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| William McKinley. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, April 19, 1900.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
Recommends Resolution From Congress Regarding Porto Rican Government.
WASHINGTON. April 19.—The president yesterday sent to congress the following message:
The time remaining before the first of May when the act of April 12, 1900, entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenue and civil government for Porto Rico and for 'the careful inquiry and consideration requisite to the proper selection of suitable persons to fill the important civil offices provided for by the act.
The powers of the present government will cease when the act takes effect and some new authority will be necessary to enable the officers now performing the various duties of civil government in the island to continue the performance of these duties until the officers who are to perform similar duties under the new government shall have been appointed and qualified. That authority cannot well be given at present by temporary appointments of the existing officers to positions under the act, for the reason that many of the existing officers are officers of the army detailed to civil duties and section 1222 of the revised statutes would prevent them from accepting such temporary appointments under the penalty of losing their commissions.
The selection of the new officers and the organization of the new government under the act referred to will be accomplished with all practicable speed, but in order that it may be properly accomplished, I recommend the passage of a joint resolution to obviate the difficulty above stated. WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
To carry into effect the president's message, Mr. Foraker, chairman of the Porto Rican committee, introduced this joint resolution:
"That until the officer to fill any office provided for by the act of April 12, 1900, entitled 'An act temporarily to provide revenues and civil government for Porto Rico and for other purposes,' shall have been appointed and qualified, the officer or officers now performing the civil duties pertaining to such office may continue to perform the same under the authority of said act; and no officer of the army shall lose his commission by reason thereof; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be held to extend the time for the appointment of qualification of any such officers beyond the first day of August 1900."
On motion of Mr. Foraker the resolution and message were referred to the committee on Porto Rico.
AMERICA'S ATTITUDE.
Controversy With Turkish Government Watched Closely by Diplomats.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—The news of the firm attitude assumed by the state department toward the Turkish government in the prosecution of its claim for damages to American missionary property caused something of a sensation in diplomatic circles.
As a matter of fact, based upon their own experience with the Turkish government in the effort to collect claims, those members of the diplomatic body here who have watched the progress of the negotiations between the United States and Turkey for the past five years, have come to look with amusement upon the alternating phases of hope and discouragement by which they have been characterized. Three successive American ministers have prosecuted these claims; each has received a promise of prompt settlement, and yet not a dollar has been paid. With European diplomats that is an old experience and they have consequently been somewhat surprised at the announcement that the United States government is actually going to insist upon performance instead of promise.
President Angell after trying his hand at collection for two years recommended that a United States warship seize Smyrna and collect revenues at the custom house there sufficient to meet our claims. This suggestion was not seriously entertained, nor is it now. Most of the important business interests in Smyrna are in the hands of foreigners, not Turks.
The next step to be taken by our government will not be warlike, but will still suggest in a most dignified manner the indignation felt by the United States at the betrayal of Turkish promises. How this attitude will bear upon the Turkish minister in Washington cannot be foretold at this moment. The minister, however, is very popular personally in Washington, and as his enforced [departure] would be a matter of deep regret to official society, it is earnestly hoped that by prompt action on its part, the Turkish government may avert ill consequences to its own representative here.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
To Reclaim Arid Lands.
Much interest is manifested in the movement of Colonel J. P. Pomeroy, the millionaire miner of Cripple Creek to reclaim the arid western lands and adapt them to agriculture. Colonel Pomeroy owns 80,000 acres of land in western Kansas, which makes him the largest individual land owner in the state. For the purpose of reclaiming these lands he has decided to test thoroughly what is called the "Campbell system," discovered by Hardy W. Campbell, whom he has engaged as manager of the enterprise. This is not an irrigating scheme, but contemplates the preservation of the moisture in the soil by scientific treatment. It is said that several railroad companies owning large tracts of land there have tried it with satisfactory results. Government experts have lately turned their attention to it. Mr. Campbell has tried the system on 43 farms in Kansas, Colorado and the Dakotas, and produced full crops, whereas the crop on contiguous farms failed. This new soil culture consists in "packing" the ground, and this is done with the usual farm implements, the plow, harrow, drill and cultivator.
For the past 20 years or more various plans have been entertained for the reclamation of the vast stretches of arid land comprising what was once known as the great American desert, but these were based upon the idea that irrigation was the only method by which these lands could be made fruitful. It has been urged by many that a general scheme of irrigation, embracing all or the greater part of these lands, should be formulated and that congress should appropriate the money to carry on the work. This would be an immense and expensive undertaking and has never received much encouragement outside the territory directly concerned. The experiments of Colonel Pomeroy which, it is said, will be vastly less expensive than any system of irrigation, will be watched with great interest, and if they are entirely or even partially successful, many millions of dollars will be added to the value of lands in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas and Oklahoma.
ENUMERATION COMPLETED.
Fell Short of the 10,000 Mark by Over 700—Result by Wards.
The census enumeration which has been conducted under the supervision of several special excise agents is completed and the results sent to the department at Albany. The list as taken shows that Cortland has now a population of 9,282, and among the four old wards this is distributed as follows: First ward, 2,184; Second ward, 2,817; Third ward, 2,838; Fourth ward, 1,443.
The school census of 1898 showed a population of 8,894. All of the wards showed an increase over this except the Fourth which fell short twenty-five.
The agents and enumerators have spared no pains to get a complete list of Cortland's inhabitants. Aside from merely glancing over the books of the enumerations, the inspectors have gone into different parts of the city and taken another enumeration and compared it with the original list. This was done in several cases and the results were verified in each.
BAYS INVESTIGATION
Held in Courthouse To-day With I. H. Palmer Referee.
The investigation of the alleged lunacy and incompetency of Wm. Bays is being held in the grand jury room at the courthouse to-day with I. H. Palmer referee. A jury made up of F. Daehler, A. M. Quick, Albert Allen, Lucius Davis, DePuy Mallery, O. W. Fisher, Jas. Edwards, D. H. Brown, A. C. Walrad, M. E. Sarvay, Geo. McKean, Deliazon Coon and C. F. Thompson are in attendance. Bouton & Champlin is conducting the investigation. Mary Bays, the sister of Wm. Bays, will be examined for the same purpose to-morrow.
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VISITS THE SCENE OF THE PLAY.
William H. Crane, the Comedian, the Guest of William H. Crane of Homer, N. Y.
In response to a long standing invitation, William H. Crane, the comedian, spent the day in Homer to-day as the guest of William H. Crane, the president of the First National bank in that place. Several years ago Mr. Crane, moved by the similarity of names, wrote to the actor and expressed the hope that they might meet some day. After the former learned that the latter was to enact the title role in "David Harum" he again wrote to the comedian telling him of certain characteristics of David Hannum, the resident of Homer, whom as many suppose Mr. Westcott had in mind when depicting the hero of his book.
Mr. Crane manifested a lively interest in all that pertained to the scenes of the now famous story and thoroughly enjoyed his trip. Mr. Crane of Homer pointed out to him all the points of interest connected with the story. During the afternoon they drove to Cortland where Mr. Crane expressed himself as much pleased with the appearance of the new city. Mr. Crane returned to Syracuse on the 4:40 train this afternoon.
REV. ROBERT CLEMENTS
INSTALLED AS PASTOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Three Former Pastors Assist in the Program—Prayer of Installation by Rev. J. L. Robertson, D. D.—Charge to People by Rev. S. M. Howe, D. D.—Charge to Pastor by Rev. John T. Stone—Sermon by Rev. Timothy G. Darling, D. D., of Auburn—A Most Enjoyable Program.
The installation of Rev. Robert Clements as pastor of the Presbyterian church occurred last night in the presence of a congregation that filled almost every available seat in the house. The Easter decorations of palms and lilies were still in place, and a huge bouquet of roses adorned the side of the pulpit. The program was marked by the presence of three former pastors of the church who took part and who added most materially to the keen enjoyment of the exercises. It had been expected that a fourth former pastor, Rev. Alfred J. Hutton of Corning, would be there, but he was detained by a funeral that afternoon and did not come till this morning, but is here for the anniversary exercises to-night. The program as rendered was as follows:
The Scripture reading by Rev. Harvey Clements of Gloversville, brother of the pastor-elect, included selections from the fifth and sixth chapters of Matthew.
DR. DARLING'S SERMON.
Rev. Timothy G. Darling, D. D., of Auburn Theological seminary, took for the text of his sermon Luke xl:34-35.—"The light of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness.''
The sermon was a strong plea for people to be true to themselves and to endeavor to see things in their true light unbiased by prejudice or by false doctrines. Dr. Darling spoke first of the functions of the eye and of its simplicity. Its business is to be true, to transmit objects just as they are, to transmit the truth that the mind may know exactly the state of outward objects. It misleads when it does not show the truth. It is like a disordered compass upon a ship. The end is ship wreck. There is no more fatal snare than to mistake for the truth of God the cunningly devised fables of Satan. That church is indeed blessed which receives as its pastor as does this one at present one who has the unfeigned faith in his grandmother Lois and in his mother Eunice—one who is sure in all his training. The most dangerous man is the one who cries, "I see" and sees not, and is at the same time heading for the ditch.
It is essential that a Christian's life should correspond to his belief. The counterpart of the expression "a sound mind is a sound body" is "a sound belief in a sound behave." Heresy of the heart and life is more dangerous than a heresy of the head. The church can never win the respect of the world and it ought not to win it when its spoken sentiments and its living sentiments are different.
The constitutional questions of presbytery were propounded by Rev. C. Edward Fay, the moderator of the presbytery, and were assented to by Mr. Clements. A fervent prayer of installation was offered by Rev. J. L. Robertson, D. D.
CHARGE TO THIS PASTOR.
The charge to the pastor was given by Rev. John Timothy Stone of Baltimore, Md., the last pastor of this church. Mr. Stone and Mr. Clements were classmates and the most intimate friends in the Theological seminary. When Mr. Stone was installed here on Dec. 9, 1896, it was Mr. Clements who delivered the charge to the pastor. Now the positions were reversed. Mr. Stone remarked in preliminary that he had no intention of delivering to the pastor-elect a lecture on pastoral theology. Both of them had studied this under the late lamented Rev. Dr. Henry M. Booth and the speaker knew that the pastor-elect was as well acquainted with this as himself. Furthermore the pastor-elect had shown by his previous experience that be had understood and was able to apply the principles of pastoral theology.
Be a pastor, said Mr. Stone, full of the spirit of Jesus Christ. Do not worry about what the people think or say. Pay no attention to words of your enemies. You will have some enemies; every man has them who is good for anything and who takes a position on any subject. Let all that go that your enemies may say. Care for what your friends say. Let your life as a preacher depend in some respect on the friends that you can trust. Remember that the people expect you to be a minister. Be free and frank and jovial and say the right thing in the right place, but remember that you are a minister, one who can be with your people in their joys and in their sorrows.
Make much of the children. Don't study to learn their first names all at once. Remember their faces and remember their last names, and yon will soon get their first names. If you get the children, you will get the parents. You will make ministers of the children by the winsome love you manifest to them in their childhood days. I am sure that Dr. Darling's influence over both yourself and your brother when he was your pastor in your boyhood had much to do with the fact that you are both ministers of the gospel. You can't make too much of your boys and girls. Before you know it they will be the men and growing up around you.
Remember the men. The women will be all right anyway. The men know you and will give you their most earnest help. You know how to behave better than I do, so I will say nothing to you on that score.
In the second place let me speak to you as a preacher. Let nothing come between you and your work as a preacher. Lyman Beecher once said that when trouble came into his congregation "I preach, I preach, I preach, and nothing comes between me and the power of my pulpit." Shoe leather won't answer. You may think that if you hustle around enough among your people it will answer the purpose, but it won't. The truth comes home to people as they know that you are conscientious. There are two classes of people in every congregation: one that wants you to call upon them every day and that makes more and more demands upon your time; the other that is glad to see you when you do call, but would rather you would call on the needy than to call on them. Seek out the sick and all in need of sympathy and help.
Preach for something and not be always preaching against something. The latter is in many cases wasting God's power. The church wants men who know whom they have believed. How this is needed now. Forever preaching against something becomes practically preaching against time, as the small boy once very truly said.
Now, as to yourself, as to your body, your brain, your heart and soul. Let nothing prevent your taking proper exercise. I remember that on the 9th of December, 1896, when I stood just about where you stand now, and you stood here where I stand, you told me that God never rewarded a man for overworking. My friend, I understand that you are not living up to your recommendations. I hear that already last Sunday you overworked in taking charge of six different services. Refuse a few things. Take one day in seven for absolute recreation. I hope you enjoy a fishing rod. There are some men in this congregation who will drag you out to fish whether you know how or not.
Do not let anything come between you and your relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ, Go from your knees to the pulpit. Get your inspiration to preach from devotional study rather from mental study. What you need before God your people will need. Let the man who preaches from this pulpit be known as a man of absolute holiness, filled with the Holy Ghost. I believe the day is dawning when our Presbyterian church will accept nothing less. I know that God will bless you and enrich you.
I feel like congratulating you on your coming pastorate, for I know that you have come to a people who will give to you their whole hearts and who will help you in all your ways, and I pray God that you will break to them the bread of life as the Holy Ghost may direct you.
CHARGE TO THE PEOPLE.
The charge to the people was given by Rev. Dr. S. H. Howe of Norwich, Ct., the pastor of this church from 1869 to 1872, and was one of the choicest efforts ever remembered in the history of the church in the beauty of the thought and the choice of words.
Dr. Howe referred in beginning to the lapse of time since be left Cortland; to the changes in the membership of the church; to the few faces which he recognized; to his lack of acquaintance with the present conditions of this church, but said that in some respects churches everywhere were much alike and that some of the things that would fit one church would be likely to fit another. The church, he said, is the thing that endures. Stand apart from the church, and the community will bury you and will forget you before the grass is green over your grave. The church has at its heart the things that are indestructible. The Christian is in the church to get spiritual help through the church, and to release spiritual force through his work. You are to work for the church. He is a shirk who gets more than he gives. The church is unprofitable to many because they try to use it as a fountain and not as a [receptacle]. The pastor is not here to set a little machinery in motion while you sit by and see the wheels go round, and perhaps criticize it. If you would criticize justly you should be in the fore front of the battle and not among the stragglers. The pastor should find every man and woman at his post of duty and should not need to seek you out and hunt you up. You should be in the Tenth legion, loyal where all others are disloyal. Be in your places whether your favorite preacher is there or not. The pastor preaching to empty pews is a failure. I commend to you the role of the good churchman. Keep a good church conscience. Be workers. Let the church use you. "What wilt thou have me to do?" was Paul's first question. Put your plow into the furrow and never take it out. To every man his work, not to a few a work. You are called to service as well as to discipleship. Your religion is not to be used as a luxury. At the end of a successful year's work a member of a church with which I am acquainted moved a vote of thanks to the workers. Who are the workers? If the workers couldn't vote on that motion, who could vote? Don't stand off and say "How well our pastor does." Be one of the workers yourself. Be not only a Christian, but a Christian worker. It is a deadly sin to be doing nothing for Christ. We ought to be ashamed to come to our Master with a lily white hand with no mark of toil upon it. The beginning of a pastorate is a good time to ask to be put in the front ranks and to be a tenth legion man.
Give sympathy to your pastor and help him. Start in determined to like him. It is easy to dislike a minister. Mr. Moody once said "It takes a thimbleful of brains and less piety to make a first class faultfinder." You can spoil the most fruitful and splendid ministry by looking askance at the minister. Do not be afraid to assure your pastor of your support. Tell him you appreciate him. It is not flattery but appreciation and assurance of sympathy that ministers want. Frank, openhearted and kindly expressed sympathy will help him. Pray for him. Nothing else kept me up during the three years of my ministry here but the volume of prayer that went up from this whole people.
Do not invade his morning hours. Let him have the uninterrupted privilege of his study till 1 o'clock. Do not expect himself to waste himself on church trivialities and to run church entertainments. He is here to build up a massive masonry temple of God in your souls so that when the master comes to look upon the work he can pronounce it well done and give him and you his blessing.
The music of the evening was a very effective feature. The choir selection was fine, the solo of a particularly choice character, and the organ selections as usual very excellent.
The benediction was pronounced by the pastor, and then for a half hour the different former pastors as well as the present one held receptions in different parts of the church. It was a most informal and most delightful season, as old days were renewed and old acquaintances refreshed.
The seventy-fifth anniversary exercises occur at the church to-night at 7:30 o'clock. The program has already been published. There will be a historical address and addresses by former pastors. Rev. Mr. Stone will preside.
W. C. T. U. MEETING.
Sabbath Observance—Lectures on Purity May 6, 7, 8 by Mrs. Mabel Conklin.
The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. was held on Tuesday afternoon and opened with devotional exercises led by the president.
After the reading of the annual reports, the committee of arrangements announced that the following churches had been secured for Mrs. Conklin's lectures: First Baptist, Sunday A. M.; First Methodist, Sunday evening; Y. M. C. A. rooms, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock; Congregational, Monday evening, under management of the Y's. In regard to Mrs. Conklin's work as a lecturer we quote the following from a Syracuse paper:
The most tangible result of the temperance meetings recently held in this city by Mrs. Mabel Conklin, the national secretary of the White Cross society, is to be found among the university men. Fifty of them are wearing the tiny white crosses which signify their membership in the society.
Several items under the head of current topics were then given.
An interesting quarterly report of flower mission and relief work was read by the superintendent, Mrs. Culver. Among articles sent to the hospital were fruit, jelly and vegetables; to the county poorhouse, forty-four boxes containing candy, figs and raisins; to the City Flower mission, New York, two large boxes containing a fine collection of dressed dolls, 1,092 picture cards, 250 books, toys, games, etc. All who are interested in finishing the quilt to send to the Anchorage in Elmira are requested to meet at the rooms of the union, Wednesday afternoon, April 25. A short prayer-meeting will be held on the same afternoon.
Mrs. M. L. Bentley, superintendent of the department of Sabbath Observance, then presented this important subject in the light of scripture teaching and practical experience. She called attention to the fact that upon no other subject does the Bible give more clear and definite instruction than upon the observance of the Sabbath. The disregard of Sunday laws leads to the disregard of all laws. Mr. Evarts truly said, "We cannot have a Christian civilization with Christ and his precepts left out. We cannot have Christ in our civilization without the Christian church. We cannot maintain the Christian church without the Christian Sabbath.'' In our homes we can do much toward a proper keeping of the day by careful preparation on Saturday, aiming to have as little secular work on Sunday as possible. We can also do something towards forming a right sentiment and by our example show disapproval of all business enterprises, however good in themselves, which deprive large numbers of employees of the privilege of Sunday rest and opportunity for worship which is theirs by divine right. Our postal system keeps 100,000 persons busy on the Sabbath, while railroad traffic requires the labor of 750,000 men. Yet to the fact of all this, many railroad managers declare there is no public necessity requiring Sunday service. "If this be true, no one can honestly maintain that a Sunday paper, or cheese factory, or open store, or a saloon is either a necessity or a mercy. They are simply selfish conveniences." Just at this time the attention of the whole country is about to be directed toward this subject; sermons are to be preached, addresses delivered and information given through the press. Let us do our part to arouse the Christian conscience. "Before a united and determined and consecrated church no evil can stand."
A. B. COLLINS, Supt. Press Work, Cortland, April 17, 1900.
CITY COURT.
Harte Jury Disagree and are Sent Back—A College Tramp.
The Harte trial has been in progress in police court during the forenoon. This case was brought before the city judge by James Kane for the alleged theft by Harte of lead pipes and brass from a house on Orchard-st. Harte demanded a jury trial and the following jurors were summoned: Wm. Martin, Peter Nodecker, E. W. Hood, F. M. Ingersoll, Robert J. Latimer, Smith Job. Attorney T. H. Dowd conducted the prosecution and no defense was submitted. The jury went out about 11:30 and at about 12 o'clock reported that they had not agreed. Soon after they again reported that it had been impossible for them to come to an agreement, whereupon the judge ordered them to be taken to Rood's Candy Kitchen for dinner and then brought back and kept till they could bring in a verdict.
B. T. Foster was arraigned in police court this morning on the charge of being a tramp. He claimed that he was formerly a physician and that he graduated from Jefferson college. He was committed to jail to await an investigation of his case.
''Diamond Brothers' Minstrels.''
The Diamond Brothers' big double white minstrels appear at the Opera House this evening. The first part is done largely with black faces. The costumes are rich and in good taste, and when the curtain rises the whole company of vocalists, comedians and specialists slowly come on the stage to the music of Leader Herrick's fine band and orchestra. The end men are Charles Casard, Matt Diamond, Fred Russell, George Knox, Horace Knox, Charles Decker and A. J. Rasch. The quintette of selected voices comprise Lawrence Diamond, Charles Close, George Chamberlain, Fred Bevan and George Howell. The olio artists are said to be among the best of their kind.
Cake Walk and Concert.
Next Monday evening at the Opera House will occur one of the greatest events of the season in which all the actors are colored. In this performance is included the cake walk for the championship of New York state and a purse of $100 between Harry J. Williams and wife of Jersey City and Cal Wagner and lady of Binghamton. Numerous colored artists will take part during the evening among whom are Miss Lela Cooper, soprano, Syracuse; Miss Edwardina Wallace, soprano, Waverly; Mrs. Maggie Butler, contralto Binghamton; Mrs. J. H. Wallace, mezzo soprano, Cortland; David Jackson, basso. A full dress ball will be held in C. A. A. hall after the cake walk and concert. John H. Wallace is in charge of all arrangements.
BREVITIES.
— McDermott's orchestra returned from Tully this morning.
—The Y. W. C. T. U. will meet in the W. C. T. U. rooms Saturday evening, April 21, at 7:30 o'clock.
—New display advertisements to-day are—F. D. Smith, Quick meal oil stoves, page 8; H. M. Hopkins, Store room to rent, page 7.
—Wheelmen will be interested in the account of one public spirited citizen which occurs in our Homer letter. Oh, for more of such men.
—The common council has recently placed Policeman Smith at the head of the night force, retiring former Captain S. N. Gooding to the ranks.
—Rev. Warren Bailey will preach at the Elm Stump church at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. There will be Easter exercises by the Sunday-school in the evening.
—The mothers' meeting (central) will meet at the home of Mrs. H. Miller, 25 Pendleton-st., Friday afternoon, April 20, at 8 o'clock. Mothers and friends are cordially welcome.
—Mrs. Allen J. Hatfield died this morning at 1 o'clock at her home, 4 miles west of this city. Funeral Saturday at 12 o'clock at her late home. Burial at West Homer cemetery.
—The Ogdensburg News of April 17 speaks in high terms of the Maude Hillman company of that city, especially of the work of William Dillon, the parodist, and of William E. Chamberlain, the phenomenal boy baritone in illustrated songs. Both these young men are residents of Cortland and both will be home next Monday, as the company closes its season on Saturday night.
—A new bulletin issued by the U. S. Weather bureau calls attention to the fact that the morning weather forecast, such as is sounded upon the Forging Company's big whistle in Cortland, is for the weather from 8 P. M. on the night immediately following the morning when the whistle is sounded and extending forward from that time twenty-four hours, In other words, it is not to tell the weather of the afternoon of that day, but for the next day.
