WEARERS OF THE GREY, AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

 

John B. Gordon.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, May 13, 1899.

WEARERS OF THE GREY.

Last Session of the Confederate Veterans a Spirited One.

   CHARLESTON, S. C., May 13.—With a spirited, and at times stormy session, the ninth annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans was brought to a close. General John B. Gordon, commander-in-chief, and all the old officers were re-elected, Louisville, Ky., was chosen as the next place of meeting and the question of federal care of Confederate graves was disposed of by the adoption of a substitute resolution which declines the president's suggestion except as to those graves located in the North, and reserving to the women of the South the duty of caring for those in the seceding states and Maryland.

   The adoption of this resolution and the report that accompanied it precipitated a debate which verged upon the sensational and at times much confusion and disorder prevailed.

   The resolution adopted in place of the one offered by Stephan D. Lee is in full as follows:

   "Your committee to whom was referred the resolution introduced by General S. D. Lee beg to report the following substitute, with the recommendations of the committee that the same be adopted:

   "The United Confederate Veterans in this annual reunion assembled desire to place upon record their sincere appreciation of the utterances of the president of the United States in Atlanta in December last, concerning the assumption of the care of the graves of our Confederate dead by the national government.

   "We appreciate every kindly sentiment expressed and we shall welcome any legislation which shall result in the care of the graves of our comrades in the Northern states by our government.

   "In regard to our dead, whose remains are resting in the states which were represented in the Confederacy and Maryland, the care of their final resting places is a sacred trust, dear to the hearts of Southern women, and we believe that we can safely let it there remain."

   Several very vigorous speeches were made in opposition to the whole principle involved in the matter, but the final vote upon the resolution was practically unanimous and the announcement of its passage was cheered.

   Another incident was the mention of the Southern lynching question by Dr. J. L. M. Curry, one of the surviving members of the Confederate congress and while denouncing mob law, he defended the South and declared her people should see to it that the record of her future should be as unstained as that of her past.

   The all important report of the committee on a school history was also presented and adopted unanimously as meeting all questions that had led to the agitation of the subject.

   At the auditorium a grand reception to the veterans was held and an address delivered by Colonel Henry L. Turner of Chicago, commanding the First Illinois regiment, who has been the guest of the city during the reunion.

   A brilliant ball was given at the Isle of Palms to the sponsors, maids of honor and Daughters of the Confederacy.

   The veterans and visitors are rapidly departing and the ninth reunion of the men who wore the grey is practically at an end.

 

Indians Not Dying.

   The popular belief that the Indians are a doomed race and that they are rapidly dying off is not substantiated by the figures of the special Indian census that forms a part of the last general census. This census gives the Indian population as 325,464, of whom, however, only 189,447 are returned as full blooded Indians, the remainder being those who are in various ways affiliated with the whites.

   The Indians of today are in narrower quarters than were their ancestors, but they are almost as strong numerically as they were half a century ago. In 1789 the secretary estimated the Indian population as 76,000, and in the following year Gilbert Imlay reduced this estimate to 60,000, but both of these estimates were doubtless far from accurate. In 1850 Schoolcraft reported the Indian population to be 388,229, which is only 62,765 above the figures of the last general census, counting the mixed bloods.—Rochester Post-Express.

 

Robert Van Wyck.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

An Extra Session.

   The refusal of Mayor Van Wyck to accept on behalf of Greater New York the bill passed by the last legislature providing for rapid transit for the metropolitan district, and the admitted defects of the Ford franchise tax bill may result in a brief extra session of the legislature to pass the one over his veto and to improve the other.

   Under the circumstances, an extra session would be wise. The people of New York have been clamoring for years for rapid transit, and there to no good reason why they should be compelled to wait a year longer simply because Mayor Van Wyck, who is wholly under the domination of the Tammany bosses and stock jobbers, refuses to accept the bill that was approved by the Rapid Transit commission.

   The point upon which there seems to be the greatest difference of opinion in the rapid transit bill is that regarding the duration of the franchise. Naturally the Tammany influence is in favor of a perpetual franchise, while Governor Roosevelt, Seth Low, and other men of that stamp do not believe that a franchise of such enormous value should be unlimited. Their suggestion, which was incorporated in the bill finally passed, provided for a franchise of fifty years' duration; and the bill provided, also, that at the end of fifty years the franchise might be renewed for another twenty-five years, and at the end of that period might be renewed for another like period, the city of Greater New York having the right at the end of any twenty-five-year period to acquire the property.

 

   ◘ It looks as if the Cardiff giant, who petrified science and amazed America some years ago has, after a long and stony silence, turned up in England at the Royal aquarium, where he is laid out in all his Paleolithic grandeur for the scrutiny of British damsels, who poke him in the ribs with their parasols and inspect his cuticle with lorgnettes and give free bent to their disgust at the depreciation of man since the stone age. It will be remembered that a couple of shrewd stonemasons hewed this primeval monster out of a western quarry and set him on his travels for revenue. If it is their same handiwork that is now exciting our archaeological cousins, what a calm, cold smile must irradiate their features as they take in the British shillings at the door!

 

AGUINALDO DISHEARTENED.

Fears it will Cost too Much to Conquer the United States.

   MANILA, May 13.—Aguinaldo has issued orders that all foreigners must leave insurgent territory within forty-eight hours. There are only a few commercial men there, mostly English and Germans. Aguinaldo believes that by refusing them the rights of non-combatants he can force their governments to recognize the belligerency of his so-called government, in order that they may treat for the safety of their subjects.

   A Filipino priest who had talked with the Tagal General Treas has brought to Father McKinnon, chaplain of the First California regiment a copy of a letter written by Aguinaldo to General Treas asking his opinion as to the advisability of surrendering, saying: "I fear that the long warfare that will be necessary to conquer the United States will drain the country's resources too much."

 

Carol Norton.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

Lecture at the Opera House by Carol Norton of New York.

   Nearly every seat in the parquet at the [Cortland] Opera House was occupied last night upon the occasion of the lecture by Mr. Carol Norton, C. S. D., of New York. His subject was "Christian Science: Is it Christian, is it Scientific?''

   Mr. Norton said in part: "Christian Science is the demonstration through divine science of the teachings and tenets of the great discourse of Jesus Christ which according to the best records that we have began with "Wist ye not that I must be about my father's business;" and ended according to St. Luke with that divine and perpetual promise, "These signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover."

   Christian Science is Christian because as taught by its founder it affirms that the corner stone of all spiritual building is purity. It is Christian because it issues the only emancipation proclamation not only to Christendom, but to religionists in all lands living under the teachings of all the world's religious teachers, "Be thou free." Freedom from sin, suffering, sickness and death is the divine heritage of all men. It is Christian because it affirms that the religion of Jesus is a healing religion; a great practical demonstrable system of mental therapeutics, scientific, exact, divinely ordered, and of permanent value to the race. The healing element has been as much a lost art in Christendom for fifteen centuries as the making of Damascus sword blades has been a lost art in the world of manufacture. It is Christian because it teaches that men should understand the Scriptures. The Christian ministry is based upon the first sentence of the great commission of the founder of Christianity, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel." Christian Scientists accept the perpetual significance of this command, but take one further step and affirm that the very next sentence in the same commission reads, "heal the sick." Therefore their pertinent and Christian conclusion that the command to relieve through spiritual processes alone the pains of the body, yea the divine necessity of imitating the physical healing of Christ, as well as the moral reform, is incumbent upon his followers to-day as much as ever before, and therefore the union of physical and spiritual healing in Christian Science which makes Christian Science both Christian and scientific. To show that the healing of disease, casting out of devils and the reformation of sinners was practically one and the same thing, he said "Whether is it easier to say unto thee rise, take up thy bed and walk, or thy sins be forgiven thee." Christian Science is Christian because it teaches that Christianity has lost none of its healing power and that God hath in no wise withdrawn himself from the needs of suffering humanity. It is of Christian origin and character because it elevates the profound efficacy of righteous prayer to God.

   Christian Science is scientific for two simple reasons. First, because it is a rational understanding of the mental laws through which the divine Omniscience, alias God, governs the universe, including man. Second, because it gives ocular or physical evidences of certain well developed spiritual laws heretofore considered unprovable and purely speculative.

 

BURGLARS.

   The hour is after midnight, when in the most fashionable quarter of the city the sumptuous home of one of the best known editors has been forcibly entered by a burglar. The inmates peacefully slumber, unconscious of danger, all but a little tot of 6 years, whose acute ears have discerned a noise unusual at that time of night. Too innocent to be conscious of danger she leaves her room, and entering the family sittingroom, suddenly confronts the burglar, who noiselessly as possible is securing the family silver, when to his surprise, he becomes conscious of the little one's presence. With pistol in hand, approaching the child and alert for an outcry, his surprised ears are greeted with the exclamation: "Don't be afraid Mr. Burglar, I won't hurt you!" Following this is one of the most effective scenes of Mr. Gus Thomas' famous play of "The Burglar."

   At the Opera House Monday night. Tickets now on sale at the Candy Kitchen.

 

POLICE COURT.

More Arrests for Violations of the Bicycle Ordinance.

   Officer Smith last night made two arrests for violation of the bicycle ordinance, or that part of it requiring the carrying of a lighted lamp. The ones arrested were Orson A. Kinney and B. H. Bosworth. Each was allowed to go on his own recognizance, and this morning Mr. Kinney pleaded guilty in police court and was fined $1, which he paid. Mr. Bosworth was directed by the officer to appear in police court at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

   Late yesterday afternoon Constable J. B. Edwards arrested Hugh Murdock of McGraw on the charge of fast driving on Main-st. Before Police Justice Davis he pleaded guilty, and he was sentenced to pay a fine of $5 or go to jail for five days. He was immediately rearrested on the charge of public intoxication. He pleaded not guilty and demanded trial. Murdock decided to go to jail on the former charge. This morning he had decided to pay the fine, which he did, and when a hearing came on the second charge, changed his plea to one of guilty. He was sentenced to ten days in jail, and sentence was suspended during good behavior.

   This afternoon Mr. Bosworth pleaded guilty to the charge made against him and paid the fine of $1 imposed.

 

King's Daughters.

   A special meeting of the Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will be held at Mrs. Henry Relyea's, 11 Blodgett-st., on Monday, May 15, at 3 P. M. Let every member be present as business of great importance is to come before the meeting.

 

Sale of Blooded Poultry.

   Mr. Patrick Dempsey, proprietor of the Tioughnioga poultry farm, on Thursday shipped three fine White Rock fowls to the Jefferson county stock farms at Burr's Mills, owned by ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower, who died yesterday. The fowls were purchased by the superintendent of the farm, R. A. Tuttle, who saw Mr. Dempsey's stock at the state fair last year and was highly impressed with it.

 

Piano for Hotel Bennett.

   A. Mahan last week sold to A. K. Bennett, proprietor of the new Hotel Bennett at Cincinnatus, a fine Kingsbury cabinet grand upright piano. The instrument is of the latest design of case in mahogany and is first class in finish as well as in tone and action.

 

Salvation Army.

   There will be a farewell meeting at the Salvation Army hall Sunday night, May 14, at 8 P. M. when Lieut. McGuire will say good by before leaving for other fields. Meetings held at 11 A. M. and 3 P. M. as usual. Children company meeting at 4:30 P. M. All are welcome.

 

BREVITIES.

   —O. B. Andrews & Co.'s grocery in Homer has been connected with the telephone exchange.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—C. F. Brown, Paints, etc., page 6; Mrs. J. T. Davern & Co., Summer millinery display, page 6; Opera House, Grand Concert, page 5.

   —Mr. Ebenezer Perkins, one of the oldest residents of the town of Virgil, died Thursday and the funeral was held to-day. He was an uncle of Druggist W. J. Perkins of Cortland.

   —Governor Roosevelt has signed the bill permitting witnesses to dispense with kissing the Bible on the administration of oaths, so as to prevent the spread of bacterial diseases.

   —An American girl was once asked by an Englishman, "What do you do with all the vegetables you raise in this country?" "Well" she replied, "we eat what we can and can what we can't."

   —The dental office of Drs. C. E. and L. S. Ingalls in the Sager building has been much beautified in appearance with a new and handsome floor of red quartered oak in both waiting and operating rooms.

   —A change of time on the Lehigh Valley and E. & C. N. Y. railroads goes into effect to-morrow. The corrected time tables are found on the third page to-day. Better look them up if you are about to travel.

   —"Wireless telegraphy, chainless bicycles and boneless ham and cod. Onward, onward, onward. First thing we know we'll have hairless butter and buttonless hash. We already have cowless milk."—Hamilton Republican.

   —At the meeting of the board of commissioners of Auburn Theological seminary Thursday, Rev. Alfred J. Hutton, D. D., of Corning was unanimously chosen president and Rev. John T. Stone of Cortland clerk of the board for the coming year.

   —The Cortland Political Equality club will meet with Mrs. Milburns, 26 Greenbush-st., Monday, May 14, at 3 P. M. This is an annual meeting. Election of officers will take place and all members are expected to be present. Friends are welcome.

   —Dr. S. Hinman has received notice of the death of Mrs. Chloe Hinman, wife of his brother Rev. Ransom Hinman at Red Brook, Pa., Monday. Mrs. Hinman's maiden name was Harrison and in her girlhood days lived in the town of Taylor, this county,

   —Attention is called to the revised timetable of both divisions of the electric road which is found on the seventh page to-day. The change of time goes into effect on Monday. Cut this out and preserve it for it may not be published again in full at present.