GENERAL MILES' REPORT, MABINI DEAD, SOUTHERN WHITE MAN, DEPREDATIONS, NOTHING REMARKABLE, A WEDDING AND A DEATH

 

Lt. General Nelson Miles.

 

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, May 15, 1903.

GENERAL MILES' REPORT.

Numerous Requests For Documents in Full.

   Washington, May 15.—Secretary Root and a number of other officials in the war department have received a circular letter from Mr. Herbert Welch of Philadelphia, which also has been mailed to a number of private individuals, in reference to the report of Lieutenant General Miles.

   Mr. Welch desires that letters be addressed to the president, Secretary Root, Adjutant General Corbin, Judge Advocate General Davis, Assistant Adjutant General Hall and Assistant General Ennis, asking them to make public for the information and guidance of the country the full report of General Miles regarding affairs in the Philippines.

   He suggests that they "especially request that the report of Major Hunter into the facts of the whippings of Filipino prisoners of war for the purpose of extracting information from them," be included in the publication. He says he has been unable to get a copy of the report from the war department.

   Secretary Root referred the circular letter he received to Judge Advocate General Davis.

   The war department has made public the letter of Adjutant General Corbin to General Miles, answering one sent to Secretary of War Root Wednesday, regarding the publication of General Miles' report. The adjutant general tells to whom the report was given and encloses copies of the reports which were furnished the press.

 

Apolinario Mabini.

MABINI DEAD.

Former Filipino Minister Died of Cholera at Manila.

   Manila, May 15.—Mabini, the former minister of foreign affairs of the Filipino government, died of cholera at midnight. He was attacked with the disease on Tuesday last.

   Since his return from Guam, Mabini had lived in seclusion. Captured correspondence of the Rizal province insurgents showed Mabini had been in communication with them but the letters were not of a seditious nature.

   The Filipinos and Americans generally regret the death of Mabini but there will be no demonstration at his burial on account of the nature of his disease.

   Mabini, who was at one time president of the Filipino supreme court, surrendered to the American forces in December, 1899, but he persistently refused to take the oath of allegiance and was deported to the island of Guam.

   On February 26 last Mabini and Ricarte, a former Filipino general, were brought to Manila from Guam. Mabini took the oath of allegiance the same day on board the transport Thomas, but Ricarte refused to do so and was placed on board the steamer Gaelic and sent to Hong Kong,

 

Forest Fires in Fulton County.

   Gloversville, N. Y., May 15.—Forest fires are raging fiercely about 25 miles north of this city and are within four miles of Canada lake, a summer resort with several large hotels and numerous cottages. Over 6,000 acres have already been burned and nearly 100 men of the township are fighting the flames day and night.

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

A Southern White Man.

   Judge Powell of Lincoln county, Miss., cannot be regarded as one of those Southern white men with an irrational prejudice against the negro. "I confess, gentlemen," he said in an address to the grand jury, "that I can't understand this foolish hostility to the negro. He is here without his consent, and here undoubtedly he must remain in large numbers. He has been eliminated by our constitution and laws from all political control. He asks not for social recognition. He only asks the poor privilege of working for his daily bread in peace, and to indulge the hope that the coming years may bring something better to his posterity." He went on to say that the white race has all the offices from governor to constable and that the negro is simply a creature of Southern mercy. "It strikes me," he added, "that for us to oppress where we should protect, to debase where we might lift up, is unmanly and unworthy of the proud race to which we belong. . . . Stand by the nobler traditions of your race, and let it be understood once and for all in Lincoln county that no man or set of men are so powerful that the strong arm of the law cannot reach them, or so lowly that the broad shield of the law cannot protect them."

   Such language from a Southern white man and a judge indicates clearly enough that the negro is not without white friends in the South. Of course it indicates at the same time that the negro is not treated with the fairness that he is entitled to both as a human being and as a citizen of the United States. But if all the Southern whites agreeing with Judge Powell were to unite in the demand that he makes, a decided improvement could be effected. It is with such men that Northern sympathizers of the negro should co-operate in every way possible to put an end to the wrongs that his language discloses.

   ◘ Danish criminals sentenced to quit Denmark have been barred out of the United States. As a consequence they are going to Canada. That [country] is taking measures to protect herself. The Montreal Witness says of this method of banishing criminals: "We have had a recent instance among ourselves of a sentence of banishment from the province of Ontario. That sentence did not determine whether Quebec or the state of New York was to be Ontario's penal colony. The choice was left to the culprits who, as it happily happened, preferred breaking through the immigration breastworks of the United States to simply crossing into Quebec, which had and could have no law to prevent their coming." The fact that these criminals crossed to New York may be news to our authorities.

 

DEPREDATIONS ON THE HILL.

Windows in the House of Edward Murray Were Stoned.

   Austin  Stevens of Stevenson-st., Cortland, was awakened at an early hour this morning by some one knocking upon his door. On opening it he found Edward Murray, the old colored man who lives on courthouse hill. The old gentleman was trembling from fright and told Mr. Stevens that some one had been shooting through the windows of his house and he was afraid that he would be killed. Mr. Stevens took him in for the remainder of the night and this morning went up to Mr. Murray's house and found the windows and even the sash broken and a number of large stones upon the floor. It was also found that other depredations had been committed on the hill and that different ones had seen two men around there and that a call had been sent to the police station for an officer but that no one responded to the telephone, all probably being out on duty. It was thought to be the work of a couple of intoxicated men, but any one who would willfully alarm and injure a harmless peaceable old man like Mr. Murray ought to be apprehended.

 

TO PROTECT TREES.

A Device to Keep Worms from Climbing up the Trees.

   John C. Seager of this city is handling a device which is claimed to be the best yet invented, for preparing the destruction of fruit and shade trees by insects. For many years, experts and scientific men in this country and Europe, have endeavored to find some way of protecting trees from the encroachment of these pests, and many different devices have been manufactured, and used with more or less success— some very expensive, and most of them unsightly.

   This device which consists of a simple band of metal placed around the tree with serrated edges and perforations extending outward and downward is both inexpensive and sightly. The manufacturers of this device feel confident that, in this simple band of metal, they have secured a device which, when properly adjusted to the tree, will absolutely prevent all climbing and creeping insects from getting up the tree and into the foliage.

   It does not take an expert to place this band on a tree; and, when once on, it serves as a sure barrier in the path of every insect that crawls.

 

M. F. Cleary in volunteer fireman's uniform.

NOTHING REMARKABLE ABOUT IT.

Potatoes and Tomatoes Grew Together Many Years Ago.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   Sir—A few weeks ago I read in your paper that the Minnesota Experiment Station had made a great discovery after long and patient efforts in growing tomatoes and potatoes on the same vine.

   This week The Standard states that one of the plants is on exhibition in St. Paul with several well developed tomatoes nearly ripe, while the roots are putting forth potatoes. The phenomenon, as the article states, was produced by grafting a tomato vine on a potato plant.

   Now, Mr. Editor, I cannot see any phenomenon about this grafting of a tomato on a potato since both belong to the same family. Fifty-five years ago, when an apprentice, this was nothing new to us and we did not think it a phenomenon. This reminds me of a story I once heard of a Christian a few years ago who struck a Jew because he killed Christ and the Jew told him that it happened about 1,900 years ago. "Well," said the Christian, "I just heard it last Sunday."

   Respectfully,

   M. F. Cleary

 

HITCHCOCK-WOODBURY.

A Pennsylvanian Seeks a Bride in the Empire State.

   Miss Mary Alida Woodbury of Cortland and Andrew B. Hitchcock of Knoxville, Pa., were married last evening at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Walter V. Palmer, 4 Madison-st., Cortland.

   Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church, performed the ceremony, which took place at 8:30 o'clock in the presence of nearly sixty of the relatives and friends of the bride and groom.

   The parlors were made more than usually attractive with the simple, yet very pretty and effective decorations of a profusion of apple blossoms of pink and white, pink and white carnations, white roses and smilax.

   Edwin C. Woodbury, a brother of the bride, and PerLee Smith, a cousin, were the ushers, and the guests were very cordially received and greeted by Mr. and Mrs. Palmer. Miss H. Elizabeth Turner played the wedding processional from Lohengrin as the bride and groom, unattended, entered the parlor. Miss Turner also played softly during the ceremony "Hearts and Flowers." The bride was gowned in a handsome wedding dress of white silk voile over white taffeta silk and carried a large bouquet of bride roses. At the conclusion of the simple yet impressive ceremony which included the use of the ring, a very elaborate wedding supper was served under the direction of Caterer E. E. Price.

   In the matter of presents the bride was very generously remembered. These included articles of solid silver, cut glass, china and other articles useful and ornamental. To each of the ushers the groom presented a gold stick pin with appropriate setting.

   Throughout the evening delightful music was rendered by Darby's orchestra.

   The bride is well known in Cortland where she has made her home for a number of years and where she has a host of friends. She is a graduate of the Cortland Normal school in the class of '97 and since her graduation has been a popular and eminently successful teacher in the city schools. The groom is a prosperous business man of Knoxville, Pa., and is serving his second term as member of the Pennsylvania state legislature from Tioga county.

   Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock left on the 11:48 train for a short wedding trip. They will be at home to their friends after July 16 at Knoxville, Pa.

   Among the guests from out of town who were present at the wedding were: Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Woodbury, parents of the bride, from McLean, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. F. J. PerLee, Miss Mary PerLee and Mrs. H. C. Howland, also of McLean, Miss Grace PerLee of Syracuse, Miss Bertha L. Butler of Homer, and Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Palmer of McGraw.

 

Death of E. A. Pender.

   The death of Elihu A. Pender occurred at his home, 47 Clinton-ave., at 6 o'clock last evening, after an illness of about three months. Mr. Pender was born in the town of Homer, Oct. 6, 1839. At the outbreak of the civil war he was in the regular army. At the expiration of his term of service he re-enlisted in the First New York veteran cavalry, serving with distinction to the end of the war, attaining the rank of Lieutenant.

   Aug. 12, 1864, he married Miss Elizabeth Robinson of Milton, Pa., who with two daughters, Mrs. L. M. Morse of Cortland, and Mrs. J. W. Calhoun of East Venice, and one brother, David B. Pender of Grant, Mich., survives him.

   Mr. Pender was a member of the First Baptist church and of Grover Post, No. 98, G. A. R. which will conduct the funeral. The funeral, which is to be private, will be held from his late residence at 2:30 p. m. Saturday. Interment at Homer, N. Y.

 

BREVITIES.

   — The new display advertisements today are—G . H. Ames, Patrician Shoes, page 6; H. Kingsley, Clairvoyant, page 6.

   —Mrs. John Hubbard of Blodgett Mills died at 2 o'clock this morning after a week's illness from pneumonia. The funeral will be held Monday at 2 o'clock. A further notice will be published later.

   —John Bristol, the carrier on R. F. D. No. 2, from the Cortland postoffice, has a very neat new wagon with canopy top, and white canvas sides bearing in black letters the number of his route.

PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, NEGROES CAN COME, LIFEBLOOD EBBING AWAY, THIRTY DAYS IN JAIL, GODDARD BLOCK, DEATH OF MRS. IVES, AND SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS DEFENDED

 

President Theodore Roosevelt.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, May 14, 1903.

IS AN EXPANSIONIST.

President Made an Important Speech In San Francisco.

PEACEFUL CONTROL OF PACIFIC.

Spoke of Cables Being Laid and Steamship Lines Starting—Isthmian Canal Under Our Own Control. Necessity of Having a Strong Navy. Peace Comes With Strength.

   San Francisco, May 14.—President Roosevelt arose early and at 9 o'clock left the Palace hotel, escorted by a squadron of cavalry. The streets were lined with people who cheered as the president's carriage passed on the way to Native Sons' hall, where a reception in the president's honor was held.

   The hall itself was crowded with members of the California Society of Pioneers, the Native Sons of the Golden West, the Native Daughters and the veterans of the Mexican War. After several welcoming speeches had been made, James D. Phelan presented the president a souvenir of the occasion, the work of a native sculptor representing a bear hunt, reproduced in gold.

   The presidential party then proceeded to Van Ness avenue, where thousands of school children had assembled. The pupils of the many schools carried banners, beautifully worked in silks and other fine fabrics. Others were headed by drummer boys. Each child had a flag which was waved as the president passed.

   An incident of the ride was the presentation to the president of a photograph by a little Chinese girl, who was lifted up so that he could shake her hand.

Inspected Military Review.

   After the review of the children, the president drove through the city and had a glance at the buildings, the barracks of the different troops and the new fortifications. He continued the drive along the road and finally reached the golf links, on which a military review was held with General MacArthur in command.

   The presidential party was then escorted through Golden Gate park to the Cliff house, where luncheon was had with the members of the executive committee, Governor Pardee, Admiral Bickford and other invited guests. The return was through the park. The party halted at the Baker street entrance, where a large crowd was in waiting to watch the president turn his shovelful of earth for the McKinley monument.

   At the Mechanics pavilion the president made the most important speech he has delivered since he left St. Louis.

   His subject "Expansion and Trade Development and Protection of the Country's Newly Acquired Possessions in the Pacific," together with the advocacy of a greater navy, was one that made his discourse of particular interest to the Californians, and he aroused his auditors to a high pitch of enthusiasm.

   It was a mighty gathering that listened to the president. The doors of the pavilion were thrown open to the public at an early hour and thousands of citizens thronged the building long before the time scheduled for the arrival of the presidential party.

   M. H. De Young, president of the citizens' reception committee, opened the meeting and Mayor Schmitz formally introduced the president to the people of San Francisco.

   The president said in part:

   "Before I saw the Pacific slope I was an expansionist, and after having seen it I fail to understand how any man confident of his country's greatness and glad that his country should challenge with proud confidence our mighty future, can be anything but an expansionist.

   "America's geographical position on the Pacific is such as to insure our peaceful domination of its waters in the future, if only we grasp with sufficient resolution the advantages of this position.

Cables and Steamship Lines.

   "We are taking long strides in this direction; witness the cables we are laying and the great steamship lines we are starting. We have taken the first step toward digging an Isthmian canal, to be under our own control, a canal which will make our Atlantic and Pacific coast lines, to all intent and purposes, continuous and will add immensely alike to our commercial and our military and naval strength.

   "The inevitable march of events gave us control of the Philippines at a time so opportune that it may, without irreverence, be held providential. Unless we show ourselves weak, unless we show ourselves degenerate sons of the sires from whose loins we sprang, we must go on with the work that we have begun.

   "I earnestly hope that this work will always be peaceful in character. We infinitely desire peace, and the surest way to obtain it is to show that we are not afraid of war. We should deal in a spirit of fairness and justice with all weaker nations; we should show to the strongest that we are able to maintain our rights. Such showing cannot be made by bluster, for bluster merely invites contempt. Let us speak courteously, deal fairly and keep ourselves armed and ready. If we do these things we can count on the peace that comes only to the just man armed, to the just man who neither fears nor inflicts wrongs."

 

NEGROES MAY COME IN.

Alabama Republicans Rescind Action of Last September.

   Birmingham, Ala., May 14.—The state Republican executive committee met here yesterday, pursuant to call by Chairman Wellman, and resolutions were adopted practically nullifying the action taken at the state convention held last September, when it was decided practically that no negroes could participate in the councils of the party in the state. The resolutions provide that all qualified electors, under the state constitution, who will promise to support the Republican ticket and will abide by the party bidding will be allowed to participate in all conventions. There are several thousand colored qualified voters in Alabama.

   This decision has been desired by the Roosevelt administration and was the cause of much bitter contention in this state. A resolution was adopted indorsing President Roosevelt's administration. Twenty-seven of the committee were present in person and some by proxy. It was believed that an effort would be made to have President Roosevelt indorsed for the nomination of president next year, but a strenuous fight was avoided. More than one hundred leading Republicans from every district in the state were here yesterday.

 

THE EIGHT HOUR LAW.

Attorney General Says It Is Still In Force

IN STATE AND MUNICIPAL WORK.

Says Decision of Court of Appeals Declaring Provision of Penal Code Unconstitutional Applies Only to a Particular Statute—Provisions of Labor Law Are Still Binding.

   Albany, N. Y., May 14.—Attorney General Cunneen has announced his opinion that the recent decision of the court of appeals, hitherto regarded as nullifying the eight-hour provision of the penal code with reference to labor on state and municipal contracts, in no way lessens the duty of state officers to make contracts for state work subject to the eight-hour restriction.

   He gave out the following letter of the subject which makes his interpretation clear. It is addressed to William P. Spratłing, M. D., superintendent [of] Craig Colony, Sonyea, N. Y., and in it Mr. Cunneen says:

   "The recent decision of the court of appeals pronouncing unconstitutional that provision of the penal code which declared it a misdemeanor for any person contracting with the state or municipal corporation to require more than eight hours work for a day's labor, applies only to the particular statute declaring such action a crime.

   "The decision does not lessen in any degree the duty of officials making contracts in behalf of the state to re quire the stipulations specified in section 3 of the labor law, that no laborer, workman or mechanic shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours a day, and that the contract shall be void if such requirements are not complied with; nor is a contractor who has entered into a contract with the state containing the aforesaid stipulations in any degree released from the obligation of his contract.

   "Replying to your question, as to the rights of laborers employed by the colony directly, I am of the opinion that in cases of direct employment more than eight hours per day cannot be lawfully required or permitted, except in cases of employees engaged in farm or domestic service."

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Lifeblood Ebbing Away.

   It is stated that 75 per cent of the increasing number of Irish immigrants now arriving in the United States are women, and 60 per cent of these are between the ages of seventeen and twenty-fire. We can well afford to welcome these desirable accessions to our population, but it is a sad thing for Ireland when the colleens, though dearly loving her, desert her in shiploads. The girl of twenty strong and healthful enough to emigrate to a distant country is in any land the potential mother of the next generation, and she of all persons in the population can least be spared.

   Recent parliamentary reports have told in detailed figures the poignant story of the depopulation of Ireland in the nineteenth century. In that period the population was reduced one-half. It is still dwindling rapidly. It decreased 5.23 per cent in the ten years from 1891 to 1901. Is the twentieth century to complete the direful work of the nineteenth?

   The work of depopulation in Ireland was wrought primarily by English legislation for the island, which to a great extent deprived it of its manufacturing industries and then impoverished its agriculture. In the pending land purchase bill England proposes to make amends, but if such amends are to be made effectively they must be made quickly. In the departure in unprecedented numbers of its young women the very lifeblood of the nation is ebbing away.

   ◘ King Edward was received in Paris with characteristic French enthusiasm, which induces the hope that France has at last obeyed the injunction of Punch to "forget Fashoda and the shock of Waterloo." It is the first time that an English sovereign has visited a French ruler since Queen Victoria and the prince consort were the guests of Napoleon III at the close of the Crimean war. While no such thing as a formal alliance is considered likely, it is evident from the reception given to Edward by the Parisians that the feeling in France toward the English is much more cordial than during the Boer war.

 

Thirty Days in Jail.

   John Dugan, a tin smith by occupation, was arrested on South Main-st. yesterday by Cortland Chief of Police Barnes for being intoxicated and creating a disturbance in a public place. Dugan was disinclined to go with the officer and the chief was compelled to use force. Before Judge Dougherty, in police court this morning, he pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against him, and was given thirty days in county jail.

 

Goddard Block Begun.

   A. J. Goddard has a number of men and teams at work removing the debris, and excavating for the walls and cellar for his new block on Railroad-st., Cortland. He thinks it will take three weeks for the excavating. The masons will begin work as soon as the work now on hand is completed. Mr. Goddard has not let the contract yet, but will do so next week.

 

THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY

Held its Largest Meeting at the Home of Mrs. G. J. Mager.

   The Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. held its monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. G. J. Mager on Tuesday afternoon. Thirty-four members were present, which is the largest attendance in the history of the auxiliary.

   The membership committee reported thirty-one new members, which was a decidedly gratifying report. It is encouraging to those who are interested in this work, to see so many who are willing to assist in making this organization one of the most active in the city

   At the close of the business session, refreshments were served by Mrs. Mager and a social hour enjoyed.

   The June meeting will be held on Tuesday afternoon, June 9, at the home of Mrs. F. M. Ingersoll, 82 Railroad-st.

 

Fortnightly Club.

   The Fortnightly club met yesterday with Miss Cornelia L. Brown, 15 Reynolds-ave., Cortland. The subject of the day was "German Gothic Architecture." Mrs. Edward D. Blodgett gave a talk upon "Cologne Cathedral as viewed from the Rhine, and Strasburg and its clock;" Mrs. W. R. Cole spoke upon "Wood carving;" Mrs. Edward Stilson told of the "Legends of St. Ursula and St. Elizabeth," and Miss Cornelia L. Brown presented the current topic, which was upon the "National games."

   The next meeting will be held May 27 at the home of Mrs. J. G. Jarvis on Clinton-ave.

 

Haymakers to Parade.

   The annual dance of Victor Hayloft, 357 1/2, will be held in Red Men's hall tomorrow night. It will be preceded by the annual parade of the order which will occur through the principal streets at 7:30 o'clock, the line being headed by the Cortland City band. Special pains have been taken this year to procure costumes of a peculiarly striking character and plenty of fun is anticipated.

 

Death of Mrs. Ives.

   Mrs. Frederick Ives died at her home at the corner of North Main-st. and Clinton-ave., at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She had been in failing health for a number of months and the end was not unexpected.

   Mrs. Ives was born in Homer, N. Y., April 1, 1814, and her maiden name was Philura Collins. On Oct. 3, 1835, she was married to Frederick Ives, who died June 30, 1890. Except for three years spent in Madison county her home was always in Homer and Cortland. For more than forty years she has lived upon the corner which has become so thoroughly identified with and associated with the family. Four daughters were born to them, two of whom died in infancy. The others are Miss Ursula A. Ives and Mrs. Julius A. Graham. One brother also survives, Chester Collins, of Homer. Mrs. Ives early united with the Congregational church of Homer, but in 1856 brought her letter to the Presbyterian church of Cortland of which she has since been a loyal member.

   The funeral will be held at the house Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock.

 

SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS DEFENDED

In Their Study of Birds and the Habits of Bird Life.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   Sir—The article in The Standard protesting against robbing birds' nests even in behalf of science is hardly worthy of notice, yet I would say that if Mr. Phelps had known more of birds he would never have written the article be did. If he had kept a field book from year to year upon migration, relative abundance of the various species, etc., he would have known that many of our most valuable birds have increased instead of diminished in numbers. He would know, too, that there are several causes which have their effect upon bird life and, while the advent of civilization has decreased the number of certain species, it has increased the number of others.

   My fellow member in the Science club, Dr. H. C. Hendrick—and as true a lover of nature as ever lived in the county—tells me that he remembers when the Baltimore oriole (Icterus gelbula) first made its appearance here. This bird has increased in numbers since I began the study of birds and is now one of our most abundant song birds.

   The two species of cuckoos (Coccyzus Americanus and C. Erythrophthalmus) have also increased.

   Our fondly cherished bluebird (Sialia sialis) which was nearly exterminated in the winter of 1894-95 by the extreme cold in the South has since that time steadily increased until it is now here again in about its old-time numbers.

   If Mr. Phelps had been a close observer he would have known that the prairie horned lark (Otocoris alpestris praticola), which he chooses to call shore lark, is a bird of recent years in this locality.

   I wonder if Mr. Phelps could tell which of the seventy species of hawks and owls in the United States are beneficial to the agriculturist and I wonder if he is aware that only seven of the number are positively harmful from an economic stand point? If he knows this, he may be aware of the fact that it was almost to a man scientific collectors that made it possible for the department of agriculture to issue the bulletin upon the hawk and also the other bulletins which have been published by the government upon bird life in the interest of the farmers.

   Mr. Phelps was very fortunate in discovering three nests of the humming birds, but if he did not determine the length of time required by the female to incubate the eggs and the length of time the young remained in the nest and see the mother bird feed those "dear little birds" by the process of regurgitation and observe the action of the male bird during the time, he missed a golden opportunity.

   I have no doubt that I have spent days to Mr. Phelps' hours in observing living birds and the following is the letter I received from W. W. Cooke, one of the leading ornithologists of America, who is upon the Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, sent me upon receipt of my report last Spring:

   Washington, D. C., June 16, 1902.

   Mr. H. C. Higgins, Cincinnatus, N. Y.

   Dear Sir—Please accept thanks for your excellent report on the migration of birds this spring. It shows that you have devoted much time and careful conscientious work in your observation and we are correspondingly grateful.

   Yours truly, M. M. Cooks.

   In conclusion let me say to all, study living birds but do not condemn the scientific collectors for they make it possible for you to know many things you will never be able to find out without their aid.

   H. C. Higgins.

 

BREVITIES.

   —Physical Director C. H. Kimble of the Y. M. C. A. is today moving to 23 North Church-st.

   —Bishop Huntington will be at Grace Episcopal church tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock to administer the apostolic rite of confirmation.

   —The new display advertisements today are—The New York Store, Special for Friday and Saturday, page 4; W. W. Bennett, Refrigerators, page 6; G. H. Wiltsie, Dry goods, page 5; Bingham & Miller, straw hats, page 8;  Mrs. Everts, Mid-Summer millinery, page 5.

 

IN SAN FRANCISCO, FAMINE IN SOUTH CHINA, PRESIDENTS AND THE SABBATH, STORY OF A SWORD, WILLIAM DILLON, AND NOT STRUCK BY AN AUTOMOBILE

 

President Theodore Roosevelt.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, May 13, 1903.

IN SAN FRANCISCO.

President Roosevelt Had an Enthusiastic Reception.

   San Francisco, May 13.—Heartier greeting was never given a president of the United States than that offered by the city of San Francisco to Theodore  Roosevelt. Through miles and miles of densely packed, cheering, patriotically enthused humanity, the nation's chief passed, bowing his acknowledgment, evidently wearied by maintaining an erect position in his carriage, but buoyed up by the impressiveness of the demonstration.

   The presidential train, drawn by a handsomely decorated locomotive, arrived promptly on time. A large gathering of federal, state and city officials, army and navy officers, (foreign consuls and distinguished citizens was in waiting to welcome the chief magistrate.

   Mayor Schmitz stepped aboard the rear car and formally greeted Mr. Roosevelt, the president making a brief response. M. H. De Young, president of the citizens' reception committee, then shook hands with the president and made a short welcoming speech.

   Mr. Roosevelt expressed his thanks in a few words and was then introduced to Admiral Bickford of the British Pacific squadron, who conveyed the good wishes of King Edward and said that the arrival of the flagship of the squadron to assist in the greeting was another instance of the cordial relations existing between the two countries. President Roosevelt said he appreciated the evidence of friendship and begged that his good wishes be given to his majesty.

   In the parade and following the president came United States troops, sailors and marines, state militia and a number of semi-military organizations. A notable feature was the fancy marching of the Cleveland Grays, who came from Ohio to participate in the California greeting.

   After reviewing the parade, the president was escorted to the Y. M. C. A. building, where a throng had assembled to participate in the burning of mortgages and notes representing the total indebtedness of $115,280 upon the property.

   The president, by request, touched a lighted match to the documents, and as the flames licked up the papers he joined with the assemblage in singing "Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow."

   The president referred at some length to the work of the Y. M. C. A. and discussed the qualities of good citizenship which, he said, the association fosters.

   The president was banqueted at night at the Palace hotel by the citizens' committee.

 

FAMINE IN SOUTH CHINA.

Rebel Leaders and Assistants Captured and Beheaded.

   Victoria, B. C., May 13.—According to mail advices received from South China, hundreds are dying in Kwang [Guangdong] province as a result of the famine there. Correspondents writing from several sections say the destitution, suffering and death is appalling.

   Whole families are subsisting on a few ounces of rice a day or on roots and leaves. Missionaries are aiding thousands daily.

   The famine is causing the rebellion in that province to grow, for the poor are being driven to violence to obtain food. Women and children are being sold by the famine stricken people.

   A Wu Chow correspondent gives details of the capture of one of the rebel leaders who went to Canton to buy arms and ammunition for the rebels.

   He dressed as a small military official, arrived in Canton and gave out that he was sent by the Chinese general, Sz Yunchn. He hired a stern wheel boat to take his arms to Na Nining and had the Chinese flag flying on it. He got safely up to Wu Chow where suspicion was aroused and a telegram was sent to Sz Yunchn. The fraud was thus detected. He and his boat were seized several miles above Wu Chow, where he and his assistants were tortured and beheaded.

 

TO SEND EX-CONVICTS HERE.

Plan of Berlin Society for Improvement of Discharged Criminals.

   Berlin, May 13.—The Society for the Improvements of Discharged Criminals of Berlin has declared its intention of aiding such of its charges who, after six months' trial have proved worthy to emigrate to North or South America. Before leaving each one will receive instructions in the language of the country to which he is destined, transportation to the seacoast, and $150.

   Herr Ballin, Director General of the Hamburg-American line, is a member of the society.

 

Guest Editorials.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

The Presidents and the Sabbath.

   During his entire tour of several weeks President Roosevelt has scrupulously shown his respect for the religious character of Sunday by refusing to participate in spectacles and reviews of any kind on that day. Last Sunday was spent by him at Hotel del Monte, only a short distance from Monterey where some United States troops are stationed. It had been arranged to have the president review the troops on that day, but he declined to do so. The day was spent partly at church and partly in riding and walking over the beautiful grounds and drives of that famous resort. It is to the credit of this nation that our presidents for many years have been men who have shown marked respect for the Sabbath. That is true of Roosevelt, as it was of McKinley, Harrison, Cleveland, Garfield, Hayes, Grant and Lincoln. So far as they have been concerned, the European or continental Sunday has received no encouragement. No man, says the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, should be chosen to the highest office in the Republic who does not respect, even if he does not personally have a share in, the religious sentiment of the nation. With rare exceptions our American presidents have been either directly connected with some church as members or regular attendants upon religious services. Though little is said about it in the public press or political campaigns, yet the great body of our people take account of a public man's attitude towards religion, and are not disposed to trust a man who is indifferent, much less one who is hostile to it.

 

STORY OF A SWORD

And the Connection of Comrade H. M. Kellogg With It.

RETURNED AFTER FORTY YEARS.

Worn by a Captain of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, Who Fell in the Assault on Fort Wagner—His Sister Now Has It.

   The Grand Army Journal says: Comrade Harry M. Kellogg, of Grover Post, Cortland, N. Y., is in possession of a most interesting bunch of correspondence which came in response to his kindly and successful efforts to restore to the former owner or his surviving relatives a sword marked "C. J. R., 54th Mass.," and which had long been in the possession of the family of C. J. Puder, a son-in-law of Comrade Kellogg of Savannah, Ga.

   Comrade Kellogg and his wife went last December to Savannah to spend the winter there. Mr. Kellogg's first arrival in that city was on a dark night in 1864 when he marched into the city behind Sherman at the conclusion of the famous journey "From Atlanta to the Sea." A few years later his home was in that city and there he married.

   Comrade Kellogg, appreciating how highly someone might value the sword, wrote Dec. 23 to the adjutant general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and received in reply the information that the only officer of the Fifty-fourth Mass. Infantry to whom the initials could have belonged was Cabot Jackson Russel, a captain of Company H, who was killed in the assault on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, and further through an advertisement in the Boston papers came letters to Comrade Kellogg from Miss Lucy E. Russel, a sister, from Godfrey L. Cabot, and Charles Storrow, cousins of the dead officer, also from James B. Gardner, the secretary of the Forty-fourth Mass. association and from Louis F. Emilio of New York city, the historian of the Fifty-fourth Mass. The sword was received by Miss Russel at her home in Boston Jan. 10th last and was exhibited to Captain Russel's old comrades at a reunion of the Forty fourth Mass. Infantry, in which regiment he first served, held in Boston Jan. 20.

   The thread of the story is broken, in that no account is given as to how the sword came into the possession of the Puder family in Savannah, but even with this part missing it is still interesting.

   Cabot Jackson Russel was a student at Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass., when the war broke out. His parents resided in New York but his mother was a Boston woman. His father was William C. Russel, afterwards professor of history at Cornell university. The young man enlisted in Co. F, Forty-fourth Mass. Infantry, commanded by his second cousin, Captain Charles Storrow, now of 53 State-st., Boston. He was made a sergeant, and when request was made by Governor Andrew of the colonel of that regiment for recommendations of non-commissioned officers who should be commissioned officers to command the Fifty-fourth Mass. colored troops, Russel's name was among those given. He was commissioned as captain of Co. H. His close friend and companion, Sergeant William H. F. Simpkins, was also made a captain in the same regiment. At the battle of Fort Wagner where the colored troops won renown for their bravery the gallant Fifty-fourth Mass. lost heavily. Col. Shaw, in command, was killed. Captain Russel and Captain Simpkins were killed. Lieutenant Willard Howard, now of Baltimore, Md., is said to be the only officer who escaped that deadly assault unharmed. The bodies of Colonel Shaw and the officers who fell with him were buried with the dead of their command in the trenches. It is said that the victorious Confederates rifled the bodies of the dead officers of everything valuable, and while in a measure this may be counted one of the barbarities of warfare to this very fact the surviving friends of two at least of the brave officers who fell at Fort Wagner were indebted for the return to them of mementoes.

   The other incident may be briefly related. Captain Wm. H. Simpkins carried a Smith & Wesson revolver. At Fort Wagner it fell into the hands of a Confederate who in turn at some time surrendered it to a Union man. The Union soldier was relieved of it at Kennesaw by R. A. W. James of Dyersburg, Tenn., who kept it until after the close of hostilities and in October, 1875, from the inscription upon it he traced Simpkins' relatives and restored the revolver to them.

 

William A. Dillon.

WILLIAM A. DILLON

Returns to His Company After a Visit in Cortland.

   William A. Dillon, who has been spending a few days with his parents, left today for Oxford, where the company is rehearsing. Mr. Dillon has under his management three shows, "Buffalo Tragedy" (story of the Burdick mystery,) "Resurrection," dramatized from Tolstoy's novel, and "Duchess Du Barry," a play similar to Mrs. Leslie Carter's last season's success "Du Barry." He will tour the Adirondacks for the summer. Mr. Dillon has made no different arrangements for next season, but expects to be interested in a popular melo-drama. He has just added to his list of popular songs a new descriptive one entitled "Along the Great White Way." This song promises to be a great success and it has been advertised in the New York Telegraph for the past two years.

 

HOSPITAL NOTES.

Patients all Doing Well—The Appendicitis Patients Among Them.

   The condition of William Bergstron, who is suffering from a very severe attack of pneumonia, is still very critical. He is delirious and needs constant care. If any change is apparent today it is for the better.

   The condition of Lee Miller and Willard Gilbert, who were operated upon for appendicitis, is as well as can be expected. Harry Taintor, who is suffering from the same disease, while still in a critical condition, is also doing well.

   There are five other patients in the hospital some quite ill; others convalescing and the hospital staff is kept busy giving them the excellent care that is always given to patients.

 

NOT STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE.

Fell to Ground by Giving Out of Bicycle Wheel.

   A report bas been circulated upon the street that Harold Gillette struck a man with his automobile at Little York Monday night and injured him. The Standard investigated the report yesterday and found it untrue and the whole matter merely a man taking a header—such an ordinary occurrence as not to seem worth while mentioning, but since the story continues to circulate it is better to state all the facts.

   N. H. Gillette and son Harold went to Little York in their automobile, and stopped at the Raymond House. There they found Louis Winchell and Richard McNett who wanted to ride. Harold invited them to take a little turn with him while his father stayed at the hotel. They went over to the west road. Returning, they slowed up at the bridge to let a team pass. As they started forward again they met three men on wheels going west on the cinder path on the north side of the street. They were riding at a high rate of speed. Two men passed the automobile. The third was Henry Ferry. Harold says that he himself was running at a speed of not to exceed ten miles an hour and the wheelman was doing about the same. The wheelman evidently supposed the automobile was going to turn in at the Raymond House drive way which Harold had no intention of doing, but expecting to keep right on east. The wheelman suddenly turned out into the road to let the automobile go to the left. Then the rider saw that the automobile was not going to turn in at the hotel and tried to turn back again to the cinderpath. The road was full of ruts. When the bicycle and the automobile were about twenty feet apart the front wheel of the bicycle, then in the ruts, suddenly gave way, and the rider took a header. Harold steered to the right and passed the man as he lay in the road, all three who were in the machine agreeing that they were about a foot away from the nearest point of the bicycle as it lay and the rider was over beyond his wheel.

   The automobile was stopped at once and turned back to see if the rider was injured by his fall. Mr. Gillette appeared on the scene about this time, and he says that the man never suggested the idea that he had been struck by the automobile, but censured automobiles in general for running fast, though he owned up that he was himself going so fast that he could not have stopped to have let the automobile pass at the driveway to the hotel had it attempted to do so.

   Mr. Gillette says, Ferry did not complain of being hurt, but lamented the injury to his forward wheel. Since the automobile was not going to enter the driveway, but was moving forward on a public highway which seemed perfectly clear of teams, wheels or people the rate of speed at which the automobile was moving did not seem to be at all excessive. If the road had not been rough the man would probably not have had his fall but would have regained the cinder path all right.

 

                                                     BREVITIES.
   —A special meeting of the Tioughnioga club is called for this evening at 8 o'clock.

   —Regular review of Cortland Hive, No. 321, L. O. T. M., tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock.

   —Bishop Huntington has decided that the 35th annual convention of the Central New York diocese shall be held at Auburn June 9 and 10.

   —In the report of the missionary organization in yesterday's Standard the name of Florence Briggs should have appeared as the president of the Standard Bearers.

   —The new display advertisements today are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Carpets and rugs, page 4; Perkins & Quick, Paints, page 4; G. H. Wiltsie, Drygoods, page 5; J. C. Seager, Tree protectors, page 8; M. A. Case, Concentration sale, page 6.

   —The leaves are coming out very rapidly when one considers the almost total lack of rain and the dry condition of the soil and of all vegetation. The weather bureau continues to prophesy rain, and it is assuredly to be hoped that the rain will come, or the hay crop and strawberries will be a failure.