The Standard Union du lieu suivant : Brooklyn, New York • 2

1 1 THE CHURCHES TO-MORJICW. ATTEMPTED EXTORTION 7a I I Ua a. 1B.1 Rf! I -1 will be closed all-day Monday, We shall continue, on Tuesday morning, thf September Sales of Housewares, Lamps and Carpets. We shall also, on- Tuesday, present special display pf New Millinery. Dress Fabrics and Suitings.

Pittsburg, Vuly 8. Cri Port EthGareAn n.nWvln char lived In cAy. Vrmont' He W. n- a I a a a 1 A 4 events to-day. lb I.

tarns er eSsrs and In.lled. Republican Suffolk County. Oeportmont opn until 4 T. "fit's and cuchra, Cailns, Brlghtsst' Brooklyn Quartot Club at V. bors thaw sptsa.

Hunt! wiy11 Bach. munlcl1 4 40k. Hsclb Cl T4 rta Williamsburg BMPSnrbund UeoTfi, Brotn.wm?0', I0eP4b4" Hajj1' WIlHam J. Bryan, assembly auditorium, ony Brook. 7.46 P.

44. Mr. and Mr JoPb of ioj Ei.vsnth st. wmlval king snd qusos. witklens Hot.

old Mill i piniTnaal amtur sntertslnmsut. Otw Club. Cre.t, p. M. Picnic.

Brooklyn Camp Spnnltk war Veterans. Ulmer park. I ball, Untie Aleck Association, filsc. Hall. 86.

SI Grand sL aA Gov. Donsnn memorial tabtat, 'elr Barclay Manhattan. gcltyr eaat lork to Thouoand Jatantf n.ic,pVon' coper Cultura Club, Arton Hall. Arlou pi. and Broadway.

I P. M. o.S,iml,k? Kntneoka Damooratlr Club. Richmond Hill, Daxter Park, Jamaica, I.etlon, Michael T. Buckley Association, 41 Klnrslaod ava.

P. M. R-ceptlon. Cooper Culture Club. Arlou Hall.

Arlan pL and Brondwmy. I P. M. Blsth ava and forty-fourth it, Manhattan, open, ft.ll P. ft.

Thirty-fifth annual Bchwaban Volkatwit. uarken Nw Coliaaum Park. Rl3woot Mardl tras ball. Philolan Club. Jfes Independence Hall, II Osborn I M.

Popularity contest closes, Tsnt 6tty, Rockasu Beach, 4 P. bars daa. I Wunnti Olon-Cor, ill Carlton Johnion-Johnaon. 140 Bedford ar. I M.

f-atival, Roman Catholic MAin ort Annual miKniiriai aa CVC balL Bay rW-Xarhl Club- Holland Hmm. jtock-twirEuth toumamant golf chamjbton fy T1 Nrw York. Van Coruandt Park, Bronx. Departure, Zoeltnar Maennarehor fo an XyackU.NnY ,0 Tmpva lBn- Annual tnaquerada and civic ball, Bay View Yacnt Club. Holland Pt alien, flock-a Beach.

Cloes first annual retreat. CaYfcoltt POOlr Dong Ulaod outh horwaik. Conn bl-etlns. West End Cltlsons Losrus St Matthew Han. Wtllard BrSoklya Manor.

1 reception. Vanderbilt. Social Club. 1C East Third st Windsor Terrace. 6 P.

M. Outing and shore dinner. Datbueh Chapter. R. A.

R.ld'e pavilion. Rockaway Point. Ball, boys from Garden and Ch'rystar Palaces btew Eekford Hall. Eekfort and Calyar sta. I M.

Cortelyou Club for Crr'ral atlon. Mankattan. A. due Old Forge. Tenth annual outlns.

Ooushnut tlub to Red Hook, Dutches, County, from Oread Certral Station, Manhattan. P. M. Fourth annual outlns u. H.

Company Employee Sckaibl. Fiostda Park. Myrtl, ave I to 44. Tw.ntr-flfth dedication of St. Rob, of Lima Church, Hoftawar Beach, Steeplechase Park.

Conay Is, and. Celebration, stars Head Club, to Inmaws Ft. John Orphan Asylum, buncalow. foot Twenty-ninth s' Con.y Iaiand. 2- P.

44. Second annual clambake Arrah Wenaa Club of Richmond Hill, Edalmann'i Grove and Park. Metropolitan and Jamaica Richmond Hill. 6 p. Brooklyn Inelltuta Mue.ums Central 4- whlnarton ava! 4AM Brooklyn 1 4 '-7 ad Park 6 CONCERTS.

RECREATION PIERS. 7:4 Korth 8econd it. a.x rm Night." March, Alda Overture, Orphan Waltm. Bound from Rriectloa Fauvt Bextatta from Lucia 8'anr from La Bohtma Mcdlay overture Bouquet of Popblar Selection. Marcelie Ludere Intermecso.

Cavallarla RuaUcaaaT. March. In Africa -frfSoiSl Thomas P. Ward. Conductor.

Market st. Manhattan: Opera Nlfhf Crend Triumphal Entry from Alda. Overture. Fra Dlawolo Kxcerpte from Bohemian Olrt Intermezzo from Cavalierla Rustlcana. Mascagni Gems from Carman Blzot Pilgrims' Chorus from Lombardi' Verdi Erlnnenins from Taanha.Hr Warner Anvil Chorue from II Verdi Fantaaia Fauat Oonnos March.

Nlbelunr.n Warner Thomas F. Shannon, Conductor. Concert, Fourteenth Rertment Band Prospect Park, I 40 P. M. Oaerture, Tannhauaer Warner Reminiscence Dffsnbach och 8t i.Rlmmer On Tiptoe, Characterlatlc Hoemer Dance of tha Bayaderea, from Fera- mora jRoblnstets Cornet solo, Frank Martin.

Prologue. Farllacol Iieoncavallo Hobomoko, An Indian Romanes (new. Excerpts from Madsm 6herrr; Ballet Muaic, Mesanlello Auber Finale to Overture. Wnilam fTell. Rossini Frank Martin.

Conduct6r. EVENTS TO-MORROW. Labor au6r." Mardl gras, marls review. Old Mft Arias tamaltattoe. Utopia.

club J'-Pl I. Bab- potSb' Hem deb of Or, so. Anu bating. plr. nu jrnvar Jobflae, Bt.

S- m. kk. aiandala Dlamoad Social dub krrr'- '4 Lied or. BrwVCTiannel' Teaht Club. PUT I Games StaubecuVnY.

tlom coming wvtk. deb. Wr- I A tUoTlc ava rlaty, 441 1.t?iUV,ar'Env!r6vr.,,,r r.ar .4, EldaUdor M.oV,r1"' Port WMhnron 1111110 Ao'SitrK av.l,.Tt AntroaJ Mtla: and imM ftceo Wi'l tna Raw Dorp, a I aflame lr maatlng. Htraon Pt. Han '1st Church, 00 South Portland ava sl.x,?;.

liormn Cjcla dub. Norwa-gian Turn Soclstjr. uimar Park, I 14 P.M Cl Hurrleana Athlatie Club, Palaea HaiL l. OraaA p. 44.

ronvecuio, Poll.h siagava. Labor PM' MrrI Willoughby area. I in Th- Prlcce of Fvaos." audlrlum Ftony Brook. 14 41 Kaventh annual outlrg Michael fer- Aaaociauou. Duel's para, blia- party.

Jol.y Klftiwo. Baach1 PatlMon. Rockaway Morr-nat-in Saftbsr uvdoing. Bhaart "itTmPl. btuyvaaant an4 Raid es.

Outtng, Singing Society Klchankranz of nushlsgW Trk' lovbka Betvi and Park. Annual dinner. Central Labor Union. La- I tiiourbby sad Myrtia avaa. Pane.

Eaa'arn Fla'd Dub. Raw Indv-pardanca Had, pukt ava. and Watkina L. 4 P. 41 Initial aarvlcva Rw.

Clayton 11 at. Andrews Fourth ava. and Ftfiirth t-. 11 A. 41.

Annual Indian Clara Bake of New Hjda Bark Friendly dob. Wulforefs Motel. Floral Park. I P. Military rhaea, annual encampment First Rsslmsnt Irtah Votuataarw Camp Banburb Roaadala.

II A Outing. Daniel Dehr Relief Crc Schnooca Matrepalttan Park. Fluahlng and Metropolitan area Twenty-fifth annual eutlnr Brooklyn D. Taong Butcher Ouard. Schaihla a Flor-Ida Park.

Giendaln a Calvary P. E. Church, Rushw'ck are oaar Graaoa cloasd. accident to rector Rev. John Wlliiama Fourth annual mardl gras and carnival, tdlcwlld, boat from Broad Oiannvl ROckaway.

14 A. Entertainment. winiimeburf Mlaa Jennie Cohan a Seventh aa and Eleventh I William Jannlnga 'Th Old Religion. Grace Church. Weet lS.th Manhattan.

I P. M. Rev. Frank Gunaaulua of Chicago. at Plymouth Church.

Oransa ec. II A M. and 7 44 Annual eummer faatlval. Garmaata Finging Society of Grvcrport Klobut-aehak's Eldorado Park, Glradain Departure. Coroordla Flngin Social- for Thou rand Island from Grard Cantral Btatton, Manhattan.

I to Second annuel social. Ster-otypara Banavolant Society. Ulmer Path, afternoon and evening, dancing. 1-1 M. kaventh annual outlnr.

Michael "Cor. ooran Aaaoclatlen of Fou-teanth Asaarcb Dtairtot- DuaCe Park. Whlteator.a. Anaual ball. Toons Fo'ka Laaru of Bath Beach.

Borough Park Club. Thlr-teenth ava and Fiftieth 41 Bishop Burgees officiates, at. Ann Bridge hr mpton, lilt A ft. Johns kiss Ion, Art Museum. Southampton: afternoon Initial eorvlcea.

Re- George Merrt-am paator-aiecu Puri'iu Congregational Church. Marcv and Lalayetta area 11 A. M. and I II M. Annual labor service, (lev Andres Underhill.

Labor and tha Churrh hu-'h of the Ascension, Fifth ava. and Tenth st-. Manhattan- ll A Third anaual outng and games. James Sssnclauon. nec.ofl Aao-mbly District Infl-id Casino and Park Thompson and Hyatt avaa.

Wtnfla.d Torty hour davotion A II Film Thornton Fa Cecelia Non Henry at bast la'lp. Ft Philip Nert. NorthpoA fit Rosa af L'ma. Park, lie. and Fourteen Holy Martyr Morgan a.a due.

Now York Caledonia Gaigow 5 Lapland. Antwerp. 74. ranra. Tampico, 4.

Adriatic. Liverpool 77: Juaten, Barbados It. Retierdam. Boulogne J4: Buenos A I res Havana. 41.

acd Cloyaland, Charboarg, 44 CNION CHURCH ggRVJCES Flrat and Second Pcaabvta-ian and Reformed on the Hoiahia Church the pi'-grlma Bemean and Henry sra. l.n Edward F. Sanderson. 11 a. 41 Foulh Third ft.

nnd Rosa Ft Preabr-tertan FA Johns E. Reformed. Flrat Free Baptist and Flrat Baptlat. Ia- ava and Heap at. Rev.

Hugh S. Da. is. ot Bioomiat ton. 111.

fA Mark E. Third of Christ All All Souls. Rea. i( Gordon, at Flatbnah CoraragatlonaL Doraheatgr read and East Eighteenth 11 A. 1 Walla Memorial and Flatboah -tanan Foator ava.

and Eaat Th.rteenta at F-av. H. H. Field. II .4 11 Bay Rldta Pranbyteriaa nnd Reformed, Rev Famuel Miller af Frrot Congregational.

Timdrotk, N. At kAttcr, ii a. m. PARK CONCERTS 4a P. Praapact- Fourteenth Regiment Band Ovartur.

II Ouarany Gomel Selection Madame Butter Puccini Fcenea Plttonraque Maeecnrt a Arriu-k Fn Boheme. Largo from Haw World Symphonic. English horn obligato. Alai Trombone aolo, Th Leal Chord. SulUvae B- A.

Clarks. Ex carpi, from th works of Meyerbeer baranada Moaakowakl Gavotte. Mlgnon Thomas Ballet Mania. William Tall Roaoini Reminiscences of all troy Marche. Mllltatre 1 hop in Break Martin.

Conductor. COXCREGATIONAL. THECHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS Henry Street Union Service the irrt SeeesS Hrefbyterlen. Sonde Sent M. E.

nr.4 heforrond Morniei (oniy )1 M. Loton Prayer XtttiAy. Pndey nt P. Me Sunder. Sept, eep WARD r.

8ANDCK0ON. I rA TOMPKINS AVENUE CHURCH Bev. N7 McGEE WATER, mlnlt-rr Ree. JOHN rROMCHL end Mr T. Barnes, imui 10 no a vL, Momlrif UnrthJp.

Mermen fcy tbe R7 JOHN rROBCHL. Wee Nifit ferv.ee rrdey a fttt nt n'ejnrk. CENTRAL cokormatioxal Hnacnck yt-r renr FARKEB CALMAX. rl 10 fftA A VI preeebinf try tbr WILLIAM MIT1R AtLD. JCe Ete.vrf nereie Prnyer Bervice, Trldny trtn.nm nt o'clock.

CPICOrAL CHURCH OFTHEINCIRXJTIOH EtL Cliuoi laj FruATf Arn, REV. JOH a BACuH'JS, 3.1 Rtar I fioy cmmonltiu, II Mmog ad Holy Communion -inr oftriiA (undey frrhool, Bihie end Crn Inn oerrice reeunaed 17th ST. ANNS CHURCH Clinton nnd L-'rlugaton ra Holy Conauiuoa nt nnd A The rector, per. CAM PBEIJ, WaLILER wiU proeh nt 11 Ennj-n P-r 4 germon by Rev JOHN foPC A T. Ll K-Z I CHI Rji Cl ntofi ai, rnr PuJion it fipr'h.

rr Sundne nt 7 Ad Er WtNTTEL wii (lee an nddrai V. ortt peep men natd women, inrltfd nj ST. JAMES CHURCH 'i A. MMAlf NA Mnsaial A- Mo.jf Coamim e- tn cfcnrna mi Pav K. rOYELL APT IT.

PrrerhtD hr Rev. W. I. SOUTH ERTON IN TH baptist lEMPLE Are. nod yhTiBi ih BIBI.r -THtMlL AT M.

f'EMV, FERt IUR. Rea. B. At Utf ll- Will Bo the Dray -r Mtmg. edwewday Ersmlnt.

heypt. rekAXI EL BAPTIST CHt kCR. La-ay. XU 3 James 4IHA HI MITONf. pin J.

LCint COX- AXT. nt in- Xni.rc Worthjp Rrrnioc tfce pkntor Ne eewix'rn pr-ir Pniiy man reni Thr Landry ftchoe w- ther mmrm ft-ppt. 10th 8epteir ber (erce et the Ciooe the mom a wrrva a frept. 10 MFTflOfHPT. mbthdiat PAL CHURCH nt Peiofi R' WILLIAM L.

DAVIAOV lit SO A M. fmmm 130 A Rfnmtetal Arir erth jar mi thr pator 1 1 Krhoei. Thr cf Conoe- rrnion CHR1HT1AX M3EXCL rHVP.CH OF CHRTS? hCIEVTTFT, Tr-e re Hui4nve nt 10 45 A Scndnv gp'-n nt IS M. Wdnendr Vwitin ft end inn Hoerrn 55 Fu.ton 47 If leka 1. jj 4Um 4 er T0M0RR0W I AX AXBC1CI WHY DID CHRIST DIE 7 MWHV I ill.

rUDICT OEATA TWEE: ho COLLECTION DEATH AND LIFE The Preacher cf erunalrm was a h.an of great ritate," of olld po-yeiflona snd these, too. he found di-if pointing a have other before and after him. The one thing that never seem to bare occurred to him ast that the trouble might lie wJthio him. s-lf 1 made me great he tells us: I builded me houses; I planted me vinej-arda I made me gurdens and orchards. I got ger anta and maider.a I gathered me also silver and gold I aai great, and Increased more than all that were tefere me in Much 1-c made ar.d much be got hut for whom Note the me that accompanies each nt a Item on h'a Ust For himseif he did and tried al those ih'r-ga and the happmesa they brought was There are men to-day who may net even be more than wor.div wise, and who et know that the great works and houses ar.dcrmrda and garden which enjoy imoat aecurely and most completely are those they ordain not for themae.ve but tor ether.

Here, as in many other thing, we find the rreai her simply chUJ of hi own day and not th master af all time. Rut let us get nearer th heart of his plaint And how dieth the wt man? called into the surrounding night. Ta which the answer tame out of hi own mouth Aa the fooL Therefor I hated l.fe. Thi Is probably to-dag. as It.

his always been, tha worst deapg.r o' IL The ftar of death how irp-tlv runs like a Mark thread through all but an Infinitesimal part of mankind's literature: Woe upon lb life of man. which lasts but a little while! cried the Buddha. And at tha heart of Sthopan hatter drk look upon life lay tha earn resentment againat hla own dissolution. Id Europe and tha India 4.00 year before t'hrtat or Joo rears after It I always there: th fear -of death! But taking It cue from tb very mow who offered mankind th bitterest drink ever prepared for It from tha Buddha and Schopenhauer, both of Whom tries vainly to goad men Into forestalling the Inevitable science has turned that fear Inald out. And what Is thus laid bar to 0.

we find astoundedly lo ba (ha Will to Live, the Joy of Itving. tha pressure of that vital fore which rarrle and move and guides the whet universe. Edwin BJormaw ln th Forum. ALBERT A. DAT.

Word was received In Brooklyn today of the death of Albert Augustus Day at the home ot his daughter. Mrs. Gsorga Hayes, at. Plattsburgh. Mr, Day went to his daughter's home last May.

It Is supposed heart disease oaused his death. Mr. Day was well known In Brooklyn, especially throughout charitable circles, having been connected with tha Brooklyn Association for the Improvement of the Conditions of the Poor, with offices at 104 Livingston street, for the past thirty-three years. He occupied the position of general agent and corresponding secretary. He was born in Michigan and fought through the four years of the clyil war.

Joining a Michigan regiment as a private and retiring as major. In 1874 he was receiver of public money for the city of Saginaw, nnd later she Inspector of forests of that elate. He was a member pf Grant Post. G. A.

R. and the Monday Club. At one time he was a soloist In Grace Episcopal Church and St. Agnes' R. C.

Church. Mr. Day is survived, In addition to his daughter, by two sons, Albert T. V. Day.

of Naw Rochelle, and Abbot A. Day, of Cleveland, Ohio. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, of which he was a member. The Interment will be In Greenwood.

kelles korrow. The death of Kelles Korrow last Thursday at the home of hla grandson, Thomas J. Lloyd. 923 East Twelfth street, was due to physical Infirmities, Incident to old age. Mr.

Korrow was a native of the Province of Quebec and elghty-ene years of age. He had lived In Brooklyn for more than a half century and was one of the oldest members of Greenpoint Lodge, F. and A. M. Mr.

Kprrow was a ship carpenter and was-'engaged in building several of the wooden war vessels In the United States Navy during the war of the Rebellion. In 1873 he invented the device that was used by General Newton at the J3rst Hell Gate explosion and was engaged In that work to its completion. For many years he had lived in retirement. He was a widower and is survived by four daughters and one son. The funeral will take place to-mor-row afternoon at his late home.

The religious exercises will he conducted by the Rev. Edward Armstrong, pastor of the Ocean Avenue Congregational and William J. Master of the Greenpoint Lodge, will perform the' last rites or the Masonic order. The Interment will be made in the family plot In Cypress Hills Cemetery. LOUISA SICARDI.

Funeral services will be held tnis evening at 8 o'clock for Louisa Sieardi, who died Thursday after a long and painful illness, o5f diabetes. at her home, 75S Ocean avonve. She was born in New York City sixtv-one years ago. but moved into the, Eaat-ern District of Brooklyn when but a child, and lived ihers the greater oart of her life. She is survived by her husband, Salvaror Slcardl, and six children.

The interment will be at Cedar Grove Cemetery, of which her eldest son was the first controller. Mr. Sieardi Is well known in real estate circles. HENRY CAMPBELL. Henry Campbell, who kept a hay and feed" store in South Brooklyn with his son ever since coming to Brooklyn seventeen years died yesterday.

He was born In Coxsackie, Greene County, N. seventy-seven years ago and lived in that town until coming here. Despite his age Mr. Campbell was active in business and enjoyed perfect health until taken 111 eight weeks ago with heart disease. on tho wsy to rcoovpry and the end was sudden and unex-Pected.

He was a member of the Twelfth Street Dutch Reformed Church and the church societies, and was a well -known figure in South Brooklyn. He is survived by a widow, Frances Ten Eyck Campbell, two eona, Edward and Rufus, and two daughters, Mrs. Katherine Stevens and Miss Magdalene Campbell. The funeral services are to be held at his late home. 461 Forty-fifth street, this evening at oclock, and the interment will be made at the family plot at Saugertles, N.

Y. AMELIA KILLER. Amelia Killer died yesterday at her home, 483 Drlggs avenue, after a lingering lllnesa. She was born In Germany in 1839, and had lived in Brooklyn for the past thirty-five years. One niece, Mary Werner, survives.

Funenal services are to be held at her late home to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock and interment will be made at Lutheran Cemetery jmder the direction of T. T. Montene of 155 North Third street. SIMON II. LANGE.

Simon H. Lange, who died Thursday at ifls home, 94 Diamond street, after lingering illness, was born in Denmark and had been a resident of the Greenpoint section for twenty-two years. He was a member of Court J. D. Ahrens, No.

237. F. of the members of whicn have been ln-vlted to attend the funeral services to be held at his late home to-morrow afternoon at 2 oclock. Interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery, under the di-rection of James Hutts, of 768 Grand street. CATHERINE 8.

GILL. Catherine Spaulding GUI died yesterday at her home. 135 Luquer street, after a brief Illness. Shp was born In Ireland, came to this country in her youth, and had been a member and regular attendant at St. Mary Star of the Sea R.

C. church for tne past fifty-five years. She Is survived by three daughters. Mrs. James Mat-thewson, Mrs.

Elizabeth Maxwell and Mrs. Mary Wages. The funeral service ars to be held at her late home Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock and Interment will be made at Holy Cross Cemetery under the direction of M. Clavin, of 529 Court street. BRADFORD LEE GILBERT.

Bradford, Lee Gilbert, an architect, died yesterday at his summer home at Accprd, Ulster at the age of 67. Hie home was at 225 Park place, Brooklyn, and he had offices at 1 Broadway! Mr. Gilbert ws architect for the Tower Building the first skyscraper erected In Manhattan. also was an associate architect for the old Grand Central station. He was a nephew of Judge Gate Gilbert.

Mr. Gilbert married In 1892 Mrs. Marla McAu4ey. the widow of Jerry McAuley, the missionary Hhs waa his second wife, his first th daughter of the late Capt7 Rath-P. A.t of Brooklyn, having Used Player Pianos tes.

io, cm. Peae Plano Co. ante mu Hcurici run Under New Law Act Is Felony, and Prisoners Seem In For tit Attempted extortion constitutes a felony and Is punishable by from five to twenty years In prison, according to the State la that went-Jnto effect to-day. Formerly the transgression was a misdemeanor, the maximum penalty 'for which Is six months in prison. The first case to come up for consideration under the new law was that or Oujeeppe Caiatl, Antonio Speransa and Michael Lucivera, who live on Sackett street and are charged with attempted extortion by Louts Calngiotto.

23. of 699 Second street, who used to be In the coal business with the defendants. The complainant alleges the trio visited his office, at 190 Fifth avenue, and demanded $20. threatening to put him out of business if he refused. He did refuse, he Is still in business, and the trio are wondering how they kre going to escape sentence.

The case was first heard Jn Flat-bush court before Magistrate Rey. nolda, who held the accused Italians In bail of $2,000 each, as he believed the law, operative to-day, to have been already In effect then, on Aug. Magistrate Oelsmar to-day reversed the decision and commuted the bail to $500 each. FRENCH CASH KEY TO INTERNATIONAL WAR. No great nations can wage war successfully without the aid of French cash.

Is the opinion of Henry Clews, the banker, in commenting on the situation abroad. "No great natio ncan at the present time wage war against another equally great nation without having th eflnanclal backing of France, ays Mr. Clews. The people of France have the greatest storage of ready money of any nation. Actual war between Germany and France should not, therefore, be taken seriously, considering that German Government is already overburdened with both debt and expense, -as indicated by their last annual statement, showing a deficit of about Where, therefore, would 'Germany get money to carry on an expensive war? Not from England, France or the United States the three great money powers.

How could Russia have carried on the war with Japan without France's assistance? France furnished the money, hence It owed France at the end of the war over $2,000,000,000. No great nation excepting the United States could to-day go into a great expensive war If France should take the stand not to advance financial aid to either of the combatants. The people of France are the most thrifty and mone saving people of any of the civilised nations and the most loyal to their country and liberal in meeting the governments needs for defense or otherwise. RAILROAD EARNINGS BEST IN SOUTH, Railroad gross earnings continue to make fairly satisfactory comparison with a year ago, the total of all United States roads reporting to date for the three weeks of August aggregating $23,664,033, a gain of 0.6 per cent, as compared with the earnings of the same roads for the corresponding period last year. The best exhibit continues to be made by the roads throughout the South, most of the systems in that section reporting more or less gain, i In the West and Southwest the number of roads reporting losses exceeds those making gains, but the decreases as rule are very small and are almost completely offset by the larger earnings on a few leading systems.

Almost similar conditions prevail In other parts of the country, some roads reporting loss while others In closely adjoining territory report gain, none of which, however, are at all pronounced. BROUGHT ON A i PEST OF LOCUSTS. A number of years ago blackbirds were exceedingly abundant through eastern Nebraska. They were so plentiful that the farmers believed they were damaging crops, so they began poisoning the birds. A single grain of corn soaked in strychnine was enough to kill a.

blackbird. In the years that followed, great numbers of these and other birds were destroyed during the spring and fall. At the same time thousands of quail prairie chickens, and other game birds were killed in every county to supply the market. As the birds began to disappear, swarms of locusts took their place. These insects hatched out In countless numbers and began devastating crops.

Few fields of grain escaped damage. Many were entirely destroyed. Where blackbirds, quail prairie chickenB, plovers, and other blrds remained, they took living entirely on locusts. In such localities fair crops were secured solely through the fiBststnnre of the birds. The members of the United States Entomologk al Commission who witnessed the work1 accomplished by the birds In this region, said the results were so complete that It was Impossible to entertain any doubt as to the value of birds as locust destroyers.

William L. Finley in Success Magazine. THE VALUE OF SYSTEM. Th majority of people could of achievement by a little self-discipline in learning ao as to get hold of themselves as to depend on the prompt decisive action of tljeir own faculties A alon wull double the efficiency of many a business man 1 know why he does not get on faster. He works very hard perhap" and thinks that he has not half time enough to do what he b.u could av more than half the time that he now throws away In doing things over and over again from-lack of order, bystem is a tremendous energy saver and time 8wett 'Mar-den In Success Magazine.

THE $1,000 GRAFTtR. This Is the namelwln, liTcrlmlnal circles, to a child-pickpocket named Latsky because he had taken that amount In one hundred dollar bills from the pocket of a man who had Just drawn It from hi bank, and whom Latsky had bashfully stopped at the door to ask what time It was. The boy confessed later, while in the reform school, thst he used to avsr-ag about $1,200 per month from his tlttfta on th atreat. Wojil' Work. Many Who Had Feared to Trust Banks Bring Money to Post Office.

DEPOSIT $2,355 FIRST DAY. Rate of Four PerMinute Keep Clerks Busy. At th conclusion of th days bual- reaa at tha Postal Savings Bank Jn the Post Office yesterday the total deposit amounted to 12.35 by 138 Persons who opened accounts with I ncle Sam. This was from the time the bank opened Its doors at I oclock In the morning until closing time at 5 at the rate-of four to the minute, with two men In charge. The amount received from the sale fjtampa and cards by those who are saving on a small scale amounted to $32,50 for yesterday's opening record.

To-day the bank la open from 2 to 5, the same as every other day except, of course Sundays. It also be be closed Labor Day. fp to 10:30 o'clock this morning there were 21 depositors with a total amount of $S75. four of whom opened accounts vvithuha amount permitted anyxrne depositor in any single month, $100 each. Evidence that many persons with small sums of money keep their aav-'f' Inga at home rather than entrust i their entire fortune to ordinary savings banks which Is considered has- ardous.

Is manifest by the many ap-. parently poor women and men who open accounts with Uncle Sam. One cid woman who looked wretchedly poor appeared at the bank yesterday carrying a three-months-old Infant In heraBms, with two older children dragging at her skirts. Sho opened an account for the maximum, $100, and after passing from the window heaved a sigh of relief, as though her nightly vigils of protecting her money at home from possible burglars Were at an end. In regard to the disputed question whether the State assesses a tax on all deposits In the postal savings bank.

Postmaster Voorhles was unable to decide. "Such a decision is solely for the Judiciary to determine. he stated, "though personally I do not imagine It will be construed to apply to the postal system. THE T0LL0F THE SEA. Careful French statisticians compile ach year for the Bureau Veritas a record of the accidents and losses suffered for a twelvemonth by the merchant marine of all nations from which data are obtainable.

The yearly summary put forth by the "Bu-reau'Verltas is counted authoritative by all maritime men owners, agents, underwriters. Few who ljll in the palm gardens or loiter on the roadways of the swift cities of ease that --cross the Atlantic know the Bureau ts record of the tolls gathered by that complacent sea down-far down below the rails. Nine hundred and eighty-six vessels or the world merchant marine-steam snd sail totally lost in the 1903. say these careful French statisticians, and this tally recognlzej only steam vessels over one hundred ton burden. Such the record of complete destruction, and the following ot damage not irreparable: 4,273 steamers Injured by fire, collision.

stranding, stress of weather and other causes. The destruction varies I1 year to year; in 1907 there were )taL losses among merchant ships; in 1906 1,023 steamships and sailing vessels were gripped by the sea. No count Is kept of the men who go sown in the ships that are lost The statisticians del only with the commercial values. So bureau In the world finds profit or incentive In keeping count of the thousands of sea workers who are claimed as toll by the sea we -reckon tamed. Only this is taken in count: That every day In the year somewhere on the restless wastes of the seven seas two tn some years three ships are snatched In greed by the power that tolerates the many.

So the average has it. tekM mot of lts tithe by stealth. A bandage of fog about the pyes a racinR current moving unseen beneath the 'masked Innocence of flat water, a knife-edge reef, or sand that yields until a keel ar then destruction. -Not quite four hundred of the 986 vessels lost In the year 1908 we're wrecked through stranding; I5g of these were steamships, superior as were over the barks and schoon-hJect to the whims of the wind. elusions sent ninety craft to the bot- 'lr destroyed thirty-eight Ninety-three filled and foundered.

Indcr th had which means that not even careful French I ian can divine the secrets of I fty w-ere registered 7Vellees HfardpVrRbert I I I rr.day-s,,pt- jhn Fl.S I bloved husband of Catherine. Lynch, in his 28th year. -v" hl late wldence, -9 Myrtle avenue, on Monday, fcepL 4, at 2 P. M. nAtiPrattsburh I.

Ifni. Albert Augustus Day, in hi T'M vTar'i Fun'ral service will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from 8t. Michaels Church. Hlah and Gold sts. Interment at Green-wood Cfmtery.

rxnsV. Amaranth Council iri Royal Arcanum-Brothers; You requested to attend the funeral vice of our lute brother, Georg, p. pi CLEARY. Regent OfcORGE A. WARD.

MILLER. Mrs. Mary Edna Miller fnee beloved wife of William J. Miller, died Friday f'irvived by three son William, Edward and Lawrence, and daughter. Gertrude.

Funeral teK Joseph O'Hara, late member of Engine Co. No. 6. New York Fr Department. Funeral from his late residence, 912 Second avenue.

Manhattan, on Monday. 8ept. 4, at 9:30 A. thence to Church of' St. Boniface, Forty-seventh street and Second avenue.

Members of the Firemen's Mutual Benevolent As aociatlon requested to attend JAMES CLIFFORD, nOEFFLIXG, PrldenL Secretary. secured a divorce from him in 1877. Mrs. McAuley was for a long time the matron of the Cremorne Mission, In Twenty-second street. Mr.

Gilbert was trustee of the mission at the time. Since then he has always been Interested In mission work In the city, and in 1908 built and equipped the mission tug Jerry McAuley. This tug has been cruising In nearby waters since then, carrying, in addition to the crew, a supply preachers. Mr. Gilbert Is survived by his wife and one daughter.

MARIE E. GLYNN. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon at her home. 105 Suydam street, for Marie E. Glynn, daughter of James and Catherine Coleman Glynn.

Miss Glynn dted yesterday after a short Illness, the age of 8 years. The funeral Arrangements are in the hands of T. Montene, of 1698 Broadway. JOHN L. CONNOR.

John L. Connor, who died yesterday at his home, after an Illness of six days from pneumonia, was born in Brooklyn twenty-seven Aears ago and educated in St. James' Commercial School, Jay street. After leaving school he entered the 'employ of the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company. Two years ago he went to work In tha Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he was employed up to last Saturduy.

He was a member of the John J. Kelly Association and had a large circle of friends. The funeral, will take place from his late home. 279 Myrtle avenue, on Monday afternoon at 2 oclock, and the interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Catherine: two sons.

John and Harold; his mother and two sisters. SARAH M. QUINN. Sarah M. Quinn died Thursday after a short illness.

She was bom In Ireland. elghty-two years ago. and had lived in Brooklyn for forty years. She Is survived by two daughters, Margaret M. and Mrs.

Thomas McKnight, and two sons, Hugh and Alexander. Funeral services are to be held at her late home, S218 Avenue to-morrow at 2 P. the Rev. Edward Heine officiating. Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.

JOSEPH O'HARA. Joseph O'Hara, late member of Engine Co. No. 6. of the Fire Department, died to-day at his home, 912 Second avenue, Manhattan.

He was a member of the Firemens Mutual Benevolent Association, which has oeen requested to attend his funeral services, to be held at his late home Monday; thence to the Church of St. Boniface. Forty-seventh street and Second avenue, where a solemn requiem mass will be said over the remains. MAGARET CALLAHAN. Magaret Callahan, widow of Lieut.

John T. Callahan, died Thursday at the age of fifty-four years. The funeral services will be held at her late home to-morrow morning at 9 oclock. ANNIE E. WEIGHTMAN.

Annie E. Welghtman, daughter of the late William B. Evans, died yesterday at her home. 120 Hancock street, where the funeral services will be held to-morrow afternoon at 3 oclock. EDWARD BURNS.

Edward Burns, formerly of 94 Butler street, died Thursday at the Kings County Hospital after a lingering illness. He Is survived bv one son, Thomas, and a brother James. Howard Howard, of 624 ourth avenue, have charge of tha arrangements. RICHARD A. CARROLL.

Richard A. Carroll. a prominent resident of the Wallabout section and a wholesale flour merchant, died yesterday at his heme. 846 Bedford born ln Brooklyn and had always lived here. Funeral services will be held from his home, thence to St.

Patrick R. C. Church, Monday morning, where a solemn mass of requiem will bo cele-brard. Interment will be mad at Holy i ross Cemetery under the direction of John Tpacy, of 908 Kent avenue. Stephen McCarthy.

Stephen McCarthy, of 516 Court street, died Thursday. Hd was born In Brooklyn fqrty-one years ago. He was a member of St. Marys Parish A wife, Elizabeth, and five children survive. Funeral to-morrow after-' noon at 2 oclock, with lntermesit at Holy Cross Cemetery under the direc- tion of Robert C.

Farley, of 485 Court street. MICHAEL FORRY. Michael Forry, 54 years old, died yesterday at his home. 47 Tompkins avenue. He was born ln Ireland asd lived ln Brooklyn 27 years.

He was hutband of the late Jane Higgins Forry. He was a member of St. Louis Roman Catholic Church, Ellery street and Nostrand avenue. A daughter, Winnie, survives him. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2 So o'clock, with interment at Holy CrSs Cemetery under the direction of William Dunlgan St Son, of 201 Park avenue.

GEN. B. H. GRIERSON DIES IN MICHIGAN. JACKSONVILLE, Sept 2.

Gen. Benjamin H. Grierson Is dead at his summer home at Omens, Mloh. His death leaves hut two of the major genarilfl ot til. Civil wr.

H. THACKERAYS APPEAL TO OUR OWN TIMES. "One need not ask If Thackeray is Thermal? thftt rre atnesa. 1 small men cannot do It thev do the cntur1es.y lo 0 ln the London "Sat-olf vlew. apropos of thaxecen celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Thackeray's birth The quality oth celbratlon and the Tkh' aPPrciatIons and Thackeray which have been pouring from the press during the Weeks to emphasize ord? qued On July 18.

inthe old Charter House School In Grev- attended as I1 has immortalized in Vanity Fair and The New-comes, Lord Rosebery formally opened an exhibition of Tbaekerav'i manuscripts, drawings and letters The Corn hill Magazine." of which TTiackeray was at one time editor, has issued a special TTiackeray num-Lavy Thackeray's oil as dlRCvered and printed on both 'sides of the Atlantic some of her fathers unpublished manuscripts, and is contributing biographical Introductions to a new edition of his works. Thackeray was pre-eminently an exponent of the Victorian epoch, and the very word "Victorian. as even the London Times admits, now sounds a little local and genteel. Yet TTiackeray has successfully bridged the gulf between his own age and ours. He has bridged It," savs Herman Scheffauer in "The Book News Monthly (Philadelphia).

"In the same way ln which he bridged another that which stretched between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, between the age of Fielding and his own from the first of the great English novelists of the old school to the last of the old school. Thackeray Is the natural stepping-stone Into that age of powdered wigs and sedan-chairs. Three great prose masters loom out of the shadows which are beginning to dim the early part of the nineteenth century. They are Scott. Dickens and Thackeray.

The first of this triumvirate. comments Mr. Scheffauer, Was by nature a feudalist, the second a democrat, the third an aristocrat. The genius of Scott was romantic, of Dickens comic, of Thackeray critically humorous." Current Literature. THE PASSING OF THE OPIUM CURSE.

Japan. Insignificant In size compared with China and supporting a people of the same race, fought one of the greatest wars in modern history, and defeated a first-class power of Europe. At once China was on fire. If Japan had done this thing, why could not she do as much, and more? One great reason was opium. Men cannot achieve glory in the opium dens, and out of this humiliating consciousness was born a determination to be rid of opium.

But though the moral idea has gripped the Chinese mind and conscience and the desire to share in world progress and power has been stimulated to a high degree, the dominant note ln the great reform is a sense of economic ruin. The best lands of the Empire have been given to the poppy, a noni-uscful. not to say ruinous crop. The population has been Increasing and food production decreasing. Famines have continued for long periods ln one district, and another district ln the same province, with sufficient supply, has been unable to send relief from lack of transportation.

By the use of opium the strength of the people has been sapped below the earning capacity ln thousands of cases. The masses have beet held In a hopeless bondage to the national vice, and the wheels of internal progress have been clogged. But within the past- three years a thrilling chapter has been written in which despair has. given place to hope. It Is a dazzling account of one of those brilliant onset by which Right, after long years of plodding, suddenly sweeps on to victory.

To realize the magnitude of China's accomplishment. It Is necessary to consider some of the difficulties, which have been Tljanlc. With the poppy to be swept from the fields of every provinca and almost every district, with a thousand walled cities, a hundred thousand towns, and a million hamlets to be freed from opium, together with the vast stretches of country and the defiles of the mountains where the blind tiger lies In wait for his victim, the task of sup-prtsslon has been stupendous. The reformers have been met ln places with hoes snd pitchforks, and the law has not been enforced without bloodshed. The physical difficulties Slone have been such as we who live In a more highly developed portion of the world can scarcely comprehend China has few railroads, and in some 'sections the worst roads on the globe.

Into such- country the reform had to penetrate. It must not be forgotten alsp that China is made up of twenty-on semi-dependent provinces, besides dependencies, w-lth a separate army, a separate flsral system, and different manners and customs. In such a disjointed federation as this uniform effort had to be made. Rosa Pendleton Chiles, in th Forum. AUTUMN.

Thert'a autumn In the air. I do not know from when It comes, nor why I know, But the full winds that blow Are done with summer rest; The colors In the breast Of the strong hills grow deep With shadows that slow creep Towsrj winter. Theres a fnlrth Which lau(hs across tha earth wildly, lest the grief Of summer find relief In tears. TV hence comes the word The startled gardens heard? Who whispered neath his breath Of that white silence death? TIDES: Sandy Hook. I Got.

felsnd Hljrh low Blth JS 14 A. 1 8 00 5.47 9 flip. SS 10 SO IS REFUSED II LICENSE Bron Birger ron WesseLof Stockholm, Sweden, applied to-dky at th City Hnll for a llcens tor kin fourth marriage. Hln three former Nslvee, all ot whom he married ln Sweden, were sisters. Two of them died nd received a divorce from the third.

It was because ho was unable to produce his divorce paper that City Clerk Scully refused to grant him a license to wed Mrs. Marie Noer, of Chicago. The Baron waa a much vexed men when he found he could not get th papers. tore 'his application to bits end announced he would hurry to Chicago, where he could get married without a license, HOW SURROUNDINGS? COUNT. 5 Resolve to put things Where they belong st the right time, pon't trust to the future, for you may have leas time to-morrow than to-day.

Dont leava a lot of tall-dnda hanging about your oTflco or place of business. for these ere Mgns of weakness, ev dencee of your lack o( executive aunty. People meaiura you vty largely by your surroundings. If they see your desk or office or your piece of business ail In confualoia they tak for granted that you $re a poor business man. You make -a bad Impression, and this Impression la your reputation, for men commuhtcate their Impressions to others.

Finish every task you begin before you begin another," says a writer. Nkng away In their prgper places, before you sleep, garment you have worn In th evening. Straighten up tables and bosk stand before you retire- at night; and after you retire, before you fall asleep, aay to yourself, I. in Order, System end Neatness. i Ask that power be given you dur-Inir tiwp to grow tn thog virtu, and never rest until you otstatn them.

Orison Swett laardea in Success Magazine Highland. Farty-aavanth Regiment Rand Marcn. Ceroaallom from Tha prophet. Ovartur. Kan tartan Luataplel.

Kaiar-Rela CenceTt waits IEralla folltatra aavasta Feiectloo. Robl Hood da Seven Virginia Skedaddle Mjddietoa Overture. Lwryuathe hekev Kaoorpla from Tro-stere Verdi Ramtoa a Hits. ianM be i set loo from kantssa Wan.co Popular Melodise stern Louie Borjea. Can dun or.

Fart Or woe Habere Csacirt Band March. The Prophet Overture. Orpfaaua tbr'eahacli Valeo. Return af Spring Abaldtaulal lntermraso. know Quean aaiaar Novallat.

Unala Tama Cahm Lamps Fantaaia Carmen uIM UHChraeU Fulli.aa Medlar. Summer Bars Heinaaa Charaatariatlc, Tha At hi atlas and 441a Do Prarar SeieetMa, Th Girt of My Dreams Jooaph Haber, Ra ad master. tuaaaL MrCermlcka Military Band March. Tha Free g-um Oyartara, lamps Uaretd Concert alts, addla tha Wlada Falactla. Alma B-vewat Malanaa Renas of th Day.

tier Raaarpta frm Tannhauaer Wagner Overture, Light Calvary puna Selection. Rj'nng Mart R.h't Potpeurri, ll Trevatere Veril Balaeilon. Popular Melodies Remick 4. McCqrmick, 4ta.dma.ier. TIDKft Oev.

Tc 4. a ar Mi lev A A41 JhJA. 4 it P. Hi lo 3iP, M. 4 if 11 jo BUYING LEGISLATORS IN JOBLOTS.

On day. writes Sloan Gordon tn Socceas Magazine. a farmer member of tha Ohio Houaa. displayed, inadvertently. a iarg poll of bill in the Nell House lobby.

A fellow member gaged In at th show of trealth. I Just sold a drov of explained tha farmer mam ber rather hastily and confusedly. The observing on waa thought'uL' I did not reply for tba haif-minuta I usually essential to th fuil-meaaured beat of hla menial proceaaea. Aid i Tasa." be drawled, and I'll bet I'm one o' them hawga." THE REAL THING. Stranger Hove vou a good ha tonic you can recrnmend? Druggist Prohibition town) He ia something that is apoken of favorably by peopla who hae dr IL Puck.

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