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Show II" IVmiiu'i llrnrt. Ilarrly has a woman's kindness of heart been shown 'so forcibly u1t waa last week at the camp where Lieut-Oor. Lieut-Oor. Timothy U Woodruff and bis wlfo were enjoying an onlhg In th Adirondack. Adiron-dack. Cor Woodmrr rrrrr I a message mes-sage from Wllllim W Durant of Camp 8agamore anting that the carpenter at the Woodruff camp mluht make a coffin for a boy of 16 In Mr Durant's employ who had died suddenly of cholera. There wis no undertaker within many miles and the carpenter at Sagamore was away. The coffln was made of plain board In about an hour and a half, but It teemed so bosllke thnt Mrs. Woodruff herself stained and varnished It, making mak-ing It look tors crude BUM she waa not satltaed with Its sppesrance, and looked for white material to Hoe It, but could And none. Nothing daunted, she took a white muslin gown of her own and draped It aortly Inside the1 casket, with n'lltlle laco-trtmmed ruffle to finish the edges, and In this receptacle recepta-cle the boy's body was sent to hit mother In New York. Mrs. Woodruff, In relating the Incident Inci-dent to a frlnd, said she had nevei before undertaken a task so grewsomi snd depressing |