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Show Tiiekk are many stories told of . the philanthropy of George W. Childs, the celebrated Philadelphia publisher. The best of it is that these stories are true. It would take a volume to record even his large benefactions. The typographical fraternity is en-debted en-debted to him and Mr. Dkexel for the elegant home now being reared for disabled printers at Colorado Springs. One of his recent gifts was of an add-sort add-sort that illustrated the character of the man. A godchild of his was to be married in a New Jersey village. It was found that the village church was not large enough to accommodate all those whom the family wished to invite. Upon inquiry the philanthropist found that the congregation congrega-tion badly needed a larger building, lie thereupon called in an architect and gave him $5000 with which to enlarge that church in time for the wedding. The Paris correspondent of the Lon-don Lon-don -News writes his paper that the French people are apathetic toward the Columbian exposition because of the passage of the McKinley tariff law by the Amertcan congress. That is a very old chestnut. France M ill be as well represented at the fair as she would have been if no such law had been enacted. en-acted. The English papers have tried very hard to make the world believe that the United States would be injured by the new tariff. The object of this has been to scare the American people, but we have gotten over being frightened fright-ened by English bugaboos. . , |