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MORSE, Subject: Secret of Happiness. Brooklyn, N. Y.—In the Strong Place Baptist Church the pastor, the Rev. Alfred H. A. Morse, Spoke Sunday on “The Secret of Happiness.” He said: There are two hidden hands, con- trolled by the same intelligence, which are constantly working upon the hu- man heart. And these are pain and pleasure. Man was made to be happy. If sometimes he must eat the bread of sorrow it is because, as Mr. Beecher said, “Sorrow is medicine.” Joy is more divine than sorrow, and does not belong only to these passing days, but shall remain with us when all tears are dried and sorrow is swept forever from the universe, Now, joy may be divided into three classes. There is the joy of appetite, a merely animal condition. It comes from the fitting of a goodly organism into circumstances which are suited to supply its need. This is the joy that makes the ehild skip and play and fill the home with laughter. It is the joy of the singing bird. It is simply pleas- ure. But we are not always children. We grow and come into the place of work and responsibility. And here also is Joy, and this we may’ call happiness. An earnest man finds joy in his em- ployment. The lawyer and doctor and teacher enjoy their professions. The minister enjoys to preach. The mer- chant enjoys his business, and the me- chanic his shop in spite of all its toil. This is joy, but it is the joy of the bee that gathers the honey and stores it away ‘against the needs of a hungry winter, There is the joy of living, and there is the joy of working. These are ali that many a man attains. But it takes a higher joy than these to fill the soul of man, as the sunlight fills the sky, or the ocean fills the deep. There is a joy that is known as “blessedness,’” which arches these as the heavens span the sea. It'is the joy of love, the joy of faith, the joy of a good conscience, the Joy of doing right for the sake of right, the joy of sacrifice and of service. These are so far above the others that they belong to another kingdom whose law is obedience, whose joy is right- eousness, whose fellowship is with «God, and whose entrance is by means of a birth from above. And into this kingdom there are eertain well defined steps. “Happy,” said Jesus, “are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” And poverty of spirit is na- kedness of soul before God. He is happy who throws aside his own rags of righteousness and going to God says, “Clothe me, for I am naked; feed me, for I am hungry; guide me, for I am ignorant; put Thine arms under me, for I am weak.” As in the mountain passes of the West the traveler holds up his hands before the bandit, so in the presence of God’s righteousness the soul must throw up its hands and sur- render to God. Blessed are the poor in spirit, the consciously bankrupt in the ’ - presence of God. So long as the young- er son remained in the far off land, so long as he was satisfied with the husks from the troughs of the swine, so long as he wanted nothing, the father might mourn, but there was nothing for him to do. But when that son threw him- _self upon his father’s love and said, “I have sinned, and you see my want,” then the father could clothe and feed and kiss; place sandals upon his feet and give him the place of the son. Does a prodigal soul wish for happi- ness? I know of no chance for him till he fling away his sin and standing in his naked need acknowledges his pov- erty of soul. The happiest moment in the prodigal’s experience was when he buried his face in his father’s shoulder and said, “I have sinned.” The hap- piest man at the temple gate was he who smote his breast and without so much as lifting his eyes, said, “God be merciful to.me the sinner.” Happy are they who mourn for sin. It is not enough to be ashamed of it, but there must be an actual scrrow therefor. This does not mean to mourn for its consequences, mor for its pub- licity, nor for the misery it entails. Sin is more than a blunder which one may regret. It is more than.a mistake which one would try to repair. It is open and flagrant and defiant rebellion. ‘When a man mourns this, then God filings above him His smile as the rain- bow spanned the flood, and he “shall be comforted.” Happy are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. -But who are the meek? They who obey the law. Moses has passed-into history as the meekest of men. But Moses bent the neck of his manhood to law, and maybe that is the reason that to this day our best in- stitutions are. all to be traced to the legislation in the wilderness. Only once did Moseslose his meekness, when with an angry frown he smote the rock. That shattered his meekness into a thousand picces, and he lost the promised land. He did not inherit the earth. Jesus was the meekest man, and He has flung out.His challenge for the world to come to Him. He was meek, for He was obedient, even to the place of death. Happy are the hungry. thirst are spurs which are driven into men to drive ahead. When men are huery they struggle, and there is hope for a nation when times are hard. But when men and nations are filled, they lie down to sleep and rise up to play... When a man is idle his.arm grows weak with disuse. Hunger and thirst are spurs to activity. But the noblest hunger is the hunger for right- ness, for that is The meaning of “rizht- eousness:” To seek God and His righteousness is to seek for God and His rightness. A man whose" soul is famished with this consuming desire may well be happy, “for he shall be filled.” Happy are the merciful. But mercy does not always mean leniency. When a man is eonvicted of some gross crime it is no mercyeto let him go to do the same crime again. Mercy sometimes exacts an awful penalty, for mercy is a prerogative of righteousness, and mercy belongs to God. The man stand- ing beside God, poer in spirit, mourn- ing his sin, hungry for righteousness, is merciful, and mercy .comes 3g him. “He shall receive mercy.” Happy are the pure in heart. But what does this mean? Who of us is | Hunger and" "self, absolute sincerity, ind pure? It means to be single in pur- pose. The diamond must be of “the first water” if it is to flash the light. The man must'be single in purpose if he is to see God. The double-minded man can never see the vision of Him whose countenance is as the sun shin- ing in his strength; for his vision is broken and disturbed, like the waves of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. Ah! I love the sea. I've watched it on a windy day, and heard it weep and moan and sob, and breathe out its anger in an awful curse. I've seen the waves rise buffeted and beat- en, now backward, now forward, till its face was white with rage, but its heart was black as death. I've seen it reel and toss, till at last sobbing as though its heart would break, it would burst into a myriad briny tears upon the shore and pour from its wretched bosom the seaweed and driftwood and filth it has gathered in the journey. That wave never saw the sun. But I've looked again. The sea was like a mirror, as clear as crystal, I could see he pearly pebbles, and there in its heart I could see the sun. The pure- hearted waters lay all day long and looked into the face of the sun. Hap- py, blessed are the pure, the single in heart, “for they shall see God.” ‘The man who has a supreme desire to please God, he is pure. He may have temptation, he may stumble, he may fall, but he rises again, and he is farther ahead. I shame to confess it, but I once played football, the barbar- ism of college. I've seen a man fall and slide four times as far as he could go without falling. He's a pure man, though his clothes are covered with grime. The man who is pure in heart shall see Him that is invisible. The man who serves God shall see Him. Happy are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. God is a peacemaker, and hath recon- ciled all things unto Himself. And now the man who makes peace :shall be called His son. He has passed through the school, and has learned poverty and mourning and mercy and singleness of heart, and now he is taken into the family of God as Moses was taken into thie family of Pharaoh’s daughter. There is one other “blessed” spoken by Jesus. It is found in the compara- tive form. “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” It makes more for happiness to give than to get. When self is the centre there is no happiness. But when self is forgotten there is hap- piness - at its. height. When a man knows he has nerves he cannot be happy. Mr. Rockefeller thinks that happiness can be ruined by a sensitive stomach. The happy man is he who not knowing that he has nerves or stomach cares for the other man. This is the call to self-sacrifice. How utterly intolerable this world would be if every one lived for himself. Happily this cannot be, and the altruism lies at the bottom of family and social life. But there are different kinds of sacri- fice. There is the sacrifice of self to self, of the lower to the higher. of the passion to principle. There is the sac- rifice of self for others, and there is the highest sacrifice, that is, of self to God. Do we talk of joy in these things? Most people think of them as a disagreeable sort of necessity. May- be we see that this necessity serves a useful end. But to rejoice in them! To take up our sacrifice with a song, that seems out of the question. That is the dream of the poet. Giving is blessed, because it is most like Ged. He has need of nothing but Just to give. The glory of the gospel is a happy God, but He gave His Son. He might have stripped heaven of its angels and it would not have impover- ished Him. The only gift that He could feel was the gift of His Son. And that was what made Him happy. God Himself could not be happy if He had withholden this greatest gift. That was the law which Jesus de- clared. It makes more for happiness to give than to get. The whole life of Jesus was giving, but the happiest mo- ment was that last, when He said: “Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit,” and He had given His life for a ransom, In these simple words, then, I find the whole philosophy of salvation, of happiness and of heaven. If a man mourn for his sin, he shall be com- forted and an infinite peace shall dry his tears. If a man hunger for right ness, he shall be filled. If he strive to serve God with a single heart, he shall see. Him. If He do the work of God and live at peace, he shall be called the child of God, and if he seek for chances to pour out his life in service, he shall find heaven about him on every side. And this is the secret of happiness. ee A Life of Seif-Abnegation. The Rev. Dr. Josiah Strong draws this picture of the blessedness of seli- sacrifice. He says: “The life of self- abnegation does not attract you. A cathedral window seen from without is dull and meaningless. But enter, and the light of Heaven, streaming through it, glorifies it with covery beauty of form and color. Consecga- tion to God for service may seem ‘dull enough when seen from without; but enter into-that experience, and the light of the divine love, streaming through it, shall glorify your life with beauty and blessedness which are Heaven's own.” The Way We Do Things. Rev. F. B. Meyer says: “Knitting needles are cheap and common enough. but on them may be wrought the fair est designs in the richest wools. So the incidents of daily life may be com- monplace in the extreme, but on them as the material foundation we may build the unseen but everlasting fab- ric of a noble and beautiful character. It does not so much matter what we do, but the way in which we do it "matters greatly.” Four Good Rules. General Gordon, the hero ef China and likewise of Khartum, based his life upon four rules: Forgetfulness ot ifference to the world’s judgments, absorption in the wiil of God. These four rules abide as guide-posts on the path to great ness, but the greatest of these is sur render to the will of God.—Pacifie Baptist. Not the Attituds. S are necessary in and Reverent ¢ worship, but it is the ‘reveren not the attitude in which the resides. Our hearts must be r Sunday-School Times, ] with 212 battleships. NY Early Marriage and . +. Divorce. .. : Girls Should Not Become Wives Till 3 They Are 25. By “0. F. M.,” a Brooklyn Physician. pos en xr MONG the many causes given for increase of divorce there are several not mentioned. First—Boys and girls read novels and love stories when they are mere children. They begin to look about for their mates; soon two think themselves in love and decide to marry. Opposition only increases their determination, so they slip off to a clergyman’s house, tell him whatever they choose— : . perhaps he rises from his bed to see them. He doesn’t use his eyes or common sense, forgets the dignity of his calling and destiny of these two children—she may be 16, he 20—and this unwise man ties the fatal knot. It should be a penal offense for any one thus to seal the destinies of two such for all time. No woman or man should marry before 25. They are not mature enough before this for the serious and perplexing duties which follow marriage. The vast majority of people find many of these duties very irk- some. If the especial marriage relations could be conducted on a pure, high and moral plane, the greatest cause of friction and disgust would be less. As long as these relations are conducted on a purely animal basis both are degraded. As long as the man thinks he owns this woman’s soul and body, disregarding motherhood and its requirements, thinkigey only of himself and his supposed needs, so long will there be friction, disitke, even hatred of each other. Woman has been man’s slave since time began. If she is not a good cook all her other virtues seem small. All over the country women are slaves today, first to husbands, then to their children and the home. No time even to think of other things. Women are the heroes of the world, as well as'the mothers, and the sunshine. They pour their whele lives out for those they love, usually with scant appreciation. God bless all these women! I hail the day when these educated, strong, wise, self-reliant women will control and guide the coming generations. Where these grand, good girls are to find husbands they can re- spect is a problem, if the boys continue to smoke, drink, visit places they don’t want their women friends to know about and spend their time in games and sports, not to mention the worst ones. Unless they begin to give up all these demoralizing pursuits and cul{ivate their best natures, there would be few I should be willing my daughter should marry. When that time comes, as it will, the community will demand a higher manhood. Then there will be happier homes and fewer divorces. { ; & defeteetololeloglotoieielotgefoloielefelofelolot yn “ Janctity of Home Life } By President Theodore Roosevelt, (From an Address Before the Interchurch Conference on Marriage 3 and Divorce.) ¥; HERE is a certain tendency to exalt the unessential in deal- ing with our public questions, and public men especially are apt to get their attention concentrated on questions that have no importance; but are wholly ephemeral dompared with the questions that go straight to the root of things. Ques- tions like the tariff and the currency are of literally no con- quence whatsoever compared with the vital question of having the unit of our social life, the home, preserved. It is impossible to overstate the importance of the cause you represent. If the average husband and wife fulfil their duties toward one another and toward their children as Christianity teaches them, then we may rest absolutely sure that the other problems will solve themselves, but if we have solved every other problem in the wisest possible way, it shall profit us nothing if we have lost our own national soul, and we will have lost it if we do not have the question of relations of the family put upon the proper basis. While I do not know exactly what you wish me to do, I can say that so far as in me lies, everything will be done to co-operate with you toward the end that you have ’in view. One of the most unpleasant and dangerous features of our family life is the diminishing birth rate and the loosening of the marriage tie among the old native American families. It goes without saying that for the race as for the individual no material prosperity, no business growth, no artistic or scientific development will count if the race commits suicide. Therefore I count myself fortunate in having the chance to work with you in this matter of vital importance to the national welfare. in a rent The Desert Transformed By French Strother. HIRTY-TWO years ago there was but one house in the town of Fresno, in the central desert of California. A hole was dug under it, forty feet deep, into which the inmates lowered lowered themselves by a bucket and a windlass, to escape the heat of the day. Around it, as far as the eye could see, stretched the glaring desert, unbroken by any cultivated spot of green. : Today this spot is the centre of a cheerful community of 8,000 homes in a land made fertile by irrigation. Ten thous- and children attend its public schools. The industries there yield $14,000,000 annually. The raisin crop of 1902 put into the farmers’ bank accounts $2,300,- 000. All the raisins’ imported into the United States in 1902 amounted in value to only $400,000. In 1902 the oil wells of Fresno County yielded 570,000 barrels of crude petroleum, worth $200,000 before refining. Eighty-nine thous- and head of cattle graze on its rich alfalfa. When a few straggling fortune-hunters came to the county late in the six- ties they were welcomed by this sign hung over Fresno’s one building: “Bring your horses. Water, one bit; water and feet, three bits.” Fresno was a “wat- ering station” only. In 1872, however, Mr. M. J. Church conveived the idea of bringing water in ditches from King’s River, twenty miles away, to irrigate the land. His proposal was laughed at as a dreamer’s scheme. But persistence won; in 1876 he had water on land within three miles of the town of Fresno, and the first year’s crop proved the scil to be fertile. The area of watered ground was rapidly extended. Today there are 360,000 acres under irrigation —World’s Work. To s¥e +% A Ye ses es¥e 3% 33 oF A at a Tes hcSacs The Need for Navies By Lieut. Carlyon Bellairs, of the British Navy. SHADE EO POP OVOOVP HAT mere populaticn and riches are no match in war against much careful organization, we have seen in the case of Rus- sia. Tt is only the knowledge that the sea-barrier is impen- etrable which will effectually prevent the expanding Teu- tonie, Slavonic, and Latin races of Europe from contemplat- ing aggression on the American continent. If unable to do singly, nothing but sea-power will prevent them from trying to effect their purpose in combination. They have combined in the past for the partition of Poland. By the Russian dec- laration of February 26, 1780, Russia, France, Spain, Holland, Prussia, Swe- den, and Denmark combined to res the right of search, and the same pow- ers were acting together against Great Britain over this question in 1800. In 1807 Great Britain had to break Napoleon's compulsory alliance, framed by the treaty of Tilsit, by seizing eighteen Danish and eight Portuguese battle- ships, and by blockading the Russian battleships. Thus a fresh union of over 140 battle-ships was nipped in the bud; but such decisive action could not have been taken had not Grest Britain been in the plenitude of her naval strength We learn that, wi n a period of twenty-seven years, e European alliances o e or more great powers agains* and all were broken up by the operation of sea-power. SLES RB TOPCO E OOLAALLS VV oOVe Oo OlLL AH TOOPYYLe ve @ LOLA POPP OOOe } there were tl Great Britain, WHALE FISHERY TODAY IT HAS GONE THROUGH A RE- MARKABLE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS. There are few Industries Which Have Had to Withstand More Severe Blows—It May Be Said That Whal- ing Is Neither Dying Nor Reviving. This is the season for the floating paragraph about a forthcoming great revival] in the old-time whaling in- dustry. And almost every year some facts can be pointed te in support of such provhecies. At the close of 1903, for instance, it was announced with entire accuracy that no vessels in the whole history of whaling had ever taken ‘so many whales in one season as the four steamers then en- gaged on the Labrador and Newfound- land coasts. In connection with well- authenticted reports of sale of whale- bone at prices beyond all precedent, a pretty .general impression got about that great things were being accom- plished, The fallacy of such assumption lies in the fact that there is not one whale fishery, but many; and some go up while others go down. The whales caught in such abundance off New- foundland, for instance, were not of the kind which yielded the $7.50 whalebone. In the Arctic ocean. this same season was the worst known in the fifty-five vears since those waters were first entered by whaling ships. In 1904 the conditions were reversed; the’ Newfoundland fishery. was in straits, while the vessels in the Arctic had a'reasonably good year. It can hardly be said, as a general proposi- tion, that whaling is either dying or reviving, but it has ‘gone through a remarkable evolutionary process, some stages of which have been not- ed within a very few years. There are few industries which have had to withstand more severe blows. In the great days of Nan- | tucket and New Bedford the captains cruised primarily for oil. The intro- duction of mineral oils for illuminat- ing purposes destroyed in a few years the most important demand for this commodity. For other purposes it has had also to meet the.competition of a large variety of fish and other oils. This year’s average price for sperm oil, as given by the Whale- men’s Shipning List, is less than one- fourth what it was forty years ago, while that of whale oil is about a third of what it then was. As a re- sult of these conditions, the pursuit of the sperm whale somewhat slackened, and the fish commission’s experts be- lieve that its numbers are now actual- ly increasing. But the price of whalebone meanwhile continued to mount. ‘Thus, though the bowhead and right-whales which yield the bone have steadily thinned in numbers, the price to be obtained from the prod- ucts of one carcass is larger than ever. While the whalebone of a right whale might be worth $1200 or so in 1860, it is worth nearer $8000 today. For all the decline, there are still great prizes for a successful cruise. This year the fleets of New Bed- ford, Provincetown,” and San Fran- cisco killed. between them. 52 bow- heads and 15 right-whales, as against 21 bowheads ard 5 right-whales in 1903. The vessels in the Atlantic av- eraged 700 barrels of sperm cil, as against 620 barrels last year. One bark, the first in many years to cruise in the Indian ocean, secured a thou- sand barrels in six months. As an index of the status of the industry at these three ports, it may be stated that the tonnage today—25 shins and barks, one brig and 16 schooners—is about one twenty-fifth what it was in 1846, the highest year; the imports of whale oil are about one-eleventh what they were then, those of sperm oil one-seventh, and of bone one- twenty-eighth. But within the past five years the law of diminishing returns has oper- ated in the development of an entire- ly new branch of the industry. The rorquals or furrowed whales, which are comparatively abundant off Lab- rador and Newfoundland, were for- merly despised by the whaling cap- tains as they yield only short whale- bone of inferior quality. But now, in- stead of trying out the oil on ship- board after the old fashion, and throw- ing away everything else, the new- foundland whalemen tow each carcass ashore to actories, where it is utilized almost as completely as that of a steer at the stockvards. Not merely the oil, but cuantities of valuable fer- tilizer are obtained. and in the last year or two a process has even been invented for using the choicer parts off the flesh for human consumption. Whale meat in this form does not pre- tend to be a rival of fresh meat, but it is honed that a market can be found for it in some of the South American countries, where it com- petes with jerked beef. The pioneer whale factories were immensely profitable, but last year the development seems to have been | abnormal. In 1903, there were only four steamers employed in this fish- ery, and they made the record catch already referred to of 859 whales, or an average of 215 apiece. vear, seven steamers were added to the fleet, and while they increased the catch to 1270, the average was only 115 per vessel. Th fact, combined with unfavorable m conditions, made the vear such xd one that, according to the Fishing Gazette, only three of the fourteen factories have paid dividends. as whaling was carried on i ected other in- business pos- remote seas, 1t a as little as a could. But it st has br Last | lieve and are vehement in asserting that the slaughter of the whales will result in destroying the supply of bait for the cod fisheries. The whales, they say, drive the schools of caplin and herring, which would otherwise be out of reach in the open sea, into waters where they can be caught. Scientists have given little credit to this theory; but in Norway the influ- ence of the fishermen has been power- ful enough to secure the prohibition of similar whale fisheries for a period of ten years. In Canada, Sir Robert Thoburn is one of the most recent converts to the view that whales are essential to the success of the cod fisheries. Thus the whale, remorse- lessly pursued for centuries, has at last lobbyists working in his behalf.— New York Post. FAMILIES OF OLDEN DAYS. Often Remarkably Large According to the Authentic Records. The north of England seems to be a fertile soil for large families, for in 1797 we read of a Cumberland man and his wife, accompanied by 30 of their children, all attending the christ- ening of the 31st child, and in earlier years another north countryman, Thomas Greenhill, applied to the then Duke of Norfolk, earl marshal, for an augmentation to his coat of arms on the singular ground that he was “the seventh son and the thirty-ninth child of one father ard one mother.” In Conway churchyard there was to be seen—it can scarcely be there to- day—a tombstone bearing the follow- ing remarkable epitaph: “Here lyeth the body of Nicholas ‘Hocker of Con- way, gentleman, who was the forty- first child of his father, William Hock- er, by Alice, his wife and the father of twenty-seven children, 1637.” If a man’s family be considered as including all his descendents that of Peter Smitn, who flourished in New Jersey in the seventeenth century, is entitled to a high place of honor, for "at a recent annual gathering of Peter’s progeny no fewer than 7000 met and dined together under the apple trees in the orchard attached to the ances- tral homestead. In families it is not an unknown thing for one child to be old enough to have a sister or brother young enough to be his or her great-grand- child. Thus the eldest son of Thomas Beatty of Drumcondra had passed his 73d birthday when his youngest broth- er qualified for the cradle. When Wm. Frost of Galphay, near Ripon, died in 1898 his eldest child was a sturdy boy of 88 summers and his youngest was barely 16, and the Lady Powerscourt of today is half a century older than her latest brother. There are cases on record where a century or more has divided the wed- ding days of father and son. The first earl of Leicester was first married in 1775, and his son led his second wife to the altar in August, 1875; while Capt. Francis Maude, who was married on June 28, 1849, was following the example of his father, Lord Hawarden, had set him 93 years earlier, in 1756. But both these cases are quite eclipsed by that of Gen. G. Stevenson of Bristol, who was united to his third wife in 1834 at the age of 82 and whose father was first wed in 1704, the year of Blenheim. This seeming impossibility is accounted for by the fact, his fath- er who was born in 1680 was married for the third time at the age of 70, and the general was the son of this late union. Thus we get the remarkable result of a man whose father was born in Charles II's reign wooing and wed- ding within the memory of many peo- ple still living.—Tit-Bits. The Man Who “Made” Mark Hanna. The man who really made Mark Hanna a United States senator is to have a fat consulship, where the pay amounts to several thousands annual- ly. His name is D, Lynn Rodgers, his home is Columbus, Ohio, and he is a newspaper man. Both the Buckeye senators have indorsed him, and this is said to have assured him the con- sulship at Shanghai, China, to suc- ceed John Goodnow of Minnesota. Rodgers used to be on McKinley's staff when the latter was governor of Ohio. Subsequently, he became pri- vate secretary to Governor Bushnell. On the selection of John Sherman to be gecretary of state the strife in Ohio for the senatorship was brisk. Although the appointment of Hanna was supposed to be certain, that he might be rewarded for his great ser- vices in the 1896 campaign, Governor Bushnell was at times minded to name Charles L. Kurtz, then a Re- publican luminary of the first magni- tude in Ohio. Ultimately, Governor Bushnell decided to appoint Mark Hanna, who had, of course, to make his big fight before the Ohio senate later on. The party historians around Columbus say that Rodgers was the man who persuaded the governor to decide in Hanna's favor.—Washington Post. Two Wise Reflections. If it be my lot to crawl, I will crawl contented! if to Ay, 1 will fly with alacrity; but as long as I can possibly avoid it I will never be unhappy. If | with a pleasant wife, three children | and many friends who wish me well | me is of v | I cannot be happy, I am a very silly, and what becomes of little consequence. —L.et- ter by Sydney Smith. Indifference may not foolish fell wreck the | man’s life at any one turn, but it will | destroy him with a kind of dry rot in To keep your mind al- up is to be dull and fos- not to be able to make it ur is to be watery and supine. —Bliss ‘arman’s © “Frierdghip of Art.”
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