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While thus looking on, with eager and
trembling hearts, the wild screams of a
child, rose clear ard thrilling, above the
kissing, cracking, and roaring conAagra-
ton. One minute more of intense anxiety
passed, and then the form of Harvey WiIlet
appeared at the door, bearing in his arms
the missing child.
AS he laid it in its mothers arms, who
clasped it irantically to her bosom,t the young
man burst into tears.
From shat night no student breathed
aught against the upright, brave,noble-
ed young man. He was ever after loved
and respected.
There was now no misunderstanding his
true character.
The Poor IN ENeLAND.-Mr. Weed, of the
Albany Evening Journal, in letter dated
gath otfAugust, thus describes a scene he
saw the day before in London:
In walking up Regent street yesterday,
witnessed Il scene of anguish, new to me,
but not so to those better acquainted with
the abodcs Of destitution. Observing n
crowd gathering on the opposite side of tho
street, crossed over, and saw an infant that
had just breathed its last in the arms Of it's
mother, who had been sitting or standing all
day in that street endeavoring to sell match
es. The child died for the want of food and
nourshment, and the mother, who was still
pressing her dead infant TO her bosom, was
picture of despair There was scarcely
strength enough in her trembling limbs to
bear her 10 an Apothecary's shop where the
restoratives tried in vain upon the child,
were needed by the fainiing mother. This
poor woman, by her language and deport-
ment. excited much sympathy. She was ev-
identity in greatly debilitated state from
the want of food. She had only received
two half pence for matches in two days, and
had no other means of support. Regent
street, where this mother and child sat STAR
wing, dazzles the eve and bewilders the i'm.
agina:ion with its wealth and magni!icence.
The mines of Potosi and the treasures Of
Golconda, seem to have been poured into
the luxurious lap of Regent street, But a.
mid all this wealth and luxury, a mother
toiled in vain for the coarse food that would
enable her to give nourshment to dying
infant! And thus is human life 10 this great
city painfully diversified"
THE Rich IN ENGLAND,-In the same letter
Mr.. Weed describes the pomp and show of
the Queens movements about London, in
her gorgeous coach, covered with gold, and
drawn by eight cream colored horses. The
moral of it all he beautifully sets forth in
the following paragraph:
This royal demonstration exhibited in
bold and striking relief, the contrast that ex.
lists between the Rich and Poor of England.
The trappings upon the horses that drew the
Queens Coach, would have furnished the
whole Poor Of London with sunptuous re-
past. The livery Of the fat Coachman who
held the reins, would have made the infant
yesterday saw die in its mothers arms,
comfortable for tho ordinary term of human
oxSc n4ls ~ al H.,
coach is so SYSTEMATICALLY adorned, would
raise a thousand families from indulgence
and suffering, to a competency and to hap
pness. ] wished most devoutedly that tho
whole American People could have seen
this vain. glorious display of the expenses of
n monarchy. Nothing could
have been better calculated to make US love
and cherish our own Government and Insti.
tutions."
The JoURNEyMEN TAILoRs in New York
held public meeting in the National Hall
on Thursday evening, to take into consider
alton the present state Of their craft, cSpec-
tally their wretched low prices. The Jour.
neymon in Boston have organized a society
and adopted scale of prices, and IRE In a
fair way of obtaining an advance, thr ough q
dispassionate and candid appeal to the pub
lie. Their prices have been laid open to tho
world. and the amazemcnt expressed by the
uniniiated, that men and women should do
vote sometimes sixteen and even twenty
hours of each live long day to toll. and only
receive the miserable pittance of about G1v
cents for it, has excited universal indignation.
The great fault lies in the ambition 10 sell
cheap. To enable tailors to do this and un-
dersel their neghbors, the wages Of the
poor, Woodworking operatives in Boston and
New York, are cut down to the lowest poSsi-
BILE amount, while the constant recurring me-
cessities of the workmen, compel them tn
submit to almost any species ofinjustce anil
extortion.-N. II. Courier.
A CuRrosrTv.-Cuptain Joseph G. Jenkins
exhibited to us last week, one of the few
copper coins struck by the United States
mint during the Presidency of Washington.
On one side is the portrait OF Washington
surrounded by the words and figures
" Washington President, 1891" On the re-
verse, the American Eagle, eight stars and
the words "one cent" An anecdote is con.
nected with the emission of this coin, which
portrays. in living colors, the disinterested>
ness Of Washington, and the pain he always
experienced when his name was placed con-
spicuously before the public When spec
linen Of the coinage was brought to him,nnd
he perceived his own features stamped upon
il. he Immediately ordered the mill to DO
destroyed, and the few pieces already struck
to be suppressed from circulation. Tho
face Of " Liberty" was substituted, which ia
still the device on all American coins.
Hudson COlGm5iaR.
MAGNANIMrry- New York Courier and En-.
qnircr relates the following striking instance Of true
Christian spirit exhibited by lady: