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Show iiAXriilXtJ OLT WKS'f. Pupils on the Parm Who Pay for the Privilego of Exercising Their Muscles. WINDING UP AS DISHWASHERS, The Usual Pate of English Gentlemen Who Come to America to Learn "Yankee" Ways, New. York Tribune,. , ' In some of the northwestern cities like St. Paul, Minneapolis and Winnipeg, it la an every day sight to see a young Britisher Brit-isher land froin the train, with ono eyeglass eye-glass screwed into his fai-e (in order that he may not see more than he can comprehend, com-prehend, souiu one has been unkind enough to say), a corduroy suit of blouse and knickerbockers, bright yellow leather leath-er gaiters buttoned up to the knee, a fore and aft cap, two guns, that he may hoot all the buffalo he expects to find Just outside the town, a dog and about 500 pounds of baggage. He has come to learn fanning. He is a gentleman's son, accustomed to comparative luxury and ease all his life. Arrangements havo been made for him by some English firm, of whom there are a good many In this business, to do "chores" for his board, and to pay 100 down to "learn fanning" that is, to master the mysteries of harnessing a horse, to milk a cow, to drive a sulky plow, to drive a seeder, to drive a mower, mow-er, to drive a harvester and: possibly, to drive a bargain. As soon as he has mastered mas-tered the last accomplishment, he gen-erally gen-erally sees that be has been duped, leaves his teacher and strikes out for himself. THEY WANT TO OO HOME. The coarse food of the fanner's table and ti roagh society of his hired help, who get good wages, while he gets nothing, noth-ing, generally disgust him, howover, long before he reaches the stage of education edu-cation last mentioned, and the young man starts for the nearest town, hoping to find more congenial employment. He goes to the hotel, and by the time he has discovered that there is no demand for any class of unskilled labor, save on the farm, he is in debt to the landlord, and Urt a great many cases brings up in the hotel kitchen as a waiter or dishwasher, or even a stable boy. One of the peculiar things about this Iclass of young fellows is the longing all of them have to go home again and their vident inability to gratify that wish, although most of them receive sums of money from their friends in the old country at regular intervals. The fact eerns to be that they are not wanted at home. Their parents seem glad, or at least willing, to have their boys undergo considerable hardship, with dangers to tnorals and health, rather than to have them meet the inevitable evils of idleness idle-ness in England. For the prejudice against any form of trade or business, outside the professions, is strong there yet, and many an English gentleman would rather have his boy washing dishes in America than standing behind a counter in England. Of course it is not heralded from the housetops that dear Reginald is washing dishes in America; oh, no, he is "ranching it in the west." "I remember the case of two young lads," said a Dakota lawyer, "fresh from a famous boys' college in England. What struck me particularly when first I saw them was their cheerfulness and their boots. "Their boot were amazing. The boys Were short for their ages, 15 and 16, but the boots would have reached half way above the knees of the tallest man in the settlement, and were big in the feet in proportion. Walking was difficult in them. The boys almost seemed to take one step up into the toes first, and then pull the rest of the boots along after them at the second stride. In answer to questions about the reason for such roominess, they replied that they had been led to believe that the cold was so intense in tho northwest that it was customary cus-tomary for people to wear all the socks they had at the same time. 1 " 'Boots' we christened the boys, indis-erirniiiately. indis-erirniiiately. i "Then they produced their shoes from their trunks. Splendid shoes they were, but the heels were shod with great plates of iron, and the soles were full of brass pegs with protruding heads as big as peas. The shoes must have weighed five pounds each. . 'Extra hob nailed,' the lads called them, and useful they would be no doubt on the atony, flinty English roads and fields, but on the soft loamy prairie lands of the west, where you could not find one stone to throw at a bird in a ten acre lot, they were about as retarding to locomotion lo-comotion as the suction boots of those artists' who walk on the ceiling. 1 "Well, they went out to the 'teacher who had secured them and I lost sight of them for a while. One day I came across such a thin, Borry, (disgusted little chap, sitting on the back sfeps of a hotel, that I barely recognized him as one of the rosy, smiling boys I had laughed at B few months before. : " 'What's the matter, old man? I said, what are you doing here?' r " 'Making the beds and washing the Idishes,' be replied sorrowfully. 'I'm !"boota" now with a vengeance,' he added, add-ed, with a flickering smile, j " 'Didn't they treat you wll? I asked. ! " 'Oh, they did all they agreed to do,' he answered; 'but it not what we expected, you know. I wish I had my lundred pounds back.' "Where's your bisjtber, and what's lie doing?' I " 'Cooking for a lot of English fellows that have a camp out at tho Forks.' I " 'Has he, too, thrown over his teacher and his "comfortable home, with plain but substantial fare," as the circular " 'Yes,' said the lad, 'I think ho'd like to go back, though, but the farmer will not have him. We broke the contract and left him, and I suppose he can refuse to renew it He has our money safe, do you see? "1 saw, but what could I do?"- |