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SATURDAY ? FERRUARY K. 1004
Thkrk is not a colorod person in th|
.stnte of resiMHtability, bnt wh?t regrets
to learn of the horrible crnne commit
ted ?t Roanoke, Va., vvlure 11 white
lndy was ir.nrd< rously assaulted and
outratred aud her child barlmn^usly
treated on Saturday last. ln order that
? he guilty man may roceivo his just de
serts, it is only neeessary that a colored
jury be emjmnelled and an oppcrtunity
?:>e given for the law to tuko its conr.?e.
Such fiandfl are the enemies of society
:n generai and of the colored people in
^varticular.
The hope every law-abiding citizen is
?hat the guilty person may be appre
honded and punisliea by the authorities
of the law. He can txpect no sTmpa
thy from colored men and if the guilty
I>? rson is caught and convicted, ahearty
Baaaaa will go up from eve^y colored
man's home iu Virginia.
A mnn, be he white or black, who
would commit such a crime on a fe
male, white or black, deserves death,
and the courts of this state will not be
tslow to BbBBB it to him.
The question of color should not en
ter into the discussiou. It haa been
demoustrated that crime knows 110 col?
or or race. White men 1 ave committed
and are committing outrages as heinous
BB any ever found in the catalogue of
brutish achievements.
IH:. Tlilllkll I.D A.Mr IIK.IIIK
K1>L(\TI0>.
Rev. Dr. W. P. Thiretkld in his ad
mirable address as published in the
Cincinnati, Ohio, Christian Editator
continued:
"The question now, then. no locger
ifi, 'Oan the Negro take the higher edu?
cation?'?but to what extent uuder
present conditions, is it wise to furnish
facilities for the higher education, see
ing tha, the lack of endowments for
his colleges must throw the burden of
their support largely on the benevolence
of the people ? Does the Negro, in the
present stage of his development, really
need the higher education ?
"Yes, even now after a generation,
though the capacity of the exceptional |
Negro for higher education has been
demoustrated, the trend of opinion in ,
some quarters has set strongly away
from college education, to elemeutary
and indnstrial training for the race.
Many of the tried and true friends of
the Negro are the strong advocates and I
liberal supporters of this form of train- j
ing, almost to the exclusion of the high- \
er education. There must be reason |
and truth here. Facts must plead j
strongly to gain such advocates. j
Granted that for tho masses, indnstrial'
training is flrst in importance?a neces-1
aity to existence and progress, shall we
liscourage, restrict, give up the higher
education for the men of exceptional
eapacity and power ? "
As a premise for his reply, he lays
down the following statement of facts:
"On the higher education the very
existence of any education depends.
No people will long maintain corn mon
achools for primary education, that does
not possess and sustain colleges for the
higher education. The fountain-head
of learning is not the common school,
hnt tha college. The college not only
! fnrnishes the trained teacher, but gives
! uiotire and inapiration for the cumuiou
| school. Blot oua that univtjrsity in the
j wilderiiess aud the intellectaal leader
slupaiid achievemeuts of Harvard men.
and the eutiro history of a commou
wealth would be ehanged."
This is emphatic lauguage, but the
facts speak for themselves aud history
will bwar out this conteution.
He pays tribnte to common schools,
but iu this does not lose sight of the
main purpose of his address when he
says:
"The elemoutary schools of the South
have done an uuparalleled work siuce
emaucipation. But that work would
have been an impossibility had it not
been for the teachers trained iu the
higher lustitutious, established and sus
tamed by Ohristian benevoleuce.
j "Without these trained teachers, mil
hqns expended by the State for public
education must largely have gone to
; waste. Kad it not been for these
schools of higher traiuiug, that early
enthusiasm for knowledge which afior
emaucipation, carried old aud young into
the schools, would long since havespeut
| itself, and millions of the race would
, have suuk back iuto the low levels of
iguorauce where slavery left- them.
These colleges aud normal schools have
! not only given thousand* of teachers to
the public schools, they have also
brought ideals aud higher hopes to au
i entire race. Fortuuate it is that these
i were Christian schools. The influeuco
of moral and spiritual ideals iu the
i teachers of a race just out of bondage ?
! a race without standards of homelife.
; virtue aud inora'ity?is beyond esti
mate."
Bnt enough for this week. We shall
cousider this reinarkable address furth?
er in our next issne.
CO XI) B M M1 N 6 VA KI)E M V \.
We had thought to make extended
comment upon the address of Gov.
Vardeman before theiMississippi legis
| lattt e, but. finding that the day of the
extreniist has passed and that conserva
tive white men are as forward in com
demning such uncalle-dfor utterances
as thoughtful colored ones, we deemed
it advisable to cite a few of the coin
ments made by white Democratic jour
nals which, as a rule, have an autip thy
to the people whom this official has so
wantonly assailed.
The Richmond, Va., News-Leaper
in its issue of Jan. 20th, 1904, said:
"Governor James K. Vardeman, of
Mississippi, in his inangural address de
hvcred yesterday, declared that eduea
tiou is ruiniug the Negro race. He as
serted that the commission bv Negro
men of uumentiouable crime is an ex
praaBOB of desire for racial equality,
and that the Negro beoomes more criin
inal as he beoomes more intelligent.
"Governor Vardemau's detlarations
nnd diK-trines are much more sensation
Bltaaa jnst or seusible. Mistaking eo
iucidences for cause and effect is an old
i and familiar fault of shallow lgnoranoe.
Borvi rting coiucidences to nuue thetii
appear canso and effect is au old and
cheap trick of denmgogucs and quacks.
A few years ago we had argued to us
from very high sourees that because
jprices of wheat. c< ttou and silver bad
ris.u and fallen about the same aaaaa
the priees of cotton and wheat dopead
\ ed on the price of silver."
The above is QBBaafa langnuge. but it
nullifled Gov. Vardkxin's statistics
when it coBtitned:
"(iovomor Vardeman savs th<> statis
ti.-s pn.ve that in Nr-.v Kngland,
Baara the Negro is most generally ada>
c.ited. ha is BBOBt generally crimiual.
Tbarafbra education imikcs the Negro ii
criminal, ba aaUfl ns. we could prota
precisely by the same method that edu?
cation destroys the white man inorauy.
It is unquestioiinbiy true that in eOBa>
munities vvlure BBBOdj can read or
write forgorv is au unknown crime. \\V
could demonstrate by statistics and oh
?JOan facts that in jails and penitentia
ries tht re is less crnne than anvwhere
else in the world. The inmates do not
have the opportunity for crime. Tho
Negro as a slave was watohed, guardod,
nianaged and punished like a child, aad
ht> hnd little BBOBB than theohild's oppor
tunities for crime. It is a wonder
that Governor Vardeman did not carrv
OB his course of intelligent reasomng
and prote.se against the decree of the Al
unghty that human beings must grow
to intelligeuce and maturity; for as
children all of us are inuocent. The
statistics will prove beyond doubt that
maturity inorally destroys humanity,
because und?r the age of six the crimin
als and offenders against morality are
few and over that age they are many.
"In all the histories of the world
pastoral, primativo, unsophisticated
people have been iunocent and law
abiding as compared with the busy,
progressive, iuformed people of the
cities. We aro told that in the days of
King Alfred. of Eugland, along about
the year 88S. a virgin could walk from
one end of Kngland to the other unat
tended with a purse of urold in her hand
in perfect security. Then nobody in
Kngland, outside the monasteries, could
read or write To day a virgin unat
tended and with a purse of gold in her
hand would hanlly be safe walking 500
yards in Eugland. Therefore. aocord
ing to Governor Vardeman, oducation
has been a curse to the Enghsh-speak
ing race. and the sooner we put the torch
to school-houses, univertities and col- !
leges, slaughter the professors and teach?
ers and leave learning to the monks. the
better it will be for onr morals."
The above is good reading, but what
follows is equally so:
"Statistics show beyond qnestion that i
in New England and the Northeru!
States crime among white people is ]
very much more general than it is in I
the South. In the Sonth the ignorant j
white people are many and in the North
they are few. A^cordiug to the sagaci
ons Vardeman, this is conclusive evi
dence that education is a curse not only
to the Negro, but to the wbite man.
Men and brethren, let ns lay hands on
books and schools together. Obvionsly,
if Vardeman be right, the thinkers and
teachers of all the world have been
wrong these centnries and education,
instead of a blessing, is a deadly enrse.
Let ns work onrselves and our children
back to idiocy and isolation as fast as
possible, because those two conditions
mean innocence, while activity and
knowledge mean crime.''
This is sarcaam and irony with a
vengeance.
It continued:
"We cannot comprehend the methods
of thought of the white people who con
tend that tbe Negro should be denied
educational opportuuities. What do
, they expect la do with the Negro? They
j say he must uot leave us. beeause we
j need him to work our flelds; that he
i must not be educated, beeause ^ duca
i tiou destroys his morality. Do they be
, lieve laal we can keep here a race of
| people breeding them generatiou after
geoeration to be cottou-picktrs and
corn field hands? Do they consider that
to be justice, morality or decent regard
for the hopes aud iustincts supposeu to
j be commou to all huruauity? Beeause
i the N<?gro like the wlvte mau, finds
ihisopportuuitiesfor crime increasea as
he gaius knowledge and comes in cou
tact with other men and his wants in
; crease, shall we gravely take the posi?
tion that to educate the Negro at all is a
hideoitB mistake? Do we think we
will be permitted to keep a race iu
bondage while it is noruinally free, that
i the world will look on while we hold
! the Negro here as hewer of wood and
; drawer of water, deuying him kuowl
edge and light on the pret, xt of guard
; mg his virtue and promoting his hap
I piness.
; "From 1820 to 1864 we had here in
j the South Vardemans who preached
aud proclaimed aloud that the Negro
was made to be a slave; that slavery
was fastened on him by the initnu
tible decree of Providence; that he was
happier and better cared for in slavery
than otherwise; that we were his beue
factors. rightful owners and natural
guardians. How much of honesty there
was in our belief of these things, God
knows. Oertainly we were talkiug for
what we believed to be our iuterests,
however couscientious we may have
i been, and where self the wavering bal
1 ance shakes its adjustment is rarely
just. Vardeuian no doubt thinks he is
; talking for the iuterests of the South
: now. The world refused to accept our
I conteutions or to share our theories in
' the old days, and it rosa against us
, when we alone of all the world stood
for slavery. Cannot we learn by bitter
experience? Are we to nndertake, un
I der the leadership of the Vardemans
aud Tillmans and our own prejudices
and interests, to defy the world's public
sentiment and all the lessous of human
! history?''
We would to God that the southerner
who wrote that editorial would continne
along the "good old road." lt sounds
like the plea of our southern white
friends of other days. He speaks for
justice and declaros for fair play in ali
this laud. He realizes that "righteous
ness exalteth a nation and sin is a re
proach to any people."
Yes, God is raising up friends for us j
where we least expect to find them. and
advocates who speak boldly wueu the !
<x-casiou rcquire8 it.
Wc dare say that there were many
white iueml>ers in the Mississippi legis
lature who have criticized Gov. Vaudk
man as severely as has this editorial
vvriter of old Virginia. One thing we
know?when a Vtrginian is for yon. he
speaks and labors with all of his euergy ?
?and he will be with you from the be
ginniug ?ml even without God's help,
will be with you to the end.
"AN I i.i.oi.ir \i. (.OVKKXOK."
Thk Richmon 1, Vu., Timks-Dispat? ;t,
under the caption of "An Illogical (Jov- '
ernor" in its issue of January 21st, 1904 '
said:
"(iovernor Janies K. Vardr.man, of
Mississippi. in his iuaugural address,
whieh we priuted yesterday, deeland
that education is the curse of the NeKro
race, tetiding to mako him worse in?
stead of better, and urged an aiuend
ment *o the State Oonstitution that
aroald place tha JaatitbaUiai of the ooaa*
mon school fund solely within the pow?
er of the Lesrislature.
"After citing some statisties, which
proved to the Governor's satiifartion
that under a system of education the
Negro race has become more brutul and
more criminal, he says: 'Tiie better
class of Ncgroes are not responsible for
this terrible condition, nor for the crim?
inal tendeney of their iaOB>'
"lt seems to us that tlie Governor ut
terly refutes his own urgumeut iu this
saying. He admits that there is u 'bet?
ter class of Negroes.' and we ask, in all
reasoii, how this class is to bo contin?
ued and still further improved and in?
creased in number. Are we to aecom
plish it by turning our backs upon the
Negro race, and withholding from
them the means of education ? Can wo
make moro Negroes of the 'better class'
by keepiug them in iguorance and su
perstition, and in a state of moral isola
tiou ? ls it possible to improve any man
whether he be black or white, by with?
holding from him the meaus of niental
and moral development?
"Governor Vardamau's doctrine
seems to us to be utterly illogical, un
tenable, harsh and cruel. As oue of
our great educators has well said: ' Ig
norauce is the remedy for nothing.'
Our system for educating the black man
is defective, but it is scarcely less than
an axiom, that if we would improve
him, we must educate hini, foriniprove
ineut is education, and education is im
provenient."
This is what we call from a logical
stand-poiut, "eating him up alive."
Farewell, Brother Vardaman!
GENERAL MARKETS
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 3. ? Flour
steady; winter superfine, ta.25a9a.a0;
Penna. roller. dear, $4@4.15; city
mills, fancy. $5.10^5.25. Rye flour was
quiet, at $3.35 per barrel. Wheat was
firm; No. 2 Penna. red, new, 93Vs@94c.
Corn firm; No. 2 yellow, local,"53c.
Oats were quiet; No. white. clipped,
48V&C.; lower grades, 40c. Hay steady;
No. 1 timothy, large bales. $15@15.50
Pork firm; family. $17.50@,18. Beef
steady; beef hams, $2ua>21. Live poul
try. 13c. for hens and 9c. for old
roosters. Dressed poultry, 13^c. for
choice fowls and 10c. for old rosters.
Butter was steady; creamery. 27c. per
pound. Eggs steady; New York and
Peqna., 33c. per dozen. Potatoes wero
steady; 95@98c. per bushel.
Baltimore, Md.. Feb. 3.?Wheat firm;
spot coutract 94Ca94l4c; spot ?*). ?.
red western. 95095)4c.; steamer No. 2
red, 85$i<?i8Gc Corn firm; spot, 49T4<&;
50c; steamer mixed. 48V?@4S%c Oats
firm; No. 2 white, 45tt?46c; No. 2
mlxed, 43c. Rye firm; No. 2. in export
elevator, 61(&62c; uptown. f*6067c:
No. 2 western, in export elevator. 62
@63c; uptown, 68(jx>69c. Butter steady;
fancy imitatlon. 19@>20e.; fancy cream?
ery, 25c; fancy ladle. \6(ri: 18c; store
packed, 15@17c Eggs firm; 35c doz.
Live Stock Markets.
Union Stock Yards. Pittsburf Pa.,
Feb. 3.?Cattle steady; choice, $5.10@
5.35; prime, M-8565; fair, $3.40@4.25.
Hogs higher; prime heavy, $5.10@5.15;
medlums, $5.15(&5.20; heavy Yorkers,
$5.05@5.10; light Yorkers. $5@5.05;
plgs, $4.9005; roughs. $3.50<g>4.50.
Sheep slow; prime lauibs, $6.15@
6.25; veal calves. $7.50fo 8.
WM. C. WHITNEY '
PASSES AWAY
Died of Peritonitis Following an Op
eration For Appendicitis.
HE WAS ILL BUT FOUR DAYS
New York, Feb. 8.?William Collins
Whitney. former secretary of the navy,
diod at his home. 871 Fifth avenuo. He
WlLUAM C. WntTKET.
dltd while under the infiuence of ether
administered preparatory to a second
operation for appendicitis. By his bed
side were his son, Harry Payno Whit?
ney, and his daughter, Dorothy Whit?
ney, as well as Dr. William T. Bull,
the chief surgeon in attendance.
Mr. Whitney was in his 64th year.
Mr. Whitney was taken ill Frlday
night at the performance of "Rigolet
to" at the Metropolitan Opera House,
and had to leave before the opera was
endcd. Dr. Walter B. James, the Whit?
ney family physician, was summoned,
and found that the condition of the pa
tient was such that after consultation
an operation was decided upon, and
was performed by Dr. Bull. The pa
tient rallied so well that it was fully
belicved he wotild recover.
Mr. Whitney's condition was very
grave. however, on Sunday and Mon?
day, and at a consultation held yester
day the conclusion was reached that
the only hope for the patient lay in a
second operation.
A bulletin isstted in the morning
stated that there had been a slight im
provemont in the patlcnt's condition,
but shortly before 3 o'clock alarming
symptom's were BOtCsfl. and hurried
preparatlons were made for a second
operation. Mr. Whitney was placed
under the infiuence of other, but
whether the operation was proceeded
with or not is not known.
When the BBJBll IBBB perceivod that
the patient was in danger ol" rJBBtb.
Harry l':i>nr Whitney and Miss Doro
try Whitney \v<aa immodiately noti
fiod. They nastened to the side ol' thoir
father. and m a lew nsimitcs he had
breatbod his last. OaygBB was used.
and all the skill of the physieians and
surgoons brought into play to save the
life of the distingnished patient, but
to no avail.
Tho following statetnent was issuod:
"Mr. Whitney died of peritonitis and
blood poisoning following an opera?
tion for appendicitis. Tlie intcrnient
will bo at Wondlawn. nt a date to bc>
haraaftav ataad, in f.io faatlly piot
arhara are tha raaaalaa ot Mrs. Plan
Pajraa Whltaay, Ottva Whltaay aad
Mr. Whitnoys grand- hild. Plata IV.yne
I'agef.
"Tlie ftineral sorvioos will bo h- M
at Oraaa Charcb, abata air. Whltaay
was a pew holder."
Booa altei the death visitors hegan
to call at tha house. Among them wore
Mrs. Cornelins Yanderhilt and BI fJOC
rotary of War Uliuu RaOt
Cleveland Greatly Shocked.
Princeton, N. J., I-Yb. .:. Mr. Cleve?
land was daaply naavaU vbaa aa learn
ed of Mr. Whitney'.- d.aih. I lo said:
"The news ol" Mr. Whitney's death
has great ly shocked me. As I think of
hii... my mind, passing beyond recent
years, dwells Baaa the tlays of my as
sociation with him in high oflicial duty
and recalls the time when 1 had the
opportunlty to enjoy his unreserved in
tirnacy and friendly compauionsbip.
Otir relations have never changed. but
the exigencies of life have forbidden
recent close intercourse.
"Wr. Whitney had more calm, force
ful efflciency than any man l ever
knew. In work that interested him he
actually seemed to court difflculties
and to flnd pleasure and exhilaration
in overcoming them. His conquest over
the obstacles he encountered in under
taking to build up our navy afforded
him groater delight than the contem
plation of the great results he achieved
in his department of 'he government.
His judgnient was quk k. claar and as
tonishingly accurate; and, when lt was
called into action, his mental poise
was so complete that neither passion
nor irritation could lead it astray."
Bishop of Nassau Drowned.
Miami, Ala., Feb. 2.?Mail advlces
from Nassau, Bahamas, announee the
drowning tbere of the Right Rev. Dr.
H. N. Churton, bishop of Nassau. The
bishop was making a vlsit to Ragged
Island, one of the outer Islands. ln
attevnpting to go out to his yacht, the
Message of Peace, the small boat was
swamped and he was drowned.
Shot and Killed at a Oance.
Philadelphia, Feb. 1.?Alfred Carter,
living near Avondale. Chester county,
was shot and kiUed at a dance near
that place. He was shot during a quar
rel. Some of those who witnessed the
shooting declared that the shot was
fired by Samuel Keely, a particlpant
ln the dance. and he was arrested.
Dynamite Plot Along Lehigh Valley.
Hazleton, Pa., Feb. 3.?Details of an
alleged dynamite plot along the Lehigh
Valley railroad 20 mlles north of
White Kaven has come to light. T. H.
Pindell, of Wilkesbarre, superintend?
ent of the Wyoming dlvision of the
Lehigh Valley railroad, last week re?
ceived an anonymous letter, oaying j
that if $10,000 was not deposited at
Lake Station, on the Wilkesbarre
mountain, that section of the line
would be blown up.' Sherltf Albert Ja
cobs was notifled, and he with a posse
patrolled the trccks .24 hours, but no
attempt was made to carry out the
threaL A guard is still maintained by
the railroad company between Fair
vlew and Lake Station.
Three Men Scalded to Death.
Detroit. Mich., Jan. 30.?Three mer.
were so badly scalded by the break
lng of an iron elbow connecting the
boiler and englne in the basement of
the Hotel Metropole that they died In
a short time at the hospltais to which
they were removed. The dead: George
Vincent, engineer; Willlam Cupp, firc
man; Frank Casper, flrernan at Hotel
Brunswlck. Casper had gone to the
Metropole engine room to see one of
the other victims. The three men were
deluged with hot water and steam
when the coupling burst, and they suf
fered agonles.
PIckpocketa to Serve In Mexlcan Army
Mexico City, Feb. 1.?Several prbv
oners convlcted as pickpockets were
placed in the regular army to serve
out the terms of their senter.oes. Gov?
ernment offieials believe this modern
punishment will prove more satisfac
tory than lmprisonmert.
REV. ELWOOD CONVICTED
Guilty of Three Specifications For
Preaching Lynchlng Sermon.
Wilmington, Del., Feb. 3?Rev. Rob
ert A. Elwood, pastor of Olivet Pres
byterian church, of this city, who was
tried by the New Castle Presbytery
on charges growing out of the sermon
entitled "Should the Murderer of Miss
Helen Bishop Be Lynched?" preached
by him the day before George White,
the negro murderer of Miss Bishop,
was burned at the stake, was found
guilty on three of the sir specifications
presented against him.
The specifications on which he was
found guilty are, in substance as fol
lows:
Guilty of unmlnlsterial and unchris
tlan conduct ln that he violated the
constitution of the Presbyterlan
Church in the United States of Amer
Ica, in the 2<Hh chapter of the Confes
sion of Faith. section four, by preach?
ing an unsound and unwise sermon.
Guilty of charging, in the event of
the lynching of the alleged crimiual,
the responsibility therefor upon the
Judges of the courts of New Castle
county and the state of Delaware, and
thereby tending to lessen the rcver
ence and rBBBBCt to the constitutional
authorities intnisted with the mainte
nance of civil law.
Guilty or advoeating the lynchlng of
the alleged crimlnal II his trial be do
layed. or if found guilty. through some
technieally he be not given capital
punishment.
After Mr. Elwood had been found
guilty a committee was appointed to
fix punishment This committee con
slsted of tho Revs. T. A. McCurdy. S.
R. Shaw, J. L. McKlmoyle. H. L.. Duye
kinck and J. R. Hodgson. After due
deliberation tho committee ro~om
mended that Mr. Elwood be cautioned
to be more eareful ln the future. The
rocommondation was accepted, and the
Presbytery adjourned.
DARING PHILADELPHIA ROBBERY
Thieves Clean Out Small Jewelry Store
After Beating Woman Unconscious.
Philadelphia Feb. 2.?Four men en
tered a small Jewelry store at 3416
Market street, West Philadelphia. and
beat. bound and gagged the aged owner
of the place, Mrs. Annie Hassler, and
then gathered up Jewelry to tho value
of about |500 and escaped. The dar
ing rohbarj was ooaamlttad wfeUt per
sons were passing the store. but so
quietly was it done that no one's at?
tention was Bttractad until the BaBB
lel't tha store and ran away. A migh
bor who saw the robbers leave entered
the store and found Mrs. Hassler un?
conscious on the floor. Rhe ls seri
ously injured, but will rrobably re
cover.
Mrs. Hassler, who is 71 years of age,
says that the four men entered the
store and asked to see < looks. As she
turned to get one. two or the men
seized her by the throat. twisted her
head. aud one of them struck her wlth|
a club. The blow rendored her sense
less. The robbers bound and gagged
her, and then gathered together tlu
more valuable Jewelry ln the show
cases and in the window. They did not
attempt to open the sale.
FIVE ROCKMEN KILLED
Torn to Pieces By Explosion While Be
ing Hoisted In Mine Cage.
Mahanoy rity. Pa., Feb. 1. ? Five
BBBB were instantly kilied in the Maple
Hill colliery of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron company. The ;
victims, who were rockmen, are: Mor I
gan Jones, aged 35; John Maokey, 28; j
Joseph Junis, 35; Adani Savage, 23 j
and John Huderk k. 31.
The men were kilied by an explo !
sion of powder in a steel cage in whioh
they were being hoisted. The explo
sion ripped the cage apart. and the i
mangled forms or the roikiuea fell 30( j
feet to the bottom of the shaft. The i
head of one of the men was blown off ;
The Maple Hill is one of the oollierit- !
visited by the anthracite strike cora |
mission. and it is one of the best -t
equipped mines in the hard coal re- j
gions.
Serious Charge Against a Doctor.
Springtield. 111.. Feb. 2. -Dr. Charles
A. Nichols. of Urbana. 111.. was arrest
ed and brought before Judge Hum
phrey, of the United States distriet
court, eharged with sending obscene
letters through the mails. He was ar
rested on coniplaint of Mrs. Susan C.
Day, of Urbana, divoreed wife of Wil?
llam A. Day, asslstant United States
attorney general at Washington. Mrs.
Day charges that Dr. Nichols attempt
ed to ettort money from her. Dr.
Nichola was released under $1000
bonds.
Son of Swiss President a Suicide.
Dijon, France, Feb. 1.?Arnold Com
tesse, son of the president of Switzer
land, committed suicide here by shoot
ing. M. Comtesse, who had been living
here recently, drove out to pay a visit
to a woman of his acquaintance. Upon
being informed that she was not in.
Comtesse re-entered his carriage and
Bhot himself in the mouth with a re?
volver, the bullet penetrating his braln.
He was taken to a hospital, where he
died. He had been suffering from cere
bral derangement resultlng from ma
larial fever.
CUPID ON THE P1ERS.
Romancas Found on the Docks ol
Staamabip Linee,
Taa
CaBaa'a Eaottoasl Blaatlaaj
Wlta Bride to Wkoa Ha Had Baaai
iluni. .1 i,, Froiy-Plaaaataaj
UrtdaU Dlaoavarr.
Cupld must apend a large part of hla
tlma sltUng on ihe pler where he can
watch the coming and going of ocean
Hners entering aud leaving Kaaj York.
lf the emall geutleman ol the winga
and bow were a peraonal deity and cir
aumscribed by the law which deciarea
Bgaiubt a per??u being ia more than
one place at one Ume, that undoubtedly
le the plao* he would elect aa his home.
Take tha scenee of one day along
the docks as an tllustration, and those
acen?a were nol aU. They were the
ones that happenwd to be obaerved
and known.
The White Star llne steamshlp Oceanlc
BtArted lt by arriving with four engaged
couples and 14 brides to be on board.
The 14 young women came from abroaU
to marry men who had preceded them
to make homes in this country. Their
husbands to be were wailing for tlum on
the deck. You may be sure that Cupid
smiled broadly as he saw 14 differeut
sets of greetings and beheld the four en?
gaged young couples atalking happily
away.
The Oceanlc had been through rough
weatber, but Boreas was working against
Cupid on that trip and the 14 brides to
be and the four engaged couples came
Bafely through.
Then, says the Chieago Tribune, at
another dock another scene was being
enacted. Since morning a young Cuban,
Rafael Hidalgo, had been waitiug in the
cold and snow, walching for a steamer to
appear. He had been married by proxy
in Havana, November 19, his father act
ing as his reprccentative in signing tha
wedding contract.
The eagerness of both the young man
and the young woman defeated the ob
ject they had ln view?a welcome the
moment the dainty foot of the bride
touched American soil. As the passen
gers brgan to come off the bridegroom
mistook another young woman for his
bride and dashed madly down the pler
for her. Discovering his mistake he
plunged through the crowd of disem
barking passengers. but it was not until
he had searched 20 minutes that he
found her.
Then he discovered her ln charge of a
atrapping member of the United States
RAFAKL MasasUI HIS BRIDK.
army hospital oorps. Private John
Stremer, in whose care she had been
placed on leaving Cuba.
The two Cuban6 had not seen each
other for three years, but the recogni
tion was instautaneous. Private Strem?
er stood at "attfJtion" with a pleased
smlle on hl? face Baa ile t he two exhausted
the vocabularly of endearments.
The bride was hysterlal at flrst. The
crowds. the unaccustomed cold, and the
langusge sbe could not understand
frifhtened her and she hid her face in
her husbands eoat and aobbed. He held
her while sympathetlc women passen?
gers tried tosoothe h*r and after a while
the little fear passed away and she was
emlling with confidence again.
She bad been married to Rafael, his
father acting as proxy, beeause the
young man himself could not leave hii
employment at tho Kogers Locomotive
works in Patereon, where he isstud>i!ig
to become an engitveer.
At another dock there waa an outgo
ing steamer whioh carried two happy,
passengers with a story worth repeating.
The/ had been married in Pennsylvania.
The young man had told his bride that
the money he had saved for the wedding
would tahe them on a wedding trip to
New York, but that they must not be ex
travagent, they would need to be fco
nomical ln beglnning housekeeping.
At this she smiled and promised to be
exeeedingly careful of the hous+hold
funds. A trip to New York was all the
wedding trip any girl needed, she
thought.
So they were married and sUrted on
their trip. When they got to New York
the bride informed her husband that it
would be nlcer to drop their arrange?
ments for the wedding trip and make a
tour of the world instead.
"You see," she said with a blush and
ln an apologttie manner, -instead of be?
ing poor, as you thought me, I have a
modeet fortune of half a million dollars,
but l wanted to be loved for myself
alone."
lt was an asumished young man that
llstened to thia annouueement, but their
appearance on the pbr, takingan outgo
lng vessel, was proof that he did not re
gret th* fact that the woman he had
xoarrted as poor had turned out to ba
rioh.
MOTHER WAS FRAHTIC.
Carrlaa-e Ut toat wttaa Babr Iaalde
aad Gtnrral Bxelt?nent Wu
the Basalt.
"Where'e the carriage with a bahy
ia lt?" cried a womac, young, smartly
gowned and handsome, aa ahe emerged
from a Twenty-third street toy store.
New York, and looked anxiously up and
down tha street.
Shoppers hurrylng by atopped. Tha
aarrfage callar on duty in fronT
?trSrvn aal- ..^ . i ? w-a ? i a.
za
?hop aakad: "What carrlaiaT
baby T"
"My carriage aad my baby ia lt." aama
the half aobbtng reply. "Flnd them for
ma! Oh. what shall I 4a II baby ia
goneT" .
f?^h?^?'? th* carrt*k-e with a baby la/
UT roarad the carriage aaan ln a volcah
that echoed down the bloofc. Thaa he>
*ras off on a run for tha haad of tha Hna
of oarriagea. startling tha crowd by bel
lowlng: "Where'a tha earrlage wlta"
a baby in it?"
The cry was taken up by rx>lto*meaa
"I WANT MY BABTI"
Half a hundred men's volces swelleer
the chorus. The ordinary trafflc of tha
street ceased. The distracted mother
wrung her hands. "I want my baby,*
ahe kept repeating. *T only left it a mo?
ment to go inside and buy a present.
Now it's gone."
There were dark whlsperlnga of kloV
napers. Every carriage that hore lar1
iight was eyed with suspicion,
When the excitement wasatltshelghi1
a carriage threaded its way to tha curbw
There was a glad cry from tha weeping!
woman, and openlng the door herwalf sha
was Inside with a bound. The next thing
the crowd saw was a baby about fwa
years old being smothered with llssea.
"Home, Thomas," came a voite frora
the carriage, and mother and baby wera
whirled away before anybody had a
chance to flnd out who they wera or hoar
the carriage had come to get lost
TRAGEDY IN ASYLTJM.
Haxlcaa Madmaa Nnil.-il K. Uott i??
mate'a aaaad to the Floor ?a
<???<? llim a Slinvf.
Ambroslo Samano Campa, a Mexicaa.
madman kilied a fellow inmate of tha
San Hippolita insane asylum in tha City
of Mexico. the other day while profesa*
Ing to s-have him.
Campa ladtaoad the other man to ra
move his atraltjBeket Whaa this-waa
accompiished li. aakad his eonipanion to
don the ajarav at, ar] l< fa ba did without
Ing bla rtcthaoa tha
Boor, Campa pn U? drive a aataja
BBlke tbro aad imo the floor.
bTII ti :? - kalfe, which by
BBBBt ? I :ui<i contrived to secura,
he tri?<: u? lhavi his victim. but flnding
thr U\tter*l poattlaa inconvenient, re
moxe.L tha iplke and nailed the man'a
head to the tl- or in a different manner.
This opi r.'.'ion h, repeated four tlmea.
The dead man was a brother of
Muir.it i ktarroa, proaecutlng attorney la
the Melem criminal court. and a well
8P1KKU HIM TO THE FIXIOR.
known lltterateur. When n*ws of tha
tragedy was eonveyeu to the lawyer ha
was summing up the case In the trial of
Jorge Lezama. who waa flnally seutenced
to death for murder. Aa the attorney
asked the terrible penalty for Lezama
teara were strcaming down his cheeka,
Samano Campa, who had been in the asy?
lum for nine years, was a powerful man.
He believed himself to be God on earth.
Once he grasped a man who refused to
worahip him by the throat and ttruck
his victim'a haad agalnat tha well, fae
turing the akull. Two yeara ago in a
flght with another lnmata, who also
claimed to be God ln Heaven, Campa ae
cured a club and kllled hia opponent.
t oftiu. Made of Olaaa.
Hermetically saalad glasa cofflna are
comlng in vogua in French elttaa It hf
aaaerted that a body buried ln a glaaa
ooffin becomas mummifled ln about 8#
yeara.
Courttoar the Maae.
Tha poat burns the mldnight oii
And lonely vlgUs keep;
Whlla producu of hia aakefu! toll
Put other folk* to sleep.
?Spare Momants.
The One Thlaa Needful.
"Can you make bread, cake and pla*
Miss De Type?"
"Certainly, Mr. Cautlous, af you caa
furnish the dough."?N. Y. Tim?.a.
The Drama af fDlrt.
Madge?How was the play last night?
Dolly?Just lovely. It was full oi
thlnga a girl had to pretend she didn't
understand.?Town Toplcs.
Beaatlfal.
"She's pretty as a picture."
"Yes?any picture except her own.**
CInclnnati Commereial Tribune.
II ii millat Inar.
She?Has he any degradlng ties?
He?Yes, those his wife bought fot
him.? Yonkers Statesman.