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Show SIX-YE1-0LD FRENCH BOY 10 IS SEEK ADOPTED 6! THE MODEM WOODNEM . LOOSE OF GARLAND, UTAH I . In the various ways in which charitable char-itable work may be done during this war, the organization of the Modern Woodmen stands near the top rung of the ladder as is evidenced by the fact that over S000 French and Belgian children are being cared for by the organization or-ganization in addition to hundreds whose welfare rests upon individual members. Utah's lodges of the Modern Woodmen Wood-men are. not one whit behind in (his kindly work-, the local order having under their care threeFrcnch children at the present time, the sum of $36.50. a year being allotted for each child, according to District Deputy S. T. Quiery. Mr. Quiery recently brought a loll it down from Garland, Uiuh, where th organization has adopted one child to care for during thenar.-The letter was written by the mother of .the little boy and is a pitiful expression of her grat-' grat-' Itudc and appreciation of the kindness i of ihe Americans. She enclosed a pho j ! tograph of her little son. The lettt follows: j "Excuse me, I pray, for my delay in I expressing my sincere thanks for the I help that have wished to givo my dear I boy. The reason is that T wanted to 'send you his photograph that I was to have taken as soon as I was notified j by the Franco-American committee. I but there were a great many before J me, and I am going to have it taken i ; this morning and will send it immo-j immo-j diately. My little boy will be six years 'old the 2Sth of November next, and I received the official notification of his fathers' death the 2Sth of November, j 101-1, the same day that he was two j years old. My dear benefactor, I hardly iknow how to express my thanks. You so far away and sheltered from all the calamities of this terrible war, must have a great hoart for a mother of! France, who must strive from morn-j ing to night to roar a child who will; never know his father, through the' fault of this preying race of bandits who are the Germans. But we hope that some day soon we, with your help, will be able to drive back these bau-dits bau-dits to their lair. "You Americans, great -and generous, gener-ous, arrived just in lime to sustaiif us, for the bandits hoped to weaken us, and hold us In slavory, for having dared dar-ed to face these brigands. "As I write, I hear the cannons which have roared since midnight, which come from tho direction of Chateau-Thierry Chateau-Thierry where your troops are flghtiug shoulder to shoulder with ours. "The Prussians mock your soldiers as they did the English at the begin - w I I mm ning of the war, but for a month now, they commence to know your men tor the heavy blows they have given in the. local "attacks. My dear benefactor, I till the soil, aided by my aged parents, par-ents, and all work with brave heart of winning this war, that tho world shall become free. "Accept, dear benefactors, without forgetting your dear family, the assur- auce of my sincere thanks and my everlasting gratitude, as well as that of my dear parents." |