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THE BKOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1899. 5 MISCELLANEOUS. CRUELTIES OF SCIENCE. IK MEMORY OF BEECHER.

CHAPELL WAGNER. On Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the Calvary Baptist Church, Decatur street 'and Sumner avenue, Miss M. Edith Wagner and Harry Chapell, both of this borough, were married by the Rev. Dr. Needham.

The bride was gowned in a gray traveling dress and woro a diamond ornament, the gift of the groom. She was attended by Miss Edna Lane and Miss Daisy Edwards as bridesmaids and Marjorie Wagner, a pretty little miss, sister of bride, officiated ns flower girl. Joseph Buckman was the groomsman and Robert Sturtevant and Herbert Ivins acted as ushers. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs.

Chapell left for a trip South. Upon their return they will reside on the Heights. the result as stated In the doctor's roport and published with others In the New York Journal: "The boy, who had previously been a sufferer from blood poisoning, did not die aa the actor had anticipated, but recovered rapidly from his original diseases, and one week after the inoculation described he was declared out of danger. But by this time the pustules had developed into full sized furuncles. At the end of a month the boy died a malignant growth of furuncles." This boy, who miffnt have lived had he not been experimented upon, died horribly, doubtless after intense suffering.

Similar stories of experiments and revolting inhumanities committed in the name of science are at hand, but I shall not harrow the breasts of my readers by any further recital atrocities that are disgusting, repellant and horrifying. The question may be asked How are these black deeds to be accounted for? The scientist may say that these things were done for the benefit of humanity. But it Is conceded that humanity has not heen benefited, and science has no more right to commit murder than the men whom we restrain by law from Writers of fiction and poets are the best interpreters of the thought and life ot the people. The fact that no novels arc so popular as those which treat of religious subjects, shows where the hearts of the people arc. 'Quo 'The 'All Sorts and Conditionu of 'Robert Marcella" may contain little that is positively religious; but their reception shows that the people want something to sattsfy their hearts and that they are rendy to listen to any who dare to brush aside all that is merely traditional and speak of the deeper realities.

In this country tne best fiction has had a basis religion. "In the poets, the great voices speak. Who that remembers Browning. Tennyson, Lowell, Whlttler and Sydney Lanier, can think of calling this ati age rr doubt! These men were veritable prophets of God. Recall Browning's 'Saul and Listen to the refrain In 'Pippa Passes': Gof in His All's riulu with tin' world! That is the basis of sublime and deathless optimism.

Again, listen to this from 'Death the Desert': say the a. nt ot ilofl in Christ Accepted by ihy rit.en. hmIv for th, All (lUPsllnns In the world and out of it. And hath so far advjinct tlir as to hf wis'1. "I need only mention Whittier's 'Our Master' and the 'Eternal Goodness' while passing on to quote two selections from American poets.

Sydney Lanier was born of music. He seemed like a strain of music which hud become incarnate. Listen to his 'Ballad of the Trees': Into the woods my Master went. L'U'an forspent, forspent. Into the woods my came.

Forspent with love and sham'. Hut the olives they were not blind to The little Rray leaves were kind to Him; The thorn trees had a mind to Him. When into tile woods my Master came. Out of the woods my Master went. And He was well content.

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"Richard Watson Gilder has composed what he calls 'The Song of a Heathen Sojourning in Galilee, A. D. It bears the marks of being the author's confession of faith: If Ji sus Christ is a man. And only a man say That of all mankind I will cleave to Him And to Him I will eleave ulwuy. If Jesus Christ Is a And the only Clod 1 swear I will follow Him through heaven and hell The earth, the sea and the all "I must offer one more illustration the wonderful prayer of Robert Louis Stevenson: 'We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us wiii favor, folk of many families and nations, in the peace of this roof, weak men and women subsisting under the 'covert, of Thy patinece.

Be patient still. Suffer us yet awhile longer with our broken promises of good, with our Idle endeavors against evil suffer us a while longer to endure, anil (if it may be), help us to do better. Uless to us our extraordinary mercies; i the day comes when they must, be taken, have us play the man under affliction. Be with our friends, be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest.

If any awake, temper to them the dark hours or and when lhe iiay relurns to Us Our Sun and Comforter call us with morning faces, eager to labor, easer to bo happy, if happiness shall be our portion, and it the day be marked to sorrow, strong to endure it. We thank Thee; and. in the words of Him to whom this day is sacred, close our "There is much pessimism in our time. There are novelists and poets who are satisfied to soak in slime and to allow its filth to ooze from their pens. But this writing is not literature.

It is neither healthy, nor wholesome, nor sane; It is neither beautiful nor true. The Frog Pond is not Boston; the Bowery is not New York and the drivel of the pre Raphaelite poets and the foulness of the fleshy school in fiction is not the litera ture which is fashioning ideals; and it Is not most characteristic of our time. The books which are destined to influence the future, like the works of the great masters of the past, are those which treat of the hunger of the soul for God, for immortality, and for reconciliation. "This has been called the age of criticism, as well as the age of science. Criticism Is the scientific spirit applied to literature.

It subjects all writings to inspection and passes judgment upon all. Did tho blind old bard write our Homer? That is a question. Did Shakspeare write the plays which bear his ntrne! Some people, sane on other topics, declare that he did not. Thus the process on until it reaches the Bible. 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no farther," say those who identify truth with tra dition.

But the critics reply: 'The greater tho claims of any person or book, the more rigorously should they he Critics are like artists who discover beneath the dirt the dirt of a century, tho work of a master. 'Do not touch tho say those who' regard it as from the hands of a mediocre artist. 'Scrape it, and you will spoil they vociferously affirm. But the process of washing and restoration goes on, until out of the filth there shines a Raphael or a Murillo. Were those who cleansed that canvass the enemies or the friends of art? Such work is anala gous to the task of the critics who take In their hands the Holy flible.

and unwind one wrapping of tradition after another until the truth shines with a clearer luster. They do not study for lhe mere pleasure of shocking pious people. They are impelled by a desire for truth, and by confidence that it may be discovered if the quest is patient and thor ough. "The new movement in theology is a part "Peace Hath Her Victories Ns less renowned than ivar, said Milton, and now, in the Spring, is the time to get a peaceful victory over the impurities which have been accumulating in the blood during Winter hearty eating. The banner of peace is borne aloft by Hoods Sarsaparilla.

It brings rest and comfort to the wearT body racked by pains of all sorts and kinds. Its beneficial effects prove It to be the great specific to be relied upon for victory. Hood's never Salt Rheum "My mother was seriously af fllcted with Bait rheum and painful running sore. No medicine helped her until Hood's Sarsaparilla was used, whleh made her entirely well." HSS3 K. MAPLESTONE.

Dearborn Street. Chicago, 111. Tired had that tired. dull feeling, dyspepsia, headaches and sinking spells, hut Hood'e Sarsaparilla made me a new man. never waa better than now." JOHN MACK, 0 kaloosa.

Iowa. Hood's cure liver Ills: th non lrrltntlni? ana only carthaitlc to take will; Hood's Sarsaparilla. Father's glory and the express image of His! purpose. "Of this faith the first pnstor of this church, was the pre eminent prophet: the second pastor preached the same gospel with a sweet reasonableness seldom equaled and never surpassed, and we can offer no better prayer for the third pastor than that, holding fast to the same faith and filled with the sama spirit, he may speak the same positive. Inspiring and victorious message of the livins Christ in words adapted to the new men ot the new time." FIRST DAY OF SPRING.

Vernal Season Ushered In Yesterday With Warm Weather and Balmy Breezes. The blue bird twitted a suntc elate. Slnp ho for SpriiiK: sins hey Fprlner! And the swallow llitted tn tlnd her mate, SinK ho for Spring timr wrather. The pround linir Krunted his riht to remain: The erow eaw. 'eruss lhe mimr aljaln And the summer Kirl chanted this sweet Sinfr ho for Spring tim weather! (Vernal verses from the bard of Prospect Park.

The first full fledged day of spring arrived yesterday. Perhaps the seasons are a littla out of joint. May be winter has swapped a few dying hours for the more adolescent day3 of spring. To morrow may bring a blizzard. The fickleness of the weather just now deflcsi all scientific prognostication as well as ama teur forecasts and there is no saying what a day may bring forth.

Old inhabitants, however, and others less omniscient, believe that yesterday was really the inauguration ot spring. It was a Sabbath full of promise for a glorious Eastertide. It gave the people of Brooklyn to know that the period of hibernation had passed. Hence, all the re sorts usually patronized in the dead heat of summer shook off their lethargy and assumed the atmosphere of midsummer gaity. Early trains took crowds to all parts ot Long Island.

Many were reeonnolterlng tor summer homes and the villages and towns on both the northern and southern sides of the island were ransacked by prospectors ia search of comfortable abiding places during the warm days. It was not until the early part of the afternoon that the great exodus began. In the morning tho air was murky. Late churchgoers receive! a light shower. This brought a supply of fresh ozone and gave the soft breezes an exhilirating crisp ness.

So as soou as luncheon was over the real pilgrimage to the parks, down the driveways, along the boulevards and toward all local resorts began In earnest. All of a sudden the life in Prospect Park seemed, to have jumped over several months. A continuous procession of folks afoot came in the main entrance. Seats on the sun benches were at a premium. Troops of children scrambled under the trees regardless of patches of snow still lingering.

Younger children, in Infant carriages, were being trundled about in bev ies. for it was a day pleasant enough to risk the most delicate child out for a long airing. It was at the boulevard entrance to tho I park that vou realized the extent of this flaunted, a gay colored sunshade and displayed her Easter bonnet; sportsmen feeding good over the advent of a season prospect ively prosperous sat about and chatted contentedly: a stray member of some riding dub bounc I'lL uy in a inn. i vi. kwn iu en ifCuoig 'he norses must nave rcit tne inspiriting touch of spring, too.

for they moved by at a ready pace. Suburban trolley lines were doing an unprecedented business for this time of tbs year. f'oney Islanders had not anticipated such an overwhelming pilgrimage so early In the season. Each c.ir that raise turned out a full load, for a seat of a comfortable kind could not be obtained as far down as the park. Coney woke up to find it a summer day.

Other adjacent resorts were correspondingly patronized. Excrythir.g seemed to have waked up at ore time. r.vntnwn Brooklyn seemed to be peculiarly susceptible to this first day of spring. Everyone appeared to repent the idea of bein housed up any longer and took to the streets. They were, crowded wii'n folk.

all buoyant over the approach of weather. Of course, ot her so may The equinox may usher in the final touches of winter, but yesterd marloM (he era I ending of cold weather nnd brought alone the freshness ot the spring. MS. WHITELAWS LECTURES. The last of the scries of live lectures on! "The History of Mud''." by K.

Adolf White law, was given last Tiiursd.iy evening at ths Brooklyn College of Music. Franklin avenue. This course of lectures has been well Rt tended and highly by students and music lovers. The musical illustrations from the works of the treat musical masters were well chosen and formed a feature of the evening's enter', liutm nl. They were ably Interpreted by the following: K.

Adolf Whit law, violin; Mine. M. Deyo. pianoforte: W. Paulding He Nike, violoncello: Mrs.

H. Hen rickson, contralto. Mr. Whitelaw intends Kiving a similar course of historic muslcale at tho Hotel Andrews during the month ot April. SIDXEY'S FASHION MAGAZINE.

Ridley's Fashion Magazine, which ha? just been issued, contains ninety six profusely illustrated pages. It includes cuts of all tho latest styles in millinery and drees goods, as well as some interesting pointers in re garci to nousenoid furnishings, etc. will bo sepi JJree oa' Stories of Cruelties Tha't Seem Incredible, Yet Are Vouched For by Distinguished Medical Scientists of the German School Why Life Has Come to Be Lightly Regarded by These Experimentalists The Torture of Babes and the Insane. In La Vendee, that section of France which has contributed so largely to the bloodiest pages of history, and will long continue an inviting field to novelists of the historical romantic school, it is said there are still living gray haired French peasants who preserve the traditions of dark deeds perpetrated by a rich and powerful nobleman, the foulness of whose crimes against innoceney sent a thrill of horror through the breasts of even the corrupt courtiers of Paris in days covered by the dust of centuries. These peasants tell of a marshal of France who ia public professed great piety, but privately, In the seclusion of his Vendeean castle, practiced the arts of diabolism and worshiped at the feet of a grim, brazen imago, erected to the glory of the Evil One the great Barran Sathanas.

Crockett, a popular Scotch novelist, has elaborated this Vendeean tradition in his latest novel, and tells us how Marshal Gilles de Retz sought to perpetuate his life by sacrificing upon the altars of Sathanas the lives of Innocent children and by drinking their, blood; how his black crimes were brought to light when two fair and stainless Scottish maidens were rescued from the altar of death by the soldiers of Duke John of Brittany and a mob of peasants, many of whose children Tiad been offered up in sacrifice to the powers of darkness by this human fiend who preyed only on the pure in heart. It is but a few weeks, ago that Germany, and, indeed, the whole civilized world, was shocked by disclosures concerning a series of experiments made by medical men in the hospitals of Vienna. It was disclosed by the written reports of some of the experimenters, and the testimony of others, that for the purpose of testing the soundness of certain medical theories, various patients of whom it was assumed no hope of recovery could be entertained were subjected to experiments which caused great agonies, terminated only by death; that others who might have lived were actually murdered by science. In the report of the medical staff of the Public Insane Asylum at Balduna, Austria, the results ot experiments with hyoscyamine sulphate administered to helpless patients is thus described: "Painful swelling of the spot where the Injection had been made, the swelling lasting a week or longer; difficulty of breathing, Inability to swallow, torturing dryness in mouth and throat, unquenchable thirst, sleep reduced to one or one and a half hours, terrible pains during the night, loss of appetite, loss ot flesh. "While we generally did not experience much difficulty when inoculating patients, they fought like wild men when an Injection of hyoscyamine sulphate was threatened.

Many also asked the doctors on their bended knees to rather let them die than Inject them with this awful medicine." Many crimes have, undoubtedly, been committed in the name of religion, and its enemies are ever recalling these crimes by way of discrediting its claims to the confidence of mankind, yet in the annals of profane or sacred history nothing can Tje found to match the refinement of torture devised by science. Was there ever anything more cruel In the days of thumb screws and the rack than the cruelty depicted in the foregoing extract: Men from whose minds the light of reason had fled yet still sensible to pain, pleading on bended knees for death rather than subjection to medical torture. Their pitiful cries disregarded, the poisons administered, then Tinlnfnl swellings. ehokiriE throats, linnnench in mouth and throat, sleepless days and nights, and in some cases a happy release by death from all these acute sufferings. This iB not the language of emotionalism or sensationalism; it is the cold language of science.

Herod slaughtered the babes of Bethlehem; the unspeakable Turk has from lime to time sated his bloody passions with the blood of childhood; the red man has burled his knife In the breast of sucking innocents or scattered their brains with his tomahawk, and we have all recoiled from these deeds of deviltry. But in these day3 wo bow respectfully to science even though its hands are red with the blood of helpless children, men and women prostrate with disease, and tho blood ot the most unfortunate of mankind the insane. Giles de Retz drank of and bathed in the warm blood of childhood, in the hope that he might perpetuate his beastly life. That Is the authentic story which comes to us from remote centuries. Listen to what Dr.

Jason of the Charity Hospital, Stockholm, says ia one of his recent reports: "When I began my experiments with black smallpox poison, I should, perhaps, have chosen animals for the purpose. But the most fit subjects, calves, were obtainable only at considerable cost. There was, besides, the cost of their keep, so I concluded to make my experiments upon the children of the foundlings' home and obtained kind permission to do so from the head physician. Professor Medin. "I selected fourteen children, who were inoculated day after day until the poison acted upon them.

These experiments were continued for one year. Afterward I discontinued them and used calves for the purpose. The first calf employed had to be killed after several inoculations, because they brought on acute diarrhoea. I did not continue my experiments on calves long, once because I despaired of the hope to gain my ends within a limited period, and again because the. calves were so expensive.

I intend, however, to go back to my experiments in the foundling asylum at some future time." And this disciple of medical science declares that calves are more expensive than foundlings for the purposes of experiment. A calf is of some value; the life of a foundling is ot less value than the life of a calf! That is a declaration of which science should not be proud. Oue can easily imagine the cry of indignation which would go up from a community in which any defender of religion might make such an atrocious declaration concerning the value of human life. The German papers tell us of doctors who have planted the bacilli of ulcers in healthy baby girls, and of pauper women subjected to the same inhuman experiments. Dr.

K. Menge, assistant at the Royal University Clinic for women in I.eipsic, writes of his experiments upon thirty five pauper women and three new born babes. Dr. B. Kroenig I of his experiments upon eighty two pauper I women awaiting confinement.

In those hours most sacred to all women of high or low degree, these victims of poverty and science have had the germs of ulcers planted in their poor bodies. The statement seems incredible, but ii iiti w. luc 0iimlv i ueau crimes. l. In one of tho Vienna hospitals there was a bov suffering from a dise se of the ear and blood poisoning.

Dr. Schii melbusch trans planted into this poor lad's rV; a quantity of furuncle bacilli, such as are productive of malignant bolls or inflammatory vtumors. Note of of in I i I Special Services Held in Plymouth Church With a Large Congregation Attending. REV. DR.

BRADFORD'S ADDRESS. He Beviews the Changes Which Time Has Wrought in Various Fields. Impressive services, in commemoration of the twelfth anniversary of the death of Henry Ward Beecher, were held yesterday morning in Plymouth Church. The congregation was unusually large. The organ prelude consisted ot a larghetto from Schumann's "Symphony in Flat," which was followed by the congregational hymn, "Come, We That Love." The lesson was read by the Rev.

Horace Porter and the pastoral prayer was made by the Rev. Dr. Amory H. Bradford of Montclalr, X. J.

Before his commemorative address Dr. Bradford said that the noticed by the newspapers that he was expected to preach a historical eermon on the life and work of Henry Ward Beecher. He was not prepared, he said, to review at length the work ot one whose power and influence was felt not only In Brooklyn, but throughout th3 world. Continuing, Dr. Bradford said: "Twelve years ago to day the first minister of this church, the chief citizen of this city and the greatest orator and preacher of this country, was laid to rest in your beautiful Greenwood.

For nearly forty years he had ministered to this people with the sympathy of a pastor and the zeal of a prophet. When he came to Brooklyn he was comparatively unknown; when he closed his eyes, no preacher in the world was more widely known. Then Brooklyn was a large suburban village; when he died, it was the third or fourth city of the republic. The years of his service were eventful years. Within that period slavery waa abolished; the nation became a world power; science made its most wonderful discoveries; the wave of critical thought reached these shores; theological thinking was transformed; the old boundaries of thought faded, and new and larger horizons appeared.

A few weeks before he died, Henry Ward Beecher lectured In the church of which I am pastor. After the lecture he insisted on walking to the station. In his fatherly way, he put his arm around my neck, and, as we walked, he said: 'Just think of it I have been pastor of Plymouth Church tor nearly forty years; but I shall not be so much longer. I wonder who will take my If I could have answered: I Your own spiritual child the man who has ui. lining hi jou.

annua all these years Lyman Abbott will take your place, I am sure the old man would have stopped me on the street, and, while his soul rose into his voice, would have answered: 'Are you sure? Then I have no doubt the work will not The next time I looked upon that kingly face, the eyes were closed and the voice was hushed. "The second paetor of this church as naturally came to his position as Ellsha succeeded Elijah. And the eleven years of his ministry were as remarkable and surprising as those that preceded. How well I remember the night when it was my privilege and honor to deliver one of the addresses when Dr. Abbott was Inducted into his high service.

Mr. Beecher had gone. Bishop Efrooks, the "spiritual splendor of the American pulpit," was here. He, too, was soon to enter his larger ministry. Who among us, then, would have dared to dream that both Beecher and Brooks would find a worthy successor in the quiet men whom we knew as a great editor, but had never thought of a great preacher! "And now you have called to this throne of power, one who, In his own way, Providence had been preparing to take up what Dr.

Abbott has laid down. May the spirit of God fit your new pastor, and my friend, for the work ot the third era in the history of this great church. How may I best emphasize the work of Mr. Beecher? Not by Idle eulogy. Little men need eulogies.

Prophets are honored by a discernment of the truths which they proclaim. The best tribute I can pay to Henry Ward Beecher. and to Lyman Abbott. Is to ask you to consider with me one truth which distinguished the ministry of both. They were optimists? And that, because above everything else, they were men of faith.

In no other respect were they so truly representative of our time. "This has been called 'An age of and the eminence of the authority hao led not a few to believe that the characterization is accurate. It Is not accurate. In comparison with others, it Is an age of faith. By faith, I understand a willingness to follow the intuitions, tho spontaneous convictions, the affirmations of the heart (always for good reasons), without waiting for the intellect to be convinced.

But faith is willingness to act where duty calls, but where sight Is Impossible. Few persons feel more keenly than I the baleful influence of current skepticism. One must be blind not to see tnat it has infected the well to do classes, penetrated schools and colleges and found its way even to factories and clubs for workingmen and women. This, I sadly confess, but this is by no means all that a study of our times discloses. "Let us begin in tho field where doubt is often supposed to held undisputed sway.

The impression prevails that science, in taking nothing for granted, in daring to ask questions concerning ancient beliefs, cultivates doubt. Exactly the opposite is true. The fundamental assumption of science is that something is real, and that that reality may be discerned. Who would spend his lite in wearisome investigation, if he believed, that, as the result of his labors he would be left In darkness? The scientist is a man of faith. He searches for something in which he believes, although the object of his quest, for him hae only imaginary existence.

Faith is the same whether it affirms the law of evolution or the Being ot God. Darwin used as much faith as Paul. The object toward which their minds were directed was different. "An astronomer turns his telescope in a certain direction, not because he has ever seen a planet In that field, but because the perturbations of another planet have led him to believe that if he searches long enough his efforts will be rewarded. The scientific spirit distinguishes our time.

Science is the affirmation by faith of an undiscovered, but discoverable, reality. When a scientific man reaches the deeper realities he bow3 before them, whether he is aware of their nature or not. One may say 'I have found no spirit in man. and no God in the If he has finished his quest and Is satisfied, he miit mimhered amone: skentie. Hut if.

with a willingness to accept whatever the future may reveal, he continues tho search for the reality, he must be numbered among tho men of faith. The proportion of scientists who are deeply religious is larger than many think. In the British Association, the Christian members maintain a daily prayer meeting. Lord Kelvin is an elder in a Scotch Presbyterian Church; Professor Young, tho Princeton astronomer, is, or was, an elder in an American Presbyterian Church. George J.

Romanes, after long wandering in the deserts of agnosticism, came back to a child's faith; Agasstz was a devout believer in God. John L. Gulick, whom Mr. Romanes declared had made more original contributions to the doctrine of evolution than any in vestigator since Darwin, is a missionary of the American Board in Japan; Sir William Dawson finds a divine revelation in the rocks; Asa Gray used to delight In saying that he was an evolutionist and also a believer iu the Nlcene Creed. If this is an age of science, It is, of necessity, an age of faith, because the scientist trusts his own intellectual process, which Is one act of faith, and believes in a reality behind phenomena, which is another act of faith.

"I turn now to literature. Here at first, the skeptics seem to have the field, but a thorough Induction of facts will show that faith distinguishes the literature of the age. Zola, Paul Bourget and Brunetiere in France may be skeptics; John Morley and Frederick Harrison, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Thomas Hardy and George Eliot may be agnostics. But they are not the sovereign spirits of modern literature.

Unbelief may dominate in France, but how Us It In England and America? The Scotch school of fiction is Just now the most prominent in the English speaking world. What a company of literary artists are included In this list! MacDonald. Stevenson, Barrle, Crockett, Ian Maclaren. All are, or were, devout, believers. Three of them MacDonald, Crockett and Ian Maclaren have preached as well as written, tho of in 1 A SHAKER COMMITS SUICIDE.

Cincinnati, March 13 Joseph A. Wilson, a young Shaker, has committed sjiicide at Whitewater village community, this county, by taking morphine. Castobia Bears the signature of Ckas. H. Fletchbk.

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DIED. ADAMS At Westport, March 12, 1S99, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, formerly of Brooklyn, N. aged 70 years. Funeral services at his late residence. West port, Wednesday, March 15, at 2 P.

M. Carriages in waiting on arrival of the 12:02 P. M. train from Grand Central Depot. 13 2 BALL Suddenly, on March 12, 1899, at Wood haven, L.

SARAH wife of Edward W. Ball. Funeral private. BEHAN On March 12, BRIDGET GARRITY, beloved wife of John Behan. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend her funeral on Wednesday, March 15.

at 2 P. M. from her late residence, 49 Bridge st. 13 2 BENN'ETT On March 11, BERNARD, son Alice and the late Thomas Bennett. Funeral from his late residence, Webster av raikvllle, L.

on Tuesday, March 14, at 9:30 A. M. thence to St. Rose of Lima's Church, Where a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of his soul. Relatives and friends Invited to attend.

COLE On Sunday morning, at his residence. 208 Sixteenth st, Mr. ALONZO O. COLE, in his "Sd year. Funeral services at Memorial Baptist Church, corner of Eighth av and Sixteenth st, on Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock.

Interment at Mahopac Falls, N. Y. 13 2' COVERT Suddenly, on March 12, 1S99, GEORGE COVERT, in the th year of hio age. Funeral private on March 15. DOLAN THOMAS DO LAN, beloved husband of Sarah Hlgglns, native of Lodge, County of Roscommon, Ireland, In the frith year of his age.

Relatives and friends are requested to attend his funeral from hie late residence, 7 Canton st, on Tuesday, March 'A, at 2 o'clock. DRAPER On Saturday, March 11, WILLIAM PERRY, infant son of Harry S. and Carrie L. Draper, aged 6 months and 21 days. Funeral at 2 P.

Monday. March 13. Interment at Evergreens Cemetery. FIELD On Sunday. March 12, JANE widow of Rodman E.

Field and daughter of the late John R. Marsh, In her 78th year. Funeral services at her late residence. 111 Pulaski ft, Wednesday, March 15, 2 P. M.

13 2 FISCHER On Monday morning, EMMA SARAH, widow of the late Charles E. Fischer, formerly of Brooklyn, aged 52. Funeral services at 3 P. M. Tuesday, March 14, at Closter, N.

J. Interment at convenience of family. Kindly omit flowers. Train leaves Chambers st depot at 1:20 P. M.

13 2 FORD On Sunday, March 12, at her residence, 8 Garden place, Brooklyn, MARY FORD, widow of the late John Bruce Ford, in the 81st year of her age. Notice of funeral hereafter. GEORGE Suddenly, on March 12. 1899, CHRISTINE, beloved wife of Thomas W. George.

Funeral services Tuesday evening, o'clock, at his late residence, ISO Hall St. HAAS On March 11, MARGARET widow of the late Frederick Haas. Service Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, at her late residence 118 Cumberland st. Interment at convenience of the family. 12 2 HALLINAN March 11, PATRICK HALLINAN, aged 32 years, at St.

Peter's Hospital. Burial on Tuesday, March 11, from 26 Cheever place. I1INTON On March 12, ANN wife of Robert V. Hinton and daughter of the late John Corcoran. Funeral from her late residence, 80 Second st; thence to St.

Agnes' Church, Sackett st, corner Hoyt, Wednesday, March 15, at 9 A. M. 13 2 HODGKISS On Saturday, March 11, FRANCES S. HODGKISS, beloved wife of Geo. Hodgklss.

Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend funeral services at her late residence, 692 Decatur st, Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening, March 14, at 8 o'clock. ROLLING'S WORTH Entered into rest, March 11, ELIZA J. HOLLINGSWORTH. wife of Ed mond V. Hollingsworth.

nged CO years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at her late residence, 247 Sixth av, Brooklyn, Monday, March 13, at 8 P. M. Interment at Hillside Cemetery, Plainfleld, N. at the convenience of the family.

KELLY On March 12, MARY KELLY, widow of the late Peter Kelly. Funeral Tuesday, 14th from the residence of her niece, 276 Warren st, at 9 o'clock: thence to St. Agnes' Church, where there will be a tolemn high mass for the repose of her soul. RATH JENS On March 11, JACCjBINE, beloved wife of Henry Rathjens. Funeral and services March 14, at 1 P.

from residence, 319 Nostrand av. Relatives and friends respectfully invited to attend. REEVE In memoriam, Mrs. ELIZABETH REEVE, died March 13, 1S9S. "None knew her but to love her." ROSEOn Saturday.

March 11, 1S.19, HARRIET E. ROSE, widow of the late Gilbert H. Rose and daughter of the late Harriet E. Baker, aged 65 years. Funeral services at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.

James Doyle, 67 Woodbine st, Monday evening, March 13, at 8 o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited. Interment at convenience of family. 2 SANGER On Sunday, March 12, SARAH MARSHALL HAWLEY, wife of Henry D. Sanger.

Funeral at her late residence, 2S2 Clinton st, Wednesday morning at, 10 o'clock. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. 13 2 SCHLUCHTNER On March 13. 1S99, KATHER INE SCHLUCHTNER, wife of Joseph Schluchtner. aged 70 years.

Funeral from the German Lutheran Church, corner New Jersey and Liberty avs, East New York, Thursday. March 16, 1S99, at 2:30 P. M. Relatives and friends invited. 13 3 SMITH On Monday.

Marcli 13. at the residence of her son in law, Petert Bogert. 1,711 Eighty sixth st, Bath Beach, ELEANOR V. D. SMITH, relict of Nicholas Everit Smith, D.

D. Funeral at. the New Utrecht Reformed Church, Eighteenth av and Eighty fourth st. on Wednesday. 15th at 2 o'clock.

Take Third av and Fifth av (West End) trolley lines to Eighteenth av. 13.2 BMYSEIi Suddenly, at York, Saturday, March 1J, HENRY E. SMYSER of Brooklyn', aged 62 years. Interment Tuesday at Philadelphia, Mount Mo rlah Cemetery. Train leaves Broad st station at 10:20.

SWEENEY Sunduy. March 12, 1S99. 152 Dergen st. after a short Illness. AGNES BERNA DETTE.

youngest daughter of Marguret and the late Owen Sweeney. Services at the Church of St. Agnes, Sackett and Hoyt sts, Tuesday afternoon, at o'clock. Interment at the convenience of family. WISDOM On March 12, MARGARET WISDOM widow of the late Robert A.

Wisdom. 'Funeral services Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, at me 1 atutincc ot ner son, 4C0 Putnam av, Brooklyn. UNDERTAKERS. THE STEPHEN MERRITT BURIAL 211 24S West 23u st. undertakers, embalmers and funeral directors; special attention given to suburban calls' prompt service day and night.

Telephone 18th st: cable, "Undertaker, New Established 1S47. killing men and women In sweatshops. Another question naturally suggests itself: Why is human life valued so lightly in these German hospitals? The answer may be found the fact that the German scientist has come to regard men and women of the lower classes as no better than so many four legged animals, not as valuable, when foundlings are compared with calves, so it seems from the testimony of one doctor. Germany is the home of the materialistic school. Most of the Ger man scientists do not believe in the Immortality of the soul.

Therefore human life Is lightly estimated. All that they lo is done In the sacred name of science; Christian "superstition" is in no way linked with these crimes. These killers of babes and torturers of the In sane and helpless are cold blooded rational ists ot that school which acknowledges alle giance only to what our agnostic friends are fond of poetically characterizing as the fade less stars of Reason and Science. MUL. FATHER NUGENT'S LECTURE.

A Priest From Xes Moines, Iowa, De livers the Augustus Graham Ser mon Before the Institute. The Rev. Father JOBeph F. Nugent, who delivered the third lecture In the Augustus Graham course Saturday night, comes from Des Moines, and has considerable fame as a lecturer in the West. Brilliancy and research were the points chiefly noted In his commendation by the Rev.

Father E. W. McCarthy In an introductory speech; but a Oltic gift of utterance and a peculiar faculty of seizing upon and poetically expressing the analogies In nature seemed the constituent elements ot a power which held the rapt attention of an audience for over an hour and a half with an exposition of the wisdom ot God as manifested in his work. "It seems," began Father Nugent, "as if nothing will satisfy the human intellect short of what we might call 'a life size portrait of uoav The fact Is that in all religions thels tic or polytheistic there has been recognized a someone without us greater than we, and a someone within us Infinitely smaller than He. That someone without us seeks to make himself known to us in one way or another.

He has written His name in hieroglyphs on every rock, in the heavens and over the whole universal world. It is easier to conceive ot a photographer making elaborate preparations for a picture and then leaving out the sensitized glass than it is to conceive of God creating man and failing to sensitize the mind of man to the divine beauty and goodness. "I am asked the question by many persons, 'Why cannot I believe?" Christ gave the right answer to that inquiry when questioned by the Pharisees. He said in effect: 'You have the camera of the Intellect; there is nothing the matter with your Intellect as a camera. You set Its face toward God and say that you want to see Him; but you cannot, because you have sensitized the glass with your own pride and The difficulty with the Infidel's idea of a God is that he has sensitized the glass of his consciousness from the inside and has obtained a life size portrait of his intellectual self." The speaker took up the fin de siecle objec tion to the God of the Old Testament as being unsympathetic or positively cruel in his acts and temperament.

Thv temple of nature, he declared, is as beautiful as the deist has painted it; but there is not one corner of that beautiful temple that is not a cruel slaughterhouse, a bloo iy shambles. Life in all its multifarious forms is nothing but a kind of stall feeding or preparation for death; death being the only thing In nature that lives permanent and secure. If the Jehovah of thq Old Testament be charged with cruelty, how much greater the indictment against the God of nature who allows death and destruction thus to flourish! We must understand, primarily that the master has the right to the disposal of his own property. God can do what He wills with His own. The treasures of the Egyptians and the lives of the Canaan ltes are His to be disposed of.

There isn't a bit of humanly devised machinery, the speaker declared, a feat of human engineering, that is not a plagiarism from the workshop of Nature. What plumbing or sanitary scheme can be faintly compared to that of the ocean The sun, a great gilded dynamo; the gulf stream, a giant hot water pipe bringing warmth to European shores; the Arctic current, returning with the cold water to feed the hot water boiler at tho equator; finally, the northern icebergs dlrtfing southward and furnishing the ice water, so to speak, for the engine room. Or, take the pile driver, one of the oldest mechanical contrivances in nature. Both In the natural and in the artificial machine the work is done by the evaporation ot water. But God, in making the clouds and causing the rain, uses the direct action of sunlight; whereas we have to extract the old rays of the sun from coal.

We use piston head and connecting rod to convey the force. God dispenses with both. The world is entirely out of balance, yet from that lack of balance springs the essence of harmony. If the ocean were in balance it would be a stagnant If the air were in balance it would be a putrid mass; if the pendulum did not move there would be no motion. Evaporation causes tho water at the equator to be heavy and salt; the water in the Arctics is light and comparatively fresh.

There is a difference of weight between the dense, salt water and the light, fresh water; result, ocean currents. The warm air going up from the heated earth displaces the colder air above, as a result of which we have atmospheric changes, current? and windB. The Desert of Sahara, for which some persons can see no use whatever, is an Immense heating pan in wnjen tne stretenes fl sand are used for gathering and emieontrating the sun'e heat; it is a gulf stream made, of air and sand instead of water. The country around it blossoms like the rose. In conclusion the sneaker did not err by understating the case against the cruelty of nature.

"God," ho said frankly, "seems to huve founded everything on tho principle of a duel a bitter, deally duel, in which He acts as second to both parties. Thisniust bo eitaer tae result of working of natural law or it must be part of the plan of crea tion. If It is the working out of natural law 'whatever is. is rlsht' a conclusion that tho sympathetic mind cann it well accept. We must believe that there is some place where all this will be made ri.it "God has so arranged creation that no one species can possibly duminatc the world.

He has never allowed any to be killed oft till its mission has been fulfilled. Good theologians recognize that Cod Is continuously in the process of creation. He has not created the acorn and left It v. ith a constitution and bylaws whereby it grow up of itself: plans and specifications of form and species are there, but the Maker is present, in every step ot tne work. is not only tne architect, He is the hoi! carrier, the brick layer the carpenter: He mixes tne paints and ap plies the colors.

Long continued applause followed the ad dress and a vote of thanks was, on motion of ratner iieaimy etu rieu. EIRE IN ALASKA TOWN. Seattle. March in Half a block of rrt Dawson. Alaska, was destroyed by fire on L'eDruarv to.

me losa ucirreKaiinir s.iu.u mi. A quantity of merchandise was stolen from the burned building. Jamaica. I. (Tel.

23 Jamaica). I. Opposite the depot Manhattan Hi Wall at, third floor, room 32; )5U Ilroadwuy (Tel. 2115 ISth st), World BuildiiiK (Tel. 23 Cortlandt), 241 Colnmlms av, near 71xt st, and 123th st, near Sth av.

BIFIU3.VUS: Paris Bureau, SO line Camion; Washington Bureau, Fourteenth st (Tel. 1569 Washington): Information Darean, Rooms 28. and 3U, Eagle Building (Tel. 2230 Main). COMING EVENTS.

Edward W. Hatch, one of the justices of the appellate division, second department, will be the guest of the Phi Delta Phi Law Club at the Hotel Marlborough this evening. A regular meeting of the War Veterans and Sons' Association will be held In the old council chamber, borough hall, on Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock. The men of Puritan Church will give a sociable to friends of the church on Thursday evening In the new chapel. There will be music and refreshments.

HOTEL ABBIVALS. Clarendon J. C. Stewart. Englewood; Mr.

and Mrs. C. J. Smith. Philadelphia; H.

D. Palthese. Marie Dressier, Miss A. Xeelsen, B. F.

Jacobs, New York; J. D. Brooks, J. F. Mallcry, Savannah: V.

G. Price, Kingston; R. W. Grant, city; D. Carrion, Porto Rico; W.

S. Moyle. New Haven; E. S. Brotherwlck.

city; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dean, Baltimore; A.

H. SInnott, T. G. Hamburger, New York; J. B.

Malone, J. Fallabe. city; C. M. Chadbolt, W.

A. Mcrley, New York; Will lam Bailey, Williamsport; J. P. Glbbs. Mr.

and Mrs. W. E. Macgunn, New city; P. S.

New klrk, Montlcello; J. Demarest, Henry Ward, city. St. George Lolle E. White.

Southampton, England; Mr3. P. Barron. Willlmantlc, G. W.

Chopin. Hartford, A. B. Levey, J. S.

Zernom, New York; R. Herndon, Boston; Ida Bernard. Mr. and Mrs. M.

S. Snow, Mr. and Mrs. S. E.

Johnson, New York: C. W. Stetson, Ban gere; J. G. Delaney, New York.

Brandon M. Anderson, Mrs. A. C. Gibson, Will lam D.

Kobbe. William R. Coleman. T. Both, S.

A. Morrow, P. McCarthy. William Morvok. C.

P. Rogers, J. B. Staley, C. G.

Waters, J. D. Strylar, Brooklyn; E. .1. Stanford, William H.

Gray, William Gordon, John Ferguson. O. H. Phelps. Joseph Daly, J.

B. Fredericks. William Scllve, New York City. J. C.

Horn. W. H. Pi M. K.

Porter, G. B. Barton. J. Bailey.

J. Williams. Newark, N. Edwin B. Slade.

Topeka, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clayton, J. J. Coleman, Jersey City.

Samuel Bunce, SmLihtbwn, L. I. Mark E. Hereey. Boston.

W. F. Rollins. Philadelphia, W. J.

Kerngood, Mr." and Mrs. Dave Liewls, Mr. and Mrs. J. P.

Mitchell, Mitchell sisters. Florie filadfson: Daniel DIas, St. John, N. B. Frank Powers.

Westbury, L. I. Plerrepont S. H. Chadwiek, H.

Cragg. Brooklyn; H. Tut'hlll. Eastport; Emll Remeny, W. P.

Shipley, Philadelphia, I. Linn, Washington. D. C. Mrs.

John H. DIck ensan, San. Francisco, R. B. Griffith.

W. Fisher, Philadelphia, William E. Dey, Dutch Neck, N. George Davidson, Trenton, N. J.

PAEIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. From the Eagle Paris Bureau, 26 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy of i Abraham Straus. Black satin gown, skirt trimmed with two Bounces of black lace, yoke In waist of white chiffon, and trimmed with black lace, belt and collar of black velvet. INSTITUTE CALENDAR TO DAY. Department of microscopy lecture by Dr.

Smith Ely Jelllffe of New York on Structure of the Vegetable illustrated by lantern photographs. Art Bulldlnz. P. M. Department oC zoolonry Section on conchology, Meeting of members of the section.

Art Building, P. M. Department of geography Last lecture In the course on "The Countries of South America," by Mrs. Florence Jackson Stoddard; subject, "Argentine and Uruguay," Illustrated by lantern photographs. Lee Avenue Congregational Church, avenue and Hooaer street, P.

M. COLONEL SINN'S RETURN. Colonel William E. Sinn, manager of the Jlontauk and Columbia Theaters, has returned to town from Frederick City, where he went for rest a few days since. He was at his apartments at the Hotel St.

George esterday ana win De in nls accustomed place i the MontauK to night. of the critical movement. Its leaders are not I spring parade. Road house people and tavern skeptics. They do not emphasize their keepers early in the day had prepared for a doubts.

The passage of one school of thought rush. They were not disappninicd. Bicycle to another should brand no man an unbe clubs came out for their first runs. The liever. The butterfly is not a skeptic be path teemed with wheelmen, many of whom cause it no longer crawls on the earth as a I wore out to test their new ''j! models.

Tho worm. And those men who feel that they driveway was almost congested, have passed from a region of fogs and ml Observation from the road house at the ln asms to a clear and splendid intellectual I terseetion of the roads at the boulevard en horizon have faith in God and man that Is trance late yesterday afternoon would have positive and assuring. They are unbelievers led you to believe that it was a rare day ia in the old as best for them now. but they I June Instead of the first flush of spring time, have faith in the ampler world into which All regular summer types were conspicuous they have grown. the man with the bicycle faee.

who guzzle! "The study of comparative religion has i his summer drink and dashed off again down taught great lessons of the universality of the path at a scor. hiug gait the lackadaisical faith. The popular fads exaggerate faith in summer girl in the rn nsmlgr.itory stage God and the unseen universe, while the eru sade of charity and the missionary enterprise the n. st magnificent and inspiring movements of the modern world liave their foundations in a large and reasonable interpreta tion of God and His dealings with men. In the old times the cross was emblazoned on i you don't meet until tnere corr.es a mora the banners which led the Crusaders, and i sulubrinus tone to the weather.

In the line thousands walked under the motto, Tn this of turnouts passing it was not difficult to sign we conquer." But the ross as the power observe that a large per cent, flashed with of God unto salvation, for the life that Is as newness. It was their trial trip. The sum well as the life that Is to come, never had vehicles not new hail been renovated so many followers as In the year in which revamped until they were scarcely distills nineteenth century draws' to Its close. Ungulsnable from those Just out of the shop. This Is not an age of doubt, it Is an age of faith.

It is not the saddest time since the I Caesars. Tennyson did wri e. Hall Fifty Years but litter than that he wrote the 'Crossing of the and went away into the unseen to the music of an anthem. "The millennium has not yet dawned, but as evidently, and more enerally and intel es. men are living ligently man in oiuer by faith.

They are knocking at. Nature': door ns insistently as ever. No one knocks 1 1 at Nature's do who believes that there is only vacancy behind. The knocking Is a i proof of belief in the existence of the One able ami willing to respond. Is not every reverent, effort explore the universe a i prayer to Go.

I for a fuller and clearer revela tion? The eagerness with which men are i testing their beliefs and hing out for wider knowledge is the most hopeful sign of i the tunes? lhe words of Jesus have eternal significance: 'Seek an. ye shall find; kuock I nr.d ii shall be opened unto "To this una, ready and anxious to believe. but impatient of shams at: I cant. Henry Ward Mueeuer came won nis and Rra lous optimism. He was born into a time that nor ded man who caul i fee into the heart of things and a voice that never hesitated to speak the truth which the man had seen.

He was champion of many causes, a lover of his fellow man. a tribune of the people, a beli' ver in evolution, an apostle of the larger hope; but nil these 'were incidental to his faith in that, the universe at its center is naerifi i. and that the end of all things must be the victory of truth and right. His was the unspel for an age of faith an age in which men explain nature, and not only nature, but and what he does, and not only man. but God a gospel which began and onded In the revelation of One whose love enfolds and pervades the universe, whose care and ministry were as near and constant in the dawn of time as when the Saviour walked in Galilee or the cross was raised on Calvary, whose grace can fail or be defeated no more than the Almighty can be dethroned, who.

In the infinities und eternities, in His dealings with the world and with all the worlde is made known in Jesus Christ; who, In His unwearying service. His matchless teaching. His death and His vie torjr over thji grave, was tho brlghtaoss ol th i ft. 1.