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unIbeu, JuG gam
bling house of the sterner sex off duty.
Gambling in Saratoga initiates that at
Monte Carlo. There is the same rule
prohibiting people of the village from
participating rule which helps rec
oncile virtuous people to the presenc@
of the tiger. Then there are the
races, there more spectacular than
at any other resort, save possibly at
Sheepshead Bay, in a gray mist float
ing off the sea.
Except the one or two lean years
when the reformers got control of the
village and stopped gambling, Sara
toga has been full right along of peo-
pie who didn't dream that it was I'M
fashionable. Nice people, too, except
the sporty element attracted by the
races. Mr.. Howells, even while Sara
toga was most questionable, used to
go there because he could find at it's
best the native Americans he likes to
study and depict.
don't know why the place shouldn't
be popular. Nobody's obliged to
drink the water of the springs; pretty
girls from interior towns walk along
the village street at night without
their hats, just as other pretty girls
do at other resorts less crowded. The
place is clean and wholesome.
The trouble was the hotels; they are
too big, too good. No other place has
such hotels, where a summer throng
four times as great as the entire win
ter population of the village can be
CHARTERED. For ten years past hotel
life out of town has been unfashion-
able. Until recently you could not find
a large, snowy hotel-not one-in Len
OK, Tuxedo, Newport or Southamp-
ton. The Ocean house, in Newport,
was frst-class though not large; it
burned. Narragansett Pier, on the
other hand, had fine hotels. Yet New
port was "it;" Narragansett was not.
This summer, hotel life will be more
modish. The truth is, humanity is
gregarious. The people who rub ell
bows at the horse show and foregather
at dances in New York have for five
years been vying with each other in
the extent and cost of country places.
Now that the expensive work is done,
the new toy fails to amuse; fails to
fill in life the gap that perfect idleness
must leave. So the reaction toward
the big hotel with the phalanXes of fat
old ladies in rocking chairs upon the
huge piaZZas.
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ways been; that Hill is the successor
of Van Buren,, Seymour and Tilden.
The city democrats have always
been ruled by men of the green
pastures. New York has yet to
produce a political manager to
equal those named. William &. Whit
ney might have been such a man II he
had remained in politics instead OF
grasping at evanescent wealth. Dan
Manning might have done 1T had he
lived, but he was accredited to Albany.
The paucity of big men in city polit-
zeal ranks is not confined to demQc-
racy. The republicans have never
changed the habit established in AL
bany regency" times of looking north
for direction. Odell lives in a small
city on the Hudson; Platt halls from
Owego and is in the senate the real
power that his eloquent colleague,
Depew, is not. The most prominent
city leader on that side is Lieut.. Gov.
"Tim' Woodruff, an able man tenn
porarily under a cloud from the causes
which gave Old Dog Tray bad reputa-
ton.
here sing uldE lnlnS' NC" LOAh
has the ablest of lawyers, the most
famous artists, eloquent preachers,
great inventors, physicians and au-
thors whose names are known all over
the country. But it has not in the
house of personalities on either side
one man of more than moderate abil-
ity.
The Greater New York democracy
are not taking part in conferences
with Tammany. They hope to beat
Tammany in this falls primaries. Is
the hope visionary? One might have
expected the county democracy, led
by men like Hewitt and Whitney and
Thompson and Cooper and Grace, to
take the lead in city affairs; but after
one or two successes it went to pieces
and left the field to it's coarser antag-
onist. Must that ever be the fate of
opposition to the Tiger?
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Little Points About Women
as Viewed by Max O'Rel1

clean breast of it and receive good adj
vice and help. There are stern fathers
who insist on being called sir by
their sons. and who wonder that their
sons turn bad. Good Heaven! Iwould
rather have a loving, familiar boy who
called me sonny" than have timid,
too respectful one, who called me "sir."
Just fancy. Sir! Why not Your Majesty.
Don't tell fibs to your wife. Never
attempt to teach a monkey how to
make faces. Don't ever say to your
wife, whats the matter with you,
dear" because she will answer YOU,
''What's the matter with me? Surely,
you ought to know" And she is right.
You ought to know; very often she
does not.
Remember always, that in the ewes of
woman, you have to be manly; that
is to say, generous, magnanimous. A
woman will rather forgive an act Of
brutality than an act of meanness in
the man she loves.
For the love of everything which
you hold sacred, never commit the
slightest act which may cause you to
appear ridiculous in the eyes of your
wife, or even may make her laugh at
you. The day on which a woman has
laughed at her husband, she has ceased
to love him.
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all this spring you might have read
Goldsmith's Deserted Village" and
matched pathetic passages from the
scene before you-auction sales of old
family furniture, gates barred to the
visitor, people turning away from old
homes with tears-dried sooner by the
fact that the old homes brought fancy
prices. Now Vanderbilt is building a
trife of house 160 feet long and 60
feet wide on the hill overlooking the
lake. That isn't much of house COM
pared with Mrs. Mackay's, a few miles
to the northeast, but the other fea-
lures of the estate are remarkable.
This is the latest life-necessity for
millionaires. Since a young bank
wrecker under verdict to pay over 3d.
900 for killing boy with his auto was
mobbed in the streets of New York for
venturing out again with the same
machine-the famous white ghost"
bought from Mr.. Vanderbilt-very
rich people are rather more cautious
about breaking the speed laws before
large and presumably hostile audi
ences. OWEN LANGDON.
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The English call woman homeIy
when she is of quiet, peaceful DISPOSE
ton, fond of home, virtuOus, and genere
ally of an appearance that should not
cause her husband to ever be Jealous of
her. The Americans are more frank.
They call woman homely when she is
only fit for home pursuits, such as
housekeeping and the like-in a word,
when she is plain, almost ugly. There
are humor and satire in that American
epithet, homely.
When the comedy woman is cheerful
and interesting, she may be charm
ing woman.
l only take exception to the one
who takes her revenge by picking pref
ty women to pieces, and spends her life
trying to discover in other women all
the physical deficiencies with which she
is herself afflicted.
That woman exists, Isuppose, every
where, but in England especially. The
English homely "cat" has not re-
deeming feature in her favor. She is
dull, silly, sly, dresses like a guy and
spits venom at every good-looking
woman.
A pretty face, a graceful carriage,
fashionably dressed figure, an ar
tistically draped frock-all that
arouses her scorn.
She looks sideways, grins or giggles.
She speaks i'll of her sex, believes and
repeats any malicious inanity that she
hears about beautiful woman, and is
perfectly persuaded that men are all
selfish brutes.
Englishmen not infrequently seek
erence to beautiful women. They do
not marry a woman in order to be at
her feet after the honeymoon is over,
and they are shy of the woman who will
require constant care and attentions,
who will get admiration from men, and
make their lives ones of watchfulness,
if not of suspicion. They marry wom-
en- who will likely be cheerful compan-
ions, devoted wives, good mothers, and
careful housekeepers.
Americans marry pretty women and
devote their lives to their pleasure and
comfort, and trust jewelers. and dress
makers to keep their wivesin good hui
NOR. They are the most, unselfish Of
men.
Frenchmen also marry beautiful
women in preference. They cheerful
" run their risk and take their
chance. When the wedding ceremony
is over they set themselves to win the
affection of their wives, whom they
scarcely know, and do their best to
become and remain their lovers.
They study and practice the politics
of love and matrimony and pet their
wives without spelling them, to the
length of not expecting something in
return for what they do for them.
Of course, there are Frenchmen who
marry homely women american
sense) for money. Englishmen will
marry homely women English sense)
for their sake and for that of peace and
tranquility during the length of their
matrimonial lives.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Kittie Gotrocks-"Papa says the
man that weds me must have money,
Mr.. Swifter." Swifter-"Of course he
must. Did he say how much he eX-
pected to contribute? "-N. Y. Times.
"Man outside says he's waitin' to
sec the colonel an nuther one calls
you governor "The geewhilillins:
Have l got to run for Office in spite
of myself?" -Atlanta Constitution.
After Amateur Performance.-She
Wasn't she natural in the sleeping
scene?" Her Husband-"Nery. She
couldn't have been more natural I'M
less she snored. and Coun-
try.
Mr.. Prye-"What made you run out
when that dog bit your employer
yesterdays" Office Boy-"The dog
belonged to customer. If anybody
was going to be sworn at, it would
be me. '-Boston Transcript.
Our Children.-Nurse-"1ou dread
full children! Where have you been?
Young Hopeful-"Oh, nursie, we've
been trying to drown those dear lit
Tie DUCKS, Dub Iley VIII SoihO w UhS
top!"-Punch.
Seclusion.-"I have decided to
spend my vacation at Newport" AT
Newport! Why, man, l thought you
wanted seclusion." II do, and I'll be
secluded all right. 1 don't happen to
be recognized in the Newport set"
Baltimore News.
Hopeful Woman-"Woman is natur-
ally more hopeful than man." Yes;
there's my wife, for instance; for
years past every time she has had
occasion to buy fish she has asked
the dealer if they were fresh, hoping
suppose. that some day he'll say
mo- "z.Philadelphia Press.
Lady" began the dusty wayfarerr
'could you help a poor sufferer OF
Mont Pelee?" Mont Pelee?" echoed
the housewife; ''why, you are no resi-
dent of Martinique" 81 know dat,
mum, but Sam a sufferer just de
same. Half de things kind ladies had
saved fer me dey sent down dere.'-
Philadelphia Record.
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table d'hote gains ground. Five years
ago a dollar was the limit that could
be asked for a fixed-price meal. Now
the Hotel Maitin dinner costs $3.50, and
in the midst of the East side slums
Hungarian cafe gets $1.25 for din
ner, with all the wine diners can hold
thrown in.
Riccadonna's little place was fire.
quent resort of singers from the old
Academy of Music, nearby. Patti was
his friend and frequent patron, and he
left little daughter bearing her
name. Clara Louise Kellogg and her
husband, Max Strakosch, Gerster,
Campanini, Salvinig Ristori and 9th
ers found upon the stage were famil-
lar figures in his dining-room. 1t is
said that Riccadonna made fortune
in his business, and lost most Of it in
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When you have taken your wife to a
ball where she has been admired all
the evening. and you return home
don't fail to be amiable in the carriage,
bold even. There's your chance. If
YOU miss it, she will dream all night of
the success she has had at the ball.
of all the pretty compliments she has
received, and, maybe, of some of the
men who have paid them to her. You
have it in your power to surpass your
self and them ALL A man who is cold
towards his wife on returning from a
ball with her is a brute and an ass.
A. woman never forgives a man who
misses his opportunity. In her eyes he
is ridiculous.
If YOU see your wife about to reach
across the table for the butter, don't
let her try to be successful, but go
quickly to her assistance; it will be
economy, as the seams of her bodice
are not so strong as those of your
coat.
Don't tell your wife that she will al
ways find YOU her best friend, or she
will conclude that you have given cupid
notice to leave.
IF you wish your wife to be agreeable
while at dinner, don't tell her just be-
fore she enters the dining room that
her hair is badly done. BY so doing,
you viii run the risk of seeing her
return to her room, stay there half an
hour and spoil the dinner.
Never frown at home, and always be
indulgent for the little foibles of your
wife and the faults of your children.
Be their pal" their friend, their con-
fidant. Let your son well understand
that if ever he should get into trouble,
into scrape, the best thing for him to
do is to come straight to you, make
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Canada and Newfoundland
May Now Join Hands Ss q
Some History Present R11sors of
Coming Confederation.

ton be prohibited. The owners of
these fishing boats were men Of wealth
and power at home and to get the de-
sired legislation was no task. Under
the plea of making the Newfoundland
fisheries a place for training seamen
for the navy, parliament set the island
aside as a place given over entirely
to be fishing station. The island
was treated as if no inhabitants lived
there. Upon the arrival Of the fishing
vessels each season any buildings that
had been erected were Immediately
appropriated if needed by the fisher
men and the inha bitants driven to seek
shelter wherever they could find 1T.
Captains were ordered to leave none
of their crews on the island at the end
of the season under penalty and other
vigorous measures were taken to dis
courage colonization.
Nevertheless, by some means, the
few inhabitants increased and finally
in an appeal to the home government
declared: "The admirals prove gener-
ally the greatest knaves, and do most
prejudice, being generally judge and
party in hearing suits for debt; and
when they have served themselves then
they will do justice to others. So 1t
will be requisite to have civil govern
ment, and persons appointed to admin
lister justice in the most frequented
places, that we may be governed as
Britons, and not live like banditti or
forsaken people, without law or Cos
pei" After a weary period Of appeals
which came to nothing the inhabitants
organized a local parliament Of self
government and undertook, them
selves, to right the abuses. Their
sturdy struggle against the rule of the
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Cerements Grnce WeddlnRs.

Few brides would care to follow
custom traditional in some rural dis
tricts of Northumberland in England.
There, when woman marries, her
grave clothes are considered quite as
essential a part of her trousseau as
her wedding gown. Safely wrapped
away with lavender and all kinds of
understanding herbs, they are taken
out from time to time and carefully
aired and inspected. Indeed, these
grewsomely suggestive garmentsseem
t. have special value, for their own
er, in moments of gloom and depres-
sion, often finds comfort in trying on
her shroud and rejecting upon the
pleasing effect it will produce when
her turn comes to be viewed by her
mourning neighbors and acquaint-
ances.-Chicago Chronicle.
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MACHINE-MADG SLEEP.
CIocIxVvorIk Devices Are Taking the
Place of Narcotics AS RestOr-
ers of Nature.

The wear and tear of modern life
make sleep more difficult to WOO every
year. The want has brought the sup
ply, and a number of sleep machines
are on the market, says the London
Mail.
The most complicated OF these me-
chanical sleep-producers is the "vibrat-
ing coronet," just invented by DR..
Cattle, of Paris. 1t consists of three
bands of metal encircling the head.
A branch strip extends to either of the
eyelids, and, by aid of a spring, gently
vibrates against it.
This is used to induce sleep by the
celebrated DR.. Bertillon, of Paris. Sew
eral other devices now on the market
are known as ''alouttes." One of these,
made by M. Matthew, of Paris, has done
it's work already in the clinics of Eu-
rope. 1t is compact mahogany box,
five inches high, four inches wide, and
31b inches deep, from the top of which
projects pivot penetrating the cen
tiers of two horizontal, rectangular
panels of ebony, eight inches long and
one inch high.
Inside the box is clockwork, which
causes a series of ebony panels to re-
volve. Each is studded on both sides
by a horizontal row of bright circular
mirrors, the size, of a shilling, and
maintains velocity of one revolution
a second.
To induce sleep by aid of this mech
anism the room is darkened, and bright
sc.L4 Ia, Int
are reflected from the mirrors.
The patient, by concentrating his
gaze upon the revolving panels, soon
becomes fascinated by the vibrating
glitter. The monotony of the stimu-
lus soon fatigues the eyes, which UNI
consciously close in sleep. The "fas-
cinator" is quite different sleep-pro-
Queer. 1t is manufactured by M. Yer
din, an instrument maker of Paris, and
is used with success in the celebrated
Hospital Salpetriere, of the French
capital. 1t is a helmet similar to that
of the vibrating coronet.
When adjusted to the head it is tied
by two straps. A plate of steel, four
inches wide by one inch high, rests
horizontally across the forehead, and
from the center of this metallic strip
protrudes small tube of steel, into
whose end may be inserted very fex-
ible wire tipped with glistening sill
ver-plated ball about the size of a
grape.
BY properly bending the wire the
ball may be fixed at any desired angle
above and very near the eyes, and the
effect is the same as that of the glitter
ing mirrors.
The phenomenon of eye fatigue is ex-
perienced by many who cannot long
observe the rapidly shifting panorama
of scenery moving before railway
window without falling asleep before
their journeys end. The breezes from
an electric fanNif directed against the
eyelids have this same soothing effect.
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You and L Some Little Problems of
Life" just issued from the press of
the Lothrop company, Boston. 1t is
book about women for men and women,
and especially American men and wom-
en-. O'Rell is not a one-sided seer; he
sees both the good and bad in his sub
ject, and while he has many criticisms to
offer, they are sugared with full mead
of praise. The whole book is divided
into little essays, and by permission of
the publishers we reprint extracts
from those on the following subjects.
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An elderly philanthropic lady living
in the suburbs had occasion the other
day to send a small street boy on an
errand. She had never seen the urchin
before, but her need was urgent and
she was glad to get hold of any sort of
messenger.
"Now, my boy" she said, II want q
nice, honest little boy to take this note
to Mrs. Blank. Do you know where
Mrs. Blank lives? At the other end
of the town, by the"
II knows it," piped up the urchin;
II goes there regular in the summer to
steal her grapes. o-Tit-Bits.
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into money-making as Whitney did;
but Mr. Hewitt, at so years of age, is
better justified by the browning of his
life work when Cooper union an
nounced it's larger plans.
Peter Cooper was a remarka bic
man. I remember him as if it were
but yesterday-a weakened little ato-
my of man with pale blue eyes look
ing out through big round spectacles
from child-like face framed in white
whiskers. He spoke in a squeaky
voice and always lugged around a rub
Der cushion to establish an ''entente
cordiale' between his old bones and
hard chair bottoms.
Yes, a wonderful man, in what he
did and didn't do for Cooper union.
He made it the model for institutions
later and bigger; he foresaw sol ac-
curately just what a free school
should be that to this day when the
trustees have money to spend they
go to Cooper's old plans and dig out
a course of study as outlined by him.
Yet when he died he had omitted to
endow the institute! His heirs, with
out any fuss about it, took up the work
and carried it on, furnishing whatever
money was needed from year to year.
BY last year they had paid out more
than all the money they had received
from the Cooper estate. On top of
that the heirs released life interest
in 100000 which Cooper devised to
the institute after the death of his
heirs. Mr.. Carnegie added a like sum
and the institute is going ahead, still
on Cooper's old plans,
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Took evidence with Him.

A southern correspondent writes:
ga little brother of mine, quarreling
with a negro of about the same age,
threw a rotten apple at him, which
took effect between two very large
sized lips and literally despatched
the rest of his face. The little fellow spit
and sputtered for moment and indig-
nantly marched off, saying: Mass
Horace, 1 take dis countenance right in
and show it to your father"
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Had Given It a Fair Trial.

Gentleman Ito village cobbler)-
What's that yellow powder you're taxi
ing so constantly, my friend?
Cobbler-It's snuff-catarrh snuff.
Gentleman-Is it any good? I'm
somewhat troubled that way myself.
Cobbler with the air of a man who
could say more if he chose)-Well, I've
had catarrh for more'n 80 year, an I've
never took nothin' fer it but this!"-
Tit-BitS
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clans competing
with professionals
who had no other
means of support,
and who had to
hustle for con-
tracts and "rake-
offs" because "the
family was out of
meat" A man like
Hewitt could not
plead a ground
hog case"
l can't forgive a
man for leaving
nO1i+ioc and OOinO
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His Disposition.

''Mike," said the superintendent,
''there is dead dog reported in the
alley between Illinois and Meridian
streets. want you to look after its
disposition"
An hour later the intelligent officer
telephoned: 81 have inquired about
the dog, and find that he had very
savage disposition. Boys World.
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is expected to fol-
low the smiles up
on the old resort
o f w I'LL a m C :.
Whitney, the CLAIR
ence Mackays and
other families of
wealth.
1t will be a
h o + S e Y revival.
The races rather
than the sprin gs
will be the center
of attraction of
the sexes w h e n
.4ol 41, ocn,N,
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founder in New
York of the stable
d'hote" or fixed
price dinner. Be
fore his day the
fashionable res
taurants prepared
bills of fare from
which diners chose
what they wished
and paid in pro-
portion. p ] a C e S
like Delmonico's,
Sherry's, the Wal
dorf-Astoria and
the Holland house
Ls11 IL
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ing politlcS!
Hills harmony
confer e n c :, in
which the old war
horses o f t h e
party u p t h e
state took part
with three new
Tammany leaders
is held to indicate
grudging admis-
sion by the New
York men that the
real leadership is
in the country,
wh ere it has al
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NOT Rusty.

Wife-How did Mr.. Billkins manage
to pass that civil service examination
which you failed in?
Observation-Disclosures took his little
bows with him, and the boys coached
him. They had only been out of
school few weeks.-N. Y. Weekly.