Year: 1879

twenty per cent, and the sick roll much more than that.

 Evening schools were started for the youth who were employed in the mill, and vacation classes formed in three or four easy trades and arts, for those who might otherwise been led into various courses through the open door of idle ness. This plan succeeded so we'll that one of the deserted tenement houses was renovated and converted into a School of Trades, where the boys and girls had their choice of instruction and prac-. tice in metal and woodworking, type set ting and printing, machine sewing and stitching of all kinds, and dozen other occupations by means of which they could begin at once to earn livelihood. MT. Fletcher found time to visit this school nearly every day, in the working season, to- encourage the dull learners and advise and advance the bright ones.

 The plan isn't perfect,'' he said to the superintendent, after years trial "but it's better than nothing. Our boys and girls don't know so many things as the sharp-witted classes I saw in the Grammar and High schools last week, but what they do know is worth more. They have found out what they can do best, and are learning to do it. And what they do know the world will give them living for doing-which is more than can be said of the city's graduates. Keep it up. Find square holes for the square pegs, and round holes for the round ones, and make lem fit. There's good deal to boys-and to men, too, for that matter-besides their brains. School the mass of them until they are fifteen, and their heads will take care of themselves, in this country. Let us give their eyes and hands and muscles chance, here in Milltown."

 None of these schemes succeeded of themselves. Very few plans that amount to anything do. There is a man or 8 woman back of pretty much everything in this world that moves on. They also cost some money; but no more than other men spend on their pride or their pleasures, or pile on top of their already superhuous millions.

 But if they cost thought and labor and money, they returned it all hun dred-fold. There is no stinting in the repayment of Heaven for good deeds done to men. 'Pressed down and run ming over" is the Scripture measure. And so Harold Fletcher found it.

 He had been denied the sweetest of all felicity: happy home-life with the woman of his heart. No soft touch of "rose-leaf palm on his cheek" o1 sound of coo1ng laughter from the babe upon his knee, and revealed to him the joy of fatherhood. Brother or sister he had none. His father had been to him no more than a guardian, and his mother-pity for those who know such lack !-had died so early that "mostly he forgot what she was ibe." But though missing 50 much of happiness, he found the compensations of which life is 50 full to those who know what living is.

 It was we'll with the young millionaire. He had learned the lesson of service, taught plainest of all but most ignored of any in the Highest Law: "Bear ye one another's burdens" Without kindred after the flesh, he had caught the sublime significance of those alt=inclusive words of the Master of right living, when, choking round upon them who sat about him, he said Behold my mother, my brethren, and my sisters P

 A rich man, Harold Fletcher counted first among his luxuries the luxury o1 doing good, and found his best pleasure in witnessing the improved condition the growth in virtue and knowledge the contentment and gratitude of the hundreds he had befriended. A re former, he did not waste his though upon theories nor his breath in bugle blowing. A philanthropist, he organized AO HOW 0StCuAAS CAhI4t4SS, pug AOAPSI men directly to help themselves: tn

 men nearest to him, whose wants h. knew. A Christian, he did not leav'

 too much to the re-adjustments of future heaven, but did what he could t give men and women a better chanc and happier conditions here and now In word, he applied the golden rule not siraply to keep himself from cheat ing or iniuring his neighbors, but t the actual government of his life. Must the world wait for remote an supernaturally- y-inaugurated "reign of thousand years " before an air castl like the Millenial Mill" can hay } foundations put under it.-Gozde Rule.

 , A Strange State of Affairs.