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palgn, is General Hector Macdonald. Apart from his services in the Soudan I'General Hector Macdonald.s appoint ment is particularly interesting, inas- much as he Is a survivor of the famous
 fight at Majuba Hill. The so nof a Highland crofter, young Macdonald earned his first wages as an ostler's boy, after which he became assistant in an Inverness drapers shop. The army, however, soon attracted him, and enlist ing in 1870 as a private in the "Gay Gordons," the regiment with which he was to be so long associated, he quickly rose grade by grade to his present rank.
 Tom Anderson, another Scotch golfer with good record of victories won on the other side of the Atlantic, has been secured as professional for the Mont clair Golf club, New Jersey.
 Willie Dunn met his Waterloo at the hands of the champion on Saturday, when he was defeated by 12 holes up on the match.
 Willie Anderson, the professional golf CT, last season at the Baltusrol Golf club, has won the professional champi- onship of the Pacific coast.
 The local players who will oppose the champion tomorrow and Saturday have been chosen. All of them are Yale players, thus making the match one of the champion vs. Yale Captain T. M. Robertson has chosen several of his strongest players to oppose the cham pion, and should the captain and T. l.. Cheney be in form a surprise may await Vardon on his visit to New Haven. The players chosen are: For tomorrow af- ternoon's match, T. M. Robertson and T. l.. Cheney. On Saturday morning F. c. Havemeyer and L. P. Myers will be the opponents while for the afternoon match on Saturday F. M. Byers and Charles Hitchcock, jr., have been chosen to do battle against the champion
 cordon of police will be on duty each day to keep the spectators from getting so close as to bother the players. This is necessary, not only to prevent annoyance to the competitors but also to guard against accidents. The spec tators are also requested to keep their admission cards in view while follow ing the men over the links.
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THE QUEEN PUTS ON SPECS.

Something About the Remarkable Old
 Lady and Her Own Peculiar Irish
 Policy.
 It has been a strange experience for
 Londoners to see the queen with pair
 of spectacles in front of her eyes. This
 new feature of royal drive under es-
 cort of the life guards has impressed | spectators with a sense of the burdens
 of her increasing years. As matter of fact her eyes have been falling her for a long time, and she has been sen
 sitive respecting her obvious infirmity
 of old age. The conscientiousness with
 which she has always discharged duties and business of state has rendered fail 1 ure of sight a peculiarly trying afflic- l tion. I am informed that she has made a point throughout her reign of read ing the countless documents which she | is called upon to sign, and has not been
 willing to receive information about
 them at. second hand. As her sight
 has been impaired copyists and clerks
 in parliament and the public offices
 have been required to accommodate
 themselves to new conditions, and to
 write and engross documents in larger hand than formerly so that she may
 be able to read them with greater fa- clity. The queens secretaries and la dies of the household read the corre- spondence and newspapers to her, but she clings tenaciously to the habit of examining all state papers with her own eyes This she is still enabled to do with painstaking care, inasmuch as the official script has been enlarged so that she can read 1t with the least pos sibe inconvenience.
 While the queens sight has been inn paired her other senses are remarkably acute. She is not in the least degree deaf, but follows conversation as read fly as she has ever done. Her mental faculties are quickened and sharpened by advancing years. Her interest in public affairs, especially in the cam paign in South Africa, is most intense The queen has always had keen sense of humor, and this she retains in old age. She laughs heartily over comical stories about the sayings and doings of her grandchildren, and is quick to perceive a ludicrous situation or an unexpected flash or fumor in conver- sation. She has ideas of her own about public policies, and does not wait to re- ceive cues from her constitutional ad- visers. What is now known as the queens Irish policy is exclusively her own. IL opened with Q visit from 2 brave Irish bugler, who had lost his arm in crossing the Tugela at Colenso, but had picked up the instrument with the other and sounded merrily the charge It has been followed with special messages to the Irish troops l with the shamrock order, with propos- als for a regiment of Irish guards, and ! with arrangements for a months visit | in Ireland, This has been the queens ] work, and It has already wrought ! like a miracle of grace | Have not English crowds been cheering | for Ireland during the last fortnight, | and is there not talk about general | wearing of the green on St. Patrick's | lay?-Special London Correspondence | ,f the New York Tribune,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-05
Committee on Claims.

The Committee on Claims will meet in Rooms 10 and Il, City Hall, Thursday, April 9th, 1900 at 8 D. m., when the follow. ing matters will be considered:-
 Petition of Patrick Noonan for return of taxes.
 Petition of Henry voelkncr for abatement of interest and lien.
 Petition of Francis Butler for abatement of taxes.
 Petition of The National Varnsh Co for abatement of taxes. Petition of Edward l.. Washburn for dam. ages.
 Petition of Bridget Lynch for damages Petition of Johanna Reardon for damages. All persons interested therein are notified to attend and be heard thereon without fur ther notice. Per order,
 ANTON STAUB. Chairman Attest: JAMES B. MARTIN, ap3 St Assistant City Clerk.
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and endeavor to instil comfort into their +ternpest~tossed minds. Men thus .re:- duced to this last extremity of woe have very often, in their condition of irresponsible despair, invited me to re- pair with them to the nearest saloon, there to become exceedingly drunk In their company-but I never had the time, you see, and really couldn't do it, much as
 Well, anyhow, I suggested to the proprietor that, now that the holiday season is approaching, 1t would be corking good scheme to fit up com- fortable room with cigars and drinks and things on tap, up on the top floor, where all the men whose wives drag them from their comfortable tireSdes on shopping expeditions could adjourn i'm mediately they struck the building New York Sun.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-05

Twenty-two clubs were represented at the meeting of the United States Golf association held at Delmonico's, New
 York recently. Garden City was sell
 ected as the scene of the next amateur
 contest, Shinnecock Hills of the wom-
 ems championship and the Chicago club
 grounds al Wheaton of the open event.
 The dates for the three contests will be
 decided by the executive committee
 The following officers were elected for
 the ensuing year: President, w. B.
 Thomas of Brookline; vice presidents,
 John Reid, St. Andrews. and H. c.
 Chatfield Taylor Onwentsia; secretary
 R. B. Kerr, Lakewood; treasurer, $. Y.
 Heebner, Philadelphia Cricket; commit tee, Horace Russell, Garden City, and A. M. Coates, Newport.
 There are busy days on the links of the Country club and Instructor Shells is kept busy getting things in shape for the spring competitions that will soon begin. The course is looking extra good and the greens give promise of being well nigh perfect this season.
 About no other game has so much been said and sung in America in the last few years as golf, and no followers of any other game are more enthusias- tic about their favorite sport. The fol- lowing sentiments will be endorsed by all who know the game: For clean sport and physical development the game of golf has few equals and no su- periors. It is game in which every player gets full credit for good work and on the other hand is penalized when his eye is untrue or his hand unsteady. When he makes long drive or fine approach shot the qualification eXperi- enced is equalled in no other game on earth"
 MT. Vardon has been invited to speak before the members of the Graduates club, but it is hardly likely that he will as the champion is very averse to posing as a speaker and so far has kept himself we'll in the background in this respect.
 Golfers in general will mourn the news that came from Africa lately telling of the death of Lieutenant Tait of the Black Watch Highlanders Lieut.. Tait was the ex-open champion of the royal and ancient game and one of the best axnonents of the century. A fund is now being raised in Scotland to place monument in Edinburgh as asting memory to a gallant soldier and m expert golfer. The following tribute rom a private of the Black Watch speaks for itself He was well liked oy the company, and. I tell you, he ,dored it as we'll. When we carried him II good many tears shed. He was buried It Koodoosberg Drift, and we made a title cross for his head. He was a good | officer, and always had a smile on his i, ace. Our company would have follow d him anywhere"
 Another enthusiastic golfer and gal ant soldier, who is presently attracting | attention in the South African cam- l
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CONFIRMATION AT CHRIST
 CHURCH.

Bishop Brewster Will be Present To-
 Morrow Night.
 There will be service and sermon this evening in Christ church at 7:30 The preacher will be the Rev. c. E. Wood cock. Tomorrow evening at 7:30 the bishop of the diocese will administer the rite of confirmation.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
FOUR SAY DURYEA WAS SANE.
WITNESSES TO SIGNING OF HIS WILL TEs-
TIFY AT HEARING OF THE CONTEST

WITNESSES TO SIGNING OF HIS WILL TEs-
TIFY AT HEARING OF THE CONTEST.
MneoIa Long Island. Oct. 23.-The first hearing
Of the contest instituted the will of Edgar E.
Duryea, by his daughters, the ground that he
was of unsound mind held here to-day before
Surrogate Seaman. T. H. Grenn, William H.
Stevens. David N. Gay and Frank Walter, wit
nesses to the signing of the will, examined.
Mr.. Grenn IS superintendent of the starch works,
Mr.. Stevens the manager Of the Duryea store, Mr..
Gay cashier Of the Glen Cove Bank and Mr.. Walter
a son-in-law Of John Duryea, a brother of the
testator.
The testimony of each witness the
that of the others. Each said he had been sent
for by Edgar Duryea on the day he signed his will
They had reached the house at about the same
time. Mr.. Duryea had discussed the affairs of the
starch works with Mr. Grenn and of the store with
Mr. Stevens The bank and financial affairs had
family affairs spoken of between Mr. Duryea and
Mr.. Walter. Each witness said Mr.. Duryea was
clear minded and perfectly rational After they
had subscribed the will they had talked for half
an hour with him on general subjects When Mr..
Gay was signing, Mr.. Duryea had said he chose
him as witness because even II he and the rest
should die, every one in Glen Cove could say they
recognized Mr.. Gays signature because it was
known to all, he cashier of the bank. The
case then went over until next Tuesday.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
BOYS SCHOOL CONDEMNED.
CONTROLLER COLER AND DR. BLACK
TESTIFY - THE FORMER WOULD
ABANDON THE INSTITUTION.

Controller Coler, and Or. Robert A Black, Of the
Health Board appeared yesterday before the
Grand Jury Of Kings County. which is investigat-
ing the outbreak of typhoid fever in the Brooklyn
Disciplinary Training School for Boys at Parkvtne,
and II is said that their testimony was to the
effect that the unsanitary conditions at the school
could not be much worse. The Grand Jury may
visit the school to-day.
After leaving the Grand Jury room Controller
Coler said that body intended to make thorough
investigation of the school, and that the state OF
affairs there was as bad as possible. The outcome
of the present epidemic Of typhoid fever would
was no way to remedy the existing evils except py
tearing down the present school buildings ana
erecting and equipping entirely new schools. AT
time the school costs the city more per
capita than ii would If, Instead of maintaining the
institution. all is inmates were sent TO hgh
class boarding school.
Late in the afternoon Controller Coler made a
visit to the school In Parkville He then expressed
his ideas about the conuItion of the institution
more strongly. 1t would be necessary to abandon
of giving It up entirely. He believed there was no
excuse for its existence. In Manhattan wayWard
boys were sent private institutions and 1t cost
the city $110 a year for each boy. At Parkyille
according to what the Controller told there
Yesterday each inmate of the school cost the city
$l63 Mr.. Coler estimated that the amount eX-
pended nearer $500.
At present, the Controller said, there was great
emergency and the inmates of the institution
should be hurried out rapidly as If there was a
fire Then the question could be thrown open to
discussion as to whether the city should rebuild the
institution or abandon IT
No now cases of fever developed yesterday, so far
as could be learned.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
TO FIGHT TAX ON LEGACY.
TEST BEGUN OF LAW EXEMPTING CHAR
TABLE INSTITUTIONS FROM TRANS
FER PAYMENT.

The executors of the will of Benjamin B. Howell
have filed notice in the Surrogates Office in Suf-
folk County appealing from the decision of the
county officials to tax the bequests left to the
Eastern District Hospital, the Eastern District
Branch of the Young Mems Christian Association
an0 the Eastern District Industrial School, Brook-
lyn. The first two institutions are to receive $zSU
each and the latter S. 900 1t is proposed to tax
these legacies per cent. Mr.. Fisher, counsel for
the Industrial School, said yesterday:
The Controller holds that under the transfer tax
all of these legaces subject to taXatlon. A
law was passed by the Legislature during the ses-
sion Of 1900 making general exemption OF charlta-
bic and religious institutions from tax, so far as
the transfer tax is concerned. 1t is understood
that this question has never yet been passed upon
by any court since the passage OF the act.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
ACCUSED OF PRACTISING MEDICINE.
OLD MAN SAYS HE Is BorAN1sr AND oFFERFr
TO TREAT ONLY INcURABLEs.

Cornelius Edison. fifty years old, who is well
known in East New-York, and lives at No 2ss
Lincoln-ave Richmond Hill, was arrested there
on Monday night on charge Of practising medI-
cine without being duly registered He was
arraigned yesterday in the Lee-ave. police court
His prosecutors were Dr. David Meyerle secretarv
OF the Kings County Medical Society. and Edward
H. Harrison the society's counsel The complaint
was based on two afidavits, one by Hugh L. C,larl,
OF No. H6 Lincoln-ave. Richmond Hill and the
other by Mr.. Harrison. Mr. Clark alleged that on
August 10 he called the defendant, who was said
10 be a physician. TO treat Mrs. Clark: that tba
peIendant called about eight times and gave six
bottles OF medicine with directions for their ,,se
but mistook the nature OF Mrs. Clarks fitness M
Harrisons affidavit was to the effect that he had
examined the records Of the society up TO October
H. and had been unable to find any trace of the
of Cornelius Edison W
Mr. Edison told Magistrate Teale that ha had
never practised medicine in his life had never
given out a prescription used an instrument
He said he botanist and offered to treat onIy
incursbles. He added that he owned real estate
and could go his own bond. He was held In
$500 for examination on November 1
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
FALLS SEKENTY-FIVE FEET AND LIVES

HOSTING APPARATUS BREAKS AND MAN
DROPS TO THE BOTTOM OF WELL
We'll am pretty well bruised up. and haven't
got much skin left in places. but, aside from that
guess all sound
Thus spoke Richard Pfeifer, a bricklayer after
falling seventy-fve feet to the bottom OF a brick
lined shaft at the ice plant OF Niederstein Seman
at Franklin-ave. and Montgomery-st., Brooklyn, on
Monday afternoon shock was his severest in
jury and he is being treated for that at the Kings
County Hospital. The doctors expect that he Will
be in condition to leave the hospital to-day.
Pfeifrer is forty years DID, and lives in Jefferson
St near Hamburg-av ave, Brooklyn. He had been
laying brick in a deep well, and was being drawn
to the surface when the hosting apparatus gave
way He dropped seventy-f1ve feet. The workmen
above hastily rugged new tackle and descended
to bring up, they supposed, a dead body. AT
the bottom they found Pfeiffer doubled up, rub
bing his head and shins. He thought he was good
for several more years, but felt badly shaken up.
He said that in going down he had rebounded from
side of the shaft to the other and this had In
a measure broken his fall.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
OBJECT TO STREET PREACHERS.
NEIGHBoRs OF THE REV. A c. DIXON ASK
THE MAYOR NOT TO RENEW HIS

Or. Joseph H. Hunt, w A Pothier and others
from the neighborhood of Bedford-ave and Quincy
St, Brooklyn, appeared before Mayor Van Wyck
yesterday and opposed the renewal of license for
street preaching to the Rev. A. c. Dixon, of the
Hanson Place Baptist Church. The objection
not made to the preaching o1 Mr.. Dixon but to
that of several others, who his permit.
DR.. Hunt said that OF the preachers, David
Morrison, had such loud voice that he annoyed
the whole neighborhood. Mr. Morrison pres
ent and retorted that the religious meetings were
disturbed by of the gentlemen present, who
would enter when not in his sober senses" and
make annoying inquiries.
The Mayer said that street preaching generally
annoyed people in the neighborhood. but it
such well established and recognized institution
that he hesitated to take away a permit unless the
meetings were disorderly. He took the under
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
GERMAN LOVES AMERICA.

Ernest F. wehnke, the confectioner Of Reid-ave
and Hancock-st, Brooklyn, who was expelled from
Hanover last summer because he had never done
military duty returned to Brooklyn yesterday
coming in on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse His
frien$, in order to make him appreciate his Amer
lean home the more, gave him a glorious welcome
last night in which the Stars and Stripes nIaved
leading part. A brass band played American pa
trtotic airs, and Mr.. Wehnke told everybody that
America, after all was the only country in which
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
NEW JERSEY NEWS.
CHARGED WITH EMBEzzLEMENT.
MONMOUTH COUNTY GRAND JURY INDIcTs
THE REV DR. WHARTON.

Asbury Park, Oct. % (speciaD-The Monmouth
County Grand Jury this afternoon brought In three
inc ictments against the Rev. DR. Henry NJ Whar-
ton the Baltimore evangelist who recently was
placed under bail in ocean City and in Trenton on
the charge of receiving moneys fraudulently from
Miss Clara Somers, of Ocean Grove,
The first Indictment specifies that DR.. Wharton
shall be tried on the charge of securing money by
false pretences Under this embraced the alleged
compact between DR.. Wharton and Miss Somers
relative to the erection OF an orphans nome IN
West Grove The second indictment charges DR..
Wharton with embezzling 5000 from Miss Somers,
this being the amount of the first mortgage on the
orphanage referred to- In the third indictment the
doctor charged with embezzling $SOOO said to be
the amount Of the second mortgage on the orphan
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
CHURCH BUILDING TO CHANGE OWNERS

The Society Of the New-England Congregational
Church. Brooklyn, decided at meeting on Mon
day evening TO sell the church building to the
German Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church
trustees for $s8,50 The German congregation
whose place of worship IS at Driggs-ave. and
building, its church Is in the way OF the an
proach Of the New East River Bridge
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
GO6ere EVERYTHING
Is II doc anita pas
for Shopping - -

allow. Here business with character peculiar to itself
"a business in which morals and of much
importance merchandSng-where the customers comfort
and convenience first thought and perfect satisfaction the
only arbiter that ever seals sale.
cured, otexis.
S adva
Because of the magnificent
in
Because the quality the unnidng
Because dapponnnents
Because there beauty
Because there chests"
'eaSn''
world
of and
shrst
avlhy bought and prced
There reaon-hese and
than when need for
The full and child
cause of quality, style, beauty, variety
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
FOR RKINLEY BY a LARGE MAJORITY
RESULTS OF POLL OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
AND SEMINARY STUDENTS.

Princeton. n. J.. Oct. % (specaD.-The results Of
a canvass among the students OF the university
and seminary announced tonight. The total
number of student voters Is 493. OF these 4OS are
Republicans, q Bryan Democrats. 81 Gold Demo-
Gratis IA are independent or undecided and there
are Z ProhibitionstS.
The total number of voters in favor of the pres
ent foreign policy is 3S7; of those opposed a: 3Ss
459 students who favor the gold standard and
q are bimetallists. Among the non-voting under
graduates the figures about in the same pro-
portion Only half the men in college and seminary
ar
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
STOLEN CLOTH OFFERED FOR SALE
TAILOR HAS CHANCE TO BUY HIS OWN GOODS
ACCUSED MAN DENIES GUILT.

ACCUSED MAN DENIES GUILT.
Here is a nice piece of cloth that would like
to sell to you"
The speaker addressing Frank Fuller, a
tailor. of No LOIS F1ushing-ave.. Brooklyn, on
Monday night. Fuller took the bolt of CLOTH looked
at it carefully, and. much to the surprise of the
stranger. quickly stepped to the street and shut
the door behind him. To Patrolman Hever of the
Hamburg-ave. station, he explained that early that
morning some one had entered his shop and ap-
propriated bolt of cloth valued at Sc. He added
that in his shop at that minute was a man who
had offered sell him the Identical piece of cloth
The stranger looked astonished when he learned
that the cloth had been stolen from Fuller. He at
first said the cloth had been bought from some
boys, but later explained that had been found in
a vacant lot.
These explanations were not satisfactory and
the was locked UP in the Hamburg-ave sta
tion the charge of grand larceny In the blotter
he was entered John McLeer thirty-six years
DID, Of No. 80 Central-ave., Brooklyn. In the Lee
ave court yesterday McIeer entered plea of not
guilty, and remanded for examination on
Friday,
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
HOUSE TAKES FIRE AT BREAKFAST TIME

The members Of William L. KIlborne's family
were at breakfast yesterday at their home No IT'S
Linden boulevard. Flatbush when fire broke out
caused by a defective hUe. The house. ownad
by Thomas Penfeld, Of No $50 Nassau-st. Man
haitian. was damaged TO the amount of s. OOo and
the loss on the furniture about 81 600 The
LaIhiIy nastiiy moved the piano and a few chairs
fbr5 3ur INTO the street before the flames spread
Dy the nremen 10 put out the blaze.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
TICECH4NoELLORs OTERWoRKED.

According to Chancellor Magic the vice-chan-
cellors are overworked In Chancery Chambers, in
Jersey City. yesterday. Lawyer Hartshorne ap-
piled to the Chancellor for order referring a
suit to a vice-chancellor.
'I scarcely know to whom to refer it, said the
Chancellor. "Vice-C Chancellor Pitney says he can
hear no more for year, and Vice-Chancellor
Emery has even more work to attend to-"
Finally the Chancellor referred the case to Vice
Chancellor Emery. 1t is said that there not
enough vice-chancellors to transact the business
of the Court of Chancery.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
DAILY MONDAY MEETINGS.

The Hudson County Republican Campaign Com
mittee has distinguished itself by it's activity and
excellent work in this campaign. 1t has held meet
ings almost nightly and has presented many able
speakers. The committee is sanguine of success,
and has engaged the building at No Sc Mont
gomery-st., Jersey City, in the business section,
and will. beginning to-day. hold daily monday