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institutions. The industrial school is a noble
provision for wayward youth who lack parental

institutions. The Industrial school is a noble
provision for wayward youth who lack parental
restraint.
KINDERGARTEN WORK IN SAN FRANCISCO.
There is work going on here among the little
three and four-year-old children, the waits OF
the by-ways and alleys, that is attracting uni
versal interest and recognition. In company
with Rev. DR.. Hemphill and Mrs. Sarah B.
Cooper visited two Of the leading charity kin
dergarten Of the city. These two kindergartens
have each two classes and have an enrolment
of about 200 little children under six wears of
age, every one of whom has been picked up
from the streets. In one of these kndergartens
the children are many of them clothed, and all
of them are lunched every day. This class of
children live in the "Barbary Goast"-the Five
Points OF San Francisco. What is most note
worthy in regard to this great work is the fact
that these 200 little hapless waits have been
gathered and grouped and trained by the efforts
OF single Bible class, in Calvary Presbyterian
Church. under the charge of Mrs. Cooper, who
accompanied us in this interesting visit. Mrs
Cooper has for the past eight or ten years pre-
pared the Educational Report of the state of
California for the Bureau of Education at Wash
ington, Commissioner Eaton having secured her
services during his visit to the Pacific coast sew
erai years ago. This devoted and earnest Chris
tan woman is cousin of Col. Robert G. Inger-
soil, to whom she is greatly attached, and, like
h Shc iS Tux CildIuplOn anuITicnQ OF helpless ana
hapless childhood. Nearly 5000 has been
freely donated during the past year to this
work, which is carried on by this remarkable
Bible class. This is practical piety, practical
benevolence. The young ladies Of the class
assist the trained kindergarten teachers every
DAY. They also make the clothes needed. The
Bibie class numbers some two or three hundred
enrolled members of both sexes, in ages ranging
from 16 to so years 1t is scarcely to be won
dered at that pastor who felfowships such
practical piety as this hears such loud calls from
SO many cities of the east. religion that has
everything for future world, but nothing for
thls, has nothing for either.
FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS.
What deluge of fruit! The markets are
gorged, overburdened, inundated, and the over
flow fills every street corner. Wagons are slop-
ping over with it, Impromptn stalls for vend-
ing spring up in every imaginable place, and the
irrepressible Chinese huckster. with his pendant
basket is hawking it about from door to door.
There are great, jolly, red-cheeked peaches;
bouncing pears, crisp and refreshing; luscious
grapes, full OF the sweetness of June mornings.
oranges. apricots, lines, dates, figs and berries
OF every description! stem of plums, ten
lnehes IN length, contained tOrty-seuen robust,
delicious, full-grown plums. The leaves were
all crushed and rolled into nothingness by the
giant strides of growth, while all the time try
ing to assert themselves. Thirty-fve varieties
OF peaches thirty of pears, nine of figs and
one hundred and eighty of grapes were eXhib-
1ted by one man at genealogical fair. Besides
all this, he bOasted splendid pair of twins as
pretty as peaches. Beat that who can! Flow
ers here bound from seed to maturity with as
tonishing celebrity. A park, r plaza, as they
term 1t, is matter only of a few years growth
till it reaches almost tropical llxuriance. The
markets are full of all kinds Of vegetables, SO
large and prolific that ] should. imperil my rep
utation for veracity were 1 to describe them.
UPS AND DOWNS OF FORTUNE.
Rich to-day and poor tomorrow is conspicu-
ously true of San Franciscans. This is coun-
try of swift vicisstude in human fortune An
element of speculation pervades all classes.
recent case is characteristic. An honest, thrifty
day laborer took to himself a comely wife and
started for the mines. He soon ''struck it rich, -
and came back and purchased an elegant home
on fashionable street, and the quid nuncs of
that aristocratic neighborhood turn up their
arlstOcratlc noses at the bare thought of such
plebian deflement. But what boots it? The
title deed in his hand. One of the most serious
drawbacks to solid substantial, healthful pros
perity among the masses is this spirit of specu-
lation which is rifle everywhere.
POLITICAL AFFAIRS.
The people of the Pacific coast are very proud
of their new Senator, General Miller. Just now
they are preparing to give him a magnificent re-
ception on his return. This isa movement quite
irrespective of party lines-a spontaneous trib-
ute from all classes. General Miller is regarded
as thoroughly representative man. He is
Christian gentleman and valued citizen He
has large fortune. which places him far above
the reach of temptation, and he is granite in
principles ofright and virtue.
1t is touching to observe the tender and un-
wearying sOlicitude of the people of this coast
for the well-doing and recovery of President
Garfield. They are unit in this feeling. They
severely deprecate any influences that have con-
spired to kindle the frenZied brain of an ambi-
tious foolhardy and desperate man, who took
courage from dissensiOn to send bullet after
the life of the beloved President of this great
nation.
In the morning we sail on the outgoing
steamer for Portland, thence to Walla-W Walla. On
our arrival it will be joy to learn that our hon.
ored President is pronounced out of all danger
And SO may it be w.