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Show A Coontrymairc suggestion. A countryman who boarded the Are boat Now Yorker at her berth at th? Battery the other day was interested U observe the completeness of her equipment equip-ment for fighting fire along tho rive front. Her powerful pumps and ingenious ingen-ious arrangements for directing thi streams upon burning building3 or into the holds of vessels filled him with ad miration. Then he asked the engineer v show him the workings of the searchlight search-light Ho took it for granted that thert was one and was amazed to learn thai there was no electrical plant at all ou the boat This would appear to be a curious cu-rious deficiency in a boat otherwise perfectly per-fectly appointed, and it is difficult tc Bee how so obvious a need could havt been overlooked in the building of the New Yorker. The countryman's discovery discov-ery has led to a discussion of the nees? of a searchlight cad may lead to its ii troduction on the boat. It is admitted that such a light would be of the greatest great-est value to tho Now Yorker in finding Its way at night about among thf crowded and tangled slips. It would, moreover, make it passible to direct s powerful light upon the fronts of warehouses, ware-houses, to tho very great assistance of tht firemen. Electric lights on the boat would also be supplied in place of tht old fashioned oil lamps that are now it "Bobby" Peel, about an well known ttyoung fellow about town as Londoa aver produced, ha& wmo over here with tho avowed determination to marry Miss Kittie Sanford, the daughter of the Adams Express Sanfords, who are of iourse awfully 'rich. These are the same Sanfords whose action ruined John Hoey, andwhoihavo pursued the remnants) of his estatewith singular persistency. Young Bobby Peels ambition is ft 7t3ry laudable one, as lisa Sanford is a very pretty and accomplished girl and on heiress to boot, and better than all has evinced a very decided partiality for Mr. PeeL At the same timeimany old-fasbroned people will object to the methods employed em-ployed by Peel to overcome the opposition opposi-tion of Miss Sanfbrd'8 family. Ho has taken the newspapers into his confidence and makes long statements about his own worthiness and undying love and calls his sought after relatives all kinds of names for denying his suit It is doubtful if he would try such fc gamo at inomo in England. If young Peel really loves Miss San-Cord San-Cord as ho declares ho does (in the newspapers), news-papers), it wouldibe more dignified fox him to keep her ' name out of publio Journals. Love is a passion thatmeeds no advertising, adver-tising, and a sweetheart's name is not the one to be bandied about in daily print If young Peel loves Miss Sanford as much without as with'her prospective fortune, he can elope withiher at any time provided she is willing. Love laughs at locks and bars, hut grows cold under newspaper interview and long winded statements. Another alternative also presents it eelf to Mr. Peel. If he love3 Mis3 Sanford as much aa ho Bays he does (on paper), why cannot he settle down and do something to prove his love? The anfords objeot to him becau&o ha has boen a ne'er dowoll andhas cost his father a lot of money to keep him going in the society in whioh he is fin-titled fin-titled to live. But by all odd3 my advico io Bohby (a to keep out of tho newspapers. It would be simply horrible it he published some of Miss Sanford's letters let-ters to prove how sho loves him. Yet he seemed to be just on the verge cJ such insanity yesterday. Charley Knickerbocker in New York Beoorda |