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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1900. BUSINESS NOTICES. BUSINESS NOTICES. tured by the raiders wits the speaker who i 23 YEARS (Copyrighted.) (Trade murk registered.) desire to exhibit them on the stage should call attention to the present, state of this woman and to her probable state twenty years from now.

If the girls are silly and vain they will persist in their vanity and in their silliness. But if there be in them those wholesome natural instiucts the yielding to which makes the world sweet and a delightful place for weary mortals, they will pause before they agree to pay the high price which Mrs. Totter has paid for what she calls "'art." much alike in that respect. All the colleges, however, teach science, Including the doctrine of evolution, aud there are devout people who still believe that evolution is hostile to religion. These will he comforted by this gift to Columbia, believing that the atheistic tendencies which they dread in scientific study will be in some degree counteracted by the invitation to a religious life which the new building will extend The influence among the students can hardly fail to be helpful.

The distinctly religious students In any college are held in scant regard by the devotees of sports, literature and other branches of learning. This handsome hall will be a constant reminder to them of the importance of the religious element in the college and iu life. The lonely morning chapel needs supplementing in other colleges than Columbia. Twenty three years of my life have been devoted to the faithful study of dentistry, and from the beginning I have aimed at perfection. Nothing has or can divert me from that plain purpose.

That is why I had rather not treat you at all than to do poor work. There is no sentiment about this. It is a matter of reputation. Reputation is a professional man's capital. I have a corps of seven specialists in the Brooklyn office, and personally direct every detail of their work.

EDWARD EVERETT CADY, D. D. 346 FULTON STREET (Corner Boerum Place). statesmen oppose, which their moralists abhor, against which their principles revolt and which their history shows has only brought discredit, and And at the very moment of the meeting of this convention and of the manifestation of this power, exposure is given to the use of that power by this man and by his dependents against the poor and the suffering, by the establishment of a corner and of a monopoly in a necessity to life and comfort, through the prostitution of government, the corruption of rule, and the disbursement of bribery stock wholesale, not only among henchmen and parasites, but among executives, heads of departments and members of the highest branch of the judiciary of the commonwealth. The convention to day met under the reproach of this fact.

It met under the evidence of what Tammany is iu character and of what Tammany lias to show in capacity, when to Tammany is given a full and fair chance to exhibit both. Two and a half years of Tammany rule in the City of New York may be said to have been thrown, as on a screen, to public sight. The view exhibits officials denouncing trusts, and profiting by them; orators holding capitalistic combinations tip to rebuke, while their pockets are stuffed with their stock; advocates sympathizing with the wrongs aud the aspirations of the poor, and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to their bank accounts by trebling the price of ice, which the poor, like others, must have, and for wliv the poor, unlike others, find it very hard to pay the present prices. And this exhibit is furnished, not merely by the covert union of these leaders and their merry men. but it was also made possible by such a use of executive and legislative power, deposited in their hands for the public good, as amounted to a betrayal of the public interest aud to an oppression of the community, and as resulted in the pilloried trusts as assassins.

Nothing is needed to complete the case. Court proceedings can add little to it and take nothing from it. It signalizes the passing of Augustus Van Wyck. If rings the curtain down upon a line reputation. With the loss of that repute goes almost everything really wonii preserving.

No character, though it be the growth of many years, can withstand such a shock. As a judge, Mr. Van Wyck was beyond suspicion. It was not within ins limits to be brilliant, but lie was sincere and serviceable, aud brilliant men are sometimes neither. The esteem in which he was held in the borough of his home was testified at the polls where the proposition that a prophet is no! honored in his own country was significantly impeached.

At the bidding of his party he sacrificed another term upon the bench. That sacrifice was temporary, for nothing was clearer than that he would soon be on the bench again unless, meanwhile, there Wits a call from Albany or Washington. Contrast his situation now with that of a few days ago. Then it was all future; now it is no future Then it was all promise; now it is an epitaph. He has not even the slender consolation of being in a position to shift any part of the responsibility on other shoulders, so cl5se is the resemblance of his case to one of suicide.

From such a man as Carroll literally nothing else was to be expected. From such a man as Croker. his philippic against trusts to the contrary notwithstanding, little else was to be expected, but that Van Wyck should become one of the assassins he denounced is a most unlooked for species of self murder. There are many mourners and the Eagle is among them. It Is Now Up to the Municipal Assembly For several years the Eagle has been warning the citizens of Brooklyn that there was danger of a water famine.

Our engineers were aware of this dan ger. and their plans and estimates were prepared years ago. hut, no money could be obtained. Last December the situation became serious, the reserve storage was drawn upon until only two days' supply remained, several storage reservoirs were empty. Had the single overtaxed pipe line burst at that time, Brooklyn would have been without water.

The Eagle laid these facts before the people, and showed that within a few months relief could be obtained by the construction of the forty eight inch conduit from Milburn engine house to Spring Creek station, aud the completion of the Mil burn reservoir. On January 2, 1000. William Dalton. Commissioner of Water Supply, appreciating the soundness of the Eagle's argument, sent a special message to Mayor Van Wyck, as chairman of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, in which he urged that these improvements be authorized at once. On May 1, 190o, the Board of Estimate authorized for this purpose the issue of corporate stock of the City of New York.

This matter now awaits only the approval of the Municipal Assembly. One month has passed aud no action has been taken. If the work is to be done this season, it must be authorized tit once. There are those who believe that nothing but a regiment of regular soldiers could get through that Assembly anything that should get through it; but that force is not available and public opinion must see what it can do. State of the Tide in China.

The presence of the foreign warships at Taku has not had the effect on the anti foreign rioters which was expected. The disturbances are growing more serious and the apparent unwillingness of the imperial troops to attack the Boxers with vigor seems to indicate sympathy with them, either among the troops themselves or among those people who give the orders. In spite of the open door agreements which Secretary Hay secured the fate of China is involved in the present disturbances. If Americans and English aud French and Germans and Belgians may not live and trade in China in safety so long as there is no law agaiust them the governments to which these people owe alleigauce will see to it that, their right so to live is protected. The Caucasian race does not intend that there shall be any part of the world in which it may not do business.

If it can carry out its purposes peaceably it will gladly do so. But the yellow or black race which stands in the way will be treated with scant courtesy. If China must be dismembered before the Caucasians may safely live there the dismemberment will not be long delayed. It is not the open door for outside nations that is involved in the struggle now going on within the empire, but Chinese autonomy, And the most serious tact to lie considered is that the Chinese do not seem to comprehend the situation. They are like Mrs.

Partington sweeping back the tide with a broom. The tide of civilization and liberty will rise over the Orient in spite of the Boxers and of their sympathizers in I'ekin. Religious Mall for Columbia. Large endowments to colleges have become so common that it is only when the object is unusual that they attract general atremion. The recent gift of 9100.000 to the New Vork I'niversity aroused wide interest not from its amount but.

because tin imagination of the whole country was stirred by the project of a of Fame for great Americans, which Miss (lould's generosity will make possi I ble. Less wide but similar attention will lie attracted by I lie anonymous gift of the same stun to Columbia I'liiversity. an yesterday, because of ilie use to: be made of it. The gift is for the build of a students' hall to be devoled to the Young Men's Christian Association of ttie miivcrsily and. generally.

10 die pro motion of religious life among die sin dents. Tile building will contain a hall to scat four or live persons, for; religious meetings and those under the; auspices of the association, and other: smaller committee and meeting rooms, There is a feeling among some religious people that religious life Is too much neg lectc.l in the colleges and you often hear; in private conversation the charge tiiatj certain institutions are irreligious in their' Inlliieuces. It is unlikely that this charge can bo (vie of the controlling iniiuene. any college or university, although lliere are small sets of students in every large college for whose conduct, "irreligious" I would be a mild term. Young men iu col lege and young men out of it are very I Roberts In Pretoria.

If none of his plans miscarried Lord Roberts entered Pretoria at 2 o'clock this afternoon. A dispatch received in London to day announced that the city was under British control and that, the official entry of the commander in chief would he made at the hour above stated. And so closes another chapter, nearly the last, let us hope, in the story of Britain's war with the Boers. A few days ago the fall of the Transvaal capital was prematurely announced through the dispatches of well intentioned but probably over excited and certainly misinformed newspaper correspondents, who interpreted as a fact the rumor that a British force was within two hours' march of the city. At the moment when he was reported to be near Pretoria Roberts was preparing Jo enter Johannesburg, thirty miles to the south, while his cavalry, under French, were seizing positions of strategical importance north of the Rand capital.

With the beginning of the current week the main advance was resumed. Pretoria was not won without a fight, but it was no such struggle as the pro Boer press predicted would precede the occupation. We have heard much, since last October, of Pretoria's wonderful defenses, natural and artificial, we have been told all about its vast stock of provisions and ammunition, imaginative newspapers have printed fanciful cuts of its encircling chain of forts bristling with more guns than could bo found in the combined foundries of Armstrtjig and Krupp, we have listened patiently to the unduly reiterated statement that the sturdy burghers would die in the last ditch, before they let the hated roo ineks into the town and we were generally prepared to see a mixture of Cotenso and Magersfontein with the necessary Paardeberg ending. The fact of the matter is that somebody has been industriously lying for months about the easily defensible Pretoria, leading the outside world to believe that Thermopylae was a carriage drive beside the road that leads from Johannesburg to the Boer capital. It is not unsafe to predict that Roberts' march from Bloeinfontein to Pretoria will rank as one of the strategic masterpieces of modern warfare.

Like Wellington in the Peninsula the old field marshal has paid no heed to home critics and advisers and has run his campaign to suit himself. He stayed at Bloemfontein until his troops were recuperated and his lines of communications with the coast re established beyond all possibility of interruption, until remounts had arrived and until Kitchener's master mind had perfected a new system of transport; then and not until then he struck north on a march which has to day reached its objective. At daybreak on June 4, Roberts started for Six Mile Spruit, a position where the Boors appear to have made the last stand for the defense of their capital. The engagement that followed was replete with tactical strokes that did credit lo either side. The fight was he gun by the British mounted infantry and yeomen before whom the Boers fell back upon a position covered by the fjre of iie Free State artillery; for this contingency, Roberts had prepared and.

as his advance halted, he sent the naval brigade Into action with guns heavy enough to silence the fire of the Boer batteries. Then the burghers tried to turn the left flank of the British and. foiled in this, they slipped around to the rear of the advancing force and exerted a pressure which induced Roberts to call Ian Hamilton's division to his support. This was the finishing touch to what must have been a splendidly spectacular light, and as night fell the Boers evacuated their positions and retreated toward Pretoria, while the victors bivouacked within four miles of the doomed city. Although we have no details of the surrender it is fair to suppose that the uhins of the so called pea party among the Boers were carried out in every detail and that Lord Roberts' summons met with a ready aud affirmative response.

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The Democratic State Convention met this niorniuj: under difficulties. What was said and done in il ui to the time this went to press is set forth iu the columns of news. That can be let speak for itself. The facts will retire from comment the rumors and reports in advance of the session. They were very interesting, hut they had to ivc way to actual occurrences.

The convention is to choose four men to he delegates at large from this state to the national convention of the Democratic party at Kansas City in July; to confirm the choice of two delegates to that gathering from each Congressional district, made in each case by the members from the district in this convention: to ratify the election of a new Democratic State Committee of Fifty, from each one of the state Senate districts, and to determine whether the delegation from this state to Kansas City shall be sent there with instructions or without them. If they are instructed, the instruction will be to vote for the renomination of William J. Bryan and. possibly, for the indorsement of the Chicago platform of 1896. All the woi'k of the convention before the question of instruction is reached will have little public interest.

Politicians will watch the list of delegates with curiosity and some concern. Tarty leaders will strive for control of the state committee. But these matters are of no moment by the side of the question whether the Democracy of the Stare of New York, already staggering under the weight and the odium of Trust Ice. is to be sent to Kansas City committed, not only against free agency in politics, but. to a candidacy and to an economic propo sition which this state has shown that it will not uphold.

And even that question is subordinate to the disgrace under the impact and infamy of which the convention met. Lamentable and mortifying, indeed, is the fact of a convention of a once great party, discredited in advance by the uncommon anxiety of those who have power to control its action, to get rich without work, without honor, without honesty, and. if need bo. without law or by the Sale of it. The control of the convention is in Tammany Mall.

The control of Tammany Hall is diffused, for working purposes, through several men designated and controlled by one man, at present a resident of England, without personal employment, without public office and engaged in racing and in other sports which have been the relaxation of statesmanship and of wealth, but which as a sole pursuit have never been re garded as conducive to political sagacity, to political wisdom, or to that moral and intellectual influence which should distinguish political leadership. This man, replete with wealth, which he never earned and never inherited, and without employment; is great in power which has never come to him by study, by public labor, by reading, by uplifting experiences, by ennobling thoughts or educational associations. He is coarse and courageous, vigorous and vindictive. Men in the party who differ from him fear him and those in it who support him follow him and obey him. Not very long ago, to say the least, not rich, he is now not only able to live a life of ease, of idleness and of prodigal expenditure, but he can, by a single cable message, commit the representatives of fiOO.000 voters to a political policy which their A Species of Self Murder.

A full list of the stockholders of the American Ice Company appeared, in print this morning. It credits the Mayor with transactions represented by 12,300 shares of a par value of His honor is outstripped by the acting Tammany leader. F. Carroll, the par value of whose holdings, present and past, is recorded at $1,348,400. Augustus Van Wyek operated on a less pretentious scale, a trille under half a million dollars covering the aggregate value of his stock.

The list, which is long, was made up from the book of the City Trust Company, a corporation which records all Stock Exchange transactions, and the New York Journal vouches for its accuracy. It is described by that newspaper as being absolutely correct not less accurate than the statements daily rendered by the Clearing House Association. It can, therefore, be accepted as a fact that the Mayor acquired American Ice Company stock during his term of office. With the object of withholding this knowledge from the public, he availed himself of his constitutional rights, so called, when summoned before Justice Gaynor a few days ago. There are reasons for believing that be would have pursued a different course but for the advice of counsel, which shows that he might profitably have had himself for a lawyer, his last situation being worse than his first.

Now that the cat is out of the bag. now" that concealment is no longer possible, now that legal expedients have been exhausted, the lawyer can remove the muzzle. Its application was expensive. Bills affecting the ice trust were passed by the Legislature this year. There were two of them.

They were favored by the Mayor and then vetoed by him. One of the vetoes was filed April 20. On that day. according to the official record, the Mayor secured 2.000 shares of American Ice Company stock. On the same day his brother received 1,000 shares.

About a year ago, 750 shares were placed to the credit of the Mayor and at the same time John F. Carroll acquired 1,750 shares, Richard Croker 000 shares and Augustus Van Wyck 500 shares. These facts are unmuzzled. It is not necessary to put them through a court crucible. If they indicate anything at all, they show that the city government was placed at the disposal of a trust as far as a trust can utilize that government.

What the Mayor paid for what he received is not known. Whether he paid anything or nothing is not known. If he paid nothing and admits that nothing was paid he will be instantly and unquestionably believed. If he declares that he went into the market as a purchaser, he will be believed neither instantly nor without question. Payment for stock is not always in cash.

Payment by veto can be understood just as readily as any other form of settlerr.ant. What is much more difficult of conception is that the veto should be without consideration in the face of the transfers following it so closely. The conditions suggest nothing short of official debauchery. It Is clearly within the right of Augustus Van Wyck to buy anything and everything he has the money to pay for. He is as much at liberty to own stock in a trust as he is to own a hat, as far as the the law is concerned.

What he does with what he has is the business of others only to the extent that he makes it their business. There is now a sense in which his American Ice Company stock holding is other than a private affair. The Mayor of the metropolis is his brother, but one is under no such obligations as the other has contracted. Augustus Van Wyck is under none of the restrictions the charter imposes upon officeholders. There was a time, however, when his nomination for the presidency seemed to be a not remote possibility.

He had made a splendid run for the governorship of this state. He had made much of the opportunity afforded by those who charged for clay when nothing but canal mud had been removed. His cam paign speeches recalled some of the more notable utterances of Samuel J. Tllden. He ran against one who was then perhaps the most picturesque American iu the United States aud he made a record at the polls which added much to his consequence as a Democratic factor.

It was nor strange, therefore, that his name should he discussed by those who hoped for a new order of tilings at the next national convention of the party. About tliis time he made a speech, which lias since been generously circulated by commercial travelers. Because of the speech, Augustus Van Wyck is not as much at liberty to own stock in a tni. as he is to own a hat. In the speech he declared that trusts not only reversed the fundamental axioms of trade, but struck as with the dagger of an assassin at the very heart of that individual enterprise which, next to love of liberty for its own sake, is to the energising force of American institutions.

The remainder of the speech was either an elaboration or an emphasis. The whole of the speech showed or purported ro show that in the judgment of the speaker a 1 iniquities were commonplace compared to the enormities and atrocities of trusts. Mr. Van Wyck is of the temperament which rarelv resorts to the use of strong language, but this occasion was exeep tional mild mannered inen do not mince matters when they are dealing with assassins. There is probably not a post office in the I'nited States which was not converted into a distributing agency.

The speech wenl everywhere iu the I'nited Suites. It created an impression of Mr. Van Wyck. it justified the idea that there was in this country at least one implacable and uncompromising man to whom the people of the country could turn as a defender when the ravages of the (rusts became no longer tolerable. And the postal officials were still engaged in tlie work of distribution when ihe American Ice Company raided the city government.

Among those who were cap Closed. Sundays. COR. 20th ST. FIFTH AVE ESTABLISHED 1845.

BROOKLYN. Oxfords continue prime favorites their very neatness and gentility appeal to Gentlemen's Suits. Men of quiet taste. They're here in suits from the merest mixture to light grey $15, $18, $20, $22 and Suits in many other colorings of quiet tone, to Rivals of these are the Serges blue, black, single and double breasted to Fine Clothes, too, for the Little Gentlemen. Broadway and Bedford Avenue.

Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue. 380 and 332 Fulton St. Washable Hundreds of styles fare shown in our BOYS' DEPARTMENTS, pricesjR to $5.50. straw 8 A rand assort Hats Ement, reliable in 25c. to i.soje very particujar.

They speak tor themselves. For Boys. I Collars, Cuffs, Shirts, Neckwear, Waists, admit tedly the finest stock in the city. Men's Straw Hats, $1 to 52.30. First claoa goods.

None better at any price. AMTJSEMEHTS. Every Evening Os: Sat. A Tiirec Act Musical Comedy. I 5J lim 111! UB.S11 jTg SO PEOPLE 30 DB FIntbush Nostrand av.

Cars, Direct, 50, The Packard Commercial School Holds its i'Zd aniilvornurv and commencement exorcises at OARNKGIE ALL. THCKSDAY, 7. at P. M. AcMressps will ba made bv Dr.

St. Clair McKelway and Hev. Rupnc 11 II. Con well, V. IX Mr.

S. C. T. Dodd will preside. Former students and friondu may procure tickets of admission by applying at or sending to tin soheol, 101 Ease 2r.d at.

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I ttti ii i in i nil ii wwm inn mi i i i iim i i utifj FRKE TRANSFERS On SUXDAYS and HOLIDAYS same as on week days. 11ROOKLYM It A P1X TRANSIT. WEST POINT, NEWBURGH AND P0UGHKEEPSIE. GRAND DA1 (E.Wfpt Sundnyr BY I'ALACB IRON DAY UNE STEAMERS "SEW YORK" anil mm Brooklyn, Fulton St. hy Annex) A.

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May lis to June 5. THE DUNES OF GASCONY. They Eange From 130 to 290 Feet in Height. The dunes of Gascony are most remarkable. They rise, in one case, as high as 290 feet and very frequently rise to 130 feet over a belt of several miles wi'Je and 150 miles long.

Xear the sea the ridges He north and south, parallel with the shore. Further inland they trend east and west, parallel to the prevailing winds. Fields and forests were burled and the villages were overwhelmed by tho advancing sand: mouths of streams wera blocked and were pushed inland, invading and drowning Holds and villages. Now. says Science, after many years of experimental effort and nearly a century of systematic work, the advancing dunes have been arrested.

A halt artificial dune or dike runs along the beach with a very gentle slope to the sea. Here the wear of the winter storms must be rcpairod during tho succeeding summer. Next follows a protection zone, 1,000 tq 5,000. feot wido, covered with stunted firs and bushes, whore tho first strength of the sea wind is expected. Then comes the great artificial forest of lira and oaks, under whose cover the invasion of the dune has entirely ceased.

By a recent militia order British infantry battalions will henceforth be called regiment. Eoys snub rs. Fixings, STAR Telephone, 1004 Main. MANHATTAN OFFICE, 15C We know that French with three or four cavalry brigades and the New South Wales Mounted Riues, is well to the north of Pretoria, probably hanging on the' heels of the beaten commandoes that are now hurrying east to Middleburgh. The occupation of Pretoria leaves the military problem much nearer to Its final solution which will not be reached until the British control the country east and north of Lydenburgh, to the Portuguese frontier on one side and to the Limpopo Rivet on the other.

With mar auding bands threatening his lines from Heilbron to the Vaal and even beyond, Roberts will probably remain where he is until he has secured all he has won. In the meantime a column under General Hunter is advancing through the western part of the Transvaal, General Car rington is hovering on the Rhodesia frontier, watching the course of events, and Buller stands ready, with 25,000 men, to take a hand in the game as soon as the time is ripe for the forcing of Laiug's Nek. The war is not yet over, but it is nearing the final stage, in spite of the hopeful predictions of the few who cannot or will not recognize the approach of the inevitable. The republics, so called or miscalled, are close to the last ditch. They have fought a good fight, but they have not realized, by a long shot, the boast of President Krnger that their downfall would only be accomplished at a cost which would stagger humanity.

Considering the number of men engaged, the efficiency of their weapons and the immense advantages that the country offers for defensive warfare, the loss on both sides in killed, wounded and prisoners has been surprisingly light. John Bull's pocket is the chief sufferer, but. the expenditure in blood and treasure is a cheap price to pay for the splendid manifestation of an imperial spirit that has startled, edified and warned the world. BUSINESS NOTICES. The' must all have new Suits, especially those who take part in the parade this week.

Our Clothing for Boys is cut in the manly fashion that boys like made to imitate Our assortment of Suits for the little fellows is large, varied and complete in every detail. We would call especial attention of mothers to our many attractive novelties in Junior and Sailor Suits. Our prices are within the range of all. Boys' Suits (age 14 to 18), $7 to $18. Boys' Vest Suits (age 11 to 16), 35 to $12.

Boys' Suits (ase to 16). $2.05 to $10. Washable Suits, 75 cts. to Fulton St, cor. DcKalb Ave.

CALEB V. SMITH, Manager 440 Fulton Street. JUNE WEDDING GIFTS. The People Who Work for The Trusts. A series of extremely interesting articles by Mr.

Charles M. Skinner npon The Workers fur tlxe Trnstn, lian lieen bonnd up In book form In the Eagle Library No. 42 Price Cents. The coke, nibDer, paper, steel, electric trusts all treated at length; the condition of the employes, their advantages and disadvantages. Price 5 Cents a Copy.

SPOTTING. BROOKLYN JOCKEY CLUB RACES. Six ltaei To morrow lit SittO P. SI. LEAVB PARK ROW.V.

via Hro iklyn BrldRo and Mh nv. 13'lclyn every 10 minutes. Expresd BtoppIriB lit City Hall, Flatbush av. and 8th t. Htatluns only.

What About lIP the Children wholesale illicit enrichment of them selves. There is more Democracy than Tammany Hall, but the Democracy in this state which remains in the party is under Tammany Hall and does not, or cannot break from it. When Dean Richmond. Samuel J. Tildeu.

Daniel Manning anil David B. Hill were able to keep the Democracy of the state on top and Tammany under it. the state often gave to the party the control of public affairs. Since Tammany controlled the party, its state campaigns have been without victory and its municipal successes have been public scandals and public calamities. The convention to day signalizes the embarkation of the Empire State Democracy on a state and national campaign under Tammany ownership and Tammany odium, and the fact is humiliating, horrifying and ominous of evil to a degree that cannot be exaggerated.

This is a dark day in the history of Democracy in which its lespoilers are triumphant, its statesmen overthrown, its reformers scouted, and in which some of the leaders whom it has held in affectionate regard arc shown to have yielded to temptation, to have forfeited respect, to have used influence for money, and to have preferred the comforts of wealth, which cannot be explained, to the comforts of poverty, that needed no explanation, and to the merit of the love and of the honor of their fellowmen, that should have been held to be above all price. Is "Art" Worth It? Everyone must decide the relativity of values for himself. Cora XJrquhart Potter concluded some years ago that what she called her "art" was of greater importance than certain other things, among which were a fixed home, an established position among people com monly regarded as desirable to be asso ciated with, 1he company of her daugh ter and the society of her husband. She abandoned these things because she pre ferred "art" to them. In discussing the subject iu a letter to her husband she said that she prized that "art" higher than her life.

In view of all the circumstances the court has just freed the husband from his obligations to her. Iu exchange for that which she deliberately surrendered she has won notoriety as a professional beauty and has received the doubtful honor of the favor of princes, but we do not know that anyone whose judgment in such matters is worthy of respect has ever called her an artist. She has not the acting instinct and she has not had a master of technique to train the acting manner into her. She will not be known in the history of the stage as a great actress, but rather as a restless woman. And this is because in her theory of life the natural ties which she had once deliberately chosen to assume were of less consequence than the mimicry of emotion on the stage.

She is doubtless contented with the result of her choice and we need not condemn her. We desire simply to call at tent ion to the price which sometimes has to be paid for notoriety, for the bem lit of younger women who may have an idea "aii" is a thing worth making great, sacnlices for. In the lirsl place, one must be sure of the "artistic" instinct before deciding to gratify it. There are some young women who mistake vanity and an admiration for actresses as an artistic feeling and as a qtialilicniion for the success ful interpretation of deep human who tions. In nine cases out of ten it is notli iug but silly egotism which impels to the stage those women who do not have to be bread winners.

Even if they have assumed responsibilities toward other people, either a husband or a child, they do not seem to feel any sense of obligation or of duty. The supreme obligation, in their minds, is to their They are the people who talk about their talent so much that they forget to develop what little they may have. We do not intend to preach, with! the case of Mrs. Totter as a text, but It is desirable at this time that the friiuds iind parents of young women who are talking about their great gifts uncY their ugAFE" CURE FOR im.IOUS FLATULENCY. A 1 FO LIV ER ENERVATION.

UgAFE" CTTRE HAS CURED THOUSANDS. A WILL CURE YOU. "A FE CUR SOLD EVERYWHERE, ttgA CtTRE ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE,.