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The times., 1899-10-07
a COLLEGE CLASH EXPECTED.
coicmbfa's Sophomores and Fresh
men Ready tn Do Battle


NEW YORK, Oct. Trouble is brewing
at Columbia University. and it is believed
that by tonight there will be an exceeding
y interesting encounter between the sopho-
mores and the freshmen The eruaite mem
bers OF the class OF "naughty-two' and the
supposedly verdant and lamblike youths
who compose naughty three" are on tbs
verge Of war because of the indignities
heaped upon the latter.
1t was only few days ago when the
men of 'naughty-two' began 10 be sepho.
mores and they are impressed with the great
dignity. The freshmen are not. although
the sophomores are leaving nothing undone
TO lead them TO that conviction Viewing
the situation in any light, either the space
III front OF the steps of the library or the
quadrangle by the gym" is apt to be
strewn with bruised and broken cIassmen
1t all began by the freshmen stealing the
sophomores bulletin board in a verdant and
lamblike gambol. That is a serious offenea
and the weight of their dignity bore so
heavily on the sophomores that it almost
broke their backs. Then they started in to
teach the STRIPPING components of the class
of 1903 what it is to be a yearling. Before
they began the teaching however, word
reached the sophomores that the impudent
freshmen had been guilty of another OF
fence, more heinous in its nature than the
other.
The crime was none other than that OF
entering the College Tavern and eating
luncheon therein. BY college custom at Co
lumbia it has been decided that no yearling
shall enter the College Tavern. The un-
fortunate freshmen were caught in the act
They were seized by large body of sopho-
mores and for half an hour were made to
deliver extempore speeches, sing songs and
execute infantile antics.
Then they each and everyone was led in
to the bar of the tavern and made to drink
to the health OF their deadly rival. "Naugh-
ty-two" in milk.
While the freshmen dismally gulped down
the milk the "sophs" danced around them
singing derisively.
One freshman, bolder than the rest re-
fused to drink to a hated toast, whereupon
the sophomores fell upon him and poured
milk down his throat until he yelled for
mercy. Some of the yearlings were led into
the cafe and compelled to dine off mush and
milk Naughty three" swears dire ven
geance for this and the upper classmen
await the outcome in glseful anticipation.
The times., 1899-10-07
Struggling Against the Ineri.able.

Il viii not be forgotten that, before the
outbreak Of hostilities with Spain, the
Peace-at-any- price party in this country
ragged and reared up to the very hour of
the declaration Of war by Congress Much
such condition obtains today in England
and South Africa But politicians, hign
civil service officials, and diplomatists in
London. many Of them earnestly opposed
10 war. are generally united in the con-
viction that it cannot now be averted with
out complete submission on the part OF the
Beers. which is regarded as an impossi-
bility
Even il her cause were unjust, which it
certainly is not, England could not now
recede from her position without incurring
the certain consequence OF a black rebel
lion throughout all South Africa. If Mr..
Chamberlain had been in a situation to
back Sir Alfred Miners demands at the
Bloamfontein conference, VITA adequate
military force, the Pretoria Government
either would have accepted them or have
known that the Transvaai would be occu-
pied instantly, and before its militia could
be mobiIized fer defence. But President
Kruger knew thoroughly well that the
! British troops in all Cape Colony, Natal,
1 and Rhodesia would not number enough
/ men 10 bother MS people for>two or thre
months TO follow; and he also knew that
the delay which must ensue before re-
! endorsements, sufficient for aggressive
movements. could be put in the field
against him, would give him time to at
tempt many things in the Boer interest
and perhaps with success.
Arguing from the manifestations of Eu-
ropean sentiment in favor of the Trans
vaal al the period of the Jameson raid, AMI
remembering the moral assistance then ex-
I tended to the state by Germany; and de-
/ pending upon the assumed hostility OF
Russia to England under all circumstances.
! Kruger had strong hopes that he might
/ be able to secure Continental interference
! in the quarrel between the South African
! Republic and its suzerain. Failing this,
there is no doubt he counted upon the
menace of general rising Of the savage
! tribes to frighten the British Government
! from proceeding to extremities.
] He has failed IN winning the active inter-
! est OF an. mllitart power IN supporting MS
resistance to the imperial demands He has
/ probably succeeded in so representing the
British delay in enforcing its views, TO the
/ Kaffrs and the other native tribes, that
the latter regard Great Britain as too weak
10 overcome the Beers. and may engage in
resurrection as result Of that conviction.
But this danger will not have the effect to
stay the British hand. On the contrary, it
creates vital necessity 10 show the blacks.
once and for ALL that the imperial power is
irresistible. and that TO defy it will mean
their destruction. Otherwise the situation
in South Africa would become speedily in
tolerabie. and subyersive OF all effort in
the direction of civilized development
| Beyond this consideration. the situation
The times., 1899-10-07
A silver polar Contract.
From the Philadelnhia Records

tFtOm the PhlIadeIpha Kecord.)
Two men were recently looking at the new Mint
building at Seventeenth and Spring Garden streets
and one OF them spoke of the fact that in the
vaults are stored Go 00G. 600 silver dollars.
His companion made the statement that he
would be willing 10 undertake the job OF carrying
the coin home in his pockets and hands if allow
cd to keep it. He claimed that he could readily
do it in one year His house is about one mile
distant from the Mint.
The other doubted his ability to carry out
the contract and they computed the matter, al
lowing ten trips per day as fair average. As
about twenty coins would weigh pound it was
agreed that 1000 coins per trip would be the
limit, thus giving a load Of fifty pounds This
would make 5000 trips, at the rate specified
il would take $500 days.
The woudbe-coin carrier now has a better idea
Of the number represented by the figures, and has
a poorer opinion Of his own guessing abilities
The times., 1899-10-07
The biggest pie Ever Baked.

(From the Kansas City JournaI)
1t was recounted in the dispatches short time
since that. the people Of Muvane had welcomed
one Of their soldier boys home with big reeep-
ton. This soldier boy was Artie Phillips, and in
one Of his letters from Manila he had said that he
would give four years Of his life for one OF those
apple pies such as his mother used to make AT
the reception he was presented with huge pie
as has been hitherto related, but il was not until
the ''Mulyane Record arrived this week that we
gained an idea OF the pies huge dimensions 1t
in square form, measuring two feet way
by five feet the other. In it were two and one
half bushels of apples. pounds OF four ten
pounds of sugar. six pounds OF lard, two pounds
Of butter and a commensurate amount of the
other truck which goes in this kind OF pastry
The Record says il was probably the biggest
pie ever baked, but that sit didn't last longer
than keg OF beer in prohibition town"
The times., 1899-10-07
TO BREAK THE PLANT WILL.
Widow and SON of the Lnte Million.
aire DfsSafisf.ed with IT, rrar,,s

n
airc Dissatisfied With Its Terms.
NEW YORK, Oct Although the
Plants, mother and son. have $50. eco year
apiece, it is said they will attempt TO break
the will of the late Florida magnate and
multi -miiIionsirs. Henry B. Plant
Henry Bradley Plant died AT his resi-
dence. No. $50 Fifth Avenue. very suddenly
on June % last He was nearly eighty
years old. but attended TO business up to
the day before his death. When he died
all the railway and steamship interests and
much OF the express business of Florida and
the Southern Atlantic Coast were in his
control.
The multi millionaire left an estate OF
SI,000,c00 tied up in the queerest viii that
the courts of Connecticut, where it was
probated, were ever called upon to settle
In word, ii left the entire $1,000. 600 TO the
putative son of the six-year- son OF
Mortimer Plant. son OF Henry B. Plant
That is, the estate would be undivided un-
til his unborn great grandson became of
age Even then his six-year old grandson
would have to live to mans estate, marry
and have son TO fulfill the conditions of
the Will Figuring that no son would be
born TO the grandson for twenty five yearse
yet, the estate would not fall to the unborn
heir for forty-six years.
The widow and her son, Mortimer Plant.
were thunderstruck at the provisions Of the
Will They had always been on the best
of terms with Mr. Plant and had been led
to believe that the estate would be theirs
as a matter of coures. My mother" de-
clared Mortimer Plant, expected ST. 000,-
600 as her share, while understood l was
to Inherit the bulk of the property" But
instead OF this widow and son each inher-
tied an allowance of $50 eco a year. for
which special trust fund was created un-
der the Will. This limited sum = cramped
both of them, accustomed to money with
out stint, that on it they have based
grounds for their contention that the late
Henry B. Plant was incapable CT making
a will.
Mrs. Plant and her son are at the family
mansion, $50 Fifth Avenue. Judge Lynde
Harrison, of New Haven. Mr. Plants life
long friend and adviser, who drew the will.
was summoned to this city yesterday from
New Haven, where he lives, and last night
was with Mrs. Plant and her son. The
will was probated in New Haven after Mr.
Plants death. As yet the probate court of
Connecticut has received no formal no.
tice that the probating of the viii is TO
be contested, but this is the present deter
mination Of the principal heirs, the wife
and son.
The property involved includes thirteen
railway and nine steamship lines. as well
as the great Plant system CT hotels in Flor
ida and the tropics Mr. Plant was the
pioneer capitalist there and did more to
develop the Peninsula State than any man
living
The times., 1899-10-07

Alarming stories abound in regard to
the action of illustrious women in view of
the Transvaal crisis. One is to the eff
feet that Queen Victoria win abdicate If
her country goes to war. Another has it
that Queen Wilhelmina is about to beg
Emperor Wilhelm to interfere. 1t is time
for Lavinia O'Worstedfelt Dempsey to be
doing something. Her soft Limericksdorp
High Dutch might have a very soothing
effect on Dom Paul for instance.
The times., 1899-10-07
Rothschild Among kings.
CHon. John Bigelow, in the Century.)

(Hon. John Bigelow, in the Century)
During the famous Congress of Vienna already
referred to, each of the several monarchs present
was the guest OF nobeman On one festive
occasion Baron Rothschild was invited par eXcep-
tion. lie modestly went to take his place. not
among the more exalted guests. When they dis
covered Rothschild, however, they all rose, one
after the other, and saluted him, except the King
of Prussia. Some asked the King why he
did not salute the great European banker. did
| not?'' he replied ''weil. l suppose it was be-
cause | was the only one who did not owe him
anything?" This reminds one of a line in one of
Popes satiros:
Il never answered; was not in debt
The times., 1899-10-07
STEEL MILLS TO START.
Baltimore and Ohio Works Bought
by New Company.

CUMBERLAND, Md, Oct To-day
fires were kindled in the furnaces of the
rejuvenated rolling mills leased from the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by the Poto-
mac Steel Company and there is general
rejoicing among the business men over
what promises to be the revival Of a gil
gantic industry.
The mill, a mammoth affair, has been
idle for some years. 1t is expected that
500 men will be at work inside Of month.
Walter McFarren. of Pittsburg son of the
president of the company, has succeeded
w s. Craig as superintendent. The bar,
rail and puddle mills will be operated.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will
reopen the Piedmont shops, and is hiring
all frst-class boilermakers and machinists
that apply
The times., 1899-10-07
Cured b, the Telephone.

tFTom the PendIefon East Ufegoniall.l
There IS a popular character in Pendleton who
has sight impediment in his speech. He talks
eloquently. but he stammers some. He recently
located in Pendleton because he admires Mis-
The ether day he went to the telephone to talk 10
a friend in Portland. When the talk was finished
the Portland man said;
well Old man. you seem to talk better since
you went to Pendeton. You 90 not SHUTTER any
thing like much as you did
NO, said the Perd'eton man. clear and straight
as a bell. a man cannot afford to stutter
through a telephone when to talk costs 15 cents a
minute
The times., 1899-10-07
A WHOLE BLOCK BURNED.
Fire at Port Allegheny. Pa. Does
Over 100000 Damage.

PORT ALLEGHENY. Pa. Oct. -Four
buildings, forming one of the principal
business blocks in town. were burned to-
night. The loss will aggregate Sl0O.O
part Of which is covered by insurance
The structures consumed are Hooker's
Racket store. DentrelFs millinery store
Gerwick's grocery store, and Thomas fur
nitUre store
The buildings were all three stories high.
the second and third stories having been
occupied by families. The fire was started
from gas jet. The flames spread rapidly
and despite the efforts of the fremen.
who were quickly upon the scene. were
soon beyond control. All of the tenants
in the building escaped without injury.
For a time a number of other structures
were threatened.
The times., 1899-10-07

According to London gossip. Sir Thomas
Upton is booked for baronetcy next win
ter when the Christmas plums are given
out at Windsor Castle. We presume that
the honor Will be to some extent dependent
upon Sir Thomas ability TO treat his SOW
ereign to a sample of his celebrated bev-
erage brewed in the Americas Cup.
The times., 1899-10-07
A pnssihIe Home
From the Chicago Tribune. }

lFrOm the UWcagO Inbune.l
4 look for an improvement in the character
Of the French plays adapted for the American
stage next season.
"Why?"
well. they can't be any worse than they are
this season"
The times., 1899-10-07
A BIoated BondhoIaer.
(From the Chicago News.)

(FTom the Chicago News.)
81 don't like to see people making an ostenta-
tious display of great wealth"
''Who's doing it?'
'Bleeker,reet. lie has rented a whole door
step for himself and family to use on the day Of
the Dewey parade.
The times., 1899-10-07
A HeurtIes, Con,n,ent.
(From the Richmond Dispatch.

fFrom the Richmond Dispatch)
Sapper-l appear to be doomed 20 fail at every
thing | undertake; made effort this morning
to commit suicide with that pistol | borrowed
from you yesterday and I'll he hanged il | didn't
miss myself.
snapper-weH if you hadn't missed yourself
I'm sure that nobody else would.
The times., 1899-10-07
CURRENT HUMOR
wisdom by Experience.

(From the Philadelphia North American.)
''Now tell me-" said the visitor to the peniten-
tiary III you had your life 10 live over, don't
you think you would choose a different roadg"
''You bet would, answered the prisoner I'D
take the road through the woods, and they'd never
eatch me-
The times., 1899-10-07
IINcraIuIiiN-
n tllc BOSTON Herald ]

From the Boston Herald)
sleswat-Me son, Tim, has five hundred men
workn under him
NcTusl,- Phats me doin'? Putin roof on a
iinement hOuse2
The times., 1899-10-07
The Young Idea
CFrom LudgeA

.ttrom Iudge9
Benny" said the pretty schoolma' am. s.you
may give synonym tor the expression He
had an end in view
..He secs his finish replied Benny promptly.
The times., 1899-10-07
Foo Intelligent.

(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
''Wingield says that trotter OF his is the
most intelligent horse he ever owned. -
'Yes; the horse can do everything but trot.'
The times., 1899-10-07

These are parlous times; so much so that
even Long derives from them lessons in
sense and modesty. In his '.few brief re-
marks at Quincy, Illinois, yesterday he
said: Il notice your chairman is very dis
eliminating. He introduces me. but COM
pliments not me, but the navy" Then
Long also complimented the navy and
never said Sampson once. 1t would have
been different before the popular ovations
to Schley during the Dewey celebrations
in New York and Washington, Feathers,
of which Long is a draggled one, show
which way the wind blows,
The times., 1899-10-07

1t is reported that terms of peace have
been arranged between President Andrade
of Venezuela and the revolutionary gem
eral, Cipriano Castro. A bloody assault
on Caracas. the capital of the country.
may therefore be prevented. We hope it
is fact. Our little sister republics in
the tropics have gone pretty well to the
length of their tether in the matter Of
upsetting the civilization of the Western
Hemisphere, with their continual riots and
instructions. One of these fine days they
will have to stop that sort of thing. or be
whipped into decency by the paramount
power of the two Americas.
The times., 1899-10-07

Communications intended for publication in
THE TINES must be tersely and plainly written,
and must In all cases be accompanied by the
munica tions viii not be preserved and only man
uscripts OF obvious Importance viii be returned
10 their authors.
The times., 1899-10-07

Readers Of TIE TINES who may at any time
De unable 10 procure copies of ii at any news
stand railroad station. or on railroad trains
will confer 4 favor upon the management by
SATURDAY. OCTOBER Z, 1899.
The times., 1899-10-07

With their usual diplomacy, the Cana
dians are selecting a time when Great
Britain is in serious trouble to make more
for the mother country, by starting anew
the Alaskan boundary agitation The Ca
madam Minister of Justice, Mr.. Mills, has
made most ill-advised speech at Victoria,
B. c., in which he argued that Pyramid
Harbor obviously belongs to Canada, and
that what we have well hold!' Mr..
Mills will be tercentenarian and more
before the United States ever gives up
foot of the soil it bought from Russia.
The times., 1899-10-07

as it is now presented offers an inexorable
permit the existence of inimical states
within the sphere of British South African
influence. This is not the first time that the
Beers have stirred up the natives against
England, but probably it will be their last
chance to do it as a political community.
They cannot be trusted, and not much
more dependence can be placed on their
neighbors of the Orange Free State. The
influence CT both would certainly be op-
posed TO the peace of the region. and their
power for mischief will have to be curtail-
ed. With these hostile Dutch republics"
always ready to incite Kaffr, Matabele,
and Bechuana outbreaks, life and property
in South Africa would be unsafe, and a
condition of anarchy always within sight
The situation would be exactly as if
our Northwestern Indians were as strong
as they were fifty years ago, armed with
modern weapons, and being necessarily in
cited by the Canadians TO raid American
white settlements and massacre their in
habitants. How long does anyone sup
pose it would be before an army would be
over the border after such uncomfortable
neighbors? The evils and abuses arising
from the retrogressive character and in
Jtitutions of these little Dutch oligarchies
in South Africa have grown beyond the
limits of civilized patience. Opposition
party purposes in England and an unrea-
soning, ignorant, and hysterical sentiment
of sympathy in the United States to the
contrary Notwithstanding, these obstruc
tions in the path of modern progress
should be and will be removed.
The times., 1899-10-07

THE TINES, In all It's editions. Morning. Even
ing, and Sunday, viii be mailed TO one address
,or FIFTY CENTS per month Addresses changed
as often a. desired
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-08
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Daniel Lamont's private fortune 10
now said to reach $5,000,000.
Frank H. Burford, 15-year-old boy,
has been admitted to the bar in Guth-
rie, o. T.
The navy department. has taken steps
for the opening of a naval recruiting
station at Buffalo, N. Y.
The queen regent of Spain has signed
a decree calling out 10000 men of the
1890 class for military service.
Cups are now being made with small
thermometers which tell the degree of
temperature of the cocoa or coffee they
hold.
Alexander Henderson, of Syracuse,
has acted as pail bearer at the funeral
of l72 of his friendH during the last
50 years.
Two divinity. students are working
their way through Yale by doing job
printing The name of the firm is Clark
& Watkins.
At the convention in Marquette,
Mich, of the Western Hay Fever asso-
citation w. A. Rowe, of Des Moines, was
cleCleu pTeslueHt'
The former Spanish cruiser Reina
Mercedes may be in the big water pa
rade at New York this month in honor
of Admiral Dewey's return.
William Henry Ijams, who has re-
signed as treasurer of the Baltimore d
Ohio Railroad company, was in the serv-
ice of that corporation for 46 years.
Cadet Philip d. Smith, VINO was ap.
pointed to the military academy in
West Point from Nebraska in 1897, was
dismissed from the institution for
hazing.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is ar
ranging for an exhaustive scientific in
vestigation of the abandoned farms of
New England with view of their recla-
nation.
Gen. B. F. Tracy, who is now in Eu-
rope and has attended sessions of the
Dreyfus trial, says it is conducted more
like a desultory conversation club than
anything else.
At the coming session of congress Ha-
waii will be represented by William o.
Smith, formerly attorney general of
that country. He will be appointed by
President Dole.
David Rankin, of Talllio, Mo-, who is
said to be the richest farmer in the
world, made his beginning with no 9TH
er capital than horse. He now owns. at
the age of "a, $4,000 acres of lard, worth
from $50 to $500 an acre.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-08
N EWS OF OHIO.
Gathered by Telegraph From AL
Parts of the State.


sandusky, o., Sept. 5.-The survivors
of the tug Red Cloud which went
down in Lake Erie Off Cedar Rapid
point Sunday, reached here Monday.
The ting was going to Lorain, but was
forced to put back on account of the
storm. and in making the turn struck
the channel bank and went to pieces.
John Mcdonnell, engineer, and James
Mcdonald, fireman, both of Cleveland,
reached the Cedar Point beach on
panks. Patrick Hale, of Cleveland,
and ID. A. Simpson and Willie Kennedy,
of Lorain, escaped on a life raft and
after seven hours battling with the
waves, reached Cedar Point light at
o'clock Monday morning in an eN-
hausted condition. The accident was
caused by the captain losing his bear
ings. The tug was owned by the
Great Lakes Towing Co., and is total
l0es
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-08
THE GRAND BRACE.
Pathetic Plea of the BIbuIous Head
of the House Next
Morning.

One of the Bohemian citizens of the town
went home the other night after having
donned pair of skates that would have slid
him over an Arizona desert with the mer-
curry bubbling out of the top of the thermom-
eter. He had no recollection of how he got
home, and even the next morning he was
not certain whether he was on a storm
tossed Atlantic liner or making a leap from
a balloon minus a parachute. He went
down to the breakfast table with enough wet
towels wrapped around his head to make
a turban for the mahdi. His wife met him
with reproaches in her eyes, but she did not
scold him. She wanted to inform him of his
conduct the night before. however.
My dear, she said, did you know that
you came very near killing us all when you
went to bed last night?'
Nope" said her husband, thickly, as he
felt his hot forehead.
We'll, you did. You knocked over the
baby's cradle. Then you blew out the gas
and we were nearly asphyxiated. What do
Her husband is usually resourceful man,
but the fumes of many cocktails taken the
night before somewhat clouded his intellect
He made grand brace and tried to look pa.
thetic.
"M'loye," he said, as a ray of inspiration
burst through his foggy brain, wasn't
here to die with you?"-Washngto Post.