Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-03-11
EDWARD G. DANA.
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n hlCS ltNNN Httt HIS nult utT UUS-
band arrested for staying ont late, the
first offence in ten years of married.
not unmiXe1, bliss. for him, it is
feared The offender had never erred
before, but on Monday last. for some
caus he did not return TO the partner
of his Joys till the clock had struck ten.
So the next morning madame took
him into the awful presence of Il mag
lstrate and had him sworn. not on v to
support her, but to keep better hours
III future. The magistrate, being Il
male human being, read tho woman Il
sermon and then remarked it he had
been i'll Mr. husbands place he should
depart and never go home again at
any hour. The future of this loving
pair looks cloudy, unless the worm
can turn master of the situation.
There are men in this community
older than Mr. George Gould, of more
extended business experience and oc-
cupying positions of no less RESPONSE
bility rs managers of corporations,
who might with credit and profit fol
ly deiying the Tammany organization.
His official explanation to the stock
holders of the Manhattan Railway
company of the motive and reason for
the concerted attack OF the various
departments of the city government
upon their property necessarily breaks
all friendly relations with Mr.. Croker.
1t is virtually serving notice on Tam
many that it may do its worst. as it
will get no further favors. 1t is
plain defiance.
Every week Governor Roosevelt
comes from Albany to confer with
Senator Patt aud Chairman Odell of
the Republican state committee in re-
! gard to matters of state policy. The
governor makes no conceument of
thes' weekly conferences with the
"bo.h" and the party chairman. In
fact, he boldly proclaims them, and as
he also confers with Seth Low, Eilihu
Root and other Republicans of indie
pendent tendencies, and thus man
ages to preserve n degree of party har-
mony that has not existed in long
time before he escapes public criticism.
Governor Roosevelt is strong enough
to confer with the boss without losing
his reputation for personal independ-
ence.
AT last the daughter of Mr.. Astor
of London is to be presented ut court,
and the mighty puzzle of what to do
with this greatest of Astor heiresses
will have to be solved. No wonder
her anglicized papa lies awake nights.
1t is enough to give any conscientious
parent insomnia to imagine the horde
of titled fortune hunters who will sur
round her and dog her every step.
For it is no joke to be an AstOr, and
a young and handsome maiden at that
William Waldorf has managed to es-
cape all attacks on his sacred person
so far. but it will be another matter
when youth and loveliness are in ques-
ton.
The prospect of New York harbor-
ing the insane daughter of the King
OF the Belgians increases, for it is
again in the air that the Princess of
Coburg is to come to America ''for
the good of her health" Her career
has ended disastrously in Europe, and
it is impossible for her family to either
keep her shut up or to receive her
back, after the disclosures of her debts
and love affairs The 1900" will have
to make up their minds what to do in
this case pretty soon, for Louise is a
royal princess, though Il naughty one.
The World calculates that in two
generations the Gould estate has in
creased from ST., 900, 900 to 1925, OOO,-
900. In four generations the Astor
estate has swollen from 500, 900, ,OO0
to 1875, 900, 600. In four generations
the Vanderbilt estate has increased
from 800, 900, 900 to $400, 900, 900.
These figures seem to vindicate the
wisdom of the observation that them
that has gifts.
The Times mentions the case of
Wall street speculator who sold 25,-
600 shares of tobacco stock short, and
was compelled to buy it at loss of
1926, 900. Pretty tall gambling, this,
and incidentally illustrating the fact
that the balance in this business is not
always on one side of the ledger.
The police authorities here ac-
knowledge frankly that they received
indispensable aid from the newspapers
in investigating the Adams poisoning
case. Without newspaper publicity
and the keen detective work of skilled
reporters many criminal would sue
ceed in escaping punishment.
Chauncey Depew says he lost the
nomination for president in 1888 be-
cause he was railroad man. But the
famous postprandialist' salary from
the New York Central was as large as
the one he would have received if
elected president of the United States
and he still holds his job.
Brother Parkhurst calls hunger one
of the greatest blessings, inasmuch as
it makes us eat. That is good deal
like Josh Billings remark that tight
boots are blessing, because they
make a man forgot all his other
troubles.
Helen Gould ate 1O-cent meal in
Brooklyn the other day. Probably
she enjoyed it, too.
Chauncey NJ. Depew has returned
from Chicago and is ready to be inter.
viewed, as usual.
kNICKERBoCKER.
Work wilt BE Pushed.
Washington, March Ex-Governor