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LITTLE SKAMSTRKSS. Jenny Wilson was sitting sowing by tho window of tlio littlo shabby parlor that looked out on the High street. It was a dull afternoon in Novemlier; tho sky wancovereJl with heavy, drab colon! clouds; the lost few yellow loaves wero falling from tho great elm in the market place, mid I hero was u nw chill feeling S,i the air. Jenny was stitching nway diligently. Shu had net herself a task to llnish !fore tea time a silk gown to tnon.l and alter for tho clergyinnn'H wife, who wr.i going to dino that evening at IScvhill iilnce. jenny wan not pretty, but she had a friwh, swoot little face, a large, smiling month, pleasant gray eiyes, and neat, Binoolh hair. There waa something cheery ami courageous ntxiut tho little woman. Life was not very Hinooth to her. 4She bad to Hlifch morning, noon and night to keep he- invalid mother, and it was hard work to niako Iwtli ends meet, lint no one evor heard Jenny complain. She used to go singing about her work, and up and down tho dark creaking stairs that led to her mother's bedroom. Jenny's voice was delightful. It did you good to hear it. it was so clear and sweet and fresh, like the voice of some lark on dewy Binnmer mornings. And it had leen very well trained by the organist, who wil lingly devoted his spare hoar of an even-in-; to teaching tho little seamstress to fc v and sing. Tim market place looked very empty when Jenny looked out on it every now and again to rest her eye. Hut presently who Iward the noise of wheels, and saw tho Iteyhill carriage with I.ady Violet herself "in it, and another lady, Lady Eleanor Anion, a freurnt visitor to Iley 3 nil place, seated by her. Lady Eleanor was dark and pale, with u liouuliful melancholy lace and large sad eyes eyes that seemed to haunt you. Sho was an heiress. People, said that she had cared all her life for Jlr. Richard Foyne, onoof L-uly Ariolet's penniless younger brothers. lady Violet, so tho story ran, would have lieen very glad to have had her for 11 sinei-ia-law, awl was always asking her to lloyhlll to meet Mr. Foyne; but lie never seemed to regard Eleanor in ny other light than that of a mere friend. Lady Eleanor had had a groat deal of trouble; she had lost both of her parent!) and her only brother, and the wealth that would have been such a pleasure to many icoplo, seemed to her only a burden. To Jenny's astonishment tho carriage fitopped lief'ore her mother's house, and tho jiowderod footman rang tho bell. Jenny ran to open the door. "Does Miss Wilson live here?" esked Lady Violot, from tho carriage. "My name is Juno Wilson," answered Jenny, with a vaguo hope that Violet had come to order a dresa of her. "1 am a dressmaker." Lady Violet Sprang out of the car riage and Lady Eleanor followed her. "Wo want to hear you sing," said Lady Violet, pleasantly. "Will you sing to us?" Jenny s little workroom had never hold Hitch grand visitors before. It was a dingy little parlor, with horsehair chairs and sofa. There were a few prints on tho walls: The lord lieutenant of the oonntr. holdintr a roll of turners in his hand, and with a pillar and a curtain in the liaekeround; "Tho Meeting of Wel lington and lHucher after Waterloo," and a lady slmix-ring at a dovu uixm her linger. Jenny Kit down shyly to tho little old niano. and beiran. with a certain tremor in her voice, "Angels over bright and fair." The pure notes, like tho song of a lark, mug out through tho little room, growing stronger and clearer as Jenny lrathcrnd coura.ro and wont on. Lady Violet was warm in her praises of Jenny's slninr'. "Wi'i vou et .hi ui to ltoyhill this evening, "and t. .; ; to us?" sho asked. "Wo want to have sotno music; my brother. Mr. l'eynu, is so fond of it. What would lw your terms?" sho wont on, hesitatingly, and with a pretty blush of cinlvirrassinenl, and then she naniod a hum which fllU 1 Jenny with delight. What would it not buy for her invalid mother! That eveninjr at Ueyhill, when the ladies came into the drawing niter din ner, t her found Jenny already awaiting tin m. as Lidy Violot hud directed. Kho had dressed herself in her Sunday black nilk, with a bunch of violets fastening her n-at muslin lle'iu, and a silver crow - her only ornament - on black velvet round bur neck, lady Eleanor came up and miid a few kind words to her. Eleanor was very geatle, often very si lenl, but when she spoke you could not choose but listen, tho voice was so sweet, and tho words thciiisolvun nover seemed trivial. The drawing room nt ltoyhill was sepa rated from tho dining room by large folding doors and a heavy brocade cur tain. As Eleanor was siicukiug Jenny naw nn absent and preoccupied expansion vonu over her face, and, following tho direction of Eleanor's eyes, Jenny saw that the curtain had Iwen piuhed aside to admit ono of tho gentlemen, lie came up to IjuIv Violet. "1 could wait no longer," ho paid; 'they were discussing hounds and horses, and I thought it would never end. Now, Violet, when is our inuslo to Ivgin?" Lady Violet introduced him to Jenny as her brother, Mr. Foyne. "Miss Wilson is going to sing to us, Mellaril," sko said. "Will you and Eleanor take her ii)to tho hall mid settle rith her what tho musio is to txtf 1 must go and 'bilk pretty,' "sho con tinned, in an undertone to her brother. glancing at tho other lathes, and pres ently wo will conio in and listen." The piano btood at ono end of tho hall, and hero at night it was Richard's habit to sit and listen to musio in tho dark corner lnwido tho piano, whoro ho could vat'di tho singer almost unseen himself. Jenny followed Ijuly Kleanor into tho hall. Mr. Feyno opened tho piano for her and arranged tho musio. There waa a kindnea mid a courtesy in his manner -which were jicoullar to him a great gentleness and doforenco whenever lie addressed a woman. Ho waa by nature very enthusiastic, and, whatover tho on ihusiasm of the moment might lw (and Hm one succeeded tlio other with groat rapiuity), it waa to him at tin) timo the - . . .1 I.J. 111. ono great nun mm oujoct oi ma mo. Musio was now his paaaion. A low wtl niro ho know littlo about it, ami cared less. Now ho could concuivo no greater plea.sure than listening to music j all day and every day. Lady Violet had sung to mm uniu bug waa notirse, iu- though lief stylo ot music was noi ac cording to las taste. She win.,' nothing but modern balladn and little French and Italian songs, and had attempted in vain to render classical music to his liking. ' Than it was that sho had taken counsel of tho organist who had recommended Jenny to her. So Jenny sat nt the piano ami sang one song after another to him. Her lepcr- tory contained eluelly oiu nauaiis sucn as "My Mother Dais Me J mid Jiy Jiair and solos from the oratorios. Mr. I eyne said very little, but Kit in his dark corner with his eyes lixe l on .Jenny, li was only when Lady Eleanor said that sue feared they wero tirmg iuiss nson uiai ho said in a low voice to Jenny: "Ah, 1 forgot that I was selfish; I could listen to you forever. Eady violet, who nan come mio me hall, rang the 1 ell and asked tho servant to show Miss Wilson to the housekeeior't room. "You will want something nftoi all that singing," she said, kindly, "and I have told Mrs. Uenson to havo some supper ready for you." Jenny was I towing her way out when Mr. Foyne made some hasty steis towards her. "I cannot thank you enough," he said, gently; "you have so much reverence and religion in tho tones of your voice, that one feels liettcr for listening to you." When she was gone tho party criticised her singing. "It is a pity," said Mr. P,oyhill, "that she doesn't learn something besides those old songs and sacred music. It's all very I well of a Sunday evening to havo sacred music, but one likes a little change of o week day." Mr. Feyno answered a littlo holly that to sing any other kind or. music would sjwil Miss Wilson's voice. "Don't you agreo with me?" ho cried, turning ic Luly Eleanor, "that her style is perfect. Any change would lx for tho worse." "Sho sings charmingly," replied Lady Eleanor, a littlo vaguely. Whereupon Mr. Feyno returned. "Ah! I forgot, Lady Eleanor. You don't care about music. I wonder at it.' Eleanor grew crimson, "lam learn ing to care for it," she said hesitatingly. Tho next day at breakfast Richard Ix'gged his sister to ask Miss Wilson tc comoup again and sing. Lady Violet was only too glad to be able to provido some pleasure for him. Sho readily acquiesced, but when she and Lady Eleanor were sitting together in the littlo boudoir, she referred to the subject of Jenny, ar 1 found Kleanor far from responsive. Lad) Violet's sitting room wan a pretty little room overlooking tho lake and distant woods. It was siniplv crammed with knicknacks and pretty littlo useless things. There wero plenty of littlo table covered with china and silver Ixixes and bric-a-brac. There was no such thin? as a reasonably sized tablo at whicl any one could wruo m conuori. There was a great enamel Ikjx of French bonbons which was con tinually replenished, there wero plenty of magazines and novels, and o profusion of delicately scented hothouse llowers. Everybody liecamo hopelessly idlo directly they entered tho room, nnc they always spent tho morning with then feet on tho fender, carrying on tho most desultory conversation. "1 am so glad Richard liked hor sing ing," Lady Violet was saying, "for it will help mo to porsuado him to stay ot hero." "Yes," answered Lady Eleanor, r littlo drily, "Miss Wilson's singing may havo that desired effect." "Why, Nell, what's the matter? there's no harm, surely" "No, no," cried I-ady Eleanor, quickly, "nothing! I feel sure sho is a very goo girl, it is only my folly. 1 thought 1 fancied oh, nover mind. Don't lot's talk any more about it. l-ct's seo the now frock of yours. I can't lo cure whether I should like-tho silver with the salmon color." And her cheeks still re mained crimson, though sho was ap parently occupied with tlio con' ideratioi: of lady Violet's wardrobe. So Jenny e-amo up again and again to Reyhill place, and sang of nn evening tu Mr. Foyne. Ho was always courteous and kind. Thero wero momenta, so Jenny fancied, when ho entirely lost sight of her personality, and only identi ties! her with her music, as ono might think of a bird. lie said many things to her in praise of her voice, but never made her any inero compliments, Thero was, Jenny felt, a curious relation established between them. Vncoiisciously, and with out analyzing the fivling, she looked for ward eagerly to those evenings. Tho dim hall, with its vague .scent of violets, the warmth and the luxurious beauty of (he house, after tho chilly diuginess of her homo, tho sense of ci..i.v leisure after the toiling and moiling all day brought to the littlo Heani! tress an iudotlnablo sense of pleasure. Had lady Violet Invn olJor she would have foreseen the danger, but such an idea never occurred to her. Slit waa much too busy wi' It her own round of enjoyment. And Mr. Feyno himself, alorlxd in the pleasure cf the music, and Ux chivalrous and modest to think ho waa inspiring tiny other feeling than that of tho niiuvst frioiuLhip, where it waa his intention to inspire nothing wanner, never dreamed of any drawback to his intimacy with Misa Wilson. Thero was a little woman staying at Reyhill who always liked to have her share in what waa going on. She was a little old spinster of good family and very small means, who siont her life in visiting going from ono great house to another, plaing when others danced, writing let t era for tho lady of tho house, going in to dinner with tho boro of tho evening, and informing a thousand littlo duties of tho kind in return for the hospitality otfero,! her, Sho was a toady ami a mis chief maker, but was so useful that sho waa still a welcome guest. Sho had al ways an inexhaustible store of e oulldential gciip, and could make herself very agnvablo after hey own fashion. In per son ehe waa very tiny, with black hair, and bright eyes iko 'shiny Wads. She was very anxiifs to ingratiato herself with I-ady EleJjor. to whom sho had hitherto jviid vjfivt in vain, and sho unw at a glance ilmeM-M Ration of affairs. "That fo'h-JTV-lmrd Fcyae," shogaid to herself, "wfl Vt himself into a bcnijto by nad by, yid ill livj nil bin cltauooi with Lady UaBu.riugoiHl:,O0Qa year, and Unit beautiful old plr.co in Hanij) shire). Ho doesn't seo what lie's doing, nud a friendly wonl in ukuoii will pu things straight, and make Eleanor my friend for life." So, after luncheon one day, sho sidled up to Richard, and asked him to come into the hall to see some nrt needlework she was doing for his aistcr. When they wero alone she lx?gan to her unsuspect ing companion: "I dare sny you think mo very meddle some, Mr. Feync?" An a matter of fact, Richard had never thought of her nt all, and now he looked at her startled and utterly unprepared for what was coming. "I have known you so long, fIio cop tinued, "that 1 must give you awarning. 1 know you don't see tho thing as other:, do, but you really mustn't spend every evening listening to that musical little dressmaker. People arc Ix'ginning to alk," she went on, inventing on .the fjpur of tho moment, "and you elont! know what you have put into her silly little head sho will expect you to marry Iter; and she is head and ears in love. I assure yeut. if sho collie's up like this, night after night, to sing to you, there will be all kinds of stories. No ono re spectable would employ her as dress maker if she hetsher cap at gentlemen!" The color roso in Richard's faco to tho roots of his hair. For ono moment ho was too angry to speak, and the foolish woman, taking his silence for a sign of consent, went on archly: "You are throwing away all your chances Willi I-idy Eleanor. Ye-s, yes; I know she's Ixjcn in love with you ever &inco sho was a child in the schoolroom; but yon can't expect this kind of thing to last forever, nnd one day sho will get tired refusing all tno irreat people who propose to her." By this time Richard had recovered his voice. "All that you havo staid to me is utterly false and untrue!" ho cried, his voice trembling with anger. "Neither Miss Wilson nor myj-elf havo over enter tained for a moment tho ideas you have been crcxxl enough to iniputo to us. Ami if ix'ople havo talked, they havo simply dono so becauso tbev aro malicious and coarse minded." Tlio littlo woman was now frightened at what sho had done. "I'm suro I only e.ioke becauso I wished to sparo Iady Eleanor pain; anybody could 6C0 that she cares for vou. Richard was beginning to deny this storv too. when suddenly ho stopped Sonteth'ng within him told him that this at least was true, though ho bad never Ixjforo known it. Tho silly woman rambled on incohe rently, trying to excuse herself for med dling. "Of course, it was ruining the girl and I felt sorry for her Miss Wilson, 1 mean. A girl's character is so quickly onestioiiod. and then what remains? I couldn't le'ar to think of it!" "Do vou mean to say," Richard de manded, furious, "that Miss Wilson's reputation has sulTored in the slightest doL'ree. or that she has been lowered iu the eyes of tho world, by my fault?" His opponent preivaricate!, hesitated, and then linally agreed that it waa bo. Sho was so terrified that sho scarcely knew what she was saying, and her one idea was to ecapo from Richard, who, erect lx.fo:o her, his handsome faco still handsomer with passion, and his angry eves lixod upon her, was ready, so sho declared, "to kill her!" "Thero is only e)ito remedy," Mr Fevtio said, slowly: "I must ask Miss Wilson to Iks mv wife. That to, it ap pears to me, the only way to put every thing straight;'.' and ho strodo out of the room, leaving tho wretched creature to ret-over her sensea. Without asking any body's advice, without pausing to consid or, ho proceeded to act on his blind ha pulse. It was a pouring wet day; the rain had been bteadilv falling all day and tho ground was sodden and the trees dripping with moisture. Tho landscape looked blurred and blotted, nnd tho only sound in tho air was tho regular, rhyth inic Fob of the rain. Richard passed before tho hall windows, wrapped m the black Spanish cloak that lady Violet used to call his "conspirator's cloak." He heard a tan on the glass, suyl turned round to se ljtdy Eleanor, who smilevl and waved her hand to hint. "I wish you joy of vour wet walk!" sho cried laugh ingly. Richard moved hastily away a sudden coiisciottsni'ss seized him that this really was tho woman he loved. He bail nover realized it before; now it was too l.Uo. lie hurried down to tho littlo town and rang the liell at Jenny's house. Tho little apprentice showed mm up into the parlor, where presently Jenny, with a Hushed and startled fae-e. tnado her apiearance. He went up to her, regardless of his dripping cloak that was making puddles on the threadbare i-arpel, and liegan earnestly: "I nm afraid, Miss Wil.-on, that you havo Ikvh annoyed by these abominable reports nnd scandalous stories." He jNitiscil, taking Jenny's blushes for a con tinuation of his words. "1 am deeply grieved," he went on, "that any one should have dare 1 to mako my ltamo the seiutve of any discomfort to you, but it you wish these stories can bo silencetl nt once. 1 havo come to ask you to l.o my wife." ltsocnied to Jenny aa if tho room reeled with her. For ono moment, and for ono moment only, sho hesitatel. Ho continued in a faltering voice: "I am )oor, as you know, but 1 would endeavor to make you happy if you could bo con tent with the little." that I can offer." Then Jenny tttn.od her honest eyes towards him and lookenl him full in the faces "I have lward no slanderous re ports, sir," shosai.1, with simple dignity; "and even had 1 heard them 1 could put an end to them. You havo dono mo too much honor. I could never really suit you. You ought to marry a lady; and," dropping her voice nlmost to a whisjwr, "you don't love me, sir; and I couldn't marry any one who didn't. 1 can't thank you "enough. 1 nhall ivmemlvr your gexHlncsa to my living day; but you uuut evxeuse me, sir, and ono day you will bo glad for what 1 havo done." Tho tears unbidden roso to her eyes, but, courageous to the end, she made him a littlo cttrtsey that had, ho felt, a world of grace and dignity in it, and left the room. So the flatter ended. Hut three months after, when Mr. Feyno and his brido wero pending their honeymoon in llniiihire, they went for a lonsndo over tho downs, and Rie-hai; told Eleanor the whole tory. She invo u cry of surprise, mid then, juttting her hand softly on hU arm, "Ah, Rieliurd," &lw wild, "don't you seo, 9l loved you too well to do you any liurui, and it was because sho loved you U tat she refused you?" Annit Followoe, la Lciurq Hour. BICYCLIST STEVENS IN MEXICO. Ilnrd Jtoadu to Travrl In tlio Mlilut ot n I:wiKTii!!t Miit. Starting from Canton on Oct. 13, I I had expected to reach Kingkiang inside of twenty dnys; but calculations Iwiwd on my experience in other countries failed mo entirely in China. I found it a totally different country from any of the ouiera I have traveled, IxMh as regards roads, jieople, nccommo lation, and cx pcrienco generally. It would lie IStIo exaggeration to say that the only rads in louth China (the north may be a little different) are the rivers, and no exagger ation whateve r o say that tho only pieier way to travel is with a lxwt, in which one can travel as in a house. Strictly leaking, there aro no roaels at all, as wo understand tho term; only narrow foot paths, leading here, there and every where, and yet nownsro in paiucui.u ; uu intricate mass of tracks about the rice ilelds, in which a stranger finds himself hopelessly bewildered to commenco witn, and invariably lost at last. The first day out from Canton, after traveling, I should think, thirty miles, 1 found myself in a village about thirteen milca out. Neither aro theso pathways of that asphalt like smoothness for which an exix'rienced cycler naturally yearns, who sees the pleasant autumn weather gradually gliding past, and the distance ahead still great. On tho contrary, Ixiwlders and rough slabs of stone, once laid level, but now more often sloping at angle's that render them precarious foot ing for anything but a goat or a bare footed Chinainan. aro the chief charac teristics. In addition to this they are often not more than two feet wide, and often rise several feet alxwo the waving paddy, so that travelling them is a feat really equal to the xu-fonnanco of walk ing "on a wall. Under these circum stances a person frequently thinks of swapping bis bicycle for a "pariah yaller, " and riddling tho purp with bullets. Ta-ho was the first city where the au thorites saw fit to favor "me with an es cort. They sent a couple of soldiers with mo to King-gang-foo. They evidently knew what they were uljout, for I should havo fared badly had 1 reached King-gang-foo alone, "not knowing the direct route to tho Yanien. The soldiers be trayed anxiety as wo approached tho city; the mob collected, and, whilo yet se'veral hundred yards from the Yamen. the stone's lx'gan to come, and wild yells for the Fan Kwaes rent tho air. Missiles that would have knocked mo senseless had I Ikhmi wearing an ordinary hat only made dents in the big pith solar topee 1 had worn through India, and which effectually protected my head and shoul ders. I escaped into the Yamen with but a few trifling bruises and ono spoko broke out of the bicycles but ono of tho fioli'k'rs got badly "hurt on tho arm probably a fractured bone. The soldiers warned them that I was arini'd, and un til we reached tho outer Yamen gate, they confined themselves to yelling and throwing stones; several then rushed for ward and seized the bicycle, but the offi cials came to tho rescue and hurried me into the clic-hsien's otliees It was pan demonium broke loose around tho Yamen gates all the evening, tho mob howling for the "foreign devil," the shouts of the soldiers keeping them at bay, and tho offi cials loudly expostulating and harangu ing thinn from time to time, as the din soeiiu'd to bo increasing. Proclamations were tent out by the che'-hsien, and, toward midnight, tho mob had finally dispersed. I was then placed alxwril a sampan, and, with a guard of six soldiers, spirited olf down stream. After this the authorities never allowed me to travel by bicycles but passed mo on down stream by boat from town to town, under guard, until wo readied Wu-chiugon tho Poyang IIoo, whem, by much persuasion, 1 ob tained permission to take a short cut across country to Kiukiang, but still with an escort. Thomas Stevens' Letter. How Sinn Din In Itiittlw. When we got into the Brock Road in trenehnieiits, a man a few files to my left dropped dead, shot just alxwo the right eye. He did not groan, or sigh, or make tlio blightest physical movement, except that las chebt heaved a fow times. Tho life went out of his faco instantly, leaving it without a particle of expres sion. It was plastic, and as the facial muscles contracted it took manv glumes. When this man's body became cold, nd y.i faco hardi-ned, it was horribly elis- tofte-d, as though ho had suffered in tensely. Any jK-rson wlio Had not seen him killed would have said that ho had endured supreme agonv before death re1' leased him. A few minutes after ho fell another man, a littlo farther to tho left, fell with apparently a precisely similar wound, lio was straiglitene'd out and livetl for over an hour. Ho did not speak. Simply lay on his back, and his broad client roro and fe-11, slowly at first, and thesi f:utcr ami faster, and more nnd mere feeble until ho was dead. And his f.u-e hardened, and it was almost terrify ing in Us painful distortion. 1 have been dead soldiers' face which were wreathed in smiles, and heard their comrades say that thew had died happy. 1 do not believe that tho faco of a dead soldier, lying on a batibtiild, ever truth fully indicates the mental or physical anguish or (loacefulncss of mind which he suffered or enjoyel before his death. Tho face is plastic after des-tUt, and as the facial muscles cool and contract thoy draw tho face into many shapes. Some- tiinea the dead smile, again, they stare with glassy eyes, nnd lolling tongues nnd dreadfully distorted visages at you. It gex for nothing. Ono death was as painless as tho other. Wilkcson's "Recollections of a Private" (ntil mul l'airr. A iwirasraph in ono of tho state jiapcrs as to tho relativo weights of gold coin and paper Snowy has made n demand on druggists for tho uso of their scales. It appears that a question waa raised aa to the number of $1 bills required to equal the weight of a $3 gold piece. The' guessee ran nil tho way from ten to one hundred or more, but tho scaloa showed that seven bills will just tip tho scaled down on the sido wlterotho paper money is )Jaced. Teste liero in Hartford give tho samu results, Uieir being a very slight variation when now bills are used.- Hart foul Times. Wliat is ooouaouly colled friendship ovoti is only n littls mow honor among roguos. Ttiorau. NEW YORK'S INDL' 7'JAL SCHOOL. I'm ct I nil KiiinvlrdKi- lie Ccntrnl Iilrn oT lli' I n-t It nl. mi A J.'oii. The new build, r; of the Industrial Education atwocintion, of this city, is now in readiness to bo seen, and visitors will be welcomed at any time. From top to Ixjttom tho building, which is (50 feet wide and 100 feet deep, has been remodeled and filled with every possible convenl 'iico for the tndning of voting ix-ople in half a half hundred branches of useful: .-. For the cooking class there are faci'l'.'.es for teaching a c'.jsh of sixtv girls at once; i-i tho depart ments devoted to sewing, ebawing, mod cling in clay, carpentering, kitchen training, and all' branches of domestic service the machinery is simply suicrb, and there is also a kindergarten for tho youngest children not yet old enough to learn anv practically useful work. The central idea of the whole institution is that the bov or girl does not obtain in the public schexils the practical knowledge necessary to mako a living; ho or she must get that more or less umuuuiiugiy after scluxd davs are ended, with ho con sequence that the oy who would havo made an excellent plumber becomes a bad carpenter, and tho girl who would have made a comfortable living as n.typc writer is condemned to mediocrity in some shop. This gnat work to which this vener able building is devoted is not in any senso a charitable work, all tho lessons given there having to bo paid for, but neither is it a money making institution, and the charges aro simply sullicient to cover the expenses. For instance, cook t. ten cents a lesion, which pavs for the material used in the lessson; th6 children in the kindergarten pay Ml cents a week; lessons in dressmaking, domestic service, embroidery, may lx.) had at trilling cost from the lxst of instruct ors. The building has been opened only a few weeks, and although tho advan tages oflVrod aro scarcely known, pupils aro already flocking io its classes. In the departments devoted to children tho man agers wish to impress ypon parents and the public that it is not in any sense a charitablo work, but an attempt to make people understand that technical, manual education is an essential factor to a lx)y's or a girl's whole training; in, other words, it is the carrying out of tho kindergarten svstem lx?yond the kindergarten age; the introduction of technical education in the public M-hooIs of I lost on and Chicago proves to have been of very great value to the children. In some of our most noted private selHxris for boys several hours a day are now devoted" to manual training, the boys working at carix-nters' benches or blacksmiths' forges, and soon developing histes which, when cultivate!, may loof the utmost value to them a few years from now. In the famous scIuxd! found ed by Felix Adler and supported by the Society for Ethical Culture, of which he is tho head, half the day is devoted to learning from books and half the day to learning how t do the world's work. 1 havo seldom neard a more interesting lesson than 1 chanced to hear thero one day, cotton cloth lxnngthe subject of the lesson. The boys were required to te f where the cotton plant grew, how it was picked, ginned, spun, woven and made into garments; they knew the average nuinlx;r of liales produced in this country and in Egypt and India, and they were made to explain upon a miniature gin and a miniature loom exactly how the cotton in the fields canio to mako the shirts on their backs. For the purposes of tho lesson real cotton plants, with the rilo bolls, wero shown, together with pictures of the fields, and the boy who came out from tho lecture upon cotton cloth must have been a very dull boy in dcel if lie did not unde'rstaml tlio sub ject. New York Cor. Brooklyn Eaglo. A I'l'titi'st AkuIuI Clu-up Hooks. Tlio custom of "wiring" Ixxiks instead of sewing tho sheets together, was im ported, wo believes from America, and is there used almost universally. Even costly scientific treatises receive this abominable treatment. Hero it is at pres ent used chiefly for the cheap and ephem eral literature, which perhaps it is not unsuitid for. But Ixxik buyers should refuse to take copies of valuable books that hao lieen wired. All that ia neces sary to avoid receiving them is to state when ordering e'opies that "wired" one" will Imj refused. If the publisher declines to supply sewn e'opies, tho buyer should order the work in sheets and liavo them bound ii) by a competent bookbinder. The extra trouble and cost will not be' wasted. It is unnecessary to explain the mischiefs arising from tho uso ot wire; they are palmblo on inspection. Ixmdon Literary World. Telephone I'riiplieej-. The prophet Isaiah, in tho fewest pos siblo words, describes the construction ol railroads: "Every valkw shall lx) exalted and every mountain and hill shall bo made low, and the crooked shall bo made straight and tho rough places plain. And the glory of the Ixiril shall be re vealed, and all flesh shall six) it together." The prophet llabakkuk in the fewest words iiosoiblo de-scribes the telephone. "For the stone shall cry out of tho wall, and tho beam out of tho timber shall answer it." Second chapter, eleventh verse; fourteenth verso: "For tho earth shall bo filled with tho knowledgo of the glory of the Lord, aa tho waters oover the sea." Both of theso prophesies are located in a class of disixmsutionnl prophe cies, easily identified. Cor. Hartford Times. CluiiiBo of Taetlrs. It was ono of tho maxims of Napoleon that an army ought to clmngo ijs system of tactics every ten years. His meaning was, that success does not rest upon forms, which ran Ixs copied by other armies or generals, but upon living energy and intelligence, which are always cap able of dcviting new combinations; and that formalism of miy kind is death to armies, as to other "institutions. Con temporary Reviow. Sleip lor the Nervoui. Every oue sliould havo eight hours sleep, and pale, thia, nervous irsons re quire ten. winch sIkmiUI bo taken rogu larly in a well ventilated room. Hit uaaaumntion of oil msal is rapitlh iuurwNto" to tfct United States. CHANGELESS. WTien from tho woo-llnnd still and lone, Throu?h the Ions summer nlRht, Sail Thilomel's lmiMssioned tono Thrills with love's iltf delight; When, Eteep'il Iu balml.-t breath of June, Tho enrth seems hnlf divine, Ko chnnse know I in words or time, Uut sine, "Wilt thou bo ininel" When autumn's red nnd autumn's gold Paint wood nnd Avoid and hill; When winter nlRhts row divar and cold. Low, 1 am clianRPlwwtlll. TlioiiKh violets witlier, tob.-s fade, Love's cnW'tidsr nnd mlno Mark summer till In sun and shade, And still my heart is Ibine: Another AVord Needed. The government ought to offer a re ward for nnylxxly who will invent a word that will pleasantly, picturesquely, agree ably define a happy evening among friends. "Secial" is ono of tho most horrible words in the languages used as a noun. "Party" means anything or nothing. It is alsolutely unexpresflive. "A gixxl time" comes in for a big drunk, or a picnic, or a funeral, even, for there are people who enjoy, really c.ijoy, fune rals. "A dinner party" Fcems to stop with the eating. Kow'if thero is a timo when ieople aro unsociable, it is at i big dinner party. If you aro fond of eating, eouvi-rsation's a nuisances nnd you can't get up any reasonable discus sion that will not be broken by tho course's. Yem'vo cither to devoto yourself to tho , menu or to your neighbor. If sho'a pretty, you don't cat your dinner; if tho dinner's good it requires a perfect self abnegation to jay any attention to her. A dinner party is neither ono thing nor the other. Hut after dinnerl Well, "that's different. "Soiree" is an abominablo word. The man that coined it should have been killed. Now, what can you call a happy, merry evening? You can't call it anything short nnd nice and pleas ant. People talk abemt "spending tho evening" just as if they had to put in the lime somehow, and that was all they wanted to do. "Calling" suggests a straightbaeked chair, your hat in your hand and tho hostess in discomfort, wish ing you'd go. And there's only ono word in the English language that means comfort, and peace, and happiness, nnd enjoyment, and that word is "1101110. " San Francisco Chroniclo "Undertones." Woman's Work In Karly Times. Prior to tho American revolution every colonial farm house and every black smith's shop was a manufactory. For everything was literally manufactured; that is, made by hand. The blacksmith hammered out axi's, hoe's, spade's, plow shears, sewthes and nails. A tailoress went from botiso to house to make up the winter clothing, and was followed by tho slux'inaker. The farmer prepared the leather from skins which had laid in the vat for a year, and his wife made ready tho cloth. Spinning wheels buzzed from morning tiil night. Skeins of woolen and linen yarn hung on the walls of every house. Seated on the loom seat, tho fx-st woman of tho family plied shut tles and treadles, weaving blankets!, she'ets, tablo cloths, towels, bed curtainsI window curtains, flannels and cloth for garments. Every woman in the house held manufactured something. Tho aged grandmother spun flax with tho littlo wheel; tlio youngest daughter carded wool, and the oldest, if tho men wero busy, ha'tcheled flax. It was hand work that did it, and every hand did what it could !est do. Tho women, whoso "workwaa never done," not only carded, spun and wove, but they milked tho cows, made butter, bread and cheese, soap and candles, cooked the food, did the wash ing, and in harvest raked hay, pulled lkix and dug itatocs. Tho neighbor who happeneel in ' for an afternoon's gos sip brought her work. The mother patched or knitted as sho rested by the fireside, or quartered apples for tho children to "string' and hang in tho morning in festoons on tho sunny out side walls. All wero busy, always busy. Youth's Companion. Alnia Tudoniu'ri Dwell'MiR. Sir. Alma Tadenia, most versatile of artists, has added ono more world to those ho has already conquered. Ho has become his own nrchitcct, and M. Tissot's house in St. John's wexxl, which waa considered a gem in its way when the French artist lived in it, has been trans formed inside and out into something quite marvelous to behold. In tho ex terior are bits of nearly all tho styles of all tho ages, from tho classic romantic down to tho latest Nineteenth century development of art, or eccentric fashion and fancy. Inside, the medley is still moro be wildering, but always harmonious. Mr. Tadema was resolved thai every nook and corner of his now homo should havo its picture, nnd each picture unlike its iellow. Ono vista suggests Greece, an other Pome, a third tlio gorgeous and mysterious oast. The room designed 'for the sjx-cial use of the artist's wife will lx) ono of tho prettiest interiors in London. Ilia own studio will also bo unique in arrangement nnd decoration, nnd his friends are already looking forward to tlio enjoyment of his hospitality amid surroundings that will enhance, if pos sible, its well known grace and charm. London World. A Ilres of Ancient ay. From tho most authentic authorities wo learn that thero waa but little. any, effort maelo to fit the garments to tho bodv 450 vears before Chris , and tho chief and "indispensable nrticloofww was called tho "chiton," a linen hag-hko top and bo torn. r wWo that 3SU "gl Fbo extended without dis v mfort This particular stylo must havo K an tho rage, as wo say nowadays, or the richer class likewise wore tho lJton, but it waa composed of silk in stead of linen, and another binular cos " i called tho "Ilimation." which was ompoBCil of some sort of woolen stuff. Brooklyn Citizen. The rrench rre.lden't Salary. M. Gro7(jtceivea w pwt of tho French repuTilie n yearly salary of $M0, 000 besides tho following allowance W.0O0 forhsatingal lis)"!". 6frVBn'" rnd waihlng. $60,000 J !J wants ami journeys and $23,000 for tho malatenanoe of his game preserves. 0