featured face; light hair in profusion, clammy with perspiration; not more than twenty-three years old. To my inquiries, he said with politeness, he was very well, "a little crowded, just a little; it's choking-like to be
crowded;" and he looked about the room. "What crowds, you?" I said. He shook his head and said: "Beds, Beds—very little—room great many beds!"
"To wet his mouth and smooth the clothes was all that could be done; and we came away from him. He has a brother somewhere in the territory ; but> so far, no clue whereby to find him has been discovered. If we could only borrow a telegraph wire from you who are so rich in means and appliances of inter-ommunication, or an express-train, just for one day, then this poor youth should receive the care and love of his brother. What can I do for him? is the question unanswered, as we take a cross-way home, no longer cognizant of the outer working of poor human hands upon mortar, lime-stone and timber. This poor youth, u crowded," as he says; looking with dim and wistful eyes over his shoulder, with the weight on his breaking faculties
