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New-York tribune., 1900-01-12

good case for the seizure of them. She might,
Indeed under the particular circumstances ex-
listing. have made out plausible case on proof
that they We're intended for consumption in the
TransvaaL even if it had been impossible to
prove that they were expressly for the use of
the army, inasnflcb as the importation of food,
by releasing men from the imperative necessity
of raising crops might operate to increase the
available fighting force. And there can be little
dispute of her right to detain them until their
character and destination could be ascertaned.
That right indeed, was clear as was her OBJ
legation TO release them with due amends i'm
mediately upon their non -contraband character
being established
Upon one other ground this disposition of the
case may be regarded with satisfaction by those
who have the welfare of Great Britain at
heart, and no less by those who are regardful
of the commercial interests of the United
States. Had Great Britain decided to hold all
foodstuffs bound for the Transvaal, whether
specifically for the army or not, as contraband
of war; she would have set precedent which,
in the event of her going TO war with a maritime
power, might have reacted to her serious en-
barrassment and to the ruin Of our trade with
her in breadstuffS. In such q war she would
have TO look TO the United States for food
But If foodstuffs intended for the use of her
non-combatant people were by her own prece-
dent to be deemed contraband, that source Of
supply would be sorely embarrassed, If not al
together cut off. The decision to which she is
now reported TO have come Is, therefore, not
only consonant with humane principles, but is
calculated TO safeguard her own welfare in an
emergency and to promote the immunity Of
peaceful commerce from the vicissitudes of war
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12
RELEASE OF SEIZED CARGoEs.

The announcement is made that the British
Government has decided to release the cargoes
Of American flour which were recently seized as
contraband of war while on the way TO Delagoa
Bay. That is the outcome of the diplomatic
discussions of the matter between the British
and United States governments, and of the
British Governments consultations with it's
legal and other advisers. The news will be re-
eeived in this country with profound satisfac-
ZION. That will be partly because justice is
thus assured TO American merchants who
shipped a lawful cargo in entire good faith and
partly and not less, because there is thus re-
moved a possible, though small, danger of ir-
ritation between the two great nations which
should be the closest and best Of friends 1t is
pleasant TO record that this has been done with
out friction and without any act or word that
viii be hereafter a cause of regret to either
party.
The good faith Of Great Britain has from the
outset been undoubted. In the grim game of
war, as in the defence of a man on trial for his
life, it will not do to let a single point or pos
sible point, be lost by default. A nation must
often act first and investigate afterward. 1t
must seize all goods that appear in any reasona-
bic light to be contraband of war, and postpone
complete ascertainment of their character until
after such seizure has been effected. That is
W0dL the states mas done on more IMAM
one occasion. OF course in doing so mistakes
may be made. Cargoes may be seized which
NAV be found to be not contraband Precisely
that has occurred more than once in our own
experience. In such case the nation making
the seizure is bound TO make just indemnity for
the injury inflicted upon the innocent trader.
That done, the incident is TO be regarded as
satisfactorily closed. Such, it is to be assumed,
viii be the conclusion of the case under present
discussion.
Foodstufs are not to be considered contra
hand Of war unless they are intended for the
enemy. That, we are told, is the decision of
the British Government. That foodstuffs not in
tended for the hostile nation, either sol
diers or civilians, were subject to seizure
was never for a moment conceivable. That
foodstuns intended for the enemys army NAV
properly be reckoned contraband of war has
long been recognized by this country. He was
a shrewd military philosopher who said that
IAN army travels on its belly" Food is as es-
sential to an army as gunpowder, and any es-
sential supplies for an army, intended 10 in
crease or TO maintain its militant efficiency NAV
be considered contraband Of war Thus the
Constitution of the United States defines treason
as-among other things-the giving OF aid and
comfort 20 the ,nemies of the United States
There can be no doubt that supplying food TO
enemies would be deemed "giving them aid and
comfort" Just as much as supplying powder
and ball Had the cargoes been found to be in
tended for the Boer troops in the field. there
fore. Great Britain might have made out a
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12
PERSONAL.

NJ Daniel Osiris the Greek millionaire, OF PARIS
has Instituted perpetual prize, to be a"arueu
every three years, by the judgment OF the lhs.i-
tute Of France to the discoverer, inventor OF Pi0
ducer during the period of the most note"oLlnS
idea or object for the benefit of humanity Aii's
prize is to be never less than 100000 francs anu
may be nearly double. 1t is to be awarue" "
Frenchmen ONLY except when it falls Que at tIie ne
same period a worlds exposition IN IaIls, ,T ~
it becomes a universal prize. Inc PIE " Io60
awarded for the first time at the Exhloluon Vi low
Nine. Schneider, the ex-queen OF opera Douie'
who created La Belle Helene and the Grahu DuCH
esse in the sixties she was the rage Vi 60
London and st. Petersburg. contemplaIes en'oie
the order of the Little Sisters or the FOoF'
1t is expected that the Regents of the University
OF Nebraska will elect a chancellor on Feoiu"l9
10, charter day Of the university. In Iece4'
speech to the students Acting Chancellor bessey
mentioned the following names as being among
those that are under consideration; Proiessoi
miah w jerks of Cornell University; the Rev' " Dr
Joseph F. stubbs president of the University OF
Nevada and DR.. z. Benjamin Andrews eA-PiS9i
dent of Brown University.
Walter Scott Dickson. of Salem, Mass, mas given
10000 to Tufts College condition that the Rev
Edwin c. Bolles formerly Of Salem. be naoe PrO
fessor Of English and American nteraiure' at
salary of 81 900 year for the rest or MS ire
L. H. Severance, the Standard Oil man, or CleVe-
land has given $50 900 to Obern College TO be USED
for, the erection of a ne mechanical laboratory
President Burt of the Union Pacific has presented
to the University of Wyoming. located at Laramie
six blocks of valuable land, lying just north OF the
university and embracing about twenty acres The
gift came as a New Years present Ihe land was
much needed for building and campus grouhuS'
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12
THE TARIFF AND THE ISLANDS

An anxious prOtectiOniSt thinks he sees i'm
pending overthrow of the protective system in
the annexation of sugar and tobacco growing
islands, and stated his fears in his letter printed
on Tuesday. There are public men and also
manufacturers who have the same apprehen-
sion, and express IT In private more plainly.
One manufacturer of long experience said in
conversation recently:
We shall have before long to go without any
tariff on wool and Woollens. No, there is no
joke about 1t; the who don't know the diff
ference between a colonial and territorial
policy are making intellectually more trouble for
themselves and the country than they imagine.
Protection depends upon the combined effort Of
many elements, farmers and farm laborers as
well manufacturers and manufacturing
hands. Cane sugar growers are not found in
States which uphold Protection, but many thou
sand beet sugar growers are. and many thou
sand growers of tobacco. Take in Puerto Rico,
with territorial organization, that the United
island, and you admit free Of duty large quanti-
ties Of sugar and tobacco, but that is only the
beginning. That will force Cuba to demand free
access to the same market, and If Congress is
able to refuse on the ground that the island is
held only in trust Cuba will vote for annexation
What will happen then in tobacco and beet
sugar growing regions? When they throw over
board wool duties and cotton duties. how long
will the growers uphold duties woollen and
cotton goods?
OF course, it must be expected that protection
lor "ooilehh VIII sup "Heh pIoteclIoH Ior WOOL
is stopped, and the farmers who grow sugar and
tobacco will not be rendered more friendly to
duties on wool by the free admission of those
products from the islands 1t may be added
that some mole eyed ironmasters, who have no
conception how greatly the domestic demand
for iron buildings and machinery and other
products has been increased by protection OF
other industries, have set their thoughts on
foreign trade alone, and say that protection is
no longer needed. Then Will come also popular
antlpathy to the great manufacturing trusts"
Of which some will be stupid enough TO hold up
prices by force after natural influences tend to
lower them. The disposition to punish all of
them alike, good and bad, by removal of duties
which are OF no service 10 many may be directly
proportioned 10 popular ignorance on the sub
iect All these difficulties have to be faced, and
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12
SIGNS AT CROSS PURPOSES
ASSEMBLY AND COMMISSIONER AT ODDS As
TO WHICH WAY THEY SHALL POINT.

The direction in which the names OF ,r.-
nlaced ON Iarps shall point IS assuming such ~"
nortance aa a rnuntc,pal issue that II seems hATy
that an amendment In the city charter VII ,,1
nee5ed N regulate r. They used to be paraie.
with the streets which they designateu' 40 80
are In other cities all the Woliu' MI
months ago Mr. Kearny the COmmissloner .. -
lie Buildings Lighting and Supplies ueeIu ,os
q would he amusing to have them at right ans
TT e. s.rea+s ond en- he ordered that theS
should be arranged So Some OF 'heiii -t,
ranged so but the men who had the actuai W. ~
in charge had even a better sense or hunioi ~ '
Mr. Kearny and they how much Hio'o - -
ing Il would TO place the most OF 'he . :.
ways according 70 the order, to leave o'He IN,
they were and TO place still others N'~e ~
The richness Of the whole Joke Is ehJoyeu 80
day by persons who are trying to nnu pa
streets ,,o,v
The rneddIesome Municipal Assembly mas no"
stepped in and made law. which has become w
without the sanction of the Mayor. that 'iie e ~
shall be put back as they were. MI keaIny %
that Municipal Assemblies are nothing to hlin an
that he shall put the signs back when ne So
ready II he ever gets ready. Some wealthy 70
sons who ride up and down Broadway anu .-
avenues in the streetcars say that the signs cros
yavs or the streets are easier read from hylhs
car than they were in the old position Inc Pooi'
1vbo have to walk from end Of the city 10 inc
other or whatever portion of the way they hhu
II necessary to CO. say that they ike theIn Oe'1eI
the Uav they were before. Thus the rich sIo"
richer and the poor grow poorer strangers III
town whether rich poor. say that II Is cohiu'-
ing and find the arrangement unique in their eN-
perience Of travelling. In the mean time the cor
poraton Counsel refuses to talk about the matte
and nobodv knows whether Mr.. Kearny Is legally
required to respect the wishes of the MunicipaI
Assembly or not.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12
SCBWEIGHOFER IN MANY PARTS.

Felix Schweighofer appeared before large audi
ence last night at the Irving Place Theatre in two
one-act plays in which he demonstrated again his
versatility his close attention TO detail and his
knowledge of human nature In the pAevious per-
formances Of his engagement Schweighofer was
seen in one play eccentric chorus singer who
assumes several disguises TO accomplish an OBJ
ject in another funny, henpecked HUSBAND
and in a third a simple. poor old peasant. There
was the slightest resemblance between any
of the parts in makeup, character or general tone,
and even the German of part would fit
the other But in the performance of last night he
went still further and assumed a number OF differ
ent characters without leaving the stage and pre-
sented them with the same mastery truth to
nature that characterized his previous perform
In wiener Genre Bilder' he occupied the stage
alone and gave striking representations of Vienna
types. This performance gave the audience
idea of the actors powers for which he was chosen
by the writer's of comic operas for the leading
comic parts. In the second One-act play, in which
Schweighofer appeared. he took the part of old
servant. and was again rewarded with great ap-
pause.
"Ein Blitzmadel' will be presented this evening
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12
amnsemeHis.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-s:1o-'wsy Down East
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
EIIOIJAs:Is-Stster Mary.
BROADWAY THEATRE-S-Ren-Hu
CASINO-2-S:15-Litte Red Riding Hood
CRITERION THEATRE-S:2o-The LATHE Minister-
DAIyS THEATREAS-The Maneuvers of Jane.
EDEN MTSEE-e a. m. TO IL p. m.-Naxworks'' Sianu
Concert Cinema autograph.
EMPIRE THEATRES :15-Ny Lady's Lord.
FIF-TTI AVENUE THEATRES: s:15-Three Little 1aInns,
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-s-The village
Postmaster.
GARDEN THEATRES :so-Beau Brun1meL
CARRICK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Holmes
GRAND OPERA HoTrSE-S-The Gunners Mate.
HAMMERSTEIN's VICToRIA-s:30-Chris ana tne Won
derfGi Lamp
HARLEM OPERA HoCsE-s-The Jolly Musketeer
HERALD SQUARE THEATRES :15-Naugnty Arnony-
IRVING PLACE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN BIz-
msedA "a Telegraph Crib
KEITH S-Continuous Performance
KNICKERBGCkER THEATkE-S15-The COWBOY ana
the Lady
ROSTER & BIAL'S-s:I5-Vsudeville
LYrEUM NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hobbs -~-.,,
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-s:So-Wheels "itnin
Wheels
METROPOLITAN OPERA HoUSE-s-Tannhauser
MURRAY HILL THEATRE-2-S-The Mlfe . -,
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN-Exhioition OF Oh
Paintings.
<EW-YORK THEATRE-Closed
PASTOR S-Continuous Performance.
wALLACK'S-s:l5-The Ameer.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12
DIR. B4BcOcK AND HIS FELLOW MINISTER'S
SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BALTlMoRE
PREsBYTERY REGARD HIS COMING TO
THE BRICK CHURCH A MISTAKE


PREsBYTERY REGARD HIS COMING TO
THE BRICK CHURCH A MISTAKE.
Baltimore. Jan IL (speeiaD.-There was an AMI
mated discussion in the Baltimore Presoytery To-
day over severing the pastoral relations between
the Rev DR.. Maltbie D. Babcock, who has ac-
cepted a call to the Brick Church. New-forK ana
the Brown Memorial Church. Of this city. some
OF the members of the Presbytery expressed ths
opinion that the call should have been brought
before that body before 1t was finally accepted by
DR.. Babcock. Instead. It was contended that the
change had all been arranged, and the PresOytery
simply asked to register the judgment OF
others. When Dr. Babcock produced the letter
containing his call to New-York the Rev F. T.
Williams and others declared they should nave
officially known Of 1t before DR.. Baocock sald ne
believed his work would count for more IN New
York at the particular church TO which ne was
going than 1t would in Baltimore. and IT was a
rule he had always followed to go where his WORK
would count for the most
The Rev. DR.. ]. Addison Smith. in reply to Dr.
Babcock. said that divorces painful and some
times should not take place. Sometimes ecclesi-
asticaI bonds should not be broken. He could not
escape the conviction that the Rev. Dr. Babcock
making the mistake OF his life, and he said
outsiders thought So too. He did not think the
stipend offered by the New-York church counted
with Dr. Babcock in making his decision. for. If
the cost OF living in New-York were considered, the
balance would rather be favorable to Baltimore
The Rev. DR.. Babcock, he said, had caught the
crowd and the speaker thanked GOD that ne had
caught the crowd without preaching heresy on
the one hand turning the Church into an opera
house on the other hand. But he wanted to say
to the members of the Presbytery that If the great
Magma Charta Of PresbyIerianism had been pre-
served, and constitutional methods OF procedure
been followed the Presbytery would not be called
upon this relation II the Rev. DR.. Bah
cock had called his fellow Presbyters together be
fore making his decision. is provided in Presby-
terian procedure he would have reached differ
eut of brethren
have put before him so strongly the reasons for
not accepting the call that he would have re-
mained. DR.. Smith gave several instances of men
who had made mistakes IN this regard One OF
the men had killed two churches in Baltimore
1t was then ordered that DR.. Babcock receive
letter of dismissal 70 the New-YOrk Pres6ytery
without the technical requirements being followed
The Rev DR. De Witt NJ. Benham made chair
man of the Foreign Missions Committee to succeed
Dr. BabCOck.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12

yet protection of American industries will not
cease
The trust agitation itself will help, because
the employees of great manufacturing corpora
tions number several hundred thousands and
are getting good wages. These combinations
have locked together corporations which needed
no help with others in great number whose bust
ness would be destroyed by unrestricted foreign
competition. The farmers have learned some
thing within the last eight years. and hosts Of
them now realize that the value of Protection to
them lies mainly in the enormous home market
which it builds up for their products, planting
new industries in every State, Southern and
Northern. and in the uttermOst Western States.
Fewer of them by many thousands now sup
port the Republican policy than did few years
ago, merely because they look for direct bene-
fits through duties on agricultural products.
Also, the number who grow beet sugar or kinds
of tobacco which can be raised in West India
islands is not very large in any State
1t is not to be supposed that Congress will
adopt a territorial policy for any of the
possessions. There will be forced upon it's at
tention the necessity of considering n broad
system of government applicable to all depend
encies alike for some years to come. The very
fact that the status of Cuba cannot be deter
mined for years by the free act of its inhabi-
tants, in accordance with the obligations toward
other Powers which the United States has as
sumed under the Spanish treaty, because at
present no stable and worthy sef-government
can be established there, will soon be found to
render It imperatively necessary to treat other
new acquisitions also as not yet prepared for in
corporation into the political system Of the
United States. Until such incorpora ton comes
free mportations from the islands can come only
by special enactments of Congress which will
be greatly hampered by treaties securing to
other Powers as great privileges as are granted
TO any The problem for Congress is of neces-
sity, at least for some coming years, to devise a
system of government and of duties applicable
to outlying islands which are the property of
the United States but not part of the United
States as selfgoverning nation.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12

F2v thus dangling the joys of next summers pic
mic before the eyes of the pupils it is said that
good attendance is secured.
do you know" he said, that every time look
at you have thoughts OF reVengeF
od ne 5ir sbe Thought
be good time to see papa.-(Chicago Tmes-Herald.
Russia has discouraged the Introduction and use
of typewrters the ground that they would facil-
tate Nihilistc communications. but the needs of
commerce and business have become urgent that
1t is now disposed to admit them, a concession
which will be of benefit to the empire we'll as to
American trade in these instruments.
.NIaria. Maria, why puff puff) can't you (faughD
let me buy my own Christmas cigars?'
dlqn puE Tt any @ LOT You @ tnis
thought you were-a candidate for oflce'-( Chicago
Tribune.
Thomas Kite. who died the other day at STRAIT
ford-on-Avon. for many years the parish clerk
in the church. He had the honor of receiving at
Shakespeare's shrine Queen Adelaide, Sir Walter
Scott, Washington Irving. Charles Dickens. Mark
Lemon, Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe Henry Ward
Reecher Emerson, Lord Howe, Miss Jane Porter
Edwin Booth Edmund Kean, Macready and Ma
thanie Hawthorne, as well as many foreign Am
ba ssadors and distinguished representatives of all
lands The old parish clerk appears as an interest
ing personality in the writings of several of the
authors enumerated He resigned the clerkship
nearly forty years ago. and lived TO celebrate his
ninetieth birthday
Lived here thirty years and yet never saw the
city?'
Never"
did YOU ever have a desire to go to town."
well ves ] reckon / has, but. you see fore the
railroad come 1t too fur to travel on foot an
the mule wuz too busy ploughn'. an then arter
the railroad come they went 10 chargn' peonla fer
ridin' on H. an so / thought ia Jest stay at home
an not bother bout seem the world But what do
you reckon happened to us 'tother day?"
Don't know"
Well, sir. my son John ackchully bought a
ticket jumped aboard o the railroad went 10 the
city an'-subscribed to newspaper "-CAtlanta
Constitution.
1t is of Maine ProhibtiOnist that Chief Justice
Fuller tells this story: PrOhbltonlst went into
a store and upon being asked by the clerk II he
wanted to wine glasses replied indg-
nantly: mo. I want to buy some unfermented
grape juice glasses"
A Thoroqgh Test;-"Deres one ting about me.
said Meandering Mike. II amt supersttious." !"
Don't you believe in lucky signs?" asked
Nary. ] know by experience deys nothin in
EN-. I've travelled de roads from Maine 10 Cali
Not bit"
An yet I'm willin to bet I've found more hoss-
shoes dan any other man in de orld."-(wsshing-
ton Star.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12
EMBRACES THE CATHOLIC FATrH.

A dispatch yesterday from OgdensburS. y. Y.
stated that on Wednesday night the Knights OK
Columbus gave a reception for Justice George y
Roesch and Mrs. Roesch, and that on "Wednesday
Mrs. ROesch was received into the Catholic Church
Frank w Smith. grand knight OF the Knights Of
Columbus. which is a Catholic benevolent order,
was seen at his home. No. 1l2 East Tenth-st- last
evening by a Tribune reporter. and said that jus
tice ROesch was district deputy Of the organiEa-
tion. The Judge had gone to Ogdensburg 70 meet
his wife. who had been staying at the Chapel OF
the Sacred Heart for several days, preparatory 70
embracing the Catholic faith. Mr.. Smith said thas
years ago Mrs ROesch a member OF ST. Marks
Church. but she was educated at the Sacred Heart
Academy. OF Flushing, and shortly after her gradu-
alton about six years ago. she was married 70 ths
Judge. All her associations, therefore, in recent
years had been Catholic her husband oetog OF thas
faith. and she had contemplated taking this step
for time
Justice Roesch Is attached TO the Municipal Court.
Fourth District His wife. who Is about twenty
six years old. Is OF German descent. and Is tha
daughter OF Frank Lederer. who Is well known In
the tobacco trade.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-12
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"The Melbourne Argus tells this characteristic
story about President KRUGER: Some months ago
he received an American deputatlon. and asked, If
crisis should occur. which side shall find the
Americans?' The reply that they would be
on the side of liberty and good government. To
this the President rejoned, You are all alike,
tarred with the same brush; you are British in
your hearts
Teacher-Now. Tommy you tell me what
mortgage is?
Tommy-Yesm. It's something the villain fore
closes on the heroines father at the end of the
second act, he marry her.-(Omaha Bee
For some time one of the leading mule commits
sion firms at the Kansas City stock yards has dis
played in front of it's office a sign which reads:
mo Men Wanted To Go with Mules In expla-
nation of the legend one of the commission men
said: I'VE are daily besieged by Of men who
want to go to South Africa with conslgnments of
mules thus securing free transportation. 1t is
not that want mules to be particular in the
matter of association, but we cannot send any men
with them their long Journey
Women and cats" said the youthful boarder
''are alike"
Wrong young man." said the cheerful idiot. "A
woman can't up telegraph pole, and a cat
can't up millinery bill. indianapolis Press
The Sunday school of Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church. of Buffalo, issues a card it's pupils. of
which the following is a sample: