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THE FARMER: OCTOBER 22, 1915
IS
BLUE-EYED BOY
IS ADOPTED BY
THE SHEPARDS
Lad Abandoned at Cathedral Is
Found in Orphanage by
Charity Worker.
Wljlte Plains. N. - Oct, 22.
Adoption papers have been filed In
the iiveetchester county clerk's, office
here giving custody to Finley J. Shep
ard .hd his wife, Mrs. Helen Gould
Shepard, W ' VJohn Roe No. 104, alias
Austin McCleary," ' a four-yekr-old
foundling discovered on the steps' of
St, Patrick's cathedral, New York,
September-17, 1914. . ,
Who the boy is that jhas com so
strangely into the affection of Mrs.
Shepard and" her husband- and into a
line for the heritage of the Gould es
tate, what Ilia' antecedents werei-.-how
he. came toe be . homeless--oJ; those'
things there is no trace. When picked
up in.thei shadow of tlvecathedral late
in th Gvtming last September, he said
his fathei had left "him there aid told
him ;tol-- wait. Afterward he said it
was not his father, but a strange man.
He did not-;know .where his home was,
and ihia name, a nearly ras the-baby 4
words could ; be, '.. distinguished was
."Austin McCleary." ' J ' :
At any rate as this, alias' John Doe
104,i he went on the.. official records.
He -was kept at" the Children's Society
"until October " ,.isfa " i whe ft "JtA-.'. was ,
taken before u'stiee'fWyt iri' h431iil '
dren's Cf&rtrr-aqd rjsai to St-":-Chris-.
topher's Howie' at Diobbs Ferry. He
has been there river - since, with the
exception of visits paid to the Shep
. srds. ,, "'v 1- ' V ' - '
! Mrs. Shepard found-him .on .one 'of
her charitable trips auid was attracted
by the boy's light hair, blue eyes and
bright manner. Last "February he was
taken, to the Shepard ' house at 6 7 9
:. -I i l v. li avrue auu 'i i, n n j. n .iw .....
' twoi children of Frank. J. Gould, also
staying'with Mrs. Shepard, was striete
en witB chickenpox and made an en
forced visit' of unusual length. , He hps
been in Xyndhursti Mrs. ghepard's
place bear Tarrytown, several times
and moved there . permanently from
,me -pome, soma jiays asu. . -
' - .Mx'.f, Shepard. , said today "that he
cartii .to say little about the adoption.
j Tne.c papers- icnew, jib ipuiuiBii, u
mucfaNof -th "boy's history as heboid.
He , had-- spent some time with' Mrs.
Shepard,' ' enough i to satisfy his wife
and himself from his general makeup
that he- was of good stock; he was
wholesome and fine looking -and-they
had grown!-fond of him. i ; :''-'
' Mr- Shepard ' also . mentioned . "the
vn warranted long rt'isdt- at the time.
f the chickenpox. , '"V ' "
' Mrs. Shepard, "seen at 'iLyndhurst,
admitted the adoption of the boy. Both
ehe and . Mr; Bhepara,' it was . saw
here,- hid -been -anxious to keep the ac
tion secret fof a, time, but gave up
- when . they discovered the adoption
'' - .1 1, T " ( CV.n
uft enfikA Vvf hln''hlAriH haiiv anil Mno
eyes amd laughed, a- Ettle and - said
"No"! when asked if 'his.. hair is curly.
The retruesL -of -photcgrapfaers tg 4ake
hiMrfcture iraa dnied- ---. ' t -. -
' The petition for the, adaption i was
: made by Mr. and. Mrs.Shepard through
the law Jircn-of Xeo&rd & "Walker of
135 Broadway. The Shepards, with Mis3
Emily . Fowler,- president of St 'Chris
topher's , home- appeared before ,Coun
, ty Surrogate William "A. 'Sawyer i and
'after" the necessary agreements had
been signed the surrogate made ; out
tho formal order placing the boy: ex
rlniffvfa'rv fn hia fosteT-narentJi' run-
tody; ;';' '."':. ,':".. .-.1 ;-' ''.'':'
" Attached to the petition and order
were the regular adoption instrument
prepared' under the domestic relations
. aV and signed by Miss Fowler, as
J of the home, the Shepards, and affida
vits by Miss Fowler and Robert Cos-
, grove, an agent of the Children's socie
ty. ' Cosgrove's affidavit asserts that
the child was found : September 17,
"not having a home, and being ira-
Fowler i asserts that hfr came to St.
Christopher's in October 1914, by or
der of the Children's Court if New
"York county and that no parent - or
guardian, has. since claimed him.
STuSf ogate - Sawyerfs order recites
"That' said infant child has been- aban
doned' by its parents, and furthermore
;I, feeing satisfied that the moral and
temporal interests of said child will be
promptpd by allowing the confirming
the. adoption for the; reason that the
said, proposed, foster' narentsare per
sons of, good, moral- character and of
- reputable standing In -the; coinmunity
- ar4 -of' sufficient- aneans to 'properly
mctntaln and educate said child.
It -concludes with ;a confirmation of
the adoption and the wish of the f 6s-
. ter 'parents that the child be' known
as tinjey : Jay . Shepard. The entire
collectiony; of papers are entered" in
the i court record "under the caption:
"Adoption V of 'John! Doe, t ' No., 104$
alias Austin .McCleary,- by ; Finley J.
Shepard and Helen' G. Shepard."
Little would b said by- the officials
of St. Christopher's Home about the
. boy . last evening beyond the story of
his being found on the cathedral steps:
The. Rev. B. W. Brown, head of the
home, asked, that, all connecter! with It
be -.excused from speaking iis they
v.lshed all information to come from
the - Shepards. i The " home shelters
orphans and is supported by volun
tary 'contributions. 'It is connected
indrJtIy with the Methodist church.
At present 200 children are there.1
Mr. . and Mrs. Shepard were married
at Lyndhurst,' January 26. 1913, their
engagemeat having-been announced a
little ever a' month before. Mr. Shep
ard " had been assistant to President
Bush of the Missouri Pacirlc lines at
St. Ixuis before the marriage, hut af
terward moved to New Tork. The en
gagement and wedding came as a sur-
" risevto fha many friends of Miss Gould
" as she had been always wrapped up in
philanthrdpic work and it was sup
posed that she was too busy, to think
of matrimony. She Inherited from her
father. Jay Gould, 'he Gould home on
Fifth "" avenue - with all it contained,
. Jfi.OOO a month household expenses and
UO,(KH,000" of his estate, which placed
her 'among the richest women In tfce
world. At the time of ha marriage
she , was 44 and Mr. Shepard 45 years
', old.? . -
TJie Shepards have only recently re
turned to Lyndhurst from KoXbury,
N. T., where they spent the greater
part of the summer.
Rear-Admiral Joseph B-. Parker, a
retired medical director of the United
States Navy, died at Philadelphia,
aged 74 years.
CHINESE SOCIETY
FOR PEACE FEARS
JAPANESE BOGEY
Large Sums Contributed By
Chinese to Promote Po
tential Monarchy.
Peking, Oct. 22. The newspapers
announce that the promoters of the
Peace Society (called in Chinese thel
Chou An Huei) have recently receiv
ed .$200000 for the purpose of pro
moting ' sympathy for the potential
monarchy throughout the country,
and it is estimated in some quarters
that this sum has come from govern
ment circles.
The Peking Gazette says that "a
week's study of the supreme issue
raised by Mr. Tang Tu and his fellow
promoters of the Chou An Huei leaves
us convineed'that-L-unless the menace
indicated further on is. understood a
monarchial restoration in China is a
certainty. itv "
' Referring, to the "''-banking, agree
ment" between President Yuan's par
ty and the revolutionary government
which .was established at Nanking, the
paper says: "This settlement, is "un
derstood by the South in the sense of
a great natiorial charter whicn forever
ended the: cycle ,pf alien conquest ' that
hitherto swept China; and it is also
prized as the : title-deed which vests
in "the nation a. country hitherto gov
erned as the private7 domain of the
reigning monarch and his house. The
South looks upon the national; settle
ment clone: at Nanking, as, he f unda-
mentaT-'huIwark against the recurrence
of ancient wrongs and laches; ind.
rightly or- wrongly, it is a living fear
there in the regions on and beyond the
Tang-tse-klang that, ' if the Republic
and , the great human thing's and as
pirations denoted by the idea disap
pear and pass into the night haunted
by the 'ghosts of the past, the force
and power of habit, custom, tradition
and the other agencies of national en
vironment will drive us . to the re-es
tablishment of a system not unlike in
essentials to the regime that was. shat
tered in 1911. , - : '-y . ' . ;
"The question of- expediency, has al
so entered Itself about the personality
of the new monarch. No Chinese that
is not a slave in spirit would care to
see his country ruled by an alien; and
if there is to be a monarchical restora
tion in China, It can hardly be doubted
that the President would be entitled
to the sceptre. But it Is equally a
matter bf no little certainty that such
a sceptre "would be but a bauble if it
passed -into the hands of the President
in circumstances that might.be inter
preted by the nations in the sense of
a seizure. V Unless regality is .the free
offering of the ; people,.-no fonarchical
system in , China would outlast either
the life of the monarch or his control
of the military forces of the country;
There are - not a few who, believing
thaf the facts of national destiny de
mand a monarchical restoration in this
country- f ear-. that, if such a restora
tion' is effected as a result of the movement-initiated
by ' the promoters of
the "Society for1 Peace" there will go
abroad among the . nation . this idea of
a, .forcible seizure of the', sceptre. : -v.. :
" I. ".'Rut .these .views, of expediency re
levant and powerful as they are in
any 1 discussion "' of the ' question, '; are
in a sense theoretical as well as spec
ulative; and for thia reason they may
pass undeeded 'when set off against
the undoubted a.bility of .the Chiang
Shuns (Governors) to maintain order
in t the provinces In the event of a
monarchial restoration. A considera
tion, however, tha.t : is not at all idle
and speculative is. the attitnde of 'Ja
pan. . .While the other great . Powers
may be more or less indifferent to the
i-'ansf ormation of China from a re
public to a monarchy- although the
United States may not btf very easy
to placate; there is every reason to
brieve and to anticipate that no such
indifference will characterize the at
titude of Japan." -.
:.The article then brings up1 the per
manent Chinese dread that Japan will
seize any opportunity or situation here
to promote her - authority, and that
another revolution would-be welcom
ed by her." - ,' ; . ...-'v
WAR VETERA AT
72, GETS MO 15
YEARS IN PRISON
Winsted, Oct. 22 -Frederick- Chat
field," the 72 year , old : war veteran
who, on Sept. - 21, ". shot ' his daughter
Catherine at the., Chatfleld "home in
Canaan, pleaded guilty in the superior
court today ;to assault with Intend t"o
kll and. was sentenced to from 10 to
16 years in state's prison. ' The girl
was not fatally injured.
DEEP-SEA DIVING: ,:,:r
PROFITABLE WORK
FOR BLINDED MEN
London, Oct. 22 Deep-water diving
is one of the trades for which blind
ed soldiers may lit themselves, writes
C. Arthur Pearson, chairman of the
Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care
Committee. 1 He says: V
"Diving, is, ! think, a quite new
occupation for blind people. The div
er who is building breakwaters and
piers works in In the dark, for even
if the water is clear-, his work disturbs
it and renders "it impossible for him
to see anything throngh it. " The div
er is one of the best paid of workmen.
He' has. an attendant to look after
him while below arid when he re
turns to the surface, 'and the, occupa
tion :1s one which I think will prove
to be extremely suitable for intelligent
blinded soldiers and sailors who have
had some mechanical training."
AVAR ; FORCES LAUNDRIES
TO RAISE THEIR PRICES
London, Oct. 22. The latest indus
trial combination to force up its
prices is the Launderers' Association,
which adds 10 per cent, to laundry
bills because the Britiah public is al
leged to wear 12,000,000" fewer col
lars since the war than before the
war. This saving, in collars is based,
says the secretary, on the assumption
that the ' 8,000,000 men now in the
army and navy used to send an aver
age of four collars a week to be
washed.
Farmer Wants Cent a Word
BISHOP OF LONDON
WOULD CLOSE ALL
SOHO NIGHT ClUBS
Claims They Are Menace to
Country When Nation Is
At War. .
London, Oct. 22 The "night club,"
which is just now the subject of heat
ed controversy in London, is an insti
tution pecuJiar to England. It aims
to provide amusement and refresh
ment, the latter mostly liquid, during
the late hours of the evening and the
early hour3 of the morning. Since
the war, the club, likje the saloon or
cafe, has . been subjected to rather
rigid restrictions as to the sale of al
coholic beverages, but the police
complain that it is difficult to obtain
evidence against law-breaking night
clubs. , '
There are probably 4 00 night clubs
In London. Nearly half of these are
located within the narrow limits of
the district knowtt as So ho, -which, is
'the' ,center of the " foreign quarter.
"Thete are between 15 0 and 200 night
clubs in Sotto," says the London
Times, "and most of these are disrep
utable. The Bishop of London does
mot exaggerate when he says that for
the most part these establishments are
the haunts and hunting grounds of
sharks and loose women, 'whose trade
is to exploit the follies and weaknesses
of those, induced to go -there.
"It is unnecessary to insist upon the
mischiefs1 to which such company ex
poses the young Officers, some of whom
have but' little" experience of Hlei These
mischiefs are fin one sense a" public
danger at all times, but the danger is
enormously magnifled when the suf
ferers are soldiers and the nation is
at war. . , - .,
"The immediate loss of money which
can ill be spared is p'erhapa the least
among them, .Debt,, blackmail, drink,
and the loss of self-respect, whi-h fol
lows frome , these things, 1 and . from
yielding to the temptations of another
kind men fight in night flubs, do deep
er and more lasting evil." ..."
v The Times endorses the Bishop of
London's appeal to the civil "and mil
itary authorities to "combine and use
the great powers! they possess to sup
press this thing. . . 1
PANAMA DECLARED
. FREE OF TYPHOID
FOR PAST DECADE
Panama. Oct. 22 Notwithstanding
reports to the contrary, it is declared
that there have been no cases (of yel
low fever of local origin on the Isth mus
of Panama in the last ten years.
There have been several cases where
the patient died In Ancon and Sarto
Toinas hospitals but all ' of thse . orig
inated in countries south and north
of the isthmus.
Early M.his montlf a party of six
American railway ' " engineers arrived
on the Canal Zone . from Buenaven-i
tura, Colombia. One of them, Wm.
A. Munday, of Kansas City, Mo..died
in Ancon hospital the' day after- ar
rival. . He .was ; taken off the .. ship
iwhile sick: and removed to the Balboa
- Quarantine Station where his case- was
diagnosed ,jisjrellqt?,.f ever. None of
the other .members of the party, all
of whom, were from Kansas City, were
found to have been infected. - ' :
It has been known to the Canal Zone
health authorities for 'months that in
the vicinity , of Buenaventupra, Colom
bia, , yellow ' f evar has been epidemic.
Similar conditions exist ' farther inland
toward Call where the Americans- Were
employed building a railway. AHBar
anquilla and Cartagena- there also
have, been' cases of yellow fever re
ce"ife. : , ..
"Ample precautions "are always taken
to prevent the spread of the disease in
Panama when a case ' is discovered on
any -of the ships docking at either the
Atlantic or: Pacific ports of Panama
and the Canal Zone. There is never
any danger of an epidemi-e according'
to the health offlceA ; ' ,
London Food Prices v
, V Show Great Increase
, London, OcC 22- London food
prices have to date shown a general
increase of thirty-five per cent." since
the beginning vpf. the. war.. . . ..... ,J..TT
Except ior, a-.panic-ise-at the. very
beginning - of the war, prices have
mounted with a disquieting and unre
laxing steadiness at the rate of a lit
tle more than two per cent, a month
since the war began. The largest
rise took place last , May, mainly on
account of a sudden jump in the price
of meat. " It Is thought that the new
tastes on imported articles will raise
this percentage - of increase. Present
prices have never been equalled in
England with the xception, ofhe
period from, 1873-1877, which was' a
time of peace .and prosperity. -There
was at that time no interference with
trade, and the high prices which ex
tended to all commodities were ' due
not to short supply but to extraordin
ary demand. " i 1 Va '
Most luxuries are comparatively
cheap. The price of caviar is the
same as it was two years ago. Grouse
can be bought at seventy-five cents a
brace, hares at . thirty-seven cents,
large pineapples at thirty-seven cents
and hothouse grapes at eighteen cents
a pound. ' . ! .
SqiON OF THE HOUSE
WHICH INSPIRED "LADY
AUDLEY SECRET" KILLED
..London, Oct.- 2 24-The aeaffi'Jof the
sixteenth , -Lord Peflre at the : age' of
24 years as the result .of wounds re
ceived in France aqds another tragedy
to the sombre record of this noble
house. 'There haye been seven Lords
Petre in S 1 years. Thorndon Hall,
the seat of the family, was burned
down 40 years ago, destroying the
family relics. It was the romantic
traditions of this house that inspired
Miss Braddon to write "Lady Audley's
Secret." '
One of Lord Petre's ancestors was
-tutor to Anne Boleyn. Another died
In the tower at the Instigation of Ti
tus Oates. A member of the family
stole a lock of hair from Arabella
Fermor, a frolic that ' led to a feud
and to Pope's mockery of the' affair
in "The Rape of the Lock."
Shipments of shells made in factor
ies of India for the British army have
begun. The shells are reported to
be of excellent quality.
The Southern California Edison Co.,
declared the regular quarterly divi
dend of $1.60 a share on the common
stock, payable Nov. 15..
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Sale
, Begins
Saturday
Morning
at 9 A. M.
1124
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$1.19
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PROHIBITIOH 1H
NORWAY OPPOSED
BY WINE-GROWERS
" , - . . .' ) .. -. f . '
Question Becomes Leading
Political Issue, As Result
i';--'" A of War. ;''
Christian ia. Norway, ' Oct. 22.. The
prohibition movement which, .. since
the beginning of the" war, has been
gaining momentum In all the Scandi
navian , countries, has become in Nor
way a leading issue in the present
political campaign. .Gnudar Knud
sen, the prime minister, stated in a
recent speech that country-wide pro
hibition would be an achievement of
the near future. But except among
socialist and radical circles which
have strongly espoused the prohibi
tion cause, it is thought that the eco
nomic and international complications
resulting from such a reform will
make it impracticable or at least in
advisable. , '
The wine-producing European coun
tries do not look favorably, upon the
curtailment of their lifjuor exports to
Norway, and it is felt here that in the
case of prohibition reforms, they will
undertake reprisals which will serious
ly injure the commercial and financial
Standing of the country. In 1909,
when the legislature - passed a bill re
stricting the import of French wiaes,
Norwegian bonds were refused a rat
ing on the Paris exchange, and the
bill was repealed. The French dec
laration, made at this time, to. the ef
fect that France would assume the
liberty of making such an answer to
any Norwegian legislation detrimental
to France's wine trade, is still In force.
France, Spain and Portugal, accord
ing to a tariff declaration of 1910, will
double the duty on articles imported
from countries which throw difficul
ties In the way of the wine trade.
The Norwegian exports to these
countries are several million dollars
in excess of the imports, and any in
terference with thee exports would
work a serious commercial injury to
Norway. Norway, at present, enjoys
the "most favored nation" clause in
her commercial treaties with France.
1 If France feels that her wine exports
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Hf'flUf B fill jp
Main St. 0ver Alii!
$1.19
Untrimmed
Hats !
;n ' a Great. . Sale
200
Different
Shapes "
LJ
mm i ii hi imr
Our Usual Prices Would Be $1.98 to $2.98. ,
Last, Spring thiflv store featured a hat sale which,
despite a A'ainy, bleak "day', proved to Bridgeport women
that Eastern Millinery Sales cannot be duplicated any
where. On the first day of that sale we sold about 300
The success of this sale is assured by the hats them
selves. All are hew and fresh "and made in desirable
' shapes. They come to you at such a concession because
we ourselves purchased them at price advantages from an
overstocked manufacturer. . 1
High-grade Silk Velvet Hats
Large and medium Sailors, Tri
, comes, Pokes,, etc. Black only. Qur
uual price would tie $1.98. .
Hattei's gPlush Hats
(Silk Beaver)
, In fine, lustrous quality---velvet fac
ings. , Sailors, T'ricornes, Pokes, Tur
bans, etc. j , ,
Our usual price would be $2.48.
New, Felt Hats With Velvet
. Facing ; , 1 r
Very stylish new . Sailors, Tri
cornes; Turbans, Pokes, etc. Black,
navv, brown, green, etc. Our usual
price would be $2.98.
Look for the Red Sign.
1124 Main Street,
ONE SHORT FIGHT
Over Ailing Rubber Co.
to Norway, are being restricted, she
may, according to -the tariff ' declara"
tion" "already mentioned," ' ' "take any
steps the circumstances dictate," in
cluding the raising of harbor dues for
Norwegian sliips in French harbors,
which will make it difficult for Nor
way to compete with other nations.
'France . at preseint takes half of all
the wood pulp and cellulose produced
in Norway and Portugal and Spain
each take thirty per cent of Norway's
split cod. ' ' ,
Those opposed to prohibiUon use
-these arguments to show that a small
country like Norway, wich is in so
many ways dependent on other coun
tries, cannot, without injuring profit
able trade and disturbing her finan
cial standing, dopt as strict a' degree
of prohlbiition, as has been urged. All
parties, however, are agred that there
should be a "rigid control of the sale
of alcoholic beverages and that their
consumption should be replaced, by
light wines and beer. '
. It, is also urged that-Norway's long
coast-line and thousands of protect
ed fjords would make it impossible to
prevent wholesale smuggling: It ,is
also common, in Norway o make wine
- some of itv containing1 a high 'per
cent, of alcohol out of blue-berries,
currents and apples, which can - b
sold by grocers without special license.
Critics of the prohibition program
state that it would be difficult to de
vise and enforce a law to prevent
peoplefrom distilling berry-wines and
stronger alcoholic drinks in their own
kitchens for home use.
WAR HAS PREVENTED
MEXICAN CORN HARVEST
Mexico City, Oct. 22 The corn har
vest has begun with the prospect that
about 55,000,000 bushels will be gar
nered. As the normal crops totals in
the neighborhood of 130,000,000 bushels,
which is insufficient for Mexico's 15,
000,000 inhabitants, the misery and
distress whicn has prevailed : for
months past will be greatly accentu
ated during the winter months. '
American Red Cross representatives
have tried vainly for the past fort
night to purchase corn and other ce
reals and hav finally been compelled
to place their orders in the United
States with the hope that dalivery will
be made in time to relieve the- grave
situation which the Mexican poor will
have to face during the cold winter.
Corn is still selling at a prohibitive
price for those who need it and the
prospective crop shortage of 60 per
HQ Rubber
$1.19
Every
One a
Smart
Style
Your
Choice
Each
cenfel will greatly increase even this
price; -. r ' '
STATISTICS SHOW
U. S. iS FIRST IN
PANAMAEXPORTS
Trade With Foreign Nations
v Has Fallen Off Since -War
Began.
; P'anamaJ Oct. 22- Latin-American
trade propagandists in the United
States need have no concern regard
ing" the business with the Republic
of Panama, according to import sta
tistics just made public by the Bureau
of Statistics for the year 1914. -The
United States leads all nations in ex
port business to Panama witty a grand
total $6,396,276 which was nearly
four times the exports of Great Brit
ain and about thirteen times those of
Germany for ,the same period. Great
Britain's exports were $1,788,004.
Practically ; from the beginning of
work on the Panama Canal by the
United States in 1904 Panama has
been a large buyer of American goods.
Since then the business has grown
rapidly until the northern republic
became the largest exporter to Pana
ma. The imports into Panama from
the ; United States do not take into
consideration the thousands of dol
lars worth of goods that annually are
sent to the- Canal Zone. Panama re
ceived but very little duty, on such
importation.
Other large exporters to Panama
were: Germany $4 60,459; Belgium
$300,838! France $211,724; China
$149,905 and Cuba $85,518. , The to
tal importations for 1914 were worth
$9,885,477. Importations from all
countries during 1915 will show a
material falling off due to the Euro
pean war and general business de
pression In the republic itself.
Some persons never learn that the
object of the . Small Boy Halloween
is not to injure property, but to per
suade the householders to chase him
across the lawns.
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. We Are
Specialists
in
Children's
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. You tefl, me that moiiey cannot buy;
the thlacs luost precious. Your com
monplace proves th:tt you have never
known tl-.e lack of it. When I thin t
of all the sorrow end the barrenness
that have been wrought in iny life by,
the wnnt of a few more j;onnds per an-
num than 1 was able to earn I stand
aghast at money's significance. What
kindly joys I hare lost, those simple
forms of happiness to" which every
heart bz.s claim, because of 1 poverty. '
. 1 think it would scarce be an
exaggeration to say that there is no
moral good , which has not to be paid
for In coin 'of the realm. From "The
Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft," by
George Gissing.
Tea In Paraguay.
"When the natives of Paraguay drink
tea they do wot pour it from a teapot
into, a cup, but fill a goblet made out
of a pumpkin or gourd and then suck
up the hot liquid through a long reed.
Moreover, the tea which they use is
altogether different from that which
comes from China, being made out of
dried and roasted leaves of a palm
like plant which grows in Paraguay
and southern' Brazil. The natives say
that this tea is an excellent remedy for
fever and rheumatism.
A Good Idea For Housewives.
JTurn the , cold water into the sinfc
while draining odorous vegetables or
drain into a pan of cold water. This
condenses the steam which otherwise
would rise and fill the room (and in
many cases the house) with the strong
odor. It also lessens the danger of be
ing burned. Woman's Home Compan
ion. THE BUSINESS OF LIFE.
Our business is to make the most
of this great and beautiful experi
ment of living, to leave behind us
flowers for beauty and fruit for use,
to make our life ; a harmony, our
ending a serenity and our awaking
an eternal joy. Hobbs.
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