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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1886 bushels; oats, barley, 00.000,000; rye. positively that no one had been thero, but Aymar on testing each Individual in tho house GALLERY AND STUDIO. IN THE FIKE DEPAKTMENT. FINANCIAL REVIEW.

MODEKN MIEACLES. tions, is described as a rustic looking man, who woars a rough suit, with a waistcoat of blue checkered stuff fastened with porcelain buttons and with long hair falling over his shoulders. "He has somothing of tho mystic boauty as well as tho frank simplicity of tho poet born and bred among tho fields, lie sees and feels ns a poot and paints as such. Ho has boautlful rhymo3 on his palotto and spreads tliom over his canvas full of misty roverlo. corn, buoKwheut, 11,000,000 and potatoos, 103,000,000.

Tobacco is estimated at 485,000.000 pounds and hay ot 45,000,000 tons. Tho sales of stool rails for 1887 delivery already considerably exceeds 700,000 tons and tho quota has beon enlargod. Tho heaviest sellers are the North Chicago, which is said to havo booked orders for 106,000 tone; Bethlehem comes next with 90,000, and Edgar Thomson with uearly as much. Tho Scran ton has about 80.000 tons. Prlcos are nominally but most mills aro pretty full.

Spocial tolegrams to JSradttreeVa show a continuod lack of general activity in tho distribution of staples with the exceptions in favor of iron, stool and lumber. Dry goods continue to boar tho brunt of the failing off in domaud, while textiles generally and produce are quiet At a few points tho retail trado has boon stimulated by colder woathor, but wholesale merchants now explain that country traders havo not disposed sufficiently of their recent heavy purchasos to warrant a revival in buying. American makers iu pig and finished irons are confident of the future, A moderate advance in prlcos of raw iron is looked for in a tow wooks, say $1 per ton. Tho following table shows tho course ot the stock jnarketfor tho week onded November 13: a i 1 5f ft Stocks and bonds. 5 3 found two children who had been in contact with tho murderers, and these reluctantly confossed that on Sunday morning whon they wero alono, two men had suddenly ontored and seated themselves and taken wine from tho Identical bottlo pointed out Tho search was then continued along the river bank aud particular chairs and benclios which tho fugitives had occupied wore designated by Aymar.

After a time ho reached the military camp at Sab Ion and ultimately Beaucair, where th9 murdorors had parted company. One of them ho traced into tho local prison and among fourteen or fifteen con victs pointod out a hunchback as the assassin. The accused protested his innocence, but on being taken along tho route by which his captors had como was recognized In ovory houso wliero Aymar said ho had been. This so confounded him that ho confessed and was ultimately exo cuted for the murder. Other tosts wore applied to tho discoverer's wonderful powors.

Tho weapon with which the crime was committod, with three others exactly like it, was secretly buried In tho garden. Aymar was thou requested to find it. After making several tours around tho garden ho stoppod directly ovor the spot where tho weapon lay. They woro again exhumed and tho experiment repeated with tho same result, tho Controllor of tho province having himself first carefully bandagotl Aymar's oyos. Both the other murderors woro afterward traced by him, but they had escaped from Franco.

To theso circumstances many porsous of tho vory highest repute boar witness, including M. Chauviu, a physician of celebrity, tho Siour Pnnthol, doan of tho College of Modi cine at Lyons, alBO tho proces vorbal of tbo Pro cureur du ltoi. Tho third and last case Is an illustration of tho phenomoua of apparitions. The works of authors who havo busied thomsolves with tbo wonders of the night sldo of full of such lnstaucos, but vory rarely doos it happen that wo havo any authentic account of an apparition visible simultaneously to two persona Such a ouo is tho following: Among tho ofllcors serving with the Thirty third British Regiment at Sydney, in the island of Capo Broton, off Nova Scotia, during tho month of October, 1785, wore Captain Sir John Shorbrooke and Liouteuaut George Wynyard. On tho 15th of that month, about 9:30 in tho morning, they wero sipping coffee together in Wynynrd's parlor, whon Shorbrooko, happening to look up, saw tho llguro of a palo youth standing at a door leading to tho passage.

Ho at onco called the attoutloti of his companion to the stranger, who slowly passed through the apartment and entered an adjoining bed chamber. Wynyard, on seeing tho llguro, turned as pale as death, aud as soon as it dlsap pnared exclaimed "Great God, my brother!" Shor brooko, thinking thero was some trick, had a search immediately made, but could find uo one in tho bedroom or about tho promises. A brother officer, Lieutenant Gore, coming in nt the time, assistod In tho search, aud at his suggestion Shorbrooke mado a memorandum of tho date, aud ail waited witli auxioty for letters from England, whoro Wynynrd's brotlior was. Tho expected lotlor came to Captain Shorbrooke, asking him to break to his friend tho news of his brother John's death, which had occurred on the day aud at tho hour his apparition had boon seen by tho two officers. Sov eral years after Lieutenant Colonol Gore gave the foregoing account in writing to Sir John Harvey, adjutant genoral of tbo English forces in Canada.

Ho addod that whon Sir John Shorbrooko, who had never seen John Wynyard alive, roturnod to England, ho recognized a brother of the decoaaod by bis likeness to tho ilgure ho bad seen at Sydney. Marvelous as tho foregoing accounts aro the circumstances related rest on fabric of evidence precisely similar in kind to that which establishes tho accepted facts of history. Tho murder of tho princes in tho Towor is not more strongly attested hau tho vision of Shorbrooko and Wynyard. Tho assassination of Rizzio is corroborated by witnesses whoso trustworthiness does not surpass that of tho witnesses to tho cure of Mllo. Coiriu.

Accordingly tho new school of faith asks that such testimony shall not bo dismissed, as it has been horotoforo, with a sneer, but rationally, patiently and soberly considered. It is no longer enough to urgo that, because the alleged event or happening Is per so improbable, theroforo it is tho rosult of delusion or deceit Franklin provoked the smiles of tho British scientific public whon ho announced tho possibility of harnessing lightning. Tho promise of a steam locomotive to run moro than twelvo miles au hour was onco roceived with laughter and incredulity. Tho inherent improbability of anything is not to bo permittod to crowd its dofonders out of court. Granting then that tho phenomena aro a character to challenge intelligent scrutiuy and investigation, how aro thoy to bo explninod? As tho media of theso extraordinary rovelations aro comparatively fow, It may bo assumed tiiat thoy possess somo power of breaking through tho crust of our common environment and entering a sphoi which Is tho theater of tho activity of Dr.

Wallaco's "pretornatural Intelligences." The barriers that separate ub from that sphoro will grow weaker as mankind advancos along the future singes of mon tal and moral development. Somo times dis easo, particularly in the caso of persons of exceptionally high norvous organization, seems to sud douly deliver the subject from the conditions that obscure his vision aud raise him to a plane whero ho may behold and even recolvo tho ministrations of these "intelligences." This theory of explanation points to a spiritual state immediately beyond tho grave which is progressive and not final. It would show that disembodied spirits do not pass at once to their ultimate destination, but linger on a lowor piano than the angelic or heavenly ono. Rev. Heber Newton Is ouo of tho more distinguished of those who aro at present giving tho subject a profound consideration.

Ho attends the seances of a prominent New York medium, and is investigating the phenomena with tbo zeal and intelligence of a man who is deeply interested and sincerely desirous of knowing tbo exact truth. From a late sermon of his 1 derive tho belief that tho rosult of his study thus far 13 to couvlnco him that what ho has seen proceeds from influences worthy of our highest concern. I discover it in tho confession of his faith that 'man (in his mortal state) is by slow but suro Btagos, closer to tho conflnos of au unseen world: that his perceptions will be in tlmo bo refined and spiritualized that a completely now and wonderful realm will burst upon bis vision: that tbo Imperfect ochoos which ho now catches will become clear and Intelligible acconts; that tho forces whoso action ho does not understand will enter the Hold of his comprehension; that many of the now invisible elements of tbo glowing life of tho unlvorso will bo as familiar to him as tho play of tho lightning or tho colors of tbo Autumnal landscape, and that all thoso things shall bo his by virtue of the operation of a law of evolution whoso principle lay onvolnped like a seed gorm in the original cosmic Are mist. G. D.

13. MEDIUMS OP ILLUMINATION. Ono must be a woman to appreciate tlio loveliness of a light that botrays no seorots, uncov oi no blemishes and kindly shadows tho defects of toilGt, comploxlon and time. Indood, It is proverb with tho hypercritical of tho feminine Render thnt Bho Is Indeed haggish who doos not look well in a lamplit room. These boautlful modlums of illumination may bo toronzo, repousse metal, llmoges.

Drosden, cut crystal, china, and sinvplo pottery glazed or painted. Tho lamp body may bo utmost any shape, size or material that will hold oil, but tho trimmings must ho and alwa3's nro novel, artistic and serviceable. Shades como in till tints and metallic compositions of plain, corrugated and decorated surface. About the edge Is gathered a runio of which may cost nine cents, and not infrequontly docs cost $5. Tho frill varies from two to five inches In width and has tho oltect of softening the light.

Anothor crazo consists in Bhado drosalug that is, in arranging a transparency for the shade proper. Laco paper, gauzo and bobinot havo boon succoedod by coverings composed of linen, roses, ostrich plumes, pompous and milkweed balls. A drapory of acarlot tips, drawn ovor a boll shapod dome never fails to call forth comment, and it is not easy to dovise anything pi ottior than a shade of pink liuen ortl6suoon a parlor lamp. For real use, that is, reading or work, green gloho la the best, and the color may ho used as an effective background for laco odglug and a yellow or pink bow. Pink Bhndos aro pretty for color effect, but should not bo placed on a centor table unless drapod, as the color is too hard for tho ordinary eye.

lights well and looks bettor, and thoro aro yellows, blues, saffrons, purples and mixtures, which, whon porcelain lined, nro pleasing to tho oyo and have a wonderful brightening effect on a dark or subdued corner. In tho homes along the fnsnionablo avenues of our own city thoso lamps are placed In tho windows, to which thoy impart an indescribable fascination, especially when some delicato drapory falls about or near the tables on which thoy aro placed. Saa Francinco Chronicle. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION, The ninth convention of the Sunday schools of Kings County will tako placo next Thursday at the Simpson Methodist Kplscopal Church, Clermont and Willoughby avenues. There will bo tlirBO at, in ju and at and 7 P.

1L. ossip Collected Among the Engine Houses of the City. The Assistant Foremen to he Appointed on the First of January The New Rules to go Into Effect on the Same Date. The chief topic of conversation in fire circles during tho past week has been the discussion ovor tho erection of telegraph poles. For some weeks the linemen in tho dopartmont have been busy extending new wires and cutting in loops for tho new signal boxes.

Chief Novlus says that more polos aro vory much needed in the department He Is ready to havo tho fullest investigation made into the telegraph and signal service of tho department, and hopes thnt tho reports circulated about the erection of poles will bo siftod to tho bottom. He believes that a thorough investigation of tho books of the signal bureau will couvlnco any ouo of the absolute nocossity of having moro poles in several of tho wards. In fact, tho oroctlon of n3w signal boxos has, in the opinion of both tho Chiof and tho Commissioners, grown co be a necessity. Thoy are not particular whether the wires bo above or undor ground so long as tho boxes are proporly connected with hoadquartors. Tho assistant foremen at the sovoral engine and truck houses will be appointed on the 1st of January noxt Applications for tho positions should bo sent in to tho Commissioner oarly in December.

The candidates will be subjected to a severe and thorough examination, as tho assistant foremen will ho required to have fully as much knowledge of tho eervico ns tho foremen. Somo of tho best men in tho department have already sent lu their applications, and thoro is no lack of excellent material to pick from. Tho assistant foromon will very oftou be callod upon to take full charge of their several houses in tho absonco of the chiof, and it is necessary to have mon of long experience in the positions. John McGrowen, detailed at tho harness depart mout, wishes to havo a weok olf iu order to build a harness for a team of llarnum's elephants. JacS says that the art of putting together an A 1 harness Is born in a man and cannot bo acquired.

He claims to be one of tho natural born harness makers. Ho fairly revels in straps, buckle3 and chains. Captain Edward Fitzgerald has boon confined to his homo for somo tlmo with a sevoro illnoss. Fltz. is a veteran vamp and is well known and liked both in tho regular and volunteer departments.

AH the boys hope to see him out soon and at his old post. Ho is one on tho list who would sadly bo missod. During tho lire at Coney Island last weok groat excitement provailod among tho gnllaut flremon of tho now ward. Every man was at his post, ready to Jump the moment the word came to rattlo down tho road and savo tho big hotels on tho sand bar. Chief Campboll buckled a fire oxtlnguisher to his back and stpd prepared to mako Jay Eye See time across lots to the scene of action, but, alas for the prospective glory of tho valiant boys of tho Twenty sixth, tho big hotels ref usod to catch on to tho genoral illumination.

Tho suburban forco were obliged to hold In their ambition, but aro still keeping a weather eyo open for glory. Captain Lnhey, of Eugino Six, met with nn nccl dout lust Sunday while going to a Hro In Nassau streot His injuries are vory painful But he remains on full duty. Tho captain Is a tougli old veteran. Somo of tho older boys say that many of the now Civil Sorvlco men with tho cnptalu's injuries would he fit subjects for the hospital. Ho has been in tho department a groat many yoars nnd is still good for au indoiluite number of hard Winters to come.

The now rules will not bo issuod until after the 1st of January. Thoy will go into operation as soon as the assistant foremen aro appointed. The latter will bo expected to onforco tho rules iu the absence of tho foremen. Captain James Walsh has now boon married nearly three years. Tho boys aro already saving up to givo him a rousing "sond off" ou tho flfth anniversary of his wedding.

Walsh Is a prime favorite with both tho voterans and youngsters. Ho has ono of tho host records for bravery aud attention to duty of any mau iu the dopurtmeut and has seen a groat donl of hard sorvlco. Thomas Lee, of Engino No. 10, misses thoso moonlight Summer nights under tho big tree across the way. Thomas says that the Hill giris Just knock spots out of tho ladies from all other sections of the city.

He is at present rending up Byron, Keats and Longfollow for noxt Summer's campaign. Ho is also taking lessons upon tho banjo, and hopes to Improve greatly upon his vocal powers bofore tho flowers commeuco to bloom In the Spring. A samplo uniform will shortly ho placed on exhibition at Headquarters. All tho firemen in the department will he expected to adopt uutformsif a similar cut and material. Tho cloth for the uow uniforms will he furnished at cost by the Commissioners.

L'nder tho old order of things every fireman was at liborty to seloct ills own cloth, and all sorts of shados of blue have appeared in the uniforms of a single company. The now rule will en able the firemen to obtain the cloth for their uni forms at a much lowor hguro than that charged at tho retail stores. The Commissioners will inspect all cloth received and accopt none but the best aud tho most durable. This plan has worked well In the Police Department and thero is no reason why It should not prove equally successful among the Hi omen. Every ilreman will bo at liberty to have the cloth mado up by his own tailor, providing the latter follows strictly tho model exhibited at Head qua rtors.

George A. McMuun, of Truck Seven, got half way to the ocean before he discovered that tho Coney Island fire was not in tho Twenty sixth Ward. George says it will take a year or two to properly locate the bouudorios of the new ward. Ho proposes to form au exploring party and thoroughly map out tho amount of ground the boys have under heir protecting caro. Last year f)2S ambulance calls wore sent out though tho Telegraph Bureau of tho Fire Depart ment to Police Headquarters.

It Is believed that in tho event of a largo lire and loss of life tho present ambulance corps of tho city would bo far too small. Tho dopartmont would llko to see the number ot unibulaucos Increased. Charles Ruddy, of Engine Five, is one of tho heavy weights of tho dopartmont. When ho Is Ilrmly planted on tho box seat outside the house ho cau withstand a Charleston earthquake. Ho loves to "sit abaskiug In the sun," but Is at his post In the twinkling of an oyo wheu thobell rings.

Ruddy novor goo3 ovor tho way excopt on very special occasions. He voted tho Prohibition ticket At loast, that is what tho boys say. Assistant Chief Engineer John W. Smith reports tho Eastoru District contingent to bo iu good order. He drops over, to seo tho Wostern District suburb several times a weok, but always grows homesick beforo night, and takes a bob tail back to the classic avonuo do la Grande.

Ho says there Is a Renaissance atmosphore about tho Eastoru District which ho misses iu tho uoighborhood of Headquarters. Superintendent Watson, of tho Telegraph Bureau, says that ho would liko to seo signal boxes placed lu all of the public schools of the city. Mr. Watson belioves tho city will soon wnko up to the importance of having the most perfect telegraphic communication possible botsveeu Headquarters and all of tho large or crowded buildiugs. Ex Fire Commissioner Richard II.

Polllou, In his report for the yonr 1885, drow attention to tho nocossity of extending the signal sorvfes of tho dopartmont, aud said that tho tolograph is to tho Fire Dopartmont what tho koystono is to the arch. Each unites aud holds together tho structure of which It is a parj and enables it to perform tho duty required ot IU Mr. I'olllou also callod attention to the fact thnt the appropriation for the maintenance of tho Are alarm telegraph of Now York was, in fkss, almost as largo as that of tho entire Fire Department of Brooklyn for the samo yoar. This was so, notwithstanding tho fact that Brooklyn covers more territory than Now York. William H.

Shaw, of Engine Four, is one of the practical jokers ot the department Ho has a koen sonso of tho absurd side of life, and is always ready with a good story whon tho supply is likely to run short. At tho same time ho protests that it is "awfully hard ou a fellow donyorknow to expect him to bo continually throwing orf witty pyrotechnics." Thomas F. Farroll, of Engino Six, has seen a good deal of hard sorvlco In tho dupartmout Ho is very popular with the boys, und novor takes a back seat when thore Is an opportunity to givo a 'companion a lil Thomas is very foud of horses, and says that if fato had not desigud him for a flroman ho would now bo jumping through hoops in a circus. He isn't saying a wurd, however, against fate. Tho boys always llko to see District Englnoor George A.

Frost drive up behind his thoroughbred. Frost received his present appointment on January 10. IS! tho sumo day that District Engineer James Dale commenced his rounds. Wheu these veterans "stack up against oach other lu story tolling, tho youngsters simply form a listoning committee and do not attempt to edge In ovon a syllabi The Robinson Pictures and Par rish's Etchings. Indications of Character in Collections Thirty Examples of Corot An American Etcher.

Jules Breton, the Poet Artist A Memento of Travel Notes. The collection of pictures is an esthetic pursuit that gives as many revelations of the col lector's Individuality as oxperts claim to traco in his autograph, or phrenologists to discover in his bumps. Tho selections mado by men of taste aud wealth from the works of painters, etchers and on gravers naturally show what they llko best, aud a man is partly known by tho pictorial company that he keops. The vulgar tastes of tho dramshop keeper are oxhibitod in tho mock auction plunder that partly covers his walls. Tho untutored rustic mind is content with ombroldored samplers and with engravings bought from peddlors.

Tho ivo nian whoso idoals of honuty aro only to bo found in dry goods, considers tho chromos that are given away witli each ptirchoso of cloth to bo a sufficient docoration for tho home. Thoro is a bland, trans parent conceit in tho duplication of portraits to bo found in tho houses of somo gentlomon. And thero are evidences of thought, imagination and sus coptlblllty to beauty in the collection of works not necessarily of great cost, but of ovldont merit, Thore are variations, too, in well chosen collections. Some buyers want boauty ot form, others want color; some look for subjoct, others for treatment; simple things attract some, olaborato compositions tho others; somo demand a story, others refuse literary art; thero is a market for smug, Academic work, and thero Is a growing oue for Impulsive and Impressionistic pictures; somo want old masters, othors buy new; ono man has a preference for flg ures, anothor for landscapes or marines, another for still life; cheerful mon buy cheerful pictures, quiet mon buy restful ones, serious men Had reflections of their moods In Jl urphys, Voddors, Mil lets and Bretons. Tho pictures of Thomas Robinson, of Providence, that occupy the Moore gallery, 200 Fifth avonuo, Now York, indicate au advanced tnsto and a well balanced, tomporato mind ou tho part of tho colloctor.

Ho enjoys color and ho admires strength, and tho French artists havo appealed to him most successfully as presenting thoso qualities in thoir pictures. Tho pictures which are to bo suld on Tuosday, Wednesday and Thursday nights of tho present weok at tho Mooro gallery are 233 in number and wore painted by ninety artists, of whom only two, Hunt and Kensott, are Americans. The Corots, of which thore aro no less than thirty, are fine oxamplos of that master, and may, indeed, be regarded as a vlsiblo history of his progress from tho mattor of fact copyist of rocks and treo3 to tho visionary who looked upon each phaso of nature, oach ollect of light aud mist and showor and shadow, as finding its parallel iu somo human sentiment. Tho Corots aro mostly small In size, but thoir authenticity Is clearer than that of a majority of tho works of this master sold thus far iu Now York galleries. Of other modern classics thero aro Bonhour, Courbot, Couture, Daubigny, David, Do camps, Delacroix, Dolaroeho, Diaz, Dupre, Fortuny, Gerome, Gros, Lamblnot, LoPago, Leys, Millot, Iieg nault, Rousseau, Schoffer, Troyou aud Voruot.

Dore's "Twilight," a gloomy picture, is in handling strikingly llko William M. Hunt's 11 Landscape Easton," whero the artist has tried to convoy his souse of tho quiver of loaves and shlmmor aud rlpplo of wator. Kous seau's Vlllago of Brie is a dolicious bit of color, a soft, Innocont little picture, that rests against the wall llko gloam of tempered sunlight. Montl colll's Figures have color brilliancy, but it is a Chinese puzzle to pick out tho figures. Decamps' Parting by tho Kiver Sldo," apparently a murdor opisode in a portentous setting, is an intensification of Solvator Rosa in treatment.

Horace Vernet's Lion," a powerful animal in repose, holds the placo of honor, and there are sevoral strong Daublg nys, one of which, "Evening (No. 215), boars a curious resemblance to Corot. Stophen Pnrrlsh Is au etcher who seems to have become an artist without any of the Initial stagos of attempt and Inefficiency. Like those peoplo who are born good and whose continuance in the way of rectitude Is void of the offort that makes even moderato rlghtoousnoss moro comraondnble in somo than tho lino sacntity ot others, ho sooins to exhibit an implantod knowlodgo and to obey a natural Instinct In thiB form of artistic expression. At least, if ho wont through tho preliminary period of struggle, he destroyod all ovidenco of it and left nothing, save what is commondablo, to be shown in tho collection of his o'tmre, now oxhibitod at Wunderlich's gullcry.

Ho Is not quite a Turner or a linden, but tho clearness of Intent is compensatory and tho definite value thnt his etchings havo as pictures of places and as disclosures of fact will givo them readier acceptance by the genera thau the moro abstruso performances of certain mon more famous. He does not believe in ragged drawing, he employs the acid with care and allows no unsightly blurs and blots to mar tho beauty of his plates, his eye for tho picturesque iu nature and arrangement might make him envied of other artists and ho has feeling in this work. Somo of his quieter scenes and he turns to reposoful landscapes have a tranquillity as sorene as that Corot experienced aud often sought to paint; while his squally skies, his stormy seas, his (loots of shipping that fret the Thames aro vigorously treated and full of movement. Mr. Parrlsh Is au American, and ho is doing a good and needed work iu making those disclosures of the range, of intorost, variety of materi al and height of bonuty aud picturesquoness to be I found in our landscape and in our towns and villages.

This collection of 117 plates, include some indications of foreign travel iu views from Fecamp, Cannes, Paluol, Hastings, Chester, Greenwich and London, but these aro hut a dozen or so. Most of his subjects nro characteristic of tho regions through which ho has mado his artistic tours, and thoy in cludo Cape Ann Ashing huts and vessels, Pennsylvania barns, Adirondack mills, streams and flooded lands, Delaware moadows, tho water front stroots and grain elevators of cities, breadths of moorland, Now England towns at sunset, snow scenos, hamlots and rocks on tho Now Brunswick and Nova Scotia coast, Florida gardens, sky and wind olfocts und sea views. Two important additions to his works have beon made in the platos that represent the "Coast of Now Brunswick," a rough boach with cabins aud strnndod fishing smacks, and Midsummer Twilight," a wide reach of opou country with a mollow glow in tho air between tho clouds aud tbo horizon. Both theso etchings are wrought with a strong, conlldeut hand, guidod by a quick, discriminating eye. Thore is much of promise and much of satisfaction In this work of Mr.

Parrlsh's. It is a fresh Indication of tho growth of national art feeling, and points to tho development of a school of dehors that already includes men so well entitled to popularity as Piatt, the Smlllies, the Morans, Yale, Hamilton, Lander, Clifford, Church, Coloman, King, Sartaiu, Shlrlaw, Falconer, Chase, Diolman, Wood, b'arrer, Nicoll and thoir colaborers in this reopened field. At the Wundorlich gallory thoro is also an etching by Woorulo oftor tho "Christus" of Gabriel Max, in which tho lextureof tho napkin that bears the Imprint of the face Is rotidered with a fidelity truly wonderful. Mezzotint is evidently not among tho lost arts, for thero are two now platos by Aumonlor of English rural subjects that have tt delightful softness and richness; and Joseph Knight's "Wings of tho Morning," with an ascent of cloud above an empty moor and tho breaking light mirrored In a foreground pool Is au oxamplo of mezzotint that would wlu technical prestige from many of the mastors. Speaking of etchings it is a fact of somo significance that tho eminent French etcher who was to have made a copy of Breton's "Communicants" the costliest, picture of a living artist has backed out from his agreement after seeing Hamilton Hamilton's otouiug from that work.

1( that Isu't a feather in Mr. Hamilton's oapholsuovor likely to wear ouo. I do not believe In lauding American art to tho skies, und debarring from equal praise the art of all other peoples, but I do bellove that the fullness of time has como whon America is entitled to stand husldo the other nations, not merely ns a land of progress, of political oullghtment, of of fertile Inventiveness, of woalth and industry, but In all that makes Tor gentleness' and beauty and mluistors to tho higher tastes and purer aspirations. Mr. Klackuer accompanies this latest etching of Mr.

Hamilton's with a little doscriptivo pamphlet, from which It appears that Sir Donald Smith, of Montreal, who purchased tho Broton picture, granted every facility for Its reproduction, with tho proviso that the copy should be worthy of the original. That proviso has boon compiled with. Breton, tho painter of poasant life, whoso constant purpose Is to show that souls exist with low condi The Anticipation of Interest Payments by the Treasury. A Now Precedent Established Effect of the Eight IIout Movement nt Chicago Course of the Stock Market for the Week The Condition of Forelun Exchange A Steady Advance In tho Price of Bar Silver Crop Estimates. Wall Stheet, Saturday evening, November 13.

The Secretary of the Treasury has this week ordered the prepayment, without rebate, of tho Interest due November 1, $2,812,500, and with a rebate of 3 per cent, per annum of tho interest due January 1, making The object, as stated iu Washington dispatches, is to distribute thoso payments so as to relieve the monoy market, and it is hoped that at least $10,000,000 will Do paid out between this time and tho beginning of the year. Doubtless tho real object is to reduce tho surplus of tho Treasury instead of attempting to do so by calling bonds. It is Boon that boud calls do not afford relief to the monoy market and thoy do not greatly diminish tho surplus, Tublos pub llshed in tho financial Chronicle show that between September 1 and Novombor 1 tho Treasury holdings of funds, outside of silver, diminished daily about $3,000,000, nlthongh In this interval calls for over 15,000,000 bonds matured and on the 1st of Soptombor $2,812,500 interest fell due, making a total disbursement of interest and bonds of nearly 548,000,000. This is good evidence that hard calls havo not prevented the accumulation of surplus in tho Treasury aud tbo Secretary probably decided to try tho effect of anticipating tho payments of interest This has been dono before only to a llm extent and also with the object of relieving the money markot Under the administration of Mr. Boutwoll aud his successor, Mr.

Richardson, bond purchasos were liberal, ns also wero sales of gold: the former being made In order to supply a demand for currency and tho latter for tho purpose of attempting to regulate tbo market for gold. Tbo interest payments, which wero then largo, wero occasionally anticipated, but rarely for a period oxcood lug fifteen days. Mr. Mauuing has theroforo established a new precedent by anticipating theso payments by nearly a month In caso of the December disbursement and by about two months for tho January iutorest, and If tho experiment Is success ful wo may look for advauco payments in tho future. Tho effect of the strike In tho packing houses at Chicago this week has boon chiefly felt In speculative circles.

Chicago papors say that business has not been interfered with In that city aud moro anxiety seems to havo boon manifested by pooplo in tho interior thnu by thoso in Chicago regardiug tho outcome of tho strike. Disturbers of tho pcaco have boon hold in chock by tho civil and military author ities, ample protection has been given thoso dosir ing to work and tho places of men who would not labor ten hours have been filled, so that tho business of the puckers has gono on with only slight interruption. Tho ouly offect of orderlug a boycott upon the produce of tho packers has boon to induco them to modify the resolutions passod on Monday, so that now employment will bo glvou to any person who will agree to givo suitable notice of a dosire to leavo. Speculators, cblolly In stocks, havo takon advautngo of tho condition of affairs at Chicago to operato on false rumors, aud thoy havo to somo oxtont been succossful, but it is probable that tho strike will soon bo ondod, aud then boar speculators will havo to look elsewhere for matorial for disquieting reports. Tho stock market has boon irrogular and generally lower this woek.

Ou Monday the tone was strong at tho oponing, with a risb in Hocking Val loy, Richmond Terminal, Contral Now Jersey, tho Northorn Pacifies and the Grangers ns the feature. Disquieting reports from Chicago produced a temporary offect about noon and again in the afternoon, but the market reacted promptly after each assault and, although Irregular, it was generally strong for tho romaiudor of tho day. On Tuosday the tendency was upward in the morning, a rise in the Western States being stimulated by reports of a comparatively peaceful condition of affairs at Chicago, aud, although attempts wero made to chock tho advance, tho improvement continued in tho afternoon, with Memphis and Charleston one of the loading features. On Wednesday Contral Now Jorsey, lfondiug and tho Northern Pacillcs steadily advanced in tho oarly trado and the tone was generally strong during tho morning. Iu tho afternoon the foaturo was a rise in tho Wabashes, Texas Pacific, St Paul and Manhattan and tho tendency was upward to tho closo, wheu about the host figures of the day wore recorded for allthoactlvo stocks.

On Thursday, in addition to tho properties above named, the Nickle Plates, the youthwosterns and Colorado coal showed marked improvomont and the markot was strong until tho last half hour, whon It was vigorously raided and It closod unsettled and weak. On Friday thero was a partial recovery at the by another raid, but alter 11 o'clock tho tone was generally strong and it so continued with few exceptions to tbo close. This morning the markot opened strong and tho feature was a rise in Chattanooga, Denver, tho Omahas and Richmond TormlnnL Tho tone was a little irregular iu the afternoon, but It was generally strong to tho close. Comparing sales of stocks at tho oponing on Monday with thoso at tho closo to day, the following changes appear ADVANCE. Per cent Canadian Pacitio Per cent.

N. Y. Chic. St. L.

prof. N. Sua. 4 JJ. Y.

Sus. W. Northwestern 1 Central Pacilic Cnattanoura IJur. A Quiucy Colorado Ooal li1. Ponvor Rio Grande.

I1, Kat Tenntissou 1st prf 1 Kast Tonnt'ssoo 2nd prof Loiik Inland ii Louisville Jc Memphis and Chas 7 Northorn Pacific Ohio Omaha Richmond Terminal L. A San Fran o.v M. Paul Thxum A Pacitic Wabash 1 Ma. K.an. ex Now York Contral Wabaall urof If.

N. Ohio. i. St. 2,1 DKCL1SE.

Percent. I Percont. Canada Southern Manhattan Ki. con Ci Ches. A Ohio 2 1 pref.

Michigan Central C. A Ind Pacific Consol. Gnu 'yN. Y. Now Kill; 3i Delaware Hudson JtfjOmaha preforred Lack lJi'OroKon Navigation ll Duluth Oregon Erio Pacific Mail i Eno proforrod A Peoria 'ix Hocking Valloy 1 Bloom.

A H.ISt. L. i San Fran pref. if LakuErio A Pacific Lako Shore Union Exchange was firm this wook until Thursday, when thero was a fall of half a cout por pound stor llng, but ns this was not goneral tho tono was undo ctded to tho close. Tho firmness oarly in tho week was mainly due to the absence of commercial bills, which was In groat part caused by the scarcity of freight room, thus chocking exports of cotton and breadstuffs.

After the middle ot tho wook tho demand for bills bocamo loss urgent and tho supply was a llttlo more abundaut, so that tho touo becaroo oasior. Gold continues to flow hither from tho Continent, tho arrivals this week having boon nenrly and it is ostimatod that at Ions: $1,000,000 moro is In transit to arrlvo in a few days. Tho Hank of Franco seekB to check theso withdrawals for America by putting a premium of 4t'. por mlUo upon gold, but iiotwlthstonditig this measure tho bank has lost nearly 11,500,000 francs of this metal, about within tho past weok. The 4 cont.

rate of discount at tho Bank of England lias sorvod to draw lo thm Institution about 200,000 gold but It has cblolly como from tho Interior and comparatively llttlo from abroad. Monoy on call lias boon oasior this weok, mainly becauso of tlto satisfaction of the demand which caused tho activity and stringency oarly iu tho month. Tho hanks are not abundantly suppllod with funds and thoy aro still callod upou to moot drafts from tho Ulterior aud especially from tho South, but somo gain is noticed from woek lo week, and If holdors of bonds accept tho proposition of tho Treasury Department aud discount their Jnuu ary interost tho banks throughout tho country will soon feol tho effect of the now supply. But until money returns to thiB center from wostern and southern points, It is not oxpocted that our banks will largoly iucroaso their surplus and bo liberal in thoir offerings. Thero has boon a stoady improvomont in tho prlco of bar silver in London this wook aud indeed since tho beginning of tho month.

This is hellovod to bo stimulated by the expectation that tho commission to which was referred the question of roforuis In tho currency of Great Britain will rocommeud bi metalism, at loast to a modorato extent. This tonds to give confidence to thoso engaged In trado with tho East, the India exchanges aro thereby improved aud the demand for sllvor is augmented. Tho commission will moot in a fow days, and as all tho members hnvogivon the subject of currency roform careful study a decision may be speedily reached. The report of tho Department of Agrioulturo completes tho ostimates of the yield of tho varlouB crops this year. Wheat Is stated at 453,250,000 A Few Glimpses of the Night Side of Nature.

Growth of the Belief that the Origin of So Called Supernatural Phenomena Is to be Found In the Operation of Natural Laws A Well Authenticated Instance of Miraculous Cure Remarkable Exhibition of Clairvoyant Power The Story of an Apparition Seen by Two British Officers Rev. Heber Newton's Investigation of the Wonders of Spiritualism. Since the period of the first public np ponrauco of tho Pox Sisters and the excitement created by tlie famous Rochester knockinga there has been nsteady growth of interest in specu ations concerning tboso phenomoua which are commonly classified under tho head of supernatural." Incident to this growth is tho projection of the idea that it might be possible to solvo tho problems presentod without attributing them to tho direct ngoucy of tho Deity; that a causo for them might bo discovered In tho operation of some at present unknown natural laws. This idea within a fow years has mot with groat favor and boon largoly instrumental in diminishing tho common prejudice against eutor taining the evidence onerod by tho Spiritualists of the truth of tho extraordinary statements which they mako. There are thousands now who are willing to consider tho arguments and allegations advanced whore thore wero not tou a quarter of a century ago.

It is estimated that tho number of actual believers In tho United States Is upward of throe millions. Tho old hypothesis of divine Intervention Is discarded by a majority of thorn and they claim for the phenomona of clairvoyance, spiritualism, a kinship with tho phonomeua of gravitation magnetism and all other natural forces. It is obvious that this vlownegntivos the presumption that there is any such thing as tho supernatural. It placos tho porformaneo of miracles within the rango of thoso processes which accouut for tho wholo pageant of tho visiblo univorse. It implies tho existence of invisible agencies that are only invisible because our powers of observation aro in a rudimentary state, and sauctions the application to them of a law of development by means of which tho wholo raco will one day liavo a close perception of that of which thoy now catch only the faintest glimpses or seo as through a glass darkly.

In ills Inquiry Concerning Ilunian Understanding," tho acuto Seotch skeptic and philosopher, David Hume, defines miracle" to bo "a violation of the laws of nature," a "transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of tho Dolty." If ho wore alive to day ho would bo astonished to hear from the lips of those who aro most ndvancod in the new faith that he was right lo the extent of denying the practice of miracles iu tho sonso in whlh ho understood Ihem, but wrong in maintaining that tho phenomena themselves never occurred. Mr. I.ecky, tho distinguished author of th i "History of Morals," states that tho attitudo of ordi educated people toward miracles is not that of doubt, of hesitation, of of discontent with tho existing ovidenco, but rather of ausolnto derision and oven unexamin ing Incredulity. That Is tho attitude of tho mass of educated, intelligent people now. But It is a yearly lessoning mass, becauso ttto elcmont of superstition iu these beliefs is gradually being eliminated and the evidences which wero refused examination when thoy simply pointod to a "supernatural" exploit aro appoarunco wo freoly investigated whon they como claiming a basis of sciontillc truth.

For this rovolutlon In tho wholo theory of tho system Its votaries are chiefly indebtod to the eminent English naturalist, Dr. Alfred Hussell Wallace. Ho acknowledges that whon bo first bocaine acquainted with tho facts of Spiritualism' ho was a conflrmod philosophical skeptic, rejoicing in tho works of Strauss, Carl Vogt, Voltaire ana Herbort Spencer. lie could not nt that time find any place In his mind for tho conception of a spiritual existence or for any other ngoncios in tho nuiverso thnu mattor and force. Ills curiosity was first excited by somo inexplicable occurrences In a frlond'fl family, and the spirit of investigation thus aroused nevor slumbered until it produced tho conviction that tho things which ho beard and saw wero veritable phenomena and not tho product ot fraud or.trickory.

As ho tersoly says himself, "Tho facts beat mo." From that moment until now his efforts havo boon unceasing to obtain a fair bearing aud examination of tho ovidonco, for a boliof, first, in tho existonco of a numbor of pretornatural intelligences of various grades, aud, second, that some of these intelligences, although usually invisible and intnnglbio to us, can and do act on matter and influenco our minds. His success in making converts to these propositions both in this country and Groat Britain justifies mo in offering some illustrations of, tho three different classes of phenomona which thoy ombraco. I select thoso that aro substantiated by evldonco which if otferod In any court of Justice to prove an ordinary fact would bo accepted without hesitation. The phonomeua may thus bo summarized: First Miraculous cures. SecondInstances of the exercise of clairvoyant powor.

Third Apparitions. Under tho first head of Cures" Ire call tho caso quoted in William Howltt's "History of the Supernatural." It is that of a French iady, Mad emolsollo Coirlu, who had suffered for twolvo yenrs from acancer in the left breast. Her circumstances onabled her to command tbo host medical ndvico aud service which Kuropo afforded. All tho physicians pronounced her ailment Incurablo. At that time the tomb ot tho famous Jnnsonist, Abbo Paris, was the scone of as many marvelous cures as the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdos is to day.

Thither, after all hope of receiving any aid from her professional attendants bad fled, Madomoiseile Coirln repaired. Prior to her visit tho cancer had so far progressed that tho greator part of tho broast came away in a mass aud she seemed at tho very verge of As tho result of hor journoy she returned completely cured. The broast and nipple wore wholly restored with the skin, pure and fresh and froo from any taint or scar. Tho astonishment of hor friends and physicians was great, but thoy could not and did not deny tbo ovidonco of their souses. The story of tho cure was bruited abroad aud received with derision.

Thereupon Mile. Coiriu wont to Paris, was examined by tho royal physician and mndo a formal deposition of the facts before a notary. But the most interesting feature of tho testimony by which this extraordinary account Is sustained is tho evidence of tho doctors who had attonded the patient and pronounced her malady mortal. FIvo of tho most celebrated surgoous of France givo this evi douco. M.

Goulard, physician to the king, deposed that to restore a uipplo destroyod and soparatod from tho breast was an actual creation, because a nipple is not a more continuity of tho vessels of tho breast but a particular body, which is of a distinct and peculiar organization. Souchay. surgeon to tho Prince of Contl, doclared that tho euro was perfect, and In his deposition describing tho restoration speaks of tho now breast as absolutely normal In all its colors and attributes. M. Seguier, surgeon of the hospital at Nantorro; M.

Doshieros, surgeon to tho Duchess of Borri, and M. Hoquot wore the other throe witnesses, and thoy all concur iu the testimony given by M. Goulard aud M. Souchay. It must bo boruo in mtud that those depositions woro duly sworn to and aro manors of public record at tho places whoro thoy woro taken.

A leading instance to which I would rofer undor tho second head, "Instances of the Exorcise of Clairvoyant Powor," is that of Jacques Aymar. Tho story is told witli groat detail by Mr. Baring Gould in "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages." Dr. Wallace makes a summary of tho facts, which I follow: On the 8th of July, 1002, a wine seller and his wifo woro murdered and their bodies found iu their collar in Lyons, tbolr monoy having been carried off. A bloody hedging bill was found by tho bodies, but no other trace of tho murdorors.

Tho officers of Justice woro completely at fault when thoy woro told of a rami named Jacques Ayrnar, who four yoars before Had discovered a thief at Gronoblo, who was qnito unsuspected of tho crime. Aymar was taken to tho scone of tho murder, where ho immediately bocamo violently agitated, and his pulse roso as though ho woro In a fovor. Ho then went out of tho house and walked along tno streets liko a hound following a scent. Uo crossed tho court of tho Archbishop's palaco and down to tho gate of tho Rhone, wheu, it being night, the quest was abandoned. The next day accompanied by threo ofilcers bo followed tho track down tho rlvor to a gardoaor's cottage.

Ho declared so far that be had followed threo men, but hero two only entered the cottago whore he said they seated themselves at a tablo and drank, wiue from a particular boute. Tin owner assorted Ho is a poet with the pen; he la also a poot with tho brush. Ouo does not know whother he trauslntos his verses on the canvas, or scans his paintings in his poems." Tho painter's first oxhibit In the Salou was in 1849, when he was 22 years old, and was called Miseryand Despair." Ills master. Drolling, said of him that he was an amiablo youngster who knows Greek aud Latin and writes poems. Some day ho will palut them, too." His father and mother, with that porvorsity that usually distinguishes tho parents of gonius, hnd destinod him for tho clergy or a morcautilo pursuit, but he broko away and markod out his own path.

"Blessing tho Wheat," painted iu 1S3T, brought hira Into general notice, nnd since that time his progress has been steadily upward. Ho lias grown rich, has received medals for eight of his pictures, is a knight of two orders, momber of tho Institute, of three academies, and officer of tho Legion of Honor, but is said to retain his simplicity, his onr: estuoss and that delicacy of mind that Is tho privilege of those who work lu tho artistic and pootio atmosphoro. A Brooklyn gentleman who has returned from his fifth tour In Europe Is making up his fifth volume of pictorial records of his trips. It Is a largo folio, filled entirely with large photographs, richly bound iu crimson morocco aud gilt edged a beautiful specimen of T. W.

Lawrence's iulaylng. Mr. Lawrence has also undertaken tho oxtra Illustration of copy of Stedmnn's Poets of America" for tho poet himself. Tho pages will bo oxtondod to nearly quarto slzo, and interleaved will bo hundreds of portraits and autographs, giving a greatly enhanced value to the work. A pugo in the current Decorator and 1'urniahcr is given up to standing lamps, and tho republication begins in this number of ltaguenet's Materlaux et Documents d'Architecture." Thoro aro sundry designs for parlor furniture, the improvement of domestic and church Interiors, and illustrations and descriptions of wall paper, stonclls, Indoor gardening, stained glass, panels, borders and graiuiug.

It is tho best priutod of tho American ait magazines. Through a transposition of typos tho Photo Gra vure Company, which publishes tho best picture ot tho great statue of Liberty," was mado to appoar last Sunday as being located somo hundreds of numbers out of tho way. Tho company's shops aro in Brooklyn, Its office Is atSM Broadway, New York, it does excollout work, and its picture of Liborty Is sold to augment the fund for improving the grounds about tho statue aud completing tho pedestal. Tho publishers of the Magazine of Art, which is easily first of the art periodicals published in England, announce that hereaftor a frontispiece will bo given in each numbor, an etching, stool engraving or photogravure. Of course tho publishers are busy gottiug ready their Illustrated books for tho holi days.

Ouo of the handsomest will be a J2o volume published by Houghtou, Mifilin aud written and illustrated by the Tile Club, au organization that has not been hoard from in several years but that is very muchalivo, notwithstanding. The November reception of the Art Students' Loaguo took placo last oveulng at tho League rooms, 33 West Fourteenth streot. Tho occasion was graced by a small but well chosou collection ot paintings and studies, which recoived much commeudatlou from tho visitors. Tho Lihou Gallery will reopau on Thursday with 100 European pictures on the walls to remain on oxhibitiou until the auction on Novombor S9 and 30. Among tho works will bo a Portoljo that received a medal iu Antwerp iu 1882, Schlvorts "Jolly Company," Erkeltor's "Leisure Moments," Bender's "DifUcult Task," and pictures by Hollwag, Grun stadt, Sperl, Coonians and sovoral Russian pain tors.

Tho collection will bo a hotter one than has been sold lu tho city in some time. C. M. S. ABOUT BROOKLYN' PEOPLE.

Itov. William H. Ford, of the Middle Ee formed Church, will begin an evangelistic work In South Brooklyn next Suuday. Tho placo chosen for starting post is tho Casino Hall, Fiftli avonuo, near Union street, and tho time of service will bo 3:30 o'clock P. M.

Mr. Ford is being socondod in this now doparturo by many of tho public spirited peoplo of tho city. Miss Anna B. Kichter, of Vanderbilt ave nuo, has roturnod to this city from St. Louis, whero she has boon sojourning sinco July last.

Miss Nellie Casely, one of the finest of Brooklyn's elocutionists, has accepted an invitation to give an ontortulnment to tho pooplo of Gravessnd, at the Town Hall, on Wednesday even ing, December on which occasion she promises to render Story's oxqulsito poom, "Cloopatra." Mr. Frank E. Hippie delighted tho peoplo at St. Matthew's Church, Throop avenue, last Thursday evening, with an illustrated talk about "Kaui bles Througu tho British Isles." The Rev. Dr.

Mttynnrd, of this city, will deliver his historical lecture ou "The Cathedrals of Franco and Gormnuy," illustrated, next Wednesday afteruoou at Chickerlng Hall, in New York. SIJRROU.VDKO BY LIONS. A Dangerous l'rediciiiuenl to De Iu. In all my previous African experiences I had never known what it was to be in real danger from tho attacks of lions. Tho king of boasts had hitherto oxhibitod a provoking shynoss and a por slsteut dislike to cultlvato my acquaintance so much so that I often used to complain that I gulnod nothing from my wish to know tho lion nt homo, and that I might learn moro about him In Regent's ark than in tho savagost wilds of Africa.

But over since the troubled night which we spent at tho Mkuyunl I ask no more for leonine visits, especially the darkness of tho small hours, and will con tent myself with an occasional Journoy to tho Zoo logical gardens, whero I can seo this grandest of cats in a safe and comfortable caffo. Soon after wo had retired to rest on this occasion, when tho men had bogun to srioro round thoir fires, wrapped up In dusky white cloths llko so many mummies, aud whon tho leader of tho caravan was curling him self snugly between the blankets, the mot terrillc roar you ever hoard startled us all Into sudden wakefulness. Though tho lion that uttorod it was probably forty or fifty yards distant, tho sound of his thunderous bellow soomed to como from our very midst. I sat up In bed and looked uneasily around mo, but nobody complained of being oaten, so I lay down agai and oven began to think this very interesting ami very African, full of local color, and so on. But now on our right and loft, on either side of tho rlvor, a chorus of loud roaring bo gau.

Tho night was as yet pitchy dark, for tho moon would not rlso till tho oarly morning. Wo could seo nothing beyond the blaze of our cordon of Ores. However, fooling that it was despicably tamo to lio still in bed and go to sleep white my porters shlvorod with fear, I arose, took mygun aud fired Into tho bushes whoro tho roaring was loudest. This, tho mon Informed mo. was tho unwisost thing I could do; of course i killed nothing, and the noise of tho firearm, instead of awing the lions into silence, only soomed to oxasporate thorn.

I certainly never hoard anything like tho noise thoy made. My mon averred that we were surrounded by ton boasts I suppose they distinguished ton various roarings; certainly, the uoxt morning, when wo examined the precincts of our camp, the many footprints of different sizes which wero marked In tho soft vegetablo soil of the rlvor hank, iudicatod unquestionably that a wholo troop of Hons had been in our Immediate vicinity during tho night. 1 noticed a curious fact connected with tho unseen approach of those beasts. Whonover a lion was noar iug our camp, and before ho attested his vicinity by a roar, we were, v. hou we had learned to read tho warning, made aware of the fact by the suddou nervous twlttorim; of the small birds in the branches abovo.

It was a tremendous diapason of fear, most singularly impressive. On several subsequent occasions tho approach of largo wild beasts has beon siKiiilled to me In the samo manner. Kilima Xjaro Kxpedition by H. Johnston. THE FIRST TllRAlltlCAI, DAUTIIOUAKE.

The first earthquake evor simulated on English boards was presented during the Vatos Mathows regime ou Docombor 8, 1S28, tho pioco being Fitzball's groat spectacular drama of Tho Earthquake; or, tho Phantom of tho Nile, otherwise memorable for the hontod nowspaper war it provoked on account of the seeming "profanity" of tho exhibition. Somo idoa of tho effect produced may he gleaned from tho following stage direction which rung down the curtain on luminal fabloau: "llusiris and others onter; marauders start up from tho rocks; thoGalzurto places himself before the women, who scream and fall ou thoir knoos. The marauders ralsod thoir javelins and prepare to hurl them whon tho earthquako takes placo and ovorwhelms Orchus and his followors. Characters from a group, and tho Specter of the Nile rises from the rush of 'ii water over the fulling rulus." tientlemau't Magazine. Canadian Pnciflo 6B GSOv'l 7(1 (15 473.

85 Oiinudn Southern. fifX 17if K5 I ll (.4 Central. Now Jersey Contral Pacific Chattanooga Chesapeake A Ohio Cheti. itnd Ohio 1st urof Chofi. and Ohio 2d pref Chicago and Alton Chic, Bur.

and Quincy and Ind Colorado Coal Consolidated Gns Delaware and Hudson Delaware, Lack, and Western, Denver and Rio Grande Duluth Kast Tennessee 1st pref EaatTennosaeo 2nd pref Krie Krie preferred Hooking Valley Illinois Central Klooiii. nnri Western 61J 4U 74X; 10 1BX 101 18 12i 73 140 C.4J4 31.S 35s, IS i 13 145 140 nil 87 K7 107Ji 142 34 1411 hi 13'JJ! 8ti, 107 I 14FI 74 3X 85 105'; K3 354 75 1 4U 41 40M l'JV1 i Lake Krie and Western rSf4' 2IIXI 15X1 juiiku ouurt Lonp Island Louisville and Nashville Manitoba Manhattan Beach Mnnniit tnn Rlevnted Con Memphis and Oh ay Michigan Contral Minn. fc St. Louis Minn, it St. Louis, prof Missouri.

Kansas and HO1, 1)0 (U1J 121) 11! 119 163 170 45 171 54 9BM 41) 3fii; 117, IV.Vi. 15? mi XT'. 113 1 45 21 47 3SkS 957 22 MAS 41S lWi 27ki Hi llo 3IiBsouri Pacific I 115W U3i rteiv Yorif Oontrnl K. Y. Ohio, and St.

N. Y. Chic, and St. Louis New York and Now New York, Hus. and Now York, bus.

ana Went. prof. Vnrthitfi.alAF.i 14 2(i; I 24 119 v.a 2a 117' 29 I 11H Northwestern uroferred 14 29 29. t'4' norttluru i'aemc Northorn Paciliu proforrod Ohio Omaha Omaha oreforred Oliturioaud Vesteru Oregon Navigation Or? Kin Transeontinontal Pacific Mail Pomia Pullman Reading Kichmond and Danville Richmond Terminal Rock Island St. Louisnnd Sun Ht, L.

and San Fran, prof St. L. and San ll'ran 1st prof St. Paul St. Paul preforred Teia9Paoific Union Pacitio Wabash Pacific Wabash ureforred.

Western Union U. S. 4Msof 1891, roe U.S. 4sof 1891, coupon U.S. 4s of 1907, coup 4 51 114 losi; 33X 50V "8S 107' 35'j! 64il 321 1 14:) 3BJ.I 155 3 ii4u 113J 20 10!) 33Mi 107 32', 143 36? 11 144 181 41 mx 128)4' 127.r; 71J4J 3 5'sl My, 35 liW 70 ll(i 120 21S 71M 11KJ4 95i( 121 22 60V XV, 3HJ "04jj 95 121 21 Jj mi 20 'i 3(1 94 110 1 110 1 lll'i 1113; 128! 1Z8 Total saloa of all stocks for tho week, 1,389,820 Shares.

DRINKING LV BUSINESS HOURS. A Practice lo be Avoided by All, Moderate drinkers engaged in pursuits calling for Judgmont and acumen, and who uso liquors during business hours, end, with scarcely an exception, as financial wrecks, however successful they may bo in withstanding tho physical consequencoa oftholr indulgence. Thousands who retain their health and are never ranked as victims of intempor anco lose their proporty, wreck their business, and aro thrown Into bankruptcy because of tippling habits during buainoss hours. Thoso men are not drunkards, and only closo obsorvors can detect the inlluenco of strong drink In their deportment; hut nevertheless liquor gives thera false nerve, makes thorn reckless, clouds tho judgment, and soon involves thorn In bad purchases, worse sales, and ruinous contracts. Sooner or lator It is Bhown that ho habitof tippling during buslnoss hours is a forerunner of bankruptcy.

Lot ovory such drinker review his business transactions for a series of years and answer whether this statement is not true. Liquor acts on the brain in tho samo naannor aB chloroform or ether, producing a stimulation which affects cool thought, ollowod by a doprosslou corresponding to the amount of the dose. What man would expect to succoed in business if ho were accustomed to tako, while at work, even very slight whirls of other, chloroform, or laughing gas and keep himself all the time, moro or less undor such benlouding influences? Such a man, ovon if dole to preserve his health would grow rockloss, loquacious, and soon prove no match for a cloar bonded rival. Liquor Is au indispensable ally wherever victims are systematically llooced, aud Its offsets are soon also in the rivalries of legitimate business. The professional gambler lesepsafreo bar, but never drinks himself whon at the tablo; and while a sobor, clearheaded, honorable merchant, doalor, or operator would not oudeavor to ply his rival with liquor, ho would gain groat advantages from the tatter's solf sought indulgence.

Liquor shows its victims not only in saloons and gambling dens but about Boards of Trado jnd Stock Exchanges, and In ovory lino of buslnoss requiring a clear, cool head. Moderato drinkers who attemptto do business with ovon slightly excited brains aro tho mon who are all tho tiuio making losses and going to tho wall. It is to tho thousands of modorate drinkers who aro never seen intoxicatod or overcome with liquor that our remarks especially apply. Thoso men decliuo to bocomo teototalors, but thoy can easily adopt a habit of total abstinence during business hours. Let them imitate at least tho prudonco of gamblers and piizo flghtors, who never drink while at "work." They can satisfy thomsolves such a policy will "pay.

Abstaining lrom liquor until after business hours, aud beginning tho day without an "oyo thoy will soon bo able to appreciate tho results. Following such a rule, a moderate drinker ought to como tothodutlos of tho day with an unclouded, unstimulated brain, and bo ablo to dlschargo them to tho best of his natural ability. A neodod tomper anco reform is ono that will persuade Dusluoss mon to abstain wholly from tippling during buslnoss hours, as succoss iu busluess absolutely depends upon ic If thoy do not possess enough powor of solf denial to keep from tippling duriug business hours, the soonor they retire from business the bolter for thorn, for thoy aro on the sure road to dofoat. Chicago Tribune. A IVONDHUFUL SHAFT.

Rev. A. L. Hillmnn has a farm iu Tnliferr County on which is a most wonderful shaft, A year or so ago Mr. Ilillman docidod lo dig a shaft bosldo a big alum rock and see If ho could not secure au alum spring.

Accordingly a hole four by six feet iu size and twelvo feet deep was dug. At tho bottom of tho shaft a place was dug Into the side of tho rock like a fireplace. Thero the alum wator col oclod. About that tlmo Mr. Ilillman was suffering from a severe caso of rhoumatisin in one of his Bhoulders.

Uo was in the shaft a good deal and iu a short time was surprised to llnd himsolf entirely cured of rheumatism. Ho attributes the cure to the presence of electricity iu the shaft Ho is suro thoro is a vory strong current of olectrlclty down there and that It Is taken into the system and ouros tho disease roforred to. Alum is so strong in tho shaft that It can bo tasted In tho throat by simply breathiug tho air. Since HUlmau was cured of his rheumatism sovoral porsons similarly afllietod havo been cured. Ouo had case of kldnoy dtseaso was also curpd.

About llvo weeks ago Charles Callaway, an Atlanta blacksmith, who had beon suffering from rheumatism for fourtoon months, was taken to tho shaft. His limbs woro badly swollen and ho was almost as stiff as a pnkor. In ono duy tho swelling was gone and at tho end of tho second day he throw away ills crutches and walked whor over ho wautod to go. Georgia is a great State whon a man can euro his rheumatism by taking eloctrlo baths In one of hor dry wolls. The patient goes Into the 11 by mpans of stops and finds at the bottom a comfortable bench to sit on.

Atlanta Constitution. PUBLIC (JOSI'EL MEETINGS. Tho members of tho Amulet Lodgo of Good Templars, with their friends, will hold a conference this afternoon nt 2:30 o'clock, at Adolphl Hall, corner Myrtle avenue and Adolphl streot, to consider the subject of holding public meetings ou the linos of gospel temporanoo and moral Buasion..