Inciting Competition

Whenever a New York newspaper publisher has a note to meet, ho puts in freo a column advertisement of a piano manufaoturer who took a prize at the Centennial, and goes homo with a sweet garle. By 8:15 next morning the advertising clerk has taken in $10,000 worth of replies to the decoy advertisement, eaoh fairly bristling witli libéis, ínalice, envy, and all uncharit-ableness. Australiax railways pay lar?e dividend to their ehareholders.