Huntingdon journal. (Huntingdon, Pa.) 1843-1859, April 07, 1858, Image 1
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We would remind the Advertising com munity and all others who wish to bring their business exten s ively before the pub lic, that the Journal has the largest cir- • culation of any paper in the county—that it is a instantly increasing;—and that it goes into the hands of our wealthiest citi zens. We would also state that nor facilities (or executing all kinds of JOB PRINT ING are equal to those of any other office inthe county; and all Job Work entrus. ed to our hands will be done neatly, promptly, and at prices which will be satisfactory. Pistorical aiketc4. THE CATACOMBS OF ROME. (Continued.) Vix lama notn est, nlalitis Qunm plena snnetis Roma sit; Quan; dives minimum solum Sacris sepulehris (lomat. PRuumnus. Mille viltoriocc c cliiaroyalme i'munen, The results of the investigations in the catacombs during the last three or four years have well rewarded the zeal of the it explorers. Since the great work of the French government was published, in 1851-55, very curious and important discoveries have been made, and many new minor facts brought to light. The interest in the investigations has become more general, and no visit to Rome is now complete without a visit to one at least of the catacombs. Strangely enough, how ever, the Romans themselves, for the most part, feel less concern in these new revelations of their underground city than the !rangers who come from year to year to make their pilgrimages to Rome, It is an old complaint, that the Ro7tans care ittle for their city. 'Who are there to day,' says Petrarch. in one of his letters, 'more ignorant of Roman things than the Roman citizens 1 And nowhere is Rome less known than in Rome itself.' It is, however, to the Cavuliere de Rossi, him self a Roman, that the most important of those discoveries are due.—the result of marvelous learning and sagacity, and of his hard working and unwearied ener gy. The disavery of the ancient en trance to the Catacombs of St. Calixtus, and of the chapel within, where St. Ce cilia was originally buried, is a piece •of the very romance of Archaeology. The whole history of St. Cecilia, the glorious Virgin Martyr end the Saint of Music, as connected with the catacombs, is, indeed, one of the most curious to be found in the annals of the Church. Legend and fact are strangely mingled in it, and over it hangs a perplexing mist of doubt, but not so dense as wholly to conceal all certain• ty. It is a story or suffering, of piety, of enthusiasm, of superstition, and of sci once;—it connects itself in many points 'vith the progress of corruption in the ;hurch, and it has been a favorite subject for Art in all ages. The story Is at last finished. Begun sixteen hundred years ago, it bps just reached its last chapter. In order to understand it, we must go back almost to its introduction. According to the legend of the Roman _ _ 'huroh, as preserved in the 'Acts of St. I this young and beautiful saint ,as martyred in the year of our Lord ntirtt 280.* She heti devoted herself to per- ,es of many new martyrs, were now less petual virginity; but her parents had in used for the purposes of burial, and more sisteci upon marrying her to a youthful for those of worship. New chapels were and noble Roman, named Valerian. On hollowed out in their avails; new paint the night of her marriage. she succeeded ings adorned the brown rock; th • bodies in so far prevailing upon her husband as of martyrs were often removed from their to induce him to visit the pope. Urban, original graves to new and mare elabo who was lying concealed from his perse- fate tombs; the entrances to the cemeter cutors in the catacombs which were called ies were no longer concealed, but new and after and still bear the name of his prede- ampler ones were made; sew stairway., cesarr, Callixtus, on the Appian Way, lined with marble, led down to the streets about two miles from the present avails of beneath; htminaria, or passages for light the city. the young man was converted and air, were opened from the surface of to the Christian faith. The next day the ground to the most frequented places; witnessed the conversion of his brother, and at almost every entrance a church or Tiburtius. Their lives soon gave evi- an oratory of more or less size was built, donee of the change in their religion; they for the shelter of those who might as• were brought before the perfect, and, re• semble to go down into the catacombs, fusing to sacrifice to the heathen gods, and for the performance of the sacred see. were condemned to death. Maximus, an vices upon ground hallowed by so many officer of the perfect, was converted by sacred memories. The worship of the the young men on the way to execution. saints began to take form, at first, in sim- They suffered depth with constancy, and pie, natural, and pious ways, in the fourth Mnxiinus soon underwent the same fate. century; and as it grew stronger and Nor was Cecilia long spared. The pre• stronger with the continually increasing feet crdered that she should be put to predominance of the material element in death in her own house, by being stifled the Roman Church, so the catacombs, the in the caldarium. or hot air chamber of burial places of the saints, were more and her bathe. The order was obeyed, and I more visited by those who desired the Cecilia entered the place of death; but a protection or the intercession of their oc. heavenly air and cooling dews filled the cupants. St. Jerome, who was born a chamber, and the fire built up around it j boat this time in Rome, [A. D 881,] produced no effect. For a whole day and has a curious passage concerning his own itie,h. the flames were kept up, but the I experiences in the catacombs, Ile soya: Saint was unharmed. 'Then Almachms .When I was a boy at Rome, being sent an order that she could be beheaded. Instructed in liberal studies, I was accus. The executioner strucic her neck three tomed, with others oh' the same age and times with his sword, and left her bleed. disposition e to go on Sundays to the tombs ing, but not dead, upon the pavement of of the npos:les and martyrs, and often to the bath room. For three days she li. g, into the crypts, which, being dug out lA, attended by faithful friends. who e in the depths of the earth, have for avails, hearts were cheered by her courageous on either side of those who enter, the bod i constancy; 'for she did not cease is com.es of the buried; and they are so dark. dint the saying of the prophet seems al . tort those whom she had nurtured in the faith of the Lord, and divided among most fulfilled. The living descend into them everything which she had.' To hell.' But as the chapels and sacred Pope Urban, who visited her as she lay tombs in the catacombs became thus more dying, she left in charge the poor whom and more resorted to as places for worship, she had cared for, and her house, that, it the number of burials within them was might be consecrated as a church. With continually growing less,—and the change this her life ended. Her wasted body in the spirit of the religion Wes marked by was reverently lifted, its position undis• the change of character in the paintings igrl,i' o rd o i-,;;; L jae-,,-.51, o f e ' y pr,:ss IllAd-frtf Tt* amt cie . ntiiry tat:: extension wood. The linen cloths with which the of the catacombs bad ceased, and nearly blood of the Martyr had been soaked up about the same time the assemblies in were pla ed at her feet, with that care them fell off. The desolation of the Cam that no precious drop should be lost,—a ' 'inns hnd already begun;' Rome had care, of which many evidences are afford sunk rapidly; and the churches and bur. ed in the catacombs. In the night, the id i.lacea within the walls afforded all the coffin was carried out of the city secretly space that was needed for the assemblies to the Cemetery of Calixtus, and there de• i of the living or the dead. b e con posited by Urban in a grave near to a! ( T o timed.) chamber destined for the graves of the Front Hall's Journal of Health, popes themselves. Here the 'Acts of St. I "Hub He Shipmate !" Passing along l3ro.id wily some dine ago Cecilia' close, and, leaving her pure body to repose for centuries in its tomb hol. a vehicle was obstructed by some slight obstacle, and the horses were not able to lowed out of the rock, we trace the history of the catacombs during those centuries ,tort it; the driver saw at once that but a in other sources and by other ways very fit's aid was needed. and, turning to The consequences of the conversion of another Jehu who was coming behind him said,.Hab Me Shipmate!' The other Constantine exhibi , ed themselves not more in the internal character and spirit saw as instantly what was reduired, and, without a momment's hesitation or stop, of the Church than in its outward forms tilled his own horses as to make the and arrangements. The period of world hub of hi own carriage strike li htl a ly prosperity succeeded .speedily to a pe that of b o t h had the other, and each giving riod of severest suffering, and matte who their animals a touch of the whip, both had been exposed to the persecution ef Diocletian now rejoiced in the imperial carriages moved on almost as easily as if nothing had happened. How many times favor sheave to their religion. Such con_ trusts in life are not favorable to the growth in the great Broadway of life men !huh' dating of the finer spiritual qualities; and the sun- one another without incommo done, n them shine of state and court is not that which "Ayes ! A friendly act oblige is needed for quickening faith or develop- a tion incurred, some future act of kindness ing simplicity and purity of heart. Char provoked, at the expense of a word or only single moment's time ! The most of us Ft ches above ground could now be frequen regard verser led without risk, and mere the means by specimens omnibus of humanity t rough ; a bet ever since which the wealth and the piety of Chris the incident above related, we have seen tians were to be displayed. The newly a morel beauty in the odd expression, tmperialized religion must have its imp. .Hub Me Shipmate ! ' riot temples, and the little dark chapels When a man takes a newspaper or a of the catacombs Nero exchanged for the periodical, he usually beco mes . attach d vast and ornamental spaces of the new it; begins to think that its editor is his basilicas. It was no longer needful that the dead should be laid in the secret paths friend ; and as oft en as the publication the rock, and the luxury of magnificent comes, hede r I i ee . t ei he e w f o n rk ew oi e 't ee - Christian tombs began to rival that of the a d . " r u s s o in in g e interesting statementor some d rofitable idea me sepul c hres of the earlier Romans. The or suggestion This is repeated a dozen, body of St. Peter, which had long. accor. hundred's ding to popular tradition, reeled in the fifty or • which the dollar of times a year. for or two, or five, of sub. catncombs of the Vatican, was now trans scription price is not the shadow of a coin. (erred to the great basilica which Con- on singly Under the circumstan. stantine, despoiling for the purpose the pensa t ion ces, then. ave appeal to each reader of this tomb of Hadrian of its marbles, erected article in behalf of any publication which over the entrance to the underground he receives, to help it to a new subscriber cemetery. So, too, the Basilica of St. as often as an opp ortunity is afforded by a Paul, on the way to Ostia, was built over e single word ap p robation or solicitation. his ola grave; and the Catacombs of St. 'There are many persona who have the Agnes were marked by a beautiful church milk of human kindness in theta, that they in honor of the Saint, built in part beneath would take a paper rather than refuse ; the soil, that its pavement might be ou a and for that courtesy you have chances of level with the upper story of the caw doing them a cornice, just in that proper. combs and the faithful might enter them tion to the real worth of the publication from the church. commended. To each present subscriber The older catacombs, whose narrow of our Journal we venture the appeal graves had been filled during the last with some confidence :—.Hub Me Ship. quarter of the third century with the bod• " LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND NER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE. " HUNTINGDON,A., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1858. 4iaturn. RELIG; The Almighty we N has implanted in every man's breastteadfast faith in his eternal being, reigiower, and mer. cv. However our On may be wor shipped, or in whatevnanner we may show our love to Him r faith is the ac ting motive. Literallyeaking, we may define Religion as a item of Divine faith, but the practicitetinition of it is seen in the multiplicat of every enno bling action Virtue areligion are sy nonimous, for the tormcrinot exist with• How do you know but that she slapped his face for him I'—N. 0. Delta. Gentlemen hold your tongues. The cause of Jacob's weeping was the refusal of Rachael to allow him to kiss her again. —Flag. It is our opinion Jacob wept because he hadn't kissed Rachnel before, and regret. ted the time he had lost.—Age. Green—verdant, one and all of ye.— out the latter. But falsceas wry be en- The fellow boohooed because she did not tertained of both, It I been asserted i kiss him in return.—Manchester advo and believed, that religimade men glee. cafe. my and unsociable, and dered the exer• ' Pshaw ! one of you are judges of hu doe of many of the nottvirtues, but it is man nature. Rachnel was the first girl not so. Its vital prince, it rightly un . that Jacob ever kissed, and he got so shar derstood, unites with atilt is good with ed that his voice trembled, and tears came in us, and so far from °haring the lustre tickling down his cheeks.—Auburn Ad of the human characte it ennobles and vertlser. . . . heightens it, by impaug more of t h e Jacob was a man that labored in the Divine essence. field. When he kissed Racine], he had "Religion's sacreclmp alone, just returned from his labors and had not Unerring points ilivay ; washed his lips. After he had soiled 12a- Where happiness lever shines, chael's cheek, he wept for fear she would With unpolluted rt" No scrutinizing anabis of the under- think he was one of the .freesoilers.'—De standing, no nietaphyssi demonstration troit Free press. can, at all times, awaki. nourish or con- `No gentlemen not one of you are ear firm true religion. It 5 in the heart of m ade d has not. as mar other gifts, been rect. The reason why Jacob wept was dependent upon or frail powers . — because he feared Rachael would tell her ma d e mamma.—Jersey Telegraph. Pshaw ! You are all out. The reason Our wise Creator considred this toe sacred and sunk the seed, so i express it, deep Jacob wept was that Rachel would not in our inmost souls. I how that man has let him stop kissing her, when he once be thousands of times disrgarded or striven goo.—Penn. Register. against the monitions ofthe Spirit, which May be she bit him —Yazoo Whig. May it not be that it was his hrst unceasingly calls us t. "flee from the at wrath to come," or to , ioase to do evil and learn to do well," and tarn he has treated tempt at kissing ? If so, she ought to ' have bit him. Nansemond Fng. all holy teachings as Sat machinations of ' What a long list of innocents. We the crafty; but this tvaileth not. As we know see have tried it on. There were advance in civilization, doubts are scatter- ed away from us as chaff before the wind, no tears shed, and the good book does not and we know, and fed every day that we say there was. It was only his mouth that i watered, and the lifting up of his voice live that I forced it out of his eyes —Peoplee's Pa per. - - - .. "'TI4 R eligion that can give golid comfort when "Wis die."' Religion and government, says Blair. are the great foundations of order and coo• fort. The former strikes at the root of all our disorders, while the latter restrains crimes that would subvert society, protec• ring our property and lite. But ineffectu al, indeed, would all systems of legislation or rul .s of order be without the softening 4, I of religion, to mould the dispositions of teen, and check those passions over which the outworn law has no control. Here I must caution my friends of the danger of running into extremes. Unless the under standing is enlightened, our deeds or inch nations will be but partially affected. Su perstition and enthusiasm are the two greatest sources of delusion, the former urging to immoderate zeal in display of outward forms, and the latter directs our attention so exclusively to internal emo tions that it teaches selfishness. There is a certain temperature mean in the obser vance of which true piety consists—then let your light so shine before men, that tilt y may see yonr good works and glorify your Father which is id Heaven."—St. Matthew sth-16th. EDUCATOR. The City of Florence. There is touch in every way in the city of Florence to excite the• curiosity, to kin dle imagination, and to gratify the taste. Sheltered on the north by the vine clad hills of Fiesole, where Cyclopean walls carry back the antiquary to ages before the Roman, before the Etruscan power, the flowery city (Florenza) covers the sunny banks of the Arno with its stately palaces. Dark and frowning piles of medireval structure ; a majestic dome, the prototype of St. Peter's; basillicas which enshrine the ashes of souse of tne mightiest of the dead ; the stone here Danis stood to gaze on the campanile; the house sf Michael Angelo, still occupied by a descendant of his lineage—his hammer, his chisels, his divider' his manuscript poems, all as if he had left them but yesterday ; airy bridges which seem not so much to rest on the earth as to hover over the waters which they span ; the loveliest creations of an cient art, rescued from the grave of ages again to "enchant the world ;" the breath. ing marbles of Michael Angelo, the glow ing canvas of Raphael and titian muse-; ums filled with medals and coins of every age from Cyrus the younger, and gems and amulets and vases, front the sepulchres of Egyptian Pharoahs coeval with Joseph, and Etruscan Lucumons that swayed Italy before the Romans; libraries stored with the choicest texts of ancient literature ; gardens of rose mid orange and pomegran ate and myrtle ; the very air you breathe languid with music and perfume—such is Florence, 0 4.40 AA( 1 4 1 I / u 4 Why Did Jacob Weep . 'Jacob kissed Rachael and lifted up his voice and wept.'—Scripture. If Rachael was a pretty girl, and kept her face clean, we can't see that Jacob hod much to cry about.—New York Globe. cob cried was because be was Soft Jabo, National Democrat. Jacob wept ! Yes tears of joy ! well ho knew he might; while Rachel, beauty all confessed, stood 'fora his ravished sighs, Lou, Dem. We suspect ttat Jacob had a few blis ters on his lip, and that the concussion of the kiss hurt his mouth.—Kentucky Yen. man. If Jacob had only wept, without lifting up his voice, there would have been no mystery in it. If the above commenta tors had been raised in the country instead of cities they would recognize Jacob's conduct as they first desperate effort of a bashful swain, to , pop the question.'—Ex. That's not it either. Rachae: had been eating onions. Jacob perceived this, when he kissed her, and wept to think that she would indulge in such nasty things.—Bedford Gazette. We don't believe the lciss made Jaky cry at all. Guess Rachaal squeezed him so hard he was afraid to try it again.— The poor fell , w ought not to have minded that. Wonder llachael didn't cry too.— Huntingdon Journal. THE STOLEN KNIFE Many years ago, when a boy of seven or eight years, there was one thing which I longed for more than anything else, and which I imagined would make me su premely happy. It was a jack-knife.— Then I would not be obliged to borrow fa ther's every time I wished to cut a string or a stick, but could whittle whenever I noose and wherever I pleased. Dreams o f kites, bows and arrows, boats, &0., all manufactured with the aid of that shining blade, haunted me day and night. It was a beautiful warning in June, that my father called me, and gave me leave, if I wisbed, to go with Mini° the store. I was deligh , ed and taking his hand, we started. The birds sang sweetly on every bush, and ev rvthing looked so gay and beautiful, that my heart leaped for joy. Af- I ter our arrival at the village, rnd while my rather was engaged in purchasing some articles in a remote part of the store, my attention was drawn to a man who asking the price of various jack•knives which lay on the counter. As this was a very inter esttng subject to me, approached, intend ing only to look at them. I picked one up opened ,it. examinedit, tried the springs, felt the edge of the blades with my thumb and thought I could never cease admiring their polished surface. Oh I if it were only mine, thought I, how happy I should be ! Just at this moment happening to look up, I new that the merchantl had gone to change a bill for his customer, and no i one was observing me. For fear I might be tempted to do wrong I started to replace the knife on the counter, but an evil spirit whtspered, "Put it in your pocket, quick" Without stopping to think cf the crime or its consequences, I hurriedly slipped it in to my pocket, and as I did so, felt a b'ush of shame burning on my cheek; but the store was rather dark, and no one noticed it, nor did the merchaut miss the knife. We soon started for home, my giving me u parcel to carry. As we walked along my thoughts continually rested on the knife, and I kept my hand in my pocket all the time from a sort of guilty fear that it would be seen. This, together with currying the bundle in my other hand, made it difficult to keep pace with my fa ther. He noticed it, and gave men lecture about walking with my hands to my poc• ket3. Ah ! how different were my thoughts t hen, from what they were when passing the same scenes a few hours before. The song of" the hi do seemed joyous no longer, but sad and sorrowful, as if chiding me for my wicked net. I could not look my fath er in the face, for I had been heedless of his precepts, broken one of God's com mandments, and became a thief. As these thoughts passed through my mind, I could hardly help crying, but concealed my feel ings, and tried to think of the good times I would have with my knife. I could hard ly say anything on my way home, and my father thinking I was either tired or sick. kindly took my burden, and spoke sooth ingly_to me, his guilty son. No sooner did we reach h me, than I retreated to a safe place, behind the house, to try the sta. Sowing and Setting out Lettuce —As s len knife. I lied picked up a stick, anti soonas the weather is mild and tolerably was whittling it, perfectly delighted with and tolerably warm this month you may the sharp blade, which glided through the sow lettuce seed, and repeat the sowing wood almost of itself when suddenly I every two weeks during this and the sac. heard the deep, subdued voice of my fu- ceeding month. It you have lettuce titer, calling me by name, and on looking plants ready for setting out you may trans. up saw him at the window directly over plant them in a, warmly exposed border as soon as the ground is in a condition to my head, gazing down very sorrowfully at be well prepared for their reception. me. The stick dropped from my hand, and with the knife clasped in th other, I Sow Radish Seed and repeat the sow proceeded Into the house. I saw by his logs every two weeks thereafter during i ie. im .. ... . " directly to his side, —...". '."--N --•"".'"w 'vressuig ..aeparagus Hels. - -As coon as very pale. I walked the frost is out of the ground fork in some and in a low, calm voice, he asked me where I well:rotted horse-dung; this done, smooth I got the knife; His gente manner and 1 the bed with a rake and dust it over with salt Now plantations of asparagus may kind tone went to my heart, and I burst into tears, As soon as my voice would Ibe made as early this month as the ground is in a condition to be worked well. allow I made full confession. He did not flog me. as some father's would have Sowing Beet Seed.—As soon as the down, but reprimanded mo in such a man ner that, while I felt truly penitent for the deed I loved him more than ever, and prom- Ned never, never to do the like again. In my father's company I then returned to the store, and on my knees begged tho merchant's pardon and promised never again to take what was, not my own My father long since dead and never do I think of my first theft, without blessing the memory ofhim whose kind teachings and gentle corrections have made it, thus fur in my life, and forever, my last.— Moore; Rural New Yorker. Dlr"Have yon dined ?" said a lounger his friend. "I have, upon my honor," replied he. "Then," rejoined the first, "if you have dined upon your honor. I fear you have made but a scanty meal." Ce — We know an old lady, who, when 5 11 e alludes to the Mormons, always calls him—either unintentionally, or else by a curious jumble of ideas— , Mr. Bigamy Young." Write Written Eight. Write we know is written right, When we see it written write ; But when we see it written wright, We know it is not written right ; Fos write, to have it written right, Must not be written right or wright, Nor yet should it he written rite But write, for so 'tis written right. LOVE'S BEASON.—'Bridget,' said a la dy to her servant, Bridget Conley, 'who was that man you were talking with so long at the gate last night?' 'Sure, no one but my eldest brother ma'- am.' 'Your brother! I didn't know you had a brother. What is his name!' , Barney Octoolan. ma'am.' , Indeed how comes it that his name is nOt. the same as yours 1' 'Troth ma'am,' replied she, 'he's been marrind once.' yAn old bachelor remarks that "Ro mances generally end with a marriage ; and many young girls, when they leave school, would wish to go through the ro mance of life—as thoy do most romances by beginning at the end." 14; VOL. XX farmer Ilitw ..stut. He that by the plough would thrive, Ilimelf; mud either hold or drive." WORK IN THE GARDEN. As this month is to the judicious gar'• dener one of action, we will endeavor to point out how he may improve his time and forward his operations in the garden. Sowing Cabbage Seeds.—About this time cabbage seeds of various sorts may be sowed in a warmly situated border fa- cing the south, unless the season should be backward. Sow both early and late kinds, in order that you may have a regu lar succession of cabbages. Prepare the ground by manuring it, spading it deeply, and thoroughly pulverizing with the rake tlix each kind of seed with ashes, soon to enable you to sow them thinly. The seed being sown, sow ashes over them, rake the seed in and compress the earth around them by placing a board on the border and treading on it, or by patting the ground with the back, of a spade or shovel. la from six to eight weeks these plant will be fit for transplantation in the beds in the open ground for heading, should the sea son prove favorable. Planting Pats and Beans.—As early in this month as the ground from the ab sence of frost can be prepared to good con dition plant pens and beans ; and, to insure and to secure a continuous supply, plant more every two weeks during this and the next. it will not be novisoble to plant while the ground is tough and we;. When t he peas are about six inches high stick them. ground is in st condition to oo worked well drill in a few roots of beet seed. The red or blood beet is the best for garden or tablo Sowing Onion Seed.—ln order to have good well-sized onions from the seed this season, you should drill in the sceJ as ear• ly this month as the earth is in a condition to be well worked. Rhubarb or Pie Plant.— Earle this month is the time for setting out rhubarb plants and for sowing the seed. Gooseberries and Currants.—Theso should be pruned early this month and have a dressing of well rotted manure.— New plantations should be made early. Raspberries.—Prune and tie up your raspberry busher early this mouth. A FEW SHOW!' HINTS.--Cherry grafting should be done as early as pos. sible. Now is the time to stick your currant and Gooseberry cuttings, Take the last years growth, cut out all the buds buried in the enrth ; Insert Mx inches, leaves eigt or ten inches above ground. By this course you will have trees instead of bushes, beareing much more abundantly, fruit finer, and the stock prettier. Rake off carefully the top-dressing from the strawberry, asparagus, tulip, and flow er bed. Also take off the covering from the spinach bed. We have now spinach fit to eat. The early Pea should be in the ground by this time provided the weather contin ues warm. So with the lettuce in a warm border, Trim your Dwarf Pear Trees. We find it good policy to head them in pretty closely. Cut out all the dead woos, and a good' deal of the old wood of your Roses. The rose bears sharp pruning. Trim and tie up your Raspberries.— They should be trimmed in the fall unless laid down. Transplant your fruit and ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Vines now as rapidly as possible. The earlier they are in the better. IMF As a proof of the hardness of the times, there's a man in Ohio who only kills hills pig at I times