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THE BKOOKLYX DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1008.

MISCELLANEOUS. MISCEXLAJtfEOTJS. THE VANISHING WINDOW. BY RICHARD BARKER SHELTON. "Have have you seen It?" she asked, in astonishment.

"I have," lie replied, "and if we both have seen it, it proves we are equally sane or equally crazy." lie drew her down beside him on the couch and they compared notes on the strange house until it was quite matter was rapidly assuming menacing proportions. Vinal began to doubt himself, to exercise the most painstaking care in his accounts and the counting of money. Sometimes depositors were kept wailing several minutes wdiile lie ran through the bills arioin and again to satisfy himself as to his accuracy. He found himself counting the trees and posts on his way down town, and if. through some ni'sehance, the results varied from morning to morning, his nerves played him sail tricks for the rest of the day.

I A week later he had nearly forgot-1 ten the incident, when, standing on the steps one morning as he drew on ins gloves, he was aware of cold chills running up and down his spine. He had glanced at the house opposite; there were but three placards, lie-j low. was a door and two windows; and on the vine-covered front, three windows only to each floor. For some time he stood there, a otranpe i clutching at his throat and perspira- tlon starting from his face. Then he walked slowly down the park toward his car.

Several times, however, he lot deed back over his shoulder to as-' sure himself that the windows were as he had counted them. His last look, as he stood at the corner of the I avenue, netted him a door and two I windows on the lower floor and three windows on each floor above. A Short Serial Story, "The Expiation of Richard Brindsley By Gerald Carlton, Author of "The Crimson Thumb," "Harvest of Thorn," will begin in the Brooklyn Eagle on Sunday, November 29. realization tut loreed itself upon purge Vinal. The house the couple occupied was near the center of the block on their side of the street.

On the other side of the park was a block of plain, brick dwellings, uniform in appearance, one of which, directly opposite the Vimils' house, had been vacant, for a long lime. Vinal was in the habit of blueing ill) at the placards every morning, three of them one in each window of the second story bearing the legend "To Let," and beneath, the agents' names. One morning, as he was starting out, his glance wandered, from long habit, to the house opposite, lie looked nl the placards. There were four. It grunted, "queer." and hp lowered his eyes to tile first floor.

A door and three windows disclosed themselves. He rubbed his eyes, lie could have sworn there wtis a door and two windows on the ground Moor and three windows in each of the other two stories. Here, there was a door and three windows on the ground floor and four windows in the others. "Love is blind, they say," he said, laughing to himself, and hurried down the park to his ear. Yet, try as he would to treat the matter lightly, and thus rid himself of it, it was continually running in his head that, before that morning there had been but three windows on each floor.

I Miring bank hours that diy. countless incidents persistently haunled his mind most trivial details of his former impressions of the house all proving' to him that heretofore iheve had been but three windows. As persistently he laughed these away and charged himself with negligence in I Viiwil ln-mxvllt his lii-iik' to the trim little house lie linn rented ill I.iiu-liiw I'iirk, it wits not with out porta in pride Unit lie! listened to lier pxrlii liintions of delight. It indeed, a cosy looking daee. with its lliree-story front covered with vines, ils hit of prass plot iiudosed, with fancy iron fence, and a queer bow-window jutting out over the door to relieve the bareness of a flat anterior.

The recent ly-inade Vinal prized at it from tin earriape window, as they pulled up to the curb, and heaved! a siph hi which joy and relief were' minpled. Vinal suddenly found his' fin between two daintily plovod bands, and a pair of lips so close to I his ear that he felt their warmth was whispering prophecies of their future happiness. And while he was telling Ids wife that it took no view of their domicile to convince him of such a i Htate. they unlocked the front door mid wandered hand-aud-hand through the various i ins. anon stopping to listen to their happy voice telling each other it was all their own.

So life began very the young couple at Vinal was the teller auspiciously for Ludlow Park. of a downtown bank. Hi pave him salary, while not immunity from pecuniary' worry in their present mode of his wife was young, charming, and: devoted to him. ami his friends, who! were legion, came often to his home and declared him the luckiest fellow in the world. Vinal had begun to take! this view of it himself, when suddenly his complacency was rudely broken; Mid his pretty dreams for a time cloud- ed.

It is not pleasant for a man to1 reitiize that his mind is And it was nothing less Mian such a I i And still the house continued to vary Its display -jf window from three to four and back again to three, i Vinal began to watch for some regularity In these changes, but he discovered none. Soineiimes for weeks the house remained the same. Some-I time lie came home at night to find it I had changed since morning, and this I often happened for several successive 1 days. As the weeks went past, he grew depressed. If his wile made mention of this, ho assumed a levity the very extravagance of which marked it sham.

At the bank, loo, the once genial lellcr had become a man of the fewest words "I hope," said the cashier anxiously to his wife one night, "that Vinal is keeping within his Income. I don't like his actions of lute." One cold February afternoon, as Vinal stepped into the little parlor in Ludlow- Park, a miserable figure rose to greet him. It was his wife, and there wore traces of tears on her face. "Oil, George," she said, clinging to him, "I thought you'd never come. I've kept quiet as long as I could it will sound so foolish to you but I can't stand it any longer.

The house opposite there's something very strange about it. I I believe something's wrong with my head. Vinal sank into a chair. "Thank flod." he exclaimed, fervently. "Oh, 1 can't believe did I hear I rightly? I 1 -Mrs.

Vinal was on the verge of hysterics. Her husband sprang from the chair and caught hp'' in his arms. "My dear." he said, gently, "try to bo calm. I thank God that you, too, have noticed AND COLLEGES WALKS AND TALKS. BY JULIUS CHAMBERS.

man Ludlow built for himself after his own plans, but the old man died before it was finished, und it has never been occupied. What his idea was In building such a trap, goodness knows. We've tried to have the heirs let us altiu- it, but they won't have it. Sentiment about the old cliap, I suppose. "As I say, lie planned it himself.

There are two doors side by side, one leading into the front room direct, and the other opening into a hall which runs on the top of the house. There's a bare little stairway connecting the galleries, from which the rooms open like tiers of cells. That house Is the slanding joke of the firm. Standish, over here, claims the living-room door is the proper one, and I favor the other. We are agreed on one point only that the sight of both doors would drive away any prospective tenant.

So we've had a window built to fit the doors, and by shifting it from one to A GENUINE GUY This is the actual arch under which Guy Fawkes placed the barrels of gunpowder with which he intended to blow up tho FOE EAGLE FRESH AIR FTND. Junior Club Gives a Sale and an Entertainment. For the benefit ot the Eagle Fresh Air Fund, the Junior Aid Club, mado up of Elsie Jantzer, Jessie Corrigan, Helen Gehris and Isabel Everett, began Its sale and entertainment yesterday afternoon and evening at 110 Henry street. The young people were assisted by their parents and relatives, and a pretty miniature fair, with a number of tables, presided over by tho girls, was arranged in the parlors of the residence. A programme by the four members of the club was given twice yesterday and will be repeated this afternoon and evening, when the affair will be continued.

Isabel Everett played a piano solo, Elsie Jantzer recited "Old Fashioned Thanksgiving," Jessie Corrigan gave a piano selection, "Shepherd and Helen Gehris recited "Geographic Child," the Junior Air Club cleverly performed some Hungarian dances, Isabel Everett recited "Affinities," Jessie Corrigan sang "Teddy Boar's Lullaby," and the club concluded the entertainment with a round, "Row Vour Boat." There were seven tables, for fancy work, groceries, cake, dolls, all of which were prettily decorated. A number of donations were received from local department stores, florists and confectioners. Quite a sum will be realized for the Eagle Fresh Air Fund. wMwfiif 1 x3- The pictures illustrating this lecture he took himself while on a journey through that interesting country. President Heffley will lecture on December 3 bifore the Society of Old Brooklynitcs in the county court.

The classes in geology of ihe civil engineering department made an excursion last week to the excavations of the Pennsylvania tunnels, examining thoroughly the work of tho engineers and taking a trip through the tunnel. About thirty members of the class were In this party, which was In charge of Professor Bo-gart. The next trip will be to the Museum of Natural History, in Central Park. Brooklyn Teachers Life Assurance Association The Board of Managers of the Brooklyn Teachers Life Assurance Association has handed in Its thirty-seventh annual report. The total membership in the association Is 2.011.

During the year there were twenty-two withdrawals and twenty-two deaths. Among the prominent members of the society lost were Le Roy F. Lewis, the former principal of P. S. No.

11, and Dr. Truman J. Backus, president of Packer Collegiate Institute. There is 59 in the treasury. More teachers are expected to join the association this year.

The following are the officers for 1908-09: Joseph V. Witherbee, president; Eleanor G. Colgan, vice-president; Edward Bush, financial secretary; Mary B. Hart, recording secretary; Edward P. treasurer.

Managers-at-large Moses Ycaton, John J. Wells, Johanna A. Murphy, Mary Medhurst. Auditing committee Jessie T. Coddlngton, Emma L.

Wagensoil and Harriet L. Ryder. Committee on bylaws John J. Wells, Moses Yeaton, and Alfred E. Ives.

N.Y. Homeopathic College Homeopathic physicians and their patients throughout the country are taking great Interest in the rapid growth and prosperity ot the New York Homeopathic Medical College. The entering class this fall is three times as large as was the new class last year. The semi-centennial of the college will be celebrated In New York In the spring of 1910, and the alumni in all parts of the country are preparing for a great demonstration on that occasion. Tho subject is of particular Interest in Brooklyn, owing to the presence here of more than one hundred graduates of the college.

A new dean is in charge of the college this fall, Dr. Royal S. Copeland, who gave up an Imporlant position at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, to assume his new duties in Now York. Under Dr. Copeland a reorganization has been effected.

dark. The sharing of the mystery had each of a groat mental burden. Vinal was actually laughing when his wife told him how for days she had watched the house, and how terrified she had been each time it so mysteriously changed ils appearance "Dear," she said, "we ll move away. There's something uncanny about it. Let's not slay here another week." Then the man In him spoke.

"So." he said, sturdily: "not until we know about this thing. Then, if you still want to move, we will." "Hut. George, how in the world shall we find out about it?" He took both her hands in his own. "I know you (rust me. and that you're a brave enough little woman to do what I ask," he said.

"We'll hire that house." The next afternoon Vinal went to the olllee of Stnndish Jordan, who had rented him his house, and who controlled most of the other property on Ludlow Park, including the house opposile. Jordan greeted him cordially. "Everything's all right at the house, I hope," he said. "Yes, quite." Vinal responded. "However, I think we'll make a change.

Is No. still vacant?" "Great Scoltl You don't want to go over there, do you?" the agent inquired, with evident astonishment. "Well, you see," said Vinal, "we er we want a little larger place and I'm rather partial to north exposures." "Well," said Jordan with decision, "you don't want that house. It's a regular box compared to yours. He-sides which I can tell you something queer about it.

Heavens, man! Don't look at me like that. It isn't haunted." "I I beg your pardon," said Vinal, striving to regain his composure as he settled back in his chair. "That house," Jordan began, "old Bright Hours at Pratt Institute Interesting events at Pratt the past week were the recep'tion to the faculty and instructors at which a delightful musical programme was rendered by Miss Marie Dax and Graham Reed; the reception of the Graduates Association to the entering class of the Library School, at which every class save one was represented, and the dance in the music room of the Institute. All were much enjoyed. Friday night, the second year normal class of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts entertained the first year class In the music room.

The affair was well attended and a good time had. In ins uepariment class orricers lor me year have been chosen as follows: Normal art, first year Stannard, president; Miss Knapp, vice-president; Miss Ward, secretary. Second year Demmlng, president; Miss Colth, secretary. Design, first year Cain, president; Miss Auld, vice-president; Miss White, secretary. Second year Miss Westbrook, president; Scott, vice-president; Miss Walsh, secretary.

General arts, first year Green, president; Miss Bdyd, vice-president. Men's life class Ward, president; Bruce, secretary. Women's life class Miss Hamilton, president; Mrs. Cooper, secretary. Costume illustrating, first year Miss Cro-well, president; Miss Friend, secretary.

Costume Illustration, second and third years Miss Dixon, president; Miss Cad-mon, secretary. Architecture, first year Hock, president; Webb, secretary. Second year Place, president; Schauf, vice-president. Meetings were held In the Department ot Domestic Arts for the purpose of considering the advisability of organizing a Domestic Arts Club. The purpose of the club is to give the members a place where they may meet together for social Intercourse, and where they may have informal talks from people Interested In domestic arts problems.

The next meeting will be held December 4, at which It is expected that plans for the organization will be perfected. The Pratt Art Club will hold an entertainment In the Music Room, December S. Mr. Ashbee's Lecture Charles Robert Ashbee, the founder of Chipplng-Campden Community in England, will lecture at Teachers' College, Columbia University, next Monday evening at 8:15, on "Arts and Crafts In England." Mr. Ashbee is the author of several books on arts and crafts, and Is probably the best known worker in this field In England.

The lecture will be richly Illustrated w' ern slides, and is open to the general public. Mrs. C. Arofull Me sure you your feet oft hefore you come in. wipe Mr.

C. Aroful (a joker) Wouldn't it ilo Just ns well to wine the dirt off nnJ i leave my feet on? l.azy Ope! yer wonder. How did yer lntiiiniie ter gil a hiiiiilout from dnt wiiii woimiu? Ilii.y 1 'etui easy. Wen she opened de door, I sez: "fiood lniV is your mud'lur houieV HI JKv. 1 ipj fir his former glances.

or. when lie went home at dusk, he crossed the street before hp sought his own door and carefully counted the windows in the house opposite. His results coincided with those of the morning. So, calling himself a blithering hint, he mounted his own steps. the visitors would accept assurance pasted upon the bottoms of our silver articles guaranteeing them to be plate and forestalling clumsy acid that disfigure wares parading as family heirlooms, we could resr better.

Insomnia is a distressing ailment and the less we have of it the better bridge i and poker we can play. Mr. David Connor of 1069 Boston rond. knows how to deal with It is dollars to biscuits that yeggmen have placed already cabalistic marks upon fence or wall surrounding the Connor properly, Informing their fellows that the man inside i- "a good fellow" and must not be niolesled. It is said that Ralph Waldo Emerson was the only mortal to whom the Sphinx ever spoke and to him the Mystery of the Desert whispered: "You are one of us." Mr.

Connor ought to organize a Burglars Amiability Association: many of us would be glad to join. In the light of recent legal revelations, one is coir; I rained to inquire why so many mlddle-n'd millionaires attach themselves to pa--se women, when, with their money, they might make alliances of the most creditable character with young and beautiful women of patrician birth, of education mid of high social position? At a reception yesterday the writer sat for an hour and listened to one of the wisest women in the social class discourse impassionatoly regarding the opportunities that come to some women and never come to others. The writer would have loved to have a stenographic repart of th's woman's words, but. that being impossible, here is nearly what she said "Conditions, so far as the young girl in search of an eligible husband are concerned, have vitally changed within the past generation." the woman began. "First of all, the successful girl of to-day must not only have education but she must have tact and a thorough acquaintance Willi the' news of the hour.

An American girl of to-day who doesn't rad at least one dally newspaper with thoroughness runs great chance of dying an old maid! Suppose I were a man calling upon any girl of my acquaintance, and found she hadn't an opinion upon the crisis in the German Empire, as affecting ihe vanity of the Kaiser. I would bo so thoroughly disgusted with her laziness that I never would visit her again! "An American doesn't want to buy his wife, but oftener than he imagines he is party to an unconvoutiona 1 commercial transaction in which he is outwitted. Were all young women of assured social position and fairly good looks to keep cool or be properly advised, every man's ruccess matrimonially would depend upon the dazzling character of his position. "With widows or mature women of the world, every shred of romance regarding men has ceased to exist. Not a male creature wears a halo! She become 'a practical She is out for the money Whether it is because the middle-aged husband always suspects a desire for money to inspire young women, and falls lo think it the motive of an older woman's pretended affection, or whether Ihe oider man with one experience of married life prefers to trust his happiness with an older woman titan with a young one.

the evidence of fact is that more women marry advantageously between -10 and 50 than between flu and fu. What a remarkable example of self-reliance is that Michigan woman who went alone to the Wlesbadeii specialist, lo be cured of blindness! The treatment was to efficacious that she has with sufficient eyesight lo enable her to walk anywhere and to read h.rge priu'. After thirty-six years of c.imploto blindness, Miss Alice Ilnilis uys ihe restoration of her sight li.u nor added greatly to her she had accustomed herself to blindness and found it only a partial bar to success. She earned a respectable living as a music teacher, and, owning a house, lo ig-eis. It Is her opinion thai the value the sense of sight.

Is greatly oxaggeral cd by persons who have never known what it meant to them to do without it. i West of Ohio has been h''n' for fifty and he is one of ablest of pract it loners. yfhf htl apijjs. tif hlJvVw.t' "Old (Jeorpe must bp going the rounds again," one of the (dorks re marked tiiat morning, as the tidier reached an unsteady hand for a pen. "Liver pills.

George." said' the cashier; "mustn't let your liver pet away with you." And t'onroy, the assistant teller, sly-iy asked his superior if the breakfast was really its bad as he looked. Vinal worked through the day in a mental fog. lie was neither morbid nor a coward. The uncertainty of those windows had affected iiim greatly, however, and ali day he was trying to recall whether or not there had ever been a case of mental weakness in ids family. He fore lie went home that afternoon, he called on his physician, ami requested a 1 borough phys'eal examination.

The doctor 1 1 in pi "i 1 and poked and pronounced his patient in excellent condition. "1'erhaps your liver's a little torpid," lie sai.d; "try these pills." The pills, however, did not prevent the house from changing Ils three win-don's to four and its four back to three again several times in the course of file next month. What at first had seemed a trivial Making Orafors at the Poly Prep The assembly at Poly Prep last Monday was enlivened by several senior orations. Once a month this will be the order at. the Monday gathering of the school.

Subjects and speakers were: "The Problem of tho Modern Skyscraper." by J. Edward Blackmar; "What Becomes of Athletes." by Francis G. Crafts: "fs There Anything in Spiritualism?" by F. L. Babboll, and "A National Memorial to Lincoln," by Anson J.

Moore, jr. Great care is exercised In the preparation and delivery of the speeches. From time to time debates between the classes will be on the programme, as well as musical numbers. The literary evening of the Oasis, Wednesday night, was a marked success. Tho event tookplace in Spleer library in tho Institute and the full membership ol the society and its young women friends enjoyed it immensely.

Tho patronesses were Mrs. J. Van Buren Thayer and Mrs. Spellman. Thornton Thayer, president of the Oasis, made an address of welcome, in which he incidentally outlined the scope of the work ot this new Boclety.

F. Irwin Smith spoke on school societies. Timothy Spellman also offered a few suggestions ou the same subject. Auguste J. Cordier told the guests and members about the coming minstrel show.

On the musical programme were: A piano solo, by Timothy Spellman: baritone solo, by J. Elbert Fret well; piano solo, by William Schroeder, and chorus, by the club and its friends. After the programme an informal dance was held in the gym. Dramatics are just beginning to take shape. While the management is not ready to announce the play to be given, it is willing to say that It will be one never attempted by an amateur organization before.

It is suggested that the Camera and Electric clubs be merged into a Science club. These club- have never been quite satisfactory. It is thought that a more general organization may be prolific of wider interest and usefulness. A committee appointed to consider the scheme and report to tho next meeting of the Oasis consists of F. Irwin Smith.

Edwin T. Maynard and George A. Kuhlke. New Debating Society The Senior Debating Society of the Brooklyn College Preparatory on Crown Heights met on Tuesday last to elect its officers. Mr.

Flood, the director of the society, had already received some flftv candidates for membership, the greater part of whom were present, at the meeting. Mr. Flood delivered a short talk relative to the manner of debating and its importance, after which H. J. Walsh of senior class was appointed chairman, and the elections followed.

John I). Flynn, '09, was elected president; George H. McNulty, '10, vice president and Kenneth A. O'Hara, '10, The next meeting of the society is scheduled for Friday. December i.

at which the subject of discussion will bo "Resolved, That the best interests of the country are assured by the recent election." On the affirmative are O'Hara and Flynn; on the negative, Gilligan and Gregory. Lecture at Heffley The second lecture of the winter course at Henley Institute was given last evening by the Rev. Thomas Edward Potter-ton of I ho Church of Our Father, on Grand avenue. He took tho "Pacific Northwest" for his topic and treated it from the standpoint of the opportunities it offers lo the average man. fir.

Pot-terton's talk had all the force and vividness which belongs to the personal observer, wlio knows about his subject from his own experience, and was illustrated by fi-e views. Norman P. HefHey. president ot the Institute, gave his lecture on "A Trip to M. xicn," at the Church of Our Father, uofi.ro the Men's Club last night.

4 "l-Ot; i-iJ 4 Ils first den list ness. Dr. tieoree W.isyer. a he did it think lh plate of teeth found In tho ruins was that of Mim. ('uancss.

It did not fit the tooth si ubs Mrs. (iunness mouth, (ieorge Wrliht and his wife, who lived opposite Mrs. SCHOOLS who the other we get our one door. A little pulling of the vines hides the fact that the window is a sham. When I go up to look after the place.

I move the window to the living room door, and put an extra placard In 'the window above the hull door. When Stnjidisu goes up. he moves the window back, so that it appears together with those directly over it, to belong to the adjoining house, and takes' down my placard. In fact, we have a dittle wager up as to which will win its a tenant, the three windows or the four. "lieally, though, Vinal, I don't believe you want that place and I doijibt if any one else will." That night Vinal and his wife RtotVl looking at the house across the street.

"I think, my dear," lie said. "I'll beri on the four windows." (Copyright, 1900, by The Khnrtstory Publishing tompany. rigius reserved.) FAWKES RELIC House of Lords, on November 5, 1605. The arch was subsequently removctl trom Westminster, and is now in the Soane Museum. FOR ATHLETIC FIELD.

Williamsburg end Greenpoint Trade Eoard Trying to Get McCarren Park for Public. At last night's meeting of the Williamsburg ind Greenpoint Board of Trade, It was announced that every effort was being made to obtain for the residents of Greenpoint the use of McCarren Park for an athletic Held. The committee appointed to take up the matter with the Park Department reported that the latter had consulted the officials of the B. R. and that at first the latter had expressed a willingness to run the trolley lines that now pass through the park around the park.

Upon further consideration, the B. R. T. announced that If the Park Department wanted this transfer made the city would have to bear the expense. The Board of Estimate had granted $15,000 tor grading McCarren Park.

A communication from Superintendent Joseph Lawrence stated that It would be Impossible to obtain money for a public bath in the The following ofllcers were renominated: Frank Schulz. president; John Skelton, first vice-president; George Sehaedle, second vIce-preBident; William Murphy, third vice-president; Wester-veldt. Prentice, secretary: John McArdle. assistant secretary; Georgo Leichberger, treasurer. Bishop Bury of British Honduras, 4 IOM a -highly authoritative I sounc.

the writer is assured 1 lhat. ai most, r.oi more than two members of the present Cabinet will he rotable i by President. Taft. These are likely 10 he Mr. Oar- Held and Mr.

Sir.ius. It is said to bo I Mr. Taft's hope to secure the services of a man of superlative pre-eminence for i the head ot the Slate Department. The desire to get Mr. Root into the Senate lias much to do with I his.

Personally, the writer'? private information from Washington is that "Whitelaw Roid will be offered the portfolio, following the precedent set by President MeKinley in placing Ambassador Hay at the head of the cabinet. Thit, opinion Is at variance with that of the most prominent Taft spokesman in New York. He says that it will be a Cabinet intent upon doing things, and that especial attention will be given to the selection of an attorney-general and deputies, for, although the latter are named by the Incumbent the Cabinet office, not one must have nnv rornoration affiliations under Presi- ent Taft's regime, Every parent will side with Thomas F. Ityan in his objections to the marriage of his youngest son until Bfier he has completed acollege course. In these days education is on essential.

Money will not supply its place. One would think that 18 is rather an eariy age for a young man to marry. The boy will recover from present despondency. Time if a prime healer of wrenched hearts. The boy and girl may be happy yet, you bet! Peter Van Vlissingen presents quite a contrast to the usual criminal who ha3 pleaded guilty to so high a crime as forgery.

Ho was much more anxious to Into Joliet prison than anybody was to keep him out. Prisons have heretofore been described as retreats from which inmates were desirous of escaping. An applanation of Peter's prompt acceptance of his fate was discovered after his incarceration, when, within a few hours, his forgeries increased from a -few hundred thousand dollars to two millions! Naturally the gentleman preferred to take punishment for a lesser than for a larger amount. Forgery has always been ranked among cardinal offenses against sociefy; but it isn't half as great a menace to commercialism as over-capitalization and a-iO per cent, of watered stock; but it sends some people to jail while the other offense dees not. There is nl least one wise and thoughtful man in the Borough of the Bronx.

He jnight with entire justice be described as a philosopher. Not only did he display wisdom in sleeping through a burglarious visitation night before last, but be showed proper appreciation of the "gentlemanly" conduct of the housebreakers. Exactly how he communicated wirh the men who had ransacked his domicile is not stated hui he wrote a letter addressed ot "Mr. Burglar." in which he conveyed his appreciation of the treatment he had received at lie hands of his midnight visitors. In effect, he expressed his gratitude thai the burglars did not.

"muss up" things when they Jailed to find any loot a habit far too common among discourteous thieves. This suggests a new by-law for the Burglars Co-operative Association, cop- lea of which ought to be printed and distributed among the (if this city monopolizing the attentions of second story men and refined professionals. We feel sure that if some guarantee were given that burglars In general would become "practical men" there would be much le.ss intemperate antagonism shown toward a profession as old as time. If you and as householders, ha 1 a guarantee that only portable articles, such for instance as our watches, our wives" Alaska diamonds and North Carolina rubies would be carried off. we would not rise from out our 1k ds when we heard burgling expeditions entering our If we had confidence that Indiana closed its ease yesterday in the' trial of Ray Lamphere for the nmr.ler of mt.

none ttunneg mm ner run- aren, wnoso nome Laiiipnere is accused of having set afire. In opening Tor the defense Attorney "Worden, declared Jj't-H. (junnes) r.a: he vould nrov- that alive ou July 9, QUEER AND QUAINT. BISHOP TO PREACH HERE. SAYS MRS.

GUNNESS IS ALIVE. Mr. Here Will you pin a flower on my font when I go? Collier Down Certainly. I'll pin it oti ri'ht now. in "i 1 I JW 1 I it 7 i The Right Rev.

Herbert Bury, D.D., Bishop of British Honduras, who has Just arrived here from London, en route to his diocese In Central America, will preach at the evening service In St. Bartholomew's Church, Pacific Btreet and Bedford avenue, on Sunday. Some four yenrs ago the Bishop of London made him his honorary chaplain for special work in the diocese, where he himself has had a large and Influential parish for the past twelve years. Early in the present year he organized in London a meeting of city merchants and others (ou tho lines of that held In Trinity Church, Manhattan), at which the Bishop of London made an earnest appeal to those present to help him In providing for the spiritual needs of London's ever Increasing population. YACHTSMEN TAKE TITLE.

Title to that part of the WesthiAii property at Bensonhurst which was le-irntljj purchased by the Brooklyn Yicht Club Was taken Thursday. To allow the members an opportunity of inspecting tl-eir new vropetty before alterations ar'- begun there will be a reception oa Saitr- day and The flunness Tarm. liian two months alter Ihe fire. He' ni'ist do It." that she is living. The The defense scored fin-in.

house, said they were nwak-wit- it il by the glare of flames from the 1 iluiine.is home at 3 o'clock In the tnorn- mm umi i.imucss the ntglit iireeeiihi tne nurning home eld a I conve: mon with a man i First Bank bu i of tin- Idini, during wiucn see was overnear io say: mum be done to-night, and you according to evidence defense will offer, was In the of Elizabeth Smith, far away Gunness home, until 3:25 wiiii i con-pan i from th 1 o'clock..