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Having cleared the table, Haldane lighted a candle--kerosene lamps were an abo aloud the "Evening Spy" The old gentle up his ears at soh politics and finance At last he was half startled out of his chair by a loud, wrathful oath fro man," he said; "the devil isn't so far off from either of us that you need shout for hi his oay in this world Listen to this"--and he read with sharp, bitter eraph, headed "Unnatural Depravity": "Being ever inclined to view charitably the faults and failings of others, and to ave a rather lenient estibert Haldane, but of the young man himself It would seem that our disposition to be kindly led us into error, for we learn from our most respectable German contemporary, published in this city, that this sauilty of the norance of our language Having found it i those posted in the current news of the day, and thus to impose on any one to who board of a respectable Gere a bill as possible at the bar, of course When the landlord of the hotel and restaurant at last asked for a settlerace had the insolence to insist that he had paid every cent of his bill, though he had not a scrap of paper or proof to support his assertion Finding that this game of bluster would not succeed, and that his justly incensed host was about to ask for his arrest, he speedily cah and virtuousto offer all the money he had

"This was undoubtedly a , and had parted with it during the day Though the sum he apparently had upon his person was scarcely half payment, the kind-hearted German took him at his word, and also left his elsewhere In what role of criuess; but it seeive him the full benefit of the law, for thus the community would have been rid, for a tieneration better at breaking stone under the direction of the State than by anyHe is one of those phenomenal cases of unnatural depravity; for, as far as we can learn, he comes from a home of wealth, refinement, and even Christian culture We warn our fellow-citizens against him"