Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 October 1893 — Page 1

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24.-No. 15

ON THE QOI VIVE.

••All down—hands op—up she comes," and there is an echoing cry of "up she comes," while the spokesman sbouta "A duece, a four and a five," and the rattling chink of silver drowns the noise. Do you know what that means, you long faced fathers who think your sons never gambled, and you soft-hearted mothers who would believe vour boy a murderer sooner than a thief? You didn't know that your son, whom you regard aa a model for others, stood around the counter under the grandstand at the races and every time those fateful words were uttered by the well-fed nam bier who bossed the game, your boy lost or won a silver coin. You didn't see bis flushed face as he shoved another dollar on the deuce and heard the gambler say "An ace and two lovely fives,"and then seethe lad turn away with the look of a thief in his face and not a dollar left or the money he had secretly taken from his employer, fully intending to replace. If you had seen all this, you would have known what "Old Hi" means.

Old Hieronymus. It isn't funny— don't laugh at it. It's pitiful. They call gambling, but it seems too simple to dignify by that name. Matching pennies is science compared with this. You stand before a counter on which elx numbers are printed, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. You plaoe a silver coin on one or two of them. The gambler calls some three out of the six, and if you have covered anyone of them, your money is refunded double. If you miss he gets your money. How easy, you say. That's its charm. Now multiply the counters by 10 or 12, place an assistant gambler behind each and let all listen and obey the loudvoiced "boss" In the center. He shouts the fatal numbers. Hlsolerks act quickly and with ease. The poor dupes crowded around each counter pile their coins on this figure or that. Some win a quarter or a half, but the many lose. The call ii repeated at once, fresh dupes play, and the rhythm of "Old Hi's" voioe mingling with the chink of silver turned many a Terre Haute boy Into a craven, nerveless gambler.,

The cherry faced Italian wfi&"runi the ^%ult stand attheheadof Printing House square Is In hard luok. Fifth street was dug out like a cellar when the rains came a few nights ago, and his fine peaohes and pears floated and sank along with his Malaga grapes and Damson plums In the overflowed basement.

It was hard on the plucky fruit seller, who has built up a business where other men would fail, but he is going to make It hot for contractor Voorhees or the city of Terre Haute. If the city will ipay his damage, he will cheerfully dedicate the new crematory with a burnt ofl»rlng of water soaked fruit.

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Voorhees ought to liavu ti ueT Tom Klnser did when the WHS tilled the excavation* on Sixth street and yet were below the lovel of uieuewly constructed catch-basin at ih« corner of Main. The floods rosenm' Tom could see that boforv the water could vent itself{ through

would setthebasa-

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a ten pound *l'£ OBO or IWO sturdy bloxvs kwtwVed Nfr. foitoK fe«sln'«s j-lb"? la ttoo torrent rushed to the fcowt r. Paying for the broken masonry ^Was cheaper than nettling for the Buckeye's stock. _____

The council did a very graceful thing Monday night, when they retained little Cou Henry to fill hi* father's term as market master. It Is an office that is a sinecure, anyway and it la about the first time In which an appointive office in the city hall has* been tilled from Sheart motives and not from "pull nor pocket."

The street car company is harder than the weather clerk to please the public* :|lt ran vestibule cars all and Ihopes to be able to furnish us with cpen 'earn all winter, If the wind rattle® the aid© cumin* in Deoomher, never mind it, for we will have the electric heaters jo July. And then it ran ear* so often up north Thirteenth street that the Van crowing keeper said it disarranged the railroad schedule, only this week the Ninth warders wanted to mob the company because they took off a car.

All this kicking has soured Mike Burke, the superintendent. He Is one of the joillest Irishmen that God ever made, but he baa a uutlon that the street railfway & branch charity organisation, |aml that we paupers who get whole |tide for a nickel "•ought to be thankful ilor that.**

The Terre Haute Liquor Dealers1' Association r*thor had the laugh on the Mil f. righteous Licenced Saloon-Keepers' League Monday. Judge Taylor was called on to try a half-docen alleged lawbroker*, and every mates**** son »t them was a member of the 8* K« The charge «u for selling to in Its on* and allowing infant* to play pool- S!n«mr% Lawrence 8**» and other members of the craft were there, and when Utile fcoy» testified eat© frequenting saloons and playing pool for the drink* "all I around," ihe judge wa* confronted with slips of paper that the children had

Bishop Totter says the ohurch is neither a soup kitchen, nor a bowling alley, nor a billiard table, being led to these remarks by the efforts displayed by some to popularize ohurch work. Bat if the bishop were good at comparisons he might say it was all these—that the church Is a kitchen from which the lifegiving soup of kindness is fed to hungry humanity a bowling alley in which the devil's ten-plna are knooked helter skelter by muscular Christianity, and a billiard table from which one Is caromed into eternal happiness by the gospel cue well chalked with righteousness. In these days of sensational preaching the good bishop ought bo* miss any such couiJftrisort«i as these.

signed (or the Mloon-ko.p.rt. tow*, JJSfng, "I .• twenty-one years of age. "f etc." The Judge Is In donbt a« to donbtles. is prepared to do so »t the whether the saloon-keepers are pleading slightest algn of fnrther hosUle demon strations.

the "baby act" or not but the much maligned T. H. liquor dealers could tell the judge a thing or two about those printed slips.

Right on the heels of Bab's warning letter to parents about their daughters' loves, comes a startling piece of Terre Haute gossip. A young clothing clerk, tall and handsome, ruined his girl cousin, and at the point of a shot-gun submits to a legal marrl«tre. He had the entree Into many a family in this city

and very few

dances or

a certain set of nice young ladles were complete without him. He was the escort to many a fair girl who might have been bis victim. We say victim, for although he has married the poor creature who loved him too well, the odds are against her living happily for a man who will steal a woman's honor thinks nothing of casting her oft in the end.

Qui VIVE.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The mugwumps are kicking iard against Van Alen as ambassador to Italy. This is

the

first thing we've

heard iu his favor. Mrs. Thora K. Bjorn is going to lecture In the Women's building at the World's Fair on "The Scientific Key to Vocal Expression." If she has the key she ought to apply it to her name.

Indiana editors can hereafter "hew to the line" to their hearts' content. The gas belt is to have a $1,500,000 company that will make that region the center of the axe Industry of the world. There was a young mare named Nanoee, As fleet as a poet's quick fancee

When urged against 2:04 4|She said, "I made it galore, Bat why I should beat It I can't see."

A reoent eastern traveler discovered In Ohlna a tribe of monkeys that make wine of grapes. But there's nothing remarkable about that. In this oountry wine sometimes makes monkeys of men.

Mrs. Virginia Meredith, the Indiana woman, whose alleged inhospitable treatment of a newspaper club, at the Indiana building, made such a stir up there, isn't at all like Prof. Hermann, the magician* He makes It his business to press the sleights, wh'lle.she slights the press.

The man who first Introduced choap Chinese labor into this country died last woek, and if be gets his just deserts he's side tracked just now at the warm resort that is popularly supposed to be keeled somewhere bwWeen here and the celestial kingdom. It is to be regretted that when he left this country permanently he couldn't take with him the heathen pest he brought here to displace our home-makers, to ruin shirts and collars In his miserable, filthy launthat many decent people patron-

Sunday-school teachers, and to make It possible to develop such blatherskites as Dennis Kearney and others of his Ilk. They, have no business In this country,

now holds such an Important position on the Qblcago Inter-Ocean that she was sent to the Sandwich Islands as a sped si correspondent to investigate the revolution there, Is after OummWouw Ben Havens, for the way he and the attaches of the Indiana building are said to have treated the foreign newspaper correspondents. Miss Krout can n*e pretty vigorous English when she gets mad, and she Is real angry at ear worthy exmayor. She says "the treatment the correspondents received at his hands is ealyapart and parcel of the incivility and jealoosy he has persistently manifested toward the women of the Indiana commission who, according to his evident opinion, haw no rights that he ta bound to resjieet." We can hardly belii«ve that the would-be consul to Manoheeter has bean rude to the ladle*, for ha l» a perfect gallant among them. But Mica Kroat says ha haa, a«4 she says it

Indianapolis has the nerve to claim the fastest track because Nancy Hanks made 2:04K on hers this year, and only 2:06K on ours—despite her previous record of 2:04 on onrs. Just because she's on a direct line between Terre Haute and Richmond, Indianapolis has the nerve to claim anything.

entree Into many a faunly in tin* city, poker game when invited. A Hoosier advantage of having been born

PEOPLE AND THINGS..

Ex-President Harrlsonitlll attend the wedding of his niece, Miss Lizsle Harrison, at Murfreesboro,

When John Howard Payne, the author of "Home, Sweet Home," died in Tunis, In 1852, the Government owed him 1205.92 salary as oonsul at that place. It has been owing it ever since. Payne's heirs are now trying to get Congress to make an appropriation discharge the obligation.

The Congressmen are tiring of the federal eleotlons bill argument, and are deserting the House for Chicago. Col. "Ike" Hill, the Deputy Sergeant*at» arms, who keeps tab on the absentees, Bays if the roll were called on the Midway Plalsance any morning a quorum would be developed.

C, T. Sampson, aged 97, a veteran shoe manufacturer, &nd at one time fa moras all over the country as the first importer of Chinese contract labor, died WCdntly at North Adams, Mass. In 1869 he had some difficulty With the Knights of St. Crlspen and imported seventy-five Chinese. More came later and he won the cUy, but after the Knights bad declined In prominence and influence the Chinese were replaced by white labor. "Fred" Dubois, as everybody calls him, including himself, the youngIdaho Senator who hut been put forward by Teller, the silverite manager, to debate

dri_^ l*e, though they ought not—to marry —. the sickly sentimentalists among our with Voorhees, was 42 years old last agloe

and the President is singing mighty nation. He is a decided brunette, with snmll when he stops the action of the hair and mustache as black and thick as Logan's, and dark, bright eyes.

Geary law in deporting them—and ee pedaliy after the Supreme court has decided that the law is constitutional.

.aa '1 Kmat. formerly an edl-

height, good figure, and with a pleasant face, which is, however, full of determi

The jokes innumerable that have been perpetrated on the subject of plumbers'

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Miss Mary H. tottU ftwwrty mi sd which happened not long ago ln ci8rer enough to go out so little that notorial writer on the Expwas, but who whington

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amount having been frequently render ed by a plamber of that city on a piece

of property without the result of liquid®

of property without uieresuitoi nqoitta-

Hon or the tangible prospect of such, law

proceedings were finally Instituted. As a result the house sold under the ham met failed to bring the amount charged la the bill of tne disgruntled mechanic.

Congressman Alfred Taylor, of Tenessee, and his brother, ex-Governor Robert Taylor, are conspicuous figures in Washington ju#t now where the Repnblican Congressman is entertaining his Democratic brother. The Taylor brothers made themselves famous some years ago by running for governor of that state against each other. Their campaign was one of the rooet unique Ut the political annals of the south. They atamped the state together aad entertained their rural aadlmcae with concerts of the banjo and violin.

BAB'S LETTER.

MAN WHO WAS CLEVERLY'MADE UP AS A WOMAN.

Politicians Descended From Ja The Ward Heeler as a Ruler of the ry A Man Who Respects Bis .Vs Sex. [Copyright, 1888.

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jolly rides among who is so far lost te the amenities of fyxty-five sgo, before the world

and very suburban social life as to refuse to take Wi® .•»* a hurry* and when gentllity part in a poker game is fitted only for

the tax rate going up, the cily treasurer is likely to have plenty of kloks on his hands next spring when taxes fall due. For It is be, rather than those who make the rate, wko bears the brunt of the fault-finding that taxpayers feel called on to indulge in when they meet this necessary expense every year. There is one thing about it, though, that should not be forgotten. The additional money will be spent for pablic improvements that will give employment to a great many men. There is no better way to spend money than in needed public improvements when men are out of work. If the oounoil bad had the, courage last spring to levy an additional tax for street Improvement purposes, hundreds of men would now be employed paving Fifth street and others that were gNen up this year because the city was short of funds. They were afraid of the political effects of raising the tax rate, and didn't do it. It takes a little courage, as well as good sense, to run municipal affairs properly.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 1893.—I have friend who is a never-ending joy to me

A man in Greensburg, this state, was M* possesses manyjvirtues, the chief of shot because he wouldn't go into a which is his good manners. He has the

was oonspicuous by its courtesy, and

treason, stratagem and spoils^ He ^ins did not excuse brutality. Om* in a while the Colonel—be earned his rtfifht to the title fighting in the Con-

Wlth the wage rate going down and federate army—gives me an outing, and 1 .i :i„ &eD drops in the next day at 5 o'clock lo discuss it over a cup of tea.

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86 UBed to the Colonel's ways that the iittle maid always brings in a specially jarge egg-shell tea-cup for him, and a teaspoon that bears my grandmother's initials. lie sips his tea and thinks out his conversation. He Is the nearest to Henry Esmond of anybody I ever met. I'believe his creed is to do his duty to his God and honor the ladies. And I don't think there could be a better one.

AN ADMIRABtiK DISGUISE.

The other night he took me to see jj*1492." Together -we joyed over the handsome women, the pretty scenery, and the Colonel came in, with his baritone voioe when all the men in the house joined Teresa Vaughn in singing VAnnie Rodney" he laughed at the worn-out tramp, but most of all was he Interested in the handsome boy who so magnificently made up as Isabella, "the c^iisy Queen of Spain." As we sa^ in the front row, we had a very good view of him, or her. The next day, over the tea, the Colonel said: "I could not at first believe that it was a young man who was playing the part of a woman, and my reason for not believing It was (hat not a chord or a muscle showed in Ike perfect neok, that the arm was rounded, and that the hand looked as if

down opon anoth* heir tohlir TiatSo ]f8topped at theolnb and talked to some E O a

tate. Sbrady last October, has a boy. Billy Deutsoh, the original man It ho broke the bank at Mone Carlo is dylbg in Denver of consumption, He was probably the nerviest gambler of modern times, and hrfs won and lost millions of dollars.

not

were made for kissing and

for

.'stopped gentlemen (all the Colonel's friends are gentlemen), and I was told that this Mr. Harwood was a great big, althletio, handsome boy a graduate of Harvard, whioh, after our Southern universities, is a very good place to be graduated from, and of extremely good people. Then I got to thinking about the men who in various times had impersonated women, and it came baok to me that Will Shakespeare's Juliet was first played by a beautiful boy, and that all his sonnets were written to this same boy and then, to Jump forward several oehturies, I remember when, during the war, I slipped through the lines to Baltimore and had a very jolly week there, going to the theaters—yes, my of oourse I went to see my sweetheart, and chanced being arrested. During that time I saw a man who played the part of a woman, and who was as marvelous then-as Richard Harlowe is now. This man was named Setchell— Dan Setchell—and I have brought his photograph for you to look at."

HOW PMPRKSS EUGENIE DRESSED. The Colonel arose and banded me two little cartes de visltee, One represented alatout, jolly looking young fellow, enough like Harlowe to be some kin to him, and the other, a large fine looking woman, sitting ln an opera box and dressed exaotly as the Empress Eugenie did at that time. There was the elaborate hairdressing, the low bodice, the velvet bands around the wrists fastened with diamond stars, and the plaid silk skirt, under which I oonld almost imthe hoop-skirt. After I had

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May. Ho looks ten years younger. He iooked, the Colonel continued, "Dan is rather a b* ndsome fellow, of medium S0t»hell made his first appearance on the stage as Bernard in 'Hamlet,' at the iloward Athenenm, Boston. He played later on in a burlesque of 'Leah' at

Nibio's Garden, and daring that time it was impossible to convince men that he Was a man. Then be came to Baltimore the HoUlday street theater, and as the town was full of Union officers, the

lQe town wa8 IU11 U1 VUJV

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tflty went wild about him, and he was

body except the people who personally knew him was quite certain whether he Poor fellow 1

man or a woman,

had a very

(or

unhappy end. He started

^ew Zealand, and the ship was

neTer

heard of. Since that time, I, as

aa old theatergoer, have seen men dressed np as women, but nobody has so completely mystified people as this young Harlowe since the days of poor Dan SetchelL I do not know," mmwd the Colonel, "whether in view of the fnany undesirable things that happen (pardon my rafeninc to things that ladies are not supposed to know about), it would not be better to have men play women's parts on the stage to-day of subjecting frail woman to the temptations about them."

If it had been anybody else but the Colonel, I should have laughed but one Biwt be very lost to a sense of 4U deeency when one can laugh at sincerity.

I poured him out another oupof tea, the sally lunn came in, and, after he had tasted ai\d approved of it, I had laughed and said that "if they don't soon decide about the silver bill, we will have no sugar in more senses than One."

THE COLOXKL ON POLITICS.

The Colonel added: "Politics do not seem a proper subject to discuss with ladies, but, .my dear child, as we oount you the only one among six brothers and eighteen uncles, and as you have been forced into listening to us before, I should like to give you my opinlou of the politics of to-day. Possibly I may be severe no gentlemen could be anything else. I have sometimes thought that Judas was a politician, and that the race descended from him. I long ago ceased, as you know, to vote because I could not respect a man on either ticket, and then, too, I, who know a little about my country, see no worth in my vote when a man who can neither read nor write, who can not have great interests, for he does not even possess a home, is given thaliberty to choose who shall decide what shall be done In this country. I love my land, and the day that the battle was over I was ready to say that I had been beaten, to stand under the Star Spangled Banner, and to do my best for the ruling powers. Bat, my dear, I like to think that the ruling power is my equal If not my superior, aud very ofteu I wish that we had a monarchy. As it Is, we area republic under a tyranny—the tyranny of the ward politician. If we had a sovereign, he or she would be properly educated, would have been taught how to ohoose the right men for the right plaoe, and the ambition of every man would be to own a home and gain a vote. In the days of the great Louis, it was said that the people trembled before the king, and that the king trembled before God. Nowadays our rulers tremble before nobody, and when religion goes out there comes anarchy and poverty. You think I exaggerate? My dear, some time in future years, when you come way down to Virginia to put a few flowers on the earth above me, you will fcnow that I am telltng you the truth.

THE PKOOBKSSIVH YOUNG WOMAN.

I suggested some mora hot oake to keep the Colonel from getting too serious, and then I asked him if be h$d gone to a reception, to whioh he had been invited, and how he had enjoyed it. But again I had struck the wrong keynote. "I did not enjoy myself at all no self-respecting man can" enjoy himself when he sees women lose all sense of their'birthright—gentleness and quietness. A young woman was there who appeared in what she oalled reform garments, which, as well as I could see, consisted of a dress not unlike that worn by the Turkish women, but lacking the femininity they give It by loading it with jewels and gold. This progressive young woman wore full trousers and a blouse, made of plain cloth a linen collar and linen ouflfe, and her hair was cut short. She did not walk gracefully she swaggered. She did not talk well, because she was shrill she did not look like a handsome boy, a pretty woman or a man, but that something which nature abhors, a hybrid. Much against my will I was presented to her, and she Immediately began to tell me of the ease of the costume, of the speech that she had made before many thousand people, and of her hope for the future woman. I asked her very quietly if ebe had any children. She answered: 'Certainly not the bearing^f children is left tqgfche lower classes entirely.' Then I asked her from whence she expected the coming woman. My dear, I don't think she liked me, and yet I was polite to her. Not that I wished to be, but because I had been told she was a woman, and 1 was bound to respect the sex of my mother. "She talked a great deal about her lectures about what she bad written, and about the needs of the woman of to-day, and, strange as it may seem, she entirely ignored the needs of the man.

After 1 went away I tried to think her out, but I couldn't, and when I read my chapter in the New Testament that night about the women who waited at the toifrb of their Saviour, this type seemed a blot on the universe, and for once In my life, just for the first time, i.ty dear, I wished that a woman might be brutally treated. They tell me tber»» are more like her. But I don't like to think so."

THE WRETCHED BOOKS OK TO DAY. We kept quiet for a little while and drank our tea with meditation. And then the Colonel said: "What is the next century going to do far books? Last week when I bad Ihe rheumatism so badly, the kindly young man at the book shop sent me np what he called the latest novels. Every one of them had a motive. The motive of one was to kill all belief the motive of another waa to use big words that required a dictionary to them dear the motive of another was to show man's greatness and nature'* littleness, and the motive Of another waa to paint all women as «|)e ail men aa cowards all life as wicked and no hereafter. There was not a single one that had for its motive to internal and am use, so I hobbled over I to my own old books and I spent a day

'Twenty-fourth Year

with Becky Sharp, and forgot my pain with Mr. Pickwick, and fancied myself in love again as I lingered over Herrick, and realised what good plays were with Shakespeare and Congreve ar.d Wycherly. And yet people who claim to know a great deal say this is the time of great intellect and culture. Why, my dear, to amuse is a mission, but the |p writers of to-day don't seem to think that. Sometimeswhen things goa little 131 wrong, I get to thinking, and my faith is a little shaken (of course, my dear, being a woman, and as every woman should be "close to God Himself, this never happens to you),, and then to straiten me up, I want to pick out some book that will make life seem bolter and brighter, and my faith stronger but there is no book of to-day that will do that. And even in their unbelief, the writers of to-day are so vulgar. What does it all mean? I hope and I pray that it is a sign that we are reaching the extreme end of It all, and that the re- IT bound will come that men believing ,l?| only in themselves will find out how little worth they are will entrust their faith to wo.men and children, aud, after l.-P that, to God Himself."

THE KFFICACY OF rRAYER?^^"'*'®. I asked the Colonel: "]Do ypy, hellevo absolutely in prayer?"

And he said: "My child, what would beoome of me If I did not? In those days when ono Set of brave men was fighting another I thought continually of the sweetheart who was waiting for the war to end, and for me to oome back and olalm her hs my wife, and every time thiB thought came to me, even if it were on the field of battle, I said a silent prayer for her and for me, and I am sure that my prayers were answered. When peace was deolared, I went baok I found my own true girl waiting for me, and ln a little while she became my wife. I bad a jrear of happiness, and when my son came into the world, my wife's eyes dosed, and we were left alone. You remember my boy howl named him after the greatest general and the finest Christian gentleman that ever lived, Robert Lee and you remem-

ber how, when he was old enough to be my oompanion and my friend, it seemed as if hia mother oalled him, and 1 waa left alone. My dear, you were with me that day it was your hand that'closed the eyes, tired so early of looking on this world, and you know that though I suffered beoauseof the loss of my boy, I knew that It was all right. Gradually all who belonged to me have gone from me, and to-day you alone, of my blood, are here. If I did not believe in prayer, how oouid I be happy? If I did not believe in prayer, how could I hope to be good enough to join those dear ones who are waiting for me? If I did not believe In prayer, how could I hope to live as a gentleman should, trying to do that which is right and respecting the rights of my fellow man? Only fools deny the value of prayer." There were tears in the Colonel's eyes, and I think both of us saw the same picture—the handsome boy who %ent to sleep so early In his life. The# the Colonel arose to go, and as he said good-bye, smiles chased away the tears, and he told me be was afraid we bad gotten to talk on- gp Sombre subjects, but that he was com- ||t Ing to see me very soon, going to be jpi very merry, and tbat he was planning at that very time a frolic for as. He stooped over and kissed my hand, made me a bow, and was gone. W §f®|

FROM SUBLIME TO RIDICULOUS. M' Just then the card of "Mr. Algernon Neville" was brought ln. I threw It aside—l'Say tbat Madame Bab begs to be excused." Then I frowned Neville, with his petty attempt at uubellef— Neville, with bis silly talk about chorus girls—Neville, whose thoughts began with the tailor and ended with the dlvorce courts—Neville, who killed a woman's character with a smile or a sneer. I could not endure it after the Colonel. It was like taking a glass of miserable, weak, sickening, doctored wine, after ~ne of full, rich, fruity Burgnndy, that had gained color and bouquet as the years rolled on, and wbicb could do nothing but make you feel kinder and more In harmony with gentlemen and ladles. Not as Neville would say, with men and women. Don't you think I w®a right? And won't you ask to be excused from meetIng the Nevilles of the world, as did your friend BAB. $

PERILS OF THE DEEP. It Is reckoned that every year 2,172 vessels and 12,000 lives are lost in the commerce of the world. The value of these ships and their cargoes Is about 5100,000,000. More wrecks occur now than ever before in history, notwithstanding modern improvements in shipbuilding, light-houses, buoys, etc., because the number of vessels afloat baa Increased #o greatly, ""taring tbe last five years 056 vessels trere wrecked on tbe Atlantic coast of North America. In the same region and period 957 derelicts— I. e., floating and abandoned eraft —were reported. The worst derelicts are coal-laden and lumber-laden ships. Ihe latter float the longest, while the former are particularly dangerous because tbey are so heavy and solty Tbe average derelict floats thirty days.