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CHASR, Korron, | Bosrvias Maxsann cents per week, month delivered vivanee, Ne free cont per copy) # pty ve ¢ pe tors, always hs Telephone Pike (60, OMces No. 1LOT Thint Avenue Mico at Beattie, Washing condelase mater tat the pos ton, & MIND WAVES, A March writer In one of the pop- | Ular magarines, «ives detatiod direc how to accomplish “ thought naference” from one individual to other, no matter how far apart they may be, He declares that it is to transfer a thought 1200 an it te to transfer it 2 feet. | as easy miles All that ts necessary is to have two persons operating thelr minds to- gether tn harmony, one concelving @ certain thought and allowing It exclusive possession of his brain, while the other person at the same time thinks only of the sender of the message, and waits for the thought Image'to appear, It is/ claimed that under proper condi: | the transference of a thought | th can always be accomplished. Tt is @ fact well known, that mind reading ts based upon some funda- mental physical law with which we fre as yet unacquainted. There is alrendy the suggestion that Mght w * have counterparts in mind waves, or thought waves, emanat- ing from every active brain, and dit. fusing themselves through space. Such an tea ian't exactly comfort- | pemeeteioe by the charter of the city, which Is a public statute, af whieh the court must take judictal notice, “The nature and purpose of the napiracy im tated in terms sum | tiy clear and epectfie to enable the defendant to prepare for trial, and the Judgement rendered upon it would be a bar to another trial on the same charge. | “Inasmuch as the = Indietment would not have been sufflcient with- out alleging one or mbre overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy, tt must follow that the general charge land the spectfic overt acts must be read together, and when eo read it ts dimoult to see why the defendan' are not sufficiently apprised of the leharge to enable them to prepare | thetr defence, The specific charge in the tndict- tin that Willis and Philips con- to obtain, and did obtain, money from Contractor Daniel Doo- | dy, who became an informer, Had | Justice Hirschberg’s decision been | muatained by the court of appeals the offense would have been | awed and the whole pros ecution | stopped. District Attorney Steele will now move for a new trial, Currency and Banking Bill. WASHINGTON, March M.—The house Republican caucus committee, at Atlantic City on April 17. Several | members of the se finance com- | but waid that in the absence they did not feet themsaeives Justified in taking any active part in the | work. Senator Aldrich ts expected | home in the first part of Aprti, and Will name & sub-committee to act) with the house committee, Chair.) man Henderson will go to Atlantic City next week to make arrange- able to a secretive person, or a sin- ner, but it is only In harmony with recent discoveries regarding the pre- valence of wave motions, With Tesla projecting electric impulses through space without the ald of wires; with Roentgen darting X rays to un- koown distances through wood and fron; with photos traveling over wires by electric wave motions to reappear at far distant points, who shall say that thought transference by wave motion through space will not be an understood phenomenon of Nature before another decade has passed [SSS SAMPSONS TROUBLE. ‘The true inwardness of the re- cent dispute in congress as to the comparative merits of Admirals Sampson and Schley, is now under- stood by the majority of well- informed people. Sampson is un- questionably the ablest commander of the two, having the most thor- ough knowledge of the Intricate scientific problema connected with the navigation and handling of mod- ern \pattleships, but he lacks one thing that Schley does possess, and that ts personal magnetiem. Being of a studious and retiring nature, Sampson unfortunately maintains a somewhat cold and distant demean- or towards persons with whom he is thrown in personal contact, while Schley, who ia not @ close student and @ master of battleship problems is « hall fellow well met, who knows how to extend the glad hand and make himself popular. Sampson's reticent demeanor makes him unpopular with many of the hand-shaking politicians In con- @ress and to their foolish antagon- fem alone ts due the fight which has been so ungenerousiy waged upon one of the best captains in the Am- erican navy. It would be well for the country If its senators and con- gresemen could recognize the fact that merit and merft alone should determine the rank of ail American commanders whether in the navy or fm the army. ments for the meetings of the com- mittee. WOMAN'S WORLD. Fashion has just issued a decree that the up-to-date bodice shall but- ton up the back. The mew bodice is freakish enough to satisfy Dame Fashion for once; but, not content with turning the waist hindside for~ most, she must do the same thing with the new skirt, and the edict has gone forth that this must be buttoned in front. Hand-painted satin and = musitn gowns are coming Inte vogue. Indications potnt to the reign of the plain or simply rolled collar the tmmediate future, and It te said that chiffon and lace ears and t and bows are to be abolished delle, has opened an establishment in the Windy City, womankind as the days go by. Some extremely attractive and novel percales for shirts and shirt waists are shown, the same patterns rose, Hiac or an attractive, white combined. The Wife's Mind. “It may not be complimentary to . ——— the men, but there seems at least a semblance of truth in the statement When the political stump speakers | tnat the greater the quantity and of America some day find themseives| tne better the quality of education in the Orient, trying to control the | among women the less the chance of Filipino vote, they will do well to| marriage.” writes Pro. - R. McAn- bear the fact im mind that ragout of | Sly In the March Ladies’ Home nal. “It has been shown con- posngncesidtingn Say hesouaga xgteaved barra that college women marry dish among the Malays. It £008) tess than others. The explanation without seying that a Filipino bar-|o¢ this apparently anomalous condi- beque is quite apt to close a politi-|tion may, perhaps, be found in the cal meeting where the speakers fail | fact es al ee ool a of mn _ |lege-bred women educate themacives * win the sympathies of their audi- | 175° Seed wore of becoming teach- ae ers. Teachers have net so good an opportunity of marriage as other women—in fact, teachers In fema’ —7-_---- The highwaymen who operated in Tacoroa up to a few days ago and then left that city poorer than when they entered it, are meeting with scant financial encouragement in Seattle. This is no town for Bpan- ish enterprises —_—_—- | “It will only require a few months, at the present rate of military pro. cedure tn the Philippines, to ma Aguinaldo forget that he ever exist- ed. lthat the figures furnished, tha’ seminaries have hardly more pros. pects than nuns, their limited asso- ciation with the opposite sex and the restraints under which they are vis- ited by gentlemen fully explaining the matter. It is, clei howeve: the rate of marriage among co-educated woren is higher than among wo- men who attend female seminaries. It is singular to notice that in the cane of educated women the same geographic differences between the East and the Weat may be observed as in the case of others, In the North Atlantic division—that ts, in New England—the marriage rate is toward Make a Weak Showi PORTLAND, Me., March 14.—The decadence of the Prohibitionist par- ty was shown In yesterday's elec-| ure in the mountain stat tion. A total of 7395 ballots in Port-| which indicates that the educated land only 167 were cast for the pro-| Kastern woman who goes west to nist candidates. This being | teach has an excellent prospect of r cent., the prohibition- | finding a husband there.” entitled to represent- official ballot in the rises ints will not b ation on the next election. ughtans Indicted NEW YORK, March 14.—Jamen GPX se Pp and Allan MacNaughtan, who were | respectively, president and a direc Rentont wile ond: eailipe | tee of the Tradesmen'’s National : smo Me pape gp ted o ey we couned of scaek Se apastia baa aekeh Gowrn| een, Pon eee, were 4 a decision affirming the order of the appellate division in the Second ju- dicial district, which reversed the judgement of Supreme Court Justice Hirschberg, allowing the demurrer in the case of former City Works attempting to defraud, were Indict- ed yesterday by the United States grand jury. ‘The charge against ther is that James MacNaughtan directed the paying teller on Febru- ary 10, 1897, to certify a check for $510,000, drawn by Alien MacNaugh- Commissioner Theodore 1s. Willis, of | tan’ when the latter did not have Brooklyn, and former Police Com-| money on deposit in the bank to missioner Willlam EK. Philips, 1n-| over the check, and that Allan re- dicted for conspiring to extort ved the check. money from contractors doing bust with the eity works depart- wu Have New Shafting. news ment. Justices Bartlett and Martin dissent from the decision. Justice| BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 14.— O'brien, who writes the opinion,|‘The Bethlehem Iron company today nays completed several line shafts for the “Tt was not necessary to state the| American steamship St. Louis and particular statute which the com-|will ship them to New York In & missioners agreed to violate or neg-|few days. The shafts were fitted fect, inasmuch as these duties are| with flexible couplings, eo ° green of a medium shade, the de- sign being in white or black and ° MANY NEW OFFICES Army of Census Takers. WILL WORK FOR UNCLE SAM) te#ed violations of the agreement on Sinty Thousand Cen Enumeretors. WASHINGTON, March H.—The task this year, Not onty has there been an abnormally large amount of what additional force of enlisted men and officers It provides for, Ac- cording to Representative Steele, of | upon his arrival it in supposed he Indiana, an ardent antagoniat of the Dil, it ts susceptible of construc- at various figures ranging from 2,- 000 to 129,000, Benides the increage in the army, congress has authorized, in addition to the clerical foree made necessary by the war with @pain, and the usu- al increase of departmental force. the appointment of many thousand empto; and officials, These are Provided for chiefly in the bill aw orizing the taking of the lth cen- ran Including the enumerators, whose services wilt be onty tempor- ary, there will be nearly @,000 cen- sua employes. Then there are the additions to the navy roster carried in the personne! bill; the commission and employes necessary to make « national park at Vicksburg battie- feld: the comminsion to investiga’ the Isthmus cana! routes, with tts surveying parties; the clerks and at- taches to the Parts com: minsion, and many commissioners to select sites for new public bulldings. because of a q' with bie father and had been | since at the Mills hotel. He said he served al through the late war with the Tiet regiment. NEW YORK, March } 1. Lashman, of Crary, N. D., at the Present staying at 91 Gouth street, came to New York several days ago at the invitation of two men, who wrote to him under the names of George W. Karle and G. Hoffman, to buy green goods. He met his two correspondents by appointment on Sunday night at the postoffice and went with them toa saloon at Oliver and Madison streets ami jotned by a friend who was tn- troduced as @ colonel from Ken- tucky They shook dice with the out-| Lest Congress Arranged for Some fessors and tutors, the reconveyan | tone fixing the strength of the army | i | | colonel with much success that he | was persuaded to produce $100 he had Intended to invest in the green goods business. Immediately he was seized from behind, his arma were pintioned and the money was taken from him. He thinks Earle got it When he reported his lone to the police, Walker, the bartender, was arrested as the only available man to answer to the charge. He denied 11 knowledge of the robbery In the Center street police court yester- day, but was held in $1000 bail for examination. The Art of Cooking. | the Sandwich talands, and to it a THE SEATTLE STA whieg in in Bast ‘T erty, enty-wixth " University was incorporated in 891, but It was not until 1840 that & sURMeation to have a medical | 1 connected with It . | A year later & achoot wax organized | by Valentine Mott, Martin Paine, | Gunning Medford, John W. Draper, G. B® Pattie For many years, | complaint, the controt of medi- ea! pohool, the naming of the tstors and professors and the receipt of the feos was lodged in the medical fac- ulty, which in 1883 became tnoorpor- ated as the Medical Laboratory of | the city of New York, In February, 1897, the medical school property was conveyed to the university on | reement that the control of the | medical school should be lodged in | the medical faculty, Because of al- whieh the university obtained the property from the xehool, in that the | university assumed control of the school and the appointment of p ° is waked, The case has m before | the courts before on motion: Dr, Chartes I, Pardee, who was formerly a member of the medical board, testified yesterday that the Medical School property was ac-| quired in 1876, and that for years the faculty of the school had set aside whose duty it ts to consider and re- | clerks whose duty it fs to prepare 4 31000 a year to purchase a school port to the house at its next seadion *tatement showlag the number of site, ja Dill for currency and banking re-|"¢¥ Offices authoriaed by congress Twenty-sixth street form, decided today to begin work 4 !t* last session have a dificult property was conveyed to the unl- The property is at 410 East When versity he understood that the con- trol of the school was to remain in the medical faculty. Henry F, Dim- | mittee were present at the meeting, leislation creating new offices, but | ook, who was a member of the coun-| of they must construe the army reor-| cil at the time the conveyance was Chairman Aldrich, who ts In Europe. | ganization bill and detérmine just Made, testified that he had stated that the wishes of the medical fac- ulty would always be acceded to if was not concluded. Million-Dollar Coat. ‘The most expensive coat in the world, worth $1,000,000, ts owned by | Lady Draasey, of London. She re- to place on exhibition, after insur. jing It for $100,000, Outside of the fact that the fabu- foundation ts of the hemp grown in re sewn with fine thread the softest feathers of birds found only tn the Hawalian islands, The feathers are arranged as smooth and thick as they grow on the breasts of birda. Around the mantic runs a border of crescent shaped figures made of crimson and gold feathers, The yel- low plumage ts of priceless value, as tion of thie wonderful cloak, which was twenty years in making, ‘The great skill with which the feathers are attached to the hemp foundation, and the vast amount of labor required to complete It, make it the moat marvelous plece of feath- er work in the world, The market value of the feathers determines the price of the cloak, and In that way it has been adjudged worth $1,000,000. Jantzen Missed a Fortune. NEW YORK, March 14.-Cornelius J. Rooney, clerk of the Hudson Co., N. J., board of health, has received @ letter from Gen. A. Feigel, the German consul in this city, asking for proof of the death of Ernest Jan- sen. The inquiry was made because Jantzen was entitied to « fortune in Germany and his next of kin will get the money on producing legal proof that Jantzen ts dead. A man | believed to have been Ernest Jant- nen, committed suicide at Jersey City about nine months ago. He was) % years old and was employed aa) @ drug clerk at 214 Seventh street. Being in straitened circumstances, he concluded that life was not worth living and swallowed a done of pot- json on June , 189% He was taken to the city hospital, but was un- conscious and unable to give his name. Warden Osborne, after re- «istering him as an unknown man, found some letters and papers in his pockets which indicated that he waa Ernest Jantzen, and made © mem- orandum to that effect on the rec- ords. An unsuccessful effort was made to find his relatives after his death and he was buried in Potter's Field at Snake Hill a8 an unknown man. Clerk Rooney has obtained all the Information about Jantsen that he could and sent {t to Gen. Felgel, The Greatest Concert. “The great orchestra was one of the marvels of the World's Peace Jubilee, held in Boston tn 1872, and an a distinguishing feature wan nec- ond only to the mammoth chorus,” writes Luther L. Holden of “The Most Wonderful Musical Festival in America,” In the March Ladies’ Home journal, “The great body of players was no mere aggregation of numbers, but @ carefully organized foree of picked musicians from all parts of the country. The orchestra was augmented by brass bands in certain pieces, when artillery was added for really stunning effects, as, No more should be cooked than ts| for example, when “The Star Span- Intended to be eaten at one meal, | sled Banner’ was brought out with saya Mra. Lameke, the cooking ex- pert. The true art in cooking Ii not in cooking large pieces of m: or in enke, bread and pastry b: ing, but in how to prepare one kind of meat and fish in a hundred differ- the full musical foree, or In the ‘An- en | Vil Chorus,’ from Verdi's ‘ll Trova- tore,” which had an auxiliary force of 50 anvils, beaten by twice that number of Boston firemen. A great organ wan built expressly for the ent ways, how to utillae everything | festival. so that nothii in wasted, and to convert all thi one meal into savory and palatable dishes for the next; to combine herbs and apices, onion, chives and garlic in such a way that all the Ingredi- ents are harmoniously blended, that nothing predominates; that veg ables retain their natural flavors and | $60 insrumentalists, are not spoiled by the ingredients | pendent added; that meat t# cooked fn such a way that nothing of Its nutritious | players also assisted value is lowt, A great deal of the unhappiness of this world im due to poor food craving for stimulating and Intoxt- cating drinks, is a certain cor quence of an injudicious diet. our women were better acquainted | was 17,282. with the elements of the human sys- tem they would then know that no| most one can keep in good health unleas| For the thre these elements receive proper nour- ishments to supply the waste of tis- sue. A University Sued. NE WYORK, March 14.—The ac- tion of the Medical College Labora- tory of the city of New York against the New York university to compel the conveyance to valued at $290,000 was on trial be- fore Justice Truax of the supreme court yesterday. An accounting is asked for of all tuition er returns from the use of the prop- may be left from|the crack musical organt Drunkenness, which is a| #ranc jt of property | January ii inl a li ail mati “There were four foreign bands, thelr respective count musteal glory of America was upheld by the Marine Band of Washington and 28 other brass band organisa tions. Thus there were, counting both foreign and American banda, who were Inde- f the grand orchestra, ex- cept that some of the American in the latter force, The orchestra proper num- bered some &29 players, In the 4 chorus, a# it was finally mus- tered for the Jubilee concerts, 166 choral organizations were represent- If an'|ed, and the total number of votces ‘The solo singers num- bered 199, and they Included the famous vocalists of the day weeks the total at~- tendance wan 476,000, upon three ocoasions the audience numbered 50,000. The total receipts were $1,- 076,000, which was about $150,000 leas than the aggregate expenses,” Porto Rico Customs. WASHINGTON, March 14.—The customs receipts of Porto Rico for the conveyance was made. The case | been R, TE LEPT IS NONEY ‘Colorado ——Million- aire’s Will. Left Goptein Goodrich, U. 5. H.,0 Bequest of $10,000 oth Aloe Remembered. NEW YORK, March 14.—The will |of Kichard.@uydam Palmer, who | dled at Colorado Springs on March 1, wives $10,000 to the Society for the | Prevention of Cruelty to Children and $10,000 to the Arnot Ogden Mem- ortal Hospital of Elmira. His friend, Capt. Caspar F. Goodrich, of the | United Btates navy, in to have $10,- 000 as “an expression of regard for his character and as an affection- ate recognition of the many acta) of kindness, for which I have always, era! Other requests are) | to his stepfather, George G, Haven, | 10,000; to Mary Anna Palmer Dra- | per, $60,000; to his uncle, Matthias H. Arnott, $10,000; to hin stepsisters, | Cornelia Haven Peabody and Alice Haven Borland, $36,000 and $15,000) reapectively; to his aunt, Marianna 090; to George G. Haven, jr. and J, | Woodward Haven, $7,000 each, and (to Rosina B. Palmer, widow of C. | Pheipe Palmer, 625,090. The residue | Of his estate ie given to his mother, Cass Ledyard dr. ‘The value meveral Jamen- '@ private se- o Z z z ae readtvatal sic x2z HH eras! offleers, on the other hand. very different amd very much better | with plenty of help, I than that done by most civilians. | the barn Among these laat are notable excep-| cured hay. tions to the rule; among the army | it would the care-| half of it lene of the incompetent agent is ait moulded. The variety sowed was ception. First and last, much has been said | bushels ere who wae visiting her, saye Harper's Hanar . “Why should you be any protec tion?” was the laughing reply, and the answer came instantly: “On, 1 am working for my living Nobody would dare to speak to me on the street, Nobody ever dows.” Now, what posible difterer there between these two girls that made one a protect ? In outward appeara there was no discernible difference; their garb was alike, but there was a distinetion, and they both knew that while one of them was in no danger in walking home in the dark, the other was in danger of annoyance, One, in a@ word, had the manner of poise and experience of life, and the other had led & sheltered exiatence. Manner, it would seem, then, may be today considefed almont aw safe poke bonnet of the Sister of Merey, or the blue uniform and dark bonnet of the Salvation Army, Hut It is not manner alone that distinguishes the woman who works in the from her who adornea it, The woman who works almost invariably bears in her face the story of work in a subtie but unmistakable way, not al- ways In lines of wear and t any means, but In a certain ness of gane, a self-reliance in the eyes, a strengthening of the whole face Sixty Years Married. HUNTINGTON, L. L, March 14.— Emilius Jarvis and wife, aged 83 and 80 years respectively, celebrated the th anniversary of their marriage in this village last evening. They have two children living, Mra. Geo. Hunt of 892 Putnam avenuc, Brook- lyn, and Mra. Fred L. Hamilton, of Stamford, Conn. The old couple keep house by themacives and Mr. Jarvis attends to his business of a shipwright every day, rain or shine. Vears in a Hospital. NEW YORK, March 14—Michael cently loaned it to a charity basar | ORden, $10,000; to Alice Borland, $10,-| Kelly, who was taken to Bellevue) hospital in Aprii, 1874, from ™%) Washington street, died in the how-) pital yerterday, He was 64 years of age and had spent nearly 2% years) of bi atife in the hospital. Hin dis- agnosed Wood, who admitted him. He had a great number of tumors in various parte of his body, and hts complete | cure was given up years ago. Kelly was famous in his way. He has been the subject of innumerable lectures to medica! students and his case has been mentioned in several i housed » Dr. it is not known whether or it has been con- Kelly's brother, who lives yn, expects to bury the | vue. 5325 fa i 7 i me) the a 24 large Biome my neighbors said mould, but T have fed about end never found any of the Whippoorwill, I sowed three ‘of Clay peas. They made jane by missionaries sent|so much vine that I cut not cut aw oe Wiese denominations. | them.—F. EB. Miller in Agricultural Of the least efficient peteneres it | Epitomist. m that If they do no good —_—_——_— pre Bete B do Mttle harm, while Re Rews of Miller. there are many whore services to) oop wYORK. March 14.—The po- Christianity and civilization are). a as the friends and reln~ of John Ballard Miller, the in- very great. I have In mind an army chaplain, whose work among some tives Indians who incidentally came with-/ ventor who mysteriously disappear in the aphere of his influence was 80/64 from his home at Dyker Heights, effective that It will never be for-| wort Hamilton, on January 22, were gotten by them. The man was 4] Vnanie up to last night to obtain the true follower of the Master, and IN-| signtert clue as to his whereabouts. stead of attempting at once to force | tig wife, whom he married scarcely on the Indians the acceptance of re- five months ago, is overcome with ligious doctrines, he showed them) cise Ag far as can be learned, only sympathy and friendliness. | sige after leaving home, kept an When he had won thelr good will) ointment at the Astor house with they readily gave ear to the simple) sir Cughman, another inventor. He religious precepts that he taught | Jrorwards started, as he sald, to Admirable missionary work Is done, | 2, ¢4 nis office in the downtown #ec- too, by the Romap Catholle priest®) tion of Manhattan, but never ar- and sissters who are stationed 0M) 1iveq there, He had also made an many of the Western reservations. | . ointment to meet another friend accomplish in a silent, UnBUs-| Jt tne Astor houre in the afternoon, great of good. [but falled to keep it, Mra, Miller paiensPai ornnes een a there had never been an angry Saw Retreat From Waterloo) 4 between her and her husband CINCINNATI, March 14.—Philip| since thetr marriage, and that she B. Dom, one of the pioneer citizens | believes he has met with foul play. Hamilton A friend of the missing man said of Springfield township, pelt, celebrated his 9th birthday | yesterday that the house which Mil- anniversary at his home in Mount) ler purchased on Dyker Heights is Healthy, Tuesday February 28. Mr. | mortgaged to some extent, and this, Dom was born in Berne, Hesse-| together with the fact that several old when the battle of Waterloo was) as he expected, may have worried fought He dlatinctly recalla the| him until his mind became unbal- retreat of Napoleon's army and also} anced. the passage of the troops of Blucher, | and of his hiding behind a wood pile with his brother while the soldiers were passing. Between the two armies the family was brought to the point of starvation, and when the children cried for something to eat he remembers seeing his mother break up a@ potato and divide it around, He came to this country in 1820. Hi» parents were not able to put up all the passage money, and Mr, Dom, with others, was put up to be sold by the steamship company in order that it might be reimbursed for the trip. This was the custom In that day, and children were sold as tices that their fare across might be paid. ee Her Independence. “Tt you'll stay until after dark I'l it on our counters, in price. were: Ponce, 304449; San Juan, $41,682; Mayagnes, $10,207; Are- cibe $6808; Aguadiila, $2443; Huma- walk home with you, You won't be afraid to go home with me, will your" 10; Arroyo, $693; Fajardo, $555;| ‘This wan said to a young girl Stron et Top Coat . $26; Naguabo, $13, ‘Total, | pretty and well dressed, but a hard $117,481, ee ee ee worker—to a sister woman of leisure ry re oe lil a alia A ee ae oe bet ts " } Darmstadt, in 1809, and was 6 years | of his inventions were not profitable | They Look Right They Wang Right No slip-shod make of clothing here. Such dressers as want perfection in ready-to-wear clothing always find Some rare $13.50 and $15.00. ed PARSON SUE FOR SLANDE A Woman Demands $5000 Damages. RB. 8. PALMER'S MANY LEGACIES) « wart as tne wraw gown and white | DEPENDANT IS DR. L. D, BLISS world |A& Massachusetts Preacher Whe Will Now Have to Appear in Court, PITTSFIELD, Maes, March 1.— ‘The suit of Mrs. Susan T. Hopkins, of Great Barrington, agamet the Rev, Leor D. Miles, pastor of the congremat wh of that town, for $8000 da <zc4 for “ander, open- @4 today in the Herkehire superior court. Mrs. Hopkins, who is ep ar- tist and was @ former resident of Brooklyn, alleges she was charged by Mr, Bilas with being the author of r noun letters that were went to the pastor, Mre. Hopkina demanded a church trial, but an in- vestigation was denied to her by the standing committee of the church, ‘The parish is old and wealthy. Mrs. Hopkins was the first witness and told of being charged with the authorship of the letters by the pas- tor, and that subsequently he said in hin sermon: “There are people here who pose as martyrs and who are seeking notoriety. They are Mars and hy- pocrites.”” ‘ Again he said: “There are people here who clatnt to be artists, when they are simply daubers.”* After this Mrs, Hopkins and her daughter stopped attending service, and the case was entered, The de- fense called this afternoon Thomas Cantwell, of Albany, and W. H. Ha- gen, of Troy, N. ¥., experts in hand- writing, who were recently called in the Adams poisoning case in New York, and both witnesses testified that one of the anonymous letters was written by Mra. Hopkins. They | @encribed the individual character- ‘Mr. Blims testified to hip vinit witht the standing cammitice of the church to the Hopkins home, and was describing the interview with the mare women when the court Place of entertainment. They could not ride, because the streets were so narrow and the gutters so wide that a carriage would probably have londay 1 broken down. In such evenings tn 4| the old days the town was given over to the laughing groups of stately gowned women who had brought over with them from Paris their silk frocks and their jeweled snuff-boxes, and who kept Madame Sophie for their dressmaker. In front of each group of splendidly gowned women were African slaves holding lanterns, by whose dim light the merry groups found their way. Behind the men slaves came women slaves bearing the satin slippers of their mistresses in their hands. Is the weather were too Inclement for the cortege to pass through th streets in this manner a postpone- ment of the ball was cried through the streets to the sound of a beating drum, and the ladies who sat on th upper balconies chatted with th erter. It was understood that the ball would take place on the next fine evening. As for the street pa- geants, there were none. Men and women laughed and chatted in the narrow streets, and pelted each oth- er with paper balls, It was revelry without system from a pure love of wayety.” Charged With Forgery. NEW YORK, March l4.—Louls A, Goldstein, of 431 East Bist street, was arrested by detectives from the Mercer street station last night on a charge of forgery made by Jacob M, Gunest of 1105 Lexington avenue, Goldstein is the secretary of the Jacob M. Gunst company of “a University place, manufacturers of chemicals and dtsinfectants. Gunst, in his complaint to the po- Nee, charged that Goldstein had al- tered a stub in the stock book of the company to make it appear that 27 shares of stock had issued to him instead of 22. The stock book has been missing several days, Gunst said, but has bee found and the al- teration discovered last night. | Goldstein's mother offered bail for his appearance, and it was accepted \>¥ Magistrate Meade. Our clothes are right in fit, right values in Business Suits at J. REDELSHEIMER & CO. House in the St 800-802 First Ave., Cor, Columbia,