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Show WIDE DIFFERENCE IN LIVES Something of a Moral in the Careers of John Burroughs and the Late Jay Gould. More thiui seventy years a.o two boys attended the village school of lloxbury, anions the (.'atskills. together. togeth-er. They, sat In adjoining seats. One wroie a composition for the oilier, and j charged him 70 cents for ihe perforni- a nee. The man who collected the cash for his writing was Jay kmld. who died at -the ae of fifty-six and left an estate valued at $70,000,0uo. The man who paid cash for the composition was John I 'uir.ouhs, the famous na rural ist and writer, who recently celebrated his eighty-second anniversary anniver-sary at his beamiful vine-clad coitatre on the Hudson. Burroughs hasn't - been bending: all his efforts to frellvOir money, although he has acquired a competence of this world's goods. lie says he has taken real joy out of life. Nature appeals to him in a marvelous way, and he Jims passed his feelings on to the world in his many books. "I'm jus: as spry as T ever was and haven't an ache or pain," he says. "It is all because T live the simple life." |