The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-16
THE AMERICAN SUNDAY.
ITS QUIET CHARACTER AS VIM
 DICTATED IN THE NEVIS.

The Sweet Peace That BrOOds Over the
 Entire Country Like n Great White
 Dove.
 Its Quiet Character as vindicated in
 the News of Monday.
 What I like about the American Sun day is the sweet peace that broods like a great white dove over the country on that day. enjoy taking up my Mon- day morning newspaper-I always read the least sensational one obtainable- and noting the serene quietude that has marked one more Sabbath in the land preserved to holiness by the Puritan fathers.
 Now. there was last Sunday, for ex- ample. Lest some worldly minded peo- ple may think we are drifting away from the beatific tranquility sought to be preserved by the makers of the gem tie Blue Laws let me cite few of the more prominent headings in yesterday mornin's newspaper. It would be too strenuous task to go through the en- tire fl pages of the paper. will, therefore. content myself with the few Sunday doings reported on the first two pages. So. then:
 In St. Louis mob of 1000 people, en- ragged because they could not get their 0Ix xr,1a ho stopped bull fight which they had paid to see. demolished the arena, set fire to the ruins and tried to lynch the manager. Also in St. Louis a squad of West Point cadets stormed one of the Worlds Fair gates and all but demol- ished 1t in their successful effort to pass it.
 In Philadelphia a leading citizen was arrested for tearing through the streets in an automobile at such rate of speed as to endanger the lives of many per- I sons who narrowly escaped being run ! down while coming from divine wor- N ship; two boys playing on raft were X drowned in the presence of hundreds of < pleasure seekers at Fairmount Park # and an old man shot his young wife to X death and killed himself
 Tn Boston pleasure boat sank in the harbor, carrying down "A me hand IS | women.
 In Lexington, Va, shooting scrape resulted in the death of two men, In Kansas City woman was arrested, charged with stealing s5,00O worth of jewels. In Omaha little girl, playing near a well, fell in. Her clothing caught on a projection 60 feet down land she hung there for an hour, until half the town assembled and rescued lier..
 Tn Jacksonville, Fla. an elderly woman was found mysteriously mur- dered.
 In Hartford an automobile blew up, burning four men and causing fire which called out the Fire Department
 And am proud to say that little old New York was not behind the rest of khe country in peace and restful quie- Jude. Two autos filled with excurion- sts crashed together, throwing some of he occupants violently to the ground; policeman pounded fire chief with his club while the latter was trying to Fave a burning building; three men Were wounded in a pistol battle at one If the piers; the body of a man who, the lolice think was murdered wos found h the water, well dressed woman, overed with terrible cuts and bruises, las found wandering in a dazed con- itidn about the streets; two men were hot in pistol battle on the East Side;
 wholesale merchant shot himself to bath. leaving a note saying drink did and several lesser items of similar haracter not to mention Coney Islan's bntribution to the story of a restful .l1lday, consisting of an acrobat killed,
 girl fatally hurt in a toboggan slide,
 runaway in which eight persons were
 jured, and sundry other.
 like tranquilizing nature.
 Intellectually might mention that ear-
 in the evening of that peaceful day a indstorm swept over Brooklyn, huring buses hither and you and generally lntributing to the calm serenity of the
 enc.
 am truly thankful that we have so
 ccessful1y preserved one day in the
 eek for quiet contemplation of the
 gher and sweeter attributes of
 pristian people. should be very sor-
 if the strenuous continental Sunday
 Ire introduced in this, our peace-lov-
 land.-Brooklyn Eague