Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-30

IN the death OF John II. Thirty at Long
Island City. He was the father OF the
school savings bank system and also the
father of five children born after he was
IS. He died at the age OF 50.
Mr.. Thirty was a Belgian by birth. q
school teacher by training. He brought his
family Of wife and two sons to the United
States in 1855 and settled in =. BROOKLYN
where he became a collector and dealer in
rare books. He retired about 1870 went
abroad for a time. but found that he had
come to like the United States better than
the old world and, returning, established
mis- home In Long Island City, where he
presently became school commissioner
and continued his work for the schools, Of
winch his savings bank was merely one
Item Tor the rest of his life. His wife
died In 1895 and he married again In 1900
VI this second marriage five children were
oorn' OF whom four survive him, the old
est being and the youngest q
But although Mr.. Thirty had become nv
choice an American" saws the Brooklvn
Eagle, the principle Of his life and the
secret Of his remarkable preservation of
youthfulness were something he did not
learn from the city of his adoption. He
said; The secret Of youth Is moderation
Use everything which God put on this
planet but use 1t In moderation. 1 myself
use liquor and tobacco. but never to ex-
cess Moderation is, indeed, an unusual
\ doctrine to be preached and above all prac-
| tlceo by man who has been a succession
merchant In New York. But probably IL
| there were more OF Mr.. Thirys moderation
the records Of deaths from various sffeo-
tons Of the heart would not be climbing
as they are. Hurry and worry are the
undertaker's best friends"
Fourteen-year-old Louise Hoelzer Of
Paterson, N. j., went Ajax one better. for
she not only defied lightning. but she
kicked It and put It to rout. Her father.
Kew. J. M. Hoelzer. says she did, and he
Is minister. pastor Of Christ Evangelical
church on Graham avenue, a man of the
| highest standing and probity
His assertion is that a ball OF fire. after
hitting the church, leaped into the par
sonage and into the kitchen, where the
minister's children had taken refuge with
| their aunt AS the ball passed her Louise
kicked 1t and 1t broke into small sparks
ana did no damage, not even to Louise
Louise said that her action was instructive
that she thought the ball would set fire 10
the house and that, without thinking of
anything else, she kicked at the object.
MRS HoelEer was away at the time, and
the three children of the minister's family.
when the storm came up, ran TO the
Kitchen. where their mothers sister, Miss
Esther Beck, was at work. They sat about
listening to the crashing of thunder.
Then came one that was deafening, and
the kitchen was filled with light as the
ball rolled across the floor There is a
mark on the wooden wainscoting which
looks as IL an electric fuse had blown out
there and there is a mark on the zinc COW
ering OF the dish draining board, but no
other damage was done to the house. The
children were unhurt. except Edward, 2
years old, was knocked or fell from his
chair in fright.
The church adjoining the house was less
fortunate, for the spire was struck and
badly damaged and Apparently set on fire.
but the fire was put out by the rain. Resi-
dents of the neighborhood say the bolt
leaped from the spire to the house. but
there Is no mark on the house that can
be seen.
With LOO tons Of Korean money on board
as part of the cargo. the steamship, Seneca.
OF the Standard OIL company's fleet has ar
rived at the Bush docks, Brooklyn. The
tons and tons of money are only part of
what is to come. From time TO time other
vessels VIII arrive in the next month or
TWO from Korea bringing tons of money.
until total of 5000 tons has been brought
TO this country. That amount includes all
OF the money Korea owned when Japan
annexed that country and decided that
Korean money should be replaced by Jan
anese currency. The money, in sacks. was
piled on the docks There are no special
policemen guarding with rifles what was
once nations wealth, as the coins are
merely valued as 30 much old metal now.
Each OF the coins. which were known as
cash In Korea. and which, like Chinese
money, were made round, but having a
square cut in the center. has been cut in
two pieces.
Soon after the Japanese government de-
cided to replace the Korean "cash' with
Japanese currency . group Of Americans
formed a syndicate and brought all Of the
discarded money. AS fast as II arrives
In this country the money will be taken
to the smelling mills OF the United States
Metals Refining company. at Chrome. N.
j., and melted up. The various metals ex-
tracted from the coins will be remolded
into bars and sold in commerce. Consider
NcPRSt okAd biiNCE Will Dc Obtained
from the coins. which are mostly alloys
OF those metals.
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Seaman. once famous
as Nellie Bly," the woman reporter who
circled the globe in seventy-two days, de-
clares that her business concern. the Iron
clad company of Brooklyn, was robbed of
at least 100000 in most daring fashion.
She was witness in bankruptcy proceed
ings.
Il have Just learned that my employees
have taken as much as 1900 a day for
weeks at q time. sometimes even taking
twice that much Some of the mactually
stopped letter carriers. took hundreds of
letters from them, stole hundreds OF checks
sent TO us by customers and forged my nig-
nature upon these and dashed them. In
two months more than $4,000 was stolen.
'one man spent as much as 500 a day
OF my money. His wife got a new hat
every couple Of weeks. costing five times
as much as / could afford to pay for my
own"
The Ironclad company did an enormous