Ryan, Mrs. Thomas F.-Catholic charities, $2,500,000; non-sectarian charities, $300,000; Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Richmond, $500,000; Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, N. Y., $150,000; chapel, Washington, D. C., $80,000; Georgetown University, $350,000; New York Throat, Nose and Lung Hospital, $100,000; hospital, Lynchburg, Va., $280,000. Total, $4,260,000.

Phipps, Lawrence C.-Agnes Memorial Sanitarium, Denver,$500,000.

Schiff, Jacob H.-Hospital and charity, $1,600,000; Harvard, $155,000; Columbia University, $100,000. Total, $1,855,000. Voorhees, Ralph-Huron College, $100,000; Lafayette University, $100,000; Marysville College, $100,000; Rutgers College, $69,000. Total, $369,000.

Salisbury, Steven-Harvard and other institutions, $17,000,000; Worcester Art Museum, $3,000,000. Total, $20,000,uuu.

Letchworth, William P.-New York state public park, $1,500,000.

im

Hackley, Mrs. Julia E., Muskegon, Mich.-Education and municipal provement, $2,000,000.

Nowlen, Addison J.-Protestant charities, $250,000.

Twenty-five New York MillionairesNational endowed theater, $2,500,000. Crane, Albert-Tuft's Seminary, $100,

000.

Mackay, Mrs. Clarence H.-Schools, $148,000.

Schenley, Mrs. Mary-Schenley park, Pittsburg, $1,000,000.

McCormick Family-McCormick Theological Seminary, $1,000,000.

Vanderbilt, W. K.-Yale, $1,000,000. Milliken, James, Decatur, Ill.-Education, $1,000,000.

Ferguson-Benjamin-Chicago Art Institute, $1,000,000.

Elkins, Mrs. Stephen B.-Y. M. C. A., Elkins, $50,000.

Wanamaker, John-Y. M. C. A., $100,

$200,000.

Milton, William F.-Harvard, $1,000,

000.

Guggenheim,

Mu

ties, $1,402,000.

Millionaires-Bowdoin Col

Rankin David, Jr.-Industrial school,

St. Louis, $2,000,000.

Cassilly, Mary L., Connecticut-Edu

cational institutions, $1,000,000.

Ziegler, Mrs. E.

blind, $175,000.

Meyer-Hebrew charl

Bruce, Miss Sarah C.-Town hall, Greenwich, Conn., $200,000.

Coburn, Mrs. Helen G.-Colleges and charities, $450,000.

Widener, P. A. B.-Crippled children, $5,000,000.

Winthrop, Mrs. Mary J.-Princeton Seminary, $1,750,000.

Matilda-Work for

Swan, Mrs. J. Thompson-Princeton, $300,000.

Rogers, Mrs. Henry H.-Messiah Home for Little Children, $300,000.

Belmont, August-Cathedral St. John the Divine, New York, $350,000.

Anonymous Millionaires-University of Chicago, $7,000,000.

Anderson, Mrs. Elizabeth MilbankBarnard, $2,900,000.

Linn was not blue, but his mother was. Things were getting on in a bad way. She did not have a dollar, and Linn had been to every store, shop and office in town hunting work, but none of them wanted to hire a boy.

So long as there was plenty of sewing, Mrs. Armer had managed to get along, for they owned their home; but now there was not much sewing, and they were running behind at the grocery store.

"I don't know what we will do, son," she sighed wearily. "I did so hope you could find something to do."

"I will," said Linn determinedly. "But I thought you had been everywhere?"

"I have-but I'll find something, don't you fret;" and he went upstairs to bed, whistling cheerily.

He did not see any reason to feel blue. He was thirteen, strong, quick and bright, and surely there was something for a fellow to do to earn money.

Linn studied out the whole scheme before he went to sleep. Once he had heard a successful man say: "There is always plenty of work for one who will do it right and do it on time."

Well, he knew he could do that. But of course he must get the people to know it. Getting the start when no one wanted to hire a boy was the problem.

There was certainly some work in the town almost every day for a boy if he could just get at it. But how could he get at it?

Then he remembered hearing a man say, "you never can find a boy when you need him." From that he got his idea.

The next morning he kissed his mother good-bye, and told her he had another plan, but he was not going to tell her until he saw whether it would work or not.

He went to the newspaper office first. "I want to go into business," he said to the editor, "and need a little printing." "All right, sir," said the editor. "What kind of business and what kind of printing?"

"The chore business," said Linn. seriously, "and I want some cards. But I haven't any money. I would like to pay for them in work."

He fully explained his scheme to the editor, who took a kindly interest in the project and agreed to the trade.

Linn found the office room with an old man, a justice of the peace, who was glad to help him on.

The next day he went into every store, office, shop, hotel, livery stable, every place in town except the saloons, and If a card on which was printed: When you want anything done that a boy can do, call

LINN ARMER,

Chore boy,

Office with J. M. Hernpon, J. P.
Phone 347.

Motto: Do it on time, and do it right.
Then in the window he put a card:
LINN ARMER,

Chore boy,

Does things right and on time. He hung a slate by the telephone, on which the old man agreed to write all orders phoned while Linn was out.

Linn finished distributing his cards before nine o'clock, and went back to the office to wait.

Every time the telephone bell rang, his heart beat fast, but at noon he had received no calls. Still he was not bluenot a bit. Somebody would call in the afternoon or the next day or the next, and he would have a chance to prove that he did his work well and on time.

About three o'clock there was a call. The bank wanted him to carry a note a mile south of town.

In forty minutes he was back with a reply.

"Pretty good," said the banker approvingly, and gave him a quarter.

There were no more calls that day, but next morning as Dr. Smith passed, the notice attracted his attention, and he stopped.

"I have a potato patch down at the house that needs hoeing," he said. "All right," and Linn was off at once. "It is done," he announced, as he entered the office an hour and a half later. 'Not through already?" "Yes, I am," he said.

Dr. Smith telephoned to the house and learned that the work was done and done well.

"How much do I owe you?" he asked. "About forty cents, I guess." Linn knew Smith was rich.

The doctor studied him for a minute. "Now look here, son. I see you want to succeed. I can pay you forty cents, and will, if you say so, but the work was not worth that. And you will never succeed if you try to get more than a thing is worth. It is better to charge a little less than a little more."

"But Mr. Eary gave me a quarter for forty minutes."

"That is all right. When, a man has an important piece of work, and wants to pay extra for it, accept it with thanks;

when he could do it-and he did it at that time in spite of everything.

Before the summer was half over he had more orders than he could fill, and often made over a dollar and a half a day.

Women called him to run errands; men used him to deliver packages, sweep floors, distribute bills, hitch up teams, stay in the store an hour-anything and everything.

After a while he hired another boy at fifty cents a day to help him. In that way one of them could stay at the office nearly all the time, to answer emergency calls.

Before the year was out he had two assistants. These he hired with the understanding that they were to forfeit a dollar every time they failed to do a job when they promised, or when it was done so there was complaint about it.

Linn now has such a reputation for good work and reliability that he has been offered a half dozen steady jobs, but as he is making an average of forty

but when he leaves it to you, make your charge very reasonable."

Linn was wise enough to profit by this advice, and no one complained of his prices for chores.

He had three calls the next day and went home with eighty cents.

In less than a month the entire town knew where a boy could be found when wanted, and that he could be depended upon.

When he found an order on his slate that he could not fill on account of other work, he called them up and told them

dollars a month he says he is going to stay in the chore business until he gets enough money to pay his way through school. The Boys' World.

State Visitation of Placed-Out Children. The legislature of 1905 appropriated $1,200 for the employment of an inspector to visit children placed in family homes. As nearly a thousand children are placed out annually, at least two additional inspectors are needed to insure thorough visitation. It is desired that every child so placed shall be visited at least once a year. It is gratifying to report that in almost all the homes visited the children were properly cared for, and will receive the training to fit them for the responsibilities of life.

These inspections do not relieve county authorities of their responsibility for the welfare of dependent children. They must take final action whenever unfit homes are reported. In nearly every instance of such report the county officer responsible has immediately removed the child to a new home.

From Report of the Committee on
Placing-Out Children.

It has been found that some placing-out agents are careless in the selection of foster homes. They do not make a thorough preliminary examination of such homes or into the character of those who make application for children. Many children, especially over the age of 14 years, are placed by public officers with people who do not permit them to attend school. Their value as workers causes the necessity for school attendance to be ignored. The children are entitled to the opportunities which will fit them for good citizenship. As a rule, the children are well fed and clothed and are kindly treated. If, in addition, they can always have opportunities for an education, the placements will be very satisfactory. Most of the placing-out officers now insist upon this, and the question of financial saving to the counties has less consideration than does the purpose to find suitable homes for these dependent wards.

This work is of such great ultimate importance that every child placed out by any person, society or corporation in the state should be viisted periodically by the inspectors of the State Board. It has been demonstrated that it is of special benefit to have a competent woman make these visitations,

Dependent Children in Institutions.

In the year 1905 there were in the state of New York 119 institutions for dependent children, receiving public funds. These institutions care for 30,000 children yearly. The children in private institutions number about 3,000, and the children in the care of boarding and placing-out agencies number about 10,000.

Children brought up by the state should be fitted not merely for self support, but for competition on equal terms with other children.

This means that the children in an institution shall be given decent living rooms or dormitories with separate beds; that they shall have clean and suitable clothing, nourishing food served attractively at a clean table in a pleasant dining room with individual chairs and ample time for eating; outdoor playgrounds and indoor playrooms and gymnasia; pleasant, well lighted schoolrooms, modern text books and qualified teachers; prompt, efficient medical service;and above all that they may have the friendly interest and care of some sensible person who will stand in loco parentis and furnish that affection, advice, control and help which the child receives in the average home.

The ten schools for the deaf in the state are steadily growing. Industrial training is an important factor in all of them. The girls are instructed in the arts of the household and the boys in the trades. The school at Rochester has turned out a number of well built boats. designed and modeled by a member of the school. The boys make good type setters, and five weekly or monthly papers are printed in these schools, all the work being done by pupils.

There are many deaf-mute children of school age who are not in the schools. The large majority have normal mental powers and should be under instruction. Compulsory measures would secure their attendance and prevent delay in their training, which is the cause of much harm.

The prevailing belief in the desirability of cottage groups for children's institutions has found concrete expression in the new plant of the New York Juvenile Asylum at Chauncey, in Westchester