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THE HSTJTUTE OF FRANCE WHAT THE FAMOUS OR- Gl SIZA TIOX INCL I DES. rrt Election Thereto of an A mcriccrn and Its Relation to the Acadcmie Francaise. jrOopyrSekt. the. Brentwood Company.

All righs reserved.) J. Loubafs election and installation the other day as a foreign member of the Institute of Franca constitute a distinction so rarely accorded to Americans that a few words of explanation as to the nature of the honor bestoweJ by the most famous organization of Its kind in the -world may be of timely interest. It is all the more necessary since a good deal of confusion prevails as to the difference between the socalled Academic Francaise, with its Forty and that Institute of France to which the late Due d'Aumale at his death bequeathed his beautiful palace of Chantllly, with all the priceless art treasures with which it was filled and the stately park by which It is surrounded. The confusion is all the more natural when it is borne in mind that the particular branch of the institute to which J. a duke by the grace of the Pope has just been elected is known as the Academy of Inscriptions and of Belles -Lett res, which, like the great academy founded by Richelieu, is composed of forty members.

So that the impression might readily be conveyed that America's only duke had been admitted to the Francaise, were it not for the fact that the latter, unlike the other branches of the institute, does not open its doors to foreigners. The Academic Francaise. like the Academy of Inscriptions and of Belles-Lettres. forms part of the Institute of France. The latter, as now constituted, is composed of five academies.

Each of them was founded at a different time, the oldest find the most important of them all. as well as that enjoying the greatest amount of fame both at home and abroad, being the Academic Ftangaise. The second Is the Acad6mie dcs Inscriptions et Belles- The third is the Academic dcs Sciences. The fourth is the dcs Beaux Arts, and the fifth is the Academic dcs Sciences Morales et Politlques. TVith the exception of the Academic Franchise.

the other four have foreign members, those of the dcs Inscriptions et Belles-Letxres being limited to eight. The Duke of Loubat is the only American who has ever been admitted to this particular academy. The painter. John S. Sargent, is the sole American member of the d'-s Beaux Arts, while Professor Xewcomb, of Washington, and Professor Alexander Agassiz, of Cambridge, belong to the Academic dcs Sciences.

As far as native membership is concerned, it is restricted to forty in each academy save that of the dcs Sciences, which has sixtyihree members. Let me add that all the members of the various academies are entitled to wear the same kind of uniform, consisting of dark green coat and trousers, the coat covered with embroidered palm leaves. With this goes a cocked hat and a court sword. DATES BACK TO 1795. The Institute of Francs virtually dates from 3795, when the Republican Convention, in deference to the pressing recommendations of Carnot, called it into existence in order to take the place of the Academic Francaise, of the Academic dcs Beaux Arts, of the Academic dcs Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and of the Academic dcs which had been suppressed by the convention in an edict dated April 8, 1793.

The Institute played, it may be remembered, an important role in connection with Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, and it is to the members of the National Institute of France attached to his staff that the world is indebted for the opening up of that science of Egyptology which has brought within the range of modern study the history of the Pharaoh dynasties and of a marvelous civilization that, until then unbeknown to us, was in existence many thousands of years before the birth of Christ. Napoleon was so much impressed with the- Importance of the discoveries made on the banks of the Nile by members of the institute among his suite that as soon as he attained supreme power as First Consul he took upon himself to reorganize its constitution, the leading features of his reforms being a redivipion of the body into four classes and the adoption of a bylaw exacting the approval of the head of the by his sign manual to the election of the members. At the same time he decided that the institute, which had until then been quart i in the Louvre, should cross the Seine and ike possession of the stately building until then known as the College of the Four Nations, founded by Cardinal Mazarin. When that prelate was on his deathred he determined to endeavor to atone in the sight of i history for his inconceivable greed, gross cor- ruption and shameless dishonesty by devoting a portion of his colossal wealth to the establish- i ment of a college where the sons of gentlemen birth and breeding should receive an education. His Idea was that the pupils should be recruited not so much from France but rather from the.

four nations added to the kingdom in the course of his administration, in the expectation that the Btudents thus educated in Paris would afterward return to the lands of their birth by spreading the knowledge which they had acquired on the banks of the Seine would Gallic influence in the conquered ter- ritories and confirm upon the latter the hold of i France. I COLLEGE OF FOUR He was anxious that the school should be known the "College of Mazarin." But the foreign character of the pupils led to its being dubbed the College of the Four Nations. Mararin loft no specific instructions as to the site of the college, and a number of years were wasted in controversies and disputes about the matter, until finally Louis XIV decided that the establishment in question should be erected on site of the old Tour de of mysteriously tragic memories, and that the chapel and mausoleum in memory of the cardinal should be so constructed as to face the new gallery 'if the Louvre on the opposite side of the Seine. The building was completed in the actual Hie of Tour dcs N'-slfi being occupied by the galleries and the great octagonal room devoted to the weilnigh priceless collection of books and manuscripts bequeathed by the cardinal to the coJleite. Of course, when the great revolution broke out at the close of the eighteenth century, the Quartres Nations, being justly regarded a distinctly patrician seat learning, the fate of most other establishments of the kind, all the more bo as the faculty was I composed clergy who lined to ii" 'iata of allegiance to knou ii as the civfl constitution, and fortunately the library UiUtct and undisturbed, ths budding underwent many vicissitudes, until Na- finally turned ft ovsr the Institute of to as its nome Wxr ih'- TJnurbou reMomii.ii.

mi the downfall 'l XVI II decreed the revival of former sanies i in Suppressed ii- Revolution, li. hj Ho the four '-claKve v.hi'± Napoleon had divided the Irsrituto. the first one being the Academic cecond the Academio rle et Belles the third the Academic dcs Sciences, and the fourth the Aeademle dcs Beaux Arts. In March. 1533.

King Louis Philippe added a fifth academy to the Institute that of Moral and Political Sciences This academy divided into five namely, philosophy, morale, legislation and jurisprudence, political economy, and history. F.ach of the five academies has its own special Jurisdiction and work, with special funds, and secretaries, who are appointed for life, with an official residence on the premises, various and a salary of 7,000 francs. Matters concerning the Institute a.s a are managed by a committee chosen in equal numbers from each of the academies, and ra year a general meeting of ail of the members of the various academies takes place, on October IK the anniversary of the organization of the Institute. All the expenses of the Institute and of the academies, including an annual stipend of 1.200 francs to each member, are defrayed by a large yearly pubsidy voted for the purpose hy the national treasury, in addition to which the Institute owns rich endowments, such as, for Instance, the domair and palace of Chan- Ully. INCORPORATED BY LOUIS XHI.

Of course, the academies, as I have pointed out above, are considerably older than the Institute. Thus, the oldest of them all is the Academic Francaise, which came into existence in 1C.29, when a certain number of literary men began to meet at Paris, at the house of M. Conrard, for the purpose of discussing literary matters. The fame of these meetings, though the members were bound over to secrecy, at length reached the ears of Cardinal Richelieu, who. prompted partiy by literary aspirations and partly, too.

In the policy of conciliating men of learning and letters, offered to Incorporate them by letters patent. These were granted by Louis XIII in in which it was set forth that the Cardinal was to be the protector of the corporation, which was to take the name of the "Academic Francaise." and that its principal function should be "the publication of the French language." and to "labor with all care and diligence to give certain rales to the language." and to "cleanse language from the Impurities which It has contracted In the mouths of the common people, from the iargon of tho lawyers, from the of ignorant courtiers, and from the abuses of the pulpit." Nowadays the Academic Francaise Is devoting its attention to the compilation of a standard dictionary of the French language, which at the actual rate of progress may possibly be finished about a couple of centuries hence, since every word is subject of prolonged discussion, and fifty years has not brought it beyond the fourth letter of the alphabet. Opinions differ as to the value of the Academy to French literature, and there are many who insist that, while it may have raised the general standard of writing, it has by its intense conservatism tended to hamper and crush originality. Certain it Is that some of tho greatest lights of French literature have been excluded from Its portals, which have been thrown wide open to mediocrities. But with all that.

it enjoys a prestige, both at home and abroad, superior to that of any organization of the kind In the world, and as such iB entitled to profound respect on both sides of the Atlantic. DEVOTED TO ARCHAEOLOGY. The Academy of Inscriptions and Belles litres owes its origin to the French statesman Colbert and to the fostering care afterward of Secretary of State de PortchaxtraJn, and consisted in its inception of a committee of tlte Academic Francaise specially charged with duty of furnishing Inscriptions, devices and legends for the statuary and the memorials and the medals struck for the perpetuation of the glory and grandeur of Louis XIV. It really dates from 1701, when Its charter was first issued under the name of Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Medals. To-day it devotes its attention to archaeological research, and is responsible for the translation of many ancient documents.

European and. especially. Oriental, which would otherwise, through lack of means and of enterprise, have remained unreveaJed to ordinary readers. The Academy of Arts was founded also by Louis XIV, in 1648. under the title of Academic Royale dcs Beaux Arts, and Is composed of the most eminent painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and composers.

From among: its members is selected the director of the, French School at Rome, and painting, sculpture and music owe a deep debt of gratitude to this most useful of all the academies. Colbert and his sovereign, Louis XIV, are responsible for the creation of the Academy of Sciences, the charter of which is dated 1666 and which met for the first time on the 23d of December of that year, in the presence of Grand Monarque, in the library of the palaco of Versailles. To-day it distributes prizes for inventions each year to the tune of about $40,000. the money being provided by endowment. The Academic dcs Sciences Morales et Politiques was founded, as I have stated above, in the reign of King Louis Philippe, in 1833.

There Is also a National Academy of Medicine, composed of over a hundred members, responsible to the government for all sorts of questions relating to medical research, and receiving a large subsidy from the state. But It not form part of the Institute of France. EX-ATTACHE. THE CORNELL MUSICIANS. With the athletic interests of the colleges at tho lowest ebb.

the glee, banjo and mandolin clubs of the big universities of the country now occupy the 1 of the stage in the college world. Four weeks have elapsed since the football season losed. and four more will roll around before the mm of the indoor track teams will be in a position to claim attention, and still four more must pass before the crews and baseball men begin their teason of training. It is In this lull that mm of the musical clubs grow most active, and it Is in this way that some of the crack men of football, baseball and track teams are now touring: the cities the country, enjoying themselves and attempting to amuse others. Thus it is at Cornell, as in other large universities of the East.

For the twentieth time In their history the. Cornell musical clubs are spending their holidays on the road. They have visited most or the, large cities or the country East of the Mississippi River and from Boston to KMT Orleans. Toward the West the limit has been St. Louis, but toward the East it lias been London, Liverpool and Manchester and Paris In twenty years the size of the clubs has increased from) a score of men to sixty or more and the length of the trips has increased from a tour around the Empire State and into Pennsylvania to tours Into the Middle West and even across the Atlantic.

The clubs which are this year representing ornell University are composed of sixty men. who come from all but four states of the Union, and from Europe. Alaska. South Africa and the Philippines. In most of the towns in which the clubs appear they will have or more engagements in the way of dances, receptions and "smokers," which -re among the delightful experiences of the trip.

On the road the men will travel in two special Pullman cars and have a special baggage car. White traveling line of demarcation between the tipper and lover classes in the university is sharply J-awn. the freshmen sophomores always waititig dress for concerts and receptions until after the upper class men have completed preparations. Further, they occupy the upper berths at night, are often made to play and sin" SrhUe the upper i.i men are dining. is rigidly and no member cf the Shteatioh is exempt from punishment if He the rulejof the organization.

These clubi at Waldorf-Astoria on Tuesday evetiir-f. J-'cccmter 31. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER A tMff. THE POOR MAN'S AUTOMOBILE. LOOKS J.IKE A BUGGY.

AXJ) COSTS OXLV 9250. Power Drives One Wheel Only It Runs Well, and Maintenance and Be pairs Are Cheap. By Harold Wlilling Slauson. For several years the automobile has ceased to bo tlie man's it has become almost a necessity in the pursuit of his business and pleasure, and yet the owriersnip of a "car" has always indicated in the mind of the ordinary person an abundance of this world's goods on the part of the possessor. A man -who could afford to own and maintain an automobile was considered "wallto-do." Now, however, any one who can save up may have his own automobile to take his wife or friend for a ride, or to carry him on a eros3-country trip of any distance.

To be sure, a machine that costs so small an Is not a car of the all-the-comforts-of- home-on-whools type, but ft will go, will climb almost any hill on an ordinary road, can travel wellnigh impassable thoroughfares and maintain a speed of from fifteen to twenty miles an hour on level and this at a cost no greater than that of a good horse, buccy and harness. The particular make rif this machine setting at this low together with Its more expensive cousins of same type, hi a product of the Middle West, and it is to this region that the use of buggvabcut" has been chiefly confined. This may be accounted for. possibly, by fact that they are of buggy type, and owing to their and light construction are enabled to in thinly settled parts of the country which the. larger machines with their lower re.ad clearance would be unable to pass on aocount of the ruts, bowlders and stumps.

This, together with their low cost of maintenance and fact that In appearance they no radical departure from the vehicle to which Calmer has been, accustomed all his life, makes them particularly popular In rural communities. COSTS LITTLE TO RUN. The low cost of maintenance Is a feature that will appeal to every automobile owner who has had to pay larpe fuel, tire and general repair bills. The light weight of machines enables them to make from fifty to one hundred miles on a tingle gallon of gasolene. Owing to the Mnall number of parts and the general simplicity of their construction, repair bills and replacements seldom necessary; and on account of pise of the wheels and the light weight which each Is called upon to carry neither pneumatic nor solid rubber tires are required, and this In Itpelf is a tremendous paving In running Steel aro generally fitted, but if THE POOR MAN It costs $250 and Is said to cover twenty-five i for up them he may have a set ol solid rubber tires at an additional cost of not more than $25 for the pet of four.

When It is remembered that pneumatic tires cost from $30 to $100 each and that they are liable to frequent punctures, cutting and blow-outs the contrast in the cost of tire upkeep is readily understood. The little $250 auto is really a carriage" with the horse and shaft 3 removed and a little gasolene engine placed on the rlghthand xide of the body. This engine Is of the single cylinder, inclosed flywheel type, and is of unusually light weight, considering the four horsepower which it d-vHops. Thfl power is transmitted from the en gine to a countershaft by means of a chain ami -kefs, and this in turn is connected fo a second countershaft forward of the first by another chain and sprocket. This second countershaft extendoutboard on the lefthand side of the body, and ends in a sprocket, around which passes a chain driving one of the rear wheels.

Since only the wheel on this one -side is driven, the use of a allows one wheel to turn faster than ho other when rounding corners-is entirely eliminated, and the mechanism thus greatly simplified. Strong and liKht construction is obtained by attaching the engine, to one end of a special angleiron frame extending across the entire body, and the alignment of the secondary countershaft or driving shaft Is maintained by means of a distance rod, which is also used as an adjustment for the tension of the chain. Two different ratios between the speed of the engine and that of the wheels are by planetary gears located on the first countershaft, the lower speed being used for heavy roads and hill climbing, and the higher speed for smooth, level roads. WEIGHS ABOUT 500 POUNDS. Steering is accomplished by means of a hand wheel connected to the one-piece front axle by means of a sprocket and chain, thus turning the whole axle as in a vehicle.

Two pedals in front operate tine low and reverse, speeds of- tiio transmission system, while a third, will apply a powerful band to the driving shaft. The speed of the engine is controlled by a throttle and an ignition spark lever within reach of the driver, while another lever at the side of tiie driver's. Beat is used to throw the transmission'into high speed. fact that the engine is air cooled dispenses with the use of water and eliminates the danger of a frozen radiator or a cracked cylinder in cold weather, at the same time doing away with many of the more or less complicated parts of a circulating system. The weight of the carriage complete less than five hundred pounds, and consequently light and easy riding springs can be used.

A folding buggy top, suitable for running in alt kinds of weather, can be furnished for $25 additional, although the purchase price of $230 for the machine includes all supplies and accessories necessary for the ordinary running of the vehicle. The makers guarantee a of twenty-five miles an hour on good roads. While the buggy typo of automobile la not particularly new, a self-propelled vehicle for $250 that will give satisfaction is somewhat of a novelty, and places a "real automobile" within the reach of many who would otherwise be dependent on trolley cars or the livery stable. SECOND CLASS CfTY Utica, N. Has Expanded Her Boundaries.

"Pent-up Utica" is a misnomer. That qualifier has no proper posUlon In consideration of Utica, N. to-day. With much the same speed that tha boy becomes the young man by suddenly apamount A VtEW OF GENESEE STREET, IN UTICA. N.

Photograph by Mannrng. pearing in lons trousers, stripling 1 Utica has found her third class city clothes altogether inadequate to cover her needs. January 1 will see Utlca gat bed in the more mature garments which tho charter provides, and her name will appear among cities of the. second class. Utlca is arriving.

Them are, larger places than Utlca. There are none where in done more, business In proportion to Its size, nor where growth in the last few years has been more rapid. In 1W the federal census rave the bom Ution of Ultra as to-day. Jus- seven vewri are shown by a careful muni Widlo the, population of the Imn 4 connected With T'tica by trolley 13.0 W. growth 1 natural.

It cannot help developing. It Is on gre.it highway which leads from the Bast to (he West, and It Is likewise, at the Junction of highway -with other great routes. The Indian realized this natural position and bo bui'ded there; there afterward grew the, colony, the town, the village and the city. Utica in the lap of luxuriant and prosperous Mohawk Valley, and. out lively tent.irlelike trolley and steaa roads in every direction, gathers and ponds forth that which make for business.

Thai trafficking Is borne out by statements of supervisors of the express companies, and there arc seven doing business there, while figures show Utlca's railroad activity to be greater than that of any other city on the New York Central road between New York and Buffalo. TROLLEYS AND TKAINS TOGETHER. The electrification of gteam roads was dteCOBSSd with the nation over. Tt wap UtlcaTa pleasure, to experience first practlcjil test, nrd today both trolleys steam engines drawing trains are regularly running over tho West Phora IS AUTOMOBILE. iles an hour on good roads, while costing little -keep.

Railroad between that city and Syracuse, iccldf-nts and collisions bring averted by the block and tower system. Express, passenger, baggage an.l freight trains are running on schedule from Utica in all directions, and so successfully that steam roads have lost business to the extent of changing their schedules to Include no stops at some Mohawk Valley towns. With the contract let for power from Niagara Kails, interests have hej Rim to mark out route of a trans-state trolley line which will pass through Utica. In nddltion to the urban and internrban trolley lines, with miles of track. Utica has eight steam roads entering: the city and IS passenger 'trains dally.

The Canal, which parallels the New York Central Railroad, passes right through the city and la at the back doors Of many of the manufacturing establishments, while the Black River Canal is within easy touch. Some day even greater facilities for shipping will bo had. for, in addition to the barge canal, which will pass Just north of the city, according to the surveys wade, a now Central freight house and million dollar station are planned by that railroad company. A Utica has sixty miles of asphalt pavement, cleaned every more such pavement in proportion to population than any other city in its part of the country. It Is lighted entirely by ilectrlcity "and possesses one of the seven in the country that open all night.

Utica lias the largest cheese market In the United States, and I tit prices are taken as a ha.si.; in many parts of the country. A minion dollar courthouse is just "Doing completed, and a flue library building has just bei ii erected at a cost ot" $220,000. containing volumes for reference and circulation. The bunking capital is $3,500,000. with a surplus and undivided profits of In savings banks are deposits of with a surplus of and total assets of R6.Kt.88.

This is a bettor banking record than is possessed by larger cities near by. SOME PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Utica lias the State Masonic Home and School, headQuarters for'whlrh are in New York. There, are a state hospital, with thirteen hundred patients, and the home office and handsome building of the Commercial Travellers' Mutual Accident Association-, of America. The postoftlre celpts la r.ere $1,401,001.

and the Custom, House LEAP YEAR DRAWS NEAR. BOLD SINGLE MEN SHOW SIGNS OF FEAR. The Hash fid Cheer, the Married Jeer, hut Widows Burnish Their Hunting Gear. Br M. Mount.

As ISOS. with all the disquieting of leap year, approaches, the married man boldly confronts the world and carries himself with a fearless air that, in itself, proclaims the fact that his fate is sealed and he has nothing to dread and nothing to expect in trie way of matrimonial proposals. To the. unmarried man those canalistic numbers, 1908, convey the rising- and setting of 366 suns inon a world set with snares tar him. lie knows tnat he must walk warily indeed if he would avoid changing his gait to a lifelong twostep, and the prospect of 366 with their usual quota of moonlit nights thrown in to upset his mental equilibrium makes him, tremble.

Who knows what encouragement may be awakened in some romantic feminine heart by a look of unguarded but purely Platonic or what declaration of reciprocal devotion might follow the pressure of an uncoveted- Unquestionably the vacant gaze and limp handclasp will be In vogue among unmarried men for the next twelve months. It will not be safe for them to squeeze any feminine fingers not otherwise appropriated, and even then safety is merely a matter of circumstances. The timid man who wants to marry and is afraid to take the Initial step heaves a sigh of joyful relief at the near approach of leap year. At. last, ho feels, he has a fair field he of favor in the domain of prospective matrimony.

Conscious of his personal and. It may be. pecuniary attractions, he is hopeful that some fair one will offer to take him at his face value or to share his fortune with him. He is almost certain that will Incline to accept the more disinterested and flattering proposal. At the very least, he he will have an opportunity to make a choice between hair of a peroxide blond tint and grown dusky upon pure walnut juice.

His joyful anticipations are not shared by the majority of timid and it is wonder; how the ranks of these have been swelled at the recollection that freedom to woo and wed ceases to be a masculine prerogative upon the stroke of 12 o'clock on the night of December 21. 1907. The world's army of bachelors, young and old. Is demoralized, for no man lives who can foresee from what point a woman will attack or just how will make captive, while all are affected by a realizing sense of their own helplessness when the moment shall arrive for them. How to avoid a proposal from some- lone woman or.

to be more exact, some a widow Is likely to bless her choice with anything but a lone and how to say gracefully should such a proposal prove unavoidable, is troubling the minds of many single men to-day. They are looking up statistics to see Just how many more women than men there are In their own cities so as to form some definite ide.i of how good their chances may be of escape from the matrimonial lasso. The preponderance in the number; of women in New York. Baltimore and the older cities is so great that bachelor residents in th se are seriously contemplating a year's sojourn In the Klondike. where a man would need to prove superiority over his fellows in many respecu in order to attract even one proposal of marriage.

A DREADFUL DILEMMA. "Misery lives company" la HI true as it Is trite. Thomas A. Edison tells unhappy bachelors who want to lead lives of single blessedness and fear they can't about the tribulations of those who want to marry In leap year and are forced to wait until the. calendar has adjusted Itself to usual conditions and the matrimonial bureau is being run according to its former methods.

A despondent swain confided to Mr. Edison last leap year that, fearing the girl he adored would never take advantage of the opportunity afforded by leap year of informing him that he was the only man she could ever love, he asked her to marry him, was accepted and then, when he begged her to name the hapy day that would him hers, was plunged from rapture into despair by her announcement that she could not marry him until the following year, nor could their engagement be made known. least Pome, carping critic should assert that the and not himself had made the proposal of marriage. The plight of the engaged men who avail himself of the protection which an announcement of this happy state affords against designs upon his single condition is, Indeed, to be pitied. He cannot realise his own dream of domestic fe! lii'lfy or prevent women of belated romantic tendencies from Indulging theirs at the expense rf his peacA of mind.

He cannot wen enjoy the society of his fiancee in comfort, for leap year has turned everything topsy-turvy, and leap year parties and frolics, that seem designed purposely for the disquietude of the unmarried man. taken the place of orthodox forms of entertaining. Instead of taking in to dinner some fair guest assigned by the hostess to add to his pleasure at and hostesses have a wonderful knack of picking out congenial for such occasions tho secretly engaged rmn to preserve a calm and dispassionate demeanor as he watches the evolutions of undeslred furbelowed beings in his direction, and knows that he will be led to the table by the last woman he would have selected as at the feast. He is also forced to suffer a tornado of emotions rs he sees his adored one lead another man captive. He becomes positive that, after all, her preference lies In another direction than his, and gloomily ponders the question of how long It may be before she informs him that his solitaire ring Is not exactly to her taste.

Hi-; doubt of her affection becomes confirmed when, at a subsequent dance, the object of his jealousy seeks his rival as a partner and he sees them waltz off together. He- does not half believe her assertion that she cannot shower attentions upon him without causing others to think them engaged to be married, and so his wrath simmers throughout the social season, and the path of true love resembles a thoroughfare with a subway in process of construction through it. Happily for himself, his moods are of a quality calculated to make a thoughtful woman inclined to propose marriage shrink from asking him to bestow them upon her for an finite period. Leap year would not be possessed of so many terrors wore it not for leap year parties. When a girl invites a man to dance how can lie guide her properly In the mazes of the two-step, when he doesn't know whether her next invitation will be to iii" altar or opera? lie talks desperately to gain time- for man Is by nature and habit gallant and dreads saying "no" to a yet, when the dance is over he cannot draw a sigh of relief, for the conservatory is close at hand, with Its pitfalls for romantic feet.

How a man to know that a favor bestowed in the cotillon will not be followed by bestowal of fair giver of he is found reasonable and properly appreciative under the circumstances? PERILS ALL SIDES. Then. too. the exigencies of social life demand that calls be made, and it becomes a subject of anxious thought to the bachelor to make these at and bonded warehouse reported Imports valued at JH0.932 49 in the same twelve inonthsl Utica is beautiful in location and adornment. With four hundred acres of public parks, it has fine roads in the beautiful, surrounding country for driving and automoMling through trie Mohawk, S.iiKiuoit and Oriskany valleys and northward to tno foothills.

of the for Utica is at the gateway to the great North Woods. (Jtica is now using 21.000 horsepower daily in its factories, and these factories have an annual payroll of with 25,000 persons at work in them. The manufactured output is in value yearly. Notable are the cotton and woollen goods from -Utica and' vicinity, the Oneida and New York Mills grades being known the country over. Trolleys connect; tho city with the factory of the Remington typewriter, and the famous Savage arms factory is within easy gunshot of the city's easterly boundary.

In the city also are a time when other visitors will share his enjoyment of the society of the woman he calls upon. lie 13 also embarrassed in hin customary use of 1 the telephone. He has been wont to heedlessly ring I up young women and inquire when they will be at home to receive him. He dare not commit such Imprudence in leap year lest some fair friend should, in the interim between his telephone message and call, screw up her courage to the proposing point and ask Mai to foot her bills for the rest of his life. How can he decline to shoulder such- an obligation when he knows that his telephone has been construed as a hint that he particularly desires to receive the benefits of leap year privileges? "What would you do if you knew a girl was going to propose to you?" asked a timid man of one who had faced an enemy's bullets and all tho rigors of a in a foreign country.

"If I knew that a girl intended proposing to replied the doughty one. "I think I'd run. Yes. I know I'd run! There's one thins- certain: wouM never inarrv a woman who proposed to me. A man like that he does the wooing', and if a woman he doesn't want anything so easy to get.

Seme backwoods Rube might be glad of such a matrimonial chance, bat then, if he was too much afraid to propose to a woman. I should think he'd be just as much frightened at receiving a proposal." Thus do bachelors seek encouragement in evading the woman with matrimonial intentions, and. In Chicago, they take heart of grace from the fact that the Hyde Park Widows" Club has adopted a resolution not to make any "bold but merely to confine' themselves to "helpful saggestions" and glances that would melt sealing wax. both of which the obtuse man may safely overlook. That the Ch'cago widows are not arrayed their men friends' liberty Is cause for rejoicing, for what man can ever forget the warn- ing of the immortal Mr.

Weller, "Sam, beware of 'j Ike In New York yours men are generously con- templating bestowing' attentions upon school teach- ers who, to use a homely expression, are "on to their jobs." Such a woman will consider a long: I time before she imperils her position in of educational promoters in order to wed a re- luctant Romeo incapable of making' a pedagogical offer of marriage and making necessary much un- pedagogical effort on her part Who can say whether leap year which I cause women to invite men to escort them about. dance, dins or sup with them. are. brought about I because of a desire on the part of girls to amuse I themseives in this manner or because the of bachelors are so demoralized that escorts and partners could not be had in any other -way? The single man looks forward to leap year with drooping 1 spirits and to St. Valentine's Day with I of all days in the fateful yar the that offers the most unlimited opportunities to women, who would select husbands.

Tradition permits most retiring of women gracefully to make he- preferences known on, this day, and there is plenty of time afterward for the. chosen man to prepare for the role of April bridegroom, a title which ha may be tempted forcibly to alter to fit his case. SEND TICKETS ON CHANCE. Methods of Organizations WTiicHl Keep Lists of Possible Palrons. "There ought to Organizations Which' Keep Lists of Possible Patrons.

7 tc ought to be a law against it." growled the grumbler, as he paused In the review of his! morning 1 mall, I "Law against what?" asked his easy going who had a desk in another corner of office, "Against sending bunches of tickets for charity! balls and receptions and what-nots busy men who don't want to buy and who wouldn't go it they cent free passes." returned the- grumbler. His desk was littered with half a dozen tickets to a charity cotillon which had fallen out of envelope addressed to him In an angular feminins hand which he did not recognize. "This Is the fourth outfit this week that.has tried to 'stick' me, by throwing- bunches of tickets at ma through the malls," he- continued. "The practice Is Kitting- worse. "Why, it's an epidemic." "What do you do with them?" asked the easy going one.

who was new in New York and not yet on the of the charitable organizations who derive part of their income from such social affairs. "I throw them into the waste basket." was tlis growling answer. "That what Ido with them." "Don't they try to collect for them?" was; a natural question. "That's the funny part of it." said the grumbler. "The only good part.

I've torn up tickets 'calling for hundreds of dollars, and never yet have I had a bill from them." reason Mr. Grumbler never received any bills for tickets destroyed would have been plain enough had he known the system on which this form of advertising charity entertainments operates. If ho had examined the tickets closely ho would have noticed that each one was numbered In an upper corner. The secretary of the organization which out the tickets kept an accurate list, which told him just what numbers bad been sent, and whom. Had the tickets been presented at the door he would have received a bill the next day.

unless he had already sent a check. have heard little complaint about sending out tickets without request." said the treasurer of one of the larger charities, which gives half a. dozen entertainments of various sorts during the year "We consider it a most effective method of calling attention to our dances and entertainments. "We have a long list of possible patrons, which, is kept up to date and added to from time to time. each of these we send from one to half a doaea tickets two weeks before the entertainment.

"The person who receives them Is under no obligation to use the tickets. We do not even request their return if not desired. Those who want tickets generally mail us checks before the entertainment. or at least within a day or two after. "Wa f-ently prod the few careless ones who remembered to come to the dance but who forgot to pay up "Those who did not want the tickets do not hear from us again until wo are ready to advertise an- other performance.

Once in a long time there Is a little difficulty when- those who did not care for i their tickets neglected to destroy them. have fallen into the hands ox other parties, who used them. We could tell from the numbers names of the persons to whom the tickets had sent. Their declaration that they did not or give away the tickets Is always accepted and our loss pocketed. It is one of the penalties of this eystem, for, of course, we could not hold a person, responsible for something he had not asked us to send him.

Carelessness of this sort is rare, how. ever, and until some definite prejudice has been shown against the plan we will continue it." i CUSTOMS OF THE STREET. In crowded city streets, especially In London and Paris, when a driver is halted by another driver ahead of him ho throws up his hand I or his whip perpendicularly as a warning i man back of him. Thus warned the next driver checks his team and then holds his hand or I whip as a warning to the man back of him. Thus there might be seen up one after another in a line stretching: bark hands or whips to the number of half a dozen or more as the drivers were successively halted or slowed down by the blockade in front.

So of drivers of horse drawn whose I drivers commonly sit high where their hands I or whips can be seen above their heads. signalling la done somewhat differently by drivers of automobiles, who sit low. So in such circumstances what the automobile driver does to signal to the man back of him that he is held up Is to stretch hi arm out outside of vehicle horizontally to right. Post. -Pi manufactured furnaces, boilers, radiators, chinery.

automobiles, bicycles, pianos, organs. gas engines, iron beds, carriages, Implements, furniture -and other articles too numerous to mention. Large wholesale houses embrace every lin and extensive and attractive department stores meet the demands great r- tall Utlcans are reasonably proutj of their achieve- ments of the last few years, and believe that tho marvellous growth will continue steadily, until only a comparatively short time will elapse before the second city regulations will not fill bilL For the present they arc pleased to bo recog- .1 as a thriving, developing and will adorn the list of second clasj municipalities cf this Now that the city has started, the tendency is to acceleration, and this b-ings the prediction that Utica will become the great central city or York. 3.