TUB CITIZEN, Nil DAY, AIMUIj 8, 1010.
wns nno
New York Legislature After
Fire Insurance Companies.
NO BRIBERY INVESTIGATION.
Resolution For Wider Probe Sup
ported by Only 16 Votes Supt.
Hotchkiss on the Trail of
$5,000 Check.
Albany, X. Y., April 5. After n three
hours' wrangling, during which prop
ositions for a general investigation of
alleged legislative corruption were de
feated, the assembly adopted the Mc
Inemey resolution calling for the ap
pointment of n legislative committee
to Inquire into the affairs of all insur
ance companies doing business in the
state, with the exception of life Insur
ance companies.
The committee is to sit during the
summer and report its lludiug, with
recommendations for remedial legisla
tion, to the legislature of 1011.
The assembly also adopted n resolu
tion requesting the attorney general to
enforce the law for the punishment of
fire insurance olliclals who may be
found guilty of violations of the stat
utes of the elate.
lloth these resolutions were sent to
the senate today for coucurrencc. The
program of the senate leaders Is to act
favorably on the resolutions without
delay.
Only 10 of the i:!2 assemblymen
present voted in favor of a general
legislative inquiry. These sixteen were
lutes, IJennett, Clark, Dana, I.upton,
Perkins, Lee. Gray, Green, Illggins,
Weinert, Cross and Thompson, Hepuli
licans, and Garfein and Shortt, Demo
crats. Xew York, April 0. An effort to And
out just where a payment of ?r,000
made by the New York board of lire
underwriters after the legislative ses
sion of l'JOtt went occupied the time of
Superintendent Hotchkiss at the insur
ance hearing.
Although William II. Buckley in his
testimony declared that he had not re
ceived any money from George B.
Sheldon since 1!NV nor had done any
active work at Albany for the insur
ance interests, correspondence that
has been read shows that Mr. Buckley
after a quiescent period of several
years suddenly did become somewhat
active in that session.
There were two bills Introduced that
year which interested the fire under
writers hero very much. One was the
so called Grattan-IIamm liquidation
bill, a measure promoted by the Insur
ance department under Superintendent
Hotchkiss giving the superintendent
power to wind up the affairs of insur
ance companies which did not show a
standing conforming with legal re
quirements. The other was the regu
lar yearly antlcompact bill, which was
put In by Senator Grady.
Vice President K. II. A. Correa of
the Home Insurance company and vice
chairman of the New York litnml of
tire underwriters' legislative commit
tee Identllled a check for $5,(K0 which
the committee paid to Sheldon on
Sept. 1.
Sheldon deposited the ?5.000 check
Sept. 2 In the Liberty National bank.
H. S. Bnrto, the assistant cashier, tes
tified that on the same day he came In
after hours and asked If it was too
late to get a clieck cashed. lie wrote
out a check for $1,500 and asked for
tiie money in bills of large denomina
tion. Mr. Darin gave Sheldon, he said,
three $500 bills.
Superintendent Hotchkiss drew the
Inference from this that three senators
got $500 each.
Frederick ('. Case, Sheldon's secre
tary, ideiitllled a letter written to Mr.
Sheldon on April 20, 1000, in which ho
said
After telephoning to you this morning
I went out at once to llnil Mr. Buckley.
He said It was no wte to see ussemhly
mcn about the hill, as there would be
no quorum in the committee. I shall see
Senator (; rattan tonight and Senator Ora
lly In the morning. I shall he at the Ten
i:ycK tomorrow until 10:SO. 1 have an ap
pointment to meet Mr. Duckley In the
senate chamber at 10:41.
Case said that he was acting then
under instructions from Sheldon, that
lie had seen Senator Grady after writ
ing this letter, but only for n niomeut,
and then bad seen Senator Grattan.
The latter told him that it was not
too late In the session to grant any
adjournment on Ids bill, but that ho
would be glad to hear if the insurance
interests had any amendments that
would make the bill acceptable. The
Grady bill was afterward killed.
Mountains of Iron Ore.
The world contains at least four
mountains composed of almost solid
iron ore. One is in Mexico, one in
the United States, another in India
ami a fourth in Africa Just below
tho Soudan, and there havo been re
ports of such a mountain existing in
Siberia
Mystery of Seedless Fruit.
Science so far has failed to fur
nigh any explanation of tho mystery
of seedless fruits. Thoy are not the
outcome of tho work of man, Man
perpetuates them; ho docs no more.
Tho seedless orange was found In a
statu of soedlessness.
JEFF AND HIS RETINUE.
Leaves Frisco With n Horde of Han
dlers and More to Come.
San Francisco, April 5. Brown ns a
berry from his hunting trips In the
mountains of southern California and
looking lit, .Tim .leHrles left here today
with Sam Berger, Former Burns, the
wrestler, and Bob Armstrong, for KO'
wardeiinaii. Jeffries will begin train
ing nt once, starting with n brisk walk
or n couple uf games of handball. Box
ing will begin immediately.
For the present Armstrong nnd
Burns will do tho boxing and tugging
with .leffrles, nit hough Berger plans to
box with the lighter a couple of times
n week. Jack Burns, Sitllna's heavy
weight, probably will be added to the
staff of sparring partners, nnd Joe
Choyinskl will come to the coast with
in a week to bo one of the advisers.
Boger Cornell, trainer for the Port
land Pacific Coast league team, will
arrive nt Uowardcnnni) on May 1, nnd
Frank Gotclt will arrive as soon nftet
his match with Zybysco ns possible.
Jim Corbett will come to the coast the
latter part of May.
Kugene Vancourt, formerly boxing
Instructor at the Olympic club and one
of tho best judges of condition in the
west, declares unreservedly that Jef
fries looks every bit as good as when
lie was in the fighting game before.
SAVAGE SHOWS GAMENESS.
Earns a Draw With Flynn of Boston
After a Close Call.
New Yorl. April 5. .Tim Savage, a
New Jersey heavyweight, gave a re
markable exhibition of gnincncss in a
ten round bout with Porky Flynn of
Boston at the National Sporting club
here.
Up to the eighth round Savage ap
peared to he winning when suddenly
Flynn caught him on the point of the
jaw with a terrific right swing, which
knocked him down for the count. But
Savage got up full of light, and in the
last, two rounds he recovered his for
mer strength, so that a draw was a
fair verdict.
It was a hard battle all the way, and
Flynn, who came here with something
of a reputation, found that he had no
snap. In fact, Savage would have been
entitled to a decision had it not been
for a knockdown in the eighth round.
FAL MOORE BEATS JONES.
Young Quaker Featherweight Wins
Ten Round Battle on Points.
New York, April 5. Pal Moore, the
young Philadelphia featherweight, de
feated Willie Jones of Brooklyn in a
ten round bout at the Olympic Ath
letic club of Harlem.
After an even break hi the first
round Moore began to tight In Ills
usual aggressive style and had the bet
ter of the next seven rounds. Then
Jones took a big brace and held his
own in tiie last two rounds, though
Moore subjected him to a hard thump
ing. Moote had not been In the ring for
nearly six weehs, but he showed the
same skill that has made him one of
the pugilistic sensations of the winter.
Jones recently knocked out Frankie
Neil and had a big following at the
ringside.
SULLIVAN WINS EASILY.
He Batters Sailor Burke In a Ten
Round Bout In Brooklyn.
New York, April 5. At the Marathon
Athletic club hi Brooklyn Jack
;"Twlu") Sullivan of Boston outclassed
Bailor Burke In a ten round bout.
From start to finish the sailor did not
have a look in.
In the third round Sullivan landed
right nnd left on the sailor's nose and
eyes and brought out the blood.
Sullivan at the finish did not have a
scratch, while Burke was cut all over.
Jack McAullffe, the old lightweight
champion, roforecd the bout.
KATE CLAXT0N DIVORCED.
Actress Surprised to Find Husband
Got Decree and Married Again.
Jersey City, N. J., April 5. Kate
Claxton, the actress, identified for a
generation or more with tho 'Two Or
phans," came here to look into the
marriage records, Including the di
vorce papers iiled at the satno time, ot
Charles Stevenson, who was married
here last Christmas day. Miss Clax
ton Is Mrs. Stevenson in private life.
The actress said that although she
and Stevenson had not lived togethei
for some years she knew nothing ot
his having obtained a divorce.
According to tho records, Charles
Stevenson, llfty-livo years old, of Chi
cago was married Dec. 23 last by Po
lice Judge Queen to Miss Frances
Itellly, aged twenty years, of Now
York. The divorce papers tiled nt the
same time showed that Stevenson had
obtained u divorce from Katherino
Cone (Miss Claxtou's maiden name) at
East St. Louis, 111., in 1002 on n deser
tion charge.
Stevenson is an actor and is now
playing tho Judge in "Tito Fourth Ks
tato" at tho Studebaker theater, Chi
cago. ,
Visiting Cards.
While it would bo dllilcult to say
Just when vlBitlng cards were first
used, we are qulto certain of tho fact
that thoy aro not of very ancient date.
Apparently thoy wore adopted in Eng
lish society boforo they were general
ly usod on the Continent, rt was prob
ably about 1700 that they came into
fashion in Great Britain, and it was
ns late as 1770 when they wore intro
duced in Paris. It nppears that tho
first visiting cards wero regular play
ing cards, tho backs ot which wero
usod for the address.
OLDEST RECORD
OF NOAH'S FLOOD
Nippur Clay Tablet of 2000 B. C
Tells Story Very Like the
Later Biblo Narrative
Dfi, HILPREGHT IS DISCOVERER
Tablet Is Among Fruits of 1899 Baby
lonian Expedition Preserved at Uni
versity of Pennsylvania New Proof
of the Deluge.
Phllndolphla. Prof. Herman V. Hil
procht ot tho Department of Archeo
logy of the University of Pennsylvania
has found among tho tablets .from tho
"Temple Library" of Nippur, a re
markable fragment containing a por
tion of tho "Babylonian Deluge Story,"
"this boing, he says, tho oldest extant
reference to thnt event in writing, an
tedating the Biblo narrative of tho de
lugo by at least 1,000. Tho first an
nouncement of this discovery was
made by Prof. Hllprecht at the Acorn
Club, when he gave a full account of
tho tablet and its translation and dis
cussed its bearing on tho other known
cuneiform and other inscriptions re
ferring to tho deluge.
The following is Dr. Hilprocht's
translation of this deluge tablet which
was among the fragments unearthed
by the 1899 expedition to Nippur.
Thee
(The confines of Heaven and Earth)
I will loosen,
(A deluge I will make and) It shall
sweep away all men together;
(But thou seek) life before the deluge
cometh forth;
(For over all living beings,) as many
as there are, I will bring overthrow
destruction, annihilation
..Build a great ship
..Total weight shall be Its structuro.
It shall be a houseboat carrying what
has been saved of live, with a
strong deck cover (it.)
(The ship) which thou shalt make
(Into it bring) the beasts of the field,
the birds of Heaven,
(And tho creeping things, two of
everything) instead of a number.
. .Number, .and the family. .And. . ..
The words inclosed In brackets In
the translation aro not found in the
Cuneiform ext, but have beeu sup
plemented by Prof. Hllprecht accord
ing to the context.
Tho fragment bearing the inscrip
tion Is of unbaked clay, and measures
2 3-1 inches at its greatest width, 2 5-8
Inches at its greatest length, and is
seven-eighths of an inch thick. It is
dark brown In color, and was original
ly inscribed on two sides, but one side
is now broken entirely away, there be
ing, however, a few characters pre
served on the right edge, forming the
ends of three overlapping lines from
the missing side.
Prof. Hllprecht concludes that in
its complete form the tablet must
have been about 7 by 10 inches, and
contained from 130 and 136 lines al
together. It bears no date, but from
internal evidences, from facts furnish
ed by other yet unpublished frag
ments, and from the position in which
it was found. Prof. Hllprecht believes
that it was written some time between
2137 and 2005 B. C.
Prof. Hilprecht explained the toxt
as a portion of tho divine, command
to the Babylonian Noah, Ut-Napish-tim,
to construct a ship and to save
life from the all-destroying flood. In
order to understand its unique vnlue,
howovor, it is important, ho said, to
know something of the corresponding
passages from the known fragments of
tho Cuneiform deluge story, and from
the Biblical narrative.
There are three of the Cuneiform
fragments, two versions from Ninovah,
dating from about 60 B. C, and an
early Babylonian fragment in J. Pior
pont Morgan's collection. A compari
son of theso and of the Biblical pas
sages with the newly discovered Nip
pur vorslon has brought out the slgni
cant fact that tho Nippur version dif
fers fundamentally from the two
Ninovah versions, and agrees most re
markably with tho Biblical story In
very essential details, both as to con
tents and language.
The "Layard" deltigo tablet in the
British Musoum, one of those dating
from 050 B. C, agreed with the de
tails of the Biblical narrative in only
a few particulars. It was a pagan
story of a dolugo brought about at a
council of tho gods, who decided to
destroy mankind. Ono of the gods was
moved to Bavo his protege tho Noah
of tho story, and sent a dream of
warning on which this Noah acted.
This god excused his betrayal of the
secret to the other deities by the ex
planation that ho had not told he had
only "whispered through tho mat"
that is, through tho wall ot the house
on tho other sldo of which his protege
slept, and to whom this dream was
thus conveyed.
Moreover, Prof. Hllprecht observed
In particular that this agreement af
fects that part of the Pentateuch
(Genesis 6:13-20, 7-11), which Old
Testament critics stylo the "priestly
code," and generally regard as hav
ing been compiled In Babylonia about
BOO B. C. He thinks that the dolugo
story of the Old Testament must form
part ot the oldest traditions ot Urael,
and that it must havo enterod Canaan
at the time when Abraham left his
homo on the Euphrates and motod
westward.
HUMOR i
X OF THE. HOUR $
?'H--f-f-H--l--f-l--f-'f-V-f-I---4--I--?-l--i-l4'
THE SUPREME TEST.
Marriage Out of the Question Until
Polar Views Were Known.
"Stllllngln," snld the young man,
his voice tremulous with suppressed
emotion, "aro you going to put mo on
the pazzlz? Is this whoro I get off?"
Unshed tears wore in tho lovely
mnlden's eyos.
If sho had shed them they would
not have been In her eyes.
But let thnt pass.
"I have not said so, Geoffrey," re
luctantly she answered, "in so many
words. But "
"Listen, Stilllngla!" he burst forth
impetulously. "Is there any other guy
that's got tho inside track? Am I
playing second fiddle to some snoozef
with plnstered hair, an Ingrowing
chin, and a pull nt the bank? If so"
"No, Geoffrey, but"
"Then why the Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego are you stalling me off!
I may not he a pampered child of fash
Ion, but I'm on the dead lev. I've
never, been caught with the goods.
Girlie, ever since I was n kid you'vo
been my ono best bet, and you know
it. I'm Old Faithful from Kleengon
vllle. I've trailed along in your wako
llko a night police reporter on track
ot a lovely holdup, or a bug collector
after a gorgeous butterfly. All my
life I've been building bungalows In
the air for you to move Into some
day. I'd rather look at your tintype
than to eat four square meals. You
are the niftiest, poachiest dream that
ever "
"Geoffrey," interrupted the beauti
ful girl, standing erect before him,
pale, but calm and resolute. "I know
you love me, and 1 am touched as nev
er before by your devotion, but some
thing seems to tell me that we aro not
truly mated "
Here her voice faltered.
"Geoffrey," she said, recovering her
self, "we must not make a mistake
that will wreck our whole lives! I
must ask you one question!"
"Well?"
"Which side do you take in this
North Pole controversy?"
HUMAN VANITY.
"Why do yon object so seriously
to snapshot portraits of yourself?"
"Because," answered Senator Sorg
hum; "they violate all recognized
rules of procedure. What right has
any photographer to take a man's pic
ture without giving him the custom
ary ten minutes' grace to flx his neck
tie, brush ills hair and arrange a
pleasant smilo?" Washington Star.
The Pink of Propriety.
When the stringed band, hidden be
hind the rose and carnation screen in
Mrs. Poole's dining-room, begin to
play an air from one of Meyerbeer's
operas, tho daughter of the house
turned hopefully to the young nnd
apparently dumb stranger who had
been told to take her in.
Hero was a promising opening for
conversation.
"Do you like Meyerbeer?" she ask
ed. "I never drank a glass of one of
those lagors- in my life," the young
man replied coldly.
WISE GIRL.
"What! You're going to marry
Tom Speed? Why, he's awful!"
"What makes you think so??"
"I hoar he's been blackballed by
every club in town."
"Yes, I heard so, too. That sort of
husband won't havo much excuse for
staying out nights, will he?" Cleve
land Leader.
His Gentle Hint.
A gentleman traveling abroad sat
opposite a beautiful lady. On reach
lag tho frontier a custom-houso oil!
cer entered the carriage and said:
"Sir, havo you anything to declare?"
"My good friend," replied tho gen
tleman, "if I had any declaration to
make it would bo to this young lady,
wi not to you!"
HEASONS OF THE imUOGIST.
For Not Having In Stock tho Thing
Called For by the Customer.
Druggists aro unaccountable folk
surely. The other day a man was
looking for a certain patented artlclo
and tried live drug stores In turn
in the same neighborhood before he
was successful. Naturally In the
Btorcs where he failed, the offer of
something Just as good was made,
but that wasn't tho thing that hit
him hardest.
In the second stqro the druggist
snld. "I did have that stuff in stock,
but I never had any call for it. The
only people who over asked for it
wero the agents of tho company,
and they wero around hero all the
time to seo If we had it In stock. So
I gave It up."
In tho next store, a block away,
tho druggist said: "Yes, I did keep
that once, but when I ran out of tho
Unit supply I never could get the
company to send any more. I was
looking out for tho wagon all the
time, hut for three weeks at a title
they never stnt it up here, so I got
tired of waiting. Now I don't keep
It."
You can tie them, but you can't
beat them.
There aro three kinds of tins
white lies, black lies and Boclety
fibs.
When miseryMs at hand there
isn't much pleasure In recalling for
mer Joys.
In Pnrtnrrnl married women rptnin
their maiden names and are always
known by them.
a mole eats as many as 20,000
PflrfV---.-r.r-.-. t. the course of a ypn-
AHHITA1, AND DEPAR.TUKE OF
ERIE TRAINS.
Trains leave at 3:25 a. m. and
2 MS p. m.
SuatUys it MS p. m.
Trails arrive at 1:40 nnd 8:08
p. m.
Saturdays, arrives at 3:45 and
leaves at 7:19.
Sundays at 7:62 p. m.
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SURPLUS EARNED IN
FOUR YEARS
Are You One of the 3,553 Depositors
Doing business at the
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If not, the opportunity awaits you to open an ac
count now.
Start the idle money you have at your home to earn
ing interest.
If you have a small bank, bring or send it to us at
once. Put your idle money at work.
If you wish to make a loan on your farm or house
or to borrow some money call at the Dime Bank.
Business and Savings Accounts Solicited.
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