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| Major General Loyd Wheaton. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, January 5, 1901.
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Many Small Captures and Destruction of Filipino Arms.
MANILA, Jan. 5.—Generals Wheaton and Bates report many small captures, the destruction of insurgent camps and the seizure of supplies, animals and other necessities. Among the captures, in Smith's district, was Colonel Techon, the insurgent governor of Tarlac.
General Grant is personally in command of a mounted expedition in the mountains of Southern Pampangas which, he says, is the only locality where the insurgents are in force in his district.
Insurgents entered Gapan and San Isidro, in General Funston's district, during the night and burned a score of houses. Their firing was ineffective. General MacArthur has commuted several death sentences of military courts to imprisonment.
Judge Taft's written opinion on the San Jose college case was considered and endorsed by the Philippine commission yesterday afternoon. It will be made public today.
The enactment of the school bill has been deferred on account of the desire of the Filipinos to be heard on the bill, as completed. It differs radically from the one prepared by Superintendent Atkinson and endorsed by General MacArthur. The latter appropriated $1,650,000 outright to be distributed through Mr. Atkinson under the supervision of General MacArthur. The completed bill directly appropriates only $40,000 and reserves to the commission authority over plans for school houses, and also requires Mr. Atkinson to report to both General MacArthur and the commission.
The commission has authorized the department of public instruction to proceed with the business entrusted to its administration.
Many inquiries have been received here from the provinces concerning the federal party. The organizers are establishing a daily newspaper and three weeklies to be published in Spanish and Tagalog in the provinces of Pampanga.
INDEMNITY QUESTION.
Indications That It Will Cause Much Dispute Among Powers.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The state department is making strong effort to secure an understanding among the powers to serve as a basis for the adjustment of the question of indemnity to be paid by the Chinese government.
The principal difficulty in the way is believed to be the enormous indemnities demanded by the powers. The efforts of the Chinese government to secure better terms, so far as they tend to protract the negotiations, also are expected to have the result of adding considerably to the sum total to be paid in the end. This is because the expense of maintaining the foreign military establishment in China probably will be assessed against the Chinese government.
It is believed that the bill of Germany will be by far the largest. The German government has allowed its officers on service in China five-fold their regular salaries, a rate of pay hitherto unknown in military history. The Chinese, however, are expected to pay for this.
The attitude of Russia in Manchuria has given rise to considerable apprehension here. As indicated in recent news dispatches a series of regulations has been promulgated by the Russian government for the administration of affairs in Manchuria, which would seem to the officials here to warrant an apprehension that a permanent occupation if that territory with its population of 20,000,000 is in contemplation. To clear up any doubt on this point it is probable that an explicit official declaration from Russia will be invited on this point.
Russian Press Is Pessimistic.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 5—The Novoye Vremya characterizes the Chinese acceptance of the peace terms of the powers as being a formality due to Chinese inability to oppose the European armies. The paper adds that the next catastrophe is probably not far distant and that it will far surpass the recent occurrences. The entire Russian press prophesies pessimistically and fiercely attacks "German plundering, vandalism and the destruction of the libraries and other monuments of the ancient civilization by German and English troops."
WHERE DO WE STAND?
England Cannot Act Without Aid of the United States.
LONDON, Jan. 5.—The Saturday Review says that Russia's practical annexation of Manchuria has raised a grave question in which action of some sort on England's part is necessary. The paper wonders where the United States stands in regard to Russia's move practically admitting that England is unable to act without American co-operation.
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| Bishop Henry C. Potter. |
INQUIRED HIS PRICE.
Tammany Hoped That Bishop Potter Could Be Satisfied.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Bishop Potter exploded a bomb at a banquet at the city club last night at which the responsibility for the condition of vice in this city was discussed. The bishop in the course of his address, condemned Richard Croker, Tammany Hall and the whole political municipal system. The sensation came when he said that Croker had sent emissaries to him, when he started the crusade against vice, to ask on what terms the fight would be stopped or "what form of sacrifice was necessary to satiate what they thought my desire for revenge, " as Bishop Potter [put] it.
He continued: "I was asked by a man who said he came to me as a representative of Mr. Croker, if I would be contented by the sacrifice of Inspector Cross and Capt. Herlihy. I told him that the men in the inferior position were doing what the top men told them to do, knowing that the alternative of not doing it was getting out. Every man on the police force holds his place because of favoritism and not because he does his duty well. The fault is with the system. The love of money is the root of all evil, and the conditions of society which exist must inevitably affect the city.
You must introduce into life some higher aim. It is that which we must get before this generation of ours. We must devise some mechanism that will protect the man who is doing his duty."
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| Ferdinand E. Smith. |
TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS.
All Who Expect to Teach in High Schools May Need It.
Under a new ruling of the department of public instruction all teachers who expect to teach in high schools of this state will be required to possess certain credentials or else pass an examination before receiving a license to teach in those schools. The following is an extract from the superintendent's rules:
After Aug 1, 1901, no person who does not possess one of the following qualifications or who was not employed in high school teaching in this state during the school year ending July 31, 1901, shall be employed to teach foreign languages (modern or ancient), English, mathematics, botany, zoology, physiology, physics, chemistry, physiography, history, civics, economics, or psychology in any high school or high school department in any city whose teachers are examined and licensed under the authority of the state department of public instruction or in any village authorized by law to employ a superintendent of schools:
a) a state certificate issued since 1875 by the state superintendent of public instruction;
b) a college graduate certificate issued by the state superintendent of public instruction;
c) graduation from a college approved by the state superintendent, and graduation from a pedagogical course in a university or college also approved by the state superintendent, or in lieu of graduation for such pedagogical course three years' experience in teaching;
d) a Normal school diploma issued on the completion of a classical course in a state Normal school in this state, or in a state Normal school of another state whose classical course has been approved by the state superintendent of public instruction;
e) a Normal school diploma issued on the completion of a course in a state Normal school, other than the classical course, will be accepted for those subjects above enumerated which were included in the course completed by the person holding such Normal school diploma;
f) a first grade uniform certificate and in addition thereto a standing of 75 per cent attained in an examination under the direction of the state superintendent of public instruction in each of the above enumerated subjects which such person is employed to teach.
These rules apply to all cities in the state except Albany, Buffalo, Jamestown, Middletown and New York. The certification of teachers in these cities is under the supervision of local authorities.
◘ The following examinations for high school teachers will be held at the Central school in Cortland on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 10 and 11, and should be taken by all who do not have the above qualifications and credentials:
Thursday, Jan. 10, 1901, A. M.—Geometry, chemistry, botany.
Thursday, Jan. 10, P. M.—Latin, French, German, Greek.
Friday, Jan, 11, A. M.—Composition and rhetoric, English literature, physiography.
Friday, Jan. 11, P. M.—Zoology, history.
The paper in history will include five questions on English, five on Grecian, five on Roman and five on general history.
F. E. SMITH, Superintendent.
ON THEIR FEET AGAIN.
Cortland Cart & Carriage Co. is Starting Out for a Big Season.
The Cortland Cart & Carriage Co. of Sidney, which went into the hands of a receiver some months ago, has adjusted its affairs and resumed its business and [is] preparing for a big season's trade. The agents have gone out upon the road and are already sending in big returns. The many Cortland friends of this company will be glad to know that there is such an excellent prospect before it of returning prosperity.
The Nation that Has Distanced History.
The mere figures of the growth of this country stagger the understanding.
In 100 years, while the population of the world has doubled, the population of the United States has increased fourteen-fold. The wealth has increased fifty-fold.
In 1800 the largest fortune in the United States was $250,000. To-day there are several fortunes of more than $200,000,000. In 1800 the settled area consisted of 305,708 square miles. To-day it is over 2,000,000 square miles.
The centre of population has moved from a position east of Baltimore to a point well within Indiana.
Only four per cent of the people lived in cities one hundred years ago. To-day the proportion is over thirty out of every hundred of population.
Our agriculture, which amounted to a hundred millions a hundred years ago, is now rapidly approaching $3,000,000,000 a year, and the value of the farms of the country is almost $15,000,000,000.
We have more than forty branches of manufacture which each turn out, annually, more than $50,000,000 worth of products; and of the forty, five turn over $500,000,000 each.
Our metallic products are approaching the $800,000,000 mark, and the other mineral products are nearly $400,000,000 per year.
Our foreign commerce of exports and imports has a total of almost $2,000,000,000 annually.
In our banks of all kinds is a capital of something like $8,000,000,000.
Thus the story goes—a record of millions becoming billions and a story of increase beyond romance.
And behold the government itself!
In 1800 one packet-sloop carried from Philadelphia to Washington all the furniture of the United States government, together with all the Federal archives which filled "seven large boxes, and four or five smaller ones." As a contrast, see the thousands of buildings the government owns to-day.
In only one of them has there been no great change. This is the White House. But, deficient as it is in some comforts, it still has its attractions as a place of residence.— Saturday Evening Post.
MRS. MELISSA E. RICE.
Former Resident of Cortland Died in Brooklyn on Thursday.
Mrs. Melissa E. Rice, widow of Melvin A. Rice, died in Seney hospital, Brooklyn, on Thursday, Jan. 3, where she had been taken five weeks before for an operation for the removal of a cancer from the stomach.
Mrs. Rice was born in Homer, Cortland county, fifty-eight years ago, and was the daughter of Amasa Brewer who was for sixty years a resident of that town. She was a graduate of the old Homer academy and of the Albany Normal school and she was before her marriage a teacher in Homer, Albany and Elmira. In 1870 she was married to Melvin A. Rice of Cortland. After her marriage she taught for eighteen years in the Cortland public schools and was one of the most thoroughly beloved and successful teachers who ever taught in the place.
Mr. Rice died in 1893 and six years ago she went to Brooklyn to make her home with her son and only child Melvin A. Rice. Mrs. Rice was a member of the Cortland Presbyterian church, having united with it in 1878.
The remains were brought to Cortland this morning, and the funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of her step-daughter, Mrs. James D. Sherwood, 30 North Church-st. and will be conducted by Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church. The First Baptist church male quartet will furnish music. The bearers will be Messrs. C. F. Thompson, H. F. Benton, Lewis Bouton, W. D. Tisdale, C. F. Brown and Dr. H. T. Dana. The burial will be in the Cortland Rural cemetery.
The remains were accompanied to Cortland by Mr. Edwin C. Brewer, the brother of Mrs. Rice and his wife, Mrs. Pearl Plumb and Mr. Melvin A. Rice, all of Brooklyn, and by Mrs. J. D. Sherwood of Cortland, who had gone down there a few days before Mrs. Rice's death.
Death of Mrs. Geo. Sherwood.
Mrs. George Sherwood died at 36 Crandall-st., this morning at 8 o'clock of typhoid fever, aged 20 years, 6 months and 21 days. The only funeral service in Cortland will be held Monday morning at the house and will consist of prayer only. The remains will then be taken by the 9:27 D., L. & W. train to Marathon where the funeral will be held and burial made. Besides the husband she leaves one child about a year old.
Sleighride to Little York.
A party of Cortland young people took advantage of the fine sleighing and the full moon last night for a sleighride to Little York. They were Misses Cora E. Wells, Mary Atkinson, Jane Newkirk, Jane Humes, Mabel Fitzgerald, Grace Walrad, Mabel Brewer and Miss Van Iderstine of New York, Messrs. R. H. Miller, C. C. Wickwire, T. H. Wickwire, Jr., L. R. Hulbert, E. W. Newton, B. L. Nourse, L. S. Ingalls, and Arthur McGraw. One of Landlord Raymond's fine suppers was first partaken of and then there was a season of dancing and of social enjoyment before starting for home.
BREVITIES.
—A party of young people enjoyed a sleighride to McLean last night.
—Mrs. A. Edward Allen will sing a solo at the Presbyterian church at each service to-morrow.
—New display advertisements to-day are—F. Daehler, Closing out sale, page 6; C. F. Brown, Pocket books, etc., page 6.
—A regular meeting of the hospital managers will be held at the hospital next Monday afternoon, Jan. 7 at 3 o'clock.
—The Normal school reopens next Monday morning at 8:45 o'clock, after having been closed since Friday, Dec. 28, for the Holiday vacation.
—The number of logs that are being rushed to the sawmill of Peck Brothers on this fine sleighing [weather] is something astonishing. The mill is kept busy from morning till night.
—Dr. Reese, assisted by Dr. Higgins and Dr. Dana on Wednesday removed an eighteen pound tumor from Miss Cassie Allen at the hospital. The patient is doing well and a speedy recovery is anticipated.
—There will be a regular meeting of Tioughnioga chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the home of the regent, Mrs. Silas W. Sherwood, 79 Railroad-st., Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
—The Oswego Normal school has selected Lee N. Toplin, Herbert Jones and H. Irving Pratt to represent it in the debate upon trusts with the three previously named in these columns from the Cortland Normal school next March.
—The first arrest made by one of Sheriff Overton's corps of deputies was made by Albert Goldsmith yesterday afternoon, when he detained Charles Daggett for public intoxication. This morning in police court Daggett was given ten days in county jail.
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