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TWENTY-THIRD YEAR._LAM BERT VILLE, N. J„ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER12, 1894. WHOLE NO. 1 154 The Lambertville Record: PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. WTERMS, $2.00 PER YEAR. CLARK PIERSON, EDITOR AND PE BISIIER. ADVERTISING RATES. 1 Square (about 1^ inches), 1 time, 75 1 “ “ “ “ 3 times, 1.26 A diminished ratio for large advertisements and for those running for long periods. Dr. GEO. P. SWIFT, 43 York St. (Office formerly occupied by Dr. T. H. 8tuddiford.) . J 8.30 till 9.30 A. M. Office Hours • {| to 3 and T to S P. M. Not. 2, 1892-ly F. W. I,ARISON, Physician and Surgeon, CORNER MAIN AND JEFFERSON STREETS, Lambkbtvillk, N. J. ( 7 to 8 A. M. Office Hours .* < 12 to 2 P. M. ( 6 to 8 P. M. TELEPHONE CONNECTION, which may be us d Irom any part o f the city or from neighbor ing towns w ere the telephone line runs. ALBERT D. ANDERSON, Attorney-at-Law, SOLICITOR AND MASTER IN CHANCERY. Office, No. 33 Bridge Street, LAMBERTVILLE, N. J. May 3, 1882 WALTER F. HAY HURST, Coun*ellor-at-Law, SOLICITOR, AND MASTER IN CHANCER} AND NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE-SI NORTH UNION STREET, LAMUKRTVILtE, N. J. THEO. BA LDERSTON, D. D. S-. Lambertville, N. J., (Scarborough’* Old Stand.) Having procured Dr. Kstebr oke’s Wonderful Antealhetlc, 1 am now prepared to extract teeth without pain. Costof extracting deducted from price of new sot. March 12,1890 DR. L. A. READING, Dentist, p COR. UNION AND COR YELL STS. V (SECOND FLOOR.) Lamiikktvillk, N. J. Fine Operating and Crowning a specialty. Arti ficial Teeth inserted on all the improved plans, and inserted in all cases to suit the Physloguoiny, April 16. 1879 Dr. U. W. TURNER, Graduate of University oi Pennsylvania, Veterinarian. (office of the late Dr. Price.) Sept. 27. 1893-ly. LAHASKA. PA. CHARLES A. STRAUSS, Manufacturer of Marble and Granite monument*. Headstones, Enclosures, <Ce., ,V RTH UNION STREET(Nk.b M. E. Ciiurcii,) LAMBERTVILLE, N. J. 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Turned Porch Columns,Cedar Fence Posts, aud Building Stone. JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDFD TO ON SHORT NOTICE. PLANS and SPECIFICATIONS FUR NISHED WHEN REQUIRED. Staircasing in all its Branches. Auguit 3,1893. THOMAS C. HILL & SON, Bakery, Confectionery & Lunch Parlor, 11 GREENE STREET, TREN TON, N. J. Wedding receptions, dinners and lunches a specialty. Table ware to hire to responsible parties. First classwork only. Out-of-town orders a specialty. Telephone connection. April M,’S4 ^SL_"jT*S55S5H8H§!Bjj^^BI ABSOLUTELY PURE THE OLD RELIABLE SWEET GAPORAL CIGARETTE Has stood tho Test ol Time MORE SOLD THAN ALL OTHER BRANDS COMBINED m AIIAC P ^ No agents. We sell from lilllVlll L t" catalogue Ht Whole allla T I ■ I r A •a,e Hhlp for IIIU I III M 11 eimulnnllon before ~Z * " onle. 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Write for Prices, &c. LINES BY LEO XIII ON HIS DEATH. Tho setting sun at this thy close of day On thee, O Leo, sheds its parting ray. Within thy withered veins, thrwasted frame, Slow, slow burns downward life's expiring flame. Death's arrow flies, the funeral veil unfolds, The cold remains, the grave her conquest holds, But swift tho panting soul, her fetters riven. Spreads her free wings and seeks her native heaven. The long and toilsome road has reached its end. Thy holy will, my Saviour, I attend, And, if so great a grace thou canst accord, Receive my spirit in thy kingdom, Lord! —Churchman. HIS SURPRISE. Adam and Evo were probably tho only wedded couple of whom no ono ever said, “How could he?” or "How could sho?” Certainly, whon tho staid old bach elor, Jonas Hingliam (“35 if he’s a day!” said the wondering “other girls"), carried off Mary Morton, not yet out of her teens, right in the faco and eyes of many admiring boys, a great ninny people wondered, “How could she?” At home sho oconpied tho sometimes questionable position of tho middlo ono in a family of threo daughtero. Nobody doubted that sho was good and useful, but sho was not brilliant and fascinat ing like her older sister, Amy, nor was sho a prottydoll of a girl to be potted as everybody pettod her younger sister. Boss. Amy had troops of beaux that she wound around hor finger ami made lior most obedient slaves, but Jonas Hing ham was Mary’s first attentivo escort, and his devotion and sincerity carried her heart by storm. Jonas pleaded eloquently for an early wedding day, and Mary was nothing loath, for life with Jonas and for him seemed like paradise in anticipation. He lived threo miles nway on a largo farm, his father’s and grandfather's beforo him. His father had been dead several yoars, and his mother, though still active and industrious, was too old to work as sho had always done. Everybody knew the Hinghmns were forehanded, froo from debt and with money at interest. The Mortons, on the contrary, bad always lived from hand to mouth, Mr. Morton’s trade never having sufficed to do much more than provido a homo, with amplo food and olothing, besides educating tho girls as they wanted to be, with musio and painting and all the ornamentals which girls in country villages sigh after. li is saro to say tnat Mary never dreamed of tho change it would bo for her to go from her snug, pretty home into that great, bare farmhouse—like changing from soft, musical poetry to plain, dry prose. Snmmer and winter tho family had always workod nnd ate and snt in the great kitchen, exoept when company came. Thou thoy rollod up tho green paper shades in the sitting room nnd snt In there. Everything wns stiff, bare, or derly and scrupulously clean, shoes’ ’ meant more ro'aHdw nrf gfifr hard work than Mary had evor dreamed of, but sho wns young and strong and would not flinch when sho saw that both Jonas and his mother expected her to be tho notablo, hardworking house wife the elder woman had always been. Her hands grew brown and hard, her dresseB grow old fashioned, and sho had neither timo nor care to romodel them, as sho seldom wont anywhere, exoept occasionally to churoh nnd rnoro rarely still on a brief visit to her father’s. Then babies camo os tho years went by—boys, always boys. “If I only had a girl, ’’ thought Mary sometimos, “sho might grow up to help mo and do all the light and pretty things thnt I have forgotten how to do, but these boys will novor care for such things. ” Mother Hingham lived but u few years after Mary camo there. To tho last sho was happy and content, fond of Mary nnd at home in the farmhouse, still unchanged. “Jonas will have to hire help for his wife, now that his mother is gono, ” people said. But ho didn't seem to think of that. As long as Mary did not complain ho never dreamed she was ovordoing or needed anything she did not have. One of tho established traditions of the house was that they must havo a hired girl through haying timo, never at any other time of the year unless in oaso of sickness. Bo through harvesting and the fall housecleaning, the meat killing and tho spring sugaring, up to haying time again, Mary's one pair of hands did tho work till—Bho broke down. Jonas was worried about indoor mat ters, not that ho was so miserly ho did not like to pay hired help, but who was to take care and oversee it all? Of course the Mortons were as agitat ed as Jonas himself, and as much as they could camo to the rescue, but Mrs. Morton was growing old and oould not work as she ouoe had done, and Amy had made a brilliant match years ago. Bessie was still at home and Single, but had never enjoyed going there whon Mary was well, and with Mary sick it could not be thought of. Jonas had bad luck finding capable indoor help, and it was a groat relief to them all when Aunt Vi, Mr. Morton’s maiden sister, carno from the west, and not having any particular home any whero willingly took the leadership in the Hingham household. But somehow Mary didn’t seem to gain ut all, and Aunt Vi told Mrs. Mor ton that Mary seemed to have lost all interest in life. “Jonas is just as kind as can be, and tho boys are all smart and bright and fond of her. They are forehanded and have a good home, but it seems as if she doesn’t care about living. I do think if she had an ambition to got well she would.’’ In the very depths of winter Mrs. Morton’s sister from Boston, Mrs. Cra mer, made a flying visit in town, her first visit to the place since Mary’s mar riago. “You must go to see Mary in her own home," said Mrs. Morton, “but the poor child is too weak to visit much. We will go there together and spend the day, and it will gratify her, though she cannot enjoy it as if she was well. ” “I’ll sloep with Mary tonight and wait upon her," said Mrs. Morton to Aunt Vi, as bedtime oame on, “and you can go up stairs and get a good night's * * “We’ll sleep together, Aunt Vi,” added Mrs. Oamer, “and keep each other warm and have a good visit be sides. ” Was it all chance that the chamber the two ladies occupied had in the wall anopen stovepipe hole leading through to the one where Jonas slept with 6 year old Teddy? Ho slept soundly for awhile, but per haps it was his good angel that woke him just in time to hear Aunt Vi ask, “What do you think about Mary?” Mrs. Cramer was a lady who used not only her eyes and ears, but her brains as well. Being new to the Hingham houso, sho saw it through unaccustomed eyes, and sho made up her mind fully. “I think,’’ she said impressively, “that she is starving to death!” “For tho land sakos!” ejaculated Aunt Vi. “You don't know whatyou’ro talking about. Such a provider as Jonas is! Always buys his flour by the barrel and keeps two sorts, one for bread and ono for pastry; makes no end of maple sugar and buys all the white sugar a body has n mind to use; kills tho nicost of pork and beef every winter, with turkeys and chickens and geese and ducks; lambs in tho full and the beau tifulest veal every spring; buys fresh meat any time in the summer, and of course they have milk and cream and eggs of their own all the year round. He’s alwnys bringing home honey and fruit and oysters, any luxury ho hap pens to seo. Ho’s too fond of good living himself to starvo anybody in his house!” “Tho eating is a vory small part of true life, ” said Mrs. Cramer when Aunt Vi paused for breath. “I can soo that Mary's mind and soul are starving hero in this bare house, where work and utility are tho foremost things and beauty and ploasuro havo no plnce. Her bottor nature is being literally starved to death." JNo matter what further tho Indies said, Jonas Hiugham heard no more, though iio neither put his Angers in his. ears nor roso and stopped tho stovepipe hole. Mrs. Cramer’s words had oponed his eyes to a naked, unpalatahlo truth and set him to such serious thinking and plannings that ho had no oars for anything more. “Mary looks brighter this morning,” snid Aunt Cramer at broakfast. “Sim certainly does,” said Jonas, "and I think your visit has douo her good. I toll you what, Mary,” ho said, turning to her, "I want you to hurry up and get stronger, so that the first mild, pleasant day I oun carry you to your la ther’s to stay a week. I believe tho change would do you good.” A warm, mellow day came like a smile into tho heart of tho winter. Jonas urged, and Aunt Vi seconded, till between them they wrappod her snugly, nnd cushioned in the warmest nnd soft est of robes she took n sleigh ride to her father’s house, whero Jonas loft her. “And now, Aunt Vi,” he said, com ing in on his return, with liis arms loaded with rolls of paper, “I want your help in a conspiracy. Tho long nnd short of it is that you and I and the boys and all the help wo noed are going to work with paint and paper and car pets and furnituro to mako this liouso look so Mary won’t know it at all when ■he cotjgaa haefr."..... paperers followed. Jonas brought homo nioo carpets and women to make them. Loads of now furniture came to tho door and now stoves to replace tho for lorn, antiquated ones. An elegant now bookcaso was stocked with a well selected library, nnd choice pictures wero purchased to hang on the renewed walls. Jonas was not devoid of taste when ho tried to oxerciso it, and when ho doubted his own judgment ho took counsel of thoso who wore to bo relied on. One lovely day, tho last of February, ho wont to bring her homo. Aunt Vi and the boys waited pationtly for their coining. When the sleigh stopped at tho door, Jonas lifted her carefully out and car ried her, nil wrappod, ns she was, into tho house, strnight through tho hall into the long unused parlor nnd placed her in tho softest and easiest of easy chairs. A soft colored carpot covered tho floor, pretty paper adorned tho walls, sunlight streamed in warm at tho win dows, but did not outshine the cheorful Are in tho open stove, now books and magazines lay on tho table, tho canary in a gilded cage was trilling his best songs, and tho plants in the sunniest window seemed smiling a welcome to their mistress. “How protty mother looks!” cried Toddy. Truth to tell, a most becoming red had crept into tho pale cheeks, perhaps n gleam from the rose colored future her husband was portraying. Pills, powders and plasters wore all given the go by, and Mary got well on happiness. Said Jonas: "Furnituro bills and all those things are no higher than doctors' bills and vastly more satisfying. Comfort nnd happiness are more pleasant to take than medicine and do more good. I’ve learned my lesson rather late in life, but I’ve learned it once for all.”—Good Housekeeping. Forest Fire Phenomena. The phenomena of sheets of flanio and balls of fire which aooompany forest tiros are explained by a writer as duo to gases in the air, which arise from tur pentine. resinous gums and volatilo oils which exude from evergreen trees. These are easily ignited and explode in iho air in dry weather. Digestible Food. One of the biggest mistakes about food which people make is to forget that the true value of food to anybody is the measure of its digestibility. Half a pound of cheese is vastly more nour ishing, as regards its mere composition, than half a pound of beef, but while the beef will be easily digested and thus bo of vast servioo to us the oheese is put out of court altogether for ordinary folks by reason of its indigestibility. We should bear this rule in mind when we hear people comparing one food with another in respect to their chemical value.—London Hospital. Domeitle Weather Prophets. Probably everybody knows that there are hygroscopic plants which indicate more or less clearly the quantity of moisture in the atmosphere. A strip of seaweed hung in an exposed position frequently does duty as a popular and easily comprehended weather glass, al-, though it may be doubter whether its prodictions are of much value. Mors reliance can be placed in the behavior of a pine twig, which may very readily be pressed into service as a domestio weather prophet—Cologne Gazette. „ STORY OF A WEDDING. Aifct a Present That Turned €>ut to Bo a White Elephant. I know a man named Jack Barnes, who was married ono Thanksgiving day, writes Howard Fielding in the Boston Herald. His wifo had quite a number of rich relations. Ono of them was in the furnituro business. His pros ont was undoubtedly the handsomest of all. It was a mahogany bedstead big enough for a Mormon elder and oarved in tho highest style of the art. The happy couple wore enraptured when they saw it. The exhibition occurred in the store of the furniture man, for of course such a thing couldn’t bo sent to tho bride’s father’s house like a sugar spoon in a box. An expressman who subsequently moved the bodstead told mo that it weighed nine tons, but I think he exaggerated. Moreover, it was certainly ns massivo apiecoof furnituro as over I saw. On this account perhaps the generous donor had been unable to sell it and had had it lumbering up his salesroom until he had grown sick of the sight of it Tho bridegroom gave directions for its romoval to tho Harlem flat. Ho thcu thanked his wifo’s uncle for this mag nificent gift with tears in his eyes. When Mr. and Mrs. Barnes returned from their wedding journey, they found tho mahogany bed already established in their flat. They know it was there, beoauso they were unable to open the parlor door. Tho bod was inside, and there was an alloy a foot wide all the way around it between it and the wall. This may seem improbable to a person who does not know much about New York flats of the $40 a month grade, but tho sophisticated will only wonder that the bed got in there at all. I am told that the mon who set it up had to climb out of a window ufterward, but I think this is an exaggeration, because tho tall, carvod bedboard entirely cov ered tho two windows and thus cast a gloom over tho otherwise happy home. They found tho furnituro which had previously been in tho parlor divided betweou two bedrooms and completely filling them. Housekeeping under tneso circum stances wns not whnt this young woman had boon led to expect. In 24 hours she had demanded a larger flat. Mr. Barnes went flat hunting. Tho advoutnros of tho Wnudoring Jow nro n more stroll compared to those of tho flat huntcrin Now York. Jack was looking for n Wd room big enough to hold tho mahogany bedstead. Ho tells mo that this piece of furnituro was so big that ho could hard ly carry a memorandum of its dimen sions in his largest overcoat pockot. Reasonable* Request. Mrs. Williams alwayH assorted that whenovor her husband proffered a rea sonable request she complied with it ns promptly us possible. When asked on ono occasion what sho mount by this reservation, she said, with a laugh: “Well, onoo in awhilo Mr. Williams makes wlmt I call an unreasonable re quest. For instanoo, ho camo homo n tew dnys ago and said he had seen a mired, and ho wished 1 would huVo Oiie made just like it. “ ‘Toll mo how it wns made, and I certainly will,’ I answered. “ ‘Oh, it is very simple,’ lie begnu. ‘Tho color was—well, it was ono of those mixed goods, you know—brown, I should say, or n sort of yellowish gray, with a figure of some sort, a spot or perhaps a small stripo, or it might havo been a check. It was made with a skirt—just ono skirt, I think—and it had a ruffling or n band or a—a—some thing to brighten it a little hero and there, more toward tho bottom, I should say than tho top, though I think there was a littlo oruamentntion of some sort around tho top too. “ 'And tho waist or jacket, or what ever you chooso to call it, that was per fectly plain, I think, exoept that there were n few frills about itnud a contriv ance of some sort about the nook— nothing elaborate nt all, but just whnt would look neat and appropriate. I wonder if you catch my ideal" ho in quired as ho finished this lucid descrip tion. “Now, that wnsonoof Mr. Williams’ requests which I found it reully impos sible to grant. ”—Youth’s Companion. “Take It AIhj." Ono cannot travel in Ireland without perceiving that tho so many horsepower and perpetual catching of trains thoory of life is not one that is ncceptod by tho Irish people, and I do not think it over will bo. Their religion, thoir traditions, their chief occupations, their tempera ment, all of which I supposo aro closely allied, are opposed to it. Tho saying, “Takoitaisy, and if you can’t take it amy tnko it hh aisy as you can,” doubtless represents their theory of life, and, for my part, if it were a question either of dialectics or of mor als, I would sooner have to defend that view of existence than tho so many horsepower one. So far from a wiso man getting all ho can out of himself in ono direction, ho will, it seems to mo, rig idly and carefully abstain from doing so in tho interests of that catholio and harmonious development which requires that he should get a little out of him self in every direction. Ono would not like to assort that tho bulk of tho Irish people aro "harmo niously developed.” But neither, if I may be permitted to say so, aro the English or tho Scotch peoplo, and as in reality ull throe probably err by lob Bided activity or lobsided inactivity, it still remains to be seen whether too much perpetual catching of trains or too much tuking it “aisy” is, on tho whole, the wiser course and tho less insane in terpretation of tho purport and uses of life.—Blackwood’s Magazine. Oar I>ebt to Europe. “Is it true, ” I asked a groat thinker, “that England alono holds $2,600,000, 000 of United States securities, bearing interest, including exchange, of 0 tier cent payable in gold?” “Yes, according to tho publio state ments of London statisticians. Tho sec retary of tho treasury Hays there is no publio rocord in this oountry showing the amount of foreign investments. We must therefore go to Europe to learn not only how much wo aro in debt to Great Britain, but that at least $600,000,000 additional of United States investments are held in Franco i and Germany. This makes a total in - three countries of $8,000,000,000, im posing an interest charge, including exchanges, of $180,000,000 per annum. A nice stato of serfdom, isn't it?”— Kate Field’s Washington. Lambertvlllc Public Schools. Report of the Lambertville Public Schools for the (third) month, ending November 30th, 180t: ? 2 . >. . '3 i § § 11 f § s *j “! w i‘! ss ss « fw S5 g < * l High School. 75 70 88 97 ORAMMAR SCHOOL. Miss I’ierson's Itoom.... 33 38 31 97 Miss Gallagher’s Room... 41 37 34 03 Miss Micko's Room. 42 38 38 95 FIRST WARD PRIMARY. Miss BroRdhurst's Room.. Hit 32 29 91 Miss Purcell's Room. 44 40 38 90 Miss Reynolds’ Room. 88 88 59 89 THIRD WARD PRIMARY. Miss Davis’ Boom. 38 38 35 97 Miss Scarborough's Room. 42 41 40 98 Miss Brittain’s Boom. 43 41 38 93 Mrs. Miller's Boom. 49 44 39 89 Totals. 508 477 445 98 Same month 189:1. 481 420 402 95.5 The following pupils have neither been absent nor tardy during the month : HIGH SCHOOL. Senior Class—Della Barber, Nellie M. Petrie. Sub-Senior Class—Mira Harrison, Mary Malloy, Bertha Pidcoclt, Addie ilray, Elizabeth Bray, Helen Hart, Edith Holden, William Charaker, Eu gene Phillips, Edgar W. Hunt. Middle Class—Martha Finger, Edith Slack, Cora Shepherd, Clarence Wil mot, Marvin Holcombe, Erwin Smith, George Kline, John Kline, Fred Cum mings, Joe Roberson, Nellie Van Camp, Samuel Clarke. .1 u nior Class—Mary Stephenson, Edith Stains, Annabel Sanisel, Laura Gordon, Harriet Stockton, Ada Mathews, Agnes Cooper, Hallie Scarborough, Bessie Hol combe, Bessie Petrie, Anna Lodor, Lucy Hurley, Ada Moore, Addie Knowles, Jerry Riordan, Frank Fritz, Fred Glee settle, Watson Ihidbridge, Fred Gregg, Emily Walker. GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Miss Pierson’s Room—Helen Sliama lia, Edward Thorne, Bryan Taylor, Ma bel Hongland, Editb Robeson, Bella Cooper, Walter Parker, Joseph Lear, Robert Phillips, Carrie Pascoe, William Malloy, Jennie Jlorn, Eva Gordon, Ida White, Elizabeth Naylor, Albertus Mich encr, Charles Hill, Katie Chapman, Jos eph Smith. Miss Gallagher’s Room—Ethel Reed, Paul Diiryen, Henry Jones, William Holden, Kate Heckman, Camilla Join er, Daveua Gordon, Lydia Wilson, Aug ustus Reading, Raymond Salter, Wil liam Joiner, William Weber, Lewis Johnson. Miss Micko's Room—Mabel Heath, Marie Regno, Mary Thorne, Ethel Ser geant, Katie Lyons, Vernervn Hull, Louisa Holcombe, Irene Whitehead, May Johnson, John Byrnes, Frank Hol combe, David Stout, William Crowley, Charles Reynolds, Harry Hurt, George Coryell, Paul Conover, Frank Van Horn, Edwin Slack, Charles Holcombe, Clar ence Servis, Robert Hughes, Thomas Walker. I'TllST WARD PRIMARY. Miss Broad hurst's Itoom—Helen Hughes, Elizabeth Stout, Mabel Fisher, Lucinda Hull, Mary Bold, Beulah Fish w, ., ItV.. L.. .Archill- A imiimJ rrincr Price, Thomas Banahan, Stacy Bray, Arthur Whitehead, Harry Polrie, Frank Burke. Miss Purcell’s Room—Russell Slack, Harry Clarke, James Parish, Ethel Joiner, May Slack, Hannah Botvu, Flor ence l’ascoe, Horace Pew, Amos Cole, Fred Massey, Charles Handy, Joe Car moily. M i - a Reynolds’ Room—Kllon Roberts, Maggie Slack, Klsio Moore, Nathlie Cooinbe, Ethel Fisher, Mattie Reinert, Anna Colo, Lydia Skillman, Mamie Old, •Alice Knt, Sadie Geffever, Harry Gil liert, Harry Carty, John Scott, May Coomlic. Elmer Conover, George Carty, Harry Myers, John Ferguson, Harry Udwc, Samuel (iedever, Edward Smith. TUI 111) WARD PRIMARY. Miss Davis' Room—Irene Eggarl, Willie Heath, Mary Finger, Jessie Hol combe, Stella Johnson, Anna Petrie, Allred (iimaiiu, Thomas Malloy, Hor ace Hoaglaiid, Nellie Heath, Harry Hunt, Charles Johnson, Albeit Regan, Nicholas Bodine, David Richards, Jus. Moonan, Willard Gelhard. Miss Scarborough's Room—Florence Lainbridge, Ida M. Probasen, Lizzie V. Shepherd, Grace Outliers, Viola Severs, St cl In Wilson, Levina Whitely, Let lie Siitlerlliwnite, Lucy M. Crowley, George Bodine, Raymond Stout, Willie Wilson, Nebomiah Green, Albert Bright, Russell L. Bowden, Joseph Percy,Samuel Percy, Clarence A. Honpock, Leroy Croneo, Louie Pidcock, Willie M. Sharp, Frank C. Cox, Fred R. Holcombe, Preston Kelly, Joseph Storr, Wesley Reading, Georg.) W. Chapman. Miss Brittain's Room —Rita Gordon, Pauline Naylor, Ethel Parker, Louisa Seals, Jessie Sharp, Charles Bright, Ned Hunt, Raymond Hunt, Harry Johnson, Russell Lawyer, Cornelius Lewis, Chus. Malloy, Henry Malloy, Josio Reading, Howard Wihnot, Willie Bice, Willie Walker, Willie Reid, Charles Reid. Mrs. Miller’s Room—Annio Bowers, Lizzie Bodine, Elsie Cook, Lizzie Coop er, Ida Moore, Annie Moore, Bertha Lewis, Frank Bice,Christopher Bowers, George Cooper, Fred N. Finger, Theo dore Bonders, Millard Todd, Harold Williamson, Willie Parent. Names of those whoso Recitations, in cluding Deportment, have averaged !)0 net' cent, and over : HIGH SCHOOL. Senior Class—95 per cent, and over: 1. Delia./. Barber and Nellie M. Petrie; 2. Liziie. Stephenson. Hub-Senior Class—95 per cent, and over : /. Edith Holden. 90 per cent and undor 95 : 2. Libbie Dray and Ad die Dray, Mira Harrison, Bertha Bid cock, Edgar VV. Hunt, Hclon Hart Mary Malloy, William Charaker, Middle Class—95 per cent, and over I. Edith Slack; 2. Martha Finger. 9< fier cent, and under 95: Coro Shep terd, John Johnson, Fred Cummings John Kline, George Kline, Marvin Hoi combe, Erwin Smith, Samuel Clarke Joe Roberson, Clarence Wilmot. Junior Class—95 per cent, and over /. Lucy Hurley; 2. Anna Lodor, Mary Stephenson, Hallio Scarborough, Ada Mathews, Watson Dudbridge, Edith Stains. 90 per cent, and under 96: Ada Moore, Katie Moonan, Agnes Coop er, Addio Knowles, Tillie Akers, Laura Gordon, Fred Gregg, Jerry Riordan' Bessie Petrie, Frank Fritz, Lily Whyte, Annabel Samsel, Bessie Holcombe, Cora Wollinger, May Lear, Bessie Newman, May Vunnatta. OBAMMAB SCHOOL. Miss Pierson's Room—95 per cent, and over: 1. .logic Lear; 2. Grace Pierson, Edith Robeson, Ida Whyte, Mabel Hoagland, Bella Cooper, Robert Phillips, Jennie Horn, Ethel Massey, Eva Gordon, Walter J’arker, Elizabeth Naylor, Helen Shamalia, Carrie Pascoe, Albcrtus Michencr, Katie Chapman, Arthur Stout, Bryan Taylor. 90 per cent, and under 95 : Ernest Kimtnel, Edward Thorne, Blanche Finger, Ger trude Miller, Reba Smith, Joseph Smith, Marvin Case, Lillio Bayard, William Malloy, Anna M. Reinert. Mias Gallagher’s Room—95 per cent, and over : /. Ethel Reed ; 2. Paul Dur yea, Edith Udy, Emma Ryan, Kate Buckman. 90 per cent, and under 95: Davena Gordon, William Joiner, Her bert Pascoc, Ethel Shamalia, Ada Beau mont, Camilla Joiner. Miss Micke’s Room—95 per cent, and over: 1 Paul Conover; 2. Carrie Knowtee, William Crowley, Ethel Ser geant, Marie Regan, George Coryell. 90 per cent, and under 95 : John Byrnes, Charles Reynolds, Thomas Walker, Robert Hughes, Louisa Holcombe, Mary Thorne, Vernerva Hull, Irene White head, Clarence McGill. Names of those whose Recitations and Deportment have been commendable : FIRST WARD PRIMARY. Miss Broadhurst’s Room—Lucinda Hull, Ellen Hughes, Mabel Fisher, Mary Roe, Beulah Fisher, Mary Burd, Reha Weller, Mary Leigh, Jane Kroesen, Clara Bayard, Grover Milnor, Thomas Banahan, George Price, John Sharpe, George Sharpe, Anderson Slack, Harry Petrie, John Everett. Miss Purcell’s Room—Ethel Sproat, Pearl Daniel, Reha Naylor, Nellie Cof fey, Joe Carmody, Harry Clarke, Rus sell Slack, Ely Cooper, Hannah Bo..e, [Charles Smith, Ethel Sutphin, Charles Handy, Horace Pew, Fred Massey. Miss Reynold’s Room—Nath. Coombe, Mattie Reinert, Ethel Fisher, Elsie Moore, Elbe Leigh, May Akers, Ellen Roberts, Maggie Slack, Nellie Hurley, Carrie Foster, Lizzie Trusty, Harry Car ty, Harry Gilbert, Thomas Hughes, Carl Ege, Harry Bowo, Elmer Conover, Hor ace Daniels, John Ferguson, George Carty. THIRD WARD PRIMARY. Miss Davis’ Room—Irene Eggart, Nel lio Heath, Lizzie Bice, Lillie Heath, Mary Finger, Jessie Holcombe, Anna Petrie, Alfred Gimson, Thomas Malloy, Horace Hoagland, William Convover, Albert Regan. George Johnson, James Moonnn, Harry Hunt, Doric Sehold, Nicholas Bodine. Miss Scarborough's Room—Ida Pro basco, Lizzie V. Shepherd, Florence Bainbridge, Stella Wilson, Ethel Farley, Ethel Servis, Viola Severs, Lucy Crow ley, Lottie Sattherthwaite, Russell L. Bowden, Willie Sharp, Samuel Percy, Joseph Percy, Joseph Slorr, Willie Wil son, Leroy Croneo, Preston Kelly, Clar ence Hoppnck. Miss Brittain's Room—Rita Gordon, Nettie Green, Alice Micke,Tressie Mid dleton, Alice Naylor, Louisa Seals, Ma bel Titus, Eddie Wert, Jessie Sharp, Norman Conover, Edwin Doryea.Chas. Malloy, Henry Malloy, Robert Percy, Chester Ruth, Howard Wilmot, Charles Reid. Mrs. Miller's Room—Annie Moore, Alice Gregg, Myrtic Hurley, Lizzie Field, Frances Sehold, Millie Regan, Bertha Lewis, Annie Bowers, Ida Moore, Louisa Young, Lizzie Bright, Lizzie Bodine, Addie Johnson, Mabel Reed, Fred N. Finger, Christopher Bow ers, Edgar Ruth, Gcorgo Cooper,Gideon Cook, Theodore Souders, Wallace Len nox, Millard Todd, Charles Rose, Har ■ I-UU:1U-Hi.,.. . i..>■ _ - THE MAKING OF THIEVES. A Significant Increase la ths Namber of Child Criminals. Thoro has surely been of late a very groatnnd significant increase in the num ber of child criminals that ave brought to our polico courts. There are more of them, and they are much younger than they used to be, and they are vastly “tougher. ” Their manner shows plain ly that tho street lias been their toacher, and thnt they have beon apt pupils. Ita method is simple and varies in Hell's Kitchen and in Jewtown euly in the opportunities offerod. To begin with, tho boy idlor in tho street during school hours is thore in doflpnoe of law, wheth er tho fault is his own or not, and he knows it. He is in the attitudo of op position, tho normal attitudo of the street. Tho policeman is his enemy, and tho policeman stands for the establish ed ordor of things. Thus tho groundwork is laid foe whntovor mischief cemes along. It is not long in coming, rarely longer than tho dinuor lionr of tho first day. Tho boy is hungry. He wants something to eat A boy’s hunger is not like a man’s, which can be appeased with promises. He wants something at ones. If he is playing hooky, ho does not want to ge homo to got it. Anyway thoro is no nood to do so. The Btreet can show him an easier way. A grocer’s stand* is handy, or a pie wagon; better still, a soda water wagon. The bottle is worth so much cosh at the junkshop. The driver’s back is turned'. The boy “swipes” one. It is not a vory groat orime, but it is the stopping stone to many groater. A horse blanket or a copper bottomed boil er may bo tho next thing. It is the first step that costs an effort, and that not a vory groat one, with tho clamor of a hungry stomaoh to drown the warn ing voice within him that whispers of the policeman and tho lookup. The friends ho makes in the street soon help him to centompt for tho one and a se cret pride in tho other.—Jacob A. Hil* in Century. * Nature Pur»ue» a Liar. “Tho forces of the universe are in league against a lie, ” says Emerson, and what his terse, penetrating pen would find to say where tho lying in volves perhaps mortal danger to human beings wo will not presume to say, but will illustrate our meaning as follows: In December, 1887, a child that had died in Connecticut of diphtheria was brought to*Pittsfield, Mass., for burial. The paronts camo with tho body to a house in Pittsfioid, and a public funeral was held. Within a week and while tho parents of the child still remained as visitors at the house a child who lived in the house was tukeu ill with diphtheria and died. Then came a hu miliating confession from the Connect icut parents. They said that the symp toms of the second child were just like i those of their own and fintilly acknowl edged that arrangements had beein made with the physician in attendance Upe^ the case to write a certificate of death by bronobitis instead of diphtheria. Other oases followed in the same house.' —Philadelphia Press. Very Severe on Him. Gns de Smith—Ah, Miss Birdie, I weally fear I fatigue you. Birdie McGinnis—I would not be so rude, Mr. do Smith, as to contradict you.—Tammany Times.