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MONDAY KVKXING, MARCH 1.
THK GETTYBBVRG BOOK
THERE is a bill In the Legislature
providing an appropriation for
publication of twenty-live thou
sand additional copies of the
book presenting a history of the fif
tieth anniversary celebration of the
battle of Gettysburg.
This reunion was a momentous occa
sion in the history of the Common
wealth, the like of which was never
seen in the world before and probably
never will be duplicated. The book
sets forth handsomely In text and
photographs the spirit and the hap
penings of that great week and it is
not too much to ask the Legislature to
set aside money for the publication of
the book in quantities sufficient to
place a copy in every schoolliouse and
t very Grand Army Post in the State
and to put it on the shelves of every
public library and in every Confeder
ate Veterans' post In all the land. It
illustrates, as could be done in no other
way, the manner in which the wounds
of fifty years ago have been healed
and teaches a lesson of peace and
good will that all who note it will he
the better for learning.
The commission has on hand a bal
ance more than sufficiently large to
meet the cost of the additional publi
ratlon, so that the necessary money
Mill not come out of the depleted
revenues of the present year.
TIIK ELEVENTH IIOI'K RUSH
CONGRESS, figuratively speaking,
has reached the eleventh hour
of Its session. Perhaps one
might be justified in saying the
twenty-third hour, if length of con
tinuous debate and enactment are to
be considered. At least a billion dol
lars remain to be appropriated. In
the brief time between now and March
4 bills carrying vast sums must be ap
proved for the running of the national
government during the next two years.
The end of the session rush is on and
the "pork barrel" opportunists are the
busiest little persons in Washington.
Beyond question of doubt millions
•if dollars will be misappropriated in
the final hours of the session. It is
too late now to do anything but swing
the big bills through, eliminating
whatever of slush may be detected in
the cursory examination that the brief
moment of consideration will permit.
Such a condition is more than to be
regretted at any time, but doubly so
just now when the National Treasury
is in need of every dollar that can 6e
saved to it. It the President had not
so persistently pressed for the passage
of his impossible shipping bill, Con
gress might have spent weeks very
profitably to the country at large in
proper consideration of these vastly
important appropriation bills. Regrets
will not help now and Congress Itself
cannot be held responsible. The
biaine should rest where it belongs—
on the White House.
WHOLESAIiE SELF-ESTEEM
GEORGE S. POMEROY, of the
firm of Dives- Pomeroy & Stew
art, gave a lecture the other
day to a section of the employes
of the Reading store on the subject,
' Get Stuck on Yourself."
Mr. Poineroy said that the difference
between self-conlidence and conceit
is that the former Is a well established
faith in one's own personal abilities to
do things properly and that conceit is
false confidence based on a fallacious
estimate of one's true worth.
Nobody ever succeeded in the world
without a wholesome respect for his
own ability to do things. Mr. Ponw
roy has expressed in that one sentence
more truth than might be conveyed iti
». library of orations. A properly con
trolled self-esteem, combined with na
tural or cultivated good nature, will
take a man of even limited abilities
very far In the world, provided he
••ombines these qualities with persist
ence.
On the other hand, there is the
cock-sure, conceited, little fellow who
permits himself to Imagine, without
good ground for the judgment, that ho
can do anything that anybody else can
do, and none is so prone to err and to
fail of accomplishment as he.
Nobody will believe in you if you do
not believe in yourself, but It Is also
true that nobody will take you seri
ously If you persist in placing an un
warranted valuation upon your own
abilities, for your associates are often
much more difficult to deceive in such
matters than you are yourself.
Every young inan might well take
Mr. Pomeroy'a advice and "Get Stuclt
MONDAY EVENING, \
on Himself," but only to such degree
as will engender within himself the
ambition to impress upon others that
he is really as worth while as he pre
tends lie Is.
ELECTROCUTION
THERE appeared In the newspa
pers the other day, the Tele
grapn included, a very well-
written and lengthy account of
the first execution In the State's new
electrocution building in Center coun
ty. Possibly there was excuse for the
detailed description of the official kill
ing of this murderer because of the
fact that it was the first electrocution
In the history of the State in the cen
trally located deuthhouse that has
been substituted by law for tho jail
yard hanging-bees that periodically for
more than a century have disgraced'
our county seats.
The public was no "doubt entitled
to an Intimate knowledge of just how
this new system is operated, but there
can be no excuse for a continuation of
such lengthy descriptions of death cell
scenes. No good can come from them.
Only the tastes of the morbidly curi
ous are satisfied by them. Normal
minded people do not care for such
rhetorical horrors. Henceforth it is to
bo hoped that the news associations
! will content themselves wifh brief an
■ nouncements of executions covering
| bare facts. The day is long since
passed when the newspaper deems it
Important to tell how the condemned
man spent his last night, what consti
tuted his final meal and whether he
went bravely or coweringly to his
doom.
11KKAD PRICKS
THE utter heartlessncss of the
grain speculators who have been
reaping millions of profits at
tho expense of the bakers and
consumers of the country, is illustrat
ed by this expression from the lips of
C. H. Candy, president of the Chicago
Board of Trade, the home of the grain
shark:
The poor will not stop eating
bread because It is raised a cent in
tho price of loaf, but will simply
eat less of it; and in a country like
the United States, where millions
are spent for chewing-gum and
five-rent cigars, no disturbance
should be caused by a penny rise in
foodstuffs.
Reduced to its last analysis, Mr.
Canby's argument is simply this—that
Americans must not complain if they
are called upon to hand over their
luxuries to a few fat and pompous
gentlemen of the Chicago Hoard of
Trade. "Eat less in order that we
speculators may eat more," says he.
Stop chewing gum that wo may chew
it; stop smoking that we may have
your cigars. And yet we wonder some
times at the spread of socialism in
the land.
THE SOI L THAT SMILES
A WRITER in a recent issue of
Colliers Weekly dwells at
length on the gayety of France
In time of stress, and shows
that it is the gayety of a soul that
bravely smiles even when beset by
perils that threaten 'all it holds most
dear—a healthy soul, which shimmers
and rebounds.
He might find a striking example in
Sara Bernhardt. The famous actress
is seventy years old. Because one of
her legs kept her from the Joyful pur
suit of happiness in her lifework on
the stage she calmly requested the
surgeons to remove It. And now that
the troublesome limb has been ampu
tated does she bemoan her fate and
fear for the future? Xot she! She
smiles at those who extend pity and
spends her enforced idleness in pleas
antly planning for her next appear
ance in the theater.
If the French soldier's smile is of
the quality of Bernhardt's we can un
derstand why Napoleon accomplished
what he did, why France has recover
ed almost over night from blows that
would have crushed a nation with less
spirit and why the Germans were
driven back from the very gates of
Paris.
The Japanese are said to mask
their souls with an eternal smile, but
the soul of the Frenchman Itself
smiles, and therein lies a world of dif
ference.
OLEOMARGARINE
THE usual bills regulating the sale
of oleomargarine have turned
it)) in the Legislature this ses
sion. There are those who
would so surround with difficulties the
manufacture and sale of butter sub
stitutes as to make their production
unprofitable and drive them from the
market. Needless to say, all such have
their own axes to grind and their
object is purely selfish.
Time was when oleomargarine was
rightfully looked upon with suspicion
by the public and the dairyman. Con
stituents of obscure origin and of
doubtful food value entered into its
manufacture and It was sold in most
instances under deceptive titles. But
that time has long since passed. The
oleomargarine of to-day Is pure in
quality and of a high nutritive stand
ard. It is made under federal inspec
tion conformity to State and
national pure food laws. It is sold for
what it is and not for butter, and If it
were not for the large quantities of
oleomargarine on the market to-day
prices would have risen long since to
a figure that would have barred butter
from the tables of any but the very
wealthy.
It will, therefore, not do to attempt
to put any barrier in the way of the
sale of this important food product,
no matter how much legislators may
desire to protect the dairy Interests
and to assess taxes upon the packers.
Every additional penny that Is placed
upon the manufacturer of oleomar
garine will be added in the end to the
living expenses of the poor man who
finds in oleo a substitute for the but
ter that he would prefer to have, but
which in many instances he cannot
afford.
The dairy interests are well guarded
under present laws and there would
seem to .be little necessity for change.
AX EVENING THOUGHT
Life Is not days and years:
Life is lovo and labor.—P. 11.
Newnhaut.
i EVENING CHATI
The proposed start on the big new
plant of the lliekok Manufacturing
Company only furnishes another illus
tration t*f the truth of tne remark
iriado some years ago in this column
that the extension of Capitol Park
would not damage the city as much
as some of its citizens feared and that
the State would not only be getting
bargains in real estate, but that the
municipality would get something for
its donation of land in hignwuys and
loss of taxable property . The erec
tion of the tine warehouses by the
Paxton Flour and Feed Company is
another. There are more. All one
has to do Is to sit down and make u
list of the properties sold and then
watch where the money received for
them went, it went right back into
Improvements. Even the building ma
terials In the houses which the State
sold at auction wt?nt back into con
struction. It is an interesting study
of economics to trace the way the
money paid for the properties in the
Capitol Park extension, moneys to
which Dauphin county contributed its
fair share, went back into builuing
which will enhance the value of tho
land the State Is buying. Some of the
buildings to be erected will face on trie
park extended. Tho lliekok works was
tho most important manufacturing
property in tho extension 2011 c and tho
purchase recently gave ine State title
to the biggest corner of the tract. Tho
money received for it will be used to
develop a model plant within sight
of the Capitol and not in any way in
terfering with late ideas in city plan
ning and building. The Paxton com
pany not only used the money it re
ceived for building a larger and bet
ter establishment, but added consid
erably to it. The same Is true of other
owners of properties in the district.
No doubt it will be the sume with
others.
The organization of the jitney bus
line for the city, in which a great deal
of popular interest is being taken be
cause of the novelty and chances for
reaching developing sections of the
city not now accessible by trolley, has
a good many angles. One of these
directly affects the treasury of the city
itself. As a matter of fact, the city is
a partner of the Ilarrisburg Railways
Company. Under the terms of a much
discussed ordinance the municipality
of Ilarrisburg receives 3 per cent, on
the gross revenue of the comnuny op
erating the trolley system. This is a
pretty stilt allowance, even for Ameri
can cities, and the city has prollted
by It. as has frequently been noted in
the public prints. Therefore, every
dollar of loss of revenue that comes
to the traction company by the organ
ization of the jitney buss line means a
loss of three cents to the city of ilar
risburg.
One of tho oddest and saddest coin
cidences in the life of State Librarian
Thomas Lynch Montgomery occurred
on Saturday morning. He was just
opening a letter from one of his closest
friends. ex-Attorney General W. D.
Hensei. when he received a telegram
telling of Mr. Hensel's sudden death.
Mr. ilensel had sent the letter from
the South a few days before he died.
There Is a use for that walk that
runs around the jail wall on the inside
of the grass plats on the Walnut street
front after all. A good many people
have wondered If the walk was'con
structed for a short cut and some can
didly asked why it was built at all.
On Saturday a couple of learners tried
out their roller skates on the walk
with perfect safety. They were in no
danger of falling, on one side the
grass plot stopped them and the wall
was there to lean upon.
Farmers in the city's suburbs are
taking advantage of the mild weather
to spread lime in great clouds. Many
of them neglected or were unable to
do this work last fall, but they are
making up for lost time regardless of
the March winds that whirl the dust
about in all directions. Some farmers
say that they would rather spread
lime 011 a windy day than any other
because If they get on the right side
they can reach a large surface. The
fertilizing going on is rather extensive
just now and leads to the thought that
Dauphin and Cumberland farmers In
tend to do considerable raising of
foodstuffs this year.
Winter wheat is commencing to
show the effects of the prolonged mild
spell last month and l'rom the Capitol
one can sec a score or more of good
sized fields shining with the bright
green of the grain. In fact, the view
of four counties to be had from any
one of the upper floors of the Capitol
shows that a pretty good acreage has
been set out in wheat this season and
that if all goes well there will be a
big crop. Most of the 1914 wheat
around here has lieen sold, but there
are some farmers who have held back
quite a considerable amount. In the
whole state probably 17 or 18 per cent,
remains unsold.
General T. C. duPont. who lias re
linquished the presidency of the big
powder manufacturing company, was
at one time interested in projects for
purchasing the trolley lines in this
vicinity. He later became interested
in the Johnstown system.
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE I
—Ex-Mayor AV. A. Magee, of Pitts
burgh. is on a trip to California.
—Judge E. 11. Gary, who was taken
ill after making his speech at Pitts
burgh, has entirely recovered.
—Hugh Steele is the new head of
the Chester county farm bureau.
—J. P. Harris. Pittsburgh theater
owner, is ill in Denver, where he was
taken sick while on a western trip.
—Robert C. Miller, former member
of the Legislature and well known
here, is a candidate for register of
wills of Montgomery county.
—George C. Hetzel, n member of
the Industrial Accidents Commis
sion, was toastmaster at the banquet
of Ridley Park citizens.
—Arthur J. Anderson, editor of the
Pennsylvania Farmer, says that Penn
sylvanians do not advertise their vege
tables and other products enough.
—S. E. Gavin, Philadelphia lawyer,
aged 63, walked from Allentown to
Philadelphia and enjoyed it.
f D 0 V6U KN6W — L 1
Thai Harrishurg lies in a section
almost as rich agriculturally as
northern Lancaster county?
1 The Well or the Steeple? 1
I
i The chap who hollers down a well
About the goods he has to sell.
Will not reach near so many |
people
As he, who hollers from the
steeple.
What is the use of making a {
good article or running a good
store if people do not know It?
I Proof of success lies In public
! appreciation.
The public Is hungry for good j
goods and good service—eager to )
j read about such things.
That Is on.' reason why the |
great majority of people are
| newspaper readers.
And It is the reason why news- I
! paper advertising is such an ef
j fectlve business-builder.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
BOSSES FALL DOl
111 HARMONY GAME
Also Find That Weitern Pennsyl
vania Democrats Are Averse
to Paying Debts
POST OFFICES TO BLAME
. Republican Senatorial Leaders
Will Remain in Florida For
Another Week or So
| Efforts of State Chairman Roland S.
'Morris and Yarico C. McCormick to
harmonize warring elements anions
the Democrats In Western Pennsylva
nia iat>t week appear to have failed
as signally as their effort to beat out
Secretary Bryan in selection of the
collector at Pittsburgh. The method
of distributing post offices in Western
Pennsylvania has split the gang in
twain. Men who were never dreamed
of as worth while have been put for
ward by the bosses and have aroused
antagonisms that threaten to disturb
the machine organization for months
to come. Charges have been preferred
against men slated to be named and
disappointed office seekers are making
things hot.
—Morris and McCormick called on
the federal officials in Pittsburgh last
week, found out the troubles that they
had caused and have been trying to
straighten them out. They also dis
covered that since Secretary Bryan
declined to accept their man Deeds
for collector at Pittsburgh and put in
his friend Acklin that some of the
Democrats no longer regard them as
all powerful and are disposed to dis
turb.
—lt is also said that Morris found
little support for his scheme to raise
money to pay the debt of the Stute
committee. Most of the Democrats in
the western end of the State thought
that if there were any debts the men
who tinanccd the committee could
take care of them and if they did not
some of the men who stood to win in
the light should pay up and not ex
pect the rest of the party to go into
pockets.
—Charges are understood to have
been tiled against A. J. Palm, the man
picked for postmaster at MeadvlUc,
whom it is thought would go through.
Congressman-elect Biebel is also un
derstood to have declared that Palm
fought the Democratic candidate for
Congress.
—Palmer has picked out Charles B.
Hemingway, a political friend, for the
$3,400 post office in Easton. This will
mean still more Democratic warfare
in that district.
—These Pennsylvania postmasters
have been slated: Ulysses G. Bowers,
Big Hun: Nicholas K Barrett, Car
negie: Charles i\. Stevens, Knoxville;
M. J. Starvey, Mars: Jesse B. Conner,
Overbrook; W. F. Harrer, Montours
vllle; Clyde G. McMurray, Oakdale;
Nora B. Pickering, Peekville: Alexan
der B. Groff, Somerset: Josiah Cole,
Slatington: Frederick "A. Shaw, Tidi
oute: Christian Henderson, Woodlawn;
J. M. Keesey, Foxburg. and John W.
Clouse, Moscow.
A committee representing 230 mem
bers of the Luzerne county bar, car
ried a petition to President Judge
Charles E. Kice, of the Superior Court
urging him not to decline a re-elec
tion. The petition was signed by the
230 lawyers, Republicans and Demo
crats alike, and in part, read as fol
lows: "Thirty-six years' continuous
service on the bench is rare experience
and during such service we beg to as
sure you that you have won, not only
the esteem and the respect, but the
affection as well of the bar of your
State. Notwithstanding your long ser
vice on the bench, we are convinced
that you have in you years of efficient
wo 11k. which we earnestly hope may
be rendered in the service of your
State. We would deem it a distinct
loss to the bench if you voluntarily lay
asi(le your judicial duties. We earnest
ly hope you will reconsider any inten
tion to decline a re-election, and we
feel sure that you will receive the cor
dial support of the men of our profes
sion and of the general public as well."
—Mial E. Lilly, a familiar figure
here and a member of Congress from
1903 to 1907 from the Bradford-Sus
quehanna-Wyoming district, died ,at
his home in Towanda, Saturday from
angina pectoris. Lilly was for many
years a Republican leader in Bradford
county. He was 0 5 years old. Ai
widow, one son and two daughters
survive him.
[ —Chairman John R. Haisey, of the
I Republican party in Luzerne county,
called the executive committee and
[several leading Republicans together
I for a conference to discuss proposed
legislation of interest to the party in
I Luzerne, and it was decided that the
i time has come for the correction of
flagrant election evils through the
wholesale granting of registration cer
tificates after the expiration of the
days allotted for this purpose in cities
of the third class, of which Luzerne
has three. The method of selecting
overseers of election that is now in vo
gue was condemned. The Republicans
went on record as favoring the single
and uniform assessment and collection
of taxes in Luzerne.
—Tlie Philadelphia Inquirer of to
day says: "Publication yesterday of
the fact that State Senators James P.
MciN'iehol, Edwin H. Vare and William
E. Crow have wired their purpose to
remain In Florida for a few more days,
will deter many candidates for office
from going to Harrlsburg to-day. The
absence of Senators McNichol, Vare
and Crow from Harrlsburg this week,
will mean that there will be no action
taken in the Senate on any of the im
portant matters of legislation or on
any nominations made under the Ten
or administration."
—Judge C. N. Brumm. who will
have charge of the grand jury for the
March term of Criminal court, was
yesterday asked by C. K. Foley, labor
leader, in a communication by mail, to
have Mayor Pierce Mortimer and Com
missioners Hugh Dolan, J. H. Nichter,
James Sliellhamer and A. L. Eekert,
of the city of Pottsvillc, indicted for
numerous alleged misdemeanors in
office.
—Josiah Cole has been recommend
ed for postmaster of Slatington by
Congressman Rothermel.
—The new city of South Bethlehem
closes its first year with a balance in
bank.
—Efforts to make Montgomery
county dry are under way. In some
central counties the liquor people I
have become so indignant at the re
fusal of licenses that they arc threat
ening impeachment proceedings.
DENTIST \*i. UNDERTAKER
"1 am convinced," said Mrs. Twiek
embury, "that we should save largely
on dentists' bills if we should buy each
of the children one of those new pyro
technic tooth-brushes." Christian
Register.
I AIIP HAIIV I Aiiru 1 I
1 OUR DAILY LAUGH 1
tBEBOW STAIRS.
Parlor Maid—
Mrs. Plane says
? she's not to b«
disturbed. She's
j about to take her
1 beauty sleep.
Scullery Maid—-
L Sh! Tread softly,
[a Goodness knows,
she needi it.
NOT SCARED |
women are braver jjv j
than men. Do 'lljrffljy
you believe it? If 0 HH
Well, I think .jt
more of them
would take a jwffl I
chance at mar- 7 nfflj / J) I' lT
riage. . 4a
WllK\ IIOTH KICK
lly Mini); Dinner
The workman's compensation bill
Has drafted been, at last.
Into the legislative mill •
It shortly will be cast.
Its terms have been made known, and
folks
Who will affected be
Are harshly criticising it—
Which much amuses me.
Employers kick, they say, because
The penalty's too great.
And labor kicks because it is
By far too small, they state.
And since on this one point they both
Are ready now to tight
'Twould seem to me the form proposed
Is pretty nearly right.
i
[From the TelegraDh of March 1, 1805.]
'l'lnic Kitrnnloii l'or Itrrralln
Washington, March 1. The time of
recruiting has been extended to March
IG.
Senate I'UHHe* I.oan mil
Washington, March 1. The Senate
passed the JiiOO.OOO.UOO loan bill. Presi
dent Bincoln't signature is all that is
needed to make it a law.
Await Attack
Richmond, March 1. The rebels in
this city expect an attack in a few
days by Grant.
about
PENNSYLVANIA
The Cheney reporter for the West
Chester Dally can dig a tragedy out of
a mud puddle. Here It Is:
'Twas nearing the hour of midnight,
time for all human kind to be in bed,
when Madame Owl, who had stopped
her dismal walls for a time. Just to
give her throat a rest, as she sat on her
perch, high in thu branches of a dead
tit#, caught a sound which caused her
to cut a wail of woe short that she
mie-ht the better learn what was being
done. - "Got the lines and bait all right,
there, Bill?" she heard, as she almost
fell from her perch in surprise. "Be
sure you light that light, there in the
bow: we don't want any of those peaky
ferryboats to run us down." "All right.
Jack," said another voice, "cast that
line off, and I'll hold her steady while
you jump for it." The line was cast
off, and Jack evidently jumped as di
rected, as Madame Owl says she heard
a splash and some things said that it
made her blush even to think of, but
Jack got safely in the boat at last,
and then she heard "Say. Hill, I guess
we'd better anchor right here, where
the water rushes up through the top
of the culvert; it's a dandy place for
carp and snapping turtles. I know,
'cause my giandpap caught a carp there
in 187 C that weighed twenty pounds."
Then silence fell, so oppressive that
Madam Owl was about to start her tale
of woe once more, just for company's
sake when a voice said. "Quick, Bill,
row for your life: here comes a team
down the road and th"-- have to drive
right through this run to reach the
other turn. Just one thing after an
other, when culverts choke and make
good fishing grounds, teams have to
spoil the sport." But this, gentle
reader, did not happen, and neither is
it liable to but that section of road
down there below Bocksley where the
water conies through the stone cover
ing of the culvert, instead of running
out the end, and has made a way for
itself in the middle of the road, is cer
tainly an unpleasant section.
« ■> »
Reliersburg is one of the few towns
in Berks county which has a Federul
Building. But that's what Rehersburg
lias as liie result of the Industry of K.
CJ. Moyer. the new postmaster. Mr.
Mover, upon receiving his appointment,
drew a set of plans, and got out his kit
of tools. The building from foundation
to roof is the work of the postmaster's
own hands.
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STORY RITEN'
By tlie Messenger Boy
«■ *
The other day I was downhurtud and
I met the preacher and he sed, what's
the matter. bub( jist as if he knew all
about it. But I eudnt jist lokate the
trouble as to tell htm, and lie took me
in his house and told me lots of things;
so I forgot the frouch and jollied up,
and lafft-d.
After his funny tales he said, when
you're grouchy and want to cuss every
thing, jist ask yourself what makes
you cranky. Mostly you will find Its
right inside yourself and nothing but
Imaginashun, or too much dinner, or a
lazv streak, or too much givln way to
the dlvil In ye. Perhaps Its a disap
pointment in love or some such trlviul
uncertainty in life that dont count and
shuldnt be remembered. If Its uny of
these causes Its all your own fawlt; if
some other skunk has done a dirty
trick to ye, jist laft at lm and let im
know ye dont care a darn.
1 went away feelln the preacher is
all rite, and I promised to dlsten to
him. Most preachers Is O. K. and some
aint, and all of em have a ilne chance
to make good at their bisness, there
bein so many grouches and troubled
peeple in the world to pracktlse on.
Some ministers can make you go to
sleep by preachin nothln but theeolojy
out of books; they can tell you how
mucli a gold-brick weighs in heaven or
how many pound pressure they have in
the superheted steem sistem in the
other place, jist as if they knowed all
about It.
Other preachers like mine I talked
to, dont bother about whats comln but
take advantage of every day durln the
week and make you feel like shoutln
while youre here in Harrlsburg. They
can show you how to feel good so as
vou whlsle while at work, and raise
your genral battin average. Jf you
larn to devlllp your inner natchure so
as you stop swearln, and drinkin and
ch«wln and chasln around, and get
bigger in your inspirashuns, aspira
shuns, tiiots and imaginaahuns—lts a
good job.
Some preachers preach like a mega
phone, some like a brass band with a
mule accompaniment, and some like
school boys makln a decklamashum or
a gurl—but I cant lokate any of these
in Hbg.—then there Is others that talk
like a founten that comes of a bl«r
spring that never runs dry.
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