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i \ | «Bless your keart! noâ€"but printed â€"all the colors of rei.bow! Our old â€"cowâ€"and Jolifil«‘s portrait, as like as lifeâ€"and a red poppyâ€"head, and !@st night‘s sunset, and one of the baby‘s hands! _ And Midgeâ€"she done it ! â€"Joliffe says she‘s a boen artist, and she‘d ought to go asa printer to a theatre or some such place, where they ao a deal of painting and not much faucy touching." "I haven‘t a deal of money to spare," «said Mr. Mullen; but if Midge really ‘has a turn that way, it‘s most‘a pity ‘she shouldn‘t have a few lessons; and if all the neighbors would turn to and â€"each give a littleâ€"" "I don‘t believe in that‘ere sort of thing," said Mr. Joliffe, who was repuâ€" ted to be a misor, with an old stocking full of gold somewhere in the backâ€" :ground. _ ‘I‘m a poor man, I be." But Mrs. Jolific muleted herself of ‘the black alpaca dress which hag' been her autumn‘s ambition, and secretly put the money ‘int? ‘theiMullen fund. Midge‘s big black eyes filled with tears when she heard of this act of selfâ€" abnegation. mintil she gained a scholarship, and was Lfislected as one of ten to be sent abroad To study art under the grand shadow ‘of St. Peter‘s at Rome. "I see it myself," said Mr. Mullen, ‘one day, as he returned from his usual woute, ‘"in one of the Broadway shop windows, with a crowd of people flatâ€" tenin‘ their noses agin the glass to get a peep at it. And I knowed it the inâ€" stant I set eyes on it." «‘She‘s a good girl, Midge is," said she. "And because I‘ve been ground down into the dust al! my life, it‘s no reason Midge should be." 4T don‘t blame you, child," said she. "I‘d aâ€"done the same my self. As for me, I don‘t keep a girl. I can‘s afford it. But I‘ll recommend you to Mrs. Joliffe, on the next farm, as her husband is a house painter with lots of work, and a young vaby to mind!" . So Midge got a place. But one day Mrs. Joliffe came pantâ€" ing in with the "young baby" on one a@rim, anit the other on her hip. ‘"Set eyes on what?" demanded his wife. "How on earth is a body to know what you‘re talking about, Mu!â€" len !" Sbe had learned to read: she did not know how nor where; and once in a while such crumbled piece of newspaâ€" per or stray leaf of a book would come in her way, and agitate the inner wells «of her being. And one day the milkâ€" man, delivering his half pint of milk at six o‘clock in the morning, when no one but Midge and the black beetles were up, gave her a bunch of halfwithâ€" ered buttercups and red clover. And the next morning she "shadowâ€" e€d" the milkman in his various rounds, and ran, dusty and panting, afterâ€" the wagon as it finally made its devious way through dreary suburbs and desoâ€" late, marshy flats, to the Long Island farm, where roses of Shxron opened ®heir great purple cups in the hedyes, and scarlet cardinal flowers blazed, like torches of flame, from the swamps. "I‘ll pay her off one of these days," said Midge, â€" "Seeif I don‘t." So Midge, decently clothed, was sent to a school of design, and boarded at a cheap and respectable plece near by, "Our old farm house," said the milkâ€" man, "with the tumbleâ€"down stone wall, as you have always been at me to get mended, and the scarlet Virginia creeper trailin‘ all over it, and the old \"Here, little "an," said he. "The children picked them in the medder where I was milking before daylight." And it was in this odd, out ofâ€"the way manner thiat Midge‘s one talent blossomed out. "What be they!" said Midge, eying them intently, while a thrill of strange delight went through her veins. "Why, flowers. . Don‘t you know!?" "Where does they grow!" "In the fields at howe. _ Lots of ‘em." Midge said nothing more. _ But the next day, wheo her mistress, who was the keeper of a sailors‘ boardingâ€"house on Cherry streets, broke into one of her usual storms of objurgation and abuse Midge made up her mind. She would run away. "It‘s the barn door," said she, breathâ€" lessly. & "I s‘pose I‘m of some good," said Midge, as she meditated over her evenâ€" ing dish wachings, "but I don‘t know what _ â€"P‘raps T‘ll find out one of these days," Midge had grown up in a workhouse blossomed into "a situation" at nine years old, and, at fourteen, had had all the varied experience of a midâ€"ofâ€"all work. She might of had a complexion, but if she had, no one saw it, so obâ€" scured was her round little apple face with stoveâ€"black, dust and grime. _ She might have had a soul, but if she had, no ooe troubied himse‘f about it. “Don’t}'ou want a girl for general bouseâ€"work ?" demanded Midge of the milkman‘s wife, as she presented herâ€" seif at the back door, looking more like a magnified pair of eyes than anything else. Mrs. Mullen took her in, washed her face, bound up her sore and swollen feet; and heard her story, related over a bowl of blackâ€"berries and milk. "Set afire by tramps?" demanded Mre. Mullen. LIITLE MID6GE. BY AMY RANDOLPH The average youngster upon enter ing the West Point Military Academy at ouce becomes imbued with the spirâ€" is to graduate at the head of his class, to lead his associates in every study that is set before him, Once every year ambition is realized by the more fortunate youth who, by superior inâ€" tellect or by an industry that never sleeps or application that never rests, surpasses his fellows. The sadet who graquated "No, 1" in the class of 1893 consisting of fiftyâ€"one members, is a typical Southern boy, and, and in ad: dition to his excelleat mental endowâ€" ment, is regarded as one of the popular men in the corps; which is a compliâ€" ment of no mean order in an organizaâ€" tion renowned for popular men. Here are 40 persous whose united ages amount to 3,360 years, or an ayâ€" erage of 84 eich. If there is any othâ€" er place having an aggregate populaâ€" tion of wbout 1,400 which contains so large a population®of Octogen arians it would be a pleasure to hear from them. â€"Moncton Transcript, July 5th. There is Stepten Harvie, 80; Mrs. Stephen Hacvie, 80; Mrs. Cochran, 80; Mrs, McKay, 91; Mr _Shubad Dimock, 7T8; Mr. Thomas A. Smith, 84; Mr. George Johnston, 85; Mr_ U|man, 85; Mrs. Weeks, 91; Mr. Josi h Parker 81 Mrs Josiah Parker, 79; Nrs. Anthony 84; Mre. Shubad D.â€"nock. 82; Mr. Danâ€" iel Nosher, 83; M . Dorlus Mosher, 94 Mr. John Wier, 85; Mrâ€". Wier, 83; Mr. Thomas Sanfor :, 85; Mrs. Sanford 82; Mr. Andrew Spence, 93; Miss Hutchison, 80; Mrs. Acre, 83; Mrs. Lynch, 87; Mrs. Brown, 90; Mrs. Fish, 89; Miss Dimock, 80; Mrs. Baker, 87; Mrs. Dimock, 85; Mrsg Smith, 87; Mr. Thomas Dowinda, 85; Mrs. Mumford, 82; Mrs. Robinson, 80; Miss Harvie; 85; Mr. Wam. Bennt, 82; Mr. Robert Allison, 82. Mr. Waoi. Baiey, 82; Mr. James L Miller, 78; Mr. James Mcâ€" Kayv, 78: Miss Dimock, 80. "You‘re a kind of a pretty thing yourself to look at," said Mr. Mullen, looking admiringly down at her rosy cheeks and brilliantlyâ€"sparkling eyes. ,‘Who‘d a supposed that our stunted little Midge could have grown up into a beauty like this?" Midge laughed through her tears. "Just you let me set my easel up in the garret," said she, and I‘ll paint every nook and corner about the old farm for you. And dear old Mrs. Joliffe is dead, and the children jare put out to service; but I‘m going to adopt the baby for my own. Sne‘s eight years old now, and I should be an ungrateful beast to let Gracie stay at the poor house, after all that Mrs. Joliffe did for me." wall sweep and Billy‘s grey donkey lookin‘ over the hedge, so as you‘d alâ€" most expect him to bray. I went in avd axed the price, ‘cause I thought you might like it in the place of Genâ€" eral Washington on his charger over the best room mantleâ€"piece, if it didâ€" not come too dear; but, bless my sou! wlive! it is priced at two hundred and fifty dollars, and some one had bought it at that? And our Midge painted it." "I only came home night before last,‘ said Midge. "And I hurried straight here: and Mrs. Mullen hia me when we heard you coming! _ And I‘ve brought you ever so many pretty tuingsâ€"andâ€"" "But, child alive," said Mr. Mullen, slowly shaking his head back and forth "you can‘t afford it!" . .. .. "Can‘t I though?" said Midge. "I‘m a famous little artist now, Father M ulâ€" len, and I‘m getting great prices for my pictures," Before summer had mellowed into autummn Midge had printed a duplicate of the twoâ€"hundredâ€"andâ€"fiftyâ€"dollar picâ€" ture for Mrsâ€" Mullen‘s best room chimâ€" neyâ€"piece. "Ain‘s it wonderful?" said Mrs. Mullen., "Squire Sedley has offered Midge three hundred dollars for that little picture of Butterimmilk Falls with the ruined sawâ€"mill at the top. And that‘s all that John Johnson got for paintin‘ the Baptist Church inside and out." "Midge is a genius; that‘s where it is," said the milkman,. _ "And John Johuson ain‘t "And you shall have it, drar, dear, Father Mullen," cried out a sweet voice, half choked by tears, and Midge berself ran out from behind the door, "growed out of all recollection," «s Mr. Mullen afterward declared, and claspâ€" ed the goodâ€"hearted old milkman around the neck. "I thought you was in Europe," said the milkman, starting as if he were all eyes. Mr. Josiah Parker, of Newport, Hants county, N. S., formerly of Monâ€" cton, in a conversation with a "Transâ€" cript" reporter says: "There is in the south haif of the township of Newâ€" port, Hants county, a large population of old people in a popuiation of about 1,400. George Pierce Howell was born at Goldsboro, North Carolina, November 9, 1870, and is therefore not yet twenâ€" tyâ€"three years of age. He is one of eight children. . His father was a solâ€" dier in the Confeaerate army, and is now cashier in the old bank in the picâ€" turesque little town of Goldsboro. It was in this bank, however, that Cadet Howell was first broken into business methods. . Even as a boy, when his mother was preparing him for the pubâ€" Extroardinary Old Age An ‘‘Honor Man. ‘Of all my eight children, George never disobeyed me in his life, but was prompt and cheerful in executing every command I ever gave him,‘ is the handsome tribute his father pays to him. In personal appearance Howell is tall and slender; in height measuring about 5 feet 10 inches and weighing in the neighborhood of 130 pounds. _ is complexion is sandy. _ flis head is shapely with a methematical configurâ€" ation.â€"Zarpers Young People. He was prepared for the State Uniâ€" versity at Chapel Hill by Professor Edwin A. Alderman, and le‘t there in June, 1889, having passed the competi tive examination for admission to the West Point Academy from the then Third District, now the Second Conâ€" gressional District of North Carolinn. At the ond of his first year he stood No.‘1, at the end of the second and third years No. 2, but on the average for the full term of four years he came out xt the head of his class. Professor Alderman speaks of him as an exceptionally studious, unassuming and industrious boy. The Servant Was MorriGed. Dr. 8. had a newly arrived Hiberâ€" nian for a servant. He had also reâ€" cently purchased a pair of porpoise leather boots. His wife, attracted by the novelty uf the new footwear, asked the doctor in the presence of the serâ€" vant what they were made of, to which he responded, "Porpoise hide." Sunday labor is prohibited in Eur: ope, except in France and the Netaerâ€" lands, where the workmen are given time for devotional exercises. Night work is prohibited for women under 21 years of ‘age in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Freat Britain, Neâ€" therlands and Switzerland, except in cases where factories run continuously all hours. The hours of lapor are eleven daily, except in Great Britain, where ten hours only are allowed. In nnhealthy occupations a doctor‘s ¢erâ€" trficate is required in all countries for both women and children. The ninth volume of ‘Die Bevolkenâ€" ing der Erde,‘ which is wholly devoted to statistics of population, contains a list of 270 cities known to have a popâ€" ulation of 100,000. Of these the principal are : Lendons~. 2 02.7:. .ccsc aeralnnt}415,008 Parisu lz aalll l ul tis ie aos New Yorkâ€"Brooklyn........... 2,952,150 Berlin syel l uie in ind io s 15708,0498 Cantom=.....tl.c...lzannz.2. . 15000,000 Vienba .. o i2 y in kor. caereaale s (1,8047548 Wuâ€"chan Hanâ€"Yanâ€"Hanâ€"Kan.. _ 1,200,000 Fokioas sn llacl.. d aaeecines ©1103;200 Philadelpida, .... .. .. rmzcueee.. â€" 11050977 Chicugor..".....2..osscuac.le. / 1;009:850 Langtansi... .. ..cuscarzune. ©1,000,000 Blergan s snn ie en ohl en ,],0()0.000 There are 23 cities numbering be: tween 500,000 and 1,000,000.â€"Bulâ€" letin of the American Geogrephical Society. Shortly after the lady from the Emâ€" erald Isle interviewed Mrs. 8. and anâ€" nounced her intention of "laving whin me week is up." _ Mrs. S., somewhat surprised, asked the disturbed domesâ€" tic the reason for her announced deâ€" purture, to which Bridget responded with a horrified air: "Your husband is a docther, mum, an I‘ve heard them docthers do be cutâ€" tin‘ up peopie, an didn‘t I hear um wid me own ears say that the boots of him were made of pauper‘s hide. It‘s me own old father that died in the poorâ€" houss, an I wouldn‘t be servin‘ a hayâ€" then that uses the skin of the poor to cover his dirthy feet wid."â€"Boston Commercial BulJetin. Have You a Bank Account ? Some excellent advice given to grocâ€" ers in an address recently delivered before the Grand Rapids Retail Gnocâ€" ers‘ Association by a cashier of a bank in that city. He saidâ€"we quote from the report in the Michigan Tradesman â€""Right here I would urge every grocer who has not a bank account to open one at once, and to pay all bills by check, amd not with money from the till, as not only is tnat no way to build up your credit with the commerâ€" cial world ; for they look upon you as small potatoes, but ueither can you expect to have credit with the banks by doing business that way as they have no means of finding out about you, besides a check, when properly enâ€" dorsed, is in itself a receipt of the amount paid, which sometimes is very convenient when a bill is presented the second time for paymentâ€""‘ Every man knows how others ought to live. Luck may be defined as that which enables our neighbors to surpass our: selves. lic schools, he was the bank‘s runner and carried checks between that instiâ€" tution and the business houses. Confirmed. 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