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Show Sleli Girls Oppressed With. Wealth Should Have Special Consideration. My cousin Anthony has been i to Sell mo of his betrothal of his son Ajas, to a young woman of exceptionally vol uininous financial prospects. My cousia ifl not himself a man of large means, and his children's fortunes are still to be mado. Nevertheless it was not without with-out an air of deprecation and symptoms of uneasiness that ho told me what Ajaa j : had done. But, Lsaid, seeing Anthony growing solemn, somobody must marry tha vioh girls. There might bo enough rich young men to pair off with them if all the rich bachelors were available, but as long a a large percentage of tho rich baohelors Insist on marrying poor girls there is no choice but for some rich girls to marry poor men or none. And, after all, if a girl is truly a iiico girl, it would bo s ahamo to avoid her becauso of her fortune. for-tune. When I was young, I told him, 1 had really loved a girl, and she had loved mo, and had sho been of age or ac orphan I voulxi have married her if she had owned all New York between Canal bcreat and Central park. Dreadful as it would have been to be busdoned witft suoh a load, I would cave lolt that a true affection might make it tolerable. I think I was a comfort to Cousin Aa thony. Ho went away looking a gooc deal less dejected that, when he cam In. What a happiness it is, to be aura, when ono gets a ohanco to benefit a fel low creatusrs's spirits by changing hii poinft ef vieSFJScribner'a, rvrTMATION OF Slt-VEft M1NE&, Eow Xatoro Accumulates tho Great Stosce of Valnahlo Ore. The process by which nature forme her silver mines is very interesting. It must ba remembered that tho earth'e crust is full of water, which percolates everywhere through the rocks, making solutions of elements obtained from them. These chemical solutions tako up tmall particles of thQ preoions motal, whioh thoy find here and there. Sometimes Some-times the solutions in question aro hot; Iho water having got so far down as to be set boiling by tho internal heat c the globe. Then thoy rush npward, picking up the bits of metal as they go. Naturally heat assists the performance of this operation. Now and then the streams thus forra-ed, forra-ed, perpetually flowing hither and thither thith-er below the gronnd, pas3 through cracks or cavities in the rocks, where they deposit their loads of silver. This Is kept up for a great length of time-perhaps time-perhaps thousands of years until the fissure or pocket is filled up. Crannies permeating the stony mass in every di reotion may become filled with the pr& jious metal, or occasionally a chamber may be stored full of it, as if a million hands were fetching tho treasure fixur all sides and hiding away a future min for Gome lucky prospector to discovtr i? another ace.-FittaboTa Pfenatflh. A Dusirjesa woman's college has bca Just opened in London, in, to describa the excellent institution's aims more exactly, a school for tho business training train-ing of women has. been established. The school is mainly designed to train women wo-men for clerkships and secretaryships. They are taught shorthand, typewrit ing, accounts and banking in a course extending over six months. The opportunities oppor-tunities are offered gentlewomen who, suddenly thrown by financial mishap on their own resources, can catch up a profession pro-fession by which to support themselves Besides this the school accepts as pupila women who wish to leam how to keep their own books and personally manage their own independent fortunes. Then, too, women apply who have a chance for a government position and must be well up in mathematics and get through opecial examinations. From its graduating gradu-ating classes the school supplies secretaries secre-taries to busy philanthropical ladies who need help in their work in the form of a capable head for figures and a nea hand at penmanship. London tattw |