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The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-11-07
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neapolis, MINI; HENRY FAIRBRoIHER.
the Bean family by Joel and Hannah, and
Albert and Mary Tebbets.
When these were young men and women In
Boarding School, there was no very efficient
management or supervision of the ministry
and things were left to swing mechanically
in the old circle Of ';Plainness Of dress and
address," 1t was a time when the intro
duction into the Quaker vocabulary Of such
words as Sabbath" and Lord and Lady"
by Joseph John Quincy, who was fresh from
England, led to shocking disturbances in
the church. Under these circumstances
there sprang up a deeply felt need for a
little wholesome, If not heroic, administra-
tion of what was Familiarity Known in
Quaker pharmacy as elder Tea"-a con-
coction peculiar to their sect. Some I'M
known poet, supposed to be a woman of
Amesbury, Mass, felt called" to undertake
the delicate task Of both diagnosing the
cases and prescribing the much needed rem
edies, compounded in rhythmic form and
sugar-coated with softly measured cadences
to avoid too much irritation and friction in
the Threats that must unwilling swallow
the mixture. There has always been a mys-
terry about the authorship, but a plausible
rumor asserts that the lines were submitted
to John Greenleaf Whittier for revision.
Fifty and sixty years ago almost every
Quaker boy and girl in New England could
repeat these stanzas from memory, but few
ever took the trouble to copy them down for
preservation. For more than fifty-two years
a copy of these lines has lain sleeping in
the old family Bible belonging 10 Henry
Fairbrother-possbly the only copy now in
existence during which time they have
never once been removed. Numbsrless have
been the inquiries about the New England
Quakereties but no answering voice has
come from North or South, East or West,
until now, when they are submitted to
WESTERN WORK for its columns. Many
New England people will doubtless be CRATE
full for the publication of these lines as a
voice of the past that spake to the condl-
ton of the times that gave occasion to
their utterance.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-11-07
A CHECK TO TRADE.

GREEN 4 BENTLEY DRUs CO.
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Garner, Jacob and wife to
Charles II Shroyer, pit lots
5 and 8 blk 9 Taintor ........... 8
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13

BOY so SERIOUSLY INJURED THAT HE
MAY NOT RECOVER

One little girl was killed by the trolley in
Brooklyn yesterday, and boy seriously
injured that he cannot recover.
Nettie Baiska, six years DID, of No 21S TWEEN
ty-fourth-st., was playing with some friends in
Thrd-ave., near her home. at 4:15 O'Clock. She
started to run across the street near Twentieth
St, when she was struck by car No. .. 423 of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. The car
was going south at high rate of speed and
was crowded with passengers for Coney Island
The child's body went under the side of the
fender and she crushed by the wheels. Be
fore her body could be removed the child was
dead.
John Shields OF No. 224 Thirty-sixth-st., the
motorman. and Clinton Douglass of No. 341
feminist. were arrested and locked up the
charge of criminal negligence.
AhdreW Johnson nine years old, of No. III
tltteenth-st. was crossing Third-ave. at Fiji
feminist at O'Clock last night. when he was
struck by a car on its way to Hamilton Ferry.
He was hit by the fender. and his skull was
fractured and his left broken. At the
Seney Hospital it said that the boy could
not live.
Ole A Peterson. of No 40 Adams-st the
motorman, was arrested the charge of GRIM
inal negligence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
LYING on RAILS, AWAITS DEATH.
ENGINEER OF STATEN ISLAND ELECTRIC
COMPANY COMMITS SUICIDE BY
HORRIBLE MEANS

Thomas Thompson, forty years old. en-
gineer, employed in the NewYork and Staten
Island Electric Company's works at Livingston,
Staten Island, committed suicide last night by
lying across the Staten Island Rapid Transit
Company's tracks in Nlcholas-ave., Port Rich
mond. The train which left Erastina at S:33
p. m. approaching the crossing at Nicholas
ave. when the engineer. Warren Becker, saw
the man lying across the rails. He blew his
whistle and tried to stop the train. but was
unable 10 do so. and the pilot Of the engine
struck the PROSTATE and hurled him to one
side
The train was stopped and the crew hurried
back to the place of the accident and found
Thompson lying on the embaukment beside the
track His head crushed and he had been
instantly killed Coroner George Tranter was
notified and took charge of the case
Thompson unmarried and lived In INNS
St. Port Richmond 1t is reported that he was
to have lost his place tomorrow, and, hecom-
ing respondent, determined TO end his life. He
had left his home but a short time before he
struck by the train. and wore a thin coat
and his house slippers Thompson's father was
killed by a train about year ago, within
few hundred yards of where Thompson lay on
the track. and another member of the family
fatally injured by a train two years ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
THE HELPERS AT BELLETUE.
DIR. STEWART BLAMEs THE CIVIL SERVICE
BOARD FOR NOT FURNISHING
HIM BETTER ONES.

DR. George TAYLOR Stewart superintendent OF
Bellevue Hospital. speaking yesterday Of recent
outbreaks among the helpers In the hospital, said
that he would be able 10 get better helpers II the
Civil Service Commission would furnish him with
a list of At persons who would do the work at the
hospital that helpers expected 10 do for sl2
month and their board and lodging.
ITS up the Civil Service Commission 10 help
ne IN this matter added DR.. Stewart. The peo-
pie that I would like have helpers mere
cannot get at SO a month and give them their
board and lodging free. Should 1 pay them more
than $50 a year they must pass certain exar1ina-
tions required by the Civil Service Commission.
wish it made clear that have had no trouble with
the nurses. but only with the helpers"
DR.. Stewards declaration last night somewhat
puzzled Lee Phillips the secretary Of the Civil Ser
vice Commission Mr.. Phillips was his
home. No. 247 West seventy-hrst-st. He said that
he thought DR.. Stewart laboring under a mis-
apprehension.
There various classes grades OF skilled
and unskilled workers." he added In Class A
are hospital helpers who do not get than $50
a year and their board and lodging. The number OF
such people that can be employed in ali the hos
pltaIs IN the city Is ABOUT nine hundred ana nity
physical examination, as the nature Of the work
that they generally required to do is such
few persons who have a fair education and
in good health would be willing to do Some of
the helpers work In the hospitals for contagious
diseases and in alcoholic and insane pavilions
assist the nurses. Many Of these helpers are per
sons who were at one time patients In the hos
pitfalls. and whose physical condition is such that
they would find II a difficult task to obtain work
outside Of the hospitals. And then there
hospital helpers who think that they are re-
moved from their old temptation by staying at
the hospitals and therefore better off physi-
cally if not financially. They know that II they
mingle with their old companions day after day
they would probably return TO the hospital
again patients.
In Class G. which is the laborers' class are
persons who have passed physical examination
and who have recommendations from persons for
whom they previously worked. DR.. Stewart would
probably be able to obtain many good helpers from
the applicants In this class. He may be able 10
get them work for Sl2 a month and board and
lodging He could give them more than a2
month. Yes. he could give them $50 a month and
1 am sure that the Civil Service Commission would
not think that he was paying too much
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
TAKE A SLOOP FOR Fun.
RESTED on CHARGES OF GRAND
LARCENY.

Ludwig Gegers is the proprietor OF 2S-foot slooy
IN which he frequently takes fishing parties
He had made arrangements 10 take one out yes
terday morning but when he went TO West Eighty
frst-st and the North River he found that the soop
had disappeared. Detectives with Gegers, boarded
a naphtha launch belonging 10 the latter. and
patrolled the North River from the Battery TO
Yonkers.
At 1880 m. they were just about 20 give up the
search when they saw q sloop come down the
river and put in the Jersey shore opposite
Eighty-second-st. Gegers said 1t his sloop,
The Sirius The police arrived just IN time to see
the occupants OF the sloop carrying keg OF beer
on board They were placed under arrest and taken
TO the West Sixty-eighth-st. station where they
were locked up charge Of grand larceny. They
said that they had taken the soop just for fun.
II had been their intention return the sloop TO
the place where they found II when they had had
their fun.
M Gegers said he could not see the joke, as
the party that he TO take out fishing had paid
MIN SO in advance and he would have return the
money.
The prisoners said they were Henry Smith, of
no. sos West Fifty-drst-st.: John Murphy, Of No.
IA Amsterdam-ave-; Michael Lee. OF No. $40 Am
sterdam-aye.; Joseph Ward, OF No. 15g West Sixty
slNtn-st: Thomas C0ngers, Of No. 200 Amsterdam
ave, ana William Nelson, OF No. Isl West Sixty
hrsy-st
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
ANOTHER RAID ON WALDRON'S.
POLICE ALSO MAKE AN ARREST AT
SUFFERS HARLEM RIVER PARK, IN
SPITE OF JUSTICE AN
DREWS'S DECISION

The police again descended on Waldrons dance
hall. at No. 26 West One-hundred-a nd-tenth-st
yesterday afternoon. They arrested two men for
dancing on Sunday in violation OF Section 265 or
the Penal Code.
Waldron and his employees have been arrested
several times lately in pursuance OF order which
was issued by Commissioner Murphy, to the erect
that all dance halls should be closed on Sunday,
but Wa!dron always discharged by the magis-
trate when ne arragned i'm court.
Two weeks ago named Allen, who runs a
dance hall Third-ave. and Fifty-sixth-st. was
arrested a similar charge, but when The case
taken before Justice Andrews ne decided that
Allen had not violated the law. MISUNDERSTANDING
this decision Commissioner Murphy ordered the
police of the West One-hundredth-st station 10
keep close watch the dance halls at Little
Coney Island" and arrest any persons who at
tempted to dance Sunday.
companied by Inspector John Grant and detectives,
went 10 Wal6ron's place. and when two men began
waltz promptly arrested them. At the station
they gave their names Charles Thompson and
Richard Bessi The former lives at No 2loo
Eighth-ave and the latter at No IS West One
hundred and twenty -fifh-st They were oailed out
by Ed Waldron.
BENJAMIN Stelnhardt a lawyer. was at Wal
dron's at the time, and said that Waldron was
being prosecuted half hour later Detective
Pierce arrested George H Curtis OF No. 2ls West
One hundred and tenth st. Waldron's manager
The cause Of his arrest was that he refused 10 AL
Detectives Connor and Bolz Of the East one
hundred and twenty sixth-st. station. went 70
Suffers Harlem River Park last night, and found
many people dancing In the Casino Tney arrested
Jacob Bardev manager Of the park. The prisoner
was soon hailed out. There was no more dancing
after the arrest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
ATTACKS WALL-ST. CORNER.
DIR. ]. p. PETERS IN DISCUSSING TRUSTS
CALLS STANDARD OIL COMPANY
HURTFUL TO MANKIND.

The annual service OF the Church Associa ton
FOR the Advancement of the Interests OF L>aDol
was held last night in Holy Trinity Church Oh
ST. James's Parish, Eighty-eighth-st between
First and Second ayes. The Rev. DR. j. r. re-
tiers. rector OF ST. MichaeIs Episcopal Chuio"'
preached a sermon. The church was hileo
DR.. Peters reviewed the history of the assocla-
ton. He said that il was formed for the pur-
pose OF furthering among members of the Epls-
coral church recognition Of the brotherhood
OF man. The methods employed were prayer
sermons setting forth the teachings OF the Cos
pei as the guide TO the solution of every ques-
ton involved in the interests of labor the proper
use Of the press, the circulation of tracts and
the announcement by precept and example or
the conscientious use Of the ballot. 1t was the
special duty Of every member to devote a GER
tain part of his time 10 the study Of social ques-
tions OF the day lin the light of the Incarnation
DR.. Peters contrasted the condition Of the
laboring classes with that OF the wealthy men
OF the country. Corporations he said so far as
they were in restraint of trade and hurtful TO
laborers, were the outcome of bad social con-
ditions. He cited the Standard oil Company as
being a trust hurtful 10 the general interests of
mankind and said that in his opinion no man or
combination composed of few men had any
right to amass such vast amounts Of money as
had some Of Americas Weather men. So far
as great wealth. gigantic business deals and the
amassing of stupendous fortunes were dependent
on cooperation. just that far they were not
hurtful Referring To the recent panic in Wall
Street. the doctor criticised the methods Of
Spectators
The Committee Of Fifteen" he said. will
make raid and the gambler who is arrested
don't want his name get into the papers.
BIT there are gamblers in Wall Street who
blazon their names proudly over their doors and
are glad TO tell you Of their winnings or losses"
Continuing along this line, Or. Peters said the
panic was caused by the rapacity and greed of
a few We have an exhibition Of what harm
one man with great wealth can do he said.
mo man has the right to manipulate such a
deal as was executed in Wall Street. Each OF
US owes duty 70 our fellow men. and the man
who so far forgets this duty To permit himself
10 become engaged in transactions of such kind
and magnitude is utterly lost to principle.
wrong social condition permits such occurrences
as this, and can only rectify it by recogniz-
ing the fact that labor is ennobling; that God
ness thereof: is but the steward of God
bounties. abor being the exercise of the body.
mind and spirit in the broa dening and eleVatinG
Of human life, is the duty Of every man.
When the divinely intended opportunity TO
labor" read DR.. Peters. lis given TO all men
one great cause Of the present widespread suf-
fering and restitution viii be removed"
Andrew Carnegie was praised for his munif-
cent gifts to various cities and towns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
MURPHY SAYS HE CONFERS WITH
PHILBIN.

Police Commissioner Murphy's attention d.
rected yesterday afternoon to n statement by Jus
ttce Jerome that the Police Department was under
the domination OF a gambling syndicate. which
could cause officers be transferred and direct the
affairs Of the department at will.
IF Justice Jerome would give US some names,
the Commissioner said, I'VE would have something
10 work on AS It is, II simply reflects on the en-
tire department. 1t Is terrible condition or arairs
when such things said. and by man OF such
dignity as Justice Jerome If there is truth in
what he says and he will issue warrants for the
men he knows to be corrupt will see that they
are arrested. The Justice IS maGlstrate-Why
doesn't he do so?"
Commissioner Murphy said that he had had daily
conferences with District Attorney Philbin, and
that the latter the only one who had laid evil
dence of evil before him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
ADVICES FROM THE ORIENT,
HEAVY LOSSES ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN
SUFFERED BY FRENCH AND GER
MAN TROOPS

Victoria. r. c.. May News was brought by the
steamer Glenogle. which arrived to-day. that a
severe earthquake occurred at Yokohama on April
"a. lasting fully two minutes No damage was re-
ported.
The Asiatic reports that on April - one hundred
French and thirty Germans were killed and wound
by the explosion Of mines buried on the frontiers
Of Shan-Se and Pe-Chi-LL
The China Times reports the capture OF brig
a nd headquarters. where Chinese pillagng the
neirhborhood under the leadership Of ten foreign
soldiers The Germans killed twenty nine Chinese
and captured a junk on which cannon was
mounted. z
mixed battalion of English. japanese and
French had a sharp engagement with 1--WE hundred
Boxers near Shan Hai-Kwau. The fight lasted all
day and a number Of Chinese were killed. The
British lost two men wounded, the French one ana
the Japanese two
There 10 cases Of plague and lof deaths
and So of allpoX and a deaths at hong
Kong. from January Il to April Is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
FOUND TWO FIRES IN ONE HOUSE.

A stranger. while passing the four story and
basement brownstone house No. 05 ClintOn-st..
Brooklyn, last night at S:i5 o'clock saw flames
through the basement windows. He turned in an
alarm. When Captain James J. eastman, OF the
insurance patrol. arrived he had to break in the
front door with Two separate fires were
found in piles of furniture, one in the basement
and another the parlor floor. A second alarm
was turned in. and the fire was soon under con-
troll the damage being slight. Chief Dale said that
he would report the fire for investigation by the
Fire Marshal
Mrs. Mary Reid who had been conducting the
place furnished room house, when seen after
the fire. expressed great surprise at the fires and
said she could not account for them She said that
she and her friend. Mrs. Saxton, the only persons
In the house. had put out all the lights and to
bed about o'clock She thought the fact that fires
burning in furniture two floors at
might be explained by a hole which had been
broken in the floor while they were packing up the
furniture preparatory TO leaving.
The house is owned by Mrs Gillespie of Pough-
keepsie Mrs. Reid had recently given II up and
the furniture was packed ready for shipment Sew
eral months ago Mr.. Reid who is known Crazy
jim" became jealous of his wife and shot her in
the back. For this he IL serving year and
months in Sing Sing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
WOMAN COWED THIEVES.
MARCHES THEM AT PISTOL POINT 10
SENATOR KEANS HOUSE, AND
THERE CALLS FOR POLICE.
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Inv TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
-1-1i,ohatb y 7 May 12-Mrs +. Karcher. an
1,I,zaha+b woman caught couple of would-be
:, tbers I'm her house in Morris-ave., at 4 o'clock
,his morning Her husband away from
home last night and she, momentarily expect
ing his arrived was sleeping upstairs. but
NOT undressed. when she heard a noise on the
ground floor. She jumped up. grabbed a
voIver. ran downstairs and confronted man,
whom she quickly covered with her weapon.
ing behind the door and ordered him to step
out and hold up his hands. He lost no time
in doing SO. Then the plucky woman marched
both her prisoners to Senator Kean's home and
rang the bell with hand, while with the
other she kept her revolver levelled at the men.
Senator Kean's butler responded TO the bell, and
Mrs. Karcher explained to him the situation
and directed him to call up Elizabeth police
headquarters the telephone
Officers soon reached the house. and to them
the two men were turned and locked up.
The man who hiding behind the door gave
his name as Lawrence Downing, twenty-five
years old. The other man, who said he was a
brother. gave his name as Patrick Downing,
twenty-one years old. Both prisoners said they
had been working as farm hands in Union
township and declared they did not mean to
rob Mrs Karchers house. and that II was all a
mistake. They effected entrance by break
ing in the kitchen door. They Will be arraigned
tomorrow.
rest but kept cool until the men were taken In
charge She was able appear at police
court some hours later and make a charge of
breaking and entering against them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
AGED 4uBUL4yCE HORSE KILLED.
GHAFT RUN INTO HIM IN A COLLISION AT
TER FIFTEEN YEARS OF SERVICE.

Harry is dead, and a result there is gen.
eral mourning at Roosevelt Hospital as the
horse had been favorte with the ambulance
drivers and attendants for the last fifteen years
Harry one of those animals which knew just
what TO do and how to do it. and seldom If ever
had the lash been applied to urge him on. He
seemed to know when he was in front of a crit
iCal case and would hasten to the hospital with
his patient speedily possible.
Harry close to eighteen years old Since
the ambulance of electricity and inflated tires
had been introduced Harry had been between
the shafts of the old style ambulance only when
the urgent and other conveyance
was Obtanabe.
Yesterday morning Harry was pressed into
service to transfer a patient from the Roosevelt
Hospital to Bellevue. When at Broadway and
Fifty-eighth-st. a hanson cab, driven by FiniOn
Brewer, ran into the ambulance Harry was the
sufferer. The shaft of the cab went into his left
side. The injured animal taken to the hos
pital, and veterinary surgeon summoned. At
4 p m. the big bay breathed his last, having
practically died in harness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13

Beaumont, Tex, May I2-The climax Of land liti-
cation growing out OF the advance in values follow
Ing the oil strike reached yesterday when the
Lucas gusher and the McFadden No 3 were sued
Tor damages The suit is styled Emma r. Boring
et al, agt W r. McFadden, AL" and makes
the Guny Land Company of the parties 10 the
sun The plaintiffs assert that they being dam
aged in the sum Of $4,000 daily by withdrawal Of
Oh from the wells TO the OF al least 90 900
barrels each day, aggregatng $3.50 co., and by rea-
son OF plaintiffs disposition OF ii they claim a
further damage OF S3j0,000 making total damage
o. NeJOUO9 They ask that al Injunction be issued
restraining the defendants from further operations
nhtA lhey give legal security for the value the
pIalnuns interest They claim that their title
exists as heirs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-13
ENGMsHMAN COMPLAINS OF cABmEy.

PAYS HIS BILL. But SAYS HE Is GOING TO SEE
THE MAYOR ABOUT IT
Harold Harvey, who is in the publishing business
with his father No IS Cavendish Row London
went the West ThirtIeth-st. station to complain
Of two cabmen. The cabmen went too Mr. Har-
Vey explained that during the afternoon he with
several friends started from the Waldorf Astoria
in two hanson cabs, to drive through Central
Park. When the drive ended after three hours
one cabman wanted s. so and the other 81.
And think I'm being robbed-that's the reason
I'm here" explained Mr.. Harvey to the sergeant
The cabmen said the party had stopped al sev-
eral hotels, had been driven along every byway. Of
the park, around the park. past Grants tomb and
through Harlem. They insisted that there was no
oyercharge
Now, sergeant you settle IT." said Mr.. Harvey
And Sergeant Todd thought the bill was all right
So Mr.. Harvey paid under protest. and said that
he'd be down at the Mayors Office bright and early
this morning TO register a complaint.