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9 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY. JUNE 7. 190(5.

EAGLE QUILLS By WILLIS BROOKS. WALKS and TALKS By JULIUS CHAMBERS. i Acquisitions of the Brooklyn Institute Museum i 1 1 1 i To be sure, there was no special reason why the driver should yell "Hi, yah," since the dear, busy old women stood plump in the middle of the street and there was plenty of room on either side 1 i UW, it 4'F -i When the mercury is ninety in the shade, the air so still that not a leaf is swayed, With an entertaining book You betake you to a nook, Down beside the babbling brook in the glade. Ikni you hope that, hidden here in this retreat, the rippling of the waters at your feet, You can partially allay By forgetting, In a way The discomforts of the day and its heat. But the chances are that, ere the day is done.

You'll be found, alas, by some perspiring I one. Who will puff and say: "Phwoo' rhwoo! Is it hot enough for you?" 'And you'll feel just as you do in the sun. AAAA A Chicago woman procured a divorce from her husband last fall. He married mother woman last week. Now his for -J What a boon the rotten beef expos-ures will be to the vegetarians! Arguments that have been falling upon inattentive ears for a generation will now be listened to with respect.

Indications are that ihe next serious attempt at municipal owneiship will be the construction of an abattoir in Chicago, at which the slaughter of animals will be conducted under control of the city. Exactly how such a place will be kept clear of abuses Is not made plain, but it is a step in the right The city furnishes to its people water, why shouldn't it supply food in tho wholesale? Who will preach the propaganda of vegetarianism? Some of us who are threatened with gout are warned against certain vegetables. If potatoes and all starchy foods are to be stricken from our list of edibles, shall we not have to go back to beef? AAAA Again we have stories by cable from Monte Carlo to the effect that Charles M. Schwab is trying to "break the bank" at that resort on the Riviera. Gross exaggerations are patent to anybody who knows the place.

The "limit" at the roulette wheels is 100 francs flat on a number. What is that to Mr. Twenty dollars stands to win $750 if tho player guess the one in which the ball Btops! Would there be comment If any New Yorker went to Belmont Park and put S20 on a horse at 35 to The roulette wheel is a game of long adds against a player, yet it has been "beaten" many a time. An old acquaintance, M. Perlvier, secretary of tho Paris Figaro Company, was "frozen out" of that corporation when M.

Villemas-sant died. He gathered up about 100,000 francs ($20,000) and skipped off to Monto Carlo, where he won enough money in two weeks to buy a controlling interest in the Figaro and to have the supremo Joy of "firing" the men who had deposed him. Naturally, many more people lose than win. If that were not the case, tho most expensive gambling resort in the world couldn't eif'jst. We have been reading a lot about one Canfield recently; but his places at Saratoga and In East Forty-fourth street bear tho same relation to real gambling that one of the late Ben Wood's games of poker did to a meeting of the Thompson Street Poker Club Canfield being the Thompson street manager.

Heavy playing at Monte Carlo Is at "trente-et-quarante," in which immense sums are wagered upon the turn of a card. The game is similar to baccarat, except that the number to be made Is 31, instead of 9. As a matter of fact, nobody goes to Monte Carlo without visiting the gam; bling house (called "casino," for short)'. The guest who accepts the hospitality of the luxurious private club and doesn't put a wager down "to pay his footing" is regarded as a cad. If Mr.

Schwab went to the casino, you can be sure that he "sat the game" for a few minutes, at least. I have seen bishops of the Church of England trying to earn money at the tables. Gambling is In the air at Monaco. If one doesn't intend to visit the casino, he'd best remain in his train when the station is announced. If he alights, he is as sure' to get into the ascenseur and get out at the top of the hill as he is to go to another world.

He may enter the casino with all ths timidity that a cardinal In his red robes would scale the fence of a bull pen, but, once inside, he Is bound to see the gambling and to watch the wheel go round. "Burr-r-r-r-r-r-r! Rat-tat-tat! Zip! Trois, ct rouge!" How would you like to vote for La Follette? I believe the chances are now about one to three that you'll have to do so, if you are a Democrat. Bryan and Hearst are likely to destroy each other. Even If the last named shall carry this state in the fall on the atl-trust wave, Mr. Bryan will return from his journey around the world with what Mr.

Canfield calls "prestige." If I am not a poor guesser, half the Democratic conventions this year will declare for him. In that case, he assuredly will be a probable candidate and there Isn't the slightest use blinking at the fact. Now, La Follette, anti-monopoly senator from Wisconsin, Is a theoretical Republican; but he is as far from the Ald-rich-Knox type of man as can be imagined. He hasn't been asleep like most of ub. He has seen the coming of the "revolt!" This great tempest, I believe, will take up som man and elect him, whether he seeks the place or not.

La Follette realizes his opportunity, just as did Bryan at Chicago. If the tide turns his way, he'll spring in and go to the high water mark! Although this is his' first term In the Senate he has made himself felt. At present, he has nothing to hope from the Republican party. He is so near the Democratic fence on many national questions that he could easily get on the other side. With a flourish of trumpets, we are told that we are to have another history of the Civil War, compiled by Generals O.

O. Howard and Stephen D. Lee. The fact that these two gentlemen were on opposite sides during the conflict doesn't Impress me. Admitting that they are Intending to "write the history" with a pair of scissors, how will it be possible for a Confederate to agree with a Federal regarding the burning of Columbia or Chambersburg? Both were wanton outrages, in the light of later and cooler judgment.

The two actB were Inspired by resentment. They resemble nothing so much as the act of a farm servant with a grievance who hamstrings his master's horses when he Is discharged. Another generation or longer period must pass before the man is born capable of writing an impartial history of the American Civil War. When the day arrives, the theme ought to command the enthusiasm of the workman. AAA The selection of Edwin M.

Stuart aa candidate for governor by the Republicans of Pennsylvania affords another vindication of the American theory of advancement on merit. Stuart began life as a clerk' for old man Leary, keeper of a second-hand book store in Philadelphia. He mastered ths business. There was a time In my career when I haunted' old book stores, but "Leary's" was the only one in which there was any classification or arrangement of goods by which one could find what he sought. Edwin Stuart succeeded to the business because he knew, the contents as well as the covers of every volume In the shop that was worth knowing.

He was a mayor several years ago and gave the Quakers a clean administration. The Union League Club is a large sized political factor in the city and Stuart is its president. mer wife sues him for $25,000 for alleged breach of promise to remarry her. Somehow this reminds me of the woman whose husband was drowned. You remember, she took on dreadfully and aroused all the men in the neighborhood to look for his body.

When they found it, a week or so later, hundreds of eels had fattened themselves to it. These, it was decided, belonged to the widow. Then they asked her what disposition Ihey should make of her lamented spouse, and she, between sobs, said: "I g-g-guess you better s-s-set him again!" AAAA It was the dreadfulest thing! My, my! I can't begin to tell it as it was. At test I can only suggest the scene and leave the terrors of it to your imagination. Two good, grandmotherly looking women met on the crossing at about the middle of an unfrequented street.

They were so glad to see each other! Laws a massy! It was ever so long since they had met before. I am guessing at this, you understand, but It must have been a long, long time, they were so tickled to see each other. Of course, I have no idea what they were talking about I was clear across the street but from the fact that both talked at once and as fast as ever they could, I presumed they were telling what truly wonderful creatures their latest grand-tables were. Probably no subject short of that could have engrossed their minds so wholly as to make them utterly oblivious of an ash cart with a big, lumbering horse, rattling right toward them and not more than half a short block away. Nay, they wore so deeply absorbed that tbey did not know of the coming of this ponderous cart until the driver yelled: "Hi yah!" GOSSIP OF Sarah Bernhardt will say a triple farewell at the Lyric Theater next Tuesday and Wednesday, presenting a composite bill ob those evenings and giving a per-tormasce of "Camille" for the Wednesday for him and his ash cart to pass.

But sometimes ihink drivers rather like to yell "Hi. yah." at pedestrians, just to see them jump and srramble. If this was that driver's purpose, his effort was crowned with all the success any man could wish. The two women sud denly looked in his direclion and saw the terrifying cart bearing down upon them, not more than fifly feet away and coming at a ponderous and presumably relentless wa 1 k. The first thing for the two women to do, as a matter of course, was to scream, and the next was to grab each other and hang on lor dear life.

1 eouldn see from where I was whether they shut their eyes tight, but I guess they did, for they stood a moment as If almost resigned to the horrible fate that had all but overtaken them. Then one of them, seeming to be Inspired with a hope, however remote, of saving her life, screamed again and. breaking away from her companion, fled toward the north side of the street. This almost hopeful dash for life aroused the companion, and she, having echoed the other's scream, followed her in frantic flight. Hut, nh and alas, this led only to other and possibly more imminent danger, since a great, heavy wagon, with Its massive box heaping full of earth, drawn by two great horses, was coming the other way and had already reached a point not more than two rods from them.

Slowly, but surely. It was coming at that same cruel, plodding walk. The first of the fleeing women saw this wagon before her follower did, and stopped so suddenly ihat the other bumped into her. Then they grabbed each other once more and screamed in unison. It was easy enough for me, serenely walking on the other side of the street, out of the path of the two trundling vehicles, to see that the women had plenty of time to cross the street three or four times before either the cart or the wagon could reach their crossing.

But they were not looking with my eyes, so they made all possible haste, running nearly across one way; then screaming and running nearly across the other way. It reminded me of the time Abe Thompson swam two-thirds of the way across Fox River "and then, fearing that he couldn't hold out for the other third, turned around and swam back. But Kipling assures me that is another story. Well, nfter the two women had run back and forth two or three times, they stopped together In the middle of the crossing, and it began to look as if they Intended to stand there and let the vehicles pass on either side of them. But appearances were deceitful.

With a series of soul-stirring shrieks, they separated and ran in opposite directions, each taking the direction whence she had come before their happy meeting. Safe on the curb, each stood breathing heavily and doubtless thanking Providence for the miraculous deliverance from death. Then, after the ashcart and earth wagon had lumbered by, the drivers grinning their amusement, the two women hurried to each other, and the last I saw of them they stood squarely in the middle of the street excitedly comparing notes. THE STAGE repertoire. They are those of the melan- choly Dane in "Hamlet," the little Duke of Relohstndt in "L'Alslon," and the fascinating Gilberte in "Frou Frou." Mme.

Bernhardt will appear in the second act of each of these plays, completing 1 rl 1 1 A th; evening's entertainment with her remarkable portrayal of Zoraya in the fourih net of "La Sorciere." Although her "Frou Frou" is well known in New York, Bernhardt has played iv I uhj ti 4 fA i2s Mohammed Ali. ropolltan Museum, but the admirable drawing, the lightness, grace and case of pose, the image of infantile eagerness In the babe who is held on the arm of the nymph, lend themselves as easily to marble as to metal. Another statue is the "Poesy" of Salvatore Albano, showing a female figure, simply robed and seated with a wreath in hand. Five paintings have likewise been received: the "Fugitive," in Couture's vigorous manner a canvas from the famous Jefferson collection; Henry Golden Dearth's tenderly painted "Dreamland;" Emil Carlsen's broadly handled and atmospheric "Lazy Eta;" Lewis C. Tiffany's "Mosque of Mohammed Ali," on the edge of Cairo, with part of a caravan before It, and Paul Cor-noyer's "After the Rain." Mr.

Cornoyer Is a painter who has discovered our city squares as places of beauty, not so much for their surrounding architecture, which Is frequently commonplace and sometimes ugly, tut because of the effects of light After the never been seen in New York. The authors are Alfred Sutro, C. M. S. MeLellan, Eugene W.

Preshy, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mr3. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Israel Zangwill, Clyde Fitch and Edmond Rostand, AAAJk Eddie Foy is going tobreak out of dogface roles and will be seen next year in a comedy called "The Wild and Woolly Way." It is by John Gilbert of the old firm of Donnelly, Gilbert and Girard of "Natural Gas" fame. Foy says Gilbert has provided him with a character that fits him better than anything he has ever had. It will present him In a sort of Sol Smith Russell guise.

He will continue under the management of the Shuberts. MIA John Bailey McElfatrlck, perhaps the best known theatrical architect in this country, died suddenly in his office in Manhattan, late on Tuesday afternoon, of heart disease, following an attack of pneumonia. Mr. McElfatrlck designed the vision lines and acoustic plans upon which many of the modern American theaters were built and planned more than 100 American playhouses. He de-sigued nine theaters in Brooklyn and many others.

Joe Weber yesterday signed by cable Cissy Loftus and Maurice Farkoa, two of the mom talented players in Europe. Mr. Weber also secured the contract of William Burress, a character comedian. These three players, with Lillian Beauvault. are the first four of the new members of Joe foil tsf The Mosque of collections of the Brooklyn In-i Btitute Museum are undergoing i their yearly rearrangement, but several recent gifts and purchases have already been Installed.

Among them Is a replica In marble of the famous "Bacchante" of MacMonnies, Brooklyn's best known artist. The copy differs In certain slight details from the bronze In the Met- Bacchante. In "L'Alglon" and in "Hamlet" here but once, and that during her visit to this country some seven years ago- W. T. Grover, manager of the Music Hall at Brighton Beach, will begin his regular season there on June 17.

He ha3 provided an unusually good bill to begin with. With more than half the seaside resorts still unopen, the daily travel toward the beaches is larger than ever before at this time of the year and transportation officials believe a record breaking season is at nand. This fact anneals so strongly to them that extraordinary efforts are being made to handle the crowds property. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has solved one vexed question by massing long trains of ears on the ample sidings at Malhone street junction, so that overcrowded trolleys converging at that point will find an adequate outiet. These trains, which are for the sole use of Brighton Beach visitors, start at frequent intervals and it is believed that quick and comfortable transportation will result.

In addition to this service the regular trains from New York and other points on the line of Fulton street and Franklin avenue will run as usual. Another means of reaching Brighton via the Franklin avenue trolley will also be in operation, AJlAA Eleanor Ro'oson's plans for next season have been announced by Liebler Co. Shu will begin her season of thirty-five wejks at the Liberty Theater on September 17. During her engagement she will appear in ten plays, eight of which have liiMMm Poetry. and vapor, and the contrast between the rigid building lines and the picturesque shapes of the trees.

His sunsets and late lights on the skyscrapers are charming. Rain. Weber's all-star compay to bo signed for next season. The last opportunity of seeing Vesta Tilley in this country will occur at the final concert given at the Colonial, Sunday night. Percy Williams, who has been exploiting the clever English artiste for the past Eix weeks In his theaters, guys, "It Is positively Miss Tilley's last appearance in America." A silver loving cup is to be presented by the management.

ARCANUM ANGELS' THANKS. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: At a regular meeting of our organization, held on Monday evening, June 4, I was requested by a unanimous vote of this body to exund to you the hearty thanks of the Arcanum Angels for your kind notices in regard to our organization. The officers and members wish to congratulate you on your interest in fraternal work. WALTER W. HEASLEY, Adjutant.

Johnston Building, June 6, 1906. PET DOG ASTBAY. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: A black and white coach dog, lamed and famished, and evidently lost, has been hauntins the western end of Mlddagh street for several days. If this should meet the eye of tho owner it might result In the recovery of a valued animal. O.

P. S. 8 Mlddagh street, June 6, 1906. Juki Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet. Three New Yachts In Gravesend Bay ii i Motor Boat as a The motor boat Togo recently took part in a native carnival at Rotorua, Auckland, New Zealand, and, painted as here shown, caused considerable sensation.

She has MULLAN WON CLUB SHOOT. J. S. Mullan won the shoot of the Columbia Rifle Club last evening and at one time it looked as if he was going to score the possible 250 points. The conditions Jig Step, Owned by F.

J. Step and Sue, which are all from the board of Jig Step, however, was built at Bay Shore, and the property of W. A. Barstow, has already L. Marine Monster.

24-horse power, has a speed of about eighteen miles an hour, and is twenty-seven feet long. On the occasion mentioned she took the first prize In two races; the second prize in three. were 10 shots each at the ring targets, 25 yards range, and Mullen started off with six consecutive 25s and then finished with' four successive 24s for a total of 246. John W. Caldwell and H.

C. Knickerbocker scored 241 each, B. Mullan 236 and L. N. Williams 235.

5V" MSk. Havens. Henry J. Gielow. Crescent and Jig took to the water a week later.

In appeared la the lower bay, and 1 U.U 1 matinee. On the two evenings she will present three characters which she did not assume during her two weeks engagement at the Lyric last winter and which have only recently been revived in her T'ffliv' 4 "-V f. a 20 IU -v CV -) Cuscent, Owned yJ. B. O'Donohue.

Soya, Owned by W. A. Barstow. Cnusual Interest has been given to Gravesend Bay yachting by the advent of several new racing boats, designed and built this year. Class or the 27-foot division, has been Increased by Crescent.

Jig Step i sistpr ships, and belong respectively to J. B. O'Donohue, of the Crescent Athletic Club, and F. J. Havens, of the Atlantic Yacht Club.

Crescent was built at Milton Point, and was launched on May 9. the Qdlviion, besides Joy, a picture of which has already appeared in the Eagle, the local racing flotilla has been increased by Soya and Spider, two racing crafts designed by Clinton H. Crane. Soya, which is Spider, which is owned by Hendon Chubb, is expected to arrive to-day..