New-York tribune., 1909-01-29
THE TALK OF THE DAT.

New York's satisfaction with her public service
law seems 10 have inspired Vermont TO imitation,
for that state will have public utilities board
under a bill signed by Governor Prouty last week.
The law will bring all railroads. telegraph. tele-
phone. express and other public utility corpora
tions under state regulation
The village set is going to plead emotional In;
sanity as an excuse for robbng them hen roosts-
what do you think Of that?
7 think his public spirit ought to get him an
acquIttal, Amt we aiming al making Plunkvilie
The woman who created a fire panic by shouting
Meyer at the Star Theatre Lexington avenue
and 10Th street. on Sunday, was not the hrst per
son 10 have that experience. Some years ago
man banged furiousy against a locked door in one
Of the upper corridors of hotel at Sharon Springs,
and shouted Meyer! Meyer" 1t was warm Sun
day afternoon and most OF the guests in their
rooms many Of them mapping Immediately there
was great commotion in the house and panic
stricken, scantiiy dressed people rushed through
the halls and down the stairvays When the cause
Of the alarm was ascertained the proprietor told
the man who had shouted that If he wished TO
main In the hotel ne would have to call his small
boy. John while his visit lasted, and John the
bog remained TO the seasons end.
slirnson-Now. Willie. you knew you were lying
to me at the tine but t No 11 yop didn't d have re
tell tell me- me j. just ii how W. You felt. ''
W!llie.Well papa s.sn ! guess M fslt the way yOu
The Rev. DR.. L. l.. Cuylsr says In the current
number Of The Homiletic Review: Terrible
was the tragedy, of that April night is still true
that Lincoln may have died the right time for
his n1perishable fame. He had conducted i'm
mense nation through the most tremendous civil
war ever waged and never committed a. single
serious mistake He did not possess HanIilton's
brilliant genius, but Hamilton never saw the future
more sagaciously. He made pretensions to
Daniel websters magnetic oratory, but Webster
never put more truth in oratorical form for popu-
lar guidance. He possessed Benjamin Franklin's
immense common sense, and that twenty-five ad-
dress OF the battlefield of Gettysburg is the high
water mark of American sententious eloQuence. 1t
is fitting that after such a mis- life
should be the last be lost In that stupendous
struggle. He had called over two hundred thousand
heroes 10 lay down their lives. and then his own
life was laid down beside 'the humblest private
soldier or drummer boy OF Gettysburg Chicka-
mauga."
on the, eyenins after the International team
@o 3 haf besn of e % th.
ean arins s line Yamped 9mse ss n ~. rbs
said the EneIishmar, throat cut; we've Iost"-
Seventh Regiment Gazette.
The wArdenship of ST. Stephens College. AMMAN
dale. y. Y, has been Offered to the Rev James K.
Freeman rector CT st. Andrews Church Yonkers.
Nh Freeman has been rector OF 81. Andrews since
1895. lie IS considering the offer.
THAT man has no conscience
Why do you think ,so?'
He cheated Inc fearfuly in a horse trade in
end OF the bargain "-Chioago Record Herald a.
The city fathers OF Troppau recently indulged i'll
heated discussion to the propriety of abolish
ing The orchestra in the local subsidized theatre.
ana before tile point had been settled the ''Trop-
pauer Ze!tuug' sent letters to well known men in
Germany asking their opinion the subject
Hermann Bahr said that, In his opinion. music
between the acts "sauoumm' m'-beasty stupid.
Ludwig Barnay tragedian and manager, said that
he was in favor of the music If appropriately and
artstically presented but that otherwise il should
be abolished. Dr. Oscar Bumenthsl. playwright,
that orchestral music had been dispensed with
in many first class theatres because the time be-
tween the usually devoted to visiting and
taking refreshments. II deem it only right, he
said, that oil the few evenings when the theatre
is TOO small the orchestras place should be
converted into paying part of the house Per
sonary, opposed to the between-the-act inu-
sc."' said Paul Schlenther director Of the Burs
Theatre Vienna, but public is so accustomed
to il thst its abolition would be resented
Better cut out the booze. old boy; there's moth
ing in it. .-oa. ~, sr;sna. -