WAR REMINSCENCES CHAPTER 26

 

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

Captain Frank Place, 157th Regiment, New York Volunteers

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 11, 1903.

WAR REMINISCENCES.

By Captain Saxton of the 157th Regiment, N. Y. Vols.

THE REGIMENT'S FIRST BATTLE.

Complimented by Gen. Schurz and its Officers Publicly Thanked—Deadly Work of the Confederates as they Came Out of the Woods—Union Army Retreats, This Regiment, However, in Good Order.

CHAPTER 26.

   To the Editor of The Standard:

   Sir—Devan's Second brigade, McLean's, was along the pike from west to east, between Von Gilsa and Schurz, all facing south. The Seventy-fifth and Twenty-fifth Ohio reserve, Col. Lee, had been twice refused permission to change front to the west. His regiment and the one next on his left, the One Hundred and Seventh Ohio receiving two volleys in their back, then attempted to cross to the north side of the road and change front to the west without orders from brigade or division generals, but it was too late. Stuart's horse artillery on the pike kept pace with the skirmishers, and swept the road. Von Gilsa's men that were pushed back along the road, together with ambulances and quartermaster's wagons, caused such confusion that they were swept along with the mass. The Seventy-fifth Ohio, in reserve, changed front to the west and attempted to stand along with some remnants of other regiments. They had time to fire only a few volleys and in ten minutes they had to give way, wrecked. The colonel was killed, the adjutant severely wounded and 150 men stricken down.

Thirty Minutes Destructive Work.

   Another stand was made a little farther down the pike. The Twenty-fifth Ohio bad deployed and faced west and the remnants of the Fifty-fifth, One Hundred and Seventh and Seventy-fifth Ohio, together with the Seventeenth Conn. joined it, but in ten minutes more they were brushed away. Jackson, in thirty minutes had wrecked Devan's splendid division of nearly 4,000 men and had the Talley farm in possession.

   Gen. Schurz in the forenoon had become alarmed about his position, and had requested Howard to contract his line, and of his own accord had placed the Twenty-sixth Wis. and the Fifty-eighth N. Y. on the west edge of Hawkins' farm facing west. They were half a mile in the rear of Devan's and when the attack commenced they had time to get in line and be somewhat ready. They were soon reached and the Twenty-sixth Wis. occupying the right of this position, fought with great bravery for twenty minutes and was then compelled to fall back to the Hawkins house, where it was formed with the Fifty-eighth N. Y. and the Eighty-second Ill. on the left. These regiments were soon compelled to retire from this position by overlapping regiments of the enemy. They took up another line in the edge of the woods west of the Hawkins clearing. The Twenty-sixth Wis. lost 158 killed and wounded. The Eighty-second Ill. lost 107.

The One Hundred Fifty-Seventh.

   Between Talley's and Dowdall's  along the pike, where Schurz's division (ours) commenced, a point of woods extended along the pike reaching south to the plank road and east to the junction of the pike and plank at Dowdal's. The First regiment of Schimmelfennig's brigade connecting with Devan's division, was the Seventy-fourth Pa. its right was at the east edge of the Talley clearing and then it extended east along the pike in this point of woods spoken of, then came the Sixty-first Ohio (the Irish regiment) continuing this extension to the edge of the woods east, then came the Sixty-eighth N. Y. at the junction of the pike and plank roads, which last came in here from the southwest, and our regiment, the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh N. Y., was in reserve a fourth of a mile north of the Sixty-first Ohio at the south edge of the Hawkins clearing, a little to the southwest of the Wilderness church.

   As the debris of Devan's division struck the Seventy-fourth Pa. in the woods, with Jackson in hot pursuit in the rear, portions of his regiment, the Sixty-first Ohio and the Sixty-eighth N. Y., were swept along with the mass of fleeing fugitives. The remainder of the regiments moved down the pike into the opening at the junction of the plank road and swung into line extending north and facing west the One Hundred and Nineteenth N. Y. of the next brigade forming with them.

In a Narrow Lane.

   It all occurred in so short a time that Jackson was upon them before the formation of this new line was completed. Gen. Howard was vainly endeavoring to mount his horse when the attack reached Dowdall's. As the first sound of the conflict fell on our ears, the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh fell in, formed line and started at once into that point of woods south toward the pike, but there was such a tangle of underbrush that we were obliged to move by the flank on a little wood road or lane and we ran right into the advancing Confederates, head on. There was not room enough to swing into line and Col. Brown halted the regiment, while the bullets came whizzing through the brush at a lively rate, about faced, marched back into the opening, formed line and opened out on the enemy, coming as fast as they could through the thickets. We gave them only two or three rounds, when we were ordered back across the little opening to the brow of a little hill or knoll just to the west and north of the Wilderness church. Here we about faced and lay down so our battery on still higher ground back and to the east of us could fire over us into the enemy as be debouched from the woods into the little opening we had just left.

   As soon as the Talley farm was cleared of Devan's men—Dilger had been sending his shot and shell over our heads and to the right of us into Jackson's men. He inflicted some punishment but did stop the progress.

   Our regiment was in good shape, every company in its proper place, Company C was on the left of the regiment, and as we lay then facing to the rear, our former front, we were on the right. We had just lain down over the brow of this little hill when the Johnnies came out of the woods.

Pen Picture of the Situation.

   It all comes back to me now as though it happened yesterday. I can see the Johnnies as they came out of those woods that we had just left like a long flock of sheep, without much semblance of a line with their yelping rebel yell. Then Dilger's battery opened on them and the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York and other infantry regiments did the same with their muskets. I can see the Confederates pitch forward and fall as we reached them, and remember wondering why more did not fall; it seemed as though we ought to have swept them all off the face of the earth, but to the right and left and back of them, they kept pouring out of that piece of woods as if there was no end to them. The great mass did not stop. The advance line, if we may call it a line, in front of us kept right on up to our little knoll, lay down out of sight and began crawling up toward us. The flag of some regiment was raised up and its staff stuck into the ground, and stood there to mock us, with its bearer out of sight. I am speaking now of what occurred on the left (now our right) of Company C.

   While this little halt in our immediate front occurred, the enemy were [sic] lapping our flanks. I looked to the right and the regiment which bad joined us had vanished. The firing from our batteries had mainly ceased and all but Dilger's guns had been retired on the road toward Chancellorsville. As we afterwards learned the position of our regiment was in the new line that was being formed, while we were advancing in the woods, backing out again, getting back to the knoll and lying down. This new line was on the east edge of Dowdall's farm, a quarter of a mile back from the church. This has since been called the Bushbeck line, as Gen. Bushbeck, Steinwehr's remaining brigadier, after Barlow had been sent to Sickles,’ brought his regiments around and faced them west and Schurz's division fell back and joined with them. This was nearly the line suggested by Schurz to Howard in the forenoon when he (Schurz) advised Howard to contract his lines and change the front of the Corps.

An Orderly Retreat.

   This swinging back of our line on the east and the vanishing of our friends on the northwest, left our regiment alone. Gen. Schurz rode up and told us we would have to fall back. (I thought at the time it was Howard, but have since learned it was Schurz.) After rising up and sending our compliments to "our friends" (the enemy), we faced about and retreated, loading and firing as we went. Occasionally we would halt, face to the rear and give them a volley. This was the way we did [fall back] in Company C. I think the other companies did the same. The regiment kept its alignment as well as possible, hindered by brush and trees and uneven ground.

Captain Place was Cool.

   Capt. Place was very cool and constantly admonished the boys to keep in line and to keep connected with the company on the east. Lieut. Coffin took off his cap, placed it on his sword and continually called out "Company C, keep cool, don't get excited, give it to them." The sergeants assisted in keeping the men together and preventing any semblance of a stampede.

   The bullets that the Johnnies had been sending in our direction all this time did not go astray; our own boys of company C and the rest of the regiment were constantly getting hit and dropping out, and we were continually cautioned to be careful and not shoot our own wounded as we fired to the rear. We soon came to where Gen. Schurz in the forenoon had had the Eighty-second Ill. throw up a little dirt. It was a little trench about a foot deep, about like two plowed furrows would be. Here we stopped for a time and gave the Johnnies the best we had and as rapidly as we could hand it out. One man showed me his gun; he had been carrying it in his left hand loading, when a rebel bullet struck the stock below his hand and cut the wood part completely in two, rendering it useless. I told him to throw it way and pick up one from a dead comrade or take one from a wounded man. We did not stay in this last position very long, as we were again flanked.

   A short distance to the north is where connected the Eighty-second Ohio, with the Fifty-eighth N. Y. and Twenty-sixth Wis., where they had fallen back from the Hawkins farm spoken of before. The left of Rodes' and Colson's line had swung across the Hawkins farm here on our right flank and rear. Eleventh Corps historian, Col. T. Hamlin, erroneously places our regiment in this line in reserve.

Night Closes In.

   I know this positively that no troops were between us and the enemy from the time we backed out of those woods west of the Wilderness church until we marched in rear of our line some time after dark and were reunited with the rest of our brigade. The fact is, rather than being in reserve, the line had fallen back and left us alone in front. Clark Pierce of Company K, afterward Lieut. Pierce, now in the U. S. custom house in New York City, (if I remember rightly it was he), told me at that part of the line where Company K was, he came across Col. Hecker of the Eighty-second Ill., wounded, and assisted him, his regiment having already gone. We were alone now, the shades of night were deepening; we moved back again firing as we went. We noticed the firing had moved to the southeast. We perceived we were not followed by a large force; we halted and fixed bayonets, faced the rear, charged and captured a few prisoners. I heard something clink, the bayonet on the gun of one of the men had been struck with a bullet and was broken like a piece of glass. It was now dark, we were in the woods, not knowing exactly where we were; there was occasional firing in the southeast. We halted and marched by the flank and finally came into an opening, where we found Gen. Schurz and Gen. Schimmelfennig reforming the Eighty-second Ill., Eighty-second Ohio, Fifty-eighth N. Y., and Twenty-sixth Wis. Our regiment had kept its formation and all were in their place except the killed and wounded and a few who fell back with other troops nearer the pike.

"Did the Best"

   Gen. Schurz placed us in the line and rode up and down it saying "the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh did the best, the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh did the best," and then publicly thanked the field and company officers for their bravery and good behavior.

   We had done well in this, our first battle, and we knew it. We had seen other regiments go to pieces under the most trying circumstances, while we kept together. From that time on we held an honored position in the brigade, division and Corps. But at what a sacrifice! We had lost a good many choice men and beloved comrades. The One Hundred and Fifty-seventh lost seventy-nine men killed and wounded; the brigade 289; the division 544; the corrected losses of the Corps in killed and wounded amounted to over 1,500; captured or missing, 972; making a total loss of nearly 2,500 out of about 9,000 engaged. (Barlow's brigade being absent with Sickles.) W. S.

 

POPE'S INTERVIEW, SETBACK FOR SCIENTIFIC FORESTRY, BUILDING AND REPAIR, BOUGHT OUT HIS PARTNER, AND TOO HOT FOR SPARROWS

 

Pope Leo XIII.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 11, 1903.

SERVICES OF INTERCESSION.

Interesting Story of the Pope's Interview With His Nephews.

   Rome, July 11.—The vesper services in Rome last night were transformed in many churches into special services of intercession for the pope. One service in particular attracted interest. It was held in the church of St. Andrew of the Quirinal. From the side altar, under which lie the remains of St. Stanislaus Kostka, from the exact spot where nearly 70 years ago, the pope celebrated his first mass, priests solemnly invoked the intercession of St. Stanislaus in behalf of the afflicted pontiff and kneeling men and women reverently echoed the prayers.

   An interesting story is told of the recent interview between the pope and his nephews. When they were admitted to his apartment, the pope promptly asked for the news of his birthplace.

   "When did word of my illness reach Carpineto?" said his holiness.

   "On Saturday, holy father," replied Count Ludovic Pecci.

   "Strange," replied the pontiff, "I only felt ill last Sunday."

   As his nephews were leaving the pope called his valet, Centra, and said: "Be sure to serve these children," as he calls his gray-haired nephews, with ices."

   Then turning to his nephews he said laughingly: "If there is any left, leave one for me."

 

POPE HAS GAINED.

General Condition Ameliorated According to the Bulletin.

   Rome, July 11.—The Pope's physicians issued a bulletin at 9:30 this morning, which stated that the Pope had gained somewhat during the night. The bulletin read:

   "The Pope slept during the night at intervals. His pulse is now 90, and has been without irregularity since yesterday evening. His respiration is 30, his temperature 36 degrees centigrade. His renal functions are still deficient, but his general condition is somewhat ameliorated. (Signed). Mazzoni and Lapponi."

 

Cornell School of Forestry at Saranac Lake.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

A Setback For Scientific Forestry.

   People interested in scientific forestry will regret to learn of the suspension of the Cornell College of Forestry. This is a serious setback for a movement in practical education from which very much in the way of good results was expected. Instead of the blow being administered by ignorant outsiders it seems to have been given by the scientific foresters themselves.

   According to all accounts, the suspension of the institution was due to the inability of the heads of the college to use good judgment in construing the purpose of the grants of $166,000 worth (30,000 acres) of forest and $50,000 in money. Since this was done on account of complaints of denudation of forests by lumbermen, the plain purpose was to aid and demonstrate the preservation of forests. Preservation does not mean denudation. But the college took the ground that the purpose was to teach the pupils how to utilize forest products and proceeded to give the instruction which they could have obtained in any lumber camp by denuding 1,500 acres of land in three years and replanting, according to the legislative report, only 275. The instruction that the state intended to secure was how to preserve the forest by removing only the fully matured timber, leaving the forest as a whole intact. This [purpose] the college appears to have wholly failed to do, and it is fairly chargeable with the failure to continue the appropriation. In view of the efforts being made throughout the country in the direction of forest preservation and the urgent necessity for such efforts, the failure of this experiment in New York is to be regretted.

 

Main Street, Cortland, circa 1900.

BUILDING AND REPAIRING.

Great Amount of This Work Being Done in Cortland.

   In taking a trip through Cortland's business or residential streets one cannot help being impressed by the large number of buildings that are going up this summer. Masons, carpenters, plumbers, painters, and paperhangers are at a premium at the present time.

   Among the buildings in process of erection at present are the Goddard block, F. H. Cobb & Co.'s warehouse, Dr. Jennings' house, E. H. Brewer's house, and others too numerous to mention. On Stevenson-st. and Harrington-ave., seven houses, all within a stone's throw of each other, have been built within a year.

   It is not new buildings alone, however, that are keeping the craftsmen busy as the number of new buildings, when compared with the number that are being renovated and improved or enlarged, is inconsiderable. A man in a position to know said yesterday that he had seen more buildings in the process of erection in Cortland before, but never so many that were being fixed over. This certainly is abundant proof of Cortland's present and general prosperity.

   In marked contrast to this is the condition of affairs in several other cities on account of labor troubles, etc. In a nearby city all building has been practically at a standstill for several months on account of disagreements between the master mechanics and the journeymen. Many of the latter have left town despairing of reaching any satisfactory agreement. The master mechanics claim that they have conceded all that they think they can and will try to get men from other places.

 

Cortland Traction Park.

Popular Family Picnics.

   During these hot days Cortland park has become a very popular place for small family picnics, and no day passes without at least half a dozen small parties seeking a quiet afternoon in the shady grove. The accommodations at the park are excellent for these gatherings and courteous treatment to patrons is the attempt of the management. Cars run regularly every day, commencing at 9:30 in the morning, and continuing until late in the evening. Lunches may be carried up and special tables are provided in the grove for public use. There are also facilities for each party to prepare their own coffee, etc., using the stove in the pavilion.

   Moving pictures are shown every evening except Monday and Saturday, but on Saturday evenings the Cortland City band will give open air concerts. This gives an opportunity to spend a warm afternoon and evening in comfort including excellent entertainment free of charge.

   Dancing Wednesday and Saturday evenings in the pavilion which is well supplied with electric fans. Dance 10 cents to gentlemen and ladies free.

 

Cortland City Band.

Band Concert at Park.

   The following is the program of the concert to be given by the City band at the park tonight:

   March—The Strollers, Englander

   Overture—La Vestale, Mercadante

   Intermezzo—Anona, Vivian Grey (Miss McKinly)

   In the Sweet Bye and Bye and Please Let Me Sleep, Von Tilzer

   Selection from The Prince of Pilsen, Luders

   Morceau Caracteristique—The Dawn of Love, Bendix

   Down Where the Wurzburger Flows, Von Tilzer

 

ROUND TRIP ONE FARE

For a Continuous Ride on Trolley Cars on Either Division.

   Beginning today the Cortland County Traction Co. will give continuous round trip rides on through cars on both Homer and McGraw divisions of the road for one way fares, provided that the trip is made purely for pleasure and the person riding does not leave the car at any point on a trip. This rate will be maintained every day in the week during the heated season and is not confined to any particular car. The trip may be started from either end of the two divisions. This will afford a fine pleasure trip at a small expense, the round trip to or from Homer being only 10 cents and the same for McGraw. On all warm days and evenings open cars will be run on the McGraw division. Tickets may be purchased on the cars.

 

Bought Out His Partner.

   W. T. Hughes has purchased his partner's interest in the barbering firm of Hughes & Snow, Railroad-st., Cortland, and commencing Monday next will conduct the business individual1y. Hughes & Snow have been in business together in their present location for a little more than a year and have built up a very large trade. In continuing the business for himself Mr. Hughes will maintain the high standard of excellence which has brought to the firm the liberal patronage of the past. Mr. Snow will remain with Mr. Hughes for the present and the shop will continue to run four chairs as has been done for some time. Thomas Brick now has the fourth chair.

 

Too Hot for Sparrows.

   Yesterday was too hot in New York for the English sparrows which are very numerous, and dozens fell exhausted in the vicinity of City Hall park. The New York Sun says: During the fifty-three years that sparrows have been in New York it has been said that only one thing ever happened to cause them extreme discomfort. That was the blizzard of 1888. In the spring, when the snow melted away, hundreds of sparrows that bad been frozen to death were found.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The K. O. T. M. will meet Sunday afternoon at Empire hall to observe memorial day.

   —The Loyal Temperance legion state convention at Hornellsville has decided to meet at Ithaca next year.

   —The Cortland Stars, the pick up team that played in Marathon yesterday, were defeated by the score of 17 to 12.

   —The morning train on the E. & C. N. Y. had two coaches crowded with excursionists from Cincinnatus this morning, this being the special bargain day at Cortland stores.

   —Owasco Lake is a rather shallow one. Its maximum depth is 187 feet, Skaneateles lake is 320 feet, Cayuga is 300 feet, and Seneca's greatest depth is 520 feet. Keuka's maximum depth is 200 feet. [Finger Lakes.]

   —A number of the Ithaca jail gang employed in road making in the town of Lansing yesterday in the boiling hot sun took French leave while the officer's back was turned and have not yet been recaptured.

   —After several months of legal contest George W. Miller has been declared by the court to be the mayor of Ithaca and was sworn in Thursday night. The matter had been in litigation ever since last November.

   —The Oneonta Normal school will add two new departments next year—a department of manual training and a kindergarten. Miss Blanche S. Van Auken has been elected to have charge of the former. The kindergarten teacher has not yet been chosen.

 

SIG. SAUTELLE SUED, CRISIS IS NEAR, GUEST OF JOHN BURROUGHS, EDUCATION FOR PUBLIC OFFICE, AT THE POPE'S DEATH, AND MRS. ANN ROSE

 

Sig. Sautelle.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, July 10, 1903.

SIG. SAUTELLE SUED

For Damages Because Wind Blew Down His Tent.

THE CLAIMS AMOUNT TO $38,000.

Seventeen Plaintiffs Asking Damage from $130 to $5,000 Each—Deputy Sheriff Appointed as Keeper of the Show Till Bond Can be Executed—Sig will Fight the Suits—Claims Wind Was so Strong it Was Beyond all Power to Prevent the Accident.

   The blowing down of Sig. Sautelle's tent in Machias, Me., on July 2 last, as detailed in these dispatches at the time, promises to make a host of trouble for the Cortland showman. On Wednesday at Calais, not far from Bangor, attachments aggregating about $38,000 were put on the personal property, tents and animals of Sautelle's circus by the sheriff on actions brought by seventeen persons who were injured by the collapse of the tent at Machias.

   The following plaintiffs and amounts for which each has brought suit are: Grace White, Emery Maynard, Catherine D. O'Donnell, Teressa O'Donnell, James Clemant, $5,000 each; Hannah Thurlough, Edward Pearl $2,000 each; Grant Scott, Nellie Hoyt, Annie Donovan, $1,000 each; Lena Nash, Lottie Clark, Nellie Rafter, $500; Susie Crowley, Nellie Mollar, $200; Elmer Bryan, Harriet Parker, $100.

   By arrangement, Sheriff Tarbox put in as keeper of the attached property Deputy Sheriff George W. Ross, who will accompany the circus on its tour until the required bond is secured from a surety company. The proprietors of the circus deny all liability, claiming that the wind storm that caused the tent to collapse came so suddenly upon them that the accident could not be avoided by any means in their power. They say the tent was made especially for use in- the West and is what is called a windproof tent, and that all necessary precautions for the safety of the people who were present had been taken. After the accident they did everything possible for the relief and care of the injured and there their duty ceased. The velocity of the wind at the time of the accident jumped from eight miles to forty miles an hour in almost an instant, and this they say, could not be foreseen by them and comes under that class of cases under which they would not be liable. They express a determination to fight the suits.

 

Pope Leo XIII.

CRISIS NEAR.

Belief that the Pope Cannot Last Beyond Midnight.

THE PLEURAL CAVITY FILLING UP.

One Operation Performed—Another One Will be Necessary Very Soon Again—Belief that He Has Not Strength to Survive it Notwithstanding His Wonderful Vitality.

   London, July 10.—Late Home dispatches quote Professor Mazzoni as declaring at 2 o'clock this afternoon that the crisis in the Pope's condition is fast approaching. The pleural cavity, be said, is refilling with surprising rapidity. Mazzoni doesn't believe the Pope can live beyond midnight tonight.

 

Theodore Roosevelt and John Burroughs at Yellowstone campsite.

GUEST OF JOHN BURROUGHS.

President and Mrs. Roosevelt Take a Trip Up the Hudson.

   Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 10.—President and Mrs. Roosevelt are today the guests of John Burroughs, the naturalist, at his home, West Park, on the Hudson just above Poughkeepsie. The president and his wife left Oyster Bay on the Sylph at 9 o'clock last evening and expect to return at 11 or 12 tonight. Fearing that he would be met at the West Park landing by a battery of photographers, if his destination were known, the president commanded that the Sylph sail out of the harbor under sealed orders. Secretary Loeb would only say last night that the president was going "up the Hudson."

   The president expects to enjoy a typical "naturalists day" with old "Oom John," as he dubbed Mr. Burroughs on his recent western trip. "Oom John" lives all alone in a quaint little cottage overlooking the Hudson and the meal he will offer his distinguished guests this afternoon will in all probability be of his own preparation.

   Mr. Burroughs was the president's companion in the Yellowstone Park last April and while studying game together they struck up a great friendship.

   The president promised Mr. Burroughs that he would visit him at his home this summer and exacted a promise in return that Mr. Burroughs be his guest some time next winter at the White House.

 

SUSPENDED HIM BY THE WRISTS.

How Mrs. Story Punished Her Adopted Son for Going in Swimming,

   Catskill, N. Y., July 10.—Because her nine-year-old adopted son ran away and went in swimming in a creek near his home, Mrs. Annie Story of Leeds, near here,  tied the boy's wrists together and suspended him from a beam in the barn until he was exhausted and in a precarious condition. He was discovered by County Treasurer Judson A. Betts who, with Chief of Police William P. Bates, swore out a warrant for Mrs. Story's arrest, and she was arraigned before Justice Percy W. Decker yesterday. Her trial will be held in a few days. It is alleged that she said that if the boy did not keep from the creek she would kill him.

 

Novel Dental Device.

   A Moscow dentist has invented a system whereby false teeth can be made to grow into the gums as firmly as natural ones. After a few months' use it is just as hard to extract them as it is to dislodge the genuine molar made on the premises. Soon, possibly, this tooth grafting Muscovite will achieve, suggests the London Globe, that giddiest height to which the dentist can soar, the manufacture of false teeth that ache.

 

Andrew Dickson White.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Education For Public Office.

   The plea of Andrew D. White, former president of Cornell university and later United States ambassador to Germany, for the establishment of facilities at twenty-five American universities for the instruction of students in public affairs to fit them for office-holding has been variously received.

   Theorists have welcomed it enthusiastically as an extension of the time worn idea that the college men are the leaven of the nation, while practical politicians have scoffed it. One critic, the New York Evening Post, tersely observes that there are plenty of college men in politics today, and public life in many cases would be a good deal purer if they were out of it.

   Upon the advisability of providing the fullest opportunity for instruction in public affairs there can be no difference of opinion, pertinently observes the Pittsburg Dispatch, but it should be aimed to fit the students for citizenship rather than for office-holding. Until there is a much more general education in the duties of good citizenship we fear there will be little opportunity for the student who has fitted himself for office-holding by special collegiate training to have much chance of putting his knowledge to practical use.

   The special training that is considered most to qualify for office nowadays is not knowledge of the duties of the office, but demonstrated ability to pay the price in votes or influence. Even if Mr. White's suggestion were executed it is very questionable whether the graduates of his class in office-holding would find their diplomas unfailing sesame to public employment. The people are apt to have ideas of their own in regard to slates, whether filled by political bosses or college professors.

 

AT THE POPE'S DEATH.

After Official Notification Services in all the Churches.

   Considerable discussion has been aroused concerning the method of procedure to be followed in case of the death of the Pope. Leo XIII has been Pope for about twenty-five years and the course followed at the death of his predecessor, Pope Pius IX, is not very well remembered.

   As soon as possible after the death of the Pope every bishop will be officially notified and each bishop will in turn notify the priests in his diocese. The bishop will then set apart a day for a solemn requiem high mass for the quiet repose of the dead Pope's soul, which will be held in all of the Catholic churches and chapels connected with religious orders. The altars in many of the churches will doubtless be draped and it will be a very solemn occasion.

 

ANOTHER FINE TALK

By D. F. Wallace in Reference to His Holy Land Trip.

   D. F. Wallace gave another fine talk last night at the Presbyterian prayer meeting in reference to his recent trip to the Holy Land. The talk did not relate exclusively to incidents of the trip but along with these Mr. Wallace referred to the historic association of each of the places visited, calling attention to what the Bible says of each place and what has made it famous. Some of his descriptions were very vivid indeed. All were much interested in the incident at Jezreel where Mr. Howell was held up and robbed of some of his possessions by the natives and had to call out for help and of his difficulties in recovering these again.

   Mr. Wallace has a very large and valuable collection of photographs taken upon that trip. Many of these were on a table at the chapel last night and were viewed with interest after the service.

 

SEVERED ARTERY.

Much Blood Lost but Wound Will Not Prove Serious.

   While engaged in handling some pig iron at the Wickwire mills at about 11 o'clock this morning one of the employees, Frank Natoli, an Italian, was injured by the falling of one of the heavy iron bars. The bar struck him in the lower right arm, making quite a gash and severing an artery. The wound, which was a painful one, bled profusely and Natoli fainted. Beard's ambulance was summoned and the injured man was removed to his home at the corner of Clinton-ave. and Pendleton-st., Cortland. He was attended by Dr. Reese, who dressed the wound.

 

W. C. T. U. Meeting.

   The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. was held on Tuesday afternoon and opened with devotional exercises led by Mrs. C. W. Collins, the topic being "Power to Inspire Others, " as shown in the story of Deborah.

   Under the head of miscellany special attention was called to the lecture to be given next Monday evening at G. A. R. hall by Prof. A. A. Hopkins, the well known writer and speaker. His subject will be "Social Forces." Tickets may be procured of Mrs. H. B. Greenman, 29 Lincoln-ave., or of C. W. Collins, 18 Clinton-ave., Cortland. All members of the W. C. T. U. are invited to assist in selling tickets and in extending the notice.

   Members of the union are invited to attend a prayer service at the home of Mrs. Carpenter, 88 Groton-ave., Cortland, on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

   The program for the afternoon, in charge of Mrs. E. P. Jepson, was as follows, the subject being, "Our Country:"

   Singing—God Bless Our Native Land.

   Reading—What Constitutes a True Patriot, Mrs. Dwight Brown.

   Paper—What Can the W. C. T. U. do for Our Country, Mrs. E. P. Jepson.

   Reading—How Women can be Good Americans, Mrs. C. W. Collins.

   Poem—Old Glory, read by Miss Libbie Robertson.

   Reading—A Man's View of Woman's Suffrage, Mrs. S. S. Stearns.

   Reading—A Boy's Opinion, Mrs. Fairbanks.

   Singing—America.

   Supt. Press Work.

  

Barbers' Union.

   Steps are being taken toward the organization in Cortland of a journey men barbers' union. Nearly all the journeymen barbers in the city have signified their intention of joining and a strong organization will doubtless be formed. The president of the Syracuse union is expected in Cortland within a few days to complete the preliminary work of organization. R. S. Haskell and F. W. Goldsmith are doing the work for the local union.

 

Married in Syracuse.

   Arthur A. Gutchess and Miss Carrie M. Ingraham, both of Cortland, were married in Syracuse on Wednesday, July 8, by Rev, Mr. Wilson. Mr. Gutchess has just arranged to go into business in that city and the two will make their home there for the present.

 

Obituary.

   Mrs. Ann Rose was born in East Homer, N. Y., July 12, 1813, and died in Homer, N. St., June 27, 1903. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Catharine Goff of East Homer. Her life began on a portion of the farm her grandfather received from the United States government for meritorious service in the Revolutionary war. Her mother was known for many miles around as one of the kindest-hearted of women, an angel of mercy in the sick room.

   When 22 years of age she was united in marriage to Luther Rose who in time succeeded her father in the management of the farm and the public house which was maintained for the large number of travelers and teamsters. Six sons and two daughters came to this home, one dying in his infancy and one on the field of battle in the civil war.

   In early life Mrs. Rose united with the Methodist Episcopal church of East Homer, of which she remained a devoted member until her death. Her life was of that even temper that quickly made friends which were lifelong. Her wonderful patience amid trials was shown in her faithful devotion to a son who lived to be 19 years of age and all his life was helpless. But his mother's love was so strong and true that never a murmur in all these years escaped her lips.

   Not only was she beloved in the home, but greatly respected in the community. By her firm adherence to that which was best for others the sale of strong drinks was discontinued at the public house. Her kindness to the poor, her ministry to the suffering will not soon be forgotten. The church and the pastor always found a true friend in Ann Rose.

   Twenty-two years ago she was called to part with her husband after a happy union of forty-six years.

   After the death of Mr. Rose she continued to live with her son, Lafayette Rose, on the old homestead until about a year and a half ago when she went to Homer and made her home with her daughter Mrs. E. H. Knapp.

   Naturally fond of doing something for somebody she was always busy. When an accident prevented her from walking her tireless hands would still continue in some service.

   Her death came so suddenly that she ceased at the same time both to labor and to life. At the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. H. Knapp of Homer, N. Y., she fell asleep.

   Her funeral was attended in the Methodist Episcopal church in East Homer by one of her former pastors, Rev. Wm. H. York of Syracuse, and she was laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery which had formerly been a portion of her grandfather's homestead farm. Three sons, two daughters, several grandchildren and a large circle of friends attended her funeral. The text used for the sermon, "The Master is come and calleth for Thee," seemed eminently appropriate. Thus has closed the life of another kind and true one who was a friend of all who knew her. * * *

 

BREVITIES.

   — Skaneateles, N. Y., is to vote upon a $30,000 sewerage plant on July 25.

   —Meeting of the Retail Clerks, Local Branch No. 870, tonight at 8 o'clock.

   —There were ninety-one separate picnic parties at Ross park, Binghamton, yesterday.

   —There will be an assembly party at the park tonight. Cars will run every half hour.

   —A picked up team of local ball players went to Marathon this morning to play the Marathon Athletics.

   —Six sisters met yesterday in Binghamton for the first time in forty-eight years. Their aggregate age was 371 years.

   —The Dryden Herald says: The surveyors on the Ithaca-Cortland trolley line have been working in this vicinity for several days past.

   —Rochester bas so many cases of diphtheria that the board of health is inclined to call it an epidemic and is investigating the cause.

   —The Cornell university veterinary college has six young skunks as pets. They play about the floor of the college and seem pleased at being petted.

   —A new blue flag bearing in white letters the words, "The York," was today hoisted above the York hotel. New awnings were also put up. The hotel presents a very attractive appearance.

   —The new display advertisements today are—The Sugar Bowl, Fresh candies, page 6; M. A. Case, Special discount for Saturday, page 6; S. Simmons, Bargains for Saturday, page 6; C. F. Brown, Pure Talcum, page 7.

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