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^ V? ? ^ ^ ^ ISSUED SKMI-WEEKL^ l. *. orist's sons, Pnbiuher> } % Jfamilt! JJftDspaper: <Jfor 'M promotion of the jpolifical, Social. Agricultural and Commercial interests of thi; jpeople. {IERs^mSE?opVVivicK^VAI,CK' ESTABLISHED 1855. yORKVILLE, 8. CM TUESDAY, MAY 14, 19Q7. ~ NO. 39. LlULILd^-M C jaKUtbcDDEDSi?^^ /V ft SYNOPSIS. Chapter I?Bob Brownley creates a ( panic In Wall street. He is a friend of Jim Randolph of Randolph & Randolph. bankers and brokers. Brownley and Randolph had gone to college together and entered the employ of Randolph's father at the close of college days. Brownley Is a Virginian by birth. Beulah Sands, daughter of an old Virginia house, calls on Brownley and tells him her father has been practically ruined by the stock operations of Relnhart. She hopes to utilize her own money in Wall street in retrieving her father's fortunes before his condition becomes known, and asks for employment in the office that she may have an opportunity to better understand how her money is invested. She does not want it used in a purely Wall street gamble, but in the buying and selling of legitimate securities. Brownley agrees to help her, and falls in love with her. Chapter II?Brownley plunges in sugar stock. He uses the money of Miss Sands, his own and in addition is backed heavily by the Randolph millions. His coup seems successful, and he tells Miss Sands that she has cleared Jl, 800,000. But the market * had not closed. Chapter III?Barry Conant, head broker for Standard Oil and sugar interests, suddenly begins to sell "sugar." In the midst of a panic he breaks the market and with its fall carries away the earnings and much of the capital of both Miss Sands and himself. A pretty love scene occurs between the two at the office when bod auempis to tell her the terrible truth of their fall. Brownley takes a trip to Virginia. Chapter IV?Beulah Sands and Bob become engaged. Randolph wants to loan her father the money to meet his obligations. She refuses. Bob figures on how to beat Wall street at Its own game. Sugar takes another sensational spurt upward, but Brownley keeps out Chapter V.?The "bulls" toss sugar to record breaking point, and the "street" goes wild. Barry Co nan t, for the "system," pushes prices up and up, and a wonderful clean-up is promised when the exchange closes, Thursday, November 12. Sugar opens higher Friday morning, November 13. When the price had passed all bounds Brownley steps into the pit and begins to sell. He sells qvery share "the system's" brokers will take, and pounds the price down and down until failures are of momentary occurence, and "the system' has loet millions. He has made millions for Beulah Sands and her father. Chapter VI?Beulah Sands insists upon being assured that there is no dishonor connected with the money he has made for her, and he cannot honestly answer "no." He leaves her to tmnK ii out. i I C/ "Good Bob Has Come E CHAPTER VI?Continued. I had dropped into a seat a lew feet away. Both were too much occupied with their own thoughts to notice me or any one else. I could not overhear their conversation, but long afterward, when I mentioned our old stenographer, Bessie Brown, to Bob, he told me of the incident at the Batten'. Her husband, after their marriage. had become infected with the stock-gambling microbe, the microbe that gnaws into its victim's mind and heart day and night, while ever fiercer grows the "get rich, get rich" fever. He had plunged with their savings and had drawn a blank. He had lost his position In disgrace, and had landed in the bucket-shop, the sub-cellar pit of the big stock exchange hell. From there a week before he had been sent to prison for theft, and that morning she had been turned into the street by her landlord. I saw Bob take from his pocket his memorandum-book, write something upon a leaf, tear it out and hand It to the woman, touch his hat, and Defore she could stop him, stride away, l saw her look at the paper, clap her hands to her forehead, look at the paper again and at the retreating form of Bob Brownley. Then I saw her, yes, there In the old Battery park, in the drizzling rain and under the eyes of all, drop upon her knees in prayer. How long she prayed I do not know 1 only know that as I followed Bob I looked back and the woman was still upon her knees. I thought at the time how queer and unnatural the whole thing seemed. Later, I learned to know that nothing Is queer and unnatural In the world of human suffering:; that great human suffering turns all that is queer and unnatural into commonplace. Next day Bessie Brown came to our office to see Bob. Not being able to get at him she asked for me. "Mr. Randolph, tell me, please, what shall I do with this paper?" she said. "I met Mr. Brownley in the Battery yesterday. He saw I was in ( distress, and he gave me this, but I , cannot believe he meant it," arid she showed me an order on Randolph & , Randolph for a thousand dollars. I cashed her check and she went away. From the Battery Bob sought the wharves, the Bowery, Five Points, the hothouses of the under world of America. He seemed bent on picking out the haunts of misery in the misery-infested metropolis of the new world. For two hours he tramped and I followed. A number of times I thought to speak to him and try ?, to win him from his mood, but I refrained. I could see there was a soul battle waging and I realized that upon its outcome might depend Bob's salvation. Some seek the quiet of j the woods, the soothing rustle of the leaves, the peaceful ripple of the brook when battling for their soul, but Bob's woods appeared to be the ^ shadowy places of misery, his rustling leaves the hoarse din of the multitude, c and his brook's ripple the tears and t tales of the man-damned of the great city, for he stopped and conversed with many human derelicts that he c met on his course. The hand of the clock on Trinity's steeple pointed to four as we again approached the of- ^ flee of Randolph & Randolph. Bob a was now moving with a long, hurried i stride, as thoueh consumed with a _ fever of desire to get to Beulah Sands. ^ For '.he last 15 minutes I had with . , r difficulty kept him in sight. Had he ^ arrived at a decision, and if so, what ^ was it? I asked myself over and over again as I plowed through the v crowds. m Bob. went straight to Beulah Sands' j] office, I to mine. I had been there but ^ a moment when I heard deep, guttur- u al groans. I listened. The sound p came louder than before. It came f from Beulah Sands' office. With a jj bound I was at the open door. My v ! u s t Jack to Play with Buelah." , God, the sight that met my gaze! s It haunts me even now when years I have dulled its vividness. The beauti- t ful, quiet, gray figure that had grown s to be such a familiar picture to Bob t and me of late, sat at the fiat desk i in the center of the room. She faced f the door. Her elbows rested on the desk; in her hand was an afternoon j paper that she had evidently been j reading when Bob entered. God knows v how long she had been reading it be- t fore he came. Bob was kneeling at 1 the side of her chair, his hands clasp- c ed and uplifted in an agony of appeal that was sunnlemented bv the awful I groans. His face showed unspeakable 1 terror and entreaty; the eyes were t bursting from their sockets and were r riveted on her as those of a man in t a dungeon might be fixed upon an I approaching specter of one whom he t had murdered. His chest rose and i fell, as though trying to burst some ( unseen bonds that were crushing out .? his life. With every breath would I come the awful groan that had first brought me to him. Beulah Sands had ' half turned her face until her eyes 1 gazed into Bob's with a sweet, child- i ish perplexity. I looked at her, sur- t prised that one whom I had always ? seen so intelligently masterful should i be passive in the face of such anguish. .< Then, horror of horrors! I saw that < there was something missing from her 1 great blue eyes. I looked; gasped, i Could it possibly be? With a bound 1 I was at her side. I gazed again into i those eyes which that morning had ' been all that was intelligent, all that was godlike, all that was human. 1 Their soul, their life was gone. I Beulah Sands was a dead woman; not dead in body, but In soul; the magic spark had fled. She was but an empty shell?a woman of living flesh and blood; but the citadel of life was empty, the mind was gone. What had been a woman was but a child. I passed my hand across my now damp forehead. I closed my eyes and opened them again. Bob's figure, with clasped, uplifted hands, and bursting eyes, was still mere, mere own icsounded through the room the awful guttural groans. Beulah Sands smiled, the smile of an Infant in the eraclle. She took one beautiful hand from the paper and passed It over Bob's bronzed cheek, just as the Infant touches Its mother's face with Its ;hubby fingers. In my horror I almost expected to hear the purling of i babe. My eyes In their perplexity Tiust have wandered from her face, '.or I suddenly became aware of a rreat black head-line spread across :he top of the paper that she had been eading: "FRIDAY, THE 13TH." And beneath in one of the collmns: 'TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN VIRGINIA." The Most Prominent Citizen of the State, ex-United States 8enator and Judaft Lm Sands of Sands Landing, While Temporarily Insane from the Loss of His Fortune and Millions of the Funds for Which He Was Trustee, Cut the Throat of His Invalid Wife, His Daughter's, and Then His Own. All Three Died Instantly." In another column: Robert Brownley Creates the Most Disastrous Panic In the History of Wall Street and Spreads Wreck and Ruin Throughout the Country." A hideous picture seared its every lght and shade on my mind, through ny heart, into all my soul. A fren;ied-finance harvest scene with its rory crop; in the center one livinglead, part of the picture, yet the rhost left to haunt the painters, one f whom was already cowering before he black and bloody canvas. Well did the world-artist who wrote ver the door of the madhouse: "Man an suffer only to the limit, then he hall know peace," understand the wondrous wisdom of his God. Beuir Sands had gone beyond her limit ,nd was at peace. The awful groaning stopped, and an shen pallor spread over Bob Brownsy's face. Before I could catch him ie rolled backward upon the floor as lead. Bob Brownley, too, had gone teyond his limit. I bent over him .nd lifted his head, while the sweet foman-child knelt and covered his ace with kisses, calling in a voice Ike that of a tiny girl speaking to her loll: "Bob, my Bob. wake up, wake ip; your Beulah wants you." As I ilaced my hand upon Bob's heart and elt Its beat grow stronger, as I Istened to Beulah Sands' childish oice, joylshly confident as It called ipon the one thing left of her old i*orld, some of my terror passed. In ts place came a great mellowing ense of God's marvelous wisdom. I hought gratefully of my mother's always ready argument that the law of iws of God's and nature, is that of ompensation. I had allowed Bob's lead to sink until it rested in Beuih's lap, and from his calm and teady breathing I could see that he ad safely passed a crisis, that at ?ast he was not in the clutches of path as I had at first feared. Bob slept. Beulah Sands ceased her ailing and with a smile raised her ingers to her lips and softly said: Hush, my Bob's asleep." Together ire held vigil over our sleeping lover nd friend, she with the happiness of child who had no fear of the awaknlng, I with a silent terror of what irould come next. I had seen one mind rafted to the unknown that day. Was t to have a companion to cheer and olace It on its far Journey to the reat beyond? How long we "waited lob's awakening I could not tell. The lock's hands said an hour; It seemed o me an age. At last his magnificent hyslque, his unpoisoned blood and plendld brain pulled him through to lis new world of mind and heart torure. His eyelids lifted. He looked t me. then at Beulah Sands, with yes so sad, so awful in their perilexed mournfulness, that I almost rished they had never opened, or had pened to let me see the childlike look hat now shone from the girl's, lis gaze finally rested on her and his Ips murmured "Beulah." "There, Bob, I thought you would mow It was time to wake up." She tent over and kissed him on the eyes .gain with the loving ardor a child testows upon its pets. He slowly rose to his feet. I could ee from his eyes and the snuaaer hat went over him as he caught sight if the paper on the desk that he was limself; that memory of the happenngs of the day had not fled in his leep. He rose to his full height, his lead went up, and his shoulders back, >ut only from habit and for an intant. Then he folded Beulah Sands o his breast and dropped his head ipon her shoulder. He sobbed like a ather with the corpse of his child. "Why, Bob, my Bob, is this the w-ay 'ou treat your Beulah when she's let *ou sleep so your beautiful eyes vould be pretty for the wedding? Is his the way to act before this kind inn who has come to take us to the hurch? Naughty, naughty Bob." I looked at her, at Bob, in horror. ! was beginning to realize the absoute deadness of this woman. From he first look I had known that her nind had fled, but knowledge is not ilways realization. She did not even enow who I was. Her mind was dead :o all but the man she loved, the ?n V?/-voo Inner rtnvfl nan ?uw uiiuugu an uiunv ? ? )f her suffering she had silently wor<hiped. To all but him she was newjorn. At the sound of "wedding," 'church," Bob's head slowly rose from ler shoulder. I saw his decision the nstant I caught his eye; I realized he uselessness of opposing It, and, *ick at heart and horrified, I listened is he said in a voice now calm and soothing as that of a father to his ;hild: "Yes, Beulah, my darling; I lave slept too long. Bob has been laughty, but we will make up for lost time. Get your hat and cloak ind we'll hurry to the church, or we UN-Ill be late." With a laugh of joy she followed ilm to the closet where hung the Utile gray turban and the pretty gray jacket. He took them from their peg: and gave them to her. "Not a word. Jim," ne bade me. "In the name of God and all our friendship, not a word. Beulah Sands will be my wife as soon as I can And a minister to marry us. It is best, best. It is rieht. It is as God would have it, or I am not capable of knowing right from wrong. Anyway, it is what will be. She haa no father, no mother, no sister, no one to protect and shield her. The 'system* has robbed her of all in life, even of herself, of everything, Jim, but me. I must try to win her back to herself, or to make her new world a happy one--a happy one for her." J To be Continued. gdisrfltenmns grading. ANNEXED BY A RIVER. Boundary Line of Iowa and Nebraska 8hifted by the Current.' The Missouri River has been making trouble again, says a Lincoln, Neb., correspondent or me v^nicttgu wiirumcle, and as a result the Iowa and Nebraska legislatures were asked to negotiate a swap of land so that the river may again be the actual boundary line between the states. School children are taught that Iowa is bounded on the west by the Missouri river. The maps bear out this statement, but the mapmakers have not been on the ground lately. If they had they would have discovered that In the last year the Missouri has been busy adding some of the state of Iowa to Its west bank and a part of the state of Nebraska to Its east bank. Every few days the river forsakes a part of Its old channel and seeks a new one. Four years ago Nebraska and South Dakota had a lot of reconstructing of the state line, and Nebraska lost several hundred citizens and some fifty farms, but came near to getting the city of Yankton In return. A little time before that Nebraska and Missouri got Into the Federal supreme court over a question of jurisdiction over an Island In the river oposlte Nemaha county, Neb. The river cut off a section of the county and made an island of it, placing it close to the state of Missouri line. The newly made islanders protested against being so suddenly transformed Into Mlssourlans and persisted In voting in Nebraska. Within the last years changes In the river's course have transferred a lot of Iowa land In what was once known as the East Omaha bottoms to the Nebraska side, while other changes a little further south have transferred a part of Sarpy county, Neb., to Iowa. As a result the children In each new section have to pay for tuition In the counties of which they are not legally a part and are unable to take advantage of the free schools on the other side of the river, toward the support of which they pay taxes. fattrHHll# are also mixed, and as there is a conflict of jurisdiction, It Is becoming a sort of no man's land for criminals. Flowers on 8tamps. Japan and Newfoundland are the only countries which have given recognition to the floral kingdom In the issues of their stamps, says the Boston Transcript. Trees have been portrayed upon stamps by many countries, especially those situated In the tropics, but It is only on the stamps of Newfoundland and Japan that a flower appears. The chrysanthemum, the national flower of Japan, is given a conspicuous place upon all the poetage stamps issued by the government, and upon many of the denominations It occupies the central portion of the stamp. For nearly ten years, from 1857 to 1866, a conspicuous feature of all the stamps of Newfoundland was a bouquet of thistle blossoms within the centre of a delicately engraved background. This Issue of stamps Is exceedingly popular with collectors and is known as "the thistle Issue." Japan is the only country which has ever issuea a wedding postage stamp. Seven years ago, when the heir apparent was married, a special stamp In honor of the event was Issued by order of the emperor. This stamp Is nearly twice as large as our own and red In color. With a large oval is shown a table, around which sit the bride and bridegroom, with cups of sakl. On each corner of the table are branches of pine, the evergreens signifying unchangeableness. It Is supposed to Insure long life to the young couple. Upon the table cover are depicted several cranes, which are said to be typical of 1,000 years of existence. This Is the only stamp issued by the Japanese government which does not have the denomination In both Japanese and English. Belgium lays claim to an odd type of postage stamp. Many people In aeigium are opposed to sending or receiving letters on Sunday. In recognition of this sentiment the Belgian government ordered that a new issue of stamps be made. This "Sunday" stamp is longer than the regular issues and the bottom portion is perforated, forming a sort of a coupon a third of an inch deep. On this coupon is an inscription to the effect that the letter to which it is attached shall not be delivered on Sunday. In affixing a stamp to a letter, If the writer desires that the communication shall be delivered Immediately, even though it shall arrive on Sunday he tears off the coupon and affixes the main part of the stamp. A Dog Cemetery?On the occasion of a lawsuit brought by a marble cutter, some very interesting details have come out in a Paris court concerning the dog cemetery founded on the lie des Ravageurs, near Paris, in 1899. There are already 4,000 "graves" in the wm#ti>nr Smno r\t them leased for a long term, have cost as much as f.2000. The lowest price paid for any concession Is f.5, and the expenses for the most discreet burial are f.25. Visitors to the cemetery pay 50 centimes as an entrance fee. On one of the tombstones they may read, "Homage to a Faithful Heart," and on another, "Here Lies Black. Killed by a Civilized Savage." The above victim, explains the keeper, died at the hands of an indignant concierge. Another marble slab, mounted on cement rock, contains the following: "Neither name nor date; what matters it? And again: "Beneath these stones reside the material remains of that which during its life was my joy and my consolation."?Tit-Bits. FRESH START FOR BAD BOY8. State Trying Farming to Cure Jevenile Delinquents. UOn a fourteen hundred acre tract of id twelve miles outside of Rochester, the state of New York occordlng to a Rochester letter, is trying a new plan for dealing with bad boys. This is the site of the new state agricultural and Industrial school, to which Juvenile delinquents between the ages of nine and sixteen are committed. The school in this city, which was formerly called the State Industrial school, has not yet been abandoned, aa all the cottages at the new site have I not been completed. About three hun area boys axe now living at .the new site and It Is expected that the remaln'ng two hundred will be aent there In the course of a month. The new school and the general plan 01 operation represent in me nignesi degree the advanced views of those who have made a study of the Ills of juvenile delinquency. There Is not another Institution Just like it anywhere. It is such an institution as is nowproposed to take the place of Randall's Island for the offending boys of the eastern end of the state. Realizing t^iat in perhaps a majority of cases the boys themselves are not really to blame for their condition the object has been to eliminate entirely the prison idea from the school. The boys are to have a chance to make a fair, fresh ?|art in life. The State Industrial school in Rochester was opened to receive boys in 1849. It was known for many years as the Western House of Refuge, but Els the nature of its reformative system was altered a change in title was also made, the new one more clearly representing the character of the work done. The old school in Rochester occupies a. tract of twelve acres, enclosed by a stone wall twenty feet high. That barrier was the limit of vision for any youngster committed to the school, l^ithin that enclosure from five to eight hundred boys at a time have been confined for periods varying from a fOw months to several years. It was a prison for them, no matter how the slate might look at it. They were sublected to close surveillance. twenty four hours a day. f A military system was in force to develop them physically and teach them obedience, order and proper care of themselves and their belongings. A system of manual training and trade instruction was provided. Their religious as well as their secular education was looked after. Yet many of the boys went forth from these surroundings with no incentive to lead honest lives or to become good citizens. The conditions at the new school are very different. The site is on the eastern bank of the river, in the town of Rush, in the fertile valley of the (^nesee. Jfhe school is on the cottage plan, the homes of the boys being dotted over the beautiful rolling uplands, and there they are living in all the freedom and enjoyment of country life: There is no forbidding gray stone wall here to cast a gloom into the souls of the boys; in all directions, as far as they can see, there is nothing but smiling valleys and beautiful hills. At the city institution all buildings, aggregating about thirteen acres of floor space, were situated within the walled enclosure. At the new institution the buildings for the accommodation of the boys are scattered over the property, the cottages at the two extremes being two and a half miles distant from each other. At the city school as many as 235 boys have lived In a building 150 feet 1 long and 42 feet wide, and their work and recreation have been confined within the limits of a space 200 feet by 400 feet. At the Rush farm only twenty-five boys live In a cottage, and each cottage Is at a minimum distance of 400 feet from every other cottage. In many instances the distance that separates cottages is not less than 1,000 feet. At the city schools the boys have lived in four great groups, arranged according to age and character. At the new school they live in at least twenty-two groups. The whole tract Is divided Into farms, each group having Its own cottage, which Is entirely separate and distinct from every other cottage. A matron and a supervisor are In charge of each cottage. Each farm has its own horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry, and already It has been noticed that the care of the stock exercises a beneficial Influence upon the character of the boys. The new school differs In many respects from other cottage plan Institutions. In other Institutions the cotages are closer together. The food Is usually cooked In a central kitchen, then distributed by a car or wagon. 5 The boys living in one cottage are 1 assigned to shops or squads with the boys of other groups. The same rule is ' followed in the school work. All the ' farm stock is housed in a central barn i and associated buildings and only a < small proportion of the boys have the < privilege of caring for this stock. Experience has shown that It is un- 1 wise to allow the groups to intermln- ! gle. At the new school the general < plan embraces two distinct sets of I colonies, farm and Industrial. < The tract of land is nearly three and ? a half miles in length. Near the con- 1 tre is the Industrial building, where ' provision is made for laundering, t blacksmithing, painting, carpentry, masonry, printing, tailoring, shoemak- I lng. etc. Near this there are a ?rrist ' mill rronmerv fruit evaDOratOr, COld ] storage plant, bakery and store room, and remote from all the other build- 1 Ings Is a slaughter house. < All of these buildings have not been < finished, but they will be when the < present legislature makes another ap- 1 proprlatlon for the work. About the 1 industrial building are the cottages in < which live the boys who work there, i The tougher, less hopeful boys are as- I signed to this building. The farm colonies are located on 1 either side of the Industrial colonies. ] To each Is assigned the cultivation of I a farm of at least fifty acres. The ; boys have the greatest freedom. They may not leave their own farm without ' permission, but within the limits of that farm they go and come as do boys at home. Each farm cottage has a barn having accommodations for eight head of cattle, three horses and a dozen sheep and also a hennery and a piggery. Orchards have been set out, together with the necessary small fruits for the i supply of a family of twenty-seven. Each colony also has Its own garden where all kinds of vegetables are pro- 1 duced. When each colony produces i its own milk, butter, cheese, beef, pork 1 and mutton, its fruit and garden pro- ] ducts, the boys may live on the fat \ of the land. 1 This organization tends to develop ( the idea of colony responsibility and 1 possession and has the effect of arous- \ ing and holding the Interest of the boys 1 in their homes. In effect, each colony i constitutes almost an entirely separate Institution under one general manage- < merit The lovaltv of the bovs to their ) matrons and supervisors is marked. i Everything is done to cultivate the 1 home atmosphere. The cottages are e light and airy, cheerful and homelike. \ The boys have a large sitting room for 1 their own use, where in the winter 1 evenings they may enjoy the open Are, t play their games and read when the c day's work is done. c The dining room adjoins the sitting c room. The boys and the supervisor and matron have their meals at the e same time, the officers having a sepa- 1 rate table. All the cooking is done by f the boys, with the exception of the bread making. c One of the great advantages of the r individual kitchen is that it brings t home to the boys the necessity for economy in the use of supplies. Once f a month all the supplies a colony is to f bave for the month are sent to it. If l these supplies are wasted then the c boys have fewer things to eat and no c ?ne is to blame but themselves. c The individual kitchen gives an op- s portunity for the matron and boys to j exercise ingenuity in cooking the same materials in a variety of ways, thus s adding to the attractiveness of the die- a :ary. The question of food is an im- li portant one, as good, wholesome, prop- v ?rly cooked food not only brings the t >oys more willingly under the influence t )f the matron and supervisor, but al- v io makes him healthier and gives them d i better view of life. t The boys; dormitory is located on Lhe second floor. It consists of one r oom, in which all twenty-flve boys t sleep m single oeas. 11 is i&rge ana a ilry and well ventilated. o One advantage of letting all the a joys devote their time to agriculture f 8 that the? see the object of each act b -equlred of them. It Is argued that nanual training as done by Institution s joys is not done with greater Inter- p ?st because the boys realize that the a >bject made will And its end In the b (lndling wood or scrap heap. With the b 'arm work It Is different. The boy knows why he milks the a :ow, and he knows that the more a carefully he milks her the more milk t le will have for himself and his fel- c ows. There is a friendly rivalry be- n :ween colonies to see which can pro- t luce the best crops. The hatching of i brood of chickens or the advent of s i calf or a colt is an important and t nteresting event. Each day brings a c lew phase of the work. s The education of the boys is also t ooked after. The instruction in the I :ommon schcol branches is given by a :eachers who go to the cottages. One s :eacher has two. cottages, going to one n the morning and the other in the o ifternoon. The work done is very h argely individual. a The school has not been established c vlthout meeting with some criticism, c 3ome have characterized it as folly to ittempt to care for delinquent boys, c vhom the critics refer to as convicts, t >n a farm in the open country. An- f >ther criticism made was that the f *tate was going into the business of ti farming, having the work done by a ioys Instead of hired men. F In discussing the matter recently t Prof. Franklin H. Briggs, superintend- v jnt of the school, said that seventy t 3oys had escaped in the first year, but :hat all save five had either been re- a :aptured or returned voluntarily. As t i matter of fact most of the boys could I probably have gone if they had so de- t ilred, for there is nothing but the sur- s /eillance of the supervisor and matron e :o stop them; and there is a railroad >nly a few hundred feet away, which r night be considered as a temptation a for boys to slip away. The boys real- c ze, however, that they are pretty well e >1T at the school. I The most severe nunlshment that ;an be inflicted is deprivation of the f privilege of visits and correspondence r tvith friends, or participation in games, a which Include baseball in summer, t Jootball in autumn and coasting in a winter. American born boys form the great ri najority of those committed to the in- i stltutlon. This is the case in most in- e and cities. Only about 5 per cent of e :he boys are foreign born. r The school takes boys between the iges of 12 and 16 who are convicted of r my ofTence and boys from 9 to 12 a who commit felonies. s The average term of detention at the r school is one year, but a few boys s succeed in winning their parole in v nonths. Boys after their discharge v ire required to report to a parole offl- t :er for two years. Of the 267 who were committed in F 1906 101 were sentenced for stealing, s 14 for burglary, 11 for disorderly con- c ?? Kolncr untrnvArnnhlfk flJld 33 q for vagrancy. The other offences in- li iluded everything from arson to tru- t incy. The boys ranged In ages as fol- v lows: tinder 10 years. 5; under 11, 4. under 12, 5: under 13, 44; under It, 41; f under 15, 70; under 16, 98. t Forty one of the boys were father- a less. 33 were motherless and 21 were c poth fatherless and motherless. The parents of 34 others were separated. k Fifty-four of the boys had brothers h who had been arrested, 15 had broth- y s:rs already in the school. The fathers of 42 had been arrested, and the fath- c ?rs of 70 others were Intemperate, and I the father of another was In the alms ]i house. The mother of one had been v arrested, the mother of 2 are in the p alms house and the mothers of 4 are t Intemnerate. ' r The board of managers of the school t has asked the legislature for an ap- g propriation of $150,000 for the mainte- t nance of the school for the ensuing year, besides which another $100,000 1 Is required to complete the buildings, f etc. The total cost of maintenance last year was $158,944, or $292 for each t lad. c ? I til" Dutchmen drink more coffee than any other people. Bach person con- s sumes seventeen pounds yea "ly. 1 ARTEMU8 WARD, SHOWMAN. \necdote of the Humorist on ths Platform. In the closing years of the war beiween the states the writer waa a nember of a get rich. quick company :hat was formed at Trenton, N. J. The 5lan adopted was to hire the most popilar lecturer, pay them their regular .'ees and Incidental expenses and then llvide the big profits. The first and oat lecturer the oomnnnv ensraared vas Charles F. Browne, more popuarly known as Artemus ward, shownan. Having1 notified the manager of the :omblnatlon that his charge was $50, vithout anything In the way of ex>enses, the engagement was made and rrenton was plastered with posters mnounclng that the great humorist vould speak his piece entitled "Sixty dinutes In Africa" on a certain night rhe days intervening were spent by he members of the company by forecasting the enormous receipts to be livlded among them after paying all lebts incurred. When I met Browne at the. station ind we were riding to the hotel I landed him an envelope containing his ee. He declined to take it saying: "Walt till you see how you come >ut. I don't believe you will have nuch of a crowd and I don't want you o lose too heavily.*! ine cnivairy 01 mis, bo ainereai fom the usual lecturer, became maniest when we found the hall only half llled. Many of those present were leadheads. One of the Arm had be:ome scared when he peeped In the loor and he slipped out and corraled everal scores of his friends, whom he assed Into the hall. Having introduced the lecturer, I eated myself In a chair behind him .nd looked dignified. Those who may lave heard "Sixty Minutes in Africa" rill recall that from the beginning to he end there Is no reference whatever o the Dark Continent The lecture ras made up of quaint sayings, aneclotes and the odd quips for which Aremus Ward was noted. He had not spoken more than fifteen nlnutes from his manuscript when he egged the indulgence of his hearers, aying he had been traveling so much ver the country that he was worn out nd would have to sit down and rest or a brief while. He hoped he would e able to finish what he had to say. He caused a shiver to run down the pine of each member of our firm by iromlslng that If he found himself unhid to go on the admission fee would >e returned to the audience. The dead* leads looked expectant and happy. I sprang from my chair, poured out . glass of water and placed it on the tand In front of Browne. He paid not he least attention, but went on and ompleted his lecture In his best manier, while knowing grins appeared on he faces of his listeners. "I hope you weren't offended," he aid, by way of apology when he was hrough. "That, you know, is a part f the show. I am a little apprehenlve since I made a clergyman so mad hat I thought he would swear at me. le would accept no explanation or pology and left the platform without o much as bidding me good night" At the hotel Browne's fee was again fTered him. He insisted on knowing iow much we had taken in, and the .mount of our expense. Then he acepted |25, refusing to take another ent. That let us out about even. There could not have been a greater ontrast between the persons than here was between the real and the ancled A. Ward. He was of slight raglle frame, very thin, with yellow lair, huge hooked nose, dainty hands .nd feet, a tawny mustache and a link complexion. Indeed, his color was -- ? ?? - j j *ua /kcoooo OO pinK ariu presugeu uic uucan vhich carried him off a few years laer. "I lectured in Troy a few weeks .go," he said to a group of us in lis room, "and had an odd experience, didn't reach the hall until a few minites after the time advertised, and, trange as it may seem, it was crowdid to the doors. "I stepped upon the platform, laid ny overcoat on the sofa behind me and .dvanced to the task. At the moment >f opening my mouth a fat, bald-headd man seated in front threw back lis head and roared with laughter. "I frowned reprovingly and waited or him to subside. When he had nanaged to do so, I opened my mouth .gain. He exploded more boisterously han before, and this time most of the .udlence Joined him. "I thought there must be some rillculous disarrangement of my clothng. I glanced nervously down, but verything was right, (Browne was an xqulslte in dress.) Then the explalatlon flashed upon me. "The genial fellow, while waiting for ny belated coming, had been thinking bout the popular Idea of A. Ward, howman, and recalled some of the tonsense uttered by him. When he aw the real A.'Ward before him he k-as overcome by this recollection, as veil as by the contrast, and gave way o unrestrainable merriment. "Convinced of this, I began to laugh, ^or fully five minutes not a word was poken but every man and woman, iniuding myself, were holding their ides. Three times while I was speakng my bald-headed friend exploded, he others joined and I shook and waited till able to resume. "When I came down from the platorm, the gentleman hastened forward o apologize. It was as I suspected, nd he said ruefully that really he ouldn't help it. " 'Don't apologize,' I replied. 'I mow It did you a lot of good and I laven't enjoyed anything so much In ears." No man could be more considerate >f another person's feelings than Jrowne. When he began delivering his ecture, one of its most amusing points k-as his references to the fortes of ublic men. Thus he said of Washing "Vl" frvfto oroo rmt tn have unv ?ublic man of the present day resem>le him to an alarming: extent" He rave a list of other historical characers and finally added: "The forte of Gen. Pillow Is?no; he lasn't any forte; It was taken away rom him the other day." This was shortly after the capture of he fort named for that Confederate >fflcer, and while the event was fresh n every one's mind. > When Browne had brought a general imile to one of his western audiences, ?e saw an elderly woman put her handkerchief to her eyes. Guarded Inquiry told him that she had a son killed at the capture of Fort Pillow. From that time forward Browne omitted the reference, as he did everything that he thought might sadden the .heart of any of his listeners. He went on the platform simply for the money that was in it for him. It was a trial to stand before a crowd and talk In his Inimitable fashion, but it was a greater trial to be poor, and he used every legitimate means of earning higher wages. Bonner, of the Ledger, offered him a handsome salary for a weekly letter. needed the money badly," he said, "and the offer was tempting, but I wasn't fool enough to accept it To try to grind out an Artemus Ward UUIUII1U WU/U n ccn, wvuiu iiotv ??%* ? ed in the dreariest drizzle and would have ruined forever what little reputation I had made." He was given an editorial sltuatibn on Vanity Fair, In which for a time his letters first appeared. Only one Issue of that paper ever paid expenses ?the one that described In a poetical way the visit of the Prince of Wales to this country In 1860. Browne told me his method of formulating his letters. , "I wait till' some fancy strikes me, which by and by is followed by another. When there are half a dozen or so I put them to paper. I may write two letters the same week and then a month or more may go by without my formulating a paragraph. "You can see irora mis wuu a u?tal thine it would have been for me to bind myself to write a weekly letter, no matter how high the price paid. For instance, a little whim struck me the other day. It was to refer to a person as ha vine 'Auburn (81ne Sine) hair? that Is, cut short' HI work it into one of my letters, after several others come to me." But so far as is known, this conceit was never put into print by the quaint humorist, and it is therefore at the disposal of any one who can make use of it When wrltine those letters Browne would laueh and chuckle to himself, sitting with one leg thrown over the arm of his chair, while between sentences he jabbed the blade of his pocket knife into the wood. When it was finished he was as delighted as a boy with a new trinket His spirits would overflow until perhaps when he retired to his room late at night Then he would lock his door and pace the floor for hours, a victim to his horror of death, so great at times that he almost sank into a collapse. He must have known that the seeds of consumption were within his frame and that but a few years were left to him. Browne was a genuine wit and humorist. Some of his beet things never appeared in print His deftness in twisting and handling words was unapproachable. He was th# only American that ever lived whose spelling was really laughable. Josh Billings and others have spelled Incorrectly, but without the slightest approach to humor. I recall Browne's dating of one of his letters, "Onto the Wing, Joon 131860," his "puserlanermus cuss," his "abooee," his "ijit" and scores of that style whose appearance brought a smile to the reader. When the writer complimented him on his aoimy inus 10 nanaie worus ae replied th&t he . was ashamed of It That the humor should be Independent of such aids, as he maintained, was undoubtedly true, but no other writer was such a genius In that special line. t When I protested he replied that his reformation would be gradual, but it was already under way. It will be remembered that the orthography of hislast writings was beyond criticism, but his powers were waning, and his productions were much inferior to his earlier letters, adding little or nothing to the fame of one of the most genuine of American humorists. Greenwich. In the year 1675 King Charles II, of England, founded the royal observatory at Greenwich, in order that astronomical observations might be made for the assistance of sailors. The history of the observatory has been the history of chronology and of the practical side of astronomy. Its work and Its standards have become distinctly international. The meridian of Greenwich now determines the longitude of the world. This great scientific institution Is threatened with serious danger from the jarring of the engines in a new power station which the London county council has been erecting. In reply to a suggestion that the observatory be moved to another place, where it will be free from vibration, Prof. H. H. Turner has pointed out some of the objections. Science is constantly growing more accurate, and new sources of error are constantly discovered. Any day may disclose facts which will make necessary a revision of present calculations. So long as all the data of the earlier computations remain, this can be done; but if the future demands correlated facts which are not now recorded, the case will be different A change in the location of the observatory would not only involve an im mense amount of work In making1 new calculations, but It would forever close the door against going back and gathering such now neglected facts as the science of the future may demand. In a recently published report of the Indian survey it is noted that Peshawur, through errors in the original survey, has been placed 1,000 feet too far north. "At present the errors cause no inconvenience," says the report, "but if our triangulation ever comes to be connected with Russia's, the overlap in latitude will amount to a half-mile or more, because Russia is projecting her triangulation on too small a spheroid, Just as we are doing. The two surveys will then have different values of latitude for every boundary pillar." Here is a practical illustration; an international boundary question resting on scientific accuracy.?Youth's Companion. .W There's a heap of money spent pretending it's benevolence when it's good policy. <OT There is never a Job so difficult that plenty of people are not willing to tackle it; stepmothers are numerous enough to prove that. ' _