r r 1 —• " Oi Ethical Influence of Spanking Upon Women By MAGISTRATE LUKE CONNORTON, Of the Queens County Bench, Long island City. I do not believe that any refractory woman or girl was ever the worse for a justly merited spanking. In most cases it docs a world I of good, not only to the woman herself, but x " ' l knngs peace and <|iiiet to long suffering There would be fewer Florence Burnses » and fewer Mrs. O'Malleys if fathers and Ssjgßß ; • husbands adminisiered corporal punishment IfflL It is rather a delicate subject for one I in my position—that of public adminis t rat or of justice—to thus discuss, but it is a serious matter, a vital problem that we are touching upon. To realize how serious and how vital, any thoughtful man or woman has but to glance at the columns of any dailv newspaper. Understand that I do not LUKE CONNOKTON. * 11 ~ , countenance or condone brutality, and you must remember that there is a very palpable distinction between bru tally beating a woman and administering a wholesome, healthy spank ing. The old couplet, A woman, a spaniel and a walnut tree, The more you beat '< m the bettor they be, is true, only I think "beat" is a little too strong a word. I should make it read: A woman, a spaniel nrcf a walnut tnr e, The more you spank 'em lh* bettc r they be, A great deal of trouble lies in the fact that neither boys nor girk are nowadays spanked enough during the spanking age. "What is the spanking age ?" Well, that depends entirely 011 the in dividual. With the average woman, however, I should say it runs from five to forty years. I do not sanction a child of less than five being whipped, or a woman more than 40. If husbands and fathers, especially the latter, should bear in mind that women—that is, ideal v/oruen, the gentle sympathetic creatures, who, if properly man aged, make our best wives and noblest mothers—are, after all, but grown-up children, much discord and sorrow and disgrace would often be spared their families. 112t "■ Some Suggestions Europe lias to Offer By McDOUGALL HAWKES, 1 Commissioner of Docks and Ferries, New York City. fcl " w » "1 ' » 1 ■ 1 ■ ■ , 112 M F.RICAX cities are far ahead of European ports in dock 9 e< l ll 'P nicnt - Still, there are some ideas which it would be well for us to adopt. a . 1 Graving docks in this country arc usually under pri '■i i < S va * e control; vessels are compelled to have their repairs made by the employes of the owners of the dock. Abroad, these docks are hired out by the municipal authorities, at rates fixed according to tonnage; the owners can em- BHnniiP Ploy anyone they choose to make repairs. Our recreation piers, with concerts every evening, art unknown in Europe. But in 110 foreign city is the public deprived of the water view and ocean breezes. Where commerce requires '.he erec tion of sheds along the water front, the roofs of the piers arc con verted into a beautiful and ornamental promenade. This idea works well in Copenhagen and Antwerp, and I hope to introduce it in New York. Thus the residents of the crowded part of the citv will have a space 50 feet in width for a promenade. The broad walk will not interfere with shipping in the least, and it will go a long way towards making up for the lack of parks along the water front. Another point in which we are far inferior to Europe. Our immigrants' hotels and sailors' lodging houses, so-called, ARE A DISGRACE. Abroad, the cities and transportation companies main tain hotels for sailors and immigrants. If this is not a proper sub ject for municipal action in this country, it certainly opens an im portant field of work for philanthropic and charitable organizations. I MUST UNDERSTAND NATURE'S LAWS 112 | Fy F. VV. GUNSAULUS, ''"^^ch^o^Thic^o l,u,e $ This is the age of the educated engineer, among which are num bered the chemist and the electrician. They are being called upon, adequate with the raw material in nature. ' le ncc( ' s man, increasing with civ ilization, coming from his many-sided and deepened lift, will not be satisfied with a jr? cursory or amateurish handling of nature. v ; The man who has done things with na ture by rule-of-tluimb is now pushed aside the mathematical calculation will be discov- F. W. GUNSAULUS. . . , ~ . , , eieu as a permanent habit of nature when he seeks to make a machine. THE SCHOLAR IN ENGINEERING IIAS COME TO STAY, JUST BECAUSE lIE TURNS OUT TO BE THE MORE PRACTICABLE THAN A BRILLIANT IG NORAMUS. It will not do for a man to belittle his requirements in the direction of theory. The theories as to noil, anil coal, and steam, as they are gathered in a boiler and engine are expressions of laws and methods of nature which he has to count 011 all the time, lest he shall have nature against him and his machine hall break down. No practical man in any steel mill or railway plant now thinks of laughing at theory. 1 am not going too far when 1 sa\ that a law yer can more easily be a lawyer without a law >chool, and he can get on by influence of rare genius without much scholar hip, even a doc tor can do the same, more easih than one who desires to acltvse worthy things in mechanical, electrical and c hemic;? 1 work car. «»ci without a technical tiainii'^. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 1902. PRESIDENT'S EFFORT FAILS. The Great Coal Conference at Washington Comes to Naught. Mr. Roosevelt's Appeal Was Ineffectual—-Operators Flatly Refuse Arbitration With the Miners, But Demand Federal Troops to Insure Complete Protection to Workmen and Their Families. Washington, Oct. 4. —The great coal | conference between the president and representatives of operators and the miners came to an end at the tempo ' rnry Wiiite Ilouse Friday afternoon ! with a failure to reach an agreement. Apparently the rock upon which the I conference -qilit. was recognition of the Miners' union. The president I urged the contending parties to cease strife in the interest of public wel | fare. The miners through the presi i dent of their union expressed a I willingness to s 111 >lllit differences to I the arbitration of a tribunal to he ■ named by the president and to enter into an agreement to abide by the I terms fixed by the arbitration for a j period of iroin one to five years, j The employers, through the presi dents of the railroad and coal com | panics and a leading independent j operator, squarely refused arbitra tion, denounced the miners' labor or gmii/ailion as a lawless and anarch | istic body with which they could and j would have no dealings, demanded j federal troops to insure complete pi o- I tceliiui to workers and their families j in the mining region and court pro ceedings against the Miners' union, and offered if the men returned to | work to submit grievances at indi j vithtal collieries to the decision of the ' judges of the court of common pleas | for the district of Pennsylvania in which the colliery was located. There the matter closed. I It was a remarkable chapter in the i economic history of the country that was written yesterday. For the first time the president of the republic had intervened directly between the I great forces of capital and labor in an effort to avert what he himself | regarded as a great national calami i ty. The result was to bring the priu j cipals in the great controversy face j to face, with the whole country eager ! ly intent and watchful of their do i ings. At the temporary White House last - night the following official statement I was given out concerning the con | ference: The conference opened at 11 o'clock. Those in attendance were: George F. Haer, president Heading railway system. I VV. H. Truesdale, president Dela ware, Lackawanna K- Western ltatl road Co. E. 1!. Thomas, chairman of board, Erie Railroad Co. Thomas P. Fowler, president New York, Ontario i■ t tor the generil pub ! lie. The questions at issue which led jto the situation affect immediately tne parties concerned—the operators and the miners—but the situation ilself vitally affects the public. As long as there seemed to be a reason able hope that these matters could be adjusted between the parties it did not seem proper to me to intervene in any way. "1 disclaim any right or duty to intervene in this way upon legal i grounds, or upon any official relation i that I bear to the situation, but the ' urgency and the terrible nature of the catastrophe impending over a large portion of our people in the shape of a winter fuel famine impel me to be lieve that my duty requires me to use whatever influence I can to bring to an end a situation which has become literally intolerable. I wish to ein i phasi/e the character of the situation and to say that its gravity is such that I am constrained urgently to in sist that each one of you realize the lu-;w\ burden of responsibility upon him. "We are upon the threshold of win ter with an already existing coal famine, the future terrors of which we can hardly yet appreciate. The A Hiitllo Willi I'lru \ ictoria. It. Oct. 4.—Advices from ! the Orient tell of the capture of a I Korean pirate junk by Japanese tisli- I crmen. The pirates attacked and, j looted a hamlet on the i-lanil of ( hu I judo and put many of the inhabitants I to torture. Five boat crew- of Ja i panese fishermen attacked the pi , rates. Tin fishermen threw burning I brands of oil-sat urated bamboo into | the pirate juiiK. ••ttlng it on fir tti i i n- .*0 men in the crew of the pirate eight were Killed, nine Were taken i prisoner* ami the remainder jumped j over ioard and were drowned ! <-vi! possibilities are so far-reaching, | so appalling, that il seems to me that you are not only justified in sinking, | but required to sink for the time be ! ing any tenacity as t.o your respective claims in the matter at issue between ! you. In my judgment the situation j imperatively requires that you meet ; upon the common plane of the neces sities of the public. Vl'ilh all the earnestness there is in me I ask that there be an immediate resumption of j operations in the coal mines, in some I such wa.v as will without a day's un ni'ce.-sary delay meet the crying needs of the people. "I do not invite a discussion of your respective claims and positions. 1 ap peal to your patriotism, to the spirit that sinks personal considerations and makes individual sacrifices for the general good." I pon the completion of the presi dent's remarks, Mr. .Mitchell said: "Mr. President, I am much pleased with what you say. I am much im pressed with the gravity of the situa tion. We feel that we arc not respon sible for this terrible state of affairs. We are willing to meet the gentlemen representing 1 lie coal operators I<> try to adjust our differences among onr si Ives. If we cannot adjust them that way, we are willing that you shall name a tribunal who shall determine the issues that have resulted in the strike, and if the gentlemen repre senting the operators will accept the award of such a tribunal, the miners will willingly accept it, even if it is against their claims." Ihe President: "Before consider ing what ought to be done I think it only just to both of you—both sides—and desirable from my stand point, that you should have lime to consider what 1 have stated as to the reasons for my getting you together, anil I shall trespass so far upon your good nature as to ask that this inter view cease now and that you come back at :i o'clock. I should like you to think over what I have stated, not to decide now, but to give it careful thought and return at 3 o'clock." The conference then adjourned un til 3 o'clock. Upon reassembling Mr. Baer spoke as follows: "•Mr. President, do we understand ! yon correctly that we will be expect- , ed to answer the proposition submit ted IM .\I I . ,II «u:.. ii/r'''' The President: "It will be a pleas tire to me to hear any answer that ■ you are willing to make." Mr. Baer: "1 have prepared an an swer." He then read the statements i of the representatives of the opera- ! tors. The president asked Mr. 'Mitchell if he had anything further to say. Mr. Mitchell said: "The charge made by the gentlemen that 20 mur ders have been committed In the an thracite coal regions during the pres ent strike is untrue. If they will name the men. and will show that they have | committed the murders. I will resign i my position. That is a fair proposi- | tion. Mr. President, that is a fair j example of how our organization and our people are maligned. The truth [ of the matter is. as far as I know, ! there have been seven deaths. No one ; regrets them more tha;< I do. Three i of them were committed by the coal ! and iron police and no one else has been charged with them. God knows the miners do not escape being | charged with everything done there. 1 "They speak about burning build- ! ings. i here was a reward offered for burnings. I can bring affidavits of a : hundred people if necesasry that I lightning caused one burning that they charged to the I'tiited Mine Workers. Mr. President. I have ad mitted on more than one occasion ! that there lias been some lawlessness, but I will say that a large portion of such lawlessness has been provoked by criminals who have been brought into •the anthracite regions to recruit the coal and iron police. I feel very! keenly the attacks made upon me and my people, but. I came here with the intention of doing nothing and saving nothing that would affect reconcilia tion." The president then asked the repre sentatives of the anthracite com panies whether they would accept Mr. Mitchell's proposition. They an swered: "No." In response to a fur ther question from the president they stated that they would have no deal ings whatever with Mr. Mitchell look ing toward a settlement of the ques tion at issue, and that they had no other proposition to make, save what was contained in the statement of Mr. Baer, widen was that if any man chose to resume work and had a difficulty with his employer, both should leave the settlement of the question to the judge of the court, of common pleas for the district in which the mine was located. Inaci mi i Hlnftii Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. t. The Minneapolis chamber <>f commerce, has served notice on the Western j I'nion IVI egruph Co. that it must slyn ' the pending contract covering the | carrying of market quotations by next Mond iV. or be denied the pri\i-j leges of the floor. The contract in que-tion w.i' submitted to the West- i company no to fund h any of the chamber'* quotations to bucket shop*, the conqmli has never either signed or rejected the contract and the, eliamitei lii :i .w -erved its ulti* i mat u in. ST. LOUIS BOODLERS. laterMllii;: Testimony About Tlielr Metliodn In «ilv. n til (lie Trial ol Ifniiker Snyder. St. Louis, Oct. 3.—ln Judge Ryan's court yesterday the trial of Kobert M. Snyder, banker and promoter, on the charge of bribery in connection with the passage of the Central Traction bill was resumed. Frederick (1. L't hoff, who was a member of the city council in April, 189.H, was put on the stand by the state. Uthoff testified that while a member of the city coun cil in IS9B, when the traction lulls were pending, Kobert M. Snyder called on hi in at his residence ant' gave him $50,000 to vote for the bills Circuit Attorney Folk questioned ■the witness as to the opposition which had developed to the Central Traction bill, and sprung the most interesting bit of information which the Snyder trial has yet disclosed, in volving the name of John/Sehullin, ex street railroad magnate, and Kdward Butler, a local millionaire politician, in what the witness characterized as an attempt to defeat the Central Traction measure by the use of a big sum of money distributed in relays of $.">.000 each to certain couneilmen every month. Witness testified that Butler paid tlie money to him and that he distri billed it among Couneilmen Gast, ' Brinkmeyer, Cans, Kratz and Thuner. Attorney Priest questioned the wit ness about Butler and the amounts I'thoff said lie (Butler) paid the j witnesses (iast, fiaus, Thuner, Brink meyer and.Kratz for several months. | Witness said Bufler paid them $433 | per month while the Central Traction i bill was pending. This was to insure ! that the six couneilmen in question would not vote for any rival street i railway bill. VENEZUELAN WAR. President Castro's Army Retreats from Insurgents and A walls ail Attack al E.os Teques, a Strong Statesjlcal Po sition, Willemstad, Island of Curacao, Oct. | 3.- -News has reached here from Yene- j zuela that the Venezuelan revolution- I ary forces under Gen. Matos have ef- j feeted a junction with the command j of the revolutionary general, Men- ! doza, near Camatagua. 50 miles south j of Caracas. The combined forces of i Matos and Mcndoza total 6,500 men. j Last Wednesday the revolutionists' were at San Juan De Los Moros, near ' Villa Be Cure. At this point the gov- j eminent forces under President Cas- j tro, amounting to 4,000 men, retreat-I ed precipitately before the vanguard of the revolutionists. There have ' been many desertions from President ! Castro's army. Castro is now at Los ] Teques, a very strong strategical po- j sit ion but a few hours' ride from j Caracas and which is nearly impreg- j liable. He is awaiting attack by the ' revolutionists. During the past three days the gov ernment has been forcibly recruiting for the army day and night on the streets of Caracas. When some of the men thus gathered in attempted to esr-« ne being in favor of the Matos revolution, tlie recriimiif' parties fired on them. Provisions in Cara cas are scarce and meat is worth 30 cents a pound. The government intends to attack the revolutionists at Barcelona next Sunday with 1,500 men under Gen. Velutini. Another revolutionary army under Gen. Rolando is now located at Cua, 25 miles south of Caracas. A COAL FAMINE. cities In Southern luiiianu Stint IJur iler oil the Olilo Itlvor arc 111 a ISail I'llgllt. Jeffersonville, Ind., Oct. 3.—With nearly 11,000,000 bushels of coal har bored at Pumpkin Patch, above this city, Jett'ersonville, New Albany and the surrounding towns are in immi nent danger of a coal famine, and much alarm is felt. At this time there tire !iu coal boats, each holding 25,000 bushels, and nearly 50 barges that contain 12,500 bushels each, being cared for by the Monongahela Con solidated Coal and Coke Co., of Pitts burg, owners and miners of the fuel, but it is disappearing as fast as it can be unloaded. The representative of a Chicago syndicate was ill the city this week, and offered the combine any price it would name for every lump now har bored at Pumpkin Patch, but the proposition was refused. An Appeal to the l'ubllc. New Albany, Intl., Oct. .1.-—The Na tional Federation of Civic Kiglits, an association incorporated under the laws of Indiana, the object of which is the amelioration of the condition and for tlie protection of the colored race, has issued an appeal to the peo ple of the United States. It says: "The cruelties of Nero, the massacres of innocent religionists and the bru tality of cannibalism, as chronicled in history, sink into significance when contrasted with the wholesale slaugh ter of the colored race in the repub lic of Washington, Jefferson and Lin coln." More Trouble lor Coal Karons. Übany, N. Y., Oct. 3. —Attorney General Da vies has granted the appli cation of the New York American and Journal that the coal operators be summoned to appear before him and show cause why proceedings should rot be instituted against tnem under the Donnelly anti-trust law. \ hear ing will be given in this city Octo ber g. T«rribly Filial Collision In a Tunnel, Parkersliurg, W. Va.. Oct. it.l ive persons were killed and three injured iu a head-on collision between two freight trains in a tunnel near Corn wa I lis. on the Baltimore A Ohio rail road ye-vterday. Fred I'caree, en gineer of one train; William Miller, a lirakcmaii, and a tramp were killed. It i thought evcral other are iu the tunnel, and two bodie call be Keen, but are beyond reach at the jiri cut time. One train carried ev t rnl ear- of cattle, all of which were (tilled or Injured. Twenty cur- wcr.* w reeked and the tunnel Is tilled with debrl«. TWO STATEMENTS. Two StitrmxntN Blade l>y Jlr, Hart and llr. . : NI I (<->■<* 11. | Washington, Oct. 4.—The state, ments to the president were made in the following - order: /President liner, of the Heading road; President Mitch <*ll, of the Mine Workers; President ; Thomns, of the Erie railroad; Mr. | Markle, independent operator; Pre si dent 'i'ruesdale, of the. Lackawanna ! rail road; Mr. Wilcox, vice president, of the Delaware & Hudson Kail road Co., and Mr. Fowler, of the New York, Ontario & Western road. The following is the statement of George r. liaer, president of the Heading railroad: "We infer that yon desired us to consider the offer of Mr. Mitchell ' verbally made this morning, speaking for the United Mine Workers, togo back to work, if you would appoint a commission to determine the ques tions at issue. "You say that yon 'do not Invite a I discussion of your respective claims i and positions.' Put, we assume that la statement of what, is going on in the coal regions will not be irrelevant. |We represent the owners of coal mines in Pennsylvania. There are ! from JO,OOO to 15,000 men at work I mining coal. They are abused, as j saulted and maltreated by the I'nited | Mine Workers. They can only work | under the protection of armed guards. Thousands of other workmen are deterred from working by the in j timidation, violence and crimes in nngurated by the union mine workers, I over whom John Mitchell is chief. ! "The duty of the hour is not to j waste time negotiating with the fo j meriters of this anarchy and insolent 'Telianee of law. but to do as was done in the war of the rebellion, restore | the majesty of law, the only guar dian of a free people, and to de establisn order and peace at any cost. I"The government is a contemptible failure if it can only protect the lives and property, and secure the comfort o. the people by compromis ing with the violators of law and the Instigators of violence and crime. "Under these conditions, we decline to 'iccept Mr. 'Mitchell's offer to let our men work on terms he names. He has no right to come from Illinois to dictate terms on the acceptance of which anarchy and crime shall cease in Pennsylvania. He must stop his people from killing, maiming and abusing Pennsylvania citizens and from destroying people. He must stoj) it because it is unlawful, and not because of any bargain with us. "We will add to our offer to con tinue the wages existing at the time of strike and to take up at each col liery and adjust any grievance, this further condition—if the employers and employes at any particular col liery cannot, reach a satisfactory ad justment of any alleged grievances, it shall be referred to the judges of the court of common pleas of the dis trict in which the colliery is situated or final determination." The following is the statement made to the president by the repre sentatives of the Miners' union: wo. tilt' acel'l'ilite'().- 000 mine workers whom we represent, we have decided to propose a resump tion of coal mining upon the lines , hereinafter suggested. "We propose that the issues cul- I initiating in this strike shall be re ferred to you and a tribunal of your ! own selection, and agree to accept I your award upon all or any of the j questions involved. If you will accept | this responsibility, and the rcprc ] sentatives of the coal operators will | signify their willingness to have your j decision incorporated in an agree- I mont, for not less than one year or | more than five years, as may be 11111- j tually determined between them selves and their anthracite coal mine 'workers, and "ill pay the scale of J wages which you and the tribunal ap pointed by you shall award, we will ; immediately call a convention and ! recommend a resumption of work, up on the understanding that the wag 's ' which shall be paid are togo into ef- I feet from the day upon which work is resumed." Uldsptcj lion ie« (lie story. Washington. Oct. I.—Comptroller ot I the Currency llidgeley yesterday gave j out the following statement: "The ! report that 1 have ovewuled, or at ! tempted to overrule, or shall attempt I to overrule the secretary of the treas -1 ury in the matter of reserve 011 gov | eminent deposits secured by goverti | ment bonds, is wholly false and 1111- ! founded. Before the decision was reached and the announcement made | by the secretary that 110 reserve need | be maintained against government