davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-21
MADE HIM SICK.

Louise ~ Crsmon told the court a
heartrending story on May II, 1892,
she married Sidney g. Crlsmon and for
five years OF that time he was scarcely
ever day sober once he came home
covered with blood ana made plaintiff
believe he had killed her brother Since
the last baby was born plaintiff said
she had suffered with fainting spells,
and one day after she had come too the
defendant told her her pale face made
him sick and he wanted his wife TO get
out OF his sight J. +. Murphy, the
plaintiffs father coTOboratcd his
daughter and Mrs. CrismOn was grant
ca a divorce aud the custody OF three
children Attorney sheckell appeared
Tor plaintiff.
ALIMONY AND COUNSEL FEES.
Judgment for the plaintiff IN the case
Of Elizabeth Smith VS. Hugh W. Smith
was granted on the ground Of deser-
ton. The case was heard last April
before Referee +. W. Little. who recon-
mended that Mrs. Smith be allowed ST.
500 alimony at the rate OF $40 per
month. and $50 attorneys Zee. a. w.
Casey was plaintiffs attorney.
DE sERCoURT VS. DE sERCOURT
Ada DE sercourt married William A.
De scrc0urt during the year 1885, and
according 20 the testimony OF the wife,
William has been celebrating ever since.
Mrs. De sercourt was given a decree,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-21
CHURCH NEWS.

>N0Ncr~N0No~>',>NNNN.~~>~S~No-oNN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
EARLY ADJOURNMENT.

snort legislative session is generally q
thlng TO be desired. The people do not like TO
nave thelr lawmakers dawdlng away time
bul an early adjournment IS a virtue only when
II Is the crown of work we'll and promptly
done, not when 1t is merely the inglorious end
Ing OF an impOtent and Improbable gathering
The man who crowds into short life n glori-
Gus career is worthy of all honor. but he who
commits suicide rather than face the serous
problems set before him and make a long strug-
gle to solve them merits only contempt.
If the semi-otticial reports sent ont from
Albany about the recent conference between tbe
Governor and Mr.. OdeI and the latters deter.
mination TO adjourn the Legislature on March
% be true. the termination of the present SEES
sion will be more fifty compared with the end
of the suicide than with that of the hero cut off
in his prime. but leaving a fame well rounded
The organization, we are told wants an early
adjournment TO get rid of all bother with State
questions. The members of the Legislature are
not desired TO shape their conduct with refer
ence TO the public interests they are sent to
Albany to serve. They are expected to put
such things from their minds and act solely
with a view to supposed political convenience
and the coming elections They are to mark
time-or otherwise waste it-and go home with
nothing done concerning subjects about which
all confess something ought to be done Just
to fool the people and square each individual
member with his Immediate constituents local
bills are 10 have consideration, but. so the
report goes, such important measures as the
mortgage tax BILL the Charter Revision Com
mission bin for NewYork City and the Lewis
bill repeating the Horton law are to be sacri-
feed, and in addition to this canal improve
'ment bill will he introduced this session. In
that case other important matters would Of
course be thrown overheard. The declining
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
PUERTO RICAY TARIFF VIEWS.

Our Washington correspondent has already
disposed in an effective manner of the preten-
sion that under Spanish rule Puerto Rico "had
"A free market from which to buy and in which
"to sell" proving from the report of the United
States Special Commissioner to Puerto Rico
DR.. Henry X. Carroll. that there was between
Spain and Puerto Rico a much heavier tariff
than the one now proposed to be established be-
tween the United States and that island and
one, moreover, which seemed to have been spe-
cially designed TO oppress or at least to re-
press the industries of Puerto Rico. The same
report contains further testimony upon the
general subject which is quite pertinent to the
current discussion.
DIR. Carroll says page 300 that Puerto
"Ricans of all classes are united in urging that
the markets Of the United States and Puerto
Rico shall be as free reciprocally as those of
"New-York and Jersey City, or Philadelphia and
Camden, or Alaska and Oregon" And at the
end Of the same paragraph he adds that they
aspire to no higher destiny than to become an
integral part of the great American Nation"
Again page 445) he reports Mr.. Andres Crosas
an American citizen long engaged in business in
Puerto Rico, as saying: ~ think. If we are adj
United as Territory, everything from the
United States should be admitted here as
domestic goods
Precisely. AS we said yesterday one of the
two bases for demanding free trade between
this country and Puerto Rico is the idea, or ex-
pectation, or desire that Puerto Rico is to be
brought under the Constitution and into the
Federal Union as a Territory and, finally as a
State. That according to DR.. Carroll, is the
ambition OF the people of the island They
ask no higher destiny" That according to
Mr.. Crosas, is the condition on which free
trade should be established Well we do
not hesitate to say frankly that a tariff be-
tween the two countries will be a good thing
and is desirable thing to establish, if for no
other reason than to discourage all such notions
and ambitions and to make it clear once for
ali, that In acquiring possession of Puerto Rico
we did not take 1t into tie Federal Union to
help rule this continent and become a full part
ner with us, and have no intention of thus tax
ing 1t in.
Before closing DR.. Carrolls report 1t NAV be
worth while to make one more quotation from
II. Mr.. Alrtzu, of Ponce, is reported page Ar
as saying that in his opinion "the tariff on
imports from the United States should be %
per cent OF that levied on foreign imports
We believe that is precisely what the bill under
present consideration proposes to make il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
MUSIC.
THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

A most delightful concert was presaged by the
public rehearsal of the Philharmonic Society yes
terday afternoon. The concert will take place this
evening and If it turn as much better than
the rehearsal s Is the rule the societys patrons
may count on a pleasure. Yesterdays delights
were not so much in the execution In the strIv-
ing for the programme, while the most interesting
that the society has offered this set of
the hardest tasks conceivable the weakest factor
In the band-the wind choir The two important
numbers were BTahms's variations theme by
HAYDN and Tschaikowskys Nth symphony. There
was much that called for pardon. II wishes TO
be good in the ntonation of the orchestra in both
OF these pieces. but the readings were fine, and IL
may safely be said that more vivid and pictur-
esque Interpretation of the symphony has seldom II
ever been essayed in New-York. The slow move
ment was sadly married, indeed. by tonal impurity.
but the first and last movements were given with
spirit that made them positively thrilling. In the
third movement. In waltz tempo Mr.. Paur seemed
anxious to eliminate of its innate melancholy
by quickened tempo. but the effect seemed ques-
tionable. although in harmony with the general
conception.
The solo performer was NJ. de Pachmann. who
played Chopin's pianoforte concerto in + minor.
His performance was one which no player whom
we have heard could equal in its way. and which
no one would ever be tempted to initiate in another
way Marvellous beyond description and surpass-
ing praise was its beauty OF tone cIearness of
enunciation it's limpidity OF utterance. Wonderful
most wonderful and admirable, was the crispness
of accent and rhythm in the final rondo. But
wofuI was its want OF variety In expression and
its lack OF virity. There is scarcely anything in
music more alternate and an@mic than the orches-
trail accompaniment TO this concerto, yet every
tutu brought feeling of refreshment yesterday.
because II brought something like n forte. and
nothing else did. But the loveliness OF tone which
he produced from the instrument, the clarity and
grace which marked all that he did caprivated NJ
de Pachmann's listeners. and he twice
PEELED to respond to a demand for more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
Netp9)ork ID Eilu 0hibn,re
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY II, 1900.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-General French. commanding the
cavalry division Of the British army on the
Modder River South Africa. reached Kimberley
on Thursday evening; the Boer army under
General Cronie abandoned their trenches at
Magersfontein and retTeated eastward toward
Bloemfontein pursued by the British; the Brit
fish fell back from Rensberg. in Cape Colony, to
Arundel, pressed by the Beers and suffering
loss; the Beers report that Buffers army bonn
barded the Boer position east of Colenso. ana
another attempt 70 relieve Ladysmlth Is eH-
pected 4 strong expedition under Gen
erals Bates and Bell left Manila to drive the
rebels out Of the Province of CamaTines, Luzon.
Edward Caller, deck cadet Of the steamer
St. Louis. charged with the theft OF LILA
marks. was released from custody at Southamp-
ton on the ground that it was case for the
American authorities to deal with
CONGRESS-Senate: Messrs. McEnery and
Stewart spoke on the Philippine question. ana
consideration OF Mr. Cullom's bill providing
form of government for Hawaii was begun.
- House: In debate on the Legislative APP
preparation bill the provision for the civil Ser
vice Commission was stricken out by the COM
mittee OF the Whole, but il Will probably De re-
stored, as usual a rollcall in the House. -
The Currency bill was sent to conference and
conferrees were appointed in both houses
Observation-Disclosures Of the new Samoan
Treaty were exchanged simultaneously in Wash
ington, London and Berlin = The State De
partment has decided TO make a thorough in
vestigation of the allegations of ex-Consul Ma
crum in anticipation of inquiry by Congress
- 1t is stated that the Republican state Con,
vention will be held at Carnegie Hall on April
1S - Papers have been sent from Pittsburg
TO Andrew Carnegie in Florida TO be used in
preparing the answer in the Flick suit
CITY-Stocks were dull and irregular at small
final changes. - Roland B. MolineuX was
sentenced by Recorder Golf to die the week be-
ginning March &c, and was taken TO his cell in
the State Prison at Sing Sing He made a
speech in court protesting his innocence and de-
Tending his wife; General Mol1neux issued
statement A protective committee was
formed TO look after the interests of the un-
secured creditors of the Third Avenue Company
and Isaac D. Barton was appointed assistant tC
the president. - ticket headed by Genera
Horatio c. King has been named in opposition
10 the regular ticket headed by Robert B
Roosevelt of the Empire State Society of the
Sons Of the American Revolution. - Pro
fessor James H Hyslop announced that tht
Society for Psychical Research would soon ap
peal for public financial aid in carrying on in
vestigations of psychcal phenomena.
THE WEATHER.-Forecast for to-day: Snow
The temperature yesterday: Highest, 80 degrees
lowest, %; average, %.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
TIE NATION GROWING.

The new responsibility of the United States
with respect TO outlying provinces has and ought
10 have a powerful influence TO sober and upift
the American people. With all our National
pride there has been something of the irrespon-
sibility of youth in the attitude of people too
powerful TO be vanquished on their own soil by
any other, and too self-centred and isolated to
be brought into serious conflict with others in
distant fields. Realizing that sort of impreg-
nable strength. the people have been perpetually
tempted to put up with all sorts of things less
than the best in public service, because 1.-The
country can stand IL" If expenses were large
It was "a billion dollar country" If one branch
of National defence another sighted the
people felt strong enough not TO care. Duty
toward others placed on the Nation no inexora-
BILE command nor back bending responsibility
The people felt that they were rich enough not
TO feel some loss, and the wealth was theirs
either TO waste or to keep.
Every one will recognize that this was the
almost resistless undertow Of public opinion I'M
I'll war brought new duties. Candid men will
not deny that the influence of this mental atti-
tude was constantly harmful. The need of
economy in expenditure had been partly ignored
and partly forgotten. The need OF nOn-partisan
fidelity in the public service actually less
recognized two or three years ago than it had
indeed, a frightfuly demOralizing thing to feel
that the country could stand anything and the
people seemed willing TO put up with anything
When the test came ii proved that the people
had really been less demoralized than they had
seemed TO many, and cared much more than
most men had supposed for purity and efficiency
of public service But il is also true that the
test and the new responsibility have swiftly
wrought great change in public opinion
The first expenditure of blood and treasure
for the freedom Of men not within the limits Of
the United States came with public feeling
deeply stirred by accounts OF Spanish cruelty
and by the destruction Of the Maine. Before the
people had fully realized the inevitable meaning
of war under such conditions they found them
selves burdened with inevitable and lasting
responsibility for the Philippine Islands and
Puerto Rico, and for the pacifcation and gov
eminent Of Cuba also until worthy self-pov-
eminent could be developed in that island He
must be an exceedingly dull observer of current
events who has not seen that this change of cir
cumstances has already developed in the people
an entirely new conception of their duties a
new sense OF responsibility and new and nro-
found conviction that they have no business 10
put up with anything less than the very best II,
sny department Of the public service The IA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
SPECULATIVE LJTIGA TTON.

Ambulance chasers" was the terse If inele-
CANT phrase coined in New-Jersey to describe
lawyers who lowered like vultures around the
scene of accidents to interview victims or their
friends and work up damage suits. All, or near
ly all, of these suits were undertaken specu-
latlon, and the evil grew until it became a
public scandal and legislation was attempted to
terminate it, In New-York and other States
litigation fostered by such methods IS I'M
fortunately not unknown, and it appears that
the same thing is true of Great Britain. Re
Gently a Glasgow judge referred in scathng
terms to touting lawyers, but he suggested no
remedy.
Justice Darling. Of the English High Court
has, however, originated a plan calculated to
discourage enterprising gentlemen of the law
who are not satisfied to wait for clients to
come to them. A case brought before him not
long ago he designated as "a speculative action
of the worst sort" 1t was shown that the plain
tiff's counsel had instlgated the case The jury
decided for the defendant, and the Judge or
dered that the lawyer who had caused the liti-
CATION should pay the defendants costs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17

tons wealth, far greater now than ever before.
is no longer matter of empty headed boastful-
ness, but source of qualification, because 1T
enables the Nation to meet new and vast re-
sponSibility with ample strength The CONNER
clal possibilities offered by acquisition OF terri
tory actually take less hold upon the popular
thought to-day than when the possessions We're
first acquired, for the Nation has begun TO think
deliberately of its duties respecting the Schools
the laws, the administrative service and the de-
velopment of capacity for freedom in the new
possessions
That SOLDERING sense OF responsibility VIII as
suredly increase with every year OF continued
effort for the welfare of people beyond the Dor
ders of the United States. When the Americans
think of them as wards of the Nation, for
whose future the people of this country have
become responsible, that thought has greater
weight than any conception of material advan-
tages possible to be realized 1t Will lift the
people year by year TO higher conception OF
the fidelity and efficiency required in public SER
vice and to a better idea Of the objects which
ought TO govern the United States in its dealings
not merely with the new possessions but with
all foreign Powers. Both In domestic and IN
foreign relations the Nation will be lifted up
from youth to manhood by the sense of respon-
slbility TO be borne and duty to be performed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17

common sense We do not refer to the hostil-
ity which Tammany tried to disguise behind
mask of public virtue, or TO that which certain
transportation companies were commonly sus-
pected of inspiring. but to the cocksure declara-
tIons and forecasts Of those private persons
whose favorite argument was the inquiry ''WhO
wants TO tide through hole in the ground?'
What has become of the Sagacious citizens who
used to contend that. while 1t was n perfectly
natural and convenient thing 10 walk up n
flight of stairs before taking an elevated rail
road train and down flight of stairs after
leaving the same, it was preposterous to sup
pose that the public would submit TO reversal
of the process and consent to walk downstairs
street level? They all seem to have gone away
into der Ewigkeit.
Consider also the hOrrifying details OF misery
unavoidable III the operation of tunnel roads
the gloom, the damp, the poisonous vapOrs, the
certain collapse of adjacent foundations and the
reduction Of numberess passengers to hideOus
fragments in consequence of inevitable derail-
mentS and collisions in narrow space. Is
anybody now broodng over approaching woes
of this description? If so, he must have been
struck dumb by contemplation of what the near
future has in store for this devoted city So
Tar as we are able TO ascertain, every one with
the possible exception of timOrous stockholders
In existing transportation companies is rejoiced
to know that Mr. McDonald's difficulties are
disappearing and TO believe that within five
years underground rapid transit will be an
accomplished fact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
PERSONAL.

The Right Rev DOnatus Sbarettl the new Bishop
of Havana will leave Washington for that CITY
next week. He says he will make changes in
the diocese until he becomes better acquainted
with it, His Immediate predecessor, Bishop San
tander, is still at Havana, acting a. administrator
of the diocese pending Bishop Sbarettis arrival.
He will welcome and install his successor.
William Larrabee. twice Governor of Iowa for
twenty years a member of the State Senate and
two years chairman of the State Board OF Control
has retired. probably forever from office having
resigned his position the Board When the
Legislature adjourned both houses marched to his
office In the State House to Congra tulate him and
10 wish him we'll
Just arrived In England. originally bore the name
of Cronwright. but took the of his wife Olive
Schreiner, the author OF The Story OF an African
Farm" He is OF pure English descent. His pater-
nal grandfather missionary with DR. Morat
His mothers father British soldier who was
wounded at Badntos and fought Corunna. He
himself reared and educated In the most Eng
lish district of the colony, Grahamstown. After his
college career Mr.. Cronwrght Schreiner lived
among the Dutch farmers In Somerset East and
Cradock for nine years, and afterward lived M
Kimberley and Johannesburg. At present he Is an
Outlander and refugee.
The Rev William l. Fee who died recently I'm
Cincinnati. one of the most famous OF the old
time Methodist preachers of Ohio He was the
author of "Gleanings from Harvest Fields in Ken
lucky. Ohio and West Virginia"
Wellesley, Mass. Feb. Is (speciaD.-Mss Louise
n HahsrmeYer. for eight years instructor in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17
AT THE OPERA.

Misfortune stin pursues Mr.. Graus forces. and
the grievous OF the season overlook them last
night Not only Nine Eames, but NJ. Van Dyck
also was under the weather. and though "Lohen-
grim was given according to announcement. It was
given with Miss Susan Strong as Elsa and Sgnor
Perotti as Lohengrin. These performers were the
weak vessels OF the representation the rest being
up TO the fine standt rd set long ago and consistent
ly maintained at the Metropolitan; but alas, they
were the principal dishes In the operate china
closet. they cannot be discussed in detail with
any satisfaction either 10 writer or reader.
The tale OF woe must be continued, Mime, Sem
brich cannot sing tonight. and "Rigoletto" must
give way to ''Traviata," with Mime. Nordica. the
trustworthy. Violetta-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-17

commerce of this port, which n Commission mas
been studying as a preliminary to Legislation
would receive attention. The existing Cd
stacles to the proper enforcement of the fran
chise tax would not be removed The great
question of trusts on which the Governor dweH
at length In his message would be thrown
aside just as If the Governor had been writing
a schOOlboy Grafton for buncOmbe. instead of
serious State paper to be studied and acted
upon by a coordinate branch of the govern
ment
If this programme of inaction and fight Is
carried out, what excuse for existence will the
Republican party as the ruler of New-lork
State have? What reason to trust them further
will It's representatives in office give the people?
Perhaps they might again slip into office under
cover of n Presidential campaign. But certainly
Governor Roosevelt does not want that sort or
a verdict on his work. He is a courageous man,
who stands on the achievements OF his own
administration and asks the people TO approve
what has been done in Albany, not simply to
tolerate 1t because of something else done In
Washington Yet the announced organization
plan would leave the State Government of this
year with nothing to say for itself In 1898
the Republicans carried the State on the
strength of many promises and last fall they
represented to the people that the preliminares
for redemption were being arranged ana thdt
performance would follow. A joint committee
was considering the tax problem and would
reach a statesmanlike conclusion. Experts were
studying the canals. A commission would tell
us how to safeguard the commercial prosperity
of the State The Legislature. with such ex-
cellent data at command, would certainly pass
some wise laws which would distinguish this
year and show that the Republican party could
really deal with the great questions which have
so long annoyed NewYork Now the organiza-
ton threatens to throw to the winds the work
of all these costly commissions, to leave patent
defects in the laws without the least attempt
to correct them, to abandon all attempt at
serious lawmaking for the people Of the State,
and after few weeks of log rolling with pri-
vate bills to run away from the pressing tasks
of government. That certainly is not states
manship. We should not think ii even good
politics.