Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, April 19, 1902.
THREE REPORTS MADE.
Danish Upper House Considering Sale of Islands.
MAJORITY WANT A LIMITED VOTE.
Ministerial Party Favor Unconditional Ratification of Treaty—Independents Favor Taking Plebiscite of Entire Population—Lower House Support Ministry.
Copenhagen, April 19.—A secret session of the landsthing (upper house) was held yesterday. After short intermissions the session closed at 3 o'clock at night. Three reports on the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States were submitted. The Right, constituting the majority, was in favor of deterring the ratification of the treaty until after a vote, in which only electors and members of the colonial council of the islands shall take part. The ministerial minority was in favor of the unconditional ratification of the treaty, while an independent group of 10 members favored ratification dependent upon and following a plebiscite of the inhabitants of the islands.
The majority report was severely attacked by the Ministerial party for its inconsistency and obstruction. This enraged the Opposition leaders, who demanded a recess for the purpose of holding a caucus. The caucus was stormy and it was difficult to hold the members of the opposition in check and to prevent them from modifying the majority report and making it more acceptable to the ministry. Two more short recesses became necessary owing to disagreement on the part of the foreign minister, who pressed the Opposition hard. The three reports as above described were finally submitted.
A public meeting of the landsthing will probably be held next Tuesday when the majority report will be formally adopted.
The folkething (lower house) will decline to concur in the report.
The ministry and members of the rigsdag consider the appointment of a conference committee likely, while a compromise on the report made by the independent group of 10 is probable.
Manila Court Martial.
Manila, April 19.—Lieutenant John A. Day of the marine corps testified at his trial by court martial on the charge of executing natives of Samar, that the presidente of Basey, Samar, and his fellow plotters were shot, as he believed, by the orders of Major Glenn. The trial was adjourned until April 22. Lieutenant Cook of the scouts is to be tried by court martial on charges similar to those brought against Major Waller and Lieutenant Day.
BUTTER AND EGGS
Likely to be Cornered by the Greedy Trust.
New York, April 19.—The advance in the price of beef scheduled for yesterday was not made. Another half cent was to have been added to the already large price. Dealers believe the activity of the attorney general of the state and other officials has alarmed the packers and that they abandoned their project as a matter of prudence.
At least two of the big packing houses have placed large quantities of butter and eggs in storage to hold for better prices. While not enough has yet been corralled to threaten a corner, butter was yesterday selling at 33 cents a pound and eggs at 18 cents a dozen.
The packers claim that the increase in the price of eggs and butter both followed as a result of a heavy slaughter of poultry and cattle to make up for the beef shortage. They say that hens in large numbers have been killed to meet the demand.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Relation of Pay and Service.
In the case of Harry G. Bell, the fugitive receiving teller of the Riverside bank in New York, one cannot but note the apparent discrepancy between his services and their remuneration. According to the statement of his employers, he had worked for nine years to their perfect satisfaction and had earned advancement to a position of great responsibility and greater temptation. At the end of these nine years his salary was only $17 a week.
It is quite within the range of possibility that young Bell had been allowed to dwell dangerously long on the relation between his services, his abilities and his pay. While his alleged act of robbing his employers of $30,000 is wholly inexcusable, it is not entirely inexplicable. It is of course possible for one to sustain life and remain honest on $17 a week—many people no doubt get along fairly well on less even in a great and expensive city like New York—but it is not the sort of existence to content able and ambitious young men for much more than nine years, perhaps not so long as that. Bank directors, particularly those who do not maintain a careful, constant and rigid oversight over the minuter details of their business, could profitably give these matters a little more thought than they do. If they did, their indignation at the infidelity of trusted subordinates would be less complex than there is reason for it to be, when incidents like this one are forced upon their reluctant attention.
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| In the year 1902 the Cortland post office was located in the Standard building on the first floor. |
THE FOUNTAIN PEN CRAZE.
Astonishing Amount of Mail Going Through the Postoffice.
It is estimated at the Cortland postoffice that over 2,000 letters pass through the office each day on their way from Cortland parties in behalf of the four firms that are selling fountain pens by employing all their purchasers to write letters for them. Besides this great increase in the letter writing, the number of money orders sent out by the postoffice has increased more than one-third since the first of April.
There are four firms for whom Cortland parties are writing letters. The first was established at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Two firms then began operations at Auburn, N. Y., and the latest one to get under headway is the Cortland Supply company of Cortland. It is in behalf of these four concerns that the 2,000 letters from Cortland alone are being sent and the large number of money orders are either going to or coming from.
The proposition to each person, who sends to the home office a letter that some one else has sent to him and who sends $2 or $2.50, as the case may be, for a fountain pen, is that the firm will pay to such person a fixed salary for writing ten letters each day to other people, telling of the proposition and giving them the same opportunity to write for the firm as the sender has. The three firms outside of Cortland pay $4.50 per week for this work and allow $1.50 each week for expenses. They charge $2.50 for the pens and do not give anything for the first week's work except the $1.50 for expenses.
The Cortland firm charges only $2 for a pen, gives $4 each week from the very start for writing the ten letters and give $1.50 per week for expenses.
It is the exception to the rule to hear any person in Cortland say that he has not received a letter stating the proposition of one of the firms and including a contract to sign and to be sent on to the company, with the order for a pen, and in so doing to become an employee of the company. Some parties in Cortland have received as many as three letters in a single day asking that they should take up the work. It is not infrequent either that a person writes for more than one firm, in fact, there are several people in Cortland who write for all four firms, making a total of forty letters sent out each day by a single party.
Many of these who have written report that they have received the salary agreed upon regularly and are making good wages. Others claim that they have sent their money and have not even received the pen, although several weeks have elapsed since the time of sending. This, however, has not been said of the Cortland firm.
It has been variously asked how a company can pay the salary that the firms represent they will pay when they charge only $2 or $2.50 for the pens. Assuming that of the sixty letters written by one person in a week, ten secured other people to send for the pens, this would mean a revenue of $20 or $25 to the firm, for which it has to make an outlay of only $5.50 or $6 for salary and expenses, and a comparatively small sum for the cost of the pens. This estimate would insure the firm's doubling its money right along until all the territory available is threshed over.
WORK FOR GRAND JURY.
A Long Series of Cases to be Presented by District Attorney.
The following cases will be presented to the grand jury by District Attorney Thomas H. Dowd at the session of supreme court next week:
Joseph H. Talmage, charged with grand larceny, first degree.
Junior Coile, charged with grand larceny, second degree.
George E. Harris, charged with offering false evidence.
Charles Van Dee, charged with rape, first degree.
Orson A. House, John C. House and John H. House, charged with murder, first degree.
Charles Griffith, charged with Sunday violation of the excise law.
A. D. Wallace, charged with violation of the excise law.
William Baker, charged with violation of the excise law.
There are also two or three charges that the district attorney will bring before the grand jury which are not yet ready to be given out for publication.
ARRESTED IN TRUXTON.
Held for Grand Jury.
Truxton, April 17.—Charles Van Dee of South Cuyler was arrested yesterday by Constable Frank M. Henry of East Homer on a charge of assault with attempt to commit rape upon the 4 and 6 year old daughters of W. M. Crandall. Van Dee was taken before Justice of the Peace Frank L. Burnham at East Homer yesterday afternoon for examination. District Attorney Thomas H. Dowd of Cortland appeared for The People and Attorney John O'Donnell of this place for Van Dee. Several witnesses were sworn and Van Dee was held to await the action of the grand jury and was committed to the county jail. Van Dee is a farm laborer about 20 years of age and has resided with his parents in South Cuyler, N. Y.
CONTINUES TO SLEEP.
Said to Have Had Similar Attacks on Former Occasions.
Nellie Saulspaugh Chapman, daughter of Charles Saulspaugh, 10 Excelsior-st., was found in an unconscious condition by the side of the road near the John W. Jones farm, a half mile south of South Cortland at about 6:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. She was discovered by one of the members of the family of Reuben Rood, who lives near the Jones farm. She was taken to the home of Mr. Williamson, who lives on the Jones farm, and not till about 11 o'clock this morning did she recover from the strange stupor that had come over her.
Yesterday the Williamson family notified, by letter, City Judge Davis of this city and Overseer of the Poor Daniel Thompson of the town of Cortlandville in regard to the woman's condition.
This morning she got up and went into another room and appeared to be all right. She offered no explanation for her being in the road or for her condition. It is said that the woman has had similar attacks previous to this one.
MEETING OF W. C. T. U.
Mrs. Reese and Prof.
Cornish Speak on Heredity and Narcotics.
A regular meeting of the W C. T U. was held Tuesday afternoon, April 15. The devotional service led by Mrs. E. H. Wilson was especially helpful in the lessons drawn from the "one another’s" of the Bible.
A brief business meeting followed. The names of Mrs. E. E. Rainbow and Mrs. Jennie Baldwin were presented for membership.
A parlor meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. E. P. Jepson, 87 Elm-st., Friday evening, April 25.
Mrs. Reese on Heredity.
After the business meeting Mrs. F. D. Reese read an exceedingly interesting and instructive paper on the subject of "Heredity," of which space will permit only a few thoughts.
"Only of late has the real effect of alcohol upon the progeny of the inebriate come fully into view. A judge says that of all the boys in the reform school 95 per cent are children of drunken parents. At one institution for unfortunates about three-fourths of the idiots and epileptics descend from alcoholic parents. Ten families of drunkards produced fifty-seven children, twelve of whom died in infancy. Thirty-six were either idiotic, epileptic, misshapen or had serious nerve trouble. Only nine remained normal. Ten sober families produced sixty-one children, of whom five died in infancy and fifty remained normal, only six were either somewhat undeveloped or defective.
Experiments have proven that the function of the brain cells has been impaired by small doses of alcohol and that continued use leads to deterioration. This same deterioration in the parent means degeneration in the child. Moderation has no boundaries and the tendency is always to an increase in the use of any poison whether alcoholic or narcotic. There seems to be but one remedy and that is the total removal of alcoholic beverages. Everywhere in the universe "like produces like," or better, "like begets like." Let us then strive to make the atmosphere of our homes pure, and unselfishly reach out to other homes less fortunate, teaching as far as we may the fathers and mothers that God will show mercy unto thousands of them that love him and keep his commandments, and that he will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate him.
Prof. Cornish on Narcotics.
Mrs. Reese was followed by Prof. Cornish who spoke of the harmful effects of narcotics physically and morally and of ways in which our opinions and convictions may become dynamic in warning the young and keeping them away from the evil. The average boy is not a reasoning machine. No matter how well instructed, he will not have the reason to carry out what he has learned. Because of a hatred for shams he likes to appear a little worse than he is. A boy is a bundle of instincts, but if uncontaminated has a good heart and is easily influenced by example. We should crowd the life of the boy so full of good and beautiful things that his taste will grow so that he will come to hate the evil. His greatest safeguard is the love of a good father or mother or friend. The parents should become so much a part of the boy's life that the very thought of them will keep him from yielding to temptation, and to accomplish this the parent's example must always be in accord with his teaching.
A rising vote of thanks was given Prof. Cornish for so kindly giving his time and thoughts to our meeting. Meeting closed with singing "Christ for the World." Thirty-one ladies present.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements today are—Syracuse Music festival, page 6; W. W. Bennett, Hardware, etc., page 7; W. J. Perkins, Paints, page 7: T. S. Mourin, Furniture, etc., page 6.
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