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THE JUDGE. 321, 326 and S28 Pearl St, (Franklin Square.) PUULISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Uorren States asp Casaba) fectauk Fai as SING COMPANY, ei, 8% and 2 Pearl St. New York < to be epidemic: over the face of th At one time am lated ills of life sorrow in the last: dread resor it sweeps land in recurrent nowill bear all the a ithout i umu- 1g surcease o| ; at another he will shuffle off the mortal coil to escape | annoyance of a toothache. Why this is That it is so, files prove. Per- of suicide is love f felo de se might well return a ver- affection of the heart.” men who are soft are soft commonest cat in nine ont very ten cases the coroner's jury liet, Died from matter of fact, to kill th enough tobe readily spared from. the com- munity: youn, wlves for Ie salutary in their ea: however, that befe with a bullet whe ins should be, they frequently Is wh so suicide It isto be exp regretted, the cavity their own kill the g refuse them, disposed of ides are not to be mourne had sense enough t Il too few to, Seriously, . for 1 they be in tho in ninety-nine cases out of a hund do ne live, and perform the only ble act of them (their lives) forever. sen: THE SAVINGS BANK BILL. Tuere recently Ml Bill, has been a bill under discussion at the Executive at known as the Pa; Bank Chamber ny, ving which the Governor | and promptly killed. ‘This bill to be de remove from banks the which at preclude them the higher nt: read between prof ned to limitations from seeking forms of investm = we find it to be payin the lin bill for dumping four hundred million dollars, belonging. to their lives when they leave | 5 very wisely | THE JUDGE. | the working men and women of New York | te into Wall street. This is rather | startling, but it is none the less true. ‘The | interests that advocate the bill tend to Mr. Vanderbilt's *, Shepard, is lond in its praise. He cannot see anything | harmful in the bill, Naturally he cannot. What Wall-street man could see anything harmful in a measure which would give the very throw suspicion upon it son-in-law, Mr. Elliott street 400,000,000 more capital to operate upc uld apply such a stimulus to stock speculation as it has not known for | years, Shepard argues that the savings banks a 1 by law that they are unableto pay their deposite higha rate of interest as they should do; and very | properly are they restricted. ns of th hey are the ney, of the there is nothing more works a savings bank, eustod people's n workingman’s savin no ancial crash such ry as the collapse of tter for the worki nan to have his ey kept safely for him at a moderate of interest as he has been doing, than to a few large dividends and then me sudden wive neipal in ash of values, | ‘The higher the rate of interest the worse the f the fundamental maxims | ud the money of savings banks is the last money | speculation. Mr. Shep: compel the savin cats. Certainly 1 do and fram quite as bad. pard, in this court with clean hands, in the world to use in the bill did not banks to invest in wild- ; but it allowed them to tter of legislation this. is y that Mr, Shep- not come in $ too obviously 1 in Wall street, and certainly the Tord speculators, who could well The workin But the cannot afford to say this, man is of men be d—.” more value san is the speculator, and there can be lit- abt but that the effect of the bill would to and Wall- tate ary to urity offered by to us ings ban mblers of the nds of th | The Governor and the | officers would not have the time nec | look : | speculators. The trust would be sure to invest in the cla curities included in this bill, and in this | way pay a higher rate of interest for a year or two, This would attract tors | thither, and when the crash came—as come it inevitably must—the ruin would be more widespread and disastrous. make speculs g to throw them into the street clique. depo On the whole, a more mischievons and dangerous measure has not been devised for many It is a bold card, the worst form of capital in it The ernor, in his veto, played the only trump scrupulous game with labor. j iti | enc id be a red-letter day | vhrase the words of their chief and | that could beat it. BILLIARDS. | | ‘Tue interest taken in sporting matters in New York, and, for that matter, throughout the country at larg ge, of lute years has been something phenomet Sveryone recollects ion of our people d to the walking matches; how y for the priv- ving up all night to look at a few men plodding monotononsly rk track; how men would willing to breathe the vitiated air of the building; how ladies would pre how all the papers would ¢ Himns each morning to an account of the perform: round a tan-l great nt flowers; vote ¢ ances of the pedestrian heroes, and how all sof the community were worked up to ch of enthusiasm. little short « HM lunacy. ver now, i vr the pr nd + same mind, may But it has had its suc- The mania now is for glove-fights, wis willingly pay faney couple of trianism will ever degree of interest in the publi whether it I be questioned. and enormous « prices for the privilege of seeing | men hammer each other with yloves for a few minutes. Doubtless the a that cheered Sullivan and Mitchell the other night was substantially the same as has often If hoarse over the fe towell a And then w 1 craze of billiards. Billiards, however, seems to the intelligent mind a more worthy obje It presents: of interest. good facilities for betting alking matches or boxing bouts, a game of pure skill. It onsequently for practice; for nerve, quently for rigid and abstinent not keep the man who would watch it conscientiously up all night, as did the walking matches. On the oth pleasure is not limited to a few minute Is for sei- and trainin, er hand in the boxing exhibition; and it isa game at which nine out of every ten young men can do a little themselves. ‘Therefore it is readily within the comprehension of the masses, and y Almost an: judge of the beauty and delicacy ¢ at billiards, phe can stroke r he knows just how difficult —or impo: . us the may would find it to duplicate it himself, recent billiard tournam been a sufficiency of inter al rivalry in- fused to insure an unflagging interest. And if science be superior to brute force, surely a billiard exhibition should rank h gher than one of either boxing or walking. However, boxing has the call just now, and there was probably more mone minutes of warm work between Mitchell a Sullivan than there was for the whole ser of games in which the champions « cues, But, of course, the dear people will money for what they are most anx- , irrespective of conside p or art or of ease le—he In the nts, too, AS paid to see the ten ions of aything outside of their comicbooks.com