Cortland
Evening Standard, Thursday,
April 2, 1896.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
Alarming
Possibilities.
There are some awful consequences which may
flow from the general introduction of the Roentgen ray photography. Edison has photographed
an object through a block of wood 8 inches thick. What, then, is there to
prevent anybody from photographing anything anywhere, by night or by day? At
present it requires a long exposure to photograph what is inside of a heavy
solid, but undoubtedly in time these telltale pictures can be made with the
ordinary flash light.
Nothing but bone and metal thus far have
been found that will impede the awful rays. It will be as easy to photograph
the doings of our neighbors in the next room as to look out the window. Spying
through keyholes will be done away. Nay, those whom jealousy or curiosity
impels to read other people's letters can do so even without the formality of
opening them by soaking them with a damp handkerchief. There will be no sure privacy
for anybody anywhere. The desperate resort of swallowing a diamond or a
valuable document to conceal it will no longer avail, for the inside of the
stomach can be photographed as easily as the face.
If in addition to this the invention which
will photograph thought succeeds there will be nothing left for any of us
except to just behave ourselves in the strictest manner. We shall not dare even
to think anything wrong, for fear it will be brought up as a witness against
us.
In view of the approach of this dread time,
it will be a good plan now to begin to practice for it—in our minds.
◘ Photographing by means of the
Roentgen rays may prove invaluable to custom house officers. They may be able to
see just what is inside of trunks, pockets and cloaks.
◘ If Tesla really has found out how
to tap the earth and draw electrical power from it, there will be an unfailing
fountain of mechanical power on every farm in this country. Railway trains can draw
their power from the ground as they go along and mankind can talk around the
world without expense.
◘ Before the civil war was three
months old, before even the battle of Bull Run was fought, Spain, England and
France had recognized the belligerent rights of the southern Confederacy. For
over a year war and desperate fighting with the advantage thus far decidedly in
favor of the revolutionists have been in progress in Cuba, yet the United
States still hesitates to accord belligerent rights to the struggling republic.
Is this right? Is it the record for a great republic to make toward one that is
fighting for life?
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| Porfirio Diaz. |
◘ When a congressman begins to say something about
"the god of battles," it is a sure sign he is loaded with eloquence
and means to make a long speech to impress his constituents at home.
EIGHTY-TWO IN THE SHADE.
Mrs. Landreth Tells of Going Crabbing in the South.
The following note has been
received from Mrs. W. B. Landreth who with her husband and children is spending
the winter at Brunswick, Ga.:
712 UNION-ST., BRUNSWICK, GA.,
March 30, 1896.
To the Editor of the Standard:
SIR—Our STANDARD has just come,
and, although there are only five of us here from Cortland, we welcome it just as
cordially as they do in ''the land of the sky." We have roses, wisteria,
bridal wreath and sweet violets in bloom in our yard. The windows and doors are
all open and the mercury stands at 82 degrees in the shade. The festive sand
fly is also in evidence and it looks very queer to a Northern person to see a
horse and carriage hitched in front of a house, and the horse calmly standing over
a little, smoky fire to keep the sand flies off
Last week we all went crabbing
and caught the children's express cart full.
Perhaps you do not know how to crab? I will instruct you. Take a cord,
fasten a little sinker and a piece of fresh meat on the end of it. Arm yourself
with a net and a cigar to keep the files away if you are a man; if a woman, the
man will probably be there anyway. Sit down on the banks of the river or in a
boat. Let down the line and soon there will be a crab biting. Draw up your line
gently, slide the net under him and for just a minute there will be a lively
time in that boat. Then when you get home, boiled crabs, deviled crabs, fried
crabs—but I will say no more—with the mercury at the zero mark it will be
rather tantalizing for you to read this letter.
M. F. LANDRETH.
Mrs. Landreth enclosed in her
letter a little bunch of all the flowers mentioned above.
Editorial Amenities.
Our esteemed contemporaries the
Lyons Republican and Wayne Democratic Press are exchanging courtesies nowadays
and here are some samples of how they do it:
SMALL SOUL—LARGE GALL.
◘ Editor Sherwood sent for a
scientist the other day to come to Lyons and make a half tone of his soul for
the woman's edition of the Republican. The scientist arrived Saturday and after
working with one of the most powerful cameras ever made all Sunday, the day our
brother's soul should have shown up if ever, packed up his kit and left town
unable to produce the picture because all the soul found turned out to be no
larger than a Lilliputian microbe. The professor, however, stated on the side,
that a picture to have contained all the lines of Editor Sherwood's gall would
fill the entire paper.
◘ We congratulate Editor Van
Camp on getting out an issue of the Press this week that contains nothing
positively vile or obscene. Perhaps his reform is due to the revivals now in
progress. There are evidences of rancor, canker, jealousy and spleen, but the
usual tendency to positive lowness is happily overcome.
◘ The women knew where to get
their newspaper printed. The bearded woman of the Republican still retains his
hold upon his sex. He is so thoroughly effeminate that he was very properly
selected publisher.
◘ Editor Sherwood is no longer
one of the recognized bosses of the Republican party. Like Samson of old he
lost his grip when he had his whiskers trimmed.
◘ "In looking over the
audience at Memorial hall last evening, we failed to observe Editor Van Camp
and his smiling party of deadheads occupying the dollar
seats."—Republican.
◘ All of which would seem to
indicate that Brother Sherwood was there, notwithstanding that he is in
mourning over the death |of a New York relative who didn't leave him anything,
and of his connection with Grace church as a vestryman and a pretending
observer of Lent. But Brother Sherwood could never be relied upon to stick to
principle when anything free was at stake, either to eat, or drink or that he
could carry away in his pocket.
◘ Brother Sherwood is nothing
if not a pretender. He will make a curious angel. He would have it believed
that he buys his theatre tickets, not with space in the "best weekly paper
in the world," (God forgive us for repeating the quotation from the
Republican) but with cash, when it is known that our esteemed friend never
before so far forgot himself as to buy anything when he could beg it or get it
by advertising. He would have the people who read his paper believe that he
sits in dollar seats that he pays for in cash, when the fact is that the top
seat in the top gallery would be too expensive. He is so selfish that we wonder
he doesn't allow his beard to grow so as to have the bristles handier.
If Cortland journalism has ever
surpassed the artistic, picturesque and pungent qualities of the above, it has not
been within our memory.
Twenty-five Years.
Editor Ed L. Adams has just
completed twenty-five years as proprietor and publisher of the Marathon
Independent and in his issue of April 1 indulges in a retrospect, looking back
over the quarter-century and noting some of the changes that have been made in
the village of Marathon as well as in his paper itself. In closing he says,
"Personally a review of the past twenty-five years brings us memories that
are pleasant; there are some thing to regret, but the balance is on the right
side, and gives us encouragement, to take a renewed hold and start in, under
the care of Providence, for the second quarter of a century."
GOLD IN ALASKA.
Eagerly Sought by Americans Rapidly Flocking There.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 2.—There
is no abatement in the rush to Alaska; on the contrary the exodus in on the
increase, and by Saturday no less than fifteen vessels, with a passenger list
of fully 1,000 men, freight and supplies in proportion, will have sailed from
this port for the golden field of the north,
Alaska advices received by the
steamer Willapa which arrived yesterday say that enterprising Sitkans intend to
drain a lake back of that town and to gather by the wagon load gold bullion and
dust that for years has been brought on and accumulated in the bed of the lake
by glaciers. A tunnel about 1,000 feet long will be built and it will run water
from the lake, where bottom is believed to be paved with gold to a great depth.
THE TRUXTON ROUTE.
MANY ADVANTAGES OVER ANY OTHER LINE.
Surveys All Made, Easy Grades, Excellent Shipping
Points, Short Line to the St. Lawrence.
(From the Syracuse Post, Thursday.)
While members of the Business
Men's association and other Syracusans have been worrying over and working for
the entrance of the Lehigh Valley railroad into Syracuse, surveys for just such
a road as is now contemplated, made several years ago, are now in the city.
Their existence is known only to a few, the railroad officials and the Business
Men's association having no knowledge of them.
Several years ago General Burt,
a well known projector and manager of several railroads in New York and New
England, made several surveys in this part of the state. One of them was to
determine an entrance into Syracuse for the Elmira, Cortland & Northern railroad, now
owned by the Lehigh Valley, and at that time the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira railroad.
General Burt spent all of one
summer at the work with a large party of surveyors. He thoroughly surveyed the
whole route, made proper plans, with
elevations, etc., and then the work was for some reason dropped. These
surveys are now in this city and in the possession of J. Emmet Wells.
The plans proposed a railroad
starting at Truxton on the E., C. & N. R. R. Thence the proposed route runs
in a northwesterly direction up Labrador creek, passing through Apulia. Running
on the opposite side of the valley from the D., L. & W. railroad, on the
east side of Butternut creek, it passed through DeWitt Center and thence into
Syracuse.
This route possesses many
advantages. The steepest grade encountered is only fifty-five feet to the mile,
which is much less than the D., L. & W. has on some portions of its route.
The cuts and fills are about equal, thus saving a large amount of money in
grading. It would also be one of the cheapest routes that could be selected,
connecting the desired points.
Accompanying the surveys are
papers showing to whom the land belonged, and estimates as to the amount of
freight business that would be done on the road.
One of the best villages passed
through by this route is Jamesville. Ten thousand tons of freight are shipped
from this place every year, and from 5,000 to 7,000 tons of coal received.
This route also possesses
another big advantage for the Lehigh railroad people. They have also been
talking for years of building a road through to the St. Lawrence and the
northern part of the state. From DeWitt a road could be constructed in a
northerly direction, and Lehigh officials would have the northern outlet which
they have so long been wanting.
CARR PLEADS GUILTY
To the Charge of Cruelty to Animals.
Fined Ten Dollars.
The case of The People against
David Carr occupied the attention, of Justice Dowd this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Carr is a resident of the town of Homer and was arrested March 26 on the charge
of cruelty to animals. He gave bail for his appearance in court to-day.
This afternoon Attorney E. E.
Mellon appeared for the plaintiff and Attorney H. A. Dickinson for the
defendant. The case was called and defendant's attorney addressed the court,
saying in part, that he did not believe his client guilty of the
crime charged any further than that he had made an error in
judgment as to the quantity of feed necessary to carry his stock through
the winter. He had bought feed and had done the best he could. It
was not his intention to ill-treat the stock in any way but the law
does not recognize the intent. Attorney Dickinson said that he
had advised his client to plead guilty to the charge as they both had
come to the conclusion that that would be the cheapest way to get out of
the difficulty, and he asked the mercy of the court.
Carr withdrew his former plea of
not guilty and interposed a plea of guilty, whereupon the court sentenced him
to pay a fine of $10 or go to jail for ten days. The fine was paid and the
defendant discharged.
BREVITIES.
—Electric light apparatus is
being placed in Day's cafe on Railroad-st.
—Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Upson are
rejoicing over the arrival at their home yesterday of a ten pound daughter.
—The Alpha C. L. S. C. will meet
with Mrs. J. O. Reid, 128 Main-st., Monday evening, April 6, at 7:30 o'clock. Roll
call Easter.
—The monthly meeting of the
board of managers of the hospital will be held at the hospital Monday, April 6,
at 3 P. M. A full attendance is desired.
—There will be a special meeting
of John L. Lewis lodge, No. 587, I.O.O.F., at their rooms this evening at 8
o'clock. All Odd Fellows are invited to be present.
—The store in the Martin
building on Main-st., formerly occupied by C. Brandenstein as a shoe shop, is
being repaired and a new front will be put in. When completed, it will be
occupied by James Kelley & Co.,
manufacturers of cigars.
—The ladies of the Homer-ave. M.
E. church have decided to hold a Cuban festival Friday evening, April 17, at which
an appropriate program will be rendered and refreshments served. They expect to
make it worthy of large patronage.
—The Republican State convention
last week honored itself as well as this county, in naming Theodore H. Wickwire
of Cortland, as its candidate for presidential elector from this district. Mr.
Wickwire's name adds strength to any ticket upon which it may be placed.—Marathon
Independent.
—A frame of photographs of those
who take part in the operatic minstrel show of the C. A. A. on Wednesday and Thursday
of next week, was last evening placed on exhibition in McKinney &
Doubleday's south show window. The frame contains the portraits of twenty-four
of Cortland's popular young men and the pictures reflect credit upon the artists,
Hyatt & Tooke.
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