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New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
AGED WOMAN FOUND INCOMPETENT.
HER PERSONAL PROPERTY WORTH $4,000 AMI
HER REAL. ESTATE s245 600

HER REAL ESTATE S245 600
w. L. Snyder. DIR. F. W. DalrympIe and Michae
T. DeVlin. the commissioners appointed by Justice
heogh. OF the Supreme Court inquire with
sherifs jury into the mental condition OF Mrs
Anna W. Ferris. the widow of Claiborne Ferris a
wealthy resident of Westchester ended their in
quiry yesterday. when the jury returned a verdict
that Mrs Ferris. who is eighty-seven years old is
incompetent. by reason of old age and loss OF men,
ory. to manage her affairs. The jury found the
personal property of Mrs Ferris to be worth S9S0G
and her real estate to be worth s245.OO0
The commission appointed on the application
Of Cranston Hamilton, granddaughter Of Claiborne
Ferris who asserts that his granduncle made a will
mutually with his wife, by which HamiltOns father
was to have a life interest in a sum OF $4,000
which was TO revert to him on his fathers death.
Mrs Ferris is living with Henry Ferris. nephew
of his will
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
cBIyCHILL4 CORNER RUMORED.
SAID THAT G. b HERzIG HAS AGAIN BOUGHT UP
ALI. THE FURs.

George B. Herzig of this city. who a year ago
cornered the chuchila market, arrive here on the
steamer AIlianca from Bolivia. yesterday. 1t was
said that he had succeeded in cornering the market
again this season He comes mere az TINS tiiiie
49, a,,ar 70 he married when he will return to
bolivia with his wife and pick up what few chin
chla skins he missed in his anxiety to reach this
country
Mr. Herzig has been visiting Bolivia Peru ana
chm for seven wears TO buy chnchilla furs from
the Indians and this year has secured from VO
TO 900 dozen valued at from s25Oot0 70 soOoOu MT
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
NOTICE.

All letters and packages intended Tor inc
T. s. s. should be addressed to the Tribune
Sunshine Society, Tribune Building, New
York City.
Ii the above address is carefully observed.
G IN IN U N intended for the IT. =. s. VIII
he likely
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
FOR CHRISTMAS CHEER

The Christmas gifts for the Bengal Gndia)
branch. Mrs. Helen Jackson. president will be
sent this year by parcels post. Those desirous OF
remembering this distant branch with kindly
ings VIII please send their gifts 10 the ONCE for
ward direct 10 Mrs Jackson. at MoZzunarpore. Tir-
hoot Bengal. India AS IL takes month 70
reach this branch by the fastest mail the mem
bers will please not delay sending their greetings
too long otherwise there will be disappointment at
the good cheer season for these faraway members.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
A BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Lonnie Pursley. of Dawson. Ala. little Grip
pied boy. TO whom wheel chair was sent. Will
have a birthday on October go and the president
hopes II will be made bright and Joyous occasion
for the little fellow There are none give pleas
TO the boy. except the T. s. S. members one
has already written him birthday letter and
sent 81 He is chershing the hope that he may
be able TO go TO the postoice himself on this an
niversary day get his sunshine mail May II oe
a largo one. fun OF good cheer!
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
TALK on ANARCHY.

Justice Hiram r. Steele will address the Urban
Club OF Brooklyn. at its first meeting this season.
Anarchy being his subject. The meeting is TO be
held tonight at the home OF Mrs. Andrew j. Perry.
70 Place AT o'clock A general discussion
will be followed by a social hour.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETS.

NEW OFFICERS ELECTED BY THE wEsTcHEsTER
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AT WHITE PLAINS
White Plains n. Y. Oct 2S,-The annual meeting
of the Westchester County Historical Society was
held to-day in the courthouse. President James
Wood of Bedford. presided This was the l-Sth an
niversary Of the battle of White Plains. The So
cietv always holds it's annual meeting on the ami
versary of the battle.
The following officers were elected; President
Frederick w Jackson. of Throggs Neck; vice-pres-
idents James Ward. l.. I,uqueer. J. o. Dykman
Charles r. Dusenbury and FOrdham Morris; secre-
tarv j. Il Lockwood, of White Plains; trea urer
William NJ Dubois. of White Plains; correSp i
secretary s l.. ii. Ward of White Plains; librarian
and curator NJ D. Raymond OF Tarrytown' t1rls trGs-
tees bradford Rhodes, A. Il. Crane, Edward hart
lev John Hoag David Cromwell, w. A; Woods
worth Jared Sandford, f. L. Phipps. j. T. VAIN
wright f. b. Long Henry Wood, John G. Clark.
! n Mills w S COffey and Edward Myers.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29

BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF Y. W. C. A.
me sixteenth biennial conference Of the Inter
aA"ha ~ Board OF womens and Young Women 8
,lisuan Associations viii begin to-day in cleve-
ys,ni Ohio, and continue until Wednesday, No
s,.a-rel o. Sessions will be held morning ana
yica NON, on week days. with a communion ser
pr,voh on sunday. On next Monday evening the
VIZ be continued
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29

Miss Sarah Boucher has sent books and
monthly magazine invalid member at Sodus
y Y and Mrs L. NJ Halsey has forwarded read
ing 10 a member IN Florida. and has received a
CHEEKY gift In return.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
sTUTZER ESTATE. S795, ,s0I H.

According 10 returns filed yesterday in the Inter
nal Revenue office in Brooklyn, the estate of Her
man 4 Stutzer whose home No. sic St
Mark's-ave. amounted TO 1859 "A Mr. Stutzer
Was a broker No lAA Produce Exchange
Manhattan
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
ELN-ST. OWNERS PROTEST.
FILE DIRECTIONS WITH COMMON coUNcIL
RAILROAD COMMITTEES TO PRO-
POSED TROLLEY ROAD

Dichman. Luckey & Schwartz. the attorneys for
Edward G. Taylor. Brian G. Hughes and other
property owners in Elm-st. fled objections few
days ago before the Committee Railroads OF the
Common Council to the laying of tracks in EIm-st
by the Metropolitan Railway Company This street
was widened to relieve the congestion Of traffic
In Broacway, and the property owners claim thai
there are plenty Of street and elevated lines and
tnat EIm-st should not be blocked by ear tracks.
Mr.. Luckey said that the objections had been
filed about ten days ago. and that he ala not know
what action the Council had taken in the matter
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
An ANTI-TAMMANY MEETING.

All women with their men friends, whether for
Low or Shepard. are invited TO be present at the
anti-Tammany mass meeting in the Atheneum. In
Brooklyn tonight. The women Will do all the
WORK OF the meeting, and the expenses Will Dc
paid by the fusionists.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
RUSSIAN LOAN RUMOR DENIED.

Cable dispatches from abroad saying that the
banking house of August Belmont & Co contem-
Country were hatly denied yesterday ny member
of the Belmont nrm-
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
MKINLEY MEMORIAL sUB-COMMITTEE.
COOPERATION OF MERCANTILE ORGANIZATION:
AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ASKED.

COOPERATION OF MERCANTILE ORGANIZATIONS
AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ASKED
A special meeting of the Mckinley Memorial
Executive Committee OF the State OF New-York was
held yesterday at the rooms OF the association No
100 Broadway Cornelius n. Bliss presiding.
The subcommittee plan and scope submitted
a report recommending that local committee be
formed in each county of the State to procure sub
scrptons. and that the cooperation OF boards OF
trade and other mercantile organizations. where
they exist throughout the State. be solicited Also
that the cooperation OF banks and other financial
institutions be asked to receive subscriptions. and
that postmasters be also requested to do likewise.
The report adopted by the executive committee.
II also decided 20 ask the cooperation OF
business generally in making this popular
subscription that ali who may wish TO contribute
even the smallest sums may have the opportunity
do so.
The following persons were chosen on sub
committees and lay the subject before their re-
spectve interests and solicit contributions:
George r Sheldon A D. Juilard
Rudolph Keppler E A Treat
Jacob II ScniT Cornelius ~. Bliss
Jan Speyer ". S. Hawk.
Isaac y. Selgman Colonel a: e BskeWslL
+ D. Tappen Oscar S. straus.
James G. Cannon. r. A. c. Smith
Bradford Rhodes Gustav h schWah
John . EAmes C. A. Griscou. tr.
Charles II Webb Captain j. W. Miller
George 2. Victor
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29

I find the greatest thing in this world is not so
much where stand in what direction we are
moving To reach the port Of heaven must sail
sometimes with the wind and sometimes against
it-but we must sail and not drift-nOr lie at
anchor-(The Autocrat OF the Breakfast Table.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-29
MONEY RECEIVED.

Theodore has sent 81 for distributing sunshine:
Mrs r. Jenness 40 cents for badges and "A Mem
ber' 81 for the invalid in SchohaTie County.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16

NOT EXACTLY 4 LAY SERMON
TELEGRAPH

Col. Aloysius Delaney, of Little Rock
was suffused with soft crimson glow
as he took his place at the dinner
table and began that studious and care
full examination of the menu card
which has become with him sort of
ceremonial rite. He selected with a
neat particularly a set of courses that
dovetailed with each other, like bits OF
Italian mosaic. and then. feeling more
at ease, ran hastily over the wine list
and picked two vintages as adjuncts to
Inc dinner.
Il reckon if was in Arkansaw right
now" said the Colonel-and he did not
say "suh," by the way-"I would have
to have my manly chest adorned and
bedizened with all sorts Of badges and
tags and ribbons and other devices,
with a diploma in my inside pocket to
show that was legally entitled to take
a drink without violating the laws of
my cherished and beloved state, an
honorable commonwealth assure you,
but one certainly given to electing the
most ornate set of asses to the legis-
lature that the mind can conceive of.
A License Like Dog License.
my remarks may not seem particu.
larly coherent to you, sir, because it is
quite probable you have not learned OF
the iniquitous measure that has al
ready passed the senate of the state
OF Arkansaw, and may, for all know,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16

Booker Washington onsss7 The Negro.'
Remark Dlipyed SouthernC onfae

All the accounts we have seen bear
concurrent testimony that the mis-
sionary conference of the Southern
Methodists last week was far and
away the biggest thing of the kind
yet seen in the south, if not in the
United States. The attendance ran
high up into the thousands. The hos
pitality of New Orleans was tested as
never before on any like occasion, and
it bore the test magnificently. The
great throng, and Canada, and distant
think" said Bishop Thoburn of India,
that am the first Hindoo who ever
addressed a gathering of southern
Methodists."
engaged the attention of the confer
ence. The question on the program
was: Are we meeting our RESPONSE
remarked from the chair that a ques-
ton of such vast Importance should
get very careful consideration. Rev.
R. ]. Bigham, a Georgia presiding eld-
er, told what had been done for the
ueSIOSS ny tue SOulutTH MeIuOu1SIS.
lamenting that they had not done
more. He hoped to see the time when
the philanthropy of the north and the
practical knowledge which the south
has of the conditions and their re-
quirements shall be brought together
in reciprocally helpful cooperation.
"The lower the negro sinks in this
country" he said. ''the more he needs
the help and sympathy of the white
man." President Walker of the Paine
institute told of the good work done
there for the young negroes. "But
it's just drop in the bucket" he
said, "iust beginning" G. w. Hub
bard. NJ. D.. spoke of the graduate
negro physicians in the south, their
usefulness. their admirable record. He
told the conference that 118 of them
have an average yearly practice Of
$1,441; their average holding of real
estate is s2,4S6 and of personal prop
erty $3,67S. The relations between
the south's white and negro phssi
clans are most cordial" he reports
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
ANSWERS Mr.. ROOSEVELT.
The Philippine Question Is Treated by
w. j. BRYAN.

Lincoln, Neb., May 13.-Mr. Bryan,
in the current issue of the Commoner,
pays his respects to Vice-President
Roosevelt. He takes as his text the
vice-president's recent speech before
the Home Market club in Boston In
this Mr.. Roosevelt said:
For good or evil we now find our
selves with new duties in the West
Indies and new duties beyond the Pa
cific. We cannot escape the per-
Torrance of these duties. All we can
decide for ourselves is whether we
shall do them well or ILL.,"
Commenting on this Mr.. Bryan
says:
Nowhere does Mr.. Roosevelt dis
cuss the effect of the new policy upon
our theory of government, nowhere
does he attempt to explain why a col.
onial system was wrong in 1776 and
right now. His whole argument can
be summed up as follows: We are
in the Philippine Islands-no matter
how we got there, we are there;
whether there for good or evil we can
not get away; it looks as If it were
providential for them-and besides
there is money in it for us.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
NEW YORK TELEGRAPH

have passed the house. That infam-
a yearly license of IS, just like dog
license, to be taken out by every cit1-
zen of the state, and, going further
even than the poll tax, it reaches into
the pockets of the young men of the
state, who have not yet reached their
majority. That license, my dear sir,
must be paid before man may take
drink in public bar, or, in fact, any
where, sir. A man caught drinking
without paying his S. for the year is
subject to arrest at once and to pen
atty of SIS fine or thirty days in Jail.
mot only must this yearly fine be
paid, sir, but, believe me, plain, ordi-
nary receipt from the clerk who &C.
cepts the money is not enough, sir.
One must wear huge badge-a tag,
sir,just like dog. Dog gone my skin!"
and here the Colonel forgot himself in
his vast whirl of profanity. Dad burn
me if it amt the most internal out
rage man ever suffered in any state.
To think that man can't go into bar
room ard order small drink OF his
favorite brand without having to turn
over the lapel of his coat and show his
tag. And then suppose man forgets
that tag and leaves it home. S'pose he
meets friend and wants to have him
go in and have drink with him. He's
got to go around town till he finds a
man who isn't using his badge, so he
can borrow it long enough to go in and
buy drink for his other friend.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
Observation-Disclosures

Then the chairman stood I'M. 81
now introduce to you" he said "a
man whom am proud to call a south.
erne man and citizen. He does not
know me;t but know him." Princi.
pal Booker Washington of tTuskegee
waikiki to the desk. Every man and
woman who could crowd into the hall
was there says the "Picayune's" re-
porter. land ladies even stood on
chairs to get glimpse Of the negro
orator and to hear what he would
say"
He introduced himself as a Virgin.
ian and an ex-slave, He said that the
men who are for solving the souths
problem by packing off his kind Of
folks to Africa should consider the
fact that six hundred negro babies are
born in this country before breakfast
every day in the year. AS for the
plan of segregating them in some big
territory or state of their own some.
where in the west or southwest, he
said that wall would be needed to
keep the white folks out. The ne.
groes are not going to be deported;
they are not going to be segregated,
they are not going to disappear by as
similation and absorption in country
where l per cent of African blood suf.
fees to make man negro. The
white people of the south, said Wash.
ington, have more vital interest
than any outsiders in these black peo-
pie of the south. They have more at
stake. They are working for them
selves and their children when they
work for the elevation OF the negro.
The more clearly. honest. industri.
GUS, virtuous, intelligent he is, the
better off they are. Money spent in
making good citizen of him Is in.
vested for the benefit of the commun,
ity,
The principal of Tuskegee contin
ued:
Whereas a few years ago the ne
gro looked with contempt and deri
sion upon industrial education, he
now in most cases halls this form OF
education with delight. On two vita
points very much fear that the black
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
MRS. STEVENS ON MRS. NATION.
Says 1t Took Kansas Rough Life and

Says It Took Kansas Rough Life and
Environments to Produce Her.
Jackson. Miss, May 9.-Mrs. Stey.
ems, of Maine, president of the M
tional W. c. T. u, made the following
statement when asked her opinion of
Mrs Nation:
LAS president of the w c. T. U.I
do not condemn Mrs. Nation for what
she is doing. I leave that for other
tribunes. would not advise any
white woman to employ any such
method In putting down the liquor
traffic, but, nevertheless, think that
Mrs. Nation has done much good She
has aroused the public conscience Of
Kansas and other states. / don't think
that any other state except Kansas
could produce a Carrie Nation. 1t pro-
duced John Brown. and it took Kan
sis, with its rough life and its peculiar
environments, to produce Carrie Ne
ton
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16

man has been and is now misunder-
stood. Ny own life is largely spent
among the rank and file Of my people
and feel that know the feelings
and ambitions of my race PRETTY we'll
The intelligent negro seeking to get
to the point where he can exercise po-
litical control over the white mar
What the intelligent negro is striving
for is tn opportunity to earn living,
to be sure of protection of life and
property, an to be safe in those priv
ileges which are guaranteed to all cit
izens by the state and federal consti-
tutions."
A little later in his speech he gave
the southern Methodists, urban and
rdral alike, something else to think of
and they simply can't help thinking
of it. He said:
"It is most important for the ne
gro's own sake. as well as for the
sake of the white man, that he be en-.
al districts. In agriculture, the ne
gro, as rule, is at his best. In city
life, in too many cases, he yields to
temptations and is not equal to the
severe competition which city life de-
mands. The negro, however, will not
remain in the rural districts unless he
is sure of protection of life and prop
erty. Neither will he remain in the
country districts unless the school IA
cilities are as good as they are in the
cities. Every lynching, every act of
lawlessness in the country districts
drives hundreds of negroes to the city.
Every withdrawal of school opportun-
tiles in the country districts temptS
the negro to move his family to the
city where the schools offer more in.
viting opportunities. = have
sometimes heard it said that the
south is too poor to educate the ne
gro. beg to reply that the south is
too poor not to educate him. The
criminal negro is in nine cases out Of
ten the negro without trade"
The deeper that last sentence sinks
into the south's mind, the better for
both races. The same thing may be
said of the preceding sentences
Hartford Courant.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
THE FIRST TOURNAMENT.
League of Southeastern Iowa Gun
Clubs Will Have Shoot at OsceoIa.

League of Southeastern Iowa Gun
Clubs Will Have Shoot at OsceoIa.
The first tournament to be given up
der the auspices of the Southeastern
Iowa Amateur Shooting association, a
league of the gun clubs of this part of
the state, which was organized in this
city April 25, will be held about the
third week in June at Osceola. AS
this is the initial tournament for this
organization, the members will work
with will for it's success. Each club
in the association is. to contribute $40
for added money, and this will make
the purses large enough to make very
interesting shooting. a number of the
shooters from this city will attend this
shoot, and the promoters of the affair
are assured that several men from
each of the other clubs in the league
will do likewise. The success Of the
tournament is thus made certainty.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16
The PerpIexities Developed Will Be
Fearful

The PerpIexities Developed Will Be
Fearful.
"And then think of the embarrass-
ment of that situation as the horrors
of the awful possibilities began to
burst upon him. "A man couldn't bor-
row mans drinking tag without ask
ing the owner to have one with him,
and how could he ask another man to
have another drink with him when the
man whose tag he had borrowed
couldn't go into the barroom with him
to take that drink. It's an awful mix
up" groaned the Colonel. 1t is sure
the most asinine legislation that was
ever framed, and my great state will
appear in the eyes of the world as be.
ing ruled by bunch of wild asses
foals. Nothing like it has ever been
known in the history Of the south. bar
ring and excepting always the unfortu-
nate series of circumstances following
the rule of that wool hat person, Till
man, in South Ca'lina."
Here the Colonel had to pause long
enough to send a waiter back with a
sauce that wasn't to his taste and
when he had finished his instructions
to the Senegambian, he was in peace
full frame of mind.
Say what you will" he concluded,
"this ha ,7s to tote tag around in
order to be able to get drink of whis-
ky is going to develop some pretty
keen memories in Arkansaw and cure
whole lots of cases of absent minded
ness"