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FEBRUARY 15, SIX PAGES. THREE CENTS, FUKEltAL OF THE LATE HENRY B. DAVIS. WANT PEACE. DAILY DUTIES.

WAS DISGUISED. RACE PROBLEM. MRS. JONES. essayed that role, and said no man would do more to secure a peaooful adjustment of the vexed differences than he.

Arbitration conferences or anything would be acceptable to him. He did not wish to bo misrepresented any longer, and wanted to be put on rocord as one of the moat unoomprsmiBing friends pf union and harmony. Mr. Downs said that be know that the faction had favored union, but ho thought McGuire had been somewhat hasty in his reception of tho oommittee. It did not matter whether he could comply with the requests of the men or not there was no reason why he should have been discourteoua.

"We want only ono parade," said Downs, "and he who doe not favor harmony is not worthy to bo called an Irishman." Mr. McGuire retorted that he had not been hasty. He said that his acts had been misrepresented and that Downs himself had said that he was' misquoted iu his criticism of them. Mr. Downs replied that ho had not said anything that he would take back.

He had said, in referring to a certain condition of affairs, that it was a disgrace to follow any nun under such cir eumstaucea, instead of referring specifically lo McGuire, Tlio convention then adjourned until next Snuday. Tho smaller faotion held their convention at their headquarters at 108 Cauton street. P.J. McCarthy was chairman and John MoWillianis, Beorotary pro tem. Tho committeo on oredentials reported thirty seven associations represented out of forty two.

A nominating committeo waa appointed and their selection of candidates wag clouted, as follows: Miloa SIcPaiiati, president; Petor WaBhington, vice president: John Hughes, recording secretary; W. Fitzpatrick, financial secretary; John Clyne, treasurer; M. C. McGar raghty, sergeant at urma. The committee from tho Irish federation in the interests ef a union parade made their mission known through speeches by Air.

Dwyer and Patrick Maguire. Mr. Dwyer said that tho committees sent to the conventions would report at the next meeting of the federation. The name of the society which did not favor union would be posted for the scorn of Irishmen hereafter. Mr.

Slaguiro said that if it waB not agreed that there Bhould bo a union parade tho fodoratioii would use all of its influence not to have any parade at all. Philip Clare, William Donnelly and H. J. Douuellyof tho convention spoke in favor of union. Clare grew indignant when the threat to stop the parade was made, aud waving his cane about his head walked over to Maguire, shouting: "We would shoulder our guns for the cause of Ireland and you could not stop us from parading in honor of hor patron saint 1" A fight seemed imminent, but Dillon, who is county delegate of the faction, secured tho floor and quelled the incipient riot by saying that ho was glad that the federation took so much interest in securing poaco.

A com mittoe waa then appointed to confer with the larger faction, with tho object of trying to arrange a union parade. The following named delcgatoa were appointed on that committee: Hugh J. Donnelly, P. J. McCarthy, Michael Wynne, Johu Spaulding and James Dillon.

Adjournment was then taken until next Sunday. of ft pure vagabond nature, doing nothing whatever for their living, but moving from place to place, preying on the earning of the more indnn trious, have high cheek banes and protruding jaws, liko the Malayo Polyne'aian racoB. Finally, so far as my explanation of negro degonoraoy goes, remember that forconturios the nogroes of central tropioal Africa have been the victims of the cupidity and inhumanity of tho white race. Peaceful villagos have been raided, robbed of thoir inhabitants and destroyed. Tho milestones for ages have boen, even as Slauley found them, the bleaching.

caroasses of men, wsraen and children murdered because they were too feeble to go along with thoir white brother who stole them to enslave them, to sell them for Good heavens, whou we think of what Africa has Buffered in these Christian centurieB from the Blavo trade and the rum traffic, we have all the explanations we need of the degeneracy of its people, and looking to olimatic and other agciioics seems (o bo hollo.w mockerj We Wusn as wo nuto what Montgomery says: Freighted with curses wan the bark that bore The spoilers of the West to Guinea's shore; Heavy with groans of anguish blew the gales That swelled that fatal bark's returning sails; Loud and perpetual o'er tho Atla.utic'8 waves, For guilty ages rolled the tide of slaves; A tide that knew no fall, no turn, no rest Constant as day and night from East to WOHt, Still widening, deepening, swelling in IU course, With boundless ruin and reaifltless force." Footo says: "The negro arts are respectable and he is here referring to tho negroes now living in Central Tropical Africa), aud would have more so had not disturbance and waste coma with the slave trade." Five hundred years ago, when the Portuguese explorers discov od the west coaBt of Africa, they found the negroes in comparative peace, comfort and prosperity. There wore well laid out towns, though rude and small, cultivated fields, flocks upon the lull, side, and the forge and the loom broke tho atill ueas of the forests. The negroes wero in about tho samo condition as wore the European tribes tn the early centuries. Certainly, the negroos were in better oondition than were the Britons when the Romans raided their bonntry. The negroes, whom thcPortagueae discovered and whose descendants aro under disoussjou to night, were fit for BiaveB.

When tho Uomaus fouud the Britons and took them home thoy were a drug even in the slavo market booanse of thoir stupidity. At leaBt tha proud Romans said tli.it they were too dull to learn. Cicero, in writing to Atticus, holds this language concerning the ancestors of the whita Americans: "Nequo ull.tin spem praedto ox mancipii, ex quibus nullos ptito to litteris, aut uinsiois erudites ex spectare." I have no patience with those who declare that slavery wua intended of God to elevate the negro. Slavery 1isb not been a blosiug, it has been a onr.se. It demoralized anddegraded the Africans in Africa, and it robbed the American uesro of uianhuod and left him poor indeed.

The negroes in tho United States have profited from slavery so fur as imbibing somo of the elements of Caucasian civilization: but iu bo far that civilization has robbed him of his manhood it haa been hurtful and it phtcoB him beneath the negro in Africa. Tho African negroes are not universally the dograded beings that we too often and generally think thoy are. Take the VoyB, for example Thoy are barbarians or heathen or Ravages, Slagis nationo quam ratione. In what makes manly character, in what makes intellectual strength, the Yeys rank with any people. They have invented their own alphabet, constrncted their own written as well as spoken language, aud they are slowly creatine a literature.

Thoy use a pen and an iudelible ink that they make themflelvee. I admire the Mau diugoea of the West Coast of Africa, becauso they are learned iu tho Koran and other Arabic writings; but there literature ia borrowed. I go into inexpressible enthusiasm over tho VoyB because they havo invented a language. My impression is, that taken as a whole, those African negroeB aro superior to the average American negroes who havo bsen crushed by tho monster slavery. But I do not think that thoro is any occasion for wonder or surprise at these statements.

Remember that Theodore Dwight says in an article in the Metlioaisl Quarterly Ite.isiew for 18G0, that between 1770 3, a report reached England that a youug African slave In Maryland could road and write Arabic, and was well vorsed in Arabic literature. His name was Job ben Solomon. Ho was released, sent to England, and there assisted Sir Hans Sloan, tho able scholar and fonndor of the British museum (tt translating severnl Arabia works. Navr, I have endeavored to make the races of ono common origin, to show that black faced and woolly haired people gave the world its eariiest civilization, that from these people the.prosent uegrois now dwolliug in Central Tropical Africa havo descended, and their present degeneraoy is ihe result, of climate and other oauBfis. Slany white, and all colored peopie agree with my oonelii dons; and those of ua who hold auoh Yiews seu no inherent diiliculticB in the negro problem as we havo it in the South land.

The negroes in tho United States arc not, othuologically the samo as the negroes in Africa. There is a more gonoral admixture of blood than wo commonly think, and then, too, climate and food have prodnood dill'erontiaiions. "The man without a rjco' is a characterisation which may be applied vary generally to tho negroes in the United States, aud, recognizing this difference between the negroes of Africa aud the negroes of the United States, we have a term which ono of our loading: writers, Sir. T. Thomas Fortune, the editor of the New York Ifs, haa brought into vory general use and which we apply to ourselves.

It is Afro American. Sly references hereafter to the American negro will be under that term. The capacity of Afro Americans for ethical aud intellectual culture (I quote your programme) is beyond question. No raoe ia a bettor subject for development on the moral side. They aro not avaricious nor bloodthirsty.

Indeed, of all tho races they posses fewer of those traita that conflict with tho Ten Commandments, which ars the an indistinct recollection of the iuterviow with Mr. McKelway, Q. Do vou remember an applica ton that was made to the Saturday and Sunday hoopitai association for a part af the fund for tho Woman's hospital? A. I am a member of that association but have not been active. Q.

Did you not, tnko an active part behalt of the Woman's hospital to secure lor it a part or these funds? A. I have no recollection. Tho witness was then asked if ho did not Indorse the foilowius letter, which was produced and read: 1,1 27 Bekgen stkkkt, Brooklyn, Docember aa, 1888. From a personal knowledge of the L'reat coot aeeomplishcd by the Woman's dispensary arid hospital oi the city of Brooklyn ainonc tho afilieled and deservius poor, it aflords me Dloas ure to commend It to tho benevolent and charitable who at this time of the year are lod to con sidor tho necessities of their less prosperous fellows. The hospital needs pecuniary assistance, nud this assistance it assuredly ought lo receive, for, notwithstanding all the treatment and surprising surgical operations are performed gratuitously by the attending medical staff.thore aro oilier needs which only money can supply.

When, therefore, the kindly disposed are considering as to where and to whom their gifts should go while making their contributions to tho Saturday and Sunday hospital fund of the city of Brooklyn, I would mst earnestly oommoud to their attention the Woman's dispensary id hospital, located at Greone avenne and Fleet place. Eev. Horatio B. Elki.ns. I)r.

Joiifls has just read to me her communication to the Eaole, which I heartily approve and should be glad to see iu print. Of course I hope the Woman's hospital will be recoived into tho Saturday aud Sunday association. A. J. Canfield, Pastor Ohurch of Our Father.

Dkcembeu 27, 1888. I have read the foregoing letter and moBt cheerfully concur iu what is therein expressed. Samuel Boorir. The witness denied any recollection of having sicned this indorsement or seen tho latter. Q.

Do you know whero Bev. A. J. Canfield is now? A. In (lie West somewhere.

ZZZ Q. Is Bev. Joseph Puluaau out of the state? A. I suppose so. Where is Bev.

Gearge E. Reid? A. At Carlisle, president of Dickinson colieo o. Bedireet examinations by Mr. Robinson Have; you had correspondence with these men? A.

No sir. I never saw Mr. Canfield but once or twice in my life. Q. Do you know his signature 7 A.

No. Letters we're shown tho witness to identify Eeid's and Pulman's signature, but he could not do so. Ex Mayor Booth was followed by George Poth, an undertaker of 17 Boeruni street. Sir. Dykmau examined.

Q. Do you remember having charge of the body of Mrs. Bruggemau 7 A. I was not at home at that time when the body was taken from the hospital. Q.

Weren't you home when it was brought to your place of business? A. No, sir. Q. Did you got any permit to remnvn thin body? A. I wasn't home mid didn't get a permit.

Sir. I'eth stepped asido for a few moments and his son and partner, George I'eth, took the stand. He testilied as follows: a. Do you know the Drs. Jones? A.

Ns, sir. Do you remember getting tho body of Sirs. Bruggeman A. Yes. Q.

When did you first hear anything about her and that yon were to have charro of the funeral? A. Tho evening I wont after the bidy. Q. How did you hear of it? A. I think tho husband of the lady came for ma.

Q. After that did you hear somethiug from the lyapital? A. No. sir. Q.

How did you come to go there? A. I had an order to go rh ra by Mr. Brtiggcman. Q. He aaid to go next morning A.

Yes. Q. You went there that night? A. Yob. Q.

Who told you to go there A. Mr. Brug gcmati. He told me he wanted to not the body that night. Q.

Didn't rou get a telephouo message? A. I don't retnembor. (J. What time did you go to the hospital A. I left our place hbont 9:30.

Q. Di yen have a death certificate when yau left A. I don't, remomber. 0 Whom did you seo at the hospital I saw a ia ly there7 a. Mrs.

Dr. Jones? A. I don't know. Do you recognize this lady as the one you saw thei'v? A. No, sir.

I don't remember. Q. Where did you got a death certiiicate7 A. I think 1 go: the hospital. Q.

A certificate of death? A. Yes. Q. When? A. That night, Q.

that night? A. About 10 o'clock. (). Was that the first time you Haw the death flcate? A. I don't know whether it was a permit or a death certificate.

Q. Who gr.TO you a death certificate? A. I don' remember. Q. Do i'c you remember tincing up Dr.

Jones the telephone, at the DeKalb avenue house? A. I think 1 did. Q. Didu't you ask omelliin' shout the death certilicate? A. Yes.

Q. Whom did you ring up on the telephone? A. Dr. Jones, I think. Q.

Houieuudy answered the telephone call? A. Yes. Q. Do yon remember the answer you received? A. No.

By the court Are you trying to remember all you can or to forg A. To remember. Br Mr. Dykman What Jones did yon call up? A. 1 don remember.

Q. Was it Dr. John Jones a woman? A. I don't remember. Mr.

Dykman then tried to draw out the conversation over thp telephone but the questions were ruled out. Judge Bartlett asitod if ho had any document that night and wha i it nm, and the witness replied that it was a removal permit. Continuing, the witness said that a removal permit could be obtained from any of the deputies, ev. after the board of health office had been closed. On that night the witness went to no deputy, he said, and only to the hospital, where lie got the body.

He could not remember who sig. cd the paper given to him there, and, iu fact, his memory was rather poor on vory many important points. 'Ihe examination of the witness was suspended until transcripts from tho department of health were obtained. memorial Services Conducted by Muiift field Post in Grand Army Hall. The headquarters of Mansfield post, G.

A. in Grand Army hall, North Second street and Bedford avenue, wero crowded yesterday afternoon with residf nts of the eaatorn district, as. aemblod to witness tho memorial services over the remains of the late Henry B. Davis, one of its most interesting characters, a well known lawyer aud, in hia tim, something, of r. philanthropist.

The assemblago included many of the city's prominent officials, together with old and reopocted residents whose personal history ia interwoven with that of the district The walls and coiling of the funeral chamber were draped with streamers of blaok and white caahmerc. On the platform at one end of the room, which was draped in black, sat ex Police Commissioner James D. Bell, Major B. R. Cor win, Captain Short, commander of 'Mansfield post, and Andrew Lyons, E.A.

Dubey and Colonol M. J. Cummiug, representing the stale de parlment of the G. A. R.

The cortege arrived at the hall at 2:15 o'clock. The casket, wrapped in tho American colors, waa placed iu a catafalque at the foot of the platform, and beai le it aat the widow; Mr. Davis, brother of tha deceased; the aged mother, and William and Alexander Cable, brother.) of Mrs. Davis. Soveral fine floral pieces stood at the head of the casket, and a corps of zouaves, members of Mansfield post, formed an escort on either tide.

The colors, draped in mourning, stood noarby. The press of the multitude who sought admia. aion delayed the services for nearly half an hour, so that it waa after 3 o'clock before Commander Short, with ritual book in hand, read tho opening prayer. Tho service waa very interesting. The adjutant of the post, at tha direction of the commander, read tho record of the deceased.

Ho ntatod that Honry B. Davis enlisted in Company Sixth regiment, N. Y. S. militia, April til, 186, and waa honorably discharged aa captain of that company August 1 of that year.

He waa mustered iu the Grand Army of tho Republic May 3, 18S2, aud loft boiuo fow yeara later. Ho was remuatered by a Hpocial enactment of the state department, on application, January 31. 1892. Major B. R.

Corwin pronounced the funeral oration. He spoko of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the honor that belonged to a coturado who had gone fearlessly to the front (o fight the battles of the Union. Henry B. Davis was such a ma.ii and had diatinguiahed himself not only on the battlefield, but in the councils of the military of tho nation, whero his netire brain turned many a point ol much advautage. His was an interesting valor in tho.so dark days, and waa undaunted, no matter how groa or swift the tido of adversity.

The great celebration in honor of Abraham Lincoln, tho martyred President, a few days ago, ho said, woultl nevor havo oecurred were it not for the fact that Davis and men like him had made for Lincoln a name by their good sense and plucky determination on the field of battle. The comradeship of the Grand Army meant much. It is not a delicate tendril that is nipped at the first frost, but a strong root that will livo as long as the organization lasts. Although the deceased had laft the post, it waa hia dying wiah to be restored to membership, and the comrades granted that wiah with the cordial feeling for which they havo bean famous. By hia death a good soldier had been taken from the field of life, a bright mind had passed away and a home had been made fatherless.

All these thoughts, sad though thoy be. ahould fado iu the shadow of the fact that his pain has been silenced and his soul has gone to a bettor and brightor land. Mes.iamfia Ackerly, Barber and Hanuaun sang "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and the service wai concluded with a prayer. The burial service, Commander Short said, had been reserved until tho interment in the cemetery, at ihe request of the family. The lid of the casket was then re moved aud the great throng filed past it and gazed for the last time on the familiar features of the deceased.

The body was cla in the uniform of the Grand Army, and on the breast was pinned rlieUtiion insignia and his captain's decoration. The funeral cortegqwas started after a long delay, and besan the march to the ceme terj of the where the interment waa made. BosMn the post there were present delegations from Bartholdi lodge, Royal good fellows, Cecelia ladies' society, United ladies' aid No. and othor organizations to which the deceased was attached or which he had benefited when in iifo. The pall bearers were John Brown, Charles W.

Wheelwright, H. Larnmee, William P. Tumble, John Voicoy, Jeremiah Burke, Charles Place and Richard P. Tighe. DEATH OF EDWARD 0.

CHAPPBLL. Tbo SHrteritatcntdctit ot Jlie Vork Ferry C'ompuui' P.isncs A war. Edward D. Cbappell, superintendent of the New York an I Brooklyn ferry company, died at his home, 534 Wythe avenue, yesterday, of paralysis of the brain. He was boru in D.sp River, sixty years ago, and became superintend ent of tbo ferries liveiity soven years since.

He waa known to almost every person who traveled on the ferries all those years. He waa a man of great energy and force of character and hia voice could bo heard absve tne din of shouting teamsters and drivers of all kinds of vehicles whenever there waa a block of travel on tho boats. He stormed at the drivers when they tried to forge ahead and tho drivers tallied back. A person unacquainted with such scenes would think that Mr. Cbappell was going to thrash all thediivers together, and that there would bj a scrimmage among the latter, to see who would first annihilate him, but the threats never amanuted to more than talk.

A man of a quick temper he ranted ab men under him occasionally, and when he got through he walked away forgetting all about the matter, and tho men merely remarked, "He's not a bad fellow, after all." When the company was threatened with damage suits for accidents, hia services wero invaluable in collecting evidence. His activity and at timis unavoidably noiay demonstrations led to charges of blasphemy against him at the Central M. E. church, on South Fifth street, of which In was a trustee. There was a dispute a to tho words used by him when excited, but hia interpretation of the expressions waa entirely satisfactory, although aaid by some to be ingenious, and he emerged triumphantly from the trial.

In church affairs ho showed the same energy that he did in business life and much of tho prosperity which the society enjfiys was due in no tmull msasure to him. Like all men of positive opinions he mado enemies, but ho was altogether too busy to harbor an ill feeling against any person. Mr. Chapiieil, in addition to his other btisiuoM, owned tn? boats which were run by employes. He accumulated a fortune, estimated by his friends at $100,000.

Ho mot, years ago, with a sad affliction in the death of his two 3ons, and his wife died a few yoarj since. Sha bad been a devout and most useful member the Central M. E. Church, and possessed a great influence over her husband. Mr.

Chnppell waa a Ir adinj spirit at the Merrick camp ground and his cot tage was the most pretentious aa well as conspic uous ono in it. After tho death of his wife he resided hia only cnitd, Mrs. ly. Jr. Soerry, in hia houso Wythe avenue.

A month ago he surprised his relatives and friends by marrying Miss Amanda Chapman, who is not more than 08 yeara old. Tha oouplc stopped at the Hotel Boj wyck, on Bedford avenue. 'The funeral services will bo held in the Central ohurch, and the inter ment will ba in Evergreonacemierr. A HERO LAID AT KESf. Funeral Services Over i5ie Kouaixs of Colonel itliiilixuu Caanoa, Funeral services over the remains of Colonel Madison Caunon, a former well known resident of Brooklyn, who died at Englewoad, N.

oa Thursday, were held yesterday afternoon at the Church of the Good Tidings, on Quiney street, near Reid avenue. The edifice was thronged. There wero largo delegations present from Grant post, G. A. the Lsyal legion aud the Legion of houor.

The officers of the Grand Army post participated in tbo eeremonioa and Dr. J. Russell Taber, pastor of the ohurch, delivered Iho fun eral discourse, paying an iniDressive tribute to the memory of the departed hero. The deceasod was a residout of tho Twenty fifth ward for many years. At hia death lie waa a officer in the New York custom house.

He entered the war when a young man as corporal in tho First Now York regiment and waa afcerward mado a lieutenant and transferred to the Fortieth New York. He won rapid promotion by gallant serviee, being present iu r.ll the groat battles in which tho Army of ths Potomac was engaged. He received an honorablo dischage at the end of tho war with tho rank of lieutenant, rolonol. Deceased was wounded in the throe days' fight at Gottyabnrg. He was a noble, warm hearted and genial comrade A widow aud threo childreu beside a host of frionda mourn his loss.

OmCEll WA A (IP. PARTLY DBXIES. To the. Editor or the. liro'Mnn Enole: Iu your article published on Wednesday oveu ing and ia most of the daily papors, allow me to state that the charges are greatly exaggoratad.

In the first place, I was not on duty in any capacity, it boiug my twenty four hourB off duty; neither was I in uniform, but in citizen's dress, and had no shield, club or revolver about me, and here lot mo stat that I never carried a revolver in my life; furthermore, I noror carry a whisky bottle in my pocket, which may be surmised by a oartoou printed in a daily pipsr. I would also state that I had no difficulty with a lady in a ball room and that I did not ue any abusive language to ray superior officer, nor did I make any threats to him. By publishing the above few lines you will greatly relieve me and my family from a great injustice done me. Cimbles W. Waage, doorman Ninth precinct.

Bkooklyn, February 12, A SEW 11KA1. ESTATE C0.1CERS. The William P. Rao company of Brooklyn was incorporated on Saturday with the secretary ot Btato to do a goneral brokerage and auction business iu the purchaso and aalo of real estate. making loans thereon, and to oara ior, rent, lease and manage real oacato and cstatos.

Tho capital stocK is $50,000 and the trustees are Joseph P. Puela.William P. Rae, Frank R. Monro, Maroie Dnun and Robert Rao. At 3' 4fi afternoon.

fir broke out in P. Tunisou'a oarpenter shop, cornor of Madison jA'eot and Bushwlok avouue. Tne dam age, war jKout S500, fully covered by, insurance. Tho flaWHoor was entirely btfrnt out. Frank Waldons Cobbler's Tracked to a Bench.

The Sequel to a Bridgeport Elcperaent and a Brooklyn Desertion Wife and Child Left Penniless The Man Who Was Arrested is Well Known in the Eighteenth Ward. Frank Waldons, a glib toneucd youeg man, well known a few years ago in uptown sooiety oircloa, waa a prisoner thiB morning in Judge Oonuolly'o court on a serious oharge, preferred by Caroline Melin, a girl in her teena. Waldons olaimod lo livo at 200 Knickerbocker avenue. He is about 0 years old. Lobs than three years ago he carried on extensive real estate and building operations in the Eighteenth ward.

He made a good deal of money, and waa a welcome visitor in funiilieis where marriageable daughters wore fixtures. He left Brooklyn unceremoniously ono day iu 1880, and rumor had it that ho had gone out of town to got married. In less than a wuek he returned accompanied by an exceptionably pretty girl, apparently leas than 18 yoars old, whom ho ttitrodnccd to hia relatives and friends as his wife. The alleged Sirs. Waldons came from Bridgeport, whore the young couple declared tho marriage ceremony had been performed in the pveaonce of the btide'a father and mother and a host of invited guests.

The couple began housekeeping in a handsomely furnished flat on Knickerbocker avenue. Waldons look his alleged wife a great deal into society and appeared to bo unusually fond of her. His business prosperod and ho was looked upon as one of the coming capitalists in the biggest ward in the city. One child, which is now 2 years old, was she result of the union. One day during the latter part of last December Waldons failed to return home to hia 0 o'clock dinner.

In fact, he did not put in an ap pearnnoe that night, and tho following morning tho matter was reported to tho police. HiH office waa found closed and locked, and none of bis business associates knew anything of hia whoroabauts. His affairs wore subsequently found not to bo quito as prosperous as mo it people had been led to believe. When a week had passed and nothing had been heard from tho missing man, the reputed Mrs. Waldons set about providing for the maintenance of herself and child.

She obtained a position aa saleswoman iu an eaatorn district store. Sho never received the slightest intimation of the whereabouts of Iho father of her child until one night last week, when she unexpectedly caine upon him faca to faoo in a Knickerbocker avenue 6urfaco car, aa sho waa returning from work. The recognition was mutual. Before the discarded woman could recover from tho surprise occasioned by tha unlooked for meeting, Waldons mado a dash for the front platform of the car, and jumping to the street, disappeared in the darkness. The car was stopped and a number of sympathizing male passengers, whom tha woman hurriedly presaett into her Bervice, tried to ovortako tbo fieaing man.

He got away, however, and tho next day Officer James Flaherty of the charities department, who had been on a still hunt for the fellow for several weeks, was told of his reappearance in Brooklyn. Flaherty redoubled his efforts to capture his mau, and Saturday night accomplished hia task. Waldons was found disguise! as a cobbler pegging away at a pair of worn out shoos in a. shoemaker's shop ut dveuua. He was promptly locked up, and to day committed to jail fqr examiiv.tion.

His alleged wjfu acknowledges that there was no mart iio ceremony performed between her and Waldons. He introduced her. however as his wife, and, according to law, she has been legally advised, alio can lay claim to thai title. The parents of Mr. Waldons are sai to bo convoai'itively woll to do residents or Bridgeport.

The young woman noiv confesses that she eloped from home with Waldons. Sho aubse quently notified her i elativia that sho was married iu an Episcopal church in New York. REV. TnOSAS CHALMERS. Tho New I'nstor of CHwvcii.

iho Disciples' Rev. Thomas Chalmers, the newly elected pastor of tho Sterling place Church of Christ, preached there last evening from the text "Sin ia the transgression of tho law," I John, iii. 4. This church is the first ropresontativo of tho sect known variously in the West as Disciples and Christiana and Campbeliitea to he established iu Brooklyn. Tho denomination is very strong in the South and West and claims to rank fourth in point of the number of its membership iu the United Stales.

Sir. Chal mers, tho now pastor in Sierliiig place, comes from the Central CliriBtian church in Columbus, 0., one of the largest churches in that state. He waa educated at Ann Aroor and at Harvard graduating at the latter university. He aaid last night in Bubstauco: ithin the realm of material nature God'a laws are never trauagressod, but not so in human life, Man was created with a distinct will of hia own a miniature deity in himself omuipotent within ma own sni.ui spnero. It ib only when this will rebels against that of the Inevitable that sorrow and misery come to ns.

Finite man cannot stem the current of the Eternal poaco and real aud joy are onra when we float upon the placid waters of divine obedience; but fatigue, disappointment and despair will meet ua when wo attempt to breast tha stream of God's eatabliahed oruer. h.nan ia said to have conquered tne unineso with an inferior Tartar army by Hiraiejjiciiuy creating a mianignt panic in the Chineaecamn. Such ananie waa e.rnntnd Is in tho human camp 0,000 years ago and it has continued to this day. Every man is rushing his own way, brother has trampled brother in the dnat Bince tho days of Cain. How many hearts have been broken, how many tears have been ahed since that Edenic panic only eternity will reveal.

There is yet a general scramble of a panic stricKon uumanity. uod alter attempting iu many ways to restore law and order sent His own son to bring up and collect tho human forces. Christ is tho divinely commissioned captain oi salvation, aud Uhrinianity is less tne cause ot unrist than it ts the cause of hit mauuj a aivmo eitort to restore perfect peace and He therefore who rejects Christ is a traitor to his own cause and in this respect is a Biniier. Transgression of law will bring its penalty. God can't stay it.

Thoro are such things as intrinsic impossibilities. God cannot mai.o tne sum ot tno turee right angles of a triangle) anything also than two right angles. It the pillar which supports a structure is 'pushed out the building must full. If we push aside Christ, the pillar and rock of our salvation, the weight of our own ain will come down upon our sunders. CELEBRATED THEIR SILVER WEDDING.

irar. ana Mrs. PSicUacI a.evy aro Hade Uecipieuls of iTIany Costly 4wif(s. Sir. and Mrs.

Slichael Levy of 95 Division live nue caieorateu tne t.wenty nttii anniversary of their marriage Saturday night. The parlors were beautitully decorated with vines and potted plants, and clusters of cut flowers were placed upon the mantels and at other advantageous positions along tho aides of the apartments. Jacob Nava orohestra discoursed sweet melodies from a corner in tho rear parlor, which was encircled with vinos and flowering plants. The guests be can to arrive shortly after 9 o'clock and half an hour later dancing was inaugurated. In the in terval between the dances selections from popular operas wore rendered by the orchestra.

The display of costumoa was rich and extensive, and included all the conceits of the dressmaker's art. They were worn by the moat prominent Jewish women in the city, who added to their attractive, neas the facial boauty characteristic of the race. Sir. and Mrs. Levy received the guests and were showered with congratulations on the attainment of this happy epoch in their married life.

The gifts wore very costly and completely filled one of the small rooms on tho second floor. Some of the more conspicuous were pedeBtal ornaments from Mr. and Mrs. Mosea May, clock and ornament from Sir. and Mrs.

Henry Jfay, ornaments from Mr. and Mrs. Nathan May aud Mr. and Mrs. Ira Leo Bamberger, silver ice cream set from Mrs.

Pauline May, silver ornaments from Fernandez Solinger, silver toa sot from Mr. and Mrs. Moses Levy, silver berry sot from Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Levy, silver sot from Mr.

and Mrs. M. Levy, and ornaments from Sir. and Sfra. Simon Kirsohbaum, Mr.

and Mrs. Layman, Mrs. C. Slay and Sirs. R.

Slay. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Mobos May, Sir. and Sirs.

Nathan May, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Stay. Mrs. Paulina May, Sliss Rebecca May, Mr.

and Mr. Honry May, the Misjes Rebecca and Ellen Mar, Mr. and Mrs. M. S.

Levy, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Lovr, Miss Fannie May, Mltohel May, Mr. and Mra. S.

Levy, Mr. and Mrs. S. Levy, Mr. aud Sirs.

Fernandez Solingor, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Lso Bamberger, Mr. and Mra. Lord, Mr.

and Mra. Layman. ITS STOCK NlinscitlliKD F911. The QneeiiB county briok manufacturing company, recently Incorporated with the socrelary of Btate, haB filed a certificate, announcing that its oapital stock has been subscribed for, as follows: Martin Meyer, 510 shares; John H. Dur yea, 10 shares; Walter Powell, 5 shares; Charles Wood, 5 shares; Joseph H.

Dottd, 5 shares; William E. Durland, 1 0 shares. SHOT HIMSELF IV II II, dU.IXIHG. Martin Dunn, the 1 9 year old son of James Duuu of Aatoria. whiio gunning near Woolsey's woodB, yesterday morning, accidentally het himself In the right arm.

Tho gun exploded while he was attempting to climb over a fence. He was removed to St. John's hospital. Dr. Filch stated the arm will have to be amputated.

b'KRTlCHS. MiBBiou services were begun at the Church of the Reformation, Gates avonue, near Franklin, yosterday morning, by the Bev. William B. Bodine, ex presidont of Ketiyon college, and now general raisslouer of the Parochial mission sooiety of the Protestant Episcopal church. FIBE IR A.BWCRfB SHOP.

Fire last night in the rear of a butoher shop at 199 Greonpolnt avenue, oooupiod by Ignatz Kuhn, caused a loss on furniture of $100. The damage to the building, whioh it owned by I Miohael Qutnn, ie $26. Imsurauco and oawe of I nro un Known. Local Pastors Point Them Out to the Erring. Dr.

Tahnaje Speaks Christ on tha Leyel, Where He Can be Approached Without Climbing Froni All Sides Sermon on "The True Standpoint" by the Ker. Henry C. Swentzel in St. Lute's Church, Clinton Avenue. Dr.

Talmage'a snhjuet yesterday morning wi! "My Creed," the text boing from Luke "Aud he came down with them and stood iu tho plain." Christ on the mountains is a frequent study. We havo aeon Him on tho Mount of Olives, Mount of Beatitudes. Mount Moriah, Mount Calvary, of Ascension, aud it is glorious to study him on these great natural elevations. But, how iB it that never before we have noticed bim on the plain? Amid tho rocKs, high up on the mountain, Christ had passed the night, bnt now, at early dawn, he is coming down with somo especial friends, stopping from shelving to shelving, hero and there a loosened stone rolling down tho steeo sides ahaad of him, until he gets iu a level place, so that He can be approached without climbing from all sides. He is on tho level.

My text says: "He cime down with them and stood in the plain." Now, that is what the world wants to day more than anything else a Christ on ths level, easy to got at, no aaoend lug, no descending, approachable from all sides Christ on the piaiu. The qnestiou among all consecrated people to day is, What is the matter with the ministers Many of them are engaged in picking holes in the Bible and apuhyiiziug for thla and apologizing for that. In an ago when the whole tendency ii to pay too littlo reverence to the Bible, they aro lighting against bibliolatty, or too much revor ence for the Bible. They aro building a fence on the wrung side of the road; not on the side where the precipice is and off which multitudes are fulling, but on the upper aide of the road, so that people will not fall uphill, of which there is no danger. There is no more danger of bibiiolatry, or too much reveroncu for tha scriptures than thora ia that astrology will take th placo of astronomy, or alchemy the of chemistry, or the cunal boat the place of the limited express rail train.

What theological farce it is; minilers fightina against too much reverence for the scriptures: ministers making apulogy for the scriptures; ministers pretending to be friends of the Bibie, yet doing the book more damage than all the blatant iufidtils on all the earth. The trouble is our theologians are up in the mountain in a fight abovo the clouds about which they do not understand. Coma down on the plain and stand beside Christ, who never preached a technicality or a didacticism. what do you, 0 wise headed ecclesiastic, know about tho decrees of Uod? Who carea a fig about your sublapsarianism or your aupralapaariau ism What a spectaelo we have in our denomination to day; caminittaes trying to patch up au old creed mado two or three hundred yeara ago, so that it will fit on the nineteenth century. Why do not our millinery i stabliBhments take out of tho garrets the coal acttttlo bounata which our groat grandmothers wore and try to fit them on the head of the modern maiden You cannot fix up three hundred year old creed bo as to fit our time.

Princeton will sew on a little piece, and Union seminary will sew on a little piece, and Alleghany seminary and Danville seminary will sew on otiier pieces, and by the time the creed is done it will be as variegated as Joseph's coat of many colors. Think of having to change an oid creed to mako it clear that all infant, dying go to heaven I I am so glad that the committees are going to let the babies in. Thank you. Laughter. So many of them are already in that all the hills of heaven look like a Sunday school anniversary.

Now, what is the use of fixing up a creed which left any doubt on that subject? No man ever doubted that all infants dying go to heaven, unless he ba a Herod or a Charles Ciit eau. I waa opposed to overhauling the old. cree'i at ail. but, hdiv that it has been lifted up and its iniperrcctions set up in the sight of the world, I ua.r: Diiaru witn it ami ujaKe a uew cvecu. I There arc to dsy iu our denomination 500 men wno, coma uiaae a oatrer one.

1 eouid mate as nett. one myselt. As we are now in procesa of cnanging tho ereeel and no one km. we what we are expe cu to believe, or will two or three years Hence De expected to oeneve, 1 could not wait and so I have made a creed of my own, which I intend to observe tho rest oi my life. I wrote it down in my memorandum soniesix months ago, and ii reads as follows: "My creed The glorious Lord.

To him, love him and obey lum is all that is required. To that creed I invite all mankind. T. DeWitt Talmage." The res. on Christianity lias not made more rapid advance ia because the people are asked to believe too many things.

There are, I believe, to day millions of good Christiana who have never joined the cnurch and are not counted among the Lord's friends because they cannot beiievo all the things tiiat they are required to believe. One half the things a mau is expected to believe iu order to outer tin church and reach heaven have no more to do with his salvation than the question, How many vicatiocs are there in the moon 7 or. How far apart from eachother Are the riugsof Saturn? or, How many teeth theie were in tha jaw oene with which Samson smote the Philis me I heliflvfl ten thousand things, bnt jone of them have anything to do with my salvation, except these two, I am a sinner and Christ came to save me. Mn ucians tell us that the octavo custsts oniy of firo tones aud two eenii tones, and all tho Haudela and Haydns and Mozarta and Wagntrs and of all ages must do their work within the ran of those fivo tones aud two semi toues. So I liava to tU you that all the theology that will be of practical uso in our world ia made out of the two faota of human sinfulness and divine atonement.

Within that oct. vva swing "The Soug of Mosos and the Lamb," the Christmas chant abovo Bethlehem and the allmlujah of all the choirs standing ou seas of glaas. Is there uot some mode of getting out of the way theas non essentials, these superfluities, these divergencies, from th 3 maiu issue? Ia there not some way of bringing the church down out of the mouutaiu of controversy and conventionalism and to put it on the plain where Christ Tho present attitude of things ia liko thia: In a famine struck district a table has been provided and it ia loaded with fond enough for all. The odors of the meats fill the air. Everything is ready.

The Dl.it mrj arc full. The chalices ara tuii. The baskets of fruit are full. Wuy not let the people in? The door ia open. Yes, but thoro ia a cluster of wiso men blocking up the door, discussing tho contents of the caator standing mid table.

Tney are shaking their fists at each other. One says there ia too much vinegar in that castor, and one says there is too much sweet oil, and another saya there is not the proper proportion of red pepper. I sa'. "Get out of the way and let the hungry people come in." Now, our blessed haa previ.iud a great supper aud the oxen and the fallings havo boen killed and fruits from all the vineyards and orchards of heaven crown tiie table Tha world has been invited to come and they look and they are huiv gr.r and people would pour in by the miliiona ti this world wide table, but tho door is blockod ui. by controversies, ami men with whole libraries oC their backs are disputing as to what propoi tioi" of sweet oil and cayenne pepper ahould makeut tha creed.

I cry, "Get out of the way and lei tho hungry world come in." The Christian church will have to ehanco its tack or it will rmi on the ol demolition. Tboworld'a population atitmsJiy iuoreasas 15.000,000. No onu preUnds that half that number of people are converted to God. There are more than twice as many Buddhists us Protestants; more thau twice as many Buddhists as Roman Catholics. Protestants, 13.

1, 000,000: Catholics, 195,000, 000; Buddhist, 400,000,000. There are 175, 000,000 aud 220,000.000 Brahmins. Meanwhile, many of the cnurchoa aro ouly vc.li:;iou i ciub houses, where a Tew people go ou Sunday morning, averaging ono porson to a pew sr one person to a half dozea pews, and leaving tho niiuister at night to siveat through a sermon with here and there a lone traveler, uulesj, by a Sunday evon liing sacred concert, he can get out an audience of respectable size. The vast majority of the church men.btrship round the world put forth no direct effort for the salvation of men. Did 1 say there would have to be a change? I correct that and say, there will bo a change.

If theroba fifteen million persons added every year to the world's papulation, then, there will be thirty million added to the church and forty million and fifty million aud sixty million. How will it We done? It will be dona when thu church wili meet Christ on the plain. Come down out of tho monntain of delusiveness. Como down out of the mouutaiu of pride. Come down out of the mountain of formalism.

Come down out of the mountain of freezing indifference. Old Div Stephen H. Tyng, great on earth anil in heaven, once said tome: "I am iu favor of a change. I do not know what ia the best way of doing things tho chnrchoa, bnt I know the war are doing now is not the best way or tho world woald be nearer its salvation than it seema to be." So I feel; so we all feel, that there needs to be a change. The poiut at which wo all come short is not presenting Christ on tho plain, Chri.t on the level with all tha world's woes aud wants and necessities.

Tho full change will have to come from tho rising ministry. Wa now in tho field arn too set in our ways. We are lumbered up with technicalities. We have too many concordances and dieti.iusiiea and encyclopedias and systems of tftcofagy on our head (o get down on ihe plain. Our vocabulary ia too froated.

Wo are too much the domination of customs resnaut for many ceiiturins. Come on, young man of the mini. try. Take this pulpit, take all the pulpits, and in ihe lsuguagrt of thu street aud tho market place and tho family circlo preach Christ eu ths plain. As soon as tho church says by ita attitude, not necessarily by it words, "My one mission is to help for thia iifo andahelp for fho lito to come all tbo people, it proves ita earnestness in tha matter, people ou foot and en horseback and in wagons and incarriagea will como to the churches iu such numbers that they will have to ba met at the do.

by ushers, saying: "You were here last Sunday: you cannot come iu to day. Gentlemen and ladies you muat take Jour And, it will be, as in the uhustmvu freshet and disaster, when a government station was opened for the supply of bread, and it took the oflieoru of the law to keep the sufferers iu lino, because of the great rush for food. When this famine struck world realizes that the church ia a government station set up by the government of tha universe to provide tho bread of eternal life for all the people, the rush will hs unprecedented and unimaginable. Aurouoniora have been busy measuring worlds and they have told ua how great is the circumference of this worid and how great is its diameter, yea, they havo kept on un til thay have weighed our planet aud found its weight to bs six soxtilliou tons. But by uo science has ihe weight of this world's troublo been weighed.

Now Christ standing on tho level of our humanity stands in sympathy with every trouble. There aro so many aching heads. His ached under the thorns. There aro se many weary feet. His were worn with the long jaurncy up and do wn tho land that received him not.

There are so many perssouted souls. Every hour of Hi.i life under hnraan outrage. The world had no batter place to re oeive Him thau a catt Io pen, aud its farewell was a slip on His c'ueok, and a sear in Hia Bide. So iiitousoly human was He that thore has not boen in all our race a grief or infirmity or exhaustion or pang that did not touch Hiui ouee and that does not touch Him now. The lepers, the paralytica, thu imbjcile, the maniac, tho courtesan, the repentant brigand whioh ono did Ho turn oil', which ono did Ho nuc mtr.

which one did Ho not nelp? The universal trouble of tho world is boroavaweut. Ono may all the other troubles, bat that 1 no soul cscapoB. Out of that bitter cup every, one miut tako a drink. For iur.tance, in ordoiMoJ that all inline k.eow how ha imh thoae who have lost a daughter. Christ comos to the house of Jairua.

Tboi'i) ia suoh a big crowd araund doar, lie and his disoiploii havo to push their way in. From tha throng of people, I conclude that thia girl must havo boe very popu lar: sho was one of thoaa children whom every body tikes. After Christ got in the house tharo .1 was such a loud weeping that tho ordinary tones; of vnim n.nnlrl not. he heard. I do nut wonder.

The dead daughter was 12 years of age. It about the happiest tunes, iu most Urea. Very littlo children many lujuattces becaasa Irish Societies Trying to Get Together. Meeting's of Both Factious The Larger Orgauization Has. a Decidedly Turbulent Time A Struggle to Prevent tjie Ee electioH of the Chairman A Com mittee to Negotiate for a Union Parade St.

Patrick's Bay Appointed by the Smaller Body. Conventions of the Irish societies of Kings couuty for the purpose of making preparations for the 86. Patrick's day parade wero held yesterday. The larger faction mot for tho first timo and the smaller one held its second session, having had a preliminary meeting on tho previous Sunday. The meeting of the first named body waa a stormy ono while that of the smaller faction was comparatively mild and peaceful, but one turbulent scene ensuing.

Tho Irish federation which is trying to harmonizo for one day at least the warring organizations that thoy may unite in doing honor to Ireland's patront saint was represented by a committee at eaoh meeting. Their representatives at the convention of tho Emaller body made speeches, but thoso at the meeting of the larger faotion maintained a dignified silence. Members at each gatheriug argued for harmony aud professed to be very much in favor of peace, but they havo dono that for the past six yoars and thou have not spokeu as they passed by on parade day. But the members of the smaller organization appointed a committee to meet a committee from the larger one with tlio view of extending tho olive branoh aud the leading lights iu the last named body say that thoy will grasp it, so the outlook is promising. But knowing ones predict that war will bo curried into 'tha national A.

O. H. convention to be held iu Albany in May and that abiding peace and permanent fraternization is oat of the question. The larger faction met in Hibernia hall at 328 Gold street. Tho convention was oalled for 2 o'clock, bnt it waa an hour lator than that when Chairman Thomas Finloy rapped for order.

James A. Donnell was seorotary. These officers sewed last year. The lull beforo the storm was strikingly serene and there wero no evidences of coming troublo for several miuutes after tho meeting waa opened. The first muttering of the tempest ea mo in an inquiry by Pat rick York to tffo effeot that he desired to kiiow by what right a certain Thomas Finley was a member of tho convention.

The certain Thomaa Finley hap. pened to be the chairman and the question was embarrassingly personal. It waa unanswered uutil tho committee on credentials reported.whcu hu was found to bo a delegate from Division 7. Finley ia secretary of tho Jackson Democratic club of Kent avenne, and well known in political and Irish American circles. He resides in Division No.

12, aud when hia constituents did not choose to send him ts the convention the members of Diviaion 7 took tho liberty of putting him on their delegation. Messrs. Carney, Hol Iey, Mc.Mnllau, Clark and Brenuau wero tho membora of the committee on credentials. Will, iam Carney was ohairmau aud James McSIul lan secretary. They reported that Twenty three divisions out of thirty seven, were represented.

There wero no contests. Patrick Mc Guiro moved that the report be adopted. Tha storm followed. It oame with startling suddenness, aud raged furiously for half an hour. It was sought to end tho tempest by moving ihe previous question, but even that did uot quell the tumalt for some time.

Members, re. markinu: that they didn't care whether tho previous question was debatable or not, shunted and gesticulated. Angry mombors scolded and Bhook their flats at each other and John Roily, wiio waa a dologato from the rtivis on in whlon rmioy lives, rnaneu up to the chairman's desk, hissing tlio words, "traitor" and "usurper." Patriok York of Division No. 2 made a speech in whioh he denounced the presi dent aud said that he was not entitled lo a sent in tho convention. Attempts were mado to Bi Isnce York, but they were fruitless, and ho con tinued to protest with all the foreo he could sum mon.

About a deaen other membora wero talk ing'attho samo timo with moreorless vehemence, largely more. Thomaa Neary of No. 5 said that it waa indeed a atrauge proceeding when a man not wanted as a delegato from his own divi. aion wont to another division to seok the honor. He argued that it uuprocadontad aud un.

constitutional. William Carney of No. 7 then a pok i in defense of Finley. He managed to ba hoard abovo thu din, but hu face became crimsoned with the effort. Ho said that the diviaion represented selected Fiuley because they thought he was an excellent man to send to the oonventioa and because they thought thatlhe Bhould be re.

elected president. Tho president pounded on his desk and tho more conservative members tried to qniot demonstrative ones, but the racket contin ued juat the same. At last, when the previous question was movod, tho president succeeded in getting a semblance of order, and he stated tho question. A vote by roll call was demanded, and members were required to repair to the rear of the hall and to como forward aa their names wore called to regiater their position on tho matter af closing debate. There wore many charges of attempta at fraud while the vote was being taken.

It was charged that utiduo influence waa being employed with some persons un familiar with the ouostiou at issue and that some wero voting who wero not delegated. The secretary of the committee on credentials who called the roll waa accused of call ing names of persona not delegates, and there waa much bickering through it all The FinUyitea were accused of trying to oount seven votos from Division 1 when there are only five delegates for each diviaion. Johu StcMullan of Division 5, a brother of the secretary of tho committee on credentials, waB op poaed to liitu iu th struggle aud he kept tally on the vote. W. H.

Downs, president of the Irish federation, also a member of tho A. 0. voted no. Tho vote was finally ended. 'Tho ayes had it with 54 votes to 20 noes.

A nominating committee of one member from eaoh division present was then appnioted to se lect candidates for the election of officers. An attempt was made to have the nominations mado from the floor. This gave rise to a spirited de bate, but was defeated. James Hawley was chairman of tho committee, and John Clark secretary. Tho committee reported fifteen votes for Thomas Finley, and live with no choice; for vice chairman, Johu Connelly fourteen votes, John Roily 8 votos; recording secretary, John J.

O'Donnell; financial secretary, James McSInllin; treasurer, Jataos O'lirieu; ser geant at arms, John 3. Carroll; auditing com uiittoe, William. Camay, John E. Mouoluvn, Patrick Ousack. Patrick McGuire, keeper of tho morgue and county delegato of the A.

O. H. and who is alleged to have boen a prominent factor in preventing reconciliation of the factions, moved that the secretary be instructed to cast the vote of the organization for Finley. W. H.

DownB moved as an amendment that he be elected by acolamation. Tho amendment was'defoated and the secretary declared him president. Thomas Neary continued his warfare by saroa3ticall.v asking tno chairman if ho really knew what division he represented. John Riely withdrew from tho raoe for vice chairman, and Connelly wua elected. As there was no opposition to the other candidates selected by the committee they were all deolared elected.

The now offi cers wero then installed. Chairman Finley made a short speech in which he said he waa thankful for the honor and would aim to do h)8 dnty. Hesmil ingly romarked that he had fought bard for the place. Ha promised to refrain from applying "gag law" and give everybody a fair hearing. Pugnacious Mr.

Riely interrupted him to question his right to a place In the body. The president smiled Bwootly and sat down. John MoMullan.one of the anti Fmleyitea.had bean appointed to assist in escorting the newly oleoted officers to tho desk to reooivo the oath, but he refused to be mollified and declined the honor. Vice Chairman Connelly made a speech in whioh he said he' didn't aesk the office, bnt would do hia duty. Financial Secretary MoMuilan mado a neat, little address containing a plea for harmony and the expression of hope that tho parade this year would be a big suooeas.

Recording Secretary O'Donnell then made a long speech whioh he prefaced with the remark that tho man who had criticised his election on the ground that he was a third termer did him an injustice, thia was the eighth time he had had the honor of being called to tho position. Ho then proceeded to explain the much discussed visit of a committee to Patrick McGuire, in whioh the visitors were said to have been treated discourteously. The speaker said that McGuire told the men that he oould not convone with them on a matter whioh was clearly withont h'ls province and that was about all there was to it. Mr. O'Donnell said that thia larger faction had been striving for six years to have a union parade on St.

Patrick's day. He said that they wanted to set aside the little differences for one day out of the 365 and join with their detachod brothren in paying tribute to that name revered by truo Irishmen all over the world, bnt ail efforts were unavailing, all overtures scorned. The national delegate of tho other faotion was appealed to last year aud a big meeting arranged to settle the matter. The representative of the larger faotion proposed to leave the differenoes for arbitration to any'oiBi'gyman in New York or Brooklyn, but the proposition was not acoepted. "These men had no rospoot for St.

Tatrick," said Mr. O'Donnell, "or they wquld have agreed to arbitration At the last oonvention I said to thoir oommiUoo, 'Let us unite and have a conjoint but tho committee said if ''they wont baok to our oonvontion with any proposition for amalgamation, they would bo kicked down stairs. And this is the organization that is said to favor poaoo. Wo are aB willing as ever to havo a uuion parade. Our desire to bare them with us is as earnest to dayaa it was a year ago.

If thoy will meet a conference committee from our organiza. tion or submit to arbitration, we are ready and willing to join them." ilr. O'Donnell closed with a poetical quotation and sat down amid voolfer ous applause. Treasurer O'BiIoii thanked the oonvention for the honor of re eleotion and then Patrick McGmro nlad Bpoeob. He said that ho bad been rofarrffd tj by tha newspapers as a diatqrbing fftotor.

Me denied. that he had over i The Evolution of the Afro American. Lecture and Discussion Before the Brooklyn Ethical Society Boy. Sansuel J. Barrows aud T.

McConts Stewart tho Priueipal Speakers. One of the best attended and most interesting of the series of freo leotnree end discussions under tho auspices of tho Brooklyn ethical association was held in the Second Unitarian church, cornor of Clinton and Congress streets, last night. Eev. Samuel J. Barrows of Boston, editor of the Christian Begister, was tho principal speaker.

He ohose for his aubjuct "The Evolution of the Afric Ameriean and His Relations to the Itaco Problom." Mr. Barrows has mado a study of the oondition ann progress mado by tne ooiorea population sinoo the war. He haB traveled extensively through tho South and observed the colored people's mode of living aud tho advancement made by them iu various directions. From statistics prepared by him on repeated visits to the Southern states, and from the various departments at SYashlugtou, he thinks the changes wrought aro manifold and arguo well tor the future of the colored race. The advantages oftovod to others were always withheld from the negro.

Although landing hero 270 years ago. the samo time as the PiigrirnB, it wan uot until their emancipation that anything like progress was made. It is Hue, the speaker said, that the old aud conventional social distinction is still made, but from his observation even that was dying out, and in a few of the Southern states color Hues aro almost entirely obliterated. It was in industrial and educational fields that the greatest progress had been made. It bad been repeatedly demonstrated that the black man could loam, and was by instinct kind and industrious.

The best proof of the latter fact was the large number of negroes who own their own homes in the South. In the state of Mississippi, although ono of the hardcht states for negroeB to live in, 20 per oont. of the property was owued by them. There it was a common thtug to soa negroes working' eido by side with, white men in all the professions and trades. Tnhi he thought waB further proof that the color line was not as strictly drawn as it was a few years ago.

In the South the coudltious wore more favorable to the negro. There is a larger industrial field there than in tho North. White men and negroes werl: together. The wealthy white people taSe more interest in the African. As a further evidence of the progress mado in education Sir.

Barrows Baid that in the past thirteen years the enrollment in tho colored schools has increaiod 137 per although the colored population has only increased 27 per cent, of the whole. Mr. Barrows read letters from the presidents of several colored colleges.iu which thoy all agree that the students in the main show marked aptitnde and a disposition to advance. In this respect they compare favorably with white men. Speaking of the religious progress mado by the blaok man in the South end elsewhere, Mr.

Borrows thought it remarkable. Snperstition was formerly one of his leading characteristics. Through the moans of a large number of colored churches ho has been brought to a realization of the true moaning of religion. He is moro houeBt now than 23 years ago, and his inclination toward a moral life 1b steadily increasing. "Sluch good," said Sir.

Barrows, has been done for and great progress made by the Afric Ameriean in Hie past twonty nine years. Tho evolu tion in his oondition has kept pace with that of any other race, aud I think has been ovon a little better. The same forces of evolution that have brought him to where he ia now will bring him further. Onelhingis indisputable: The negro knows his destiny is in his own hiiiids. He finds that his salvation is not Chiough politics, but through industrial methods." Sir.

T. McCants Slewart, the well known colored lawyer aud member of the board of education, led in the diBcussiou that followed, lie said: The Brooklyn ethical association is doing much good in stimulating thought aud fixine attention upon vital questions affecting the beat interests of the people everywhere. Important as aro tho subjects contained in this year's course of study, none is more important than the race problem which ia before us. In preparing to open this discission 1 was unfortunately without a copy of tho papor just read by Dr. Barrows.

I did not want to come hereto talk entirely offhand, and on general principles; hence I had to confine myself lo the outlines of this subject appearing in your elaborate programme pamphlet, which shows what tho discussion is to cover, and now I quote its words: "The bequest of slavery to the American nation. Ethnological, climatic and economic aspects of the problem. Tlio negro iu Africa and elsewhere. What sociology says as to his suitablo American habitat. His capacity for ethical and intellectual culture.

His truo rola tions to the American republic. The question viewed from the standpoint of evolutionary sociology." Being limited for time, I cannot discuss the questions at issue with satisfaction even to myself: hut I shall aim in the course of a few miuutes to state some views which may lead to investigation on your part, perhaps to discussion now or at the next mooring. We start with tho assumption that uo una who accepts the Bible as inspired, or as historic, authority, boliovos that tho negro is iu tho world by special creation; that ho is not, like tho other races, a descendant of Noah. You believe, do yon not, that out of one blood God created all nations to dwell upon tho face of the earth? I assume that you do and consider the point res adjudicata. Upon another point tho ethnographic account contained in tbo tenth chapter of Genesis is reliable and it is invaluable in a discussion of the negro problem.

Bawliuaon says of this chapter: "The Toldoth Buni Noah is undoubtedly the moat authentic record we possess for the affiliation of those branches of tho human raoe which sprang from tho triple stuck of the Noachidto. We must be cautious in drawing direct ethuologioal inferences from the linguistic indications of a very early ago. It would be far safor, at any rate, in these early times, to follow the general soheme of ethnic affiliation which is given in the tenth chapter of Genesis." Now. if we accept Moses as a reliable ethno graphist, It is clearly established that in earliest historic times, when Japhet and Bhem were inactive, Cush, the eldest son of Ham, the negro's fons et origo, was buildings cities aud establishing kingdoms. At the dispersion of the races ram the plains of Shinar, tho sons of Ham went down into Afrioa and founded Ethopia and Egypt.

Wero they black, real negroes? Why, certainly. Porhaps many of you say no, and you are not without authorities; but remember that white men, often unconsciously influenced by prejudice, wrote tho negro, witn black skin and woallv hair, out of his true place in ancient history. Your scholars wero both judge and jury. We were often the victims of lynch iaw. A negro scholar, Dr.

Martin H. Delanoy, in a work published ten years ago, called "The Origin of ltacea aud Color," ooutended that the entire human race was originally of a dark complexion, that the word Adam signifies dark, bb the word Ham signifies tho samo thing. Dr. Du Bois Gilbert (Ignatius Donnelly) iu his recent interesting book, "Dr. HuRuet," advances the game view, But even if you do not ooncedo that the entire human race was originally of a dark complexion, it cannot be successfully di sputed that the 11am ites were a dark people, for both of tho words Ham and Ethiopia signify, etymologically, swarthy, burnt, dark.

Was the ancient negro woolly haired? Well, some say no. I have read of a man who Baid yes, and who, in a nicotine iike this, argued from that fact that tho negro is of entirely different origin from the white man, who has straight hair and not wool. A colored man opened the discussion and brushed bin opponent aside with the sure, is clear: that God put the wool on the outnuleul tho negro's head, but on the inside of tho head of tho troutleman who preceded me." I read of a Southern colored preacher who said "Yes, the negro's hair from tho beginning of creation was always wooily," and upon this statement he sought to impress upon his hoars rs the doctrine that tho woollvhair marked the negro aB God's cnosen people, elected and preordained for His glory, and that, at the last day, tho negro, race would be tho only poople Baved. "God," said thiB ignorant colored preacher, "would divido de sheep, we negroes wid de woolly hair, from da goats, which am de white man wid the straight, hair, an' recebe into eberlasting But, to he ag.in serious, Herodotus, who traveled in Africa and made personal iuvostiga tions of the land and people, declares that the Ethiopians wero of black complexion and woolly hair. Bawlinson says that this fact is confirmed by archaeological and philological researches.

I have dwolt upon these matters because they are too otton overlooked in racial discussions aud in dealing with the modern and present negro problem. Knowing that Dr. Barrows holds liberal views concerning the negro, and anticipating from him an exhaustive troat mentof the subject in its present practical bearings, and expecting that he would suggest remedies for existing evils which tueuffhtfnl people everywhere deplore, 1 prepared to go back somewhat to first principles, even at the risk of being considered Bchohiatio and as dealing with matters of no practical interest. Let us briefly inquire if tho present central tropical African uegroeB are the descendants of the people who lod tho world and wore the pioneers of mankind in tho various untrodden fields of art, literaturo and science. I answer, certainly thoy were.

Profosaer Owen, iu hia fifth edition of Homer's "Odyssey," (jives this nolo from Professor Lewis of thoNeiv York university, in refer enco to tho localities to which Homer's Ethiopians should bo assigned: "1 have always, iu commenting on the passage to whioh you refer, explained to my class as denoting the black race (or Ethiopians, aH they were called in Homer's time), living on the eastern and western coast of Africa the ono class inhabiting the country now called Abyssinia, and the other that part of Africa called Guinea or tho Slave Coast." A writer in tha Princeton iieuleio says: "Tho Ethiopian race, from whom tho modern negro or African stock are undoubtedly descended, can claim as early a history, with the excoption of the Jews, as any 'living pooplo on the face of tho earth. History, as well as tho mounmental discoveries, gives them a place in ancient history as far back as Egypt her He)f, if not further." Other authorities could be citod. What, if my contention is truo, alls the central tropical Afrioan negroes of to day, who are so far behind the other races in civilization and from whom the colored people of America are undoubtedly descended? I will tell you. First, man baa never amounted to any. thing in extreme hoat or extreme cold.

The Esquimaux and the Guinea negro are alike the vio titns of an unfavorable habitat; ono is subjected to too much cold and thu othor to too mnch heat and malaria. Both Btunt the mind. For con turies climate haB been against tho negro. Dr. Da Bois Gilbert (Ignatius Donnelly) says that nature, iu order to protect the central tropical Afrioan negro's brain from the sun, thickened (ho cranium, contracted the bruin and thus caused mental deterioration.

The white Southerner will never the equal of the white Northerner in intelligence, vigor, aonmen, pro ductivenosB. Put a Now Englandor under the torrid sun of Florida and Louisiana, and In their swamps and under the effect of oliraato and the laws of heredity and ovolution, his children will degenerate and become interior to his brother's descendants, whose habitat is around Boston and BprinBUold and Providonce and Now Havon, or in tho far West, nn'dor 'stimulating climate. Beo oud, migrating from northorn down into central tropical Africa, tho negroes cut themselves off from civilization, and that in itself was enongh to cause degeneraoy. Experiments in natural history show that if irrational animals arc excluded from contaot with thoir kind and bred alone they will dovelop radical differences frftm the parent or origins stook. I have read that thoro are certain districts In Lie rini, Bligo and Mayo, in Ireland, chiefly inhabited by the doseedant of the native Irish, driven by tho British from Armagh and thoSouth of Down ahont two centuries ago.

These people, whoso ancestors were well grown, able bodied and comely, are now roduood in Htaturo, are bow loggod and abortively featured, and they arc especially lomarkablo for open, projecting mouths and prominent tooth and exposed gums, their advancing choek bonos and depressed noses bearing barbarism in their very front. In other words, within so short a poriod, thoy, seemed to have acquired feroBnathua t.vnn rlf. sknll. like the Australian savanna. iishew, fn book oullod "London Labor and tiyr the poorest pooDlo those yt mar London, mat paritua More Testimony Regarding Her Hospital.

Beginnings of the Third Week of the Trial of the Suit Aprainst the Eagle A Witness From Sew Jersey Narrates Her Kxpericncos Mayor Booth Called to Show How Little He Hail to Do With the Woman's Hospital His Name Was on the List, but, According: to His Evidence, He Knew Nothing at AH Ahout ihe Institution Mr. Booth Didn't Want Any Tickets for the Kuapp Concert. Mr. Dr. Mary A.

Dixon Jones was not present in Tart of tlio circuit court this mo ruing when tli trial of her suit against the Eaole was resumed before Jusiice Bnrtlett. But ebts came in bo fore the first witness had gone far, looking as alert anil fresh as if the trial were only two days and not two weeks old. There were few witnesses or spectator present during the first hour. The. case, immediately plunged into the clans of evidence which has driven the young women typewriters out of the stenographers' room and led to the employment of men in their places.

The first witness nan Ancusta M. Ou'eldt, for rnerly of New Jersey, who began to describo her treatment by Dr. Mary A. Dixon Jones beforo tho court adjourned on Friday. So mnch of Mrs.

Offeldfa testimony as can ha printed was as follows: Q. Did von know laparotomy was to be per formed? 'A. The doctor told me an operation was to bo port'ormed, but I didu't know whrt it was. Q. When did you litid it out? A.

After I became conscious. Q. After tho operation? A. lea. 3.

How old ware von? A. I was 50. going on 51. Q. Was your husband living "ben roll Went to the hospital? A.

Yea, he. is still Jiving. Q. Bo! ore van wont to tho hospital uul yau do otir rairnl.il' work! A. Yes, I never did any hard work, but I had been doing the same Kind of work that 1 had always been doing before.

Q. Were you not in pain befora yim went into the hospital? A. I had a pain in the back. Q. Was that a light nalii or was it inluiies A.

Sometimes bad, sometimes not. Q. Had you had these pains for quite a number of vears A. Yes; perhaps live or six. Q.

When vou wont into the hospital what arras ceiuent did you make about paying Dr. Jones? A. I did'nt make any arrangement until alter the first operation. Q. Did you go to the dispensary beforo you went to tne hospital 7 A.

No. sir. I went directly to the doctor's nouse and then to the hospital. Q. What room did you occupy in the hospital A.

The front room upstairs. Q. When yon went to sea Mrs. Jones ui tho Dt Kuib avenue house what did she tell you about tho necessity of going to the hospital A. She said it was necessary that I should uo there.

Q. To what hospital A. I came there tu go in her hoRpilal. Q. Was there anything said abrmt what kind a hospital Mrs.

Jones had? A. She said it vt a woman's hospital. Cross examined by Mr. Baldwin flow did you ciune to co te the Woman's hospital? A. I consulted Dr.

Ella Haines of Newark, X. who recommended nie is so there. Q. Did she tell you that an operation was necessary? A. Yes, air.

Q. Is it not a fact that a Mrs. Petersen also recommended van to uo and tea Dr. A. Dixon Jones? A.

I don't remember talking to her about it. Q. When you wont to the hospital what pains did vou suffer? A. I felt severe rams iu the back: Q. Did Dr.

Mary Jones tell you that an operation would be necessary A. Yes, sir. 0. Was your husband with you A. Xo.

Q. Did Dr. Jones confirm what Dr. Ella llaineB said about your condition A. Yes.

sir. 0. Then you went to Dr. Jones lo sec. her and retain her to perform an operation 7 A.

I went te see heron tne advice of otheiv. Q. You agrj. v. to I'sy her for your board and no operatim i A.

Yes. Q. When was the operation performed 7 A. I don't remember. I went to the hospital in May, IbSS.

1 was there, 1 think, a hour three days when the operation was performed. Q. Was Dr. Mary Jones kind to ynt while at the huspital? A. Yas; she was very kind and treated me very nicely.

Q. Did you not feel bettor after the operation 1 A. While I was in bed I did not notice any change, but after I sot out 1 didn't seem to feel r.ny better. (J. Did you not tell Mrs.

Eriokson thai yoa felt like new woman? A. I remember having tend her. Q. Yon, had been ailing for several years before vim entered the hospital? A. ies.

Q. And you eousttited several physicians? A. Only Dr. Ella IC iines, and her only once. Q.

You came her? from Newark to testify? A. No; live at Lafayette now. Q. When did you first learn of this froubla be tw. en the and the Drs.

A. About two years ago. Q. IVhci to sea you about it? A. I think it was a reporter from the Eah.k.

Q. Was his name Sir. Kent? A. I don't know his mime. t).

How often did he come? A. Onlvonce. Q. Who oi cam? to nae you? A. Dr.

Topham. Q. When did he come to see you? A. I think it was Aoril, Q. Did Dr.

Topham no! examine you? A. He asked me about my condition. Q. Did be not bring you to a store on Fulton street and provide yon with a truss? A. Yes.

Q. Did Dr. Tonhaul make an' examination? A. No; he only got the surgical appliance for me and had it adjusted. I never had any treatment from the doctors afterward.

Q. How do you leel now? A. I feel better since I got the appliance. I could not do anything be lore that. Q.

Did you feel very badly aftor the operation? A. i'es; I could not walk. Q. Was that after you had had the conversation with Dr. Topham? A.

No; it was before. Q. Did you pay $185 to Mrs. Dr. Mary A.

Dixon done A. No; I have told you what I paid at various times. Q. Now, when did you first begin to notice thiB rouble? A. After I came out of the hospital.

Q. Jiow long atter coming out? A. Itight away. I wont to the country fur three wtelis, 1 eonlrt not do Q. Did you tea back to Jlr.

Vr. 3lnryA. Dixon Tone. A. I went back to see her once or twice.

Q. Af ler these visits you went to tho country? A. Yes. Q. And after that you did not t'o back to her? A.

No. sir. y. Then it was that Dr. Topham iirst came to se you? A.

Yes. Bcdiri ct examination by Mr. DyUman. Q. After the were you peiter er worse? A.

1 was worse for a time because I was weak. 1 went into the country and L'ot a little stronccr there. (. When did the rupture appear? A. Throe or four weeks aftsr the operation.

Q. Did it increase in sizu? A. Yes. t. Vuro you able to work? A.

could do little ih'ncs about the house. Not much. D. Did you sillier with it A. Ye I had pain.

CJ. And the rupture was where the cut was made 1 A. Ye. Q. Did Dr.

Marshall tit you with the trust A. Yes. Q. Are you willing he should tell abeut your condition A. 1 den't object.

lj. Have you bsen bolter since you wore the truss A. Oh, yes, 1 ca walk now. Q. Do you have; tin' same backache as before tiie operation A.

Yob; sokiolhneB it is Very severe. White haired and venerabl" ex Mayor Samuel Booth was conducted to the stand. His name was one of hose In the list of trustees of tho Wuinan's kosjiitni, and he was to show how little coune he had with ih.it, institution. He tt stilie thai he had lived in iirooklyn sixty four yenrs. Sir.

Dykmau the direct examination. Q. Do you know the plaintiff here, Dr. Mary Jones 1 A. Yes.

CJ. You know something about the Woman's hospital of Brooklyn A. NothiiiL at ail. (J. You that mgned the articles of incorporation A 1 don't remember that 1 over di Q.

Do you member Mrs. Jones coing you and asluiiL' you to iiave somothin to do with it? A. She ask 1 me io act as an t). Do yon rrni. nibei' when that was? A.

I can't re member t)je date. Q. You did became an incorporator? A. That is my recalled. on.

Q. Afler lha; did yon hare lo dc with the hte.pital? A. til! tr at ail. sir. (J.

Did Mr. Junes avk you to become a trustees' A. did. bir I declined lo act. Qi.

Did sh yon lo become a member of tho tdvisory boar A. Not that 1 recollect. Q. Did yuu ever reciivo any notice to to any meeting? A. Not that I recollect.

Q. Did Dr. Jones co.no to yon in retfi.nl to Koine to the Kuapp A. Yes, she asked iiiO to buy tie kets. Q.

What response did yon make? A. 1 didn't wviit the tickets. Q. Do you remember the publication of the i. nicies in the E.mu.e concermnt' Dr.

Jones? A. of yes. Q. Did yon uo to the Eaolf: office shor.l) tin fli nt publication and see Sir. SlcKelway.

A. I don't nimeuiber that 1 did. Don'i you remember joins to th Eaole ol' iica? A. I don't rmMocl. Q.

Do jviii mbvri.e;;e anybody v. ilh the E.Mij.k. and any statement? A. 1 Mr. Jtenl ii (jncntly at rny house.

L. What did you iiinko to him? A. 1 answered the fiitevious you Just asl.ed me, and denied that I hud I jn a 0. Is tlmt aii tiit you rnie nibi A. Yes.

Q. See it thi. "id rvrrwu your memory iu1 an interview with McKcHiay: Tlien 1)', read, the reprint uiviu? an i.ceoiint of Sir. visit to the Eadi.i; ofiice his dechirnt.o.'i thfit he would jt su yo a trustee of the ho pna). Q.

Did you say all I he.t? A. Yes. ij. Jo vou now remember Ba.viiu: it to Mr. Mc Kelway himself A.

I went to Europe a few itays after 'h it. I think I did have an interview with Sir. McKelway. The cro.i i examination oT th witnesa then fol lowed by Sir. Jiebins.

These uriicles of tucorporatioii were signed in JSK4 v.eic they not? A. 1 beiievo they were. Q. Do you nor remember anythimr that has taken place since then in regard to me lio. i'dtai? A.

I do not think 1 do. Mr. Bobmsoii thawed the. witness a document, but Air. Booth 'aid tnat lie nad lurur een ii he Vnn V.itve read it? A.

ies. flr'Don'tyon imeiiiber tMa sent vou as fhe' repreai titative of the ami then fot'WarUJllg 1 Li lo iu' n. mil nor, rt luember it at all. I deny ever dune o. 0 Will you deny i'7 A.

Yes; 0 Will you deny that you receive! J3. for the hospital in that year? A. Yos po iuvc ly. Auotiier letter Deoember 27, 1HHS, was jhown the witness and Sir. Kolntison asked lfl tfiat your signature to the doeiirp.eiil? A.

I do not recollect. It is my timUure, 1 beiievo. Q. Di'l you ii rite tho documet.t? A. Ihavo no recollection of it at all.

Q. Will you say that it IB uot your signature? A. I will not say. Q. Will you say that you wen; not asite.

to become member of the advisory bo.no? A. I will not. I think it is probahlo that 1 was. Q. You say yon never wout to tho hospitrd? A.

Vns ir. nfiver did. There was uotiuiltr to prevent; your troitie? Jot if had desired to. I. Do yon remember a reporter ts in rnll? A.

Yea. q0 ys. WiQluir that ha told vou tho hot', uul was holding you out to tho world an one of iriHteew A. ios. Ii It conseanenco of what ho.sr.id that went to tho ISAOLE ofaiJe and nude thiMsHte of yon: A peruupu i uiu.

i mit TH5 AMPUIO.V" TKHPtfRANCE MEETING. Vigorous i'rot sl Sent to Albany A ill si tlio S.icc.PBO BUI. The Brooklyn temperance league, which for some weeks past has been holding Sunday afternoon meetinga iu the Amphion, on Bedford avenue, became very practical yesterday. Tho audience, an unnsually largo one, Rent up to tha legislators at Albany a protest against the liquor bill and the bill which licenses places of evil repute in this city and Now York. A few minutes after the adoption of the protest by a rising vote tho news was flashed over the wires to tho Btate capital, aud the telegrams were in the hands of tho representative before tho enthusiasm which the action suggested had died away.

Dr. Jninos II. Darlington, pastor of Christ chnrcli, on Bedford avenue, was the orgiuutor of tho idea and means to use all his energy to defeat both measures. Proeentor W. D.

Gaston opened the meeting at P. SI. with a service of song. Half an hour late the meeting was called to order by Samuel Hockey, who introduced as tho presiding officer Sir. Joseph A.

Bogardus. In taking the chair ha said: "I consider it an honor lo he culled upon to preside over this meeting, which is in tho interest of a cause that is very dear my heart. We meet here to day for the discussion of a question that is at present agitating the public, mind, a question that not only tho ciiy aud the state hut the nation. There is no question he fore us at this hour that demands mure careful consideration. I am glad to see so many men and women interested in holding these meeting.

is high time that this question should be agitated. Yon know that the liquor interest to day is a standing power, and demands that the legislature shall make laws iii favor of tho traffic. It calls for you to outer your protest against thia biJJ." Tho audience then aapg "America," and Dr. J. H.

Darlington was introdnoed as the first speaker. He said in part I have como here, this afternoon to give my toatimouy or experience against the liquor saloon. I think wo ought to give it as often as we arc called upon. Tne question to be treated is whether drunkenness is a disease or a sin. Drunkenness, without a doubt, is a Bin.

If yon beiievo scripture the testimony is positive. After an enumeration of sins, drunkenness and the rest, wo find the words, "They who do such things shall perish by them." It is a matter of will not disease. That comes afterward. Disease and ain aro not the same. The first comes as the punishment.

I do not wish to discourage any temperance organization, but I think some of them have mado mistakes. I think the Women's Christian temperance union has made a mistake. At their meetings men used to take the pledge, wrought up to a sense of duty by the exercises, but thoy broka it afterward, because there was uo way at the time to train them in tha good intentions they had made. It ia not eueugh to convert them, the conversions liniat be followed up, so that thoy will always bo kept in the ranks of temperance. Prayer and works are tho in strnmontg that moan everything iu thiB groat undertaking.

Yon must pray and you muBC work if you will save the drunkard. But. my there aro many kinds of drunkards. When I was at college they used to Bay tne gin pig" waa the worst, but I have never seen the "pig," and, of course. I can't judge.

Next to him, most people would place the "whisky pig," but I would place tho "bear pig." Boar is infinitely worse than whisky in its effects. If you are drinking whisky aud take to beer, drop the beer aud go back to tho whisky. A scientific paper of titgh standing has said that the worst drunkard aud the most incurable drunkard ia the beer drunkard. I have never known a beer drunkard to reform. I know from my own experience that in amputations tho surgeon will pursus a different method with beer drunkards than other men.

There is bo little vitality there tliat oftentimea Ihe operation is postponed, lest fatal results attend it. In tho records of Christ chnrch, where wo keep the deaths of members together with the eanae, in late years can be seen of frequent occurrence the words, "Bright's disease." In the early days of the church no such affection can be found. One physician in the Nineteenth ward has told me that in twelve months he bad forty eaaea of delirium tremens to look after. When I look at this picture I feel as if I stood beside the grave. Every household haB been touched by liquor.

And people Bay "What's the use of voting the nrohibitioii ticket?" I say if you can vote anything else, why go ahead and voto it. Jfy consoienco wouldn't let me voto any other. If you believe that more misery, more degradation aud moro poverty hub been wrought by drunken ueaa than by aiiy other cauae, you muat vote the prohibition tickot. MisR Williams sang a solo. "The Palms." after which Dr.

Darlington moved that a protest be sent to our representatives iu tho asaomnly at Albany protesting against tno nqnor diu aim tne uiu tor licensing places of evil repute, both of ivhioh are about to be offered for consideration. When Chairman Bogirdus put tho motion the audience rose en masse, and some shouted their opposition to tho measures. It. was somo lew minutes oe fore tho outhuaiasni to which the motion gave rise faded away. Iu offoring the motion, Dr.

Darlington said he wrote to a congressman and stated tuac tney were cue worst onis ever pre Bented. The only protesting voice in this city to their passage, he Baid, was the temperauce league, which waa holding meetings overy Sunday afternoon for tho purpose of defeating the iniquitous measure. The liquor men are of the opinion that the meetings oannot long endure. In calling for a collection the clergyman said: "The offoring to God in defense of our homes will now be taken." Rov. Dr.

McBride was next introdusoti and spoke far somo minntos on the vice of intomper ance. Aftor picturing its evils, he said that the timo had arrived when men should atand together for the defonaa of their homes and aim a killing blow at the monster. The blow could not be ainiod as effectually by men as by women. lie advised the young women of 10 and over to have nothing to do with men who drank intoxicating liquora aud, above all, not to do as some had done marry a drunkard expecting to reform him. Publio sentimout must be aroused before the liquor interest could be crushed; the question was how to arouse it.

The speaker said he often thought that it would never ooine until we had free beer and freo whisky to suoh an extent aa to mako all people with a spark of deoenoy in their hearta bawl for reform. The liquor traffic was, to hiB mind, the most iuiquitous ever invented. The opposition of the Presbyterian church to the liquor traffic was set forth by Dr. Vi. A.

Lewis, after which the meeting adjourned. BOTKIj ARIUTALS. Clauejidon John Olendenning, S. Welsh, J. and E.

S. Brown, Philadelphia, Mr. and Mta. George E. Rice, St.

Lonis, S. T. Waterman, Orange, N. L. A.

Spaeth, Newark, N. Johu Duff, New Bedford, Mr. and Mrs. E. B.

Halleck, Riverhead, N. Oharlea E. Watson, Fishkill on Hudson: Mr. and Mrs. S.

Hanselman, Patchogue, L. W. H. Finday, Sea Cliff, h. W.

H. Allen, Wethersfield, Peter Johnson, MIbb Adele Lovey, Miss May Levoy. Miss Lottaj Levey, Miss Lillian Markham, W. D. Mann, Mrs.

Levoy, London, Eugland; Agnes Wallace Villa, Sam B. Villa, LucieYilla, Sabra Deshou, Veo; S. T. Bulos, Mr. and Mrs.

F. Cook, A. S. Pros key, John Graham, Brooklyn. Homi.

St. Geoboe Mr. and Sirs. J. Gardner, H.

Krauty, J. Philadelphia, F. E. Clark, J. 0.

Beale, M. Marsh, Boston, 0. M. Dexter, Troy, N. G.

G. Hanscom, Denver Oitv: A. L. Laugt'ord. Pittsburg, D.

0. Bayne, Utica, N. F. A. King, New Haven, J.

Smith, Stony Brook. N. 0. L. Mid cllHton.

W. Mitohell. Miss J. Enuiss. Mrs.

E. C. Davidson, Brooklyn, N. Y. 6HK NAHReTTIit ESOil'BB DBATII.

Annie White, 45 years old, narrowly escaped death by burning, shortly after noon, yoBterday. She was intoxioated, and while walking near the stove bad her clothing ignited. Neighbors who saw her burning ran to the rescue and tore the clothes from her bodv. bnt not before hia had boon badly soorohed by the flaoios. She was re.

movod to the Eas'torn district hospital, where she now lies in a critical oondition. RBADI UKET COtlBKTl'. Louibvilijc, February 15. Frank Slaviu has sent a telegram to the Olym pio club, Now Orleans, iu which he says he will fight Corbett in New Orleans March 3, four ouroo cloves, six rounds, for a purse of $5,000. Ho leaves here for ludiaaapoli to night aad asks that answer be sent thoro.

Five Great I.tmlteit Traias Vis Now York Centra) every day in the year. Tha roostcoiuplato aad. laborious service oFer oftiued to tho Atfost audJJuthwrt.Adv, opttonio of tue uiguost molality po.mBle iu man. Why, only a year or two ago this record waa made bj Afro Americans, excelling the brightest minds of the white race: Slintnu was class orator at Phillips' academy in 1801: Handy was alass orator of tho college of the city of New York same year; DuBois won the Boylston prize for scholarship at Harvard iu 1890; the best man at Cornell tha same year was a colored man; and a black young man, Clement G. Morgan, was in 1800 class orator at Harvard.

And these aro not motiHtroaitieH, exceptional cassa, which signify nothing. They are typical of tho progress Afro Americans are making throughout tho country. Tnough handicapped iu many ways wo are keeping step with our brother in white wherever tho conditions are favorable. It is generally conceded that Afro Americans are progressing everywhere. Even tho most prejudiced white men of the South admit tho faot, though they often do so with a qualification.

Indeed, some of them voluntarily proclaim it, and say this very progress on the part of the colored people ikos the situation senonf, creates an those people will in time become, on goneral prinoiplos, our equals, and then theso Southerners ask, and it is often a serious question with some Northerners, Can tho two races live together barmoniouslv aa equals That ia the practical question which you are. considering now and ivhioh is down for your next meeting. It is contended by some that Afro Americans should not remain in this country; that they were brought here by force and. that it is uot thoir natural habitat; that God created them for Africa and that they should return thoro and develop themselves in a climate for which God intended them. I sinila at that kind of argument.

Why, God never created tho negro iu Africa. Re was created in Adam and Noah in Asia. So if there iB to be an exodus it should be to the land of the Japa and the olive eyed Chinese. But Oven if God did create the negroos at tho headwaters ot the Nile, He did not create tho Aryan race here in the United States, nor the Jow, nor the Chinese. If, then, Afro Americans should return whence their ancestors wore created, why should not tho white People go back whore they came from But if the negro, as you call ns.is lo go to Africa to get in a natural climate, what is ihe objection to settling ns in Florida and LouiBiana and other parts of the South land where tlio climate and physical conditions are similar to Africa? But.

pshaw I this deportation of Afro Americans is pure nonsense. Speaking through me, they tell vou that thoy do not want to go out of this country aud hack to Africa, and more, that they will not go: that they are hero to stay. To remove them under the Cij cumsrances, and with this spirit on their part, is absolutely impossible. What matters it how they came here? Slany of tho early settlers of this repnfjlio were sent here into involuntary an.) often penal banishment. Thoy did not want to come when they were sent under vagrant and debtors' laws; and when hero thoy were held in bondage.

Eg gleaton in his "History of the United States and Its People," says: "During the time of their bondage, they could be bought and ald liko ulnvei'." So, if yon want to get at tho doscswl ants of people who wore brought here against their will to send them away becauso they have no right here, you will have to deport many white pooplo, especially from proud old Virginia and Georgia. It seemi to me to be foolish and inexcusable to be constautly discussing makeshifts in connection with such an important matters what you call the negro problem. There is no negro problem in the North. A negro problom in the South, aud tho solution of it depends upon time, education, evolution. There is very little trouble now except, mainly, in politics, and in the enjoyment of public rights.

So far aa politios is concerned, there should be an educational or property qualification or both, applicable to all races alike. So far as tho enjoyment of public rights on public conveyances and in public places existing under public license or supported by public luuds.tho white South should aot npon the principle that a col ored man ia as good aa a white man evon it they putin "if Tie behaves himself," as Borne of our frionde at the North do. There is no remedy, there is no solution for the race problem in the South, outside of the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States. To these wo must rosort, and by the rulos laid down In those wo must work, aud as reasonable men, considering the limitations of human nature, its imperfoctions aud its weaknesses, wo should work patiently together upon this important problem, aud until wo have sot tlod and removed It. Be asaurod that this problem will oonfront ns, until Afro Americans ehall have oeen aubjootod to generations of intellectual and ethical evolution, and until the white race get ChriBtiauity enough to eradicate their race pride aad exclaslreneBs, and democraoy enough to practically subscribe to what Abraham Lincoln aaid thla country ia, "A land whero every man has a right te be equal with every other man." Mr.

Stewart was followed by Editor T. Thomas Fortune. Dr. Lyman Abbott, who had promised to attend, sent the following letter: February 3, 1802. My Dear Du.

Janes M.y engagements are suoh that it 1 Impossible for me to accept your kind invitation to take part in the discussion upon the evolution of the Afrio American and his relation to the race problem. I should be especially glad to hear what Dr. Barrows has to Bay on this sub Joot, for he haB mado a careful study of it both as journalist and aa a visitor in the South. My religiouB faith and philosophical convictiona combine to assure me that the problem of the Afrio American race in this country is simply tne problem of manj that on tho one hand all men are aeparatod from the purely animal races by the possession of moral and spiritual nature, tWiiah the animal races do not possess: that on tho other hand thoy are all united in one brotherhood by the fiOHsesslon of this nature, is to me the dear teach ng of revelation, confirmed by all tho testimony of sclonoe and psychology. Race differences there may and aro, as there are individual differences, bnt there is nothing in those whioh should prevent opportunity for tho freest operation of what the scientists call the law of svolu tion and what theologians oall the work of redemption.

Every race, as every man, should bo free to become alt that It can become, and no one ean tell beforehand what are the possibilities of an as yot undeveloped nature. The solution of the Afric American problem, therefore, seems to me to lie in three terms justice, liberty, eduoatlon. The law haa no right to know the oolor of his skin or the curl of hia hair, but is to treat him simply as a man, givlug him absolute and equal justice. Ho is to have fall freedom to go where he will and become what he can. asking no favors becauso ho is colored, and subjected to no Impediments, and finally whatever provision for eduoatlon is mado, either by the state or by Christian philanthropy, should bo as fully and adequately made for him as for his white brother.

These thrso things assured, everything oIbo, industrial Uborty, aooial recognition, and oven tne Bnffrage, may bo loft to the operation of time and natural forces. Something like this it what I should say if I were to.be with you on Sunday evening, and you seo that there is in this nothing which has not been said over and oror again by ethers. Yours sinoerely, Lvtuak Abbott. Puiuslnnont by tho knout waa restored in l.tDIAKS MAKB (JOI)l) SDBDIERS. An Army Ciipluin Is Over tlio Scheme.

CniCAOo, 111., February 15. Captjin W. L. Pilchor of the Eighth United States Infantry, is stopping at tho Laland. Tho captain is Btationed at Fort Washaki, Wyo.

'The fort is in one of tho most inaccessible regions of Wyoming, and 100 miles from a railroad station. When asked what he thought of Secretary Proctor's scheme of making the into United States soldiers, Captain I'ilcher grew enthusiastic. "I think," he said, "that the scheme is a grand one, anil the only solution of the Indian question. I am pretty well qualified to judge of the workings of the scheme, as the first regular company or Indians was established in my regiment. The company consists of sixty Shoshone and Arapahoo braves.

Of course, I cannot toll how they would perform in actual service, but in everything else they uiako splendid soldiers, They are taken into the service on the same footing as the white men. The great difficulty is iu teaching them English, but several of the soldiers understand the sign language and so can get along very well. You cannot imagine how proud thoe Indians are oV their position, and how they vie with each other iu keeping their uniforms and arms iu good condition. No, the men are not iealouH of them, aud often eu gago ihem iu friendly wrestling bouts and races." A.N OLD ISSTKCCTOR tfD.NU, of Alfred C'htirfcs Du ISois of Th in City. Profes or Alfred Charles Du Bois, an old and honored teacher of this eity, died on Saturday at hie home.

Uo'H Halsty street, of acuta peritonitis after a brief illness of two days, aged 03 years. He was born in Paris and iheailylife soi vtd with great bravery as a surgeon in the French army during the Crimean war aud later on in Algiers. On relinquishine: his military duties he came to this country and became actively identified with iheeducatiotial interests of many of the leading cities of the conn try. He wab associated with prominent Brooklyn, New York andN'ew Jersey institutions of learning Inirty years. His work the Young Slen's Christian Association for the past sixteen years was highly appreciated by that organization, and when thu Young Women's (TiriHtian Association was organized he generonsiv gavo them his services.

He was a teacher of French in tho Polytechnic institute for seven yean. He was a fine looking man and had a winning presence, which mado many friends for him in his long roll of scholars. He leaven widow and two daughters Mrs. Ii. O.

Gulcr and Mrs. (Itev.) V. C. Htcele. The funeral services were held at 2 o'cls this afternoon, Bov, Drs.

G. P. Stains, W. W. Bowuish and Spencer Boshe officiating.

The interment was in Greenwood cemetery. 1'UNEUAL OF h. K. SIESEROLE. Tlio KfluiuiHK Clnriuil Xtsiu SSoriiiuiT in (')'pi'i' Ilillat Ccractory.

The remains of Archibald K. Moaerole were buried this tnorning in Cypress Hills coinetcry. Funeral servicer, were couduoted yesterday afternoon in the Kent sheet Tteforniod church, aud were largely attended. Tho funeral Bermon. which was delivered by the Kgv.

Lewis Francis, pastor of Die church, was largely historical. Hueh old, c.usii'vativo hymns as "Kock of Ages" and "Jesus, Lover of My Boul," were sung by the onoir. The pall bearers wero Timothy Perry, Juhn Itnglis, II. E. Talmugc, Henry J.

Oldriug, Yhiitemoif, 0. II. Tieboul, John (J. Oir, O. ll.

Gerard and James R. Sparrow. Among others who attended the funeral were ex Congres.man Archibald SI. Bliss and General J. V.

Meaerole. ea kli oi.ijsisa tax roirox stkkkt. Men engaged in tho men's famishing goods business on Fulton street have agreod to close their stores at 7 P. M. during the months of February, March, July, August, September and October, except or the eve of holidays.

The signers of Disagreement are E. L. Tripler, Ps.se William Hloothoff, J. U. Briudley, John Page and Ihb Harding manufacturing company.

Giiocttm.s kobbkw. The grocery stores of Layman Enter, 202 SlauhaCan avenue, and of Dauiel Fallen, 100 Manhattan avenue, wero both entered by sneak thieves before daylight this morning. Iu Kuger's tdane Ihe rear window was forced and 1 was stolen from the cash drawer. Iu Fallen's tho rear door was forced miC 00 cents were stolon from the cash drawer. XKW P.tSTOK The pnli.it of the Ohurut of Humboldt street, near Nassau avanue, recently made va cant by the resignation of tie Bov.

E. B. Ed wards, is to ba fillod ijfy the Kot. A. B.

Phil who evening foi'ffiTlly accepted a call to 108, the pistill ate. Sir. Phi lti a young clergyman ku.i a recent TDK (JKKaSS toesTV HHUAf.W SOI.B. Tim Qxtrmis Qotytlij ifrruUl. a Bepublioan news pspcr publisJiotl lu rj0nB Jumna Cityvhas boon sold by the ed.tor.j pr()pri(itor, E.

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