SUNDAY ENFORCEMENT NOTES AND COMMENT.
By Editor
BASEBALL playing on Sunday has been prohibited by the village council of Frost, Minn. AN ordinance "to close up saloons, stores, and all kinds of business, including even livery stables, on Sundays" has just been enacted by the city council of Standish, Mich. THE Omaha (Neb.), Bee reports that an agitation to open barber shops Sunday mornings is stirring the state capital from center to rim." THE enforcement of the Sunday law against theaters and baseball playing is a feature of a movement of retaliation by automobilists at Grand Rapids, Mich., who claim that they are being persecuted under the speed regulation law. AT Cynthiana, Ky., on July 18, H. Reisterer, a baker and confectioner, was tried and convicted on a charge of violating the Sunday law, but the jury disagreed on the amount of the fine, and none was assessed by the court. This was a test case, and the conviction was a victory for the Law and Order League. ON the charge of aiding and abetting Sunday baseball, Henry Ramsey, manager of the Newburg, N. Y., baseball club of the Hudson River League, was arrested at that place on July 16 and the next day arraigned before Justice Revell, who released him. The complainant was the Y. W. C. T. U. of Newburg. IT is a matter of dispute among theologians whether there is any such thing as a Christian Sabbath, and whether, if there is one, it falls on Saturday or Sunday, says the Chicago Chronicle. This is a fact that should give pause to those religionists who with headlong zeal are constantly demanding the enforcement of Sunday observance in the interests of the "Christian Sabbath." FOR having violated the city ordinances closing barber shops after noon on Sundays, James Massena, a barber who conducts a shop at 109 Eighth Street, Hoboken, N. J., was fined $5.00 by Recorder Stanton in that city, July 18. Massena claimed, and was supported in it by the testimony of the man himself, that when he was arrested he was shaving a man who had called at his shop before the closing hour, and he said it was customary among the barbers to serve such persons even if it required them to work after the closing time; but the excuse did not satisfy the recorder. IT was recently reported from Willimantic, Conn., that an agitation has again been started relative to having places of business and public amusement closed on Sunday. It seems that Sunday evening band concerts have been given at an amusement park that is within hearing distance of the Willimantic camp-ground, and it is on this account that the matter has been brought up. The manager of the park discontinued the Sunday evening concerts out of deference to the offended religionists, and it is needless to say that in doing so he displayed a very different spirit from that manifested by the camp-ground people.