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THE BBOOKXYH EAGLE MOKDAY, MAY 3, PARIS FASHIONS "DP TO PATE. HILL NOT OUT OF POLITICS. MISCELLANEOUS. THE MAIN F0ECE IN LIFE. son why!" Such souls are rockets, not flung forth by other forces, but self projected mounting by their own porpulsive fires.

There is a good place In this keen world of ours for any good man. Tho tools amj tho task wait for tho master hand. Brains and a Jack knife, and time will do tho rest. Those who are wanted In this vast factory arc not thoso who might, but those who will, who concentrate all their forces upon the Immediate thing. In professional or commercial spheres, in God's service as in business or In battle, ho Is strongest, not who has the most possible resources, but who brings the highest percentage of those resources with prompt action.

That's tho way to play chess, and the gamo of life is not otherwise. Individuality makes room. A THB DAXL.Y EAGLE la published crerr after, noon on toe worktne days ot the wck u4 8UNIDAT MORNINGS. TSffiMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. $8 pr year; for six months; fl per month; Bunday edition $1.50 per year; postage Included.

Parties desiring the Eagle left at their residences In any part of the city, can send their address (without remittance) to this office and It will be elven to the newsdealer who serves papers Id the district. Persons leavlne town can have the Dally and Sunday Baffle mailed to them, postpaid, for SI per month, the address being changed as often as desired. The Btutle will be sent to any address gling with figures In an effort to play upon the fears of New Yorkers. His prospects, which are "appalling" to no one but himself, are really as absurd as tho following statement: "It is furthermore to be borne In mind that there is no Intelligent or popular demand for this proposed charter. This la shown by the fact that at a three days' hearing before tho mayor, widely noticed by the entire press of the city, but four persons appeared to advocate its passage." It tho many thousands of voters who approved of consolidation at the polls had put In an appearance at the hearing before the mayor it is doubtful it even then Colonel Jtcgers would have ceased to declare "there Is no popular demand" for consolidation.

Some of the New York parsons, who naively confess that their congregations are dwindling, are greatly perturbed over the announcement that the evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, proposes to hold a series of summer meetings at Carnegie hall, at which a number of preachers from England will speak. These more or less good souls should not worry about the proposed coming of Moody. They will not be here to hear him. They will be either in the mountains or on the seashore, or perhaps in foreign lands.

They are not the sort of men who linger In New York when the summer sun is warm. The Rev. Dr. R. S.

MacArthur says plaintively in speaking of Mr. Moody's work: "People are not reached by this peculiar form of religion as they were a generation ago. There are many to day who while they are not opposed to the evangelical idea are a good deal more in sympathy with the scholarly efforts of the hour." As Dr. MacArthur is a divine who presumably engages earnestly In the scholarly efforts of the hour, and believes they are more fruitful of good results than Mr. Moody's work, the secular mind will be somewhat puzzled by the doctor's confession: "Two Bible classes of mine have been broken up entirely as a result of these meetings, the usher service has become disorganized, and the choir Is sadly depleted." The Rev.

Madison C. Peters says In his fine Christian way: "The scheme of most of these meetings is to make money Why doesn't Mr. Moody go down where he is needed Why does he plant himself within a stone's throw of a church? The reason is that it is not a matter of saving souls with the managers of these meetings, but simply a matter of money. Below Fourteenth street there is a population of 700,000, and there are whole sections down there where there are no churches." Mr. Peters Is apparently too busy to go down in the slums below Fourteenth street, for ho Is dealing with high priced souls.

Of course Mr. Moody ought to go down in the slums, despite the fact that the New York World credits Mr. Peters with saying: "Traveling evangelists and their methods I have not much confidence In. This voting From the Eagle Paris Bureau, 26 Rue CamboD, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Eton jacket and fiklrt with fancy stitching and gilt buttons.

MASS FOR MR HAVEMEYER. At Father Malone's church, Wythe avenuo and South Seoond street, yesterday, a mass was said for the repose of tho soul of Theodore A. Havemeyer. Father Malone spoke of the dead man, who was a doar friend of his for forty years, and incidentally said: "There might be a million more converts if Catholics would mingle more with Protestants." BROOKL NITE'S APPOINTMENT. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, May 3 Edgar J.

Hazelton of Brooklyn has been appointed by State Excise Commissioner Lyman as a bookkeeper in that department. He was formerly a resident of Albany. TWO FARMERS KILLED. Martinsburg, W. May 3 While walking on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad traok near here, Benjamin Bhenard and Martin Rizer were killed.

Both were farmers. $6 per dozen for Alva Peabsali's $10 per dozen India tint carbon photographs, for April only. $6 per dozen. Alva Peabsai.1,, Fulton, st, opposite Flatbush av. DIED.

BUTLER An anniversary mass will be offered for the repose of the soul of KATE E. BUTLER, on Tuesday, May 4, 9:30 A. at St. Stephen's Church, Hicks and Summit sts, Brooklyn. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend.

CONYBS On May 2, at her residence, 695 Franklin av, Brooklyn, MARY beloved wife of "WUHani H. Conyea. Funeral sut Mount Marlon, N. on Wednesday, May 5, 1897, at 2 P. M.

COX On Sunday, May 2, I2LLEN1 COX, in the. 89th year of her age. Funeral services at her late residence, 2S5 Carlton av, Tuesday, May 4, at 7:30 P. M. Interment private.

KB LATJNET On Saturday. May 1. 189T, at Brooklyn, N. JOSEPHINE C. DB LlAUIMEY.

Funeral services at her late home. 206 Sunnyslde av, Brooklyn, on Monday evening, at 7:30 o'clock. FEBLEfY On May 2, WILLIAM, beloved Bon of the late John and Ellen Feeley. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his uncle, Thomas Feeley, .622 Classon av, on Wednesday, May 6, at 1 tihence to St. Teresa's Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of his soul.

FITZSIMMONS On May 2, JAMES P. FITZSTM mons, son of the late John and Bessie Fitz slmmonB. Funeral will take place from his late residence, 455A Sackett st, on Tuesday, May 4, at 2 P. M. Interment Calvary.

FREEL A solemn requiem mass (month's mind) will be celebrated for the repose of the soul of the lata JOHN J. FREEL on Tuesday. May 4, at 9 o'clock, at Transfiguration Church, corner Hooper st and Marcy av. Relatives and friends invited to attend. GEHRING On Sunday, May 2, 1887.

PHILIP, be loved eon of Jacob and Katie Gehrlnff, nged 5 mon ths and 5 days. Funeral services May 3, at 8 o'olook P. M. Interment private. GREEN On May 2, PATRICK beloved hus band of Ann Green.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 169 Grant St. Flatbush, on Wednesday, May 5, at 9 A. thence to the Church of the Holy Cross, wttiere a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of his soul. HUMPHREY In Brooklyn, Sunday, May 2, 189T. WILLIAM II.

HUMPHREY, after a severe Illness. Funeral services Tuesday, 8 P. from his late residence, 527 Lafayette av, Brooklyn Interment private. (Hudson, N. papers please copy).

JOHNSON On Sunday, May 2, 1837l after a lin gering illness, JAMES BURTON JOHNSON, brother of John JB. Calvin and Mrs. Robert Burns, in the 54th year of his age. Funeral from his late residence, 890V6 Gates av, on Tuesday, May 4, at 4:30 P. M.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. KILEY At Brooklyn, May 2, 1897, MARION E. KI LEY, daughter of Catharine M. and the late James Klley, at her residence, 201 Jefferson av. Funeral from late residence, 9:30 A.

M. "Wednesday, May thence to Church of tho Transfiguration, corner Hooper st and Marcy av. KLINCK On Friday morning. April SO. JACOB, beloved husband of Annie.

A. Colman. aged 54 years. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend the services at his late residence, 40 Bond st, Brooklyn, on Monday, May 3, at 7:30 P. II.

LINCOLN On Saturday, May 1, at her residence. 423 Sixth at, ELIZA LAWRENCE, widow of Stillman P. Lincoln, aged 67 years. Funeral services at her residence at 7:30 P. Monday, May 3.

Interment private. On Sunday, May 2, HATTTB TRENK MANN MAYO, beloved wife of Caswell A. Mayo. Funeral services at 1,176 Jefferson av, Brooklyn, on Tuesday at 11 A M. Interment private.

MC CARTHY On May 3, 1897, CATHARINE LAVIN, the beloved wife of Thos. McCarthy. Funeral Wednesday, May 5, at 2 o'clock, from her late residence, 22 College place. MeDEVTTT On May 1. 1897, ANNIE, beloved wife of John McDevitt, and daughter of John and the late Ellen Russell.

Funeral from her late residence, 141 Fifth av, Brooklyn, Tuesday, May 4, at 2 P. M. OLCOTT Sunday evening, May 2, CORNELIUS OLCOTT. M. aned 68.

Funeral services at hla late residence, 572 Bedford av, Brooklyn, Wednesday, May 5, at 8 P. Interment private. REED On Sunday, May 2, 1897, IDA A. REED. daughter of the late George A.

and Anna A. Reed. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend her funeral, from her late residence, 89 Henry on Monday evening, May 3, at 8 P. SMITH Entered into rest, on Saturday night. May 1, MARY ALICE, beloved wife of Ebcn D.

Smith. Funeral services from her late residence, 502 Monroe st, Brooklyn, on Tuesday night, at 8 o'clock. Interment at convenience of family. SNYCDBR On Saturday, May 1, Mrs. CAltltIB LOUISE SNYDER.

Funeral services on Tuesday, May 4, at 1:30 P. at the Baptist Home, Greene av, corner Throop, Brooklyn. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend. eTBCHBR On Sunday, (May 2, EDWARD J. H.

STJ3CIIER. Funeral services to be held at hla late home, 837 Monroe st. Tuesday evening. May 4, 8 o'clock. TROMMER On Sunday, May 2, 1897, after a short illness.

JOHN F. TROHMER, In tho 48th year of his age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the services from his late residence, 24 ice, 24 4. at tery. Linden st, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, May 1:30 JP.

M. Interment Evergreens Cemetery, That Tired Feeling At this season la signal of danger. It Is con chiBivo evidence of impnro, impoverished blood whioh may load to serious iilneas. Purw' ify, enrich and vitalize your blood, at onofl with flood's Barsaparilla and be. Dan ere ive11 aml strong.

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I have been taking Hood'a SarsapariUa and am now entirely well." H. 1. Mi ELorr, Woodhull, Now York. Sarsa Is the best in fact tho Ono True Blood Purifier. Insist upon Hood's; take no substitute.

Hood's Pills an; the tjfst after dinnor pillH, aid iligostion. 25c. THE KN0WLES BENEFIT. CITIZENS TESTIFY THEIR ESTEEM FOR THE MANAGER. Colonel Sinn Tenders the Montauk Theater and Will Direct a Performance Thero on the Afternoon of May 13.

The recent lease of the Amphlon theater1 to tho Frohman syndicate, following that of the I'ark to Hydo Behman, has made the return of Manager Edwin Knowles to theatrical management in Brooklyn next season impossible. Mr. Knowles' season closed on Saturday night aL both his houses, and in view of that, and of the fact that his theaters have not been as prosperous this season as frienda could havo wished, Colonel William E. Sinn of the Montauk has inlis tod a number of Mr. Knowles' business and club friends in Brooklyn In a testimonial beneilt to be tendered Mr.

Knowles on tho afternoon of Thursday, May 13. Colonel Sinn has given the use of the Montauk for the oocaslon and has charged himself with tho entire management of the affair, Including the securing of representative actors, the arrangement of the programme and tho many business details which such an undertaking always involves. Many of the most prominent men in town have signified their desire to participate in the affair, as the following correspondence shows. Tile list of signatures to tho letter offering the benefit is one of which any BrooldynitB might bo proud. The correspondenco is aa follows: lirooklyn, April 13, 1ST7.

I Mwln Kncwles, sir I firninc: that you ore about to pivo up the active maimcempnt of thiters In this city (temporarily, we ho: '), tho undersigned, residenta Kr.x.kiyn, dvslru to express our appreciation of your aide and untiring efforts In. the caune of popular a.iiiuemn:.s, your reodlnefia to champion the cause of various charities, your couru ous treatment of brother maJiaKers ant your SiLcrlllce In itie cause of first class amusement, resulting a we know for the past two years in great financial lo.ss; in order that tnia testimonial shall be of a substantial nature, a. complimentary beneilt Is hereby tendered you, to take place on the al'lern jou ot Alay 12, 1'Jl, u.t tha Montana theater. We sincerely hope that you will slve ua th pleasure of your Yours very truly, Wliliam E. Sinn.

Moiua.uk theater; F. W. "Wura ter. William IVrri, 'I d. H.

Willis, R. Rt3 Applet'. Joseph Aspmall. AuKUstus Van Wyck, St. I'ialr McKo lway, Huk'" Hirsh.

1 L. Itaekua, It. lk s. Granville W. llarinan, David L.

Harris. 1 Ynunk'. Felix rampirell, SHils. il. butcher, W.

J. Andrew D. Iioird. W.lllam i'. Jsim.w Mel Andrew McLean, (V.

Uenn. u. 11. K. Gunnison.

Will lam li. It' viwels, A. ry, W. I'aJiner, U. Millard V.

Smith, Joha Mel'artv, Horatio ('. Kmc. 1'eier H. Jam r.r. idiam.

S. T. A. Price. Mauh' ws, I.

li. Worth. H. S. lta squin.

itrvm. r. 'lal'. A. Harrow, Nioh ulrti Hu.lwiK Nl.e!.

o'larke 1 Khelnliarrt, James W. KleiniiiK. M. I'. Kraal; Justa.ve H.

s. V. Shar. Tlo.mna I'. Iters, J.

Moilenhauer. Stump. I'haxles D. p. ii.

Havens, t'harl. li. liall.y, Daniel F. Wilson. Jaiol'S.

Sinc.T Swain. William KrumOe.k, 1'. HethbrldKe, Jamea Rowland, Hanrv Hasler, trow L. Weed. Chris toph.

TjOtt, M. 1. 1 tieorijn Crosby. J. L.

Con nellv. John A. Qumtar Harry l'lympton, M. D. 10 ICiimrs.

Edward H. Coombs, Warren C. Tr T. IVuiiw ein H. Burtls.

eveiK F. Mas Adam H. Ideh, Ceoriie Clinton ff. rv. M.

A. Vol Woodruff, lienjamln T. I.vne.h. John I). Acker.

Allrt Aub. ry. Oharl a T. Ferry. John F.

ltrogg. n. April 1S9" To William E. Sinn, F. W.

Wursr. r. lierri, C.eorKe J. seph Aspl. iw St dair Mo K.

lwuy. Van Wjvk. It. Ross Appleton, Him Hirsh. U.oaarti It.

Granville. V. liarmjji. Charles G. Bennett, Sila Pu and rs: Orritlemen I urknowledsje your favor of the f.Kh Instant, tenderln, me a complimentary benefit, the same to take pl at the ilomaujc th 'iter on the nJ'teru.

Thursday, May 13. In this I d. slre to express my sine. appre.dat of y. mr kindness in offel" It.

and to y. ti my numerous Brooklyn fri.eids f. the Interest they have taken in tills an lii I always bear In rem. I trust the near future, I shall ahie resume my business rriruM stlons wimk AiT.ihi th.mklntf yuu, gentlemen, believe slm or dy y. urs.

ElnVIN Edwin Knowles began his career as a Brooklyn manager in when, with Colonel Morris, he leased the Grand Opera house. Before that time Mr. Knowles hail been an actor, prominent In many companies, and had been associated with Governor Tabor in the management of a theater at Leadville, Col. The Grand Opera houre has been run as a variety house, but Messrs. Morris and Knowlos made it a first elass theater, playing in opposition to tho Park, of which Colonel Sinn was tho manager.

They opened the house with Charles H. Thorno in "The Banker's Daughter" on September 2, 1SS2. Edward Lamb, Adelo Belgarde and other good actors being in tho oast. In JSSS Morris Knowles took the lease of tho Amphlon academy, which had been built not long before for tho Amphlon Singing society in the eastern district ami which had proved unprollta blo under C. Mortimer YYiske.

tho conductor of tho society. Thai bouse was opened by tho new managers September 1. with "Tho I'earl of Pekiu," a comic opera, of which Louis Harrison was iho star. In 1SS9 the partnership was dissolved. Colonel Morris re maiiiing in control of tho Grand Opera house and Mr.

Knowles taking tho Amphlon. Ho has conducted it from that, time until Saturday night, and In the course of his management b.as presented every prominent American star and company, except John McCul lout 'h, who expected to play there when he was taken 111. ami such foreign stars as Bernhardt, tho elder Sal vlul and the old German oppra company from tho Metropolitan Opera house, Booth and Barrett. Jefferson, Mayo and Fanny Davenport are among the represertatlvo aetors who c.iave played there under Mr. Knowle3, and Amphi.m has been no of tho firs: class A.

ncriiitii theaters. Llbmann who owned the at Washington and 'Hilary strei ts. built the Columbia theater In ontLoon tiat Mr. would un deriako mauagonion of iho house, and lC was oponed March 7, 18fi2, under tho management of Kdwin Knowles Co. with A.

M. Palmer's stock company in "Alabama." Ilia partno. were Hanx Frohman and Al Hay man, and affairs ran smoothly until 1SE5. when Mr. Knowles.

with A. M. Palmer, leased the Park theater, which ColoncJ Sinn had left 'to go to the new Moniauk. Messrs, Haynaaa and Frohman tried to enjoin Mr. Knowles from carrying out his contract with Palmer and finally bought ou't his share in tho Columbia.

Tho Park was opened by Palmer and Kninvlra on September 2. lsyfi. witti "William, II. Crane In "His Wife's Father," and haa "iM on conducted ly them over siuco. In ell that fifteen years Mr.

Knowles has made many friends by his emirtosy, his generosity in affairs of charity and his public spirit, ami hht benefit will 'bo ono of tho marked occasions In tho history of tho Brooklyn stago. DeWICK AND DOBSON'S CONCERT Do Wick and Dobson's annual banjo, guitar and mandolin carnival tool: place at tho Montauk theater night and the pupils wero liberally applauded for their playing. Tho audlenco wa uot larg many people who had resorved seats being kept away by the bad. weather, no doubt. Some of the Lessons He Has Learned and Profited By An Attack on Seth.

Low, General Traoy and William, C. De Witt Colonel Rogers' "Appalling" Conjurations. Ministers Jealous of Moody. A well informed, observant Democrat, who knows David B. Hill qutte well, and has frequently had occasion to talk with him about political matters, has this to Bay concerning the ex senator's present and future: "I do not take any stock In the newspaper predlotion that Mr.

Hill will not again figure as a Democratic leader In this state. He is showing good judgment in keeping quiet just now, but I feel confident that he will be a strong factor in the coming contest over the mayoralty of 'Greater New York. The chasm whloh separated the ex senator and the men who followed Bryan In November last is not nearly as wide as it was, I do not expect that Hill will become a free silverite, but I have reason to believe that he and Bryan Will be reconciled to each other as Democrats on grounds of common opposition to Republicanism. On many important questions they already agree, and the way is being paved for their reconciliation. "With Hugh McLaughlin at his back, and still possessing the confidence of some of the up country Democratic leaders.

Hill is bound to come to the front again politically. But In many respectB he will not be the David1 B. Hill of old, the arrogant, Imperious political dictator of his gubernatorial days; he will be far more formidable, however, as a leader." "And why more formidable?" "Hill has been chastened by his reverses," said my informant. "Within the last year he has had occasion to review his political mistakes, and ample time to reflect over the errors of his leadership. He knows to day by bitter experience that a leader must not be arrogant and selfish In dealing with his associates, if he would make sincere friendships and retain a hold on the loyalty of those who serve him.

The brightest of men are but glow worms in their relations to the universe, and they can well afford to let others show their feeble llghta without displaying any fear of being outshone. Any selfish egotistical leader who looks into the mirror of Hill's record as governor can see his own picture. The leader who is always endeavoring to secure the credit due to a subordinate's work, who is racked with the pangs of jealousy when some associate wins a little of popular applause, who Is ever looking for rivalry when no such feeling exists, is sure to make enemies where he might make friends. He is bound to weaken friendships, excite disgust and anger, and eventually to provoke reprisals. When Hill was governor he constantly endeavored to figure as the great 'I am" In the Democratic politics of this state.

Sf the Democratic leaders of the senate or assembly performed any clever political act, Hill either Bneered at it or tried to convey the impression that he inspired the act. He was always posing as the man who knew it all. And so, men who would have been his fast friends, and have battled to uphold his leadership under the most adverse conditions, came to hate and detest him. Being politicians, they flattered him to his face, but in their hearts detested the man. The time came when they openly denounced his leadership.

And such is the ultimate fate of all egotists in power. They repel friendships that would be earnest and lasting, for it is not in human nature for men to be willing, loyal slaves to the utterly ignoble selfishness of leaders consumed by an insatiable desire to shine at the expense of all around them. Popular applause won by David B. Hill an governor of the state of New York has turned to ashes In his hands, and with them mingle the ashes of friendships that might have been enduring had he been a man of broader mind and leBS selfish. He has realized all this to his mortification and has profited much by his experience.

When he makes his reappearance In public life, as he Is sure to, he will move along surer and safer lines than In the past." Colonel William E. Rogers of New York Is still railing at the charter and Incidentally he covertly attacks the integrity of the fram ers of the charter. In a letter to Sunday's New York Herald the colonel says: The hope of compelling New York to pay a largo share of Brooklyn taxes and to bear the expense of a largo share of her improvements was the basis of activity for the Brooklyn advocates of consolidation when the scheme was first started. This has been admitted by Brooklyn's foremost officials and Is unblushlngly admitted by her present mayor. This most unjust and reprehensiblo effort to saddle now burdens on the people of this city seems to have met with the entire approval of the Greater New York commission.

The surprise that is naturally felt at this condition is tempered, however, by consideration of the personnel of the commission. General Tracy, the president, until the last year or so had always lived In Brooklyn and is entirely Identified with that city. General Stewart L. Woodford has always lived there. The same Is true of Silas B.

Dutcher, Mayor Wurster and William C. Dc Witt. The latter. Indeed, who Is reputed to have had more to do with tho promulgating of the charter than anyone else, Insisted at a public hearing that taxes In Brooklyn were no higher than in New York. This is a novel as well as unmanly style of attack.

If this sort of thing is to meet with the approval of the public, then it may be deemed proper to reflect upon the decisions of judges who do not live in New York city, yet deal with questions affecting the varied interests of Manhattan Island. Occasionally the court of appeals finds It a matter of duty to disagree with the corporation counsel of New York; the disagreement may be traced to the fact that the judges do not live within the borders of the modern Babylon. From Colonel Rogers' point ot view Governor Black must also bo included In the list of those who are not friends of New York. Mayor Strong, formerly of Ohio; the Rev. Dr.

Parkhurst, "Down Horace E. Deming, late of Brooklyn; the Rev. Dr. Rainsford of England, Colonel Waring of Newport, Police Commissioner Andrews of Yonkers, Roswell P. Flower of Water town, and a host of other prominent citizens, whose names would fill columns, are to be regarded with suspicion by the native New Yorkers.

Colonel Rogers' letter may make sad reading for Seth Low and General Tracy. For the colonel clearly means that these widely esteemed gentlemen are not eligible for a mayoralty nomination. Another ellly utterance which tho colonel fathers reads as follows: In an official estimate made by the present commissioner of pub'Ho works of tho city of New York, General under Instructions from the mayor, he shows that the expenses for paving the City of Brooklyn to bring lit up to the present standard' of Now York would be not less than $15, for drainage In the annexed district, to put It in proper condition, the expenditure would not be less than for on adequate water supply for Brooklyn he estlmntes $70,000,000. When to such outlays as these for permanent Improvements there are added tho Increased expenses incident to the equalization of salaries of firemen, policemen and other employes or the various departments, the prospect Is appalling. No man in tho full possession of his senses, or rather possessed of sound sense, believes that when the Greater New York charter becomes a law the city will Immediately proceed to the expenditure of $15,000,000 in paving the streets of the Borough of Brooklyn, or Incur a debt of $70,000,000 in providing an adequate water supply for this city.

Years will be required for tho making of these improvements. If Colonel Rogers believes otherwise he is lacking in sound sense, if he knows that these vast expenditures which ho conjures cannot be made within tho time ho suggests In his letter, then he Is simply jug DR. STEYKER'S SERMON ON THE POWER OF WILL. All Effectiveness Is at Last a Matter of Personality It Is the Man Behind the Instrument, Not the Instrument Itself, That Counts. The Rev.

Dr. M. W. Stryker. president of Hamilton college, Clinton.

N. who occu pied the pulpit of the Lafayette avenue Presbyterian church at both services yesterday, preached the following sermon in the morning. His text was chosen from Judges man is, so Is his 6trngth." Dr. Stryker said: This was spoken by Zebah and Zalmunna, those two captive kings, whom, for the murder of his brethren, Gideon, judge of Israel, ordered his son Jether to slay. Jether hesitated.

"He feared because he was but a youth." Then the victims, disliking to bo mangled and wishing to he killed thoroughly if at all, appealed to Gideon: "Rise thou and fall upon us; for as tho man is. so is his strength." These nine simple words put crisply the whole secret of personal force. All effectiveness is at last a matter of personality. Strength Ilea in the intrinsic man. As an army is moro than an armory, so a soldier Is more than a sword.

In this case the task and the weapon were the same; the difference was the difference between Gideon and Jether. Every real epic Is keyed to tho first lino of the Aenid. Virgil sounded at once the note of all power: "Anna virumque cano" arms and tho man! Tho martial Is the scenery, the man is the hero, and rules tho song. Given equal tools and equal opportunities the results will vary as vary the men, and final exterior effect will be measured by Interior purpose. The first side of the.

equation is a plus plus x. The quantity will be determined by the quality. It Is always true, whether in Hebrew or Latin or English, that strength Is In the ratio of manliness. It is true also In Greek; for the word character, which from that tongue we borrow whole, was the word which meant a signet, or for the seal It made. Character is one's stamp, his personal Impression.

His mark is his counterproof his force Is that which characterizes him. What totally ho does shows what ho totally Is. His wisdom and will make up his whole product. These two go together and decide the multiple. For one may have large knowledge and no resolution, and so be an Incapable; or may have great aggressiveness and no sense, and so be an Impracticable! Will and wit must be fitly Joined together tonnage and enginery suited each to the other.

Real power Is the compound result of a clear head and a stout heart. We will consider It as granted that knowledge is everywhere Indispensable to vital momentum. One cannot know too many things, nor know them too well. That is the sword of our story. What I would now urge Is tho lndlspensableness of that other clement will; that which Jether lacked and which Gideon had.

If will cannot stand alone, neither can knowledge go alone, and I would concern you with that virile faculty which gives the go. Call it what you like vigor, courage, executive skill the wit to act is the nitric acid which turns the glyce rlno Into dynamite! All affairs, with all their exigencies, demand this. So our subject narrows and becomes the strength of determination. Whoever here has pondered that solid and searching essay of John Foster's, upon "Decision of Character" (a treatise to take Into one's very will understand what I mean a thing beyond discretion, more than disposition determination. Other things (as equipment or occasion) being equal or similar, as determination le, tho man is and "as tho man is, so is his strength." Real motive shows Itself In becoming a motor.

There Is a difference (often obscured, as well as revealed. In Inexact speech) between proposing and purposing! One proposes a theorem, he purposes an act. Proposal exhibits a path, purpose travels it. Proposal looks there, purpose gets thero! To "purpose" is to appoint an end, a goal, a torminus. Actual purpose sets all available energies at work to arrive "though seven deaths lay between." Purpose Is central.

In it we see the naked soul. Enthusiasm is but effervescence unless purpose completes it. Emotion is tho ripple on the river, purpose Is the current. Thus Shakspeare is nice In the use ot words in saying: What to in passion ve propose. The passion cndlnR doth the purpose lose.

There is a vital difference between suggestion and Intent, between assenting to a theory and consenting to a life, and the difference Is In the man. The plan is only complete in the battle. Latent convictions are the material of warfare, but only by the addition of its personnel does an army conquer. Loyaltv must become sternly militant be'fore truth can come to Its own. Victory sides with the ranks and with those alone who "love not their lives unto the death." Tho caution of an Erasmus and the modesty of a Melanc thon were not enough to turn the battle of tho reformation; a burly and intrepid Luther, an unswerving Calvin, an indomitablo John Knox, a fagot daring Latimer were necessary.

Strong conviction must be welded with irrevocable daring to get anything done in this slippery world. Caesar must pause, but when ho crosses it must be a whole Caesar, with his back to tho Rubicon. Samson must feel the pillars with prayer to tho one Helper and then bow his back to the one struggle in which life would go. Half effort and its failure would be but to make further sport for tho Philistines. In all phases and aspects of life tho law of vital ability Is one.

Be It trade or government, literature or art, war or religion, in everything resolution to act is the measure of final effect. The courage of one's conviction decides the specific gravity of his life. One noon day consecration of a Saul of Tarsus is worth a thousand clandestine Nlcodemuses. Entire self commitment to a task or a cause Is the elemental thing in heroism and leadership. This has in It the proving of things hoped for that faith which sees and seizes the invisible.

When a would bo leader in politics shirks, evades, equivocates, tho peo plo quit him oven in a bad cause the public loves positlveness and fearlessness, how much more in a good cause. Outspoken fanaticism will capturo a following because it is outspoken. Tho world loves a leader and despises a poltroon. When, In 1861, tho first federal war loan of $150,000,000 was to bo attempted, Secretary Chase held a conference with tho bankers of New York city and asked them to make It. They heard, questioned, hesitated and were silent, until one man, George S.

Coe, sprang up and moved that the loan be taken. Ho pictured the exaction of events, the commanding necessity of self preservation and said, "Let this free government go down and I would not give theso coppers for all your banks, your buildings and your capital oither this loan or barbarism!" And they took tho loan. Some word3 are battles, but it takes men to utter them "Jother cannot draw "the sword of the Lord and of Gideon." There aro those who are all centerboard and no nail, all rudder and no most, and who, so, never have headway enough to get anywhero. Micawbcr "waits for something to turn up," tho man turns up tho thing that is waiting. Earnestness makes even Its enemies respectful.

Let those who choose so, duploro the way of old Ossawatamlo Brown; but njl men must, with Governor Wlseadnilro the grim nobility of that speech "1 am worth moro to God for hanging than for anything else!" Wendell Phillips never had a higher compliment than when Robert Toombs called him "an infernal machine set to music." Will is what works. When a thought Is personified incarnate, then It becomes A riath of cUfCtrlr.il. Awak'nliiK and transforming all. Till li am! thrills In evi'ry Tile imls is of a living heart. It Is not sonorous thunder of mere words, but the lightning of life that strikes.

Tho bolt Is the Idea applied. No verbal order would have stiffened tho line that was to meet and master Pickett's chargo at Gettysburg, as did tho examplo of calm courage, whon Hancock rode all along tho front at parade step! That was superb, becauso it was supremo with purpose. Stonewall Jackson's flrHt name is forgotten In the battle born title that his soldlors recognized. The men who hesitate and shrink, who draw pensions because they never were nearer tho clinch than the safo sido of the baggago train these are tho Jethers, not the Gideons. Let such stand shamed as thoy recall tho deathless answer ot Flag Sergeant Planclaucols at Port Hudson one of tho nearly 200,000 black troops, whose red blood helped to wash our flag, "Colonel, I will bring back to you theso colors with honor, or report to God the rea i In Europe at U.3S per month, postags prepaid.

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(Tel. 23 Jamaica). COMING EVENTS. The Jelliffe alumni will meet this evening at Public School No. 45, Classon and Lafayette avenues.

A special meeting; of the Empire club will be held this evening at 21 Eldert street. Epworth league chapter No. 1,093 will give an entertainment Including scenes from French history, this evening in the Hanson place M. E. chapel.

The Franklin Literary society at 44 Court street will listen this evening to a debate on tle question, "Resolved, That personal property ought to be exempt from taxation." The Brooklyn Woman's Suffrage association will give a luncheon In the farm house at Prospect park to morrow at 1 P. M. The new building of the Greater New York Savings bank at Seventh avenue and First street will be thrown open from 7 to 9 P. M. to day.

The regular meeting of the Young Men's Democratic) club will be held this evening In the Hotel St. George. Justice William J. Gaynor will address the Brooklyn Institute art department this evening at 174 Montaeue street, on "Constitutional Limitations of the Taxing Power." The first regular monthly meeting of the Graduated Nurses' Protective association of the state of New York will be held on Wednesday, May 5, at 3 In the Quigg club rooms, 371 Amsterdam avenue, New York. A large attendance of members Is requested.

Miss Mary French Field, daughter of Eugene Field, will read selections from her father's poems this evenlnf for tho benefit of the Brooklyn (Nursery and Infants' hospital, at Association hall, 602 Fulton street. HOTEL ARRIVALS. GlaJden, A. B. Richards, J.

M. Biggest, Mr. and Mrs. L. Brlggs.

ew York; H. A. Barnes, Brooklyn; W. C. Abbott, Boston; 1 A.

EmUs, J. J. Ennis, New York; Miss A. McCann, Albany, N. Y.

Mr. and Mrs. Van Loan Brooklyn; William Mackintosh, R. Gattan, New York; Mr. and Mrs.

Walsh, Chicago; J. F. Salter A. J. MoKInsIey, G.

L. Broome, Mr. and Mrs. Newton, W. H.

Southerland. Brooklyn; Mrs. S. E. Stuart, Washington, D.

C. Miss Eaton Wilmington, H. Smith, Brooklyn; F. M. Gould Charles Rank, New York.

Arlington F. M. Potter, Brooklyn; L. Walsh, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs.

Edwards, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. J.

Moore, Yonkers, N. Y. R. W. Grant, Brooklyn; Mr.

and Mrs. C. Hamilton, Newark. N. F.

Jones, Daniel Daub Mr. and Mrs. H. Griffin, Daniel Mayers, William Scully Brooklyn; C. C.

Barr. Philadelphia, D. H. Moore, Oyster Bay; T. F.

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J. F. Hayward, New York; M. S. Taylor.

Philadelphia, Pa. H. G. Summerglll, Providence, R. I.

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Cook, Brooklyn; B. Tappan, U. S. N. JEWISH WOMEN'S MEETING.

A general meeting and annual election of the Council of Jewish Women will be held at 2 P. M. to morrow at the Unity club house, Franklin avenue and Hancock street. A board of twelve drectors will be elected at this meeting for the term of one, two and three years, "respectively. BROOKLYN QUARTET CLUB.

Tho Brooklyn Quartet club will give a concert this evening under tho direction of Carl Fiqne at Prospect hall, ProBpect avenue, near Fifth. An excellont programme will be presented, including a number of selections, in the interpretation of which the club is noted. Among the artiBts who will take part are Catharine Noack Fique, mezzo soprano; Wil helm Xanton, tenor, and tho Kunstler orchestra. ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS CLOSED. The season of concerts of the Metropolitan Permanent orchestra at the Clermont avenue rink were unexpectedly closed last night.

The orchestra was engaged for two weeks by Strong Ireland, lessees, who had run the rink for ice skating during the winter. But the attendance for the first week was very small, though the music was excellent. There was talk abnut closing on Saturday, but both sides waited to see what the business on Saturday and Sunday nights was. That on Sunday was distressingly small and it was decided to close at once. DR.

MEREDITH'S VACATION. The Rev. Dr. Robert R. Meredith, pastor of the Tompkins avenue Congregational church, has been granted a six months' vacation, with full salary.

Dr. Meredith was attacked by grip recently and spent two weeks at Savannah, where he rallied considerably. On his return he found that after preaching he was much exhausted and was unable to gain strength. His physician advised absolute rest for a time for fear of a complete nervous breakdown and the standing committee has granted the time, as stated. Dr.

Meredith, It is understood1, has not fully determined, where he will go. MRS. KUSTER'S RECITAL. Mrs. Emma Richardson Kuster gave her thirty third private piano recital at her home 393 Madison street, on Friday evening.

Sho had tie assistance of Miss Lucie M. Boice, soprano; Mr. William E. Kuster, tenor, and a number of her pupils. Mrs.

Kuster played Liszt's arrangement of the march from "TannhauBer" brilliantly, and the playing of three of her assistants was notably good. Miss Madgo Attwood played the Chopin nocturne, opus 65, No. Miss Florence Hamilton a "Romance" in fiat by Rubinstein, and the slow waltz from the "Sylvia" ballet; and Miss Amelia Gray, the andante with variations, opus 142, by Schubert. Others who played were Master Louis Nova and the Misses Alice and Gertrude Irish, Louise Clement, Sadie Nason, Carrie Dewes, May Rawson, Carrie Rawson, Virginia Cnmdall, Lillian Taylor and Elma Dare, shrewd fellow finds opportunities, a wise man creates them. One succumbs to the Arctic rigors, another will of the very Ice make him a lens, through tho very frost focussing the sun fire to servo him.

McCall stood one day on the boulevards and felt the need of the plain workmen of Paris, ho gave his lire to lift them and his immortal mission was begun. That was because ho was McCall. Mr. Moody's first meeting in Chicago was attended by eight persons, but it was not his last. The Rev.

Isaac Hardy was a confederate prisoner in Fort Delaware. It was not a promising placrs but he organized a Bible class and a theological seminary, and from among his fellow prisoners, thirty solely from that teaching, entered the gospel ministry. Like a dog turning around to hollow a bed in a pile of leaves, every man established a place of his own size. Tho man Is the radius of that circle which makes his world. Men vary as their displacement.

One finds in Shakspeare, Burns, Hawthorne, the Bible what ho is capable of finding. As tho man is so Is his Inti'rpretatlon. Players, ot equal technique, differently translate the deep heart of Beethoven, or Schumann, Just according to their affinity with those great spirits "As the man Is" so Is his music. Every great epoch or Institution bears some man's name. The Roman church feels vet tho impulse or a Hlldebrand and a Loyola.

Tho Methodists are the perpetuation of tho Wosleys. Scotland carries the; impriniation of Knox. Now Englanders are the heirs (if Robinson of Loyden. Isaac Watts is tho father ot modern hymnody. Washington's farewell address still soals his work.

Archimedes said give me whereon to stand and I will shake the world; but Luther said, "Here I stand," and shook tho world! Charles Kiugsley cla.ssilied the human race into three parts; first, honest men who moan to do right and do It; secondly, knaves who mean to do wrong and do It; and thirdly, fools, who mean to do which ever of the two is the pleasauter. Where can wo turn and not find that the will to be true is the very essence of manhood? Every one of you who hears mo has God's own permission to be as Influential as he can be, as wise as he Is willing to be. as brave as he dares to be. As Browning says: Hy your choice you sta.nl or fall; There is no dischartte in that war. hen that flprht b.

Rlna within himfvdf, A man's worth something; GJ sto ina o'er hli head. Satan l.ks up between hta ffet. Both tuir left, himself, in iho mldd. The soul i And uruws. I'rolonf, that battle llf.

isever leave growlnpr till the lire to come. It Is this clear vision of the terms of the real life that fits any man for broad and substantial sen Ice, and it Is only the servant who Is the king. Tho ambition to get something out of the world la set over against the ambition to put something into it. It is Christ's perpetual paradox that to lose life for His sake is to find It, and that to save llfo for one's own sake Is to lose it. To choose His way Is to come to the measure of a complete man.

By no other way can manhood reach its best. Christ strengthening you, you can do all things. The discipline of a loyal will is the end of all education. The crown of knowledge is in absolute allegiance to the truth. Without that ethical result all else Is but a without a capital.

One may ignore the chief end and yet be a tech nlst and in sane lines an expert; but ho who stuffls his head while he starves his heart cannot be a man. A brain is of no final use unless it Is poised on the end of a backbone. Pulp is only fulfilled In marrow. We know that the locomotive engineers who swing across tho continent on limited 'trains at last lose the nerve 'to keep the schedule time. The work so wears that by and by they must be retired to less exacting responsibilities.

When for us the day comes to surrender our duties to firmer hands may we have grace to do so cheerfully. God ill provide our successors. But while wo are called to resoluteness and action, fin ding both the perils and the splendors ot our calling, let us eye the clock and the card and tho track, and pull the throttle to the joint! ITS FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY. Grace Chnroh About to Begin a New Half Century of Work A Special Collection. At the morning service at Grace church on the Heights yesterday, the rector, the Rov.

Chauncey B. Brewster, announced the completion on Sunday next. May 9, of the fiftieth year of the existence of the parish, its organization having been effected on May 10, 1S47. Mr. Brewster stated that the collection to be taken up next Sunday would bo for tho benefit of the endowment fund of the parish, which had boon Instituted for tho pur ipose of perpetuating tho 'work of Grace church in the field which it has to the jres sent time occupied.

His sermon, which bore upon tho character of that work, was based on Revelation 1:10. "I was In the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind mo a great voice, as ot a trumpet." Ho laid stress upon tho necessity, in the teaching and prosecution of religion, of clinging to established truths, as set forth in tho scriptures. Not that he would obstruct or retard progress which could in any wiso promote spiritual advancement or development, but he desired to warn his people against the dange.r of giving adherence to newly devised theories, which are in contravention of the spirit or letter of tho Bible. He maintained that since the revelation of the scriptures through the lifo and gospel ot tho Saviour, man's Intellect could supply nothing new in tho lino of religious truth. AH that is good in expounded religion is as old as the law of Moses and tho prophets.

In the afternoon Mr. Brewster preached upon parish work. He said that a churchman ot tho present day who was not a member of some particular parish would not bo altogether like "a man without a country, for he would still bo a member of the great body, catholic and apostolic; but ho would resemble one with no fixed abiding place or home." Tho Influence of tho parish begins with the Sunday school, which Is essential to tho spiritual teaching of children who are nut provided with that Instruction at their homos, and In that particular tho parish partakes of the nature of a home. The guilds brriaden parish work by developing usefulness, klndly lntcrest and fraternal lovo and assistance; among tho older and mature. Tho position of organist and choirmaster of Grace church was yesterday assumed bv Mr.

Frank Wright, late o'. St. John's, Seventh avenue. During th" afternoon riffer toritim. a member of his late charto.

Master Fred Roeshlcr, sang a beautiful solo arrangement ot "I Know That My Redeemer EIGHTY FIVE NEW MEMBERS Received at Church on Sunday Morning. The scrviros at Plymouth church yesterday morning were very interesting. In the morning communion was observed and eighty live persons were received intu membership, sixty two on proi'ebsion of faith and twei.ty threo by lettor. Tw elvo of thoHo were baptized by )r. Abbott, who preached on tho thomo, "(iod is J.ovo." He said, among other tilings, that there were no limitations to Gutl's lovo.

"God's lovo," ho continued, "is the essential doctrine of revelation, 'rom this all divino experience llows. If God did not lovo Ho would not be God. (iod in the Father of every human being on tho earth. His love is tho lovo of a father and nothing can soparato man from God." LIQUOR TAX ON LONG ISLAND. (Special to tho Eagle).

Albany, May State Kxciso Oommin (donor Lyman reports tho following as tho result of tho enumeration which ho has caused to lie made in Queens and Suffolk countioH in order that ho might bo able to lix tho amount I of the liquor tax for several of the villages I therein: Queens county 'nrona. Now town, 1,780. Suffolk' county Bav 2.0111; Huntington, il.O.Vi; I i i 1,511:1: l'ort i Hivorliund, 1 tus enumeration has buen made generally throughout tho state in villages which havo been incorporated sinco tho foderal censuH of 18'JO, or in villages which were not separately enumer uted in that census. qneself Into the Kingdom on ten minutes' no tice I don't approve of." While it is true that the Founder of Christianity and the Apostles made converts quickly, and no specified time was set for the accomplishment of tho act of conversion. It must be remembered that the church, or rather some of our modern preachers, have established new methods.

For instance, It plainly requires more time and thought to comprehend Mr. Peters' scheme of salvation than to understand the Blmple language of the Saviour." MUL. DR. DIXON'S NEW ASSISTANT. The Rev.

F. H. Jacobs, Mr. Moody's Singing Associate, Called Will Begin His Work at Once. The Rev.

F. H. Jacobs has Just been called to be assistant pastor of the Hanson place Baptist church. He has for a year past been assistant to the Rev. W.

T. Chase, pastor of the Fifth Baptist church, Philadelphia. Mr. Jacobs has accepted and will at once enter upon his work. He was at Hanson place church yesterday and sang solos at the morning and evening services.

Although he has a wide reputation as a singer and evangelist, having long been associated with Dwight L. Moody, he will not replace Mr. Barry, whom Dr. Dixon and his people consider one of the best precentors in the country. Mr.

Jacobs' work, while he will sing solos and occaslon THE REV. F. H. JACOBS, Dr. Dixon's New Assistant.

ally preach, Is to be that of assistant pastor without the responsibility of preaching Sunday evenings. Froderlck H. Jacobs was born in Germany, February 1855, and came to this country with his parents in 1802. His father, Peter Jacobs, enlisted in October, 18G2. in the Twenty sixth Iowa volunteers and served throughout the war.

Frederick remained on the farm until his 18th year, when he took a position as a water boy during the construction of a branch of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad from Clinton to Anamosa, la. A warm friendship sprang up between Frederick and C. H. Holton, the section boss, who advised the boy to get an education and abandon bis idea of becoming a railroad man. Twelve years later Mr.

Jacobs bad secured his diploma from college. In 1873 ho left homo to seek an education. Ho first went to Clinton. and for five years struggled from one grade to another till ho came within a year of graduating from high school. At 22 years of age he entered Cornell collego In Iowa, graduating from there in 1884.

He returned in 1887 to take his master's degrees in two courses and afterward in the third. Upon being graduated he became assistant state secretary of tho Young Men's Christian association of Illinois. In 1891 ho entered general evangelistic work and in 1803 joined Mr. Moody in his Chicago campaign, with whom he has been associated ever since with the exception of his year's work in Philadelphia. For six months Mr.

Jacobs was associated with the Rev. Dr. A. C. Dixon In evangelistic work, and thus an acquaintance was formed which has culminated in the present combination at Hanson place church.

Mr. Jacobs has a wife and two boys, who will soon movo to this city. NEWMAN LITERARY SOCIETY. Tho Newman Literary society hold Its second anniual literary and musical entertainment last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Fisher, 434 Hart street. Tho society is mainly composed of young men and women belonging to St. John's parish. Tho speaker was Francis X. Bastlble, who took for hi subject "Cardinal Nowman." Among those who participated In tho musical programme were Miss Agnes Fisher, reader; Charles Martin, elocutionist; Joseph Wieners, magician; the society quartot, comprising Misses May Doolan.

Jen nie Bastlble, Anastasla Fisher and May Can non; miss Aiattio J' isner, accompanist; Miss Tllllo Wieners, humorist; Misses Mary Hawke and Mary Bastlble, vocalists; Miss Mamie Fisher, pianist. A supper was served at the close of. the entertainment..