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the Forty-seventh Congress. He was a
most capable man, and he would have
been a great man If he had had the
restless and inveterate thirst for place
Of James B. McCreary of Kentucky. or
OF Joseph G. Cannon of illinois. or of
the grand young man" of Indiana, who
would do me a service, in particular
and the country a favor, in general, If
he would learn to speak our vernacuar
and deal 1t out to us when on his legs
and a-making of a speech. I swear
can't follow him, but I can't read French
though I could once wade through Latin
with some credit.
Hiscock was the seventh chairman of
appropriations, and a most capable man
he was. There were few in Congress
who were better speakers on the floor;
but there was an air of earelessness in
his manner; he wasr indolent; he had
giant mind that was inert. His was as
fine a suit of hair as ever you saw, and
it looked like 1t had never made ac-
quaintance of that utensil of the toilet,
the comb. Nobody ever heard Frank
Hiscock make a speech who did not learn
something that he did not know before.
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many mosques, and certainly one III LILO
small villages. Usually there is large
open square facing the mosque, whose
three sides are lined with Moorish ba-
Ears that display all manner OF nigh
ly colored silks and other fabrics.
Within the booth or bazaar sits the ST.
lent merchant cross-legged, looking as
solemn as Abraham of old, yet as Keen
in a bargain as ever Jacob was. the
open square is q general rendezvous,
and e-~.4.r the whlte-hoooeo
Arabians and the scarlet-fezed Turks.
Many of the former are covered en-
tirely in white flowing robes, which,
during the sand storms, are gathered
closely about the body from the head
to the heels. Only few Arabian wom-
en- are seen on the streets, and they
are so closely yelled and swathed about
with fluffy masses of white silk or
other soft material. that Identification
is impossible. There may be seen oc-
casionally a few women in trouserp
and wearing no wells, but they have
come from other nationalities and are
not Arabians. One may see now and
then a descendant of the old Berber
race, once so nightly but now almost
extinct, as he comes from his haunts In
the mountains. Sad-eyed camels, dec
Grated with touch of tinsel or a bit
of crimson cloth by their Beduin driv-
ers, may be seen everywhere. These
camels, always raw-boned, impress one
as the most patient and the most silent
creatures in the world
The larger cities, Algiers, Tunis and
Tripoli, are in many respects quite mod
ern, having passed into the governance
of European powers. Here the mellow
notes of Christian church bells mingle
with the Mohammedan call to prayers.
The many orders of architecture are all
represented In the cities. There are
churches of conventional styles, syna-
gogues that would be recognized as such
at once and mosques with gracefully
swelling domes and tenuous minarets and
all manner of palaces and castles.
The exterior of the houses, for the most
part, are white, either painted or. white
washed. Therefore, the cities along the
sea coast present a scene of rare beauty
as the waves, dashing against the sea-
wall or breaking against the stone foun-
dations Of fortresses and palaces, fling
their sun-tinted spray far up into the air.
And to this the pulsating emerald of the
Mediterranean in the foreground of the
picture and the vast clusters of marble
looking buildings along the shore, and
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Besides, he was an orator who knew his
subject, and pity 1t Is that he did not
have the inveterate ambition for place
some meaner men have shown.
Hiscock was from Syracuse, and there
by hangs a tale l have twice told, and
with the garrulity of three-score, shall
tell 1t again, as follows, viz: Old Jim
Belden was the boss of Onondaga coun-
ty. He>. was rich as Croesus and got
his money from the tariff on salt. Every
citizen of the country paid tribute to
Old Belden, except that New England
set who catch and eat salt fish. They
got their salt free, while the farmer of
Kentucky or Tennessee, or Ohio, or In
diana, of Iowa or Mississippi, or of Kan
sas or Nebraska, pays a tariff tax on
the salt with which he cures his bacon.
Old Belden lays a tax on every break
fast table In the union and thus he
got his millions. That is what the In
fernal old party was made for-to cher
ish Paul at the expense of Peter
To get back. Roscoe Conkling-a
bad man. I agree, but a great man, as
all must confess-when Gonkling saw
that the third term was lost, he hest
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TuniS, Algiers and Tripon were the
ports of refuge of these fatalistic, blood
thirsty pirates, into which they might
sail, If ever pursued, and, anchoring un-
der the shelter of fortreas-walls and
castle-guns, they could defy their pur-
suers. This was their plan, and this their
subsequent practice.
They sailed the high seas with their
sanguinary flag fluttering at the main
mast. They seized ships from every
Christian land. They claimed cargoes as
their own property, and flung Christian
captives into the most humiliating slav-
cry Every country bordering upon the
Mediterranean was in a state of per-
petual terror; for, success on the seas,
emboldened the free hooters to Invade the
land where the foulest deeds of wrong
were otter wrought.
Sterling, In his Cloister Life of Charles
V says. From Cadiz to Patros there was
hardly a spot which had not suffered,
and none which felt itself safe from the
wild maurauders from the shores of Nu-
india. Sailing In great fleets, they laid
waste whole districts and carried off
entire populations. Barbarossa, an AL
gerine pirate, to whom the Sultan of
Turkey committed his fleet. at one time,
at his beautiful home on the Bosphorus.
sold about 5000 Christians into slavery.
| The peasant of Provence who returned
home at sunset from pruning his vines
or olive trees. far from the sound OF
the waves, might on the morrow be
ploughing the main, chained to Bar
harry oar. Sometimes a whole brother
hood of fiars, from counting their beads
at ease at Valencia, found themselves
hoeng In the rice fields of Tripoli some
times the vestals of a Sicilian nunnery
would be seized and parcelled out among
the harems of Fez." The world shuddered
at the recital of these atrocities, and
turned its eyes toward the only Christian
monarch capable of contending success
fully with this "monstrous scourge of
christendom." That monarch was the
powerful Charles V.
Charles equipped the mightiest armada
that had ever plowed the sea. The Low
Countries, Spain, italy, Portugal and &C.
noa contributed their bravest Of bronzed
seamen The knights of st. John, at
Malta, sent ships; and the pope gave
his benediction. Europe stood still as
this armada,> surprising the vastest
dreams of old sea-dogs, passed out to-
ward the Mediterranean, from its rendez-
vous at Cagliari in Sardinia.
The Tunsians were engaged In battle
in July, 1887. They fought ferociously,
like fatalists, like demons; but they We're
signally defeated and Tunis was cap
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that foreshadowed the nomination and
election of Grover Cleveland that year.
I happened to be present when the
old man got back-this old salt mag
nate. He was surrounded by all the re-
publican members from New York. In
Guiding old Payne himself It was
April. and Hooker of New York asked
the old fellow, How did 1t happen,
Uncle Jimmy?" Belden was about five
feet one. He was -sturdily built. His
head as big as bushel masure. His
nose would have made him a marshal
of France under Napoleon the Great.
You rarely see such sturdy legs as he
had, such a resolute cast of counte-
nance. and the old man answered
Hooker with a roar:
'Damfno I gave 'em all the money
they asked for"
But what I started out to say is
this: Frank Hiscock was one of the
very able men who have come under
my observation at this capital since
1880.
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1.-TWO facts I wish to state. In the
papers on the above named sub
Il ject, shall quote from some writ
ers whose language I cannot improve,
but 1 shall not break the continuity of the
history by citing names of books, pages
and writer's. Secondly, these papers
were written years ago. At that time
knew of no book devoted to this sole sub
ject-the Barbary war. But one month
after / had read my paper before
large assemblage of educators, in Rich
mond, Va, book appeared treating the
subject with a particularly beyond the
scope set by myself for the occasion
above named. l. therefore, had no as
sfstance from the book cited since its
life began a month later than the public
reading of my sketch. Thirdly. the title,
as given above belongs to no book
pamphlet essay, lecture or contribution
10 the press except to the papers that
here contribute. l alone am responsive
for the collocation Of words that heads
this page. w. Il. L.
AS one stands upon the southernmost
mountain peaks of Spain and looks to-
wards the southeast, he can almost see
the outlines of strange land, a part of
which has given to the void many OF Its
most romatic legends and stories. A line
run from Gibraltar to the western bound
ary of AlgierS, or TO Morocco, ana anotn-
err line stretched from the island of Malta
10 the extreme eastern boundary of
fT'ripoli, would mark the western and
eastern limits of this land, which of old
constituted the Barbary states.
This territory embraces ancient Algiers,
Tunisia, Morocco and Tripoli. On the
east of the states stretched away the
silent desert of Barca; on the west lay
the Atlantic ocean, and at tn north the
historic Mediterranean beat upon It's
shores: while the southern line was &C
centuated by the hoary peaks of the Atlas
range of mountains. At this time, how
ever some few changes have been made
nv expansion and reduction of territory,
while many changes have taken place In
The interior of the country; yet, 1t Is
today practically as 1t was In the long
ago.
There are few large cities and many
small ones in Barbary, and all are
singuary picturesque. There is the
mosque, with it's wonderfully ingeni-
Gus architecture adorned with lace-like
tracery and cunning conceptions or
beauty, memorials of Moorish masters
of art, who long ago left in old Gran
ada many specimens of their exquisite
skill. In all the large cities there are
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/ cautiously hoping in the competitive
game to evade being jumped.
Some of the shrewd players get into the
king row and become rovers or robber
kirgs. They jump the common fellows
right and left and continually cry. TITS
your novel"
But of all the players the devil is the
shrewdest player extant.
There is no devil?
Oh, yes, there Isl He may not have the
legendary tail and may lack the tradi-
tional horns or ptchfork. but he is Satan
Just the same. Call him spirit of evil,
malign influence or what you will, he is
the devil.
What an adept CANISTER he isl
The young man who thinks he can
drink and let it alone" Is playing check
ers with the devil. How Satan must
laugh In his sleeve at such a player,
whose game Is neither a deep one nor
lengthy. The devil knows from the be-
ginning that the contest, If the game
goes on, is easy and the young man a
sure loser.
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"HERE is a picture-1 think l first
saw 1t in the Inland Printer a
i few wears ago-entitled "An Empty
Stacking" that always touched me to
the core.
1t is picture of Christmas morning.
little one in her "nghtie has eager
lv jumped out of bed to see what may
b,. in her stockings, SO carefully hung
on the wall the night before.
They are empty.
The picture shows the poor little kid
her face down upon tie bed, In an agony
of grief and disappointment. In her hand
she holds one of the empty stockings,
while the other hangs lean and limp
upon the wall.
AS YOU comprehend the picture a
great pity seizes you.
The story is all there. In all her
future life, you think, this child will
never face a deeper sorrow a, keener
wound. She was so full of hopes the
night before. She believed Santa Claus
was too kind to pass by little girl who
had tried to be good. Perhaps she knew
that Santa Claus was poor, but certain
" he would bring her something.
And she was forgotten.
Poor baby!
III hurts to have your little heart
filled clear to the brim with sobs.
IT is hard to learn when you are only
hit of a girl the lesson of neglect
and the worlds heartlessness, because
between a childish heart and its first
great grief is interposed no shield Of
experience.
You and I know the worlds stern
vavs. We know what 1t Is to trust
md be wretched to hope and fail, to
fall and rise and trust again
But baby!
The picture is true one. There will
ne thousands such when Christmas,
not so far away. comes again.
There are homes in your town, in
every town, where hunger often shows
lie haunting face, homes where there
are not even a few pennies to buy one
I,ttIe toy And it takes so little to make
happy the heart Of child.
Oh yes, I know
The parents may be lazy or the father
a drunkard or what not, but that Is no
f.ult Of the Riddles Oh, 1t is pitiful-
Pitiful that in a land of plenty one
little child who Graves the ownership
OF some trifling thing-a cheap doll or
a tin soldier-should sob in cruel dis
Illusion holding in her little hand an
empty stocking!
Maybe you can see in such picture
a duty which should be to you great
delight.
Chicago man got divorce from MS
, wife and promised to pay alimony. He
failed to pay, and his former wife sued
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the part of wisdom to turn ones pockets
inside out to her
AS the Chicagoan discovered.
Every we'll married man has learned
that besides being wife and sweetheart
the woman at his side Is both helpmate
and manager that as married man. in
stead of multiplying his expenses by two,
as he anticipated, he has inreality multi
piled his wages by two.
Ever play checkers?
1t so you know that the game consists
In capturing your opponents checkers.
II you can break through his line into
the king row" your disk Is crowned king
of the Mosaic, may rove at will and
Jumps" anything it gets next to. One
way to win is to block the game" by
preventing any move on the part of your
opponent.
The game of life In some particulars re-
sembles the checkers game.
Whether he is a careful or a reckless
player. the average man nowadays moves
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V/ITH 81 bills the party Of
w great moral IDEAS" carried In
w diana in 1880. and with a
swag that filled to overlooking they
bought New York for Garfield that year,
and it was decisive of the result. The
Congress had narrow republican major
ity, and there sprang up several candi-
dates for speaker. Tom Reed was one
and Frank Hiscock was another. and
then there were Joseph G. Cannon and
Julius Caesar Burrows, and by the way,
when 1 heard Burrows make his tariff
speech in the House of Representatives in
1899 on one of Springers 'pop-gun" bills,
that is now become republican gospel
according to Teddy, the immaculate and
only honest man, / wanted money enough
TO buy an acre of ground to plant tree,
and to get sheep to browse on it. In
evitably. I would have been rich next
day-if Burrows craftsmanship had not
been damphoolery, which it was; but it
was a delightful hyperbole for the Hon.
Burrows is gifted with lungs. Had
been so endowed, instead of a starveling
newspaper man, I might now be a states
man In the Congress of the great Those
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A Chicago man got divorce from his
rife and promised to pay alimony. HI
failed to nay, and his former wife SUED
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-04
TELLS OF FIGHT
FOR PURE MILK
Expert in Nutrition Engaged in
Research Work for
~ Government.
sneriaI 10 The Times Disnatch.!

EnoClal
Washington, September Sine
United states government has not only
gore into the business of issuing COOK
books, receipt books and other tracts
containing useful information 10 ,he
housekeeper and consumer ailhe,
has also put some of It's experts 10
work along other useful liIes. Recent.
iy George NJ Whitaker, in charge o.
market milk investigation; u ~
Rogers, bacteriologist in charge OF re
search laboratories. and Miss Caro-
line l.. Hunt, expert in nutrition, were
assigned to the preparation OF
pamphlet directing the people OF the
United States how to get RID OF inc
deadly milk bottle, that for many years
past has adorned front door steps AA
village, town and city.
When Miss Hunt was seen to-day
and asked to give few Suggestions
concerning what people generally
might do to rid their premises OF the
unsightly bottle and at the same time.
reduce to minimum the possioiiity OF
inviting typhoid fever cases, she told
most Interestingly of what she and
her colleagues had been doing under
the direction OF Secretary wilson.
pared" said Miss Hunt. "Mr. Whitta-
ker shows that milk absorbs tmpurl-
ties-collects bacteria-whenever It is
exposed to the air. or placed In unclean
vessels, Some or these may De Iue
bacteria of certain contagious diseases.
others may cause digestive troubles.
which, in the case of babies. may prove
fatal. Much of the troubles of infants
is due to impure milk. The amount OF
the contamination depends largely on
the condition of the utensils and the
air with which the milk comes in con-
tact; the air of even a so-called clean
room contains many impurities. The
science of bacteriology is raising the
standard of cleanliness OF utensils.
Bacteria. which get into the milk from
the air or from the vessels multiply
rapidly so long as the milk remains
warm"
that you have found as many as a
million bacteria from one fly from a
milk bother"
Records show typhoid epidemics
from such a cause Miss Hunt replied.
land 100000 fecal bacteria have been
found on single fly. Flies also fire.
uuently convey to milk large numbers
of the bacteria that cause intestinal
disorders in infants: an examination OF
l14 flies showed an average of 1,25o.OOO
bacteria per fly
The leaflets soon to be issued by the
experts Just mentioned will contain
much Wholesome advice to the subur-
banite and city dweller alike. They
will tell Just dow contamination may
be avoided by the proper handling OF
food products, both in the field and In
the home, and there is little doubt tina,
II the suggestions made are needed
much benefit will result
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WILL GO TO HAVANA
Captain Ferguson to Superintend Hais-
ing of the Maine.

CaDtain Ferguson to {SuperlutcAu As~A0
ing of the Maine.
Washington, D. c.. September 3.-Ar-
engagements were made at the war IL pe-
partmentf Wednesday for captain to-
ley B. Ferguson, member Of the board
of Army Engineers appointed to remove
the wreck Of the battleship Maine from
the Havana harbor, to go to HaVanta u
to superintend the investigation INTO
the present condition of the wreck; At.
rangements have been MADE IoT MA 1a.,
Henry Jervey to relieve captain : o.
guson of his duties at Montsomeir y.
Ala, thus permitting the latter 70 Elve
all his time to the raising OF the MA ine;
Since the last meeting OF the poara
it has developed that at least one OF
its members do not look Win Iavol
on the O'Rourke nlans for raising me
battleship. which have y peen presssa
upon the engineers and which were
explained to President Taft at, Beverly,
Mass. this week. One member OF the
board has expressed himself as beltev--
| ing the plan would not give Sthe board
| the proper opportunity to determine
whether the Maine was blown up ~ 4,
an explosion from without or WITHIN
the ship The O'Rourke plan PROVIDES
for the raising Of the Maine BY placine
cables underneath the wreck and lift
ing her bodily out Of the water, The
army engineers are said to favor the
i construction of caissons around the
4 wreck and the raising OF the wreck
i by that means. gf4
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Services in the Churches
Unless otherwise noted In this column
the usual services will be held at the
customaEv hours by the regular pastors.

First resbyterian-Preaching at II A NJ.
by Rev Charles Friend. No evening SER
vice.
second Presbyterian-Rev. Russell Cecil,
D. D., has returned from his vacation on
Long Island. and Will preach to-day al II
a. NJ.
Grace Street Presbyterian-The pastor
Rev. Clay Lilly, D D.. who has been absen,
on his vacation. has returned and will oc'
cupy the pulpit at the morning and even
Ing services.
Broadus Memorial Baptist-The pastor.
Rev. E. L. Grace, win preach at II A. NJ
and s p. NJ Morning subject, The Hal
lowed Name"
Grace Street Baptist-Rev. W. II: Battle.
D. D., of Charlottesville. Va, will preach
at morning and evening services.
Grove Avenue Baptist-PreachIng at morn
ing and evening services by Rev. j, 7.
Watts. OF the Sunday-school board.
Calvary Baptis.-Rev Ryland knight D.
D., the pastor, who has been sumniering at
Mountain Lake. Va. has returned 10 the
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ASSIGNMENT OF TROOPS
Several Charges Made by War Depnrt-
mcnt in Western Forts.


Washington. D. c., September g.
By reason of the designation OF the
Fifth Cavalry. now, stationed at Fort
Yellowstone, Wyoming. and at Fort
Duchesne, Utah. for duty in Hawaii, In
addition to the troops already there r;
several changes in the assignment OF
troops in the West were ordered to-
day at the War Department.
The headquarters and band OF the
First Cavalry, now at Fort Walla Wal
la, Washington, was ordered to Boise.
Idaho, and the second squadron Of the
First, consisting of Troops 2, F. G and
II, and the machine guns platoon We're
ordered to Fort YelloW tpa pest, Troop %
San Francisco, will be sent to Fort
Duchesne. and Troop <, Of Of the Nat, same
park. viii 20 to Boise, Idaho. All the
changes are directed to take place
about October L. -
In conformity with the plans tol
the abandonment of Fort Wai!a Waa t
no troops We're ordered to tnat post
but it will be turned over for the pres
| emf to care-takerS. 4
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named under the rates prescribed by
the commission. which were considers
ably less than the existing rates.
The roads found 1t impracticahle to
prepare these accounts for the three
months by October 1. as 1t was not
possible to obtain and tabulate the
returns from all of the lines. BY
agreement with all of the Interested
pa rites. therefore, the commission to-
day extended the effective date OF Its
original order until December I.
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STATUE TO 7. B. REED
Shaft to Ex-spenker Is Dedicated nj
Portland. Me.

Portland, Me-, September 3.-A great
national figure, and one whose reputa-
ton has not confined to his own coun.
try. was honored in his home city We'd
nesday afternoon when bronze statue
of the late Thomas Bracket Reed. to1
many years Speaker of the House OF
Representatives at Washington, was
unveiled on the western promenade
overlooking Caseo Bay.
The statue is eight feet high ard
represents the former Speaker in an
attitude of repose with scroll N the
left hand The pedestal is of Maine
granite, nine feet high. The statue IS
the work of Burr C. Miller, of New
york and Paris. son of Warner Mill
err. who was an intimate friend of Mr..
Reed. The cost was about $4,000
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sion were to have become effective on
October !. have been postponed by
the commission until December 1. II
was required by the commission that
the railroads should keep accounts
during the months of July. August and
September of the present year OF the
freight handled and the charges col
lected under the present rates. The
commission also demanded that the &C.
counts should show what the receints
would have been for the three months