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TWO
Entered at th* Poat Offlca at Ban An-
tonio Thu as Second Claaa Mall
Matter.
OFFICERS LIGHT PUB. CO.
Proa and Mgr T. B. JOHNSON
Vice President W. 8. MESSMER
Secretary H. C. SCHUMACHER
Treasurer T. B. JOHNSON
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TABLER’S Off II
BUCKEYE rlbli
OINTMENT
CURES NOTHING BUT PILES.
A SURE and CERTAIN CURE
known for IB years as the
BEST REMEDY for PILES.
SOLD BY ALL DRCGGISTS.
ftnand tr lIZWSSSS ID. CO.. ST. U3O.
POLITENESS VS. tOMFORT.
A recent writer on politeness cates
the scene- at Brooklyn bridge when the
ears arrive ami the outgoing crowds
hustle for seats a* sometihing brutish in
the extreme. He gives a graphic de-
scription of the rush the football scrim-
mage for place and the utter disregard
of laities' comfort.
The conchiHton that he derives from
the whole thing is that young Ameri-
cans are not going to forget their bridge
manners when they get home ami don
their spike-tailed coats for dinner ami
an evening out. Like the habits of a
sheep-killing dog. the booriehness will
continue to strike in.
Perhaps this hurry and hustle ami
get-there-Eli rush of the business of the
nation has its reflex influence in the
home and society manners ami not a
softening one at that. It might not
he amiss to consider this phase of the
subject in relation to ourselves and see
how it affects u*.
The therm- reminds one of one of the
pithy sayings of Bacon. “Hurry is the
apprentice of Di/qmteh but he never
learns his master’s trade.” How muah
is really gained in this n>ad rush for
Die seal in the cars that is the bone
of contention at the Brooklyn bridge':
Do not all get there at last.
If there is a -s-arcity of accommoda-
tion for the crowds that flock across
the river at the elosing hour- of labor
ami business ami these are the hours
in which the boorishness complained of
is noted then is there no* some remedy
in the way of special transit facilities
that might be applied.!
•’“‘Fili* is the obvious remedy that at
first sight presents itself but it is not
likely to be invoked. The same regard-
lessncss of the comfort of their fellows
seen in the hustlers for seats is seen
in the transit comupnies which make
such inadequate pnirision for the hours
of crowded travel.
Certainly some regulations if no bet-
ter than a temporary expedient a* an
experiment might be applied but the
company will not do it voluntarily for
that is not American human nature.
There is always roian for one more in
an American. omnibus stage car the-
ater. gramfatand. or any other place.
Perhaps the room for one more will
be provided in that good day Aiming
of which all epeak ami the date of which
no man isn accurately set. but until
•then what? If the transit companies
will not »ct the pace by providing ac-
commodations for the travel over their
lilies what will the public do?
The man or kid who pmitely steps
nsioe to let some older man or some
weaker woman take liis place will only
get u black frost for his politeness.
Rome well-dressed bundle of broadcloth
and selfishness will force himself into the
place intended for the woman or the
aged and both will be left.
This is the actual condition fluid con-
front- those who would be more |>o)ite.
whose instincts are in favor of holding
on to the -trap aml gluing one’s hand
to the rail and letting the weak and
tired and the maimed and the aged be
seated. This fact prevents much polite-
ness that would otherwise be manifest-
ed? •
But what will you do about it! This
is after all the practical question. It’
the State and the city and the coni|>any
will not settle it by providing the wc-
comniodation. then each must decide the
<iise for himself. Whether it is wiser
ami better to hustle and get a seat or
Stand aside and get left.
Will the influence of a score a hun-
dred of jsdite young men. who defer Io
others in that mad rush at Brooklyn
bridge have any real educational force
on the thousands that nightly struggle
there for seats on the cars that are to
take them home* Perhaps these strug-
gling tucig really need a seat.
How many of these men have Iwen
hu-tling all <lay a- clerk* liehimi coun-
ters as collectors on the streets as
this or that which has kept them on
their feet all day until they are dead
tired! Who knows ami then who can
honestly blame a man-for hustling for
a seat wlien it is that alwavs or no
rest ?
American manners ami customs and
neglect are at the bottom of the trouble
and it is Hie wealthy corporations that
pre the aggressors. These transit lines
are the ones al fault They derive their
revenues from the public ami should he
compelled to provide for the comfort of
the fmblic.
in this <ase at Brooklyn bridge cited
by the critic there should lie a remedy
sought in municipal regulation. The
same acene occurs every night it is said.
Then the company knows at what stated
hour* tihis rush for ears is made and
should be compelled to make adequate
provision for it.
If it pay* to run ordinary oars for
ordinary travel then it will pay to run
extraordinary cars for the extra travel
long a* the city allows the transit
jfe company to overload their rars. like
mutton* piled on a dray so long will the
isnupanies pile them up to their profit
ami public discomfort.
It is easier to write erays on the
tendency of the rush t.lian to go s<yj.
<>u*ly to work to correct the evils tlikt
it ari-c- from. Destroy the eause ami
the evil will disappear. There is U'A
V.. I
much of this moral muihinM* iu all our
comments on public conditions. To
grpppel with the evil is hard.
Until government i» made to answer
the end* of its creation th conserve the
comfort and just image of it* ritiaen*. it
will la* in order for each man to act in
the Brooklyn bridge ease ami tn all
similar ones as to Ivim seems best. He
ran give place ami hang on by his eye-
brows. or hustle and get a seat.
Each individual ease must receive it«
individual solution. When the city of
New York orders that no car leaving
Brooklyn bridge or any other place
shall carry more jms-enger* than it ran
seat and strictly enforces that order
under proper pains ami penalties then
tlml difficulty will end there.
It i» useless to talk of the effects of
these tilings on our young |*ople or our
grown-up. middle aged men. It is not
laying the axe to the middle of the tree.
It' is only lopping the redundant <
branches. The evil i* in the State. The
corrective must come from that State.
It licmmes ami it must control.
Ym/can not change human nature.
You ivn clainge laws. You cannot weed
out the instincts that are as old a*
Adam and this disposition to get a*
good a* i« going is one of them but you
ran weed out abuse* in the transit sys-
tem of any city which is so conducted a*
that Bnmklyn bridge line is.
The theory of the magazine critic is
all fine and pre-eminently proper but
it will not quench the fires in the bone*
of the average human who sees a long
ritle ahead on bis feet unless he wedge*
a path through the crowds and pre
empts a claim to a seat by hook or by
erook. That is the all of it.
Men should not lie compelled by the
greed or carelessness of transit line* in
our cities thus eternally to wage war
between their politeness ami their com
fort. It grows monotonous at last. It
r* not a pleasant alternative ami the
conditions that I’onipel it are not to be
continued if justice is done.
This is the conclusion of the whole
matter. Politeness will not avail in this
vase. unless all are agreed to stand back
until everyone else is Muted. The
logical result will be that no one will
take a seat and the last stage of tliat
the only thing is to hustle the munici-
pal autiwirilies for such regulations a*
will permit of a man being a gentleman
if he want* to. even if he rides on the
cars. Brooklyn bridge is only a repre-
sentative rase and it has its lesson for
all our carrying <-oni|*inies everywhere.
TItrsTEE’S NOTH E.
The State of Texas County of Bexar.
Whereas. August Woeltz ami Ida
Woeltz. his wife by their deed of trust
dated the 19th day of August. 1893. and
recorded in volume 129 pp. 87-90 Bexar
County Records conveyed to .1. A.
Daugherty of Bexar county. Texas. the
following described property to-wit:
AU thoe <-ertain lot* ami parcels of
land lying and being situated within the
corporate limit* of the City of San An-
tonio. Texas known ami described as
follow* to-wit: All of lots seven (7)
eight (8) thirteen (13). twelve (12).
and the south one-half of lot number
fourteen (141. block No.3o.said block No.
30 I Ting bounded on the north by Hi-
dalgo street south by Chavez street
east by North Pecos street and west
by North Leona street. The north one-
half of lot No. 14 above dex-ribed be-
ing hereby reaeverd set aside ami de-
clared to lie the homestead of these ven-
dors.
This conveyance ami transfer also in-
cludes all that portion of lot numlier
two. block numlM-r four now owned by
th**e vendors having a frontage •west
on North Pecos street of 20 varas ami
a depth between parallel lines of fit)
varas and hounded south by Chavez
street —said block number four bounded
a* follow*: North by Hidalgo street
south by Chavez street west by North
Pecos street and east by San Salm
st reet.
And the -aid conveyance was made
for the purpose of securing John O’Brien
in the payment of a certain promi«ory
note da led August 19. 1893 whereby
said August Woeltz and Ida Woeltz
promi-ed to pay three years -after said
date to the order of John O’Brien the
sum of six thousand dollars together
with interest at the rate of 9 per cent
per annum from date interest payable
semi-annually ami providing for 10 per
cent attorney's feces; and the said deed
of trust provided for the sale of raid
projierty by raid trustee in case of de-
fault in the payment ot raid promiraory
note ami
Whereas thereafter the raid deed of
trust was cancdßed by the judgment of
the Supreme court of Texas except as
to the property hereinafter namml. ami
Whereas the raid August Woeltz and
Ida Woeltz. have made default in the
payment of said promis-ory note and
Whereas the said original trustee. J.
A. Daugherty ha* resigned ami re-
mmncml raid trust and refused to per-
form the same and the said John
O’Brien beneficiary in Hie s-aid deed of
trust has appointed the under-igned.
Mike Molvneaux as substitute trustee
as authorized by said deed of trust.
Now. therefore I Mike Molvneaux
hereby give notice that on Tuesday the
2nd day of April. 1901. 1 will sell for
cash in hand at Hie court house door
of Bexar county Texas the following
described property which wm by said
Supreme wmrt held subject to the lien
of said deed of trust to-wit:
All those certoin tracts or parcels of
land lying ami living in the State of
Texas County of Bexar City of' San An-
tonio. west of San Pedro creqk. and be-
ing the following described portions of
block number thirty (30) which blwk
is Imumled on the north by Hidalgo
street on the west by North l<eona
street on the south by ('havez street
and on the east by North Pecos street
that i« to sav;
All of lots number seven (7) eight
(81. in raid block and all those portions
of lot number thirteen (13) ami four-
teen (14) in said block No. 30. covered
by the business house erected ujion the
corner of Chavez atai North Pecos
street* with a front of sixty-eight 108)
feet on Chavez street and running back
between parallel lines sixty feet with
all improvements thereon.
Given under niv ha ml this the 9th
dav of March A. D. 1901.
MIKE MOIA'NEAVX.
3-10-17-24-31. Substitute Trustee.
Prof. Tvison of Lonaconing Md. suf-
fered terribly from neuralgia of the
stomach ami indigestion for thirteen
years and after the doctors failed to
cure him they fed him on morphine.
A friend advised the use of Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure and after taking a few bot-
tles of it he says: “It baa cured me
entirely. I can’t ray too much for Ko-
dol Dyspepsia Cure.” It digest® what
you cat. William C. Kalteyer C.
Scharase William Appiuann druggists.
SAN ANTONIO SUNDAY LIGHT SA N ANTONIO TEX. MARCH 10 1901.
j One Dose
k Tells the story. When your head
Laches and you tee) bilious constl-
* rated and out ot tune w ith your
I stomach sour and no appetite just
) buy a package of
• Hoodie Pills
। Ind take a dose from 1 to 4 pills.
You will be surprised at how easily
'they will do their work cure jour
li.-adadie and blHousm-ss raw the
liver and iiiqke you feel happy again.
25 rauts. bold by all medicine dealers. (
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
Eor the Sunday Light.
since Sampson's latest blunder all
careful men examine their pen* la-fore
using to make sure they are mot load
ed.
Boni seem* to la- meeting with no bet-
ter sum-ess than Carnegie in his efforts
to die poor.
The Democrat.* in Congress seem to be
utterly shattered a* a party. They are
drifting along weakly opposing every-
thing that the Republicans propose and
yet not daring to really fight the Repub-
lican policy for frar of what may result.
The truth is that they are more than
half ranviiaml that the Republicans are
right and that they themselves are
wrong on most public matters.
The new star is fading away very rap-
idly. Why slmuldn't it lie chirsteued
Webster Davi*!
In writing the story of the Spanish
war. the historian should not omit that
great trio: Hobson’s mouth. Dewey’s
hbu*e. ami Sampson's ready dispatch ami
letter writer.
Mark Twain says that he luw been
cured by osteopathy ami tliut several of
his friend* including Poultney Biglowc.
liave had their lives raved by it when
nt death’s door. He pleads that the os-
teopaths be given a fair show. Consid-
ering that medicine is admittedly large
ly empirical ami made no progress for
a thousand year* until prodded by horn
eopathy. Mr. Clemen’s plea seems wortliy
of consideration.
President McKinley has called a halt
n the raveragy of the allie* in China.
It i* high time. There has beecn noth-
ing more disgraceful for a humlred years
than the wanton pillage ami murder by
m-called Christian* of Europe in Chinn
luring the la*t few months.
What folly to talk down the men who
<ome up from the ranks. Why. wc all
have done so. The percentage of |>eople
now at the front whose grandfather*
were also there is too small to be worth
considering.
Kitchener has variml hi* reports of
DeWet’s and Botha’s surrenders by a
*hort dispatch announcing the capture
of a hundred of his scouts bv the Boers.
Mr. Pettigrew it is said i* contem-
plating a trip to Cuba. He has plenty
of time at his disposal now.
The lynching spirit starting in the
south. Im* xpreatj with appuling raphiity
all over this country. Even the north
is now a Tierra del Fuego.
Fitzsimmons it is said has become a
spiritualist. Better give it up Bob.
Remetulx>r spirits mined John L. Sulli-
van.
Germany i* doing pretty well in the
census line herself thank you. She Ivas
.■>9090.000. not counting the Kaiser and
Waldersee.
Cuba is trying to decide who shall
he hostler in her stable government.
The petty scandals in the government
of the House of Representatives as dis-
closed by >he recent investigation are
not of recent origin. Their antiquity
i* hoary in fact. While not the cor
rect thing still they do not involve any
dishonesty.
It was a great pity that the Hoar
amendment which is substantially the
old Foraker amendment that worked so
badly in Cuba should have been added
to the Philippine legislation passed by
Congress. It will hamper the devel-
opment of those islands generally de-
moralize busineea and encourage the reb-
els with the belief that they are to be
put on the same plain as Cuba.
Congress has adjourned in the usual
confusion consequent on trying to crowd
the legislation of weeks into about three
days. This is one of the unfortunate
result* of a limited session. It has al-
ways caused hurry and worry and al-
ways will.
Mr. Addicks continues to gain in Dela
ware and la-fore long if lie can keep up
his jrnce will be elected. It is a' thous-
and pities that this should be so and
it is hoped that the Senate will look as
closely into the methods by which he
gains his end as it looked into those in
the Clark case.
Senator Morgan has thrown up his
brief for the Nicaraguan canal charging
the Republicans with subserviency to
Great Britain because if you please
they prefer to observe the proprieties
and give-that country about one fourth
a* long to consider the Hay-Pauwefote
convention as the United States took to
consider it.
Castellanc seem* to fear that his so
eial standing will be ruined by the econ
omy consequent on the expenditure o(
only 820.000 a month. N'evcr fear. Bo
nil A man whose reputation ha* aur
vived the shocks that youts ha* can Uv<
down anything.
’ Maybe the reason that Pat Crowe
does not carry out hi* declared desire
to siirrc.ider is Ha inability to find hi*
wav to Omaha.
The Senate ha* met in extra session
to consider nominations. It is to be hop-
ed that it will take up the reciprocity
treaties adapting them thus saving the
United State* from the projected tariff
war with the world.
They had a glorious inauguration ii
Washington 4lie other day. one wort)
going many mile* to *ec. If you eouh
have gone and didn’t you certainly mi*
zed it.
Since its organization the United
I state* ha* lost only alxnit one twentieth
of one ]>er cent of its income through de-
faulting oll’u <r*. N<> comparative lig
ures are at hand but this *e«m* to lie
a record that is hard to equal.
DR. DE t OST A COMING.
Will He Tendered a Reception by Mr*
Dan Sullivan
The committee on arrangement* hav-
ing in charge the course of lectures
given by the Catholic Young Men* club
are in ri-eeipt of information by wiir
from Dr. B. F. De Costa who is at the
New Orleans Winter School stating
that he will arrive in the city to-morrow
morning at 7:30 o'clock.
Dr. De Costa will be met at the de|K>t
by a committee add conducted to the
residence of Mrs. Dan Sullivan on Ave-
nue C. where he will lx - entertained
while in the city by courtesy of Mr*.
Sullivan and Mr. Will Sullivan.
An informal reception will be tender-
ed Dr. De Costa commencing at 10:30.
and the Right Rev. Bishops \ erdigear
of Jairedo and Forest of this city the
reverend clergy and the members of the
different Catholic societies and churches
will rail during the day.
At the request of the committee on
arrangements Mr. Jolin Sullivan will
introduce Dr. De Co*ta to-morrow night
at Beethoven hall when he deliver* his
celebrated lecture “From Canterbury to
Home.”
NEWS OF THE HIBERNIANS.
Items of Interest About the Irish So-
cieties and Their Doings.
Next Sunday being the feast of St
Patrick solemn high mass will be cele-
brated at St. Mary’s at 10 a. tu. Hie
sermon will jx‘ delivered by the Rev
Father Quinn O. M. L. of Buffalo. N. I.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians of
division* No*. 1 ami 2 will receive holy
communion in a body next “tinday the
same being the patron feast of the or-
der. At night they will attend the lev
lure at St. Patrick’s church to lx- given
by the Rev. Flit her Slevin S. J. when
hi* subject will be •'lreland A* She Wa*
ami What She I*.
Daughter* of Erin auxiliary nt the
Ancient Order of Hilx rnian* will hold
their regular meeting to-morrow after
noon at 3:39 at the residence of the
president. Mr*. E. J. Gallagher. North
Cherry street.
The Rev. Father /levin. S. .1.. will o|wi
a mission at St. Patrick.* church thi-
morning at HI a. in. lasting one week
REVIVAL FOR PLEASANTON
lev. Sid Williams of This City. Will
Conduct It.
The Baptist congrefgation of Plea*
anton say* the Monitor of that plae>
has "with great unanimity invited Rev.
Sid William* of San Antonio and the
sweet singer Brown to conduct a le-
vival meeting in Pleasanton as soon a*
convenient for Bro*. Williams and
Brown ami the pastor. Bro. Key. asks
that all the Christian jieople in Plea*
anton and the surrounding vicinity talk
ami pray the meeting up. Bro. Sid \\ il
liam* is an evangelist of note not only
in Texas but throughout the I nited
States ami it i* to be hoped that the
arrangement to g<*t him to conduct a
meeting in Pleasanton will lw effected
and that great good may result there
from.’’ ' <*.
rRETTY WEDDING.
Occurred Last Tuesday Evening On
'Camden Street.
A quiet but pretty wedding took
place Tuesday night March •>. at the
.home of Mrs. Josie Varga 528 Camden
street when Mr. Cha*. Freuter and Mr*.
Marv Och*e both popular and well
known people of San Antonio were
united in the holy bomls of matrimony.
The sermon rendered by Rev. Jone*
was beautiful in it* own simplicity ot
word* one that will ever be rememlx-red
by all present. /Few were the head*
bowed in the prayer that followed bnt
great and many were the heartfelt
wishes for the happiness and prosperity
of both.
Then followeil merrymakings and
parting such as well fitted the occasion
where two hanpy hearts had been made
one. and it was long after the midnight
hour had chimed its last echo that the
happy couple departed for home.
: Bilious—Got a Cold? :
• You're bilious got a cold you have a throbbing sensation in your head a bad taste in your mouth your
• eyes burn your skin is yellow with dark rings under your eyes your lips are parched and you feel ugly and •
• mean as if you wanted to kick a lame infant or kill a canary bird. Your system is full of bile not properly g
• passed off and what you need is a cleaning up inside. Don't continue being a bilious nuisance to yourself ©
• and those who love you but send out at once for a box of CASCARETS and work off the cold while you sleep. •
a Be sure you get CASCARETS! Don’t let them sell you a fake substitute.
« SOD Deceifioer 4 1783. awh’
aird yonr (’AS-
• CARBTS and find them perfect. Couldn't
*iat do without them. I have urvd them for capx
• some time for indigestion and biliousness ». nr v
and am now completely cured. Recommend
• sr- them to every* one. Once tried you will bar
ni. never be without them In the family." nA .
• 1 EDW A. MARX Albany N. Y. a
dim- vine <P
• and A movement on foot in New eelf. *
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Bl ILIBNG PEHMI IS Isst ED.
U. < Janiiin. to move building ami add
one room on San J'crdo avenue to coat
8330.
Je*UH Vela to build one room box
hoii.c on South Peco* afreet to co.l 4SOO.
Mr*. Viola Hoger* to erect addition
to gallery at 920 Went Macon afreet
to eo*t #5O.
( ry*tal Ice Company to erect one-
room addition on Avenue B to .ii.t #7O
Han* \ Speight to erect one-atory
frame dwelling at 220 Narp atreet to
coat $5OO.
F.*tate of Mr*. Julia Stan** to erect
blackamitli'a *hop at corner of South
Prera and Alamo ntreeta to cost $25.
ABATING NUISANCE.
When Judge Read read the head
line* in the papers the other day that
the unirt held that Mr*. Nation or
any other woman had a right to abate
a nuiranw Hob Lauderdale turned to
us and raid: "Mi' you better not let
your wife *ee that decision. If she find*
out the courts will allow her to abate
a nuisance you are gone." We didn’t
show her the .le.ision. but we heard the
Judge and Hob agree that it might lie
best to keep it away from their wives
also. Of course Bob didn’t know what
"abate” meant but he got scared about
it al! the same for he thought it meaul
that a woman might give her worth
less husband "a bait” like he would
give to a cayote.—Pleasanton Monitor.
SMALL FIRE.
Caused the DejMirtment a Hard Run
Against the Wind.
A fire alarm was turned in from box
4tk corner Main Avenue and Macon
street lust night nt 7:30 o’chw-k. The
tire was found to Is- at 812 Main Ave-
nue in the house oeeupied by Mrs. A en
A gasoline stove had exploded and
ignited «ome pniH-r in the kitchen. The
prompt arrival of the fire department
prevented any damage.
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.
Master Charlie Heiin«ath celebrated
iis seventh birthday anniversary on
Friday evening at the home of hi* par-
■nt* Mr. and Mr*. C. H. Heiinrath nt
1001 Ruiz street.
Among those present were: Misses
Margie. Jennie and Louise Polk Lu-
•ile Bourhl and Judith Rodger* and
Master Edwin and Guthrie Polk Irwin
l'aylor and Ira Turner.
Dainty refreshments were served.
BLOW AT COMFORT.
Mr. Richard Fallin of Comfort ar-
rived yesterday afternoon at the
Mahnckc hotel. He reports that the
stiff northwester of yesterday tore off
the roof of the August Faltin store in
Uonifort and other casualties were re-
norted up to the time of hi* departure
for San Antonio.
GIVING AWAY HIS MILLIONS.
Dr. D. K. Pearson a Western Millionaire.
Acting a* Hi* Own Executor.
(Cof»yright. 1901 The Christian Herald.
New York.)
Iq this age of philanthropy and pub-
lic-spirited Ix-nevolence when the Chris-
tion view of wealth as a trusteeship i*
steadily gaining ground it i* a pleasure
to note instances in which this princi-
ple is carried into practical effect in a
manner that all may understand. Dr.
I). K. Pearson is one of the most wide-
ly known and respected of American
philanthropists. During a long life of
professional industry he amassed a
large fortune by honorable means and
now' in his ripe old age. anil with a
heart full of kindness and sympathy for
his fellow-men he has emulated the
example of Peter Cooper in disposing
of his fortune to the best advantage for
the welfare of humanity.
Dr. Pearson’s life story is one that .will
interest every reader. He was born in
the mountains of Vermont a poor boy.
with little chances of thorough school-
ing. ami none of a college education. In
1851. with his wife he started out for
Janesville. Wi*. A stop was made at B<4-
oit then a small hamlet. While there
they noticed a brick building going up.
"What arc they doing here?” Dr.
Pearson asked of a fellow-traveler.
"Why there are some Yankee erank*
buildjng a college.’’ was (he answer. On
the way to Janesville that man cursed
everything that wa* good and the doc-
tor stood up for Christian education.
When they got to Janesville Dr. Pear-
son said to him: "I am going west and
in a few years I am going to get rich
and when 1 do I am going to help tit
up those colleges that these ‘Yankee
cranks’ are building up.”
Time went on until nine years ago
Dr. Pearson made his first proposition
to Beloit College. "1 will give you #lOO-
(MM) if you will raise $lOOOOO. In six
weeks" he explains "they raised the
#100.090 and I had to draw my check. I
was so well pleased and it was such
a grand character-building institution
that 1 built them a science hall the fin-
est in the west. It cost $90000. Next
year 1 built them a dormitory coating
$25000. Now the boys can live on
$1.50 a week. I said 'you want more
endowment and ladler professors. Now
raise $130000 and I will give you an-
other $50000.' Last commencement
President Eeaton said 'Here is $150.(8)0
—not Kansas mortgages no sand dunes
no swamp lands but cash.' So 1 gave
him my check for $50000.”
Whitman College built in memory of
the pioneer missionary Marcus Whit-
man was a very ordinary building
costing only #Wl(>000. After struggling
along for a few years the college was
completely stranded anil mortgaged for
$130000. Dr. Pearson Made President
Penrose an offer of $50000 if he would
raise $150000. The college i* now on a
sound basis and has an endowment of
$200000.
"1 went down to the commencement
at Perea ( ollege Berea Ky. lour years
ago.” says Dr. I‘earson "and was never
so much interested in all my life. ’1 here
were three tlmusand horses hitched on
the campus and five thousand [M'ople
there from the mountains. They are
mountain whites —1 am a mountain
white and I was once as poor as they
are and as ignorant. 1 am from the
mountains away up in Vermont where
they have to shovel snow about five
months in the year. W hen 1 announced
that I would give them sso.oiK> if they
would raise SISUO(M> 1 never say any-
thing like it. Those old mountaineers
wept they were so happy.”
Mount Holyoke was the first female
college founded in this country ami
one that has done more good and ha* a
wider influence than any other like in-
stitution under the sun. "I knew Mary
Lyon the founder” said Dr. Pearson.
"I saw her at work laying the first
foundation of her magnificent institu-
tion. I once asked an old man why he
did not help Mary Lyon. ‘Why’ he
said 'it is of no use sending girls to
college it will spoil them for servants:
they won’t be worth a cent for ser-
vants if they go to school.’ I was prac-
ticing medicine within five miles of her
mid I used to meet her in her travel*
around and sometimes she was disheart-
ened and although I was a* )sx>r a*
Job’s turkey then. I said to myself: ’if
I ever get anything ahead in the world
the first thing I take up will be such
work as Mary Lvon is doing.’ She was
very kind to me. There were a good
many Vermont girls at that school."
Four years ago Dr. Pearson agreed
to give $50000 toward an endowment if
Holyoke would raise $150.0(8). The offer
wa« accepted. *When the large dormi-
tory which Mary Lyon built was burned
down the college seemed to be sunk in
despair. Before the burning embers
had cooled off Dr. Pearson telegraphed
to Williston: “Fifty thousand dollars
to build up Mount Holyoke.” Now.
Holyoke has five of the finest dormito-
ries in the country and a handsome ad-
ministration building as a memorial of
Marv Lvon.
Here is still another incident illus-
trating Dr. Pearson’s method of distrib
uting hi* wealth:
“About thirty years ago" he raid “I
camped one summer with the Ute In-
dians in Colorado where there was noth-
ing but a little hamlet. A missionary
started an academyand college there
and he work and dug and toiled but
didn’t get along well. Bye-and-bye.
there came along the right fellow a
bright smart young fellow by the
name of Slocum ami I had confidence in
that young man. I Ix'licved that he
could make that college worth some-
thing. I said to him 'Slocum you raise
$150900 and I will pay yon #50000
down.' He thought a while and finally
said he couldn't do it. There were rich
men all around there —twelve tnilionaires
on one street in Colorado Spring"! What
are they saving their money for?—Sav-
ing it to ruin their boys and girls and
curry them to destruction I said to
him: 'Work three years if aeceaagry to
raise $150.<88).' They sent me a book
and in that book were 1.(88) names—-
the names of all the individuals who liud
contributed toward the $ 150.18 8). I lime
it now. I always require such a list.
And then I required from the three best
business men of Colorado Spring* evi-
dence that they had raised $130.(88) and
had the money in hand. Now wliat have
they! They have a crowd of student*.
Thee come three hundred mile* with
their pack* on their backs from the
mountain* and plain* and thev trowd
in there eager for the education and
they get it.”
There are other institutions which
hnve lienetited by the princely generosity
of Dr. Pearson who thus illustrates in
the most practical way his idea of the
right uses of wealth. He ha* abound-
ing faith in his own simple method and
believes that in every ease under God's
blessing which he see* for al! his phil-
anthropies. Hie best result* must follow.
\ . •»•>!
AGAINST THE TIP.
A vigorous war against the "tip" is
being almost proweeuted in New York
and there seems to lx* a chance that the
people who are fighting for fair treat-
ment at Die hotels restaurants and
other places where a man now has to
pay twice for what he gets may succeed
in winning out. Mark Twain started
the fight several months ago when he
refused to 'tip" a cabdriver. The ene-
mies of the "tipping" nuisance were
waiting only for Homebody to take the
initiative and when the famous humor-
ist did so there was an immediate up-
rising. Cabmen barbers jxirters wait-
ers and otheis who hail been in the hab-
it of receiving “tips" when they render-
ed service* that their employes had
been paid for began to extend their
hand* in vain.
Then the warrior* began to lino up on
both side*. The victim* of the "tipping"
custom appealed to the managers of
the hotels and restaurants to have the
nuixanee al>oli*hed but their petitions
were in vain. Recently the generals on
the side of the “anti-tip|x*rs" have re-
sorted to strategy. They are forming
clubs to draw off the custom that ha*
made the hotel anil restaurant keepers
prosperous.
Already it is reported thousands of
the old patrons of the best houses have
withdrawn and thousand* of other*
will do so as soon as accommodations
can be made for them in the new estab-
lishments where "tipping" is not only
not inspected but positively forbidden.
It is to lx l ho|x-d that the agitation
will not cease fintil emancipation is sc-
oured. If New York can abolish “tin-
ning" so can Chicago and every other
*ity in the country. Tipping is a nui-
sanee anil n sneeic* of tyrannv. If
Murk Twain can live to claim credit for
its abolition he will deserve greater
'"ratitudo from the miblic on that ac-
"ount than for anything that he has
written or over may write.—Editorial.
Times-Herald Chicago. Januarv ifl
1901.
PROOF (?) OF CIRCULATION.
The following ]>aragraph which
been going the rounds credited to
•hange. could be used effectively
country weeklies and dailies:
If you are curious to know how the
'normous circulation of New A'ork
newspapers are obtained walk along
Newspaper Row any fine morning and
von will observe many wagon loads of
“circulation" of that morning's edition
being hauled away as waste pa|x>r. The
mine is true of more city papers than
those printed in Now York. This sort
of business is impossible with country
newspapers. They have no surplus
sheets. Their circuliitnon is actual.
Few country sheets print 100 extra
sheets. Hence when advertisers con-
tract with country newspa|>ers they
can rely upon the newspapers printed
going to people who read them. They
have "of discovered how to increase cir-
culation by hauling extra sheets to the
dump heap. Then one sulwcriber to a
country weekly means five readers;
while the subscrilier to a metropolitan
dnily paper rarelv means more readers
than the subscriber.
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