Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 15, 1910, Page 2

MISSION .'_ = Wesleyan Establishment at Changsha Destroyed—Mis- sionaries Safe—British Gunbdats Hurry to the Scene Bhanghal, April 14—The Wesleyan China inland mission at Changsha, the capital of the province of Hunan, was destroyed by rioters today. The mis- sionaries took refuge in the yamen, wiich the rioters subsequently attack- ed There was no loss of life. Two British gunboats are hurrying x the Siang-Kiang for the of quelling the disturbance. The out- break is attributed to the Indignation of the natives at the action of the Chinese officers in cornering and ex- porting rice. Changsha, the capital of the prov- frce of Hunan, is_situated on the Biang-Kiang, ffty miles south of the int where it empties into Lake Tong in-Hu. It is the seat of the silk industry, and is the home of the fa- / mous college of Yo-Lo. The popula- tion of Changsha is estimated at 300,- 000. At the office of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions in New York it was said that, so far as was known, no American missionaries are station- ed in Changsha. The only missio aries attached to the Wesleyan pro- paganda in Changsha of whom any record is had in- New York, are G. G. ‘Warner, chairman of the district, and ‘W. H. Watson, an assistant. Chang- sha, the ecapital of a province, is an important missionary center. Other missions are maintained there by the Church Missionary society, the for- cign missionary organization of the Established Church of England; the London Missionary society, a branch of the Nonconformist movement; and the China inland mission. CHARGES TAFT WITH ATTEMPT TO DICTATE TO CONGRESS. House Member Speaking on Substitute Railroad Bill. Washington, April 14.—Representa- ve Adamson of Georgia, ranking mi- Turity member of the house committee | of interstate commerce, speaking in e house today to the substitute rail- ad Dblil presented Tuesday by Mr. Manm of Mlinois, chairman of the com- ittee, declared that the purpose of majority of the committee in in- troducing the Teport with quotations from the president’s message advocat- ing the commerce court, was in order . command the solld co-operation of insurgents and near- of the republican party. He churged the president with at- mptng to detate ee conzress an act . he regarded as a serious asault i . freedom and inde- =ress” and “the most iting ect of usurpation n by an executive.” argument for the commerce he speaker said, had no founda- any party authority and was eehed upon in the republican orm. Mr. Townsend of Michigan, feclared, was the author of that, entitied to whatever credit or edit attaches to it.” he a NO REASON KNOWN FOR MR. DICKINSON'S SUICIDE. He Was Traveling in Interests of the Federal Hardware Co. New York, Apil 14.—Officers of the | Federal Hardware company, of which | ¥ienry A. Dickinson, who committed sucide in Bridgeport yesterday, was president, were unable to give any mo- tive today for his act. It was sald he was a widower, who made his home In 2 New York hotel and had been trav- eling in the Interests of the company. Portiand, Conn, April 14.—Miss Olin- &a Dickinson, sister of Henry A. Dick- inson of New York, who committed suicide in a Bridgepora hotel, first heard of the death of her brother when told by a representative of the Aso- eiated Press tonight. Miss Dickinson, who makes her home with Miss Nellie Hale, said that her brother came to Portland on Wednesday, the 6th, and staved until Sunday night, when he left for Bridgeport, saying that he had business in that place. He seemed to ®e in good health, seh said, and did not eomplain of not feeling well. Miss Dickinson is about 55 years o'd, and ®eid she knew of no reason why her ®rother should bave taken his iffe. RECOGNIZED AS TRUE HEIR. W. C. Russell Says Fresno Claimant Is Brother. Boston, April 14—A public acknowl- edgment of the claim of the Fresno, California, fruit picker, that he is Daniel Elake Russell, and entitled to half of the three-quarters of a million dollars estate of the late Daniel Rus- sell of Melrose, was made today by William C. Russell, another son. The statement. which was issued by the at- torneys for Willlam C. Russell, was 2s follows: “I desire to state publicly at this time that I am convinced and satis- fled that Daniel Blake Russell, who has recently come to Boston from Fresno, Cal, is the son of my father, Danfel Russell, late of Melrose, and is my own brother. “WILLIAM C. RUSSELL.” The second claimant to half of the Russell estate reached Boston about three weeks before the case of the Dickinson, N. D, ranchman was fhrown out of court by Judge Lawson. The nmew claimant’s petition to be heard on his clalm was filled in the Middlesex probate court during the last days of the famous trial, which closed on Tuesday. Up to that time Williem C. Russell had refused to rec- ognize him. The acknowledgment ti éay. however, was not unexpected. . Restoring a Lost Empi The possible realization of the pro- gect for reopening the old empire of Nebuchadnezzar to civilization, ject which omly yesterday was a Gream, is foreshadowed by the efforts of the Turkish govermment to reelalm 12,500,000 acves of waste land in north- ern Mesopotamia through irrigation. Given the success of the experiment, the ancient realm of Assyrian and EBabylonian monarchs may be refertil ized and repecpied with an industri- old granary i3 comnection with the Tigris and Buy ’;mu It was by their neglect thal ¢ declined end was transformed into + sandy plain, the haunt of nomad racés. Within recent times the en- er and archeologist have invaded iatter delving in the dusty heap xave disclased in turn the site of Neb- uchadnezzar's palace, the hall in which Belshazzar gave his feast and the very site of Babel To reclaim it to_culti- wvation will cost $200.000,000. and inci- dental to the scheme Is the plan for the colonizing the persecuted Russian Jews in the redsemed territory.—New Yeork World. A Useful Lesson. One of the most inspiring object les- ®ons of the day in the matter of per- sonal vigor and concentration of pur- pose is afforded by the spectacle of the moted pedestrian, Bdward Payson Wes- tom, in his effort to walk from ocean 16 ocean in 100 daye. It will be re— miembered that on the westward trip »e undertook the same task, but owing 1o the liteness of the season and the unfavorable - weathe 3 failed In Ris object by about six days. Notwithstanding his fallure to com- plate the distance in the allotted time, s performance was g grand extibition of strepeth and merve on the part of t3e agea athlete, who yesterday com- ed the 12d year of ltis age. He i now in on the return-trip and is over seven days ahead of his sched- ule. . At Weston's age men in general con- sider themselves the stage of ac- Ieast, active physical e cameldes The meval o8 sn- “MARK TWAIN” RETURNS TO HIS STORMFIELD HOME. Mr. Clemens Seriously 11, Immediate Danger. Redding, Conn., April 14.—When the Pittstield express, on which Mr. Clem- ens came from New York, Teached here he was carried from the car by his sec- retary, Albert Bigelow Paine, and his station. A physician and nurse were also in the uarty. He appeared to be very weak and haggard, but sat up during the half mile drive, as he seem- ed to be more comfortable in that po- sition. His attendants said that he stood the ride from New York very well and that the drive inthe air seem- ed to relieve to some extent the diffi- culty he had In breathing during the trip up from Bermmda. The attending physician said that while there was no immediate danger, Mr. Clemens was seriously ill. The return to Redding to- day was the first time that he has been at Stormdfleld since the death of his daughter, Miss Jean Clemens, he hav- ing gone to Bermuda directly after her funeral. WIRELESS SAVES 95 LIVES. Passengers and Crew Taken from the Santa Clara. Eureka, Cal, April 14.—Ninety-five persons resuced from the North Pa- cific Steamship company's steamship Santa Clara. which foundered last night, arrived here today on the tug Ranger. Everybody on the sinking ship was rescued. The Santa Clara sank about four miles down the coast. The Santa Clara, which was bound from Portland for San Francisco, had almost cleared the bar yesterday aft- ernoon, when her keel plunged in the sand and she sprang a bad leak. Her serious condition was not fully real- ized until a point four miles south of Table .Rock was reached, when the steamship was put about and an ef- fort made to return to Eureka. Water poured so rapidly into the hold, how- ever, that the fires were swamped. Wireless calls for help brought the Ranger. The steamship was settling fast when the tug came up and got a line to her, and the transfer by smalil boats of the sixta-one passengers was immediately begun. A high sea was running, and the work of rescue was both slow and perilous; but soon after nine o’clock last night the last of the passengers and crew were safely aboard the tug, and the Santa Clara, then low in the water, was left to her fate. The Ranger lay outside the bar all night, awaiting daylight before at- tempting to return fo the harbor. Brazil’s Presidential Election. A remarkable fact about the recent Brazilian presidential election, from our point of view, is the slight total of the vote cast. There are twenty states and a federal district in Brazil, with an aggregate population of twenty mil- lions, and yet the number of electors who ‘went to the polis on the quadren- nial voting days, the first of March, and cast their ballots was 615,805, Brazil has manhood suffrage, barring only beggars, illiterates, soldiers actu- ally serving and members of monastic orders, etc., under vows of obedience; and vet less than one in every thirty of the population voted—or had his vote counted. The difference between conditions in the great South American republic and our own is strikingly shown when it is remembered that at the last pres. idential election in this country the ag gregate number of voters for presiden— tial electors was 14,858,442, while our population at the time was about 86,= 900,000 or $7,000,000. In other words, the voters on election day, 1908, in the United Stafes constituted one-sixth of the whole number of inhabitants. The reason for the discrepancy between Brazil and the United States is not far t0 seek. According to reports made a few vears ago, the illiterage Brazilians number 80 per cent. of thp entire pop- ulation and as education’ is not com- pulsory the chances favor the indefinite continuance of this distressing condi- tion. There are federal institutions for secondary and higher - instruction in ‘the towns near the coast, but the in- terior of the country is largely without school facilities rovidence Journal. Still the Duel. Thé Buropean duel dies hard. And the American understanding of the duel has never been born. The chief patrons of the code would appear to be just now Italian tenors and Ger- man officers. Both of these run to costume, and it sometimes seems as it the dueling spirit might be largely & matter of clothes. But the persist- ence of the duel may be explained on more serious grounds. This ean be done without laying too great stress on the belated medievalism of Euro- pean soclety or even on the code of Tonor proper to a military cate. ‘The ne of the “better” sort of Continental is a fussy, touchy amour propre. He has never had a free spell of give and take in the tonic air of democracy. He is actuated first and foremost by class feeling: what he has to do is not to meet the require- ments of a general public opinion, but to satisfy the narrow, artificial stand- ards of his own particular set. What the code-ridden European wants is a larger circle. With the development of the democratic spirit that cirele will enlarge. Touchiness and variety will be disciplined, the fantistic excesses of privilege wiil be curtailed. and the cables may con- cern themselves with other matters which will be as picturesque as duels, perhaps, and rather more important. —Chicago Record-Herald. 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Civie club was held at the Center church house, Friday afternoon, the betterment of housing conditions in Hartford being the chief topic, says The Times, Mrs, Appleton R. Hillyer president of the clup, introduced Lawrence Vellier of New York, and referred to his tene- ment house. exhibit in the rooms of the board of trade several years ago. The speaker said that Hartford was the first city’in the country to ask for this exhibit. He referred to the progress made since that time and to types of new tenement houses, as well as to the law covering théir construction, and the like. The speaker said that every city needs to give attention to to it at all times. Referring to ment law, the present. isaid. and light. tion. ] gun. Many unfortunate conditions can be controlled through wise legislation, but it must be seen to that the laws enforced. ubs and busjness men do not have time to devote to the matter, and someone, & paid individual, should be engaged for the work and to see the New York tene- the speaker said that it dated back to 1901, and from twenty to twenty-flve amendments have-had to be fought for every session except In every community we should stay by the ship, the speaker If we should examine types of construction we might find dark rooms with alcoves or partitions mot in the plans and without proper ventilation The superintendent of buildings would say that there is mo money to hire ingpectors. - This shows the need of an adequate @appropria- there are bad conditions. The diffi- culty of getting pure water affects the quantity used for drinking and en- courages intemperance. Iirst talk to the people in the language they un- derstand, let the visitor get acquainted with them and then explain about ventilation, etc., that breathing dirty air is just the same as drinking dirty water and throwing things out of the window leaves smells that bring on sickness. Miss Parish of Philadelphia spoke of the situation In that eity, where, instead of copying after. the New York type of buildings, - small one- story and two-family houses are built. Philadelphia has a law discouraging tenements by making it too expensive to put them up. Let there be apart- ment houses for the rich, and not for the poor. reflect Architects, largely manner of vantages, and at forty be in Thinking for Ourselves. Tt should be a matter of some n- been merely worked over in the cast- off molds of others and consequently little or no credit, viewpoint of originality, at least. A man’s characteristics, and we Suppose his thoughts as upon hies nis facilities great economic |1t seems but natural that the more ly circumstanced a man's life is the more ellectually, yet many of the deep- | est thinkers and sbundesi philosophers the world has produced sprang from hu ble beginnings sources. They possessed the desire to reason things out for shemseives and were not content te live in the obscure | .. Nght cast by the argumentation of oth— ers—Charleston News and Courier. Tough Luck. promptly and at the right prices. dependcnt | WM. FRISWELL, 27 Fr: from the | well, are his environment—i ing, his educational a intellectual inteércourse for studying the aay. feb26daw |JOSEPH BRADFORD, Book Binder. problems of the highly developed -will be |- and limited re- 108 BROADWAY? Telephone 363 A Fine Assortment MILLINERY the housing problem all the time; The cleanliness of public hallways | cern, it seems, why So few of us think there is always permanent work to |cannot be enforced without a law to [of ourselves. We are content to follow | A Vermont man was mistaken for AT LITTLE PRICES. be done. Most cities see the bad | compel owners to D ir houses | in the footsteps of others and allow | Uncle Jjoe Cannon and'his nelghbors 2y 3 J house conditions and remedy them. and | in a sanitary <endition. The indi- | them to do our thinking for us. Our |are in doubt whether to expel him MRS. G, P. STANTON assume that the wowk is finished, when | vidual tenant is pretty cleanly. but |individual opinions, or what pass for | from the church or elect him to con- o as a matter of fact it has only be~!awhere there is divided reaponsibility 'such, are frequenty fLound to have gress—Spr Kaios, e S o i - nkiin St. Blank Books Made and Ruled te Order, ectied