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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-07-09
VAN|TIE
LOST TO RESOLUTE FIRST
REAL TEST RACE FOR
DEFENSE HONORS.
Leads Through Contest But Lost
on Time Allowance-Defiance
Has Accident.

NEWPORT. r. /. July S-After
leading throughout the contest. the
cup class yacht Vanitie lost the first
OF the actual trial races for the de-
Tense Of the Americas cup sailed Oft
here today. the ReSolute winning on
her time allowance by one minute
and 10 seconds
Three miles from the finish of the
30 mile windward and leeward course.
the Nanitie had the race apparently
well in hand. but the Resoiute bring
Ing up freshening breeze, cut the
lead OF the Cochran yacht TO 80 sec
onds AZ the line. The Defiance. the
third cup candidate. broke down this
afternoon when she was scarcely out
side the harbor. She probably Will
race tomorrow.
A Fine Sea-
The race today was sailed in a
fresh TO moderate breeze with a lump
OF sea. conditions In which the COM
mittee on selection OF defender
have long desired TO see the yachts
compete. Members of the committee
followed the yachts and were non
-committal. but the general opinion m
yachting circles tonight seemed TO be
that the Nanitie won the days honors.
that she is a much improved yacht
and that the trial races are likely 20
develope the best yachting OF the
season up 10 the cup races in Sep
tembeT
Lighter winds and some sea Is pre-
dicted for the second trial race to-
morrow.
Summary.
First trial race, by Eastern Yacht
Club; sailed on Newport. start li;f5.
Wind southwest Course IS miles TO
windMard and return. Wind southeast.
- miles az start. 10 at turn. miles at
nnish. Tide ebb. Sea rough.
Erps'd Cor'ctd
Yacht start Finish Time Time
Resolutc i1:45:la 3:43:3I 3:5s:si 3:66.s5
Vanitie .li.i5;o7 3.f3;oi 3.5T:5f 3.57:54
Nanitie wins by p seconds elapsed
time. Resoiute wins by one minute 46
seconds corrected time
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-07-09
THE wEArHER

WARRINGTON. July s-rorecasts
Ohio, western Psnnsvlvania ana wess
xirEtnia-oeneraiiy fair Thursday and
Friday.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08
FINDS 4 BIG SNAKE
IN MUENCHNER TUB
Then the Police Suspected a
BIackmaiI Plot, but Maybe
It's Only a Hoax.
SNAKE TAKEN TO zoo
Mystery Of Q German Town, English
man and Russian; Sherlock
Holmes TangIe-some Anoles to
Inquiry Are Very Interesting.

Munich. Bavaria.-Recently an Eng
lishman and his wife. stopping at one
Of the big hotels and having, appar-
emily. an abundance of money, struck
an acquaintance with a Scandinavian.
who made q great show Of jewelry
and cash. Later arrived q Russian
who registered under the name Of
Frankly, and who became chummy
with the other three. The English
man went to the police with a story
that the Russian was a man who had
been on his trail for two or three
years. trying to rob or blackmail him.
That stirred the sleuths and they
gathered In the Scandinavian and the
Russian.
When the Scandinavian apartment
was searched there was found in the
bathtub. neatly coiled, q 30-foot py-
thon. which Is q whole heap of q
snake, take 1t from the keepers at
the zoo who lugged him away from
there.
The keepers said the python had
not been fed for many weeks and was
feeble from starvation. Some Of the
angles to the inquiry are interesting.
for instance;
Why the snake? The profound po-
Nee theory is that he was to be turned
loose in the hotel to start q panic,
and while the excitement ragged the
alleged villains would steal the jew
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08

! never revisit Orvieto without recov-
ering anew the sensation which I had
on my first visit-that of half the peo-
pie having gone away and the remain
ing houses being too large and numer-
GUS for those who have stayed behind.
1t was the equivalent of winter q
evening Though l had left spring in
Romeo. and thin SHOWS were lingering
in wreaths upon the treeless hills.
The wide lane, whose edge is thereon
vent wall of San Berpardino. was
empty save for the. activity of one
bright star Street after street was
vacant. The palaces seemed for
saken; some even had the air Of ha v.
ing been abandoned suddenly and an
finished.
It may be that. in reality. the emf
grafton, 30 deplorable feature of
modern Italy. has smitten Orvieto
above other towns Of q like size, but
think the natural features Of the town
have something to do with the imprea
sion Of constant going away and empti.
ness. Few vehicles pass through the
town as in less rugged countryside.
The steep approach forbids the heavy
cart. The streets. gave for an occa-
sional omnibus from the hotels. are
empty Of trafic, and the continual
presence Of saddled mules and asses.
of men with sheepskin cloaks folded
about them. deepens the impression
Of . population which IL always Jour.
neying and passing on difacult roads
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elry. or mayhap do other damage. AS
two or three smoke bombs that could
be carried in a handbag would create
a more serviceable panic and help the
hurlers to a getaway after accom-
plishing their dark, nefarious project,
the explanation does not make hit.
Why should the blackmailer or thief
follow the English couple for two or
three years to get their jewels, which
are said to be worth 100000? That
has not been explained to a waiting
world. High-class crooks are notori-
ously patient. but to lug a 30-foot
snake from one end of Europe to an
other for those many months in the
hope of soaring one Englishman and
his better half into fit in a hotel
full of folks some time when the op-
portunity offered, transfers the prob
lem from the reptilian to the nam.
malian and makes 1t a horse on the
investigators.
Experts say that a carefully starved
python is a bad citizen and would un.
"sicked on" provided 1t did not do
the far more probable stunt Of SQUASH
ing the life out Of the person who did
the sticking" Also, to make it 70
where 1t is pointed, 1t Is necessary to
cover the python's head with a bag
and tap 1t with a stick. and its prog
ress would make a noise like a Mis-.
sissippi steamboat tanning its way
over a mud bar. Thieves stealthily
opening the Englishman's bedroom
door in the Silly watches of the night
and persuading blindfolded snake to
enter and give him lethal hug would
have to figure on all the guests and
employees being deaf. dumb and blind.
Maybe it was because 1t was difiicult
to come upon those ideal conditions
that the alleged crooks followed Mr..
and Mrs. Englishman for such an un-
reasonable space Of time.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08

The passengers In the car-mostly
women-became curious, and then in
disaant. A little hand pushed through
the layer of blankets and moved spas
medically in the air. Finally the top
blanket on the baby fell OF and re-
vealed what was wrong. Instead Of
regular baby the passengers saw what
appeared to be three-Quarters infant
and one-Quarter tin pail. Its got it,
head caught in a tin pail" cried the
mother. The passengers exclaimed
and giggled. and crowded around the
infant. The tin pail was certainly In
evidence. It covered the baby's head
and rested on its shoulders. and It
was wedged tight
I'm taking her to $3.50 plumb
err" cried the mother.
Wait. I've got can opener in my
pocket" one of the men exclaimed.
NO." the mother retorted; II know
a good plumber in the next block. and
he'll fix It."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08
FREE HOLLANDS SLAVE ISLANDS
By UALTER WILLIAMS, IL.
lDs.s sfAs SekssisfJssnashsa sfGk UssssHs @Mhsw0

ish ideas into the heads of the ma
tives," said a sugar-planter from Sem
erang. why. they even expect us to
marry their daughters. 1t is not now
like-what do you call 1.-THE good old
times" There are many Sinas. but
the half-caste, SO numerous In the
East. receives, it Is fair to the Dutch
to say, more generous treatment, on
the DEch islands, than the halfcaste
or Eurasian in the British possessions.
Kechirs father and brothers, Jaw
anese Of intelligence and strength.
could relate, il they dared, stories Of
their own enforced labor which make
the Dutch islands in the Far East,
mistakenly called model colonies.
seem slave islands. Her father could
tell-and did tell, under pledge Of Be-
crecy as to his name-some things
from his own experience and others
from the common stock of native
knowledge.
Few more fertile countries are to be
found in all the world than Java. Its
inhabitants are born farmers. skilled
in irrigation methods and with ex-
pert acquaintance with hydraulics,
and yet. living in q land where the
richest harvests come with scarcely
an effort, large territories are periodi-
cally visited by famine. "The cause
of this" said ]. F. Scheltema, has to
be sought in a system of colonial ex-
ploitation which made the natives
raise products for the European mar
kets by forced labor and deliver them
into the government storehouses
whence they were shipped to Holland
and sold at an enormous profit. This
system, called after Count van den
Bosch, on whose recommendation 1t
was introduced, to meet Hollands
financial difficulties, has now been
abandoned, though the corvee, the
calling out Of the villagers in un-
paid service for the mending of roads.
etc., continues as before. Even now.
however, 1t would be too much to say
that native toll, when demanded by
direct or indirect pressure, always
commands wages sufficient to keep
body and soul together. The word
coffee" still has an especially ON
nous sound in native ears, for 1t re-
minds them of the oppression connect
ed with the growing of that commod-
ity for government purposes. Rice.
the principal food of the people, II
they can afford 1t, is also their prin-
cipal crop. and yet, for reasons closely
connected with the governments
methods referred to, the production
does not come up to the consumption.
Though Java exports rice. particular.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08

protection to the native laborer
young or old, in Java. 1T isn't hard
work." said the manager, this sort
ing Of tea. The baskets with the tea
are light. These handled by the young
girls weigh but q few pounds. The
hours are only from six in the morn.
ing until four In the afternoon, with
time for lunch" There may be q
difference Of opinion as to the work.
To shake . sieve holding ten pounds
Of tea. more or less, for nine or ten
hours . day. in . climate Of tropical
heat. might be regarded by some per-
sons ~ rather hard work. In the
sorting room with Kechil were q hun.
dred other laborers. girls and women.
Tho wages" replied the manager.
I'VE pay according to the work done.
Our scale Of wages IL about q half
cent higher than that usually paid.
Some Of the more skillful women can
earn so or 60 cents q day. Dutch
money Tin American money. 20 to "a
cents)." Kechil. the Tiny One, had
OV0u oiAAu8 = ycoI. one was p8lO
the equivalent Of four cents, Ameri-
can money. a day.
The ovsrseer's "housekeeper."
Kechirs mother and two sisters
work In the factory. Her oldest Sis
ter. Sina. had worked there. She did
not now. She had dash of rose-color
in her rounded cheeks. was graceful
and pleasing to look upon, with the
merry laugh and chatter characters
tic Of the Javanese. One evening the
overseer called Sina into his bunEa-
low. She struggled. but of no avail.
Her father appealed to the magistrate,
but with no more success. The double
standard of justice exists in Java
one standard for the Europeans and an.
other, save In q few notable cases, for
the native. Sina remained as house
keeper" In the overseers BUNGALOW.
her predecessor being no longer pleas
ing in the masters sight. She did not
return to the tea factory. nor did the
color return to her cheeks. These
Europeans and missionaries put fool.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08

sister, the first-born of the family
came to the Java home, her parents
names were changed, according to an
cient native custom. and they were
thereafter known by words that mean
in our prosaic English Pa Sina and
Ma Sina. The baby is ali important
parsonage in the Javanese home life.
Practical Psonage Enforced.
When Kechil went to work In the
sorting room of the big tea estate she
was scarcely five years Of age. La
Dor was needed at the tea estate, how
ever. The Dutch rulers of the East
Indies archipelago have q century-old
system Of impressment Of labor which.
technically abolished In some islands
and for some purposes. exists In act
ual practise almost to peonage in dis
tricts on the tourists beaten track.
Nowhere in the Dutch archipelago is
there q child-labor law. Nowhere IL
there compulsory school attendance.
Why seek to compel the attendance Of
children at schools when there are not
schools enough provided to accom-
modate those who 90 voluntarily?
Why have q child-labor law when it
would interfere with the profits of the
Dutch-owned estates? The very idea
seemed ridiculous to the courteous
manager Of the estate. As for send
ing girls to school-bah! That might
do in Europe and of course in Amer
tca. where he had heard they even
sent black girls to school, and did
other mad things. or possibly in Ba-
tavia and the big towns, but not in
the country districts, no. indeed.
No Protection for Laborers.
Nor is there a minimum wage law
or any other legislation which gives
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08

is brought to the church and fastened
with outspread wings within q hoop
of fireworks. At midday the fireworks
are lighted. and the dove travels along
q wire toward the tabernacle. There
Is a great cracking and noise. and
when the smoke has cleared away one
sees all the holy apostles kneeling
with lighted flames upon their heads.
1t is, of course, especially important
for the contadini."
Observe the Wind.
why for them above the othersr
I ask.
They come up in crowds. signorA"
answered he; for they all believe
that in whichever direction the wind
blows while the dove 10 in flight win
be the prevailing wind during the
harvest. and it IL very important that
they should know. You will see. sig.
nora. The contadini will not be watch
ing La Palomba at all. They win b
watching the wind"
They came In crowds. a. he had
said. and encamped in the piazza I'll
day. eating their food on the cathedral
steps. wild looking men and handsome
women. the elaborate structure Of ~
ligion and dogma embodied in the
church behind them having touched
them but little. It 10 neither the
mystery" within the Duomo nor the
thought Of Pentecost that has urged
them from their farms. Il Il the wind
they have come to watch.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08

ly rice Of superior quality, 1t imports
for native use far greater quantity
OF the coarser kinds" Kechirs ia
Their. like many of his fellows, worked
for little or no wage for government
or planter that they might have
profit. and then. after hours or in
vacation days. grew rice and other
food products to support his family
and himself.
Java, thanks largely to the Official
tourist bureau, Is the best known Of
the islands constituting the Neither
lands East Indies. 1t Is also the best
governed. the most prosperous and
the one where the most consideration.
slight though this may be, has been
shown by the Dutch government for
the welfare Of the natives. Java has
q population Of s5.000.0OO, more than
one'third the population of the United
States. Six hundred to a square mile
live on the island. Borneo, Sumatra
and Celebes, all islands in the Dutch
archipelago. exceed Java in size In
these the conditions are even less n,
vorable to the development of the na-
tive population.
Have No Political Rights.
In Java the primary schools open to
natives are few and inadequate, and.
except recently for doctors, there are
no higher institutions of learning.
The native wishing higher education
must 60 to Holland. Taxation ia high
particularly for the native, and the
returns he receives therefrom are few
indeed. He has no voice in any admin.
istration Of the islands affairs. He
cannot vote nor hold ONCE of any i'm
portance.
portance. He travels In railway cara
and is herded in public place In apart.
ments, contemptuously marked In.
landers." which compare with the
quarters set apart for Europeans as
the slums with the palace. The laws
are specifically drawn to divide the
population into classes and the ma
tves. intelligent peaceful. moral,
though they may be. constituting ss
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08
A. 70 BREATHING.

To breathe wrongly IL to impover-
ish the blood. and through 1t to reduce
the whole body to a state Of suscepti-
bility, which opens q way for all kinds
of disease. Comparatively few per.
sons take in as much air as they
ought; hence parts of the lungs are
apt to become weakened through dis
use. The first care should be to
breathe the best air possible: the next
10 obtain the proper amount In tie
right way.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08

and hills. The emptiness OF n.
churches has something to do with !,
also. for the familiar coming and -.
ing In the churches. the presence -
children, Of lighted and freouents6
shrines, add a good deal to the settlsd
and companionable air of an Italian
town. True. there 10 no kindly and
gracious Madonna presiding over the.
cathedral at Perugia. only the hish
mystery Of the Corpus Domini, and I
suspect 1t to be rather a comment on
human nature in general than Italian
nature In particular that the shrinea
OF Our Lady Of Pity. of Succor, of Sor.
row. Of Comfort should be throneed
with worshipers while the churches Of
the Holy Spirit or of the Trinity
should be empty save for an occa-
sional religious who seeks the aus
terities rather than the consultations
of religion. For the great Duomo Of
Orvieto is almost always empty. save
for tourists and intoning priests. Built
on the tide of one of those waves Of
inspiration which visited Italy, Il
would seem as though with the ebbing
of that wave the peoples interest in
their treasure slackened and they 70
turned to the half.pagan beliefs which
sustained their ancestors. At Pente-
cost q wild crowd Of peasants comes in
from the hills and fills the piazza and
the Duomo. on the steps of which ID
enacted q mystery" "Signora. come
at Pentecost itself. and you win see
it." said one Of those loquacious and
genial Italians whose business It 10
to awaken his own enthusiasm with
that Of the foreigners. There 10 .
tabernacle similar to this in the mu-
scum Zone of the first models for tn
shrine Of the corporate venerated IN
the Duomo) set up on the steps Of the
Duomo. On the opposite side Of the
piazza are the clouds of heaven; with
in the tabernacle there IL the Madonna
sitting above. and below kneel the Il
apostles, all with little candles A.
tached to their heads A white dove
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08
Found Fox Up q Tree.

Kings Mountain, N. C.-Quite q lit
tie interest was stirred up here when
word reached town that fox was up
q tree on Gus Huffstetler's farm, about
a mile and q half from town.
A number Of townsmen mustered all
the dogs available and hurried to the
scene. The dogs were held on and the
fox forced to Jump to the ground. A
few yards start was given Mr.. Fox.
and the dogs turned loose. A beauti-
full chase Of about half q mile ended
with the capture Of the fox.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08
WEALTHY MEN ARE UNKNOWN
Not In Society, Neither Were They
Ever Seen Among the Noisy
Ones.

Chicago.-Who has ever heard of
Chicago's army Of the Unknown Rich,
Possibly no one, for until statistics
were available such as have been
flooding the office of the collector Of
Internal revenue In connection with
the new income tax law there was
available no information which went
to the seat of individual fortunes In
the way this law does. But now for
the first time is beginning to be known
the extent and strength Of the ranks
of the Unknown Rich. Persons whose
names have never found their way
into the society columns and who arc
strange in the city's acknowledged
financial circles filed schedules Of in
comes Of $4,000. $4,000. $4,000.
even $4,000. The filers of these
schedules. some Of them. give strange
foreign names. and. as their places of
residence streets that the fashionable
and known rich Of the city probably
never heard of. It is not a matter Of
ten or twenty schedules by such per-
sons which have been filed. Literally
there are hundreds of them.
IF only the names and incomes Of
these unknown rich could be made
public and the story of the acquire
ment Of their fortunes published q
new light on who's who In the city
from a financial point Of view would
be she'd" said Collector Samuel l.
Fitch.
Little romance probably would be
found in their ives, but as examples
Of shrewd investors and hard workers
they might be held up az shining
lights in any company"
1t was no uncommon sight in the
collectors office to see q man of nifty
or so, wearing shabby coat and trous-
ers and soft working shirt. whose
hands were heavy and gnarled and
who had a three-day growth Of beard,
step up to the counter and file q sched-
ule showing an income Of $4,000 or
$4,000. More than one elderly woman
in plair clothes and shawl over her
head went to the clerks and filed her
schedule along with the schedules Of
the city's men of acknowledged nnan-
cial position.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08
Proper Treatment Of Plants.

Plants should be kept a. near The
light a. possible. and those that are
at the sides or back of q room should
be constantly turned and interchange.
Palms and some other plants derive
much benefit from being repotted. II
ID advisable to let florist do this. -
he understands and has ready the dif-
ferent kinds Of soil suitable for biz
various patients"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08

Batavia, Java
Kechil was only
six years old
Slight Of figure
and short Of stat
ure. she appeared
even younger. Her
name. In Javanese
m e q n ! n g Tiny
One" had been
given her at birth,
not because she
was small, but as
expression OF en-
dearment. T h e
Javanese, a smil-
ing, bright-eyed,
bro w n skinned
race, are devoted
to their children.
In d Q e d, W b g n
Sina, who was
Kechil's oil d e 9 {
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-05-08
Sailors and the AIbatross.

A remarkable and weird belief of
seamen Is that connected with the al
batross. These huge birds, measuring
IA to is feet from tip to tip Of their
wings. are only to be seen in the
stormy regions Of the Capes Of Good
Hope and Horn and the surrounding
ATTITUDES. They follow ships for weeks
at . time. The peculiar belief Of old
sailors credit these birds with possess
ing the souls Of ancient mariners. who
for their misdeeds have been doomed
to scour these stormy regions for eter-
nifty.