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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-20

willing, we take them here for a
month or three months. We keep a
record of each founding, and of the
not tell the mothers where they are,
If they come back and ask 1t would
not be fair to the adopted parents
And they find good homes, these little
waits. There is one family, one of the
wealthiest and best known socially
in New York, whose Oldest son and
heir is waif from the Foundlings'
No, l cannot give the name 1t is
years ago. One winter night the fam
lily physician sent here for a baby.
He only wanted the loan of it for a
few weeks, as the wife had given
birth to her first child and it had
died. She was dangerously ill and
delirious, and they were afraid I'M
less she had child to nurse and love
the shock would kill her. So we
picked out the littlest baby of all, a
pretty boy hardly a week old, and he
was taken away in carriage to one
Of the handsomest homes uptown.
Even for a loaned baby it must have
been a pleasant experience. For
three or four weeks he was treated
just exactly as the baby would have
been that died, and the mother knew
no difference. Then, when she was
strong enough, they told her the
truth. But the borrowed baby never
came back. In those weeks of suf-
fering, when the clasp of it's little
hands and the touch of it's yearning
lips had been all that had held her
from death, she had grown to love it
as her own, and she kept it. He is
boy at college now, and will never
know that he was a founding waif."
There was step in the little room
and the sister glanced out. A plump,
rosy-cheeked girl of about 10 stood
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-20

walk along the street and steal a look
at the low doorway under the stone
steps when il was too late, and the
cradle was az empty as her arms.
writes Izola Forester, in the New
York World.
But most of them never come back.
1t is not cruelty nor hardness of heart.
1t is bitter necessity and the way of
the world that lead most of them to
that door. Sometimes it is cowardice.
When the baby wears dainty, costly
garments, when the name pinned on
its breast is written in a hand show
ing education and breeding, and roll
of bills is found also in the cradle,
then the woman who left her child
as a founding is a coward. 1t is not
the cry Of the wolf that drove her
there. 1t is only the cry of the world
she feared.
Now and then a strange figure
comes to the little room, lone,
troubled figure Out of place and in
congruous, the figure will not bother
over the appeal of the cradle, but will
go straight to the sister in the office
and hand over the burden it carries
TO her. These are the fathers. And
the most helpless object in the world
is man with week-old baby in his
arms, trying to find out what it wants.
They rarely want to give up all claim
to the babies, the fathers. 1t is only
because the mother is dead, or has
run away from home, that they come
to the Foundlins' at all. All they want
is for some one to take the weak,
fumbling, crying blind kitten bundle
out of their arms and care for it, SO
they can go to work.
But most of the mothers are of that
other great class, the "unwedded," as
the sisters call them.
When a woman walks into the lit
tie room and lays a child in the
cradle without tear or the least hes
itancy and goes hurriedly away the
sister smiles and shakes her head.
"Th.t was not the mother. A
mother always fingers. Sometimes
when tSey stay too long and the strug-
gle is a hard one we talk with them.
The great trouble to an unmarried
girl with a child Is that she cannot
obtain employment. and the baby is
too young to be left. So, IL they are
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-20

cradle, went quietly out of the door
and down the street. And she did not
come back.
After she went out of sight, the Sis
ter of Charity who sits In the little
Office next to the room with the cradle
went in and took the baby in her
arms. 1t was well-dressed and about
four weeks old. The sister touched
bell, and presently nurse came
and took the baby away to the recep-
ton ward. That was all. 1t was a
common case Only one more mother
who had deserted her child; only one
more baby founding in Greater New
York.
The sister smoothed the coverlet
on the cradle, shook up the pillow,
and left it ready for the next one.
Sometimes we have several in
day." she said. And other days, none
at all. But every year from a thou
sand to fifteen hundred are left with
us. We always leave the baby in the
cradle for a few minutes, because
some OF the mothers change their
minds. They will wait for hours. try
ing to decide, sometimes, holding
their babies, nursing them, and cry
ing over them. And at last they will
leave them, as this one did, and go
away. But sometimes, before they
get as far as the corner they will come
running back and catch the baby up
out of the cradle and hurry away with
it. AS long as the baby is still in the
cradle it is not too late"
"Too Late"
Not too late as long as the baby is
still in the cradle! But afterward,
once the baby has been taken from
the little ROOM has been received and
recorded and perhaps in few weeks
adopted. it is too late. Many
mother has come back by stealth to
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-20
More Than Society Butterflies.

These are the days when women
of national celebrity vie with each
other in housewifely accomplishments
Mrs. Philander c. Knox has just dis
patched to Mrs. Roosevelt firkin Of
butter made with her own hands, at
the Valley Forge farm. Mrs. Roose-
welt has sent delicious branded cher
ries to her intimates, and to the Epis-
copal Home for Old People in Wash
ington. Mrs. Bonaparte, wife of the
secretary of the navy, has preserved
some toothsome mangoes.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-20
New York.-The saddest place in

New York.-The saddest place in
the city.
do you know where it is?
DO you think that some time, per-
haps, in your life you have found it?
Can you shut your eyes to the pres.
ent. New York man or woman, and
look back to that day when you found
some one you loved down in the silent
morgue, and say, yes, you know the
place well-the saddest place in New
IorkY G>Or remember one corner in
some green cemetery where all your
love lies buried, and say, no, the place
is here? Or look at some deserted
home. where ghosts of lost faith
walk always, and say, no, this is the
saddest place of all, for here there is
no hope?
But it is not so. The saddest place
In all New York is not q spot deter
mined by the personal, individual loss
of mere life or love or faith. If it
were, every grave would claim the IT,
tie and every broken heart dispute
it,
1t is one little room in a large build
ing up on SiXty-eighth street. Two
sweeping rows of broad stone steps
lead from the street to the wide doors
OF the main entrance. These doors
are always locked. But under the
stone staircase. right in the center,
opening directly on the street, is lit
tie low door that is always open, and
it is the entrance to the saddest place
in New York. :.
1t is framed in clinging ivy vines,
the little low door. Above it, on each
side of the stone steps, droop weeping
willow trees. Higher still there
stands in a niche the statue of wom-
an holding a child close to her breast.
And every woman who seeks the lit
tie low door under the ivy vines holds
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-20

a child close to her breast, but when
For this is the New York Founding
Asylum.
Anyone may enter through the door
way. There is no one to stop you or
question you as to why you have
come. You stand in q small, square
room. There is no carpet on the
floor, no pictures on the walls. Two
settees stand, one on each side of the
room. And between them is a little
white cradle. 1t is very dainty and
inviting that cradle. The tiny blan-
ket and coverlet are soft and spot
less, the little baby pillow has lace.
edged case, and there is pretty mus
lin canopy draped above it in bas.
sinet fashion.
But the room is not empty. Pacing
up and down the floor is a woman,
hardly past girlhood. She does not
look very strong. Her long brown
chiffon veil is thrown back from her
face. 1t is a sweet face, the features
ven cut and refined, but white and
wet with tears. Close in her arms,
SO close that, the little face is pressed
next her cheek, she holds baby,
hushing it to sleep.
Last Look at Her Child.
After awhile she lays it down gently
in the little white cradle and stops to
listen, but there is no sound, and the
door still stands open. She may come
or go as she pleases. And, standing
a minute over the sleeping baby, she
looks into it's face for the last time.
1t Is her baby. She has given 1t birth
and nurtured It, It's little body is
healthy and flushed with the rose tint
OF palpitant life. 1t is not as though
death had given her no choice in the
matter She has absolute choice.
Either she may take the baby again
TO her breast and face the world with
it, or else she may go through the
little low door and leave it forever
behind her.
Standing in the corridor beyond the
little room, l watched this mother.
She stood rocking the cradle for about
FIVE minutes. Her sobbing ceased.
Once she stopped and kissed the little
face on the pillow. Then, suddenly,
she let the brown chiffon veil fall
over her face and, turning from the
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-20
TARIFF MARKED UP?
Rates Not Made Needlessly High for
Purposes of Reciprocity.


If, as the free traders and tariff
revisionists are so fond of asserting,
the schedules of the Dingley tariff were
made needlessly high in order that re-
auctions might thereafter be made in
the interest of reciprocity, why should
the life of that section (4) of the law
have been limited to the two years
ending June "a, 1899? The answer is
that there was no such purpose in fix.
ing the Dingley duty rates.
The intention of Nelson Dingley and
the men who cooperated with him in
framing the bill was to provide ade.
quate protection. They had no thought
OF installing partial free trade through
reciprocity in competitive products.
Positive proof of this is found in the
fact that in the bill as it passed the
house section did not appear. That
section was added in the senate. The
plan was purely tentative and expert
mental. 1t was not meant to be per-
manent, as the two years limitation
clearly proves. II died, as it deserved
to die, with the bundle of foolish trea-
ties negotiated by Mr.. Kasson and af-
forwards left to rot in senate pigeon
holes. That was the end of wide open
reciprocity 1t died before it was
born.
The treaty negotiated with France
served as an object lesson, as it dem
onstrated the utter impossibility Of re-
ciprocity in competing articles with
out destroying protection. For exam
pie, the proposed French treaty pro-
vided for reelection of 20 per cent. in
the duties on hosiery and knit goods.
Such reduction would have closed
10 per cent. of the hosiery and knit
goods factories of the United States
and deprived $4,000 people of employ
ment and wages. A similar treaty
with Germany would have been COM
pulsory and that would have wrecked
the remaining factories.
Reciprocity in competing articles
was never sanctioned by Blaine, nor
by Mckinley, nor by Dingley, nor
Reed, nor by any of the great cham
pionS of protection. To allege that
Dingley purposely marked up the tar
III rates in order that they might be
marked down in reciprocity treaties is
to reflect upon the intelligence OF that
master tariff maker.
1t is to suppose that Mr.. Dingley in
tended to deal in gold bricks. He
knew, what SO many OF the reciprocity
advocates of to-day seem unable to
comprehend, that to reduce a need
lessly high tariff down to the line sep
arating adequate protection from no
protection would not work If the
tariff, after having been reduced still
remained protective, the foreign COM
petitor would get no advantage. That
would not be reciprocity. 1t would be
swindle and rather transparent
swindle at that
Nelson Dingley was not a confidence
operator. He did not believe in reci
procity of the competitive kind, and
only consented to the incorporation of
section with the two years limita
ton clause attached So strong and
able and consistent a protectionist he
was that if he were alive to-day moth
ing would be heard of his having
marked up the duties for the purpose
of marking them down in reciprocity
dickers No one would dare to make
such an assertion
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-20
Wild Animals on the Ocean.

r. A scientist has made some interest
ing observations as to the love of diff
ferent wild animals for the sea. The
polar bear, he says, is the only one
that takes naturally to the sea, and is
quite jolly when aboard ship. All
others violently resent trip on wa.
ter. The tiger suffers most Of all.
Horses are very bad sailors, and
often perish on a voyage. Elephants
do NOT like the sea.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-10-20
Looks a Little So.

Some of the Democrats who shouted
the loudest for Bryan before he re-
turned from Europe are now in posi-
ton to realize the full force of the
homely saying anent buying a pig in
a poke.-Cleveland Leader.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-04-12
REy EDDY
WAS PRESENT AT MEETINGsoF
ssPTISTsoARD YESTER-
AT cLaRkSRURG.

CLARKSBURG, April 12--The sec
tond regular quarterly meeting OF the
executive committee of the Baptist
General Association of Vest Virginia
was held in the First Baptist Church
in C1arksburS Wednesday, The board
convened at 1920 O'Clock and tr.2lE:y-
acted considerable business at the
morning session a short recess was
taken for dinner ami the afternoon
session was a busy one until shorty.
after 3 o'clock, when the meeting az
journed in order to give the out-of-
town members of the board an oppo--
tunity 10 catch trains for home
/ Attending the sessions were Rev
John s. Stump. OF ParkersburS.. Rev
VI. a Summers. of Petersburg: Rev
L. D. Hall. of Lost Creek Rev AZ
thur Hank, OF Salem: Pew J. w Ed
sdy. of Fairmont: Rev E. j. Woofter.
Of HarrisvilIe: Rev II P Hardwas.
OF Nnswood: Rev c. l. Trawin. of
Grafton: Revs. l. W Holden, X B.
Mcdaniel. W. ]. Newton and l. 3.
Moore. of Clarksburg; J. E. Coon, ot
shinnston: F. P. Baldwin. of Lesue.
and George NJ whitescarver- OF Graz
ton
Vice President Lloyd w Holden
presided over tne sessions and Rev
c. L Trawin was in the secretary S
chair, being the regular secretary Of
the board.
AT the morning session reports of
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-04-12
DIERs
sARE5LookING FORWARD 40 EN-.
scAMPMEHTTo sBEsHELD A.
NEW MARTiNsViLGE.
The following general order is be,
ing sent out from Fairmont:
General Order No. 5.
.5:h Annual DEPARTMENT En-

L The 18th Annual Department En-
lcampment viii be held at New Mr.,
tinsr:ue. May 15-1s-11. 1906. Head,
quarters VIII be established az The
Ealfn House.
| 2 The Council of Administrator
VIII meet at Headquarters on Tues
day, May IS. at .-3o p NJ. for the puT--
pose of aud1ins ta.s books Of the As
sistant Aajutant General and accounts
of the Assistan: ouarternaster Cen
era1.
8. The Committee on Credentials
! VIII consist of the Assistant Adjutant
General and Council of Administra-
tion. and will hold its session at Head
quarters beeinninS Tuesday evening
at 40 P. NJ and continue its session
until all delegates have reported in
person. AMI receive delegates badge;
without 1t none viii be admitted on
the floor of the encampment-
4. The Baltimore and Ohio R p.
Ohio Central Lines and c. and o. G--
have issued card orders for l 10
round trip which are mailed to ali
G. A r Posts with this order.
> The Commander of Philip G. Bie-
Post No. Il, G. A r. viii detail a
sufficient number of guards to serve
ing the Encampment who viii re
port 10 the officer of the day for duty
in uniform and with arms.
6. Comrade Charles w Morsa.a OF
Phillip C. Bier Post No L. G. A. R.
viii act as officer Of the day, and Com
rade F. c. Harry. of same Post. VIII
act as officer of the guard
I Headquarters OF Woman's Ret:ef
Corps and Ladies OF the G. a R. vii;
be at Brast House. and the Sons OF
Veterans at Elk Hotel
s. Department Headquarters viii
be closed at Fairmont. May 18th, and
opened on Tuesday, May 18th, EaIin
House. New AIartinsviIle-
9. Col Thomas c. Miller, of Mead
Post No. s. is hereby appointed De-
partnent Patriotic Instructor
TO- The following Aides-de-Camp are
hereby appointed on the staff Of tne
Department Commander:
J NJ Swartz, Custer Post No. s.
a. c. Nichols. Dual Post No. 9.
w H. ClIier. Laurel Hin Post No.
TO-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-04-12

al the mssstonary pastors we're rad
Iskowing fslEorasle and en-
ffeconrasing condition They were
discussed and ordered fled win -tae
secretary.
Reports OF committees 70 look aft
er certain fields IN the State were
considered and Recommendations
adopted.
Rev T. E Jones was appointed
pastor at Terra Tlta and Indepeai-
ence and to do mission work at TGn-a
Melton and other points in that sec
tion of The State.
~ F. kiser was appointed pastor.
at St. Marys. c. F. Ramsbottou st
Redwood. and Jonathan Wood at
lIiddlebourne-
Rev " A. summers. Rev. q L.
wither and Rev. Morgan were APP
pointed committee TO look over taa
New River field and report as to ire
'advisabtliry OF placing missionary
there.
Creme Elcaya contains no leal or
zirc. No hyG-ocarbon oils. Iaroiir
lara or raschne. BtIlinsslea's cTUs
store
EGGS FOR HATcH1NG-Rose Comb
Rhode Island Reds. White Wyan-
dototes. Bun Cochins and Buff Rocks.
80 cents per setting at residence: &c
Hvered, S1-oo-
MRS C. D. CcNAwAY.
Fairmont. w. Va, R F. D. No. 5.
Cons Phone, 6s1-2- e6t
1 Quart Black Berry Brandy free
with each quart Of whiskey-
SHAW AND CAREY.
Watson Hotel J
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-04-12
NOTICED LIEN HOLDERS.

To all persons holding liens by judy
ment or otherwise on the real es-
tate. or any part thereof. Of the Man
ninston Forged Tool Company. cor
poration:
In pursuance of a decree Of the Cir
cult Court of Marion county. made in
a cause therein pending to subject the
rea. estate of the said Warrington
Forged Tool Company, a corporation,
to the satisfaction OF the liens thereon.
you are hereby required to presen:
all claims held by you and each of
you against the said Mannirgton
Forged Tool Company, I corporation,
which are liens on its real estate OK
any part of it. for adjudication TO me
at my Office in the city of Fairraont,
in said Marion county, on or before the
5th day OF May, 1906.
Given under my hand this 18th day
of April, 1906
a [. LEHMAN,
Commissioner. a512-19-26
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
Dtagttuata nj tlrr
Nattntt'H DtHraHp
By DR.. JOHN BALCoM SHAW.

he thinks of it. Masticaton-he nothing
Is wonder them
afflicted with early stage of their existence?
know of "a widows within radius of few blocks aud it opinion
that their husbands have simply burned their force and fastened
to premature graves
Then there is the American conscience That also badly
would that America afflicted with fatty degeneration of the
The graft high places the evidence
politics and of graft insurance circles shows the
where look this country
honesty. We growing to be a country of graft.
The third thing that als America diseased brain national
head completely turned by greed Money everything Money
pull politics. the pull in society pull universal We are money
without question. knew
rise that it did not remind him of big golden guinea
What is the remedy for this condition affairs? would
the physician Jesus Christ
be found the remedy for them.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
ANNA HELD AND THE LUNATic
French Actress Meets an Elderly Per,
son with Courtly Manners.

Speaking of poached eggs and luna
tic asylums and such things. e. d.
Price, manager of the Interstate
Amusement company, has narrowing
little story to relate. 1t was in De-
troit and Anna Held was brooding so
gloomily over the subject of lost dia-
monds that the solicitous Mr.. Price
was afraid that she might become de-
ranged. A happy thought struck him.
chanteuse through one Of the local re-
treats where people with plaster loose
in their garrets were sheltered and
safely guarded. 1t would be an object
lesson. 1t was a cheerful, homelike
institution. nesting in the midst OF
lovely grounds radiant with the rich
autumnal coloring of fading foliage.
The patients were apparently happy
and care free. They were in the harm
less class. The violent wards were
stunned as likely to get upon a sensi.
tive artists nerves.
One very charming old gentleman
man recognized Miss Held and begged
school, and with the blue spike-tail
soat and brass buttons and ruffied
shirt front. His ruddy complexion
and snow-white silken hair made him
look like distinguished statesman OF
The Webster-Clay period. Miss Held
dell In love with him at once. His
dignity and courtllness and grand
AvNA In Ia In
tellectual grasp was revealed in his
discussion of the musical. literary and
dramatic arts. His tribute to the
French people. delivered with the elo
| Iuent enthusiasm of one who knew
his Paris like an open book. was cap
tivating. Miss Held could have en-
oraced him.
Surely" she said. timidly, 1T is
some great mistake. some terrible
wrong that has brought you among
these people. You are a second Drey
fus--a victim of some wicked conspir
acy."
The courtly old gentleman sighed
and smiled sadly. There was a con
spiracy," he said. with quiet resigns
ton. There is a great mistake ant
q terrible wrong. But l have learne,
to bear every injustice with compos
ure. After all l find much food 70
philosophical reflection In the stud.
OF these poor creatures with whom
am compelled to dwell"
The condolences big eyes wer
dimmed by tears. She held ont he
hand impulsively. DO not despair.
she said. Surely you will find deliV
erance."
1T is certain to come" replied III
charming veteran, cheerfully. "GooC
, by. l wish you long life and cor
, tinuance of your brilliant career.
i must beg of you that when you grAs
my hand you do so very gently. as
is made of glass and l should regrt
2 exceedingly to have you break IT."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-12-13
NrmahnyH' Gha&trr
fnr the prfathfttru
By RANDOLPH GUGGENHEIr1ER.

the twin of combaiven and commercialism
In all the that history writes Of
shall things be ruled the end of time He who nks
from the battle lost Your newsboy does not ddan to fight flee
gives drubbing equal
is part of the days work
What his chances? If born in America he
presidency United States he
winning than the boy who at 10 IA would not be let out
without his might here that could
successful whose first word the public the call
"Extry."
There better school for the sharpening of wits than afforded
competition selling There school calling
good for teaching the reading character Your newsboy
glance the kind of person likely buy the who could
with and the who change
nickel dime All this extremely useful the afterfe
the newsb hop and hear his calling
wares well him. for that little fellow poentity
beyond the ordinary and day proud that you
paperfr his hands