Year: 1874

in these days of "gOing out of town. the ques-
ton, (Which is the best Burglar Alarm p is that
comes home to almost every mans business and
BOSOM 1t would be nvdOus for to help the
reader to choose among those which are advertised


but we may whisper in his that if he secure
q duplicate of one we have just been reading about


he had better do at once, regardless OF expense


This particular Burglar Alarm is a woman. Respect
for her feelings lest all the men should speak at
once, compels not to divulge her name, though
we are not sure but should divulge it, if only
knew it, Likewise her place of abode, lest the ariS-
tocratic and orthodox owners of the accommodation
train that saunters to the town she lives in should
be obliged by the increased rush of visitors to stop
the Sunday trains. Enough that she is a woman,
and that she has local habitation and name. She
lives in lonely detached villa bounded on the
north by n roaring prairie and on the south by
bowling wilderness. There is no doctor nearer than
down street. On a certain night, when the rain was
pattering dlsmay against the galvanized sheetiron
of the Mansard roof and the thunder was shouting
to the lightning to "cOme on" and the lightning,
quick as fash replied "you bet" this woman was
reused from her sumbers by the news that the baby
had the Group 1t was the baby himself that let her
know it, To rush to his crib was the work Of mo-
ment. As the poet says, so light to the crouper
the lady she swung"-but what could she do Her
husband was away from home Whom could she
send for the doctOrf The nurse, as usual in such
cases, had no presence of mind, and might as well
have had absence of body. The lady, however hav


ing tried every remedy she could think Of suddenly
bethought her of Mrs. Aliens Worlds Hair Restorer.


This boy is my heir" she cried andi if he is MT the
Worlds, so much the worse for the World. Mrs. AL


len declares this remedy not die yet if it be the die
is cast and will use it0 She ordered the nurse to
bring the bottle from nei ghbcrng closet. Never
say Dye, ma'am" calculated the trembling menial.
weakly fumbling at the closet door. But hardly had
she opened it than she skreeked. and plung-
ing under the bed with "Oh Lor, ma'am there's
man in the closet" disappeared from sight. "A
man, is there said the lady, and flung the closet
door wide Open when, sure enough, stalwart ne
gro emerged to view. He was SO black that, as
Thoreau would have said, be was almost white. He


looked darkly at the lady and she looked darkly at
the darkey. Did she blenchi Did she turn palei
Did the lily dispace the on her cheeki No. she
did none of these things. She just said to the ras-
cal Go, right straight away, to Doctor Pillandcod


die, and tell HIM to come and see my baby" And
the sable iend asonished at finding himself treated
like useful member of society, went and fetched
the doctor. As Miss EdgewOrth says, whenever she
is drawing.a particularly long bow This is Fact"


Professor Goodwin Smith, after living in America
and studying affairs critically has arrived ut the
conclusion that suffrage is not right that woman
should have. He says in Macmillan that there can
be little doubt that in all cases if power were put
into the hands of the women, free government. and
with it liberty Of opinion, would fall and that it
is morally certain that If Frenchwomen could vote
now the first result would be tho restoration to
power of the Bourbons with their reactionary
priesthood and the destruction of all that has been
gained. The question whether or not men would
submit to this sort of thing brings the Professor to
another consideraton-the enforcement of law. He
thinks that if any law made exclusively in the
interest of women-as it probably would be by
feminine voters-and if that law were in contradic


ton to the masculine seuse Of justice. men would &C.