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The evening times., 1899-09-12
TIE LATE JUDGE ROBERTS.
Cardinal Gibbons VIII Conduct the
Ceremonies nt His Funeral

Ceremonies mt His Funeral
WESTMINSTER, Md, Sept. 12-The
death of Judge Charles b. Roberts, of the
court of appeals of Maryland. has caused
profound sorrow in Carroll county The
bereaved family have received messages
OF coincidence from every section OF Mary
land, besides from many other States
kilograms were received from Governor
Lowndes, Attorney General Gather, Car
dinal Gibbons, Judge Clabaugh, the judges
of the court of appeals and other State
and Federal officers
The Bar Association of Carroll county,
in connection with the judges of the or
phans' court and .all the officers of the
circuit court for Carroll county, were
called together yesterday afternoon at tha
courthouse TO take appropriate action Mr..
Charles T. Reifsnider was elected chair
man and Mr.. Michael E. Walsh secretary.
The courthouse will be draped in mourn
ing until the November term OF the court.
All the members of the bar, as well as
the court officials, will attend the funeral
in body. committee was appointed,
consisting of Messrs. Charles T. Reifsni-
der, former Judge James A. c. Bond, Da-
vid n. Henning, Charles Z. Fink. and
John NJ. Reifnsider, to draft a memorial
which will be read at the first days ses-
sion of the November court.
Judge Roberts funeral will take place
on Wednesday morning at 10 O'Clock at
St Johns Catholic Church in Westmin-
ster, end he will be buried in the church
cemetery The pallbearers will probably
consist of near relatives. Cardinal Glib
bons will conduct the ceremonies.
The evening times., 1899-09-12
A Compromise Campaign.

IT is to be hoped that Mr.. Mckinley is
not permitting himself any illusions with
respect to the very unfavorable impress
sion his indescribable yacillation in the
Philippine matter is making throughout
he Union. When Alger was evicted from
he Cabinet and his place as War Min
ister filled by the appointment of man
with courage and brains, the American
people had a right to expect that the in
auence which had dominated Alger's mill
tary policy would no longer direct the
course of the President.
Secretary Root had not been in Office
month before he began to impress the
country with confidence in his ability to
put his heel on the neck of War Depart
ment bureaucracy. backed by political
and army contracting corruption, and
compel the Administration TO remove Otis
and Denby, that a sane and efficient COM
mander and governor general might be
sent to direct our operations in the Phil
ippines.
Now. if what is given out from official
quarters be true. Secretary Roots claws
have been clipped, and Mr.. Mckinley is
SUN III lut nduus Vi ulS WI 81 tlGAllcS,
did he but know it. The plan of cam. gn,
which is said TO be a compromise be-
tween the Root proposition and the de-
termination OF the Adiutant Generals Of
flee to keep the old Manila syndicate in
power. is one that will not fail to excite
the ridicule Of every war Office in Europe,
The idea of conducting a campaign ten
thousand miles away with nobody in chez
command in the theatre of war but with
two segregated forces each to be directed
independently by civilian cabinet officer
in Washington, is a revelation in military
science which ought TO be patented and its
use forever prohibited by a permanent
injunction. issued by a court of aIienists
Otis, forsooth, is TO be retained in nomi-
nal command When we say Otis we include
DENLY. because they are one, and the latter
is by far the bigger half But Otis is to be
deprived of authority over Macarthur in the
north and Lawton in the west. They are to
divide the army and the honors, if any
should be picked up. They are to look te
Secretary Root for orders. while the govern
or general end his lord high chancellor con-
duct the contracting. commercial. and fiscal
affairs Of the combination in Manila
The game is as plain rs day, and we are
sorry it is being played. II could not be
without some knowledge of the fact appear
ing 10 the Commander-in-C Chief Why Goas
he permit it? He knows that its bankers
dealers, eappers, and protectors ere hardly
concealed from the public eye. He ought
10 be aware that its continuation will raise
howl of indignation at his expense H
is fully advised that he should stop it at
once Why does not he do so?
What private influence is so powerful ttat
it compals President Mckinley to ignore his
manifest duty TO his country and its Phil
ippine interests, and to defy public opinion
The evening times., 1899-09-12
Golf.
Ernm the London Telecranh


s A golf story, which should be added to the
already excellent number to which the game has
given birth possesses advantage which cannot
be claimed Tor all of then-that of being abso-
lutey authentic. An enthusiast, who
what ef a tyro at golf, though Of great distinc-
tien at other forms of athletics. had a series Ct
misfortures, with which most people can sympa-
thize. He paying against whose opin-
ion he valued and he consistently topped his
ball. sliced it, pulled it. lifted it into tree,
played Il fine ceek stroke into bunker, and
made extraordinarily straight long g-distancc puts
in which the bali hopped genially across the hole
'iEto. the long grass which skirted the green At
frst,thG payers demeanor was ominously sweet
he seemed positively to enjoy his strokes; then he
grew mad, then lie grew apparently careless.
though his caddie noticed the carelessuess was
only asssimcd, as he pressing horribly. The
worst of gof is that YOU can never deceive either
your taddie or your bali. At last, at the seventh
hole, he grew wonderfully calm. and marched of.
to the next -teeing ground. renarking to his
trembling caddie that he would not trouble to
hole. out. After easy preliminary swing or
two he topped his ball, which tr;cked away about
twenty yards te the right. Then the man took
all his clubs and broke them one by one across
his knee feniaking quietly to his opponent that
t.it is better 10 lrrak your internal clubs than
to lose yorr internal temper. :"
The evening times., 1899-09-12
Closed by the Trust.

CUMBERLAND Nd, Sept. 12-Orders
have been issued for the indefinite closing
down of the Cumberland tinplate mill,
which is in the hands of the Tin Trust
The shutdown will occur Thursday even
ing. The suspension, it is said is for re-
pairs, but the men employed are of the
opinion that the mill will be closed per-
manently.
About $50 men will be thrown out OF
employment. William Jordan, Tor the
past three years. night superintendent at
the mill, has gone to Washington, Pa,
where he takes charge of an independent
mill Fellow workers in South Cumber-
land presented Mr.. Jordan with a hand
some gold watch before he left.
The evening times., 1899-09-12
RESCUED BY L1rE-sAvERs.
Three Yachtsmen Taken From Their
Doomed ROat.

Doomed Ront.
QUOGUE, L. l., Sept. 12.-In a tremend-
GUS sea off this place yesterday morning
| three yachtsmen were rescued from sloop
by Capt. Charles H. Herman and crew
from the Quogue life-saving station.
The yacht was the Arrow. She was sight
ed at ts5:30 O'Clock in the morning anchored
some distance off shore. She was pitching
and hsaving in the heavy sea, while every
now and then big billows swept over her
from stem to stern. She threatened every
minute to part her cables and go ashore.
Running a lifeboat through the terrific
surf the life saving crew put out for the
distressed yacht. For more than an hour
they battled to reach the Arrow, but de-
spite their Iabors the sea carried them to
the westward until at length they landed
a mile up the shore.
Here a short rest was taken. Then the
lifebcat was again run down opposite the
yacht and once more launched. This time
the life-savers got beyond the line OF
breakers, and in less than half an hour
were alongside the heaving yacht The
three men were taken off and brought TO
land.
Hardly had they left the yacht when she
utes was knocked into kindling wood.
The rescued men were Walter c.. Coffin,
William A. Murray, and Charles William
son, all of New Rochelle. Mr. Coffin Is
builder in New Rochelle, and Mr.. Murray
and Mr. Williamson are both well known
there. All three are expert yachtsmen-
The yacht was thirty feet long and worth
about $1.500.
Mr. Coffin had bought her at Long
Beach. and. with Mr. Williamson and Mr..
Murray, had gone there on Saturday to
sail her to New Rochelle by way of Mon
tauk Point. Mr.. Coffin says he had pur-
chased a revised chart of the Long Island
coast for the current year from reliable
place in New York city, but it is TO the in
accuracies of this chart that he attributes
the loss of his boat and the peril in which
his friends and he were placed.
He says they left Long Beach on Sat
urday morning at II o'clock, and. getting
outside the Rockaway inlet. fell into
calm. They remained in the vicinity OF
the bell buoy until midnight. Then head
wind sprang up and they beat up along
Fire Island with the intention OF making
harbor off Shinnecock, which was shown
on the chart and described as safe an
cborage They arrived off Shinnecock IN
the teeth of southeast gale but found no
inlet or harbor, as designated on the chart,
and finally were compelled TO anchor. II
was necessary to put out both anchors TO
keep from going ashore. Mr.. Comm says
that if the life-savers had been i've min
! utes later in making the rescue his COM
panions and he would have been drowned.
The evening times., 1899-09-12
Monarch of an ArchipeIaso,
From the London Chronicle.)

Another paradise has come into view in the
Pacific. The King of The Conflict Islands, in
the person of II. A. Wickham, has been in Lon
don lately, giving glowing accounts Of the pic-
turesque little archipelago where he rules ST.
preme, under a concession granted to him some
four years ago by the Government of Britt h New
Guinea. The Conflicts constitute a group living
of the east coast Of British New Guinea be
tween the mainland and the LJusiades There
is rough chain of islands spread around n cen
tral one, which Mr. Wickham has made his
home and headquarters, and he has already opened
out several cocoanut planta tiens in various parts
of the group. The islands are rich in natural re-
sources, ard as the King is able to get all
the native labor he needs from, the mainland he
seems u be in fair way to make his fortune
in the out-of-thc-world spot which he has chosen
for his home.
The evening times., 1899-09-12
A blockade Point.
Erom the Omaha Rec i

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The fact that the insurgents getting sup
plies from foreign sources has suggested a block
ade OF ports in the Philippines. This could
easily be done, but there is involved a novel
question in International claw. 1t is urged that
such blockade would afford foreign nations an
excuse CIR recognizing the belligerency Of the
insurgents, on the ground that a nation cannot
lawfully blockade its own ports, and that con
sequently blockade OF the Philippine ports
would be equivalent to an acknowledgment on
the part of the United States that ii was at war
with power which was fighting for the main
tenance of its autonomy within its own
territory. However. should it be DECIDED to close
the Philippians ports. there is not the siightess
probability that any nation would us, that fact
as an excuse or justification for recognizing the
insurgents as beiligerents
The evening times., 1899-09-12
PEARY FEELS DISCOURAGED.
Physical Disabilities May Upset His
Polar Exploring Plans.


ST. JOHNS, n. F., Sept. 1.-THE Wind
| wards people say that Lieutenant Peary
feels keenly the accident to his feet and is
| much broken in spirit owing thereto
Though be plans northern advance for
| next season. on a-somewhat changed basis
they Go Lot believe that he will ever be
able to carry it out. because of the frosting
of the toes His withdrawal to Etah they
attributed 10 an increasing dependency up
on the Eskimos, whom he will endeavor
| to have replace him in much of the work
His increasing years Will also tell upon
him for Arctic work
The ice was of exceptional thickness dur
| ing the last season. Kane Basin never
opened, and no ship could make latitude ST.
The winters inaction proved very trying 10
the steamers crew, none of whom save
Robert Bartlett, the mate, will venture
north again. He will replace his urcls
Capt. John Bartlett, as master when the
| Windward goes north next year. the latter
| having determined to abandon further Are
/ tic work.
The Norwegians in the Fran, who FORE
| gathered with Peary's hunting party in Nav
especially the death of their surgeon. Sven
| sen. Though the Fran did so well in her
last cruise, SIZE has failed to realize expec-
tatiOns in this. The ice in the Greenland
seas is much more difficult to navigate than
in the open polar ocean north Of Franz
josef Land. In the former huge bergs add
20 the dangers Of navigation, and her Pc
euliar build proved no advantage to her in
coping with them.
The Norwesians are disappointed most
over their failure to outdo Peary, added 10
which is the very meagre result of their
years scientific work. They had not even
the satisfaction CT working north 10 the con-
fines OF hitherto explored regions. as Peary
had, and their time and stores have becn
expended ON work which is really but the
subject for a summer cruise
Owing to her inability to get far north
this season, ii is believed the Fran will
abandon her present expedition Eext spring
The evening times., 1899-09-12
THE NAVAL BOUNTY CLAIMS.
Interesting Cases TO Come Before the
Court Next Month.

Among the most important matters to
come up for argument before the Court of
Claims next month, when the court re
convenes after its long vacation, are the
naval bounty cases. These cases will at
t!act wide attention, for it will be a ju-
dicial settlement of the ques ion whether
or not the Spanish ships destroyed by
Dewey in Manila and Schley in Santiago
were superior, equal. or inferior to the
ships of the American navy which engag-
ed them in battle. And on the court IS de-
cision will depend the size o. bounty that
Will fall to the lot of Dewey, Scn!ey
Sampson. the officers and men.
The Navy Department has requese ted
that the naval bounty caces be made spe-
cial. and the probabilities are that they
will take precedence over The issu pend
ing when the court took its rec s. on July
II last The Old Corcoran Art Gallery,
which has been rented for the use o, the
court, has been thoroughly altered ami
will be in excellent shape b. the time the
court TeconveneS.
The evening times., 1899-09-12

The French council of state has voted
three hundred thousand francs for use In
preventing the introduction and spread of
the bubouic p.ague. This action is timely.
The money is no doubt badly needed by the
half dozen officials who will embeZzle it.
Aside from that consideration the govern
ment at Paris ought TO make itself easy In
respect of the epidemic, If it once gained a
foothold in France, it might do world OF
good in killing of few million degenerates
and making room for immigrants with clean
blood and sane minds.
The evening times., 1899-09-12
American Green Corn in Paris.
(From the New York TrrihnnnO

Julian Ralph tells of his delight in finding
green corn in Europe In the course of many
years of extensive travel on the Continent he had
never seen an ear. He recently stopped at a
hotel in Paris and met porter in the hall carry
ing a basket of genuine American green corn
''Green corn," he shouted. is il possible tina t
this is what | see?' '.Yes, me nsieur,' said
Mine. Brunei, the wife of the proprietor. ''It is
veritably the green corn of America. We grow it
upon our farm. So many OF our guests are Amer
leans and 50 fond they of this peculiar food
that we have seen it to be to cur advantage to
make for them this singular product in fields
in the country" Il took Nine BruneIs hand,''
says Mr.. Ralph, land pressed it. | raised my
hand as one does woh bestows a benediction
God bless you, madam, said /. with such eyi-
dent piety that she could not take offence. You
are the most magnificent and the most wonderful
woman in France -
The evening times., 1899-09-12

secure the greatest good of the greatest
number. He wished to reach the hearts Of
the people, to stimulate their thoughts,
II, therefore, building could be erected,
bearing his name. and given in some way
to the use of the public which heard his
lectures on the brotherhood of man, 1t
might be at once the most appropriate ne
mortal and the most successful refutation
of the ISLANDERS which have now and then
found their swayltdnto print. 1t would
prove that whatever was good and inspir-
ing in his life has borne fruit, even after
his death, not only in the private lives
but in the public acts of those who ad
mired him. Why not an ''Ingersoll Club
house,"
The evening times., 1899-09-12
Married on an Electric Car.

(From the Atlanta Constitution.)
A unique wedding occurred in one Of the
suburbs Of Columbus when Eugene Smith and
Miss Lille Satcher, young People of East High
lands, were married on street The preacher
who was to wed ihem the Rev. J. W. Simmons
was On the car mrrying to meet appoint
ment ard did not have time to leave the car
Accordingly the stopped fer minute or so
at Wildwood Park. The young people stood up
in the car and the minister married them in the
presence Of The passengers. The marriage was
followed by congratulations all the way round
as the motorInan turned the full current to
ma up for lost time and the car whizzed through
space. 1t net runaway match. the couple
merely failing to meet the pastor at his housa on
time as by appointment.
The evening times., 1899-09-12
kruger and Arbitration.

The persistency with which the Trans-
Yaal President sticks to his contention for
international arbitration of the difference
between his country and England. is the
reverse of encouraging TO the idea of
peace. 1t would seem to signify somc-
thing more than the mere pig-h hsadednes
Of the old Boer leader and his advisers
He and they are presumably aware tha
the proposition is an utterly impossible
one. But Kruger still insists urol arbtra
tion. He wants a tribunal 30 con sist of
two of his people, two nominated by the
British Government, and a fifth to be Sc
lected either by the President o. the
United States or the President of the
Swiss Confederation.
This scheme would be well enough if the
South African Republic were a completely
independent state, with international priyi-
leges. responsibilities, and voice, but it is
not. Except for internal purposes it is a
subject state, whose relations with foreign
governments can only be conducted legally
through the foreign Office in London. For
the British Government to consent to inter-
national arbitration in the case of the
Transvaal, would be absolutely to surrender
its suzerain power and recognize the little
republic as completely independent coun-
try and full member of the family of Ma.
tions.
OF course such an abandonment of powe-
and influence in South Africa is utterly
out of the question. Yet the hope that
England will be driven to it by the fear
OF widespread native rebellion. TO be aide 1
10 the prowess of Beers and Afr kande-s.
or. beyond that, by the objections of Queen
Victoria to war, appears TO grow with
every day of delay in bringing the crisis
60 a climax.
Whether the hope is real. o. assumed ta
The evening times., 1899-09-12
WAR ON THE BEEF COMBINE.
New HorlS's Retail butchers to Mn
s., o ture Their Plans 7'

s4. d ture Their Plans. ''a
NEW YORK Sept. 12-It is expect ID
that the regular monthly meeting CT the
Greater New York Retail Butche-s s Asso
citation, which is TO be held tonight Ut
Bloomingdale Hall, in Eigh h Avenue
near Fifty.focrth Street. will be impor-
tant. becausenof the probability that def
mite action will be taken in the matter of
establishing a, siaughterhouse plant for
the purpose of fighting the Beef Trust.
Much has been aceomp ished by the as
socation1of late in maturing its plans 10
fight the trust. but those inter =sted in il
are very reticent 1t is said, however,
that it has more than $3.50 0o0 on depos I
in four banks in New York to be used to
pay for an option which it expects TO OBJ
tain on a slaughterhousa plant in Jerse J
City or in the West. or for 10th.
One proposition which IS said to be Tn =
der consideration and which viii come up
for discussion at the meet ng of the asso-
citation tonight is that of Jacob Did. of
the Jacob Do!d Packing Company O, Buff
falo N Y, who has large slaughter
house in Kansas City and another in Wi
chita, Kan, as well as a smaller one in
Harrisburg, Fa. 1t is alleged that he has
offered to build s.aughtsrhouse rea Je--
sey City for the retail butchers OF Create
New York and Jersey City. and that he is
willing TO invest S1.000.G00 in the enter
prise. and TO allow the retail butchers to
hold the greater part Of the to k WI &
may amount to $4,000, 600.
Among the men whose names are men
toned as willing to become stockholder )
are ". G. Wagner. president o; the Ma
tional Retail Butchers Association; A. s.
and 1. Bloch, George H. Sch fer, Charlie
Young, Edward f. O'Neil, and Aaron Bux-
baum. Mr.. Doid's agent is said t. be nov
in New York for the purpose Of oonferrin ;
with the retail butchers
The Jersey City Retail Butchers Pro-
tective Association was fcrIed in Jersey
City last week with three hundred men,
bers, thus adding strength TO the move =
ment
The evening times., 1899-09-12
heroes of Peace.
(From the Chicago News

From the Chicago News.l
The age of heroes may have passed but it will
be noticed that scarcely day goes by that strong
men do not risk their lives to save the drown
ing in the river, lake, sea. The present year
has been marked by scores of such courageous
battles with the water-some successful. some in
vain, and many ending with the death of both
the would-be rescucr and the one lie went to save
HeroisIn is not ,Iost quality. nor are its exhi-
bitions confined TO the firing lines on far-of bat
tleheldS. We have it nObly demonstrated on our
lake front every summer day
The evening times., 1899-09-12
The schtaoIboy Authors Plot.
(Frnlm4the Atlanta Constitution )


The teacher OF school in the rural districts
assigned each pupil the task of writing an orig.
inal story, n 0n,the day when The stories were
read bright little towhead arose and started
in as folloms:r S1i
! ..On the green slope of q mountain stood a
irst-class Jersey iieow with three legs
That wtjn't do, Johnnie" nterrupted The
teacher .sSlou are one leg Short
..No, 1 aifft n'teplied the future author; "you
don't wait To git my plot, which is that rail-
road train cnt of, one leg, and the owner of the
COW got $4,000 famages, an moved his whole
family to Paris in time for exposition, where
the girls viii be married to rich Frenchmen and
be happy ever atferwardsi''
The evening times., 1899-09-12

1t has been suggested, naturally. since
the death of Robert G. Ingersoll, that his
memory ought to be perpetuated by a mon
ument, and to this end the Ingersoll Monu-
ment Association has been formed at Pc
oria, Ill. The plan of this association is
to erect a monument at Peoria and il re-
quests that contributions be sent by ad-
mirers of Colonel Ingersoll in all parts of
the country. The scheme is likely to in
tefest Washington people, since this city
was for considerable time the home of
the great agnostic.
II may be asked, however, why Peoria
should be selected for the site of this mon
ument.. Illinois did not do much for In
gersoll. His fame was won in various 9TH
er parts of the country. 1t is true that
Peoria was his early home, but that is all.
There is another objection to the monu-
ment idea, though in so far as it COM
memorates brave, honest, and brilliant
American it is certainly good A stone
shaft, or even statue. is, after all, an
empty sort of tribute Would it not he
more in accordance with the ideas which
Colonel Ingersoll advocated during mis- life
if, instead of a monument, building
should be erected and devoted to the use of
some of the needy people whom in his life
time. he delighted to assist? There is not
much doubt that, could he direct the dis
posal of a monument fund, he would not
spend it in a stonecutter's yard. He would
be more likely to go to an architect and
order him to build free library. or art
there was one thing which he thoroughly
believed and preached with all his might
and main. it was that human time, energy,
and wealth should be so expended a. to