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PROMT IN BEET SUGAR. IBGJS mriDFsXns MADE torturers Apparently Able To Meet Demands of Treaty. PT TEI.Ef.RArB in TWT Washington, Dec. Interest in the fate of the Cuban treaty and discussion of its continue unabated. Th" friends of reciprocity refuse to be discouraged by the that its ratification depends on the decision of the Xational Association of Beet Growers, which meets in Washington on January 8.

This claim is set forth by certain Senators and Representatives who were most active in their opposition to the Cuban Reciprocity hill last It is conceded that the ratification may be postponed until after the growers" convention, and possibly until after that body has had a hearing before the Senate committees to which the treaty is referred, but that the representatives or a single interest can defeat the will of an overwhelming majority of the people is repa rded as preposterous. The Insurgents of last winter loudly insist that if tlie growers are not content with the 1 cents a pound protection against Cuban competition, which would be left to them under the operation of the treaty, it will become the dirty of their friends in Congress defeat it. end repudiate the President's policy of fulfilling a "plain duty" to Cuba and of securing for American agriculturists and American manufacturers the control of the Cuban trade. In the light of this contention the probable action of ilie approaching convention and some of the facts v.ill, or should, come out in its ses- Finr.s are being discussed -Kith considerable interest by the friends of the treaty. GREAT PROFIT IN THE TRADE.

Mr. Oxnard, th" head of the beet sugar Industry nd its leading defender in Washington, Jiss. of course, told the President that a. reduction of -1 per cent not injure the interests he represents, and has made the. same statement IP the presence of others: but.

notwithstanding Mr. Roosevelt's distinct recollection of the incident. Mr. Oxnard now repudiates it. so that it is.

not likely to receive consideration by the convention. The National Association of Beet Growers represents the interests of the beet sugar producers of Michigan. Kansas. Nebraska, and the Pacific Coast. Already the beet sugar manufacturers of Michigan have met and condemned the treaty, that was before its terms had been made public by The Tribune.

These men represented sixteen beet sugar factories. Referring to these institutions. Senator Burrows, ho is certainly well posted on the. subject, says that nearly all of them are. paying Tig profits, one of them clearing 40 per cent on the investment.

Another, at Caro, has a capacity of approximately six hundred tons a day. nnd pays dividends of 25 per cent. Other Michigan factories are paying 28 and 30 per cent, refpeetively. According to a confidential statement addressed to Its stockholders by the factory at Charlevoix. and signed by the secretary.

the treasurer and other officers of the institulion, dividends of from 52 2-3 to 88 per cent axe to be expected- An excerpt from the letter reads as follows: If Charlevoix Sugar Company produces muy six million pounds of sugar per annum from only thirty thousand tons of beets, the dividend on capitalization would be 20 per cent. If produced eighteen million pounds of sugar from ninety thousand tons of beets, the dividend would be 862-5 per cent. The latter is poFsible under prevailing conditions at Charlevoix. These dividends seem almost Incredible to the average investor, so much co that it in hazardous in connection to state- the actual facts, EtC." In the light of these fact? the friends of the Cnbma treaty are at a loss to determine how Hhthhjm sugar producerp can believe re rent reduction of tariff on can prove disastrous to their industry. NO FEAR OF CUT OK TARIFF.

Th" probability of a reciprocal arrangement Cuba whs evidently foreseen by the officers of the Charlevoix company, for they say further: It -nil! therefore be readily wen that a 20 per rent concession can have no disastrous effect on the industry, even iT raw sugar underwent a perpendicular cut to this extent. which is hardly probable, as the world's market Is made at Hamburg, Germany, and there is no reason vhy Cuban sugars, after the cut. would not quickly float to a parity and the Cuban planters reap the benefit, at least, very largely. Why, therefore, should the Industry fear the trun when it is admitted on all sides that any good Fix hundred ton beet sugar factory can produce standard granulated sugar for three cents a pound, or even less? The production of standard granulated sugar by seel sugar factory Is ba6ed entirely on the purchase price of the beets from farmers. An average crop of rj.ooo acres for a 600-ton plant will show a net profit to the farmer of $130,000.

It sugar factory desires to grow Its own it would reap benefit of this profit. mid thereby reduce the cost of production Hi OBMB a pound on 12,000.000 pounds, or 1 cent pound on 15,000.000 pounds. A first class "beet sugar factory, well located, under ordinary circumstances and growing Its own beets, can produce standard granulated sugar for two a pound. No fear, therefore, should be entertained" for the beet sugar Industry. 7 MONEY MAKING MADE EAST.

Still further information, and from an entirely different locality, which will doubtless heavily with the delegates to the approaching convention, has come to light. It is statement of W. T. Chantland. of Fort Dodge.

lowa, who made a thorough investigation of prospects for beet sugar production In the interests of a company about to organize and erect a factory at Fort Dodge. Mr. Chantland says: A substantial reduction of the sugar tariff if, fa or of Cuba should not harm any beet sugar raising community, and the beet raising would never be aware that such a thing sadV.rn done. It is a common phrase conversant with the business hat three years if successful grind of a good tonnagf -of beets should pay for any factory building. example, supposing, an SOO-ton factory had Fixty day run.

consuming 48.000 tons of beets, or 4.800 acres, at an average of ten tons an acre: in other if it made pounds of sugar net to the ton. figuring the value of Its product equivalent to mill of sugar, it would make 4.800 tons of. sugar. This would cost an ane of two" and half cents a round and ould be sold at the factory for four and a half rents pound, which hi or a net profit for the season otr 8 factory had three seasons with the same result, the profit would which would more than build any SOO-ton plant. mm rr I have In my possession pror-ositions from three or four big beet sugar factory builders, of Vring to put up plants and machinery and take the stock at par.

in payment of from one-fourth ane-half of the contract price. Sugar beets can be raised at a profit bj farrnrs when they are aare of rece lying this standard price, namely. $4 a ton. with beets testing 12 per cent, with cent rit and a' 25 cents a ton extra for each additional oneiaJf per cent sugar and 2 per cent of purity From experience extending over three States I have learned that the cost runs from to taxtm per pound, depending very the nomy of the superintendent la charge of the factory. It would be a cons-rvitiv.

estimate to raU cents per for the cont of beet sugar throughout the United States. This is based stan Sard price of be-tf. Some manufacturers that they fall a little short of and do not sbtain more than an average of sugar to the ton of beets. WeU. iat.

at 2.3 cents'a pound, we have orl it eagar for each worth of which SO cenu- for th manufacturer. That Is an tUowance of a day for running an HH which is ample. Tn addition to this tlierc always a certain amount of syrup as well as prociucte in th- way of fertilizers and feed. the factonee sell the pulp. Others buy cattle and fatten them on it.

for it is excellent when mtxed with a little grain. These latter items are by no means insignificant if th'- factory is properly managed, and will add enough to Income to nmk" cents a pound a safe estimate as to the cost of making beet sugar in this country. prices I stated have been paid by Oanani. both at his Grand Island and Norfolk factories in Nebraska for At one time, however, his managers deducted such an enormous per cent for tare that the whole community roae in indignation against them. That has made it aeeeaaary for th'- company to it? own HAVEMETER SAID TO BE BUYING.

There is considerable talk In Congress and administrative circles of the growing control of the beet sugar industry by the American Sugar Refining Company. Senator Rawllns. of Utah, is authority for the statement thai the industry in his State has lost interest because of the belief that it is largely predominated by the so-called Sugar Trust. Prominent authorities on the subject say that the American Sugar Refining Company controls seven of the beet sugar factories in Michigan and has a large interest In fourteen. The publishers of "The Sugar Trade Journal" say that no definite Information is obtainable.

except from Mr. Havemeyer himself, and he will not supply It because he is quietly buying up beet sugar stock wherever he can find it. and is unwilling to make public his success in this direction for obvious reasons. There are some friends of the beet sugar industry who are apprehensive lest its promoters reveal themselves to be too grasping and so forfeit public sympathy. Secretary Wilson, who might almost ho called the father of the industry in this country, has so expressed himself on several occasions as to give rise to the belief that he entertains such fears.

PROMOTION DEFERRED. Senate Committee Refuses to Confirm Army Nominations. Washington. Dec. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs held up.

pending an investigation, all of the army nomination? sent in before the recess below the grade of major. The members of the committee have received numerous complains about the method of selection of officers under the reorganization law. It is alleged that injustice has been done to officers who have served a long time. Complaint has been made that men were selected from those who formerly served as volunteers to fill original vacancies, and that they became captains as soon as they were appointed. Others appointed, it is alleged, waited from four to seven months before acceptance of their commissions, which date from the time the appointment -was made, their rank being determined by the date of their commissions.

This gives to them many numbers above West Point graduates. Others appointed. It is said, from the volunteers at once entered the service and did much hard -work, while the men who delayed acceptance were enjoying themselves or attending to business interests. Another allegation made is that a large number of me.n appointed under the reorganization law Immediately became captains of artillery. and were placed in charge of guns and machinery of which they had no knowledge.

To obviate this difficulty to some extent the Secretary of War. with the approval of the Military Affairs, secured the resignation of seventeen second lieutenants of artillery, who thereupon "were named to fill original vacancies first lieutenants In other branches of the service, and in some instances soon captains It is expected that the sub-committee which is investigating the matter of promotions will be ready to report about the time Congress IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Large Shrinkage in Corn Sent lron and Steel Trade Good. Washington. Doc.

for eleven months of the current year show that the o' the manufacturers' imported has not been arrested, and that the figure for the year will form almost half of the. entire import, i of the country. exports, on the contrary show a tailing off of a reduction more than covered by the in the exportation of products, which amount to over loss than for the similar period of last year. With the exception of a slight shrinkage in the export of mineral productions, every other branch of the export trade shows healthy increase. reduction of 5130.000.000 in agricultural products exported is explained by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics as due In part to a healthy Increase In and in part to the.

poor corn crop of last year corn having fallen from 49.0«j0.-000 to about There Is also a considerable reduction in the value of the wheat exported, due in part to the fact that last years figures were unusually large. The figures issued by the Treasury Department show that the total imports of manufacturers' materials for the eleven months ended with November this year to be $407,603,093. against In the corresponding months of last year, and form- Ing per cent of the total imports, against 44 per cent of the total imports In the corresponding months of last year. Manufactures exported In the eleven months of amount to $377,635,961, against $362,392,181 In the corresponding months of last year, and form 31.8 per cent of the total, against 27.8 per cent of the total exports in the same months of 1901. The total Imports are $75,000,000 In excess of those for the corresponding months of last year, ana of this Increase $54,000,000 was in the class of "manufacturers' materials" and the remainder In manufactures and luxuries, articles of food and animals, fhowing a.

reduction of $10,000,000, as compared with the Importations In the corresponding months of last year. Nearly. all of the great articles required for use in manufacturing, with the single exception of India rubber, show a marked Increase in importations. Importations of raw silk, for example, amount to $40,905,393 in the eleven months of this year against in the corresponding period of ISM; hides and skins. $53,022,521.

against J50.877.797 in the eleven months of last year; tin for use in manufacturing tin plate, $19,532,807. against J17.418;.-»f*"ri the corresponding months of last year India importations show a slight falling off. the for eleven months being fcBSS.7S6-thia a- ainst J25.929.055 In the same months of as; year. "The striking Increase in importations is in frJfif Vctures of iron and steel, which amount, for months, to 53fi.7«*.9«l in value against tit -fr in the corresponding months of last year, the value of the importations having thus more doubled this year, as compared with last year Practically ever item in the list of iron and steel shows markeu increase. Tht ex fie wof and steel manufactures show ort llr lntJ pxnorts for the eleven months this year against the Months of and In eleven hS Growing are the detailed- names fcr the eleven months of the present year and the ilar period of year: isni.

11W2. itsl $193,133,017 manufacturers 274.3T.fi. 147 rnflf. partly 9O iyi.Cto.9K 140. fill.

MS Manufactured articles. H7.VW7-U 151.817.an Total import. DOMESTIC EXPORTS. 1902. Marmfaetur-s St'shViO 33,207.024 of the mln-s 21T is 261 0 Total For-lm exports ti.ag>.i».m SUICIDE HAD FOUR CENTS LEFT.

Wife of a Steamship Officer Breathes Gas. with the rent due and only four cents in her Mary Clarke, whose letters indicted that. she was the wife of the chief officer of the steamship Beverly, ended her life yesterday room at No. Bast Fifty-fifth-rt. by mis She took care to die by sniffing all the keyhole? and cracks in the room with paper nd Mi Tork.

XEW-YOKK DAILY TRIBUNE. MONDAY. DECEMBER 20. VMrz. CITY EMPLOYES' PAY HELD UP- Technicality Delays Payment of Salaries in Tenement Department.

Many employes of the Tenement House Commission passed a sorry Christmas because their salaries had not been paid. Robert W. De Forest, the Tenement House Commissioner, at his home. No. i Washington Square North, last evening save a Tribune reporter the following explanation of the delay: About one hundred temporary employes of the Tenement Department in November have not yet received their November salaries.

The payroll was approved by me in the ordinary course and ny the Civil Service Commission, but was not approved in the Controller's office. In view of the form. In-o-riginal budget of the Tenement Department had been approved by the Board of Kstimate in the early part of the year. When the new charter went into effect there was some doubt as to whether further action by the Board of Estimate and approval that action by the Board of Aluermen net be necessary, in order to authorize, payment of the salaries of these temporary employes, although amount necessary to pay salaries was entirely covered by the appropriation for the Tenement Department. Controller Grout arranged to have an appropriate resolution passed by the Board of Estimate, which was done, the matter came before the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday last.

It required unanimous consent to pot on this resolution without reference to the appropriate committee. I sought to obtain this consent. I attended in person, and explained the matter th. Hoard of Aldermen, and had previously explained it. to all the.

members of the Committee on Salaries, as well as the leaders on both the president of the Board of Aldermen an. other members of that board. One alderman, however, objected. and the therefore, went over to the next meeting of the board, when 1 have reason to suppose, from the assurances I have received, both from the fusion and the Tammany aldermen that a proper resolution will he passed. The action is purely formal, It involves no new appropriation.

It simply permits a part of the unexpended balance of the tenement appropriation to be paid to these employes. The delay, however, has been a matter of great hardship for them and of regret to me and ether officers of the department. have done everything In our power to avoid the delay. It is understood that the alderman who objected to the resolution was Alderman Gaffney. VAN BRUNT TO HEAD TRUST COMPANY.

He Imposes Conditions Made Necessary by His Judgeship. Charles H. Van Brunt, presiding justice of the Appellate. Division of the Supreme Court, First at his home. No.

to last evening pave out for publication a letter regarding: a report that he. would resign from the bench to accept the presidency of the Windsor Trust. Company. In the letter, which Is to George. TV.

Young, chairman of the committee, on organization of the Windsor Trust Company, Justice Van Brunt says: I have received your communication in which you ask me. to accept the position of president of the Windsor Trust Company If selected by the directors. As you Intend to provide for the active management of the. business of the company for the present through some of Its other officers and Its executive committee, this would secure me an honorable position, though without salary while I. remain upon the bench; and on my retirement therefrom would give me employment for which I think 1 am still suited, and an income which I will then need, and In mean time leave me entirely free to discharge my public duties.

As long as I remain a judge my first obligation will be to discharge the duties appertaining to that office. as faithfully and zealously as I have endeavored to do In the past: but in my free time I will, if selected, aim to promote, the Interests and success of our ompany. If. therefore, the directors are willing to assent to the conditions which In my present situation I am obliged to impose. I will.

If elected, accept the presidency, and on my retirement from the bench will give my time without reservation to promoting the success of the company. KILLED BY FALL IN ELEVATOR SHAFT. Edward B. McLean Dies from Injuries Sustained in an Office Building. Kdwaxd B.

McLean, manager of the Newark office Of the Sterling Meeker Company, dealers In railroad supplies, was Killed in an elevator shaft In an offi' building In on Friday afternoon. Ho was on his way to see. brother. H. A.

who has on on the fourth floor; of the building, find it Is supposed that he stepped through the open door of the elevator shaft, falling about ten feet. He was found immediately. Tils skull was fractured, and from that and other Injuries, he died in St. Vincent's Hospital at 0 o'clock In the evening. Mr.

McLean's numerous are shocked and mystified over hip sudden death. He was a member of the Phoenix Bowling Club and the Atalanta Boat Club, and also of the Royal Arcanum. He was born In Albany in 1867. and to New-York when a hoy. He was secretary of the Christopher and Tenth Streit Railroad until that road was purchased by the.

Metropolitan sys- m. He leaves a widow and one daughter. The funeral will take place at his home this evening at 8:30 p. and the burial will be In the Albany Rural Cemetery at Albany. WAVE KILLS ON LA CHAMPAGNE Picric Bardelles.

the Ship's First Officer. Dies from Its Blow. I.a. Champagne, of the French Steamship TJne, arrived last night from Havre. On December 25.

in a strong westerly gale, which lasted about six hours, Picric the first officer of La Champagne, was killed by a high sea. Bardelles was standing on the starboard side of the bridge when the water struck the vessel on the starboard side. Bardelles was thrown to the bridge with great force. He. was picked up unconscious and carried to his room, where he died about an hour later.

His body was buried at sea on Saturday. Bardelles was forty-five years old, and had been on La Champagne only four months. La Champagne was sighted east of ire Island at 2:40 o'clock In the afternoon, but did not reach Quarantine in time to come to her dock last night. She will be docked early this morning. GREENE VISITS DEUEL'S COURT.

Police Commissioner Designate Watches "Drunk" Cases Disposed Of. Just before the Jefferson Market court opened yesterday Patrolman McGurken. of the court squad, escorted Oeneral Greene down the aisle. "It's the boss. was the warning passed among the icemen present.

As the gate was opened to him seventy policemen saluted their new chief. Magistrate Deuel. the president of the Board of Police Magistrates, sitting tn the Jefferson Market court, had Invited Mayor Low and General Greene, who is to succeed Colonel Partridge as Police Commissioner, to sit with him yesterday morning. General Greene was on time to the minute, but the Mayor sent a note saying that he was unable to the invitation yesterday, but. that In the near future he intended to avail himself of the privilege.

There were 110 prisoners In the. "morning watch." mostly "drunks." When General Greene left the bench he declared there was no significance In his visit, though he was greatly Interested. While the Commissioner was os the bench Captain Chapman, of the Mercer-st. station; Captain Gannon, of the Charles-st station, and Captain Cottrell of the West Twentleth-st. station, appeared on the "bridge" to help their policemen with complaints.

Captain Chapman explained to the court how another woman had attempted to commit EUtcide Saturday night in his station, the third a week Captain Gannon explained an excise that his men had made Saturday night. General Greene several plain clothes men. who made fomplaints. what precincts they were in. but otherwise made no comment.

ALLEGED POOLROOM MEN FREE. Patrick O'Neill, the alleged proprietor of the. saloon at One-hundred-and-sixth-st. and and sixteen prisoners caught in a raid on the place Saturday by Captain Smith, of the East One-hundred-and-fourth-st. station, were discharged In Harlem court by Magistrate Zeller yesterday because of lack of sufficient evidence.

Captain Smith declared that the summer garden attached to O'Neill's place was run as a poolroom. POLICE MATRON AS A DETECTIVE. Captain Cottrell. of the West Twentleth-st. station.

has recently been trying to get evidence against a house in West Twenty-fifth-st. that he felt sure was beinsr run as a woman's poolroom. No men were admitted to the house, and as the captain does not approve of making raids before he has good evidence, he asked the matron of his station, Isabella Goodwin, to get the evidence, wanted. Mrs. Goodwin consented.

Saturday afternoon the captain, accompanied by detectives, visited the premises and arrested two men. Edwin Kennedy, thirty-seven years old. and his brother, Arthur, twenty-six years old, living at No. 120 Pearl-et. He accuses th of being the proprietor? In Jefferson Market court yesterday Mrs.

Goodwin made the complaint and the men were held in 5500 bail each for examination to-morrow. THE AGROUND. Extremely Low Tide in Swash Channel the Cause Gets Off Unhurt Ice in Harbor. Owing to the stiff offshore wind, was blow- Ing all day yesterday, there was art unusually low tide at midday, and the Clyde Line steamer Comanche, from Charleston, went aground in the Swash Channel soon after passing; in Sandy Hook. When the steamer finally reached her North River pier Captain Platt said that ho had sailed over that, path hundreds of times, and never before had come to 'grief.

"The water was unusually low." he declared, "and the ship fetched up on the soft of the bottom, where she stuck (or a little over an hour. When the tide began to run in in slitcame oft under her own power. No damage was done to the ship." The harbor was filled with slushy ice yesterday, for the first time this winter. The North River ferryboats found their slips almost filled with it. owing to the.

wind, which drove it the river and toward the New-York shore. It did not seriously impede travel, but made the boats run at a. slower speed than usual. URGES FATHER TO FATAL TASK. Young Man Greatly Shocked at Death Following Request.

A rope gi-. ing way while William O'Dcmneil. fifty years old. of No. Main-st, West Farms, was repairing a pipe on a boiler in the Union Railway Company rhonse, Main and One-hundred-andseventy-third let him fall forty feet yesterday.

He died in two hours. O'Donnell and his son were employed by the trolley company. The pipe needed repairing, and the son asked the father to do the work. "I don't like the Job," said the father, "and don't feel just like doing it, anyway, to-day." The chief engineer also urged him to do the work. The son was greatly shocked at his father's death.

DR. HALL'S SERMON FOR NEW YEAR. New Pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity Urges Cheerfulness. At the Church of the Divine Paternity, Seventy; slxth-st. and Central Park West, the Rev.

Dr. Frank O. Hall, the new pastor, yesterday morning preached a sermon for the. old and new year. The church is prosperous, and Dr.

Hall, who is an eloquent speaker and ardent worker, is expected to have great success in his ministry. Taking his text from Psalm cxix. Dr. Hall began by quoting Wordsworth's lines describing "a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows." "Who." asked Dr. Hall, "would not be such a He continued in part: This phrase sums up about all there Is of happiness.

Lift! consists largely of memory and' anticipation. If the memory is filled with pleasant recollections and the anticipation looks tor happiness, then present ills may be borne with serenity. It. however, memory is burdened with painful thoughts and the future filled with fear, then no circumstances can bring happiness. How.

then, shall one win cheerful yesterdays? There Is only one way. and that is by living worthy to-dayr. To-morrow this day will have become a yesterday, to bless or to iiirse the memory, according bs It has been lived worthily or unworthily. It is not nectss.iry that one should have experienced pleasure. We often recall with joy the difficulties of our lives.

Meet difficulty manfully and the very fact will give joy to recollection. Be overcome by evil, and memory will be a taint upon all joy. The sum of whole matter is that one Is to win cheerful yesterdays by living manfully to-day. And how shall one win confident to-morrows? Tn precisely th" same way. By obedience to law one gains the desired confidence in law and in himself.

The musician gains confidence by practice in accordance with the laws of harmony. The engineers who are to construct the tunnel beneath the Hudson are confident because they know and obey mathematical law. So It is with the moral law. Do right, and you shall win confidence In righteousness. Speak truth, and -ou shall win confidence In truth.

Obey and you shall win confidence in the providence of God. The only possible way to overcome the worries of life the anxieties as to the. future, is to learn to trust God. If God is our father and our then the future can have no terrors, and even death will have lost its sting. The offering was in aid of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Fund.

The service In recognition of Dr. Hall as pastor of the church will take place next Sunday evening at o'clock. The principal parts will be taken by the. Rev. Drs.

J. M. Pullman, .1. Adams. W.

S. Crowe and Merle St. C. Wright, and Henry S. Hebert.

A special feature of the services at the Church of the Divine Paternity is Its choir. Besides Warren Andrews, the organist, this includes. In addition to the chores, a quartet composed of Estelle Harris, qoprano; Cornelia W. Marvin, contralto: Albert Quesnel, tenor, and Gwylym Miles, bass. DR.

SAVAGE RAPS EDEN THEORY. Says Science Has Proved, Beyond All Intelligent Question, Man's Evolution. Taking n.s- bis topic "The Problem or Evil." the R'v. Dr. Mlnot .1.

Savage preached yesterday morning the Church ot the Messiah. His text was third chapter of Genesis, the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth verses. He sai.i in p.irt When we star; to Improve tJv- world, to save mefl from sin and evil, what do find? One great branch Of the Church srtys: "You must submit to my authority; you must become member of my communion; you must join In my rites; you must vartake of my sacramei is, ir' you do not there is no hi for you. no hope for the 1 Another bra neb B.iys. "You must accept my creed." Another Bays, "You must baptized according to my method." Another "You must be spiritually wrought up in special way by the Holy Spirit." Very unfortunately, as I think, the early church accepted a hit of pagan legend which had crept Into thf Jewish annals In regard to the Eden story jinii the frill of man.

The church accepted this and made it part ol wh.it ft was in Infallible revelation. All evil. then, all pain, all si.k-ness. all all death, baa come into the world because the first man sinned. Science removea at one stroke every cornerstone of the theology of Christendom.

It demonstrates beyond n'l question -nil Intelligent question, 1 moan- that there never has been any- full of man. Wo know that man Started away down on the borders of the jungle, nnd that every from that day to this has, on thi! whoie. been a step upward and forward. "CHRISTMAS AND CHANUCHA." "Christmas Cbanucba, a Parallel and a Difference In the Celebration of the Midwinter was the subject of the sermon of the Rev. Dr.

Silverman in Temple Eraanii-El yesterday. Dr. Silverman began by pointing out that from a time beyond the range of history all peoples have observed some festival at midwinter, have made merry, decorated their houses with evergreen and exchanged greeting and He said it was evident that the common custom must have a common background. He continued: The Christian Christmas 1s a concession to heathenism, it commemorates the birth of the Man of God. Christmas is a day on which prtachers seek to Instil into men's minds that a medium was born to operate between man and God; that on that day the Kternal One sent a son to die in order to save them.

is a reason peculiarly given over to rejoicing. All the forms of merriment are symbols to enforce the Christian teachings. are used to symbolize that Christ is the light of the Chanucha. on the contrary, celebrates the victory of the Jews over heathenism. It Is not a concession to but a victory over the heathen.

The lights we Kindle are not to commemorate the birth of man as or the superstitions of heathen peoples, but to teach the doctrine that Jehovah Is one God ard that He has no mediator between Himself and man. The two teachings of the festival are directly opposite. We deny the Trinity. We deny all human mediatorship. kinds or medlatorfhip between God and man.

We deny that any man can save any other man. and we deny any proof of salvation by faith. We preach the doctrine of salvation by righteousness and individual effort. The lights we kindie are the flames from a pure soul upward to God. symbolic of the pure soul that burns in purity, and can only be quenched in impurity.

Notwithstanding this theological difference, teaching and practice of both is for the good of the world. Poth teach peace on earth, goodwill to all THE SCIENCE OF GIVING. The. Rev. Thomas R.

Slioer preached yesterday morning In All Souls' Church on "The Passing of the Old Year," and In part said: The new heaven and the new earth upon th new man and the new woman. There arc- signs of the coming of a new era and the passing of the old. Humanity is acquiring a new way of looking upon divine things. New terms have come into use. to-day speak of applied science.

We have passed from the field of speculative to practical science. We test our views by their pertormancn row. With all the accumulations that belong to this age of marvellous achievements, the very achievements by which capital Is massed together lor Its ends, there is awakened the thought that there is a new force at work in the world. new science has come Into use the rich have learned to give away their money. During the last ten years post graduate course? have been taken in the science of getting rid of wealth, and the consequence Is that we have an age of unexampled benevolence.

Some few are still clinging to their money, but almost everything "but the Church of God is the recipient of a marvellous outpouring of wealth, and the Church has not done the things which she has promised to do. A higher type of manhood has 'orrse into being. 1 suppose all things In the beginning were made out of God. but we have three distinct classes of human beings to-day. People are either the being, the doing or the having kind.

I claim we haven't any business In this world except the making of a human soul; every else is contriijutive. GREEK CONSULS BOUGH TREATMENT. Pool. Not Knowing Him. Ordered Him To Leave Bridge.

Deroetrittc X. Dolaaal. the Greek Consul General in this pity, went to the Tombs court yesterday morning to get protection from the alleged annoyance of a Greek named Eraskervas. After a long line of and "disorderlies" had been disposed of. Mr.

pushed his way up to the bridge and attempted to speak to Magistrate Pool. "Put that man away:" cried magistrate, pointing to Mr. Botassi. "McCartney (to the court officer on the bridge), put that man down." The officer did as he was bidden, and Mr. Botassi.

indignant at this treatment, went to the back part of the courtroom. Later he sent his card to Magistrate Fool. When he saw who the consul general was. Magistrate Pool listened to him and remarked: "Why don't you come around and see us once in a while? We have lota of Greeks here, and we need a good interpreter." Mr. Botassi explained that Fraskervas had been annoying him for several months, and Magistrate Pool sent Braakenraa away for three months.

DEFENDS HOUSE AGAINST ENEMY. Aged Veteran Becomes Insane and Shoots at Imaginary Foe. Tnv T'i THK TRrr.lNK.l Kingston. Dec 3R C. D.

brook, one of best of older citizens of this place. violently insnne at his home, in this morning, and. seizing a rifle, began firing through the front door and windows, shouting: "There they come! enemy is cominer!" His daughters nnd other inmates of the house fled and alarmed the neighbors. Recorder Carpenter, who Urea across the street, -went to their assistance, among others, and narrowly missed injury from the firms of the crazed man. After a strutrgle captured by officers and takes to the hospital.

Colonel Westbrook is more than eighty years old. Hp ha? been gomewto( feeble in health for the last few years, but no mental trouble was noticed until Christmas. He is the only surviving broths of the late Judge T. K. Westbrook, and served In the Civil War.

He went out with the 120 th New-York Volunteers, became lieutenant colonel, and commanded the regiment during a of battle of Gettysburg, in which he was wounded. He is a civil engineer by profession, and had charge of road construction near A BENEFIT FOR MASCAGNI. The Composer Says That He Grieves Most for His Children. Chicago. Dec.

Efforts betas. made provide a benefit at the. Auditorium Theatre for Fietro Mascagni plans Include a concert the Theodore Thomas Orchestra under the leadership the Italian i iMiiimm I Mascagni last night gave out a statement in which he says: am surprised that the newspapers continue to reiterate that I am in debt or that I am responsible, directly or indirectly, for the troubles that have come upon me. I am under obligations to no man in the L'nited or in Europe. My enemies will insist that I am in debt lo this country.

which 1 come a. stranger. I may be In debt to the people as a whole, but I am nor in debt to any one man who baa dealt with me in a business way. That which worries me most Is the fact that my little children must bear that I am in trouble, that telegrams from this country mast inform them that I have been arrested, through no conscious fault of my own. I have three children, the oldest of whom thirteen and the youngest, a girl.

six. I grieve that they should write to tne'r mother, who absent from them, and ask what has our papa done In a foreign country that he should be arrested like a common criminal. SAYS HE KILLS CATTLE TO SAVE LOSS. Boston. Dee.

Dr. Salmon, chief of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, has issued a. statement regarding the prosecution of the work of exterminating the foot and mouth disease, and especially in answer to the efforts of certain persons who have systematically tried to work up a sentiment against the killing of the herds affected. He says: We are obliged to face the fact that there are only two courses to pursue. Either the diseased must all be killed off and the contagion stamped out Immediately, thus relieving the quarantine restrictions at the earliest possible moment or we must down and watch the disease and try to prevent Its spreading by quarantine.

How long the quarantine would prolonged in that case am) bow much the disease would spread cannot be possibly foretold. It is certain, however, i that everything which delays the operation of kill; ing and disinfection will prolong th- quarantine just to the extent that such -work is delayed, and the liooiitio a day loss, more or less, to the will continue for a correspondingly longer period. Ip to the present time thirteen hundred head or cattle have been slaughtered in Massachusetts, and If the work goes on. as it should, with continued co-operation from the State officials and with a i 'riendlv public sentiment, all of the known Infected herds should be killed and disposed of within the next week or ten days. There Is every reason to believe that this will be accomplished.

GALE IN NEWFOUNDLAND. St. John's. N. Dec.

Another furious gale i has been raging here for the last thirty-six hours and has caused much damage along the coast line. It is feared that the shipping will suffer considj erably. The Allan Line steamer Peruvian passed I Cape Race yesterday morning, but she has not yet been able to port because of the storm and the fog. She has on board a shipment of three hundred Canadian cattle from Halifax, shipped from there because of the embargo against Ameri lean ports. It is feared the cattle will suffer be' cause of the heavy weather.

TAX DECISION WORRIES TEA MEN. Yokohama. Dec. 11. via Victoria, Dec.

The report that the United States Government will impose the duty of 10 cents a pound on tea. now held In bond, even though withdrawal may not take place until after January 1. has caused some consternation among merchants. The tea merchants jobbers, grocers and others Interested will endeavor to induce the government to withhold such action which has come upon the market like a thunderbolt. The tea tax In America, which was one of the Spanish War taxes, is to be lifted on January 1.

and In anticipation of that event a large quantity of Japanese tea has been placed in bond In American seaports. POWERS APPEALS FOR AID. Georgetown. Ky Dec. -Caleb Powers.

ex- Secretary of State, who has had two trials and now awaits in jail here his third trial for complicity In the murder of Governor William Goebel. to-day issued the following appeal to the public: I have recently had written a number of letters to different States asking for financial aid in my coming trial for alleged complicity in the Goebel murder. A portion of the press, through a misunderstanding of the facts, attempted to thwart mv plan for raising the much needed money with which to defend myself by circulating a report that these letters were not genuine, because signed different persons for me. It is true that many of the letters were signed by different persons because it was impossible for one person to send them out in the limited time before my next trial, but all of these letters are genuine. I have been continuously in the jails of this State for nearly three years.

My means are exhausted. The generosity of Kentucky has been taxed to the utmost in mv former so-called trials. In a few weeks I am again to be tried for my life; hence my appeal now to my friends outside of Kentucky. ROAD CHANGED TO STANDARD GAUGE. Plattsbursr.

N. Dee The Chateaugajr Railroad from Cadyville to Lyon Mountain, a distance of twenty miles, was changed to-day from narrow to standard gauge. Several hundred section men left here at o'clock this morning. equipped with lanterns and all necessary tools and at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon the work was done. It Is estimated that 310.000 spikes were driven In the twelve hours.

After January I the Delaware and Hudson will assume control of the road under a lease, and the fare will be reduced from four to three certs a mile. WOMAN DEAD: MAN UNCONSCIOUS. A man and woman, registered as and wife. were found unconscious and dead, respectively, from the effects of escaping gas, tn Grogan's Arsenal Hotel. Thirty-slxth-st.

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