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SUKPAT. MAKUU 8 THE DAILY EAU JuJU to believe that a performance, without a flaw is quito as with 250 in tho preceding week, aud with 192, 198 and ABOUT BROOKLYN PEOPLE. FINANCIAL REVIEW. THE NATIONAL GUAKD. THE PHILHAKM0NIC.

Its Old and New Systems need. No doubt tho citizens of Brooklyn would glvo abundantly to tho division in caeo of need, but it is well to nave in mind when, whore and how to ask for that which Is required. Tho luuction of this ambulance corps is limited, of course, to tho immodlate euro of the wounded and their transportation to tbo oaro of tbo surgeon. This loads up to tho next important question, wbero could tho sick and wounded bo taken? As the members of tho division live In the city, tho majority would deslro to bo taken homo: but that is not practicable. Fortunately, the hospltols of tho city aro opou to them.

The principal hospitals hero are under contract with tho city authorities to receive oud care for all who are Injured or takon suddenly 111 In tho streets of tho city, and tho division being composed of citizens, tho same privileges would bo extended to thorn. In case, thou, of active service, the division ambulance corps could transport wounded to the hospitals, und iu this thoy could bo aided by tho city ambulnucos which are now In perfect worklUR order. Tho city ambulauce system is quite perfect aud has a well merited reputation, abroad as well as at homo. The ambulances are stationed at tbo chief hospitals iu tho varioUB sections of tho city, and aro at tho call of tho Polico Department. So that an officer on duty cau obtain the surgeon and ambulance at any point in a few minutes whon accidont or Buddon sicknoss do uiauds.

During the past year over 3,100 sick and wouuded wore cared for In this way. Tho capacity of the city hospitals in limited, and might not bo sufficient for all domauds. Iu such straits the armories should bo employed for hospital purposes. In fact all tho city armories could bo converted iuto excollent hospitals if they were, as they ought to be, provided with closets aud ample cooking facilities. Cooking ranges ought to be in every armory of sufficient capacity to prepare food for the regiments in case It should be necessary to quarter them there.

Whon these improvements in armorlcR are made they could bo at any time occupied for hospital purposes. Tho medical department could then sond a requisition to tho quartermaster for the required number of cots, mattresses, blankets, pillows aud sheets to furnish tho armory hospitals and havo them ready for patients. Of courao a supply of food would bo necessary, but tho commissary officer's well known familiarity with catorlng to roliucd tastos would secure prompt attention to this matter. Should tho division be ordered out of tho city, tho medical deportment, if fully organized and drilled as here susgested, would be quito efficient except so far as hospital accommodations, aud these would, or bo, provided by the quartermaster's department. Hogardiug tho location and construction of hospitals, their water supply, drainage and all sanitary conditions, I would say, that while heretofore tho medical officers have beou held responsible for all such matters it would be well to transfer such duties to tho dopartment of engineers.

The whole subject belongs to Bauitary engineering, and beiico should be intrusted to that department. Tho medical profession dovclopcd sanitary science, but engineers have beou Jutck to comprehend the subject and auply it practically. All that has beou briefly outlined bore can bo easily put in practico, becauso tho officers and men in tho division have already acquired much of tho necessary education. The drilling of the soldier is an education which not only fits him for tbo duties of the camp or field, but is also a preliminary education which prepares lilm for other spheres of action. To act in concert and in obedionce to the command of a leader is tho foundation of all eflieiout work of organized bodies of mom It Is this military traluinR which onablea men to oxerciBO their powers to advautago iu liinos of excitement, when the untrained become panic striokou and UBoless, sometimes dangerous and destructive.

A thoroughly organized medical department, such as we hopo to have soon, will not alono add to tho welfare of the division, but could bo made of groat value iu serving tho city aud State iu other ways. I learn from Genorai Moliueux that ho holdfl his command in readiness to aid tho city in case of any. sudden calamity, whother it bo pestilonco, fire, riot or invasion. Taking this broader Yiew of tho utility of the division, one cau see tho inGStimable service which might be rendered to tho City of Urooklyn iu oaso of any extraordinary calamity. In case of a destructive fire, like that which has visited other cities, Chicago, for example, the troops acting as a guard could preserve order, while the rncdicul department, wiih its auibulanco corps, took care of the holploss and injured, thus securing proper treatment and protectiou for them in place of their b.

ing driven out iuto tho streets and fields to suffer aud perish. Again, in case the city should be visitod by a cholera epidemic, tho division could aid iu maintaining order and caring for tho sufferers aud preventing the spread of disease aud death. Intelligent sympathy manifested in efficient help would take tbo place of pauic stricken crowds which, iu trying to help sufferers, rush headlong to their owu destruction, liy such aid from tho Division we might avoid tho scenes that were witnessed in some of the cities in liuropu last year during thu cholera epidemic. Should the experience ol Kuropo last year bo ours In tho near future, tho medical department of the dlviBlou should be in position to do good service for the city. Some time ago the newspapers announced that a number of citizens iu Xew York and Urooklyn had orgauized a sanitary commission to aid tbo health boards in pro paring to dofeud tho pooplo from the autici pitted cholera.

Lot us hopo that the medical department of this Division wilt be proparod to render similar aid, iu case thu present fears should be realized. While making those sugestions I am fully aware that tho medical officers are occupied with their private professional duties, but 1 also know that tho busiest mon in tho profession are those who havo tho most time, ability and ihclinatiou to serve tho city aud State in all things that arc for the public good. There remains much to bo said regarding the care and managomont of troops whilo on duty, so that thoy can do the most service with the least taxation of their health ami comfort. The members of the National Guard are soldiers from patriotic motives or for tho love of the military art, not for the sake of occupation or personal existence. They do military duty under peculiar circumstances and hence require to bo fuvored in many ways.

Officers aro on this accoifnt constantly liable to overtax tho men in their commands. Tho soldiers who have only their military duty to perform, aro aole to endure longer robing and more prolonged drilling than those of the National Guard. The company and battalion drilling and parades iu tho armories take place as a rule in tho evenings, when tho men have already completed the labors of the day and aro ill prepared in many cases to etiduro this extra tax upon their strength and endurance. This should be ever kept in mind by commaudiug officers, so that over fatigue and consequent discouragement may bo avoided. Short periods exorcise often repeated would accomplish more than long hours of drilling at long intervals.

Facility of action, strength ami eniluranco being one object of military educaliou, all who are interested should know that neither of these can he attained by overdoing. To stop short of exhaustion or atratuing is the ono rule in mental and physical culture which should never be violated. Mon sometimes must do their utmust whilo In active service, but thoy should novor go so far while in training. Theso laws uf hygiene which pertain to physical exereiso or drilling are equally valid regard to exposure. Many of the men in tho Guard spent most of their time indoors iu overheated crowded rooms, and are not accustomed to exposure like soldiers ui the llegular Army, hence they are liable to sillier greatly ivhen called upon to do duty out uf doors during unfavorablo weather.

To reduce these dangers to a minimum, all open air excrcipes should be brier as possible when the wea' hei is severe. Again it aupears that some improvement could be madji in the clothiug of the officers and men, which Would enable them to withstand exposure. 1 would sugge that the members should provide themselves with waterproof which would protect them from ram and also from extreme cold. The waterproof fabrics as made now are so light and cheap that they could be obtuiiif'd ami earned by all aud put on or off as occasion required. In order not to disturb the uniform, a tight fitting jacket could bo worn under the coat to protect the trunk, and overalls to cover the limbs, so that men could remain in tho raiu for hours without KutVornig.

Some of tho over brave may consider this a tniper refinement in the way of soldiers' clothing, but tlie duty of the modical officer is to save life and preserve health, and anything that can add to tho comfort aud safety of the men is deemed worthy of consideration. It is also difficult to understand why the otllcers of the division stall', who in Winter wear comtortabio overcoats during their every day duties as citizens, are obliged while on military duty to wear capes or cloaks. Perhaps ii is done in order to show that the mantles of the great warriors of bygono days have fallen upon the shoulders of these officers of the National Ouard. If that is the design, wo should feel honored and manifest o.ir thauk fulness by shivering in the cold wiionover an opportunity oilers. Some attention should also be given to tho shoes worn by tho members of tho division.

Thn proper shoeing of soldiers lias occupied the attention of all groat commanders beioro and since the tune of Napoleon the i'irst, who sail tuat one of the most important requisites of tho soldier was an extra pair of well lilting shoes. At the moating of tho officers a month ago iir. Westou brought this subject lo the notice of tho gentlemen present and, although his ideaa regarding orthopedic surgery were rather primitive, his remarks awakened an iuterost which otigut to lead to improvement. The shoes worn by the men of tho regimeuts whilo on duty in tho arniuries appear to he all that tho most rolined tasto could douiaud, bat it may bo doubted if thoy would be serviceable for marching in muddy streets or ro igh tlelds. Fiually theso thoughts aro not expressed with intention or hope of definitely settling the rnlos of acllou which should govern the medical department of this division, but rather in the hopo that they may tend to invite commanding officers to lake council of the surgeons in all that relates to tho physical culture and care of the men in their charge.

I'urtiieriuoro it is hoped that this may also show that the medical officers have been carefully thinking of their duties and responsibilities iu tueir relations to the Second Division. Much moro might be said, and yet the subject would not be half exha' but I remember that a good soldier should not exlnust bis ammunition in the lirst round ueither slu tU a good surgoou begin the treatment of any subject with too large doses. General Chrtsteuson presented his views upon the topic of Military Itocords and Papers Tho Baulk regrets that it cannot make room for them to day. Upon the conclusion of tho roailing a vote of thanks was extended to General Christensou and Colonel Skone for their valuable contributions, and General Moliueux expressed his gratification at tlio presence of tho officers of tho Division. AKT IX HAXDLIN'G A FAN.

instructive as a'stumbling one. Thore would bo no objection to making each rehearsal equal to a concert if thouumborof preparatory fruro not reduced. But two til them havo been dispensed with nnd thero aro now but ono rehearsal aud the concert or let us say two concerts. To a hckle or jaioi tasto a frequent change of programmo may be ploasiug but according to tho moro serious theory of music it should ho a study as well as an ontortaiumont, and four hearings of an important work aro nut too many for ilu thorough understanding. Another chango to bo notod is the widened gulf b.

tweeu the society aud its member j. In New York the permanence of tho org.Miir.ati jii is by fact that it is4coinpo uf tho musicians, wlioe constant and controlling interest in it is a Bured. This nover was tho case in Brooklyn. Tho boclety hero has always consisted of tho subscribers for season tickets. Truo, their coutrol of it ha been potential rather than actual.

Tho board of directors his boon a close corporation, perpetuating itself, and tho chance of au outsider's getting into it has beou about equal to his ability to make his way into tho lucrative direction of the Union Ycrvy Company. StJJ), although they had no vifiblo rights, tha members ued tu fol a criaiit senso of proprietorship Iu the Philharmonic. That feeling hardly exists any longer. Tho orchitva Is no longer the Hocioty'ri. It is Mr.

Thomas'. The concerts and rehearsals are merely so many assignments of Mr. Thomas and his mon in their season of performances. I wonder if, it over occurs to ttu directors to ask thomsolvjH what, In tho eveut of Thomas removal to Kurope, or his from auy causj, would become of th.j Philharmonic? Tlie th ory of an organization is io to riew. Even an occn dnnal attendance at tho porfornuucoi will show one how the whole atmosphere of the situation ha.w Wnnged.

Thero is annthur wide departure from thft original Philharmonic conception. I hear it said that the choral enterprtso is groat thing fur music; that it educates tho public tati that it introduces to tho people compositions of which elso thoy would be ignorant. Perhaps so. But for my own part I would bo quit') content If thft chorus I mean, of course, as an entity aud not as individuals were at the bottom of tho East Itiver and tho old order of things were restor ni. know somo people who agree with mo in this.

Th choral combination haw even lcs3 of the quality and l'esult of permaneuce than the sojio ty'rt organization it now exists. The genuine Philharmonic purpose is to give th best auain ab'e performances of tho best orchestral works. A concession has heretofore been mado to popular taste, for coinmoi'cial reasons, in the form of vocal aud instrumental solos. It was incongruous but it seemed to b'j financially necessary. With our songs for women choristers, our fragments from opera with principals in evening dross and and fo.nale chorus in variegated costume, we havo got stiil farther away from tho ideal Philharmonic.

have heard no choral result that compensates in auy way whatever tor the violence dono to tho original The society is very fortunate in securing tho reoperation ol Mr. Thomas, and I hope it will long retain his best service. It is perfectly well known that the society will gut such service from hna in the conduct of orchestral music and in nothing ubo that is to say, in tho specialty whichis tho society" sule ruato business. I hope the noxt movement of tho directors will bo not in furtherance of Mr. Thomas' experiments, but in restoriug the earlier aud bettor Philharmonic system.

Tyh. FELINE PSYCHOLOGY, Tbo VlrtucM nnd Vice of the Cat XVhr it Ih EstctMiictl Uy Spinsters. Here, thezi, is brtito which has beou so long domestieatod that origin is as obscure as that of the liorBe, which Is probably from Persia, but Is as familiar in Northern Greenland as in Contra! Africa; which hap been painted and potted, and in the themo of more poetry than oven tho dog. Yet, except for a brief it in tho Middle Ages, it ie questionable if its popularity was over seriously in danger. Tho sportsman hates it, not without reasoD, and at a period when humanity was more dormant than at auy other period in the IdRtory of Kuropo, it was considered an oncourageiuent to good behavior to throw a few cats into the fire at tho feast of St.

John. IU larzo green eyes, liko those of th owl, had something to do with this evil reputation, for it was regarded as tho familiar of witchos and tho materialized form of the demon by whoso powers they wero supposed to work their deeds without a name. Still, this unpopularity was never goneril, nor did it last vory long; otherwise, despite tho caterwauling which now and then gets them imo trouble, and even Into tho courts of law, there would not at tbl moment ba in England alone, as a recent calculation, which Is doubtless within tho mark, estimates our feline popul. itiou to What, thou, 1 the secrot of the cat's popularity? Tho bruto is not grateful, nor Ih it, like tho dog, self sacrificing. No cat would wot its feet to Havo its master, were this possible, or to do its master's child who has playod with it, a Horvico, wlni is oftenor within its power.

A dog will risk blowb and its life to uMnnd thono whm it loves. No cat on record evrr turned its tail to protect any ono from ill usage, nor does it, liko tho dog, which lias been known to die of huneer mther than leavb its master's grave, display anything akin to Borrow for those who fed it and cared for it while thy were alive. All of our domestic animals, as M. Floureim lony 30 pointed ut, aro KoeUble. The ni, the pig, the dog and the rabbit exfflt naturally fn association and in numbers.

But the eat is solitary. It lives with us. but does not associate with It receives our bounty, but it does not jffvo In oxch. iugo submission, docility, and the norvicos of thosn species which are truly dotnentie. In brJuf, tho cat proves wo tqviak of the rule, not of the exceptions that UDlews an animal lo primarily sociablo.

time, care and cuHtou: avail nothing. Tlie wry hituest of catehns never yet been reduced toBiibjrction. Smjt? show a certain amatory attachment but if interfered with, the tiger, to which they ore so closely akin, instantly appears. Tho cit miy carets but It must bo in tho humor and in the boat of circumstances; tho love of the most attached of thy is hard to win aud eav to forfeit, in this rospect it and the dog difforing wtd' ly. A cat, it was tho opinion of tho Abbe Oaliani, has no curiosity.

Curiosity alone pertains to man. Tunc, dns will not go to see dogs hanged tho Place do G'tiov." This is doiibtles truo tu tho majority of Instances, but it athrmed, bav 3 nort of enrin. ity. and it i unquoPtmmihli) that thay aro not nogacity and the cunning which i. common to all their tri iio.

Indeed, their is only au evil outcome of this ieulty. The cat, morcuver, is an egotist. It rtlbn itself tip against its mistress, but reality, so thi psychologist who has studied Its uimital organization declares, it is not earning her, lr.it itself and when it purrs in aeumim? satisfaction with the it is simply expressing ltn own self HMlliei'jiiuy, The cat ha. ne'iiriheiefi its friends, who will hear no wrong of it. It Is natural," M.

Champfleury tells and therefore it Is calumniated. Playing its little part in the world unaffectedly, when it Is hungry it nay i so. If it wants to sleep it lie down and stretches When it wants to go out it asks to bo let out. It may be. as Buff on described it, au unfaithful but it is, on that very account, a type of the higher rjco to whom it attaches 1 tuelf.

The cat, the moralist crie, is thn personification of Ff li'uhness. Why hhubl it bo otherwise Man hap desired the society of the car. The cat has not smjirut th "ociety of man. ff left to itsflt in tho country, it can find its own food and Hheltrr, and in a week wil. have rusmnod the natural which Is tho char.

ictmEie that lu procured so many Invidinu crit' r. All thi, and a great deal moro, M. Champfl.uiry to say iu favcr of the bruto which ho has undertaken tn rehabilitate in the esteem of a world rather inclined of to speak disparagingly of it. Dtipont de NoinmirH endtiaored to reduco the feline lancuai'0 t') writing, but ho succeeded no better than Marco centuries and a half a0 tried to make Krunch out of th: nigtit inu'alo's uug. Tho kitten i playful but the cat even the eloquence of M.

Champlb nrv l.a not vet etratm! to bo tho amiable quadruped which tbo dog usually is. It Is a tiser on a Hralo. and long as it has associated with mm, it veins to have imbued few ltii(rnl quut't and RtiJI le.m it b'. ci sble to transmit th in to its po derlty. The truth is that im and woin'n Rtill more so uumt have horue i't.

Tim boeii en, and has proven 0:10 of thy best and useful. lint rht rat it more manii ibl! on account of its smaller and its mouning propiuKl ties have led toils other vie beinn forgotten. Tu lavish affection on nou)thmK i one of thr inherent and one of thrt b. rft afnrvH r.in: A boy will kep a and a veven: traveler d' icnls home cUIdrefi pL tting a ihre foot lon alligator. Ileue i the i i ivfiltm 'he cat Jr 'd by the npinter, and thy lov.yv Y.h a ohiMIf 's bachelor will lavidh on a dog.

London Standard. A MODKST U'TIIOK. I had a long tulk with Mr. llonry Jamos in the t'iub the day before ytaterday. Ho had just come from tho funerai of Mrf.

K. Lowell, which was, in ai'cordanca with th request of the decoatd, very private, th'rre icing only fivuinviti'd custn. Mr. fiiici I saw htm (He years ago, had urown to a sinking likeuL to the Pnncy of WuJy. I atu not bv any mans tha; he quite cara to resemble his Uoyal Hiu'h ne i atleaht ha doe not mrtk up in tho ast tu follow or favor lh; I'lfo ne 'S, Jifiioii.

I take it, a man of tuthaunt munlmes aud in'Ir pcudencn to prefer to look iikti li.ttiH df and be hmiHidf. It in an infallible slg.i of a snob that he can ni inform yon that ht hu ben taken for Koiuehody who Is greater than hiJUM if, Tlier i story of throe VAiike abroad who cmipnr notes. One said "I wa i fa fln for th.i Emperor of Q'inth the f' cond. And I ani conunua'lv a iki if I am not Louis Bp Hpoko th "third "I kin brtat that. I huh goiu' alonj: the fiiamps E'y 1411,1 a flapped me 0:1 the back an I ti I that you I do not believe mm thi're pxisN a tiKr uiiJewt man th iu llenry lame.

1 con illustrat" this by au auec dobf of mi Incident which ho imnt uncon; iotitdy displayed tin admiral and rather rar i quality to perf I mean m.d;t hi own literary aud luti liectti.i! ubiliiiv J. I mention tY. i mmo I oce. isi'Uia'Iy cut In the newspaper rmarUi and com Kit nts on him that he. in I Mr.

iIowIIh were fr jat men of thn r.i(y aud ko on. TIk. ctIMch mar (y what they like of th quality of h.s work, but of that of the man lniui'lt I ba never but one opinion, and that was vf rv tavorible. A lor hi being Europf auUed aud a velnutury oxilr, truly. I think it not amiss that a fow men like Eowoi; and Jam, in wh'm Amenoa may Uk" a jiif pride, are over hi re, to Eivo pople a little, better id a o( ns than thoy derive ironi tho Bad ccjuimunu'ations to.ho Pa" Mati (Jaztttt aucj othars.

VharUa G. Lciand in Cliicuiio Tribune, 118 respectively in tho corresponding weeka of 1884, 1883 and 1882. About 87 per cent, wera thoBo of small traders whoso capital was loss than $5,000. Canada bad 37, an incroaso of 1. The decrease of $2,450,400 in loans shown by the banks in to day's statement doubtless comes from tho liquidation of large stock loans caused by the decline iu the market.

Exports of speoie for tUo week $462,237, and imports The following table shows tho courso ot tho stock market lor the week ended March 21 StouUeand bonds. Wabash Pacific WulmHhpnirftrrod Centre! uud Hudson Ciuiada Southern 4'. 12 12 "HV. "41" IY2'4 11SJ.J 103 M'i 131 10.14 17 "ii; 47'i 77 '4 V.i 8 12'4 2 41 112 Erio prof erred Union Pacirio Lnko Shorn MoiTtb' A Essex Ijick. Western KurthwoMtcrn NrlbvvoMtom preferred Hook lalmid at.

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Is of I'JOT, coupun U. S. os 28 I 47Ji 120 OH', I 131 I in w. I C04I WJ! 10 I 41 Wi IH'i, 10 ii H7l 33'ij il I 10J 21 71 1 1V15" 118.V I I'll I I30V It il 10 I'q 15Jti ,1 Hoi; av4i 3S' 125.) SilJI I'M. tn 7it, 7Jj, 125 7HV 17'i, Pi) 3D 2'.

14 11 4(1 i ,1 mi ,1 do .1 CKCI .1 Vrl'C! 126 10 1 IP 17 as 81 aip. t3 VU'i 125jij 7jl I 115 I 122 I SI) 22 Vi 3 15 I 117 I 111 I "liiVj, Hi) 12 I 112 121'J 12 101 I 22 1 15 67 115 ma 112 112 13144 '2' nil 121 Kx dividend. Total sales of all stocks for the wock, 1,031,827 shares. UTEKARY RKMCS. Autorapliic Collection Recently Disposed of In JLondos).

The two very interesting collections of autograph lottora which wero aold by auction thia weeJr, at tho rooms of Messrs. Sothoby, in London, woro well worthy the attention of theso who are carious in literary relicn of this kluo, which aro often instructive in afford iua a o)oser insight into character and feeling than in to bo obtained, in letters which havo passed through the sieve of the oditor and taken tho docorous form of print. Thia is particularly noticeable iu those letters of Byron, written to his intimate friond Francis Hodgson from 1808 to 1821, parts of some only having been published in Moore's Life, and these Bomotiuies with expro3aiouB considerably modified. There were 22 letters of Byron, five from Lady Byron, and 28 from Mrs. Augusta, the sister of (he poet with others from Moore and Ilogors, all of which bavo remained, iu tha possession of tho Hodgson family and havo now been Bold by the Hov.

Cauou Hodgson. Tho Keats )ettersy5 in number) aro all love letters to Miss Fanny Brawuo, written iu 1819 20, but they bolong to a different collection in which are severai lottors of Charles Lamb, not published. The Byron letters (aaye tho Times) form a most interesting series, wrltton without tho least reserve as to a friend from whom ho had no secrete, autl evidoutiy dashed off at red heat, the handwriting ulways bold and large, though never a scribblo of moro hieroglyphics as in some modorn literary handwritings. The catalogue afforded a tood general view of tho contents of tho letters, but uoccessaniy many in terostiuc points eacapod notice, as, for exampIo.Mn moro than ono where Byron ailudes to his friend Ilobhouso by tho familiar "Hobby, 11 or as 'H. Cam, the Miscel laniat," and in another, dated, as many are, from 8 St.

James street, November, 1811 (tho vory room, wo believe, in which the lute Mr. Hayward recently lived aud died), in which he is waiting for a letter from Monro demanding an explanation for his (Byron's) reforonco to Moore's "leadlesa bullets" in tho duel with Jeffcry nt Chalk Farm. Ho refors to Hodgson's asking him to see him at his college, and oxcuses himsolf because he has become a water drinker, and says: ''I'vyon'tcomo within wiueshot of such determined topers as your coUeglates." A long and most interesting letter is written from New stead, September, 1811, which does not appear in those selected by Moore, as it refers very distinctly to hU religious opinions aud begins: "As to revealed religion Christ came to save men, but a good pagan will go to heavon and a bad Nazarene to hell." "I will have nothing to do with your immortality I am no Platonist; I am nothing at all but I would soonor be a Paullcian, Manichean, Spinoziat, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than ouo of tho 72 vilianotis sects who aro tearing each other to piocoa for the lovo of the Lord and hatred of each other." Then ho goes on to say: "I hope I am I was so, at least, on a bed of sickness in a far distant country, when I had neither friond nor comforter nor hopo to sustain mo I looked to death as a reliof from pain, without a wish for another life, but a confidence that tho God who punishes in this existence had left that last asylum. This important letter has, however, no signature. Iu another letter a year later from St.

Jaaics street, ho enya "Never mention a woman again in any latter to me. I won't even read a word of tho feminine gender; it must bo all propria qiKo marlhHS." Thou ho toJ)s of his pinns for going to live in tho East, aud afterward breaks out into his melaucboly vein "Thore is one consolation in deuth where ho setn his seal, tho impression can neither bo meltod nor broken, but endurd for ever." Tho fow inttcrsin this collertion from Lady Byron aud his sister, the Hon. Augusta Lssigh, woro aimoBt ot equal interest from a different point of view but to quote from these all of which aro more or less kuown to the curious in theso historiCH, would only opon up fn. Hh disputes. In one from his winter to Mr.

llodson, she writes: aI don't know a word an to B. 'h probabilities of remaining or not at Iluvenna. I received two portraits from Venice, ono a vile ono of himself, tho other his child there, whom he calls Allegra I Don't mention this.1' Tha love letters of Kiate aro naturally somewhat 111011 otonoiiH in their swr et song of mhin alVuctiou to tho young lady, to whom he na.vs: "Writo tho sufru it wonts and kiss thetu that I may at least touch my lips wber.i yours havo been. 1 wih wo wt re butterflies aud lived but thrte Summer day. In another: "I cannot lu vo there ovor was or could anything to admire in me.

am uot a thing to he admired. You ere, 1 hold that place among mon which snub nos'd brunettes with meeting eyebrows do among women." Ho Hoenw thouglmut to bi from the mnnt wretched bail health and debility. Inferring to this ho "Liko all Hiimors. now I am ill I philosophize. Do you hear the thrush singing over the ihdd That thrush iw a hue fellow.

I ho was fortunate In his choice this year." Keats wrott what be called a very gno 1 band, every letter distinctly Jormod and the capitals all quite written with almost schotilboy regularity. There wvro a ureat iimny other letters, moHtly unpublished, from Fiaxmau 'and lililte and from Anna Seward and Charles Lamb, but the Byron and Keats letters wero of cuur.Ko the moat valuable in every respect. Tli sale was but thin'y attended, but the prices obtained for the coiiection uf Keats' letters were high throughout, uot one tllim; for iisj than tlii! average being abov never il bringing X'JO and thu last two iu the and In tins las', ol three closaly wriltui Svn, ho nays: last two years tasty like bras upon my ShafciJpeare al wnyfl sums up matters in th? mont pover oign tuanuor. Ham let's heart was fnil of such misery as tuine is when lie said tnOptn iia, 'vio to a nunnery, g.i, Tho total rt'a iztfd on tltce love letters of Keats amounted to .11 1. The Byron letters, 22 in number, wore sold in oue lot, ulthough contained in tho same guard book as those of Lady Byron, Moore' and otbei They were sold for to Mr.

Bain, tbo bookse ler of the Haymarket. Th merles of 2H letters from Lord Byron's Muter brought in one lot Xu. They have, we believe, passed int the eollecion of Mr. Alfred Morrison, who about three yeara apo obtained a few at a sale iu these rooms which happen to lit in with thONO now to his cabin it. On the whole, it wis felt the Byron letter) did not bring larae a pri .) as had been anticipated from the great interest of BRVural of tho parts hitherto unpublished Leeds (Bug.) Mercury.

THKKK.SKTK OF TKKTU. A. singular freak of mituro is shown in tho case of Mrs. Polly tlieorge, a lady well kuown to many citizens, who lives two miles from Mllburn, In this county. Mrs.

George is seventy six vtar. old. ths mother and the grandmother of a largo family iu the county. During her UTe she has cut aud shed hi teeth twice, and now has commenced to cut her third Bet, having cut four teeth wtthlu tho past month two above and two below. See did little over a year ao, shed her hair, which wua white with age, and 1: (a now replaced by a suit of black hair with an occasional silver thread.

Wycfyfe (Ky.) Juurnal THEATER PAliTlES. Stvangur And so you take the inmates of tho asylum to the theater very often I don't sue how people who are stone deaf can enjoy a play. Superiu tendaut They understand what tho actors say by watching their Hps. Oh, of oourwy. 1 forgot about that.

But is It not a very great expanse N'o the managers give me certain seats in tbo house at a groat reduction." Indoed. And what soate are they 7" Thoso adjoining theater parties. CtteaoYtic5. Dr. A.

N. OhnpniMi, of tho Brooklyn Atbo ueum, sailed yiist. rcUy on tlio steamship Clrcaiiiia for Kuropo, to bo absent for some tlajt Tho iloci goes abroaa lor thu axnblaud imrposoa of health tul pleasure. ill'. Willinni II.

Nichols, recent president of tho Young Kirn's Club, has Just boon clfrteil priMldont of tho Oxford. Mr. Louis Dn ssler, now organist ot Haimoii l'U. Church, will, Kllcr M.y 1, takq charCT of thu imuic Joha'd 1'. Church, Jur hoy City.

Mr. E. 0. Suttou, of CumbcrlnuJ street, and J. Amorraau, uf Elllutt place, wero tered last weuk at tho Cirlutou llouw, J.tck3ouvl!ta, Fia.

Mr. Ii. A. Irish, of fiuckett street, accompanied by hi. i son, William, Hailod fur tho Iiormudu lant Thursday.

Mr. Irish expocU to Do absent about four weokx. Th! Misses Bitklwiu ami tlu Misses lioortim, of Clinton lii uokiyn, by Jtlsa Harriet L. DeanMey, of r'lfth avunuo. York, have b.X'ii spending tho Winter iu Hanover, Ht.

Peter, bui't' and Homo. Tho party Is traveling ou the rorjti ucnt nt present and will reach Virla May 1, returnlug uoruo next fait. Ex Charities Commissioner Andrew Zeise.r celebrated hi Hixty eighth birthday on He Inesday evening at bin residence, 131 llushu'lek avenue, with a lr(: number of Invited friend. Among thoiu wero ex In dice Thomas Kame, Major M. J.

l'etry, Hubert Itudd, J. J. Kroehlieli, II. SluCUlU, Joha I.e:i., Thomas 11 ibl.is A. 1'ojlo A.

J. Mout (Jvajery. and Mr. were as lively in tha dance as the youngest of their sixtoeu grand children, ail of whom were present. The report thut Mr.

K. Ciinrlos Emerson, of H. dieruiorhoru street, has decided to remain tu llriioklyn, where he is no Mnjor John II. Wiilkar. of tlieil.

A. H. Department of New York, has returned twine, in with his wife, from a trip to Littlo Niagara I'aKs and Montreal. At tho latter place 's two daughters are atteudina school at a convent. Major It.

A. Phillips, seeivtavy of tho M. monr.t nnmf.too of the ii. A. IL, is au indu trious searehor after the interest uf old soljiers tho of their pension claims.

Court Oilier Colynn, of the Supremo Court, 13 not a fervent sympathize: th the Court House lounger, as the Utter has frequently discovered. Henry J. Hesse i.s at Yv'ilkosbarro, where ho was hastily summoned ou Wednesday to litteud a who is dangerously ill, Kev. Hubert Ii. Hall, rector of Greenwood Baptist Church, his purehos.rd a handsome revteuca ou Ninth streot, between and Kielilh avenues.

Iiieuteuimt Keltou, of the United States Marine Corps, has recovered from protracted illnoas. Willium Morihrty, formerly my clerk in tho Nuvy Yard, and who now holds a similar position in tho Navy Yard at Norfolk, is visiting friends in this city. Waller E. Siun writes from Sandford, Fla. to his father.

Colonel William E. nu, manager of tha Park Theater, that is alou splendilly. Mr. has found the c'unuto, since his arrival iu Florida two weeks ag fully up to its traditional geuiaiilv. Aiiu.ug the etperieuees he details is, standing on the declr of a steamer on tho Ht.

Johu'n Hirer ia lipht SprinR suit with the. thermometer at 81 degreai, while Hrookiynites are shivering In an atmosphere way below frueziun point. Dr. Henry Moss, of Bedford, aveune: Dr. Charles Hettesheinier, of llreeno avenue; Dr.

Frank I Valontlne, lr. William V. Kookoy, and Dr. Josopli Ilowman, of lledford avenue, all dru'ists in city, attended the commencement exercises of the College of Pharmacy in New York last Tuosday overling. Onirics IVck, the representative nt Hartfurd for Old Lyme, paid a Hying visit to his friutidi, Mr.

and Mrs. John Hurries, of Bedford avonuc, laH week. Mr. D. I.

Ettinger nnd Mr. John T. Gibbons, of this city, wero ainnn tho graduates from tha Sar York CoIIoqq of Pharmacy on Tuesday cvoulntf last. Popular attention has been drawn to Sberk'a window recently by a striking aud handsome life alr, fiiil length portrait of Mrs. lllchard K.

Foi. Mra. Fox is, according to her picture, a Btatoly and graceful blonde with an unusually rerlned and characteristic face. To thee traits and to tho remarkably Intricate costume in which alio attired, Mr. A.

8. Dauber, tho well known Urooklyn artist, has dono full Justice Mr. James Hoare, formerly of Brooklyn and now of Corning, N. has beou elected prealdont of that village. lio ia connectod with tho Corning Glass Works.

Messrs. Jiobcrt Ely, Arthur Hollows, Von dersmlth, and William My, returned last week from a visit to Niagara FalR Miss Louisa A. Wildes, of Yunderbilt avenue, is at work upon a painting which she calls "Sun oeh" Tho work represents a held iu which a number of cattle aro grazing In the foreground. Miss Luba Dewey, a former resident of thia city, but now of Albany, N. will pay a visit to Brooklyn some time during thn coming month.

ltegent St. Clair McKcdway, of this city, flOS been invited to deliver an aitdresa ou "The Teaching of Political fflstury in Schools and Academics before the University Convocation, at Its meeting to bo held In Albany In duly. Miss Julia Miller, of Amherst, is visiting Miss A. Louise Wclghtman, of Hancock street. L.

P. Prockett. M.D., who was oue of the associate editors of tho History of Kiugs County," Is now the editor in chief of the Jujon'iK A'crij(( Amrrica, in New York. Mr. and Mm.

Frank Paisley are to celebrate tho fifth anniversary of their wedding at No. 100 Hoaa street, to morrow oveuing, the llrd Inst. Miss Lottie E. Yanderveor, soprano, aud Minnlo V. Vandorveer, contralto, of Livingston street, are to bo toudered a testimonial concert on uext Tuesday evening at the Towu Hall, Flatbush.

Mr. Marshall P. Wlldsr, humorist; Mr. II. F.

U. Benedict, pianist, and Mr. K. 11. Maylaud, llutlst, are to participate In tho rendering of a fine programme.

At a recent election of officers of tho Mistletoe Social the following uamod were chosen to sor rc duriug tho present season President, Frederick J. Hatch rice president, Miss Eva Smith treasurer, Mr. Charles Porter, and secretary, Miss Nedio Drummoud. Uinggold McKay, tho author of "A Treacherous (iuest," which was presented by tho members of the Gilbert Dramatic riocloty during ttie present season, intends reproducing the drama at the Park Tboater In April for tlio boutlH of tho Flowor Fund on Decoration day. Miss Sadie ltyevson, of Third street, South lirooklyu, will shortly leavo for tho riuutb.

for the benefit of her health. Miss Hyorson has been connued to the house for some montbB. Mr. Henry P. Horlor, of Bedford avenue, will leave this city noxt week for East Deery, Now Hampshire.

Mr. Alfred Wedge, of Bedford avenue, about to leavo Brooklyn to make his hutue in Boston. Mr. Kent, of Pnrkville, returned on Monday from a pleasant sojourn in Boston. Several old frlendi called to see him on Wednesday aud had.

molt nnjoj' able time. Miss Coralie Hambliu, of Flatbush, is visiting friends in Miss Louise Sciiaffner, of Flatbush, bos returned from a visit to frlendi In 8yracn.se. Judse of Now Utrecht, started last week f.r South Carolina, whero ho will Join lin brothers, who have been spending the winter there. Mr. Benjamin Willis, of Flatbush, is enjoying the pure and invigoratlug air at Little itock, Ark.

The marriage of Mr. Edward F. I.o.kr, of Willow street, and Miss Fannie Campbell, of New York City, Is announced for next ve.M.'.g, and seme doubt Is entertained as to whether or not the 'llmdj ninth idret Presbyterian Church will accommodate tho host of who wiil he prctont un tLo cccasion. MAKY Mt Kate McNiehols is in Brooklyn searching for her cousin Mary, who, sue says, livrf with a family iu Livingston street. If Mary will leave her address at the V.AChi: office, Box 'jd, or 31 street.

It mil Hove her relative of much ctuharrassmimi. An Active and Lower Market for Stocks. Tlio Transcontinental QaarreJ lias an Unsettling Effect Jay Gould Probably at the Bottom of tho Movement Tftc Agricultural Situation. Yield and Distribution of the Corn Crop, Wall Street, Saturday' ovouing, March 21. The stock murkot hits been active aud gonerally lower this week.

It was running until Tuesday in a rut, stocks vibrating within very narrow limits, and ovon tho most export traders wero unablo to mako much moro than enough to pay oxpenses. Tho fact that loading stocks wore thoroughly cliquea, and apparently fully in control of poworful combinations, tended to proveut liboral speculative sales, and and at tho same time it doterrod operations at tho "long', side of tho market by vonturosome non professionals, who, being impressod with tho Idea that Borne of theso stocks wore pegged," or artificially sustained, wero disposed to wait until thoy had a satisfactory decline. The embarrassmenta of tho Betiding, which have been increasing, notwithstanding tho new policy of regulating tho coal trade, iudircctly caused a break In tho market on Tuesday. It was then reported that tuoro was little probability that tho April interest on tho Con. tral Now Jersoy bonds would be met by tho Heading, and prominent holders of theso securities do olded to take stops to forco the Heading to a compliance with tho terms ot the leaso or to relinquish control of the property.

Those measures threatened a return of the road into tho bands of tho receiver, and consequently tho stock declined. Tho fall iu this specialty had an unfavorable lnflueneo upon tho other coal properties, and on Tuesday afternoon tho whole market was moro or loss unsottlod by tho apparent withdrawal of support from the cliqued stocks. On Wednesday morning tho bears followed up tho advantage they hadgalued on the previous day, and attackod the Gould stocks, notably tho low priced Southwesterus and Western Union. Thero was also somo pressure to sell Pacific aud Union Pacific, which at tho time was attributed to a raid, but it subsequently appeared that those sales wore mado on advance information of a rupturo between tho transcontinental lineB. On Thursday luorulug the news came that the Central Pacific had rofused to take West bound frolght at Ogdon from tho Union Pacific oxcopt at local rates, thus compelling tho loiter to bear tho whole burden of the cut it had made in order to compete with tho Southern Pacific and.con nections.

It was also announced that the Union Pacific had givou uotico to tho Pacific Mail Steamship Company of the abrogation of tho agreement by which tho latter received from tho railroad companies a subsidy of $95,000 por mouth for maintaining sohed ulo rates on California businoas. Reports, which, howover. woro not confirmed, that the Pacific Mall had cut tho passenger rate to San Francisco caused a demoralizing break iu tho Pacific Itallroad aud in tho stoamahip slocks. In the afternoon tho bears pressed the Grangers for sale, and the wholo markot was moro or loss unsettled to the closo. Lako Shore was unfavorably affected by a false roport regarding the now loan of tho company, and tho fall in this stock influenced New York Central.

On Friday tho markot was strong iu tho morning iu consequence of clique support and better prices in London, but early in the afternoon tho attack upon Pacific Mail was ronowed. Union Pacific was subsequently assailed, aud the tono was feverish for tho romaindor of tho day. The fact that Mr. Gould had notified President Adams, of tho Union Pacific, that ho would not be a candidate for re election as a director of fhat company materially aided in the decline in this stock, for the roasou that Mr. Gould's retirement from tho Uoard was accopted as an indication that he no longer had any interest In sustaining Uuiou Pacific, and it was inferred that he bad partod with noarly all of Ills holdings of that property.

The fact was recalled that Mr. Gould's retirement from tho Louisville Nashville Board of Directors was followed by a decline in that stock, aud it was beliovod that now ho would bo found on tho bear sldo of Union Pacific. Tho fall in Pacific Mail was oxplaiuod by tho Btatomont that if it was deprived of the subsidy it could uot maintain dividends, and if tho company was compelled to out ratos iu order to compete with tho Pacific roads the stock would soon beconio almost valueless except for tho purpoao of control. This, howover, is denied by tho officers, who say that thoy can do better without than with the subsidy, for tbo reason that their business was restricted under the agreement. This morning tho announcement that tho Central Pacific had joined tho Union Pacific in its notice to tho Pacilio Mall had an unsettling effect upou all tho Pacific stocks.

Tho bears took advantago of this cirenmstauco to raid tho Grangers and Lackawanna, but they mado very littlo improssion upou tho Vandorbiit properties. In tlio aftornoon tho market was feverish but inclined to recover aud it was steadier at the late trade and at the close. It is evident that tho activo list has been largoly oversold, thus affording a good basis for a sharp upward turn. Prominent among tbo bulls today was S. V.

White, who for some time stood in tho Lackawanna crowd and took largo blocks of stock which wero offered by the boars. Comparing sales oi stocks at tho opening on Monday with those at tho closo to day the following changes appear ADVANCE. Por cent. Missouri IiECl lNE. Per cent.

Per cent. Central and Hudson Krie Union Pacific Luke Slinre Laeli. and WBsiorn. No. investern Keck Island St.

Paul St. Paul preferred Neiv Jersey Central Oregen "Western Union a'Dol. and Hudson 1 i Denver und 1:10 uranae. rM 5C Manhattan Kiev, consol. 1.

Norinern I'icilic 'I tiiern Pacific '2 Kansas and Texts, 'i ll Louisville and Nashville. I fn.ii1iiis 1 Paeilie IJj 4,1 Ohio Central 'i 7't Tovas P.iciiic lsi 3' lnr. and (inincy. Pacific Mail Manitoba ..11 i Ifiohmon'l Tormina! l3i tPi Lung Island xy. The agricultural situation is becoming very important.

Tho season at tho West is so backward that Spring seeding will be delayed unless thero should bo a radical changa in the temperature and conditious within tho next fortnight. This chaugo is also essential for the development of Fall sown grain, for until the ground i3 cleared of snow and Ice and the weather becomes favorable no estimate can bo formed of the probable outcome of tho Winter wheat crop. As this constitutes about four fifths of the wholo any material damago sustained in consoquence of the sevority of the weather will havo an important Inlluonce. If it shall appear that the grain has been greatly injured by freezing the sowing of a larger area of Spring wheat will be stimulated, but this wijl only partially compensate for tho deficiency in Winter wheat. The Deportment of Agriculture reports thai 37X por cent, of the last crop of corn or wheat 675,000,000 bushels, remain In farmers' bunds.

This reflects a consumption of more than buslu ls including exports of about bushels. This stock will have to bo drawn upou for at least nine months, and if consumption should average that of the Winter season the supply would be materially reduced by tho time the western crops become available. liutthisis uot probable for the reason that com will not be fed to live stuck in largo quantities after tho Spring opens. The Department of Agriculture reports the number of bogs in the country in January at 4.1,14:1,347, against at the same time lust year. This is the direct effect of tho enormous corn crop, and it will account for tho large consumption of the cereal during the Winter.

The yield of corn by geographical division for tho past three years is reported as follows: "Slides! "BL sV. New England. Middle Sonihorn Western Paeilie Territories Total 8.445,71)0 S.41 V1UII 81. Jlllt, I1 I.S.7O0 '2n, lill')' 2UO 01, oirii. ujs, Hi, i uu, l.ueo, uon.eoo 1.IW4.

twill 2. SIM. llllil a.HIU.'.HIll 10,140,100, (i.M.17,033; 1101, I'll! U.70.1, j.i. ui7. a jd The largest corn producing States aro Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Indiana.

These aud Ohio aro also the largest hog producing States. Slnco the Bank of Englaud rate of discount was reduced to 4 por cent, iu January thero has been a steady flow of bullion to London, tho gain by the bank being over 4,200,000. Much of this has come from Germany, and recently tboIiank of Berlin advanced Its rato of discount to 3 per in order to check this How of gold. Tho explanation glvou of tho movement by a prominont foreign bauker, hariug Berlin correspondents, Is that the fear tl.it Germany will adopt the doublo standard is inducing capitalists to send gold to London for security and employment, and that gold is flowing thither from other countries, notably Italy, where the mainteuauce of tho gold standard is endangered by the presence of silver. This is an indication of what may bo expected iu this country.

There is evidence of the transfer to Loudon, through tho medium of bills of exchange, of large amounts, of American capital which has baen going forward for tho past few mouths, and tho presenco thoro of this capital and of gold Bent from continental countries has forced tbo rate for money in opon market from percent. In January to 2, which is now tho rilling rate. Thero wero 217 failures in the United States during the past week reported to Urattttrcet'i, compared Second Division Officers Attending Improvement Meetings. Surgeon Skene Discourses on the Utility anil Efficiency of the Medical Department, and (ienerul Cliristenswi on Military Records and Paimi's. The second of tho improvement meetings lustltutcd by Major General Edward L.

Mollnoux for Die iuBtructiou or tbo staff tho Soaontl Division was held in tUo Trial ltoom, Polico Itenclfiuartora, Municipal Building, last night. Tho attendance of lino oflioora of tbo Division was gmtifyingly laivo, and the reading of the papers submitted by J.ioutouaut Colonel Alexander J. C. Surgeon Division, and Brigadier Oonoral Ohristenseu, commanding Third Brigade, was followed wilh close interest. Surgeon Skono spoko as follows in conaideiiug "Tho Utility and Efficiency the Medical Department fiUKUEOX SKENE'S PAPEli.

Students who are in search of useful knowledge encounter two classes of instructors those who are ready and willing to tell thorn what thoy ought to do, and those who are able to toll them just how to do that which should bu don. Being unwilling to join tho former class, and tec line incapable of taking rank with the latter, I have chosen the humbler, yul noun ibo less useful, task of biielly discussing tho utility and etlieieucv of the medical department of tlio Second Division of the National Guard. The duties of medical officers are clearly delin.Hl and wed understood in a general way by all concerned. The rclativo merits of their various functions, however, are not ho fully appreciated. Tlio more dramatic duties of the surgeon, such as tho treatment of wounded men, are usually most loudly applauded, but tho examination and passing of recruits, and the preservation of the health of soldiers, rank higher in utility than technical surgery.

Tho medical otlieer stands at the Kate of entrance to tho army to see that no ono entors who is not physically qualiied to bo a soldier. Incompetence or carelessness in the discharge of this duty on tho part of tho surgeon nilKht fill tlio ranks with men who prove a burden to the State and a torment to the ollkcrs who have clmrgo of them. Tho Tho medical department Is also tho army board of Health which should employ all tbo means which science and art afford for the care and prelection of the officers aiid men, and thereby keep the army in the best conditions of health and life. Herein lies the most important, though least apparent, duties of tho medical department. Preservation of health and tho prevention of disease are the blithest functions of tho phvsician and surgeon.

Every intelligent man knows this, and yet there are many who never think of it. The thoroughness with which these dutios are performed depends upon the competence and intelligence of Che medical officers, and the appreciation and respect that commanding ollieerB have for their position and services in tho army. Therefore, there should atall times exist perfect harmony ol thought and concerted action between tlio two parties. Occasionally army surgeons are found who fret tinder military discipline because their professional knowledge must at times give way to the necessitka of army iiie. On the other hand there may bu 'army officers who havo always enjoyed peace and flood hoalth, and hence know little of, and care less, for the medical dopartment, but such men are not true representatives of either side.

The ablest surgeons generally receive all the respect and consideration from commanding officers that their ability de Borvcs. 'Wherever the highest culture and mental rapacity is found, as in the Second Division for exam pie, there tho most perfect harmony prevails. In order to see clearly the true status of the medical department of tho Second Division it wili bo fuir to take is a standard for comparison the Hegular Army. Army surgeons are obliged to undergo a thorough and satisfactory examination in general and professional education before being appointed. This secures tho best kind of material to start with.

Successful candidates are, upon being commissioned, placed on duty in charge of troops and are soon drilled in all the of army practice. 'J hoy are iuruished with all necessary medical and surgical supplies, and their every day duties keep them posted in all that is required of them. They ale also supplied with well disciplined hospital stewards, ambulances and ambulance corps, post or field hospital and all that id necessary to make tho department complete ami efficient. Because of this the medical officers are able uoC only to do their work in times of peace, but are at all Unie3 ready for active service. War multiplies and extends their labors, but dies not materially change their character.

Taken altogether, tho medical dopartment of tho army in this country is a source of honest prido to all who are interested. Ono mouth ago, when at our meeting an officer referred 'to the ambulance organizations of Kuropo, I was reminded that the military and civil ambulance corps in tins country are the first in th.i world. At the Paris Exposition in IsTH i critically xamiued tho equipments of the medical department of the armies of all countries then ell exhibition, ami I found the Alil ricail lirst among the foremost. During the iun war the American ambulance corpi proved a blessing to tho BUjiurei's and all honor to tins country. Again, the surgical and medical history of tho last war; the Army Medical Ltbrary and Museum at Washington clealy show tho comprehensive character of the medical department and excite tho wonder and admiration of all foreign citizens and soldiers.

In view of these facts, then, it is evident that to equal the regular army is surely an all sufficient ambition for the medical officers of this division. "With such an example before us, it wilt be easy to review the medical department of tlio Second Division, and fairly estimate its standing at the present time. In the first place the medical officers have been appointed according to the judgment of tho officers who have the appointing power choice being made, presumably, upon the merits uf candidates as manifested in private life. This method of appointment, while it may not Po above criticism, has been a marked success. So far, then, all is right and complimentary to tho incdica officers aud these ho appointed them, the surgeons havo performed their duties well in passing only qualified men for admission to the of the division, aud tiiey will do bettor still when the examination of recruits is placed more fully in thejr charge.

Unt when attention is directed to the organization aud functions of tho medical department itself, thero is room for erttieism and suggestion for improvement. It is at once apparent that tho relations uf tile medical department to this division of tho Guard are peculiar and differ entirely frmu that which exists in r. standing army. In tunes of peaco the medical cannot be responsible for the general health of the members of tho division, tieeau they uro not immeil'ately under then cure, t'uvt liermore, they have neither hospitals nor othor visible means for the care of sick and wounded. 2 venture to state if the division were caUe into uc tion, aud a few hundred wounded men should be handed over to the tender mercies of tho un dical department, tho surgeons would not be able to care for them.

What could they do with them That is tlio qui stiou. And the answer just now may be given in the expression attributed to a CiYrmau philosopher: 41 Nothing is, and aught is naught, but everything's becoming." Fortunately in this age everything that is requisite and necessary has been devised and per ticled by tho masteis in military surgery, and all that' remains to be done is to adapt the means at command to tho wants of tho divisions. In bygone wars, in this and other countries, the must complete ways arid means for the care of sick and wounded men have been developed, and are well known to tho divi io.i surgeons. The present requirement is a more, thorough organization and practical training of those who are to aid tlie medical officers. 'Lit there be assigned to the ambulance corps with a clear understanding of their duties, and I doubt not that the surgeoub will take care of their education, liegardiug the method of drilling or educating such corps their duties, I may offer some suggestions.

In the progress of medical education there is a growing tendency to give ies.s attention to didactic and more to object teaching or practical drilling. Henee it Would be best for ivgiinental surgeons to avoid lecturing to the corps or reading lesrne.i palters to them, but Biuiply give them some verbal instructions regarding the general outlines of their duties, and then thoroughly drill them in methods of handling, transporting anil caring lor sick aud injured men. This kind id' instruction could be earn. out very perfectly during parailo or drill in the armories. During the evolution of a company or regiment it could be arraug.

to have soldier, here ami there, fall in tho ranks from imaginary injuries, and tho ambulance men romove them to the auibulanco or hospital. The lifting and carrying men with certain injuries could all bo illustrated very well in this way, and the knowledge imparted would be as useful and effective in active service as it would be exciting aud interesting in armory practice. I understand that while, the regiments are in camp in the Summer time, attention is given to this branch of education; and the other day in Prospect Park some very excellent ambulance work was done. Hut this is not enough. The prairlleo should bo kept tip during the entire year.

I should uot bo understood as indicating that the surgeons should practice. They are all engaged actively in professional work aud fully propared for their work. It is tho organization and "drilling of thu ambulance corps which needs attention. The value of the medical service in military practice depends largely upon the skillful ai'd prompt manner iu which sick and wounded men are brought to the Burgeons for treatment. Between tho battlefield where wounds are rccutved aud tho field lionpllal where they are treated, is tho tiuiu when delays olteu occur and are most daugerous.

From every point that this subject can bo viewed, it is clearly evideu that all action should be prompt in order to be efficient; hence the great necessity of thorough organization and drilling. The corps of each regiment should be made competent to aet alone and also bo prepared to act iu harmony whenever it is necessary for the several corps of tho brigades or tho division to work together. I would, therefore, most respectfully urge regimental anil brigade surgeons to take up this subject aud work it up to perfection. Should they desire any lnlorniation regarding tho general plan of organization it cau bo obtained on application at too headquarteis of tho Division Staff. It may jt be easy and natural for tho surgeons to fall into lino and net harmoniously according to rank aud position.

It must from the very nature of things be ft little difficult for a number uf surgeons, who meet daily in private practice on perfect equality, to observe the military ethics vlill on duty in tho division, but a little practice will dispel all such possible friction. The materials required by tho corps are a surgical appliances oi the simplest kind and stretchers; of tho latter there should be a liberal supply. Soma of the regiments already have few of these; others are destitute of all such thlugs and should be immediately supplied with them. Lastly, but chief in the oufilt of the corps, ambulance wagons. There are none iu the division now aud it is doubtful if the quartermaster could immediately supply theso if an order should be sent to him from the medical department.

By ay of overcoming this difficulty it may be suggested that grocery wagons with easy springs and provided with mattresses and blankets would answer well in place of their regulation auibulanco wagons; and it may be presumed that tho quartermaster knows just where to secure ouoh wagons iu case of Chnnses of Twenty eight Years A Group or Conductors Eisfcltl, Herrmann and One Rehearsal Instead ot Three The Choral Innovation Legitimate Purpose oi' the So cU'fyLet Ls Have A'o 3Jore Experiments, One hogs in the Academy of Music on a Saturday night now wbito or bald heads which were black or when the Philbarmouic performances began. It is utarly twenty eight years since tho society organizeda considerable period iu this fast living ago, a tlmo in which many conditions, musical and other, havo undergone great changes, somo of them, though perhaps not all. iu the direction of improvement. A fow people who attended tho rehearsals and concerts in the Atbonoum still go to tho Academy, but a now aud strange generation has grown up about them. If thov recall what they used to hear on Atlantic street thoy must be atruck with the contrast with what they now hear on Montague street.

Those wlinno memory does uot cover ao wide a rnge might hud profit and entertainment in comparing tho earlier and the lator programmes. Beethoven has a place of honor ilrst and last, but the contemporaneous audience takes without ((inching other composers' works which tho musicians would not have ventured to oiler to the historic audidiice, even if tlie musicians themselves had been abreast or them. "Wagner, Liszt and other med urn writers Sehumnun himself, are iu this sense com paratlTely recent discoveries. Yet it would be wrong to say that tho musical aim was not as high then as now. The performances wore substantially thoso of tho New York society transferred to Brooklyn.

The orchestra was loss numerous here, but wo had tho best players and shared the advantages of all tho skill and cultivation of tho foremost musical organization of this country. The beat available directors oi tho bund ivoro ateo secured. "When the conduetorahip of tho Philharmonic la mentioned three names at once occur thoso of Theodoro Klsfeld, Carl Burgmann and Theodoro Thomas, I have fouud trom time to time an improssion prevailing that tho lirst of theso was a man of light calilxr. It is scarcely a just oue. Certainly ho was a musician of tasto and refinement, a good drill master, preci.o and painstaking.

Ho was not Inhospitable to tho newer music, though he did not take it np with the fierce enthusiasm characteristic of other men. Ho may havo had moro faith in old fashioned and, as they would now bo called, light compositions. He probably had uot tho stuff of a reformer in him, but ho was at least up to his time. Tho progressive movement had not then begun and if he had be.cn inclined to lead such an advauco thero was not the backing for it ny which his EUccossors have profited. Carl Bergmann was in some respects the strongest of the group.

His obvious defoct was a lack of steadfastness, of patience under discouragement, of faith in results not immediately aeen. Ho failed to attain in Ids latter years what might have been reasonably looked for. But on tho musical stdo ho had a rare depth of Insight and breadth of grasp, comprehending subject aud treatment, aud a catholic sympathy with good work of all schools. But tho name which is most familiar in the mouth of tho musical public, of course, is that of Theodoro Thomas. He has been more in tho general oyo than all the musicians of his time put together, although ho almost wholly associated with the conductor's stand.

It is years since ho appeared as a violinist, aud his rapacity as a player is known to comparatively fow persons. Ono of the most interesting chapters in our musical history is the rlaa and growth of tho Thomas cult. For it cannot bo denied that this accomplished conductor has gathered about him a number of followers whoso devotion is not exactly measured by their largo kuowlodge or lovo of music. It usually happons that a conspicuous leader of a successful movomout has such worshipers In his train, controlled by the power of prestige aud a real or faucied personal magnetism rather than by unselfish devotion to tho cause represented by tho movement. There aro men and women too who will listen with rapt attention to an obscure bit by Bach or to a vaguo pleco of programme writing by Liszt, and will discover a grand revelation in a Strauss waltz, whon Thomas holds the baton, who would turn a doaf ear to tho entertainment in any other circumstaueos.

Thero aro pcoplo in tho Metropolitan cities, also to a less dogree in the provincial towns, who would go in whatever musical way Thomas should chooso to lead them. Happily, he loaded iu a safe direction. Fortunately for Theodoro Thomas tho prlmi of his life was contemporaneous with a musical awakening. He has dono a great deal to promote tho advauco of an art specialty, but he could uot have accomplished so much if ho had not worked In a riponing time. Others had labored in a liko field, apparently to trilling purpose, and had withdrawn, bafhYd and discouraged.

Ho had patience, coufidenca in himself, faith in largo possibilities and, luckily, a Bpirit tho reverse of mercurial. Tho phlegm which ho shows in front of his orchestra served him well in many an adverse situation. It enabled him to hold to his purpose In spite of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, befoio.which men of another temper would have retired defeated and broken. Beside, he had the advantage of such a backiug as id given lo few men. Apart from silent and individual which tho whole story rhaps novor will be told, ho always found himself surrounded by an 3ctivo aud emphatic clique who systematically asserted brilliant business suecoss.

wbero there wero disastrous failure. HJs career in respect to tho fidelity of immediate followers rejemble.1 iu a small way that of tho master whose able apostle ho has been ltichard Wagner. The struggle of kHho Thomas orchestra" was a hard, sometimes a desperato one. But howover innumerous tho audiences, howover moager the box ollicc receipts, tho of tho faithful was punctual and loud. By all means let tlioui have a sharo of the credit fur the assured position finally won.

Of course the Thomas cult haa its amusing aspects. This worship, like otheisof the auio sort, prints phases of unroason. It is sometimes extravagant in its devotion to its object, and this excess of enthusiasm now and thou betrays it into gross injustice to supposed rivals. But iu this case, unlike sumo others, tho object of idolatry is no false god. Theodoro capacity is as clear as aro its limitations.

Ho probably knows quite as well an auybody else that the orchestra ia his miBable specialty. Never before, In this country at Ieat, has a baud of musiciius attained such precision and finish us havo the men who havo boon playing for years under his direction. As experts of croicundo aud diminuendo ho and they aro unequaled. There are perhaps offsets to Ibis advautago of delicacy and refinement. Snorting mon tell uu it ih possible for a horso or a prize fighter to be ovor trained.

He is too line," they say. Ho sacrifices to lightness, sinuosity, elasticity, Konicthing uf the moro substantial and heavier but nut lens indispensable qualities, the basis upon which the racer or the bruiser be built. I havo sometimes thought of this when listening to the Thomas orchestra. Iu gaming this precision aud finish and delicacy and rot'nioiuent do wo not lose iu a meaurj broad, massive, masu lioo effects, the comprehensive grasp of tho wholo matter which is abuTe aud beyond mere treatment of details? Again, the graceful dignity and repose of Mr. Thomas, unbroken from tlio mutant he ruisci his baton until ho lava it aside, are delightfully restful.

They show a If confidence in tho conductor which begets confidence in tho listener. And yet is there nut a certain stolidity which forever bars tbo entrance to that passionate etnotiun which is conceivable in an orchestral delivery 7 But it is har ily reasonable to ask for mure since we have so much this superb organization. The directors of the Brooklyn VUilhsmwii Society probably saved its lift by asking Theodor Thomas to cross the ferry to it. relief. Both as a commercial aud a um ical enterprise it was in a decidedly reduced condition.

Tho old gentlemen player who controlled tho Now York Society had tliomslves drafted service on thia of the river and managed things aUo. The management wus not brilliant in either case, but thero was this difference In Bruklyn the ol i gentlo hud to be paid iu any event. In New Yuvli tiiu pay depended upon the receipt, which, after providing for expenses, were divided in joint stock fashion. Mr. Thomas brought him his uwu musicians, largely ttu pick of tho New York society, and the more incapable of the old gentlemen were retired.

Upon the appearance of the new conductor and tlio now orchestra tlio local Philharmonic situation Instantly changed. It has been differnnt over Biuce in many respects certainly for the better. In some particulars the case is doubtlul There, never has besn, from that day to this, a rehearsal in the seuee of tho earlier time. Tlie first so called Thomas lvhuarsat I remember that l.ixz: Hungarian rhapsody aud tho introduction and finale of Wagner' "Trifltan aud Iiolde" were among tho numbers of the programme was a performance without a break a perfect performance seemed to those who heard it. With some qualitha'lon the Kamo comment may be made upon evvry rehearsal that ha3 followed.

Is tho losa of rcheirsals an advautago Something has been said of thoeducatlonal effect of watching the drilling of tho musicians them lV03, the correction of their mUUkoa; but it ii safe Vkeii fans were lirst introduced iuto Europe thoy were used by mon as well as women, but it was soon discovered that the awkward hands of mas euiinlty had nothing iu common with an implement so light acd graceful, and soon It became thB solo prerogative of women to carry a fan. In her hands it became a means of fascination, of grace, of lovo making, of coquetry and of a kind of silnnt talk on all sorts of subjects. To it she confided her joys, her hates, her revenges, and aftar the combat abo would kisB it as a duelist sometimes doos his sword. A French lady of the time of Lotus XV. declared that howover agreeable, rjraceful aud elegantly dressed a woman might bo sho would necessarily be ridiculous unless sho knew how to handle a fan that you coald toll a princess from a countesB, a countess from a marquise, a marquise from an untitled lady by the delicate movements of her fan, aud that this subtle instrument, by Its oponing and closing, its risiug and falling, its sweeping end waving, its pointing autl beating, conveyed an encyclopedia of meaning.

Chicago HeraM. I.