New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-03
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tue nouSc vi NbiaDt Olu not VH H'@'''
nor create disturbance to awaken his neghbors lie
aroused his wife and told her that there was man
in the house. She jumped out of bed and captured the
burglar holding him fast. II was at this point that
the husband showed his absolute fath IN the SUPER
while 90 ont and get policeman he hurried down
stairs ard ran up The street When ne retarneS VIII.
prisoner. This shows that the husbands confidence
IN his wife was not misplaced He ought 70 vaine ner
Frederka is worth ten such husbands as hers is
New-Jersey farmer has q gun which could give
Kentucky mule lessons in Kicking. When he fired
it few days ago It let drive at him and threw him
in the air. landing him his back and incidentally
brealing his shoulder. But II you were to ask that
farmer if he isn't sorry that he used such vicious
pin the chaiCes ten to one that he would say
no. he glad Of 1t. Yon see, neighbours chickens
had been annoying the owner OF the kicking gun by
getting into his garden and playing the mischief with
t. 1t at these tespassing fowls that the gun T9s
discharged, ana as the gun at the same time tnat II
poachng chickens the farmer probably howled with
delight, despite his fractured bones. That's human
nature.
Uncle Sans vessels are making the sealers IN the
Behring Sea very unhappy in these days. They are
ovcrhaulng the prohibited vessels and sending them
home again Uy the dozens. There does not seem 10
be any shily-shallying about this work When
schooner refuses to about shot speeding across
for tho seaeTs to go forth wellmsnned and equipped
ON VOYAGE after the valuable skins which they seek,
only to be sent empty handed whence they came.
And since it is the quest Of dollars that leads them 70
dsobey the commands Of Uncle Sam, 1t seems ukely
that constant loss Of money in their undertakings
will discourage the owners OF sealers from CONTINUING
a ypesseis viii not find so much work to do in the
Behring seattle protected home OF the SEAL
A man who dsgraced himself by so,zing and Kissing
roren declared when he threatened with merited
punishment that he was subject 70 attacks OF the
idssinc frenzy owing TO excessive smoking The
,oes failed TO say whether his peculiar disease was
caused by cigarette smoking, but OF course every
sane reasonable and thoughtful man who Is opposed
40 cigarette smoking knows that 1t was the deadly
gerettes which did the mischief. II no one has given
iii onInon n Is because he has not yet had tne OF
becanse he is waiting for confirmation q ms Denel
cite, and this opportunity should ho' 10 hee'000"
ait is very difficult said business man. 10 MAKE
neope understand that one can't always employ
ro,po mon starting in life Just to please our friends
Who recommend them to us. It's bad business pohcy
To employ more men than one needs. In these uay ,
OF close competition, business man can hiiou W
| spend money unwsely. certain volnme OF business
iusies and demands n certain expenditure Ill saiiiee
to carry on that business. 1t isn't far to us TO ask
rs TO increase our saaryst when there Is no
for so doing 1t isn't fair to our trusted ana e'el'
onnIoves IN ask Us 10 employ men and yet MALL
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TAIN orr salarvIst We DO this only IN Two ways
one is to pare OF enough from the salaries OF the ou
men to provide salaries for the new men, Ahouer 10
70 discharge old men TO make room for the new You
see that both plans ont Of the question, other s
being eonal People who send promiscuous letters OF
recommendation often cause us great deai Oh euUai
rassment one likes to please friend ana YET one
cannot always in Justice himself or others 40 Is.
And have Won ever noticed how many OF these H1tels
of Introduction describe the bearers Oh 6s bns 40 who
| man who
ploy them Hardly one man IN thousanu oa ms Co..
described IN this wa! Sums c IG efters ever Consider
that If big business house employed an uo ~" ~ ~
brought letters OF dR e@pIoyes within year
and driven into bankruptcy in two years oy i's SUI
pendous salary-listf
And vet continued the speaker, 81 must not DC
understood as meaning by what have said that we
do not want young TO apply 10 us Tor slIuaon''
We are always on the alert for bright ana aole Ie"'
II pleases US much more to get the man whon We
want than IL pleases his nGorse That part OF our
business snccess-the selecting Of men who are vauaoe
~ ne Hut what l do want to make clear Is that no
man shOuld expect ask us 10 hlre man Oh Pe 70
personal grounds @er ra " we Hd that he is Of
no use 10 u.s. we cannot be expected 70 Keep MN, MN
If do, we inure ourselves our oel enpiod '''
believe the man himself who Is recomhlelueu'
The death Of Mrs. searles, formerly Mrs. Mark Hop
kins. widow of the California millionaire, recalls her
most part of what has long been known as Mob iill
in that city Il can be from nearly all parts OF
the city proper It Is massive, dark pile, surrounded
with thick stone walls, which On the lower slope Oi
the hill are many feet in height, making IL, as one
looks I'D the hill from the south appear Ike heaVlF
fortified castle. The cost of the house mas peen
varously estimated at from 81 100000 to s3ooo,ooo
II used 10 be pointed ont 10 strangers by proud Call
forna people as the home of the richest woman In
the world But for some years it was seldom that
any one save the gardener at work on the Oeauliui
sounds could he seen around the place the wall on
sTOlnus, cUu O sde was almost on level with the
lawns, and not few people looking AZ Ile eoo ny
though magnificent pile must have wondered az inc so
expanding of many fortunes upon place winch So
| few people seemed to enjoy
That aConscience FUND.- which the city has Is an
amusing thing. Contributions b. II are constantly
received 1t is evident from the letters that accom-
many them that It takes many long time to con-
vince themselves that there is such thing as con
science one man will write: Seventeen years ago
lied about my taxable property and deceived the cly
to the extent Of S123 nclose a check for the
amounto Another man will say that his dishonesty
dates back a. far twelve years, another rs fr a.
ten. Now here Is study for some one. 1t Will DC
granted that a man who pays taxes and makes false
swearing about the value of his property Is OF mature
age: not because people lie most al mature age bul
because il is generally at a mature age that man
has stored up enough of worldly goods 10 be a tax
MAYER Of importance to the city. Then. too the III III
who docs his own swearing about his own property
f. at least OF age young who inherit property
usually Inherit along with it the wise care OF trustees
who do their swearing for them. But to come back to
the MIXTURE age. Take thirty five years as lt1I
average everything considered the false swearing
fine of life Then another fair average take htee
years as the time between the Mses"earhg anu tilo
consc ence pricing ages. That makes the average con
science axe fifty years But 1t IS 10 be noticed ta'
those who have longest delayed sending the contrO
Hon 10 this remarkable fund are always the most pen
= fs -afat n
natures steadily. say beginning 10 grow a. forty ana
rinening somewhere fifty This brings the calci-
iocn 10 point where gray hairs 10 be considered
Hntarently-g hairs begin 10 appear when the con
science begins to make itself felt And here we ste
for though reasoning in this ii is evident tlat
gray hairs ard conscience go together, we are con.
sronted with this problem: Does the conscience BRING
rv hairs or can't one have conscience until he mas
rssched that dignfed period Of life which Is marked
nv cray hairs! We give 1t up.
II Is fortunate for the people Of to-day by the way,
.h+ the ancient Greeks had conscience funds such
- ching As a conscience fund could never have been
nonuar with the Hellenic race. But by any illuck