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Hall's Family Fills are the best.
Among the Siamese the curious cus
tom obtains of reversing the elbow
joint of the left arm as a sign of super
iority. The children of both sexes are
trained to reserve their elbow in this
painful position at an early age, if
their parents are persons of high
frrades.
To Care A Cold In One Day.
Take Laxativo Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
The last instance of boiling to death
took place in Persia in 1890. The of
fender, guilty of stealing State rev
enues, was put into a caldron of cold
water, which was slowly heated to the
boiling point. His bones were distrib
uted as a warning among the provis
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Chew Star Tobacco The Best.
Smoke Sledgo Cigarettes.
Before the reformation 50 per cent, of
the land in the United Kingdom be
longed to the Church.
Oh, What Splendid Coifee.
Mr. Goodman, Williams Co., 111.,
writes: "From one package Salzer's
German Coffee Berry costing -5c I grew
200 lbs. of better coffee than I can buy
In stores at 30 cents alb." A. C. 5.
A package of this coffee and big seed
and plant catalogue Is sent you by
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis., upon receipt of 16 cents stamps
and this notice.
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In Russia and Switzerland the Gov
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of spirituous liquors.
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Not an Ideal Place.
"No," said Wheeler, thoughtfully. "3
ran't cotton to the idea that heaven Is
A place where the streets are paved
with gold. I don't believe a fellow's
lires would stick worth a cent to O
etreet of that kind."— lndianapolis
Journal.
Sciatic
Rlieumaiism
" I havo been troubled with eolatlo rheu
matism and bnve been taking Hood's Bar
•aparllla. I Improved evory day nud now
•m as well as I ever was in my life. I fool
flvo years younger than I did beforo taking
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Hood'S Sarnie
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German "Bulla. 1 '
The Germans are about as brilliant lr
the use of the metaphors which oeca
glonally crop up In parliamentary as
eemblles as the French. Hero are somt
sentences reported by a German paper
which seems to show that forensic elo
qucnce Is much the same In all coun
tries: "With closed eyes you havt
watched the flood rising." "The peri
odienl sanitary reports are submitted
to us after a decade of three years."
"We do not bury the battle ax. Or
the contrary, we shall give it renewed
life." "I speak, not as a deputy, bui
as the person seat by my electors."
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A Bonefactrosi' Kind Act.
From the Evening News. Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. John Tan9ey, of 130 Baker Street,
Detroit, Michigan, is one of thoso women
who always know ju3t what to do in all
trouble and sickness. Cue that is a mother
to those in distress. To a reporter she saidr
"I am tho mother of ten children and
have ralsod eight of tliera. Koveral yoars
ago wo had a serious time with my daugh
ter, which began when she was about six
teen years old. She did not have any seri
ous illness but seemed to gradually waste
away. Having never Lad any consumption
in our family, as we come of good old Irish
and Scotch "stock, wo did not think it was
that. Our doctor called the disease by an
odd name, which, as I afterward learnod,
meant lack ol blood.
"It is impossible to describe the feeling
John and I had as we noticed our daughter
slowly pnsslng away from us. Wo dually
found, however, a medicine that seemed to
Most of the Time Phe TThs Confined to Bed.
help her, and from the first wo noticed n
decided change for the better, and after
1 three months' treatment her health was so
greatly improved you would not have re
cognized her. Hhe gained 111 llosli rapidly
and soon was in perfect health. The medi
cine used was Dr. Williams' Fink Fills for
Palo People. I have always kept these pills
in the house since and have recommended
them to many people. I have told many
mothers about them and they have effected
some wonderful cures.
"Every mother In this land should keep
these pills in the house, as they are good for
muuy ailments, particularly those arising
from impoverished or diseased blood, and
Weakened nerve force.
Pittsburg Improvements Completed.
The improvements that the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad have had under way
at Pittsburg for the past 15 months
have been completed with the excep
tion of a small amount of paving be
tween the tracks which will be done in
the Spring. The line now has splendid
terminals at that point and sullicient
trackage to handle the vast amount of
business with not only economy but
with celerity. The changes cost in the
neighborhood of $450,000 and consist of
a new yard at Glenwood (one of Pitts
burg's suburbs), a double track trestle
nearly two miles in length, the chang
ing of the line of road leading into the
passenger station and the building of
new freight yards near that point.
3lorc Weddings in the Country.
"It is a very noticeable fact," said
MaJ. Lusk, who Is authority on the
question with reference to Ilymen,
"that there are not as many city ehap9
getting married nowadays ns there are
country boys. In some instances the
country boy marries a city girl, but not
very often. The city boy seldom, If
ever, marries a country girl. Of course,
the city boy does not like to marry
wlicre there Is a disparity of minds,
for, as Dickens says, 'those people can
never live happy.' What do I think 1
the cause of It? Why, I think the coun
try boy Is more economical with the
money he earns tlinu the boy of the
city. lie can do better on $25 a month
than a boy reared in the eity can with
SSO. Then again, when the country boy
marries lie goes on a tract of land given
him by his father or bought with hard
earned money."-—Jefferson City Cou
rier.
Delicate Hint.
Deal ITole, In his "Little Tour in Ire
land," says that when one of his party
want a-ilshing, it was to come home in
triumph, bearing a glorious salmon, its
sliver scales glittering In tho sun. Nat
urally he was in good humor, and well
disposed to pay the fisherman who had
accompanied him. This was tho dia
logue as the two men stepped on shore:
"Boatman," said the happy tourist,
"how much Is the boat?"
"Sure, your honor, tho boat'll be in
the bill. Your honor'll give the boat
man what you please.",
"But what Is generally given?"
"Well, your honor, some'll give two
shillings, and some eighteen pince. A
tallor'd be for giving eighteen pince."
llow much the passenger gave is nol
known, but surely he was not inclined
to be classed with stay-at-home tailors,
not accustomed to "sport."
When it comes to an all-around game
of la ml grabbing the European powers
will find it difficult to prevent Great
Britain from taking a hand.. She llkoa
:i little game of that kind.
m af
Bunch all the worst pains In
a lump iike this s < i
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WHERE CELERY IS KING.
THE CITY OF KALAMAZOO ENJOYS A
UNIQUE DISTINCTION.
Raialiig and Celery Ilaa Heroine
Its Leading Industry—How Hutch
Immigrants Made Fortunes Out of Lands
That "Were Considered Worthless.
To the handsome eity of Kalamazoo,
Slich., writes a correspondent of the
Buffalo (N. Y.) Express, belongs the
honor of making smellage, a popular
table relish under the name of celery.
Celery, in turn, has made that city
famous as the celery gardens of the
world; in fact, Kalamazoo is now
called the Celery City. This city,
with its queer Indian name, was for
years made the target of funny stories
and minstrel eongs. Situated on the
bauks of the river of the same name,
the city extends back on the hills, and '
is acknowledged to be one of the hand
somest cities of its size in the United
States. The railroads enter Kala
mazoo along the river bottoms, which
extend for miles, and are the most
fertile lands north of the Ohio Kiver.
The soil is rich muck, and is from two
to eight feet deep.
A stranger entering the city by rail
can distinguish the peculiar odor of
celery gardens long beforo reaching
the town. During the growing season
it is a pretty scene, long rows of bright
green against a black background.
Not a weed or brush is to be seen.
Bill Nye said it reminded him of an
Irish woman's black dress trimmed
with green braid.
Celery, as a table delicacy, came in
to existence in this way: Among the
early settlers locating in Kalamazoo,
was a family direct from Holland,
named Blyker. Dem Blyker was its
head, and his father had accumulated
a fortune in the East India Company.
Other familiesfollowedand prospered,
and iinally quite a colony came over
of the poorer class. At this time the
Hats or river bottoms were considered
almost worthless lands, but were pre
ferred by the Holland emigrants.
Many little streams flow down the
hillside, and soon the lane near the
city was parceled and divided into
small plats, like the lowlands of the
Netherlands. It was just like home
for them, except that here they soon
could own their own farm. At first
onions and cabbage were raised and
shipped out to other cities. In 1878 a
gardener named Van Haaften, raised
some smellage, which grew so rapidly
on tho rich muck bottoms that he had
to draw the dirt up against it to keep
it standing. In the fall, when taken
out, it was found to be bleached white
and very brittle and palatable. A sam
ple box was sent to a Louisville hotel,
whioh bought his onions, for trial as
a table relish. Tho instructions wore
to eat it as you would radishes, with
salt, and it was called Kalamazoo cel
ery, instead of smellage. The new
relish met with favor at once, and Van
Haaften received orders for the rest of
his crop and orders for the noxt year.
Onions were that year an over-pro
duction, while the Kalamazoo celery
sold for seventy-five cents u dozen
stalks.
The next year the Vau Haaften fam
ily planted their ground to celery and
made a great deal of money. In fact,
they paid for the land and bought
more from their first year's sales. The
year following tho whole Holland pop
ulation on the flats began to plant cel
ery. Every leading hotel in the
United States was ordering celery,and
land that had sold for $lO to §2O an
acre increased tenfold.
Glen D. Stuart, a young business
man, formerly from New York, saw the
possibilities in celery and began busi
ness as a celery shipper and soon had
an immense trade. He was a clever
man, and bought whole gardens and
advanced money to new gardeners. In
less thau five years he was known as
the Celery King, and did a quarter of
a million dollars' worth of business
shipping celery during the year.
In thoso days celery brought a good
price, and every available foot of low
land was utilized. To-day it is esti
mated that over -1000 Hollanders are
actively ongaged in celery culture,
and about 8000 acres of tho river
bottoms are devoted to celery gardens.
A million and a half of money is paid
to the growers of Kalamazoo Valley
each year for their celery crop.
This celery industry has developed
others, such as box factorios, printing
offices, celery medicine companies and
numerous concerns making celery tea,
celery gum, celery cough drops, celery
bitters, celery pickles and chow-chow,
nerve tonic, celery salt, celery soups
and a score of other preparations.
All the trunk lines of railroads cater
to the celery trade and run special re
frigerator cars to all the distant cities.
I'rom the middle of July until after
Christmas the atmosphere of Kalama
zoo has a decided celery flavor. There
is a continual stream of wagons deliv
ering their product to the express com
panies from 8 a. m. until about -I p.
m. Tho crop of 1897 is estimated at
18,000,000 dozen bunches, and will
bring the growers about nine conls per
dozen.
A Pioneer Postodtec.
William Beatly, a farmer near Scio
toville, Ohio, while splitting up a
tree which ho had felled on his farm,
found in the heart of the trunk a
buckskin bag containing a letter, dis
colored by ago. The writing had
practically faded away, only u word
hero and there being intelligible. The
tree was evidently 150 years old,,and it
is thought that the letter had been
placed there a hundred years ago,
when the "Little Scioto" trail l from
the Ohio River to Chillicothe was used
by the traders, and passed close to
whero the old tree stood. Thd hole
in which the letter had been hidden
had been completely covered by the
new growth of the tree. It was un
doubtedly one of the "postoffices" of
the pioneers.
THE ERIE CANAL.
The Part It Played In Now York's Ad
vancement iu Wealth and Population.
Mr. Ernest Tngersoll writes an arti
cle for St. Nicholas on the Greatei
New York, his paper being entitled
*'Reasoning Out a Metropolis." Mr.
Ingersoll says:
The greatest of all the influences
that assisted New York to reach first
place was the Erie Canal. The first
quarter of this century wa3 the era ol
canal buildiug. No matter how fin*
the turnpike may be, horses can haul
in wagons only high-priced merchan
dise, in comparatively small quantities
and for short distances, unless the
cargo is to cost for transportation
more than it is worth. Men found oul
in Europe and Asia long ago that foi
moving grain, coal, timber, ore, and
similar bulky or heavy goods, where
speed was not especially important, a
ship of boa* was the only practical
method. If a river were not conveni
ent, then an artificial waterway, called
a canal—that is, channel—must be
made. When in any country some
thing of this kind cannot be done,
that country must remain undeveloped
and thinly populated, like the Sahara.
Why is a canal so much better than
a good road for commercial purposes?
Because, while two horses and one
man can haul on a hard, level road
perhaps two tons, the same driver with
two horses harnessed to a canal boat
can move twenty tons nearly as quick
ly; that is, the same force aud expense
for pay and food of men and horses
accomplish ten times as much in re
sult, which really makes the goods
ten times cheaper at the end of the
route.
Hence, before the invention of rail
roads, it was necessary for any grow
ing country to dig canals to servo as
the highways of commerce; and this
the young United States hastened to
do. New York, as usual, moved
among the foremost. She planned
aijd constructed, besides some lessor
ones, that great waterway, four hun
dred miles long, from Albany to Buf
falo, which was called the Erie Canal,
and connected the Hudson with the
Great Lakes.
This canal was finished in 1825, and
immensely stimulated the growth, not
only of the western part of Now York
State, but of the whole region of the
Great Lakes; for now farmers in the
Northwest could send their grain and
fruit and cattle, aud the miners their
ore, and the lumbermen their ship
timber, and boards and staves, to the
seaboard at profitable rates; and in
return they could obtain tho imports,
merchandise ami manufactures of sea
coast cities at fair cost. A fleet of
vessels on the lakes came and went,
bringing from farm, mine aud forest
cargoes which were loaded into canal
boats and sent east, often to bo trans
ferred to vessels for foreign ports
without ever touching land at all. And
back went supplies for the interior of
New York State, and for settlers in
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois,
and beyond, who could never have
lived and worked in those distant
parts except for this means of cheap
communication. To thorn, also, every
summer, went thousands of new set
tlers from New England and Old Eng
land and all Envope, who needed no
longer to spend weeks and weeks in
1 raveling in wagons before reaching
their new homes.
No! n Necessary Food.
Mrs. S. T. Rorer writes on "Do We
Eat Too Much Meat?" in Ladies'
Homo Journal, answering her owu
query affirmatively. "Meat," she as
serts, "is not at all necessary to a per
fect existence. Most people, however,
look upon it as though it formed the
only food upon which they could work,
and yet many great athletes have
never touched it. Meat, after it en
ters the stomach and is digested, may
be injurious, but for all this tho ordi
nary American has made up his mind
that lean meat gives him less trouble
than any other food, so he takes it in
large quantities, invariably breaking
down iu middlo with just such diseases
as oomts from the over-use of concen
trated nitrogenous foods. Children
fed on beef juice aud beef soups, with
white bread, lose the various salts
necessary to the building of bones,
teeth and muscle aud the soda for the
blood. Tho outer part of the wheat,
which js so rich in these earthy salts,
is cast aside, so that the child in grow
ing getß weak bone structure as a
frame for its lean flesh. The stalwarl
men of Scotland find that porridge
and milk contain all tho muscle, bone
and nerve food necessary fcr an active
existence.
"An excess of carbonnaceous food,
on the other hand, forms an accumula
tion of fat, preventing tho complete
nourishment of the muscles. The
over-fat person has bulk without
strength; his vital power always de
ficient, while the excess of nitrogen
ous food which he consumes increases
the tendency to disease of a plethoric
character, showing at once that the
surplus is burned and stored tho same
as fuel food."
Puulahing uu Interloper.
One of the residents of Laneaboro,
Peuu., recently had an opportunity of
witnessing how an interloper is pun
ished by tho marten species of bird.
A pair of martens had taken posses
sion of a small box and were building
their nest in it. One day, wliilo they
were absent, a screech owl took pos
session of tho box, and when the mar
tens camo homo he would not allow
them to enter.
The smaller birds were nonplussed
for a while, and in a moment Hew
away. In a short time, however, the
little ones returned, bringing with
them a whole army of companions, who
immediately set to work, and, pro
curing mud, plastered up the en
trance to the box. Then all flow away.
In a few days the farmer examined
the box and the owl was found dead,
i—New York Press.
Worrying the Cow.
A rough, quick-tempered man
should never bo tolerated around the
cow stable. The cow loves quietude.
Any disturbance which excites her
lessens, if it does not stop, the secre
tion and flow of milk. It is very easy
for an employe, by kicking and beat
ing a cow just before or while he is
milking, to lessen her milk flow by
one half. This is called "holding up"
tho milk. It is really a prevention of
milk secretion, and the milk thus lost
does not come down at any subsequent
milking.—American Cultivator.
Preservation or Ksrs.
Tho Berliner Markthallenzeitung
reports about experiments made for
tho purpose of securing tho most ra
tional method of preserving eggs.
This being a topic of general iuterest,
I beg to give hereafter an extract of
the results obtained, as described in
the said journal:
Twenty methods were selected for
these experiments. In the first days
of July -100 fresh eggs were prepared
according to these methods (twenty
eggs for each method), to be opened
for use at the end of the month of
February.
Of course, a most essential point
for the success of preservation is that
only really fresh eggs bo employed.
As the most infallible means of ascer
taining the ago of the eggs the experi
montist designated the specific weight
of same. With fresh eggs it is from
1.0781 to 1.09-12, If the eggs are put
into a solution of 120 grammes (4.23
ounces) of common salt in one litre
(1.0567 quarts) of water, the specific
weight of which solution is 1.073, all
the eggs that swim ou this liquid
weigh less, and consequently are not
fresh. Only those eggs that sink
should be used for preservation.
When, after eight months of preser
vation, the eggs were opened for use,
the twenty different methods em
ployed gave the most hetrogeneous
results:
(1) Egss put for jireservation in
salt water were all bad (not rotten,
but uneatable, the salt having pene
trated into the eggs).
(2) Eggs wrapped in pajier, eighty
per cent. bad.
(3) Eggs preserved fin a solution of
salicylic acid and glycerin, eighty per
ceut. had.
(-1) Eggs rubbed witii salt, seventy
per cent. bad.—From tho United
States Consular Report,
A AVork Shop on the Farm.
A. work shop on the farm is a groat
convenience; every progressive farmer
has one, and those who want to keep
up with the advancement of agricul
tural interests will follow suit. To
build a work shop is an easy job; it
doesn't take long and costs but little,
if constructed as that dear old cabin
iu which I used to work. My work
shop was about eight by ten feet and
six feet from the floor to the loft,
covered with oak boards and having
no floor save the ground. It was
sided up with one-iucli oak boards,
which were sawed from timber cut in
tho woods, the space between the
planks being covered with thin oak
strips. Tho shop was provided with
an anvil, two strong hammers, a vise,
planes, saws, screw-drivers, chisels, a
shaving horse, brace and a set of fif
teen bits, rangiug from an eighth of
an inch to an inch,spoko shaves, a
square and rule, etc., all of which
may be bought now for about sl2. I
also had a harness-maker's outfit in
the shop, so when harness needed re
pairing I did not have to go eight or
ten miles to have it done. Whenever
any of tho machinery got out of order
it could generally be repaired at home,
and thus save money and time. For
instance, when wheat is dead ripe and
ought to bo cut as soon as possible,
the binder breaks, a rod or some
minor part gets out of order; then to
the blacksmith shop, unless you are
pretty well skilled iu the work of re
pairing iron and have a shop and
tools of your owu, iu which ca3e much
valuablo time is saved.
A workshop is, in my judgment, as
essential to tho farm as a spring or
oisteru, and I am ardently in favor of
tho latter. When there is work to be
done in the shop in thowiuter, a sinoll
stovo is easily put up. Thus com
fortable quarters are prepared for the
workmen. Oftentimes the farm har
ness break, sometimes when the farmer
is in tho midst of a very busy season.
Now comes tho chance to use the
shop; or when there is no particular
need for tho broken harness, a rainy
day will come about when the farmer
may go to the shop and do his work in
tho dry, having the necessary tools at
hand.
Farm implements, no difference
bow strong they may ha or how sub
stantially they may bo constructed,
will frequently get out of or dor, thus
occasioning the use of a blacksmith or
wood workman. Now, all such work
can be and ought to bo done by the
farmers themselves, and if they would
equip themselves with the tools, eto.,
whioh can bo obtained for a small out
lay, they could do it. Let every
farmer bo his own blacksmith, wood
worker, carpenter and saw sharpener,
if you please. During rainy days on
the farm there should be work to do,
and there is. The cross-cut saw needs
sharpening, the harness require mend
ing and the axes ought to be ground.
! and a dozen other things of this
character might be attended to. The
j farmer needs to become an enthusiast
' ou the subject of agriculture and all
the branches connected therewith; he
must l)e dominated by that spirit oi
I onwardness which knows 110 limit; he
j must keep abreast of the times and
take all the near shoots possible to the
! goal of success. Let us be alert and
wide awake; farming will surely re
ward all who in fact farm. The voca
tion is now regarded as the most in
dependent of any.—Dewitt C. Wing,
in Tho Epitomist.
Uvo Stock Notes.
A gentleman will have gentle stock.
Regularity in feeding, both as tc
time and quantity and quality of food,
is one of tho things that pay.
As a rule the lirst 100 pounds ol
sheep and the first 200 of swine costs
less and sells for more than that added
later.
Good feed and plenty, of it *nrly in
the life of the animal is what secures
the maximum development and lays
the foundation for future usefulness.
All lowa stockman claims that lumps
011 the jaws of cattle, particularly those
recently dehorned, are often caused
by vicious jabs given by the sharp
horned youngsters running with the
herd.
George Franklin says the man who
has had u taste of spring lamb, like
the sheep-killing dog, never forgets it,
and he may as well be fed on a well
cooked saddle-flap as to again go back
to aged mutton.
Lamb-creeps and pig-creeps arc
good things in giving the young stock
a start in life. You will be surprised
to see how young they will begin to
eat and how much they will consume
if th© right kind of foods is provided.
A Michigan dairyman writes that by
judicious breeding and feeding and
careful selection by the teat, keeping
only the best cows and caring for
them properly, he has in three years
raised the test of his herd from loss
than four per cent, to over live pel
cent., and reduced tho cost of butter
three cents a pound.
There is apparently littlo foundation
for the claim made by some feeders
that most of the nutriment lias been
taken out of tho grain which passes
the animal whole; often tho loss is
sufficient to twice pay lor grinding the
feed. A good farm mill will often pay
for itself in a single w inter's feeding.
The hoofs of the horses must be
kept properly trimmed or they will
grow long and ill-shaped, then per
haps split; or they will gtow lon<j in
front, throwing tho foot back upon
the licel, which sometimes sprains
the large tendons of the limbs. Colts
should early be taught to have their
feet handled.
It doesn't pay to let tha hogs sleep
around the straw stack or in the man
ure pile; in fact these arc about the
worst possible places for them, on
account of the dust and dampness and
the foul, heated air out of which they
will rush to their feed and stand in a
zero temperature till thoroughly chil
led, theu they begin to die of
cholera(?).
At an institute in lowa one of tho
speakers stated that ensilage and the
separator had increased his production
of butter to the extent of sixty-five
pounds per cow per year; another
said tho separator had increased his
product by $12.50 per cow, and that
he could raise tho best calves from
separator milk. There is a difference
of opinion regarding the last state
ment, however.
Tim Ethnology of Kissing.'
Tlio kiss was unknown, I think,
among the aboriginal tribes of America
and of Central Africa. From tho most
ancient times, however, it has been
familiar to the Asiatic and European
race. The Latins divided it into three
forms—tho osculum, the basium and
the suavium; the first being the kiss
of friendship and respect, the second
of ceremony and the third of love. The
Semites always knew the kiss, and Job
speaks of it as part of the sacred rites,
as it is to-day in tho Roman Church.
The Mongolian kiss, however, is not
the same as that which prevails with
us. In it the lips do not touch tho
surfaco Tof ; the person kissed. Tho
nose is brought into light contact with
tlio cheek, forehead or hand; the
breath is drawn slowly through tho
nostrils, and the act ends with a slight
smack of the lips. The Chinese con
sider our mode of kissing full of coarse
suggestiveness, and our writers re
gard their method with equal dis
dain.
Darwin and other naturalists have
attempted to trace back the kiss to
the act of tho lower animals who seize
their prey with their tooth, etc.—Dr.
Daniel G . Brinton, in Science,
Resolution is Omnipotent.
"Resolution," says John Roster,
"is omnipotent." He that resolves
upon any great, and at the same time,
good end, by that very resolution has
scaled the chief barrier to it. He will
find it removing difficulties, searching
out or making menus, giving courage
for despondency, ami strength for
weakness; and like the star in the
east, to the wise men of old, over
guiding him nearer and nearer to tho
sum of all perfection.—T. Edwards.
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