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The evening times., 1899-04-08
President Louhe,.s simplicity.

paris Correspondence of the London New>)
The President has made permanent the occa-
sional order about military sautes at the Elysee.
goes out or comes in unless on grrat official oc
casions. and then only when he Is surrounded
with a military escort lie has ordered the FUR
niture OF VI. Faure's ordinary audience chamber
and bedrooms to he changed. They were in the
most recherche Louis Nv style. and tapestried
with subjects by Llucret, Boucher and Wat
teau. The late President had three bedrooms
adjoining each other arranged in the same man.
ner One looking due south the garden
for winter; another. looking courtyard, for
very hot weather. and the third seemed the very
sanctuary Of the eighteenth century elegance.
Nine. Faure's bedroom much palmer. VI.
Faure discarded too severely simple the fur
niture in the style of the First Empire that
President Carnot used. The chairs and arm
chairs chosen at the State Garde Meuble by VI.
Faure were in the royal private apartments at
Versailles when the revolution broke out They
had lacIuered frames and were covered with
Bearvais tapestries. The wall decorations Of the
room where he seized with paralysis repre-
sented a neurological subject by Boucher. NJ
Loubct prefers serious dignity. and will give
bookcases predominant place in the sitting
room and ordinary audience room. He is
great reader, and has fairly large library, more
for use than ornament. but containing many
choice editions. all well bound. lie a great
hunter after such editions when he lived in the
Rue de Seine which is in the midst of the see
ond-hand book market.
The evening times., 1899-04-08
CUTS OUT THE WORD "REBEL.
Admiral Philip Scratches 1t From .
War Relic.

Admiral Philip Scratches II From .
War Relic.
New York, April 8.-Rear Admiral John
W. Philip, commandant of the navy yard.
pointed with pride yesterday to change
he had brought about in the government
property under his care. To the right Of
the entrance to the admirars Office In Main
Street, is huge wedge-shaped piece Of
iron which was taken from the PROV Of
the Confederate ram Mississippi. after the
Civil War. Upon it was the inscription
Taken from the Rebel Ram Mississippi y
Every days these words caught the eye
Of the admiral. Yesterday the word ''Reb-
ell was scraped from the rusty cid trophy.
There are no rebels now" said Admiral
Philip yesterday, there is no North and
no South, and anyhow l don't like the
word rebel It's no word for these times. ="
On Monday the battleship Massachusetts,
will sail for Trinidad to join Simpsons S
squadron. She left the navy yard yes.er-
day and anchored off Tompkinsville.
Two hundred and fifty marines arrived at
the yard yesterday from Boston and
League Island. They will go to Manila
via San Francisco under the command OF
Colonel Percival C. Pope.
Rear Admiral Philip and the officers Of
the yard will attend the lecture of Father
Chidwick. former chaplain of the Maine.
on Sunday night at the Montauk Theatre.
The evening times., 1899-04-08
THE WooLEN TRUST.
Treasurer Wood Admits That 1t In
Perfected.


Boston, April S.-William n. Wood. the
treasurer of the Washington Mills Com
pany. frankly admitted to a correspondent
last night the truth of the report relative
to the formation of a big wcolen and cot
ton trust
Mr.. Wood stated that the wooden trust
was already perfected in the new company.
known as the American Woolen Company.
of which he was the treasurer.
Mr.. Wood said:
Il have no doubt that the various COM
I can speak authoritatively for the Ameri-
can Woolen Company, which is already an
esta blished fact, and the subscription to its
capital stock has proven a most signal sue
cess. The American Woolen Company's S
capital has not only been fully subscribed
to. but was much oversubscribed.
Il have heard of rumors Of an effort at
consolidation Of the carpet mills. and 1t
would not surprise me if it was accom-
plished.-
Il understand that the cotton yarn trust
is in an embryonic state but this project
is in the best OF hands and represents the
finest cotton yarn mills in America IL
properly handled this combination will
prove a great success.
There is no doubt in my mind that the
worsted yarn spinners combination is
fairly launched and its complete organiZa-
tion cannot be far OFF. Ii represents the
best spinning plants in the country
The evening times., 1899-04-08
Nompu in Busiuess.

| At intervals there is heard in the land
protest. more or less forcible, against the
employment of women in business, and the
| argument that they are driving men out of
| the trades and professions is used violent
| ly so far as the women are concerned, it
is difficult to see what they can do about it.
They have always worked more or less
| outside the home. and it is probable that
they always will. They have done this. not
| because they enjoyed working. or for a
mere whim. but because they were obliged
to work for their living. Very few men
would be contented TO remain dependent
OH the good humor or good luck of their
fathers for their clothing and packet money.
| not to speak of their food and lodging; and
| women have as much human nature in
them as the other half of mankind. No
| politico- economical argument will induce
any woman now in business to stay at
home quietly and starve. or marry the first
man who is willing to support her. for the
sake of an abstract principle.
The actual condition of things at present
| is that great numbers of women are work.
| ing for wages and some of them are doing
things which were formerly done by men.
| 1t is also true that many things which
were formerly considered women's work
are now taken out of their hands. The
employment of women in mines and in the
fields is yearly lessening. all over the
world; the great laundries are driving the
washerwomen out of business; the big tail
oring establishments have spoilt the trade
of thousands of Industrious, clever work
women the club. with its efficient men,
servants is displacing the boarding house.
There are probably not so very many more
workwomen in the world now than in the
past, but their field of employment has
changed. The particular change which
has made the most noise is that which en-
abes educated women to compete for WELL
paid positions. and get them. When this
change began, great deal was said about
the iniquitous influence of placing women
in positions of publicity. But there is no
position on earth which is any more pub
lie than that of waitress or innkeeper,
and in both of these trades women have
been engaged for several generations. An
actress addresses as large an audience as
the woman orator, and is as successful in
her art as the man.
But there is likely to be during the next
twenty years a widespread movement
which will affect the lives of educated
women. More and more Of them will be
thrown upon the world Obliged to earn
living either with their hands or their
brains. Eventually business will be ar
ranged in way which will offer them q
The evening times., 1899-04-08
Book Pirncics.
from ,b. Brooklvn EarIe

tt rom tue Brooklyn EaSlc-)
The authors are still stirring up the nations
with their demands for wider international
copyright. Ii is. indeed. a pity that Americans
should be found Indifferent to the rights of
Germans to print their books ard pay royal
ties them, and it is deplorable that English
publishers should care little for the feelings
of Mark Twain and Other. popular men on our
side of the water to get out cheap editions of
their books and offer to pay nothing for the
privilege. Yet are not the authors asking a
little too much when they ask To be exclusively
considered in an international agreement? No
body denies the fairness of the thing. cthically
considered, but how about the inventors whose
machines may be appropriated by foreign coun-
tries. unless they take out patents in those coun
tries? How about the painters, whose designs
may be cribbed by artists with feebler hands and
fewer ideas, across the borders? 1t is only the
popular author whose work is stolen, and because
he is popular his books circulate widely where
fore he gets good return in his country
for his work. 1t cannot. therefore be alleged
that he suffers great hardship in the pirating Of
his books. OF course, the piratng OF one thing
is as evil as another. hut rnder the law is not
the author as well protected anybody? Widen
all international right.
The evening times., 1899-04-08
4 NIischicvous Ambassador.

II Ambassador White is correctly report
cd in the German press ke -equires the in
staut and serious attention of Secretary
Hay. There is degree of emotional en-
ergy in his public expressions. an enthu-
siasm in his statement of international re-
lstions very rare in the records of diplo-
macy. He may have had every warrant
from his interviews with the Kaiser for
his eloquent defence of German friendli-
ress during the Spanish war. although in
cidents in the Far East seemed to con-
tradict him. He may have every warrant
for his present assurances to the German
press of the warm affection and amiable
purposes of the American Republic. But
he can find no justification for his extra
ordinary language in reference to Great
Britain. His reported interview in a lead
ing German newspaper is shocking in It's
extreme partisanship of the views of the
anti-English section of the German public.
Anybody who is familiar with the Gus
toms of diplomats must see that England
has every reason TO be offended by the
amazing affirmations of Ambassador White
In Germany there are newspapers which
represent the anti-English element. They
have been extravagant to the point of alb
surdity in charging the English with an
attempt TO poison the American mind
against Germany and form an alliance
against the interests OF the Germans Sec
retary Hay and all Americans who have an
accurate knowledge of the situation know
there is no truth in this. England has no
such purpose and would not il she could
set the two countries at enmity. On the
contrary. there has been a growing senti-
ment in Great Britain in favor of close re-
lations and common aim for the three
leading industrial countries.
Yet Ambassador White accepts the most
violent charges against the English as
true. at least as applied to class of Eng
lishmen, and after giving the weight of his
authority to them assures the Germans
The evening times., 1899-04-08
What Omcer. Say.

Yesterday was notable in the Beef En-
quiry through the introduction Of the tes-
timony of nearly a hundred and fifty off,
GERS, regulars and volunteers, a to the
character of the canned beef which Sec
ietary Alger allowed or instructed Eagan
to buy for the feeding Of our soldiers.
With few exceptions. these officers made
the same report-that the beef was repul
sive TO sight. offensive to taste and smell,
lacking in nutrment impossible of di-
gestion and assimilation. and injurious to
health. An attempt was made by the
Judge Advocate TO exclude this evidence
Even without it the charges of General
Miles had been fully sustained, and if the
Court were disposed to convict him of false
allegations it could not hope to accom-
plish it. As General Miles has said, nearly
the whole army would testify in support of
his charges.
This is not all that has been done. Con-
trary to the verdict of the Alger Relief
Commission, il has been established that
the refrigerated beef was chemically treat
ed or 'embaimed" on the
testimony of medical men and chemists
and by letters from the packers. 1t has
been shown that the Secretary of War was
a party to the big contracts, in spite of a
disappearance of documents from the files
of the Commissary Office. 1t has been
proved that the packers violated the law
by selling diseased beef as good, after it
had been condemned by the Government
| inspectors. In this case. also, there has
| been mysterious disappearance Of docu-
| ments. The report of an inspector on the
use of the. meat OF diseased cattle filed in
| the Department of Agriculture cannot be
found. II is proved. too. that the packers
had influence enough TO cause the sending
away of the inspector who was making an
investigation.
In short. all and more than General Miles
charged or suspected has been fully es-
| tablished. We can now afford TO be pa
tient until the Court of Enquiry makes its
report. though ii is well 20 bear in mind
the enormty of the crime and the rela-
tions of various officials to the contracts.
II is well 10 remember that although the
Secretary of War. the office of the Surgeon
General. and Eagan We're warned that in
furious chemicals we're used on refriger-
ated beef. and that canned roast beef was
made up of scraps without any nutritive
elements, no examination was made by the
Government in order to protect the SOL
diers from poison and from being robbed
of their rightful and necessary food. No
guilty man must escape.
The evening times., 1899-04-08
The Plea of the Firms.
Crrom the Philadelphia Ledger J


On the eve OF the international Peace Com
gress which is to assemble ut The Hague by the
invitation of the Gar the Finlanders, who are
subjects of the ruler of all the Russias, have been
filed with terror at the prospect of being de-
prived of their ancient rights and liberties, and
reduced to the Russian dead level of a rigid
military despotisn. Finland. since it was torn
from Sweden in 1909 by Russia. has been Rus
sian principaity, enjoying a large measure OF
home rule. The Gar, under the title of Grand
Duke, is their prince. and they have been his
most progressive, enlightened. and valuable sub,
jects. They have made their own laws in their
Diet, and have obeyed them. They have had
popular government, based on a suffrage nearly
universal, and have made great strides forward
in wealth, education. and civilization. until to-
dav, through their efforts, they compare
iavorably in general well l-bcing, prosperity. and
happiness with any people on the Continent. OF
the Russians, 81 per cent illiterates, against
l per cent Of the Firms. They have furnished
an admirable example of industrial, social, and
political capacity, and their impending fate has
excited the sympathy Of the civilized world and
horrifed the Finnish people.
The evening times., 1899-04-08
SATURDAY, APRIL S. 1899
Herr Rose to BIN me.

Unless the news from Samoa grossly mis-
represents the facts-and there is almost
positive evidence that it does not-the
dreadful carnage at Apia was due to the
refusal of the German Consul TO coop
crate with the representatives OF Great
Britain and this country TO preserve the
peace until instructions could be received
from the different governments. Indeed,
it will hardly be denied that the followers
of Mataafa were induced 10 fight by the
proclamation of the German Consul, Herr
Rose.
The first trouble grew out of the decision
of the Chief Justice that Mataafa, who re-
ceived majority of the votes for king,
was Ineligible. He declared Malietoa en-
titled to the throne. The German Consul
and the German President of the Municipal
Council refused TO abide by this decision,
and caused the followers of Mataafa to
begin a war. Later the three consuls
agreed on a provisional government, to
continue until the three powers should set
tie the question of the future government
Of Samoa Then Admiral Kautz, an Ameri-
can. featHeu aDld Win iHt MIA
dephia. After studying the situation for
two days he decided that the provisional
government could not have legal exist
ence. and that the opinion of the Chief
Justice must be final. The American and
English Consuls agreed with him, and a
proclamation was issued dissolvng the
provisional government and proclaiming
Malietoa king.
The followers of Mataafa started home in
compliance with Admiral kautzs procla-
nation. when the German Consul Rose is
sued a counter manifesto. In this he said
the proclamation of the American Admiral
was not true; that he had not agreed 10
the abolition of the provisional govern
ment and would not until he should hear
from Berlin. OF course the rebels instant
Is turned back and began fighting. as Con-
sui Rose knew they would.
Admiral kautz may have been unwise in
choosing that time of peace to dissolve
the provisional government, however lille
gal its existence. But that he had the au-
ihority of the Berlin treaty to support him
is beyond a doubt. Therefore the German
Consul had no warrant TO precipitate hos
iilties by his proclamation. His proper
course. if he could not agree that the pro-
ysional government was illegal. was TO
appeal to Berlin for instructions. The
blood that has been shed must be charged
10 his inordinate ambition and contempt Of
all opposition. Claiming predominant in
frrests in the islands. he mas never been
willing TO concede the right of the repre-
scntatiyes of America and Great Britain to
decide a question without his consent.
The evening times., 1899-04-08
DEMOCRATIC POLITICS WEST.
4 Combination Suggested to Control
the National Committee.

Chicago. April S.-Leon Bailey. Chair
man Of the Democratic State Central Com
ittee of Indiana. is in Chicago on a po-
litical mission. The object of his visit is
to sound the leaders of the Chicago Demo-
cracy on a scheme to form a coalition OF
five Western States for the purpose of act
ing as unit in the national committee.
He has had talks with Mayor Harrison
and National Committeeman Gehan. but
both parties to the conference are silent as
10 its nature.
The talk among politicians is that a COM
bination of Illinois. Indiana, Wisconsin.
Ohio and Michigan is being formed to
vote as unit in the national committee
on all propositions affecting the organiza-
tion of that body for the next Presidential
campaign. especially when ii comes to at
tempting the retirement of Chairman
Jones.
The evening times., 1899-04-08
The World. Cry for Peace.
From the Baltimore SUM-


With the spread of education and the develop
ment of civilization the world is constantly grow
ing more practical well more merciful.
1t is perceived that and all that it involves
is one Of the greatest and one OF the most un-
necessary Of the evils that affiict mankind, and
the opinion is steadily gaining strength that it
should be entirely practicable TO settle interna-
tional disputes by arbitration instead of by the
sword. 1t may be some time yet before are
made TO cease in all the world, and peace and
good will shall prevail in every quarter OF the
globe, but that period may be hastened by the
earnest and persistent cooperation of those who
believe that civilization has higher mission
and nobler meaning than military glory and
aggrandizement. True patriotism, well as
humanity, is concerned in the effort to check
the development of miltarism, and to cherish
peaceful interests. War is an uncertain well
as expensive game. and the nation which is a
victor today may be vanquished tomorrow That
love of country is the purest and the highest
which seeks to protect it from the vcissitudes
and humiliations, as well the mserie5 and
burdens, which involved in international
strife
The evening times., 1899-04-08
MARvELs WITNESSED AT SEA
Picturesque Lights ON the Ocean De-
tailed by Sailors.

New York, April S.-The North Atlantic,
according to reports brought here yester
day, has been picturesque Of late. Ice
bsrgs and field ice have been seen in unus-
ual abundance, electric storms have daz-
zled mariners. one brilliant ball of fire
hissed into the water alongside sober lit
tie schooner. and another wrecked spar
and SO shocked a seaman that it was three
days before he could tell about IL. Then
| there was an aerial race in which five
| shooting stars took part, with some doubts
as to the result.
The fire ball adventure befell the schoon-
er Carrie A. Bucknam, which arrived from
Haitien ports. In telling the yarn Cap
tain Topley said that his vessel met hur-
ricane off the Carolinas on March 30. and
was hove to for twenty hours. Pitching
over heavy sea the schooner dived down
the slope. to be caught by a big wave
which swirled into the close reefed main
sail and burst it into ribbons. To keep the
vessel from broaching to a storm trysail
was set. Ii was while this work was be-
ing done that the electric storm came up.
A ball CT fire. according to Captain Top
ley, whizzed into the water a short dis
was a crash and the flying of splinters
from the mizzenmast- Henry Brown. one
of the seamen. was flung to the deck by
the shock. and it was three days before he
recovered
Captain Swayne, of the bark Alice.
brought in succinct narrative of an aeri-
al handicap which he observed when his
vessel was off Cape Hatteras. He had been
on deck watching sheet lightning breaking
fitfully through a dense bank of clouds to
the southwark. when. looking overhead he
AYERS he saw five shooting stars start from
the zenith and dart toward the northern
horizon in a zigzag, twisting race. The;.
the black pail which had been gathering to
the southwark Cverspread the sky in bill
lows of ebony clouds and the lightning
came along and split it into strips.
Other sailcrmen had yarns Of icebergs
10 relate. One of these Captain Fitzger-
aid, OF the steamship ST. Andrew. reports
having sighted thirteen bergs during his
thirteen day voyage from Newcastle. One
Of these. according TO the captains report
is a veritabie Jumbo of berg, measuring
Captain Fitzgerald said. one and n half
miles in length. and towering fully 500
feet above the water. This majestic wan
derer from the Arctic is described as hav-
ing enormous pinnacles. grotesquely shap-
ed ridges and deep chasms. in which the
sac doomed like distant thunder.
Captain Bleecker. of the German steam
ship Weimar, which arrived from Bremen
reports having sighted large number OF
bergs. one OF which he estimates as being
100 feet in height. Bergs were also re-
ported by the Mohican. from London. and
by the Werkendam, from Rotterdam.
The evening times., 1899-04-08

that the English .jlngoes" can never i'm
pair the intensity of our love for Ger
many. He goes further. and represents
that British gold or British influence has
gained control of the American newspapers
which he Calls 1.-The yellow journals, but
that their efforts to aid England in pro-
ducing rupture between America and
Germany are doomed to failure.
Did ever an American or any other diplo-
mat talk such vicious and m.schievous rom
sense? Where are the newspapers in this
country that second English ''jingoes" in
the alleged scheme? What newspaper in
this country has had any but friendly
words for the German government since 1t
removed Vice Admiral Won Diedrich from
his command and agreed to an amicabie
adjustment of the Samoan trouble? 1t is
true that when a German admiral defied
the just authority of Admiral Dewey. and
when German agents at Hongkong were
suspected of giving aid to Aguinaldo, and
when Consul Rose in Samoa led rebels TO
attack the Supreme Court, the American
press expressed its righteous indignation.
Since then the Berlin government has Civ
en- satisfactory proofs of its good will by
rcpudiating the action of its representa-
tives. and the newspapers Of this country
have made no criticism of its attitude.
There is. therefore, not the least founda-
tion for the amazing assertions OF the
American Ambassador at Berlin.
Great Britain was indeed our very good
friend in the Spanish war. In Manila Bay
when the German warship drew off on the
Spanish side and deliberately annoyed and
defed Admiral Dewey. the English COM
mander came to the American side and
showed his timely sympathy. Yet our Am
bassador al Berlin speaks through the Ger
man newspapers that are most unfriendly
TO England in IA way to deeply offend the
country that was with us at critical time
and compelled all Europe to keep hands off.
Surely he needs the attention Of Secretary
Hay