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The evening times., 1899-07-20

thousand Journalists. two hundred lawyers.
and nineteen women who are trappers and
guides. In California there is an insur-
ance company which pays woman man
ager $4,000 year. Women are chemists,
assayers, estaurant-keepers. contractors,
and blacksmiths.
This state of things is in some ways very
like that prophesied by certain of the
conservatives of half century ago, and
in other ways it is not at all like the pre-
dictions of these worthless. The anti-pro-
gressive party of those days said that if
woman was allowed to go to college and
earn her living in business, and think fo.
herself. she would invade all the trades
and professions, become unwomanly and
coarse, and cease to care for home and
pete with man, and 1t was folly for her to
try. In SO far as woman's invasion of the
trades and professions is concerned, this
prophecy has been fulfilled, but it must be
confessed that the rest of ii has gone
astray somewhere in the dim recesses of
the past. Marriages still take place, about
as often as ever; women still delight in
pretty looks and pretty manners, and al
though there are some unwomanly women
to be seen, it is doubtful if they are any
more numerous in the professions than
elsewhere.
AS for a business life uniting woman
for marriage and devotion to her home, it
should be understood that the eternal laws
of nature are not going to be changed by
womans possession of latGhkey and a
bicycle. When, after a day spent at a
desk or behind counter girl meets the
man destined for her by the laws of mu-
tual attraction, she is quite as likely to
realize the fact as if she had been sitting
at home all day thinking about the posi-
| bility; and she is not as likely to waste
her time ON the wrong man as she would
| be if her only choice was between maria ge
and dependent and unhappy spinster-
hood.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
A LiIIiputian strike.

There was a small but lively war in
Central Park the other day, and had Dean
Swift been in that vicinity he might nave
been reminded of some of his own works.
The miniature railroad which is run for
the benefit of children who visit the park
was tied up on account of striking en-
ployzs And there was fuss.
The employees of the road are on duty
from nine in the morning till ten at night,
and shortly after the beginning of the
Brooklyn strike they were approached by
some Knights of Labor, who urged them
TO rebel against this arrangement. The
men discussed the matter among them
selves and determined to ask for an hour
less threatening to strike in case OF refu-
sal. The men quit work and the commit
tee of three went to the owners of the road
and made their demand. This was at nine
in the morning Meanwhile the children
were arriving. as they do every fine day,
for a ride on the tiny railroad. The loco
motive en- this road is about the size of
man, and the track and the cars are of
corresponding smallness. The whole affair
is a delight TO the childish mind, and when
it was found that the cars were not run
ming On account of a strike, great was the
woe in the Land. The children kept COM
ing. They crowded the platform and fill
ed the air with their opinions of the sit
uaticn. 1t is thought that the company
sent an emissaTy down to the station TO
see what the state Of affairs was, and he
returned with the appalling news that the
children would mob the companys Office
if something was not done about it. AT
any rate, the request of the strikers was
granted without much demurring, the
committee came back about noon and re-
port victory, and the cars were immedf-
ately filed with as many of the three or
four hundred infants there assembled as
could crowd INTO them This sounds like
story for q children's magazine, but it
is true fcT all that 1t proves that, as ex-
cry father has learned during the first
year CT his paternai experience. the small
things OF this world sometimes confound
he mish-y
The evening times., 1899-07-20
MARYLAND FARMS SOLD.
The Largest Single Transfer in the
KistorN of Queen ARne's County.

CentreviIle, Md. July 2O.-The largest
amount of real estate ever offered at one
time in Queen Anne's county was sold at
public sale in CentreviIle Tuesday by
Thomas j. Heating. trustee, belonging to.
The estate of John Coppage. deceased.
About 1900 acres of farming land were
sold
The home farm of Mr.. Coppage, known
as Bishops Field" near Church Hill. con-
tanning 515 1-2 acres. was bought by John
Fl. Evans for $40 per acre, aggregating 49,
1880. The Stevens. or Dudley. farm. on
the public road from Church Hill to Sud-
IersvilIe. containing 156 acres. was sold to
John W. Clough for s17.55 per acre. aggre-
eating s., ,631. so. The Casey, or Crane.
farm, between Tilghman Station and Sud
lersville, containing 24S acres 3 roodS and
% perches, was sold to John E Gsorge for
5000 per acre, aggregating i,43lSS- Not
leys Delight, or Goodwin farm, near
Church Hill, containing 431 acres, was
bought by Enoch Coppage for SIS per acre,
aggregating SIS, 555. The Bateman, or Hol-
| lingsworth, farm. on a public road from
Church Hill to Barclay, containing 165
acres, / rood. and s perches. was bought
by William F. Coppage for Sf5-75 per acre,
aggregating 81. 1854 The Bourbon. or
Comegys, farm, near Rosevilie. Isl acres,
| ! rood, and perchss. was sold TO George
Taylor at s15.15 per acre, aggregating ST.
| sos so The farm known as Scott's Out
range, in the Seventh district. 15I acres,
was sold to Mrs. J. A. Vansant for IS per
acre, aggregating 81 .256 The Moffett. or
Relief. farm. near Ruthsburg. 326 acres,
was sold to ]. E. Salisbury. Of Ridgely, for
| S1275 per acre. aggregating s4.161.5D- A
| house and lot in Church Hill was sold to
| Joseph Coppage for s20S- y one-half in
I terest in sawmil property in the Second
| district was sold to B. L. Coppage for 800
I A house and lot in Pondtown was sold &c
I Robert Orem for S115. The total of the
+ sales amounted to S59, ,4i6.46. j. FRANK
Harper seld the Watson property. On Kid
+ we'll Avenue. in Centreville, to Clayton
I Wright for S2,376.
/ At present Queen Anne's county is on &
cash basis, with enough money on hand Il
T pay all expenses until January 1, 1900
| The bills OF the county are all paid upor
/ presentation. This year the tax rate Wa:
! lowered from 81 to so cents
The evening times., 1899-07-20
They Will Go Back Again.
(From the New York Tribune

U IOI1I tI'S NC" IOTN fIIOuI'e.I
Some of the Spanish merchants in Cuba are
going to Mexico rather than remain and do busi-
ness under the United States protection. After
the war good many Southern planters did the
thing, but soon came back again. Mexico
is more prosperous place than it was
thirty years ago, and interests more Sc
curely protected, but the migrating Spanish
merchants are likely to find, after making the
trial, that there is more money to be made in
Cuba. That island is almost the richest and
most productive territory in the world, and as
it is now for the first time in its history under
wholesome and competent rule, its era of true
prosperity is just in its dawn. The Spanish
merchants may return in a few years, as the
Southern planters did before them, but if they
prefer to stay away they have our good wishes
all the same
The evening times., 1899-07-20
MARTINELLI TO REMAIN.
An Absurd RumOr Concerning the
Papal Delegate Denied.


A report was printed recently to the ef-
feet that Archbishop Martinelli was about
to be recalled to Rome to become sec
retary to the propaganda, and that Mon
signcr Merry del Val would probably sue
eeed him at Washington. AT the apostolic
delegation here it was stated there was 40
truth whatever in the story. The secre-
tary to the propaganda was appointed
about tw Ave lays ago Saa there never
was any likelihood of Archbishop Marti
nelli being appointed TO this position. Ac-
cording to the story, the position of Apos-
that of nuncio. This is a mistake, as a
nuncio is accredited only to those coun-
tries which, directly CT indirectly, recog-
nze the temporal sovereignty of the Pope.
There is absolutely no reason, Ii is said,
TO presume that Archbizhop Martinelli will
be given the lea hat OF cardinal at the
conclIisiQn CT nis mission here simply be-
cause Satolh was so rewarded. Cardinal
Satcll. in addition to being first Apostol-
ic Delegate TO the United States. was fa-
vorite OF Leo XIII and one whom he was
very anxious to h1slor. The post of sec
retary TO the propaganda would be a pro-
metion fer Archbishop Martinelii and one
which he would doubtless be very much
pleased to occupy. However. il may be
stated on the authority CT the Apostolic
Delegate himself thai he has no eXpecta
tion of being promoted TO this position or
cf being recalled from his present mission.
He has no reason to believe that the Pope
is not satisfied with the results which have
so far attended his mission to the United
States
The evening times., 1899-07-20
Pfe v KohEsaat.

The Chicago mes-Herald," which IS
generally recognized as the Administration
organ in the Windy City, has come oft
with a lively opinion of the correspondents
who wrote the round robin, and il viii be
source Of some amusement TO the readers
of newspapers throughout the country be
fore the journalists are through with it,
The Times Herald enquiries loftily, Who
are these correspondents" and 1t says they
are like the three tailors of Tooley Street
who addressed the House of Commons in
the words, We the people of England.
II intimates that these obscure and mex
perienced gentlemen do not represent the
American press in any sense of the word.
Coming from newspaper currently sup
posed to owe its origin to a pie bakery, this
intimation has its humorous side.
But ii may be allowable for the humble
sut intelligent reader to ask meekly and
politely: What is the reason that these cor
respondents do not represent the press Of
the United States? The war in the Phil
ippines is by all odds the most important
matter before the country at present. and
ii might be supposed that all the wide
ognize the importance of sending good men
10 look after the news. That has been the
way of the American press in the past,
and while the Times Herald" may see fit
10 depart from the ancient tradition, this
does not alter the facts. In the list of
signers of the ''round robin" appear the
names of men representing the three press
associations of the country, the agencies
which furnish the American people with
all the war news that it gets, good, had,
and Indifferent, truth or sensations There
are also men representing the Chicago
Record" and Tribune" the -NeY York
SUM-, and the New York Herald" all of
which are papers of some standing in the
newspaper world. The Importance of these
men is not due to their personal social or
financial standing. but to the fact that they
are considered fit guardians of the inter
ests Of their papers. Yet the Times Her
AID declares that with one exception,
there is not a man in the list who, before
the war, knew a twelve-pounder from
twelpe-pound baby.
This lis a pretty bad indictment, even
taking into consideration that its author
In evidently cross But that is not all the
organ in question has to say about these
unfortunate correspondents Ii states that
The evening times., 1899-07-20
TO SELECT STATUE DESIGNS.
Marble Likenesses of Eminent Mary
Innders for the Capitol.


Innders for the Capitol.
Cumberland. Md, July 2o.-Goyernor
Lowndes has decided to, appoint Gen.
Thomas J. Shryock. former Gov. John Lee
Carroll, Douglas II. Thomas, Judge Charles
E. Phelps, and DIR. Fayian Franklin as the
statuary commission to select the designs
for the statues of Charles Carroll, of Car
rollton, and John Hanson TO be placed in
the Statuary Hall of the Capitol at Wash
ington.
The General Assembly of Maryland by
act of 1885, chapter 81. appropriated S24,-
600 to place in the old hall OF the House Of
Representatives in the Capitol at Wash
ington statues of Charles Carroll, of Car
roIlton, signer of the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence, and JOHN Hanson, the first
President of the Continental Congress The
act authorizes the governor to appoint a
commission of five citizens to carry the
provisions of the law into effect and report
to the next general assembly
A commission had been previously ap-
pointed to report the names OF two eiti-
zens of Maryland for these statues. The
names, it was specified, should be OF Mary
landers 'illustrious for their historic re-
nown or for distinguished civic or military
services This commission so charged was
composed of Thomas w. Hall, Reverdy
Johnson, Charles j. Bonaparte, j. Writ
Randall, and ]. Alfred Pearce.
The commission united in recommending
Charles Carroll. of Carrollton, for one stat
ue. For the other they said: IF military
services are to be preferred for recognition,
Col John Eager Howard would be their
choice, and il civil services are to De pre-
ferred, they would recommend Thomas
Johnson. the first Governor OF the State.
The legislature set both suggestions ASIDE
and declared that the other shall be Jonn
Hanson, the first President or the Cont1-
mental Congress. ard ex-ofttcio President
of the United States"
The evening times., 1899-07-20
A syndicated Volcano.

There is food for imaginative reflection
in the news that syndicate has bought
the volcano of PopocatapetI for half a
million dollars, and intends to mine the
sulphur deposits around its base. 1t sug-
gests that in course Of time this entire
earth, and perhaps a section of the skies,
VIII be syndicated and farmed out for
something or other. Hitherto a volcano
has been let alone, being rather too uncer-
tain a subject for ordinary purposes CT
commerce. but there is really as much rea-
son for reducing the volcano TO a COM
mercial basis as for claiming the light
ming. and the latter has been successfully
done, although the trusts have not yet
get held of all the electricity in the uni
verse.
There is a poetic atmosphere about a
volcano, however, which is particularly in
congrueus with the syndicate idea 1t was
probably this phenomenon of nature which
gave rise to the popular notion that the
wicked are condemned TO suffer torment.
after death, in everlasting flames; for the
idea is to be found among the natives of
mcst volcanic regions, and some savage
tribes punished their greatest criminals by
casting them into the crater of a still
active volcano. The mysterious nature of
the burning mountain must have i'm
pressed the mind Of the primitive savage
as few other things could. The desolate
character of the surroundings, the puffs of
steam occasionally issuing from cracks in
the lava, the queer. noises in the neigh
bcrhCcd, the semi-occasional deluge of
fiery lava, and the showers OF stones
which attend an eruption, are so utterly
unlike anything else in nature that it is
net surprising the mountain was some
times regarded as the abode of a deity to
be propitiated.
But this is not an age of superstition.
and the syndicate is not afraid 1t would
sell corner lots in the New Jerusalem and
alleviating ccntrivances for use in the
ether place. if that were practicable.
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Mr.. McCutcheon, OF the Chicago Record, :"
once drew cartoons in which figured lop-
cared dog, and it seems to think that this
is proof positive that Mr.. McCutcheon has
no brains and cannot tell the truth. The
public viii perhaps be able to see the logic
of this. Others the Times Herald dis
misses with the intimation that it never
heard CT them. The subjects of this scath-
ing remark may retort that if their critic
does not know what is going on in Chi
cago and the surrounding country it is not
their fault.
Altogether, this editorial is literary
curiosity of very high order. Its pic
turesqueness is enhanced by another one
in the next column, which is the leading
article of the issue. and may incidentally
be described as an arraignment of the
London Times on the score of being
yellow journal and an unmitigated liar.
1t looks as if the Times Heralh' had
slipped leash and gone of on prolongea
pie debauch, and that this is the sad but
joyful result.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
1t will perhaps be remembered that Mr..
Ayers farewell speech on the subject of
his resignation was made to the Associated
ress a week ago Tuesday, as follows:

L
Washington, July l2.-Secretary Alger today
made his first personal statement concerning the
reports that he is about TO resign from the Cabi-
net. When asked TO the truth OF the rumnrs,
the Secretary said:
what do you mean exaefly?"
Il mean TO ask whether not the stories that
you are TO retire from the Cabinet in the near
future are true
There is nothing in these reports but air.
replied the Secretary. Il shall net retire this
year certainly, and cannot say as TO the future.
Ny private business and the state OF my health
will govern my future
'ThCse constant assaults and repeated base
less reports are, of course, very annoying TO me
and extremely distressing to my family but !
haze never vet retired under fire. and do not
propose TO do SO now. Nothing that have ever
heard OF or known OF has been cruel these
attacks upon me. Ii my critics can point TO
thing in my official career | have done that
ought hot TO have done, or | have not done that
| should have done, shall be very glad to sur
render my present oflicial duties"
II il is to be presumed that Mr. Alger
knew his mind as well On the 18th instant
as he came to know il on the 18th, the
charitable reader can come to but one con-
clusion. Bad as he is. Alger is in no way
unworthy of his news bureau. Mendacious
to the last, in death they were not sep
arated.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
Women in business.

Some statistics have lately been publish
ed in regard TO the employments Of women
in this country, which are both interesting
and somewhat surprising. It seems that
there are four million women in the United
States who work for their living outside the
home, and considering that cur entire popu
lation is only about seventy three millions.
this is 4 considerable proportion of the
women of the country. 1t must be taken
into account that those who are earning
their own living al various trades and pro-
middle-aged, and unmarried. 1t should
also be considered that there are millions
of women, wives of laboring men, me-
chanics and professional men of slender
incomes, who certainly earn their own
living by keeping house for their husbands,
and there are millions also who do dress
making, laundry work. or some other kind
of remunerative labor without leaving their
homes; and these would naturally not be
included in the statistics mentioned Con-
sidering also the women who are too old
for active work, and the small class who
have money in their own right, and 1t
might seem to casual observer that wo-
men. as a class, are really almost all self
supporting
However, IL would be impossible to set
tie this question definitely, from the diff
ficultY OF getting statistics. The four mil
liens of women who are engaged in some
sort of business or other are in a surpris-
ing variety of employments. It is stated
that one-third of all persons engaged in
professional services are women. The
teachers and professors alone number one
quarter of million. there are more than
The evening times., 1899-07-20
PREVENTED A TRAIN WRECK.
4 Woman in Night Attire Gives
Warnin. of Danger.

Warming of Danger.
Springfield, H., June 20.-The pluck and
presence of mind of Mrs. Nellie Sullivan
prevented disastrous wreck on the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad this morning.
Mrs. Sullivan lives near the track north
of Pontiac. She was alone when she awoke
early yesterday morning and noticed that
the trestle which spans a gulley near her
house was on fire. Knowing that the
night fast mail was about due, Mrs. Sui
livan ran out in her night clothes, seized
a blazing brand from the fire, and ran
down the track in time to stop the train.
Springing from her bed, and without
waiting to change her night robe for a
dress. she ran out of the house where she
could get a good view of the trestle. Her
fears were realized, for the wooden por-
tions of the bridges were in flames. With
never thought for her clothing, Mrs.
Sullivan ran for the track, intent upon
saving the passenger train which she knew
must soon arrive.
The sudden slowing-up of the train
aroused the sleeping passengers, and before
long they had learned the cause of it ALL
and were piling off the train to thank their
deliverer. But Mrs. Sullivan had hastened
home to dress
The evening times., 1899-07-20
The Dnfntiness of England.

-Vernon Lee in the July Atlantic)
England in fine weather, like its inhabitants
when in happy circumstance, has a singular
look of newness and good breeding Everything Is
swept and garnished, like the interior of
dantily kept house. The hop-poles make pale
green pattern the violet plowed ground. In
the streams the long willow weeds are combed
out and starred with jasmne-looking blossoms
Fish dart like ghosts in the sunlit bright gold
en- water. And then the gardens of the old cot
tages-cottages, some of them of the time of
Elizabeth; nay, almost of the Black Prince, with
scalloped weather-tiles OF delicate peach bloom
color. and brilliant whitewashed walls. against
which stand out geraniums and pink and white
mallows, and exquisite Japanese lily.
What dainty prosperity! And Enthusiastically
English through the midst of it runs the past,
in the shape of old Roman highway. You
can still see slabs of it along the downs, among
immense nut-laden beeehes, past uck-pends,
and haystacks What strange mixture OF
very Present, with Past which seems scarcely
Past at all,
The evening times., 1899-07-20

To the extent that the street .ailway
corporations of New York are violating the
ten-hour labor law. the sympathy of the
community is with the strikers. But, to
the extent that the latter create riot and
perpetuate such outrages as the destruc-
tion of quasi-public property by dyna-
mite, all friends of good order will agree
that stern measures must be adopted to-
ward them Il is to be hoped that the civil
authorities may be able to cope with the
outbreak, and that the strikers themselves
will see the folly of subjecting the me-
tropolis TO a condition OF revolution even
ON a small scale. Because, in that case,
troops would surely be used. and the ex-
perience of the Orange and more recent
outbreaks shows that the New York SOL
diery do not hesitate to shoot, and do not
use blank cartridges.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
BRITISH SHIP CAPTAIN HELD.
He Is Charged With Allowing Two
StOwaways to Escape.


Philadelphia July 2G.-Capt. Evan j.
Phillips. of the British steamship King
Frederick, was held in default of 5000 bail
to answer the charge of allowing two
stowaways to. escape from his ship. As
set forth in the preliminary examination.
the captain sailed from Barbados on June
q for New York city. During the voyage
two boys. Charles Waterman and Law
renee Gill, were discovered aboard. When
he arrived in New York he took the two
stowaways to the Office OF the British Con-
sul who advised him. il is charged, that
all that was necessary was that theJ
should be required to sign the ships arti-
cles after which they became members o.
the crew.
This gave them shore leave and at the
first port which she touched, which was
Philadelphia they deserted. The case was
brought to the attention of the United
States district attorney here, who SAID
that there was no power that permitted
the British Consul at New York TO ever
ride the act of Congress. The case being
reported to the commissioner of iInmigra-
tion the arrest Of the British captain fol-
lowed.