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The cheerful parlors were, in a. cozy glow of gas-light and fire shine; old Mr, Snow was dozing as usual, with a. wed silk pocket handkerchief over his bald head ; and Mrs. Snow with two -or three Other dragons in spectacles and "false fronts," was deep in the con- tents of a. mammoth “Dorcnss basket," each female trying to out tall; the rest. Bless them! I was thankful to Dorcas baskets for once in my life! Isabel sat by a. shaded light, in the buck parlor, stitching away at a green worsted par- wot in a wilderness of canvas, upon a liitle sofa thatjust held two. I took the other seat, and we discoursed in mysterious whispers about the Weather. At length the conversation came to a 'close, and were both silent. "I do get so ennuyee,” sighed she, "just for want of some object to absorb my attention, besides Dorcas baskets and embroidery I" "Miss Isabel I." I began nervously "fingering, her tiny ivory bodkin and resolving in my mind to put an end to suspense. Why didn’t T go on-what demon possessed me to stop and finger. there, and finish the auspicious beginning with : "that I've decided to get a. Pans ma hat next summerjust like that you thought so pretty 2." -"o, I should be so delighted," said Isabel, "O, charming !" interrupted Isabel, clapping her hands together. "What colored eyes l" "Black i." "Is he bright and intelligent l" ,,Tolerably so, but most terribly bash- ful.” 'bel.” I caught myself wondering, in nsort of ecstatlc state, how it would seem ifl were a. married man, and there was a little work-basket on my table, and a pdr of small slippers alongside my boots, and if Isabel Snow's fair curls were glistening in the light of the gas- 'hurner.‘ I couldn’t stand it another minute. Up I jumped, determined to .go to Isubel's, then and there and ask her if she wouldn't take the most mis. erable of lonely stamps for her hus- band ! , Why didn't I ask it a. husband would’nt do and propose myself for the vacant post? Because 1 was a. block- hesd--isn't that reason enough? "I am thinking seriously," began Isabel, after she had put three spark black beads for the parrots eyes, "of adopting some sweet little child to love and take care of. Do you suppose you could inquire round at the institutions and find one for me-a little boy f" "Perhaps so. At all events, I'll try," quoth I a sudden inspiration breaking through the thick fog that surrounded my brain. "Suppose I look round and call again to-morrow even- ing t" When I took leave she laid her little hand in mine; it was soft and warm, like a. little lily steeped in sunshine. Any other man with 9. particle of pluck about him would have squeezed it. I didn't dare to. Miserable paltroon that I was 1 I had not even resolution to resume the con» versation until Isabel herself come menced talking about her lack of ot3eu- pstion. The next evening, after two long hours spent at my dressing glass, I went bravely to old Mr. Snow's hospi- table domicile, determined, not exactly to do or die, but to woo or die. I was desperate, and a. desperate man is equal to must emergencies. The room into which I was shown was empty, but Isabel's work basket lay on the table, and close beside it was a small china vase, with a. spray of scarlet autumn leaves and a bunch of wild blue asters placed in water. Had someother mis- creant'of a lover presented them l The bare possibility set my heart to throlr hing and inspired me with "a fierce de, sire to thrash somebody. A light footfall on the osarpet-Tsa- Li was beside me. "Well, Mr. Anderson, have you brought the dear little fellow whom I am to adopt?” "Yes, Miss Isabela l” "Of course it is a. boy f" "Well, it was a boy." I equivocated, "bat--" 'plate glass instead of lath and mortar, just how Mrs. Jones was leaning over the wreteh's shoulder, her plump cheek close to his. "Miss Isabels, I live been wishing to tell you this long time, bur I never was able before to screw up my cour- age, that-" Isabel lifted the long fringes of her eye-lashes; thesoft beam of her blue eyes madea poltron of me at once. "Don't, don't 1t take you a long time to finish these elaborate pieces of wor sted work l" I stuttered. Sheznade some laughing reply-wh" it was 1 don't remember, for I was mentally cudgeling In) self as a coward- ly, sneaking villian, and goading my- self on a second charge. -CT ' All alone in the world; and there Was Jones in the next apartment coo- ing to his fat baby; and I knew just as well as 1tthe partition had been How lonely it was in my little seven ‘by nine room, hemmed in, as it were, by the roar and tumult of the noisy 'hotel, in the gray gloom of the October evening ! "Oh, I shall soon cure him of that i" Tve no doubt you will, Miss Isa- THE LATEST EXPEDIENT. The impressions of childhood are last. ing; parents should be careful that the first given infancy to their sensitive, shrinking babes should be hopeful and true, always giving self-confidence and strength were needed. Unfeeling nur- ses' often. take advantage of the weak, ness of shy childrenfusing their easily awakened fears to frighten them into submission to their many times uni-ea sonable demands of obedience. it is much less trouble to keep a restless, nervous child quiet by filling its little mind with fear of hobgoblins, ghosts and other monsters than to patiently put it to sleep or amuse it it r hours. To permit such cruelty is an outrage on the part of any mother, and to plead ignorance of its being in her nursery is no excuse, for it is the duty of Ex ery woman who is blessed MM We title of motherhood to know how may hour r of her child’s life is spent [m long as it is wholly dependent on her care, While the little body is daintily (zl'rthed, and in every way cared for, it should he borne in mind that the heart's suffer- ings and feelings should be ;onsidr=rred and that that the rights of such should befespected in every child. There-is was out-snd I was not a. bit the worse for it! On the contrary, I had boldly put my hand around Isa- bel's waist, and drawn her so close to me that her only way of avoiding my eager gaze into her eyes was to hide them on my shoulder, Which she did !" f "Darling Isabel ! only say that ycu'll adopt me for life, and I will take care that you shall have plenty of occupa- tion," I persisted, half laughing. Still there was no answer, I suddenly turned my tactics ""rsabel---my first and only love-- you will not. break my heart l" "No," she whispered under her breath. "Then promise you will be mine t" Isabel promised. She has since told me that it was because she was so sur- prised to see the facility with which a. hitherto “bashful man" pleaded his cause, that she didn't know what else to do l" Be that as it may, the kettle is sing ing on the fire, this bright evening, the parrot hangs in a gold frame over my writing table, and my lovely wife sits just opposite with a black eyed boy on her lap, scarce three months old, who entirely precludes the necessity of "ad- opting" unyone else into the family. One of the most diffieult tasks for a mother to perform is to judiciously manage a shy child without making it morbid in disposition. Children of this peculiar temperment are very sen- sitive, and usually of nervous organiza- tion and need to be stimulated so as to have courage and 1eoididenee in them- selves. Many mothers, in their desire to cure this fault, are unthinkingly cruel by using severity as a means of correc- tion, thus increasing the natural dis trust and fear of the unfortunate little ones, while others are quite as thought- less in ridiculing their weakness, thus seeking to awaken a feeling, of shame in the timid natures. That both of these methods, or any other calculated to intimidate or destroy sentiments of of trust in others are a great mistake is without saying. Mothers should feel the deepest sympathy for this in- firmity in their trhildren-fir it really is nothing else-and let their hearts guide them in their f forts to overcome it. To do this, the source of the error shoulu be shown to the child, and if the management of shy children goes correctly they should be taught that the sxtreme distrust is ill-founded, and gently led out of the manifold miseries attending bashfulness, step by step, until it can see for itself the folly of timidity. In these dark and chilly houiy we are sustained by the th0ught. of the Indian summer days yet to ”mm - I dont envy Jones now; his baby isn't half as pretty as mine. As for his wife, she's "nowhere" by the side of Isabel ! wittiims---AUun, in all probability as he was the first marc-Club, "Indeed, Miss Isabel," I modestly answered, "I don't think you could do a. better thing-don't let me stand in your way l” "But where is he Y' "Here y' She opened her blue eyes wide. "I don't understand you, Mr. Auden son Ir “Miss Isabel, I am the person that wants to be adopted , Will you take me, not as an orphan, but as a hus- band l" Let-mothers then cherish their shy, sensitive children very tenderly Iv-mtlr ing them, first of all to trust in God and then osonfidenee in thenrselves and their fellow beings-Ladies' Homo Companion. Querieus--Who was it that wrote the_§_ong. "They're After Me "l" "Oh, don't keep me in suspense!"she exclaimed. I want to throw my arms round him and kiss him I" "Dun't say little, Miss Isabel , he is pretty well grown for age l" I remark- ed demurely, beginning to enjoy the scene intensely. "Dear little fellow where is he l" she asked. All People Followed "mm Shy Chum-en. “'lm Gels "Y Far toe “on! Honey. Just before the beginning: of the present century the population of Great Britain was about ten millions, and the national income about a hundred and forty millions, To meet and main- tain that rate of production required the exertion of on immense'tumount or ability, and the use of an immense capital which ability had already creat, Pd. We plainly understate the onse if we say that British labor by itself-- tlmt is to say, apart from the unassist- ed by, the industrial ability of the past ninety years-oar" at the utmost, pm- duce annually $140,000,000 for every ten millions of the population. And now let us turn from what the labor produces to what the laboring classes (all having an income of less than £150 a year) received. At the time we have been speaking of they received hut about half of what we assumed their labor to have produced. A population of ten million people received about S70,000,000. Two generations later the some number of people received In return for ther labor about $160,. Ov0,000. They were 25 per cent rich. er than they possibly could have been if in 1705 they had seized on all the property in the kingdom, and divided it among themselves. Or, in other words : Labor in 1886, instead of re- ceiving half of what we assumed it to have produced, received twer1tydive percent more that it produced. If we turn from the year 1865 to the present time we find that the reward of labor has continued to increase, and that each ten million receives in return for its labors 2'.?00,000,000; or in other words, labor now receives about fifty percent more than it produces. These calculations are based, the reader must remember, on the ridiculously exagger ated assumptions, made for the sake of argument, that in the days of Watt and Arkwright, capital, genius, and ability had no share in production, and that all the wealth of the country until the beginning of the present century was due to the spontaneous efforts of the laboring class alone, Fifty years ago the gross income of the nation was S515,000,000. Of this £235,000,000 went to the laboring class and £280,000,000 to those who paid income tax. Since then the labor- ing class has increased in numbers from 26,000,000 to 33,000,000, and their in- come has increased to £660,000,000; so that after making due allowance for their increase of numbers, they receive now 27,000,000 a year more than the national income fifty years ago. Dreams of some possible social revo- lution, dreams of some division of pro- perty by which much of the riches of the rich should be abstracted from them and divided amongst the poor-thear were not wanting fifty years ago. But even the most sanguine of the dream.. ers hardly ventured to hope that the wealth of the wealthy classes could be completely taken away from them- that a sum equal to the rent of the whole landed aristocracy, all the inter. est on capital, all the profits of our commerce and our manufacturers, could be added to what was then the income of the laboring classes. Within fifty years this miracle has taken place, and not this miracle only, hut another mir. acle added to it. The same number of aborers and their families as then formed the whole laboring population of the country, now secure amongst them every penny of the amount that then formed the income of the entire nation. They have gained all that they possibly could have gained. If every rich man of that period, if duke and cotton lord and railway king, fol- lowed by all the host of minor Pinto- crats, had been forced to cast all they had into the treasury of labor, and give their Her}! last farthing to swell the hsborer's wages. The laborers have gained this, and as before said, £7,- 000,000 more and without revolution. Apart from this, the number of people who pay income tax has risen from 1,500,0J0 in 1843 to 5,000,000 in 1893, showing a vast accession from the ranks of the laboring classes, Before the U. S. Ways and Means Committee the other. day a leading dry goods merchant testified that the Am- eriean manufacturers sold their best linen collars for F"2 per dozen, and made every purchaser sign a contract to sell them at retail for 25 cents. This was done notzfor the benefit of the retailers but to keep price up, so that there would be no pressure on the wholesal- er to cut rates. Notwithstanding this he had been able to import and sell better goods at the same price although the duty really amounted to 75 or 80 per cent. 0n the price. Thats the way protection generally works; if it did not work that way why should the pro- tected fight for it and pay large funds to retain it? Senator Drummond, Mr, Laurier says, gets $60,000 a year for. managing the sugar vefineries in Mont» real; he 1ratu1ally sees the great benefit the N. P. is to this country, and is willing to contribute of his means to keep the Government in power, la Get as Mr. Giffen told us ten years ago: ‘It would not be far short of the mark to say that the whole of the great improvement of the last'fifty years has gone, to the masses,'--W. H. Malloek, in Nationel Review. WHO MAKES ALL THE MONEY. Big Salary. Waterloo County Chronicle. The man at the telephone nodded his head and said: "Yes." 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