/V Woman's Strength. By JESSIE LLEWELLYN. There coines a time in the life of every girl '•* .J» V' - when she is exhorted by a mother or a gv guardian to use a woman's strength. It is the farewell to childish things, when the old lightsome frivolity of happy, rollicking youth s ' ts at casc u P on h cr I when her eyes grow wistful and a tear gleams behind the laughtet liilMreMMfr t there. For the first time in her life she begins 0 to analyze people and events, and her own re- Ttfkz lation to them. Iler girlish, rose-colored i" \ vision narrows to the gray light of calm ma- V « ■ turity ; she begins to get a menial focus on life. ——— Then <t is that the full meaning of the words strike deep into her understanding. A woman's strength; in those days of fading idealization and novitiate comprehension she stil 1 conjures pictures; she looks to literature and sees Cordelia suffering death in prison for the love of a father whom she could not lightly de ceive; she dreams of the semi-historical heroine who has stood for fidel ity through the centuries—Penelope, abandoned and faithful, true tc liome-ties, protecting and cheering the old and the young of her nearest kin while waiting for a husband whose loyalty is scoffed by all but her. I"rail little Manon Lescaut wanders into her mind, as the pitiful French girl follows her lover through misfortune and want to their death together on a desolate prairie. But as she grows older the romance of fiction and of history gives place to the small, ugly details of daily routine which are wont to crowd back ideals. Her eyes open round to reality. A woman's strength; the words seem to have a new meaning. She sees, then, the woman of our middle-class American life, planning to save the extra pennies in her household accounts; strong to choke back her impulses of self-indul gence in the interest of a husband whose "one more cigar a day doesn't count." She knows that woman to refuse this invitation and thn*, be cause a "new dress is out of the question," and she notes the calm smile on the woman's face that masks her physical suffering because "a com plaining woman routs the calm of an entire household." She is con scious of the woman's silence under unjust petulance from others, and that her self-repression has saved a disagreeable scene. She hears the woman's creed that: 'One cannot govern others without first governing self;" That ''a woman should never say what she means, but rather the expedient tiling;" T hat "disappointment in personal attainment may be a joy when it means the attainment of a daughter, a son, a husband." And after while the girl herself learns to take pride in setting up human landmarks through contributing her patience and love to the building of a statesman, an artist, a capitalist. As she sits alone in the twilight of her life she does not look back at the wrecks of her own hopes, but out over the world which a successful man is thrilling by his eloquence, or teaching of his philosophy or inspiring with his poetry. She is glad then that she has lived and she knows without words that the eloquence, the philosophy or the poetry was in part made possi ble through her woman's strength. i CHARITY WITH A MOTIVE By JOHN A. HOBSON, Lecturer ou Ethical Culture. I —— i w |FT us remember that charity is not justice, and let us resist all - forms of charity that have a secret motive behind them. Unless a fortune is inherited it is accumulated by one of a few forms. And ! if it is inherited we have only to look back a generation and we will see that the forms still hold good. Ilere they are: First, a fortune is made by the increase of land; then fortunes are made by com binations to control the output and supply; rebates and discriminations of carrying companies are responsible for other fortunes; manipulation of talents sometimes leads to wealth. That is, things are so manipulated that fortunes are secured from government by contracts; then specula tive pools make others wealthy. Men have it in their power to render unsteady the values of commodities. All fortunes had for foundation one of the above causes. lam not one who would scrutinize every gift to charity to determine whether it should be accepted. An investigation would reveal that all sprang from the same source, and to reject one would be to reject all. In these days of many millions the question arises: "How is the millionaire to spend his income?" He has learned that he cannot spend it all without injuring himself. Then shall he give it away personally? 1 believe he should not. Here is an illustration: A great city needs schools and parks, hos pitals, and some great cities feel that the streets should be cleaned. Now, should the millionaire be allowed to furnish these necessaries? If he did, the citizens would relax in their vigilance. They would come to rely upon the millionaire. The result would be that they would feel their obligation. Friend* of Andrew Carnegie do not believe he j gives to ward off criticism, but that is what his gifts accomplish. — hpoch of the Open Door By DR. POI.EMUS H. SWIFT, Ptslur Wukley MaUiuilui Cburcb, Chicago. | "FRF. never was an hour of such immense opportunities as the one to which this generation has come. The door into ISfekiJ?] 'be temple of prosperity stands wide open. The door into the temple of knowledge stands wider open -till. If a man remains ignorant amid the light of this u *it is because he wills to be ignorant Our public school system- the best and most practical the world has ever seen—makes illiteracy a sin. Uevoiu! the common School is the high school, the college and the university. This is an age of higher education. Philanthropic men have poured out their niouet like water and the grandest possible educa tion can now be seemed with the smallest possible outlay. Nor is this nil. The door into the temple of knowledge stands wide open for those who purchase enough good books to keep >ou reading u vvhols year U/ lite expenditure of a few dollars. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1903 OLD SEAMAN'S YARN. He Tells How Monster Shark In vaded a Cable Ship. YJmllril (he Main Saloon and Wronfcllt Havoc AIIIOIIK fut GIIINN and Dainty Viand>—fauKlit ujtli u lii'K of Mil II mi. This is the story of a shark and a ca ble ship—an anecdote told by a vet eran seaman of a thrilling experience aboard a "cabler," with one of the mon ster maneaters who infest the waters of the Mediterranean. And this, says the Philadelphia I'refcs, is how he told it toa brother sea man, as they were comparing notes on the ability of the maneaters to live out of 1 lie water, for a great length ol time. "The old Grapn-ell," said he,"was a cableship, and we were at St. Helena, anchored close in, and the second en gineer got a hook, baited it with a tilful of oily waste from the engine room, and began to fish for a huge shark that was hanging about our stern. "As it happened, the governor ol St. Helena, or some big pot, was com ing to dinner that day, and the table in the saloon was set out with the best glass and pineapples and bananas, and what not, nil in the way of dessert Well, the shark was a bit coy, but just as four bells was striking he gobbled the bait. "The old man was ashore, and we clean forgot about the governor com ing to dinner, forgot everything but the shark plunging and tugging at the line. "Well, we had hoisted the brute ten feet or so clear of the water when the first roller struck us, pointing our bow balks at the sky and swinging the shark out till his tail nearly touched the water, then, swash! we went into the trough, pitching our propeller up to the sky and swinging the shark in board. "The bight of rope slipped, and smash! came the shark onto theafter gratings; 22 foot he was, and as thick as a Pickford's van almost. "Swish! came the next roller, and a? we went into tlie trough the ;hark shot TUGGED AT THE LINE. on the deck, skidded along it as if he were on skates, cannoned against the starboard bulwarks, and as the next roller took us on the starboard bow it shot him head-first down the saloon companionway, clean out of sight, and you wouldn't have known ' there was a shark on board only for the screams of the second saloon stew ard, who was coining up with a tray of cocktails just as old blow-hard was going down. "The shark lay head to the open sa loon door. He gave his tail a flap, and seemed undecided whether he would goon into the saloon or come tail first into the cable tank; the next roller decided the question, for it shot him right into the saloon and hanged the door on him. for all the world as if he had pulled it behind him. "I heard various sounds from the sa loon, where all our best glass was put out and covers laid for 15 people; but I did not go in. Well, you may fancy the state we were in, the ship pitching and all. ".lust then our old man came aboard, and there was a gay time, I tell you. We got rifles and tried to shoot the brute through the sky light. You could see him rolling about in the pineapples and hothouse flowers and broken glass; but he had jammed his head between the legs of the table, n hlch hail split in tv\o, and the after part of the table fitted him just like a siinbonnct, and the bullets glanced otT it; so we ga\c over. "At six in the morning the skipper called the second engineer, anil told hiin as he had brought the brute abi aril, he must get rid of him. or he'd stop his grog and shove him down the saloon skylight to keep his friend company "Well, the second i ngineer thought, and l bought, and thought. Then begot a leg of mutton and dangled it down the skylight on a string till it was under the tabic flap of old Chnse-me ( hurley's ftiinhoiiuet. lie couldn't re sist it; lie turned on hi- back, opened his mouth, inn! the hydrngniplter, who ua- ready with hi- gnu. hot him clean through the heart." IUHKI-Kt Mull- in Mlamttt rl. A huge mule, -aid to be ihe lari-cst in i xistciiei . hi ill 1;' • to Mieli.u l Murray of llrref. ril. Mo. lie Is Ihn t .Venrs old. 1H tin-lit high at the shoulders, anil * i i>'h ■ I 70S pounds. sI,it rUn Itli a 111 u *1»a• h. A large piemen of lln li-l, kiinu,, n the iiiiM I hark wa lit caie turi-d with a hand line at l-'eli\»tnwe, Rtlglaud. It hai mi Hi-ht-lin.il moltth, with till. * I w of teeth. FULL AND COMPLETE. Adj. (Jen, Corbin Nays llir Full TVxt ol" lien. .'Him Iteporl on I'hlllpplns Aft*alr» Wan (liven to the Cress. Washington, May 15.—Secretary Root and a number of officials in the war department on Thursday receiv ed a letter from Herbert Welsh, of Philadelphia, which also has been mailed to a number of private indi viduals, in reference to the report of Lt. Gen. Miles. The letter desires that letters be directed to Secretary Boot, Adjt. Gen. Corbin, Judge Advo cate General Davis, Assistant, Adjt. Gen. Hall and Assistant Adjt. Gen. Ennis, asking them to publish for the information and guidance of the country the full report of lien. Miles regarding affairs in the Philippines. He sugests that they "Especially re quest that the report of Maj. Hunter into the facts of the whipping of Filipino prisoners of -war for the purpose of extracting information from them" be included in the publi cation. He says lie has not seen Gen. Miles' report, "having in vain tried to se cure a copy of it from the war de partment," but believes that it eon tains facts that enlightened citizens should have. Mr. Welsh says that 600,000 souls have perished in those islands from war, famine and pesti lence under our flag. In the letter he refers to the military record of Gen. Miles in the civil war and in several Indian campaigns and says that with a few hundred letters sent to men he names the object will be secured. He suggests that, persons interest tlieir senators and representatives in the matter. The war department yesterday made public the letter of Adjt. Geii. Corbin to Gen. Miles answering one sent to the secretary of war regard ing the publication of Gen. Miles' re port. The adjutant general says to l whom the report was given and en-i closed copies of the report which was furnished the press, which he says was full and complete. In Gen. Miles' report on the alleg ed cruelties was also a criticism of the rice transaction in the reconcen trado camp in Bantagas province. Gen. Miles in discussing this matter refers to a report he bad received from the commanding general in the Philippines. The copy was not fur nished with the report of Gen. Miles and it has been charged that it was suppressed. The war department yesterday made the copy referred io public. It is a report of Maj. Gen. Davis addressed to Gen. Miles and contains all the correspondence, tele grams and all documents that refer to the purchase, distribution and sale of rice to the people in the concen tration camps. The main features were covered in summaries which have been published heretofore. DEMAND IS ENORMOUS. liecurdcd at New York, New York, May 15.—Another new record for the season was establish ed in the cotton market Thursday, in fact many of the older members agreed that it was doubtful if any season in the entire history of the exchange compared with yesterday. The big feature of the day was the price made by July in the last half hour of trading, 11 cents. In the j same time August sold at 10.73, May made a new record of 11.42 and spot cotton was quoted at 11.50. These prices were the highest in 12 or 13 years and the transactions were of enormous volume. At times the scene on the floor wns one of the greatest disorder and the rush of the covering demand threw the pit into a demoralized condition. At the opening of the market trad ing was by the far most active of the season and on the upward tush May sold at 11.40, July at 10.99 and August at 10.67, all new records. The Liverpool reports gave warn ing that the day would be a lively one, as sales of spot cotton there reached a full dollar a bale higher than Wednesday. Early cables stated that some of the foreign short interests were in the market taking all the cotton offered at the highest prices of a decade. The largest ind! vldual dealer in spot cotton in this market received a message from Liv erpool reading as follows: "The market will only stop ad vancing when cotton gives out. It is getting very scarce now." Platola and t'odlno lor Two. Kansas City, Mo., May 15. George E. Spencer, a clothing merchant, who came here recently from Binning- J ham. Ala., was shot and instantly killed, and Stephen Flanagan, a po liceman, was mortally wounded here Thursday in a pistol duel in a room. Flanagan had gone to the house to arrest Spencer. There were no wit nesses 11» the tragedy and when per sons attracted by the shots entered the room Spencer was dead and Flan agan lay unconscious, blood oozing from a wound in his breast. By the side of each man was a pistol. A half dozen shots were exchanged. \ I.m-ltv llav lor Miner*. Wilkesbarre, Pa„ May 15. The em ployes of the Lehigh Valley Coal < o. in this city anil t alley "ill today re celve all of their back wages due un der the strike commission'* award. The men will receive from ifjo to S4O each. The company will pay about SIOII,OOO -m the hack p.i.v and sjon,ono more on the regular pay. The Dela ware itir Hudson 1 oal Co, will also be gin the payment of the back wages here tod.iv. Nearly $-'oo,uoo will ha . distributed. \t CI 11 111 Hiilld a Nil* I lor fcpuln. Madrid, May IS. Home surprise li.ts been caused liv the anniuilicemeiit that the minister nf marine prop durintr the coming Ke»*ion of the eorte*. in ask Iha I body to sanction Ihe extensive reorganization nf the 1 navy anil tbe improvement nf the ar- 1 senal- mid d H'lii ird- at Ferrol, Cadiz ami I arthaiM 11a, therein in- | eri-aolng the annual expenditure from f iint.ouo.iHjn to ♦ .'iNi.non.ooo in a few year*- If tlie»e plan - are adopt ed Spain will have, within ten years, 1 d'izrit battle Itip* and 1 dozen eruisei in oMlllon to torpedo boat lU- tr v.l • etc. IN DESPERATE STRAITS. Colombia lias \<l tliinnj and tumiol I'ay ID National Debt. Washington, -May 14.—A gloomj picture of the terrible plight in which Colombia finds itself as the result of the exhausting four years j of rebellion is contained in a coin ' munication which has reached this ( city from a source of unquestionable reliability. These reports show that on March 1 last the government gave notice that it had stopped the issue of the paper money that was flooding the country and had turned the litho graph plates from which it was made over to a committee composed of prominent members of different political parties. Consequently the government early in April was al most entirely without funds. It had not enough to pay running ex penses, to say nothing of foreign claims and demands. Not a cent, of interest had been paid on the national debt since the war began in 1892. The claims grow ong out of the revolution were as suming most eremedous proportions, and as there was no other means of relief it was apparent that the government again must have re course to the lithograph stones and start the presses running again. Moreover it was the general opinion that even the small measure of relief which might follow the receipt ofslo - from the United States on ac count, of the Panama canal could not be obtained, as it was not expected that congress would ratify the treaty. A MURDER MYSTERY. Plttnburie Police Believe that a Tlan Found In a River was a Victim ol Highwaymen. Pittsburg, May 14.—The finding of the body of an unknown man float ing in the Monongahela river at the foot of Short street yesterday will probably develop a murder mystery. A handkerchief had been forced into the man's mouth and there were sev eral wounds on the back of the head, which seem to have been in flicted by a blunt instrument. The body is that of a man about 60 years old, well dressed, and has the ap pearance of being above the class of people that usually frequent the water front. There was nothing on the person that would in any way lead to identification. The body had been in the water not more than 12 hours. The face indicated that it had been dragged along the ground. The officers think that the man was assaulted and robbed on some of the streets near where the body was found and that after the robbery had been committed it was discovered by the highwaymen that their victim was much worse lmrt than was at first thought. They then stuffed the gag into his mouth and carried the man to the river and threw him into the water. A Horrible Story. Denver, Col., May 14.—From a let ter written by his father in a hos pital at Ivichineff, Russia, W. King, of this city, learns that his mother, j sister and brother may have been \ victims of the recent massacre in which hundreds of women and little! children were slaughtered by the i Uussians. Mr. King's father was badly injured and is now in the hos pital. "I can learn nothing of your mother, sister or brother." he writes. "1 fear they are among the victims. The street ran with blood. Children were dragged from their mothers' arms and hurled against the aides of buildings, women were caught and j slashed to bits by the frenzied Christ- j ians. The cry was 'Down with the .lews.' I saw a mother cut open and ] her unborn babe thrown against a | railroad train. The number killed will be more than 000." There Will be No Strike. St. Paul, Minn., May 13.—A1l dan ger of a strike on the Great North ern railway system has passed and an amicable agreement between the j company and its trainmen has been reached, the schedules being signed i Thursday. Each side made conces sions. The men have somewhat the better of it. They are granted an in crease in wages which averages 15 per cent.; the yardmen get the Chi cago scale, which is three cents an Jionr higher than the St. Paul scale; new men are to be given increased wages after one year's service, in stead of five as proposed by the com pany. and upon the double-header question, which was the cause of the deadlock in the negotiations, the men modified their demands to a ilight degree. I'°lnl«lird Their Klcetloll. Wheeling \V. Ya„ May 14. The convention of the National Brother hood of Operative Patters adjourned I Wednesday after completing the elec- | lion of officers, which resulted as fol lows: Second vice president, Will iam Elder, of East Liverpool, ().; third vice president, H. \V. Ilalles, of Wheeling; fourth vice president, fleorge Mix, of Trenton, X. J.; fifth vice president, Enoch Woolen, of East Palestine, O.; sixth vice presi dent. Joseph T. Cotton, of Ka*t I.lv rrpool, ().; secretary, Edward \lenge, :>f Wheeling; treasurer. Varon Cole man of East Liverpool, O. Two children Cremated. Pittsburg, Max IS. The residence of .lanii - Hell, in the l.awrenceville district, was burned to the ground la«t night and lii> two children. Will I. mi. aged * years, and Edward, aged IS months, were burned t • death. strike Fewer lilt* llcnirr, Denver, May 14. Two hundred cooks, hoi) wallers, Sou butcher-, and I'll) linkers weer culled out on strike Yesterday by the pure food council. Nearly all the restaurant- ill the city ■ire closed The liuU hers' walkout j Included those employed at the stock \ arils and iunn\ of the meat! markets. I lie union linkers Hern i culled out from not . nl\ the hon es I deemed lllif.iir. lint nl-n frun tlime «(• tin-1 <thlch latior has no griev ance The can >• of the irouolc H | the ti ii t i irlon. • ikerie md IT I %« make foti«t . I v\jf th« I unl "ii BOSCHnpALS." Exposes Crooked Deals in Missouri Legislature. WHILE HE WAS SENATOR Bribe Money was Plentiful ill (lie State House. HOLDUP GAME WAS PLAYED Ililln Were Smothered by Committee* When (lie Proper Amount of « oiti «a» Produced School (took Trust Had a Iti ts Kribi-ry Fund. .St. Louis, May 1G. —t'nablc t > bear the mental torture which he says lie has suffered since the grand jury in vestigation into legislative boodling was instituted, ex-St.ite Sen itor Fred L. Husehe yesterday went before Cir cuit Attorney Folk and made a com plete confession of his connection with corrupt deals extending over a peri hI of eight years. Busclie's declarations involve several men of prominence. Later Buschc was taken before the grand jury, where he re mained an hour. When he emerged from the jury room tears were streaming down his cheeks, "I had to do these things," said Busche in reciting his story to the circuit attorney. "There were cir cumstances that made a fellow take money or else get the worst of it." Busche then told of his connection with legislation four years ago. He prefaced his remarks by saying that all sorts of money was used at that time to influence legislation. "Money," he said, "was offered on pretty nearly everything of import ance. The steat'4 and street railway interests were always very active and their representatives paid us." I.usche named several senators who profited handsomely from the legis lation at the 1809 session, and in cluded one or two who are members of the present assembly. He broke down twice while confess ing to Mr. Folk and, weeping bitter ly, said: "1 am telling these things only to ease my mind." doing back to the Thirty-eighth as sembly. when the bill to create a school "oook commission was one of the principal issues before the legis lature, Busche said that the school book trust put up a big fund. "I got $1,000," lie said, "and others got just as much more." "On one occasion." lie said, there was a resolution presented to have all bills held in committee. I got $-.10 for holding up that resolution. "Killing bills by smothering them in committee was very common." Because of the statute of limita tions. which prevents prosecution three years after the crime Is com mitted. none of the men against whom T!uselle has testified can be in dicted. TO FIGHT UNIONS. Kmployer* In the Et;illdiu£ Trade* tit Jien Vorli and Hroofe'yn tiriranizi-. Xe\\ York. May 10. The fir-it steps towards effecting a general organiza tion of employers in the building trades for the purpose of offering united resistance to the demands of the labor unions were taken last night at meetings heled in Manhat tan and Brooklyn. Tlie meeting ill Manhattan was held at the Building Trades' club, 700 employers being present and the throng being so great that overflow meetings were held. A committee on ways and means was appointed. In Brooklyn 100 employers met and formed the Employers' League of the Borough of Brooklyn. It was re solved to permit no interference with business by any individuals or organ izations, and that no walking dele gates should be permitted to enter any shop during working hours. Of ficers we re.elected and a board of .'9 trustees to form a plan of campaign to en fore the principles of the organ ization and to devise ways to combat the labor unions was appointed. .1 General Strike l« I'mtuililc. Denver, Col., May 18.- An order was issued Friday by the general execu tive committee of organized labor calling out t.ooo union men in various trades and crafts, iu addition to :t.oo(i already on strike. This order after wards was rescinded and further ad ditions to the strikers will not be made until after the mass meeting of delegates of the unions tonight. It is declared that if some plan of set tlement shall not be reached by that time a general order to call out all the union men in the city v\ill be is sued. 4'lt lire It Wrecked In llv iiaiiilte. Chicago, Ma.\ 18. -Another negr-» church was wrecked I»y dynamite I t night when a bomb was exploded under the pulpit of the \frlenii Meth odist church at Kvanston. The in terior wa demolished and the front of the building was blown out. % Nt-:;i'*» liel« u I oii«nUltli*. Wa-hingtoii, Wax 18. l'hri*lop|ier 11. I'ayne has been appointed I nited State- eon-nl at "»t. Thoma-. lie is a colored man win ha- taken au ac tive part In We-I Virginia polities. Tr»llet mt-u Mrlke. Iliidgcport. t iiii., Mm 18, Thi« conductor- and in toriiien employed by the Connecticut liailtmy and MffHtlllf I o lo re went ..II -Irikc Fri day , I I ing up nil Ihe line- ill the city. The company offered a -liglil lucre,i»« In »\abill refused recognition of the union. \I•• • >ll ■ i men ire out. I lullO'. r » id t IreMtMM Utll.il, Owen lorn, Ky., May IB \ north w.i- w ee.ed at Mcll'.-nrt, k\,. FrU tiny. Tin- train Mimped the" truck. Kii-.iicei M.uto'u, ami I reiu.it I urry nei'v killed , 3
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