AS THE WORLD REVOLVES CLUB MAN’S TRAGIC SUICIDE. Member of Ancient New York Family Ends Life in Disgrace. Frank De Peyster Hall, forced to re sign from leading New York clubs, eompelled to give up his business, and shunned by his former friends, killed himself Oct. 10 in his apartments. His suits for $1OO;OO0 damages for slander against the president of the Galomet club and the secretary of the Ifew York Yacht club were to have pome up in court that day. Hall was a member of an old New York family, and until recently war president of the firm of F. De Peyster Jiall & Co., importers. His resigna tion as a member of the Calumet ciub was requested on July 28, 1903, and was immediately given. Hall wa£ alsc a member of the St. Anthony club, the Mew York Yacht club and the Trinity alumni. He was 50 years of age. The institution of the slander cuits only became public recently. These were against Alfred H. Bond, presi dent of the Calumet club, and George A. Cormack, secretary of the New York Yacht club. Hall alleged tnat both men, in conversation with others. 0rjZ7O£jP f£4L£.' Mad accused him of disgraceful prac tices while he was a member of the Calumet club. He alleged that the disgraceful charges against him had compelled tin. to resign the presidency of F. De Peyster Hall & Co.; that his business and social acquaintances refused long er to transact Dusiness with him cr to associate with him; and that he had been obliged to abandon entirely his occupation. The defendants in the slander suits declared that they were ready to ■jrove their charges and Supreme Jus lice Levintritt signed an order requir ing Bond to give a bill of particulars. It is said that Hall had heard that the district attorney had started an investigation of the charges made against him with a view to possible notion, and that this knowledge may have led to his suicide. CHAFFEE CLINGS TO UNIFORM. Only Officer on Duty in War Depart ment Who Wears It. War department officials and em Dloyes are unable to make up their Kinds whether the joke is or is not oa Gen. Chaffee. While he was in the far west last summer inspecting army posts the order issued during the Spanish war requiring officers on duty in the war department to wear their uniforms during office hours was rescinded, and since then the wear ing of uniforms at the department has been abandoned. That is, it has with one important exception. The exception is Gen. Chaffee, the rank ing officer, of the army, who appears at his desk every day in his military attire, including the three stars on each shoulder, indicating his rank. Either he does not know of the latest order on the subject or he does not care. Naturally none of his subordi nates feel called on to suggest a change, so that Gen. Chaffee con tinues conspicuous as the only man in uniform in the war department. Russian Admiral Knows Men. < Admiral Robert Wiren, who has been intrusted with command of the remnant of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur; has been before the public during the present war as commender •or the cruiser Bayan, the one Russian ■vessel that has steadily distinguished 'herself. Though idolized by his men, brother officers* do not approve his plan of collecting all sorts of scoun drels and making smart seamen of them. Nevertheless his judgment in this regard was vindicated on the oc casion when he visited an English port about a year ago. He gave eighty sailors shore leave one Sun day, when no places of amusement were open. He told them “the honor •f the Bayan” was in their keeping, and not a single man overstayed his leave or became intoxicated. In English Harvest Fields. Driffield, in Yorkshire, is probably the only place in England where the harvest bell is still rung. On each o{ these days, ah 5 a. m., the church bell sends the harvesters to the fields, and at' 8 o'clock in the evening sets them on their homeward weary way. In Hertfordshire the same signals ane given by blasts upon a horn, which is Uown at the farm house. In some rural districts the beginning of the harvest is still a little ceremony, the •ret sheaf being cut by the clergy man. Confederates Mourned for Kearney. The only, thing that marks the spot where Gen, Ehil: Kearney fell in the Battle of Chantilly, Va., is a rough oioaa of pine, and that was placed there by an old Johnny Reb—Capt. J. N. Ballard. Gen. Lee’s old chief of scoots, Capt. Stringfellow, has told the story of how the tears came into the eyes of Lee and Stonewall Jack son when they heard of Kearney’s death. He had been with them in the Mexican campaign and they loved him. CHRISTIAN CHURCH CONVENTION Thousands in Attendance at the Gathering at St. Louis—Short History of the Church. (Special Cor In 1804, just one hundred years ago, Barton W. Stone, an American, born in 1772, started a non-denominational church, calling it simply “Christian.” Alter one hundred years of existence {this distinctively American church numbers a million and a quarter mem bers and has increased in the last decade, especially, at such a rate as to cause widespread comment. The life of Barton W. Stone, the human founder of this church, reads Mrs. Nancy E. Atkinson. President of the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions. like a romance. Though a village in Maryland witnessed his advent, his early years were spent in the back woods of Virginia, whose quiet was disturbed now and again by the raids of contending armies. He resolved to “secure an education or die in the attempt,” as he himself has declared. It is strange that with an ambition to practice law, and going with those students who made light of religion “in their jests at the pious,” this respondence.) new vision which resulted in him and several followers rejecting the party nr me which they had so long worn and calling themselves simply Chris tians. Such was the origin of the Disciples of Christ. But Ireland and Scotland had a great share in the development of this movement. Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian minister, left Ireland to find health in the New World. A year later his son, on the way to join his father, was wrecked on the coast of Scotland, and entered Glasgow uni versity. When the reunion came Ut • 1809 father and son found themselves thinking very much alike. In that year the famous “Declaration and Ad dress” was issued, in which Thomas Campbell and those associated with him declared their intention of taking the Bible alone as their rule of faith and practice. Such a stand naturally produced opposition that has not yet tiled entirely away. Alexander Camp bell was at times bitterly received when be went back to Great Britain. But Campbell's influence in history is unmeasurable. “Surely,” said Geo. D. Prentice, “in his essential charac ter he belongs to no party, but to the world.” Gen. Robert E. Lee picked him out as one of the highest representatives of the race. These men, with Walter Scott, re lated to the “great Sir Walter Scott,” were the forerunners and leaders of a large number of preachers who v ent about the country preaching the Reformation of the Nineteenth Cen tury. The convention will cover a week, beginning with a concert the night of Oct. 13, and ending with “Disciples of Christ Day” at the World’s Fair the following Thursday. Noted speak ers and leaders will be present from all parts of the United States and abroad. The Disciples of Christ, when the World’s Fair directors decided they co,5Id not have a building devoted to religion, determined to erect a build Christian Church Pavilion at World’s Fair, young man should ultimately prove the founder of a great religious refor mation. In the end he became the pastor of a Presbyterian church at Cane Ridge, Ky. It was here that he discovered ho was not in accord with the relig ions ideas of that age. Here, too, was held that remark able revival in 1801. It almost gave at that time a national fame to this little place in the cane brakes of ; Bourbon county. Here is a descrip- : tion of one of the meetings, by an eye-witness. “When the ground had been clear ed, scats of roughly hewn logs were prepared; over these seats a roof of clapboard was erected, a rude stand constructed for the speakers, houses of logs or tents erected. The attend ance at this meeting was enormous, having been estimated at twenty to thirty thousand persons. The relig ious duties were kept up clay and night without intermission. There would be a half a dozen preachers at the same time in different parts of the grove. The hospitality was free and lavish. At night the scene was weird in the extreme, hundreds of candles and torches throwing their uncertain light upon the tremulous foliage, the solemn chanting of hymns, impassioned exhortations, earnest prayers, sobs, shrieks or shouts burst ing from excited persons. The sud den spasms that seized upon scores and cast them suddenly to the earth, all conspired to invest the scene with terrific interest and to work up the feelings to the highest pitch of ex citement.” This revival, whatever may be thought of its manifestations, pro duced another great crisis in relig ious history. Barton W. Stone had a VWVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/VSAAAA/ ing of their own. This they have done—the only exhibit of its kind upon the grounds. Here all the socle ties represented in the convention, at well as the colleges and publishing interests connected with the church have their displays. The building is partly modeled after the library of Alexander Campbell at Bethany col lege, which he founded. Many of the colleges will have banquets during the convention, and one—Christian Dr. W. T. Moore. A favorite pupil of Alexander Campbell, and for many years a leader In pulpit, press and college. College, of Cclumbua, Mo.—has been assigned a day at the fair—Oct. 18. It is one cf the oldest and most pop ular woman’s colleges west of the Mississippi. Returns Wedding Presents. The wedding presents received in expectation of the marriage of J. A. C. McColman and the daughter of the Lord Mayor of London, which did not take place because McColman with drew at the last moment, are Jaelng returned, to the number of 300. Among them is a superb diamond necklace from the London Court of Al dermen, and a pair of diamond ear rings, and set of table silver from the Common Council. Reward for Saving Life. August Lutteken, who has been run ning a fish and oyster business in East St. Louis, has received word from a firm of reputable English law yers that a Liverpool sea captain, re cently deceased, has left him $25,000. Eighteen years ago, while rounding Cape Horn in the British merchant man Westgate, he saved Capt. Wat kins from being swept overboard in a fierce storm. The captain died re cently and left the sum named to the man who preserved his life long years ago. Ask3 Annulment of Divorce. A San Franciscan named Frederick Muller got a divorce from his wife several months ago on the ground of desertion and cruelty. Later she was committed to an insane asylum. No/ he has had the decree of divorce se. aside on the ground that he believe her mistreatment of him was due tt the condition of her mind, and that he wishes to care for her during the peri od of her infirmity and afterward Id the event of her recovery. Sheriff Not Seeking Riches. Sheriff Erlanger of New York caus ed a sensation in the board-, of esti mates last week when it was found that the annual appropriation for which he asked was several hundred dollars less than that of last year. Mayor McClellan and the other mem bers had difficulty in believing their eyes when they saw the figures. One jocose individual moved for an inves tigation of the sheriff’s office, but the others were too overcome by aston ishment even to smile at the pleas antry. Invention Will Render Obsolete Present Day Type of Engines The man who has built a steam en gine which will render obsolete all ex isting steam power plants, railway and marine engines, sat on the other side of a table from me in the Hotel Lafayette in Buffalo the other night. Triumphant at the end of a thirty years’ struggle with crushing defeats and wretched failures, standing on the threshold of millions in wealth and of such fame as is Stevenson’s, Edison’s or Marconi’s, yet he merely chatted in an easy, commonplace way of his invention, putting into the termimol wr\s wm. u. normAN ogv of the unmechanical the fasci nating story of his wrestle with the archimedean problem and his victory. Across the room sat two massive, bearded men, glum and silent over their cofTee. They were two Russian naval officers who had that afternoon received his refusal of a dizzy figure for five years' complete and secret control of his engine for their navy. They wished to exclude the United States, as well as all other nations, from the benefit of that engine, and William M. Hoffman, the man who has given the best years of his life to build it, told them they did not have enough money in all Russia to induce him to cripple his native country in any way for one minute. That is the sort of a man he is. Telling his own story over that ta ble, Mr. Hoffman said: "The object of any engine or motor which is used for the purpose of de veloping power is to secure the great est power with the least consumption cf fuel and lowest possible cost for maintenance, together with a mini mum space occupied by the engine or motor. Great progress has been made in the past few years in the develop ment of high speed reciprocating en gines. Invention has greatly reduced the floor space occupied for a given horse power. “The reciprocating engine must in, the geometrical center of the cylin der, and the distance from the center of the shaft tto thee bisection at right angles of the line of the circumfer ence of the ‘throw’’ of the ellipse iff equal to the radius of the cylindrical cavity,, so that the ellipse on the ‘throw’ side is in flush contact with the cylinder and on the other side' there is a space or chamber into which protrudes the first segmental blade fitted to a housing in the cylin der and guided by a crank. Diamet rically opposite is a duplicate blade, but the ‘throw’ of the ellipse presses it back into its housing. “The ellipse is practically the steam chest. Steam is admitted at the end of the hollow shaft into the ellipse, and by a port into the part of the chamber on the convex face of the segmented blade. The steam expands against three faces of resistance, the outer surface of the ellipse, the inner surface of the cylinder, and the con- - vex surface of the blade. Two are un responsive; the third and last, the blade, recedes before the pressure and pushes the cylinder into revolu tion. “Now, the first segmental blade, ap proaching the greater dimension of the ellipse, is forced back into its housing, and the second segmental blade, relieved of the pressure of the greater dimension of the ellipse, comes out of its honsing and when protruded steam again issues from the part in in the ellipse into the newly formed chamber. theJ first segmental blade now acting as an abutment, and the cylinder is driven on until the first blade comes out again, and so on. the alternating process goes. “Steam is admitted only during two separate sixths of the revolution, and the control is centered in a device which is also my invention and whose purpose and effect only need be de scribed. No free steam engine is eco nomical. The exhaust part of my engine is constantly open to the at mosphere in an uncompounded type. “In compounding I can get results that are more marvelous to the en gineer than the engine itself will be to the public. “An engine must run according to the work it has to do. I can auto matically control my engine so that if it makes one more revolution a min ute than a given number steam will 1 be cut off until the engine drops to its desired pace. There are few re ciprocating engines but can do the same thing, but there is none that by the same device can cause an engine overcoming a friction load of one hun dred horse power to drop almost in stantly to one-half or less horse pow er. My rotary engine will do it. “In railway use the center of grav ' ity can be lowered one-half and the long dreamed of single *car propulsion is within reach. A freight hauling en gine would be in shape more like one “For marine use a complete revolu Won' will occur iii all steamers abaft tire bulkhead forward of the boilers. The new construction will allbw for great economy of space in'boiler room, bunker room, engine room. In gen eral hull construction there can and must be a new allowance in lines for speed. The weight of steel intended to resist vibration can be lessened to 1 meet the exigencies of other strains, for vibration will no longer be a fea ture. When the screw flies out of water the ship will not be shaken. “A liner fitted with my engines should cross the Atlantic in a little more than two days. “For stationary use slight founda tions are needed, and a five hundred horse power engine could be put on top of the Flat Iron building with ab solute safety. There is no vibration. The transportation and installation of a power plant for mines difficult of access is nicely facilitated. “Power cost will be reduced 40 per cent. Electric currents will be cheap ened 50 per cent. There will be a great saving in gear for speed. There are dezens of other things I need not point out.”—Boston Herald. — Then He Sat Down. A lawyer was examining a witness in a case where the question involved was as to the mental condition of the testatrix. The witness trader examina tion, lierselt an aged woman, had test! fied to finding the testatrix failing childish, and that when she spoke tc her she looked as though she did not understand. The cross-examining attorney tried to get her to describe this look, but she didn’t succeed very well in doing so. At last, getting a little impatient he asked: “Well, how did she look? Did she look at you as I am looking at you now, for instance?" “Well, yes,” replied the witness softly; “kind of vacant like.” Fairly Warned. One of the inhabitants of the city ol Posen found himself a few days age in a delicate situation, as is shown by the following signed advertisement which appeared in the columns of the local paper: “Known! The name ol the gentleman who, on Tuesday even ing, as I was walking with my bride in the gardens in the Wilhelmsplatz gave me a box on the ears is known to me. Unless before Sunday even ing next he has called upon me and apologized I shall place the matter ir the hands of the police. Ke is Vel aware of my address. My bride alsc knows him, as he formerly annoyec her with proposals of marriage and met with a rebuff. That is why he gave me the box on the ear. He if known T” Japanese Are Apt Scholars. The Japanese began the study ol KWN Kjjm tuo vtr» flOTAKy 51W Vitur A. STtArt IHTRAHE TO MCXXW b . watt m [tupst wrotT c uvoiva* ounkmcahki Kvavi*. en*:**. f.tw*w.sw n jwir (owiUTioa tin fan bfluow mi too o» RlT A . KtvaviNC (YtiWlR. B . HRM V(,MCHTAL MM c. M TO SNQ.ECA* TKDPXSIOA modern warfare forty years ago. Teu Samurai, detailed for the purpose by the government, got instruction from the officers of a British regiment then stationed at Yokohama, and proceeded to work out tactical problems with little pieces of painted wood upon a mat spread out on the floor. Irish-French Trade. At present all trade between Ireland and France is done by means of trans shipment at an English port. So it Is small in volume. As the result of efforts made by the French consul general in Dublin arrangements have been made for a semi-monthly ser\' lce of steamers direct between Tre port and Dublin. Independence for Negroes. dtn Afro-American stock company, composed of negroes, has been or ganized in San Bernardino, southern California. It proposes to bring to that part of the state all the South ern negroes who have the will and the money, to make themselves inde pendent as ranchers and orange grow ers. Divorces in Prussia. The number of divorces in Prussia Jn 1902 was 5,278. The percentage was from twice to ten timei as high in Berlin as elsewhere. Canadian Grown Tobacco. Winnipeg is about to namifacture tobacco grown in Canada. Irish Immigration. The official reports up to Aug. 31 show that, out of 32,432 Irish emi grants, 28,800 went to the United States, and only 3,246 to Canada or other British colonies. The London Chronicle remarks upon this: “The Irishman, when he leaves his native land, apparently likes to cut the Brit ish connection altogether.” Reindeer Thrive in Alaska. Dr. Jackson’s experiment in accli matizing the Siberian reindeer in Alaska, at first thought a failure, is proving a great success. The animals have taken to the Alaskan moss, of which there is an inexhaustible sup ply, and are multiplying fast. They are useful as pack or sledge animals and yield a rich milk. Building Up the French Navy. The French naval program insures that in 1908 France will have twenty eight battleships, twenty-five battle ship cruisers, thirteen armored coast guard ships, six first-class cruisers, fifteen of the second and thirteen of the third class, besides smaller craft, among wh: ch will be sixty submarines. Filling for Life Preservers. Adjacent to the rivers in some parts of California is a vast acreage of tule —a kind of reed. The United States steamboat inspectors have found that tule makes much better material for the filling of life preservers than cork or other materials, and it is exceed ingly cheap. Very thorough tests were made. Monument to Dan Emmett. Adelaide Thurston, the actress, has started a movement in Memphis, Tenn., to erect a monument to Dan Emmett, author of “Dixie,” who died recently at Mount Vernon, O. It is proposed to raise sufficient funds by benefit theatrical performances in five Southern cities with the co-operation of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Indians Play Lawn Tennis. British Columbia Indians have be come enthusiastic lawn tennis play ers from seeing some hotel guests playing near hop fields in which the Indians were picking the crop. Now every canoe returning up the Fraser river from the salmon fisheries carries a tennis outfit. 6ULLS: FOEEOW SinP. SEA BIRDS. KEEP IN WAKE OF ARMY TRANSPORTS. Soldiers Make Petfc- of TheJr Feath ered Companions to Vary the Mon otony of the Voyage—Fly for Miles Without Ever Seeming., to Tire. To sailors if does not seem v* • marvelous that birds are able to from America to Asia and back ag But,, if. one pause to consider it, feat is really something after all Seagulls are especially fond of t; army transports, for these shijca many men who, denied the taste : books, which renders an ocean j< r ney less tedious, and having lin, • facilities for deck sport, ta, to :■ . ing the gulls as a pastime. W! ■ • , of the big vessels leaves tl <, Gate and passes the Farallon* a hundred or more brown bode long sweeping wings leave th< r ing place and start in the wake transport. Then some soldier who ha-- ru the trip before says: “Here c • the seagulls. We'd better feed ti if we want a quick passage this trt; Many soldiers invade the stvwarr premises and gather up the wa bread and victuals. The birds seem to know when they are to be fed, for they come flying in ever narrowing circles until they are within a short distance of the ship. Then the food begins to fall on the waters and the brown-winged forms swoop eagerly down up . the waves and seize what ha: eea thrown out. This is continued until the food is exhausted. The gulls never seem to rest. Day after day they follow the ship, cb liv ing the air with swift wings. fl>.:.g easily and without apparent effort. On a recent trip of the transport Logan one of the gulls had its wir.g muscles injured and dropped flutter ing upon the deck, Its wide, goose-like bill open, and strange squawks com ing from its throat. A soldier spied it and took ft to his bunk, where he fed it daily until ft became strong again. Then he allowed it to fly away. But the bird had not forgotten Its benefactor. Every day it would alight on the deck and allow none save this particular man to feed it. It followed the boat to Honolulu, to Guam, and finally to Manila. Where it rested during the two weeks the Logan lay in Manila is not known, but when the vessel turned on its homeward course, bound for Nagasaki, the first day out found this gull, easily distinguishable by a fleck of white on its neck, resting on the stern. As its favorite soldier did not ap pear. the gull graciously allowed oth ers to feed it and continued its trip with the ship until the Logan passed the Farallone islands. A peculiar incident occurred on the steamer Athenian on a trip from Yokohama to Vancouver. Five days out, 1,000 miles from land in any direction, a little owlet alighted on the deck and was captured by the second steward. It was a baby owl, a little bundle of brown and white feathers, and it blinked its eyes in the daylight as it rested contentedly in the cage, which the steward pro vided. Stewart Edward White's Honeymoon. Stewart Edward White, who last spring “achieve.d the climax of a life of hazard and wild experience by mar rying a Newport girl,” as a newspaper observed, has been enjoying the unique honeymoon after “The Virgin ian” pattern. He and his wife have been camping alone, far from any sort of civiliza tion, in the wilds of the Sierras. Al though this is Mrs. White’s first ex perience in out-of-door living, she sends back word of enthusiastic de light with it all. She sleeps on the ground, eats camp fare with relish and thoroughly enters into the spirit of the life so vividly described in her husband’s books. Wind Favors the Methodists. Recently the Methodists of Issa quah, Washington state, found that they had inadvertently built their church on a lot that did not belong to them. The owners of the lot insisted on the removal of the building. The Methodists could not afford the money to move it. But a windstorm moved the church on its own lot and all the Methodists had to do was to put jack screws under the building and con struct a foundation. Now Is the Time. A new game has cropped out. It is called "Tickle the Editor," and is as follows: Take a sheet of ordinary writing paper, fold it nicely, enclose a bank note sufficiently large to pay all arrears and one year in advance and hand it to the editor. Keep an eye on him and if a smile adorns the face, the trick works fine. Now is the time to play the joke. It beats "flinch and “pit” hollow.—Logan Journal-Ga zette. Mansfield’s Counter Offer. Most playwrights and play agents consider themselves fortunate if they succeed in getting Richard Mansfield to examine their w-ares. Not so the agent of the French dramatist, Jean Richepin. She sent Mr. Mansfield a note a few days ago. “I will let you read Rlchepin’s play, ‘Don Quixote,’ ” it read, "for $500, and I will give you a two weeks’ option on it for $2,000.” The actor was so astounded at this audacious offer that he began to rub his eyes to find out if he was awake or asleep. When he gathered himself together he reached for pen and paper. And this is what he wrote to the play agent: "Dear Madam—I will consent to read ‘Don Quixote' for $5,000—cash in advance. Yours truly, Richard Mans field.”—New York Times. Boy Anarchist. Among the many anarchists arrest ed in connection with the bomb explo sion in Barcelona is a 14-year-old boy names Neales, who is described by the police as a "precocious propagan