The current used will be six hundred volts, and, while the company insists that this will not kill any one, they are of the opinion that it would be better to avoid the shock if possible. * * * * * A new school was opened the other day in East Twenty-first Street, New York City. Though girls will be admitted into it, it is especially a school for boys, as you will understand when you learn that it is a Truant School. It is one of the laws of our country that children must attend school. Parents who do not send their children are fined, and children who play truant when they are sent to school are also punished. For years it has been the custom to arrest all truants, or children who will not attend the public schools. If the magistrate found that the culprit was a bad boy, who continually stayed away from school, he would commit him to a Reformatory. Many people have felt that this was not the right thing to do, for, while boys who play truant are certainly very naughty, they are not necessarily wicked boys who need to be sent to a Reformatory. The truant school has therefore been founded to prevent this. This school is in fact a big boarding-school. The truants who are brought in are housed and fed and taught. They are treated with the greatest kindness, but are constantly under the eye of the teacher, and forced to study. Any boy who misconducts himself in the Truant School is sent to a Reformatory; but the other lads are kept at their work for a certain period, and then allowed to go back to their homes, if they agree that they will attend school regularly in future. Boys who behave nicely are given leave of absence to go home and see their parents from Saturday to Monday. The boys are treated exactly as if they were at boarding-school, the only difference being that they are never allowed to go outside the walls of the school. They have every comfort, with playrooms, and gymnasiums, and yards for exercising; but out into the street they cannot go. On the upper floors are neat white dormitories and bathrooms, and washrooms. Their only hardship is that they must study. They cannot escape their daily lessons, nor the certainty of being sent to a Reformatory if they give trouble. The truants will have to stay in school till late in July, several weeks longer than the regular schools. This is to teach them that it pays boys better to be good and go to school at proper times. GENIE H. ROSENFELD. LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS. DEAR EDITOR: