10 Queer Things, Queer Ways and Queer People of New York^^ Thanksgiving' past, Christmas close at hand, the coal scarcity yet unre lieved, have set r\ f\ !\ > New York to tak- Qnj injiiW 'ua. 1 jng. earnest ac __ count of charita .Cj LJ D Li, in this respect jV ~ y as in others tlie ! sasSi opSoKB J ways discreet ; J hands. Snn'Jnn Snn relieving pov : J JLI o LJU o QG ?' erty the Episco palian church, in >«;' s l' i,e of i,s BlnaU • ; 10! Jit iTL numbers, takes the : Hi iy Ufc It includes ; t M'JMLJML 1 ' practically all the | men of greatest J The Edward Clark wealth; it is not Club- afraid of experi ments. In what other church would the relative of a great prelate plan to open a public house and leave to its owners' vote the question | whether it shall sell beer or i not? The Social Halls association j of which Miss Virginia Potter, Bishop J l'otter's niece, is vice president and founder, is planning to spend $200,000 j upon its lirst hall. The question of j applying for a license to sell beer and J wine will depend upon the vote of the stockholders. The stock is held at j SIOO a share, the investment is to pay four per cent. Anybody can buy stock; j it is shrewdly held that the privilege ; of voting upon the license question ; will boom its sale. People have opin- I ions upon that point. The four per cent, proviso is neees- j sary; that prevents the halls from ; being "charities." Few people would j darken their doors if this could be truly said. There will be lodge rooms, u restaurant, a roof garden with cafe, a balcony where meals can be served in summer and where men can smoke if they wish. Another member of the Potter fam ily—the wealthy widow of Alfred Corning Clark, of Singer sewing ma chine fame, who recently became the wife of Bishop Potter himself—is pre paring under his direction to spend tonic of her vast fort-ue upon philanthropy. The Edward Clark club, for whose erection she has made plans, will add to the city's means of recreation for those whose homes are too narrow for playroom. Much of j the city's charitable endeavor now i seeks this outlet. In the old days money was spent, often wasted, for i blankets and soup. iiitiicui t uiture Movement. One of the most interesting men in charity work is Dr. Felix Adler, head ' of the Ethical Cul- ture society. For 30 years this man has made philan thropy his busi- MJrJ ness. His en- fjfty 1 Ifajsv deavor has been to gather in good IS works the many i who profess no re- t-J \ I ligion. His follow- la crs have no creed j Vf but good conduct. I (H Many, but not a I majority, are of Jewish descent, an A New Y ork Boy's element that fur- C-ub Boy. nishes a very large proportion of New- York's agnostics. The ethical more- j ment has been of clow growth, but there are now seven branches in Lon don, and the parent body in New York has just laid the corner stone of a | splendid new home. The work is the I same as that usually undertaken un- j dcr church direction. Kindergartens, ! clubs, country homes, sewing classes, I libraries, reading-rooms, bathrooms : and the like are furnished generously j for the members. In charities the church hasan a<lvan tage over any ethical movement in its | vast accumulated machinery; in some j cases in its wealth. The ground upon > which Trinity church stands, with its ! churchyard, just at the head of Wall street, is probably worth $->,000,000.1 How much it is worth will never be known; it will never b<* sold. The ' Trinity office building, lit only to be ! torn down, and occupying only two lots at the northern,end of the graveyard, tias just been sold for $1,700,000, to be removed. Old Trinity owns much profitable real estate whose rentals grow every year. '1 he money is spent upon chapels in other parts of the town and upon charities and good works, after salaries of unusual num ber and generosity have been paid to its clerics, with the venerable Or. I)ix at their head. 4ii In«t i t lit Imm I Church. A church of different kind is Or. Kainsford's. Or. lininsford is a big raw boned Cuna- V _ - dian who has just ' celebrated the '' ~7Tf~ * T ;; twentieth anni- VjMOUj V " "t »'IH _ ,9t I •" > i T Vo ' K 1 "'like Iru, WW Pf ''- v ~ili eliureh .rfNC ,lurt but it jk BSt endow in*'a t, wli ieli IKB tn lil 18l I♦• «4 M III* (Jf - lll'll fill . I lhl > t ha .1.,, there were perhaps ■«>>• utett«lH-iN, and an ilu oui* o 1 ~000 a /ear. The membership has grown to 8,200, the income to $97,000. You see from the figures that Or. liainsford has not been "after" rich people to fill his church. In fact, over 5,000 of the number live in tenements. Mayor Low and J. l'ier pont Morgan are vestrymen, and there is no church where plainer talk is heard about the duties of the rich. Dr. K'ainsford manages clubs, ath letic associations, dances —anything that interests people and that can be put under clean management instead of doubtful commercial management outside. Better dance and sing in places where no wickedness is permit ted than dance and sing in the public dance halls of the East side or of Coney Island, is the doctor's theory. The doctor is not afraid to speak liis mind. And a man who can draw together J. I'. Morgan and 5,000 of thq very poor from the tenements into one church has a mind to speak. "Tody" Hamilton null Hall Cnlne. The two finest press agents that ! ever crossed the sea are now in New | York. Off hats to Mr. Hall Caine i— ———— | and "Tody" Ham ilton! 11 am i 1 ton is Sjjjj about 4", years of famous for half 'SF num found him; | His feats of press iSaB j agentship are fa mous in the pro- Kate Carew'. Carica , ... . ture of Came. | fession. Before lie had been in England two months th'i solemn London dailies were punt ing as news long stories of happen ings in the circus, of visits of crowned heads, of romances of the freaks. Well, Hamilton is back in New York now. The day the show got here the papers were full of the death of a "bad elephant," whom tlie cir cus people have been, with tearj, obliged to kill and bury at sea oil Sandy Hook. There were photo graphs galore. The next Sunday two of the papers had page stories on differing phases of the circus. "Tody" invented the sensation i about Jumbo, for whom the children ! of royalty were crying their eyes j out when Barnum bought liim; ho | stuffed Jumbo's skin when lie died. ! and lie mounted Jumbo's bones, and made tne best of Jumbo's having of "his prettiest feats, though not famous, was to secure the printing of a two-page newspaper picture 30 inches long of tlie "modern Noali's ark," tlie voyage of the "greatest show," to England. The sectional plan showed just where the animals went in two by two or otherwise. Not a cent, directly or indirectly, does the big show pay for the in sertion of these stories. They are so readable that the papers want them. Hamilton doesn't even have to write them. The best reporters are sent to work up his ideas. I once asked Hamilton why he never went into business for him self. "I am a sad instance," he said, "of the benumbing effect upon a man's , courage of the certainty of a steady salary." IVnll C'nliir IN Different. Ilall Caine is different; naturally. He takes himself seriously; Hainil ton, a brighter man, is conscious of his limitations. Caine doesn't know lie ha.s any. j Everything \ J he writes he ex \ yA. peets to fall upon the waiting world * with the force of [• i n revelation. And /! ( he does get tre mendous sen sa - tions. I New York Ca- Mr». Fiske. , ... tliolicism is now fuming with rage because Caine puts "Pope Leo X." —that is to say, some pope of the future—into his play, "The Eternal City," and puts into the pope's mouth sentiments which Catholics cannot approve. Thus Father Ducey hasbeen"drawn" to attack Mr. Caine. Father Ducey is the typical "soggarth anion"—the dear priest. He is fervid, elo quent, devoted, the friend of many j people. In Henry George's time Fa ther Ducey was in disfavor with his ! superiors because he was friendly to the "single tax" movement. His elo quence has never made him u bishop, as it uiil Feiielon. Father Ducey says and he has his co-religionists with him—that in Mr. t nine's conception i,f the pope, as played by Mr. Holland, "con elenc.-, confidence, religion all are violated. His Mllge pope I-. an insult to the most sacred relations of religious life." Hut th'-re are. enough people in New York who are not good ('ml, • dies to till every night the theater where the t liaiu pope in played. New Vork ha . I.a.i il till of i-e|j giniin plays. The "morality" of "Everyman" hi eht escape thai de, i;»i.al Inn. I tnt Mrs. I i-ki . "Mjrj j m gdala" baMlf Itlmrftwii Scrip tu i t I characters i-xi eptitig the t 'lirl»t \ t limi elf. OW luS LA.NUOON CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER n, 1902. Some Interesting Chapters in Mexican History Included in Which Is a Recounting of the Pius Fun-d Claims Recently Settled. f\CK in 1845, Texas, wearied with playing the role of the "Lone Star," offered herself with her broad domains, to the United 1 States, and was accepted. The next year a difficulty arose with Mexico as to the owner ship of a strip of land between the Merees and the Rio Grande, ceded to Texas in 1824 by Santa Anna. Santa Anna denied tlie claim, de clared it was wrung from him when he was a prisoner and his life threat ened, therefore not valid. Polk, a man of great energy and iron will, was president of the Uni ted States; upheld by the democratic party he sent troops under Gen. Tay lor to secure that strip of land—if need be, at the cannon's 'mouth. There were secret instructions t.) provoke a war if possible. The Texans, remembering the mas sacre at Goliad, remembering the Alamo, "Thermopylae had her mes sengers of defeat, but the Alamo had none," hated the Mexicans, especially tlie treacherous Santa Anna. Taylor, carrying out his instruc tions, built a fort opposite Mata moras. This had the desired effect. The Mexicans were incensed, crossed the river and fought at Palo Alto. American blood spilled upon Ameri can soil! The Kubicon was crossed when Taylor passed the Rio Grande and war was declared. The Mexicans disputed the advance of tlie Ameri cans step by step. At a convent in Cliurubuseo the national guard, most ly Hidalgos, 800 strong, made a brave defense against a force of G,OOO men. There was no surrender, but the con vent was taken —a fight memorable for the answer, become historic of /■"* ~ ""\ CV.' - RUINS OF THE PECOS CHURCH, CALIFORNIA. the Mexican general to Gen. Twiggs when a: ked about the ammunition — "Sir, if there had been any ammuni tion left, you would not now be here." It was at San Cosine that Grant, ! then a lieutenant, lirst showed his j military sagacity. He mounted a howitzer in tlie tower of a church, which commanded the ground of the enemy. Grant told the story in his modest way: "The shots from our , little gun dropped upon the enemy 1 and created a great confusion." lb was called before the commanding general, who pronounced every shot effective. Finally the capital was reached and the stars and stripes floated from the halls of the Montezumas. The de mands of the conquerors for the trouble, expense and bloodshed of a two-years' war, which they had pro voked, was California and New Mex ico, two-fifths of the Mexican em pirc. Gen. Fremont had been sent over-I land to the Pacific coast to incite a rebellion. Santa Anna fled tl.e Mex icans were helpless -signcu the treaty. If the war were unjust, as has ' been claimed, the United States gen erously gave an iiidcinnity of $15,00;},- 000. At the beginning of the civil war Napoleon 111. was dazzled by a' scheme of forming an empire in Mex- i ieo that, in a way, would be a de pendency of France. He doubted not that the confederacy would win and become an ally of the new em pire together they would stamp out the Monroe doctrine. Napoleon chose Maxinilian, arch duke of Austria, and Carlota, lib wife, u daughter of llelgitim, as flg ureheadH, and promised to support them with French troops. From the lirst the French govern incut had I li warned that its action would be regarded iik a cause of w ir with the t ii iti*il Stales. So lonir n the latter win engaged f.r it» life blood. which tlie I rene'll thought was fa t oozing out. tlf waning, wire of little iiiouhii:. \r ter Appomattox they || M( | ,|.tTj-rent houiiil in French ear*. I'lawnp wltu the Monroe il.M't rlnc w.i playing with tire Napole ii die.,l..| t<• with (rm iti h troop-, hrnklni hu pledget, to I'lilpei or ll'lll einpi . One wiih nliot the other went mad. Furlv in iln- |.ieseii \ <-ii r I I ..|J story WM fwvlvvtft, whi'di g,i»,. the. United Siute» Miotbtr ilusiu sg tiMt j Mexico. This time no land was in volved. only money, $4,000,000 includ ing interest -money due the Catholio church, which has given it the name of the Pious Fund. The rise of the missions along the Pacific coast reads like a romance; the churches in decay form the most picturesque ruins in America. Tli-j eyes of the Californians arc opened as to tlie treasures in tlieir keeping, and are doing what they can to pre serve them. Two hundred and fifty years ago, when Spain held Mexico, she tried in vain to gain a foothold among the Indians in California. For assist ance she turned to the church. The Jesuits, then in the full swing of power, were full of zeal, feared no peril nor suffering could they but plant the cross. Gold was needed and gold flowed in from the wealthy hi dalgoes at the cry, "Help us reclaim California from the black one." Father Juan Ugarte, with a few companions, started for the lower coast, intending to work his way north by a chain of missions. The work prospered, large numbers of the Indians submitted to baptism and signed themselves with the. cross. In Europe the Jesuits had fallen into disrepute, France, Spain, Portugal and Venice were clamoring against them. Pope Clement NIV., much against his will, revoked the order in 1773. Father I'garte was driven from his post and the crown, took possession of the fund, which had grown to very large proportions. The missions were divided between Fran ciscan and Dominican monks. Juni pero, a Franciscan father, gave each mission an endowment of SIO,OOO from the Pious Fund; the work of ! Christianizing and civilizing went on. When Mexico threw oil' the Spanish yoke she took possession of the fund and claimed the right to administer it. Santa Anna was president, and ! sold the fund in 1»4~, guaranteeing | the church six per cent, interest on it in perpetuity. The promise, like all Suntta Anna's promises, was bro i ken. For more than 20 years the doors of the Mexican treasury were I closed against the church. In 1800 the archbishop of California brought the claim before the Mexican claims commission, and pushed it with so much vigor that it was agreed to sub | nut it to Sir Edward Thornton, then Hritish ambassador to the United States, who awarded the church $904,700 arrears, which was divided among the Catholic churches of the west. Again the Mexican treasury was sealed against further demands of | .he church. | Attorneys of both countries argued j the ease, but were unable to reach any agreement. At the instance of the present archbishop of the west, the I nited States took the matter j up and diplomatically demanded pay ment. Mexico refused it, declaring that tne I'ious Fund was raised for the political conquest of California I and the disposal of it belonged firs: to Spain, after to Mexico, but neve.- 'to the archbishop of California. A 1 foreign ambassador said that had the I niteil States been anxious for war or desirous for plunder it might easily have brought the question of the I'ious Fund into a casus belli. Neither country wished to unfurl its Hag or sound the toe-in of war. I'orfirio Oiaz nits in the seat of San ta Anna; being a man of honor and .if the -tricte-t integrity, it was eu.-.v to reach an agreement, which wast. submit it to the Hague tribunal, called in Is'.i'.i by the autocrat of u|| the UtlMsias. The I'ious Fund arbitrators decided iiL-ain t Mexico, their decision heir® that that country should pay over to the ('lilted States .>l, uu.iisu'.ii; in \|e\- iciui currency eoxer what the Cal ifornia ehurehes hoiilil have i. • eeived in the past, iiiul r I.' „u'i;i un nually hereafter forever. Ih. can* hail penal llile|.»t, the first Mibniitted to th* lion court One member put it thit theirs "was I lie lot of bricrte»k bin ri ter* and judges without cane.-." The two new wrurtd republics lutte «med the court from d'nutt ode LYOiA L UOU&HJ.N POPULAR SCIENCE. The first scientific society was estab lished by Dr. Franklin. A German geographer complains that north pole exploration is in dan ger of degenerating into a sport, in which the establishment of "records" is the main tiling. The breathing or blowing of wells driven on the plains of Nebraska has been lately shown to coincide with changes of barometric pressure, but it is thought that .low pressure can hardly account for the force with which the air is expelled from some of tlie wells. In his experiments with various ve hicles, M. Michelin has found that iron tires require greater motive power than either solid rubber or pneumat- I ic. An electric automobile running at five per cent, greater speed with pneu ! inatic tires took 18 percent, less power ! than when fitted with solid rubber tires; and in stopping, the solid tires | required an increase of 14 percent, in braking power. Two striking instances of the effects | of "wind shots," or the currents of air ! caused by the enemy's cannon balls, are given in the "Autobiography of Sir Henry Smith." On one occasion his I horse fell as if stone dead, but he was : not hurt at all. On another occasion j an officer was "knocked down by the j wind of a shot and his face was black I as if he had been two hours in a pu ; gilistic ring." Between Mount ICasbek and Ghima rai Khokli, in the Caucasus, a glacier descends into the narrow, wedge shaped valley of the Glienal Don, which | after a course of 13 miles joins the | Ghizel Don, a tributary of the Terek. | Like most glaciers of the Caucasus, ! the Ghenal Don lias of late years re ceded considerably, and some years ago copious springs of hot sulphur j water were uncovered by the recession. About the middle of July the whole end j of the glacier broke off and slid down the valley, grinding down everything i in its path. Thirty-two lives were lost. On July 11) another huge block of ice broke off and followed the first with terrible rapidity for eight miles down l the valley. SOUTHERN SUPERSTITIONS. If you kill frogs your cows will "go dry." Tickling a baby will cause the child to stutter. To cut off a pup's tail causes hJni to grow "smart." To throw hair-combing out of the window is bad luck. To thank a person for combing your hair will bring bad luck. No person who touches a dead body will be haunted by his spirit. Cut a dog's "dew claws" and it will not die from poisonous snake bite. To kill a ghost, it must be shot with a bullet made of a silver quarter-dol lar. If you boast of your good health, pound wood immediately with your fist | or you will become sick. To dream of a live snake means enemies at large; a dead snake, eue : niies dead or powerless. To dream of unbroken eggs signifies I trouble to come; if the eggs are I broken the trouble is past. To cut a baby's finger nails will de form it; if the child is a month old ! it will cause it to have lits. Silver nails or screws in a coffin will prevent the dead haunting the scenes I of its existence in the flesh. To allow a child to look into a mir : ror before it is a month old will cause ■ it to have trouble in teething. A child will have a nature and dis position similar to that of the per : son who first takes it out of doors. To hear a screech owl is bad luck, j To prevent hearing their cry turn the pockets inside out and set the shoes soles upward. To see the new moon through clouds or tree tops means trouble; if the disk is clear, good luck; if seen over | the right shoulder, joy; if over the | left, anger and disappointment. SMALL TALK AMONG ACTORS. From garret to basement the large house'of a Leeds- (Kngland) min eral water manufacturer L- a gigantic sera pbook, every notable theatrical : poster of the last 20 years being pasted on the walls. Melba will contribute the proceeds j of her Australian tour to the char ities of her native country. The an nouncement was received in Australia, and.in fact, everywhere, with great surprise. Seats for the prima donna's opening concert in Melbourne sold for high prices, many person*- having re mained up all night in order to secure a pooa place in line at the box of fice. Hecrbohin Tree, the London actor, lia* a daughter Viola, who shows strong artistic tendencies, though she i'oe> not. wish to enter the profession in which her parents have been so long prominent. When quite a little girl she begged her father to get her a pony "Hut, inv dear," said he, "a |Hin> cost* a lot of money." Utile Viola considered a moment and then said: "Well, why don't yon act better and then you would get more money." Mr Patrick Campbell is said to "make up" tin re rapidly than any other woman on the xtage. She usu ally arrive* at the theater n few min ute. before curtain time, enters her d re»» ing-room like a cyclone, and with the uiil of a nimble lingered niaid in ready to gn oil before Uie average actr«-» won hi have her liat off Fre quently fctir stands in the wing* wait ing for her i"lie while putting up her hair. II) the way, she un-ei a tie- j ItiemloUS row Ml set log llel.elf fcU- ! noiiiiei d Ha ;l.e 1-iiL us "Mi*. I'm j l4MH|>i>eU." MENTIONED OF MEN. Thomas F. Walsh, the Colorado mil lionaire, is having erected for his 11- year-old son in Washington a fully equipped theater, intended to devel op the dramatic talent of the boy. John Sherman's grave in the Mans field (().) cemetery has just been marked by a handsome granite block. The name '"John Sherman" is the only legend that relieves the plainness of the huge monolith. John 1. Mitchell, judge of the Penn sylvania superior court, has resigned his oflice oil account of mental inca pacity. He will receive half pay until the expiration of the term for which he was elected, which ends in 1910. Postmaster General Payne is consid ering the idea of placing portraits of the late Dr. Charles F. McDonald on money order blanks. Dr. McDonald was the first head of the money-order service and in the main its originator. Emperor William of Germany talks tually speaks German with just a better than any other except his own. Indeed, it has been said that he ac tually speaks German wllith just a trace of Knglish accent. In the case of his august uncle of England this condition is just reversed, and for a precisely similar reason. William's mother was English; Edward's father was German. The retirement from the United States senate in March next of John I*. Jones will leave William Itoyd Alli son, of lowa, the senior senator in unbroken length of service. He first took his seat in that body on March 4, 1873, and by subsequent elections has served continuously ever since. Immediately previous to that, he served four terms continuously in the na tional house of representatives. Ou the eve of Minister Wu's depar ture from Washington a young woman of his acquaintance said to him that she hoped to visit China some day, as what he had told her about his na tive country had been so interesting. "But you have never explained," she added, "why Chinamen take four or five wives." With a grave bow, the oriental diplomat said: "My country men take so many in order that they may find in all of them the beauties and accomplishments of one such young lady as you." CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR MEN. The "horsy man" might be pleased with a pen rack for his desk, but an ordinary one, oh, no—for the back of this pen rack is made of a trans verse section of a block of bireh wood. The bark is left on this block and the front is ornamented with pyrographic etching and the head of a horse carved from wood. Is he fond of his desk—there's a beautiful inkstand in bronze. It's a huge lotus leaf and, rising from one side, is the figure of a lovely woman of the Nile, who holds forth a lotus bud, Inside of which is the inkstand. Cut glass inkstands that are good and big have a gilt top on which the monogram is supposed to be en graved. A man's a very good thing to have in the house at all seasons of the year, excepting always Christmas time. If you don't believe it go look at the drawn, worried faces of wom ankind who are haunting the shops for that elusive Christmas gift for "him." Watch her touch this and that with dainty finger tip—watch her flit from counter to counter in bewitching uncertainty, spending day after day—for at last—what? Why, a necktie. Young men nowadays are quite as fond of dainty belongings as are young women, and for his dressing bureau are exhibited beautifully em broidered necktie eases, pin cushions that recall his college colors, oddly decorated burnt-wood handkerchief boxes or quaint shaving eases. There are also photograph frames decor ated with college emblems and, of course, quaint pipe racks and the college pillow. The shops well re member the voting man anil have made getting a gift for him an easy task. WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS. Typhoid germs die after a few days'* exposure in sea water. It is not an absurdity to say that among those who recover from small pox there are those who are better physically for having had the disease, says J. L. Tracy, M. 1)., in American Medicine. The birth and death rates of Italy for 40 years have been reviewed by Prof. Giuseppe Sormani. The births reached tlu ir highest point «>f 39.34 per thousand in IsTii anil their mini mum was X 1.49 in IM)s, while the cor responding limits of the death rate were 34.39 in ixi>7 and 21.57 in 1899. Itnth birth and death rate.-, hate been diminishing, although there has been a constant excess of births over deaths, varying from 2.40 in lsf>7 to 1.'.50 in 1897. Assuming tin- lessened death ■ ate to lie a result of better coutrol of infect lons di.-eases, it s estimated that 200,000 persons have been saved from death, and at least I'll times as many have been saved from illness. THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. The average lake t > out Jays n.ooo i (!(!>. eacli i asuu, and the whitettsh a greater number. Ileetlin in the Ka-t and U< it Indie* urc so brilliant in coloring that they ale beautiful lo gems. The specimen of the Japanese hen |u I he Mute mil of Natural History, Nt W York, has a tail I" feet h>ug. Kuiiii of the birds, notable (Ik blue throat, accomplish the whole oj their n. uratury journey iu -IUK atupeuuuua tilurl.
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