PRESIDENT RETURNS TO WASHINGTON, VAN WORMERS TO DIE, HERO'S UNMARKED GRAVE, HOSPITAL ASSOC., AND MISS HART'S FUNERAL

 

President Theodore Roosevelt.

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, September 28, 1903.

RETURNS TO WASHINGTON.

President Will Not Hold a Conference on the Miller Case.

   Oyster Bay, Sept. 28.—President Roosevelt passed the last day of his summer vacation quietly at Sagamore Hill. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt, and their children now at home, Ethel, Archie and Quentin, Secretary and Mrs. Loeb and the members of  the executive staff left this morning at 3: 30 for Washington, expecting to arrive there at 4:10 p. m.

   A meeting of the cabinet will be held Tuesday at 11 o'clock but nothing of special importance is likely to develop.

   Tuesday afternoon the president will have as a guest at luncheon John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America. Several months ago the president invited Mr. Mitchell to take luncheon or dine with him. It is announced that the arrangements for the luncheon were made prior to the latest developments in the case of W. A. Miller, the foreman bookbinder in the government printing office, and that no special significance is to be attached to it. It is quite probable that the Miller case will be discussed, but the meeting will not take the form of a conference on this matter.

   In view of statements recently published that the president on his return to Washington would hold a conference on the Miller case with prominent officials representing organized labor, it is announced that the president has no intention of conferring with anybody regarding that case.

   His position, it is pointed out, was defined clearly in his published letters to Secretary Cortelyou. The principle enunciated in those letters was framed in accordance with the statutes of the United States and on it the president expects to stand.

   If a hearing on the merits of the Miller case is desired by those who are endeavoring to have the man dismissed from the government service, the president may grant it precisely as he might a hearing to any other body of citizens on a question of public interest or importance, but it is not the presidents purpose to enter upon a discussion of the principle already laid down.

 

VAN WORMERS TO DIE.

Three Young Brothers to Be Electrocuted on Thursday of This Week.

   Plattsburg, Sept. 26.—Preparations are under way at Clinton prison, Dannemora, for the execution on Oct. 1 of the three Van Wormer brothers, convicted of killing their uncle, Peter A. Hallenbeck, in Columbia county on Christmas eve, 1901.

   It is now the intention of Warden Deyo to have Willis, the oldest of the trio, go to the chair first, as it is believed that the two younger brothers will be less likely to collapse under the strain of waiting for their turn to come.

   It is probable that the first of the trio will be brought to the chair at 11:40 o'clock and it is believed that all three can be put to death in 10 or 15 minutes.

   Dr. Spitzka, the brain specialist who performed the autopsy on the body of Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley, will perform the autopsy on the bodies of the three brothers.

   Judge J. Ryder Cady, counsel for the Van Wormer boys, promised them when he saw them last that when he knew beyond all doubt that there was no further hope for them he would write to them to that effect. Judge Cady wrote a letter a few days ago stating that there is now no further hope for them and sent it to Warden Deyo, asking the warden to read it to them if he thought best.

   Warden Deyo took the letter into the death cells and handed it to Willis Van Wormer, who calmly read it through. Warden Deyo then asked him if there was any answer to be sent to Judge Cady. He replied:

   "Wait until the other boys have read it."

   Fred and Burton then read the letter and Burton spoke up, saying:

   "I'll answer the judge."

   He has accordingly written a letter to Judge Cady, presumably thanking him for his efforts made in their behalf.

 

Turkish Army Mobilizing,

   Salonika, European Turkey, Sept. 28.—The immediate mobilization of the Adana, Angora, Kastamuni and Kaisaries divisions of the army, totaling 64 battalions, has been ordered. Half of these battalions are expected to arrive here within a week and the rest will go to Adrianople.

 

Portrait of John Paul Jones.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

A Hero's Unmarked Grave.

   A reader of a newspaper article published recently on the neglect of the memory of Commodore Stephen Cassin calls attention to another great naval hero whose memory has been even more shamefully neglected—John Paul Jones, the founder of the American navy. In the midst of one of the poorest and most thickly populated tenement quarters of the city of Paris Jones is buried in a weed grown and neglected cemetery.

   Although the government of the United States has for several years been aware of the exact location of the great sea fighter's grave, it has never taken any action toward having his ashes brought to this country and a suitable monument erected in his honor.

   No monument or even an inscription has ever marked his resting place, and consequently very few among the thousands of Americans who visit the French capital each year know that the famous patriot is interred there.

   Jones died in 1792, and his body was placed in a temporary receiving vault in the cemetery for foreign Protestants near the Rue de la Grange, then in the suburbs of Paris, but now in the heart of the slums of the city. It was believed that the government of the United States would at once cause the body to be brought to this country for final interment, but on the closing of the cemetery the following year, nothing having been done toward this purpose, the bones of the great naval fighter were laid to rest in an obscure corner of the graveyard, where they still remain.

 

THE KING'S DAUGHTERS

Plan for the State Convention to be Held in October.

   At the regular meeting of The King's Daughters held last Tuesday afternoon, arrangements were quite thoroughly made for the annual State Convention which will be held in the First Baptist church in Cortland beginning Oct. 13. The members of the circle are particularly anxious that all citizens should become interested in this coming convention and should give it their hearty support. It is the first time in the history of the Loyal Circle of King's Daughters that Cortland has been so honored and the members are putting forth every effort for its success.

   As to the convention itself, it will be worthy of the attention and attendance of all. Several of the state officers will be present and other excellent speakers including Mrs. Bottome, Mrs. Whitney, and Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson. All previous conventions have been highly interesting and stimulating to the work, which The King's Daughters regard as one with the Christian church.

   The ladies of Cortland will endeavor to make this convention a notable one. Press Reporter.

 

NEW FIRM

Wm. Colwell Sells Interest in Carpet Cleaner to A. E. Ryan.

   Wm. Colwell of the firm of Colwell & Warwick, Madison-st. steam carpet cleaning and feather renovating works has sold his interest in the business and the lot and buildings to Augustus E. Ryan of Cortland. Mr. Ryan was foreman in the blacksmith shop of the Hitchcock Mfg. Co. and more recently with Keator & Wells.

   The business will be continued at the same place under the firm name of Madison-st. Steam Carpet Cleaning and Feather Renovating works, John Warwick and Augustus E. Ryan, proprietors.

 

Cortland Hospital on North Main Street.

HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION.

Annual Meeting and Election Will Occur on Oct. 5.

   The annual meeting of the Cortland Hospital association will be held at the hospital next Monday afternoon, Oct. 5, at 4 o'clock.

   Six members of the board of managers are to be elected in place of the following whose terms of office expire: Mrs. A. H. Bennett, Mrs. Ella Butler, Mrs. A. E. Buck, Mrs. G. E. Chambers, Mrs. D. W. Carr, Mrs. C. P. Thompson.

   A new advisory board will also be elected in place of the following whose terms of office expire: P. E. Whitmore, H. S. Bliss, A. A. Carley, H. A. Dickinson, W. J. Greenman, N. H. Gillette, H. M. Kellogg, B. T. Wright, A. H. Winchell.

 

FUNERAL OF MISS HART

Held Sunday Afternoon at Her Late Home in McLean.

   The funeral of Miss Grace M. Hart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hart of McLean, occurred yesterday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock at the house. The circumstances connected with the death of this young lady were unusually sad, and the sympathy of a host of friends goes out to the parents and to the brother and sister who survive in this hour of sorrow.

   Miss Hart was 19 years of age and was the oldest of three children. She was born in McLean, N. Y., and spent her girlhood days there. For several years she was in Groton to attend school and she made many friends. Last year she came to Cortland to enter the Normal school, making her home with her aunt, Mrs. Geo. P. Hollenbeck. She was bright and sunny in disposition and a favorite with all with whom she came in contact. She was particularly appreciative of all that was done for her.

   She was compelled to leave school and go home last spring by reason of illness, and from this she never recovered. Last week Monday she went to Ithaca with her parents for a consultation with physicians, and was told that an immediate operation was her only chance for life, though even then the case was almost hopeless. The operation was performed Wednesday at the hospital, and from the surgical point of view was successful. But her heart action was weak and she did not rally well, and soon began to sink. Both father and mother were with her continuously at the hospital from the time of the operation till the end came at 6:45 Friday night. All that loving care could do for her was done, but to no purpose.

   At the funeral the house was crowded with friends from McLean, Cortland, Ithaca, Groton, Binghamton and other places, and many more who could not get to the house were present at the burial at the cemetery. The coffin was covered and the room in which it was placed almost filled with the profusion of rare and beautiful flowers.

   The services were conducted by Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city, who read selected passages of Scripture and offered prayer. He also read a particularly appropriate poem by Bonny entitled "Consolation." At the grave as the friends were assembling he also recited Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." Miss Lucy I. Marsh, for some time the soprano soloist of the Presbyterian church, also sang at the house unaccompanied and with remarkable sweetness and expression the two hymns, "Nearer my God to Thee," and "My Jesus, as Thou Wilt."

 

Right Leg Amputated.

   Mrs. Julia F. Twiss, who has been in Syracuse for some time for treatment for tuberculosis of the right leg, had the leg amputated at the knee last Friday morning. She is now at the home of her sister, Mrs. Cowles, in Syracuse and is reported as being very comfortable. Her brother, G. E. Jarvis of Joliet, Ill., has been in Cortland today.

 

Death of Mrs. Finn.

   Mrs. Mary Finn, aged 73 years, died at 5 o'clock Sunday evening at the home of her daughter Mrs. Dudley Daven in Ithaca, N. Y. The remains will be brought to Cortland on the afternoon train today and funeral services will be held at the home of her daughter Mrs. Vern Coville, 72 Clinton-ave., Wednesday at 3 p. m. Besides the two daughters mentioned, she leaves four sons, Isaac Finn, and George Finn of Cortland, M. W. Finn of Scranton, Pa., and Aleck Finn of Middletown, N. Y.

 

MARRIED FIFTY YEARS.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lyman Celebrate their Golden Wedding.

   Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lyman of 75 Hamlin-st. celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding yesterday. A number of their friends remembering the occasion called during the afternoon to express their good wishes and congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Lyman upon the completion of fifty years of married life. Mrs. Lyman was Miss Eliza Pendleton and the wedding ceremony fifty years ago took place at the Pendleton homestead south of Cortland and which was afterward for many years the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman.

   Letters were received from their three daughters who are living at a distance from Cortland and could not be present at the anniversary: Mrs. J. F. Maybury and Mrs. M. M. Maybury of Denver, Colorado, and Mrs. F. K. McFall of Harrisburg, Pa.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Cortland Lodge of Perfection will hold a regular meeting this evening at 8 o'clock.

   —"Under Southern Skies" is booked for the Opera House for Monday evening, Oct. 5.

   —Mail Carrier Olive Jennison picked a bunch of fresh and fragrant apple blossoms from a tree on Hubbard-st., this morning.

   —A regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held at their rooms on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 29, at 2:45 o'clock. All women are cordially invited.

   —Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M. will hold a regular communication Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The first degree will be conferred in full form.

   —The annual business meeting of the Farther Lights society of the First Baptist church will be held at the church this evening at 7:30 o'clock. All members are requested to be present.

   —The last summer excursion to Sylvan Beach occurred yesterday, and the Sunday trains on the Lehigh Valley R. R. are now taken off both the Elmira and Cortland division and the Auburn division.

   —The new display advertisements today are—M. W. Giles, Prices for Wednesday, page 7; G. H. Wiltsie, Dress goods, etc., page 6; First National Bank, Bank accounts, page 6; Bosworth & Stillman, Ladies' walking shoes, page 5; Warren, Tanner & Co., hosiery, page 5; Warwick & Ryan, Feather renovating, page 6; Syracuse Trust Co., Banking, etc., page 8; C.  F. Brown, Delicious delicacies, etc., page 6; L. & K. Freeman, Fall millinery, page 8.

 

SUNDAY FILLER: STUDEBAKER COMPANY

 

WAR REMINISCENCES CHAPTER 37

 

Captain William Saxton, Co. C, 157th Regiment, New York Volunteers.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, September 26, 1903.

WAR REMINISCENCES.

By Captain Saxton of the I57th Regiment, N. Y. Vols.

SOME MORE ABOUT GETTYSBURG.

Both Armies Strengthening their Lines—Union Soldiers Captured in the Village—Only a Remnant of this Regiment Left After the First Day's Battle—Troops Hurried Forward.

CHAPTER 37.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   Sir: For years it was a great mystery to me that the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh was ordered alone out into that wheat field against that whole brigade. In subsequent years when I have studied the battle with the United States army maps before me, I can see it was a forlorn hope. We probably detained Dole's brigade from twenty to thirty minutes and that prevented them from marching right along the Carlisle road into town. It also gave the other regiments on our right time to form farther back and stay the progress of Ewell's Corps while the First Corps was falling back through the town. Whether it was a blunder or purposely ordered we were sacrificed. Is it not a singular circumstance that the same brigade that drove back the One Hundred Fifty-seventh on Saturday, May 2, at Chancellorsville, should be the identical one that met us again on the first day of July, 1863, on the field of Gettysburg and almost annihilate us? Such, indeed, is the fact.

A Geometrical Problem.

   It must have been 4 o'clock when we fell back from the wheat field. The government maps show a line formed by a portion of the First and Third divisions of the Eleventh Corps north of the college with Coster's brigade on the right of the Carlisle road at 3:45 p. m. When he fell back these troops had gone and it was a race between the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York falling back past the college on the Mummasburg road and Dole's brigade, marching on the converging Carlisle road, which should enter town first.

   I can see those Confederates now marching with a quick step, guns at right shoulder shift, along that road, paying no attention to the few straggling remnants of our companies. An officer, probably the commander of the brigade, was riding by their side mounted on a white horse. I have thought many times since "Why did I not try my marksmanship on him?" I did not. My whole attention was taken up in trying to solve that proposition in geometry in which it is fully demonstrated that the square described on the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described upon the other two sides. I was making the hypotenuse while Dole's brigade was coming on a side of the triangle. Had it not been that the Georgians received a check from other remnants of regiments of the Eleventh Corps in the eastern part of the town, we would have lost the race. As it was, it was a tie. We came in at the same time on parallel streets, they farther to the east.

   As we came out of the wheat field into the Mummasburg road a cannon ball came bounding along the road from the Confederates. It seemed to me I could have put out my foot and stopped it. I know I wondered at the time what made it keep on going. Why didn't it stop? This illustrates how deceptive the velocity of a cannon ball is.

Prisoners Taken in Town.

   Many a poor boy got caught in the streets of Gettysburg and was taken prisoner. An attempt was made to form a line through the streets, but that only gave the Confederates more advantage in getting in the rear on the east.

   When we came past the college I was in company with Captain Place, and the First Corps, which had been compelled by superior numbers to fall back to Cemetery hill, was congesting the Chambersburg street. As we came to the bridge across a little creek just in the north edge of town, it dawned upon me that if I waited to take my chances in getting across I should be captured.

Officers in a Wood House.

   I executed a flank movement, crossed over and soon after entering town got separated from Captain Place. I left the street and climbed over a garden fence and took my way across the town through the back yards and gardens. In one of these yards I passed General Schimmelpfennig and part of his staff with their horses. They were endeavoring with a small hatchet to cut down the strong split oak paling fence. How they came in there with their horses I did not stop to ascertain, neither did I inquire how they were going to get out. This is a fact, however, that General Schimmelpfennig, seeing he was about to be captured, ran into the woodhouse and covered himself with sticks of wood and was concealed there, and cared for by the lady of the house till the morning of the fourth day, when the town was evacuated.

   I came out on a street, met one of our cavalrymen and he pointed to a street coming in from the east filled with Confederates. He said: "Sergeant, give those Rebs a shot." I unloaded my Enfield into them, but whether I hit any one I cannot say.

   I made my way to the hill just back of town and turned a little to the west of the street and lay down in front of a stone wall completely out of breath and exhausted. It would have taken only a very small rebel to have captured me just at that moment. It seemed as though I could not breathe nor go a single step farther.

Forming the New Line.

   A minute after dropping down Levi Randall, our company cook, came by and gave me a drink of water from his canteen, which revived me; be said some more Company C boys were just over the wall back of me. I went back to them and decided to stay and form a nucleus for others. Randall told me of a spring to the east of the Baltimore pike, and I went there and filled my canteen and returned and found Captain Place with the boys I had left. We collected in others of the regiment and soon Colonel Brown joined us and we were assigned a position in the line just in front of the cemetery between it and the town. The new line was formed by placing Wadsworth's division of the First Corps on our extreme right on Culp's hill. Then came Ames' division of the Eleventh Corps on the east crest of Cemetery hill facing east and north. Then came Steinwehr's divisions facing north and west. Doubleday's division of the First Corps was placed on the left of the Eleventh Corps. General Hancock, sent directly by General Mead to take charge of the field, had arrived and he and General Howard established the new line on Cemetery hill.

   Robinson's division of the First was placed in reserve in rear of the Eleventh Corps, Stannard's Vermont brigade from the defenses around Washington came up and was assigned to duty with the First Corps. Buford's cavalry was on the lower land to the left and in front of Cemetery ridge. Our fifty pieces of artillery were arranged advantageously on Cemetery hill. It must have been 6 o'clock now and we were ready for the expected attack, but it did not come.

Remnant of the Regiment.

   It was remarkable how soon everything quieted down. We had time now to look around and think a little. What a wonderfully short line the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh now occupied. When that line was first formed and the roll called only thirty-nine responded to their names. Others kept coming to us but probably not over 125 men were gathered around our flag that night when we lay down to rest. Were we hungry? I have no recollection of eating a thing that day from the time we had breakfast at 6 a. m. until about dark that night. Hadn't thought of eating. What a day it had been! On that hot July day we had made a forced march by a circuitous route from Emmetsburg of thirteen miles without a halt, the last part on the double-quick; had rushed through the town, north, into the fight without a moment's rest; had been moving and fighting continually from that time until 6 p. m. and against such awful odds.

   We had been driven back, to be sure, but we were not defeated, any more than a regiment is when its skirmish line is driven in. We knew we had inflicted, as well as received, severe punishment. We were not disheartened, but were ready and willing to fight again at any moment. General Lee, who had arrived on Seminary ridge and saw the last part of the battle, wisely refrained from attacking us in our advantageous position with the troops he had at hand.

   The Twelfth Corps under Slocum began to arrive from Littlestown and Two Taverns and was placed on Culp's hill to the right of Wadsworth's division of the First Corps, except Gray's division which was posted near Little Round Top on the left.

   General Sickles with the Third Corp east of Emmetsburg received a dispatch from General Howard asking him to come to his assistance and he immediately put his Corps in motion for Gettysburg, except two brigades which be left at Emmetsburg, and the advance column began to arrive at 6 p. m.

Troops Assembling.

   Here was an opportunity for Lee to have attacked Sickles in flank as he came in on the Emmetsburg road and the only explanation why he did not is that Hill's Corps on his right had had the fight pretty well taken out of them for that day. The Second Corps, Hancock's, now Gibbon's, marched seventeen miles from Unionville up the Taneytown road and came up during the night and halted three miles back of Gettysburg. The Fifth Corps, Sykes', formerly Mead's, started from Union Mills on the Baltimore pike and at 7 p. m. reached Hanover, and at midnight halted within six miles of Gettysburg. The Sixth Corps, Sedgwick's, was the farthest away—thirty-five miles—at Manchester. At 9 p. m. it started, marched all night, and its advance division did not arrive at Rock creek on the Baltimore pike until 4 p. m. July 2, the other division not arriving until 6:30 p. m.

   General Mead came up during the night and inspected the lines accompanied by Generals Howard and Hunt. He established his headquarters at a house on the east of the Taneytown road just back of the crest of Cemetery hill within a half a mile of where we lay.

Both Armies Preparing.

   Thursday, July 2.—The sun rose clear on Cemetery hill that morning, and it was the opening of as beautiful a day as one often sees. There was an occasional picket shot, and at one time in the forenoon some Confederates were seen gathering behind a barn in the valley to our left front, but a single shot from one of Dilger's guns scattered them in a hurry. It was very quiet in front of the Cemetery, where we lay, but busy preparations were going on among our troops to our right, rear, and left. We looked anxiously across the valley to see the town, and could plainly see the Confederates planting batteries, probably on Benner's hill. I borrowed the Colonel's field glass and could plainly see what they were doing. There was an officer on a white horse riding round giving directions. I turned the glass to the west on Seminary ridge and could see wagons and troops passing an open space in the woods.

   Gen. Mead was busy in correcting his line which was something in the shape of an inverted capital letter J —thus [here Captain Saxton depicts an inverted J]. McAllister's hill being on the extreme curved point; Culp's hill on the curve, Cemetery bill as it turned south, the straight part running south along Cemetery ridge to Round Top. The whole line was about four miles long. From Round Top to the curve on Cemetery hill about two and three-fourths miles.

   Slocum's Twelfth Corps was placed mostly in the woods on Culp's hill facing the east, and northeast. The right of Williams' division resting on Rock creek, Geary's division was recalled from the vicinity of Little Round Top and placed on Williams' left, connecting with Wadsworth's divisions of the First Corps. These troops threw up breastworks along their entire front. W. S.

 

WAR IN THE BALKANS, CONFLICT OF RACES, ABDUL'S COSTLY SLEEP, AND CORTLAND BOARD OF HEALTH

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, September 26, 1903.

WAR IN THE BALKANS.

Turks Mobilizing More Asiatic Troops.

INSURGENT CAMP SURROUNDED.

Forty Men and 80 Women and Children Killed—Another Defeat of an Insurgent Band—Engagement in Monastir in Which the Turks Lost 100 Killed and Wounded.

   Sofia, Sept. 26.—Simultaneously with the issue of the irade appointing the mixed Macedonian commission, the report comes from Constantinople that the porte has ordered the mobilization of two additional divisions of Asiatic troops.

   The belief prevails here that the sułtan is acting solely in view of the approaching meeting between the Russian and Austrian emperors and with the hope of convincing them that he is anxious to maintain peace.

   A dispatch from Rila says that the insurgents, encouraged by their recent successes, are abandoning a strictly defensive attitude and are preparing to take the offensive. The insurgents are reported to have ample stocks of provisions in their camp in the Perin mountains.

   A large Turkish force surrounded an insurgent camp near Prespa and the insurgents had 40 men and 80 women and children killed. The Turkish loss was heavy. Another fight in the same district resulted in the defeat of an insurgent band, 10 of whom were killed.

   In an engagement near Kesela, Monastir vilayet, the Turks lost 100 killed and wounded, while the insurgents had 15 killed and 29 wounded.

   A telegram from Varna announces that 600 old men, women and children, starving and nearly naked, have arrived there from Burgas, where they were unable to find shelter.

 

Arthur J. Balfour.

A CONFLICT OF RACES.

Premier Balfour Explains England's Policy In the Balkan Disturbance.

   London, Sept. 26.—Premier Balfour, in a lengthy letter to the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Davidson, discusses the Macedonian situation. The letter is a reply to the archbishop's action in drawing attention to the growing uneasiness among churchmen at the apparent apathy of the powers "while unspeakable atrocities are perpetrated in Macedonia."

   Mr. Balfour says he is in entire sympathy with the feelings of horror and indignation and fully understands the desire to give expression in public meeting to the sentiment of reprobation which recent events have justified.

   Mr. Balfour then proceeds to analyze the situation. He says: "We have not now to deal with a simple case of misgovernment or oppression by Turkish officials, but with a problem complicated by the fact that the Christian population of Macedonia is rent in fragments by differences of race aggravated by differences of religion, and in addition to the ills inflicted by corrupt and incapable administration and by an ill paid and undisciplined soldiery and by a detestable system of taxation, we have to reckon with all the ills which in a population not imbued with western ideas of humanity rival nationalities and sects do not scruple to inflict on one another."

   Mr. Balfour adds:

   "The instrument whereby the situation may be dealt with is the concern of Europe. But this, even were they all in harmony, is necessarily slow and may easily be ineffective if the problem is complex.

   "It was a matter of congratulation when Russia and Austria, acting with the authority of Europe, proposed to press the scheme of reforms which, while lacking in theoretical perfection, came within the circuit of practical politics and would, if more earnestly pressed by the porte and more frankly accepted by the Macedonian population, have spared the world the horrors it has since witnessed.

   "Neither of these conditions was fulfilled. The porte, as usual, was dilatory and failed to see that a policy of humanity was a policy of wisdom. The revolutionists have deliberately done their best to drive the Turks to excesses and furnish them with an excuse for deferring the execution of reforms, meeting horrors with horrors and brutality with brutality, for the deliberate purpose of driving the Turkish crimes against the innocent and thus play upon the sympathies of the world.

   "Such methods as these are no more morally tolerable than the misgovernment which is their excuse."

   Coming to the question of the attitude of Great Britain, Mr. Balfour points out that Russia, Austria and Turkey cannot be indifferent to a territorial redistribution in the peninsula, while Greece, Bulgaria, Servia and Roumania are all interested in the fate of the province, whose Christian population is made up from all the nationalities.

   "These external complications are doubled by internal ones, because of religious differences, the Mohammedans fearing Christian rule, while the Exarchists and Christians persecute the Patriarchists. The Greeks, who are Patriarchists, would sooner find protection under the rule of the sultan than be left to fight the matter out with the Bulgarians, who are Exarchists.

   "It is with a problem such as this that one has to deal," says Mr. Balfour, "and I cannot but believe that the best hope of dealing with it lies in the continued co-operation of Russia and Austria, strengthened with the support and aided by the advice of the other signatories of the treaty of Berlin."

   "Great Britain has not been precluded by the policy outlined from offering suggestions," continues Mr. Balfour, "which has already been done, and she will continue to do so. But it would be folly to forget that there are occasions when two powers are stronger than three."

   "These principles," concludes Mr. Balfour, "direct the policy of the British government in the Near East."

 

Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

ABDUL'S COSTLY SLEEP.

Big Price For Slumber That Is Paid by Turkey's Sultan.

   Sleep that costs $900 a night seems pretty expensive, but that is what the sultan of Turkey, who is right in the public eye at the present time, is now paying for the privilege of more or less tranquil repose, writes the Constantinople correspondent of the Washington Post. The money is received by the members of the special military staff which guards Abdul Hamid's bedroom and which consists of two generals, a colonel, a major, a captain and several soldiers. For their nights work each of the two generals gets 50 Turkish pounds, or about $235; the colonel 40, the major 35, the captain 30 and each soldier 1, the entire amount aggregating slightly over $900 in American money. The officers and men get their fee every morning immediately they have been relieved and don't have to wait for it like some pretty big nations to whom Abdul Hamid owes money.

   This expensive night guard of the sultan's has been maintained by him only since the recent assassination of the royal couple of Servia. Of course the timorous ruler of Turkey always has been particularly well guarded at night, but the murders at Belgrade scared Abdul Hamid almost out of his wits, and he immediately determined that he would surround his bedchamber with the most vigilant men who could be secured and make it to their interest to protect him. The command of the special night guard is entrusted to eight of the sultan's most faithful generals, two of whom are on duty every night. Owing chiefly to this and other precautions that the ruler has adopted recently it is estimated that the weekly expense of running Yildiz kiosk is over $80,000.

 

LOST FIFER FOUND.

Belonged to the 157th Regiment—Now Lives in Clinton, N. Y.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   Sir—In one of Captain Saxton's letters concerning the One Hundred Fifty-seventh regiment he speaks of a colored fifer who was with our regiment for a time and wonders where he is now. This fifer is Garrett Russell (usually called "Gat") and he resides in Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. He is a member of N. B. Hinkley Post, No. 22, Dept. N. Y. G. A. R. On Memorial Day and whenever there is occasion to do so "Gat" is always on hand with his fife. He is an honored and respected citizen and has several times held important offices in the Post. 

   Respectfully, Ira O. Ellenwood, Co. K., One Hundred Fifty-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteers, Clinton, N. Y.

 

AERONANT INJURED.

Parachute Caught in Wires and Let Prof. Stanley Down too Quick.

   Professor J. I. Stanley, the aeronaut who has been doing the slide for life act and making balloon ascension and descent by parachute daily during the street fair, has met with a run of hard luck during his stay in Cortland.

   The first time he performed his slide for life he came in contact with live wires which gave him some severe burns and nearly cost him his life. The second time he tried the act he was not stopped quick enough and struck the curb which resulted in his being somewhat shaken up and bruised.

   His worst luck came yesterday afternoon, however. He made the balloon ascension from Athletic field at about 6:15 o'clock as usual. There was a slight breeze which carried the balloon slowly northward and it was over Port Watson-st. when he cut loose for the descent. The parachute opened after he had dropped about 50 feet and continued to drift slowly to the north. As he descended Prof. Stanley saw that he was apt to strike the spire of Grace church and began to work his parachute so as to make the landing in Court-st. He worked a little way to the north and landed on two telephone wires strung across the street. As the parachute settled the wires gave way and after falling slowly about a third of the way the parachute failed to give any support and he dropped rapidly, striking the ground on his back. Frank Hilligus, who was passing on his wheel, went to his relief at once. He pulled away the parachute, which had covered him as it came down, and spoke to him, but received no answer. He then saw that the man was unconscious. Mayor Brown and others, who had witnessed the accident, had come up by this time. The injured man soon regained consciousness and was taken to his room in the Brunswick Hotel.

   He was made as comfortable as possible at the hotel but, as he complained of pain in his back and had no use of his left leg, Dr. Reese was summoned. He found the patient suffering considerably from shock, and on examination found that the spine seemed to be injured. Just how serious the case was he was unable to tell at the time.

   Today Prof. Stanley is resting comfortably, but does not regain the use of his leg, some of the nerves being paralyzed. Dr Reese says that it will be at least two or three week before the patient can recover and it is impossible as yet to tell just how serious and lasting his injuries may be or whether or not he will ever entirely recover.

   Prof. Stanley is naturally somewhat disheartened. He says that he has never had such a run of hard luck before and has hardly ever even and the semblance of an accident and never anything as serious as any of these three have been here.

 

BOARD OF HEALTH

Orders to Clean Up—The Public Dump—Bills Audited.

   The regular monthly meeting of the board of health of the city of Cortland was held in the office of the city clerk last evening and was attended by the following members: Mayor C. F. Brown, President W. A. Stockwell, City Physician E. A. Didama, Dr. E. M. Santee, Fred Ryan, H. S. Bliss and Dr. C. D. VerNooy.

   The meeting was called to order by Mayor Brown and the minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved.

   The following bills were audited and ordered paid:

   Harvey Baker, $1.40

   Dr. E. A. Didama, $75.00

   Cortland STANDARD Printing Co., $12.60

   Daniel Hurlihe, $21.00

   On motion, the property at 77 North Main st., owned by Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt, was ordered placed in a sanitary condition.

   Dr. Santee and Mr. Bliss were appointed as committee to investigate hiring a man to work at the dump.

   On motion, the board adjourned.

 

BREVITIES.

   — Rev. E. W. Huelster of Sparta, Wis., will preach at the Congregational church tomorrow morning and evening.

   —The annual Central New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will begin at Canandaigua next Wednesday morning. Bishop David A. Goodsell will preside.

   —The regular weekly sing will occur this evening at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. All men and women cordially invited. Bring banjos and guitars and song books. Sing begins at 7:30 sharp.

   —The Central and Normal second football teams lined up against each other for practice yesterday afternoon.  The Central proved the stronger making two touchdowns to a blank for the Normals.

   —Rev. W. W. Way of Grace Episcopal church of Cortland and Rev. J. H. Sterling of Calvary Episcopal church of Homer will make an exchange tomorrow at both the morning and afternoon services.