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Show Many Receive Pay for Plain Duty in France French Academy ' Distributes 2,500.000 Fraius Every ' Year for Filial Deva-' Deva-' ' tion, Etc.-x PARI. Oct. T. Among tlis varied ac- tivltlM of the French acsdecny is the! distribution every emr of the sum of 5. ! SOO.tH francs In awards of nwrlt. not nly for literary eaceilence. but for. flllsl i devotion; to eampensate the underpaid: for domestic virtue, and to help the needy. : The ntoney comes from varloua foundstlons, notably that of Baron de Wont yon, who died In 11-0. and Monsieur locnacq.. at one time proprietor of a lais 1'arls dvitartment slors. The academy must give glx to each Of nlnrty fsmlllvs tn strsltvift-d ctrcum stances the turn of 3j.0OS frm.es. but onlv on condition that th family has ntne chltdrm. lllal devotion by a person i no lse thsn ears old is reward-d i I yearly by ivOQ francs, aad an equsl amount goes to a servant nt under 0 ' years of ss.; who has remained In the) employ of he same mnstrr mor ihsn tw-nty yeers and has rceiwd onl part of the TgN due, or else verv smali com- I nenaslron. Two RtdMls valued t &oa i fmncs eat'h are ronferrrd on persons no 1 less thsn SO years of at ho are hi' "difficult etrcamiTncs " The sum of f.Vo francs te to be ttiv.n i vearly to an unmanied woman arvsnt f who hss sened with devotion a family. ! or prsfaratvtv a maiden iadv. In ad vera.. I ctrrumilsrH-es. Another teatatator who speclfit-d th4t his or hr name was never t be utthitahed left w franca a year I io r aivirittuied every two years tn prises of 1-H-O franca each to pour but 1 well brourht up oung womea of lr-rasular lr-rasular btrth. : Tbe aesdiny also awards literary1 pilfres. aeWHintiitg to nearly too 00g francs, a yar. Aa in ths i-aa ef the nrlsess i for merit lha flrai one waa founded ly I I ftaron de Mom yon. Ids prts of n.toe , I f ranee goes t the moat moral book of the yaar. The Uferarr prise are fewer j and more valuable than rhoa- a wanted ' I for mont Trie larseat. after the Monl- ' , oo. Is the Jean-Jacques Keener prise (nf K.AOS francs, which ts swarded eery I five yesrs for the best work dealing with I j |