THE OONBTITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
B. F. BOHWEIER,
f f f Ttp aUMl
VOL. LI
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 27. 1897.
NO. 7.
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CHAPTER III.
flteila suuk back on tbe soft cushions
f the carriage, with the feeling that sue
was in a new and exciting world. Mr.
Raeburn presently began to ask her short,
dry questions about her journey and her
lite abroad, and this sort of conversation
lasted until the carriage swept round te'
the door of Mr. Raeb urn's new residence1
Thornbank.
She was hardly prepared for the solid
magnificence of the mansion into which
her father now conducted ber; tbe broad
stone steps, the spacious hall lined with
warble figures and exotic plants, the big
pictures and flaming chandeliers of the
room in which her aunt met her, struck
her with astonishment, but not altogether
with admiration. She had seen too much
of really good art and fine architecture in
her travels to be anything but critical;
and. in spite of her wish to like everything
In ber father's house, she felt oppressed
by tbe blaze of light and the glaring
colors of the furniture. It seemed Incon
gruous, too, to see her aunt's old-fashioned
little figure hurrying toward her
between velvet hangings and onnulu
stands and all this strange new para
phernalia of wealth. Only when Miss
Jacky had taken the slim young figure in
her arms, and was kissing the girl s fresh
cheek with a sort of rapturous delight,
did Stella feel that she was really at
home, in spite of the cold and bewilder
ing splendor of the house.
"Eh, my bonny woman!" cried Misa
Jacquetta, with a little shriek of delight,
"and it's you that are back again after
all this weary while. And me and your
papa have just been wearying for a sight
of you!"
Stella's vague dissatisfaction with the
state of affairs in the new home, which
she had scarcely yet learned to call her
own, did not survive a glimpse of the sun
light which greeted her next morning In
her lovely little room. After breakfast
her father went to his place of buainess,
leaving Stella to make explorations of her
new home in company with her aunt.
Her heart began to beat a little more
quickly as the afternoon advanced.
Would Mr. Hannington come, or would
be not? She had gently to combat her
aunt's proposition that they should go
into the town together, do some shopping,
and pay some calls.
Mr. Hannington mad. his appearance.
In his leisurely London way, a little be
fore the stroke of five, but the call was
short and rather formal. It ended in an
Invitation to dinner two days later, which
Miss Jacky was as proud to be sMe to
give as Mr. Hannington was pleased to
accent. She had been exceedingly pleased
when Mrs. Lyndsay had called, for the
.Lyndsays were great people In the com
mercial world; and she could not help
letting out her pleasure with a certain
arraiigement in which Stella had been
concerned.
"So kind ef them, you know, Mr. Han
nington," she said, simply, while Stella
blushed hotly and wished that she could
lay her ringer over ber aunt'a mouth.
"For I'm sure I ..uid to myself, what's
yon" yon meant Stella, in this case
"but a poor, wee lassie that'a just come
home from school, and must wait awhile
before she makes friends with her nee
bora! Wait awhile? Not she! She
hadn't been home a day before Mrs.
L-yndsay and ber two girlies came to call
for her."
"To go out with them?" said Hanning
ton, who did not quite understand.
"Not to-day," she said; "they just call
ed for ber to-day out of pure friendliness,
so to speak; but to-morrow she is to go
out with them for the. afternoon if It is a
fine day, because Stella nays that she
has never sen Balmerino, Mr. Hanning
ton; and they are to make a party and
drive her over; because, you know, Bal
merino is a place that ought to be seen."
Hannington smiled. "Did the girl
tell her anut to let me know?" he said
to himself. "Women do these things
onetimes. She is not very skillful at
setting traps as yet, poor little thing. 1
won't fail ber, however; I will be at Bal
anerino to-morrow, tool"
The resolution showed how little he un
derstood the motives that actuated Stella
Baeburn.
CHAPTER IV.
Mr. Raeburn came home tu his six
'clock dinner with tbe loveliest little
watch that Stella had ever beheld. He
did not produce it until dessert was on
the table, and then he brought it out in
Its dainty Morocco case with great form
and ceremony, and handed it to Stella
on a dish, as if It had been something
good to eat.
"There, young lady!" he said. "There's
a watch that is worth looking at. Don't
let me see that trumpery silver affair any
more. It annoyd me that you should
wear a shoddy thing like that when I can
afford you as good a one as any lady Id
the land."
"Dear papa, you are so kind." cried
Stella. She could not resist the impulse
to fly to his side and kiss him, although
he noticed that he seemed a little taken
back by her effusive display of affection.
"I shall always wear this one, but I shall
keep the other, too. and I shall be ju 1
fond of it 1". my own heart, because yon
gave it to me." .
"That must have cost a great deal,
Matthew," said Misa Jacky, after a rath
er awkward pause.
"And what If It did? Don't you sup
pose I can afford it?" said Mr. Raeburn,
frowning at her angrily. "1 can buy up
any Dundee merchant twice over, I tell
you; I'm a millionaire billionaire, if
you likeand trade's golnjt n. I mean
jrtqha BakdkM tt at
jays. '1 here's no limit no limit to
which I cannot aspire and attain."
He laughed harshly and rose from tb.
table, regardless of the fact feat the la
dies had not mnJe a move. Miss Jacky
watched him darkly as he left the room.
She could not understand the change, of
Lis m.ods. He behaved as if h. had
been drinking. And yet she had not
noticed that'he took a larger quantity of
' wine than, usual at dinner. There was
I something about him that made her very
I anxious now and then.
T'e neit day was cloudlessly One. Mrs.
I.rndsay auJ her girls, Katie and Isabel
two rosy, merry lasses, who had a
boundless admiratiun for their old friend
Stella, with whom they used to go to
school before she left Dundee for Brus
selscalled at Thornbank at half-past
one, and drove with her to the steamer,
in which tbe whole party horses and
carriages included would be transported
from Dundee to the Kingdom of Fife. At
Newport they would get Into the carriage
j again and be driven westward to the fine
old abbey ruin at Balmerino.
I Newport Pier was reached at length,
I and the drive to Balmerino began. It
was a very pleasant drive, but Stella
J found afterward that she did not remem
ber much about it. She was hardly con
scious of what she said or did, until her
feet were firmly planted on the green
slopes on which the ruined abbey walls
are set, and found herself suddenly face
to face with Mr. John Hannington and a
friend. And then she felt illogtcally
ashamed of herself fur having expected to
meet him there.
Stella performed her part of introducing
him to tbe I.yndsays with a quiet, shy
grace which Hannington heartily approv
ed. He in his turn asked permission to
introduce Mr. Donald Vereker, and as
that young man was one of Lord Esqo
hart'9 sons, his welcome by Mrs. Lyndsay
was assured. Katie was charmed to find
that this fair-haired, blue-eyd young fel
low was what she called "very jolly," and
while she aad her mother monopolized
him. Isa, who was of a sentimental turn,
devoted herself to securing a few min
utes undisturbed to her friend Stella and
Stella's lover.
For of course ie was Stella's lover;
she wits sure of that by the look In Stella's
pretty eyes. So she led them away from
Mrs. Lyndsay and Mr. Vereker, and when
they had entered the half-lighted cavera
which had once done duty for a refec
tory er kitchen, she slipped quietly away,
and Hannington was at liberty to aay
what he chose.
He had already glvea Stella ats hand.
because the floor was very nneven. and
be knew by its tremor that he cenld go
a little further still. "Come this way and
look at the window in the wall," he aaid,
leading her deeper into the darkness of
the ruined building. "You are not angry
with me for coming here to-day? Yon
are not sorry to see me, Stella?" Hi.
arm was round her waist.
"Oh, please " Stella began, but she
was not allowed to proceed.
"I could not keep away. I love yon,
Stella do you not know that? Do you
not love me a little in return? Stella,
will you not tell me that you love me?"
"It is so soon," she murmured; but her
head was on hit shoulder, and be knew
that he might have his way.
"Not a bit of it. The moment I set
eyes upon you in the Britannia I said t
myself that is tbe woman I should like
to' have for a wife. That is how all true
love begins. One kiss, my darling." Has
nington whispered. "You have set kissed
me yet."
StelJa lifted her face in the darkness
and pressed her soft lips to his cheek.
It was a very sober little kiss; bnt she
felt it to be a tow of everlasting fidelity.
To the man who won that kiss she gave
her heart and life.
"Now, then, we will go," aaid Haaniag
ton. "Stella, dearest, you love me, do
you not?"
"Yes."
"Say Tee. John.' "
"Yes, John," she answers J. n sweet.
ly.
"Then, darling, don't say anything
about this to anyone until I have seen
you again. I want to consult you first,
before I speak to your father. He will
grudge yen to me, I asa sure, my beauti
ful one."
"As you like, John," she said submis
sively. "I'm awfully bowled over," said Don
ald Vereker that evening, with an ex
pression of the deepest self-commiseration.
"'I feel that I have received my
death-blow. 'Carry me out to die, some
body. 'I am slain by a fair, cruel maid.' "
"Who la the lady?" asked one of his
' !. laughing. There was a large par
ry la the billiard-room at Esquhart Tew
irs. and Donald's confession was evbtssnV
y made for the public benefit.
"Her father is something In Jute. I be
ieve," said the Hon. Don, as bis Meade
ften called him. "Her name la Stella
star of my existence! Don't look so
black, Hannington. I'm not going to
poach. You should have seen Jaok ador
ing her to-day at Balmerino; it would
teach you a lesson."
"We don't need a lesson," said Lady
Grace. "We ail know Mr. Hanningtea."
There was perhaps just a little malice la
aer tone.
"Miss Stella Raeburn Is about the pret
tiest girl I ever saw," Donald went era,
"She has got perfect features, goldea
hair, blue eyes, a rose-leaf complexion,
and I assure you, on my fcoaor -ne
Scottish accent. She has been abroad
for some years that's why. She'll have
a pot ef money, fer her father's a regu
lar minioaijre .way, a' amid be tbe
1 Ad lnterrnption here occarred. Mr. 1
j Vereker was summoned to the door of :
' tbe billiard-room, and asked to apeak t
i tbe agent who had just arrived Irons
; Dundee on business. He did not coma
. back for several minutes; but when he
returned hi. face was a little (rave and
pale, and his manner had frown sub
! dued.
"1 have just heard of a shocking thing.
came and looked at him in surprise. "You ' To Pwvs the color of gingham and
know that 1 was speaking of that beauti- i prints, wash them in water thickens I
ful girl whom we met to-day? Well, with flour starch. Flour is very cleans
this very afternoon for aught I know, ! ing and will do the work of soap in one
while we were amusing ourselves in tbe 1 or two washings .in the starch water,
ruins at Balmerino ber father. Matthew j rtjs, with rinsing, will be sufficient,
..mi u,u.-,i i ui. owu oaice
blew out his brains with a revolver, in.
, it is supposed, a tit of madness, and was
found there dead when his clerk looked
in at six o'clock this evening. Mclntyre
has just brought tbe news."
I "Oh. that poor girl!" cried Lady VaU
and looked to Hannington fur sympathy.
But be did not reply.
' CHAPTEK V.
John Hannington felt puzzled as to the
course that he should pursue. Ought he
to rail at the bouse of mourning? Ought
be (o write? Should be wait nntil Stella
made some sigu. If he had been deeply
, iu love with her, these difficulties would
probably have wived themselves. He
: would have flown to her side, and tried
to make himself a comfort and a support
to her. But then he was not particular- ;
ly In love with Stella only wi'h her pret- :
ty face and her fortune. The pretty j
face would now, he reflected, be dinfig-
. tired with tears: be had better stop away. I
The fortune thank heaven! was all the
, more secure because of Matthew Rae-
' burn', death. No father would now be
i there to interfere, and Stella would not
object to his using ber money In his own
way. Hannington built a good many
brUliant castles in the air at this time.
i. i . .w.. 1.1. i...u
- - w .im iu.i ui, Jul. was auoui ;
te change.
He wrote a little note to her and put It
In the post-bag at th. last moment with
his own hand, so that no other eyes should
rest upon the address. It was a skillful-
IT worded llttl Tint.- ahnrt ImJu mm.
" . ,. T ' , 7. "
He was not surprised te receive an an
swer in less than twenty-four hours.
Stella must have written within a very
short time of receiving his letter. It was
clear that she was longing to be com
forted; that she thoroughly believed In
his protestations, and that she had no
Idea of holding anything from, the man
she lovad. At th. same time, he thought
ber a little cold.
"Dear Mr. Hannington," she wrote,
"your kind letter has juat reached me
I can quite uderstand why you aid not
write before. We are in great trouble
I cannot tell you everything in a letteri
but If you will come to see me after i
Friday we can talk together. Yon will
tell me what to do I trust you with all
my heart. I have not known you long.
but I feel aa if yeara had passed since we
came to Dundee together en board tbe
Britannia. You will forgive me if I havt
said too much. STELLA."
(To be continued.)
RsmUs "Collo" Stones.
Travelers who have penetrated into
the eastern portion of Southern Russia
find that the, people have many strange
beliefs la the power of charms. The
charm moat generally worn by tbe
people In that part of the Czar's vast
domain to a round, flat bone, which la
found la the head of a certain specie,
of northorn flab. They are called "colic
tones," and tne superstitious wearer
of ouch charm believe that they have
the power to prevent colic, and a host
of other diseases among tne minor all
menu to which human tleah Is heir.
Tbto queer superstition la not con
fined to the Ignorant, poorer classes,
but appears to exist In all kinds of so
ciety. The wealthy have colic stones
mounted In gold, and In this ebsjas they
are worn on the necklace nexvto the
ever-present cross.
There are 52 penitentiaries and ove.
17,000 jails in the United State. They
cost $500,0(X,000 to build tbem. Over
900,000 persons were incarcerated in
the year 1892. The criminal expense
to the country is not less than $100,
000, (HMD annually.
The German Minister of War has
issued a general order to the effect that
military honors are no longer to be
rendered at the funerals of officers who
have committed suicide, whose names
are likewise to be made public instead
of being kept secret.
After a service of 25 years as inspec
tor of a water pipe line of ihe Yahoo! a
Hydraulic Company, of Georgia,
George Hnateinger has quit work. He
walked 24 miles daily, along tbe pipe
line, ana during bis long service !
walked 219,000 miles. i
News of New Things.
A pulpit or rostrum, which can be
raise 1 and lowered to suit the speaker,
has just been patented. It is built in
telescopic sections, held in position by
springs.
A new harness attachment doer
away with the hold-backs, a curv-d
metal band'attached to tbe thills tak
ing their place. This can be length'
ened or shortened to fit the horse.
Two New Zealand men have de
signed a power bread-working and
dough-moulding machine, intended to
turn out the dough in any sized loaves
desire J ready for the oven."
Foot lanterns are among the latest
novelties". There is a strap to go around
tbe foot, and a stirrup fastened t the
upper side of the shoe, on which a
small lantern is placed.
A new electric gas-lighter is operated
by tha motion of turning on the gas in
an ordinary burner, the device being
adapted to fit over the burner and con
nected to the cut-off by a lever.
Lamp chimneys are now made with
sheet metal tos and bottoms, - the cen
tre portion being a circular sheet cf
isinglass, held in position by ro.ts con
necting the top and bottom of the
chimney. i
Arizona convicts havi been lens id
for 10 years at 70 cents p.r head a Uhv.
Their labor is to bi meJ in couth t.
ing an irnaatinecatinl to reel urn 1UJ,
000 acres of arid land.
An authority on deaf mutes says
that the ratio of deaf mates to hearing
is one of each 1600, according to which
there are about 40,000 such persons in
the United States and about 1.000,.
000 in the world's entire popilatioo.
Housewives Helps.
There is nothing so sensitive as but
ter, and yet you may see it at any time
placed near to meat and vegetables.
It should be kept covered tight when
put in the ice cbf st, so that it will not
absorb the odor of any food lying near.
Keep butter as far removed as possible
from onions and cabbage.
. ,n(i the goods will look fresner tban H
; ..v,i ,i.h..l ; ,h nrHin.rv
way.
According to Thurdicum. the ereat
English authority, not many genera
tions have passed since the tint warn
rabbits were considered vermin, and
their chase beneath the dignity of a
sportsman. This gentleman gives a
number of recipes interesting in
preparation and good to eat. It-nist
rabbit is not a popular dish in
England in fact, the Eug!ieh culinary
works take notice of it. It is, he says,
however, a ready method of preparing
a dish quickly, as a rabbit can le
roaste i in from 30 to 43 mi utile. To
prevent the rabbit from getting dry,
cover it with yolk and crumb, and
baste it with butter.
In broiling chicken wipe dry bef ire
seasoning. -The breast should tie cut
from the bone or flattened by pound
ing, cutter tne gridiron before pac
ing the chicken on it. While broiling
dip tbe meat occasionally in melted
butter and water.' Broil from hal to
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any but a young fowl.
A good wav to utilize cold-boiled
rice is to make it into fritters. The
ingredients are one teacupful of col. I
boiled rice, two well beaten eggs, two
teacupfuls of sweet milk, a little salt.
nour to make a Datter, etui as lor grid-
b-pi- tea:poonfu.o,
flour to make a baiter, stiff as for griJ-
Serve with butter and sugar rubb-d
together and seasoned with a little
nutmeg.
With a little experience macaroni
may be prepared in a variety of ways,
in fact, an Italian cook says its possi
bilities are unlimited. A few spices
will change tbe taste. If garlic is ob
jectionable, an onion chopped and
friid brown m y bo added. The prin
cipal ingredients, when cooked in the
Italian way, are leau beef, I'arma
cheese and condensed tomatoes
To avoid carpet moths we arc advioed
to use the ounce of prevention. In
other words, after your carpat has been
laid, spo'ge thoroughly in a strong so
lution of salt' and water. - Above all,
keep your rooms sufficiently light. To
avoid roaches and ants use another
ounce of prevention. Sprinkle a mix-
I t tire of powdered borax and pulverized
j alum under the paper of your pantry
shelves. .
Fifty yeara ago, we learn from an
old writer, the art of carving was re
garded by the most polishe I society in
this country as the indispensable ac
complishment of every lady who had
to preside at the head of ber table.
It was a reflection upon her fitness for
that post to say that she managed the
carving knife with little skill, or was
ignorant of the choice parts of each
dish.
In eating fruits there are only two
restrictions. They should not be eaten
later than dinner time; they should
be eaten while fresh, ripe, perfect and
in their natural raw state, without
milk, cream, sugar, epic s, water or j
any other liquid within an hour after- j
ward. Fruits are known to be coolinx i
and healthful; the reason is, their I
acidity. We are advised to eat the j
berries, the apples, the plums not
only of these, but of all others, a '
freely and as often as we ran get them. I
Through either the ignorance i r the in
difference of parents, most of children
do not know how to eat fruit as it
should be eaten. They are s-1 loin
told or taught that the skins of fruit
should not be eaten, and that under
no circumstance should the seeds of
oranges, apples, pears, cherries or
grapes be swallowed. Tbe seeds of the
grape, we are informed, is exictly the
gight size and shape for clogging np a
small duct, thecloiing of which results
in appendicitis that dreadful dUeaie
which arouses an element of fear even
,in the ordinary mortal who attempts tu
pronounce it correctly.
Facts from History.
i Servian kings were formerly all callt d
eleazars or lazars.
For over 400 years every Tartbian
king bore the name of Arsaces in adJi
tion to his own.
The ancient monarch's of Indi i were
called Palibotbri, from tbe name of
their capital city.
Kenneth became sole king of Scot
land in 831. From this lime t ihe
accession of James VI Scotland bad
forty-four kings. .
The Bohemians were originally th
Boii, who, 283 B. C, attempted a c in
quest of North Italy, bu. were driven
bsck by the Romans and settled, in
Bohemia.
The Spaniards were originally coiled
Hibj.antons. There is a tradition
among the Spaniards that they are tit
lescendants of Tu al, liftti son o;
lapbet. The Romans conquered the
souatry iu 2C6 B. C.
A bicycle tire wh eh is not injure I
by punctures consists of a Soild rut.l er
core wou id with a spring wire, wturti
is Ihen formed into a spiral i ml i im
placed wituiu the ta unt;, Urns in ikiu
a very resilient lire wittiuui the ti e o(
ait to keep it iullatod.
Harber, tbe great authority on
fish, says that every square mile of the
sea is inhabited by 120,000,000 finny
creatures.
An analysis of tbe .California
oliveoil made at the experiment station
at Berkeley proves it to contain as
much nutriment as roast beef, pound
for pound.
Be just to your enemies, generous to
your friends, and independent of
both.
FARfl NOTES.
Suhsoiled land washes Irsi than
an
ubsoiled, as it holds water better.
Potatoes boiled, mashed and mixec
with wheat bran make excellent feet
for ducks.
Li), hi tobaccos were found to contain
tbe lowest percentage of nicotine, and
dark tobaccos the highest.
The North Carolina Station advises
treating stored grain with bisulphite
of carbon to kill weevil, rats, mice, etc.
Shredded corn fodder makes gooc
feed, good bedding and good manure.
Shred when perfectly dry and etort
under a rain proof roof, in not too
great balk, and it will keep all right.
Lime water is considered very good
for sc3urs in lambs. Where it is to be
fed to all the sheep, a quart of slacked
lime is put in a trough and 50 gallons
of water put in. When thorougly
settled the sheep will drink it without
hesitation.
. The soft unripened nubbins of corn
will fatten a pig more quickly tban the
ripe ears will. So to boil tbe small
potatoes with corn ears, and feed tbe
thick iniisli thus resulting, when it is
nearly culd, will fatten pigs quickly
and cheaply, fork may l made for
two cents a pound iu this way. after
the pigs have run on a clover field.
Every farmer who burns wood even
partially for heating and cooking
should as early in the winter as possi
ble cut and pile ?nough wood to last a
wbole year. This will save many com
plaints during tbe summer, and be
much easier done now than in warm
weather. Besides, dry wood burns
without the waste of tbe heat, always
lost in turning its sap into steam.
When using green wood, chips and
mall limbs will dry out more quickly
than will tbe body of the tree,
especially if the small limbs are split.
If care is taken to select only good
milk cows, and breed them to a sire
whose ancestry show a good record in
the dairy, you rsn depend upon the
cows that come fron such breeding
being good dairy animals. There is
less risk of fai ure in this than in
almost any otber line of breeding.
Proper care in selection will almost
invariably give satisfactory results.
In older to keep up the vitality of
the plant and to obtain a delicious and
healthful product, the rhubarb root
should be replanted occasionally. If
tbe stool remains undiMurbtd for a
number of years it begins to decay in
the centre, and soon the wbole plant
become? diseased. As the plant is
propagated by division it can be kept
in the healthiest condition by dividing
tbe stool, and replanting tbe different
portions.
Soft corn is mora often wastefully
fed to hogs than put to the best uses it
is capable of. It is moist, and when
eaten easily ferments in tbe stomach
of animals tkat do not ruminate, and
especially of the hog which gets as a
rule no coarse food to distend its
stomach and aid digestion. A few
nubbins twice a day to cows giving
milk will be digested nearly as well as
Kill the grain when ground. The soft
corn on the ear is with the cob brought
up in the cud and is their most
thoroughly chewed, while if coin meal
is fed alone it oes direct to the third
stomach, and is there very poorly
digested. . 1
Labor Notes.
France taxes bicycles.
Printers bave 325 unions.
There are 10,900 locomotives.
Switzerland grants uo patents.
Australia has a Chinese paper.
China employs 2,000,000 teachers,
'r'nsco has Chinese cigarmakers.
English Jet mines are giving out.
Germany leads in beer production.
United States has 60,000 barbers.
Milwaukee newsboys have a dub.
Oreat Britain baa 1,250,000 union
ists. In Japan 1,162 mills have machin
ery. Cleveland is to have a labor Umpls.
Ohio is to- have a Stats Label
League.
A Fall River textile mill shares, prof
its. 8an Diego carpenters want eigh
hours.
Oreat Britain has 80.000 textile un
ionists. Brooklyn has 117 union cigar fac
tories. Fast freight line agents at Duluth
organized.
A Washington brewery has just been
unionized.
International Typographical Union
has $36,000 in treasury.
New York 'longshoremen get from
1 5 to 40 cents an hour.
Proposals bave been made to con
struct a new railway between Liverpool
and Manchester, so as to meet the
competition offered by tbe ship canal.
No man who is intoxicated, or whose
breath is even tainted with strong
drink, is allowed to take his post on a
train on the Grand Trunk Railway.
The silk product of all countries in
1887, the last year for which complete
statistics are available, was 52,000,000
pounds, valued at $490,000,000.
There appears to be every prob
ability that a woolen and worst td
spinning and weaving department
will be added to the cotton department
of the Lowell Textile School.
Five years ago there were two direct
etetm?hip lines from Southern ports
to Europe; new there are eleven c.tiei
sach ot which have on or mon linei
across tbe Atlantic.
-Some regard for decency is die
played by the proprietor of a restau
rant in Asburn, Ore. A sign on the
wall reads thus: "Gentlemen are re
quested not to swear when ladies are
present."
Berlin, by the 1895 census, had
1,615,517 inhabitants. Employed in
the army or civil service were 72,848
persons.
Germany and France are both
scolding England for agreeing to arbi
tration in the Venezuelan affair.
REV, DR. TALMAGE.
Tbe Eminent Divine's .Sunday
Discourse.
Snbjeel: "Slormln- the Heights."
Tktt: "Who art thou, O ereat mountain?
Belore2Hriibhabelthousut:t hjeonL.a Dlatn."
Zaohariaii iv 7
Zrobbabel! Who owns I that diffloult
name in wbicn three times tbe letter 'b" oc
curs, lispoinr mut peopl- to stammer in
tbe pronunciation? riih(abel was Ihe
splendid man ealietl to rebuild the destroyed
temple ot Jru-wlir. stone for Ihe builrllne
had been quarried, andthe trowel had rung at
tn myini- nr m cornerstone, ana a'l want
well, when the Cuil.ie ins oflere.1 to helo in
the work. Thev wera a bad lot o? people.
and Zirn'ibe declined their help, and then
Iba tronhtu outran. The t'ntba?u preju
diced the KBcmrarv nf Ihn trvanrv uMine
. "...
Zerubbnbel. so that the wages of the carpen
ters and miwous could not be pail, and the
heavy eed.-,r timbers which bad been dragged
from Mount Lebanon to the Mediterranean
and floated iu rafts from Beirut to Joppa and
were to b drawn by or team from Jot pa to
Jerusalem had halted, and as a rasult of the
work of those jealous Cuthaafi for sixteen
y are the buil.iiugol tliw term. la wns stopped.
But after sixteen yean Zarubbnbel. the !
mighty son), got a new rali from God to go
ahead with the touipla building, and the
angel of the Lord In siih-tanen said: "Thev
have piled up obstacles In the way of Zerub
babel until they have Iwcome as a mountain,
he ght rIkivh height, crag above crag, but It
shall ull be. thun ierel down and mate Mat
and smooth as Ihe floor of a house. "Who
art thou. O groat mountain? Bfore Zerub
babel thou shuit become n plain.'"
Well, the Online-, are not all dead yet.
They are busv in every neighborhood a'jd
every city und every Nation of every age,
heaping obstacles in the way of theeanseof
God. They have piled np hindrances above
hindrances until they have become a bill,
and the bill has become a mountain, andthe
mountain has become an Alp, and there It
stands, right in I hi way of nil movements
for the world's salvation. Home people are
so discouraged about tbe height and breadth
have done nothing for sixteen ye-irs, and
many of those who are at work trying to do
something toward removing tbe mountain
toll in such a wav that I can see thev bave
not much faith that the mouutain of hin
drances will ever be removed. They feel
they must do their duty, feut t hay feel all the
time I can hear ft in their prayers and ex
hortationsthat tbey are striking their
pickaxes and shovels into the sides of the
Rocky Mountains. If the good Lord will
help me while 1 preach, I will give you the
names of some of tha hign mouotnins which
are really in the way and then show you that
those mountains are to be prostrued, torn
down, ground up, leveled, put out of sight
forever. "Who art thou, O great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel thou sba.t become a
plain."
First, there is the mountain of prejudice,
as lone as n r.-inge of tbe Pyreneas. Preju
dice ag.iinst the bible as a dull book, tin ln-consist-nt
book, a cruel book, an unclean
book, and in every war an unlit book. The
most of them hnveuever rend it. Tbeytblnk
thestrata of the rocks contr.vllet tbe account
In Oaness. The poor souls do not know
thnt the Mosaic account agrees exactly with
the geological account. No viotln or flute
ever was in batter accord. By crowbar and
pickax and shovel and blasting powder the
geologist goes down in the earth and says:
The l!rst tiling created in the ftirnishlug of
the earth was the plants." Moses says:
"Aye, I told you that in tbe bookof()one
sis, 'The earth Drought forth grase and herb.
yielding seed after his kiud and the tree
yielding fruit.' ' The geologist goes on
digging in the earth and says: "Tbe next
thing in the furnishing of the earth was the
making nf the creatures of the sea." Moses
savs: "Are, I told you that was next la the
book of Genesis. Ood said. Let the waters
brlngforth abundantly the moving creatures
that have life, and God created great
whales.' "
The geologist goes on digging and says,
"The next thing iu the furnishing ot tbe earth
was the creation of the cattle, and tha rep
tiles and the beasts of the field." "Aye,"
says Moses. I told you that was next iu the
first chapter of Genesis, 'And God said. Let
tbe earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cuttle and creeping things,
and beasts ot the earth after his kind.'"
The geologist goes on digging in the earth
and says, "The next creature was the human
family." "Aye," says Moses. "I told you
that was next in the book of Genesis, 'Ao
God created man in His own image, In the
Image of God created He him; male and fe
male, created He them.'" Those prejudiced
agai nst t he Bl hie do not know t bat t he explor
ations lo Egypt and Palestine an 1 Syria are
continuing tin Scriptures the same faots
written on monuments and on the walls of
exhumed cities as written in tbe Bible. Tbe
city of i'lthom has beau unburie t, and its
bricks are found to have been made without
straw, exactly corresponding with the Bible
story of the persecuted Hebrews. On terra
eotta cylinder, recently brought up from
thousands of veers of burial, the capture of
Babylon by Oyi us is told. On a Bibvlonlan
gem recently found are tha figures of a tree,
a man, a woman and a serpent, and the
hands of the man and woman are stretched
up toward the tree as to pluck tbe fruit.
Thus the Bible story of the fall is confirmed.
In a museum at Constantinople yon see a
piece of the wall that one i In the anolent
temple of Jerusalem separated the court of
the Gentiles and tbe court of tbe Israelites,
to which l'aul refers when he s:i)S of Christ,
"He is our peace. Who hath brokun down tne
middle wall of partition between us." On
tablets recently discovered have been found
the names ot'promimnt men of the Bible,
spelled a little different, according to tbe
demands of am-ient language. "Adamu"
for Adam, "Abramn" for Abraham, "Ablu"
tor Abel, and so on. Twenty-two ici uu-ier-ground
lias been found a seal Inscribed wilt
tbe words, "Haggat, son of Hhebuniah,"
thousands of years ago cur, showing that
tbe Prophet Haggal, who wrote a part of the
Bible, was not a myth.
The royal engineers have found, eighty
feet below the surface of the ground at
Jerusalem, 1'hoenieian pottery and hewn
stones with inscriptions showing that they
Were furnished by Hiram, King of Tyre, just
as tbe Bible says tbey were. Th--great names
of Bible history, that many suppose are
names of Imaginary beings, are found out
Into imperishable ston-s which have within
a few years teen rolled up from their
entombment of ag'-e, snob as Sennacberlb
and Tiglatli-Pib-ser. On tbe edge ot a
bronzed step and on burned brick has been
found the name of Nebuchaouezzar. Henry
Rawlinron and Oppett and Hicks and Pales
tineexploration eocieties and Assyriologists
and Egyptolog sis have rolled another Bible
np from the depths of the earth, and lo! it
corresponds exactly witb our Bible, the rock
Bible just like the printed Bible, inscrip
tions on cylinders and brickwork cut
MOO years before Christ testifying
to the truth of what we read 1897
years after Christ. The story ot the tower
of Babel bus been confirmed by the fact that
recently at Babel an oblong pl!e of brick 110
feet high evidences the remains of a fallen
tower, in tbe inspired book of Ezra we
read of the great and noblo Asoappar, a name
that meant nothing especial until recently i
in pried up Egyptian sculpture we nave
the story there toid of bim as a great hunter
as well as a great warrior. What I say now
Is news to those prejudiced against tbe Bible.
They are so far behind the times that they
know not thnt the old book Is being proved
true by the prying eve oi the antiqtia.ian
and the ringing hammer of tbe arohaologist
and tbe plunging hammer of the geologist.
No more Is infidelity Characterized by Its
blasphemy than oy its ignorance, but, oh!
what a high mountain of prejudice against
the Bible, against Christianity, against
churches, against all evangelizing enter
prisesa mountain that casts its long black
shadows over this eontinent and over all
continents! Geographers tell us that Mount
Everest is the nlghesl mountain In the world.
Ob, not Tbe mountain of prejudice against
Cbristianltv is bighertban tbe highest crags
that dare the lightnings of heaven. B-'ore
Zerubbabel, can it ever become a plain?
Another mountain of hindrance is that of
positive and outspoken Immorala. There Is
the mountain of inebriacy. It Is plied with
kegs and demijohns snd decanters arwt hogs
heads, on which sit the victims ot that traf
n whose ens bosioess is te rob earth ea
heaven of the most cunerous and large
henrte-1 and splendH of the human race. If
their busing-, was to take only tbe mean and
stlniry and contemptible and useless, we
wonid not say math against the work, for
there are tein of thousands of men and wo
men who are a nuisance to the world, and
thair obliteration from human societv would
bean a irsnta; to ail that is Kooi. 'There
moval of those moral deficits wonld not
arou-io in us much of n protest. But inso
briety taces ta best. The mountain of
inebnacy ManJs in the way of the kingdom
of God, nnl buuiire.ls of thousands of men
but for that hindrance would step right Into
ma rdnis 01 rne iioni nost nntl march
! !i!.vt1"rJ,i:?";!h 00.'ak.inf
One takinir r reorimnnt
with bim. The mountain of inebriaov is not
an ordinary mountain, but It H armed. It
is i line ot fortresses continually blazing
away its destru?t.ve forces upon all our
neitblorhod:i. towns and eitim. thnir vol
ley ir death potirel down upon the homes
a'ii churches. Under lb nosver more than
', t "'m ' men "n 1 wom!" ar In this country
! JLTrIr ""P?1", army of 600 -
i iw hi iiiikn r,iie nirnrwr nneira rna navth
with their staggering tread. It causes in
this country 300 murders and 400 suicides a
year. This mountain of inebrincy has not
only assaulted ths land, but bombarded the
shipping of the sei, and some of the most
appalling shipwrecks on Atlantic and Paeiflo
coasts have twen the result. What sank the
steam -r Rrthsav Otstle. on the wav from
i.iverpool to Dublin, deal roving 10 1 human
liva.? A drunken sea eaptuin. What blew
ui ib' B in Sherrol on tha Mississippi and
s- nt 150 t horrible d atb? A drunken crew.
A'hat drovrt on th breakers a stcamsr
making Its wxy rromNew Yorlcto Charleston
and amt whole families ou the wv home
from sit-nmer w.tterin; p!a.'s to th mere!
leas depths of the sea? A drunken sea cap-
tain. Gather up from tbe ileuths ot the
rivers nn-t lakas and o:an" the bmiw of
t josh shipwrej'iad by Int ic ite 1 captains
and cinws, aud you could build out or them
a temDle of horrors, all the mll.ars nn.t nltnr
I an 1 floors a id callings fashione i of human
i skull. Is it possible that such a mountain
of inebriaoy cat ever ba made a plniu?
! Yonder also Is the mountain of crime, with
us strata ot fraud am malpractice and mal
feasance and blackmail an I burglary and
piracy and e:nbaz!tlemeut an I libertinism
and theft, all its heights manned with tbe
despsmdoas, the cutthroats, the pickpockets,
the thimble riggeis, the corsairs, the wreck
ers, tbe bandits, the tricksters, tua forgers,
tbe thugs, tbe garroters, the fire fiends, tha
j "V"'""8". shop'lftera. the kleptom'
I ao' tb? ly-'?'n'f . he dipsoman a.-s t
nt-
the
I s'jiuggiere, mo KMiittpers, inn jhcx tsnap-
paras, tne nooer; naoatres and tha M icbctUs
of villalnv. The crimes ot the world! Am
I not right In aniline them, wiien piled up
together, a mountain? But wa cannot bring
ourselves to appreciate groat heights ex . -ept
by comparison. You think of Mount Wash
ington as high, nspecially those of you who as
cend! as of ol I. on mule hack, or more re
cently by rail traiu, to the Tip Top House.
Oh, no! that is not high. For it Is only
about CiOOO feet, whereas rislug on this West
tern Hemisphere are Ohimbori. ), 21.000
feet high, and Mount 8 ihama, 2),(tOo faet
high, and Mount Sarato. 2I.H00 teat high.
But that is not tbe highest mountain on the
Western Hemisphere. The nighast moun
tain Is the mountain of crime, an i is it pos
sible that this mountain, bafore our Z-rul-babel,
sen ever be made a plain?
There is also Ihe mountain of war. the
most volcanic of all mountains the Ve-u-vius
whl h. not content, like the Vesuvius of
Italy, with overwhelming two cities, Hercu
laneum and Pompeii, has covered with its
fiery scoria thousands ot cities, and would
like to whelm all the cities of both hemls-
I nh res. Give this mountain full utterance.
ana n wouia cov.t np wasninsron JM sew
, iT , u I . .1 -. , , "".'"-
er. with his shovel at 10 o'clock at night.
banks a grate tire with asHes. This moun
tain is a pile of fortresses, barricades and
armories, the world's artillery heaped, wheels
above wheels, Columbia is above columbiads,
seventy-four pounders above seventy-four
pounders, wrecked Nations above wrecked
Nations. m
This mountain of war is not only loaded
to cannonade the earth, but it is also a ceme
tery, holding the corpses of 3 1.000,00 slain
In the wars ot Alexander and Cyrus, 60.000.-
000 slain In R im iu wars, 181.000,000 slain in
war with Turks and Siraceas aud holding!
ooui ,uuu,uuv,imi corpses, noi minion, ouc
billion, which was tbeestimate made by Ed
mund Burke more tban 100 years ago of those
who bad been destroyed jy war, so that you
would have to add more millions now.
Twenty years ago a careful author estimated
that about fourteen times the then popu
lation of tbe world had gone down In battle
or In hospital ufter battle. Ah, this moun- j
tain of war Is not like an ordinary mountain!
It Is like Kilnaea, one of the Sandwich Isl
ands, which holds the greatest volc.ino In all
the earth, and concerning which I wrote !
from tbe Sandwich Islands a few years ago: 1
- "What a hissing, bellowlng.tumbiing.soar- !
Ing foroe Is Kilaaeal Lake of unquenohuble '
Are; convolutions and paroxysms of flame; i
elements of nature in torture; torrldity and
lurldlty; congregation ot dreads; molten '
horrors; sulphurous abysms; swirling mys- i
tary of all time; infinite turbulence: chimney
of perdition; wallowing terrors-, fifteen aores ;
of threats; glooms insufferable and D int- '
esqae: caldron stirred by the champion witch '
of pandemonium; camp tire of the armies of
Diabolus: wrath of the mountains in full i
bloom; shimmering : Incandescence; pyrotech- t
nlcs of tbe planet; furnace blast of the a;es; i
Kilauea!" But. my friends, mightier, high- i
er, vaster.hotter, more raging, Is the volcnnlc ;
Se of Tears aUlf
until, until but I dure not hnz irj a nroph
ecv. C iu it be that Its flres will ever be put
oat? Can It be that Its roar will ever be si
lenced? Can it be that before our Z-rub'ia-bel
that blazing mountain will everbcoiie
a p ain?
There is also the long range of mountains,
longer than Appalachian range, longer than
Caucasian range, longer than Sierra Neva Ju
rang t e pile I up opposition of ba i liter i-tur-,
bad hom s, bad institutions, bad amuse
ments, bad centuries, bad religions Pagan
ism, Hio tooism. Buddhism, Mohammedan
ism and buttressed nnd enthroned go lless
ness, devoted to ambition an 1 lust an 1 hydn
beaded, argus eye 1 abomination, a? it stands
with il't el flst anlmooking lips, challenging
Job jvah nvon the throne of the universe to
strike if He dare. Oh, it II mountain,
as my tex declares. There is no ue iu deny
ing it. Tbe most authentic st ttistics declare
It. The signs of tbe times prove it. Ail
Christian workers realize ir. It is a moun
tain. "The mountain can never be brought
down," says worldly speculation. "Tbe
mountain can never be made a pjain," says
a small faith lo the churches. Wei!, lot us
see. Let us look about for the implements
we can lay our bands oo. Let us count the
number on our side who are willing to dig
with a shovel or bore a tunnol or blast a
oek. Let us see if there is any foreign help
that will come In to re-enforce us. I do not
Want to make myself ab?urd by attempt
ing an Impossibility. It it is only one
spade at the foot of Mount Blanc, if it is
only one arm, capable of lifting but a few
pounds, against a mountain that weighs
100.0 41,000 tons, let us quit before we make
ourselves the travesty and caricature of the
universe. If we are to undertake this job,
first ol all we must have a competent engi
neer, one who knows all about excavations,
about embankments, about tunuels, about
mountains. I know engineers who have
carved np mountains, cut down mountains,
removed mountains. I will do nothing un
less I know who is to be onr engineer.
Zerubbabel led at the rebuilding of the an
cient temple, and Matthew Henry, the great
est ot commentators, declares that our
Zerubbabel Is the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Zmbbabel of my text was only a type of tbt
Morions and omnipotent J-sus. nnd ns 1
ook up Into tbe face of this divine engineer I
ana se It glow witn an the splendors of the
uoanead, nnd see that in ills nrtn is tbe al
mightine&s thai Hang out all the worlds that
glitter in the midnight heavens, and thnt to
lift the Himalayas would cost Him no more
effort tban for me to lift an ounce, my cour
age begins to rally, an l my fatth begins to
mount, and my enthusiasm is all aflame,
and the words of my text this moment just
lit my lips aud express the triumph of my
soul, and I cry out: "Who art thou, O great
mountain? Before Z-'rnbbabel thou shall
become a plain?"
I tell you the mountain is coming Down.
It Is coming down rapidly. It will all come
down. There are those who bear or read
these words who will gaze upon its com
plete prostration, for what Is theuse of my
keeping back any longer the full statement
of the fact, which I have somewhat delayed
through lawful sermonte strategy, the fact
that the Lord God Almighty, in the full
play of His omnipotence, will aouompltsh
(his supernal work. If Qii enn build a
mountain I gu?ss Ha can re nnvi a moun
tain. After Gol has given I. pi opportunity
for the shovels He will conn in with His
thunderbolts. We have simplified the idna
of the Lnat) of God. I tell yoa no ot ih
Hon. Here ij a thought that I liavo never
seen projected, and yot It U tha mo-t elioer
ing of nil considerations and plainly Scrip
tural. Ihe thought that as at tlie oonuing or
the gospel dispensation In the Curistiy and
Johanian and Pauline days the machinery ot
the natural world was brought luto service,
tbe phndow of eclipses and tha ngi'tutiou of
earthquakes, tempests put to sloep uudJr t'n
voice of divina lullaby, irou bolls of prisons
shoved hack by Invisible muscle, kindling
of flame on heads of worshipnrs, by ius:an
taneous pharmacy blastet vision giv.-a full
eyesight, and the deal returned fr.rai lha
eternal world, mingling amid earthly scenes,
so it will be again.
As I read my Bible, these supernatnrnis
areto return. Again the eclipses, as at tha
destruction of Jerusalem, will put re t wing
under the moon and black wing undar tha
sun. and the mountain will shake with agua
or excitement and hospital cots be emntiad
as their patients bound Into sudden health
and the gospel of mercy emphsslz d by most
tremendous speotacies. "And I bohald whan
he had opened the sixth seal. aud. lo thera
was a great earthquake, and the sun bec.nmo
black as sackcloth ot hair, and the moon be
came as blood and every mountain
and Island were moved out of thair nlnees'"
I There you have It. The shovels now digging
; away at the mountains to be re-enforced by
j thunderbolts. The gospel is only partially
! successful because wn preach It n;nid all
I plaoiditia?, the hearers hxving hesr 1 the in
vitation a thousand times b (ore an 1 nxp ct
I hear it a thousand timas mora, but in
coining time; to be preached amid pulver.
Izei rocks and stellar panics nu I shattered
masonry of cemeteries, from which tha pal
lid dead will spring into rostsnte life. I say
then the gospel will be universally accepted.
There is the programme. First the showls,
then tbe thunderbolts. Ours tha shovel.-,
Ood's the thnndurbotts. Tne text, wnich
before we uttered w.th something of trepida
tion, now we utter iu laugh of triumph.
"Who art tbon, O greit mountain? Before
Znrnbbabel thou shall become a plain.''
Sometimes a general begins a battle baTnra
lie is ready, because the enemy forces It ou
bim. The general says: "The enemy are
pushing us. an) so I open battle. We are
not sufficient to copt with them, but I hope
tne reserve forces will com? up in time."
The brittle rages, and the general looki
through his fleldglasi at the troops, but ever
and anon be sweeps his fleldlass l ack ward
and upward toward tbe htil to see If the re
serve forces are coming. "Hard pushed are
we," says the general. "I do wish thoss re
enforcements would come up." After awhile
tbe plumes of the advancing osvalrv are
seen tossing on the ridge of the bill, and then
the flash of swords aud then the long Una of
mounted troops, their horsas in full galiop
and tue general says: 1" well. Hold
out, my men. a little longer. Let the ser
geants ride along the lines and cheer tbe
meu and tell them re-enforcements are com
ing." And now tne rumbling of the batteries
and gun carriages is distiuctly beard, and
soon they are in line, and at the first roar of
the newly-arrived artillery the enemy, a lit
tle while before so jubilant, fall back In wild
retreat, their way strewn with canteens and
knapsacks and ammunition, that tbe defeated
may be unhindered In their flight.
That Is just the way now. In this great
battle against sin and crime and moral death
the enemy seem too muoh for us. More
grogshops than churches. More bad men
thau good men, and tbey come up with bra
vado and the force of great nuajbura. Thev
bave opened battle upon us bsfore we are In
, our strength ready to meet them, and great
are the discouragements. lint sti
scouragements. But stead V there!
Hold on! B'3-enforcements are comine!
Through the glass of inspiration I look and
see the flash of the sword or -'Him who hath
on His vesture and on His thlirh a name
written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords."
All heaven is on oursldeand Is coming., the
rescue. I hear the rambling of the Ring's
artillery, louder tban nny thunder that ever
shook the earth, and wiih every roll of the
ponderous wheels oar courage augments,
and when these re-enforcements from heaven
get into line with the forces of God already
on earth all the armies of uprigbteousnes-i
nil) !, their hmif nt d,, h,.m.
and will waver and fall back nnd take flight
and nothing be left of them save here and
there, strewn by the wayside, nu agnostic's
pen, or a broken decanter, or a torn playbill
ot a debasing amusement, or a blasphemous
paragraph, or a leper's scale, or a dragon's
tooth, to show they ever existed. Let there
be cheering all along the lines of Christian
wotkers over the fact that what the shovels
fail to do will be accomplished by the thun
derbolts. "Who art thou, Ogre-it mountain?
Before Ztrubbabel tbou shalt beoome a
plain."
The mountains look ou Jl irathou,
And Mnrathou looiis on the sea
Shrine of the mightv. Win It l e
That this is ull remains of thee
News in Brief.
A street railroad operated ly ga
engines is being experimented with
y . or
u,i,u-
Three copies of the Bible, written
' "
Brilish museum.
Hamburg has a house of paper,
j Helium, b:mg more permanent -than
hydrogen, is a new thernionielric
' substance for very low temperatures.
I A Moating island in the Sabine
j river, f-0 acres in extent, and covered
with water hyacinths, floated (or a
I week up and down the stream, sea
j Orange, Tex.
! Mrxiio is discussing a ropoiition
j to make military duty compulsory.
' There is a cierk in Marne, France,
j who has made seventeen unsuccessful
i attempts to commif suicide.
Specimens of fire daiT.? have been
recently collected from many vSUrws. .
all containing nitrogen, with appar
ently, about the same proportion of
argon as is obtainable from the nitrogen
of the air.
Many physicians in Russia only
charge fifteen cents for a consultation,
and although their number is small,
suicides are frequent among them,
the cause being inability to inak a
living.
At a recent meeting of one of Ilia
large Knglisti insurance companies it
was shown that S600.000 had been
paid out for deaths due to influenza.
There are some vegetables tbatcan
scarcely be distinguished from ani
mals, and some animals tbat seem to
have all the characteristics of vege
tables.
Two mischievous boys in
Me., touched a match to a
Haskell,
squirrels
tail to see if it would burn. The animal
ran under a house, and the blazing tail
get it on tire.
You should cultivate not only tbe
habit of telling the truth, but the for
bearance to bear it.
The man who broods oyer imaginary
wrongs is upt to hatch some not
imaginary.
A. pure heart with little or no income
a far better than a broken heart with
big bank dividends.
We would talk less about others, if
wo would first do more thinking abont
onrselves,
Dju't brag. Your life may have
been blameless, but have you no eons,
daughters, or kin who may yet disgrace
you.
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