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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-09-21
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IF Augusta county entered in SAID cause
on the 18th of June. 1900, shall at my
Office in Staunton, Va. on
SATURDAY. SEPT. 29th. 1900,
proceed to take. state and settle the fol
ist The liens, If any, binding the prop
erty Of which Rebecca Brown died seized
in The order OF their prorities, and the dc
linquent taxes, if any, binding me sams
2nd. Whether said property is susceptl
h,e of nartjtion in kind among the heirs
at.law of said Rebecca Brown.
srd. Any other matters deemed peril
hon' WV RE- R. NELSON,
Commissioner in Chancery.
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1JIRGINIA, To-wit-In the Clerk Office
" of the circuit court of Augusta coun-
ty. the goth day of September, 1900.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30
AND YET THE TARIFF.
(New York NYorldD

The Illinois steel Company has just
closed a contract for 10000 tons of steel
rails and nshplates to be delivered by
ii to certain Victoria railroads. OF
course the Illinois Company was able
to fill this large order from Australia
at a lower price than British steel rail
companies, or it could not have got the
contract.
1t is over 12,oOO miles via San Fran
cisco, from the works OF The company
in Illinois to Adelaide, Victoria. L is a
demonstrated fact, therefore. that
American steel rails are being made
uonSteelesnn-t mes--7 .alo
equal or better in quality and lower in
price than English steel rails. the
freight paid upon them over 1900
miles of land and sea, with good
margin of profit to the American man
ufacturers.
And yet the tariff duty of S7.S4 n ton
against English steel rails is main
tanned, and defended as necessary. It
is necessary. too. in Il sense. The
American Steel Rail Trust managers
need ii in order that they may keep on
charging their own countrym6n more
for their goods than they charge their
British and Australian customers.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30
THE AMERICA CUP INCIDENT.

There is n pretty, and we may add
characteristic, row ON over the forth
coming yacht race for the America cup
on the challenge of Sir Thomas Upton.
The cup is in the possession of the New
York Yacht Club which is having con-
sfructed II yacHt 10 defend the cup
against Sir Thomas Lipton's boat. AS
the race is supposed to be between the
fastest boat America can produce and
the fastest boat that England can pro-
duce, Mr.. Thomas w. Lawson, OF Bos-
ton, conceived the idea that he had a
right to build q yacht to race against
the New York Clubs boat for the
honor of contesting for the cup with
Sir Thomas Upton.
AS it is an international affair, to the
ordinary mind ii would seem that Mr..
Lawson took n reasonable view of the
matter, but the New York Yacht Club
scouts his idea as preposterous and has
Informed him that if lie wishes to race
for the cup he must join the club. TO
this Mr.. Lawson demurs, and so APP
parently if his boat should prove itself
capable of sailing all around the New
York Yacht Clubs boat the latter and
not the former will uphold American
prestige in the race. In other words,
the New York Yacht Club sets up the
contention that as the cup is in its
possession nobody can race for 1t OK
cept under the clubs auspices.
This absurd contention naturally
robs the race of all national interest or
significance, and makes of it merely a
race between the New York Yacht
Club and Sir Thomas Upton. 1t is not
contest between the swiftest of
American craft and the swiftest of
English craft. but between two given
boats. 1t is no more national affair
than the tests of speed between Mr..
Richard Cookers horses and those of
the Prince of Wales on the English
turf.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30
THE BENETAcr1oNs on 1eoO.
(Chlcago Tribune.)


The benefactions of the year 1900 to
educational institutions, libraries, art
museums and galleries. charities and
churches by personal donations and be-
quests amount TO the large total of
SEQ. 264. $50 TO date. or between 10000 :
600 and s20000.000 less than last year
This total may be increased somewhat
during the coming week. but approx
mately it represents what has been
contributed to these various objects
during the year.
1t is in no way discouraging that the
record shows this year falling off as
compared with 1899. for last year was
record breaker. It's total ($79,749 $3.50
was a round fifty millions greater than
the average of the preceding ten years.
and that OF the present year is fully
that, while the wave has naturally re-
coded a little, il Is still far in advance
OF the total reached in any year prior
to 1899.
OF this great sum OF $50, 2si 03o edu-
cational institutions have received al
most exactly one-half. or $50. 66g. 64i
and more thau half of this has been
received by thirty-siX of the larger col
leges and universities. The smaller
colleges, academies and Summaries
have been given $906l. i05. and the
Methodist twentieth century thank
Offering has enriched educational in
stitutions with So, l42.5S2 more. Libra
ries and art museums and galleries
should be classified as educational
The former have received seas 00
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30

ly in doing it, it is certain that they
will do 1t better. and TO nobler ends by
reason of the training received all over
the country in the schools and colleges
of today.
The bad habit of dependence, IL not
subsection, which until lately has been
encouraged In women, has hindered
their inventive development. But 1t Is
likely that the superior effect of the
modern methods, the self-dependence
fostercd, will increase the inventive
quality. and that the manual training
given in schools will have taught the
use of tools. and the old joke of the
woman and the hammer will have lost
It's clinch. If they can never enter
trades requiring muscular strength,
they can enter those that do not re-
Guire so much as many men do. The
enlargement also of the intellectual
powers, must of course find play in the
professions. and women have already
demonstrated their value as lawyers.
as physicians. helped by feminine ten
derness, as ministers, to whom the
long cultivation of the spiritual nature
through generation after generation
lends an added heavenly grace.
1t IS often quoted as an argument
against the advancement of women
that they cannot fight, as if there were
nothing in ,.-esworld TO do but to fight,
as il, indeed, all men could fight.
There is an ample field for women in
connection with the army, in the COM
missary and sanitary and hospital de-
partments. quite as important as any
other service. And it should be re-
membered that when responsibility is
brought home to women there will be
much less lighting than there is in
these days.
And in conclusion. may I not SAY
that while those concerned In our
country's welfare are urging the culti-
yated and refined among men to go into
politics, it would seem that the pres
ence of women in politics could not be
otherwise than beneficial to the coun-
try.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30
NEW yoRK's HOSPITAL SCANDAL

Unless the nurses In the insane ward
| of Bellevue Hospital, New York City,
have been grossly misrepresented, at
least three of them should be-, con-
signed to the electric chair. For cow
ardly brutality the murder OF Patient
Hilliard. as described by Thomas j.
NIinnock Ca reporter OF the New York
Herald. who feigned insanity to gain
/ admission to the hospital and observe
the treatment of patients), is without a
parallel in the annals of crime in this
country. The autopsy confirmed Min
nock's allegations, showing that Hill
lard had been cruelty beaten, three Of
his ribs broken and the tissues of his
throat crushed by choking, all because
he declined to eat his supper. Min
mock thus described the scene to the
Coroner's jury:
"'You won't eat, eh?' said Marshall
to billiard. Well 1 think I know
way to make you do what you are told.
At signal Marshall and Davis seized
billiard and threw him violently on the
floor. The poor fellow went down In a
heap. The other lunatics jumped up
and huddled together in a corner and
acted as if they were scared half TO
DEATH"
what happened to Hilliard?"
Dean. when he heard the commotion,
came out of the office on run. Mar
shall and Davis had billiard on the
floor and were beating him with their
fists. When Dean reached IIilliard he
jumped in the air and landed with his
knees upon the poor fellows chest with
force enough to crush the life out of
his body. L never expected to see him
move again. The other lunatics became
excited. shouted and yelled"
What did the nurses do?"
Dean bent over Hilliard while the
other two nurses held him on the floor
and clutched him by the throat. Hill
lard struggled to get away, but he
could not break the vice-like grip of
Dean. who acted as if he. too, had lost
his mind. Dean kept his knees on the
mans chest. Hilliard became quiet.
thought he was Dead
This is not the first instance of
cruelty to insane persons in hospitals,
but usually the cases have been merely
unnecessarily harsh treatment of vio-
lent patients. Hilliard. it seems. was
neither violent nor physically capable
of dangerous violence. Nevertheless he
was done to death by the three brutes
who were supposed to take care of him,
1t is n disgrace to New York that such
atrocities should be possible under the
laws governing hospital management.
THE INSTANCE IS ONE THAT
SHOULD SERVE TO INCREASE
THE VIGILANCE OF DISINTER-
ESTED SUPERVISION OF HOSPI-
TAILS FOR THE INSANE THROUG
OUT THE COUNTRY.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30
GIVE WOMAN HER
REGHTTUL PLACE.
(By Elizabeth Cady Stanton.)

Ever and anon public thought is
aroused on the question of vice in
cities. Though an aroused public senu-
ment can repress the evils for a time in
one locality, they reappear at once
with renewed energy in many others.
Occasionally church officials make their
protests, but no one seems to under
stand the hidden cause OF all these ter
rible outrages.
The authorities of the Episcopal
church are just now aroused to action.
The first step to be taken is to teach
woman a greater self-respect and the
rising generation n more profound rev.
erence for her. SO long as we assign
to her an inferior position in the scale
of being: one unfit to stand in the
Holy of Holes" in cathedrals; to take
a seat as delegate in II synod. general
assembly or conference; to be ordained
to preach the Gospel or administer the
sacramcnts-so long will the dcgrada-
ton and dependence of woman con-
tinue,
All our efforts to suppress vice are
hopeless until woman is recognized in
the Canon law and all church discip-
line. as equal in goodness. grace and
dignity with bishops, archbishops-yea
with all who are called the head of the
Church.
Our sons from the law schools do not
rise from their studies of the invid-
ious statutes and opinions of jurists
in regard TO women with higher re-
spect for them. Our sons in theologi-
cal seminaries do not rise from their
studies of the Bible, and the popular
commentaries on the passages of Scrip
tMre cnncerning Woman.s creation and
position In the scale OF being. with an
added respect for the mothers who
went to the very gates of death to
give them life and immortality.
Just as long as the church and the
state continue to make woman an out
cast she Will be the sport OF the multi
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30

teenth centpry, and the materialism
and worldlinesS of the nineteenth, are
not likely to be overthrown by any re-
volutions that the twentieth century
have in store for us.
In fact, there are most cheering indi-
cations that the truths of the Gospel
will be established on a firmer founda-
ton than ever, and that in the very
near future. Destructive criticism
seems TO have done its worst. DIR. Hill
lis declares that its age is past. and
that the era of constructive develop
ment of Christian truth has begun.
Very many share his opinion. Untena-
bic positions have been uncovered.
twisted and warped proof-teXts have
been abandoned, but every fundamen-
tai doctrine of the Christian Church
has been maintained and is as substan-
TALLY rooted today ~ the hearts of the
Church as ever in the past history of
the world. Ignorance may be favora-
BILE to credulity,. but 1t is not the moth
er of intelligent faith.
The coming century Will hold, / be-
lieve, more strongly than ever to the
truths of Gods word, because they will
be better understood. The great facts
of sin and its consequences, the lost
estate OF man and his salvation only
by Jesus Christ, the great truths of
the fatherhood of God and the brother
hood of man. of the Importance of this
life as n period of probation and of
eternal reward and retrIbution, of the
presence of The Holy Spirit in the
world. and of the appropriateness OF
the great commission to evangelize all
nations. these truths which lie at the
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30

Nearly the entire amount has been
given for the building of new libraries
in sixty-four different cities and towns
tied to Mr.. Andrew Carnegie who has
given 81. 1875 600 for this purpose during
the year. For art galleries and mu
seums there has been donated $056.00O.
Charities and churches have received
a generous proportion of the total ben
ents. Charities have taken 1880. 176.
which is about $l50,000 more than last
year. ana the various churches and
church enterprises $S.799G05, which is
nearly s6,o00.o00 more than last year.
When it is considered that these fig
ures only represent gifts or requests
where the amount is over $1,000 in each
case. and that private subscriptions or
collections, of which no records can be
kept, are not included. there is every
reason for the pessimist to take cour
age. This worlds not half so bad
world as some would like TO make it."
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30
WOMAN TO BECOME
THE PEER OF MAN.
(By Lille Devereux BlakeD

Despite the fact that women have
through the Christian centuries been
condemned to positions of inferiority.
when happy conditions or strange ac-
cidents have given to fine specimens
of their sex the opportunity to show
their ability, they have proved their
superiority in innumerable instances.
The armies OF Israel were led to vic
tory by Deborah. when Barak lacked
The energy to continue the contest.
The armies of France We're led by
Joan OF Arc when the French generals
had met only defeat. Elizabeth of
England. Maria Theresa of Austria,
Catherine the Great of Russia are
familiar examples of queens who were
greater than the kings who preceded
or followed them.
Woman's capacity is beyond dispute,
and, if this be granted there can be
no doubt Of her ability to bear the
burdens and responsibilities OF govern
ment. And no woman will ever be ele-
waited to high official position. unless
she has shown herself at least the peer
of those who now hold such places.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30
THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRES-
SOR.
(Atlanta Constitution.l

While it may never be possible to get
to the bottom OF the Dreyfus case. one
thing must remain certain-that the
men surrounding him We're worse than
he could possibly have been.
One of his most active prosecutors
Major Count Ferdinand Walsin Ester
hazy-has mot the usual fate of trans
gressors. In q letter to his divorced
wife he writes:
II have been unable to write to my
children recently, not having the mon
ey to buy n postage stamp. | am at
the last extremity of strength, courage
and resources. 1 have not eaten for
two days until this morning in the
workhouse. L have no Clothes am
shivering with cold and am compelled
to warm myself by entering churches
and museums. Without bread. home
or clothing, l shall die or privations of
all kinds, unless a revolver bullet puts
everything in good order"
Pitable enough. but what better fate
was TO be expected for q man of his
antecedentS?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30
THE OLD GOSPEL FOR
THE NEW CENTURY.
(By Rev. Francis E. Clarke

CBy Rev. Francis e. Clarke
l believe that the new century will
be better than any that has gone before
1T. The inventive mind of man is not
yet exhausted. The resources OF God
are almost as yet untouched. New IN
ventions. new discoveries, new treas
ures from the bowels of the earth, new
coSmic forces TO be harnessed TO the
Will of man, all await q new century.
There Will be also, L believe, improve
ments in the statements OF Truth, in
the methods of carrying the Gospel
into all the world. in the organization
OF the Church. There Will be Il broader
brotherhood, there will be less sectar-
ian rivalry, and no sectQrian bitterness.
1t will not be thought necessary in the
new century to segregate people, young
and old, into ranks by themselves, but
together they shall go out TO fight the
Lords battle or to do the Lords will.
But with all these improvements and
With all this progress which / believe
the twentieth century will bring. 1 can
not conceive OF any change in the fun
damenta1 truthS OF The Gospel.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ has with
stood the changes of far more moment
GUS transition periods than that from
the nineteenth to the twentieth cen
tury. Truths that have stood the test
of nineteen centuries. which have sur
vived the prosecutions of the early CEN
turtles. the midnight of the Middle ~ ges.
the fashionable scepticism OF the eigh-
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30

worlds history. died during the year
1900:
Is. Acrelins, historian of Swiss coll
onies in America.
Madam Adelaide, aunt of Louise XVI.
Ireneo Affo. Italian antiquarin and
historian
Albanese, Italian musician.
Francis Albert di Villanora, Italian
photographer.
Gerge Allen antiquary.
Jean Baptiste Audebert, French mats
uralist and engraver.
Jean Claude d'Arcon, French engi-
neer.
Yves Marie Audrein, French ecclesi-
astic and politician.
Henry Babcock, American soldier.
Angelo Marie Bandini. Italian anti-
quaran and photographer.
Louis Count de Borras,, French naval
officer
William Billings, American musical
composer.
Hugh Blair, Scottish divine and pro-
fessor of rhetoric.
William Blount. American statesman
Marquis de Banille, French General
and writer.
ish Governor General of Cuba.
Jean Etienne Championnet. French
General.
Duke Armand de Chavost. French
phlanthropist.
Count de Conway, Irish General in
American revolution.
William Cowper English poet.
Elijah Craig, American Baptist clex
gyman.
Delaney, American soldier and
statesman.
Louis de Veyyoux, French General,
Margaret Draper, (wife of Richard
DrapeDt American journalist.
Bryan. Edwards. English merchant
and author in America
George Gray. American statesman.
Joseph de Gulgnes, French oriental
list.
William Hans, Swiss type founder
and printer.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30

Good heavens. North Carolina has
not put up enough peach brandy to
last beyond Christmas! The Governor
of South Carolina can soon repeat his
oft quoted remark. San Antonio
Chronicle.
Surely the editor of the Chronicle has
never been a resident of the Old North
State. If the Tar Heels run short OF
peach brandy they may yet quench
that Iimekiln thirst, so peculiar to
Carolinians. Corn whiskey and apple
jack may yet be had there. and that.
TOO, without the aid or consent of any
governmental license on earth!-IIous-
ton Post.
Respectfully passed on to our North
Carolina contemporaries for REPUTATION
or confirmation.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-30
BUT is IT DAY DREAMlNGa


"Tis well for us all. some fond hope
Deeply buried from human eyes,
And in the hereafter angels may
Roll from it's grave the stone away"
1t were almost sacriligeous to burst
asunder the beautiful silver lined cloud
that ever floats before the enraptured
gaze of some others in the world than
the mere idle dreamers. 1t even par
takes much of cruelty to destroy the
iridescent dream of the boy-man, long
ing and hoping for the "bag-of- gold"
at the end of the rainbow. The mans
rainbow may not cast its variegated
hues athwart the skies. nor may 1t be
seen by but one man, but it exists, is
as bright and beautiful and creates us
great a longing in the man as in the
boy. To others it is but q dream,
daydream. but to each individual it is
the fond hope that lies deeply buried
from human eyes"
So ii is today that in the nervous,
busy, strenuous world there is buried
in the breast of the machine called
.'man" a spirit, another self. His brain
and his hands may toll for place and
pelf and there may be no present eX-
hibition of the finer sensibilites in the
counting room, the bank and the office,
but every stroke and every effort of
energy is but the inspiration of the
spirit of the man forcing him on. that
it's end may be accomplished, and for
that purpose alone. And when there
is no longing of the spirit after deli
mite purpose, then there is no effort.
Nor are these dreams of the spirit IN
consistent with the practical life. Who
is that raises his hand or exercises
his brain. but has an object to attain,
whether that object be worthy or UNI
worthy. 1t may be ambition, it may
be greed, ii may be personal happiness,
or it may be an unseliish desire to pro-
tect others; but, at last, it is the fond
dream lying buried, but awaiting the
hand to roll from it's grave the stone
that stands between the spirit and its
goal. And that goal may be the unat-
'tainable and mythical treasure at the
end of the rainbow-mores the pity;
but till the awakening. it is the guiding
star of the mans life.
cdN Will one Will, lUeU, me true IN
deX to the character of man is his OBJ
ject in life. 1t is the thing he pur-
sues, that he wants most and that he
thinks of and dreams of in his rever-
les that is unconsciously reelected in
his words and actions. He may pile
up n fortune or he may be a ruler
among men, yet if they are but means
to an end, the end is not yet and the
restless spirit soars ever onward to it's
goal even though destruction awaits it
ut the end. 1t is the man we know
his spirit, never! 1t may be dream
after all, the object OF ones existence,
but 1T is Life it is the life, and ell else
is but Il means to the end.
So, however dark the hour, or how
ever portentous the coud If there
shines behind 1t a fond hope (though
but dream it be) It's brightness will
encircle the darkness with an ever
present promise that soon 1t will burst
forth in all it's splendor; for it is the
mans life, his being--that for which
he lives. labors and suffers and waits.