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Tho setting sun at this thy close of day
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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:
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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.