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ence stigmatized as wicked city
ways" had crept in and infected them,
country-folk may have been open and
unsophisticated. But now
Whatever may have been the cause
of the change, there a be no doubt
of the result. He who wishes to get
ahead of the average farmer. or even
to keep abreast of him in a bargain,
will have as the saying runs, to get up
very early in the morning. The
honest yokel has no intention OF
being o~verreached. He puts a high
value upon his own services, and ex-
poets you to pay for them in accord
nee with his estimate. Has he wares
to sell? He sets upon them the high
est market price you would be charged
in the nearest town, and it is useless
to argue with him that since you buy
the goods from him at his own door,
lie is saved the cost of transportation
and the profit OF the merchant to
whom he would sell in the city.
IT'S throwing words away. for still
The honest man will have his will.
and answers:-"What be they a-charg-
in for 'em in Paterson?"
In fact you are fortunate If you do
not find, after the bargain has been
bound, that you have paid more for
your country butter and eggs than
YOU would have been charged in the
city for the "gilt-edged" brands by
the ordinary hard-fisted business man
who has missed the advantage of q
country birth and bringing up.
The same spirit may be observed in
social matters. Nowhere is scandal
more rife, nowhere is criticism more
bitter, nowhere is the charity thar
thinketh no evil, more are than in
the country neighborhood. The de-
votion to dress, the greed for gossip,
the delight in depreciation, are no
more marked in sophisticated city
circles than in the quiet village. The
great vices may be less conspicuous.
but the same may be said of the great
virtues.
1t Is said that there is no form of
evil or degradation that may not be
found in the hill towns of New Eng
land. While the assertion is possibly
too sweeping to be applied TO all viii
lagos, it may at least be allowed that
residence in the country does not in
dictate a supreme degree of virtue any
more than life in the city infers apt
ness to all evil and aversion to most
good. -Harper's Bosar.
Millionaires in Society
Admitted to be the most astonishing
feature of modern society in New
York; do not say modern fashion
able society, because several of the
names upon its shining list are not vet
seen in those of the functions enjoyed
by the so-called Four Hundreds
the number of colossal fortunes owned
by individuals, writes Mrs. Burton
Harrison in an article on "Social Life
in New York." in the Ladies' Home
Journal. Two men are cited who are
reported to enjoy the revenue from
estates of $3.50, 900, 900 each. Others
between twenty-five and thirty of
these enviable souls-lie down at
night with the agreeable reflection
that they may rest the morrow, if so
disposed, makes ducks and brakes of
fortunes ranging from five millions to
one hundred millions each. As to the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." they are
quite common cattle in our streets.
Naturally enough the dazzle OF these
facts leads people outside OF New York
to fancy that the whole of society is
in the attitude glowingly described
by T~hackeray's Viscomte de Florac to
express his prosperity:-"Sitting sur
rounded by splendors before golden
vases, crowned with flowers, with
Wallets to kiss u feet" Entire col
umns of small print are devoted to
the jewelled crowns, the strings of
black pearls and threaded diamonds
bought from the sales of royalty de-
posed or deceased; the dinner services
of gold and porcelain; the forests of
orchids, the curtains and table cloths
of priceless lace. the town houses, the
country houses, the equipages Fand
the yachts with boudoirs fitted in
white and gold and silken broideries
that would have seemed impossible
save to the fevered Imagination Of a
writer of corsair twenty
years ago. As a keen commentator on
American character has recently OBJ
served:-"When the material rewards
of success are so great, the American
mind has no choice but to brood on
them" The discussion OF wealth has,
to all appearance indeed, become our
browning reproach among other ma
tions, who declare that while money
rules the world, we alone make no
pretense at yelling our worship OF
plutocracy.