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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-04-03

died. In March, 1864, he was married
10 Miranda Johnston, who died some
years ago.
Mr.. Wagner's nice, Troline, has re-
sided with him for a number of years
and her husband, Frank Austerman, has
run the farm for number of years.
Mr.. Wagner has been one of Wauke
sha most prominent citizens, leading in
business and political affairs when his
health was good enough to permit it.
For the past few years he has not been
well and for nearly Il year and a half
has been confined to his home. He has
been a dealer in stock and sheep and has
increased and added to his farm until it
has become one of the finest IN the
county.
John William Barlow.
Ncenah, Wis, March Special. /
John William Barlow, aged 81 years,
died at his home in this city He was
Barlow was born in England January
l9, 1916. He came to America in 1S4S
and settled in Wisconsin. In 1850 he
settled in Marquette county. -Four years
later he removed to Menasha. He was
veterinary surgeon and practiced his
profession here. For thirty years he was
justice of the peace and d member of
the school board, coroner and tax as
SCISSOR. He is survived by four sons and
two daughters They are: DR.. d. G.
Barlow of Neenah, Mrs. j. F. Boynton
of Menasha. Albert, Henry and Samuel
Barlow of Menasha and Mrs. Towel Of
Nebraska. The funeral will be held
Tuesday afternoon.
August Stride.
Neenah, Wis, March 31.-[Spccial. j
August Stride, aged 70 years, died late
last night He was an early settler OF
Neenah, coming here III 1915 He is sur
vived by his children. Mrs. III. G.. Kru-
ger, Mrs. i. j. Pebensen, August
Stride. Jr.. and Marie Stride of Nee
nah. Mrs. Mau of Tacoma and Charles
Stride of Omro.
Other Deaths in the State.
Elgin. ILL.,. March 31.-[Specal. Sam
uel III. Norton, who died in Chicago this
week, and was buried here today, was
the father Of Miss May Norton and
brother of Mrs. H. F.. Chase. both of
Grand Rapids, Wis.
Marshield. Wis, March 31-Mrs
Margaret Reid % years of age died
from the shock of a surgical operation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-04-03
{. Ii. GIBSON DEAD.
Former Senator frC IN Maryland
Passes AWay-PraCtiCad Law
in Washingtor'

Washington, d. c., March 31.-Former
United States Senator Gibson of Mary
land is dead.
Charles Hopper Gibson was born in
Queen Anne county, Maryland, January
IS, 1872 He was admitted to the bar
in 1864, and commenced the practice of
law at Easton. He was appointed by
President Johnson collector Of internal
revenue. but his nomination was rejected
in the Senate by Il majority Of one vote.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-04-03

Rev. Francis Edward Carter, hon
orary canon of Canterbury has been APP
pointed dean of Grahamstown, South
Africa
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-04-03
JOHN WAGNER DEAD.
Early Settler of the Spring City
Dies at His Home in
WaukeSha.

Waukesha, Wis. March 30 Special I
Yesterday afternoon John Wagner died
at his home west Of the city Of paraly-
sis. Mr.. Wagner was born in New Ber-
lin, n. Y, in 1917. He came to Wiscon-
sin to live in 1914, his father buying the
farm on which he lived at the time he
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-04-03
OXFORD WAS EASY.
Cambridge Won the Inter UniVer-
Sity Boat Race at Put
new EnUIand

Putney. England, March 31-The fifty
seventh annual boat race between crews
representing the universities OF Oxford
and Cambridge. was rowed today over
the usual course from Putney TO Mort
lake and was wen by Cambridge
Oxford won the toss and chose the Sur
rey station. The two boats took up their
positions at /: so D. IN. and started at
:5S.
Cambridge Took the Lead.
At Walden's, about one mile from the
start, Cambridge was two lengths ahead.
Passing the Crab tree, Cambridge was
ID seconds ahead and off the Saccharine
works the light blues were leading by SIX
lengths.
At Hammersmith bridge, less than one
mile and three-QuarterS from the start,
the lead Of Cam bridge had been reduced
to five lengths
The light blues maintained this lead at
tic lead mills, rowing 80 to OXford's 81.
At the Doves, about one mile and sew
Cn-eighths from the start. the lead of
Cambridge had been reduced to four
lengths. But at Chiswick church, about
two miles and three-quarters from the
start, the race had developed into moth
ing more than procession.
Signs of Distress.
As the Cambridge boat passed Thorny-
croft, nearing the three-mile post, the
light blues led by ten lengths. Oxford
then began to show signs OF distress
and at the Devonshire meadows, over
three miles from the start, over eleven
lengths separated the two boats.
At Barnes bridge, about three and q
half miles from the starting place, Cam
bridge was forty lengths ahead The
light blues then eased off and won by
about twenty lengths. The Oxford crew
was greatly distressed at the finish.
The race was favored by magnificent
weather. The bright sunshine attracted
immense crowds. which. from an early
hour. congregated along the course. in
steamers. in boats, on the bridges ard on
the buildings overlooking the scene. Nv
cry point of vantage was crowded in spite
Of the general belief that it would be =;
one-sided contest.
The official tire of the race was IS
minutes At seconds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-04-03

A brickmaking plant is to be located
at TomahaWk.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-29

swer meekly; but more often the results
are unfortunate. After few weeks or
months of fe with born critic, a per-
son of sensitive disposition will become
morbidly conscious of all sorts of per-
sonal defects. some of which may not be
worth correcting He will Withdraw into
himself. and brood over his imperfections,
or grow desperate and take to drink. Ore
of less impressionable temperament Will
become irritable. and indulge in recrimi-
nations. All the time the critic himself
becomes more and more captious, more
and more convinced that his judgment,
and his alone, is worth regarding; and as
the world in general does not pay much
attention to it, here is woe for the critic.
1t is an uncomfortable situation all
around.
But, it may be said, what is to be Gone?
Are we TO have no passion for perfection,
no criticism at all, nothing but a mush
of lattery? BY no means. 1t is not nee
essary to go to either destructive extreme,
though If one is to be drowned it might
be pleasanter to be drowned in cool, fresh
water than in pickle-brine. little fault
finding, reproof, or argument is like salt,
piquant favoring to life; out the ever
lasting argument and carping which some
families keep up is like living on salt cod
fish If the character of some member of
the family is 20 be altered for the better,
reproof should be given in some quiet talk,
when the victims mood is favorable; and
a great deal can be done by judicious
praise. If II is desirable to make room
cheerful, one does not go into it with
broom TO sweep the darkness out, one
opens the shutters and lets in the light.
If half the trouble had been taken 10 make
virtue pleasant that has been taken to
make vice disagreeable, the prisons would
not be as crowded as they are. Most peo-
pie respond far more readily to affection
than to scolding. 1t will generally be
found that the person who rules well and
wisely does ii by tactful gentleness, which
keeps others in good humor. II he has
a temper. II Is like that of the old colonel
in Mark Twain's story. When he got
mad, II was awful dark for half a minute.
and that was enough; there wouldn't
nothin more go wrong for a week"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-29

In the high and pure Hanna philosophy
as inculcated by that erudite and cul-
tured master, the issue of imperialism is a
fake, E" there is not a trust in the United
States" and the only real and para
mount issue is money!" BY this we do
not mean the currency question any more
than Mr.. Hanna does. The real issue is
not that kind of money, but the other
kind which is contributed to the Republic
can corruption fund from the multi-mil-
lion surplusage gained by the trusts, as a.
result of Hanna Mckinley legislation. or
army, navy, and Improvement contracts,
or opportunities to exploit the colonies,
or loot the Treasury, and such things.
That is the issue as privately defined to
his road agents and benefeiaries by the
Man behind the Elephant
Yes, according to the Hanna concept,
money is the paramount and only issue
In the campaign. Given enough OF it, and
the farmers and workingmen of the coun-
try are assumed to be purchaseable, as,
we are sorry to say. many of them were
found to be, in their poverty and distress,
in 1896. II is the trust theory that the
corruptions and crimes against the suf-
frage of that year can be repeated with
impunlty in 1900. Only furnish US enough
money, declares the trusts political horse
leech, and we will fill Delaware with
Pennsylvania repeaters, West Virginia
with imported negro voters from Wash
ington, Virginia, and North Carolina, car
~ Illinois with hired eolonists from Mis-
souri, and Indiana with equally good Ohio
men from over the borderi
Hanna hears that the Central West, on
an honest ballot, is lost TO the trusts.
money, more money, more money!" He
realizes that the trust object lessons in
Pennsylvania, Indiana. and Illinois have
solidifed American labor against the Nc
Kinley trust ticket More money is his
specific for the disease, The Republican
managers are shrewd and able men, and
they see that the trust game is lost, I'M
less the suffrage can be made farce, and
the workingmen and farmers bought like
cattle. Go down deeper into your Hanna
Mckinley profits, o, We trustsi 1t is your
only chance; at least so breaches the
prophet Hanna.
Perhaps the American people at the
polls five weeks hence may show that they
resent the notion, SO confidently held and
so impudently heralded by the trust
magnates and their political agents. that
our voters are commodities to be dealt In
like ooaI and cheese Perhaus IL NAV be
discovered at great expense and trouble
that the great majority of them are not
for sale
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-29


country. They will. Many of these people
are personally acquainted with mission
aries. Most of them have been taught from
earliest childhood TO give their pennies to
the cause of missions. II was their fathers
and mothers who helped to establish the
American Board. The course of the Presi-
dent in definitely committing himself to
the scuttling policy is too obviously cow
ardly and unfeeling to be misconstrued.
1t is not the habit of missionary maya
zines or UNCONVENTIONAL journals to over
look massacres of missionaries and native
converts. All the details which can be OBJ
tanned about the murder of the mission
aries already put to death will be published
in their columns Their readers are of a
class of people not easily reached by the
machine" They are part of the indie
pendent voting element In the country.
Let the political managers look through
the list of members of the Congregational
Church in some big city or small town. He
will find on this list the names of mer-
chants, physicians, lawyers, real estate
agents, professional men generally, and
well TODD though not rich business men.
That Church is not a church of million
aires. Neither does the Methodist Church
harbor many very rich men. These Church
folk are not the kind of voters to be bribed.
nor are they subject to intimidation. 1t
will not hurt their business If they change
their political faith, nor will they suffer
in their social relations. They are men
who think about their votes. and who have
principles. Many of them voted for Nc
Kinley in 1896, partly because they believed
him to represent sound business principles
and partly because they were Republicans
by heredity. They believed him to be
representative American. Now, with the
coal strike on in Pennsylvania, with the
party of liberty" rapidly becoming the
party OF wage slavery. and with Presi-
dent who makes the nation a laughing
stock abroad, will these men continue 10
be Republicans?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-29
The Missionaries in China.

The missionaries of the American Board
and the people who are interested in their
work will await with considerable interest
the outcome of events in China Since the
beginning OF mission work there has not
been a crisis 50 fraught with meaning.
The question at stake is not altogether the
lives Of missionaries at present stationed
In China. II affects men and women en-
gagged In this work throughout the world.
The attitude assumed by President Nc
hinley at the beginning was that of a
protector Of all American missionaries
The church magazines and papers print
ed eulogies of the President and as
sured their readers that he would GER
tainIy do what was right, and that no
one need fear that mission interests would
not be taken care Of so long as the Ameri-
can flag should wave above the White
House which sheltered William Mckinley
What they will say now that the President
has so abruptly changed his front remains
TO be seen. Some ingenious sophisiry VIII
be needed to make it appear evidsnt that a
policy which involves the abandonment OF
men, women, and children without protec-
tion to the mercles of the Empress Dow
ager is really intended to protect these
helpless Americans 1t will also be some
what difficult to make the people see the
wisdom of calling upon the perpetrators of
crime TO punish themselves.
tits useless TO assume that these things
VIII have no effect upon the church going
and mission-sepp population OF the
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-29
scARLATINA AT ,1JRRAY BAY.
Prominent Americans QuErantined
Mt the Canadian Resort.

QUEBEC, Sept. 2s.-Many members of
the large American colony at Murray Bay,
the fashionable watering place of the
lower ST. Lawrence, are in a sorrowful
predicament, being quarantined for scarla
tina with their iamiIies and are unable
to leave Cor home.
The disease first developed in the house,
hold of Justice Harlan, of the United
States Supreme Court. The family had
made purchases of home made Canadian
rugs. homespun cloths, etc. manufactured
by the local Canadian house wives and
they are believed to have carried the in
lection. Almost simultaneously with its
appearance at the Harlan cottage, the
disease appeared in the summer homes of
the Minturns and the Loves, of New York,
and these are now quarantined, as we'll
as the residences of a number of other
American families.
The rapid spread If the disease among
the American colony is. no doubt, large
ly contributed to by the 9romiscuous use
by visitors of the calashes, or peculiar
two wheeled public conveyances on leath-
er springs. All these are now being dis
infected md there is a hurried exodus OF
families who have escaped tie contagion,
and In some cases OF portions of families,
some Of whose members are down with
the disease.
Fears are expressed that the refugees
NAV spread the disease in other parts
Of Canada and in the United States. So
far none of the cases reported appear TO
be very dangerous.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-29
TENDENCY TO EXTRAvAGANCE..
Plans to Lessen Expenditures of
Cuban Municipalities

HAVANA, Sept. Pa decree has been
issued providing that after November l.
20 per cent of the cost of the police is
to be borne by the municipalities. and
that after March /. all the expense shall
be so borne. Heretofore, the State has
paid the entire cost of the police service
throughout the island. The object of the
decree is to tighten the expenses of the
State
The municipalities, or at least those
elected by the people have. in forming
their budgets, shown a great tendency to
extravaganza, some of them even attempt
ing to levy taxes that have been abol-
ished by law in order TO pay higher sala-
ries to the mayors and to employ large
STATS of municipal clerks. The papers
complain that large proportion Of the
elected mayors and councilmen do not be-
long to the taxpaying class.
Senior ViIlalen, Secretary of Public
Works, has completed his annual report.
IL shows that during the Spanish regime
only 275 kilometres of public roads were
built mostly in Havana province. There
are now 440 kilometres in course CT con-
struction, 1872 kilometres have been sur
veyed, and ,3i7 kilometres are projected.
All this has been done In less than two
years of American occupation. The esti-
mated cost of all these road improve
ments is $13.626.OOO.
The carrying out of the work will be
extended over a number of years. local
office has been established in each prov
inee with an engineer in charge. In max
ing plans for a road system Che most i'm
portant localities are considered. While
the work is necessarily slow owing to the
lack of funds. nevertheless the roads con-
structed form part of an entire plan which
will be consummated in time.
This will allow planters and other lar
ties to reach the ports with their products
without being compelled to have recourse
to the railroads. and will undoubtedly, In
time result in a very material reduction
in the present high railway tariffs. In
some of the provinces there is plenty OF
good material for road building. hut in
others stone for the purpose is completely
lacking Some valuable lands will soon
be able to be opened up. owing TO the
roads now being constructed The Super
intendent Of Public Works is overwhelmed
with petitions for the construction OF
highways. Roads will be first built in the
districts where the greatest number OF
peop!e will be benefited.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-29
ARMoR PLATE BIDS.
Efforts Being Mndc to Settle Contro-
versy Between the Makers.

An earnest attempt is being made by the
Navy Department and the armor making
companies to settle the armor plate con-
troversy in a manner satisfactory to all
concerned before next Tuesday, the date
set for the opening of the new bids for
furnishing armor to the Government. The
bids opened under the first advertisement
were unsatisfactory to the Department in
several respects, but principally because
the conditions laid down by the armor
firms prevented the Government from get
ting the most advantageous rates. Out OF
about 81, 600 tons of armor Of all kinds the
Midvale Steel Company, new factor In the
field. declined TO furnish less than 10000
tons. while the Carnegie and Bethlehem
companies both declined 10 make contracts
for furnishing less than half the entire
amount.
The Midvsle bid was the lowest, but
the time wanted by the company for max
ing deliveries was so long that the De-
partment could not afford to wait for that
period to elapse before putting some of
the armor on the battleshps aud armored
cruisers last authorized and desired to
affect compromise by which the Midvaie
Company would get the total amount for
which II bid and the Carnegie and Beth
Iehem companies, which promised earlier
deliveries would divide the remaining
amount between them. As there did not
appear to be any prospect of efecting such
an arrangement the department rejected
ali the bids and readYertised. the new
bids TO be opened on October 2.
Secretary Long and Rear Admiral
O'Neil, of the Naval Bureau of Ordnance.
have been in correspondence and have
had oral conferences with the three COM
peting firms with particular reference to
a protest made by the Miivale Company
because It's bid, the lowest, was rejected.
1t is probable that there will be no bids
received under the new advertisement,
but the Department will not make any de-
cision with the protest until after Octo-
Der 2.
Secretary Long had an interview yes
terday with Senator Penrose of Pennsyl-
vania and representatives of the Carnegie
AMI Bethlehem Companies, the result of
which has not been disclosed beyond the
admission that an agreement was not ef
fected. More conferences will be held in
the next few days and some time next
week the Department expects to be able
to reach some definite conclusion.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-29
APPROVED BY M'ARTHUR.
COurt-MnrtiaI Verdict in the Bran
dIe-PerIsins Case.

An official report received at the War
Department contains news OF the trial
by court martial of Capt. G. W. Brandle
and Second Lieut. Alvin s. Perkins, Of the
Twenty Volunteer Infantry, on
the charge of torturing Filipino prisoners
at Mariquina, Luzon. 1t was charged that
the accused did unlawfully, willfully, and
cruelty command, direct, and cause" each
prisoner to be hung by the neck for about
ten seconds. Captain Brandle was &C
cused of torturing FIVE prisoners. They
were sentenced to be reprimanded. Major
General Macarthur approved the findings
but qualified his approval by remarking
that the verdict of guilty IN Captain Bran
dies case, with the exceptions made by
the court, would have been in full accord
with the evidence on record, and in the
case of Lieutenant Perkins a finding of
guilty on each specification would have
been warranted with only the modification
that the names of the natives tortured
were unknown to the court. General
Macarthur. in commenting on the case,
says:
1T is obvious that a cruel and Illegal
assault was perpetrated by the accused
officers on certain native prisoners; an
assault not only criminal in itself under
the laws of war but in remote conse-
Guences well calculated to infiict perma-
nent injury upon essential interests of the
nation The purpose of the United States
in these Islands is to introduce and plant
republican institutions, based upon the
beneflcent principles of the Constitution.
Success in this great and inspiring UNDER
taking depends largely upon securing
through a sense OF self-interest and graft
tude the confidence and attachment of the
Filipino people. II is therefore iIdlspen-
sable to the true interests of the Republic
that Americans in the archipelago, espe-
cially officers of the army. shall in all
transactions Of business, war. and admin
istration maintain the highest standards
of American civilization by practicing dig
nifty and decorum In all intercourse with
the natives.
in order to emphasize an important
principle Ii is necessary to severely cen
sure ail that is contrary to it; this is
more especially true when the vital in
terests of a great nation are jeopardiZed
by the thoughtless and Illegal actions of
these accused officers who for the time
being, were exercising its authority.
1T is believed that the sentence of the
court will be sufficiently executed by re-
minding Captain Brundle and Lieutenant
Perkins that by reckless defiance of the
ethics of their profession they have in
flicted incalculable injury upon the inter-
ests of this country and have also cast
unwarranted aspersion upon the reputa-
ton of the United States Army for senti-
ments OF honor and humanity"