COTTON TRADE-SCHOOLS IMPORTANCE SINCE THE DEVELOP MENT OF MILLS IN THE SOUTH. 'Start of a Movement Which Promises to Produce Better Skilled Bnbwr How "Workmen Are Trained For the Tex tile Industries—Designing Taught. The development of the cotton mill In tlie Southern States has been so rapid in the last ten years that whole sections of tlie land have been com pletely changed in an agricultural and Industrial sense. The most important effect of this change has been the em ployment of Southern people in mills who formerly made an uncertain aud Inadequate living in tilling the soil. In the Carolinas a measure of prosper ity has been obtained in the cotton mill districts never before realized, and the growth of the nqsv industry has with out doubt been a great benefit to the sections In which the mills have been established. The Southern movement of the cotton mills Is no longer an ex periment, but a demonstrated success, and the cotton manufacturing of this part of our country promises to de velop indefinitely. One of the problems that confronted, aud is now confronting, Southern mill men is that of the relative supply of skilled labor. But there is the begin ning of a new era now which promises to produce better skilled labor in the South, and to make up for a deficiency that has long been apparent to close observers. If the South is to be a great cotton manufacturing centre, trade and textile schools and colleges are almost essential. The remarkable construc tion of mills aud spindles in the South In the last few years has more than ever emphasized the importance of this. With more spindles the demand for skilled labor grows more urgent. Under past conditions tlie development of the cotton manufacturing Industry of the South would be seriously handi capped. anil no one realizes this more than the mill men and public educa tors. One of the noteworthy features of the South's industrial progress is tlie establishment of trade and industrial schools, aud their future promises as much for the South as the cotton mills which first created a demand for them. The mills hardly provided the neces sary training and education that were needed for the skilled worker in the textile world, and tlie Southern trade schools were founded to make up for this deficiency. The trade schools of New England and of Germany had demonstrated the value aud necessity of such Institutions for textile manu facturing centres, and the fact that the South has awakened to the responsi bilities which have come in the wake of her cotton mills argues well for her future industrial career. Tlie training of workmen for textile mills, and of engineers for operating the machinery, is a work that is now being profitably done in several industrial schools of (the South, and theeurrlcultims of these Institutions are liberal enough io prove of value to the practical and theoreti cal workers in the fields. There are practically only two well equipped cotton trade schools in the South to-day, hut they are the begin ning of a group of institutions that have been planned (and must eventu ally spriug up all over lite eottou belt) for the technical training of students In spinning, weaving, carding and de signing. The oldest and first of these cotton trade-schools is connected with the Georgia School of Technology, at Atlanta, and it is so complete in all departments that it presents to the stu dents the very latest and most im proved features of mill construction, and gives a thorough course in all de partments of eottou manufacture and textile spinning and designing. This school was first opened in the season • of 1898-09, and it is called "The A. French Textile School," because of the endowment of Aaron French, of Pittsburg, who made good the defici ency of funds necessary to secure the SIO,OOO appropriation of the Stale on the condition that a like sum should be raised by the friends of the insti tution. The school Is pretty thorough ly equipped for the work it has in view, and it will give to the South in a few years a crop of earnest, edu cated, skilled textile experts that should greatly broaden the cotton manufacturing industry of that sec tion. The other textile-school of the South Is the C'lemson College Textile School, which opened nearly two years ago, at Clemson, South Carolina, for the purpose of supplying that State with more experts in textile manufactur ing. This school aims to supply a general training for students wishing to engage in manufacturing wool, silk, and liuen products. In the Geor gia school the aim is simply to train experts for eqtton weaving and de signing. The equipment of the Sou A Carolina institution is also complete enough to give the students a thor ough practical mill and laboratory ex perience. The carding and spinning departments are as thorough as could be desired, and the dyeing and weav ing departments have no superior. Here the latest methods are taught according to the most approved sys tems, aud the students are brought iuto daily contact with the best work men the country affords. The idea of both of these textile schools is to provide the students with a broader understanding of the tex tile manufacturing industry tbau they can pick up In tlie mills. In the lat ter their knowledge is apt to he limited to one or two departnsents, and there is less chance for learning in a broad sense all there is to know in the manufacturing of textile products. The student who understands mill practice and all kinds of machinery, and the relative Importance of different sys * terns of dyeing, spinning and weav ing, Is much more apt to develop and improve an industry that to-day occu pies the attention of all who have the future of the South at heart. Mill manufacturers welcome the appear ance of the textile school in the South, and they admit that tlie studies pur sued there prepare the students for better work than actual mill practice without the preliminary training aud study.—Harper's Weekly. A Clear Case Against tlio Boy. "I had a funny dream last night," said tlie young man to liis father, whose Income was $19,0(10 an hour. "It seemed that you had decided not to build libraries or universities that would serve to perpetuate your mem ory, but, instead, bad made up your mind to withdraw from business—to just pull out with your SO2O 000,000, and let somebody else have the same kind of a chance that you had when you started, and the richest man In tlie country was worth only about $390,- 000. "Then, after throwing off all those cares you got to filling your pockets with money aud going around hunting for people who really needed a lift, and every little while it seemed tha< you would run across son:, ondy who was just about to be compelled to give up the struggle, and you'd give him enough to set him on his feet, or, at least, to make him comfortable in his last hours, and then you'd stand back and smile and seem to enjoy yourself seeing the joy you had given to others. Sometimes you would fairly yell with delight at the good things you had done, and one of these outbursts seemed so real that It actually woke uie up." "Great heavens'." the troubled mag nate exclaimed; "that wasn't a dream Your mother had an uncle that went insane. I've always been afraid ii might crop out again, and now my worst fears are realized. Here—Help! Help!"— Chicago Record-Herald. TUe Ameer of Afghanistan. Since the publication of the biog raphy of the Ameer of Afghanistan the British Indian Government has kept a watchful eye on his doings, as several recent acts of his have thrown doubts on the sincerity of his devotion to British Interests. First there were the prohibition oi the export of horses to India and llie prohibition cf the imports into his country of Indian salt. Then there came the occupation of certain strat egic points on roods near the frou tier by which the British armies ad vanced into Afghanistan in past wnv. The latest incident to call attention to the Ameer's attitude is (lie fact that lie has not drawn his subsidy of eigh teen lacs of rupees for the past year, which is paid him annually by the British Indian Government. The In dian Finance Minister has, however, made provision in case the Ameer should wish to touch liis subsidy, aud the money is lying at liis disposal in the Indian Treasury.—New York Sun The Elect*ic Eel's Victim. At the Zoological Gardens a large electric eel was swimming in its taul; with more activity than usual, wheu a big cockroach fell iuto the water, aud in its efforts to get out made a disturbance of the surface, which at tracted the attention of the eel. The eel turned round, swam past it, dis charged lis battery at about eight inches off, and the cockroach instant ly stopped stone dead. It did not even move its antennae after. The eel then proceeded to swallow its victim, mid the narrator goes on to point out tlie curious circumstance that the fish, which weighed about twelve pounds, should find it worth while to fire Its heavy artillery at a creature an inch and a half long, wheu it could easily have swallowed it sans faeou.—Cham bers's Journal. Minerals In tlie Bund of Orange.. Florida is rich in minerals. In addi tion to phosphate, of which the world already knows, she has immense de posits of clays of every kind—kaolin, ochres, tire and aluminum clays, gyp sum and Fuller's earth of great exteul and fiuest quality. She has stoue ex cellent for hutliliug purposes aud a soft mogncsiau limestone that pro duces a cement in every respect equal to the best imported. Iron of high grade and value is known to exist in several localities; so also org indica tions of petroleum, natural gas and soft coal aud asphalt to be found in portions of the State; and vel with one or two exceptions the fields containing these ores are undeveloped —Baltimore Sun. Tlie Drawbacks of Polished Floors. A polished tloor in a workhouse seems rather out of place, and in tlie ease of old people it is certainly a dan gerous luxury, says ibe Westminster Gazette. According to the evidence given at mi inquest on an aged inmate of tlie Holboru Union Workhouse, the death was caused by slipping on a poi . islied floor. The polish undoubtedly looks well and keeps clean, hut it is trying at times. Many a graceful en trance to a room lias been converted imo a wild and ludicrous scramble by stepping on a rug or mat lying on the slippery surface. Instead of grasping your host's hand you laud on your owu back or on his front. For old aud fee ble people the exercise is extremely risky. Sensible Germans. The Gerrnuus nro uot too proud to learn from other nations. They are uow buying American locomotives will) a view to ascertaining in what respect they differ from their own | make. The administration of tlie : Royal Bavarian Railway have ordered four engines from the United States, 1 and the German manufacturers are j agitated on this account.—Loudon Ku j gineer. RUBBER HISTORY* Man That Came With Columbus Saw Martians Playing: Ball. The world was a long time learning the uses and value of rubber. For two centuries after the Spaniards saw tlie gum in the bands of natives of the New World it was little more than a curiosity. Old Herrea, who went with Columbus on his second voyage, made a note of an elastic ball which was molded from the gum of a tree. At their games the nude Ilnytians made it bound high In the air. The Aztecs were familiar with the gum and called it ule, and from them the Spaniards learned to smear it on their coats to keep out the wet. They had crossed the seas for gold, and never dreamed of a time when the sticky milk the un couth Indians drew from strange trees would he worth more than all the treasures of the hills. (On February 21!, 1899, a ship carrying a cargo of 11(17 tons of rubber valued at $2,210,- 000 sailed from Para for New York, leaving 200 tons behind on the wharf). Jose, King of Portugal, in 15.1.", comes down to us as the wearer of a pair of boots sent out to Para to be covered with a waterproof gum. Yrt 200 years were to elapse before a Connecticut Yankee should make a pair of boots of rubber which would not decompose. Dr. Priestly, author of a work on "Perspective," now forgotten, recorded that caoutchouc (pronounced kachook) was useful in small cubes for rubbing out pencil marks—hence the name rub ber. The India linked with it refers to the savages who gathered it in the Amazon wilderness. Dr. Pricstly's cubes were half an inch long and sold for three shillings, or seventy-five cents apiece. A stiff price for the finest rub ber to-day is $1 a pound. Its price for ten years lia. ranged from sixty-two cents to $1.09. The conversion of the gum to useful purposes made but slow headway. The first waterproof clotii in 1797 was the work of an English man. It was tentative, and of course it would not stand heat. In 1523 Charles Mackintosh, of Glasgow, dis covered naphtha, and, dissolving rub ber in it, produced a varnish which, when spread on cloth, made it really impervious to water. As late as 1830 the importation of rubber into Eng land amounted only to 30,000 pounds. In 1899 no less than 1(5,075,081 pounds were consumed in that country, and the consumption in the United States reached 51,006,737 pounds. Most of the rubber used in the world still conies from equatorial South America, and the forests where the Indians gath ered ule are as dense to-day and al most as little known to white men as in the time of Cortez. —H. E. Arm strong, in Ainslee's. Now It's the Brooklyn race. "Have you ever been over the big bridge?" asked a Wall Street man the Dthcr day. "A few times; why Co you ask?" was the reply. "Well, I had to go over to Brooklyn tlie other day. First time I had crossed the bridge In years; and 1 made a discovery. I don't mean that 1 discovered the bridge/ or Brooklyn, but I did find the Brooklyn face. "Talk about the bicycle face or the automobile squint, they are not a marker to it. If you want to see it reflect cd on a few hundred thousand features, just take a stand between the "D" ticket booths ane the first stairway some time between 5 auu C o'clock at night. "As the crowds sweep to the ticket booth they appear sane and clothed in their right mind; but once the ticket is bought, the transformation begins. First a sort of hunted expression steals over the features; then the eyes arc narrowed to a squint, but as the per son bears the ticket chopper tiic.7 gradually widen and begin to roll wildly. The teeth are firmly ret, the chin tilted outward and the head is thrown forward. A slight inflation of tlie nostrils just before the final rush is made and all is lost hi the whirling vortex on toe stairway."—New York Mail and Express. Stale Bread Economy, A Bong Island man who was show ing a friend a couple of bunting dogs at his place the other day locked up as be heard the sound of approaching wheels. "Here's the bread man," bo remarked, aud as bis friend gazed in surprise at the open cart laden with bulging sacks, thinking it the straug i est baker's outfit he bad yet aeon, tbo owner cf tlie dogs bought a barrel of tlie merchant's stuff. "It's for the dogs, you know," bo explained as the wagon drove off. "Broken up and mixed with ether things It makes good food for them. That tr.au does very well with hio stale bread business. He buys the bread at a low prico in the city when it is too old to sell to customers there. But it hasn't reached the dog food stage, then, by any means. 110 first retails it as long as lie can to the Italians who work on the roads and do all the hard labor hereabouts. I believe they wash it down with beer of about the same state cf freshness. Well, when the bread gets so stale that even the Italians can't eat it, it Is ready to ho peddled around among the villages in the neighborhood. The farmers buy It to feed their pigs and chickens, and a good many people use it, as I do, for their dogs, so there is no loss cr waste to cut down the dealer's profit." —New York Tribune. A Fearless B icier. Lord Roberts is a fearless cider, and usually well in at the death, hut his eminence as a hunting man depends on his splendid eye for country, and his unrivaled knowledge of horseflesh, and not on mere daredeviltry. Lord Rob erts has had his fair share of "crop pers," hut, thanks tc his light, steel built frame, he has never come to aDy serious harm in the hunting field. JEFFERSON AS AN INVENTOR. Opposed to Patents, He Cave to the World Many Proofs of Ilis Inaenultv. gliomas Jefferson was himself an Inventor, but, consistent in his be lle'! in the natural right of all mankind to share useful Improvements with 9ut restraint, he -uever applied for a patent. Ilis first original device was a fold ing chair, which he used to carry to church in early days, when services were held in the court house at Char lottesville and the seating conveni ences were insufficient. His grandson tells us how he would "mount his horse early in the morning during the latter years of his life, canter down the mountain and across the country to the site of the university and spend a long day there, directing the work, carrying with him a walking stick of his own invention, now familiar to all, composed of three sticks, which, being spread out and covered with a piece of cloth, made a tolerable seat." Mr. Bacon, his overseer, in his remin iscences says: "His servants came with him and brought a seat, a kind of camp stool of his own invention. After Mr. Jefferson got old and feeble a servant used to go with him and carry that stool so that he could sit down while ho was waiting for any body, or attending to any work that was going on." He invented the revolving chair, now a familiar and necessary article of furniture in all offices and counting rooms. The Federalist newspapers used to call It "Mr. Jefferson's wliirl i-gig," and declared that he had de vised it "so as to look all ways at once." He also designed a light wagon, or sulky, with a comfortable seat and two wheels, with which he drove around the country when he was too feeble to ride horseback. Mr. Jefferson invented the copying press. He writes to Mr. Madison in 1787: "Having a great desire to have a portable copying machine, and hav ing studied over some experiments with the principle of large machines made to apply in the smaller one, I planned one in England and had it made. It answers perfectly. I have set a workman to making them, and they arc of such demand that he has his hands full. I send you one. You must expect to make many essays be fore you succeed perfectly. A soft brush like a shaving brush is more successful than a sponge." He also sent a copying press to the Marquis of Lafayette as a present. Another of his inventions was a hemp break, which he says "has long been wanted by the cultivators of hemp, and as soon as I can speak of its effect with certainty I shall de scribe is anonymously in the public papers, in order to forestall the pre vention of its use by some interloping patentee." He invented a pedometer to measure the distance he walked. He sent one to James Madison, with the following explanatory letter: "To the loop at the bottom of it you must sew a tape, and at the other end of the tape a emalWtook. Cut a little hole in the bottom of your left watch pocket, pass the hook and tape through it, and down between the breeches and drawers, cud fix tiie hook on the edge of your knee baud, an inch from the knee buckle, then hook the instrument itself by a swivel hook, on the upper edge of your watch pocket. Your tape being adjusted in length, your steps will be exactly measured by the in strument." Ilis most important invention was a plow. Mr. Bacon, his overseer, says: "He was very ingenious. He invented a plow that was considered a great improvement on any that had ever been used. He got a great many premiums and medals for it. Ho planned his own carriage, buildings, garden and l'eacat, and many other tilings. He was nearly always busy upon somo plan or model." Jefferson's plow received a gold medal in Franco in 1700. During his European tours he had been struck with the waste of power caused by the bad construction of the plows in common use. The part of the plow called (lie "mouldboard," which is above the share and turns over the earth, seeuied to him the chief seat cf error, and he spent many of the leisure hours of his last two years in France in evolving a mouldboard which should offer the minimum of re sistance. He sent the original design to the lloy.nl Agricultural Society of the Seine. The medal which they awarded for It followed the inventor to New York, and eighteen years af terward the society sent him a superb plow containing his improvement.— Chicago Record-Herald. The Xeiv Baby-Carrier, Ii has made its appearance at last, and it is quite in keeping that Brook lyn should lie its birthplace. But what will the comic weeklies do since it has displaced the perambulator? Passengers on a Fifth avenue "L" train the other night witnessed its ad vent when a man boarded the train at the Bridge street station. In one hand he carried an umbrella, in the other a sachel, while dangling in front, appar ently without human support, was a baby. The people in the car gaped with wonder, then there was a snicker, fol lowed by a general laugh. For on closer Investigation it was found that the child was resting on a wicker seat much resembling the top of a vegeta ble basket. To this was securely clamped two steel hoops, which held the child in firmly, while a leather strap was fastened to these hoops and passed around the father's neek. "Say. that feller could give a squaw a point or two on carrln' a pnppoose, couldn't he?" remarked a fat man in the corner, and all agreed that he could.—New York Mail anil Express. HEACHIJVG THE TOLE. At a recent meeting of the Vienna Geographical society Herr Arischutz- Kampfe described as his own a plan of reaching the North Pole, which, how ever, was suggested some y.ears ago by a Swede, but for the execution of which he is lfow having a vessel built by German marine engineers at Wil helmsliaven. His plan is to reach the pole by means of a submarine boat, passing under the ice of the Arctic ocean. In his address, as reported by the Geographical Journal, Herr An schutz-Kampfe said: The main fac tors affectir , the practicability of the scheme aro: First, the extent of the separate ice fields in the polar sea, and, secondly, the depth below the surface to which the ice reaches. From extensive study as well as per sonal observation the speaker had ar rived at the conclusion that the aver age maximum depth of tho pack ice may be taken to be SO feet, while the mean thickness does not exceed 16 to 20 feet. Land ice reaching in the form of icebergs a depth below water sur face of several hundred feet may, he thinks, from its virtual absence from the seas in question, be left out of consideration, while our present knowledge of the depths attained by the polar basin justifies the opinion that reefs of rocks rising towards the surface of tho ocean are not to be ex pected. The proposed vessel will be capable of descending to a depth of 160 feet, at which it will be entirely re moved from the influence of cold, storms, and ice-pressure, and the way to the pole will be therefore open. The length of time during which it will bd able to remain below the sur face is calculated at a maximum of fifteen hours, which at the modest rate of 3 knots allows it to cover a dis tance of 50 miles, whereas the com bined experience of polar voyagers shows that continuous fields of pack ice never exceed a maximum diameter of 3 English miles. In the improbable case of no opening being met with within the fifteen hours there remains the possibility of opening away by blasting at a weak point in the ice, to be indicated without possibility of mis take by the help of the manometer. The risk of collision will be minimized not only by the slow rate of motion, hut by the great power of resistance to be possessed by the ship, and in- ifxhe Booming \ I South. Twenty years ago, by the census if 7880, there were 180 small cotton mills south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. The 1900 census shows 800 mills with moro than 4,000,000 spindles and at least 500,000 spindles more to bo added within the next few months in mills now under construction. The most rapid increase in the history of cotton manufacture in the south is now go ing on. In Georgia alone IS new mills with 263,076 new spindles and 5,000 looms, representing an investment of 33.860,000, were put in operation last year, l'hcy are all of the latest type, both In construction and equipment, and many of them are run by elec tricity. During the previous year Georgia built 38 new mills with 275.000 spindles and 4,710 looms, which repre sented an equal amount of capital. More than 75 per cent of the stock of .lie Georgia mills is owned by local capitalists. North Carolina stands next to Gcoi'gla in progress, and on tho line of the Southern railway alone today no less than 123 cotton mills, repre senting a capital of $11,227,950, and consuming 340,132 bales of cotton ev ery year. Few people realize what this means to the south, not only in giving em ployment to tho people, but in the sav ing of transportation charges, commis sion and other items that go to make A Mean v Deception j A flustered young woman, out of | breath as though from walking fast, rushed up tho steps of the United , States mint at Philadelphia the other day and asked to lie directed to the bu reau of information. "There isn't any," replied the uniformed messen ger, a very fat man. "Perhaps I can ! tell you what you want to know." "Per haps you can," said the young woman, producing a copy of a frivolous weekly | paper. "I want to know if this is ; true." She pointed to a paragraph } which read: "Among the curio-ities of collecting is the fact that 1901 cents now bring about sl9 in the coin mar- I. ket." The fat messenger adjusted his glasses and scrutinized the paragraph. ! While he was thus engaged he began to laugh and showed to others in the I department the paragraph. Ther fot- | lowed combined roars of laughter, j Through it all the young woman stood ; expectantly fingering four bright, new pennies she had brought with her. Fin- ! ally the fat messenger regained his breath sufficiently to gasp: "It's n ; joke. Don't you see? I'll give you sl9 for 1901 pennies, and I'll be a cent ahead of the game. See?" A great light seemed to dawn in the mind of the young woman. "I dare i ay, it's very funny," she said, "but I don't j Herr Anschulz- Kampfe Outlines His Own Plan.??? j dispensable on account of the it pressure to which it will be sul* ct from water. Its form will be tt of an ellipsoid of rotation, with a _u*jor axis of 70 feet and a breadth o,* 26 feet, giving a displacement of 800 tpns. To obviate rolling the center of grav ity will be placed as low as possible. Tho capacity of the interior will bp 3, 500 cubic feet, which allows sufflcien air for five men for fifteen hours, ti carbonic acid evolved being remove by combination with caustic sod.. Propulsion will be effected by hori zontal and vertical screws, the formcft of 40, the latter of 5 horse power, this last being sufficient to counteract thfe tendency to rise; while the motive power is to be supplied by a petroleum motor through the medium of a 220 volt accumulator. One hundred and fifty tons of petroleum will be taken, or more than ten times the quantity needed for the 600 miles' voyage to the pole from Spitzbergen, to which, or rather to the edge of the ice, the submarine boat will be towed. On ar rival at the pack the direction of the first open water will be taken by com pass, and, the boat being submerged, a course will be steered for it. If, after an hour or so the light shows that an opening has been reached the vertical screw will be stopped and the boat will rise by its own buoyancy and in case of a wide opening or channel leading northwards the voyage will be continued on the surface, giving an op portunity for scientific work. Suppos ing no gleam of light appears when six hours have elapsed an ascent to the lower surface of the ice will be made with caution and the voyage continued slowly until by the reading of the manometer it is found that a thin place ha.s been reached. Here at tempts will be made by blasting to ef fect an opening, which, however small, will be sufficient to supply air for an other fifteen hours; in the case of failure there will be still time to return to the last opening that has been left, whence the voyage will be prosecuted in a slightly different direc tion. Rut both assumptions made — that of an uninterrupted ice field more than 18 miles In diameter, and of one so continuously thick as to defy all ef forts at disruption —are entirely con tradicted by all previous experiences.— Philadelphia Times. ■■ agaiT-g"T;'-L n,i S A R_cniatrka.ble In- s S crease in All Lines J < of Industry. j up tho profits of the middlemen and the export and import merchants who handle the raw product. This year the cotton crop is said to be worth $300,- 000,000 as it comes from the gin. By turning it into plain sheeting its value is doubled, and in raising the grade of the manufactured product to a lit tle better quality the value doubles again, and amounts to $2,000,000,000. Nor are cotton mills the only manu facturing concerns that you see nowa days in the south. During the last few years the development has been very rapid in all lines of manufacture to consume the raw materials found on the ground. On the Southern railway, within four states, 1,002 manufacturing concerns have sprung up within the last 10 years. Sixteen are woolen mills, 90 are sawmills, 99 flour mills, 52 grist mills, 58 are furniture factories, 49 are tobacco factories. The furniture indus try is one of the most important in the new development of the south. Thirty-nine new factories opened last year in what is called the Piedmont section, where there is an unlimited supply of hardwood suitable for cabi net-making, plenty of low priced labor, fuel and liberal labor laws. The average man can hear the whis per of a pretty worhan farther than he can the loudest call of duty.—Penn sylvania Grit. | Unkind Trick Played S Upon an Unsuspect { infl and Avoro^cious < Woman. -- s.jrrr l ■rairrr • ir-r?a IKK ,iic think such thing 3 ought to be printed." And rshe made her exit sorrowfully. Hliiilnnt ix Street Musician. Among the street musicians of Chi cago is a young man who plays to earn his living while he pursues his studies In a musical college. He holds a scholarship in the college and is con sidered a promising student there, but the problem for him is how to main tain himself in a city far away from his little home town in Michigan while he studies in the school. He has no private resources. Each evening he takes his voilin and on likely street corners plays to the crowd classical se lections usually, and sands around the hat afterward. His dream is to have a studio of his owu and give lessons. Then he will give up the street play ing; but that can't be yet. "I don't core what people think of me." he told a reporter who asked him about his aspirations. "I'm not ashamed of play ing in the streets. It is nearly the same as playing in a concert hall for a fee. But all the same I -hall he glad n lien I don't have to do it any longer." The police don't bother the young musician, and his teachers rather admire him for his courage than condemn lite. Some day, he hopes to go to Eutcyo to study.
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