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Show A Splendid Philanthropy. ;John Arbuckle. philanthropist, has just announced that he intenus to erect a,Jhome at New Paltz. N. Y., for men and women, old and youn. who need unp-cyment i'i the opea ?ir y 11 1 nutritious nu-tritious tYcd hi order tob::v.: 'hem, biick to a coiHUion of health that Jw-al ev-able thvii to withstand the. wear a;.0 Uar of ciU- !;-.. Wf rk uooii the' home h.s begin.. Gvi:nil has - be.: i irol; r I fUid the ::ir,"' 'me tpeciJi'tioi.s fur the builiinc have been d;-iwn. 'he home prip- will be knov.'t as the "Colony Redding on Mary aiu! John Arbuckle : Fr-vn." Mr. Ar'nt-j'tl has had small uird printed, sho v?ng the building it hat been plan.ied. An explanatory rot- on the card says, in reference b" tie title of the fuviu: "M . wife has .telte:-. judgment and c I.i'gi-r lcart thai i ha -e. so lier nMm", oi-.V t'nst.'.' The Colony building-Wsil v-l ci. a knoll ov-i;ooking the ievi n farr. , comprisi.i si3 5. acres, which it :a been bought ov M' Arbuckle.' it wil. bt-tween :;7". ij :j and SiOO.OOU. ft. r. 'will jiye a conr.-jt tabi- home to .n !' thai a hundred riit;!i and womei. year ir. ar.d year :hp Mr. Arbuckle desires, if possible, that its inmates be self-supporting. To be eligible for admission applicants must be incapacitated for competition in the regular walks of business life. Old men ; and women unable to battle for bread j with those younger and sturdier, will be welcomed. Young men a;;d women who by reason of illness or. physical' infirmities cannot keep up with the 1 pace in New York will be sent there. The output of the farm will not be limited to agricultural products. Mr. Arbuckle wishes to take care of more ; people than might be dependent upo:; i this character of work. The bunding ' not only will be fitted up as a home, ' but will furnish an ideal workshop for ! some kind of manufacturing work us, i yet to be determined upon. The en- j tire buildingwhich is to bo 210x6i feet, i will be surrounded by -a broad Veranda,'; glass enclosed. ' In the summer lime ' the inmates who are not employed Li the fields will work there under ton-' ditions which will practically amount to being in. the open air. In the winter win-ter the veranda will be heated., i ' ' " |