He was now very generally respected, both for his wealth and fair dealing; was several years a director in one of the insurance offices; was president of the society for relieving the widows and orphans of distressed seamen; and, it is said, might have been chosen alderman, if he had not refused, on the ground that he did not think himself qualified.

Everywhere in Wigan one may meet with the widows and orphans of men who have been killed in the mines; and there are no few men more or less disabled by colliery accidents, and, therefore, dependent either upon the kindness of their employers, or upon the labour of their families in the cotton factories.

The widows and orphans of coal miners almost always fall back upon factory labour for a living; and, in the present state of things, this class of people forms a very helpless element of the general distress.

Two significant facts, however, did obtrude themselves on us: Every minute or two, as we dined, a young girl or an old gentleman would come to us, rattling a tin receptacle with a slot in the top through which coins for the aid of the widows and orphans of dead soldiers might be dropped; and when a little later we rode past the royal palace we saw that it had been converted into a big hospital for the wounded.

[Footnote: The ceremony of purification took place every five years, hence "Justrum" came to be used for a period of five years.] closed by Quinctius: the number of citizens rated is said to have been one hundred and four thousand seven hundred and fourteen, not counting orphans of both sexes.

Rutherfordis dead; and that we have received a most heart-broken letter from her motherleft with four grandchildren, orphans of a living scoundrel lurking about the pothouses of Little Russell Street, London: they and sheGod help 'em!at

She was shocked at the notion of the poor coloured orphan mingling with fellow-orphans of a fairer hue.

These associations, animated by Christian charity, took upon them to invoke the blessings of heaven on all members of the fraternity, and to assist those who were either laid by through sickness or want of work, and to take care of the widows and to help the orphans of the less prosperous craftsmen.

And this kindness to the orphans of their race Minnie found to be a very praiseworthy practice among some of those people who were not poorer than themselves.

Campbell says: "This battle made orphans of half the inhabitants of the Mohawk Valley."

At Ahmednagar, Mrs. Wagentreiver has a school of 125 women and girls, mostly widows and orphans of the late famine, who are being taught the art of lacemaking, and most of her graduates are qualified to serve as instructors in other lace schools which are constantly being established in other parts of India.

The members of Congress usually manifest courtesy to delegates, as they are considered in a political sense orphans of the Republic, not having any vote nor in any other way being recognized as equals.

"NEGRO HIRINGS. "WILL be offered for hire, at Captain Long's Hotel, a number of SLAVESmen, women, boys and girlsbelonging to the orphans of George Ash, deceased.

Each year there was interest to pay on the bonded debt, and pensions to be given to disabled soldiers and sailors, and to the widows and orphans of men killed, and claims for damages of all sorts to be allowed.

The pony lifted his head to meet the caress, and then these two orphans of the wilderness looked out dimly, wondering, over this wonderful new country into which both were come, without knowing how or why or whence, through no will or choice of their own.

A message of condolence also had come from the Rajah of Quilon, who offered to receive the women and children, so one hundred and fifty native women and children, widows and orphans of the slain, were sent off.

His Work for the Widows and Orphans of Soldiers.

His Work for the Widows and Orphans of Soldiers.

Another class of clients who brought him much work but no profit were the widows and orphans of soldiers seeking aid to get pensions.

While officiating at the funeral of a fireman who had lost his life by the falling walls of a burning building and who had left three small children uncared for, Dr. Conwell was impressed with the need of a home for the orphans of men who risked their lives for the city's good.

Orphans of Gunswift Gaze.

Orphans of Gunswift Gaze.

" The majority of the speculators found the widows and orphans of whom they were in search.

Three Indian orphans of my uncle's, turned upon my grandfatherjolly little kids enough, as long as one hasn't to teach them.

Helpless orphans of ten and scarcely twelve, cast on a strange land, without one single friend to whom they could look for succour or protection.