Skilled workmen in any branch of industry will not find a good field for their abilities in Puerto Rico, at least not for a few years to come.

When all ordinary means of collecting booty were exhausted, the citizens were compelled to take an oath on the Holy Scriptures that they had not concealed any portion of their property; yet many of the wealthiest were dragged away captive, in order to profit by their ransom; and many of the most skilful workmen in the silk manufactories, for which Thebes had long been famous, were pressed on board the fleet to labor at the oar.

The barracks, 25 metres (81 feet) long and 8 metres (20 feet) wide, consisted of a solid wooden framework, with partitions either of timber or cement, constructed in the camp by native workmen.

I found a clever workman and made him cut out under my direction the foundation of a saddle, which I wadded and covered with choice leather, adorning it with rich gold embroidery.

Successive generations of employes have found him always just the kind of man it is a pleasure to have as a fellow workman.

So Xury and I went to work with him; but Xury was much the better workman at it, for I knew very ill how to do it.

Each felt his inferiority; with pride on the one hand, and awkwardness on the other, for Clerambault knew that in many essential respects he was inferior to the intelligent workman.

But would he, a mere workman in a blouse, be allowed to penetrate to the Archbishop!

She employs a number of men to keep the grounds and farm in perfect order, and it was pleasing to learn that this rich woman is using her money to promote the welfare of industrious workmen in whom she takes a vital interest.

But the most popular of all the ballads were those which cluster about the name of that good outlaw, Robin Hood, who, with his merry men, hunted the forest of Sherwood, where he killed the king's deer and waylaid rich travelers, but was kind to poor knights and honest workmen.

Indeed, it has been said that he had a secret commission from Edward IV to learn the art, and to bribe some of the foreign workmen into England.

Who can find the tools of the cunning workman, or the laboratory where his corrodents are composed?

Hence it is evident that any Trade Union would be bound to refuse admission to new applicants who, though they might be in other respects competent workmen, could not find work without under-bidding those who were at present occupied.

First of all, he went into a cotton factory, and later to a velveteen factory; then, having a taste for carpentering, he took to it as a trade, though he was at best but a rough unskilled workman, tramping about the country, and doing odd jobs wherever he could get them.

They presented many characteristics of the average English workmen and hungrily received information relating to the methods of the best organised English trade unions.

The steady workman who moves into the town generally betters himself from the point of view of immediate material advantages.

Three experienced workmen were sent, at his request, from Florence, and he began at once upon the arduous labour.

These irregularities and leakages seem to explain why, at any given time, a certain considerable number of fairly efficient and willing workmen may be out of work.

In this respect he is a matchless literary workman.

You may easily know this little workman by his chips.

The poor, ignorant, uneducated, neglected Russian workman is perfect and well-prepared soil for such propaganda.

You can't be aa very skillful w-workman if you've got to use your table for everything" [Illustration: "'I'm afraid', he ventured 'that I may require that table for cutting.'

"The makers of the Kansas and Nebraska law were clumsy workmen.

The garden gates were now violently thrown open, and a band of stout workmen was seen hastening in wild disorder toward Gotzkowsky.

The third class is composed of the independent workmen and tradesmen, and of the well-to-do and educated colored people; and, strange to say, for a directly opposite reason they are as far removed from the whites as the members of the first class I mentioned.