The Leader., July 11, 1902, Image 3

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eloquence of Henry Wattereon
employed recently In an address
the Tippecanoe battlelleld near I-u-
vette, ind. It wae a memorable
therlint- Hundred* drove many mile*
The
bear the great Kentuckian and were
ell rewarded. He said:
Traveling from out the twilight of
, Mgt Into the radiance of the pres
~tt 9„d tracing as we go the history
the country along the glorious hut
route of battletields by the
8re of faggot flame and rifle flash, It
HIS age* since Tippecanoe; aluce
arrison and his hunting shirts met
ml vanquished the hordes of the two
ecumsehs; yet are there men still
ring, and here today, who. If they
ere not contemporary with the event
nd Its valiants, can distinctly recall
Igged
1Ä n H
pears to 1 m * but an Incrustation over
one vast mine of gedd and sliver and
precious stones. I,ife is a lottery with
more prizes than blanks.
Ilut in n land where there are no
titles or patents of nobility, money Is
hound to serve us the standard of
measurement; and precisely as consti­
tutional government, political and re­
ligious freedom, were uppermost In the
minds and hearts of tliv pioneers who
sleep here. Is the acquisition of wealth
up|M»rmost in the minds and hearts of
tlielr sons and grundsohs. In other
words, as I have elsewhere put It, the
Idiosyncrasy of the nineteenth century
was liberty; the Idiosyncrasy of the
twentieth century is markets. The
problem before ub , therefore, Involves
the adjustment of these two; the recon­
ciliation of capital and labor, of mor­
ality and dollars, the concurrent ex­
pansion of the principles of the Consti­
tution and the requirements of com­
merce.
The hunters of Kentucky, the pio­
neers of Indiana, unites! as brothers in
the IsiiKls of liberty, fought the battle
of Tippecanoe. It was not a great bat­
tle us battles go, but It proved mighty
In Its consequences; the winning and
the peopling of the West; the ultimate
rescue of tlie Union from dissolution;
the blazing of th<? way to the Pacific.
They were simple, hardy men. They
set us good examples. They loved their
country nnd were loyal to Its Institu­
tions. They were comrades In hearts
and comrades In arms. Be It ours to
bless nnd preserve their memory and to
perpetuate their brotherhood!
REV.
F R A N C IS
L.
P A T T O N , D. D.
W h o 11 b * K e a lg n e d t h e P r e s id e n c y o f
P r in c e to n U n iv e r s ity .
nssitv wattkbso !».
¡the spirit of those times; the aspects,
¡the very familiar features of those
«Hants; the utmosphere, the form und
Italy of an epoch, when, from Faneuil
jail, in Boston, from Raleigh Tavern,
b Virginia, to Fort Wayne and old
Tlucennes upon the eonflnes of this
'borderland, the redskin and the red-
ait alike stirred to Its depths the
heart of the young republic.
TVrc were giants In those days, and
ftsre was need that there should be.
Sonstibuled trains, nor palace coach-
s itlted to fetch them hither; no
mill procession, with banners waving
and brass hands playing, marched
/orili to honor their arrival. They Jour-
nevM for the most'pnrt afoot They
picked their way through trackless
airbrake and wooded waste, across
nrift-runnlng, bridgcless streams, tlielr
ftitlocks their commissariat.
L ib e r t y In T h e i r H e a r t * .
They had quitted what they regard
ed ns flic over-crowded centers of the
populous east to seek tlie lonely but
roomier wilds of the far West, keenly
«live to the Idea of bettering their con
ditlon, having a fine sense of pure air
and arable land; It may be for town
«ltes; hut their hearts beat true to the
principles of civil nnd religious liberty,
and they brought with them two accou­
trements of priceless value, the new-
made Constitution of their country und
the well-worn family Bible; for they
were (tod fearing, Christian soldiers;
heroes In homespun ns chlvnlrlc and
Tindoulntlng as mailed knights of the
cross; hating with holy hate the In­
dians and the British; revering the
memory of the patriots and sages who
had made the Declaration of Independ­
ence, warm with the blood of the revo­
lution, the echoes of Islington and
Bunker IDU. of King's Mountain nnd
Yorktnwn still ringing In their ears.
Our lot has been cast In easier times,
has heen laid on hronder, larger line«.
We live In an age of miracles. We
gather the fruit of the tree which
these, our forefathers, planted. From
the ashes of their camp tires rise the
school house nnd the court house. The
church marks the spot where the block
house stood.
M a ry eln tm M e t a m o r p h o s i s .
Opportunity and poace and order and
law are the portion of the poorest.
Struck by the wizard hand of Progress,
the sleeping beauty. Solitude, lias
awakened a metropolis; touched by the
linger of modern Invention, the prairie
«ml the forest, as by enchantment,
have revealed tlielr secrets nnd poured
their ric hes Into the lap of labor. Upon
the loose cobble stones of what was
hnt a huddle of small provinces, eneh
claiming for Itself a squalid sovereign­
ty. and held together by n rope of sand,
rises proudly, grandly, securely a na­
tion built upon the Arm foundationa
of an Indissoluble compact of States,
cemented forever by the blood of a pat­
riotic, brave, homogeneous people.
We have become a nation of mer­
chant princes. Money Is so abundant
that men are giving It away In sums
of startling magnitude. It seems so
easy to get that men are on system
putting It in the way of a kind o f re­
distribution back to the sources whence
it originally came. Shall we see the
day when It will no longer corrupt?
If familiarity breeds contempt, we
surely shall. The earth's surface ap­
To grntlfy his desire to devote the
remainder of his life to literary work.
I*rofessor Francis L. Patton, D. D„ re­
signed the presidency of Princeton
University. It Is understood that he
expects to publish an extensive treat­
ise on ethics. Woodrow Wilson, pro­
fessor of jurisprudence and politics,
will succeed him.
Francis Iaindey Patton has been at
the head of Princeton University four­
teen years and during that time the
number of students, the staff of pro­
fessors and the number of buildings
have been doubled. He Is 50 years old
and Is a native of Bermuda. After his
ordination to the Presbyterian minis­
try In 1865, which followed courses at
University nnd Knox Colleges, Toron­
to, nnd Princeton Theological Sem1-
nary, he was for two years pustor of
a New York congregation, thence went
to Nyack and later to South Brooklyn.
From 1872 to 1881 he was Cyrus H.
TO
(jovernment
W A TER
Will
T*kc
LAND.
Up
Small
projects
t in t — S itu to Be Selected Soon.
ME 1 1 (MO
Freight handlers’ Walkout Will
Paralyze Business.
Washington, July 8.—The indlca-
| turns are that by next tpring the secre­
tary of the interior will, through the
An Austrian material for preventing geological survey, begin the construc­
tion
of the flrst irrigation system to he NINE TH O U S A N D M EN LEA V E TH E IR W ORK
the rising of dust on sweeping prove*
to be cottonseed oil. In a test at Vi­ built under the recently enacted law.
Where the start will be made has
enna, It was found that floors oiled
twice a year could be swept weekly not yet heen determined, but in all Federation of Labor Declines to Approve or
Assist in the Move — Steps Already
without auy whirling of the tlust, aud probability it will be a project of mod­
Tskcn Towards Settlement
the material was recommended for all est proportions, costing $500,000 to
rooms receiving many persons, as well $1,000,000, and one of which the suc­
cess
is
reasonably
certain.
The
secre­
as for laboratories, libraries aud other
Chicago, July 9.— Hopes of a speedy
places to he kept scrupulously dust tary is now planning Held examma- settlement of the strike of the Freight
tions, with a view of selecting those
free.
sites which give the promise of success, Handlers’ Union, which was declared
By regulating the food of a milch and from which earliest returns may yesterday, are entertained by officials
row, M. Spolverinl claims to have made be had. He believes in getting hack of the anion and members of the state
The officials of
Its milk a satisfactory substitute for into the irrigation fund as rapidly as board of arbitration.
himiau milk. Tbe first experiments I po„8ible all money that is to be expend the union, at a conference last night,
were made on a goat by feeding it with ed in constructing reservoirs and can- told Chairman Job, of the board of ar­
bitration, that they were willing to
eggs or a little meat in addition to als.
the regular food, and later on another | It is very apparent that neither the permit employes of the different com­
goat was fed with sprouting grains of Milk river project in Montana, nor the panies to meet officials of the same to
barley. In each case the goat's in UK Gila liver or Truckee canyon projects ciscuss the wage scale, providing a
was changed to the chemical composi- in Arizona is tc be among the first joint conference should be held at
tlon of human milk.
chosen, because of the enormous cost which officials of the union would be
In acknowledging an anonymous gift involved.
Moreover, the secretary permitted to act as advisers to the men.
The arbitration board is now working
of $20,000 to the Harvard College Ob- i wants to know more about these pro-
on tlie matter in an effort to bring
servatory, Prof. E. C. Pickering an- 1 J®®** fr0DI the money standpoint before
about a conference between tbe railway
nounces that the money will be used be orders their building. 1 h# numer-
managers and committees representing
for the preservation and study of the 0,18 reP°r1s that these systems will cost
the men.
As the railroad officials
astronomical photographs made under vefy dearly in pro;>ortion to the amount
have offered this step from the begin­
the auspices of the observatory. "These ° f. lami re< laime' 1 ha8 somewhat alarmed ning of the controversy, there is little
photographs,” says Prof. Pickering. bi® ' an,i re'” ‘ lu*i in his deciding to doubt the strike can be settled satis­
This course,
“ furnish a history of the entire stellar 1 make haste slowly.
factorily to both sides if the conference
universe for the last twelve years moreover, was recommended by many is arranged.
Western senators and representatives
which is not duplicated elsewhere/’ A
Lack of unanimity already perme­
before they left for home.
new building for the storage of these j
In deciding to begin with small pro- ates the strike. The Chicago Federa­
precious documents is needed, and I
.
i jects the department has made it possi- tion of Labor was ignored when the
money Is required to pay the expense We
umiertalte the bui,dillgof tt‘Iulnl. order was issued for the men to quit
of having them carefully Inspected fo r , ber (,f 8ten)g gimu|Uneougly and * work, and its executive officials are
yet undiscovered objects of interest.; digtrilnte the w„rk 1ulo « , vera1 states, Muuittwliat offended and art? iuoliugd to
1 bus the anonymous gift comes very a(q
j be , j me field operationsarecom- let the freight handlers tight out their
opportunely.
menced there will be an available sum battle in their own way. There are
That It may have the entire held to of $8,000,000 to $8,000,000 for carrying 12,000 freight handlers in and about
the various height houses of the 24
itself and escape the keen competition on the work.
railroads centering in Chicago. Of
of hosts of tropical relatives for the |
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this number, more than 9,000 are now
nectar and minute Insects in the deep-
P A C K IN G H O U S E F IR E .
involved in the strike. Some of the
tubed brilliant flowers that please him
men who quit work did so under pro­
best, that jeweled atom, the ruby- Half Million Dollars’ Worth of Property De­
test. Notably was this the case in the
throated humming bird, sole represent­
stroyed in Chicago Stockyards.
ireight house of the Lake Shore A
ative of his family east of the Missis­
The men there
Chicago, July 8.— By a fire which Michigan Central.
sippi, travels from Central America or
employed were receiving all the con­
beyond to Labrador aud back again broke out in their plant at the stock sideration they had asked. They were
yards Swift & Co. suffered a loss which
every summer of its incessantly active | ?
is estimated by the officials of the com­ forced to strike, however, by the order
little life.
Think what the journey
pany at $500,000. The fire was con­ of the executive committee of their
from Yucatan even to New England fined to one building standing at the union. Before going out the inen in­
must mean for a creature so tiuy . that i intersecton of Packers avenue and formed the railway officials of tlie situ­
ThiH gtructure w„ four ation, and said they would seek an im­
its outstretched wluga measure bare Broadway
ly two Inches across! It Is the small- gtorieg high> bllilt of brick) aIld wag mediate return order from the authori­
est bird we have. \\ herein lodges the 30() feet gqnare
xhe firgt Ho,)r wag ties that had ordered them out.
force,that propels it through the s\\ ot.CUpjC(j by tP* wholesale meat mark
The sudden suspension of customary
at a speed and a height which takes j of the company, the second by t*.*, operations bv tbe freight handlers oc­
It instantly beyond tbe range of human gripping department, and the third casioned considerable trouble in and
vision? says Neltje Blanchan, in the an(| fourth by the general offices of the about the various railroad warehouses
Ladles’ Home Journal.
¡company.
The latter are said to have and stations, but tlie inconvenience and
company
One of the difficulties hitherto en- been the largest single offices in the delay were but a drop in the bucket to
countered by explorers among the gl- United States, more than 800 employes what will happen if the strike shall
not be settled soon.
gantic monuments of ancient Egypt is working in a single room,
To add to the present difficulties of
the lack of sufficient light in the buried
The cause of the fire is not known,
chambers aud long passages of pyra- | but it was discovered near tbe engine the railroads, the Teamsters’ and
mids, tombs and temples. Recently room. It spread so rapidly through Truckmen’s Union threatens to join in
If this shall
this difficulty in the exploration of the the building that it was found impossi­ a sympathetic strike.
great temple of Ivarnnk has been ble to save anything in the structure occur, it will affect all incoming and
outgoing freight of every kind. Every
largely overcome by Prof. Maspero The first arrivals of the fire department
railroad in Chicago today accepted all
through the Introduction of electric- were unable to check the fire, and re­
freight offered.
While it was con­
lamps. The pyramids also are to he peated cade were sent in for assistance, fessed by several railroad officials that
lighted with electricity, their myste but all the engines were not able to Ireight was not being moved as expe­
rlous chambers and passageways pene­ prevent the entire destruction of the ditiously as heretofore, yet it was said
building. Within an hour after the
trating the Interior of the vast struc­
flr<‘ was discoverad the building was the larger part of it was being handled
tures will be more easily
The varions freignthouses and
ruined, although the fire continued to well.
aud Interesting discoveries tnayrenult
¿J ,
tirae.
yards, however, disclosed a large ac­
Unless we learn to avoid waste In
The burned building adjoins por­ cumulation of unmoved freight and cars
the use of coal, says Prof. John Perry, tions of the plants of Armour & Co., loaded with freight.
the world. In a hundred years or so, and Libby, McNeill A Libby, and for a
There was no trouble or disorder in
will resemble a spendthrift who has j time the fire department had a haul or about any of the freight houses.
run through his patrimony. What Is j fight to keep these buildings from the Anticipating the possibilities of such a
needed Is some form of engine to con- | dameg The wind was blowing strong strike, the railroad companies had
vert, as directly and cheaply as possi­ from the southwest, and at times the brought to Chicago a number of men
ble. the energy of coal into electric flames were touching the sides of Ar­ to take the places of the strikers.
energy. Science, he believes. Is capa­ mour’ s buildings, but the firemen man­ These men were intercepted by pickets
ble of achieving the desired result, but ager) to confine the fire to the building of the strikers, and most of them were
only through united effort, supported in which it had broken out.
induced to join the Freight Handlers’
Union.
by large capital. He suggests that If
the expenditure of $5,060,OtX) a year
T O R N A D O IN I O W A .
were entrusted for two or three years
T O DREDGE C O O S BAY.
to such men as Ixird Kelvin or Lord Severe Storm Accompanied by Cloudburit Does
Rayleigh, the problem might he solv-
People Request a Change in Plan or Harbor
Immense Damage to Property.
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Travlra«! I
McCormack professor of theology In
the Seminary of the Northwest at Chi­
cago and was at the same time pastor
of the Jefferson Park Presbyterian
Church. In 1878 he was elected mod­
erator of the Presbyterian General As­
sembly. His charges of heterodoxy
preferred ngalnst Professor David
Swing, the most popular Chicago
preacher of his time, were dismissed j etl-
by the Presbytery of Chicago, but later
C o u l d N o t G e t M a r r ie d .
were sustained by the Synod of Illi­
A young woman In Paris who recent­
nois, thus firmly establishing Dr. Pat­ ly became engaged to l>e married np-
ton ns n theological scholar and logi­ I plied for her official papers and dis-
cian. The chair at Princeton known as ! covered to her horror that a mistake
the Stuart professorship of the rela­ as to her sex had been made and she
tion of philosophy and seiencp to Chris­ had been put down on the register ns
tian religion was founded for him nnd a boy. She also discovered that the
later he was elected to the Stnnrt pro­ police, believing her to be a boy, had
fessorship of ethics. In 1888 he was a warrant for her arrest for not pre
chosen to succeed Dr. MeCosb as se at in g herself for military service.
president of the university. Dr. Pat­ She will now have to prove her Identi­
ton Is an uncompromising foe of liberal ty, and it will take about six months
Presbyterianism and declares the Bi­ to rectify matters. In the meantime
ble should be accepted ns the Infallible the marriage has had to he postponed
word of God.
indefinitely.
A S u ffe re r's Flea.
O n e T h in g C e r ta in .
Lady— You are sure you have put th
"D o you know,” said the thoughtful
man, who was always devising some piano In good condition?
Tuner— LJulte so. madam. I guess your
way to become fabulously rich in a
short time, “ that the two great oceans daughter will And It as good as new
contain something like 2,000,000 tons when she resumes her practice.
Lady—I hope so. Did you do anything
of silver In solution?’
"Is that so?" returned the practical to it, by the way, besides tuning?
Tuner— Yes; I deadened the hammers.
man.
Rear Room Boarder (sotto voce I—I
"It is," »aid the dreamer. "Does not
such an extraordinary fact as that wish while you were about it, you had
bring some wonderful new Idea to your done' the same to the hammerer.-Ricb
p a tch .
mind?”
_, mond D is ____
_________
"It does," admitted the practical
H o m e ts * Neste.
man. "It (fives absolutely convincing
The nest of the tree wasp or hornet 1«
evidence of something I have long sus­ made of a true paper, wood being
pected.’
ground to pulp by the Jaws of the wasp
"What is It?”
„
and treated with an adhesive matter
"That silver Is not good to drink.
secreted in the creature’s mouth*
Brooklyn Eagle.
Council Bluffs, la., July 8.— South­
western Iowa was visited this evening
by the worst storm of the year. In
several towns it amounted to a tornado,
and fears are entertained that there
\ has been loss of life. Damage to corn
and unharvested small grain has been
very great.
In some places the rain
| which followed
the
wind storm
amounted almost to a cloudburst.
At Whiting a dozen buildings are
reported destroyed, and one woman was
badly hurt.
At Anthon 20 buildings were demol­
ished. by the tornado, and at this
place it is believed lives were lost.
Communication by wire is cut off.
At Rockwell City the damage done
by the wind was less serious, but the
rain fell in blinding sheets for an hour,
and the whole country is tinder water.
Crop* ware beaten into tbe ground am)
are a total loss in many places.
Work— Non-Extension of Jetty.
Washington,
July 9. — Senator
Mitchell has been advise«] by wire by
the commercial interests on Coos bav
that the $50,000 appropriated in the
recent river and harlx>r bill for extend­
ing the jetty at tlie bay entrance was
not sufficient materially to advance that
work, and asking if the money could
not be use«! for dredging a channel in­
stead. He has laid the matter before
the chie! of engineers, and at his sug­
gestion felcgraphed Captain Langfitt.
asking him to take this request into
consideration. If it is found that there
is authority for (’hanging the prrject
from that specified in the bill, and
Captain Langfitt favors the dredging,
the change will be authorized.
Senator Mitchell also urged expedi­
tion in carrying out the work on the
Columbia river. He was told that this
work wool«! be pressed as rapidly as
possible; that as soon as the special
Fire In Elevated Railway Car.
board's report and their action is ap­
j
Chicago, July 8.—A motorcar on the proved, actual work will be begun.
Metropolitan elevated railroad caught
Socialist Riots in Italy.
! fire last night while panging Augusta
street. There were 200 people on the
London, July 9.— A special dispatch
| train, and a panic ensued. Several of received here from Rome says that So­
the passengers made effort« to jump cialist riots occurred at Orte, on the
from the moving train, hut u#*re pre- ri^ebt bank of the Tiber, during the
vented by the guard«. In the scramble municipal elections held there yester«
that en«ued when the prisoners en- •lay. The polling place was wrecked
deavored to get out of the way of the and several policemen were stabbed.
flame«, a number of persons were The police and military fired on the
crushed, and two women are «aid to mob. Over 40 persons were wounded.
have been seriously injured.
Troops have been ordered to Orte.
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