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BAB ON SUNDAY.
She Believes ft to Be the Best of All
the Days.
Bow We Should Observe Sunday.
Going to Church—Recreations of the
Day—Surround Yourself by Pleas
ant People—The Mlnistsr in the Pul
pit-Rev. Mr. Pink, the Sportive Di
vine—Bab Believes That Sunday
Hospitality and Recreation Should,
by All Means, Be Encouraged.
New York, June 6.—When I was a little
girl I was told that it was called “First
day” because the first was always the
best, and of all the days of the week it
was intended to be the happiest. Later
on I was told it was called “Sunday” for.
it was duly explained to me, “when the
real sun doesn’t shine, then the sun of
goodness must glow in your heart and
everybody must have a good time.” To me
it has always been a day of enjoyment,
and yet I know of people who dread it.
I know of little children who live in hor
ror of it, and of men who sleep through
it, and wish themselves at their offices,
whenever they are sufficiently wide
awake. As the years have gone on I have
grown to think about how the day should
be observed, and I find myself returning
to first principle and believing that of all
other times it is the one when there
should be the greater amount of happi
ness. \
ABOUT GOING TO CHURCH.
Now that you decide for yourself. I
tell nobody how they shall govern them
selves from a religious standpoint; and
yet I do not believe that there is any good
gained in forcing young people to listen to
long sermons and tiresome services, and
making the going to church seem a
penance, when it shculd be a pleasure. I
do not believe in forcing small children to
recite hundreds of verses from the Bible,
which they do not understand, or insist
ing on their listening to prayers that ire
largely doctrinal, and which only suggest
to them that evidently their Greater
must be very ignorant when the clergy
man is anxious to teach him so
much. What do I believe about this!
1 think a child should be told
what it mtans to go to church; that
the service it attends should be one
which gives it pleasure, and where it will
have an opportunity to praise God in the
fashion most pleasing to all the little peo
ple—by raising their voices in song. Af
terward, when your little people have
gotten to be bigger, you and they must
decide between yourselves what you
think wisest; but, my dear people, don’t
try and force them to be what you call
religious. Around us every day we see
examples of the lolly of this. Men who
laca all belief because when they were
little, religion represented to them weari
some hours and punishments in the way
of prayers, that were worse a thousand
times than all the whippings ever dreamed
of.
I know a man who says he has gotten
the faith of a little child because of his
wife; but who, when he married her, de
spised everything connected with re
ligion, and believed that preacher and
hypocrite were synonymous. Do you
know why he had gotton into tnis frame
of mind { Sunday morning began with a
tiresome service of prayer and preaching
at home; then followed Sunday school;
after this came churdh with a long sermon
that never told of love and kindness, but
ways of Justice and brimstone. Then
came a cold dinner. After this an after
noon spent in looking at religious books,
which, 1 regret wy, when they arejuot
stupid, are tpo foolish. Then fol
lowed bread and tea, and after this
church again with another long sermon.
Ten o’clock saw this boy in bed swearing
that when he was his own master he
would never listen to a prayer and he
would never go to church.
THE ONLY WAY TO SPEND SUNDAY.
It is true he has changed his mind, but
that is because he married a woman who
knew how to make religion the beautiful
part of one’s life, and how to make Sun
day the happiest day in the* week.
Nowadays this man goes to church with
his little daughters beside him. and af
terward .they come home, all have a
talk together, or a romp, or else rest
awhile. Then come their luncheons, and
after the great bliss of the week, the Sun
day afternoon outing. It is either off
to the country, or down to the water,
or out for a drive with father in the park.
When they come home, after another
rest, the girl who is old enough to come
to dinner with the grown-up people, has
her finest frock put on, and mother is
dressed to look as pretty as possible, and
the very best dinner of the week is
served, because it is Sunday, and be
cause. as the little girl will tell you, “we
always havs some pleasant people with
us on Sunday night.” If you take a little
trouble, you will discover that these
pleasant people who are asked are nearly
always those who, if they had not
been there, would have been under
going the somewhat doubtful delight of a
boarding-house supper, consisting of
stewed prunes and sponge cake, and a
liquid commonly and untruthfully called
tea.
In that house Sunday is God’s day, and
yfct there are no Sunday books, for the
wise mother says the book which is
wrong on Sunday is also wrong on
Wednesday. “But,” says Madame
Blue, who has a cold dinner, “what about
the servants? they have to work.” Well,
yes, in away; but they are willing
to do it because it is distinctly understood
that each one can invite one of her own
friends for Sunday evening dinner, and
that this friend can be her young man; so
that there is joy and merriment down
stairs as wall us up, and the mistress
knows that ‘-h« has demanded for it
good work, he pays them very good
wages, and hat loving kindness has
brought will < service.
BUBROUNDE IT KINDRED AND FRIENDS, j
It seems 1 le that the American man,
being away m home so much, ought to
have his Suwuay made a day of joy to
him. Go out to the park any Sunday you
like and see the men who are boys again.
They are the ones, who, out in tlie bright
sunshine, have got their sons with them
and are explaining to them all about the
animals, or telling them storiea about
when they were boys. They are the
men who, if they are driving, have got a
carriage load of happy children, or if I
they .ire walking, are leading the flock,
knowing that the rest will follow. The
man-who is going to stay young is not
that one who is sleeping off the effects of
a two hours sermon.
I do believe that God made this earth
for man, for man to worship him in
it, to find out how beautiful are His
works, and not for him to be made un
happy and to have the day represent
tiresome pictures of theological contro
versies.
Sometimes I am tempted to wonder
what.the preachers think. Prayer to me
always seems such an easy thing. It is
the mere asking from one who knows all
about us to give us what we would like
to have, and it always seems to me that
the more simple the prayer the better it
is. But the preachers don’t think that.
They commence by thanking heaven for
something; then they enter into a con
troversy with somebody, go through a
long history of the rights and wrongs of
certain beliefs, complacently give expres
sion to their joy that they are not like
the rest of the world, and after a few
quotations from some of the densest part
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of the Bible.they finish up with a wave of
condescension, as if they believed that the
angels in heaven were overwhelmed with
their eloquence.
Then the sermons.
I NEVER WROTE A SERMON,
But a sermon suggests to me the taking
of a verse of scripture, its application to
daily life being shown, and an explana
tion made of how one is to do to succeed
in the right, and the efforts one must
make to keep from the wrong. But, no,
the preacher gets up before a congrega
tion that ought to hear of the sins of
gossip, lying, stealing, profanity, blas
phemy, murder and all in the decalogue,
with their minor attachments, and he
selects a line from the Old Testament;
then he proves the relationship of the
man who is mentioned in it to some other
man. Then he goes on to show what
would have happened if these two men
hr dn’t been related, and he finishes up by
a Long attack on heresy, smiles affably at
the congregation and trusts that they will
all feel the good effects of the words he
has spoken. Half of them haven’t heard
what he said, and the other half are not
interested. He has talked for seventy
minutes and the children in the church
who are not asleep are behaving like de
mons, which is very proper. Twenty
minutes is long enough for any sermon,
and in that time all can be said that is
necessary for one day.
One has to hold on to one’s belief very
closely nowadays because I don’t think
the clergy are very much help. I don’t
think I should care to go with a heart to
the Rev. Mr. Pink, who is in all the foot
ball games, likes to see a good race and is
» most delightful gossip at an afternoon
tea. I don’t think I should care to take a
sick soul to Father Satin, who break
fasts at 12 o’clock at a fashionable res
taurant, has a bottle of champagne with
his breakfast, and while he is dis
cussing it, reads the most off-color
paper in town. I don’t think I should
oare to take somebody who was doubting
to the Rev? Mr. Prance, who believes
that he will save the world by personally
witnessing all the wickedness in it. bio,
the clergy, generalizing, are not an incen
tive to belief, but I will tell you what is,
my friend. If you will go off quietly to
your own room, elose the door, kneel
down and take your troubles to God him
self, help will come to you.
LIVING IN THE SUNSHINE.
It may be that none of these things that
the preachers do are wrong in themselves,
but every human being in this world has
to regard the appearance of things, and
certainly among the fashionable clergy
the giving of scandal is a great sin. Men
are only too ready nowadays to rise up
and blame the belief because of its so
called followers. Do they ever stop to
think that when Christ himself was here
there was a Judas among the twelve?
How many of the raceof Judas have there
been since? How many claiming to
follow in. the right path have
been hypocrites, whose lying
lives were laid bare, and who brought
shame, if such a thing can be, upon the
faith? The best thing for us all to do is
to forget these people, to live lives as
we can, and always to remember that no
matter what is here on earth
GOD HIMSELF IS OVER ALL.
I tell you, living good lives and sunny
lives creates belief. No man can believe
that the good woman he loves, that the
woman who makes his life happy, will be
lost to him forever. And so, uncon
sciously. she draws him to the belief that
he once had; that which the world al
most killed, but which has come back to
him. But all this wasn’t what I started
to s&y; that was, that I wanted peo
ple to make Sunday a happier day, to
make it the happiest day, to till it so full
of joy, that not only the children, but the
father, will look forward to it with eager
ness, and that each night will be joyfully
hailed, because it is that much nearer to
Sunday. Make your little children love
the day: make them think of it as a day
of pleasure. The day in which they wifi
be told again, in the way they like best,
the story of the little child who came
to earth so many hundred years ago. It
is the day when they should hear not only
about the beauties and glories of heaven,
but be made to see ujore than ever before
how beautiful this earth is.
THE STRANGER’S WELCOME DAT.
It is the day when they can get closest
to their father, and surety he can learn
from no one else the beauty of faith, as
well as he can from the little child who
depends on him. Make it a day when I
there is a welcome for the I
stranger in your midst. Have the Sun
day guest and the Sunday hospitality. I
always feel sorry for those women who
remember that, as children. Sunday was
a dreadful day for them. To me it
was the gladdest day in the week. It
meant that wd were all together. It
meant that the visitors came from the
city, and the cousins, from two or three j
or ten miles away drove over. It meant
a pleasant walk to a little country church,
to which the day before we had carried !
the Cowers. It meant the showing of our i
favorite books, of our greatest pets, and I
having the greatest anxiety to give the
people who came from the city the best
of the flowers and the fruit to take back
to town. It meant gladness all through.
Make your Sunday that, and it will
then picture here a glorious day here
after, when all those who Jove each other
will be together. An eternity of Sundays!
What does that bring to your mind, or to
the mind of your little child? Make it
mean so much that every effort will be
made to gain it. because it will represent
eternal happiness. This is sdvice that
comes from the heart as well as from the
Pen of Bab.
A CATTLE STEAMER WRECKED.
The Crew Saved and Some of the Cat
tle and Sheep Swim Ashore.
St. Johns, N. F.. June s.—The steamer
Texas, of 3.000 tons burden, with a gen
eral cargo aud & deck load of cattle, was
wrecked last night off Trepassey. She
was bound from Montreal for Bristol. All
hands were saved. The vessel is a total
loss. The wreck occurred so close to
land that some cattle and sheep swam
ashore.
■ Ya I;
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TW’O-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1894.
THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
The Latest Fancies of the Frivolous
Parisienne.
The Startling Whites and Reds She
Revels In—Two of the Paris Summer
Gowns—Duck Suits for All Purses.
Fancies in Small Thing’s.
(Copyright, 1894).
New York, June 9.—This will be a
"‘white” season, we are told. Os course
it will. Can you remember any summer,
for years past, that hasn’t been to some
extent a while season? Perhaps the
white didn’t formerly reach the ex
tremities that it does now—head, hands
and feet, even over the head (in the
white parasol); but it is obvious why the
shade commends itself to rich and poor
alike on a summer’s day.
The latest caprice of the gay Parisienne
is white, in handsome moire. It is seen
oftenest in the broad rever that falls
from her tiny figure. She loves to com
bine it with a flaring scarlet front. Or
she will make the box-pleated bodice that
is in favor in Paris of the white moire,
with a tot h of the red. Box pleats,
tucks and fine cordings promise to take
the place of gathers and godets. Tucks
form panels in skirts and pointed backs in
bodices. How after row of small cord
ings closely set together form the trim
ming of a gown that has lately been im
ported. The plain skirt is a dark, sensi
ble mixed gray; and the coat of long ends
at the back the same. The ends are cut
away in front and a handsome red is in
serted in fine twill. Across the pointed
front, from neck to waist line, bands of
this fine cording, which is only a number
of minute folds of the material stitched
so closely that they stand out like corrts,
alternated with narrow insertions of black
lace. / .
The big puffs of the sleeves are simi
larly ornamented. Plain red revers turn
back and so large ard they that none of
the gray is visible at the iront of the bod
ice. This, with the red collar, makes a
glowing effect which contrasts sharply
with the neat gray line of the hack.
SUMMER GOWNS.
The correct summer gown will be the
one which shows most ribbons, rosettes,
bows. The small rosettes are put every
where, peeping out from lacey folds and
gathers, heading pleats and puffs ill their
own dainty fashion. I dropped in on a
little niiss'the other mornitig to find the
floor strewn with lovely pink rosettes, a
handtyl in her lap, and strips of silk
tying there ready to be made up. She
was industriously threading needleful
of pink silk. “Yes,” she said, “1 always
thread twelve at a time. Tney last a long
time, and I don't need to bother stopping
every minute. Every one of these
rosettes is going on my latest pink gown.
There will be tiuy slants of ribbons run?
ning up irom the bottom of the shirt, and
each is to be headed with a rosette. So
you see I shall need a great many.”
But remember, in making rosettes, to
have them light and tiurfy.
There must not be a suggestion of
weight about them, or they will not suit
the airy material that make the summer
dresses.-
Two of the daintiest, I must describe.
The first is a blue—not a heavy shade,
but a real China, so sheer, however, that
the tint seems softer. A sort of twisted
white thread, running in small points,
forms a stripe in the material; and fine
white dots are sprinkled between. The
bodice, though a “perfect dream,” is, like
all such, visions, elusive; and baffles con
cise description. So let me content my
self with saying that a small yoke is
made of rows of the material and rows of
delicate Valenciennes lace; that the bod
ice proper is laid in fine folds and that
over.it, starting from beneath the arm,
come gathered “crushed” pieces of the
material, that tie in a great bow over
tfle bust. The narrow-pointed ends
of the bow have deep lace flounces
falling from them. The back is
almost prettier. A deep Vis formed by
rows of the material and the lace inser
tion, and the whole finished by a spread
ing bow of many loops at the w.iist line.
The delicate corded stripe of the material
combines with peculiar fitness with the
lace striped The sleeve is a big puff that
is caught down the center with a stripe
of the lace; and at the elbow the fullness
is drawn into an airy knot, from which
falls more of the lace flouncing. The
skirt trimming, too, is worthy to be
noted, since it carries out the point pat
tern of that material. Five rows of nar
row white satin ribbon are put on in
points, a little above the edge, each point
finished with a small ribbon bow. ' The
collar is of white satinalso.
The other summer gown is a true
French creation, for it dares to combine
pink and green with dark blue, and still
ue pretty. Let me tell you how this is
done. The material—a deep cream lawn,
very gauzy—is embroidered in small clus
ters of pink and green flowers of a variety
unknown. Lace, in deep flounces and
deep cream tints, is the trimming of the
gown—lace unique, in that its heading is
laid every two rows of narrow satin rib
bon. one pink, the other green, and that
its edge reveals a row of dark blue satin
ribbon, shining through the meshes. The
lace, so bedecked, trims the bottom of the
skirt, and is carried across the bust on
the bodice. Two bands of the pink and
green ribbon combination trim the yoke,
softened by the cream insertion that is
laid over. The belt is after this fashion,
likewise. The sleeve is very pretty, with
an overpuff of lace, drawn apart up the
center, and with rows of the pink and
green underneath.
DUCK SUITS.
Duck suits are the fad in this city, at
least, if they are in no other city in the
union. The question, “Have you been
♦ vaccinated?” is now superceded by,
“Have you a duck suit?” Truly, there
are suits and suits of this self-same duck.
We hear, first of all, that some members
of the royal family of England dress in
shining, spotless, linen duck, and we feel
that there is not so much distance be
tween us after all, as we look down on
our own shining, spotless duck Then we
learn with dismay, that the ducks of the
royal family cost them 175 each, and our
own suit doesn’t seem to shine with its
old gloss after that. But take heart,
there isn’t much use in paying 175 for a
wash dress, when you can get as nice a
linen duck as you would desire for? 15 or
&0, waistcoat and all.
But it is the cotton ducks that have
caused all the agitation. When it is pos
siole to get skirt and jacket neatly and
nicety made, for 52.80, no wonder that
women gasp and ask. “Have you a duck
suit?”
Add two more dollars, however, and I
you get a very dainty and pretty one,
with a cut that no one can challenge. For
87.50 there is a suit, waistcoat, and para
sol to match offered you. They all laun
dry well and are made large enough to
allow for shrinking. A dark blue or black I
with a light stripe or dot is most economi- i
cal.
In the handsome dark suit, the white
ones brocaded with pretty design, or the
fine linen ones—handsome satin blouses
are often worn in place of the stiffer shirt.
’1 hough the combination seems’ incon
gruous a black satin front is by no means
displeasing with a white linen suit. I
Others are of ci earn guipure over white
satin.
AFTERNOON GOWNS.
The afterternoon gowns of the picture
show that there is no diminution of the
use of lace. Both insertion and deep
Vandyke points trim the skirt of. the
one; while narrow etige trims the uni
que double revers of the jacket. Beneath
the jacket peeps out a ruffle of lace which
is a continuation of the coquilles that
form the front. The jacket is a black
moire.
The other shows a dainty mousseline de
soie apron front falling in a deep point
over the skirt and edged with dainty
lace applications. The apron is gathered
in at the waist by a buckle and loop of
velvet and at the bust by the same ar
rangement. A yoke of the mousseline is
inserted.
The bodice shown in the other is de
signed especially for the home dress
maker. Tbe embroidery or heavy lace
that forms the trimming falls loosely
without being confined at the waist.
The long brettelles slant off into the trim
mings, and are themselves edged with a
narrower band of the same. A small
ruffle is added at the hips. The waist is
equally pretty, made up in tine woollen
goods, with the trimming a heavy lace,
or of any of the lighter summer goods
where embroidery may effectively trim it.
Eva A. Schubert.
THE BULLET’S ANTIOS.
Why it Sometimes Acts as if it Were
an Explosive.
From the Scientific American.
Dr. Victor Horsley, F. R. S., in a re
cent lecture at the Royal Institution, said
that he intended to consider what a cyl
indrical bullet with a conical end does in
its flight and what it does when it strikes
an animal, so that one portion of his lect
ure would deal with physics and the Other
portion with pathology. Sometimes the
wounds made were such that in some
continental wars or outbreaks the one
side had charged the other with using ex
plosive bullets. Melsens, a Belgian physi
cist. suggested the effect to be due to the
compressed air in front of the bul
let, and was upheld by Laroque.
of Lyons; this point was contested
by Magfius of Berlin. Dr. Horsley per
formed several experiments with the fall
of projectiles through liquids differing in
viscosity, to show’ that the theory of
Melsens does not hold good. Huguier. a
Frenchman of science, in 1848 suggested
the hydrodynamic theory, which was
established by Prof. Kocher, of Berlin,
in 1874-76. He (the lecturer) had found
that it was due to two causes, the
amount of fluidity of the solid and to the
velocity of the bullet.
The lecturer projected on the screen
two photographic lantern pictures repre
senting the effects produced by a bullet
from the magazine rifle when it per
forates a plate of iron a quarter of an
inch thick.
AS IF THE BULLET HAD EXPLODED.
Tn the first case the bullet telescopes
itself w’heu it hits the plate; so makes a
larger hole in its passage. Where it
comes out of the same plate the hole is
still larger, because it there tears open
the iron, which at that surface has noth
ing but the air behind it for support.
When, however, a bullet is fired into a
wet, soft substance tbe conditions are
different. When experimenting upon this
latter point he adopted a plan which had
been previously in use, of tiring a bullet
into damp clay, and then filling the hole
made by it with plaster of Paris, to ob
tain a cast of the result, which he found
to vary largely with the amount of moist
ure in the clay. At the lecture he fired a
magazine rifle bullet into a block of clay,
about two feet long by one foot square,
and it made a bulbous hole of about the
size and form of an irregularly-shaped
Florence flask; then with a large knife
■he cut off the end of the block, revealing
the hole, larger than a clenched hand, as
if the bullet there had exploded. By
means bf plaster casts on the. table he
pointed out that when less wet clay was
used the hole was smaller, and more of
the shape of a soda water bottle, and
with less water in the clay, still the hole
was narrower, more nearly approaching
an irregular tube in shape, but largest in
the diameter near thed'urther end. Some
times’there is a of the bullet in
side the clay froth its original track, so
that the casts are curved, which indi
cates the reason why surgeons, when
probing, \are sometimes unable to find the
bullet. The greater the velocity of the
bullet, tne more destructive is it to the
soft substance into which it enters. The
“spin” of the bullet has little effect on
the result. He concluded from these re
sults that the magazine rifle is not a “hu
mane weapon.”
THE EFFECT OF MOISTURE.
The speculation that some of the de
structive effects of the bullet are due to
tbe conversion of some of its energy into
heat he did not consider to be of much
moment; the heat produced is not suffi
cient to char particles of wool and hair
carried in by the bullet. Microbes car
ried in by a bullet after passing through
the cloth can afterward be cultivated on
gelatine, showing that they have not sus
tained a temperature above 40 a Center
grade.
He next projected in the screen a pic
ture that represented the effect of firing
a magazine rifle bullet through each of
two tin cannisters, filled with an equal
weight of lint; the relative size of the
bullet is also shown. In the one cannis
ter the lint was dry, in the other it was
thoroughly wet. In the first case the
bullet simply perforated the arrange
ment; in the other the canister was hope
lessly damaged, and much of the lint
driven out in a kind of column at the top.
He then fired a bullet through dough
containing 25 per cent, water, and but
moderate explosive-like effect was pro
duced. On next firing a bullet through
flour containing twice as much water, the
dough was scattered in all directions.
He then showed the distribution of the
energy produced by the bullet in passing
through water by means of a trough ar
rangement with glass sides, closed at one
end with a plate of iron and at the other
with good India rubber, such as “heals”
itself after the passage of a bullet. This
trough contained an aqueous solution of a
cylored dve, up to a marked level. A
sheet of white paper was suspended so
that its lower edge just dipped into the
dyo. The point at which the bullet per
forated the India rubber was three centi
meters below the surface of tho liquid.
The result was shown by the staining of
the paper by the splashing up of the col
ored water, and shows that the attribu
tion of the energy is about the same as
when the bullet is fired into very wet
clay.
The Kindly Old Gentleman—Do yo know,
my good man, what was meant by the meta
phorical expression of asking for bread and
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Russell Sage and Gold- A New Condi
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(Copyright.)
New York, June 9.—lt is not often that
the financiers of New York have to con
front a problem so difficult of solution as
that involved in the existence of what is
known as the insurance situation. The
insurance situation consists of the compe
tition of several companies all more or
less immense from the point of view of
financial resources, but it is becoming
more and more evident that some of them
must succumb in the rush for business.
The prospect of the dissolution of
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giving serious concern to numerous
directors. There is at this time
a fund amounting to some millions, which
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in magnificent quarters on Broadway, is
trying to arrange favorable terras with a
rival for reinsurance.
The final result of all this will be that
a few huge corporations will, before many
years, have a practical monopoly of the
insurance business. The tendency to con
solidation is irresistible, and the financial
power wielded oby the officers of these
| concerns, with hundreds of millions at
their disposal, will be enormous. As it
is, the heads of one or two of the mam
moth companies enjoy a financial prestige
which makes Croesus seem rather weak
in comparison.
Altogether, the insurance situation will
afford one of the most curious problems
ever presented in the history of New
York finance, and that before long.
RUSSELL SAGE’S GOLP.
Russell Sage is becoming unique from
the fact that he conceals with great care
the nature of every financial operation in
which he interests Himself. Os course,
no financier takes pains to make public
the precise nature of his deals, but it is
noticeable that during the past year Mr.
Sage has become almost a mystery, so so
licitous is he that not the slightest infor
mation of what he is doing in the mone
tary world shall be made known. Hence
it has come about that sev
eral rumors, all more or less con
tradictory. have been set afloat as to the
extent of his recent deals. For instance,
it has been surmised that he is the finan
cier who has been interesting himself
with the Rothschilds in an endeavor to
corner the gold market and to set the tide
ot gold floating toward Europe, although
it is not easy to see what ob.ect he can
have in doing such a thing. At all events
it is denied on behalf of Mr. Sage that he
is concerned in any effort to influence the
gold market at all.
The gold idea probably has it? origin in
his fondness for the mecal in the shape of
ornaments. When he makes a present of
anything to anybody—and he makes such
presents more frequently than one would
suppose, in view of his reputation for
“closeness”—it is invariably of some ob
ject made of gold. The quantities of that
metal which he keeps in his Fifth avenue
home would make a goodly sum if coined
at one of the mints. But if he is in any
gold deal as reported, he is successful in
suppressing evidence of the fact.
A MINT IN CHICAGO.
Very few people are in the secret of
the attempt to transfer the mint now
established in Philadelphia to Chicago.
The idea originated in the brain of the
late Carter Harrison, and, during the
prestige attaching to his city during the
world's fair, it was thought by him to
be an easy thing to arouse the interest of
the Prairie City’sinhabitantsin a scheme
to have the nation’s chief coin factory
moved bodily to the lakeside. When
there came a difficulty about Phil
adelphia’s mint appropriation, the
few who hrd interested them
selves in the project thought they could
affect a rise in Chicago real estate by
quietly giving it out that in a certain dis
trict in Chicago the mint would surely be
built, and a sale at a good round sum
took place on the strength of these rep
resentations. But the Philadelphians,
for some reason, became alarmed, and in
the Quaker City it was reported in a
spasmodic way that a scheme to rob it of
the mint Was afoot, although Chicago was
not then deemed the responsible party.
However, the enterprise fell through,
thanks to the efforts of the congressman
who represents Philadelphia as a half re
publican and half democrat, aided by the
entire Quaker City delegation. It is de
clared. however, that Don Cameron was
in sympathy with the efforts to remove
the mint from Philadelphia, where he is
not as popular as he ought to be, for some
reason. In fact, it is declared that, for a
republican city. Philadelphia views Cam
eron from a decidedly unfriendly point of
view.
POETS WHO MAKE MONET.
So unique is the situation regard ng the
demand for poetry at present that the
magazine editors of New York are abso
lutely bewildered—that is, there is a pos
itive underproduction of poetry. This
state of things is so rarely the case that
the memory of the oldest editor can find
no parallel to it. It began aKjut four
weeks ago, and since that time the lead
ing publications have had submitted to
them such a very small amount of
verse that the supply has re
ceived far more attention than is
usually the case. Why the young men
and women who usually deluge the maga
zine sanctums of New York with speci
mens of their prosody have suddenly be
come suppressed is a thing for which no
editor can find an explanation. Certain
it is that the supply of poetry has become
alarmingly short, and. for the first time
in a decade, there have been placed orders
for poetry that cannot be filled, appar
ently, for some time uo come.
However, there is one very adequate
explantion of the new condition of things.
It is that those youthful persons who
would like to find expression in the form
of verse have been so discouraged and
have been made to believe that they are
only rendering themselves the objects of
ridicule that they have concluded not to
send their productions to the editors. As
a result, there comes into New York so
little peotry that the supply has fallen
short of the demand. How to remedy
this is just what the editors do not ap
pear to know.
CROKER REDIVIVUS.
The latest Tammany report runs to the
effect that Richard Croker will positively
resume active leadership of the organiza
tion in time, at the latest, for the fall
campaign. Incredible as this rumor may
seem, it has been seriously considered in
the more private debates and discussions
among the Tiger’s sachems. The present
plan is to select a well known man for
leader, and when he has succeeded in
demonstrating the inability of anyone but
Croker to manage the affairs of the or
ganization, the ex-boss is to resume bis
former place with eclat. Extraordinary
as this plan may seem, it would certainly
prove very effective, and it would give
the municipal magnate a prestige in the
conduct of the coming campaign that
nothing else could.
Another reason for this step is alleged
to be Croker’s sensitiveness to an impres
sion which appears to haVe got abroad
that he was in reality dropped or forced
out. ihat maj r be true, but Croker is a
Tammany power still.
THOSE ANARCHIST OUTRAGES.
The New York police are very un
willing to take active measures against
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the anarchists at present. This is the
result of thdlr experience among them, it
having dawned upon the bluecoats that
the anarchist scare is wildly imaginative.
There are numerous anarchists ih New
York, and they, as a class, have very
little to do with bombs. Indeed, there is
a Philosophical Anarchist Club in the me
tropolis, which meets weekly, and is in a
very thriving condition. Supt. Byrnes
himself declares that many of New York s
anarchists are personally the most
humane and benevolent of men. The
“wild” element gives trouble, of course,
but the students and professional men,
who “go in for” anarchy, are imparting
to the propaganda a weird respectability.
Nevertheless, the anarchists have not
nearly as much to do with explosives as
manj' people think—at least anarchists in
New York have not. David Wechsler.
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toor. A neighbor hurried for a police
man, and as Daniel was taken from the
bed chamber to jail, the old man died.
In the Jefferson Market police court this
morning Daniel was fined £lO.
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