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| Count Alfred Von Waldersee. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, December 3, 1900.
PROTESTS MADE.
Von Waldersee Asked to Prevent Removal of Instruments From Pekin Observatory.
TIEN TSIN, Dec. 3.—Protests and requests have been forwarded to Field Marshal Count Von Waldersee by the representatives of the powers urging the prevention of the removal of astronomical instruments from the observatory at Pekin. Most of the principal instruments have been prepared for shipment and labeled for Berlin or for Paris.
The Chinese themselves do not protest because, as members of Li Hung Chang's staff put it, their objections would be useless as whatever they say or do in the way of protest only elicits uncivil treatment.
The observatory is universally recognized as one of the most interesting sights in Pekin.
Most of the instruments now out of place are over one hundred and fifty years old. Many of them are magnificent bronzes, and although not of modern type can still be used for the purposes of astronomical observation.
The number of Chinese returning has been considerably augmented during the last few days. Apparently they are friendly.
The provosts marshal of the various nations are being daily informed as to the whereabouts of returning Boxers but only those are arrested against whom there is conclusive evidence of having killed native Christians.
The first locomotive since the siege of the legations ran yesterday from Tien Tsin to Pekin. The line will not be opened, however, for general use until about Dec. 15.
COLOMBIAN REBELLION.
Considerable Rebel Activity Reported In All Quarters of the Country.
KINGSTON, Jam., Dec. 3.—Advices brought from Colon by the royal mail steamer Don, Captain Newton, indicate the continuance of considerable rebel activity in all quarters of Colombia. Last Wednesday a strong force of insurgents captured the town of Chagres, 15 miles from Colon. Eight hundred government troops were sent immediately to relieve the town and sharp fighting followed. The government forces lost heavily, but the rebels were compelled to retire.
Before the Don left, news had reached Colon that the insurgents were attacking Porto Colombia and Sabanilla and that government reinforcements had been ordered there.
It was believed at Colon that the insurgents had changed their plan and would concentrate against Colon instead of Panama, owing to the strict precautions taken by the government at the latter city. Martial law was being strictly enforced in Colon and large numbers of people had been imprisoned under suspicion.
The United States gunboat Bancroft and the British second class cruiser Intrepid were at Colon Friday when the Don left.
The National W. C. T. U.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The twenty-seventh annual convention of the Women's Christian Temperance union was opened this morning at the Lafayette Square opera house. The five hundred delegates were arranged in state groups on the lower floor, while the galleries were crowded with visitors.
Real Estate Changes.
Four houses and lots on Squires-st., Cortland, 4, 6, 10 and 14, were sold at mortgage foreclosure sale at the courthouse this morning by Judge S. S. Knox, the attorney for the mortgagee. The first two mentioned brought $800 each, the third brought $1,000 and the fourth $1,200. All were bid in by the executors of the Abram Letts' estate.
This afternoon the house and lot 43 Madison-st. was sold at mortgage foreclosure by Judge Knox, and was bid off for $1,400 by Mr. W. B. Bucklin, the manager of the Traction company, who had leased the house from its owner and was its present tenant.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Professional Sunday-school Teachers.
The tendency of the times is to exact pay for any service regularly rendered. In the good old times the preacher and the sexton were the only people paid for services rendered in connection with worship in churches. Nobody ever thought that the singers should have any money for their contributions to the Sunday service, and the preacher had no assistant to look after the mavericks of his flock. There are still a great many volunteer choirs in weekly operation, but the best ones are paid. This comes about from the rivalry and anxiety to get the best, and from the further fact that very many fine singers are not religiously inclined enough to permit them to attend rehearsals on a week day and two services on Sunday, simply for those who love them, for the stars that smile above them and the good that they can do. It is purely a business matter with them and they sing in a church just as they would in a hall or a parlor, for so much per song, and the better the singer, the higher the price.
The commercial spirit making its way in church affairs provided a position known as pastor's assistant. Some large churches require for their best management the entire time of two clergymen, whose duties are much the same, but that is not the kind of pastor's assistant referred to in this matter. Very many Protestant churches have as an assistant to the pastor either a pious young man, who has been or hopes to be a Y. M. C. A. secretary, or a competent young woman of religious tendencies and recognized executive ability. The incumbent of such a position is expected to call on the halt, the lame and the blind and, usually, to take charge of the Sunday-school and literally look after the lambs of the flock.
A Boston pastor proposes that his church shall take a step further along this line, and advocates the employment of men and women specially trained to serve for pay as teachers in the Sunday-school. He argues that the best service is desirable and that the best can only be had for a reasonable compensation. It is undoubtedly true that the volunteers, however inefficient, have no business obligation which compels either their regular attendance or special preparation. The paid Sunday-school teacher would be under the same discipline as a paid public school teacher, and the organization would be whatever the head of it chose to make it. The plan suggested by the Boston clergyman, says the Utica Dispatch, is certainly an innovation and one which will hardly meet, for the present at least, with popular favor. The average Sunday-school teacher is a devout man or woman, cheerfully rendering the service as a free offer, and most of them are very steady in their attendance, and most of them, too, render faithful and efficient service, though there are many who fall woefully short of the best standards. It will be many a long year, however, before the paid Sunday-school teacher becomes as numerous as the paid church choir singer.
PROHIBITION, COUNTY CONFERENCE
And Temperance Mass-Meeting Friday Afternoon and Evening, Dec. 7.
A conference of the Prohibitionists and friends of temperance of Cortland county will be held in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, Friday, Dee. 7, from 1 to 5 P. M. Questions of party policy, monthly temperance meetings, and other questions of interest to the city, county, state and nation will be discussed. N. H. Gillette will act as chairman. The friend of all reform movements, Rev. Geo. H. Brigham, will speak, and other clergymen of the county.
From 5 to 7 P. M. the ladies of the W. C. T. U. will serve a chicken pie supper for 25 cents.
A temperance jubilee mass-meeting will be held in the evening, when Mr. T. B. Blackman of Homer will act as chairman and addresses will be given by Dr. O. A. Houghton, Rev. W. Jasper Howell, Rev. U. S. Milburn, Rev. O. M. Owen, Rev. A. Bergen Browe and others.
The public are cordially invited to attend both meetings of the conference.
Thanksgiving at the Normal School Kindergarten.
Those who were privileged in being present at the Normal kindergarten last Wednesday morning will long remember the delightful Thanksgiving celebration. The room was decorated with vegetables, and canned fruits, borrowed from grocery stores to remind the children of good things stored away for winter use. The kindergarten tables were placed together in the center of the room tastefully decorated with flowers, fruits, nuts and tiny cornucopias which the children had woven and filled with oats to carry home and scatter to the birds next day. The refreshments consisted only of small bread and butter sandwiches, apples and crackers, but the radiant faces of the little ones made a picture well worth recalling. Three of the little ones wore caps and kerchiefs of white tissue paper and as Pilgrim mothers presided over the feast.
Street Cleaner Test.
A very satisfactory test of the Acme Universal street sweeper was given this afternoon by Messrs. Duane Howard and Webster Youngs. The broom is 8 feet long and picks up everything that comes before it. A barrel of water carried on the sweeper moistens the pavement just ahead of the broom which is set diagonally to the line of draft. An elevator carries the dirt to a receptacle which is easily dumped. Many of the city officials watched the machine this afternoon as it was sweeping on Tompkins-st., and expressed themselves as being well satisfied with it.
Marriage of Rev. Robert Clements.
Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church, left Cortland this morning for Toronto, Canada, where to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock he expects to be married to Miss Edith L. Winnett of that city. The wedding will occur at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winnett, 198 Beverley-st. The ceremony will be performed by Rev. Henry M. Parsons, D. D., of the Knox Presbyterian church of Toronto, the bride's pastor, assisted by Rev. John Timothy Stone, pastor of the Brown Memorial Presbyterian church of Baltimore, Md., and formerly of Cortland. The maid of honor will be Miss Ina Winnett, the bride's sister, and the best man, the Rev. Harvey Clements, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Gloversville, N. Y., the only brother of the groom. Mr. and Mrs. Clements are expected to arrive in Cortland after their wedding trip the latter part of next week, and will be at home to their friends after Jan. 1, 1901, at 50 Church-st.
Mr. James S. Squires.
The following resolutions have been adopted by class No. 2, in the First Baptist church Sunday-school, Rev. Geo. H. Brigham, teacher:
WHEREAS, Our honored and beloved brother, James S. Squires, in years the senior member of our class, has been by death removed from the scene of his earthly labors to his heavenly home, we as a class, would give some fitting expression of our appreciation of his worth, and our sense of loss, be it therefore.
Resolved, That by the death of our brother Squires, our class sustains the loss of one who by many years of faithful service as a Sunday-school teacher, and the last few years of his life, a constant, studying, and helpful member of this class, has won our respect and affection, as one whose example was worthy of imitation, and whose absence we shall deeply feel.
Resolved, That this action of the class be placed upon the records of our Sunday-school, published in the local papers, and a copy of the same be presented to the bereaved family of our deceased brother.
GEO. H. BRIGHAM, J. W. CUDWORTH, Committee.
Laurel Cafe Sale.
The Laurel cafe changed hands Saturday night when Mr. F. P. Barney sold the business to Mrs. Clara Jameson and Mr. Ward Jameson who will conduct a boarding house the same as has Mr. Barney. The Laurel is at 14 Railroad-st.
Lunch Wagon Sold.
Calvin Priest has sold the Homer night cafe to C. F. Burgett, who shipped the same to Syracuse this morning and will station it in front of the Herald building in that city and serve all night lunches there.
QUO VADIS TO-NIGHT.
To our Cortland Patrons:
The production of Messrs. Whitney & Knowles "Quo Vadis" is on the most colossal scale. There are in the cast thirty-two speaking parts and a small army of supernumeraries are needed to fill out the scenes incident to the burning of Rome and the various mobs and assemblies of Christians. Carloads of scenery are needed to make the framework of the lifelike pictures and a master mind is needed to place the scenes before the audience in a proper manner and without a flaw. All these requirements have been met at an enormous expense by Whitney & Knowles and the piece will be seen here with the same due regard to detail and the same competent cast as was seen in New York and Chicago where the play met with such marvelous success.
"Quo Vadis" was presented in our home city of Oswego two weeks ago to an immense and enthusiastic audience which filled the Richardson theatre to its utmost capacity. Special trains carried out of town patrons from Fulton, Mexico and Pulaski and the event as a theatrical recollection will not soon be forgotten. We sincerely trust that our patrons will show by their attendance, their appreciation of our efforts to give them this class of attractions and turn out to the capacity of the Cortland Opera House this evening.
Respectfully, WALLACE & GILMORE.
BREVITIES.
—The regular meeting of Grover Corps, No. 96, will be held to-morrow, Dec. 4, at 2:30 o'clock. Beside the regular business of the meeting, the annual election of officers will occur. Every member should be present if possible.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; C. F. Brown, Lawson pink, page 6; Tyler& Smith. Clothing, page 7; J. T. Davern & Co., Millinery, page 6; Smith & Beaudry, Holiday opening, page 2.
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