Evening gazette, Tuesday, March 17, 1896 · page 7

 

 

NO Wouxumsus.

 

The Poor Children of 7 Australia.
Gated For by the State.

 

A System of Providing for the Waits
‘ Which Has Become Popular and Sucé
cesstul—Trained for Use-
ful Lives.

The British poor law system being
unknown in Australia, where there are
no work houses, it follows that there
are no poor rates, such not being need-
ed, for although it may happen that
from time to time the assistance of the
state is claimed by, and granted to,
able-bodied men who are unable to
find employment, that assistance takes
the form. of wages paid for work spe-
cially provided by the state to meet a
condition of the labor market which
is certainly abnormal. The chief ef-
forts of the authorities, as regard char-
ity, are directed toward the rescue of
the young from criminal companion-
ship and temptation to crime, the sup-
port of the aged and infirm, the care
of the imbecile or insane, and the sub—
sidizing of pri ate charity for the cure
of the sick and injured, and the amelio-
ration of want.

purposes, the management of the in-

 

stitutions supervising the expenditure
is in private hands; and, in addition to
state-aided institutions, there are nu-
merous private charities, whose efforts
for the relief of those whom penury,
sickness or misfortune has afflicted are
beyond all praise. The rescue of the
young from crime, is attempted in two
ways—first, by means of orphanages.
industrial schools and reformatories,
which take care of children who have
been abandoned by their natural guar—
dians, or who are likely, from the pov-
erty or incapacity of their parents, to
be so neglected as to render them liable
to lapse into crime; and secondly, by
sequestering children who have al-
ready committed crime, or whose pa-
rents or guardians find themselves un-
able to control them. The problem of
dealing with destitute children and
those liable from their environment to
become criminal is naturally surround-
ed with very great difficulty, and in
New South Wales its solution was at-
tempted many years ago by the estab-
lishment of the orphanages at Parra-
matte, and the destitute children’s asy-
lum at Randwick, as well as the Vernon
training ship for boys, and the Biloela
reformatory and industrial school for
girls.

The system of crowding children in
large establishments was rightly con-
sidered as open to many grave objec—
tions, and in 1380 a scheme of separate
treatment was inaugurated, an act be—
ing passed by the New South Wales

: legislature empowering the formation

of a state children’s relief board, to
whose charge the‘ destitute or neglect-
ed children of the colony were entrusted.
The board was empowered to take chil-
dren from the various institutions and
deal with them in certain specified
w'ays. Starting with the charge of 50
children in 1881, the number has an-
nually increased Until the beginning
of the present year, when it was 3,174,
1,822 being boys and the remainder
girls. The greater port-ion of the chil-
dren are boarded out in private fam—
ilies, a few are adopted, and, where
they are of infantile age or possess

~ delicate constitutions, they are placed

in charge of properly selected nurses.
At the commencement of 1895, there
were 1,239 homes with one board-
ed—out child each, 398 homes with two
children each, 197 with three children,
88 with four children and three with
five .children. Where possible, families
of children are kept in the same home;
thus there are 28:2 families with sep-
arate guardians, the idea being to pre-
serve intact the ties of family. The
(‘hildren are boarded out all over the
colony, and are under the supervision
of local women visitors, who give their
services gratuitously. .

A marked illustration of the popular-
ity and success of the boarding-out sys-
tem is to be found in the very large in-
crease which takes place every year in
the number of persons who desire to
obtain the control of state children,
and the illustration is the more grati-
fying when it is remembered that the
applications are unsolicited in any way,
and come from all parts of the country.
Many of the boys are taken by farmers,
but almost every leading industry and
profession in the colony is represented
in the list of guardians. The average
cost of each child to the state is .9 13 18s
2d per annum. As the children grow up
they are apprenticed to useful trades,
the money paid for their services being

I. placed to their individual credit in the

'government savings bank. Under the
firm and energetic administration of

— the board the system has been a suc-

cess from the very first, and is doing
much to prevent the introduction of
the hereditary pauper element among
the New South Wales population.
‘Nhere practicable, the parents are
compelled to contribute to the support
of their offspring, and it'is encouraging
' to hate that, while instances of, mis-
conduct on the part of guardians or
wrongful conduct on the part of
the children are comparatively
few, the number of: boys and girls who
are rapidly becoming good and useful
members of society is large, and stead-
ily on the increase—Australian Letter.

 

Hard of Hearing.

A prince went to inspect a rare collec-
tion of books in a little town. The
mayor accompanied him. To his great
amazement he discovered that all the
books were placed on the shelves the

‘ wrong way about.

“What made you arrange them in
th 2% fashion '2"

“I could not permit the volumes to
turn their backs. on your highness.”——

La Tribuna.

 

—-—Cloves are gathered in the month of
December and must be dried quickly in
order to retain the aromatic qualities
of the spice.

Even where the gov- .
crnment grants aid for philanthropic ;

THE TROUBLE AT ST. GRACE’S.

A True Account of the Cause 0! the Dis
banding of the l-Quire."

The trouble in St. Grace’s choir was
not due to the soprano or the contralto,
but to a man. St. Grace’s was a country
church, and so high that the congrega-
tion preferred to consider their singers
as composing a “quire,” rather than a
“choir;”
every churchwoman—knows that from
“quire” to “Rome” is but a step, and
feels a delicious thrill at the idea of
danger. The quire at St. Grace’s, be-
fore the trouble began, was composed
of men and boys, and was vested; and
it sang very well.

It sang very well except for one man.
He was a tall man, with a clean-shaven,
lantern-jawed face, known to the quire
boys as “Ham-and-Eggs.” Why he re-
ceived this title, no one knew; but he
had it, and as no one ever called him by
it to his face, it served quite well as a
name for him. Ham~and-Eggs was
rated as a basso, and sometimes he sang
as a basso. But quite often, in the mid-
dle of a hymn or a chant, it would occur
to him to sing falsetto, and he would
sing falsetto. Once, even, in the middle
of a solo, the spirit moved him to sing
falsett-o—“and he done so."

: Now that sort of thing would raise
hob, even in an evangelical choir; in a

 

 

and every churchmen—no."

TALKING UNITED ,STATES.

A Small Boy Enlightens His Teacher on
the Real Vernacular.

 

In a four-roomcd house in a short '

thoroughfare in. the most populous part
of the west side live “Jamesy” and his
family. His family consists ofa father
and mother, and a younger brother and
a younger sister. Although “J amesy,”
as the eldest child, is perhaps the most
important member of the family, he
is less than'seven years old, and not
very large for his age. The greater
portion of his brief life has been spent
on the sidewalk, where he learned to
fight his own battles and take a few
hard knocks without grieving. His
father and mother are hard-working
people, but they have been so busy for
two or three years getting soup bones
and firewood to throw at the wolf that
“Jamesy’s” education has been neg-
lected. The boy learned many things,
but he didn’t get them out of a primer.
For two months he had been “hustlin’ ”
papers, until a truant inspector found
him one day and took him home.
“Jamesy’s” mother was told tli‘at the
boy belonged in school, and that he
must be started in at once. She- was a

 

well-meaning woman and agreed that

‘ “J amesy’s” education should begin the

’ high church vested quire it raised much ‘
more than hob. The rector himself tried ;

to persuade IIam-and-Eggs to settle on
one voice or another; but without avail.
Then he tried diplomacy and compro-
mise.

“We’ve too many bassos now,” he

the , quire. Now—what—do—you—say
-—to—singing——tenor? Hey?” - and he
looked inquiringly yet encouragingly
at Mr. and Mrs. Ham-and-Eggs.

Mr. H.—and-E. spoke first, in his deep-
est bass.

“1 will sing only with the voice God
gave me,” was what he said; and his
stout better half remarked angrily:

“The mere suggestion is an insult.”

Now Ham-and—Eggs had three sons,
known as “Bacon-and—Eggses” (Bacon
isn’t so big as Ham), and to avenge the
insult he and they absented themselves
from the final rehearsal of‘the Easter
carols. The poor parson was in a
pheese. Were they coming on Easter
to sing or were they not? He could
learn nothing from the Skillet, as the
boys had named Ham-and—Eggs’ house,
because the family was our. So he de-
cided on a bold plan; he would ask
some ladies to sing the soprano parts,
and let the bass get along without Ham-
and-Eggs.

“ Ve’ll put a screen in the chancel,”
he explained, “and the three Miss Blos-
soms can sit behind it.”

The three Miss Blossoms were will-
ing, and at midnight the parson gave
them their parts of the carols and
chants, and they sat up the rest of the

urged. “They overpower lhe rest of .

I

night learning them. On Easter Sunday ,

the quire was very weak; most of the
boys had gone home for the vacation.
But Ham and ISacon-a-nd-Eggs were
there, after all. The three Miss Blos-
soms were smuggled into the chancel
and tucked away behindthe screen
without any of the quire knowing; and
everything was prepared for the 11
o’clock service.

In time [the processional began and
the quire entered. The quire consisted
of two-basses, Ham-and-Eggs one of
them, one tenor, the three Bacon-and-
Eggs, and no altos. But the three Miss
Blossoms hadn’t been warned not to
sing until the male quire was seated;
so at the first notes of the processional
they began. The quire, prepared to
sing, found some one out of sirrht sing-
ing away bravely, and was astonished
and stopped—or most of it did; for
Ham-and—Eggs kept on, first in bass,
then in falsctto, trying to carry the song
through.

After that, though, everything went
smoothly; and having been warned by
the rector during the service, the three
Miss Blossoms did not sing all of the re-
cessional, but executed a vecal tour de
force by singing with less and less voice
as the quire departed, and succeeded in
producing an effect quite like the Turk-
ish reveille, as one of them explained
later to the rector, Mr. Partridge.

But the next day Ham-and-Eggs re-
signed.

“I don’t mind what you said,” he
wrote. “I will sing only with the voice
God gave me, and that voice I will take
care'of. There was too much echo yes-
terday in church; it injured my voice
appreciably. So I beg‘to resign.”

The Bacon-and—Eggses went with
their father, and so St. Grace’s quire
came to grief—N. Y. Sun.

. A Royal Picture.

Years ago, when staying in Berlin, 1
was conducted over the private rooms
of the royal family in the Berlin
schloss. The old emperor’s rooms were
strewn with bibelots so numerous and
so charming that a young princess
might have envied them. On his birth-
day gift-s of every sort, with bunches of
his favorite corntlower, were sent to
him from all parts of the kingdom.
Blue was the predominant color of the
decorations, and lapis—lazuli vases and
ornaments were there in dozens. What
struck me most of all his possessions
was a picture painted in water colors
by Empress Frederick, then crown
princess. It consisted of a large bunch
of gay flowers, and in the center or each
flower peeped forth the head of one of
the emperor’s little grandchildren. In
a withered violet was the baby face of
Prince Sigismund, who, it will be re-
membered, died when he was but two
years old. Old Gen. Field Marshal
Wrangel was godfather , to the tiny
child, and gave him, I remember,.a sol-
dier’s cap to wear. After his death the
crown princess returned it to the gen-
eral, and sewn inside was one of her
darling’s fair fiaxen curls—The Wom-
an at Home.

-—Eddie—“I ain’t afraid; I kicked old
Barker’s bulldog yestiddy.” Neddy—
“Humph! I’ve been in a graveyard
after dark.” Teddy—“That’s nothin’;
I play on the trolley tracks every day.”

 

 

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' class in your own words.

 

next morning. ,

The boy went to the schoolhouse half
determined to “duck” at recess, but the
teacher treated him so kindly and there
was so much of a novelty in the show
that he decided to remain. He soon
began to feel at home, and he scraped
up a whispering acquaintance with a
small Jew boy at his right. The teach-
er interested him greatly. He watched
her draw a picture of a cube, and then
heard her read off a row of figures from
the blackboard, and he concluded that
she was the smartest person in the

_world, except the man at the one cent
show who made a beautiful colored
landscape while the orchestra played
one tune.

Toward the close of the morning ses-
sion the teacher said: ‘

“Now, children, I am going to read to
you a little piece out of this book, and
I want you to listen very closely, so that
you can repeat it to me when I have
finished.”

This aroused Jimmie. If there was
anything he delighted in it was repeat-
ing, with sundry‘emphatic gestures, to

his younger brother at home accounts .

of the during exploits of Tom Dalton
and Jesse James. as he heard them from
the lips of older boys. He was certain-
ly interested, and if school was like
this he made up his mind to put up
with several disagreeable features and
return the next forenoon. He straight-
ened himself in his seat at the request
to “sit erect,” prepared to absorb every
word of the expected story.

The teacher said: “Now, I will read
this from this little book, and any of
you who wish to can repeat it to the
Don’t try
to say it as I read it, but just as you
would say it.” . Jimmie’s eyes grew big,
and he was all attention. The teacher
read this short lesson from the first
reader:

“See the cow! Is it not a pretty cow?
Can the cow run? Yes, the cow can run.
Can the cow run as fast as thehorse?
No, the cow cannot run as fast as the
horse.” -

“Criminy!” thought Jimmie, “is ’at
all? ’At's dead easy.” His hand was
up in a twinkling, in imitation of sever-
al others. His interested face caught
the teacher’s eye, and she said: “Well,
James, you may try it, but be careful
to get. it right. You may stand up by
your seat.”

“Jamsey” arose. Ordinarily he was
not bashful, but now his face was
flushed, and he Was trembling with im-
portance, as he said:

“Get onto de cow. Ain’t she a beaut?
C’n she git a move on? Sure. C’n she
hump herself as fast as de horse? Naw,
she ain’t in it wid de horse, see!”

The teacher was overcome, but, never-
theless, “Jamesy” was a favorite from-
that moment—Chicago Record.

 

DON’T READ THE NEWSPAPERS.

Men Who Don’t Care for Things of Con-
temporaueous Interest.

It may seem strange, but it is a fact.
nevertheless, that you occasionally find
a man who, by his own admission, never
reads the newspapers—not because he
doesn’t know how, nor of dimness of
eyesight, but for the simplereason that
he has no desire to. If an observing
student of human nature will stud y the
mental qualities of such men he will
with few exceptions find them to be
narrow-minded in the extreme. The
horizon of their ideas is often circum—
scribed by their own dooryard, and sel-
dom extends beyond the limits of the
immediate community in which they
live. Ask such a man what. the distance
is from Harvard to Chicago, or what-
state borders Illinois on the south,
questions that the average schoolboy
can answer, and the prospects are he
has forgotten,if he ever did know. Why,
I have in mind aperson in Harvard who
thinks himself a mighty heavy weight
(I mean intellectually) who was heard
to ask the question a few years ago,
upon hearing a commercial salesman
recount some of the daring deeds of the
great confederate leader, Gen. Lee, in
the war, “if the critter was still living.”
This is no fairy tale, but an absolute
fact. The idea I wish to convey in the
strongest possible language in this con-
nection is that to deprive an enlight-
ened man of his newspaper, whether it
be. the most obscure weekly in the state
or the ablest metropolitan daily in the
land, is to take away his mental food
and he is in torment until it is restored

to him. If “ignorance is bliss,” the man - .

who never reads .may be as happy as
the one who does, but the latter will
find no pleasure in the former’s society,
for the reason that he finds it difficult
to confine-his ideas within the narrow
scope of the man who never reads a
newspaper.——Harvard Herald.

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subsequently taken off.

URANCE CO.

 

 
 
 

of NEW YORK.

‘ RICHARD a. Mccunnv President.

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Assets,
Li?6 bilities

Surplus

Total Income .

Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895,

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l suraucc and Annuities in force.
Net gain m 1895

NOTE—Insurance merely "wit/en, ls discarded from this Statement as

actually issued and paid for in cash ls included.

I have carefully examined the foregoing btatement and find the seine t

 

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$221,213,721 33
194,347,157 58

$26,866,563 75
$46,597.43051
$23,126,728 45

$899,074,453 78
$61,647,645 36

 

wholly mlsleadlng, and only insurance

0 be'correct.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. '

From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual.

llepul of the Examining Committee.

clllce 61 \he Mulual Llle Insurance Company of New York,

February 11, 1896.

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18th day of

December last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual

Statement for the‘) car ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com-

parison with the assets of the Company.
The Committee have caicfully performed the duty assigned tothem, and hereby

certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified

therein are in possession of the Company.

In making this certificate the Committee. bear testimony to the high character of .

the investments cf the Company and express their approval of the system, order and

accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in

general transacted.

ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President,
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,

IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.

H. C. Von Post,
Charles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,

A

Robert Olyphant,
'Wm. P. Dixon,

Committee
J. H. Herrick. ‘

ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.

WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier

JOHN TATLOCK, J 3., Aest. Actuary.

CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor,

CSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D.

WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy.

ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy.

FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.

, JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Trees

EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier. ,

EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.

WM. w. RICHARDS.‘Comptrolle1-.

HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp.

JOHN C. ELLIO l‘l‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,

MEDICAL DIRECTORS
ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D.

EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.

GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M. D.

Jenn W. daemons,

New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut.

 

 

Local Agent.

 

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