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| Thirteenth Dalai Lama. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, July 20, 1901.
RUSSIA AND THIBET.
Former Extending Its Influence Into the Indo-Chinese Possessions.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 20.—A Buriat from Transbaikalia, named Akhorumbo Atchwan Dorshieff, who has gained the favor of Dalai Lama of Thibit came to Livadia last October and was received by the emperor. He returned to Thibet and succeeded in persuading the Dalai Lama to send a special mission to St. Petersburg to open friendly relations with this country.
This mission has arrived under the guidance of Dorshieff and has been received by Count Lamsdorf. It consists of four persons, one of whom is the Dalai Lamas' second secretary. It brings an autograph letter from the regent of Thibet to the czar. The Russian newspapers attach much importance to this journey and no doubt properly. It marks another step in the extension of Russian influence towards the Indo-Chinese possessions of France. The Russians regard the establishment of a chain of communications across the rear of the Indian empire and the permanent isolation of India from the Yang Tse Kiang as practically assured.
The Novoe Vremya regards the sending of this mission as proof that the progress of Russia in Manchuria has penetrated to Thibit and there is no reason to doubt that active communications are maintained between Urga in Mongolia, where another Dalai Lama sits as regent and Thibet. This journal thinks it only natural that Thibet should seek in Russia a protector against the "greed of England," or that other outlying territories of China should turn their faces towards the "white czar." A good part of this and much more of the same sort in other papers is no doubt written for the Thibetan visitors.
Women will in future be admitted to the University of Helsingfors on equal terms with men. In Russia women are not yet admitted to the universities, but there are many women's colleges, some of which are similar in plan and organization to the Harvard annex.
The Russian press as a whole has recently displayed much more moderation and benevolence in its treatment of the Finnish question than at any time since certain elements in Russia conjured up the spectre of Finnish separation. It is no secret that the views of the highest circles in Russia have undergone a change in regard to Finland.
While there is no reason to believe there will be a restoration of Finnish liberties, probably the policy of antagonizing this peaceful and cultivated people will not be pursued.
If all rapid transit plans which have been launched into publicity during the last six months were executed St. Petersburg would lead the procession. The latest are electric railroads to Schlusselbourg and a system of underground railroads. It is alleged a syndicate of foreign capitalists are seeking a franchise for the underground roads.
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| Sultan Abdul Hamid II. |
BAN ON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.
Sultan Prohibits Turkish Children From Attending Them.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 20.—It is just two weeks since the first Turkish girl received her diploma from the American college for girls at Scutari, the largest suburb of Constantinople. The sultan, alarmed at the spread of western knowledge thus indicated, has issued an irade prohibiting Turkish children from attending Christian schools and ordering all private families and Turkish schools to dismiss Christian governesses and teachers.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
There is Room at the Top.
Not many months ago, says the Scientific American, a man whose ambition it is to govern the affairs of this city, (New York)—an ambition, unfortunately, in which he is only too successful—ventured to break the discreet silence that has contributed so largely to his political success, and give to the world his ideas on men and things in general. His words were not burdened with wisdom; indeed, they bordered so closely on the commonplace as to renew in our minds the wonder and humiliation of it all, that a political adventurer of such diminutive mentality should be so lording it over us, and growing fat upon the substance of the second greatest city in the world.
It is not surprising that the successful leader in a movement whose political methods have raised such a stench in the public nostrils should entirely misunderstand the lessons of the present remarkable developments in our industrial life; and he never made a more misleading statement than when he said that, owing to trusts and commercial combinations, the youth of the land no longer had a fair chance to earn a living. As a matter of fact one of the most striking features of our present industrial era is the remarkable prominence of the younger men; the splendid opportunities that are offered them, and the distinguished way in which they are carrying burdens of responsibilities, which in an earlier age were supposed to fall only upon much older shoulders.
The present is essentially—in America at least—the day of the young man. He is in demand. If he be mentally well-equipped, and have character and common sense to back his knowledge, he will find that there are opportunities open to him, often on the very threshold of his business career, such as the young man of an earlier day would dream of as the goal only of long years of waiting and working.
During a recent visit to that hive of industry which swarms around Pittsburg, and in the valleys of the Monongahela and Allegheny, we were impressed with the fact that in most of the great manufacturing establishments the highest positions of responsibility were filled by men who were yet several years on this side of the prime of life. That such young heads should so often be directing vast industrial concerns, is due in part to the amazing rapidity with which new industries have sprung up during the past decade, and in part to the fact that the keen competition of the age calls for the adaptiveness and energy which are the natural qualities of youth.
Time was when there was an overplus, especially in the technical trades and professions, of the supply of qualified young men; but today conditions are entirely reversed. Clear proof of this was shown at the recent annual commencement exercises of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, when, out of forty graduates only a dozen were present to receive their diplomas. This unprecedented condition of things was explained by President Morton on the ground that the demand for graduates to all business positions this year had been the most urgent in the history of the Institute, and that most of the absentees had been induced to leave the Institute a week or more before commencement, in order that they might begin their professional duties at once. President Morton further stated that the whole of the forty graduates could have secured positions at once if they had so desired. There is no gainsaying the significance of such facts as these; and as like conditions will produce like results, it is probable that before many years have lapsed, these young graduates will have risen to positions which are both responsible and remunerative.
◘ While England suppresses the constitutional government in Cape Colony she goes into virtuous indignation over Russia's adoption of the plan in Finland. It makes a difference whose ox is gored.
◘ The sultan's payment of indemnity claims [to the United States] takes out of commission a much overworked topic of the newspaper paragraphers.
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| Guglielmo Marconi. |
Marconi's Latest.
Marconi now announces that his wireless telegraph apparatus can be installed in a portable shape for use by an army in the field. In a lecture before the Society of Arts in London he said: "It is now possible to construct a portable apparatus for arms purposes; I have made a complete installation on a steam motor car, with which I have easily communicated over 80 miles. Such an appliance would have been of use to the besieged garrisons in South Africa and China."
BURNED TO DEATH.
Mrs. Jane Gray Marchisi, an Aged Woman in Homer, Found Dead in Her Rooms. When She Died Not Known, Probably Two Days Ago—Alone in House, Sister Away and Other Family Off Visiting—Oil Stove Found Overturned—Probabilities are Fire Started from this—Discovered Purely by Accident—Sister First Learned of it when she Returned and Found Crape on the Door.
Burned to a crisp and almost beyond recognition the charred remains of Mrs. Jane Gray Marchisi were found in a room at her home on North Main-st. in Homer, N. Y., shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. The body lay upon the floor in an upstairs back room used for a kitchen. Every particle of clothing, except the shoes, part of the stockings and a portion of the wrapper about the shoulders, was completely burned from the body, and an overturned oil stove in the middle of the room gave evidence of how the tragedy occurred.
The body was found by Howard Hollenbeck who lives near the stone bridge above Homer and who called at the house early this morning to see Howard Larrison who lives with his family in the lower part of the house. Mr. Larrison and his family have been away for some days and Mr. Larrison had told Mr. Hollenbeck if he should come to the house and not find any of the family there to inquire for the key of the people who lived upstairs. Getting no response to his knock Mr. Hollenbeck tried the front door which he found unlocked. He then went up stairs and found the body of Mrs. Marchisi as already stated. He at once went for Dr. J. W. Whitney who lives near. The two came back to the house and word was sent to Coroner F. H. Green, who viewed the remains and decided that no inquest was necessary as the cause of death was only too evident. Undertakers Beard & Peck of Cortland took charge of the remains.
Mrs. Marchisi lived with her sister, Mrs. Maria Mallery, in the upper rooms of the house on the west side of Main-st., a short distance north of the Sautelle House. On Saturday, July 13, Mrs. Mallery went to Cincinnatus, leaving her sister alone. Mrs. Marchisi's eyesight has been failing for some time, leaving her partially blind and it has been with some difficulty that she was able to get about. Mr. Larrison's family, who live in the lower part of the house, have been spending some time with Mrs. Larrison's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stewart on the Scott road, so that Mrs. Marchisi was left entirely alone.
Just when and how the accident occurred which resulted in Mrs. Marchisi's death will never be known. The last time she was seen alive was Wednesday afternoon when she was out on the street and went to Daniels & Miller's grocery where she made some small purchases.
It is clear from the condition in which things were found and from the body itself that she must have been dead at least forty-eight hours and possibly longer. She was evidently working about the oil stove either preparing supper or breakfast and in some way her clothing caught fire. She was not familiar with the workings of an oil stove and whether it was in proper condition or not when she began can not be determined. There was no oil whatever in the stove this morning, neither were there any traces of oil having been spilled from the stove upon the floor.
Another remarkable circumstance is the fact that the house was not set on fire. This may be accounted for however, when it is taken into account that there was no carpet on the kitchen floor, and nothing about the room which would easily take fire. Another circumstance which indicates that the accident must have occurred Wednesday night or Thursday morning is the fact that all traces of smoke and the odor of burning clothing had disappeared from the room. The table in the diningroom was set and the dishes had not been used. A dishpan on a small table in the little kitchen had a small quantity of water in it and there are traces near the table showing that Mrs. Marchisi had evidently attempted to extinguish the flames from her burning clothing. The oil stove was turned bottom side up and was lying near the body in the middle of the room. An old chair was also overturned but otherwise the furniture was not disarranged.
Word was at once sent to Cincinnatus for Mrs. Mallery, but she had left there before the message arrived. She came to Cortland on the morning train and reached Homer about 11 o'clock. She had received no word of the accident and the first intimation she had of her sister's death was when she saw the crape on the door when she stepped off the car and asked the conductor the meaning of it.
Prior to this spring Mrs. Marchisi had been living with her sister Mrs. H. G. Rockwell on Hudson-st. in Homer. About the 1st of April Mrs. Mallery rented the rooms on North Main-st., and Mrs. Marchisi has lived with her since that time.
Besides her sisters Mrs. Rockwell and Mrs. Mallery of Homer, she leaves another sister, Mrs. A. Lacey of Richford. Word was sent to Mrs. Lacey this morning and she is expected in Homer this evening.
In a way it is remarkable that such an accident could have occurred on the principal street of Homer were people are passing every hour of the day and where the houses are so close together without some one learning of it at the time. The house is close to the street and houses are close on either side. The fact that Mrs. Mallery and Mrs. Marchisi had lived there only a short time and were comparative strangers in that part of the village together with the facts that Mrs. Mallery was often away and no one knew that Mrs. Marchisi was in the house alone will partly account for this. Mrs. Mallery goes out as a nurse and says she has often left her sister alone before. She felt safe in doing so as she considered Mrs. Marchisi able to take care of herself. On this particular occasion she says it was understood when she went away that Mrs. Marchisi was going over to Mrs. Rockwell's to spend a part of her time. She did not go, however, as Mrs. Rockwell had not seen her since Mrs. Mallery went away.
Mrs. Marchisi has lived in Homer for about twelve years. She was born in Paris Hill, Otsego county, seventy-six years ago and was a daughter of Peleg and Almira Thornton. Her husband, who has been dead for many years, was Dr. John Marchisi, at one time a physician in Utica.
The funeral will be held tomorrow (Sunday) morning at 9:30 o'clock. Prayer will be said at the house by Rev. B. W. Hamilton, D. D., pastor of the Methodist church, and burial will be made in the Homer cemetery.
CAUGHT BY A BELT.
Was Trying to Start it—When it Went it Ran Fast.
While adjusting a belt in the nail department at Wickwire's factory this morning, Edward Mead had the misfortune to catch his left arm between the belt and a wheel around which it was passing, thereby wrenching and cutting the member in a very painful manner. Fortunately for him the belt was running on a loose pulley, for had it been shifted over to the tight or working one, the projecting part of the arm and hand would have caught in a fly wheel and be could not have escaped without the loss of his arm, and his life as well.
The belt stuck on the pulley and Mead took hold of the belt near the pulley to start it. He had to use a considerable force to do this, but when it did start it went so fast that he was unable to let go of it before the wheel was reached and his arm was carried under the belt all the way round the wheel. Dr. VerNooy treated the injuries.
PARTY AT THE PARK.
Miss Grace Wallace Entertains About Forty Young People.
Miss Grace Wallace, in honor of her guest, Miss Helen Straat of New York, entertained about forty young friends at a private dancing party at the park pavilion last evening, fine music being furnished by McDermott's orchestra. A special car was taken from the postoffice corner at about 7:30 o'clock, and dancing began immediately upon arrival at the park pavilion. Cake, ice cream and lemonade were served at 10:15 and then the dancing was resumed till the midnight hour.
The party was chaperoned by Mrs. Hugh Duffey, Mrs. Silas-William Sherwood and Mrs. Geo. P. Hollenbeck, and the guests in addition to Miss Wallace herself were Misses Helen Straat, Cora Winchell, Nellie Bliss, Florence Bliss, Sara Sherwood, Alma Mason, Marica Wells, Edna Van Gelson, Wilhelmina Newkirk, Edith Packard, Florence Hubbard, Harriet Benedict, Bessie Van Brocklin, May Beaudry, Bertha Simmons, Bessie Greenman, Clara Grover, Grace Allen, Olive and Cora Edgcomb and Messrs. Frank Straat, Edward Brewer, Robert Brewer, Fred Wickwire, Jere Wickwire, Ward Wickwire, Fred Case, Louis Winchell, Leo Ellis, Dick McNett, Eldridge Jarvis, Donald Case, Arthur Owen, Norwood Frederick, Karl Beard, Romaine Stoker, Emil Simmons, John Greenman, Harry Crombie, Edward Boynton, Hugh Duffey and Clarence Hout.
MEDICAL SOCIETY
Holds a Regular Meeting—Reports from St. Paul—Paper Read.
CORTLAND, N. Y., July 20, 1901.
The regular monthly meeting of the Cortland County Medical association was held last evening at Dr. Didama's office. There were present Drs. Higgins, Didama, Benson, Reese, Carpenter, Sornberger, Braman, VerNooy, Jennings and Neary.
Dr. Higgins gave a very interesting report of the recent meeting of the American Medical association held at St. Paul, at which meeting the doctor was one of the delegates from this state.
Dr. Neary read a paper on "The Doctor as a Business Man." A general discussion followed the paper.
P. M. NEARY, Sec.
JUST LIKE HUMANS.
Peck Brothers' Team Set the Fashion for Cortland.
They've come and come to stay. Everybody was looking at them yesterday and right odd was the appearance too. But they added to the comfort and it won't be long before others will be having them too.
Peck Brothers' big team set the fashion. Yesterday they were wearing the genuine straw hats for horses. The appearance is not very different from the broad-brimmed hat worn by men in the hay fields except that there are apertures for the ears. The bridle fits down over the hat and makes it secure, and the horse looks out from under the brim with a very comfortable air. The top of the hat comes a little more to a peak than do the human hats, resembling more the pictures of the witches' hats in the days of Salem witchcraft. This is to admit of the presence of a sponge in the crown which can be frequently saturated with water to keep the head cool. It is said that the straw hat and sponge was the means of saving the lives of many horses in New York and nearer by in Syracuse as well as in other cities during the recent hot waves.
The straw hat for horses is thought by many to be a new idea, but it has been in common use in Europe for years. A sketch book in Cortland contains a number of sketches made twelve years ago this summer in Italy of horses wearing this same style of head gear.
Peck Brothers have found the hats so excellent for their own horses that they have placed a large order for similar hats to put on sale.
BREVITIES.
—Mrs. Rufus E. Curlew will sing at the morning services at the First M. E. church tomorrow.
—The 90th birthday of Mrs. Oliver Hitchcock of 15 James-st., occurs on Monday, July 22.
—The A. O. H. and the All-Cortland baseball teams crossed bats on Athletic field this afternoon.
—New display advertisements today—Corner Grocery, Soap, page 8; M. W. Giles, Dishpan sale, page 7; C. F. Brown, Huyler's candy, page 7.
—Another excursion comes from Cincinnatus tonight over the E. & C. N. Y. railroad on the observation train. It is due here soon after 8 o'clock and the excursionists will have about two hours in the city.
—The annual meetings of the Cortland & Homer Electric Co., the Cortland Park Land Co., and the Cortland County Traction Co., which were scheduled for this morning, were all adjourned for one week at the same time and place.
—An excursion from Homer to Cincinnatus, by trolley to Cortland and by observation train to Cincinnatus, will be given next week upon some evening yet to be agreed upon. Homer people will find this a delightful trip if the evening be fine.
—The Traction company is arranging for a concert at the park some evening soon by the famous Ithaca band of forty pieces. When that time comes, the public in general will be anxious to see that they have no other engagements on to interfere with their attendance.
—The union preaching service will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock at the First Baptist church with preaching by Rev. Robert Clements, pastor of the Presbyterian church. The union young people's meeting will also be held at the First Baptist church at 6:30 o'clock.
—A party of twenty-three people went to Solon yesterday afternoon and spent two hours very delightfully between trains inspecting some of the rare treasures to be found in the home of Miss Elisabeth Hatheway. They felt deeply indebted to that lady for her kindness and courtesy in extending to them the privilege.
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