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Citizens and persons living in the Country will Ind a large and well selected block of first class goous at as low fizures as can be sold in the coun ry. Sept. 20 1867. PA I\ TS for F.\ HM ERS and others.---The Graf ton Mineral Paint Co., are now manufacturing the Best, 'Cheapest, and most Durable Paint in use: two coats well put on, mixed with pore Linseed Oil, will last 10 or 15 years• it is of a light brown or beautiful•chocolate color, and can be changed to green, lead, stone. drab, olive or cream, to suit the consumer. It is valuable fur Houses, Burns, Fen ces, Carriage and Car makers, Pails, and Wooden ware, Agricultural Implements, Canal Boats, Ves sels' and Ships' Bottoms, Canvas, Metal and Shin gle Roofs, (it being Fire and Water proof), 'Floor Oil Cloths, (one Manufacturer h lying used 5000 bbls. the past year,) and as a paint fur ariy purpose is unsurpassed for body, durability, elasticity, and adhesiveness. Warranted in all cases as cptive. Send fur a circular which gives full particulars. None genuine unless branded in a trade ilia& Graf ton Mineral Paint Adress - DANIEL BIDW ELL, 254 Pearl St. N Y For sale at the Hardware store of GEISER & RHINEHART, who are also ageuts for 13idwell's Carriage Grease. Oet,4-6m. LUMBER AN'T ED. TlFlreubscrtbers.will pay the highest...cub price for Lumber, to be delivered this season, and will al.o.want a largo lot fir next seison Sept. 6-tf, GEISER, PRICE: & CO. THE largest assortment af CA It E T in town at the store ut Aussasers, BIRJEDIOT & CO. PRIME N. 0. Molasses al the elute of MllNFaxim..Boatomr & BALES Seamless Warn Bags is bturti earl for sale cheap by • WA I,Kcil, Iva! ninferstime. 1.3 Pa,tr,aD H T., i gn t y 6 u ire ft e re t n t,: a k;ke t iri b l e wma u t h iuj - i; and ruhlormbio list Matorium of - ' • '.743,11g The surging sea of human life__ Forever onward rolls, Bearing to the eternal shore Each day its freight of soule; But though our bark sail bravely on. Pale Death sits a: the prow, And few shill know we ever lived, A hundred years from now. Oh, mighty human brotherhgod, Why fiercely war and strive, While God's great world has ample space For everything alive? Broad fields uncultured and unclaimed, Are waiting for the plough Of progress, that should make them bloom A hundred years from now. Why should we toil so earnestly In life's short, narrow span, On golden stairs to climb so high Above,our brother man?. Why blindly at an earthly shrine Our souls in homage bow I Our gods will rust, ourselves be dust, A hundred years lrom now. Why prize so much the world's applause? Why dread so muzli its blame? A 11 etir.g echo is its voice Of censure or of fame; The praise that fills the heart, the scorn That dyes with shame the brow, Will be as long forgotten dreams A hundred years from now. Earth's empires rise and fill, 0 Time t Like breakei.s on thy shore, They rush upon thy rocks of doom, Are seen—•and seen no more; The starry wilde rness of worlds Thrt gem night's radian t brow Will light the skies for other eyes A hundred years from now. 0 Thou, before whose slee less e The past and future stand An open page, like babes we cling To thy protecting hand; Change, sorrow, death, are nought to us, If we may safely bow Eleneath_the shadow of thy throne, A hundred years from now. IVIISS'CMI_IMA.4I..IiTIC. A JOKE ON A DETECTIVE. An accusation was made against a woman residing in street, for the offense of theft, commonly and more clearly understood by the • name of "shop.-lifting." She was une, like most of her t!ass of criminals, upon whom the eye of suspicion had never rested till the time when her guilt had plainly de veloped its-elf by some mischance of circum stances, or when, in an unexpected moment of peril, her right hay% had forgot its usual cunning. This species of theft is most gen erally perpetrated by women of good ad dress, of fair exterior, and always of such eminent skill that the suspicion of shop keepers are diverted from them, In this in stance the party suspected was one that had borne a reputable character, arid, to all out ward seeming, a blameless life. She was a widow. She had, as supposed, enoilgh worldly goods to assure a maintenance This belief was supported by her manner of living. - She . occupied a genteel house. She _employed servants. She dressed in the -fashion of the day, and employed all the com forts that worldly abundance supplies. It was a severe as well as painful effort to believe that such a woman could be guilty of theft. • But the relation of the prosecutor led directly, if not conclusively, to such a belief. He, too, who had been a witness of the facts, possessed a conviction upon the point that was stronger than he could give expression to be ray recital of them. The character of the party complained of only strengthened di. belief' and anchored the conviction of then prosecutor, for because of that character he was the most hesitant in his judgement and exercised his reason more closely and thoroughly, and •till it carried him beyond the verge of doubt. The warrant of arrest was given is officer S to execute. Ile knew the ascused by reputation, and from that knowledge had acquired the like opinion of her that had passed others. Ile was loth to execute such a process against such a party. Ho had a sense of admiration and gallantry for the sax that at times quite uuliited him for the rig-' orous discharge of the duties that his office required of him. Ile was appreciated among his fellow; as one whose sentiments iu this respect amounted to a weakness unbefittirig his calling, and that impaired his usefulness, tf it did not imperil his integrity. But he had, too, in an twit:out degree, the usual am bition of his profession to acquire a reputa, tion for zeal, fact and success -- If — the ac cused in this instance was-guilty and should prove to have been a prowled! `shop lifter, the fact of her atrest would reflect sonic of its fame upon hip official reputation. Ile, therefore, started upon his errand with con flietiug sentiments of reluctance and desire • Ile found the object ofhis search at boo e, and Surrounded by all - those .elegaucies of domestic life 1414 instieetively. repelled the uspiciaillhat.their owner conld .. pogaibly be other than honest and virtuous: Thestuay. I i-y of lies dtMeanor.'the chastetress 'Of 'her address, and tie refinetnent- of her beating DECITERT, WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARI 28 0868. PC:II3ETIC7..ALX.a. A MODRED YEARS FROM NOW, as well aided this'assurance as they aroused the gallantry of the officer to a forgetfulness of his duty in the magnitude of his doubts. lie would fain have receded from his mis sion, but the complaint and the warrant left him no choice. But he sought to give as little offence as possible to his own heart, and to the sensibility of his prisoner. He refrained, therefore, from making known the true nature. of hiaerrand._ Ile contented himself with politely advising the lady that the magistrate desired her attendance at court that he might counsel with her about some matter, and of the character of which be, the officer, assumed to be :wholly unad vised_ She expressed her ready willingness to grant the favor asked for, and with a po lite grace that was in happy harmony with the suave decorum of the officer. The lat;' ter was too blind in the exuberance of his gallantry to -observe the pallid- cheek, the quivering lips, the tremor of the body and the confusion of speech, which, to a mote circumspect eye, would have given evidence that the visit had startled guilt from its lair, and terrified it with all the sudden fears of detection and punishment. The lady, after a moments pause, invited the officer to a seat while she equipped her self for the walk. The lapse of time that occurred before she re-appeared to respond to the official summons, let it have been much or little, was unobserved by the officer. It was passed by him in contemplation of the scene about him, of the improbability of the story of guilt, of the beauty and charms of h is-prisoner-of-the-renow n-that—he—sh ould gather if, by chance, she should he guilty of what she was charged withal, and of the self-satisfaction that he should enjoy, and, possibly, the reward his courtesy should re cure it her innocence should be established. vence her readiness to go, the officer broke suddenly from his reverie and the two star ted for the court room. The. former was darkly veiled, but that might have been the fashion of her attire, or it might have been suggested by a prudent and harmless sense of delicacy. On the way the officer, some what proud of his position, bore himself with a mien that indicated both his politeness to his fair charge and his pride in having such a task imposed on him. He essayed to 'em ploy the time in conversation, but his com panion was significantly reticent. That was of little concern to him, and he was satisfied Vd7, • 0- with a nod, or an ejaculation of approval 01 -tire-many -pleasant-things said by him. The court room reached, the case came on for examination. During its progress the officer was busy in thought if not in action The case, from all its concomitants, was sin gular, let it terminate as it might. He felt the importance of his connection with it.— But as the facts dovel9pd themselves, and as the startling truth was exhumed that the prisoner had not only committed the theft in question, but that doubtless, this species eseza,,, of mini s her daily vocation, the officer saw, through he renown which the case would aqui. , the gleam of that lame which would accrue to him for having mada the fortunate arrest. After the prosecutor had given his narrative of the facts but one thing remained to conclude the case, and complete the proof of guilt, and that was the simple and brief identification of the prisoner as the party in question. ,The magistrate kindly desired the lady to remove her veil. She did not respond with alacrity. The officer, attentive as ho was to every feature of the case, was prompt to aid in the denoue ment that was to complete the play. He stepped quickly forward, and, with the ling. eying sense of g allantry that his prisoner's guilt had not w holly blotted out, he compas siotittely desire 4 .. .her to comply with the magisterial matrda s t, - and gently proffered to do it himself by removing her veil. That done, and the face of the prisoner laid Is'are to public gaze, the, officer recoiled back from its presence-,-hvid and speechless with sur prise and chagrim. There was a ca l m ex pression of ease, mingled with a conviction, of triumph, in that face, quite as well dear' ed as Nature in its choice of color had given it ability to assume. The prosecutor looked aghast at On scene, the magistrate smiled as only such dignitaries are permitted -or sup posed to smile, white the whole assemblage of officers, attorneys and spectators quickly apprehending the case, united in a common outburst of laughter-at the success of the trick practiced upon the law and its officer by the cunning hand of guilt. The face and the person was that of a dusky wench, the servant of the accused, whom her mistress had, in the extremity of her peril, employed to personate her to the officer and the court white she found time, to,..put -herself safely beyond the reach of either.— Albany Journ al. HumurrY.—lf thou art ayessel of gold, and thy brother but of wood, be not high minded, it is God that maketh - thee to - differ; the more bounty God shows, the wore hu mility fie requires, those -miues that are richest ate deepest; those stars that are highest scent smallest; the goodlicat build ings ha - ve the -lowest foundation, the more God honoreth men, the more they should humble:thetneelvos; the more fruit - , the low er the branch on which it grows: pride is ever the companion of emptiness Oh how full was the apostle, yet how low was his language of himself,—icast of all saints, last of all apostles, chief of sinners; no funielen ey to think, no abilities to do; all that ho is, he is by divine grace Reatto:da . Gentlemen called on a rich miser and found hitu at the table endeavoring to catch a fly. Presently he succeeded in . entrapping one, which he . immediately put iuto the eugar•botsland shut down the Cover. The' gentleman asked fig an cirplunatjnu of this' • singu/ar sport. ,Tll tell you,' replutl the miser, a triumpliaut , g f rin oveisPreading his; Countenance as be' spoke, want to sea' ih the 'servants steel the suam.' • ; A Call to Young Men. William W. Tyler, the son of Prof. Tyler, after graduating at Amherst in 1864 with tlie'Second highest honor in his- class, com menced his apprenticeship in the Ames Corn. Tany's works at Chicopee, where he now is, studying the theory of the business and lear ning to do with his owt hands all kinds of the work. We give this fact because we should ,like to see the example of young Ty ler imitated by two or three hundred of the graduates of our colleges. No field of labor offers such prises of wealth and honor to lib erally educated young men as the mechanic arts. None in which they can more bene ficially serve with their trained intellects the community and themselves. For labor re quires and the world is urgent in its demands that hereafter the men who work with their hands shall also work with their brains. As i ventors; - as - masters of machine shops, - as managers of factories, as engineers of great public works and as architects, our educated young men, if they will learn a trade, would find ample remuneration and a broad margin for the display of genius and talent. No merchant, no lawyer, no physician,—we leave out the ministry because it is a voettion which requires a supernatural call,—has such a chance for the fame which lives from gener ation to generation as the man who links his name with a beneficial invention or stamps it on a peat public ork. It is the Fultons, the Stephenses, - the Brunel's, the Elias Howes who now build to themselves monu ments more durable than brags. No man in - this - con n - t as - such - a - lrows eh old - i m urortali ty as Elias Hoive, for wherever the sewing =Chine lightens woman's work his is known. The great want of the day is skilled labor, that is, trained hands. , directed by trained • • been liberally educated, turn from the crow ded professions to labor, serve an appron ticeship•at sonic trade and become masters of their business, will find themselves before many years in positions of honor and prof it. We are entering on a new era, the era of labor. All over the world the laboring clas ses are seeking their emancipation. In this country, the working men, though far more advanced than those of Europe, are dissatis fied with their, position and their wages, and have organized a movement for their own benefit—The moveirieit needs ate direction which' only educated men cut gibe it; men orb — r — ailisTWho are themselves workers, and who, from living with workmen, know their prejudices anfl their ,wants, are needed as leaders to giva\clear expression to the inar ticulate demands of the laboring class, to ad just harmoniously their relations to capital ists and to elevate the laborers themsetves from the plane where life is only a struggle for existence. If r young man of education-As aph ilan thropiet , the broadest scope for the exercise of his vacation will be furnished to him, if he _will but identify himself with the labof ing class. Ile must not otand without and patronize them, they will not stand that; but. he must be one of them, able to say, •''ly hand is as skillful and as hard ifs your hand,' and then they will let his brains direct their movements. One of the omnious signs of the times is, that culture is separating itself in thought and action from the uncultivated masses.— Even in the churches this'sign is apparent. It excites uneasiness among those who be lieve that one of the distinctive marks of Christianity is that "to the poor the Gospel is preached. The highest service of a young man of piety and education, if he be not called to _the_ministry,-can -render-to -his generation, is to enter a shop and serve a regular ap prenticeship at a trade. Like the Moravian missionaries, who sold themselves as slaves that they might labor among the slaves of an island in the West Indies, and found: their reward in the conversion and love of hundreds, so the young man -who has the spirit to turn from the clamour of false so cial and professional distinctions ; and iden tify himself with the laboring class, wig find not Glares . , but earnest, devoted men, who will gladly listen to his words if they be wise and follow his lead if he be a leader.— Watch man and Reflector. . FAT 3.lE,N.—Our corpulent readers will rot object if we say a few words in their fa vor. It is said to be a Met that no fat roam Was ever connoted of murder. 'Stout peo ple are'not revengeful, nor, as ageneral rule, are they agitated by violent Rusts of passion. To parade a fat housebreaker in the criminal dock at thc - tiu'arter Sessions would be a phe [infliction indeed. The fellow who works rt.ltoleten keys•is generally a learraud wiry in dividual,' a s he can only force himself through holes scarcely large enough to ad mit a cat. Imagine a fat man doing these things, and - theu imaging him alarmed and running away, with-a policeman - atter Wm. Corpulency is not the sign of villainy, , hut• rather of gout] nature and good will to all men. It ie not great wealth or 1411 station that makes a may buppy._ Many of the inset wretched beings on earth have both. But k is a radiant, sunny Spirit, which kouwe hew to bear little trials, which thus extracts happiocae from every incident of Lilo is not given to us to be frittered 'a way ill an ,unnieauing halo pathilactory . ran of anluseinents, or in their Irait!e??s search. There is eu•c!p a period api t rouching when gur hunen, ambition, and evt n our favorite atuusetneots, utu l t cotue.t.) an end, " ' ! A celebrated lawyer once void that 'tho three most trou'cleipece etrenie - he ever 'hild were a yoneg bldy who wanted 1 6 - 130 -nteir%-• ierl,•n worried wenian'who wanted o divqrce ntnj.l know tch'ig she r.a,tted. ' _ They Won't Trouble You Long. aildren t row up—nothing on earth grows so fast us children. It was but yesterday, and that lad was playing with tops, a bouy ant boy. He le a man, and gone now! There is no more childhood ler Lim or for us. Life has claimed him. When •a beginning is made, it is like a raveling stocking; stitch by stitch gives way till all are gone. The house has not a child in it—there is no more noise in the hall—boys rushing pellniell;, it. is very orderly now. There are no more skates or sleds, bats, balls or strings left scat tered about. Things are neat enough now. There is no delay for sleepy folks; there is no longer any task, r before you lie down, of lookinc , after any body and tucking up the bedclothes. There are no disputes to settle, no body to get off to school, no com plaint, no importunities for impossible things; no rips-to mendinn fingers to--tie-up, no laces to be washed, or collars to be ar ranged. There was never such peace in the house ! It would sound like music to have some feet to clatter down the front stairs ! Oh for some children's noise! W hat used to ail us, that we were hushing their loud laugh, checking their noisy frolic, and reproving their slamming and banging the doors ? - We wish our neighbors would only lend us an urchin or two to make a little noise in these premises. A home without children It is like a lantern and no candle; a ' garden and no flowers; a vine and no grapes; a brook and no water gurgling and gushing in its — chanel. We—want—to—be—tired-to—be vexed, to be run over; to hear children at work with all its varieties. During the secular days, this is enough marked. But it is the Sabbath that putb our homes to the proof, That is the Christian family day, The inter- peace. The family seems made up on that day. The children are at home. You can lay your hands upon their heads. They seem to recognize the greater and lesser love—to i3ro and_to friends. The house is peaceful, but not still. There is a low and melodious thrill of children in it. But the Sabbath comes too still now. There is a silence that aches in the ear. There is too much room at the table', too much at the hearth. The bedrooms are a world too orderly. There is too much leisure, and too little care. Alas ! what mean these thin<zs? Is sontbody wowiug old? Are these signs and .to: ens -Ward—Beecher. Washington and Lincoln. Governor Bullock, of Mass. ; in -his thoughtful and eloquent oration at Spring field on the the 4th of January, set in one frame the portraits of the two men, by whose personal agency the two deeisiie wars of our nationality were conttolled. In all the great contests of civtlization a leader has appeared• recognized afterward as the agent of the e poch and the viecregent of the ultimate arhit, ter. In the American Revolution the man was George Washington; in the war of yin'. dieation the man was Abraham Lincoln— raised up both, as Witherspoon said, for the great purpose. While Washington far tran scended Lincoln in the majesty and dignity of personalism, which wins universal ap plause, his successor in many particulars re sembled him, arirrwas in all respects scarce. ly less the personal . necessity of his own time. You must remember that distance lends enchantment to the view, and that one, hundred years hence it well may be, and is likely to be, that Lincoln will rise then a mong the shades of history as Washington rises now. Generally, in the judgement of mankind, lapse of time is needed for the . es• timate - of persons. — So Washington - as-• it seems to me, was not thoroughly and rag iously'appreciated as an historical character, avenin the •United States, until the echo of the European eulogy came back to us from the lips of Lord 13roughreeti: Apd. if we may judge by that standard; atfd---by rprekt uration of the' European press; Lincoln• qnite assure to take the next xariX in. ttia 'criticisms and .clisquisitions..of the whole gastern world in time., to come - , Ceriaifily this cannot fail to liaprich if 'lincoln• shall find in the future history half so •goneraus a chronicle as -Washington has found in Ban croft-at all eveuts it is ‘ evident -that Clod has raised up these two,thea for a 'control and management of the deStiiiies ofitiffi - eir periods. 'The last was is' greet, dti impor tant,,as cliaracteristio.for his time as the for-, mer was fur his-own. Both were .essential, because both had, heen not only chosen' the'keople, birtheci been.ap'pointediren &ave. liarkas states tbat'the entrees of the son has becotiseruiscli — distdileCt, -- anci ['Pit there is'al Pfesent.uPorais disc"- a- sot of ronorkable magnitude and clearness.. The approximate length of the ,apot is 50,090 miles, :and its width 301/00 and so well defined is'it, That it can oa§ily -be - sten -- by the naked eye when protected by °Mined glass. " The spot forma a beautiful object for telescopes at very moderato power. lEMIMIIIIIIII SAD.-- Said a : Oorlittre girl in the.tourth word of New York, as Ow was dyiag, 'l, am glad I ttat going to die, beciu e now any bothers and slaters wiii have enough to et a r Nothing could be written ur thou'e,l3 wore simply pe the' tin • GOOD ADVIOr.-:-Ily-011 don't. intend to marry, keep am/ fruit) -calico, The, moth that iluttersaboutci ta!lpiv dip %sick! jight.l ed, is no surer to iet encircled than a ver i dint yowl - at hitcliciorto into Cul pith Ilsrue,.it he begins to oir_eucir9aVii,fato round a hit 111 dry sp . ocici en r, d!tiulyrdittle , . - . 0 iv:o ufg pot ,pecii ii,lfe yr.eiljborcocke; * that -4) a age Kith e'ery Wito: Vit., nYii) tike MOM) ttliiiB alto utiaplo, r die li,ja IlLetilA'ilve..`" A Mystery Explained. If startling phenomena were properly in. testigated, says the Watchman and Reflector, by minds free from superstition and fear, oc currences that appear to have a supernatural origin would often find an easy solution. Judge Parsons, used to tell with great zest of an incident in his travels, which would have furnished food for a whole company of village gossips., His wife, who seemed much agitated, waked hith one night at a village inn, and told him there was a woman sitting at the foot of the bed knitting. The 4'udgci saw the figure its distinctly, as his wife but having no thought of.a supernatural origin of the vision, began to speculate on its' real cause. After—looking sharply for some minutes, while the woman knitted on with unruffled composure, he , wo confident that he could see -the - wall - ; through her, and that she could not, therefore, be substantial flesh and blood. This discovery, which might have affrighted weaker , men, only aroused his curiosity. He at once rose from the bed and walking to the foot saw that no one was there—the form bad vanished. Putting his head as nearly as possible i n the position where he had seen the woman, the mystery was at once explained.' lie saw.. a circular hole in the 'shutter behind the bed through which rays of light were stream ing, and going to this hole in the shutter behind the bed to look through, saw -a—we malt in a room on the other side of the street knitting. The nerves of the wife was greatly - scrothe - d b - y thi s discovery, and the inquisitive spirit of the Judge was gratified by so simple an explanation. Many ghost stories could be easily shorn of 'their appa rently supernatural character by a cool and careful investigation. This is a good story of a citizen who used to go home late slightly inebriated, and take a lunch usually set out for Win by his con. siderato wife : 'One night besides the usual dish of cab. bage and pork, she left a wash bowl filled with caps in starch, The lamp bad long been extinguished when the staggering sot returned home, and, by mistake, when pro ceeding to satisfy his hunger, be stuck his fork into the wrong dish. lie worked away at his Mouthful of caps very patiently for some time; but filially, being unable to mas ticate them, he sang out to his wife— I • woman, w 'ere • m you get your cab bage ---they-are-so-darned- stringy, I can't chew them !' '.My graciouq,' replied the good lady, 'if the stupid feller ainPt eating up all tny caps that I put in starch over night !' WHISKEY -FOR RATS.-A correspondent of the Arkansas Conservative, whose house was overrun with rats, says : A servant girl, who 'had seen the effect of whisky on bipeds, hought she would try — lin experi ment upon rats. • Accordingly she took a small quantity, made it very sweet witklU gar, crumbled in bread enough for the crowd, and set the dish in the cellar. A few hours after she went down and found several*" rats gloriously 'fuddled,' engaged in throwing potato palings and hauling one another up to drink. These were easily disposed of and those not killed left the premises im mediately, suffering from a severe head. ache. It'n a sign of a stout], to tread on any anew toes that has corns. It's a sign of a storm, if you waken the baby on wash day. It's a sign of a storm to call a baby ugly .in the presence of its mother. ___ It's a sign of a storm, to start a yarn about your neighbor at an ale house. and some one , runs and tells. It's a Elsa of a storm to spit oa the par lor carpet - and your wife sees it.---- It's a sii;❑ of a storm to speak ill of your a'aigo of a storm, to tell your wife she lookaliorrid io.that huit new buoact. A re altby obi aristocrat being ou his Led, called Lis Vacit berveut and a,iid: `Sam, you have been a very faithful aad h.intst lribew, , and I have made a provision is n,p ili`t hat when you die you thall have the hoti - of to he butted in the same tomb with tne.' I "" - ma* !' paid the negro. 'poor old Sans Want-im Thchlionor: n.oney ruit him much bet!ar.;.besides, du tiebil comes sc.Atchin i s for yon- in the dark, and instead of Massa, iloar be he carry off Saw in mistake.' • - A4'irginiticlergYrnan writes to the Post Gftice'Vepartroenuashing for a omit contract. I.lo,stat9s that he dogs not know as' he ear take the oath of 'allegiance, for he has pray, ed . in the puipit during the war tor the auc cess or — the Southern cause, Lut as (Ito prayers r were never tteswered, he is of the o pinion•that no :aid and comfort were given, aid therefur Le cuusiders hitusell a loyal A ci vain ecacon, being accustomed to stone while a'lel.p in church, received the following polite owe: 'Deacon Smith is re quested ' , Wit to coui!lience enuring tomorrow until the eernom ip begun, as Soule persona in the neighhorhoui hi• pow would like to hear the text.' At n col .red party, osVed Diu; h if-hutkihottld help her to some of the 'brest. `Nut' tint you shamed, SMiltlo to say b•ougt before"the laJiea ? piece ub turkey bosolu,' • • ' 3t is laid boors mo , • ri'nnd the loveliest of all things —girls uod ' Nhi.►y. Why ie a street dor like a barrel whis. Beeatibe it is frecitieutly tapped. ear NUMBER 34
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