The Leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1895-1903, August 01, 1902, Image 3

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    D IS O R D E R S
AT
PA R IS.
M ori Rioting Follow , Attempt to Close the
Church Schoole- Many Arrest,.
l ’aiis, July
26.— Disturbances
con­
tinue as a sequel to yesterday’ s clerical
outbreaks as protests against the gov­
they are incorporated should be held to
a uniform provision o f federal laws. They
should satisfy a commission that theiv
capital stock was actually paid up if
cash or in property, at a fair valuation,
just as the capital o f the national bank
is certified to be paid up. With that sim­
ple law the temptation to make companies
for the purpose of selling prospective
profits would be at an end. A t the same
time no legitimate business would suffer
|lLNLS Of I HIS DECADE.
B y C h m uncey M Depew.
Nothing
more
mark» this decade
from others than
tile sudden accumu­
lation of fabulous
fortunes. When I
graduated
from
Yale
there
were
only
two
multi­
millionaires in the
United States, John
Jacob Astor and
5ATO R
. Commodore
Yan-
k > Neither of them ut that period
reached the $10,000,000 limit. There
• not in the whole country twenty
Lie worth a million dollars. To-day
k. are more than one hundred in I'itts-
L alone who have passed that figure,
[hese vast fortunes, themselves so eon-
»iis, so almost incomprehensible, are
present more matters of curiosity than
Jantagonism. Most of the possessors
|t
bare A o v i a wise geaereeity la
listributioa o f their wealth. In no
»r country in the world, at no other
od, have the rich from their abun-
ee given so lavishly to education, phi-
jthropy ami patriotism.' Last year the
Lwn sums which were thus contributed
(minted to the high figure of $107,300,-
i
he sudden acquisition of almost iu-
u la hie riches by so many in the last
years has produced many singular
hilts.
The most ghastly misfortune
jich con happen to a man who has been
icessfully prosecuting and increasing
business until he has passed middle
is to be compelled to sell out and re-
. He may receive a sum far beyond
value he ever placed upon his plant
| good will. Nevertheless, the sale is
lerally accompanied by an obligation
to resume and compete. Little out-
i the factory or office interests him
«use the cells o f his brain have be­
ne, some of them, abnormally active,
| others paralyzed through disuse. He
think of nothing and lip cares for
jhing but the shop and its results,
ks, literature, lectures, travel, politics,
iety, and play bore the life out of
I know half a hundred such men
have come to this condition vrithin
last few years.
KAN’S DUIYT o SOCIETY.
B y M rs . Do n al d M 'L ca n .
The first duty of a woman to
I society is. to make herself agree-
table to those whom she does L o t
\ consider to be in society.
It is easy enough to be agree-
I able to one’a friends. The test
/ of breeding, o f course, comes in
s attitude to one’s inferior» and one’s
■tea—two classes which u woman, in
biJering her duty to society, is very
tely in her own mind to exile from so­
fty. On the contrary, they ure very im-
■riant members of it.
She ought to
ion this because they occupy so many
I her thoughts.
¡An attempt to be agreeable usually
Ik*' a very obvious form that <>f flat*
V'
Flattery Is exceedingly bad form,
■ittery Is the spurious cola, the gold
■in ¡s simple gradonanese. A cardinal
llnciple of being agreeable is to be gra-
bus. Graciousness includes a negative
llent—the talent of snubbing nobody.
|The bane of social intercourse is nnub-
ng. Snubbing is adopted presumably
emphasize one’ s superiority to the per­
il snubbed. On its face it defeats its
(
h s A ROSY-CHEEKED GIRL
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
This is a picture o f Mrs. D avid B.
|amp, o f FlnchvIUe, O range County,
TROUDl “ t _
in m
Closing of Catholic Schools by
Government Orders.
ernm ent’ s enfreem ent of the Isw against
unauthorized congregations.
I t now D E C R E E S IG N E D BY P R E S ID E N T L 0 U B E T
appears that 300 arrests were made anti
numerous prosecutions are pending, Severe Clash Between Catholic Students and
Radicals, in Which Many Were In-
although the m ajority of the prisoners
lured - Arrests are Made.
were released.
Fresh meetings to
protest in favoi of tiie religious orders
Paris, July 28.— A cabinet council at
sre expected to he held, w h ile the Rad­
the E ly see palace has exam ined the
ical and Socialist papers are urging the
question« brought up by the applica­
Republicans to meet at th e Pantheon
AMERICAN FARMERS FOR HAWAII.
tion of the law of asHoci*i'cns.
Presi­
as
a
counter
demonstration.
B y R o b t. W. W ilcox. of Mm wall.
dent Loubet signed a decree submitted
own end. For the woman who wishes
A serious disturbance occurred at
I am deeply interested in the
to he agreeable to society naturally
by the prem ier, M. Combes, ordering
bill providing for the division 10:30 o'clock this evening from the
wishes to make society believe in her.
the forcible closure o f several congrega­
of
government
lands
into
home­
terrace at the Cafe de Musee de Clunic.
Bat when she snubs any one whom she
steads for the farmers aud mid­
tional schools.
Decrees o f closing sim ­
considers beneath her she is giving am­
dle classes, because at present The police cleared the cafe. S e .e ia l ilar schools in other departm ents w ill
ple proof that either she or her ancestors
pereone
were
injured
and
25
arreete
we only have in Hawaii the
have not been used to the grade of society
very rich and the very poor—the were made. Some disorderly meetings | be signed as soon as the prefects’ re-
in which she finds herself; and that she
poor
being
the laborers or coolies.
ports are received.
is, therefore, not what she would have
Out of the population of 100,000, near­ of Catholics were held during the couree
others believe.
A great clerical demonstration was
ly »0,000 are Asiatic, 00,000 being Jap­ of the evening, resulting in scuttles and
The woman who has a right to the so­
made in front o f th e town h all at A n -
cial position she occupies, and whose fam­ anese and 30,000 Chinese. There are also the making o f arrests.
; giers, capital o f the departm ent of
ily for generations has been in the same several thousand Porto Hicaus, but they
The agitation recalls to some exten t
Maine et Loire, ton igh t, and was con­
position, will find it necessary to snub are undesirable, as they would rather lie
in
ja
il
all
o
f
the
time
than
go
to
work.
the
sccnee
enacted
when
M.
Ferri,
then
no one— neither those whom she meets
tinued until m idnight. The municipal
The
land
area
o
f
Hawaii
is
4,000,000
prem ier, exp elled the Jesuits, in 1880.
socially aud whom she does not consider
her social equals, nor those in other walks acres. O f this area 2.000,000 acres are Demonstrations in favor o f th e nuns (‘ouncil was in session at the tim e of
in the hands of seventy men engaged in
the discussion. There was much fight­
of life with whom she is brought into
sugar raising and cattle ranging. The and of the teaching friars are taking ing between students of the Catholic
casual contact.
other 2,000,000 acres, which constitute I place in Paris and many places in the college and the Radicals, in which sev­
Graciousness to her friends and to ber
servants, to her acquaintances and to her the government lands, are rented and > provinces where * 1 the prefects p rex n te d eral persons were injured. T w elve ar­
sewing woman, to her children and to leased to the sugar corporations, the 1 themselves at the schools and ordered rests were made.
leases ranging from five to sixteen years.
every one asking a favor of her, to those
that the institutions be closed.
Cp to
The Journal Official publishes a de­
These government lands I want divided
who are gentlew'omen and to those who
the present, however, no serious in ci­ cree signed by President Loubet desig­
are not—that is the first rule of conduct up into homesteads to encourage Am eri­ dent has been recorded.
nating 12 congregationalist schools in
can farmers to go to Hawaii. Instead of
for one who fulfills her duty to society
The Nationalists have join ed the Paris and 14 in the departm ent of the
dividing the government lands into home­
by being agreeable.
steads of 100 acres/ as in the United | Clericals in engineering the agitation, | Seine, which it orders to be closed im ­
The duty of making one’s self agree­
able to society means simply a woman’s States, the best lands could be divided and their leaders are in the forefront m ediately, as they have been opened
duty to let her beat impulses rule her all into twenty-acre homesteads and the pas­ i of the effervescence in Paris. Much since the passage o f the law of asso­
toral lands into eighty-acre homesteads, ! sympathy has been worked up on be­ ciations without authorization.
As a
the time. So this becomes a rule for gen­
either of which would give the American half of the nuns, aud their schools have matter of fact, most of the schools des­
eral conduct as well as for social inter­
farmer
a
fine
homestead
to
support
his
been made particular objects o f demon­ ignated have been closed already, and
course.
family all the year round.
strations. T h e C le r ic a l called upon the sisters in charge o f them have re-
'T o give an idea of how fertile the best
their sympathizers to meet outside of | turned to their convents.
HOW TO CURB TRUSTS.
land is, the sugar corporations produce
B y J a m e s J . Hil l.
an average o f teq tons of sugar to the the school conducted by the lis te rs of
F A S T TR A IN W RECKED .
The rice planters produce two St. Vincent de Paul, in tiie northeast
The
commercial acre.
expansion of a na­ crops a year, aggregating between 3.000 quarter o f Paris, which was closed,
tion is the best in­ and 6,000 pounds to the awe. The same j and a great crowd gathered there, com­ Seven Persons Killed and Fifteen Injured in
dex o f its growth. land planted \yith taro, a plant akin to p ellin g a large body of mounted muni-
'an Ohio Wreck.
Next to the Chris­ elephant’ s ears, which is the staple food j cipal guards and police to form a cordon
Dayton, O ., July 28.— The Panhandle
tian religion and of the natives, w ill produce somewhere in the streets leading to the school. A
the common schools between 40,000 and 50,000 pounds per few triflin g collisions occurred between lim ited train from St. Louis east-
no
other
single acre, and it sells at one cent a pound.
the Clerics Is and counter demonstrators, bound for New Y o rk was wrecked to­
work enters into
; who replied to the C lerical cries of
night at T reb in ’ s station, a way station
the welfare
aud MILITARISM VS. COMMERCIALISM.
“ Long liv e the good Sisters” a n d ,"V iv e
J. J. h i l l .
happiness o f the
B y W. h o u r he C o c h ra n .
la lib e ite ,”
w ith ‘ ‘ Down with the a short distance from X en ia. Engineer
people o f the whole country to the same
This nation has been a world ' priests” and “ Long liv e the repu blic.” j Clark, of X en ia, was imprisoned under
extent as the railway. Great Britain
/\ power a world power o f sur- A Nationalist member of the chamber his engine and burned to a crisp. H is
has retained possession of the oriental
passing value to the civilization j o f deputies was arrested w h ile tryin g
trade for the reason that she furnishes
[m of the world. It has assumed to force his w gv through the police cor­ fiiem an was te rrib ly mutilated, his
the lowest rates o f transportation to aud
I head being crushed, his right arm
pZ
the
primacy o f civilization be- don, but was subsequently released.
from those countries. W e are now pre­
cause from the very hour o f its
Seven
An ti-C lerical meetings in the Latin broken and both legs cut off.
paring to challenge her for such share
of this business as can be furnished by I S s S L I birth it has been devoted un­ j quarter this evening led lo some effer­ passengers are known to have been
the manufacturers of the United States. swervingly to justice. I believe that this vescence, but no noteworthy disorder. k illed and at least 15 injured.
In a country as large as ours, carrying country is commercial, that this is a com­
Trouble of a sim ilar nature occurred
Train No. 2 was flyin g eastward
on enormous undertakings, large amounts mercial age, that commercialism is pre­ at several qther points.
of capital are necessary, and this capital dominant; but far from regretting, 1 glory
when the engine struck a loaded coal
Against
these
incidents,
however,
can be more readily furnished by corpo­ in it.
car, which in the darkness had escaped
The object o f every war that was ever must be set off the addresses in support
rate ownership than in any other way.
from the siding in X en ia and run down
The only serious objection to so-called waged, at least in the old world, was of the governm ent voted by many mu­ grade to the danger point. The engine
W h ile much sym­
trusts has been the method of creating plunder—that is to say. profit. Vanquish­ nicipal councils.
struck it going at fu ll [speed, and was
them for the purpose o f selling sheaves ed countries are despoiled more scientifi­ pathy is felt w ith the Sisters personal­
turned over with E ngineer Clark under­
of printed securities which represent cally, but more successfully, by tribute. ly, P rem ier Combes undoubtedly feels
nothing more than good will and pros­ Militarism is the pursuit o f profit by plun­ that he is supported by the mass of the neath. The postal car, a combination
der; commercialism is the pursuit of people, and is not lik e ly to recede from car and day coach, im pelled by the
pective profits to the promoters.
heavy sleepers b eh in d, piled over the
I f it is the desire of the government to profit by industry. No fortune, however the position he has taken.
engine.
Tw o Pullm ans follow ed and
prevent the growth of such corporations, great, but was produced by peaceful pur­
were laid across the track at righ t
it has always seemed to me that a sim­ suits. America has given a shining les­
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ple remedy was within its reach. Under son to all the world for the benefit o f
angles.
the constitutional
provision allowing all age«. It has taught that the pathway
A gas tank under one of the cars e x ­
to
advantage
is
through
honesty
and
jus­
Congress to regulate commerce between
a ring American Robbcra Make a Big Haul—
ploded, retting fire to the wreck, and
States all companies desiring to transact tice and not through violence and plun­
Escaped in the Darknes,.
the postal car, the coaches and the
business outside of the State in which der.
Cries
El Paso, T ex ., July 26.— A daring two sleepers were destroyed.
for help could be heard com ing from
holdup took place on the M exican Cen­
one of the Pullm ans, and the helpless
tral about 12:30 oclock yesterday m orn­ onlookers were com pelled to see tw o
ing, just after the train le ft B ern ijillo. women and one man burned to death
A t B ern ijillo three Am ericans boarded before th eir eyes, unable to lend any
aid on account o f the fierceness o f the
the train, two»secreting themselves on
flames.
the blind baggage and the other enter­
A t that point the C incinnati, H a m il­
ing the th ird class coach.
As soon as ton A Dayton and Panhandle railroads
the train pulled out the two ridin g on cross on the spot, and both tracks were
tiie blind baggage entered the express torn up for 50 yards, blocking traffic.
Y. She is a little, old, almost for-
ktten woman, liv in g in a little, old,
Iniost forgotten tow n.
You would
lareely b elieve to see her that she
las an old wom an as lon g ago as the
pt break o f th? C iv il W a r; you would
lareely believe thnt one
hundred
[pars ago she w as a plump, red-cheek-
girl playing on the shores o f the
fue Hudson, and the prettiest g ir t
that, for many m ile In all directions.
But that Is exa ctly w h a t she did do
id what she was, and now as she sits
nong the gathering shadows o f lif e ’s
vilight, w a itin g for the night to fall,
he can look backw ard across the cen-
|*ry and say that the world with all
teeming millions has been born
gain since that fa r distant tim e when
he was a little girl at play.
Irs. Stamp was born on the shores ]
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LOADING WHEAT BY ELECTRICITY.
car, and, covering the messenger with
th eir guns, ordered him to throw up
his hands.
The express messenger
offered no resistance.
The robbers
then went leisurely through the safe,
securing $50,000 in currency, con­
signed to the Banco M inero, a* C h i­
huahua.
They also took what other
money packages were in the safe, and
stood quietly by until the train stopped,
making a hasty e x it, and dropping off
the train as it was slow ing down.
A fte r aligh tin g they disappeared in
j the darkness.
About the tim e the robbers entered
the express car the conductor of the
train became engager! in an altercation
with a passenger who refused to pay
has fare.
F in a lly the rondnetor had
the train stopped and the pas-enger
ejected. T h e robbets alighted at the
same tim e. . I t is now believed the
j troublesome passenger was a partner of
i the robbers, and his action a ruse to
secure the stopping of the train.
RAVAGES OF
CHOLERA.
Dlietse Appears in Every Quarter of Cairo,
in Most Cases Fatal.
London, July 28.— In a dispatch
from Cairo, E gyp t, the correspondent
there o f the D aily Telegraph says that
the utmost consternation prevails, o w ­
ing to the terrifyin g progress o f cholera.
A ll hope o f localizin g the disease, says
the correspondent, has been abandoned,
and there is no doubt that Egypt w ill
have to meet a devastating epidem ic.
The disease appeared last week in prac­
Behold the electric stevedore! It suffereth not from fatigue and it quitteth
tic a lly every quarter of Cairo, 42 new
not even at the lunch hour, and yet it loads wheat upon a vessel in a style far
eases Ireing recorded in one day. Sev­
beyond the possibilities of human hands Just watch it, if you please. The sacks
eral natives fell dead at their work.
o f grain come aboard by a sort o f trolley and are dumped into the hold at the
T em jo ra ry hospitals are l>eing erected.
rate of one every two seconds. It is. in fact, the latest achievement of electricity
as applied for power purposes. The picture is from the Year Book o f the Depart­
The British regiments at C airo * i l l
leave to camp in the desert at the e a rli­
ment of Agriculture.
est moment.
S lig h tly better reports, according to
th at have taken place In ber lifetim e. tim e the farm er returned the money,
the Telegraph ’ s cor respondent, have
Mrs. Stamp spends most o f her time saying that the w h eat bad turned out
been received from U pper Egypt. The
! at her spinning wheel, which, like her- well, afte r aU.
total numiter of cases o f cholera at
Earl Fitzw lllia m d rew a check for
| self, belongs to an almost forgotten
Union Pacific Maehlnltti' Sink«
C airo and A«»ncha, near Assioot, July
time. E very garmeut that she wears, one hundred pounds and g a ve It to hla
Omaha, J u ly 26.— T h e U nion Pacific 15, is 307, of which 227 proved fatal.
as w ell as nearly every piece o f fabric tenant. "T h is is aa things should be
—
Railroad today brought in 38 new men
in her humble home, is homespun between mau and man," said he. to take places in Omaha shops, but the
Plunged from a Trestle.
“
W
hen
your
eldest
son
comes
o
f
age.
| goods, the work o f her own hands.
j
MRS. DAVID R. STAMP.
M cC on n ellsville, O ., July 28.— The
g iv e him this, and tell him how and strike leaders say 21 o f them deserted
j without going to work.
The railroad worst railroad wreck in the history of
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w h y yon got It.”
f the Hudson one hundred and eight
o ffic ia ls say thia waa not unexpected, this valley occurred today at Douda,
cars ago.
She spent her girlhood i T h e fath er o f E arl Fltan llllam, who |
Somebody ought to protest In vigo r­ and that the greater part o f those who two m iles below here, on the Ohio A
here and saw the trial trip o f R obert I died recently, was an excellent land- \
The rear coach
ous fashion against the foolish habit did not go to work were men who were * L ittle Kanawha.
/niton’s first steamboat. She remera- lord. A London paper relatea how
Mr. jumped the track on a trestle an«) fell
o f pounding tin pans around a man's found incompetent and released.
ers when the country rang w lth the j once a farm er went to him with the ■ house when he gets married.
The
McKeen, superintendent
o f m otive 40 feet, turning com pletely over.
•raises o f General W ashington.
She I com plaint that the Earl'a fo x buntera
power, said today that piecework would train was going 30 m iles an hour, ami
•pniembers the day he died. She re- , had ruined a field o f corn, or, aa we j Some men b are a good tim e fishing, soon be introduced into other parts of the coach was com pletely wrecked. O f
embers the M arqnis de L afayette. | shonld call It, wheat.
even I f they do not catch any fish, the shops o f ' the system , and th at it the 30 passengers, two were killed an«l
T h e E arl g a v e the man fifty pound, ■
Andrew Jackson, the w a r o f 1812, and
'n in e injured, three of whom w ill «lie.
wM<'»> la usually the caaa,
w ill toon be used exclusively.
|ccalls moat o f the principal events In payment fo r damage. A fte r h a rv e s t1
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