Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — NEW WOMAN SCORED. [ARTICLE]

NEW WOMAN SCORED.

SAID BY MRS. BOOTH TO BE A REVOLTING CREATURE. Chinese Soldiers Forced to “ Bent” Their Way Home—Capture of l<ife Insurance Swindler Fraker-Excur-sionists Run Down by a Wild Engine The Mannish Woman. The address of Mrs. Ballington Booth before the Salvation’ army encamped at Prohibition Park, L. 1., on “The New Woman” is attracting considerable attention. Mrs. Booth said in part: “The revolting creature, gaudily attired in man’s clothing, possessed of notions about the home, wifehood and motherhood, scorned and shunned by the men, is not my idea of the new' woman. The new woman, according to the popular acceptance, speaks of children as ‘brats,’ says they tire and aggravate her,., and so she bestows all her love upon some ugly little pug-nosed dog, which she carries in one of her mannish pockets. She is also a man-hater, and in going forth to seek emancipation and a world-wide rule for her sex she declares it to be her mission to down and belittle him. As for religion. it is too simple for her strong mind. She is entirely independent and a free thinker. I believe in the advanced woman. I believe she is capable of making as good a mother and \vife as though she had never stepped upon the platform nor been admitted to the bar. Let the education of women go on, only, while you are training the mind do not forget to. develop the heart.”

Work of Disbanding Soldiers. Chester Holcomb, who lias just returned from China, after twenty-one years’ service In the American legation at Peking, says the recent massacre is traceable to the result of the recent ChinSJapanese war. "At the commencement of the recent war between China and, Japan,” said he, “it was generally feared the lives of foreigners In China would be in great danger as long as the war lasted. As a matter of fact, there was practically no danger as long as the War lasted, and it is only since the hostilities censed that the danger has commenced. We have proof of the fact in the recent massacres, and I think I can explain the reason. In the first place, the great mass of Chinese are disappointed with the result of the war and are taking revenge on all the foreigners whom they can kill with impunity. In the second place, the killing and pillaging receive great encouragement by reason of the depredations committed by hordes of disbanded soldiers nil over the country. The Chinr.se Government has a peculiar method of disposing of its troops at the close of a war. When the soldiers are nc longer needed they are discharged from service at the place where they happen to be at the time. The fact that an drmy may be several hundred or a thousand miles away from home when it isdisbanded, and the fact that the soldiers may not possess any. means of getting "dtfhs not Interest the*government in the least. That they should pillage and commit depredations is therefore natural, and tranquility will not reign in China for some time to come.” Fraker Is Not Dead. George Fraker, of Topeka, Kan., who was supposed to have been drowned in the Missouri River two years ago, was captured in the woods near Tower, Minn. Fraker’s life was insured for $58,000, and the heirs brought suit in the Kansas courts to recover. The case went to the Supreme Court, and was one of the most, famous insurance cases of the country. The insurance companies were defeated in the final decision, which was recorded last month. It was always maintained by the companies that Fraker was alive, but his whereabouts were unknown. Recently it became known in some way that he was near Tower, where he was known under the alias of Schnell. Attorney Robert T. Harris and Deputy Sheriff Wilkinson, of Topeka, went there and organized a party to search for him. Fraker was found in the woods and his capture was effected by strategy. He was taken to Topeka at once. Fraker went without a requisition. He has been living near Tower for six months. lie admitted his identity and snid he did not leavediome on purpose to defraud the companies, but that while he was near the Missouri River he fell in. He swam across the 'river and got on land. The next day he read in the papers that' he had been drowned and concluded to parry out the deception and allow his heirs'to collect the insurance. h Appalling Disaster at Sea Beach. One hundred persons were injured by an nppalling disaster on the New York Sea Beach Railroad at 3:40 o’clock Monday afternoon. Twenty of the injured are expected to die. A train of seventeen ears on its way to Coney Island had stopped at Woodiawn Station. The cars were packed almost to suffocation. Up the track there came thundering a wild engine, with no one at the trottle. The locomotive crashed into the rear ear, which was broken into splinters. Its human freight was buried in the wreckage. No one was killed, but Brooklyn hospitals are filled with maimed and dying, and hardly a person on the train escaped a terrible shuking up.