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| Wu Ting Fang. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, November 21, 1900.
WU TING FANG'S ADDRESS.
Told Cause and Remedy For Ill Feeling Against Foreigners in China.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21.—Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister, delivered an address last night before the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
The meeting was held in the New Century drawing room and the auditorium was well filled with prominent men and women of the city who came to hear the Chinese diplomat. Mr. Wu's subject was "The Causes of the Unpopularity of Foreigners in China." He said in part:
"It has been commonly supposed that missionaries are the sole cause of the anti-foreign feeling in China. This charge is unfair. Missionaries have done a great deal of good in China. They have translated useful works into the Chinese language, published scientific and educational journals and established schools all over the country. Medical missionaries especially have been remarkably successful in their philanthropic work. On the other hand we must not be blind to the fact that some of their brethern, in their excessive zeal to convert Chinese to their faith, have been indiscreet in their conduct. Instances are not wanting of missionaries interfering in the administration of justice in Chinese courts.
"By treaty, missionaries have to reside only in the treaty ports. In the Interior a missionary cannot but excite a great deal of curiosity, especially when he retains his native dress. When he, moreover, publicly condemns the cherished traditions of China, proclaims the worship of ancestors and idols to be a useless performance, etc., the feeling of the Chinese people can be easily understood. Missionaries are placed in a very delicate situation and not all of them are cautious and discreet.
"The general attitude of foreigners toward Chinese has had a great deal to do with their unpopularity. All foreigners in China carry with them the laws of their respective countries. The local authorities have jurisdiction over them. Consequently they form a sort of privileged class and consider themselves more as lords of the country than as strangers in a strange land. They frequently treat the customs, traditions and institutions of the country with contempt and in this way excite the ill feeling of the natives.
"Now the question arises, what are the remedies for this unsatisfactory state of things? First of all, foreigners should show more consideration for the feeling of the natives. Chinese customs and manners are not necessarily bad; foreign ways are not always the best. Foreigners should be more sparing in their condemnation of things Chinese. In the next place, foreigners in their daily intercourse with educated Chinese should remember that true politeness is the same in China as elsewhere. In the third place, the foreign press in China should assume a more conciliatory tone toward the government and people of China. Many Chinese can read foreign papers."
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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
TO CORNER AGUINALDO.
Former Filipino Chief Will Lead an Expedition.
PICKED NATIVE SOLDIERS TO AID.
Insurgent Leader Supposed to Be in Northern Luzon and a Determined Effort Will Be Made to Catch Him—Renegade Asks News of Election.
MANILA, Nov. 21.—General Macabolos, the former Filipino chief, is prepared to start in pursuit of Aguinaldo with 100 picked natives, supported by American troops. Other ex-rebel Filipinos will be used in campaigning in the country. Their offers have not been made yet but they are ready if the authorities will accept their services.
Aguinaldo supposedly is in Northern Luzon, according to statements made by ex-rebel leaders now in Manila and from information confirming them.
Aglipey, a renegade priest, long an insurgent leader in Northern Luzon, has written to friends in Manila asking for election news and requesting to be informed whether a decision has been received concerning the relations between church and state and the disposition of church properties.
The replies sent him contain the information that church and state will be separate and that entire religious freedom will be allowed.
Transport Indiana Aground.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Quartermaster General Ludington received a cable dispatch yesterday from Colonel Miller, chief quartermaster at Manila, confirming the press report of the grounding of the transport Indiana on the east side of the Isle de Polio, one of the smaller islands of the Philippine group east of Luzon. Colonel Miller's dispatch is as follows: "Indiana aground Nov. 7. Is reported as not damaged. Charles D. Palmer, quartermaster, with transport Pennsylvania, and a lighter draft vessel left Manila Sunday in order to relieve. Nothing more necessary." When the Indiana ran aground she was loaded with supplies and a company of the Twenty-second infantry, destined to act as a garrison.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The rumor that the United States is negotiating for the purchase of the Danish West Indies is again current. The persistence with which it appears gives ground for the belief that if such negotiations are not under way they have at least been the subject of serious consideration both at Copenhagen and Washington. The Danish West Indies, which include the islands of Santa Cruz, St Thomas and St John, are in themselves of but little value, having a total area of 138 square miles and a population of about 32,000. But their position in relation to the adjacent islands and the Caribbean sea makes them of peculiar value in the control of sea power. Captain Mahan even before the war with Spain pointed out the pre-eminent advantage involved in the possession of St Thomas as one of two strategic points "representing efficiently and better than any other positions the control of two principal passages into the Caribbean sea from the Atlantic." The Island is on the Anegada passage, now much used, and on the direct highway from Europe to the Central American Isthmus. If the authorities at Washington are actually considering the purchase of these islands, it is doubtless with the view of obtaining the advantages which a coaling station and a harbor there would afford.
Main Street, Cortland, N. Y. circa 1900.
HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Work on Main-st.—The Syracuse Line to be Started Next Monday.
The work of setting the tall poles for the Home Telephone Co. on Main-st. is being actively carried on to-day. The Western Union Telegraph Co.'s poles are being taken out where the Bell Telephone wires are not fastened to them, and the Western Union's wires will be strung on the new poles.
The line to Syracuse will be begun next Monday. Some of the poles are already distributed along the route. Engineer Callahan expects to have all the poles between Cortland and Syracuse set within the next two months. This line will connect with the independent telephone company of Syracuse, which has between two and three thousand phones in the city and many out of town exchanges.
SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS.
Grand Jurors for Cortland City and Town to be Reapportioned.
At 2 o'clock, P. M. yesterday the board of supervisors reassembled, and on motion of Mr. Bennett the rules were suspended for the remainder of the day.
On motion of Mr. Bennett:
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to re-apportion the three hundred grand jurors for Cortland county among the city and towns.
The chairman appointed Messrs. Allen, Crosley and Mynard.
The report of the committee on footing assessment rolls was read and, on motion of Mr. Bingham, was laid on the table until Wednesday at 10 o'clock.
At 4:30 o'clock the board adjourned for the day.
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| Located at corner of Prospect and Tompkins Streets. |
JAMES S. SQUIRES.
Prominent Resident of Cortland Passed Away at His Home.
After a lingering illness of a number of weeks proceeding largely from neuralgia of the heart and developing also during the last two weeks into cancer of the liver, Mr. James S. Squires passed away at his home, 41 Tompkins-st., at 1 o'clock this morning. During this time he manifested marvelous vitality proceeding from a splendid constitution, though for several days it seemed as though each hour must be the last.
Mr. Squires was a life-long resident of Cortland county and few men have risen to a greater degree of prominence in a business way in this vicinity. Descended from old English stock and from revolutionary parentage Mr. Squires was born in Virgil Jan. 31, 1819, and was the youngest of a family of twelve children of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Squires who settled in that town in 1807, taking up a tract of four hundred acres of land.
From the Mason history of Cortland county published a few years ago we give some of the following facts for a sketch of his life:
His early days were spent on the farm, toiling early and late, going to school only on such days as he could not work out of doors on account of inclement weather. His school privileges were, therefore, limited to a few days or weeks in winter of each year. His zeal for learning was great, and notwithstanding the difficulties in the way, he diligently pursued his studies at home, often stretching himself before the open fireplace in the evening and poring over his books by the light of the fire. When he reached the age of 16 years his father died, leaving a large family of children, and the young man saw before him a life in which he must stand or fall by his own efforts.
Accordingly in the following year he made preparations to start out into the world for himself. His mother was a devoted Christian woman from her girlhood, and changed her faith from Presbyterian to Baptist principles soon after her husband's death. She now, as her youngest son was about to leave her side, admonished and counseled him as to his future habits. She obtained from him promises that he would never use tobacco in any form; would abstain from intoxicating drinks; would never gamble in any way; would strictly observe the Sabbath day, and would in all things be guided by her Christian teaching and advice. These promises he always tried faithfully to keep and they were, in his estimation, the foundation stones upon which he built up a successful career as a business man and gained the esteem and friendship of all his acquaintances.
Following naturally upon the habits formed from these promises, came honesty, uprightness and a conscientious regard for the rights of his fellowmen. As a merchant be never permitted his clerks to misrepresent goods for the purpose of effecting a sale, and in all things endeavored to have them conform to his correct business methods; in short, he followed the only course through life upon which can be established a successful and justifiable record.
When 18 years old he attended school one full term, under the late Nathan Bouton in Virgil, and made such rapid advancement that his teacher gave him a certificate to teach. In this occupation he afterwards learned more than he had been able to under his previous limited advantages.
In the year 1843 Mr. Squires began mercantile business for himself in Virgil; but through endorsements for the accommodation of others, this venture failed, leaving him $2,200 in debt. Contrary to the advice of his friends and others, he devoted his best energies to the payment of his heavy burden, which be accomplished within a few years. The wisdom of this course was shown when the people of the town made him postmaster soon after the failure, and the next year superintendent of schools, which office he held while he remained in that town.
He subsequently (1853) removed to Cortland village, where he engaged in mercantile business of a general character and succeeded in building up an annual trade of about $100,000 a year. His store was known as the largest in the county at that time and the most successful, employing much of the time ten clerks, several of whom remained with him fifteen years and are now numbered among the foremost business men of Cortland and other places.
In 1869 Mr. Squires became president of the National bank of Cortland, which responsible position he filled with ability for fifteen years until 1884, when he resigned to devote all of his time to his personal business. He was prominently instrumental in securing the location of the State Normal school at Cortland, and for more than twenty years has been a member of its local board, and he has always done much to encourage the establishment of manufacturing interests in the place, contributing liberally of his own means to this purpose. He was made treasurer of the Ithaca and Cortland Railroad company at its organization which position he held for some years. On March 14, 1870, he was elected treasurer of the Utica, Chenango & Cortland railroad, which office be held down to the time that the name of the company was changed in 1883 by act of legislature to the Erie & Central New York railroad, and was treasurer of that company from its beginning till Feb. 9, 1898. He drove the first spike in the building of this railroad. He was also a railroad commissioner of the town of Cortlandville from July 15, 1879, till the time of his death, and was largely instrumental in funding the bonds of the railroad at the present low rate of interest.
He gave liberally, also, to the fund for the erection of the First Baptist church in Cortland, of which he has for many years been a faithful and consistent member. He was elected trustee of the society in 1858 and continuously held that office for thirty-nine years. In 1860 he was elected treasurer of the church and served the church in that capacity for thirty-five years. During this time it was his pride that no matter what was the condition of the church's treasury the bills were always promptly met and all temporary over drafts were taken care of by himself. For about thirty years he was a member of the pulpit committee. He was elected deacon in 1875, and held that office up to the time of his death. For ten years he was one of the board of directors of the state convention of the Baptist church, and in this capacity was associated with some of the most prominent members of that denomination in this state.
Mr. Squires built his handsome residence in Cortland on the corner of Tompkins and Prospect-sts. in 1871. In 1876 he purchased the site of the old Eagle store, built early in the century by General Roswell Randall, and several years later erected thereon the handsome and valuable Squires building at a cost of about $40,000, containing seven stores, eight offices and ten flats. He has probably done more than any other one man in the real estate business in building up Cortland. About fifty houses in the southwest part of the village were erected by him and many were sold upon easy terms to the purchasers.
Mr. Squires was three times married. His first wife was Miss Lucia Chamberlain of Virgil and the marriage occurred on Dec. 24, 1843. Four children were born of this union, Lucia Verdine Squires, who married Jerome R. Hathway in 1868 and who died May 28, 1877; Francesca Eudell Squires, the wife of George W. Edgcomb of Cortland; James Duane Squires, who died in September, 1893, and Earl Frank Squires of Binghamton. Mrs. Squires died March 16, 1862, and on Aug. 8, 1865, Mr. Squires was married to Miss Libbie Adelia Purinton of Truxton who died Nov. 30, 1871. Three children were born to them: Prof. Vernon Purinton Squires of Grand Forks, N. D., Emma Maud Squires, the wife of Charles W. Aiken of New York City, and Dr. Louis Almon Squires of Ovid, N. Y. On May 14, 1873, Mr. Squires was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Lester of Binghamton who survives him. Four children were born to them: Mary Louise Squires, who died Aug. 17, 1876; Fred Dann Lester Squires, now a student at the University of Chicago; Glenn Samuel Squires and Grace Elizabeth Squires.
It was in appreciation of his own early lack of educational advantages that Mr. Squires always took a particular interest in everything in the educational line, and determined that all of his children, who desired it, should have a college education. In fulfillment of this intention five of his sons and daughters have received college training: James Duane at Rochester university, Vernon Purinton at Brown university, Emma Maud at Wellesley college, Louis A. at Brown university and Colgate university and Fred D. L. at the University of Chicago. Two of the children are not yet old enough to go to college.
The death of Mr. Squires removes one of our best as well as one of our oldest residents. The narrow surroundings and small educational advantages of his boyhood, while they could not but be seen in various of his ways, yet made him sympathetic with those in similar circumstances, anxious that not only his own children but every child should enjoy every advantage which the public schools could offer, and equally anxious that schools in abundance and of the best character should be provided. Besides giving his time and labor, he also furnished all the money—several hundred dollars—required to pay the expenses of those citizens whose efforts, along with his own, finally located the State Normal school in this place. When four hundred children in the growing village of Cortland could find no room in the small and miserable district school buildings, and the Normal was overcrowded, James S. Squires, though he was then the second largest taxpayer in Cortland, and was a member of the local board of the Normal, and had his own children provided for there, was one of the most enthusiastic advocates of the plan fur a Union Free school, and was appointed one of the first commissioners of the new union school district, in which office he did valuable work. While many who did not pay a hundredth part of his taxes were opposing a union school, because of the expense, he was more than ready to bear his part of its burdens.
When misfortunes came upon him, he stood up under them like a man, and though old and feeble and with blindness growing upon him, he did what he could to fight his way out.
While the latter years of his life did not bring him the rest and freedom from anxiety which he had fairly earned, he made no complaint. Cortland owes him far more in a multitude of ways than many are aware. She would be fortunate indeed if she numbered among her citizens more men of public spirit and upright character and friendliness for all good things such as he displayed during his long and active life.
Mr. Squires' funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the house.
BREVITIES.
—The banquet of the Men's Bible class of the Presbyterian church will be served at 7:30 o'clock to-night at the church parlors.
—A large quantity of old muslin is needed at the hospital. Come with a roil of that if you have nothing else to bring on donation day on Friday of this week. It will be very acceptable.
—Dr. H. T. Dana assisted by Drs. P. M. Neary and P. T. Carpenter performed an operation yesterday at the hospital on William F. Kernan of Homer-ave. Mr. Kernan is considered out of danger today and is getting along well.
—The south bound Lehigh Valley train, due in Cortland at 8:31, was an hour and thirty-five minutes late this morning, consequently a special train was run to Freeville to make connections at that point.
—New display advertisements to-day are—S. Simmons, Clothing opportunity, page 6; Bosworth & Stillman, Shoes, page 7; Opera House, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," page 5; Hudson, Gray & Co., Lamps, page 7; Mrs. J. T. Davern & Co., Millinery, page 6; Palmer & Co., Special sale, page 2; C. W. Stoker, Good things for Thanksgiving, page 5.
—In the notice of the death of Miss Pomeroy in last night's STANDARD reference was made to the closing of the telegraph office at 8 o'clock. For the past year through the efforts of Manager George the office has been kept open till 9 o'clock, but this hour was not late enough for the telegram from Florida which did not reach Syracuse till some past that hour, and had to be repeated to Cortland.
Reubens, N. Y.
REUBENS, NOV. 19.—Dell Barns moved last week on his farm in Solon. Dell White has purchased the farm occupied by Dell Barns and owned by his father Stephen White, and takes possession immediately.
Frank Gardener and Eugene Livingston who have been sick are better.
Miss Letta Hilsinger visited Miss Elma Maricle's school in Freetown Thursday.
Rev. Alanson Anderson who has been painting for W. H. Maricle finished Saturday.
The new milk station here at Reubens is finished and the milk utensils moved in last Tuesday and the rented car has been removed.
Mrs. F. M. Hilsinger, who has been caring for her sister Mrs. Slocum, and two sons who have had measles, returned home Wednesday, leaving them all convalescent.
Wm. E. Hilsinger of Killawog has been visiting his brother F. M. Hilsinger, a few days recently. He is building a round silo for Frank Critenton in Willet and returned to his work Monday.
The Misses Grace and Angie Turner of Homer were guests of their cousin Mrs. Anna McGinnis, Saturday.
Marion Hilsinger and daughter Letta were guests of Mr. Harvey and family in Pitcher Tuesday.
Frank Dodd and wife from Solon visited at Clarence Fralick's Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jones visited with John Foster's family at the village.
Mrs. Cornell who has been very sick is some better.
Arthur Davern from Willet is visiting his uncle Charles McGinnis.
Charles Parker of Cincinnatus has been doing mason work for Ira Wavle.
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