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THE DALLAS POST Established 1889
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Now In Its
73rd Year”
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IN APPRECIATION
Dear Editor:
John and ¥ wish to thank not only
the Back Mountain residents who
responded to the Red Cross Blood-
~ months of May, June and July. It was
the many Wyoming Valley residents
who came to our aid during the
months of May June and July. It was
very comforting to know that people
really do care and want to help in
an emergency.
I could go on mentioning names of
people and organizations to whom we
are very grateful, but in so doing, I
might miss someone, and such an
error I wouldn't want to make.
May God bestow his blessings on
these wonderful people for making
this sacrifice.
Sincerely,
Ann Chesnovitch
CURFEW AT DUSK
Attention: William Krimmel;
Your attitude to the new curfew
is certainly shocking news to many
a Back Mountain parent.
Just to cite a few incidents which
you must not be aware of; # 1. The
letting of the air out of the thirty
‘school buses. #2. The fist fight in
the business establishments right in
Dallas, #3. The behavior and lan-
guage used on the school buses
which forced the new restrictions on
the buses. # 4. The serious acci-
dent just a few months ago in
which teenagers were drinking and
‘cost the life of a young girl.
Need I say anymore? You
couldn’t be a concerned parent, It's
too late to lock the barn when the
horse is out. Wake up and take the
preventative measures now. \
It makes it very mean for par-
ents who have a curfew with their
children to enforce it when the
Valve . . .
classmates are out till all hours, and
what recreation is there after nine,
other than school festivities?
Mother of two teenagers
(and their curfew is dusk)
IN REPLY + 7 j
Dear Editor: i
I am forwarding you here with a
letter recently received by the
writer castigating the Dallas Town-
ship Board of Suprvisors for ‘their
attitude on the matter of curfew.
The fact that this communication
is unsigned denies it the dignity of
a reply. However, it may be that
there exists in some quarters a
question as to the thinking of the
Board in this matter. We shall try
to clarify ‘the situation.
First of all, there is no more ter-
rible indictment of that most sacred
part of our society, the parent, than
to imply, by the passage of such a
curfew that the parent is unable,
unwilling, too lazy or lacks the
character or necessary parental
control to effectively govern his
child’s conduct.
Perhaps this is just another in-
stance of having the government do
for us the things that the individual
does not want to assume ‘the respon-
sibility of — an attitude responsible
for the current deterioration of na-
tional moral character as evidenced
by the trend toward the complete
welfare state.
It is true, we shall always have
with us those individuals who, per-
haps having their own private sense
of propriety or right or wrong vio-
lated immediately screams, ‘There
oughta be a law!!”
The Dallas Township Board of
Supervisors shall continue to give
careful thought and a great deal of
the milk of human understanding to
any situation which may require
enactment of ordinance.
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With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
Arthur Godfrey — Pain is some-
thing that most of us have experi-
enced either in a big or a small way.
Knowing what it is we can better
appreciate the kind of man that
Arthur Godfrey is.
Three years have passed since
Arthur Godfrey signed into a Boston
hospital for an operation for lung
cancer. For three years every two
months he has visited the office of a
skilled doctor for that terribly im-
portant check-up. Each time he has
waited with the same intenseness
that all patients experience until
they hear the words, “You're okay.”
Godfrey’s philosophy is ‘There's
only one way to grapple with con-
stant pain and that’s to accept it
as part of ther life you live.”
When Godfrey says, “Everything
I do hurts. My knees kill me.” He
really means what he says.
He didn’t go back after his auto
accident for the additional surgery
he needed. He got bursitis in both
shoulders. The incision in his chest
still gives him a great deal of pain.
' When he came home after the
operation he was worried about his
lung becoming enlarged. It looked
as though his activities might have
to be curtailed. Day after day he
forced himself to breathe deeply.
Godfrey says, “Everything I do
‘hurts. But pain is all a part of
pleasure. It may kill me to ride a
horse or swim or dance but I get an
enormous satisfaction out of being
able to accomplish these ‘things.
As a viewer you may not care for
Godfrey as an entertainer but you
must admire him as a man.
Footstepping—If you spot a little
bongo drummer in the children’s
orchestra on the new Lucy show who
looks familiar, look again because
he is Desiderio Arnaz and he can
bongo like his dad.
Jackie Gleason is back on televi-
sion with a show that makes one
feel he never left. He is a remark-
able entertainer. Producing “Jackie
Gleason’s American Scene Maga-
zine” is Jack Philbin, who has been
Jackie’s manager, friend, confident
and business associate since 1947.
In 1949, they came up with “The
Life of Riley” on television with
Jackie as ‘the star. In 1950, they
teamed for “Cavalcade of Stars” on
television ‘for two weeks with op-
tions,” as Philbin puts it, adding
“we stayed on until 1952.”
In 1952, Gleason was getting set
to really go, along with him went
Philbin when Jackie signed a long-
term contract with CBS. This was
the elaborate “Jackie Gleason
Show” which came on with beauti-
there was the famous ‘‘Honeymoon-
ers,”
mouthed bus driver Ralph Kramden
as a mational character and made
Art Carney and Audrey Meadows
famous.
Philbin also became a business
partner in Gleason's. other enter-
prises and their friendship continued
to grow. When Gleason decided to
return to television this fall it was
only natural ‘that Philbin would be
his producer.
“Once Jackie gets to know you
and feels he can trust you,” says
Philbin, “his heart knows no bounds.
Although he’s been a top star for
many years, he has never forgotten
the long lean days starting in 1935
when he knocked around small clubs
for peanuts.
“You don’t have too many real
friends at timeg like this,” he con-
tinued, “so nowadays, Jackie isn’t
that many people who flock around
him today are just basking in his
glow or hoping to catch a few
sprinkles of stardust.”
In the matter of curfew, we feel
that the personal dignity of the
teenager should be considered.
Here we have a creature under-
going ‘transitional changes, prepar-
ing to assume the problems and re-
sponsibilities of adultheod.
Is the enactment of a curfew com-
patible with his growing sense of
becoming an important part of a
bewildering society ?
Why not give the teenager an op-
portunity to express himself on this
subject? He is ‘the one affected.
What better use, for an issue or
two, than to give over a column to
a Teenager’s Vox Pop?
Certainly, we think there is a cer-
tain amount of tolerance to what we
may call “harmless mischief”. How-
ever, we cannot justify deliberate
acts of vandalism, and while we are
on the subject, we, speaking as the
board, do not intend to.
We should like to give notice at
this point that the Township will
have its police force on duty thru
‘the Hallowe’en season and they will
be augmented by the Auxiliary
police. Any act of vandalism will be
summarily dealt with, and youth and
parent will be taken before a
Justice-of-the-Peace, and ‘adequate
fine or punishment meted out.
The Board meetings are always
open to the public and anyone may
be heard on any subject affecting
the good people of the Township.
‘Wm. H. Krimmel, Secretary
CORRECTION
Dear Editor:
Wardan Kunkle says that the
widow Kirkendall married Philip
Kunkle not. Conrad Kunkle. Philip
was the father of Wesley and Con-
rad Kunkle, and the marriage made
him the step-father of Wheeler Kir-
kendall. Philip Kunkle lived on the
present Chris, Eipper farm, There
Lag
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1962
ir HAPPENED J(} YEARS AGO:
A Nescopeck farmer, Ray Briggs,
was a member of the 400 Bushel
Club Acre yield of potatoes for the
11th consecutive year, in spite of
drought and frost. He missed the 400
mark by a mile, in the right direc-
tion, an average of 533 bushels.
A greater part of George R.
Wright's estate was bequeathed to
Wilkes-Barre Branch Pennsylvania
Association for the Blind.
Service clubs of Dallas and Wyo-
ming Valley joined to push con-
struction of the new Dallas-Kingston
highway.
Lyman Moore, manager of Nes-
bitt Farms at Lake Catalpa, died
following surgery.
Featured on the front page was
a picture showing a lovely blonde
on the deck of a ship, an assistant
looking over the side, and half a
mile down in his bathysphere, and
hence completely invisible, Dr. Wil-
Ham Beebe.
The area was so hard up for news
that a Funny Hat Social got front
page prominence, and that old
chestnut about age and not frost
causing change in autumn coloring
of trees, got a featured position.
And fish were biting better as the
weather cooled. !
An editorial advised folks to stop
screaming about The Forgotten Man
and buckle down to some honest
effort.
rr HAPPENED 2) YEARS AGO:
Twenty volunteers signed up for
Dallas Borough Auxiliary Reserve.
Companies in Kingston, Lake-Noxen,
and Sweet Valley were proposed.
fal strength of reserves was to be
George Budd of Shiadertown was
harboring the Wyoming Seminary
goat,
James Murray, Dallas, was ap-
pointed ticket agent at Lehigh Val-
ley Station.
Mrs. Margaret Dodson, Trucks-
ville, parted with a historic iron
griddle, donating it to the scrap
drive, so that the Axis could have
at least one shell hot off the griddle.
The family heirloom was cast in
1794 at a forge set up by Epaphiras
Wadsworth in Huntington. Epa-
phiras was a descendant of Captain
Joseph Wadsworth, who spirited
away the Connecticut charter and
hid it in the Charter Oak, when
Sir Edmund’ Andros attempted to
take back the charter at Hartford.
The lights went out, and when they
were kindled again, the charter had
disappeared. Bethlehem Steel Co.
promised that the griddle
would be
turned into steel for a 75 } ar-
mdr-piercing shell for an’ anti-t
Only farmers know how to get
Anniversary Meetings
Continue At Huntsville
Rev. E. L. Thompson, State Sec-
retary of the Christian Churches, is
speaking each night this week at
Huntsyille Christian Church, A large
delegation from the Wyoming Christ-
ian Church came on Monday night.
Their pastor, Rev. Edmund John, led
in the chorus singing of Welsh
hymns. The 119th birthday of the
is a tradition that the Dallas Metho-
dist Church was organized in his
house,
Showing ‘the wrong Kunkle was
my error.
THE OLD TIMER |
DANIEL WATERS
The 134-year old Wyoming Nation-
al Bank opened its doors to the
public Friday and Saturday from 9
to 9 for inspection of the recent com-
plete renovation.
Refreshments were served, and
there were flowers for ‘the ladies
and souveniers for everyone. The
Bank is also offering premiums for
the next month as inducements to
open an account.
This famous old institution has
been serving Back Mountain resi
dents since it began. in 1829, and has
been in the present Market Street
location since 1860,
The present building was erected
in 1914, receiving its first complete~
ly new contemporary alternation in
the last two years. The entire inter-
Only Yesterday - . .
the most from the soil, was the
basis for a “Don’t draft the farm-
ers” movement. Food was vital for
the war effort. :
George Gregson, Shrine View, was
an important cog in the construc-
tion effort, making weekly visits ‘to
Annapolis shipyards.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Elston were
not disturbed by tire rationing.
They were using the old grey mare
hitched to a buggy.
“Outs” for ‘the duration of the
War: Filler up; please pass the but-
ter; two pounds of steak, please;
one or two lumps?; all wool and a
yard wide; I was only doing fifty.
Leslie Kitchen, 57, Noxen, died
after being struck twice on the
highway.
Heard from in Outpost: Chaplain
Don Warmouth, New York APO;
Dale Warmouth, Al Siperko, Bill
Phillips; Howell Rees; Don Dunn,
North Carolina; Louis Culp, Camp
Crowder; Bruce Crispell, Fort Sheri-
dan; Charles Mekeel, Howard John-
son, Victor Canzani, Harry Howell
Jr., Palmer Lewis, Roland J. Bellas,
William L. Conyngham, Coral Eve-
land, Alfred Davis, Philip Cheney,
Howard Culp, Herman Baltimore,
Hedley V. Lyne, Joseph Elias, Char-
les Girton.
Trucksville Methodist Church
burned its mortgage, Archie Wool-
bert as chairman touching the
match. Former pastors Savacool
and Crompton were present. The
original church burned to the
ground in January of 1910.
IT HAPPENED 10 YEARS AGO:
Trucksville won. its gold star for
safety, to sew to the green pennant
flying under the American flag.
Harveys Lake Lions gave another
audiometer for use in Lehmandack-
son schools, supplementing the 1951
gift of an audiometer for use in all
Back Mountain schools.
Caterpillar bulldozer crashed thr-
ough a bridge spanning Trout Run,
shortly after conclusion of safety ex-
ercises at Trucksville grade school.
Same bulldozer, same driver for West
Side Construction Co. upended in
Toby’s Creek during grading work
earlier in the year.
Fernbrook Mill started a six day
schedule, following upturn of business
conditions.
Mustangs took Wilkes-Barre Town-
ship 7 to 0.
Married: Donna Lou Cravens to
Robert D. Caryl.
Pvt. Edward O. Stewart, formerly
of Shavertown, was instantly killed
in a jeep accident in Germany.
Died: James L. Williams, 76, Ricketts
Glen. Mrs. Eckley Kocher, 58, Trucks-
ville. Harold E. Steele, 53, Goss Mon-
or. Louise Hunter Zeiser, Providence,
R.I. Hendrick Williams, 79, Lake
Township Mrs. Alice R. Hoag, 83,
former resident of Noxen.
church was celebrated with a social
hour in the social rooms of the
church. Mrs. Gordon James brought
a birthday cake in the form of the
church building and bearing 119 can-
dles. Rev. Thompson is speaking at
the church each evening this week
except Saturday.
Birthday Parties
Mrs. Agnes Spencer, Franklin
Street, Shavertown, celebrated her
seventy-ninth birthday anniversary
on October 5 with dinner at the home
of Mrs, Marvin Moss, Mt. Airy Road,
Shavertown, and an evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Moore, East
Dallas. Mrs. Moore is a niece of Mrs.
Spencer.
ping of the ceiling to add one com-
plete floor.
In addition to the structural al-
teration, new paneling and lighting
has been built into the lobby, and
carpeting and draperies are all new.
There is also music from a high fi-
delity sound system.
A lower level has been construct-
ed, equipped to operate under
nuclear attack, according to Federal
Reserve designs. The building is
completely air-conditioned.
Proud of the record of the old
bank, and the face of the new one
its many Back Mountain employees
as well as customers.
Board members who reside in the
Back Mountain are; George L.
Ruckno, Bernard C. Banks, Rulison
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
REBUILDING
Two neighbors at Sunset, Harveys
Lake, burnt out over the summer,
have made some plans for rebuilding
after due deliberation.
Police Chief Joe Ide lost his house
in Idetown in a big blaze early in
June, and Peter Ambrose watched
flames consume his Top Shelf several
weeks ago.
Over the summer Joe lived in a
rented place on Carpenter Road be-
hind the Top Shelf, while clearing
rubble up at his old home and mak-
ing plans for doing his own rebuild-
ing.
It was Joe who turned in the alarm
to the fire companies to try to save
the nearby restaurant when it burned
half way to the ground.
Now the chief and his family have
moved into a house next door to their
Idetown property, which they bought
recently, and it looks like building
will be restricted to alterations on
the present home.
Joe maintains, however, with
traces of perpetual contractor’s zeal,
that there is still a good chance that
a new home will rise upon the re-
mains of the old.
Meanwhile, back at ‘the lake, Pete
is designing a new Top Shelf, a one-
story affair to be built on the old
foundation. He and his wife will live
in a different building.
This family deserves a lot of credit
for being able to make plans for the
future so soon. They lost all their
possessions in the fire, and readjust-
ment hasn’t been easy.
I hope Pete gets the place rebyilt
good and sooon so I can have some
place to go Friday nights. Right after
the Top Shelf burned, Mitch Miller
moved te Friday night on the tube,
doubling the disaster.
Nowhere to turn. The family can’t
live without that show.
THE THINGS THAT
MONEY CAN'T BUY
It’s good to have money for what
it will buy
So long as you're modest and don’t
live too high;
And do not overlord your neighbor
next door
Because he has less or maybe is
poor.
Money is handy, I grant you, my
friend.
It opens the door of many a dead
end;
But it’s good to check up and take
stock here and there 4
For money and ruin will claim their
own share,
But always make sure that you
don’t lose the things
That money can’t buy and that
happiness brings; z
It’s good to have money and they're
good reasons why
But don’t lose the things that your
money can’t buy.
Don’t lose the love of your neigh-
bors and friends
But keep their respect until your
life ends.
The deeds that you do and the help
that you give
‘Will aid you much more than your
money to live.
You cannot buy love at the grocery
store
Or exchange it for fur coats or for
jewelry next door;
You cannot buy happiness and do
you know why
There are just certain things that
your money can’t buy.
—ALBERT W. BROBST
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Have It Done By The Post
Wyoming National's New Quarters
Trucksville residents among the
staff are Harold Rose, Jr., Assistant
Cashier, Robert Hontz, Trust Depart-
ment, and Winfield Parsons, Assist-
ant Vice-President and Manager of
the Back Mountain branch.
Darrel Crispell, Trust Officer and
Vice-President, lives in Huntsville.
Mrs. Dorothy Heslop and Mrs. Janet
Beech, both serving at the Back
Mountain Office, are residents of
this area.
[Since the Bank’s birth in 1829,
resources have grown from $44,000
to well over 40 million dollars, it
has stood firm throtigh five major
wars, depression, and fire.
It has three branch offices in
addition to that in Shavertown: Ed-
wardsville, Plymouth, and Exeter.
ior has been changed, with a drop-
3
Evens, and Judge Thomas M. Lewis.
Ears Riba
‘| mountains like to
From—
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to cane. Usually I don’t bite.
mercially ?”’
“Is it an antique chair?”
“Yes, it’s an antique chair.
“Does it have curly arms?”
“Well, yes. Sort of curly.
TOO much: time.
“No rush at all.
is very relaxing.
agonals.
putting a seat in a chair.
try
lying principles.
about 7” !
It 5 probably due to that autumnal urge to clean house . . .
everybody in the Back Mountain seems to be finding chair frames
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Pillar To Post...
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but
But when a good friend approaches me with, “I know you cane
chairs for the Library Auction, but DO you ever cane chairs com-
I'm int no condition to resist.
ever, with a few adroit questions.
I hedgel my bets, how-
It belonged to Grandma. She used
to rock the children to sleep in it in front of the kitchen stove.”
Sort of like a snail shell!”
This is when I begin to melt.
waiting to be caned on the back porch, I say “We-e-ell, I don’t have
How much of a rush are you in?”
Shall I leave: iti on your porch?” .
Chair-caning is occupational therapy. After a tough day explain-
ing how that line got added to the classified ad, or how the tele-
phone number happened to be left out or have its digits reversed, a
bit of work with the fingers, no brains required, is recommended.
With one eye on the six chairs
It
And it can be done on a card table in front of television, with
enough attention paid to Ben Casey and the patient on the operat-
ing table to keep up with the thread of the plot, and enough devoted
to the patient on the card table to keep up with the pattern of di-
Caning offers no bar to polite conversation.
It is doubtless khie lowest form of craft, scraping thd bottom of
the barrel, and is paid for accordingly.
I can’t afford to cane. Nobody can afford to cane.
There is a certain satisfaction in doing it correctly, instead; of just
But it’s fun.
Anybody can put a seat in a chair. /
But after that lamentable display up at the Haymarket An-
tiques Show a few weeks ago, where one out-of-state dealer showed
some superbly grained dining room chairs desecrated with the most
unfortunate caning I have ever seen, probably most people shouldn't
. until they have practiced up a bit, and-studied| thefunder-
Because it isn’t just a matter of crossing diagonals over double
verticals and double horizontals. There is more to it than meets the
eye, and considerable judgment is required in tricky spots.
The trouble with being able to do a reasonably good job of can-
ing is that every time you gol to a sale of.antique’s, or nosef around
in an antique shop, you're embarked on a busman’s holiday. You
can't keep your eyes off the caning, and you have to think fast
when the proprietor inquires suspiciously,
!
“What are you mumbling
“Just wondering if I can afford to buy that chair-frame.”
And there you are, stuck with another chair frame, which in- gq
evitably needs to be caned . . . . for the Library Auction.
Lynn W. Tallmadge
The neighbors had gathered to
welcome us home again in a little
town near Winston-Salem, and
were reminiscing eagerly with my
grandfather when George Hontaine
joined us. fad
When my grandfather came north
fifty years ago George was a small
boy. Once’ since, he had caddied
for grandfather near Greensboro—,
one of his most happy days, he said.
Now a giant six feet tall amd
weighing some two hundred and
sixty pounds he came over to pay
his respects in the old southern
manner. He came from a family
that was sort of aristocratic, but
not an ardent student he had
gravitated along easy ways and
ended up by being a deputy sheriff.
Smilingly he apologized for this
career. He had married early and
maybe this was why he had settled
down to the enforcement of the law.
He was the personification of
courage and of gentleness. We had
heard many times. of his bravery
Soon he asked if we had ever
heard of his encounter with the
snake-preacher . . . . We had not,
and we urged him with anticipation
to tell us of it.
“You have read about how the
holiness preachers of our Carolina
carry snakes
around with them to prove their
faith”, said George, “for the courts
have tried cases with them over
freedom of speech. ‘Anyhow, one
such preacher came to the southside
of Winston and “set up a tent to
preech a revival, which our people
like; and soon he was drawing
crowds to see him handle snakes
along with his texts.
“The High Sheriff of Forsyth
County and his assistant (that’s
me) were interested only in theory
uatil one day a committee of
neighbors came to see, to remon-
strate. One old lady, a spinster,
said she had enough of trouble with
being afraid of mice but if she had
to look under her bed every night
for a possible wandering snake it
was unbearable,
“Some of the preacher’s snakes
had got in the sorry habit of leav-
ing their cages where he supposed
them to be and taking off to see
our fair city. This endeavour of
the snakes to be missionaries was
not appreciated by the citizens
and they urged us to put a stop
"began to play with it.
and conscientious doing of his duty.
The High Sheriff, The
Preacher, And The Snakes
“That night we went to see the
preacher and his pets in his tent.
We stood in the back of the con-
gregafion quietlly to observe. We
just wanted to be sure of what
we had heard. Sure enough the
‘preacher before long extracted one
of his varmints from his cage and
He pro-
ceded to tell the people that the
snake would not bite him because
he had strong enough faith so that
he was protected. He wanted con-
verts to share this faith so that @p
they coud handle snakes just as
the Bible says. He allowed his pet
to crawl around his feet; and he
might easily forget to put him back. ig
in his box. Nobody was bitten that
night. We waited for we do not
like to interrupt sermons.
“We had to arrest the snake-
preacher as a matter of public
safety, so after his program was
over we took him to the justice-
of-the-peace. He was fined $30,
warned and released.
“The next night he was back with
his pesky pets, they crawled over
him while he denounced the law
for persecution of religion. So we
carried him again to the Squire
who gave him a three hundred
dollar fine and warned him more
| sternly.
“He told the Squire he was be-
ing persecuted. The Squire did not
think so. Well, the preacher had a
large following and since some of
them thought he was a martyr he™
was given money. A collection was
taken up and so help me, the next
night he was back showing off hig)
faith and his snakes. The tent wa
filled with admirers.
“The High Sheriff and I were
fed up by now. It was not pleasant
to grab this fanatic, struggle with
him and carry him off while we
were called names far from com-
plimentary, but we arrested: the
preacher, the third time.
“He came along too easily, I
thought, after a few tussles, and he
had his hands in his pockets. The
Squire laid on a fine of $3000 and
remanded him to jail. Then the
High Sheriff said to me,” George,
you frisk him”.
“High Sheriff,” I replied, “you
know I am not afraid of men or
of anything much, but I have an
allergy about snakes. I do not like
snakes! You frisk him.” “George”,
said the High Sheriff. “I suppose I'll
have to frisk him. But if one of
his snakes bites me, I'll shoot this
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to it.
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Poet's
Life's
There are loyal hearts,
Corner
Mirror
there are spirits brave,
There are souls that are pure and true;
Then give to the world the best you have,
And the best shall come back to you
so and so!’
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Give love, and love to your heart will flow,
A strength in your utmost need;
Have faith, and a score of hearts will show
Their faith in your word and deed.
For life is the mirror of king and slave,
Tis just what you are and do;
Then give to the world the best you have,
And the best shall come back to you.
~——Madeline S. Bridges.
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