bee x. Eo Number seven shed in Ridgeway Brook mill was admittedly the most exclusive and conservative room in the factory, and was managed not =o much by its overlooker and “tacklers” as by an old and privileged hand call- ed Peggy Pratt, who had been there time out of count, and was apparently as much a fixture as iron pillar which stood at her loom end. Nearly all the hands employed at the time of our story were her nomi- nees, and how Je Gleave came to obtain the pair of looms which were when Sally Hunter married was a mystery which the rest of the hands and piqued Peggy. It was a crisis had a feeling that her prestige was but as the head inte after some enough to see that retain unauthorized strain it, and the the ssie £01 nuzrzled puzzled vacant seriously Peggy at sta: i vy ort ¥ the looms had been given overlooker, who scarcely ever such natters Peggy tions, rfered in reflec 80 iQ been sulk) dinner the month 16 dig- to the miles to Skil- Jog. did at all, but wall and morning from a ton, they knew little nn than at the end of day turned out to be a rat} better than the most of them, and made rather more money, and this did not improve her position but when “that silly Lobby” gave her an extra loom, though there were girls who had been waiting expectantly for the privi- lege for months, things began to hap- pen. Curious accidents occurred to her machinery, her copskips got acclden- tally upset, little flaws which but for her very special assidulty, would have destroyed her reputation as a weaver, began to appear In work, and at last she had to be “called over the coals” by that terrible person the outlooker. Jessie grew limp and pensive, and had a worried look which somehow gave savage Satisfaction to the hard-hearted Peggy. Meanwhile meal-times became seasons of increasing distress to the stranger, for Peggy, employing her assistants to serve her purpose, cone trived that Jessie should have no covery that she valley night ling gle She throes ore of the first er weaver Ed And then an incident transpired precipitated the (inevitable Lancashire mill-girls are all the clatter of the looms difficult, and the nature of their loyment sets both head and liberty, singing of all sorts was general. The music in Number Seven was a « us me peace whic ch musical, and conversation empl tongues at shed uric {ley of concert ditties, Sunday-school songs and 1 noticed never when ey rec lied her , the key hymns It was soon other offense that Jessie but Gleave joined in; low 18 more reason hour the who could dinner- those thought they roughly On 8Sey- could, wi trained to give solos; and : Jane, occasions who was a of If-apg eral in what that telegraphs means, r her as wonder sung.” blank over fifty 10d lifted a trveradnits incredulity and other female before hot bony fin ingly at Jessie, “And her pertendin’ she couldn't then wvanis and Peg i pointing accus freee sing at all Abtashed before ing faces, Jessie test, but Peg, like a book, demanded: not?” ‘“*Aye, she shall, she shall least forty of the fifty "Yok of, “I will—I will sing!" and a face that would have melted “but not now. Oh, “Now, now: strike thee!" “Oh, lasses! pity! Yes, yes me alone.” At a word from Peg the rest fell back, and, dropping upon the floor and folding their legs under them, they made ready to listen and laugh, or mock or ironically applaud, as seemed fittest, Jessie, her face whiter than ever, and her lips quivering, puckered her brow in evident endeavor to recall some song, but suddenly she broke down and pathetically begged to be excused, “let t' girl alone!” cried two of the elder ones; but Peg, taking a stride nearer and standing over her, sald: the lowering, harden- began a pleading pro her supporters reaind them, and she sing. or shall reading looked " Shall she 1H!" cried at she lifted a stone not today!” up! Go on wi’ friends! I'll sing, please have if you'll let Pitiful, abashed and tremulous, Jes ht came rushing her face flushed, her and next moment with such heard before, the upon eran that old notes as it had Few of song, but all presently incredulity eyes | io shed rang certainly never the lis recogniz the and to solemn fifty the solos shine, teners knew ed the words, and fade, both began” to grudging wonder, a pairs t and sneers gurprise Ve way nd in a moment or were fixed on mouths ste half appre ation r+. “Oh, Rest in the immortal solo as- the most flip- company two Ol fifty € YOB yo open in ever-i Je ing S810 Was si and as serted {ts i pant that and Peg choo) in ame who past, and listened with melting fon. rapt express But presently there was change that wonderful equally wonderful terest terest before ti hers: “She was '’ ¥ ne wur jised weeping There's nobbut one thing to say, and [ want Eye-drying . gtant sian “He was worn't in no him floodgates to bury wi.” Then the a crowd round and as were women gath- strangely softened opened, of sobbing the the 1 almost a fight for Jes sle’'s looms, which for some days Number Seven shed husband-buried him handsomely: and when at length Jessie went to London to take up her studies her fellow stu- dents had great sport with a big Ger man-gilt picture-frame ghe brought with her, and which she hung in the place of honor in her lodgings. It con- tained vignettes of fifty plain, even rough-looking weaver-women: but Jes- sie seemed to met great store by it. Southern Christian Advocate. buried Jessie's Low Born Great Men, The the poverty or the solitude brought out his working talent. youth is pleased with the fine air and accomplishments of the children ot fortiene, of the middle classes, the head; ‘tis “The socalled high born” ing is so indicative of true culture as the tender consideration of the igno- rant.—From Emerson's “Considera- tions by the Was.” BRICK FLOOR IN DINING A red brick for the summer home, the and most ing by with the silver ROOM. floor is es lally 136 PV able dining room of a colonial effect way being co of linen and of the table appointment § yo Cont invit BOW) A NEW A new use FOB PAPER which USE { WO has of are likel De terested discover tation Liss tended especi: look something matting. 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