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ee ’ silence FRR LEGISLATION —_PRTICR Oo The Modern ldol-Worthip that Imperils| LAWS WHICH OUTRAGE NATURE. ——>——_ The Non-Interference Doctrine—Rebbery Oraze—The Right to Vote and Pay. The prevailing and most dangerous heresy of modern society is legislative fetichism—the exaltation of the statute book over the laws of nature; the abnepa- tion of individual function for the too implicit troet in legislators’ omnis- and legislative omnipotence, Probably never before in the history of the world have the executive fanotions of the te been so extended, or corporate inter. ference with individual freedom of action been so frequently exercised and tolerated —nay, even solicited. Men affect a horror of the very name of “ Socialism," yet bosy mselves in multiplying paternal laws ; #hey vaunt their love of freedom, yet peti- tion for its limitation; they revere the memory of those who shed their blood to secure for them liberty and a voice in the conduot of the affairs of the State, yet, so incapable are they of perceiving the great law running through nature, they pay ana work and vote to rivet upon them- selves the shackles of a new slavery ! Verily, shall a man not denude himself of his righte if he will? Surely; bat if in so doing he deprives others of their rights, agsinet their will, he wrongs hia fellow- e hear much of “ patriotism” in theese days, bat, uofortanately, the practi- gal demonsirations of the noisy connterfeit have been given in the dupes of ignorance and bigotry toiling in the harness while ealious selfeshness handled the lines and plied the whip. The maltitede does not reason olosely. Is inclines to seek short cuts. to its goal. An apparent immediate good, although fraught with all the objections attaching to expediency as a policy, is often more alluring to it than the certain bat more distant rvalization thereof by coaformiog to the great laws of nature. And it is to this domination of desire over judgment, this inospacity of the multitude te see that @OMPEXSATION MUST BE MADE FOR EVERY weoxe, whatever the motive prompting it, that sel- fish men owe their power to sway it to their own profit. A promiee of material benefit —what matter though it be obtained by moral wrong-doing ?—a good oatoh-cry— what though if partake of the nature of the street coruer prayer of the Pherisce f= and of how little avail isthe Golden Rule or the *‘ Thon shalt not steal” of the Great Lawgiver! Men who would bubble over with indignation were the slightest question raised as to theic-probity— hesitate not to seek for privileges for themselves and their friends which of necessity carry with them the opprezsion of others. Every advant- age given by law to one man or glesa oper- ates to the disadvantage of some other man or clase. ing is added, nothing de- ducted from the total; but when one gets more another getsless. Whatis added onthe one acale istaken from the other. The aggrandizement of wealth and the pinch of poverty are oontemporaveone; they bear to each other the relation of cause and effect. Yet wealthy men who clothe them. selves inthe mantle of Christianity and fess a belief ‘in the Brotherhood of umanity seem to s2e no inconsistency in utilizing the power wealth and position give them to secure the passage of lawa whose tendency is to set nation against nation, class against class, man ayainst man, iu order that under oover of law they may profit by the onnatural industrial strife consequent thereupon. The desired jaw 18 pasved ; the selfish ahrewd heap op riches; the selfish duped wonder thas they fatten not, bat fail notin their revere noe for the law. Thelaw! Whats word this bas become to conjure with! And how the conjurers work it to theic prcfis | Law isboly; but not your law, ye who keep the tablets while While ye dash the law to pie es, rbatter it in life Searing up the Ark is lightsome, golden Apis hid Willa os Leviton share the offerings, ricbor by the people's sin. And to some people it never ssema to have cocarred thas tbere can be a oor flics between Leyislation ond Right, thas shere ars limits, alesavy far overstepped, to the wisdom, jastice or usefuiness of siatotory enactments. To othera the oredolisty cf the maltitude opens an eatry avenos to personal gain sod prefermens, of whioh moral objiquity enables them readily to take advantage. They have probably for the moment joo sizht of the all-pervading law of compensation which sooner or Jater must be reckoned with; or Faust-like present gratifiostion blinds them to the wrong they do their fellows and thy debs ey are scoumolating GEY WEALTH, HONESTLY IF YOY CAN, but get is at whatever cost of sscrifice of principle, of friends, of future; at what. sever abandonment of honor; at whatever demoralization of society; pay the prios, but get wealth, sms to be the motto of too many men to day. And these men arr not denizens of the back alleys and equalid dens of vice; they are leaders in church and society, prominent in basiness, eminent as philanthropisis. And beonuse of this the danger is thy zreater. The Jack of under. standing or the disregard of principle is more to be deplored. The villany that larke in dark places indicates « beslthy goodness in the society from which it hides; the ignorance that is timid and inquiring is already half-enlizhten¢d. Bas when moral wrong becomes a political principle and finds a place of honor in our statnte ; When the hjghest, honors and emoluments fall to the advocates of lawa which violate the fires principles of liberty and deny the divine paternity, the thinkers of the nation may well anticipate the inevi- table consequence. For the lawa of economics are as invaria- ble as the laws of physics. Were they as well understood, the denisl of -individausi Mberty would be considered no less abs than the denial of the fact of gravitation. Yes daily, by voice, by by act; deny the former SF proposi' not, course, ssy in 66 many words, “ Liberty is. an Evil," but they employ themselves lopping off branches and sever. roots, until the treé once so freely watered with heroic blood promises to gnarled and atunted sorub in. | capable of sheltering us from the soorching san_ of porate _tyranny,_—_Eimerson| grabped the situation when he anid; your sumptuary | ual laws; secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open © doo [*) oe L. ty-to talent aud virtis, Gnd they wili do themselves justice, and pro} will not be in bad Bands. Inafree and “ A free and jast commonwealth!" Are ourlaws ‘“ jast'’? Do we practiow legnl “ non-interference"? Have we opened the natarel opportunities to ‘talent and virtue"? Who would make such a claim ? The very gifts of nature which no man could create are appropriated as individusl “property,” and those who by virtue of man- made laws exercise * rightu of ownership ”’ over the Barth assume that more recent ar- rivals on the scene have no right to a rest- ing place upon it, save on condition of pur- chasing their permission. The stored-u heat of the cosl beda and the mine wealth of the world are ‘private property," and oan only be used af the pleasure of, and on paying the price asked by, those who by virtue of legislation own" those natural stores of human necessaries And far from feeling thet for thie undisputed thing to society, these “owners” of orestion’s bounties use their prerogative to extort the last cent from those dependent upon those stores for heat; and when those who own not, but who must live and pay with their labor for permission to be apon the Karth, seck for wages that will animals of burden and petuators of a raoe of earners for others, the lords of the heritage close their works, freezs the public and starve the workers intodoaility. Thess men are not slaves; oh,no! They sre “free and independent,” If they don'slike the wages, there's no compulsion; they needn't take them; the atresia ars free to them—if they keep moving ! They oan oheer for politiosl leaders, glorify the old flsg, tramp in processions, vote and pay taxes. Why can’t they be satis: fied, when all that is ssked of them is that THEY SHALL PAY THEIN SURPLUS EARNINGS, over a bare subsistence, in support of those who possess the “ privileges,” who “ give them employment,” and who graciously permit them to stay upon their planct ? Men own the varth, and charge thvir {el- lows for permission to live upon it and make it prodnotive! Is haga queersound, hasn't it? Yvot, turn over the. proposition BB yOu will, givo it expression in whatever form of wore you nay, there remains the ugly fact. Is this a conformity to natural law or is it not ? The cousition ia long-established ! Of “oourse it ia; but Evil differs from Good in that age gives to it no reverence in the eyes ofintelligence. With a goodman to recog: nize evil iato abhor it, to seek means of escape fromit. Evil has its atronghold in ignorance and selfishness. This condition is one that oppresses the maeves; majori- ties rule, and once dispel the illusion, oreated by long reverence for laws which deny natural rights, and she wrong will soon be righted So with regard to freedom of sale and purobase. It is not enough that the Great Disinherited should pay for permiasion to live upon this planet ; they muat bs made to pay the taxca of its owners. Every dol- lar of federal taxation by exoige and cua- toms comes out of the prodaota of labor and is s deduction from the earnings of those least able to bear the burden of gov- ernment. The owners of the Earth, as such, psy nota cent. And thatthe taxes may be raised in this way an army of offios. holders, selected generally from the ranks of political bunco stcerers, are supported at the public expense, paid fat salaries and comfortably pensioned cff when sge, iadis. position to exertion or the political exigenoy which requires the posi. i BB Ok reward for another renders such retirement ex- Nor is this the only or worst result of the indirect system of rsising a revenue. It opens vast opportunities for official pecalation and frand,and Govern- ment extravagance. The daly on imports ensbles capitalists im certain lines to get higher prices for their product becanse of tbe restriction on the liberty of choioe to which the consumer ia subjected. The ioorease in price caused by the exclusion cf foreign goode and internal combination does not go into the public coffers, but into the purse of the protcoted manufacturer ; hence we have the spectacle of a legalized soheme of plunder—the law prostituted to the robbery of one class to enrich another class. And while the man who sella bia labor is compelled to submit to the keauest competition in a free labor market, thie same law enables the favored ones to make a profit by combination on short time and limited produstion—at onoe lessening tbe earners’ period of employ- ment and squeezing a higher prige out of the consumyr. Combines of labor !: “Ob, yes ; they have aometimes held their own ; oftener they have failed ; buat whether they succeeded or failed they always didso at great cost, forin tha ond labor pays it all. Whatie the oause? Interferences with natnral laws; meddlesome legialation, prompted by ocupidity and selfishness which regard not Yrath or Right, but prostitute all principle for gain; sup- ported by the suffering and deluded as a shors out to a better condition, because they think they sse good to be obtained by the expedient, forgetfal cf the eternal fiat that will ss surely send punishment as Consequence is indiszolupvly linked to Canee. And how orafty leaders LAUGH AT THE GULLIBILITY of the docile donkeys who harness them- selves to their oarriages and shout them- selves hoarse in applause of the men and measures that take from them their urd ib meisup. Ignorance is the of superstition, 1 is said ; it is the vote,. vital air of tion. They do | shall destroy them”? we striving to merit that designation ? Are| possession of those deposits they owe some. | OOFpora enable them to be anything more than} g¢ q} basn’s i silk up re in the pew near thepulpit; are you able to eecurs the & comfortable gospel? Are your subscriptions to Church achemes and charities such a considerable proportion of the gains wrung from the toilers by unjust when -he reads “ Thou shalt not-steal-’’? Does it-sound uncanny to bear bim assure the people that “‘ the robbery of the wicked Do you take com. fort from the declared oertainty thas “though hand join in hand the wioked shall not go unposished"? Has it ever occurred to you that the moral difference between # man usfrue to principle for the privilege of plandéring hia fellows by law, and the Joafer who sells hie franchise for a few dollars ora glass of whiskey oan only one ofdegree? Andif it has arrested your attention, what were the relative positions you arsizned the parties ? And in how many other ways are we ‘* meddling,” “interfering.” Look at the annual pilgrimages to urge upon Parlia- ment the passage of laws without nam- » most of which are in the nature of encroachments onthe domain of personal liberty! Onur-reliance upon legislation is rapidly degenerating into a pure fetechiam. We have legally oonatituted combines in law, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and probably others, and some guilds are hysterically complaining beoause their in- jon does not give them the power ed to obtain. EQUAL BiaHTs ! The term has of Iate been 20 ridiculously travestiod that it has lost caste. But equal rights, in the course we are now pur- suing, would eventuate in every trade, profession and oalling becoming a pro- c y corporate. Imagine the ‘* Royal College of Dishwashers,” or the ‘* Imperial Corporation of Scavengers,” or the ‘Empire Guild of Noble Bootblaok Artists,” with all the ‘ whereases,” “* neverthelesses"’ and psing and penalties with which these legal interferences with —— liberty fortify the corporate com- 6 they w Strange, too, that the men on whom the burden falls most heavy should be the loudest in their demands for farther legis- Istive interference. The ‘inspection "’ ory is mostly aw industrial one, even when ‘“ engineered by the place-seeking poli- tician. We have had inspectors of one kind and another until the faroe has beoome tiresome. What matter whether they know aosnal from a race track, or a colonization company from a pionic! They ges’ their oommission, salaries and perquisites ; the people pay. It makes patronage for politicians ; patronage make votes; and here lies the seoret of the readi- nega to acosde to the ory for more officials. We must live by legialative role, work b legislative rule, be deprived of onr earnings by the same rile, be doctored, die and be buried by it. And every way wo tarn, at all hours, we need a Government inspector or other tax-eating cmnisaient to see that we auffer not from indulging in what liberty remains to us. It costs money, of course; but we are a patient, paying - people. If we like it, why should we not ave it, and foot the bills? Most of us share in these benefits (?) We may be shut ont from enjoyment of the natural opportunities, kept on short time and low wagts by s combine, have our pookets pioked by tho tariff thieves and our personal liborty restricted by statate laws, but we can't he denied the right to worship the Legislation Fetich. and enjoy govern- ment officers galore as long as we can carn enough to pay them. But there ia a oload on the horizon. The schoolmaster is abrosd in the land. The doctors say they find trouble in persuading their patients not to be drugged ; a olasa of psople are to-day actually berating the popular obildlike trost in legislation. Is remains to be seen how tenacious of exie- tence ia the Modern Idolatry. Masqurrre Her Koyal Sweetness, . To be called Her Royal Highness is the destiny of every woman born to wear a crowo, bnt it remains for one woman among ali the royal families to have the endearing title of Her Royal Sweetness H given to her and that honor belongs to H Alexandra, Princess of Wales. She has that marvelous art of making goodness seem attractive; of making the right act the pleasant one and of impressing upon all who know her that the knowledge that todo good is to havea pleasant time, and not to do it isto miss some of the pleasore of life. Many prinoeeses have been written about as having been beautiful, as having caused great wars, as having done great deeds of valor, of having made men die for them, and kingdoms quarrel over them, but of none of them can it be said, as it is of thie gracious Iady, that the whole world bows down before sweetness and goodness, shat peace has been the watchword of her life ; and not only does she valne peace, bat those loving sisters, Faith, ope and Oharity, abide with her —Lady Elisubeth Hilary in Ladies’ Home Journal. Keep the City Olean. , Philadelphia Record: In discussing the street cleaning problem in the “ Popnolar Science Monthly General Emmons Clark insists, with great force and truth, that no system oan.succeed if. there be not efficient co operation on the part of the public. So long as householders and housekeepers shall sweep or throw their dust, dirt, ashes, garbage or refuse, or any part of such mat. ter, into the streets, or allow anything to esoape from their garbage receptacles upon the sidewalks or upon the sireets, or 80 long as oarts conveying dirt and refase shail be allowed to drop any part of their contents on the streets, there. will be con- tinuing and irremediable uncleanness. Cleanliness, like godlinese, must permeate all the parts of a city, and actuate al) the inhabitants, before proper physioal and moral sanitary conditions oan prevail. Whenever a man concludes that he has got enough religion it is a sure sign that he got any. WOMAWS PLAN FOR WOMEN. © | Mrs. Frank Leslie Promises Her Fortune te Poor, Educated Women. Mrs, Frank Leslie has decided to found an institution for women; not for paupers, but for women who earn their own living ‘* But not during my lifetime," said Mrs. Leslie. ‘I am going to meet my lawyers on Wednesday evening and instruct them to draw up a new will. In this I shall be. queath almost all of my to found an institution to help women who are help. ng ves. seis “ Educated and able-bodied women who cannot help themeelves de not deserve to be helped. Paupers, children, lunatics, the aged andthe sick are all oared for now: Men need no help. The very fact of being men gives them abandant opportunity to earn their living.. Women are endicapped in mapy ways. I do not think any one hes ever held ont a helping hand to them in the way I propose.” In reply to a query as to the the institution she proposed to found, Mra. Leslie stated thas in many respects it would bs a parallel of the Players’ Club that Booth gave to his fellows. A substantial building will be bought, or, more probably, built. In this studies for women artists will be provided. Clab rooms, library, baths, offices and so forth will be planned. A restaurant, at which meals will be farnished at cost price, as in men’s olubs, will be a feature. Leoture rooms and conrses of lectures will be per- mavently endowed. ‘*To show you how women are handi- capped,” said Mrs. Leslie, ‘I will instance the cage of a young friend ot mine. She is about 22 years old and an artist of con- siderable ability. A new studio building was opened recently. My young friend rented s studio and spent a good deal of money furnishing and fittingit up. All the other studios were rented to men. Now, an older woman and one who was nos at all sensitive might bave braved it out. But my young friend was sensitive = natare of and had to move, as it was impossible for bet her to remain living all alone in # building with a crowd of men. handicapped simply by being a woman, I don’s ow what the word handiosap means.’ Mrs. Leslie was asked what amount of money ehe propased to devote to the pur- * That,’ ehe replied, “will have to de- pend upon how much longer I live. My properties are now valued at about $600,- Most of this will be left, no that if I should die this week, it would become the endowmert fund for the women's olub. But I hope to live many years longer. “I hope to remain-in business ten yeara more and epjoy lifeas I have been doing for the past few years. After that I shall retire and spend the rest of my lifein spjoying the fruits of my yesra of hard work.’ . ‘Please tell the people," added Mra. Leslio, “that I shall dd nothing at all in tbe way I have indicated nntil after I have ‘pssred away. I want to evjoy my fortune while I live."—New York Morning Journal. Ingersoll s Eulegy on Barrett. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll lectured before the New York Press Club at the Broadway | intel! Theatre Sunday evening before an immense audience. His subject was William Shaks- peare, and the New York papers deolare that it-was the greatest effort of hia life. efore commencing the leotare proper he paid the following tribute 1o Lawrence Bar rett 48 a prelude to his subject : “ My heart tells me that on the threshold of my address it will be appropriate for me to say a few words abont the great actor who has jast fallen into that sleep that we oall death. Lawrence Barrett. was my friend and I was his. He was an inter- preter of Shakspeare, to whose oreation be gave flesh and blood. He began at the foundation of his profession and rose until he stood next to his friend, next to one who ia regarded as the greatest tragedian of our times next to Edwin Booth. The life of Law- rence Barrett was a sucosss because he bonored himself and added glory to the stage. He did not seek for gain by pander. ing tothe thoughtless, ignorant or base. He gave the drama in its bighest and m>st serious form. He spurned the question. able, the vulgar and impure, and gave the intellectual, the pathetle, the manly and the tragio. He did not stoop to conquer. e soared. He was fitted for the stage. e hed «4 thoughtfnl face, a vibrant voice and the pose of chivalry, and besides he had patience, industry, courage, and the genius of success. He was a graceful and striking Bassanio, a thoughtfal Hamlet, an intense Oshello, a marvelous Haarbell, and the beat Cassius of the century. In the drama of our human life all are actors, and no one knows his part. Ia this great ple#iibe scenes are shifted by unseen foroe:./Aad the com. mencement,plot and end are still unknown, are unguessed. One by one the players leave the stage and others take their places. There ie no pause. The play goeson. No prompter's voice is heard, and no one has the slightest olne to what the next scene ig to be. ill the drama bavean end? Will the curtain fall at last? Will it rise again upon some other stage ? gon says perhaps, and hope still whispers yes. Sadly Ibid my friend farewell. I admired the actor and I loved the man.” A String ef Abstains, The following is, says the Australian Sunday School Teacher, from a boy's essay on total abstinence: ‘I abstain from slooholio drinks because, if I would excel as a oricketer, Grace says, ‘abstain’; as a walker, Weston says, ‘abstain’; as an careman, Hanlan says, ‘abstain’; ag a swimmer, Webb eays, ‘abstain’ as an orator, Bright says, ‘abstsin’; as a mis. sionary, Livingstone saye, ‘abetain’; asa doctor, Olark sys, ‘abstain’; eas a preacher, Farrar says, ‘abstain.’ Asylume, peeons and workhouses repeat the ory, ‘a ;'2’ Wo have heard Bper with less in it. . One of the latest “fads” in liquid refreshments is the oyster cooktail. Very emall oysters are specially for the parpose. Eight or ten are put in a glass —Lawrence Barrett's life was insured for $100,000, it is eaid. His esate i worih| two hundred thousand more. and sprinkled over with pepper and salt. $ them and the mixture is eitber by literature, art or by any similar] she was not| 4 4 GOOD SAMABITAN, Affecting Street Beene in Montreal, A scene, in many res a a painfal one, bat which showed ce Beating hood of a lady who happened to be pass at the time, was witnessed on — —atreet o'clock quite a crowd collected on the street to witness the antica of an unfor- famate young woman who was under ths influenos of liquor and dancing in front of Bt. Bridget's Home to the apparent delight of the heartless gathering of onlookers. When the unseemly exhibition had lasted uite a while, a lady happened ong. ithout a thought of her costly attire and regardless of the jeers of the erowd she un- hesitatingly caught the poor creature the arm, and indaced her to acoompany her. She brought the unfortunate to the door of St. Bridget's Home and craved for | admission, only to meet with refusal. Use daunted she tried the adjoining institution, with thesame result. The lady then stood fora few moments on the sidewalk as if undecided whatto do. Finally, the light Christian charity illumining her face, abs was heard toremark, “The poor creature osnnot be left on the street; I will take her home.” A passing cab was called and the lady and her charge drove off.—Montrea Herald. 4 Woman's Essay on Women, It often puzzles methat some men seem to prefer silly women. Some olever men, too, perhaps on the same principleas the eminent musician who used to aay, “ Give me your stupid pupils.” They never con- sidered themeelves' clever encugh to teave him. I am fold that Herbert Spencer enjoys the society of giggling girls, perba as acomplete contrast to his life's wor Yet, in spite of this, it alwaya annoys me to see a mindless woman at the mercy of Bn aggressively superior man, who always either a bore ora bully, for she is sure togive herself away. What pathos there isin Qongreve's lines, if one only look at them from this point of view : ut sconu as o'er the beauteors iat oke, Forto from her coral lips the folly broke ; Like balm the trickling nonsense heai'd my ound, And what her eyes enthralled, her tongus unbound ! Poor Lesbia! who no doubt thought her face had conquered the irresistible Oon- reve, to read that she was only a ‘bean- teons idiot’ after all. It was ao pitiful termination to what.was doubtless a most exciting episode for her. But she wag & silly woman, he the witty and exquisite maker of comedies. What elae could be? The age of gallantry is over, and ouc_Pineros and Joneses and Grandya do not write outting epigrams about the young ladies-they- meet nowa- daya; at least I hope not—indeed, I am eure not, or we should read them in: the Era; but. silly women are pitied and laughed at all the same, perhaps by even ‘sillier men, and that ia what-irritates-me;—— great many women, I am sure, have the reputation for being stupid, simply because they allow sheir native wits to go to rust; they bave no self-reliance, and they have been reared to a sort of religious belief in the sanctity of man's superior senso and sot. Such women seldom, if ever, exercise their ewn ideas, even in matters of drees, while their minds rarely range ee social courtesies and domestio con- oes, Geed Words for Girls, Your mother is your best friend. Have nothing to do with girls who snub their parents. Teli the pleasantest things you know when at meals. Do not expect your brother to be as dainty as a girl. Exercise, and never try to look asif you were in delicate health, Introduce every new acquaintance te your mother as soon as possible. ’ Don't think it necessary to get married. There is plenty of room for old maids, and they are often happier than wives. Enjoy the pleasnres provided for you by your parents to the fullest extent. They —_ like that asa reward betterthan any other. . Most fathers are inclined to over-indulge their daughters. Make it impossible for your father to spoil you by fairly returning his devotion and affection. Never think yon can afford to be dowdy at home. Oleanliness, hair well-dressed anda smile will. make a calico look like silks and gating to a father or brother. Do not quarrel with your brother ; do pot preach at him, and do not coddle him. Make him your friend, and do not ex him to be your servant, nor let him expect you to be his, Notes From Scotland, The British Postmaster-Goneral an- noupoes the establishment shortly of a service for the rapid transmission of letters for ehort distances. Damage to the extent of between £500 and £600 was done bya fire which ocourred on the 12th inst. in Princes’ Street Railway i Station, Perth. Mr. John Dick Peddie, R.8.A., who represented the Kilmarnock Burghs in Parliament from 1880 to 1885, died on the 12th inat., at the age of 67. The Haddington caitle-diehorning cage came up before the Justiciary Court at Edinburgh on the 13th inst, when the coart unanimously affirmed that such dis- borning was not cruelty to animals within the meaning of the Act. A little pressure has been brought to bear upon Lord Rosebery, with tbe reeult that he is expected to return to public life immediately after Easter. Av present the Liberals are badly represented in the Honse of Lords. Esrl Granville hag been confined to his house through indieposition, and Lord Kimberley oarries ro weight or authority. Theresult has been that for a considerable time Pramier Salisbury hag never encountered even a word of criticism - in the Upper Honse. Ninety-cne Japanese swords, the propetry - of Brayton Ives and at the gale of Ives’ bric-a-brac in New York on Thursday night, were purchased for the Metropolitan museum of art for $15,000. of gentlemen who did not like to number ese the fine sword collection dis- Then some imported vinegar ie cago Post. ready pereed. Mr. Ives himself contributing $5,000 the purpose. - & = “inst“evening. About 6