(Photo: Mr. W. T. Piper.)
"MOUSIE."
Always Rejoicing.
When, in 1849, the American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, was dismissed from being a surveyor, his wife thus writes of the supposed calamity in a letter to her mother: "It has come in the way of an inevitable providence to us (whatever knavery some people may have to answer for who have been the agents in the removal), and I never receive inevitable providences with resignation merely, but with joy, as certainly, undoubtedly, the best possible events that can happen for me." Surely this is the right way to regard the changes and so-called chances of this mortal life, if we believe that our Heavenly Father orders the lives of each one of us with individual care.
(1) THOMAS BROWN.
(Gordon Boys' Home.)
(2) HARRY CASTLEDINE.
(Orphan Working School.)
(3) CLARA A. LANGDON.
(Orphan Working School.)
(4) FLORENCE ANDERSON.
(National Refuges.)
(5) EDWARD M. NYE.
(Reedham Orphanage.)
(6) CHARLES E. SMITH.
(Reedham Orphanage.)
THE QUIVER GOOD CONDUCT PRIZE WINNERS, 1898.
An Interesting Group.
The Quiver Prize has long since become an annual institution in several representative orphanages, and as our object is to encourage honesty, industry, and general good conduct, it is awarded each year to those inmates who have shown greatest progress in these respects during the preceding twelve months. We publish a group of the winners for 1898, who represent respectively the Orphan Working School, the Reedham Orphanage, The Gordon Boys' Home, and the National Refuges.