Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Number 122, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 May 1893 — Page 2

THE TELEPHONE.

Br Walter Bkadiuts.

BLOOMINGTON

INDIANA

Two live dukes and a blazing rajah liave excited anglo-maniacs and worshippers of rank in New York to a high degree of exhilaration.

Chicago continues to ftrnish the most sensational instances of criminal enterprise to be fouud in the United States, if not in the world. The furniture of a six-room flat was surreptitiously carted off the other day in that city and no trace was ' left behind.

A Duluth judge has a novelty at his bar in the person of his own wife, recently admitted to practice. He is the only man in the-United States vho can get the last word with his wife in a dispute, and her 4 'contempt' r would lead to disastrous re suits if exhibited in the court room.

Steam power at Buffalo, Rochester an i other towns in the vicinity of Nhigara Falls costs from 135 to t40 per horse-power per year of ten hour cays, jvhile it is estimated that the new electric plant at tie Falls wtil furnish the power for about $15 er horse-power per year of twentylour hour days.

A Boston boy who has been arrested for num berless incendiary tires, some of which resulted in loss of life, confessed and declared that lie W2s impelled thereto by an "irresistible impulse." If the laiv does not evince an irresistible impulse to throttle the young villain then justice will fail.

New York alderihen receive a salary of $2,000 a year and are clamoring for a raise to $3,00C. It is a -higed that' the city would be the gainer by granting the advance and cutting off all ''perquisites" now received by these officials. "Perquisites, in New York, lik-3 charity, covers a multitude of sins."

An enterprising actress who recently devised an extra leg to aid to the effectiveness of her stage nakeup has been outdone by adan;uese who appears in a unique dance with four apparently perfectly developed limbs which she agitates with astonishing dexterity. Actress No. 1 has brought suit for infringement oi her rights, having patented the original iciea of an extra pedal extremity for stege purposes.

If your unole has an aunt whc has a nephew whose wife has a cousin tliat is married to an old friend o your wife's sister, whose grandfather used to live in the same town with an old schoolmate of yours, whose son-in-law is now living in Chicago, you should at once renew tfce acquaintance with a view of saving hotel bills while attending the "W orld's Fair. This scheme can be worked successfully in many instances.

' The work of preparing for war in the time of peace goes bravely on at Birdsboro, Pa. The Brown segmental wire-wound gun wais tested April 15, in the presence of government experts, representatives of foreign powers and a number of invited guests from New York, Phjjadelphia and other cities. The test broke all records, and shows Uncle Sam to be at the head of the procession in gun making. The new piece stood a pi3&sure that would have blown any other gun to atoms.

1 England and Italy have been supposed to be the only countries in :,he world able to boast of statesmen who have passed the scriptural limit of human activity and yet remain prominent factors in the affairs of government. Pope Leo XIII and Gladstone have served as examples of "Grand Old Men," to 3uch an dxtem that it has been forgotten that tbe United States can also furnish an example in the person of Senator Morrill, who is past eighty-three, and in full ossession of his mental and bodily vigor.

Lcndgx dudes and their feeble imitators on this side of the water, are sadly agitated over the question: Ought a man to wear "sprats." "Spnite" are overgaiters. Some well-cxessed men persist in wearing them, though objection is made that they have descended in the social scale. Another problem which is worrying the imbecile brains of thse effemiaate creatures is whether frock coats should be worn buttoned or unbuttoned. London talent has decided that they may be worn anbuttoued and our anglo-maniacs will doubtless fall into line ere loig. Red this are popular in Piccadi.ly, .and are coming into favor rapidly on Fifth avenue. In tbe meantime 'our-readers will find more useful oc

cupation in getting in a big area of corn and in keeping posted on the price of hogs. A tender conscience is a moral attribute that is generally considered creditable to the possessor who puts his inner promptings into actual practice in the transactions of life, but an acute sensibility in that direction, such as is said to be the rule with a citizen of Wilmington, Del., would be very inconvenient in Chicago for instance. This excessively honest mortal, after pondering the matter for many years, laid a note containing $5 on the doorstep of a prosperous citizen, explaining that his mother had owed the the recipients grandfather, who died i:i 1839, $6 for the rent of a house, and that he felt in honor bound to pay the same, which he accordingly in -closed.

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A distinguished French scientist has startled the medical world with an assertion, the truth of which, :if established, will give rise to many uncomfortable situations and awkward dilemmas. The alleged statement has been made by this authority that the electric shock, which is the legal mode of execution in New York, does not kill, but that in all cases the death sentence has been carried out by the knives of the surgeons at the autopsj7. He insists that the electric current simply brings about apparent death, and that the subject may be revived by artificial means. He dares the surgeons to experiment at resuscitating the criminal. .The statement has created an extraordinary sensation , and is given credence by many medical authorities.

People who are capable of sincere sympathy for the hardships that are endured by impecunious sprigs of nobility who happen to have been born after their older brothers, will be glad to know that Queen Victoria has given practical evidence of having a mind with similar proclivities by appointing young Lord Granville as one of her lords in waiting whatever that may be with a salary of $4,000 a year, the duties of the position being so light as to occup' but four weeks' iesidenee at court It is stated that the only money that this fortunate young man received from his father's estate as a permanent inheritance was a half-crown piece, which he inadvertantly swallowed :hile performing some amateur sleight-of-hand tricks while a boy of fifteen, and which has remained within his noble interior in spite of the efforts of eminent specialists ft rescue this coin of the realm for the legal heir that has succeeded to the earldom by the lUw of entaii.

President Cleveland is still said to express his disapproval of nepotism on the part of officials of all ranks, and it io believed that were he to fully carry out his own ideas,

he would order from the public crib

every son, nephew, or other relative has not been struck with sorrow,

Twenty -Fourth Anniversary of Dr. Talmage's Pastorate. Tle Brooklyn Fastor Kxplalns the Ftnan. tial Standing: of tUe Tabernacle Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, last Sunday. The occasion was an unusually interesting one, and the great audience was visibly impressed during the services. Over the pulpit in flowers were the figures "18IJ9" and 41893." The text was Revelation iv, 4, "And

round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders." This text I choose chieflv for the numerals it mentions namely, lour and twenty. That was the number of elders seated around the throne of God. But that is the number of years seated around my Brooklyn ministry, and every pulpit is a throne of blessing or blasting, a throne of good or evil. And to-day, in this, my twenty-fourth anniversary sermon, twenty-lour years come and sit around me, and they speak out in a reminiscence of gladness and tears. Twenty-four years ago I arrived in this city to shepherd such a flock as might come, ana that day I carried in o my arms the infant son who, in two weeks from to-day, I will help ordain to the gospel ministry, hoping that he will be preaching long after my poor work i done. We have received into our membership over 5,000 souls, but they, I think, are only a small portion of the

multitudes who, coming trom all parts of the earth, have in our house of God been blest and saved. Although we have as a church raised $1,100,000 forreligiou3 purposes, yet we are in the strange position of not knowing whether in two or three months we shall have any church at all, and with audiences of ,000 or 7,000 people crowded into this room or the adjoining rooms we are confronted with the question whether I shall go on with my work here or go to some other field. What an awful necessity that we should have been obliged to build three immense churches, two of them destroyed by fire! A misapprehension is abroad that the financial exigency of this church is past. Through journalistic and personal friends a breathing spell has been afforded us, but before us yet are financial obligations which must promptly be met, or speedily this house of God will go into worldly uses and become a theater or a concert hall. The $12,000 raised cannot cancel a floating debt of $140,000. Through the kindness of those to whom we are indebted $60,000 would set us forever free. I am glad to say that the case is not hopeless. We are daily in receipt of touching

evidences of practical sympathy

ixom all classes of the community and from all sections of the country, and it was but yesterday that by my own hand I sent, for contributions gratefully rece ved, nearly fifty acknowledgments east, west, north and south. In this city I have been permitted to have twenty-four years of pastorate. During these years how many heartbreaks, how many losses, how many bereavements

Hardly a family of the church that

of any degree of consanguinity, who

has thereby secured position through the favor of prominent heads of departments or bureaus. When the sons and relatives of the various secretaries began to flock to Washington. Mr. Cleveland, to a certain extent, stopped the movement by giving the country his views on the

but God has sustained you in the

past, and he will sustain you in the future. I exhort you to be of good cheer, O thou of the broken heart. u Weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning." I wish over every door of this church we might have written the word "Sympathy" sympathy for all the young.

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matter in an emphatic manner, tak-; thousands and propose a rad'ian ing the occasion to say that the ad- gospel that will take on the spot, ministration was opposed to any- We must make this place so attrac-

thing of the kind, and that his own i tive for tne young that a young man

relatives wen- barred by the same principle which he sought to impress upon his suDordiuates. Secretary Carlisle, however, has placed his son in office and there have been other transgressions of the unwritten law that has been laid down. What course the President may take to give effect to bis conscientious viejvs on the subject remains to be seen.

A Qneer Industry. 3t. Louis Globe-Iemocrat. ' 'There are all kinds of people in vhis world and u takes all to make life bearable," is the meaning of a good old proverb, said John F. Teuton, who is at the Laclede. '"If there are all kinds of people there are all kinds of ways of making a living, and some of them are a little out of the commonplace. Your own State of Missouri furnishes one of the striking examples of a queer profitable industry, namely, that of a bogus money manufactory licensed by the Government. This printing establishment and stamping concern is located, in Van Buren, Mo., and is doing an excellent business. The bogus money turned out is Confederate money that now stands for nothing and so does no harm. That enough of such stuff could be sold to make the printing of it profitable seems wonderful, and yet such is the case. Lynn, Mass.. has a bargain goods factory, which turns out cheao goods of excellent appearance for the bargain counters. The American bargain-seeker has called for such things, and now if shams are made to deceive him he must not grumble. There are sixteen of such bargain goods manufactories and the bargain goods era is ju.st now at its zenith."

will come here on Sabbath morning,

Eut down his hat, brush his hair ack from his forehead, unbutton his overcoat and look around wondering if he is riot, by mistaice got into heaven. He will see in the faces of the old people, not the gloom which some people take for religion, but the sunshine of celestial peace, and he will say, "Why I wonder if that isn't the same peace that shone out on the face of my father and mother when they lav dying?" And then therenwiil come a dampness in his eyes through which he 2an hardly see, and he will close his syes to imprison the emotion, but ;he hot tear will break through the fringes of eyelashes and drop upon the coat sleeve. He will put his head on the back of the pew in front a nd sob, 4 'Lord God of the old people, help me !" We ought to lay a plot here for the religious capture of all the young people in Brooklyn. Yes, sympathy for the old. They have their aches and pains and distresses. They cannot hear or walk or see as well as they used to. We must be reverential in their presence. On dark days wo must help thsm through the aisle and help them find the place in thehymnbook. Some Sabbath morning we shall miss them from their place, and we shall say, "Where is Father So-and-so to-day?" and the answer will be: "What, haven't you heard? The King's wagons have taken Jacob up to the palace where Joseph is yet alive." Sympathy for business men. Twenty-four years of commercial life in New York and Brooklyn are enough to tear one's nerves to places. We want to make our Sabbath service here a rescue for all these martyrs of traffic, a foretaste

of that land where they have no rents to pay, and there are no business rivalries, and where riches, instead of taking wings to fly awa', brood over other riches. Sympathy for the fallen, remembering that they ought to be pitied us much as a man run over with a rail train. The fact is that in the temptations and misfortunes of life they get run over. You and I in the same circumstances would have done as badly; we should have done worse perhaps. If you and I had the same evil surroundings and the same evil parentage that they had and the same native born proclivities to evil that they had, you and I should have been in the penitentiary or outcasts of society. "No," says some self righteous man, "I couldn't have been overthrown in that way." You old hypocrite, you would have been the first to fall! We want in this church to have sympathy for the worst man, remembering he is a brother; sympathy for the worst woman, remembering she is a sister. If that is not the gospel, I do not know what the gospel is. Let it thrill in every ser mon. Let it tremble in every song. Let it gleam in every tear and in every light. Sympathy! Men and woraw are sighing for sympathy, groaning for sympathy, dying for sympathy, tumbling off into uncleanliness and crime aud perdition for lack of sympathy. May God give it to us! i'ill all this pulpit with it from step to step. Let the sweep of these galleries suggest its encircling arms. Fill all the house with it from door to door and from floor to ceiling, until there is no more room for it, and it shall overflow into the street, and passersby on foot and in carriage shall feel the throb of its magnificent benediction. I must, in gratitude to God, also mention the multitudes to whom I have been permitted to preach. It is simply miraculous, the attendance morning by morning, night by night and year by year and long af ter it has got to be an old story. I know some people are dainty and exclusive in their tastes. As for myself I like a big crowd. I would like to see an audience large enough to scare me. If this gospel is good, the more that get it tbe better. During these twenty-four years there is hardly a family that has not been invaded by sorrow or death. Wnere are those grand old men, those glorious Christian women, who used to worship with us? Why, they went away into the next world so gradually that they had concluded the second stanza or the third stanza in heaven before you knew they were gone. They had on the crown before you thought they had dropped the staff of the earthly pilgrimage. And then the dear children! Oh, how many have gone out of this church! You: could not keep them. You folded them in your arms and said, "O Gad, I cannot give them up; take all else take my property, take my reputation but let me keep this treasure. Lord, I cannot bear this." Oh, if we could all die together; if we could keep ail the sheep and the lambs of the family fold together until some bright spring day, the birds a-chant and the waters a-glitter, and then we could altogether hear the voice of the good Shepherd and hand in hand pass through the flood. No, no, no, no! Oh, if we only had notice that we are all to depart together, and we could say to our families: "The time has come. The Lord bids away." And then we could take our little children to their limbs and say: uNow, sleep the last sleep. Good night, until it is good morning.'1 And then we could go to our own couches and say: "Now, altogether we are ready to go. Our children are gone; now let us depart." No no! 7.t is one by one. It may be in the midnight. It may b in the winter, and in the snow coming down twenty inches deep over our grave. It may be in the strange hotel and our arm too weak to pull the bell for help. It may be so suddenly we have no time even to say good-by. Death is a bitter, crushing tremeuclous curse. When a woman was dying, she said, uCall them back." They did not know what she meant. She had been a disciple of the world. She said, "Oh, call them back!" They said, 4 'Who do you want us to call back?" "OV'she said, ucall them back, the days, the months, the years, I have wasted. Call them back!" But you cannot call them back. You cannot call a year back, or a month, or a week back, or an hour back, o:: a second back. Gone once, it is gone forever. Roll on, sweet day of the world's emancipation, when "the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, and all the tree3 of the wood shall clap their hands, and instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier will come up the myrtle tree, and it; shall be unto the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that cannot be cut off. Au Appetizing Dish.

Those raising their own wheat can have an inexpensive, yet very nutritious, breakfast dish by grinding three or foiy: coffee mill's full of it, and cooking the same as oatmeal. Eat with sugar and cream. Prepare a quantity at a time, say a dishpan half full, by washing in two or three waters, floating off all chaff and beards, and drying in the sun. The soft v.rheat- is tiv Bunting Cav. t yoa give me back that $20 I let you have six months ago? JLarkin You surely don't expect a man to pay debts in Lent!

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I0UR FINANCIAL POLICY.

Secretary Carlisle Makes a State merit.

The Credit of the Nation Blast Be Mala, talned Fr I ty of Gold and Silver Will Be Preserved. Secretary Carlisle, Thursday, made a statement regarding the financial situation, from vhlch we make the following extracts: In the exercise of the power conferred by the act of July 14, 1890, the Secretary has been paying gold for coin troasury notes issued for the purchase of silver bullion. By this process the Government Las been paying old for silver bullion and storing the same in its vaults, where it is useless for circulation or redemption. No order has been issued to stop the payment of gold upon these notes. The total stock of gold coin and gold bullion now in this country, including what Is held by the treasury, as well as what is held by the banks and individuals, amounts to about 740,00:),000. When I came into' the Treasury Department, on the 7th day of March, the amount of free gold on hand had been reduced to $987,000, but by arrangements with Western banks it was increased until, on the 1st of April, it amounted to nearly $8,000,000. Then heavy shipments began to be made, and two days ago we had only about $40,000, but now It amounts to $835,000, after deducting what has been withdrawn from the sub-treasury for shipment. There is gold enough in the country to meet the requirements of the situation, and if all who are really interested in maintaining a sound and stable currency would assist the Secretary of the Treasury to the extent of their abilities, the existing difficulties would soon be removed. TROUBLE IN TENNESSEE.

DISH6CKED FOR LIFE, rietlmt of the Crnel CoUe Sport M Hating. Lait Wednesday night, at Delaware, CL the ophoinorc claw fraternity of the coliegt located at that place, by forci oranded the fi.ee of the junior fraternity itudent in the manner Indicated in tbe eut, with nitrate of nilvor. The guiltf young mcft were expilled from the collego and are i;nder arrest. They are intelligent and the sons of wealthy au4 highly respectable parents, and have here toforo stood well in the college. The cases have been continued and the boys arc under $300 bonctt. The laesof the victim present a honibio appearance with the letters "D. O. A." burned on each cheek

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Free Miner Attack the Prison Stockade at Tracy Citr, Free miners attacked the prison stockade of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company at Tracy City, Wednesday night, and attempted to release the 500 convicts confined thsre. The attack was due to the strong hostility on the part of the miners to the convict lease system, under which convict labor is brought into competition with free labor. The guards at the stockade resisted the attack, and after several hundred shots had been exchanged the miners fell back. It was then found that one of. the miners named Robert Irwin had been killed and that four or five of his companions, whose names have not yet been learned, had been severely wounded, one fatally. Deputy Warden Shryer, who was in charge of the .stockade, was shot in 'oho head, and the wound is considered a serious one. One of the guards, S. A. Walden, was shot, and it is believed the wound will result in his death. He was in a critical condition at last accounts. The guards made a gallant defense. The attacking party was composed of between seventy-five and one hundred miners. The comparatively small number of men in the party leads to the belief that the other miners were opposed to the attack being made, as they had agreed to preserve peace and order and were apparently satisfied with the action of the Legislature, which recently took practical steps for the abolition of the lease system and instituted measuros for the establishment of a penitentiary system on Htate account. State troops were sent from Nashville to Tracy City by special train, Thursday. . WESTERN MINE HORROR.

and the picture of honta on the forehead The letters e burned black and are festering, and o look at thin reminds one ol a tatooed Indian chief witb his war paint on. The young men upon whom the outrago wa9 committed wre bofore exceptionally good looking but are now quite the reverse, and will bedftgured for lifeu The perpetrators of tne outrage effect to treat the master as a hngh joke. In mil eight boys were dismissed from the college. Previous hazing outrages have occurred at Delaware in this college, as well as in the young ladis' seminary located at the same placo, ana tho college facnl-

: ties seem nowcrlcss to check the eril.

There is gt - at excitement and indignation in the community.

Accident to Tan Miners, Only One of Whom scaped Fire broke out in the five hunored-foot level of shaft No. 2 of the Silver Bow mine at Butte, Mont., Friday morning. There were ten men in ttus mine and only one escaped. This was John Kramer, the pump man, who gave the alarm. The other men, it is believed, have perished. Mr. Kramer was slightly injured. BIG DEAL CLOSED.

CONDITION OF WINTER WHEAT C. A. King 4; Co., of Toledo, hav? re ceived reports from 3,335 leading graia dealers and miller?, covering every county ttu six great winter wheat States, which raise two-thirds of the winter wheat in the Union. Ohio makes the most favorable showing Two-thirds of the reporti say "excellent," and th6 remainder report an average crop. Ohio raises about 40,OOO.OOD bushels per year. Most of tho reports note an improvement since April 1, and the average condition is somewhat better than a year ago. The area sown was almost as iarge the previous fall, and very little was winter-killed. Kansas, which last sear raised 71,000,000, or nearly as much as Illi nois, Missouri and Michigan combined, now has the poorest prospect, not much over half a crop. The condition is still growing worse; while the area sown, was increased a little, there Is a much larger amount thanunsnal betaf plowed up. Indiana reports Indicate fully an average crop. The condition has bien improving, but does not average quite a good as a year ago, when the State railed 40,000,000 bushels. The area 3own there was a trifle less, but not over the oaaat amount has been plowed up. Illinois, Michigan and Missouri now promise below un average, and all about the same. They raised about 26,000,000 last year. Missouri and Illinois show :rwi material change recently, but Michigan has been improving. Illinois and Missouri

j have & poorer outlook than a year ago

and Michigan only a trifle worse. The area sown iu Missouri was fully as much as the previous fall, and almost at much as in Illinois or Michigan. Illinois reports nearly a quarter piowod, Missouri nearly a fifth, and Michigan a triflo more than the usual amount. About a quarter of the last crop yet remains in these States. Michigan has the largest percentage left, Ohio nearly as much, whit Illinois and Missouri have the least.

A deal, that has been pending since last summer, was closed Saturday by a Cincinnati brokerage Arm. It is the first move of c largely capitalized syndicate to gain control of the natural gas fields of Indiana, Among the syndicate arc many Pittsburg capitalists, who now bocome controllers of forty thousand acres of natural gas territory. It is their intention to immediately enter into competition with the Chicago Pipe-line Company and the Indiana Natural gas Company. Thoy have plenty of capital, it is said. Thomas Liggett, the gas man of Pittsburg, will remain on tho ground to conduct the bus! j ness. 'THE OLD GUARD-"

PROGRESS OF DOME HULK.

Over two hundred survivors of the famous 306 that, under the lead of Hoscoe Cockling, voted for General Grant in Chicago in 18S0, and remained true to their candidate even when beaten by tho combination that secured tho nomination of General Garfield, held their reunion at Philadelphia, Tuesday. Ex-Vice President Morton presided at tho banquet at night. A census of those composing the "Old Guard," as they wore termed, developed the fact that seventy of the original 300 have died.

THE CZAR'S EASTER EGG. The Russian Czar, now in the Crimea, is said to have found an exquisitely painted egg on his table Easter morning. It con tained a small silver dagger, two ivory death heads and a slip of paper bearing the words: "Christ has risen; we, also, shall rise again." The egg must have been placed on the table by one of the Czar's household, as nobody else had access to tho room in which it was found. The guilty person has not boon apprehended.

THE SUNNY SOUTH.

A negro murderer was roasted alive in Georgia, just across the line from Eufoi'a, Ala., Friday, llo had killed a country store-keeper without provocation and was pursued by the excited populace. When captured he confessod having committed the crime without cause. No time was lost in putting an end to his career, and the colored population eagerly joined in the work ol! preparing a funeral pyre for the victim.

Bill rftied to Scoad Reading X4berfei Win 347 to 804, In the House of Commons, Friday, the debate on the second reading of the Home Rule bill was very exc'.ting. Mr. Balfour on entering the House at 10:30 was re ceived with cheers. At 11 he rose to op pose the measure, denouncing it as a crimes Mr. Gladstone rose to reply at the conclusion of Balfour's address. He was in tplendid form. The members received htm with a splendid ovation. Mr. Gladstone's closing words were: You cannot be surprised that we have undertaken the solution of th(s question, and, as on tho cus hand, it Is not the least of the arduous efforts of tic liberal party, so on the ether hand it it have its place in history aye, and not remote but early history as not tho least dura ble, fruitful and blessed among its accomplishments. Mr. M or ley moved the closure and it was adopted. The announcement that the bill had passed to second reading by a vote of 317 to 304 was received with great enthusiasm. Among visitors in the gallery was Miss Rosa Cleveland. "what-sTtTa NAME?"

A startling instance of total depravity has developed in the Pigg family at Tern Iiaute. George Pitfg is under Rrresfc acidised of murdering his sister, an infant four months old. His father, A. J. Pigg. has also been arrested, charged with criminally assaulting his step-daughters, leven and nine years old, Mrs. Pigg knew of this last offense, but claims that aha didn't know that she had any right to interfere. FREE GOLD EXHAUSTED The gold reserve iundof 1100,000,000 n tho United States Treasury was invaded Friday, to the extent of $3,000,000. When the day opened there was in the treasury $185,000 of free gold. The amount was Increased by offers from Wall street to about $l,7o0f 006. But the large foreign demand soon exhausted this, and the reserve was invaded to the extent of nearly $3,O00,00Ui A Cabinet mooting was held to discuss tha situation, but there was no evidence of a panic on Wall street or olsewhoro. This ta the first time in many year? that the reserve fund has been touched