SHE KNOWS HOW TO FIGHT

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, October 2, 1894.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

She Knows How to Fight.

   Mary F. Sallade is a woman in New York city who has made considerable money in business through inventions of her own. She bought a home on Twenty-fourth street, but found the neighborhood so disreputable that she was not willing to bring up her little daughter there. Then she began an onslaught to clean out the block. She naturally antagonized other property owners and residents on her square, and they began to fight her. They raked over the ashes of her dead past in hopes to find something buried there which would redound to her discredit. They named various individuals with whom she had been involved in legal tussles.

   But Mary Sallade had had two husbands and frankly warned her enemies that she had learned how to fight. She wrote a newspaper letter detailing her life history minutely and spreading out thin with her own fair hands the ashes in which they had hoped to make a find. She laughed them to scorn in a column which shows she could have made her fortune as a war correspondent in busier days than these piping times of peace. Thus she "jaws" back at her opponents:

   "If Jake Scheider, who keeps the Arlington across the way, thinks he can terrify me by bringing up this man Craus, who can tell me the story of my troubles with Henry Edward Sharpe, he is mistaken in me, that is all. I beat Craus and broke him, and if he had as much as a wood shed that he could call his own I would break him again. Every one with whom I have had a struggle is now dead or broken. They laughed at me then, but I have the last laugh.

   "Sharpe is dead, and the Bickers woman is dead. Craus is broken. Others will be broken before I get through with them. If Jake Scheider thinks that it will pay him to assault the character of a woman like me, let him go ahead. "But he will be sorry for it."

◘ The city government of Glasgow now owns the street cars and runs them. The roads pay $43,000 a mile annually. The city authorities are experimenting with all the known methods of propulsion with a view to improving the system. One cent fares are charged, and no advertisements are to be allowed on the cars. This last move is a mistake on the part of the city government of Glasgow.

  

◘ When the seceding Pullman operatives get their new co-operative plant started at Hiawatha, Kan., the public will watch them with sympathy and interest. They are to show whether workingmen can run a manufacturing enterprise for themselves without either capitalist or boss. The bosses and capitalists think it cannot be done.

  

◘ The constitutional convention of New York made two excellent changes in the supreme law of the state anyhow, if they should be ratified. One forbids public moneys to be appropriated in any shape or form to a sectarian or religious school. The other abolishes the coroners, who cost the state so much money every year. The majority of the convention was of the opinion that the benefit to be got from the coroner was nothing like equal to what he cost. Any reputable physician can be sworn in at any time to perform coroner's duty.

  

◘ The battle of Ping-Yang [Pyongyang] used up the Chinese army at that place, but there was still communication by waterway up the Yalu river. The destruction of several of the Chinese cruisers that were attempting to land more troops in Korea after the battle of Ping-Yang will probably terminate the war sooner even than was expected, perhaps by the close of 1894, always providing the European powers keep their hands off it.

Japanese troops firing at Chinese positions.

Passing of China.

   The London Graphic calls the battle of Ping Yang the "Chinese Sedan." The actual demoralization and internal disintegration of this great empire of more than 300,000,000 souls were never exposed in all their nakedness till the present war. A system of corruption in government and of official oppression for centuries has borne its legitimate fruit. China is so weak that only for the jealous intervention of European powers Japan would be able to conquer the whole empire and hold it as a province. Chinese generals are so incompetent that they have not even an idea of how to subsist an army. They make little or no provision for feeding the troops. Their soldiers are in a deplorable state of hunger and suffering. Whatever happens, it is certain that great changes in China will follow this war. Systems that have crystallized around the hoary centuries will be shattered at one stroke. China will either have to give up her heathenish traditions and superstitions and be modernized or be wiped out as a great nation. Perhaps it will be both.

   The contrast between the conquering Japanese and the Chinese will show Americans what they never fully appreciated before—the difference between these two races. Japan will henceforth be a power that must be reckoned on and treated with exactly as the United States or any European power would be. She has shown not only that she has capacity for achieving modern civilization, but that she already has achieved modern civilization.

A PAIR OF SPECTACLES.

Was All the Burglar Obtained From N. K. Brong's.

   Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Brong live at 17 James-st. Last night they received a call from a burglar who departed in such a hurry that he took nothing with him but a pair of gold-bowed spectacles.

   Mr. and Mrs. Brong sleep upon the first floor. They have a basement kitchen in the steep side hill at the rear of the house. It was about 12:30 o'clock last night when Mr. Brong was awakened by the crash of a dish in the kitchen below. His first thought was that the cat had upset something and he was about to give no further heed to the matter when he noticed that the light which is always left turned down low in the bedroom was either extinguished or taken away. He then concluded that there was something larger than a cat down stairs, and jumped out of bed to reconnoitre. Mr. Brong believed that it would be just as well to let the intruder know he was coming and so he gave a whoop as he started to descend the stairs. There was a rush of feet below and someone went out of the back door in a hurry. When Mr. Brong arrived on the scene all was quiet.

   Things had been pretty thoroughly turned over and ransacked though. Evidently the burglar had decided to attend first to the inner man, for a surprising amount of pie and cake had disappeared, while only crumbs and empty plates remained to tell the story.

   So far as has been discovered nothing is missing except a pair of gold-bowed spectacles.

   Entrance was obtained through a window. There had been a broken light of glass in one window. The burglar had removed the putty and taken out this glass completely. A very handsome pocket knife with which the job was done was left on the window ledge.  Mr. Brong will accept this as an equivalent for the spectacles which the burglar took with him. The burglar had evidently come up stairs to Mr. Brong's sleepingroom and taken away the lighted lamp, for it was found down stairs.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

Orders New Walks and Performs Routine Business.

   At the regular meeting of the board of trustees last evening it was resolved that Messrs. C. H. Price and Delos Bauder be required to raise their walks on the west side of Main-st. and Mr. Price to set a curb line to correspond with that of Dr. Dana's.

   Repairs were ordered on the following walks: C. P. Walrad, 43 and 45 Madison-ave., Thomas Ellsworth, 31 Madison-ave., Mrs. Persons, 10 and 12 Woodruff-st., R. E. Gladding, east side Washington-st., E. O. Kingman, east side Washington-st., new driveway.

   On motion a new wooden crosswalk was ordered laid across Woodruff-st. on a line with the north side of Lincoln-ave.

   The following bills were allowed and ordered paid:

   Street commissioner's payroll, $308.40

   F. A. Bickford, salary, 25.00

   D. C. Beers, labor, 28.55

   Dr. W. J. Moore, 21.75

   National Bank of Cortland, interest, 121.63

   C. S. Bull, salary, 250.00

   Police force and feeding prisoners, 101.33

   Keeler Brothers, labor and material 2.75

   Mrs. Jane Pope, rent of barn, 10.00

   G. A. Petrie, paving stones, 3.75

   Thomas Donnelly, labor, 1.25

   H. F. Benton, lumber, 77.97

   Hitchcock Mfg. Co., repairs on Hook and Ladder truck, 8.40

   Cortland & Homer Electric Co., 429.00

   The meeting was then adjourned till Oct. 15.

BREVITIES.

   —A special meeting of the C. M. B. A. occurs this evening.

   — Work was begun to-day on the sewers on Tompkins-st.

   —Regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. membership committee to-night at

8:30.

   —The work of rebuilding the Road House on the McGrawville road was begun yesterday.

   —The adjourned session of the Democratic county convention will be held at the Democratic club rooms to-morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock.

   —The annual meeting of the Presbyterian church and society will be held at the chapel at 7 o'clock sharp to-night instead of at 7:30 as stated yesterday.

   —At about 10 o'clock this morning Mr. Daniel McAuliff had the misfortune to strike his left thumb with a saw at the Cortland Wagon Co., splitting it lengthwise to the bone.

   —The ladies of Grace church will hold a social at the home of Mrs. A. P Smith on Wednesday evening. An oyster supper will be served at 6 o'clock to which all are invited.

   —The Cortland City band dance which was announced to take place at the armory on Friday evening has been postponed on account of the Republican rally at the Opera House which occurs the same evening,

   —The ice fraternity, consisting of Messrs. Dell Barber, Edwin Robbins and

Mert Van Hoesen, left at 3 o'clock this morning to hunt squirrels south of Solon. It was expected that the ice wagon would follow later to draw the game home and keep it cool on the way.

   —Judge Wm. B. Green will give one of his popular entertainments combining humor, pathos and sentiment in Normal hall, Oct. 18. An idea of his popularity may be obtained from the fact that in five seasons he has had three hundred five engagements at his home in Brooklyn.

Another Step in Electrical Science.

   NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—The power and mining department of the General Electric company has just made a contract which marks a further step in the advance of electrical science. This contract is with the Sacramento Electric Power and Light company and calls for the transmission by electricity from a waterpower at Folsom, Cal., 20 miles distant, of several thousand electric horse power to the city of Sacramento, to supply lights, heat, power, etc., to an extent that will practically supersede all the present steam plants now in operation. This will make the longest transmission by electricity of power in large amounts installed in the world.

  

Disastrous Boiler Explosion.

   PULASKI, N. Y., Oct. 2.—The large boiler in the chair factory of F. B. Woodbury at Orwell, six miles from here, exploded with terrible effect. The injured so far heard from are Lewis Finster, badly cut about the head; Fred Hilton, both arms broken and badly cut and scalded; Edward Stevens, scalded so badly that when the clothing was removed the skin and flesh came with it. The boiler was blown up and through two partitions and across the street, 100 feet away. One end of the large factory is a complete wreck. Glass was broken in the buildings opposite.