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probably specimen of Mr.. Rosters
cutting sarcasm, for there is nothing
about it any the more sacred than on
anv other evening. The performers are
our friends of the cork room and "Ie
Ode Inn" dive, and the audience IS
much the same After the sacred"
concert there are the usual services in
the cork room and the dive until Mon
day morning dawns; and long after;
then there is the Monday matinee, and
so on through the week, night and day.
This statement Of facts will prooao-
" be news even to the average New
Yorker, and especially to those who be-
lieve that all the dives and vile resorts
and gambling houses have been closed,
and that the vigilance Of the police
makes it too great risk TO violate the
law by selling strong drinks on the Sab
bath. They will ask themselves how 1T
is that this one place is permitted to
run a theater performance in saloon,
how unescorted women are permitted to
frequent it, aud how the management
can serve drinks with only pretense OF
observing the closing hours prescribed
by law. Why this is permitted is a
question affecting public morality, the
administration of municipal law and
good government. 1t is very serious
question, but who will answer it?
''You must ask of the man in the
MOON" as De Wolf Hopper sings.
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II Is gay here all through the even
ING. that is 10 say, from about 10 o'clock
until 1. . There are also little Jolly par
ties here in the afternoons. But the
0svest time is. OF course, around the be-
witebing hours Of midnight, when the
iovial fellow who is ignorant OF such
delightful place yawns about MS hotei
like a country churchyard. Inc place
g cav NOT only with merry laughing,
tbe nopping of corks, the soft, Sizzling
song Of the mirth-compelling wine, out
with bright, piQuant costumes The
performers stroll in and ont between
tbeir turns on the stage, In their
tights and tiny bodices; hum snatcheS
~ song. dance little impromptu jig
with their very short skirts graceful
raised. try TO kick OF the hat OF the lei
low who stands talking TO the other
GIRL. and. indeed, make themselves so
Thoroughly charming" that everyone
of them NAV reasonably hope for niche
in this temple Of circian fame, where
ooh name Is emblazoned In costly cork.
Who can withstand their winning ways
and the modest appeal TO add to the COZ
lection OF cOrks which is to make thelr
fsme and fortunes? Not the country
visitor. nor the college student, nor the
callous young bank clerk.
Won NAV have the honor OF escorung
one of the women home, or TO some
other place, or you may get tlree anu
feel a thirst for the refreshing ana less
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genial sIgnifcator of wealth; and the
death grow out OF controversy con-
corning property. Mars stood IN the
fifth house, called The House OF Chill
dren.' and it was through his solicitude
for his child, who was used as a decoy'
that his death was encompassed. The
sun was I'm the house OF death (eth) in
Leo-ruling the heart and back-and
the bullet that took his life passed
through his heart and lodged 10 MS
back. Saturn and Uranus were both Ia
the head-and under
meath the earth: and the head has not
been found"
All the angels and life poInts-as-
cepdant. sun and moon-in Hiram's
nativity were seriously effected By the
evil planets OF Isaac's nativity. says
Ptolemy: 'sIf malefc In one nativity
fall on the benehc In another nativity
he who has the bene6c Will suffer
damage from him who has the malelic.
These testimonies show all the maleiics
OF Isaac affecting the benefc Oh Hiram
"Mars-lord OF the ascending signs,
Scorpio-is ruler Of the nativity. and
stands nearly on the cusp OF the lztn
house, that OF imprisonment and sor-
row. Scorpio persons, with Mars 90
evIlly placed as in this nativity, have
usually very active and energetic minds,
though perverted and seem 70 be with
out pity or feeling for the suferings OF
their fellow-men-a charscterlst'c OF
this native When Mercury, the men
tai ruler, is afflicted By Saturn, with
other Ike conditions, as In this case,
the person is likely TO be sadly deficient
in moral principle, very cumming:
treaeherous, jealous and tenacious ana
unforgiving OF injury. ii the moon %
IN an aspect with Mars. and Venus
Joins in tkis confgurs,ion, then the per-
sons are fsbricstors Of deceit. cheating
their own families IS well as Others,
Iibindinous and usually guilty OF very u
centious and immoral practices, says an
emiaent authority. Thds native has Oh
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the taste OF the occasional country visit
tor who deplores the closing of Harry
HIPS.
There is a gallery on each side of the
hail, split into boxes, from which you
can view the performance without be-
Ing seen by the audience il you feel at
all timid about being noticed at such
place. The ladies' who have escorts
generally occupy these boxes, but. inst
as In other parts Of the house, both men
and women enter alone and trust to
chance and circumstances to provide a
partner OF the opposite sex. Sometimes
the girls from the stage stroll In to en-
hVen any gentleman who hap
pens to be lonely. introduce
lions are easily made, and
the white-aproned walters hustle about
with bottles ana glasses, and the laugh
ter IN the boxes is punctuated by the
popping OF corks. Downstairs the tip
pie is almost invariably beer; upstairs
you would be frowned out of counte-
nance II you suggested anything less ex-
pensive than champagne.
To the giddy youths who have more
money than they know what to do with,
these boxes are especially alluring. To
hob-nOb with an actress in all her paint
and they do put it on thick at Roster
q BiaPS-is an adventure of the widest
and wickedeSt type-something to
be talked about with great pride
when they get back to
the college dormitory. You should
go TO Rosters on The evening after an
intercollegiate game. Then the boys
literally own the house; the girls wear
the college cOlors on the stage and
drink unlimited champagne with them.
When Princeton won the base ball game
a couple Of weeks ago there was an ex-
travagance of exhilaration. All the
evening the coup de ballet was spark
ling with excitement and the Princeton
cOlOrS. The boys came late, but when
they did come they "whooped things
up" with q mighty whoop, and thor
Oughly Disguised several baldheads who
had taken boxes with confidence of be-
ing able to find daShing partners.
Taken as whole, the performance,
as these sort Of performances go, is not
bad. The country visitor is apt to term
it tame. In the glare Of the footlights
nothing especially wicked is exhibited.
Now and then songs with decidedly off
color words are permitted, and there
are occasionally shadow pictures on
white curtains that would make even
an old rOunder blush, but OF the stage
performance Of Roster 81 Bials moth
ing worse can be said ordinarily
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"Let all handling chemical, or having
superintendent of explosives or highly
combustible materials, look 10 1t at this
time and throughout the first bali OF
May; that care is had in all their acts
and affairs; for in these days IL is APP
pretended there will be some very de-
structive fires involving unusual losses
Of human life, both from burning and
crushing, and unusual care and watch
fulness is suggested TO all.
The early days OF February, 1890,
were marked by an astounding epidemic
OF disaster, both by sea and land, sui
cides, murders and deaths. During
that time the evil planets, Saturn, Mars
and Uranus, were In unusually malign
aspects to the benefcs (Jupiter and
Venus), to Neptune and Mercury and
to the luminaries. The most evil as
pect is the opposition (ls0 degreesl and
next to it the square 600 degrees).
There was square between Saturn and
Neptune February .; another, Jupiter
and Uranus, February z; Mars and Sat
urn-vith parallel between Mars and
Neptune on the 2sth; Mars and Venus,
18th; Venus and Neptune, 10th; Nep-
tune and the Sun, Goth; opposition be-
tween the Sun, Mercury and Saturn,
18th; parallels (alSo powerful for evil
between Sun and Mars, Sd; Mercury
and Mars, 4th; Venus and Mars, 9th;
Sun and Uranus, 23d; Venus and
Uranus, 25th; Mars and Neptune, 2Sth.
One OF the notable crimes porpctrated
in that month was the murder OF Hiram
f. Sawtelle by his brother, Isaac B.
Sawtelle, in the Maine forests, on Fob
ruary 5. The murder was a peculiarly
brutal one, the victim being literally
hacked TO pieces. All the parts but the
head were found February IA. Another
crime perpetrated but a few days later
was the murder Of Z. c. Benwell In
Canada, by Reginald Birchall. Ben
well was killed on the nth and his body
was found on the Goth.
Three OF the horoscopes herewith
presented are reproduced from the as
THEOLOGICAL magazine, Signs OF the Times,
and the deductions or judgments with
them are condensed from the extended,
elaborate and technical matter pre-
pared therefor by "Regulus."
The fourth horoscope, that OF Thomas
Alva Edison, is reproduced because OF
the interest naturally attaching 10 its
subject, from the Astrologers' Magazine
OF London.
eve are taught that when the sun Is
COMBINED with an eminent fixed star OF
the nature OF Mars, as is the South
Assellus be with the Pleiades, violent
death Is threatened; that where such
violence is promised Mars produces
death by gunshot or sword wounds; that
II Mars be near Algol in the head OF
Medusa, IN the face OF Taurus GO TO q
degrees) decapItation or mutilation Of
limbs IS threatened. Mars at the birth
stood in evil square with Jupiter, the
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SECRETS OF THE STARS
LARGE FEgS PAID TO ASfR0LOGlRS 81
SPRgULATORS.
The Hindu Astrological Sysisms-Prsdictiuns That
Have Come Strangely Trus-Hcrcscopss
Of Weli-Known 0harac-
tsrs Explained.
TcoPYRIGHTED.1

1t is earnestly insisted upon by some
highly imaginable dreamers, who
fancy themselves scientific materialists,
that the light radIated from the print
ing press has banished superstition to q
very great extent. at least from among
civilized peoples. Some inherited re-
gard for trivial signs and omens, they
admit, still fingers among women and
rather feeble-minded men, but they fe-
licitate themselves that they have
kicked off this terrene ball, out into the
infinity of space, all countless multi
tudes OF fairies, trolls, sylphs, undines,
gnomes, ct al, never TO return, and
with those 'vlewless creatures OF the
air" have got rid Of the congeneric So
called occult sciences, including magic
and astrology. Perhaps they have
not.
1t may possibly be mildly surprising
to them that astrology has to-day not
only more believers, but more who IN
derstand good deal of its strange and
difficult computations, laws and iargon,
than have existed at any one time with
in at least three hundred years. Such
is nevertheless the fact. Several years
ago a New York Sunday newspaper
established an astrological department,
devoting q column each week to the de-
auctions and forecasts drawn by thor
oughly competent astrologer from the
horoscopes OF individuals sending in
simply the place and exact time OF their
birth and statement of their sex. The
applicants for attention in that column
was from one to five hundred a week.
Only very small percentage OF them
could obtain the desired favor, rarely
more than one-fourth of the smallest
number of petitioners. That eagerness
has continued up to the present time
and the letters received are in them
selves sufficient demonstration that
those who ask the casting OF their horo-
scopes are by no means the ignorant
and vulgar, but in a great majority OF
cases persons Of intelligence, education
and culture.
A couple of years ago a st. Louis
paper undertook to do the same thing,
but in its brash inconsiderations OF
liberality was rash enough TO promise
to do I'D the horoscopes of all who APP
piled. In few weeks the editor found
he would have to give his entire Sunday
issue I'D to horoscopes, with heavy en-
croachment on Mondays space, TO make
his promise good, and, unable to see
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some affirmed principal Of resultant eff
fects from certain given planetary
causes; or TO illustrate the reading OF
some unusual aspects. There are seri-
Gus and able articles on the planets,
their co-reiations and influences upon
mundane affairs. Sometimes instruc-
tions In new methods Of directions"
are given. The ephemeris for the
month, and general indications Of the
prevalent conditions Of each day, are
indispensable. Then, In one at least,
are especial hints" for individuals, Civ
ing encouragements or warnings as pre-
saged by the relations OF the planets to
their radical places in the map Of ma
tivity held by the editor. The individ-
uals thus specialized are designated by
members, and these numbers. in the
issue for May, run as high as 3,6Sl.
In the May number Of his Table Of
Celestial Influences" for the month
which, as 1t reached New York sub
scribers on May 1, must have gone to
press in April-0. d. Bragdon, an as
trologer, gave the warning:
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lieved that this is a strictly moral town,

lieved that this is a strictly moral town,
some description of this famous resort
will not be out of place.
Years ago, when Roster & BiaPs con-
cert hall first started, il was a irst-class
German beer garden, with good or
cheStra. There was some objection to
the wicked sale Of beer and other drinks
which make drunk come" and the
management were unable 10 renew their
license. So they made il variety show
and sold only soft" drinks, weiss beer,
lemonade and such. Afterward they
again obtained a license, but they did
not 90 back to the mere orchestra, and
for some years Roster & BiafS has been
the only place in the town where man
can witrHSs a theatrical performance,
smoke his cigar and wet his whistle as
often as he cares TO nod at the white
aprOned waiter
The section Of the law under which
the license is granted to this place reads
as follows:
at shall not be lawful to sell or fur
niSh any wine, beer or SpirituOus liquors
20 any person in the auditorium or lob
bies of any place Of exhibition or per-
Torrance, or In any apartment connect
ed herewith by any door, window or
other aperture, where any interlude,
tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet, play,
farce, minstrelsy or dancing, or any
other entertainment of the stage, or any
equestrian, circus or dramatic perform
ance of iugglers or rope dancing, or ac-
robats is exhibited, except that the
Mayor may, in his discretion, permit
the same to be sold or furnished while
concerts consisting Of vocal aud instru-
mental music only are being given in a
place duly licensed by him. Such per-
mission shall only be operative so long
at there shall be license from the Elk
else Commissioners for the sale or fur
niShing of wine, beer or strong aud
spirituouS liquors at such places, and
may be revoked at any time by the
Mayor"
On entering Roster & Balls concert
hall from TweRty-third street you are
handed a programme on which figure
dancers, acrobats, an original burlesque
Operetta Gin which there are eight lead
ing characters and peasants, cOurtierS,
huntSmen, etc, ~ duet singers, trapcze
performers and so on. You hay all
this TO enjoy while smoking your cigar
and drinking your beer. In the inter
Jude you study your neighborS. This
is one Of the features Of the show.
There are plenty of women here
some pretty, some pS.see, some
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expensive lager. When the cork room
closes,ii IL ever does, you have no
knowledge, but just before Sunday
morning yon think of lager, and go
with Jour man about town and ''lady
friends" who have now donned their
street dress, to "Ye Ode Inn." This
is underneath the Roster Il Bal saloon,
on theeorner of Twenty-fourth street
and Sixth avenue. There are
swing doors Of wickerwork and a
pair just entering were seen to In
dulge II stolen kiss on the stairs be-
fore coming into the glare OF the cleo
trio light. Then they ensconced them
selves IL one of the alcoves under the
pavement, and the waiter took their
orders.
The rOomed is wainscoated and ceiled
in carved oak, the tables, chairs and
settees teing of the same style. There
are inches here and there filed with
fine porcelain drinking mugs, and about
the whoe place is the Qualntness OF an
old Gernan inn. Lots OF women are
seated around or fitting from table
to table, recognizing old acquaintance
this man to drink, and then that.
There are no corks on the walls to
show the proves of each individual
woman in wooing men to pay for liquor
and the place Is not nearly so sugges-
tive of the vlleness which Dollutes the
atmosphere of the whole establishment.
This is simply Tom Gould's, with all the
miserable creatures in plain clothes; the
cork room is more like some of the old
Bowery dives. where half-dressed,
shameless creatures in gaudy and gauzy
stage dresses, stop at nothing which
can wheedle money out Of the pockets
of the pleasure seeker. The pretended
secrecy OF the latter is not the least OF
its alluring charms. The women you
meet there are the women just off the
stage, and the revelry and deviltry goes
on uninterrupted as long as these women
care to stay there. The dressing rooms
adjoin the cork room.
In "Ye Olde Inn" it is different. 1t has
a public entrance from the street-a
well fitted-up basement dive. Any kind
of women and any kind Of men may
stroll in, and occasionally there are
some curious characters and very pecu-
liar scenes there. There is pretenSe
of closing at 12 o'clock on Saturday
nights, but it is little more than pre-
tense. Tie lights are turned down, tho
walters tell the hour, the unfamiliar
part of the crowd goes out, the
rest remain for more drinking. If
you leave there an hour or two
after the legal hour you will
hear the sound of merriment from Kos
ter & Balls cork room, and If you want
a nightcap you can enter the open door
on Twenty-fourth, just past the en-
trance to Roster & Bial's "Ye Ode Inn"
dive, and pass into Roster 81 Bia's we'll
lighted barroom and be served without
question. You may linger there some
time or go home, or somewhere else,
feeling assured that when you get
thirsty again, even though it be on Sun
day, this door will be open to you.
Later in the day you can wait here
until the concert hall opens, for the
doors of that part of Roster & Bial's
large establishment are also wide open
a part of the Sabbath. The perform
ance is called sacred concert"
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ready .svsd several years Of his III
prlso1. Tor this latter class OF Grim
:. authority says OF such aspect
~ - SHOWN n this nativity, that they ~,
cline men t(Nbecon,e nlunderers and
mai ssss ., gam BY their own turpl'nasi
affaa.,e mem almost devoid Of common
liass a inndels 10 religion, perjurcfS
uars ana assassins who are horn to in-
merit the gallows. ~ -
Inc iull moon on the ,oryth Of Feb
rusry 1.-THE day preceds,r The murd >
ieil exactly In the ulsca az az 5es.snd-
o l~s note at birth, sne was almos. in !"
OWN place when ii enccnns,red the
sSssre aspect OF Mars bo,hG :, the birth
ana on the day precedins IL murder,
.nGs duplicating and :, ,enlng the
the s Sls conditions aud crrsl.y given .,
sne birth. Saturn was Dssrlv upon the |
parallel p. OF Mars and increased his nat
ulal nalignity aud c,nnInsI Mercury
ne-'iy stationary, anc Venp3 are both
- square with his lars and N,aus and
n opposition to his moon atbIfth, while
aaaus was nsarly sta,lonarvi in eyIi
aspect with his sun at the blrth.t There
vas therefore, an extraordinary faegree
VI excitement 10 the violently M and
n Au1eerous prOclivities OF the rvivlg
an1 N The midst OF their powerfK ~
i pS'ses isaac b. Sawtello undontV
P.anned and executed the L.
which be has been condemned\
va The day he was convicted
' nSS become stationary Just with
hS,,'u-aeayen OF his figure, oppoA
us S,s sun and Uranus and IN sqnaro\
n's jupiter; while Uranus, a planet
taxes eighiy-iour years to make /
SsNeult around the sun, was lust paA
=. the exact parallel Of his Mars a
1ne cusp OF the 'house OF imprlson&
Hctt llsth) at the moment the words
Va MS sentence were falling from tho
Iips Of the Judge. lie was sentenced \
. ,ooa nement IN prison until January 4
Ios-' and then TO be hanged. Itlsvefy
REMARKABLE that on the day fixed ~
hiS execution the same planet Uranks
"il' oe within Il minutes OF the exact
place OF Mars, whose parallel he stood
upon when sentence was passed. On
tha' Gay Saturn will be operating hid
own square aud the opposition OF hts
Mercury; Mars will have made one rev
olu s ana be In square with the heart
ana opposite tba throat.
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used to be enjoyed by the country visi-
tors, laden with spending money and
seeking .such places for "a high
old time" Harry Hills, an old
time institution of this class, has
been swept away; Billy Nc
GlOry's was raided and shut up, and
though be tried 10 start his concert hall
again and again, first in this corner and
then in the other, now under this alias,
now under that, the vigilant police have
always succeeded in frustrating his
evil designs. The newspaper reader
knows that all the dives have been
closed, and that as soon as new one
opens the police Immediately ''run in"
the inmates and break up their neiarious
traffic.
The other evening q country visitor
was deplorlng this excessively moral
state of affairs when one Of the party, q
man about town, suggested visit TO
Roster & Bial's concert hall on Twenty
third street, near Sixth avenue.
"Oh, / know that place. That isn't
what 1 want. l want something more
rapid-something like old times"
"Well, l know of no other place,
and in my opinion the gait is about
2.14 there. We had better try il"
They did try it, and for the benefit
OF the country visitor, as we'll
as for the information of the
average New Yorker who has also be-
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TO THEIR DOOM.
FOUR YOUNG FRRNOaMEN DRIVEN TO SUI
eide BY A TICKLE BEAUTY.

LONDON, July 14.-France has an oc-
caSional sensation, it is true, out the
one which is now agitating the oeauti-
full old city of Nancy and the surround
ing country, It is generally admitted,
has few if any parallels in the history
of the country, unless one exception is
made in favor Of those occasional IAN
tastic stories which modern romanceS
are fond of putting between leaves ana
which afterwards, bound in yellow, are
taken by the public as facts. In TINS
instance there are four tomostones, re-
calling the passing away OF four young
lives, which stand as grim warrants OF
the testimony and truth of this story.
For some time past, in the suouro OF
the city in question in one OF the most
beautiful villas imaginable, surrounded
with magnificent grounds, carefully
tended lawns, and prettily laid out
gardens, there lived lovely woman.
Her reputation for beauty, grace VIII
and charm were long known and were
widely sung throughout the country oy
many admirers. She was Mary Renee,
the daughter Of a wealthy land proprle-
tor who comes from the department OF
Isare. Marie was born in one OF the
pretty suburbs Of Grenoble, and her
childhood, which no doubt resenoled
that of other children. does not call for
any special mention, and may be readily
passed over, so that you may come TO
the dramatic period in her career, when
FIVE years ago she blosSomed forth as a
demi-mondaine de premier ordre, for
which nature had so beautifully en-
dowed her, and, naturally enough, she
made her headquarters in Paris
There she met young fellow just out
Of college, the possessor Of unlimited
means and the son Of General in the
French army. With him she sought TO
get away from the turmoil and hustle OF
Of the city and that induced her to de-