remains
Of its unreclaimed victims for interment
in the National Cemetery at Arlindton." "
There Is no apparent reason why Con-
gress should not comply with this request.
Ex-Ambassador Joseph II. Choate pre-
sided at the meeting and every patriotic
American will agree with his comment
that It is not to our credit that the wreck
of the Maine still rests in Havan harbor,
ohstructing commerce and standing as a
reminder Of our neglect. From sentimental
reasons alone. from the respect and honor
which a highminded people should render
to the memory of those who have died in
their service, the Maine should be lifted
and brought back to these shores" But
aside from the sentimental reason, ordi-
mary fairness demands that the United
tates government should remove this in
terfering mass from the harbor of tie
chief Cuban seaport. II our national pride
is not compelling influence in the mater
our national sense Of fair play ought ic
!