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By HENRY JAMES.

mas termed an angel "she." He claims that angels belong to the other sex, and seems to have some ground for the as- sertlon. yet 1t is nothing to be proud of, even IT true. Angels have done some errands which had they been winged laules they would have declined to un- uertake. It was an angel who is cred iteo With having kicked up a row for which he was tossed out of heaven, re- celVlng considerable fall Gallantry compeis an admission that the plot was Tn conception and general character en- tlreiy masculine. The angel who took flaming sword and drove a misguided pair from pleasant garden could not nave been anything but a male, else the sword would have been quenched in the tears of the penitents and the angel would have flown back to headQuarters 10 lntercede for new orders. I confess to preference for the female angel ldea, and would be glad to think that the ethereal beings supposed to hover in space and shield mortals under the shaoow or their pinions were as unlike myself and the rest of my kind as pos siDie. Tn the particular case at issue. however, compromise might easily be struck by calling the angel it" This anger IS carved out of stone, anyhow.
 Whlle the Market-street lines con- tlnue to run fenderless cars the only protection for the public lies in an aplllty to dodge. It is true that this places the aged, infirm and cripples at oisadvantage, but perhaps Hunting ton Juggernauts would rather run uoWn people who could not be quoted Tn the courts at full rates. The satis- Iactlon Of suing is poor one at best Any man would rather have a leg than the cash price of one. Almost any wo- man would rather have her husband than his value as expressed in dollars. AS citizen who has done his full share or sprintfng to evade being sent to Kingdom come by the fenderless foe of human life, have come to a determi- nation not to bother with legal pro- cess if any of my family fall victims to Winnings homicidaI tendency. It is not seemly to make open threat and so details may be omitted, but there are circumstances under which a knowing insurance company would regard Vim Ing as a mighty poor risk.
 There might have been some utility In discussing capital punishment had the Rev. Davis refrained from pro- Jecting himself into the debate. While some of us regard the law as a good one, and feel an impulse to defend it. we do not wish to do so at the risk of helgntening the glare of publicity in which the Rev. Davis poses and in duIges in words. Rather than this, let the law take it's chances.
 There is one creature concerning the production of whom I am disposed to quarrel with evolution. This is the youth of 20 or whereabouts who gets married without parental sanction. usually having to perjure himself as a preliminary, and soon deserts his wife on the plea that he, poor thing, was OCT young to wed. If a more con- temptible organism ever partly devel- oped from state of monkeyhood it has managed to avoid the public eye There have recently been two cases of this brand of idiotic viciousness brought to light in San Francisco. Save for a re- spectful sympathy for the girls in-
 
 suggest earnestly that any real man finding the fellows within reach of his foot kick them straightway so far that they will alight within reach of the foot of somebody in the next county.
 1gnatius Donnelly is in many respects an admirable old man. He cherishes certain innocent delusions in respect to authorship. but beyond smiling at these there Is no reason for giving them the slightest attention. The gentleman who wrought to extract sunbeams from cu- cumbers was not more harmless than Donnelly. At the worst he did no more than spoil a few specimens of colicky vegetation which but for his efforts might have been made into pickles and laid waste the human anatomy. By writing mere foolishness Donnelly may be keeping himself out of real mischief Certainly he has his lucid intervals. for he has fallen in love with a pretty girl, accomplished on the typewriter AS to her lucid intervals there might be, did not delicacy forbid, some show for discussion. For all of me Donnelly is welcome to have just as much fun out of his patent cryptogram as he can find there. If he should attempt to demonstrate that Bacon wrote Mother Gooses melodies, Aesop's Fables and the Book of Job he could probably make out a case so strong that no scholar would ever think seriously of attempting to controvert his conclu- sions.
 Moved by a personal grief and de- siring to perpetuate the names of those dear to her, a lady proposes to erect an elaborate arch over an en- trance to the park. This arch is to be in memory of her husband and son and so engraved that it's purpose shall be plain to the beholder. I do not question the motives of the lady nor doubt that she is as gracious as generous, but with the utmost re- spect I do question her taste An in- dividual grief never looks we'll on dis play. It is a thing in which the pub- lie takes no permanent interest and which should be guarded as sacred. To erect the arch and leave 1t unin- scribed would be an act of far greater delicacy. The cemetery is the place ,,,11 de