Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday,
April 20, 1895.
"TOO MODEST."
Under the above heading the Cortland Democrat
of yesterday published the following:
It is reported that a certain dealer in
millinery goods has been required to remove her display of hosiery from her
show window on account of immodesty. We are reminded of the young lady who
neglected to put pantelettes upon her piano legs—or the spinster who refused to
accept a legacy on account of the indelicacy of the term. Surely modesty is a
commendable virtue. But there are some small men who make a ridiculous and
damaging exhibit of themselves simply to attract public attention. Apparently
on the theory—"Better be damn'd than mentioned not at all." COM.
The object of the author of this
communication is very evident. It is to cast discredit through ridicule, on the
attempt which is being made to compel a regard for law and decency in this
community. He does not make a direct charge, but sneaks behind the words "it
is reported," and The Democrat shows its sympathy with him by publishing
without investigation a rumor discreditable to the village authorities.
The truth is that no one has been
"required to remove her display of hosiery from her show window on account
of immodesty," nor has such a requirement ever been thought of, nor has
there been any immodest display of any kind. And unless the Democrat's
correspondent and its editor are gone daft, we don't believe that either of them
ever believed for a moment the silly story which one of them puts into writing and
the other publishes. But the opportunity to cast a slur on the village authorities
was too good to be lost. Modesty is certainly a commendable virtue, but
truthfulness is a good deal more so.
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| HMS Crescent. |
British
Well Prepared For a Nicaraguan Emergency.
MAY
BLOCKADE HER SEAPORTS.
A Look
Into England's Available Naval Strength Shows Her to Have Two
Powerful
Fleets Within Easy Call Should the Blockade be Declared.
WASHINGTON, April 20.—No information has been
received here concerning Lord Kimberley's reply to Nicaragua's answer to the
British ultimatum, but it is believed that Great Britain shortly will proceed
to collect the claim or debt, as it is viewed from the British standpoint. The
fact that Great Britain's exercise of force will not be exerted so as to affect
United States interests is indicated by the fact that neither the state
department nor Sir Julian Pauncefote has been notified of Lord Kimberley's
response. It is said such notification would be given if United States
interests were to be even remotely imperilled.
The British mode of action against Nicaragua
is believed to be by a "pacific blockade" of all Nicaraguan ports,
thus crippling the local commerce, but not interfering with United States or
other foreign commerce.
The latest official information received
here shows that Great Britain can at once bring to bear two formidable fleets
for blockading purposes, one on the Pacific side and the other on the Atlantic
coast of Nicaragua. The Atlantic or West Indian fleet, now available, is as
follows: First-class cruiser Crescent, 7,700 tons; twin screw sloop Buzzard,
1,460 tons; third-class cruiser Canada, 2,380 tons; third-class cruiser
Cleopatra, 2,880 tons; third-class cruiser Magicienne, 2,950 tons; third-class cruiser
Mohawk, 1,770 tons; first-class gunboat Partridge, 755 tons; screw sloop
Pelican, 1,130 tons; third-class cruiser Tartar, 1,770 tons; third-class
cruiser Tourmaline, 2,120 tons; receiving ship Terror and depot ship Urgent.
The Pacific fleet is as follows:
Royal Arthur, first-class cruiser, commanded
by Rear Admiral Stephenson, 7,700; third-class cruiser Hyacinth, 1,420 tons;
screw sloop Nymph, 1,140 tons; first-class gunboat Pheasant, 755 tons; third-class
cruiser Satellite, 1,420; screw sloop Wild Swan, 1,130 tons; depot ship Liffey;
Staff Commander Symons.
The foregoing fleets—19 ships in all—are
variously disposed, but all could be rendezvoused for a demonstration of force.
The extent of the fleets indicates the preparations for emergencies Great
Britain always maintains.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
◘ Don't
lick postage stamps, cries a British medical authority. They pass through many
hands, from the manufacturer to the office boy. They are torn off, folded and
carried about through postoffices in disease stricken localities and sometimes
carried in mail bags dirtier than anything. They may give you diphtheria,
smallpox or scarlet fever. They have on tap any kind of disease that you call
for. Therefore don't lick them. Moisten them with a wet sponge.
◘ That was
a humorous verdict the Arkansas legislative committee gave that was
investigating members on the charge of bribery. It was almost as humorous, in
fact, as the United States supreme court's great indecision on the income tax
law. "We can't prove that members took bribes," says in effect the
investigating committee, "but we recommend the district attorney to get
after them all the same."
◘ Our
minister to Spain, Hannis Taylor, is out in a paper in The North American
Review advocating foe the president's cabinet the right to appear before
congress and propose, argue or "press to a vote" measures which they
believe will be for the good of the country. In the Swiss republic cabinet
ministers have the power thus to influence legislation, and the custom works
well, Mr. Taylor says.
◘ A
Pennsylvania man has devised an easy method of getting rid of rats by
electricity. He has put a number of electric wires in his cellar and baited the
ends with cheese. One nibble of Mr. Rat is enough. He takes a bite and simply
curls up on the floor, and the rest is silence.
◘ This is
the style of fling that New York papers indulge in toward Chicago: "The
day did not pass off without the usual shooting."
◘ After
all, the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the income tax law is a
question that troubles most of us very little. The main question, How is this
government going to pay its expenses?
Municipal
Potato Planting.
An idea originated by Mayor Pingree of
Detroit has taken root in many parts of the Union. It is that work to some
extent may be found for the unemployed by turning the vacant lots and commons
in and adjoining cities and towns into vegetable gardens. Those who have no
work can be put to tilling the ground, raising food for themselves and
families. When the vegetables are raised, they will either be sold and the
money for them go into the poor fund or they can be distributed as they are
among the poor whom the city is compelled to feed. In Detroit last season a
considerable sum was realized by the sale of potatoes raised on vacant lots by
the city's unemployed.
The money to pay for the expense of this
municipal potato farming appears usually to be furnished partly by
appropriations from the city's treasury, partly by donations from benevolent
citizens. But in any case the idea is well worth testing. In Detroit last
winter 947 families were supported six months largely on the proceeds of the
potatoes unemployed men had cultivated daring the summer. In the allotments of
land a quarter acre patch is calculated to raise potatoes enough for the
support of one family, unless it is an uncommonly large one, when half an acre
is allowed.
There is something peculiarly pleasant in
this idea of devoting vacant lands in cities to the sustenance of the city's
poor. The idea might be enlarged on indefinitely, and not only all kinds of
vegetables, but small fruits and flowers thus be grown.
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Foreman Bert Bosworth has ordered a trial
run of the Excelsior Hook & Ladder Co. for next Tuesday evening. The new
team of horses will leave the engine house with the truck promptly at 7
o'clock. The destination remains a secret. Ladders will be erected, a man sent
over them and various other manoeuvres will be gone through with.
The horses now used on the truck is a 2,500 pound
team recently purchased by Mr. H. W. Griffith. They are at present kept in J.
J. Gillett's livery barn, but an effort is being made to have them nearer the
engine house.
LAST OF
THE SERIES.
The
Crescent Club Close Their Season of Delightful Parties.
The Crescent club's entertainment of their
friends in Empire hall last evening was a fitting close to one of the most
enjoyable series of parties ever given in Cortland. The hall was nicely filled
with the forty-three couples in attendance. The crash [music and dancing on the
floor] never looked more tempting, McDermott's orchestra never rendered more
inspiring music and all present seemed to enjoy themselves more than at any
previous party of the club. The elegantly attired young people tripped the light
fantastic till long after midnight, when the last strains of the music died
away.
BREVITIES.
—Rev. G. H. Brigham will preach at Blodgett
Mills to-morrow.
—The quarterly love feast will be held at
the First M. E. church Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock.
—The Alpha Chautauqua circle will meet with
Mrs. H. L. Bronson, 66 Port Watson-st,, Monday evening, April 22.
—The price of belting is going up. There is
danger of a paddle famine in the Elmira Reformatory.—Binghamton Republican,
—The Actives and Normal base ball teams are
at the Driving Park this afternoon endeavoring to find out which is the better
team.
—The first war meeting in Cortland was held
at the court house thirty-four years ago to-night. It was then April 20 and was
Saturday night.
—There will be no preaching service at the
Baptist chapel to-morrow afternoon on account of the absence from town of Rev.
G. H, Brigham,
—Rev. H. T. Sell of Chicago, former pastor
of the Congregational church, will preach in that church tomorrow evening.
Messrs, E. C. Alger and George Murphy will give two clarionet duets.
—J. W. Daniels has secured Alexander Brown
of Binghamton as cornetist in Daniels' orchestra, Mr. Brown is very highly
recommended. He formerly resided in Cortland and played in the band.
—Work was begun this morning removing the
dirt from between the tracks at the crossing at the D., L. & W. station. The
frogs on which the electric cars cross the tracks will be put in very soon,
—The Utica Herald of this morning devotes nearly
a half column to a synopsis of the work of Dr F. J. Cheney at the teachers'
institute at Clinton yesterday, and speaks of him in the highest degree.
—Three of the handsome new ice wagons of the
Little York Ice Co., which were built by the Cortland Omnibus & Cab Co.,
were put on the streets of Cortland this morning. Four others began delivering
ice at Binghamton a week ago.
—Two young ladies from Afton are in town
canvassing for a cook book prepared by the Presbyterian church of that place.
The proceeds of the cook book are to be turned into a fund for the building of
a new church edifice. The pastor of the church is Rev. Fred E. Walton, formerly
of Cortland.
—The adjourned hearing before the commissioner
of highways of this town in reference to granting to the Cortland & Homer
Traction Co. the right to lay their track in the new highway around the hill
between this village and McGrawville, will be held at the office of H. L
Bronson on Monday morning next at 10 o'clock.
—Officer A. B. Carpenter of Cazenovia came
to Cortland this morning and arrested Frank Shepard on a warrant sworn out
before Justice H. J. Rouse on complaint of Dr. J. E. Salisbury. The warrant
charged him with indecent exposure on the streets of Cazenovia at about 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon. It is claimed that Shepard was drunk.
—The deepest well on our Atlantic coast is
that at the silk works near Northampton, Mass., depth 3,700 feet. The Ithaca
test well has a present depth of 3,185 feet; and is liable to go 500 or 1,000
feet closer to Pekin at the very first oil "sign" in the county. Rock
salt was reached at a depth of 2,244 feet.—Ithaca Journal.
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
E. E.
MELLON FELL FROM A SECOND STORY WINDOW.
While
Walking in His Sleep—Concussion of the Brain Produced—Result Uncertain.
Attorney Enos E. Mellon is to-day lying in a
state of unconscious stupor at the home of Mrs. C. L. Jagger, 17 Reynolds-ave.
as a result or injuries produced from a fall from a second story window of the
house last night. Mr. Mellon has for many years boarded with Mrs. Jagger and
that lady has all these years stood in the place of a mother to him, and has
lavished upon him all the wealth of a strong affection. The feeling was mutual
and nothing that lay within Mr. Mellon's power was left undone that would
contribute to Mrs. Jaggar's comfort or pleasure. When he was married and went
to the home of Mrs. D. F. Wallace to live, Mrs. Jagger felt that she could not
give him up and often have Mr. and Mrs. Mellon gone down there to spend a night
to relieve her feeling of loneliness. For some little time Mrs. Jagger has not
been in very good health and has come to depend more than ever upon Mr. Mellon.
Last night she was not feeling as well as usual
and he thought that he ought to go down there to spend the night, being
apprehensive lest he might be needed. Mrs. D. F. Wallace and Miss Louise
Wallace were in Syracuse and Mrs. Mellon was the only lady left at the Wallace
home, so she told her husband to go down there and she would not go this time.
Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning Mrs.
Jagger remembers to have heard a slight noise in Mr. Mellon's room and thought
he was up for something, but hearing no more soon went to sleep again. At about
5:30 o'clock this morning Mrs. W. W. Brown, who lives next door, arose and as
she looked out of the window saw Mr. Mellon lying in his night robes upon the
steps leading up to the back piazza of the Jagger house. The family was quickly
aroused and it was found that Mr. Mellon was unconscious. His face was covered
with blood and his left ear was torn and lacerated and his left shoulder and
side were badly bruised. He was carried into the home and up to his bed. In his
room the bed's appearance showed that he had thrown the covering back and had
arisen. A window was pushed up half way.
Dr. A. J. White was called and made an
examination. He did not find any bones broken. Mr. Mellon was chilled clear
through from lying out in the cold for several hours with nothing on but his
night-robes. It was two hours before they could get him warmed up. He has not
up to 2 o'clock this afternoon recovered consciousness, but lies in a kind of
stupor, being sometimes delirious and talking and mumbling. It is thought that
he did for a moment this morning recognize Mr. Wallace, but Dr. White he has
several times addressed as "Mr. Duffey."
The conclusion is that he got up in his sleep
and began to walk about. He used to do this in years past to a greater or less
extent, but never went out of doors, nor has he done it lately either. He must
have deliberately thrown up this window half way (it being a window which he
was never accustomed to open for ventilation) and crawled out of it. It would
appear that he struck on his head, his left shoulder and left side. He
evidently tried to get around the house to the door and rouse some one, but
failed through weakness. It is thought that he has concussion of the brain. Dr.
White told a STANDARD man this afternoon that Mr. Mellon might lie in that
condition for some hours yet. He hopes for a favorable result, but that will
largely depend upon how much he is hurt internally and the extent of that
cannot yet be fully determined.
Mr. Mellon has many friends here in Cortland
who are anxiously inquiring for him and who all hope for a speedy and complete
recovery.
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