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carns his first quarter, and knows it is ali his very own. A quarter earned is worth a dollar found or given to him. Give him a dollar, and he will feel like a boy; let him earn it, and he will feel like a man, and feel good. Give him a dollar, and watch him waste it; let him earn it, and watch him take care of it! Early habits are often life-long habits, and good habits are as strong as bad ones. If there were more parents in the world who would encourage, or even permit their boys to earn a little money of their own, there would not be so many aimless, shiftless, lazy men in the world. The Texas Sunday-School Star.

HELPING PEOPLE.

Twenty years ago a discouraged young doctor in one of our large cities was visited by his father, who came up from a rural district to look after his boy.

"Well, son," he said, "how are you getting along?"

"I'm not getting along at all," was the disheartening answer. "I'm not doing a thing."

The old man's countenance fell, but he spoke of courage, and patience and perseverance. Later in the day he went with his son to the "Free Dispensary," where the young doctor had an unsalaried position, and where he spent an hour or more every day.

The father sat by, a silent but intensely interested spectator, while twenty-five poor unfortunates received help. The doctor forgot his visitor, while he bent his skilled energies to this task; but hardly had the door closed on the last patient when the old man burst forth:

"I thought you told me you were not doing anything! Why, if I had helped twenty-five people in a month, as much as you have in one morning, I would thank God that my life counted for something." "There isn't it, money in though." explained the son, somewhat abashed.

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"Money!" the old man shouted, still scornfully. "Money! What is money to your fellow-men? Never mind about. your money go right along at this work every day. I'll go back to the farm and gladly earn money enough to support you as long as you live-yes, and sleep sound every night with the thought that I have helped you to help your fellowmen."-Exchange.

A GOOD INVESTMENT.

One of our friends of years ago declared that money put into brains and character brought larger returns than any other investment. It is true. Hu

man lives, lifted into higher planes, immortal spirits prepared for eternity, are infinitely above increase in the valuations of real estate or accumulations in stocks and bonds. The work of this Society is to rescue, transplant and secure training and education for dependent immortals. Give the work your aid and sympathy.

SMALL BEGINNINGS

One day, many years ago, a woman was walking one of the country roads and by she stopped, looked this way and of England with a baby in her arms. By that, and when she found no one was looking she climbed over into a field, laid the baby down behind a hedge, and climbed back into the road again,walked rapidly away, leaving the baby alone there to die.

Some time afterward a little boy, coming along that road on his way home from school, spied a grasshopper by the roadside. Hard after it the boy followed when-there he saw the little baby. He hurried home and told his father and mother what he had found. They came, found the deserted little baby, and took good care of it.

The baby lived, and grew in time to be one of the foremost men in all England. His name was Sir Thomas Gresham. It was he who founded the Royal Exchange, and on the top of that great building he caused the figure of a giant grasshopper to be placed, to remind all who saw it that a grasshopper once saved the life of the founder of the Roya! Exchange.-California Children's Home Finder.

TWO SIDES.

Two boys went to gather grapes. One was happy because they found grapes; the other was unhappy because the grapes had seeds in them.

Two men, being convalescent, were asked how they were. One said, "I am better today;" the other said, "I was worse yesterday."

When it rains, one man says, "This will make mud;" another, "This will lay dust."

Two boys examined a bush. One observed that it had a thorn; the other, that it had a rose.

Two children looked through colored glasses. One said, "The world is blue." and the other said, "It is bright!"

Two boys having a bee, one got honey, and the other got stung. The first called it a honeybee, the other a stinging bee.

"I am glad that I live," says one man; "I am sorry I must die," says another.

"I am glad," says one, "that it is no

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Washington Children's Home Society

Seattle, Wash.

cost, but we presume about twenty thousand dollars. It can not be done in a day, but we believe it is coming. We ask our friends to pray over this and decide what God would have you do. It is God's work and in His name we go forward. You may not be able to give a large amount, but every dollar counts. May the Lord help us in this work. H. D. B.

institutions is enormous; the health of children is exposed to needless perils of contagion; the artificial training unfits the person for the actual world; and the relation of the institution to politics, especially if it is a private institution seeking subsidies from public funds, is almost inevitably hurtful. The most successful administration is that which reduces the material relief and increases the capacity for self support; which tends to restore sound, social relations and life the decaying parasite into independence and manliness. Individual and voluntary efforts are impotent in the presence of the colossal misery."

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Superintendent Brown and three babies as brought in by him on one trip. They are not twins, nor any relation whatever.

Our Society having been engaged in active child-saving work in the State of Washington for nearly nine years, and having received and cared for six hundred children, besides assisting many more, the board of trustees has decided that we should purchase grounds and erect suitable buildings for the successful carrying forward of our work.

By "suitable buildings," we mean a receiving home at least, and, if the money is furnished a dwelling for the superintendent and any other building. which the trustees may deem necessary. This does not mean that we are adopting the plans of an orphanage and intend to keep the children with us. Far from it. We intend to pass the children on to family homes as fast as possible; but we have found that with the best we can do, we may have twentyfive children on our hands at one time. We find also that we need a place for cleansing and a little preparation in order to send the children out in proper condition. In the nature of the case, we must own a place to do this work.

In dealing with so many children we can not depend on renting rooms and buildings from other people. Our work has been moving with such rapidity that our trustees feel that we should have these buildings. The work justifies the investment. We now appeal to the people to furnish the means to procure this property.

We can not say just what this will

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Family

Which is Best?

Homes or Institutional LifeThe Opinion of an Expert.

The following, from the pen of Dr. C. R. Henderson, late president of the National Board of Charities, is worthy of a careful reading. He has given very careful study to the subject of the neglected classes of children. His plan of family life in preference to any institutional life is so in harmony with our aim that we are glad to give it to our readers:

"The policy of placing normal children in real homes with natural family life and contact with ordinary community problems, may fairly be claimed as the only policy based on science. If experiment has any value in the study of the phenomena of society, then family care must be regarded as superior to institutional custody. The reasons are economic, theological, pedagogical and political. The expense of support in

This little boy was rescued by Mr. Brown Theatre people. He was greatly abused and

and a Humane Officer from some Vaudeville mistreated and suffered severely as he was being trained for this terrible life. When res

cued by us, his body was covered with black and blue marks, and a large gash which had not healed on his head. An unusually brigat little fellow.

Children's Locations Not
Public

While willing to tell interested friends and relatives how our wards are getting along, we cannot tell where they are without breaking faith with foster parents and endangering all we have tried to do for the children. To give the location of children after they are sent to homes is to invite interference, criti

cism, discontent, and the breaking up of most of the placements. The best families make the most urgent demands for protection from intrusion as the basis. of their applications. We cannot se

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cure homes unless we promise it. the children be moved a long distance from their original homes, and their new locations not made public is therefore a necessity of our work.

In a Good Home.

This little lad was left when a day or so old

on the door step of Rev. Mrs. Brown in an apple box. His feet and limbs were crooked and deformed. After giving much care and nursing to him, our good matron adopted him.

A Timely Reply

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We never receive anything for placing a child in a family for adoption, yet sometimes the question is asked, "What will you get for that boy or child?" A worker in another state met the same question, and below is his reply. It is good, indeed.

"What will you get for that boy?"

This question was asked one of our agents by a bright young attorney. The reply was, "We are not dealing in cattle and mules." I will tell you what we got for that boy. We got for that boy a suit of clothes; we got for that boy a ticket to O- - that cost more money; we got for that boy his meals on the way; we got for that boy his care at $2.00 per week for two weeks; we got for that boy a home; we got for that boy another ticket that cost $4.00; we got for that boy two meals on his way to the family home; we got a family to agree in writing to continue to buy him clothes twelve years to come; we got for that boy a pledge that they would board him for those twelve years; we got for that boy his protection through sickness and health and we got for that boy a chance to become a man. That's what we got for that boy.-Selected.

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NEW STATUTES IN FOUR STATES.

Judge B. B. Lindsey sends for the RECORD information concerning statutes passed in the states of Washington, Utah, Nebraska and Kansas. The Nebraska law is especially good being largely copied from Colorado. The broad definition of delinquency is a fine feature, and the adult delinquent law contains some features improving on the Col. Act. for instance it seeks to avoid constitutional objection in limiting suspended sentences to a definite time. No doubt the presence and, counsel of Judge Lindsey aided materially these satisfactory enactments. Senators Mockett of Lincoln and Thomas of Omaha introduced the bill. In counties having over 40,000 population the district court has jurisdiction, and in the absence of that court the county court has authority in the matter. Three paid probation officers (one of them must be a woman) are provided in counties having a population of 50,000 or more; the chief to have $1,200 per annum and the assistants $3 per day for time employed. Mogey Bernstein, chief probation officer for Omaha, is a power among the boys, having done much for them in the way of newsboys club, lunchrooms, etc.

A copy of the Washington act is not at hand but it is understood that the adult delinquent feature is embodied in it as passed.

The Kansas bill lacks the desirable breadth in its defining of juvenile delinquency and fails to include adult delinquency an omission much to be regretted. The Kansas laws have for 20 years forbidden placing children in jail; it is now to be hoped that will be enforced. The probate judge in each county presides in the juvenile court. He may receive fee as additional compensation for this work. He may designate one or more probation officers at a salary not to exceed $2 per day for time spent; and in cities of 15,000 the compensation shall not exceed $3 per day, to be paid from the public treasury.

In Kansas and Nebraska where the case is heard by the county or probate court an appeal is allowed to the district court. One feature of the Col. law adopted in Kansas is the right to transfer a felony case to the criminal court.

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