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| Li Hung Chang. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, September 15, 1900.
UNDER RUSSIA'S CARE.
Li Hung Chang Will Be Taken to Taku on a Russian Warship.
LONDON, Sept. 15.—"Li Hung Chang will be taken on board a Russian warship at Wu Sung and received by the Russians at Taku," says the Shanghai correspondent of The Morning Post, "and he will be accompanied by the Chinese minister of railways."
According to the Shanghai correspondent of The Times, wiring Wednesday, Earl Li considers that the preliminary difficulty of the negotiations consist in the necessity, which he realizes, of renouncing Prince Tuan and his accomplices to the throne. He is of opinion that it would be advisable for the allies to take the initiative by compiling a list of those held chiefly responsible and by formulating their demands accordingly.
Other Shanghai dispatches locate the empress dowager on Sept. 8 at Hsing Chou, two days' march from Tai-Yuan-Eu.
The Times has advices from Pekin dated Sept. 1, saying that 5,000 Russians had arrived there during the previous three days.
The Paris correspondent of The Morning Post says:
"France and Russia, I have been assured, have agreed to demand the complete disarmament of China, including the razing of the Taku forts and the fortifications and arsenals elsewhere."
The Russian legation in Pekin, according to a Taku special dated Tuesday, was then preparing to move to Tien Tsin or to some other point, owing to the difficulty of communication with the home authorities.
General Chaffee is preparing to make his troops comfortable for the winter. When asked his opinion regarding the situation, he is reported to have answered:
"It would be better for the United States troops to leave, but in any event the Chinese Christians will be provided for."
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| Paul Kruger. |
KRUGER A PRISONER.
Held at District Governor's House on Protest From British Consul.
LONDON, Sept. 15.—According to the Lorenzo Marques correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, Mr. Kruger is virtually a prisoner in the residence of the district governor. This is at the instant of the British consul,, who protested against Mr. Kruger using Portuguese territory as a base for directing his executive.
The French consul has been forbidden access to Mr. Kruger.
State of Peace to Be Declared.
LONDON, Sept. 15.—The imperial government, says the Cape Town correspondent of the Standard, intends at an early date to declare a state of peace in South Africa, and to issue a proclamation that Boers refusing to lay down their arms will be treated as outlaws.
WILL BE A MISTAKE.
Evacuation Will be Construed As a Defeat by Chinese.
SHANGHAI, Sept. 15.—News of the contemplated withdrawal of the allies from Pekin has caused a great sensation. It is looked upon here as a mistake which is likely to eventuate in disturbances in other parts of China where the people are certain to attribute the evacuation to a defeat of the European forces. Even here the Chinese, as a whole, do not believe that the allies ever reached Pekin. They think the story a fabrication concocted for the purpose of imposing upon the officials. Competent observers believe that a lesson must be brought home to China now in order to prevent serious outbreaks in the future.
TRIPLE LYNCHING.
Three Negro 'Murderers' Taken From Jail by Masked Mob and Hanged.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 15.—A masked mob of between 60 and 100 men broke into the jail at Tunica, Miss., yesterday and took out three negroes, whom they strung up to a tree within 100 yards of the jail. Not a shot was fired. The dead negroes are Frank Brown, who shot Frank Cheshire, a prosperous planter at Oak Landing, six months ago; David Moore, who shot Dan Bosewell 10 days ago, and William Brown, who with confederates shot and cut to death a young white man at State Levee last month.
PAGE TWO—SHORT EDITORIALS.
◘ The "legationers" have been rescued from the Boxers, but they will experience some difficulty in breaking into the English language. War sometimes gives new words which deserve a permanent place in the vocabulary, but "legationer" is not one of them.
◘ The industrial rehabilitation of Cuba is strikingly illustrated by the fact that the exhibits made by her people at the Paris exposition have won no fewer than 147 prizes. This is a splendid showing, particularly in view of the chaotic conditions which have prevailed in the island since the close of the war with Spain and the extreme difficulty in preparing anything like a representative display of the island's various products.
◘ In connection with the war in South Africa and the imbroglio in China we have heard much about the staggering of humanity, but really the humanity staggering championship belt is still held by old John Barleycorn.
◘ Perhaps the best thing that the late John J. Ingalls ever wrote was a sonnet, and about the worst was the report of a prizefight. They illustrate, however, the wonderful versatility of his genius.
◘ The baseball magnates of the big leagues claim to be losing money. They will get but small sympathy, as their disregard of the public is deserving of financial punishment.
◘ The Medical Record says that there is in the United States one physician for every 600 people. Still the American people are fairly healthy.
◘ The Paris surgeons are said to be so skillful that they can make all operations painless except one, that of separating the patient from his money after the job is over.
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| Rev. Oscar Houghton, D. D. |
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| Cortland Hospital, North Main Street. |
HOSPITAL COMMENCEMENT.
ANOTHER CLASS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSES GRADUATED.
Encouraging Words from Rev. Dr. O. A. Houghton, Rev. J. J. McLoghlin, Dr. F. W. Higgins and Rev. Robert Clements—A Pleasant Affair.
The annual commencement and graduating exercises of the Cortland Hospital Training School for Nurses occurred at the hospital last night. The attendance of necessity was limited, and invitations were extended only to the board of managers, the advisory board, the physicians and clergy and their wives. The graduating class consisted of three young ladies: Misses Beatrice Vrooman, Blanche L Freeman and Isabel A. Huntoon, who have completed the two years' course. A pleasant feature of the evening was the presence of every one of the seven former graduates from the school: Miss Grace Lynch and Miss Catherine Gaffney of Syracuse, Miss Jennie Vandeveer of Lysander, Mrs. Adah White of Cortland, Mrs. Margaret Thornburn of Walton and Miss Elizabeth Powell of Marcellus, together with Mrs. Helen Waters, who is now the matron of the hospital. There are now connected with the hospital five accepted nurses who are undergraduates and one probationer.
At about 8 o'clock Dr. Dana who at the request of Mrs. Hyatt, the president of the hospital association, acted as chairman of the evening introduced Rev. O. A. Houghton, D. D., pastor of the First M. E. church, who addressed the graduates as follows:
To the Graduating Nurses:
LADIES—I am honored in being invited to address a few words to you on this interesting occasion. While this day has been long anticipated by you, and you have toiled faithfully with hand and brain to be ready for it yet, I trust, you have cared more to master your calling and be fully worthy of confidence as those to whom great responsibilities are to be entrusted, than merely to receive a diploma. Henceforth also, you are to represent this institution to the world. By giving you its diploma it virtually says to all the world, "you may judge of us and our work by the character and efficiency of these graduates." To each one therefore, the reputation and the interests of the hospital are committed.
It is what the diploma represents, therefore, in competency, efficiency and real trustworthiness in you that most concerns the institution and the public. Every profession is overloaded with mediocrity and incapacity. This institution does not intend if possible to increase the number of such in your profession. No man or woman has any moral right to enter any profession or calling unless there is a desire, an ambition and a determined purpose to be first class in that profession. In proportion as our ideals are high and our purpose pure will we be dissatisfied with mediocrity. If one has not the capacity to excel in his profession he would better to resign it and choose a pursuit in which he can excel. Let him do this rather than inflict himself upon society in a role that he cannot act. Better be a first-class bootblack than a second rate incompetent—I might say, preacher?
And this brings me to the thought that I wish mainly and deeply to impress upon you. I believe your ideals will be high, your ambition noble, and your purpose persistent, if you regard your work as a calling from God rather than simply a pursuit or profession, if yon please, taken up as merely a means of gaining a livelihood. To "hear a voice from heaven" is a greater inspiration for noble achievement than all the voices of self interest or selfish desires. What greater incentive for excellence, and what better guarantee of it can you have than the conviction that God who created you and knows you, as you do not know yourself, has called you to this specific work? Speak not of your work then as a profession merely that you have taken up, but rather as a calling to which God hath chosen you.
Perhaps it has not occurred to you to so regard your work. You have regarded the clergyman's work as a calling, and possibly the physician's, and the teacher's, but your own as merely an employment, not to be particularly regarded as sacred. But who has any right to make any such distinction between your work and mine? Am I a religious man because of my clothes, or because of some peculiarities of work that separate me from other men? Who says that the work God has given me to do is sacred, while the work he has given you to do is profane? Is the man at the forge or the plough any less a man of God because of his occupation? The one who makes such distinctions introduces an element of degradation into human service. God gives to each his work and claims all for himself. He claims yours as well as mine and your work therefore is a sacred calling like mine. And we are to do all that we do, "heartily as unto him," consciously exalted in doing it because it is the high calling of God. God called Moses up into the mountain. He was the leader of the people to be sure but he did not leave it to Moses to say who his helpers should be or to whom the different parts of his work and services should be assigned. No, Jehovah determined that himself. To call men and women to their work is the prerogative of God himself. And so God told Moses that he had called Aaron and his sons to the priesthood, and all there was left to Moses in the matter was to act the part of an agent to carry out the divine will.
And likewise he told Moses that he had called by name "Bezaleel, the son of Uri," and "filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold and in silver and in brass, and in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship." There you have it. Gold working and stone cutting and wood carving are divine callings. Yes, "every manner of workmanship" is a divine calling. God claims all these for himself. We may imagine God our father looking down upon us his children with a father's pride and saying "Ah, there is my son in the pulpit, and is he not a good preacher? And who made his mouth? Did not I, the Lord? And there is my son or daughter, a great and successful physician or surgeon. Society rejoices in him, and I am proud of him. But who gave him his skill? Did not I, the Lord? Did not I call him to his work? And there is my daughter by the bedside, of the sick, the trained nurse. Did not I call her to that work and fit her for it? It was I, the Lord, that gave her the soft hand, and the delicate touch, and the quick perception and the tender, faithful, courageous heart, and the aptitudes that make up the successful nurse. And there is another of my children who makes the marble-breathe, and another of apocalyptic vision who perceives my thoughts and my ideals and brings them down to the comprehension of other men through the speaking canvas; but who gave them the artistic perception, and who molded their skillful hands? Did not I, the Lord?"
And so we may go through all the range of useful human occupations from the highest to the lowest and when we find one who does his work as God would have him do it, we may safely say God has called him to that work and inspired him to do it. Indeed do not we even say so ourselves? We take up a volume of Longfellow or Tennyson, or some of the great hymnists and as the rhythmic music of their numbers charms our souls, and thoughts burn, and visions rise, and we hear the soft breeze and the singing birds and the murmuring brook, and touch again the throbbing heart of pain or joy and the play of human passion we exclaim, "That is divine, that is true poetry, that is inspired."
Now then, why should we not say that all true workers are inspired of God for their work? I believe this is just the way the Apostle of God meant us to understand our work when he said "Whatsoever ye do, do it to the glory of God;" and Jesus, the Divine Master, meant us to understand it in the same way when he said touching every act of kindness to another however lowly or unworthy, "In as much as ye have done it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me." How such a thought enlarges and dignifies our conception of duty. And how it enlarges our idea of God and his care for his creatures! He enters into all human life, and all human affairs. He knows every sick sufferer, counts every hair of their heads, and tells you plainly as you approach every bedside "Take care now. That is a creature of my hand. That is my child. What you do to that one you do unto me. It is my weariness you are resting. It is my pain you are soothing. It is my heart you are comforting." Would you not work better to remember that God made your hand, that he gave it the skill and strength to work? Would not the thought that you are called of God to your work lift you above all narrow and selfish conceptions of duty as drudgery? Would it not enrich and enlarge and make more tender all service at the bedside of the suffering? 'The thought that God calls us to our work, and that it is a personal matter between us and him as to how we respond and how we perform the work, lifts us up into the realm of sweet and tender solemnities; everything has a higher, nobler meaning. Nothing is servile, nothing is menial or degrading that he calls us to do. If our service is received with ingratitude and unreasoning complaints on the part of the diseased or narrowed or perhaps degraded sufferer to whom the service is rendered, no matter, that does not concern you so much, your heart is still open to him who ever whispers "Ye have done it unto me, ye have done it unto me."
But how does God call us to our work?
Firsts there is, at least, a desire to find that occupation in which we can best serve our fellow men, where such strength and ability as we have can be used to the best possible advantage to society, and to our own highest development.
Secondly, there is the recognition on our part of certain aptitudes, or natural or acquired abilities, for a certain profession or work.
Third, there is a recognition of those gifts and aptitudes on the part of others. So are you judged by competent authorities to be suitable persons to put under training for a specific work. When properly constituted authorities who are competent to judge say of a young woman "She would make a good nurse." There is in that, when coupled with her own convictions and desires, at least a safe intimation of the direction in which providence points. Let her enter upon her work with confidence and pursue it with fidelity.
And I am far from saying that the necessity of gaining a livelihood and the best way in which we can do it, and thus provide for ourselves and those dependent upon us, may not be worthy of us as a consideration in making up our decision as to what work we will take up. God calls men to specific work often by necessity, and they succeed in it, when but for the necessity they would probably prove failures in something else. So it is that by the stern grip of unrelenting circumstances providence sometimes forces men into work in which they even eminence but in such cases the aptitudes and endowments are there and necessity has developed them.
Nor would I say that one in whom no aptitudes at first appeared may not develop them by attention and perseverance,
With this view of your work as a calling of God, your efforts, your studies and your prayers will be clothed with a higher, broader meaning, and your labor will be glorified. You will find rest of soul in the consciousness of duty well done. It will help you to be truly magnanimous, and you will be consciously exalted in the performance of some of the more disagreeable tasks that will come to yon. You must enter the homes of poverty, sometimes. The victims of sin and debauchery will be thrown upon your hands. It is easy to be complaisant and satisfied in the midst of elegant and agreeable surroundings, but prove true to yourself and to your calling, and to your God wherever you are. So shall you find your true development and exaltation of character.
A few years ago a man died in Syracuse who was the last of two brothers who for many years bore the reputation of being the best undertakers in the city. Having served three different churches in that city I came much in contact with them. I met them in all classes of homes. In the most humble and forbidding hovel of the poor John Ryan never forgot himself nor slighted his work. He would lift the casket of the babe of the poor man just as tenderly, shut a door just as softly, attend to all the details of the funeral just as carefully in the hovel of the poor as he did in the mansion of the richest and proudest. That man was called of God to be an undertaker. And so I say to you, prove your calling to be from God by the magnanimity and fidelity and courage with which you do your work.
Rev. J. J. McLoghlin, pastor of St. Mary's church, was the next speaker. His remarks were delivered without notes and in part were something as follows: He began by paying a tribute to the profession of nurses in general and to nurses themselves in particular, and then briefly reviewed the history of the professional training of nurses from the fifth century down to the present time. He spoke of the especial duties of the nurse in the sick room, as compared with those of the priest or minister and the physician. The latter perform their duties and go away, the nurse remains tireless to the end, anticipating every want, watchful that nothing remains undone that can be accomplished to aid the sufferer or conduce to his comfort. He then spoke of the constant growth in the work of the nurses, saying that if the doctors walked away as soon as they had received their diplomas thinking, "We know it all," they would become so many excrescences in the way to progress. Doctors study and grow. Nurses must do likewise. Nurses have duties and can perform them if they seek the grace of Almighty God. They must do their work with vigor. They must meet all classes of people, they must keep a smiling face. They can only do this with a faith and hope in God. They must have an ardent charity and a love for suffering beings. This charity and this love can come only from God, and it will help them to do their work. You have large opportunities. You may be, not only instrumental in bringing the bodies of the ill back to health and strength, but you may infuse a knowledge of God into their souls. Go forth on this errand in the fear of God, go forth as the children of this hospital. Go forth in the name of him who said, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Do these things and I voice the sentiments of all these friends assembled in wishing you a long and useful life in your chosen profession.
The diplomas were then presented to the graduates by Dr. Higgins, who spoke of the faithful work which they had done during their course and of the pleasure which it afforded him to see the former graduates back again upon this occasion. He then referred to the relations existing between physicians and nurses in the care of the ill, and said that the former look to the latter as one of their chief aids. The choice of a profession means that one has stopped drifting and selected a life work. You have chosen a line of work that will make life mean something to you. Having selected your profession you next make choice of a place in which to secure your training. No city is now without its hospital and training school. In my opinion you were wise to select one of the smaller schools. In the smaller colleges the students come into closer touch with their instructors than is possible in the larger ones and they thus have an opportunity to acquire a culture and development that is impossible in the larger ones. So it is in the smaller training school, the nurse gets personal attention and individual instruction which can be given only to classes in larger institutions. There has been the closest intimacy between ourselves and the nurses, between physicians and those under instruction. Your own individuality has been better developed than if you were simply a cog in some vast machine.
As a nurse you must learn to practice all the different virtues that a woman and a scholar and a nurse could be endowed with. A nurse must learn to keep her temper. Sick people are unreasonable, doctors are unreasonable, friends of patients are unreasonable. You must sink your own individuality into your work. A nurse must take care of her health. She must have fresh air, rest and sleep, she must train herself to get these or she will break down. She must take care of her physical powers. A sick, delicate nurse is of no use; her intentions may be all right, but nobody cares for her. A nurse must bring sunshine into a sick room. Like Caesar's wife her virtue must be above reproach. She must be a sort of mixture of angel and student; a combination of saint and maid of all work. Something more than human is expected of a nurse. If ministers can put up high ideals you will take note of the fact that doctors can do so also.
A nurse is expected to obey a doctor's directions implicitly. A doctor may be young and inexperienced or old fogeyish and old fashioned, out of date and incapable, and a nurse may have had good training, have had experience in just such cases as she then has on hand, may have seen different treatment used with great success, but still if a doctor gives a direction by all means obey it. I would not intimate that a nurse may not ask questions or make suggestions or lead a doctor to talk it over and perhaps bring it about that he changes a direction, but if he gives a direction it should be obeyed. Far better results are obtained by so doing than by the nurse doing as she sees fit even though she may think she knows a better way. There should be the utmost honesty and loyalty and fidelity in carrying out a doctor's directions.
What is to carry a nurse through if she has all these difficulties to encounter? If a nurse has begun her work looking only to the financial side of the question I should hope that she would soon find out that she was not, as Dr. Houghton says, called of God. But she must be in love with her profession. It is a glorious idea that a nurse is carrying aid to those in trouble. If she can realize that next to the priest or minister she is getting nearest to the hearts of those to whom she bears aid she may very fully feel that she is repaid. The training becomes merely a prologue, and the whole after life is the carrying of aid to others. Then she will make a success of her labors.
Dr. Higgins closed with a word for the medical professional staff of the hospital expressive of its best wishes and Godspeed to the nurses as they were to leave the hospital and go out upon their life work.
Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church, was called upon and said a few words regarding the opportunities of the nurses in their profession to minister spiritual healing as well as bodily healing, to save the souls as well as the human lives of the patients.
During the evening Messrs. H. W. Carver and J. B. Fowler sang two duets with pleasing effect.
At the close of the program Mrs. Waters, the matron, pinned upon the breasts of each of the graduates the hospital alumnae pin, which they were then entitled to wear, and presented to each of them a beautiful bouquet of pink carnations, the gift of Mrs. Hyatt, president of the association.
Cake and ice cream, provided by the board of managers, was then served and a social hour enjoyed.
Mrs. Waters, the matron, who has been constantly on duty for the past four years, is to be permitted to take a vacation of several weeks to get a much needed rest, and during this time her place will be supplied by Mrs. Margaret Thornburn, one of the former graduates who has been unusually successful in her work and has developed special capabilities in her chosen profession.
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GROTON-AVE. PAVING.
NO SIDEWALK GRADE YET ESTABLISHED ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
Curbing Being Laid on South Side—Sewer and Water Pipe Connections Lowered—Care Taken in All the Work.
The curbing on the south side of Groton-ave., beginning at Otter creek, was begun to be laid this morning, and the usual care with the placing of it is being observed. Mr. Wm. Jubb, proprietor of the South Hammond quarry, from which the paving company gets 3,200 feet of curbing for use on Groton-ave., arrived in Cortland last night and is to-day inspecting the work. Mr. Jubb states that the stone shipped to Cortland for this job is of the best quality that his quarry produces. He is doing all he can to please the people of Cortland and, in order so to do a better quality of curbing, has been introduced here than has ever been sent to Syracuse for the streets of that city. Mr. Jubb brought with him another expert stone trimmer, and this part of the work will be rushed rapidly along.
No grade for sidewalks on the south side of the street has as yet been given. The property owners along that side are agreed upon lowering their walks to fifteen inches above the top of the curb, but Engineer Farrington and Street Commissioner Becker state that they have not established a grade for these walks. By the way, lowering of the walks on that particular side of the street has been very much magnified. It must be borne in mind that the top of the curbing is fourteen inches above the bottom for the excavations. Then, if the sidewalk grade is placed a foot or so above this, the most of those high banks will be accounted for. Should the grade be established at a foot above the curbing; there would be no walk that would have to be lowered more than a foot.
The grade of the sidewalks on the south side of the street can be easily changed, as there are but few trees that would be in any way disturbed by so doing. Mr. S. S. Stearns has a row of young trees in front of his dwelling that would have to be reset, which Mr. Stearns is willing to do. These are the only trees that would be disturbed by a change of grade.
Both sewer and waterpipe connections from the street are being lowered to bring them safely below the frost line. They are being lowered about eighteen inches and will be three feet below the paving. Every precaution is being used to take proper care of the water from the springs on the south side of the street. Wherever there is a sign of a ditch that may sometime carry water out to the street, the same is brought to the bottom of the sluice. In fact every safeguard is being taken to make the job on Groton-ave. first class in every respect, and Engineer Farrington and Commissioner Becker are being warmly praised for their persistent efforts in this direction. The residents of the street are beginning to feel much easier about the paving, since they have observed the care that is being shown in its construction.
RAILROAD-ST. PAVING.
Jamestown Construction Company Relies to Cortland's Demand.
Word has been received from the Jamestown Construction Co. in reply to a letter written them in regard to the Railroad-st. [Central Ave.] paving, asking that a time be appointed when a representative from their company might look over the street with the city engineer. The letter signifies the intention of the company to repair the street if the faults in it are due to the construction of the street paving.
The letter indicates that the company is willing to do what is right in the matter, and it was received none too early, as the authorities were about to begin the repairs and bring suit to recover for them.
RUN INTO BY STREET CAR.
Mr. Harvey Did Not Hear the Car and Turned onto the Tracks.
Edward E. Harvey, who is employed as a skirt cutter at the Gillette skirt factory, was struck by a street car on North Main-st. yesterday afternoon. Mr. Harvey, who is quite deaf, was riding alongside of the track and when the car was within a half-car length of him, he turned his wheel between the tracks and directly in front of the car. He was thrown off the wheel and, fortunately, to one side and was not hurt. The wheel [bicycle] was badly damaged.
DIED IN WATERTOWN
While on His Way Home to Cortland from the Adirondacks.
Edgar E. Palmer, son of Mrs. Catherine Palmer of 229 Railroad-st., Cortland, died at the New York Central depot at Watertown yesterday afternoon. Mr. Palmer, who was formerly employed in the Snow Bicycle Chain works in Syracuse, had suffered from consumption and for the past year he had been in the Adirondacks. A few days ago his condition became worse, and his brother, Sherman Palmer of Cortland, went to the C. & A. lumber camp, where his brother was working, to bring him home.
He reached Watertown on the 4:40 train yesterday afternoon and was taken very ill at the depot. Dr. C. N. Bibbins was called and gave the patient restorative hypodermics, but he was beyond the aid of medical skill, and died within half an hour.
Mr. Palmer was 28 years of age, and is survived by his mother, Mrs. Catharine Palmer, two brothers, Sherman and Harry Palmer, and a sister, Miss Mary Palmer, all of Cortland.
The remains were received here on the 1:03 train this noon. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 3 o'clock at the house.
HORSE RAN AWAY.
Dr. Ver Nooy's Horse Sets a Fast Pace Through the Streets at About Noon.
A horse belonging to Dr. C. D. Ver Nooy ran away just after noon to-day. The animal was hitched in Broadway where the doctor was making a call, and must have become loosened through fighting flies. It started off on a trot for home, but took a brisk run upon being interfered with and was going too rapidly to stop when it came to the doctor's house on Port Watson-st. It passed on down the street to Greenbush-st. and then went over to Clinton-ave. where it got mixed up with a couple of trees and stopped. Two of the carriage wheels were wrecked and the harness was badly disfigured. The horse was uninjured. A plush carriage robe and a blanket were lost out of the carriage somewhere on the trip.
AN UNFORTUNATE MAN
Knocked Down by Lightning—Barn Burned and Calf Killed.
During a heavy shower last Thursday, Emmet Harvey, who lives in the western part of the town of Smyrna, Chenango county, went to his barn to kill a calf. As he came near the calf, lightning struck the barn, killing the calf and knocking Mr. Harvey down, also firing the barn. Thomas Mulligan, who lives nearby, saw the barn on fire and ran as fast as he could to the scene. As he opened the door he saw Harvey lying on the floor insensible. He called to Mr. Harvey's wife and she and Mr. Mulligan carried him into the house. His clothes were nearly all torn off and one of his boots was thrown from one foot and lay 5 or 6 feet away from him. It was burned to a crisp, and his legs below the knees were badly burned. It was quite a while after they got him into the house before he came to. He is so badly burned that he will not be able to get about again for some time. The greatest wonder is that he was not killed. If Mr. Mulligan had not seen the barn on fire Mr. Harvey would have been burned alive.
BREVITIES.
—The first frost of the season appeared last night. It was not a severe one, but it was quite perceptible to early risers.
—On Sunday evening Rev. Robert Yost will preach the first of a series of sermons at the Congregational church on "Elijah, the Prophet of Fire."
—New display advertisements to-day are—J. T. Davern, Millinery, page 6; M. W. Giles, Ribbed underwear, page 7; J. W. Cudworth, Optical talks, page 7.
—Mrs. A. A. Jennings this morning underwent a surgical operation at a Syracuse hospital. She passed through the operation in excellent condition and as far as can now be seen will make a good recovery.
—A Hamilton girl has promised a young politician she will marry him if Bryan is elected. But the case is not as hopeless as it seems. He has promised to marry her if McKinley is elected.—Hamilton Republican.
—The presbytery of Binghamton will meet in semi-annual session in the Presbyterian church at Hancock on Monday afternoon, Sept. 17, at 7:30 o'clock. The Cortland Presbyterian church will be represented by the pastor and Elder Benj. L. Webb.
—The canning company is still busy putting up corn, canning about 50,000 cans per day. The work on corn will continue till next week, when beans, beets, pumpkins and squash will come in their turn. The company find [sic, common usage] difficulty in securing enough help to husk corn this week.—Hamilton Republican.
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