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11 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1889. EIGHTEEN PAGES. A NIGHT ON THE COAST, THEATERS AND MUSIC. GALLERY AND STUDIO. A Protest Prom Picture Dealers Against Tax Discrimination.

well have all boon swallowed up. Dunwich on the coast suffer and ltecuorcr on the Kentish coaBt, once largo towns, aro now email villages. Tho Islo of Shoppey is fast sinking below the soa. On tho other hand, as a typo of many places, it may bo roaBBUring to know that at Far Rockaway tho coast in nine years has added 500 yards to itself, and tho anoient sand dunea, dosertod of thoir aea nymphs, begin to look like Lot's wifo, who turned back and becamo a pillar of salt. Tho little air holes that sprinkle the shed (whioh must not bo coufusod with tho shingle) was administering corporal punishment to the prima donna that tho tonor Nicolini carne to tho rescue and flung him dow.n stairs.

It is said in a loud whisper that Wilson Barrett Charles Wyndham, Salvini and tho London Gaiety aro not growing rich in America. JoBsie Millward denies the story that sho entertained tho Prince of Wales behind tho scenes when that august monarch dropped in one evon iug to get Bome liquor, and that she oxhibited a grovling deference to him. Tho Mutual Lifo Insurance Company is said to be the backer of Mr. Haminerstcin, manager of the big opera house in Harlem. Mr.

Hammer, stein was supposed to be ambitious of running a still bigger hoiiBO by the time tho World's Fair opened, but ho says that one theater is enough for him. The Christmas numbor of Fround's Music ana Drama is much the handsomest numbor of that paper ever publishod. It has an illustrated poem by Oscar Wilde, paners on the arts of the stage and of music, F. C. Burnand's "Spirit, of Burlesque" and capital portraits dozens of them of noted players and singers.

Edward A. McDowell, a ladylike and irreproachable comedian, and hiB wife, Fanny Koovo, who were onco in tho stock company of the Brooklyn Theater, are playing in Halifax to big audiences. They aro giving Halifax a chance to seo "The Colleen Bawn." "Itosodalc," "Moths and other dramas that Halifax has boon wanting to boo for a long time. Tho benefit business is carried to the same extremes in England as hero, though lazy nctoiB and rich managers do not so often appeal for charity as they do in New York. British managers havo recently been urged to impross on thoir employes the necessity for banking money whilo thoy can make it, not waiting, as they too often do, until thoy are in their doclino boforo thoy take any self saving measures.

W. II. Lawton, the tonor, who sang with his wife, Henrietta Bcebc, at (lie Amphiou, last week, was the pitehor of tho Leo Baso Bull Club, the champion somi professional team of Brooklyn a few oars ago. The club played at a Grand street park and beforo professional players begun Sunday games attracted immonso crowds. Law ton was a good pitcher, but after his marriage he abandoned tho ball field.

Julia Marlowe wisoly declinos to go into "saw cicty." She is trying to be a first rate actress and has not the lime to gossip and dawdle and dance and drink tea and wine with people who havo no audiences tho actors of our day. These persons and pleasant enough persons they are individuallycan bo themselves alone perfunctory creatures animated by what you will, bo it be not soul as capable to promote the art they hang about as the painted figures on its panels are serviceable to propel a coach. Were it not for the saving grace of the scono what would bocomo of these curious fruits of social touch? An elaborate setting, exterior or interior, if it conserve aesthetic principles, is of absolute benefit to mediocrity and cannot by any possibility be a detriment to positive ability." THE THEATER AT WORMS. This week tho season at the Volkstlieatcr in Worms, Germany, will come to an end. Tho house and the class of performance given there are unlike anything in Europe, thougji it suggests the Passion play at Ober Ammorgau.

It is called a compound of the Wagner Theater at Bayreuth and Shakapoaro's English theator. Popular dramas and translations of Shakspeare occupy tho entire depth of tho stage, with a simple canvas of a uniform color for a background. For other pieces the stage is arranged on the usual plan. Behind the spectators and far above them, opposite tho stage, is a huge box from which God speaks as in "Faust" and whence ghosts ariso. It can also be used for the orchestra.

On the sides provision is made for choruses. On occasions when they want the entire public to sing, as in Wagner's "Kaisermarsch," the people are led by small choruses which start simultaneously from four different directions, These produce a great effect. The opening piece was by Hans Herrig, the author of the Luther Fcstspiol, and was a historical and speotaeular drama entitled Three Hundred Years on the lthine." It includes the capture and destruction of Worms in 1 08!) by tho French. The performances occur at intervals of two or three days, and tho Emperor has promised to attend. Hans Ilorng'a drama is played by two professional actors and :200 residents of the city who havo beoomo actors for the occasion.

After the littlo second rate theater of the placn had been burned this house was built in by Herr Von Schoon on a suggestion from Wagner. It is supported by the city and tho Grand Duke of Ilesse is its patron. NOTES. Football is on the stage now. It in seen in an English play callod The Gombecn'B Gold." A son of tho Archbishop of Canterbury and a daughter of the BiBhop of Gloucester aro on the stage in England.

They iiave slated General Bonlangcr for a series of lectures in this country. Ho will be in the dime musoums next. Adelaido Moore will go back to England this week and will not tell tho "The Love Story" any more. Lester Wallaek will not have a statno in Now York. Tho project for raising money for one has been abandoned.

"The Twelve Temptations" will occupy the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Now Year's week and "Tho Brigands" will come to tho Park. Nadago Dorce, the young woman who is known as one of tho most industrious advertisers on tho stage, is tho daughter of Benjamin Goldberg. II. Vanderfelt will not go back to England, but will join little Elsie Lcslio Lyde and her "Prince and Pauper'' company. the Wost in Mr.

Bates' papar on reservoirs giTO one a pleasant outlook into a country whero thero ia bright sun and reBh air a kind of country that we aro learning to forget as one of our own possessions. A. F. Jacassy draws a numbor of pictures of Tripolitan tvpes in rather a hasty fashion; A. B.

Frost does serious work in Octave Thanet's novel; Howard Pyie has two pictures in Harold Froderio's Btory; there are sketchy drawings by Loomis, Fowler, Burns and Fitler in "Electricity in the Household" and thero is a fnnny story in picture by Frost. The. December numbor of Sun ana Kliade haB an ornate title representing light bursting through clouds and gilding the odgoa of a stone cross. Boufjnoroau'a "Madonna of tho Angels'' its copied iu sepia ink by photogravure process: there is a copy also of Holmau Hunt's "Finding of the Saviour in tho Temple" a mass of littlenesses, and of Jalabort's moro pictorial and dramatic picture of Christ walking on the sea. The other pictures are Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," Gustavo Dore's "Christ Leaving tho Pnotorinm," Geromc'a "Golgotha" and Holman Hunt's "Light of the World." Mr.

Fahys, of Clinton avenue, has added to his gallory Henry Mosler's largo picturo "The New Arrival," recently noticed in those columns and exhibited in Now York. It depicts a group of Brittany children gathered about a cradle and smiling at the littlo infant there, while tho proud young father and tho glad young mother Btand near. Mr. Mosler will remain in New York until tho Spring and will work at local subjects in the studio that he has taken at Forty fourth Btreot and Broadway. He is painting for H.

H. Warner, of Buffalo, a Pennsylvania corn husking by candle light, and is making studies for other American pictures. For Mr. Warner he also mado two pictures illustrative of life among tho Zuni Indians. The return of Mr.

Mosler. together with tho roappnaranco in New York of Abbey, Millet and Sargent, may bo indicative of the ultiraato return of our self expatriated celebrities, and they may conclude, as Mr. Tryou has done, that there are subjects enough for American artists in America. W. J.

Stillman, tho artist critic, ia Btill in Italy, and ho is represented in tho last number of tho J'hottxjraphio Times by a paner on films and a picturo from one of hiB own negatives of the facade of the cathedral in Florence. Edward George Richer, the clover young cattle painter, is now studying in Paris, and writes: "1 am doing my boat here with French soup, French manners and French language. I could throw a stone from whero I live to tho Arc do Triomphe but for tho police Nothing can equal the grandeur of tho boulevards and buildings and the neatness of the streets, butit is very cold, and the grates aro so Biuall that it is warmer traveling in the streets than remaining indoors. I am taxed double for everything becauso I don't woarwido trousers and a flat rimmed high hat." The French piotureB and Baryo's Dronzos will not be shown ontsido of Now York City, because die owners of the Millet canvases arc not willing to trust them so far away as Boston and Philadelphia. Charles Waltner has finished his third etching from The Angelus," and the etchings of inferior workmen, together with tho unlimited output of photographs, photogravures, wood cuts and chromos, hive cheapened a picture that was not a wonder in the first place.

Julius Geertz, a painter from Dusseldorf, who has taken a studio in New York, and has painted two portraits of importance: One of the lato Oa wald Ottendorfor, of the New York Staals Zei tung, and the other of Carl Schurz, which was recontly presented to theXiedorkranz. The wife of Charles Melvillo Dowey, tho landscape painter, has taken to painting, as many wives of artists do. Her specialty is roses. Wedworth Wadsworth announces his return to the Hotel St. Georgo from his country place at Durham.

He will give a reception in January. The Siailio has become a weekly paper, without pictures, but full of brightness and sense and The Rev, Miller Hageman De cribes His Experiences, Some of the Strange Things lie Saw A Contribution From the Clergyman Who Created ii Political Sensntion, Tho Bensational orator of tho canvass iu which Alfred C. Chapin for tlio second time defeated Baird waa the Rov. Miller Hagoman. His speech in tho Rink waa a moat surprising platform exploit.

He closed it with tho celebrated "Song of the Boss on His Bicycle," and loft au audience which was at onco onthuaiaatio, bowildered and delighted. Mr. Hagoman iB original. Ho revels in ideas which occur to nobody else. His imagination wanders whoro montal foot, so to Bpeak, hayc never trod beforo.

Tho weird and fantastic agreo with him. Strange conceptions chase each other through his mind, frolicking in outlandish comedies, squeaking and gibbering like porturbod spirits and striding through tragedies with avenging blades forged by no human blacksmiths. Ho wanders ecstatically through mythical halls where unearthly hospitalities arc dispensed. Ho breakfasts on Silence, lunches on Poetiy and dinos most sumptuously on It nuance. Among his constant and faithful companions are giants of immoasurabio height and growth and dwarfs bo diminutive that thoy defy dotoction beneath a microscope Shapes whioh aro ordinarily invisible have reality and substance beforo his eyes.

He spent a night recontly on tho Long Island coast and tho Eaoi.k is favored with this result of his experiences: Sometimes the ocean bursts out upon the view from off a heady bluff, a high cliff, a towering mountain, or a deep forest, but generally your gradual approach to it ia announced by the salt meadows, penetrated by inlets whose winding banks fringed with tall, deep green sedge show beautifully on a bright Winter morning, when the fog freozing as it falls, blows off, and tho Bparkling jewelry on the sedge uisttea heavily to the ocean. As tho tide comes in tho water rises slowly in those inlets and floods the gristle, grassed Hats until at last thoy aro covered with an inland sea. At'tor the wators retire, if you wall; over thoso wet tints, that dry moro quickly than any ir soil on earth, because more often wot, yo' lfl preBOntly hoar your foot cracking upon myriads, of hard backed sea fiddlers, a small animal resembling a crab and so callod from its carrying part cf its body hunched like a fiddle on its shoulder. Thoso little amphibia aro washed up by tho soa over the sand dunes on whose warm, sunny slopes they love lazily to bask and swarm in the cold morning. These lowlands are covered with the nests of wild sea birds, tho marsh hen, gallinule, plover, Biiipe, and ah the nests of Bnakes, They are swept day and night by harrier, hound and caglo in search of proy.

Skirting these meadows us a breakwater for the soa crouch the stolid sand dunes. Thoy weary me. They remind me of those gray old deities of Egypt, stvetohing away down her avenues of obelisks, that sit crouched up with thoir chins on their bands and thoir elbow resting on their stouo entangled limbs, and stare at you forever in stupid immobility. They are tho gods of the soa goddesses that over and run up to kiss their foot with kisses of hissing serpents; the NcreidB that the traveler through a voluptuous past may see, with their glaucous eyes, tormented in old tapestries with heaving contours and floating forms. As your eyes riso over the sand dunea the oeoan bui'Bts out on your dew.

What a picture, with its deep sky line, its Bhips with their distant trails of smoke, its long pathod sunrises and sunsets, its spray tosaod light houses, its waterspouts, thoso stalactites and stalagmites of tho sky, its dangling buoys, ita wild sea birds, its huge black bohemotbs coming up to breathe, its (lying fish chased by tho open mouthed dolphin that dishes it at last. And yet tho longer you look at this picture tlio moro painful becomes its suggestiveness. It is the great Bombrandtian in the art gallory of nature. It is tho cloth laid upon tho king's face that smothered him in his bed. What thunders it stills beneath its calm surface.

What Fingat caves of echo it hushes. What liquid lightnings it extinguishes. What bloody battles of monstrous armies it washes out. What cruelties, what enormities of organized ferocity it soothes over, and ambers in its cold, solid silence. What spendthrift splendors it darkens.

What serene flowers, what beautiful hanging gardens of gorgonias, algie, nlcyoni nins, llabelluniB, sponges and Rpotted corals, what enormous dark blue holothurias climb the high rocks, on which crimson soa stars spread out their long, radiating, immovable arms. What plains, landscapes, dales, hillocks lie out in those golden quiets, whilo over all the tall sea weed swells and falls with the heaving waters in gentle agitation as tho waving grain of tho hillsides rolls in billowy bloom when stirred by tho breeze. Then, t.io, what opaline tints of every color, red, intense blue, lively green and gamboge flash through those grots forever; the talpae, molluscs of glassy transparency, that, linked together, move in swimming chains; the heroes, that look liko living enamel; the dipliyae, so watery as scarcely distinguishable from the fluid in which they move, and the stephanomiae, which are, according to Do Guartrefages, animated garlands, woven of crystal and flowers, and which, still more delicate than tho latter, disappear as they wither and leave not a cloud behind them in tho highly colored vase which but a few moments before their glazzy bodies had almost entirely filled. It is thus that science hath lifted up this fnco cioth from the sea king in Ins hermit eavo, un vailed this picture and struck its plendid torch through these old dark Neptunian chambers until tho whole face of the smothered sea king in his bed glows like tlio azure grotto of Cipri. The most infinitely refined instance of the power of illusion iB to bo found in water.

Wo reach down over the boat to pick up the white pebbles that shine at the bottom of the Lake of Luzerne and know not that they lio down more than half a mile deep. We try to pluck the spotted corals of Miu dora and dream not they distance fathoms. Tho crystalino clearnoss of ho Caribbean Sea is so intense and sheer that to tho unaccustomed traveler a boat gliding upon its glassy surface secniB to be suspended in the air so that soon the head swims and goes giddy and tho person falls to tho bottom of the boat and knows it not from tho bottom of the aoa. It iB said that the dead never reach the bottom of the sea, but have been seen in clear forests of coral tittoriug from limb to limb and walking slowly down to theae coral coffined streets forever. As I walk along over the sand dunes down upon the beach I stumble on the ribbs of an old half buried rock.

Verily I believe him the old man of tho sea, so rides he down all wiio come to him with his silent, ponderous questions. But you can hear him answer his own questions if you are up in eloquent listening. In that rock lies the rainbow. Diamonds arc but lighted charcoals. How it glows on me now.

It is tho coin, tho medal on whose crest the antiquity and architecture of creation is struck to decipher whose inscriptions is tho task of science. It says: "Behold me, I am a gray historian. I hold in myself tho account of the creation. When the globe swung in space a ball of fire, as it cooled off it hardened, and I was born. Great volcanic heats burst out through the crust in seaming rents and fissures.

Aqueous vapors fell, and down went the seas to a corresponding depth And I came forth." That old gray rock has told mo moro with its langtiaged silence than whole tomes of dusty treatises on the cosmogony whose writora were so intoxicated with thoir own verbosity that even in the graves of their Boalod up volumea they can never Bleep off the effects of their literary bout. To be present at that rock is to be present at tho beginning of tho world. There has been from the first a steady process of evolution going on from lower to higher forms. At first tho sea only produced weeds, shells, Crustacea, then fishes and reptiles and then cetaceans. There has boon no backward, no broken step.

Tho ichthyosauri have given way to the aanrians and the giant saurians to tho dolphin and the whale. Tho soa depends for its coast line character on its shore. A bold mural shore makea a deep Bca. A rocky Bhoro makes a dangerous and deceptive aoa. A flat shore makes a smooth, shallow, running in sea.

Tho ravages of tho soa along tlio shore li.ivo given riso to tho inquiry. Ib tho shore sinking or rising? The answer is obvious. On some shores there is subsidenco, on others accretion. Tynemouth Caatlo onco stood far back from tho aoa, now it overhangs it. Soon it will drop over into it.

Tho towns of Shipden, Eccles and Wimp Elwyn Barron Discourses on Realism in Stage Art. The Local Play Houses In New York The Queer Show They Hare in WomB Bashful Actors Items. The amuscmonta offered, at tho principal honsca Brooklyn this week arc aa follows. OhriBtmas matinees will be given at each house. ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

Three rare good actors will appear at the Academy on the first three nights of this week and at the Christmas matinee: Joseph Jefferson, William J. Floreu.ee and Mrs. John Drew. Thoy will, of course, play "The llivals," and there are no actors cm tho stage who can play tho parts of Bob Acrea, Sir Lucius OTrigger and Mrs. Malaprop R6 delightfully as the three who havo just been hamed.

These players are not for all time, and opportunities to see them will never be over abundant. Tho centripetal power that gathered able actors into congeries of stock comDanieB has Changed into a centrifugal force that throws every actor into the provincial spaces as a star, bo soon as ho can twinklo. It may bo many years beforo three suoh able comedians are again on tho stage together. PARK THEATER. "Paola," tho comic opera that was sung for Bcveral weeks at tho Fifth Avenue Thoator, will be performed here this week by J.

0. Duff's company. It is the work of Paulton and Jakobow Bki, who are tho authors of "Erruinio," and has for its theme a travesty on the Oorsican vendetta. The tronpe includes Paulton, its librettist, as chief comedian; Louise Beaudot. Leonora Snyder, William McLoughliii and Oliauncey Olcott, together with a chorus and orchestra, and the opera will bu mounted with Corsican sconery.

I.F.E AVENUE TIIEATKIi. Old Humidity resumes his sway this week, and not only will humidity be shown in the form of tears, but there is a tank of it for tho attempted drowning ami rescue of tho heroine. In a word, the original tank drama, "A Dark Secret," will be enacted, with the original scenery, a suitable cast and a number of launches and canoes. Mil ward Hanlan. tho well known oarsman, will appear in the racing scene, and in the cast are Hudson Liston, Edna Ciiroy, Belle Stoddard, Belle Stokes, Gabriolle l)u Suuld and Clarence Heritage.

TUB AMI'IUON. "Booties' Baby," an English comedy, which is enlivened by a plentiful display of scarlet uniforms and cheered by the presenco of two children, will be played this. week. Charles Stevenson is in the cast, and with him is C. W.

Garthorne, a brother of the celebrated Mr. Kendal. There was still another brother of Mr. Kendal's known as Astloy, and tho family nanio of all of them is Grimston. Tho parts of tho infants in "Booties' Baby" are played by Annette Leland and Gertie Kiniian, once famed as a Fauufloroy.

while the ladies of the troupe are Edith Crane, Blanche Weaver, Vida Croly and Alice Leigh. llIOOKI.VX THBATBIl. Tho ballot burlesque of "The Arabian Nights" will be unacted this week with its original amplitude of form and brilliancy of scenery. There are marching and singing and dancing and kicking and! punning and posing and calcium lighting, ami the performance will bo given opportunely aB Christinas pantomiue. CltlTKHIO.V THEATEII.

This week James A. Heme and Catharine Corcoran Heme will be seen for the third time in Brooklyn this season in Mr. Heine's domestic and emotional comedy, "Drifting Apart." Each of these actors lias a fitting character and they are ably supported. The play is moving, yet diverting, and its ending brings a surprise. HYDE AND liEIIMAN'S TIIEATKII.

"The Only Leon," who is an impersonator of women, is a star this week; T. J. Farron, comedian, is another, and after them come Carroll Daly, Dixon and Lang, Itutht'ord and Guichai'd, the Wems brothers, the Moores, Leslie and llard mnn, Crinimins and Doyle, the Morollo brothers, Winstaulry and Howley, Johnson and Mack, Wyatt and Glover and tho Arabian Dog Circus. fiAlETV TIIEATKII. At the concert to night Harry Brandon, of Dockstader's Minstrels, will sing and ovor a dozen other performers will assist.

The variety bill for the week includes the McGinty and Rooney sis tors, Jinnies and Vidoeq, the Zanfrettas, in "The Brook;" Delhauer, Lester and Howard, Y.aura Lee, the Manvels, Thomas O'Brien, Arniand ujnd liaymond, Battcy and Ncdo, the Whitten Sisters, Amy Boshell and Tom Lewis. I Zll'f'S CASINO. Hereafter the performances at this houso will beigin at o'clock. Minnie Kchult, Minnie Le' the Amity Quartet, W. II.

Mastiu, Dan Quinn, J. M. Body, Marietta Myers, Pearl May, W. K. Lasher, T.

F. Smith and Kirclmer's orchestra will furnish an acrobatic and musical entertainment this week. To morrow night the trainer of athletes. Jack McMasters, will have a benefit. IN NEW YOIIK.

At the Metropolitan Opera House the German Bingers will give "Tho Jewess," "The Barber of Bagdid," with "Ptippenfee" ballet, and "William Tell," this week: "As You Like It at Daly's, Kich ard ausiiekl in "liiciiard fit at Palmer's and "Twelfth Night at tin; Fifth Avenue represent Shakware: the London Gaiety Company is at tho Bros Jway Theater in "Faust np to Date;" "Twelvo TVniotations" at the Star; "Krminio" at the Casi E. Dixey in "Seven Ages" at the Standard; "i Brass Monkey" at the Bijou; "Aunt. Jack" the Madison Square; The Bvlls of Haslenioro at the Windsor; Barry and Pay in Irish comedy at the Shenandoah at the Twenty third Street Theater; Ifurnuauu, the magician, at the Fourteenth Street: "The Old Homestead" at the Academy; Kajunka at Niblo's; German plays and opera at Aniucrg's; "The Comity Fair" at the Union Square: The Charity Ball at the Lyceum; "My Jack" at the Grand Opera House; "Hands Across the Sea" at the People's; Wild and Collier at the Comedy; "After Dark" at the Comiquo; at the Harlem Opera House Fanny Davenport during the first half of the week and the Jefferson I'Morcuee Drcw combination during the second half; Harbor Lights at the Third Avenue; dancing and wax works at the Eden; varieties at Tony Pastor's, Hosier Dial's, Olympic, London, Bowery and Dockstader's; Jewish drama at filling's and tho Thalia, and unfortunates at the dune museums. ST Alii'. UF.AMSM.

In a paper in tiie )riiiiuitir. Mirror Elwyn A. Barron contends against Boncicanit that realism is a good thing for the stage provided, of course, that realism be appropriate and decent. Says he: "If the scene be appropriate to the idea of the play, the interns! of the spectator is heightened, and sentiment is more completely satisfied by the general response to the unconscious demand for harmony which arises from every art sympathetic nature. The objection to an attempted reproduction of nature and material in tho appointments and properties of the si age is based, it seems to me.

upon a misconception of the cause of our artistic discontent. Tho value of a gem is enhanced by its suitable setting, and it might as well be urged that a diamond is loveliest in brass as maintained that, dramatic genius is most powerful amid the meanness and tilth of a shabby stage. The trouble is that the art of the painter, the cunning of the carpenter and the skill of the mechanician have been greater than the professional zeal of the actor. Though the opportunities for the actor are greater than ever before they were though his vocation has become dignified as a profession and elevated to a place coequal in honor with the pursuit of literature, of painting and of sculpture the actor has failed to appreciate his privileges and advantages, and lias not laid hold upon occasion witli thesinglenessof purpose tiiat insures success to worth. It is the misfortune of our drama that so few who make themselves its agents bring to their work souls and imagination, the enthusiasm of self surrender, the intelligent ardor of unselfish devotion to high aims.

This is an epoch of the self conscious, self serving. A petty vanity governsmore than a noble pride inspires conduct. Social recognition, of high or low degree, is tho chief desideratum, and the striving after BnccesB is to that end rather than to the further ennobling of a living, beautiful art. The emphasis, not the obliteration, of personality in theatric performance seems fo bo the study of tho majority of players, an hundredfold worse evil than the scenic ornamentation of the stage of which Mr. Boncicanit complains.

An i army of young men who are merely tailors' plates and young women who are but milliners' lay figures utter in soulless rotation what speeches they have learuod, not connod, and niovo beforo weary and absorb tho toppling croBts of tho retiring wave are the sea pores iu tho earth's surface causod by tho action of the water bolow. Tho soft jolly liko molluscs of glassy transparency that Bilver the beach and diasolvo with a pulpy sonsation beneath your heel, are a species of fish swept up from the Bea to bo studied horoaf tor. Tho shore of tho sea, what a spoil lies on it. What fresh wonders it discloses and always that freshest one left. What will come up next? What is that just washed up by that wave at my very foot? I stoop down and pick up a little sea horao, about half a foot long, with a niano, tail and oars, just exactly like any other horso.

It is tho colt of a unicorn. Up comes another wave and sheila seat tor their shining secrets in all directions. Another and still another, and bo on and around mo iusonsibly gather, in apito of my scrutiny, fresh surprisos of corks and bottles, and wine baskets, and broken nets and oars and hits of wreck and shreds of pennon and rigging, and sometimes moro startling uhreda unddon tho shore; a straw hat, a Btringless bonuot, an old shoe, a book leaf, a ring, a garment, a lovo letter. What sights thouo shores havo Been. Yonder lies a fat, slook seal asleep.

I throw a atone 'at him and ho smoothes off into the water. Close along tho shore, two weeks lator, as I think of bathing, I watch a long, black, bulging object move alowly and at last sot tlo like a shell fish in the sand. It is a shark. As it happens to bo that particular species known as the man oator I clriiigo my mind. I don't go in.

Half a milo out on tlio outing in tho early Fall I eeo through my glass that tho sea is coverod for a milo with a school of bunkers. Suddenly an immonso black trunk starts up out of tho wator about sevon feet and plowa this milo of bnnkora from one end to tho other, eating bushels of thorn and killing more. I can soo tho bunkers through my glass flash and fly from off its hoad and baok in all directions. It is tho groat sporm whale, about seventy feet long. Suddenly tho whale stops, and, with lightning liko stroke, flashes in au opposito direction.

What is tho matter? Ho has mot the sword fish. Tho largest yrhale ia as abjectly afraid of the swordlish as tho elephant is tremor struck with torror at tho little mouse that aometimos orawls up inside its trunk, in spito of which fact, how over, I still maintain that I had rather bo a beggar tho tail of alien than a king at tho head of a mouse. Yonder on that bright wave ia a sad sight that one can hardly look at without an omo tion of tho eye. Tho osproy is Blowly drowning there with his beautiful bright eye Btill above tho wavo. Ho has struck his barbed talons into a fish too heavy for him to lift.

And ho must go down. I hear his hoarse, sad cry of kao kao, and as ho gurgles down this grows longer and moro painfully protracted until I hear tlio bird plainly say care nnro. He is not the only ono who has plunged into riches whoso care was so heavy that it weighed him down. Above him a littlo further off hang a pair of duck hawks, ono darting ono way and ono another, and both crossing each other at short intervals on tho duck whioh they booh tiro out by camp, lling it to dive the instant it reaches tho surface and driving up on the shore nab it. Jn the moony midnight I walk alono upon that finest promenade on earth, tho boulevard of the smooth, broad, hard, white, eloping beach.

Tho spray cooled air, tho grand orchestral music, tho gently yielding surface all loud it their zest. The bnglit waves as they sheen up tho broad, smooth beach, and then slide back in bubbling blazonry, winking down with sidelong languid glide into the sea, are a rpleudid spectacle. But when tho shore Midwinter is fringed with its fostonnery of ico froth, and each one of those breaking bubbles shatters a star, tho splendor becomes in suft'orablo. Up and down thoir nuifllod beat tho patrol of the lifo station walk with their swinging lanterns, all night, by turns, going on till they moot the watch from tho adjoining station, and exchange checks with him, to show that thoy have covered their ground. Theso men arc looking out for wreck signals.

They havo a code of Hags by which they can spell off any name from a ship that they may wish to know. Each of these flags represent ono or more letters, and out of these letter Hags namea aro spolt out by simply changing their alphabetical order ro as to mako them spoil whatever namo is wanted. In this way you can talk to your wifo or mother on board tho sinking bark as closely as if you had them in your arms. Distauco makOB us all doaf and dumb mutes and what, at best, aro all our words and gestures, but signs made by the spirit to signal those dear objects of affection that stand off from us on wastes of illimitable mystery. A light gleams on the horizon.

A gun is fired. Rockets go up tho sky. Signal of distress aro thrown out. It. is a wreck at jury mast.

In a flash these minutely trained men are seen dragging down through the deep sand that snows tho broad approaches to the beach, on its broad wheeled carriage, the surfboat; the life car, constructed water tight, so as to run right through tho high waves on its endless rope, with its precious freight of women and little children; thu breeches buoy, capable of saving two persons at a time, and tho mortar cart. They rusli upon the beach. They begin their work by numbers. They bury the broad plank anchor in thu sand, set the rope box, aim tho cannon, fire tho twelve pound shot through tho shrouds, if tho ship lias any loft, with its long rope attached to a ring in the end of lio shot. To this rope is tier! a white board tag, with instructions to lash tho rope high around tho mast.

If there is no mast then they fire to one sido of Ihe ship and allovf for the wind drift and lash whoro they can. Tho writer has witnessed the thrilling spectacle of Having two wrecks and has condensed tho strong features of each scono into this free band outline. There aro other scones upon the beach sometimes that beggar description and whieh tho ocean alone has tears enough to weep. It was bright noon at night upon the beach, I walked alono along the sea. Boforo and behind mo I could see at some distanco tho approaching lightsmon.

Suddenly 1 stopped, as I saw, a few feet beforo mc. a largo black object clumsily wabbling down the whito beach toward the sea. I vomited my heart into my month, but quickly swallowed it; and, believing it to be somo intoii cated individual who had lain down to sloop off his bout by the billows, and, having turned over was rolling down in his stupor into a watery grave, I hastened forward, that I might, if possible, intercept him and save his life. I was too iatc, for, as 1 approached it, the looking object quickened its awkward, tumbling gait, and, touching tho water, after a few convulsivo strokes spoomed away. Aa it did so, I heard tho wild, idiotic laugh cry of the loon, and knew who my weird midnight ghost was.

The great Northern diver, like his close cousin, the crostod grebe, had been blown up on the high sea on the beach by the blast, and was sitting there waiting for tho tide to come up and take him off. But I camo up first and he fearing he would be gobbled up by a naturalist of the night, without being able to move (for a loon cannot start and fly from tho gronnd) deliberately rolled over and over down the beach until he touched the water, when with a loud satirical whinny he laughed back at mo over his left shoulder. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, and flow away. But still the great ocean gleams there, a censor in God's hand, to which all men should como from out the great city evory now and then for a baptism of power and poaco, and kneel down as kneel the waves on tlio strand to wondor and to worship, and to ponder tho tremendousness of eternity, as wave after wave rolling up after each other, repeats liko ranks of choired singers that imprcBRivo word, "Forevermoro," "Forevcrmore," "Forevermoro." ViYlh OW1CKKS OF COHPAKY G. The members of Company Twonty third Regiment, have elected those civil officers for tho coming year: Captain George W.

Middleton, president (under the code); Corporal A. Davidson, recording secretary; Sergeant A. T. Morro, treasurer: Lieutenant W. M.

Despard, financial secretary: C. H. Ponuoycr, clork; Board of Directors, Corporal Bernard Suydam, chairman, S. S. Nostrand and B.

J. Kollum; Room Committee C. E. Ififzolborgor and Frank E. Moudes, Delinquonoy Committee, Lioutonant William M.

Despard. Sergeant A. Gary and II. S. Rushmore; Itiflo Committee, Sergeant A.

T. i tJ 1 Morro, A G. Findlay, Jk, Samuel Burg Committoo, Lieutenant 1W. M. Despard tind den.

Tariff Hardships Warren Sheppard's Winter Work Art in the Manchester Schools Con stnntlne MaknlTsky's Finnnclerjns. Our foolish and unjust Tariff laws are going to breed troublo among thoso who have to do with pictures. It is all right, no doubt, for Congress to protect the gentlemen who como over here to mine ooal in Pennsylvania they aro living on dead animalB. rico and water this week and to make shoes, jewelry, cloth, paper and pig iron, but tho artists do not want to be protected. They have aoveral times asserted in bold language that they are of ago and prefer thoir work to stand on its merits, but Congress repeats: "Be quiet, little babes.

We will stand between you and tho big French bugaboo. Go back to your studios, and if tho bad Americana will not buy your pretty pictures, they at least shan't buy any pictnrea from the nanghty English and German and Frenchmen." This tone is galling to those who have freo souls and who cannot, bring themselves to look upon painting as the samo sort of handiwork as the casting of stove lids. Morpovor, tho laws pertaining to tho suppression of foreign art are, like all laws, so inaccurato, so wordy and so cunningly devised to give work to lawyers, that Micro are continual quarrels over tho construction of them. As one of the results of this state of things six of the best known firms of picture dealers in New York, and in tho country for tho matter of that, havo gone to Secretary Windom with a grievance, which is, that while they have to pay if 130 for a $100 picture, $150 for a $100 statno, the American Art Association, tho Eden Musee Company and the Boussod Valadon Company aro allowed to bring pifftnros, painted by these awful foreigners, into this freo country without paying duty, on the representation that these associations aro formed for tho promotion and encouragement of art. Well, tho representation is true enough.

Any concern that oxhibitB and sells good pictures oucourages art, whothor the art ia native or foroign. But it does scorn a little hard that when Smith JoneB want to sell pictures they should have to fight not only the pigheadedness of politicians, but tho Jones Smith Art Encouragement Company across the way, which is protected from protection by special readings of tho statutes. With tho personal clement in this quarrel the nubiic has no concern, but it has a concern in the abrogation of Chineao laws that dictate to tho people how and whoro they shall buy their ournonul belongings. Wo aro so ridden with laws that thousands of men and a few women mako thoir living by trying to find out and to porsuado juries what tho laws really mean, and what they claim beforo one jury on Monday they can readily refute boforo another Jury on Tuesday. The Bimplo business of thia one republic is conducted with clatter enough for throe monarchies, ami whenever a person conceives what ho believes to be a good idea ho rushes to Washington or Albany and trios by force of statute to make everybody else indorse it.

Art does not live in this sordid atmosphere; it languishes under restriction; boauty should bo as free as air and water, for it is a spontaneous crowth and not a thing of class or price. Tho way ont of the difficulty in which the New York dealers are becoming embroiled ia to abolish the eauae of the trouble and remove tho tax on art. Charge yourselves double for 5'our clothes, your pianos, j'our fnrnitnre, your coal, yonr firewood, if you enjoy it. Congressmen, but do not imagine that because a gift print, or a tea store chromo suffice for the decoration of a politician's lodgings that they aro equally acceptable to other people. There aro some who enjoy looking at pictures as thoroughly as you enjoy delivering orations on economy and patriotism, and thoy havo a right to bo considered.

Abolish tho duty on art. Warren Shcppard is not affected by the dull times that most paintors have good reason to complain of. He has a string of orders half as long aa his arm, and has hardly a picture loft in his studio, yet ho wants new worlds to conquer, and is negotiating with a London dealer to sell some of his work. Ho may go to Loudon in tho Since his disoovery that a Bpurtons Sheu pard who is a penniless irishman in New York has been selling a number of pictures bearing his signature he has stopped painting moonlights, which arc the subjects most frequently imitated by his double. Mr.

Sheppard finds solace from caro and toil in playing on tho vio lin, and the other day ho had a professional musician call at his studio to hear him. He. gave a fantasie from "Norma" and waited for applause, but the musician sighod and cxclaimod, "Poor Bellini 1" A committee has been formed in Manchester, England, to test the effect of pictorial aids to education iu the elementary schools. The common schooling is not education, not the drawing out of what is in the child and tho building up of mind and character from within, but perfnnctory stnfling of the littlo brain with facts and statements. The Manchester committee proposes to pique the child to indopondent thought and inquiry through the agency of pictures in the rchoolrooma.

By means of a set of drawings and views of familiar places and things they will be taught to compare and verify and to uoto details and beauties that perhaps they had not noticed in tho originals. By shifting tho collections from school to school during the term, interest in the pictures will bo sustained, and when they reach the upper grades of study tho scholars will bo taken on visits to tho art galleries, parks and gardens under lead of men who are qualified to elucidate what shall there be ncen and who will in oito them to furthor study and obsorvation and study on thoir own behalf. Constantin Makoffsky, tho Ruasian painter who is said to hold a secondary rank in his own country, but whose three pictures in Now York havo been so widely copied that he ia known all over America, ia said to livo in princely style in St. Petersburg, yet ho is like most artista in the uncertainty of his finances and will not touch brush to canvas unless he receives a money accompaniment to an order. A customer who paid a largo sum to him when ordering a picture asked: "What guaranty do I have that 1 shall get my money bacl: in case of yonr death Makoffsky shrugged his shoulders and coolly replied "Lottery Though he works only when he feels liko it, ho works hard and fast when ho is interested anil is said to have groat power in portraiture, an hour sufficing to produce a likonesB that shall bo truthful in its indication of eharac ter as well as its representation of feature.

Most of his painting is done boforo breakfast, for ho prefers to work on an empty stomach, and he onto his studio at 0 in tho morning, working sometimes until 11 before ho oats a morsel. Tho January numbor of tho Magazine of Art has au etching by Leopold Flameng from Meis sonicr's picturo of threo horsemen stopping at an inn for a glass of wine which ia served by a Iraxom lass, while tho landlord ioungos against the door smoking his pipe. The event of the Nativity aB pictured in tho crude, bad art of the old masters in tho English National Gallery is the theme of a paper and illustrations. S. R.

Koehler, who feels littlo interest objects less than a thousand years old, revels among the pieces of earthenwaro in the ethnological museum of Harvard College. There is a full page picturo of Joshua Reynolds' "Hope Nursing Love" and a largo engraving from Watts' portrait of George Peabody. There is a spirited self portrait of Carl Haag, with copies of his impressivo picture of tho Sphinx with a sand storm monacing a caravan of hiB bold, horn crowned Viking, of three of his Eastern subjects and of his less consequential picture of the English royal family looking at a deer that Priuco Albert has shot and brought to Balmoral. Wild Wales and memorial windows are othcrthemes for interesting Ilustration, and there aro several pages of art nows. Henry T.

Finck puts into tho pagos of tho Jan itary Scriinerw a number of dolightful portraits of Spanish women to support his claim for their great beauty. It is a groat comfort to know that, they aro handsome, but Mr. Finck need not. have gone to Spain to discover good looking women. There aro a few in this country.

Beside, intelligence ia conservative of good looks and that is why tho American woman ib still attractive at 50, while tho Italian and Spanish woman at that ago is a hag. Tho pictures of mountains, vales and waterways of purpose in life. Nor docs she seek notoriety through the press, and the first time sho read an interview with herself sho burst into tears and could not be put together agaiu without a severe struggle on the part of her manager and her aunt. For a young person of very modorato talent Paulino Hall manages to bo talkod about to a surprising degree. Her newest claim to mention in tho newspapers is based on her earringB that have emeralds in them and onco belongod to Empress Engonio.

They aro pale emeralds (nalo emeralds are tho cheapest that grow), and nor malcsty Eugenio, not Erminio wore thorn at the opening of tho Suez Canal to match tho color of the canal water. The irrepressiblo Jerome Hopkins announces that he is still in London, playing his pieces for the left hand only by special request, also doing "Oft in the Stilly Night" with two hands and producing his "Toffeo and Old Munch," which he advertises as "sparkling, amazing, fascinating, poetic, sprightly, melodic, humorous, touching, exciting, lively, pathetic, laughable, attractive, tuneful, declamatory, elevating and educational." Ho sends out circulars informing the public that ho plays 142 works from memory and that his stay in England is limited a gloomy outlook for England. Also he has lords and socioty people to preside at his artistic foasts. and has got into tho papers as "the most gifted cinpoaor of all tho Americans in Europe." They aro energetic in Punxsutawnoy. A professor announced that he would give a lecturo on Johnstown at tho opora house and would illustrato hiB lecture with magic lantern views, offering an entertainment that members of families might attend without fooling callod upon to blush with shamo.

On the evening of the moral allow tho manager of the theater went on the stage and told the professor that ho, tho professor, waa no good. Tho professor made such animadversions as tho occasion called for and the curtain was accidentally rung up, disclosing to the audience the Bpectaclo of two men punching each other's heads. Tho professor, gotting the worst of it, Slew up to the paiut frame and from that height heard the manager tell tho public to got its money at the box office as it passed out. The too deadheads in the house made a rush and thoy were paid, while the people who paid and wore not repaid think that slugging matches in Pnnxsutawncy come too high. On ono night Inst month a sensation was made in the Shakspeare Theater, Liverpool, by a man falling from the top gallery into tho pit in an interval of "The Laud of the Living." He was occupying a seat in the topmost part of tho gallory, but made a jump downward to obtain a seat in the front row.

Ilia spring was ao illjudgod that he fell over tho gallery rails and went headlong into the auditorium, whoro he alighted botween two gentlemen in tlie stalls. Instead of having every bono broken and seriously damaging those on whom he fell, he was but slightly injured himself, and the occupants of the stalls only receivod a shock. Tho ambulance convoyed him to tho hospital, but it was found that he had sustained only a slight injury to the head and was discharged. The manager came before tho curtain and assured the audience that nothing rerious had resulted from tho (incident. This is tho third occurrence of the kind in Liverpool thoaters within throe decades, no seriona result following in either case.

Tho man returned to the theater next evening and demanded roadmission, also requiring his hat. It has never been charged againBt actor people that thoy absolutely suffered from excess of modesty, but ihoy are certainly a less bashful company in England than they are in this country. They insert professional cards in tho dramatic papers and they hint to the public of their merits in terms like theso: Jenny Hill, the Vital Spark. A Star Among Stars, Miss Lizzio Valroso. Vesta Tilley, the London Idol.

Pretty Elsie Phyllis, tho Shrine, of Beauty. The Idol of Both Hemispheres: Miss Jlillio Hylton. The Phenomenal Vocal Wondor, Miss Clara Boll; Hurricanes of Applause. Nellie Richards, Charming Comedienne and A'ocalist. Not to be Empress, not to bo Queen, would I forfeit the title of Irish colleen, the leading star of Erin, Miss liose Sullivan.

A Novel Novelty, Vouarc, tho world renowned and incomparable Lady Contortionist. Bon Bon and Artmo: screams, yells, rounds of applause and cheers pulling down the building brick at a time. Mr. Sam Jesson, a Comedian: Great Success; Squeak. In justice to the better part of the profession, however, it should bo added that theso advertisers aro all in variety bIiows.

In praising the racy work of Messrs. Lloyd and Roscufold in "The Senator" the American Art Journal dispraises tho fustian that is written about old comedies and says that they sift down to a very small number: Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer." Sheridan's "Kivals," and "School for Scandal," all produced about tho era of our Bevolntion, and a few more, like the younger Colman's "Heir at Law," but who over hears of Sheridan's "Critic," Goldsmith's "Good Naturod Man," or Colman's "John Even that excellent comedy by the elder Colman. "Jealous Wife," has dropped out of sight. Vanbrugh's "Provoked Husband" is never hoard nowadays. "Wild Oats" was brought out at one of tho theaters lately, but nobody cared for it; nor is "Tho Poor Gentleman" a stock attraction.

Even "The Itivals" has to bo pruned to suit the times; and Falkland and Julia always were bores. When Mrs." E. L. Davenport made her Boston debut at the Musoum, it was in Knowles' "Love Chase;" but when now do Constance and Widow Green and Sir William Fondlove and Neighbor Wildrake disport themselves on our stage? Thoir very names are strange to the rising generation. Bulwer's "Money," despite soma capital pointa, is rather tedious and solemn, and its names bespeak the crudeness of its conception.

Tho few comedicB which can fairly claim to partially hold thoir place, such as "Serious Family" and "London Assurance," belong to the latter half of our own century; and Boncicanlt's best comedy, "Old Heads and Young Hearts," is practically shelved FATAI, KKSUI.T OF A JOKK. Lato on Thursday night Thomas Hart, an ex Piukcrton policeman attached to Glen Island, shot James Busk at Unionport, in the Town of Westchester, for playing tho McGinty gag on him. Busk died last night and now Hart ia wantod by the authorities for murder. Bob Slavin has left Primrose and West's Minstrels. Mr.

Dockstadcr ought to lump into his place. Wilton Laokaye has got work. Ho ia too good an actor to be long out of it. My Jack claims him. Alberta Gallatin will replace Grace Henderson in tho Lyceum company, and the thermomotor will rise in that theater.

Mr. Barnum, done in wax, now standB with kings and ihieves in Mmo. Tussaud'a gallery in London. When Pizzi'B opera, "William Itatcliff," was brought out at Bologna the author was callod out twenty five times before the curtain. A Philadelphia paper jumps at tho conclusion that because the Jimpross of Brazil has boon robbed of her diamonds sho is going on the stage.

According to a London paper Violet Cameron has, to quote tho commoners, got her eostumo down to a lino point. Tho paper Eya that she was dressed in a droam. Annie Pixley proposes to play "The Deacon's Daughter" in London about Easter. Ten to one the English will not understand it. "M'lisa" ia more American and comprehensible.

Hattie Leslie, a dainty little creature from tho lihine district of Cincinnati, announces that she has given up pugilism and will wrestle in any theater, only her opponent must bo a lady, too. Gustavus Kerlccr, a well known orchestra leader and more than a dabster at composition, has written the music, for Castles in the Air that Do Wolf Hopper will star in next May. Sardou has rcwritton tho last act of "Theodora" for Fanny Davenport. Perhaps in the revised version we, will see tho lady's head come off under the ax of the executioner. East Now York is becoming quite a theatrical center.

Barney Baldwin, the man with the broken neck, and fourteen other artists, havo boon exhibiting there. If Gounod's plan is carried out a choir of 4,000 voices will sing his Solemn Mass at the dedication of tho great new organ in St. Peter's Cathedral, in Home. An immenso volume of tone will be given out. Tin: dates for the remaining lectures on tho Niebelung trilogy by Walter Damrosch at the Berkeley Lyceum are December and 30 and January IS.

'JO and :17. Leo Goldmark, a Now York lawyer, announces that lie has the sole right to produce Wagner's operas, including "Die Fcen and "Parsifal," in the United States, Great Britain and the Brit sh colonics. Grieg's cantata, "Olaf Trygvason," that is to be done in Copenhagen and Christiana, if it has not been done already, is sot to a tjext bjy the ejele hrjatcd pjoet Bjoerustjernje Bjoernsen. Yet the Norwegians sing it without losing a tooth. The Boston Public Library, not the Players' Club.

haB secured the library of the lato John Gilbert. There aro about one thousand volumes and many of them aro rare imprints. It is seriously declared that mauv people in Chicago are pawning thoir effects in order to go to the opera. It is the poor fellows who are trying to Keep in the swim without, the means of doing so who aro forced to this extremity. Robert Buchanan has become an unconscionable grinder out of now plays, too many to bo good and not often based on wisely chosen motives, is newest is called "The Man and the Woman." He was hard pushed for a title.

Honry Irving is said to havo mado an influential if not an effectual reply to Mr. Holyoake, who recently proposod that England should raise $50,000,000 a year by taxing the places of amnsomont. Theatrical companies booked for Johnstown have canceled their engagements and will not play there again until the opera house, where tho fatal panic occurred on tho night of the nth instant, has been remodeled, McCann Flynn, the managers, appear to be out of a job. It must almost break the heart of an actor who is struggling along on a beggarly $10 a night to know that the ossified man earns $400 a week. But, then, the ossified man has to give Bix matinees and the actor only two.

At the performance given in aid of those who had been widowed and orphaned by the tire in Minneapolis tho programmes were printed on paper that bad been blackened and soaked in the conflagration. It was a grewaome idea and enough to breed a panics Dr. Spitler, of Carthage, 111., has succumbed to revivalists. He owns the only theater in tho place and has been giving shows there, but tho preachers have persuaded him that tho drama is sinful and the Carthago Opora House is to be a block of shops an! offices. The Marquis do Caux, who died in Paris a few days ago.

was one of that large and offensive elans of the nobility of Europe that deserve the jail, and would get it if it wore not for their titles. He married Patti, the siiiL'er, and made her support him. As the French law does not protect a wife's wages or property, this noble loafer would seize the singer's salary in tho box office and make a night of it among the gaming houses and evil resorts of Paris, and if she failed to give up the money with sufficient celerity he would beat her. It was at tho theater ono night when ho with an increase of news items. Bobert Blum, who recently returned from Venice and is painting Venetian subjects, says that the weather over there is as bad as it is here and that work out of door3 is impracticable.

At the auction in Cole it Murphy's to morrow morning somo pictures by Charles D. Hunt, John A. Park, Edward Jloran, Annette Moran, It. L. Pyne, Cissoli, Koorman, Schuten, Rondol, Vogcl and Pistor will be disposed of.

C. Markmnn has boon painting pictures of old men and has had a ready sale for them. There is to bo an exhibition of wood engravings in J'hiladelpliia, tho engravers in that city having formed an association. C. M.

S. SECULAR JMSCFSSIOX OF THEOLOGY. A Torrospoiideiit favors It a Popular Safeguard, To the Eilitor of the. ISrookUm Eagle A leader in the Eaolk of the 18th entitled "Why Newspapers Are Unfitted for Theological Discussion," somewhat surprised mo. For nev eral years I have boon mailing copies of tho Sunday and Monday editions of the Eaole to frionds in tho country, on account of the excerpts from the religious press and tho choice parts of sermons delivered in our loading churches and published in those editions, together with an occasional masterly leader on theology.

All this stimulated thought upon the great social problom and gnvo relief to many people who do not care to con forty or fifty pages of poor pictures iu some of tho Sunday journals. When a great liberal paper asserts that a divinity hedges thoo logieal questions which the secular press must not trespass upon it strikes at the great bulwark of human freedom froc speech and a free press. Loss than two hundred years ago newspaper makers were subject to many persecutions by the Church in England and other parts of Europe and a license to nublish them was procured with great difficulty. The press should not restrict its own freedom in this age of reason whon tho mist of the dark ages has not yet disappeared. A lino cannot bo drawn between theological and secular subjects because there is not now and never has been any reasonable difference between them.

Think, thought, theos, God. The inspiration which drafts the diviuc laws of the church flows from the same sourco as tho inspiration which drafts the secular laws of all civil governments. Priests and politicians are twin agents of God, equally inspired to promulgate spiritual and secular literature. Observe how the religious press assails secular affairs, and it is perfectly right that they should do so, because secular affairs frequently need reforming and tho Beoular press is often too partisan to advocate ncoded reforms; but what shall reform theological affairs when they are in error and the theological press clothes itself in alleged divine infallibility, if tho great arbiter of the lay peoplo, tho secular proBS, is debarred from advocating a reasonable and popnlarmodo of reform? Bar this privilege to tho American people and you throw them back on their declaration of independence and invito revolution instead of reform. One branch of the Christian church wears the triple crown, emblematical of supreme power in spiritual, civil and military government, and its religious press advocates a close union of church and State, while a member of another branch of the Christian church a Methodist takes a juror's oath in a murder trial and thon renders such trial a farco by claiming superior allegiance to his church creod, thus nullifying tho constitutional laws of tho people.

Whon our national laws are mocked at by church zealots, who claim superior allegiance to a higher law than the Constitution it is rank treason and it is the duty of the secular press to inquire into the foundation of church creeds which teach uubal anced intellects to defy civil law and endanger the liberties of the people Layman. Brooklyn, December 20, 1889. HAS DAGGETT A LETTER? To the. Editor of the. lirooklun Albert Daggett, who has boon trying to make himself prominent by making saucy remarks to the respected citizens of this city, aa reported in your paper of last evening, baa this day received a letter from one of Brooklyn's most prominent Republicans reprimanding him for his impropor conduct.

His treatment of them ia certainly ono that desorvoB a reprimand and it is hoped that you will show your regard for your fellow citizens by letting the public know through your valuable paper that tho Republican party does not sanction any such insults to any of tho meniberB of their socioty. Ho is too small a youngster to bo talking in auch an impudent way to his superiors. It is hoped that you will do what you can to silence Mr. Daggett by exposing through tho Eaole the fact that he has been Bpokon protty sharply to by the Republican party through the mail. Ab it is too lato to make any publication of this matter to day's issue it iB hoped that you will not disappoint your follow citizens in lotting them hear what you havo to say on the subject.

BnooKi.i. December 20, 1880. Rbp. Dem. 1.