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LohdonV-Wfige-Earaers-- By Walter A. Wyckoff. I 0 an American observer there Is no fact more striking than that of the essentially English character of these millions of wage earners. And the lower, he looks in the scale of j work and the .standard of life, the more surprising does the fact appear, until it; is almost inconceivable "as it stares out from among the ap in'llinsr conditions of the submerged The American is little ac customed to seeing the native-born of his own race among the ranks 'of wage earners and never practically among the destitute poor. Therd ho invariably expects foreign faces, and there invariably, meets them. I ; once spent eighteen months as a wage-earner inWiprica, living on the wages of unskilled labor and working at all manner of Jobs, as I journeyed slowly from Connectl-mt- to California. In that time I wasvthrown with nearly every variety of it was a rare event wnen 1 rouna myseit worsiug - uesme ft, w -1 foreigner, or in a gang mining camp. "Among London nnnthPr American, except as I got employment with farmers ' norHo? on some Western railway or in a Rocky Mountain Once during tnai '"i mi x. iuiiti.iji.iAi. mvy, v. uuuuj .u v. cago and saw, oZ necessity, much of the destitution of a typical American city, but never did'l see an American among the destitute poor. There are slums In more than one American city, more terrible, it strikes me, than any In London . fovrihii thnn anxr in tliA TCnst End but the American finds certainly iuu I.,.... - - - - in them only foreign faces. The Englishman, on the contrary, sees his fellow countryman, not only in every grade of labor, from the most jhighly skilled artisan and 'mechanic and operative to the unskilled navvy and the idle, thrift- Ips anaemic casual, , uut uuwu mv bu. uuumu tvvio, vau -npHctprd loding-hcuses in uorset street, as one may seeuasiimg iu iue suu on the benches about Christ Church in Spitalfields. From Wage-Earners," in Scribner's. - ;Ab Unmitigated Evil? Some of the Possibilities in America's Swelling Tide of Immigration. By Gustavo Michaud, 0 say that the great bulk of the American people sees m the recent phasb of immigration to their country aii. unmitigated evil is probably not an exaggerated statement. If the reasons for such an opinion were asked, the answer would generally be that the new comers are ignorant and shabby. For the student of man, however, these reasons have not" the weight which they carry in the popular mind. When, as is the case with most of our present immigrants, Ignorance has for its cause the lack, not of intelligence, but of the proper educa tional facilities, it is an acquired negative characteristic. As such It is not transmissible to offspring, and means absolutely nothing for the future of the; race. .The first Baltic people brought to Rome by the armies of Caesar were looked upon in contempt by patricians and -plebeians alike. They -were ig norant, rude, uncivilized. Fifteen centuries later, when the Renaissance swept over their land, the descendants of those same Baltic barbarians started a civilization which, in many respects is now the first of the world. Placed in the highly favorable American economic conditions, the next generation of our Italian immigrants will promptly show us that-theV lack neither Intel ligence nor imagination nor artistic talent. That the reVent turn taken by ( Immigration will deeply and in many ways modify yaf national character , is certain. That it will deteriorate it is not. Some of the modifications will be for the worse, some for the better. We can measure the extent of none, and ought thereby to be prevented from making sweeping assertions. The most conspicuous physical change which will be brought about by in termarriage with the newcomers will be the least noticed by jail but eth nologists. It is the change which took place in many parts of Europe after the great prehistoric Alpine invasion, and which is clearly seen in sepultures costerior to that event The skull will become shorter and. broader. That i change is taking place now, on a large scale, in the States of New York, Pennsylvania, and especially Massachusetts. We leave it to Esthetes to de Icide whether it gives us reason to rejoice or lament The Century. THE "STONE IN ; T3TE : ; RpAD.v i Dy JOHN EDWARD KYJSRETT. ' That stone, frowned on at first, Now held the wagon fast: The stone the farmer cursed, ! v Reclaimed his load at last. . ,Up hill with heavy load A farmer's wheels went round; 'A stone was in the road,' ' ; " At which jthe fanner frowned.' i At once, wi)th snap and crack, r : The shaftfgave way and dropped; The,wagon, iBtaggerea back, -But struck the stone, and stopped. s Tis thus through life, I wis: The evils often bless, . J 'And hindrance often is fv ' , A rock of sure success. ' ,; -John Edward Everett, in Ram s Horn. TEE "LONE HDirND OF SEABERRY SETTIEHEN1." A-p ! , By RAYMOND SPEARS. 1 SSJ4 RE von afraid, sonny ?" 1 on his hands and knees disclosed the Samuel Lawson asked, track again. his boy Lein one night Night came and found Lem lying in when Lem was fourteen the damp moss through which the girl's "Is1 it true that you don't footsteps had led. Lem slept a good "A years old. dare go into the cellar unless you have deal that nfght. He knew that he had light? r - of Good Nature Hard Work, No Worry, a Tlioixgrlit For tlie Otfaer Fellow, and a Smiling Face the Way to Happiness. I HAT is the use of being pessimistic? Did pessimism ever do you any good? Did it ever do your neighbor any good? jWhat If the coal is low In the bins and the money slack-in the pockets? Worrying about it will not fill either of them, but getting down to hard work this minute, keeping at work, and, above all, work ing the right wTay, will. ; j Every minute idly spent wondering and worrying and specu lating as to what is going to happen is a minute (worse tlian wasted. Hard luck is a phantom; laziness Is a fact. Don't be lazy, and you will not have hard luck. Life Is a class in mathe matics. Work according to the rule and stick to it, and you will solve the problem. j When you are feeling glum, down in the mouth, discouraged and generally out of sorts, remember the gospel of -good nature. Then put it jin practice. Stop thinking about .yourself and your troubles. Do something for the other fellow. The result may surprise you.- You thought, possibly, that bewas a bear, but even if he is, he knows the milk of human kindness when he tastes it - J A smile is contagious. Perhaps you never thought of that, j You knew that fear was catching, that discontent traveled like wildfire, that sickness begot sickness. We all acknowledge these things and we all know the deadly . results. Why not change the I thought? Why not recognize that confidence in the future, happiness and good health are also contagious? It was a wise philosopher who said, "Thoughts are things." It pniiosopner who declared, "As a man thinketh, so is he." "Practice makes perfect," is a saying, the truth of which is axiomatic. Sow optimism, practice good nature, and you "will 'reap peace, joy and contentment. No one can make you unhappy, if jou refuse to be unhappy. Try it and see if it does not work. ..-""-- " - - , ----- a ngnt jf xnere, aon t ieeu oaa. it ain't your fault your being scared. You needn't be ashamed unless you don't do the things you know you'd ought to just because you are a bit scared." " & It was the first time Samuel had ever spoken to Lcni about what everybody from Noblesborpugh, to Metcalf Moun tain had noted and commented on, not always behind the lad's back. Now with trembling lip and filling eyes he listened to the soft words of his father, which it seemed, showed failing faith in his son. j : "I don't kno-vv," the lad answered. "It just seems Jos if I couldn't do it, and and it's always so." "What would lyou do, sonny, if some time a bear should fight 'you In the woods?" the ol man continued. "I I don't know, but but I guess I'd run,' 'was,, the hesitating repljv -I don't belfep MP was the hearty One day soon jafter his talk with his father, Lem t(ok a pack-basket " a blanket, spine 'bread and a bit of pork. and while the sun shone bright at mid day walked back into the woods over a plains trail, Until night found him far from the nearest man, and whether he would or nol he must stay in the woods till the sun rose again. He did not sleep much that night and he cried at jtinies. because he was afraid; but nevertheless he went again ana again, ana aiier a iew trips into he woods he learned that, after-all, darkness was not so fearsome. But none of the neighbors knew what the ad was doing. They still talked about him as "skeery in the dark." Nor did they (know that -Lem was schooling himself to do the things that he did not want to do, which is good or one's courage, and endurance. After l year of the training Lem waited eagerly for a chance to show the stuff there was in him and so. he learned patience. For he had to wait two years. Then his opportunity came. There were summers boarders at Frazier's; two fishermen, withHlfeir families, and the wife of a cousin of Frazier, and Florence, her twelve-year-old daughter. Florence liked to ride on the wood wagons and walk logs on hard work before him, and that to do it he must be careful of himself. In the morning he awakened sore and stiff, but he kept on. He grew hungry after awhile, for he had carried only a little lunch with him on the day before, and that was now gone; Of course he had his rifle, but It seemed as if all the li ve creatures kept out of his sight, or he might have killed a partridge or hawk on which to make a meal. Perhaps he wasso intent on the trail that he did not see the game that was in sight. The morning passed ' slowly away with Lem still on the track.. Most of the time he was on his hands and knees. Sometimes it took him half an hour to decide wrhere the next footstep had been- made; again, in deep moss, he could follow the way almost at a trot All the while it led staralght away- straight away Into the fearsome Adir- was a good Hie Humility of : Ability. By Justice Ernest Hall, of the Supreme Court of New ;, York. tlMILITY Is, 'to other people, one of the most charming char acteristics n man can possess, but It is not one that-will aid him in his battle with the world. The man ' of humility is seldom a leader his very nature makes It impossible for him to take the initiative yet tho greatest men in the! world's his H tory, the most learned and those who have done most for their fellow-men were modest in demeanor, simple in habits and humble in spirit T z At first glance this statement may appear paradoxical, but it is not. Students may become more and mm-pi hnmw xney acquire wisdom, for they become more and more alive tb their own limitations, and more and more sensible to the insignificance of their knowled as compared with the wealth of wisdom there is in the world and the versa unty. of other men, ' J To be truly great, and yet be humble, requires qualities of mind which xew men possess. , Those who have "won fame have done so because thov struggled toward a definite end; -and it is but natural to take pride in the iiv-nieveuieut wnen tne uattle has been fought and the victory won. -- Humility is a lesson which the clergy seldom fail to impress on their con gregations,; and every. Sunday-school scholar is familiar with the -name of the most modest and humble man who ever lived. . - i Sir Isaac , Newton was so keenly alive to the insignificance of ' an, as compared to. 4he , marvels of the world and the wonders of the universe, v that it would have been utterly impossible for him to have beeni other than humble. - j I - . . . John Wesley and John Bunyan are. instances of preachers who were humble, and. unlike many f oUowers of the Carpenter's Son, they never became proud of their humility. ; - . . .. . . ... : , . . 1 . Benjamin Franklin was so lacking in pride that he walked throughTthe streets of Philadelphia with a loot of bread under his arm, and though he fcecame one of the most powerful men of his day, he was never puffed un or selr-cons clous. .... . . , - Some men remain humble because the realize how very little is their - . own greatness, and others because they are never able to overcome the retiring nature which was theirs by birth. . v I , - ;' tTo'beJ'proudTas Lncife.r" is a common failing-to be "meekas Moses" is a : tare vlrtupi. - ' . .. steps were more Vmiy - dirt but twigs 'were not so frecltiently broken. The reason: ixjm um rst t comprehends but suddenly he thought, "She Is weakening r : x It was true, imow auu wen found a sflck rrom wmcu iue had been gnawed. He found, too, places where the girl had passed two nights. ' But although she -was weaK, uw.. courage was good.' She kept on, ana always northward. That night Lem Reside a log in the very place where the lost child liad passed a night at least four days before. But mat dnv-the girl had not gone" very far- only a little over a milerLem thought and she had stopped orten to resi, hu tinl on logs and the ground. 'I've just got to hurry' Lem thought I to himself. "She surely neeas me, ana I mustn't lose my grit now. So instead of lying down, he kept on while the day lasted. Toward night he was In despair. The trail led along a beech ridge again a wide, open ridge, with little unaer- brush, and leaves that were so thick upon the ground that they hid the trail. i ; - ;' V ' . 1 : Worst of all, a dismal rain came on, and dampened the ground so that to follow even a fresh track would have been difficult. For a few rods after the rain started Lem succeeded in tracing the trail through the scuffed leaves; but night came on and found him off the track , entirely, and worst of all, faint-hearted as welLas weak in body. In the morning he was no better off. He ate the rest of the partridge and a squirrel that he had killed; but they did not revive his spirits. The trail was lost, and noon came with It still miss ing. I Then the last expedient he could think of came. The trail had always led, northward. Now he would go north, too, trusting to the good fortune that always favors tHe one who never despairs, and does all that is possible. With that thought in heart he set out by compass, and went the length of the ridge. . Long since Lem had gone out of the country he knew. He thought he was somewhere in the Moose River water shed but he did not know. As he camei down the end of the ridge he found that a wide flat .instead of a swamp was there. A half mile farther he saw the gleam of a lake ahead. It. was the most cheerful sight he had seen in a long "while. But before he reached it he came to a road an old log trail, oyer which no wagon had passed in years. Yet there was bare soil all its length. ' In tlie mud was a track that of the girl, and she was fol lowing the road. With a laugh that was a cry. Lem started to run along the trail, but he was too weak. ' In a few yards he sat down to rest After a little he went on again. He did not have- far to go. Three hundred yards away he saw the tumbling ruins L of long-deserted log- gers' shanties. 1 All was quiet there, still and' damp. Trembling, Lem hurried ahead, then stopped suddenly. A fine yearling buck deer stood broadside to him not thirty yards away. "She'll need something to eat if she's here!' Lem thought to himself, and raised his rifle to fire. He aimed with great care and pressed the trigger. As the report rang Into the woods there 'was a faint cry "from what had been the stables of the camp, and out of thej doorway staggered a figure with a poor, wan face. It was Florence. She fell in a faint before she had gone a dozen steps. The rest of the story is soon told. Lem's shot was a good one, and the deer fell. From some of the meat the lad quickly made broth in an old can. and with this he revived the girl's strength, which had been ebbing on the wood's diet there at the lumber camp for more days than she could tell. ' T waited here cause I knew some- effort to do his utmost in all respects I body would certainly come here some nad given him. I time," she told Lem. He lost the track once, ana during I lt as nearly thirty miles to Sea- hours searched for it, creeping on his I berry Settlement, but Lem and Flor- knees, already worn bare and raw by ence traveled the distance In three his previous efforts. He made band- dars through the woods, eating the k ntttffn and when these were worn out he barrel they found in the camp. Ee ot lnl KJl tore UP hl "'' It-M 'ar toward On the way out: Lem asked here: t t when he found a bit of doth "How was it you went straight away ZZ k ' , , . , hanging to a snag on a fallen hemlock all the while?" noon, when on that eyenlng Inquiries tirivAr--WMoWw.,i. "Ynn Vn.w m i -vxcxiujf ca.xixjr, j.ur sue Drusnea on wiJ u. ueiuiocis xree always Morning found: all the men folks the bark nnd fell honviiv t tho o-t.t.h nolnts east and if I wpnt smith nil h starting-out to search,, and the next on the Other side. Lem smilA ir while anvwhero rnnnr! tbfKDttiomot night found the child still missing. : All at finding the track again, but he, too, I I'd come out all right, so I did " 0 that night and all! the next day passed: could only stacker over th Tap- I VWhv. Florence." snld Tm "vnn Guns were fired. Ifires .were built far- Tt xirns all thaf heard cries uttered. With sinking his rifle, but he clung to it, for he knew "But-but I turned my right hand hearts the men returned home on the that life might depend on his shooting O Lem, I forgot!" . ' evening of the third night, feeling that something with it for her to eaf He "It's a good plan to remember, some- was glad at every sign showing that times, -I Lem said. " she was eating nuts . and bark; but "I I won't forget again said Flor- with his own feelings in mind, he ence, "and and, Lem, I don't b'lleve wondered at her endurance. I you're a 'fraid cat any more." The evening of, the third day found! I hope you won't forget again like V.-- A Rhyme of Love, "I read you like a book." he sn;4 : - Then, with a fervid ook d "Then swear and kis theMV - Said she, "You're greedvS i Come, sir, I think you've hJ erj! :xS 'or I'm no tree library." cno :,i:i'ml THE PEW HOLDER. Peculiar, thing about a niaa' ing in his church." .( "What's that?"- It depends largely upon hU Philadelphia Press. stay SittiD; SAVED .THAT INFLICTION, Tm,so graterui to Mr. ciiuanw for sending me his photograph" r "Why, I thought you hated him. Yes, but jusf think, he mi brought it"-Town and Country. ' ROUGH ON THE NEIGHBOR It made the tears come to Lem's eyes to think of that little girl somewhere ahead of him in the wilderness, per haps lying on. the ground exhausted, or worse. But he . did not try . to hurry. He made , sure . that he was on the girl's track, and not astray, where the deer had run or a bear hau walked. Once he stopped at a wintergreen berry patch and ate a handful of the fruit, and all the time he chewed birch bark. His hunger was becoming hard to bear, ' and night found him on the side of. a beech ridge drawing his belt tighter and tighter still, to sleep the night away. He felt his heart weaken when! he thought that for all his care, he had been able to go only a few hundred yards on that day. But in the morning he rose and went steadily on againf His head ached and he was a little sick at the stomach. "No matter," he thought "I'm just going ahead taow." Sure enough, he was. Only a few rods along the ridge he found where Florence had pulled the leaves out from under a fallen tree, and lain down In them. f,She's cool, still," Lem said to him self. "If she was much scared, she wouldn't 'a done that" He found where the girl had started r.'i In Biggs "How did you induce the next door to stop playmg the corned Boggs "I Bought an automatic ana Kept it going aay ana nisnt ma he offered to quit if I would."-Xei xorK journal. -" ' WHAT. HAPPENED. "She married the coachman becaia she wanted some one vha cotf drive." "Well?" V "Well, he drove her to distraction.' -Chicago Post the creek bank.. Moreover she loved ? agn' and tben made the discovery the woods, and went frequently into them. Of course she knew Lem. and he baited hooks' , so that she could catch fish out of , the brooks. But one day Annie Borson told her that Lem was afraid of everything. even the dark, i It was unkind of Annie, but when Florence asked Ike Frazier about i he told her many things that Lem had feared the dark. other boys and jworst of all, a deer fawn had followed him one evening down the road, and he "running and hollering loud's he could." The next time Florence met Lem she did not look at him. " 'Fraid cats" Were not to the liking of such a eirl. that she was eating beechnuts, which she found among the leaves. From the number of hulls, Lem judged that she must have found a large number of them. It put new courage In him, and he kept on with more hope than he had felt at the close of the previous day. He made another discovery, too; he tfound that at intervals along the trail twigs had been broken ! off. The girl had thought to break them, and so leave a trail behind her. These were a great help. It was with wonderment that Lem noticed the course the girl was fol lowing; it was almost due north, as if sue nad a compass, although Lem knew she did not have one. But the Annie told Lem some of the things " pwn,0 eM i& uu vvas deling weaK nimseir now, ed no t h in ffi But Lem ?e ke 01? the.mo- u. -.rj mentum wnicn tnree years of steadv for his time to come. He knew some things about his heart that others had never tried to see. . i r Florence went to the woods oftener than before and .wandered around" In them. They seemed verv lovelv to tne search was quite hopeless. Sam Lawson said it "Wasn't any use," and Ike Frazier was as certain. But somehow Lem Lawson felt that here was his opportunity. He said to himself, Ul trail jher like a lone hound him beside a little mountain brook, that Florence," said the boy looking till I find her, deader alive," and he Here the girl had taken a drink and lnto the future. wem uut me uet morning wun re- tnen waded across; she had jumped newed purpose in this heart, feeling or many a one twice as wide as Lem me. mat time in ms uie tnat now ne dimly remembered. xxttvi .uicuimse uiusc uo. - 9 j A partridge walked : out on the How carefully he hunted back of the Frazier Clearing, j through the briars of the Old Burning, along the top of Maple Ridge, and among the aiders of Big Brook need! not be told here. 1 It was nearly 3 o'clock in the afternoon when, on the edge of Black Swamp, he orancn of a spruce tree a few yards away. Lem started to raise his rifle. but he was too weak to get the sights This is how Lem Lawson cot. his name of the "Lone Hound of Seaben-y oemement." xouth's. Companion. Orljtn of the Military Salute. Of military, salutes, raising the right hand to the head isl generally believed m line, his arms trembled so. The to have originated from the days of the partridge was a deep woods one, how- tournament when the knights filed ever, ana not iamuiar witn men. Lem past the throne of the queen of beautv wu. iuuuu un ue uuuiu rest tne uuu. uy way or comn mtrnt v-tcrtri found a ribbon with which the drl'sUp, n emn nx ZL rT'S111 . . . - I i-v """"f, o-iiu., men Willi l mcu ua.uus iu meir DrOWS to itriTilv eleven miles away from Seaberry Set tlement, when the girl had started. Lem went down' on his knees with a little cry of joy,; and looked into the dirt for a track. His woods-trained eyes found - one, land then another they led into the svamp. . It was hard trailing. In one plice deer had tramped out every vestige! of the trail, in an other the keenest searching did .'pot deadly aim he shot the bird through that her beauty was too dazzlinz for ' ' . j unsnaaea eyes to sraze nn , Th TTo ,1M a. v. - . : ulULCi uuui ci vciv.uuuLTy never- saiute wim xne sworn hns o thejess. he built a little fire and toasted meaning. The first nosition with ..a. the bird's legs over it. "I'll just save the breast for her' he said to himself., He ate the legs, and with that his appetite came back with a rush; but he knew better than to overload his stomach. For some reason the trail had seemed reveal a trace, and only 3 circle made easier to follow on that day. The foot hilt opposite the lips, is a repetition of the crusader's action in kissing the cross hilt of his sword in token of faith and fealty, while lowering the point afterward implies either submis sion or friendship, meaning in either case that it is no longer necessary to stand on guard. Chicago Chronicle. V 'ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT. Pallette "De Auber is an odd nlus." Brushly "What's he up to novr?" Pallette - "He is painting a te hundred-dollar portrait of a thirtyc man." Chicago News. ; FATE'S INJUSTICE." a Nocash (dIsconsolately)-"The are getting richer and the poor poore! I . Friend "What's wrong now?" 'I Nocash "Miss Fullpurse bas retei me, and Is going to marry Mr. to pon." New York Weekly. ! 5 JLtLf &1JJ 1iV.' . "Eplctetus said all philosophy lies in two words, 'restrain' and 'abstain. "Well, Epictetus may hareit fied out all rjght in his day, but in these times philosophy seems to be fully expressed In the two vorfc 'gain and .retain.' "Chicago Record Herald. ; DISTINCTION. .V Hostess has just been showing go the nieturA callprv and thp other gloric of the ancient baronial halls, at tte same time discoursing tlie greatness. Guest (pointing to row of busts "And are these celebrities or just re" lations ?" Punchr POLITE. Km iu.ume4T "VVnat Cld you grandma gave you a piece of P1C- ? Willie-"l'told hlr I hoped itaS ' good as. it was small."-6 Journal. ' HER PHILOSOPHY- .Miss Pretty Teacher (soon to be ried)-"Of course we're tired to ce of teaching. I'm going to stop w "why don't you?" v m mss Prim - (who is always mia marriage, but has no offers) 10 to.'! ! ;.- ,nT1t Miss Pretty Teacher-"? you, then? You're not consist witb Ju philosophy..1 What is it, .any Miss Prim "Kant, principal New York Times.
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