/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