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a a a a a it AL THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. APRIL 2. 1904.

5 OP PERMANENT VALUE. to the Principal Topics Discussed in the 1 Morning Newspapers. In cash $50,000.000 has been transferred to the Pennsylvania Railroad, following deposit of securities, and the company can nOW go on with the tunnel improvement. The Manhattan subway will not be opened through Its entire length until next winter. says the Sun and other papers, as the management does not wish to partially open the line.

and electrical 1 appointments cannot be finished this summer. Showing the accommodations in hospitals in Manhattan the Tribune says that of 5,446 beds 5,390 have patients, leaving only 56 beds vacant. Steamship men are disheartened over the refusal of Secretary Taft to reopen question of the North River piers, says the Tribune. A thorough account of the inquiry into the dealings of D. J.

Sully with Edwin Hawley and Frank H. Ray, in cotton, is in the Sun. CANNOT PRINT Owing to the great umps of the Eagle it sary to omit this year programmes of Easter churckes. A NEW ROOK ON "How to Care for the one dollar. Written and Lee.

Practicing Hair New York. Send for EASTER MUSIC. pressure upon the colsure, found necesthe publication of the music from the HAIR CULTURE. Hair at All Times." Price for sale by Juliet Marion Culturist, 27. W.

24th descriptive leaflet. COAL! COAL! COAL! COAL! Geo. H. Fleer, Tel. $50 Bedford.

496-504 DeKalb Cor. Skillman St. We gell Coal that leaves only ashes. PAWNBROKERS-T. NEWMAN SONS, 1,476 Fulton st.

between Franklin and Classon ave. Liberal loans on diamonds. watches. jewelry, clothing. etc.

Telephone 2243 Redford. ARCHARD -On Thursday, March 31, 1904, EMMA M. ARCHARD. widow of John L. Archard.

Funeral services on Sunday afternoon, at 5 o'clock. at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. M. McChesney, 503 Coney Island av, Flatbush. Interment private.

(Yonkers papers please copy.) BRADLEY- At 181 Park av. MARGARET MAY, daughter of James J. Bradley and Katie F. White, in the 9th year of her age. Funeral, Monday, April 4, at 2 P.

M. 2-2 CATELY -On April 1. 1904. MARION son of Samuel R. and Mary A.

Cately, in his 34th year. Services at 133 Reid av, Brooklyn, Sunday, April 3, at 2 P. M. DOWNS--On Friday, April 1, 1904, CHARLOTTE A. DOWNS, widow of Andrew J.

Downs, aged 85 years. Funeral services at the residence of her daughter, Mra. Henry Mapes, 417 State st, on Monday, April 4, at 2 P. M. Relatives and friends invited.

2-2 EMERSON-On April 1, at his residence, 212 Rutledge st, Breoklyn, HERMON JOSEPH, beloved husband of Catherine Seaman Emerson. Funeral services on April 4, at 8 o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. FLAHERTY- On April 1. 1904.

at St. Peter's Hospital, MAURICE FLAHERTY, aged 69 years, veteran of the Rebellion. Funeral Sunday, April 3, from hospital, at 1:30 P. M. Interment in Calvary Cemetery.

GILMARTIN-On Friday, April 1, 1904. JOHN GILMARTIN, beloved' husband of Maria Gilmartin. Funeral from his late residence, 446 Henry st, Monday, April 4, 1904, at 9 A. thence to St, Peter's R. C.

Church, Hicks and Warren sts, where a solemn mass of requiem will be offered for the happy repose of his soul. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. 2-2 GOODMAN-On. April 1, 1904. ERNESTINE beloved daughter- of Benson H.

and Clara Goodman, after a short illness, in her 18th year. Relatives and friends, as also members of Temple Israel, Brooklyn, are invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 391 Sterling place, Sunday, April 3, 1904, at o'clock P. M. 2-2 GOODWIN--On Wednesday, March 30, 1904, WILLIAM M. GOODWIN, son of Charles and the late Maria Goodwin.

Funeral from his late residence, 439 Gold st, on Sunday, April 3, at 2 P. M. 2-2 K.AHL--On Tuesday, March 29, 1904, CHARLOTTE widow of Charles Kahl, in her 82d year. Funeral from her late residence, 315 Myrtle av, Sunday, 2 P. M.

30-4 NAVSTED-On March 31, 1304. NILS NAVSTED. aged 28 years 5 months, vice president of the Norseman Cycle Club. Funeral from his late residence. 116 Fourth av.

on Sunday, April 3, at 2 P. M. Interment Evergreens Cemetery, NEXSEN- yeers. April 1, 1904, MARY A. NEXSEN, Funeral services will be held at her late residence, 286 Vanderbilt av, on Sunday, at 3 1.

M. Interment private on Monday. 2-2 NARWOOD-Suddenly, at St. Augustine, ISAAC M. NARWOOD.

services at Christ Church, Bedford av, Funeral, evening at 8 o'clock. 2-3 OSTRANDER-On April 1. 1904, JOSEPHINE, beloved wife of George Ostrander. Funeral from her late residence, 5 Auburn place, at 9:30 Monday; thence to St. Edward's Church, where a requiem mass will be offered for the repose of her soul.

Interment Calvary Cemtery, 2-2 PAGAN--On April 1, VIDA STORMS, daughter of Arthur H. and Sarahetta R. Pagan. Funeral service. Sunday, at 1:30 P.

at 164 Bond st. PARKER--On Friday, April 1, after a short ness, CHARLES, beloved husband of Hannah Parker, in his 55th year. Funeral services at his late residence, 209 Grand aV. Sunday afternoon, at 5:30. Interment private.

(Stanchester. England, papers please copy.) 1-3 PLANT--At her residence, 404A Seventeenth st, on April 1, 1904, EMMA PLANT, in her 91st year. 'Funeral private. 2-2 REYNOLDS--On April 1, 1904, Captain JOSHUA W. REYNOLDS, in his 71st year.

Funeral from his late residence, 181 Hooper et, Brooklyn, Monday, April 4, at 2 P. M. 2-2 STEIN- On April 1, 1904, at his residence, 930 President st, after a lingering illness, ABRAHAM M. STEIN, beloved husband of Carrie Stein. in his 56th year.

Funeral services will be held at the Temple Beth Elohim, State st, near Hoyt, on Monday, April 4, at 2 P. M. Relatives and friends and the following societies are respectfully invited to attend: Congregation Beth Elohim. Hebrew Orphan Asylum Society, Unity Club, Jewish Hospital, Hebrew Benevolent Society, 2-2 ST. GEORGE-On Friday, April 1, 1904, EDMUND beloved husband of Charlotte St.

George. Funeral from hie late residence, 243 Vernon AV, on Monday, 4th at 9:30 A. thence to the Church of St. John the Baptist. Relatives, friends and members of the Holy Name Societies of the Churches of St.

Louis and St. John the Baptist, and the Diocesan Union of the Holy Name are respectfully invited. TUCKER-At Jamaica, N. on Friday, April 1, AMELIA C. TUCKER, aged 72 years.

Friends are respectfully invited to attend funeral services on Monday evening, April 4, at 8 o'clock, at the residence of her son, Theodore Tucker, 35 Willet st. 2-2 WARDEN--Suddenly, on April 1, 1901. at Saranac Lake. N. LORIS FREEMAN.

son of Isabel Tuttle Warden, in the 19th year of his ago. Funeral at 5 o'clock, Monday, from 269 Clinton av, Brooklyn. Inter.nant at the convenience of family, 2-2 Wednesday, March 30, 1904. CATHERINE S. WYNKOOP, aged 72.

Services at her residence, 977 Herkimer st. Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Funeral private. IN MEMORIAM. JONES--In cherished remembrance of JULIA A.

JONES. beloved mother of Harry O. Jones, rest," April 2, 1903. "And in the morn that angel face shall smile. Which I have loved so long, but lost a while." KOLBENSPLAY--In loving remembrance of HENRY KOLBENSPLAY.

who died April 2. 1903. A precious one from us has gone, A voice we loved is stilled. place is vacant in our home Which never can be Alled. MRS.

KOLBENSPLAY AND DAUGHTER. GREAT PINELAWN CEMETERY-Easy of acon Long Island R. private station; hearses. carriages, magnificent mausoleum. Round trip tickets 50 centa at office, 25 Broad N.

Y. NO PROSECUTION BY KNOX OF THE MERGER OFFICERS House Will Be Told Situation Does Not Warrant Filing of Suit. DECISION IN BEAVERS CASE. Belief That Supreme Court Will Return an Opinion on Question of Appeal Next Monday. 608 Fourteenth Streci.

Washington, April 2-Attorney General Knox has a clear and convincing statement to submit to the House in reply to the resolution of Representative John Sharpe Willlams, asking for information as to what steps, it any, have been taken by the Department of Justice to bring criminal suits against the officers of the Northern Securities Company. The House will be told that there is nothing in the situation that would warrant the attorney general in filing such a suit. The Williams resolution is regarded at the of Justice as a plain attempt little political capital, deDepartment, spite the fact that such a distinguished Republican as Senator Foraker has said that the next logical move of the government is to secure the criminal indictment of the officers of the merger. An official of the Department of Justice said to the Eagle correspondent to-day: "This department will have no difficulty in convincing fair -minded men that the Situation does not call for the prosecution of James J. Hill and his associates for violation of the anti-trust law.

There is a vast difference between a criminal suit and a civil suit, such as we recently won against the Northern Securities Company. Nearly all the evidence that the government had to base its case against the merger was obtained in the civil proceedings from Hill and Morgan, A criminal suit would have failed, because we could not get the evidence necessary to obtain an indictment, for, of course, neither Morgan nor Hill would have incriminated. themselves to help the government make a case. In the one instance we merely had to show a preponderance of evidence in our favor, and in the other we would have to make out our case before a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. "Then the whole course of the officers of the Northern Securities Company has been such as to entitle them to some consider a- tion at the hands.of the federal officials.

They made their railroad merger openiy, and carried it on with no attempt at concealment. When the government brought the suit against them they met it fairly, and when beaten in the lower courts carried it CO the Supreme Court of the United Staics. In that tribunal four of the nine justices held that the operations of the merger were entirely within the The adverse opinion was by a majority of a single vote. That shows that there was some justification for the belief on the part of the railroad men that the consolidation of the roads was legal. But after the opinion was rendered the railroad magnates proceeded to comply with the ruling of the court at once.

Announcement has been made that the merger will be immediately dissolved; that the stock will be returned, to the original holders and the roads resume business on the old basis. "The Department of Justice is keeping a close watch on the Northern Securities Company to see that it does not attempt to evade the law as interpreted by the Supreme Court. If any trickery is tried it will be the signal for further proceedings. But we have 10 reason to suspect that anything of this sort is intended. For the present at least, there will be no move in the direction of criminal proceedings against Hill, Morgan and the other leaders in that combination." a careful survey of the ground here there seems to be no likelihood of the successful negotiation of a commercial treaty There are two ends to this country, repreEngland fdea and the of the people of New in favor of closer The business men their foreign trade and that the Southcutting into the shipwent exclusively to feeling that Boston is center for the great agricultural export trade Canada, and that it of that situation barriers.

The, boot Massachusetts claim that against Canadian that they would welthe dominion. The England say they can Northern neighbors on also welcome free greater part of the of that community reciprocity or straight A good deal has been said and printed of late about Canadian reciprocity, but after No Chance for Canadian Reciprocity. with the Dominion. Canadian reciprocity sented in the New Minnesota idea. Most England are strongly relations with Canada.

of Boston realize that is steadily dropping ern ports are rapidly ping that at one time Boston. There is a the natural distributing manufacturing and of New England and would get all the were it not for tariff and shoe people of they want no protection manufacturers, and come free trade with coal producers of New compete with their equal terms, and trade. In fact, the manufacturing interests are clamoring for out free trade. Henry M. Whitney, William C.

Whitney, president of the Boston merce. Mr. Whitney vocate of reciprocity this position largely A monster petition New England, urging of Commerce to take direction of securing with Canada. The great stumbling these interests that ciprocity is the It has been powerful present time to doubtless continue in uation. The people engaged unalterably opposed long as they maintain can effectually block other proposition.

Out in Minnesota is much the same, the resenting different millers are anxious with Canada, or even farmers will have none ments are as wide New England. In ditions Washington favorable to reciprocity and there a senator thusiastic in support are in a tremendous general Republican It is thought that preme Court may day next on the question of the appeal Georze W. Beavers. the indicted ex-postal official, from the Circuit Court of the a brother of the late has just been elected Chamber of Comis a pronounced adand was elected to account of this fact. being circulated in the Boston Chamber aggressive steps in the a reciprocity treaty block in the way of so strongly seek refishing industry.

enough up to the action, and will the control of the sit- in this industry are to reciprocity, and as this position they the supporters of the reciprocity situation opposing factors repinterests, however. The for a modified tariff free trade, while the of it. The two eleapart as they are in mean time the conare not particularly with Canada. Here representative is enof the idea, but they minority. There is no sentiment in favor of it.

the United States Suan opinion on Mon- Look for Beavers Decision on Monday. United States for the southern district of New York. The government officials confidently look for a decision sustaining the order issued by Judge Holt, removing Beavers to the eastern district of New York for trial in Brooklyn. This case was adversed on the docket of the Supreme Court and was argued several weeks ago. The government's argument was prepared by Assistant Attorney-General Milton D.

Purdy, who brought the original suit. against the Northern Securities Company, while a United States district attorney out in Minnesota. Unless the government officers are badly disappointed, the court will approve Holt, whereupon once to Brooklyn under the indictments What promised at of extermination Dick Wins in His Fight With Foraker, terminated by the Senator. From all ple soundly trounced some of them think latter from going to as a delegate. fond of fighting, Foraker to this extent, Senator Foraker paign against the political machine of order from long ties where he thought control he was severely or three unexpected he realized that he a successful warfare combination in other the white flag The two senators ble understanding, reign.

Foraker will general headlight the state, doing furnishing the pull the strings, and. the real factor in Ohio. The short and Foraker and Hanna the Ohio representatives. will get recognition the distribution of thing that was never the lifetime of for offices that are must get the and Dick before their to at the White will be consulted spective districts. just about have the ments in Cleveland, merly dictator.

Cox will put the rants for federal results of the Foraker that has the lesser lights in Attorney General of being the hardest Roosevelt's cabinet. This distinction merly was shared Secretary Root, when the latter signed the title to Knox without serve the little Department of Justice of the amount of many think he takes He usually gets down 10 or 10:30 and leaves 3 in the afternoon. The attorney work at home. He work before the report at their desks Knox is an early riser is his hour for gets up earlier. active from thinking he is unable to lights his lamp and commenced many a Knox is one of the of midnight oil in magnificent law makes full use of With all his close Knox has appeared argue a case but cabinet.

He handled in the Northern President Roosevelt a very great degree. ing over to him does not care to tion to this the who keeps all the government straight does for the entire of the big law firms tions and business Knox is noted for fat fees for his entering the cabinet who stuck clients der Knox. He once late President case involving the of Indianapolis. fee and thought he learned that Knox his services. It is reported $50,000 for his defense curities case in the won the suit for the being $8,000 for that work he may do in The cordage states are putting Our Shipping Trade to the Philippines.

Beavers and one between rout The and they the Senator has found junior was disuse. had immediately have and for heavy general the at state Senator controlled indorsement House. in Burton final Down stamp offices. struggle given the Knox forwith but rewent dispute. attorney general has clerks breakfast, When of sleep, goes day's most library it.

in once Securities He important intrust attorney other on do houses. his private there more was Harrison street Harrison was had that the interests up a the action of Judge will be taken at made to stand trial pending against him. time to be a war the followers of Senators Dick and Foraker in Ohio has ended in the complete of the latter. fight was short flerce, and was capitulation of the senior accounts the Dick peothe Forakerites, and could prevent the national convention Dick, who is not no desire to punish even if he were able early in his camSenator that his badly rusted and out In several counhe was in undisputed defeated. After two reverses of this kind no chance of waging on the Dick-Herrick parts of state, and peace probably will come an up.

continue in the role of the Republicans of oratorical work and hurrah. Dick will with Herrick, will be Republican party in decisive fight between proved a great boon to Hereafter they the White House in patronage, someaccorded to them in Hanna. Candidates by the senators of both Foraker claims will be listened The representatives matters in their reand Beidler will say about where Hanna was forin Cincinnati Boss of approval on aspiThis is one of the between Dick and great satisfaction to state. bas the reputation worker in President Knox Hardest Worker in Cabinet. People who obgeneral about the are surprised to learn he performs.

A great life particularly easy. to the office at about somewhere along about does most of his done a fair day's of his department at 9 in the morning. from habit. Six o'clock and he frequently his mind is overlegal problems and he gets out of bed, to work. He has labor at 4 A.

M. consistent burners Washington. He has a at his home and application to work the Supreme Court to since entering the the government's side case. depends on Knox to is constantly handmatters that he to others. In addigeneral is the man branches of the matters of law.

He government what some for various corpora- ability to get large, legal work. Before were few. lawyers heavily than Philanengaged with the in an important railway franchises got. $25,000 for his doing well until he been paid $125,000 for John G. Johnson got.

of the Northern SeSupreme Court. Knox government, his reward job and all the other balance of the year. of the Atlantic stiff fight against the proposition to apply the coastwise laws al United States to the trade between the islands and this country after July 1, 1905. The people engaged in this industry have convinced two of the members of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries that it would be unwise to apply these laws as early as next year. The two members are Messrs.

Birdsall and Flack, and they have submitted a minority report on the bill to apply the coastwise laws to the insular trade. They recommend that this be done not earlier than July, 1906. Referring to the bill as reported by a majority of the committee, they say. "Its effect will be to create in favor of the shipowner of America an absolute mot.oply of the carrying trade between the United States and the Philippine Archipelago, and we call attention to the fact also that such monopoly will be without an; limitation or restriction whatever, save and except such as may be supposed will be ereated by competition among members of a class, all equally benefited by maintaining a high rate of carriage. "In the Philippine Islands there is no home demand for the products of the soil which can enter in any material degree in determining the value of their products.

They must dispose not alone a surplus, but practically of the entire product of the soil to foreign nations. Cheap and adequate transportation between the islands and the purchasers of their products. is therefore vitally necessary to the successful development of their resources, and any measure tending to restrict freedom of trade in this regard should not be permitted. The United States are to-day the largest purchaser of the exports of the Philippine Islands, and the bulk of such purchases comes from the ports of the archipelago to American ports without transshipment from foreign ports. "We do not believe it is a wise policy to build up a special industry in this country at the expense of another industry upon which the burden of government is now 50 heavily cast.

Nor do we believe that it 1s a wise policy to treat our island possessions as legitimate prey for commercial piracy. If our merchant marine cannot be fostered in any other manner, it deserves to fail. The principal import from the Philippines is manila hemp, used in the manufacture of cordage and binding twine, the districts of manufacture may be approximately stated as follows: On the Pacific coast, 5 per in Chicago and adjacent territory, 20 per and on the Atlantic coast, 75 per cent. it is claimed, and we believe with good reason, that the enactment of the pending bill and the resultant increase in freight rates would operate to the material disadvantage of the cordage manufacturers of the Atlantic coast. "Our imports from the Philippines under the system of duties which we impose are almost confined to manila hemp, which is imported free of duty and exempt from an export tax imposed upon that going to other countries.

Under this discrimination, in regard to the export tax, the hemp trade has been largely transferred to this country direct instead of being carried by way of England, and by dint of low freights our cordage and twine makers are able to supply the country and to export their product. It is their plea, and it seems to be irrefutable, that to give to American vessels the monopoly they ask for would of necessity so raise the cost of transportation as seriously to injure, if not to destroy, their business on the Atlantic cost. The only competition would be by the Pacific route and across the continent by rail, and on that a rate has already been made with which the American ships could in all probability not successfully compete on the Atlantic and by way of the Suez Canal. If continued, while cheaper JEROME'S NEW PET. JEROME tiA pin "KITTY, GOOD KITTY!" FINE ARTS.

Old and Other Masters From Two Collections. At the American Art Galleries the old pictures owned by Dowdeswell Dowdeswell, together with some culled from the stock of IT. J. Blakeslee, are on exhibition, prior to sale in Mendelssohn Hall next Thursday and Friday, a nights. whole, is While better the quality.

of should the have looked for during the period when old masters, in were this really country, a it rage, is or hardly social such re- as to create turbulent enthusiasm in the breast of the twentieth century citizen of a democracy. There is a good deal of smirking and posing in the old portraits, and these pictures are mainly pictures of other folks ancestors. One is a little surprised at finding them on sale in America, since the demand for English notables is assumably greater in England than it is here. and in some of the recent sales at Christie's they have realized such prices as the American dealers can hardly hope to equal. There are several I things of historic interest, however, that might be gathered by the managers of our museums; such, for example, as the big pictures of George III and Queen Caroline, by Allan Ramsay, highly decorated, stagy and confident of their own importance; but ther clothes nor titles enabled the artist to make these personages other than pudgy, worldly minded fleshlings.

Another picture, in the style that belongs to that period when English writers had much to say upon sentiment and said it SO sentimentally; when their heroines were always weeping in bowers or cummuning with the moon, is Beechy's Countess Delaware. Here every prescription of the English portraitist is observed. The dame is attired in dark blue and lace, the inevitable marble pillar is there, so that she can lean her right elbow upon it; the customary red curtain is ballooning out behind her, and this, being caught up at one side, shows the conventional landscape in the distance. Probably not less than 1,000 portraits have been manufactured after this formula. Still, it is a good picture, and if one can deeply feed his soul on portraits, he might like to have it Sir Peter Lely's wenches in their puffed sleeves, silk dresses, pearls and flowers, have a sort of honesty that we miss in the more hifalutin portraits of the Beechey period, and in Justue Susterman's picture of Princess Claudia de Medici one is struck, less by the stiffness of the fripperies that encase the unhappy woman, than by the modern and living quality of the face.

We miss a little of this truth even in Sir Joshua Reynolde, for we cannot think that all of the English girls in Sir Joshua's day had large noses and that there was a Chinese scant to their brows and eyes. The old Dutch and Italians who made a business of likenesses-excepting men of the Hals and Rembrandt schoolwere as hard as nails in their manner, yet Honthorst's cavalier is well lighted, and Cello's Marie Louise, a black and blue picture, otherwise, is luminous in the flesh painting. One is curious to know why the Reverend William Peters painted his "Laggard Schoolboy" on such a big canvas; for, while there is free, bold handling in it, few people have room for the enjoyment of so unimportant a subject on so extended a scale. We need not be ashamed of our fellow countryman Copley, for his presentation of a lord mayor in robes of office, chain, wig and eword, is dignified, and the personality is deeper and more interesting than that of a majority of the people who had pictures made of themselves because their position required it. The school of Van Dyek is represented in a Duchess of Richmond, a Mary of Scots kind of person, trimming out of her tight clothes, and such picture as Lawrence's "Miss are pleasanter, either because their art is truer or because the types, being nearer to our own time, affect us more gympathetically and engage our interest more intimately.

Looking at the Duchess of Mantua, as pictured by the younger Pourbue, a figure cut out of boards. one can but doubt if such a person ever existed. Yet there is no doubt of Mettling's "Young Burgher." This healthy fellow, with his pleasant smile. was caught in his habit as he lived, and was not oppressed by the sense of having to pose solemnly for posterity. Posterity appreciates the fact so well that not one of it has a notion as to whom or what he was.

A more usual ancient is Van Loo's Princess Talleyrand, whose clothes are falling off, and who are appears to be functionating a3 a muse of something. Poetry, maybe, for she sports an eyeglass. Not all the art of John Verspronck, and he had a good share of it, could have made his "Mynheer Ten Eyck" look of this fashion, for this honest gentleman, in whose ruddy countenance glow tuns and tuns of sack and Canaries, to say nothing of schnapps and beer, was never a muse of anything. Danloux's woman playing on a harp. Largilliere'8 florid Prince Christian in florid dreas, Harlow's fresh faced schoolboy, who has done with his books for the day, Westall's pleasant colored and doughy Cupid In a wind, Angelica Kaufman's really charming and brightly, yet delicately, lighted "Virgin and Thomas W.

Dewing's scholarly painting from the nude, "A Ravestyne's rigid, yet possible, Queen of Bohemia, Hopper's "Misg Kelvin," with its bright and wholesome flesh painting: BurneJones' effeminate and beardless Christ, gurrounded by cherubs and a pallid, -blue atmosphere; Lely's proud and blobby Lady Whitmore, and less self -satisfied Countess of Falmouth; Tournter's woman in red and blue, as deer and gemmy 88 the painter could make them; Gordon's picture of Walter Scott a8 an alert, yet. dreamy-eyed. young man: Dobson's sleepy solemnity in A big mustache, forcibly painted; two excellent examples of the almost rudely strong figures of Ribera; Cornells Schut's big. turgid composition on the death of the Virgin, and A time ripened and harmoniously colored ideal SO EAGLE QUILLS are you going. my pretty "To Easter service, sir." who said.

what are you going there to do?" pray, kind sir," she answered true. "And what is the subject of your prayer mine is the handsomest bonnet there." The French court has bia has nothing to say Canal. Still. it was that our own Senator say about the same him weeks and weeks decided that Colomabout the Panama not eo very long ago Morgan had nothing to subject, but it took to say it. DIED.

work rates by Suez and Atlantic were removed, it would be calculated to draw the cordage mar. to the while SO increasing its cost as to curtail it materially. Relieved from foreign competition, the Pacific as well as Atlantic rates would be increased. The increased freight charges would more than offset the rebate of the export tax and send the hemp trade that has teen coming to New York and Boston back to London. The material would in that case be shipped from Manila and Cebu to Europe In foreign vessels, and such as we used here would be bought in London and shipped here in foreign vessels.

If the rate of transportation be increased to this country it will tend strongly to repress the trade and discourage any American influence in developing the Philippine Islands. The inevitable resuit will be to confine their industries, and trade and foreign commerce as well. in the hands of Europeans, who virtually control them now." The following Army orders have been is- sued: Leave of absence for one month, to take effect on or about April 6, 1904 19 granted First Lieutenant Gideon MeD. Van Poole, assistant surgeon. Captain Jay E.

Hoffer, Ordnance Department. Army and Navy Orders. will make not to exceed tour visits per month during each of the months of April, May and June. 1904. from Springfield Armory, Springfield, to the works of the Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, Hartford, on official business pertaining to the inspection of material in process of construction under contract for the Ordnance Department, and upon the completion of this duty will return to his proper station after each visit.

The extension of leave of absence on account sickness granted First Lieutenant Robert O. Patterson, Twenty-ninth Infantry, in Special Orders No. 1, January 9, 1904, War Department, is still further extended three months on account of sickness. The relief from duty March 29, 1904, in the Adjutant General's Department, under instructions from the President. of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Davis, Artillery Corps, in consequence of his promotion to that grade in the artillery arm in which his services are needed.

is announced. Captain Edwin B. Babbitt. Ordnance Department, will proceed to the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, Sandy Hook, N. on official business pertaining to the test of ordnance material at that place, and upon the completion of this duty will return to his proper station in this city.

The following Navy orders have been issued: Captain U. Sebree. senior member board. Navy Yard, Washington, D. April 11, 1904; on completion of said duty wait orders.

Assistant Surgeon R. O. Marcour, detached Dixie; to duty with Marine Battalion at Guantanamo, Cuba. Assistant Surgeon W. E.

G. High, detached Constellation. Naval Training Station, Narragansett Bay. R. to Midway Islands for duty with marine detachment at that place.

sailing from San Francisco, April 1904, via Supply. Paymaster Clerk' W. Pattison, appointed March 31, 1904, for duty as clerk to paymaster of yard. Navy Yard, Washington, D. C.

Paymaster Clerk R. A. Ashton, appointed March 31. 1904. for duty as fleet clerk to paymaster of United States Asiatic fleet.

Carpenter G. W. Conover, retired, died at Philadelphia, March 31, 1904. A. B.

A. EASTER AT THE MAYFLOWER. Addresses by Dr. Hillis, Frank Adam Acer and Mr. Brown.

An interesting programme for Easter has been arranged for to-morrow afternoon, at 2:30, at the Mayflower Branch of Plymouth Church, 167 Jay street, of which R. G. Brown is superintendent. Addresses will be made by Frank Adam Acer of Manhattan, the Rev. Dr.

Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of Plymouth Church, and excellent Superintendent Brown. There will be music by Mrs. J. Agnes Dunning, soprano; Reinald Werrenrath, tenor; Miss Meta Eilers, violinist; G. Harry Jackson, violinist; Miss Edith Blaisdell, organist; George Sanford Parsons, precentor.

The school will sing "The Palms" and other hymns. There will be solos by the soprano and tenor. Seats to a limited number will be reserved for visitors. AMPHION. Schiller's tragedy "Kabale und presented at the Amphion last evening by Conried's German Dramatic Company, was of a character well in harmony with a dismal Good Friday.

The audience was small but appreciative, and in truth, Conried's players gave this German classic an earnest, faithful interpretation that well deserved what little applause the scattered few in the auditorium were able to muster. The play is one that brought considerable criticism down upon its author. It details the sad story of the fate of two lovers, the one of high degree and the other the daughter of a poor musician. It exposes the 1m- moral atmosphere that so often surrounded the petty courts of Germany a few centuries ago and holds up to ridicule a type of the courtier of those times. The question of President von Walther (Julius Kobler), "An oath, you say? You must be joking.

What does an oath and the answer of Wurm (Julius Haller), his secretary, "Nothing to us, my lord, but to them (the common people) a great deal," is significant. The work of Max Haenseler as Miller, Julius Kobler as President von Walther Arthur Holz as Hofmarschall von Kalb was deserving of special praise. The company will wind up its week's engagement this evening by giving "Die Soubrettenschule," an up-to-date and entertaining farce that revolves about Bohemian life in the German capital. A JEHU FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS. Chicago, April 2-Charles Blair, the oldest hack driver in Chicago, in point of years a8 well as service, Is dead.

He WAS 81 years old. For nearly half a century he had been a jehu in this city, and during that time had driven some of the most prominent persons in the country. Blair was said to be the first man in the world to drive a sixteenhorse team. of the Madonna by Sassoferrato, are among the pictures that the visitor is commended to notice. There are various landscapes, none of prime importance, yet in the average at least as good as the portraits.

There is one of Teniers' village drinking bouts, restless, for it is filled with incident, but engaging in the frankness of its color, originally unrelated, but now brought into a sort of harmony by the toning process of three centuries. Gainsborough's "Market Cart," though careless in the painting of foliage, is a fine example of his landscape work, well composed, properly balanced in respect of light and shade, peaceful and agreeable in its golden brown light. The Venices of Canaletto are 'as hard as the portraits of Coello, and it is a far cry from them to the rural scenes by Old Crome, solid and good, and containing hints as to the use of tree masses that Diaz, Dupre and Rousseau followed some years later. Van Drielst's offlook on a distant village and fields is blackish in tone, but clear and truthful, and its cloud forms are large and fine. Ter Meulen in his spring scene, with shepherd and sheep, might get himself taken for a Mauve, if he found any comfort in it.

Robert Noble's harvested field," filled with a warm orange light and overhung by a lovely sky, is marred by the sudden break in the low hill and the bringing forward of a line of wood painted so weakly green that its place is miles beyond the hill it conceals. The Wilsons are agreeable in their light, formal in composition, reminiscent in that respect of Claude, and contain empty spaces. George H. Bogert's "Approaching Storm" is a virile treatment of a strong subject, the angry sky and fitful flashes of the sun being represented with a fine command. His "Autumn too.

is vigorous. F. De Haven's "October Evening" is a gloomy, almost uncanny effect of the last red gleam on treetops, but how he gets his new moon in what ought to be an eastward prospect is a puzzle. There is a splendid Michel, with a sky filled with wild storm and a broken country dark in shadow. Mention is also due to the finely lighted cottage interior and peasant group by Pieters; the luminous and practiced work of Jacques Blanchard, the "French Titian," in his large "Venus and Bonington's beautifully toned church interior, and F.

W. Watts' "The Lock." which instances a study of Constable, but stands on its merits as a delightful specimen of English landscape at its best. sound in technic, sympathetic and enjoying in its spirit, interesting in its details and restful as a whole. Some other canvases of consequence are by Clays, Weeks. Gerome, Cosway, Cotes.

Constable, Cuyp, Dance, Dolei, West, Ellis, Hals, Harlow, Hone, Jacque, Kneller, Landseer, Lefebvre, Linton, Morland, Munkacsy, Northeote, Opie, Pyne, Romney, Snyders, Thaulow and Ruysdael. Several interesting works by Charles Warren Eaton, a poetic painter of landscape, and Charles W. Hawthorne, a rudely vigorous painter of figures, have been installed at the Salmagundi Club galleries. Carlton T. Chapman, the marine painter, has eight or ten interesting and pleasant pictures at Knoedler's, showing studies and inventions which represent the sea In storm and calm, and illustrate the fortunes of the navigator.

They are all artistic in feeling and one picture, showing a burst of spray on a rocky shore, is of much force. Rosa Bonheur's big picture of a stag in a forest is also to be seen in this gallery. Two score pictures by American painters have been lent by Samuel Shaw from his excellent collection, for the present show at the Lotus Club. Various of them have drawn the Shaw prize at the American Atists' exhibitions, and It will be agreed that most of them deserved it. The show is one that encourages believers in native painting.

The National Arts Club galleries are to contain, presently, a show of pictures by some of the Boston painters, among whom are Woodbury, De Camp, Tarbell, Kaula, Sears, Hopkinson, Cushing and Allen. A BRYAN MAN'S DISGUST. (Or, White vs. Yellow.) We, who stood in 'Neath the Silver Though with Bryan Never could regret As for this new Treachery is in There is nothing And the greenback's phalanx serried. banner, white.

we were buried, the fightboom. we doubt it, the air, white about it, everywhere! Tell us not in figures sterile What the candidate may be; We have fought the Yellow Peril And the Crime of '73 As for this new boom, we doubt it, Nor will join corruption's line. There is nothing white about it. But the banknotes blandly shine. In the place of Cincinnatus They would offer Robespierre, For the -tongued afflatus Substitute but empty airSo this boom we can but doubt it, Spite of all Its noisy din.

There 18 nothing white about It, Save the checks that flutter In! is he for coining, freely Silver at the Nation's mints? Can you find it, find really In the papers that he prints? No, this money boom, we doubt it, Heelers paid make up its fringe, There is nothing white about it, See the yellow metal tinge! J. A. REWARD FOR BANDITS' CAPTURE. San Francisco, April 2-As A reward for the canture of the Redding train bandits, the Southern Pacific offers $250, Wells FarKO $300 and the state $300. The railway and express companies are expected to increase the amounts offered by them.

A My father was a man of serious: purposes. he lacked humor. but he seldom indulged in joking for the joke's sake. Some one of the great trutho usually lay at the root of his jest, which was always quiet, often poetic, deeply mystical. Though be made no pretensions to piety, he was profoundly religious--religious in the sense that poets are; for, indeed, he wae poet, though untrained in the art of writing verse.

In the daily affairs of his busy life he was prompt, active and youthful to the last; yet find myself oftenest recalling him to memory in hie more reflective moods, when he was wont to walk slowly, with his bands behind him and his eyes upon the ground, while ho hummed "Old Hundred" badly off tune. Thus it was that be came home through the almost deserted streets of our little town at about sundown one summer evening. Ag he came upon the porch, where my mother and I awaited him, he seemed so wrapped in thought that she asked him it anything had gone wrong. "Not wrong exactly." he answered, "but I have just had a strange experience." Something in his tone and manner gave me a creepy sensation. was walking along, musing and humming." he continued, "when sometbing impelled me to look up at the Congregational Church and say, 'Good evening.

Mr. Immediately the Congregational Church answered in a perfectiy audible voice: 'Good evening, Mr. My mother was at first nail disposed to treat the matter as a joke, but the gravity of my father's manner seemed to forbid any such interpretation. "The doors and windows of the church were closed and I ani convinced that nO human being was inside." he went on; "yet the salutation was a as distinct as if uttered by A human voice." I think my mother was a little frightened, though I cannot say whether she wag sessed of a superstitious dread or feared that my father's mind was weakening. As for me, would no more have doubted his word than his presence.

It was inconceivable to me that the Congregational Church spoken in audible words, but my father had unequivocally said it did, and I believed. All through the supper the strange perience was discussed in a hushed manner, which seemed to increase the mystery of it. After the meal my father and I walked to the post office, where he related the experience to a little knot men waiting for the evening mail. One of these was a man named Stringer, a spiritualist. He put my father through a searching cross examination, bu.

utterly failed to make him deviate from his original story. When the mail had been distributed I accompanied my father to his office, where he remained until after 9 o'clock. On the way home, as we neared the Congregational Church, my blood ran cold, for I distinctly heard a voice calling out in the night. As we came still nearer I recognized it as the voice of Mr. Stringer.

He was standing in the churchyard, calling out, "Good evening, Mr. Church!" but getting no response. "The conditions are wrong," said my father quietly to me as we walked on. "You see, when I came along at supper time Mr. Church, the sexton, had just come out locked the door.

It was to him that I said, 'Good evening. Mr. and it was he, the Congregational Church, who answered, 'Good evening, Mr. I believe no other single lesson in all life ever did so much as this bit of nonmy sense did to take the superstition out of my mind. WILLIS BROOKS.

CANDIDATE FOR LAY DELEGATE. Willis McDonald Prominently Mentioned for General Conference. Willis McDonald is one of the prominent candidates for lay delegate to the general conference in Los Angeles next mouth, and it is believed he will be elected. He was born in Brooklyn about sixty years ago, and has lived bere most of his life. He went to the Civil War in 1862, and remained until July, 1865, when he entered business as a hat manufacturer in New York City, and went into the printing and stationery in January, 1870.

Mr. McDonald has been a member of the Hanson Place M. E. Church for the past twenty-six years, holding official relations for about twenty-five years, as steward, class leader, trustee and is now treasurer of the church. He is a member of the executive committee of the Brooklyn Church Society, of the board of managers of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church.

He is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a charter member of U. S. Grant Post No 327, and has served as its commander. PARIS FASH ONS UP TO DATE. Constitution From the Eagle Paris Bureau, 63 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus.

Pale blue chiffon cloth calling 80 WA, trimined with taffeta, braid and repousse lace. The Brooklyn police magistrate who de cided that peanuts are fruit is needed as expert tarife classifier in the United State. Treasury Department, -Atlanta.