Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-10-19

to stop is the tapping Of the ticker
wires by those who cannot get the SER
vice in any other way. Several bucket
shops depend entirely on the fine wire
route to get their quotations, aud one
of these duys there is going to be
waiing and gnashing of teeth when
some liueman suddenly cuts off their
supply of information in the middle
of an excitable hours transactions.
If the Duke of Marlborough were
sacred white elephant with two trunks,
and could eat hay with both of them
at the same time, he could not be an
object Of greater curiosity than he is
rs the tianco of Miss Consuelo Van
derbilt. The Waldorf Hotel, where
his grace is stopping, is simply over
crowded with people whose one pur-
pose is to catch glimpse of the dis
tinguished Euglishman. Women who
seem to be in other respects well bred,
hang about the hotel parlors and cor
ridors trying to conceal their eager
ness to see the wonder Of the dny, but
fail most dismally. Nor is this curl
osity confined wholly to the gentler
sex. Many man comes noslng about
the Waldorf these days asking
a chance acquaintance il the Duke
is visible anywhere, and the out
come Of it all is that we are forced
to conclude that British coronet
is of as much interest to the Republic
cans and Democrats OF New York
city as it is to the monarchists OF
Great Britain. | wonder if we are
really all set OF frauds, and II our
much Wanted belief in equality and u
government of the people, ETC., is q
mockery. 1t would seem SO when We
observe carefully the manner in which
our people are now crowding after a
callow, everyday sort Of youth, whose
only distinction is that he has in
herited title and is going to marry n
fortune. AS the days Increase and
the wedding approaches this curiosity
will grow, and shall not be surprised
il, on the wedding day, it would re-
quire all the force at Teddy Rooso-
velt's command to keep the multitude
from literally tearing down the house
in which the ceremony is to be held.
There are two other men from
whom New York is expecting great
deal at present in what may be des-
cribed as the political line; lew per-
sons could be more utterly dissimilar
than those distinct opponents, ex-
Mayor Abram S. Hewitt and Mr..
Richard Croker, and yet both are I'M
questionably going through with the
tactics regarded as lying low"
There could be no doubt that Mr..
Hewitt is in delicate health, and that
his European trip has failed to re-
store his old form. SO relatively
feeble indeed is this public-spirited
citizen and able man that he may be
said to be sustained like Bulwer's
Richelieu, only by the force of his in
domitable will, but, though the flesh
is weak, the mind is clear and vigor-
Gus, and he is born leader of men.
Given active control even in his phys
ical ill health such practical man
and deep thinker would save New
York from Tummany more effectively
than all the Parkhursts in creation.
The "Hon." Dick Croker at II play in
luxurious stage box, is very differ
ent individual from the tyrant-toady,
caricatured as the Tsmmuny tiger in
the newspapers. He would seem to
be go0od- uatured creature, easily
amused by the airy persltiage OF the
American dramatist rs interpreted by
Nat Goodwin, but less readily stirred
to tender emotion. Croker doesn't
let the tears downfall even after din
ner i'll his managerial political
friend Harry Miners own theatre.
Croker belongs to the purely
physical type so familiar to the
lockers Oh in New York politics
There have been IL dozen like him
during the past twenty years, but
none who have, like Croker, secured
the cachet of II. r. H. the Prince of
Wales. Yet this distinction, shared
by Chauncy Depew, has not made
Croker vain. 81 shall always be
aifable," once said, with twinkle in
his eye, a London wit who was warned
of the probable effects OF his incipient
celebrity.
The President of the New York
Vegetarian Society says that he econ
siders eating task, which should be
performed with as little thought rs
possible" If this is the rule among
vegetariNns they are proper subjects
for sincere pity. Eating should be
always delightful experience, and it
is well worthy of rs much thought as
is necessary to make it SO. Dyspep-
STA is n sin, and its consequences are
fearful
This year our politicians, our politi.
cal preachers-anew breed but a clever
one-our lawmakers, editors, actors,
authors, men of fashion aud women of
fashion, have thrown themselves into
the vortex with truly acrobatic vigor.
One realizes, whilst inspecting their
pleasures, the force of the old udnge .
Reculer pour mieux sauter. Their
withdrawal during the heated term
throughout which Theodore Roose-
welt, like another Casabianca, stood
on the burning deck whence all but
him had fled - certainly made
them ''leap the better" in autumn.
The worst "'leap' is indeed powerless
to describe the power and precision of