e: Society knows all about woman.
It knows that the wife must be the arbiter of her own sufferings. Her
brother, being less wise than Society, separates the wife from

THE OCCASIONAL BRUTE

who married her, takes her ills and her children to his house, kicks the
brute on the street, and, for all his pains, is eventually either
assassinated by the wretch or anathematized by the wife. Having made
matters much worse (by unanimous opinion), he abandons his reform, and
then, with his valuable experience, joins Society and becomes a wave in
the tide of events, instead of a presumptuous pebble rolling in small
opposition on the beach of time. How will Society approach the
wife-beater? Nobody knows. Probably she will exterminate the breed. The
woman, like the newspaper proprietor, will at last awake. The man who
gets drunk will not gain her affections--above all, he will not keep
them. The "old soak" will be wifeless. Monsters will cease to propagate
their species. When once the strong hand of Bread-and-Butter gets hold
of Whisky, then whisky will be as useful for good as it now is powerful
in evil. Society however deals with the affections cautiously, and
wisely, because her experience is inconceivably great.

TRY PLAYING ON HEARTSTRINGS YOURSELF

to hear the music you make! Let us then pray for the day when the "drop
too much" with the bottle will be as nefarious as a cut too much with
the razor or a blaze too much with the torch.

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A GOOD NAME.

Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious,
in the heavens immortal.--Chilo.

Perhaps there is no man so well known and yet so little
thought about in any one community as he who, in the universal opinion,
bears a good name. Upon his brow he wears the modern laurel, the highest
emblem of his worth, yet the simplest tribute of his fellow citizens.

There are certain exigencies in the histories of all groups of people
when the ordinary machinery of life will not operate. The citizens
require the utmost letter of the bond; they look with suspicion on all
who have usually given satisfaction by their services. A great man is
needed. It is then that the people, with one voice, cry out for succor
from him of of whom, in days of greater prosperity, they had no
imploring need; and it is then astonishing to what a degree the voice
of the people at once becomes the voice of God.

A bank which, owing to its high-sounding ti