April 2.—William F. Potter, President of the Long Island Railroad Company, dies of spinal meningitis, aged 50.
April 4.—William H. Delius, son-in-law of Chief-Justice Fuller, of the United States Supreme Court, dies by suicide at Chicago, aged 53.
Bishop Alphonse Favier, Catholic Apostolic Vicar to China, dies at Pekin, aged 68.
Toll
ONE fashions beauty into form, to shapes most wondrous fair; There comes a stranger to his door and claims an equal share
Another plants the seed and sees the harvest spring—that day Comes one whose face he does not know, and takes a third away.
A little child, whose plaintive mouth has never learned to laugh, Sits stringing beads—to her appears the man who claims his half.
A woman with her needle sits—and one stitch out of three She takes for him whose face perhaps her eyes shall never see.
And where the mighty merchant ships in the great harbors wait— His is the service of the crews and his the share of freight.