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THE BROOKLYN DALLY EAGLE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 1, 1896. POLYTECHNIC REUNION. GENESIS IS NOT TWO ST0ELES. BEECHEE AS A SOLDIER. GEADTJATES OF ST.

MARY'S, the hearts of those with whom he was so long associated. General Gates spoke briefly of Mr. Beechor as he knew him. So did Colonel Beadle. The latter moved a resolution of thanks r.o General King, which was passed unanimously and the meeting adjourned.

IaN MACLAREN'S readings. THE DAILY EAGLE Is nubllBhed everv after point, the narratives belonging there arc inserted, and then the line of descent Is taken up again Just where it left off, and proceeds as before. This being the constant plan of the book, this formula, which In every other instance Is the title of the section to which It Is prefixed, must be the same In this case likewise. It Is the heading of tho second unction and can be nr.thing else. It Is can flrmed by the identical structure of thii Immediately following clause, here and in verse 1, whete the connection is unquestioned, "in the Tenth Annual Dinner to Take Place To night.

The tenth annual dinner ot the Polytechnio reunion will be held at the Montauk club this evening. The reunion is com pooed of graduates of the Polytechnic institute and tho officers of the association are: William B. Davenport president: Calvin F. Barber. M.

vice president, and Thomas H. Troy, secretary and treasurer. Tbo executive committee is as follows: Stephen W. Huntington, chairman: George II. Abbott, 'William H.

Krhart, John A. Hoogland. lrofossorC. Hrtzborg, Joha F. Berry.

Wal bridgo, George B. Bretz, Kdward R. Nichols, George L. Wfled. Clinton L.

Rossiter, Henry Franxonberg, William V. Hester, Charles L. Scuenck. J. Ast ley Griffin Samuel H.

McElroy, William Vaji Wyck, A. C. Brush, 51. D. Guy Loomis.

A FIRE QUICKLY PUT OUT. Ex Mayor David A. Boody, Colonel N. T. Sprague, Dr.

T. A. Nelson, E. J. Randall and several other well men met at the Sprague National bank on Fourth avenue yesterday afternoon to watch an exhibition of the little giant fire extinguisher.

A crowd of several hundred people surrounded the spot. A big fire of pine wood wa6 started, and when under headway it was completely extinguished ln'thirty seconds with one extinguisher, which holds about a quart of liquid chemicals. Another fire of wood, saturated with oil, was put out within four minutes. ORGAN RECITAL TO MORROW. The eighteenth of Abram Ray Tyler's free organ recitals in the New York avenue Meth odist church, corner New York aveneu and Dean street, will occur to morrow afternoon.

at 4 o'clock. Mr. Louis Mollenhauer, violin ist, and Mfcs Miriam Gumer, th contralto so loist of the church, will assist. The programme will consist of the work of Gullmant, Gounod, West, de (Berlot, Jensen, Brewer and Mendelssohn. This Is the second recital the third season.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Caatoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Costoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. Photos fob the Holidays Sittings made before December 20 promised for Christmas.

Carbon ettes reduced to $3 nor doz. Cloudy weather no objection. Gabdnek 278 Fulton st. MARRIED. BABCOCK BURKE On Thrsday evening, De cember 10, 1896, at the residence of the bride, by the Rev.

Lyman Abbott. D. MARGARET STILLMAN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lockwood Burke, to DANIEL COURTLAND BABCOCK, of Westerly, R.

DIED. ALLEN At the Crest, Sing Sing, N. on Thurs day, December 10, 1896. J. HOWE ALLEN.

Funeral services from his late residence on Sun day, December 13, at 3 P. M. Former pupils and friends of tlhe family are Invited to at tend. BARTO On Wednesday, December 9. 1596, HEN RY H.

BARTO, aged 57 years 9 months and 17 days. Funeral services at his late residence, E51 Grand st. New York City, on Sunday, December 13, at 2 P. M. BRUSH On Friday, December 11, 1896, at his residence, W6 Monroe st, Brooklyn, JOSHUA M.

BRUSH, In the 65th year of (his age. Notice ot funeral hereafter. CAVE On Wednesday, December 9, 1S96, CHARLES J. CAVE, aged 64 years. Funeral services at his late reeldence, 894 Greene av, Brooklyn, on Friday evening, at 8 o'clock.

Interment at Greenwood. DOUGHTY At Verbank, N. December 10, WILLIAM H. DOUGHTY, aged. 67; a mem ber of United S.atea Lodge, K.

of H. Iyy. Lodge, K. and L. of H.

United States Lodge No. 1. N. P. U.

Notice of funeral later. MORAN ANNIE C. MORAN. beloved daughter of Michael and the late Ann Moran. Funeral from her late residence, 1,020 Kent av, Saturday, December 12, at 3:30 o'clock; thence to St.

Patrick's Church. GALLAGHER At her residence. 993 DeKalb av. MARY, beloved wife of John Gallagher and mother of Margaret, Mary, Thomas. Elizabeth and John Gallagher.

Notice of funeral hereafter, HAGERTY On Wednesday, December 9, 1896, JOSEPH HAGERTY, beloved husband of the late, Margaret Gorman. Funeral Saturday, December 12, 1896, from his late residence. 297 Hart st; thence to St. John the Baptist's Church, Lewis and Wllloughby ava, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered at 9:30 A. M.

fir the repose of his soul. Relatives and friends of the family, also members of St. Vincent de Paul Conference, are Invited to attend. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. (Jersey City papers please copy.) HALE At her home, Fltchburg, on Thurs day, December 10, ELIZABETH wife of Henry A.

Hale, formerly ot Brooklyn. Funeral services Saturday, December 12, 11 A. M. JUDD December 10, ALBERT BISHOP, youngest son of Susanna R. and the late Orrin B.

Judd, aged 21 years. Funeral services at his late residence, 181 Wilson st, Saturday evening December 12, at 8 o'clock. KANE On Wednesday. December 9, JOHN H. KANE, son of John R.

and the late Emma E. Kane. In the 50th year of his age. Funeral from his late residence, 461 Classon av, Brooklyn, on Friday, at 7:30 P. M.

Interment private. Friends are invited to attend. McCORMICK On Thursday evening, after a long illness, ANNIE, daughter of Mrs. Bernard Mc Cormick. Funeral on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock from her late residence, 242 Kosciusko st; thence to St.

John the Baptist Church. Wllloughby and Lewis avs, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of her soul. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. McMULLENSuddenly. on December 10, 1896.

In Brooklyn, AMELIA. widow of the late James McMullen of Brooklyn. Funeral private. Interment at Albany. (Albany papers please copy.) McPHAIL At her residence, 127 Pierrepont st.

Brooklyn, on Thursday, December 10, 1896, CAROLINE ELIZABETH, wife of the late Leonard C. McPhall, M. and daughter of Robert Spelr, deceased. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services at 127 Pierrepont st, Brooklyn, on Saturday. December 12.

at 2 o'clock P. M. MEGARR On December 10. JOHN, husband of the late Mary Megarr. Funeral from his late residence, 17 Marion st, on Sunday.

December 33, at 2 P. M. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend. MONELL Suddenly, Wednesday morning, December 9, at 865 Union st, Brooklyn, SAM UEL L. MONELL, In the 73d year of his age.

Friends are Invited to attend the funeral services. Friday, at 8 P. at the above address. PRATT On Wednesday, at his residence, 251 Gates av, Brooklyn. JAMES H.

PRATT, in the 85th year of his age. Funeral services will be held at the Central Congregational Church, Hancock st, near Franklin av, Saturday, December 12, at 2:30 P. M. Interment private. (Connecticut papers please copy.) ROUNTREE A month's mass, for the repose of the soul of REBECCA J.

ROUNTREE. at St. Stanislaus' Church, Fourteenth st and Sixth av, at "8 on Saturday morning, December 12. Relatives and friends are Invited. RYAN A solemn (anniversary) mass of requiem will be offered for the reposs of the soul of the late JAMES RYAN at Holy Cross Church, Flatbush, on Saturday, December 12, at 10 A.

M. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend. SHELDON At her residence, 24 Halsey st, Brooklyn, on Thursday morning, December 10, 1896, SARAH RIPLEY, wife of William R. Sheldon. Funeral private.

SHEFFIELD On Friday, December 11, 189S, at his residence, 2S Strong place, Brooklyn. THEODORE A. SHEFFIELD, in his S6th year. Funeral private. Interment at Newport, R.

I. THORN On December 10, 1896. NATHANIEL HERTIN THORNE, son of Thomas G. and Addle L. Thorne, aged 16 months.

Funeral private. Interment at Southold, L. I. TURTON On Thursday. December 10, THOMAS TURTON, aged 64 Funeral services at his Uvie residence, 212 Qulncy st, Sunday.

December 13, 4:3 3 P. M. Interment private. VAN SAUN At Cranford. N.

.1., Devember 10, FRANCES EDITH, wife of Harry R. Vun Saun and daughter of Dr. J. K. MnoConneil.

Relatives aicJ Mends on' respecl fully invited to attend the funeral from the residence of Dr. J. K. on Saturday, December 12, at P. M.

Trains leave foot of Liberty st, New York, Bit 1 AO P. M. GENEKAL KING TALKS TO THIRTEENTH REGIME NT Vi TER ANS. His Early Acquaintance With the Fa mous Fulpit Orator How the Latter Came to Be a Chaplain Mr. Beecher's First Street Parade.

General Horatio C. King lectured before the I Thirteenth regiment Veteran association lost night in the Sumner avenue armory. His topic was "Henry Ward Beecher," who, as I chaplain of the Thirteenth, was personally known to most members of the association. General T. B.

Gates presided, and in a few words introduced the speaker, who said, in the course of his address: "Henry Ward Beecher, whose memory is especially dear to the members, veteran and active, of this regiment, came to Brooklyn in 1847. The fame of his Western success in Indianapolis had preceded him, but the general public were scarcely prepared for the depth, aptness and brilliancy ol bis oratory. They had probably the first awakening exhibition of it outside of his pulpit at a meeting held about nine years after his pastorate began, at the Broadwav tabernacle, a meeting of the Silver Gray Whigs of which William M. Evarts, Daniel Lord and John Van Buren (the principal speakers of the evening) were shining lights, and others who were conservative Democrats. The meeting arose out of the brutal attack made by Brooks on Sumner in the senate, and was a protest against the bullying and aggressive tactics of the pro partisans in congress.

Mr. Beecher was present simply as a spectator, but he was called upon for a speech. For an hour he swayed that great mass with his burning eloquence, throwing conservatism to the winds and denouncing the outrage on the Massachusetts senator in unmeasured terms. His address proved distasteful to seme of the audience, who manifested signs of Impatience and possible disturbance. The orator among other things portrayed the evil3 of slavery, and characterized slave dealers as worse criminals than any that could be found in Sing Sing.

A rude fellow in the gallery shouted: "That ain't true! That ain't true!" Mr. Beecher, wiih marvelous promptness, pointed toward the interrupter and replied: "Well, you ought to know. you've been there!" The roars of laughter were Intermingled with tremendous applause and there were do more interruptions. Mr. Beecher's address was the only one fully reported, and it made him at once conspicuous as a political factor.

My first sight of Henry Ward Beecher was in Harrisburg, in the spring of 1837. I was then a student in Dickinson college at Carlisle, and a club was formed to attend a course of lectures in the capital of Pennsylvania, twenty miles away. A majority of the club rwere students from the S'ih, Imbued with Democratic politics and by no means in sympathy with Mr. Beecher's anti slavery sentiments. But curiosity overcame prejudice, and we tcok the long trip, full of lively anticipation.

The church was crowded. We had excellent seats in the front gallery. Mr. Beecher's appearance on the platform was a disappointment. Of medium height, full face, a careless carriage, black frock suit (Everett wore the conventional dress suit, and Mr.

Beecher never wore one in his long dark hair curling around his neck. His subject was "The Christian Commonwealth I find this boyish entry in my diary of Tuesday. March 24: "At 7:30, in the Presbyterian church, I listened to the finest lecture it was ever my good fortune to hear. Notwithstanding. I could not concur with him (Mr.

Beecher) in his fanatical views of 'equal rights' and pulpit politics, still all must acknowledge it to be a masterly effusion from the pen of a smart but misguided man." recalling this incident to Mr. Beecher, when I came to Brooklyn, he smiled and said that it cost him over three years of continuous and arduous practice to acquire that so called natural style; that as a youth he was timid and halting In speech, and afraid of his own voice. He took lessons in oratory, I think, under Lovell, the compiler of the old Lovell's U. S. Speaker, the pioneer of American collections, and haunted the woods to practice, with only the trees for his audience.

He recited Bet pieces and declaimed extempore, hallooed, yelled and gesticulated, until he acquired almost perfect control of bis voice and' gesture, and then went forth to charm and convince by an eloquence unparalleled in my experience." The general referred to several patriotic addresses made by Mr. Beecher and then touched upon a topic dear to the vets, his connection with the Thirteenth regiment. Mr. Beecher was G5 years of age when be accepted an appointment as chaplain of the Thirteenth regiment of the national guard of New York. The credit of the original" suggestion made to Colonel David E.

Austen, the able commandant of the regiment at the time, to offer the position to Mr. Beecher, is claimed by Mrs. Austen and Lieutenant E. M. Smith of company for many years and still an attendant at Plymouth church.

But, from whatever source it came, it does not detract at all from the credit due to Colonel Austen for the promptness with which he acted in extending to Mr. Beecher, by letter, a cordial request to accept the appointment. After a delay of about ten days, Mr. Beecher accepted the appointment in the folio wine letter: Brooklyn, January 21, 1878. Colonel David E.

Austen Dear Sir: Your esteemed favor of January 10, tendering me the office of chaplain In the Thirteenth regiment. New York infantry, should have been acknowledged earlier, but continuous absence from the citv anil some uncertainty as to my own course, has delayed a reply. I desire to thamk the members of the i esi ment and the officers for their proffer of this honor and have resolved to accept it, provided its duties of which I am quite uninformed, are not so onerous as to Interfere with my other labors. I shall 1 happv to render to your command any services within m'v power. HESST WARD BEECHER.

As was to be expected, the fact of Mr. Beecher's consenting to serve in a seemingly inconsequential position became national talk at once and the Thirteenth regiment found its reputation extended from state to national limits. The first street parade of the regiment, after Mr. Beecher's commission was made on memorial day, the regiment acting as escort to Rankin post No. 10, G.

A. R. The assembly was at an early hour and Lieutenant (afterward Major) Fred Ackerman and I were detailed to accompany Mr. Beecher to the armory. We reported at his residence on Columbia heights, where we found a magnifi cent thoroughbred horse in waiting, superb in figure and strength and worthy to bear the intellectual giant who, in the modest uniform of a chaplain, was in readiness to mount.

The day was dark and lowering. Many fears had been expressed that Mr. Beecher might find it difficult to hold his seat, should his horse prove restless amid the rattle of drums and blare of trumpets; but his friends had not taken thought of Mr. Beecher's long experience In riding circuit for thousands of miles In Indiana and no officers in the parade sat with easier grace or presented a more soldierly appearance than the honored and beloved chaplain. The day was dismal in the extreme; the rain came down in torrents, especially at the martyrs' tomb, where the special exercises were held; but Mr.

Beecher resisted all appeals to return home until the regiment was dismissed at the armory, whence he was escorted back to his residence by members of the staff, thoroughly drenched, but still overflowing with the good humor which rarely deserted him." Mr. Beecher went with the Thirteenth to Canada. In accepting for the regiment the gift of a flag from the people of Montreal Mr. Beecher said: We accept this flag in tliat spirit of nmitv whfc li inspires its giving. May the stars and Stripes and the Union Jack, now for the first time so happily blended mi ono flag, float away sicle by side.

For whatever tho flags ol other nations express, ourn stands for tho expression of the literature of llhertv anareuglou. or humanity ana progress. m.r tings never be found against each other in V. May thev ever co together, hut never against each. snail place it rue most promiuent in our armory, and when iu the future we shall do favored with a visit from you, we rust to show you that your flag lias never been dishonored.

Mr. Beecher held the office of chaplain at the time of his death, though the last parade which ho attended was probably that of April 23, 1S8G. tho anniversary of tho departure of the regiment for tho seut of war. On the day when the remains of its beloved chaplain were transferred from his residence to the enurch the entire regiment paraded a3 escort, while Company tl remained on duty ac the church as a guard of honor from that time until the body was removed from tho church to the vault in Greenwood. The tenderness with which this duty was performed was remarked by every one.

It was simply tho exponent of the sincere affection and devotion of tho entire regiment to the man whose memory will ever remain blessed in Professor Green, an Eminent Scholar, Exposes the Falsity of "Higher Criticism," the Father of Which Was Astruc, a Profligate Frenchman Dr. Abbott on Dangerous Ground. Before bringing these letters to a close and but one more may be written attention is directed to a few of the assertions of "Higher Criticism" and their falsity. That they should be false and founded on speculation may well be accounted for, when the fact is stated that the father of Higher Criticism was one Astruc, a profligate French physician, who in 1753 made the first attempt to divide the Book of Genesis into books. His book was entitled "Conjectures Concerning the Original Memoranda "Which it Appears Moses Used to Compose the Book of Dr.

Abbott has attacked the credibility of Genesis by declaring among other things that It is two stories interwoven; that there is no evidence that it or the Pentateuch was written by Moses; that the Pentateuch is probably tho work of four authors or editors. His argument suggests that he has hurriedly read fragments of the writings of Kuenen, Wellhauscn, Stade and Cornhill, Dlllman, or Eichorn leaders in the school ot "Higher Criticism" and gathered at random some of their views. For he does not argue nearly so well as his teachers, most of by the way do not believe in the supernatural. It is impossible because of the limitations of this letter to take up and deal in detail with all that Dr. Abbott advances as argu ment In support of his position, and for that matter it would be a waste cf time for the greater part of what he has to say is purely speculative.

A complete answer, however, has been made to all that has been advanced as argument by the distinguished scholars from whom he has learned his lesson. That answer is found in "The Unity of the Book of Genesis" and "The Higher Criticism ot the Pentateuch," two books written by Will lam Henry Green, D. LL. Professor of oriental and Old Testament literature in Princeton theological seminary. These books of recent publication are Justly characterized as monuments of careful and accurate scholarly research the results of long and intelligent study not WTltten for the purpose of Impressing the masses with a sense of the authors erudition, but as an answer the most distinguished of the apostles of the Higher Criticism.

The Book of Genesis and the Pentateuch are taken up sentence by sentence and the attacks of the higher critics answered in detail. By way of contrast with Professor Green's analysis of the Pentateuch Dr. Abbott's efforts apjiear amateurish and puerile. From Professor Green's books I present a few extracts for there is no room for more which Indicate the character of this answer to the evangelical gentlemen who are enamored of the "literary method' In dealing with the Bible. And these ex tracts will fall far short of doing Justice to Professor Green's great work.

The first letter appearing in this column closed as follows: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." "Who shall isay when the beginning was? Speafclng ot. prtm.eval Pro fessor Green says: It sbould be remarked here that no computa tion of time is ever built In tlhe Bible upon this or any other genealogy. There Is no summation of th years from Adam to Noah, or from Noah to Abraham as there is of the abode In Egypt (Ex odus or of the period from the exodus to the building of the temple (I Kings And as the received Chronologies, and the generally ac oepted date of the Hood, and of the creation of the world, are derived from the commutations based on these genealogies, it ought to be remem bered chat this is a very precarious mode of reck oning. Thss genealogy could only afford a safe estimate of time on the assumption that no links are missing and that every name in the of descent has been recorded. But rhls we have no right to take for granted.

The analogy of other biblical genealogies is decidedly against It. Very commonly unimportant names are ormt ted; some times several consecutive names are dropped altogether. No one lias a right, therefore, to denominate a primeval tfhronoCogy so constructed, the biblical chronoloigy, and set it In opposition to che deductions of science, and thence conclude Uhere is a conflict between Bible and science. And so the Bible does not say when the be ginning was. It will be understood by the reader that all the following quotations are from Professor Green's works: Those who insist upon regarding the entire antediluvian history of the Bible as mythical, and on a par with the early myths of heathen nations, labor, though with small success to And ancient parallels to the genealogy contained In thiB chapter.

The nearest approach to it 1b in the ten antediluvian kings of Chaldean story, with reigns on an average of 43.000 years each. as reported by Beros3. (These were the reigns of gods, demigods and manes the latter being departed spirits.) It Is evident, however, that in the Intent of the sacred historian it (Genesis) simply traces the line of descent from Adam to Noah In tho pious line of Seth. The longevity of the antediluvians (of the Bible) has been declared to be inconsistent with physiological laws; but In our ignorance of the extent to which the conditions affecting human life may have been modified, such an assertion is unwarranted. The following has a bearing on Dr.

Ab bote's claim that the story of Gensis Is two stories, in which one writer refers to God as Elohlm; another to Jehovah, when de scribing the flood: There are two aspects under which the flood can be contemplated and two points of view from which Its place and function in the sacred history can be regarded. It may be looked upon as the act of the Creator destroying the work of His hands because It had become corrupt, and so perverted from its original intent, and at the same time providing for the perpetuation of the several species of living things; or, on the other hand, It may be considered in Its relation to the work of redemption. The wickedness of man threatened to put an end to the scheme of grace and salvation; In order to prevent His merciful designs from being thwarted thus, the Most High resolved to destroy the ungodly race, and rescue the one surviving pious family to be the seed of a new race, among whom true religion might be nurtured until It should ultimately All the whole earth. The sacred writer has both these aspects of this great catastrophe in mind, and he suggests them to his readers by the alternate use of the divine names. When he has regard to the dl vine government and providential care, as man! tested in it.

he speaks of it as the act of Elohlm. When he has regard to his special guardianship over the pious, or to aught that concerns divine worship, he uses the sacred name Jehovah. (This statement Is supported by nu merous quotations from the scriptures.) As to the alleged duplicate account in Gen esis of the creation: That the second chapter docs not contain an other account of the creation additional to that In the first can be readily shown. And in the first place. It does not profess to be an account of the creation, but something addl tlonal to, and different from it.

It Is In express terms declared to be a sequel of the narrative of the creation. The second section Is Introduced by a special descriptive title "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created." It Is very Important to understand the precise meaning of these words and the purpose for which they are introduced. There has been much dispute both as to the proper connection of this clause and how It is to bp understood. Is It a subscription to the preceding section, setting forth its contents or Is it Introductory to the following section and descriptive of Its contents? It can be shown beyond question that it Is the heading of the section that follows and Is here Introduced to announce its subject. The formula, "These are the generations," tc, occurs ten times In the book of Genesis, and In every Instance but the present.

Indisputably, as the title of the section to which It is prefixed. The history is parcelled Into "the generations of "the generations of Noah." "the generations of the sons ot Noah." "the generations of the sons of Shem," "the generations of Terah," and so on to the end of the book. The lino of descent Is arrested at the proper DIPLOMAS PRESENTED TO FIFTEEN NEW NURSES. Former Lieutenant Governor Sheehan Makes an Address at the Atheneum the Class of 1896 Music on the Pro gramme. The commencement exercises of the class of '96, St.

Mary's hospital training school for nurses, were held last night at the Atheneum, Atlantic avenue and Clinton street. Fif toen young women received the highly prized diplomas of that institution. A large and enthusiastic audience of admiring friends and! relatives of the graduates filled the hall and applauded their favorites. Several well known artists in this city volunteered their serv ices and a most pleasant entertainment resulted. Dr.

John Byrne, LL. president of the faculty of St. Mary's, presided and William F. Sheehan, former lieutenant governor of the state, addressed the graduates. The exercises were begun shortly after 8 o'clock, when about fifty of the young women studying in the training school marched! in with the graduates.

After a soprano solo by Mrs. K. G. Brennan Bevignanl's "Flower Girl," and some humorous recitations by A. V.

O'Rourke, Dr. Byrne introduced ex Lieutenant Governor Sheehan. Mr. Sheehan was heartily received and addressed the graduates at some length in regard to their future duties, which, he said, were worthy of all honorable praise as they, were in behalf of suffering humanity. The speaker said he always took great Interest in exercises of this character and that commencement exercises were rapidly becoming national institutions.

He pointed out to the graduates the responsibilities that would rest upon them in the course of their professional duties and concluded by urging them to ba ever faithful to their alma mater. Miss Essie Osborn grtacly pleased the audience with her rendering of the famous quarrel scene from Sheridan's "School for Scandal," and Edward O'Mahoney and Mrs. E. Henessy were heard in basso and contralto) solas respectively. A pleasing duec by Mrs.

Brennan and Mr. O'Mahoney was also given and then the real business of the evening, tha presentation of the diplomas, was begun. Aa each graduate's name was called she walked upon the stage, received her diploma from tho hands of Dr. Byrne and as she came down on, tho other side was handed a bouquet of flowers from the heap which had been sent by admiring friends. Two prizes of instrument cases offered by the school for the most proficient of the graduates were won by Mrs.

Mary B. Irwin Miss Ada Clarke, respectively, and the valedictory was delivered by the winner of tho first prize. It is entirely original and was extremely well delivered in an especially attractive voice, which although somewhat low was so clear that it was plainly heard throughout the hall. Miss Irwin said among other "Fof two years we have looked forward' ro this night as the crowning reward of our labors, our trials and our disappointments, for a nurse's life is no: one of unalloyed pleasure. If we are somewhat arrogant in our demahd for praise is only that we may prove ourselves worthy of our alma mater.

St. Mary's, and apt pupils of the many kind physicians who have endeavored to instil knowledge into, I am afraid ac times, oun heedless brains. With hearts full of gratitude to all who have aided us during the past two years, and especially for our superintendent, to whose fostering care we owe so much, we bid farewell, crjsting that we may live up to principles instilled into our hearts, and intelligently our duty live worthy ot" our motto. 'Be faithful." The graduates of the class of '96 Clarke. Brooklyn: Margaret A.

Logue, Washington, Annie J. Cole, Prince Edward; Island: Margaret M. McCarthy, Newburgh, N. Y. Mary Byrne Irwin, Passaic Bridge.

N. Lucille A. Ti.3chner, Wes tpoint, Wilhel mina F. Williams. Brooklyn; Cecilia Kaln, London.

Emma Aumond, Ottawa, Margaret Kearney. South Orange, N. Mary McCaupfhr. ey. London, Sarah T.

Rush, Xewburgh. X. Y. Elizabeth Stack, Staten Island; Christine Alexandrie MacDonnell, Monti Mory Gccttler, New York. REV.

MR. STRONG INSTALLED. Programme of the Exercises at Trinity Baptist Church. Trinity Baptist church was crowded last evening ac the installacion services of ths new pastor, the Rev. Philip B.

Strong. There were members present from all che churches of the neighborhood and from many of tha churches of the denomination in the city. The platform was profusely decorated with growing plants and flowers. The Rev. Dr.

Robert Bruce Hull of the Greenwood church presided and pronounced the invocation, after an organ voluntary by Miss May Bishop. The hymn. "Saviour, visit Thy plantation," was sung and the Rev. Dr: A. Stewart Walsh read the scripcural selection, choosing Psalm xlx.

Prayer followed by che Rev. T. J. Whic aker of the Bushwick avenue church. Miss E.

L. Ostrander sang a soprano solo, "Tha Lord is my light," the accompanist being William J. Baugher. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr.

John Humpstone of the Emmanuel church He tock his text from Psalm xix, part of tha seventh verse: "The law cf the Lord is perfect." He began by saying: "It is not less than amusing to watch the modern analysts ac work cn this psalm. They must either get rid of David or give up their cheory of tho Mosaic law." Dr. Humpscone then went' on In an able defense of David as the author ot the psalm and denied the claim made by certain scholars that the psalm was in two parts, and because of its difference in style could not have been written by the great psalmist. A change of scyle, he ccntended, did not indicate or prove a change of author. He alsa denied the claim chat the psalm was composed! of two fragments brought together by soma editor.

Dr. Humpstone also defended tha eighteenth psalm, which, he said, had been attacked by a well known Brooklyn divine a few Sundays ago. His whole sermon was defense of the scripcures. The other pares of the programme were carried ouc as follows: Charge co the church, tha Rev. Dr.

W. C. P. Rhoades of the Marcy avenue church; charge to pastor, the Rev. Cornelius Woelfkln of the Greene avenue church; hand of fellowship, the Rev.

Dr. Frank M. Ellis of Washington avenue church. Miss Ostrander sang another solo and there were also hymns by the congregation. The new pastor pronounced the benediction.

WOODRUFF AT THE HANOVER. A Symposium of Club Presidents Tomorrow Night. The dinner to Lieutenant Governor ElecB Woodruff to morrow night at the Hanoven club, promises to be a very brilliant affair. There has been a large demand for tickets, but the subscribers have been confined to members of the club. There win be no outsiders except the invited guests, who ara the presidents of the leading social clubs of the city.

It is expected that there will be a wealth of information concerning club life in the Cicy of Brooklyn. As the Hanover' at present has more officeholders than any other club, it is not improbable that some of the guests will ask questions and try to find out the secret the Hanover's success in this direction. Mayor WursCer will preside. DR. CTJYLER AT ORANGE.

(Special to the Eagle.) Orange, X. December 11 In the First Presbyterian church of Orange last evening the Essex county Christian Endeavor union (Orange section), held its regular monthly meecing. A brief address was made by th Rev. Chauncey G. Goodrich of St.

Cloud, after, which the Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler of Brooklyn gave a very Interesting half hour's talk. The Rev.

H. C. Grulmert, pastor of the German Presbyterian church, concluded tha programme by rendering two violin solos. OLD NEW ENGLAND TOWNS. The fourth in a course of lectures given by tho Long Island Historical society, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Institute and the Now England society, on "Old Historic Towns of New England." was delivered in association ball last evening.

Ths lecturer was tho Rev. George W. Cooke of Concord. His subjcot ira "Concord, the Home of the Patriot, the Philosopher, tho Poet and the Naturalist." Miu fine views were shown. I noon on the.workinr davs of the week and on MORNINGS.

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and all Jersey City ferries; at the news stand of the Laurel in the Pines. Lakewood, N. J. COMING EVENTS. Annual festival of Congregation Benal Jacob at Franklyn hell, Third avenue and Eighteenth "Sunday evening, December 13, at 7o" clock.

Second monthly entertainment and' reception Artistic association. Thursday evening, December 17, at Carson's hall, Bedford avenue and Fulton street. Entertainment by the Manhattan Minstrel troupe and Manhattan quartet, for the benefit of wounded and sick Cuban patriots at the atheneum, Clinton street and Atlantic avenue, Friday evening, becember 18. Minstrel show and reception of the St. Stephen's Catholic club at the atheneum, Tuesday evening, December 15.

at 8 o'clock. Fair of tho Rochester avenue Congregational church this afternoon and evening. Informal reception at Madison Square garden, preliminary to the opening of the Commercial Travelers' fair, Monday evening. December 14. Lecture by T.

H. Roberts. A. of Brooklyn, to the Reform club. 1.18S Bedford avenue, this evening, on "Trusts, Corporations and Aggregations of Wealth, Their use and Abuse." HOTEL ARRIVALS.

Clarendon J. H. Schenck. Philadelphia, G. W.

Cook, Lexington, D. Babcock. Dr. F. L.

Arnold. Providence. R. P. Lnmy, Coop erstown.

N. Y. C. L. Lawrence, A.

Boyce, Mr. and Mrs. C. Wadsworth, J. C.

Furman, New York; M. S. Flint, Brooklyn. St. George Miss Day.

Hartford; Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Willing, Miss Douglass, Miss G.

Douglass, Pennslyvania; Mr. and Mrs. R. Moran, Orange; Mrs. H.

Beecher, Brooklyn: Mrs. H. B. Scovllle, Stanford. Conn.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Rothschild. New York; Mr.

and Mrs. E. Backolcs, Newark: J. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs.

C. Burr. New York; J. P. Cruger, J.

J. Cruger. Brooklyn; E. E. Cady, C.

Recker, Mr. and Mrs. C. McNally, Mount Vernon. NAVAL BATTALION DRILL.

Lieutenant W. Ford of the Second naval battalion drilled a squad of that organization in infantry tactics in the Signal. Corps armory In Dean street last evening. C. a SMITH ELECTED.

Charles Stewart omith was yesterday elected to fill the vacancy in the rapid transit com' mission, eaused by the death.of William Stein way. Appropriate resolutions on the death of Mr. Steinway were adopted by the commis sioners, TWO INTERESTING SUBJECTS. The society of the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Centnry will give a luncheon ot the Union League olub, December 19, in com memoration of the landing of the pilgrims and also the great swamp fight. Several women will read papers bearing upon tne two events, AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Otis Skinner will play "Hamlet," "A Sol dier of Fortune," "Romeo and Juliet." "Lady of Lyons" and "Merchant of Venice" at the Montauk next week. Arthur Bour chier and Violet Vanbrugh will play "The Queen's Proctor" and "The Chili widow" at the Columbia next week With the former comedy will go a curtain raiser, "Kitty Clive, introducing Irene vonDrugn. Amy Ames, who has not been seen here for pome years, will appe. at the Park next week as Violet, her original part in the revival of Hoyt A Soldier. Nella Bergen, the handsome eastern district singer, is featured on De Wolf Hopper's bills for next week at the Amphlon.

"The Great Northwest," a new melodrama, will be given at the Biiou next week. "The Other Man's Wife" and "A Soldier of France," the latter by James A. Heme, which will be played at the Grand Opera house next week, are new nere. "A Texas Steer" will be. given at the Gayety next week.

Lumiere's cinematographe, which did not work well at the American theater the first part of the week, is now In good running order and will remain for to night and both performances to morrow. Next week "The Pulse of New York" will be played. The Meteors, a strong variety company, win be at Hyde and Ben man next week, Flynn's big sensation company will be at the Star next week. The Brooklyn mo ic hall will have next week another of the good variety bills which have been making that resort popular. Flynn's London Gayety girls will go from the Star to the Empire next week.

MUSIC rpTES. The next few days holt of the choicest musical treats of the season for Brooklyn. Tonight the Boston Symphony orchestra will play at the Academy ana win lnrtroduce Carl Hallr. the German violinist. To morrow afternoon the same orchestra will give a particularly restful and lovely programme with Antoinette Szumowska, a pupil of Paderewski, as a soloist.

On Monday afternoon the Knelsel quartet from the same organization will give a cham her music concert at Association hall, playing nere ror me niy time tnis season in a programme which includes a new quartet by Dvorak and others by Haydn and Schumann, as well as' solos. On Tuesday night the Seldl society will Introduce Hubermann. thebov vio linist, who has been making such a stir since his unheralded arrival a few weeks aero, in a programme which would test the powers of any mature violinist before the public. At the end of that flood of melody the musical pub lic may rest untu arter unriscmas. MUSICALE ON CLINTON AVENUE Among the most notable events In fashion able society on Wednesday afternoon was tho rausicale given by Miss Mary Hunter, daugh ter of ex Mayor John W.

Hunter, at the family residence, 284 Clinton avenue. A de llghtful programme, consisting of selections from Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Chad witck and Tchalkotwsky, was rendored by Miss Marguerite Lemon ol New York, so prano; Mrs. Alice Jackson, pianist; Mr. Gra ham 'Reed, baritone, and Master Vincent Fanelli, a boy of 10 years, whose playing upon the harp excited much Interest. Among the 150 guests present were: Mrs.

J. C. Hoagland, Mrs. William M. Van Anden, Miss Van Andcn, Mrs.

A. C. Barnes, Colonel and Mrs. Henry T. Chapman, Miss Josephine Richardson, Mr.

and Mrs. John Notman, the Mlnses Notman. the Misses Ohauncey, Mrs Henry Slallory, Miss Pratt. Mrs. Frederick Pratt, Mrs.

W. S. P. Prentice. Miss Kidder, Mrs, John Van NoRtrand.

the Misses Wallace. Mrs, John Glbb. Miss Qllbert, Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Mrs.

WUJinm s. Lawrence. Miss iienaan, sirs Daniel Clinuncey. Mrs. Francis L.

Hlne, Mrs George Chuuncey. Mr. and Mrs. John K. Leech Mr.

and Mrs. John 14. LhxIiI, Mi h. William P. Mason, Miss Mason.

Mrs. William V. A. Hester, Mrs. William Dougherty, the Misses iteresey.

Airs. George S. Studwoll. Mrs. E.

C. Wallace, Mrs. Latham A. Fish, Mln Fish, Miss Eames, Mrs, ten tnnMsaors, He Declines $50,000 to Remain Here Four Months Longer. For the first time in this city the Rev.

Dr. John Watson (Ian Maclaren) gave his "Heading From the Annals of Drumtochty, With Notes," at the Academy of Music, yesterday afternoon. The audience was a large one and frequently evinced its appreciation. It is understood that, although Major Pond has offered Dr. Watson $50,000 to remain here four months longer.

It has been refused. He is compelled to return to his Liverpool parish. Dr. Watson has said that he was not prepared to answer a question whether he was likely to accept a call to any church in this country. His name has been mentioned in connection with the Broadway tabernacle, to succeed the Rev.

Dr. Henry A. Stlm son, but Major Pond said to an Eagle reporter that Dr. Watson had received no Invitation from that society. W0EK AT HOLT TRINITY.

A Busy Parish, Which Is Broadening Its Scope Under the Rev. Dr. McCon nell's Ministrations. The parish of the Church of the Holy Trinity, of which the Rev. Dr.

S. D. McConnell is rector, is a very busy one and likely to be more so from the additional branches of work laid out by Dr. McConnell for himself, the Rev. Alexander Vance, his assistant, and Miss Emily T.

Rodman, deaconess. Dr. McConnell says of the Parish News, the third number of which has just been Issued: "There are many things which the rector of a parish wishes to say and which his people ought to hear, which cannot well be said from either the pulpit or the chancel. An endless string of announcements makes an unr eemly break and often introduces a false note In the services. Beside, they are quickly forgot ten and consequent confusion arises.

The pulpit acknowledges a prescriptive obligation to deal only with weighty matters and in a sober style. There are many things which occur in parish life which cannot be made dignified. There is much information which the people ought to have for which theTe is no suitable vehicle ot conveyance. The Parish News proposes in tho Church of the Holy Trinity to cake chls place and something more. In a.

word this paper is intended to do a deacon's work. It will be distributed in che pews, In the hope chat it will find its way into the home cf every parishioner." An important step has been taken in the rencal of pews. The Parish News says: The price of rental of the pjws in the galleries of the church and some of those In the aisles hau been reduced by a late rctlon of the vestry to about three fifths of what It has previously been. They now range from 210 to fSO year. The prices have been too high.

To many the cost has been prohibitory. The church does not wish this to be so. It wants no more from pew rents than is actually necessary to meet its expenses. It Is be 13eve that under the new schedules will be possible for Individuals and families to have sittings or pews who have not felt able heretofore to do so. The committee of the Women's auxiliary Is preparing a box of clothing for a clergyman's widow in Minnesota, the women of the Fragment society are making and collecting clothing for the poor and the committee on records of the Men's guild will soon begin a complete census of the.members and regular attendants of the church.

Two pieces of communion plate, a flagon and chalice, were recently presented to the church by Mrs. Margaret Eleanor Connell in memory of her children. Another item of interest is thus spoken by the Parish News: The FrUIay evening lecture, which has been one of the services of this parish tor many has been allowed to cease. This has been done for reasons which the rector feels called upon to state. He Is one who believes In preaching.

If preaching he not actually a sacrament, it would probably come as near being within the definition of that word as anything could well be. But the preacher is not possessed of Inexhaustible material. He Is like a spring which fills up slowly, presuming that it fills up at all. If its contents be dipped out once or twice during the week, it is likely to be uncommonly shallow when Sunday comes. He believes, therefore, that taking the whole year through, the actual effect of exhortation and Instruction in doctrine is likely to produce better results if It be concentrated upon one day in the week rather than dlvded among several.

It is true, of course, that it would be well for many to assemble together more frequently than once a week for prayers. Some experience, however, hzs made him skeptical as to whether people will do that. It Is a curious fact but It is a fact that however stupid a sermon or address may be, a congregation will always be larger If It form a part of the service than if the service be without it. To take the place of these lectures on the Friday evenings in January' parish receptions will be held in the Sunday school room. From 8 to 10 o'clock on those evenings the clergy will always be present.

The entertainment committees of the Men's and Woman's guild will manage these affairs. Dudley Buck and members of the choir will lend their aid to make the receptions a success. At the annual meeting of tho Woman's guild Miss Langford reported that the work of the parish at the Home for Aged Colored People was being conclnued, money and clothing having been given. The house committee reported the renovating and furnishing of rooms in the parish house for the use of the deaconess. Mrs.

Read, secretary of the Employment society, offered its report for the year, embracing twenty weeks. A large amount of work had been done; 950 permits had been issued and sixty five women employed; 1,410 garments had been cut; 1,417 basted and furnished; 1,302 examined and distributed; $478.50 had been paid to the women for making the garments. Of all these articles, 542 had been sold, 83 made without charge, 536 donated and 191 left on hand. The receipts from sales were $215.25. The last report handed In by the treasurer of the Woman's guild shows that the total receipts had been, up to November 7, $402,24, and expenditures, $328.44, leaving a balance of $73.80.

The following are the officers of this guild: President, Mrs. George W. Reid; vice president. Mrs. E.

W. Mascord; secretary, Mrs. Edward S. Arnold; treasurer, Mrs. T.

H. Dewey. At the annual meeting of the men's guild the reports showed much good work accomplished. At the suggestion of the rector the committee on services is having a large signboard made to Te placed near the corner ot the fence, in front of the church, so that it can be distinctly seen from Clinton and Montague streets. The board will contain on both sides the names of the church and rector and the hours of services.

The committee is having printed notices to be appropriately framed and placed in the principal hotels, containing a picture of the church, the names of the church and rector, the hours of services and an invitation to visitors to attend. The treasurer's report of the men's guild showed receipts for the year of $390.30 and expenditures of $343.91, leaving a balance on hand of $46.39. The following officers were unanimously elected for the ensuing year: President. E. W.

Mascord; vice president, Charles H. Mason; treasurer, Harry Whitney; secretary, H. S. Connell. The sewing school, which meets every Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in the parish house, has now 133 children on its rolls, the average attendance being between 70 and SO.

More teachers are needed. An entertainment is given for the children the last Wednesday afternoon of every month. MISS TERRY'S AT HOME. An at home was held yesterday afternoon, from 3 until 0 o'clock by Mies Terry of 12 Iiem ben street, which was attended by many guests. ported to and sold in all art centres of tho globe, and endorsed and preferred for private and publlo use by tbo greatest artistn and sclentiKtH.

Illustrated Catalogues mailed free upon application. SONS, 107 111 E. 14M NEW YOBK. day of Jehuvah, Elohlm's making earth and heaven," follows rhe tiCe "the generations of the heia.ven and of che eanh," In precise conformity with "In the day of EIohlm'R creating Adam." after dhe title "the generations of Adam." Accordingly, this title, "the generations of the heaven and of the earth." must announce as the subject of the section which It introduces, not an account of the In which tin heaven and the eartSi were themselves brought into being. but an account of tiie offspring of heaven and earth; in other words of man who Is the child of both worlds, his body formed of the dus of the earth, his soul of heavenly origin, inbreathed by I God Himself.

And so rhe sections proceed regu larly. First, enesis "In the beInnlnjj God created he heavens and the earth," th title announcing that the theme of the first chapter is the creation. Then 11:4, "The generations of the heavens and the earth," announcing that the I theme of what follows is the offspring of heaven and earth, or the history of Adam and his fam ily. Then "The generations of Adam," in which his descendants are traced to Noah and his sons. Then "The generations of Noah," or the history of Noah's family, and so on to the end of the book.

It remains to be added that an examination of the second section itself will show that it does not in point of fact contain a fresh account of the creaition. The opening words, "In the day that Jehovah God made the earth and the heavens," do not Introduce an account of making heaven and earth, but presuppose It as having already taken place, and the writer proceeds to indicate the condition of things when It was done, and what followed subsequently. No mention is made of the formation of the earth or the production of the dry land; none of the sea and its occupants; none of the firmament or the sun. moon and stars; none of covering the earth with its' varied vegetation, but only of planting a garden in Eden, and making its trees grow from the ground (verses 9). When banished from Eden, man was to "eat the herb of the flekl" whose existence is thuB assumed, but whose production is poken of only In chapter 1.

These particulars could not have been omitted from an account of creation. It follows from what has been said that all comparisons made, or contrasts drawn, between chapter I and chapter II, on the assumption that they are separate and independent accounts of the same transaction are necessarily fallacious. In the, one the seen, embraces the whole world with all it contains. In the other it i.s limited to the garden of Eden, which is fitted up for the habitation of the first human pair. The first advances by a succession of almighty flats from the initial production of inanimate matter to the culmination is of the whole grand process In the creation of man In the Image of God.

The second deals exclusively with the primitive state of man. which Is minutely explained with a special view to the temptation and fall; all is on the plane of Individual life and moves steadily forward to that first transgression by which man lost his original holiness and communion with God. The second chapter is thus In no sense parallel to the first, but is its natural sequel. As to the sneer at the statement in Genesis that God made heaven and earth in one day: The form of expression, "In the day that Jehovah God made heaven and earth." has given occasion to cavil, as though that was here assigned to one day, which chapter 1 divides between the second and third creative days. It might as well be said that Numbers 111:1, "In the day that Jehovah spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai," implies that all the revelations given to Moses at Sinai were made within the compass of a single day; or that the "day of adversity" means a period of twenty four hours.

The use of "day" In tho general sense, qf Is too familiar to require further comment. 1 Elohlm is the more general designation of God as the Creator of the world and of all mankind. Jehovah is that name by which he. has made himself known when entering into close relations with men, and particularly the chosen race, as the God of revelatlon and grace. There are three different Indications of God's presence wliloh pervade the scriptures from the beginning to the end and are inwrought its entire structure, and with which tney must reckon, who recognize In Its contents merely that which is natural and human.

These are miracles, prophecy and revealed truth. The pages of the Bible are ablaze wltCi recorded facts Involving t2ie immediate exercise of Almighty power, with predictive utterances unvaiiing the future hdd from mortal view, and wlt'h disclosures which quite transcend the reach of the human faculties. No man can undertake the study of the BUole superficially without encountering these, which are among Its most prominent features. The Jehovlst and Elohist theory that the story of the flood was written by two men is analyzed in several pages of Professor Green's work. Line by line the Bible story is taken up end explained as the work of one man.

The conclusions are Irresistible. Concerning the leaders of the school of higher criticism Professor Green says in part: The development of critical hypotheses inimical to the genuineness and truth of. the books of the Bible has from the beginning been in the hands of those who were antagonistic to supernatural Teliglon, whose interest in the Bible was purely iietrary, and who refuse to recognize its claims as an Immediate and authoritative revelation from God. These hypotheses, which are largely speculative and conjectural, are to a great extent based upon and shaped by Improved assumptions of the falsity of positive scriptural statements. They are in acknowledged variance with the historical truth of the Bible, and requires, as is freely confessed, the complete reconstruction of the sacred history.

They require us to suppose that the course of events, and the progress of divine revelation must throughout have been very different from the representations of the Bible. In closing. Professor Green presents an impressive picture of the clergymen who, like Dr. Abbott, have joined hands with the Bible critics who do not believe in the supernatural, and of them the professor says: "Within a very few years professedly evangelical men have entered upon the hazardous experiment of attempting a compromise in this matter. They propose to accept these hypotheses in spite of their incompatibility with the historical truth of the Bible, in spite of their contravening its explicit statements, in spite of the grave questions which they raise concerning the fallibility of our Lord's own teaching; and they expect to retain their Christian faith with only such modifications as the newly adopted hypotheses may require.

"They are now puzzling themselves over the problem of harmonizing Christ'B sanction given to false views respecting the Old Testament, with implicit faith In Him as a divine teacher. And some of them, in their perplexity over this enigma, are perilously near impairing the truth ot His claims. Would It not be wiser for them to revise their own ill judged alliance with the enemies of evangelical truth and Inquire whether Christ's view of the Old Testament may not, after all, be the true view?" MUL. AT THE SOUTH CHURCH. A Sociable Follows a Sewing Circle Meeting.

The Ladies' Benevolent society of the South Congregational church, corner Court and President streets, held its regular sewing meeting yesterday in the church parlors. This was followed by the regular church sociable In the evening. The sociable, to which all the" members of the church and congregation were invited, was one of the greatest successes as an entertainment ever held by the church. Mrs. Olmstead presided In place of Mrs.

Prontlse, who was unable to be present. The programme was a very interesting one, and was well rendered. Several members were encored. Those who took part were the Berkeley Ladles' Glee club. Miss Story.

Miss Florence Walford. Miss Annette Cullinan. Miss Webster, Miss C. P. Walsh.

Mrs. Mattie Dorlon Lowo, Mrs. Steele. Porter Steele and Miss Trowbridso. IN THE FORTY SEVENTH.

Colonel Eddy of tho Forty seventh WedneFuay night ordered an election for captain of Company to bo held on Monday evening, December 14. First Lieutenant E. ,1. Aldan is the only candidato. Corporal F.

G. Moncrieff of Company ii was appointed regimental commissary sergeant..