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Show Lived on Four Cents a Day. We have- it on reliable authority, says an exchange, that a famous Jesuit Jes-uit missionary, who has passed about fifteen years among (he East Indians, supported himself, on about .1 a month. The menu was not very elaborate, but it sufficed to fill the wants of this saintly saint-ly man. As Father Walsh puts it. "The bill of fare included rice and bread and excluded about everything es2. " It is almost beyond belief that a man could live on such fare for so long, but we have the good father's word for it. Four cents a day.' Trie sum is certainly certain-ly small, and yet there are Catholics who will not give even that small sum. |