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their own. I remember an old derisive quat-
rain Tearing on this point:

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The precious danes have hadf"
Yet, some women do make wills. And 1t may
seem surprising that twice as many Oh their wills
are contested as the wills Of men. In proportion
to the whole number made by each. SO learn on
inquiry of the Surrogate. This can be accounted
for only on the theory that they are, or are sup
posed to be, more easily influence, more emo
tional. and so more liable to be warped from the
lines of justice by persons having selhsh deslgus
In securing an undue share in the disposition OF
property,
Again, why are so many wills contested The
contest of wills meets with poor encourage
ment. Not less than nine out of every ten wills
to which legal objection is made are sustained.
The lawyer who should be retained only for con-
testants in the Probate Court would soon gain
the reputation of being the most unfortunate of
advocates.
PERSONAL AND BUSINESS.
/ have met this week three noted Englishmen
-Archdeacon Farrar, Sir George Elliot, baronet;
and Mr.. Lewis, agent of the Marquis Of Butte,
all the guests of Cyrus w. Field, at "Ardsley,"
his 500-acre Hudson-river home.
Sir George is a member Of Parliament-the
only Tory among thirteen members returned
from the county of Durham; and there is con-
siderable doubt about his saving his seat at the
election on Nov. Is, as his principal constituents
are miners. He is the wealthiest colliery-owner
III hE'ohu tiC SCoO SGplC HiauuioSeNiSA'
When Field went to England in despair to raise
money for his visionary scheme of spanning
the deep with an electric wire, Sir George was
one of the first to take stock in him. When
Khedive Ismail had ruined Egypt by his fantas-
tic extravas ance, Sir George took two million
dollars ont of his pocket and lent him. Thanks
to British occupancy, he has since got it back.
Like Mr.. Field, he began life a poor boy, and.
like him, he worked for two dollars a week or
less. One result of his visit here was the con-
solidation of three largo coal companies OF New
York. London and Montreal, doing business in
Nova Scotia, owned mainly by Messrs. Field
and Elliot. Sir George is a burly, tough look
ing, pink-faced. round head, with just about as
much comrlaisance as the average Englishman.
Archdeacon Farrar is a far different man-as
successful in another direction. A small and
shapely head; chestnut hair in abundance; a
pair of lightning eyes under a small p~recipice of
brow; a cheerful mouth and the rudy cheeks OF
his people; a well-knit form; active movements;
a trained nina that weds the thought to the APP
proprlate word: a bilious temperament, with Its
masterful qualities. A delicate watch chain. of
gold and gold-rimmed eyeglasses, denote the
daintiness of his general get up. In the few
words l had with him he alluded to the great
work the Episcopal Church had done in this
country; the undesirableness of severing state
and church in England because sit would great
ly shock and injure the whole nation;" Of the
progress that republican methods were appar-
emily making In the world: and of the magnif-
NOAN VI WI iOtohOS D0u INV" hO h0o
'are you going to deal with strikes in this coun-
try, when the people'-that is, in certain con-
tingencies, the strikers themselves-rule in
making laws, appointing police and constituting
juries? You will yet find this a hard question. "
Two Frenchmen are in the city to-day, exam
lining our elevated roads, with a view to provid-
idg a similar method of transit for the gay cap
ital of the world. They bear the names of Ban
deraii and 'Luuyt, which have a strong Italian
and Dutch look, but they are earnest Parisians
in their talk. Colonel Hahn, superintendent of
our aerial transit. took them all about the iron
trestle in a special train, and they were greatly
delighted with it as a feat of engineering. I'VE
shall 60 back and report favOrably as to the
feasibility of this method Of travel for Paris"
l called. yesterday. on Russell Sage. and found
him quite enthusiastic about the West. "Mr.
Gould and l felt greatly obliged to Kansas City;
Of course, he SAID with a smile; ''buJ we didn't
want any receptions or banquets. We did not
| go West for the purpose Of buying any railroads
or building any. but mainly to look after our
property and see if anybody was poaching on
our preserves. AS we 60 out there every year,
we can hardly pretend to be newly astonished at
the growth of the West, but l am in a state of
chronic establishment about it that runs along
from year to year. We found the whole country
that feeds the Wabash system in a fruitful con
dition. The most growing cities we saw were
Kansas City--that marvel of the Southwest
Omaha and Wichita, all mounting right ahead.
d l think the increase in prices is going to
continued Yes. Prices will not go back to 1880
with one jump, of course, but they will creep
back there gradually-at least. all property that
is worth having. am a bull, and the bulls are
going to have the market for some time. AS to
the West, its tremendous vitality is to be the
salvation of the country"
STRAIGHT TIPS.
The story that Miss May Fortescue, the English
actress, was going to marry Lord Garmoyle after
all the fuss, is quite unfounded. She is now
| ota rripp fbrouOh rho Rrifich prov;poac with a
company of her own, playing 'Galatea" and
"Frou-Frou," accompanied by her sister, aged
sixteen. I saw a letter from her, yesterday. say
ing. 'Jutt a line to tell you we are we'll, and
dong a capital business. Everything is rose
colored. "Frou Frou" tires me dreadfully. but I
love her. She is so observation-disclosures develop
ing in her conduct some new possibilities of il
luStration.
Kate Field is coming-I mean ~going-going
forth to storm the country with her two lectures
on the Mormon misery. She is a woman who has
eyes for a purpose, and she is a capital talker.
l reckon her picturesque assaults on the sexual
eccentricity of Deseret will be one of the chief
attractions of this winters platform.
One of Henry NJ. Stanley's recent guests tells
me tho traveller has equipped rooms in Bond
street. London, with a profusion of plcked-up
relics from all the world. 1t is quite a museum.
He is lingering in Europe, just now, to raise the
money to build a railroad up the Congo. Just
before leaving London my informant attended
a handsome dinner to Stanley by Felix Mos
cheles, at his studio in Cadogan Gardens. The
studio was elegantly decorated, and most attract
i've. Each menu was printed on the back of a
photograph of Stanley, while Stanley's was set
beside a pasteboard model of his coming railroad
in Africa. The discoveries rooms display
among their paintings a strong portrait of him
by Moscheles. w. A. CRoFFUT.
An Ugly Beauty.