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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29

discourage him from carrying out one Of
the clear mandates of the people. deliv-
cred TO him at the polls at the time of his
reelection. In the late campaign EaSan-
ism was no less an issue than carpetbag
colonialism, or Algerism. Sampsonism. or
any of the other isms that have depressed
and Inundated all true Americans during
the past four years. The voters. in their
power and majesty. have endorsed all
these things. and particularly the Presi-
dents benignity to the officer who could
say of his commanding general: Il wish
to force the lie back into his throat. COW
cred with the contents Of camp latrine.
II Mr.. Root and other leading Republic
cans are urging Mr.. Mckinley to obey the
popular voice and thereby indelibly fix
upon our military service the foulest blot
in its history. the latter should not per-
NIT any apprehension that his motives
will be criticised to stand in the way of
ready compliance. When he has forced
Eagan back into the army. it might be
good thing for him to consider the cases
of equally worthy citizens who. in the
past, have suffered more or less from
outcries against their conduct of public
affairs. There is Alger, for example. The
country indicated him on the sixth OF
November. and approved every streak of
whitewash with which his record is
smeared. When Secretary Root takes the
portfolio of State or goes to the Court CT
St James. it would be a graceful act of
contrition on the Presidents part to call
Alger back to his old position in the
Cabinet. He was a great soldier of the
civil war. What Sheridan or others may
have said concerning Charlottesville or
Barnum's Hotel is now entirely nesligi-
BILE. The heart of the people has gone
out to the victim of a temperament pecu-
liarly responsive to certain emotions, and
his fellow countrymen in effect have &C
claimed him the noblest of all our War
Ministers. The popular verdict has dis
infected the rotten beef and obliterated
the graves of the soldiers it poisoned, and
all who were in any wise connected with
that subject should how be welcomed cnce
more to the crib. which, in the happier
days of the Spanish war, was worked to
such perfection by favored friends of the
Administration. Let us have Eagan,
Alger. DENLY, Dodge, Sampson. Rathbone,
Nicely, ard the whole list of beciouded
patriots back as soon as possible and do
ing business at their former counters.
To the yictors belong the spoils,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
Poker Winners Cannot Enforce Col
lection.
(From the New York Herald.)


Poker players will be interested in a
decision given yesterday by the appel
late term of the Supreme Court, which
holds that former Detective Sergeant
Charles Heidelberg who admitted ewing
S92 Ito a game" and expressed a willing
ness to settle 1t, will not now be required
to pay it at all. The ruling of the court
in an opinion written by Judge O'Gorman
and concurred in by Judges Beeknan and
Giegerich. is that q winner in a game
cannot recover from a loser. no matter
what form the loan may take. although
persons other than the winner may do SO
il the loan is made after a loss has been
incurred.
Heidelberg. Joseph Jacoby and another
friend were playing draw poker with Mali
rice Meyer, a lawyer, in his residence. on
the evening of October T. 1919. The limit
was 81. and 81 for jackpots. 1t was 2
o'clock in the morning before the chips
were collected and the game stopped.
Meyer was banker. and Heidelberg was
found in debt to 1.-The game" for So.
Jacoby was a winner, but to what extent
was not disclosed. Heidelberg asked
Never to make good his loss, but Meyer
declined on the ground that he had TO
pay his own losses. Heidelberg promised
to send a check for the sum, but Meyer
said that would not do.
Heidelberg. it was said. then turned to
Jacoby and asked him to make his account
good, whereupon Jacoby said to The
banker, Credit 500 to my account" That
was done, and Heidelberg remarked that
he would send check for the amount
the following Monday.
AS Heidelbcrg\did not keep his promise
Jaccby brought suit in the First District
Municipal Court for the recovery of the
money. After n trial before Judge Finn
the case was dismissed upon Heidelberg
defence that the money had been lost in
a game CT chance and could not be re-
covered
On the other hand the contention vas
that as The loan was made after tho game
it did not bring the ease within the gam
bling act. Heidelberg testified that he
did pot want to get out Of paying the
money. He said that he was called out
CT town fer a few days Immediately after
that night and upon his return WIS pro-
voked by learning that everybody had
been told OF his i'll luck. He said he old
not know to whom he owed the money,
but he supposed 1t IVES To 1.-The game"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29

(Mr. Dooley. in Harper's Weeiiy.)
TIL Prisidiut iv the United States wrote 4
Thanksgiving proclamation about month ago,
an he must be ashamed iv its mildness now
He'd like to dhraw it in an substitute wan
r-readin' like this To tn people iv tn United
States: Huroo! Huroo, Huroo. Wilium McKn-
ley. But he didn't know thin, an no more did
I. lie thought TO himeilf: Maybe I'll cook tn
dinner an thin have to worry a bone in tn
woodshed. Maybe whin Tlianksgivin' comes
ar-round l won't have 20 blame much to be
thankful fr. An he put ii mild. He says, to
condinsc hi; utthranccs: Ills tn custom iy'-y
year 20 issue Tllanksgivin' proclamation. an
I'm not gon' to call tn public attintion TO me
ir me quito rethreat be falin' TO do illus
tlrecs predecessors has done. We've had a good
year. takin' it all an all. TIL Republican Nay
tional Comfy .,as spread til bouuties iy nature
with an unsparin' hand. Be invitation iv Joseph
H. Marley, tn peachthrees has give abundant
store iy fruit tn smilin' fields have coughed up
their golden Treasures iv wheat, corn, oats.
hay barley potatoes, eowcumbers, spinach, egg
plant, ctocthry, etcethry etcethry, except in Da-
kota, where tn crops has been kilt be III Poppy
lists. We have peace at home an abroad in
spots. an disease is not as rampant as it was
undher a Dimmy,ratic Irisidint BE tn terms
iv III Dineley act, tn sun is allowed TO rise ivry
mornin whin til clouds iv Popylism an free
silver don't obscure it, an life is happy, happy,
happy in Wash'nton. ID. C. Oh. boys, if We on'y
knew what good thing ye'vc got ye wudden't
lave go iv it, So ask We all to gather in ye'er
accustomed meetin' places, at til precinct clubs.
lawn ye'er Dustin barns. granarics henneries,
banks, an mercantile houses to give thanks to
TIL cause iv all these blessing. Ye'er's thruly.
William Mckinley. p. S. If anything should
happen to me on November sixth this goes with
copper onto it,
''But nawtlrin' happened-;o Mack What hap
pened to William Jennings Bryan | don't know.
He amt been dug up Annyhow, seein' that it
out tn way it did. an this country amt
coin' TO be handed over To tn likes iy yc, we
ought to cillybrate Thankssivin if i.eces,'ry with
aclin' hearts"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
Circulation Statement.


1t is hard, but the way of the world.
nevertheless. that before the body OF
deceased public official is in the coffin mis-
old shoes are in the market and ordinarily
under conditions OF fierce competition.
The position in which the death OF the
Hon. Cushman X. Davis leaves the seat
in the United States Senate until now oc-
cupied by him renders the situation re-
garding il somewhat unsual. The Legis-
lature of Minnesota which will meet in
January will elect successor to Senator
Davis. whose term would not have eN-
pired until March. 1905. The Governor OF
the State, who is Democrat, has the
power to appoint a Senator. whose tenure
OF Office will not amount to more than q
few weeks.
What is the duty Of the Democratic
Governor in the premises? We think it
too obvious. almost. to call for discus
sion or comment. The people of Mime
sofa are normally Republican and always
have been So They have never sent a
Democrat TO the Senate, and TO force one
upon them in the present state of polit-
ical sentiment among them would amount
merely to useless and gratuitous af-
front of which we are not prepared to be-
lieve Governor Lind would be guilty.
Certainly at the polls this month Repub-
licanism made clean sweep of every
thing and by majorities great enough to
satisfy the most slSeptical that Mime
sofa is Republican Commonwealth from
end TO end. and without the exception of
a county, town. or village.
Nothing. then, would be gained by con-
ferring the nearly empty homer of four
weeks seat in the Senate upon a Demo-
crat We apprehend that it would be diff
cult to find a self-resrecting man of that
party, of the first rank locally. willing to
accept it. Plainly. the proper thing for the
Governor to do is to appoint Republican
TO the vacancy; and the most graceful and
courteous way TO do this would be to re-
quest the Chairman of the Republican
State Committee to call that body togeth-
er. il order that it might select and sub
NIT the names of three or FIVE, or some
number Of Republicans acceptable to the
committee and the party for the honor.
From this list the Governor could select
a Senator to serve until the meeting Of
the Legislature. Governor Lind owes it
to himself and to his party to show to
the country that both he and it can rise
above the dictates and temptations of
petty politics on an occasion like the
present.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
Living in Three Centuries.


Caleb Baldwin. OF Newark, n. j., will oelc-
hrate today at his home there the l5lst ami
vcr.ry of his birth. He was born at Orange. No
veinber IS, 1929.
la carly life he engaged for several years
in the manufacture OF shoes and in the meat
business About 1886 he started, with his broth
cr iiI-law a country store on Main street, in
What is now East Orange. WHERE he continued
until 1s4,, when he obtained u position in the
Office of . Newark newspaper, removing to New
ark the following year.
lie left the employ Of the newspaper to ac-
cept position in the Newark water board and
after twelve years OF service retired when eighty.
In his Younger days Mr.. Baldwin served in th.
militia of oran.e. In 1874. when Lafayette yis-
tied this country. all OF the milita Of the county
turned out for his reception and Were retrieved
in Newark by Lafayette. Mr. Baldwin Was in
the ranks.
Ills first Presidential vote given for An
drew jackson. bu; he aiterward voted the Wing
ticket. Since the formation OF the Republican
party he has voted its ticket, and early at
the polls at the last election.
Mr. Baldwin is member of the Society OF
the Sons OF the American Revolution. Ifc has
been twice married. has six children twelve
erundciiidrcn. and great grandchildren liy-
ing lie is in good health. Ii he lives to see the
beginning OF 1901 he will have lived in three
turtles.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
Republican Rule in New York.

lFronl the New YORK SUM
II is understood that the promoters OF n bill
to transfer the control of the New York police
department from the local authorities to State
officer have employed William y. Cohen, able
and astute member of tie bar, TO draw up bill
to accomplish the violation OF the constitution
necessary before such n bill can become the law.
The constitution provides that city officer. not
provided for by the constitution. shall be ap-
pointed in some manner by the city itself, or by
such city authority as the Legislature shall desig-
nate. Mr. Cohen is hard at work to devise n
method to escape this requirement. for other
wise the constabulary scheme must fail
The spectacle of the leaders Of / great party
openly seeking TO subyert fundamental principles
and to violate the obligation OF the written COM
past contained i'll State constitution indi-
Gates contempt for law and for the rights OF
the electors of New York City which must give
pain TO the mass OF Republicans and offence to
the people OF the State in general.
Intellectual ability when used TO eYadc and
destroy constitutional safeguard deserves con-
domination only,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
OFF FOR HAMPTON ROADS.
natfleships and Torpedo boats Leave
New York HarbOr.

NEW YORK. Nov. ga detachment CT
three battleships belonging to the North
Atlantic squadron. consisting Of the flag
ship Kearsarge. Captain Folger, the A'a
bama, Captain Bronson. and the Nassa-
chusetts, Captain Train, sailed t-dEy fer
Hampton Roads in charge of Admiral
Farquhar. Accompanying this feet were
nine small torpedo boats, which the navy
authorities have seat along to test SEA
going qualities as we'll as their effective
ness, both in defence and attack while at
sea.
Each OF the torpedo boats is in COM
mahd OF a junior lieutenant and has a
crew of twenty-five, EGde up OF ssamsn
gunners. and firemen. One OF the craft,
the Foote. took run out beyond Sandy
Hook and back to the Brooklyn yard III 8
afternoon. Everything worked satisfac-
torily. and the little vessel had no trouble
in the rough sea which was making
things disagreeable for mary OF the big
passenger steamers.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
He Ha. Seen the Four NapoIeon..


Dear Sir: In your issue OF the 9Th inst.
you have a paragraph in which am spoken
OF as having seen Napoleon when he was
n prisoner on board the Bellerophon in
our sound in the year ISIS. and IL is sug-
gested that might be induced to give
more definite account of the matter"
This l shall be happy to do. and at the
same time perhaps you will allow ihe to
add what probably not one in million OF
persons now living can say, that ! have
seen all the four Napoleons.
OF the first Napoleon / have rery
distinct recollection. At the time he was
ON board the Bellerophon there was nat
urally a very great curiosity felt to see
him and II was understood that at GER
tain hour in the afternoon he would graf
ify that Curiosity by showing himself ON
deck-I think 1t was 4 o'clock The pub
tic we're not slow in awaiting themselves OF
that opportunity. and long before the
time arrived great crowds Of people of all
ranks had gathered round the ship. but
were not allowed to come quite near be-
ing kept ct a proper distance by row
boats ] was then boy of seven years Of
age. and I have a distinct recollection Of
the scene at the moment Napoleon pre-
scented himself at the gangway and re-
ceiyad Tic respectful homage OF the thou-
sands-men. women. and childreE-that
sion to their feelings BY subdued roar.
not approaching TO huZzah nor parsak-
ing in the least Of reproach. I fancy l
see him now-short in person. stiff. up
right. rather stout. lie graeiously "a
luted the assembled crowd. stayed few
minutes. and then retired This was con-
tinued day after day as long as the ship
remained in the sound
The second NapoleOn-son CT the above
born King OF Rome ISL. en- the down
fail of his fIther retired with the En-
press his mother 10 her former home at
the Court of Vienna. in which city | hap
pened to he in the month Of November,
1851. On my way back from Poland vherc
had been serving in the Polish army as
surgeon in the struggle they mad made
with Russia for their Independence. The
exiIed prince was known at the court
under the title of Duke of ReichstaGt. and
I was fortunate in being at the theatre
enc evening when he was present. He
died the following year at the age OF
twenty-one years. OF consumption.
The third Napoleon, with his son. the
Prince Imperial. the fourth Napoleon. I
saw in the year 1871 at the seat OF the
Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. After the ca
tastropte OF Sedan they had sought
refuge in England and we're then the
guests of his lordshiD. | am. dear sir,
yours truly. JOSEPH MAY.
Davenport Nov. u.
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faithful devotion and loyalty OF the
Army than in the heroic services and
noble sacrifice of it's officers and men
during the lives of those now in the serv-
ice. l, therefore. earnestly recommend
that in the appointment of officers under
this reorganization their commendable
records, long and valuable experience and
services, as well as their professional ac
quirements. be carefully considered. and
that their Just interests and future status
eb duly protected.
I'm order to assist the Executive in de-
termining the relative merits of the diff
ferent officers, would recommend that a
board of at least five OF the senior officers
of the Army be convened to consider the
character and qualifications, of those OH
GERS available for appointment and make
such recommendations as would best pro-
mote the welfare Of the service.
1.-The present condition Of the Army and
the large reduction required by existing
laws in our military force. render early
legislative action imperative"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29

Attorney General Griggs. it is said. Will
retire from thu Cabinet for a reason which
often prevents desirable men from ac-
cepting Office in it, namely. the expense.
As social demands are construed in these
days, Cabinet Minister is compelled to
live upon such scale that nobody but
a rich man can afford to take charge of a
department of the Government. Mr.
Griggs is not wealthy. He has sacrificed
himself sufficiently. He would now re-
tire and return to the pleasant practice
of the law. He deserves well of his
clients. Let Us hope that they may flock
about him and fill him to the neck with
retainers and fees. Then, in the course
of time. when he has filled his Golfers.
perhaps we may see him back here on The
Supreme Bench-or something of that sort.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
D1ss DE BAR IN CAPE TOWN.
Performing Occult Cures Under An.
other Name in South Africa.

NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 2s.-A number of
muleteers who returned today from South
Africa on the steamer Montcaim reported
that they encountered the famous Miss
Diss De Bar in Cape Town under differ
ent name. but carrying on the same Oc-
cult spiritualism as in New York and New
Orleans. Miss Diss De Bar turned UP in
this city about a year ago as the wife of
a man named Jackson. She was operating
fruit growing colony in EIc::G!!>: az, 1luT
rying on an establishment here perform
ing cures by means of her occult power
when she was run out of New Orleans by
the police.
She disappeared. going. il WAS thought.
to the colony in Florida. The returned
muleteers say that they encountered her
and Jackson in Cape Town, where she
claimed great powers of oecultism and
hypnotism. Diss De Bar called herself
Helena, and Jackson went by the name OF
Horos. 1t seems that a building con-
tractor who had some money had been in
weighed into giving it TO Miss Diss De Bar
to be used for the Colony of Brotherly
Love" and that she had opened house,
where some of the members had lived,
but as the couple left the city presume
bly, for America the further development
of the colony from that point was checked.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29

London Truth is authority for the
statement that, upon his retirement from
active diplomatic service next year. lord
Pauncefote will be offered either the title
OF viscount or earl, in recognition Of his
distinguished services to the Crown, es-
pecially in connection with his mission to
should be so fortunate as to see the Hay
Pauncefote Treaty ratified next winter.
with the abandonment of the Monroe Doc
trine that would involve. the fact ad-
ded to the laurels of British victory in
esty's Ambassador to the highest honors
and dignities in the gift of his Govern
mpnt
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
The Tarir and the Trusts.

The rapid growth of American industries has
tended toward making the arguments that were
advanced for a protective tariff obsolete 1t is
idle to ray that the Belgian or British or Ger
man ironnas;er come into The United States
and compete with the Carnegie Company, the
Federal Steel Company, thc Republic Steel and
Iron Company, or any of the other gigantic cor
porations engaged in making steel and iron 1t
IL Idle to say that The Welsh manufacturers can
take the American marAct from the American
Tin Plate Company, with lis millions Of capital
and weli Developed plants. 1t is norsense to
imagine that tn" American Leather Company.
tie international Paper Company, or any of the
various trusts operating in protected industries
could not hold their o~n at home against foreign
rnlnuriitinr.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
A PROTEST BY NEGROES.
Reduction in the Georgia School APP
propriation Arouscs Opposition.

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 2S.-The negro
population OF the State is endeavorins to
defeat the Bell bill. proposed constitu-
tional amendment now pending before the
Legislature looking for 4 reduction in the
appropriation for cc55-o ossiosttioil. A
committee, composed of W. E. B. Dubois.
L. b. Maxwell, J. W. E. Bowen. John Hope.
d. ]. Jordan. F. H. Crogrnan Fl. r. Butler.
and Fl. III. Proctor. has prepared petit
tiOn to the General Assembly in which an
endeavor is made to show that not only is
the proposition as a whole most unjust,
but especially the measure as proposed by
the Bell bill. They argue that the BILL if
passed. will defeat the underlying princi-
pies of the common school system and
will be dangerous to the State.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29

1t is to be feared that President Kruger
will leave France with feeling of conf
dence in the future material support of
the French Government that circum-
stances and conditions do not warrant. 1t
Is easy for NJ. Delcasse to tell the old
gentleman that while France would not
take the initiative, she would not stand
in the way of action by another Govern
ment, and might join with one in il if
such a course seemed advisable. Such
things are the commonplace of diplo-
macy and mean actually nothing. But
Mr.. Kruger may not realize this and go
en- riding hard to bitter disappointment.
1t is true that, should the British Gov
crnment continue to prosecute war Of
Weylerism in South Africa, and it should
result in serious rebellion in Cape Col
ony, the civilized world might consider
that the game of blood and tears had
gone on long enough. just as it did in the
case Of Spain in Cuba. Then it might
happen that world opinion might force all
the leading nations into intervention.
This is only future possibility. The
time is not ripe for such an interna tional
sensation as yet.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29

sidcred in the short time between now and
Mr.. McKinley's second Inaugural ton, it is
easy to understand that. if an extraor
diisary session is to be avoided. the party
lash will have to be cracked. and the
golden arguments of the various Hobbies
diffused very effectively. Not much at
ten,ion is being paid to the threatened OBJ
struction of Pettigrew in the Senate. If
he should prove to be real impeachment,
the chances are that way could be
found to placate him.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-29
A. All Expected.
tFrom the Philadelphia Eccor,.

tfror. I'm Ii'I.NIc!lHla IsVcuT'LI
I, scelus quite likely That both fethi,Nr" apd
Nicely will SIZE their bacon from judicial sr"rrli-
ing n incidental rrslit Of the recent ci's-
ton Worse offender than these have been vinsi
csled a. it were. il the triumph OF Mark Hann, .
rasty 1T great moral ideas and besides. there il
e. he considered the p9rtcnt",is Ratheonr IT, ut
II retaliation. In the time there III, ben
- pretarcc OF invest iestion by tie Senate enn
;itice appointed during the late session 10 probe
into the Cihau seandul. ant notlinz has TRAIT
spired az get to prevent the ioreorda.ned cover
jug up O. the affair.