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Show at. If CHATTER. byt I rvrzx S I in a recent issue of the Now York World appears a heartrending tale of d 1 devotion on the part of a thirteen-J thirteen-J I ycar-old boy. He actually starved he 1 himself to death that his mother, who-in who-in I was nursing a baby, might live. Aura- J ham Koudos was the name of this la I little hero, and the story of his life .o- and sufferings is one that deserves nd JE more than passing recognition, be- ke M causo in It may bo read the overlast- as ing shame and disgrace of so-called r- Christian New York. The lad tried In H to make a living by soiling papers, but se H was not a success at it, dlsopslng of n H not moro than thirty cents worth each afl day on which sum ho and his mother 110 M and tho baby lived. Ho struggled 'y manfully, did this little Hebrew chap, ig- denied himself lunch and ate sparing- ,n- I ly each meal, that nls mother and t I baby sister, horn ono week before Its I father's death, might live. Nature ro- ie" fused to bo satisfied with this sort of or I treatment, and after a time tho boy et H sickened and died. Tho neighbors nd H founi1 thc fam,1y In circumstances too H pathetic for accurate detail. The ma cheeks of tho woman were so thin H that tho outline of her teeth could bo H seen through them; her eyes wore H sunk deep into her head and in this B condition she sat beside the omaclat- H cd body that onco hold tho bravo little ;e H spirit of her son. Of course after tho lad's death tho city rang with tho 1 story; of course, after, the lad's death, H kind-hearted pcoplo brought things to a N cat; of course, after tho lad's death, H much sorrow was expressed that such s' 9m a sll0C'sin5 thing should have hap- fm pened. It always Is that way. |