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The Lansinffburgh Courier. . O C J : , D]$VOTMB TO t ME INTERESTS OF TME SEGOND JLNSEMRfY D ISTRICT VOLUME x v m . LANSINGBURGH, N. Y., THURSDAY, SEPT- 14, 1893. n n v .inUN WFNT .ABISHiN'. AJ a ri.io nil nowsotift Who wls'nuil to 1 minute. \When he came to he began NO. 5. ■ * z i T k e G u e r i n Cfiiyii P lifM I CO., Cor. Fourth & Cougress Sts., Troy. CUP STAIlt.O. Make tlie Following S P E d A L OFFER for tliis m o n th : They will make a L ife Size Crayon P o r trait (10x20) E n iire lij Free u f (:har<n\ copyiiif? from a tinlypo or nabiiait, the only Rti)iul-itiou heins' that frame’s ho ordered from them. Tlue framos are sold at from-$o.00-npwarils. This is ii offer, ami should bo takcir advaiitnfio of. Manufacturer and Uealer in Carriages & W agons. A fiiiJ iiuo of Carriages and Light Dr iiig Wagons in .stock. Bn,sino.«is Wagons to Order, Designs ami estinmtos furnished. Seeond-haud Wagons cheap. RTilPOSITOItY AND SHOP IN OLD OHGOOI steahkh IIGUSR, Adams and Second sts*. Troy, RtAZERASiS BEST II7 TMB WORILD. AGiKTS WANTED. Agents of ability and chavaet(U’ wautod in every town to roiirosout and take charge of our business and establish a- bracchfor us; liberal indueoments olfcr- 113 World Building, x\.>w York- NORTHERN PINE BENIEDY \ s s s s , a - - ' = J. S. I.KAVIt (aasnrluisctis O ld C h r o n i c C o m p l a i n t s were liarfl f o cure. TJicii* merliciiie did me iio {[?oo(l. I stopped taking it and bought a bottle of DANA’S SARSAPARIL LA. Before ! had taken half of it I felt IbcUcr. I have taken three bottles of DANA’S SARSAPARILLA! and am better than for years. IT HAS DOME WOMDEKS EOK ME. I can cat anytUInc I want and ft docs not aistrcss m e m the least. •\ Yours truly, Troy, N. Y. MHS. MILLY FERGUSON. DANA SARSAPARILLA GO., BELFAST, ME. LANDZOU PETERSON, THE LANSINGBURGH JEWELER S7* SECOND AVENUE. Waltham and Elgin Watches at loM prioo.s. Every watch warranted. Also repairing done at the shortest notice by a practical watchmaker. Gold Kings, Chaims and all kindsof watches. Specks to suit ail ages. Also office of t!i(’ Davis Sewing Ma chine. Machine.s put out on trial. Try o i a PATENT A 48-page book free. Address JESSEN, McCOLLUM & CO., CRACKER I BISCDIT ' larafacteB sixteenth ST , AND SECOND AVE, LAN,SINGBURGH. N. Y. :eep Chickens Strong land healthjr; it gets your pullets to lay ing early; it is worth its weight in gold kwhen hens moult; it prevents all disease, ICholera, Roup, Diarrhoea, Leg-weakness. lit is a powerful food digestive. iLarge cans are most economical to buy. Therefore, no matter what kind of feed _______ 'you use, mix with it daily. Sheridan’s Esrls t W r a E P , S „ o i ' d = l N W w • needed to produce health and form eggs. If You C a n ’t Get it N e a r Hom e, S e n d to U s. A s k First. Con fo r I n f a n t s a n d d l i l l d r e n s WitSwUnjurious-medication. Euwm F. PAltDKB, M. S., “ The Wlnthrop,” 156th Street and 7th Ave., New York City. C ompany , 77 M ukrat S treet , Y ork . ELY’S CREAM BALM C a t a r r h p o s i t i v e c u r k , UPPIYBALM INTO FACH NQSTRIL«;» ALL DRUGGIST.^l. !?n J For weeka*'aB^^leL?^wcht^S Aoross%1fo plain, an’ o’er the hlH beybn' a'd some old dlr-ty, weedy, oattle.pon’. Ah’ there he fished from eatly morn t*. Day after’day, an’ didn’t get a bite. I ast to saf-Siif “Why don’t yon fish els** There’s better flshln’ almost anywhere!’’ Then heid ^et piadder’u anything, would \There’s%eaps of fish,’’ he say, “In that Jes' yer wind a while, old. ittan, an? Soine day I’ll find the proper kind Of bait!’*' An’ so ho went h-:fifehinl every day;. • ' Tumped out of bed an’ wandereo. .miles,: Acros*s^S plain, an’ o^er the hlH beyonhib’ To th a t old dirty, weedy catKe:Pon’; Ah’thero he fished from early mom 'til phy aifer'day, and. didn’t,get a bite!' But, snvl one night, when everything was^ Boy John he carae a-joggln’ o’er the hill Wlth.Jieaps of fish, o f eyery size an Now here’s a lesson that I learnt from Keep^rigfc om flsUin’ in your favorite pen’ 1 Don’t get discouraged If from morn til You have to fish an’ do not get a bite; Bimeby, when you Lave found tUe proper You’ll haul out fish of every size an’ weight! ---- James Rowe. HISS H AIMES’S BROTHER Although the bank at Valley City was called “The Valley City Bank’’ and was supposed to he a private in stitution, it was really one of the seven branch banks belonging to a San Fran cisco syndicate of bankers. I was simply in charge of it on a moderate salary and under heavy bonds, and I had the credit of being a capitalist where no credit was due. The syndi cate erected a one-story building foi the bank. The front of this was i-ailed off in The usual way, and the rear was divided into two rooms. One was used as a private room in which business appertaining to the bank was trans acted and the other was my bedroom. I was a young man and single, and I had not only to act as president, cash ier and teller during the day, but as watchman at night. The only help 1 had was a bookkeeper, and he was only with me three half days per week. s / s : g s a L f i s r - s f s s . i s a s s i ftdence reposed in m e.. i confession to make to you. I knew ■ ................................. was a “pal” of the man under the bank floor. She was consequently a wicked woman and deserved no mercy. Call me a fool if you will, but I sakt hot a word to anybody wben I gut outside and made a boe line for the hotel. She was in the sitting-room ready dressed to ride down to the depot when it was time. She was alone, and when I entered the room she uttered a little shriek and almo.sl “■W—where Is—is my brother;” slio finally asked as I stood before her. _,’!Safely trapped In the bank,” I an- you may a shipping firm in the sam< i will say this was a curious way tning a bank, but I can And you len of them in the territorial primitive principles. I was dolnj towns of to-day conducted on the same ,vas doing busi- >ks ago whore family kitchen was directly in t] ■ of the cashier’s window, and ness with one^six imily kitclj s window, and tf woman who was cooking dinner lofi the! meateat fryingying on th(he Along- m fr on t stove in and cash a check for me. side tho burglar-proof safe was die b ^ , and. on top of -the safe itseli was a smoked ham and a sack ol flour. It was banking and housekeep ing combined. isekeep- It was figured that 1 had only one anger to guard against. A tough man light drop In some day and rest the muzzles of his guns on tlie lodge of the window and order me to pass out all 7he money In sight. The safe was al ways kept locked, and it was seldom that I overr hadd moree tlmn ?2002( outside. ha mor tlmn ? it any experiments, howi gun batlei-y just where most good, and that strange caner one eveumg m o.ou. a. woman was by no mdans a rare sight, in town, thotagh they were ft^me too numerous, biit this ylSltof of mine was a young woman, stylishly dressed, and: as pretty as a peach., ITt admit right here that i had a jumiJlng of the heart i af,sight of her, and 'that when she' smiled on me I was as badly flustered; is a boy caught stealing eggs. She - was from St. Louis, she explained, and had come out in search of a brother: who was Interested: in a sUver mine,. ■ ' ” Ad ’mysteriously disappeared. She , be at the hotel for a week or ,nd wished me to safe deposit n greenbacks. She gave me the ____ of Miss Nellie Haines to Insert in the receipt, and you will of course smile in contempt when I admit that I had to- count that money three differ ent times to make it come out straight. [ of course offered my assistance in the search for information, and of course she sweetly thanked me and said she’d come in again. She did , and -when I saw her by daylight IS clean gone. Eegulat case of idve at fimt sight on my part, and I have no more excuses to offer. I wrote several letters for her, and the search .for the missing brother was well be- Por a week Miss Haines dropped In to the bank daily in search of news, and one evening during the interval 1 paid her a call at the hotel. Saturday ifternoon she sent me a note saying she had news of her bfOther, and that ■ he would be down from the mountains about 8 o’clock in the. evening. Ho would be very anxious to go Bast by the 10 o’clock train, and would I mind If the two came to tlie bank at 8.15.: While she had to draw out her money It was more than likely that he would h.ave a large deposit to make. If she hadn’t mentioned this latter ch’cum- Btance I should have taken her money to the hotel, and perhaps declared my love. Satmday evening was always a big evening with the bank, as a score or more of outsiders wantcc^ door just two minutes befoi'e Tom sprang tho trap door, and then sat down to wait for Miss Haii obliged they were as 1 turned to shut the door, and she was still talking when her “dear brother” fetched me a clip over the head -with a sandbag, and I knew' no- morfe-i.ff>r fifteen min utes. \When I opened my eyes again ' had been dragged around to tbe safe, ms lied hand and foot and “Mr. laiues” and I wore alone in the bank, He sat on a chair smoking away as cool as you please and evidently wait- 'ng for me to come hack to earth. He was a man about thirty years old, rather good-looking, but had a wh’ ' look In his eyes. Even before he s] To^ prevent any experiments, however, 1 . itould tv dc ____ _ ___ ___ by prossiug a lever I could blow the body of any bad, bad man through the front win dow and clear across tho street, and that he would bo dead at tlie end of his Toj’age. Everybody believed this fiction to be a fact, and some peopla were so timid that 1 had to do business W’ith them avsmy from the window. It was expressly stipulated in my con tract with the syndicate that if I re ceived anything for safe deposit it must he at the risk of the depositors, and they must he warned in advance. I had scarcely opened for business be- fore a dozen people »in town wanted the use of our safe. As we were to do more or less business with them, 1 could not refuse to take temporary charge of valuable papers and various sums of money. The bank had been running about three months, wben my brother Tom, who had been telegraph operator at Big Bend, 250 miles away, was trans ferred clown to Grand Crossing, only ten miles a-evny, and he seized the first favorable opportvmity to come down and sec me. I may teU you that Tom was a mechanical and electrical genius, and Is now living on the royalties paid him for half a dozen good things. When he had visited for a couple ol hours, and he had looked thinks over, he said: “You sleep hero, and you are loaded for bear, but It wouldn't be any trick at all for a sharp man to clean you cnit. It won’t be another three months before somebody will try it,c)n.” , \How?” • ■ ' “Well, you’ll get a caller In the eretf- ing probably, and the first thing you -Know you’ll get a rap on the head, and •befoi’e you come to he’ll have opened %e safe and skipped with jrour cash, it’s? a combination, I see, but if that- can’t, be hit it can be drilled or blown openii I’ll 'make things a little tr, but as stone •My the.^aboE of_ were tfiey hid t o ' b e ° s d i ^ S ? ' S l S The space duelOked^ oy the 'tvfctuS flinty soil, so. hard that a pick? cOfi scarcely disturb it. bank was a little mou-e; thlLploW w above the earth, Toni';wp|^#bou't'.^ ceek, working-at Qd'd time?,- to,':g GrandGrand Grossing.ssing. By-jy meahs-e pfc.a. of her Gro B m a h s - , _ switch UR there he cotfld spring the bolt of the trap doOr, and th'd'.fioor worked on a spring to close thO open inging again. A stapletaple in thehe door andnd again. A s in t door a anothc^n the frame permitted the use \\\''’\’'t dui’ing busine.ss houra. ' The t.anding,.y?eing hadd wasas thati Tom understand ha w th should drop that door every hour be- eem 8 o’clock at night and 7 the nexl morning, and the scheme worked easy as -walking off a log. For tlhe first few nights the click of the bolt woke me up as tbe door fell, but after a time it failed to penetrate my drowsy senses. I bad to nm ray bank to suit tli convenience of tlie public, and it Wfi nevi-r closed before 6 o'clocit in th evening, an4 was often open until ' light years, f ver .heard of . -woman I have __ ___ ■Why did I let her escape? was a handsome woman. That’s tl only excuse I ever had. —• Chica; ts s r;» now 8,45. I’ll experiment oh the com- make you open tho door!” ’ knelt do>vn in front o'f the safo and, of coui’sh, it wa,s my object w m s s ^ r : - i r ’ll admit that, even ? worked tlMs job on me.” sslng brother. Miss 3 does! There! I think I’ve” ----- He thought he’d hit it, and he was not far out of the w.ay, but it wasn’t the hit ho was looking for. Brother Tom was just a nilnute ahead of tlnin In shooting the bolt. The robber ut tered a shout and clutchod at the air as he went down, and his heels had _ scarcely disappeared when the door jxl swung back and I was maldng tremeu- as dous effoits to get my hands free, t They were tied at the wrists, and be- ' fore' I had loosened them I had rolled over and over on the floor to reach the staples and the peg and make the door fast. Three minutos later I had a free hand to cut the ropes binding my ankles. It wasn't much of a fall more than three or four dol- “You have ?600 in the safe. T had forgotten about that. I will bring it .“And niy—my friend?” “He will keep until you are gone, and then we’ll take him out and send liim to jail.” 1 returned to the bank and got Iier money. I saw her take the hotel bus to the depot. I waited until the train had come and gone, and then I gave the alarm, and we got the robber out and jugged Mm. Later on he sent to !onfor and tiic A rab Horsomanshlp. Arab, when he is a horseman, la a superb'one, even , though he does not come within our canons of the art. ■When .the horse is only a means of transportation, or a ’beast of bimlen, the Arab Is, no better than his Ilk else- ■where, 'VVhen, as In the desert, the horse is his pot, his companion, his dream by day and night, the Arab is in a sense incomparable. No master can be more kind. No dog is more in telligent than the dark, liquid-eyed ?ed he lias bred and trained, whose sstor, a hundred generations hack, VANDERBILT’S MOUNTAIN HOME. to judge from the Lcwlsburg, Fa., Chronicle’s description of the transfor mation he has effected in the North Carolina mountains, he seems to be spending his money with an intelli gence somewhat rare among men yvho have so much to spend, and his enter prise is suggestive of the period which, reprosemts £ yond the m( joying his opportunities was to restx’ain the natural temptatibn to cariT out plans of his own and to employ The services of the greatest landscape ar tist in the country, FredericK'Law Olin- ■sti>ad, w’ho had so much to do with laying out the World’s Fair grounds. So far, .sixty-five miles of macadam road have been constructed oh Mr, Yandci-bilt’s North Carolina estate, Seven hundred men are employed, their wages running from ?1 per day tlie salary of $12,000 paid to tho ancestor, a hundred gene his ancestors have loved and trusted This horse—would that we human be ings had not been civilized out of many of our animal qualities—will low him day and night. He would fret his soul out at being hitched to a post, and his master would scorn to tie him. He willsstand immovable ii} the midst of danger and fright, which would make any civilized horse frantic. He will carry his master through fire and water. He wfll unflinchingly face wounds and death, so long as the hand which has fed him is placed upon his neck. He will stand over his disabled lord till help arrives, or he will go alone to seek it. He will kneel for him to mount, and he will boar him bravely homo, if he falls a sacrifice of his de- yotion at the door of his mastiu-'s tent. not always fables. A Narro-w Esoai now I had been played for a hayseed, imelligeuce, and has as uobli- an af it was just 8.30 by tho clock when my feetiou as the dog. But, as above said; „ -rr- „ , <?von in Arabia thi.s hor.s-e is tlie “Come to, have you? Well, that’s - - - — - - what I ’- as waiting for. I want you to open this safe.” “I’ll see you in HaUfax first.” ‘ Going to get mad about it, are you? I’ve got your keys, you see, but, of coui’se, I don’t know the combination. You’ll save me a heap of trouble by working the machinery. I’ll loosen your hands, bpt don’t attempt any foolishness. I’ve come for the boodle in the safe, and I’m going to have it at any cost.” ‘But you’ll get it without any help rpm me.” . He looked at me for a. moment with n evil eye and then took from his The tall, aged, sad-looking man ate .a bouutiful dinner at the restauraut, and then, with a check calliug for twenty- five cents, made his way to tho cash ier's desk. Ho bangiHl down the check with a battered sliver dollar, and looked sadder than ever. The cashier picked up tho dollar and examined it suspiciously. It had a deep ^ent on one side, and looked a; though it had boon plugged. At tlia: moment the customer spoke: ‘Tt is very painful for me to part with that dollar. It' saved my life once, how ever, and, must do so again. At tlie Siege of Vicksburg I carried it in my vest pocket, and the dent you sec there was made by a bullet, whicb other-wise -vA'.ould have killed me. 1 have kept it since as a memorial, and it -n'ell nigh breaks my heart to let it burg?” he asked, “Sixty-three,” said the sad man, ^ ’’Ami this dollar,” returned th(> cash ier, Is dated 1877 and is a counterfeit.\ The sad man- lookiul annoyed. \Of course it is,” he replied. \How could 1 have an 1877 dollar in ’03 if it wasn't a-oounterfeit?” And the casliier was so durafounded that he-passed out a quarter in change ■and allowed tlie sad man to escopp.- Hurper’s ’'lagazine. Sailing a Boat. Watchod from tlie wharf a sailboat seems an easy sort of craft to manage, qffic wind appears to do everything. The casual guest of a skilled skipper likewise is apt to think that as his host takes things so easy it cannot bo so very difficult to handle a sailboat after all.. He regards tho warning of exper ience as based on the jealousy of com petition. Let Iflm who thinks .sailing a scitmee wliicb its followers try ' represent as bard to learn liecai ..they want to keep it to themscli , take a trick at the helm once. It looks easy to keep tho boat on her course. Your friend who takes yoji out sailing barely touches tbe tilier once in a while. Some day he a,sks you to lake tbe tiller wbllc be goes forward. II(> tells you to keep that spire and that tall chiinuoy in lino, You take the holm; you do what you think you have seen him do. The chimney and tbe stei'ple act ns if tiiey were bewitched. They positively will not conie into line. You olisery'e in a knowing tone, “Slie doesn't scorn to mind her helm.” But she is mlridhig her helm and pretty soon you And out what “jibing” moans. Most of the fatalities of summer sailing are due to the errors of tho man who thinlc.s sailing is easy, who is conliclent tliat he knows all about It. In reality many a sea captain wlio can handle ,a big- ship without diffleuliy does not feel at case in command of a sailboat. Boat-sailing is a course at r in whicb llio cadets .. -------- - the naval academy in my ankles. It wasn't much of a fall undergo arduous training under through the trap, but the robber struck! most skilled Instnictors. — B( on Us head and was stunned for Tranncrint. cadets Highest of all in Leavening Power.~Lat«8t U. S. Gov’t Repott A B S O tU fE L Y PU R E overseer. Tlirci' years ago the xyork of trans forming old fields, pastures and wood lands into a harmonious landscape be gan, and Prof. Harbesou, who has silent uiany days in studying the devel opment Sf the place, is enthifsiastic over the progress made. He says that Druid Hill I’ark, at Baltimore; Fair- mount Park, at Philadelphia; the Bos ton (iarden and the Central Park, of New York, contain nothing that is I'omiiarabli' with several mile.s of the appnnu-li on the Vandei-bilt esUite,: wliieh is art of the highest kind, a com- biiiatiou of nature and the xyork of mail so Iiappily joined that the eye: ■annot tell where tbe one ends and tlie other lagius. Bowdders have been set in place, rhododendrons transplant-' ed, and the whole is dwhared to bo a poem in plants, tree.s and flowers, the longest poem ever made and one of the greatest. A trained fore.ster is set-; dug nut large plantation.^ of fore.st trees. The arboretum is declared to, surpass the famous Arnold arboretum' ■It ('aiiil)ridge, and when completed: will contain every tree, slirub and woody plant found in the world which! is hardy to the climate. Ten miles ofi railroads have heeu constructed tO' iraiisport materials about the estate., Vast extents of land, which a year or, so ago were entirely unproductive, liave been so changed by plowing,, hea vy iiianiiriug and green soiling tliat- to-day Prof. Harbeson says they are gntwing as fine crops as can be grown in the most fertile valleys of the Xorthern States. Lately Mr. Vander-! hilt has added 20,000 acres for a liunt- ’ng park. There will be doer parks ,,ud lakes, and the house, which will '■ost about $5,000,000, it is .said, will bo the largest dwelling-house in the worlil and one of the world's most famous structures. Already by the intrcidnction of mns.se.s and vinos at the bridges por tions of the place have taken on the aiiliearance of age and the appekrance of newness has been overcome. The First Consul, Just before the review began we saw I'veral officers in gorgeous uniforms ascend the stairs, one of whom, whose iieliiiPt seemed entirely of gold, was 1-higeno de Beauharnais, A few min es afterwards there was a rush of ieers down the stairs, and among ein I saw a short, pale man, with bis liat ill his hand, who resemblod Lord Irir.sUiiu' in profile. But, though my .'rleiid whisiiered, “G’est lul,” 1 did not \o'mprehend that I beheld IBonaparte till I saw him stand alone at the gate. In another moment he 'was on his liorse, -ndiile I, trembling with emotion, gazed on him intently, endeavoring to eomiiiit each ('xpresalve, sharply-chis eled feature to memory, contrasting also witli admiration his small, simple liat, aiioriied with nothing but a little tri-colored cockade, and his blue coat, guiltless of gold embroidery, with the s]ileiidid adornments of the officers who followed liim. At Ii'iigth the review ended—too sooi for me. Tin* First Consul sprang fron INTEBVIEWINGI TRAMPS. Ourioua Inronnatlon RceardliiE a Curioui something for the pubUc ^od. Now, with the help of the mayors and p6llce oflieers of fourteen American cities, he jlias been taking a “trump census,” and ,he eoniiuunicates the results—or some ,|of them—to the Forum. ' TTie number of American tramps covered by this census is 1,340. Thirty- two questions were asked in every case, and Mr. McCook grieves that he ' a night .. ,, most ambitious previous tramp census 3 of wliieh Mr. McCook has heard—Lpn- ;don, 1880—the number of weary wan- jderers questioned was only 286. ; Of these 1,340 American tramps, less 'than one-half describe themselves as unskilled laborers, and only sixteen say they have no regular calling. Of the representatives—on the retired list —of skilled labor, 46 per cent, say they used to be sailors,-' firemen, brakemen, shoemakers, curriers, teamsters, hos tlers, blacksmiths or horseshoers. Mr. McCook’s drag net caught three elec tricians, two brokers, two reporters, a music teacher, a designer, an artist .“a real German count”), a Salvation Army captain, a \gentleman but no clergy man and no professor. “The sedentary clerk,” he tells us, “was just as numer ous as the nomaffic peddler.” Nearly all of the 1,349 tramps are In the prime of fife, averaging much younger than their (recorded) fellow pilgrims in England and Germany. “Following my results,” says Mr. Mc Cook, “we may expect to find one tramp in twenty under twenty years, three out of five under thirty-five, sev enty-five out of every 100 under forty, and one In twelve fifty or over. Only one In 111 will be over seventy.” Of the whole number questioned 83.5 per cent, promptly said their health was “good;” 8 per cent, “pretty good,\ -' or “not very good;” 8.5 per cent, “bad.” This at a time when the grip was rag ing among well-fed, well-housed peo- age nor his health, then,” conclude.s Mr McCook, “is a bar to successful the 1,349 owned up the road more than a year. The explanations of their pre.seiice there given by 82.8 per cent, of the whole number were: “Out of money,” “Out of work,” \Looking for work.” Twelve “wauled to see the country;” eight “waii 4 lo take life easy;” six said they would riot work; twenty-five laid their tramping to drink. One exceptionally candid wanderer diiigiio.sed hi.s case in three words, “Whiskey and lazy.” As to nativity, 56.1 per cent, of the 1,349 were born in this country, 20.3 per cent. In Ireland, 6.6 per cent, in England, 3.4 per cent, in tbe Scandi navian countries, 2.6 per cent in bonny Scotland. There are thirteen negroes in tbe lot and one Indian. Only brie Southern State Is represented, and that by a white man. “The tramp,” re marks Mr. McCook, “seems to be a product of our Northern civilization u'nd to move along the more temper ate belt, avoiding extremes of hpat and roll! a.s heiiig dis.igi’eeable and less favorable to health.” Don’t tMnk of the tramps as illiter ate: 1,187 of tl» 1,349 can read and write, 18 of the 162 who can’t write can read, and one of the favorite pur chases is the daily newspaper. Only 7.3 per cent, are married; 4.4 per cent. ab^S/or? 1^9^ are temperate, 825 that they are In temperate. Only 5.8 per cent, own up to having been convicted of crimes other than drunkenness. Only 113 say they have no religion. Only 116 say they have seen the inside of the alm.s- house. By their o-wn admission 14.9 per cent, of the xvhole number are, or have been, specially dangerous to the iblic health.’ XVomon’a Kiclits In Abj j S o T S advanood woman. The house and all V, which serves as a peace liCmUific Home*. The Eiigli.sh custom of turning over residence to a bridal pair fOr the oueyiiioon is often imitated this side ...10 Atlantic, and is considered a very proper and elegant thing to do. Btit the lending of bouses irrespective of tlie lirid.al element is also popular. Not friend for the absence. . J%.V» -Woman BeaponRibU 7 It was Marguerite of Valois who said, with unusual severity for a wo man, that “the less one sees and knows men the higher one esteems them-” lit is obvious that the cynical Mar garet really meant to say that the bet ter one knows men the greater is one’s and in full fact', while his bright, rest less, exiiiH'Ssive and, as we fancied, dark lilue eyes beaming from under long black eyelashes, glanced over us with a .scrutinizing but complacent look.—Mrs. Opie, in Tail’s Magazine, hold such sentimen-ts towards men; though every one knows that to a con siderable extent they would be justi fied In so holding. The general atti tude of women is one of seeming wor shipful admiration. This is bad, espe cially for very young men, who are thus puffed up by conceit and made unspeakably disagreeable, whereas were they let alone they might disclose a becoming measure of modesty and self-distrust. It is about time for wo- to face the fact that they are dl- and br.oadless.'^imtil he comes back ally practice duplicity and in their In tercourse with him the note of sincer ity Is seldom hoard. Naturally the man desires the “cllnglBg trust” of tho woman, but he is too dull-headed to perceive tliat what he takes for cling ing trust is clever diplomacy, and It Is an axiom that the only way to be come a clever diplomat Is to cultivate deceit. I 'I Already Done. Starter-il met a man tMs morning who said I looked like jyou. Smartley-Tell me who he is and I’ll go and knock him down, Stai’ter-I dllJikftt JByfglf. ' ^
