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“  I  saved  50c  a 
roll,  buying  my 
roofing  from 
you.” 
Geo.  Webber. 
Hookstown,  Pa. 
(Used  with  permission) 
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A  Dollar  That  Blossomed  Late 
Ninety  years  ago  little  Esther's  mother 
put  a  dollar  in  the  bank  in  the  name  of 
the  baby  girl.  It  was  Esther’s  first,  birth¬ 
day  anniversary.  Every  year  there  was 
to  be  added  another  dollar,  a  beautiful 
custom  of  long  ago.  But  when  the  sec¬ 
ond  anniversary  came  Esther  was  an 
orphan  child.  Her  father  and  mother 
had  been  victims  to  the  cholera  epidemic. 
The  baby  was  taken  to  an  uncle’s  home 
in  another  county,  and  there  she  grew 
up.  When  16  years  of  age  she  became 
a  teacher,  and  so  excellent  a  teacher  that 
people  grew  interested  in  the  incidents 
of  her  life.  It  was  found  that  she  had 
been  horn  on  a  certain  farm  in  O - 
County,  and  folks  round  about  began  to 
call  attention  to  the  old  white  house.  It 
had  never  been  particularly  noticed  be¬ 
fore.  You  see  a  house  gets  part  of  its 
character  long  after  the  carpenter  and 
the  painter  have  finished  their  work  upon 
it.  I  know  of  a  few  men  who  always 
lift  their  hats  when  they  pass  Esther’s 
house,  although  she  lived  there  ouly  till 
she  was  two  years  old  and  died  30  years 
ago.  After  Esther  became  a  teacher  she 
went  back  to  the  old  home  district  for  her 
first  school,  and  there  she  taught  about 
five  years.  The  men  who  today  reverence 
her  memory  were  some  of  her  pupils. 
When  Esther  had  become  renowned  as  a 
teacher  she  moved  to  the  West  and  lived 
there  till  the  end. 
Now  what  became  of  that  dollar  in  the 
bank?  Year  after  year  the  interest  was 
added  to  the  original  deposit,  but  none 
of  the  clerks  took  notice  of  the  name  or 
cared  to  inquire  why  the  money  was  not 
called  for.  All  who  were  clerks  or  officers 
when  the  account  was  opened  passed 
away,  and  there  was  nobody  to  care  about 
the  little  fund.  But  when  Esther’s  name 
as  a  teacher  had  come  to  he  famous,  the 
bank  president  began  to  inquire  about 
this  “dead”  account,  and  at  last  lie  dis¬ 
covered  that  the  two  Esthers  were  the 
same  person.  He  tried  to  find  where  she 
then  lived,  but  she  had  recently  died,  and 
no  further  effort  was  then  made  to  dispose 
of  the  account.  The  amount  was  too 
small  to  worry  much  about. 
Ten  more  years  passed  and  a  new  pres¬ 
ident  became  interested  in  that  account, 
lie  had  been  one  of  Esther’s  pupils  out  in 
the  country  school,  and  he  was  one  who 
lifted  his  hat  when  passing  her  childhood 
home.  What  could  he  do  with  that  money 
which  had  belonged  to  the  baby  depositor? 
After  a  good  deal  of  inquiry  lie  found 
that  a  cousin  of  Esther’s  was  still  living 
in  that  adjoining  county,  where  she  had 
found  a  home  after  her  parents  had  died, 
and  it  was  arranged  that  the  trustee  of 
the  school  district  where  the  child  had 
been  born,  and  where  she  had  done  her 
first  teaching,  should  have  charge  of  the 
little  account  and  use  it  for  the  benefit 
of  the  school. 
What  do  you  suppose  is  done  with  the 
interest  on  Esther’s  little  bank  account, 
the  deposit  that  she  never  knew  about? 
The  children  of  the  school  decided  that 
matter  after  the  trustee  had  told  them 
about  the  money  and  the  way  it  came 
to  be  on  hand.  He  asked  them  to  think 
out  some  plans  and  report  the  next  week. 
They  voted  unanimously  to  adopt  a  plan 
for  children’s  gardens.  There  was  money 
enough  coming  every  year  to  buy  flower 
seeds  for  all  the  pupils,  and  about  $6  to 
be  given  as  prizes  for  the  best  gardens. 
So  that  is  the  way  the  wonderful  interest 
in  flower  gardens  has  'been  aroused  in 
Esther’s  home  neighborhood  about  a  half- 
century  after  she  was  the  teacher  there. 
That  is  why  they  have  “aster  day”  every 
September,  her  birth  month ;  for  you 
know  that  aster  and  Esther  have  the 
same  meaning.  Suppose  you  look  it  up 
if  you  have  not  known  ix. 
JOHN  T.  ROBERTS. 
Flush  Toilet  Without  Running  Water 
A  flush  toilet  can  be  installed  even 
without  the  running  water  by  filling  the 
tank  which  holds  six  gallons  each  morn¬ 
ing  from  well  or  other  water  supply.  Re¬ 
move  intake  valve  and  leave  only  flush 
valve  in  tank.  We  piped  a  cesspool  about 
10  ft.  from  house  with  ventilator  pipe 
running  up  through  roof  of  house.  ('.  s. 
The  chief  objection  to  this  is  the  neces¬ 
sity  of  filling  the  small  tank  above  the 
|  stool  after  each  flushing.  It  can,  of 
I  course,  be  done  if  anyone  will  take  the 
trouble.  Probably  a  still  better  way 
would  be  to  install  a  galvanized  iron  tank 
in  the  attic  of  the  house  or  in  an  upper 
room  and  connect  this  with  the  flush  tank 
of  the  closet  in  the  usual  way.  This  gal¬ 
vanized  tank,  which  can  be  bought  in  a 
great  variety  of  shanes  and  sizes,  may  he 
filled  at  intervals  from  the  house  well  by 
the  use  of  a  force  pump  at  the  well.  A 
still  more  convenient  method  of  getting 
the  needed  water  is  to  connect  the  tank  in 
the  upper  room  or  attic  with  the  eaves 
trough  of  the  house  and  collect  the  rain 
water.  This  method  of  providing  running 
water  for  the  lower  rooms,  where  no 
gravity  water  system  is  at  hand,  is  fre¬ 
quently  used,  and  is  very  satisfactory. 
The  writer  once  had  a  lead-lined  tank, 
built  of  two  by  four  stuff,  spiked  together 
in  his  attic,  and  connected  with  the  roof. 
It  held  about  20  barrels  and  supplied  the 
water  closet  on  a  lower  floor  and  the 
kitchen  sink.  With  a  family  of  two  this 
answered  every  purpose,  furnishing  a 
supply  of  pure,  soft  water  at  the  sink  and 
taking  care  of  the  flush  closet.  Such 
tanks  ordinarily  have  a  force  pump  con¬ 
nection  also  to  supply  water  in  times  of 
insufficient  rainfall,  and  they  may  be  built 
of  any  size  that  the  timbers  of  the  house 
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