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| China, the cake of kings and emperors. French political cartoon. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, June 11, 1901.
PLAN NOT POSSIBLE.
United States Cannot Join In Joint Indemnity Guarantee.
POWERS MAY ACT WITHOUT US.
Constitutional Restrictions Placed on President Make It Impossible For Him to Accept European Plan—May Arrange For Direct Payment.
WASHINGTON, June 11.—The government has formally communicated to the foreign powers the impossibility of joining in a joint guarantee for the payment of the Chinese indemnity. The difficulties in the way of such an arrangement are set forth in the communication, particularly those relating to the constitutional restrictions on the president in making a joint guarantee of this character.
In view of the determination of the United States not to be a party to a joint guarantee there is anxiety shown in diplomatic circles as to the outcome on the question of indemnities. One view is that the majority of the powers, being favorable to a joint guarantee, will execute this joint instrument and thereafter carry on a concert of their own. In that event, it is said, the United States would arrange directly with China as to the American portion of the indemnity. The representatives of most of the European powers do not believe that a resort to The Hague tribunal as proposed by the United States will be acceptable to their governments.
Cabinet Meeting Clothed In Mystery.
WASHINGTON, June 11.—A meeting of the cabinet was called suddenly late yesterday afternoon by messages sent to the various cabinet members from the White House. The president and Secretary Long had been out driving, the Secretary being especially sent for by the president to join the drive.
When the president returned he found Secretary Hay awaiting him and the two spent a half hour together, the secretary leaving later on a night train for Buffalo. The members commenced to assemble about 8 o'clock. They declined to discuss the reason for the night session of the cabinet. Each member said that it was a personal matter and some of them gave out the negative information that the meeting had no relation to Cuba, China, the Philippines, the Porto Ricans, the supreme court decisions, the Boer war or any important public question.
The personal injunction of each member to say nothing about the matter prevented any information on the subject being had. Several cabinet officers said that their calls had to do with Mrs. McKinley's continued improvement.
Some announcement may be made later about the matter, which was of either a social or personal nature.
QUEER AFRICAN DISEASE.
Native Brought to This Country Found to Have "Guinea Worms."
NEW YORK, June 11.—Umbulalu Kamalooloo, one of the Africans brought here on Sunday by the French liner La Lorraine for exhibition purposes at the Buffalo exposition, was found to be suffering from what is popularly known in Africa as '"guinea worms." He is the first human being known to have reached this side of the Atlantic afflicted with a disease of that nature, and he has therefore become an interesting subject to the marine surgeons at the Ellis Island immigration depot.
An operation was performed on one of the black man's legs and a section of a "guinea worm" about three inches in length was secured by the physicians. The doctors in charge of the case say the parasites sometimes attain a length of six feet, but the average length of the worm is not more than 40 inches. The larvae is taken into the human stomach while drinking water and makes its way into the subcutaneous tissues.
The worms thus travel through the human body, ultimately making their way out through the legs and feet of the persons afflicted. Two other Africans who are on La Lorraine are also reported ill. It is claimed that they are suffering from pneumonia contracted on the ocean. All three of the black men have been detained by Dr. Stouen of the Marine medical service for observation.
HE INVENTED THE DENTAL DRILL
But Nelson Stow Received Little of the Great Profits of His Idea.
Many a man while seated in a dentist's chair with the drill buzzing in a [sore] tooth has said to himself, "How I'd like to catch the inventor of this infernal machine!"
The inventor lives in Binghamton, N. Y. A special from that city to the New York Sun says: "Though it is calculated that the invention has made for others about $3,000,000, the inventor himself is poor today. Other men have taken the money, and the present condition of the old man would mollify even the fiercest of the dentist's victims. He is constantly at work on some new invention by means of which he hopes to retrieve his fortunes, but so far his efforts have not been successful.
Nelson Stow when a young man succeeded in business so well at Center Village, a small place near here, that he owned a large part of the town and had many men employed under him in various industries. Thinking to find a larger field for his activity, he came to Binghamton and started a whip factory, which proved a money making venture. Be conceived the idea of building a street railroad here, and after consulting Orlow W. Chapman and other prominent men, constructed the first streetcar line ever built in Binghamton. The project was a failure.
Nelson saw that he was losing money and tried to better himself. Having given considerable attention to dentistry he determined to attempt the invention of a machine to do away with the clumsy methods then employed in cleaning out cavities in teeth. He worked upon his invention twelve years, and long before he had it finished his railroad line and all his other property were in the hands of others. But success came at last and the flexible shaft drill was completed.
Its advantages over the old method were apparent, and a Philadelphia dental firm placed many orders for Stow, whose idea was to manufacture the machine himself. He started a small factory here and exhibited the flexible shaft at the Philadelphia centennial, where he received many orders for it.
But in filling these orders a fatal mistake was made. Soon after the machines were sent out complaints began to come in that they were useless. Upon investigation it was found that a certain part had been overheated in making the machines and all were worthless. The amount involved was only $10,000, but it was enough to throw him into bankruptcy. He sold an interest in the flexible shaft to a Philadelphia firm and before he could get enough money together to start in the business again the patent right had expired.
Other people took up its manufacture and it has already yielded them in profits something like $8,000,000. This is in the manufacture of dental drills alone. The flexible shaft, however, is used for scores of other purposes, particularly in light manufacturing, and millions of dollars worth of them are made every year. But the inventor doesn't get a cent of the profit.
CRUTCHES VS. WINGS.
MR. FREDERIC DUANE STURGIS BEFORE THE Y. M. C. A.
A Strong Talk on Heart Theology Before a Large and Interested Audience at the Men's Meeting on Sunday Afternoon.
Mr. F. D. Sturgis of Boston spoke Sunday afternoon at the Young Men's Christian association on "Crutches vs. Wings," to a deeply interested audience. He laid particular stress upon the necessity of more heart theology and less speculative thinking as of great importance to young men standing upon the threshold of the new century. He spoke, in part, as follows:
It is as false as the falsest theory to say that a man, a Christian man, should deprive himself of all pleasurable sensations. This Pharisaical affectation of virtue is a lie in the face of God and tends to make religion an object of scorn. The man who accepts God's crutches in a cheerful, optimistic mood, will enjoy better health than the cranky, old pessimist, who runs his head into every stone wall simply to demonstrate how much suffering he can endure.
The Christian church is not a museum of antiquities which smell of the grave, but a school of moral and mental sunshine, the temple of truth and happiness where a prayer and a laugh are both seen to be acceptable to God, and good for man. We have long since outgrown the idea that there is any necessary connection between food and indigestion, and melancholy and the gate of heaven. It is so much better to look upon the bright side of things that I am inclined to say that you cannot live a beautiful Christian life without doing so.
Religion is not ours until we make it ours by putting it into our life. No man's creed is of any avail as a protection against sin. Not what we say we are, but what God knows us to be will save us.
We are not as large as our knowledge, but as large as our practical use of it. Take your good deeds to heaven, but leave your creed behind. It will do you no good to trail your dogmas behind you as an open sesame to heaven, but if your daily life has been an encouragement and help to those poor unfortunates who are crying out with the confused wail of a giant, and struggling against the heavy adverse currents in that vast ocean where "man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn" you will be as welcome as the stars are to the traveler on a dark night.
The great query in the heart of every man, woman and child should be—not how much can I do for self, but how much can I do for humanity. Any man who assumes to live for God, when self is the end, is not a real exponent of Christ's life and power, he is a living libel on the infinite grace of God, and an insult to the cross of Christ, which stands as a declaration of God's illimitable love for all his children.
If we had a little more of love and sympathy in this grand old world of ours what a bright and beautiful world we would have; a gospel of heart theology quickened with and full of the milk of human kindness and brotherly affection; a gospel developing a well spring of sympathy that would warm our hearts to the sorrows of the human race, and cause us to throw our arms about humanity's neck and feel that they are our brothers in deed and in truth. Theories are well enough in their way, but when our theory is all we have it is worthless. The crying need of the church today is more religion in its practical relations, more heart theology and less speculative thinking. The living gospel in-breathed with the spirit of love and sympathy. It is in this heart world that God would have us live and work and suffer.
THE FISHING TRIP.
Rev. W. F. Kettle the Champion Ministerial Fisherman.
Sixteen piscatorial ministers of Cortland, Homer and vicinity gathered yesterday at Little York lake for the final meeting and annual banquet of the association. The weather was all that could be asked for picnic purposes though a trifle bright for fishing. After an hour or two on the water the reverend gentlemen enjoyed a bountiful dinner at the Raymond House. Contrary to the usual custom at the annual banquets, the wives of the members were not present. This innovation was realized to be a mistake and will not happen again. After dinner a few items of business were transacted, after which President C. W. Negus called for the following toasts:
The Complete Angler, Rev. W. F. Kettle.
Our Absent Wives, Rev. G. E. T. Stevenson.
Fraternity, Rev. U. S. Milburn.
The Ideal Vacation, Rev. D. D. King.
The speeches were characterized by an almost entire lack of reference to the topics assigned. They were also very brief, owning to the eagerness of the fishermen to be at it again. The afternoon session on the water lasted until the good men were tired enough to go home. The honors of the fishing contest, as was expected, were won by Rev. W. F. Kettle with the assistance of a layman who was run in contrary to the rules of the game. He captured about half a boat load of fish. Nobody was second in the contest. Among the catch of the day were one or two fish, which the landlord pronounced "Little York suckers," but which resembled no suckers ever before seen by your scribe.
Other fishermen are hereby warned that it will be useless to drop a hook into Little York lake until the little fish have had time to grow up. The day was pronounced by all to be most enjoyable (saving the absence of the ladies) and most successful (saving the bad luck of some of the fishermen).
The following clergymen were in attendance: Rev. Messrs. W. J. Howell, G. E. T. Stevenson, U. S. Milburn, H. L. Rixon of Cortland; B. W. Hamilton, W. F. Kettle, C. W. Negus of Homer; L. Heinmiller of Preble; D. D. King, Mr. Barrett of Tully; E. Rogers of Cincinnatus; Mr. Hammond of Marathon; E. E. Merring of Scott; Mr. Webster of Summerhill; W. F. Ireland of West Groton; Dr. Bull of DeRuyter.
(NOTE—The STANDARD is indebted to the courtesy of one of Cortland's bachelor ministers for the foregoing account of the fishing picnic. It will hardly escape the attention of any of our readers how regretful he is at the absence of the ladies, and very properly too, and it is worthy of note that he promises that this shall not happen again, but that the mistake will be rectified by next year. He always has been considered a man of excellent common sense and this intimation but justifies the belief. Inasmuch as three of Cortland's bachelor ministers were members of the party no name has been mentioned and therefore no confidence betrayed by calling attention to the fact.—Editor Standard.)
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| Charles Rufus Skinner. |
Cannot Thrash Pupils.
The superintendent of public instruction, Hon. Charles R. Skinner, has decided that teachers in public schools cannot thrash rebellious pupils. The board of education of Huntington, L. I., adopted resolutions expelling three pupils from the district school, but giving them the alternative of returning to school and submitting to corporal punishment. The resolutions suggested that the principal administer a sound thrashing, but provided, however, that the instrument of torture must be something flexible, that was to hurt but not permanently injure. Superintendent Skinner was appealed to and set aside the resolutions on the ground that the board exceeded its authority in taking such action.
TO THE PAN-AMERICAN.
Special Excursion of the A. O. U. W. for Wednesday, June 19.
The Cortland lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen has completed arrangements for the first excursion from Cortland to the Buffalo Pan-American exposition. The lodge has arranged with the officials of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, whereby special coaches will be attached to the passenger train, which leaves Cortland on the night of June 18, at 11:30 o'clock. This train will reach Buffalo at 4:30 o'clock A. M. The same coaches will be attached to the train which leaves Buffalo at 10 o'clock P. M., June 10, and arrives at Cortland the next morning at about 7 o'clock.
This service will permit those who cannot spare more time, to devote the entire day at the exposition, returning home the same night. But for the accommodation of those who desire to devote more time to the exposition, the railroad company will make the excursion tickets good for five days. The fare for the round trip will be $4.20.
In order that perfect arrangements may be affected for car service, it is desirable that all those who expect to attend the excursion would send their names to Franklin Jones, or Thomas H. Dowd, Cortland. N. Y., the committee in charge of the arrangements, by the 14th day of June.
To Buffalo by Water.
Mr. W. G. Mead went to Ithaca this morning and will soon start from that city with his former partner, Mr. C. D. Tallmadge, for Buffalo in Mr. Tallmadge's private launch. The route will be down Cayuga lake and the spur to the Erie canal and thence to Buffalo. While in Buffalo visiting the Pan-American exposition, the gentlemen will make the launch their abode. The trip will consume several weeks.
Held for Grand Jury.
A hearing in the [alleged rape] case of The People vs. Edward Dunn was held in city court today with the result that Dunn is held to wait the action of the grand jury in October. District Attorney T. H. Dowd appeared for the people and Attorney E. E. Mellon appeared for the defendant. The bail has been fixed at $1,000 with two sureties. The bondsmen had not been secured at the time The STANDARD went to press.
Arrested at Owego, N. Y.
Walter Stafford, who is charged with being implicated in the assault upon Pearl Beach on the night of May 20, was arrested by an officer in Owego yesterday. Sheriff A. R. Overton started for Owego this morning to get Stafford, having with him a warrant for his arrest for rape in the first degree.
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| Hatch Library, Court Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
Hatch Library Election.
At a meeting of the trustees of Franklin Hatch Library association held last evening, Mr. Arthur B. Nelson was elected trustee in place of Rev. J. L. Robertson, resigned. Mr. Edward D. Webb was elected president; Hon. O. U. Kellogg, vice-president; Mr. Chester F. Wickwire, treasurer; and A. Mahan, secretary.
MEETING OF THE D. A. R.
With Mrs. A. P. McGraw, at McGraw—"Pennsylvania" the Theme.
Tioughnioga chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held its regular meeting yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. A. P. McGraw in McGraw, N. Y. The following program was presented, the general subject of the day being "Pennsylvania:"
Roll call—Quotations from the Quaker Poet Whittier.
Pennsylvania, a Colony, Miss Conable.
William Penn, Miss Corey.
Ancestry Paper, Mrs. Jarvis.
Story of Elizabeth (Longfellow), Mrs. Townsend.
At the conclusion of the program a delightful season was spent socially and in looking over the views and beautiful souvenirs brought from foreign lands by Mr. McGraw upon his recent trip to Egypt and Palestine and in listening to his descriptions of the trip. Very dainty refreshments were served.
The next regular meeting will be with Mrs. C. P. Walrad, 13 Lincoln-ave., on Monday, Sept. 9.
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| James Costello in fireman's uniform. |
PRESENTED WITH A DESK.
Vesta Lodge Members Recognize Excellent Work of James F. Costello.
Last night Vesta lodge, No. 255, I. O. O. F., conferred the first degree on six candidates, at which time entirely new work was put on by Drill Master Jas. F. Costello. This working of the degree was excellent and was the subject of many flattering remarks. After the work a large number of the Vesta members went over to the enginehouse with Mr. Costello who is superintendent of the fire alarm system, having for their excuse that they wished to see the new battery room. When the room was reached Mr. Costello was greatly surprised to find there an elegant new roller top desk, with a card on it saying that it was from Vesta friends. The desk is a beauty, with all the modern attachments and it was presented to the drill master for his faithful and efficient work. Mr. Costello values the desk highly, coming as it does from his fellow lodge men, and it will be very useful to him in his office work.
Park Bear Has Come.
The bear for the park arrived in Cortland this morning, and was taken immediately to the park, where it will be kept in a cage till the barracks can be built. Bruin is a fine looking fellow, 16 months old, and will interest the patrons of the park this summer.
BREVITIES.
—A special term of county court will be held July 9 next for the purpose of naturalizations and arguments.
—New display advertisements today are—F. Daehler, Straw hats, page 4; C. F. Brown, Elmwood inn, page 8.
—Cortland Chapter, No. 194, R. A. M., will confer the Royal Arch degree at their regular convocation Wednesday evening.
—Appearances are that the missionary meetings in the churches appointed for Friday of this week will all be postponed on account of Buffalo Bill.
—The annual picnic of the descendants of Vander Underwood will be held Friday, June 28, at the home of Norman Underwood near Freetown Corners.
—The regular meeting of the W. H. M. S. of the First M. E. church, which was to have been held on Friday, June 14, at the residence of Mrs. Susie Holden, will be postponed until Wednesday, June 19, at the same place.
—The semi-annual meeting of the Cortland County Patrons' Fire Relief association was held today at the Cortland House. Each grange in the county is entitled to representation at this meeting. Mr. F. J. Collier of Preble presided.
—Mr. and Mrs. C. Franklin Weiler entertained a number of their friend at their home on Madison-st. last evening, the occasion being the fifth anniversary of their wedding day. Music, refreshments, surprise trees and a general good time were the order of the evening until a late hour. The guests departed leaving the bride and groom in a quandary.
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