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New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
CAME NEAR BEING r.yxcuED

Pittsburg. Sept 10-An unknown foreigner
narrowly escaped being lynched and
drummed out OF town this morning by the min
ers at White Rock, village thirty-three miles
from Pittsburg. m the Allegheny Valley Rail-
road, for expressing qualification over the shoot
ing of President Mckinley. The declaration was
made Friday evening, and the was forced
TO hide in the woods four days TO escape the
wrath OF the miners He supplied with food
by Mine Superintendent Jones who induced the
indignant miners TO let the foreigner get out Of
town This morning. headed by the villagers
with tin cans and horns. he was escorted to the
train and directed never to return, under PEN
atty OF death by lynching
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
PREDICTIONS OF MKINLEY's DEATH

tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBtNE.l
Indianapolis. Sept. 10. - Four weeks ago
stranger appeared in Lafayette Township. Clark
County ostensibly for the purpose of buying
horses and while he there a number OF
notices posted IN places about the town
ship prophesyng the death Of President Nc
Kinley. The people supposed it was the work
Of crank. and little attention paid 10 IL at
the time. The concluding sentence of the notices
thus:
Mckinley will pay the debt for putting the
poor in rags. While the people are in gay joy
a gifted man will rise up out of the slums. for
high bloods lease of life is up.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: / want say word 10 the public and I
feel that your columns will be the best medium.
your paper is widely read.
From the pulpit and the press. all over the land.
prayers have been asked for beloved President.
and I rejoice that It is To our human eyes 1t
would seem a great calamity 10 our country If he
were taken from us, and want to pray and pray
on 70 Him who loves us who has all power in His
hands. and who has bid pray; so let US continue
10 call upon Him in day OF trouble, for our
dear President. But I want TO ask. too. that
forget the poor criminal in his prison cell not
that he spared the full penalty for his terrible
crime but that he repent and be prepared 10
the God who made him. II any OF should sink
low in sin and crime-and none OF US can say We
could II environments and training had
been different from what they have-we would be
glad have pray for II we had
sunk too low TO think OF these things. and then
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
KEEP OUT RIFFRAFF OF FOREIGN
LANDS.

Cincinnati. Sept. 10 (SpeciaD.-In an interview
yesterday Congressman W. B. Shattuck said:
have doubt at all 10 the right of the
government TO amend the immigration and nat
uralization laws so as to absolutely prohibit the
entrance into the United States of all those
called anarchists and all those holding anar-
chistfc views. AS chairman of the House Conn
mttee on Immigration and Naturalization as
soon as Congress convenes / shall appoint a
special subcommittee TO take up the subject
and introduce bill which will stop the riffrafr
from foreign countries coming here. When that
fend shot President Mckinley he shot at our
laws government. and this country ought
to be strong enough TO purge itself of such
Vermin.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
BANIsH THEM AND LET THEM DESTROY
ONE ANOTHER.
TO the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: At the next meeting of the nations TO devise
methods of maintaining peace the anarchist Sues-
ton should be considered. The proper disposition
OF the anarchists is send the entire crowd 70
Southern Australia. among the other savages, and
let them destroy each other. These wretches spend
most OF their time in getting filled with beer, and
when they are chock full each thinks himself
statesman. capable OF reforming the world.
They should certainly be stamped by
drastic law. H T TERRELL
Riverhead Long Island Sept. g. 1901
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
Bay shore Long Island. Sept, '1Sdi'f' isSi NJ d
THE VIEW OF VENERABLE CITIZEN.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
sir; The impressive lesson just taught unwfsefy.
tolerant England and America through Presiienet
Mchlnieys sufferInss evidently is that anarchists
are mere fuman wolves. natural brute beasts
made 10 be taken and destroyed" as St Peter,
taught, long centuries ago.
Though have not cOnversed with six men sincel
the tragedy. 1 have twice heard the opinion that
hanging Is too good for the deliberate assassns
or our highest. nOblest men, and that the mode OF
Jerrenr
| am this day half through my eighty-eightf
year. ID II CHASE
MiddIetown. Conn. Sept s. 1901
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
wHERE MERE LIE DETECTIvEs.

To the Editor of Tie Tribure
Sir; VIII you please tell your readers who verL,
the detectives specially detailed guard the Presf
dent: where they the time OF the attacka}
why they did not the motion OF drawing a re-i
vOlver: and whether their business is solely to-
hunt up perpetrators OF crime after IL is com-2
mitted to prevent crime also. in general. whas3
kind OF men detectives and whether their uss-
fulness their uselesSneSs is apparentra
Your editorial articles generally worth readA
ing. +. d. COWLES.
No. 62s Lexington-ave.. New-York Sept g. 1sOl. j
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11

We should need all the more FOR some one - tAin1
for US
We are all mortal and able TO sin. and none Of
US fully reaize what might do were our CIT
cumstances and training different. and we muses
ALL sooner later. God face TO face ana
give account for the deeds done in the body sd
while praying. day and night. for our dear Prest-s
dent let forget the wretched man in his
prison cell where might have been except Tor
the grace of God and better training
EMILY NJ. COTTON.
Princeton. y. j. Sept. 10. 1901. {
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
TO CURB ANARCHY BY LEGISLATION.

Indianapolis, Sept. 10 (specaD.-Congressma
James F. Watson. of the With Indiana District,
discussing the attempted assassination of Presi-
dent Mckinley. yesterday declared that the
arcnlstic spirit is becoming menace TO this
country and 1t would be necessary curb It by
direct legislation on the part of Congress He
SAID that he would present a bill to that end
ana believed 1t would stand the test of consti-
tutlonality in the courts under the safety clause
OF the constitution
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
roo MucH NoroRIErY FoR cZoLGosz.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Inasmuch the psrpetratOr of the Judas
like deed in Buffalo did it to court nOtoriety, il
seems a pity do for him than TO name
him Writing him up and giving pictures Of him.
etc. is much notice. II the press would only
determine 70 consign him 20 Oblivion II would be
better policy. Z. c. MERRITT
Rhinebech. n. T., Sept. 9. 1901.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11
PUNISH THE INsTIGATC

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir l would suggest that when such acts as that
Of the assassin of the President have been prope-
ed by the speeches writings of known anarchists
the author OF the same be punished. and that q
law be passed by Congress 10 cover the
New-YOrk. Sept. S. 1901. G. r. NJ. )
New-York tribune., 1901-09-11

Day Of FFtA4 E1Ff IN COLORADO.
Denver. Sept. 10-Ciovernor Orman has issued q
proclamation setting aside Wednesday Septembex.
II. day Of prayer for the recovery OF Prsst-,
dent Mckinley. and requesting that every loyal
citizen Of the State join in prayer service for tho
speedy recovery OF the Chief Magistrate
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
BEWlLDERED SHOPPERS.
Japanese Peasants Who Are KEEP
Track of by Labels.

Japanese Peasants Who Are Kept
Track of by Labels.
When the japanese peasants get
themselves up for a pilgrimage to a
city for the purpose Of laying in stock
of fnery, they present the quaintest ap-
peafrance imagffaDie. The women genl
orally tuck up their petticoats well
above their knees, either leaving the
legs bare or else swathing them in
white bandages which form a kind of
leggings. Their hair is done in the usu-
al elaborate Japanese style, and gener-
ally an artificial flower Is stuck in at
the top. It does look comic to see the
wizened face of an old woman with a
large red nose hobnobbing over it. And
this floral decoration is not confined to
the women. When you meet party of
pilgrims, you often see the old men also
with flower stuck coquettishly above
the ear.
At Nagano it appears that many of
the poor old dears from the country get
so bewildered by the magnifcence of
the places they 60 to and the distrac-
tions of shopping that they quite lose
their heads and consequently their
way. So the ever thoughtful Japanese
police have insisted that every party of
pilgrims is to have a distinguishing
badge. At Nagano it was the common
est thing possible to see some ancient
dame rushing about wailing: where is
my party? Where is the purple iris
party?" or "Where is the yellow towel
round the neck party" And then she
would be told that yellow towel round
the neck party" was on its way to the
station or that the purple irises" were
still saying their prayers in the temple
Kansas City Star.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
Makinr tbe Rl,,a So

Success In desperate cases by con-
servatiye treatment Is the lesson often
repeated and yet never quite sufficient
ly learned by any physician or surgeon.
The infinite ingenuity behind the heal
Ing processes, the never renounced
struggle toward normality. is an ever
renewed source of wonder. All that Is
needed to elicit 1t is confidence In It,
delay in doing anything radical, watch
fulness to follow up the hints to action
as they begin to show themselves.
We know of a living and happy pa
tient who ten years ago had albuminu-
ric rettnitis from long existing Bright's
disease despite what all the textbooks
say as to two years" in such cases.
Don't do the irrevocable thing until
forced to do it" is the warning that
has saved many organs and lives.
Above all, never proceed with surgery
("the despair of medicine'1 until physi-
ologic and medical methods have been
exhausted.
The Wiener Klinischer Wochenschrift
tells of the success of Herr Heller, d.
rector Of an asylum for the blind, In
educating the remnant Of visual power
retalred by blind" child. There was
only perception of light in narrowed
field left. but this by education was
made to yield such indications to the
eager mind that after IA months of en-
deavor the boy has very useful vision.
can distinguish colors and forms and
even can read.
There are possibly thousands Of blind
people who have renounced vision in-
stead of cultiyatlng it to degree that
would render the blind types useless
American Medicine.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15

more than one person in ten thousand
is acquainted. A favorite food of the
mole is earthworms. Now, if you cut
an earthworm in two each half of him
will grow again and produce two EARTH
worms where one was before. But an
other head will only grow in warm
weather, though the thing remains
alive. In the autumn. before the
ground is frozen fast. the mole makes
in the earth a storeroom. round hole.
Then he catches great supply of an
gleworms, ships their heads off aud
stores them in his pantry. They do
not die, SO that he has fresh meat all
winter. But their heads do not grow.
md therefore they cannot get away
You see what cold storage scientist
abe despised mole is.
Did you ever stand beside beautiful
cornfield after a warm rain in early
summer and hear the popping of the
tender green blades as they burst open
their sheaths TO have room to grow?
Did you ever watch a fern unfolding
its majestic fronds, like the antlers of
stag. to the light and air? How many
varieties of fern are there in your part
of the country anyhow?
You have not time for these studies?
You have time for novel reading and
for much nonsense profitable to neither
man nor beast. Throw ii aside. All
around you are creations glorious in
beauty and wisdom, splendid in utility.
JANE STORY.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
Steyenson's CUP of Misery.

r. L. Stevenson, writing in 1893 to
George Meredith, in an epistle quoted
in new edition of his Letters says,
with heart touching pathos:
"For IA years have not had days
real health. l have wakened sick and
gone to bed weary, and have done my
work unfinchingly. ! have written in
bed and written out of it, written in
hemorrhages, written in sickness, writ
ten torn by coughing, written when my
head swan for weakness, and for so
long, 1t seems to me, have won my
wager and recovered my glove. am
better now-have been. rightly speak
ing, since first | came to the Pacific
and still few are the days when am
not in sonic physical distress. And the
battle goes on-ill or well is trifle so
that it goes. was made for contest,
and the powers have so willed that my
battlefield should be this dingy. inglori-
GUS one of the bed and the physic bot
tie. At least. have not failed, but I
would have preferred a place of trum-
petings and the open air over my
head"
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
Even Ruts Have Their Uses.

Life's monotonies are blessing, and
not in disguise, for they contribute di-
rectly to longevity, health and happi-
ness. The long lived man is not the
adventurer, the explorer, the plunger
the man who has worries, but he who
takes the world as he finds it and slips
along through life with as little friction
as possible. forms easy going habits
sticks to them and cares not one straw
for the opinions Of men who say that
he is in rut. He is healthy because
he has peace of mind and regularity OF
life; he is happy because he is healthy
and in good, smooth, comfortable rut
which he prefers to the macadam OIL
the sides of the road. Goldsmith's pas
tor, who had spiritual charge of the de
serted village. who ne'er had changed
nor wished to change his place, is an
excellent example Of the man who
makes the most possible out of the mo-
notonies of life.-St. Louis Globe-Dem
Ocrat,
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
HE MEANT WELL.
An Obliging Man Who Made an Em
barrassing Mistake.

An Ob1iging Man Who Made an EN-
bnrrnssing Mistake.
A young editor took an apartment on
South Twelfth street. The landlady
said frankly to him: ST will tell you,
sir, that my husband Is worthless fell
low. have to support him, and he
sometimes comes home very late,
drunk. There is no other objection to
my house." The editor said this was
no matter and thought no more of it
until few nights later, when a great
uproar in the street awoke him. He
looked out of the window and saw a
man lying on the doorstep shouting rib
aid things. '"The husband" thought
the editor. 'I'll go down and let him
in.'
He ran forth in his pyjamas, grabbed
the husband by the neck and, jerking
him into the hallway, proceeded to drag
him up stairs. But the man made
strong objections to this treatment He
howled oaths and abuse, kicked, strug-
gled, even pulled out handful of the
young EDITORS hair, but this was in
vain, for the youth is strong and of a
determined mind, and he was bound
that he would do his landlady a good
turn.
He had got perhaps three parts of
the way up stairs with his burden
when two heads were poked in the dim
light over the balustrade, and the land
lady's voice said, "Why. Mr.. Blank,
what are you doingY
The editor painted as he took fresh
hold and at the same time ducked a
sharp uppercut: "I'm bringing your
husband up, ma'am. He's drunk again,
Pm sorry to say"
From the other head on the landing
these words then issued in deep bass
voice: "What do you mean, young fel-
Ter, by drunk again? I'm this lady's
husband. That man doesn't belong
here"
Instantly realizing his mistake, the
editor dumped his charge out into the
street again. Then he returned and
apologized lamely to the rightful hus-
band for his strange words.-Philadel-
phia Record.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15

POPULAR SCIENCE.

Mercury's year is only SO days, that
of Venus 225 days and Of Mars 6S7
days.
Cumulus, or thunder clouds, rarely
rise over two miles. Seven miles is
the outside height for any cloud.
The edge Of the moon is so broken
by peaks, ridges and valleys that the
length of totality during q solar eclipse
Is affected by them.
The SUMS heat raises from the earth
100000 tons of water a minute To
do the same work artifcially cube of
coal 200 miles deep, wide and high
would have to be burned every second.
The archaic, wasteful "beehive" oven
process of making charcoal has been
superseded In many parts of Germany
by modern methods which save all the
ammonia, gas, tar and other products
of the wood.
A human body contains some Of the
small things of nature. The blood, for
example. is q colorless liquid In which
little red globules are floating. Every
drop of it contains about a million of
the. globules, and they are susceptible
of division into smaller globules still.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
Kamr Banking.

The Kaffirs have simple method of
banking. Before setting out to trade
they select one of their number as
their banker and put all their money
in his bag. When an article is pur-
chased by any of those who are in
this combine, the price is taken by the
banker from the bag. counted several
times and then paid to the seller, after
which all the bank depositors cry out
to the banker in the presence of two
witnesses selected, you owe me so
much" This is then repeated by the
witnesses. The general accounting
comes between the banker and his sew
eral depositors when all the purchases
have been made, after which all the
natives go home.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
THE BOOK OF NATURE.
1t Is the Greatest of A1I-study 1t,
Love 1t.


Dear girls and women il the country,
can you name at sight every tree about
your home? When you see the leaf or
the wood of one Of them, do you know
the variety it came from? Which of
the trees you have seen all your life
puts out it's leaves first in spring and
sheds them last in autumn?
Did you ever observe how even so
homely a thing as the potato grows
how it has root end and foliage end,
and that never by any possibility does
the sprout come from the end which
is to produce the roots? Do you know
snakes egg from a quai's egg? Can
you name and classify botanically ev-
cry wild flower and weed that grows
upon hill and plain in your neighbor-
hood? Do you know that some of the
commonest, meanest weeds, so called,
have rare medicinal virtues and that
in great laboratories these plants are
distilled and their healing essences
carefully preserved?
sects and the grain and fruit blights in
your region today are in some cases
quite different from those your ances-
tors We're acquainted with in pioneer
days, and they are more destructive
than the pests of that time were?
Can you name at sight all the birds
that are common in your neighborhood.
IA I,1;,, 10,
ing and bringing up their young? How
many of them are singers? How many
Of them go away in winter and return
in summer? Which ones stay the year
through? How many species of these
beautiful feathered creatures has man
wantonly destroyed since the pioneer
days, and how many has the English
sparrow driven out? Did you ever sit
quiet in nook in the bushes and wait
till the shy birds wore off the terror Of
your presence and skipped to and from
their nests, fearlessly feeding their
young and teaching them to fly? One
Of the most interesting stories ever
written is that of naturalist who used
to watch for hours the wild birds,
humming birds among others, till at
last their fear of him was overcome,
and they would alight upon his shoul-
der and arm and eat food from his
hand. Then he photographed them and
has given to the scientific world the
most reliable bird pictures ever made.
Perhaps you, too, make photographs.
Have you ever done anything of this
sort?
Once more, did you ever go into the
fields or into the heart of the grand
wood and sit still, doing it week after
week till the wonderful wild little ami
mails came to be familiar with the sight
Of you and looked on you as their
friend? Once knew a little western
girl who had no playmates but young
Indians, and she used to wander in the
woods alone, all day sometimes. The
squirrels skipped around her fearless
ly, and sometimes she came into camp
with the wild birds upon her shoul-
ders or flying around her. The igno-
rant thought there was something un-
csllaiy about the rhiid. but Il was enly
that she loved all life and these living
things knew it.
No doubt you have seen the long fur
rows plowed just under the earth by
the mole. which. possibly you are
aware, is great pest to garden truck.
But that poor purblind mole knows a
scientific fact with which certainly not
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
Peasant Costumes In ireland.

A certain number of peasants in the
wilder and remoter districts of Ireland
still wear something like a national
costume. About Lough Mask plenty of
the lasses are to be seen in picturesque
red petticoats that artists loved to
bring into their sketches of Irish life.
A sprinkling of the old high hats may
be seen. The older fishermen wear
them. but the younger school shun such
antiquated headgear, as the English
peasant of today does the smock frock.
London Express.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15

Financial DiscussiOn.
Chronic Borrower-Can you lend me
500 for a few days?
Weary Friend-Why don't you pawn
your watch?
Because 1t is keepsake from my
dear mother, and don't like 20 part
with it,"
'MIy money is keepsake from my
dear father, and l don't like to part
with 1t, either."-
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
Water.

The ocean is a huge spring. contain
ing not only salt, but many other min
erals. in solution. The Dead sea is
charged with such elements almost to
saturation. Only distilled water is pure.
BY distillation sea water itself is rem
dered drinkable, though not pleasant.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15
sHEBAlL. 5A
Ebe DRINK the seas salt breath. shebafi, :. "a
Glory7o day, glory Of day, 4
6HEBAlL..

Bbe DRINK the seas salt breath. shebafi, =. =
Glory'of day, glory Of day. -
And hope was strong, and life was young.
my love will come ere set Of sun;
Ger the dark sea furrow sports the cold eprayaN
THE sea Is high, shebail, Shebail;
Breakers at play, breakers at play.
And lie is long when love is gone"
He ne'er will come ere set of sun;
Ger the dark sea furrow sports the cold spray.
''Thy love is gone, Shebail, Shebail,
Dead and away, dead and away,
And life is long when love Is gone,'
But life was done ere set of sun;
Ger the dark sea furrow sports the cold spray.
"A. Foster in Longman's Magazine.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-15

lowing is a stanza:
All the talk we ever heard
Uttered by bat or beast or bird
Hide fin or scale or feather
Jabber il quickly and all togetheri
Excellent Wonderful Once againi
Now we are talking just like men.
Let's pretend we are. Never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behindi
This is the way of the monkey kind.
Though we should be loath to classify our Kama
ka fellow citizens monkeys, the point OF this
satire does not demand labored explanation.
Now, those are the people who were
described by jingoes in 1898 as being
the very salt of the earth. Selah!
The Canteen Problem.
The canteen problem seems to be a
never ending one, a continuous per-
formance. Like Banquo's ghost, it will
not down; like woman's work, it is
never done; like Tennyson's brook, it
goes on forever. Intense heat affects 1t
not; neither does the extreme cold pro-
duced by liquid air. The canteenites
represent the canteen to be a great
temperance institutional body saver,
If not soul sayer--a great aid to dis
cipline. Au contraire, the antis repre-
sent it as the source of woes unnum-
bered. a riot producer, a decoy duck
for the devil. Congress, in Difference
to the moral sentiment Of the people,
twice abolished the canteen. Attorney
General Grlggs and President McKin-
ley re-established it once in spite of
congress The last time the law is
so plain that the administration dare
not evade 1t. In the meantime, how
ever, the war goes merrily on-likewise