The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-17

NN A-N~NS pleasantly is used, needs little devel- opment, just for the sake of seeing things more closely.
 Three hundred and twenty little men and women from two to fourteen years, representing eight nationalities, the off, spring, as a rule of the lower and mid dle classes of society, are now residents of the big orphanage out on Whitney avenue; and if they are not homeless, friendless and comfortless, it is because their friends, made aware of their wants, have always come most gener- ously to their assistance.
 The county of New Haven with it's t'IIotel de Spiege1' and the town of Elm City with it's "Springside Home de Gaf- fey" always able to meet their bills, are honorably dealing with effects over whose causes both institutions have no control
 Some fathers and mothers are shell tered in both those places, and their children are in the asylums, county homes. etc.; and hence our charitable institutions, like all penal ones, have constantly to do with consequences or effects, rather than the causes of crime, poverty and destitution The proper way would be to pay more attention to the causes than to the effects in mat ters of this kind; and till more of this is done the orphan asylums must ask their kindly disposed friends for aid.
 The poor, honest man, losing his wife and compelled to go out to work can not possibly look after his little ones, and must place them in some charita- ble institution of his choice. Such men need the same encouragement as the many worthy widows who cannot car- ry their children to the place of their employment, nor leave them safely be- N hind at home. <--To the relief of hundreds of such sur- viving parents, St. Francis asylum has come by taking their weddings under it's protecting care, and when those poor people have recovered their ability to provide for their little charges, and are recommended as found worthy of them, the orphanage returns them to their nearest relative or friends, as no one has better right to them.
 Now. the situation is this: The bread and butter account in the shape of run ming expenses thus far this year to date has reached $22,OO0; the elephant, the mortgage or debt, is $30,000; and the youngsters of this veritable orphan dom, more populous now than at this time last year, have each such a pow erful omnium gatherum stroke" at ta- ble that the asylums needs are aug mented.
 Surely, then, a brief story or two about the children, whom the rich folks never adopt, and who are nevertheless dearly loved and assisted by the we'll to-do, will fit in here, and perhaps, gain especially from such as relish joke some new friends and benefactors.
 THE FIRST STORY.
 The late campaign caused a fai1 sprinkling of politics among the in mates of the orphanage. Financial lit- erature arrived daily, and when read was consigned to the chaplains waste basket In some unexplained way the children got a supply, and every day the chief topic of conversation hinged upon the leading presidential nominees
 While the Grand Rapids address o1 Bourke Cochran won the girls, and made them go wild over Mckinley, the only colored lad in the house kept shouting "Hurrah for Hanna"
 The discussion grew so hot just be- fore the election that a scuffie stopping all politics on the premises took place Tommy McGinty and the darkey boy had an awful tussle. Their little dukes flew la Sullivan in all direc- tions, both determined to knock each other out. McGinty's nose is now soft and sore. One butt administered by the head of the boy of color was enough for him.
 The wooley chap, however, like the